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Sunday, August 25
■ An unattended stove in the sec
ond-floor kitchen of Craige Residence
Hall ignited paper products causing a
fire alarm, reports state.
Chapel Hill firefighters and
University police evacuated the build
ing after paper products blew into a
stove burner, setting the paper on fire,
reports state. Craige was evacuated, but
reports state that there was no damage
to the building.
Saturday, August 24
■ University police found a 17-year
old male student vomiting in a third
floor bathroom of Joyner Residence
Hall, reports state.
Police reported that the student had
vomited several times before they
arrived and threw up again when para
medics arrived.
The student, who lives in Avery
Residence Hall, was taken to the hospi
tal for treatment, reports state.
Thursday, August 22
■ University police arrested a UNC
student for first degree burglary and lar
ceny, reports state.
Randall Rhyne, 21, of 157 Graham
Residence Hall was arrested on charges
that he allegedly entered 175 Graham
while the victim was sleeping and began
to remove cords from a laptop, reports
state.
The victim, an assistant area director
for Aycock and Graham residence halls,
woke up to find Rhyne disconnecting
his laptop at 4:50 a.m., reports state.
Rhyne was released on a written
promise to appear in Orange County
District Court on Aug. 23.
City
Monday, August 26
■ Chapel Hill police responded to
an assault call at 12:06 a.m.
Reports state that a man was assault
ed on the 200 block of South Merritt
Mill 'Road. He was beaten over the
head by some acquaintances, and then
his hand was sliced with a box cutter,
reports state.
The incident has been cited as an
assault with a deadly weapon inflicting
serious bodily injury, reports state.
The case is under further investigation.
Saturday, August 24
■ A car was reported stolen from a
downtown Chapel Hill parking lot at
11:22 p.m., reports state.
Reports state that the 2000 green
Ford Explorer was removed from the
parking lot at 318 Rosemary St.
The vehicle had been secured Aug.
16 and was discovered missing Saturday
at 2 p.m., reports state.
The SUV is valued at $15,000,
reports state.
The case is under further investigation.
Friday, August 23
■ Chapel Hill police arrested a
woman on felony drug charges at 10:16
p.m., reports state.
Reports state that officers arrested
Shanail Monick Mitchell, 19, of 306 N.
Estes Drive, 1-17, in Carrboro after a K
-9 narcotics search revealed 45 grams of
marijuana in her purse.
Police received an anonymous call
reporting that a man named “Ryan”
was selling drugs in the Chapel Hill
public housing units on South Estes
Drive, reports state. Upon arrival, nar
cotics unit officers spotted a blue Saturn
leaving the parking lot, reports state.
Reports state that the officers
matched the plates with those of a car
driven by Ryan Dennis Lawrence, 27, of
4230 Garrett Road, G-22, in Durham.
Lawrence had been trespassed from
all Chapel Hill public housing May 4
following his arrest for felony crack
cocaine possession, reports state.
Officers identified Lawrence in the
passenger seat and pulled the vehicle
over on Pope Road near Old Durham
Road, reports state.
After charging Lawrence with second
degree trespassing, officers conducted a
K-9 search of the car, finding in
Mitchell’s purse a bag of marijuana,
weighing 45 grams, reports state.
Mitchell was charged with felony
marijuana possession and released on a
written promise to appear in court,
reports state.
Mitchell was scheduled to appear in
Orange County District Court in
Hillsborough on Monday.
■ A Wilkesboro resident was assault
ed and his puppy was stolen at 9:55 p.m.
Reports state that the victim was
assaulted at 131 E. Franklin St and then
the suspect stole his 7-month-old chow
puppy.
The dog is valued at S2OO. The case
is closed with all leads exhausted.
Students Not to Blame for Water Depletion
Area went to Stage 2
restrictions Friday
By Ruthie Warshenbrot
Staff Writer
Officials say an increase in area water
usage last week cannot entirely be
blamed on UNC students hitting cam
pus but on a general lack of rainfall.
Nonetheless, University officials said
precautions still are being taken to con
serve water.
On Friday, the Orange Water and
Sewer Authority started enforcing Stage
2 water restrictions in response to the
worst drought the area has ever experi
Looking Beyond the Hill
Local sensation Sankofa hopes to apply its new sound to a wider audience
By Nick Parker
Arts & Entertainment Editor
They’re confident, comfortable
and commanding -but if the mem
bers of Sankofa are going to make it
big, they will need more than just
ambition.
