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CAMPUS BRIEFS
Bullock, Taylor take home
Mr. and Miss BSM posts
Seniors Kelvin Bullock and
Ronda Taylor were elected Mr. and
Miss Black Student Movement in
the group’s general body elections
this weekend.
Conitras Houston, member
ship/elections chairwoman for
BSM, said 283 members voted in
the elections for Miss BSM, and
282 members voted for Mr. BSM.
Bullock won Mr. BSM with 187
votes, and Taylor won Miss BSM
with 84 votes, Houston said. Other
candidates for Miss BSM were sen
iors Kit Evans, Norledia Moody,
Tiobhan Roberts and Eboni
Williams. Senior Segun Olagunju
also ran for Mr. BSM.
BSM President Erin Davis said
members interested in running for
Mr. and Miss BSM are required to
organize and participate in a com
munity service project that will
benefit members of the black com
munity. The applicants completed
a series of interviews and present
ed their plans for service projects
at the BSM’s general body meet
ing. Elections took place Friday in
the Pit and in front of Chase Hall.
For the full story on homecom
ing king and queen nominations,
see Tuesday’s edition of The Daily
Tar Heel.
CITY BRIEFS
Chamber hands out service
awards to local residents
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Chamber of Commerce presented
its awards for community service
Thursday. Progress Energy was the
Platinum Sponsor of the event,
which honored contributions to
the betterment of Chapel Hill,
Carrboro and Orange County.
Lee Pavao, former Chapel Hill
Town Council member and current
chairman of the United Way 2003,
was awarded the Citizen of the Year
Award. Town Council member Pat
Evans was awarded the Town and
Gown Award and Carrboro’s El
Centro Latino won the Community
Enhancement Award.
Local resident Lee Blackman
was honored as the Jim Gibson
Volunteer of the Year.
STATE AND NATION
Engineers work to assist
stranded Hatteras village
HATTERAS Workers who
hoped to get water to the stranded
residents of Hatteras Village with
in seven days will have to bore
deeper than they expected under a
breach across the island caned by
Hurricane Isabel.
The new inlet, 10 feet deep and
about 2,000 feet wide, has cut off
the village on the southernmost tip
of Hatteras Island. The storm
scoured three cuts across N.C. 12,
the Outer Banks’ main road,
destroying the road and cutting
water and electric lines.
Engineers had planned to drill
just under the breach to carry a
Dare County water line to the 300
people in the village. Now, the
drilling will have to be done to 120
feet, Dorothy Toolan, spokes
woman for Dare County
Emergency Management, said late
Saturday.
Poll finds Schwarzenegger
leading California recall
SANTA MARIA, Calif. - With
the campaign to recall Gov. Gray
Davis entering its final week, a poll
released Sunday showed the
Democrat could lose office by a
wide margin and put Arnold
Schwarzenegger way ahead of
everyone else trying to become
governor of California.
Some of California's major news
papers made endorsements
Sunday, most urging voters to reject
the recall Oct 7 and recommending
nobody to replace Davis.
WORLD BRIEFS
Palestinian march supports
Arafat, latest intefadeh
RAMALLAH, West Bank -
Thousands of Palestinians
marched through the streets of the
West Bank on Sunday to support
Yasser Arafat as they marked the
third anniversary of the latest vio
lent uprising, or intefadeh, which
has claimed thousands of lives.
The demonstration came as the
Palestinians appeared set to
appoint anew Cabinet filled with
Arafat loyalists, despite efforts by
the United States and Israel to
sideline the Palestinian leader.
CALENDAR
Today
8 p.m. The Carolina Union
Activities Board will be offering a
sneak preview of “School of Rock”
in the Union Auditorium.
Admission is free with a UNC One
Card on a first come, first serve
basis.
Compiledfrom
staff and wire reports.
NCCU seeks funds for mold damage
Repair costs could top SSO million
BY ADJOA ADOFO
STAFF WRITER
Potentially toxic mold has
plagued 11 buildings at N.C.
Central University and could cost
more than SSO million, according
to a report released Tuesday by
Clark Nexsen Architecture &
Engineering.
