Newspapers / Daily Tar Heel (Chapel … / March 5, 2007, edition 1 / Page 6
Part of Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
6 MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2007 K , w ' 9 SHHHHL HH| :vKW 'Xj®' <■ 2“fC ■%,' ~y < " X 'i[ : - *u V M - ~%J'‘ ' -’/. ■s■■ * :: ’ - , •,;/J|i 19 at \ \l§f “' '"’ •' ' v,% - >’'''■ VS*.*’ ' , K DTH/STACEY AXELROD RBenisha Howard, sophomore Carolina Union Activities Board performing arts committee Hmember. recites Helene Johnsons “Poem” at The Sound of Black History: A Journey Into HPoetry and Jazz. She has performed spoken word before but said this is the first time she’s performed in front of such an intimate setting. “It’s a little bit intimidating in front of a crowd this small,” she said. “You can see their faces.” Visit www.daifytarheel.com for the full story. HOUSING FROM PAGE 3 have to compete against applicants who are earning more and are able to pay higher rent. Vaughn said she does not like the changes she is asked to make. “It strays from the basic philoso phy of providing decent, safe hous ing for the poorest of the poor.” Vaughn’s report also alarmed council members who said they are worried about the effects. “We are putting a lot of people at risk of being homeless,” council member Sally Greene said. “When the federal government cuts ser vices, there’s a price to pay.” Some public housing resi dents living on Pritchard Avenue Extension said they thought the idea of taking in higher earners instead of lower ones sounds unfair. “When it’s needed, it should be given to the people that need it the most,” said Sonja Sanders, a nursing assistant who pays $lO3 a START PLANNING NOW! I imagine... Enjoy Summer at Home and Get Ahead on Graduation. “Thanks to the Winston-Salem State University Summer program, I’m ahead of schedule to graduate!” y. ** I If you live in the Triad area -gs?; JHr | hut attend college elsewhere, here’s a great opportunity to get ahead, or stay on J track to graduate while you’re here during the . summer. Check out the „ ||| , fpJPj comprehensive Summer Programs at Winston-Salem jjfl| State University. There’s a wide array of courses in dozens of majors. Awaits You. >"" mttßf Classes begin May 23rd! WINSTON r A SALEM ■T LA STATE S: imvirshy SUMMER SCHOOL www.wssu.edu or call {336) 750-2630 FACING THE CROWD month for an apartment for herself and her three sons. Sanders hopes one day to own a home and said public housing helped her when she needed it most. “I was starting over. I didn’t have any furniture, I was looking for a job. If it wasn’t for this, I probably would have had a much harder time.” She originally was told the wait would be a year, but got housing after about a month. She said that getting a job probably helped her, and that she could understand want ing to give housing to people already employed, with better prospects for moving out to a place of their own. “Honestly, if I could have afford ed it, I would have preferred to live someplace else.” Reductions in funding are meant to foster self-reliance. Instead, many public housing departments are turning to their city governments as an alternative source of funding. The Charlotte Housing Authority made a similar shift in 2002 and has absorbed the funding decreases News by cutting about 100 people from its former payroll of about 300. Chief Financial Officer Ralph Staley said the authority still pro vides the same services as before but has outsourced many of them to private companies. He added that public housing provides a service that doesn’t nec essarily return a profit. “If you just based it on pure profit and loss, we would probably close every site we have.” The housing authority also draws funds from the city of Charlotte, Staley said. Chapel Hill still is developing its budget for the upcoming fiscal year and the extent of town fund ing available for public housing has yet to be determined. “I hope it will be the council’s decision to fund the public hous ing program to the extent it needs help,” Greene said. Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. National and World News Senator admits call to federal prosecutor WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., acknowledged Sunday that he called a federal prosecutor to ask about a criminal investigation. The prosecutor, David Iglesias, was fired by the Justice Department in December. Iglesias, a Republican, says he believes he was dismissed for resisting pressure from two members of Congress before last year’s election to rush indictments in a Democratic kickback investigation. Domenici refused last week to say if he had contact ed Iglesias. But in his statement Sunday, the senator said he called Iglesias last year and asked “if he could tell me what was going on in that investigation and give me an idea of what time frame we were looking at.” He insisted he