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Sunday, Aug. 28
■ According to University Police re
ports, an officer on patrol in the South
Columbia Street area heard breaking glass
at 6:01 a.m. Upon pulling into the Port
Hole Alley Parking Lot off Franklin Street,
the officer observed that someone had bro
ken out the right rear window of a 1991
Pontiac Grand Prix.
After approaching the vehicle, the of
ficer noticed a woman’s pocketbook on the
seat. He seized the unsecured pocketbook
and called the owner of the vehicle. The
owner, a Durham resident, picked up her
purse and vehicle a few hours later. The
purse still contained her keys, checkbook,
money and credit cards, reports state.
Friday, Aug. 26
■ At 1:12 a.m., an officer arrested
Jonathan Troy Blackburn, 18, of 144
Maplewood Drive, West Jefferson for un
derage possession of a malt beverage.
The officer noticed Blackburn with nine
cans of Milwaukee’s Best beer near the
main door of Whitehead Residence Hall
■ Matthew Proutt of 124 Avery Resi
dence Hall reported to University Police
that he was leaving Franklin Street with an
unknown ftiend at 2:50 a.m. when the
ftiend broke a beer bottle over his arm,
cutting an artery. Proutt’s friend was trans
ported to the Student Health Service by
South Orange Rescue.
City
Sunday, Aug. 28
■ According to police reports, officers
arrested Duke student Alirio Calderon, 36,
at 2:52 a.m. and chaiged him with driving
while impaired. Reports state Calderon of
114-13 Melville Loop Road was driving on
the wrong side of the road on East Rose
mary Street, causing another car to swerve
to avoid him. Reports also state he refused
an Intoxilyzer test. Calderon is scheduled
to appear in court on Oct. 14.
■ Jacqualine Annette “Shannon” Rone,
31, of 5108 Craig St. was arrested on a
charge that she had stabbed smother woman
in the right forearm with a pencil, reports
state. Rone was charged with simple as
sault and released on s3oounsecured bond,
reports state. She is scheduled to appear in
Chapel Hill District Court on Oct. 13.
Saturday, Aug. 27
■ At 4:05 p,m., Henry Edward “Snap
per” Smith, 47, of3l2BTrice Atwardßoad
was arrested and charged with second
degree trespassing, according to police re
ports. Reports state Smith had been or
dered on Aug. 2 not to enter the property at
603A Bynum St. where he was arrested.
Smith was released on $250 unsecured
bond. That same afternoon at 4:46 p.m.,
police arrested Smith again for second
degree trespassing, this time at the Sav-a-
Center at 750 Airport Road, reports state.
Police reports state that Smith had been
arrested previously for shoplifting at the
grocery store and was charged with tres
passing after entering the store again.
He was released on SSOO secured bond
and is scheduled to appear in Chapel Hill
District Court on Sept. 15.
■ At 10:48 p.m., police arrested Robert
Lewis “Bo” Porter, 50, on charges of over
crowding at his music club, The Cave, at
452 1/2 W. Franklin St., according to
reports.
Porter of 1310-16 Ephesus Road was
arrested after officers conducted a routine
check of area bars and counted more than
156 people in The Cave, which has a legal
capacity of 87.
■ At 10:55 p.m., police arrested
Jonathan Reid Noyes, 42, on charges of
overcrowding at his music bar, Local 506,
at 506 W. Franklin St., according to police
reports.
Local 506’s legal capacity is 150, and
reports state that officers counted more
than 200 people in the club.
Noyes of 300 Spring Valley Road is
scheduled to appear in Chapel Hill District
Court on Sept. 15.
Friday, Aug. 26
■ At 12:15 a.m., police arrested
Charming Paul Hynn, 22, the manager of
Spanky’s, and chaiged him with over
crowding at the Franklin Street restaurant,
reports state.
Spanky’s has a legal capacity of 75, and
reports state that officers counted more
than 96 people. Hynn 0f209A Cedarwood
Lane in Carrboro is scheduled to appear in
Chapel Hill District Court on Sept. 15.
