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CORRECTION
Due to a reporting error, a page
12 photo caption mistakenly iden
tifies Don Whitaker as a co-owner
of Shorty’s Bar and Grill.
The business actually is co
owned by Shorty, Tony and Cathy
Cash. Whitaker is a friend of the
proprietors who was helping them
paint their storefront.
The caption also is in error by
stating that the location will fea
ture 24-inch televisions. The bar
will house 24 televisions.
The Daily Tar Heel apologizes
for the errors.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
Concert tickets to be raffled
for hurricane relief effort
Two tickets to the 3 Doors Down
Concert will be raffled off Thursday
after the Hurricane Katrina Relief
Vigil at 7 p.m.
Students can enter the raffle by
donating money to the Carolina
Katrina Relief Fund using their
UNC OneCard. The concert is at
6:30 p.m. Friday at Alltel Pavillion
at Walnut Creek in Raleigh.
Student Congress honors
campus' hurricane response
Student Congress members
passed a resolution Tuesday
commending members of the
University community for their
support of the victims of hurricane
Katrina and asked that they con
tinue their efforts.
CITY BRIEFS
Orange County forum aims
to eliminate homelessness
The Orange County Board of
Commissioners and the Orange
County Human Services Advisory
Commission will host the 17th
Annual Human Services Advisory
Commission Forum from 8 a.m. to
1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the United
Church of Chapel Hill, located at
1321 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
The 2005 forum’s theme is
“Welcome Home: A Bold Proposal to
End Homelessness” and will launch
an initiative by local municipalities
to end homelessness in 10 years.
Speakers will include Richard
Moore, N.C. State TYeasurer; Philip
Mangano, Executive Director of
the U.S. Interagency Council on
Homelessness; and Chris Fitzsimon,
Director of N.C. Policy Watch.
The $12.50 registration fee
will be donated equally to the
Orange Congregations in Mission
and the Inter-Faith Council for
Social Service. To register, contact
Corinthia Barber in the County
Manager’s Office at 919-245-2300.
Town, University officials to
discuss transit plans today
At 7 p.m. today at the Friday
Center, a long-range transit plan
will be presented to the public
transit partners, the Chapel Hill
Town Council, the Carrboro Board
of Aldermen, and representatives
from the University.
Transit Planner John Bonsall of
Ontario, Canada, is the featured
presenter. Bonsall encourages a
more intense focus on transit strate
gies within Chapel Hill, which later
could apply to the larger region.
WORLD BRIEFS
Hussein confesses to 'crimes/
will appear in court Oct. 19
BAGHDAD, Iraq lraq’s pres
ident said Tuesday that Saddam
Hussein had confessed to “crimes”
committed during his regime,
including killings.
President Jalal Talabani told Iraqi
television that he had been informed
by an investigating judge that “he
was able to extract confessions from
Saddam’s mouth” about crimes “such
as executions” the ousted leader had
ordered personally.
Talabani said some of the confes
sions involved cases actively under
investigation, but he did not specify
which ones. Saddam faces his first
trial Oct. 19 for his alleged role in
the massacre of Shiites in Dujail, a
town north of Baghdad in 1982.
Saddam could face the death pen
alty if convicted in the Dujail case.
Oil-for-food group blasts
U.N. leaders, seeks reform
UNITED NATIONS - A probe
of the Iraq oil-for-food program
faults U.N. Secretary-General Kofi
Annan, the Security Council and
some United Nations member states
for “egregious lapses” that allowed
corruption and incompetence to
cripple the operation, according to
a preface of the final conclusions.
The Independent Inquiry
Committee’s report, to be published
Wednesday, criticizes Annan and the
U.N. Security Council for a failure of
leadership in the overall manage
ment of the program, according to
the preface, released Tuesday on the
committee’s Web site.
From staff and wire reports.
System issues warm welcome
BY KRISTIN PRATT
STAFF WRITER
UNC-system schools are bring
ing anew meaning to Southern
hospitality, by welcoming students
of Gulf Coast universities destroyed
by Hurricane Katrina.
While students from the ravaged
states trickle into North Carolina,
system school officials are trying
to deal with the influx and what it
means for financial aid.
“We’re just working within the
system to do our part to help stu
dents,” said Kemal Atkins, director
of academic and student affairs for
the UNC system.
All 16 campuses have been asked
to accommodate these students
based on available space, especially
for courses and housing, he said.
Schools such as East Carolina
University and N.C. State University
have welcomed and are hosting sev
eral students, while schools such
as UNC-Greensboro and UNC-
Wilmington have just begun to see
student victims enroll in classes.
