Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, February 9, 1995                   TAG: 9502090099
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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IN VIRGINIA

RICHMOND - A judge appointed two defense attorneys with death penalty experience Wednesday to defend Christopher C. Goins, who is accused of shooting five people to death last fall in a public-housing apartment.

Goins and his girlfriend, Monique M. Littlejohn, appeared briefly in Richmond Circuit Court. They returned to Richmond from New York on Tuesday after battling extradition for 21/2 months.

Goins, 21, was surrounded by deputies during his brief appearance. He wore the same blue jeans and flannel shirt he wore the day before when he got off a State Police airplane and was taken to jail under heavy security.

Judge Thomas N. Nance chose Susan Hansen, who works in the public defender's office, and Robert Johnson, an attorney in private practice, to handle Goins' case.

Goins is charged with five counts of capital murder in the Oct. 14 slayings of three children and two adults at the Gilpin Court housing project. Two other people were wounded. Goins also will face two charges of malicious wounding and seven counts of use of a firearm in a felony, said Commonwealth's Attorney David Hicks.

Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty against Goins.

- Associated Press

Competition tough for JMU acceptance

HARRISONBURG - James Madison University has received almost 12,500 applications from students who want to enroll as freshmen this fall, the second-largest rush of applicants in school history.

The applications represent a 5.5 percent increase over the 11,781 received last year. Only about 2,500 of the applicants will be accepted.

The university received 13,550 applications for a spot in the freshman class of 1988, when the number of graduates from Virginia high schools reached an all-time high. The number of potential college students in Virginia has fallen each year since.

- Associated Press

Benefactor gives $1 million to W&M

WILLIAMSBURG - A New Jersey businessman with an interest in promoting world peace and climbing mountains has donated $1 million to the College of William and Mary.

Most of Jack Borgenicht's gift will endow a position for a visiting peace scholar at the college's Wendy and Emery Reves Center for International Studies. The rest will establish a permanent endowment for the Department of Kinesiology, the study of human muscle movement.

At age 78, Borgenicht sought out Ken Kambis, an exercise specialist and a William and Mary kinesiology professor, to help him get in shape so he could climb mountains.

- Associated Press