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Senate names members for
lottery special committee
RALEIGH Almost half of the
state Senate is on a special commit
tee that will debate the lottery bill
approved last week by the House,
including several members worried
about state-sponsored gambling.
Senate leaders Tuesday named
21 members to the special panel,
including three Democrats who
have publicly opposed a lottery,
and six Republicans.
The committee chairman will
be Senate Majority Leader Tony
Rand, D-Cumberland, an ally of
Gov. Mike Easley, who has been
pushing for a lottery since his 2000
campaign.
Democratic Sens. Dan Clodfelter
of Mecklenburg County, Janet
Cowell of Wake County and Martin
Nesbitt of Buncombe County, are
on the panel. Each has expressed
reservations about a stand-alone
lottery bill.
With two additional Democrats
now opposed, Senate leaders would
have to change some minds to get a
bill passed by the 50-seat Senate.
Senate Minority Leader Phil
Berger, R-Rockingham, who also
is on the committee, said he thinks
all 21 Republicans in the 50-seat
group will oppose the lottery.
The initial meeting of the com
mittee had not been scheduled late
Tuesday.
The House voted 61-59 in favor
of a lottery that would dedicate 50
percent of net proceeds to school
construction. The rest would go to
need-based university scholarships
and a special fund controlled by
legislators to benefit public educa
tion programs.
House Speaker Jim Black, D-
Mecklenburg, said changes to the
bill in the Senate could make it
difficult to retain the razor-thin
majority in the chamber.
CITY BRIEFS
Carrboro to re-examine plan
for parks, recreation facilities
Carrboro is in the process of
updating its 11-year-old Recreation
and Parks Master Plan and is seek
ing feedback from citizens.
From 6:30 to 8 p.m. today at,
Carrboro Town Hall, town officials
will hold a second open house on
revisions to the plan, which acts
as a guide for the development of
parks, recreational facilities and
programming.
The town is looking for ideas for
potential updates.
More information about the
open house or the revisions, call
918-7364 or send an e-mail to the
department at RecParks@ci.car
rboro.nc.us.
Liberal radio talk show host
to host live broadcast today
Longtime “Saturday Night Live”
writer and performer and radio talk
show host A1 Franken will bring
his liberal views and politics to the
University campus today.
“The Al Franken Show,” which
Franken hosts with Katherine
Lanpher for the liberal radio net
work Air America, will broadcast
live.ftom noon to 3 p.m. today in
the Student Union auditorium,
which holds about 375 people.
The show airs weekdays between
those times on 1360 WCHL-AM.
Franken is scheduled to do book
signings and appearances with
local media after the show.
Local middle schoolers earn
honors in talent program
Eight seventh graders in Chapel
Hill-Carrboro City Schools have
qualified for grand recogni
tion this year in the Duke Talent
Identification Program.
In order to qualify for this recog
nition, students must have at least
a 650 on either the math or verbal
section of the SAT or a combined
score greater than 1260.
The following students quali
fied for this distinction: Jesse
Holloway, from Grey Culbreth
Middle School; Wesley Mafflykipp
and Ying Ao Zhang, both from
McDougle Middle School; David
Siderovski, Graham Van Leeuwen,
Lydia Wang and Nancy Wang, all
from Phillips Middle School; and
Niel Lebeck from Smith Middle
School.
A ceremony to honor the stu
dents will be held in Durham in
May.
Duke TIP is a nonprofit orga
nization that works to identify
academically talented students in
the nation and provide innovative
programs and support for their
educational development.
CALENDAR
Today Funny Student Film
Night will be held at 8 p.m. in the
Union Cabaret. The free event,
sponsored by the Carolina Union
Activities Board, will feature
comedic short films made by UNC
students.
From staff and wire reports.
Committee plans summer events
Concerts, movies to begin mid-June
BY ADAM W. RHEW
STAFF WRITER
When citizens charged with
planning town-sponsored summer
events met Tuesday, they agreed
that the programs would provide a
boost to downtown vitality.
But they are still working out the
final details of how the events can
best provide that boon.
Members of the Downtown
Economic Development
Corporation’s summer events sub
committee discussed plans for sum
mer programs downtown includ
ing a movie and concert series.
