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DARIUS GOES TO UNC Watch a video of Darius
Weems’ visit to Chapel Hill including when he went to a basketball game and his
movie screening.
INTERESTED? Attend an interest meeting in Union room 3414 at 5:30 p.m. to learn more about how you
can get involved.
3-GAME LOSING STREAKThe UNC women’s basket-
ball team could not find the answer to Maryland’s Kristi Toliver, losing by 8 points.
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CODE VIOLATIONSSome businesses on Franklin
Street were delayed from opening because of strict state
code regulations.
JAN. 26, 1995 …
Wendell Williamson, a third-year law student,
shoots and kills two people in a shooting spree on
Henderson Street.
By DANIEL PRICESeNioR WRiTeR
Few have done as much for women’s athletics as Kay Yow.
As the women’s basketball coach at N.C. State, Elon College and Gibsonville and Allen Jay high schools, Yow worked tire-lessly to further the sport and its popularity.
But as much as she did for gender equality in sports, it was her fight with breast cancer and the millions of dollars raised for research that defines her legacy.
After more than two decades battling the disease, the long-time N.C. State coach and mem-ber of the Basketball Hall of Fame died Saturday morning at the age of 66.
Just days before Yow’s death, North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatchell spent her last one-on-one moments with her long-time friend and athletic rival.
“She couldn’t really say a lot to me, so I did most of the talk-ing,” Hatchell recalled. “I held her hand. I was right up in her face. And I just told her what she meant to me … and tried to make her smile a little bit.”
Center delayed by objections Shower peeper still not caughtBy LINDSAy RUEBENSSTAFF WRiTeR
Police are searching for a per-son accused of repeatedly entering female students’ bathrooms to cap-ture images of them in the shower.
The Department of Public Safety is urging students to be alert follow-ing two reports of a peeper on the second floor of Teague Residence Hall — one as recently as Jan. 19.
One female Teague resident, who wishes to remain anonymous for privacy reasons, reported the first incident Sept. 25.
She said she was taking a show-er late at night in her suite and left the bathroom door unlocked.
She heard the door open and saw a shadow across the shower curtain, but no one responded when she asked who was there.
She looked up from shaving her legs and found a cell phone in her face, which she assumes was recording her.
“I immediately went to the R.A. and filled out a police report,” she said. “They did an investigation, but nothing really came of it. There was no proof, no way we could really find out what is what because I didn’t see a face or a hand or anything except a phone.”
While the female student did not know who intruded in either case, she said she thought the suspect is probably the same in both incidents.
“There are not many boys on the floor, maybe only one suite of guys,” she said. “I personally think it’s just a random thing, and I hap-pen to be unlucky.”
A similar incident was reported Jan. 19, and police reports indicat-ed “suspicious conditions.”
Randy Young, DPS spokesman, said that peeping was involved, but that the use of a camera device has not been confirmed.
Young said there are no suspects and the incident is under investi-gation. DPS has increased police patrols at Teague and is working with the housing office to prevent further incidents.
“It could be a resident playing a joke on the suite, it could be any-thing,” said Rick Bradley, assistant director of housing. “It’s hard to tell until hard evidence has been collected by police.
“The normal routine is to increase staff visibility in the building and tell residents to keep their eyes open for someone who looks like they don’t belong in the community.”
Young said anyone who has infor-mation about the incident should call DPS at 962-3951 or Crime Stoppers at 942-7515.
He added that residents should lock bathroom and suite doors and call 911 to report suspicious behavior.
Contact the University Editor at [email protected].
By MAx ROSECiTy eDiToR
For three months, UNC offi-cials blamed the bad economy for delaying the first building in its proposed research campus.
But although the economy played a main role, the setbacks started with developers’ concerns that the language of the permit did not allow flexibility for business uses, according to e-mails.
The Innovation Center will pro-vide space to foster start-up busi-nesses. Alexandria Real Estate, a California-based developer, is negotiating with UNC to construct and manage the building.
More than 150 pages of e-mails obtained from University officials show a back and forth between Alexandria, UNC and the town.
Before construction begins, the University must receive approval from the Chapel Hill Town Council for the uses of the building.
The e-mails show University officials attempting to mediate an agreement.
“This is all political,” wrote Bruce Runberg, associate vice chancellor for facilities planning and construction, in an Oct. 27 e-mail to University staff. “I see us on the short end of the stick in either case.”
By MATT SAMPSONSTAFF WRiTeR
Indiana Jones hats, giant school supplies and a cardboard stand-up of Zac Efron were just a few of the sights seen around campus this weekend.
The Carolina Union Activities Board held its first “Swede a Film” competition Saturday, an afternoon of students filming short versions of their favorite movies.
The eight groups of between two and seven students each that participated spent three hours filming and editing 5- to 7-min-
ute shorts, which will premiere Thursday night.
Students chose to remake a variety of movies, ranging from “Pulp Fiction” to “Twilight.”
The event was open to anyone wanting to participate. Team cap-tains could sign up in the Student Union auditorium the day of the event.
The inspiration for the event came from the movie “Be Kind Rewind,” in which the characters played by Jack Black and Mos Def restock a video store with their own renditions of classic films.
In the movie, the characters use the word “Swede” to mean shortening a film.
“I really like the concept of working together to make a film,” said senior Liz Hundley, film chairwoman of the activities board.
“People can really bond with their team members while learn-ing how to make movies.”
The teams had to follow strict guidelines to make their films. They could not use a computer to edit video or build elaborate props beforehand.
“One team told me they want-ed to build a Batmobile for ‘The Dark Knight,’” Hundley said. “We just want to keep this a level
playing field.”A common challenge the
teams faced was the crunch of the three-hour time limit and
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George Drometer, emily Carey and Sally Knapp (left to right) prepare to film a classroom scene from the movie “Mean Girls” during the “Swede a Film” competition put on by CUAB on Saturday. The films will be shown at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Student Union Auditorium.
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Kay yow coached at N.C. State for 34 years. Her impact on and off the court is visible across the Triangle: flowers are placed at N.C. State’s Bell Tower, and UNC players wore pink jerseys in honor of yow in Sunday’s game.
Film contest tests participants’ creativity
SEVEn mInuTES oF FamE
n.C. State coach yow was leader on and off the court
Timeline of Events:Jan. 23, 2008 Town reviews concept plan for innovation Center, scheduled to be the first building of Carolina North.
Sept. 17 Plan receives mostly favorable comment at final public hearing.
Oct. 27 Plan scheduled for vote, but University surprises public by asking to postpone hearing, later cites economic reasons.
Nov. 24 Hearing postponed again.
Today Plan scheduled for a final vote.
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N.C. State is asking fans who wish to leave flowers in honor of coach yow to leave them at the Memorial Bell Tower.
A public viewing will be held Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with the funeral to follow at 3 p.m., at Colonial Baptist Church in Cary.
in lieu of flowers, donations can be made to:
Kay yow/WBCA Cancer FundThe V Foundation for CancerResearch106 Towerview CourtCary, NC 27513Phone: 380-9505
Pay respects to coach Kay Yow
For the last 23 years of Yow’s career, she and Hatchell brought the UNC-N.C. State rivalry to the highest level — in fact, it was Yow who recommended Hatchell for the UNC gig. Despite the intense on-court contests, Yow and Hatchell were close friends until the end.
“Sylvia Hatchell and Beth Miller, our senior women’s admin-istrator, competed against coach Yow’s teams for 30-plus years, yet counted her as one of their dear-est friends,” said UNC Director of Athletics Dick Baddour.
“That says a lot about the per-son she was and the class she dis-played.”
Yow is one of just six women’s coaches to reach the 700-wins
mark, posting a 737-344 career record at Elon and N.C. State. In 2002, she became only the fifth female coach to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
In her 34 years coaching at N.C. State, Yow took the Wolfpack to the NCAA Tournament 20 times in its 27-year existence.
She was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987 but recovered to coach Team USA to an Olympic gold medal in 1988.
“She faced every opponent, whether on the basketball court or in a hospital room, with dignity and grace,” N.C. State Athletic Director Lee Fowler said.
Films students chose to remake:
“Mean Girls”
“The Fast and the Furious”
“Jurassic Park”
“Pulp Fiction”
“Moulin Rouge”
“Raiders of the Lost Ark”
“The Princess Bride”
“Twilight”
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officials blame stall on economy “When things get better, we’ll be in a situation to try and push forward with this project.”JOhN CUNNINGhAM, ALexANDRiA SeNioR ViCe PReSiDeNT
The final permit, which is sched-uled for a vote today, reflects lan-guage added only after Alexandria executives threatened to withdraw from the process.
The center will likely be the first building of Carolina North, which
See NEGOTIATIONS, PAGe 7
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CorreCtionsDue to a editing error, the
informational box for the pg. 1 story, “5 SBP bidders clear hurdle,” misstated the num-ber of signatures Christina Fluet received. Fluet, the only candidate for Residence Hall Association president, received 369 signatures.
Due to a reporting error, Friday’s pg. 1 story, “Sheriff breaks down new county pol-icy,” misidentified the speaker at the Orange County Board of Commissioners meeting from the Coalition for College Access. The woman speaking was Amanda Gutierrez, a founding member of the coalition.
The Daily Tar Heel apolo-gizes for the errors.
2 Newsmonday, january 26, 2009
Campus Y: The Campus Y’s Criminal Justice Action and Awareness com-mittee will have its first meeting of the semester. There will be a video clip, free dessert and discussion.Time: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.Location: Campus Y
Amnesty International: The group will hold its first meeting of the semester. Amnesty International works to promote human rights worldwide. Time: 6 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.Location: Student Union, Room 2515
Theater: Lab! Theater will present Edward Albee’s “The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?” The play is about a middle-aged man whose life crumbles when he falls in love with a goat.Time: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.Location: Kenan Theatre
Book reading: Acclaimed poet William La Riche will read from his latest work, “To the House of Collateral Damage: Centuries of the Civilian Dead.” His book-length poem takes on the modern problems of war.Time: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.Location: Internationalist Books & Community Center, 405 W. Franklin St.
Networking: Groups from the Gillings School of Global Public Health and the School of Medicine will hold an Infectious Diseases and Global Health Networking Night for students and faculty. The goal of the event is to bring together faculty with expertise in international health and infectious diseases and students interested in these fields.Time: 6 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.Location: Carolina Brewery
Film screening: Watch Chapel Hill writer and director’s “Pearl Diver” — the story of two sisters whose mother was murdered.Time: 7 p.m.Location: Fearrington Barn at Village Way and U.S. 15-501
Public meeting: The Town of Hillsborough will hold a feedback session on the Riverwalk project, a 1.5-mile trail that will follow the Eno River east to west through town.Time: 7 p.m.Location: Town Barn, 101 E. Orange St., Hillsborough
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NOTED. From the front page of a big daily newspaper in Nigeria came a report that police implicated a goat in a car theft.
The paper quoted a police spokesman saying that two men tried to steal a Mazda, and that one suspect transformed himself into a goat as vigilantes cornered him.
Police showed the goat to the journalists, who published a picture.
NOTED. Someone almost bought a Sarah Palin look-alike mannequin for more than $2,200 on eBay.
That is, until he discovered its past — as an effigy hung by a noose from the roof of a West Hollywood home for a Halloween display.
The buyer thought he was purchasing a pro-Palin item until he heard a radio report about it. It had prompted protests when hung in October.
Library employees called and left messages. They sent mail. They sent a police officer to her house.
But still, 39-year-old Shelly Koontz kept the book, “The Freedom Writer’s Diary,” valued at $13.95.
Police arrested her for fifth-degree theft. She was released from jail after posting a $250 bond.
“I do think it’s extreme going to jail over a library book,” she said after she went through fingerprinting and mug-shooting.
But a theft is a theft, the police chief said.“Maybe I’ll tell the judge I’m a slow reader,” Koontz said.
Woman keeps library book, is arrestedFROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
POLICE LOgn A woman in the passenger
seat of a car stopped for driving while intoxicated had a handgun, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
Denise Ann Brunson, 44, was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon and was under the influ-ence of an impairing substance, reports state.
Brunson, of Jacksonville, NC, was released on a written promise to appear and is expected in court on March 16, reports state.
n A statue near Cameron Avenue and South Roberson Street fell over Saturday, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
Police did not know the reasons for the falling of the statue, which belonged to Chapel Hill Public Arts, reports state.
n Someone sprayed black spray paint down both sides of a vehicle on Howell Street, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
There was $4,000 in damage to the 2004 Nissan Xterra, which was also black, reports state.
n Police charged two people Thursday for possession of cocaine with intent to sell or distribute, according to Carrboro police reports.
