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Students told members of the
Chancellor Search Committee
Thursday that the next chancellor
must be accessible to students.
By Katif. Abel & Laura Stoehr
Senior Writers
Students, faculty and staff put forth dozens
of qualities they want in UNC’s ninth chancel
lor, but the overiding message Thursday was
that the person must have an unwavering love
for the University.
While some students came in large groups
to the Carolina Inn to advocate a chancellor
who worked for causes like economic justice,
minority rights or arts, others showed up with
simpler requirements.
Sophomore Liz Gardner said a passion for
UNC would ultimately be a key quality for any
candidate. “We must choose a chancellor who
loves this University and will not let that
Carolina spark die.”
Every student who spoke to the 14
Chancellor Search Committee members said
the next leader should be accessible to students
and not get wrapped up in the administrative
confines of South Building. The committee will
use the suggestions to form a list of character
istics for the next chancellor before they send
a search firm to find candidates.
“I was impressed that so many people came
out so early in the year at such a busy time,”
said committee member Richard Williams.
Students looked to examples of past
University leaders to describe the kind of
leader they wanted to guide UNC into the new
millennium. Many praised the style of the late
Chancellor Michael Hooker, recalling his
promptness in responding to e-mail messages
or his willingness to meet students in Lenoir
Dining Hall during lunch.
“Asa freshman, I became aware that we had
a chancellor who cared and that trickled down
to me,” said junior Ann Quarles.
Representatives from Student for Economic
Justice and Students United for a Responsible
Global Environment read a statement advo
cating for a candidate who would have limit
ed ties to big business. “We need a person who
will create an intellectual space free from cor
porate control and accessible to all members of
the public,” a group of five members read.
See CHANCELLOR, Page 5
Bush Discusses Platform, Not Past
Texas governor and GOP
presidential candidate
George W. Bush visited the
Triangle on Thursday.
By Matthew B. Dees
State & National Editor
RALEIGH - GOP presidential
front-runner George W. Bush made his
first visit to North Carolina on
Thursday, using the opportunity to
expound on his “compassionate con
servative” agenda, not his past indiscre
tions.
The Texas governor appeared at an
after-school tutoring center for inner
city youths in Raleigh and at a SI,OOO
- fund-raiser at the Sheraton
Imperial Hotel in Durham that raised
more than $350,000 to pad his growing
presidential war chest.
Despite several questions from
reporters about allegations that he used
cocaine in his twenties, Bush tried to
focus the visit on his politics.
He emphasized the need to reduce
the role of government in society and
the need to set up a system that fostered
entrepreneurship and community-ori
ented volunteerism.
“I will be guided by the conservative
principle that government should do a
few things and do them well,” Bush told
a ballroom full of supporters.
“We must realize that culture changes
one heart, one soul, one conscience at a
time. The next great challenge is to rally
the armies of compassion.”
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
Jimmy Carter
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Karalyn Emrich, a senior from Gaffney, S.C., addresses the Chancellor Search Committee on Thursday afternoon at the Carolina
Inn. She urged the committee to pick a leader for UNC who would play an integral part in student life.
Press Pushes for Open Search Process
Delegates from the N.C. Press
Association and area newspapers
argued that the University should
disclose chancellor finalists.
By Courtney Hathaway
Assistant State & National Editor
Stressing UNC-Chapel Hill’s accountability
to the state, N.C. journalists collaborated
Thursday to pressure the Chancellor Search
Committee to open the final stages of the search
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Gov. George W. Bush of Texas shakes the hand of Demetrius Wright, 10. Bush toured the Heritage Park
Community Learning Center as part of a one-day campaign stop in North Carolina on Thursday.
He advocated new tax incentives that
included allowing citizens to receive a
tax credit for part of their state taxes
based on contributions to private and
religious charitable institutions.
Bush said the Community Learning
Center at the Heritage Park public hous
ing development in Raleigh, where he
spent about an hour Thursday after
noon, was a prime example of how gov
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to the public.
Though the committee is not legally bound
to release any information about the search
because it involves personnel matters, journal
ists pushed for the release of finalists’ names.
N.C. Press Association Vice President Tom
Boney said revealing the names of the final
chancellor candidates would build the public’s
confidence in the process and in the commit
tee’s choice. “The real benefit is to the public
and ultimately to the University itself,” Boney
said.
