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% Sailg (Mr Hrrl CAMPUS BRIEFS Student meningitis victim released from the hospital Jonathan Parker Davis, the •UNC freshman who contracted meningoccal meningitis Oct. 28, was released from the hospital Saturday. \'■ “(Davis) should consider him self one lucky man,” said Bob Wirag, director of Student Health Service. Davis said he feels fine except ;for occasional pain in his legs —a ; combined result of the meningitis and being bedridden for so long. ! Davis has been using a walker to get around his home in Wilson, i where he returned directly after | his release. (; Davis will return to UNC next semester. He already has begun • attending physical therapy three times a week and is taking medica tion for his legs and heart, which also , was weakened by the infection. SHS has not received any new [ reports of meningitis cases, Wirag said. There were no requests for the antibiotic Cipro during the week end, but Student Health will con tinue to distribute the antibiotic until Wednesday, he said. Trio of top grads receives GAA young alumni awards An NBA All-Star, a theoreti cal physicist and a member of the Federal Communications Commission recently received the General Alumni Association’s 14th annual Distinguished Young Alumni Awards. Brad Daugherty, a 1986 UNC graduate who was a five-time NBA All-Star and played for the Cleveland Cavaliers until 1996, was one of the recipients. Another winner, Adam Falk, was a 1987 UNC graduate, a Phi Beta Kappa chapter vice president and Morehead Scholar. He now serves as dean of the faculty at Johns Hopkins University’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and is a professor in the department of physics and astronomy. The third recipient, Kevin Martin, is a 1989 Phi Beta Kappa graduate and former student body president at UNC. He began a five year term on the FCC in 2001. CITY BRIEFS Pratt-Wilson faces another vandalism of her residence The leader of a group that orga nized the Spotlight on Teenage Drinking forums held the past few months in Chapel Hill was again the victim of an incident at her home, according to Chapel Hill police reports. Dale Pratt-Wilson reported that at about 11:49 p.m. Friday, beer bottles and cans were thrown on her front yard, police spokeswoman Jane Cousins said. These are not the first incidents Pratt-Wilson has reported since forming the committee aimed at stopping underage substance abuse, according to police reports. In October, Pratt-Wilson reported that she was the victim of an egging of her house and that an obscene note was left. 17-year-old turns self in on trespassing, assault charges A 17-year-old male turned himself in to Chapel Hill police on FHday in response to charges of assault/point ing a gun, communicating threats and trespassing, reports state. According to police spokes woman Jane Cousins, Jordan Ryan Garrett, 17, entered a residence about midnight Thursday and refused to leave. When the people in the residence attempted to remove Garrett, he threatened the victims with a gun, Cousins said. It is unclear how and when he left the apartment, Cousins said, but the charges were filed on Nov. 5. From staff and wire reports. MHS The Department of Allied Health Sciences at UNC will celebrate National Alued Health Week - November 7-13,2004 - Come join the students for a special awareness day on Wednesday, November 10th from 11:30-1:30 in Berryhill Hall (hallway between rooms 106/107) “Walking Tacos”, drinks & cookies 'J' ' " to* will be sold to benefit future allied health student activities. Developer search launches Council makes progress on lot 2 and 5 BY JAKE POTTER STAFF WRITER Progress on a pair of downtown projects continued Monday, when the Chapel Hill Town Council authorized project consultant John Stainback to solicit a devel oper for construction on parking lots 2 and 5. The council’s Committee on Lots 2 and 5 met earlier Monday to discuss the process, including the town’s need to formally attract developers and their proposals. Construction on lot 2, located on Rosemary Street behind Spanky’s restaurant, and on lot 5, located across from University Square, is slated to begin in 2007. Stainback will prepare an initial request for qualifications and a pre liminary request for proposals for review at the committee’s Nov. 22 “It’s time to gauge the system to see if it is helping Latinos have a good life here, tina siragusa, new executive director, el centro utino TIM* 1 * I | * JraVyHLuß’s • Tina Siragusa (right), new executive director of Ef(jentro Latino, tails to building manager Ken Kolb. Siragusa took over the post Monday after working one and a half years at the University's Highway Safety Resource Center. Siragusa said she hopes to promote greater advocacy. SIRAGUSA TAKES TENTATIVE STEPS Plans to network with community, maximize benefits of existing sendees BY OLIVIA WEBB STAFF WRITER El Centro Latino carried on with business as usual Monday —but with the addition of one new face. Monday was Tina Siragusa’s first day as executive director of the Carrboro-based Latino advocacy group, coming more than two weeks after she was named as the replacement for Hector Perez, the center’s previous executive director of two years. After 11/2 years with UNC’s Highway Safety Research Center, Siragusa started Monday in her role of guiding the group at a time when the county’s Latino population is expanding rapidly. Without anew desk or even an office, Siragusa began to familiarize herself with El Centro Latino, from its computer system to its staff. Her work consists of keeping the board of directors connected to the center itself, as well as networking with other Latino-focused agencies in the community and the state. Winkie La Force, the president of El Top News meeting. These moves would for mally begin the town’s solicitations. Stainback said the requests would send a message to developers. “When you do issue the request for qualifications and request for proposals, it will be very clear to developers that you’re ready to go forward,” he told the commit tee. “You’ll be able to attract more developers and better developers.” The council will review the RFQ draft and consider whether to pro