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WEEKLY SUMMER ISSUE ullir daily ®or MM Art Chic The Chamber of Commerce's Art Crawl aims for success. See Page 3 UNC Cuts 6 Days From Academic Calendar By Kate Pearson Staff Writer Students and faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill will have six days trimmed off the 2002-03 academic year before the final calendar changes - which will cut four more days - take effect in 2003-04. The calendar change is the result of a UNC-system Board of Governors deci sion in February to allow individual sys tem campuses to trim their academic calendar by about two weeks. Originally UNC-CH officials said Senators Hear Fiscal Concerns Education leaders from across the state said they want flexibility to distribute budget cuts as they see fit. By Alex Kaplun Editor RALEIGH - In an unprecedented meeting Tuesday, state education lead ers pleaded with members of the N.C. Senate not to cut too deeply into educa tion when the legislature builds a bud get for the 2002-03 fiscal year. Education officials from all over the state and from all three branches of pub lic education - K-12 schools, communi ty colleges and the UNC system - aired their concerns in a three-hour session as most of the Senate listened intently. The N.C. General Assembly is in the midst of building a budget for the 2002- 03 fiscal year, which starts July 1. Due to both sagging revenue collec tions and escalating costs in several state programs, legislators are facing a budget hole of about $2 billion. With few legislators willing to stom ach a tax increase, lawmakers have begun to consider cuts to all comers of the state’s sl4 billion budget. The Senate is expected to approve its plan on how to fill the fiscal hole in the next few weeks, at which point the plan will head to the N.C. House for approval. Lawmakers have announced that they could have to cut about $695 million from education to balance the budget. But Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight, D-Dare, said that before leg islators made any final decisions on the budget they wanted to hear from as many education officials as possible. Hundreds of education officials from across the state - including school super intendents, community college presidents, See EDUCATION, Page 4 Witnesses Testify in Case of Man Charged With Rapes Edwards is on trial for the assaults of three women that occurred in 1999-2000 in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. By Colin Sutker Staff Writer HILLSBOROUGH - Medical and law enforcement officials took the stand this week to support the prosecution’s case against an area man facing multiple felony charges. Dwayne Russell Edwards is accused of sexually assaulting three women, one of whom was assaulted at gunpoint at ner Chapel Hill apartment. m ■■w. :: they did not want to change the 2002-03 academic calendar because the calendar had already been published and the University had made plans around it. But David Lanier, University registrar and the head of the committee that sub mits calendar proposals to the chancel lor, said he received calls from students, faculty and administrators asking him to revise the 2002-03 academic calendar. The committee members decided to cut some of the days from the 2002-03 year, making it a transitional year before the revised calendar is put into effect 'Canes Frenzy Sweeps Triangle By Kellie Dixon Sports Editor RALEIGH - The Entertainment & Sports Arena erupted Tuesday night as Ron Francis sealed the Carolina Hurricanes’ first victory in the Stanley Cup Finals. Fans, clad in jer seys and waving Carolina . .3(OT) Detroit 2 memorabilia, leapt from their red cushioned seats in the lower level of the sports arena, and in unison let out a loud, long cheer: “Woooo!” Francis’ shot, executed less than a minute into overtime, elevated the Hurricanes 1-0 in the series against the Detroit Red Wings at the Joe Louis Arena in Michigan. Fans around the Triangle, who have been snatching up ’Canes’ para phernalia, have been waiting for this moment since the team clinched the Eastern Conference a week ago. A crowd of more than 8,000 gath ered at the ESA to watch their beloved Hurricanes drag the Red Wings into overtime on Detroit’s home ice. See HURRICANES, Page 4 Wskk r v r ,* DTH/KIMBERLEY CRAVEN Melissa Ecdes, employee of The Eye at Crabtree Mall, straightens up after the pregame rush. The prosecution this week, the sec ond of the trial, focused on the primary response officers who obtained evidence and gathered primary testimonies from the victims of an assault that occurred Jan. 9,2001. The victim’s boyfriend, a UNC grad uate, told the court Monday that he was forced from the bed where they were sleeping into a closet while the rape occurred. He testified that he could hear his girlfriend begging, “Please no, please no,” while the rape occurred. The victim also identified the defen dant as the man who sexually assaulted her while holding a gun in his right hand. The prosecution continued Tuesday Serving the students and the University community since 1893 All By Myself University police are given partial jurisdiction over the town. See Page 3 The committee took three days from the end of the fall semester and three days from the end of the spring semester. The majority of changes to the to next year’s calendar will affect exam week. There will be no exams on Saturdays, and the exam period is longer than usual because the committee did not want to make any changes to the Commencement schedule, Lanier said. The last day of classes for the fall and spring semesters were slated to be December 7 and April 30. Under the new calendar, classes will end December K J "^r* ' 1 ' *^H ’' •’ 4p‘&~. ~ .- "~ I.v ." ':’ '^'.] — V3?* t '|f^ J^: ' DTH/KIMBERLEY CRAVEN Apex natives Lu Mullaney and Larry Will tailgate by their car, "Treat," outside the Entertainment & Sports Arena in Raleigh on Tuesday night before game one of the Stanley Cup Finals. Carolina won the game 3-2. I 4 M with Carrboro police Lt. Mike Mikels. He stated that on the night of Edwards’ arrest, the defen dant was wearing a pair of dark-col ored running pants and a dark colored long sleeve jacket. The lieutenant identi fied them as the evidence shown to him Tuesday. He added that Defendant Dwayne Russell Edwards' trial began in Hillsborough on May 27. on the night of the arrest, he saw two brown gloves and a black toboggan on Courage is a kind of salvation. Plato Tossed Tar Heels' season ends at NCAA regional tournament. See Page 5 4 and April 25. Exams will end as sched uled in the fall on December 17 and one day early in the spring on May 9. The final changes, implemented in the 2003-04 academic year, will include a total of 70 days of instruction per semes ter, compared to the 75 days that have been in place the last four years, he said. The current