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Monday, April 17, 2000
VIOLENCE
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The next day, two McDougle Middle
School students were suspended for
telling other students that there were
bombs in the school.
But on May 20, 1999, exactly one
month after the Columbine shooting,
the threats of violence that had spread
throughout the country’s schools
became a reality once again - this time
at Heritage High School in Conyers, Ga.
Fifteen-year-old Thomas Solomon Jr.
broke into his parents’ locked gun cabi
net and obtained a .22 caliber rifle and a
.357 Magnum revolver. He snuck the
weapons into Heritage by concealing
them in the leg of his baggy blue jeans
and in his book bag. Solomon entered
ASG
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ed to get our agenda on the minds of
ASG delegates.”
Payne said his agenda included mak
ing ASG more issue-oriented. Gardner
said many of Payne’s outreach ideas
would be incorporated into Webster’s
agenda.
Outgoing ASG President Jeff
Nieman hailed Webster as a leader, cit
ing his experience as a student repre
sentative and his administrative
prowess.
“Aside from the platform, if you just
look at the man, he’s got it.”
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the school and opened fire in the com
mons area, wounding six students.
But the tragedy did not end with the
school year.
On Aug. 10. 1999, Buford Furrow Jr.
entered a Jewish day-care center in
Granada Hills, Calif., shooting and
wounding three children and two adults.
And when the school year resumed
in the fall, the threats and shootings still
were not over.
In December 1999, Columbine high
school faced another scare and closed its
doors two days early for the Christmas
holiday when a Florida man sent a
Columbine student an Internet message,
threatening to finish the April massacre.
As one school violence episode after
another made headlines, the public was
shocked again - this time by the age of
a school-yard assailant.
LANDFILL
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today’s transfer to take place.
“Issues of how to handle that partic
ular asset have (now) been resolved,” he
said. “It’s all systems go."
Chapel Hill Town Council member
Kevin Foy said the decision was part of
a long negotiation between all the
involved parties.
“It’s been about a 10-year process,” he
said. “Everyone is very pleased with how
smoothly the process has gone so far.”
Foy also said landfill users would not
be greatly affected by the change.
“Things have been well-planned,”
he said. “The change should be pretty
seamless.”
Wilson expressed similar expecta-
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On March 29, the danger progressed
from middle and high schools to an ele
mentary school in Mount Morris
Township, Mich., when a first-grade boy
brought a .32 caliber semiautomatic gun
to school with him and shot his 6-year
old classmate, Kayla Rolland, point
blank in the chest.
And only a few days ago, on April 14,
two 17-year-old boys from Summerville
High School in Tuolumne, Calif., were
arrested for planning an attack on their
high school to kill students and teachers
on the Columbine shooting anniversary.
This string of events, along with the
magnitude of public attention given to
school violence after the rampage in
Columbine, prompted many officials to
ask themselves and the nation who was
responsible for these acts.
Some blame the media. Some blame
tions for the impact of the switch on the
county government.
According to Wilson, the landfill has
its own annual budget of $6 million as
part of an enterprise fund and will not
add any burden to the county govern
ment. “I don’t think it will affect county
government,” he said. “It’s a unique
operation.”
Wilson also said the transition was
going smoothly for landfill employees,
despite initial concerns over different
benefits and compensation packages.
“There has been some anxiety," he
said. “All in all, we’ve worked through
most of the issues.”
Waldorf also commented on the
changes for the landfill employees as a
result of the switch. “The main matter is
that the employees who run the landfill
system will become county officials,”
she said. “But their day-to-day opera
tions will be the same.”
Waldorf also added the Town
Council was relieved that the negotia
tions were complete.
“We won’t have to deal with solid
waste issues anymore," she said. “I’m
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the government, calling for them to re
examine gun-control laws. Others
blame the parents, teachers and school
administrators.
But officials from violence prevention
groups said it was more important to
focus on how to react to these incidents,
instead of trying to place blame.
Jane Grady, assistant director of the
Center for the Study and Prevention of
Violence at the University of Colorado-
Boulder, said that after the Columbine
shooting, school authorities were anx
ious to put metal detectors and security
guards in schools. But she added that
these methods were not addressing the
root of the school violence problem.
