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CAMPUS BRIEFS
UNC football player gets
1-year restraining order
A one-year restraining order
was issued against UNC football
player Michael Gilmore on
Tuesday at Orange County District
Court in Hillsborough.
The order was issued in con
nection to an altercation with
UNC track athlete Lindsay Bond
on Sept. 27 and as an extension to
a 10-day protective order filed by
Bond Oct. 6.
It stipulates that Gilmore, a 19-
year-old reserve wide receiver,
cannot have contact with the 20-
year-old Bond, said Randy Griffin,
an attorney for the firm represent
ing Gilmore.
The Sept. 27 incident took place
at The Streets at South Point mall.
Bond said in a Sept. 28 interview
that Gilmore became upset while
the pair was waiting for a table
and shoved her into a storefront
window. Another hearing con
cerning the assault charges against
Gilmore is scheduled for Oct. 29 in
Durham District Court.
Districts filled in special
Student Congress election
Graduate student Sylvia Cha
was elected to Student Congress in
special elections held Tuesday for
remaining open seats in the gov
erning body. Cha will represent
District 13, which covers the
Kenan-Flagler Business School.
She won the post with 13 votes.
Kativa Parker, an employee in
the Office of Scholarships and
Student Aid, won District 14 with
one vote. Graduate student Karthi
Natarajan won a seat in District 16
with two votes. Neither had
accepted the post by press time.
CITY BRIEFS
Thief steals more than
$1,400 worth of DVDs
An unidentified suspect stole
more than $1,400 worth of DVDs
at 8 a.m. Monday from the
Blockbuster Video in Eastgate
Shopping Center, Chapel Hill
police reports state.
The suspect escaped with 29
DVDs by removing the security
strips from the products, which
prevented the alarm from going off.
A Blockbuster employee reported
the crime an hour later, reports
state. The investigation is ongoing,
and police have no suspects.
WORLD BRIEFS
Administration suspects
charity of aiding terrorists
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The
Bush administration moved
Tuesday to paralyze financially a
Pakistan-based charity that the
U.S. government suspects raised
money for terrorists in Iraq.
The Treasury Department
named Al Akhtar Trust a specially
designated global terrorist organ
ization, a move aimed at cutting
the group off from the nation’s
financial system. The designation
means that any financial assets
belonging to the group found in
this country must be frozen.
It also means that the group is
prohibited from conducting any
financial transactions in the United
States and that Americans are
barred from doing business with it.
Prosecutor: Man plotted to
kill Gravano, mob witness
NEW YORK - A reputed hit
man plotted to kill mob turncoat
Salvatore “Sammy the Bull”
Gravano with a remote-control
bomb in retaliation for betraying
the Gambino crime family, a pros
ecutor told a jury Tuesday.
Thomas “Huck" Carbonaro, 55,
took an oath “to kill on orders”
when he became a Gambino sol
dier, prosecutor Joseph Lipton
said in opening arguments at
Carbonaro’s murder conspiracy
trial. Defense attorney John
Jacobs told jurors that Gravano
himself would take the witness
stand to testify that the defendant
had no motive to whack him.
Bomber kills self, 1 other
outside embassy in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq Suicide car
bombers struck in Baghdad for the
third time in a week Tuesday, this
time outside the Turkish Embassy
in yet another blow against those
who would help the U.S. occupa
tion. Witnesses said the driver and
a bystander were killed, and hospi
tals said at least 13 were wounded.
In the southern city of Karbala,
meanwhile, gunmen of rival Shiite
Muslim factions clashed. Witnesses
said several people were killed or
injured.
The fights seemed to be part of a
power struggle between forces of
firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr
and followers of religious leaders
who take a ore moderate stand
toward U.S. occupation.
Compiledfrom
staff and wire reports.
Civil War memorial sparks debate
Some say Silent Sam statue is racist
BY ANDREW SATTEN
STAFF WRITER
From the University’s historical
stance on slavery to the legend
about virgins, a diverse spectrum
of comments were on display dur
ing a debate Tuesday night titled
“Silent Sam: A Symbol of History
or Racism?”
The Dialectic and Philanthropic
Societies coordinated the event as
part of Race Relations Week, spon
sored by the Campus Y’s Students
for the Advancement of Race
Relations.
