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Volume 93, Issue 137
Tuesday, February 11, 1S3S
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Staff Writer
Maxwell Avery Wright pleaded guilty Monday in Orange
County Superior Court to the kidnapping, attempted rape
and murder of UNC graduate student Sharon Lynn Stewart,
a source in the district attorney's office said.
Wright, 16, a former Orange High School student who
was charged with the murder on Aug. 30, received consecutive
sentences: a life sentence for the second-degree murder charge;
12 years in the kidnapping of Stewart and nine years in
the kidnapping of her roommate, Karla Kae Hammett; 14
years in each of two counts of armed robbery; and six years
on the attempted first-degree rape charge. Orange County
Superior Court Judge Gordon Battle pronounced the
sentences late Monday afternoon.
Consecutive sentences, unlike concurrent sentences, are
served one after the other instead of all at one time. Each
time Wright is eligible for parole, he will serve his next
sentence.
Stewart and Hammett were kidnapped from the Morehead
Building parking lot on the night of Aug. 24 by a black
male wielding a 6-inch hunting knife, police reports said.
The man told Stewart and Hammett to get in Stewart's
car and drive to the Swain Hall parking lot. He then told
Hammett to drive away and led Stewart toward Franklin
Street with her hands in handcuffs.
Wright was arrested by police in Nashville, Tenn., on Aug.
26 when he was found in a truck that had been reported
stolen on the day of Stewart's disappearance. The truck,
a 1977 Chevrolet, belonged to Howard Wright, Wright's
adoptive father, who had discovered Stewart's purse in the
vehicle and reported the find to police on Aug. 27.
District Attorney Carl Fox made a plea bargain
arrangement that the death penalty not be sought if Wright
assisted in locating Stewart's body.
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A 20-year-old UNC student was raped by two
men Sunday about 11:30 p.m. at her Estes Park
apartment in Carrboro.
The men knocked on the apartment door and
forced their way in, said Lt. Ben Callahan of the
Carrboro Police Department. The men then tied
up the two women inside. A third woman entered
the apartment and was also tied up by the men.
One of the students was then taken into a separate
room and raped, Callahan said. She was examined
at N.C. Memorial Hospital and released.
The men stole money, jewelry and a small
television from the apartment, he said, adding that
police are still working on a description of the two
suspects.
In a separate incident, another UNC student was
kidnapped Jan. 26 by two men in Carrboro about
8 p.m. Callahan said the student had been
blindfolded, put in a car and driven to another
location before she was raped and finally released.
Carrboro police said they weren't sure where the
rape had occurred. Police in other areas are assisting
in the investigation.
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By TERESA KRIEGSMAN
Staff Writer
Students and faculty will have a
chance to review the quality of work
done by the Division of Student Affairs,
Chancellor Christopher C. Fordham
said Monday.
Fordham said a panel of four stu
dents, four faculty members and a
faculty chairman would help him
analyze the division's recent self-study
Mas objectively as possible for the good
of the University." He said he hoped
the panel would meet before the end
of February.
The panel will give students "an
opportunity to join me in trying to
interpret the self-study," Fordham said.
Lists of possible student panel
members were submitted to Fordham
by Student Body President Patricia
Wallace and Students for a Student
Voice spokesman Joel Katzenstein.
Fordham said he would send letters this
week to prospective student and faculty
. . (I'm) confident that something
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Patricia Wallace
panel members.
The panel would be reviewing a
Student Affairs self-study dealing with
the division's efforts in student services
and student development.
The study was conducted by a
Student Affairs Educational Task
Force. The task force was created in
late 1983 and is chaired by James O.
Cansler, associate vice chancellor and
dean of Student Affairs.
The study was based on six reports.
The first report was released in June
1984 and was a statement on the role
of liberal arts in student affairs, Cansler
said. Information from the division's
eight departments was gathered from
personal interviews of the division's
professional staff. This report will be
completed next week, Cansler said.
Faculty members who teach under
graduates in academic and health affairs
were mailed surveys designed to show
their knowledge of Student Affairs'
programs and services, their satisfaction
with the undergraduate experience and
ways the division could help students'
intellectual and personal development.
The response rate for the faculty
survey was about 76 percent. The results
of this survey will be completed March
3, Cansler said.
About one-fifth of undergraduate
students enrolled in the spring semester
of 1985 were mailed surveys similar to
those mailed to faculty members. The
student response rate was 52 percent.
The report will be completed by April
1, Cansler said.
A summary report is expected to be
completed by June 1, Cansler said. He
said consultants will be hired to review
the report and talk with students and
faculty next fall. This final stage of the
study will be completed by November,
Cansler said.
Fordham said he hoped the panel
would work together until the fall and
review each report as it became
available.
Cansler said he welcomed the idea
of a panel to review the report.
"I'm pleased to see any kind of study
of the division that is of constructive
intent," he said. '
Wallace said she was "confident that
something good will come of (the
panel)."
By RANDY FARMER
Staff Writer
Friends, relatives and colleagues
gathered in silence at Monday's memor
ial service for James Prothro, a UNC
political science professor.
Prothro died Friday, apparently of
a heart attack while jogging.
About 200 people attended the 20
minute service in Hill Hall, which
featured three speakers: Chancellor
Christopher C. Fordham HI; Frederic
N. Cleaveland, a longtime friend of
Prothro's; and Richard Richardson,
chairman of the political science
department.