calendar came into exis tence in 1996, when then-UNC-system President C.D. Spangler increased the academic calendar from 140 to 150 days. “We found that in those four years we found ourselves with hardly any time Fans Seek Merchandise, Stanley Cup By Tim Candon Staff Writer RALEIGH Doug and Ndidi Kowalczyk watched game one of the Stanley Cup Finals at the Entertainment & Sports Arena on Tuesday night adorned in Hurricanes jerseys and flags. Ndidi even wore a foam puck on her head. The Kowalczyks estimate they’ve spent SSOO on Hurricanes merchandise this year, excluding their season tickets, and said every penny was worth it “We’re hoping to pay for a free agent some where,” Doug said. Fans like the Kowalczyks across the Triangle are snatching up Hurricanes memorabilia almost as fast as retailers are putting it on the shelves. “It’s a challenge (keeping goods stocked), but we’re staying even with it, if not ahead of the the front seat of Edwards’ black Chevrolet Cavalier. Those two pieces of clothing were identified by the victim as being on the suspect on the night of the rape. Chapel Hill police officer Steve Lehew was also brought to the stand to corroborate Mikels’ testimony that the gloves and toboggan were in the car. Defense attorney Steve Freedman argued that in Mikels’ testimony, he had stated that on the night of Edwards’ apprehension that he was instructed to look for a tall black man, bald and pos sibly wearing gloves. But previous statements showed Mikels was only given information to look for a tall black man possibly wear ing gloves. Mikels then admitted that he had merged the identifying characteris £ between summer and fall,” Lanier said. Lanier said University officials and faculty members both supported the return to a shorter calendar. He said fac ulty members will not work fewer days when the new calendar goes into effect, but they will use the extra days to do research and work on academic writing. Lanier said he does not consider the new calendar “shortened.” He said, “We are returning to a normal calendar.” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. game,” said Kevin Murphy, director of mer chandise for the Hurricanes and the ESA. The hottest item is the Eastern Conference championship T-shirts. They started selling about “30 seconds after (Martin) Gelinas scored the game-winner,” Murphy said, referring to the series-clinching game six win against Toronto. Once the playoffs began, merchandise sales saw a dramatic increase, said James Blitch, retail oper ations manager of The Eye, a store at Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh owned by the Hurricanes. Blitch said The Eye gets three to four ship ments every day and that if it doesn’t have what a customer is looking for, it’s usually on the way. In addition to ’Canes merchandise, fans can enter the “Bring Home the Cup” contest, which See MERCHANDISE, Page 4 tics of Edwards and the previous suspect he had been searching for. The prosecution put a trace evidence expert on the stand to give testimony concerning pubic hair combed from the victim. The witness said he found no pubic hairs from Edwards or anyone else on the victim. The prosecution then questioned UNC Hospitals nurse Marie Padly, a sexual assault examiner. Padly tended to the victimjan. 9. She told prosecutors the girl was shaking badly when she examined her and was tearful at times when recount ing what happened to her. Padly said the victim told her a man See EDWARDS, Page 4 www.dailytarheel.com Aldermen Consider Charging for Trash Thompson Croons Gentle Life Lessons at Open Eye UNC Swim Test May Drown The swim test requirement may be abolished as early as the 2003-04 school year under anew curriculum. By Brook Corwin Staff Writer UNC’s swim test, one of the University’s oldest and most debated graduation requirements, might soon become a thing of the past. A campus committee charged with revising the UNC undergraduate curricu lum has removed the swim test require ment from the preliminary draft of anew curriculum that was unveiled in April. Under the present curriculum, stu dents must satisfy two physical educa tion requirements and pass the swim test, which consists of swimming 50 yards and then staying afloat in the water for five minutes. The new curriculum requires only one physical education course, and no swim test is required for graduation. After final revisions are made, the curriculum must be approved by the Faculty Council. It will be implemented for the 2003-04 academic year at the . earliest. Officials on the steering committee for curriculum review said they elimi nated the requirement because it did not fit into the framework of an acade mic education. “There are lots of skills that students need,” said Tom Tweed, associate direc tor of the undergraduate curriculum and member of the steering committee. “Our charge as a committee was deter mining what are the most fundamental components of a general education ... not about identifying all the skills nec essary in real life.” But Meg Lanchantin, director of UNC’s physical education program and a proponent of the swim test, said most other life skills - such as driving a car or balancing a checkbook - are already taught at the primary education level, while swimming is not a requirement “I feel as educators we have a respon sibility to not only teach students the importance of survival skills but also to ensure that they are able to use those skills,” Lanchantin said. The swim test requirement was first instituted for men at UNC in 1944 and for women in 1946, when the University received federal grant money to help train midshipmen for the U.S. Navy. Originally a more rigorous exam that required being able to swim several dif ferent strokes, the test was revised into its current format during the 19705. Fred Mueller, chairman of the Department of Exercise and Sports Science, is one of many faculty and staff members who has taught UNC swim ming courses designed to help students pass the test. He said his experience teaching such classes has made him a strong proponent of keeping the test as a requirement. “Many of our students never have the opportunity growing up to get in the water,” Mueller said. “It’s a really grati fying experience to see them learn to swim ... and I bet if you asked those stu dents now, they’d be in favor of the test.” Tweed said the physical education department will continue to offer begin ning swim classes and that the commit tee still hopes students will take advan tage of those courses, even if swimming is not a requirement for graduation. “We certainly are not saying whether learning to swim is important,” Tweed said. “The question is whether swim ming should be a part of a good educa tional framework.” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu.
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