Derrick Dwayne Thomas, 2 9 , a n d S h k e i t h r a R e n e e Degraffenreidt, 25, were arrested on the Estes Drive Extension, reports state.
n A man attempted to drive his vehicle away while it was hooked up to a tow truck, according to Carrboro police reports.
The vehicle was being towed from Abbey Court Apartments, reports state, when the owner came out at about 4 a.m. Thursday.
The 1997 Mercury was damaged on the driver’s side and the truck had some paint missing, but both owners said they did not wish to file a report, according to reports.
n A Poplar Avenue resident told police that she heard loud footsteps in the kitchen and bathroom of her house early Thursday, according to Carrboro police reports.
The responding officers did not find anything suspicious, reports state.
n An employee of the Burger King on Jones Ferry Road called police early Thursday because she was unable to close and lock the door, according to Carrboro police reports.
Reports state that the door had a broken hinge.
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1 seeks return to Congress Town codes hard to followmaintaining old buildings costly
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Zach Ward (‘96) and Jeremy Mcdonald (‘98) participate in a comedy competition between a group of older alumni, the senior PGa, and recent graduates, 4ddi. the event was hosted by dirty south improv Comedy theater in Carrboro on saturday.
TELLInG dIrTy joKESBy ABe Johnsstaff WRiteR
With age comes maturity. This standard was obliterated Saturday
night by the comedy of the aptly named duo Senior PGA, who sustained a packed house at Carrboro’s Dirty South Improv Comedy Theater with continuous, unex-hausted laughter.
This week’s matchup pitted the two older alumni against a team of current students and recent grads known as 4DDI.
The gold championship pins of the biweekly “CageMatch” improv competition were not easily earned for the two 1990s-era UNC alumni, Jeremy McDonald and Chapel Hill Players co-founder Zach Ward, who make up Senior PGA.
After borrowing an unsuspecting audi-ence member’s iPod, Senior PGA embarked on 22 minutes of improv related to the tune “Fat Bottomed Girls” by Queen.
The resulting stream-of-consciousness
jokes included a father-son sex talk, vam-pire-like humans biting deer, and college panty raids.
“I want my own drawer full of panties, for reference — like the Dewey Decimal System,” said Ward, also the executive pro-ducer of DSI Comedy Theater.
The two men maneuvered around the stage into a new scene and began again.
“I would like to keep my panties,” said Ward, now as a college girl on her first date.
“Well, that’s a deal breaker,” McDonald pointedly answered.
While the alumni certainly weren’t mature, they did defeat their younger oppo-nents in an audience vote by delivering suc-cessful joke after successful joke.
The other group — consisting of two recent UNC alums David Greensdale and Kyle Chorpening, current Chips President Josh Sharp and Chips member John Reitz — still proved their own comedy prowess
despite their loss.The team recreated hysterical scenes such
as a rendition of the Disney Channel hit TV show “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody,” the creation of the 1980s show “Fraggle Rock,” and Abercrombie & Fitch employees exer-cising power through the “cool” rule book.
“Infraction number four, wearing non-distressed jeans,” Sharp yelled, holding the invisible rule book and pointing to Reitz’s clean-looking jeans. “We hope that Abercrombie & Fitch is a place where you walk in and realize that clothes were never not worn.”
Sharp and Reitz will perform again as a part of Chips on Feb. 20 during the first N.C. Comedy Arts Festival, alongside 70 other acts from across the nation.
As Sharp, an arrogant Abercrombie & Fitch employee reminded his fellow, child-bearing peer and the chuckling crowd, “There’s a distinct difference. Kids: cool. … Having kids: not cool.”
Contact the University Editor at [email protected].
dSI Comedy Theater hosts alumni improv show
By hillAry rose owensstaff WRiteR
Change has come to Student Congress.
Its membership will be almost completely new after the Feb. 10 election. Sophomore Joe Levin-Manning is the only incumbent running for re-election — a fact that surprised him at first.
Twenty-five candidates are cur-rently running for 41 seats, though some races — including all three graduate student contests — have no candidates.
Levin-Manning is a candidate in the toughest race: South Campus. Ten students are running for six seats.
Many of those not returning said they wanted to try other activities
or apply for other positions in the executive branch of student gov-ernment, like vice president, trea-surer or secretary.
Finance committee Chairman Mike Morrill originally put his name down for re-election, but after recon-sideration decided not to run.
Speaker Pro Tem Bryan Weynand, who also is not running for re-elec-tion, said he had enjoyed his two years with Student Congress and felt like he has seen many improve-ments. But he said he wants to focus on other things as a senior.
Title II of the Student Code states that no representative can serve in both Congress and in cer-tain executive branch positions, the Student Supreme Court, Honor
Court or Attorney General’s staff.“With those positions comes
a lot of responsibility,” Levin-Manning said.
Congress Speaker Tim Nichols will not return since he is running for senior class president. He blamed the low turnout of incumbents on Daily Tar Heel coverage of Congress.
“They are sick of getting chas-tised when they feel like they are doing their best,” Nichols said.
The shake-up will leave Levin-Manning as the only member with experience next year.
He said he is wary about new members understanding the process of business at meetings at first.
Levin-Manning said he plans on running for speaker and will assume the position if elected by the mem-bers of Congress. As a representa-tive next year, he said he hopes to
instill a sense of accountability and fairly represent students.
“I feel obligated to run for Student Congress to speak on behalf of the students and to make sure their voices are being heard and to make sure that everything is looked at and done in a fair and decent manner,” Levin-Manning said.
But since the rest of Congress will be new next year, committees will be led by inexperienced mem-bers.
Even so, representative Ben Mickey said he expects Congress to be fine, especially if Levin-Manning takes a leadership role.
“I think the returning member, Joe, is qualified and diligent in what he does,” Weynand said.
Contact the University Editor at [email protected].
most candidates are first-timers
By MArk ABAdistaff WRiteR
When Katrina and Randolph Ryan got the idea of opening Sugarland Bakery, code violations weren’t the first thing on their minds. They were, however, the reason it took the dessert shop six months to open its doors.
The Ryans aren’t the only ones who have struggled with code enforcement. Because of the dif-ficulties of keeping up with state code, many downtown Chapel Hill business owners have found main-taining their businesses a tedious and expensive process.
Before opening, every new business must pass an inspection administered by the town to ensure it complies with state code, and sometimes additional local ordi-nances.
Businesses also must gain approval from both the fire mar-shal and planning department. If they don’t pass, the prospective tenant can’t move in until the vio-lations are fixed.
Sugarland was put on hold because of a violation Katrina Ryan labeled “infinite minutiae.” She said the town’s inspector would not issue their occupation permit because the building’s hand railing was one-eighth of an inch farther away from the wall than code permits.
“It’s virtually impossible in a 107-year-old building to make it do what she wanted it to do,” Ryan said. “She wanted us to suspend the laws of physics in order to get it open.”
Norm Praet’s space didn’t pass the fire test when he was prepar-ing to open Cluck-U Chicken a year ago, so he had to spend hundreds of dollars coating his space’s steel beams with fireproof paint.
“Everything’s required to be fireproof, a term not defined in the state insurance code,” Praet said. “Basically, Chapel Hill decides what fireproof means.”
Senior Building Inspector Chelsea Laws said she understands the code can be strict, but that it is necessary to ensure occupants’ safety.
Town Economic Development Officer Dwight Bassett said other factors play into new business expenses besides just keeping up with code. When new tenants change the use of a building from a store to a sweets shop, as the Ryans did, they have to pay extra to renovate it.
“When you convert a building from one use category to another, it certainly impacts the rehab dol-lars,” Bassett said.
The buildings downtown are often 80 years old or more, Laws said, which leads to more expensive updates.
Francis Henry said his restau-rant, Ram’s Head Rathskeller, lost business due to the 60-year-old building’s deterioration, flooding and lack of wheelchair accessibil-
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Senior class officer duties:
serve as marshal for University day and Commencements
set up social events such as senior Week, bar nights and service opportunities
assist with the class gift program
solicit graduate memberships in the General alumni association from classmates
nichols, Chen-Xu want alumni links
“We really balance each other out, and we have a lot of large connections in different areas.”TiM nichols, Candidate foR senioR Class Co-PResident
By dAnielle AdAMsstaff WRiteR
Juniors Tim Nichols and Tina Chen-Xu didn’t start as friends.
But after meeting through Student Congress during their first year at UNC, they became an inseparable team.
Now as they campaign to be co-senior class presidents, the duo plans to use their bond to show that senior year is the year to have fun.
“We really balance each other out, and we have a lot of large connec-tions in different areas,” Nichols said. “Tina has been one of my best friends since our first year, and together we make a pretty diverse team.”
T h e i r p l a t f o r m , “ We ’ r e Dynamite!,” will focus on three specific areas: networking, social events and community service. It will also feature points that will be released later in the week.
But Nichols and Chen-Xu said their main campaign idea is to work
with University Career Services and the General Alumni Association to network all seniors with alumni.
In their plan, seniors would be able to participate in “networking nights,” where they would have din-ner with alumni in major cities like Charlotte, Atlanta and Raleigh.
“If you talk to any senior, all of them say they’re having so much trouble finding jobs and getting interviews,” Chen-Xu said. “It’s a lot
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tim nichols and tina Chen-Xu, above, and Meggie staffiera and sebastian Williams are candidates for senior class officers.
Staffiera, Williams focused on service
“The role of the senior class officers … is about bringing people together and having fun.”Meggie sTAffierA, Candidate foR senioR Class offiCeR
By Andrew hArrellstaff WRiteR
Meggie Staffiera and Sebastian Williams want to unite the senior class.
The running mates for senior class officers represent oppo-site UNC experiences working together.
Staffiera is well versed in the nature of student government. She’s worked on two campaigns and currently serves as chief of staff for Vice President Todd Dalrymple.
Williams has no experience in student government. But he’s no stranger to leadership roles. He is the vice president of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity and the drum major of the marching band.
They unknowingly are fol-lowing the direct advice from current senior class president James Shelly, who said the best counsel he could give his succes-
sor is to “surround yourself with people who complement your strengths.”
The two candidates insist Williams’ lack of student govern-ment exposure is a positive aspect, adding different strengths and per-spectives to their candidacy.
In fact, their campaign revolves around reaching out to students who may not want anything to do with student government.
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CorreCTioNDue to an editing error, Friday’s
page 7 story, “Carolina for Kibera gets $1 million grant,” misstated the amount the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has granted. The foundation has granted more than $17 billion since 1994. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error.
Campus Briefsstudents can apply for Acc tournament tickets today
Students can enter a lottery today through Wednesday to win tickets to the ACC tournament.
Those interested must go to the ticket office between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
The winners will be announced at halftime of the Maryland game on Feb. 3. The students will be divided into different groups by number, and the numbered group that is selected will be announced at the game.
student congress candidate drops out of district one race
Sophomore Blake Barrington, who was running for one of three Student Congress seats for district one, has stopped his campaign.
Barrington said in an e-mail that he realized that the Student Code prohibits a person from serving in both Student Congress and on the Attorney General’s staff.
“After weighing my options, I know that the best way for me to represent and serve our Carolina Family, the University and the community is to remain on (the Attorney General’s) Staff,” Barrington said in the e-mail.
Unc hosts former British first lady cherie Blair today
Cherie Blair, the wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, will speak in Koury Auditorium at the Kenan-Flagler Business School today at 5:30 p.m. as the featured speaker for the annual Weatherspoon Lecture.
Blair is a noted human rights lawyer who works with numer-ous charities and has written two books.
Her most recent work, an auto-biography titled “Speaking for Myself,” describes the life of the only British first lady to have a child while her husband was in office, and one of only a few first ladies to have a serious career.
The Weatherspoon Lecture was created with a donation from Van and Kay Weatherspoon. The series provides lectures from visiting scholars and world leaders from the fields of politics, education, business and government.
Seats for the event are unavail-able as the lecture auditorium is fully booked.
CiTy Briefschapel hill journalist and Unc alum roland giduz dies
Roland Giduz, a UNC alum and dis t inguished journalist, died Friday.
