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Nicole Neuman, design co-edi
tor at The Daily Tar Heel, and the
DTH design staff won three awards
in a design contest sponsored
by the Student Society for News
Design, based at the University of
Missouri-Columbia.
Neuman took first place in the
elections results coverage category
for the “Standstill” spread, which
ran Nov. 3, 2004. She also won
honorable mention in the page
one/news design category for the
same spread.
The DTH design staff’took third
place in overall newspaper design.
CITY BRIEFS
Local emergency agencies
hold terror-response training
Orange County Emergency
response agencies reacted to a
simulated explosion at New Hope
Elementary School as part of terror
ism-response training Saturday.
The “explosion” in the school’s caf
eteria generated multiple “victims,”
who were Boy Scouts from Troop
821 and Cub Scouts from Pack 821.
The UNC Health Care sys
tem, Student Health Service,
Orange County Sheriff’s depart
ment, Orange County Emergency
Management, Hillsborough Police
Department and Orange County
chapter of the American Red Cross
participated in the exercise.
Antiquated communications
equipment posed some difficulties
but is expected to be replaced soon.
City schools receive funds
for enrichment projects
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public
School Foundation awarded more
than $18,500 in grant money for
classroom student enrichment
projects.
The 27 grants used funding
from local organizations includ
ing Cotton 8011, Elmo’s Diner, the
Herb Allred Fund for the Cultural
Arts, GlaxoSmithKline, the Chapel
Hill Historical Society and Bank of
America.
The funded programs included
a student store at Chapel Hill High
School, a project at East Chapel Hill
High School to interview local resi
dents who served overseas, measure
ment tool kits for elementary math
and science at Ephesus Elementary
School and a multicultural literature
workshop at Frank Porter Graham
Elementary School.
Senior center to host event
for community art project
The Chapel Hill Senior Center at
400 S. Elliott Rd. will host a com
munity discussion on the Chapel
Hill Public Arts Commission’s
community art project, “Dream,”
at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
The two-hour event will fea
ture speakers including Aaron
Nelson, executive director of the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of
Commerce; Kenneth Jjombwe, a
student in Chapel Hill-Carrboro
City Schools; Emily Mills, textile
artist; Oscar Barbarin, professor
in the UNC School of Social Work;
and Valerie Yow, historian.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
English professor to step up
as fine arts, humanities dean
William Andrews, the E. Maynard
Adams professor of English, was
recently named senior associate
dean for the fine arts and humanities
in the College of Arts and Sciences.
He will assume the post July 1.
Andrews will replace Darryl
Gless, who will serve as resident
director of the UNC Honors
Semester in London this fall.
As senior associate dean, Andrews
will oversee 24 departments, pro
grams and centers in the fine arts
and humanities and assist in faculty
development and retention.
CALENDAR
Today Paul Begala, co-host of
CNN’s “Crossfire” and former coun
selor to President Bill Clinton, will
speak at 7:30 p.m. in 111 Carroll
Hall. UNC Young Democrats is
sponsoring the event.
Today Dan Klein, associate
professor of economics at Santa
Clara University, will speak at 7
p.m. in 100 Hamilton Hall on
the facts and issues of ideology
in the United States. The event
is sponsored by the UNC College
Republicans.
Today The editors of Duke
University’s “Saturday Night:
Untold Stories of Sexual Assault”
will host a release reception to cel
ebrate their newest edition from 9
to 11 p.m. at the Women’s Center,
located in the Few Building on
Duke’s west campus.
The publication is designed
to share the narratives of sur
vivors of sexual assault at Duke
University.
From, staff reports.
Changes to license cause confusion
BY MICHAEL TODD
STAFF WRITER
Legal-aged drinkers might be
reminded of their younger days
when they try to use the state’s new
driver’s licenses.
Anew North Carolina driver’s
license, issued in February, has
several new security features that
have changed its appearance so
much that some businesses and
law enforcement officials claim
that it looks less authentic than a
fake ID.
The changes which include
new, colored, intertwining holo
grams and an enlarged photograph
are aimed at thwarting growing
problems with identity fraud.
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Que Rico performs at the 14th annual Noche Latina on Saturday night in the Great Hall, which celebrated the 15th year of the Carolina
Hispanic Association. The group's performance was one of the most anticipated in an evening filled with dances and other performances.
