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Volume 110, Issue 140
UNC Law
School
To Side
WithUM
Diversity crucial in
education, dean says
By Emily Steel
Staff Writer
UNC’s School of Law will join orga
nizations from across the nation -
including the White House - in taking a
stance on a case that could determine
the role of race in college admissions.
The law school plans to file an ami
cus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court
case regarding affirmative action poli
cies at the University of Michigan-Ann
Arbor, arguing that achieving a diverse
student body is a compelling interest for
a public law school.
“We believe it is crucial to have a
strongly integrated student body,” said
Gene Nichol, law school dean. “We think
it is crucial to the education process.”
Some undergraduate and graduate
applicants to UM have contested that the
school’s affirmative action admissions
policies violate their constitutional rights
by racially discriminating against them.
Last week, President Bush voiced his
opposition to the admissions system at
UM, calling it “divisive, unfair and impos
sible to square with the Constitution.”
But the UNC law school’s argument
would support the position taken by UM
in the first affirmative action case the
Supreme Court has heard since 1978.
This case is one of the most impor
tant cases affecting public education in
the last 25 years, said Jack Boger, the
law school professor drafting the brief.
“Public universities and public law
schools have a special mission to edu
cate the future generations of their
state,” he said. “This case is indispensi
ble for our future.”
Nichol said he expects that a number
of other universities also will file amicus
briefs in support of UM. Amicus briefs
are filed by outside parties that support
either the plaintiff or the defendant.
They advise the court about where other
interested parties stand on the issue.
Race is just one of many factors the
admissions office analyzes when decid
ing which applicants are accepted to the
University, said Herb Davis, associate
director for undergraduate admissions.
“It is common opinion that admis
sions offices often compare black stu
dents and white students and take black
students with inferior credentials, but it
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Tar Heel freshman Rashad McCants exults after being fouled with 3.3 seconds remaining in Saturday's
game against Connecticut. McCants made both free throws to seal the 68-65 victory.
UNC WITHSTANDS
HUSKY ONSLAUGHT
By lan Gordon
Senior Writer
It had the intensity of a Final Four showdown, the con
tentiousness of an off-camera get-together before “Joe
Millionaire,” the pace of the
Daytona 500 and the head-scratch
ing finale of a David Lynch flick.
Add in mini-diatribes by both
teams’ coaches during and after the
game, a dubious foul or two, a blown
lead, a dramatic jumper and even more dramatic free throws,
and a taunting, surging, court-charging crowd and you’ve got
one hell of a spectacle - er, college basketball game.
By Alex Granados
Staff Writer
Candidates for student body presi
dent took to the sidewalks of the UNC
campus last week to collect the 800
signatures necessary to place their
names on the Feb. 11 ballot.
They also have used friends, the
Internet and word-of-mouth to reach
out to students during the first part of
the campaign, which lasts until Jan. 28.
During this phase, candidates are not
allowed to use campaign materials.
The Larson-Daum Campaign
Reform Act of 2002, which Student
Congress passed Nov 12, restricts can
didates to funds provided to them by
Student Congress, requires presiden
tial candidates to collect 800 signa
tures and reduces the duration of the
campaigns to two weeks.
The four candidates for student
body president - Nathan Cherry, Ben
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Despite surrendering a lead that at one point swelled to
19 points, North Carolina needed a clutch Jawad Williams
bucket and two key free throws by Rashad McCants to hold
off No. 6 Connecticut 68-65 before a sellout crowd of 21,750
on Saturday at the Smith Center.
McCants led the Tar Heels with 27 points on 7-of-ll
shooting. He also finished nine of 10 from the free-throw
fine, including a pair with just 3.3 seconds left and UNC
clinging to a one-point lead.
“I’m extremely proud ... of my team,” said UNC coach
Matt Doherty. “The tough thing is getting off to a great lead
because you know they’re going to make a run. That’s UConn.”
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Emotional
McCants Carries
UNC to Victory
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Pickett, Matt Tepper and Sang Shin -
have been spreading their campaign
staffers across campus to get out their
messages verbally.
All candidates said they have
received at least 800 signatures, some
of them receiving as many as 1,200.
Candidates are nonchalant about the
possible effects of the act and said they
don’t think students will be put off by
the lack of visual aids around campus.
“I don’t think it is going to affect the
campaign at all,” Cherry said.
But Tepper said he sees the possible
limitations of not using ordinary cam
paign materials as well. “It makes it a
lot harder for the candidates to get the
message out,” he said.
Shin said the race is more fair as a
result of the changes.
“It has affected us, but it makes
everyone fair," he said. “No one gets a
leg up.”
