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Wednesday, October 18, 2000
The University and Towns
In Brief
Police Promote Bicycle,
Pedestrian Awareness
On Tuesday, two Chapel Hill police
officers passed out fliers at the comer of
Franklin and Columbia Streets advising
pedestrians to use crosswalks and obey
crossing signals, and bicyclists not to
ride on sidewalks. The fliers said viola
tors could receive citations.
New crossing signals at the intersec
tion show a 10-second countdown of the
time allowed for pedestrians to cross.
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Campus Calendar
Today
noon - Theta Nu Xi multicultural
sorority Inc. is co-sponsoring an
Around the Circle discussion on
“Stomping on Stereotypes” with the
Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center
for Race Relations Week.
4:30 p.m. - Come leam about
anthropology courses before you reg
ister! The Anthropology Council will
be hold a course critique in 313 Alumni.
5:30 p.m. -The Black Student
Movement will hold a general body
meeting in Upendo Lounge. The meet
ing topic will be: What is the difference
between the BSM and the BCC?
5:30 p.m. - Director of Athletics
Dick Baddour and Shawn Durham, a
sports media columnist for the Durham
Herald-Sun, will critique the sports
media in a program in 33 Carroll Hall.
6 p.m. - The Wesley Foundation will
meet for dinner and the program “God
and Politics,” in preparation for the
University k City
upcoming election.
7 p.m. - “Carnival TVain” will be
screened in Dey Hall’s Toy Lounge. The
documentary focuses on the Strates
Shows (the carnival operating in Raleigh)
and the “camies” who work there.
Thursday
5:15 p.m. - The Mind, Brain and
Behavior Distinguished Lecture
Series 2000-01 will take place in Love
Auditorium of the Levine Science
Research Center. Robert Desimone will
speak on the topic “Neural Mechanisms
of Selective Visual Attention.”
7:30 p.m. - The Carolina Summer
Reading Program presents Robert
Lee Hodge, re-enactor of the Civil
War. Hodge will speak in 111 Carroll
Hall.
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UNC Schools Cast Votes Early
Bv Michael McKnight
Staff Writer
Students at several UNC-system
schools will join UNC-Chapel Hill stu
dents in casting some of the first ballots
of this year’s election.
UNC-CH opened its satellite polling
site at Morehead Planetarium Monday.
The site, open to all Orange County
voters, will remain open until Nov. 3.
Several system schools, including
N.C. Central University and UNC-
Greensboro, were on Fall Break
Monday, so students at those schools
had to wait until later in the week to
begin early voting. Some of the state’s
community colleges also are offering
satellite polling sites.
Many student leaders have said they
hope the satellite polling sites will boost
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active member of Carolina’s ACC Community Outreach Program and as a peer mentor in the
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voter turnout and ensure passage of a
$3.1 billion higher education bond ref
erendum, which would fund capital
improvements on the state’s university
and community college campuses.
N.C. Central plans to kick off its “no
excuse” voting campaign today when
students return from Fall Break, said
N.C. Central Student Body President
Timothy Peterkin.
Under this voting system, registered
N.C. voters can cast their ballots three
weeks prior to Election Day at selected
sites set up in their registered counties.
Peterkin said students who vote early
will receive discounts at the university’s
homecoming events.
Early voters also will receive special
badges denoting that they voted during
the “no excuse” registration period.
“Everyone who votes early will be asked
to wear them,” Peterkin said.
He said there is a special march to the
polls planned for students who still want
to vote on the official day, Nov. 7.
UNC-G students also are planning a
Thursday march to kick off voting season.
“We are going to march down to the
Board of Elections and all vote togeth
er,” said John Shearin, UNC-
Greensboro student body president.
Shearin said he expects about 30 per
cent of those who vote in the election to
take advantage of the early voting pro
gram at UNC-G. He said he hopes the
Reading Program
presents
Robert Lee Hodge
Reenactor of the Civil War
Featured on the cover of Tony Horwitz’
Confederates in the Attic
Thursday, October 19,2000, at 7:3opm
111 Carroll Hall
Co-sponsored by the UNC-CH Center for the Study of the American South
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march will show the community that
students are anything but apathetic.
“We want to send a message to the
community and anyone else who sees us
walk down the street that the student
vote is important,” he said.
But students at Appalachian State
University are not so fortunate.
Student Body President Ryan Bolick
said he requested a campus polling site but
was unsuccessful in landing one.
Jane Hodges, Watauga County Board
of Elections director, said an on-campus
polling site was not feasible due to budget
restraints and the school’s close proximity,
to the board of elections.
Voters also can cast absentee ballots
at their county board of elections offices
between now and Nov. 3, also the last
day of the No Excuse Voting Polls.
Bolick said student government offi
cials have chosen to take some of the
money that would have been spent on a
one-stop polling place and use it to pro-,
vide transportation for students to their
respective polling sites. “If the polls
won’t come to (students), we’ll take
them to the polls,” he said.
Bolick said he was concerned some
students would not vote since there is no
campus polling site. “It’s one thing to reg
ister, it’s another to get (students) to vote.”
The State & National Editor can be
reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.