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(% iathj <lar Jtel www.dailytarheel.com Know the candidates vying for positions in this year's primary elections. See a full list online. Volume 110, Issue 60 ■mi \i\wmmmmmmmmwmmmmmmmrn UM Freshman Reading Choice Challenged By Jennifer Samuels Assistant State & National Editor The University of Maryland-College Park is under fire for selecting “The Laramie Project” by Moises Kaufman as required reading for a majority of fresh men. The Family Policy Network, which brought a lawsuit against UNC for its Bowles Lays Out Issues, Priorities Candidate discusses security, economy By Eeyse Ashburn State & National Editor The event seemed like any introduc tory level class. But the students filling Hamilton Hall on Monday were wide-awake and tuned in to U.S. Senate hopeful Democrat Erskine Bowles. “There is not a soul in the class of 1967 that thought I’d be up here at the front of the M m <WMIi i ■ i class instead of way in the back,” Bowles said. Bowles returned to his alma mater to address members of the Young Democrats and any other individuals interested in the 2002 Senate election. “Getting me to come to Chapel Hill is easy,” he said. “I love this place.” Bowles, a Greensboro native, earned a business degree from UNC in 1967. He served as the director of the U.S. Small Business Administration in 1993 under then-President Bill Clinton. Bowles returned to Washington, D.C., in 1996 to serve as Clinton’s White House chief of staff until 1998. He lives in Charlotte. Bowles will face State Rep. Dan Blue, former Durham City Council member Cynthia Brown and N.C. Secretary of State Elaine Marshall in the Sept. 10 Democratic primary. Bowles told the attentive audience that he is not running for Senate because of personal aspirations. “I can watch ‘West Wing’ and get my ego stroked pretty well,” he said. “Now I just want the chance to go back to Washington and go to work.” Bowles said he chose to run because he simply could not return to his old work after Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. “I kept hearing my dad’s admonition that ‘all of us have to add to the com munity woodpile,’” he said. “I realized that I want to spend the rest of my life in public service. I really thought I could go back to Washington as your senator and really make a difference.” There are five key issues that Bowles intends to address if elected. He said he will throw his full weight behind forming a strong national secu rity policy. “I’m going to support the president in the war on terrorism because, believe you me, it’s real,” Bowles said. But he maintained that he will guard civil liberties and take a microscope to the military budget. “If the president really needs that money, I’ll make sure he gets it,” Bowles said. “But he has to need it.” A strong economy is also essential for domestic security, he said. See BOWLES, Page 5 No Room to Grow Campus construction projects are decreasing the amount of campus rehearsal space. See Page 4 summer reading selection of “Approaching the Qur’an: The Early Revelations,” by Michael Sells, is criti cizing UM-College Park’s choice for presenting only one side of an issue. “The Laramie Project” is a play that documents the town of Laramie, Wyo., as it attempts to rebuild after the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard. Shepard, an HIV-positive homosexual student at " v .■ : yf ; DTH/LAURA BERNARD Faculty Council Chairwoman Sue Estroff is approaching the last year of her three-year term. Estroff said she expects many ongoing issues to culminate this year.. Faculty Voice Looks Ahead to Loud Year Estroff faces last year as chairwoman of Faculty Council By Daniel Thigpen University Editor For someone who serves as the voice of UNO’s entire faculty, Sue Estroff seems incredibly relaxed. Leaning back in her chair - arms behind her head and feet atop a desk covered in endless stacks of papers - Estroff can sum up her experience as Faculty Council chairwoman rather briefly. “It’s been a ride, I’ll tell you,” she said. “I’ve learned a lot.” And now, as she enters the last year of the position’s three-year term, Estroff says the ride is only going to get more interesting. “I have some clear goals in mind,” said the profes sor of social medicine. “I do like to stay busy, but I don’t have a choice.” Throughout her first two years as council chair woman, Estroff has been a consistently vocal campus All the ills of democracy can be curetfaby more democracy. Alfred E. Smith Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Tuesday, August 27, 2002 the University of Wyoming, was beaten, tied to a fence and left for dead by two men he interacted with at a bar. FPN President Joe Glover stressed that the organization’s problem with the play results from its one-sided perspec tive. “It’s very manipulative to take stu dents who are the most impressionable ... and take a very heavy-handed approach to presenting one view of an THE FINAL STRETCH figure in UNC’s most prominent debates and contro versies. But this year could keep her busier than before. She said there’s no shortage of issues for the faculty’s gov erning body to tackle the next two semesters. With every item of discussion that emerges, she said, her mission will stay the same - to accurately gauge faculty sentiment. “I think they look to me to be a spokesperson, to speak out on behalf of the faculty” Estroff said. “We get together, we argue, we discuss and come together. When you have seen me coming out swinging, it’s as much them as