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Kenan suites going fast UNC still working toward renovation By James WALLACE Staff writer
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dangerous ‘tradition’ under fire Community debates safety, worth of Franklin bonfires By anika anand and emily banks Staff Writers
As the seconds on the scoreboard of the 2009 national championship game ticked down in Michigan, the night was only getting started in Chapel Hill. Students laced up their shoes and police hosed down streets before one of the town’s biggest events of the year. Over the years, celebrations on Franklin Street following basketball wins have reached epic proportions, with bonfires playing a large part in the revelry. Exuberant students rip shirts off their backs and branches off trees, using the material to stoke the fires that lick at students’ feet. But after eight students were treated for serious burns during last year’s celebrations, student leaders, administrators and law enforcement officials have identified the practice as a serious problem, one they would like to end. UNC is now debating the feasibility of eliminating bonfires and whether they’re a tradition worth keeping.
“One year, a burning couch was passed down the street over the heads of the crowds. It was extremely dangerous. The foam melted and dripped down and burned people.” –Chapel Hill fire Chief Dan Jones “If somebody takes off their clothes, there’s not much we can do.”
–Winston Crisp, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs
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Celebrations spread like wildfire Former Chapel Hill police Chief Gregg Jarvies said he remembers bonfires on Franklin Street as early as the 1977 NCAA tournament men’s basketball loss to Marquette. “There were some small ones around Franklin Street, and the crowd was mostly contained to the 100 block of Franklin Street, but that’s changed a lot,” he said. Since then, Chapel Hill fire Chief Dan Jones said the bonfires have spread from Franklin Street to surrounding areas such as the front yards of fraternity houses and neighborhoods surrounding downtown. After the 2005 championship, crowds built a bonfire on the sidewalk in
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this day in history OCT. 19, 1929 … Wilson Library is dedicated. The library, which now houses the University’s special collections, served as the main library until the opening of Davis Library in 1984.
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Junior Andrew Madlon was burned in the fires after UNC beat Villanova in March. PAGE 4
Celebrations around the U.S. dth file PHOTO
Over the years, bonfires have become somewhat of a tradition in celebrating UNC victories in major games. In March, eight students were hospitalized with burns.
Universities around the country celebrate big wins in different ways, some dangerously, others less so. PAGE 4
More than half of the new premium suites at Kenan Stadium have been sold in the last two weeks, promising initial figures that put the stadium on track to begin construction in mid-2010. UNC Director of Athletics Dick Baddour said that public sales, which began Oct. 3, have exceeded expectations. “All of our surveys, all of our contacts with donors and the level of interest in football show us this is a great time to do this,” he said. Rams Club members have options to buy four different levels of seats in the new Blue Zone — premium suites, the Upper Club seats, Loge seats or the Concourse Club seats. Sales in these sections will fund more than half of the project but account for less than half its cost. Neither Baddour nor Rams Club Director John Montgomery would provide the number of seats sold or the amount raised through private giving. Donations and gifts are expected to make up the remainder of the costs for the project, which will not receive any state money. Montgomery said the premium suites and Loge seats are selling quickly. Concourse seats, the cheapest available, have been harder to sell, he said. The University will not begin the renovations, which also include a Carolina Student-Athlete Center for Excellence, until it raises 85 percent of the $70 million to $85 million renovation, Baddour said. Because no specific schedule has been set for the stadium’s expansion, Baddour said plans are flexible. “If we aren’t successful selling the seats, we’ll wait until the times are better,” he said. “Indications are that we’re going to be fine.” Purchasing a new seat in the Blue Zone has an estimated annual obligation ranging from $8,600 for four Concourse Club seats to $58,900 for a premium suite, which will seat 16. These prices include the value of the lease, the actual ticket cost and the Rams Club membership requirements. Despite the high prices and recent economic woes, Vice Chancellor for University Advancement Matt Kupec said fans are excited. “Certainly the psyche and the confidence of the donors has been jolted,” Kupec said. “I think we’ve got some work cut out for us, but we’re encouraged by the response to the initiatives.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
Voter turnout expected to dip in 2009 Numbers lag after presidential election By Kelly Poe Staff Writer
Voter turnout for presidential elections increased by 12 percent from 2004 to 2008 in Orange County, but county officials expect turnout to dip again for this year’s municipal election. Get-out-the-vote leaders will be battling the lag that comes after a presidential election. Early voting began Thursday in Hillsborough and begins today on campus and in Carrboro. It will last until Oct. 31. Election Day is Nov. 3. “We’d love to have 100 percent (voter turnout),” said Tracy Reams, director of the county board of elections. “But if we could get 20 percent, that would be about as much as we could ask for.” As of Friday, the number of residents in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough registered to vote has increased by 25 percent since 2003, but is still almost 1,400 fewer than
were registered to vote in the last municipal election in 2007. More still might register this year since voters can register and vote on the same day during early voting, Reams said. The voting demographic on campus has also changed since last year. The majority of the class of 2013 was not eligible to vote in the last election, and many registered voters graduated and left town. People might be worn out from politics after last year’s national race, College Republicans President John Eick said. Ferrel Guillory, director of the University’s Program on Public Life, said lower turnout for municipal elections is common. “The reality of it is that most people were registered so they could vote in the presidential election, not for the mayor’s race,” Guillory said. “Yes, it’s true that local elections can affect your daily life — where
stoplights are put, how zoning is accomplished, quality of water — but local elections tend not to be very ideological.” Though campus interest in the local election is more toned down than for last year’s presidential election, several groups are urging students to get out to vote. Young Democrats will be sending “penny cabs” on a day before the election to carry students via bicycle directly from the Pit to Morehead Planetarium to vote. It’s something the club did for weeks last year, but will only do for one day this year. The Young Democrats and the College Republicans also cosponsored a debate. “A s s t u d e n t s , t h e To w n Council can have a direct impact on their life here on campus,” Eick said. “Early voting is more convenient for some than others, so we certainly promote that.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.
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A rundown of Chapel Hill and Carrboro candidates’ views on topics ranging from development to towngown relations. SEE PAGE 5
Voter turnout in Orange County towns The percentage of registered voters who actually vote during local elections is significantly low. So far about 62,000 have registered to vote in Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and Carrboro. Registered voters
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125-pound black bear in Hayward, Wis., must have been awfully thirsty. The bear surprised customers at a local grocery store when it walked right through the automatic entrance doors at the Marketplace Foods grocery store Friday and headed straight for the beer cooler. The bear climbed up onto a shelf in the cooler and sat there for about an hour. Customers were evacuated and wildlife officials were called. The bear was tranquilized by officials from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and taken out of the store. Though the bear did not consume any alcohol, store workers said the bear looked content in the beer cooler. NOTED. An Canadian airplane’s flight was grounded when a passenger stole some beer on the flight and then tried to flush the empty cans down the in-flight toilet. The flight, an Air Canada Jazz flight from Vancouver to Fort McMurray, had to be relocated to the city of Kelowna. The man was arrested on the plane’s landing. No one else was charged.
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Nuclear forensics: Nuclear physicist Jay Davis will discuss “Nuclear Forensics: Preparing for
an Experiment One Hopes Never to Do.” Davis spent three decades at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he built accelerators for research in nuclear physics and materials science. He also will be available at a brown bag lunch at 12:15 p.m. and an informal tea at 3:30 p.m. in Phillips Hall, Room 277. Time: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Location: Phillips Hall, Room 256 Jewish identity lecture: Jonathan Freedman of the University of Michigan will give an academic lecture on Jewish identity titled “Jewishness and the Remaking of Ethnic Identities, 1975-2009.” Contact the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies at (919) 962-1509 for more information. Time: 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Location: Hyde Hall Teleclass: The General Alumni Association will present a class for members on networking tips and strategies. To sign up, contact Linda Conklin at 962-3749 or e-mail linda_ conklin@unc.edu. Time: noon Location: by phone
Tuesday Law school info: For students who have decided or are still deciding whether to go to law school, University Career Services will bring in professionals to give more information and discuss details about the experience. Time: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Location: Hanes Hall, Room 239 B Peace corps: Attend this information session to speak to speak to a Peace Corps recruiter and former volunteers. Peace Corps works in more than 70 countries in areas such as education, health and environment where you can experience a different culture and help others. Contact peacecorps@unc.edu or call (919) 962-0185 with questions. Time: 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Location: Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive To make a calendar submission, e-mail dthcalendar@gmail.com. Events will be published in the newspaper on either the day or the day before they take place. Submissions must be sent in by noon the preceding publication date.
