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The University and Towns
In Brief
Chapel Hill Man Faces
Marijuana Charges
Christopher Lee Moody, 24, of 211
Glenmore Road, was arrested March 17
and charged with possession with the
intent to sell and deliver 401.5 grams of
marijuana.
According to police reports, Chapel
Hill police narcotics investigators and
the Durham police organized crime
division executed a search warrant at
211 Glenmore Road.
Moody was released with a written
promise to appear in Orange County
District Court in Hillsborough on
Monday.
Local Police Investigate
Embezzlement Case
Chapel Hill police have named no
suspects in a case of seven missing
deposits, worth $15,330 from
Brueggers Bagel Bakery located at 1800
E. Franklin St.
The missing deposits were reported
March 17 by a Brueggers employee.
Chapel Hill police Sgt. Becky Wilson
declined comment because the case is
still under investigation.
Brueggers also declined to comment
on the matter.
Campus Y to Sponsor
Weekend Conference
Students for the Advancement of
Race Relations will sponsor a “Face to
Race” conference at the Lake Junaluska
facility just outside of Asheville from
March 31-April 2.
The Face to Race retreat is designed
to bring a diverse group of students
away from campus for a weekend filled
with fun and educational programs that
deal with campus race relations, diver
sity and social justice.
All interested students are encouraged
to apply for the all-expenses paid trip.
Applications are available at the Campus
Y and the Student Union front desk.
For more information, contact
Jermain Reeves at
jreeves@email.unc.edu or Julianna Roy
at jroy@email.unc.edu.
Author to Examine
U.S.-African Relations
Phillippe Wamba, author of the book
“Kinship,” will speak at 6 p.m.
Thursday in Carroll Hall.
Wamba will discuss his book and the
connections between Africans and
African Americans, the subject of his
work.
The Organization of African
Students’ Interests and Solidarity is
sponsoring the visit. Copies of Wamba’s
book will be available for purchase.
There will be book signings before
and after the free event.
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Regional Emmy Award
A public television report about
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has
led to a regional Emmy award for four
University students.
Undergraduate journalism students
Emily Wissa and Dallas Smith and
graduate students Michael Cassell and
Stacey Hoffman won the award for the
students production category.
Their production, “Coping With
HIV,” aired on UNC-TV’s “North
Carolina Now” in December 1998.
The story was a combined effort
among the students in a medical jour
nalism class and producers at UNC-TV.
The Emmys were awarded at the
Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tenn.
To view the story on the Internet, go
to http://metalab.unc.edu/medicaljour
nalism.
Organization Seeks
Bake Sale Volunteers
Internationalist Books is looking for
baked goods donations for a bake sale
to raise money for women’s organizing
projects and the Orange County Rape
Crisis Center.
Men are encouraged to contribute to
the men’s baking brigade.
The baked goods should be dropped
off by 8 p.m. Friday at Internationalist
Books at 405 W. Franklin St. or the
Franklin Street post office.
The bake sale is scheduled for 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Franklin
Street post office.
Local Baseball Program
Searching for Coaches
The Carrboro Recreation and Parks
Department is accepting applications
for the 2000 Pee Wee League Baseball
Program. For additional information
contact the department at 968-7703.
From Staff Reports
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Nun's Talk to Headline Week
Death Penalty Week will
include real-life accounts
from death row inmates and
mock executions in the Pit.
By Lauren Bf.au
Assistant University Editor
The scheduled visit of a famous anti
death penalty activist has snowballed
into an entire week of death penalty
education events.
Sister Helen Prejean, who wrote the
book “Dead Man Walking,” which was
later made into a movie, will speak on
campus Wednesday as the highlight of
Death Penalty Week.
It was after Campus Y and the
Carolina Union Activities Board
secured Sister Prejean to speak at UNC
that Campaign to End the Death Penalty
members decided to organize a week of
death penalty education, said President
Kara Mannix.
“We had been talking about it for a
while,” she said. “It made the most sense
to organize it around Sister Prejean’s
visit.
“I’ve actually seen her speak before,
in high school,” Mannix said. “I totally
supported the death penalty until I
Award-Winning
Play Combines
Humor, Sorrow
"Wit" explores the barrage of emotions
a poetry professor is faced with when
she is diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
By Ferris Morrison
Staff Writer
Knowledge and intelligence can protect you from many
things in this world, except for the final leap into the great
unknown. But for a person who has protected herself for a life
time with such armor, it’s a difficult realization to make.
