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GHB
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favor,” Mark said.
Since his first dose of the drug this
summer, Mark has joined clubgoers
across the nation who measure their
intoxication in capfuls instead of cans.
He said he first heard of GHB on
the Showtime show “Queer as Folk”
last spring, but he didn’t see the drug
firsthand until it was offered to him in
a dance club months later.
Mark, along with other users inter
viewed for this article on the condition
of anonymity, credits the appeal of
GHB to its ease of use. The drug comes
in powder form and is mixed with water
in varying concentrations to make a col
orless, odorless and tasteless liquid.
The liquid GHB is then dispensed in
capfuls, which usually sell for $5 to $25.
Mark said he usually takes between one
to three capfuls at a time.
“It’s a hassle to do some drugs, but
with G it’s pretty simple,” Mark said.
“It’s odorless and tasteless, so you
don’t really know that you’re doing it.”
“Scott,” 23, who recently gr aduated
from N.C. State University, said he
tried GHB and GBL once each while
he was in college. He said the small
dose needed to feel the drug’s effects,
combined with its simple administra
tion, appealed to him.
“It’s a little bit different than alco
hol. Instead of drinking 72 ounces of
beer to get a buzz, I can drink half an
ounce of GHB and get the same
effect,” Scott said. “It’s just a lot easier.”
Both times, Scott said, he was
offered the drug at house parties. He
said GHB and GBL are popular
because they are so easy to take.
“It’s easier than drinking because all
you need to take can fit in the size of
an aspirin bottle,” he said. “And that’s
enough for three or four people.”
Though users say the drug has obvi
ous appeal, GHB use can have serious
consequences.
“Honesdy, I don’t know why some
people would put a drug with these
ingredients into their body,” Glaspy said.
At their mildest, the negative effects of
GHB include dizziness, erratic behavior,
extreme confusion or nausea. At worst,
they can include coma, seizures or death.
“The way people often die with the
drug is swallowing vomit, aspirating
vomit,” said Dr. Jerry Frankenheim,
program official and chairman of the
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club drugs work group at the National
Institute on Drug Abuse.
“People think with someone who
overdoses, you can just let them sleep
it off, but a lot of times, it’s not OK.”
Stephen Smith, faculty emergency
physician at Hennepin County Medical
Center in Minneapolis, said he sees
about three GHB cases per month. “It’s
the most common overdose we see and
the most common overdose in which
the patient is critically ill,” he said.
Smith also said that GHB is
extremely addictive and that though its
effects are worse when used with
another chug, it is deadly alone.
“GHB can kill you by itself.”
“Greg,” a 19-year-old freshman at
Western Carolina University, said he
stopped taking the drag after experi
encing severe stomach pains.“lt just
ripped my stomach up,” he said. “It just
had too much of an adverse effect”
Greg said he first tried GHB two
years ago, as a junior in high school.
“I took it at a party -a friend had it,
and I tried it,” he said. “Twenty minutes
went by, and it hit like a ton of bricks.
“It didn’t take much. I’d hate to think
what would happen if I had taken more.”
Officials said one of the chief prob
lems with GHB is that most people
receive the drug in liquid form and
aren’t aware of its concentration.
“There’s no guarantee from vial to
vial,” said Dean Blackburn, coordina
tor of substance abuse programs for
the UNC Center for Healthy Student
Behaviors.“ The thing with GHB is it’s
not made by a pharmaceutical compa
ny. It’s never really made the same,
and there’s no standard for it.”
Blackburn said he counseled two
UNC-CH students last year for GHB
use, one male and one female.
“I think, say, from this point back a
few years, it was predatory,” he said of
GHB’s use as a date-rape drug. “But
the recreational use is now growing.”
Mark also said he thinks GHB use is
on the rise. Though he knows it’s dan
gerous, he said he is still lured by the
chug’s appeal.
And for him, that appeal is worth
the game of chance he plays each time
he decides to take a swallow. “It’s dan
gerous. I know it’s dangerous,” he said.
“One time I was about to go to sleep,
and I didn’t want to sleep because I was
afraid I wouldn’t wake up.”
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ELECTION REFORM
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Natalie Russell, Finance Committee
chairwoman, proposed an amendment
that would have maintained student
government’s role in election financing.
The amendment failed, which means
that all students’ campaigns - not just
those of low-income students - will be
funded entirely by Student Congress.
It is predicted that this will cost
Congress about SB,OOO annually, or
about 3 percent of Congress’ budget,
said Tony Larson, speaker of Congress.
The bill also attempts to purify the
elections process by forbidding officers
of the executive branch, including the
SUSPENSIONS
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paling.
And even though Holmes’ team fin
ished second in the tournament, he did
not take home one of the Spalding bas
ketballs awarded to the runners-up, said
tournament organizer Wallace Simpson.
Simpson said he asked Johnson to
play to help drum up publicity for the
tournament.
“As far as I’m concerned, both these
guys were just trying to help a good
cause and raise money for cancer
research,” he said. “No one ever asked
us (about possible violations) or
assumed that it would be a problem.”
The additional publicity might be the
reason for the suspensions. Simpson
said former UNC standout Joseph Forte
played in the tournament in 2000 and
2001, but Gallo said he was not aware of
Forte’s participation.
Gallo said the compliance staff regu
larly sends out informational e-mails
called “Ram Rules” to athletes to
remind them about certain NCAA reg
ulations.
