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Volume 99, Issue 92
Monday, October 14, 1991
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By Deborah Greenwood
Staff Writer
The UNC Board of Governors voted
Friday to give UNC-CH and nine other
state schools greater fiscal indepen
dence. The fiscal flexibility will give UNC
CH officials more control over the allo
cation of the University's resources,
said BOG member Priscilla Taylor.
The N.C. General Assembly paved
Charges may
be dropped
for Thigpen
By Ashley Fogle
Assistant University Editor
Assault charges against UNC foot
ball player Tommy Thigpen may be
dropped in March
if he continues to
seek counseling.
"We deferred
prosecution on
Thursday," said
James Woodall,
Orange-Chatham
county assistant
district attorney.
"There are certain
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Tommy Thigpen Tommy meets
those conditions, then on March 26 the
charges might be dropped."
Thigpen signed an agreement outlin
ing three conditions for the charges to
be dropped, Woodall said.
"He has to finish mediation with the
Dispute Settlement Center, which he
has already done. He also has to con
tinue counseling with the University
and enroll in the CHANGE program."
The CHANGE program is a series of
sessions about domestic violence.
Thigpen also must agree to stay away
from his ex-girlfriend when not in their
counseling meetings, Woodall said.
Thigpen refused to comment Sunday.
Thigpen was charged Sept. 5 with
two counts of assault on a female after
an alleged dispute with his ex-girlfriend
Jessica Grasso, a field hockey player.
According to the police warrant,
Thigpen hit Grasso in the face and
choked her until she lost consciousness.
Woodall denied Grasso's requests
that the charges be dropped the day after
they were filed due to the serious nature
of the allegations.
The case was relayed for mediation
to the Dispute Settlement Center in
Carrboro and to Jan Stone, Orange
County domestic violence coordinator.
Grasso refused to comment Sunday.
Woodall said deferring prosecution
does not imply guilt or innocence. If
Thigpen successfully completes the re
quirements, the charges will not appear
on his record.
Probable cause hearings postponed in
rape case of UNC wrestler, ex-student
By Warren Hynes
Assistant Sports Editor
The probable cause hearings for a
University senior and a former UNC
student accused of second-degree rape
of another UNC student have been
postponed until Friday, Oct. 25.
Hearings for Carmen Edward
Catullo, 22, of 1-3 Kingswood Apart
ments, and for Christopher Mitchell
Burns, 21, of Wilkesboro, had been
scheduled for Friday. But the alleged
victim was out of town, said James
Woodall Jr., Orange-Chatham assis
tant district attorney.
The two men were charged last
month with the Aug. 24 rape of a UNC
student. They allegedly took the vic
tim home after a party and raped her in
an apartment, according to police re
ports. Second-degree rape is defined
as forced intercourse with a victim
without use of a weapon.
Catullo was on the UNC wrestling
team the past two years but has been
suspended from the team. Burns also
was a member of the wrestling team
last year. He left UNC last year.
Barry Winston, the lawyer repre
senting Catullo, said his client agreed
to the postponement because under
gives
the way for the BOG legislation by
giving the board the power to designate
certain universities as Special Respon
sibilities Constituent Institutions, Tay
lor said.
All schools usually are given funds
for specific departments, and if thefunds
are not spent in those departments, they
cannot be used, Taylor said.
"There were line items, meaning
budget categories, for every budget,"
she said. "This means that if money was
Chancellor Paul Hardin announces
Carmen Catullo
N.C. law, a preliminary hearing is not
an absolute right. "It's usually a good
idea for the defendant to agree (to a
postponement)," Winston said.
If probable cause is found at the
hearings, the case against Catullo and
Burns will go to a grand jury, which
will decide whether to indict the pair.
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budgeted for a certain area, it could not
be spent anywhere else."
Schools categorized as Special Re
sponsibility Constituentlnstitutionsnow
can transfer funds not used in one de
partment or program to another depart
ment or program.
BOG member Reginald McCoy said
the flexibility would allow the schools
to reallocate funds to areas in which
they are most needed.
