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Saturday, Sept. 21
■ Two female N.C. State University
students were arrested Saturday at 1:29
a.m. on charges of being caught with
UNC-Chapel Hill property, reports
state.
Sarah Burrill, 20, and Julie Wetsch,
20, were charged with misdemeanor
larceny and arrested at their places of
residence in Raleigh, reports state.
Their trial date is set for Nov. 13 at
the Orange County District Court in
Chapel Hill.
■ An unknown person attempted to
enter the housekeeping office in the
Student Union sometime before 6 p.m.
Saturday evening, reports state.
An employee reported that someone
had attempted to pry open the padlock
hasp to the office, which is in the base
ment of the Student Union.
The employee reportedly made the
discovery at approximately 6 p.m. that
evening.
The employee did not report the
incident until 8:30 p.m, reports state.
Upon investigation, police officers
discovered a threaded steel rod about 5
feet long on the floor in front of the
door, suspected to be the device used to
pry open the door, reports state.
Though the hasp to the padlock was
bent, the padlocked door remained
secure, reports state.
Friday, Sept. 20
■ When leaving work, a University
police officer, reported seeing two sus
picious men walking through the SI
parking lot from the direction of UNC
Hospitals to Morrison Residence Hall
at 7:14 p.m.
Suspecting that the men were not
students, Mclntyre proceeded to call
for backup and then located the sus
pects within the residence hall, reports
state.
Upon questioning, the suspects said
that they were visiting someone in the
hospital and, having never been to
UNC before, wanted to walk around
and visit the campus.
Neither of the suspects were in any
way affiliated with the University,
reports state.
Identification was taken, but no war
rants were issued, reports state.
City
Thursday, Sept. 19
■ Chapel Hill police responded to a
call of larceny from a room on the first
floor of Granville Towers East.
Reports state that an unknown per
son entered the unlocked room of a
UNC student and stole a laptop com
puter, valued at $2,000.
The burglar also stole a cellular
phone valued at S4O, reports state.
Reports state that the crime occurred
during a 15-minute period when the stu
dent left his room unlocked.
Reports state that the crime occurred
between 5:30 p.m. and 5:45 p.m.
The case is under further investiga
tion, reports state.
■ Chapel Hill police responded to a
call of larceny of a motor vehicle that
occurred in the 200 block of Pinegate
Circle, reports state.
The victim reported her two-door sil
ver 2000 Honda Civic missing at 3:44
p.m., reports state.
The car is valued at $15,000, reports
state.
The case is under further investiga
tion, reports state.
■ Chapel Hill police responded to a
call of larceny of a motor vehicle that
occurred on the 100 block of
Weatherspoon Street at 8:03 a.m.,
reports state.
Reports state that an unknown per
son broke the driver’s-side window to
gain entry to the four-door green 1999
Honda Civic.
The car was later recovered, reports
state, but the wheels, valued at S4OO,
remain missing.
Reports state that the car also
received S4OO worth of damage to the
window and trank.
The car was last known to be secure
at 8:03 p.m. and was discovered missing
at 12:00 a.m., reports state.
All leads have been exhausted in the
case, reports state.
■ Chapel Hill police responded to a
call of larceny from a motor vehicle
that occurred in the 100 block of
Kingsbury Drive at 9:41 a.m., reports
state.
Reports state that an unknown per
son forced entry into the trank of the
gold 1986 Chevrolet Caprice.
Reports state that the burglar stole
two speakers valued at SSOO and two
amplifiers valued at SBSO. The total
value of the stolen goods was $1,350
All leads have been exhausted,
reports state.
Chase Through Triangle Ends With 2 Deaths
Parts of 1-40 closed during rush hour
The Associated Press
RALEIGH - A police chase that
began after a kidnapping in Raleigh
ended Monday night with two people
dead along Interstate 85 in Brunswick
County, Va.
The deaths of a man and the woman
he had taken hostage were confirmed
Monday night by Raleigh police.
The chase forced police to close parts
Selling Sankofa's Sound
Hip-hop artists torn between popularity's demands and creative integrity
By Nick Parker
Arts & Entertainment Editor
On the stage, Stefan “Creem
MC” Greenlee, vocalist of Sankofa,
runs the show - spinning together
rhythm, rhymes and fire in a lyrical
assault.
