Volume 122, Issue 67 Serving UNC students and the University community since 1893 dailytarheel.com Monday, September 8, 2014 DTH/HALLE SINNOTT HEDGEPETH HOMICIDE Hedgepeth Students mourn longtime documents advocate for a≠ordability unsealed Fred Clark died Friday after The district attorney unsealed Hedgepeth’s autopsy Friday. battling cancer By Carolyn Ebeling By Jenny Surane Assistant University Editor Editor-in-Chief He would wake up at 4 a.m. just to Faith Danielle Hedgepeth was a fighter, that respond to students’ emails. He knew all much her father knew. of his students’ names. Above all else, he But there’s still so much he doesn’t know. cared about this university. Although Chapel Hill police released a new timeline Students and members of the fac- for the last hours of Faith Hedgepeth’s last night, ulty are heartbroken after Fred Clark, Roland Hedgepeth still doesn’t know what would a former Portuguese professor and the cause someone to take his daughter’s life. academic coordinator for the Carolina Faith Hedgepeth was found dead in her off- Covenant Scholars Program, died campus apartment on Sept. 7, 2012. Police have Friday after more than 47 years with the spent the last two years searching for the UNC University. junior’s killer, collecting hundreds of DNA sam- Clark retired from teaching in July, ples and spending thousands of hours on the case. but he stayed on to fulfill his commit- “Maybe her standing up for what was right for ment to the Carolina Covenant program, someone else was what led to her death,” Roland which allows full-time undergraduate Hedgepeth said through tears on the two-year students from low-income families to anniversary of his daughter’s death Sunday. receive grants, scholarships and a work- Faith Hedgepeth was found with bruises and study job in order to graduate debt-free. cuts on her knuckles, according to an autopsy Clark loved coming to work, said released Friday. Bruised knuckles suggests Michael Highland, assistant academic she put up a fight, according to a report from coordinator for Carolina Covenant. the Department of Forensic Medicine at the “In his mind, the greatest thing that University of Dundee in Scotland. ever happened to Carolina was Carolina “She was a fighter; she didn’t give up,” Roland Covenant, and that’s how he lived his life, Hedgepeth said. “Even after all that happened in to honor the commitment that we made,” college, especially coming from such a small town.” he said. Faith Hedgepeth, a native of Hollister, had He said he was inspired by how much a blood-alcohol level of 0.02 at the time of her Clark cared for his students. autopsy, according to a toxicology report. Police said “Fred set the gold standard of care she spent part of her last night at the The Thrill, a for students,” he said. “There was never bar on East Rosemary Street that has since closed. a question too minor or a concern too She returned to her apartment around 2:38 a.m. on minor for him to take part in helping a Sept. 7, 2012 with her roommate Karena Rosario. student with an issue.” Rosario later left the apartment at 4:27 a.m., Don Hornstein, a law professor and DTH FILE PHOTO according to a timeline of Faith Hedgepeth’s last Shirley Ort, left, and Fred Clark are the associate provost and academic coordinator for the night released by Chapel Hill police Thursday. SEE CLARK, PAGE 4 scholarship, respectively. Clark died Friday after working at UNC for nearly 50 years. According to Faith Hedgepeth’s autopsy, Rosario was the last person to Faith Hedgepeth alive. Rosario saw her sleeping in their Hawthorne at the View apartment at 4 a.m. Sept. 7, 2012. Rosario did not respond to requests for comment. Police say Rosario returned around 11 a.m. to Town to discuss Rogers Road funds find Faith Hedgepeth dead. In the 911 call alert- ing police to her body, Rosario said she didn’t think Hedgepeth was breathing when she found Town Council expected to After 40 years, plans for Rogers Road are within reach her. Rosario told the operator several times there Town and county ocials have plans in the works to fund improvements to the Rogers Road community that were promised to were items in the room that were not hers and schedule hearing for Oct. 15. residents in 1972 when the county’s landll opened there. The improvements include a community center and sewer hookups. that it looked like someone else had been there. “There’s stuff in my room that wasn’t here By Zoe Schaver April 2013 Orange County Board of