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CORRECTION
Due to a reporting error, the
Friday page 2 photo of the week
incorrectly states that Student
Stores supplied 50 pumpkins for
the event. The Carolina Union
Activities Board actually provided
the pumpkins. The Daily Tar Heel
apologizes for the error.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
Greenville, Miss., mayor to
deliver annual lecture
Heather McTeer Hudson,
the first black female mayor of
Greenville, Miss., will deliver the
13th annual Sonja Haynes Stone
Memorial Lecture on Nov. 9.
The speech, titled “Homegrown:
The Evolution of African-American
Leadership,” will be the title of her
free public talk at 7 p.m. at the
Stone Center.
Hudson ran for mayor in 2003
and won at age 28 making her
the youngest black mayor in the
country.
Daily Tar Heel brings home
college media awards
The Daily Tar Heel earned sev
eral awards Saturday during the
annual National College Media
Convention in St. Louis.
Philip McFee, an editorial car
toonist for the DTH last year,
nabbed second place for editorial
cartoons.
Feilding Cage, former graphics
and multimedia editor, also earned
second place for best information
graphic.
Jen Alliet, former design editor
took home third place for page-one
design.
The DTH was a finalist for the
Newspaper Pacemaker and the
Online Pacemaker.
The Associated Collegiate Press
Newspaper Pacemaker Award
and the Newspaper Association of
America Foundation have co-spon
sored the competition since 1971.
Campus Y committee holds
conflict awareness week
Advocates for Human Rights, a
committee of the Campus Y, will kick
off its first Conflict Awareness Week
today to raise attention about under
reported human rights violations in
countries around the world.
Representatives of the commit
tee will be in the Pit today to inform
students of the week’s events.
The political and social problems
plaguing places such as Colombia,
Burma, Chechnya and Kashmir
will be discussed. Members have
planned documentary screenings
and presentations by speakers.
Becky Ryon, committee co-chair
woman, said most of the locations
on the agenda come from Doctors
Without Borders’ 2005 list of the
top 10 most underreported human
itarian stories. Countries such as
Palestine were added because of
their relevance, Ryon said.
Visit www.daOytarheel.com for
the full story.
Public health grad students
nab national health award
Three graduate students in
the School of Public Health’s
Department of Health Policy and
Administration took third place
recently in national health care
competition sponsored by the
National Association of Health
Services Executives.
April Clark, Robin Hunt and
Jessica Thompson competed
against 15 teams in the Case
Competition, which gives first
and second-year graduate stu
dents hands-on experience in
analyzing case studies related to
health care.
University of Michigan and Johns
Hopkins University teams took first
and second place.
The competition involved three
weeks of analysis and multiple
presentations in front of a panel of
judges representing corporate and
academic leaders in health care.
CITY BRIEFS
Yoga class attempts to beat
world record, raise funds
Cornucopia House Cancer
Support Center celebrated its 10th
anniversary in a record-breaking
way Sunday.
The center, to raise awareness of
its free services, hosted what mem
bers hope was the world’s largest
yoga class in one place lasting more
than 90 minutes.
The event was held at the
Sheraton Imperial Hotel in
Durham. The hotel donated the
space, and the donated food
included a birthday cake baked
by a Cornucopia House board
member.
“Virtually everyone is touched
by cancer,” said Lynne Jaffe, a yoga
instructor.
No one knows when Guinness
World Records will send the
results, but the center’s executive
director, Becky Carver, said she is
optimistic.
From staff and wire reports.
Student rattles Union, Pit
Scott taken to hospital after incident
BY COLIN CAMPBELL
AND WHITNEY KISLING
STAFF WRITERS
A UNC student ran through
the Student Union and the Pit
on Friday, physically and verbally
assaulting students along the way.
Department of Public Safety offi
cers took the student, senior Will
Scott, to UNC Hospitals to be eval
uated for demonstrating “bizarre
behavior,” said Archie Daniel, cap
tain of investigations with DPS.
Daniel said that officials will con
sider vandalism and assault charges
after hearing evaluation results.
“As soon as the doctor tells us
about his conditions, we’ll talk
about his charges,” he said Friday.
Hospital officials said they could
not comment on Scott’s condition
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Rebecca Salcedo, 5, plays with her brother Luis, 3, in an unfinished house being built by Habitat for Humantity at a groundbreaking
ceremony Saturday as their father Fernando looks on. The Salcedos applied for one of 18 homes that Habitat is building in Hillsborough.
BUILDING PROGRESS
Groups break ground on 18 Habitat homes
BY DAVE PEARSON
STAFF WRITER
Not every house gets a blessing at its
groundbreaking.
But under Saturday’s sun-filled, breezy
sky, the Rev. Brooks Graebner, of St.
Matthew’s Episcopal Church, led a crowd of
about 50 people in a dedication prayer for
18 lots that will become affordable homes in
Hillsborough’s Fairview neighborhood.
