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BY Blake Frieman STAFF WRITER
TWO DONE FOR SEASON
In the postgame press conference, coach Roy Williams announced that two Tar Heels will miss the remainder of the 2008-09 season. S e n i o r f o r w a r d Ma r c u s Ginyard will take a medical redshirt for the remainder of the season. Ginyard has struggled to return to the court following a stress fracture in his left foot and played in only three games this season. Sophomore guard Will Graves has been suspended from the team for the remainder of the season for an undisclosed reason, Williams said. Read the full story on pg. 9.
forum of record ATTEND THE DTH FORUM We’re hosting a public forum for students to ask student body president candidates questions. 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5 Union multipurpose room Can’t attend? Too shy to speak? Submit questions in advance at DailyTarHeel.com/sbpforum.
state | page 7 OPEN AND SAY ‘AHH’ A report shows that North Carolina faces a shortage of dentists that might limit access to dental care, especially in rural areas.
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GAME STORY North Carolina buried Maryland under a flurry of 3-pointers Tuesday. Wayne Ellington led the Tar Heels with 34 points.
The next student body president might have the most demanding job of anybody involved in tuition talks. He or she will have to credibly moderate a discussion between students, trustees and administrators, while also striking a balance between the quality of a UNC education and its affordability. As a tuition and fee advisory task force co-chairman, member of the Board of Trustees and representative of the students, the new president will be pulled in all directions while discussing tuition. It is a role in which the student body president has an opportunity to influence major University decisions. But because the final call is in the hands of the UNC system, sometimes all the hard work does not end up paying off. “Every year there is more than just a courtesy nod given to students,” said Shirley Ort, associate provost and director of scholarships and student aid. “They’re very influential, but some trustees and task force members have other jobs to do.” These other jobs include maintaining the quality of a university education and assuring that the
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TUITION
The issues
This week, The Daily Tar Heel is examining the top issues facing the next student body president. Thursday: the environment.
Affordability vs. quality The main discussion of this year’s tuition talks was which tuition hike would both preserve UNC’s good value and increase its academic quality. UNC is consistently ranked as a school with the best quality of education for its price, and that’s important to administrators. But they also want to increase the quality of academics through faculty raises and maintaining support programs.
In-state and out-of-state perspectives The student body president represents the concerns of both resident and nonresident students, which sometimes conflict. Out-of-state students face larger increases and higher costs, but residents argue that their tax dollars justify lower tuition. The president must also be involved in discussing financial aid, merit scholarships and tuition predictability, all of which are important to resident and nonresident students.
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From the candidates
The candidates have several platform points addressing tuition. Here are some of their proposals.
Michael Betts
Ron Bilbao
Thomas Edwards
Make sure the Board of Trustees produce a tuition expense report. Compile tuition data from past years and include it in admissions packets. Ensure that no cuts are made in needbased aid programs.
Create a tuition expense report to explain how tuition increases are distributed across the University. Record all Board of Trustees meetings and post them online at the student government Web site.
Remove increases that are used to fund programs that do not directly benefit students. Revise the tuition cap to allow for more flexibility for nonresident students while preventing resident students from being overcharged.
Jasmin Jones
Ashley Klein
Matt Wohlford
Provide students with a package containing information about tuition, including how state money is allocated and what the proposed increases go toward. Propose cost-efficient plans to keep tuition low.
Make tuition for out-of-state students predictable through new tuition “management systems.” Klein’s platform makes no other reference to tuition or the Board of Trustees.
Try to negotiate a fair cap on out-ofstate tuition increases. Lobby the state legislature to advocate for predictable tuition increases. Demand that the Board of Trustees provide fair warning of tuition hikes.
HUD: No discrimination in Rogers Road By Matt Lynley Assistant City Editor
T h e U. S . D e p a r t m e n t o f Housing and Urban Development has declared that the local government is not discriminating against its black residents. The department rejected a complaint from the Rogers Road community that officials with Carrboro, Chapel Hill, the Orange County government and the Orange Water
and Sewer Authority are discriminating by restricting water and sewage services to the community. Robert Campbell, co-chairman of the Roger-Eubanks Coalition to End Environmental Racism, filed the complaint for members of the community, located about five miles north of the UNC main campus and next to the Orange County Landfill. “If you look at the last 37 years,
DTH ONLINE: Read the response to the complaint from the Rogers Road community.
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Carrboro town lines. As a result, neither town is responsible for supplying sewage and water services to its residents, the investigation concluded. Campbell wrote in the complaint that residents, who currently use mostly well water, were being denied coverage because of their race. The department determined that Carrboro is not in a position
to incorporate the Rogers Road community. And the Town of Chapel Hill said that it would be willing to annex the community if a petition were submitted — no such petition has been submitted yet. Campbell and other activists in the Rogers Road community have claimed for some time that the well
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the basic amenities have been denied from this community — but (Orange County) has allowed development to come all the way around this community,” Campbell said. The neighborhood mostly lies outside of both the Chapel Hill and
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During the past five years, instate tuition has increased by $500 and is set at $3,705. Outof-state tuition has increased by $4,300 and is set at $20,603. Resident tuition increases are capped at 6.5 percent by the UNC-system Board of Governors, but nonresident tuition hikes are not. The cap is up for renewal next year, and some students are calling for extension of a cap to nonresident students.
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Due to a reporting error, Tuesday’s pg. 1 story, “Forums poor indicator of election success,” misstated the percentage of the vote Tom Jensen garnered in the 2005 student body president race. He captured 18 percent of the vote. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error.
Students in Craige Residence Hall find a dead, skinned fox in the shower. The two-foot carcass was sent to a lab to be tested for disease.
tuesday, february 4, 2009
100 acts of kindness celebrate integration By lisa andrukonis Staff Writer
Monique Paylor, a third-grader at Rashkis Elementary School, wrote on paper hands about making her grandfather breakfast, helping her sister pick up toys and her classmate baking cookies. She’s one of Claire Nelson’s third-grade students who wrote 100 acts of kindness on paper hands to celebrate a milestone in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. The district is celebrating the 100th day of its 100th year today with projects based on the number 100. “We’re encouraging folks of all grade levels to take part and … asking folks to put a service aspect on it,” said Stephanie Knott, assistant to the superintendent for community relations. Nelson’s class decided to write their acts on multiculturally colored hands after
learning of segregation in Chapel Hill. The schools integrated in the early 1960s. Harper Lewis, one of Nelson’s students, said doing kind acts encouraged others to be kind. “It’s like the line leaders who set a good example,” Lewis said. Meg Johnson’s second-grade class is also marking acts of kindness at Rashkis. “We go to a teacher and tell them and they write it down,” said Isabel Hudson, a second-grader in Johnson’s class. Johnson’s class watched for acts of kindness and recorded them on a multicolored poster in the classroom. “The whole atmosphere got even more caring,” Johnson said. “We really hope it will even continue after the 100th day.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.
100 YEARS: Chapel Hill High School students donated 100 books in honor of a classmate. PG. 7
Students send ‘thank you’ notes to soldiers
By Steven Norton Staff Writer
On a busy Tuesday afternoon, Glenwood Elementary School students put the finishing touches on letters that will soon travel halfway around the world. In celebration of the 100th day of the school district’s 100th year, Linda Sheer’s second- and third-graders wrote 100 letters to troops in Iraq. Smiles traveled through the room as students finished. Each letter includes a special thank you for the troops, a note about the school’s 100th day, a class picture and a Valentine’s Day sticker wishing a happy holiday. “We say thank you for serving our country and tell them to keep safe,” third-grader KaHeathsha Brittian said. “They’ll like that we thanked them for fighting for our freedom.”
For third-grader Bora Imirgi and his classmates, writing 100 letters seemed daunting, but during the two weeks of work, they were up to the challenge. “It was hard, but it went fast,” he said. The finished letters will be sent to Letters To Soldiers, a Utah-based organization that will distribute them to Army Post Offices in Iraq. Aside from celebrating the school’s 100th day, Sheer said she believes that the project will not only improve students’ writing skills but teach them a little bit about public service. “It gives them an appreciation of others and lets them know that it’s good to do things for other people,” she said. “It’s not all about them.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.
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omcast customers in Tucson can forget Janet Jackson’s wardrobe mishap of 2004. While watching the Super Bowl on Sunday, they were treated to 30 seconds of porn. The interruption came right after the Arizona Cardinals’ Larry Fitzgerald scored on a long touchdown reception in the final minutes of the game. “We are conducing a thorough investigation to determine how this happened,” said Jennifer Khoury, Comcast’s vice president for corporate communications. She said it was too soon to discuss how the incident occurred or how the company’s system was breached. “Our initial investigation suggests this was an isolated malicious act.” NOTED. Potty pyromaniacs are on the loose in San Francisco. Someone has set at least 20 portable toilets up in flames. But investigators have little to go on. “It’s an outrage,” said Scott Johnson, a 57-year-old contractor on the street that’s seen most of the crime. “Kids would be my guess,” he said. The mess is costly and disgusting to clean.