it is me. “Faculty Council is really in no way different from Student Congress. The council is the legislative arm, valve, mechanism of the faculty.” Estroff believes many of the issues that were brought to the table at the beginning of her term will See ESTROFF, Page 5 W£A\ A Foreign Face New Zealander Laura Douglas joins the team. See Page 7 issue without any other data,” he said. Glover, who said he is halfway through the play and plans to finish it soon, said legal action likely will not be taken against UM-College Park unless the university purposely makes Shepard’s homosexuality into a religious issue. Glover said FPN did not seek out UM- College Park to criticize its reading pro gram but was first alerted to the situation Weather Today: T-storms; H 78, L 66 Wednesday: T-storms; HB2, L 66 Thursday: T-storms; H 88, L 66 / by a reporter from The Baltimore Sun. Lawyers from the American Family Association, which represents FPN in its lawsuit against UNC, also expressed doubts that charges would be brought against UM-College Park. AFA Senior Litigation Counselor Michael DePrimo said a case could only be brought against UM-College Park if university officials attempted to establish an orthodoxy of ASG Delegate Decisions Final UNC-CH's appointees in line with code By Daniel Thigpen University Editor The plans have changed for the last time, Student Body Vice President Aaron Hiller said Monday. Hiller appointed one additional voting delegate to the UNC-system Association of Student Governments this weekend - graduate student John Heath - satisfying the requirement in the Student Code that UNC-Chapel Hill send four voting members to the association. Making it the third change since July, the move brings the total number of del egates, both voting and non-voting, to six. Heath, Student Body President Jen Daum and sophomores Colin Rogister and Tre Jones now make up the voting delegation. Juniors Amanda Taylor and Charity Sturdivant will not have votes. Rogister also has been designated as the liaison to Student Congress, as is mandated in the Student Code. “After every ASG meeting, he’ll brief Congress on what happens,” Hiller said. No Excuse Voter Station Set Up in Planetarium Voting is open from now until Sept. 10 By Meredith Nicholson Assistant University Editor Chancellor James Moeser and Student Body President Jen Daum left Morehead Planetarium on Monday morning sporting “I voted” stickers - two weeks before the primary elections. Moeser and Daum cast the first votes at the No Excuse voter station located inside the Morehead Building. The facil ity allows voters registered in Orange County to vote at any time leading up to the Sept. 10 election. Twenty-eight people - including Moeser and Daum - voted during the first day of polling on campus, said Bob Gotwals, assistant director of Morehead Planetarium. Across the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area, a relatively small number of peo ple turned out to vote Monday. But it is not uncommon for voters to be few and far between during the first weeks of early voting, said Carolyn Thomas, director of the Orange County Board of Elections. The No Excuse One-Stop Absentee Voting Sites began two years ago dur ing the 2000 presidential election. There were originally 158 No Excuse stations statewide, and officials esti mated that nearly 200,000 North Carolina voters used these facilities in 2000. Daum said student government offi cials will be publicizing the early voting station in the Pit and during student gov ernment interest meetings to encourage www.dailytarheel.com belief supporting homosexuality. Freshmen at UM-College Park will receive “The Laramie Project” through their residence halls or the mail. Other stu dents living in residence halls will receive the play as well. Faculty have the option of incorporating the play into lesson plans. Members of the committee that chose See MARYLAND, Page 5 The appointment process has been rid dled with confusion since it began this summer. In July, Hiller appointed only two voting delegates and two non-voting members before realizing that UNC-CH could in fact have four votes. After grant ing votes to all four delegates, Hiller said Thursday that this move didn’t complete ly adhere to the Student Code’s guidelines and that he would work to amend the Student Code so that the appointments could be confirmed next week. Instead, the code will remain the same, and Heath’s appointment will be the latest, and what Hiller hopes is the last, modification. Student leaders have said changes made to ASG stipulations elevated the confusion. At the beginning of last year, the ASG changed several sections of its constitution, including the portion per taining to delegate appointments, said ASG president Jonathan Ducote. Article TV, Section 3 of the ASG con- See ASG, Page 5 DTH/ANNE MEADOWS Student Body President Jen Daum and Chancellor James Moeser cast their votes in the Senate election. students to vote. Brad Overcash, student government communications director, said he expects there will be a lot of interest in voting on campus this year. “I think it’s going to be an interesting enough election that if it’s convenient enough for people to vote, they will,” he said. “Student government’s job will be to let them know they can go to Morehead.” Daum said she also believes that the race between Democratic state Senate primary opponents Ellie Kinnaird and Howard Lee will bring students to the voting booth. See VOTE, Page 5
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