He attended UNC in 1940, but left in 1942 to join the Army. He returned to UNC and worked at The Daily Tar Heel until grad-uation in 1948. He also received
a master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University.
He served three terms on the Board of Aldermen, including a term as mayor pro tem.
Giduz was a founder of the Chapel Hill News Leader, and worked at various other N.C. news-papers. Until his death, he was a columnist for The Chapel Hill Herald, and held a weekly local interview program.
He w o n tw o N.C . Pr e s s Association Awards, was named Chapel Hill’s Young Man of the Year and Citizen of the Year, and won the Sertoma Service to Mankind Award. He recently received the Preservation Society’s first annual Horace Williams Award.
His memorial service will be held today at 2 p.m. at University Presbyterian Church in Chapel Hill.
sTaTe Briefsformer gov. Bob scott dies; state flags fly at half-staff
Bob Scott, a former N.C. governor from Alamance county, died Friday after suffering from deteriorating health for months. He was 79.
Scott was one of the first to push for a retail cigarette tax in the tobacco-producing state that would provide funding for pub-licly funded kindergartens state-wide.
Scott served as governor from 1969 to 1973. His father, Kerr Scott, was North Carolina’s chief executive 20 years earlier.
-From staff and wire reports
Roland Giduz was a weekly columnist for the Chapel hill herald.
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Perdue to streamline secondary, higher ed
“We all benefit when learning is seamless from the high chair to the rocking chair.”bev perdue, N.C. GoverNor
by Matt LynLeySeNior writer
In light of steep budget cuts, mem-bers of Gov. Bev Perdue’s administra-tion are looking to community col-leges to weather the economic storm and keep N.C. schools healthy.
The new administration will prioritize programs that provide a seamless transition between second-ary and higher education, something Perdue previously emphasized.
“We all benefit when learning is seamless from the high chair to the rocking chair,” Perdue said at her inauguration ceremony.
The programs in question are Learn and Earn and two-plus-two, which are both supported and administered by the UNC-system Board of Governors, said June Atkinson, state superintendent of public education.
Through Learn and Earn, high school students can take commu-nity college courses and graduate in five years with a high school diploma and an associate’s degree.
The two-plus-two program allows students to complete two years of a bachelor’s degree at a community college and two years at a state university.
“It’s a huge part of what I hope will happen during my two years as chair,” said Hannah Gage, chair-
woman of the Board of Governors, referring to the expansion of Learn and Earn and two-plus-two.
“The most affordable model is to go to community colleges for the first two years and then transfer to a four-year university.”
Gage said that while the Board of Governors would work with Raleigh to expand those programs, each sec-tor of the N.C. school system must cooperate to ensure success.
“(Each school system) is focused on its own success and survival, but we can’t be successful without the cooperation and success of all three at once,” Gage said.
Gage and Atkinson both said they wanted to promote online education and ensure all prospective students have broadband access.
“We need to make sure that broadband is available across the state so that students can actually access these programs,” Gage said.
Janet Cowell, newly elected state treasurer, will serve on the State Board of Community Colleges.
Cowell said that two-plus-two and Learn and Earn increase access to higher education and that she will endorse the requests of UNC Board of Governors and the State Board of Community Colleges.
Cowell said she will play a more active role in the state board of
Community Colleges and be an “indirect advocate” for community colleges in Perdue’s administration. She indicated that she would act as a link between the N.C. State Board of Education and the State Board of Community Colleges.
Richard Sullins, executive director of the State Board of Community Colleges, indicated that Cowell wants to commit more resources for community colleges than previous treasurers have.
“She indicated that she wants to be as active as she can be,” he said.
Gage said those programs provid-ed the best way to keep higher edu-cation and the N.C. economy afloat.
“From my perspective, expand-ing two-plus-two and Learn and Earn, as well as online education, will help the North Carolina econo-my and help all North Carolina stu-dents attend schools at an afford-able price,” Gage said.
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Cabinet to play pivotal role in plans
aSG: defer to campus tuition increase requests
DTH ONLINE: view the resolutions passed at the ASG’s January meeting.
by OLivia bOwLerSeNior writer
FAYETTEVILLE — Student lead-ers from universities across the state met this weekend to weigh in on the possibility of tuition increases — and encouraged UNC system leaders to follow their normal procedures.
The UNC-system Association of Student Governments, a statewide organization composed of delegates from each of the system schools, passed a resolution encouraging the UNC-system Board of Governors to defer to individual campus recom-mendations on tuition increases.
The resolution implores the board to follow the standard tuition process, which looks at recommen-dations from each campus’s Board of Trustees and does not mandate a systemwide tuition increase.
The board makes official tuition recommendations to the N.C. General Assembly in February.
“I think the impact of ASG’s resolution will be to lend a little bit more support to the individual campus’s recommendations and reinforce the policy,” ASG President Greg Doucette said.
At its October meeting, the ASG submitted a tuition resolution to the BOG in which the student delega-tions from each university made a separate increase percentage rec-ommendation for each school.
This approach was met with disap-proval from UNC-system President Erskine Bowles, who said the recom-mendations were ill-informed since research on tuition was still ongoing on many campuses.
This time the ASG made a general recommendation encouraging the board to defer to the requests made by each campus’s Board of Trustees.
Hannah Gage, BOG chairwoman, said the most important thing for the board to hear from the ASG is a col-lective opinion from the students.
“What the Board of Governors wants is a voice from ASG that gives us some indication of how the students feel,” she said previously.
By pursuing this resolution, the ASG provided a unified student voice but did not make a specific tuition increase recommendation for the UNC system as a whole.
“We focused on keeping the decisions at the campus level,” Doucette said.
Logan Liles, the leader of the UNC-Chapel Hill delegation, said he thinks the resolution will be effective because it takes a campus-oriented look at tuition increases.
“I think it’s a stronger statement,” he said. “We’re representing different campuses with different needs.”
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ask BoG to follow normal procedure
Undocumented students
the ASG also passed a resolution encouraging the N.C. Community College System to open its doors to undocumented students while it deliberates on its long-term policy.
N.C. community colleges have barred undocumented students from attending until a final deci-sion on admissions is reached.
the resolution was shut down in committee at the last ASG meet-ing, but this time it passed in both the committee and in the general assembly with almost no debate.
Chazz Clevinger, vice president of the committee that sponsored the bill, said the change from last meeting was probably due to more delegates being pres-ent and everyone being better informed on the resolution.
Greg Doucette, president of the ASG, said he hopes the resolution will carry some weight with the N.C. Community College System and will fuel students’ efforts.
“Hopefully it will add some momentum to the student-led access movement,” he said.
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young dems aim for congressional seats
Fluet only candidate seeking rHa position
“If Democrats care about fiscal responsibility, we’re more than willing to work with them.”DUKE CHESTON, CANDIDATE
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Christina Fluet is the only candidate for residence Hall Association president. The sophomore wants to publicize what the group does.
By EliSaBETH GilBErTsTAFF WrITEr
Months after the national elec-tion, Democrats and Republicans are fighting another heated battle — this time for seats in Student Congress.
In recent years, members and observers of Congress have acknowledged the presence of a powerful conservative faction in the organization.
Now UNC Young Democrats are launching what their leaders call their largest Congress effort ever.
For the first time, the group will announce between 10 and 15 endorsements for Congress races at its forum tonight, along with its usual student body president pick.
Co-president Charlie Sellew said the organization’s leaders inter-viewed about 17 potential candi-dates for the endorsements.
An informal campaign advis-er will help organize Young Democrats members to campaign for the endorsed candidates.
Sellew said the group’s experi-ence in last year’s state and national elections has given members solid experience in communicating can-didates’ messages and getting stu-
dents to vote.B u t C o - p r e s i d e n t Ju s t i n
Rosenthal and Sellew said the group’s effort is nonpartisan and has been more focused on endorse-ment than recruitment.
Meanwhile, recruitment is business as usual for College Republicans.
Duke Cheston, administra-tive vice chairman of the College Republicans and an off-campus Congress candidate, said he is in charge of organizing conservative-leaning students to run for seats.
Cheston said he is unsure how many of this year’s candidates were tapped by College Republicans, but he said he personally recruited about four, including one Libertarian.
“The only thing we care about, as far as Student Congress, is fis-cal responsibility,” Cheston said. “If Democrats care about fiscal responsibility, we’re more than willing to work with them.”
Bryan Weynand, Congress speak-er pro tem and editor of the conser-vative Carolina Review magazine, said College Republicans often are concerned with smart spending and see Congress as a good fit for their interests.
Opinions vary as to how much real-world political ideology mat-ters in Student Congress.
“There’s not really killing babies or taking away the Second Amendment or anything,” Cheston said.
But Cheston is not the first to express concern that an influx of liberal representatives might block funding for conservative groups and events.
Rosenthal said he thinks that such fears are misplaced and that liberal representatives won’t base their votes on ideology.
Sellew said that Young Democrats will not be endorsing only Democrats and that his group simply hopes for a wide variety of political viewpoints to be present in Congress.
“If the body’s going to represent students, it has to represent the diversity of students that we have at Carolina,” Sellew said. “I think in the past it hasn’t really done that.”
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republicans anticipate collaborationBy aSHlEy BENNETTsTAFF WrITEr
While candidates of other con-tests busily advertised their cam-paigns this weekend, Christina Fluet didn’t have much to worry about.
Fluet, a sophomore sociology major, is the sixth Residence Hall Association candidate to run uncon-tested in the last six elections.
“I’m really passionate about it, but there’s some things that are just unnecessary,” Fluet said of campaigning.
According to the RHA Web site, the organization is responsible for representing residents’ concerns on campus while also providing pro-gramming and enhancements to the residence hall communities.
Current RHA President Michael Miller said the responsibilities of the president include being a liaison for residence halls to other organizations, voicing the opin-ions of students to Housing and Residential Education and over-seeing the RHA executive board and board of governors.
Miller said many students don’t run for the position because it’s a big commitment and requires liv-ing in campus housing.
“Although the election is open to everyone, you couldn’t really run unless you had the experience of a year within (RHA),” he said. “So it’s kind of uniquely open to 30 or 40 people.”
Fluet said she feels not many students choose to run for the posi-tion because they don’t really know what RHA is.
“I talked to a lot of people when I was getting signatures and they asked, ‘Oh, if I sign your petition are you going to put me in a single?’” Fluet laughed. “But that’s housing, that’s not what RHA does.”
She admitted that as a first-year student working as a floor represen-tative for Hinton James Residence Hall government she had no idea what RHA was. Fluet said a large part of her platform will be to ensure students know the role of RHA.
Along with publicizing RHA, Fluet said she plans to make the budget and programming more beneficial to residents.
“I feel like a lot of excess money is put toward things like our (board of ) governors’ retreat,” Fluet said,
“There’s some things on the budget that could be tweaked so that the residents could get the most out of their $6 in fees that goes to RHA.”
Fluet is currently the Carmichael-Whitehead Community governor.
Although community governors are usually elected in the spring, Fluet was elected this fall because Carmichael was closed for renova-tions last year.
“Since Carmichael-Whitehead Community didn’t exist last year we pretty much had to revamp everything and start from scratch,” said Ben Randall, Carmichael-Whitehead Community publicity chairman.
“Her dedication, and putting in 150 percent really made it feel like more of a community.”
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unC volcano study gets media attentionBy Nick ANderseNAssistAnt FeAtures editor
The volcano erupted every 45 minutes.
And Jonathan Lees could cap-ture it from every angle.
Lees, a professor in the UNC geology department, was the subject of a National Geographic special filmed in Guatemala last month.
His cameramen turned out to be UNC alumni.
“It was really a strange coinci-dence,” Lees said. Lees and a group of geologists and undergraduates from UNC, N.C. State University, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and Michigan Technical University were moni-toring the eruptions of Mount Santiaguito, an extremely active volcano in western Guatemala.
Lees’ use of new methods of seismic observation in the barren mountains of Central America attracted the attention of the National Geographic Society’s “Wild Chronicles” series.
“It’s always fun for me to work with academics who are truly passion-ate about what they do,” said Pablo Durana, one of the cameramen who followed Lees. Durana graduated from UNC in 2006 with a degree in communications studies. His intern
for the shoot, Hayes Baxley, gradu-ated from UNC in 2008.
Sharing the Carolina back-ground gave Durana and the sci-entists a lot more to talk about, he said.
