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VOLUME 116, ISSUE 86 22 North Carolina is ranked 22nd in the AP Top 25 poll, the first time since October of 2001 the team has been ranked. UNC is 26th in the USA Today poll. Spol*tS | pagt- H ACL INJURIES Female athletes are more than twice as likely to injure an ACL than men. Research in anatomy and biomechanics is uncovering the explanation. p rwmm city | page a FESTIFALL The annual festival on West Franklin Street included musical performances, public awareness booths, local artisans and a kids' fun area. syL io| city | page 3 RODEO IN EFLAND Audience members could ride a mechanical bull, shop for Western wear, eat fair food and watch competitors and rodeo clowns take on broncos. online | dailytiirhwl.com BAILOUT Q & A Economics experts respond to students' questions. RACE RELATIONS WEEK Events begin with a discussion on environmental racism. PARENTS'WEEKEND Parents say missing their UNC student compelled them to visit. this day in history OCT. 6,2004... Members of the University's 1957 NCAA championship men's basketball team come to UNC to commemorate the newly renovated Woollen Gym. Today’s weather a Sunny H 84, L 57 Tuesday’s weather Sunny H 71, L 51 index police log 2 calendar 2 crossword 4 nation/world 4 opinion 5 sports 8 Sewing the students and the University community since 1893 obr laxly Star Hr pi (I P||m jfRX Ifllt'MAaL * w FAN EXCITEMENT GROWS DTH/ERIC VELARDE Stands at Saturday's game against the University of Connecticut were almost at full capacity, with 59,500 out of 60,000 seats sold. Families and fans arrived on site as early as 8 a.m. Saturday to stake out the best tailgating locations before the 7 p.m. kickoff. Football enthusiasm traditionally lower at UNC BY NICK ANDERSEN STAFF WRITER Sophomore Andrew Pate has tailgated at the same parking space off Stadium Drive since he was five weeks old. This fall, he’s noticed new neighbors. The larger crowds are a response to the excitement of what could be UNC’s most successful season in years. So far, the team is boasts an overall 4-1 record. Stands during Saturday’s game against Connecticut were almost at full capacity, with 59,500 of 60,000 seats sold. Student seats have run out for the last three home games, prompting the University to enforce a student ticket lottery for select games, including the Oct. 11 game against Notre Dame. Still, the enthusiasm is relative. Although UNC’s football following is growing, the mania that sweeps other college towns is absent from Chapel Hill. “We’re a basketball school,” Pate said. “It will take a long time to displace that or reach a similar status with football. Until we start winning national championships, we’ll never be a UGa., a Michigan-type football town.” In Athens, Ga., home to the Georgia Bulldogs, football fans start arriving on Thursday morning for a Saturday game, said Leland Barrow, assistant sports communica tion director at UGa. “By Friday, there’s not too much green space left on campus,” he said. Tailgating parties cover the grounds for the duration of a typical Saturday game. The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Town turns out for funeral Hundreds remember council member BY MAX ROSE CITY EDITOR As the crowd left, a small group in the comer of University Baptist Church on Friday was still sing ing. “All over Chapel Hill, I’m going to let it shine.” The hundreds who packed the church Friday knew Chapel Hill Town Council member Bill Thorpe as a neighbor, a family man and a politician. Though crying could be heard throughout the sanctuary, the atmosphere was upbeat at what many called a “homegoing.” “Good night, Daddy. You did your best with what you had,” his son, William Thorpe Jr., said. “Good night, Daddy, I’ll see you on the other side.” Prominent politicians from throughout North Carolina and www.dailytarheel.com UNC VS UCONN Final Score: 38-12 sees similar crowds on home game days. “The whole campus is pumped,” said Hannah Jacobson, a first-year at Michigan. “Every yard is covered in Maize and Blue, and everything downtown is packed with people.” For other large public universities with traditionally successful football teams, Saturdays during football season are a boost for local businesses and school spirit. “There are over 100,000 people who attend each home game,” said Jesse Bernstein, presi dent and CEO of the Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce. “Football has just become deeply ingrained into the local business flow.” UNC and the town of Chapel Hill are try ing to move the stadium crowd downtown. Touch Downtown, a program started this season, encourages fans to visit businesses. “We wanted to make it easier for fans to make Carolina football a day or even week end-long event,” said Rick Steinbacher, asso ciate director for marketing and promotions. “It’s really a win-win-win situation —a win for the fans, a win for the community and a win for the football team and athletes.” Business was slow on Franklin Street before and during Saturday’s game. Some bars were nearly empty, and restaurants had vacant tables, signs that UNC’s football culture is still developing. Pregame activities and game days in down town Columbus, Ohio, are a different