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©lje SatUj olar CITY CHIEFS Wastewater spills at Hillsborough gas station About 14,700 gallons of untreated wastewater spilled into an unnamed tributary of the Eno River on Friday. The accident, which occurred at Hillsborough’s Rencher Street Pumpstation, was attributed to a blown fuse, accord ing to information released by the town of Hillsborough. NATIONAL BRIEFS Court hears appeal against Nev. nuclear waste site WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a last-ditch effort to stop a nuclear dump in Nevada, the state told a federal appeals court Wednesday that the government has failed to ensure that thousands of years from now people will be protected from the waste’s radiation. I\vo of the three judges hearing the case asked government lawyers why the federal standards for radioactive releases for the Yucca Mountain dump were pegged to 10,000 years into the future when scientists say the material will be most dangerous many thousands of years after that. The three hours of arguments before the appeals court panel marked the first time a federal court has heard the merits of President Bush’s decision in 2002 to select a ridge of volcanic rock 90 miles from Las Vegas as the place to entomb 77,000 tons of used rec tor fuel from the nation’s commer cial power plants. Congress affirmed Bush’s deci sion in July 2002. Nevada officials argued Wednesday for the deci sion to be overturned, saying Congress violated the state’s con stitutional rights when it singled out Nevada. The case will not be decided by the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals until later this year WORLG BRIEFS Libyan government ratifies U.N. nuclear test ban treaty VIENNA, Austria ln anew signal that Libya is serious about renouncing its weapons of mass destruction, U.N. officials said Wednesday that the North African country has ratified the nuclear test ban treaty. Libya’s nuclear program was far from producing a weapon, and the treaty is 12 nations short of the 44 ratifications needed for it to enter into force. Still, the announcement by the U.N. agency overseeing the agreement appeared to be a further sign of commitment by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to give up nuclear weapons ambitions. The Vienna-based agency known as the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Organization said that in ratify ing the pact earlier this month, Libya agreed to host a monitoring station at Misratah. That would be part of a network of 337 stations being set up worldwide to verify compliance with terms of the treaty. Libya announced Dec. 19 that it was giving up its weapons of mass destruction after months of secret talks with the United States and Britain. It said then it would sign the test ban treaty and become a party to the convention prohibit ing chemical weapons. Once it enters into force, the treaty bans any nuclear weapon test explosion in any environment. CALENDAR Feb. 3 8 p.m. The Daily Tar Heel will host a forum for student body president candidates in 209 Manning Hall. The forum will be open to the public. For more infor mation, contact Elyse Ashburn at eashburn@email.unc.edu or at 962-4103. From staff and voire reports. Is Overactive Bladder L a part of your life? Millions of women suffer daily with a condition known as Overactive Bladder (OAB). If you are a woman who copes with an OAB and typically urinate 10 or more times during waking hours, you may be eligible to volunteer for a research study of an investigational medication. Qualified participants will receive a physical examination and study related medication. Please call Chapel Hill 08/GYN 919-929-9541 xllO \ for more information on this study / Native symbols to decorate Union American Indian artist to liven area BY BROOK R. CORWIN UNIVERSITY EDITOR The Student Union courtyard is about to take on new life. Southeastern Native American symbols, each representing tradi tional “gifts of life,” soon will adorn the brick-lined walkway separating the two halves of the Union. Beginning today, Union workers will spend two weeks arranging , * t . . • ~—r~ WUH —H 1 I rs l v* IrU | WL l||ij| I Sophomores Yuri Broze (bottom) and Charles Patton paint a cube Wednesday in the Pit. Broze and Patton are mem bers of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity, a men’s music fraternity. Phi Mu Alpha is one of Change in sidewalk sites drives up project’s costs BY KATHRYN GRIM SENIOR WRITER The Carrboro Board of Aldermen voted for changes Tuesday that upped the cost of the first phase of sidewalk construc tion, to be funded in part by the town’s sidewalk bond. The board decided to add side walks to a section of North Greensboro Street instead of a sec tion of Oak Avenue, raising the price tag of the initial project to about $1.48 million an $88,645 increase. A resident of Oak Avenue said sidewalks built on her street would Top News multicolored bricks across the entire area, creating artistic repre sentations of water, land, food, health and honor. The original arrangement, titled “The Gift,” comes from the artistry of Senora Lynch, a Haliwa Saponi tribe member who normally works with pottery and beads. It was her pieces of pottery that connected the Warrenton native to SPRING RUSH several fraternities on campus trying to gen erate interest as the new semester begins and another pledge season approaches. Rush events for Phi Mu Alpha will take place Wednesday through Sunday of next week. impede on residents’ already cramped yard space. “Our neighborhood is ... full of mill houses,” she said. “The homes were built before the street existed, so many houses have short front yards. Many gardens go right to the curb.” Town Manager Steven Stewart approved of the increase because interest rates are at a historic low, which eases the cost the town will have to pay back to investors. The town might issue as much as $4.6 million in bonds during the SEE BONDS, PAGE 9 /The ( Princeton v — Review BETTER SCORES. BETTER SCHOOLS. i 800-zREVIEW www.princetonreview.com Student Union officials when they began brainstorming the project more than three years