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CAMPUS BRIEFS
Eight groups receive funding
from Finance Committee
The Finance Committee of
Student Congress scrutinized
binding requests from eight groups
and approved total allocations of
$6,477-98 Tbesday night.
The Finance Committee allocat
ed $4,200 to student publication
Cellar Door for printing costs.
The Board of Elections was
granted $350, including SIOO for
programming purposes —a vital
fund, members said, after the
controversy that hit campus last
spring during the student election
season.
The Student Environmental
Action Coalition was granted
SSOO to bring two speakers for
UNC’s Environmental Awareness
Week.
The Muslim Students
Association was allocated funds
for improved office supplies to
enhance its Discover Islam Series
posters, which provide information
for Islamic Awareness Week.
Carolina Mock Trial was granted
$538 for its regional and national
competition fees.
Three groups were denied fund
ing: the Carolina Production Guild,
the Persian Cultural Society and the
Pakistani Students Association.
Electronic equipment stolen
from room in Greenlaw Hall
Electronic equipment valued at
$712.96 was reported stolen from
225 Greenlaw Hall on Friday,
according to University police
reports.
The equipment included a 27”
screen TV, a single-drawer DVD/
CD player, a four-head hi-fi VCR
and the corresponding cables,
reports state.
The equipment was last secure
at 2 p.m. Sept. 29. The incident is
under investigation, according to
reports.
CITY BRIEFS
Local man charged with
possession, intent to sell
A Chapel Hill resident was
arrested on the corner of East
Franklin and South Columbia
streets Monday and charged with
possession with intent to sell and
distribute cocaine, Chapel Hill
police reports state.
Mario Louis Schaffer, 29, was
arrested at 2:50 p.m. with 2.8
grams of crack cocaine, which
were split into 20 individual rocks,
reports state.
According to reports, narcotics
investigators observed Schaffer
attempting to sell the cocaine,
which he pulled out of his pants.
Schaffer is listed in the UNC
directory as a housekeeper in the
Facilities Services Division of the
University.
He was held at the Orange
County Jail on a secured $5,000
bond but was released Tuesday
afternoon. He was set to appear in
the Orange County District Court
in Hillsborough on Tuesday.
N.C. State student struck
in strong armed robbery
A student at N.C. State
University was the victim of a
strong armed robbery and assault
Monday evening as he crossed
East Rosemary Street in front of
Warehouse Apartments, Chapel
Hill police reports state.
According to reports, Wyatt
Tucker, 21, of Raleigh, and a friend
were walking across the street at
around 10:50 p.m. with a case of
beer when an unknown suspect
approached them and demanded
the alcohol.
When Tucker refused several
times to hand over the beer, the
suspect struck him in the head with
a closed fist, reports state.
According to reports, the suspect
then got into a vehicle and drove
away. The vehicle was described as
a Jeep, reports state.
Police spokeswoman Jane
Cousins said strong armed rob
beries occur when a suspect doesn’t
have a weapon.
STATE S NATION
Republicans move House to
reject military draft bill
WASHINGTON - House
Republicans sought to quash a
persistent Internet rumor that the
government will reinstate a military
draft after the election, engineering
an overwhelming vote Tuesday to
kill legislation they hope will put
the rumor to rest for good.
The House voted 402-2 to defeat
the draft bill offered last year by
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.
Republicans accused
Democrats of feeding the rumor
mill to scare young voters and
their parents into voting against
President Bush.
Just two lawmakers, Rep. John
Murtha, D-Pa., and Rep. Pete
Stark, D-Calif., struck off on their
own and voted for the measure.
From staff and wire reports.
County considers animal services
Department may be formed by March
BY ZACH JEPSEN
STAFF WRITER
County leaders sounded off
Tuesday night on a report that
outlines the steps to establish a
permanent county department
for animal services, praising sug
gested changes while saying the
process could be shorter.
The report, issued to the Orange
County Board of Commissioners,
recommends that the county
form a permanent animal services
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Sophomore Billy Scott writes a joke about Duke University
on one of the several Carolina blue-painted cubes
placed outside the Student Union near the Pit. Titled
“The Walk of Wokka Wokka,” the cubes are sponsored by the
Carolina Union Acivities Board for the comedic enjoyment of
UNC primes Peace Corps leaders
Ranks Jfh among recruiting colleges
BY LAURA BOST
STAFF WRITER
In 1960, Sen. John F. Kennedy
challenged students at the
University of Michigan to serve
their country in the cause of peace
by living and working in devel
oping countries —and the Peace
Corps was created.