The debate, held in Murphey
Hall, drew about 40 people. It fea
tured four speakers who addressed
the meaning of the monument on
McCorkle Place.
Silent Sam was erected in 1913
as a tribute to UNC alumni who
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Freshman Sheldon Turner (left) receives his meningococcal meningitis shot from registered nurse Ann Pirt on Tuesday night in the
Multipurpose Room of the Student Union. Student Health Service held the program to make vaccination more convenient for students.
Students line up for vaccines
BY GREG PARKER
STAFF WRITER
Student Health Service’s third annual meningitis
vaccination clinic took place Tuesday night in the
Student Union’s Multipurpose Room.
Students began lining up at the doors almost 20
minutes before they opened and streamed in steadily
throughout the duration of the three-hour event.
The program is part of Student Health's push to
vaccinate students for meningococcal meningitis and
other illnesses such as the flu, which students on a col
lege campus are at great risk of contracting. A number
of students also received the flu vaccination Tuesday
night.
Meningococcal meningitis is a rare, potentially fatal
bacterial disease. College students are at an increased
risk of contracting the disease, particularly if they live
in a residence hall, Student Health officials said.
The disease is spread through respiratory secretions
or close contact with an infected person. The sharing
of eating utensils, glasses or even cigarettes can spread
the disease.
Because of the nature of college life —with its com
munal living and eating areas college students have
six times the risk of contracting the disease than other
individuals.
The increased risk faced by college students has
brought about legislation requiring N.C. public uni
versities to inform students about meningococcal
meningitis and its repercussions.
Student Health officials have met this requirement
by sending informational mass e-mails to students
and encouraging them to get vaccinated, said Bob
Education issues
divide candidates
BY CHRIS GLAZNER
STAFF WRITER
Tuesday’s Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Board of Education fomm
revealed a rift between incumbent
board members and candidates
seeking their
jobs.
Policy divi
sion was
sharpest in
the candi
dates’ posi
tions on dif-
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ferentiation, the practice of teach
ing students of widely different
abilities in the same classroom.
Board incumbents Elizabeth
Carter, Edward Sechrest and Vice
Chairwoman Gloria Faley spoke in
favor of differentiation as the most
Top Naurs
fought in the Civil War. Because
North Carolina was part of the
Confederacy, many say the monu
ment represents a racist period of
history.
Dialectic Society President Aoife
Iredale, DiPhi Joint Senate
President Rachel Gurvich and
DiPhi Sens. Adam Herring and
Clark Tew debated the issue of
removing Silent Sam, the
University’s history in regards to
slavery and the state of race rela
tions on campus.
In the past, Silent Sam has been
a focal point of racial issues.
Ten years ago it was engulfed in
controversy as debate about con
struction of what now is known as
the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for
Black Culture and History brought
the issue of race relations on cam-
effective strategy for dealing with
tight budgets.
The three nonincumbent candi
dates Jamezetta Bedford, George
Griffin and Mike Kelley dis
agreed, saying differentiation would
strain teachers and allow students
at both extremes of the academic
spectrum to fall through the cracks.
“It’s too much of a burden on
teachers to plan multiple activities
to meet the needs of all the stu
dents,” Griffin said.
Faley led the charge in support
of differentiation, repeating the
term throughout the night as part
of her overall vision for schools.
She said she believes in a clearly
defined curriculum that would
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pus to the forefront. The issue rose
again this August when someone
spray painted a disparaging com
ment on the base of the statue.
Iredale argued vehemently that
the statue should not be removed.
“When you walk by that statue and
you see it and think of all the suf
fering from slaves before and dur
ing the Civil War, it is real,” she
said. “It is painful, and it makes
you say, ‘Never again.’”
Herring drove home the point
that the monument’s value lies in
the tribute it pays to those who
fight for something, regardless of
cause. “How many students at this
University or any other university
would be willing to take up arms
and fight for a cause?” he said.
Herring’s comment stirred
strong reactions from audience
members.
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Wirag, Student Health director.
Some students said they had additional incentive to
get the vaccine Tuesday.
“There was a guy who died from (meningococcal
meningitis) in my high school last year,” said freshman
Melanie Pace. “My parents have been adamant about
me getting the shot.”
Mary Covington, Student Health medical director,
said that although the likelihood of an
outbreak of the disease is rare, its
effects on a person can be serious.
