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Sattg alar Hrrl CITY BRIEFS Carrboro police search for men in armed robbery case Carrboro police are searching for suspects in connection with an armed robbery that took place late Sunday night on Lorraine Street. According to reports, two people were walking down Lorraine Street about 10:30 p.m. when a tan-col ored vehicle pulled up from behind them with its lights off. Two men got out of the car and approached them, reports state. One of the men held a black and silver pistol, which he kept at his side. One suspect asked the vic tims, “What do you have?” and then one victim gave the man his wallet and S4O in cash, reports state. The other victim told the men she had nothing, according to reports. The suspects then got back into the car and drove away. The incident was reported when one victim called 911 after return ing home, reports state. Shortly after 11 p.m., a Carrboro police officer noticed three men in a grey Chevy Malibu that seemed to match the descriptions given by the victims. According to reports, police fol lowed the vehicle to Ridgewood Apartments. The vehicle then pulled away at a high rate of speed. Police executed a high-risk stop on the vehicle on Jones Ferry Road near N.C. 54, reports state. “A high-risk stop is executed when there is thought to be a potentially dangerous situation,” said Lt. Jim Phillips of Carrboro police. After the stop, the vehicle’s occu pants were placed in detention and questioned. No weapons or evidence of a robbery were found, so police released the men, reports state. The case is under further inves tigation. The victim said the suspects had red bandannas covering their faces and were also wearing black hats or do-rags, reports state. Anyone with information may call Carrboro police at 918-7397. Chapel Hill police continue search for hit-and-run driver The Chapel Hill Police Department is still looking for the driver of a hit and run incident that occurred at 1:20 a.m. Saturday on Merritt Mill Road. Police met the victim, Jeffery Peter Milliar, 19, at UNC Hospitals. A spokeswoman for UNC Hospitals said Milliar is no longer at the hos pital. Milliar was unable to give a description of the vehicle, reports state. There were no witnesses to the incident. GMIPfJS BRIEFS Student's laptop stolen from room in Ehringhaus A student’s laptop computer was stolen from her residence hall room Saturday, according to University police reports. Ashley Gordon, a sophomore biology major, said her laptop was stolen from her room in Ehringhaus Residence Hall after she left campus for the weekend, reports state. Reports state that Gordon, who left campus Friday, received a phone call from her roommate about midnight Saturday inform ing her of the theft. CD player stolen from car in park-and-ride lot Friday Police responded to multiple calls reporting larceny of a car CD player Friday morning at the Friday Center parking lot, located off N.C. 54, according to University police reports. Police arrived about 11:30 a.m. and found a 1994 Acura with a broken passenger side window. Reports state that a CD player val ued at S3OO was stolen from the car. The incident marked the second incident breaking and entering and larceny in one week at the parking lot. There are no suspects in the case. mmmm Thursday Vote Carolina, a nonpartisan student group dedi cated to registering, educating and mobilizing UNC students for the upcoming elections, will hold its first volunteer meeting at 7 p.m. in 209 Manning Hall. Oct. 2 The Arthritis Foundation is holding its first arthritis walk in Chapel Hill’s Meadowmont Village. The walk will take place from 9 a.m. to noon, with registra tion beginning at 8 a.m. Arthritis affects more than 2 million North Carolinians. Money raised by the event will go to arthritis treatment and research. From staff'and wire reports. Groups celebrate new Latino minor New program to focus on diversity BY LAUREN HARRIS STAFF WRITER An accomplished speaker, a student salsa performance and hot Latin music marked the inau guration of the College of Arts & Sciences’ new Latina-Latino Studies minor Monday night. The event, which took place in the Toy Lounge of Dey Hall, “Whether in a roomfall of 18 third-graders 0r ... a jury box , we want to persuade them, inform them and ... motivate them.” mary easley, nc isuady -*T 1 1 ■ ,rnu iMßii/JK * w^bmb aik - m S' " “*’ ’ '^SSfc DTH/SARA LEWKOWICZ N.C. first lady Mary Easley answers reporters' questions Monday evening after speaking to teacher interns and their mentors at Meredith College in Raleigh. Easley's husband, Gov. Mike Easley, is taking on former N.C. Sen. Patrick Ballantine in his re-election bid. Easley chats up educators State’s first lady offers advice and praises her husband’s school policy BY ERIC JOHNSON STAFF WRITER RALEIGH N.C. first lady Mary Easley offered a wealth of support and advice Monday night to a crowd of teacher interns and their mentors at Meredith