Brian F’auver, chairman of the
Brown's Blues
Coretta Brown, Tar Heels
fail to upset Blue Devils.
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Board of Elections, said the restric
tions placed on candidates this year
are a way to ensure that those who run
for office are dedicated and serious.
The candidates certainly are not
taking the campaign lightly.
“I wouldn’t say (campaigning with
out signs) is affecting us terribly,”
Pickett said. “You are just having to
use more intelligent, efficient choices.”
If candidates violate the restrictions
and use signs to publicize their cam
paigns, they will be fined.
Fauver said Monday that write-in
candidate Dan Pickei will be fined for
his use of signs in Hinton James
Residence Hall.
Pickei is running as a write-in can
didate because he did not attend the
mandatory candidates meeting Jan.
14.
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reached at udesk@unc.edu.
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Calls for Peace
Fill U.S. Capital
About 1,700 from
N.C. made the trip
By Elyse Ashblrn
State & National Editor
WASHINGTON - The air thun
dered with calls for peace Saturday as
throngs of protesters surged onto the
National Mall and spilled into the streets
in what was the largest anti-war rally in
the capital since the Vietnam War.
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mated at more than 200,000 - crunched
toward a lone stage erected in the shad
ow of the U.S. Capitol building.
The demonstrators were drawn by
national civil rights figures who
charged them to fight social inequity
and the injustice of the impending war
against Iraq.
“Are we talking about weapons of
mass destruction or a political game of
mass destruction?” the Rev. A1
Sharpton, a renowned civil rights leader
and 2004 presidential contender, yelled
over the roar of the crowd.
“Doctor Martin Luther King start
ed his fight against segregation, but he
didn’t stop there. He fought for world
peace. ... We haven’t dropped the
banner.”
Although the banner Saturday took
on many diverse forms - informed
opposition, international peace, envi
ronmentalism and civil rights - they
all were united under an anti-Bush,
anti-war theme.
“Let’s fight a war on poverty, not a
war against the poor,” civil rights leader
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Protesters gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on
Saturday morning to protest the potential U.S. war with Iraq.
Students Spend Holiday
Celebrating King's Memory
Day for Service was run by R.O.C.T.S.
By Rachel Hodges
Staff Writer
It’s not often that college students
will get up voluntarily before 9:30
a.m., but this Martin Luther King Jr.
Day, more than 200 students made an
exception.
O n
Monday
morning, stu
dents flooded
Hamilton
Residents,
Students March
In King's Honor
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Hall to participate in the third annual
Day for Service, a volunteer festival
being run for the first time by student
organization Carolina Rejuvenating
Our Community Through Service.
The event kicked off UNC’s weeklong
Jesse Jackson roared. “We choose
brains over brawn.... We’ve got fire in
our bellies for peace. We’re going for
ward by hope, not backward with fear.”
Protesters flowed into the streets by
the thousands as Jackson pounded his
speech to its end. Signs proclaiming,
“No Blood for Oil,” and, “Protest is
Patriotism," peppered the crowd; above
them, an enormous North Carolina
state flag whipped in the freezing wind.
Wajeh Muhammed, the
Greensboro resident bearing the flag,
said he made the trip to Washington
to demonstrate that there is not a
national consensus for war.
“I’m a Muslim and an American,
and I want to be here for my people,”
he said. “I’m an American citizen too,
and I’m against the war. I want peace,
and that’s why I’m here today.”
About 2,500 North Carolinians,
including seven busloads from Chapel
Hill, got up in the pre-dawn hours
Saturday to join Muhammed in
Washington.
Among the Chapel Hill protesters
were about 100 UNC students,
University professors Catherine Lutz
and Sarah Shields and Democratic
Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, Orange County’s
representative in the N.C. Senate.
“I think people are aware that pri
orities are being skewed,” Kinnaird
said. “I don’t think that Americans buy
the fact that there is a case for war"
Raleigh resident Will Scheerer also
ventured to the capital because of his
conviction that the White House has
not met the burden of proof for
declaring war against Iraq. “I came
because of a conviction that it’s
wrong. It’s all wrong.”
Scheerer said that he protested the
Vietnam War but that he did not
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celebration of King’s birthday.
The program was constructed to
place students at various volunteer
sites throughout the surrounding area.
The Day for Service was started by
the Carolina Center for Public Service
in 2001 but was handed over to the
Campus Y and the Sonja H. Stone
Black Cultural Center the following
year. Now, with the event under the
control of R.0.C.T.5., officials hoped
to build off its first two years of success.
“I decided to sign up because I felt it
w'ould be a good thing to do on my day
off,” said Ruth Van Dyke, a freshman
who volunteered at the Alterra
Wvnwood Retirement Home. Some
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