ÜBUiUM In This Issue... v ~ 4 Page 2 Will military service soon be mandatory? ... Page 8 Greensboro Life Editor Jeremy Ball ranks and compares the Gate City's coffee shops... ■> v.' 1 -' • fc • UO' Page 9 - "• H Lyrical Lines, a new exhibition, opens in Hege Library... Hayes Brings Energy, Focus to Guilford Co. Board of Education Jacob Blom Sports Editor Deena Hayes needed the School Board almost as much as the School Board needed her. Hayes, a 40 year-old CCE student, was elected to the Guil ford County Board of Education in Nov., 2002. She unseated the incumbent board chairman, Calvin Boykin. And with her vic tory, she became the first black woman to serve on the board. At one time, Hayes was ac tive within the NAACP and worked in numerous civil rights organi zations. Working in those orga nizations, where policies and ide ologies are questioned all the time, has helped her to separate an argument from a person. "She has the incredible abil ity to make friends with people See Hayes , page 5 ... Sec. Powell Addresses U.N. Security Council Casey Creel Senior Correspondent On the birthday of Adlai Stevenson, who convincingly deliv ered evidence of Russian nuclear activity in Cuba to the UN Security Council, Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed that same body to argue to the world America's grounds for attacking Iraq. Whether Powell, with his 80- minute speech Wednesday, can quell doubts as victoriously as Stevenson did will be decided in Spa SL ' ~ j ' j'. I 9raH^B 1 Sbl^l h - ~ R -, | , ..„ f ■ v i"^il fH ■BBS ' m . —■■ ■ Deena Hayes, a CCE student at Guilford College, is the first black woman elected to the Guilford County Board of Education. Photo by Emily Celblum the coming weeks. Powell extensively cited newly desensitized evidence of Iraqi arms, such as bulldozed chemical weapons sites, rocket launchers hidden under palm trees, and mobile bioweapon labs on trucks, reported by au dio tapes of intercepted Iraqi conversations and satellite pho tos. He also cited links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, suggesting that Iraq's lethal weap ons could land in the hands of ter rorists, who could then strike the United States or Europe. "Leaving Saddam Hussein in possession of weapons of mass February 7, 2003 Volume 89, Issue 14 destruction for a few more months or years is not an op tion, not in a post-Sept. 11 world," Powell said. See Powell, page 5 ...