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ASHLEY STEPHENSON
CAA Hopefuls:
Use Last Days
To Get Dirty
I’ve watched the race for Carolina
Athletic Association president
unravel with a mixture of amuse
ment and dismay.
It hasn’t been pretty. Most of it bor
ders on downright ridiculous, what with
the nefarious e-mails, accusations and
the use of the phrase “smoking gun."
The aftermath of said nonsense has
resulted in hearings with the Board of
Elections, a violations and a re-election.
The two chief players are candidates
Reid Chaney and Michael Songer.
At the crux of their platforms and this
debacle was Carolina Fever. Chaney
wanted to keep the Fever kids sweating,
Songer promised to give them the boot.
Enter Davin McGuinness, former
president of Carolina Fever. Word on
the street is that mere moments before
students cast their votes for the post,
McGuinness supposedly sent out a
mass e-mail. The message: Songer is a
bad, dishonest dude. Chaney is cool.
Vote for Chaney.
The election went to Chaney by
five votes. But Songer contested the
results, saying the e-mail screwed his
campaign. Chaney denied being in
cahoots with McGuinness.
Thus, anew election.
What surprises me is that the two
candidates are surprised by any of it.
I’ve long touted the benefits of not
taking student elections seriously. But
despite my warnings, candidates do
take it seriously. They put in the time
and the money. They miss class and
sleep. They treat it like a real election.
Which is why they should not be
shocked when real-life election prob
lems like negative campaigning crop up.
We’ve all seen that nonsense on
television when races start to heat up:
“Candidate Mike Wilson comforts old
people on sunny days and cradles
babies with the touch of a mother hen.
(Cue ominous music) But his oppo
nent, Lloyd Jennings, likes to KILL
babies! So on Election Day, don’t vote
for the candidate who will fondle your
sister. Cast yours for the one who will
hold hands with her while skipping
through a flower-filled field with a
waterfall in the background.”
It would be nice if candidates could
stand merely on the strengths of their
platform and character and let the best
man win. But the CAA fiasco has only
confirmed suspicions that students on
this campus are going to perk up and
listen when it starts to get ugly.
Let us revisit the days of yesteryear
in February 1996, when SBP-elect
Aaron Nelson was depicted with devil
horns and pitchfork on the cover of
the Carolina Review while being lam
pooned for his religious beliefs. Or
February 1999, when controversy sur
rounding possible violations by SBP
candidate Amanda Greene prompted
two election board members to resign
in the middle of the election fracas.
And that’s just to name a few.
Songer has maintained that the neg
ative e-mail made such an impact on
students that they did not vote for him.
He should have hit back just as
hard. If these candidates want it so
bad, they should take off the gloves at
the mere hint of impropriety.
Because being the good guy who
refuses to stoop down to “that level” isn’t
going to get you very far with UNC stu
dents. Let me remind you these are the
same students who voted in two basket
ball players to Congress posts, who pay
attention to the catchiest slogan and flier
and whose loyalty can be swayed with
one pathetic mass e-mail.
And that’s if they even come out to
vote. I say get down in the mud and
start throwing it with both hands.
Because when it comes to CAA, the
student body doesn’t give a damn about
your character or your honesty. They
don’t care if you’re trying to pad your
resume. They don’t care if you play
with Barbie dolls or if you wear your
clothes like pop-sensation Kriss Kross.
The just want their basketball tick
ets, plain and simple.
I’m not taking sides between Songer
and Chaney or even pointing a finger
at McGuinness. I don’t care that much.
But I say this to the candidates: You
have one day left before the election.
Make a splash and make it count.
Because students are only going
hear who gets the last word.
Columnist Ashley Stephenson can be
reached at ashley2l@email.unc.edu.
Congress Shows Restraint in Allotting Funds
By Brook Corwin
and Greg Steffensen
Staff Writers
A tighter grip on student fees allocat
ed toward bringing in campus speakers
enabled the 82nd session of Student
Congress to leave its 2001-2002 budget
meeting with a $4,484.11 surplus.
After a year in which Congress strug
gled with debt, representatives empha
sized restraint in increasing the funds
granted to student organizations.
“This is not the year we can afford to
grow groups,” said Mark Townsend, the
chairman of the Finance Committee, in
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Samantha Richardson and Andrew Locklear, the head dancers at the Carolina Indian Circle's annual powwow,
lead dancers in the event's Grand Entry in Polk Place on Saturday.
UNC Powwow Celebrates Culture
By Ann Hau
Staff Writer
Pulsing drum beats, vibrant dancers, and
resounding Indian chants cut through the usual
quiet on campus Saturday.
Carolina Indian Circle, UNC’s Native
American cultural awareness organization, held
its annual powwow at Polk Place near Wilson
Library. The event has attracted people of various
ages and races from across the state since 1974.
