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CAMPUS BRIEFS
See the big dance on the
big screen with 15,000 fans
The Department of Athletics,
Division of Student Affairs and
Rams dub will sponsor a 15-by-20-
foot screen and open 15,000 seats in
the Smith Center on Monday for a
free viewing of the NCAA men’s bas
ketball championship broadcast.
UNC students, faculty and staff
with UNC ONE Cards will be admit
ted first at 8 p.m. at Entrance A.
Doors open to the general public at
8:30 p.m. There will be no re-entry.
Free parking will be available
at the Smith Center off of Bowles
Drive and in the Kenan-Flagler
Business School parking deck.
Alcohol is prohibited, but conces
sions will be sold during the game.
Masked vandal assails Israeli
speaker at student event
A masked man threw balloons
filled with red paint at an Israeli
man speaking Thursday night in
Murphey Hall during an event
sponsored by Carolina Students
for Israel then escaped on a bike,
University police reports state.
The speaker, Jacob Dallal, is a
former spokesman for the Israeli
Defense Force.
The suspect left a note at the
scene calling the assault an act of
civil disobedience, said Jackie Terry,
president of the student group. The
note also said the red paint repre
sented the blood of Palestinians
who have died in the ongoing con
flict with Israel, Terry said.
Police still are investigating the
incident.
Public service center honors
faculty, students with awards
The Carolina Center for Public
Service honored members of the
community for their commitment
to public service during an annual
awards program Friday.
Gordon Whitaker, professor of
public administration and govern
ment, received the third annual Ned
Brooks Award for Public Service.
The award honors a faculty or
staff member with a record of com
munity service through individual
efforts and the involvement and
guidance of others.
The center also presented the
Office of the Provost Public Service
Awards, for student groups that
serve North Carolina, to Team Epi-
Aid and Project Open Hand.
Team Epi-Aid helps the N.C.
Division of Public Health and local
health departments with outbreak
investigations and other short-term
applied public health projects.
Project Open Hand is a student
organization that helps people liv
ing with HIV and AIDS.
Seniors Rebecca Sowder and
Philip Sherrill and faculty members
Jock Lauterer and Dr. Lee Marcus
received the Robert E. Bryan Public
Service Award, which honors exem
plary public service efforts.
CITY BRIEFS
Local visitors bureau director
dies unexpectedly March 27
Rene Campbell, director of the
Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors
Bureau, died March 27 in Lexington.
Her death was unexpected.
Campbell had served as direc
tor since May. County Economic
Development Director Dianne
Reid said she liked Campbell when
she first met her.
“When Rene walked into the
room, we knew she was the person
for the job,” Reid said. “She had a
warm, bubbly personality.”
Campbell, a Lexington native,
had a bachelor’s degree in speech
and theater arts from Wake Forest
University and doctoral degrees in
theater history and film from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A memorial service was held
Saturday at Lexington’s First
Reformed United Church of Christ.
Community theater group
to host musical, auditions
Auditions begin tonight for the
Orange County Community Theatre’s
production of “Honk,” the musical
tale of “The Ugly Duckling.”
Auditions will be held at the
Central Center in Hillsborough.
Participants should bring a famil
iar song and can perform a cappella
with sheet music. An accompanist
on piano will be present.
Call 245-2660 for one of the 10-
minute blocks. Tonight’s audition
are from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Additional
times will be Wednesday, Thursday
and April 19 and 20.
CALENDAR
Today Valery Orr, the plaintiff
in the Supreme Court case Adarand
Constructors v. Pena, will take part
in an affirmative action discussion
with other campus groups.
The event, which kicks off Alpha
Phi Alpha fraternity Inc.’s Greek
Freak Week, will take place in at 6
p.m. in 100 Hamilton Hall.
From staff reports.
Number of rapes on campus spikes
Student groups tiy to spread message
BY STEPHANIE NOVAK
STAFF WRITER
The number of sexual assaults
reported on campus is on the rise
this year, and the University com
munity is trying to fight back.
Since the start of the academic
year, victims have reported 25 sexual
assaults lB in the fall and seven
this semester, said Melinda Maiming,
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Students at the Newman Catholic Student Center participate in a service Sunday. Students and others at the Newman Center, like
millions of Catholics around the world, remembered Pope John Paul II at the first Mass since the pontiff's death Saturday afternoon.
HONORING
A FALLEN LEADER
BY BRIANNA BISHOP
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
The congregation at the Newman Catholic
Student Center Parish on Sunday night
joined hundreds of thousands of mourners
around the world in remembering the life of
Pope John Paul 11.
At the center’s Sunday evening Mass,
churchgoers lifted up special prayers for
the pope, the cardinals who will choose his
successor and the Catholic Church during its
period of transition.
