The Daily Tar Heel for January 27, 2009

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VOLUME 116, ISSUE 136

tuesday, january 27, 2009

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Town o∞cials send Innovation Center forward

By Andrew Hartnett Staff Writer

Chapel Hill officials approved the first building of UNC’s proposed satellite research campus Monday after months of delays.

Despite concerns regarding carbon emissions and water runoff, the Chapel Hill Town Council voted to allow the University to proceed with the Innovation Center at Carolina North.

The building is designed to help start-up companies get ideas off the ground.

Council members expressed concerns about approving the first part of Carolina North, which is planned for 250 acres two miles north of campus, without answering questions of the cumulative impact on the town.

The center will be a three-story, 80,745 square foot building with more than 200 parking spaces.

Mayor Pro Tem Jim Ward said the standards for maintaining low carbon emissions in the center were too loose.

“If we are serious about global

warming and carbon emission then we need to make this Innovation Center innovative,” Ward said.

The University agreed Monday to an amendment requiring stricter regulation on carbon emissions from the Innovation Center.

It will be built on an 8-acre portion of the Carolina North property, west of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

Even after Monday’s approval, the University and Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc., the Californiabased developer in charge of the

DTH INSIDE: Find out what else happened at the council meeting. PG. 4 project, will have to sign a lease, and work out the particulars on how much of the building will be occupied by the University.

Alexandria Senior Vice President John Cunningham said Friday they would have to wait for the economy to recover somewhat.

And construction of the center might not begin for several years, Mayor Kevin Foy said.

The permit requires that con-

struction begin by 2011 and be completed by 2013.

Approval of the Innovation Center came after an unexpected three month delay in the process.

The center was initially scheduled for a vote on Oct. 27, but University officials surprised the town by requesting to postpone the hearing because of lingering concerns from the developer that the language was not broad enough.

Then, in a Nov. 3 e-mail, Alexandria told University officials that they would not begin new devel-

opments because of the economy.

Officials are now doing their best to move the project forward, Cunningham said.

University officials also agreed to work with the council further on issues like water runoff management that will be readdressed before an agreement for the rest of Carolina North is finalized.

The final agreement is scheduled for a vote in June.

Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.

BATHROOM GRAFFITI

By Anika Anand

Staff Writer

Sophomore Maggie Zhou was in Phillips Hall, having a tough day. And then she read something scrawled on the bathroom stall.

“There’s one message that says, ‘You’re not stupid, You can do it,’” Zhou said.

“And there’s another one that says, ‘You’re beautiful every day.’”

Within the confines of a bathroom stall, the power that comes with anonymous expression brings semi-philosophical musings, lewd jokes and unsigned phone numbers to the public.

“There’s a sense of the whole community in the building being brought together in that tiny space,” Zhou said.

The words and images can be humorous, insightful and even vary by department.

The words of T.S. Eliot are displayed on the stalls in the English department in Greenlaw Hall, and equations adorn Phillips bathrooms where science classes are held.

“The graffiti is emotional residue,” said Mark Ferem, author of the book “Bathroom Graffiti.”

A quote in a bar bathroom inspired Ferem to explore “latrinalia,” a word coined for the form of expression.

There’s a folkloric quality to bathroom graffiti, Ferem said.

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But some of the graffiti reflects a darker side of anonymous free speech. Hate speech sometimes appears alongside more benign content.

“I guess some people want to let out that inner aggression or racism,” said junior Steven Quintero.

“If you’re anonymous then you feel more comfortable expressing how you really feel,” he said.

And that’s one of the advantages of the graffiti, said Ferem — to evoke that type of open dialogue.

The public and private duality inherent in a bathroom stall allows for a unique type of unrestricted public display, Ferem said.

And the person in the stall assumes they won’t get caught defacing public property.

Bill Burston, director of UNC Housekeeping Services, said housekeeping staff are supposed to report graffiti when they see it around campus, although its removal is not a very urgent matter, he said.

Burston doesn’t find value in the impromptu public doodles.

“It makes for unsightly looking bathrooms,” he said. “A lot of things could be racial and sexual and should not be put on walls — no one wants to see those

See graffiti, Page 4

Local journalist remembered N.C. Republicans prep

BY Evan Rose

Assistant City Editor

R o l a n d G i d u z ’s s o n B i l l described him as an “extraordinary chronicler.”

Giduz kept records of the kinds of birds that came to his feeder. He challenged his sons to count turtles on the side of the road. He timed everything and made a note of it.

And in the last few months of his life, he wrote down on a curling yellow legal pad every person who came to visit, called or sent him gifts.

Giduz, a celebrated Chapel Hill journalist and politician, died Friday after a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 83.

Hundreds of residents, many of whom had known Giduz for decades, packed University Presbyterian Church on Monday to honor his memory.

Friends and family recalled his dedication to the Chapel Hill community, his energy and his attention to details.

Giduz’s youngest son Tom, 52, said his father frequently told

Roland Giduz, a local journalist and politician who started out at The Daily Tar Heel, died Friday. him, “If there’s an easy way to do something and an exciting way to do something, choose the exciting way.”

For Giduz, the exciting way was often set to the tune of a ukulele.

The writer sang songs he wrote to memorialize everything from holidays to family vacations. Bill Giduz, 57, said the songs were often 30 to 40 verses long. And some, like one ditty about silver-plated boats running into Christmas trees, made little sense.

Giduz’s personal energy also propelled him in his personal career.

Giduz started at the University in 1940 before taking a break to serve in World War II in the Vosges Mountains of France.

His work as a journalist began

DTH ONLINE: View some of Giduz’s photos from civil rights protests in Chapel Hill. at The Daily Tar Heel, where he worked until his graduation from UNC in 1948.

Daily Tar Heel colleague John Kerr said Giduz was contagiously energetic as a student at UNC, where his nickname was, inexplicably, “Foo.” After Giduz graduated, he led a successful career in journalism, publishing his own weekly visitors guide for 16 years and working for a variety of local newspapers.

He also served on the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen from 1957 to 1969 and published his thoughts online as “the old codger blogger” until last year.

In his time as a journalist and politician Giduz was hailed as fantastic listener.

“He may have timed the sermons,” said Anna Pinckney

See GIDUZ, Page 4

for leadership elections

By OLIVIA BOWLER SENIOR Writer

After a disappointing election, the N.C. Republican party faces no small task in putting GOP members into both state and national offices in 2010.

They will have do this with new party leadership, elected this June at an N.C. Republican convention. The state party chair is chosen by a convention of between 800 and 1,000 delegates from across the state.

“The state convention is obviously the biggest gathering of Republicans and grassroots activists throughout the year,” said Brent Woodcox, spokesman for the state Republican party. “It gives us the opportunity to set in motion our entire process.”

Many of the candidates for the position have been campaigning on making better use of technology than the last administration, as well as doing a better job reaching out to a variety of voters.

“I don’t feel like we had any momentum coming out of November,” said Woody White, a candidate and former N.C. senator.

White said that one strategy is to make better use of networking Web sites like Facebook and YouTube to engage people.

“That was one of the few advantages that the Democrats enjoyed, and it translated into more votes,” he said. “I’m not sure that we did as good a job as we could have done.”

After the 2008 election, Democrats control the state legislature and governorship, with a majority of U.S. House Representatives from the state.

The Republican party chairman candidates agree that in the last statewide election the Democrats better utilized technology and drew in a diverse group of voters.

The Democrats will be electing their new party chairman

See GOp, Page 4

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Location: Internationalist Bookstore, 405 W. Franklin St. Conversation: The last in the Sacred Conversations on Race, part of the Light Up Your Winter series.

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DaiLY DOSe Seal brain off the menu

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From staff and wire reports

enguin breasts and seal brains were once high-end delicacies for researchers in Antarctica, according to a recently discovered cookbook.

The book, written by an unknown chef at a British research base, gives a rare glimpse into the menus of the seventh continent before a 1959 treaty established Antarctica as a nature reserve.

The book includes multiple seal brain dishes.

NOTED. Oprah could have been a contender — for the U.S. Senate.

That’s what Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich said during an interview Monday.

Blagojevich is awaiting impeachment trial proceedings for allegedly trying to sell President Barack Obama’s Senate seat to the highest bidder.

QUOTED. “We’ve never ever had a case of a car landing in a church before.”