"It will give universities certain pre
the $320 million Bicentennial Campaign goal
Thomas, Hill face character assassination
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON Four friends of
Anita Hill solemnly testified Sunday
that she told them in the 1980s that
Clarence Thomas had made unwanted
sexual advances toward her.
A former associate of the Supreme
Court nominee countered firmly, "I
know he did no such thing."
Offstage, a polygraph expert said Hill
had passed a lie detector test, which her
supporters said boosted her credibility.
In a long day and night under the
television lights, the Senate Judiciary
Committee heard sharply conflicting
testimony about Hill and Thomas, ac
cuser and accused, in a drama that cap
tivated the nation.
'"He wouldn't take no for an an
swer, '"Susan Hoerchnerquoted Hill as
saying about Thomas in the early 1 980s.
Hill added that Thomas said, '"You
know if you had witnesses, you'd have
a perfect case against me,'" Hoerchner
told the panel, which is probing Hill's
al legations of sexual advances and Tho
mas' unequivocal denials.
The lie detector test added an ele
ment of controversy. "Ms. Hill is truth
ful," said Paul Minor, administrator of
the test and the head of a private secu
rity firm in Virginia, in comments that
sent consternation through the ranks of
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rogatives to transfer money from one
line to another, which I think is a good
idea," McCoy said. "It will give them
greater flexibility with their funds."
UNC-CH Chancellor Paul Hardin
said he was optimistic about the flex
ibility. "I'm just very pleased to have the
designation,"Hardin said. "(UNC-sys-tem)
President (CD.) Spangler invited
chancellors to apply for it, and I believe
that 1 0 out of the 1 6 schools did so, and
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on the steps of South Building Friday
Thomas' defenders.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, called the
development "highly offensive and
highly political, too pat, too slick, ex
actly what a two-bit, slick lawyer"
would do. Sen. Joseph Biden, the Dela
ware Democrat who chairs the commit
tee, ruled the results legally inadmis
Hearings prompt evaluation of process
By Anna Griffin
Staff Writer
Inside the doors of the Senate Cau
cus Room, the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee debates the fate of Supreme
Court nominee Clarence Thomas.
Outside those doors, the nation at
tempts to grapple with the potential
implications and the lurid content of
the judiciary committee's first con
frontation with charges of sexual ha
rassment. Seeing beyond the political postur
ing and propaganda of the ongoing
testimony poses the greatest challenge
to observers seeking the real truth,
said Bumele Powell, University law
school professor and associate dean of
academic affairs.
Whatever the outcome of the testi
gei in
were accepted."
Ben Tuchi, UNC-CH vice chancel
lor for business and finance, said he did
not know how the legislation would
affect the University.
"I am not yet aware of any limits or
repercussions, or of the exact condi
tions of the program," he said.
System schools that were given fis
cal flexibility are East Carolina Univer
sity, Fayetteville State University, N.C.
Hardin announces
320 million goal
for bicentennial
By Michael Workman
Staff Writer
Chancellor Paul Hardin announced
Friday that the University plans to raise
$320 million for the Bicentennial Cam
paign. The long-awaited announcement
from the steps of South Building offi
cially began the Bicentennial Campaign
for Carolina, a four-year fund-raising
effort that will affect almost every as
pect of the University.
"The South Building bell still rings
for the more important events," Hardin
said. "This is surely one of those events."
Campaign officials already have re
ceived $ 1 55 million in gifts and pledges
during the campaign that unofficially
began in 1989, he said.
Money raised during the campaign
will be used for a variety of needs,
including need-based and merit-based
financial aid, faculty salaries and li
brary acquisitions, Hardin said.
Campus buildings also will be re
stored and "equipped for the next 200
years," he said. "(The money) will pro
vide support for every academic area of
the University."
Hardin said he was pleased with the
campaign's progress.
"In the early stages of the campaign,
we have already raised some of the
biggest gifts in the history of the Uni
versity." About half of the campaign money
will be added to the University's $200
million endowment, which is less than
the endowments of other major research
universities.