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enior and defending champion Calvin Young plays a close game of table tennis against 80-year-old Walter Shur in a tournament at the Student Union on Saturday and Sunday. Visit dailytarheel.com for the full story.
Police log n Someone attempted to cash
police reports. The 16 GB iPod touch, along with its red and black case, were worth $300, reports said.
a fake check at RBC Centura Bank at 2:34 p.m. Friday at 101 E. Rosemary St., according to Chapel Hill police reports. The person also possessed a stolen credit card, reports state. n Somebody was peeping into a window between 12:15 a.m. and 12:30 a.m. Friday at 1660 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., according to Chapel Hill police reports.
n Someone broke into the truck box of a gray 1993 Toyota truck at Chapel Hill High School between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Thursday at 1709 High School Road, according to Chapel Hill police reports. The person stole a backpack worth $190, pens and pencils worth $20 and notebooks worth $10, reports state.
n Someone entered an unlocked black 2003 Chevrolet Tahoe between 6 p.m. Oct. 7 and noon Oct. 8 at 1008 Dawes St., according to Chapel Hill police reports. The person stole a GPS worth $200 and $5 in cash. n Someone stole an iPod out of a backpack at Chapel Hill High School between 8:45 a.m. and 10 a.m. Friday at 1709 High School Road, according to Chapel Hill
n Someone stole campaign signs from several locations between midnight Oct. 9 and 11:32 a.m. Thursday, according to Carrboro police reports. Alderman candidate Jacquie Gist reported her campaign signs were stolen from North Greensboro Street, Hillsborough Road and the area in front of the post office on West Main Street, reports state.
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Talk today to center on new model of Spanish education Hosun Kim, the director of the Foreign Language Resource Center and lecturer in Spanish, will give a speech today at 10 a.m. in the Toy Lounge of Dey Hall about the recent shift of Spanish 101 and 102 to hybrid classes and the possibility of Spanish 101 becoming a fully online course. Two years ago, the department of romance languages and literatures switched the two courses from face-to-face classes to hybrid classes, which include two online exercises and one Tuesday class each week. Due to promising academic outcomes and further budget cuts, the department may make Spanish 101 an entirely online class with mandatory office hours.
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Smaller Halloween sought Actors Town also fears H1N1 this year By Kelly Poe Staff Writer
Town leaders have a goal to eventually decrease Halloween celebration participants to between 10,000 and 15,000 people — fewer than the undergraduate student body at UNC. The number of people spending Halloween on Franklin Street last year went from about 80,000 to near 35,000 because of the town’s Homegrown Halloween campaign, according to a town press release. “Even when you’re in a crowd of 35,000, that’s a lot of people, Board to hold meeting for especially in our downtown area,” said Chapel Hill police Chief Brian Congressional candidates Curran. The Board of Elections will hold “Over the next few years, we a mandatory meeting for all candi- would like to trim it down.” dates planning to run in the Nov. 5 Curran said 10,000 to 15,000 is special election for vacant Student Congress seats. The informational meeting will take place today at 6 p.m. in the Board of Elections office, Student Union, Room 2500. Students who want to be on the ballot must attend the meeting and submit a letter declaring their candidacies.
a reasonable crowd. “This is a local event,” Mayor Kevin Foy said. “If you can walk to Halloween, you’re invited. “If you can’t, don’t come.” Town leaders are citing a new reason to keep Halloween celebrations modest: the spread of the H1N1 virus. “Anytime you have a large gathering of people and there’s an influenza-like virus, there is a risk of spreading that virus,” said Orange County Health Director Rosemary Summers in an interview. “If they’re not feeling well, but there’s a big party, a student will be more likely to ignore the symptoms of not feeling well and go ahead and go to the party. “If they’re sick and it’s class, they’ll probably stay home.” Incidents from previous years that inspired the decision to downsize include fist fights and alcohol poisonings, Curran said. “It’s a very busy night for the
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emergency department at UNC Hospitals,” Curran said. L i k e l a s t y e a r, a c c e s s t o Franklin Street by car will be extremely limited, Curran said. Alcohol checkpoints will also be placed around the perimeter of the celebration. Officers will check people for alcohol upon entering, and N.C. Highway Patrol will be patrolling for DWI violations. Limitations on businesses will include requiring downtown bars and restaurants to have at least a $5 cover charge and to close their doors to new patrons at 1 a.m. Steve Woodham, the owner of Goodfellows and Four Corners, has celebrated 15 Halloweens on Franklin Street and has benefited from the changes. “Last year was one of the best Halloween experiences I’ve ever had,” he said.
Program goes behind scenes By Chelsea Lang Staff Writer
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The 35,000 on Franklin Street during last year’s Halloween was Contact the City Editor drastically cut down from the at citydesk@unc.edu. previous year’s crowd of 80,000.
New Hazard Mitigation Plan shows vulnerability to wind A draft of UNC’s new Hazard Mitigation Plan pinpoints highwind incidents such as hurricanes and thunderstorms as the most common natural disasters for campus. The plan, funded by a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant, focuses on speeding recovery following hazards and proposes suggestions for protecting the community. It found that several campus buildings, constructed under outdated building codes, are at risk for being damaged in storms. Visit dailytarheel.com for the full story.
Ping-Pong tournament raises $230 for Bangladeshi orphan
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Second annual Handmade Parade held in Hillsborough
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Brady Fury, a student at Frank Porter Graham Elementary, helps lead the parade during the 13th annual Walk For Education on Saturday afternoon. The parade began in McCorkle Place, wound through campus and ended with a celebration at the Lincoln Center.
BANDING TOGETHER Student band drums to benefit school system By hannah weinberger staff writer
Over 70 third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students banged away on plastic buckets as they set off down Franklin Street on Saturday. The Sound Machine, a band composed of spirited drummers, steppers and dancers of Frank Porter Graham Elementary, was given the honor of leading the 13th annual Walk and Race for Education. After shepherding the procession throughout the town, the Sound Machine ended its set at a lively carnival at the Lincoln Center, the school system’s administrative office. The Sound Machine had been practicing for weeks to lead the walk, a fundraising effort to benefit the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. Buckets were provided by
A procession of puppets marched, swam, hopped and soared down Churton Street on Saturday afternoon. More than 400 puppeteers and their puppet creations entertained an estimated crowd of 1,000 at Hillsborough’s second Handmade Parade. The theme for this year’s parade was “The Waters of the Eno and Her Creatures,” and like the previous year’s festival, paid tribute to the animal life of the river that runs By Sarah Frier through Hillsborough. City Editor If he reaches enough voters and New representative to help swings his message right, Chapel educate volunteer coaches Hill Mayor Kevin Foy could have a chance in the 2010 U.S. Senate The Chapel Hill Parks and race, recent polling indicates. Recreation Department has created To defeat U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, an official chapter of the National R-N.C., in next year’s election, he Youth Sports Coaches Association to will need to be briefed on national train volunteer coaches on methods issues and raise enough money to of working with children in sports. buy TV ads in key parts of the state, Bernard Leach, athletic super- said Tom Jensen, communications visor for the Town of Chapel Hill director of Public Policy Polling, Parks and Recreation Department, which took the poll. is the chapter representative. But before all that, he would His primary function will be have to definitively say he’s running to conduct NYSCA clinics, which for Senate within the next month. provide coaches with important “I’m not ready to say, ‘Oh, yes, I’m information about the psychology going to do this,’” Foy said Thursday. of coaching children, maximiz- “I need other people who think it’s ing athletic performance, practice a good idea and are willing to step organization and proper sports up and support me so I’m able to techniques. project a path toward winning.” More than 2,200 organizaIn a recent telephone poll contions across the country are part ducted between Oct. 2 and 4, 29 of the certification program to percent of respondents said they help ensure that volunteer coach- would prefer Foy to Burr, while 45 es understand their roles and percent said they would vote for responsibilities. Burr over Foy. The remaining 26 percent said they were undecided. —From staff and wire reports. His polling numbers are in a
Chick-fil-A. Only a few years old, the Sound Machine requires little more to exist than support from the PTA and school system. To raise funds, the group hosted a Moon Bounce and charged for bottled water at the carnival. “We do our own fundraising. Pretty much everything that we raise is what we have,” band director Barry Garrett said. “All the proceeds will go to the kids.” It didn’t take long for the group to gain popularity after it began. “There was an after-school club that a teacher started with the kids, and it’s grown from about 10 or 15 kids to about 70 students,” said Cindy Daniels, assistant principal of the elementary school. “This year is our largest group of children.”