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Time: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Location: Murphey Hall, Room 116 Lecture: Barbara Ransby, associate professor of African American studies and history at the University of Illinois, will deliver the fifth annual African American History Month lecture. Contact LaTissa Davis at (919) 962-9825 for more information. Time: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Location: Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library
Thursday Internship fair: The Gillings School of Public Health will host its annual internship and career fair for the school’s students. More information is available at uncsph.erecruiting. com/stu/cf_details?fhnd=3570. Time: noon to 3 p.m. Location: Michael Hooker Research Center Atrium, Gillings School of Public Health
and indicate the program you will attend. Time: 5:30 p.m to 7 p.m. Location: Hanes Hall, 4th Floor Shakespeare lecture: Harvard University Shakespeare Scholar Stephen Greenblatt will give this semester’s John W. Pope Lecture in Renewing the Western Tradition in the College of Arts and Sciences. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture. Time: 7 p.m. Location: Hanes Art Center auditorium Benefit concert: The Craig Woolard Band will perform a concert to benefit Dance Marathon. The cover charge is $5 for those over 21, and $8 for anyone under 21. Time: 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. Location: Pantana Bob’s, 305 W. Rosemary St.
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Monday night and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, according to police reports. Jennifer Lee Watson, 22, of 408 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., was arrested at her home, reports state, and she was released on a written promise to appear. n At least four incidents of graffiti vandalism were reported Monday at various buildings, according to Chapel Hill police reports. Reports state that a suspect spray painted a signature on the Hargraves Center, the Franklin Street post office, a town building on Millhouse Road, the Bank of America Plaza and a building at 109 E. Franklin St. n Police investigated a break-in Monday at 1616 Old Oxford Road in Chapel Hill, according to Chapel Hill police reports A Wii game system, nunchuck controllers, a laptop computer and
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Ron Bilbao gathers second endorsement Tuesday night Ron Bilbao won the student body president endorsement from the environmental affairs committee of student government Tuesday evening with 12 votes — 46 percent of the total. Bilbao stressed his platform points regarding environmental issues, which include more accessible recycling, creating a sustainability outreach officer within student government and working with Cindy Shea, director of the UNC sustainability office, to connect students and the administration. When asked how he plans to achieve these goals with the University’s impending budget cuts, Bilbao boasted that his environmental plan would cost around $4.33, just for paper expenses. Forum leaders were unsure how to total the votes for endorsement. They tallied two votes: one which included every student present, and one which did not count the voters who were affiliated with one of the campaigns. Bilbao’s 12 total votes were enough to win by three in the first tally, over Thomas Edwards. Bilbao finished five votes ahead of Jasmin Jones in the second tally.
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Athletics looks to cut costs First black dean dies System programs rely on fees, tickets
By tarini parti Staff Writer
Most Division I universities, including UNC, depend on ticket sales and donations to fund some of their athletic scholarships. But as the economy continues to spiral downward, university athletic departments across the state are looking for ways to cut costs. Martina Ballen, senior associate athletic director for business and finance at UNC said that although their finances are expected to stay within their projected annual budget of $61.4 million, they are taking proactive measures to ensure the security of UNC’s athletic programs. “We are not concerned about not meeting these revenue projections, but we are looking at travel costs
and other things so we can keep our costs down,” she said. Travel expenses are being reexamined at most major sports universities statewide, and sports teams are considering everything from going to fewer games to taking fewer athletes to those games, said Chico Caldwell, director of athletics for Winston-Salem State University. Caldwell added that universities with less prestigious athletic programs are generally more dependent on student athletic fees. This means that schools like Winston-Salem State and UNCCharlotte are more vulnerable to economic fluctuation because they both want to expand athletics.
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Athletics fee increase proposals for 2009-10
UNC-Chapel Hill
Proposed increase per student: $10 Revised increase per student: $10 Original revenue from increase: $240,000 Revised revenue from increase: $240,000
UNC-Charlotte
Proposed increase per student: $23 Revised increase per student: $17 Original revenue from increase: $446,336 Revised revenue from increase: $329,902
N.C. State University
Proposed increase per student: $16.50
Revised increase per student: $16.50 Original revenue from increase: $534,082 Revised revenue from increase: $534,082
Winston-Salem State University
Proposed increase per student: $181.30 Revised increase per student: $0 Original revenue from increase: $1,002,829 Revised revenue from increase: $0
Total fees per student UNC-CH: $1,411 UNC-C: $1,475 NCSU: $1,206 WSSU: $1,512
Fever endorses John Russell for CAA president Tuesday Carolina Fever endorsed its current director, John Russell, at a forum for Carolina Athletic Association president candidates Tuesday night. Russell’s platform includes monthly student feedback surveys, weekly sports updates and a new policy to manage unused student tickets. “Carolina Fever is definitely an integral part of athletics here at Carolina,” Russell said. “I’m thrilled to have their support.” Candidates Courtney Brown and Nick Varunok were also present. The forum included introductory speeches by all three candidates and follow-up questions by Fever members. As president, Brown said her passion for and involvement with UNC athletics would be an asset in gaining publicity for the CAA. “I love this University and I love the athletics,” Brown said. “But more importantly, I want everyone else to love this University and these athletics.” Varunok emphasized his desire to make Fever and the CAA work together. “The thing to stress here is Fever collaboration,” he said. “We need to talk about how we can move forward and work together.”
Employee Forum to discuss possible forced unpaid leave The threat of furloughs and the depleted budget is going to be on everyone’s mind at today’s E m p l o y e e Fo r u m m e e t i n g , Chairman Tommy Griffin said. In response to the economic crisis, UNC-system President Erskine Bowles warned that furloughs — unpaid leaves of absence — might be necessary to cut costs. “That can be a devastating thing,” Griffin said. “When you talk about taking two weeks’ pay away from (employees), that can affect whether you make a payment.” Griffin said he has received more than 400 e-mails from employees regarding concerns over budget issues and furloughs. He stressed the need to look at alternative solutions to the problem. He hopes discussion at the forum today will generate ideas. “I know we’re in a bad crisis situation and we need to be doing everything we can, but we should still be looking,” he said. “There’s got to be some way we can get together and meet on this.”
CITY BRIEFS
County offices delayed 2 hours, town salts for snow Orange County government offices will operate on a two-hour delay today due to inclement weather. Offices may be delayed further depending on the weather. Call the county switchboard for further information at 732-8181. Chapel Hill Public Works Committee applied brine to major streets and bus routes and inclined roads near key services Tuesday evening to prevent snow and ice from sticking to the streets. The town uses brine to prevent ice, and rock-salt to melt ice after it has formed. Public works removes snow from major streets, bus routes and hospitals first. For inclement weather updates, check the town Web site www. townofchapelhill.org or call the Town of Chapel Hill at 968-2743 during normal business hours. -From staff and wire reports
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Julie Fishell rehearses her role as Lisa Kron in PlayMakers Repertory Company’s production of Kron’s autobiographical play, “Well.” The Tonynominated Broadway play is a comical and emotional look at mother/daughter relationships. “Well” is rotating with “The Glass Menagerie.”
A PLAY ‘WELL’ DONE
PlayMakers nails this autobiographical play Phillip crook Staff writer
Lisa Kron’s autobiographical play “Well” is billed as a theatrical exploration, but at its heart, this play is a conversation. Beneath the humor, the unfamiliarity of the play’s style and the discomfort evoked by its themes, Kron’s play bares naked before a theater of spectators her difficult relationship with her mother and her own adult insecurities. PlayMakers Repertor y Company’s production of the work is presented as rotating repertory — two plays shown on alternating evenings — with Tennessee Williams’ well-known drama “The Glass Menagerie.” While both pieces grapple with the complexities of illness and mother/daughter relationships, Kron’s play, which opened on Broadway in 2006, belongs to a more modern audience. “Well” is a funny, poignant rebellion against conventional theater that, given time, may well become a genre of its own. Framed as a play within a play, Lisa,
GLASS MENAGERIE: Staff writer Phillip Crook also reviews PlayMakers’ other current production. Pg. 6 the main character, is attempting to write, direct and star in a play about her battle with debilitating allergies, as well as the story of her mother’s fight for racial integration in the 1960s and ’70s. As Lisa tells the audience, the play is supposed to draw parallels between her recovery and her mother’s healing power for a socially divided community. “Well” asks serious questions about American preconceptions of racial tension and the expectation of the sick to somehow become well on their own. What sets the stage for much of the production’s humor, however, is that little goes according to Lisa’s plan. To begin with, Lisa’s mother Ann, portrayed with understated warmth by Brenda Wehle, is unwillingly plopped on stage with her recliner and familiar living room comforts. Ann takes an interest in her daughter’s production, which mounts by the final scenes to Ann shuffling across the stage in her bedroom slippers telling the stories herself. Lisa, played by Julie Fishell, a UNC professor of dramatic art, intertwines likability with a girlish inferiority that bridges the
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adult character with her younger self. At times, she is a mature, artistically eloquent narrator and in other instances a frustrated girl pouting at not getting her way. In this manner, audience members get a more complete snapshot of Lisa in the context of her past and present struggles. Kron’s comedy isn’t humor that merely amuses audiences. Her wit lives and breathes in the actors’ physicality, in a well-timed facial expression and in the acute observations of her script that speak to universal truths about parent/ child relationships. What gives “Well” its power, aside from the quick pace and smart humor, is that audiences will see their own lives in Lisa’s lived experiences. This may not be their story, but at least for an evening this can be their play. Contact the Arts Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu.