The Play Makers Repertory
Company production of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning “Wit” captures the per
fect combination of humor and
anguish to show just what cancer
does to the body and soul.
Director Drew Barr takes his audi
ence into the emotions of a cancer
victim through humor, sarcasm and finally brutal honesty. The
play follows a woman through a comical look at her cancer
treatment and a more somber look at her final days as she ulti-
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Rubella Outbreak Spurs Countywide Vaccinations
By Kelije Dixon
Staff Writer
The threat of the rubella vims reared
its head in Orange County last week
prompting reaction from the Latino
community and the county Health
Department.
About 200 people showed up for free
vaccinations from the Health
Department in an attempt to prevent an
outbreak of the disease, Health
Department Director Rosemary
Summers said.
The disease was brought to public
heard her speak - she’s an incredible
speaker.”
Prejean’s speech, scheduled for 8
p.m. Wednesday in Memorial Hall, will
follow several mock executions in the
Pit and a Tuesday panel discussion by
University and state officials.
Mannix said holding mock execu
tions - such as strapping down a “vic
tim” to a stretcher and simulating a
lethal injection - made the actual
process of an execution more real.
“Executions are always held at 2 in
the morning,” she
said. “Most people
are asleep and
don’t even realize
what’s going on.”
After the mock
execution Tuesday
afternoon, Sen.
Ellie Kinnaird, D-
Orange, and jour
nalism Professor
Chuck Stone will
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at 2 in the morning. Most
people are asleep and don 7 even
realize what’s going on. ”
Kara Mannix
Campaign to End the Death Penalty
join other panelists to discuss the politi
cal and legal history of the death penal
ty in North Carolina.
CUAB will hold a screening of “Dead
Man Walking” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in
the Carolina Union Auditorium.
Events will continue Wednesday with
a noon roundtable discussion sponsored
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attention following the diagnosis of four
Latino men March 8. Summers said the
first case was diagnosed March 1, and
three others were confirmed later.
Summers said rubella was a close
contact virus that was most threatening
to pregnant women because it could
cause mental or physical retardation in
the fetus, and in severe cases, fetal death.
“If she contracts (rubella), then her
fetus suffers the consequences,” she said.
Summers said it was not solely a
Hispanic issue, but because most other
countries did not offer immunizations,
the Latino population was more at risk.
News
The report cards are part of
the governor's First in
America plan to make N.C.
schools best in the nation.
By Lucas Fenske
Assistant State & National Editor
During a conference on education’s
future in North Carolina, Gov. Jim Hunt
announced a program to issue an annu
al education report card starting this fall.
Hunt gave the opening address at
Thursday’s annual meeting of the N.C.
Education Governing Boards, a collec
tion of groups that manage public and
private schools, held at the George
Watts Hill Alumni Center.
The educational report card is part of
Hunt’s First in America plan, an attempt
to make the N.C. K-12 education system
the best in the nation within 10 years.
“We in North Carolina have set an
ambitious goal, an audacious goal to
make our schools first in America by
2010,” Hunt said.
“The whole idea is to be completely
honest and very searching.
“We’re going to measure ourselves
every year - the good, the bad and the
ugly.”
by the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural
Center. Participants will discuss “Is the
Black Community Ignoring the Death
Penalty?”
A Thursday night event, “Live From
Death Row,” will allow students and
audience members to hear real-life
accounts from those sentenced to death.
“We actually have a phone discussion
with a death row inmate,” Mannix said.
Darby Tillis, who spent nine years in
prison, and Marlene Moore, national
director of the Campaign to End the
Against the Death Penalty on Saturday.
Mannix said publicity would be high
for the week’s events. “We want to edu
cate students and get more people
involved in the abolitionist movement."
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
PHOTO COURTESY OFJON GARDINER
Tandy Cronyn plays the part of Vivian Bearing, a poetry professor who is afflicted with ovarian cancer,
in the Play Makers Repertory Company production of "Wit," a 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by Margaret Edson.
U.S. citizens are required to receive a
vaccination before enrolling in school.
Rubella is a communicable virus that
can only run its course when it infects a
person. Its symptoms can include fever,
rash, muscle and joint pain, headache,
red, watery eyes and swollen lymph
nodes in the neck area. Summers said,
however, that not all need to be present
to constitute rubella.
“We want people to be cautious, but
not afraid,” she said.
John Herrera, board member of
Centro Latino, a Carrboro-based non
profit organization that promotes the
The report card would grade schools
on student performance, community
involvement and quality of teachers and
administrators.
