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VOLUME 111, ISSUE 81 Police arrest UNC worker Woman charged with taking SIBK BY GREG PARKER STAFF WRITER University police arrested an employee of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology on Thursday morning after she was charged with obtaining $17,881 by falsifying her time sheets, reports state. Anita Wright of 706 Wedding Brook Drive in Gibsonville was arrested at about 11 a.m. by Capt. Mark Mclntyre of University police, according to reports. She was charged with one count of obtaining property through false pretenses. Mclntyre said Wright had been falsifying her time sheets on and off for the past three years, alleged ly obtaining $17,881. Wright was released on a $5,000 unsecured bond. She is scheduled to report to Orange County District Court in Hillsborough at 9 a.m. Monday for her first court appearance. Wright was contacted but refused to comment on the charges. Officials from the 08-GYN department also refused to com ment on the details of the case. Mclntyre said this is not the first time such charges have been levied against a University employee. “This hasn’t happened often at the University, but yes, it has hap pened in the past.” he said. "We have had similar situations.” Less than two weeks ago, Martha Wright, who worked as a supervisor at Cafe McColl in the Kenan-Flagler Business School, was arrested and charged with embezzling almost $13,000. She was charged with one count of felony embezzlement of $12,960, according to police reports. The money Martha Wright was charged with taking was taken from Aramark Corp., which is the food services provider for the University. Mclntyre, who also handled that case, said the money was embezzled during a three month period. Assistant University Editor Jennifer Immel contributed to this story. Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. ACC could nix annual Duke contest rHsT \\ DTH FILE PHOTO Scheduling decisions made by the ACC mean that Duke and North Carolina might not meet on the football field on an annual basis. ONLINE UNC professor addresses war on terrorism Committee to examine third high school traffic Look for more stories on dailytarheel.com Serving the students and the University community since 1893 aTlir iaihj (Jar Hrrl r M ~jj HJpF” OTH PHOTOS/KRISTIN GOODE Capt. Rich Marigliano makes adjustments in the cockpit as he pilots a helicopter full of civilians as part of the Marine Corps' Orientation Flight Program, aimed at encouraging students to join the Marine aviation sequence. Below: 1 st Sgt. Dwayne Ayscue exits the cockpit. MILITARY MEN TAKE AIM AT SKY Thursday's flights were staged to attract students to Marine aviation BY KRISTEN WILLIAMS RALEIGH ASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR Grit was swirling and flying into bystanders’ eyes, making their ears into sand traps. Clouds filled the sky, and a bitter wind kicked up. But it wasn’t Hurricane Isabel causing the tumult. The cause of the mini-tornado was a hovering blue Bell helicopter about to take off in Raleigh. The cruise was part of the Marine Corps’ Orientation Flight Program, which takes civilians on a 20-minute tour of the skies to boost interest in the Marines’ avia tion sequence. “Nobody thinks about flying,” said William McCurdy, a resources assistant and retired Marine. “The biggest thing is to get the word out.” Word did get out. Gunnery Sgt. Danny Arnold was part of the force behind the program, sending thousands of e-mails to students at UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State University, East Carolina University and Wake Forest University. The first flight group included a mix of college students, representing a few' of the universities contacted about the program. Lawrence Duke drove from Winston-Salem to make his 9 a.m. flight time. He had a more serious motive BY JACOB KARABELL AND BRIAN MACPHERSON SENIOR WRITERS Throughout the ACC expansion process, North Carolina voiced concerns about the impact the move would have on the tradition of the conference. These concerns came to fruition Wednesday when the ACC unveiled its new structure for football and basketball schedules in preparation for the addition of Miami and Virginia Tech to the conference next year. The biggest casualty of the arrangement might be the North Carolina-Duke football rivalry, an annual event that is no longer guar anteed past the 2005 season. “Of course it bothers me,” said Dick Baddour, UNC director of athletics. “When I was talking about cultural things being dif ferent (with expansion), that’s a perfect exam ple of an impact that expansion has. But we’re past that, and this is a consequence.” The current 11-team format makes a round-robin schedule impractical, so each ACC team will play just eight other teams in the conference each year. North Carolina will have a single “primary partner,” N.C. State, a team the Tar Heels would be assured of playing every year. But traditional rivals Maryland and Clemson will be missing from North Carolina’s schedule next year. www.dailytarheel.com H \tmr for the flight than recreation: his interest in the Marines as an avenue for post-graduation employment. “I am considering becoming a Marine,” said Duke, a senior history major at Wake Forest. “I wanted to