—Frank Fischer, spokesman for the police department in Chemnitz, Germany, on a bizarre car accident there Monday.

A driver broke through a roadside barrier and hurtled up an embankment, launching himself into a church’s roof.

Police log n A Chapel Hill woman was arrested on charges of larceny and possession of drugs, according to Chapel Hill police reports.

Marie Ellen Martin, 45, of 255 Pump House Loop, was arrested Friday during an investigation involving the theft of money from a residence where she was working, reports state.

She faces a misdemeanor charge of larceny, a felony charge of possession of a Schedule II narcotic and four misdemeanor charges of possession of a Schedule IV narcotic, reports state.

She was transported to Orange County Jail in lieu of $75,000 bail and was expected in court Monday, reports state. n A Charlotte man was arrested Saturday on misdemeanor charges of underage drinking, resisting arrest and public urination, according to Chapel Hill police reports.

Steven Sun Kwon, 20, was arrested near McCauley and Pittsboro Streets, reports state.

Kwon was taken to the Orange County Jail in lieu of $1,000 bail because he was uncooperative,

reports state.

Kwon is expected in court March 2, reports state. n A man was arrested for possession of marijuana Saturday, according to Chapel Hill police reports.

Police found marijuana in the armrest of the car of William Thomas Montgomery III, 18, of Holly Springs, reports state.

He was released on a written promise to appear and is expected in court March 2, reports state. n A heavyset man wearing a light gray sweat suit and carrying a cane tried to steal $87 worth of rib eye steaks from the Food Lion on Jones Ferry Road, according to Carrboro police reports.

The meat was recovered but the suspect fled the area in a red Dodge Caravan, reports state.

Police later responded to a man fitting the description at another Food Lion, reports state. The man, identified as Malcolm Lassiter, was issued a trespass warning for the Jones Ferry location by the Food Lion manager, reports state.

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The Daily Tar Heel CAMPUS BRIEFS

Young Democrats endorse Thomas Edwards for SBP Student body president candidate Thomas Edwards won an endorsement from the UNC Young Democrats after extensive questioning of all six candidates Monday night.

“I feel like Young Dems really makes an educated decision based on platform,” Edwards said. “They understand that I’m a continuation of several really well-qualified student body presidents.”

The Young Democrats also endorsed 12 candidates for Student Congress: McKay Roozen, Joe Levin-Manning, Brittany Papworth, Patrick Brown, Zachary Cobb, Kenneth Barshop, Deanna Santoro, Trenton Kool, Lee Storrow, Anthony Dent, David Murray and Jeremy Martin.

Young Democrats’ leaders stressed that the endorsements were not supposed to be based on candidates’ political affiliations or ideologies, but were an attempt to increase the diversity of Student Congress.

“I think that there are a lot of members in YD that really respect what this organization has done in the past,” co-president Justin Rosenthal said. “This forum really serves as a way to introduce these candidates to our members.”

After brief personal introductions, Young Democrats leaders asked all student body president candidates to tell how they would reduce student indifference and to name their least feasible platform planks. Each candidate then answered one question individually, and most made numerous references to their full platforms online.

When the questions were done, the candidates stepped outside and about 100 students present unreservedly discussed their strengths and weaknesses.

Edwards won a majority of votes without the need for a runoff.

Prof honored for computer security defenses research Michael Reiter, a professor in the department of computer science, has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Reiter was recognized by the organization for his work in improving computer security. His research focuses on developing security defenses, such as Web privacy technologies and strengthening networks against attacks.

The Association for Computing Machinery is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.

Reiter, a former Morehead scholar at UNC, will be honored along with 43 others in San Diego, Calif., on June 27.

CITY BRIEFS

Carrboro police catch one in undercover alcohol sting

tuesday, january 27, 2009

Student elections

Ballot gains two candidates Wohlford and Brown join the race

By Andrew Dunn University Editor

Two candidates have been added to the student election ballot after scraping up enough petitions to meet the final deadline.

Matt Wohlford is now a certified candidate in the student body president race, joining five others certified last week.

Courtney Brown will join two others in the Carolina Athletic Association president race.

Petition signatures were due to the Board of Elections last Tuesday.

Both student body president and CAA president candidates are required to gather 800 unique signatures to be certified and placed on the ballot.

Wohlford and Brown both submitted more than 800 signatures, but

after duplicates and invalid names were subtracted, they fell short.

The Board of Elections announced Thursday that they would need more signatures to be certified.

All candidates who don’t make the signature requirements may take an extra 24 hours to make up the difference.

Wohlford said he considered ending his bid after not making the first cut, but eventually was persuaded to seek the 40 more signatures he needed.

“My competitors all urged me to run,” he said. “I agreed, and here we are.”

Now able to publicly campaign as a certified candidate, Wohlford already has A-frame signs set up in the Pit and plans to dormstorm in earnest over the next few days.

Matt Wohlford joins five other candidates in the race for student body president.

Courtney Brown is one of three running for Carolina Athletic Association president.

He said he will personally knock on every dorm room door on South Campus. He developed that strategy after last year’s election, when several students told him that they only voted for candidates who had sought them out personally to talk.

Brown needed about 30 signatures to make it onto the ballot after thinking she would be certified. She said her staff had collected about 870 signatures by the Saturday before the due date, and had stopped looking for more signatures.

“We thought we might as well

not bother people on a snow day,” she said.

She said she found out she lacked signatures at 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, and had them collected by 7:30 p.m.

She also has A-frames already set up in the Pit, and said she plans to get more campaign workers there in the next week.

“I was kind of surprised we didn’t make it the first time,” she said. “It’s exciting to finally be back.”

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PRC rotates 2 varied plays ‘Glass Menagerie’ and ‘Well’ rotate By phillip crook staff writer

Like many relationships, the pairing of two wildly different productions can either be magic or mayhem.

PlayMakers Repertory Company Contact the University Editor is banking on its marriage of the at udesk@unc.edu. American classic “ The Glass Menagerie” and the contemporary Broadway comedy “Well” in rotating repertory to produce an inspiring, if not magical, relationship.

The shows will premiere Saturday, although each will run in preview performances this week.

PlayMakers producing artistic director and “Well” director Joseph Haj said he brought the productions together because of the connections he saw between the play’s themes, playwrights and handling of form.

The rotating repertory offers the works either separately or together in alternation.

“It reveals both plays in a deeper way through the conversation that takes place between them,” Haj said.

“They are such different plays, but the way that certain lines go together, it’s just, wow, it’s startling.”

Establishing the memory play genre, “The Glass Menagerie” is Tennessee Williams’ autobiographical play about a man remembering the suffocating constraints of his youth and the complicated relationship between his mother and disabled sister, both of whom he eventually abandons.

Continuing in that genre, “Well” is Lisa Kron’s autobiographical story about making a memory play and the effects of the difficult relationship with her ill mother both on herself and on the production.

Haj said the play pushes boundaries of traditional theater by exposing the elements of its construction and by integrating the actors’ lives into the screenplay — dth/Jessey dearing for instance, some characters take Erik Karlsson, a barista at Caffé Driade, prepares a coffee drink on Thursday evening. Karlsson recently had his “Swedish Coffee Cake” recipe the actors’ actual names. published in a book titled “Coffee Drinks.” The book, which was published last fall, is aimed at promoting baristas’ knowledge of drink-making.

Rethinking Williams’ play to upend audience members’ expectations, “The Glass Menagerie” director Libby Appel decided to split the narrator role based on age. The younger Tom exists only in memory, few pages and the reader gets the essence while the older Tom, played by Ray and the tools to try them out,” he said.

Dooley, a UNC professor of dramatBaristas move from the regional level to ic art, reflects on his past.

Lena Abed, a former barista at Open Eye national and international competitions

By Whitney Baker “I’m very interested in the qualStaff Writer Café on South Greensboro Street in Carrboro, based on placement in the coffee competiity and impact of memory in our The pressure is on. There are 15 minutes contributed a drink to the book called tions. Fifty-one baristas from different counlife,” Appel said. “The idea of someon the clock and 12 drinks have to be made, the “Kiva Han” that placed second in the tries competed at a 2008 world championone examining their life 30 years including the barista’s own signature drink. Southeast Regional competition. Abed said ship in Copenhagen, Denmark. The winner later and being haunted by those The judges are looking for technique as well it was named “with a little bit of help from was from Ireland. memories could be extremely poias taste. It isn’t enough just to make great Google” after the first shop to serve coffee.