But in the studio, lan Schreier
Sankofa’s record producer - is king.
Whereas Sankofa is the heart of
the effort, Schreier is the brain that
brings it all together and gets the
product out on the street even when
the band only wants to make music.
“When I am on stage, it is like I’m
in a play
ground,”
Greenlee said.
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is sponta
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is all about
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“But everything in the studi o is so
precise I feel like half the time it is
a batde between the MC and the
producer. In the past producers have
tried to take the spirit of Sankofa out
of the sound just to make something
that they think will sell.”
Sankofa, the local sensation that
has been at the top of the Chapel
Hill hip-hop scene since 1998, will
have to put out a song that will
attract an audience, rule the radio
and ensnare the execs to gamer a
major record deal.
“My job is basically getting the
best recording that the band can do
and helping them with their arrange
ments and the building of the best
mix,” Schreier said. “We are trying to
expand their core audience while
also trying to attract new listeners.
“If that means putting out a
radio-friendly single, then that is
what we’ll do.”
So, faced with the reality that their
basement-bom sound hasn’t broken
into popular culture, the members of
Sankofa decided to take their sound
off the stage and into the studio -
hoping to make a mainstream record
ing without losing their identity.
Drummer Steven “The Apple
Juice Kid” Levitan said that although
the local following is personal, band
members have to start looking at the
bigger picture if they are ever going
to make a living as musicians.
With that mindset, the members
met earlier this month at Osceola
Recording Studios in Raleigh to lay
down two crowd favorites, “Down
by Law” and “Do the Do.”
Opposing Views Clash at Anti-War Teach-In
By Vanessa Capobianco
Staff Writer
Anti-war panelists addressed a stand
ing-room-only crowd of about 250 stu
dents, faculty, alumni and community
members Monday night, urging them to
support the nonviolence movement in
the United States.
Both boos and cheers echoed
throughout the room as five panelists
discussed issues like the Bush adminis
tration’s stance on Iraq and the potential
effects of the war on the homeland.
“Don’t Attack Iraq: A Teach-in on the
Ethics and Politics of an Invasion of
Iraq,” was sponsored by the Campaign
to End the Cycle of Violence, Students
United for a Responsible Global
Environment and the Progressive
Faculty Network.
But both sides of the political spec
trum were represented at the discussion.
A delegation of about 35 College
Republican members occupied a back
corner of the room and held signs sup
porting President Bush and reminding
people of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
“It’s the same hate-America rhetoric
that we heard last year but this time more
of 1-85 and Interstate 40- including the
Chapel Hill exits - during rush hour,
bringing traffic to a standstill.
The man shot the woman in the truck
before turning the gun on himself, said
Capt. D.S. Overman.
'Their identities were not immediate
ly released.
The man kidnapped his former girl
friend and two children about 5:30 p.m.
near an intersection of Wake Forest and
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Off the stage and in the studio, Stefan "Creem MC" Greenlee lays down Sankofa's lyrics and
discusses changes with producer lan Schreier. Recording posed a unique challenge for Sankofa
as it struggled to balance individuality and sound with what the major labels want to hear.
And with two days of recording
ahead of them at $450 each day,
they had to battle time, pressure and
the difference between making art
and making records.
But Sankofa couldn’t just step into
the soundproof room, plug in instru
ments, jam away and walk out smil
ing. The stifled atmosphere of the
studio is a far reach from the musical
mayhem of the stage.
The band members spent more
than four hours waiting before even
picking up their instruments for the
first song. Lem Butler, known
behind the turntables as DJ Pez, sat
in the lounge beside Levitan rest
lessly cracking jokes while bassist
Matt Brandau and guitarist Dana
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flamboyant,” said Allie Perry, chair
woman of the College Republicans, refer
ring to the teach-ins held last year
denouncing military action after Sept. 11.
But the majority of the audience were
students from the anti-war groups.
Junior Jenks Miller, a member of
SURGE said, “I am really excited to see
people with right-wing beliefs finally
getting to a discourse where we’re not
preaching to one another.”
