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VOLUME 111, ISSUE 55 Town approves UNC growth plan DTH/GARRETT HALL Gene Pease, president of the Gimghoul Homeowners Association, expresses his displeasure at talks of modifying UNC's Development Plan. Reddick named to U.S. team Tar Heel to make World Cup debut BY BRIAN MACPHERSON SPORTS EDITOR It’s dream-come-true time for Catherine Reddick. U.S. soccer coach April Heinrichs named her roster for the 2003 Women’s World Cup on Tuesday, and the North Carolina defender will represent her country on soccer’s biggest stage in the fall. “I definitely hoped to make it,” Reddick said, talking a mile a minute in a phone interview from California. “But I was still sur prised. It’s still surreal to me because it’s been my dream for so long.” Reddick, a senior on the North Carolina women’s soccer team, was the only active college player selected to the team. Though still months shy of her 22nd birthday, she has played in 34 international games. Reddick will miss about a month and a half of the Tar Heels’ season while with the U.S. team. “We actually had a good feeling that she’d make it, and we’re incredibly proud of her,” said UNC coach Anson Dorrance. “She’s the only college kid on the team, so that’s an incredible achievement.” Heinrichs, a former North Carolina player, selected a total of six current or former Tar Heels to the 20-player squad: four-time World Cup participants Mia Hamm and Kristine Lilly, veteran team members Cindy Parlow and Tiffany Roberts and first-timers Reddick and Siri Mullinix. A total of eight Americans will be playing in their first World Cup. “There are other people going in there with me for their first time, so it won’t be too difficult,” Reddick said. “They’ll be right alongside me going, ‘Wow, wow, wow.’ We’re already doing that. It’s absolutely amazing.” Left off the squad were two cur rent Tar Heel forwards: sophomore Lindsay Tarpley and freshman Heather O’Reilly. Both participat ed in four days of training at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif., and both will SEE REDDICK, PAGE 4 wti DTH/FILE PHOTO UNC senior Catherine Reddick, the youngest player selected for the U.S. Women's World Cup team, is a contender to start at left back. ONLINE FOR SALE Photos from The Daily Tar Heel can be purchased online at PHOTOS.DAILYTARHEEL.COM Serving the students and the University community since 1893 iatUj (Ear Mu l Missiork Mars -X I . j ' Aug. 27,2003 Mars will be closer to Earth than ever before in recorded history 8:18 p.m. Mars appears in night sky over Chapel Hill 1:29 a.m. Best time to view Mars in N.C. skies 34.65 million miles How close Mars will come to Earth fl'im 11 V Wh'ikl 60,000,000 years How long it has been since Mars came this close to Earth 2287 AD The next time Mars will approach the Earth this closely SOURCE,SPACE.COM ' . DTWSARALONGENECK.ER MARS MAKES A PASS AT EARTH Morehead viewings already filled up BY NIKKI WERKING ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR Eight-year-old Austin Mack climbed up a heavy metal steplad der Tuesday night and peered into the tow'ering telescope housed in the dome on the roof of Morehead Planetarium. As the Chapel Hill resident’s eyes adjusted to the light, he could see a white spot —a polar ice cap on Mars. Mack was excited because his father is an astronomer who told him Mars wouldn’t be this close to Earth again until 2200. “It’s pretty cool," Mack said. “It’s a nice chance to see something (people) will be seeing in 200 years.” Today, Mars will be about 35 mil lion miles away from Earth the Red Planet’s closest approach in 60,000 years. In honor of the event, the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center and UNC’s Department of Physics and Astronomy are sponsoring Marsfest 2003, a series of observation ses Panel slams NASA in shuttle report ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, D.C. - NASA’s overconfident manage ment and inattention to safety doomed Columbia every bit as much as the chunk of foam that struck the shuttle with deadly force, investigators concluded Tuesday. Without drastic changes, they said, another disaster is likely. In a scathing 248-page report coming almost seven months to the day after the spacecraft disin tegrated over Texas, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board said the shuttle wasn’t “inherently INSIDE NICKEL AND DIMED Gas prices recently jumped almost 20 cents per gallon PAGE 3 www.dailytarheel.com COUNCIL’S 6-2 VOTE CAPS MONTHS OF INTENSE DEBATE BY JENNY HUANG STAFF WRITER University officials can breathe a sigh of relief. With what one council member called “violent resentment,” the Chapel Hill Town Council on Tuesday approved UNC’s proposed changes to the Development Plan in a 6-2 vote. The council’s action came after a four-hour public discussion on Monday during which more than 40 local residents, Town Council candidates and UNC representa tives weighed in on the proposals. CLOSE ENCOUNTER sions that started Tuesday night and will run through Saturday. Free tickets for the sessions were available Saturday, but all 750 tickets were claimed by 3 p.m. Monday. “The line was wrapped around the block when the planetarium opened on Monday," said Dan Reichart. professor of physics and a coordinator of the event. “People just went crazy for it.” During the 20-minute observa tion sessions, visitors have a chance to view Mars through 3 l/2-inch telescopes on one of the observation decks as well as through the 24-inch telescope inside the planetarium dome. Reichart said that even from 35 million miles, some of Mars’ phys ical features are visible through binoculars. “If you look closely, you can see some dark spots on the planet and even a polar ice cap,” he said. Planetarium staff members as SEE MARS, PAGE 4 unsafe” but issued recommenda tions for a safe