Library demand increasing Demand up while funds get tighter Staff Writer
Libraries in Orange County are in a tough spot. Residents looking for bargains are flocking to the free services at the libraries at the same time budgets for programs are tightening. “I hope they use us in this stressful time,” said Chapel Hill Public Library Director Kathleen Thompson. “Free services are useful and we can help.” At the same time, Thompson has had to cut library hours, and faces worn-out books and an overcrowded library. Chapel Hill is the largest public library per resident in the state, with 13 books per capita opposed to the next closest around 10, Thompson said. Usage is also increasing for
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Ron Munk, of High Point, searches the stacks of the Chapel Hill Public Library. Munk frequents the public library on trips to visit his parents.
By elly schofield Assistant university editor
John Turner, a beloved colleague and the first black dean at UNC, died Friday. He was 86. Turner became dean of the School of Social Work in 1981 and was instrumental in transforming it into a nationally recognized institution. “John had a vision for the school,” said Jack Richman, dean of the School of Social Work since 2002. “He really set the tone and hired the faculty and we became a top 10 school of social work.” During his tenure, Turner h i r e d i n t e r n at i o n a l f a c u l ty, started a $5 million fundraising campaign and raised money for the construction of the school’s current home — the Tate-TurnerKuralt Building, which is partially named for him. Rebecca Brigham, director of field education at the school and a s tudent there during Turner’s term, said the John Turner was UNC’s first construction of black dean. He the Tate-TurnerKuralt Building, died Friday at which was comage 86. pleted in 1995, helped make the school visible. “Previously we were scattered all over buildings,” Brigham said. “The new building has made us into a professional academic community.” Even after his retirement in 1992, Turner helped shape the course for the school’s future. “I would mee t with John for lunch every now and then,” Richman said. “He would tell me what he wanted me to do and I would take notes.” Even as a prominent administrator, Turner still had time to be a friend to staff at the school. “Dean Turner was one of those people that wanted to always know you,” said Vanessa Mitchell, a computer support analyst at the school since 1987. “It was nothing for him to come up to your desk and say, ‘How are you today? How are your children?’” He even invited staff over to his house for pool parties. “My children still remember Dr. Turner to this day,” Mitchell said, adding that he encouraged them to learn to swim. As a social worker, Turner remained interested in helping people his entire life. “He was particularly interested in families, children and poverty. The state of African-American families was an interest for him,” Richman said. Brigham added that Turner worked “incredibly hard” to promote social work in the state. “He was very passionate about social work,” she said. “Social work changed under his leadership.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu
County, UNC finalize landfill gas agreement UNC to use gas to power campus
By Matthew McGibney
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Orange County commissioners finalized an agreement with UNC on Tuesday to capture gas from the county landfill and convert it into energy. The $5.5 million project will benefit both the University, which will gain a clean electricity source, and the county, to which UNC will pay a monthly fee for the gas. UNC will fund the entire project. County revenues from the deal will be used to cover the millions of dollars involved in constructing a waste transfer station to replace the county landfill, set to close in 2011. UNC will use electricity generated from the captured gas to power Carolina North, its proposed
research campus. The environmentally friendly energy source will also help offset the environmental footprint of the campus. Some residents are also asking commissioners to use revenues to improve infrastructure in the Rogers-Eubanks Road community, which is next to the landfill. “We have full faith that this is a desirable project,” Assistant County Manager Gwen Harvey said. “It will be beneficial to the community, to the environment and … to UNC’s goal to be carbon neutral.” The deal — more than one year in the making — grants UNC full rights to the landfill’s naturally generated gas. Recent disagreements about the project’s timeline between the county and the University delayed the process. County staff said they are afraid
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Despite the rivalry between the schools, two students at UNC and Duke University banded together to try to change the world with a book. UNC junior Daron Sharps and Duke sophomore Ben Dean have been pushing to get David Bornstein’s “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas” as the summer reading for incoming first-year students at the two universities. The book was not selected at UNC but still is a possibility at Duke, Sharps said. It explains how people can find innovative ways to solve social problems. The two students met at the beginning of the year through SEEDS — Social Entrepreneur and Enterprise Development for Students — a group that works on both campuses. An e-mail was sent to students in the fall semester from the book selection committees at both universities asking for summer reading ideas. “The lightbulb went off,” Sharps said. “If we could get both student bodies at these two wonderful universities to feel that excite3.792x2.0 SpringBreak09.qxd ment and passion for social entre-
The Parker community is taking extra precautions to keep residents safe after two reports of a shower peeper. Two female students reported a person entering bathrooms on the second floor of Teague Residence Hall to take pictures of them in the shower. The last incident was reported Jan. 19. To bols ter sec urity, UNC Department of Public Safety officers will soon begin conducting nightly rounds at Teague. Officers already patrol the entire campus, but DPS spokesman Randy Young said the community is being more closely monitored. “Our patrols have and will continue to be appropriate to the threat,” Young said. The resident adviser staff also will be adding another set of night rounds. But according to the e-mail from the Parker RAs, residents are ultimately responsible for their own safety. The Parker community resident advisers will host a “Meet Your Police Officers” night at 8 p.m. today for its residents. The meet-
preneurship, then think about all the wonderful things that could happen.” Dean said the book is inspirational and powerful, and it motivates students to become the change-makers they can be. “It might inspire people to think about those issues that they didn’t think about before at a time in their life when they are experiencing a lot of personal change,” Sharps said. Shortly after the e-mail, Sharps and Dean began to advocate for “How to Change the World” and even organized an online petition. There were about 100 names on the list after one day, he said. After gathering submissions, the final decision is made by each university’s selection committee, which consist of students, faculty and staff. The book was rejected by UNC, but Todd Adams, associate dean of students at Duke, said the book is one of many still being considered by their committee. Although the book was not selected at UNC, Sharps said they are OK with the decision. “We would have loved to have seen the book selected because it By Katy CHARLES would create a very large group of Staff WRITER At a time when homosexuality people all wanting to think about solving social problems when they was considered an act, not an orientation, plantation owner William are in college,” she said. Alexander Percy battled the stanContact the University Editor dard perceptions of a Southern 1/8/09 12:40 PM Page 1 gentleman. at udesk@unc.edu. Looking at his culture gives a better understanding of Southern histor y, postdoc toral fellow Benjamin Wise said in a lecture Tuesday at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center. The talk was one of the James A. Hutchins lectures, which cover a range of issues encompassing Dancing Day & Night • DJs the culture, life and history of the South. Free Spring Break Model Search “The South is thought of parCalendar (1st 1,000 reservations) ticularly as a place with a certain kind of history, which traditionally includes things like plantations,
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peeper possibilities. “I’m not really afraid,” Donovan said. “Our suite has taken precautions to feel more safe.” Students were asked to lock bathroom doors while showering and to lock suite doors at night. Signs on Teague doors discourage “tailgating,” or letting people follow students into the building. “Our community is only as safe as we make it together,” the e-mail said. Prince said she felt as though peeper incidents had sparked student safety awareness. “We’re all always more aware of the people on our hall now,” Prince said. Young said that anyone who has information or suspicions should call DPS at 962-3951. Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
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civil rights, and so forth,” Wise said. “Generally, homosexuality is left out of Southern history.” Percy, a poet and adoptive father of novelist Walker Percy, was a gay Mississippi plantation owner who lived from 1885 to 1942 and worked against the gender stereotypes of the South through his poetry. His life is the subjec t of Wise’s biography, “Cosmopolitan Southerner: The Life and World of William Alexander Percy.” The book, which Wise has been working on for six years, will soon be published by the UNC Press. With the changing times and recent presidential election, new social and political discussions of homosexuality are taking place, Wise said. He said he believes understanding Percy’s story will aid in
these debates. Wise spoke on the details of Percy’s life, including the struggle between longing and belonging that shaped him as a cosmopolitan Southerner and the modern homosexual identity which formed in his writings. “As I see it, Percy’s main triumph was a fight to understand himself and his world while everything around him seemed to say, ‘Be quiet,’” Wise said. Still, much of Percy’s life remained secret until after his death in 1942. In closing, Wise quoted Percy from his autobiography: “So much must unnecessarily die with us that cries out to be heard.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
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As the economy limits family budgets, the number of students seeking community colleges is on the rise. Students are racing to Durham Technical Community College, which has reported a 9 to 10 percent increase in enrollment since last year. This has enhanced the learning environment, but it has also limited some resources available to students, said officials and professors. “Whenever there are economic issues, people head to community colleges to upgrade their skills,” said Peggy Beach, the senior information and communications specialist for the N.C. Community College System. In May 2008, Durham Tech opened a Hillsborough campus, offering continued education programs and basic skills courses to residents. Yaneta Sanchez-Brown, dean of adult education and basic skills at Durham Tech, said more than ever before, students are “committed to moving forward with education and seem to be more engaged.” She attributes this to the students realizing that during these economic hard times, few employers are hiring applicants with only high school credentials. Beach said enrollment has increased at 49 of the 58 community colleges in North Carolina since last year, indicating that many students are seeking this option because of the current economic recession. The low costs are the most important factors contributing to students’ decisions to pursue education at community colleges, said Durham Tech economics professor Thomas Beveridge Durham Tech offers free business preparation classes for unemployed residents through the continuing education program. Because the recession has led to an increase in admissions applications, it has created a problem with funding an essential staple of learning: paper. Durham Tech has implemented a plan to save money by using less paper. “I have had to use Blackboard more than I usually would,” said Beveridge, adding that he allows students to buy older, cheaper editions of their textbooks. Despite the adjustments he has made to preserve essential resources, Beveridge said he firmly believes in the low costs of tuition. But the economic recession could mean even greater cuts for community colleges, Beach said. For now, Durham Tech is economically stable. “Right now we are able to support our students,” Sanchez-Brown said. “ My b i g ge s t h o p e i s t h at Durham Tech will be able to continue providing this support in the future.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.