ago. “Part of the planning for this building was ... to reflect the cul ture and community of UNC,” said Don Luse, director of the Carolina Union. “One culture that wasn’t here was Native American.” The design’s center is a shield of eagle feathers symbolizing the high est honor bestowed by Lynch’s tribe. Flanking the centerpiece will be designs of turtles and flowers, tra- DTH/JOHN DUDLEY Soldier suicide rate remains high THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. soldiers in Iraq are killing them selves at a high rate despite the work of specie teams sent to help troops deal with combat stress, the Pentagon’s top doctor said Wednesday. Meanwhile, about 2,500 sol diers who have returned from the war on terrorism are having to wait for medical care at bases in the United States, said Dr. William Winkenwerder, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs. The problem of troops on medical extension is likely to get worse as the Pentagon rotates hundreds of thousands of troops into and out of THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2004 “At first I thought, ‘l’ve never done this before. This is new.’ But then I just began drawing, and it all fell into place.” SENORA LYNCH, DESIGNER AND ARTIST OF UNION WALKWAY PROJECT . ditional Native American symbols of life, with border designs repre senting water and com. At the far end of the courtyard will be a circle design representing unity. The meaning and traditions Petition follows admissions suit BY LAURA YOUNGS ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR A former plaintiff in a discrimi nation lawsuit against the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor launched a petition drive Monday to eliminate racial preferences in hiring and admissions, a move affirmative action advocates in the state strongly oppose. Jennifer Grate, one of two plain tiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court case against the UM undergraduate school, is leading the campaign with the support of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative and with help from the American Civil Rights Institute. To get the proposal on the November ballot, the group must collect 317,057 signatures in six months. Gratz said she hopes to gather them with the help of vol unteers and paid circulators in an effort to end preferential treatment in hiring and admissions practices. “(Preferential treatment poli cies) discriminate against people,” she said. “They divide based on skin color and treat each category N.C. State students battle tuition hikes BY KAVITA PILLAI STAFF WRITER, m 1 A proposed S6OO camp Us-init iated tuition increase has some stu dents at N.C. State University up in arms and concerned that the money ultimately won’t be used appropriately. Under the proposed plan, tuition would increase by S3OO each year for the next two years. The money would be used to decrease class sizes and improve the quality of the university’s fac ulty, said Jeff Davies, UNC-system vice president of finance. The proposal also allocates money to financial aid and a grad uate student support plan. But N.C. State Student Body President Tony Caravano said he’s unsure that the end results of the Iraq this spring, he said. Both situations illustrate the stresses placed on the troops and the military’s health system by the war in Iraq. Suicide has become such a pressing issue that the Army sent an assessment team to Iraq late last year to see if anything more could be done to prevent troops from killing themselves. The Army also began offering more counseling to returning troops after several sol diers at Fort Bragg, N.C., killed their wives and themselves after return ing home from Afghanistan. Winkenwerder said the military has documented 21 suicides during 2003 among troops involved in the Iraq war. Eighteen of those were behind these symbols will be explained in a piece of beaded art work, also commissioned to Lynch, that will hang outside the Union SEE COURTYARD, PAGE 9 differently.” Gratz and Patrick Hammacher, the second plaintiff in the Supreme Court case, applied to UM in 1995 and contended in their lawsuit that they met criteria for admissions but were denied in favor of minor ity applicants. The court ruled last year that although the use of a point system is unacceptable, schools can con tinue to consider race as a factor when admitting students. But Gratz said that using pref erences is unconstitutional and that she rather would have a sys tem that would examine an appli cant’s socio-economic background. Affirmative action supporters dispute that those policies are nec essary to give minorities opportu nities and that reverse discrimina tion was not involved in the case of Gratz. “She didn’t measure up,” said Jeannie Jackson, the Michigan state coordinator for the American Association for SEE PETITION, PAGE 9 increases will address all of stu dents’ concerns. “We’re not really sure what we’re getting with the $300,” Caravano said. “We’ve had increases in the past but haven’t seen smaller class es. To have another increase that is supposed to benefit those same areas is a little disheartening.” Caravano agreed that students were given plenty of opportunity to express opposition through N.C. State’s Hiition Task Force and a campus meeting, but he said he still is dissatisfied with the increases. N.C. State spokesman Tim Lucas said about 50 people attend ed a town hall-style meeting addressing the potential increase. About 20 of them were students, SEE N.C. STATE, PAGE 9 Army soldiers, he said. That’s a suicide rate for soldiers in Iraq of about 13.5 per 100,000, Winkenwerder said. In 2002, the Army reported an overall suicide rate of 10.9 per 100,000. The over all suicide rate nationwide during 2001 was 10.7 per 100,000, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By contrast, two U.S. military personnel killed themselves during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, although that conflict only lasted about a month. The Army record ed 102 suicides during 1991 for a rate of 14.4 per 100,000. The SEE SOLDIERS, PAGE 9 3
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