A festival rich in tradition
BY STACEY CARLESS
STAFF WRITER
Vases holding powder pink, light orange
and white flowers sat on the tables that filled
the Great Hall of the Student Union.
Lining the walls and filling the stage,
balloons that matched the flowers floated,
bringing an aura of festivity to the room.
Next to the stage stood ah illuminated
white arch with flowers wrapped around it.
Under the arch sat a three-tiered white cake
decorated with intricate flowers and pearls.
The room screamed fiesta.
More than 250 students and community
members sampled a taste of Latin culture
Saturday evening as they participated in a
traditional festivity: a quinceaiiera.
As the Carolina Hispanic Association cel
ebrated its 15th year Saturday with its 14th
Seniors stroke toward the end
BY JERRI SIMMONS
STAFF WRITER
Dozens of sleepy, somber-faced
students lined the Bowman Gray
Memorial Pool at 9:30 a.m. Friday,
many of them seniors waiting to
plunge into the last obstacle stand
ing between them and a diploma.
With only a few' weeks until the
May 15 Commencement exercises,
they scrambled all day Friday to
pass the sw'im
test, the final
one offered this
year.
Mark Zaruba,
a senior busi
ness and eco
nomics major
and a swimmer
since age 5, had
no trouble pass-
Counting
the days
Looking at the
face of the 2005
graduating class.
ing and only expressed his unfavor
able view of the exercise.
“I think it’s pointless,” he said. “I
don’t think it should make a differ
ence whether you can swim or not
for you to graduate.
“(Swimming’s) fun; I don’t
think it helps you any other way
in life.”
The test was instituted after
the University was awarded funds
for a pre-flight training program
in 1942. It became a graduation
requirement for men in 1944 and
for w-omen in 1946.
Top News
Department of Motor Vehicles to
inhibit false duplications of the
new license have kept news of the
change to a minimum.
“Our primary focus was just
getting it out there, partly to catch
people by surprise,” said Wayne
Herder, director of driver’s license
certification for North Carolina.
Herder said information regard
ing the changes was sent to every
law enforcement agency in the
state, as well as some state finan
cial institutions.
But no formal message was
sent to businesses that check IDs
daily to prevent selling alcohol and
tobacco products to minors.
Bruce Florio, a bartender at
Linda’s Bar and Grill, at 203 E.
annual Noche Latina, the aroma of yellow
rice, shredded beef and chicken and rice
pudding floated with Latin music through
the air.
By 7 p.m. empty plates sat in front of full
students.
“It’s one of Carolina Hispanic Association’s
biggest events of the year,” said Carla
Quinones, the Masala representative for
CHispA. “It is a great event to create aware
ness about our culture.”
Chrystal Baker, a senior communications
major, sat at one of the tables with four of
her friends and pointed at her clean plate.
With a laugh, she said, “It was good.
“It was a lot of things I’ve never had
before, and I enjoyed it all.”
Many audience members at the event
looked forward to the show after dinner.
DTH/LEAH GRONING
Senior basketball player Jackie Manuel smiles after completing the swim
test Friday morning. It was the last test offered before graduation May 15.
In order to pass, swimmers
must spend five minutes in the
water, during which they are
required to swim 50 yards, then
continue laps, float or tread water.
Test takers are not allowed to
touch the bottom or sides of the
pool and are automatically failed
if they do.
Senior Jonathan Brome took the
swim test Friday and, like Zaruba,
was not worried about it. Brome
also has been swim,ming since
childhood and didn’t find the test
difficult.
Franklin St., said he is disturbed
by the failure to notify' businesses
about the changes.
“The DMV puts out these new
licenses, and they don’t tell anyone
about it,” he said.
“I have been scouring their Web
site and the newspapers, but I
haven’t found anything about the
new license.”
Florio’s concern stems from an
incident two weeks ago when he
mistook anew license for a fake ID.
“I called a Chapel Hill police
officer and showed it to him, and
he said, ‘I haven’t even seen one of
these things,’” Florio said.
Howard McDonald, an employ-
SEE LICENSES, PAGE 6
“I can’t wait to see the dancing and all the
other performances,” said freshman CHispA
member Mia Gonzalez. “I am really looking
forward to Que Rico.”