But the events aren’t just about being gnant.” coffee — the barista has to make great cofAbed’s Middle Eastern background influ- better than other baristas, Karlsson said.

Dooley’s speech and costume fee with style. enced her selection of ingredients — mainly They’re about promoting coffee culture. reflect Williams, making a faint Some local baristas, including Erik cinnamon and cardamom.

“I saw the book as a natural extension of reference to the autobiographical Karlsson of Caffé Driade, participate in such “I feel honored to have my recipe in a what we already aim to do in these competielement of the play. But Dooley competitions to highlight their creations. book with everyone else’s,” Abed wrote in an tions,” Conary said in an e-mail. said more important than connectMichael Turback, author of “Coffee Drinks,” e-mail. “When I first made the drink, I had His experience as an organizer and judge ing Tom to Williams is creating a sought out their creations for publication. no idea that other people would ever want in national and international barista comvisual connection between the two His book tells the stories behind baristas’ to make it again.” petitions prompted his involvement as a Toms. signature drinks in addition to helping readScott Conary, co-owner of Caffé Driade, resource to Turback.

“We have moments, extremely ers recreate them.

Open Eye Café and Carrboro Coffee Karlsson’s competitive experience is limsubtle, when we might be standing in Karlsson said his signature drink, a nutty Company, first contacted his employees ited but he said the appeal of being a barista the same position or light a cigarette blend of espresso, almond flavor and car- about having their drinks in the book. is in the opportunity to be creative. at the same time,” he said. “They are damom called “Swedish Coffee Cake,” was “Only some of the best competition sig“It’s about making good drinks for somephysical echoes to suggest the coherinspired by his heritage and his own per- nature drinks were chosen, with an eye to one that hasn’t had one before,” he said. ence between the two worlds.” sonal tastes. The drink was created when he readers being able to replicate them, so the competed in the Southeast Regional Barista months and years that went into the develContact the City Editor Competition in 2005, where it placed sixth. opment of these drinks is condensed into a at citydesk@unc.edu.

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Carrboro police conducted an operation Friday to try and catch people who would buy alcohol for a minor, according to Carrboro police reports.

A confidential underage buyer was used during the operation, according to Carrboro police reports.

The underage buyer approached people outside of retail stores to see if they would buy beer and also stated that they were under 21, reports state.

At the Kangaroo in Carrboro Plaza, one person was approached and agreed to buy beer for the buyer, reports state.

The underage buyer gave the person money and asked for a 12-pack of Bud Light.

According to reports, after buying the beer, the person, later identified as Herman Owens, put the 12-pack on the ground near the Student elections buyer and said, “There you go.”

Owens was cited for giving a person less than 21 years old a malt beverage, reports state.

The confidential buyer also went to the Harris Teeter on North Greensboro Street where 21 subjects were approached, but no one agreed to buy beer for the

By Blake Frieman

By C. Ryan Barber buyer.

Staff writer At the Food Lion in Carrboro Staff Writer Junior John Russell said he has As a fervent participant in Plaza, two people were asked and two passions: sports and business.

Carolina Fever during his first no one said yes to buying beer.

He plans to put those interests to John Russell (above) and Nicholas year, Nick Varunok received tickuse if elected as Carolina Athletic ets to every home basketball game, Varunok are two of three candiOrange County takes best in Association President. dates running for Carolina Athletic including one against Duke.

N.C. for trash reduction rate The business major from Cary, But as a sophomore, Varunok Association President. Courtney often referred to as “JRuss,” is JOHN RUSSELL, cAA PRESIDENT now views the UNC sports fan club nick varunok, CAA president Brown is also running.

Orange County residents have described by his peers as dedicated CANDIDATE as his inspiration to pursue anoth- candidate cut their waste in half. and creative. er prize — the presidency of the Orange County deposited 0.68 the Smith Center.

He has shown exceptional dedi- connections he has made with key Carolina Athletic Association. tons of trash per person in the land- cation and leadership as a director members of the athletic depart“I want to put a lot more work into “By the end of the year, I wanted fill for 2007-08 fiscal year. This is of Carolina Fever, co-chairwoman ment make him the right person to hold a leadership position where the week of Homecoming and make 50 percent less than the county’s Rachel Penny said. But his experi- for the job.

I could spread the passion I felt for it a bigger deal,” said Varunok. “I’d performance in 1991-92.

Current Carolina Athletic ence doesn’t stop there.

UNC athletics,” said Varunok, who like to get the football team together The reduction rate was the best He also holds an internship with Association President Andrew currently serves on the CAA’s sports in the Dean Dome the night before in North Carolina. Statewide, the the UNC Ticket Office and is chief Coonin said creativity is a key attrithe game and make it more of a themarketing committee. average waste increased 16 per- business officer of the Carolina bute for the position, since events If Varunok prevails in the Feb. ater event. Homecoming has gone cent since 1993. such as Homecoming could become Sports Business Club.

10 election, he said he will provide under the radar.”

The county has set a goal of He said his time volunteering for more energetic Homecoming reducing waste by 61 percent in at UNC sporting events and the See russell, Page 8 festivities, including a pep rally in See varunok, Page 8 total. In total, 86,300 tons of landfill waste originated in Orange Oversees the CAA and acts as the student body’s liaison to Appoints chairmen of Carolina Fever and other Tomorrow: profile of CAA president Carolina Athletic Association the athletic department County last fiscal year. committees

Russell hopes to streamline CAA

Varunok driven by love of UNC sports

“Everyone complains, but this is the best basketball system out there.”

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Represents the student body in matters like ticket distribution

“I wanted … to spread the passion I felt for UNC athletics.”

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btin Erfani, a first-year business and philosophy major from Raleigh, walks through the myriad of signs advertising student body president candidates in the Pit on Monday. “I haven’t had time to look at all the platforms,” Erfani said.

“I’m undecided.” The candidates have until Feb. 10 to persuade students to vote their direction. A total of six student body president candidates are vying for votes.

Town technology upgraded

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larly useful for admissions officers, who often need to have statistics like these readily available.

“We have reasonably good data from the current system, and we use those data all the time ­— to take snapshots of the students who’ve applied, been admitted and enrolled and to make predictions about what might happen next week or next month,” said Steve Farmer, director of undergraduate admissions.

“The SDW will help us clean up these data and use them more effectively and efficiently.”

Making the data accessible to admissions is only the first phase of the project and is set to finish between August and October. The dates of implementation for three other phases have not yet been decided.

Project team members have been working to transfer all of the student data from the current database, which makes students’ data available but cannot process

Staff writer

Several offices on campus will be able to crunch data about UNC students into more meaningful numbers in the near future.

Information Technology Services will soon implement the first phase of its new long-term project, the Student Data Warehouse.

The warehouse will contain all student data — including SAT scores, grade point averages and current courses — in one program that will be structured for easy retrieval.

The warehouse also would make it easier to crunch these numbers into averages for large groups of students.

Specifics as to whom the program will be available for and how long the data will be stored have not yet been decided. The committee overseeing the project will address these questions closer to the time of completion.

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The Student Data Warehouse will work through UNC’s enterprise reporting tool, WebFOCUS, to help organize the data. The tool will be able to access data from the warehouse to produce reports, long-term studies and yearly comparisons.

“The relationship between the SDW and WebFOCUS is like yin and yang,” said Jennifer Drake, project manager and applications specialist for ITS. “A warehouse without a business intelligence tool to access the data to produce meaningful information is worthless. A business intelligence tool without accurate and complete data is underutilized.”

At this point, only the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment will have access to the database.

“Without good and reliable data, we can’t make good and fair decisions, and we can’t easily tell whether we’re making progress over time,” Farmer said.

“The admissions phase of the Student Data Warehouse will give us the good and reliable data we need.”

Representatives from a consulting firm told the town council that progress was being made with the town’s technology infrastructure.

Jake Jacobstein, a consultant for RHJ Associates, Inc., and other representatives presented their work on about 50 projects.

One significant project they highlighted in the presentation was equipping the fire department with laptops for field activities.

The fire department received

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Straight, associate pastor at University Presbyterian. “But he listened to them, too.”

