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Monday, Oct. 29
■ A UNC employee reported
Monday morning that several items
were stolen from a shed near the Friday
Center.
The stolen items included four
blowers, two brush cutters, two edgers,
one hedge trimmer, one hedge trimmer
attachment and two hand-held radios,
reports state.
The estimated value of the stolen
items is $5,780.
Friday, Oct. 26
■ A pedestrian was struck by a vehi
cle on West Drive near the Cardinal
Deck Pedestrian Bridge at approxi
mately 4:24 p.m., reports state.
The driver stated that she was mov
ing at about 5 m.p.h. when she heard
the pedestrian yell, “Watch it!”
The pedestrian was treated and
released at the scene, reports state.
■ An IBM laptop computer and a
bookbag were stolen from a UNC stu
dent at Davis Library on Friday after
noon, reports state.
The student left the items on a table
on the first floor of the library and went
to a computer work station.
Reports state that the returned at 4
p.m. to find the items had been stolen.
The estimated value of the two items is
$1,215.
Thursday, Oct. 25
■ A UNC student was charged with
underage possession after he was
observed carrying a 12-pack of Miller
Lite beer in the Morrison Circle around
11:34 p.m., reports state.
Nathaniel Freeman, 19, of 208 Lewis
Residence Hall, was cited and released,
reports state.
Wednesday, Oct. 24
■ A UNC student was walking in
the area of Cameron Avenue and South
Building at about 6:55 p.m. when a man
exposed himself to her, reports state.
The victim described die man as a
white, overweight male, about 5-foot-10,
with blonde hair, glasses and a pale
complexion.
Reports state that the suspect fled the
area in a white Ford coupe.
City
Sunday, Oct. 28
■ Carrboro police arrested Oscar
Escobedo, 26, of 501 N.C. 54 at 3:30
a.m. for driving while impaired, reports
state.
Reports state that officers arrested
Escobedo at Old N.C. 86 without inci
dent. Police arrested and charged
Escobedo with one misdemeanor count
each of driving while intoxicated, no
operator’s license and failure to stop for
blue lights, reports state.
Officers transported Escobedo to the
Chapel Hill Police Department, where
he registered a .10 on the Intoxilyzer
5000, reports state.
Reports also state that Escobedo was
released under a written promise and is
scheduled to appear in the Orange
County District Court in Chapel Hill on
Dec. 4.
Saturday, Oct. 27
■ Carrboro police responded to a
report of vehicular breaking and enter
ing at 100 Rockhaven Road at 4:33 p.m.
Reports state that an unknown indi
vidual entered a locked vehicle and
removed property.
The total value of the stolen goods
was more than $450, reports state.
Reports also state that there were no
signs of forced entry and no damage to
the vehicle.
Latent prints were obtained from the
vehicle and submitted as evidence,
reports state.
The case is under further investiga
tion.
Friday, Oct. 26
■ Chapel Hill police arrested Victor
Link, 39, of 2122 Jo Mac Road at 9:47
p.m. for DWI and leaving the scene of
an accident, reports state.
Police arrested and charged Link
with one felony count of hit and ran and
one misdemeanor count each of DWI
and driving with a suspended/revoked
license.
Link was involved in an accident on
Fordham Drive near Estes Drive,
reports state.
Link left the scene of the accident
and was later pulled over by officers on
N.C. 54 at Jones Ferry Road, reports
state.
Link was transported and confined to
the Orange County Jail on a S3OO
secured bond, reports state.
He was scheduled to appear in the
Orange County District Court in
Hillsborough on Monday.
Officials Close to Naming CCPS Director
The search committee will
make its recommendation
this week, and the provost
will make the final decision.
Bv Jessica Sleep
Staff Writer
Officials say they are closer to decid
ing who the next director of the
Carolina Center for Public Service will
be after the finalists vying for the posi
tion completed their visits to campus last
week.
The three finalists, Lynn White
Blanchard, Michael Davis and John
O’Sullivan, each participated in one of
three public forums for candidates that
has been held on campus in the last two
weeks.
Blanchard is currently the vice chair
woman for community initiatives at the
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Searches May Have Prevented Fire
By Jamie Dougher
Staff Writer
Housing officials say they are not sure
whether room searches during Fall
Break would have caught a halogen
lamp that sparked a fire in Craige
Residence Hall last week.
This year, residence halls were kept
open during Fall Break, meaning resi
dent assistants were not able to search
for banned items - like halogen lamps -
in residents’ rooms.
But residence hall room inspections
are scheduled to be completed during
both Thanksgiving Break and Winter
Break, said Assistant Housing Director
Rebecca Casey.