Lees, a professor at UNC since 2000, has been studying volcanoes for more than 12 years and has vis-ited them all over the world. His next stop is in Japan.
“The study of volcanoes isn’t just about prediction,” he said, shuffling papers on his cluttered desk in Mitchell Hall. “Volcanoes are interesting parts of nature by themselves — we’re just trying to understand how it all works.”
His recent project combines seis-mic monitoring systems with high-definition video and sound record-ing to closely define the downward force of volcanic explosions.
“We’re putting old methods together — acoustic waves, seismic waves, and video monitoring — to give us a better understanding of how these eruptions work,” Lees said.
Lees designed a program that uses the mathematical data from all these sources to create a more fluid picture of the constant erup-tions at sites like Santiaguito.
Using volcanic data in this way is like fixing years of poor eye-
sight, Lees said.“If you’re blind in one eye, you
don’t see any depth,” Lees said. His program uses multiple cameras to capture all sides of a volcanic erup-tion.
This simple yet novel way to observe volcanic eruptions drew the eye of both Wired and Nature magazines, earning Lees and his colleagues a moment of fame in the scientific community.
National Geographic’s “Wild Chronicles” program takes a look at scientific solutions to the secrets of the Earth. Lees’ episode will air in June, Durana said.
Durana’s work has taken him from the inside of high-security prisons to secluded tribal villages around the world, but his trip to Mount Santiaguito with Lees was his first time on an erupting vol-cano.
“It was one of the most beauti-ful things I’ve ever shot,” Durana said.
Lees was glad to have Durana and Baxley along on the trip.
“There’s a real camaraderie among the Tar Heels,” Lees said. “We all started picking on the N.C. State guy right away.”
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Photo Courtesy oF PAblo durAnA
Geology professor Jonathan lees traveled with a group of students and professionals from other universities to the active volcano, Mount santiaguito, and was filmed for a national Geographic series that will air in June.
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Omega Wilson, president of the West End Revitalization Association, speaks about “Race and the Environment in Orange County” as
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After her diagnosis, Yow served as a board member of The V Foundation for Cancer Research, founded by former N.C. State men’s basketball coach Jim Valvano, who died of cancer in 1993.
Yow’s cancer relapsed in 2004, and she continued to coach through her treatment. She announced that she would take a leave of absence for the remainder of this season Jan. 6.
Since Dec. 22, when Yow missed her first game because of chest congestion, associate head coach Stephanie Glance has led the Wolfpack on the court.
With Yow in the thoughts of Glance and her team, the Wolfpack played inspired basketball, battling No. 2 UNC and No. 4 Duke to over-time before falling to both.
“It has been an honor and a privilege to work with coach Yow for the last 15 seasons,” Glance said. “I suddenly find myself grasping to
retain everything she has ever said and ever taught me.
“Each of us who has had the spe-cial opportunity to learn from her and share wonderful friendships with her now has a special part of coach Yow in us.”
The outpouring of emotion extended beyond the boundaries of the sports world, just as Yow’s life did. Saturday, supporters turned N.C. State’s bell tower into a makeshift memorial for Yow, leaving flowers, candles and messages of support.
Gov. Bev Perdue, the state’s first female governor, was one of many touched by Yow.
“She was much more than a bas-ketball coach,” Perdue said. “She was a teacher, a mentor, and an inspira-tional leader. … We are all blessed to have been touched by her life, and she will be sadly missed.”
State & National Editor Brian Austin contributed reporting.
Contact the Sports Editor at [email protected].
the maximum 7-minute length for their films.
“The time limit of 7 minutes was very tough,” said junior Kaylyn Siporin, a member of the “Mean Girls” group.
The teams also faced the diffi-culty of using only their cameras to edit their films.
“We had to go back and record over all the material we didn’t use,” said junior Brian Cooper of the “Indiana Jones” team. “It took us to a time back before the computer age.”
The films will be judged by the board and shown at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Student Union Auditorium.
Prizes will be awarded to the winning teams.
Though this was the first time the activities board held the “Swede a Film” competition, the success of the event is an indication that it will not be the last.
“This afternoon was the most hectic and fun time of my col-lege career,” said sophomore D.J. Rogers.
“I really hope they do this again.”
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is planned for 250 acres, two miles north of the main campus.
Town and University staff are negotiating an agreement for the rest of campus with a final goal of June. Residents have said that the Innovation Center and Carolina North campus should be planned simultaneously to measure poten-tial impact on the town.
But when a September public hearing came and went with mini-mal opposition, the plan appeared to be set for October approval.
The University wanted to break ground on the building by early 2009 before a pair of obstacles entered the arena.
First, Alexandria rejected lan-guage that town staff wrote in the permit, focusing particularly on a portion regarding University use. John Cunningham, senior vice pres-ident of Alexandria, wrote that the language could prohibit tenants who do not affiliate with the University.
He asked University officials to discuss whether the best approach would be to have the process “post-poned, suspended, delayed or as a last resort, withdrawn.”
By the time of the Oct. 27 meet-ing, no solution had been reached.
“The schedule will not hold and we’ll look stupid for pushing this with the town,” wrote Pat Crawford, deputy general counsel, in an Oct. 27 e-mail to Runberg that was forward-ed to Chancellor Holden Thorp and other University officials. She wrote that the University should withdraw the application.
“Blame it on economy.”That night, the University took
many — including Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy — by surprise when it asked that the application for the permit be delayed. And when report-ers asked University officials the reasons for delay, the replies mostly reflected Crawford’s advice.
“I think they’re concerned about in this environment whether they could fill up the building right away,” Thorp told The Daily Tar Heel.
Runberg, at the time, mentioned disagreements on the language of the permit. But University officials expressed a confidence that the e-mails show was largely missing from internal discussion.
In a Nov. 3 e-mail, Alexandria told University officials that they would not begin any new developments because of the economy.
The e-mails requested end in mid-November, with University officials attempting to combat per-ception that the center was “dead,” but today the council will vote on the permit with both University and Alexandria officials satisfied.
Runberg said in an interview that the back and forth is typical of proj-ects during his 17 years at UNC.
If approved today, it could still be months or years before con-struction begins on the project, Cunningham said in an interview.
The University and Alexandria still have to sign a lease, Runberg said. They will have to work out issues including how much of the building will be occupied by the University. UNC wants 25 percent, Runberg said, and Alexandria will control the rest of the building.
And the economy remains as bad, if not worse than when the University cited concerns three months ago.
“We are continuing to try and make progress even though there is a global economic meltdown so that when things get better, we’ll be in a situation to try and push forward with this project,” Cunningham said.
Contact the City Editor at [email protected].
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Start delivering on green promises
With our newly elected Democrats sworn in, it’s now time for
President Barack Obama, Gov. Bev Perdue and U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan to deliver on their prom-ises of supporting renewable energy and creating green jobs.
The candidates provided few specif-
ics during the campaign season. Hagan, for instance, said in October, “North Carolina needs to be the hub, the epicenter, of renewable energy. We can create thousands of jobs here.” There’s Perdue’s campaign quip, “green can be gold.” And Obama has promised to create 5 million green jobs “that can’t be outsourced.”
Fine. But the state and federal budgets are sagging with debt, and previously committed spend-ing and tax revenues are expected to decline as the recession takes hold. Demand-side economics says government can blunt the impact by increasing spending, but with budgets tight, we need to spend wisely.
Both our state and federal budgets should reflect two priori-ties — creating jobs and invest-ing in a next-generation energy infrastructure.
Today, the single best invest-ment we can make is in public transit. The sooner we start, the bigger the payback. Building tran-sit infrastructure will create jobs. And strengthening public transit is the single best way to reduce our petroleum consumption.
The second priority should be providing subsidies for improving buildings’ efficiency. Installing the upgrades creates jobs. More efficient buildings use less electricity and heat. And as a collateral benefit, money saved by operating a more efficient building can go to fueling our economic recovery.
The approach here is simple: North Carolina should pay busi-nesses and residents to weather-ize, insulate, upgrade appliances and install solar water heaters.
It should explicitly reward the owners of every building that gets a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certifica-tion for energy efficiency. LEED ratings, bestowed by the Green Building Council, are the best available metric for building effi-ciency.
Currently, benefits for reach-ing LEED certification are buried in tax and permit fee breaks. A more compelling offer would be grants or low-interest loans.
The third solution would be to pay North Carolina factories to shift their focus. An N.C. State University study found that more than 1,300 in-state companies could be refit to make compo-nents for renewable energy prod-ucts — for example, turbines for windmills or pumps for biomass plants. Updating our factories to compete in the hot markets of the next decade will avoid layoffs in the short term, and in the long run will ensure our role as a state with good manufacturing jobs.
In principle, Obama, Perdue and Hagan have expressed sup-port for all of these programs, but they haven’t said how they will prioritize them relative to other programs. So as you’re reading the news in the coming weeks, keep an eye out for what projects are actually getting funded.
Public busses and building insulation aren’t the sexiest ways to spend money, but they’re what North Carolina needs.
ENVIRONMENTAL COLUMNIST Th e N . C . G e n e r a l
Assembly should con-sider raising state excise
taxes on cigarettes and alcohol in order to close the gap on cur-rent and future budget short-falls.
N. C. Senate Majority Leader Marc Basnight sug-gested raising the state’s “sin taxes” Thursday, a week after Gov. Bev Perdue mandated a 7 percent budget cut for all state government agencies.
With the state facing a pro-jected $2 billion shortfall for the current fiscal year, there is only so much budget trim-ming that can realistically be carried out. The government desperately needs revenue, and taxpayers are strapped. In this malaise economy, excise taxes are an innovative way to increase government revenue.
For instance, the state’s cig-
arette tax stands at 35 cents per pack and ranks sixth low-est nationally. According to the N.C. Alliance for Health, increasing North Carolina’s cigarette tax to $1.35 per pack, a rate equal to that of Pennsylvania, would generate an additional $386.6 million in tax revenues per year.
Such an increase in govern-ment revenues would put a huge dent in the budget gap and prevent the state from cut-ting funding to vital programs, like education and mental health services.
Opponents of the excise tax, including N.C. Senate Republican Leader Phil Berger, argue that taking more money out of the private economy would only worsen economic conditions.
When the state is facing the possibility of cutting education
funds, the last thing on anyone’s mind should be whether or not individuals are able afford feed-ing their nicotine addictions.
In addition to alleviating painful spending cuts and pre-venting job losses, raising taxes on cigarettes and alcohol could also help reduce the billions of dollars in annual health care costs attributed to the use of such products.
With the state expecting an even deeper gap in the next fis-cal year, a period that will most likely not be eased by federal stimulus money, the need for more tax revenues will only increase. The state government cannot be trimmed down to its bones.
If the state wants to prevent further budget shortfalls and avoid cutting funds to valuable programs, it must consider increasing its “sin taxes”.
Tax our sinsA prudent way to increase the state’s revenue
would be to increase the excise taxes
The Raleigh City Council should snuff out its plan to seek an amendment
to state law that would initi-ate a citywide smoking ban in public parks.
The council voted Thursday to lobby the N.C. General Assembly to enact legislation that would allow the city to impose such a ban.
The city should consider an alternative approach.
Supporters of the ban, which was initially recom-mended by the Raleigh Parks, Recreation and Greenway Advisory Board, say an out-right smoking ban is needed in order to reduce the amount of secondhand smoke and lit-ter in public parks.
While it is understandable that many parents of small children are concerned about secondhand smoke levels, especially near playground areas, banning smoking alto-gether is not the most practi-cal response.
A relatively simple solution would be for the city to estab-lish designated smoking areas in parks that are adequately distanced from playgrounds that include ash trays and trash cans to cut down on lit-ter.
This type of approach is best for a number of reasons.
UNC-Chapel Hill students would probably agree that the smoking area at the flag pole in Polk Place is an acceptable
middle ground when it comes to isolating secondhand smoke and reducing litter in the form of cigarette butts.
In terms of effectiveness, it is doubtful that a outright ban would achieve better results.
Whether smoking is officially “banned” in public parks, peo-ple will most likely continue to smoke in them.
And the only way city offi-cials could actually enforce a ban would be to devote law enforcement resources that would obviously be better spent elsewhere.
Designated smoking areas, not an outright ban, are the best way to ensure that all residents can enjoy the city’s parks.
The Chapel Hill Town Council should lower the cost of a proposed
permit that would be required of some residents who raise chickens in their yards.
