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Stir Sail)) <Sar Wpri CORRECTIONS Due to an editing error, the photo cutline on the jump from the “Evacuees encouraged by N.C. hospitality” article Wednesday incorrectly identifies the pictured location as Morrisville. The evacu ees were at a camp in Raleigh. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error. CAMPUS BRIEFS Memorial Hall reopening to kick off with gala events There will be a ribbon-cutting and gala reopening ceremony at 1 p.m. today at the newly renovated Memorial Hall. The grand reopening weekend kicks off with a Tony Bennett per formance Sept 9 and events Sept 10 featuring violinist Itzhak Perlman, violinist/violist Pinchas Zukerman and the N.C. Symphony, led by Leonard Slatkin music director of the National Symphony Orchestra For more information about the hall, see the Diversions section on pages 7 to 11. STATE 6 NATION Bush, O'Connor guide final tributes at Rehnquist funeral WASHINGTON - In a historic cathedral, President Bush and Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor led the final tributes to William H. Rehnquist, the long serving chief justice of the United States who charted the court’s path toward conservatism. Services for Rehnquist, who died Saturday night after a year long illness from thyroid cancer, were conducted Wednesday in St. Matthew’s Cathedral. The funeral for President Kennedy took place there, and Pope John Paul II cel ebrated Mass at St. Matthew’s in 1979. The family of Rehnquist, a Lutheran, requested St. Matthew’s primarily because of the space the Roman Catholic church provides. Vice President Dick Cheney was among other government officials attending. The nation’s 16th chief jus tice is being buried at Arlington National Cemetery, where his wife is interred. It has been an emotional two days for Rehnquist’s family and his friends, especially his for mer law clerks, many of whom recalled Tuesday his devotion to duty and their love for his lack of pretense. “In some ways, he may be look ing down at all of this, and be amused by it all; he was a per son who liked being anonymous,” said Joseph Hoffmann, a former Rehnquist clerk who teaches law at Indiana University. It has been an emotional time as well for O’Connor, who cried Tuesday as Rehnquist’s casket was carried up the marble steps to the court John Roberts, the former Rehnquist clerk named to succeed his old boss, was among the pall bearers carrying the flag-draped casket into the Great Hall. Mayor threatens immediate, forced evacuation from city NEW ORLEANS - To the estimated 10,000 residents still . believed to be holed up in this ! ruined city, the mayor had a blunt ; new warning: Get out now or • risk being taken out by force. As floodwaters began to slowly ; recede with the city’s first pumps ; returning to operation, Mayor C. Ray Nagin authorized law enforce ment officers and the U.S. military ; to force the evacuation of all resi dents who refuse to heed orders to ! leave. Police Capt. Marlon Defillo said forced removal of citizens had not ■ yet begun. “That’s an absolute last ! resort,” he said. ; Nagin’s order targets those • still in the city unless they have ! been designated as helping with ; the relief effort. Repeated calls to Nagin’s spokeswoman, Tami ’ Frazier, seeking comment were not ; returned. The move, which supersedes an earlier, milder order to evacuate ! made before Hurricane Katrina ; crashed ashore Aug. 29, comes after rescuers scouring New ] Orleans found hundreds of people ; willing to defy repeated urgings to • get out. They included people such as ; Dennis Rizzuto, 38, who said he had plenty of water, food to last a month and a generator powering his home. He and his family were offered a boat ride to safety, but he declined. “They’re going to have to drag me,” Rizzuto said. In Washington, D.C., President Bush and Congress pledged Tuesday to open separate investi gations into tiie federal response to Katrina and New Orleans’ broken levees. “Governments at all levels failed,” said Sen. Susan Collins, R- Maine. From staff and wire reports. Work proceeds on electronic archiving Would hold journals, dissertations BY KATIE CLINE STAFF WRITER Because software eventually can become obsolete and books are vulnerable to the ravages of time, University officials plan to estab lish a more permanent system of storing information. The UNC library system is cre ating an electronic curation center that will make students’ disserta “I couldn’t tell you before why I joined a sorority, but now I can t imagine life without it.” mary stuart deibel, sophomore |T IJj. *i*MN**Bfc_ HE - DTH/ALEXANDRIA MONTEALEGRE Freshman Sarah Slacum smiles as she gets accepted into the Alpha Chi Omega sorority at the 2005 Panhellenic Council rush Wednesday in