ceed at its Dec. 6 meeting. Virginia Knapp, associate direc tor of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, praised Monday’s decision to move forward with developer solicitation. “The chamber is supportive of this project,” she said. “We encour age you to continue giving data to the public.” Centro Latino, said she was pleased Siragusa had started. “She has the ability to reach the neighbor hoods, apartment buddings and homes, to get out there and meet the Latino community and listen to them so that we can be of service,” La Force said. Siragusa spent most of Monday walk ing from desk to desk asking questions and trying to meet, and talk with many of the center’s employees. Ben Balderas, El Centro Latino’s projects manager, said the center had made efforts to ensure a smooth transition. “An organization at this stage has a lot of flexibility, and we all end up helping out to our abilities as things come up. With anew director, we wanted to define specific jobs and who does what,” Balderas said. Siragusa said her first concern is intro ducing herself to the Latino community, which in Carrboro now accounts for more than 13 percent of the total population. She said she plans to continue the excel lent services the center offers to county jftoiufc Gw AT I-40 & HWY 54 BEHIND HARDEES • CHAPEL HILL • 489-1230 .0 STUDENTS? v 7 Show your UNC ID to receive unlimited bowling \ 2iSVv games at $2.00 each! I uT Call us for special group rates. We can host parties, rushes, team building and more! Shoes additional and not valid after 10pm Friday and Saturday. This offer cannot be used in conjunction with other offers or coupons. Knapp also advised that the RFQ draft be made public. Stainback submitted the most recent financial feasibility report for the projects, which also includes an expansion of the Wallace Deck on Rosemary Street and a relocation of RBC Centura from Rosemary Street to lot 5, at the council’s Oct. 27 meeting. Based on the latest figures, the project’s total cost is estimated at $82.3 million. Hie town will pay 21.5 percent, or about sl7-7 million. “The numbers have changed sig nificantly since our last meeting,” said Bill Strom, council member and committee chairman. The estimates rose because of a number of factors, including a soil boring study, which added about $1.2 million to the budget for devel oping lot 5; increased parking costs per space; and a public art fund. But Stainback emphasized that the numbers weren’t finalized. Latinos, as well as to network and commu nicate with neighboring agencies to maxi mize the benefit of those services. “We’re at a point that Latinos aren’t migrant anymore. They are putting down roots and establishing their homes here,” she said. “It’s time to gauge the system to see if it is helping Latinos have a good life here.” Siragusa talked Monday about many of the problems that now confront the Latino and Hispanic populations in America: day care, health care, high school dropout rates and, increasingly, AIDS. She said there is also an information gap that exists for Spanish speakers. Ken Kolb, the center’s building manager, had heard of Siragusa’s work at UNC and said he was optimistic about the center’s future. “We offer pretty good programs already. There are English classes, job searches and legal searches, but we are always open to new ideas.” Contact the City Editor at city desk @ unc.edu. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2004 Town Manager Cal Horton agreed, noting that only a devel oper could provide exact figures. “It’s all speculation until we get a developer,” he said. But Horton said Stainback’s middle-of-the-road assumptions were more realistic. “I think (Stainback) is trying to play it straight,” he said. “At least we are getting an understanding of what the issues are.” Stainback also said ongoing structural analyses demonstrate that there might be limitations to the Wallace Deck expansion. The council held public infor mation sessions on the projects on Thursday and Friday. About 30 business owners and residents met to discuss com ments and concerns about the development. Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. ■ ATTEMTinW i ~ IDo you have ■§■ Migrant Heateks? 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The lottery distribution system requires students to present a valid UNC ONE Card at Gate 5 of Kenan Stadium between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. today or between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Wednesday or Thursday. Students will receive a bracelet displaying a lottery number. “(Coach) Roy Williams will be in the Pit Friday at noon to draw the magic number,” said CAA President Lindsay Strunk. The number will then be displayed in the Pit and on the CAA Web site at www.unc. edu/caa. The student wearing the bracelet with the magic number gets to stand first in line Saturday morning for the distribution 0f4,000 to 6,000 stu dent tickets. Saturday’s distribution includes games against Southern California, Kentucky, Loyola- Chicago and UNC-Wilmington. Students should show up by 6:45 a.m. because check-in begins promptly at 7 a.m., said Charles SEE TICKETS, PAGE 9 Honor system remains mystery Case did little to inform students BY CLAIRE DORRIER STAFF WRITER Despite the fact that an honor system hearing recently was opened to the public for the first time in four years, many students still are oblivious to both the case and UNC’s honor procedures. Senior Chase Foster said he opened his appeal hearing to the public Thursday to show students how the Honor Court works and to ignite campus discourse. Almost 50 students attended the hearing, during which Foster contest ed two charges of which he was found guilty in his initial Honor Court case. But the University Hearings Board, which hears appeals from Honor Court cases, decided unanimously not to drop either charge. In a Sept. 20 Honor Court case, Foster was found guilty of misusing University property and using the name of a member of the University community without authorization after he created a UNC Onyen alias bearing the name of UNC-system President Molly Broad. SEE HONOR, PAGE 9 3
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