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6 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2004 N.C. beach communities seek aid for preservation Congress to vote on funding this week ATLANTIC BEACH - North Carolina’s beaches are a powerful and growing economic force. Coastal tourism is a $2.6 bil lion-a-year industry and generates about 40,000 jobs. Meantime, the year-round population of all coastal counties has risen by 21 percent since 1990 and by 50 per cent or more in Dare, Brunswick, Currituck and Pender counties. But booming development and hurricanes are eroding several feet of the sandy gold mine each year. Several beach communities want to join a federal program that offers fresh sand more frequently than the current 10-year cycle and at low prices. But the Bush administra tion opposes the program, which Congress inserted into the budget bill it's expected to vote on this week. The unstable program— which this year would pump $1.5 million into North Carolina’s coastline has fueled debate over how best to preserve beaches. Advocates of beach-building say injections of fresh sand are critical to maintain the tourism economy. Opponents typically are envi ronmentalists who say sand harms natural habitats and taxpayer watchdogs who say it is unfair for the public to subsidize wealthy, oceanfront landowners. © WALK-IN HOURS: Answers to career questions and resume reviews—Mon-Fri, 10 —3p ON-CAMPUS INTERVIEWS § c y CSj.. Submit resumes between Nov. 2Q—Dec._2_o .5- 2 for Employers Interviewing Jan. 17—Jan. 21 W 9 Sara Lee Branded Apparel, Marketing Internship, Sales Internship, I Supply Chain Internship j http:/;crMrs.unc.edii 2: "Register with i UCS” * Enter PID# and complete profile j s&z SiKfiidlßMr 39 p ■kjfcx Kr/V iaiiiil • f a FINANCIAL SERVICES f FOR THE GREATER GOOD" f Know an outstanding UNC faculty or staff member who deserves special recognition? Nominate him or her to be a TIAA-CREF Honorary Tar Heels Coach for a game! The top three nominees will receive two tickets to the Maryland vs. UNC basketball game, Saturday, Jan. 8, 2005. The top nominee will be the game’s Honorary Coach and will receive courtside seats, a locker room tour and videoboard recognition during the game. And as a nominator, you’ll be registered to win a TIAA-CREF prize pack that includes game tickets. To make a nomination, visit www.TarHeelßlue.com, click on the TIAA-CREF button on the right side of the web page, fill out and send the entry form. SHOW THAT SPECIAL FACULTY OR STAFF MEMBER HOW MUCH THEIR EFFORT IS APPRECIATED. GET THEM IN THE GAME! Orrin Pilkey, the James B. Duke professor emeritus of geology at Duke University, doesn’t like beach-building because of its envi ronmental risks. He predicts Congress eventu ally will bow to powerful develop ment interests. “It’s the wave of the future,” Pilkey said. If Congress were to junk the long-term beach programs, it would be left to the state and local governments to pick up most of the tab, which could hit more than SSOO million a decade if all 160 miles of developable coastline is replenished every four years, according to Pilkey’s research. State taxpayers already are on the hook in the form of match-, ing grants to the federal program. And last fiscal year, state taxpay ers spent $3.6 million for various studies and small, local projects, according to the N.C. Division of Water Resources. “It’s an enormous cost,” said Indian Beach Mayor Buck Fugate, whose town is trying to get a 50- year plan. “I don’t know where we will go if the feds pull out com pletely.” Several programs allow some towns to get sand occasionally as a byproduct of routine dredging of federal waterways and harbors. This fall and winter in Atlantic Beach and Fort Macon State Park, for example, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is pumping sand accumulated from 10 years’ worth of dredging the Morehead City inner harbor. The beaches get the sand free because the Corps has to dump it somewhere. For now, four North Carolina communities have 50- year deals with the federal govern ment to buy cheap sand every few years; nearly 20 more want some thing similar. The program came to North Carolina in the 19605, when Wrightsville Beach and Carolina Beach signed on. For years, that was it just 5.4 miles getting new sand every three or four years. Then, in the late 19905, Kure Beach and Ocean Isle Beach got similar deals. Today, communities from Dare County in the north to Brunswick County at the state’s southern tip are trying to develop their own