While the ensemble is at its core a creative outlet, the leaders of the Sound Machine said they have more extensive aspirations for the children. “The Sound Machine also motivates the kids that are in the younger grades to want to succeed and want to get to the next grade level so that they’re able to participate,” Garrett said. The club meets after school three times a week following brief study periods. Laura Montross said the frequent practice sessions have provided her daughter with many new friendships. “Mr. Garrett has made this an exciting, fun program for the kids. She looks forward to it every week,” Montross said. “She has enjoyed meeting a lot of kids that she would not have met otherwise.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.
Foy could appeal in U.S. Senate race Mayor has not decided to run
range similar to Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., at this time in her race for U.S. Senate last election cycle. Foy’s assets are his connections through chairmanship of the N.C. Metropolitan Mayors Coalition and through his work with transportation and infrastructure, said Ferrel Guillory, director of the UNC Program on Public Life. The residents of the state are increasingly centered in urban areas compared to rural areas — a trend that makes Foy more viable as a candidate than he would have been just a few years ago, Jensen said. The fastest growing Congressional districts in the country are in the Charlotte metropolitan area and the western Triangle area, according to a study by the Program on Public Life. “I have a structure to work from,” Foy said. Foy has met with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to discuss their role in campaigns in North Carolina, he said. The committee spent money promoting Hagan in last year’s race. But that was in a different political climate, Guillory said. The party had fully backed Hagan, while this race has no clear winner yet. Democrats will no longer be the opposition party. Some other potential candidates
Foy remains competitive in Senate race Kevin Foy remains competitive with other candidates running for U.S. Senate against incumbent Richard Burr. Voters polled preferred Burr to Foy by 16 percent. Undecided
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Students for Students International and UNC Aasha, an organization devoted to raising awareness of humanitarian causes in Bangladesh, hosted a table tennis tournament Saturday to raise money for a five-year-old Bangladeshi orphan. The tournament raised $230 for Mohammed Robin Rabbi, who lives in an SOS Children’s Village in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The proceeds from entry fees to the tournament will go toward the boy’s food, shelter, clothing, health care and education. Sumaiya Sarwar, president of UNC Aasha, discovered the charity on a family trip to Bangladesh. After individually interviewing various charities, Sarwar chose SOS for its reliability and said all the money would go to Rabbi. Visit dailytarheel.com for the full story.
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ATTEND THE EVENTS TODAY: The Art of Literary Adaptation 7:30 p.m. Quail Ridge Books & Music, Raleigh
Exploring Dickens’ Characters
Oct. 26, 7 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro
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Directing an Epic
Nov. 2, 7 p.m. The Regulator Bookshop, Durham
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Adapting an Epic
Nov. 9, 7 p.m. Durham County Library, Main Branch
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PlayMakers Repertory Company has started a new program to engage audience members before the play even opens. For its next main-stage production, “Nicholas Nickleby,” which is based on the Charles Dickens’ book of the same name, the group launched the Dickens Initiative to reach out to the community beyond the confines of the stage. The initiative includes events with members of the cast and production staff that cover a variety of topics, from the difficulties of adaptation and direction to the play’s set and costume design. “It’s about opening up the doors of the theater and giving the community an opportunity to understand the significance of this particular play and novel, and the process of taking a novel and adapting it for the stage,” said Jeffrey Meanza, director of education and outreach for PlayMakers. While the production of “Nicholas Nickleby” has been three years in the making, the programs for the Dickens Initiative were built during the last year. The events focus on the inherently unique challenges of adapting a 900-page novel for the stage while preserving the novel’s nuances and intricacies. PlayMakers will present the work in two 3-hour plays. Part I opens on Nov. 11. The talks have been spread throughout the Triangle to give back to as many patrons as possible, Meanza said. “The goal isn’t to have one person come to all of the events, although if they did, they would have a great time,” he said. Convincing local venues to host the events “wasn’t a hard sell,” Meanza said. In fact, after hearing about the program, multiple organizations came to PlayMakers to offer their support. “I was absolutely tickled,” said Marian Fragola, humanities and adult programming coordinator for Durham County Library, about working together on the project. “And for a library it makes perfect sense to join the literary resources of the library with the dramatic resources of PlayMakers,” she said. The initiative was funded through a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The grant, Access to Artistic Excellence, aims to create a production that gives its community opportunities to interact with the work on a deeper level than in the past. “It’s certainly a very special opportunity that’s not going to come around very often,” Fragola said.
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Note: This poll was conducted Oct. 2 to Oct. 4. The poll included 683 North Carolina voters. The margin of error is +/- 3.8 percent. SOURCE: PUBLIC POLICY POLLING
included in the poll have bigger names in state politics, but the voting public still will not have heard of them, Guillory said. Burr’s numbers are low against any candidate, Guillory said. “Senator Burr does not have 50 percent against any of them, which is always worrisome for an incumbent,” Guillory said. Burr already has started campaigning in the state on the week-
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ends and making appearances, Guillory said. Foy’s “exploratory committee” for a Senate race consists of him and one other person, he said. “Obviously the sooner I decide, the better,” he said. “I think it’s get-
ting close.”
Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.
Designing an Epic
Nov. 16, 7 p.m. Durham County Library, Main Branch
Spend A Day at the Theatre See Parts I & II back-to-back. Nov. 21 and Dec. 19, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Paul Green Theatre
An Afternoon with Nicholas Nickleby A tea/lunch followed by a performance of Nicholas Nickleby, Part I. Dec. 19, 11:30 a.m. The Carolina Inn
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Colleges go crazy for big athletic wins By seth cline Staff Writer
UNC is not alone in its passion for collegiate sports. Campuses across the country find their own ways to rejoice or agonize over big sports events. Most of these traditions come
from combining thousands of frenzied fans, big sports games and a little alcohol consumption. The results often get out of hand, ranging from police using tear gas for suppressing enthused mobs to students destroying university property.
Michigan State University
Texas A&M
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Tradition: Bonfires, “Yell practices”
Sport: Men’s basketball
Sport: Football
Win or lose, thousands of students congregate at an apartment complex off campus, known as Cedar Village. After men’s basketball losses, the crowd becomes violent when students throw bottles and taunt police at the scene, said Ginny Haas, the school’s director of community relations. “Essentially the riots are a combination of a lot of alcohol, some arrests and police using tear gas,” she said. “We had some very serious issues in the late 1990s and some problems in 2003 and 2005.” The school also has a committee of students, university officials, police and town representatives to campaign for safer crowds.
A&M has no cheerleaders and holds no pep rallies — instead it has “yell leaders” and “yell practice,” said Lane Stephenson, the director of news and information services at Texas A&M. Midnight “yell practices,” sponsored by the university, can attract as many as 30,000 fans, he said. “It’s a big doing, but police are on hand.,” Stephenson said. A&M used to be known for their university-sanctioned “Aggie Bonfire” — a massive bonfire held the night before the annual game against University of Texas-Austin. The bonfires stopped in 1999. A bonfire structure collapsed and about a dozen were killed, Stephenson said.
Location: Boone Tradition: Taking
down goalposts
Sport: Football In 2007, ASU’s football team upset No. 5-ranked Michigan at the Big House, Michigan’s stadium. Students at ASU responded by rushing the empty football stadium and tearing down the goalposts. “The campus went nuts. We carried the goalpost all the way to the chancellor’s house,” said Andrew Edmonds, a junior political science major at the school. “People just flooded the streets and went into a frenzy. A girl I was with rode goalposts the whole way,” he said. The students repeated the antic when the team won in the playoffs the next year. They also tore down goalposts after President Barack Obama won the 2008 election.
Burned student still recovering BY Lauren Cloninger STAFF Writer
Junior Andrew Madlon felt like most UNC students last year after the men’s basketball victory against Villanova in the Final Four: elated, excited and ready to celebrate on Franklin Street. But Madlon came away with what he described as the worst memory of his college years. He fell into a fire that inflicted secondand third-degree burns to about five inches of his right arm. “We weren’t really near the fires,” Madlon said. “But one of my drunk friends picked me up. I went crowd surfing, and when the crowd ran out, I fell into the fire.” Madlon said there wasn’t much pain involved at first. “The burn was deep enough to damage the nerves, so it never actually hurt too badly,” he said. Madlon’s friend, junior Kendall Law, saw Madlon’s injuries and assisted him. “ We saw Andrew walking around, and he had burn marks on him,” Law said. “He asked us if we would go to the paramedics and
Andrew Madlon ended up with burns after going to Franklin Street to celebrate a basketball win. firemen with him, so we did.” Madlon was in the emergency room until 3 a.m. and made numerous trips to the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center to get debris out of his wound. Due to complications, he also had to have his skin grafted. “They used pig skin to cover my burn like a bandage while it healed,” he said. “And as my skin healed, it fell off.” Madlon also underwent months of physical therapy to get his full range of motion back. It has been more than six months since the incident occurred, but he still wears a protective sleeve over the burn. Though hurt physically, Madlon said he has not suffered much psychological anguish — two days after his injury, he was out celebrating the National Championship win.
