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VOLUME 113, ISSUE 65 HOW TO HELP LOOKING FOR DIRECTION EVACUEES SAY SHELTER MEANS MORE THAN A ROOF 8Y ERIC JOHNSON ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR BATON ROUGE, La.- After 11 days with thousands of room mates, Ashley Smith was fed up. “I can’t be here. I just can’t,” she said Friday, standing outside the River Center in downtown Baton Rouge. “I’m just trying to get out of here.” But with nowhere else to go, Smith actually was trying to get back in. The massive Red Cross shelter has been home or the closest thing to it since Smith and her family evacuated New Orleans just ahead of Hurricane Katrina. After using one of the makeshift showers set up on the street out side, Smith was waiting in line to get back into the convention cen ter. Because of security concerns, anyone who ventures outside during the day, even for a quick shower, has to reenter through a single checkpoint. “You get yourself a show er?” asked a smiling National Guardsman, stationed near the metal detector. “Yeah,” Smith sighed, lifting her hand to her forehead. 'Lost for directions' Inside the convention center, toward the end of row E, is where Smith’s family has made camp. “This is how we living in here,” she said. With a neat collection of cots arrayed to form a kind of minia ture floor plan, she has been wait ing here along with her mother, daughter, husband, grandfather, great-grandmother, her aunt and a family friend to find out what comes next. It’s a question no one seems prepared to answer. “This is something no one ever imagined to experience,” said Rhonda Smith, Ashley’s mother. “This ain’t a home for nobody.” But finding more permanent homes for the family —and tens of thousands like them is an Campus remembers 9/11 DTH/RICKY LEUNG Small flags line the grass at Polk Place, spelling “Never Forget." Senior Andrew Hogan walks around Sunday, fixing flags overturned by the wind. Students cap off reopening BY JOHN COGGIN SENIOR WRITER On the final day of Memorial Hall’s gala opening weekend, stu dents and the University commu nity poured into a renovated venue for a free day of entertainment called “Carolina Performs.” The daylong event showcased an array of University students performing everything from ball room dancing to hip hop. online I dailytarheel.com HAIL TO THE QUEEN Campus mourns Anne Queen, former Campus Y director SMOKIN' HOT Franklin Street business reopens as restaurant and hookah bar I LOVE THE '9os WXYC holds annual fundraiser in new, larger venue Friday Serving the students and the University community since 1893 ®ljr latly (Far llrrl The Red Cross seeks volunteers and donations E-mail occhapnc@intrex.net for more info. unparalleled challenge in modem American history. Most who left New Orleans couldn’t have known they were fac ing indefinite exile from the city. “We just had maybe a couple of changes of clothes, and that was about it,” Rhonda said. Officials still have no idea how long it will be before anyone can return to New Orleans, or what the city will look like when the recovery effort is complete. With no firm answers, Ashley and her family have been left in a kind of strange limbo, unsure of where they should be looking to start anew. “We (are) like them,” Rhonda said, speaking about state and fed eral agencies dealing with the cri sis. “Lost for directions. We don’t have a clue.” For now, there is no compre hensive plan for the thousands at the River Center. Announcements occasionally blare through the loud speaker for buses going to Texas or to Shreveport, La., where other groups of evacuees are gathered. “I ain’t heard nothing about people that want to go to Hawaii,” joked Darrell Santa Cruz, Rhonda’s father. But as the Red Cross and other agencies continue to grapple with the sheer scale of the evacuee pop ulation in Baton Rouge, resettle ment isn’t yet a priority. “Right now, the main way people are getting out is through churches, volunteers and family members,” said Jeff Walker, a spokesman for the Red Cross in Baton Rouge. “Food and shelter is what we do.” Rhonda’s sister, Debra, said there were rumors that evacuees were receiving more monetary assistance in Texas. But she wasn’t planning to board one of the buses. “I don’t think it’s true,” she said. “Anyhow, what you gonna do to survive if you don’t have no job?” In the meantime, the family is trying mightily to adjust to a life SEE SHELTER, PAGE 4 As produc er and UNC alumnus Casey Molino Dunn rushed around the building to ensure that all the acts INSIDE More images and articles from Memorial Hall's reopening PAGE 8 made it backstage for curtain call, Memorial Hall’s marketing manager, Jennifer Smith, greeted patrons in the lobby. www.dailytarheel.com WgP* jpj, M*' - at SL C V *3 DTH/BRANDON SMITH The River Center in Baton Rouge, La., served as a Red Cross shelter with 3,000 evacuees on-site Friday. An addi tional 1,500 more are expected this week. The shelter only has one entrance, equipped with a metal detector. BY JENNY RUBY ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR Four years have passed. Four classes of seniors have graduated