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run by the new financial legislation. “I
think this makes the race more fair,” he
said. “There might have been better
candidates in the past that weren’t as
visible because they didn’t have as
much money.”
The Campaign Reform Act now
requires student body president candi
dates to get 800 signatures on their peti
tions instead of the 500 required last
year.
This means candidates must make
themselves visible to students early in
the campaign. But because of new
restrictions, they cannot campaign
openly until after Jan. 21, and candi
dates don’t receive funding for cam
paign materials untiljan. 28. This also is
a change from last year, making cam
paigns two weeks shorter than they
were before.
While this change could make
obtaining the required signatures diffi
cult, officials and candidates said it is
one way to ensure that candidates are
serious about seeking the position.
“With the shortened campaign
schedule, there’s no more messing
around and wasting the students’ time
with tons of fliers,” said student body
president candidate Matt Tepper. “The
last two weeks are going to be hectic,
but there’s going to be some strong
campaigning going on.”
Some candidates said these changes
have created anew election atmosphere
that might have implications in the future.
“I think all the reforms have really
legitimized the process,” said student
body president candidate Ben Pickett.
“Anyone that has a desire to run now can
come out and have a voice. Hopefully,
though, the financial legislation will have
a bigger impact on the diversity of the
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it continues to be a problem,” said Bob
Lowman, associate vice chancellor for
research and graduate studies.
Many of the students having trouble
acquiring visas come from countries that
are under particular scrutiny by the U.S.
government, such as China and coun
tries in the Middle East.
“I expect that we will continue to face
problems based on area of study and
(the student’s) country of origin,” Poock
said.
Some students and researchers also
face a more difficult time based on their
area of study. Those focusing on chem
istry, biology and materials sciences
have faced long delays.
At UNC, 98 percent of graduate stu
dents in materials sciences are interna
tional students, and two research assis
tants from China are waiting for clear
ance to be allowed back into the United
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itoring the weather closely and will begin
to make preparations this morning.
Bill Stockard, assistant to the Chapel
Hill town manager, said Chapel Hill’s
public works crews were checking equip
ment Wednesday. The town has 10 snow
plows and four salt-and-sand spreaders
that will be put to use on the 714 town
maintained roads. If the unfavorable
weather reports don’t change, then the
plows and spreaders will be attached to
the trucks this morning, he said.
“We are standing by and prepared to
respond,” said Stockard, adding that
crews will be working late tonight and
early Friday to monitor conditions.
Nick Waters, emergency manage
ment director for Orange County, said
he is waiting until noon today to decide
whether to implement the winter weath
er procedures.
* Progress Energy, which still has
;crews in the area cleaning up ice storm
-damage, said it is on high alert for this
•approaching storm.
• The power company is monitoring
■closely what type of precipitation might
Tail, as well as the strong winds expected
iFriday that could cause power outages.
; Area residents aren’t taking any
;chances of being caught off-guard by
;another winter storm, as the first wave
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candidate field in the future.”
The new reforms also affect candi
dates for Student Congress seats.
Forty-one candidates have
announced their plans to run for
Congress. The number of congression
al candidates has doubled since last
year, and student government officials
partially attribute this increase to
Congress’ redistricting efforts.
“A large portion of the Congress can
didates are from District 11," said Brian
Fauver, chairman of the Board of
Elections. District 11 is the newly created
“superdistrict" composed of all under
graduate off-campus students. “I think
consolidating the off-campus districts has
reduced the confusion and made it easi
er for candidates to know where to run.”
But most congressional candidates said
the redistricting had less effect on their
decision to run than the fact that cam
paign expenses won’t come out of pocket.
“Basically, the money creates a sense
of equality,” said Tripp Costas, candidate
for congressional District 11. “Nothing
can guarantee equal success, but this will
guarantee equal opportunity.”
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States, said Elizabeth Craig, coordinator
for the Curriculum in Applied Sciences.
“It’s terrible,” she said. “These stu
dents went home for Christmas just like
every other student, and they’re being
detained. If they went through the pro
cedure before and were cleared, I don’t
see why the U.S. government is being so
stringent about this."
One of the main complaints of those
lobbying for colleagues and students’
clearance is that the value of their con
tributions is being denied to the acade
mic community and delaying the
research that the country is engaged in.
“These (graduate students) are the
very top students,” Craig said.
Peterson said the stringency of the
background check could be causing
delays that could be doing more harm
than good - research on hold potential
ly could be applied for national defense.
“We could be affecting our own security.”
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stores Wednesday evening.
The general manager at the Carr Mill
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stocked extra jugs of milk and loaves of
bread in preparation for larger-than-nor
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Carrboro resident Ken Sams, who was
shopping at the store, said his stockpile is
ready for any kind of wintry weather. “I
hate snow,” said Sams, who grew up in
the Midwest. “But it is better than ice.”
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School Policy Targets Childhood Obesity
By Jack Kimball
Assistant City Editor
With obesity becoming an increas
ingly apparent problem in schools, the
N.C. State Board of Education approved
last week recommendations for weekly
exercise for K-12 students.
The state already mandates time for
health education and physical activity in
the school week, but at a time when test
scores are determining school funding,
enforcement of this policy is difficult.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
have been trying to integrate health
issues into the curriculum despite limi
tations in time during the school day.
