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Sattg ®ar HM STATE BRIEFS Easley pushes no vote on campus-based tuition hikes RALEIGH, N.C. Gov. Mike Easley is asking the UNC-system Board of Governors to vote against campus-based tuition increases when it meets this week. In a letter to board Chairman Brad Wilson, Easley stated that increasing tuition would hurt access to higher education in the state. Many families have been hit hard by our national recession and unhelpful trade policy and argue that increases of this size should not be considered at this time,” Easley wrote. “I agree.” CAMPUS BRIEFS Campaign signs damaged two weekends in a row For the second straight week end, student elections campaign signs were vandalized in what appears to be premeditated action. I\vo signs for student body pres ident candidate Matt Calabria had screws removed, with one left top pled to the ground. Hinges on a sign for candidate Matt Compton were ripped apart, although the sign remained upright. A sign for senior class president candidates Becca Frucht and Jovian Irvin was completely dismantled. All the signs were located in Polk Place, next to several others that were left untouched. Last weekend six signs were vandalized or stolen from campus, including three belonging to the Calabria campaign staff. Two University magazines endorse SBP candidates Candidate Faudlin Pierre emerged victorious at BoUNCe Magazine’s “Student Body President Smackdown II: The Reckoning” on FHday night, after a sumo wrestling match with can didate Matt Calabria. The UNC Loreleis performed after the first round of trivia elim inated four candidates: Matt Compton, Matt Liles, Laura Thomas and John Walker. Candidate Ashley Castevens was eliminated in the second round that asked participants for a one-liner. Candidate Lily West lost to Calabria in an arm-wrestling match, putting Calabria against Pierre in the final sumo-wrestling round. Admission to the event raised $243 for cystic fibrosis, said BoUNCe associate editor Jake Goldman. “I think we’re definitely moving up,” he said. “Next years going to be bigger, better and odder than you can possibly imagine.” Student body president candi dates Matt Calabria and Lily West each picked up another endorse ment during the weekend. Calabria won the endorsement of student magazine the Blue & White, bringing his total number of endorsements to three. The UNC undergraduate chap ter of the American Civil Liberties Union voted to endorse West, giv ing West her fifth endorsement of the campaign season. CITY BRIEFS Wachovia branch robbed Friday by man with gun Wachovia Bank on 101 Banks Drive in Timberlyne Shopping Center was robbed Friday morn ing, reports state. According to reports, a male entered the bank at 11:10 a.m. with a handgun and handed a note demanding money to a teller. The teller submitted to the request and gave him an undisclosed amount of cash, reports state. No injuries were reported. The suspect was last seen head ing north on University Station Road on foot. He is described as a white male with brown hair and a beard in his late thirties and of a stocky build. He was wearing a white baseball hat, green jacket and blue jeans at the time of the incident, reports state. The case is under further investigation. Money reported missing from Caribou Coffee's safe Caribou Coffee on 110 W. Franklin St. reported money taken from its secured safe Friday, reports state. According to reports, the money was last known secure at 6:30 p.m. Thursday and was missing at 5:30 a.m. Friday. The case is under further inves tigation. Police have no suspects. CALENDAR Today 7 p.m. Back by popular demand, economics Professor Ralph Byms will entertain in 211 Gardner Hall with his tale of romance mishaps until he put eco nomics to use. From staff and wire reports. Faculty needs to get SIOOM more Campaign funds to aid retention BY EMILY STEEL ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR Officials from the Carolina First campaign cited an urgent problem with faculty retention at the steer ing committee meeting Friday as they announced plans to increase funding for faculty priorities by SIOO million. The campaign will reserve about “We hope that students, when you’re not in class or in the library, yOU Want to be here. That S our goal. DON LOSE, CAROLINA union director -J3E9 HI 1 19 SIPjK | m DTH PHOTOS/ANDREW SYNOWIEZ From the second floor of the renovated Student Union, lounge seating and the Alpine Bagel Shop are visible on the first floor. The class of 2001 aquarium has been installed on the upper level. The Union's opening is 12:15 p.m. Tuesday. Renovated Student Union primed to reopen Tuesday Complete with meeting space, aquarium BY LIZZIE STEWART STAFF WRITER The windows are now covered with brown paper, and a decorated giant bow, complete with a gift tag, will soon appear in anticipation of 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, when students will unwrap the newly renovated Student Union. Doors will open, jaws will drop and life will be injected into the Union at the grand reopening and rededication ceremony. Carolina Union Director Don Luse