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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2003
N.C. attorney general
to enforce call block
BY DORA P. GONZALEZ
STAFF WRITER
Even though a federal court
ruled Thursday that the National
Do-Not-Call Registry hinders free
speech, N.C. Attorney General Roy
Cooper’s office still will enforce
state legislation that punishes tele
marketers who make illegal calls.
Cooper stated in a press release
that the law, enacted by the N.C.
General Assembly this summer,
would protect consumers from
unwanted telemarketing calls.
Under the legislation, telemar
keters would be fined for calling
people who listed themselves on
the registry before Aug. 31.
As of last week, more than 50
million people had signed up
across the nation, including 1.6
million North Carolinians.
State officials will start enforc
ing the lists Wednesday for people
who registered by the deadline.
For people who signed up after
the deadline, telemarketers have
three months after people register
to continue calling them.
But Senate Majority Leader
Tony Rand, D-Cumberland, said
the constitutionality of Cooper’s
proposal still has to be proven by a
legal counselor, even though it has
a lot of support in the state.
“A lot of people are very much in
favor of the list,” he said.
Rand added that while there’s
no question that the list will take
away jobs, a person’s right to be left
alone also has to be considered.
The Associated Press reported
that the telemarketing industry
could lose up to SSO billion and
two million jobs if the bill is
approved.
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The president of the American
Teleservices Association refitsed to
comment Friday.
The Registry hit a road block
last week when a U.S. District
Court in Oklahoma City ruled
against the list because the list’s
creator, the Federal Trade
Commission, did not have the
authority to start it.
U.S. Congress promptly passed
legislation Thursday that gave the
FTC the authority' to start the Do-
Not-Call Registry.
But a second U.S. District Court
in Denver ruled Thursday that the
list restricted free speech, putting
a halt to the list again.
The second ruling was based on
the argument that the government
would be deciding who people
could receive calls from, thereby
discriminating against for-profit
organizations’ calls.
The federal and state bills would
fine violators up to SII,OOO for
each illegal call, although charity
and political organizations would
be exempt.
“Nonprofit organizations are
trying to help,” said N.C. Rep. Alma
Adams, D-Guilford. “The type of
business that they do is probably
the cause for them to be exempted
of (the list).”
But Adams said there was a
need for the state to take action
for the benefit of North
Carolinians.
“We try to be consistent with the
federal government, but some
times we need laws for the people
of North Carolina.”
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Project UNC calls 115 to service
BY KELLI BORBET
STAFF WRITER
About 115 UNC students, facul
ty and staff participated Saturday
in the fifth annual Project UNC, a
one-day event during which vol
unteers work in a variety of service
projects around the area.
Volunteers arrived to balloons,
music and a free lunch sponsored
by the Hunger Lunch committee of
the Campus Y.
Barry Brinkley, a 2001 UNC
graduate and program director for
Teach for America in the San
Francisco area, gave the keynote
speech to motivate and praise the
hard work the volunteers put into
the event.
“Today most people are caught
up with money and power,” he said.
“It’s great to see a movement of
people who want to help others.”
Project coordinator Sanja
Bosman. who has been involved
with Project UNC for four years,
said the number of volunteers has
grown tremendously since the pro
gram’s start.
The project was founded in
1999 by former Student Body
President Nic Heinke.
Many volunteers are a part of
various organizations across cam
pus that devote their time to help
ing others.
Organizations involved in the
event included the Campus Y, stu
dent government, Project Rush
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Hour, Asian Students Association,
the Academic Enhancement
Program, National Society of
Collegiate Scholars, Mu Beta Psi,
the campus chapter of the
American Red Cross and
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship.
After the kickoff in Polk Place,
volunteers dispersed to various
sites.
Participants worked at five loca
tions in the Chapel Hill area,
including the N.C. Botanical
Gardens, Project Homestart, a
Habitat for Humanity site and the
Ronald McDonald House.