Ever since, tens of thousands
of volunteers from universities all
across the nation have served in
137 countries, and UNC students
have been no exception.
Since the Peace Corps’ incep
tion, 883 UNC graduates have
gone overseas, including 58 who
are now abroad.
Nine others will leave this fall,
making UNC fourth among the
nation’s colleges in recruiting
Student groups unite
over races, identities
GLBTSA, BSM sponsor open forum
BY KATIE HOFFMANN
STAFF WRITER
More than 40 students of vari
ous races and sexual orientations
joined forces Tuesday night to dis
cuss issues relevant to being black
and gay.
Members of the Gay Lesbian
Bisexual Transgender-Straight
Alliance and the Black Student
Movement gathered for the first
time to attend an open forum spon
sored by the two groups.
Asa part of GLBTSAs “Coming
Out” week, the event was one of
many scheduled to educate and
inform students about issues
involving lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender individuals.
“Overall, our goal this year is to
make a safe place on this campus,”
said Christina Delane, co-chair
woman of the Outreach Committee
on GLBTSA.
Members of the GLBTSA spe
cifically addressed the feelings of
isolation and separation that some
times are associated with being
both a sexual and racial minority
at the University.
Top Nows
department by March 1. Animal
services were previously managed
by the Animal Protection Society,
a private organization, until the
county took control of the shelter
July 1.
The report, issued by a county
task force, also recommends the
appointment of an animal services
director by Jan. 1.
The director would oversee both
the shelter and the animal services
department.
DOWNING THE DEVILS
volunteers.
George Leamon, a 2004 UNC
graduate and former senior class
president, joined the Peace Corps
for adventure and a chance for per
sonal growth.
He was accepted into a 27-
month commitment as an envi
ronmental sanitation promoter in
the Dominican Republic.
After three months of train
ing, Leamon will be sent to a rural
Dominican community, where
he will work to improve drinking
water and sanitation facilities and
to promote health education. For
now, though, he spends his days
in intense language training in the
capital, Santo Domingo.
“We have to go through about
200 hours of language training,”
“We’re both minorities, and
we’re both definitely oppressed on
this campus,” Delane said.
The two co-chairmen of the
BSM’s Embrace Committee,
Aaron Watson and Terrence Smith,
stressed that the BSM’s goal this
year is to accept all students.
“We’re not looking to endorse
any particular beliefs,” Watson said.
“But we want to make sure all the
lifestyles in our organization are
heard and represented.”
Students who attended the
meeting agreed it was a first step
in furthering communication
between the two groups and dis
cussing issues that concern mem
bers of both organizations.
“This was an important oppor
tunity for BSM to demonstrate its
willingness to truly be accepting
of the diverse lifestyle and beliefs
that embody its membership,”
said Dimia Fogam, a member of
BSM.
Several members of GLBTSA
agreed that the event was a major
SEE GLBSTA, PAGE 5
The task force’s suggestions also
include ways to improve the qual
ity of care in the county’s animal
shelter and to keep the popula
tion of animals in the shelter at
low levels.
“The transition from indirect to
direct responsibility has gone very
well,” said Commissioner Moses
Carey Jr.
But Carey also said he wants to
see the situation end sooner rather
than later.
“The pressure’s off, but not off,”
he said.
Commissioner Stephen
the campus. The cubes will be available from Oct. 4 to Oct.
22 as blank canvases on which the University community can
write its jokes. While students are free to write general jokes,
one section of the cubes is dedicated for jokes about Duke,
while another has space for jokes about the 2004 election.
Leamon said. “I’m in class about
four hours a day almost every day,
learning Spanish.”
Leamon said the majority of his
lessons are conversation-based
and focus on practical application
of the language.
“We learned vocabulary about
going to the store, and then we
had to go to the (market) to buy
groceries for a dinner we are cook
ing tonight with our host mothers,”
Leamon said.
After four weeks of language
training, Leamon will go to anew
site for project training, where he
will learn to identify water sources
and build aqueducts.
Two more weeks in the capital,
and Leamon will be sworn in as
a full-fledged Peace Corps volun
teer.
“There is going to be a lot more
liberty as a volunteer than as a
Talk examines racial issues
BY WILLIAM FONVIELLE
STAFF WRITER
A dialogue regarding what
are perceived as the “other” races
brought the issue of American
race relations into a broader focus
TYiesday night.
About 50 students filled the
Student Union Auditorium to ask
questions to a panel of students
and faculty members about what
it is like to be a member of a race
not defined as black or white.