And thankfully they’ve got it.
Anyone remotely plugged into
the pulse of the Chapel Hill music
scene has heard - or at least heard
of- the funky hip-hop rhythms of
Sankofa. The group’s style is
unique, its sound intense, its talents
soaring.
But being
a powerful
local sensa
tion doesn’t
guarantee that
Sankofa will
just step into
being a
national icon.
The road
A monthly look at a
group of rising hip-hop
superstars.
to glory could be long and arduous.
The Daily Tar Heel will shadow
Sankofa for the entire year, watch
ing its struggle for stardom through
recording, touring, promoting and,
they hope, signing.
Since its formation more than
four years ago, Sankofa has become
a mainstay of the Chapel Hill music
scene. What started as a few friends
having fun has turned into an insti
tution for local hip-hop enthusiasts.
When they first performed
together in a talent show sponsored
by Hip-Hop Nation, a student orga
nization aiming to foster hip-hop
culture, they had no name, no lofty
aspirations, no pretensions. They
were just out there to have a good
time.
But after blowing away the audi
ence and gamering rave reviews -
from both friends and strangers -
the members knew they had found
something real and something they
loved.
“We practiced once for that talent
show then went out there and
rocked it,” recalls Stefan Greenlee,
also known as MC Creem, the
group’s lead vocalist. “After that we
just kind of went from there - writ
ing, performing, practicing, really
getting serious.
“It was cool seeing everyone real
ly getting into our music, connecting
over what we were doing.”
But the group’s maturation hasn’t
always been without growing pains.
When keyboardist Mark Wells quit
the band in 2001, the future seemed
bleak and uncertain.
All About ACT
,y • The Advisory Committee on
Transportation will propose to
administrators possible
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% campus transportation.
** Committee Members
• Derek Poarch, chairman
director of Public Safety
• Dean Bresciani
interim vice chancellor for student affairs
• Sue Estroff
Faculty Council chairwoman
• Tommy Griffin
Employee Forum chairman
• Tammy McHale
senior associate dean of finance and
planning
• Willie Scroggs
associate director of athletics
• Todd Peterson
executive vice president and chief
operating officer, UNC Hospitals
• Jen Daum
student body president
• Colin Christian
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation representative
• Gene Bober
planner in the School of Medicine
• John Tallmadge
transportation planner
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enced.
Stage 2 restrictions limit certain kinds
of outdoor water use. For instance, resi
dents are limited to watering with hoses
or sprinklers one day per week.
The average weekly water use in
August was about 11 million gallons
until last week, when it went up to 12.7
million gallons.
Greg Feller, OWASA’s director of
public affairs, said students’ arrival to
Chapel Hill is not the only factor in the
past week’s increase.
Because there has been so little rain,
outdoor water use has increased, Feller
said. “The hotter and dryer it is, the
more water is used,” he said.
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Led by Stefan "MC Creem" Greenlee, Sankofa is striving to jump into the national spotlight. After a
brief hiatus following the departure of keyboardist Mark Wells, Sankofa has returned
with anew sound, anew guitarist and anew focus.
“Everyone thought that we had
kind of dropped off,” Greenlee said.
“People were asking me what we
were doing and when we were com
ing back. A lot of people thought
that the band was dead.
“When Mark quit we were all like
‘What the fuck do we do now?’ We
had to come brand new.”
Enter Dana Chell. A classically
trained guitarist, Chell brings struc
tured intensity and a wicked, exper
imental sound.
All of the band members agree
that the addition of the guitarist, who
they have affectionately nicknamed
DNA, almost single-handedly fueled
their revival.
“DNA inspired a lot of the new
See FAMOUS, Page 9
ACT Shifts Focus to Long Term
Transportation committee replaces TPAC
By John Frank
Assistant University Editor
University Police Chief Derek Poarch
doesn’t want to talk about TPAC.
As far as he is concerned, the
Transportation and Parking Advisory
Committee is over - for good.