The proposed amendment would require residents with coops larger than 12 feet by 12 feet to pay more than $200 for a permit. Any smaller enclo-sure warrants no such fine.
Making residents who raise chickens obtain a permit is understandable. It makes sense for the town to know exactly where chickens are being raised.
To ensure public health and that chickens are raised humanely, it is appropriate to require a permit of residents who keep chickens.
But the cost of that permit is far too high.
At last week’s Town Council meeting, council member Ed Harrison said the proposed permit cost is two to three times more than Durham’s permit cost.
Requiring Chapel Hil l chicken owners to pay that much money for a permit dis-courages residents from rais-ing chickens, which would be inconsistent with the town’s commitment to sustainability.
Raising their own chickens is a way for residents to ensure that their meat and eggs are coming from reliable, healthy sources. It allows them to feel confident in the fact that their food was raised humanely.
And although raising chick-
ens can be an affordable way to eat, it isn’t always cheap from the get-go.
Backyard chickens must be fed and kept, too.
Chicken feed and other nec-essary expenses are already a financial burden to residents who raise chickens, and this permit would only augment those costs.
Parts of the amendment do make sense. It caps residential chicken ownership at 10 chick-ens, and it prohibits residents from keeping chickens in their front yards.
But this amendment could deter residents from raising their own chickens.
And Chapel Hill shouldn’t encourage any sustainable pro-ducers to fly the coop.
Cock-a-doodle-don’tPermit won’t fly well with chicken owners
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EDITORIAL CARTOON by Nate beeler, the washington examiner
BoE does have the right to interpret student Code
TO THE EDITOR: Watching the spat between
the Board of Elections and The Daily Tar Heel from afar, I’m not exactly sure what’s going on or whose side I’m on. But an editorial Friday, (“Court should not legislate,” Jan. 23) prompt-ed me to write my first letter to the editor in some time.
How can the editorial board claim that the BOE has no power to interpret Title VI of the Student Code? How can any administrative panel enforce the law if it cannot interpret what the law means in the first place?
This power of any executive official at any level of govern-ment has been enforced by com-mon sense, the courts, and, in this case, the Student Supreme Court time and again.
In fact, when Tyler Younts and I wrote the law in 2006 that created the regulations on candidate Facebook groups, it was in response to the Board’s interpretation that existing law prohibited Facebook groups altogether because they were then considered “Web sites” by Code definition, and all Web sites were required to exist on UNC’s server.
The board ’s interpreta-tion defied previous tradi-tion, which allowed Facebook groups, but they were correct in their reading of the law. The BOE sued us, charging that we were exercising interpretive power — their sole jurisdiction — but we never claimed they were wrong, so we wrote legis-lation which they would have to interpret as allowing Facebook groups to exist.
The Supreme Court upheld Congress’ right to legislate and the Board of Elections’ right to interpret what we pass into law.
They should always pro-pose election law changes to Congress far in advance of elections, but the suggestion that they cannot interpret the law already in effect in order to regulate elections would pro-hibit them from doing what every human being does when he reads a written word — interpret its meaning.
Dustin Ingalls
UNC ‘07Former Student Congress
Speaker Pro Tempore
UNC search suspension contradicts investments
TO THE EDITOR: One of the 33 suspended
searches in the College of Arts & Sciences is the American Studies position to replace Amer ican Indian scho lar Michael D. Green.
I recognize the University’s need to t r im i t s budge t . However, this position cannot be cut without detrimentally affecting graduate students, undergraduates and the recent investments of the University.
In 2006, the University opened its American Indian Center and last year American Studies added American Indian Studies as an undergraduate major.
Yet, in the wake of these additions, the University and
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Many of the American Indian students on campus minor in American Indian studies and come to Carolina because of its vibrant American Indian undergraduate population and its academic emphasis on American Indian scholarship.
The loss of the latter will indirectly result in the loss of the former.
As for graduate students who already face limited course offerings on American Indian topics, this position provides the critical American Indian Readings Seminar and this faculty member serves as an adviser to graduate students interested in American Indian topics.
I strongly encourage the American Studies Department to move forward with its hire for its American Indian scholar.
Julie Reed
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don’t put waste station in county’s rural area
TO THE EDITOR:Many letters have been writ-
ten concerning the placement of the Waste Transfer Station in rural Orange County — here is another one.
F i r s t , I w a n t t o t h a n k Commissioner Pam Hemminger for her reasoned approach to the problem in her refusal to vote for a flawed plan.
I cannot improve upon the arguments put before the media and the Board of County Commissioners. Placement in the southwest of Orange County would indeed be folly.
There are no water and sewer lines. The roads are not major highways. There is no rail sys-tem. And it would not be close to the source of the greatest amount of trash.
A waste transfer station in rural Orange County would jeopardize the well water of the local residents in that part of the county from both the potential contamination and loss of water in a draught. It would damage the local roads with large trucks making too many trips back and forth.
The cost is already too high and not entirely known. All in all, a losing proposition for the people.
To our commissioners: Please consider the work of Orange County Voice. Meet with your neighbors in that organization to find a solution that is best for all.
This decision, as it stands, will not only hurt the people of rural Orange but all who live anywhere in the county.
The cost of the transfer sta-tion will be paid for by all of us who live in and around “the Southern Part of Heaven” — it will show up in our tax bills.
Glenn SumnerChapel Hill
Raleigh should create designated smoking areasrather than ban smoking in parks
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Same game, new ruleS
UNC Ultimate Frisbee player Patrick Nelson defends a Florida State player in the first ever ACC Ultimate Championship held at UNC this weekend. Ultimate is a self-officiated sport that relies on players to make all calls on the field, but the tour-
nament used a new set of rules which incorporate “observers” who can make foul and travel calls. The new rules were met with mixed reactions from members of the community.
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ity. It closed last year because of a failure to pay taxes.
“I wouldn’t say it was unsafe, but someone new would definitely have to redo it,” Henry said. “I don’t know how they could rent it out in the condition it’s in today.”
Ryan said after spending $700,000 to open Sugarland — double the amount she anticipated — she would imagine prospective owners would think twice before coming to downtown Chapel Hill.
And Praet echoed Ryan’s frus-tration.
“Nobody wants anybody hurt or injured without cause, but some of the regulations and requirements went a little bit too far.”
He paused.“Chapel Hill is an expensive
place to do business.”
Contact the City Editor at [email protected].
“The role of the senior class officers is not a political thing,” Staffiera said.
“It’s about bringing people together and having fun.”
Beyond the general goals of fun and inclusion, it’s hard to distinguish a platform point that the candidates consider to be the most important.
But judging from the way she begins to lean forward and talk faster, it’s the plans for commu-nity service that Staffiera is most excited about.
The candidates want to connect students to programs that help senior citizens.
They also hope to complete a renovation of the Edward Kidder Graham House, a historical land-mark behind Alderman Residence Hall.
Staffiera and Williams said they are flexible about which community service projects they will follow through on, depend-ing on what students are more interested in.
The candidates said they are still editing their platform, but other things they want to accom-
plish are creating a Web site to keep seniors informed and extending the graduate advis-ing program to include students interested in fields other than law or medicine.
Shelly admits he hasn’t paid much attention to the candidates yet, but he said he will now as cam-paign efforts intensify.
“Right now it’s game on,” Shelly said. “I look forward to seeing who goes the craziest in the Pit. Election season is pretty exciting.”
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about who you know.”Along with networking, the two
candidates also have a series of senior events scheduled. Senior bar nights, a semiformal, a prom and senior tailgating are a few among the many that are planned.
Traditionally, candidates for senior class president have had a ser-vice component to their platforms.
In terms of community service, Nichols and Chen-Xu also want to see more seniors involved in Habitat for Humanity, a group that
builds homes for needy families.Current senior class president
James Shelly said combining the social and service elements as por-trayed in Nichols and Chen-Xu’s platform is what is needed to put a campaign over the top.
“They have a lot of experience serving the student body already, and that could really help in the long run too,” he said.
Nichols, currently Student Congress speaker, has a lso been on the Student Fee Audit Committee, Carol ina Union Board of Directors and Carolina Athletic Association basketball
student ticket committee. Chen-Xu has been a member of
Congress, worked with APPLES Service Learning, is a founding Phi Mu sorority sister and is a Carolina United counselor.
“Both Tim and Tina are very ded-icated leaders, and they are always looking for ways to improve the sys-tem,” said Charissa Lloyd, Congress’ ethics committee chairwoman.
“Plus, they’re both great danc-ers — an essential quality for any senior class president.”
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National and World NewsFight for disclosure of donors to Ca Proposition 8 campaign brings suit
Bolivia considers new constitution
LA PAZ, Bolivia (MCT) — The indigenous majority will gain special rights and the gov-ernment will take greater con-trol over the economy under a new constitution expected to be approved Sunday by Bolivians.
President Evo Morales, the country’s first self-identified indigenous leader, pushed for the new charter, which will allow him to run for re-election later this year.
Indigenous groups will be given more representation in the nation’s Congress, as well as more legal power.
Early polls indicated that the constitution would pass easily.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (MCT) — California’s attorney general and election watchdogs are fight-ing back against a federal lawsuit seeking to bar disclosure of late donors to the state’s same-sex marriage ban.
Attorney General Jerry Brown, Secretary of State Debra Bowen and the Fair Political Practices Commission jointly filed argu-ments this week opposing the suit by the Proposition 8 cam-paign.
The suit seeks a court order exempting Proposition 8 com-mittees from identifying people who donated shortly before or
after the Nov. 4 election. Previous contributors already have been named.
California’s Political Reform Act, approved by voters in 1974, requires disclosure of the name, occupation and employer of any-one contributing $100 or more to campaigns.
The suit challenges the con-stitutionality of the disclosure requirement, claiming donors to Proposition 8 have been ravaged by e-mails, phone calls and post-cards – even death threats.
U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. is set to hear oral arguments Thursday.
japan to develop new rocket tech
TOKYO (MCT) — The govern-ment has launched a project to develop a midair rocket-launching system that can place satellites in orbit, it has been learned.
The project is aimed at meet-ing the global demand for low-cost, small satellites that can be developed and produced rela-tively quickly. Observers say the project would help Japan main-tain its competitiveness in the rocket-launching business.
Midair rocket launches involve launching a satellite-mounted rocket after an aircraft has flown over the open sea and then sepa-rating a satellite from the rocket to send it into orbit.
Palin receives new ethics complaint
A N C H O R A G E , A l a s k a (MCT) — As former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin settles back into her job as the Alaskan gover-nor, a new ethics complaint filed Tuesday says she’s already improperly mixing her official duties and broader political ambitions.
The charge is that Palin broke state ethics rules by holding national television interviews about her run for vice president from the governor’s office. The charge cited the Nov. 10 inter-view with Fox News Channel, which occurred after she was out of the race.
obama pushes his spending plan
WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — President Barack Obama pitched more details of an eco-nomic stimulus plan that could exceed $825 billion on Sunday, hoping to ease Republican resis-tance in Congress by building public support for spending on items as varied as health cov-erage, port security and home weatherization.
In his weekly address, posted on the Web site of the White House, the president also paint-ed a dire picture of the conse-quences of inaction.
Republican opponents pushed for tax cuts instead of spending.
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Library sees more demand Towns hope for stimulus moneyBY Gavin WhiteheadStaff writer
New sidewalks and wel l-oiled buses might just be belated Christmas gifts for Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
Town officials this week are sub-mitting wish lists of transportation projects, which they hope will receive federal funding if Congress passes an economic stimulus package.
Along with cities across the state, officials will submit the lists to the N.C. Department of Transportation.
The projects will serve a variety of purposes, from building new side-walks and bicycle lanes to revamp-ing roads. Above all, the projects will help to stimulate the economy and create local jobs, said Roger Stancil, Chapel Hill town manager.
Stancil said the Chapel Hill pri-orities are revamping the park and ride lots, constructing sidewalks and replacing buses.
A d e n a Me s s i n ge r o f t h e Carrboro Planning Department said the town is aiming to make the community safer for walkers by installing three sidewalks on Shelton, Bim and Ashe streets.
The town is also vying for fund-ing for a state-sponsored project to install bicycle lanes and side-walks along Old Fayetteville Road. Messinger said this encourages kids to walk and bike to school.
Both cities submitted similar lists of possible infrastructure projects to the N.C. Metropolitan Coalition in December.