The report estimated costs as
high as $39.5 million to repair
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as part of a Southern Rodeo Association competition
/held Saturday afternoon during Benson’s annual
‘Mule Days’ weekend festival. Other rodeo riders participat
ed in calf roping, barrel racing and bull riding in five com-
SEEDS gives area
fruitful outcomes
Group’s gardens
serve community
BY JORDAN CASWELL
STAFF WRITER
DURHAM ln Durham, com
munity roots grow into plants, and
seeds yield new hope for residents.
“We felt that gardening cut
across all racial-economic bound
aries,” said Brenda Brodie, co
founder and board president of
South Eastern Efforts Developing
Sustainable Spaces Inc.
SEEDS, a Durham nonprofit
organization, strives to help com
munities “create sustainable green
spaces for gardening, gathering
and education." Brodie and Annice
Kenan founded the program in
1994.
“We are feeling that it’s begin
ning to really catch on,” Brodie
said. “I feel hopeful each year we
have more and more people.”
SEEDS provides tools and edu
cation to volunteers who maintain
the programs seven community
gardens and three Durham ele
mentary school plots.
“We are a small staff, and one of
the rules was that we would not
run (the gardens),” Brodie said.
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Former UNC wrestler Corey Bell (left) cuts Jarvon Stancil's hair at the
Campus Beautician, located below Cosmic Catina on Franklin Street.
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nine mold-infested academic
buildings and at least $7.8 million
to clean the buildings. This is in
addition to $8.7 million needed to
return two closed residence halls
to livable conditions.
No one is quite sure who is
going to foot the bill.
“It’s definitely an emergency sit
uation,” said Jennifer Wilder, N.C.
Central director of residential life.
BENSON HOSTS ‘MULE DAYS’
Instead, community volunteers
manage start-up and maintenance
of the gardens, expanding upon the
basis SEEDS provides. People rang
ing from master gardeners to young
children can come to learn and
enjoy growing from the earth, exec
utive director Sarah Gibbs said.
A demonstration garden, the
site of the SEEDS office for the
past two years, occupies a sizeable
lot on the corner of Elizabeth and
Gilbert streets in a neighborhood
northeast of down town Durham.
Within it, community plots pro
vide opportunities for area resi
dents who don’t have space to keep
a garden of their own.
The plots, which showcase the
work of 15 to 20 people, allow
community members to benefit
from the gardening and from con
necting with other interested indi
viduals.
The demonstration garden also
houses a permaculture garden area
called “food alley,” an outdoor
classroom for horticulture tutori
als, a self-sustaining pond, a com
posting station, raised beds to ease
gardening for seniors and a grape
pergola, an outdoor structure that
supports the grapevines. All this in
SEE SEEDS, PAGE 6
“We still don’t know where we’re
going to get the money.”
N.C. Central will present a final
assessment on the 11 buildings to
the UNC-system Board of
Governors at its Oct. 8 meeting.
In August, the board allowed
N.C. Central to transfer $10.4 mil
lion from other bond projects to
eradicate mold from 10 of the 11
buildings.
“They will try to investigate all
funding options for the problem,”
said Sharon Saunders, N.C. Central
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petitions held during the weekend. Mule Days is held dur
ing the fourth weekend of even' September and typically
draws more than 60,000 people. The events also included a
parade, bluegrass music performances, food vendors, street
perfomances, carnival rides and a mule pulling contest.
1-40 delays to continue
as more area exits close
BY BEN BALDNER
STAFF WRITER
Construction might produce
extra delays for those traveling
west toward Chapel Hill on
Interstate 40 during the next few
weeks.
On Sept. 19, the N. C.
Department of Transportation
closed I-40’s westbound on- and
off-ramps at exits 273 A and B.
Exit 273 connects with N.C. 54,
a popular route into Chapel Hill.
Because of the construction,
motorists must follow a designat
ed detour.
Local residents might be able to
find alternative shorter routes,
said Maj. Jeff McCracken, deputy
director of the Department of
Public Safety at UNC.
1-40 westbound motorists who
normally exit at N.C. 54 have two
options. They can continue to 1-40
exit 270 to U.S. 15-501, and turn
around on 1-40 east, proceeding to
the N.C. 54 exit.
Motorists also can take exit 274
to N.C. 751 northbound, which
connects to N.C. 54.