“Any step toward improving race
relations is a positive one,” said lan
Kibbe, a senior communication
studies major. “This is an issue
that needs to be taken out into the
larger Carolina community.”
As part of Race Relations
Week 2004, the Students for the
Advancement of Race Relations
—a subcommittee of the Campus
Y co-sponsored the event with
the Asian Students Association and
N.p. Fellows.
The event opened with a set of
filmed interviews regarding race
relations at UNC. Soon after, senior
Amon Anderson, a representative
of N.C. Fellows, took the stage to
introduce the panel composed of
officials who take minority issues
to heart.
Terri Houston, director of on
campus recruitment and support
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2004
Halkiotis said the shelter’s staff
has grown restless while waiting
for an end to its ordeal.
“There is a certain degree of
impatience out there,” Halkiotis
said.
The path to county control of
its animal services has been a long
one. APS and its most vocal critics,
Judith Reitman and Elliot Cramer,
feuded for more than two years
over shelter operations under
APS before the county intervened
in July.
Hopes are high that the county
control of animal services will
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trainee,” Leamon said.
“But there will be a lot more
responsibility, too. It’s going to
be difficult to be out there on my
own.”
Ryan Reid, a 2001 UNC gradu
ate and Peace Corps volunteer, has
done his job on his own. He said
it is not as difficult as one might
expect.
“Volunteers are on their own,
but they are backed up by a large
support network,” Reid said. “It
just depends on how much the
volunteer wants to depend on that
support.”
Reid, who worked in an agri
culture and forestry program in
the Dominican Republic for two
years, now serves as a sector coor
dinator for his program in Santo
Domingo.
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Sumeet Banker (left) talks at a panel discussion focusing on what it's like to
be a race other than white or black in the Union Auditorium on Tuesday.
for the Office of Minority Affairs,
opened the discussion by under
scoring the importance of the
opportunity to have real dialogue.
“Two people can have differ
ent viewpoints ... on the exact
same subject, and that’s healthy,”
she said. “It’s when we talk about
diversity and when we become
angry that we need these oppor
tunities.”
bring about more thorough care
than was previously possible.
“We’re talking about building
the best animal service program
in the country,” Carey said.
Gwen Harvey, assistant county
manager, said that in order to
accomplish this goal, the county
must diligently prevent overpopu
lation at the shelter.
“We want to see what we can do
to encourage people to spray and
neuter their animals,” Harvey said.
To prevent unnecessary eutha-
SEE SHELTER, PAGE 5
Police
groups
endorse
Easley
Incumbent leads
polls after debate
BY ARENDELL CARLTON
STAFF WRITER
Three police organizations lent
a hand to Gov. Mike Easley on
Monday when they endorsed the
Democrat in his bid for re-election.
Easley, who served as a district
attorney and North Carolina’s
attorney general before being
elected, received the groups’ sup
port on the day of his first debate
with Republican candidate Patrick
Ballantine.
The endorsements came on the
same day as anew poll showing
Easley expanding his large lead
over Ballantine, who attacked the
governor’s law enforcement record
Monday in hopes of closing the
gap.
In a Mason-Dixon poll released
Monday, Easley leads Ballantine
with the support of 53 percent of
registered voters, compared to 36
percent for Ballantine. The poll
surveyed 625 likely voters ancl has
a margin of error of plus or minus
4 percent.
Now, Easley is counting on the
police endorsements to further
boost his support.
“There are many law enforce
ment advocates in North Carolina,
so I think that if these people see
that Governor Easley is an advocate
of law enforcement, it will be a pos
itive for his campaign,” said Andrea
Mournighan, a legislative assis
tant for the National Association
of Police Organizations, which
endorsed the governor.
The N.C. Coalition of Police,
a combination of 10 police labor
unions, also endorsed Easley.
“We feel that Easley has done
a good job for the working class
and for first responders in North
Carolina,” said David Spagnola,
the coalition’s director. “With his
campaign platform, he plans to
improve working conditions for first
responders like police officers and
firefighters, as well as teachers.”
The endorsement of law enforce
ment is especially desirable, Spagnola
said, because homeland security is
such a huge issue right now.
The third endorsement came
SEE ENDORSEMENTS, PAGE 5
One question, asked by an Asian
woman in the audience, dealt with
the issue of whether whites should
consider Asians to be minorities or
simply “honorary members of the
white race.”
Judy Ising, an employee in
UNC s School of Medicine,
responded by saying that Asians,
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