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VOLUME lie, ISSUE 68 city | ppg WELCOME TO THE ARC The Arc, a nonprofit that works with people with developmental disabilities, celebrates a move into its new office building on North Colombia Street. university | page e SUMMER REPORT The executive branch of student government releases its annual summer report. It details progress on the campus wiki and the external appointment process, among other projects. join the DTH LAST DAY TO APPLY We're still hiring for all positions. You can find more information and an application online at dailytarheel.com/recruitment. Applications are due 5 p.m. today in Union 2409. We will post the final list of hired staff in the front window of the office by 8 p.m. Thursday. Good luck! features | page 4 TRASH TO TREASURE Local sculpture artists feature "junkie" art at the Pittsboro Carolina Brewery. "There's a plethora of materials out there, whether pebbles, rocks, or trees that are falling down, or limbs or old wood," artist Rita Spina said. this day in history SEPT. 10.1991 UNC says it will not accept any undergraduate transfer students for the spring semester because of over-enrollment. Today’s weather jfttjfc T-Storms H 72, L 64 Thursday weather Showers H 74, L 66 index police log ~...2 calendar 2 crossword 7 sports 9 edit 10 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 obr lailu ®ar Mrel No easy fix for Halloween crime BY EVAN ROSE STAFF WRITER Chapel Hill’s Halloween cel ebrations are notorious not just for the crowds 0f70,000 to 80,000 people, but also for the drunken disorder, theft and violence that comes with the throngs of witches and ghouls milling around shoul der-to-shoulder. Now the growing sentiment is that October 31 needs to change. But as the town begins anew effort to control the event and keep participants safe, arrest data and expert testimony show just how difficult downsizing an event of Halloween’s magnitude and tra dition could be. Demons from out of town Town officials highlight shrink ing the event’s size by limiting Halloween celebrations to Chapel Hill residents as an effective way to reduce crime. “One of the messages that we have to convey is that this is.going to be a smaller party,” Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy said. “And a smaller party means a local party.” But measures that make it hard er for out-of-towners to attend festivities might not translate to preventing serious crimes. Police data shows Chapel Hill residents contribute significantly to crime each year with offenses just as violent as other people from across the state. People with Chapel Hill addresses make up 35 percent of those arrested in the past seven years, according to arrest records provided by Chapel Hill Police and analyzed by The Daily Tar Heel. Their crimes, from assault and battery to felony possession of cocaine, were no less severe than those of out-of-towners. Thirty-two percent of charges brought against 22 Durham resi dents in the past seven years were for violent crimes, compared to 43 percent for 76 Chapel Hill resi dents. Police also arrest an undeter mined number of UNC students from outside of town each year Play probes life of women with HIV BY ALYSSA GRIFFITH STAFF WRITER The minimalist two-woman show, “In the Continuum,” tackles a far bigger issue than the size of its production lets on the HIV/AIDS partdemic. Play Makers Repertory Company’s first PRC 2 production of the season introduces audi ence members to Abigail, a black woman living in South-Central Los Angeles, and Nia, a middle-class housewife in Zimbabwe. These two black women have relatively noth ing in common besides the fact that each was recently diagnosed HIV positive. PRC 2, PlayMakers’ second-stage series, was designed to embrace a type of theater that actively involves the audience, cast and production members in the theatrical process Rutgers revamps rush game i ■• * - t. ' Hopes for balance sans former star BY RACHEL ULLRICH SPORTS EDITOR At the press conference before the 2006 matchup with Rutgers, then-North Carolina head coach John Bunting described Rutgers back Ray Rice as “a freshman who can really, really make some big plays for them,” At this week’s press conference, Rice was mentioned only once and that was to mention Rutgers’ game plan sans the player who scored three touchdowns on 201 yards against UNC in 2006. This time around, North Carolina faces a Rutgers team that no longer claims Ray Rice on its roster —and so is finding itself re-examining its entire identity on the national stage. “Yeah, I’d say Ray was pretty spe cial,” Rutgers coach Greg Schiano said in a teleconference Monday. “(Now) we have to kind of rede www.dailytarheel.com 1 _ " ■■■■in-1 i p.i jiW§r If 8 Dai V Tar Hee l analyzed seven years of police arrests on Oct. 31 and Nov. Ito figure out who gets *{i”kr % arrested and why. It turns out Chapel Hill residents are causing their fair share of problems. I DOWNTOWN CHAPEL HILL ARRESTS \. Number of a , ii 12 _ VIOLENT CHARGES^^S^ . ,- ■ . ■ ■ / Jill who might list addresses outside of Chapel Hill. And even when outsiders are discouraged, the safety problem does not dissolve. In 2001, after the attacks of Sept. 11, Chapel Hill police officers discouraged outsiders from driv ing to the city by setting up vehicle checkpoints a mile and half from Franklin Street in every direction. They managed to cut Halloween’s size in half, from the previous year’s 50,000 to 25,000 people, Police Chief Brian Curran said. The smaller event was safer, with only 17 arrests compared to an average of 34 during the next six years. of approaching political and social issues. “It is essential for us to pick shows that will evoke controversy and debate in the community,” said Hannah Grannemann, PlayMakers’ managing director. The PRC 2 series, introduced in 2006, encourages audience mem bers to stay in their seats after the show and discuss the play’s critical themes and issues. PlayMakers’ decision to produce this show and foster discussion about its central theme comes at an appropriate time. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report in August which increased the estimate of new cases of HIV in America by more than 16,000 per year. A facilitated discussion after “Continuum” will include experts ffC) DTH ONLINE: Listen to a m m podcast on lhursday's Rutgers I —' game at dailytarheel.com. fine who we are and what we are on offense.” Rutgers’ two current running backs, Kordell Young and Mason Robinson, combined for only 106 yards and one touchdown in the Sept 1 opener against Fresno State. (That’s die same rush yardage that wide receiver Brandon Ihte record ed in his season opener last week.) But Schiano said the program is not searching for the next Ray Rice. “There’s not probably going to be that one guy all the time although there was Saturday, that’s not our plan,” he said. Young took 26 of the 32 attempts last weekend, recording 9+ of the total yards and scoring die Knights’ sole touchdown of the game., “Last week I thought Kordell Young did a very good job rushing the football,” Schiano said. “I think we have some other guys, as well, that can play the position, and we But Chapel Hill residents still stole, drove drunk and assaulted police officers, committing more crimes than>they did in 2003, when the crowd was back to nor mal sizes. Limits like the roadblocks of 2001 are also very resource inten sive. Gregg Jarvies, police chief at the time, said controlling access to Halloween would take as many, or more, officers as the town currently dispatches. Restrictions also met substantial public resistance. “It came at a high price,” Jarvies said. “They felt like it should be a community event, and they didn’t want it curtailed.” on various aspects of HIV/AIDS and issues of gender. “Students interested in learning more about the disease and how it affects women in America and around the world would be par ticularly interested in this show and learning from our panelists in the discussion afterwards,” Grannemann said. While the show addresses HIV as a particularly challenging disease, the characters face the disease and cany on with strength. “The stories of Nia and Abigail are more moving them depressing because throughout the course of the play, the audience sees the characters deal with their circum stances and find their own strength to fight against the social stigma that comes with HIV/AIDS,” Grannemann said. Ray Rice against UNC, Sept. 2,2006 > 201 yards on 31 carries > Three touchdowns > Long rush: 24 yards > 13 yards on two receptions Kordeil Young against Fresno State, Sept 1,2008 > 94 yards on 26 carries > One touchdown > Long rush: 13 yards > 19 yards on two receptions need to probably get them some more touches and spread it around a litde bit’ UNC coach Butch Davis said he doesn’t expect a larger focus on the pass from the program just because Rice has moved on. “I think teams do what they believe in. You know, I think you can’t have the success that Rutgers has had in the running game (with just one star back), because prior to SEE RUTGERS, PAGE 6 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2008 The Franklin Street problem Other options for controlling Franklin Street festivities include limiting the number of people who can access the area, no matter where they come from. Officials are looking into charg ing for admission, canceling park and-ride transportation, setting a curfew or offering alternative activities, among other things. But it’s not clear that crowds in the downtown area can be effec tively controlled, or that Franklin Street is the only problem area. Thirty-five percent of charges made the past seven years were for crimes committed on East or West ATTEND THE SHOW Tim#: Various times, Sept. 10-14 Location; Kenan Theatre Info: www.playmakersrep.org “In the Continuum,” hailed by The New York Times as one of the Ten Best Plays of 2005, will open today at 8 p.m. in the Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre. The show will run until Sept. 14. “It’s a very engaging and emo tionally powerful story,” said Flor De Liz Perez, a graduate student who plays the role of Nia. “Young people will connect with the strength necessary to overcome a potentially devastating and unjust circumstance.” Contact the Arts Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu. Devils hire new Muslim chaplain, look to unify BY AMANDA YOUNGER STAFF WRITER Abdullah T. Antepli was hired as Duke University’s first full-time Muslim chaplain to provide spiri tual guidance to its student body. He wants students to have more than the occasional get togethers and religious observa tions at schools in the TViangle. “I really would like to, first of all, be part of existing inter faith activities,” Antepli said. “I would like to see communities get together and do other things than just singing Kumbaya.” Antepli said he wants to jump start dialogue between students from different schools and dif ferent religious backgrounds. He hopes to increase the com munication between Duke, UNC and N.C. State University through interfaith events and cultural and religious awareness. One of Antepli’s first steps to ensure this cross-campus dialogue Franklin Street. Other towns, like Madison, Wis., have been able to impose an entrance fee because the area where they celebrate is more enclosed than downtown Chapel Hill, Curran said. He questioned the feasibility of doing the same here. “Franklin Street is so porous,” he said. “Charging for access would be a very difficult thing to do.” Enforcing a curfew could cause the same problems. In 2006, the town imposed a strict ending time for the event by stopping bus services to parking SEE HALLOWEEN, PAGE 6 COURTESY OF PLAYMAKERS REPERTORY CO. H Abdullah T. Antepli, Duke University's first full-time Muslim chaplain, wants to hold Triangle wide events. ATTEND THE IFTAAff Tim*: 6 p.m. today Location; Van Canon Room, Bryan Student Center, Duke University Info: www.dukemsa.org is a Duke iftaar scheduled for today. About 50 students from UNC also are expected to attend the dinner. And UNC will hold this year’s Triangle-wide iftaar Sunday at 6 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Student Union. UNC’s Muslim Students Association President Ola Mohamed SEE DUKE CHAPLAIN, PAGE 6
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