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2 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2004 Shuttle caters to football crowd University Mall tailors pregame offers BY DAN SCHWIND ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR University Mall wants to bring a little more fanfare to UNC football enthusiasts in the parking lot. Mall officials are launching the Fan Fare program in hopes that football fans who use the park and-ride lot at University Mall will be taking greater advantage of the mall services instead of just park ing and heading to the game. “We want them to know not only about the park-and-ride, but also about the mall,” said Teresa Mitchell Rad, spokeswoman for the mall. “You really have a lot of interesting stuff there.” Normally, park-and-ride shut tles begin running an hour and a half before game time. But shut tles from University Mall will now begin running three hours before Students bask in book’s publication BY MEREDITH LEE MILLER ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR A story about an unusual octo pus is thrusting former Estes Hills Elementary School students into the spotlight. That’s what the story of Susan Cavender, Zoe Gan, Vaishnavi Krishnan and Allison Smith, who uniquities new fall arrivals james mini skirt • niil totan corduroy blazer mtoco scarf three dot cashmere sweater • handmaid handbag chapel hill 452 west franklin street (919) 933 4007 raleigh 450 darnels street (919) 832-1234 www.uniqurties.com This Football Season... m i |iii Wear BLUE to the game and cheer 0n t . TAR HEELS! Sponsored by The Daily Tar Heel game time. The idea? Fans can show up, park and have plenty of time to shop before they hop on a shuttle to Kenan Stadium. They’ll also be provided with a sheet of coupons good at a number of restaurants and stores at the mall. Rad said officials began putting together the Fan Fare program when they realized that many of the mail’s shops and restaurants already offered game-day dis counts, but fans still did not know about them. “It’s an awareness thing,” Rad said. Renee Pelletier, manager of Bear Rock Cafe, said she thinks this could be a big help for business. The cafe offers to-go boxes spe cifically made for tailgating for home football games. Pelletier said together wrote and illustrated their own children’s book during their fifth-grade year, would say. “Nora the Nonapus,” the tale of a shy cephalopod who must reveal a secret to save her friends from a class bully, was their cre ation and the grand-prize win ner in the fiction category for the that while they have been popular and have helped business on game days, she thinks they will sell even more now. “The to-go boxes boosted things a little more for us,” she said. “But all this publicity really helps out.” Such discounts, in addition to the allure of free parking and cheap transportation to the game s3 for a one-way trip and $5 for a round trip have some think ing this could further increase the popularity of shuttle services. Kurt Neufang, assistant director for Chapel Hill Transit, said the low cost and convenience of the town’s shuttle service, known as the Tar Heel Express, has made the service popular and is part of the reason it continues to grow every year. “It’s been hugely popular because of the limited amount of parking,” he said. “This is very convenient for football fans.” Neufang said the number of peo Scholastic Inc. “Kids are Authors” competition. Nora is called a nonapus because she has an extra tentacle. The book was published this month by Scholastic and will be dis tributed at its national book fairs. The students will be recognized tonight at a celebration at Estes Hills. “Scholastic made it clear that they wanted to celebrate these girls’ work,” said Nancy Cavender, a parent of one of the girls who wrote the book. Representatives from the town, school district and community have been invited to attend the 7 p.m. ceremony. “I’m really excited about tomor row,” Gan said Thursday. “We worked hard, and the hard work really paid off.” She said she has never been honored publicly and is looking forward to being recognized in front of the community. “Now I’m a published author,” she said. The girls agreed that the hardest part of the writing experience was trying to come up with the right ideas for a children’s story. “At first, we had a lot of cheesy plots with no ending,” Susan Cavender said. After brainstorming, they decided they wanted a story that stressed the MOREHEAbI^'^ Morehead Planetarium and Science Center will be rockin’ this fall. See our awesome laser shows, featuring Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon: 30th Anniversary Edition and Beastie Boys. - September 2-19, 2004 For show schedule, times and ticket information go to The Gateway to Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hot spots DTH'S FAIL GUIDE ID ALL YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS: bites ••• • • bars movies artSn campus cx Sports • • • • Look for Hot Spots in The Daily Tar Heel • • TODAY! News pie who ride the shuttle depends on the game but has ranged anywhere from 4,000 to 10,000 riders. “It really depends on who they’re playing,” he said. “William & Mary was not a very well-attended game, so there weren’t as many people. But last year for Florida State, the place was packed and so were the buses.” Chapel Hill Transit also pro vides service to the Smith Center for University basketball games as well as concerts held at the center. “It’s a very convenient system," Neufang said. “It’s right there, and it’s quick and efficient.” But just because the game is over, Rad said, it doesn’t mean football fans have to go home. “They can come back and shop at the mall after the game, too,” she said. “It just offers a range of things.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. importance of individuality. “We wanted it to show that it’s okay to be different,” Krishnan said. Susan Cavender said that once they found their idea, everything else began to fit together. “I think it’s so cool that we got the book published,” Krishnan said. Ghada Ramadan, their fifth grade teacher, said the story is something that real children can relate to because of its moral. “The book says that if you are different, you can still have strengths,” she said. Ramadan said she plans to attend tonight’s event to support her students’ accomplishments. “It is outstanding,” she said. “They have worked so hard.” Copies of the book will be sold to the public at the celebration. Gan said she expects to be signing a lot of books for family and friends. Frances O’Roark Dowell, a national children’s author, will be the event’s guest speaker. Scholastic donated 100 free copies of the book and $2,000 in merchandise to the elementary school. Krishnan said she is glad schools will receive the books. “I think reading is important.” Contact the City Editor at dtydesk@unc.edu. Politicians consider presidential