Saturday’s powwow was a smaller version of
the many that are held across the state every
year. The celebration of Native American cul
ture incorporated singing, dancing and fellow
ship to increase cultural pride and awareness.
Native American jewelry, art and food ven
dors also attracted students and visitors to the Pit.
Senior Ben Hammonds, event coordinator
and president of the circle, said the program was
important to increase awareness on campus.
“The powwow is a social gathering with some
Doherty, Men's Basketball Gain New 'Disciples'
UNC basketball fans have
been christened "Doherty's
Disciples" in response to
Duke's Cameron Crazies.
By Elizabeth Parrott
Staff Writer
To raise spirit in the Smith Center, a
group of 15 students have dubbed UNC
men’s basketball fans Doherty’s
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Pancake-pouring Frank Fearrington keeps hungry crowds happv and
sated at the 41st annual Pancake Jamboree on Saturday. The funds
raised will benefit Chapel Hill and East Chapel Hill high school students.
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response to the
Conference on
Race, Class,
Ethnicity and
Gender’s request
for an escalation
from its previous
funds.
The Black
Student
Movement
received the
largest allocation
- $14,066 of the
$21,233 the group
requested, setting
Speaker
Alexandra Bell
said Student
Congress could not
afford to fund many
speakers this year.
ceremonial aspects where everyone can come
together and learn about our culture,” he said.
The event featured various dances, including
a healing dance, and Native American music
from three N.C.-based bands. Dancers donned
the traditional regalia of a Native American per
former. Each brighdy colored costume had
seven rows of fringe-like metal cones.
Sophomore Larry Nilles, another UNC stu
dent at the event, heard about the powwow
from his history professor and decided to bring
along his 11-year-old brother, Kris, from
Knightdale. Neither brother had attended a
powwow before. “It’s a really interesting, cul
tural experience,” Nilles said.
Nilles’ professor, Theda Perdue, also attend
ed the gathering with two of her colleagues -
American Studies Professor Mike Green and
post-doctorate student Izumi Ishii.
Perdue, a Native American researcher, said
she attends powwows every year. “This is a
wonderful opportunity for UNC to acknowl
Disciples, a rival to Duke University’s
Cameron Crazies.
Seniors Will Lloyd, Michael Bucy,
Jesse Moore and Will Morris collaborat
ed with several Carolina Athletic
Association officials to coin the new
nickname, which sprung from a recent
Durham Herald-Sun article calling
UNC students the Carolina Crazies.
“I refuse to be labeled the Carolina
Crazies,” said Lloyd, this year’s Mr.
UNC. “So that is what started the
thought process.”
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a precedent that sparked debate several
times throughout the weekend.
Congress attempted to cut its appro
priations by withholding money for
speakers from organizations that did not
have the specifics of their expenses writ
ten out
“It was basically speakers that put us
in the hole last year,” said Speaker
Alexandra Bell. “We decided that this
year we will hit the speakers, because its
such a wobbly expense.”
A stricter policy on appropriating
money for speakers prompted a
decrease in funding for the conference.
The organization received only $4,157
edge the presence of native students and to
learn something about the culture,” she said.
“The Carolina Indian Circle students really link
the University to the broader community.”
Lesley Johnson, a graduate student from the
College of William and Mary in Virginia, came
to witness an Indian powwow for a class. “I had
to attend an activity where I would be a minor
ity,” Johnson said.
Ray Silva, the master of ceremonies, came
from Greensboro with his family to help con
duct the activities.
Silva provided the audience with anecdotes
and information about the Native American
culture and entranced the audience with a live
flute performance.
“These powwows help show people that
we’re still going strong,” he said.
“We’re still alive, we’re still here.”
The University Editor can be reached at
udesk@unc.edu.
The name’s reli
gious context
developed from an
article in Sporting
News calling the
Smith Center the
best place to play
in college basket
ball. “We began
thinking, ‘The
Smith Center is
like a cathedral...
like a chapel’ ...
Basketball coach
Matt Doherty
Committee Offers Master Plan Ideas
Projected development for
the Horace Williams tract
was cut by 255 acres with
plans to build up, not out.
By Isaac Groves
Staff Writer
Representatives of the Horace
Williams Planning Advisory Committee
presented the campus community with
anew, scaled-down version of an off
campus development plan during an
open forum at Carroll Hall.
At Friday’s forum, committee mem
ber Jack Evans gave a Microsoft
Power Point presentation showing con
ceptual maps and artists’ renderings of
the projected mixed-use development
on UNC’s Horace Williams property off
after requesting $10,231.92, a cut that
prompted lengthy debate among repre
sentatives in light of the significant allo
cation to the BSM.
“The BSM got 25 times the printing
and publicity fimds as these guys,” said
representative Greg Wahl. “Since we are
a University, academics hold a little
more priority to me than parties or con
gratulations for finishing academic com
mitments.”
