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VOLUME 112, ISSUE 52 After more than a decade of debate, the University’s freestanding black cultural center opens \ OTH PHOTOS/LAURA MORTON Sernor Michelle Greene, a four-ye|r Communiversity member who worked for the old Black Cultural Center, helps lead a procession to the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History on Friday. BY ARMAN TOLENTINO STAFF WRITER Overcast skies and light rain didn’t stop the grand opening ceremony Saturday morning for the freestanding Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History Em event that marked the culmination of more than a decade of controversy, advo cacy, planning and fund raising. Chancellor James Moeser, with Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy, UNC-system President Molly Broad and other top offi cials on hand, officially dedicated the build ing in front of more than 500 guests who gathered under a tent outside the facility. The morning ceremony was the sec ond part of a four-day grand opening cel ebration. On Friday night, members of the University community participated in a candlelight vigil /and processional from the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery to the new building. Moeser said the center’s opening marked SEE OPENING, PAGE 7 Campus comes under fire Fraternity conflict prompts review BY EMILY STEEL UNIVERSITY EDITOR After two consecutive years of heated summer reading debates, many UNC officials thought they had escaped controversy this year. But the University is in the nation al spotlight again after declining to recognize an all-male Christian fra ternity because it refused to sign a nondiscrimination policy last fall. What began as a simple review of a student organization has spurred a federal investigation. It’s DTHONI.INC.COMi Check out The Daily Tar Heel's newly redesigned Web site, www.dthonline.com, which launches today. You can use the Reader Feedback link to give us your input. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 ahr SaUu ®ttr H rel SET IN STONE also mushroomed into a constitu tional debate —one involving a national civil rights foundation and members of Congress that many say is likely to end up in court. The fallout Segun Olagunju, a graduate of the class of 2004 who now works with a ministry in Orlando, joined the Alpha lota Omega his sopho more year. By the time Olagunju was a senior, he was president of INSIDE LEADER OF THE PACK The search for anew arts director on campus continues PAGE 5 www.dthoniixie.com I * Bp W yM": \3SSLi.-. '• Chancellor James Moeser speaks with Precious Stone, daughter of Dr. Sonja Haynes Stone, and Kweku Erskine after the center named after Precious' mother had its grand opening ceremony Saturday morning. the then seven-member fraternity. That fall, Olagunju met with Jonathan Curtis, assistant director for student activities and organiza tions, to discuss his group’s appli cation for official recognition. The agreement provides student organi zations with access to UNC facilities and funding through student fees. But Olagunju said he and other members of his fraternity didn’t agree with the nondiscrimination portion of the contract, which states membership must be open without regard to age, race, color, national origin, religion, disability, veteran status or sexual orientation. H AIO, Olagunju and other mem bers of his fraternity said, should be restricted to Christian men. Olagunju said he met with Curtis and Dean Bresciani, then interim vice chancellor for student affairs, and proposed adding a provision to the application. It requested that the fraternity use religious affilia tion as a basis for membership. “We believed that the standards we were seeking to set required that we had that level of selectiv ity,” Olagunju said. “In essence, we believed that it would be dishonest SEE FRATERNITY, PAGE 5 SPORTS NOSE TO THE GRINDSTONE The football team looks to rebound from two consecutive poor seasons PAGE 16 STONE CENTER TIMELINE 1988 UNC's Black Cultural Center is estab lished in a suite in the Student Union. 1991 Professor Sonja Haynes Stone dies of a stroke. Officials rename the BCC in her honor. Students push for a freestanding center on campus. 1992 Former Chancellor Paul Hardin says a new black cultural center should be a "forum, and not a fortress." 1993 The Rev. Jesse Jackson visits UNC, touring the campus and examining potential sites for a freestanding center. 1999 UNC receives a $29 million gift from a UNC alumnus. Michael Hooker uses part of the gift to finish off the center's fund-raising effort. 2001 Groundbreaking ceremony for Stone Center. 2004 Grand opening ceremony for Stone Center. UNC makes switch to Pepsi from Coke BY JOSEPH R. SCHWARTZ ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR With a multimillion dollar offer already cemented and a $1.5 million donation to the Carolina Covenant in place, UNC administrators are experiencing the joy of cola. After striking an agreement with UNC to become the preferred vendor for soft drink services on campus, the Raleigh-based Pepsi Bottling Ventures, LLC, now has exclusive rights to supplying foun tain drinks in all dining halls and vending machines. The company WEATHER TODAY Partly cloudy, H 85, L 64 TUESDAY Partly cloudy, H 86, L 64 WEDNESDAY Showers, H 83, L 67 MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 2004 also will stock 60 percent of the shelf space in campus retail areas. Pepsi’s deal also marks the largest donation in the history of the Carolina Covenant, a project established last year to provide funding for a University educa tion to low-income students. Classic Food Services, which supplies Coca-Cola products, previ ously monopolized the University’s soft drink contract, most recently under a five-year contract. SEE PEPSI, PAGE 7 . kIjNL,
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