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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2004
Candidates debate pensions
Meyer, Moore run
for treasury spot
BY ANH LY
STAFF WRITER
The two candidates for state
treasurer might come from diverse
backgrounds, but they do have
one goal in common: to give their
opponent a run for his money on
Election Day.
Richard Moore, the Democratic
incumbent who was elected in
2000, has a tough Republican
competitor in Ed Meyer.
The state treasurer is respon
sible for ensuring the fiscal health
of the state and serves as the
state’s banker and chief invest
ment official.
The treasurer also is responsible
for more than S7O billion in public
monies and state investments and
the pension funds for more than
700,000 state employees.
Moore said he deserves to be re
elected because his record shows
that he has managed the taxpay
ers’ money in a prudent and effi
cient way.
“During my tenure as state trea
surer, I have done an excellent job
of managing the s7l billion of pub
lic funds entrusted to this office,”
Moore said in a prepared state-
Race focuses on workplace safety
Berry, Goodwin vie for labor position
BY KAVITA PILLAI
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
The race for N.C. commissioner
of labor has become a bitter war of
statistics, with each candidate dis
puting what the numbers mean for
workplace safety in the state.
Challenger Rep. Wayne
Goodwin, D-Richmond, said he
believes the state to be one of
the worst in the nation as far as
workplace accidents and deaths.
He also said the commissioner of
labor should be more involved in
the economy of the state.
He is running to unseat incum
bent Republican Cherie Berry.
“During this administration,
there have been too many plant
explosions, too many workplace
accidents and deaths and too many
job losses,” Goodwin said.
The commissioner of labor is the
head of the Department of Labor,
which is responsible for policies
associated with workers and the
workplace.
Its most important function is
as a regulatory agency. The depart
ment is responsible for ensur
ing that the more than 220,000
employment sites in the state com
ply with the safety standards of the
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration.
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Republican Ed Meyer and
Democrat Richard Moore are
vying to be the state's banker.
ment.
“I will continue to invest the
public employees pension funds
in a fiscally conservative man
ner.”
Julie White, spokeswoman for
the Moore campaign, said that
under Moore’s leadership, North
Carolina had the second best pen
sion funds in the United States.
But Meyer disagrees, saying
that the value of the public-pen
sion fund has declined by almost
$lO billion under Moore’s leader
ship.
“If I were state treasurer, I would
have advocated this so strongly that
this would not have happened,”
Meyer said.
Meyer also voices concern
about how Moore funds his cam
paign. Meyer argues that there
is a major problem with the way
campaigns are funded, and that
tigations into violations, inspects
the state’s mines and quarries and
deals with employee discrimina
tion and wage and hour assistance,
said Juan Santos, a spokesman for
Berry’s office.
The commissioner also signs off
on the safety of all elevators in the
state.
Goodwin said, if elected, he
would focus more resources on
Spanish-language training for
Hispanic construction workers,
some of the most at-risk workers
in the state for workplace injuries
and deaths.
He said he would work to pass
legislation that he introduced as a
representative to provide special
training for Hispanic workers for
construction companies.
In exchange for putting their
workers through the program,
employers would receive a three
year reduction or waiver of certain
OSHA fines and penalties.
Currently, the Department of
Labor has a mobile training unit
that travels the state at the request
of construction companies.
Santos said the number of
Hispanic workplace fatalities
dropped from 25 in 2002 to 21
in 2003, adding that the depart
ment is conducting a forum for
Hispanic construction workers in
“(Ed Meyer) is taking campaign money
from the same companies that fund
public pension. It’s a conflict of interest.”
RICHARD MOORE, democratic candidate for state treasurer
Moore has not advocated this
issue during his tenure as state
treasurer.
“He is taking campaign money
from the same companies that
fund public pension,” Moore said.
“It’s a conflict of interest.”
But Meyer chooses to fund his
campaign through the generosity
of friends, family and other sup
porters.
While Moore was unavailable
to comment on this issue, White
said funding from those compa
nies helps the candidates reveal to
voters exactly what they stand for
so they can make a well-informed
choice Nov. 2.
“The treasurer wishes we had
a better system,” White said. “But
until we do, we have to raise the
money to get the message out.”
The candidates’ backgrounds
differ as widely as their platforms.
