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Police
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Bicyclist Hit by Car;
No Charges Filed
A car struck a bicyclist on South
Road on Wednesday at about 8:45 a.m.
The driver of the green Ford Taurus
was turning right into the Bell Tower
parking lot when she struck the bicy
clist, knocking him to the ground.
University police and EMS respond
ed to the scene, where the rider was
treated for minor cuts and bruises and
released with no hospital treatment.
No charges were filed against the dri
ver.
Further details were unavailable
Wednesday.
University
Wednesday, Nov. 7
■ A resident assistant in Morrison
Residence Hall called in a possible
underage alcohol possession in one of
the rooms at 9:36 p.m. Monday, reports
state. Two UNC students were caught
with empty beer cans and confessed to
drinking the alcohol inside of them,
reports state.
Reports state the suspects received
citations for underage drinking.
Tuesday, Nov. 6
■ An unknown person used red
paint to mark over UNC stickers on
cars sometime between Monday night
and Tuesday morning, reports state.
Vandalized cars were located in the
parking lot behind Hinton James
Residence Hall and the Public Safety
Building parking lot near Morrison
Residence Hall, reports state.
Reports state that two of the four vic
tims noticed “NCSU” painted on their
vehicles.
■ An Ericsson cell phone was stolen
from a room in Craige Residence Hall
sometime between 6:30 p.m. and 7:30
p.m. Sunday night, reports state.
■ Reports state that a S3OO Nokia
cell phone was taken from a secured car
between 1 a.m. Oct. 29 and noon Nov.
2. The victim returned to her car Nov. 2
to find that the cell phone power cord
had been cut and the phone was miss
ing, reports state.
Monday, Nov. 5
■ A supervisor arrived on site to find
a Sheetrock gun was missing from a tool
area in the Morrison Residence Hall
new construction site C, reports state.
The Hillti gun had a company
applied serial number 677695 and could
have been taken anytime between 5
p.m. Nov. 2 and 10:30 a.m. Nov. 5,
reports state.
City
Tuesday, Nov. 6
■ Chapel Hill police arrested
Charles Williams, 20, of 200
Westminster Drive for possession of
marijuana.
Reports state that a Chapel Hill
police officer approached Williams on
Airport Road near Westminster Drive
because they thought he was a possible
suspect in an armed robbery at the
Wachovia Bank.
Williams consented to a search and
officers found a bag of marijuana in his
coat, reports state.
Williams was arrested and taken to
the Chapel Hill police department,
reports state. Reports also state that
Williams is being charged with one mis
demeanor count of marijuana posses
sion.
He is scheduled to appear in the
Orange County District Court in
Hillsborough on Dec. 3.
Monday, Nov. 5
■ Chapel Hill police responded to
an animal abuse call at 4:09 p.m. at 707
Gomains Ave. Reports state that a child
killed a neighbor’s puppy.
The crimes involved are damage to
real property and cruelty to animals,
reports state.
The case is under further investiga
tion.
■ Chapel Hill police arrested
Michael Brown, 50, of 100 Louis
Armstrong Court at 10:31 p.m. for pos
session of crack cocaine.
Reports state an officer observed a
drug transaction while doing surveil
lance on the comer of West Rosemary
Street and Graham Street.
Brown was approached on West
Rosemary Street near Roberson Street,
reports state.
After searching Brown, officers found
a plastic bag with one dosage unit of
crack cocaine, reports state.
Brown faces one felony count of pos
session of drugs, schedule 11, reports
state.
Brown was scheduled to appear in
court Monday at the Orange County
District Court in Hillsborough.
SBP Campaigns Bring Student Resignations
Four student government
members have resigned to
work on upcoming student
body president campaigns.
By John Frank
Staff Writer
Four student government executive
branch members have resigned to work
on election campaigns for potential stu
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performed Wednesday night for the annual Homecoming concert. String Cheese Incident played a sold-out show at Memorial Hall.
Fans Get High on String Cheese Incident
By Michelle Jarboe
Staff Writer
Perhaps one needs to be high to appreciate what
fans term a “String Cheese Incident.”
That could explain the fans’ two main preoccu
pations at the Memorial Hall concert last night -
they were either indulging in or spastically con
vulsing from various mind
altering, smoke-producing
substances. Or both.
, As soon as the house lights
went down, the multitude of
bright, fluorescent lights came
up, and the band took the
stage. The scent of smoke
began to mingle with the
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crowd-pervasive body odor, and the free, unwashed,
Birkenstocked, ganja-loving feeling set in.
