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THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2005
POLICE LOG
FROM STAFF REPORTS
■ Carrboro police arrested a
local man at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday
and charged him with one felony
count of breaking and entering into
a vehicle, one misdemeanor count
of larceny and one misdemeanor
count of possession of stolen goods,
police reports state.
According to reports, Usiel
Chapan, 21, was looking into
vehicles at the University Lake
Apartments on Barnes Street
when a complainant heard a win
dow smash and reported him to
police.
Reports state that police found
Chapan with a stolen CD player,
valued at S2OO, and 15 stolen CDs
that belonged to a UNC Hospitals
employee.
Chapan was issued a $2,000
secured bond and was scheduled
to appear Wednesday in Orange
County District Criminal Court in
Hillsborough.
■ Chapel Hill police arrested a
Latta Daycare employee at 4 p.m.
Tuesday and charged her with one
misdemeanor count of driving with
a suspended license, one misde
meanor count of driving without
liability insurance and one misde
meanor count of having an expired
registration plate, police reports
state.
According to reports, Keely
Hargraves, 38, was stopped on
Airport Road near Timber Hollow
Court for having an expired regis
tration plate.
Coalition government stalls
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq Talks aimed
at forging a coalition government
faltered Wednesday over Kurdish
demands for more land and con
cerns that the dominant Shiite alli
ance seeks to establish an Islamic
state, delaying the planned first
meeting of Iraq’s new parliament.
The snag in negotiations between
Shiite and Kurdish leaders came as
clashes and two car bombings in
Baghdad killed at least 14 Iraqi sol
diers and police officers.
The group led by Iraq’s most
wanted terrorist, Abu-Musab al-
Zarqawi, purportedly claimed
responsibility for the clashes and at
least one of the bombings —as it had
for a suicide car bombing Monday
that killed 125 people in Hillah.
“The bombings in Hillah and
again in Baghdad this morning
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Hargraves is scheduled to appear
April 19 in Administrative Traffic
Court in Chapel Hill.
■ Chapel Hill police arrested
a local man at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday
and charged him with one misde
meanor count of shoplifting, police
reports state.
According to reports, Michael
Atwater, 44, was arrested at Ken-
Drug, at 201S. Estes Drive, after a
store employee saw him steal a S3O
Instant Heat Travel hairsetter.
Atwater is scheduled to appear
March 28 in Orange County
District Criminal Court in
Hillsborough.
■ An elderly man was the vic
tim of a breaking and entering at
5 a.m. Tuesday at his Sunset Drive
home, Chapel Hill police reports
state.
Reports state that the subject
entered the residence by removing
a side window and stole an Apex
DVD player, valued at S6O, and a
pillowcase, valued at $5.
■ An Oleans Home Builders
construction site on Springdale
Way was the victim of break
ing and entering at 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday, Chapel Hill police reports
state.
Reports state that the subject
used a pry tool to pry off the screen
of one of the rear windows of a
house under construction, causing
S3O of damage.
Nothing was reported missing.
are not going to derail the politi
cal process that Iraq is embarked
upon,” National Security Adviser
Mouwafak al-Rubaie said
Wednesday. “The Iraqi government
will go after and hunt down each
and every one of these terrorists
whether in Iraq or elsewhere.”
Shiite and Kurdish leaders, Iraq’s
new political powers, failed to reach
agreement after two days of negoti
ations, with the clergy-backed can
didate for prime minister, Ibrahim
al-Jaafari, leaving with only half the
deal he needed.
The Shiite-led United Iraqi
Alliance, which has 140 seats in the
275-member National Assembly,
hopes to win backing from the 75
seats held by Kurdish political par
ties so it can muster the required
two-thirds majority for top posts in
the new government.
Panelists eye effects of war
BY DANIEL WILKES
STAFF WRITER
While most Americans watched
coverage of Operation Iraqi Freedom
on television, unable to fiilly under
stand the images, Rebeen Pasha
said he realized that every brilliant
flash of light meant scores of people
were burning alive.
He knew firsthand what he was
watching from 14 years of living in
the midst of a war zone in Northern
Iraq.
Pasha was one of four UNC
community members, all of whom
lived as noncombatants in places
of violent con
flict, who spoke
Wednesday
night about
their experi
ence amid bru
tal conflict.
Their coun-
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War has
changed the
face of UNC
over time
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tries have been the places of some
of the bloodiest ethnic battles of
this century: Iraq, Kosovo, Burma
and Liberia.
The event, titled “Children of
War,” marked the beginning of the
first inaugural War and Health
series.
Pasha, a graduate student who
organized the event, modeled the
panel after similar events he helped
put on as undergraduate at the
University of Virginia.
“The purpose is to communicate
the real effect of war on the indi
vidual and society from those who
have lived through it,” he said.
Pasha spoke vividly about those
real and heart-breaking effects.
