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The University and Towns
In Brief
Children’s Author Will
Address Kids, Adults
Seymour Simon, one of the nation’s
top authors of science books for chil
dren, will speak to children and adults
Tuesday in the Faculty Lounge of the
Morehead Building on East Franklin
Street.
In two programs titled “From Paper
Airplanes to Outer Space, Science
Books Are The Real Thing,” Simon will
talk especially for children at 4 p.m.,
and for adults at 8 p.m.
The event is part of this year’s Susan
Steinfirst Memorial Lecture for the
School of Information and Library
Science. For more information, visit
www.ils.unc.edu/ils/steinfirst.html or
call 843-8337.
N.C. Great Depression
Exhibit Set for Display
An exhibit titled “Seven-Cent Cotton
and 40-Cent Meat: North Carolina in
the Great Depression,” will be shown
through April 20 in the North Carolina
Collection Gallery in Wilson Library.
The exhibit will feature “Depression
glass” and scrip money printed by RJ.
Reynolds Tobacco Cos., photographs
and newspaper clippings on the
Depression’s social impact on N.C. res
idents.
The exhibit will be free to the public
and will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Mondays through Fridays, 9 a.m. to 1
p.m. Saturdays and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Sundays. Guided tours are offered at 2
p.m. Wednesdays or by appointment.
For more information, call 962-1172.
Reed Sarratt Lecture
To Discuss TV’s Future
The School of Journalism and Mass
Communication, as part of the Reed
Sarratt Lecture Series, will present a lec
ture on “The Road to Digital
Television,” in Carroll Hall Auditorium
at 7:30 p.m. April 25.
The lecture will be given by Dr.
Charles Sherman, who is executive vice
president of television for the National
Association of Broadcasters. The Sarratt
lecture series, begun in 1987, honors the
late Reed Sarratt, a Charlotte native and
1937 UNC graduate. For more infor
mation, call 962-4074.
Local Church to Hold
Services for Holy Week
University Presbyterian Church,
located at 209 E. Franklin St., will be
holding special events to observe Holy
Week. A Lenten worship service will be
held at noon Wednesday, followed by a
brown bag luncheon in Vance Barron
Hall. A Maundy Thursday service will
be held at 7:30 p.m., where the
Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper will be
served. There will be a Good Friday
worship service of Tenebrae at 7:30
p.m. and two services on Easter Sunday
at 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.
For more information, call 929-2102.
Department Seeks
Tennis Coach for Youth
The Chapel Hill Parks and
Recreation Department is looking for a
tennis instructor to teach youth ages 8 to
17. The pay is $lO per hour.
Classes are held on Monday and
Wednesday evenings May through
October, and instructors must be able to
teach all skill levels.
Those interested should go by the
Parks and Recreation Department,
located at 200 Plant Road. For more
information, call 968-2784.
Choir to Hold Service
For 21st Anniversary
The Little Angels of God Choir of
Mount Zion Christian Church in
Durham will be celebrating its 21st
Anniversary at 6 p.m Sunday.
The choir, composed of 57 children
between the ages of 5 and 13, will be
celebrating the theme of “I’ll Serve You
Lord.” The church is located at 3519
Fayetteville St.
For more information, call Gloria
Rentrope at 489-3273.
School Filling Slots for
Daily Summer Camp
The Kantner School in Hillsborough
will be holding its yearly summer camp
program for ages 5 to 12 fromjune 19
through August 12. Space is limited, so
those who are interested are encour
aged to sign up immediately. Activities
tyill be held on the Kantner School cam
pus from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. every
day.
For more information, call the
Kantner School at 732-7200.
From Staff Reports
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Members of Delta Delta Delta sorority devoted their Saturday to Project UNC. The girls served at the
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A Deadly Trend in Columbine’s Wake
Leaders, Parents
Still Searching
For Solutions
By Cheri Mei.fi
Assistant State & National Editor
One year ago, 12 Columbine High School stu
dents were probably battling cases of spring fever as
the school year began to wind down, and the warm
Colorado summer days drew closer.
