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VOLUME 111, ISSUE 90 Dean leading in funds contest Others each raise about $4 million BY KAVITA PILLAI STAFF WRITER Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean dominated his Democratic rivals in fund raising this financial quarter, according to campaign reports released at midnight Wednesday. Dean's report to the Federal Election Commission indicates that his campaign raised about $14.8 million in the third quarter, according to a press release from Dean's campaign. The amount was garnered in large part from Internet contributions. “We were very successful raising money over the Internet,” said Dean campaign spokesman Garrett Graff. About 50 percent of the funds raised were Internet donations, Graff said. Dean’s FEC filing totaling about 12,000 pages sets the record for the largest filing ever by a Democratic candidate, the press release states. Most other Democratic candidates raised about $4 million each. The race’s initial front-runner, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, was expected to report less than his goal of $4.5 million to $5 mil lion. Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., was expected to report total con tributions between $2.5 million and $3.5 million. U.S. Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri was expected to raise $3.8 million, while Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio was expected to raise $1.65 million. Carol Moseley Braun raised $125,410, although she has $113,918 worth of debts. Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, the latest addition to the race for the Democratic nomination, is expect ed to report that he has collected $3.5 million in the three weeks he has been in the race. Numbers for the Rev. Al Sharpton and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman were not available at press time. The fund-raising stage often is deemed the most important because of the correlation between fund-raising ability and primary results, said Ray Laßaja, professor of political science at the SEE FUND RAISING, PAGE 4 Artist picks site for ’O2 class gift Chosen area is near Alumni Hall BY ADAM ZELSDORF STAFF WRITER After visiting campus Wednesday, Korean artist Do-Ho Suh selected the final site for and revealed the design of the 2002 senior class gift, the Unsung Founders Memorial. The final site for the monument was selected from among five pos sible locations. The memorial will be constructed in McCorkle Place close to Alumni Hall. The site was approved by the Campus Arts Advisory Committee and the 2002 senior class but awaits final approval from the UNC Buildings and Grounds Committee and Chancellor James Moeser. The Building and Grounds Committee will review the loca tion, searching for any possible danger the monument might cause in the area, such as damag ing the root systems of trees. Suh, recipient of the 2001 Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Award, said the memo rial will function as a table. Bronze cast figures, symboliz ing the men and women of color who helped raise the University during its founding, will support ONLINE State child death rate plummets 28 percent Furniture makers still optimistic about sales Look for more stories at dailytarheel.com Serving the students and the University community since 1893 ©hr iailu ©ar Hrel fix* AMI 2. Mb J S f \y^jf A BBf J Xjfjf Jr Bin DTH/BRIAN CASSELLA (Left to right) Judd Knott, director of academic computing systems for Academic Technology & Networks, and vendor representatives Drew Calderone and James Clark work Wednesday in the basement of Phillips Hall to correct the University's two-day e-mail failure. E-MAIL CRASH TRIPS UP CAMPUS Students flounder as 2-day crash interrupts normalflow of University BY CAROLINE LINDSEY AND TORRYE JONES STAFF WRITERS She’s preparing for medical school, she’s heavily involved in her fraternity and she’s always in touch with her friends. How does she pull it off? “I probably check my e-mail 20 times a day,” said Emily Richards, a junior psychology major. But for almost two days, Richards and the rest of the campus community were left won dering what it was missing whether it was meetings, assignments or social events. The UNC IMAP system went down at 10:20 a.m. Tuesday and returned to normal operation at 10:08 p.m. Wednesday. The server, which controls the campus's Web mail and Mulberry' systems, experienced the table, Suh said. “(The memorial) will not be on a pedestal,” he said. “It will be an indication of the unsung founders —a table where everyone is wel come.” Suh said he chose to use local stone for the memorial because of the emotional connection between it and the unmarked gravestones of slave founders in Old Chapel Hill Cemetery. Suh said the cemetery initially moved him to work on the memo rial as he walked through the old gravestones on a 2002 tour of campus. He said he selected the site he did because he wants students to sit in a shaded area and actually use the monument. “The nature of this project is very important,” he said. “The shade provides the right intimacy.” The approval process for the site has lasted more than a year, but despite delays, Suh said, he hopes to finish the memorial by May. “(Construction) will begin as soon as I get final approval," Suh said. “It was a long haul to get to this point, but I can’t wait to get www.dailytarheel.com SYSTEM SHUTDOWN two hardware failures that caused the server to crash. These failures were repaired Tuesday after noon, but Academic Technology & Networks employees were unable to reboot the server because of suspected system corruption. After attempting to use a backup copy that also was corrupted, the staff began to reinstall the system from scratch Wednesday morning. By 6 p.m. the system was fixed, said Jeanne Smythe, director of computing policy for Information Technology