John Cox, a graduate student and
member of the Campaign to End the
Cycle of Violence, helped organize the
event Cox said having differing opinions
represented at the teach-in gave a “good
example of the sentiment of students and
ordinary people in the country.”
The overall sentiment from the
speakers was that the war in Iraq is
inevitable but that they do not feel dis
couraged from campaigning against it.
Rania Masri, one of the most vocal
panelists, discussed the potential effects of
a war on Iraqi people and how past U.S.
sanctions and air wars have been the pri
mary cause of innocent casualties in Iraq.
Masri said she thinks the situation pri-
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News
Navajo roads in Raleigh.
Witnesses called Raleigh police to
report that a male passenger in a white
pickup was holding a gun to a female
driver’s head.
The truck stopped a short time later
to let out the two children.
The children were then taken into
police custody.
Police cars and a state Highway
Patrol helicopter followed the truck
across several counties in two states.
During the chase the man fired at
police and other motorists from the
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opposition to U.S. invasions of Iraq at a teach-in Monday.
truck, said Highway Patrol Sgt. J.B.
Blackman.
“He has shot at civilians on the inter
state as they were pulling off the right
side of the road,” Blackman said.
North Carolina authorities took a
hands-off approach to the chase, trailing
the driver by several hundred feet.
But when the chase crossed into
Virginia, troopers employed “stop
sticks” to puncture the tracks tires, forc
ing the driver to come to a stop at about
7:45 p.m.
Three shots were fired after the track
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came to a stop, and authorities found
both people inside.
The man and woman dated at one
time, Blackman said, but authorities did
not know the status of their relationship
now.
He also said he did not know if the
man was the father of the children
released from the truck early in the
chase.
The track went from Raleigh to
Durham and past Chapel Hill, then
back toward Durham on 1-85 before
heading north into Virginia.
9 Congress
Seats Up
For Grabs
Special election for
Student Congress
By Jessica Bonnem
Staff Writer
A special election is being held
online today to fill nine vacant seats in
Student Congress.
From 7 a.m. until 10 p.m. students in
the available districts can log on to
Student Central
and vote.
Two official
candidates filed by
the Sept. 17 dead
line to ran.
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Michael Spinks, a graduate student in
folklore, and John Surface, a graduate
student in Russian and Eastern European
studies, will appear on the ballot for
District 5, which has three vacancies.
No minimum percentage of votes is
needed to be elected, said Tony Larson,
speaker of Student Congress. “As long
as (Spinks and Surface) vote for them
selves, they will be elected,” he said.
Carey Richter, Congress’ Student
Affairs Committee chairwoman, said
the seven remaining vacancies must be
filled by write-in votes. Write-in candi
dates also do not need a minimum
amount of votes, she said.
In addition to the vacancies in
District 5, Districts 2 and 3 each have
one vacancy for a graduate student
only, Richter said. Districts 14, 17, 20
and 21 also have one vacancy each. She
said they must be filled by undergradu-
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Med Student
Remembered
At Funeral
Friends, family
honor life of Pearce
By Meredith Craig
Staff Writer
Third-year medical student Brett
Pearce’s compassion and zeal for life left
an indelible impression on almost
everyone he met, especially his fellow
medical students.
Pearce’s family, friends and col
leagues gathered Monday morning at
St. Thomas More Catholic Church in
Chapel Hill to remember the 27-year
old student.
Pearce died Friday morning from
complications related to a virus he con
tracted treating a pediatric patient in
January.
Pearce knew pursuing his goal of
becoming a physician could shorten his
life, but he entered the School of
Medicine with the intent of finding a
cure for cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease
he had since birth.
“‘My illness has been a learning
experience. The lessons at times have
been cosdy but made me who I am,’” a
medical school faculty member recalled
Pearce saying before his death.
An entire section of church pews was
filled with Pearce’s classmates, all wear
ing their white lab coats in Pearce’s
honor.
In his casket, Pearce was also wear
ing his white lab jacket and his stetho
scope.
Medical student Phuong Doan remi
nisced about Pearce’s sense of humor.
Doan said Pearce was known for his
numerous impressions, including one of
Michael Jackson, complete with white
glove.
Doan also marveled at Pearce’s sheer
dedication to medicine.
“He is with us as an example of what
we should be as physicians,” Doan said.
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