Instead, he is focusing his efforts on
the new Advisory Committee on
Transportation, of which he is the co
chairman. “We created anew committee
to focus on more than just parking,”
Poarch said. “It’s more about campus
access and an increased dependence on
park-and-ride and transit”
Composed of 11 members represent
ing a wide range of campus interests, the
new committee was formed in June by
Nancy Suttenfield, vice chancellor for
finance and administration.
The committee is charged with help-
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ing the Department of Public Safety
develop a five-year transportation plan,
which will be presented to the Board of
Trustees for adoption injanuary.
The committee will draft the plan with
the help of Kimley-Hom and Associates,
a Raleigh transportation consulting firm
hired by the University for $250,000.
TPAC was dissolved at the end of last
year when its purpose was questioned
after difficulties balancing the DPS budget
With advice from former TPAC members
and the UNC Board of Trustees,
Suttenfield changed committee leadership
and refocused it on long-term goals.
Poarch said everything from the com
mittee’s size to its philosophy is different.
“It is going to be much more structured
than what we have seen in the past.”
Last school year some committee
members thought they strayed from
their purpose as an advisory board to a
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policy-making entity. But this year,
Poarch said, “We are going to deal with
philosophies and not the nuts and bolts.”
Poarch said the specifics of any plan
would be up to UNC administrators.
All committee members presented
their philosophies at the committee’s
first two meetings over the summer. The
perspectives varied on how ACT should
handle transportation issues.
Student Body Secretary Rebecca
Williford, who filled in for committee
member Student Body President Jen
Daum, said her emphasis is encouraging
students to live without a car on campus,
according to minutes from the meeting.
Meanwhile, Sue Estroff, Faculty
Council chairwoman and committee
member, said she would like to see a
moratorium on new buildings that lack
enough parking spaces for the people
who work in them.
Others hinted at night parking pro-
See ACT, Page 9
Tuesday, August 27, 2002
UNC Nabs
Top Hot'
Ranking
Community service
a factor in selection
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
Assistant State & National Editor
The 2003 edition of the Kaplan-
Newsweek college guide, released
Monday, put UNC in a group of this
year’s 12 “Hot Colleges.”
Officials say the guide focuses on a
broad range of qualities that potential
applicants are looking for in a school.
The Kaplan/Newsweek “How to Get
Into College” guide does not rank the 12
schools but lists them with a description.
Asa policy, this year’s top 12 does
not include any schools ranked in the
previous two editions of the guide.
The guide also cites UNC in stories
about the University’s decision to elim
inate its binding early admission appli
cation last spring.
Tammy Fang, spokeswoman for
Kaplan, said the guide’s editors scruti
nized policies of colleges and universi
ties that had substantial increases in the
number of applicants. Editors then
searched for common factors that might
contribute to applicants’ increasing
interest in those schools.
When deciding the final 12, Fang said,
the editors focused on trends in student
preferences and issues of interest to appli
cants. She said one of the most prevalent
trends was students’ interest in attending
institutions of higher education with
many community service opportunities.
Fang said the University’s symbiotic
relationship with Chapel Hill provides
See RANKING, Page 9
More Water
Restrictions
On the Way
Area hit with worst
drought in history
By Jamie Dolgher
Assistant City Editor
The town of Hillsborough and the
Alamance-Orange water systems will
soon implement Stage 6 water restric
tions in their service areas.
Stage 6, which officials will enact with
in the week, has never before been
reached in that area. The specific details
of Stage 6 were
unknown even to
town officials until
they were unveiled
this weekend.
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water restrictions that
could impact parts of
Change County.
ments of the Stage 6 restrictions are that
hotels must ask guests staying in the
hotel for multiple nights if they do not
need to have their bed sheets changed
daily and that restaurants must use sin
gle service plates, utensils and cups.
The Stage 6 restrictions also outline a
number of recommendations for cus
tomers, such as limiting toilet flushing
and refraining from the use of garbage
disposals or automatic dishwashers.
With the area suffering from the
worst drought in recorded history, the
need to go above and beyond any pre
vious restrictions has become dire.
Officials from the Hobday Inn Express
in Hillsborough say they already have
been doing their part to conserve water.
Mihir Desai, an employee of the
Holiday Inn at 202 Cardinal Drive said
the hotel is anticipating the Stage 6
restrictions and has been asking hotel
guests to reduce their water usage and
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