“It wasn’t traumatic enough to make me not go on Franklin Street when we won the National Championship,” he said. “But I made a point not to go near the fires.” Law said he thought the burns hadn’t affected Madlon, other than the physical aspects. “He’s the same old Andrew,” Law said. “He still has that sleeve on from that night.” Madlon said he has no regrets celebrating basketball victories and will not support ending Franklin Street shenanigans. But he said he thought changes must be made to ensure that people don’t play or jump near the fire. But until lately, Madlon has not been very vocal in the bonfire debate. “When you’re the person who has to deal with the thousands of dollars of medical bills, consequences and missing class, you look at it differently,” he said. “There are more important things than jumping over a fire once a year.” Contact the Features Editor at features@unc.edu.
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front of Memorial Hall, damaging part of the brick wall. “One year, a burning couch was passed down the street over the heads of the crowds,” Jones said, adding that melting foam dripped down on those carrying the couch. Supporters of the practice assert the bonfires are a UNC tradition. Older alumni point to it is a recent development. “I don’t think it was done in the late stone age when I was a student here,” said John Sanders, a UNC professor emeritus who graduated from UNC in 1959. “Anything that happened three times seems like an ancient tradition to a student generation.” Sanders said the celebrations when he was a student at UNC did not include lighting fires. “We went to Franklin, sang songs and did happy things like that.”
Impact of burn injuries Bruce Cairns, director of N.C. Jaycee Burn Center, said he believes the media popularizes the bonfires. “If we glorify it by putting it on TV, in posters and on the front page, the people most at risk for doing this are more likely to do it,” he said. Cairns said he’s only seen post-celebration burn injuries develop since the early 2000s. He said people are often unaware of the life-long impact of burns. Many people who suffer from burns don’t go to the hospital immediately, Cairns said. Second- and third-degree burns don’t hurt badly because they kill the nerve endings, and people try to treat them at home and hope they get better. “If there’s 60,000 people, you’re not going to say, ‘Hey, hey, I’m burned here,’” Cairns said. “You’re going to slink off.” But because so much toxic material is in those bonfires, the injuries are at a severe risk for infection. Cairns said one girl celebrating on Franklin had an ember from the flames land on the top of her foot. She didn’t think it was a big deal, but as the tissue became infected, the girl ended up at the burn clinic. She was treated with skin grafts that covered the skin on her foot with skin from elsewhere on her body. Now, simply wearing tennis shoes is uncomfortable, Cairns said. “Imagine if people were getting shot or stabbed,” he said, pointing out that those injuries often heal faster than burns. “How many people have to get hurt?”
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Jarvies said 1993 was the first time police made a significant effort to cut back on bonfires. Officers removed newspapers from racks, emptied combustibles from trash cans and dumpsters and put barricades to keep larger items out. Those practices are still in effect. “Our efforts were successful, but not overly successful,” Jarvies said. Town and University officials have worked together in the past to try and clamp down on the fires, but with little success. In 2006, the town asked the University to crack down on the bonfires, and in 2007 the Faculty Council called for safer celebrations. Those efforts were rebuffed by students. The Franklin Street bonfires are illegal, and people who start them can be arrested — if police see who started the fire, Chapel Hill police Chief Brian Curran said. He said he did not recall anyone being arrested for lighting a fire in recent years. Jones said the crowds have become more aggressive, making it dangerous to try to put out the fires. “It got to the point when it was more dangerous for us to enter,” he said. “We were worried about getting our personnel or the crowd hurt by forcing our way in there.” Winston Crisp, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, said the University is working to improve the safety of celebrations, a cause that Student Body President Jasmin Jones also has embraced. But officials say they can only do so much. “If somebody takes off their clothes, there’s not much we can do,” Crisp said. Dan Jones said ending the practice will take a collaborative effort. “We can go to extremes and put hose streams on the rooftops and basically make it rain downtown. But that wouldn’t serve any purpose, either,” Jones said. “If someone’s intent on setting a fire, there’s not a lot you can do about it.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
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ON CAMPUS at Morehead Planetarium IN CARRBORO at Carrboro Town Hall IN HILLSBOROUGH at Board of Elections office
CHAPEL HILL MAYOR: Vote for one Augustus Cho
Matt Czajkowski
Occupation: Retired minister, author, consultant, Tae Kwon Do instructor Experience: Downtown Parking Citizen committee, 2008 Congressional candidate district 4, chairman, Orange County Republican Party
Mark Kleinschmidt
Occupation: retired investment banker Experience: Chapel Hill Town Council member since 2007; council liaison to the Board of Adjustment, Community Design Commission, Orange County Economic Development Council
Occupation: attorney and executive director of the Fair Trial Initiative Experience: Town Council member since 2001; chairman of the Economic Development committee, co-chairman of Rogers Road Small Area task force
ECONOMY
n Streamline the license process for small business owners. n Broaden the business base away from the University by encouraging business beyond downtown. n Encourage use of the public transit system to connect Chapel Hill to the rest of the Triangle.
DEVELOPMENT
n Close the 100 blocks of East and West Franklin streets n Commit to developing new sites for additional retail. to traffic to create an outdoor mall. n Proactively solicit the interest of nationwide retailers n Assure builders that if they follow the town’s develop- and retail developers. ment process, they will ultimately receive a permit. n Ensure that the processes for bringing in new n Spread public transportation and business density. business are as efficient as possible.
n Commit to developing Chapel Hill’s underused business sites by improving access and visibility. n Find more accessible locations for new mixed-use developments. n Attract business development by being an advocate for downtown, not a critic.
n Provide services for the truly homeless, while targeting “professional” panhandlers. n Require panhandlers to purchase a business license and pay taxes on their income. n Increase the distance between panhandlers and businesses through new laws.
n Continue to support the 10 Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness. n Foster partnerships between the town, business owners and the University. n Focus on eliminating the economic problems that lead to panhandling.
PANHANDLING
n Make sure the town is regularly inviting businesses to n Support consumer confidence for the town by being consider moving to Chapel Hill. a visible advocate. n Make sure that property taxes are kept low and n Bring his experience working with economics on the expand the commercial tax base. Chapel Hill Town Council. n Change the planning process to be a dialogue with n Continue to be active with the economic businesses, instead of being “arbitrary and capricious.” development office.
n Introduce an ordinance to make panhandling illegal within 15 feet of business entrances. n Simplify the process for reporting aggressive panhandlers. n Set a deadline to move the homeless shelter at 100 W. Rosemary St. further from downtown.
Laurin Easthom
Ed Harrison
Occupation: dentist Incumbent — elected to council in 2005
Occupation: Incumbent — elected to council in 2001
Occupation: retired school administrator Incumbent — appointed to council in 2008
Occupation: CEO of software company
Occupation: accountant
Occupation: software developer, entrepreneur
Occupation: small business owner
ECONOMY
n Cut spending in the n Manage the budget town budget. without laying off n Vote not to continue town employees, putvoter-owned elections. ting them on furlough or raising taxes. n Keep services funded in budget.
n Grow the commercial tax base consistent with the principles of the town. n Follow Economic Development committee suggestions.
n Oppose cutting town employee benefits. n Support affordable housing to increase the town’s tax base.
n Establish a board of citizens to weigh in on financial decisions. n Challenge the council and town management to increase efficiency.
n Increase the commercial tax base to decrease reliance on residents. n Reduce the amount of budget money spent on external consultants and boards.
n Work on increasing the commercial tax base to 10 percent. n Ask Sustainability Community Visioning task force to weigh in on development.
n Go through the budget line-by-line to look for potential savings. n Oppose cutting benefits for town employees.