Some were probably anxiously awaiting gradua
tion and college. Some were probably making plans
for the prom. Some were probably just preparing for
another normal week of school.
But the week that would follow was far from nor
mal, and these students never could have anticipat
ed the terror that would rip through their high school
April 20, 1999, filling their hallways with the echoes
of gunshots that would cause the deadliest incident
of school violence in the country’s history.
High school juniors Eric Harris and Dylan
Klebold came to school that Tuesday wearing black
trench coats and armed with guns and explosives.
They opened fire throughout the school, killing 12
students and a teacher before
taking their own lives.
And in the year since
Columbine, other incidents of
schoolyard shootings and
threats have ensued, causing
alarm throughout school sys
tems across the nation.
Although violence in
America’s schools was not a
new phenomenon, this out
break was different. It was no
longer one student killing
anolher over a girl or a leather
ASG Delegates Select
Webster as President
Cliff Webster will examine
various methods to increase
delegate involvement and
equity among UNC schools.
By Lucas Fenske
Assistant State & National Editor
In the mountainous surroundings of
Western Carolina University, the UNC
Association of Student Governments
selected Cliff Webster as its next presi
dent.
Webster, who now serves as student
body president at East Carolina
University, won the Saturday vote by a
landslide 27-4.
Andrew Payne, N.C. State University
student body treasurer, was Webster’s
sole opponent.
Webster will now represent students
throughout the system as a nonvoting
member of the Board of Governors.
Webster also faces several legislative
challenges this summer, including lob
bying the N.C. General Assembly for a
$38.6 million student financial aid pack
age and a multibillion dollar bond pack
age to pay for capital needs.
Webster said he hoped to create a
new environment within ASG.
“(I want to get) anew energy in the
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A year ago this week, Fran Allison and her daughter Brooke became one of several members
of the Denver community left in shock after the Columbine High School shootings.
jacket. The new group of shooters came to school
with high powered weaponry and shot almost indis
criminately, simply trying to kill as many of their
classmates as they could.
June Arette, associate director of the National
School Safety Center, said the recent high-profile
shootings had opened the public’s eyes to the
nature of school violence. “Before (the Columbine
shooting), the public perception was that these
kinds of things only happen at inner-city schools.”
But the nation would soon learn that these inci
dents could happen anywhere, as the numbers of
threats and shootings spread from coast to coast.
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organization that will make student
voices stronger.”
Webster said he also wanted this new
energy to spill into student dealings with
BOG members, UNC-system President
Molly Broad and state political figures.
Liz Gardner, UNC-Chapel Hill
sophomore and Webster’s running
mate, said they planned to hold a leg
islative lobbying day sometime later this
year in which students throughout the
system would petition state legislators
for the bond and financial aid packages.
She also said they hoped to increase
the recognition of ASG by visiting as
many campuses as possible in the next
few weeks.
“We want to sit down with the leaders
and get a dialogue going,” said Gardner,
who will serve as ASG vice-president.
Gardner said they planned to hold a
statewide conference next fall for stu
dent leaders, BOG members and state
legislators to discuss system equity and
needs.
“Once you get the dialogue started,
that’s when you see (projects) get start
ed,” Gardner said.
Jump starting dialogue was the rea
son Payne said he ran for ASG presi
dency. “We knew going in that we were
the underdogs," he said. “We just want-
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News
Union Set for Expansion Plan
By Derick Mattern
Staff Writer
After pushing back deadlines for
months, University officials broke the
ground outside of the Student Union on
Friday to commence the scheduled
expansion.
On the south lawn of the Union,
Carolina Union President Tony Arcese
and former President Lauren Sacks dug
in their shovels before an audience of
the Union’s board of directors, Provost
Dick Richardson and Union Director
Don Luse.