and said their good byes to the campus that was rocked on Sept. 11. But four years later, the students at UNC who were in high school when the U.S. was attacked by ter rorists continue to operate in the spirit of unity started by the stu dents who have come and gone. “That night on college campuses, millions and millions of students and faculty across the country came together in solidarity,” said Margaret Jablonski, vice chancellor for student affairs, during a memo rial event held Sunday. “Memorial Hall has a long standing tradition of student per formers,” Smith said, pointing out that TV legend and UNC alumnus Andy Griffith, who spoke at the opening events, got his start on the Memorial Hall stage. “We wanted the community to know that students are just as important to the arts community SEE PERFORMS, PAGE 8 State I page 3 FIESTA OF FUN Raleigh hosts more than 60,000 people as part of the weekend's La Fiesta del Pueblo, the largest Latino festival in the Carolinas. About 100 students came together Sunday night on Polk Place for the memorial service, sponsored by Committee for a Better Carolina and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Those attending the service sat in front of thousands of American flags, representing the almost 3,000 that died in the attacks. “Just by having the representa tion of flags shows (students) still care about the individual lives that were lost,” Jablonski said. “It does still touch us.” Many University community members chose to remember the day by gathering in Memorial Hall SEE 9/11, PAGE 4 Candidates eye name recognition BY BRIANNA BISHOP ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR Before long, the streets of Chapel Hill and Carrboro will be lined with signs, and mailboxes will contain brochures about candidates’ quali fications for town government. But those signs don’t spring from the ground, and the bro chures don’t write themselves. Behind each one is a face someone hoping to be a leader in the town’s future. national | page 6 WHERE ARE THEY NOW? UNC alumnus Jonathan Reckford is named CEO of Habitat for Humanity. The Daily Tar Heel conducted a Q & A with the new leader. rhe Center for Public Service has full listings of ways to help online at: www.unc.edu/cps Baristas battle for best brews BY LINDA SHEN SENIOR WRITER The mute black backdrop of Kenan Theatre struck a bright contrast with the gleaming metal of three La Marzocco espresso machines. They purred smugly over the soft, ceramic sound of clinking china, stemmed glasses and antique flatware. The third annual Southeast Regional Barista Competition, held at the Center for Dramatic Art Sept. 9-11, had a sense of spectacle that lived up to its host location. “(The baristas) are creating a five-star dining experience,” says if MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS T^*2° 05 TODAY: RUNNING AND MANAGING A CAMPAIGN As the fall elections draw nearer, can didates for Chapel Rill Town Council, Carrboro Board of Aldermen and Chapel Hill- Carrboro Board of Education are preparing to campaign. The candidates might choose different ways to get their names out, but they all are working State j page 9 SAFETY FIRST U.S. Sen. Richard Burr an nounced Friday that N.C. schools would receive $237,966 to help improve school safety. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2005 FUNDS RAISED $6,850 was raised by the Carolina Katrina relief committees as of 10 p.m. Sunday LOCAL EVENTS Dollar.! for Disaster Student groups will be canvassing classes to solicit donations Pit sits, 11 a.m.- 2 p.m. Tips for relief Spanky s Restaurant & Bar will donate all pro ceeds to relief efforts 101 E. Franklin, all day Beneficial food Zorbas restaurant will donate all proceeds to the Red Cross 105 S. Elliott Road, noon-9 p.m. Give blood The Red Cross and the Student Union board will host a blood drive Hooker Center atrium, Tuesday Supplies needed Efland Cheeks stu dents will collect school supplies for Houston Hillsborough, all month INSIDE TODAY More photos See more images from The Daily Tar Heel photographers in Louisiana Page 7 Change at the top FEMA director recalled and replaced ONLINE Michelle Campbell, barista pro grams manager for the Specialty Coffee Association of America. “But we still want their own per sonality to come through.” The 22 contestants were trans mitting loud and clear, turning out their spice racks, dishware and whimsy for the event. In a world of coffee to go, the ceramic clink of cups and saucers is a strange departure from the metal clicks and shouts of a coffee shop during an early morning rush. Lemuel Butler, who works at SEE BARISTA, PAGE 4 toward the same goal. “Whatever method you choose, the voters can tell when put your heart in it,” said Alderman Mark Chilton, a candidate for Carrboro mayor. For Chilton, going door to door worked for him when he snagged one of four open seats on the Chapel Hill Town Council as an undergraduate student in 1991. “I got out there, and I worked SEE CAMPAIGN, PAGE 4 weather aT-Storms H 88, L 64 index police log 2 calendar 2 crossword 9 edit 10 sports 14
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