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Board of Elections officers (from left) Harrison Parker, Mary Boyd Harris, James Brewer and Nicholas Mosley
review elections rules Tuesday with candidates for the February campus elections at a compulsory meeting.
Students officially throw hats into election ring
BY KELLY GIEDRAITIS
STAFF WRITER
Student government election
season kicked off Tuesday night in
the Student Union Cabaret as 45
hopefuls gathered to declare offi
cially their candidacies for office.
The candidates now must collect
student signatures to make it onto
the ballot ranging from SOO sig
natures for student body president
candidates to 20 signatures for
Student Congress candidates.
Juniors James Allred and
Bernard Holloway declared their
Woodward offers insider s account
Reporter details Bush interview
BY STEPHANIE NEWTON
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Bob Woodward began by
interrogating a party of about
730 TXiesday night.
The assistant managing edi
tor of The Washington Post and
famed Watergate reporter began
his speech by posing three ques
tions to a Kenan-Flagler Business
School audience: who did they
vote for, who thought Bush’s tax
cuts were good economic policy
and how many thought the Iraq
War was either necessary or wise.
“Those were three quick ques
tions to determine how many
rich, war-mongering Republicans
we have tonight,” he said.
“More than I expected,” he
quipped after a resounding posi
tive from the audience.
In a Weatherspoon
Distinguished Faculty Scholar
Lecture Series speech punctuated
with political humor, the best
selling author focused on the
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around Pinehurst Drive look for traffic help
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Shelton seeks UA office
TO INTERVIEW THURSDAY FOR PRESIDENT POSITION
BY BRIAN HUDSON
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
UNC Provost Robert Shelton is one
of four candidates for president of the
University of Arizona, a UA search
committee announced Tuesday.
He will interview for the position
Thursday, and if the search commit
tee votes favorably, he will remain in
Arizona for a campus tour.
Shelton’s tour would be set for
Friday, and he would meet with the
current president and his cabinet as
well as with students, faculty and
intent to run for student body
president, Lauren Anderson and
P. J. Lusk declared for Graduate and
Professional Student Federation
president, junior Rachel High
declared for Carolina Athletic
Association president and sopho
more William Thompson declared
for Residence Hall Association
president.
Three pairs declared their
intent to run for senior class presi
dent and vice president: Jonathan
Friedman and Barry Turner;
Marjorie Petersen and Douglas
research surrounding his third
book about President Bush.
“Not only is the Iraq War
important, but it’s at the emo
tional center of what’s going on
in this country,” Woodward said.
“What really grabs you by the
throat is that the war rests with
one person the president.”
After assembling a 21-page
memo looking into the Iraq
War through State Department,
Pentagon and White House docu
ments, Woodward sat down with
Bush for three and a half hours
of one-on-one discourse spread
out over two days the longest
interview ever conducted with
a sitting president since George
Washington, he said.
“It wasn’t a BS session,”
Woodward said. “It was an exca
vation of the road he won.”
Woodward said he asked the
President 500 documented ques
tions.
“I kept the really good stuff
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SHOW ME THE UNION
New York University graduate
assistants returned to school
Tuesday, but still are
immersed in a struggle
for unionization.
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alumni, said Anne Barton, assistant
to the executive director of public
affairs for the Arizona Board of
Regents the organization which
oversees Arizona’s public university
system.
Barton, who has been aiding in
the search, said it’s probable that the
committee will vote favorably on the
candidates.
“I think it’s safe to say that these
are four very well qualified candi
dates,” Barton said.
Shelton will compete against three
Weiss; and Eric Schmidt and Juelle
McDonald.
Election officials were surprised to
see that only two candidates declared
their intent to run for student body
president, a position which has been
hotly contested by at least several
candidates in years past
“It’s not very common,” said Jim
Brewer, vice chairman of the Board
of Elections. “If only two have offi
cially declared... then we probably
won’t have to have a runoff elec-
SEE CANDIDATES, PAGE 4
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Former Washington Post reporter and famed Watergate journalist
Bob Woodward stressed the need to keep opinions out of reporting.
secret, so I could spring it on
him,” Woodward said of his not
entirely inclusive memo.
To the best of Woodward’s
knowledge, the president was
truthful.
“He wanted someone to under
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others to replace Peter Likins, who
will step down as UA president Jane
30 after serving nine years.
