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Homecoming King, Queen to Face New Application Process
An committee will interview
candidates for Homecoming
king and queen before the
student body votes Nov; 7.
Bv Elizabeth Michalka
Staff Writer
This year’s candidates for
Homecoming king and queen will face
new steps in the application process,
including appearing before an inter
viewing committee of campus leaders.
The Carolina Athletic Association is
in charge of organizing Homecoming,
but this year it will have assistance from
Midway Executives
To Seek Federal Aid
Airline officials have said
that if Midway receives
federal aid it could resume
operations on a small scale.
By Chase Foster
Staff Writer
Midway Airlines officials have
announced they will seek federal aid in
an attempt to resume operations and
return to the skies.
The Airline Stabilization Act passed
by Congress last week will provide sls
billion to the airline industry to cover
lost ticket revenue
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Ssailout package.
“What we are working
on now is to make sure
Midway is included
in the bailout. ”
Jimmy Broughton
Press Secretary for Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C.
| Midway filed for Chapter 11 bank
fruptcy Aug. 13, laying off half of its
work force. After the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks, Midway ceased all operations,
hying off its remaining 1,700 workers.
. Most people thought the Raleigh
based company was permanently out
of-business.
But Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., Sen.
John Edwards, D-N.C., Rep. David
R ice. D-N.C., and Rep. Bob Etheridge,
D-N.C., are all working to guarantee that
Midway receives a portion of the funds.
Helms’ Press Secretary Jimmy
Broughton said Midway is an important
staple of the Triangle’s economy.
_ Prior to filing for bankruptcy in
August, Midway had 115 flights a day
out of Raleigh-Durham International
Airport, which accounted for one-third
of the airports’ flights.
*' Midway was the only airline to have
its hub at RDU.
* “What we are working on no'" is to
make sure Midway is included in the
bailout,” Broughton said.
Bridget Lowell, Price’s press aide,
said Price met with Ferguson two weeks
ago.
Lowell said Price was concerned
about keeping Midway afloat to help
preserve the local economy.
“Obviously Midway has a huge
impact on the Triangle’s economy,” she
said. “It’s an important force regional
ly.”
Lowell added that Price is working to
the UNC Board of Elections.
CAA Homecoming Director Kris
Willett said the committee will interview
all applicants and choose the top three
female and male candidates.
The selection committee consists of
seven members, including Willett; Sue
Kitchen, vice chancellor for student
affairs; Ben Singer and Ursula
Dimmling, senior class president and
vice president; Reid Chaney, CAA pres
ident; Justin Young, student body presi
dent and Mark Townsend, speaker of
Student Congress.
“The committee will increase student
participation in the selection of
Homecoming king and queen,” Chaney
said. “I think it’ll be good.”
gain federal severance money for the
thousands of airline workers who lost
their jobs when Midway permanently
grounded all flights.
The bailout package provides funds
in two general categories. One is
through direct assistance in compensa
tion for the FAA’s suspension of all
flights Sept. 11, and the other is through
compensated loans.
RDU spokeswoman Mirinda Kossoff
said the airport is not involved with
Midway’s attempt to receive federal aid.
Kossoff said Midway’s closure has
not limited available destinations for
RDU passengers, but it did hurt the air
port financially.
“In terms of
service, people
can still get to
their destinations,
there are just
fewer direct
flights,” she said.
Ferguson told
the AP there was
still hope for the
company.
“I think passen-
gers will come back to us,” Ferguson
said. “We would intend to resume oper
ations in the next month or so.”
The negotiations are expected to be
resolved as quickly as possible, but
there is no definite timetable.
“Everyone recognizes the need to do
this as quickly as possible,” Lowell said.
“Hopefully it will be days and not
weeks or months.”
Broughton said Midway might
resume operations on a smaller scale if
they receive a portion of the bailout aid.
“Many companies have been able to
come back strong after filing for
Chapter 11.”
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reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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Interviews will take place between
Oct. 22 and 25, and the top six candi
dates will be announced Oct. 26.
