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Come Together
Students, leaders stress
unity among Americans.
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America Strikes Back, Begins Air Assault
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - American and
British forces unleashed punishing air
strikes Sunday against military targets
and Osama bin Laden's training camps
inside Afghanistan, aiming at terrorists
blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks that mur
dered thousands in New York and
Washington, D.C.
“We will not waver, we will not tire,”
BOG's Role
Might Face
Scrutiny
If the N.C. House approves
the provision, a 10-member
commission will be set up
to re-examine the BOG.
By Alex Kaplun
State & National Editor
A provision of a bill the state Senate
passed Thursday will examine the mis
sion of the UNC-system Board of
Governors - the policy-making body
charged with governing the system’s 16
campuses.
The Senate passed the bill last week
to eliminate quotas in the selection of
BOG members. But a provision insert
ed into the bill earlier that day by the
Senate Education Committee calls for
the creation of a commission that will
examine all aspects of the BOG.
The bill, which passed 37-2, will now
head to the House.
No date has been set for when a
House committee will hear the legisla
tion.
The 10-member commission would
examine the length of members’ terms,
the number of terms a member may
serve, the size of the BOG, the scope of
the BOG’s governance powers and the
effectiveness of the present structure.
The commission will report its find
ings to the General Assembly next sum
mer, when the legislature convenes for
its 2002 session.
Gov. Mike Easley, Senate President
Pro Tern Marc Basnight, House Speaker
Jim Black and BOG Chairman Ben
Ruffin each will appoint some of the
commission’s 10 members.
Sen. Howard Lee, D-Orange, vice
chairman of the Senate Education
Committee, said that 30 years after the
creation of the present system structure,
it is time to examine the BOG, espe
cially because both the system and the
board have become larger over the
years, possibly making the University
more difficult to operate.
Lee said he also wants the commis
sion to determine whether the system’s
structure hurts the effectiveness of its
two flagship institutions - UNC-Chapel
Hill and N.C. State University.
“I’m not interested in seeing the
UNC system dismantled,” Lee said. “I
am interested in seeing if it can operate
more efficiently, especially for our two
flagship institutions.
“I think Chapel Hill and State really
find themselves down the ladder of
effectiveness when compared to peer
institutions nationwide.”
The structure of the BOG and the
UNC system was established in 1971
and has remained largely unchanged
since then.
In the state budget passed two weeks
ago, the General Assembly handed
some of the powers previously belong
ing to the BOG to the individual cam
pus boards of trustees - including the
hiring of senior personnel and control
over information technology.
BOG member Brad Wilson said he
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Free speech ... is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.
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Allies React
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said President
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from the White
House as
Tomahawk
cruise missiles
and bombs found targets halfway
around the globe. “We will not falter,
and we will not fail.”
The opening of a sustained campaign
dubbed “Enduring Freedom,” the
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National Guard Arrives at RDU, Other Airports
Officials say troops that
have been deployed to RDU
could be stationed there
for as long as six months.
By Julia Lamm
Staff Writer
Additional military troops were
deployed to airports around the nation,
including the 12 largest airports in North
Carolina, this weekend as an additional
security measure in response to the Sept.
11 terrorist attacks.
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assault was accompanied by airdrops of
thousands of vitamin-enriched food
rations for needy civilians -and by a
ground-based attack by Afghan opposi
tion forces against the ruling Taliban.
In a chilling threat, bin Laden vowed
defiantly that “neither America nor the
people who live in it will dream of secu
rity before we live it in Palestine and not
before all the infidel armies leave the land
of Muhammad.” That was an apparent
In Past, Present, UNC
Supports Free Speech
By Jordan Bartel
and Krista Faron
Staff Writers
UNC’s historical role in encouraging
free speech and defining morality has
been rekindled with new force thanks to a
combination of recent events.
In his State of the University Address
last month, Chancellor James Moeser
stressed that the University should be a
cornerstone of free expression and moral
development. “We must be willing to take
a stand on critical issues of the day,” he
said. “We must be tolerant of the opinions
expressed by others and ever supportive
of their right to express them.”
But the extent of the University’s com-
President Bush ordered the military
presence soon after the hijackings, ask
ing for about 4,000 National Guard
troops to be trained and sent to the
nation’s airports.
As part of the measure, soldiers from
the Army and Air units of the N.C.
National Guard were deployed Saturday
to Raleigh-Durham International
Airport.
The soldiers are posted at limited
security checks throughout the airport,
but their presence might be expanded to
other locations, such as drop-off loca
tions immediately outside the terminal.
About 90 members of the N.C.
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reference to Israel and Saudi Arabia.
He spoke in a videotaped statement
prepared before the attacks, but both he
and the leader of the Taliban riding
council of Afghanistan were reported to
have survived the initial aerial assault.
Abdul Salam Zaeef, Taliban ambas
sador to Pakistan, said Afghan civilians
were killed in the U.S.-British attack.
“There were casualties,” Zaeef said.
