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Photo of assailant, victim circulated
By RANDY FARMER
Staff Writer
University students and administra
tors responded with shock and concern
Monday to news of a female UNC
graduate student who was kidnapped
on campus late Saturday night.
Sharon Stewart, 23, was abducted
Saturday around 11 p.m. by a black
male in the Morehead Planetarium
parking lot as she and a friend walked
from Franklin Street to her car. As of
Monday afternoon, police said they had
no leads.
Complying with police requests,
University officials sent photographs of
Stewart and a composite of her sus
pected assailant to 52 UNC academic
departments Monday morning, asking
that faculty members show the photo- r
graphs to their classes in an effort to '
obtain more information on the
kidnapping.
"We are cooperating with police
agencies in any way we can," said
Frederic W. Schroeder Jr., dean of
students. "The circulation of the
photographs will do better than posting
them on a bulletin board. We are hoping
someone can remember seeing her." '.
Schroeder said the incident had
raised concern about safety on campus.
The abuction occurred only a block
away from a Chapel Hill Police foot
. patrol, which was begun this summer
in downtown Chapel Hill as an attempt
to deter loiterers on Franklin Street.
"Generally speaking, Chapel Hill is
a very safe, open community,'
Schroeder said. "We don't have a
history of frequent violence."
Since the kidnapping, however,
Schroeder said people were wondering
if they had a false sense of security. .
"I think there is a fair amount of'
anger," Schroeder said. "How dare
someone do that." i
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concerned about their safety since the
Stewart incident.
"IVe never gone out alone," said Julie
Braswell, a sophomore from Winston
Salem. "Ill never go out alone now for
sure.
"I don't know what I would have
done (in Stewart's position)," she said.
Heather Banker, a junior from
Raleigh, said: "I'm scared. I feel sorry
for her. Now I'll be wanting to go out
in big groups."
Toby Jurovics, a junior from Raleigh,
said he was shocked. "Even though
I come from a big town (Jurovics moved
from Los Angeles) and I hear about "
things like this, I never thought that
anything like this could happen on
campus," he said.
Schroeder offered students advice, to
avoid incidents such as Saturday
night's.
Students should not walk alone at
night, lock the doors to their cars and
homes, travel in well-lit areas, be aware
of people they, are out with and leave
suspicious scenes, he said.
"Miss Stewart was taking every
precaution and was being security
conscious," Schroeder said, explaining
that she was walking with another
person in a well-lit area. "Some things
are not totally preventable."
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By BETH OWN LEY
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill police are continuing
their search for a UNC graduate student
who was kidnapped Saturday night at
knife-point from the Morehead Planet
arium parking lot. '
Sharon Lynn Stewart, 23, of Kings
wood Apartments, was kidnapped
about 11 p.m. by a black male after she
and a friend returned to her car in the
planetarium, parking lot.The two had
gone to a movie at The Ram Triple
Theater in the rear of NCNB Plaza.
"We have no monumental new
information," Capt. Ralph Pender
graph of the Chapel Hill Police Depart
ment said Monday. He added that the
police were compiling information on
people who they . knew were in the
vicinity of the planetarium at the time
of the kidnapping.
Possibly in relation to the crime, the
University police and the Chapel Hill
police are . looking for the owner of a
white Gran Torino or Mercury Mon
tego that might have been in a hit-and-run
accident Saturday night. The
vehicle was possibly parked in the area
of Swain Hall.
Stewart, whose permanent address is
Cincinnati, and her companion were
ordered to drive to a parking lot near
Swain Hall where Stewart was hand
cuffed and led away on foot by her
abductor. The police added that the car
might not belong to Stewart's abductor.
Pendergraph. said that police were
concentrating their investigation
around Chapel Hill because no evidence
pointed to a different area. ;
Pendergraph added that there was no
indication that Stewart knew her
kidnapper. He said the police suspected
that the man saw Stewart and her friend
earlier that evening and followed them
to the planetarium parking lot.
Warning people to travel together
and to take evasive action if they are
approached by someone they do not
know, Pendergraph said he wanted
people to be careful but not modify their
behavior.
Pendergraph also encouraged people
to call the Chapel Hill Police Depart
ment at 968-2760, 968-2850 or 968-2849
if they had any information on the
whereabouts of Stewart, her abductor
or the automobile.