“Someone can be healthy, and a
few hours later they can be dead.” she
said. “The consequences of the dis
ease can be devastating.”
Cases of meningococcal meningitis
have been rare at UNC. Wirag said
the last case at the University
occurred five years ago.
UNC has never had an epidemic of
the disease, which is defined as three
or more occurrences at one time, he
said.
Wirag said he expects that Student Health's efforts
dramatically will increase the number of vaccinated
students, which now hovers at about 10 percent.
The vaccine might become a requirement in the
future, he said.
“I expect that not too long in the future this may be
added to the list of required vaccine-preventable dis
eases," Wirag said.
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Revamped money bucks tradition
BY LINDA SHEN
STAFF WRITER
You’re not going crazy the
new S2O bill is supposed to look
like that.
The Federal Reserve System
began distributing the new notes
Oct. 9, and the uninformed are
getting a big shock at the ATM.
While small alterations to the
appearance of money are frequent,
the new S2O bill marks a dramat
ic departure from the traditional
image of legal U.S. tender.
Before the bill’s last face-lift in
1997, the design had remained
unchanged for almost 100 years.
But this time, the S2O bill is going
multicolored. •
The newly designed bill features
a blue eagle, color-shifting ink and
a background that fades from green
to peach to blue and then to green
again. The new colors are intended
to make the money more easily dif
ferentiable from other bills. The
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Graduate student Yonni Chapman tells participants at a Tuesday
discussion that diversity does not necessarily mean justice on campus.
added complexity of the color
scheme also makes it more difficult
for counterfeiters to reproduce.
To the right of the familiar
image of Andrew Jackson, the sev
enth president of the United
States, stands a metallic green
eagle and a shield symbols of
freedom. “One of the goals when
redesigning the currency is to
retain its American look,” said
Dawn Haley of the U.S. Bureau of
Engraving and Printing.
The bill was revamped by
designers working with the 12-per
son New Currency Design Task
Force. Members included repre
sentatives from the Federal
Reserve, the Department of
Treasury, the Secret Service and
the engraving bureau.
Despite the low rate of counter
feiting in the United States
about one or two notes per 10,000
in circulation the intention of
the new design is to curb future
Mystery
problem
chokes
e-mail
Officials say fir
should come soon
BY JENNIFER IMMEL
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
UNC’s IMAP server, which con
trols the campus’s Web mail and
Mulberry systems, experienced an
unforeseen lapse Tuesday because
of hardware failures and a case of
system corruption.
The lapse, which set in at 10:20
a.m., had not been corrected as of
press time.
Members of the Information
Technology Response Center staff
and a representative from Sun
Microsystems, which supplies UNC
with equipment, worked through
out the day to correct the problem.
The two hardware failures were
corrected Tuesday afternoon, but
corrupted files were not corrected
fully as of press time.
Judd Knott, director of aca
demic computing systems for
Academic Technology 7 &
Networks, said at around 8:45
p.m. that the exact files that had
been corrupted could not be found
throughout the day.
The decision then was made to
rebuild the entire system from
magnetic tape —a slower form of
media than discs, capable of stor
ing large amounts of information.
The failure affected the ability
to receive e-mail, but messages
could be sent without problem
Tuesday, Knott said.
He added that it is unlikely the
corruption was caused by hackers
because of the campus’ system’s
selectivity of what other systems it
accepts information from.
“While there have been some
compromises in the past, this par
ticular system ... only accepts data
from particular systems that we
specify," he said. “We see no evi
dence of intrusion.”
Once the system is back in nor
mal operation, Knott said,
University network users should
not see any difference in their e
mail accounts, meaning that no
data should be lost.
Bruce Egan, associate director
of ATN, said UNC’s system, which
handles hundreds of thousands of
e-mails each day, is more consis
tent than e-mail systems at other
schools.
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“One of the goals
when redesigning
the currency is
to retain its
American look?
DAWN HALEY,
U.S. BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING
problems. The main priority of the
redesign is bill security, Haley said.
The Series 2004 S2O bill is
being heralded by the government
as the most secure legal tender ever
produced by the United States.
As counterfeiters increasingly
go digital, efforts to defend against
them must become smarter. “The
advances in technology have
changed everything,” said Andrew
Williams of the Federal Reserve.
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