The construction, which will
last between three and four more
weeks, will add a third lane to 1-40
in the westbound direction. It is
Beautician adds to long salon list
Hair a popular business downtown
BY MEGHAN GAMBLING
STAFF WRITER
From haircuts to perms, pedi
cures to manicures, scalp treat
ments to dye treatments these
are some of the services that the
bevy of downtown hair salons and
beauty parlors offer.
Former UNC wrestler Corey
Bell’s new hair salon, the Campus
Beautician, is the newest member
of this group of downtown hair
care professionals.
The salon, located below Cosmic
Cantina, joins the 100 block of
East Franklin Street this week with
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2003
special assistant to the chancellor
for public relations.
Jeff Davies, UNC-system vice
president for finance, said the BOG
is waiting to evaluate all the
reports before deciding how to
fund the clean up.
“So far the figures in the reports
seem to include improvements
beyond mold,” he said. “If it is an
appropriate action, we will appeal
to the (N.C.) General Assembly.”
The BOG also is planning to
conduct a review of preventive
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-40 eastbound. These are the \
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the final phase for construction on
this stretch of 1-40.
To combat these new delays, the
eastbound ramps were reopened
before the westbound ramp con
struction began. Upon completion,
1-40 will have six lanes on this sec
tion of the freeway, which poten
tially will alleviate traffic.
But officials expect current traf
fic on 1-40 westbound to worsen
because of the construction.
McCracken said the exit clos
ings could be an impediment to
students and faculty traveling to
the University'.
its grand opening.
Franklin and Rosemary' streets
are home to about 10 other hair
related businesses, but Bell said he
isn’t w'orried.
What he proposes to offer
Franklin Street is something he
feels that others do not.
“There are no beauty salons that
cater to the students,” Bell said
Friday afternoon as he stood in his
new, sparsely furnished shop.
Bell said his shop offers an
atmosphere students can appreci
ate. “It’s a community here. You
don’t have to be buying anything.
maintenance programs at all 16
system campuses.
“Every campus has a mold prob
lem,” Davies said. “It is just that no
other (campus) than N.C. Central
has reported the problem to the
same extent.”
Kian Brown, president of N.C.
Central’s Student Government,
said the university would rather
spend money to eliminate mold all
at once than let it linger —a
SEE MOLD, PAGE 6
Student
facing
assault
charges
Fight at mall led
to athlete’s arrest
BY JENNIFER IMMEL
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
UNC football player Michael
Gilmore was arrested Saturday
night on charges of assault against
a female at The Streets at
South Point mall.
The fight began outside
Firebirds Rocky Mountain Grill as
Gilmore, 19, of Greenville, S.C.,
waited for a table with his girl
friend, Lindsay Bond, 20, of
Southfield, Mich., Bond said.
Bond said she and Gilmore
were standing near Pottery Barn
Kids when he became agitated and
hit her. Bond would not comment
on what started the fight.
Bond said the hit caused her left
eye to swell shut, but as of Sunday
night. Bond said her eye was no
longer swollen. She said she is con
sidering whether to press charges.
Durham County Magistrate Eric
Van Vleet said the arresting officer,
Nicholas Cloninger, told him
“(Gilmore) grabbed his girlfriend
and slammed her up against the
window" at about 6:30 p.m.
Van Vleet was not at the scene.
Bond said she struggled with
Gilmore and eventually hit him
SEE ARREST, PAGE 6
“It’s a major inconvenience, but
it is a necessary inconvenience,”
said Wilev Jones, resident engineer
for the NCDOT. “That’s one of the
growing pains of expansion. It’s
necessary because of the area we
are living in.”
Jones said he is aiming for a
“smooth transition on and off the
freeway’ by using clear electronic
signs and advertising to notify
commuters of the changes.
“We are trying to do things to
accelerate the inconvenience,”
SEE 1-40, PAGE 6
You can come in and sit, eat food,
gossip, relax.”
He emphasized the salon’s
affordable prices and the diversity
of customers he plans to attract
Bell also owns and operates the
Campus Barber, which opened in
January. At the Campus Barber, he
serves many students, including
members of ROTC and the
University’s football team.
Despite competition, he said it is
possible to open a business and be
successful in a place such as down
town Chapel Hill.
Aaron Nelson, executive direc
tor of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
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