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Qlift Satlg Star p> bUb 104 yean of editorial freedom Serving fa students and fa University Police charge teens with drug possession ■ One of the teens says he found the marijuana and crack on Franklin Street. BY SEAN ROWE STAFF WRITER Pamela Wilkerson said she would stand firmly behind her two 16-year-old sons when they face trial Tuesday on charges of possessing marijuana and crack cocaine on campus. “If my sons say they’re innocent, then they’re innocent,” Wilkerson said Sunday. Twin brothers Ramin and Rashun Wilkerson will be tried in Chapel Hill District Court for their arrest Thursday on one count of simple possession of marijuana and one count of possession of a drug with intent to sell or deliver, police reports stated. The brothers’ uncle posted the bail Thursday set for $5,500, Wilkerson said. She said the telephone call from University Police surprised her because she said her sons had never been in trou ble with the police. “My heart almost failed,” Wilkerson said. “It was a shock.” University Police arrested the two Orange High School students in the Alumni Garden, according to reports. University Police officer Herbert Stubbs found six grams of marijuana and $396 on Ramin Wilkerson, of 9400 Nellie Gray Court, and 27 grams of IT'S THE SHOES W: ' * ill I jMB / Ipll 3 B DTH/JON GARDINER Vince Carter dunks at North Carolina’s annual media day on Sunday at the Smith Center. The Tar Heels open their season at home on Nov. 14. Group empowers Latinos with lessons of citizenship BY JENNY SPRINGS STAFF WRITER A group reaching out to help the Triangle’s Latino community extended its efforts further Sunday. El Pueblo held its first workshop to help immigrants learn how to become U.S. citizens at the United Church of Chapel Hill. “What we’re doing here is basically two things,” said Colin Austin, an El Pueblo board member. "We’re telling people the advantages to becom ing a citizen and the process for becom ing a citizen." The idea for the workshop started crack cocaine on Rashun. Although the teenagers admitted to smoking some of the marijuana, Rashun said he found the crack lying in a small green box beneath some bushes in the alley between the Chapel Hill post office and Four Comers restaurant. “I was going to give it to an officer because I didn’t want some kid finding it," Rashun said. She said her sons told her they had smoked marijuana before, but she did not believe the crack belonged to them. “Like (Rashun) told the man, he found the box and put it in his pocket,” Wilkerson said. She also said she gave Rashun $390 of her own money to pay the bills because she wanted it kept in a safe place. She said the money would not be spent or stolen from their trailer home while with one of her sons. Stubbs, who was on bike patrol, states in the police report that the strong smell of burning marijuana drew him over to the two teenagers and another man and woman standing in the garden. As he walked toward them, they walked away. Stubbs stopped the four, told them to sit on the ground and asked if they were carrying any controlled substances or weapons. Rashun admitted to having the crack after Stubbs said he would pat them down because he smelled the mar ijuana smoke. The box contained crack inside four plastic bags. See DRUGS, Page 6 when El Pueblo, located in the United Church of Chapel Hill at 211 W. Cameron Ave., sponsored a voter regis tration drive last fall. “We did register many people, but we found that the vast majority of Latinos in this area were not citizens and therefore could not vote,” Austin said. El Pueblo registered 2,000 people to vote three months before last November’s election. “Most Latinos in the area wanted to vote but couldn’t because they weren’t citizens,” said Katushka Olave, another El Pueblo See EL PUEBLO, Page 6 Monday, October 20,1997 Volume 105, Issue 92 Research: the 4th R’ BYEVANSAUDA much into my subject, and I like that would otherwise take it “Now we have to make teac STAFF WRITER communicating with people who much longer to achieve. ing our first duty rather than o are knowledgeable in it,” said Research at the University has second,” Buck said. ) When most people Thomas E. Hill Jr., a Kenan pro- undergone many changes Research is, in one sense, t think of a research uni- fessor of philosophy. throughout the years, said chem- BYEVANSAUDA l STAFF WRftER When most people think of a research uni versity, places like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology often come to mind but not necessari ly UNC. But research is one of the three main missions of the University. During the last four years, the research done on the UNC cam pus has brought