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By JOY THOMPSON
Statl Writer
Students trying to use an old stand
by method of picking up classes during
drop-add might find their efforts
blocked this semester.
Secretaries in at least two depart
ments would not release the locations
of closed-out classes to students who
wanted to attend the classes to obtain
special permission from the instructor
to enroll.
Both the philosophy department and
the African and Afro-American Studies
curriculum withheld the information in
an attempt to regulate the flood of
undergraduate students demanding
classes that fill the perspectives of the
University's new curriculum, the secre
taries said in interviews Monday.
The philosophy department adopted
this policy two years ago because of the
limited number of seats in classrooms,
said Claire Miller, administrative
assistant of the philosophy department.
"We just have the impossible situa
tion that we can't meet all of the
students' needs," Miller said. "When we
close out (classes), we're closing out at
the number of students in the room."
The problem began two years ago
when the new perspective requirements
were approved, Miller said. In the past
two years, the curriculum's classes have
been filling up during preregistration,
Miller said.
"This became a problem because . . .
(our courses) meet a lot of perspective
requirements for undergraduates,"
Miller said.
If the philosophy department gave
out the locations of closed-out classes,
it would cause "chaos and confusion,"
Miller said. Students would have to
stand in the back of the room, making
it more difficult for the instructors to
teach, she said.
"Teachers have no way of knowing
who's registered and who's not," Miller
said. The teacher cannot control
whether the registered students get seats
in a classroom, she said.
Miller said the department made
exceptions for students with special
hardships. December graduates, stu
dents with personal problems, evening
college and transfer students are con
sidered special hardship cases, she said.
Miller said the policy had originated
within the philosophy department and
was not required by the University. But,
she added, the department is following
the University drop-add policy that
allows a student to pick up a class after
another student drops it.
Allowing a student simply to attend
the class to ask the instructor's permis
sion to enroll is unfair to students who
go through the proper drop-add proce
dure through the department, Miller
said.
Debbie Crowder, the head secretary
of the African and Afro-American
Studies curriculum, said releasing the
class locations to closed-out students
prevented the instructors from making
an accurate count of the students in the
classroom.
"We can't ask people to teach more
than a certain amount of students,"
Crowder said.
Because of the University's new
curriculum, Crowder said, her curric
ulum, like the philosophy department,
had received a greater demand for its
classes.
"Before, we had been able to accom
modate students," Crowder said. But
during the past two years, this has
become increasingly difficult, she said.
Like Miller, Crowder said she would
make exceptions for students with
special problems.
Crowder and Miller both said they
sympathized with the students.
"We do try to use all the space the
best way we can," Miller said. "But the
students dont always see it that way.
They are told the same thing wherever
they go."
Secretaries in other departments,
such as the political science department,
advise students to attend closed-out
classes on the first day and to speak
to the instructor about getting into the
class.
Raymond E. Strong, University
registrar, said it was the department's
choice whether to release the classroom
locations.
Strong said he could understand not
releasing the class location if, for
example, 100 students showed up for
class in a 25-seat room.
"The problem is students don't see
it like we do," Strong said.
"My reports show that we give 75
percent of the students who pre
registcred for classes a full schedule,"
Strong said. Twenty percent of the
students are given four out of five classes
for which they pre-register, Strong said.
"When a student is given a different
section or instructor, they feel that we
didn't give them what they wanted,"
Strong said. But the people of the
registrar's office felt they did, he said.
The registrar's office often is faced
with the situation of 300 students asking
for the same section of a course, Strong
said.
He said that University Provost
Samuel R. Williamson was putting
together a committee to study how to
handle unexpected student demand for
classes. The study will determine
whether the University should build
more classroom buildings, Strong said.
Strong, who is a member of the
committee, said he only oversaw half
of the classrooms on campus. The other
half is controlled by various depart
ments. The committee will study how
the University could use these class
rooms more efficiently.
The committee also would study ways
to shuffle class times and instructors,
Strong said, and would try to encourage
students to take classes at less popular
times outside the 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
period.
Closed courses
create problem
in perspectives
By GRANT PARSONS
"Staff Writer ' " "!
While students scramble to
finish the drop-add procedure,
their chances of receiving a course
that satisfies the requirements of
the philosophical or aesthetic
perspective required for gradua
tion are becoming increasingly
smaller.