The University of Virginia has an
endowment of $487 million, and Duke
University 'sendowment tops $500 mil
lion. The campaign is not related to the
financial difficulties the University is
facing due to state budget cuts, Hardin
said after the announcement. "This cam
paign would have taken place regard
sible.
The Senate is scheduled to voteTues
day on confirming Thomas, a 43-year-old
federal appeals judge whose nomi
nation has turned into a tale of sex and
politics unlike any other. Sen. Dennis
DeConcini, D-Ariz., predicted that most
of Thomas' previously announced 13
mony and the subsequent Tuesday
vote over Thomas' confirmation, the
harassment hearings have added a new
dimension to the Senate confirmation
process, Powell said.
"The Senate, unfortunately, has not
asserted the kind of role in the confir
mation process that our Constitution
intended," Powell said. "The respon
sibility of the Senate is to advise and
consent."
Judiciary committee members de
fend their current position as the logi
cal response to the events as they have
unfolded. Repeatedly declaring that
theirdesire is not to serve as "judges,"
the committee membersmust still deal
with difficult questions of truth and
falsehood.
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State University, UNC-Charlotte, Pem
broke State University, UNC-Greens-boro,
UNC-Wilmington, El izabeth City
State and the N.C. School of the Arts.
Taylor said, "We gave this flexibility
to all 10 universities who had requested
it."
McCoy said the BOG also discussed
the board's request for a $300 million
bond from the state for capital improve
ments. less of the state's temporary fiscal
crisis."
He also expressed optimism about
the University's financial problems.
'The budget crisis will end before the
campaign, I'm morally certain."
National campaign co-chairmen
William Armfield and Hugh McColl
also announced nine new pledges and
gifts totaling more than $10 million
Friday.
Those pledges and gifts include a
$2 million gift from NCNB Corp. of
Charlotte, the largest corporate gift
received for the campaign.
Jefferson-Pilot Corp. of Greensboro
has tontributed $1.05 million. The
Belk Foundation of Charlotte and the
Wachovia Corp. of Winston-Salem
and Atlanta have contributed $1 mil
lion each.
Some of the gifts are designated for
specific purposes, while others specify
the use for only part of the money.
Some gifts are not designated at all.
Individual $1 million gifts from
McColl and Armfield and a $1,025
million gift from John Lupton, chief
executive of the Lupton Co. in Chatta
nooga, Tenn., also were announced.
Part of McCoIl's gift will be given
to the political science department,
and the remainder is undesignated.
The Kenan-Flagler Business School
and the School of Social Work will
receive part of Armfield's gift, and the
rest is undesignated.
Lupton has designated that his
money be used to promote excellence
in undergraduate teaching.
Richard Jenrette, a UNC Board of
Trustees member, and Earl Phillips, a
former BOTchairman, also have made
$1 million gifts.
The largest gift received todate is a
$10 million gift from the William R.
Kenan Jr. Trust.
The Kenan Trust gift will be used to
build the new Kenan-Flagler Busi
ness School building.
Democratic supporters would stand by
him unless something "really heavy"
came up before the end of the hearings.
Biden held out the prospect of an all
night session to hear from each of the
numerous witnesses scheduled to tes
tify. The contrast in testimony Sunday
was striking.
Hill "said that Clarence Thomas had
repeatedly asked her out," Hoerchner
said. "She told me that of course she had
refused, but he wouldn't take no for an
answer."
Hoerchner said Hill told her that
Thomas repeated his entreaties, saying,
'"I'm your type, I'm your kind of man
and you refuse to admit it.'"
More than six hours later came an
entirely different story, one depicting
Thomas as a man completely incapable
of such action and Hill as anything
but a meek victim.
"I know he did no such thing," said
Nancy Elizabeth Fitch, a former assis
tant to him at the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission. "I trust Judge
Thomas completely."
J.C. Alvarez, another former aide to
Thomas, called Hill opinionated, arro
gant and aloof and said her former boss
was being "mugged in broad daylight."