return to flight. “The board strongly believes that if these persistent, systemic flaws are not resolved, the scene is set for another accident,” the investigators wrote. “NASAs blind spot is it believes it has a strong safety culture.” The board said the space agency lacks “effective checks and balances, does not have an inde pendent safety program and has not demonstrated the character istics of a learning organization." NASA Administrator Sean The final modifications approved by the council call for construction of an 800-space park ing deck in Jackson Circle and a chiller plant and 500-space park ing deck near Cobb Residence Hall. The package also includes the University's support for making pedestrian-friendly improvements to South Columbia Street, a rever sal in UNC’s previous push to widen the road. The approved proposal also includes a stipulation that the University will not revisit the pos sibility of widening South 9BM 3 _ Uj3|: . DTH/LAURA MORTON Hillsborough residents Amy and John Robertson view Mars on Tuesday night during a presentation at Morehead Planetarium. O'Keefe, prepared in advance for the criticism, pledged to make the necessary changes. “We are, all of us at NASA, a part of the solution," he told space agency employees. And President Bush declared, “Our journey in space will go on.” The board concluded that safe ty engineers used “sleight of hand” tactics even before the Feb. 1 Columbia tragedy to play down the frequency of strikes by fuel tank foam insulation and that managers pressed ahead because of intense pressure from high up to stay on schedule. SPORTS STARTING FRESH UNC’s field hockey team looks to move on from last year's losing season PAGE 8 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2003 Columbia —a significant conces sion from UNC. Council members added several stipulations to UNC’s proposed modifications, including the cre ation of a town-gown task force to restore Old Chapel Hill Cemetery and the extension of traffic access hours from the Cobb deck to Raleigh Street. The Development Plan modi fied Tuesday is a short-term subset of the larger Master Plan, a 50-year strategy for campus growth. The town approved the original Development Plan in October 2001. UNC officials submitted proposed modifications to the plan in April. During the past few months, UNC’s proposed changes have drawn fire from local residents In all, the Columbia investiga tors issued 29 recommendations to NASA, six focusing on organi zational change. Some of those changes elim inate as much fuel-tank foam shedding as possible, toughen the vulnerable thermal shielding on the wings, give astronauts inspec tion capabilities and repair kits are needed before shuttle flights resume, said retired Navy Adm. Harold Gehman, the board’s chairman. The culture issues will SEE NASA, PAGE 4 WEATHER TODAY Mostly sunny, H 96, L 71 THURSDAY Thunderstorms, H 92, L 68 FRIDAY Partly cloudy, H 91, L 67 who are concerned that the proj ects will cause increased traffic and noise. Before taking a vote, council members acknowledged the con cerns of local residents and voiced their opinions about the proposal. Mayor Kevin Foy said that he valued the open town-gown dis cussions leading up to the council’s decision and that thought the University made enough conces sions to merit the council’s approval. But in his dissenting vote, Bill Strom said the negative backlash from local residents prevented him from accepting UNC’s proposal. “I don’t believe it’s my role to blindly SEE TOWN-GOWN, PAGE 4 Grant could blaze trails Might bring millions to UNC BY KRISTIN BECKER ASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR Although some students already consider entrepreneurship a part of their UNC experiences, a $50,000 grant the University received this summer promises to expand oppor tunities for all students. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has selected UNC to be one of 15 universities partici pating in the Kauffman Campuses Initiative, through which the schools can compete for millions of dollars. “The Kauffman Foundation approached UNC because we are ranked among the top entrepre neurship programs for our strong support for entrepreneurial educa tion,” said Jeff Reid, executive director for the Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Venturing. At the end of April, Chancellor James Moeser learned that UNC was one of 30 schools initially rec ognized for entrepreneurship efforts. By June, a preliminary concept proposal was submitted and earned UNC a spot as a finalist, competing for one of five to seven challenge grants, each worth as much as $5 million. The other 14 finalists include Purdue University, the University of Rochester and Syracuse University. After the schools submit their final proposals in December, the Kauffinan Foundation will award the grants based on the universi ties’ plans to integrate entrepre neurship opportunities into cam pus culture in a unique way. “We’ve got some great ideas. Last spring we were already plan ning a way to bring entrepreneur ship outside of the Center for Entrepreneurship,” Reid said. The University's current plan is to incorporate entrepreneurship into more traditional academic settings, Reid said. For example, the art department might offer a class to students who want to open their own studios. There also has been talk of creating an entrepre neurship minor program. Some of the initial $50,000 grant might pay for site visits to other universities with entrepre neurial initiatives in place, Reid said. The planning grant also might go to paying a grant writer to author the proposal. Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies Tony Waldrop said this is an opportuni ty UNC has been looking for. “The timing is perfect,” he said. SEE ENTREPRENEURS, PAGE 4 a
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