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Cabinet Sets Sights on Productive School Year
BY MARISSA JONES
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDFTOR
UNC’s student government branch held
its first Cabinet meeting of the school year
last night, recapping summer achievements
and laying out ideas and plans for the
coming months.
Student Body President George Battle
described the summer as a success and
congratulated members of his Cabinet on
their dedication and hard work.
“It’s something we can all be very proud
of,” he said. “There’ll be few times this
year that we’ll be able to pat ourselves on
the back, so we should take this opportu
nity.”
Battle cited the Lenoir Dining Hall reno
vations and the establishment of the P2P
Xpress shuttle as examples of summer
achievements.
Battle also said the administration was
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A pile of charred books and other debris lies in the carport at 1816 South Lakeshore Drive in Chapel Hill. The blaze
killed one of the home's three occupants early Friday morning.
Officials Unsure of Home Fire’s Cause
JAMIE KRITZER
CITY EDITOR
Fire officials have not yet determined
what caused a house fire Friday morning
that claimed the life of a Chapel Hill woman
and sent her husband to UNC Hospitals,
where he is listed in fair condition.
Mildred Beel, 74, was pronounced dead
on arrival at UNC Hospitals after being
removed from her first-floor bedroom by
firefighters and transported to the hospital
by South Orange Rescue Squad. The north
Chapel Hill resident died of smoke inhala
tion and had bums over more than 40
percent of her body, said Chad Livasy,
Orange County medical examiner.
Bed’s husband, William, a Chapel Hill
optometrist, was transported to the N.C.
Jaycee Bum Center at UNCHospitals. He
was in critical condition Friday, but his
condition has been upgraded.
Fire officials worked through the week
end to try to determine what had caused
the fire that left much of the yellow-wood
and-brick home blackened.
“It started in the kitchen/den area, and
then it spread more to the outside toward
the carport, and then it was extinguished,”
said David Lewis, assistant fire chief.
The blaze began sometime around 1
Study Links ‘Hie Most Important Meal of the Day’ to Students’ Success
BYJONNELLE DAVIS
STAFF WRITER
Students might want to think twice be
fore skipping that all-important first meal
of the day, according to some scientists
who study the benefits of breakfast.
Research on a group of 12-year-olds by
Dr. Ernesto Pollet while at the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology showed that
skipping breakfast could be linked with
lower performance on certainaptitudetests.
The study consisted of a group of stu
dents with IQs varying from high to low.
The students were not allowed food after
dinner until 11 a.m. the next morning.
After being given food, they were tested on
fine motor activities and the results were
compared to the students’ IQ scores.
Those students with higher IQs made
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“This summer
has just been tre
mendous," he said.
“At least since I’ve
been here, this is the
summer that stu
dent government
has accomplished
more than any pre
vious.”
But Battle said
the successful sum-
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congratulated Student
Government on a
productive summer.
mer was merely the beginning of a produc
tive school year.
“This is not to say that we are finished or
satisfied with what we’ve done,” he said.
“We’re looking forward to doing a lot
more.”
a.m. at the 1816 S. Lakeshore Drive house.
Two neighbors and a tenant living in an
apartment in the Beels’ basement were
awakened at about 1:30 a.m. by the noise
and light coming from within the house.
“I woke up to the sound of glass break
ing and a whooshing sound,” said Elise
Love, the tenant who had been living with
the Beels for seven weeks. “I actually mis
took it for a tornado.”
Love went to her door and heard the
smoke alarm. She opened her door, which
enters into the yard, and saw William Beel
calling for help from his first-floor bed
room.
Love returned to her downstairs apart
ment, which was still unaffected by the
blaze, and called 911. Two other 911 calls
came in at about the same time from neigh
bors on either side of the Beels’ home at the
corner of Rolling Road and South
Lakeshore Drive.
Love retrieved a ladder from the garage
of the house, and she and neighbor Sally
Haskell, who was awakened by a bright
light flickering in her bedroom, helped
lodge the ladder against the house so that
Beel could escape.
Beel, who had lived with his wife in the
neighborhood for about 30 years, was dis
tressed when he got down off the ladder.
only a few errors, while students who had
lower IQs didn’t perform as well and made
more errors.