Here’s your chance to study at UNC with award-winning writers, directors and producers Graduates of this program have already earned these professional credits: • Student Oscar (most promising young filmmaker) from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences • Writer for the TV hit “Scrubs” • Writers and Producers of three plays at the New York International Fringe Festival • Script sold to major Hollywood producer Students interested in the WRITING FOR THE SCREEN AND STAGE minor must be of junior standing by Fall 2009, have a 2.4 GPA and have taken English 130, Comm. 330 or Drama 231 (any of which can be waived). Students must submit a recommendation from a previous instructor (English 130 or other) and an appropriate writing sample (a short story; screenplay – short or feature length; play – one act or longer; or the first two chapters of a novel). Submissions must include the student’s name, email address, telephone number and PID, and should be emailed to Professor David Sontag (sontag@email.unc.edu) or delivered to the Communication Studies office in 115 Bingham. Students who are invited to participate in the minor will be notified by March 17, 2009.
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Winston-Salem State is in the midst of a five-year transition period from Division II to a Division I. Since 85 percent of its athletic funds come from student fees, an increase in these fees was supposed to enable this transition. “State legislators and the Board of Governors may not allow the university to increase prices because of the economy. It all rests in their hands,” Caldwell said. He also said that ticket sales, which contribute roughly 10 per-
cent of their annual revenue, and fundraising, which makes up the rest, have been slow as well. “We have been seeing fewer paying customers at ballgames and not as many people are buying season tickets,” Caldwell said. He said they won’t know the effect the economy has on their transition schedule until next year. “Whether it hits us depends on whether or not (student) enrollment stays constant,” he said. Gauging the effect that the current economic recession will have on some athletic programs is difficult because they are still planning.
“We are going to go out and see what the market is like before we request additional student fees in 2010 or 2011,” said Darin Spease, UNC-Charlotte’s senior associate athletic director for business affairs. Their football program is expected to begin in 2013. While on pace to meet its annual contributions, he said UNCCharlotte will continue to cut costs. “Because we know donations and ticket sales are volatile, we certainly have prevention plans.”
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Orange County’s Hillsborough Branch, which reflects the whole library system, said Lucinda Munger, the library director for Orange County. Items circulated increased by 10.5 percent from December 2007 to December 2008, she said. Patronage increased by 18.7 percent in the same period, and computer use by visitors increased by 22.6 percent, she said. Contact the State & National In 2003, Chapel Hill residents Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. approved a $16 million bond to expand the heavily used library, $2 million of which has been spent. But the expansion hasn’t occurred because of a tight bond market. Chapel Hill Town Council Member Sally Greene said she is committed to continuing the expansion of the town’s library with caution because of the economic situation. “The planned expanded building provides much-needed space nominee who failed to pay taxes for the library collection,” said heightened the political sensitivGreene, “and a much more welity of the issue and added prescoming space than the current sure on Daschle to step aside. crowded building.” Nancy Killefer, Obama’s As library staff deals with the choice for chief White House increased visits, they will continperformance officer, also stepped ue to prioritize customer service, down today for similar reasons. Munger said. The now-confirmed Treasury “Basically we’re just really doing Secretary Tim Geithner was also as we’ve always done,” she said. a controversial appointment “And that’s helping people out.” because he failed to pay $10,000 Allison Bean, a first year graduin taxes. ate student who recently moved to Geithner paid the back taxes the area, was studying at the library with interest and was confirmed Monday. She said the Chapel Hill last week by a majority vote in the U.S. Senate.
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BAGHDAD (MCT) — The Sunni tribal groups who battled al-Qaida in Iraq in the once-troubled western province of Anbar on Tuesday alleged fraud in Iraq’s provincial elections and threatened violence if they are not proclaimed winners in the voting. The tensions came amid numerous competing claims of victory by a variety of groups as Iraqis await the official results of the Saturday elections. The allegations are casting a shadow over what was otherwise a successful election, seen as evidence of Iraq’s progress.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — Former Sen. Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services on Tuesday, saying his tax problems meant he could not operate “with the full faith of Congress and the American people.” His stepping aside blows a huge hole in President Obama’s plan to push through universal health care reform. While Obama and Senate Democrats had stood by Daschle as recently as Monday, the emergence Tuesday of a third Obama
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — Sen. Barbara Boxer, who heads the senate environmental committee, said Tuesday she would take the first steps to produce legislation to deal with global warming. Boxer, D-Calif., expects to see a global warming bill later this year that includes a provision to make sure that money from the sales of pollution credits under a cap-and-trade plan will go to ensure that people who use electricity in America get money back to make up for higher costs that result from cutting global warming pollution.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ top education official said Tuesday that veterans who hope to attend college next fall should be able to use new increased GI benefits to attend even high-cost private colleges. Officials of independent colleges and universities — under heavy budget pressure from endowment losses and the recession — sounded worried, however. Many said that the VA was moving too slowly for veterans to know how much financial help they would get before they decided which colleges to attend.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — The Senate refused Tuesday to pump an additional $25 billion into road, transit and water projects in its economic stimulus package, as lawmakers struggled to craft a bipartisan plan. Members huddled and voted on pieces of the plan throughout the day, looking for ways either to pare the $884.5 billion bill or get the money out more quickly. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that about 78 percent of the Senate plan would flow into the economy by October 2010.
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the deal would transfer rights to the landfill gas to UNC without guaranteeing a final completion date. UNC officials said they are worried the University would not be able to get permits from local municipalities to build the gascapturing system in the county’s suggested five-year limit. UNC plans to build a 2.2 mile underground pipeline to a facility where the landfill gas can be converted into fuel. That pipeline will require extensive permitting. “We don’t want to make a bunch of investments and all of sudden we can’t get a permit and five years
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“It seems to be doing better than it could be. Though I’m always in favor of more funds when it comes to literacy.” allison bean, unc first-year graduate student, on the chapel hill library library is well funded compared to others she’s seen. “It seems to be doing better than it could be,” she said. “Though I’m always in favor of more funds when it comes to literacy.” The Chapel Hill library system still has areas that could use more money, Thompson said. “In general, the library could use more staff, materials, collections and space,” she said. Munger said the Orange County library system is dealing with the prospect of a decreased budget by examining programs across the board.
She said maintaining core programs such as youth services, outreach, information services and circulation are the system’s priority. At the same time, important programs can be reexamined for efficiency, she said. “A fiscal crisis is a terrible thing to waste,” Munger said. “If there’s a silver lining to this crisis it is that we can go back and take an analytical look at the services that we provide, and make sure we’re doing those well.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.
