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Haitian president resigns
amid pressure, rebellion
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
resigned and flew into exile
Sunday, pressured by foreign gov
ernments and a bloody rebellion.
Gunfire crackled as the capital fell
into chaos, and Washington, D.C.,
dispatched Marines.
The Marines were arriving
Sunday afternoon, expected to be
the first wave of a U.N.-backed
international peacekeeping force.
France also said it was considering
sending troops.
“The government believes it is
essential that Haiti have a hopeful
future. This is the beginning of a
new chapter,” President Bush said.
I would urge the people of
Haiti to reject violence, to give this
break from the past a chance to
work. And the United States is
prepared to help.”
The head of Haiti’s supreme
court said he was taking charge of
the government, and key rebel
leader Guy Philippe said he wel
comed the arrival of foreign troops.
“I think the worst is over, and
were waiting for the internation
al forces. They will have our full
cooperation,” Philippe told CNN.
Iraqi leaders fail to meet
deadline for constitution
BAGHDAD, Iraq lraq’s U.S.-
ricked leaders failed to meet a
Saturday deadline for adopting an
nterim constitution but were
:xpected to find compromise soon
>n contentious issues including
he role of Islamic law and the sta
us of women.
An adviser to Governing
Council member Adnan Pachachi
aid members met late into the
light and resumed talks early
Sunday morning.
But, said Feisal Istrabdi, a
nember of the constitutional
[rafting committee, nothing offi
ial had been decided, though he
dded the talks were still ongoing.
Vhen asked if a constitution could
e unveiled later Sunday, he said,
It’s possible.”
A morning update on the talks
'as postponed, said Hameed al-
Lafaei, a Governing Council
pokesman.
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aturday arrests related to
inderage drinking incidents
Chapel Hill police arrested sev
ral people in connection with
nderage drinking between the
ours of 12:30 a.m. and 1:15 a.m.
aturday morning at a bar located
11371/2 E. Franklin St., accord
ig to police reports.
Brigit Steinkraus, 21, of 810 Old
’ittsboro Road, was arrested and
harged with one count misde
neanor “give to minor,” reports
tate. According to reports,
iteinkraus aided and abetted by
jiving alcohol to an underage indi
idual.
UNC freshman Kourtney
Izaplijski, 19, of 221 Ehringhaus
south, was arrested and charged
vith one count misdemeanor
inderage possession, reports state.
According to reports, Czaplijski
was found in possession of a mixed
irink under the age of 21.
Chirag Patel, 20, of 550 Brent
Road in Raleigh, also was arrested
on charges of one count misde
meanor underage possession,
reports state.
Sahil Sirohi, 19, 0f1223 Pond St
in Cary, was arrested and charged
with underage possession of a malt
beverage at the same location,
reports state.
Isvar Boylan, 19, of 303 Smith
Level Road, also was arrested and
charged with underage possession,
reports state.
The trial date for all arrested
individuals is set for April 6.
UNC Athletic Department
reports stolen equipment
Equipment belonging to the
UNC Department of Athletics was
reported stolen Saturday from the
Sheraton Chapel Hill Hotel, locat
ed at 1 Europa Drive, reports state.
According to reports, items
were taken from the foyer of the
hotel’s banquet room at 7:25 p.m.
A DV-Com Camera, a camera
carrying case, two camera batter
ies, a wireless microphone and
receiver and a DV-Com tape were
taken, reports state.
The incident is under further
investigation by Chapel Hill police.
CAIiENBAR
Today
7 p.m. U.S. Rep. Walter
Jones, R-N.C., will speak in 100
Hamilton Hall. Jones, who has
expressed concerns about the
UNC’s handling of a lecturer who
sent an e-mail condemning a stu
dent’s views on homosexuality, will
speak on various topics. The event
is sponsored by the UNC College
Republicans.
From staff and mire reports.
Survey reveals UNC funding fallacy
State appropriations overestimated
BY KAVITA PILLAI
STAFF WRITER
People in North Carolina over
estimate the amount of state fund
ing given to UNC-Chapel Hill,
according to a survey released
Thursday, and that misconception
could affect how much state money
the public thinks the University
should receive.
A telephone poll 0f404 North
Carolinians by the Odum Institute
for Research in Social Science
showed that 62 percent of respon
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Hikers walk through the Horace Williams tract during an event sponsored by Friends of Bolin Creek to show the area that would be
developed under UNC's Carolina North plan. Below: Member Dave Cook (left) shows the group a diagram of the development.
Friends fight to save creek
Work to save land affected by Carolina North
BY ANTONIO VELARDE
STAFF WRITER
Local conservationists and residents of
Chapel Hill and Carrboro, many of them
dressed in hiking gear and riding mountain
bikes, toured the wooded area surrounding
Bolin Creek on Sunday that likely will be
home to the Carolina North development.
