VOLUME 115, ISSUE 8
HANSBROUGH'S
NOSE BROKEN,
BUT HE'LL PLAY:
Roy Williams corrected
himself Monday and
said sophomore Tyler
Hansbrough's nose is, in
fact, fractured.
SEE PAGE 11
FOR THE FULL STORY
Budget
crunch
causes
strife
Some requests
denied altogether
BY PATTY KUO
STAFF WRITER
Most student groups saw 10
percent cuts from their requested
funding at the annual Student
Congress budget hearings this
weekend, but one organization
walked away with nothing.
The Renewable Energy Special
Projects Committee asked
Congress to fund anew magazine
that would discuss environmental
issues, but it was turned down,
said Val Tenyotkin, finance com
mittee chairman.
RESPC gets its regular funding
from a $4 student fee. The money
goes toward renewable energy
projects and buying power from
renewable energy providers.
“I believe that any projects
they want to undertake relative
to renewable energy should come
from that fee,” Congress Speaker
Luke Farley said of the proposed
publication.
But RESPC officials said the
fee goes only toward concrete
projects and not publications.
One such project the organi
zation has undertaken is sup
porting the installation of solar
panels on the roof of Morrison
Residence Hall.
“Maybe they don’t understand
that a magazine is not the same as
a wind turbine or a solar panel,”
said Jesse Prentice-Dunn, co
chairman of RESPC.
But Farley said educating peo
ple on conservation by way of the
magazine is within the fee’s pur
pose.
To get funding for the pub
lication, RESPC can appeal to
the Student Supreme Court or
start another organization solely
devoted to the magazine, Student
SEE BUDGET, PAGE 7
Top five
funded groups from
Student Congress
1. Student Government
Executive Branch 530,775.03
requested amount: $31,627.03
2. GLBTSA- $21,066.70
requested amount: $33,382.75
3. BSM —516,150
requested amount: $29,733
4. UNC Young Democrats
’ 510,714
requested amount: $39,849
5. —slo,ooo
requested amount: $20,000
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PUBLIC GOOD A bill would allow Chapel
Hill to publicly finance campaigns, PAGE 7
TEAM EFFORT Social justice magazine
teams up with Duke University, PAGE 8
THEY DO Some students are bucking
the trend of waiting to marry, PAGE 9
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Taheri-Azar walks into the courtroom and immediately disrespects the court by calling
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UNC to host gala concert
Milestones Festival
put on with Duke
BY KATHERINE LATSHAW
STAFF WRITER
Putting old rivalries aside, UNC
and Duke University have teamed
up to present the Milestones
Festival, a five-day concert series
of modem music composed and
performed by local and nationally
renowned musicians.
The series, which began
Friday at Duke, will run through
Wednesday. The festival will
include performances on both
campuses and will feature every
thing from jazz performances to
sets from string quartets.
Tonight’s performance is being
presented as part of the Carolina
Performing Arts Series’ Music on
the Hill series, which will feature
two more performances before
the end of the school year.
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SAVORY STREETS
The Chapel Hill Downtown
Partnership is considering
allowing street vendors, such as
Squeaky, the hot dog vendor, to
return to downtown streets.
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ATTEND THE SHOW i§
Time: 7:30 p.m. today
location: Memorial Hall
Info: www.carolinaperformingarts.org
The Memorial Hall show will
feature UNC faculty musicians,
the UNC Symphony Orchestra
and the UNC Chamber Singers.
Tickets for the gala concert are
$lO for students and sls for gen
eral public.
Closing the festival on
Wednesday is the Minnesota
based ensemble Zeitgeist, which
will play music by Scott Lindroth
and exhibit visual media by Anya
Belkina, both Duke professors.
The free concert will be held
at The Space at the Smith Arts
Warehouse at Duke University.
Now in its fourth year of exis
tence, Milestones brings together
173 musicians to play contempo
rary works of music. Diversity
abounds in this year’s series,
PIT ATTACKER Yells OBSCENITIES
BEFORE BEING TO SENT TO HOSPITAL
BY SARA GREGORY
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
HILLSBOROUGH The Iranian-born
alumnus charged with injuring nine people
after he drove a rented sport utility vehi-
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Taheri-Azar
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psychological evaluation to determine his
ability to participate in his defense.
where jazz will be incorporated
for the first time, said Allen
Anderson, a featured composer
and UNC coordinator for the
festival.
“There is great aesthetic and
instrumental variety to the pro
graming, ranging from the per
formance art of Pamela Z to the
semi-improvisational music of
Todd Hershberger to the deep
ly expressive and emotionally
charged string quartet of Mario
Davidovsky,” Anderson said.
A major objective of Milestones
is to share modem music that the
public might not otherwise hear,
as such works are often eschewed
in favor of playing established
classical pieces.
“Music is a living art with new
works continually created by
our contemporaries,” Anderson
said.
“Art music, like the visual arts,
SEE MILESTONES, PAGE 7
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CLASS ACTION
The senior class has garnered
about 5.5 percent participation
in donations to the Carolina Cov
enant but must reach 25 percent
to get an anonymous gift.
But during the proceedings, Taheri-Azar
ignored multiple requests to be quiet from
Superior Court Judge Kenneth Titus.
Taheri-Azar instead yelled obscenities and
religious slurs.
“What the (expletive) is this (expletive)?”
he said as he walked in the courtroom.
Later, after public defender James
Williams began to speak, Taheri-Azar
burst out again.
“Who is this? Who is this moron?” he
said in a Southern drawl.
Titus responded by requesting that 'lkheri-
Azar be quiet during the proceedings. Titus
said he would have Taheri-Azar removed if
he were not quiet, adding that he wanted the
SEE TAHERI-AZAR, PAGE 7
cle through the Pit last
March was removed
from the courtroom
Monday after several
outbursts.
At his hearing in
Superior Court in
Hillsborough, a motion
was presented to require
Mohammad Taheri-
Azar, 23, to complete a
Easley wants to alter
lottery beneficiaries
BY LIZ GILLIAM
STAFF WRITER
Need-based scholarships and
school construction would take a
hit under Gov. Mike Easley’s pro
posal to redistribute an expected
$438 million in revenues from the
N.C. Education Lottery.
Easley’s proposal would increase
funding to a program for at-risk 4-
year-olds at the expense of school
construction and need-based
scholarships in higher education.
“That’s probably not a bad redis
tribution because I think if we can
start our kids off on a good edu
cation before they get into school,
I think that’s a worthy goal,” said
Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, D-Orange.
More at Four, a community
based pre-kindergarten program,
will receive nearly $145 million
under the proposal, up from
about SB7 million.
this day in history
MARCH 6,1955...
The chancellor and dean of
students refuse to comment on
a Supreme Court ruling against
the University's practice of racial
segregation.
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2007
Gov.
Mike Easley
is calling for
additional
funds to go to
the More at
Four program.
The governor anticipates the
increase will provide 10,000 more
seats in More at Four classrooms.
To achieve that growth, schol
arships and school construction
will receive millions less.
Beyond redistributing the
funds allocated for education, the
proposal will decrease funds for
education overall, while increas
ing prizes for winners.
The lottery was more than
S2OO million behind in expect-
SEE LOTTERY, PAGE 7
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