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VOLUME 111, ISSUE 85 Chambers tapped as May speaker LAWYER, CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER TO SPEAK AT COMMENCEMENT BY JENNIFER IMMEL ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR Julius Chambers, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law alumnus and civil rights activist, was announced Wednesday by Chancellor James Moeser as this year’s Commencement speaker for the graduating class of 2004. Chambers unanimously was recommended to the chancellor in t : Hf -jnpp^i - ■ m**. . __•_ ~. i_*_i i’j UNC men’s basketball coach Dean Smith (left) signs a ball for Norris Dunham in Carmichael Auditorium on Wednesday morning. Smith met the N.C. Senior Games players on the court to help promote the games’ cause. Male and female basketball play ers older than 65 participated in the games last week and Scholarship fund will honor Gates Journalism school seeks donations BY ELIZABETH BLACK STAFF WRITER In the wake of the Saturday death of UNC-Chapel Hill alum nus Stephen Gates, a memorial scholarship fund at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication has been approved. Gates was killed early Saturday morning in a hit-and run that authorities now are call ing a tragic accident. He studied broadcast journal ism at UNC-CH and graduated in 1998. While in school, he complet ed an internship at the Tar Heel Sports Network that became a full time job upon graduation. The Stephen Kennedy Gates Memorial Scholarship Fund was announced Tliesday. Officials have yet to finalize the details of the scholarship, but the school already is accepting con INSIDE GONE FISHING Former UNC professor talks about his quest to document all North Carolina shark species PAGE 13 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 She latlu Slar Ifrrl May by the Commencement Speaker Selection Committee, comprising students and faculty. Committee members said he was chosen for his dedication to educa tion and civil rights. Senior Class President George Leamon said he is confident that the graduating class of 2004 will benefit from hearing Chambers speak at Commencement. HEELS FOR HEALTH tributions. If fund-raising efforts are successful, a recipient could be announced this spring. Mick Mixon, color analyst for UNC-CH football and professor of journalism, said, “I think it came about through Stephens family that knew how he felt about the School of Journalism and about Carolina.” Mixon said officials are looking into combining the scholarship with an internship at the Tar Heel Sports Network, where Gates worked as a football sideline reporter and was the play-by-play voice for UNC-CH baseball and women’s basketball. Many people already have expressed interest in donating to the scholarship fund. Tony Haynes, who works at the N.C. State University network, SEE GATES, PAGE 11 www.dailytarheel.com He added that he thinks Chambers will send a dynamic mes sage of hope to this year’s graduat ing class. “It says a great deal for this University and sends a message of us being a vanguard for diversity.” Before Chambers was a Tar Heel, he was a member of N.C. Central University’s class of 1958. He then earned his master’s degree in history at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor before returning to North Carolina to attend UNC-CH’s law school. Since Chambers graduated from law school, he has remained active got flu shots in an effort to raise awareness of flu season. The N.C. Senior Games began as a way to promote health and education for seniors throughout North Carolina. The state final games took place in Raleigh and lasted from Sept. 29 until Sunday. Various players made appearances in Chapel Hill on Wednesday. Public outcry saves bars BY CHRIS GLAZNER STAFF WRITER The Chapel Hill Town Council approved a sprin kler ordinance by an 8-1 vote Wednesday night, but it removed sections that would affect existing bars. The revised law affects only new businesses and requires sprinklers in bars with capacities of more than 200 people. The threshold drops to 150 for bars with exits above or below street level. Owners of Hell, Bub O’Malley’s and the Treehouse had feared that the originally proposed ordinance —one that would have applied to exist ing bars would have forced them to close. Existing structures were exempted thanks to an overwhelmingly negative public response to the pos sible loss of the three businesses. Council member Bill Strom proposed removing the sections that would affect those bars. “It’s a great victory for the people,” said Mark Dorosin, owner of Hell. Dorosin spearheaded a grassroots movement in opposition to the ordinance, gathering more than 600 signatures for a petition and encouraging Hell patrons to attend the meeting. At the meeting, members of the public spoke out overwhelmingly against the bill. Most comments focused on the injustice of forcing local businesses to close. “Hell is one of the few bars I like to go to because the undergraduates aren’t there,” said Phaedra Kelly, a Chapel Hill resident. ■ Civil rights leader Julius Chambers was picked as speaker for graduation due to his record of social justice. in education, especially