Monday’s memorial service was full of what seemed like inside jokes between Giduz and the entire town.

When Tom Giduz stepped up to speak after his brother, he tossed his watch to Bill.

“Nine minutes and 48 seconds,” he said.

Jock Lauterer, a lecturer in the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication who had known Giduz since he was 8, turned to the others in the pews around him.

“They sure are Roland’s sons,” he said.

The council put off any votes on the library expansion because council member Bill Strom, chairman of the Chapel Hill Library expansion project, was absent.

In 2003, Chapel Hill residents approved a $16 million bond to

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kinds of things except for the people that write them.”

Ferem believes bathroom graffiti is a misunderstood art form and encourages people to take a second look at the graffiti.

“If we remove the judgment aspect, we can learn a lot more about ourselves,” Ferem said.

“And I think that’s what might scare people.”

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Roger Stancil, town manager expand the heavily used library, $2 million of which has been spent.

In April 2007, Chapel Hill began looking into alternatives to expanding the existing library, including building a new branch.

The council abandoned this idea after reviewing the anticipated cost of running a separate branch.

They also anticipated complications with planning the branch and increasing costs.

Now, a tightening budget means the town must reexamine their priorities, Stancil wrote in a memorandum to the council.

While there is a pause in action on the library’s expansion, Stancil said he wanted to see if the council wished to continue with the project.

“If you’re interested, we can look into it,” he said.

“If you’re not interested, then we certainly have other things to do.”

Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. to find beauty in the walls of the bathroom. Students are quick to point out their favorite pieces they’ve found around campus.

And some quote graffiti on their Facebook profiles.

“Whether people say it’s creative or not, that’s besides the point,” Ferem said.

“It’s the idea that they’re trying to share something in a way that they find more comfortable.”

Contact the Features Editor at features@unc.edu.

Marcus Kindley, former chairman of the Guilford County Republican Party, said they hope to appeal to young voters for the 2010 election.

“The Republican party kills its young,” he said of past trends in the party. “What we need to do is uplift those people.”

Woodcox said that with the candidates having similar platform points and political beliefs, they are most often chosen based on experience and connections within the party.

He also said party leaders are already organizing for the next election, which he said is the most important thing to have in place before the chaos of the election sets in.

“That’s how you win elections,” he said. “It’s not rocket science.”

Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.

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Chad Adams, a potential candidate and vice president of the Raleigh-based think tank John Locke Foundation, said the party chairman must work full time to get ready for the next election cycle.

“We have to make up time,” he said. “And to do that we have to hit Contact the City Editor the ground running.” at citydesk@unc.edu.

Virginia Gray, a UNC political science professor, said the time difference doesn’t handicap the GOP. “The Republicans are generally considered to be the better organized party in the state,” she said.

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UNC student Lizzy Adkinson called on the Chapel Hill Town Council to adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and create a human rights committee to advise the council.

Adkinson was one of five people who submitted a petition, which called Chapel Hill a “leader among American cities in advancing human rights and human dignity.”

Town council member Mark Kleinschmidt moved to refer the issue to the town’s justice in action committee, which covers local issues of social justice.

If the petition is adopted, the council would appoint a committee to report semiannually on human rights in the town.

a considerable upgrade from the paper books they used before, which Jacobstein described as “slow” and “error-prone.”

T h e d e p a r t m e n t ’s n e w Toughbook laptops are being added to the town’s fire trucks to help with fire inspections and emergency responses.

Firefighters can record inspections for buildings and view past inspections. They can also access an automatically updated map system with the location of fire hydrants on a street map.

While the assessment of the town’s technology needs is a long process, town manager Roger Stancil said he sees progress.

“We’re creating databases, and productivity increases dramatically when databases are in place,” he said.

“It seems like a long time, but we’ve been thoughtful to make connections across departments.”

“It seems like a long time but we’ve been thoughtful to make connections across departments.”

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No play yet for injured Heels Rebounding hurts UNC in losses Heels out-boarded in four of last five

Ginyard, Zeller to be reevaluated soon

By Jesse Baumgartner Senior Writer

After enduring a shooting slump that extended into the early part of ACC play, Wayne Ellington has jump-started UNC’s offense with the rediscovery of his silky smooth stroke during the past two games.

He put up 23 second-half points against Miami by nailing seven straight 3-pointers and then followed that up with 25 against Clemson.

Ellington now has hit 17 of his 29 shots in the past two games, and nine of 17 3-pointers.

UNC coach Roy Williams said he thinks confidence is the main factor.

He said he brought Ellington in for an extra session after the break and taped his shot to look for problems.

“There was nothing wrong with it,” Williams said during his Monday teleconference call. “In fact, during that session he made every shot he took, just about. But some guys go through time periods where the ball doesn’t go in.”

And after two straight nights of filling up the basket, Ellington appears to have his swagger back.

Tar Heel injury updates Williams addressed UNC’s injury situation again on Monday.

Freshman Tyler Zeller has been out since Nov. 18 with a fractured left wrist that he suffered in UNC’s win against Kentucky. And while a return is not impossible, it certainly doesn’t appear likely.

“Of course there’s a chance. But I think it’s awfully stupid, and you know he’s not been released to play yet,” Williams said. “If he comes back and plays one game, he loses a whole year.”

The 7-foot Zeller averaged 10 points and 1.5 rebounds during the two games he played and gave the Tar Heels another option in the frontcourt along with Tyler Hansbrough, Deon Thompson and fellow freshman Ed Davis.

“He hasn’t been released yet and will not be released for at least — don’t hold me to this — three or four more weeks, because he doesn’t get to go back to the doctors until then,” Williams said.

The coach also said senior Marcus dth file/Andrew dye Ginyard, who has had trouble recovering from a stress fracture in his UNC guard Wayne Ellington has found his stroke in his past few left foot, did not practice Sunday.

“We’re going to look at him and games for the Tar Heels, hitting 17 talk to the doctors a little more of 29 shots in the last two games. this week. So there hasn’t been any Williams said. decision made on him.”

The coach also mentioned the debate about which conference is ACC making case for No. 1 the strongest and pointed out the After lambasting Maryland 85-44 depth of the ACC. “There’s some great leagues at home Saturday, Duke was awardaround, but I don’t know that anyed the AP’s No. 1 ranking Monday.

North Carolina and Wake Forest body’s league can be that strong all have also held the top spot in the the way down to whoever is in last AP poll this year, making it only the place at that moment.”

At 5-0, Duke is the only ACC fourth time one league has produced team with an undefeated record in three No. 1’s during the same year.

“I said before the season started, conference play.

I thought this was going to be the Contact the Sports Editor best Duke team since I’ve returned, at sports@unc.edu. and they’re really playing great,”

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Just 10 days ago, the North Carolina women’s basketball team was brimming with confidence.

Rashanda McCants and Italee Lucas chattered excitedly about the impending matchup between their undefeated squad and the country’s top-ranked team, Connecticut.

Fresh off a 103-74 thumping of then-No. 16 Virginia, the Tar Heels had every reason to look forward to the challenge of their upcoming schedule.

But a 1-2 match-up and two ACC games turned into three straight losses, and the Tar Heels found themselves in mid-season freefall.

They’ve fallen from No. 2 to No. 10 in the AP poll in a single week, after losing three in a row for the first time in seven years.

The third defeat was cruelly punctuated with the loss of leading scorer and rebounder Jessica Breland to an ankle sprain in the closing minutes Sunday of a 77-71 defeat at Maryland.

“It’s been a tough nine days, with the games and then with the situation with Kay,” coach Sylvia Hatchell said of her close friend Kay Yow, former coach at N.C. State, who died Saturday.

“But it’s a part of playing at this level, and you just regroup and keep moving on.”

Tw o o f t h e l o s s e s — t h e Maryland match and a 66-62 loss against Georgia Tech — were reasonably close, but the shattering of North Carolina’s undefeated

record is still jarring.

The Tar Heels’ most pressing problem is easy to see. Stretching back to an overtime win against N.C. State on Jan. 11, North Carolina has been outrebounded in four out of its last five games.

The worst was against Connecticut, when the Huskies dominated the glass by a 53-32 margin, including 21 offensive rebounds. In that game, no Tar Heel managed more than six boards.

