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CITY BRIEFS
Man wielding knife robs
Franklin Street gas station
An armed robbery occurred at
4 a.m. Thursday at the Kangaroo
Express station at 1501 E. Franklin
St-> Chapel Hill police reports state.
Police spokeswoman Jane
Cousins said an unknown suspect
described as a 6-foot-tall male with
a dark doo rag entered the store
and placed several pieces of gum
on the counter.
He then walked behind the coun
ter with a knife in his hand and took
an undisclosed amount of money
from the register, Cousins said.
He left the store and fled the
scene, but the police do not have a
vehicle description, she said.
Although several gas stations
have been robbed in the last few
months, Cousins said the weapon
used doesn’t lead police to link this
crime to recent robberies.
Police seek information on
2 local armed robberies
According to a press release from
the Chapel Hill Police Department,
police are looking for information
regarding two armed robberies
that occurred Saturday.
The first incident occurred at
3:40 a.m. at the Red Roof Inn on
Fordham Boulevard, when three
men entered a guest’s room, held a
man at gunpoint and took his wal
let and cash, the release states.
At the time of the robbery, the
victim had an unidentified woman
that he had met earlier in his room,
whom he thinks set him up for a
robbery, the release states.
According to the release, the
woman is described as black with
a dark complexion, 5 feet 6 inch
es tall, with short dark hair and
weighing about 110 pounds. She is
between 23 and 30 years old and
drives a late ’Bos model gray car
with a broken driver’s side window,
the release states.
The three men wore blue ban
dannas to cover their faces, the
release states.
According to the release, two of
the men had collar-length dread
locks and possibly left the parking
lot in a black car with shiny rims.
The second incident occurred at
10:40 p.m. when two men entered
the Hardee’s restaurant at 1800
Chapel Hill Blvd., displayed hand
guns and stole money, the release
states.
The perpetrators were described
as close to 5 feet 10 inches tall and
wearing dark ski masks and hooded
sweatshirts, the release states. They
possibly left the scene in an older
model red Mazda or similar vehicle.
Anyone with information
should call either the Chapel Hill
Police Department at 986-2760 or
Crimestoppers at 942-7515.
Local woman hit by car in
one-way street confusion
An assault with a deadly weap
on occurred on the 300 block of
Spring Valley Road in Carrboro
at 6:45 p.m. Wednesday when an
unknown suspect hit a 52-year
old woman with a vehicle and fled,
police reports state.
Reports state the victim was
traveling down Spring Valley Road
when she saw a car traveling the
wrong way on the one-way street.
She got out of her vehicle and
confronted the suspect, telling her
to turn around, reports state.
The perpetrator responded that
she’d lived in the area for 10 years,
knew which way to go and was
going to continue, reports state.
According to reports, when the
victim yelled, “No, you’re not,” the
suspect yelled, “Yes, I am,” and kept
driving, striking the victim’s shoul
der with her car.
The assailant was described as
an elderly woman with short white
hair and a small, thin frame. She
was said to be driving a tan or
white car.
SPORTS BRIEFS
UNC Athletics sells goal post
pieces from Miami game
Tar Heel fans can own a piece
of history by purchasing a 6-inch
section of the Kenan Stadium goal
posts that came down last week just
seconds after Connor Barth’s game
winning field.goal against Miami.
UNC Athletics is offering 200
limited-edition sections of the goal
post The numbered, authenticated
sections of goal post are priced at
$l5O. All proceeds will benefit
UNC Athletics.
To order, call the UNC market
ing office at 962-5496.
CALENDAR
Sunday The Carolina Club will
host the fourth annual Harvest Wine
Tasting & Auction to raise money for
the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
The event will be from 5 p.m.
to 7 p.m. at the George Watts Hill
Alumni Center. Tickets can be pur
chased for SSO at the door or by con
tacting Gerry Massey at 845-2155.
From staff and wire reports.
Safety task force nears end of work
Group soon will give report to Broad
BY BROOKE ERICSON
STAFF WRITER
The UNC-system Safety Task
Force made recommendations
Tuesday that admissions officials
should conduct more in-depth
background checks on applicants.
The recommendations will be
submitted to UNC-system President
Molly Broad in the coming weeks.
After identifying triggers such as
a gap in time between high school
graduation and submission of the
college application, admissions
officials would be encouraged to
conduct a background check.
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Paul Quinlan, right, and Paola Grasso Bronson climb
at the Chapel Hill Community Center on Thursday
night. The climbing wall is open from 6:30 to
8:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, from 6 to 7:50 p.m.