TOWN-GOWN
CHAPEL HILL TOWN COUNCIL: Vote for four Jon DeHart
n Get to know decision makers at the University. n Provide more parking downtown to give access to those who don’t use mass transit.
n Support University Square redevelopment, using Carolina North as a model. n Improve lighting and safety conditions near campus for safety.
n Engage town and University in Chapel Hill Transit work. n Seek input from UNC for Sustainable Community Visioning task force.
n Create jobs in town for students. n Start an advisory group for town officials and University staff to communicate and collaborate.
n Cultivate personal relationships with University officials. n Improve joint jurisdiction of downtown area by University and town police.
n Keep inviting student leaders to attend council meetings. n Explore means for better conversation like office hours or a newspaper column.
n Make sure the University continues to provide updates about Carolina North to the town. n Encourage student input for plans.
n Make Town Council and University proceedings more transparent and open. n Improve student safety through call boxes with direct lines to police.
n Make sure citizens are educated about pedestrian safety and traffic laws. n Keep police officers on the street on a dayto-day basis.
n Add more call boxes and blue lights on campus and downtown. n Work to increase light output on Franklin Street.
n Support a replacement of the town’s traffic signal system. n Increase police presence both downtown and in the rest of Chapel Hill.
n Add cameras in the parking lots so police can follow up on crimes. n Add lighting in parking lots to catch camera footage.
n Bring more lighting, emergency poles and signs downtown. n Improve pedestrian safety by creating more crosswalks on West Franklin Street.
n Add more police officers who patrol the length of Franklin Street to deter crime. n Provide lighting for unlit corridors downtown.
n Recognize and curb gang activity and coordinate with Durham. n Increase police presence and encourage officers to better know business owners.
n Improve lighting and provide more police call boxes on Franklin Street. n Work improve safety education for students and residents.
n Strengthen current anti-panhandling ordinances. n Increase distance from ATMs, businesses and churches where people can panhandle.
n Do not support distance limitations for panhandling, but rather support looking at types of businesses where panhandling can be restricted.
n Encourage students not to give to panhandlers. n Support the current panhandling ordinances, which he voted for.
n Support programs to help panhandlers learn job skills. n Support organizations providing health care to panhandlers and the mentally ill.
n Enforce the current panhandling ordinances more strictly. n Increase the distance from ATMs and restaurants where people can panhandle.
n Expand the current no-panhandling zones, especially around businesses. n Strengthen the current panhandling ordinances.
n Address panhandlers as individuals, not a blanket problem. n Work with businesses to have a visible police presence to deter aggressive behavior.
n Support moving the homeless shelter off Rosemary Street. n Enforce current panhandling laws more strictly
PANHANDLING
SAFETY
Occupation: banker
Jim Merritt
CARRBORO MAYOR: Vote for one
GROWTH
Brian Voyce
Occupation: cashier at Phydeaux pet store
Occupation: business consultant
n Continue the
n Lay foundation
n Audit energy
development of the greenway system to limit car usage. n Refocus infrastructure priorities away from single-passenger vehicles.
for a trolley or light rail system. n Implement electric car charging stations.
n Encourage compact growth along transportation corridors and established neighborhoods. n Institute a plan to efficiently develop land in northern Carrboro.
n Cap the population at 25,000 people. n Limit further annexations of southern Orange County.
use across the town to contain environmental impacts. n Create a plan on efficient energy use that incorporates residential growth. n Unify the economic visions of towns in Orange County. n Examine municipal cost sharing projects with Chapel Hill.
ENVIRONMENT
Occupation: mayor since 2005
Sharon Cook
GROWTH
ENVIRONMENT
Amanda Ashley
Matt Pohlman
Will Raymond
Penny Rich
CARRBORO ALDERMEN: Vote for three
IMMIGRATION POPULATION
Mark Chilton
Gene Pease
Jacquie Gist
Randee HavenO’Donnell
Tim Peck
Sammy Slade
Occupation: homemaker
Occupation: social worker Incumbent — elected to board in 1989
Occupation: science educator Incumbent — elected in 2005
Occupation: builder, plumber
Occupation: carpenter
n Establish safe sidewalks to encourage walking and biking. n Protect the water supply, starting with Bolin Creek protections.
n Advocate for the protection of local watersheds. n Avoid making it easier to drive downtown, to promote alternative transportation.
n Specifically protect the Bolin Creek with regards to the new greenway. n Protect the town’s rural buffer.
n Consider supporting a no-driving day to expose the reliance on cars. n Aim to add more space for bike lanes and sidewalks, over widening roads.
n Create a year-byyear plan to 2020 to lower emissions. n Support local food production to lower transportation costs on the environment.
n Look to develop along the Eubanks Road corridor. n Place high density housing near places of employment and transit lines.
n Protect the status of downtown “buffer” neighborhoods. n Make sure newly allowed five-story buildings downtown don’t have a negative impact.
n Support local business with the Local Living Economy task force. n Invest in mixeduse developments around transit hubs.
n Higher density building for both residential and commercial property. n Attract “handson” businesses, not just office jobs.
n Support high density, mixed-use developments. n Identify existing residential areas with room for more development.
n Provide bilingual support to make it easier for immigrants. n Improve education for Burmese and Karen populations.
n Distribute bilingual emergency information. n Continue policies to limit local police officers checking for immigration status.
n Increase government support to community Latino organizations. n Support creation of a workforce station for day laborers.
n Support allowing driver’s licenses for day laborers. n Support day laborers by continuing to allow them to gather.
n Create a way for day laborers to find businesses that are hiring. n Continue to limit local police officers checking for immigration status.
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Opinion
monday, october 19, 2009 andrew dunn
The Daily Tar Heel
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The Daily Tar Heel QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Imagine if people were getting shot or stabbed. … How many people have to get hurt?” Bruce Cairns, Director, N.C. Jaycee Burn Center
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“How many people really had an issue with TOO MANY of their friends getting tickets?”
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“D.P.,” on the Carolina Athletic Association decision to give only one men’s basketball ticket per game
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR UNC is making significant strides to reduce coal use Connor Sullivan
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n the overwhelming response to my last column, I was asked by several of my fellow students: “Why don’t you go off on the frat guys?” I said I would, but I lied. They wanted blood after a few bad experiences and some trumped up stereotypes, and I told them that they couldn’t lump people together based on groups. I’ve been to frat parties. I’ve been kicked out of frat parties. In fact, I believe that the number of times I’ve been kicked out of frat parties is equal to the number of times I’ve attended them. Maybe it’s my personality, maybe it’s not butter, or maybe it’s just them. First off, I know that the term they prefer is “fraternity,” citing the negative connotation of the abbreviated “frat.” “Frat” implies “party boy.” It brings up images from which our UNC Greek community is currently trying to distance themselves. No Greek I know snorts coke. But of course, we make stereotypes. It’s easier for us to associate actions with groups. If one sorority girl sleeps around, we label her a “sorostitute” and call it a day. If one frat guy can’t keep it in his pants, we just assume that’s the head he thinks with. We shouldn’t lump everyone together. One bad apple shouldn’t spoil the whole bunch. Of course, there are the more visible cues that we associate with fraternity members: Shorts a few sizes too small, pastel colored wardrobes, Oxfords by day and Polos by night. Not every member of every fraternity wears these, and most frat guys keep their noses clean from the magic white powder. Some don’t, and that’s what we see. But most do. We shouldn’t give in to generalizations and stereotypes. We should let everyone stand for their own individual merits and shortcomings. To further illustrate the point, just look around frat court and sorority row. Do you see mountains of crack? No. Do you see beer cans strewn about from last night’s party? Yes. And when we make assumptions based even on these highly visible clues, there are still exceptions. Exceptions like the sorority girls that didn’t go out to the frat parties Saturday night and instead drove their younger members to the State Fair. Funnel cakes and meats dipped in chocolate are not stereotypical of a Greek Saturday night. When we consider all these stereotypes of the Greek community, we know that some are true and some aren’t. For example, it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to refute the widely-held belief that Greek men only wear pastel short-shorts. After all, the more thigh you show the more manly you are. To those that believe this, I say the truth shall be known: Only some should be doing this. Walking along Cameron, you can see the Greeks that make the stereotypes and those that don’t. Some drink, few don’t. Some snort, most won’t. And most don’t wear shorts that are colored like Easter eggs — as they throw me out of their parties.
Tuesday: Domenic R.A. Powell will comment on Americans’ views of our prison system.
In Code we trust
S
Better method for updating Student Code needed
tudent Congress was right to pass a bill requiring the Student Code to be updated on a monthly basis, which they did during their meeting last Tuesday. But Congress needs to make sure that it equips the student body secretary with the tools necessary to follow through. Until this bill goes into effect, the student body secretary only needs to update electronic version of the Code once a year. Updating the Code at such an infrequent interval causes confusion. If Congress passes bills after the last update to the Code — and they do — then anyone seeking to understand the Code must not only have a copy of the Code but also a copy of all bills that have amended it. It’s a recipe for disorganiza-
tion and frustration: Holding the executive branch accountable is difficult, and Congress operates inefficiently because there is no unified updated version of the Code. And most importantly, this is the sole governing document for students at the University. It governs student body elections, money distribution to student groups and the responsibilities of our leaders. It’s necessary that the Code be updated regularly and maintained in order to preserve our system of self-governance at the University. This bill achieves that, but Congress needs to ensure that it doesn’t create an impossible mandate. Jonathan Tugman, the student body secretary, is responsible for updating the Code. He
said that the task is complex, time-consuming and requires computer coding skills. The Code is currently updated using a format called TeX. It’s a format used by large-scale publishers for textbooks. But it’s meant to be used on documents that don’t change. The bill Congress passed won’t apply to Tugman. But if his predecessor is going to be changing the Code on a monthly basis, he or she needs new software. Tugman sent a memo to Congress citing the need for software specifically designed for constantly changing documents. Congress should look into getting better software. A constantly updated Code will benefit the student body, but Congress needs to provide the tools to make that a reality.