The Friends of Bolin Creek, an organiza
tion trying to preserve the area surrounding
Bolin Creek, organized the Carolina North
Educational Walk to help residents envision
the impact of the University’s development
plan for the future satellite campus.
Before the hike began, the crowd gath
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Ruling to affect
faith programs
BY AMY THOMSON
STAFF WRITER
The division between church
and state deepened Wednesday
when the U.S. Supreme Court
ruled it constitutionally acceptable
for states to block scholarships for
students pursuing theology
degrees, but some are alarmed at
what they deem discrimination.
“The states are (now) free to
separate themselves from religion
more than the First Amendment
requires them to,” said Ira Lupu,
professor of law at George
Washington University.
The 7-2 decision, he said, sets a
precedent regarding how states
deal with the separation of church
and state. He added that the ruling
will affect how states will deal with
other religion-related issues dur
ing the next few years
Such issues include President
Bush’s “Faith-Based and
Community Initiative,” the
administration’s plan to hind faith
based organizations and the school
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dents believed state appropriations
are a larger portion of the
University’s budget than they real
ly are. Fifteen percent estimated
that the state provided more than
two-thirds of UNC-CH’s budget.
State money is actually a quarter
of the University’s budget. Of those
surveyed, 37 percent correctly iden
tified the amount of state funding as
less than one-third of the budget.
Brad Wilson, chairman of the
UNC-system Board of Governors,
said he worries that the disparity
ered around a map of the 963-acre Horace
Williams tract at Seawell Elementary
School.
Those on the hiking tour had a choice of
either taking the full hour-and-a-half hike
down to Bolin Creek, or taking a shorter 45-
minute hike that stopped near the major
areas of the proposed Carolina North devel
opment.
The group began the hike walking single
file down a muddy forest trail littered with
broken branches and overturned trees.
Along the trail, members of the Friends of
Bolin Creek pointed out the areas where the
Carolina North plan would have the most
impact. ,
These locations, which are being consid
ered for the fifth phase of the Carolina North
plan, will be set aside for future University
housing units.
“We have been working with the towns of
Chapel Hill and Carrboro, as well as the
County Commissioners trying to preserve as
much of this marvelous corridor of land as
possible,” said Dave Otto, a member of the
Ftiends of Bolin Creek, while tracing out the
corridor of land on the map.
According to Otto, one of the main con
cerns-of the Friends of Bolin Creek has been
the creek itself, its major stream valleys and
voucher program.
Amy Fulk, press secretary for
N.C. Sen. Marc Basnight, D-Dare,
said North Carolina doesn’t con
sider a student’s major when
deciding whether to grant state
scholarship money. But the state
does grant scholarships for stu
dents who attend universities affil
iated with religious groups.
In the case reviewed by the
Supreme Court, Washington state’s
Promise Scholarship Fund denied
firnds to Joshua Davey, a
Northwest College student, when
he refused to sign a form stating
that he was not pursuing a theo
logical degree with taxpayer
money. Davey since has graduated
but did not pursue the ministry
and opted to attend law school.
While supporters of
Washington’s constitution claimed
religious freedoms would be com
promised if the state funded reli
gious training programs, dissi-
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between what people think and the
monetary reality could influence
public opinion about tuition hikes
and other potential increases.
“It’s directly related to some of
the tuition increase discussions,” he
said. “If people do not accurately
understand what the level of sup
port is, it’s more difficult for them
to understand the needs and how
the needs should be met.”
Other than state funds, UNC-CH
receives a significant portion of its
budget from research funding.
According to the report, University
faculty garnered $537 million in
research funds in 2003, up 10 per
its tributaries.
“We have been encouraging the
University to modify its (plan) so it wouldn’t
affect the watershed of Bolin Creek,” Otto
said.
Paul Debreczena, a Carrboro resident and
founding member of the Friends of Bolin
Creek, said the organization has presented
plans to the Chapel Hill Town Council that
would create buffer areas to protect the
forests from the Carolina North develop
ment.
Tony Waldrop, vice chancellor for
research and economic development, who
accompanied residents and the Friends of
Bolin Creek on the hike, expressed his hopes
for preserving the area.
“The opportunity exists here for us to
express our concerns,” said Waldrop.
“If we don’t take the opportunity to
understand what’s going on, this area might
not be here.”
Residents of Carrboro and Chapel Hill
who went on the hike echoed similar senti
ments. “Our main goal is just to walk the
trail and get a feel for what Carolina North
will do to the area,” said Mike Collins, a
Chapel Hill resident.
“I just want to get a look at it now to see
where the impact will be.”
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
Graduate takes time for art
BY NIKKI WERKING
ASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR
Leigh Suggs coughed and
sipped from a small carton of
orange juice Saturday at Bleeker
Street Studios in Carrboro.
