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RENAMING
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said Billy Madden, who lives near
Airport Road and was opposed to
the change.
After the vote, facilitator Calvin
Allen said he knew some people
would not be happy with the deci
sion. “It’s hard that there are still
some questions out there,” he
said.
One of those questions relates to
a concern that the committee was
“hand-picked” by the council in
order to achieve a certain outcome.
“I can’t help but think that the
committee was stacked,” said Bruce
Johnson, an Airport Road business
owner and one of the three com
mittee members who voted against
recommending the name change.
Holland expressed similar dis
pleasure.
“I am very disappointed and
discouraged by the actions of the
members of this council,” she said.
In a pre-meeting press confer
ence, Mayor Kevin Foy said the
council picked people who wanted
to engage in discussion.
“We didn’t need to stack the
committee,” he said. “We didn’t
have to have the committee at all.”
At Monday night’s meeting, Foy
requested that Town Manager Cal
Horton review the committee’s nine
other recommendations, including
the promotion of further discus
sions on race relations.
Council members will likely hear
those proposals, and Horton’s report
on the name change, in January.
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TASERS
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to use them.
“We haven’t used them in any
form or fashion,” said Sheriff Lindy
Pendergrass, adding that his office
keeps Tasers in case of emergencies.
A controversial variation on the
stun gun, the Taser debilitates sus
pects long enough for police to get
them under control without caus
ing permanent injury.
“Seeing one man beat another
man with a stick is ugly no matter
how it’s being used,” Cooper said.
Law enforcement agencies herald
Tasers as revolutionary new tools
that allow police to minimize injury
to both suspects and officers.
But human rights groups
including Amnesty International
decry Tasers’ questionable involve
ment in the deaths of more than 70
suspects around the country.
“Many U.S. police agencies are
deploying Tasers as a routine force
option to subdue noncompliant or
disturbed individuals who do not
pose a serious danger to themselves
or others,” stated an Amnesty
report issued last week.
The group called for a suspen
sion of Taser use and an in-depth
study on the devices’ ethical, legal
and medical effects.
The M 26, the model used most
often by police, looks like a handgun
and fires two darts as far as 21 feet
The darts remain attached to the
Taser and deliver 50,000 volts of
electricity over a five-second jolt
The shock creates intense pain
and overrides the muscular sys
tem, causing a suspect’s muscles to
clench up involuntarily.
But the shock is much weaker than
one from a home electric socket or a
medical defibrillator because of the
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way the gun delivers the electricity. It
is designed not to damage a suspect’s
heart or other body systems.
“Could I continue to resist when
I was shocked? No,” said Chapel
Hill police officer Jim Orbich, who
took a full five-second Taser hit as
part of a training exercise. “But I
could still hear, and I could still see
everything going on around me.
“After the five seconds, I was
right back on my feet like nothing
had happened at all.”
CHPD officers have used Tasers
in four incidents since June. In two
of these incidents, officers simply
pressed the Taser onto the aggressor
to administer the shock instead of
shooting the darts.
On any given night, nine or 10
CHPD officers are on patrol
three or four of these are carrying
Tasers, said Chief Gregg Jarvies.
For now, officers keep them in the
trunk of their car, though the Tasers
eventually will be carried in the front
seat and, possibly, on officers’ belts.
“The Tasers are new— I wanted
to take it slow,” Jarvies explained.
“If you had them on the hip to
begin with, there would be more
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cases where they could be used
when they shouldn’t”
This week the CHPD received
two more Tasers, increasing its
total to six. About 25 percent of
the department’s officers have been
trained to use the tools.
All of the University’s on-campus
police have been trained in Taser
use, said Maj. Jeff McCracken, the
Department of Public Safety’s depu
ty director. Only once, though, has a
Taser been used on UNC’s campus.
Daniel Smith, a UNC senior,
and his mother, Celia Hooper, com
plained that University police acted
with excessive force by using a Taser
on Smith and breaking his jaw dur
ing on-field celebrations after UNC’s
football win over Miami.
McCracken maintained that his
officer acted within reason to get
Smith off a downed goal post in the
middle of a crowd several thousand
strong.
