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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2005
ASG takes on Washington
BY ERIC JOHNSON
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
WASHINGTON, D.C. - After
two days of meetings with lawmak
ers and policy advocates, 49 del
egates from the UNC Association of
Student Governments will return to
North Carolina more confident in
exercising the associations influence
and more aware of its limitations.
“This really is just the begin
ning,” said ASG President Amanda
Devore. “We can’t just sit on all the
information we’ve gained.”
ASG delegates from 14 system
campuses visited the offices of North
Carolina’s congressional represen
tatives and senators Wednesday
and spent all of Thursday meeting
with officials from higher education
advocacy groups.
This was the association’s
first large-scale lobbying trip to
Washington, although Jonathan
Ducote, ASG director of federal
relations and former ASG president,
made periodic trips to the area dur
ing the academic year. He did not
attend this trip due to illness.
Lois Rice, an expert in higher
education finance and a guest schol
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ar with the Brookings Institute, said
she was encouraged to see students
taking a more active role in the
debate at the federal level.
“It seems to me that student
groups can play a very, very signifi
cant role,” she said. “To my knowl
edge, historically, (students) really
weren’t in view.”
But, Rice added, student groups
should consider meeting with the
members of Congress who exert
the most influence over education
policy, and not just those from their
home state. “I think their own del
egations are not enough,” she said.
Matt Owens, federal relations
officer for the Association of
American Universities, said pro
fessional advocacy groups focus
their efforts on the leadership of
key congressional committees.
“They are the ones who are going
to have the first crack at drafting
those pieces of legislation,” he said.
But Owens, who spoke with ASG
delegates on Thursday, added that
home state legislators are more like
ly to listen to student concerns.
“That is who’s going to pay the
most attention to your voice,” he
said. “Those legislators can use that
as they are in committee negotia
tions to say, ‘Hey, this is what I’m
hearing from my constituents.’”
That was exactly the thought
behind the association’s decision
to meet only with N.C. represen
tatives, said Matt Liles, ASG vice
president for legislative affairs.
“You always have more pull
when you can say you’re a constitu
ent,” he said.
The ASG also met with Wilbert
Bryant, deputy assistant secretary
for higher education programs in
the U.S. Department of Education.
Bryant, a presidential appointee,
said it was the first time he had
been invited to meet with a student
association.
ASG delegates pressed Bryant
about programs cut out of the
White House budget, and he told
the group that only a handful were
likely to see actual cuts once the
budget passes through Congress.
“Stay tuned for those,” he said.
“It’ll be a brutal fight.”
Devore said she hopes to see the
ASG play a bigger role in that fight
in the months and years ahead.
“I think we’re breaking some
serious ground here in terms of
what students are doing.”
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■ Carrboro police arrested an 18-
year-old student at East Chapel Hill
High School at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday
and charged him with one count
each of common law robbery, con
spiracy and obtaining property
under false pretenses all felonies
—as well as misdemeanor assault,
Carrboro police reports state.
According to reports, Jarmal
Antonio Hamn, 0f209 N. Graham
St., was arrested in connection with
a Jan. 14 incident at the Ridgewood
Apartments at 404 Jones Ferry
Road in Carrboro.
In the incident, a Chanello’s Pizza
delivery man was robbed in front of
Apt. C-15 when delivering a pizza at
about 1:30 a.m., reports state.
He was confronted by two sus
pects wearing black hooded sweat
shirts, who claimed to have a knife
and robbed him of his pocket money
and two pizzas, reports state.
Carrboro police are still follow
ing leads on the second suspect.
Hamn was taken to Orange
County Jail to be held on a $5,000
secured bond. He will appear in
Orange County District Criminal
Court in Hillsborough.
■ An automobile was reported
stolen at Crown Honda-Volvo at
1730 N. Fordham Blvd. at 1:50
p.m. Wednesday, Chapel Hill police
reports state.
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valued at $4,000, reports state.
■ A Carrboro man was arrested
at 2 p.m. Wednesday and charged
with possession of schedule I drugs
and possession with intent to sell
and deliver cocaine, both felonies,
Chapel Hill police reports state.
According to reports, Charles
Edgar Debose, 40, of 8862 Lake
Hogan Farms Road, was arrested
at a residence at 605 Airport Road
after he was observed in the pos
session of the drugs.
He was served with an outstand
ing possession warrant, reports
state.
Debose was taken to Orange
County Jail to be held on a $4,500
secured bond. He was set to appear
at the first opportunity Thursday in
Orange County District Criminal
Court in Hillsborough.
■ A Chapel Hill man was
arrested at 4 p.m. Wednesday at
the Chapel Hill police station, at
828 Airport Road, for assault on
a government official and carrying
a concealed weapon, Chapel Hill
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According to reports, Jerry Lee
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■ A vehicle break-in was report
ed at 108 Misty Woods Circle at 9
a.m. Wednesday, Chapel Hill police
reports.
According to reports, an
unknown suspect grabbed the
driver’s side door near the top and
bent it open.
Nothing was reported stolen
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