The 84-year-old pope died Saturday after
noon of septic shock and cardiocirculatoiy col
lapse. He had served as pope for 26 years.
An estimated 100,000 turned out to St.
Peter’s Square in Rome on Saturday night
for a special Mass, and thousands more have
arrived since then to offer their prayers. The
church laid out John Paul’s body Sunday,
giving the public its first glimpse of the late
pope since his death.
“He was a wonderful leader and will defi
nitely be missed,” said senior Melissa Danie.
Dearmin gets help
on platform planks
BY HEATHER ANDREWS
STAFF WRITER
With two of his platform planks
nearing completion, Student Body
President-elect Seth Dearmin said
he will center his attention on lob
bying and uniting student organi
zations once he steps into office.
The progress already made on
two of his major planks provid
ing condoms in residence halls and
wireless Internet on Franklin Street
will allow Dearmin to target dif
ferent aspects of his platform after
he is inaugurated Tuesday.
“It’s an asset in that it opens up
time to focus on other issues,” he
said. “It’s a huge help.”
Though the two initiatives were
major points on Dearmin’s platform,
their early completion owes much
to the work of many other student,
University and local officials.
A pilot program for the sale of
condoms could be instated before
students leave for summer break,
said Christopher Payne, associate
vice chancellor for student affairs.
Outgoing Student Body Vice
President Alexa Kleysteuber has
been aiming to “fix the condom
situation on campus” since before
Dearmin was running for office.
“He hasn’t been that involved,”
said Kleysteuber, who has been
working with the Center for
Top News
assistant dean of students.
All have been “blind reports,” in
which victims do not release their
names. In a typical year, between
10 and 20 students make these
reports to University personnel.
It’s unclear why there’s been an
increase in reports. It could mean
more sexual assaults, or it could mean
more victims have filed reports.
Although she’s glad the pope was relieved
after his long illness, it was sad to see the
church lose such a special person, she said.
Junior Jessica Lumsden shared similar
thoughts, saying she was saddened to hear
about John Paul’s death. “He’s been our lead
er as long as I’ve been alive,” she said.
Noting that many of his parishioners have
not known any other popes in their lifetime,
Rev. Phillip Leach, the center’s pastor and
campus minister, took Sunday’s Mass as an
opportunity to remember the pope and dis
cuss what will happen next for the church.
He explained what the future will bring as
the effort to find anew pope begins.
The funeral will take place in two to four
days. About two weeks after the funeral, car
dinals under the age of 80 from around the
world will gather to select the next pope, he
told the congregation.
Leach also shared with attendees the
opportunities he had on several occasions
to meet John Paul.
“He’d speak to each one of us in our native
Healthy Student Behaviors on the
initiative. “I think he knows what’s
going on. He seems excited.”
Noting that Dearmin has yet to
attend any meetings about the con
dom plan’s implementation, Payne
said he is looking forward to work
ing with him on a variety of issues
that affect students.
“I have visited with Seth about
this,” Payne said. “Because this is a
pilot program, there will be discus
sions over the summer and into the
fall that will involve him.”
Meanwhile, the Downtown
Economic Development Corporation
has been working to create wireless
Internet access on Franklin Street.
Nick Didow, the corporation’s
interim executive director, said the
project is progressing.
“I’ve met with part of the
(Chapel Hill) advisory committee
to see what their interests are,” he
said.
“We’ve not yet gathered every
body around the same table. That
will probably happen next, in about
10 days to two weeks.”
Dearmin said the work of people
outside his campaign displays the
passion other people bear toward
issues that affect students.
He added that the outside help
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Either way, UNC students say,
they’re going to lead the way in
trying to stop the trend.
“Women clearly are leading the
way in trying to end this issue, but
if we as men don’t begin to step up
and play an active role in this issue,
then change won’t come,” said
Homecoming King T.J. Abrams,
who is leading efforts to raise
awareness of domestic violence.
During his tenure, Abrams has
worked to secure permanent funding
language,” Leach said of the way the pope
would greet those celebrating Mass.
He added that when the pope walked past
people, he would look at them as if they were
the only person in the world.
“John Paul II was a great man,” Leach said.
“He was a holy man. He was a brilliant man.”
He told the congregation to be grateful
for the privilege of learning from a man who
put everything into his faith.
“He’s really an extraordinary person,”
Vicky Fernandez, an exchange student from
Argentina, said about the pope.
She said the next pope will be challenged
in trying to fill his shoes and added that she
hopes everyone in the parish will have the
opportunity to hear about his amazing life.
A special Mass for the pope will be held at
noon today at Our Lady of Lourdes Church,
located at 2718 Overbrook Drive in Raleigh.
The service will be televised live on FOX-50.
