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THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2004
Calabria fills Cabinet positions
BY RAND ROBINS
STAFF WRITER
The newly installed Calabria
administration concluded its
abbreviated Cabinet selection
process Wednesday after 10 days of
reviewing applications and con
ducting interviews.
Cut short by the extended stu
dent body president election, the
selection period for this adminis
tration was almost three weeks
shorter than that of previous
administrations.
Although the administration
only had about one-third of the
usual month to choose its cabinet,
Student Body President Matt
Calabria said the short time did
not downgrade the quality of the
more than 60 applicants.
“There were a ton of highly qual
ified candidates, which made the
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process very difficult,” Calabria
said.
After interviewing every appli
cant, the Calabria administration
collectively selected 23 students to
fill Cabinet positions and 15 execu
tive assistants from what the
administration called one of the
most competitive applicant pools
in recent memory.
Last year, two weeks after taking
office, the administration of former
Student Body President Matt
Tepper reviewed 101 applicants for
the same number of positions.
Calabria and Student Body
Secretary Bernard Holloway both
said they are happy with the new
cabinet.
“It was a stunning success,”
Holloway said. “I was personally
proud of (the selection process).”
Calabria said that during the
exhaustive interviewing period,
the best-qualified applicants
demonstrated the ability to proac
tively meet student needs.
“Cabinet members need to
actively seek and solve student
problems,” he said. “I'm very con
fident that (Cabinet members’)
energy and expertise will really
help us out in the next year.”
Calabria said he did not make
any selections unilaterally and that
the goal of the review process was
to reach a consensus among all
executive officers.
One addition Calabria has
made to the executive cabinet is
the UNC Lobby Corps Board of
Directors, which will work to bring
a unified student voice to the N.C.
General Assembly.
Calabria’s officers selected for
mer Student Body President
Candidate Ashley Castevens to
serve as the administration’s voice
in the state’s legislative building.
Castevens, whose main plat
form goal as a student body presi
dent candidate was to establish a
campus political action commit
tee, said she is very excited to work
with Calabria’s administration in a
lobbying role.
She served as part of former
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Student Body President Jen
Daum’s Carolina Lobby Corps in
2002-2003.
“My No. 1 priority is lobbying
and external relations,” she said.
“That’s something I have the most
experience with in student gov
ernment.”
The resulting Cabinet very
closely reflects the student popu
lation at UNC, Calabria said.
“One thing I’m most proud of is
that this Cabinet looks and feels
like Carolina,” Holloway said.
“Student government can and will
be a melting pot for student organ
izations.”
Included in the diverse Cabinet
are what Holloway said is a record
number of Black Student
Movement members, as well as
representatives from the Greek
community and members of the
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,
TYansgendered-Straight Alliance.
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A page 3 photo caption in
Wednesday’s paper that featured
rape victim Ann Bajwa described
her situation incorrectly.
Bajwa was a teenager when she
was raped by a stranger. The inci
dent happened in the early 1960s
when there were no centers such
as the Orange County Rape Crisis
Center to help.
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Local schools must
pay for vandalism
BYAYOFEMI KIRBY
STAFF WRITER
Chapel Hill high schools have
become victims of vandalism that
has caused more than $3,000 in
damages that must come out of the
school’s funds.
Both high schools in the area
have had their athletic stadiums
vandalized within the past month.
Stadium walls, press boxes and
concession stands have been spray
painted with vulgarities.
Most recently Chapel Hill High
School’s campus was attacked
when the mural of a tiger painted
by artist Michael Brown was
defaced.
The mural, which is stories high,
covers a large wall facing the back
of the school grounds.
It is visible from the student
parking lot and is one of the
school’s most recognizable fea
tures.
“It’s going to cost several thou
sands of dollars,” said Steve
Scroggs, assistant superintendent
for support services. “And that is
not including the retouch fees.”
Brown, whose work also can be
found in downtown Chapel Hill,
has been asked by school officials
to restore the painting.
Police and school officials are
not sure who is responsible for the
damage.
Some have speculated that stu
dents participating in a school
rivalry between Chapel Hill High
and East Chapel Hill High School
could be to blame.
Both schools have a history of
vandalizing property belonging to
the other school.
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opened, Chapel Hill High stu
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dents painted profanity on the
walls of the school. Repairing the
damage cost the school hundreds
of dollars.
In 1998, students at East Chapel
Hill burned “East” into Chapel Hill
High’s baseball field.
But Scroggs doesn’t believe that
school rivalry is to blame in the
vandalism that has occurred with
in the last few weeks.
“I don’t think it has anything to
do with the rivalries,” he said. “I
just think it’s people tearing up
stuff.”
He said he thinks the people
who are vandalizing the schools
are people who also have been van
dalizing local neighborhoods and
are not necessarily students.
The schools are working with
the police department to keep a
closer eye on the campuses,
Scroggs said.
“We have increased nighttime
security that the police department
is helping out with,” he said. “We
have outside cameras monitoring
school grounds, but that doesn’t
stop everything.”
Authorities and officials are
making an extra effort to find the
people responsible for the damage
and are asking for help from the
community.
“We have a few leads,” said
Andrew Baker, the resource officer
at Chapel Hill High. “I’m here
every day, so it doesn’t cost any
thing to investigate.”
Police are offering a SSOO
reward to anyone who aids in the
arrest of those responsible for the
vandalism.
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.