And String Cheese Incident, the Boulder, Colo.,
five-member jam band, didn’t contrast much with
such surroundings. The band performed in a
tripped-up style that it seems to have ripped off and
further distorted from Phish, who in turn stole it
from the Grateful Dead. Not merely mixing blue
grass and rock, the band layered bits of electro-funk
and salsa beats into its extensive, blurred sets.
The show seemed to go on forever, as the breaks
between the songs were about as discemable as the
stage wasn’t. Suspensions of machine-made and
crowd-produced haze left the band behind a cloud
cover that just clenched the set’s psychedelic
Provost Rejects CIT, CTL Merger
By Stephanie Horvath
Assistant University Editor
Provost Robert Shelton decided last
week not to merge two faculty resource
centers after receiving a report from a
task force formed to aid the union.
Instead of conducting the merger,
which has met with criticism from facul
ty in recent months, the provost asked
the Center for Teaching and Learning
and the Center for Instructional
Technology to conduct self-examinations
and update their mission statements.
The CTL is an academic development
and support center, and the CIT is a sup
port center for integrating technology into
learning. “The two units individually need
to do more work on their mission state
ments and plans,” Shelton said. “You just
need to refresh them now and then.”
Shelton said his decision was affected
by the centers’ need to examine their
mission statements and by the uncer
tainty of the state budget situation.
The provost announced in June that
he wanted to merge the two centers and
later assigned a task force to advise him
on the logistics of the merger.
dent body president candidates.
The members, who were chairmen
and vice chairmen of various commit
tees, submitted their letters of resigna
tion by the Nov. 3 deadline set by
Student Body President Justin Young.
One other Cabinet member, Chessa
Huff, resigned for personal reasons.
Young said members are asked to
resign if they plan on working for stu
dent government campaigns because of
potential conflicts of interest.
Last year, three Cabinet members
nature. Complementing this effect were the con
stantly rotating rainbow lights and strobes that
blinded the already woozy, reeling audience.
But if one solely concentrated on the band, all
delusions of psychadelicamania went up in smoke.
The performance seemed a bit off - sure, the jams
were tight, but the band seemed to fly past the
lyrics in favor of setding into comfortable instru
mental rhythms. And the five members didn’t real
ly seem to be having that much fun once they
reached that point.
Drummer Michael Travis swung his head
mechanically from side to side as he syncopated
the set’s one never-ending song. Sometimes he
looked more detached than enthused, and the
other members, most notably bassist Keith
Moseley, seemed sedated and subdued. Only
impressive violinist Michael Kang kept the energy
in his countenance.
Not that the audience really noticed. The crowd
that had so heatedly clamored for tickets to see the
band jam made the music into a mere backdrop for
their antics. Flaring lighters, twisting bodies and a
mezzanine that, at some moments, threatened to
give way beneath the pounding feet of fans, took
precedence over the so-called main event - the
band.
One has to wonder what the fans were really
paying for.
The Arts & Entertainment Editor can be reached
atartsdesk@unc.edu.
Under the now-tabled plan, the
merged center would report to Marian
Moore, the vice chancellor of informa
tion technology. Some faculty members
opposed the move, said William Smith,
head of the task force.
The CTL now reports direcdy to
Shelton while the CIT reports to Moore.
“We did communicate to (Shelton) the
primary concerns that faculty represent
ed to the task force,” Smith said. “They
felt the CTL was broad enough in scope
that it ought to report to the provost.”
Political science Professor Donna
Lefebvre said the CTL’s purpose
demands that it remain under the
provost. “What the CTL does is academ
ic in nature, and academics should report
to the provost,” Lefebvre said. “It’s inap
propriate for the CTL to report to the
office of information technology because
that’s just one aspect of teaching.”
lola Peed-Neal, the associate director
of the CTL, also said the CTL should
report to the provost.
“We have always maintained that the
Center for Teaching and Learning
should report to the chief academic offi
cial because that is the home for this
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resigned. “Campaigns for student body
could take time and energy away from
student government,” Young said.
Brothers Russ and Scott Jones
resigned from their positions on the
Cabinet to help junior Will McKinney
run his campaign for student body pres
ident. Both worked on Young’s cam
paign last year and said they are looking
forward to the campaign season.
“I felt like a lot of the things withjustin
Young wanted to be carried into next year
in order to assure there is a continuation
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String Cheese Incident member Michael Kang plays
the violin as well as electric and acoustic mandolin.
teaching center," Peed-Neal said.
Moore said she agreed with the
provost’s decision but added that the
faculty would have received excellent
service under her authority. “I think the
faculty of this University would have
gotten absolutely fabulous pedagogical
services had this merger occurred and
had they reported to me,” Moore said.