did not pressure Iglesias. China asked for openness BEIJING (AP) - A top U.S. envoy on Sunday urged China to be more open about its military spending, hours after the govern ment announced a 17.8 percent increase in its defense budget the biggest in more than a decade. The budget mainly will be spent on defense upgrades and higher wages for members of the armed forces, said Jiang Enzhu, a spokes man for China’s national legisla ture, at a news conference. China’s military is the world’s largest and has been criticized abroad for its secret spending. GUILFORD FROM PAGE 3 to happen with the police and the DA,” Dellinger said. “If they fully investigate, the truth will be clear as day.” The Greensboro Police Department ended its investiga tion Jan. 31, citing a lack of evi dence that would allow them to bring additional charges. The FBI recently sent the results of its preliminary investigation to the U.S. Department of Justice where it will be determined if a potential federal civil rights viola tion occurred, FBI Special Agent Thomas Brereton said. All except one of the new state Call for nominations Have you worked with a really great IT person lately? Show those Information Technology folks just how much you appreciate them by nominating them for an IT Award. The UNC IT Awards are coming up, so why not nominate that special IT person or group? Submitting nominations is easy! To nominate an individual or group, point your favorite web browser to and fill out the form. It's that simple! Please submit your nominations by Friday, March 9, 2007. Please feel free to itawardso7@unc.edu. Conditions prompt review of hospitals WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) - Lawmakers prom ised a quick response and sought an independent commission as they expressed outrage Sunday over the poor conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. “I’m worried about if it’s this bad at the outpatient facilities at Walter Reed, how is it in the rest of the country?” said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. In a letter Sunday to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Schumer asked for a commission, possibly headed by former Secretary of State Colin Powell, to investigate all post-combat medical facilities and rec ommend changes within the network. President Bush last week ordered a comprehensive review of the network, which has been overwhelmed by injured troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. U.S. enters stronghold BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Hundreds of U.S. soldiers entered the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City on Sunday in the first major push into the area since an American-led security sweep began last month around Baghdad. Soldiers conducted house to-house searches through the densely populated grid of squat two- and three-story buildings, but met no resistance in a district firmly in the hands of the Mahdi Army militia led by the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, said Lt. Col. David Oclander. ments already were included in the nearly 40 hours of judicial proceedings at Guilford, Dean for Campus Life Aaron Fetrow said. Neumann, after a preliminary review of the statements, said that they did not reveal any new infor mation, but that he will meet with the alleged victims before making a decision about the case. The football players’ attorneys will confer with the district attor ney about dropping the charges and putting the incident to rest amicably, North said. “I’m most certain all of them are sorry they got mixed up in this.” Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. (Efyc iatlg (Ear Hppl Accounts of skirmish vary JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) U.S. Marines fleeing a suicide bomber and militant ambush on Sunday opened fire on civilian cars and pedestrians on a busy highway in eastern Afghanistan, wounded Afghans said. Up to 10 people were killed and 35 wounded in the cha otic violence, officials said. But the U.S. military said a suicide attacker detonated an explosives-filled minivan as the American convoy approached, then militant gunmen fired on the troops inside the vehicles, who returned fire. DERBY FROM PAGE 3 how streamlined they were,” he said of son’s design’s inspiration. All entrants received ribbons for participating, and three top placers in each category received trophies. Bernstein said the focus of Saturday’s derby was on the expe rience and not on whether or not participants won. “It’s not really a competitive event.” Regarding the question of who had more fun at the event, parents or kids, Piccillo laughed. “It’s mutual.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.
Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
March 5, 2007, edition 1
6
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75