Citing other open searches in the state,
NCPA President Elizabeth Cook said the
ernment could facilitate social activism
in the private sector.
The Center, which offers basic edu
cational and job skills training for public
housing residents, receives 95 percent of
its funding from private businesses and
is staffed largely by volunteers.
Bush’s visit to the facility drew
swarms of media personnel and a large
crowd of onlookers from the surround
search for a Salisbury school superintendent
was opened, yielding positive results.
“As the candidates underwent public inter
views, the board was able to interact with the
public," Cook said, stressing the importance of
making the process as inclusive as possible.
“This is not just the University of the alum
ni and students, but of the people,” Cook said.
“We all have a vital stake in the continued suc
cess of the University.”
Thursday’s forum added to the already hot
debate in progress across the United States
See FORUM, Page 5
ing housing project.
Bush and his entourage arrived just as
a steady rain began to fall, but the can
didate took time to greet a group of chil
dren, rubbing heads and shaking small
hands, drawing bashful grins from the
older kids and looks of awed confusion
from the younger ones.
See BUSH, Page 5
N.C. Coast
Prepares
For Storm
As Hurricane Dennis stalled
in the Atlantic Ocean, N.C.
residents get ready for its
potential coastal onslaught.
By Sharon Liao
Staff Writer
Hurricane Dennis, inching its way
from the Bahamas, could gather speed
and storm North Carolina’s coast by
Sunday, meteorologists said Thursday.
“We urge
residents of the
Carolinas to
be wary of the
storm,” said
Bob Chartuk,
N.C. Universities
Brace for Dennis'
Potential Landfall
See Page 4
spokesman for the National Hurricane
Center in Miami, Fla. “There’s a defi
nite possibility that the hurricane could
be headed your way.”
Dennis got the attention of emer
gency officials Wednesday amid fore
casts that the former tropical storm was
on the move.
“We’re watching it just like everyone
else,” said Tom Ditt, a spokesman for
the N.C. Division of Emergency
Management in Raleigh.
See HURRICANE, Page 5
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Suspect
Denies
Charges
University Police say they
are confident they arrested
the right suspect in two
recent campus assaults.
By Katie Abel
Assistant University Editor
The attorney appointed to represent
the man arrested for assaults on two
female students on campus last week
said Thursday that University Police
nailed the wrong man.
Jesus-Alvarez Ramos was charged
Tuesday with one
count each of sec
ond-degree kid
napping, attempt
ed second-degree
rape and attempt
ed first-degree
rape in connec
tion with the
assaults Aug. 15
and Aug. 17.
But public
defender James
Williams said the
arrest was a case
of mistaken iden
tity.
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Suspect
Jesus Alvarez-
Ramos made his
initial appearance in
a Hillsborough court
Wednesday.
“Based upon
my investigation at this point, it appears
that Alvarez-Ramos has been mistak
ingly identified and falsely accused," he
said.
“It is rather common that police
identify people incorrectly,” Williams
said.
Alvarez-Ramos made his first
appearance Wednesday in a
Hillsborough courtroom. His first court
dale has been set for Sept. 2.
He also faces charges of misde
meanor possession of marijuana.
Employees at Carolina Coffee Shop,
where Alvarez-Ramos has worked as a
dishwasher for the last seven months
said they thought he was not capable of
committing such a crime.
David Dolan, manager of the
Franklin Street restaurant, said he
thought Alvarez was singled out
because of his race and the fact he was
working that night
“The only bad quality he had is that
See BOLO, Page 5
Friday
A Whole New Bean
After a shaky summer, which included
slumping sales and significant personnel
changes, the new manager of Franklin
Street’s Caffetrio says he has revamped
the menu to include better ingredients
and three new coffees. He also plans
to begin baking some of the shop’s
goods in-house. See Page 6.
Comeback Kids
UNC’s field hockey
team finished last
year a disappointing
13-8 after winning
three consecutive
NCAA titles from
1995-97. UNC’s
young 1999 squad
hopes to return to
its old form this season. See Page 7.
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to sit on the paper’s Association of
Student Leaders. Contact Managing
Editor Vicky Eckenrode at
vickye@email.unc.edu for details.
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