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VOLUME 114, ISSUE 48 New ticket plan unveiled STUDENT BASKETBALL TICKETS NOW TO BE DISTRIBUTED ONLINE BY CHRIS COLETTA SUMMER EDITOR Tar Heel basketball fans, take note: The eternal struggle between you and your Saturday-morning alarm is over. That’s because, in a move that has been contemplated for years, the distribution of men’s basketball tickets for students is moving online. Si ’" | ||Jjj| p|ij|pP * • I jj| * W... - ; .... DTH FILE PHOTO A .Rathskeller waiter carries a bowl of the restaurant's renowned lasagna to customers in this May 2004 file photo. The lasagna —and the Rat's other dishes soon could be memories; it is unclear whether the restaurant, which is temporarily closed and needs renovations, will reopen or whether it will close permanently. Well-known eatery shuts doors BY GRAY CALDWELL CITY EDITOR A Franklin Street staple of more than 50 years closed last week, and it remains unclear whether it will ever open its doors again. “The building is in need of long overdue repairs,” the sign on the door of the Rathskeller reads. “If the building owners will cooperate in making the necessary repairs to their building and make it possible to re-gain your business, we will look forward to serving you in an updated facility the new old Rat by the end of the summer.” The Rat, as it is affectionately called, has served staples such as lasagna and steaks for decades from Bush’s gibe launches Wallsten’s book sales BY WHITNEY KISLING STAFF WRITER Peter Wallsten just wanted to ask a question. Instead, the media have been question ing the Chapel Hill native and Los Angeles Times reporter for days. During a June 14 news conference in the Rose Garden, President Bush teased Wallsten, a UNC alumnus and former Daily Tar Heel editor, for wearing sunglasses while asking a question. What Bush didn’t know is that Wallsten has Stargardt’s disease, a disorder that makes even relatively small levels of sunlight dan gerous to his eyes. ' Bush called Wallsten on his cell phone Online I dailytarheel.com PRETTY CATCHY An indie snob likes Nelly Furtado's latest album NOT TOO BAD "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" is easy to digest KILLING INDIE Venice is Sinking offers more of the same emo music ohr latttt (Tar itrrl “It’s a matter of working out the kinks and making sure that when it’s put in place this year, it’s put in place as well as possible,” said Rachel High, president of the Carolina Athletic Association the student arm of the athletic department. Officials still are working out the details of the new system, which is set its subterranean home in Amber Alley, located below Franklin Street. It wasn’t clear what kind of renovations have to be made to the Rathskeller. Owner Francis Henry, who originally bought the restaurant with three business partners in 2000 and later bought them out, did not want to comment on the situation. Officials with Chapel Hill-based Morris Commercial Inc. which, according to state filings, manages the property for the landlord, Munch Family Properties weren’t avail able. The Rat last faced peril in 1999, when it was put up for sale and nearly wasn’t purchased. Henry and his business partners saved the restaurant at the time. later that day to apologize. “I didn’t think an apology was neces sary,” Wallsten said in an interview Monday. “When it happened, I didn’t think it was a very big deal.” Since last week, the exchange has been broadcast on major television shows and Web sites, and discussion of the episode on the Internet has exploded. “It was becoming a big story,” Wallsten said, noting that as a reporter, being in the news rather than observing it is distressing. “I don’t want to be an issue. I don’t want to be the controversy,” he said. But as a former editor-in-chief of The SEE WALLSTEN, PAGE 5 city | page 4 ALL SWITCHED UP The Orange County Board of Commissions are expected to reach a conclusion Tuesday on a plan for reforming county election districts. WEEKLY SUMMER ISSUE Serving the students and the University community since 1893 www.dailytarheel.com to be ready this fall. But the process’s building blocks, though subject to change, are in place. Students will go online at the begin ning of the school year and register to receive tickets to individual games not blocks of games, as in the cur rent system. Some time before each contest, the online distribution system will random ly select the students who will actually get tickets. The system then will e-mail those students, and students must confirm university | page 6 MUTUAL SUPPORT Student Body President James Allred reaches out to the new leadership of the Association of Student Governments and gets a finance position. that they want the tickets and will be able to attend the game in question. The tickets themselves will come to students’ in-boxes as an e-mail attach ment. They must be printed out and presented at the student entrance to the Smith Center, along with a One Card. Every ticket that isn’t claimed during . the original distribution will be placed into a second