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WEATHER TODAY: Sunny; high upper 70s TUESDAY: Cloudy; high mid-60s Wh 1991 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Volume 99, Issue 102 Trustees name By Cathy Oberle Staff Writer About 55 students showed their sup port Friday as the UNC Board of Trust ees voted 1 1-1 to name the Black Cul tural Center for Sonja Stone, a former African and Afro-American studies as sociate professor. The center now officially is named the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Cen ter. Stone died Aug. 10 after having a Stroke. ; Trustees decided in a closed session to name the center after Stone and did not disclose which board member voted against the proposal. Having the center renamed was one Grand jury to hear rape charges filed against UNC senior Same charge against former wrestler dropped at probable cause hearing By Jennifer Dunlap Staff Writer A University senior will go before a grand jury on charges of second-degree rape, but the same charge against a former UNC student has been dropped. A Chapel Hill District Court judge found probable cause to send Carmen Edward Catullo, 22, of I-3 Kingswood Apartments, before a grand jury on charges of second-degree rape. The judge dismissed the same charge against Christopher Mitchell Burns, 21, who now is attending Wilkes Community College. The two were charged last month with second-degree rape after an 18-year-old University sophomore decided to press charges against them. Second degree rape is defined as forced inter course with a victim without use of a weapon. Both men were members of the UNC wrestling team last year. Catullo was suspended from the team after his arrest and until the case could be settled. At Friday's probable cause hearing, the woman calmly answered lawyers' questions for more than two hours. Catullo and Burns sat quietly next to their lawyers but did not testify. The woman said Burns and Catullo promised her a ride home in the early morning hours of Aug. 25 after a party at Delta Upsilon fraternity. But the two men took her to Catullo's apartment instead, where Catullo had sexual inter course with her against her will while Burns watched from a window, she said. Orange-Chatham District Attorney Carl Fox said although the woman tes tified she had not screamed at or fought with Catullo, she also had not con sented to have sex with him. "She could kiss that man all day, and it would not be tantamount to consent to sexual intercourse," Fox said. Catullo disregarded her protests, Fox Locked Jo)jier room entered twice; money, credit card taken second time By Michael Workman Staff Writer Two students awakened Thursday to find cash and a credit card missing after an unknown person or persons entered their locked room for the sec ond night in a row. Chrysta Ellis and Shannon John son, of 225 Joyner Residence Halt, reported the theft to police one day after telling them a man had entered their room. Ellis said she knows the room was entered a second time be cause she had the money and the card Wednesday. The women believe a master key might have been used to enter their room, because they have never lost their keys and no copies of the key have been reported missing, Ellis said. POWER PROBLEM: Hardin acknowledges plant's disturbances...CITY, page 3 HOMECOMING: Students, alumni celebrate tradition..........SPECIAL INSERT t iaito Monday, October 28, 1991 of three goals of the recently formed Sonja Stone Task Force. Co-Chairman Scott Wilkens said task force members were pleased that the board agreed to name the BCC for Stone. "I feel it's a very important step," he said. "It really does recognize the impor tance of Dr. Stone." Many students carried signs to the meeting with Stone's picture or with "Rename the BCC" and "Continue the Tradition" written on them. The group of students at the meeting included people who are not task force members but wanted to show support for the proposal, Wilkens said. Chancellor Paul Hardin said Sunday said. "When she said, 'I want to go home,' in protest to his actions, that should mean something. He ought to be ac countable in court of law." Catullo's law yer, Barry Win ston, said he wished the woman 'no" or "stop" be- Carmen Catullo had said the words cause then there would be no question of probable cause. But because she did not say either word, the case should not go further, he said. "This is not a rape case, and it de serves to end right here," Winston said. Winston said after the hearing that if a grand jury decides to indict Catullo, the case will go to trial. Catullo's charge carries a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison, Winston said. Catullo said Sunday that he did not want to comment on the case. The woman said she did not immedi ately file charges because she was try ing to follow University channels. The woman was told by University officials that the defendants were seeking coun seling, she testified. "I didn't think it was enough," she said. "(But) I was willing to settle for it to avoid this at the time." She later was told that Bums wasn't a University student this year and that Catullo was receiving counseling on another matter, she said. Bums' lawyer objected to this testimony and called it hearsay. The woman testified that she met the defendants Aug. 25 at the party, but they did not tell her their real names. "I was introduced to them as Chris and Jake," she said. She became separated from the stu- See CATULLO, page 5 But Cobb-Joyner Area Director Su san Orr said she did not think the thief had a master key, because no other rooms were entered and no other thefts have been reported. "That is strictly speculation," On said. She confirmed that no back-up keys were missing. Ellis said she awoke at 5:20 a.m. Wednesday and saw a man searching through her belongings. The man left the room when he real ized she was awake. The women hung a chair on their door handle Wednesday night so they would hear the man if he returned to their room, Ellis said. But the two women did not wake up when someone entered their room and stole about $40 and a Visa card, Ellis said. feel like I've been in Serving the students and the BCC after Stone that there was not much discussion about the proposal because the trustees had reviewed materials about it before the meeting. Hardin and Student Body President