“(The metal detectors and security
guards) aren’t going to change what’s
going on,” Grady said. “These things are
only serving the symptom.”
sure the county commissioners will do a
great job.”
Carrboro Alderman Jacquelyn Gist
said she felt a similar sense of relief,
though she did not view the changeover
in such a positive light.
“We’re all exhausted,” she said.
“Nobody is 100 percent happy. This is
the best solution that well-thinking peo
ple of integrity have been able to come
up with. Until we as a society are able to
reduce, reuse and recycle - trash exists.”
However, Gist said she thought con
centrating the landfill under the man
agement of a single party rather than the
separate bodies of Chapel Hill,
Carrboro and Hillsborough would bet
ter equip the site to deal with waste
management issues. “There’s nothing
harder than a landfill,” she said. “All
issues come to a head.”
Wilson summed up the sentiments of
finally coming to a conclusion about the
issue. “It’s been nice working for Chapel
Hill,” he said. “But that’s history.”
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Dr. Pam Riley, director of the Center
for Prevention of School Violence at
N.C. State University, said the answer
lay in community involvement. “Most
importantly, we need to talk to students
and get them involved in safe-school
planning - they are the ones who are in
that environment on a day-to-day basis.”
But with the one-year mark of the
Columbine shooting approaching, the
country is still looking for answers about
how to squelch this deadly trend.
Riley said it was important to realize
that the seemingly random shootings
and rampages of the last year could not
be viewed simply as isolated incidents.
“The ‘it can’t happen here’ mentality
can no longer be accepted.”
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PROJECT UNC
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mud and several wore oversized leather
work gloves after a day of painting, fill
ing deep trenches with dirt and replac
ing the wood chips that lined the floors
of the animal cages.
But even with shoes caked with mud
and dirt, Cheshire admitted that the ser
vice project was a fun way to spend a
Saturday.
“The cool thing about Project UNC
is that it put me in contact with a group
I never knew existed,” Cheshire said.
Junior Dee Byers joined Project
UNC with several of her sorority sis
ters. Byers’ project was to help the
Orange County Women’s Center with
gardening and general housekeeping.
“With the enthusiasm we have, we’ll
have a good time and help people in the
process,” she predicted early Saturday
morning.
Byers’ prediction rang true, as was
evident in the broad smile on her face
after a day of pulling weeds and wash
ing windows.
“It was great,” she said. “It gave me a
chance to see Carolina students pull
together for a common cause, and it
showed that students really care.”
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GROUNDBREAKING
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dent groups as well as lounges, snack.
bars and computer rooms.
“We spend more time here than we
do in our apartments or dorm rooms,”
Sacks said.
“Ten thousand students walk through
(here) every day.”
But the construction will present
roadblocks for students’ daily traffic pat
terns, so plans have been made to
detour them around frequently walked
areas.
Once the construction is finished on
the addition is completed a year from
now, student offices will be temporari
ly moved into the new section while
waiting for the old part of the Union to
be renovated.
Although some students had been
working on the project since its incep
tion, they said they did not feel the
groundbreaking signified the conclusion
of their plans and vision.
“Once things are in the ground and
become an inconvenience, then it will
feel like something’s happening,” said
Tommy Koonce, Union president from
1995-1996.
“And we will be challenged to fill it
with the creativity and energy of (the
existing Union).”
Calling the Union the “living room
of the University,” Vice Chancellor for
Student Affairs Sue Kitchen stressed
that it was the one place on campus that
belonged solely to students.
Kitchen said students had voted
overwhelmingly in favor of increasing
student fees to fund the expansion in a
spring 1998 referendum.
She emphasized the Union’s tradi
tion of nurturing student leadership,
and pointed out that its namesake,
Franklin Porter Graham, had been an
accomplished student leader himself
during his time at UNC.
Koonce summed up the leaders’
hopes in the future Union by quoting
Graham’s epitaph: “We had faith in our
youth, and they responded with their
best.”
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