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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2005
Locals shoot off
on hunting plan
Residents worry
for safety, peace
BY SPENCER GIPPLE
STAFF m~?t.
Residents met with local author
ities Tuesday night to discuss
whether public lands in the Cane
Creek watershed should be opened
to limited hunting.
Close to 50 people crammed into
the Cane Creek Baptist Church’s
activities center to speak out on
the possibility of allowing hunting
on a 500-acre tract of land located
between Martin and Mount Willing
roads in western Orange County.
Ed Holland, Orange Water and
Sewer Authority planning director,
said officials set up the meeting to
receive feedback from those who
live around the proposed hunting
site. The organization will present
the comments to its board of direc
tors Thursday night.
While many nearby residents
spoke on the prospect of hunting
on OWASAs land from September
to November, Ted Hart, who owns
property bordered on three sides by
the land in question, almost yelled
his comments.
“My heart sank when I got a let
ter from OWASA a week ago saying
they were going to allow hunting
on that land,” he said.
Hart bought his property to have
peace and quiet, and he is very
upset at the thought of hunting
ruining that, he said.
“How would you like it if you were
trying to have a family picnic in your
backyard and all of a sudden, Bang!
Bang!” Hart asked rhetorically.
“That’s just beautiful, isn’t it?”
The N.C. Wildlife Resources
Commission’s section manager,
Wib Owen, fired back.
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“Think about it though,” he said.
“Hunting takes place next to homes
all over the state.”
Several other people who live
near the land stood up to voice
complaints similar to Hart’s, say
ing they would be concerned about
their peace and quiet, as well as
their safety, if hunting is allowed
near their homes.
“A number of studies have shown
hunting is one of the safest sports
out there,” Owen responded, send
ing the crowd into an uproar.
Holland said OWASA bought the
proposed hunting land in the early
1980s to mitigate the loss of wild
life habitats caused by construction
of the Cane Creek Reservoir.
He said that when the group
obtained the permit to construct
the reservoir, there was a provi
sion requiring OWASA to allow the
public to hunt on the land.
“Our legal agreement is to pro
vide hunting on the reservoir, which
we don’t want to do,” Holland said.
“The mitigation land is an alter
native to that.”
Alamance County resident Brad
Andrews was one of the few to stand
up for limited hunting but said
he would prefer that OWASA just
allow hunting on the reservoir land.
“I mean, why is the land around
the reservoir so dang special?” he
asked.
Mark Marcoplos, chairman of
the OWASA board of directors
the group that ultimately will make
the decision on the proposal said
the group will try to find a decision
acceptable to both sides.
“It’s a complicated issue,” he said.
“I just hope everyone understands
we want to do the right thing and
give everyone what they want.”
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Colleges revisit race in history
BY JULIA FURLONG
STAFF WRITER
UNC’s recent concern with his
torical figures, catalyzed by a con
troversial award, is seen by many
as part of nationwide reflection on
the sometimes uncomfortable past
of colleges.
This is a trend at many universi
ties, said Harry Watson, director of
UNC’s Center for the Study of the
American South.
“If (the historical figures under
scrutiny) didn’t do anything, as
flawed as they were, we wouldn’t
have a University today,” Watson
said. “We are now entering a peri
od of thoughtful reassessment and
discomfort all around.”
In February, Chancellor James
Moeser charged the Advisory
Committee on Naming University
Facilities and Activities with the
task of formulating a policy for use
of historical figures.
He also announced the creation
of the Women’s Award Committee,
headed by former Chairwoman of
the Faculty Jane Brown, to explore
the possibility of an honor to suc
ceed the Bell Award.
The award, which was retired in
December, was named for Cornelia
Phillips Spencer, a woman cele
brated as instrumental in reopen
ing the University after the Civil
War but criticized for writings that
justified white supremacy.
Similar conversations on histori
cal entanglements with slavery and
racism abound, occurring at both
Ivy League institutions and state
universities.
Some schools began this process
following the civil rights movement
After 1971, the word “Dixie” could
no longer be found in the name
or repertoire of the University of
U.S. military to inquire on attack
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S.
military decided Tuesday to con
duct an accelerated inquiry to leam
why American troops opened fire,
killing an Italian intelligence agent
and wounding an Italian journalist
he helped rescue from insurgents in
Iraq. The attack has strained rela
tions with a key American ally.
The decision to fast-track the
investigation came as the mili
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Georgia’s Redcoat Marching Band
after student complaints.
“There’s no question that there
has been an effort to de-emphasize
Confederate heritages... especially
in the past four to five years,” said
Mark Sklarow, executive director
of the Independent Educational
Consultants Association.
Sklarow said he has noticed
through his work with prospective
students that it is difficult to get
parents from the North to consider
Southern schools.
“Getting rid of rebel mascots,
getting the Confederate flag off of
schools ... all of these actions con
vey the message, We’re not stuck in
that era,’” Sklarow said.
But he also said universities
run the risk of alienating alumni.
The recent actions of universities
in Tennessee have sparked such
complaints.