“Civilians died. It was a very huge attack.”
mitment to free speech has become a point
of discussion as people debate the proper
response to the Sept 11 terrorist attacks.
Two recent teach-ins aimed at promot
ing a peaceful response to the attacks
sparked criticism from some people who
support military action.
But the existence of clashing view
points is nothing new at UNC. The
University has a history of allowing its
community to question the prevailing
moral values of the time.
A speaker ban law, passed in 1963 by
the N.C. General Assembly, prompted a
massive campuswide protest The law pro
hibited members of the Communist Party
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National Guard received Federal
Aviation Administration training at Fort
Bragg on Wednesday and Thursday,
according to a press release from the
state Department of Crime Control and
Public Safety.
Renee Hoffman, the department’s
director of public affairs, said he is not
sure how long the military presence will
be in place.
“It could be as long as six months, but
it could be shorter,” Hoffman said.
“Their presence will provide a deterrent
to anybody who might act.”
Teresa Dominao, RDU’s marketing
and communication director, explained
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Zaeef did not explain where he got his
information, and he could not say where
the deaths purportedly occurred. U.S. and
British forces hit targets in at least three
cities - Kabul, Kandahar and Jalalabad.
Bush gave the final go-ahead for the
strike on Saturday, less than four weeks
after terrorists flew two hijacked air
planes into the World Trade Center twin
towers and a third into the Pentagon.
Bush said the military action was
ECU Supporters
In Student Seats
Evoke Concerns
But CAA President Reid Chaney says ECU
fans at Kenan Stadium did not at all hinder,
and might have improved, UNC fans' spirit.
By Brook Corwin and Joe Monaco
Staff Writers
The south end of Kenan Stadium was filled with loud and
energetic students during Saturday’s football game against
East Carolina University.
But not all those students were clad in Carolina blue.
After a football ticket distribution that left some UNC stu
dents without seats at the game, the quantity of ECU fans that
filled the student section evoked surprise in some Tar Heel
supporters and frustration in others.
Some UNC students said they felt slighted because ECU
fans gained entry to the student section through UNC students
who obtained student section tickets for their visiting friends.
“It’s getting out of hand,” said UNC junior David Stroupe
before the game. “I think it’s a shame that so many Carolina
students aren’t going to get to go because so many of their own
are giving away tickets to the ECU fans.”
Carolina Athletic Association President Reid Chaney said he
is aware of ticket-swapping between Carolina students and
friends from other schools but said there is no way to monitor
the frequency with which tickets are being given to nonstudents.
Chaney added that there is little, if anything, that can be
done to keep visiting fans out of the student section. “There’s
really no way we can man that,” Chaney said. “Whoever’s
ONE Card you have, they have rights to those tickets. You
can’t really control everybody who comes though the gate.”
Many students said they were not surprised by the number
of Pirate fans cheering in the student section because many
UNC students have friends and family attending ECU, which
is located only two hours away in Greenville.
Despite the number of ECU fans in attendance, some UNC
students said visiting fans should not be prohibited from getting
student tickets. “If it’s not an Honor Code violation, I don’t think
it should be a problem,” said Charlene Wong, a sophomore from
Greenville. “One day I might want to get into an ECU game.”
Chaney said there will be no more football ticket distributions
for the rest of the season. Students will be admitted on a first
come, first-serve basis, a process Chaney said will reduce the long
gate lines that several students said were a problem during
Saturday’s game. “With general admission, students start flowing
through the gates gradually,” he said. “On Saturday, everyone
already had their seats reserved so they kind of all came at 3:15."
Chaney said he does not anticipate visiting fans filling
Kenan Stadium for future football games this season but added
that the presence of rival fans might have actually helped
boost school spirit among UNC fans. “I thought it was the best
atmosphere we’ve had in Kenan Stadium in a long time," he
said. “All the ECU fans kind of pumped us up.”
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that a primary reason the troops are
there is to serve as a visual deterrent.
Another reason is for additional gen
eral security in the airports.
“Their operations are to support the
security functions in airport terminals,”
Dominao said.
Other security measures implement
ed since the attacks include changes in
parking, bag searches and passenger
screening.
Several travelers noticed the changes
in security at RDU, especially the new
military presence.
Edward Todo Martinez of Spain said
he was apprehensive when he discov
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“designed to clear the way for sustained,
comprehensive and relendess opera
tions” to bring the terrorists to justice.
“I know many Americans feel fear
today,” the president added said in his
nationally televised announcement from
the White House Treaty Room.
Signs of heightened security concerns
were evident, as officials took Vice
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ered he would be traveling internation
ally.
“After the 11th I was real nervous to
come here to the United States,” he said,
adding that the security presence he saw
here in the United States made him feel
better about flying.
But some were not so understanding
of the additional measures.
Sue Ingle of Cary said, “I think that
we need a federal representation at the
airports - I’m not so sure about military."
Ingle said she thought the presence
was largely a symbolic deterrent for ter-
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