After nearly two years of planning
between Habitat for Humanity of Orange
County and the Hillsborough Town Board,
the first walls went up Oct. 20.
“This is going to be terrific for
Hillsborough,” Mayor Tom Stevens said of
the project. “We’re very pleased.”
Much of the cost of die work was defrayed
by donations and what Stevens referred to
as a ‘pot of funds’ the town has available for
projects such as the Fairview neighborhood.
Mayor Pro Tem Frances Dancy, who
Layoffs expose staff,
administrator divide
Employees: process
was too secretive
BY WHITNEY KISLING
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Communication among employ
ees and administrators in the
School of Dentistry has proved to
be an issue with the recent decision
to outsource 15 employees.
Dean John Williams, who took
office in May 2005, said he came
with a plan to make the dental school
one of the best in the country.
“I have made statements, when
I interviewed for the position, I
feel very strongly that a state-sup
ported institution needs to be con
tinually looking at the resources it
has,” he said.
A few months after taking office,
he assembled an ad hoc committee
to evaluate those resources in the
Dental Service Laboratories.
After four meetings in late 2005
and early 2006, Ken May, commit
tee chairman, submitted a report to
Williams in the spring on how to
Top News
Sunday, and DPS had no further
updates.
No reports of physical injuries
were made, and Margaret Jablonski,
vice chancellor for student affairs,
stated in an e-mail that she is grate
ful nobody was injured seriously
in the incident. She also stated the
Office of the Dean of Students will
follow up as it sees fit
Daniel said DPS officials have
testimonies of victims who suffered
emotionally. “There were people
who were put under a lot of stress."
Scott ran around the Union area
and was chased to South Road.
Students who encountered him
said he was acting unusually.
They said that around noon, he
began running in and out of the
Union and along the Pit.
resides in Fairview, said the development
will be positive.
“Those that really truly care welcome and
accept the change” she said.
Dancy, who is in her third term on the
Hillsborough Board of Commissioners,
called the area “a community in transition.”
Susan Levy, executive director of Habitat
for Humanity of Orange County, said the
program has a rigorous screening for home
ownership, including “sweat equity,” which
requires future homeowners to invest 325
hours of labor into building the houses.
As of Saturday’s event, 16 of 21 families
who applied had passed the first round of
screenings for homes in Fairview.
One of the 16 families was represented
by Renee Newman, a mother of three and
grandmother of two.
Newman settled in Hillsborough eight years
ago with hopes of becoming a homeowner.
“I can have a home so they can come to
run the school more efficiently.
Among those suggestions was
outsourcing 15 dental technicians,
which Williams said he decided to
implement. He made the decision
public this month, and the employ
ees will be out of their jobs Nov. 27.
“This is certainly not a decision
I took lightly at all because it has
very specific ramifications for the
individuals involved,” he said. “That
was why it took as long as it did.”
The outsourcing led to protesting
from members of all sectors of North
Carolina’s dental community.
Members of the Employee
Forum, a large advocate for the den
tal technicians, assembled a rally to
protest. They also are encouraged
to e-mail Chancellor James Moeser
and Williams to convince them to
change their minds.
Forum chairman Ernie Patterson
wrote a letter to Moeser on Oct. 11
asking for a 12-month moratorium
on the decision. Moeser has since
denied the request.
But Williams said the decision
SEE LAYOFFS, PAGE 6
Senior Will
Scott startled
campus Friday
with "bizarre
behavior" such
as grabbing
students.
He picked up and threw cell
phones and attempted to start a
fight, students reported. He also
jumped on a girl and kissed her as
she was walking through the Pit,
several witnesses said.
“It was disturbing,” sophomore
Carly Swain said. “The entire Pit
was silent for five minutes.”
According to University police
reports, officers tried to stop Scott
in the Pit, but he kept walking.
Carolina Union Director Don Luse
and others chased Scott through the
Union, starting near Alpine Bagel
me,” she said of her family.
Levy, who led the commencement service,
thanked the churches involved, the Fairview
neighborhood and the Hillsborough Police
Department not only for their efforts in initiat
ing the project, but also for their pledged sup
port once the houses have been completed.
Aaron Shah, a Habitat board member
who also spoke at the event, related the par
able of the good Samaritan in his address.
Shah, who lives in a Habitat house in Chapel
Hill, referenced the sense of community and
the high level of involvement among Habitat
neighborhood members, saying residents and
local police are “brothers and sisters” in the
Northside community in Chapel Hill.
Levy said she hopes to foster feelings of
community between current Fairview resi
dents and the future homeowners.
“We really want to create a sense of pride
about the neighborhood,” she said.
Levy said the first houses should be com
plete in six to eight months.
SEE HABITAT, PAGE 6
Class officers happy with progress
Say senior class
address in works
BY ELISABETH GILBERT
STAFF WRITER
Senior class officers said that
they’ve delivered on their campaign
promises, and that they intend to
keep doing so for the remainder of
their term.