story. “I normally start drinking about 10:30,” Ohio State University senior Rob Conley said. “The bars, traffic everything is packed.” But Sosei Nakasuji, a barista at Jack Sprat Chapel Hill as well as dozens of family members walked by the open casket to pay their last respects to Thorpe. Thorpe, who grew up the third child of seven in Oxford, N.C., was laid to rest Friday at the age of 67 after years of service to Chapel Hill and the state. “He didn’t know he was poor,” said Dan Leatherberry, who attended Mary Potter High School with Thorpe. “He didn’t know that he was not supposed to go to college.” Thorpe attended Fayetteville State University and went on to teach in the Duplin County School System and work for the Department of Labor. “His story is really a great American story,” Thorpe Jr. said. “He was the first in his entire family to go to college as he would ■OfrljMl 'O an SB DTH/ZACH GUTTERMAN Hortie Aldriche tailgates before the football game in the yard next to the Credit Union Bank. Since 1997, she has gotten up at 3:30 a.m. for every home football game. Cafe, said that while pregame activity is low, she has noticed increased sales after games. “We’re doing double, triple the usual vol ume on Saturdays,” Nakasuji said. Surrounding Kenan Stadium before Saturday’s game, about 50 tailgating parties took place in cars and under tents. And that number is growing. New tailgaters joined a core of dedicated football supporters for pregame festivities. SEE EXCITEMENT, PAGE 4 ■ Bill Thorpe served a total of 11 years on the Chapel Hill Town Council. He died last week. often tell me, ‘with no money, son.’” The mourners Friday afternoon , sat in the same seats where Thorpe and his family had sat almost every Sunday since the 19705. “He knew there was a connec tion between the work he was doing outside the church to the work he was doing here,” Thorpe Jr. said. The speakers and several preachers recounted decades of stories of Bill Thorpe as a mentor and a politician. Dozens of people stood when SEE THORPE, PAGE 4 No big Granville change Officials say next year to stay same BY BRECKEN BRANSTRATOR STAFF WRITER Rumors have spread among students living in Granville Towers about what will happen to the off-campus residence hall since the University bought the property. But the UNC administrator in charge of the project said little is likely to change. Granville Towers will most likely remain a residence hall but be run and renovated by the UNC housing department when the University Square sale is completed, said Dick Mann, vice chancellor of finance and admin istration. The dining hall in the build ing, The Agora, will probably operate the way it does now. MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2008 12 With three interceptions in Saturday’s game against UConn., UNC now leads the nation in interceptions. North Carolina had 11 all of last year. BOE issues S4O fines Punishment is for public campaigns BY LINDSAY RUEBENS STAFF WRITER The Board of Elections voted in a closed session Sunday to fine juniors Ashley Klein and Matt Wohlford S4O each for violating elections laws. The fines would take effect should Klein and Wohlford become certified candidates to run for student body president. Both were charged with holding an interest meeting at the Campus Y and interviewing with The Daily Tar Heel. “It’s a fine, so it’s going to affect their campaign,” said Ryan Morgan, chairman of the board. “It’s not going to be debilitating or anything, but we’re hoping we’ll get the message across.” Klein declined to comment on the ruling, and Wohlford was unable to be reached before press time. Public campaigning, which includes holding public meetings and speaking with campus media, is not allowed to begin until 28 days before February’s election, according to Section 402(A) of Title VI of the Student Code. In an administrative decision issued Sept. 28, the board inter preted the Code as saying that candidates could not speak with The Daily Tar Heel prior to 28 days before the election. The decision also stated that can didates could not hold campaign meetings on UNC property outside of their residence on campus. Morgan said the board took these rulings into account when making Sunday’s decision. The S4O fines are some of the largest in recent years. Last year, the Board of Elections fined candidate Kristin Hill $3 for using improperly formatted A-frame signs. The year before, the board issued $25 fines to candidates Eve Carson and Jon Kite for using campaign material before the allowed time. Each candidate is given S4OO for their campaign by the University. SEE BOE, PAGE 4 “I am really happy about (the building) now, but renovations might be good ” KARLEE MOSHIER, GRANVILLE RESIDENT There are no plans to coordinate its services with the standard UNC meal plan. Though unlikely, plans could still change between now and June 2009, when the deal is set to close. University officials said they are still deciding the off-campus hall style dorm’s fate. UNC is continuing to meet with town officials to discuss plans for developing the rest of University Square, which includes several restaurants and stores, Mann SEE GRANVILLE, PAGE 4
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