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Sunday, Nov. 7
■ Angela Annette Atwater, 38, of
861 Airport Road in Chapel Hill was
arrested at 10:10 p.m. after officers
responded to a report of a stabbing.
When police arrived at the scene, the
suspect admitted she stabbed her sister.
Atwater was charged with a felony
count of assault with a deadly weapon
inflicting serious injury.
After her arrest, officers discovered
Atwater was already wanted by author
ities on a misdemeanor charge of failure
to appear in court.
As of Friday, Atwater was being held
in the Orange County Jail in
Hillsborough in lieu of a SSOO secured
bond.
■ Leocadio Valazquez, 46, of 4230
Garrett Road, Apt. J 1 was arrested
Sunday morning after police discovered
he was wanted in Texas for charges of
aggravated sexual assault of a child.
Police originally stopped the suspect
on Fordham Drive for a routine child
safety-seat violation.
A short while later, police deter
mined he had a SIOO,OOO bond in Texas
and arrested him at the comer of
Fordham Drive and Eastowne
Boulevard.
Valazquez is being held in Orange
County Jail in Hillsborough, pending
extradition to Texas.
Friday, Nov. 5
■ Palmer Quinton Clark, 22, of 313
Sunset Drive was arrested Friday after
noon on felony possession charges.
Clark tried to flee when officers
attempted to arrest him for a misde
meanor failure to appear charge.
Clark was charged with possession
with intent to distribute crack-cocaine.
Nine rocks of crack-cocaine were
found in his right hand and four grams
of marijuana were found in his right
sock.
As of Friday, Clark was being held in
the Orange County Jail in Hillsborough
under $ 10,000 bond.
■ A 14-year-old male student at East
Chapel Hill High School was arrested
Friday for marijuana possession.
ECHHS Assistant Principal Jackie
Boyd called authorities after marijuana
was found in the suspect’s backpack.
Sixty-eight and nine-tenths grams of
marijuana were found individually
wrapped.
University
Monday, Nov. 8
■ After parking his vehicle in the
N.C. 54 visitors parking lot on Nov. 5 at
4 p.m., a UNC student returned to the
vehicle at 7:50 a.m. Nov. 8 and found
damage to the car, police reports stated.
According to police reports, the front
windshield had been shattered and the
left side of the vehicle had been dam
aged.
It appeared that the damage was
caused by a subject kicking the vehicle,
due to the fact that there were footprints
all over the front and left side of the
vehicle, police reports stated.
No further information was provid
ed.
Sunday, Nov. 7
■ Police apprehended a juvenile
who was seen by one of the concession
stand attendants with his hands in the
Classic Foods Services Van at the Smith
Center.
Reports stated that the juvenile was
taken to the police station where he was
turned over to his father. Police also
issued the juvenile a trespass warning.
Nothing was found to be missing from
the van.
■ A UNC employee found personal
items missing from his desk in
MacNider Hall, according to police
reports.
According to the reports, a backpack,
some currency and a drill were all
taken.
There were no signs of forced entry
and items were only taken from his
desk, reports stated.
Saturday, Nov. 6
■ Emergency Medical Services were
called to Craige Residence Hall after a
student experienced abdominal pains.
Reports stated that the student was
transported to Student Health Service.
Thursday, Nov. 4
■ Police reports stated that a laptop
computer and cash was stolen from
Hinton James Residence Hall.
According to the reports, the missing
personal property was estimated at
$3,100, and the U.S. currency was esti
mated at S3O.
Council Reaffirms Landfill Transfer Decision
Bv Robert Albright
Staff Writer
Although town leaders have already
transferred responsibility of solid waste
management to the county, the ongoing
debate over facility sites flared up once
again Monday night.
Wanting to uphold the solid waste
agreement with the Orange County
Board of Commissioners, Chapel Hill
Town Council members voted 8-1
against a resolution regarding the future
use of the Greene and Neville Tracts,
located just outside town limits.
Town Council member Joyce Brown,
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for fans. More than a thousand people came to Student Stores waiting in a line that started in the Pit to have
their book signed by the Tar Heel's legendary coach.
State Unveils Standards
For Student Promotion
By Megan Butler
Staff Writer
For the first time in N.C. schools, stu
dents will be held partially accountable
for their own academic achievement
through new state standards introduced
Monday.
The N.C. Board of Education has
developed Student Accountability
Standards to pinpoint students who are
below grade proficiency and bring them
up to the grade level standard.