These interviews will focus on candi
dates’ proposals for service projects that
the Homecoming king and queen are
required to complete. The committee is
looking for well-planned, feasible projects
to benefit UNC and the community.
Willett said service projects must be
initiated by Jan. 15 and completed by
March 20. “During the interviews we will
ask candidates about their project pro
posals, which should be very detailed and
thorough,” Willett said. “We will choose
candidates with the best proposals.”
After the interview committee selects
the top three candidates for both king
Muslims, Arabs Face Harassment at N.C. State
NCSU public safety officials
have been working to ensure
the safety of Muslim and
Arab students on the campus.
By Mike Gorman
Staff Writer
Arab students at N.C. State
University have faced both support
from administrators and racially moti
vated harassment since the Sept. 11
attacks on the World Trade Center and
the Pentagon.
Hesham Abdel-Baky, president of
N.C. State’s Muslim Student
Association, said he has witnessed more
support for Arab students than abuse,
particularly from campus administra
tors.
But Abdel-Baky added that there
have been several racially and reli
giously motivated harassment incidents
on campus.
“One of our covered women - the
Muslim women who wear the veil -
was spit at the day of the attack,” he
said.
“Another said she had small pebbles
thrown at her.”
Abdel-Baky said he still recom
mends that veiled Muslim women walk
to class in pairs, even a month after the
attack.
Tom Stafford, vice chancellor for stu
dent affairs at N.C. State, said several
Arab students have withdrawn from the
university for fear of racial or religious
harassment in the wake of the terrorist
attacks.
But Stafford also said N.C. State
administrators have been going to extra
lengths to ensure the safety of Arab and
Muslim students.
“We will not tolerate discrimination
based on racial or religious back
ground,” he said.
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Town to Host Sparklefest
By Brooks Firth
Staff Writer
Musician and promoter Mike
Nicholson has seen enough music festi
vals done wrong for him to want to final
ly do one right.
And Nicholson said he hopes his goal
of orchestrating a successful and unfor
gettable festival will become a reality
when Sparklefest opens at Local 506 on
Thursday.
Based on festivals like Los Angeles’
International Pop Overthrow and the
locally founded Sleezefest, Sparklefest is
the sequel to last year’s Shindig at Kings
in Raleigh.
The festival runs the gamut of music
styles, offering a musical slice of pie for
almost every taste. Spanning the genres
of indie, rock, psychedelia, punk and
pop, the bands participating have been
influenced by and compared to The
Who, Ben Folds, the Barenaked Ladies,
Weezer and the Beatles among others.
“The area has a lot of people who are
interested in this kind of music,”
Nicholson said.
While some bands are traveling from
locations such as Florida and New York,
several bands are local performers.
“There is a conscious effort to bring
and queen, a general campus vote will
take place.
Voting this year will be solely online.
The elections board is in charge of vot
ing procedures and tallying the votes.
“The election will use the same system
as last year,” said Emily Margolis, elec
tions board chairwoman. “It went smooth
ly last year, so we expect it to go well.”
The board sets up the online election,
which will be available from 7 a.m. to 10
p.m. on Nov. 7. There will be a link locat
ed on the Student Central Web site, which
may be accessed from any computer.
“Online voting will make the whole
process easier and faster,” Chaney said.
The online elections will be held the
same day as a special election to fill
To demonstrate their stance, admin
istrators placed the university’s harass
ment policy in a prominent location on
N.C. State’s home page.
N.C. State Public Safety officials also
have been working with Arab and
Muslim student groups to ensure stu
dent safety.
Abdel-Baky said campus police have
been diligent about providing for the
needs of Muslim students.
Police have provided emergency
phone numbers for students and have
offered daytime class-to-class escort ser
vices.
Tom Younce, director of N.C. State
Public Safety, said campus police have
a zero-tolerance policy for harassment
cases.
“If harassment rises to the level of
criminal offense, we’ll make an imme
diate physical arrest,” Younce said.