Meg Petersen and Eric Schmidt
were ushered into office based on a
platform that focused on reducing
the stresses of senior year by helping
seniors prepare for life after gradu
ation —and making sure they have
a good time along the way.
They also promised to increase
communication among seniors and
take on a significant service project.
“I’m really pleased with the suc
cess that we’ve had so far,” said
Petersen, the senior class president,
who is about hallway through her
term in office.
Senior Class Vice President Eric
Schmidt also said he is optimistic
.about their achievements to date.
“We feel really great.”
The officers are involved in
choosing a senior speaker to com
plement former Secretary of State
MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2006
Cafe and down the stairs between
the Union and Student Stores. Scott
then yelled and ripped off his shirt,
witnesses said.
He also jumped on a parked
Honda Civic on South Road, caus
ing SSOO in damage, reports state.
Scott was subdued by DPS officers
after damaging the car.
Daniel said the senior was taken
to the hospital instead of arrested
because of his unusual behavior.
Freshman Rachel Ogle said Scott
approached her as she walked out
of Student Stores. “He came up to
me randomly and touched my face
and told me I was too good for the
guy I was walking with,” she said. “I
thought it was really weird.”
Scott made physical contact with
several of the students he passed.
“He just flicked my hoodie out of
SEE SCOTT, PAGE 6
Senior class leaders Meg
Petersen and Eric Schmidt say
events have seen good turnout.
Madeleine Albright’s commence
ment speech.
They said they hope to com
plete the process by the end of the
semester.
Schmidt said that because
Albright is well-known, officials
might try something completely
different for the senior speech this
year possibly a musical act or a
comedian.
The selection process will be less
about name recognition than about
choosing an entertaining and relax
ing performance, he said.
Senior social events also are a
big part of the duo’s goals. Petersen
said she wanted the class to “form
a sense of community” and getting
seniors to have fun together is one
way to do that.
Green
paths
target
of talk
Discuss ways to
link public space
BY ALEX HENDERSON
STAFF WRITER
A group of 60 people used their
noodles Saturday to take a look at
public green space connectivity in
Carrboro.
Keynote speaker Sig Hutchinson,
chairman of the Wake County open
space and parks advisory commit
tee, described tracts of green space
as scattered pieces of macaroni
across the county.
The goal is to unite the green
spaces into a contiguous network
of greenways, so that it looks like
spaghetti, he said.
But there’s a catch there is no
accepted definition of what exactly
green space is.
About 60 people and a handful
of local experts participated in the
discussion.
Rich Shaw, Orange County
land resource conservation man
ager, defined green space as any
open land that is not planned for
commercial development, such as
parks, paths, wooded areas, nature
trails and similar open spaces.
Bike paths and sidewalks are of
particular importance for integra
tion, Hutchinson said, because they
can act as both arteries of commute
and avenues of recreation.
Carrboro Planning Administrator
Irish McGuire showed slides of
several land acquisitions where the
recreation department has uncom
pleted development plans.
McGuire said the department
already has five miles of easements,
with 1.5 miles of actual trails along
Bolin and Tom’s creeks.
Event organizers broke partici
pants into groups to discuss trail
maintenance, funding, sign place
ment and disability access.
Each of these groups wrote
primary concerns on green foam
balls, which-were then strung
together on a copper wire to fur
ther illustrate the need to pull
together disparate sections of the
town’s green space.
Carrboro Alderman Randee
Haven-O’Donnell said she thinks
of green space as the “green infra
structure” of the community.
“Greenways are pathways that
give us a warm sense of place and
deepen our breath,” she said.
Leigh Ann Cienek, a UNC grad
uate student in the Department
of City and Regional Planning,
said she heard about the meeting
through the University.
She said student representation
in the planning process is important
because students often rely heavily
on greenways for transportation.
“Greenways touch on all aspects
that really make a community liv
able,” she said.
Hutchinson said recreational
diversity, open-space preservation
and transportation alternatives are
key benefits of planned green space.
No set plans came out of the
meeting; rather it was used to gauge
public support and share ideas.
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“This is the last time, the last
year, that our peers will have
a chance to take part in the
University,” Petersen said.
She said her goal is to hold events
either weekly or biweekly, including
activities with and without alcohol.
So far those events have includ
ed everything from bar nights to
bowling nights, soccer games with
the local Special Olympics team to
a nonalcoholic tailgate party.
Turnout generally has been
strong, the officers said. About 350
students came to the tailgate party
and 1,500 to the first bar night.
The most recent events included
a senior dinner at Firehouse Subs
and a third bar night at Top of the
Hill Restaurant and Brewery.
But even the social events aren’t
all fun and games, officers said.
Ten percent of proceeds from
the dinner will go to Habitat for
Humanity, the focal point of the
senior service initiative.
The mission is to build houses for
people who cannot afford them.
UNC seniors will get together to
begin construction on a house dur
ing the first weekend in November,
Schmidt said.
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