McCorkle Place. Many rushees consider the bid process stressful but worthwhile. MESSAGE OF ACCEPTANCE BY KATHERINE EVANS STAFF WRITER McCorkle Place was a sea of hugs, squeals and oversized sun glasses Wednesday. The 2005 Panhellenic Council rush came to an end with bid day, and the chosen ones officially were welcomed as members of the nine sororities in a rowdy ceremony in McCorkle Place. Rushees gathered before the ceremony in Hanes Art Center, filling the place with a mix of ner vous energy and relief all of the women who make it to bid day are guaranteed to be selected by a sorority. Sophomore rushee Jaime Derbyshire said that while the Hotel to stretch downtown’s western border BY BRIANNA BISHOP ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR Visitors already come to Franklin Street to browse, shop and dine. But before too long, they also will be able to spend the night. Already underway at the cor ner of Franklin and Kenan Streets is The Franklin —a five-story, 51,100-square foot hotel at the site of the aban doned Carolina Trailways bus station. “We hope it will bring a lot of visitors and a lot of people [MAJOR PROJECJ^^ IN/Construction ahead / DOWNTIME DEVELOPMENT who will come visit Chapel Hill and then get out on Franklin Street and visit the restaurants and the stores,” said Josh Gurlitz, partner of hotel designer GGA Architects. Gurlitz said he anticipates the exterior of the building will be completed in the spring. “The steel frame is almost com pleted,” he said. “After the steel frame is com Top News tions and master s theses and pro fessors’ research accessible to any one with a computer. UNC plans to establish an archive to preserve digital information regardless of software compatibility. “Digital information is migrated forward. So, the software of the current edition is able to access older information,” said University Librarian Sarah Michalak who is also rush process was fun, she’s glad the ordeal is over. “It’s been really hectic,” she said. But sorority members said the benefits of sisterhood far out weigh the stress of the rush pro cess. “I couldn’t tell you before why I joined a sorority,” said Mary Stuart Deibel, a sophomore member of Kappa Delta. “But now I can’t imagine life without it.” As rushees filed past the Old Well, the waiting sorority mem bers burst into raucous perfor mances of cheers, dances and the occasional handspring. “We’re just really excited to see the girls,” Deibel said. pleted, the walls and the masonry get built.” Gurlitz said that once the furni ture is moved in, the hotel will be ready to open by summer. The high costs of steel and other construction materials, Gurlitz said, would not offset the project’s completion. Gurlitz described the hotel as a conservative brick building that will fit in with the style of the rest of the street. The inside will contain about 66 guest rooms, and Gurlitz said the rooms will be large, with a top floor comprised of all suites. “The hotel itself is intended to be a comfortable, well-appointed facility,” he said. He said he hopes the hotel will attract patrons and visitors to what are likely to be two major attrac tions for the University Memorial Hall and the Arts Common. Though the facility will be the first of its kind in the downtown sector, town officials say they’re excited about its prospects. “I think it’s going to be a draw the coordinator for the two commit tees planning the curation center. In other words, information stored in Windows 98 format will be accessible when Windows 2020 is released. Just as a library preserves books, the electronic curation center will store noncopyrighted material, like journal articles, music, photographs and e-mail messages, she said. Digital copies of master’s students’ papers also will be available online. Students now have a choice The recruitment process went through some minor changes this year, as rushees and hous es were matched based on the picks of both sides. In the past, houses chose rushees, and then the women decided based on the houses’ choices. Sorority members also were allowed to greet the rushees as the result of anew open-contact policy. Once bid cards were opened, the only remaining rule will apply for 24 hours: no booze and no boys. The rule, leaders said, is meant to ensure all girls feel comfortable their first night as sisters. Spectators of the event ranged SEE BID DAY, PAGE 12 for the downtown,” Town Manager Cal Horton said. Horton cited the economic ben efits the project will bring to area retailers, especially restaurateurs. Aaron Nelson, executive direc tor of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, echoed Horton’s sentiment, noting that the hotel will not offer a regular place for its guests to dine. Nelson said the hotel will pro vide a good