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BY JACQUELINE BRILL
STAFF WRITER
Rhonda Foxx stumbled
across the idea that would help
her get elected as UNC’s 2004
Homecoming Queen while watch
ing The Oprah Winfrey Show. She
saw a wishing tree and decided to
bring that concept to Chapel Hill.
On Monday afternoon, the
Carolina Wishing Tf-ee which
allows for needy families to receive
gifts and necessities from University
members was launched in the
Pit with the hope of being a service
vehicle for the Greek community.
Foxx herself is president of Alpha
Kappa Alpha sorority Inc., a mem
ber of the National Pan Hellenic
Council, which caters to historically
black Greek organizations.
Most fraternities and sororities
make service and philanthropy a
core value for their organizations,
and many even require their mem
bers to complete a certain number
of hours or participate in spon
sored events.
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Twice, the crowd rose in a stand
ing ovation.
King was invited to the University
by the Carolina Forum and a coali
tion of campus religious groups. The
visit was part of a tour of Southern
college campuses that came after
the first lunch counter sit-ins in
Greensboro early that February.
In Chapel Hill, students at
Lincoln High School had staged
the first local sit-in at Colonial
Drugstore on Franklin Street,
where blacks weren’t permitted to
sit down, on Feb. 28.
Weeks of picketing followed.
“I can remember the long nights
four- to five-hour shifts,” said
Braxton Foushee, then a senior
at Lincoln High School. “I can’t
remember when I missed a day not
picketing.”
By the time King came to town
in May, the students’ energy had
lulled. “Everyone was kind of wore
out at that point,” Foushee said.
Before his planned speech at Hill
Hall, however, King spoke at the
black community center, which is
now Hargraves Community Center
on North Roberson Street.
He reminded the young activists
to persevere.
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“We have five target areas (of
service) that are set by our nation
al president,” Foxx said, explaining
that those areas are black family,
education, health, economics and
the arts. AKA members participate
in a number of events throughout
the year to hit all the targets.
“We wrote letters to the troops
in Iraq, held a political debate
between the College Republicans
and Young Democrats and held an
AIDS awareness panel,” Foxx said.
“Barbara Bush also spoke at our
national convention this past year.”
Fellow NPHC member Alpha
Phi Alpha fraternity Inc. also
participates in a variety of service
projects. Along with Foxx, the fra
ternity also sponsored the Carolina
Wishing Tree.
“We basically participate in some
sort of service every week,” said T. J.
Abrams, president of the fraternity.
Alpha Chi Omega, a sorority
within the Panhellenic Council,
recently held its annual Fall Brawl
contest to benefit the Durham Crisis
“When you celebrate (Martin Luther
King Jr.) you are celebrating the (civil
rights) movement that took place.”
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“You are demonstrating a mag
nificent act, a magnificent act of
noncooperation with the forces of
evil,” King told the predominantly
black crowd of about 400.
“You are not seeking to put
stores that practice discrimination
out of business. You are seeking to
put justice in business.”
Foushee said King re-energized
the crowd. “It gave us all the feel
ing we needed to just keep going.”
The next day, at a noontime lun
cheon in his home, Dewitt Myers,
then pastor of the United Church of
Chapel Hill, hosted about 35 pas
tors and church staff from around
the county in honor of King.
“He was the last to arrive,” Myers
remembered. “He was profoundly
quiet, his body presence was peace
able he was resolved.”
But King didn’t enjoy support
from all church leaders in Chapel
Hill, Myers said.
King was invited to speak that
Sunday night at University Baptist
Church, but the speech was moved
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Response Center and the center’s
shelter for battered women.
The event pits members of the
male Greek groups against each
other in basketball and poker tour
naments. The women are given the
opportunity to pledge their time
working at the shelter as well.
“We baby-sit once a week so
that the mothers can have a little
more time to themselves, and once
a month, we’ll also do a special
activity for everyone so we get to
interact with the women as well,”
said Laura Novack, the sorority’s
philanthropy chairwoman and a
junior biochemistry major. “This
month, it will probably be cookie
decoration or whatever creative
idea we come up with.”
Theta Nu Xi, a multicultural
sorority at UNC, is a service-based
group and makes philanthropy its
chief focus.
“Our main goal is to serve cam
pus and the community,” said
President Alexis Heintz, a junior
international studies major.
to the basement fellowship hall
when some church leaders objected
to him speaking in the sanctuary.
Today, as area residents debate
whether to rename Airport Road
in honor of King, some community
members have asked why King’s
1960 visit is not more well known.
“I’ve lived here 17 years and I like
to think I’m aware of what’s going on,
but I wasn’t aware of King’s event,”
said council member Sally Greene,
a member of the special committee
that considered the renaming.
Fred Battle, president of the
local chapter of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, said renaming
the road is a way to remedy that.
“Martin Luther King represents
the civil rights movement,” Battle
said. “When you celebrate the man
you are celebrating the movement
that took place this was a legacy
and a history.”