said he hopes the event will mark a milestone in students’ careers at UNC. “We’re all so excited we can hardly stand it,” Luse said. “We’re very anx ious to see what students think.” The first phase of the Union’s expansion was completed in August 2002 l4 months behind schedule with the opening of anew Union building. The old Union building was then closed for renovation. A myriad of changes await the stu dent body upon entering. The Alpine Bagel Shop has replaced Union Station and the restaurant’s seating area overlooks the Pit. “This is Heart attack inspires artist BY ANDREW SATTEN STAFF WRITER When Alice Levinson had her turtleneck T-shirt sheared from her body by paramedics, little did she know that two years later it would become the focal point for one of her most provocative art projects. At the time, Levinson, a clinical psychologist and artist who lives in Hillsborough, was experiencing a heart attack. Unaware of what was happening to her body, she decid ed to play it safe and dial 911. That decision, which ultimately saved her life, inspired her mixed media work, “Call 9-1-1,” which was donated to the N.C. Women’s Hospital on Friday during National Wear Red Day for Women. Part of a campaign waged by the American Heart Association, the goal of National Wear Red Day is to publicize the fact that heart disease is the leading cause of death among women. Levinson told the story of her survival and spoke about her art work at a donation ceremony in the hospital lobby. A crowd of almost 30 listeners clad in red wore small red pins in the shape of a dress, the symbol of National Wear Red Day. The onset of Levinson’s heart attack occurred as she began pack Top News S4OO million of the $l.B billion private fund-raising campaign for faculty retention and recruitment. “This is critically important to the University,” said Mike Overlock, co-chairman of the steer ing committee. “Faculty are the heart of this institution.” The funds will be earmarked for more than 200 endowed profes- the prime real estate on campus,” Luse said. “We wanted to increase visibility from the inside to the outside.” In the middle of first floor, a host of new furniture will surround a big screen television. Five e-mail stations folly equipped with flat-screen monitors will be avail able for student use. A large glass wall in the center of the Union replaces the stairwell and extends to the second floor. The wall will absorb noise from the first floor and make the upper level a prime study spot. Lounges throughout the second floor will accommodate more students and will have wireless Internet access. Brightly carpeted open walkways also have replaced the once dark tun nel-like hallways. “We wanted a feeling of warmth, bright light, a place you want to be,” Luse said. A large aquarium complete with authentic driftwood and plants, a gift from the class of2ool, is on the second floor. The second floor of the Union also DTH/ALEX FINE Alice Levinson, a clinical psychologist and artist, speaks about her work, "Call 9-1-1," which was donated to the N.C. Women's Hospital. ing her belongings after a week of skiing in Colorado with her hus band. “I got up to pack and was get ting ready to take a journey home but not knowing I’d be taking another journey through shock, confusion and pain,” she said. Despite Levinson’s medical background and the presence of her husband, Sidney, a doctor and faculty member in the hospital’s Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, it never occurred to her that she was having a heart attack. Her healthy lifestyle, which includes frequent physical activity, sorships, educational opportunities and research projects. “When you think about Chapel Hill, you have to think about your faculty, your students and your reputation,” Overlock said. “And I think that’s one we need to pro tect.” The campaign now will play a larger role in a University-wide ini tiative to address the problem with faculty retention. Richard Soloway, interim dean will better facilitate the lack of ing space on campus, which has been a concern of student organizations ftP the past. Campus Crossroads is one of the many organizations that will have office space or meeting rooms in the renovated Union. “We’ve been needing some office space on campus for a while now,” said Justin Wright, the senior pastor of Campus Crossroads. “It will really help us to be a lot more organized.” Campus organizations also will ben efit from the newly renovated Great Hall, which is located on the first floor. The Great Hall is the largest floor space on campus, so it is a very popu lar venue, said Jon Curtis, assistant director of student activities and organizations for the Union. “I know that there are groups that are planning lots of activities,” he said. Improvements to Great Hall include the installation of acoustic paneling and a lighting system. The stage also was extended, making it handicap accessible. While the balcony • no longer serves as a seating area, there will be more room for technical SEE UNION, PAGE 5 and the absence of a family history of heart disease kept the possibili ty of such an attack from