The proposed projects must be “shovel ready” — ready to start within 180 days, in this case. That means preliminary action such as preparing contracts or conducting environmental or traffic studies must be already done.
Chapel Hill and Carrboro’s lists must arrive by Tuesday at the NCDOT, which will allocate funds if Congress passes legislation.
Steve Abbott, a communica-tions officer of the Department of Transportation, said these projects would allow federal money to have far-reaching effects.
“It’s not just money for projects,” he said. “Contractors need to hire workers. These people need gas, they need food. The money helps in a lot of different ways.”
Abbott said it’s impossible to know how much money the state will receive and which projects will get priority. He said the govern-ment will appropriate the funds with unpredictable restrictions on the types of projects that will receive funding.
Although cities have no choice but to cross their fingers and hope that their projects gain financial support, Abbott said they wouldn’t be waiting too long to find out.
“This may be one of the first things that the administration looks at because everyone is kind of in limbo right now,” he said.
The Department of Transportation first made a request for projects in the fall, when it submitted a list to Washington D.C. with more than 300 suggested projects with a total price of more than $5 billion.
Nicole Burris, deputy public infor-mation director of the Department of Transportation said she thinks Tuesday’s requests for transportation projects could be the last.
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BY Joe WoodruffStaff writer
The Chapel Hill Public library is becoming increasingly busy.
“It’s the most-used public library per square foot in the state,” said Paul Jones, a member of the Chapel Hill Public Library Board of Trustees.
With the economy in a slump, town officials are looking for alter-natives to a proposed $16 million library expansion. The Chapel Hill Town Council will discuss possible alternatives in a meeting today.
Voters gave Chapel Hill permis-sion to sell more than $16 mil-lion in bonds in November 2003 to fund the library expansion. Approximately $2 million has already been used to cover the cost of planning and development of a proposed expansion.
The current expansion project has been delayed due to the unfa-vorable state of the bond market, according to a town staff memo-randum for tonight’s meeting.
Although the expansion project is being scaled back, demand for library materials are growing.
“People turn to public librar-ies in periods of economic down-turn, and we’re seeing that now,” said Chapel Hill Library Director Kathleen Thompson.
She said children’s use of the library for November 2008 was 19 percent higher than in November 2007.
For a library that sees an aver-age annual increase of 2 percent in overall use, these figures denote an extraordinary demand on materi-als and staff, Thompson said.
There has been limited discus-sion on what an alternative pro-posal would entail. In April 2007, the council considered the option of building a downtown library branch. The project was not pur-sued due to anticipated costs, as well as complications with plan-ning and design.
One option the council will
Town council to revise plans for expansion “People turn to public libraries in periods of economic downturn, and we’re seeing that now.”KathLeen thoMPSon, CHaPeL HiLL LiBrarY DireCtOr
consider today is using a building smaller than the current design for library expansion. Many of the specifics regarding this option have not yet been addressed, according to the staff memorandum, includ-ing where such a building could be built or purchased.
Whichever option the council ends up pursuing, the library expan-sion is viewed by many, including Jones, as relief long overdue.
“Chapel Hill isn’t going to get smaller, and we really need to address those issues,” Jones said.
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Child Care ServicesTHAT KIDS PLACE is currently enrolling in-fants and toddlers. Limited spaces available. $700/mo. State licensed. For more info or to schedule visit 919-960-6165.
LOOKING FOR BABYSITTING JOBS? Get on the list! The Chapel Hill, Carrboro Mothers Club maintains a list of available babysitters for its 300+ membership. For more informa-tion: [email protected].
Child Care WantedAFTERSCHOOL SITTER NEEDED for 2 won-derful girls (9, 11) 2-3 days/wk, 2:30-5:30pm. Applicants need: Driver’s license, reliable car and clean driving record. Email resume and reference to [email protected].
AFTERSCHOOL CARE NEEDED. 2:45-5:30pm for 2 children, 7 & 11. On busline, great kids, walk to CH Park. $10/hr. References needed. [email protected], 919-548-1506.
AFTERNOON BABYSITTER NEEDED. Tu/Thu 2:30-6:15pm for sweet girls ages 9 and 11. Days and hours flexible. $12/hr. Please email [email protected].
PART-TIME BABYSITTER for active toddler girl in our Southern Village home. Ideal: Wednesdays and Fridays, 8 or 9am-noon. Some flexibility on days. $10/hr. Email Sarah at [email protected].
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WALKING DISTANCE TO UNC. Mercia Residential Properties now signing 2009-10 leases. 1BR-2BR apartments and houses available. Visit mercia-rentals.com. 919-933-8143.
AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY, 1BR/1BA with W/D, dishwasher, central air and heat. 201 Carver Street, $600/mo. 933-8143, www.merciarentals.com.
FURNISHED TOWNHOUSEFemale seeking roommate for 2nd, furnished BR in stylish townhouse. Located in a small, quiet development (Woodglen) off MLK close to campus. Fully remodeled last year, with equipped kitchen, inside W/D, living and din-ing area, shared bath, deck. Includes parking. Suitable for grad student or visiting faculty. $550/mo +utilities. 919-401-9942.
2BR/2.5BA TWO STORY TOWNHOME off of Highway 54 bypass. $800/mo, $800 deposit. Call 919-383-3111.
SEEKING PROFESSIONAL OR GRAD student to rent nice, quiet, secluded 1BR apartment in private home. great Chapel Hill neighbor-hood on busline with private driveway. Short walk to library, stores, restaurants. No smok-ing, pets. $500/mo, deposit and 1 year lease required. 919-636-2270.
1BR WILLOW TERRACE CONDO. Walk to University Mall, Harris Teeter, PO, banks. Chapel Hill Library. Micro-wave, W/D, pool, assigned parking. No pets. $635/mo. 919-942-6945.
2BR/1.5BA WITH W/D. Desirable Chapel Hill Willow Terrace end unit behind University Mall. Walk to PO, library, shopping, trails. No pets. 919-942-6945.
FULLY FURNISHED 1BR apartment available immediately in Chapel Hill home. Separate entrance, floor to ceiling windows over-look wooded area. On busline. All utilities included except telephone. $850/mo. 919-929-7785.
SPACIOUS, MODERN 6BR/5BA town-house on busline. Large bedrooms, hardwood floors, W/D, dishwasher, all appliances. Free parking, storage and trash pick up. $400/mo. Avail-able May or August 2009. 933-0983 or 451-8140.
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BEST LOCATION! Only 1 block to campus. This fourplex property has two 4BR/2BA units and two 3BR/2BA units. Totally reno-vated inside and out. Upscale well done fin-ishes: W/D in each unit, new appliances and fixtures, light filled bedrooms, wired for high speed internet. Loads of parking and stor-age. Feels like your own house. Great out-door spaces, decks. Looking for responsible tenants. $675/mo per bedroom. No utilities included. Available for August 2009 leases. Email: [email protected] for application or call 919-259-3800.
ONE PERSON OFFICE on Franklin Street. $395/mo. includes utilities. Call 919-967-2304 to view.
4BR/4BA APARTMENT in University Com-mons available August 1. On busline. Rent of $1,680/mo. includes utilities, cable and in-ternet. www.uncapartments.com. [email protected]. 919-673-8460.
Help WantedTEMPORARY, FULL TIME lab manager, re-search technician position: Assist in estab-lishing a program in Department of Phar-macology Cancer Center. Requires a highly motivated, organized quick learner. Enthusi-asm, interest override experience! Duties in-clude: Ordering lab supplies, organizing new supplies; Interacting, with sales representa-tives; Creating organizational infrastructure for laboratory. Routine experimental work will be taught on the job). Minimum require-ments: BS/BA in scientific discipline, some laboratory experience. Send CV, resume, ref-erences to Angelique Whitehurst: [email protected]. EOE.
WOMEN’S HIGH END clothing boutique is looking for part-time help. Saturday avail-ability a plus. Call Ginny at 919-933-3026.
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TIMBERLYNE ANIMAL CLINIC is now hir-ing! Positions are available part-time and full-time for veternary assistants and kennel technicians. Previous experience preferred. Must have excellent communication skills, be able to multitask and enjoy working with both pets and people. To be considered for this exciting opportunity, please fax your re-sume to 919-933-3336.
FULL-TIME ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY, M-F 8am-4:30pm. Employee is responsible for coordinating daily clerical functions of a licensed nursing facility. Must possess excellent organizational and interpersonal skills, be able to work well with minimal supervision in a fast-paced environment and enjoy working with the elderly. 2-3 years experience in a long term care setting pre-ferred. Interested applicants may submit an application to: Email [email protected], fax 919-969-2507, mail Human Resources Department, Carol Woods Retirement Com-munity, 750 Weaver Dairy Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27514.
UNC OB/GYN NEEDS healthy women for clin-ical studies, monetary compensation avail-able. Email or visit our website: [email protected]. http://tinyurl.com/research09.
EGG DONORS NEEDED. UNC Health Care seeking healthy, non-smok-ing females 18-32 to become egg donors. $2,500 compensation for COMPLETED cycle. All visits and pro-cedures to be done local to campus. For written information, please call 919-966-1150 ext. 5 and leave your current mailing address.
RESEARCH STUDIES: SMOKING RESEARCH STUDY going on right now in your area! Cigarette smokers between ages of 18-50 with no known health problems are needed for our research study. Compen-sation up to $250 For More Information 919-684-9593.
HEALTHY MEN aged 18-49 are needed for pharmacology research. 4 clinic visits (1-2 hours) and 2 overnight visits (24-48 hours on weekdays). Take FDA approved medication(s) for 8 days. Required health screening and two 5 minute flexible sigmoidoscopy procedures. Compensation: up to $1,350. Contact Kevin at [email protected]. Research Studies: IRB 08-0418, IRB 08-0419. The text of this advertisement has been approved by the Biomedical IRB
FEDERAL WORK STUDY: A Helping Hand, a non-profit organization serving older adults, is hiring companions to provide escorted trans-portation to medical appointments, help with daily tasks. Car required. Extraordinary expe-rience for Pre-med, Nursing, Social Work, Psy-chology or other health care major. Minimum 12 hrs/wk. A Helping Hand, 919-493-3244, [email protected].
PARTICIPANTS NEEDED for studies using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Studies are conducted at the Duke University Brain Imaging and Analysis Center. Must be 18 years of older and no history of neurological injury or disease. Studies last 1-2 hours and participants are paid approximately $20/hr. For more information, call 681-9344 or email [email protected]. 10672.
SEEKING STUDENTS ASAP who are inter-ested in overnight elder care for an older fe-male patient in private Chapel Hill home. Call 929-6879 or 225-7687.
UNC ATHLETIC BUSINESS OFFICE looking for part-time office assistant. Temporary position for 9-12 months. Contact Allison at 843-9270.
BARTENDING! Up to $300 a day. No experi-ence necessary, training available. Fee. Call 1-800-965-6520 ext. 105.
InternshipsA HELPING HAND, a nonprofit service learn-ing opportunity, has 12 unpaid internships working with older adults one on one in the home setting. Extraordinary experience for Pre-med., Nursing, Social Work, Psychology, other related majors. Minimum 5 hrs/wk. A Helping Hand, 919-493-3244, [email protected].
Lost & FoundLOST: HAT. REWARD! Lost in or around Student Union, Friday, January 16 around 1:45pm. Grey, brown with cows on it. Re-ward if found. 614-397-9539.
LOST: CAMERA. Silver, pocket sized, Sony camera lost in Student Union. PLEASE call 919-389-2185. REWARD!
LOST CAMERA: Blue Canon Powershot, lost 1-15 at a frat house. Contact Kim at 919-656-4564.
Pets/LivestockWE WOULD LOVE to groom your dog! Ask about our Savings Card. Four Paws Animal Clinic, full veterinary services. Glennwood Square Shopping Center, 1216 Raleigh Road, Chapel Hill. 919-942-1788.
PhotographyPART-TIME PHOTOGRAPHERS NEEDED. Fun, high energy, late night and evening work. Flexible part-time hours. Must be outgoing, dependable with reliable transportation. No experience necessary. Training provided. Pay based on performance minimum $10/hr. Tonya, 919-967-9576.
SubletsSUMMER SUBLET (MAY THRU JULY) 2BR/2BA at Millcreek Condos. W/D, dishwasher, 10 minute walk from Franklin Street. $1,000/mo +utilities. Contact: [email protected] for details. 704-985-0456.
AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY, private bed-room at Chapel Ridge in 2BR apartment for $499/mo. Room is furnished, private bathroom. Rent through July. On 3 buslines. 404-345-3116.
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Aries (March 21-April 19)Today is an 8 - Meetings will proceed slowly now. Folks will hash out every detail. Everybody will want to be heard, so give them two minutes each to talk. They’ll love that.Taurus (April 20-May 20)Today is a 6 - Keep your head down and try not to attract attention. An authority figure is on the rampage. He or she is trying to sell something that just won’t work. Don’t say that . . . yet.Gemini (May 21-June 21)Today is an 8 - Start imagining wonder-ful things that could happen in your life. Next, make that longing into a commit-ment. There’s power in your intention, as you already know.Cancer (June 22-July 22)Today is an 8 - Conditions are excellent for getting your finances all sorted out. When you’re in the mood, the job is fun and interesting. If it doesn’t seem that way, wait a little longer.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)Today is a 7 - Encourage your partner to try something she or he always wanted to do. The odds are in favor of someone you know well making a dream come true. Assist however you can.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Today is an 8 - Sequester yourself, so you can concentrate on technology. Odds are good you’ll figure out a better way to do things. This will benefit others as well as yourself. Go for it.
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11Sports monday, january 26, 2009The Daily Tar Heel
Trip to GuatemalaNational Geographic filmed a UNC
professor doing volcano research in Guatemala. See pg. 7 for story.
RHA president raceThere’s only one candidate
for Residence Hall Association president. See pg. 6 for story.
UNC Young DemocratsUNC Young Democrats will
endorse candidates for Student Congress. See pg. 6 for story.
Improv competitionAlumni were pitted against
current students at a Carrboro comedy theater. See pg. 3 for story.
Code enforcementState building code violations
hurt business development on Franklin Street. See pg. 3 for story.
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CHarLottesViLLe, Va. — no. 13 Virginia edged no. 14 north Carolina 156-144 in collegiate dual meet men’s swimming saturday afternoon.
each team won seven of 14 indi-vidual events, but the defending aCC champion Cavaliers prevailed by winning both relays and outscoring the tar Heels by 14 points in those two events.
despite the loss, the tar Heels swam one of their best meets of the year as the team members combined to record 21 season best times and seven career best clockings.
sophomore tyler Harris and junior david solarz each won two individ-ual events while junior Jeff James, redshirt sophomore Chip peterson and sophomore tommy wyher each recorded single individual event vic-tories.
UnC is now 4-3 in dual meets this season and 2-1 in the aCC. Virginia is 7-2 overall, and it leads the confer-ence with a 4-0 mark.
after finishing the 2008 season ranked no. 3, north Carolina will begin this year in the same spot in Baseball america’s preseason rank-ings, which were released tuesday.
the tar Heels, who were 54-14 a year ago, have been ranked in the top three of each preseason poll released over the last month.
the tar Heels headlined four atlantic Coast Conference teams in the Baseball america rankings. Clemson was ranked no. 19, Georgia tech was no. 20 and florida state checked in at no. 24.
sporting news today recently named receiver Brooks foster as one of the players who impressed at last tuesday’s practice before the senior Bowl, played last weekend.
according to a group of former scouts that observed the practice: “foster was really good tuesday. He ran very sharp routes and showed quickness out of his cuts to get a little space. He showed excellent hands, both plucking the high ball out of air and making the tough catch on off-target passes down the field. He used hands well to fight through press and contact and to get a little space.”
foster eventually left practice before the game, citing difficulties with his still-healing right knee.
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LIL WAYNELil wayne shouted out to UnC
basketball players rashanda mcCants and tyler Hansbrough in his espn the magazine blog. mcCants is “balling for UnC,” wayne said about the tar Heels’ loss to UConn. last week.
“i want to go to Chapel Hill and catch tyler Hansbrough before he leaves next year,” wayne wrote. “i’m gonna try my best to get over there before this season is over.”
in the blog, wayne also predicted the arizona Cardinals to win the super Bowl and advised Kobe Bryant to try another sport, such as baseball, during the nBa off-season.
Women’s tennis team shows depth in winsBY LOUIE HORVATHassistant sports editor
Coach Brian Kalbas could do no wrong Saturday.
Anyone he put in the line-up for his team’s doubleheader against Gardner-Webb and UNC-Greensboro made him look smart, trouncing their foes in two collec-tive routs.
A part of their staggering suc-cess can be owed to the depth of the team.
Nos. 4, 5 and 6 singles, usually the spots of inconsistency on the squad last year, lost a combined eight games, weighed against 72 wins. Gardner-Webb was only able to take a solitary game off the bot-tom half of the flight as two of the three won in straight sets.
“(Getting such a team effort) is really satisfying,” senior Sophie Grabinski said. “I love it — to get in and out of here, when everyone’s all business and really focused and serious.
“And whether you’re playing or you’re off the court, everyone’s doing exactly what they’re sup-posed to be doing.”
The Tar Heels used their team size to their advantage. Eleven dif-
ferent players competed in the two matches, out of a possible 13 listed on the roster.
Kalbas pointed to the necessity of keeping players sharp and play-ing the freshmen as the guiding principles in his playing time deci-sions on Saturday.
“We have so much depth that there’s not a lot of difference between our three through 11,” Kalbas said. “In that second match our four, five, six just kind of rolled through them.”
This strength and equality throughout the roster also mani-fests itself on the practice court.
Each player must fight to distin-guish herself from her teammates to establish a spot on the court on match day.
“Our practices are really com-petitive,” Shinann Featherston said. “We are all getting each other bet-ter by playing each other and being competitive.
“It’s really exciting to know that as a freshman I have a chance to get better because we have such great players on this team.”
Last year the Tar Heels struggled to put away opponents in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth singles spots
behind prohibitive first and second singles players Sanaz Marand and Katrina Tsang.
While Tsang and Marand turned in fabulous seasons, it did not nec-essarily translate to team success, as the Tar Heels would need other players to step up and build on the two-point foundation that was vir-tually conceded to the Tar Heels.
This season, while only in its nascent stages, looks to be a little bit kinder on the Tar Heels’ lower flights.
This depth can be traced to a few separate sources — the return of Jelena Durisic from an ACL tear, as well as incoming fresh-men such as Featherston, who is already ranked 83rd nation-ally by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.
“We have the most depth of any team I’ve ever had.” Kalbas said. “Not just the most depth, the most diversity of players: lefties, righties, one-hand backhand, slice, attack-ing, counterpunchers.
“So I think this year we have an opportunity to really use that to our advantage. Going into the season you’ll see that we will play some different people.”
Contact the Sports Editorat [email protected].
Tar Heels start off season strong for men’s tennisHeels use 11 of 13 players Saturday
BY CHRIS HEMpSONassistant sports editor
With Clay Donato’s doubles con-test at match point, a hard-flying return came from James Madison’s Jared Robinson.
Effortlessly, Donato calmly stepped forward and whipped a liner perfectly inside the left base-line.
The point and match were won, and in much the same fashion, so was the team’s day.
As far as season openers go, they don’t come much easier, as the No. 20 North Carolina men’s tennis team (2-0, 0-0) eas-ily rolled to two victories Sunday against UNC-Charlotte and James Madison, winning 5-2 and 7-0, respectively.
“I thought we played better our second match (against JMU), we had a little bit more intensity,” coach Sam Paul said.
“The first match, you’re nervous. It’s the first match for a lot of the kids, and in the second we just had better intensity.”
After playing much of last year at No. 3 singles, Donato opened the spring season without trouble in his new role at No. 1.
In his singles match against the Dukes’ Mike Smith, Donato started off the set with a bang, breaking Smith on his first serve.
The momentum continued, as Donato used his vastly improved net play to keep Smith off guard all night, winning 6-1, 6-1.
And after dismantling the 49ers’ Ricky Cuellar 6-1, 6-3 earlier in the day, it’s evident Donato has a bright season ahead.
“I beat the No. 9 guy in the coun-try, the No. 20 guy in the country, so I feel like I belong here,” Donato said.
“I’ve just been working on hit-ting the ball heavier from the base-line, trying to work the point a little bit more until I get the short ball,
and I can attack and come to the net. I’m starting to see the results now.”
On a team filled with youth — five freshmen saw action Sunday — the Tar Heels’ senior leader, Taylor Fogleman, struggled late.
After teaming with Donato in two 8-0 doubles victories, Fogleman was challenged in his No. 2 singles match against JMU’s Robinson.
The experienced lefty quickly took the first set but faced a back-and-forth contest in the second before winning the match 6-0, 7-5.
“I kind of got a little bit lazy, to be honest,” Fogleman said. “After I’m getting on somebody, I have the tendency to take my foot off the pedal just a little bit.
“I would’ve loved to keep rolling and that didn’t happen. Still, I was pretty pleased.”
Earlier, Andrew Crone provided one of the few Tar Heel blemishes on the day, when he fell to UNC-Charlotte’s Michael Anders 6-4, 6-4. The junior was unable to recover his broken serve in each of the sets.
Crone’s doubles partner, fresh-man Zach Hunter, gave Paul a bright spot while teaming with Crone in two doubles victories.
His persistent vocal encourage-ment and inspired net play gives Paul’s young squad a positive sign moving forward.
“I think we’re going to learn something about this team every single day,” Paul said.
“However, I think everybody’s going to have to step up. We’ ll see.”
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Junior Clay Donato beat the no. 9 and the no. 20 singles players in the country sunday.
“Once you get in your head that you can run fast … that’s what has helped me this year.”VANNEISHA IVY, UnC JUnior
self-assurance in her ability to bet-ter her times.
“I think it’s all about confidence,” she said. “That’s what I lacked last year and in my prior years. But once you get it in your head that you can run fast and get confidence in yourself, that’s what has helped me this year.”
One Tar Heel who didn’t have as much success Saturday was former All-America high jumper Donte Nall. Nall, who had foot surgery eight weeks ago, began jumping again just 20 days ago.
Saturday, he was missing the rhythm and timing that develops over repetition and routine and that previously has helped him to a personal-best jump of 7 feet, 2 and half inches.
He finished in sixth place Saturday with a jump of 6 feet, 8 inches.
“I thought today was my day, but no,” Nall said after the event. “I was having problems at 6-6, and that’s warmup height. So I’m just going to try to work on my push every day at practice.”
Though he was disappointed in his finish, Nall said he should regain form in time for the ACC Tournament.
“He was an All-American last year, fifth in the country,” Craddock said. “So it’s hard for him to settle for getting beat out here by these guys.
“But he’s just got to learn how long it’s been, how much training he’s done — that he’s got to keep looking ahead, not looking back.”
Elsewhere in the UNC Classic, a slew of Tar Heel women earned individual titles, led by junior Christine Johnson, who won the 400-meter for the second consecu-tive meet.
“She’s just hard-nosed, never gives up,” Craddock said of Johnson. “She’s a hard worker in practice and meets, just a great young lady.”
Callan Fike came through in first in the 800; Ashley Hill won the long jump, and Michelle Newman earned the triple jump crown.
On the men’s side, Parker Smith won the pole vault with a best vault of 15 feet, 11 inches. Charles Cox, who was coming off a fourth-place finish in the 400 in the last invita-tional, switched to the shorter 200 at the UNC Classic.
He placed second with a time of 22.03, narrowly missing a provi-sional qualifying time.
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Drury just pounds him every time. It’s a style thing. Drury just beats him every time — badly.”
Drury’s result effectively sealed the win for UNC.
The conference rivalry was evident as the match frequently turned chippy with several heated exchanges.
During Keegan Mueller’s match, Mueller twisted out of a leghold and inadvertently roundhouse-kicked Virginia’s Mike Sewell in the face, drawing protests from Sewell and the Cavalier bench.
Both benches received warnings during the match, and Ramirez said the intensity from the side-lines revved up the competition on the mats.
“Our coaches are always fired up, always yelling at the refs and
getting into it with the other coaches,” Ramirez said. “It gets us going too, so it’s definitely a good thing.”
Against Navy on Saturday, UNC’s Mike Rappo broke the match open with a technical fall decision to give UNC an 11-6 lead.
Rappo’s win was his fifth straight and puts his record at 21-8 for the season.
Following Rappo’s technical fall decision, the Tar Heels reeled off four straight wins, including major decisions from Nick Stabile and Mueller to hold off the Midshipmen on Navy.
