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Diversity subcommittee
discusses faculty issues
The Chancellor’s Task Force
on Diversity’s faculty subcommit
tee met Friday to discuss research
questions for the evaluation of
the presence and participation of
people with different backgrounds,
experiences and perspectives in the
UNC faculty.
The group discussed questions
to assess UNC’s expression of its
commitment to diversity, its efforts
to recruit and retain from varied
backgrounds and the measures
it has taken to ensure a support
ive environment that encourages
responsible interaction.
There have been surveys on
diversity in the student body at
UNC, but none that focused on fac
ulty, said Archie Ervin, director of
the Office of Minority Affairs and
chairman of the task force.
The group had five broad-based
questions that they are to build on
and refine to develop 30 questions
pertaining specifically to matters
dealing with faculty members.
These will be presented to the
Office of Institutional Research,
and assistants will draw up and
conduct a survey from the group’s
draft of questions.
The committee’s analysis of the
survey results will be presented to
Chancellor James Moeser as rec
ommendations to better position
UNC for diversity, Ervin said.
The subcommittee plans to meet
again in November.
CITY BRIEFS
Florida resident robbed at
gunpoint in local hotel
A hotel guest at the Red Roof Inn
at 5623 Chapel Hill Blvd. was robbed
at gunpoint at 3:40 a.m. Saturday,
Chapel Hill police reports state.
According to reports, the suspect
took $l5O cash from the victim, a
34-year-old man from Florida.
There were no injuries reported,
but reports state that the victim
was under the influence of either
drugs or alcohol.
UNC student charged with
assault, other violations
A 22-year-old UNC student
was arrested at 1:13 a.m. Sunday
and charged with assault and bat
tery and resist, delay and obstruct
following an incident at Lucy’s
Restaurant on Henderson Street,
Chapel Hill police reports state.
According to reports, Michael
Raeford Cooke 11, a junior political
science major, assaulted an employ
ee and refused to obey officers.
The employee, who suffered
severe cuts in the incident, obtained
a warrant for assault, reports state.
When officers took Cooke to
the police station, they also served
outstanding warrants for delay
and obstruct and reckless driving,
reports state.
Cooke was taken to Orange
County Jail. He will appear Dec. 13
in Orange County District Criminal
Court in Hillsborough.
2 men arrested in separate
incidents at Time Out
Two men were arrested at Time
Out Restaurant in University Square
on Saturday.
About 3 a.m., a Chapel Hill man
was arrested and charged with pos
session of a handgun by a felon, a
felony offense, Chapel Hill police
reports state.
According to reports, Shawn
Leray Baldwin, 29, of 107 Creel
St., was arrested and taken to the
Orange County Jail to be held on a
$5,000 secured bond.
He will appear today at Orange
County District Criminal Court in
Hillsborough.
An employee of the Carolina
Club also was arrested at 4 a.m. and
charged with being drunk and dis
ruptive, reports state.
According to reports, Tony
Matthew Mebane, 22, of 227 N.
Graham St., was attempting to start
fights and was cursing at officers who
were tending to a prior incident.
Mebane was released on a written
promise to appear Dec. 6 in Orange
County District Criminal Court in
Hillsborough.
UNC student charged with
driving while intoxicated
A UNC student was arrested
early Friday morning on drunk
driving charges.
Susan Devane Dickson, 21, a
senior journalism major, was stopped
by police shortly after midnight after
hitting another vehicle while driving
on North Street, reports state.
Dickson is a staff member of The
Daily Tar Heel.
According to reports, Dickson
registered a .15 on the Intoxilyzer
test. She was charged with driving
while intoxicated, a misdemeanor.
Dickson was released on a writ
ten promise to appear in Chapel Hill
District Court. She is scheduled to
appear Jan. 25.
From staff reports.
Officials warn against illness
Student's condition remains serious
BY CARLY SALVADORE
STAFF WRITER
Five days after a UNC student
was diagnosed with meningococcal
meningitis, health officials still are
taking extreme precautions to pre
vent the spread of the highly conta
gious and potentially fatal disease.
Freshman Jonathan Parker
Davis was admitted Wednesday to
UNC Hospitals and diagnosed with
the bacterial infection Thursday.
Davis remains in serious con
dition, said Stephanie Crayton,
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Above: Daryl White (front left) leads a group dressed as pirates down Franklin Street during the Halloween festivities Sunday night.
Below: TJ. Roberton dances with Alex Filadelfo, an instructor for the organization Grupo Capoeira Brasil on Franklin Street on Sunday.
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BY TED STRONG
AND BLAIR RAYNOR
STAFF WRITERS
From Osama bin Laden to Noah and his ark
to Brazilian martial artists, everyone seemed
to be on Franklin Street on Sunday night.
