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courage in which you can look
someone in the eyes or see
someone slouched, and you
go over and say, “Is there any
way I can help you?”
That happened one late
Friday afternoon in April.
Davis was taking out the
trash when he saw a student
trying to climb out of a sec
ond-floor window at Cherry
Hall, the building beside
McNair.
Davis -took off When he got
to the classroom, he found the
student shaking imcontrol-
lably Davis pulled him fiom
the window and asked, "Are
you all ri^t? You’re having a
seizure.”
Davis calmed him down by
draping a washcloth on the
student’s foi'ehead and ask
ing anolher student to sit
with him. Then, Davis ran
out and called an ambulance.
The student, who was
taken to the hospital, turned
out to be fine. He hadn’t
taken his medication. But
after that episode, every time
he saw Davis on campus, he’d
hug him, shake his hand and
say ‘You know, you saved my
life.”
Davis’ other work-related
adventure happened about
11 p.m. on a Thursday in
March. At that hour, McNair
is always quiet and a bit
spooky especially when small
souni^ make big echoes
down its empty hallways.
That’s when Davis saw the
man in Room 419.
The man was sitting behind
a computer, all fidgety as he
talked on his cell phone and
typed at a keyboard- Davis
spotted something silver at
the man’s feet. He thought it
was a gun.
“Hey how you doing?” Davis
said as he passed by
He felt the man’s eyes star
ing into his back. Davis had
never seen the man before,
and he knew something did
n’t feel ri^t. So, he had a
Study: Landfills follow poor, minorities
, By Gary Robertson
THE ASSOCIATED-PRESS
RALEIGH - Noi-th
Carolina communities with
significant minority pecula
tions are more than twice as
likely to be located near land
fills than overwhelmingly
white areas, according to a
study presented Monday to a
legislative committee.
The study billed as the first
of its kind in North Carolina,
was presented to the Joint
Select Committee on
Environmental Justice, a
panel created this year to
evaluate the impact of pre
sent and future landfills on
minority groups and the poor.
“We found that permitted
solid waste facilities are more
prevalent in nonwhite com
munities than white commu
nities,” Steven ^^Tng, an epi
demiology professor at UNC-
Chapel Hfll, told panel mem
bers during their first meet
ing.
The committee was created
by a law that placed a one-
year moratorium on permit
ting new landfills in North
Carolina. The ban, which
took effect Aug. 1, will dday
planning and development of
at least four proposed land
fills that would expand the
state’s narrowing landfill
capacity
The panel is expected to
recommend by February how
to ensure human health con
cerns and citizen equity are
protected when landfills are
considered. A separate leg
islative commission is exam
ining how to improve rules
about permitting landfills.
During Monday’s meeting.
Wing presented a doctoral
dissertation completed, in
August by UNC-Chapel Hill
student Jennifer Norton.
It examined Division of
Waste Management permits
for 419 solid waste landfills
fiom the 1970s through 2003.
Norton looked at U.S. Census
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security guard call campus
police. Minutes later, the man
was led out in handcuffs.
Those two events helped
Davis snag his recent
awards. But it’s the little
things Sarin and others
remember. Such as helping
students find misplaced lap
tops. Or using coat hangers to
help employees get into their
locked cars. Or giving a
purse, with $1,800 inside,
back to the woman who lost
it,
‘You’re lucky,” he told the
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else, you might not have got
ten it.”
Earlier this month, on a day
hell never forget, Davis wore
polished loafers and his
favorite four-button suit
when he received his medal
during a ceremony at the
North Carolina Museum of
History in Raleigh. While
there, he thought about the
dderly woman he knew only
as Ms. Murphy She called
him “Buster.”
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