He said the staff sent one such e-mail
dealing with outside competition rules
during the spring semester. Regardless,
Johnson said, he didn’t understand what
types of competition were off-limits.
“If we made a mistake, it was an hon
est one and done primarily because we
neglected to ask our coaches or compli
ance staff for prior permission,” he said
in the statement. “We certainly regret
not having done that.”
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sponsored the campaign finance reform bill.
student body president, to endorse or
participate in a campaign for any candi
date. This sanction dso was extended to
members of Student Congress by the
passage of a hotly contested amendment
ENERGY
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the campus’s new science complex, which
is under preliminary construction. UNC’s
Energy Sustainability Task Group has
committed to outfit the building with solar
panels if the money becomes available.
SEAC members said UNC spends
SSO million a year on energy, about two
thirds of which comes from coal -a
major concern expressed by the students.
Paul Cox, a representative for
SEAC’s Green Energy Campaign, said
that if the referendum was on the ballot,
students, who have a responsibility to
protect the environment, could choose
where their energy comes from.
But some Congress representatives
were concerned that student funds would
be taken off campus and put to uses that
LAPTOPS
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the student body. “It could be a person
of college age dressing to look like a stu
dent,” he said.
On Oct. 3, a laptop computer was
stolen from the Undergrad, and the
video surveillance system provided a
fuzzy picture of the suspect, Daniel said.
The man’s picture closely resembles the
physical description of the Undergrad
robber, he said.
On Oct. 22, a laptop was stolen from
Lenoir by a suspect with a similar phys
ical description, reports state.
Daniel said the most recent victim’s
physical description of the suspect could
play a major role in solving the three
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proposed by Student Affairs Committee
Chairwoman Carey Richter.
“We are different from other student
organizations,” said Aaron Hiller, stu
dent body vice president. “We are the
only student organization on campus
that has to remain, by mandate, objec
tive. The fact of the matter is political
offices have been and will continue to be
abused without this safeguard.”
Members also debated how much can
didates for Congress could spend on cam
paigns. An amendment from Rep. Will
Dupont suggested a limit of SSO, which
was a compromise between the previous
$75 and the proposed S2O. The amend
ment failed, setting the limit at S2O.
The bill also lowers the amount of
money the student body president and
would not directly benefit students.
Controversy arose over where the
power would be generated and how
much of it would benefit UNC students.
In the proposed plan, power would
be generated off campus by N.C.
Green Power and sent to a power grid.
UNC would be one of the recipients of
the energy from the grid, while student
fees paid to the power company would
be invested to create a collateral base for
renewable energy. This collateral would
in effect create a market and ensure
funding for future green energy projects.
Finance Committee Chairwoman
Natalie Russell said the resolution was
“fundamentally wrong in using student
fees to create a market.”
The power grid would provide power
not directly for UNC but for the Chapel
Hill community, and representatives
were hesitant to let fees be spent in a way
crimes. Without the facial image, it
would have been hard for anyone to
positively identify the thief, he said.
“We have been working on the inves
tigation, but we haven’t located the
guy,” Daniel said. “Now that (the victim)
has a face shot, we think the combina
tion of the face shot and the video image
will trigger someone’s memory.”
About 10 larcenies involving laptops
have been reported to University police
this year, Mclntyre said. When this
number is compared with about 60 lap
top larcenies last year, the University is
on pace to improve, he said.
Although there is no proof, Mclntyre
would not rule out the possibility that this
suspect was involved in other laptop
thefts. “I’m not sure about the other ones,
but in any of them that the computer just
across from the Carolina Inn parking lot.
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Thursday, Nov. 14
11 a.m. - The Red Cross Club is
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candidates can spend from SSOO to S4OO.
This bill is not helping just poor can
didates, it also ensures that candidates
are accountable for the funds spent, said
Rep. Jennifer Orr. “The student body
will have better knowledge of how the
campaign is being ran.”
Also mandated by the legislation is an
increase in the amount of signatures a
potential candidate must gather to run -
ensuring that students who receive cam
paign money are serious. For example,
candidates for student body president will
have to receive 800 signatures instead of
500, the previous minimum.
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that might not directly benefit students.
The passage of the bill was met with
applause from many in the room.
But during debate on a bill to create a
Renewable Energy Special Project
Committee should the referendum be
approved, Student Body President Jen
Daum noted that the figure of $192,000 -
the total generated by the $4 hike - was
inaccurate. She said that with summer
school prorated fees, the actual total could
be closer to $300,000. Speaker Tony
Larson said members could reconsider the
resolution with a two-thirds majority in
light of Daum’s remark. But the matter
was not reconsidered before adjournment
Student Body Vice President Aaron
Hiller said the students had spoken. “Put it
on the ballot,” he said. “Let them decide.”
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walked away, he is a good suspect”
To prevent future robberies,
Mclntyre suggests that students do not
leave their laptops unattended on cam
pus for any amount of time. Although
thefts might be down, students still have
to be careful with their computers, he
said.
“When a couple-of-thousand-dollar
piece of equipment is lying around, the
opportunists will walk off with it,”
Mclntyre said.
Anyone with information who can
assist in locating or identifying the sus
pects can call Crimestoppers at 942-7515
or UNC investigators at 966-2120.
Callers may remain anonymous.
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
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