"Part of me still hurts so bad that
I want to grieve his loss," said Cleave
land, who first met Prothro in graduate
school at Princeton University.
"If . . . (Prothro) was able to write
his script today, he would want it to
be positive, upbeat and forward
looking," he said.
Richardson told a story about when
he and Prothro were writing a book
together, and Prothro jogged in the
snow to deliver him some manuscripts
he had just written. Richardson said he
told Prothro not to come because the
snow was dangerous, but Prothro came
anyway, drenched with snow and mud.
"On that day, Prothro came racing
in the wind with political science,"
Richardson said. "The two things he
loved the most."
Cleaveland said he cherished a
picture of Prothro on a basketball court
in college. He said that Prothro had
loved sports, especially basketball, and
that the picture exemplified Prothro's
competitiveness and his zest for life. "He
was truly cut out to be a faculty member
in the Dean Smith era," Cleaveland
said.
Cleaveland said Prothro's life had
been a continual procession of forward
growth, coupled with orginality and an
occasional shift in direction. He des
cribed Prothro's character as a bit
ironic.
" ". . . (Prothro) was tender and caring
.. . . with a toughness to commitment,"
Cleaveland said. wHe found energy and
new life in challenge. That is the legacy
he leaves us."
Richardson said: "Jim Prothro was
not a perfect human being none of
us are. But he was a model for this
institution."
Cleaveland read a letter written for
the service by Louis Harris, a colleague
of Prothro's. Harris described Prothro
as a rare individual blessed with talent,
insight and discipline.
". . . (Prothro) was kind and sensi
tive," Harris wrote in the letter. "His
work will remain behind him, but his
memory will continue." He said Prothro
had provided a role model for students
in pursuing their careers.
Richardson said Prothro had had a
passion for the English language and
political science. "Both Strunk and
White lived in his soul," Richardson
said.
"He thrived on competition. He
grabbed for fresh facets of living."
Christmas trees, political science and his
children were his loves, he said.
Fordham said the University would
miss Prothro as a scholar and an
individual who had constantly sought
knowledge and understanding.
Prothro came to UNC in 1960 and
chaired the department of political
science from 1980 to 1985.
He is survived by his wife. Ana;
daughters Pam Prothro of Washington,
D.C., Barbara Prothro of Boston and
Susan Worley of Chapel Hill; and
brother Terry of Washington, D.C.
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By JEAN LUTES
Staff Writer
The Carolina Union Board of
Directors selected Jeannie Mitchell,
a junior business major from
Atlanta, as the next Carolina Union
president Sunday night.
Mitchell was this year's chairman
of the Carolina Union Social Com
mittee and has served on the activ
ities board.
"I'm really excited about Jeannie
and her ability," said Walt Boyle,
current Union president. "She has a
great deal of experience with the
Union and a number of very strong
ideas. I like the direction she plans
to take the Union in next year."
Mitchell said she planned to carry
on the foundation set by Boyle and
the activities board this year. "I want
to make sure we have quality pro
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Staff Writer
Students being left behind at bus stops by buses
that have reached capacity are probably few in
number, a Chapel Hill transportation official said
recently.
Some student riders, however, said that the system
of sending two buses at the same time along heavily
traveled routes can be confusing.
Alan Tobias, administrative assistant for the
Chapel Hill Transportation Department, said that
the town's most frequently traveled routes, J, C,
D and N, operated using tripper buses during peak
periods before 9 and 10 a.m. classes on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday, and before 9:30 a.m. classes
on Tuesday and Thursday.
A tripper bus is one that follows the scheduled
bus to pick up overflow riders from stops at large
apartment complexes. A loaded bus has seating
space for 35 or 36 people with room for 20 to 25
standing up.
If both buses fill up, the driver then calls the
dispatcher to report that students were left at a stop,
Tobias said. Another bus is usually not dispatched
because it would not arrive before the next scheduled
one, he explained.
Buses are scheduled every 16 minutes on the most
frequently serviced route, J, which runs through
Carrboro.
Andre Pierce, a senior biology major who lives
in Tarheel Manor Apartments along the C route,
said that he was unsure how the tripper buses
worked, although he said that he sometimes tried
to catch one in the mornings.
"The tripper buses are good if you can catch them,
but I don't know when they are," Pierce said.
Fred Jones, a junior who lives along the D route
in Foxcroft Apartments, said when he rode an early
morning bus last semester, it would fill up at the
first several stops. The rest of the riders on the route
had to catch the next bus, he said.
"After they picked us up at our stop, there would
have to be seven or eight other stops that we passed,"
Jones said.
Many students may not know that a tripper bus
is on the way when a first bus passes their stop,
Tobias said. "I think some of the problem must
be a lack of understanding," he said. "When students
see the first bus go by, they sometimes don't realize
that another one will be along in three or four
minutes."
Usually tripper buses are not necessary in the
afternoons because ridership is more spread out,
Tobias said. "One day well have a peak at 1:40
and the next day at 2:30," he said.
Dana Leder, a junior industrial relations major
who lives in Kingswood Apartments along the J
route, said that she didn't mind standing up on the
bus, but that sudden stops and tightly packed buses
made it difficult for riders to keep their balance.
See BUSES page 3
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