At Sewanee: The University of
the South, Confederate flags and
memorabilia are disappearing
from its campus, and a revamped
logo features its official name, “The
University of the South,” in smaller
lettering.
Vanderbilt University in
Nashville now is fighting a law
suit by United Daughters of the
Confederacy after officials dropped
the “Confederate” from the title of
“Confederate Memorial Hall,” a
building donated by the group.
While many universities already
have defined their policies of action,
other schools are still in the delib
eration process.
At the University of Texas-
Austin, debate is ongoing about
the movement of statues depict
ing Confederate leaders such as
Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee
from the school’s South Mall.
tary also opened an inquiry into
the shooting death of a Bulgarian
soldier in what appeared to be
another friendly fire incident on
the same day.
Both probes were an indication
of the pressure being brought on
the Bush administration by the
few American allies in Europe
that have steadfastly supported
his policies in Iraq.
Italy and its prime minister,
December 2004: Chancellor James Moeser retired Bed Award.
February 2005: Moeser charged the existing Chancellor's
University of North Carolina Advisory Committee on Naming University Facilities and Activities
at Chapel Hill with responsibility of formulating a policy for use of historical
names. Moeser also created the Women's Award Committee to
discuss the possibility of an award to succeed the Bell Award.
2003: President Ruth Simmons was charged "to organize academic
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rased” by the national debate about slavery and reparations
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The university is currently involved in a lawsuit with United Daughters
Vanderbilt University of the Confederacy about changing name of the dormitory donated
by UDC from Confederate Memorial Hall to Memorial Hall.
Robert Meckel, UT’s admin
istrative communications coor
dinator, said UT President Larry
Faulkner has received nomina
tions for a committee to consider
the issue in response to a report.
In 2003, Brown University
President Ruth Simmons
appointed the University Steering
Committee on Slavery and Justice,
consisting of both students and fac
ulty, to organize academic events
on slavery issues ranging from the
national debate on reparations to
Brown’s early benefactors’ involve
ment in the slave trade.
Silvio Berlusconi, sent 3,000
troops to Iraq, while Bulgaria has
460. Both countries have said they
will not withdraw their troops, but
domestic pressure to bring them
home has been growing espe
cially in Bulgaria where it has
become an election issue.
Berlusconi’s office said the pre
mier had “expressed the satisfac
tion of the Italian government” at
the U.S. military investigation.
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A report is expected from the
committee at the end of the year,
said Seth Magaziner, a committee
member and junior history major.
He said the committee was
formed after Simmons was told on
a campus tour that there was no link
between the school and slave trade.
“Overall, this is an issue that
people are not excited to talk
about,” Magaziner said. “But I
hope that other universities will
start to ask questions.”
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POLICE LOG
FROM STAFF REPORTS
■ An employee of Jersey Mike’s
Subs was arrested Monday and
charged with one misdemeanor
count of assault on a female, Chapel
Hill police reports state.
According to reports, Henry
McLeod, 42, of 100 W. Rosemary
St., was arrested at 8:59 p.m. after
police received complaints of the
assault.
Upon entering McLeod’s name
into the arrest log, police discov
ered several outstanding warrants
on him from the Wilmington Police
Department.
Police spokeswoman Jane
Cousins said there is no informa
tion available on the warrants
issued from Wilmington.
He was held on a SIOO,OOO
bond for the Wilmington charges.
He was scheduled to be trans
ferred to Wilmington today.
■ An unemployed Chapel Hill
man was arrested Monday on one
count each of carrying a concealed
weapon, speeding and driving with
a suspended license all misde
meanors police reports state.
According to reports, Clayton
Benjamin Stiebel, 26, of 2401 S.
Estes Drive 82, was stopped in his
2003 Mazda Protege going 70 mph
in a 35 mph zone on East Franklin
Street at Boundary Street.
While searching the vehicle,
police found Stiebel to be carrying a
handgun, but not a current license.
He was brought before the
magistrate and released on a writ
ten promise to appear May 17 in
Orange County District Criminal
Court in Chapel Hill.
■ The ice cream shop Cold
Stone Creamery, at 131 E. Franklin
St., was the victim of larceny
Monday afternoon, Chapel Hill
police reports state.
According to reports, an
unknown suspect stole the store’s
tip jar, valued at sl, and the $lO
that was in it at 2:37 p.m.
■ Police responded to a com
plaint of indecent exposure Tbesday
morning at the Chapel Ridge apart
ments, at 101 Legacy Terrace in
Chapel Hill, police reports state.
According to reports, an
unknown suspect exposed himself
to an individual at 12:13 a.m. on
the walkway of the 700 building.
■ A Raleigh resident was the
victim of a pickpocketing Sunday
night near West Franklin Street,
Chapel Hill police reports state.
According to reports, an
unknown suspect pulled the
victim’s wallet from his pants at
6:30 p.m. near the corner of West
Franklin and Church streets.
The total value of the stolen
items was estimated at $47, reports
state.
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