Not-so-golden ticket Changes to ticket policy are the wrong fix for the problem
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he Carolina Athletics Association announced last week that students will no longer receive two tickets for home basketball games through the lottery system, but instead will receive one. The change was made to help curb problems with student attendance at games, which has been a consistent problem over the last few years. But changing the policy to only allow one ticket per student is not the best way to fill the student sections. With a distribution of 6,000 tickets per game, there is no guarantee that every person who gets a lottery ticket will find a friend in the same pool of students. And a major part of attending basketball games is going with friends and cheering together. This new policy will dampen the atmosphere at home games by spreading out the students.
If a student receives a ticket through this system but is unable to find a friend who also received one, he has a choice — go to the game alone or leave the ticket unused. While some faithful fans will gladly accept their tickets and go alone, many others will find the idea of sitting alone before and during the game unappealing and abandon their ticket. Student attendance at basketball games is undoubtedly an issue that needs to be resolved. Over the last three basketball seasons, only one home game, last year’s matchup against Duke, has seen maximum attendance by students. The problem became so bad that at last season’s game against Georgia Tech, 25 to 30 percent of the tickets distributed through the lottery went unused. An option to consider — which CAA President John
Russell has advocated for and hopes to see eventually implemented — is a penalty system for students who choose not to use their tickets and fail to e-mail them back for standby distribution. If students who receive tickets know that not showing up to games could result in having to forfeit other lottery entries, they will be more prudent in either attending games or following in the “Turn it Back” policy. The CAA is right in recognizing that poor student attendance at basketball games needs to be remedied. However, simply giving out 6,000 individual tickets instead of 3,000 pairs does not prevent students from carelessly deciding not to show up. In fact, it might actually make the problem worse if students are left with the options of either going alone or not at all.
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TO THE EDITOR: Meghan Corbet’s letter (“UNC can and must do more to wean itself from coal,” Oct. 13) requires factual corrections and more context about the University’s commitment to mitigating climate change. The University has made a bold commitment through the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment to reach climate neutrality by mid-century. Indeed, the University showed leadership by becoming an early signatory of the ACUPCC in 2007. While the mid-century commitment may sound like a long time off, there are numerous activities underway that will get the University below year 2000 green house gas emissions by 2020. It is important to note that the University’s commitment to reduce to 2000 year green house gas levels by 2020 is more stringent than the Intergovernmental Panel on C limate C hange Category 1 (most aggressive) scenario. The University’s program includes a long list of measures including making our buildings operate more efficiently, which is the surest and most cost effective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly. A complete list can be seen in the Climate Action Plan published on Sept. 15. The plan can be viewed at www.climate.unc.edu/portfolio/ cap2009/view. Contrary to Ms. Corbet’s assertion that the biomass project does not happen until 2025, the plan has this project commencing with testing of biomass materials as soon as they are available, which, according to potential suppliers, could be as early as early 2010. It is also important to note that the University recently received an A-, the highest grade given, on the College Sustainability repor t card published by the Sustainable Endowment Institute, with an A in climate and energy. Our coal burning facility is relatively new and clean. The Facility was recognized by the EPA Energy Star Combined Heat and Power Program with awards for “superior environmental performance” and for “significant fuel savings.” We hope the campus community will support our aggressive efforts toward our goal of becoming climate neutral. The journey will not be easy. Raymond E. DuBose Director Energy Services Editor’s note: The 250-word length rule was waived for this letter.
Bridge needed on South road; people don’t focus TO THE EDITOR: I don’t agree with your recent editorial stating that the proposed South Road pedestrian bridge is unnecessary and a waste of money (“Not quite the Golden Gate,” Oct. 16). The current system depends upon both the driver and pedes-
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trian paying attention to each other. With the prevalence of iPods and other mobile distractions, often neither the driver nor pedestrian are fully engaged with what they are doing. Your proposed crossing guard system would still depend upon the driver seeing and recognizing people within the crosswalk, and it would be expensive with salary and administrative costs in the tens of thousands of dollars every year. Thus it would not be a great improvement over the laissezfaire system we already have and would still be expensive. A pedestrian-controlled stop light could work, but it would further add to the traffic congestion on South Road, and it would have costs in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Separating the pedestrians from the drivers makes the most sense from a safety and traffic point of view. The planned bridge is expensive, but it is the best option. Let’s have a dedicated system for drivers and walkers and keep everyone safer in the process. Evan Corey Graduate Student School of Medicine
New ticket policy hurts graduate students most TO THE EDITOR: To the individuals in charge of the basketball ticket policy: a number of comments on the change from two tickets to one. Do you hate dating? What better excuse to ask out your crush than “I have an extra ticket to the game”? No extra tickets? No chance to meet that someone special! Do you hate groups of friends? Before, double tickets meant you were guaranteed going to the game with at least one friend. Even if two friends get tickets, they will likely have different phases complicating sitting together, let alone groups of 4 or 6. Do you hate graduate students? While undergrads live in the dorms and have literally millions of friends, we graduate students have only a couple of friends because we are far too nerdy to venture out of the library or lab. The chances of two grad students getting tickets to the same game: slim. Chances of getting the same phase: slimmer. Finally, the purpose of the change was to increase ticket use. Here’s the scenario of the old ticket distribution policy: I get tickets, invite my girlfriend, we meet up with two other friends, have a great time. And then the scenario of the new ticket distribution policy: I get tickets, go by myself, make friends with some awesome freshman that’s 10 years younger than me and we become best friends forever, or more likely, I don’t go because I don’t know anyone else going. Benjamin Heumann Graduate Student Geography
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MEN’S soccer Senior Writer Boston College With the game over and a tough 2-1 loss in the books, each of the UNC North Carolina players slowly made their way across the field and onto the steps of the McCaskill Soccer Center. Each of them except for Cameron Brown. The junior midfielder was still pacing the far sideline, his head down, not quite ready to walk off the field. “We shouldn’t have lost that one,” he said after finally leaving the field. “It’s frustrating. I’ve got to forget all about this game.” It was a night many of the No. 2 Tar Heels would love to forget. Despite out-shooting unranked Boston College by a 16-7 margin and controlling the ball for the vast majority of the contest, UNC was simply less opportunistic than the Eagles. Boston College freshman Charlie Rugg scored two sudden goals within the Eagles’ first three shots, and BC (8-6-0, 3-2-0 in the ACC) withstood a flurry of chances for UNC (9-2-2, 3-2-1 ACC). Of North Carolina’s 16 shots, 10 of them were on goal. Many of them, though, were struck right at the keeper, as the Tar Heels couldn’t take advantage of their chances.
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“I think we weren’ t calm enough in front of the goal,” said UNC coach Elmar Bolowich. “We rushed our chances. We just rushed the shot, and I think if we look at it in a replay they might be able to see how open the goal really was or where the angle was.” The Tar Heels were never out of the game, though. And at the start of the second half, they seemed to snatch the momentum back with a quick goal. In the 52nd minute, Brown fired a left-footed shot into a crowd at the top of the 18-yard box. When the blocked attempt bounced right back to him, he gathered it and hooked a falling-away rightfooted shot into the upper corner of the net. “Their keeper’s unbelievable — I’m surprised he let that one by,” Brown said. “I’ll take it, but it’s nothing compared to the loss. I’d rather not score and win than score and lose.” The rest of the half was a lot like most of the first half — an awful lot of fruitless Tar Heel chances. With just more than a minute
remaining, UNC’s Enzo Martinez laid a touch pass off to Billy Schuler, who found himself just above the six-yard box with only the goalie to beat. His strike, though, was deflected just wide of the net. “It was just like a blur, just trying to get the shot off real quick,” Schuler said. “But yeah, I thought it was going to find the back post.” Though it was just UNC’s second loss of the season, both of them have come in ACC play, which could prove costly in the final standings and the seeding for the ACC Tournament. The Tar Heels will need to focus on capitalizing on their chances if they hope to rebound, though. It’s been six weeks since they’ve scored more than two goals in a game, a period that has spanned 10 games. And although they’ve fought through injuries to play some stingy defense during that time, a more opportunistic offense might be just the remedy. “We’ve just got to put the ball in the back of the net,” Schuler said. “I don’t know what else to say.” Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu.
