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Copytight 1987 The Daily Tai Heei
Volume 95, Issue 105
Tuesday, December 1, 1987
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Femiier cleared off munrder accusation
From Associated Press reports
UPPER MARLBORO, Md.
Prosecutors dismissed murder
charges Monday against former
North Carolina football star Derrick
Fenner in a drug-related shooting,
but said they would go ahead with
a separate drug and weapons case
against him.
Mary Scherstrom, Prince George's
County assistant state's attorney, told
a judge that the charges should be
dropped "because of insufficient
evidence."
Fenner had been arrested in June
in connection with the fatal shooting
of Marcellus Leach, 19, in what police
called a "turf war" between rival drug
factions.
In a written statement, State's
Attorney Alexander Williams said,
"Investigators uncovered evidence
Student activity fee increase to go
By JUSTIN McGUIRE
Staff Writer
A referendum on the February
campus election ballot will call for
a $1.25 increase per semester in
student activity fees, Student Con
gress Speaker Rob Friedman said
Monday.
Students will also vote on another
constitutional referendum that would
delete references to specific organi
zations in the student code.
Friedman said the congress
members are asking for the $1.25 fee
hike so they have more funds to
distribute to student organizations.
Every year, the congress rejects
funding requests from several student
groups, he said.
"Fees have stayed fairly constant
the last several years," Friedman said.
"With inflation and cost of living
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that the murder of Marcellus Leach
may have been just one of a series
of crimes by rival drug factions."
Williams said investigators had
"uncovered substantial evidence to
indicate Mr. Fenner was not present
on May 23, 1987, at the location of
the murder."
Williams added, "It is not in the
interest of justice to continue with
prosecution."
Fenner, who led the ACC in
rushing in 1986, had been scheduled
to go trial next week.
"Obviously we're tremendously
thrilled for Derrick that these partic
ular charges have been dropped,"
UNC Athletic Director John Swof
ford said. "We all hate what he has
wrongfully gone through because of
these allegations and we have great
increases, we felt it was probably
about time to increase fees."
This year, undergraduates will pay
a total of $19 in student activity fees,
and graduate students will pay $17,
according to the University Cashier's
Office.
Neil Riemann, finance chairman of
the congress, said student activity fees
have not been increased in about 10
years.
Friedman said the increase would
generate more money for all groups
that are funded by student fees.
"We're not encouraging fiscal
irresponsibility, just giving groups the
chance to operate with reasonable
funds," he said.
Friedman said the referendum has
a good chance of passing. "Students
seem to support this kind of thing,"
he said.
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empathy for him."
Scherstrom requested Circuit
Court Judge Jacob Levin to hold a
motions hearing on other charges
pending against Fenner on Dec. 18,
and that a trial date be set for Jan.
25, 1988.
Fenner, 20, had been arrested on
cocaine and handgun charges in April
in an incident unrelated to the
murder.
The former UNC tailback showed
no emotion during the proceedings,
but outside the courthouse said of his
future, "A lot of decisions have to
be made. I'm going to talk with my
family."
Fenner expressed the hope that he
might return to Chapel Hill, saying,
"It's where I started."
He also said he could be back for
The second referendum would
delete all references in the student
code to specific groups. The code now
refers to several organizations,
including two that no longer exist:
the Association for Women Students
and the Craige Graduate Center
Council.
Friedman said this is basically a
"housecleaning" move, meant to
abolish references to all groups
because it is not consistent to refer
to some organizations and not to
others.
A referendum to eliminate the
specific references first appeared on
the ballot in the spring 1986 elections,
Friedman said, but it was defeated.
"Students didn't know what they
were voting for," he said. "They
thought we were abolishing these
groups."
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By JAMES SUROWIECKI
Sports Editor
UNC head football coach Dick
Crum resigned Monday, quelling
once and for all the debate over his
possible dismissal.
The Educational Foundation, or
Rams Club, will pay Crum an initial
$400,000 and $100,000 per year for
the four years remaining on his 10
year contract.
Crum, Athletic Director John
Swofford and Chancellor Chris
topher Fordham released a joint
statement Monday on the coach's
decision. The statement depicted
Crum's resignation as having come
after a long review of the UNC
football program's status in Chapel
Hill.
"This ttudy found that the program
no longer enjoyed the full support of
all elements of the university com
munity," the statement said. "This
erosion of support was a source of
concern to Coach Crum and to the
UNC-system stadeot leaders
criticize dreg policy draft
By KIMBERLY EDENS
Assistant University Editor
The Board of Governors' proposed
drug policy calls for penalties that are
too harsh, according to the UNC
system Association of Student
Governments (ASG).
The ASG, comprised of student
body presidents and representatives
from the 16 UNC-system schools, has
made 10 recommendations to the
board that would make the policy
more rehabilitative, according to
UNC executive assistant Kevin
Martin.
"We definitely feel the Board of
Governors is going to have a set drug
policy," Martin, who helped write the
ASG recommendations, said in an
interview Monday. "We hope to
change it and make it more
rehabilitative."
The BOG's drug policy committee
is forming a drug policy to serve as
the spring semester, and added that
reports that UNC coach Dick Crum
may be leaving would have no impact
on his decision.
"I don't think who's there will make
a difference," he said.
In order to be readmitted to UNC,
Fenner would have to reapply. At the
time of his arrest, he was enrolled in
summer school in an effort to earn
enough 'credits to get back into the
university, having been suspended in
the fall of 1986 for academic reasons.