“We don’t want to make a bunch of investments and all of a sudden … we’re thrown out of a deal.” Carolyn Elfland, associate vice chancellor for campus services comes and boom, we’re thrown out of a deal,” said Carolyn Elfland, associate vice chancellor for campus services. But commissioners said Tuesday that negotiations have gone on long enough. “We’ve lost a year’s worth of revenue,” commissioner Mike Nelson said. “Continuing negotiations for me just isn’t an option.” The county will receive up to
$140,000 annually, with an additional $40,000 annually at most from the sale of renewable energy credits. The county’s planned waste transfer station will cost about $4.7 million. Landfill gas occurs naturally from the decomposition of solid waste. Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.
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UNC outpost to study O∞ces join to encourage ecology of Galapagos sustainable travel abroad By Rachel Coleman Staff writer
UNC is creating a research outpost off the coast of Ecuador to better understand ecological problems in the Galapagos Islands. The outpost, which eventually will include a dormitory, is part of a collaboration between UNC and the University of San Francisco Quito in Ecuador. The center will permit faculty and students to go to the islands and study how tourism is affecting the environment, said Tony Waldrop, vice chancellor for research and economic development. “The three main problems facing the Galapagos are population, health and environment,” said Steve Walsh, a geography professor who has been travelling to the Galapagos for several years. Researchers say most of the problems facing the Galapagos are due to an influx of tourism in the past 30 years. The islands were made famous by Charles Darwin’s study of its native species in 1835. Ecuador’s government has considered restricting tourism to the archi-
pelago because of environmental risks. “As they build hotels and roads to support tourists, the environment changes,” said Amy McCleary, a graduate student who has been to the Galapagos multiple times to conduct research for her dissertation. McCleary said that although many of the locals have negative views on the increased tourism, many have benefitted financially from the growth. “Increasing population brings more crime to the area, but it also allows natives to earn a living,” she said. Walsh and McCleary’s projects have involved studying invasive plants and animals that are taking over areas previously inhabited by native species. “Animals like goats who travel in very large packs are starting to compete with tortoises for the same habitat,” Walsh said, adding that further research will help scientists to figure out why that happens. Blackberries and guava have also been taking over space once inhabited by native plants,
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McCleary said. A group of faculty and students interested in researching the Galapagos meets occasionally to discuss the progress they have made on the island outpost and their plans for the future partnership with the Ecuadorian university. The group also helped initiate a class on the Galapagos that Walsh will teach at UNC this fall, McCleary said. “We also want to collaborate with the Study Abroad Office so that not only graduate students, but all UNC students, can have the opportunity to go there,” McCleary said. McCleary said the great thing about the Galapagos project is that the University is involved. “What’s nice is the whole community has a role in building this outpost,” she said. “Departments like geography, marine sciences, public health and sociology are just a few of the members involved in this diverse, schoolwide project.”
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While studying abroad has the ability to impact students’ lives, students also have the power to negatively impact where they travel — a problem that the University is trying to address. The UNC Sustainability Office, in conjunction with the Study Abroad Office, has created programs that encourage students to travel sustainably and become more environmentally and socially aware of their impact on environments abroad. “Living sustainably is a mindshift,” said Brian Cain of the sustainability office. He stressed that traveling sustainably is not only the best option, but the only genuine way to experience a new country. If students fully immerse themselves in the environments of the countries they visit, Cain said, they take the first natural steps toward traveling sustainably. The University has more than Contact the University Editor 300 study abroad programs in at udesk@unc.edu. more than 70 countries.
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As a staple of American theater, Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” is prone to feeling like a used Cadillac: classic but a little tired. But Director Libby Appel’s production for PlayMakers Repertory Company makes a few custom adjustments that rev up Williams’ memory play and take audiences for an emotional ride. The production is one half of PlayMakers’ rotating repertory, which also presents Lisa Kron’s “Well” on alternating days. Both productions handle similar autobiographical themes of their playwrights and will run until March 1. Narrated by Tom, a Southern working-class guy yearning to be a writer, the play looks back on the factors that led Tom to abandon his overbearing mother and shy, disabled sister. The characters struggle with the complex tensions between past and present, parent and child, dreams and duties and wholeness and disability. Appel’s most notable adjustment is splitting Tom’s role between two
menagerie Playmakers repertory company 2 p.m. saturday actors: the older Tom recounting his past and the young Tom of memory interacting with the other characters. While perhaps a major change to hard-core fans of the work, this subtle alteration heightens the painful collision between Tom’s choices as a young man and his regrets in later life. Played by Ray Dooley, a UNC professor of dramatic art, the older Tom inhabits the scenes like a ghost of the future, fading in and out of the shadows at intervals to address the audience. He ultimately reveals the depth of Tom’s remorse. But by far, the standout performance of the production belongs to Judith-Marie Bergan as Tom’s mother Amanda. The role is a repertoire standard for actresses of a certain age, but Bergan brings a familiarity to the part that is fully her own. Bergan’s Amanda is the kind
Senior Lindsay Eanes came up with the idea for a sustainable travel brochure after returning to UNC from studying abroad in Samoa a year and a half ago. She said her experience abroad opened her eyes to the impact students’ actions, even those as simple as traveling, have on the places they visit. “I never experienced what it means until I went to Samoa,” Eanes said. “Their entire country is dependent on sustainability and sustainable travel.” With the help of the sustainability office, Eanes created UNC’s Sustainable Travel Guide. The guide advocates things like using mass transit while abroad or walking to a destination instead of catching a cab to reduce the ecological impact on a community. The guide also says frequenting local businesses and restaurants instead of franchises while abroad is another way for students to experience the culture and leave a positive impact on the environment. In addition to the guide, the
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of woman everyone in the South has come across, or may even be related to. Chatty, opinionated and constantly referencing the glory of antebellum, Amanda combines a bygone romanticism with the harsh practicality of 1930s economic and
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political hardships. Amanda sweeps across the stage like a commander on the battlefield, mandating where the other characters are to sit and what they are to do, but with a heavy dose of Southern charm. The picture Bergan paints makes it easy to see why Tom feels suffocated by his life and his mother in particular. Williams’ text is what it is, despite the production’s efforts to provide a new perspective. “The Glass Menagerie” is ingrained into the American theatrical psyche, and this classic serves as a platform to display stellar acting, as is the case at PlayMakers. Contact the Arts Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu.
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Judith-Marie Bergan (left) and Marianne Miller rehearse a scene from Tennessee Williams’ revolutionary memory play “The Glass Menagerie.”
University has taken other measures to ensure sustainable travel. In 2007, the study abroad office began its Green Passport program. Since its creation, the program has expanded and is now included in the study abroad programs of other universities across the country. Green Passport is essentially a social network of environmentally conscious students. “The idea is to exchange information all over the world,” said study abroad adviser Rodney Vargas. “Students in Thailand can see what another student is doing to protect the environment and how they are getting involved in the local community.” Vargas added that lifestyle changes at home can ease the transition to sustainable travel. Cain said he thinks students’ intelligence can translate into making the world a more sustainable place. “We have some of the smartest students in the world,” he said. “If we can make them some of the most sustainable too I think we would have an amazing pairing.”
Chancellor Holden Thorp will attend a conference Thursday to discuss ways to spur economic development in central North Carolina. He is among about 50 community leaders who hope to ensure that the region develops economically in the next five years. T he conference attendees will discuss a plan set forth by the Research Triangle Regional Partnership to create more jobs. “We are at war for jobs. It’s a global war,” said Charles Hayes, president and CEO of the Partnership and member of the UNC-system Board of Governors. “There will be winners and losers. We’re trying to do everything we can to be the winners. “We can’t do that without the guidance, leadership and participation of the University.” The Partnership is a group made up of public and private business organizations in 13 counties. The plan they created, called “Staying on Top: Winning the Job Wars of the Future,” helped create jobs throughout the region. At the conference, the leaders will determine what the next step should be once the plan, begun in 2004, ends in March. The plan was designed to create 100,000 new jobs in a 13-county region, which includes Orange County. As of November, 104,000 new jobs had been created, and all 13 counties had grown economically, Hayes said.