But Student Body Treasurer Patrick
Frye said the fiscal structure of the BSM,
which serves as an umbrella organiza
tion, is an effective way to distribute stu
dent fees. “The great thing about groups
Local Students
Gather to Discuss
Discrimination
Students from three high schools attended
a summit this weekend to create plans to
prevent discrimination in their schools.
By Matt Viser
Staff Writer
About 115 young people and local officials gathered
Saturday for Youth Summit 2001 -a discussion of ways to
combat various types of discrimination in area schools.
The summit, held at the Sheraton Hotel in Chapel Hill, was
organized by the Orange County Department of Human
Rights and Relations, an organization that works to prevent
discrimination throughout Orange County.
The department’s director, Annette Moore, said officials
wanted to get involved with area young people to help prevent
discrimination in local high schools. Students from Chapel
Hill, East Chapel Hill and Orange high schools participated
in the event.
Milan Phan, a civil rights specialist and the event’s program
coordinator, said a goal of the summit was to help each high
school develop its own one-year plan to deal with the specif
ic type of discrimination found there.
“We want to localize it so each school will have their own
plan,” Phan said. “A generalized plan won’t work.”
Phan said she wanted young people to invest in implementing
their own plans. “It’s based on a grassroots philosophy” she said.
“Don’t create solutions for a group without involving them.”
The summit began Saturday morning with a panel discus
sion of racism, sexism and homophobia. “We live in a soci
ety that says we’re a democracy, but our government is pre
dominantly white, straight men,” said Christine Williams, a
panelist from the Orange County Rape Crisis Center.
Tyrone Hunter Jr., a CHHS sophomore, said racial dis
crimination is still a problem in high schools, despite the fact
that schools were integrated nearly 40 years ago.
“It’s not ‘we already went through this,’” Hunter said.
“We’re still going through this. Students get labeled, and they
don’t get a change to express themselves.”
The summit came as the result of a Department of Human
Rights and Relations survey of 200 Orange County students
that indicated that discrimination is the biggest problem high
school students face next to peer pressure.
Beth Irvin, an ECHHS student who serves as president of the
Orange County Youth Councd, said the event provided an out
let for concerned students.
“This summit is helpful to fighting back against issues,” she
said. “Silence is a huge problem because it’s the most common
reaction to these issues. But this summit brings students together
so they can have a unified voice.”
Stephen Halkiotis, chairman of the Orange County Board of
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and then bam! The Doherty Disciples,”
Lloyd said. “It all came together.”
Doherty’s Disciples debuted during
last week’s home game against Florida
State University. Prior to the start of the
game, students sold all of the 200 shirts
they had printed and further promoted
the idea by donating free shirts to radio
broadcasters such as Woody Durham.
Lloyd said everyone wanted a shirt,
including security guards and assistant
coaches. “The Florida State game was
amazing,” he said.
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In this most
recent plan, which
the committee
developed with
Ayers Saint Gross,
a Baltimore archi
tectural firm, pro
jected develop
ment was trimmed
from 550 to 295
acres.
“The plan that
we’re thinking of
right now does not
in any way
exhaust the avail-
University counsel
Susan Ehringhaus
said on-campus
growth will get
pnority for funding
and resources.
able land,” Evans said. “It is rather going
to use it quite sparingly.”
Resident Mary Whitton, of 811
Kenmore Road, said she was not con
cerned about potential runoff going into
Monday, February 26, 2001
like the BSM is that they keep costs
more efficient for the smaller groups
underneath them,” he said.
But debate was not reserved for fund
allocation. A rider to the budget pro
hibiting publications funded by student
fees from being distributed through the
mail provoked the most intense debate.
“Whether it’s admitted or not, this
rider was proposed based on dislike of
the content of the Carolina Review,”
said representative Brad Overcash. “The
Carolina Review is the only publication
that sends through the mad.”
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Lloyd said Doherty gave his approval
to the idea on WTVD’s Inside Carolina
Basketball. “(Doherty) said despite the
weather, it was the loudest it has been in
the Dean Dome in a long time.”
Lloyd said the group plans to sell the
shirts to students sitting in the riser sec
tion and also to fill orders from the assis
tant coaches during Wednesday’s game
against N.C. State University.
Shirts have already been given to
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Eastwood Lake because this plan takes
environmental issues into account “If die
concerned people of Chapel Hill are inter
ested in the Eastwood runoff issue, I don’t
have to worry about it,” Whitton said.
The original plan that firm Johnson,
Johnson and Roy designed for the advi
sory committee in 1998 would have
developed 56 percent of the 979 acres
available. Evans said that while the total
proposed building space was still a litde
more than 8 million square feet, Ayers
Saint Gross was able to reduce the figure
to 30 percent by concentrating all new
construction into one area and building
up and not out
“We’re not going to sprawl as much,”
Evans said after the presentation. “We’re
going to build vertically.”
But because the concentration of
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