Curing the rebounding woes will be no simple task, especially if Breland misses games. The junior forward is leading the team with 7.2 rebounds per game this season, just ahead of McCants.

McCants will need to keep up her production while also staying clear of foul trouble. She was sorely missed as she sat on the bench with four fouls against Maryland, and she picked up her fifth soon after re-entering — her third foul-out of the season, which leads the team.

Iman McFarland, who missed two games with an ankle injury and returned Jan. 22 at Georgia Tech, has started most of the year primarily because of her rebounding.

She averages fewer than five points per game but ranks third on the team with 5.3 rebounds per contest.

Hatchell also could turn to Christina Dewitt, a 6-foot-2-inch junior who has performed well in a reserve role at times but saw only four minutes combined in the last two games. Dewitt led the team with nine rebounds against UVa.

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But the bottom line is that no matter who gets playing time, the Tar Heels need better production on the glass up and down the roster.

“We’ve got to play even more physical and tougher,” Hatchell said. “The game at Georgia Tech was extremely physical.

“We’ve got to react to that. We’ve got to play a lot tougher, but we’re learning.”

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Student elections

Court: BOE violated due process

By Andrew Dunn University Editor

The Board of Elections violated student body president candidate Matt Wohlford’s right to due process when it punished him for breaking campaign rules, the Student Supreme Court ruled late Sunday.

The board did not allow Wohlford to present evidence to defend himself against charges of August campaign violations, violating the chapter of the Student Code that details how campaign investigations must be run, the court decided.

Elections board Chairman Ryan Morgan also erred by not formally presenting his investigative findings in a meeting run by the vice chairman, though there were no other members of the board when Morgan said he completed his investigation.

“If there are rules in place, they have to be followed,” said Andrew Pham, who acted as Wohlford’s legal counsel. “Even if they can’t make a fair investigation, they can’t infringe on somebody’s rights.”

The decision ends a three-month

legal battle between two student body president candidates and the Board of Elections.

Wohlford filed suit against the elections board after it issued his campaign a $40 fine Oct. 5 for holding a meeting at the Campus Y and speaking to The Daily Tar Heel.

Candidate Ashley Klein was also fined $40 on the same charges. She filed suit, but pursued her case by challenging the Board of Elections’ right to interpret campaign law.

Her case, heard in November, affirmed the elections board’s ability to interpret elections law but also led to a 70 percent reduction to her fine.

The elections board can still fine Wohlford for last semester’s campaign infractions. But the board will have to start its investigation from the beginning and follow the investigation procedure outlined in the Student Code to the letter.

The board would also have to follow the guidelines set forth in the Supreme Court decision regarding Klein.

In that decision, the court ruled

that private campaigning and public campaigning are not defined by where the events take place, but by how visible those events are.

Private campaigning is forbidden until candidates are officially certified. Klein was certified last week and Wohlford on Monday.

In her case, the court ruled that Klein’s meeting in the Campus Y was private, so Wohlford’s will likely be judged private as well. He is likely to receive the same $12 reduced fine that Klein was handed.

Morgan indicated that he supports the court’s decision and that a new investigation is upcoming.

Board Vice Chairman Val Tenyotkin also picked out some parts of the decision he feels helps the board.

The court ruled that notification of an elections board investigation is adequate even if done by voice mail or Facebook message.

Tenyotkin said the board can also apply new interpretations of the Student Code to events from earlier in the year.

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Russell’s campaign platform is focused on two ideas: increasing communication between the association and the student body and streamlining operations.

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Russell said he plans to send weekly e-mails to students with a summary of upcoming games and reminders about deadlines for ticket lottery sign-ups if elected.

He also wants to promote student surveys because he believes students come up with good ideas to improve athletic department policies, but they often don’t know they can make suggestions.

When it comes to the association’s operations, Russell is for consolidation. He said he would eliminate the five vice chairman positions of the athletic association cabinet.

“I’m all about downsizing the government aspect,” he said, add-

ing that the men’s basketball tickets guaranteed to those vice chairmen would instead go to students.

Russell also would like to improve the atmosphere inside the Smith Center during men’s basketball games.

Despite the changes Russell has envisioned for the athletic association, he feels that the basketball ticket distribution system has never been better.

“Everyone complains, but this is the best basketball ticket system out there,” he said, noting that no student has been denied entry to any game this season after waiting in the stand-by line.

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“It’s a lot of fun to work with Nick,” he said. “He has a very spunky personality and offers a good blend of personal connection and professionalism.”

Varunok said he hopes his leadership abilities will help him overcome what he feels is his most imposing obstacle — his age.

“I’m a sophomore, and the other candidates are juniors, so I have an extra year of not knowing people,” Varunok said. He added that he plans to hurdle that obstacle with a grassroots campaign that familiarizes voters with his name and face.

“He’s one of the younger candidates,” said Josie Butler, chairwoman of the sports marketing committee. “He’s kind of like the Obama of this election.”

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Varunok’s election platform also includes organizing away-game viewing sessions and making University athletic facilities more sustainable.

Varunok added that his election would bring more organization to the CAA, which requires frequent communication with the University, the athletic department and the student body.

Current CAA President Andrew Coonin cited Varunok’s emphasis on structure and organization as crucial to his leadership style.

“Nick is a very organized leader and worker,” said Coonin, who is not permitted to endorse a candidate.

“He’s methodical in thinking and is very structured in his work.”

Varunok also works as a resident adviser in Morrison Residence Hall.

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Orange County’s demand for food stamps on rise More Orange County residents are applying for food stamps in the faltering economy.

Social services staff are managing the caseloads right now, but if the local economy continues to struggle, the number of applications might be less manageable, said Lindsey Shewmaker, a management analyst for the Orange County Department of Social Services.

In November, the Orange County caseload was 3,360 families, up almost 300 households from Nov. 2007, Shewmaker said.

This county trend is similar statewide, where the number of food stamps issued jumped by 9.5 percent. Statewide, about 90,000 more residents received food stamps in November than in June.

In Orange County, the number of residents receiving food stamps rose by about 8.5 percent during that same time period. In November 2008, 7,108 residents of Chapel Hill and surrounding cities received food stamps.

Neighboring Durham County has seen an increase by about 25 percent for applicants for food stamps in just the last six months, said Pinkie Davis-Boyd, program manager for Durham Food and Nutrition Services.

“They’re losing their jobs … the dollar’s just not going as far as it used to go,” Davis-Boyd said.

Because the program is federally funded, staffing the county’s food stamp program with people to process applications is its biggest responsibility, Shewmaker said.

“The scary thing is that we haven’ t seen the end of the impact,” she said. “If this is as bad as it is going to get, we’re clearly managing. But if it continues to get worse, it will be harder going forward.”

County employees must accommodate for the extra demand.

“We just have to do more with

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the same amount of workers and the same amount of resources.

Their caseloads are growing daily,” Davis-Boyd said.

Increased demand for aid is not just isolated to government services in Orange County. Nonprofit organizations in the area have also seen increased need for aid in the past few months, and they said the demand isn’t just because of winter stress.

The Inter-Faith Council for Social Service noticed increasing demand as early as the summer.

“People were already suffering.

People were already seeing hard times,” associate director John Dorward said.

Higher gas and food prices led people to have less money to

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From July to December, the council saw 17 percent more people using the food pantry and 15 percent more people receiving meals from the community kitchen than the same time period in 2007.

Shewmaker said the demand for food stamps will probably keep increasing, further stressing the county’s funds and human resources.

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National and World News Auto emissions Blagojevich impeachment trial has get a second look begun, but Ill. senator denies charges WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — President Barack Obama ordered his administration to reconsider rules by California to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new cars and trucks that had been blocked by the Bush administration.

California’s law would boost fuel-economy standards on new vehicles to roughly 35 miles per gallon by 2016 and to more than 40 miles per gallon by 2020.

Obama also promised to set a new fuel economy standard for 2011 model-year vehicles as the administration works on a more comprehensive rule.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (MCT) —The Ill. Senate opened its historic impeachment trial of an absent Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Monday, the first-ever convening of the legislative tribunal to oust an Illinois chief executive.

Illinois Chief Justice Thomas Fitzgerald noted that neither the governor nor his lawyers filed an appearance or challenged the propriety of the trial. Fitzgerald declared that under Senate rules, the trial shall proceed as if the governor had entered a plea of not guilty.