contracts, covering an additional 67 miles. Barrier islands naturally shift as sands move along the coastline. Storms can eat away whole swaths of the beach at one time, but the islands recover naturally. Only when immovable objects such as homes, roads and utilities sprout on the beaches does erosion become a problem, especially when hurricanes and nor’easters hit the coastline. News Disputes continue in Ukrainian election THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KIEV, Ukraine The crisis over Ukraine’s disputed presiden tial election intensified Sunday, as a key eastern province called a referendum on autonomy and the opposition demanded the current president fire his prime minister, the official winner of last week’s vote that has bitterly divided this former Soviet republic. The opposition warned President Leonid Kuchma it would block his movements unless he fired Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and fulfilled other demands within 24 hours. Earlier, Kuchma called on the opposition to end its four-day blockade of government build ings, saying compromise was the only solution to the crisis that has developed into a tense political tug-of-war between the West and Moscow over Ukraine’s future. On Saturday, Ukraine’s parlia ment declared the election invalid amid international calls for anew vote, and lawmakers also passed a vote of no confidence in the Central Elections Commission, which declared Moscow-backed Yanukovych the winner. But both parliamentary votes Faircloth, 20, U.S. Marine THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOBILE, Ala. A decorated U.S. Marine from Mobile was killed on Thanksgiving Day while fight ing insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq, his family said. Lance Cpl. Brad Faircloth, 20, stationed out of Camp Lejeune, was a member of the First Battalion, Bth Marines, Alpha Company, 3rd Platoon. Faircloth earned a Purple Heart on Nov. 16 when he was wounded in attempts to drive insurgents from Fallujah, said his stepfather, Paul Smith. He said Faircloth had an injury to his face. A week later, Smith said, Faircloth earned his second Purple Heart after being injured in the leg. Two days after that, his family was told, Faircloth was killed. “He died trying to get his third Purple Heart,” Smith said Saturday. I’li.. I • 620 Market St. 11l 111 Mill Take 15/501 South towards Pittsboro Exit Main St./Southern Village SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE B3 1 :00-3:00-5:00-7:00-8:50 THE INCREDIBLES El 1:15-4:15-7:10-9:30 THE POLAR EXPRESS E 1:10-3:30-6:15 AFTER THE SUNSET Bas 8:15 ALEXANDER IE 1 :00-4:30-8:00 £££' mtlii ftadZ >C.OO IPIo! 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Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, who claims he was cheated out of victory in the Nov. 21 presidential runoff, urged his supporters Sunday to stay in the streets. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have thronged downtown Kiev for a week to sup port Yushchenko’s claim that the election was rigged. The Supreme Court will consider Yushchenko’s appeal Monday. The court’s ruling could pave the way for anew vote, which the opposition is demanding, or remove the only bar rier to Yanukovych’s inauguration. The United States and other Western nations say the vote was marred by massive fraud. Russian President Vladimir Putin openly backed Yanukovych and congratu lated him on his victory. Moscow considers this nation of 48 million people part of its sphere of influ ence and a buffer between Russia and NATO’s eastern flank. Yushchenko also has called for a new vote Dec. 12 under the watch of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. He also demanded that the 15 mem bers of the election commission be Military officials did not imme diately release details of Faircloth’s death. A Marine spokesman said it could be today before any informa tion is made public. A 2002 graduate of Murphy High School, Faircloth joined the Marines in October 2003 in part because of the terrorist attacks of Sept 11,2001, said his mother, Kathleen Faircloth- Smith. He chose the Marines, she said, because he wanted to be with the best. “He was tough,” Faircloth-Smith said. “Everybody else would have been sissies.” Her son played on the defensive line for the Murphy Panthers foot ball team, and he was an avid sup porter of the program even after graduation, said his former coach, Jim Sudeiha. Recently, Sudeiha said, Faircloth had requested videotapes of the Panthers’ 2004 season so he