“I support and understand the moti
vation behind the proposal, but there
are logistical issues surrounding that
proposal," said Neil Pedersen, superin
tendent of Chapel Hill-Carrboro
schools.
The state board did not mandate its
MFA Students Seize Gallery in Hanes Art Center
By Allison Rost
Staff Writer
A group of first-year master’s of fine
arts students has taken over the foyer of
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more awe-inspiring than scary.
Facial expressions flit across a wall as
they leap out from a slide projector. A
white dress hanging from the ceiling
catches the eye, and a collection of suits
looks as though their owners had a roll
in the mud.
Through Jan. 24, these works are on
display in the Allcott Gallery of the
Hanes Art Center as part of “Engaged.”
Nate Quinn, who painted the color
ful, surreal “Moon Patrol,” credited the
MFA program with helping his art open
up. He has exhibited in San Francisco
and Los Angeles but returned to his
hometown for graduate school.
“I feel that I’m growing a lot,” he said.
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recommended amount of weekly exer
cise - 150 minutes for elementary
school children and 225 minutes for
high school students -but it did pass
some requirements as parts of the
approved policy.
The requirements will go into effect
in the 2006-07 school year. They include
the formation of a school health council
and coordinated school health pro
grams.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools already
have a school health council and a coor
dinated school health program in place.
Susan Spalt, the school system’s
health coordinator, said the council and
the health program have been in place
for more than 25 years.
The correlation between physical and
health education and learning ability has
grown in prominence as a major issue in
education.
“Our school district really does sup
port (the board’s recommendations)
“l’m clarifying my vision and honing in
on what I want to express.
“We have a good balance between
time in the studio and getting experi
ence in teaching.”
The master’s in fine arts is a 60-cred
it-hour, two-year program. The students
graduate from this first-year showing to
a program-concluding exhibit in the
Ackland Art Museum. Professor Jim
Hirschfield, director of graduate studies
for the art department, said the program
emphasizes independent study.
“They earn their hours for spending
time in the studio,” he said. “We prepare
them through a teaching practicum and
have them take intellectual (credit)
hours in a topic near their area of study,
but students have the time to really
delve into their medium.”
Both Hirschfield and Quinn cited the
program’s flexibility as its main draw,
but Quinn also said an unexpected ben
because exercise during the day and
exercise during the week really helps
kids leant,” Spit said.
In a 3,000-person study conducted by
the Centers for Disease Control, 14 per
cent of students were at risk of being
obese with another 12.9 percent being
classified as obese.
Exercise is not the only factor in cre
ating a healthy student but must be com
bined with a well-balanced diet, officials
said.
To prevent obesity in the district, the
school system implemented a nutrition
based menu for elementary, middle and
high school students.
Mark Rusin, food service director for
the school system, said that workers set
the weighted average of calories in the
menu for the week so that no more than
30 percent of the calories are from fat
The weighted average is computed
by taking the amount of calories in the
menu each day and averaging them for
efit is the bond that formed among the
program’s nine first-year students.
Corey Drieth, who coated three
men’s suits with bonash, clay and char
coal for “Puritans,” is using this bond to
nab an exhibition spot in the University
of Virginia’s rotating art exhibit in April,
a feat that a group of first-year students
has never attempted away from UNC.
“(The exhibit) is something we’ve
decided to take on as a group,” Drieth
said. “I think the chemistry and the rela
tionships that have developed are the
most valuable things to happen so far.”
The talents of these nine students also
should prove an asset “Engaged” show
cases a great variety of media and subject
matter, all completed with obvious skill.
But as the artists of two more memo
rable entries, Drieth and Quinn them
selves show the diverse interests that have
forged this group’s bond. Drieth’s mixed
media creation and Quinn’s acrylic paint
Thursday, January 16, 2003
the week. Workers then take the average
and the volume of food they sell and
compute the weighted average.
Nationwide, many officials cited
vending machines as a cause for stu
dents not eating healthy.
But local schools usually contain a
wide variety of vending machines, some
of which provide juice and healthy foods
and some of which provide fattening
snacks.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools have
vending machines, but only those
machines approved by food services are
turned on during the eating period,
Rusin said. There are no vending
machines in elementary schools.
The use of vending machines coupled
with not exercising regularly does not
bode well for the health of students. “It’s
a real recipe for disaster,” Spalt said.
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
mg seek different audience responses.
“I base my work on how I’m feeling,
and this is in response to the current cul
tural and political climate,” Drieth said.
“My hope is that it’s big enough to cause
haunting, visceral experiences."
Quinn takes a more passive
approach. “Moon Patrol" incorporates
visual elements from cartoons and video
games, but Quinn said he does not elic
it reactions with specific ingredients.
“I’ll just start painting, and what I
start with is not the end result,” he said.
“It becomes a kaleidoscope of informa
tion, pathways for swirling elements.”
Hirschfield said this is why the depart
ment has graduate students stage exhibits.
“When you put work in an exhibit, it looks
very different than in the studio,” he said.
“It gives them something to work for."
The Arts & Entertainment Editor can
be reached at artsdesk@unc.edu.
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