Saturday, and from 9:30 a.m. to noon Sunday, except for
Legislature gives OK
to Dell incentives bill
Special session ends in boon for Triad
BY ERIN GIBSON
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
RALEIGH After extended
discussion and extra sessions, the
N.C. General Assembly decided
Thursday to pass a bill that will
bring 2,500 new jobs to the
Triad.
Dell USA and Gov. Mike Easley
negotiated the opening of a factory
for the company in North Carolina,
and the legislature passed the $242
million bill that will make it all
possible.
The bill flew through the Senate,
passing 33-15. Later, after lengthy
debate and several failed attempts
to modify the bill, the House passed
it by a vote of 92-18.
“Dell can go anywhere in the
world,” said Sen. Kay Hagan, D-
Guilford, one of the chairwomen
of the Senate Appropriations
Committee.
“Two-thousand manufacturing
jobs would be wonderful.”
The main crux of the bill is a
Student, mother question use of stun gun
BY STEPHANIE NEWTON
STAFF WRITER
As students dragged the snapped
pieces of both goal posts along the
field after UNC’s win over football
powerhouse Miami, the coveted
metal fragments reached mid
field.
It was then, said senior Daniel
Smith, that he hopped on a seg
ment of the goalpost —and cam
pus police reacted.
While his friends took their cel
ebrations from Kenan Stadium to
Franklin Street, EMS technicians
examined Smith’s bloody jaw in the
Kenan Field House. “I was just out
there celebrating,” he said. “I didn’t
want to cause any harm.”
Although he said he had no
intention of helping fellow stu
Top News
“What we want to do is ensure
the safest environment that we can
for all our students, faculty and
staff,” said Bobby Kanoy, head of
the safety task force.
Other proposals include checking
students against 10 years of expul
sion and suspension records at all
system schools and finding out what
other colleges the student attended.
The last suggestion is for the
UNC system to rely on the state’s
Department of Public Instruction,
community college system and
private schools to provide it with
in-state student suspension and
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S2OO million tax credit, to be given
in small parts to Dell on every com
puter or other small unit it sells.
In addition, to receive the credit,
Dell would have to employ at least
1,200 people at the end of five years
and invest at least SIOO million
into its plant.
Reps. Verla Insko, D-Orange,
and Paul Luebke, D-Durham, each
presented two amendments to the
bill.
Insko suggested a clause that
would provide workers with the
best health care coverage, whether
it was the coverage described in the
bill or the plan offered to workers
at other Dell locations.
Luebke also wanted legislators
to require that Dell hire displaced
North Carolina workers.
Both lawmakers’ amendments
were overwhelmingly shot down
by the House.
Frustrated, Luebke withdrew his
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dents take the goal posts out of the
stadium through the 50-yard line
exits, Smith was zapped by a stun
gun.
“I don’t know what I did that
was so wrong that warranted being
stunned by a stun gun,” he said.
According to Jeff McCracken,
deputy director of University
police, the reasonable amount of
force was used in the situation.
A campus police officer asked
Smith to comply with his order to
remove himself from the goal post
segment, but Smith failed to com
ply, police reports state.
Smith said the officer then
zapped him and pushed him to
the ground.
After getting up and trying to
run away, he was charged for incit-
expulsion records.
After two murders at UNC-
Wilmington earlier this year, the
safety task force was implemented
to ensure students’ safety on cam
pus. The suspects in the two cases
at UNC-W lied about their crimi
nal pasts on their applications.
Victor Landry, senior vice presi
dentofthe UNC-system Association
of Student Governments, said the
board decided the recommenda
tion to automatically conduct
background checks on all student
applicants was a bad idea.
He also said students are not the
only ones known to commit crimes
on campus. “If we are talking about
total safety, I would like to see the
the second Saturday of each month. Admission is $3 for
residents and $5 for nonresidents;
annual and 20-visit passes are also available. Belay
testing is held from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Sunday
mornings for a $lO resident or sl2 nonresident fee.
County OKs animal agency
Advisory board
to be set by March
BY KATIE LEWIS
STAFFWRITER
Anew county department that
would bring Animal Control and
animal shelter services under one
administrative authority is coming
closer to fruition.
The Orange County Board of
Commissioners on Wednesday
unanimously moved ahead with
plans to create anew Animal Services
Department that would allow the
county to provide more comprehen
sive adoption, sheltering and rabies
control services for animals.
Commissioner Stephen Halkiotis
was absent from the meeting.