Richard Moore is a born-and
bred North Carolinian who grew
up in Granville County.
He attended Wake Forest
University and graduated from
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Republican Cherie Berry and
Democrat Wayne Goodwin are
running for commissioner of labor.
November.
But Goodwin maintains that
the state is the ninth worst in the
nation for workplace accidents
“Until October of this year, the
Department of Labor said that we
continued to have the best safety
record ever,” Goodwin said.
“They admitted 10 months into
2004 that actually, in 2003, acci
dents went up, workplace deaths
went up, workplace accidents went
up, the number of Hispanic deaths
went up.”
But Santos disputed Goodwin’s
claims, citing statistics showing
that the N.C. injury and illness rate
was four out of every 100,000 full
time employees. He said the figure
is the lowest in the history of the
state.
He admitted that the number
of workplace fatalities increased
from 169 in 2002 to 182 in 2003,
but attributed this in part to an air
plane crash in Charlotte last year
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Wake Forest Law School.
He also earned a degree in
accounting and finance from the
London School of Economics.
On the other end is Ed Meyer,
a California native of Mexican
descent.
He graduated from Stanford
University with a degree in inter
national studies and then attended
graduate school at Georgetown
University.
But both men have extensive
experience that qualifies them for
the position of state treasurer.
Moore has served as a fed
eral prosecutor, a member of the
N.C. House of Representatives
and as the secretary of the N.C.
Department of Crime Control and
Public Safety.
Meyer is a former member of
the Reagan administration and
the Social Security Administration
and helped pass the Tax Reform
Act of 1986.
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that claimed 21 lives. Twelve of the
deaths were considered workplace
deaths.
The year also was marked by
a plant explosion in Kinston that
killed six people.
“I’m sure Mr. Goodwin is going
to put our fatality figures in a cer
tain slant of light,” Santos said.
Santos said the commissioner
has worked with the private sector
since the beginning of her term to
increase awareness of the problems
with workplace safety and that she
created a Hispanic safety task force
as soon as she took office.
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Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
Town prepares for weekend
BY BRANDON REED
STAFF WRITER
Town personnel are preparing for
Halloween, but deciding which char
acters of “Reservoir Dogs” they will
be might not be on their to-do list.
The Chapel Hill police, fire and
transportation departments and
Orange County Emergency Medical
Services are gearing up for another
busy Halloween on Franklin Street
Chapel Hill police officer Phil
Smith said officials expect about
70,000 people to visit Franklin
Street this year. Last year, a record
78,000 people attended, he said.
Smith said police will increase
the number of officers on-hand to
340. He said that officials do not
want to be short-handed and that
based on last year’s attendance,
they will need more officers.
Smith could not comment on
the number of officers who would
not be in uniform.
He also urged students not to
consume more alcohol than they
can handle and asked that students
be patient with officers, especially
at checkpoints.
“Come out, have fun and enjoy
the event,” Smith said.
Many items are prohibited by
town ordinances, including alco
holic beverages, coolers, glass hot-
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Seniors begin
planning for
9/11 memorial
Donations already being collected
BY AL KILLEFFER
STAFF WRITER
On the morning of Sept.
11, 2001, Dora Menchaca, an
associate director of clinical
research at Amgen Inc., boarded
American Airlines Flight 77 to
Los Angeles.
Her flight home was cut tragi
cally short when terrorist hijack
ers crashed her plane into the
Pentagon.
On the same day, Karleton Fyfe,
a senior analyst at John Hancock,
boarded American Airlines Flight
11. His flight was the first of two
planes to crash into the World
Trade Center.
In the north tower, where the
first plane hit at 8:45 a.m., Ryan
Kohart was going through his day
as an equities trader for the firm
Cantor Fitzgerald.
Andrew King was also in that
building, carrying out his duties as
president of the company’s ESpeed
desk. Neither man knew that the
tower would collapse at 10:28
a.m.
In the south tower, hit by
United Airlines Flight 175 from
Boston at 9:03 a.m., Christopher
Quackenbush oversaw the day’s
developments at Sandler O’Neill,
an investment banking firm he
helped to establish.
A few floors below him, Mary
Lou Hague was working as a
financial analyst at the investment
banking firm Keefe, Bruyette, and
Woods when the building collapsed
at 10:05 a.m., clouding lower
Manhattan with dust and debris.