College. Easley, a law professor at N.C. Central University and a former county prosecutor, spoke of the similarities between the class room and the courtroom. “TVial lawyers and teachers share a lot of the same goals,” she said. “The whole time, we are before our audience. Whether in a room full of 18 third-graders or 12 citizens in a jury box, we want to persuade them, inform them, and most of all, motivate them.” She told the crowd of current and future educators that passion is perhaps the most important thing they can bring into the classroom. “Enthusiasm is an absolutely essential part of being able to achieve your objectives with those children every year,” she said. “You have got to be careful. You’re going to be rolling off great enthusiasm, but you can’t maintain that level forever. This isn’t a sprint, this is a cross-country race.” Those in attendance, all participants in Road renaming panel searches for facilitator BY JAKE POTTER STAFF WRITER The citizen advisory committee created by the Chapel Hill Town Council to consider renaming Airport Road will delay its first meeting indefinitely, Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy said Monday. The committee was scheduled to start Thursday, but Foy said the process of finding a facilitator for the meetings will cause the com mittee to delay its first meeting. At its Sept. 13 meeting, the council appointed members to the special committee and voted to explore options for the hiring of a facilitator. Foy said the meetings likely will begin in early October. Town Clerk Joyce Smith sent let ters to appointed committee mem bers last Tuesday that informed them of their selection but did not specify a starting date. Foy said the committee would be responsible for setting the dates and times of its meetings. In his Sept. 13 proposal to the council, Foy said employing a facilitator would help organize the committee’s meetings. But some council members had expressed concerns about Foy’s Top News featured appearances by the UNC Music Department’s new est ensemble, Charanga Carolina, along with Que Rico and the Ricardo Granillo Group. Frances Aparicio, professor and director of the Latin American and Latino Studies program at the University of Illinois-Chicago, commenced the event with a pre- Meredith College’s Teaching Fellows pro gram, seemed to take the message to heart. “It was very moving,” said Melanie Allen, a intern from Raleigh. “She’s a remarkable lady.” Susan Shearin, a mentor at Carver Elementary School in Wendell, said, “She gives really good advice about balancing your teaching and your personal life. I was glad to hear her talk about that.” The challenge of recruiting and keeping qualified teachers has been a key initiative for Easley and a growing concern for North Carolina. Nationally, retaining new teachers is diffi cult. More than one quarter of all new educa tors leave the field after less than three years. Some N.C. counties, particularly those in low-income regions, lose more than 20 per cent of their teachers every year. “The problem that we have in North Carolina is that we produce 3,100 teachers a year, yet we need to hire approximately 10,000 per year,” said Mike McLaughlin, editor of Ihe journal of the N.C. Center for Public Policy Research. “It’s not a problem that has developed overnight, but it’s past time that we began to address it.” proposal because it only provided the option of one facilitator. Foy projected the cost of hiring some one for the position to be between $15,000 and $25,000. Town Manager Cal Horton said the council instructed the mayor to work with him to seek recommen dations for the facilitator. “The committee has received information from a number (of possible facilitators) at this point,” he said. Horton, who will oversee the hiring of the facilitator, will make a report to the council on Monday, said council member Sally Greene, who is also on the committee. Greene also said she has talked with a few prospective facilitators. “I expect there will be a few others in the next few days,” Foy said. The local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People first brought the issue of possibly renaming Airport Road to honor Martin Luther King Jr. to the council last year. The council held a series of pub lic forums, which set off a wave of public reaction. SEE FACILITATOR, PAGE 5 sentation on HBO’s hit series, “Six Feet Under.” The series explores the relation ships between a white family who owns and operates a Los Angeles funeral home and its Hispanic cli ents, friend and employee. After playing a segment of the show to the 50 people in atten dance, Aparicio discussed common misconceptions about Latino cul ture in America She emphasized the diversity In her speech, Easley praised her hus band, Gov. Mike Easley, for continuing to support teachers’ pay raises in the midst of an economic downturn. She also applauded his efforts to reduce class size by setting a cap of 18 students per classroom in first, second and third grades. JB Buxton, senior education adviser to the governor, commented about the first lady’s consistent support for programs such as Teaching Fellows and her involvement with teacher recruiting Web site Teach4NC.org. “The great thing about the first lady is that she is a teacher herself,” Buxton said. “She is a public school parent, a teacher at North Carolina Central, and so she has a great understanding of the issues.” Toni Parker, director of the Teaching Fellows program at Meredith College and the host of Monday’s event, echoed that sentiment. “I always like it when our first family’s children are in public schools,” she said. “It sends a clear message that they support pub lic schools.” Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. Higher ed shaky on voter test BY JENNY RUBY STAFF WRITER When it comes to voter registra tion, most universities across the country aren’t making the grade. According to a survey conducted by the Harvard University Institute of Politics and The Chronicle of Higher Education, 51 percent of col leges and universities surveyed gave themselves a grade of B when assess ing their “effectiveness at registering voters.” More than 37 percent gave themselves a grade of C or lower. “It was what we were expect ing based on conversations with university administrators and students around the country,” said David King, associate director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics, who conducted the study. Official survey responses from individual schools are not available to the public, King said, but many UNC administrators said they would give the University at least a B. “I’m a pretty tough grader, but I think we’re at an A-,” said Provost Robert Shelton. “My sense is there are huge numbers of opportuni ties for students to register here on campus.” Between Aug. 6 and Aug. 25, a link to the Web-based 23-question survey was sent to 815 top university SEE VOTING, PAGE 5 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2004 of Spanish-speaking groups in the United States and the fact that many Americans tend to think of them as one group. But Aparicio said there is a lot of diversity among different nationalities, and the HBO series explores the cultural divides and heterogeneity among Latinos in Los Angeles. Maria Deguzman, the pro gram’s director, said she hopes the minor will educate students on the Pm'isSy*.& ■SR l.i ~ Mlfci li DTH/ALUSON MONEY Sophomore Jason Baker registers voters Monday afternoon in the Pit. A recent survey gave higher education low marks for voter registration. diversity and prepare them for the workforce, in which knowledge of Latino issues will prove valuable. “The health and human ser vice industries are not adequately prepared (to care for Latinos),” Deguzman said. Aparicio’s presentation was immediately followed by a salsa performance from Que Rico and Charanga Carolina. SEE LATINO STUDIES, PAGE 5 Energy policy splits parties Offer 2 solutions to same problems BY AMY THOMSON ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR In the race for the presidency, the environment is a priority, hydrogen is the fuel of the future and oil is power. Republicans and Democrats are largely united in their stances on oil and energy issues. But some oil and energy experts have expressed con cern that neither party is address ing the issues or has come up with a realistic plan of action. Both parties agree that the nation’s reli ance on Middle Eastern oil is a major vul nerability. The THE CAPITOL DIVIDE A ten-part series on major issues that could divide the electorate. Today: Oil/energy issues United States imports about 10 million barrels of oil per day, 23 percent of which comes from the Persian Gulf. Poe Leggette, a partner in the Fulbright & Jaworski law firm who regularly counsels oil, gas and min ing companies, said that even if the reforms posed by the two parties were put into place, the nation would still need to import oil. “Realistically, we are going to be dependent on imported oil for a long time,” Leggette said. But the Republican Party wants to find domestic oil in the controver sial Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on the coastal plain of Alaska. The Republican national plat form claims that the area holds enough oil to replace imports from Saudi Arabia for 20 years. The Democratic Party, on the • other hand, would look to other nations like Russia, Canada and areas in the Gulf of Mexico and Africa to replace imports from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, an 11-mem ber conglomerate featuring many countries from the Middle East. Democrats say the reliance on oil from OPEC is one of the reasons gas prices have risen recently. “The more oil you have in the market, the lower the gas pric es are going to go,” said Ashley Turton, spokeswoman for the Kerry-Edwards campaign in North SEE ENERGY ISSUES, PAGE 5 3
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