Matt Heyd left the closed session to tell students that the trustees had agreed to name the BCC for Stone. A plaque will be mounted in the BCC with the center's new name, Hardin said. Wilkens said task force members re alized this was the easiest goal to achieve, but they planned to continue efforts to accomplish the others. Members also want the University to establish an endowed chair for Stone and to give the African and Afro-Ameri Ellis described the man who en tered the room the first time as a 5-foot- 10-inch, dark-skinned black male with closely shaven hair. He was wear ing a rugby shirt and jeans, she said. But Ellis said she is not worried anyone will return to their room. "We're taking extra precautions to make sure the room is secured, so I'm not worried." Ellis said housing department work ers changed the lock on their door after the theft. But housing officials refused to give them a bar or chain type lock for the door, citing health and fire codes. The women requested the lock as an extra precaution against further burglaries, Ellis said. See JOYNER, page 4 wimmtiiimf. a x 4 7 ' ' -W, -j -; . . , Sw '.- DTHFlorian Hanig Pisces proprietor Tom Robinson, a class of 1 975 alumnus of the University, swipes Carrboro seafood store, travels to the Atlantic coast each week to a fish from a tank for a potential dinner. Robinson, who owns a catch fresh fish to be sold Thursday, Friday and Saturday. a 15-round fight Kirby Puckett, Minnesota cUat 3M University community since 1893 Chapel Hill, can studies curriculum departmental status. The task force will focus next on the establishment of an endowed chair in Stone's name, Wilkens said. The group should be able to raise the funds required to do this in a relatively short amount of time, he said. Members will continue to lobby for departmental status for the African and Afro-American studies curriculum, Wilkens said. "That's more long-term." Wilkens said Hardin played an im portant role in achieving the first goal. "We have ... established a relation ship with the chancellor that is a very good one," he said. "It certainly was a partnership." BOT forms executive committee amid protest about exclusiveness By Cathy Oberle Staff Writer UNC Board of Trustee members voted Friday to form an executive com mittee to keep trustees informed about the University when the board isn't in session. The board voted 9-1 to form the committee, with new member David Whichard casting the only dissenting vote. Secretary William Darity ab stained. BOT Chairman Robert Strickland said an executivecommittee would keep board members in touch with the University's needs on a regular basis. The board only meets every other month. The five-member committee would include Strickland, Darity, Vice-Chairman David Ward, Richard Jenrette and North Carolina mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmmKmmmmmmimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm II i . Liiii - - " -It 1Wiinmii.ii miinf liiiri DTHGrant Halverson Students quietly lobby BOT members to name the BCC after Sonja Stone John Pope. Jenrette and Pope have served on the board the longest of its members. Strickland said the executive com mittee would meet between scheduled BOT meetings and would recommend actions to the full board. The committee would not make decisions, but would act as a steering and agenda committee, he said. But Whichard said he was concerned about the committee's effects on the full board and questioned whether an executive committee would be more exclusive than inclusive. "A board of our size can handle af fairs without an executive committee," he said. Although other schools in the UNC system have executive committees within their boards, UNC-CH does not ON CAMPUS African-American Studies to sponsor V.Y. Mudimbe lecture on his book, "The African Idea, 4 p.m., Wilson Library. NewiSporuAru 962-0245 Business Advertising 962-1163 Decision on faculty gift plan put off $1,000 requested from each teacher By Jennifer Talhelm Staff Writer The Faculty Council tabled a resolu tion Friday asking faculty members to support graduate students by contribut ing $2 million to the Bicentennial Cam paign. The Administrative Board of the Graduate School developed the pro posal in an effort to offset the effects of budget cuts. But when the proposal was opposed by some faculty members, the council tabled it until the next Faculty Council meeting in November. Under the proposal, faculty mem bers would be asked to give an average of $1,000 each to reach the $2 million goal by the end of the campaign in 1 995, said Graduate School Dean Henry Dearman, who presented the resolution to the council. The proposal encouraged faculty members to designate their Bicenten nial Campaign contributions for gradu ate fellowships. But Michael Salemi, a economics professor, opposed the resolution be cause of the $2 million goal. He said he was concerned that some faculty mem bers would not be able to give the speci fied $1,000. "I think the target should be stated as a participation rate rather than a mon etary rate," he said. Salemi said he also thought the faculty's contributions should not fund a specific project. "Many faculty members have other projects in mind," he said. "I don't think the faculty should urge one type of project over another." Dearman said faculty members would be sympathetic to graduate students' plights because they have been in the same positions. "The faculty is a natural constitu ency for the graduate students," he said. "The faculty depends on the graduate students because they help the faculty teach in the form of TAs and they help See COUNCIL, page 5 need one, Whichard said. But Strickland saidanexecutivecom mittee would "streamline the work of the board." Chancellor Paul Hardin supported the proposal at the meeting. "It is tradi tional to have the board and the Univer sity administration organized similarly," he said. Whichard said the committee's pow ers should be limited to those delegated by board members. Darity suggested that decisions about specific powers be postponed until the committee is orga nized and meets for the first time. All committee meetings would be advertised and would be open to the public, the media and other trustees. Trustees also voted to split the Aca- See EXECUTIVE, page 4 Twins
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