"There were unusual shortages
of cards from the first day," said
Christopher M. Armitage, an
associate professor in the English
department who has worked
departmental drop add for the
past few days. "There were only
three courses above the 20-level
that had cards available, and it
was not long before all courses
below the 20 level were full.
"I sounded like a broken
record," Armitage said. "I was
saying, 'Sorry, all closed. Sorry,
all closed,' all morning."
Armitage said that he had worked
drop add for 19 years and that
"there were substantially fewer
classes open than ever before.
"Traditionally, students look
for certain professors, whether for
intelligence or ease of grading, but
this year students were looking
for cards for any professor," he
said.
Armitage said a conservative
estimate of the number of stu
dents he had to turn away would
be "certainly over 100."
The University now requires all
graduates to choose at least five
courses from different areas
perspectives and regulates the
courses that a student can choose
to fulfill those perspectives.
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By LEIGH WILLIAMS
City Editor -
The Chapel Hill Planning Board has begun
meeting in smaller committees to keep up with
an increasing work load and as a way of
providing more in-depth study of proposed
developments, said Planning Board Chairman
Alice Ingram Monday in a telephone interview.
Ingram made her comments in the wake of
criticism from former planning board member
Lightning Brown, who cited the committees as
part of the reason for his resigning Thursday.
Brown said in a telephone interview Monday
that the committees were really a way of evading
the N.C. Open Meetings Law and that there
was no reason to believe they would provide
more in-depth study.
The Open Meetings Law requires most
government bodies to hold meetings in public
and to give public notice of meetings held at
times other than their regular meeting times. The
law has several exceptions that allow private
meetings on issues such as personnel matters
and property purchases. When discussing the
exceptional issues, the body must meet in public
and say why it is going into closed session.
The law does not specifically deal with
subcommittees of public bodies, but specifies
that when a majority of a public body's members
meet to conduct public business which
includes deliberations and discussions the
meeting time and place must be publicly
announced.
William F. Chamberlin, assistant professor of
journalism and instructor in mass media law,
said that while the planning board might not
be breaking the Open Meetings Law, it was
violating the spirit of the law if the committees
meetings were not announced publicly so that
they could be available to the public.
"The emphasis is that public business be
conducted in public," he said.
Ingram said there was no danger that anything
would be discussed secretly or without public
knowledge.
"These things never happen that way because
of the ability of members to manipulate each
other and ask questions (during the regular
meetings) that bring concerns up and make sure
they are discussed," she said.
Although Ingram said public notice was not
given of the committee meetings, she said anyone
who wanted to attend them would be welcome
to get in touch with the planning board members
and request that they be notified when the
committees were meeting.
Ingram said the committees, which were
described in a July 31 memo from Ingram to
the board members, had been meeting infor
mally since January and that the memo
formalized something that had already been
going on.
The committees include a site committee
which visits proposed building sites to "pick up
on physical considerations including traffic and
neighborhood ambiance;" a long-range planning
committee which looks at proposals in terms
of the long-range land use plans; and a council
committee whose members rotate going to Town
Council meetings to report to council.
Lightning Brown was given the position of
community communicator to keep the commun
ity informed of new or proposed plans.
Ingram said the committees were instituted
to take advantage of the different areas of
expertise among the board members and to
allow them to use their own particular planning
interests. She said the board members were able
to choose which committees they would join.
Brown said, however, that he was not given
the option to choose which committee he would
serve on.
"I was told what committee I would be on,"
he said.
The committees review the plans before the
planning board's formal meetings and present
their recommendations and findings to the whole
board which then can ask questions and discuss
the reports.
"None of this means that this (the committees'
reports) is the final word," Ingram said. "The
board has more material than just that to work
with."
Brown said that he was concerned that the
committee process was streamlining the board
at the expense of open debate and that they
could keep minority viewpoints from being
expressed.
During his three years on the board, Brown
said he had tried to represent the views of renters
and moderate income people in the town. Since
his resignation, he said he had been trying to
encourage someone with similar concerns to
apply for the position.
In his letter of resignation dated August 22,
Brown said I am convinced, however, that the
direction of Board procedure since around last
January has increasingly resulted in the
exclusion of input from citizens, developers and
Board members typically under the guise of
expediting 'business.' "
Ingram said that she felt everyone on the
board was able to appreciate and speak for
minorities' views.
"Just because you have money doesn't mean
you don't have concerns about minorities. It
annoys me that somebody presumes you have
to be poor or be a minority to represent minority
views."
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