in more than $4 million in funding and more than 60 U.S. patents. The number of disclosures, which are ideas reported to the University’s Office of Technology Development as worthwhile inventions, is climb ing. The number has risen 32 per cent since 1993, when 71 were reported. Ninety-four disclosures have been received so far this year. Many students associate research with long papers and late nights spent at the library, which are not always desirable experiences. Many professors, however, said they were here because they enjoyed doing original research in their field. “I write because I’m very Publish Perish A five-part series exploring the importance of research at UNC. I Today: Defining research. ■ Tuesday: The politics of funding research. ■ Wednesday: Where do professors get support to balance teaching and research? ■ Thursday: The differences between various departments’ research. ■ Friday: The private sector's influence. Intel grants $2.4 million to UNC department ■ UNO’s computer science department is one of 13 schools to receive a grant. STAFF REPORT The Intel Corp. granted the Department of Computer Science $2.4 million to help the department and research collaborators with purchasing equipment over the next three years. Intel invited universities across the United States to submit grant proposals. UNC’s computer science department was one of these. Intel, maker of the Pentium microchip installed in most home com puters, began the second phase of its “Technology for Education 2000" pro gram by awarding 13 universities an Morning-after pill might be pre-packaged ■ FDA approval is pending to market birth control pills for day-after treatments. BY NAVID AHDIEH STAFF WRITER Prevention of unplanned pregnancy using a “pre-packaged” morning-after pill could soon become a possibility. For the first time, a pharmaceutical company hopes to directly market a pre packaged series of birth control pills specifically for use as an emergency oral contraceptive. In the spring, the Food and Drug Administration approved the second use of birth control pills as a morning after treatment, but at the time drug companies shied away from marketing the drugs for that purpose. These pills will come complete with instructions and a list of side effects, said Greg Clement, executive vice pres ident of sales and marketing for the pharmaceutical company, Gynetics Inc.. Gynetics awaits FDA approval for the marketing of Ovral, a commonly used oral contraceptive, as an emer gency contraceptive. The package will include four pills; two pills to be taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex and two more pills 12 hours later. The logic of the heart is absurd. Julie de Lespinasse much into my subject, and I like communicating with people who are knowledgeable in it,” said Thomas E. Hill Jr., a Kenan pro fessor of philosophy. Professors often involve stu dents in their research, both graduates and undergraduates. “I’ve had tons of undergradu ates who do research,” said Holden Thorp, a professor in the Department of Chemistry whose current research project deals with nucleic acid oxi dation. “I do the best job I can with graduates and undergraduates,” Thorp said. “It’s good for every one.” Companies often provide money to gradu ate students in exchange for help with a project. This enables stu dents to continue their education and lets the com pany get results award similar to UNC’s. “We’ve always had a close relation ship with Intel in the past, but this takes it to anew level,” said Tim Quigg, asso ciate chairman of the department. “Technology for Education 2000” is Intel’s S9O million initiative to donate high-speed, multimedia computers, workstations, servers and networking hardware and software to U.S. universi ties over the next three years. Intel designed the program to support academic research and curriculum development in a broad spectrum of computer-related areas. “The second and final set of propos als for Intel’s ‘Technology for Education 2000’ continued to show how Intel architecture can address the computa tional needs of the leading university researchers,” stated Tim Saponas, Intel’s Using Emergency Contraceptive Pills Any of the birth control pills listed below can be used as Emergency Contraceptive Pills (ECPs). Use only the type of pill your health care provider prescribed for you. Use only one type of pill. If you an* ?akm<3 Ovral 2 white pills 2 white pills Lo/Ovral 4 white pills 4 white pills Levlen 4 light-orange pills 4 light-orange pills Nordette 4 light-orange pills 4 light-orange pills Tri-Levi en 4 yellow pills 4 yellow pills Triphasil 4 yellow pills 4 yellow pills ■ To reduce the chance of nausea, take an antFnausea medicine