The plan has received national accolades, including recognition by the U.S. Department of Commerce as being the best strategic plan for economic growth in the nation. The next generation of the plan will add a focus on green technology and jobs, as well as talent recruitment. As jobs continually travel overseas, Thorp and the University’s involvement will be especially vital, said Adam Klein, vice president for economic development and government relations of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce. “I’ll be there to represent the interests of the University as the region plans for its future growth,” Thorp said. Thorp will join the chancellors of N.C. Central University and N.C. State University on the committee. The addition of Thorp is especially important to represent Chapel Hill, a region dependent on higher education, Klein said. “His expertise in helping faculty launch their ideas and energizing the faculty to be entrepreneurial will be valuable,” he said. Businesses increasingly need an educated force with many skills, Klein added. “We don’t get there by resting on our laurels,” he said. “We have to be pro-active and describe the kind of regional economy we want to have.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
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State’s dentist shortage is dire Uneven dispersion afflicts some areas “There is a large under-served population By LucIE Shelly Staff Writer
Future N.C. residents might have limited access to dental care if the distribution of dentists continues to favor urban over rural areas over the next few years. A 2007 report from the UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research shows that North Carolina is facing a shortage of dentists that might leave the health services industry unable to cope with the state’s population growth. The report says that of 100 counties in N.C., 28 have fewer than 1.5 dentists per 10,000 people. “There is a large under-served population in our state,” said Dr. Annelise Hardin, a Chapel Hill pediatric dentist, emphasizing the importance of dentistry. “There are a lot of long-term consequences without dental care.” Four N.C. counties are completely without a practicing dentist and five currently have dentists older than
65, said Erin Fraher, director of N.C. Health Professions Data System and a collaborator on the report. Fraher said her biggest concern was that the dentist distribution was so uneven. Many dentists in rural areas are nearing retirement age and have no replacement. John Williams, dean of the UNC School of Dentistry, said UNC is already encouraging its graduates to practice in rural areas. “We really concentrate on the under-serviced areas,” he said. Williams cited the Dentistry In Service to Communities program, which places students in areas with fewer dental practitioners, as one of the school’s outreach efforts. But this program, Williams said, only placed students in rural areas for four weeks at a time twice a year. The program brings students to under-served areas in the hope that some might return to those communities. Williams said 80 percent of UNC-
100 books collected in high school book drive By Lisa andrukonis Staff Writer
Chapel Hill High School students quietly donated 100 books to commemorate Karl Humphries, a local seventh-grade student who died from cancer less than two years ago. The collection will be given to Karl’s Books, a group started by Humphries’ mother that provides books for young cancer patients. Students chose the book drive as their service project to celebrate the school district’s 100th day of its 100th year. “Some of the students knew him,” said Kara Watson, the librarian who coordinated the project. “It’s meaningful to them when they think that this is a young person who died from cancer. Especially people who read books, they know how powerful and what kind of comfort a book can be.” Senior Christy Conyers decorated the drop-off bin, made promotional posters and sorted the donated books.
Watson said she was always optimistic that they would collect 100 books. A “mystery bag” containing about 30 books was the first donation, Conyers said. She didn’t know who it was from. But every day she comes to the library and sees more in the collection bin. Watson also said she didn’t notice students dropping off books in the library. “It’s a nice testament that our students aren’t looking for praise for doing something for someone else,” Watson said. The school had already collected 100 books Tuesday. Conyers said she thinks they might even collect up to 200 by the end of today. “Throughout the project I’ve become kind of inspired by it,” Conyers said. “I’m just happy … that people care.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.
in our state. There are a lot of long-term consequences without dental care.” DR. ANNELISE HARDIN, PEDIATRIC DENTIST
system dentistry students practice in state when they graduate. About 80 students graduate from the School of Dentistry per year at UNC. Dr. Alec Parker, the executive director at the N.C. Dental Society, emphasized the importance of increasing dental student enrollment. He touted a plan to increase UNC’s graduates by 20 and increase East Carolina University’s by 50. Parker said he expected the increase to meet the needs of the statewide population. But Adam Searing, director of the N.C. Health Access Council, said that with a growing population of more than 9.2 million, a 70-person increase was not enough. Searing said the coming population boom would create more need
than current programs were providing for. “North Carolina didn’t start out bad in comparison with other states, the other states moved forward,” Searing said. Fraher said the current economic recession might actually encourage trained dentists not currently practicing to return to work. With 33 percent of N.C. dentists trained but not working, this potentially has very beneficial effects, she said. Incoming practitioners decreased from 144 in 2004-05 to 63 in 200607, Fraher said, adding that even if those numbers were greater, uneven distribution might remain.
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“If you look at the last 37 years, the basic amenities have been denied from this community.”
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water in the area is potentially dangerous. But an Orange County Health Department investigation did not dictate a need for public water because the results were similar to other parts of the county, according to a copy of the report. Residents have also said that the county promised water and sewer authorities in exchange for placing a landfill in 1972. The Orange Water and Sewer Authority provides services for Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Ed Holland, planning director for OWASA, said its services are available to anyone willing to pay for them. “It doesn’t make a difference between race, sex, gender … the rules apply to everyone —the property owners that benefit from the extension have to pay for the extension,” Holland said. Providing a sewer system would cost anywhere between $3 and $3.5 million for the community, Holland said. “On top of that, each resident would have to pay about $7,000 for individual connections to the
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Roger campbell, reverend already existing water system and the sewage system,” he said. The department determined that it was the responsibility of the Rogers Road community to petition for expanding coverage of sewage and water services. But the middle class neighborhood would likely have a tough time affording the services. OWASA officials said that they had not received a request to extend sewage coverage. “So, it’s not really discrimination, somebody’s gotta come up with the $3 million-plus to get the pipes out there.” Campbell said that the community would appeal the department’s decision after reviewing its findings.
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value of a UNC degree does not depreciate during an undergraduate’s four years, said John Ellison, a trustee and tuition task force member. Bernadette Gray-Little, executive vice chancellor, provost and co-chairwoman of the task force, said the student body president typically must function as a moderator between different groups. “I think the student body president needs the strength and security to be honest with all of the audiences that he or she deals with,” Gray-Little said, “so that they don’t get caught representing one group in one way and then get caught with another group acting in a different way.” Current President J.J. Raynor said one of the most important jobs of the student body president during tuition talks is to convey the perspective of the students to trustees, who might not immediately realize how hundreds of dollars of increases might burden students. An extra focus is likely to be placed on striking the right balance between affordability and value as long as recession persists. “I think in these times there’s going to be a lot of pressure on dealing with tuition,” trustee Paul Fulton said, noting heavy hits to the endowment and fundraising difficulties. To complicate the president’s role even further, students have a wide variety of opinions when it comes to tuition increases. “UNC is the best deal in the nation,” said first-year Gray Cannon, who also said he is in favor of steady tuition increases to maintain the University’s quality of education. Other students, like senior N.J. Placentra, said significantly increas-
ing tuition is not something he believes the student body president should be voicing to the trustees. The new president will also have the opportunity to evaluate the soonto-expire 6.5 percent cap on in-state tuition increases set in October 2006. Several trustees said they felt the cap would remain in effect, but Raynor pointed out that expanding it to out-of-state students could help with anticipating hikes. “This is the only measure of predictability students have, and it’s only for in-state students. I think it can definitely be a potential talking point,” Raynor said. Chancellor Holden Thorp praised Raynor’s ability to analyze the situation from both the students’ and University’s points of view this year — a useful tactic in order to be influential in discussions. Developing individual relationships with trustees will also be critical to cultivating clout, Ellison said. Both Thorp and Ellison said Raynor’s work throughout tuition talks, which they described as professional and thoughtful, was instrumental in lowering the increases proposed by the board. “The whole thing was a far more credible conversation since there was no instant negative reaction like we’ve often had in the past,” Thorp said. “I think it’s a smart strategy.” Raynor said that from her experience, the greatest way to influence the trustees is to be genuine. “It’s very easy to go in there and make token speeches and get nowhere,” she said. “It all comes down to what types of relationships you can develop and the reasonableness you can convey.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
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Sharp shooting gives Ginyard sidelined for season Heels edge over Terps By Rachel Ullrich Sports Editor