Shelton said the issue of where the
merged center would report was not a
deciding determinant in his decision.
“That was one factor, but I don’t think it
was the key factor,” he said.
Kathy Thomas, manager of the CIT,
said while her group was not opposed to
the merger, it -is not required for the
groups to collaborate.
“These groups do really good work,
and the possibility of the work we could
do together was exciting,” she said. “But
we can still work together.”
Shelton said he had not entirely ruled
out the idea of a merger. “For now we’re
not going to merge, but I want to leave
that open in the future.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
of similar issues and goals,” Russ said.
Cabinet member Robert Basinger
resigned from his position as vice chair
man of academic affairs so he could
work on junior Jen Daum’s campaign
for student body president as her cam
paign manager. “I enjoyed my time on
the Cabinet,” Basinger said. “But this
would be a more important contribution
to the University if (Daum) was elected
student body president.”
Kristen Cordell, vice chairwoman of
student services, resigned from the
Forum to Discuss
Redistricting Plans
By Nathan Coletta
Staff Writer
A public forum will be held today in
Raleigh to gauge public reaction and
suggestions on two conflicting congres
sional redistricting plans that have been
unveiled in the last few days.
Democrats and Republicans each
introduced different redistricting plans
earlier this week.
Both parties have admitted that the
newly created 13th district probably will
be Democratic, but the two plans differ
in the political distribution in some of
the remaining districts.
Results of the 2000 U.S. Census allot
ted North Carolina an additional seat in
the U.S. House.
Legislators said there are two sepa
rate plans because each party tries to
protect its own incumbents and create
additional seats.
Rep. Dewey Hill, D-Columbus, co
Thursday, November 8, 2001
Cabinet to serve as junior James Haltom’s
campaign manager until he decided not
to run. Cordell said she is interested in
working for a campaign but has not made
plans to help another candidate.
The deadline for resignations varies
every year, but Young said the date was
chosen to give student government ade
quate time to fill the vacant positions.
Current executive branch members
already have expressed interest in filling
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Ist Trial
Begins for
Edwards
Edwards was arrested last
year in connection with
three sexual assaults in
Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
By Ben Glllftt
Assistant City Editor
One of two trials set for a former
UNC employee charged in connection
with three separate sexual assaults in
Chapel Hill and Carrboro is scheduled
to begin this afternoon in Hillsborough.
Dwayne Russell Edwards’ trial,
which will take place in Orange County
District Court, will deal with 49 charges
- 45 of them felonies - none of which
specifically implicate him in the sexual
assaults, according to the N.C. Court
System Web site.
The charges include 15 felony counts
of possession of stolen goods and felony
first-degree burglary along with other
charges such as breaking and entering
and financial card theft.
Edwards was arrested Jan. 9 in
Carrboro after being stopped by police
in response to an alert to all law enforce
ment personnel in the Chapel Hill-
Carrboro area.
From this arrest, Edwards was con
nected to the rape of a UNC student
that occurred on Hillsbordugh Street
earlier that day and to two other sexual
assaults in Carrboro.
The first assault occurred Dec. 23 at
the Ridgehaven Townhomes and the
second at The Village Apartments on
Dec. 26.
Edwards also is being charged with
three felony counts of first-degree rape,
four felony counts of first-degree sexu
al offense and various charges such as
robbery with a dangerous weapon, bur
glary and kidnapping - all stemming
from the assaults.
Edwards’ trial on these 24 addition
al charges will be held at Orange
County Superior Court in Hillsborough
beginning Dec. 10.
Edwards has already served prison
time in Jackson County, 111., for bur
glary and forgery but was released on
parole in August of 1999 after one year
of his sentence.
Before his arrest, Edwards was
employed by UNC at Student Health
Services and the Offices of the
University Registrar.
Edwards also was in training to work
at Davis Library.
At the time of his arrest, the
University did not require background
checks on all new hires. Earlier this year,
UNC officials began to require back
ground checks be conducted on all tem
porary employees before they are hired.
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
sponsor of the Democratic redistricting
plan, said a common trend in redistrict
ing legislation is for representatives to
look out for their own party.
“The Democratic plan is more spread
out than the Republican plan," Hill said.
“It will create districts that are more
friendly to Democrats, and the
Republican plan leans toward
Republicans."
The U.S. congressional delegation
from North Carolina contains seven
Republicans and five Democrats. Hill
added that he expects the 13th district
will be more Democratic than
Republican.
Rep. Cary Allred, R-Alamance, said
he thinks the Republican plan respects
county lines more than the Democratic
plan.
“The Republican plan would more
than likely help Southern Republicans
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