Levinson’s mind. But Magnus Ohman, director of the UNC Heart Center and chief of the Division of Cardiology, said such scenarios are not uncommon. “It’s very hard for us to convey to women that (heart disease) is the number one condition that women die from every year,” Ohman said, noting that heart attacks are tradi tionally considered more of a male SEE ART, PAGE 5 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2004 of the College of Arts and Sciences, detailed the problem of faculty retention for steering committee members. He called the issue a problem that keeps him up at night as he explained how the the graying of College faculty, national competi tion for top faculty and cutbacks in state allocations exacerbates the problem. Soloway said the highly compet itive environment in higher educa Award cites Sharptons work with civil rights Event marks anniversary of sit-ins in Greensboro BY KAVITA PILLAI STAFF WRITER GREENSBORO Democratic presidential candi date the Rev. A1 Sharpton took time away from cam paigning in Michigan to accept an award Friday night for his continuing efforts in the civil rights movement The award was given by Sit-In Movement Inc. and the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in a banquet commemorating the start of the movement That movement began Feb. 1, 1960, when four black N.C. Agricultural & Technical University stu dents sat in protest at the segregated lunch counter of a F.W. Woolworth Cos. store. “There’s no better place for me to be tonight,” Sharpton said after accepting the Alston/Jones International Civil and Human Rights Award. “If it wasn’t for (the four N.C. A&T students), someone like me could never dream of being president.” Sharpton cited the efforts of early civil rights activists as the reason for his successes and compared his struggles with those of other presidential hopefuls. Sharpton said presidential candidate John Edwards of North Carolina “would talk about how it was good for America that he was the son of a mill worker. I said to him, ‘My father couldn’t even be a mill worker.’” The jbfßnt also publicized the Feb. 1,2005 opening of a civil rights museum in Greenboro’s F.W. Woolworth building to honor the students and other activists. “We need a museum so that our children will know that we didn’t get here by luck and circum stance,” Sharpton said. Franklin McCain, one of the original sit-in partic ipants, was also present at the banquet and expressed support for Sharpton’s bid for the presidency. McCain said that although some say Sharpton is crazy for continuing his candidacy, the assumption might not be a bad thing. “I like crazy folk because they subscribe to the position that the facts don’t mat ter if the dreams are good enough.” Sharpton said he is not campaigning in vain. “The SEE SHARPTON, PAGE 5 Jr |f& DTH/BRENT CLARK Al Sharpton gives an speech Friday at a banquet honoring the start of the civil rights sit-in-movement. CAA focuses on event awareness Candidates hope to boost support BY GREG PARKER STAFF WRITER The position of Carolina Athletic Association president is the most powerful role a student can hold when it comes to the administration of the UNC Department of Athletics. The organization’s president and officers serve as liaisons between the athletic department and the student body. The CAA president is also the primary student sought for con sultation on athletic affairs, said Norwood Teague, associate athlet ic director for marketing and pro motion. “The first person we would talk to would be the CAA presi dent,” he said. “We really listen to what that person has to say.” But four years after the organi zation led the charge to install a risers student section in the Smith Center, CAA officials and candi dates for CAA president are pri tion is his biggest concern. “We are increasingly being raid ed by other institutions, primarily private institutions,” Soloway said. “You can love the southern part of heaven only to a certain point.” He said the ability to provide endowments through the Carolina First campaign has helped retain and attract faculty and has main tained the institution’s quality. SEE CAROLINA FIRST, PAGE 5 marily focused on the promotional and event planning duties that accompany the position. CAA presidential candidate William Keith and write-in candi date Alexander Smith both high light in their platforms the impor tance of CAA’s role of marketing UNC athletics to students. “I am going to work to secure more funding for things such as signage and fliers, so that students know about games,” Keith said. Smith said he hopes to continue promoting campaigns such as “Him It Blue,” which encourages students to wear Carolina blue to sporting events, to enhance stu dent support at athletic events. Former CAA President Tee Pruitt, who held office during the 1999-2000 and 2000-01 academ ic years and was the driving force behind the installation of the risers in 2000, said it’s important that the CAA president advocate for students’ wishes. But Pruitt acknowledged that had it not been for a fortunately- SEE CAA, PAGE 5 3
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