Services. How r ever students were not allowed onto the system until backed-up e-mails were delivered. Smythe said the cause of the problem will be looked into once ATN staff members who have been working around the clock since the failure get some sleep. Once that S U ’jj \ DTH/JOSHUA GREER Korean artist Do-Ho Suh selected the final site for and designed the new Unsung Founders Memorial. started.” Ben Singer, 2002 senior class president, was on hand to share his excitement and talk with Suh during his campus visit. “lam stoked to know that our vision is going to be realized,” Singer said. “We are recognizing that (slavery) happened, but we are saying thanks and paying homage to those people.” The class of 2002 raised $54,000 to fund the memorial and artist —a record-breaking SEE MEMORIAL, PAGE 4 INSIDE SEPARATE LIVES Forum focuses on apparent self-segregation at UNC PAGE 11 information is known it will be posted on ITS Control Center’s message board. Four Sun Microsystems representatives were on-site Wednesday to help restore the system. "We’re doing everything we can," said Judd Knott, director of academic computing sys tems for ATN, on Wednesday afternoon. “It’s not because we aren't working hard. We just don’t have a particular answer at this time.” Knott stated in a press release Wednesday that new e-mails were being queued, and senders outside campus were notified if e mail was not delivered within four hours. Smythe said Wednesday after the system was fixed that no e-mails were lost. SEE E-MAIL, PAGE 4 SENIOR GIFT SITE CHOSEN The location of the Unsung Founders Memorial was selected Wednesday by the artist, Do-Ho Suh. Var|j| Hall PCtßew Hall §§ ham Mmor-ial Arts f§j j|imanities (S>% i Bnni **** Mai W OldwJ! m f|[i East SOURCE: UNC DEPARTMENT DTH/MOSER OF FACILITIES PLANNING & ELLISON SPORTS STRONG ALLIANCE Alums help build growing field hockey pipeline within Chapel Hill PAGE 13 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2003 Census error costs town extra funding BY DAN SCHWIND STAFF WRITER Chapel Hill will receive less money than expected in annual funding from the state because of a statistical error in the 2000 U.S. Census. In the census, 2,700 students on UNC’s campus were double-count ed, which led the state to award the town additional funds in annual sales tax and Powell Bill allocations. The Powell Bill takes money from gas tax revenues and distrib utes the funds for municipal street maintenance. Seventy-five percent of the allotment is based on a town’s population. Sales tax allocations go into the town’s general fund, which pays for police and fire departments, parks and recreation, public works and salaries of town employees. Chapel Hill Finance Director Jim Baker said it is not yet clear exactly how much funding the state will deduct, but he said the current estimate is between $200,000 and $250,000. Town Council member Pat Evans said that local sales tax revenues have increased during the past few years but that it’s uncertain whether this increase will be enough to WEATHER TODAY Sunny, H 71, L 44 FRIDAY Mostly cloudy, H 70, L 50 SATURDAY Partly cloudy, H 60, L 39 STUDENT WISH LIST ANNOUNCED Student government officials announced Wednesday the student wish list, which pinpoints the areas students believe are most in need of private funding. 1. Campus ¥ Renovation 2 Turfed Hooter fields 3. Endowed Student Leader Program 4. Student Scholarships: Need-Based, Merit-Based, Study Abroad 5. Graduate Student Endowments 6. Increased Professorships 7. Funding for Student Performances at Memorial Hall 8. Student Union Common and Office Space Endowment 9. Increased Funding for the Writing Center 10. Increased Speaker Series Endowment SOURCE: OFFICE OF THE STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT DTH/RENA CHERNOTSKY Tepper unveils student wishes List recommends 10 funding areas BY LAURA BOST STAFF WRITER Student Body President Matt Tepper’s long-promised student wish list for the Office of University Development was unveiled Wednesday, recommend ing funds for 10 student-related areas. A major component of his cam paign platform, Tepper’s wish list suggests areas that students believe would benefit from fund ing from the $l.B billion Carolina First fund-raising campaign. While most of the money given to the campaign already has been designated for areas not directly related to students, Tepper and his administration said they hope the wish list will encourage officials to look at student-specific ideas. The items on the wish list include funding for the Student Union, Campus Y renovations, turf ing Hooker Fields, student scholar ships and more professorships. “Students are going to have to keep a constant push to make sure these things are continuously brought up,” Tepper said. “Having them on the list will generate the kind of buzz needed to make sure they get the money.” Although the Carolina First campaign already recognizes most of these items, Ben Adams, SEE WISH LIST, PAGE 4 Town Council member Pat Evans thinks Chapel Hill might not be able to recoup lost state revenues. recoup axed state funds. “It proba bly doesn’t make up for it all.” The cut in allocations might result in a higher local property tax rate, Evans added. But Baker said that if estimates hold up, the deduction will account for 2 percent of the town’s total incoming allocations and less than half of 1 percent of this year’s $40.3 million budget. “Every $200,000 counts, but it’s not that much in the bigger picture,” he said. The need for a tax increase will depend on the amount of revenue generated by a 1 cent tax hike, Baker said. An increase of 1 cent per SIOO valuation will generate $426,000, which is more than enough to make up for the esti mated loss and might negate the need for a hike. “(The deduction) doesn’t neces- SEE CENSUS FUNDS. PAGE 4 0
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