It would also rate efforts to eliminate
the minority achievement gap and ease
access to health resources for all chil
dren.
“(The report card) will tell us very
clearly where we need to buckle down
and do a lot more work," Hunt said.
After the announcement, N.C. public
school and college officials discussed
ways to meet Hunt’s goal.
Mike Ward, state superintendent of
public instruction, said most of the goals
of Hunt’s plan mirrored the current
ABCs Plus plan, which grades schools
based partially on improving student
performance on end-of-course tests.
Ward said the public school system
was tackling the racial gap by examining
the test scores of ethnic groups and
awarding schools and teachers who help
close the gap.
“We can’t be first if progress for some
doesn’t become progress for all,” he
said.
H. Martin Lancaster, president of the
state community college system, said
community colleges would focus on
ways to educate parents, helping those
who dropped out of school recieve their
Interim Chief Tapped
For Chapel Hill Police
By Jenny Rosser
Staff Writer
A 25-year Chapel Hill police veteran
will take the helm as the department’s
interim leader following Chief Ralph
Pendergraph’s impending retirement.
Chapel Hill Town Manager Cal
Horton announced that Major Gregg
Jarvies, 45, would temporarily serve as
police chief after Pendergraph, 55, steps
down March 31.
Pendergraph, who announced his
retirement injanuary, has been with the
department for 27 years and has served
as police chief for eight years.
Jarvies said he would continue
Pendergraph’s legacy by maintaining
many of the programs he instituted,
including community policing.
“To be able to lead a department with
such qualified people is a great honor,”
Jarvies said.
Chapel Hill Mayor Rosemary
Waldorf saidjarvies was the best choice
for the job.
“He’s well-qualified and has experience
in both patrol and administration,” she
said. “He was also one of the primary peo
ple to institute community policing.”
Death Penalty, will
share their experi
ences and views of
the death penalty.
The week will
conclude with a
Friday night party
against the death
penalty, followed
by the annual
meeting of North
Carolinians
strengthening of the Latino community,
said the Health Department’s response
was not effective.
“The first thing to do is inform preg
nant women when the first case is iden
tified,” he said. “This was the best way to
contain (the disease), and that was not
done.”
Now, Herrera said, three new cases
were suspected in the Latino communi
ty but would not be confirmed until
blood tests were taken. One of those
cases occurred in Hillsborough, and the
other two were in the Chapel Hill-
Carrboro area.
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General Equivalancy Diploma.
“If we can give the parents tools to
make a better living, we can make them
a teacher in the home for their chil
dren,” he said.
Julianne Thrift, chairwoman of North
Carolina Independent Colleges and
Universities, said her group would focus
efforts on volunteering in the communi
ty and mentoring K-12 students.
“It’s not enough to have safe schools,
but we need caring schools,” Thrift said.
UNC-system President Molly Broad
said the state’s public universities would
also try to increase student interaction
with communities.
She said the Board of Governors was
considering a proposal to raise the min :
imum admission standards.
Broad said these efforts would
increase the success of both university
students and high school students.
Hunt said it was important for these
diverse education groups to cooperate in
their efforts to improve North Carolina’s
public school system.
“In achieving these goals, every pub
lic school will get better, every public
university a lot better and private uni
versities will improve.”
The State & National Editor can be
reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.
Jarvies joined the Chapel Hill Police
Department as a public safety officer in
1975. He was promoted in 1985 to lieu
tenant and served as the department’s
training officer.
Jarvies was made captain in 1986 and
has since served as a uniform patrol
commander and as the department’s
support services commander.
Horton said two other upper-level
positions needed to be filled in the
department before he would hire a per
manent police chief.
However, he said Jarvies was the
only person considered for the interim
position.
“His service in this post will allow us
to proceed deliberately as we consider
how to fill this important position,"
Horton stated in a press release. “It is
especially helpful because we already
are working to fill two other positions
vacated by retiring department heads.”
Horton said it was too early to tell
who would ultimately fill the permanent
position, but that Jarvies would most
likely serve as interim police chief for
several months.
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After calling a meeting with the
Health Department, Herrera said the
department was willing to perform a
more aggressive campaign. “We should
have a strategy in place on how to deal
with these cases,” he said. “Most Latinos
work in (Orange County). We need a
coordinated effort to vaccinate.”
Summers said the Health
Department would determine today the
need for future vaccination sites based
on the vaccination drive.
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
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