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NEW YORK (MCT) — The “balloon boy” case that sparked international media news attention Thursday was a hoax that will result in criminal charges against the boy’s parents, Larimer County, Colo., Sheriff Jim Alderden said Sunday. Richard and Mayumi Heene concocted the hoax—that their 6-year-old son, Falcon, was in a helium balloon that broke away from its mooring and was drifting over Northern Colorado — hoping to market themselves for a reality television show, Alderden said. The world’s news media was riveted as authorities, believing the boy was in the balloon and helpless, tried to figure out how to rescue him. The balloon’s gondola was empty when it landed about 50 miles from Fort Collins, Colo. The boy later was found safe at home. “They put on a very good show for us,” Alderden said, “and we bought it. We have since learned that these people are actors.” He said charges likely will include conspiracy, contributing to delinquency of minor and filing a false report.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — President Barack Obama said Saturday that the U.S. is closer to reforming the health care system than at any time in its history, while warning that insurance costs could rise by as much at $18,000 per person over the next 10 years if nothing is done. The president said the insurance industry “is rolling out the big guns and breaking open their massive war chest — to marshal their forces for one last fight to save the status quo” with “deceptive and dishonest ads.” Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, taking up the Republican rebuttal to Obama’s remarks, said that the “tax-and-spend agenda” of the Democrats “is discouraging entrepreneurs from investing in job creation” and that government-run health care will drive costs up. This past week, the Senate Finance Committee approved a reform proposal that has Democratic and Republican support, and for the first time ever, all five committees in Congress responsible for health care reform have passed a version of legislation.
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WOMEN’S Soccer Virginia arm, and therefore, it should have UNC
By grant fitzgerald Staff Writer
North Carolina coach Anson Dorrance was trying every combination of players he could think of to crack the Virginia defense. But on Saturday it took a couple of lucky bounces and a pair of arms to secure the 2-1 win for the UNC women’s soccer team. North Carolina (12-1-1), the No. 2 team in the country, tried every trick in the book but was continually thwarted. Through balls, long balls, crosses and corners — nothing penetrated Virginia’s tough and physical defense. “Virginia has been very good defensively as long as I can remember,” Dorrance said. “Coach Steve Swanson is really good at getting his defense to play well.” The first goal came just five minutes into the second half when senior Whitney Engen sent a corner kick across the front of the goal that found freshman Alyssa Rich, who used her shoulder to put the ball away. Virginia players contested the goal, saying that Rich used her
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named to the 2009-10 national teams on the open water and the traditional pool teams. He thanks Peterson for a good chunk of that success. “Basically, when I decided to come to UNC, that’s when I decided to start doing open water, because, I mean, he’s a world champion so I thought, ‘Hey, why not give it a try?’” Kinderwater said. “It really paid off in the end, and we’re both really successful in it.” Both have placed highly in numerous meets locally and across the world; Peterson took first in the 1,500-meter freestyle in the 2007 Pan American Games in Brazil. The next year, he barely missed qualifying for a spot at the 2008 Beijing Olympics for the open water event. Kinderwater made an appearance at the Olympic Trials in the same year in the 1,500-meter freestyle, finishing eighth in the event with a new career best time.
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been a handball. But the official ruled in favor of Rich, and the goal stood. Virginia answered with a goal of its own in the 60th minute, when the UNC defense failed to clear the ball out of its box, and Virginia’s Sinead Farrelly volleyed the ball into the bottom-left corner to even the score. “Their goal was really unfortunate,” Dorrance said. “Our defense made an uncharacteristic mistake, and Virginia took advantage.” The Cavaliers continued to pressure UNC, forcing goalkeeper Ashlyn Harris to make several huge saves down the stretch. And just when it seemed the game was destined for overtime, UNC was given a helping hand at the end of the game. Actually a helping handball. In the 88th minute, senior midfielder Tobin Heath sent a low cross into the box, looking for a teammate to finish it off. Instead, the ball hit the arm of Virginia’s Emily Carrollo, and UNC was awarded a
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But their experiences on the USA Swimming National Open Water team in Spain in 2008 rank just as highly on their list of memories. “That’s when we got really close,” Peterson said. “That was after his freshman year, because he came in as a freshman and I was redshirting that year, so I was always cheering for him. Then that summer we actually went on that trip, and we really bonded after that. We roomed together in Spain, and it was awesome.” For now, Kinderwater and Peterson are keeping their focus on battling for success in the 500yard, 1,000-yard and 1,650-yard freestyles this season, and between the two of them, giving UNC the premier distance swimming corps in the ACC. “We’re like best friends, so it’s friendly competition,” Peterson said. “Well, maybe not in the pool, but definitely outside. No hard feelings.”
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penalty kick. Midfielder Ali Hawkins drove the resulting penalty into the lower left corner to lock up the victory for her team. “Some people think that getting a penalty goal like that because of a handball is luck,” Dorrance said. “But when you are constantly attacking like we were and having possession on their side of the field, those kind of things are going to happen.” Despite the victory, North Carolina seemed out of sync all game long. Time after time the Tar Heels saw breakaways and buildups ruined by errant passes and bad touches. “We talked at halftime about being too heavy with our passes,” Heath said. D o r r a n c e e c h o e d He a t h’s assessment and added that the player combinations were not working out as he had hoped they
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medley relay. Similarly, senior Megan Steeves won two individual events (the 50and 100-yard freestyle) and swam on the first place 200-yard medley and the second place 400-yard freestyle relay teams. “Megan Steeves was outstanding,” coach Rich DeSelm said after the meet. “She’s a racer. She knows how to get her hand on the wall. She won several key events for the women.” Sibling rivalry took full form during Saturday’s meet, as Steeves’ younger sister Katie swims for Virginia Tech. “My dad made a polo shirt, he cut it in half and sewed it together,” Steeves said. “One half is North Carolina and one half is Virginia Tech. He loves it. He thinks it’s like the coolest thing ever.” The South Carolina Gamecocks represented the SEC, a powerhouse conference in swimming and diving. Six SEC teams were ranked in Contact the Sports Editor the final men’s swimming poll in at sports@unc.edu. 2009, and five teams were in the
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North Carolina had never lost to Virginia in 35 previous meetings with the Cavaliers. It took until the 88th minute for UNC to pull ahead and get No. 36, as midfielder Ali Hawkins converted a penalty kick for the win. would. “We were definitely missing a spark there in the beginning, so I changed up the front line by putting Tobin up front and bringing Rich and (Ranee) Premji in to add some pressure,” Dorrance said. But much credit should be
given to UVa., who played a very physical game and out-hustled the Tar Heels for much of the game. Heath also said Virginia’s game plan against UNC wasn’t anything new. “Teams try to pressure us all the
time and try to get in our heads and frustrate us,” Heath said. “We just need to stay focused and play our game and everything will take care of itself.”
final women’s poll. It’s a conference with which DeSelm is very familiar. The UNC alumnus spent six years in the SEC as head coach of the Florida Gators before returning to his alma mater in 2007. “We were fortunate today, but anytime you swim against an SEC school, it’s good for our team,” DeSelm said. “It brought out the best in us today.” The Tar Heels will be back in action next week when they swim against SEC powerhouse Georgia in Athens. The women are winless against the Bulldogs, something DeSelm hopes to change. “It will take absolute best efforts (to beat Georgia). Their women might be the best in the country,” he said. “We’ll be there, but if we can have another good week of training and the kind of attitude that we had today on the road, I think we can be competitive.”
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of the very first day of the 2009-10 season, winning was still important. With about a minute to go, it was a two-point game. Ultimately, the blue team sealed it with a couple free throws. But that didn’t stop Davis and Larry Drew II from getting on the floor for a loose ball as the buzzer sounded. For the women’s team, senior Trinity Bursey led her pink team to a 10-7 victory with seven points. A freshman impressed for the women, too. Tierra Ruffin-Pratt, a 5-10 guard, led the blue team with four points. But for both squads, Late Night just represented the start of the season they’ve been waiting for since springtime. “Tomorrow’s the real day that we’re celebrating,” Ginyard said. “And like I said, we’re just really excited to get back to work.”
to me and said to focus more on blocking and the hitting will just come. So, I guess it was a good mentality to have.” UNC also had tremendous passing — including cross-court connections between Sue Haydel and Gibson. “Sue and Kaylie passed, half the time, the entire court,” Sagula said. “It was one of the best combined passing matches that I’ve seen.” The loss knocked Duke out of its tie for first place. For the Tar Heels, the win not only provides a statement to the rest of the ACC, Sagula said, but it also served as a source of confidence for the team. “I think it’s more important as a statement to ourselves,” Sagula said. “We beat Duke at our place. We’re that good, and we can be that good when we put it together.”