The new standards partly stem from
complaints from the state’s higher edu
cation institutions and businesses, alleg
ing that students with high school diplo
mas often do not meet the standards
expected of high school graduates.
The goal of the Student
Accountability Standards is to improve
student achievement, said Marvin
Dyson Urges Racial Truth-Seeking
By Laura Stoehr
Senior Writer
A former UNC professor called on
Memorial Hall audience members to be
candid about their racial beliefs and
open themselves to discussion.
“We’ve got to tell the truth about race
in America,” said Michael Eric Dyson,
now a professor at DePaul University.
“... (And) the truth is everyone notices
race.”
Dyson delivered Monday night’s
speech, the keynote address for the
Campus Y’s Race Relations Week, in his
noted style. He dished cultural savvy
and humor, at times emphasizing words
with his minister’s bellow, even speak
ing with a stereotypical “white” voice.
who proposed the resolution, said town
and county officials should further
examine the best uses for these intense
ly debated tracts of land.
“I do not think the usage of this land
is appropriate for solid waste,” Brown
said. “We need to keep these tracts of
land as undivided and natural areas.”
Sixty acres of the Greene Tract were
reserved for the possible usage of a solid
waste transfer station or a recycling cen
ter as part of the Interlocal Agreement,
which was signed Sept. 28 by Chapel
Hill, Carrboro and Orange County gov
ernment officials.
Those opposed to Brown’s resolution
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Pittman, spokesman for the Public
Schools of North Carolina Board of
Education, in a Monday media briefing.
The standards include four “gate
ways” at grades three, five, eight and 11
that would include proficiency exams in
certain subjects, Pittman said.
He also said students would be
required to pass an exit exam prior to
graduation.
Pittman said the standards would
bring below-proficiency students up to
grade level through a multistep process.
He said students who performed
poorly would have a chance to repeat
an exam shortly after taking it, to pin
point students who truly needed help.
If the student again scored below pro
ficiency, the school would administer a
focused intervention, to “diagnose
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That style stirred controversy at
UNC when Dyson spoke at the
December 1996 Commencement. In
that speech, some audience members
walked out when he quoted profane rap
lyrics and heavily criticized former
UNC basketball star Michael Jordan.
Monday night, he made two dis
claimers about his noted speaking style.
“I’m an equal opportunity pisser
offer,” Dyson said. “I’m a paid pest.”
He called audience members to ques
tion their beliefs, even cultural lingo.
“We talk about keeping it real,” he
said. “(But) whose real is real?”
What was real, Dyson said, differed
between people. In order to advance,
people must recognize, not judge differ
ences. “We think my different is better
News
said Chapel Hill must remain commit
ted to the agreement.
“The bottom line is that we need to
go ahead with the Interlocal
Agreement,” Town Council member
Julie McClintock said.
Brown’s proposal called for the Town
Council to have mediated dialogue with
County Commissioners in hopes of tak
ing the 60 acres out of consideration as
a future waste management facility.
In her resolution, Brown said the two
tracts of land should be kept intact and
maintained as natural community assets.
Town Council member Flicka
Bateman said Brown’s resolution dis
Film Festival to Hit Campus
By Shindy Chen
Staff Writer
“El Norte.” “Women on the Verge of
a Nervous Breakdown.” “Men with
Guns.” “Like Water for Chocolate."
Foreign films like these have risen out
of a century of ground-breaking Latin
American cinema to impress interna
tional audiences. This month the XIII
Latin Ami ; ran Film and Video Festival
will celeb .uj the birth and growth of
the genre with viewings at UNC and
other campuses across the state.
“The festival is a retrospective of
Latin American film in the 20th century
and also a focus on the presence of
music and dance in the genre," said the
festival’s organizer Sharon Mujica, also
Outreach Director of the Duke/UNC
Program in Latin American studies.
The festival kicks off Wednesday,
with month-long screenings at the
Hanes Art Center Auditorium and a
finale at the Carolina Union
than your different,” he said.
Dyson challenged audience members
to go beyond expanded thinking. “Don’t
just think different,” he said. “Act differ
ent... in the midst of difference.”
But these steps would only lead to the
truth when people were frank about
their own beliefs, Dyson said.
“Learn to take the risk of self-disclo
sure,” he advised.
