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Local family violence center
to host vigil on Franklin St.
The Family Violence Prevention
Center and Family Violence and
Rape Crisis Services of Chatham
County will host a vigil at the post
office on Franklin Street at 5:30
p.m. today.
The vigil is, in part, a response to
the domestic violence-related inci
dent that occurred at the University
last Monday.
to University police,
■Mpiel McKendall, a UNC
IPildyeifc, was murdered in front
olthe James T. Hedrick building by
her estranged husband Nov. 29.
Melissa Radcliffe, community
services coordinator for the center,
said all are encouraged to attend
the event, which will go on rain or
shine.
Wendy's employee charged
with embezzlement Sunday
Chapel Hill police arrested
a Durham woman before noon
Sunday and charged her with one
felony count of embezzlement,
police reports state.
According to reports, Jean
Browning Powell, 28, an employ
ee of the Wendy’s on 100 Scarlett
Drive off U.S. 15-501, was arrest
ed at the restaurant after police
responded to a complaint about
an employee taking money from
the store’s safe with the intent to
steal earlier that night.
About S7OO was reported stolen
and later recovered by police at the
time of the arrest, reports state.
Powell was released on a writ
ten promise to appear Monday in
Orange County District Criminal
Court in Hillsborough.
UNC student robbed on
bike lane in Carrboro
Carrboro police responded to a
common law robbery complaint
filed by a UNC student before 5
p.m. Sunday on the Libba Cotton
Bikeway near Brewer Lane, police
reports state.
According to reports, the victim
was walking east on the path when
she was approached by a man who
demanded money and threatened
to hurt her physically.
After continuing threats, the vic
tim gave the suspect $lO, reports
state.
Reports describe the suspect
as a black man in his 30s who is
about 6 feet tall and weighs about
175 pounds. The suspect was wear
ing blue jeans and a Detroit Pistons
sweatshirt at the time of the com
plaint, reports state.
Local man charged with
assault on female Saturday
Carrboro police arrested a local
man before 4 p.m. Saturday and
charged him with one misdemean
or count of assault on a female,
police reports state.
According to reports, Guillermo
Albiter Alcala, 24, was arrested at
Ramsgate apartments off N.C. 54
after police heard of a potential
child abduction in process at the
apartments.
Witnesses reported a man taking
a baby from a woman in the com
plex’s parking lot, reports state.
When police arrived, the sus
pect was holding the baby behind
Building P at the complex.
According to reports, the woman
said that Alcala was the baby’s
father and that he pushed her once
while trying to get to the child.
Alcala received no bond and was
scheduled to appear Monday in
Orange County District Criminal
Court in Hillsborough.
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Student's credit cards maxed
out after theft of her purse
A UNC sophomore reported
Friday that she left her purse on
the steps of the Forest Theatre and
found it missing when she returned
five minutes later, University police
reports state.
The two credit cards in the purse
were used at Wal-Mart on Saturday
morning about 5 a.m., and the
accounts have reached the S7OO
credit limit since the purse was sto
len, according to reports.
There are no suspects in the
case.
2 charged with underage
possession of alcohol Sunday
Two people were charged with
underage possession of alcohol
Sunday, according to University
police reports.
UNC freshman Drew Slabaugh,
18, and Shaun Dunn, 20, were
found carrying a bottle of Grey
Goose vodka and a stolen half
empty keg of beer, reports state.
According to reports, the "keg
was returned to its owner, and
Slabaugh was issued a citation.
Dunn, who is not affiliated with
the University, was issued a tres
pass warning.
From staff reports.
Council issues parking lot requests
Panel debates proposals’ specificity
BY DAN SCHWIND
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
The development of downtown
parking lots 2 and 5 moved closer
to fruition Monday night, when the
Town Council voted unanimously
to issue a request for qualifications
from potential developers for the
project.
The RFQ, which will be distrib
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Freshman Victoria Ding studies for her "Ancient Cities" class in one of the study lounges in Davis Library. A recent study showed that many
students study less than 10 hours per week —a trend UNC officials say can be attributed to part-time jobs and lives with more distractions.
STUDY HABITS
FALL BY WAYSIDE
Lifestyle changes, more distractions mean students do less cramming
BY SARAH SCHWARZ
STAFF WRITER
Exams start Wednesday, but that doesn’t
mean that the majority of students will nec
essarily be spending their time hitting the
books.
According to the most recent National
Survey of Student Engagement, 44 percent
ofthe college students surveyed do less than
10 hours of work per week outside the class
room.