distribution a few days before every game. Tickets still not claimed will be puton sale to the public. SEE DISTRIBUTION, PAGE 5 John Riddle, who was a graduate student at UNC in 1963, called the Rat’s closing, temporary or not, a tragedy. “It was a meeting place after the library closed,” Riddle said. “It just had the atmosphere.” Alisa DeMao, UNC class of’93, agreed. “I liked some of the history of the place, knowing there had been generations of other students, being able to leave your mark on it, literally,” she said, referring to the decades of graffiti on the walls and tables. Those memories were part of the reason Henry agreed SEE RATHSKELLER, PAGE 5 Baddour to stay 2 more years Athletic director gets contract extension BY MATT BROOKS STAFF WRITER In the cutthroat world of Division I collegiate athletics, success is mea sured by results. On June 14, UNC administrators rewarded Director of Athletics Dick Baddour for producing results with a two-year contract extension. Baddour’s new contract will run through the 2008-09 season. In nine years with Baddour, UNC has a league-leading 49 Atlantic Coast Conference championships eight more than second-place Duke. The last two seasons have been espe cially fruitful for Thr Heel athletics. In that period, UNC is the only State | page 4 NO CHECKS YET The University spoke out Tuesday against the state legislature's propsed mandatory background checks for incoming students. school to have sent teams to a foot ball bowl game, the Final Four in both men’s and women’s basketball and the College World Series. This year, the Tar Heels tied Duke and Virginia for the most ACC team championships with five titles. “Throughout his tenure, our teams have been at or near the top in the ACC, both competitively and academically,” Chancellor James Moeser said in a press release. “We are fortunate to have a leader who understands how athlet ics complement, yet not consume, our students’ academic experience.” Moeser and the Board of Trustees made the decision to extend Baddour’s contract through 2009. It includes a SpOrtS | page 9 CUP MANIA Italian Pizzeria 111 provided big screen TVs, quality pies and friendly rivaly for the United States' matchup against Italy on Saturday. THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 2006 Other satellite campus offers lessons Carolina North woes have mixed precedents BY STEPHEN MOORE STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR Sometimes, it’s easier to follow the way of those who have gone before us. Such is the lesson that University officials and Chapel Hill leaders can use to help resolve the continuing conflict that is Carolina North especially because UNC-Chapel Hill has two prime examples to look to for guidance. In 1984, then-N.C. Gov. Jim Hunt moved to allocate 835 acres of unused farmland to N.C. State University to create the Centennial Campus, a satellite campus located about 1 mile south of the main campus. More than 20 years later, more than 1,300 acres in Raleigh is used to employ 1,600 cor porate and government employees and 1,350 university faculty and staff and to educate 3,400 university students, as well as 600 middle school students. The transformation took some doing. David Winwood, N.C. State associate vice chancellor for technology development and innovation and head of the Centennial Campus staff, said the university had to work with those directly affected by the new campus to ensure its success. “Ultimately we took (our plan) to the city council planning group as a combined, united package (with the local neighborhood),” he said. “The City Council saw that both parties were in agreement, and it went through pretty smoothly.” Since then, NCSU officials have worked to maintain their strong ties to the community to ensure that they are working toward common goals. “We work very hard to be good neighbors with the people living adjacent, businesses that are adjacent and certainly with city leaders,” said NCSU Provost Larry Nielsen. “There is a constant conversation that is going on.” In another region of North Carolina, a bio technology campus is being constructed to res urrect a community that all but died when the textile industry moved from the state. The efforts of the UNC system and Dole Food Company Inc. combined last fall to introduce the N.C. Research Campus to Kannapolis, an area devastated by job loss when the textile company Pillowtex closed its mills in 2003. While the situation bears obvious differences SEE CAMPUS, PAGE 5 Dick Baddour has faced controversy in his tenure especially after Matt Doherty's departure as men's basketball coach. base salary of $270,000 in 2006-07, $285,000 in 2007-08 and $295,000 in 2008-09. Not everyone has been happy with Baddour’s tenure. Several major deci sions about coaches and players have drawn scorn from alumni and donors. In 2003, UNC basketball coach Matt Doherty resigned under heavy pressure from the administration and SEE BADDOUR, PAGE 5 weather ■2*% Sunny H 89, L 68 index calendar 2 briefs 3 crossword 7 sports 9 editorial 10
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