The new department also could
have an advisory board in place
as early as March 1 if a board
appointed task force examining
the shift —and the commission
ers themselves take appropriate
action, said assistant county man
ager Gwen Harvey.
The county also could see anew
animal services director by Jan. 1 and
ing a riot, disorderly conduct and
resisting arrest, police reports
state. The first two charges have
been dropped, and Smith is sched
uled to appear in court Nov. 22 to
address the last charge.
“I realize it’s a mistake to go out
on the field,” said Celia Hooper,
Smith’s mother and former chair
woman of UNC’s Faculty Athletic
Committee. “Little did I know he
would be hurt by a campus police
officer."
Hooper said that she under
stands students’ responsibilities
but that she thinks the rationale of
campus police is skewed.
“I’m sure the campus police
are trained in crowd patrol, but I
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2004
committee look at all entry points
of the university,” he said.
Landry cited student involve
ment on the committee as another
concern. Two students serve on
the committee, which is made up
of about 20 people.
But Dara Edelman, student body
president at UNC-Greensboro, said
the committee had a good set-up.
The task force has two subcom
mittees: the campus environment
subcommittee, on which she sits,
and the admissions subcommittee,
on which Shari Williams, student
body president at Fayetteville State
University, sits.
Edelman added that North
Carolina is the only state with a
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end the task force’s work by March.
“It would provide the county with
a great opportunity to think more
strategically with regard to service
and support to all the animals’ needs
in the county,” Harvey said.
The county assumed control of
the animal shelter earlier this year,
after the Animal Protection Society
faced serious questions over what
critics said was its mismanagement
of the facility and its mistreatment
of animals.
Those moves led to the creation
of the task force and, ultimately,
to the commissioners' discussion
Wednesday.
Still, members of the commu
nity who were strongly critical of
APS when the society had control
of the shelter also were critical of
the commissioners' plans.
“Having strongly advocated your
takeover of the county shelter, 1
am embarrassed to be appearing
before you today to tell you that
you have a disaster in process,” said
Elliot Cramer, who filed a lawsuit
against APS accusing the group of
withholding financial records and
changing bylaws illegally.
“If you decide to make a deci
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Students rush the field after the UNC football team's defeat of Miami
on Saturday. One student is unhappy that he was hurt in the fracas.
committee that strictly evaluates
campus safety. “This really puts
North Carolina at the forefront of
looking at campus safety.”
She said she believes things are
beginning to happen on campuses
and both subcommittees are wrap
ping things up. “Our subcommittee
has put together a report and sub
mitted it to President Broad.”
Broad, in turn, must make a
final recommendation to the UNC
system Board of Governors.
Landry said some recommenda
tions will be effective immediately,
while others will take more time.
Contact the State £? National
Editor at stntdesk@ unc.edu.
Nation’s
decision
rested on
morality
God, guns, gays'
give Bush the win
BY DANA BSEISO
STAFF WRITER
Issues that dominated on the
campaign trail might have taken
a back seat to moral values when
voters chose Tuesday to re-elect
President Bush.
An Associated Press exit poll
showed that 22 percent of voters
named moral values as their top
issue. Of these, 79 percent voted
for Bush.
Robert Sahr, a political sci
ence professor at Oregon State
University, said Bush was able to
draw in voters who identified with
him on a religious level.
Bush came across as the reli
giously steadfast candidate, not
budging on his anti-abortion, anti
same-sex marriage stances.
But Sahr said Bush’s former
opponent, Sen. John Kerry, could
be considered religious as well.
“Kerry’s quite a religious person.
They’re both religious in different
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'Trie senator from Massachusetts
did not throw his weight behind
abortion or same-sex marriage, but
he does support a woman’s right to
choose and equal benefits for all
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sion tonight, I hope that it will
be for a bureau, rather than a
department."
Cramer went on to tell the group
that the animal shelter should have
its own, separate board, compris
ing people who have a knowledge
of how to run such a facility.
The inclusion of a veterinarian
from the shelter on the Orange
County Board of Health also was a
topic of discussion for most of the
night.
One concern was that the veteri
narian would attend more meetings
than in past years, which might be
overwhelming.
“We may have to give the veteri
narian representative on the Board
of Health advanced notice,” said
Commissioner Moses Carey.
“They will be simultaneously
volunteering for 15 to 20 meet
ings when they take the job. This
includes advisory committee meet
ings, appeals hearings and danger
ous dog hearings.”
The board expressed also con
cern with the composition of the
advisory committee that will be
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