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The first time anyone suggested a medical redshirt season to Marcus Ginyard, he didn’t even consider it an option. “My father mentioned it to me,” Ginyard said in a press conference after Tuesday’s game against Maryland. “He came into my room one night (during Winter Break) and ... he said, ‘Well, have you thought about taking another year?’ “And I looked at him, and I was almost kind of pissed off at him. I said no. That was never something that I thought.” Though at the time he denied it as a possibility, it became a reality Tuesday, when coach Roy Williams announced he will not play for the rest of the year and will seek a medical redshirt to return next season. “It’s just not what’s best for the young man,” Williams said of playing Ginyard again this season. “I don’t care how you put it, that’s the biggest factor — he still has pain. And that’s the bottom line.” Ginyard, who played in only three games this season, is a huge loss — both in terms of defense and leadership — for the Tar Heels. He has not returned to form since suffering a stress fracture in his left foot and having foot surgery in October. Adding fuel to the fire is the announcement that Williams suspended Will Graves for the season as
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North Carolina scored on fast breaks. They scored ugly and pretty, after made and missed baskets, on layups, lots of dunks and a seemingly endless amount of 3-pointers. In a game that took offensive efficiency to a whole new level, the Tar Heels stepped on the throttle from the opening tip and played enough defense to comfortably rout Maryland for a 108-91 win Tuesday at the Smith Center. The Tar Heels continue to peak as they head into next week’s showdown against archrival Duke. “It was a heck of a show. I’ve said a lot of times this year I think we can really shoot the ball. We shot the dickens out of it tonight,” coach Roy Williams said. “I don’t like giving up 91 points to say the least … and yet it’s an ACC win, and you oughta be dadgum happy about that. That’s the bottom line.” Thanks to early outside shooting and some points off turnovers, the Tar Heels built up a double-digit lead only 6:34 into the game. The margin eventually ballooned to 21 points thanks to a long-range missile attack from Wayne Ellington, Danny Green and Ty Lawson. The three went for a combined 11-for-14 from behind the arc in the first half, and Ellington shot 7-for-8 from the field while scoring 21 points before the intermission. He finished with a season-high 34 points. “To their credit, they made them — but they had a lot of open looks,” said Maryland coach Gary Williams, who highlighted Ellington as perhaps the most improved player on UNC’s roster. “It’s a combination usually of us not covering and them making the shots.” The outside shooting also gave Tyler Hansbrough room to work down low, and the senior forward slammed home several dunks. After taking an intentional foul in the first-half, he used a classic bull-rush to get to the basket for a layup. He would finish with 24 in the game, which took him from 5th to 2nd place in career ACC scoring. Hansbrough also set the UNC record for double-figure games (119) and the ACC record for 20-point games (71). Although UNC allowed Maryland to climb back a bit, it entered the locker room with a 60-44 advantage thanks to double-figure scoring from four of its five starters. The second half was nothing less than an extended offensive clinic by the Tar Heels. Building on his early production, Ellington hit three more 3-pointers (seven for the game) and even showed tenac-
he “did not maintain the standards” expected of a UNC player. Williams said he debated suspending Graves before the N.C. State game (in which Graves did not play) but finally made the decision before Tuesday’s game. The coach said as of right now he and Graves are “100 percent” certain Graves will return next year. Ginyard still has a metal screw (a “really big one,” he adds) in his left ankle from the surgery and still feels pain while in lateral movements, a huge component of defensive play. But the hardest part isn’t sitting on the sidelines as this team seeks a national title — he’s been doing that all year, and he’ll continue to be “the biggest cheerleader in the world.” The hardest part is that now he is not even on the court to help them practice, to improve himself. Ginyard’s teammates, who knew of the decision before Tuesday’s game, repeatedly emphasized the need for other players to step up. “It’s just adjustments, really,” said senior Danny Green, who has started every game this year in Ginyard’s place. “Everybody just has to raise their game another level.” The losses of Ginyard and Graves leave UNC with a nine-man rotation, a fact Williams could not ignore. “We’ve lost three of our top nine guys now. The depth is not there.” But both Ginyard and Graves say they will remain very much a part of
By Justin Wilcox Staff writer
A guitarist and painter, Lumbee artist Willie French Lower y expresses his Native American heritage both audibly and visually in an abstract way. He will express that creativity at 4 p.m. today at the Love House on East Franklin Street — where 28 pieces of his art will be displayed dth/andrew dye until the end of March. Wayne Ellington scalded the Maryland defense with 12-for-15 shooting. “It’s not all what you put on a The junior finished with 34 points, just two short of his career high. piece of paper, it’s about feeling free to do so,” Lowery said. His artistic expressions on canvas started after he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease about two years ago. Lowery will perform on his guitar at 5:15 p.m., then take questions about his art exhibition. Roy williams, head coach “He’s been a lifelong creative perity down low in collecting seven you’re focused and you’re into son who, when faced with a chaloffensive rebounds (nine total). the game mentally, you should be lenge, is still able to play music,” “As soon as I saw a couple go in, able to play both ends of the floor,” I feel like all of them are going in,” Green said. “So tonight we did a Ellington said. great job offensively, but at the UNC seemingly scored at will, defensive floor, we didn’t really do and by the time Mike Copeland as well as we wanted to.” deposited a layup and Hansbrough But with UNC scoring at a rate of hit a 3-pointer to give UNC a 94-71 nearly three points a minute, it took lead with 7:23 left, the Terrapins only a competent level of defense to had to feel as though it just wasn’t turn Tuesday into a slaughter. Level: 1 2 3 4 their night. “You know we’re pretty gifted,” North Carolina ended the game Williams said. “And when you shoot shooting 16-for-25 from downtown the ball in the hole, when we share – the Tar Heels made 11 in the first the basketball, it is hard to stop.” 20 minutes, which tied a schoolrecord for 3’s in a half. Contact the Sports Editor The only gripe with the Tar Heels at sports@unc.edu. was a sometimes porous defense — allowing the Terps to shoot 48 percent and garner 91 points — and Williams was visibly upset after one easy fast-break alley-oop in the first half. “It shouldn’t be that hard. If
“I’ve said a lot of times this year I think we can really shoot the ball. We shot the dickens out of it tonight.”
said Nancy Schoonmaker, coordinator of programs and special events for the Center for the Study of the American South, which is hosting the exhibit. “I feel like his work is an authentic expression of his life as a Lumbee,” his wife Malinda Lowery said. “His music is one way to look at that, but his art has mythic qualities.” Lowery does not name his pieces, but instead writes poems about the emotions that inspired each of his works. Some of his paintings were born from the songs he sings. “When I get up on stage, I have not a clue as to what I’m going to do,” Lowery said. “It just comes to me, just like my painting. If it ain’t natural, I can’t do it — or I don’t want to do it, I should say.” One of his favorite pieces shows swirling colors and shapes that
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hide frogs and rabbits among flowers and deep green foliage. He said he takes pride in the way he blends colors to create the shape and definition of the subject matter, noting that his lines are created by the passing combining colors and not by straight, solid brushstrokes. Some of his pieces are composed of darker, fuller colors that he melds together. Some paintings depict night and others show the bottom of an enigmatic ocean. Lowery reflected on the inspiration for these more abstract pieces. “Where did it come from? I’ll sit up at night and I’ll do a painting, and it almost came to life in front of me, and tears came to my eyes, and I don’t know why.”
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this team. For Ginyard, to have the decision made is a bit of a relief. “Now I can just focus on … getting ready to get back on the court and start practicing again — really finish this year off the way we originally wanted to,” he said. “The only difference will be that I won’t be in the game.”
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Conflict in Gaza nets multiple identities
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he conflict in Gaza continues to flit in and out of American headlines, and as time goes by most Americans are likely to focus on other issues in the news. But rocket fire continues to fly back and forth despite the recent truce, and for PalestinianAmericans, the conflict remains identity COLUMNIST in the spotlight. UNC sophomore Yasmeen Zamamiri was born in Greensboro but raised culturally, she says, “as a Palestinian.” Her family left Jerusalem in 1948 after the creation of Israel, and relocated to Kuwait and Jordan before her parents moved to the United States for college. Although Zamamiri has visited Jordan several times, she has never once set foot in the land of her ancestors. But she feels “more for this land then anywhere else,” and she says her Palestinian identity and culture is what defines her. In contrast, sophomore Furat Sawafta is more focused reconciling her American and Palestinian identities. Born to Palestinian immigrant parents in Indiana, she spent the first year of her life living with her grandparents in the West Bank before moving back to the United States and has gone back to visit her homeland several times. “Being Palestinian-American is my median between two extremes,” she says. “When I visit Palestine, I feel American. When I’m in America, I feel Palestinian. You could say I’m never quite at home, but I’d like to think I have two homes.” Zamamiri and Sawafta’s stories are, of course, only two of many Palestinian-American narratives. “There is no one Palestinian identity,” Zamamiri says, explaining that every Palestinian has a different opinion of the conflict. Zamamiri also makes sure I understand that although she has strong feelings for her homeland, she still wants a peaceful resolution of the conflict above all. “Just because I am Palestinian, doesn’t mean I hate the Jews,” she says. Last summer, she participated Abraham’s Vision, a program for young Jews, Muslims, Israelis and Palestinians to explore “group and individual identities through experiential and political education” in the Balkans. It helped her understand Israeli and Jewish perspectives and become more politically active; promoting “politics with a peaceful mind.” But the latest Gaza conflict, which erupted Dec. 27, has been anything but peaceful. Both Sawafta and Zamamiri have been active in Gaza awareness campaigns on campus and in the community and hope that these efforts will promote more understanding of the Palestinian perspective on the conflict. But it shouldn’t take a conflict bordering on humanitarian crisis for Americans to forge sympathetic bonds with Palestinian-Americans. Sawafta emphasizes the need for Americans to remain aware of the situation as it endures. Whether or not mainstream America remains interested in the Palestinian perspective, there will always be some Americans for whom Palestinian heritage is a core part of their identity, no matter where they were born. “I’ve had people question me for my identity, my ideals, even my religion,” Sawafta says. “But I have never felt that they have overcome me or placed me in a vulnerable state. I am extremely proud of my identity.”