energy for the west end of Franklin Street, as it will add to the diversity of retail. Similar to the Rosemary Village buildings under construction on Rosemary Street, Nelson said the hotel also will serve as a point to connect the two ends of downtown Chapel Hill. “What the Franklin Hotel offers is the possibility of filling the gap between East and West Franklin Street,” Nelson said. And neither Nelson nor Gurlitz foresee problems with the hotel’s blending in with the rest of the road or the nearby competition. The Franklin might be the only THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2005 of submitting their papers elec tronically or in print. Within two years all papers will be submitted digitally, said Bradley Hemminger, chairman of the electronic theses and dissertations committee. The new curation center could also contain the research and arti cles from faculty members who choose to contribute their work. But, to avoid copyright infringe ments, published books and some journal articles will not be included. “No library has the money to Local schools accomodate New Orleans’ young students BY BRIANNA BISHOP ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR Area schools are trying to keep Hurricane Katrina from interrupting the education of the children dis placed during the storm’s aftermath. For families with children who were forced to relo cate to Chapel Hill and surrounding places, enroll ment in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools now is guaranteed. “We’re prepared to do our part to welcome them with open arms,” school board member Nick Didow said. Didow said the city school board has ensured that there aren’t any technical barriers in place to prevent the children from receiving education. Already, six children have enrolled in the district in the last week from the Gulf Coast-area, said Stephanie Knott, spokeswoman for the city school district. Knott said the students who have arrived so far had evacuated before the hurricane hit, and the district anticipates another round to enroll as more evacuees arrived at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport earlier this week. Regulations requiring new students to have immu nization and class records will be waived for these students, Knott said. “The most immediate concern is their well-being,” she said. To meet that end, Knott said the district will ensure that help for these students will be readily available. “I’m certain that the children would have full access to the counseling department at the school in which SEE KIDS, PAGE 12 UNC system and Dole to create Kannapolis jobs BY STEPHEN MOORE STAFF WRITER North Carolina experienced the largest layoff in state history two years ago when Pillowtex Corp. closed the doors on its textile plant in Kannapolis. More than 4,000 workers lost their jobs that day. Many remain unemployed. But new hope seeped into the region when UNC system President Molly Broad announced in early August that the system is working with Dole Food Company Inc. to bring a biotechnology facility to the Kannapolis region. It now seems that their work might be coming to ahead. A major announcement from Dole is scheduled for Monday in front of the former Pillowtex Plant One in Kannapolis. Both David Murdock, Dole’s owner, and Broad are slated to attend. In an Aug. 5 statement to the UNC Board of Governors, Broad said she hopes to create a “biopolis” in the region. According to the statement, Dole plans to partner with both UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University to create a research-based biotechnology facility. UNC- Charlotte and Duke University also might get involved in the project. SEE KANNAPOLIS, PAGE 12 ..... . DTH/BRANDON MAYNARD Work continues Wednesday on The Franklin, anew boutique-style hotel downtown. Officials hope the hotel will draw more shoppers to the area. hotel on West Franklin Street, but the Carolina Inn is just down the road at the corner of Columbia Street and Cameron Avenue. But Gurlitz said he doesn’t think this will harm either business and could actually be a benefit to both. digitize (books),” said Faculty Chairwoman Judith Wegner. “You can’t put it up for free.” Officials are encouraging fac ulty to publish their work in open access publications which allow the authors to take ownership of their work permitting them to submit it to responsible online col lections without restrictions. With academic journals becoming extremely costly, the digital archive SEE CURATION, PAGE 12 “It’s going to differ in its loca tion,” he said. “It will be a little more urban than the Carolina Inn. I think that the two facilities will complement each other.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. 3
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