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Paul Kapp, the campus' historic preservation manager, discusses the architecture of Gerrard Hall during a campus tour on Labor
Day. Gerrard soon will undergo massive renovations and upgrades. Its neighboring building, Memorial Hall, reopens this weekend.
TREES DICTATE
ON-CAMPUS FEEL
BY JACQUELINE BRILL
SENIOR WRITER
Of the nearly 400 students that roamed
the fledgling UNC campus in 1860, a few
probably felt they were living at a summer
wilderness camp rather than a university.
“There was the idea of beautiful build
ings set in a forest,” says Paul Kapp, cam
pus historical preservation manager, about
what original designers such as William
Richardson Davie and Thomas Kenan envi
sioned for the campus.
As such, the large oak trees that shade
McCorkle Place the first of the two main
quadrangles to be constructed were
planted in a sporadic fashion to give the
campus a more untamed look.
Also with this concept in mind, but
almost 70 years later, construction began
on Kenan Stadium, which was built within
a natural ravine. It was surrounded by so
many trees that students could stay cool
under a natural canopy while watching
football games on hot September days.
Two of the first buildings constructed
on McCorkle Place Old East, in 1793
and Old West, in 1823 set the stage for
another wave of construction that would
eventually be Polk Place.
After a less cohesive period of construc
tion, circa 1900, that brought such buildings
Development to make over downtown street
BY JAKE POTTER
STAFF WRITER
Some new shapes in the skyline
along West Rosemary Street might
be redefining life in downtown
Chapel Hill.
Rosemary Village, at 400 W.
Rosemary St., is one of the works in
progress downtown that locals hope
will energize what could be called a
turnover-laden downtown market.
The towering mixed-use devel
opment, now under construction,
will house seven retail units and 38
residential units in four separate
four-story buildings.
The Village broke ground last
November, and the project, co-devel
oped by Rosemary Village LLC and
Build Ex Inc., is expected to be com
pleted by late December. Residents
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N.C. State has accepted approxi
mately 20 students and has fielded
more than 100 inquiries about
transferring, said Leslie Dare,
director of distance education and
technical services.
“The provost was clear that we will
welcome them into classes,” she said.
“We’ll make sure that happens.”
Dare said the enrolled students
have ties to Raleigh or the state
some are residents, and others have
relatives who live in the area.
The university also has been
in contact with international stu
dents, Dare said. She said their
needs are greater since they have
fewer support services than stu
dents who have state ties.
N.C. State’s priorities include get
ting the students acclimated to their
new situation and easing them into
Wolfpack life through mentor and
service programs, she said.
UNC-G had one undergraduate
student register Tuesday morning,
said Steve Gilliam, director of uni
versity relations. “We want to do
as Howell and Pettigrew halls to campus, a
disjointed University set the stage for more
unification, both among the students and in
regard to architecture.
“The Campus Y was the first student
center to unify campus,” says Kapp, who
compared it to the modern Frank Porter
Graham Student Union.
From there, Polk Place took form reflect
ing the colonial past of North Carolina with
its red-brick buildings (all of which share a
basic construction) and more formal land
scaping.
These were not the only influences for
the University’s growing campus.
“If you visited Princeton (University), you’d
get a very eerie sense of deja vu,” Kapp says.
Several of the early founders, including
Samuel McCorkle, went to school at the
then-Universify of New Jersey, and brought
the idea of a university-town plan with them
when they came to Chapel Hill.
The idea of having the main road
(Franklin Street) drag along one edge of
campus is something clearly mimicked
from the placement of Princeton’s Nassau
Street.
Even with this long design and architec
tural history, it is what the towering cranes
and übiquitous red tape will bring to that
particular timeline that seems of more cur
are slated to begin moving in some
time in January.
Aaron Nelson, executive direc
tor of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Chamber of
Commerce,
said having
more feet on
the street will
be a welcome
addition for
the downtown
market. “The
more people
there are liv-
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invested in downtown,” he said.
Town Manager Cal Horton said
the Rosemary Street sector and
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everything we can to help these
students.”
UNC-G already has completed
three weeks of class and has eight
week-long intensive courses, he
said. He questioned whether stu
dents would be able to make up
those three weeks.
UNC-W accepted seven students
and will accept three or four more
Wednesday, said Terry Curran,
associate provost for enrollment
management at UNC-W.
The university set a deadline
of noon Wednesday for students
wishing to transfer.
There will be plenty of available
housing, and Curran said faculty
and community members have
opened up their homes to students
and their family members.
“The kids are going to be well
taken care of,” he said.
ECU also has received students
from the affected area with more
expected to arrive soon, said John
Durham, a university spokesman.
While these schools have enough
rent interest to students, Kapp says.