The other candidates, who will
interview today or Thursday, are:
■ Tom Campbell, dean of the Haas
School of Business at the University
of California Berkeley;
■ Deborah Freund, provost and
vice chancellor for academic affairs
at Syracuse University;
■ Yash Gupta, dean of the
SEE SHELTON, PAGE 4
>• Candidates must submit constituents' signatures
by 5 p.m. Tuesday to be placed on the ballot.
> Candidates for student body president and
Carolina Athletic Association president must col
lect 800 signatures; senior class president and
vice president and Residence Hall Association
president must collect 350; Graduate and
Professional Student Federation president must
collect 100; and Student Congress candidates
must collect 20.
> Beginning this week students can inform other
students on a personal basis about candidate plat
forms, including information relating to their Web
site.
> Beginning Tuesday candidates will be able
to publicly campaign for office through forums,
speeches, phone and e-mail messages and inter
views. Campaign materials and campaign expendi
tures still are prohibited.
>■ At 7 a.m. Jan. 31 candidates may begin using
campaign materials.
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> Provisional paper ballots must be offered as an
alternative to online voting.
> The Board of Elections can nullify an election
if problems' are determined to have compromised
its integrity.
> Results shall be released at a public meeting
after the election rather than immediately upon
accessing results, as the Code previously stated.
> Information Technology Services must provide
technical reports after an election.
stand what he did and why,”
Woodward said. But even 500
questions wasn’t enough.
“I’m trying to figure out, and
push into, the larger question of
SEE WOODWARD, PAGE 4
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FILLING IN THE GAP
Mervin Jenkins, former
assistant principal at Chapel
Hill High School, will lead the
city school system's effort to
target the achievement gap.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2006
Provost Robert
Shelton is one
of four finalists
interviewing for
the Arizona job.
Because there’s fines,
walk between the lines
BY DEBORAH NEFFA
STAFF WRITER
Police officers around campus
will be keeping a closer watch on
jaywalkers, who beginning Feb. 13
will be fined $135 for walking out
of line.
The UNC Department of Public
Safety’s Traffic and Pedestrian
Safety unit is launching its three
phase campaign today in hopes of
increasing pedestrian safety on
campus.
The campaign will encourage
pedestrians to use marked cross
ways and signalized intersections
by giving first verbal and written
warnings and then issuing citations
totaling $135 with court costs.
“It has always been our goal to
educate the entire campus com
munity about pedestrian safety,”
Jeff McCracken, deputy chief of
UNC’s public safety department,
said in a University press release.
“We’ve primarily focused on
motorists since we activated our
today in history
JAN. 18,1996...
Senior Dan Kois testifies before
a Congressional committee to
protest a move to cut student
aid funding which enabled
Kois to attend UNC.
Give
credit
where
it’s due
Have you thanked a graduate
student lately?
Sometimes UNC graduate stu
dents must think they’re invisible.
The campus’s focus stays largely
on our undergraduates: Are
we providing the right classes?
Teaching our best? Providing sup
port? Engaging their energies?
Recognizing
their accom
plishments?
Graduate
students gener
ally don’t seek
or obtain the
local limelight.
Unfortunately
that often
means they
don’t get the
attention they
deserve.
Who are
the graduate
students?
They’re a
critical part of
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GUEST
COLUMNIST
Judith Wegner
serves as
chairwoman of
the faculty.
our teaching team.
I’m teaching my first-ever First
Year Seminar to undergradu
ates. (It’s called “Envisioning
Community,” and my students
are terrific!) I have a wonderful
TA in the Department of City and
Regional Planning who’s assisting
me. He and I talk about how each
class has gone and share tips on
how to help the students learn.
We talked today about how
to introduce students to spatial
planning issues. He’ll be teaching
a class session himself (with my
support) before too long.
Many other graduate students
run recitation sections for large
classes, manage lab sessions,
teach students languages and
much more. They bring breadth
of experience and great energy,
and something to strive for.
They serve as “big brothers” and
“big sisters” who mentor their junior
colleagues and help bridge the gap
in experience and age between the
younger generation and those of us
with gracing) hair.
Who are the graduate stu
dents?
SEE GRAD STUDENTS, PAGE 4
TAPS unit in 2001, but pedestri
an safety hinges on educating both
drivers and pedestrians.”
Jaywalking offenses include
actions that impede traffic such
as crossing a roadway outside of
SEE JAYWALKING, PAGE 4
ON-CAMPUS VEHICLE
PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENTS
FROM 2002-05
15 Manning Drive
4 South Columbia Street
3 Mason Farm Road
2 Cameron Avenue
2 Pittsboro Street
2 Skipper Bowles Drive
2 Raleigh Street
1 Ridge Road
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