Asa young Kurdish boy growing
up in Iraq, he witnessed countless
atrocities, including the use of chem
ical weapons and mass genocide.
He told the audience in grave
detail about one night before din
ner. As his mother was finishing
Commissioners focus on funding
BY CATHERINE SHAROKY
STAFF WRITERS
The Orange County Board of
Commissioners made sure its views
were in sync Tuesday on its annual
list of legislative requests to the
N.C. General Assembly which
will be finalized before the two
sides meet March 14.
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Xhevahire Hyseni, a fourth-year undergraduate majoring in International Studies, relays her experiences
from segregation in Serbia. Hyseni was part of the "Children of War" program Wednesday in Cobb Theatre.
cooking hamburgers and he and his
sibling played, someone knocked
on the front door. His mother
pleaded with his father, a Kurdish
intelligence agent,’ not to answer.
He opened the door anyway. After
confirming his identity, the men at
the door shot him to death “right
there in front of us,” Pasha said.
Any smiles or laughter audience
members had as they walked to
the event had changed to somber
expressions and hushed tones as
participants left the theater. The
impact was huge.
“It’s really moving,” said Kenny
Olson, a senior business admin
istration major. “It makes it
High on the commissioners’ pri
ority list is money how to gather
more from taxes and how to secure
more from the state to fund county
schools and projects.
Two new taxes, on cigarettes and
alcohol, would set aside revenue to
fund health programs within the
industries.
Money from the cigarette tax
would go toward the Farmland
Preservation Trust Fund and pro
grams aimed at reducing tobacco
use. Alcohol tax revenue would
help fund mental health and sub
stance-abuse programs.
“I just think the notion that you
just raise taxes and throw it into the
big pot when you have clear needs. ..
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hit home. (The panelists) lived
through a world none of us can
ever completely understand.”
Many of the attendants noted
that they feel insolated from war.
“I am so American,” said Anupa
Deshpande, a graduate student
in the School of Public Health. “I
am blessed, but so removed from
the reality of the world I live in. It
really infuriates me.”
She said Americans have a
skewed view of war.
“We’re so removed from it that
we have the unique and almost
elite perspective of removing our
self from human life to focus on
the intellectual and political rea
“Ijust think the notion that you just
raise taxes and throw it into the big pot
... doesn’t make a whole lot of seme.”
BARRY JACOBS, commissioner, on using tax revenue for specific programs
doesn’t make a whole lot of sense,”
Commissioner Barry Jacobs said of
the idea of taxing such items.
The commissioners also are
looking at requests that would
improve school funding.
One request, which the com
missioners have sought for years,
would levy a tax on any property
sale, proportional to its value.
The county now taxes all land
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sons for conflict.”
Meaghan Tracy, refugee ser
vices coordinator at the Lutheran
Family Services in the Carolinas
who facilitated the event, closed
by acknowledging that the audi
ence has been “moved to emotion,
moved to thought and, hopefully,
moved to action.”
The event was presented by the
Student Global Health Committee
of the School of Public Health,
Physicians for Human Rights of
the School of Medicine and the
Campus Y Health Focus.
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equally under an impact fee.
Jacobs said the county also
would like to look at alternative
types of funding such as meal taxes
and hotel occupancy taxes, which
have not been received well by the
assembly in the past.
“The homebuilders own the
legislature, and if they don’t want
(other taxes), they tend to get their
way” he said.
A request to change the voting
system in the county to guarantee at
least one seat from the rural section
by creating districts drew criticism
from the commissioners.
“It is something that should be
better dealt with at the local level
and not at the legislature,” said
Chairman Moses Carey Jr. “At this
point, we have a plan for addressing
it because the citizens in the rural
areas asked us to address it.”
He said the commissioners plan
to address the issue, which was
brought on by a Jan. 24 petition to
the board by farmer Bob Strayhom
and now is being written as a bill by
Rep. Bill Faison, D-Orange.
Carey said Wednesday that he
plans to write Faison to inform him
that the commissioners are pursu
ing the issue by putting it on their
regular agenda as a report.
The commissioners also have a
request to stop the removal of trees
along the interstates, Jacobs said.
“I can testify to how loud it can
get and how much of a difference it
makes to have some trees,” Jacobs
said. “It could make a big differ
ence in the quality of life for a lot
of people.”
The commissioners also took
suggestions on its agenda from the
public.
Using the hate crime Friday
in Chapel Hill as an example,
Damon Seils, vice chairman of the
Orange County Human Relations
Commission, asked the commis
sioners to encourage the legisla
ture to enact a more comprehen
sive hate crimes statute that would
include sexual orientation.
He also asked the commissioners
to oppose the proposed state con
stitutional amendment to disallow
same-sex marriages and unions.
The commissioners added Seils’
requests to their agenda for the
March 14 meeting.
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