From this, Pollet concluded that skip
ping breakfast had a more negative effect
on some students.
According to Dr. Steven Zeisel, head of
the department of nutrition at UNC’s
School of Public Health, the effects of
skipping breakfast on college students could
be the same or worse than the effects on
children.
He said although no one had studied the
relationship between the breakfast habits
of college students and their academic per
formance, there was no reason to believe
they would not have the same reactions of
the younger students.
“Their performance on testing in the
midday will be affected by not eating break
Chief of Staff Philip Charles-Pierre ech
oed Battle’s enthusiasm, saying student
government had much greater “man and
woman” power than in past years and
therefore had the capacity to get more
accomplished.
John Dervin, senior adviser, said 433
UNC students had signed up for student
government committee spots over the sum
mer. More than 300 of these students were
freshmen, he said.
Charles-Pierre said Cabinet members
were in the process of contacting these
students. Other interested students would
also have opportunities to get involved, he
said.
Charles-Pierre also said Cabinet mem
bers were working on a brochure about
UNC student government to be made avail
able to students. The brochure would de
scribe government processes and activi
ties, he said.
“He was saying: ‘I can’t get to my wife;
I can’t get to the phone,”’ Love said. “He
was very anxious about his wife.”
But the heat and fire between Bed’s
bedroom and his wife’s across the hall
were too great, Love said. He was subse
quently transported to the hospital.
Firefighters had to break a bedroom
window to extricate Mildred Beel from her
bedroom soon after they arrived at 1:46
a.m. After they had tried to resuscitate her
using CPR, she was taken to UNC Hospi
tals, where she was pronounced dead on
arrival.
Seventeen firefighters, workers from
South Orange Rescue Squad, Chapel Hill
police, American Red Cross volunteers
and neighbors converged on the scene Fri
day morning to give assistance to Love and
Beel. “They did a very commendablejob,”
said Carolyn Cooper, a neighbor who as
sisted Beel after he escaped from the house.
“They went in there and were able to get
(Mildred) out quickly.”
Fire inspectors trying to determine the
cause had ruled out by Sunday that the fire
could have been electrical, Lewis said. Fire
officials were still contemplating the possi
bility that the fire might have been caused
by a cigarette. Damage to the home was
estimated at $165,000.
“J don’t have enough time. I
don’t have the appetite for
breakfast. I have never eaten
breakfast consistently.”
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fast,” Dr. Zeisel said.
Freshman Tori Davis said she wouldn't
be the same without a complete breakfast
every morning.
“It just wakes me up,” she said. “It gives
me energy for the morning.”
Zeisel said eating breakfast was impor
tant because the body had almost depleted
its energy sources between the hours a
Kathryn Scheffel, co-secretary, said fli
ers on student government’s activities over
the summer would be published during the
next week to inform students of changes.
“A lot of(students) are going into Lenoir
and saying ‘What happened?”’ she said.
Academic Affairs secretary Stacey
Brandenburg said the committee was con
sidering projects such as a student bill of
rights and a student handbook with proce
dural information that affected students.
Brandenburg said the committee would
meet with School of Arts and Sciences
Dean Stephen Birdsall Sept. 9 to discuss
recruiting more Native American faculty,
makingthe Office oflnformation Technol
ogy more user-friendly, the possibility of
making African-American Studies a de
partment and other academic issues.
Human Relations secretary Eddie Hanes
said his committee currently is planning a
Human Relations Summit that probably
Chapel Hill-Carrboro’s
SAT Scores Tops in State
BY MICHELLE LAMBETH
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
Once again, Chapel Hill-Canboro City
Schools posted the top Scholastic Aptitude
Test scores in the state, which came as no
surprise to local officials.
“We’ve had the highest for several
years, ” said Neil Pedersen, superintendent
of the system. “We’re pleased with the
high ranking. It’sexactly where we wantto
be.”
The average SAT score for Chapel Hill
High School students is 1026, almost 200
points higher than the state average ofß4o.
Not only does Chapel Hill have one of
the highest SAT averages in the country
but 90 percent of its students take the SAT,
50 percent higher than North Carolina’s
average of 60 percent.