Swofford emphasized that Fenner's
return was not guaranteed.
"Derrick, of course, is not currently
enrolled at North Carolina," Swof
ford said, "and his readmission
possibilities would be handled
through the normal university
process."
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A slightly revised version of the
referendum was approved by the
congress in November 1986, but
failed to appear on last February's
ballot because of an oversight,
Friedman said.
The same version of the referen
dum that was to appear on last
February's ballot will be used in the
election this spring.
Referendums may be placed on the
ballot two different ways, Friedman
said. The congress may pass a bill
asking for a referendum, or a petition
signed by 10 percent of the student
body requesting a referendum may
be presented to the student body
president.
The congress has passed bills to
place both of these referendums on
the ballot.
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University.
"Unfortunately, during the time
that this joint good faith study was
going forward, many rumors were
advanced by unknown sources with
out any basis in fact."
The rumors came to a head two
weeks ago, when a story in The
(Raleigh) News and Observer quoted
two unidentified high-ranking UNC
officials as saying the Duke game
would be Crum's last. Succeeding
reports supported the initial story's
conclusion.
On Nov. 17, Crum told his players
at a team meeting that he did not
think he would be at UNC next year.
Over the next two weeks, Crum and
university officials discussed his
resignation. The discussions "have
taken place in a mutually supportive
environment," the statement said.
The statement stressed that Crum
was not forced to quit, and that he
recognized that all parties concerned
would be best served if he ended his
a guideline for all 16 UNC-system
campuses, regardless of their current
drug policies.
The ASG agreed on the recommen
dations by majority vote at a meeting
Saturday, Nov. 21, and the recom
mendations were sent to UNC-system
officials.
The recommendations include
general proposals, such as urging
more student input on the proposed
drug policy and making any standard
drug policy educational in purpose
and rehabilitative in content.
The proposal also recommends
that all members of the academic
community, including students,
faculty and staff, "should receive
educational materials, counseling
prevention and rehabilitative mea
sures pertaining to all forms of
substance abuse."
It recommends suspension from
enrollment or employment for one
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By WILL LINGO
Staff Writer
UNC basketball players Steve
Bucknall and J.R. Reid were sen
tenced in Wake County District
Court Monday in connection with
the Oct. 24 incident at Shooters
II nightclub in Raleigh.
Judge Stafford Bullock found
Bucknall, a junior from London,
guilty of simple assault inflicting
serious injury. Bucknall, who
pleaded no contest to the charge,
was given a 30-day suspended jail
sentence and must pay a $25 fine
and $40 in court costs.
Reid, a sophomore from Virgi
nia Beach, Va., pleaded guilty to
simple assault. Bullock deferred
judgment on his case for nine
months and placed him in the
Attitude Improvement Dialogue
(AID) program. Under this pro
gram, Reid will have to perform
100 hours of community service.
In nine months, if Reid has
successfully completed his com
munity service, the charge against
him will probably be dismissed,
Raleigh attorney Ron Campbell
said. Campbell represented N.C.
State University student Paul
James Doherty, the victim of the
assault.
The charges stemmed from an
incident in which Bucknall, Reid
and UNC freshman basketball
tenure at UNC.
"Coach Crum was afforded the
absolute option to continue as the
head coach," the statement said.
"However, Coach Crum and the
University have reluctantly deter
mined that it is in Crum's best
interest, the best interest of the players
he recruited, and the best interest of
the University for him to submit and
for the University to accept his
resignation effective Jan. 31, 1988."
Crum leaves Chapel Hill as UNC's
winningest football coach, with a
career record of 72-41-3. His repu
tation became tarnished, though,
over the last four years, during which
his teams turned in three five-win
seasons.
This year's senior-laden squad was
supposed to be among Crum's best,
but the Tar Heels lost their final three
games to finish with a losing record
at 5-6. A 25-10 drubbing by Duke
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semester for any person who manu
factures, sells, delivers or intends to
manufacture, sell or deliver any
controlled substance.
The ASG recommendations differ
on this point from the Board of
Governors' drug policy draft, which
makes distinctions between the pun
ishments for Schedule I and II drugs,
such as heroin, cocaine and LSD, and
Schedule III through IV drugs, such
as marijuana and codeine.
Under the Board of Governors'
proposal, any student, faculty
member or University employee
caught selling Schedule I or II drugs
would be expelled or discharged
before judicial proceedings are held.
The ASG recommendations pro
pose probationary status instead,
with at least one semester of man
datory rehabilitation for first-offense
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player King Rice were involved in
a confrontation with Doherty and
one of his friends.
According to testimony by
Wake County Assistant District
Attorney Lori Fuller, Rice
approached Doherty twice
because he thought Doherty may
have been talking about him.
Doherty said he had said nothing
and no conflict arose.
Rice then left the club, but later
returned and brought Reid and
Bucknall with him, Fuller said.
Reid and Rice then began yelling
at Doherty and his friend, she said.
Soon after the verbal conflict
started, Reid spit at Doherty,
Fuller said. Doherty raised his
hands to defend himself and
Bucknall hit him with a closed fist,
she said.
Doherty fell backward into a
column after he was hit, she said.
He chipped his teeth and required
stitches because of the blow and
the fall, she said. Bucknall and
Reid, however, paid all of Doher
ty's medical bills, she said.
Neither Doherty nor his attor
ney would comment on the judge's
decision, although Doherty said he
was happy with the results of the
civil settlement. Under that agree
ment, Bucknall and Reid paid for
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