Stafford added that students charged
with violation of the harassment policy
are arraigned before a Student Judicial
Board.
Penalties depend on the verdict of
the board.
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local bands to the event,” Nicholson
said.
The festival has been dubbed a cele
bration of “Power Pop,” but musician
Mike Warder of The Argument said that
such a simple description of the music is
somewhat misleading.
“Nobody calls it rock and roll any
more,” he said. “Pop is really short for
popular. The term can be broadened
into anything that can be accessible to a
large group of people.”
Organizers are expecting a large
group of concert-goers, but Local 506 is
an intimate, if not small, venue.
“The more intimate setting is going to
be beneficial to the artists and the audi
ence,” Warder said. “It makes it easier to
connect.”
But due to the space restrictions and
influx of interest - Nicholson received
more than 70 calls for the festival’s 21
performing slots - Sparklefest also is
running a sidestage at the Go! Rehearsal
Studios on Friday.
Hence, the festival is one of the
largest and most comprehensive rock
shows to hit the Chapel Hill area.
“This festival is a way to for bands to
be seen by people in this area, expand
their fan base, and give people a way to
see it all,” Warder said.
empty seats in Student Congress, which
organizers said was an attempt to
increase voter turnout for both elections.
The CAA and the elections board also
decided to use the official tides of
“Homecoming King” and “Homecoming
Queen” instead of Mr. and Mrs. UNC
this year. “The official tide changes and
flip-flops nearly every year,” Willett said.
She said people have been offended
by the tides of “Mr.” and “Mrs.” and the
tides were changed to prevent problems.
Willett also hopes this change will estab
lish a standard for coming years.
“This year we wanted to go back to
traditions, and the name of
Homecoming king and queen are more
traditional,” Willett said.
might face suspension or expulsion from
the university.
N.C. State Public Safety representa
tives, along with administrators, met
with Arab and Muslim students in a
combined meeting of all the university’s
international student organizations the
day after the attack to discuss safety
issues and the campus harassment poli
cy-
Abdel-Baky said he thinks the back
lash against Arabs and Muslims on
campus stems mosdy from media
depictions of people from the Middle
East as terrorists and radical extrem
Professor David
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Nicholson decided to take on the task
of organizing Sparklefest based on his
love for the music that he wishes to share.
“I love this kind of music,” he said.
“I’ve played music for 25 years. I have a
hard rock, punk background, but this
well-crafted, well-written kind of music
is the music I always come back to.”
Advance ticket requests for
Sparklefest have been coming in, some
from as far away as the Northeast,
Europe and even Japan.
Such widespread popularity not only
will help Nicholson achieve his goal of
building up the profile of each individ
ual band, but it could increase the festi
val’s drawing power.
“I want to build it year to year so that
people look forward to it when the fes
tival returns,” he said.
Sparklefest runs from Thursday to
Saturday and features more than 20
local and national musicians. Ticket
prices range from $5 to sl2 - $25 for
the entire festival -and are available at
all Triangle Record Exchange stores.
Visit www.sparklefest.com for a com
plete list of musicians and more infor
mation.
The Arts & Entertainment Editor can
be reached at artsdesk@unc.edu.
Eligible students for Homecoming
king and queen must be nominated by
an officially recognized student organi
zation. Nominees also must be full-time
seniors, with a cumulative grade point
average of at least 2.8.
Interested students must submit an
application by Oct 15. Applications
include a S2O entry fee, resume, letter of
recommendation, transcript, a signed
proclamation form and two essays.
“We want candidates with strong per
sonalities, who can handle themselves
weU,” Chaney said. “They should also be
a good representative of the student body.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
ists.
He added that many people have
trouble separating the fanatics from
Muslims and Arabs as a whole.
But until that perception changes,
Abdel-Baky said, people will continue
to harbor the same fears and suspi
cions.
He said, “What it comes down to is
an issue of who the bad people are, who
Arabs are, and what Muslims really
believe in.”
The State & National Editor can be
reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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