‘The theme is to export the Polk/McCorkle
Place ambience to South Campus, where it is
more automobile-driven,” he says.
He says completed examples of this goal
include additions to the South Campus
neighborhood such as residence halls
Hinton James North and Craige North,
finished in 2001 and 2002.
“They made faces to the street and created
spaces behind that are more pedestrian,”
Kapp says, adding that this helps to com
bat the sense of randomly placed high rises
that once-solitary residence halls such as
Ehringhaus and Hinton James perpetuated.
Newer buildings on South Campus also
are being built in the red-brick colonial style
so favored in the early 20th century.
“You’ll see a design that doesn’t look like
any other design, but it does connect back,”
says Anna Wu, director of facilities planning
at UNC.
Bruce Runberg, associate vice chancellor
for planning and construction, shared that
sentiment.
“We are taking the traits, the qualities of
North Campus and bringing them south,”
he says. “It knots the north to the south bet
ter.”
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Construction on Rosemary Village continues on West Rosemary Street
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space in residence halls to provide
housing, students still are left in the
dark about their financial situation.
“Tuition still is being worked out,”
Durham said. “The UNC-system
president’s office told all the cam
puses that students that come here
have the same tuition as other stu
dents that attend system schools.”
This means N.C. residents will pay
in-state tuition rates, and nonresi
dents will pay out-of-state tuition.
Overall, Atkins said, even non
resident displaced students likely
will experience a decrease in
tuition costs because N.C. schools
are more affordable.
Bobby Kanoy, senior associate
vice president for academic and
student affairs for the UNC system,
said the federal government laid
down guidelines directing universi
ties to allow students to transfer and
utilize their financial aid funds.
The guidelines affect the partic
ipants in the federal financial aid
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Vaccine
drive to
reduce
scares
Second drive to
be held Sept. 14
BY KATHRYN BALES
STAFF WRITER
After the scare of last year’s
record four cases of meningitis,
several UNC students haye sought
out preventative medicine.
Student Health Service’s
Meningitis Vaccine Drive was held
from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday in
the Student Recreation Center and
will be offered again Sept. 14 at the
same time and location.
Carol Kozel, director of nursing,
said that this is the fifth annual
meningitis vaccine drive SHS has
hosted and that there are a few
changes this year, including new
recommendations for first-year
students to get the vaccine.
“This is anew vaccine,” she said.
“The route’s administered differently.
The efficacy or the immunity status
is five to 10 years as opposed to three
to five with the other vaccine.”
Students might undergo some of
the same difficulties procuring the
vaccine they experienced last year
because of the restrictions on the
vaccine, Kozel said.
“It’s on a limited-order basis,”
she said. “After (Tuesday night), I
advise students to call and see if
there are supplies available.”
Students have said the vaccine is
worth the time and money.
“For any health reasons, I think
any price is worth paying,” said
Neha Godiwala, a sophomore from
Charlotte.
Kozel said that the vaccine is open
to all students and that they can bill
the S9B cost of the preventative
straight to their student account.
“Some students have been able
to get this vaccine through their
pediatrician or the local health
department,” she said. “But we may
have more come in, because some
doctors were unable to procure it.”
Elizabeth Graves, a freshman
business major, said the price of the
vaccine is acceptable, even though
she’s not worried about meningitis.
“It looks like a pretty serious dis
ease, so it’s worth it,” she said.
Althea Mascarenhas, a sopho
more biology major, said the vac
cine is just a precaution, because
she is careful about sharing drinks
and food with friends.
“I’ve heard there’s a risk, espe
cially in college,” she said. “It’s bet
ter to be safe than sorry.”
Freshman Derek Mobley, from
Lexington, N.C., said fear of losing
a limb motivated him to pay to get
stuck with a needle.
“It was quick and not very pain
ful,” he said. “I’m glad to have it all
over with. The anticipation is gone.”
Kozel said being vaccinated is
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Students
mobilize
around
Sudan
Monday meeting
draws large crowd
BY SHARI FELD
STAFF WRITER
More than 70 students congre
gated Monday night to learn what
they could do to confront the geno
cide plaguing the Darfur region of
Sudan.
The students who sat in the
aisle and in the doorway on the
floor squeezed into Murphy
Hall room 104 to hear about this
year’s plans and goals for Students
United for Darfur Awareness
Now.
Priyanka Rao, a member of the
SUDAN planning committee, said
she was stoked about the high
turnout at Monday’s meeting.
“I think the campus has become
really responsive to the human
rights violations going on,” she
said. “I think the reaction is amaz
ing because it is a place so far away,
and people are interested in doing
whatever they can.”
At the end of last year, about 10
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