To pacify critics who worry that
Tasers will be used in excess, each
gun has a computer device that
records the date and time of each
time that it’s fired. Several tiny discs
also are discharged so the location
of the firing can be traced.
Cooper said that he is highly crit
ical of ineffective law enforcement
tools, but that he sees no problem
with Tasers. “For Taser guns to be
effective, they should be issued to
the average police officer.”
Ignorance and cost are the two
main reasons that Tasers are not
used by all policemen, he added.
At as much as SI,OOO apiece,
a Taser costs more than twice as
much as the typical semiautomatic
carried by most officers, throwing
up a legitimate roadblock for most
departments.
“We probably will never have
enough to give one to every officer,”
Jarvies said.
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TUITION
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UNC hired the Durham-based
consulting firm Art & Science
Group LLC to conduct a price-sen
sitivity study, which found that the
University can increase tuition at the
pace of its peer institutions without
severely harming its applicant pool.
The task force discussed the firm’s
findings toward the end of its five
meetings this semester, and trustees
also were informed of the study dur
ing their November meeting.
Last year, the Tuition Task
Force met only once. Calabria said
increasing the group’s number of
meetings also raised the amount
of research discussed and students’
input into the proposals.
“(We’ve taken) every opportu
nity ... possible to work with tuition
before it goes to the board,” he said.
BOT members said they are
looking to find a compromise dur
ing their January meeting to satisfy
both students and the University.
Trustee Paul Fulton said, “We
(want to come to a) reasonable con
clusion that meets the needs of the
University and its constituents.”
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MENORAH
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to the coldest and darkest time of
year.”
Junior Margaret Teich said the
history of Jewish culture has been
long and hard. Events such as
the Spanish Inquisition and the
Holocaust resulted in the deaths
of countless Jews.
“We’re still around, and that in
itself is a miracle,” she said.
She also said Hanukkah is not
a materialistic holiday. Instead,
she said, its importance lies in the
miracle of being and the miracle of
survival.
Bluming said public menorah
lightings are a Chabad trademark
and are meant to instill pride and
identity in the Jewish commu
nity.
Chabad, anew Jewish organi
zation at the University, is linked
to an international Jewish group,
Chabad-Lubavitch.
Bluming said the group has
received a phenomenal response
from Jewish students since its
creation at the beginning of the
semester.
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ASG
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be able to pursue these goals more
effectively outside the system with
a higher presence in Raleigh.
The BOG declined to adopt
those priorities at its November
meeting on the grounds that “there
wasn’t a direct enough correlation
to the university,” Devore said.
“Even on issues where we do
agree, I think it’s sometimes good for
students to have a different mecha
nism and a different approach.”
Matt Liles, ASG vice president
for legislative affairs, agreed that
students need a separate outlet for
influencing events in Raleigh. “We
represent student opinion, and
sometimes that differs.”
He said the association would
coordinate with administrators
when appropriate. But he said the
ASG would not be the “student
branch” of the system’s government
affairs office.
At its meeting Saturday, the ASG
Council of Student Body Presidents
worked out a tentative plan to desig
nate at least two weeks each month
for specific campuses to send a del
egation of students to Raleigh.
The group already has an active
legislative affairs division under Liles’
direction. Through a renewed focus
on this initiative, he and ASG leaders
hope to increase the involvement of
campuses throughout the state.
Fleming welcomed the idea of stu
dent groups visiting the legislature,
saying a broad range of students at
the Capitol would benefit the lobby
ing efforts of the university system.
“I think it’s very important for
legislators to be able to put a face
on what we do,” he said.
But Faires cautioned that hav
ing different students visit each
time might be an obstacle for the
association.
“A lot is driven off of relation
ships, and with the students, it’s
going to be like a revolving door,”
she said.
But the ASG is barred by state
rules from using its budget to hire
a professional lobbyist, and leaders
said statewide student involvement
would be a key part of the initiative.
Liles said that he hopes to attract
participation from as many campus
es and students as possible, but that
he wants a core group that would
return frequently. “I want to also get
a lot of the same people going so you
can get a rapport going with legisla
tors.”
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