OLD AND LACK Volume '72 No. 25 Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem North Carolina Friday, March 31, 1989 Man Assaults Female WFU Student in Student Apartments Monday Morning By Dayna Kirk woke her up, she said. She said that struggl• Bob Prince, the director of university ly press charges." a brown sweatshirt with a hood; navy, cot• Old Gold and Black Reporter ed with the man, and they fell to the floor. security, said that the front door of the vic• The incident report in the office of public ton cloth pants; and dirty white tennis shoes. When she began screaming, the assailant tim's apartment was not locked when the information charges the assailant with first• The victim said, "I could only describe A female student was assaulted in her stu• ran from her bedroom and went out the assailant entered. degree burglary, assault on a female and what he was wearing, because I couldn't see dent apartment early Monday morning. Ac- apartment door, she said. The case has been turned over to the assault with a deadly weapon. his face under the mask." ! cording to the victim, who did not wish to She followed him long enough to see that Winston-Salem police department, which The report described him as a black male, The university is holding a seminar be identified, the assailant broke into her he was headed for the back gate toward the is searching for the man. 5 feet 10 inches tall, 160 pounds, of medium within the next two weeks on self-defense apartment at 2:40 a.m. and began assaulting Spanish house, she said. The victim said: "They have the knife that build and in his 20s. He was wearing a and a community watch for the residents her while she was asleep. The victim then called a friend, who call• he threatened me with and have taken the brown and olive-green ski mask; a tan cloth of the student apartments and language He put one hand over her mouth, which ed university security. fingerprints. If they find him, I will definite- jacket, possibly "Members Only" brand; houses. WFU Concludes Staak Resigns Investigation Of NCAA Inquiry As Head Coach By Bob Esther team and the program. I think the Old Gold and Black Reporter only things to say are positive." By Bob Esther Hearn said that there was no· Old Gold and Black Reporter Bob Staak, head coach of the direct link between the NCAA pro• Wake Forest men's basketball team, be into alleged recruiting violations Wake Forest's office of legal affairs has concluded officially resigned his position and Staak's subsequent resignation. the fact-finding portion of an inquiry into the men's Wednesday after completing his The university has recently com• basketball program, but the results of the investigation fourth season as the team's coach. pleted the fact-findingportion of the have yet to be submitted to the National Collegiate Staak is in Seattle, Wash. , atten• in-house investigation. Athletic Association. ding the National Association of Heam declined to comment upon The university received a letter of inquiry dated Jan. Basketball Coaches convention in rumors of the university buying out 25, 1989, in which R. Daniel Beebe, director of en• conjunction with the Final Four. the remaining three years of Staak's forcement for the NCAA, asked for information con• Staak was quoted in yesterday's 'contract. "I'm not going to discuss cerning recruiting violations in the basketball program. Winston-Salem Journal as saying: the terms of his resignation," Hearn Director of Athletics Gene Hooks and University "If I had wanted to leave, I would said. "But I think it's fair to say that ' Counsel J. Reid Morgan acknowledged the receipt of have gone after a job or gotten a the university has honored its the NCAA's letter in a correspondence dated Feb. 3. job. I liked being there. I liked obligations and has tried to be fair." After the university responds in writing to the Wake Forest. Sandra Connor, vice president NCAA, the matter will be brought before its Infrac• "That's what makes it really hurt. for public affairs, said that Staak, tions Committee, composed of representatives from I won't be able (to be) with them whose resignation took effect im• various schools. (the team) next year when the pro• mediately, was travelling as an in• Sandra Connor, vice president of public affairs, said gram is going to a new level." dividual to Seattle and is not that there was no direct cause-and-effect relationship In a prepared statement released representing Wake Forest at the between the inquiry and Head Coach Bob Staak's Wednesday afternoon, Staak said: convention. resignation. "Today, Dr. Hooks and I conclud• Rumors of Staak's resignation Hooks said that the university's date of response is ed that it is in my best interest and first surfaced Tuesday afternoon. some time in the next two weeks, but he was unable the best interests of program and Staak held a meeting with the to say when the results of the inquiry would be made the university to pursue coaching players Tuesday at 9 p.m. "That public. opportunities elsewhere. was the toughest meeting I ever "We are in the process of answering the questions "I am very proud of the pro• had," Staak said in the Winston• the NCAA posed in their letter," Hooks said. "We're gram's foundation that my staff and Salem Joumal. "I tried to keep my investigating the recruiting of the individual in ques• Steve Killian I have built and would like to see composure with them, and I tion to see if we've done anything wrong. The posture it thrive." After cempleting his fourth season as head coach of the men's basketball team, Bob Staak couldn't. I love them. They're my of the NCAA is that we are a voluntary school in this In an interview yesterday, Presi• family," organization and that it behooves us to keep our own officially resigned his position Wednesday. According to President Hearn, there was no dent Thomas K. Hearn Jr. said: direct link between the NCAA probe into alleged recruiting violations and Staak's resigna• Staak's resignation was not of• ~ house clean. They asked us to take that responsibility "There are many good things which ficially released until the following See NCAA, Page 5 tion. Coach Staak contributed to the See Staak, Page 4 RAs Resign Due to Administrative·Problems, Job- Related Difficulties By Jennie Vaughn Fortune said that the RA job did not said that she had been told by her hall direc• perform her duties "or else find someone her hall director that led to her resignation. Old Gold and Black Reporter measure up to her expectations. She said: tor that she could leave for Christmas vaca• to cover for her," Fortune said. She found "The women on my hall were wonderful tion at 5:00 p.m. the last day of exams in two friends to take her responsibilities, but Rules Stifle Contact At least three resident advisers have to work with, but the cut-and-dried attitude December. The job description specifical• her hall director told her that she had put resigned or been dismissed from their jobs my hall director had towards RA's made the ly states that "RA's are required to report her friends "on the spot," she said. Jimmy Slate resigned from his RA post during this academic year. The RA's cite the job not as rewarding as I hoped. to work for each term on the date specified Fortune said that she offered to help with March 17. He was a second-year RA in attitude of the administration, paperwork "My work with residence life and hous• and to remain on the job until the specified room inspections the day before she had to Luter. and the difficulties of the job as reasons for ing and my hall director was not a pro• closing date." leave, but her hall director did not take her Slate said: "I always put human beings their termination. gressive and efficient relationship," she However, Fortune said that she had to up on her offer. and emotions above rules and regulations. Leslie Fortune was an RA in South Hall said. leave the residence hall no later than 1:00 "They told me I had a bad attitude," she Rules and regulations are undoubtedly a before she resigned earlier this semester. Fortune said that she had had various dif• p.m. that day or spend the entire holiday said. close second. Obviously, this is where my · She said that her resignation was effective ficulties with her hall director before the on campus. Fortune added that this was only one of philosophy conflicts with that of residence February 6. event that led to her leaving her post. She The hall director told her that she had to the numerous disagreements she had with See RAs, Page 4 Legislature Discusses Visitation Policy, Disqualification of Write-In Candidate By Jonathan C. Jordan her committee had reviewed the fice had been flooded by letters Editorial Pa.ge Editor visitation policy and was general• from parents concerned about the ly pleased with the system. Some new visitation policy. SG Vice An update on the university members of the committee had ex• President Lisa Ward reminded the visitation policy and a discussion pressed concern that better enforce• legislature that the SG visitation of the elections committee's deci• ment of privacy hours was needed, proposal had been prepared last sion to disqualify a write-in can• and other members wanted to ex• spring, but was not fully approved didate in last week's Student tend visitation past the 2 a.m.