Blagojevich has said he expects lawmakers to vote to convict him,

490 women join Iraqi police force

Conflicting advice Senate confirms for consumers treasury secretary

BAGHDAD (MCT) — The Ministry of Interior graduated a class of 490 women Monday to join the ranks of Iraq’s police officers. It’s the first fully female class to graduate since the fledgling force was built.

The Ministry of Interior has been widely criticized for relegating women to desk jobs and taking their weapons for their male counterparts.

Some will work in counterterrorism, and others will help at checkpoints on Baghdad’s streets.

Since militants began sending in female suicide bombers, female officers are needed to search women and staff checkpoints.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (MCT) — Economists say that consumers’ new reasoned thinking — emphasizing thrift in the face of tough times — actually will make it harder to return America to prosperity.

“What’s good for the individual may not be good for the economy as a whole right now,” said Craig Hakkio, a special adviser on economic policy to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

When the hamster wheel of American consumerism turns more slowly, the country’s economic engine sputters. Consequently, politicians are looking for ways to keep consumers in the market.

but refused to say Monday in a television interview whether he had described the vacated U.S. Senate seat of Barack Obama as a “golden” profit opportunity for him, as detailed in a federal recording accompanying his arrest.

“I’ve got this thing and it’s (expletive) golden,” Blagojevich is quoted in the transcript, “and I’m just not giving it up for (expletive) nothing. I’m not gonna do it.”

“Whatever the tapes are, they will speak for themselves,” he said on ABC’s “The View.” “I was working to try to make the right decision for the people of Illinois.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed Timothy Geithner as treasury secretary, but only after Republicans expressed deep concern about his tax troubles and some Democrats raised questions about the financialindustry rescue plans he helped craft.

Geithner will formally join the Obama economic team on Tuesday when the House of Representatives will begin to debate the $825 billion economic-stimulus package.

Geithner formerly was the president of the New York Federal Reserve.

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Report details on, off-campus crime Safety tips and resources included

By Sarah Rankin Staff Writer

Students now have access to the first official Community Crime and Safety Update, a resource with safety tips and crime statistics for the University and surrounding area.

The report was released Monday by the student safety and security committee of student government.

The committee represents the student body in evaluating safety concerns and policy and manages a budget of roughly $40,000 a year.

The 14-page guide, compiled mainly by committee chairman Andy Rickelman, was available on student government’s home page as of 9:30 p.m..

“I think it’s a good tool,” said Jeff McCracken, chief of police for the UNC Department of Public Safety.

“It’s just another way for people to become more aware and more involved in safety on campus.”

This first report, which covers the month of December, showed a

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campus administrators to compile the document. It will be updated monthly to include the most recent crime statistics and trends.

This month’s issue contains a section about when to call 911, personal safety tips and a list of both on- and off-campus safety resources.

“We’re definitely hoping it will get people interested,” Rickelman said. “What we’re really trying to do is to get students to take ownership in their own safety.”

The guide will also be e-mailed to UNC parents, who Rickelman expects to make up about half the readership of the document.

“We’re hoping parents will read it and call their kids and say, ‘Hey, did you see this?’”

In addition to the new report, there are other valuable safety resources that many students don’t take advantage of, Rickelman said.

He said students can get money for safety-related projects by submitting proposals to his committee.

decrease in crime compared with the month before, but police attributed that to Winter Break.

The project grew from a component of Student Body President J.J. Raynor’s election platform that called for a monthly off-campus safety report.

The University already publishes a federally mandated campus security report annually, but Raynor noted the need for an accessible, student-targeted safety resource that included off-campus information.

She put Rickelman and his committee in charge of compiling the document, based on police reports from UNC, Chapel Hill and Carrboro.

“The information was there, it just wasn’t very accessible,” Rickelman said. “We are trying to make sure that students understand the information.”

Rickelman and his committee worked closely with police and

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DPS e-mail alert leaves students unsure of threat

Department of Public Safety crime figures for Dec. 2008

Report warns of charismatic man

“More severe” crimes Burglary: 3 Larceny: 22 Auto theft: 2

By ANDREW HARRELL Staff WritER

The Department of Public Safety sent out an unusual e-mail warning message Friday, alerting students to the presence of a “charismatic and convincing” man on campus.

An anonymous caller to DPS said they had been approached by a man near Kenan Stadium who claimed to be recruiting students for research and Bible studies.

Randy Young, spokesman for DPS, said his office decided to send the e-mail because it wanted students to be aware of what it classified as “suspicious activity” as the weekend approached.

“There’s evidence that this person was not simply requesting information,” Young said.

“Generally less severe” crimes Drug: 3 Vandalism: 9 Weapons violations: 1 DWI: 1 Liquor law violation: 2 All other offenses: 117

Other crimes Substance abuse calls not listed above requiring EMS: 2 Hit and run: 6 Pedestrian/bicycle struck: 1 SOURCE: Carolina Student Government Community Crime and Safety Update

He would not say if DPS had a suspect or any other details of the investigation.

Representatives with the Chapel Hill and Duke University police departments said nothing similar has been reported in their jurisdictions.

Junior Amelia Gallo and sophomore Justine Moore read the e-mail but said they were unclear as to why they should be concerned.

Gallo still decided to go out Fr i d ay n i g h t , a l t h o u g h s h e brought a friend.

She said if she was approached by the man, she would “say ‘thank you’ and walk briskly away.”

Moore was surprised by the polite reaction Gallo meant to give.

“Well,” Gallo said, “I don’t know karate.”

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Private lots charge high tow rates

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“Not to my knowledge, no one’s done that at this point,” he said.

Residents who would advocate a restriction on all towing fees in Chapel Hill might meet resistance from tow-truck operators trying to maintain their businesses.

Brooke Barnes, the dispatcher at Barnes Towing Inc., said companies must charge fees high enough to offset the fuel cost of towing vehicles.

George’s Towing and Recovery, which towed Parker’s car, declined to comment.

But owner and operator George S. King said in a 2008 letter to the town council during the debate about the downtown ordinance that he needed to charge higher rates because of rising operating costs and the expense of driving low fuel mileage tow trucks.

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Durham resident Danielle Parker learned the price of parking in a Chapel Hill lot with unrestricted towing rates. It was $200 — this time.

But because residential properties are left out of a town ordinance, the towing company could have charged any amount.

Parker returned to the parking lot of the Phi Mu sorority on Henderson Street after celebrating a friend’s birthday at nearby Boogalou Green Ultra Lounge only to discover her car was gone.

She parked only a few feet away from a downtown commercial parking zone, where towing rates are capped at $100 by town ordinance.

In March 2008, the ordinance

was modified to restrict rates and require prominent, detailed noparking signs in downtown Chapel Hill.

No similar ordinances cover other parts of the town, Chapel Hill Police Attorney Terrie Gale said.

Residential zones, like the Phi Mu lot where Parker parked, have fewer restrictions.

“I’m all for entrepreneurship, but at the same time what is going to prevent him from charging $500 or $1,000 the next time?”

Parker said. “What is unreasonable?”

Lt. Kevin Gunter, Chapel Hill police spokesman, said concerned residents could petition the Chapel Hill Town Council if they wanted expanded coverage of the ordinance considered, but no petitions had been submitted yet.

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N. C. State Law requires that private residences have a 24-by24 inch “no parking” sign at the entrance of each lot if they contract with a towing service.

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Noncommercial entity parking lots, like those of sorority houses, have been questioned as to whether or not the property is obviously marked. parking lot and by both entrances indicating that cars will be towed from their lot.

Parker said she saw clear noparking signs in the lot by the bar and in the adjacent parking lot, so she did not park there. She says she didn’t see any signs near where she

decided to park.

“It wasn’t that we were trying to be defiant. We are not the type of people to just park somewhere just because,” Parker said.

Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.

Bad toilet paper clogs drains Week celebrates Asian cultures Material wadded up when flushed By casey welch Staff Writer

After the University received non-dissolving toilet paper, Campus Maintenance has spent the past month dealing with a lot of crap.

Since the middle of December, a type of toilet paper that had never been used at UNC has clogged up commodes, bathroom pipes and sometimes entire sewer lines in buildings across campus.

“Wherever the toilet paper went down the hole, it stopped up,” said Joseph Emory, plant maintenance superintendent for building services.