check it out and see what’s going on. I thought it would be fun.” Originally, the flights were scheduled to commence at a field commissioned for use by the Interfraternity Council at N.C. State, but miscommunications caused the takeoff point to move to the parking lot of the Army- Reserve building on Western Boulevard. SEE FLIGHT, PAGE 5 And if this structure lasts beyond 2005, the Tar Heels could go a season without playing Duke in football for the first time since 1922. “Going into the process with 11 teams, not everyone is going to have all of their requests or hopes granted,” said Larry Gallo, UNC sen ior associate athletic director. The basketball schedule was set up in a similar way. Officials chose to preserve the existing 16-game schedule, despite the fact that a 20-game schedule would have allowed for a home-and-home series with every team. TWo ACC opponents N.C. State and Duke were designated as UNC’s primary partners, teams the Tar Heels will play twice every year. Baddour was much more satisfied with the structure of the basketball schedule. “It’s what we supported,” he said. “It allows you to play an intense conference schedule where there’s a tremendous amount of inter est, and at the same time, it allows you to schedule non-league opponents that have a national interest.” Officials also made contingency plans in case the ACC expands to 12 teams or the NCAA approves the conference's appeal to hold a foot ball conference championship game. If that happens, the conference will split into two divisions for football. North Carolina’s division would include Duke, Georgia Tech, SEE ACC. PAGE 5 SPORTS TAMING THE CAVS North Carolina's secondary will have a tough test against Virginia in Saturday's afternoon game at Kenan Stadium PAGE 7 Scholars group crunched by cuts BY MEGAN SEROW STAFF WRITER While recent budget cuts to the Morehead Scholars program have decreased the number of scholars accepted, staff members are begin ning to feel the impact as well. T\vo employees of the Morehead Foundation, one of the country’s most prestigious scholarship pro grams, were let go this week in the latest round of budget cuts to the award program. Susan Hallman, the program’s assistant director for advising, worked with the foundation for four years. Senior Lindsay Apple was a first-year administrative assistant Many Morehead Scholars said they worked closely with Hallman, who served as a type of academic and emotional counselor. “I was very sad to see her go,” sen ior Sunny Kim said. “We had the most personal contact with her, and seniors are the most emotionally connected because we've worked WEATHER TODAY Sunny, H 64, L 36 SATURDAY Partly cloudy, H 77, L 55 SUNDAY Partly cloudy, H 65, L 41 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2003 ANALYSIS Few solicit outside money BY SHANNAN BOWEN STAFF WRITER Chapel Hill Town Council can didates are reaching into their own pockets for campaign funds this election season. While initial campaign finance reports show that total fund-rais ing efforts have raised almost $38,000, more than half of that money has come from candidates’ self-loans. According to fund-rais ing rules, can didates only can use money MUNICIPAL C2EE out of their campaign accounts and not their personal accounts. Council candidate Rudy Juliano, the top spender and fund raiser thus far in the election cycle, has loaned himself all but S4OO of his total campaign receipts. But he said he still expects more contri butions to help cover costs in the next few weeks. The second highest loan was the $5,000 loan Andrea Rohrbacher gave herself. She only has raised S6OO in contributions. These increases in self-loans from candidates is not a surprise for local pundits. Peter Waltz, an local elections analyst at Democracy South in Carrboro, said the increasing costs of campaigning are transforming elections into a fund-raising com petition. “There is a trend in campaign fund raising that a lot of candi dates are depending on them selves,” said Waltz, who has researched campaign financing statistics for Chapel Hill. Waltz said that in the last month before Election Day, candi dates typically are expected to increase promotion through signs, news advertisements and written messages, all of which demand an escalating amount of money. Juliano has spent $2,707 on signs and printed materials and SBB9 on newspaper advertisements but said the next weeks will demand an increase in resources for additional advertisements through radio and television. He is the only candidate who has exceeded the voluntary $7,500 expenditure ceiling suggested by incumbent Bill Strom. SEE CAMPAIGN, PAGE 5 “The budget cut shouldn’t affect us. We will still have all of the same... benefits.’’ TYLER LESTER, MOREHEAD SCHOLAR with her for the past four years.” Senior Leslie Bone, another scholar, said that she is saddened by Hallman’s release but that she understands why the foundation had to make the cutbacks. “She was a great resource for students, but in times of trouble, some things have to be sacrificed.” Except for the loss of Hallman, Kim said, she hasn’t felt any effects from the cuts. The program is soft ening the blow by decreasing the number of scholarships awarded, SEE MOREHEAD, PAGE 5 o
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