All six victims of the Sept. 11,
2001 attacks were UNC alumni.
On Tuesday, members of the
class of 2005 voted to construct a
9/11 memorial garden in honor of
the alumni as their senior gift to
the University. Planning is already
underway.
ties, paint, fireworks and explosives,
animals, flammable substances and
weapons, Smith said.
If officers see these items, the
owner will have to deposit the items
in a bin or will be asked to leave.
Vehicles should not be parked
on Franklin Street after 3 p.m., and
towing will begin at 6 p.m.
After 9 p.m., downtown streets
will be closed to vehicular traffic
except for downtown residents and
their guests.
Shuttle buses will run from 9
p.m. to 2 a.m. from the Jones Ferry
Road, Southern Village, N.C. 54
and University Mall park-and-ride
lots. Buses will run continuously
from these locations. Round-trip
tickets will cost $5, and one-way
will cost $3.
Franklin Street will be closed
between Raleigh and Mallette
streets. Columbia Street will aLso be
shut down from Rosemary Street
to Cameron Avenue. To allow for a
shuttle drop off, Raleigh Street also
will be closed from East Franklin
Street to Cameron Avenue.
EMS will set up field hospi
tals to deal with problems. They
will be located at Hill Hall and
near the intersection of Church
and Rosemary streets, said Kent
McKenzie, EMS Emergency
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Brandon Neal, a member of the
senior class fund-raising commit
tee, said the garden will consist of
flowers, benches and a memorial
plaque.
“We want to have one (bench)
for each of the six,” Neal said.
He added that everything will
depend on space and budget limi
tations, noting that the project is
still in its nascent stage.
The garden will be modeled
after the recently inaugurated
Wellstone Garden located next
to Murphey Hall, said Katisha
Newkirk, associate director of
annual giving in the Office of
Development.
Senior Class Vice President
Becca Frucht also is working with
the fund-raising committee and
the development office to address
issues that will determine the gar
den’s future.
Frucht explained that students
already can donate to the fund at
http://seniors.unc.edu/ with their
UNC ONE Card. She added that
officials hope to secure a signifi
cant number of donations through
a phone pledge drive.
Senior class leaders will host a
small kickoff for the project Nov. 2
in the Pit.
The event will provide students
with more information on the proj
ect and donation methods, Frucht
said.
“The real push to have seniors
donate will be second semester,”
she said.
“Right now we’re building the
structure and strategy to market
the.gift”
In addition, Newkirk said offi
cials are planning to promote the
project during senior activities and
direct mailings.
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“Guys dress up
in drag, they
can’t handle it,
fall and twist •
their ankles.”
KENT MCKENZIE, EMS DEPUTY DIR.
Management deputy director.
A dozen paramedics will be pres
ent to move injured students to one of
the two field hospitals. Ambulances
also will be available to take students
to either UNC Hospitals or Student
Health Services.
Historically, 80 percent of
Halloween patients have been
treated for alcohol poisoning,
McKenzie said. The other 20 per
cent consists of people with minor
cuts, bruises and sprains.
“Guys dress up in drag, they
can’t handle it, fall and twist their
ankles,” McKenzie said.
Fire teams will be on foot with fire
extinguishers to deal with small fires,
Chapel Hill Fire Marshal Caprice
Mellon said, adding that they will
also ensure that clubs, restaurants
and bars are not overcrowded and
are in compliance with fire codes.
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
CORRECTIONS
Due to reporting errors, the Oct.
27 article “This Roy's Life”:
■ States that men’s basketball
coach Roy Williams was wearing a
towel on his shoulder. Williams actu
ally had a Homecoming T-shirt.
■ States that Williams was late
to the event due to basketball prac
tice. In fact, the coach could not
find a parking spot.
■ States that Williams referred to
a time he spent “in a Hampton Inn
for 11 months.” Williams actually said
he spent 11 weeks in such hotels.
■ States that Williams said he
“is” mad at basketball player Rashad
McCants; Williams said he “was”
mad. Williams also said McCants is
“exhilarating” to coach.
To report corrections, contact Managing Editor
Chris Coletta at ccoletta@email.unc.edu.
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