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VOLUME 111, ISSUE 146 Council contest totaled SBOK BOT members donated $2,000 BY JOHN FRANK PROJECTS TEAM LEADER More than SBO,OOO was spent on November’s Chapel Hill Town Council race by candidates, mak ing it one of the most expensive council races in history. Year-end campaign finance reports obtained Hiesday show that many candidates received a flurry of money right before the election, spending most of it on last-minute media blitzes to win over voters. Among the contributors were eight of the 13 UNC Board of Trustees members, who gave almost $2,000. Actual figures on total money spent in past races were not read ily available, but a recent study by Democracy North Carolina indi cates this election could top the charts. Since 1995, the most expensive council election was 1999, before S2OO campaign contribution lim its were put in place. In that year, the top four spenders averaged $12,640 and winners averaged $9,504 in cam paign expenses, the study showed. The 2003 election topped all but one election since 1995 in spending and rivaled the cap-less 1999 elec tion with top spenders averaging $12,014 and winners averaging $6,879. Anew record also could be set for the most money ever spent by a single candidate. In 1999, Jim Protzman spent SEE FINANCE, PAGE 9 BIG MONEY Spending in the 2003 Chapel Hill Town Council election could rank among the most expensive races in history. According to a Democracy North Carolina study, top spenders have a 69 percent chance of winning a seat. ■ DIANNE BACHMAN $17,891 ■ RUDY JULIANO $12,443 ■ THATCHER FREUND $10,015 ■ SALLY GREENE* $7,209 ■ BILL STROM* $6,801 ■ JIM WARD* $6,755 • CAM HILL* $6,251 ■ DOUG SCHWORER $4,749 ■ TERRI TYSON $4,301 ■ MIKE MCSWAIN $1,659 Andrea Rohrbacher did not submit a complete report by Tuesday. ‘lndicates election winners Greeks give Compton nod for SBP DTH/ANDREW SYNOWIEZ Candidate Matthew Compton won his first endorsement Tuesday for student body president from the Interfraternity Council. INSIDE BEAT DOOK Some say that problems plagued Saturday's Duke game ticket distribution PAGE 4 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 01ir Satin Star Herl mm : : ii—ll f 9 IP® \ f Wmß •‘T , ■ m ■ ■ Wjk. . '-f ■ jwj w BBp jgs&mk c •••" : H DTH/KATE BLACKMAN Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., holds up his wife Elizabeth's hand in triumph Tuesday night at his "Bringing it Home" party at Jillian's in Columbia, S.C. after he won his first Democratic primary. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., won five of the seven contests held Tuesday while former Gen. Wesley Clark won his first race, narrowly beating Edwards to take Oklahoma. KERRY STEAMROLLS AS EDWARDS WINS BIG IN S.C. Southern victory propels campaign BY LAURA YOUNGS ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR COLUMBIA, S.C. - Pushing his way through a dense, ener gized mob, Sen. John Edwards was greeted Tuesday night with rowdy cheers as more than 200 supporters turned out to congrat ulate the presidential hopeful on his first primary win. Flanked by family and increas ingly hoarse from weeks of ardu ous campaigning, Edwards capped his efforts with a celebra tion in a balloon-filled room at Jillian’s, a downtown Columbia restaurant. “It’s a long way from that little house in Seneca, South Carolina, to here tonight,” the North Carolina lawmaker said, waving his fists and smiling at the crowd. “Tonight you said that the politics INSIDE LEARNING THE LINGO Students majoring in high-tech fields no longer face a wide-open job market PAGE 7 | www.dailytarheel.com | of lifting people up beats the pol itics of tearing people down.” The speech came after Edwards trumped his six opponents by a double-digit margin in Tuesday’s first-in-the-South primary. Edwards garnered 45 percent of the vote, beating his biggest oppo nent, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, by 15 percentage points. The Rev. Al Sharpton, who had shown stronger than usual numbers in the Palmetto State, secured 10 percent, primarily from black voters. Before being whisked away by campaign organizers, Edwards thanked the throng of supporters and reminded them of the major facets of his “TWo Americas” plat form, including health-care SEE EDWARDS, PAGE 9 BY ALICE DOLSON STAFF WRITER The Interfraternity