before,” she said during the call. “It looks like Assistant City Editor May 14, 2014 someone came in here. It really does.” 2007 Commissioners approves design Groundbreaking Complaint led to the Members of the University community will The Chapel Hill Town Council could fol- of new community center for future Rogers Environmental Protection August 2012 gather today to remember Faith Hedgepeth, a Road Community low Orange County in contributing a por- Agency's Oce of Civil Rights Rogers Road Community Center shut member of the Haliwa-Saponi tribe, at 12 p.m. tion of funds to the Rogers Road community down for violating re and safety codes Center at “The Gift,” the mosaic walkway outside the if the council schedules a long-awaited pub- Franklin Porter Graham Student Union. lic hearing tonight. “Over the past two days, authorities have At the 7 p.m. meeting, council members released new information related to the Chapel will discuss whether to continue a hearing 2010 2015 Hill Police Department’s ongoing homicide inves- on the plan to extend Chapel Hill’s jurisdic- *1972 June 2013 Sept. 4, 2014 tigation, which we remain hopeful will result tion to include part of the Rogers Road com- Landll opens in the Rogers February 2013 Landll closes its Orange County Attorney in the case being solved as quickly as possible,” munity, meaning the town could help fund Road neighborhood Historic Rogers Road doors after 41 years gives go-ahead to use Chancellor Folt said in a statement last week. sewer hookups for residents there. Task Force created of use by the county $650,000 for improvements There is almost $40,000 available in reward The hearing, which started on Oct. 21, SOURCE: REPORTER’S NOTES DTH/KAITLYN KELLY money for anyone who provides Chapel Hill 2013, was pushed back three times and is Police with information leading to an arrest in tentatively scheduled for Oct. 15, according public affairs. The county’s landfill was located in Faith Hedgepeth’s homicide. Chapel Hill Police to tonight’s agenda. County Attorney John Roberts gave the Rogers Road for over 40 years until it was have asked anyone with information to call the The council discussed the hearing most Board of County Commissioners the go-ahead closed in June 2013. 24/7 hotline at 919-614-6363. recently in June, but postponed scheduling Thursday to use $650,000 for improvements The neighborhood was promised a com- While he appreciates the police department’s it until the fall. to the Rogers Road community. munity center and water and sewer hookups efforts, Roland Hedgepeth said he wishes he had The plan for sewer hookups and a com- Banks said the money was set aside in in exchange for housing the landfill when it known more about his daughter’s case earlier. munity center in the neighborhood is being the county’s 2012-13 budget but has not was first built, but those projects have not Roland Hedgepeth, who will attend today’s jointly funded by Chapel Hill, Carrboro and been used because of a pending investiga- been completed. service at The Gift walkway, said he’s thankful for Orange County. tion into Rogers Road by the Environmental In May, construction crews broke ground the support he’s received from students and the Orange County is finally contributing Protection Agency. on the community center, which will be University community. its money to the Rogers Road Community Banks said the EPA has not provided a located on 101 Edgar St. It is expected to “I miss her more today than I ever have,” Center — two years after funding for the timeline for the release of the investigation’s open in October. Roland Hedgepeth said. project was budgeted. results. Seven years ago, the Rogers Eubanks “The county is moving forward,” said “To move forward with caution is the best [email protected] Carla Banks, Orange County’s director of course of action,” she said. SEE ROGERS ROAD, PAGE 4 HOPSCOTCH MUSIC Today’s weather Inside FESTIVAL Students flocked Too Monday. Very to the music festival in down- rain. H 81, L 68 BOUTIQUE EXPLOSION town Raleigh where over140 Stores targeting female students experimental and underground Tuesday’s weather and offering upscale women’s bands performed over the course How can you wrap clothing have flocked to Franklin of three days this weekend. See a cloud? Rainbow! Street. See the story on pg. 3. photos of the artists on pg. 5. H 82, L 64 Caring about others, running the risk of feeling ... brings happiness. 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