Anna Niles, a junior who lives in Joyner Residence Hall, experienced the toilet paper crisis last week when returning to her dorm room one night.

“I was walking in the building, and I saw the boys frantically grabbing whatever paper products they could find to kind of mop (sewage) up and stop it from going into guys’ rooms,” Niles said.

About 15 students worked to control the water and sewage seeping into the first floor hallway, using the toilet paper and paper towels from the bathrooms on all four floors of

the dormitory, Niles said.

“It was apparently shooting out.

I didn’t see it shooting out, I just saw what was in the hallway.”

So far, the toilet paper has caused no major water damage. But building services’ 12 plumbers had to work nonstop for more than a month responding to plumbing problems.

“There were seven or eight a day,” Emory said. “It was from 440 (E. Franklin St.) to the law school — everywhere and everywhere in between. There was no rhyme or reason to it.”

Bill Burston, director of Housekeeping Services, said University staff first recognized there was a major problem about three or four weeks ago when Campus Maintenance realized toilet paper caused the clogging in every case.

UNC has bought its toilet paper from the company Unisource for more than a year.

Burston called UNC’s contractor at Unisource, who discovered that one of the types of toilet paper at the University was made of material from a manufacturer he had never ordered from before.

Emory said this type of material was too tough to be broken down

“It was quilted together, I’d say, like a regular paper towel you’d use at home.” joseph emory, building services when flushed and would come out of pipes in wads as big as a football.

“It was quilted together, I’d say, like a regular paper towel you’d use at home, but not as thick,” he said.

Burston said about two weeks ago, housekeeping collected 1,300 cases of toilet paper with 12 rolls in each case — a total of 15,600 rolls of toilet paper. Unisource is replacing the toilet paper for free.

O n M o n d a y, C a m p u s Maintenance responded to the first stop-up in about a week.

“Evidently somebody had missed a roll,” Emory said.

“Now hopefully we’ve got everything replaced. Bill went the extra two miles and got the distributor out here … and next thing you know they’re out here changing out toilet paper.”

Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.

By Alice Miller Staff writer

The Asian Students Association is working this week to make its members’ cultures seem less foreign to others on campus.

Tae Kwon Do demonstrations, Vietnamese games and calligraphy lessons are a few of the events meant to bring Asian culture into students’ lives for Asian-American Heritage Week.

“It is a week that we have to celebrate the diverse Asian cultures on campus,” said Tammy Chen, Asian Students Association president. “It is definitely nice to be able to teach others about the different cultures.”

Within the Asian Students Association, the cultures represented are diverse.

The Vietnamese Students Association, Korean-American Students Association and Chinese Undergraduate Student Association will participate this week.

UNC’s Asian-American affiliated fraternities and sororities also will be represented in the festivities.

Each group will be in the Pit on different days providing Asian snacks and games along with history and information about each culture.

In honor of the Chinese New Year on Monday, Pallas Tseng, a senior business and economics major, said she enjoyed playing a traditional

chopsticks game.

“This is a great way to expand people’s knowledge about Asian culture,” Tseng said.

Tseng, also a member of the Asian-American affiliated Alpha Kappa Delta Phi sorority, said that she thinks the Asian Students Association does a good job bringing diverse groups together, but there is more that could be done to bring Asian culture to all campus groups.

“It is a step toward eliminating the division,” Tseng said, stressing that the sorority is open to all students, not just those of Asian descent.

“We are always hoping for different types of girls,” Tseng said.

“Some people think they cannot rush because they are not Asian, but it is not just for Asians.”

Leo Chen, a member of Pi Alpha Phi, also hopes for more participation among the different groups on campus.

“We all come together and of course we cannot stretch to every single person, but it is definitely a group effort that makes us a voice on campus,” Leo Chen said.

In addition to teaching students about Asian culture, the heritage week is working to reach others outside the UNC community.

A charity raffle will be held Thursday night to raise money to build a school in China.

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Junior Ying Hua celebrates the Chinese New Year in the Pit on Monday as part of Asian-American Heritage Week. Monday marked the start of the Year of the Ox. “We are trying to do more to promote more unity so we can all congregate and do more philanthropic events,” Leo Chen said. “With student organizations, one definitely lends a hand to the other.”

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Looking for a win The women’s basketball team is looking to regroup after three straight losses. See pg. 5 for story.

Focus on voters The N.C. Republican party wants to utilize technology more in future elections. See pg. 1 for story.

Greater need The number of families using food stamps has increased. See pg. 9 for story.

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More talk needed on hate crime policies

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his fall, UNC-System President Erskine Bowles started the UNC Study Commission to Review Student Codes of Conduct as They Relate to Hate Crimes at the system’s 16 university campuses.

He created it after hateful writings about social justice President Obama COLUMNIST appeared in N.C. State’s Free Expression Tunnel the day after the election.

While the graffiti didn’t amount to a serious threat on Obama’s life, it targeted students at the university with the force of intimidation.

Since then, the commission has rightfully sought to steer away from focusing on that incident, because it is not a trial, but instead a means of trying to prevent future incidents.

The university system needs to adopt a policy to demonstrate its opposition to this kind of speech and the crimes it can encourage.

When hate crimes and speech are tolerated, it sends a message to minority students considering UNC-system schools to think about applying elsewhere.

Because our campus is so interconnected, hate crimes affect all the students and the whole community.

Not having appropriate preventative policies will both limit the opportunities for minority students and decrease the quality of education outside of the classroom for all students.

I don’t remember much about what I learned in my intro psych course, but I do remember clearly my interactions with fellow students. These interactions have shaped me for how I will work and live with others the rest of my life.

Policies at our universities should encourage a diverse student body so that future students will have similar experiences. The results will be more than an open and inviting set of campuses — they will lead to an open and accepting state and country.

So why isn’t there more of a stir on campus about this policy?

Part of the blame goes to the commission for not actively seeking student input. The only open forum that it has held so far was the first Thursday after break at the UNC General Administration building, and this forum was supposed to be for all 16 schools.

However, only two students were able to attend and speak at it.

The commission should hold forums at every campus to generate student input about policies that will shape future students.

Despite the limited number of student voices at the forum, many individuals representing different groups expressed their viewpoints.

Speakers included a UNC employee, an Iranian-born U.S. citizen and a representative of the N.C. Public Service Workers Union, UE Local 150.

The only dissenting voice was a representative from the American Civil Liberties Union, who stressed the difference between hate speech and hate crimes to protect legal free speech rights.

It’s true that a reckless policy could have serious legal flaws.

But Hunter Corn, chairman of the board of directors of advocacy group Equality N.C., correctly noted that hateful speech creates a “call to violence.”

These two views should guide the commission to proceed carefully without abandoning its mission.

A good policy could ensure we remain “the university of the people.”

Wednesday: Caitlyn Greene will provide an international perspective on “Obamamania.”

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Israel is not responsible for the carnage in Middle East

Preserve collective rights Carrboro should not restrict neighborhood decisions

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he Carrboro Board of Aldermen should not pursue a bill that would keep neighborhood associations from prohibiting unsightly features of environmental sustainability.

In its Jan. 23 meeting, the Board of Aldermen listed the bill as part of its 2009 legislative priorities.

Neighborhood associations are vital organizations that allow homeowners collectively to shape the face of their community.

It is unreasonable that the city of Carrboro would undermine the power of such associations by restricting their ability to prohibit certain types of unattractive sustainability features, such as outdoor clotheslines.

While the aldermen should

certainly encourage use of sustainability devices, the board should not overrule neighborhood associations’ decisions.

If members of a community collectively decide these sustainability measures are not worth their unsightliness, then the town should respect the community’s right to adopt a statue embodying that consensus.

Potential homeowners need not live in a community that restricts a sustainable activity in which they desire to partake.

The Board of Aldermen specifically identified solar collectors, clotheslines, rain barrels, and garden fences as examples of “sustainability features” that neighborhood associations might want to restrict.

The N.C. General Assembly

already passed a bill in 2007 allowing homeowners to install solar collectors, while still recognizing neighborhood associations’ right to restrict solar collectors facing public access or common areas.

There is no reason to further impede on the privilege of homeowners to make collective decisions concerning their community’s aesthetic.