Officials said Monday that
Thursday’s afternoon fire on the fourth
floor of Craige caused damage to the
Lido's Opens; Owner
Hopes for Diversity
By Carolyn Pearce
Staff Writer
Anew bar opened this weekend on
Franklin Street at the space formerly
occupied by The Artist’s Escape -but
don’t expect their scenes to be the same.
Lido’s Bar opened Thursday night
under anew manager, Chris Coty, a
third-year student at the UNC School of
Law.
Coty said he hopes the bar will attract
diverse crowds by incorporating differ
ent themes on different nights.
Coty said he wants to attract some of
the same crowd as The Artist’s Escape,
which was frequented by lesbians, gays,
bisexuals and transgenders but closed
last spring.
But he added that he wants to attract
a different crowd as well.
“Ideally, Lido’s will be a place with
variety,” Coty said.
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Network in Allentown, Pa. Davis is the
assistant director of the N.C.
Cooperative Extension Service in
Raleigh. O’Sullivan is a farm manage
ment and marketing specialist for the
N.C. Cooperative Extension Service
with N.C. Agricultural and Technical
State University.
Ned Brooks, interim director of the
CCPS, said he was pleased with the
forums.
“I think they were excellent,” he said.
CCPS officials began their search for
anew director for the center after Nick
Didow resigned from the position
almost three months ago to pursue a
professorship at the Kenan-Flagler
Business School.
Brooks said that at the forums, can
didates spoke to the audience members
about their experiences with public ser
vice and issues they felt were impor
tant.
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room mainly with smoke and not with
actual flames.
The fire in Room 456 started when a
halogen lamp fell onto a mattress.
Casey said Thursday that a delay in
the activation of the residence hall’s fire
alarm would be investigated.
Freshman Tiffany McGinnis, who
lives above Room 456, said she and her
roommate smelled smoke five to 10
minutes before she heard any alarms
going off.
But Casey said Monday that the
alarms functioned properly.
“They can be activated in an individ
ual room as opposed to the whole hall
way,” Casey said.
She said that when the Chapel Hill
Fire Department arrived at the residence
hall in response to the activated smoke
alarm in Room 456 and opened the
“For example, I want Tuesday nights
to be trivia nights and Wednesday and
Friday to be gay nights. There will be
other theme nights, but they have not
yet been decided.”
But Coty emphasized that he does
not want to turn people off from the bar
just because of the two nights targeting
the LGBT community. •
“We are trying to attract everyone,”
Coty said. “I have seen that Gotham has
done well with their gay nights, so we
are planning to have a pre-party to
Gotham.”
Coty is running the bar almost single
handedly, with the volunteer assistance
of a few friends.
“I will definitely be hiring people
soon, but I have some friends helping
me out for now," he said.
Coty added that his role at Lido’s was
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News
The audience also addressed ques
tions to the candidates.
Brooks said the attendance at the
fomms ranged from about 12 people to
about 25 people.
Audience members were given an
evaluation form,
and the feedback
from those forms
will play a role in
the decision-mak
ing process, he
said.
Linda Carl,
assistant provost
for educational
programs, said the
forums were an
efficient way to review the candidates.
“I think (the forums) went superbly,”
she said.
“We have an excellent group of can
didates.”
Carl said the forums were important
door to the room, the hallway fire
alarms were activated.
Robert Bosworth, chief deputy of
operations for the Chapel Hill Fire
Department, said the renovation work
on the room most likely will include
replacing the ceiling and repainting the
room. He said most of the damage
occurred to the bed linen and the mat
tress.
The two residents of the room have
been temporarily placed in other rooms
on campus.
“It’s amazing how intrusive smoke
(and the smell of it) can be,” Bosworth
said.
He could not speculate about the
damage to the residents’ possessions, but
he said any clothes in the room are
going to smell like smoke.
“Things don’t have to bum up to be
NAACP Upset With House Plan
The redistricting plan before
the N.C. House reduces the
number of majority black
districts from 14 to 12.
By Rachel Leonard
Staff Writer
Members of the N.C. House might
find their efforts to pass anew redis
tricting plan hampered by a statement
released last week by the NAACP.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People has
said any redistricting plan should at least
retain the current number of 14 majori
ty black districts.
Black lawmakers met behind closed
doors with members of the NAACP to
discuss the redistricting plan.
Under the current Democratic plan
being considered in the House, blacks
will make up the more than 50 percent
of the population in 12 districts. A
because they gave officials an opportu
nity to see the candidates in a public
speaking role, which is an important
part of the director position.