As Silvio Cowrea, a Hare Krishna, passed
out literature about self-realization, throngs
of adorned revelers rejoiced downtown.
Ben Trueblood, a cook at Whole Foods
Market, went as Sun Ra, a jazz musician who
claimed to be from another planet. “It’s nice to
dress up and become somebody else.”
The crowd, which officers estimated at
70,000, was excited.
“Everyone is so excited when they call
out ‘Oompa Loompas!’” said Matt Zemen,
a student at N.C. State University. He and
three of his friends were dressed as char
acters from the film “Willy Wonka and the
Chocolate Factory.”
The same thing happened to freshmen
Patrick Nerz and lan Murphy, who were in
a group of bright blue Smurfs.
“We’ve been Smurfed all over the place.
People want our photograph. I can’t believe
it,” said Murphy.
That worried some business owners.
“After talking with other owners and
managers on the street, they basically told
me if I didn’t close early my store would be
trashed,” said Erica Gill, owner of Cold Stone
Creamery at 131 E. Franklin St., who was
tentatively planning to close at 10 p.m.
The prospect of growing crowds of poten
tial customers also was a powerful incentive
for business owners.
Center targets interdisciplinary efforts
BY KATHERINE EVANS
STAFF WRITER
Barry Popkin has traveled
as far as China, Russia and the
Philippines to research how shifts
in diet and activity levels affect
obesity levels in populations.
Asa fac
ulty fellow in
the Carolina
Population
Center, Popkin
has had the
opportunity
to conduct
research of
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MICROSCOPE
A ten-part series
examining the
University's research
mission.
TODAY:
Carolina
Population
Center
international consequence.
A pioneer in interdisciplinary
research, the center supports the
work of 51 elected UNC faculty fel
lows who represent 15 disciplines
and five schools.
Founded in 1966, it combines
multiple areas of study to promote
collaborative population research.
The center now supports more
than 50 funded research projects
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spokeswoman for UNC Hospitals.
Since then, intensive efforts have
been made to track students who
were in close contact with Davis up to
two weeks before he was diagnosed.
So far no other cases of meningitis,
an inflammation of the membranes
that surround the brain and spinal
cord, have been reported.
The period for developing symp
toms of the disease, which include
high fever, headache and stiff neck, is
between two and 10 days after expo
sure, said Orange County Health
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“We need to make all these fellas happy.
All these guys are hungry,” said Abdou
Mahmoud, owner of I Love New York Pizza
at 106 W. Franklin St.
Security for the event was tight Newspapers
had been removed from distribution boxes,
dumpsters pre-emptively sprayed with foam by
the Chapel Hill Fire Department and Franklin
Street barricaded and lined with officers.
As of 11 p.m., a number of people had
been treated for alcohol poisoning.
“It’s gotten horribly busy,” said Michael
Day of the Orange County Department of
Emergency Management Services. “We’re
typically not this busy at 1 a.m.”
Day said that as of 11 p.m., all units were
treating patients.
that fall under seven overreaching
themes. The efforts range from stud
ies on Mexican migration in North
Carolina to the patterns of obesity
and activity in adolescents.
Popkin, also an economist and
a nutrition epidemiologist at the
School of Public Health, calls this
focus on collaboration a move from
“cell to society.”
“We are working hard to find
more effective ways to address
society,” he said. “(We are) getting
people to bridge (and to) meld
many approaches.”
Center director Barbara Entwisle
said the main purpose of the cen
ter is to catalyze research. “Our fac
ulty fellows are fantastic,” she said.
“(They) have big ideas.”
This research goes far beyond
North Carolina or even U.S. borders
because much of the work conduct
ed by research fellows takes on a
global scale. They have contributed
to huge data collections in Russia,
AIDS studies in India and research
Director Rosemary Summers.
As of press time Sunday, Student
Health Service had given 11,019 peo
ple the oral antibiotic Cipro, which
prevents the bacteria from grow
ing. About 800 students who five in
Granville Towers, where Davis lives,
have taken the antibiotic. Students
can receive a dose of Cipro through
Student Health today.
On Oct. 26, Davis attended a
mixer co-sponsored by four UNC
Greek organizations Delta Delta
Delta, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Tao
Omega and Kappa Alpha at Top
of the Hill Restaurant and Brewery.
“Through Jay Anhorn, who is
Two people had been arrested as of 11
p.m. according to Officer Phil Smith of the
Chapel Hill Police Department.
This year, the crowd also included mem
bers of the Chapel Hill Town Council and the
Carrboro Board of Aldermen.
Mark Kleinschmidt, a member of the
Town Council, said that he always goes to
Franklin Street and that he intends to keep
doing so in the future.