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
Businesses gear up for hoops game
BY LAURA OLENIACZ
STAFF WRITER
The Tar Heel basketball team’s
success in the NCAA Tournament
this weekend brought in record
sales for area businesses, and a
brighter future still glimmers on
the horizon for fans and mer
chants.
Franklin Street bars and restau
rants made special arrangements
to support the large crowds of
enthusiastic fans for UNC’s bout
with Michigan State in the Final
Four on Saturday night.
“We increased our staff levels,
ordered extra food and beer. We’ll
be bringing in extra TVs,” Hams of
Chapel Hill restaurant manager
Stephan Johanson said Friday
before the game.
Johanson said Sunday that the
bar made about three times as much
as it normally makes on a Saturday
night because of game crowds.
Top of the Hill Restaurant and
Brewery made similar arrange
ments.
Manager Tim Sullivan said the
business was totally tournament
oriented Saturday night. All of the
restaurant’s tables were organized
in front of TVs and a full security
staff watched the outdoor, upper
level patio —a potentially danger
ous site for ecstatic UNC fans.
The restaurant and bar expected
to be at capacity by halftime, but
fans began lining up by 11 a.m. in
order to reserve seats.
Woody’s Tar Heel Tavern and Grill
for the Victims’ Assistance Fund. The
resource pays for the costs of trips to
the emergency room and follow-up
visits for necessities such as X-rays
and rape kits, which doctors use to
help identify a victim’s assailant.
The program has faced a Catch
-22: When victims report more
assaults, they need more money,
and the fund is depleted.
In November, the fund fell to
S9OO. The ideal balance hovers
between $5,000 and $6,000.
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Shoppers look at the merchandise at the Shrunken Head Boutique on
Franklin Street. T-shirts with Final Four logos have been in high demand.
experienced similar crowds. The res
taurant reopened after lunch at 4:30
and reached capacity by 4:45.
But despite the big crowds, area
bars had relatively few incidents
Saturday night.
Woody’s owner Joe Hatch said
that while the crowd was excited,
the night went smoothly. But he said
he was disappointed when some of
his clientele decided to punch their
fists through his ceiling.
“I think that comes with the ter
ritory,” he said.
Sullivan said he did not have any
problems until after the game, when
people crowded into the stairwell
and tried to push into the bar.
“We had to have the Durham
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Abrams has worked with student
government and the University
Safety and Security Committee to
increase funding to $6,000, but
only for this semester.
The committee will vote on a
permanent increase for the fund
before the end of the semester.
UNC also hopes to start an addi
tional program this fall in conjunc
tion with Duke University. The
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Struggle
over law
mirrors
others
Admissions fight
goes past Texas
BY ELIZABETH DOUGHERTY
STAFF WRITER
A Texas bill that has ensured the
diversity of students admitted into
public colleges and universities has
come under fire from school offi
cials, and the debate has sparked
discussions about diversity on cam
puses nationwide.
The law, enacted in 1997, guar
antees the top 10 percent of stu
dents in each Texas high school
admission to state universities.
Now, officials at the University
of Texas-Austin and Texas A&M
University say the program has
led to qualified applicants being
turned down just because they’re
not in the first tenth of their class.
“We’ve been very successful,
too successful if you wish,” said
Augustine Garza, deputy director
of admissions at UT-Austin.
In 1999, 42 percent of total
admits were in the top 10 percent
of their graduating high school
class. In 2004, that number had
increased to 66 percent.
But campus officials say the law
has a plus side as well, because it
encourages people to apply.
That was the intent of the law
in the first place. The bill was a
response to a Texas court ruling
that prevented race from being
used in admissions, which led to a
noticeable decrease in the number
of minority applicants.
UT-Austin has seen 1,000 more
applications from black students
and 2,000 more from Hispanic
students since Texas enacted the
law, according to a report on the
demographic makeup of freshmen
published by the admissions office.
Still, Garza said, he’s in the busi
ness of recruitment, so for him the
law is good. He pointed to the rise
in the number of applications to
UT-Austin as the most revealing
factor of the law’s progress in diver
sifying the student body.
The debate is part of a national
trend: considering the role of race
in college admissions.
In 2003, the U.S. Supreme
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police control the crowd,” he said.
Sullivan said that with added
security, Top of the Hill will be ready
for Monday’s championship game.
And local eateries are not the only
ones gearing up for the game.
Stores dedicated to UNC para
phernalia have been selling T-shirts
all week in record numbers in prep
aration for Monday’s game.
John Hudson, co-owner of
Carolina Pride on Franklin Street,
has been selling thousands of the
16 different tournament-related T
shirt designs for the past week.
“I’m going to be running a third
shift big time,” he said, adding that
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