could watch the games while he was in Confusion puts UNC’s bowl opponent on hold BY JACOB KARABELL SPORTS EDITOR North Carolina’s football team could resume workouts this week without knowing its next opponent After UNC accepted a bid to the Continental Tire Bowl on Tuesday, bowl executive director Will Webb said he expected to announce the Big East representative Sunday after the weekend’s slate of games had played out. But Boston College’s unexpected loss to Syracuse on Saturday cre ated a four-way tie atop the Big East among the Eagles, Pittsburgh, Syracuse and West Virginia. This created a precarious situa tion with regard to which of those four teams will qualify for the Bowl Championship Series —a verdict that will then determine from which teams the Tire Bowl can select. All four teams finished 4-2 in the conference, but Pittsburgh and Syracuse emerged from the four team tiebreaker with a better head to-head record between them. The final tiebreaker between those two schools will be the rank ing in the final BCS standings. Pittsburgh likely will be ranked in the BCS after defeating West Virginia on Thursday, but the Panthers still have to face South Florida this Saturday in a makeup game originally canceled during Hurricane Charley. If Pittsburgh loses to the Bulls, it | STUDENT SPECIAL Full Set Acrylic 24.99 Fill-In Acrylic 14.99 Spa Pedicure 24.00 Manicure 10.00 Eyebrow Waxing 8.00 Hours: Mon-Sat 9:3oam-Bpm, Sun 12pm-6pm Located in Eastgate Shopping Center 1800 E. Franklin Street - 20A ~ Chapel Hill 919-967-4677 ©ljp Sattg Sar Jfori replaced. Yulia Tymoshenko, a top ally of Yushchenko, told a rally of about 100,000 opposition supporters in Kiev’s main square Sunday that Kuchma had until Monday evening to fire Yanukovych. “We know where he is, and we can prevent him from making a single step if he doesn’t fulfill our demands,” lymoshenko said. Her other demands included firing the governors of eastern regions warning of autonomy bids and initiating a bill to reshuffle the Central Election Commission. If Kuchma does not fulfill them, he should be prosecuted for “crimes against the people,” Tymoshenko said as protesters shouted “Down with Kuchma!” Supporters of Yanukovych struck back from Donetsk, his native region and power base. The regional legis lature voted 164-1 to hold a Dec. 5 referendum on autonomy for the province. About 30,000 demonstra tors gathered outside the regional legislature in the city of Donetsk. “We won’t tolerate what’s going on in Ukraine,” Donetsk Gov. Anatoly Bliznyuk told lawmakers. “We have shown that we are a force to consider.” Iraq. After his graduation, Faircloth spent a year playing football on a partial scholarship at Delta State University in Mississippi, Faircloth- Smith said. Before he left for Iraq in July, Faircloth-Smith said, he told her that if he were to die there, he wanted a donation made in his honor to Murphy for the creation of a Panthers statue. Part of his respect for all peo ple came from his experience on church mission trips to other coun tries, Faircloth-Smith said. At 9 years old, Faircloth trav eled with his mother to Jamaica, Faircloth-Smith said, pointing to a picture of her son beaming in a classroom surrounded by several children. The mother and sonwdnt.. on a mission to Ghana about two years later, she said. “He was a rebel with a cause,” Faircloth-Smith said. appears probable that neither team will be ranked in the BCS, making it anyone’s guess as to which one will emerge as the conference’s rep resentative. That decision will trigger a chain of events that will permit the Tire Bowl to select a team to face the Tar Heels. On Tuesday, Webb leaned toward Connecticut. “I’d have to say Connecticut is the most likely choice, but that’s subject to change,” Webb said. Things might have changed Boston College, Syracuse and West Virginia all could be viable options for the Tire Bowl in addi tion to UConn. The Tar Heels, meanwhile, reconvened Sunday after taking last week off for Thanksgiving. They will resume strength train ing this week before resuming full practices Friday. “When we know who our oppo nent is, our coordinators who usu ally don’t go out on the road will start studying their tape,” Coach John Bunting said Tuesday. “And we’ve already set up a preliminary practice schedule based on the Tire Bowl.” But it looks like Bunting and his staff might have to hold off on that scouting for another week. Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu.
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