The floor of the 2003 UNC grad
uate’s studio was littered with the
beginnings of a
12-foot black
string tower
that she and
Lindsay
Pichaske, Suggs’
studiomatewho
also graduated
from UNC last
year, are build-
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A biweekly series
focusing on the
job market and the
challenges faced before
and after graduation.
ing for their upcoming art show.
Suggs has been in the studio
almost every evening for the past
two weeks preparing pieces for the
show, which opens in Bleeker
Street Studios’ gallery April 5 and
runs the entire month. Despite her
cold, Suggs came to the studio on
Saturday to spend some time out
side the house.
So far Suggs and Pichaske have
started three sections of the string
tower, and the project has been a
bit of an experiment. The two
artists had built about four feet of
cent from 2002. Many people might
not realize that these funds are a
substantially larger portion of the
budget than state appropriations.
“We’re a state-supported institu
tion,” said Jeff Davies, UNC-system
vice president for finance. “And I
don’t think everyone fully under
stands the extent of contract and
grant research at an institution like
Chapel Hill.”
The majority of research funds
come from federal agencies includ
ing the National Institutes of
Health. “We’re always looking at
different funding areas to see if
there are pools of money that we
the base before realizing their glue
and-water solution could not sup
port the weight of the string. The
base collapsed on itself, so they had
to add more glue to the mixture.
Suggs and Pichaske also are
working on a project that will dis
play a series of drawings framed in
an antique printing press drawer.
One person begins a drawing, then
covers it up, leaving a small portion
exposed, and lets the other person
finish the drawing.
For her individual pieces, Suggs
is making two projects that incor
porate the banana fiber abaca
paper she made while working at
the Dieu Donne gallery in New
York after her junior year.
One project will be 49 small
square canvases painted in shades
of blue and cream and coated with
layers of hexagon-shaped abaca
paper. For the second project,
pieces of the abaca paper are cut
into 3 inch by 1 inch strips, tightly
rolled and stacked, making a
design that resembles a honey
comb.
“I had this paper for two years
and hadn’t done anything with it
because it was so precious to me,”
Suggs said. “It was really hard to
MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2004
are capable of competing for,” said
Tony Waldrop, UNC-CH vice
chancellor for research and eco
nomic development.
Waldrop said recruiting and
retaining the best faculty is key to
obtaining research funds.
“It’s the quality of the faculty and
students that makes us successful
in securing these funds,” he said.
Part of the misconception about
state appropriations is due to the
fact that research funding has been
growing rapidly while state fund
ing has been on the decline.
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CHHS
student
reports
assault
2 suspects part of
police rape probe
BY SHANNAN BOWEN
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
A Chapel Hill High School stu
dent informed school officials
Thursday that two students raped
her Tuesday on school grounds.
School officials immediately
reported the incident to Chapel
Hill police, who are investigating
two male juvenile suspects, said
Jane Cousins, spokeswoman for
the Chapel Hill Police
Department.
Cousins said the incident
occurred Tuesday afternoon out
side the buildings but on school
grounds.
The school is located at 1709
High School Road.
The two suspects are acquain
tances of the victim, Cousins said.
Cousins would not reveal the
grade level of the two suspects or
of the victim.
She said police want to protect
the identity of those involved while
the incident is still under investi
gation.
According to police reports, the
victim suffered minor injuries and
was treated at a hospital.
Cousins said she did not know
what type of injuries the victim
had incurred.
Police are investigating the pos
sibility that drugs or alcohol were
involved in the incident, but
Cousins said it has not been con
firmed that the two suspects were
under the influence of any sub
stance.
Cousins said that although the
police know the names of the two
suspects, there have been no
charges filed.
The police will continue to
investigate the incident and the
suspects before filing charges, she
said.
A juvenile petition will be filed
if police decide to charge the two
suspects for the rape, Cousins
said.
The two will then have to
appear in juvenile court to face the
charges.
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
decide what to do with this paper,
but I’m really happy with what I’m
doing.”
When she’s not working on
pieces for her art show, Suggs has
been helping and supporting
friends preparing for their honors
thesis exhibition.
Seniors Lindsey Britt, Brenna
Murphy and Kristin Robinson will
display their works in a show titled
“home, body,” from March 15 to
April 1 in the John and June Allcott
Gallery in Hanes Art Center.
Suggs helped Robinson with her
projects, three life-sized figures
Robinson made by casting her
entire body in plaster. Robinson
did most of the work on her own,
but Suggs helped her cast her back,
arms and other places she couldn’t
reach.
Each figure has been manipu
lated differently to represent the
grotesque. Robinson bound her
waist and thighs before casting her
body for one figure, and another is
designed to portray sagging flesh.
“I think they’re beautiful,”
Robinson said. “Society’s idea of
what a body should be isn’t neces-
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