The Carrboro Board of Aldermen is wrongfully pursuing legislation that infringes upon the ability of homeowners to make collective decisions about the community in which they live.

It should drop its support for such legislation and trust the communities of Carrboro to choose the right regulations.

Duke Power is acting dirty It’s a ‘major’ pollutant and should be treated as one

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uke Power should not receive an amendment reclassifying its newest coal generator as a “minor” source of pollution, which would result in fewer environmental regulations.

The 800-megawatt generator, which is still under construction at the existing Cliffside Steam Station in the N.C. mountains, is currently classified as a “major” source of pollution by the Federal Clean Air Act and is thus subject to regulation by the N.C. Division of Air Quality.

The proposed amendment would classify the generator as a “minor” source instead. This cannot be allowed to happen.

Duke Power argues in its correspondences with the air quality division that the new generator will produce less than 25 tons of hazardous air

pollutants per year, and thus qualifies as a minor source of pollution that can be regulated by the company rather than the state’s air quality department.

However, for the past three years, Duke Power has consistently estimated that the new generator will produce roughly 217 tons of hazardous air pollutants per year — a figure that is far above the threshold required to be considered a minor source.

But suddenly, in December, Duke Power modified its estimate to less than 25 tons per year — an 88 percent drop that, conveniently, puts Duke Power into the range that qualifies one as a minor pollutant.

The large and sudden disparity between the numbers alone should be enough to make anyone highly skeptical.

In December, federal Judge

Lacy Thornburg ordered Duke Power to pursue the maximum environmental controls possible for the generator, consistent with being labeled a major source of pollution.

If the air quality division accedes to Duke Power’s request for an amendment, however, the ruling could be nullified.

The air quality division must not continue to wallow in its indecision. It does not and should not have to justify itself to Duke Power. Rather it should uphold its duty to protect the residents of North Carolina from hazardous pollution.

Furthermore, Gov. Bev Perdue should publicly comment on the situation, and encourage the division of air quality to make the right decision — Duke Power cannot be allowed to unnecessarily pollute our air.

Nice try, Nifong

The ex-district attorney should not be granted immunity

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ranting former District Attorney Mike Nifong immunity from the civil claims brought against him would degrade the legitimacy of our justice system.

Nifong failed to offer the d e f e n d a n t s i n t h e D u ke lacrosse case a fair trial by withholding DNA evidence from the defense and conducting an inappropriate number of media interviews.

Last week, Nifong filed a motion in federal court claiming that his former role as district attorney grants him absolute immunity from civil claims, including the ones brought against him by the three exonerated Duke lacrosse players.

But as Saint Louis University School of L aw professor Howard M. Wasserman posits, although the law states that Nifong has immunity as a

prosecutor, the former district attorney is only protected from conduct that he performs as an advocate for the state.

According to N.C. State Bar findings, Nifong assumed control over the Duke lacrosse case early on, taking on not only the role of a prosecutor, but the role of a chief investigator, too.

His withholding of DNA evidence from the players’ defense team during that period can be argued to be part of the investigative process rather than the actual prosecution.

In addition, Nifong inappropriately thrust himself into the spotlight. In at least 50 interviews, he aggressively proclaimed that the three players were guilty before they had even been tried.

An attorney attempting to suppress evidence in criminal cases cannot be tolerated.

This might be, and should

be, the first time that a prosecutor has been charged with obstructing justice for failing to turn over materials that may have proven a defendant innocent.

According to Professor Joseph Kennedy, Associate Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law, federal statute states that it is a crime for any person to use the power of government, including the actions of state prosecutors in criminal cases, to “willfully deprive a person of a constitutional right.”

By withholding DNA evidence, Nifong clearly deprived the defendants of their right to due process.

If federal judges fail to hold Nifong accountable for his actions, then there will be fewer deterrents against similar misconduct by overzealous prosecutors like Nifong.

TO THE EDITOR: I am neither Jew nor Muslim. I base my opinions on having lived and worked in Israel, while travelling extensively throughout the Middle East.

While the world is slowly hopping off the anti-Israel bandwagon, die-hard liberals cling to the illusion that Israel is responsible for the carnage in Gaza.

Gaza was the true test for peace, and the Arabs blew it again. Israel did not start the war in Gaza.

The anti-Israel protestors are the biggest stumbling blocks to a comprehensive peace settlement. For the last six years they and the international community remained silent while Hezbollah massed troops, rockets and artillery along the Lebanese border, while Hamas created a network of tunnels used for smuggling weapons and rockets from Egypt into Gaza. This is how Israel is rewarded for withdrawing from Lebanon and Gaza.

Israel — not Britain, Jordan or Turkey — was the first country to give the “Palestinians” their own sovereign country, Gaza. Instead of electing a government built on achieving peace, they elected a government that used its human resources to attack Israel. Hamas, Hezbollah, and Fatah, are the real war criminals: using human shields, collective punishment, and purposely targeting civilians.

These war crimes created the sad carnage in Gaza.

I support Israel 100 percent in its struggle against Islamo-faciscm, and I’m proud that my taxes go towards defending America’s greatest ally and friend.

Rene’ de la Varre Chapel Hill

Obama, politicians have forgotten art of oratory TO THE EDITOR: Friday’s editorial cartoon by Alex Herrington of Jon Stewart prompted me to watch a clip of The Daily Show in which Stewart reluctantly lampoons President Obama’s inaugural address for sounding too similar to George W. Bush.

Clearly, Stewart was not enjoying himself and it seemed as though he was simply going through the motions.

This brought to my attention something that is quite puzzling: Where are the world’s great orators? I’ve heard people call Barack Obama’s address inspiring and uplifting, but the speech itself was simply mundane. Had it been delivered by anyone else, it would have earned nothing but emphatic disinterest.

I do not believe that the speech was anywhere near the rhetorical caliber of those preceding it. It was a series of cliches, the likes of which might be found on motivational posters throughout American thirdgrade classrooms.

Politicians today seem to have started using oratory Mad Libs to write speeches.

Where are the Patrick Henrys, Abraham Lincolns and Winston Churchills of our time? It matters not what political beliefs one holds — oratory is an art and it appears to have been forsaken by today’s professional

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I lament the death of oratory in the modern world and fear it merely ushers in a dreary age of bland institutionalization. I think I’ll go read some William Wordsworth now.

William McLeon Harris Sophomore History, Political Science

Sportsmanship is lacking at UNC basketball games TO THE EDITOR: For several years now, I’ve been concerned about the lack of sportsmanship at UNC basketball games. As a UNC alumnus, I retired in Chapel Hill to proudly attend UNC basketball games, not to be embarrassed by the poor conduct of UNC students.

For example, I am disgusted about the students’ behavior during the introduction of the opposing team’s players at basketball games. The students start cheering, “Let’s go, Tar Heels,” while the opposing players are being introduced. This is poor sportsmanship. The opposing players deserve respect until they prove that they don’t. I can only assume that the students are not aware of the discredit to the University by what they are doing, since they obviously don’t realize it is wrong.

I recognize that sportsmanship standards have changed since I was a student at UNC, but good sportsmanship is a constant that must be maintained throughout the decades, by players and fans, regardless of age.

For the sake of UNC’s reputation as an honorable university, I request that students hold your cheers until the UNC players are being introduced.

I call upon the student leaders to help resolve this issue. You have the power. It’s the right thing to do.

Former Navy Capt. Bob Dilks UNC’ 67 Chapel Hill

In light of poor season, Frasor should play less TO THE EDITOR: Does anyone else question whether Bobby Frasor plays too many minutes? Or ever wonder why the announcers seem to feel Frasor is a “lockdown defender?” I feel I am not alone in my concern.

Let’s look at the statistics.

Frasor gets 14.7 minutes a game, the eighth most on the team. He shoots 31 percent from the field, 26 percent from 3-point range, and 67 percent from the line.

Frasor’s recent inability to make a positive impact on the floor makes me feel Roy Williams should play Frasor less. His skills are supposed to be 3-point shooting and defense, yet I’ve seen him become so hesitant he’s passing up wide open looks.

And for his defense, I have often seen him blow assignments in an effort to steal the ball. I just don’t see this defense everyone praises him for.

Don’t get me wrong, Frasor’s a great guy and extremely likeable but his season slump should result in less playing time as I believe it should with any player who is having a very poor season.

Carson Smith Senior Sociology

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