Student government also led a
canned food drive.
“We work with organizations
that have the greatest need and
have a relationship with the
Campus Y,” Bosman said.
Volunteers worked for three
hours to help build houses, fix
nature trials and collect food for
various people in the community'.
Bosman said the N.C. Botanical
Gardens desperately needed help
because of destruction caused by
Hurricane Isabel, including fixing
trails that were destroyed during
the storm.
Blair Ruddock, a sophomore
business major, spent the after
noon at the N.C. Botanical
Gardens pulling invader weeds
that were destroying the natural
wildlife.
“I feel that we made a real dif-
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ference in the area by protecting
the wildlife,” she said. “Project
UNC was a great way to fulfill my
service hours.”
Ruddock said she needed the
community service hours for the
Academic Enhancement
Program, a theme housing pro
gram that requires upperclass
men participants to complete 12
hours of community service each
semester.
The volunteers returned at
about 4 p.m. to campus, where
Service scholars
program kicks off
BY JOSEPH SCHWARTZ
STAFF WRITER
Several months after its incep
tion, the Public Service Scholars
program had its official kickoff
ceremony Friday on the steps of
Wilson Library'.
The program, administered
through the Carolina Center for
Public Service, recognizes exem
plary public service on the tran
scripts of students who complete a
variety of service requirements.
Supporters of the program
gathered to celebrate past accom
plishments and to look forward to
continued success.
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they could relax with music and ice
cream after a hard day of work.
Project UNC was a great suc
cess, Bosman said, because stu
dents, faculty and staff all con
tributed their time and effort to
helping others in the community.
Brinkley challenged the volun
teers as they left to “continue serv
ing beyond the walls of college.”
“You are our nations future.”
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“We envision that
Public Service
Scholars will
become a network
and a force."
LYNN BLANCHARD, ccps director
Chancellor James Moeser, who
spoke at the event, said UNC stu
dents are distinguishable by their
passion for service.
“The public service program
sets a new' benchmark for public
service," he said.
A jar of pennies was displayed
prominently prior to the event,
and those attending were invited
to guess the number of pennies.
The jar held 2,470 pennies, one
for each hour of service performed
by the program’s 42 participants
last semester.
Sophomore Katie Hunt, a pro
gram participant who also spoke
at the event, poured the pennies
into a bucket and said the goal is to
fill it with 70,000 pennies.
The program began last year
after CCPS received a $15,000
planning grant.
In the program, students who
complete 300 hours of public
service, two service learning
courses, skills training, a service
portfolio and a have a grade point
average of at least 2.5 are given
special recognition of public serv
ice on their transcripts, said Chad
Fogleman, program officer for
CCPS.
Although the program started
last year, Fogleman said the idea
was born eight years ago.
“It’s been a really long process,”
he said. “The idea has been around
since 1995. The Public Service
Roundtable, a group of concerned
faculty and staff decided we need
to raise awareness for the idea.”
Enrollment for the program
this semester closed at 5 p.m.
Friday, and according to CCPS,
about 200 students signed up.
Fogleman said students with at
least four semesters remaining are
invited to join the program next
semester.
Even as the kickoff ceremony
was taking place, members of the
program were aw'ay helping vic
tims of Hurricane Isabel, which hit
the North Carolina coast earlier
this month.
A mass e-mail sent to students
by CCPS on Wednesday cited the
need for volunteers who could
drive a van or truck, speak
Spanish or use a chain saw.
The e-mail also stated that the
state’s Emergency Response
Center is seeking donations of
cleaning supplies, canned foods,
beverages, paper goods, garbage
bags, personal care items and baby
items. Donation boxes were avail
able at the event Friday.
CCPS director Lynn Blanchard
said the kickoff event went well
and that she has lofty goals for the
program’s future.
“We envision that Public Service
Scholars will become a network and
a force from students and organi
zations all over who can join what
they’re doing already in new ways.”
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