Council endorsed Matt Compton for stu dent body president at its forum Tuesday night, giving Compton his first endorsement. “We felt that Matt Compton’s experience as STUDENT ELECTIONS a member of the Chancellor’s Committee on Greek Affairs and his pledge to create a Greek life position on his Cabinet made him the ideal candidate to gain the IFC endorsement,” said IFC Vice President David Murray. Compton cited his experience in student government and his con crete platform as likely reasons for the IFC’s endorsement. “It’s a group of people who go out and do incredible things for THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Democratic presidential front runner John Kerry rolled up big victories and a pile of delegates in five states Tuesday night, while rivals John Edwards and Wesley Clark kept their candidacies alive with singular triumphs in a dra matic cross country con test. Edwards PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES'O4 easily won his native South Carolina and Clark, a retired Army general from Arkansas, eked out victory in neighboring Oklahoma. Howard Dean earned no wins and perhaps no delegates, leaving his candidacy in peril. Joe Lieberman was shut out, too, and dropped out of the race. “It’s a huge night,” Kerry told The Associated Press, even as rivals denied him a coveted sweep. Racking up victories in Missouri, Arizona, North Dakota, New Mexico and Delaware, Kerry suggested that his rivals were regional candidates. “I compliment John Edwards, this University, Orange County and the state, and I think they understand that I want to go out and do great things,” Compton said. Compton said he is glad to rep resent a group on campus that is usually overlooked. Most candidates focused on increasing communication between Greek organizations, stu dent government and the UNC administration to help improve rush turnout and the image of Greek life. “Too often you’re portrayed as Animal House, when you’re more like Ronald McDonald House,” said candidate Matt Liles. Candidate John Walker empha sized the role student government played in the reputation of Greek SEE IFC FORUM, PAGE 9 SPORTS TAKE DOWN Tar Heel wrestling loses first match to the Duke Blue Devils in 31 years PAGE 5 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2004 but I think you have to run a national campaign, and I think that’s what we’ve shown tonight,” the four-term Massachusetts sen ator said. “You can’t cherry-pick the presidency.” With lowa and New Hampshire already in his pocket, Kerry boasts a record of 7-2 in pri mary season contests and remains the undisputed front-runner who had a chance to put two major rivals away but barely failed. SEE PRIMARIES, PAGE 9 ANALYSIS Council to reconsider Carolina North zoning BY EMMA BURGIN CITY EDITOR Before the Horace Williams Citizens Committee was privy to the draft plan of Carolina North last December, they were willing to negotiate anew zoning classifica tion with the University. But after members laid eyes on the plan, the committee com prising Chapel Hill Town Council members, residents and experts seemed to have a change of heart. Last week, the committee asked that the Town Council zone the entire property under Office/Institutional-2, reneging on their recommendation to create a new zoning district for Carolina North. WEATHER TODAY Sunny, H 51, L 28 THURSDAY PM showers, H 42, L 37 FRIDAY Rain, H 64, L 40 DTH FILE PHOTO/BRIAN CASSELIA DEMOCRATIC CONTESTS The leading candidates appear below along with the states they secured Tuesday. ■ JOHN KERRY Arizona, Delaware and Missouri primaries, North Dakota and New Mexico caucuses ■ JOHN EDWARDS South Carolina primary ■ WESLEY CLARK Oklahoma primary Land zoned as 01-2 is subject to special use permits for all buildings more than 20,000 square feet. The University would have to ask the town for these permits. “Our decision was that it might be useful as a town to put us in a position of less weakness,” said Ruby Sinreich, vice chairwoman of the committee, at last week’s coun cil meeting. “It might give us more stable footing there as a town.” The citizens committee, whose members were appointed by a spe cial mayoral committee, voted 11-5 in favor of the change. “Everybody agreed that what was out there is crazy,” said Joe SEE ZONING, PAGE 9 O
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