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n these tough economic times, we all need to reexamine our financial priorities. This means thinking twice about how much we spend, save and — perhaps equally importantly — give. A December 2008 report from the N.C. Department of the Secretary of State indicated that charities in the state received almost $26 million less in the 2007-08 fiscal year than in the preceding year. In today’s financial climate, it’s no surprise that people are giving less to charity. But individuals can still have a significant impact, even in small amounts. Especially when we act collectively, it is possible to achieve considerable results. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign received 49 percent
of its contributions — a total of more than $225 million — in quantities of $200 or less. On a smaller scale, even the “poor, starving students” at this University can make a difference. Consider this: if the entire undergraduate population at UNC-Chapel Hill pitched in $5, we could raise almost $100,000. As students, we should develope good financial and philanthropic habits that will serve us well beyond graduation. We might not be able to give as much money now, but we can at least familiarize ourselves with the process of giving, such as by choosing our favorite causes. For instance, students can start by thinking either local-
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ly or globally. We can decide whether to help victims in Gaza or combat homelessness in Orange County. There are plenty of opportunities at the University and in the Chapel Hill community to volunteer our time and money. And every contribution counts, no matter how small. Living through the current financial crisis as college students will inevitably shape our attitudes toward our personal financial policies in the years and decades to come. But let’s not go down in history as the stingiest generation.
Kudos to Chamber Chamber giving health care discounts to members
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he Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce deserves praise for providing discounted health care to its members. In a pilot program, the chamber is extending health care to some of its members who can’t afford it. The option is for uninsured employees and families of chamber member businesses. It is no secret that the United States’ health care system is in disarray. The current economic climate has only exacerbated the difficulty that businesses and families face in obtaining affordable coverage. The Chapel-Hill Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, which works to advance the interests of its member businesses, is
the first commerce chamber in North Carolina to offer any health care plan. But it other states it’s more common for chambers to offer similar health care options to their members. The chamber’s plan, provided in partnership with Carrboro-based Piedmont Health Services, utilizes flatrate fees for general practitioner visits, lab results and prescriptions. Piedmont Health states that families covered by its plan will pay only a third as much for a visit to a primary care physician as they would have without insurance. The University also deserves some of the credit for the formation of this program.
Piedmont Health sought assistance from students at the Kenan-Flagler Business School. Their advice helped determine who the program should target. If successful, the program would be a relief not only for employees, but for businesses themselves. Many small businesses are struggling to stay afloat, much less provide a viable health care plan to their employees. We hope that the chamber-provided health care will remain a cost-effective and viable option for employees well into the future, and that this pilot program can be extended to other chambers of commerce across the state.
Tax gas, not miles A mileage tax wouldn’t promote fuel-e∞cient cars or generate revenue for the state
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orth Carolina needs to work harder to explore feasible, noninvasive ways to generate transportation revenues and reduce vehicle exhaust emissions. But there’s a right way and a wrong way to tackle budgetary shortfalls and air pollution. In a recent interview with WRAL, N.C. Secretary of Transportation Gene Conti proposed adding a mileage tax as a solution for generating highway funds. An increased gas tax would be a much more realistic and effective approach. Tracking and enforcing a mileage tax is problematic for several reasons. Installing GPS tracking devices in vehicles and charging drivers by the mile discourage individuals from driving fuelefficient cars. The University of Iowa is studying the affectability of satellite technology that would allow the state government to tax citi-
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zens per mile with varying rates depending on when and where they drive. The Triangle is one of the six regions in which the technology is being tested. A tracking system might sound innovative, but it is not the right solution for generating transportation revenues in this state because of the high input cost. A gas tax generates revenue and costs nothing to implement. A mileage tax would work better to reduce congestion in densely populated metropolitan areas than it would in area as
large and thinly populated as Research Triangle Park. And, implementing it here would most likely cost an exorbitant amount of taxpayer dollars to implement. In addition, a system that tags vehicles and tracks people’s locations causes privacy concerns for drivers. For example, such information can be used against individuals in court. What if your spouse used your travel records against you in divorce court? The potential problems associated with a GPS tracking system far outweigh the solutions that such a system would provide. Conti told WRAL that revenues from the current gas tax level do not cover the Department of Transportation’s current budget. But increasing the tax in the future would help to fill that gap. Unlike enacting a mileage tax, increasing the gas tax would cost the state little to implement, would encourage drivers to purchase more fuel-efficient vehicles and would not invade privacy.
Thorp’s column, agenda is marginalizing protesters
Ticket standby line has had 100 percent success rate
TO THE EDITOR: Monday’s opinion piece from Chancellor Thorp (“Sit-ins must end at 5 p.m., Feb. 2) represents another level of the democratization of protest and direct action which has been slowly destroying those ideals over the last thirty years. The idea that “we need guidelines to defend free speech and the right to protest,” which do nothing more than limit free speech and the right to protest, is absurd. Thorp goes on to claim that the new policy “doesn’t change a group’s ability to protest or get its message out to the larger campus community and beyond,” though the method by which a message is produced has a direct effect on the dissemination of that message. Protest cannot be effective unless it is also disruptive. Later, Thorp states that a “key” for him reaching this decision was the officers on duty at night and during the weekend to “assure the safety of the protesters,” but from whom? The presence of the Department of Public Safety guards was to ensure that no additional protesters would be allowed into the buildings after 5 p.m. To the last point that Thorp made, which was that another factor in making this decision was to keep students going to class: How does restricting sit-in hours to those in which most classes occur solve this dilemma at all? This is merely another poorly-formed excuse to restrict the expression of those whom the University has been attempting to marginalize for decades as well as demonize them.
TO THE EDITOR: Since the inception of the standby line with the transition to the new basketball ticket phase system, the Carolina Athletic Association has repeatedly attempted to raise awareness about the stand-by line and its 100 percent success rate thus far. With an alarming number of student tickets unused per game, that means that there is an alarming number of open seats each game. Everyone who has ever visited the stand-by line one hour before the game has gotten in, including the Duke game last year. The CAA created the standby line for die-hard fans that did not receive tickets in the lottery. Yet, attendance to the stand-by line has been minimal at best. Let’s prove that UNC fans are not apathetic. Let’s fill up the Dean Dome by using the standby line.
Keith Hodson Senior Philosophy, Social and Economic Justice
Free, self-defense classes already exist on campus TO THE EDITOR: In light of Monday’s article (“Setting the course for campus safety,” Feb. 2) on the student body president candidates’ stance on campus safety, Project Dinah, the University’s women’s safety and empowerment group, would like to make students aware of the self-defense classes already available on campus. These free lessons are offered several times a semester and provide an opportunity for people of all genders to come and learn the important skills that enable protection against physical assault. They are open to all students, and it is our hope that many people will take advantage of the upcoming spring semester classes. While the candidates are well-meaning in their articulation of the desire for more self-defense programs, they seem uninformed in that they do not acknowledge the extent of the programs that currently do exist at the University. For more information about upcoming classes, comments, or questions, please e-mail projectdinah@unc.edu. Caroline Fish Sophomore Member of Project Dinah
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Michael Phelps cartoon published in poor taste TO THE EDITOR: The cartoon of Michael Phelps drawn by Alex Lee that appeared in the DTH Feb. 3 depicted him as a stoner brandishing his “munchies” was disrespectful and in extremely bad taste. Phelps has dedicated his life to mastering his sport, which he has done better than anyone in the history of athletics. How is it that the same man who made millions of Americans tune in to a sport that is rarely celebrated, gave us tears of joy and the strongest sense of patriotism since the months following 9/11 is now being slammed as irresponsible? The fact is that Phelps is one of the millions of Americans who have smoked marijuana. Peter Helvie Sophomore Biology
Recent Obama cartoon appears to be unoriginal TO THE EDITOR: Alex Lee’s cartoon, published Jan. 27, a portrayal of what President Obama’s mailbox might look like, could have been quite funny had it not been almost identical to a graphical essay by humorist Evan Eisenberg of Time Magazine, called “God’s Inbox.” I suggest everyone see it by doing a Google Image Search of “God’s Inbox” and judge for themselves. I will not rule out the possibility that these two cartoonists independently thought of the same idea, but student creations at the University have been accused of plagiarism for far less. It’s just a cartoon, but I do feel that this unoriginality should be noted in the public record. Jahan Mohiuddin Junior Environmental Health department and phone number. ➤ Edit: The DTH edits for space, clarity, accuracy and vulgarity. Limit letters to 250 words.
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