“It would establish a habit of com
ing downtown and create a positive
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Robin Graham (left), Julie Robinson (center) and
Whitney Ward (right) participate the reading of the
names, an event for Holocaust Remembrance Week,
held Tuesday night in the Pit. This is the ninth year of the
annual event, a 24-hour vigil during which the names of
Holocaust victims are read continuously. It serves to pay
homage and remembrance on a personal level to individuals
Illegal immigrants’ kids
could get in-state tuition
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RALEIGH - With North
Carolina’s Latino population boom
ing —and Latino children drop
ping out of school at alarming rates
lawmakers introduced a bill
Thesday that would extend resident
tuition rates at public universities to
the children of illegal immigrants.
Former Gov. Jim Hunt returned
to the General Assembly to show his
support for the legislation, which
is sponsored in the House by two
Republicans and two Democrats.
The measure would give in-state
tuition to students who attended
schools in North Carolina for at
least four consecutive years before
graduation. Young people in the
country would have to apply for
legal immigration status to receive
the resident rate.
“It is morally right and it is eco
nomically necessary for our state,”
Hunt said. “We need these students.
They have worked hard. They have
excelled in high school.”
The bill appears to enjoy wide
Group takes case to administrators
Leaders ask UNC
to monitor labor
BY STEPHANIE NEWTON
STAFF WRITER
A group ofVel Dowdy supporters
walked into a meeting with cam
pus administrators Tuesday with
the hope of instituting changes to
the treatment of Carolina Dining
Services employees.
But representatives of Student
Action with Workers walked out
empty-handed.
The group presented a slate of
what they consider labor violations
by Aramark Corp. the interna
tional service corporation that
employs CDS workers to Joanna
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image of downtown,” said committee
member Robert Humphreys.
In the past, the Chapel Hill
Downtown Commission an entity
whose town funding is now directed
to the corporation showed movies
on top of the Wallace parking deck,
located on Rosemary Street.
But committee members raised
issues relating to the programs,
insisting that changes be made.
“If we do it (on the Wallace
deck), I will have to resign from
this committee,” said committee
member Mary Jo Stone.
Stone said the showings in previ
ous years were conducted illegally.
She told members that in order
HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE WEEK
“It is morally right and it is economically
necessary for our state. We need these
students”
JIM HUNT, FORMER N.C. GOVERNOR
support: By TUesday, 32 legislators
had signed as co-sponsors, drawing
an expression of surprise from the
president of a Raleigh-based group
that lobbies for tighter restrictions
on immigration.
“It’s amazing that (36) politi
cians are so out of touch with their
constituents,” said William Gheen,
president of Americans for Legal
Immigration.
Illegal immigrants admitted to
UNC-system schools would take up
some of the limited number of spots
for in-state residents, Gheen said.
“I hate to see a bill that will
eventually replace thousands of
Americans in college with illegal
immigrants at taxpayer expense.”
Supporters of the bill say the
Carey Smith, associate university
counsel, and Margaret Jablonski,
vice chancellor for student affairs.
Nancy Davis, associate vice chan
cellor for University relations,
served as an observer.
But without Chancellor James
Moeser in attendance, the advo
cates knew ahead of time that they
wouldn’t get far in their quest to
have campus officials intervene on
behalf of Dowdy, who was arrest
ed March 25 and charged with
felony embezzlement of food at
Lenoir Dining Hall, according to
University police reports.
Dowdy will appear in Orange
County District Criminal Court in
Hillsborough on May 5, said Vin
Linga, the prosecutor in the case.
“This is unacceptable,” said SAW
for the viewings to be legal, the
corporation would have to have a
contract with a company licensed
to distribute films for public out
door showings.
Those films would cost between
$l5O and $350 each, Stone said.
The issue of outdoor movie
showings was not the meeting’s
only point of contention.
Subcommittee members also
discussed whether alcohol would
be served at the events an issue
at the center of much recent debate
which subcommittee Chairman
Tom Tticker called irrelevant to the
group’s charge.
But his pleas did not stop mem
bers from sounding off.
“While I’m interested in the cul
tural events of this community, we
who lost their lives in the Holocaust. The reading of the
names began at noon Tuesday and will continue until noon
today. Participants lit Yartzeit candles, which will burn for
24 hours to commemorate the dead. Events will continue
throughout the week. Tonight, keynote speaker and Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof will talk about
contemporary genocide issues at 6 p.m. in 111 Carroll Hall.
alternative is a growing number
of young Latinos without a college
education even in the face of grow
ing demand for bilingual workers.