The Tar Heels now look to build momentum, as they face five con-secutive home matches. The big-gest match is the tilt with No. 4 Nebraska on Feb. 14.
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didn’t do too badly for themselves. Upperclassmen Smith, Sanaz Marand and Katrina Tsang led the way by contributing to seven victo-ries in doubles and singles to help UNC get off to a rousing start to the season.
The most anticipated match was between Marand and UNC-Greenboro’s Alejandra Guerra, who
carried the No. 40 singles ranking into Chapel Hill. Marand, ranked No. 47, struggled in the second set but still came out on top with a straight set victory, 6-2, 6-4.
“She kind of had to stay mentally in there today. Mentally she won that match more than anything else because physically she wore her down a little bit,” Kalbas said.
“It’s definitely the kind of match Sanaz needed early in the season.”
Smith put on what might have
been the most impressive perfor-mance of the day. The Hilton Head Island, S.C., native lost only three games total in her three matches, and closed out the day by winning 6-0, 6-0 at No. 1 singles.
Kalbas said he hoped Smith can use the momentum from Saturday’s success to put on a repeat perfor-mance in the team’s qualification for ITA team nationals next weekend.
“She’s a key factor for us. She’s shown the capability to play high and beat quality opponents. For her to come out and play both singles and play the consistency with which she played gives her confidence going into next week,” Kalbas said.
“She’s really determined to have this year be the best year for the team.”
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ACC SCORESBOSTON COLLEGE 79,N.C. STATE 68Senior guard Tyrese Rice totaled 25 points to lead BC on Saturday. N.C. State never got closer than three points.
dukE 85, mAryLANd 44Gerald Henderson scored 17 points to help the Blue Devils rout Saturday, a victory that could propel Duke to the No. 1 ranking next week.
FLOrIdA STATE 73,vIrGINIA 62 Toney Douglas scored 21 points and Florida State held Virginia to three first-half field goals Saturday. The Seminoles led 30-16 at halftime and led by as many as 21.
vIrGINIA TECH 88,mIAmI 83 (OT)Malcom Delaney led with 29 points and the Hokies shot almost 50 percent for the game, overtaking Miami in overtime Sunday.
CLEmSON 73,GEOrGIA TECH 59Despite trailing most of the first half, Clemson revved up in the second to rally and take the win against the ACC’s worst team Sunday.
STrIkE THrEETennis team takes 2 winsKicks off season with shutoutsBy dAvId rEyNOLdSSeNioR WRiTeR
The North Carolina women’s tennis team crushed a pair of non-conference foes in its first weekend of team action, dropping Gardner-Webb and UNC-Greensboro by identical 7-0 scores.
The only drama in Saturday’s matches was whether either oppo-nent would be able to capture a sin-gle set against the Tar Heels — a feat neither managed to accomplish.
Coach Brian Kalbas was pleased with his team’s dominant perfor-mance. He said it was an important step to see how his players reacted to the change in mindset from
the individual nature of the fall tennis season to the team play of the spring.
“For us, we need to kind of ge t some confidence, get our feet wet, so to speak. Get some routines, get some repeti-tions,” he said.
“And just get used to getting
back into a dual match because it’s completely different than it is just playing in a regular tourna-ment, playing by yourself and for yourself.”
Kalbas used 11 of the 13 mem-bers of his tennis team in the two matches, giving almost all of his team a chance to gain experience in the dual match setting.
Freshmen Shinann Featherston, Haley Hemm and Jocelyn Ffriend all earned victories in their first matches with the team, and sopho-more Jelena Durisic also appeared in the team’s lineup for the first time since her knee injury last year.
“The couple (of freshmen) we played today were just so fired up and really into it, and I was really excited for them,” senior Austin Smith said. “Pretty much everyone got to play, and I think that helps them get some confidence when they get in there.”
UNC’s veteran players also
Senior Austin Smith lost only three games in three matches this weekend.
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maryland hands unC 3rd straight loss
By mIkE EHrLICHSeNioR WRiTeR
Maryland All-American Kristi Toliver couldn’t find a passing lane to enter the ball into the post. No matter. Toliver paused, considered and fired away.
And why not? She had already stroked two 3-pointers in a row. After the third one hit all nylon, Toliver had scored 11 points in a 13-0 Maryland run, and North Carolina was on its way to losing three consecutive games for the first time since January 2002, this one by a 77-71 score.
UNC (17-3, 3-2 ACC) would claw back and keep it close, but at every threat, Toliver had the answer. She finished with 23 points, 18 of which came in the second half.
“Toliver is a great player,” UNC’s Italee Lucas said. “And when she gets hot, it’s difficult to stop her.”
After the loss to No. 12 Maryland (16-3, 4-1 ACC), UNC is left reel-ing. Sunday marked the first time since 2004 the Tar Heels lost two conference matchups in a row.
But after the game, UNC coach Sylvia Hatchell said the losing streak is a product of a difficult schedule.
“No other team in the country accepted the challenge of playing a schedule like this,” she said.
“We haven’t been as successful as we wanted to be. But I guess what didn’t kill you makes you bet-ter. This definitely has not killed us, and it will make us stronger.”
One reason for the loss Sunday was a discrepancy in fouls. UNC committed 23 fouls and sent Terrapins to the line 28 times, while the Tar Heels earned just nine trips to the line on nine Terps fouls.
The UNC frustration was released with just less than five minutes to play. Rashanda McCants, who strug-gled for most of the night, fouled out of the game on a takedown 60 feet away from UNC’s basket.
As Maryland fans and players
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rejoiced, Hatchell was issued a tech-nical foul. The ensuing free throws gave the Terps a double digit lead.
“I’ve been coaching 34 years, and I don’t know if I’ve ever been in a game like tonight,” Hatchell said. “It takes a lot for me to get a technical, but I felt like it was something I had to do.”
Junior forward Jessica Breland, despite some foul trouble of her own, kept UNC in striking distance. She scored 18 points and grabbed 12 boards before going down in a heap late in the game.
She was diagnosed with a sprained left ankle and fitted into a boot after the game.
In the first half, it was a game of runs. The Terps jumped out to a 14-2 lead, but UNC answered with an 18-2 run of its own. Five ties and six lead changes later, the score sat at 34 apiece at half.
Marissa Coleman dropped 18 points in the first period to spark Maryland. Then Toliver, who was just 2-for-9 in the first half, struck fire after the break and matched Coleman’s output.
“Whoever has the hot hand, we’re finding them,” Coleman said. “In the first half, it was me, and in the second half we were finding Kristi in the open spots.”
UNC guards Lucas and Cetera DeGraffenreid each notched 13 points. But down the stretch, the Tar Heels had trouble rebounding and couldn’t keep Maryland off the free throw line.
UNC returns home Thursday to play Wake Forest, and Hatchell knows her team needs to step up to avoid a fourth straight defeat.
“We need to play a lot tougher,” she said.
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Rashanda McCants (32) and the Tar Heels struggled offensively against Maryland. The UNC squad wore pink uni-forms in honor of N.C. State coach Kay yow, who died Saturday, and the Terrapins donned pink warm-up shirts.
Breland’s heroics not enough to save Tar HeelsBy JOE mCLEANASSiSTANT SPoRTS eDiToR
Before the Tar Heels’ matchup against No. 12 Maryland, junior forward Jessica Breland jokingly asked coach Sylvia Hatchell if 20 points and 15 rebounds would be enough to satisfy her.
As it turns out, that prediction wasn’t far off.
Breland finished the game just short of her predicted total, with 18 points and 12 boards, but she left the game in no joking mood.
Breland suffered a left ankle sprain in the final two minutes and was carried off the court by trainers.
“If she hadn’t gotten hurt she probably would have gotten it,” Hatchell said.
Breland finished with a team-high 12 rebounds, but she was the lone bright spot — no other Tar
Heel had more than five. In North Carolina’s third straight loss, the squad was out-rebounded for the third straight game, this time by a 38-51 margin.
Hatchell attempted to put some fire in her team by throwing out the starting lineup and giving those spots to the five players who played the hardest in practice the week before.
“Since we got back from Georgia Tech, we’ve done a lot of rebounding drills,” Hatchell said. “Those were the first five to com-plete everything, so that’s why they were rewarded and allowed to start tonight.”
But Breland, who came off the bench but led the team with five offensive rebounds, was the only one who showed she’d gotten the message.
After Italee Lucas hit a 3-pointer
to cut the Terrapins’ lead to 15-19, UNC stiffened and forced Maryland into an in-bounds situation with two seconds on the shot clock.
The Terps got the ball in the paint where they wanted it, but Breland slapped away the shot and caused the shot-clock violation.
While forward Rashanda McCants was held scoreless in the tumultuous opening period, Breland pitched in on offense with six points. On the other end, the junior led the team with a monster nine rebounds and four blocks in her first 15 minutes.
McCants found her stroke and paced the Tar Heels early in the second half before hitting foul trouble, scoring nine points in the period’s opening minutes.
But when McCants picked up her fourth foul with 11:59 still to go, Breland’s output became even
more vital to the Tar Heels.Suddenly, UNC needed to dig
itself out of a 10-point deficit without its go-to scorer. So, for the second time in the game, Breland took the team on a run.
The junior scored 12 of the next 17 points for the Tar Heels and the lead was cut to 65-71, but it still wasn’t enough.
McCants entered only long enough to commit one more final foul, and now, with Breland’s ankle injury, she’ll have to carry most of the team’s scoring load — and break the Heels out of the rebounding slump.
“If we’d have rebounded a little bit better, then that would have probably made the difference in the game,” Hatchell said.
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Jessica Breland (51) finished 8-for-19 in Sunday’s game but went down late with a sprained ankle and was fitted for a boot.
Former All-America Donte Nall competed in the high jump Saturday for the first time since his foot surgery and placed sixth.
Wrestlers makes it six straight Ivy notches third nCaa provisional mark of seasonBy mIkE EHrLICHSeNioR WRiTeR
Vanneisha Ivy burst through the finish line of the 60-meter hurdles Saturday in a blazing 8.16 seconds.
It was easily faster than any other competitor on the field in the Eddie & Jo Smith UNC Classic, and it was faster than she had ever run the event. So why, after slowing down around the turn, was she shaking her head in disappointment?
The automatic qualifying time for the upcoming ACC Championship is an 8.14 — two-hundredths of a second quicker than she had just run.
Still, it was her third straight pro-visional qualifying time in the event and one of two personal records on the day for Ivy, who also finished second in the 60-meter dash.
“I get closer and closer every meet,” Ivy said of the elusive auto-matic time. “I don’t want to press it. I’m gradually going to get there.”
Ivy, a 5-foot-2-inch junior, always had the natural ability, but she had never consistently put together a series of good sprints as she has this year.
“The last two years, she’s strug-
gled a little bit, couldn’t get it together,” UNC coach Dennis Craddock said. “Now she’s get-ting it all together.”
The sprinter attributed her improvement to a new mental-ity. Once she started running well this year, she built up a
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Vincent Ramirez was in deep trouble.
Down 0-3 in the second period of Friday’s matchup with Virginia’s Nick Nelson, Ramirez looked as though he might give up another takedown and fall further behind.
But Ramirez, ranked No. 18 in the 141-pound weight class, writhed out of Nelson’s grasp as the Cavalier tried to edge away, playing perfectly into the move that Ramirez had already cued up.
“Whenever I’m in that tie-up, I’m looking for it,” Ramirez said. “And he backed right up out of bounds, which was what I was waiting for.”
Boom — Nelson hit the deck for a takedown and a near fall. Just like that, a 5-point swing, and Ramirez was on his way to a 9-3 victory.
That win set the tone for the grapplers from North Carolina to cruise to its fifth straight dual-match win and third straight ACC win.
“Virginia’s one of the tougher teams in the ACC,” coach C.D. Mock said. “And I think we did
what we were supposed to do today.”
Only a day later, North Carolina racked up yet another win with an overwhelming 25-9 decision against Navy at East Wake High School.
Ramirez’s win on Friday was the first of two ranked matchups for the Tar Heels. At the 197-
pound weight class, No. 17 Dennis Drury easily dispatched Virginia’s No. 20 Brent Jones with a 10-1 major decision.
“Drury has never had a prob-lem with Brent,” Mock said. “And Jones is a good wrestler. Jones beats some really good kids … but
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