Brooks said the ftiture director must
exhibit several qualities that are essential
7 had a sense that each
of (the finalists) had a
genuine interest in
the position
Robert Shelton
Provost
Cindy Wolf
Johnson, associate vice chancellor for
student affairs, headed the search com
mittee that chose the three finalists. She
said the search committee has not met
since it interviewed the last candidate
earlier this week.
lost in a fire,” he said.
Bosworth said he is not sure when the
residents will be able to move back into
the room.
Casey said the University will not
assume liability for any of the residents’
ruined possessions.
Halogen lamps are not permitted in
residence halls because of their tendency
to start fires.
“My understanding is that they gen
erate a lot of heat,” Casey said.
Bosworth said it is not routine to see
fires caused by halogen lamps, although
they do occur.
He said a halogen lamp is not that
dangerous as long as the grill over the
lamp’s light bulb is in place.
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decade ago, blacks constituted a major
ity in 16 districts.
House Democrats are hesitant to
draw up plans that could erode their
current 62-58 majority in the House.
The issue has been debated for about
a month, with each
side presenting
several different
versions of the
redrawn districts.
The first reading
of the bill passed
by a 62-57 vote a
week ago, but two
black Democrats
announced on the
House floor that
they were not satisfied with the current
plan, and several others have not said
whether or not they will vote for the
plan a second time.
Several black Democrats broke with
their party and accused the House lead
ers of diluting black districts in the
attempt to secure a Democratic majori
Tuesday, October 30, 2001
But she said the committee will meet
this week and make its recommendation
to Provost Robert Shelton, who will
make the final decision.
Shelton said he hopes to select a
director by the end of the month.
Shelton said he was very impressed
with the candidates.
“I met all three finalists and talked
with them one-on-one," he said.
“I had a sense that each of them had
a genuine interest in the position.”
Shelton said the University is proud
of its public service role throughout the
state and that the future director will
have a major responsibility in demon
strating the totality of UNC’s public
service to the leaders of North
Carolina.
“It’s one of those positions where it’s
hard to overstate its value.”
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to the job.
“They have to
engender trust and
respect,” he said.
“They must be
the kind of person
students, faculty,
alumni and com
munity members
will trust and want
to work with."
Officials
Reschedule
Qatar Trip
Some faculty are concerned
about the business school's
plans to consider starting a
branch in the Middle East.
By Krista Faron
Staff Writer
UNC officials have rescheduled a
trip to Qatar, where they are consider
ing developing a branch of the Kenan-
Flagler Business School despite some
faculty and student concerns about the
program’s objectives and safety issues.
Provost Robert Shelton said die group
will travel to Qatar, a small country bor
dering Saudi Arabia and across the
Persian Gulf from Afghanistan, some
time during the first part of November.
Chancellor James Moeser and faculty
from both the business school and the
College of Arts and Sciences will go on
the trip, although the final group of par
ticipants has not been determined. Several
members of the Board of Trustees are slat
ed to go on the trip, which will be
financed by officials in Qatar. The trip
originally was scheduled in September
but was delayed due to business and secu
rity concerns after the Sept 11 attacks.
Leaders of the UNC system and edu
cation officials in Qatar have discussed
the possibility of establishing a business
curriculum and degree program for stu
dents in that region for about two years.
Shelton called the trip a fact-finding
mission in which UNC faculty can get a
sense of security, lifestyle and cultural
issues in Qatar. If the trip is successful,
he said, the University will continue
negotiations with Qatar officials.
“We need to take a ‘go, no go’ stand
by the end of the calendar year,” he said.
“We need as much input as possible from
people whose opinions we deeply value.
That’s the real purpose of the trip.”
Some UNC faculty said they fully sup
port the venture in Qatar. Management
Professor Robert Adler said UNC should
use the program to share American prin
ciples such as democracy, diversity and
freedom of expression. “This is an impor
tant initiative because the Middle East is
a critical part of the world,” ht said. “We
should unashamedly engage people in
that region and share our values and skills
with those people. We should not leave
the Middle East to haters.”
But not all business faculty support the
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ty. The NAACP statement has the
potential to encourage further dissent.
House Speaker Pro Tern Joe
Hackney, D-Orange, who serves as vice
chairman of the Legislative Redistricting
Committee, said it was “entirely appro-
7 don’t see why 1 should
automatically be committed
to a decision made
by the NAACP.”
Rep. Warren Oldham
D-Forsyth
effect, there are 14 (majority black) dis
tricts,” he said.
Black lawmakers have mixed opin
ions on the effect the NAACP state
ment will have on passing a redistrict
ing plan.
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priate for the plan
to be re-exam
ined” in light of
the complaints.
But Hackney
added that aside
from the 12 major
ity black districts,
two others are
more than 49 per
cent black.
“In practical