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Heintz explained that the soror
ity’s primary aim is to raise money
for its national philanthropic
organization, the National Center
for Community and Justice, which
works to reduce racism and bigotry
in the United States.
“Last year, we did a bowling
event and got people to pledge
money for each pin we knocked
down,” Heintz said.
Members of Theta Nu Xi
also have donated hours of their
time to the Orange County Rape
Crisis Center and Mary Scroggs
Elementary School.
To many Greek organizations, ser
vice is as important to their members
as it is to those being helped.
“For me personally, (service) is
the most important thing outside of
school, and there are always oppor
tunities for our girls to participate,”
Novack said. “Everyone’s involve
ment is just very cool to watch.”
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platform planks, Calabria and
Student Body Vice President Alexa
Kleysteuber met several times this
fall with members of the Board of
TVustees to discuss tuition increase
proposals.
Calabria said they are trying
to ensure that the Tuition Task
Force’s proposal is well-understood
and considered next year when
the board decides on next year’s
tuition.
Securing field space and the
funds to renovate fields —another
set of promises has been taken
care of and will reach realization
sometime in the near future.
“We increased the sports bud
get tens of thousands of dollars,”
Calabria said.
Executive branch officials said
that some projects will be complet
ed this week but that all the major
projects are complete.
“Our biggest challenge for next
semester to make sure nothing gets
forgotten,” Allred said.
“Matt’s made sure every project
has a home and will be successfiilly
completed.”
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HEARING
FROM PAGE 3
public, both students said they had
the same goal in mind: to enlighten
students about the system.
“I decided to make my case public
because I thought it would be good
for the University to see how the
honor system works,” Foster said.
Milan, who was charged with
an honor violation for possessing
marijuana and aiding others in
purchasing it, also said she decided
to open her appeal to the commu
nity to help students.
She was sanctioned with a semes
ter suspension, a semester of proba
tion and 30 hours of community
service during an Oct. 27 hearing.
“I’m having the hearing open
not necessarily to benefit my case,
but to benefit other students’ cases
in the future,” Milan said.
While Chavez insisted that these
two cases do not indicate a future
increase in public hearings, oth
ers involved with the University’s
honor system said such a trend
would be beneficial.
Adrian Johnston, who served as
defense counsel for Foster, empha
sized that an open hearing would
aid honor system procedures.
“It’s good for all students to go
public because the system will
DALZELL
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without a plea.
Under state law, discovery is
required to move forward with
a case. The term includes state
ments, lab tests or anything that
serves as evidence, said District
Attorney Carl Fox.
The prosecution said it is in the
process of sorting through boxes
of discovery, which will take two
weeks to complete.
Presiding judge Wade Barber Jr.
scheduled Dalzell’s next appearance
in Superior Court for Dec. 14.
Barber told the defense that on
that day, it should enter its plea.
The defense Tuesday also filed
a motion to suppress a statement
made by Dalzell that has not yet
been released. The motion is set to
be heard Dec. 15.
Dalzell has been the primary sus
pect in the murder and disappear
ance of Deborah Leigh Key since she
was last seen with him Dec. 1,1997
The two were last seen outside
Sticks & Stones, a former pool
hall in downtown Carrboro, after
it closed at 2 a.m.
Police approached Dalzell in
April after Key’s disappearance
“Tm having the
hearing open ...to
benefit other
students’ cases in
the future.”
KATHERINE MILAN, sophomore
work better under public scru
tiny,” said Johnston, who recently
resigned from the honor system.
Glenna Goldis, Milan’s defense
counsel and a member of the
Independent Defense Counsel,
said public hearings would insti
gate conversation about the work
ings of the honor system.
“My main hope is that it will
spark discussion about the issues
we’re raising,” she said.
Open hearings should not affect
the cases’ outcomes, Johnston said.
“But having the public present does
add a level of accountability.”
Foster said he believes the cases
will encourage other students to go
public. “My hope is that if students
feel they have been wronged, hav
ing two precedents will help them
make the decision to go public.”
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and executed a search of his 1990
Honda on April 3.
Officials found a bra, pant
ies, various papers, two pieces of
stained seat cover and hair and
fiber tappings, but the evidence
proved insufficient and no charge
was made at the time.
Police continued to keep tabs on
the suspect and got a break in the
investigation Aug. 31, when Dalzell
requested police assistance in
moving things from his Carrboro
apartment.
While there, police found objects
linking him to a former employer,
Huntgate’s Arts, Crafts & Hobbies
at University Mall.
After police spoke with the store’s
manager, a larceny report was filed
and police were given a warrant to
search Dalzell’s apartment, which
led to his arrest Sept. 9 at a friend’s
residence in Stanley.
Dalzell remains in custody at the
Orange County Jail on a $70,000
secured bond for the murder
charge. A separate charge of six
counts of third-degree exploita
tion of a minor against him is still
pending in district court.
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