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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 2004
Leaders make time for scouting
BY JACQUELINE BRILL
STAFF WRITER
At 6:45 p.m. Monday, the voices
of 8 and 9-year-old girls, many of
whom wore brown vests dotted
with colorful patches, rang
through the art room at Mary
Scroggs Elementary School.
The girls were eager to discover
the purpose of the paper bags, con
struction paper and plates of paint
UNC students McKenzie
Thompson, Anna Cunningham
and Melissa Church had prepared.
The three women are leaders of
Girl Scout Troop 1402, which has
about a dozen members from the
Chapel Hill area. On Monday, they
enjoyed a rare March meeting that
didn’t involve Thin Mints, Peanut
Butter Patties or Caramel delates.
“Tonight, we’re earning our
‘Puppets, Dolls and Plays’ badge,”
explained Cunningham, a sopho
more history and Spanish major.
“We try to earn a badge or two at
every meeting, and then at the end
of a semester or quarter, we have a
ceremony with their parents and
pass them all out,” Cunningham
said as she helped a few of the girls
prepare their paper bag puppets.
In February, the troop focused on
cookie sales, an endeavor in which
the Brownie Girl Scouts and Junior
Girl Scouts found it most enjoyable
to have college-age leaders.
“I liked that we got to sell cookies
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KARBALA, Iraq
Simultaneous explosions ripped
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Tbesday at Shiite Muslim shrines in
Baghdad and Karbala, killing at
least 143 people on the holiest day
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al said. It was the bloodiest day since
the ouster of Saddam Hussein.
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in their dorms,” said Katie Marshall,
a 9-year-old third-grader.
Other scouts also have high opin
ions of their UNC leaders. “They’re
very friendly, and we do fun stuff,”
said Julia Bienstock, also 9.
“We made dolls, went to
Brownie Fun Day and pretended. to
make a camping tent, but when we
went in it collapsed on us,” she said
and laughed. Her fellow scouts gig
gled as they recalled the incident
Julia’s mother, Rachelle, also
expressed fondness for her daugh
ter’s leaders. “It’s really neat that
they’re doing this,” Bienstock said.
“Most troop leaders are moms, so
its really nice for them to take the
time out to do this when they could
be just hanging out.”
The troop started in September
when Thompson, also a sophomore
and the only one of the students
with Girl Scout experience, decided
that she and Cunningham, her
roommate, needed to get involved.
“We really just sat around our
freshman year, so we were looking
for something to do,” said
Thompson, who participated in a
troop throughout high school,
earning a Gold Award, denoting
the highest level of achievement. “I
wanted to do this because I was a
Girl Scout, and it was a lot of fun.”
Leading a troop requires a mod
erate time commitment but can
occasionally get more hectic, espe-
was al-Qaida-linked militant Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi, who U.S. offi
cials claim is trying to start a
Sunni-Shiite civil war, said Brig.
Gen. Mark Kimmitt. In Iran,
which lost at least 22 countrymen
in the attacks, Iranian vice presi
dent Mohammad Ali Abtahi also
blamed al-Qaida.
The attacks, a combination of
suicide bombings and planted
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Girl Scout Julia Bienstock, 9, paints the cheek of troop leader, UNC
sophomore McKenzie Thompson, at their weekly troop meeting Monday.
daily during cookie time.
“Sometimes it’s just the weekly
meeting, but last Saturday we took
them to Brownie Fun Day at Camp
Mary Atkinson and then went
straight to selling cookies,”
Thompson said. “I was gone from
9 a.m. to 7 p.m”
The troop has been selling cook
ies at Wal-Mart, in neighborhoods
and in the dorms.
In addition to assisting with
cookie sales and paper bag puppets,
Thompson, Cunningham and
Church also have taken the Junior
Girl Scouts, those in grades fourth
explosives during the Shiite festival
of Ashoura, coincided with a
shooting attack on Shiite worship
pers in Quetta, Pakistan, that
killed at least 42 people and
wounded more than 150.
Police in the southern Iraqi city
of Basra kept the wave of violence
from being bloodier, arresting four
would-be suiride bombing suspects.