one hour before the first ECP dose: repeat according to labeled instructions. This might make you feel tired, so don't drive or drink any alcohol. ■ Take the first ECP dose as soon as convenient within three days (72 hours) after unprotected sex. ■ Take the second ECP dose 12 hours after the first dose. •nuu w a rnnwAN wok mf-ntnanmc ant moons SOURCE PATH Gynetics’ emergency oral contracep tive will be a prescription drug, Clement explained. It would be up to the individual physician to decide if he or she would give patients a prescription to keep handy “just in case,” or if they would require patients to come in for a visit before obtaining a prescription, he said. Emergency oral contraceptives work just like birth control pills and are not new, unique drug formulations. Morning after pills reduce the chances of becoming pregnant by approximately 75 percent, stated infor mation from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Physicians have traditionally used combinations of pills in order to provide the morning-after pill. They have never that would otherwise take it much longer to achieve. Research at the University has undergone many changes throughout the years, said chem istry Professor Richard P. Buck. Stretched thin 4H| UNO professors devote hours to research as well as teaching. The research has resulted in 143 licensed inventions and 100 issued patents total in fiscal years 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997. licensed inventions ' Wbmnmbnmnßi issued U.S. patents 40- | P ° 93 94 95 96 97 | SOURCE: UNC OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT DTH/ANDRES FERNANDEZ corporate contributions manager, in a press release. Quigg said the University would divide the award money into two cate gories. The department will use some money to set up two large student labs for teach ing —one for hardware systems and one for advanced networking and Internet technology. The department will use the remain ing money to support seven different research efforts where the computer sci ence department is in a “direct collabo rative basis” with other departments or schools. Thirty-one faculty and staff members as well as several dozen graduate stu dents from nine academic and clinical departments including physics, educa tion, medicine, and biochemistry will Hurtibae af pdbs to avwttcw 12 ncorj later {second dosei Wurotnw of jrttc to wallow en mm 4* (first riomf IMPORTANT: Do not take any oxtra ECPs. DTH/JAKE ZARNEGAR had the luxury of a pre-packaged set of pills. “We’ve been using emergency oral contraceptives for a very long time,” she said. “In fact, I was a resident (at UNC Hospitals) starting in 1982, and we were using it then.” Emergency oral contraceptives are not like RU4B6, the controversial abor tion pill that terminates a pregnancy once a fertilized egg becomes implanted in the uterine wall, Clement stressed. “With emergency oral contraceptives, you use the pills before the egg has been implanted,” Clement said. One major factor of the morning after pills is that they avoid the need for abortion, Colm said. See MORNING AFTER, Page 6 News/Features/Arts/Sports: Business/ Advertising: Chapel Hill, North Carolina C 1997 DTH Publishing Corp. AH tights reserved. “Now we have to make teach ing our first duty rather than our second,” Buck said. Research is, in one sense, the See RESEARCH, Page 6 use the Intel-sponsored equipment. Quigg said this $2.4 million grant from Intel was not just a one-time award. “They refer to this as a ‘special uni versity relationship,”’ he said. “Now we’re in the special relation ship, so we have the opportunity to do much future work.” Quigg also said the department would soon begin discussing new pro posals with Intel as well as other funding needs on campus. “The equipment provided through this award will support our efforts to expand courses and train students to be better prepared for tomorrow’s jobs,” Quigg stated in a press release. “This award marks the beginning of what we hope will be a long and fruitful relationship between Intel and UNC.” INSIDE Let the games begin This week's Op-Ed presents the candidates for Chapel HilF Carrboro Board of Education and their platforms for the future of the district. Page 15 In the eye of the beholder Want to go as Michael Jackson in Thriller for Halloween? Now you can complete the look with freaky yellow contacts. Page 4 ♦ ‘Ms.’ feminist philosophy 9 Famous feminist Gloria Steinem will speak for free in the Great Hall Thursday. Several students and professors anticipate hearing her message. Page 2 # Today's weather Sunny; low 70s Tuesday Partly cloudy; mid 60s 962-0245 962-1163
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