Qttf t Cfar mi ri Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Thursday, July 2, 1837 Chapel Hill, North Carolina News Sports Arts 962-0245 Business Advertising 962-1163 I V Jft Tar Heel Wendy Widener - - j . v y -- I - , - Council faces debate By SALLY PEARSALL Editor and RON CRAWFORD University Editor The Town Council must face major controversies this month concerning the locations of two different organizations that offer Fenner indicted by grand juary By MIKE BERARDINO Sports Editor Derrick Fenner, a rising junior football player at North Carolina, was indicted Tuesday by a Prince George's County grand jury in Upper Marlboro, Md., on murder and five other charges connected to a killing police believe was part of a drug "turf war." The grand jury charged Fenner with murder, two counts of use of a handgun, attempted first degree murder, assault with attempt to disable and malicious shooting in connection with the death of Marcellus Leach. Leach, 19, was shot on May 23 Freedom help for the area's disadvantaged. The Orange County Women's Center is seeking a special-use permit to move their offices to a house at 210 Henderson Street but Cobb Terrace and North Street residents feel that the center threatens the character of their in an alleged drug "turf war" in the courtyard of a Hyattsville, Md., apartment complex, Prince George's police said. Leach died a day later, while a second teen ager was wounded in the shooting. A witness picked out Fenner from photos as the man who did the shooting. Fenner, 20, also was indicted Tuesday on charges of transport ing a handgun and possessing cocaine. Those charges stem from an arrest on April 9, when police found a revolver and 25 vials of a white powdery substance in a truck Fenner was driving. M Fenner, who lives in Oxon Hill, , rings In a ceremony for New Freedom Bell Day in Raleigh on Tuesday, Gov. Jim Martin rang the freedom bell 13 times, once for each original state. Children at the ceremony lined up to take their turn at the bell. over location off center, shelter neighborhood. And in a separate controversy, a group of downtown merchants and businessmen want to find a different site for the community's homeless shelter, which is pres ently located in the old police building on Rosemary Street. Md., has been held at the Prince George's County correctional center since he was arrested on the murder charge June 3. The grand jury's action on Tuesday eliminated the need for a preliminary hearing that had been scheduled for today. In Fenner's sophomore season, the 6-4, 222-pound tailback led the Atlantic Coast Conference in rushing with 1,250 years. Fenner set a single-game rushing record by rolling up 328 yards against Virginia last November. Fenner was suspended from the See FENNER page 20 Jotot committee eesiuiire -off goals By RON CRAWFORD University Editor After UNCs joint committee on apartheid met for the first time last Thursday, some committee members remained uncertain of the committee's goals and doubt ful of its effectiveness. S. Bobo Tanner, chairman of UNCs Board of Trustees, announced the names of the 13 committee members June 24. The committee is charged with discuss ing apartheid and divestiture of financial interests in companies doing business in South Africa. Tanner said the committee's goals are still unclear. "It's difficult to say at this point what the committee will do," he said. "It depends on the people involved." Tanner appointed William Dar ity, dean of the School of Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Bar bara Perry, a Kinston attorney; and Earl Phillips, a High Point businessman, as Trustee represen tatives to the committee. Tanner named himself chair man of the committee. Chancellor Christopher Ford ham chose Samuel Williamson, University provost; Harold Wal lace, vice chancellor for University affairs; and Kenneth Broun, dea The Orange County Women's Center, a nonprofit organization, offers counseling as well as work shops covering money manage ment, home repair, tax prepara tion and changing careers. According to Coolie Monroe, a member of the Women's Center Board of Directors, the house on Henderson Street is ideal for the center. "We feel that the residential character of a house is very important for the kind of work we're trying to do," Monroe said. However, residents are fearful of the "domino effect" that the rezoning would lead to more offices and businesses invading their neighborhood and driving residents out. "(The center) threatens the residential stability of the neigh borhood," said Lightning Brown, a Cobb Terrace resident. Brown said the center's presence in the neighborhood would possibly encourage the proliferation of other office buildings in the area. Monroe said fears of the y.dominp, jeffecjt arey unfounded, of the School of Law, as admi nistrative representatives. Faculty Chairman George Kennedy's choices for faculty representatives were Anne Dun bar, professor of Afro-American studies; Caroline Bruckel, assoa ciate professor of law; and Richard McEnally, professor of business administration. Tanner said he would like to see more student involvement in the committee. "I was very disappointed that we had almost no student input (because) the people who have been the most vocal about (div estment) have been the students," he said. Student Body President Brian Bailey chose himself and Dale McKinley, a graduate student from Zimbabwe, as student repre sentatives to the committee. McKinley said he was disap pointed that Bailey hadn't chosen a third student to sit on the committee. Bailey said that he plans to name a third student representative by next week. McKinley said the committee's first meeting was basically a question-and-answer session with both sides airing their viewpoints. McKinley said Broun spoke out See COMMITTEE page 3 "The purpose (of the special-use permit) is to allow some flexibility in town government," she said. "We have been assured that the town government would not go around using this ordinance to destroy neighborhoods." Kathryn Cheape, another Cobb Terrace resident, said residents were also concerned that the center would cause traffic and parking problems on the street. "There aren't enough parking spaces for See CONTROVERSY page 18 In This Issue Tuition hike?'. . . . . page 2 The Lost Colony .page 12 All-Star baseball picks. .page 15

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