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THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2005
League opposes Bush
Clean Skies Initiative
BY ELIZABETH DOUGHERTY
STAFF WRITER
A collection of environmental
ists, legislators and businessmen
fear North Carolina’s progress
in reducing air pollution will be
undermined by President Bush’s
Clear Skies Initiative.
Appalachian Voices Business
League, a pro-environment busi
ness group, led a press confer
ence Tuesday at the N.C. General
Assembly to voice their concerns.
Bush submitted the act to
Congress in July 2002. The Clear
Skies Initiative takes a market
based approach to reducing pollu
tion, setting a nationwide cap on
particular emissions and allowing
industries to trade emission rights.
Opponents said the federal legis
lation will be more lenient than the
N.C. Clean Smokestacks Act, which
passed the state legislature in 2002
with an overwhelming bipartisan
majority in both chambers.
The law mandated power plants
decrease smog- and haze-forming
emissions by 75 percent by 2012.
Sen. Martin Nesbitt, D-
Buncombe, said the law was a logi
cal step in protecting the health of
North Carolinians. “It’s not some
thing you have to do it’s some
thing you should do,” he said.
N.C. officials said the Clear Skies
Initiative could weaken pollution
standards in “upwind” states such
as Tennessee and Virginia, whose
emissions have a large impact on
North Carolina’s environment.
“We can’t help ourselves,” Nesbitt
said. “The good Lord determines
which way the wind blows.”
In a March 2004 press release,
Gov. Mike Easley said the strict laws
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North Carolina has put in place are
weakened by polluted air drifting
from other states. He demanded a
federally enforced change.
“The time has come for (the
Environmental Protection Agency)
to level the playing field and make
other states take responsibility for
their contributions to this prob
lem,” Easley said.
State Attorney General Roy
Cooper lodged a formal protest
with the EPA in March 2003, call
ing on the agency to take action
against polluters in 13 states.
Appalachian Voices contends
that the Clear Skies Act would
prevent the state from filing such
complaints.
Appalachian Voices is working
this week to gather support from
N.C. lawmakers to express concern
to North Carolina’s U.S. senators,
Elizabeth Dole and Richard Burr.
They had collected more than 50
legislators’ signatures by Tuesday
for a letter calling on Burr and Dole
to oppose the Clear Skies Act.
Doug Heye, a spokesman for
Burr, said the senator is “generally
supportive” of the federal legislation
but has reservations about under
mining the positive steps taken by
the Clean Smokestacks Act.
The fate of the Clear Skies
Initiative will be determined by the
Senate Committee of Environment
and Public Works.
Will Hart, committee major
ity spokesman, said negotiations
between committee members were
ongoing Wednesday. A hearing is
scheduled for today.
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CHANGE
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of sexual orientation, gender iden
tity and gender expression.
Gender identity is an individu
al’s internal sense of being a man or
a woman, according to a glossary
published by the Gay and Lesbian
Alliance Against Defamation. This
term is often used in reference to
transgender individuals.
GLAAD describes gender expres
sion as the external expression of a
person’s gender identity, typically
through behaviors described as ste
reotypically male or female.
Looking back on a 92-page cli
mate report on LGBTQ issues that
he received in 2002, Provost Robert
Shelton said he thinks the adminis
tration needs to revisit its findings.
“We need to redouble our efforts,”
Shelton said. “This isn’t something
you do once and it’s over.”
Some students said the admin
istration needs to improve upon
changes made in response to sug
gestions from the original report
especially the sexuality studies
minor.
The new minor opened to stu
dents in fall 2004, but members
of GLBTSA said the program is
underfunded and understaffed.
GLBTSA TVeasurer Zach Howell
noted that it is not yet listed on the
registrar’s Web site.
“It’s the hidden minor at UNC,”
Howell said. “Why, after a year of
having this minor on campus, has
CRIME
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rassed now at this point that they’re
going to be looked down upon for
saying something now.”
Stockwell maintains that six or
seven men in their 20s attacked
him just after 2 a.m. Friday. He
said he was walking from Cosmic
Cantina to meet a friend at La
Residence when he was confronted
by several men who yelled at him.
“They pushed me, and they were
pretty scary, so I took off running,”
he said.
But the men caught him just
outside of Top of the Hill, near the
corner of Franklin and Columbia
Streets.
Stockwell said one man punched
him, prompting him to punch
back. But the attacker’s accomplic
es soon joined the fray, overcoming
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no administrator thought to list it
on the registrar?”
GLBTSA co-chairman Alex
Ferrando said a boost in funding
for the sexuality studies curriculum
would increase the number of classes
that could be taught More students
then could take the classes to fulfill
perspectives and come out with a
new understanding of sexuality.
Howell said it is important for
students to take a fresh look at
the way society treats the LGBTQ
community.
“Things like saying ‘That’s so
gay’ create a negative atmosphere,”
he said. “Those are the seedlings of
hate in a heterosexist society.”
On campus, students can under
go Safe Zone training, a 4-hour ally
development program that teaches
people how to foster a safe environ
ment for LGBTQ individuals.
“One thing everyone can do is
get more involved in the LGBTQ
movement,” Caldwell said. “It’s not
just for the LGBTQ community.
It’s for everyone.”