Supporters expect between 480
and 1,345 additional students to
apply for admission to UNC-system
schools this year if the bill passes.
“It makes economic sense to
give these students ... an oppor
tunity to succeed,” said Andrea
Bazan-Manson, executive director
of the Raleigh-based Latino advo
cacy group El Pueblo.
Illegal immigrants are allowed
to apply to any college they wish to
attend, but they must pay out-of
state tuition if they are accepted to a
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member Melanie Stratton. “We
said, as in our correspondence, that
we would not stay at the meeting if
the chancellor was not present.”
The activists also requested that
a representative of Aramark be
present at the meeting.
Moeser spent Tuesday afternoon
in Raleigh meeting with members
of the men’s basketball team and
the N.C. General Assembly.
SAW members presented
UNC administrators with a letter
demanding the reinstatement of
all unjustly fired food workers and
a card-check neutrality process
for unionization: an alternative to
National Labor Relations Board
elections in which a company
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2005
feel extremely strongly that no cul
tural event should be sponsored by
or promote drinking,” said commit
tee member Isabelle Geffner.
The Town Council is considering
a petition from the corporation that
would allow the sale of alcohol at
public events on town property.
Stone said she thinks the corpo
ration should at least explore the
option of alcohol at an event.
“If this University is allowed
to tear up Franklin Street... then
why can’t we promote this prop
erly?” she said.
Stone previously voiced concern
with the corporation’s proposal and
formally protested the idea in a let
ter to Mayor Kevin Foy.
After quelling the alcohol discus
sion, members decided to host five
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Partnership could
foster businesses
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BY EREN TATARAGASI
STAFF WRITER
A stronger relationship with
the University might be just what
Carrboro needs to improve its eco
nomic vibrancy, town officials say.
In particular, the town is looking
at a relationship that would invite
researchers from the University to
start businesses in Carrboro instead
of at larger business markets such
as Research Triangle Park.
“What the University needs is
facilities close to campus, and what
we’ve got on our side is location,”
Carrboro Mayor Mike Nelson said
Tuesday at the Board of Aldermen
discussion on the town’s economy.
The aldermen already have
met and begun discussions with
University officials on creating
such a relationship.
“It was a good discussion, but
there is no real agenda yet,” Nelson
said. “But it was a good start.”
In February, aldermen expressed
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Representatives of Student Action with Workers hold a press conference
outside South Building on Tuesday after meeting with University officials.
“We feel... strongly
that no cultural
event should he
sponsored by or
promote drinking.”
ISABELLE GEFFNER, group member
outdoor concerts, along with five
movie nights, tentatively slated to
begin in mid-June on Wednesday
or Thursday nights.
Tucker acknowledged that the
group still has a lot to do. “We need
to grab something and run with it.”
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
Board
OKs
satellite
campus
Durham Tech
gets needed land
BY KATHRYN REED
STAFF WRITER
After months of legal con
flict threatened to spoil the deal,
Durham Technical Community
College soon will acquire the land
it needs to build a satellite campus
in Orange County.
The Orange County Board of
Commissioners approved the
purchase of the land, off N.C. 86
in Hillsborough, at its Tuesday
meeting in a motion that lacked
the friction of previous efforts to
secure the site.
The commissioners received no
public comment and unanimously
approved an amendment for the
purchase contract.
The amendment pushes back
some construction dates for the
campus, which is still scheduled to
open in fall 2007.
The delays are mostly the result
of a recently resolved dispute
between the campus developer and
the owners of a tract of land that
will serve as a campus access road
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interest in diversifying the town’s
economy. Now, they hope to find
the means of attracting new busi
nesses to the community.
“We have a strong economy now,”
said James Harris, community and
economic development director for
Carrboro. “I think we’re just look
ing at changing the mix.”
Harris said businesses that meet
the specific needs of families and
individuals would suit the econom
ic community of the town.
Everything from attorney’s offic
es to retail stores would serve the
town’s goals, he said.
“These are the kinds of busi
nesses that would create jobs and
would promote a sustainable com
munity,” Harris said.
The town now is looking to hire
a consultant to help the aldermen
in considering changes to its eco
nomic development strategies.
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