in North Carolina. Opening a law firm in Charlotte in 1964, Chambers won the Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education case, which upheld bus ing as a means to integrate DTH/JOHN DUDLEY KjF 4jf DTH/JUSTIN SMITH Phaedra Kelly (left) and Jessica Kem, Hell Bar patrons, laugh as Town Council member Dorothy Verkerk makes a joke about "Hell freezing over." Lloyd Rippe of Bub O’Malley’s made a brief and solemn appeal to council members not to put the establishment out of business. Strom, in particular, was receptive to owners’ concerns. “I’ve gotten less comfortable with requiring sprin klers for these three businesses,” he said. “I think these businesses are very different from the business in Rhode Island.” SEE SPRINKLER, PAGE 11 DIVERSIONS PUTTING DOWN ROOTS North Carolina has a rich literary scene centered on the Triangle area and its universities PAGE 5 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2003 Charlotte schools in 1971. Chambers also served as direc tor-counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc. In 1993, he became chancellor of NCCU. He remained there until June 2001, when he returned to the Charlotte law firm. Chambers remains close to UNC-CH, serving as director of the Center for Civil Rights, which focuses on the advancement of civil rights and social justice, primarily in the South. Strict policy on out-of-staters remains unique Lawmakers wield admissions power BY LYNNE SHALLCROSS STAFF WRITER When it comes to setting the pro portion of in-state and out-of-state students at a school, university admissions officials nationwide say it’s a complex balancing act. But few top public universi ties adhere to such a stringent and low out-of state student cap as UNC- Chapel Hill. Except for RAISING Monday: jpßernepr University of California system schools, most premier public uni versities have larger proportions of out-of-state students. Both the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, two public institutions ranked higher than UNC-CH, have caps more than 10 percentage points higher. Yet UNC-CH has a tradition of strong ties to the state, as engrained in the campus’s motto as “the University of the People.” UNC-CH also receives a signif icant portion of its budget from state funds, although state aid has dwindled in recent years. All these components are part of LOOKING AT ADMISSIONS POLICIES OF UNC'S PEERS Top public institutions have a variety of residency requirements and legislative influence. Percent Percent Percent of budget School In-state Out-of-state from state U. of California-Berkeley 89 11 30 U. of Virginia 69 U. of Michigan-Ann Arbor 65 35 38 U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 82 ifIIHIIIHBI College of William & Mary 66 34 29 Georgia Institute of Technology 68 32 34 SOURCE: DTH RESEARCH DTH/LINDSAY BETH ELLISON WEATHER TODAY Showers, H 70, L 54 FRIDAY Mostly cloudy, H 75, L 51 SATURDAY Rain, H 67, L 51 Leamon, a member of the selec tion committee, expressed interest in Chambers as this year’s Commencement speaker in his platform for senior class president Senior Class Vice President Doug Melton said the pair wanted a speaker with North Carolina ties as well as someone who has made a national impact “It’s a great oppor tunity for students to hear a speak er that’s from the University.” Later this month, students will have a chance to visit Chambers at SEE CHAMBERS. PAGE 11 the larger issue at hand as the UNC system Board of Governors consid ers increasing the current 18 per cent cap on out-of-state students. The BOG will resume discus sion today on a policy to relax the cap by admitting as many as 4 per cent more nonresident students. Out-of-state enrollment is a tough area to negotiate, said admis sions officers at top public institu tions and experts in the field. Officials said that each side of the debate has its merits and that finding a happy medium involves balancing geographic diversity with accessibility for in-state students. There is no official dogma on how to reconcile these different aspects, said Barmak Nassirian, associate executive director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. “The challenge of deciding the right number or proportion of out of-state students would be a matter of balancing the state’s interests in service to state residents with cer tain academic and financial benefits associated with enrollment of out of-state students,” Nassirian said. That challenge is left up to the individual schools, but officials said state legislatures still have an SEE CAP, PAGE 11 UNC roots important to chemist Nobel winner got start as Tar Heel BY MICHELLE JARBOE FEATURES EDITOR Though Dr. Peter Agre won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, his trek toward recog nition began at UNC more than two decades ago. “He began his research work here and he finished it at Johns Hopkins,” said Dr. Harold Roberts, UNC Kenan Professor of medicine. “But the beginning was here.” Agre, who split the prize with Dr. Roderick MacKinnon of The Rockefeller University, stumbled upon strange cellular proteins while working as a postdoctoral fellow at SEE PRIZE, PAGE 11 4&1
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