Furthermore, local high-schoolers score
significantly higherthantheirNorth Caro
lina counterparts on both sections,
CHHS students have ranged between 60
and 100 points greater over the last six
years than other in-state students. Pedersen
said the school also had an exceptionally
large portion of its students go on to four
year institutions about 85 percent.
Pedersen had some advice for other
North Carolina school systems looking to
improve their averages: “One of the keys is
to ensure that students have a strong cur
riculum prior to taking the SAT,” he said.
“Students need to be enrolled in math all
through high school.
“The more students who can take classes
oriented toward higher education, the bet
ter the scores will be,” he said.
The statistics reflect well on Chapel Hill-
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person sleeps and wakes up. He also added
that the brain was not fooled by substitutes
for true breakfast foods, such as sugary
candies.
“Our brain senses certain nutrients,”
Zeisel said. “The reason we eat meals in
the pattern we do is because the body needs
it.”
He recommended a breakfast contain
ing carbohydrates, protein and a limited
amount of fat, such as fruits and cereals,
which he also mentioned could help pre
vent heart disease and certain cancers.
Zeisel, who primarily researches how
nutrients affect brain function, is currently
studying the effects of choline, a vitamin
abundant in the fetuses of rats and humans
during their prenatal lives.
“In rats, it appears that a very brief
exposure to (choline) has a positive affect
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will be held in late September.
Hanes said the committee also would
encourage greater involvement in the UNC
housekeepers movement, would look at
financial aid issues and how to retain mi
nority students and faculty and at the pos
sible establishment of a “United Nations
type group” to promote cohesion between
campus groups.
Projects proposed by other committees
included a campus calendar with informa
tion on campus events, pursuing a campus
women’s center, planning a liberal arts
festival, and expanding Point-2-Point and
SAFE Escort.
Charles-Pierre said student government
would hold an open student body meeting
at 7 p.m. Thursday in Hamilton 100.
Student government Cabinet meetings
are open to the public and will be held at 8
p.m. Sunday nights, with the exception of
University holidays, Battle said.
Carrboro schools, but how much of a role
do SAT or American College Test,
which is prevalent in the West and Mid
west scores really play in the college
admissions process?
Not as much as many might think, said
James Walters, UNC director of under
graduate admissions, who said that a UNC
applicant’s SAT score only counted 20
percent in the decision to admit or deny
admittance. “The SAT score is second
ary,” Walters said. “We’re fairly specific
on the application. Sixty percent of the
weight is placed on high school academic
performance, which includes rank, grade
point average, strength of curriculum and
the strength of the secondary school they
attended.”
Nevertheless, the average SAT score of
an incoming UNC freshman is significantly
higher than the national average. The aver
age score of this year’s freshman class has
not been tabulated yet, but Walters said
last year’s mean combined score was 1,126
and this year’s was predicted to be almost
exactly the same.
He attributed the high average to the
caliber of students UNC admitted. “Be
cause we’re a flagship university, we enjoy
very strong academics,” he said. “Stronger
academic students tend to apply to UNC.
Applicants tend to have strong test scores. ’’
Although the average SAT scores of
out-of-state students are higher than those
of in-state students, Walters dispelled the
myth that UNC had any type of quotas
regarding in-state applicants. “Our appli
cants tend to reflect the population trends
of the state. We get more applicants from
heavier populated areas,” he said.
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onmemorybehavior,”Zeiselsaid. “When
the rats are put in a maze, those exposed to
it five days or more during the mother’s
pregnancy respond much better.”
Zeisel said he hoped his experiments
on rats’ brains would give him clues to
better understanding the brain activities of
humans and the effects of certain chemi
cals on mental ability.
In the meantime, however, eating break
fast seems like the best answer for early
morning sluggishness and failing test scores.
But not everyone can be convinced of
this. Roger Rice, a sophomore from
Griffon, said he rarely ate breakfast. He
said most of the time, his early morning
meal consisted of a glass of water.
“I don’t have enough time,” he said. “I
don’t have the appetite for breakfast. I have
never eaten breakfast consistently.”
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