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VOLUME 111, ISSUE 38 Oil flows again from Iraqi fields 4 MORE TOP OFFICIALS FROM IRAQI REGIME CAPTURED THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD, Iraq - Oil from Iraq's southern fields began flow ing through pipelines Wednesday for the first time since the war, and power at last was restored to parts of Baghdad. In the holy city of Karbala, thousands of Shiite Muslims demonstrated against the United States. The southern oil fields had been Board explores possible merger Study results to be issued by August BY JOHN FRANK CITY EDITOR When Neil Pedersen, superin tendent of Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, goes grocery shop ping, he can’t make it down an aisle without getting peppered with questions about a possible merger of the county’s two school systems. Likewise, when Keith Cook, vice chairman of the Orange County Board of Education, stopped for gas Tuesday morn ing, the topic of conversation was the merger study. The discus sion surround ing a possible Superintendent Neil Pedersen wants to gauge public opinion via referendum. merger of CHCCS and Orange County Schools is the talk of the town. The Orange County Board of Commissioners is gathering more information about possibly merg ing the school systems, which are divided by an sll million funding discrepancy. The commissioners will conclude their report by August. But officials from both school districts endorsed the idea of a more public process during a com munity forum Tuesday afternoon at Town Hall. Pedersen and Cook, as well as Commissioner Moses Carey and Orange County interim Superintendent Michael Williams, all emphasized the need for more public input about the study. Carey said he already has received an abundance of feedback from residents in both systems. “Some want it; some don't want it,” he said. But Pedersen said he doesn’t know how residents think because “they haven’t been asked.” He and other school officials support a referendum to gauge the public’s sentiment. While school officials aren’t sure whether a referendum would be binding, they all agree that the public needs more information to decide on the issue. “What (residents) have most is fears associated with the merger,” said Valerie Foushee, chairwoman of the CHCCS Board of Education. “There’s a whole array of fears associated with the unknown." Carey said the commissioners are conducting the study to clear up unknown elements. “We’ve been afraid to talk about it so long that there are a lot of myths out there,” Carey said. The lone teacher on Tuesday’s forum panel was Julie Dermody, a fifth-grade teacher at Mary Scroggs Elementary. She said that SEE MERGER, PAGE 12 ONLINE 3-D technology developed by a UNC researcher may improve athletic performance Visit www.dailytarheel.com for more stories. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 01Sa% oar among the first installations secured when U.S. and British forces launched the ground war March 20. Coalition forces, aided by Iraqi oil workers, fired up a gas oil separation plant Wednesday that sent oil to a pumping station and storage tank outside the south ern city of Basra. “Our focus in restoring the oil is to give the biggest benefit to the J2B P ' Igi' Ur lift XI mV " A DTH FILE PHOTOS Former North Carolina men's basketball coach Dean Smith (center), with the help of Bill Guthridge (left) and Phil Ford (right), built the UNC program into a national powerhouse without getting in trouble for violating NCAA regulations. STAYING CLEAN IN A DIRTY GAME :pmW *■. M 2002: Fans have pinned the program's future on freshmen Raymond Felton (left), Rashad McCants (right) and Sean May. 1995: Dean Smith's last great recruiting class led by Vince Carter (left) and Antawn Jamison took UNC to two Final Fours. 1993: Top recruits Rasheed Wallace (above) and Jerry Stackhouse were expected to bring UNC another national championship. INSIDE IRON CHEFS UNC chef beats Duke counterpart in cooking competition. PAGE 3 www.daiSytarheel.CQm Iraqi people,” said Brig. Gen. Robert Crear, the top U.S. official charged with getting Iraq’s oil pro duction up and running. Many Iraqis have complained bitterly, and frequently, about U.S. forces rushing to secure oil fields and the capital’s oil ministry, leav ing other ministries, universities, museums, hospitals and business es to be looted and burned. U.S. officials have acknowledged they were surprised by the rampage and said troops were too occupied by combat to intervene when they first reached Baghdad. BY AARON Fin SPORTS EDITOR He was a gifted basketball player, the kind of player who immediately could help any college program in the nation. But the recruit was not well-to-do. It would not be easy for him to deprive his family of his meager income so he could pursue his college basketball dreams. This fact didn’t escape North Carolina coach Dean Smith and his assistant, Roy Williams. They knew the recruit would be tempted by the offers of underhanded financial assistance other schools would dangle before him. But as highly as they regarded the player, the Tar Heel coaches wouldn’t stray from the rules. “I told one prospect, who lived in a small house not any bigger than this with four younger children I said, ‘lt’s hard, I’m sure, to go with us, but you'll feel better in the long run, and we hope it will be better for you,’” Smith said in a November interview in the Smith Center’s memorabilia room. “But I said, ‘For God's sake, don’t go for transporta tion or something.’ He called Roy and said, ‘l’m going to a Big Ten school, for reasons you know.’” That nameless recruit from the 1980s was just one of many top prospects over the years who has valued immediate gratification more highly than integrity. NCAA rules violations are no recent phenomena; there have been breaches of the rules as long as there have been rules. This bas ketball season, however, brought ethics issues once more to the fore front, with scandals making head lines at Georgia, St. Bonaventure, Fresno State and Michigan. a The first group of U.N. interna tional staff returned to northern Iraq since the war started when a half-dozen workers crossed the border from Turkey on Wednesday. Also Wednesday, U.S. forces in Iraq captured four top officials of Saddam Hussein’s former govern ment Wednesday, including the air defense force commander and the former head of military intelli gence. The highest-ranking official in the group is Muzahim Sa’b Hassan al-Tikriti, who headed Iraq’s air defenses under Hussein. He was And those are only the cases the public found out about. How much more is going on behind the scenes? All the rule-breaking begs another question: How is it that a program like North Carolina has managed to remain so impeccably clean for so long and still stay com petitive with all the cheaters? A large part of the answer was sitting in the memorabilia room in the building named after him, sur rounded by the trappings of his brilliant 36-year career. Dean Smith never let his vigi lance wane, not in the slightest. And he’s got no tolerance for those who lack his own sense of discipline and commitment to integrity. Fortunately, Williams the new coach of the Tar Heels picked up quite a few of his boss’s principles in his 10 years as Smith’s assistant. Then, at Kansas, Williams took over a program on probation just as Smith had taken over a UNC SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE 12 DRY SPELL Diversions explores recent lack of big-time concerts in the Smith Center. PAGE 5 No. 10 on the U.S. list of the top 55 most wanted officials from Hussein’s regime and the queen of diamonds in the military’s deck of playing cards listing those officials. Al-Tikriti, who was from Hussein’s hometown clan, which made up much of the former Iraqi inner circle, also reportedly helped train paramilitary Fedayeen forces. U.S. officials have accused Fedayeen forces of committing war crimes including using civilian human shields and killing Iraqis who wanted to surrender. Pentagon officials said UNC seeks to combat violence BY EMILY STEEL STAFF WRITER A woman is raped every two minutes. Almost one in every four women between the ages of 18 and 24 is a survivor of sexual assault. The time from the day a student takes her first step on a college campus until the time she goes home for Thanksgiving Break is the period when she is most likely to be a \ictim of sex ual violence. But the numbers just don’t add up when only two rapes were reported to University police in 2002 and only 17 sexual assault victims reported their situations to the dean of students last semester. National data on rape show that the crime hap pens with much more frequency than it is reported, and UNC’s 2002 numbers show that the problem hits home. In hopes of creating an environment more con ducive to communication about sexual violence, UNC officials submitted a grant application last week to the U.S. Department of Justice. If the grant is approved, the money will be used to re-evaluate UNC’s Sexual Assault Response Plan, add an anti-violence program to C-TOPS and create a media campaign against violence at the University, said Melinda Manning, assistant dean of students. Such a plan would provide students with more support when reporting a rape to campus officials. “There have been some concerns that victims weren’t treated with the fairness and respect they expected,” Manning said. Matt Ezzell, a graduate student in sociology who worked with the Orange County Rape Crisis Center from 1997-2002, echoed this sentiment. He said he has heard about situations when University police officers asked victims inappropriate questions, blamed the victim and pressured the vic tim into filing a report. “It does happen,” Ezzell said. “It is a reality.” This perception might be a factor that scares stu dents away from reporting cases of sexual violence when they do occur. “So few victims ever report the crimes, and to hear they have been treated this way is discouraging,” Manning said. But University Police Chief Derek Poarch defend ed his officials and said his department works with vic tims to ensure their safety and the security of others on campus. “We want to partner with victims to bring sus pects to justice,” he said. “We have to show that rape is SEE RAPE, PAGE 12 * I ?V\ 1 DTH/GARRETT HALL Old World Craftsman employee Vernon Hopkins uses a jackhammer to remove concrete from the sundial in front of Morehead Planetarium. Renovations should be finished by June 1. WEATHER TODAY Mostly Sunny, High 64, Low 48 \ f- FRIDAY Rain, High 62, Low 54 SATURDAY Scattered T-storms, High 64, Low 50 THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2003 Wednesday it was too early to determine whether any of the offi cials would be tried for war crimes. The latest captures bring to 11 the number of top former Iraqi offi cials in U.S. custody. Another three in the top 55 are believed to have been killed, Pentagon officials say. On Tuesday, an accident took the lives of three Marines near the southern city of Kut. They were trying out a rocket-propelled grenade launcher when it mal functioned, and seven other Marines were wounded, U.S. Central Command said. SUNDOWN
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