eligibility BY ERIN GIBSON ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR While most of the country is focused on November’s election, some politicians are pushing aside party differences to gain the right for anew group to run for president Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Cali£, proposed a constitutional amend ment Wednesday that would allow naturalized citizens declaring U.S. residency for at least 20 years to run for president of the United States. “It would expand the talent pool of people available for the presi dency,” said Aaron Lewis, press secretary for Rohrabacher. The attempt to reform presiden tial candidate guidelines is nothing new in Congress. Members of both the House and Senate have made suggestions in recent years. Rohrabacher’s proposal is similar to one introduced in the Senate on July 10,2003, by fellow Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah. “Twenty years should be enough time to climatize someone as an American citizen and dispel any doubts about America,” said Margarita Tapia, press secretary for the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which Hatch is the chairman. Members of both parties are working to change the popula tion available for president of the United States. Proposals from each chamber have been co-sponsored by Democrats. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., pro posed a plan in 2003 to allow natu ralized citizens who have lived in the United State for 35 years to run Senate campaigns diverge on subject of negative ads BY EMMA BURGIN STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR While the new batch of ads in North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race has yet to air, pundits say the hype surrounding them is sure to set the tone for the remaining six weeks of campaigning. Democratic candidate Erskine Bowles extended a peaceful hand to his opponent Wednesday, pledging in a letter that he would not be the first to run any attack ads. Bowles’ request came on the heels of an article in political newspaper The Hill, in which Republican candidate Richard Burr said voters can prepare for “skin to rip and blood to flow” dur ing the remaining weeks of the campaign. Carlos Monje, press secretary for Bowles’ campaign, said Bowles did not receive any direct response from Burr. “(Burr’s campaign) went ahead and started running the negative ads,” he said. “We’re going to respond —and I don’t want to reveal our strat egy, but you’re going to see a response.” Burr’s campaign did not return phone calls by press time. Ferrel Guillory, director of UNC’s Program on Politics, Media and Southern Life, said that North Carolina has a “long, unfortunate” history of attack ads and that this race is shaping up to be similar. “This has been going on for a while in this campaign,” he said. “The voters have grown tired of it. At the same time, voters do Mg (Jar Hrel for president. It was co-sponsored by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. The proposal now is pending in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sen. Don Nickles, R-Okla., decided to take a different approach on the issue by focusing on adopt ed citizens. The bill he introduced Feb. 25,2004, would not require a change in the Constitution. He suggests that the term “nat ural-born citizen” be defined to include children of American par ents who were adopted before age 18. His bill was co-sponsored by Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. The premise behind the Founding Fathers’ decision to pre vent foreign takeover is outdated, many say, and some officials are trying to change with the times. “It is in the Constitution because they were afraid a European mon arch, like the Duke of York, would be sent to take over,” Thpia said. The position of president is the only government job that only can be held by a natural-bom citizen. There are many naturalized citi zens holding lower offices. Lewis said Rohrabacher did not make the proposal to specifi cally help California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, bom in Austria, into the Oval Office, but to benefit all naturalized citizens. “Schwarzenegger has helped raise the issue,” he said. “He’s run ning a state that’s like running a country. He sets a good example.” Contact the State and National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. indeed watch them. The hit upon an opponent seeps into the voters’ unconscious.” But Guillory also said that until recently, this year’s race has featured mostly positive commercials. Burr has featured his wife, Brooke, and his father in ads. And Bowles has related stories about losing his father and sister to Lou Gehrig’s disease to raise awareness about health care in the state. Bowles, who lost a bid in 2002 for the seat vacated by Republican Sen. Jesse Helms, is leading Burr in the polls by 10 percentage points. In a Survey USA poll taken from Sept. 6 to Sept. 9 for WBTV in Charlotte and WTVD in Durham, Bowles garnered 50 percent of voter support; Burr gained 40 percent. Guillory said Bowles now' is enjoying a lead in this race because he ran a clean campaign against Sen. Elizabeth Dole in 2002. “Most people felt that the 2002 Senate race mostly stayed within the bounds,” he said. “Both sides hit the other side to some extent.... (Bowles) sim ply got beat by a major national figure who came back to the state to run for the Senate.” Contact the State CJ National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. CORRECTIONS ■ Due to an editing error, the Sept. 8 article “Panel allots $7,000 for Keyes talk” stated that the honorarium for conservative speaker and constitutional scholar Ann Coulter, who came to campus last school year for a speech, was $25,000. It actually was $20,000. ■ Due to a reporting error, the Sept. 16 article “Committee kicks off fee discussion” stated that fee increases can take effect without the approval of the UNC-system Board of Governors if they are at or below the inflation rate of 3.2 percent. It should have stated that the inflation rate is 2.3 percent. ■ Due to a reporting error, a photo caption accompanying the Sept. 16 article “Soccer league looks to regain footing” stated that The Daily Tar Heel file photo was taken by Ashley Pitt. It actually was taken by Garrett Hall. ■ Due to a reporting error, the Sept. 14 article “Larceny leads to murder arrest” misstated the name of Corp. Anthony Westbrook II as Anthony Westerbrook. To report corrections, contact Managing Editor Chris Coletta at ccolettaOemail.unc.edu. ®ljp laiLj (Bar Brrl P.O. Box 3257, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 Michelle Jarboe, Editor, 962-4086 Advertising & Business, 962-1163 News, Features, Sports, 962-0245 One copy per person; additional copies may be purchased at The Daily Tar Heel for $.25 each. O 2004 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved
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