Freshman and senior undergraduates
from 472 schools across the country were
surveyed, and although UNC was not among
them, professors and students alike have
strong feelings about the implications of
these latest findings at UNC.
“College is not a playground,” said Sharon
James, a classics professor who has been
teaching at UNC for six years. The survey’s
results are far from shocking to James.
“Over the 20 plus years I’ve been teaching,
students are more willing to come in without
having done the work,” James said. She pro
Fixes to cemetery
draw heated talks
Issues of race divide council members
BY LIZ STANLEY
STAFF WRITER
The end to the discussion over
funding for future improvements
to the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
turned into a heated debate
Monday night —one about the
proper allocation of the funds that
involved allegations of racism.
The recommendation made
by the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
Task Force, formed by the Town
Council to address how to use
$150,000 for cemetery improve
ments, was approved 5-4 after
much discussion.
The cemetery is at the edge of
campus, adjacent to South Road.
The task force’s main recommen
dation was that $52,000 be allocated
for the restoration of the prominent
UNC Dialectic and Philanthropic
Society’s cast-iron fences.
“I question the great percentage
of the funding being given to the
restoration of Di-Phi fences,” said
council member Sally Greene.
Task force member Steven
Moore, who disagreed with the
group’s recommendation, said the
large amount of money should not
be spent solely on one area.
“It would be glorious to spend the
money on one aesthetically pleasing
Top Nows
uted Monday, was recommend
ed for approval by the council’s
Committee on Lots 2 and 5.
Committee members met ear
lier in the day Monday to review
the RFQ draft and to discuss any
changes that had been made.
“I think this is a really good
document,” said committee chair
man Bill Strom. “This could be in
posed that the student lifestyle now requires
more time and money. Students seek out
part-time jobs that cut into time normally
reserved for classwork, James said.
UNC’s Division of Student Affairs con
ducted a survey similar to the national
survey in spring 2003 and found parallel
results.
Of the seniors surveyed, 35 percent
reported spending five to nine hours per
week studying, while 29 percent claimed to
spend 16 hours or more.
“It’s not surprising that studying is only
one activity among many that students are
trying to balance,” said Howard Aldrich,
chairman of UNC’s sociology department.
He has been teaching at the University for
22 years and, in that time, he doesn’t think
the student work ethic has changed. There
always have been other activities about
which to be concerned, he said.
Senior Grayson Dill, a history major,
agreed. “There’s a lot of institutional pres
sure to be in this club or that club, to get
section of the cemetery, but this is
one-time money” he said. “It should
be spread around to other areas.”
But Dorothy Verkerk, a council
member and chairwoman of the
task force, said the Di-Phi gates
should be a priority in restoration
of the cemetery.
“We were given a task, and we
stuck to our guns about the Di-Phi
gates,” said Verkerk, who teaches
art history at UNC.
But talks extended beyond the ini
tial recommendation when the issue
of race, discussed earlier Monday
night during the debate over renam
ing Airport Road, was introduced.
Council member Edith Wiggins
proposed an amendment to the task
force’s proposal that would allocate
$50,000 for the restoration of the
markers in the African-American
section of the cemetery.
The council also allocated an
additional $20,000 for stone gut
ter improvements.
The issue of race was not directly
addressed until Chapel Hill resident
Yonni Chapman took the podium.
“The cemetery is a physical
structure that reflects the old white
supremacy that reigned during the
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the data book next year because it’s
very comprehensive.”
After much debate, the commit
tee agreed to a proposal by project
consultant John Stainback to con
sider the option of allowing the
same developer to work on both
phases of the project.
Under the current plan, the
project would go forward in two
phases, each requiring a separate
process for finding a developer.
Stainback suggested allowing
involved in things outside of class,” he said.
Indeed, current UNC students take part
in hundreds of extracurricular activities and
often have part-time jobs as well.
Lauren Kessel, a freshman from Asheville,
works 10 to 20 hours every week scoop
ing ice cream at Coldstone Creamery on
Franklin Street.
“I could get by, but I wouldn’t have any
money of my own,” she said of having a
job.
Her parents pay for tuition, but tuition
only an arrangement with which many
students can identify.
If the amount of work or drive to succeed
has not changed over the generations, per
haps the number of distractions has.