Monday night, a bomb was
defused in the holiest Shiite city,
Najaf, officials said.
Hiesday was the climax of the
10-day Ashoura festival. It is the
most important period in the
Shiite calendar and draws hun
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through sixth, to a high ropes
course. They hope to go on a camp
ing trip later in the spring after fin
ishing all the required certifications.
Thompson, also a fitness instruc
tor at the Student Recreation
Center, is trying to plan an aerobics
class for the girls at the SRC.
For now, both scouts and lead
ers are content selling cookies,
making paper bag puppets and
painting faces. Thompson said,
“It’s all just a lot of fun.”
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Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and other
Shiite communities.
The devastation Tuesday includ
ed the work of three suicide
bombers who set off explosives in
and around Baghdad’s Kazimiya
shrine, killing 58 and wounding
200, Kimmitt told reporters. In
Karbala, at least one suicide attack
er blew himself up and pre-set
explosives detonated, killing 85 and
wounding more than 230, he said.
A fourth suicide bomber whose
explosives did not detonate was
captured at Kazimiya, and six peo
ple were arrested in connection
with the attack in Karbala,
Kimmitt told reporters in Baghdad.
Resolution calls
for single precinct
Aims to encourage students to vote
BY NORA WARREN
STAFF WRITER
If you live on campus and have
ever tried to vote in a municipal
election, you know it’s not always
easy to get to the voting site.
But the UNC-Chapel Hill
Student Congress hopes anew res
olution will be a step in the direc
tion of change.
Congress unanimously passed a
resolution Tuesday night to sup
port the redistricting of North
Carolina voting precincts to
include all students living on the
UNC-CH campus in a single
precinct.
The resolution supports amend
ing the N.C. General Statutes to
reconfigure voting boundary lines
by June 30, 2005, to make the
UNC-CH campus one voting dis
trict. This change would allow all
students living on campus to vote
in on-campus stations.
Members of student govern
ment said they hope the availabil
ity of voting stations will increase
voter turnout in local, state and
national elections.
“We’re supporting the fact that
we think students should have the
right to get to the polls,” said
Jennifer Orr, Student Affairs
Committee chairwoman.
Orr, who introduced the resolu
tion to Congress, said she support
ed the measure on behalf of all stu
dents.
“It’s getting students motivated
to vote,” she said.
Currently, students living on
campus are broken into six differ
ent voting precincts, each with a
different polling site. Some of these
sites are off campus, making it dif
ficult for students without cars to
vote.
Redrawing the voting lines is a
state issue, so the N.C. General
Assembly is responsible for putting
the measure into effect.
But UNC-CH Student Body
Vice President Rebekah Burford
said passing the resolution to sup
port redistricting is a way to put
pressure on state legislators and
other influential parties to approve
the amendment.
“It’s completely legal to do this,
and it’s something that can be
done,” she said.
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Members of Congress said they
hope that the idea of creating one
campus precinct will catch on with
the 15 other UNC-system schools.
“It’s using UNC(-CH) as a case
study,” Orr said. “And then sug
gesting changes for all UNC-sys
tem schools.”
While members of Congress did
not cite specific examples of other
universities experiencing similar
voting difficulties, they said they
are sure other schools are facing
similar multiprecinct issues.
“It’s appropriate as a flagship
university that we do take the lead,”
said Rep. Parker Wiseman.
Burford said she thinks the
response to the student resolution
could familiarize lawmakers with
UNC-CH’s student government.
“I hope it will add to the clout
that executive branch research will
have on legislators,” she said.
Many members of Congress
said that one of the obstacles to
voting in local and municipal elec
tions is the inaccessibility of voting
sites.
As part of a campaign last
semester to increase student voter
turnout in local elections, UNC
CH Student Body President Matt
Tepper organized mass voter regis
tration drives.
Yet, despite the efforts of stu
dent government officials, only
several hundred students partici
pated in the elections.
“If you’re a first-year student
who is 18 and really excited about
voting, finally, it’s really hard to get
to a polling site,” Burford said.
Orr said she hopes the change
would help students to voice their
opinions.
“We want to mobilize students
to affect change locally and nation
ally.”
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