GLBTSA members said more
students especially leaders of
organizations and RAs need to
go through such training.
“In some ways the allies are a
key ingredient to changing the
climate at UNC,” Caldwell said.
“When allies say things to their
friends like ‘Hey, that’s not cool,’
it’s really helpful.”
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Stockwell by sheer number.
He was on his cell phone at the
time of the attack, he said, and after
he dropped his phone, a woman
picked it up and told the person on
the line to come pick him up.
Stockwell, who returned to the
site of the crime for a candlelight
service Tuesday night, said he is
pleased to see the community rally
against violence.
“(People have gained) awareness
that this still goes on in this area,” he
said. “When people go home, they
can take that knowledge with them
and that acceptance with them.”
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encouraged to contact Chapel Hill
Police at 968-2760.
City Editor Ryan Tuck
contributed to this article.
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DIVERSITY
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Faculty responses somewhat
reflected those of students, with
11.7 percent reporting that they
don’t know if the University ade
quately addresses racism and 14.9
percent saying the same thing
about homophobia.
But the survey showed that fac
ulty and students have different per
ceptions of classroom comfort when
discussing issues of diversity.
The majority of students, 62.9
percent, said they feel supported by
professors, instructors and teaching
assistants when expressing views in
class. But only 48.3 percent of fac
ulty answered that students in their
classes seem comfortable when dis
cussing diversity issues.
The assessment, which began in
February, was guided by five core
values developed by the task force
in December: vision and commit
ment to diversity, the presence of
diversity, educational benefits of
diversity, responsible interactions
and a supportive climate. The sur
vey used questionnaires, focus
groups and student interviews.
During the task force meet
ing officials also presented a pre-
CHICKENMAN
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a toy remote-controlled car.
So Andrews went to Toys “R” Us
in search of knickknacks.
“I put the chicken in the shop
ping cart,” he said. “Talk about the
Red Sea parting.”
At the cash register, Andrews
said, he placed a credit card
between the toes of the chicken
and let the chicken swipe the card
to purchase the toy truck. “The
whole place went ballistic.”
He then went to a landfill and
found a high chair and a basketball
to use in teaching the tricks.
“They’ll eat out of my mouth or
give me a kiss,” Andrews said, stick
ing a piece of bread into his mouth
and holding a chicken. The chicken
took a bite and landed a thank-you
kiss on his lips.
“A chicken could bite your lip or
mouth,” he said, adding that it has
happened before.
Andrews and his chickens have
appeared in the N.C. Reptile and
Exotic Animal Show and also were
featured on the Animal Planet
channel and in “Ripley’s Believe It
or Not.”
He recently auditioned for the
“Late Show with David Letterman”
in New York, where he juggled two
chickens in the air.
But Andrews said he isn’t look
ing for fame. “It came out of me
wanting to help other people,” he
said. “It came out of me wanting
to encourage people.”
The chickens also have been fea
tured in parades, including one in
which a chicken rode down Franklin
Street on a Clydesdale horse.
“It’s a family business,” Andrews
said, mentioning that his wife and
13-year-old daughter help out.
When Andrews married Ginger
“the Chickenwoman” in 2001, he
said the chickens had as much of a
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that assesses how well individual
departments and schools address
diversity.
“It’s intended to tell us to some
degree what people say they are
doing to promote diversity,” Ervin
said.
He noted that 75 percent of
those schools and units questioned
said they have adopted a published
mission statement on diversity.
Three units surveyed have yet to
submit reports.
Task force members have until
their next meeting, on March 30,
to comb through the results. Three
subcommittees of the task force
will present their interpretations
at the March meeting.
He said the group hopes to
deliver a report on the state of
diversity at UNC to Chancellor
James Moeser by April 29.
“We have to look at this more
systematically and in depth,” Ervin
said. “I think what’s exciting is to
have some basis for understand
ing a little more about the campus
community and what people think,
feel and perceive.”
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role in the wedding as he did.
“The first thing down the aisle
was a chicken on a remote-control
truck,” he said.
Andrews and his wife use the
chickens in church mission work.
“We feel like there is a big
void for people who don’t have
good quality Christian comedy,”
Andrews said. “You don’t have to
worry about us saying foul lan
guage. No pun intended.”
Keeping with the religious mis
sion, most of Andrews’ chickens are
named after people from the Bible.
“We call him Joseph because
he has a coat of many colors,”
Andrews said, pointing to a rooster
with multicolored feathers.
The chickens look to Andrews as
a mother figure. When he shouts,
“everybody,” the chickens come
running to their cage doors —a sign
that it’s time to go play.
“They sense trust,” he said.
“They sense a bond that we have.”
But the Chickenman and his flock
must find anew coop before April.
A nearby neighborhood is
expanding, and the owner of his
property said he has to move.
Andrews said he is having trou
ble finding a place that will allow
30 to 40 chickens on the property.
He is looking to work full time
with the chicken shows but said he
needs fiinds to operate.
Regardless of setbacks, the chick
ens will continue to fly. They already
have shows booked at a chicken fes
tival and a NASCAR event.
“After you do a program and see
a smile on kids’ faces, you don’t
care what you had to go through,”
Andrews said. “That’s it in an egg
shell.”
And the chickens won’t have to
worry about landing in Andrews’
frying pan he’s a vegetarian.
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