Aldrich claims that if students aren’t
spending the majority of their time on
classwork, it might be because they’re talk
ing on their cellular phones. AOL Instant
Messenger and Thefacebook are also activi-
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Families cope with deployment
BY MARK PUENTE
STAFF WRITER
Spc. Nick Potaczek, like count
less others in the military, has been
called to serve in his country’s time
of need.
His wife, Jen Potaczek, and their
newborn daughter, Madison, will
have to celebrate Madison’s first
Christmas without her father.
Jen Potaczek said she has to deal
with the situation every day.
“I am going to try my best,” she
said. “But I am moving back to
Illinois to be with my family.”
While students scurry to finish
last-minute course requirements
before heading home, thousands
of North Carolina-based soldiers
won’t be celebrating the holidays
with loved ones.
Thousands of Marines, air
men, soldiers and National Guard
members will have to spend the
Christmas season abroad in Iraq
or Afghanistan while defending the
country in the war against terror.
The Defense Department is
increasing the nation’s troop levels
by 12,000 to provide protection for
Iraq’s democratic election Jan. 30
—and it looks to Tar Heel soldiers
to fill that void.
About 1,500 soldiers were
deployed Sunday from Fort Bragg,
the state’s largest base.
Jen and Nick Potaczek have been
married for less than two years. But
this is the first time Nick has been
deployed overseas.
When he returns from his
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the same developer to work on
both phases if the town is “satis
fied” with the developer’s work.
“It puts pressure on (the devel
oper) to perform well on Phase I,”
he said. “If we’re happy with the
performance on Phase I, we could
go ahead and let them continue on
Phase II.”
Town Manager Cal Horton
said the committee would have to
inform all potential developers that
even though it will award a firm
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Family and friends of the 4,000-plus members ofthe 30th Heavy Separate
Brigade of the Army National Guard wave flags at a February deployment.
deployment in Iraq, his military
commitment will almost be over.
“I will come back here to pick him
up and go back home,” she said.
All the Tar Heel bases will have
significant amounts of soldiers
deployed during the holidays.
There are about 25,000 military
members with North Carolina ties
already overseas.
The Marine Corps will have about
8,000 Camp Lejeune Marines sta
tioned in various theaters.
On the home front, family mem
bers might become depressed dur
ing the holiday seasof But coun
selors are on hand at all times to
help families through not hearing
with work on both phases, it also
reserves the right to take away the
second phase “for any reason, or for
no reason.”
“You should decide up front,” he
said. “Otherwise, there could be a
big argument in the courts.”
There was also some debate
about the committee’s decision to
include design “principles” in its
request for proposals draft, rather
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Groups
protest
online
sharing
Companies often
complain to UNC
BYAL KILLEFFER
STAFF WRITER
Illegal file-sharing is a major
problem on college campuses
throughout the nation, and UNC
is no exception.
The University received about
180 copyright infringement com
plaints during the 2003-04 fiscal
year, said Jeanne Smythe, director
of computing policy at UNC.
The number of copyright
infringement complaints the
University receives is not “more
than any other university, and cer
tainly less than a number of them,”
Smythe said.
But Associate University Counsel
David Parker said the number of
complaints regarding intellectual
property violations, primarily in
the form of illegal music and movie
file-sharing, is an issue.
“The volume (of complaints) is
ever-increasing,” he said.
Although only one complaint,
filed against a UNC student by the
Recording Industry Association
of America last fall, has resulted
in litigation, the film and music
industries are stepping up their
efforts to discourage illegal file
sharing.
The increase of movie-sharing
within the past year, a trend to
which Parker attested, prompted
the Motion Picture Association of
America to run four full-page ads
at a cost of about $2,000 apiece
discouraging the practice in The
Daily Tar Heel this semester.
Brian Hasty, a representative
of Campus Media Group Inc., the
agency that placed the ads, said
they were a part of a campaign
funded by Warner Bros. Studios
that targeted 80 universities
nationwide.
University officials said they
hope the initiative to bring legal
music downloading to UNC, led
by the UNC-system Office of
the President and Student Body
President Matt Calabria, will solve
the problem.
Next semester, a pilot program
will give students who live in
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from their loved ones.
“One of the biggest problems is
that people don’t hear from them
every day,” said Capt. Jeff Pool,
spokesman for the 2nd Marine
Division. “But we provide numer
ous programs to help them stay
connected.”
Depending on the Marine Corps’
needs, Pool said, the Marines will
be given some time in the United
States before being redeployed.
“The commandant would like
to have six months between rota
tions,” he said. “But that could
always change.”
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