“I always enjoy when the streets close and
looking at all the costumes for Halloween.
It’s part of our character,” he said.
Though he doesn’t dress up for the occa
sion, he said he still believes it’s a great
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on social change in Thailand.
Penny Gordon-Larsen, a faculty
fellow at the center who works as
a professor of nutrition, acknowl
edged the need for a broad cross
section of researchers to address
population problems.
She is working to find causes of
obesity by studying activity levels and
the distribution of activity resources,
such as parks or recreational facili
ties, throughout populations.
Gordon-Larsen said that because
obesity is such a complex disease
and is influenced by a broad range
of factors that include genetics,
biology and culture, it is important
to base research on a broad range
of academic disciplines.
The center is the third largest
funded unit of the University, hav
ing received almost $29 million in
external grants and contracts in
2004. Entwisle credits the success
of the funding to the “amazing pro
ductivity” of the faculty fellows.
“We compete well because we
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2004
the Greek director, it is my under
standing that the students in those
sororities and fraternities were all
contacted,” said SHS Director Bob
Wirag.
Wirag added that students, faculty
and parents have received informa
tion about the issue and preventa
tive actions. “Students have been
responding very, very well,” he said.
Wirag also said many parents
have expressed concern about the
situation and have encouraged
their children to get treatment if
they feel they have been exposed.
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have a lot to offer,” Entwisle said.
Popkin won the prestigious
National Institutes of Health
Roadmap grant for interdisciplin
ary research for his studies in inter
disciplinary strategies in obesity.
Only 21 of these awards are granted
nationally, and three researchers at
UNC received awards this year.
Other notable grants awarded
to the center include the IGERT
award from the National Science
Foundation and money for the
Measure Evaluation Project,
funded by the U.S. Agency for
International Development.
Though the center’s primary
focus is to support the research
of the faculty fellows, it also offers
pre-doctoral and postdoctoral
training programs.
Entwisle said the training pro
grams will build the next genera
tion of population scholars.
Contact the University Editor
at udesk@unc.edu.
PRESIDENTIAL RACE
The president serves as the
nation's commander-in-chief,
taking responsibility for the
armed forces, major policy
decisions, foreign relations and
appointment of justices to the
U.S. Supreme Court. A term in
the office lasts for four years,
and a president can serve for
two consecutive terms.
Bush’s
Ist term
marked
by strife
BY EMMA BURGIN
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
During the last half of the 20th
century, the president was largely
seen as responsible for the nation’s
policy initiatives.
Congress occasionally would
take a more prominent role, but
in modern times, the president
has been responsible for directing
domestic issues.
President Bush
is no exception.
Republicans
have constituted
the majority in
both the House
and Senate since
2002, making it
easy for him to
push his policies
through.
And he is the
first president in
100 years not to
President
George Bush
faces a close
race to keep
his office.
exercise the executive veto sim
ply because, pundits say, he has no
need for it.
But while Bush has faced little
opposition in Congress, he has
experienced a rocky re-election
campaign.
Middle ground
The last polls before Tuesday’s
election show the nation’s voters
in a virtual dead heat.
An Oct. 29-30 Democracy
Corps poll shows 47 percent of
likely voters favoring Bush, while
Democratic presidential nominee
John Kerry enjoys a superficial
lead with 48 percent support.
This too-close-to-call situation
is not new to Bush. In 2000, the
final Washington Post-ABC daily
tracking poll estimated that Bush
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Kerry’s
future
rests on
election
BY EMMA BURGIN
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
It is hard to predict the actions
of a second-term president.
But it’s much easier than guess
ing what a newcomer would do after
moving into the White House.
While pundits think it unfair to
categorize him as a “flip-flopper,”
John Kerry does seem to be a man
struggling with
self-definition.
The Vietnam
veteran served
on a Swift boat in
river deltas, earn
ing a Silver Star,
a Bronze Star
with Combat V
and three Purple
Hearts.
But Kerry
quickly became
disillusioned
with the war.
Challenger
John Kerry
has struggled
to maintain a
solid image.
“What can I say?” he wrote his
parents soon after a close friend’s
death. “I am empty, bitter, angry
and desperately lost with nothing
but war, violence and more war
around me.”
Kerry funneled these feel
ings into his work with Vietnam
Veterans Against the War. His first
brush with the Senate came in April
1971, when he testified as a mem
ber of VVAW before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee.
The definition of the type of
leader Kerry is might lie beyond
any role the nation has seen him
take, said Charles Franklin, a his
tory professor at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. “When he was
the prosecutor in charge of the office
or skipper of the Swift boat, he may
have been a more decisive actor.”
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