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Junior friends lead team Kinderwater and Peterson dominate By Megan Walsh Staff Writer
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North Carolina men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams combined to win 19 of 32 events against both Virginia Tech and South Carolina on Saturday at Koury Natatorium.
Tar Heels sweep Va. Tech, USC Women’s Swimming Virginia Tech 118 UNC 182 South Carolina 103 UNC 194
By Kelly Parsons Staff Writer
The bold blue letters on the wall of the Koury Natatorium read “Heels’ House.” And Saturday afterMen’s Swimming noon, with wins against Virginia Tech 128 South Carolina and ACC UNC 172 rival Virginia Tech, the South Carolina 106 men’s and women’s swim teams proved the power UNC 197 behind that phrase. In their first home meet and conference matchup of the season, several standout performances combined for wins for both teams. For the men, sophomore Steve Cebertowicz and junior Tyler Harris led the team with two individual wins each. Cebertowicz, who was also a member of the firstplace 400-yard freestyle relay, won both the 50- and
DTH ONLINE: View a photo slideshow of Saturday’s swimming meet at dailytarheel.com 100-yard freestyle. His time in the 100 was two seconds shy of his best — and the current UNC record — of 43.91. Harris took home firsts in the 200-yard breaststroke as well as the 200-yard individual medley. Juniors Joe Kinderwater and Chip Peterson showcased the depth of the team in distance events when the two finished first and second respectively in the 1000-yard freestyle. The pair did it again later in the meet, when Peterson won the 500-yard freestyle, and Kinderwater delivered the knock-out punch with a second place finish in the event. Freshman Carly Smith proved her value as a new member of the women’s team as, for the second meet in a row, she won both the 200- and 100-yard backstroke events and swam backstroke on the winning 200-yard
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Against South Carolina, both Tar Heel squads won in overwhelming fashion. Each North Carolina team won its rivalry meet by 91 points.
Looking at the finishes for Saturday’s swim meet against Virginia Tech and South Carolina, you’d swear North Carolina distance swimmers Joe Kinderwater and Chip Peterson just couldn’t be friends. Alternating between first and second in the 1,000-yard and 500-yard freestyle, Kinderwater took first in the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 9:09.23, ahead of Peterson, who clocked in at 9:17.18. The two then battled it out for the 500-yard freestyle, with Peterson beating Kinderwater to the wall by a narrow margin of .93 seconds. But friendship comes naturally to the long distance standouts, who see their extremely competitive but encouraging relationship as a significant contributing factor to their success. The two even have an odd tradition of singing ’90s songs during practices. The juniors’ experiences beyond those on North Carolina’s men’s swimming team, competing on the national and international circuit in both pool and openwater meets, only add to their bond. “We’re really close, and we joke around a lot, but we’re both really competitive people, so we always duel during practice and whatnot,” Kinderwater said. “We always fight for who’s number one, and it’s awesome. I love racing against him.” Kinder water was recently
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Henson stars in exhibition UNC downs ACC-leading Devils By mike ehrlich Senior Writer
In between all of the dancing, acting and video montages, there was actually some basketball played Friday at Late Night with Roy. The annual event was the first official practice for North Carolina’s men’s and women’s basketball teams. And sure, it’s always a little sloppy. But it’s a first look at the upcoming year’s team, as well as a first glimpse at the incoming class of freshmen. O n e o f t h o s e n e wc o m e r s didn’t disappoint on Friday. John
Henson, who is a long, ultra-athletic 6-foot-10, led the white team with 10 points. He didn’t wait long to get started, dropping in the scrimmage’s first four points on an acrobatic drive and a second-chance dunk. He showed an ability to run the floor in transition later on a fastbreak one-handed dunk. And he can jump out of the gym, as he demonstrated with his hand about halfway up the backboard as he goaltended later in the game. “That was actually probably one of the guys that I really didn’t like to guard this summer during pickup,” senior Marcus Ginyard said.
“He’s just so tough to defend. “You take away his inside game and push him outside, he’s very comfortable on the perimeter, can shoot the ball. And if you force him inside, he’s just got that size advantage over you.” But Henson’s white team eventually fell victim to the blue squad, which was led by the game’s leading scorer. Will Graves, who sat out most of last season after being suspended from the team, has been touted as having the best range on a team that’s desperate for a 3-point shooter. He showed why Friday night. He made his first three 3-pointers and went on to score 12 points in the scrimmage. Sophomore Ed Davis added eight points for the blue team, while freshman Travis Wear dropped eight of his own on the white side. Even in the very first scrimmage
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Sophomore Larry Drew (pictured) and freshman John Henson led UNC’s white team at Late Night with Roy. Henson’s 10 points was a team high.
The team danced to songs that were themed to coincide with the Tar Heels’ five national championship. In a pre-recorded video, UNC pretended to take last year’s 2009 national championship trophy around, until John Henson lost the trophy, then the video (David Wear’s brainchild) turned into a lampoon of Tyler Hansbrough’s recent AT&T commercial. The Lady Tar Heels busted out their best moves as part of a competition to find “Carolina’s Best Dance Crew.” The judges didn’t like any of the crews — until they got up and danced. Roy Williams and the assistants were pulled into a circle of dancing players, and then they cut the rug.
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The Dean Smith Center was packed. In the hours before Late Night with Roy kicked off, a season-high 12,700 fans came out and cheered on the North Carolina volleyball team as the Tar Heels took on archrival Duke on Friday night. The Tar Heels played against a tough 16-4 (6-1 ACC) Duke team who was tied for first in the ACC. UNC, which sat in second place in the conference standings, used effective defensive play to keep the Blue Devils in check and pull off the upset, 3-1. “Even if Duke was in last place, a win against Duke is always a good win,” said senior middle hitter Ingrid Hanson-Tuntland. “It makes it even better that they were in first place because that just goes to show the rest of the conference that we’re coming for them.” Though it was the biggest crowd of the season, the Tar Heels didn’t let that affect them. “I don’t think that the pressure really came from the crowd. I think the pressure really came from the fact that we were playing our rival,” said head coach Joe Sagula. “Anytime that’s the case, you want to play your best match.” The Tar Heels made their presence known in the first set. UNC led Duke for most of the set by at least two points until Duke tied the game at 17. The Tar Heels finally put the game away and won 25-22 on a Duke service error. The Blue Devils struck back in the second set. They got out to an 8-3 lead over UNC. Duke errors and solid UNC kills brought the Tar Heels within striking distance. The set was tied at 14 when Duke
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Duke entered the Smith Center tied for first in the ACC standings. But North Carolina used a large crowd and inspired play to pull the upset. went on an 11-6 run to win the game 25-20. The next two sets belonged to the Tar Heels. UNC dominated Duke in the third set 25-16. Miscues hurt the Blue Devils, as Duke missed several easy blocks and made errors on easy kills. The final set remained neck and neck until UNC scored four straight points to go up 23-19. Duke answered back with two straight scores. But the Tar Heels put the game away with two final kills — winning 25-21. UNC was able to pull of the upset thanks in part to a greatly improved defense. The Tar Heels were able to lay down some key blocks against the hard-hitting Duke offense. “[The blockers] did a great job tonight,” said libero Kaylie Gibson. “I knew exactly where I needed to be on defense because they put it up perfectly for me.” Hanson-Tuntland had an especially good night blocking, laying down six blocking assists and one solo block. “I feel like I’ve been focusing too much on hitting this year,” Hanson-Tuntland said. “In practice this week the coaches came
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No. 19 Georgia Tech 28 No. 4 Virginia Tech 23
Josh Nesbitt rushed for 122 yards and three touchdowns, as the Yellow Jackets likely erased Va. Tech’s national title hopes.
Virginia 20, Maryland 9
The Cavaliers won their third straight game. UVa.’s defense was huge, as it forced four fumbles, including two that it recovered.
Clemson 38, Wake Forest 3
The Tigers were dominant in all faces of the game, and C.J. Spiller rushed for two touchdowns.
Boston College 52, N.C. State 20
BC quarterback Dave Shinskie threw for 187 yards, and Montel Harris set two school records with 264 rushing yards. Wolfpack coach Tom O’Brien struggled immensely against his former squad.
Miami 27, UCF 7
Jacory Harris was sacked six times but still passed for 293 yards as the Hurricanes beat Central Florida.