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2 Monday, December 11, 2000 The University and Towns In Brief Sprinklers Smother Fraternity House Fire At 10:30 p.m. Saturday night, the Chapel Hill Fire Department respond ed to a structural fire at the Sigma Nu house at 109 Fraternity Court. The fire began in a wastebasket on the second floor and spread to the fur niture nearby. After assessment by Assistant Fire Marshal Rodney Watson, the fire was blamed on improperly dis carded smoking materials. But the flames were put out by the house’s new sprinkler system before the fire department reached the scene. The sprinkler system had been put into operation just two days before the fire. “This fire was extinguished before the fire department came only because the sprinkler system was installed,” said Aaron Nelson, interim director of Greek affairs. “If it had not had a sprinkler sys tem, there would have been a disaster.” go class. .eat. .go class. oti class. .eat. .go class. class. .eat. .go class. class.studv.eat. .go class. • dass.stuo .eat. .go class. take a BREAK in your studies^ Carolina Women's Basketball vs. Winthrop Saturday, December 16th at 7:00 pm Carmichael Auditorium women’s Basketball go class. .eat. .go class. .eat. Buy a Bagel, Get a Bagel FREE! /Jfcg purchase your choice of delicious € freshly baked bagel and get another J^Srcy FREE with this coupon. Buy as many as six bagels and get one FREE for each purchased! Offer applies to freshly baked bagels only. Does not include cream cheese, toppings or other condiments. One offer per coupon. One per customer. 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Franklin St. • Eastgate Shopping Center DURHAM: 626 Ninth St. • Commons at University Place (1831 MLK Pkwy. at University Dr.) RALEIGH: 2302 Hillsborough St.* North Hills Mall • Pleasant Valley Promenade • Sutton Square. Falls of the Neuse Rd. • Mission Valley Shopping Center • Stonehenge Shopping Center, Creedmoor Rd. Harvest Plaza, Six Forks & Strickland Rds. CARY: 122 S.W. Maynard Rd. • Preston Business Center, 4212 Cary Pkwy. GARNER: Hwy. 401 at Pinewinds Dr. v> Open Seven Days a Week 1 Damage was estimated at $5,000, and no injuries were reported. The deadline for all fraternity and sorority houses to install sprinkler sys tems is September 2001, and Nelson said 22 of 33 houses currendy have them in place. The deadline was put in place after a fire at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house in May 1996 that killed five stu dents. Bank Robbery Suspects Get New Court Date Four suspects, three adults and one juvenile, in two Chapel Hill bank rob beries are being held on state-armed robbery charges. At their first court appearance on Thursday, the suspects received a Dec. 14 date for a probable cause hearing to determine if there is sufficient evidence to proceed with trial. Officials said the four suspects could be brought up on federal bank robbery charges, in which case they would be transferred to federal court. Campus Calendar Today noon - The Student Advisory Committee to the Chancellor will be holding an informal “Lunch With the Chancellor” on the first floor of Lenoir Dining Hall. All students are welcome ’OO-’OI season The three adult suspects are being held at the Orange County Jail in lieu of bond. The female suspect, Leowanda Mardell Kennedy, 29, of 1710 Palmer St. in Durham, is being held on SIOO,OOO bond. James Ryan Edwards, 25, of 2220 Glover Road, is being held on $250,000 bond. Icee Omar Malik Ali, 39, of Durham, is being held on two separate bonds of $250,000 and a $30,000 bond for failure to appear on five unrelated charges from 1998. Author, UNC Graduate To Read at Bull’s Head Author Robert Morgan, a UNC grad uate, will read from his new poetry col lection at 2 p.m. today. Morgan, whose novel “Gap Creek” was featured in Oprah Winfrey’s book club in January, will read selections from his new book “Topsoil Road” at the Bull’s Head Bookshop. He graduated from UNC in 1965, and his books focus on the history and culture of North Carolina and the Appalachian Mountains. to stop by and talk with Chancellor James Moeser. 7 p.m. - Celebrate the end of the semester! The Public Policy Analysis Majors Union is sponsoring an end of semester mixer in 109 Lenoir Hall. Come relax and enjoy some food. Site Satlii (Tar Mrrl Monday, December 11,2000 Volume 108, Issue 131 P.O. Box 3257, Chapel Hill. NC 27515 Matt Dees. Editor. 962-4086 Advertising & Business. 962-1163 News. 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Colleges Constructive, Leaders Say By Monica Chen Staff Writer Gov. Jim Hunt and UNC-system President Molly Broad expressed cau tious optimism after the state’s higher education system received mediocre grades in a national report. They said the $3.1 billion higher edu cation bond and other efforts will help the system improve its national standing. Measuring Up 2000, a report released Nov. 30 by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, assessed each state’s performance in six categories. North Carolina received a “D” in par ticipation, a “D-plus” for benefits to the state, a “B” for preparation, an “A” for affordability, a “B-plus" for completion and an incomplete for learning. All states received an incomplete in the learning category, which aims to measure the knowledge that students acquire, because of a lack of usable data. The center spent three years compil ing data for this first issue of Measuring Up, said Thad Nodine, director of com munications for the center. “We’ve used independent advisers who are not affiliated with the center and feasibility committees to look at the basic areas of higher education and see if it was possible to compile enough data for them,” Nodine said. He said the learning category could not be compiled because there was no nationwide agreement on what students should learn in college. Nodine said the participation grade addresses the proportion of the popula tion taking part in the higher education system. He said a high level of partici pation also could improve a state’s ben efit rating - the two categories in which North Carolina performed the worst “If more people have a bachelor’s degree, then it would be more beneficial to the state,” Nodine said. Broad said access to the state’s higher education institutions must be unproved to increase the participation grade. “It has been clear to us at the University that North Carolina does not have a level of educational attainment we can be proud of," Broad said. In an interview with The Daily Tar Heel last week, Hunt said the $3.1 bil lion higher education bond will improve the low participation grade by building more facilities to accommodate an expected influx of 40,000 new students systemwide in the coming decade. Hunt added that boosting the partic ipation grade would help increase the What's online today at www. dailytarheel. com ? ■ Grant to Boost NCCU Sciences • By Tim Lawson ■ New Director Tapped for WUNC *mlM i* • By Ben Davidson ■ A full exam schedule ■ Exam library hours ! \ Personalized I J 'Ol Calendars j | rCalendarlj I C.O. COPIES I Open Late 7 Days a Week j * 169 E. 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Broad said improving access to high er education in the state is the number one goal of the Board of Governors. She said the BOG set a goal in 1995 to reach the national average in college attendance rates by 2010. The data compiled for participation looked at the percentage of N.C. stu dents who enter college immediately after high school, adults aged 18-24 enrolled in higher education and the percentage of working-age adults attend ing college or other training programs. Hunt said he views the report as con structive criticism. “We can see a clear strategy for North Carolina to go way up the ladder on this,” Hunt said. “North Carolina has a lot of reasons to be proud and a lot of work ahead.” State & National Editor Kathleen Hunter contributed to this report. The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. 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