Later in his speech, Dyson said peo
ple should be allowed to speak in their
own voice and challenged notions about
ebonies.
He said members of a California
school district who broached teaching
ebonies in school misunderstood the
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couraged the Interlocal Agreement. She
said the proposal did not allow the
Greene Tract to be considered for solid
waste activities.
“(Brown’s proposal) would jeopardize
the Interlocal Agreement,” Bateman
said.
“It would undo what has been done
so fen.”
Although the council rejected
Brown’s environmental plea, council
members said they needed to make it
known to the county that other sites in
the area should be examined for a waste
transfer facility.
“None of us want the Greene Tract to
Search Continues
For 1 Suspect in
Armed Robbery
Police are still searching for a suspect in an
armed robbery that left one man in the
hospital after he suffered a gunshot wound.
Bv Jenny Rosser
Staff Writer
Police are still looking for suspects in two unrelated armed
robberies in Carrboro that left one man hospitalized and
another in jail.
The victim of one of the robberies was taken to UNC
Hospitals by two acquaintances at about 1:21 a.m. Sunday
after an alleged robbery ended in a gunshot, police reports
state. The victim was treated but has since been released from
the hospital.
Capt. Joel Booker of the Carrboro Police Department said
the victim claimed he was leaving a residence when three or
four men, one of whom was holding a handgun, confronted
him and demanded he hand over his wallet.
“The victim said his wallet contained $1,500,” Booker said.
The victim then fought with the gunman, and during the
altercation, the gun went off, reports state.
Booker said the victim’s injuries were not life-threatening
and the victim received immediate medical attention.
“The bullet penetrated the victim’s upper leg,” Booker said.
“A couple more inches to the left and it could have been con
siderably worse.”
Booker said police had no leads in the case because the vic
tim did not know where the incident occurred and did not
provide a description of the robbers.
“The victim said he did not know the area but that a friend
from the Carrboro area took him to a gambling house,” he
said. “He said he didn’t know where the house was, but that it
was several hundred feet from the road.”
According to police reports, the victim was intoxicated.
Booker said once the victim recuperated, he could ride
with police and attempt to pinpoint the location of the crime.
Police do not know of the alleged gambling house that the vic
tim referred to.
“We’re looking into it, but we don’t even know if it hap
pened in Carrboro,” he said.
“If we can establish the location, then we may have more
leads.”
In an unrelated incident, police arrested Michael Lever on
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Auditorium.
The event will open with a three
minute artistic film, “Bleeding Hearts,”
which mixes elements of gender with
the music of an old Mexican ballad.
The second movie, “El Compadre
Mendoza,” is a full-length film and was
one of the first sound pictures in
Mexican cinema.
Helping celebrate the centenary fes
tivities Nov. 22 is Mexican film director
Marcela Fernandez Violante. Following
his pre-film discussion will be a showing
of Mexican film “Black Angustias,” out
lining a girl’s conversion after she is
ostracized for her independence and
rejected for love due to race and class.
UNC’s Latin American interest
group CHispA will be participating on
this date. “We’re incorporating one of
our weekly meetings by taking our
entire group to the film. We also want to
get recognition by showing support for
the Department of Latin American stud
ies,” President Erica Hamilton said.
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be used for solid waste purposes,”
Mayor Rosemary Waldorf said.
McClintock said residents should
voice any concerns to the county com
missioners, who now have the final say
in future waste management decisions.
Orange County Commissioner
Moses Carey said he agreed with the
decision against the proposal.
“I think everyone worked in good
faith in signing the agreement,” he said.
“It would be a shame to see it crumble at
this time.”
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
The final film, “Tango,” will be
shown Nov. 23, at the Carolina Union
Auditorium. “Tango” received Oscar
and Golden Globe nominations for Best
Foreign Language Film in 1999 and tells
of a tango dancer who falls in love with
his dance partner, only to clash with her
gangster boyfriend.
John Chasteen, UNC associate pro
fessor of history, said many of the films
incorporated music and dance, reveal
ing an important part of the culture from
which the genre emerged.
“Latin American music and dance is
very important to (the culture’s) identi
ty. Film lends itself to the reproduction
of music and dance,” he said.
Show times are at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 10,
14, and 22 at the Hanes Art Center
Auditorium and 7 p.m. Nov. 23 at the
Carolina Union Auditorium. Admission
is free.
The Arts & Entertainment Editor can
be reached at artsdesk@unc.edu.
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