Construction will begin June 1 on the
$3 million Union expansion project that
officials started planning about eight
years ago.
Although the original plans called for
construction to begin last fall, plans
were pushed back until December 1999
and then again to the spring because of
bureaucratic red tape.
Student leaders passed out free ice
cream, cake and sodas to a live jazz
band’s beat before gathering in the West
Lobby to share their experiences in the
Union.
“The building will change drastically
over the next few years, but the princi
ples which direct it will be the same,”
Arcese said.
To enhance those principles, plans
include more conference rooms for stu-
See GROUNDBREAKING, Page 4
Monika Moore, steering
committee co-chairwoman,
said Project UNC exceeded
the organizers' goals.
By Harmony Johnson
Staff Writer
Almost 15 months of planning
became a realization for former Student
Body President Nic Heinke when stu
dents gathered in the Great Hall of the
Student Union on Saturday for Project
UNC, the first-ever campuswide com
munity service day.
Despite rainy weather and several
last-minute project alterations, more
than 40 organizations participated in
more than 40 projects.
“To see that many people come out
on a rainy Saturday morning was really
encouraging,” Heinke said.
Monika Moore, former vice presi
dent and steering committee co-chair
woman, said the number of Project
UNC participants exceeded the com
mittee’s goal.
“It shows that Carolina is a place
where people want to serve and if
given an opportunity, will serve,” said
senior Zach Fay, project committee
chairman.
ing, high school students nationwide began making
threats to carry out copycat attacks. One of the most
serious threats in Columbine’s wake occurred in
Wimberley, Texas, where five junior high school
students were arrested and charged with conspira
cy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit arson
and conspiracy to manufacture explosives.
And the danger hit home in North Carolina
when three Orange High School students were sus
pended only two days after the Columbine incident
for wearing black trench coats to school in an
attempt to scare their classmates.
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Former Carolina Union President Lauren Sacks (right) and President
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Monday, April 17, 2000
“That’s what this day is all about.”
An all-campus community service
day was part of Heinke’s platform when
he ran for student body president last
April.
In a brief speech to the students
Saturday morning, Chancellor-elect
James Moeser said he hoped the time
would come when all students participat
ed in some level of community service.
“Your commitment to service is going
to take (the University) to even greater
heights," Moeser said.
Service projects ranged from visiting
retirement home residents and cleaning
Forest Theatre to keeping score at a
three-on-three basketball tournament
that raised money for the Lineberger
Cancer Center.
“We’re hoping that by sending stu
dents to different places, it will spark an
interest in them to seek out places other
than the UNC campus to serve,” Fay
said.
Senior Mary Beth Cheshire and
members of her sorority, Delta Delta
Delta, worked outside in the rain at the
Carnivore Preservation Trust in
Pittsboro, an organization that breeds
endangered animals like ocelots and
jaguars.
The students were splattered with red
See PROJECT UNC, Page 4
Towns OK
Final Trash
Transfer
Despite some last minute
complications, local officials
say the landfill transfer to
the county can proceed.
By Lisa Crist
Staff Writer
The long-awaited day is finally here.
After years of negotiation, Orange
County will assume control of the high
ly disputed Chapel Hill landfill.
Today, the site located orf Eubanks
Road, now operated by
Owners Group composed of represen
tatives from Orange County, Chapel
Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough, will
be transferred entirely into the hands of
Orange County officials.
The landfill was first opened in 1972,
and the LOG was formed in 1987. The
Orange County Board of Commissioners
approved the plan to take over manage
ment of solid waste programs in June
1999, followed by the Carrboro Board of
Aldermen, who approved the transfer in
September 1999.
Chapel Hill Mayor Rosemary
Waldorf said the changeover, original
ly slated to take place last month, was
delayed by disputes over which 60 acres
of the 180 acres in a piece of land
known as the Greene Tract were to be
transferred for county use.
Gayle Wilson, director of solid waste
for Orange County, said the negotia
tions had been completed, allowing
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