During the Que Rico performance, one
of many throughout the evening, young
woman in black stiletto heels danced across
the stage, moving their hips effortlessly to
the beat of the music.
Joining them, seven young men dressed
in UNC paraphernalia dipped and twisted
the girls and matched each of their saucy
movements.
When the dancing finished, the crowd
erupted in screams, w'histles and applause.
CHispA President Fernando Soto sat in
the back of the room in his green and yel-
SEE NOCHE, PAGE 6
He said he waited until the
last opportunity because it was a
simple task but had the foresight
to show up early.
“I was in the first group to go,
and when I got out, the line was
pretty long,” he said.
Brome wasn’t alone in his pro
crastination. He said he saw eight
or nine other people he knew' in
line, and senior Prem Thomas had
to skip class to attend.
“I had a P.E. early in the morn-
SEE SWIM TEST, PAGE 6
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TAs dissatisfied by
appreciation event
BY HILARY DELBRIDGE
STAFF WRITER
Free barbecue and the opportu
nity to mingle with other teaching
assistants lured Carlos Valencia to
a teaching-assistant appreciation
luncheon last Tuesday.
But what the graduate student
didn’t expect to find was an event
that left him and many other TAs
hungry, frustrated and questioning
how much the University appreci
ates its teaching assistants.
‘We joked that it was kind of like
TA humiliation,” said Valencia, a
teaching assistant in the Department
of Romance Languages.
Valencia said the event wasn’t
indicative of his career as a TA at
UNC.
Still, when he arrived to the event
about an hour late, he said there was
no cole slaw, a half-empty container
of baked beans and two pitchers of
warm tea.
Minutes later, he said, all the
food was gone.
“I saw a lot of people that were
almost offended,” he said.
The event, sponsored by stu
dent government and the Office of
the Provost, was an effort to raise
morale among TAs.
Unprecedented attendance led to
MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2005
WNBA
selects
UNC
senior
Detroit takes Bell
with 20th pick
BY JACOB KARABELL
SENIOR WRITER
Midway through the 2004-05
season, North Carolina senior
Nikita Bell lost her starting spot
after scoring just four points in
consecutive contests against Miami
and Florida State.
But after Bell permanently
returned to the starting lineup
Feb. 16 at Wake Forest, she not
only scored double-figures in all
but one of her
final 11 games
but also earned
a multitude of
honors:
■ The ACC’s
coaches deemed
Bell the confer
ence’s Defensive
Player of fhv
Year.
■ Sportswrit
ers deemed her
an honorable
mention All-
B
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UNC senior
Nikita Bell
will play for
the WNBA's
Detroit Shock.
America, even though she was not
even nominated for the All-ACC
awards.
■ And Saturday, the Detroit
Shock deemed her a professional
basketball player, as Bell culminated
her successful tw o-month stretch by
becoming the ninth UNC women’s
basketball player to hear her name
called at the WNBA Draft.
After Shock coach Bill Laimbeer
selected Bell with the 20th overall
pick, she exhaled while several of
her North Carolina teammates and
team director of operations Greg
Law w'atched the broadcast with
her in UNC’s basketball office.
“Finally, they called my name—
it was a relief,” Bell said. “I was
happy and relieved at the same
time.”
When she was coming off the
bench in early February, it appeared
SEE BELL, PAGE 6
the food shortage, said Brian Phelps,
chairman of student government’s
Academic Affairs Committee.
Officials prepared for 500 peo
ple last year and wound up with an
excess of food. Asa result, Phelps
said, they planned for 300 people
to attend this year.
Despite the lack of food, UNC
officials say, they have made strides
to improve TAs’ quality of life.
In 2003, a report from the
Teaching Assistant Advisory Task
Force found that TAs’ salaries were
not competitive with those at other
universities, sparking the need
for additional benefits and salary
increases to attract more graduate
students.
Provost Robert Shelton said he
anticipates using tuition revenue
to raise the minimum TA stipend
by SI,OOO next year bringing
the total to $12,000 per semester.
Officials increased the minimum
stipend last year by SI,OOO.
“As graduate students, they are
fundamental to the whole research
and scholarship mission of the
University” Shelton said.
“As TAs, they really carry out a
lot of the class instructional respon-
SEE ASSISTANTS, PAGE 6
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