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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2004
Abrams, Foxx snag crowns
King, queen to begin service projects
BY HEATHER ANDREWS
STAFF WRITER
Newly crowned Homecoming
King and Queen T.J. Abrams and
Rhonda Foxx swayed arm in arm
to the University’s alma mater
Saturday before stepping off the
football field to hugs and high-fives
from friends and supporters.
Before the opening kickoff of
UNC’s Homecoming contest against
Miami, an announcer named the
winners of this year’s race.
“It’s an amazing feeling to be
here after four years at Carolina,”
said Abrams, a senior journalism
major. “I’m so excited to be in a
position to do something with my
service project next semester.”
Foxx, a senior psychology and
Afro-American studies double
major, echoed the sentiment.
“It feels fantastic,” she said. “I
have to represent my student body
to the best of my abilities.”
Students elected Abrams and
Foxx from a group of seven candi
dates when they voted on Student
Central on Tuesday.
Abrams, who was sponsored
by the Black Student Movement,
received 1,715 of the 3,482 votes
for Homecoming King, while
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Rick Seibold totaled 678.
Foxx, sponsored by Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority Inc., won 1,447 votes
454 more than any of her com
petitors for Homecoming Queen.
Of the total 3,465 votes cast
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Walker Rutherfurd, chairman of
the Board of Elections.
Each candidate designed a ser
vice project to be completed upon
election, and the newly elected
king and queen both are eager to
begin theirs.
Abrams’ proposal, “Speak Up,
Speak Out,” is a community-based
service project aimed at raising
awareness of relationship violence.
His plans include a mural, work
shops for students and visits to
local high schools.
He said he thinks it’s an impor
tant subject to broach on campus.
“It’s something that’s not being
addressed here,” Abrams said.
“Next semester, we’re going to
change some statistics.”
Abrams also said being crowned
Homecoming King comes with a
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Newly crowned Homecoming King and Queen T.J. Abrams and Rhonda
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responsibility to fulfill the potential
of his service project.
“My role as Homecoming King is
not just something I do for a week,”
he said. “I need t 0... be an advocate
for change.”
Foxx said her project, “Spring
Fling: A Semester of Service,”
will address four pertinent issues
mentoring, racial issues, health
and community service within
the campus and local community.
“It’s 28 service projects com-
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prised into one big one,” Foxx said.
To achieve the goals of the proj
ects, students will volunteer at local
schools, participate in activities
designed to encourage interracial
interaction and engage in discus
sions about serious health issues.
Both candidates were thrilled
about winning.
“The main thing is to thank
everybody,” Foxx said. “Really, I
just want to be there for my stu
dent body because they made my
dream come true.”
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Operations center
breaks new ground
BY MEGAN LAVINE
STAFF WRITER
Twelve silver, green-handled
shovels stood at attention amid a
virgin pile of dirt Friday afternoon,
awaiting the start of a groundbreak
ing ceremony for Chapel Hill’s new
Town Operations Center.
During the next few years,
contractors will construct a four
building complex for the town’s
Public Housing, Public Works and
Transportation departments as
part of the largest capital project
in the town’s history.
The departments’ new location is
situated on Millhouse Road, north of
Eubanks Road near Interstate 40.
“It will be an improvement
to the facility they have now. No
question about that,” said Mike
Hammersley, a project engineer
with the design firm Corley Redfoot
Zach Architects.
The public works area of the
complex will house facilities for
field operations, administration
and maintenance of the town’s
vehicle fleet, as well as a large
transportation center.
Mayor Kevin Foy said the
groundbreaking marked an excit
ing day for Chapel Hill.
“This has been a project that has
been expertly designed by the staff,”
he said. “It tries to envision how the
facility will play out long into the
future.”
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At a cost of $42.9 million, $7
million of which will be donat
ed by the N.C. Department of
Transportation, the project is one
of the largest undertakings in
Chapel Hill history.
Bruce Heflin, assistant town
manager, said he was eager to
involve local residents in the proj
ect.
“We want to show the commu
nity ways to build buildings that
are sympathetic to the community”
he said.
Mary Lou Kuschatka, the town’s
director of transportation, said
the groundbreaking marked the
project’s halfway point. Two years
of research and analysis led to
Friday’s events, and two years of
construction will lead to the com
plex’s completion.
The buildings will occupy 54
acres on the 89-acre plot of land.
Kuschatka, who along with
other officials demonstrated a com
mitment to the project by leaving
the groundbreaking by bus, said
the plans allow for expansion and
future growth.
“The folks in Chapel Hill love
transit, so I know we will grow,” she
said. “It’s necessary to keep up with
the growth of Chapel Hill Transit.”
The current town operations
center is located on the Horace
Williams tract along Airport Road.
But because of planning on
Carolina North, the University’s pro
posed satellite campus, the Public
Works and Transportation depart
ments’ contract with the University
will expire at the end of 2006 and
will not be renewed.
Town Council member Ed
Harrison said he is pleased that the
groundbreaking took place when it
did.
“It’s really good to get going this
soon because we are getting kicked
out of our other location.”
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Cops arrest
suspect in
murder of
ASU senior
Durham man to
be in court Nov. 2
BY KEVIN CHANDLER
STAFF WRITER
Late on Oct. 21, on the side
of a gravel road, the body of an
Appalachian State senior was
found.
Joseph McClure, 22, was shot in
the head in a murder that shocked
the ASU community and his home
town of Pfafftown.
McClure, known to friends as
“Uncle Joey,” was a recreation
management major at Appalachian
State University.
“He was just a real clean-cut kid,”
said Watauga County Sheriff Mark
Shook. Shook’s office made the
arrest of the suspected killer, Marty
Lee Thompson Jr., on Oct. 27.
Thompson, 21, is a Durham resi
dent with a string of misdemeanor
and felony convictions.
The Watauga Democrat reported
that Thompson told investigators
he went to McClure’s apartment. He
told investigators that the two used
cocaine there and then drove off in
Thompson’s wife’s 1991 Geo Prizm to
buy “a substantial amount” of mari
juana, the Democrat reported.
They drove to an unspecified
location in Boone where Thompson
let McClure out of the car and
drove back to McClure’s apart
ment to wait for the marijuana to
be delivered, Shook said.
When McClure didn’t show,
Thompson drove back to Durham,
where he slept in a parking lot, Shook
said. McClure’s body was later found
dumped beside a gravel road with
one gun shot wound to the head.
Shook said Friday that there
was no reason to suspect the
involvement of drugs in the mur
der. Thompson, whom the police
contacted through his cell phone,
eventually went of his own accord
to the Durham Police Department,
the Democrat reported.
There, Shook said, Thompson
was interviewed by Watauga County
Sheriff’s Office investigators and the
State Bureau of Investigation. Later,
a warrant was issued for Thompson,
citing probable cause, Shook said.
Thompson was denied bail for
the time being and requested a
court-appointed attorney.
He is next scheduled in court
Nov. 2.
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Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.