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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2005
BSM charged for productive year
President stresses
outreach, projects
BY KATIE HOFFMANN
STAFF WRITER
The days of local sit-ins and
headline-making protests might be
fading away, but the Black Student
Movement at UNC is still very
much alive.
Because although overt rac
ism might be a thing of the past,
discrimination still exists, said
Brandon Hodges, BSM president.
“In a lot of ways, those things are
here but more subtle today,” he said.
One of the largest on-campus
groups has hit the ground running
this year, drawing hundreds of peo
ple to its first meeting of the year
Sept. 7 to advocate for their peren
nial goal of eliminating residual
discrimination.
The political action committee, a
BSM subcommittee that advocates
for workers’ rights, is asking every
one to report any manager who mis
treats an Aramark Corp. employee.
“We really can be a strong voice
and make a big impact in these
workers’ lives,” said Christina Lee,
co-chairwoman of the committee,
at the group’s second meeting of
the year Wednesday night.
OPHELIA
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approach was already inflicting
damage in the form of beach ero
sion.
By 5 p.m., more than 40,000
Progress Energy customers had
reported power outages in New
Hanover County alone, Hayes said.
Ophelia was downgraded to
a tropical storm Monday but
regained its Category 1 status
Tuesday.
Projections Wednesday eve
ning were much higher than those
released later in the night.
National Weather Service
Meteorologist Dan Bartholf said
Hurricane winds and higher surges
are expected to hit the sounds and
the Outer Banks all morning and
afternoon.
Schools throughout the coastal
plain were closed well before the
storm arrived. UNC-Wilmington is
closed today, while classes at East
Carolina University were tentative
ly scheduled to resume at noon.
Aside from restoring electricity
and repairing public and private
property, any long-term recovery
effort will consist of beach renour
ishment in the coastal communi
ties, Hayes said.
Veterans of hurricane recovery
said the process should not be too
challenging, considering the rela
tive weakness of Ophelia.
“I’ve been through several storms
here,” Hayes said. “Compared to
Fran and Bonnie, this one is almost
a non-event.”
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Hodges said one of his main
goals is to increase diversity on
campus.
“We’re making strides, but as a
progressive university in the South,
we need to set a better example,”
he said.
Hodges said BSM members
should reach out to minority stu
dents who might not feel comfort
able coming to UNC. He said he
is working with the Diversity and
Multicultural Affairs office and
going to local high school recruit
ment meetings to show potential
students what BSM is all about.
“We need to put a face to what
we’re doing on campus,” Hodges
said.
BSM also is involved in numer
ous public service projects rang
ing from Hurricane Katrina relief
efforts to working with Habitat for
Humanity to keep in contact
with the community.
But Hodges said it would be a
shame to contain the organization’s
positive message to Chapel Hill
town limits. “I want to carry the
messages of BSM past the walls of
UNC,” he said.
The group is working to bring a
bus load of people to the Millions
More Movement in Washington,
D.C., in October. The march will
celebrate the 10 year anniversary
PARTNERSHIP
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the athletics department in collect
ing donations at Kenan Stadium,
Carolina Katrina Relief members
will be located throughout campus
collecting donations in exchange
for Mardi Gras beads.
At least 10,000 blue Mardi Gras
beads will be handed out in 12 dif
ferent locations across campus.
“As people walk to the game,
we’ll be getting donations,” said
Mark Sussman, president of N.C.
Hillel. “We’re asking for donations
of at least sl.”
Sussman and others raised S2OO
Tuesday and S7O Wednesday hand
ing out the beads in the Pit, and he
said he anticipates they will sell out
Saturday.
“It's only gaining momentum,”
he said.
Other fundraising efforts on
campus also continue to increase
in strength.
As of 9 p.m. Wednesday, UNC
One Card donations and Pit col
lections totaled $16,545.
But Lynn Blanchard, director
of the Carolina Center For Public
TUITION
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areas of the matter of tuition.
“I don’t think we should go in
with any preconceived notions on
about what we should or should
not be doing,” he said after the
meeting.
It’s important to keep the trust
ees’ philosophy in mind, he said,
but the task force also must be
aware of all the factors in tuition
discussions.
The task force will conduct more
research and discussions before
drafting a specific tuition proposal,
HEARINGS
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approach without commenting
on the outcome or the judgment
in a particular case,” Roberts said
in response. “But you do need to
look at the real-world impact in
this area and I think in other areas
as well.”
Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisc.,
brought up the subject of capital
punishment, asking Roberts if
there is a potential in the modem
court system to sentence an inno
cent person to death.
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Brandon Hodges, president of the Black Student Movement, speaks to
members of the campus group at Wednesday's general body meeting.
of the Million Man March, one of
the largest demonstrations in the
history of the nation’s capital.
But make no mistake the
BSM is not all about business.
The group’s top priority is to
embrace black culture and strive
for unity among its members,
according to the preamble mem
bers recite at the beginning of each
meeting.
As members begin each meeting
with a verse of “Lift EVry Voice and
Sing,” by James Weldon Johnson,
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Farah Whitley-Sebti (left), law student counts funds raised at the School of
Law with Chaz Lusk, also in the school, and Carrie Buell, of Baton Rouge.
Service, said in an e-mail that
other collection efforts across cam
pus including $3,000 raised by
the football team and matched by
Coach John Bunting and a SIO,OOO
pledge by the School of Public
Health total nearly $31,800.
The Daily Tar Heel will be col
lecting new socks and underwear
for hurricane victims in the Pit
which is set to go before the Board
of Trustees in November.
“I think what we’ll find is in the
next couple weeks we’ll get real
quantitative,” Shelton said.
In the mean time, the task
force has been heavily focused on
determining which areas of cam
pus most need the revenue from a
possible increase.
Last week, the task force
focused on the graduate students’
resources, which many members
said have declined in recent years.
They revisited the issue again
Wednesday.
Some members clarified ear-
“I think there is a risk in any
enterprise that is a human enter
prise,” Roberts said.
Approaching the death pen
alty question from a more tech
nical route, Sen. Patrick Leahy,
D-Vt., asked about a discrepancy
in Supreme Court rules involving
clemency cases.
The court usually requires the
consent of four justices to hear a
case, but five are needed to grant
a stay of execution.
Roberts said he would be
inclined to grant a stay if four of
his colleagues felt it appropriate.
News
and end standing in a circle to
share the week’s news, one thing is
clear: The BSM cares about unity.
Freshman David Sneed said it
was this aspect that attracted him
to the organization.
“This is a really positive group,”
Sneed said. “I came from a high
school that had three African
Americans, so this is an amazing
thing for me.”
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until the end of the month. And
next Wednesday, the Campus Y
Nourish International will donate
$1 per plate to the Red Cross.
“As long as the people get all the
money they need, that’s all that
matters,” Curry said.
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lier statements about how faculty
would respond to tuition revenue
going toward graduate students
rather than faculty salary raises.
The two interests are not mutu
ally exclusive, and many favor both,
some task force members said.
“It’s not that we don’t want an
emphasis on faculty salaries,” said
task force member Steven Matson,
chairman of the biology depart
ment. “It’s that we don’t want
faculty salaries increased at the
expense of graduate salaries.”
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“You don’t want to moot the case by
not staying the sentence,” he said.
Roberts also assured the com
mittee that he would bring no bias
to the bench.
“I know why the phrase ‘Equal
Justice Under Law’ is carved in
marble above the Supreme Court
entrance,” he said.
At the day’s end, not much was
revealed about the nominee, said
Georg Vanberg, professor of politi
cal science at UNC.
“I do think that the value of hear
ings like this is pretty limited,” he
said. “We’ve come to a point where
—with the division of the parties
where nominees are required to
hide their views, or one side or the
other will come out against them.”
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Schools seek break
in federal standards
BY SETH PEAVEY
STAFF WRITER
Schools working to enroll stu
dents displaced by Hurricane
Katrina could be penalized for
their kindness under the provisions
of the No Child Left Behind Act.
Students who missed class time
because of the storm now are hav
ing to transfer to new school sys
tems, and education officials say
they’re concerned the new arriv
als might not be able to meet the
same standards as normal stu
dents.
“These students come from
devastated areas, have had a trau
matic experience and now are
having to adjust to anew school,”
said Vanessa Lillie, a spokeswom
an for the National Education
Association.
More than 247,000 public and
private school students in Louisiana
and 125,000 in Mississippi have
been displaced, she said.
She argued that many of those
students will be put at a disadvan
tage from having to adjust to new
schools in states with different cur
riculums.
The No Child Left Behind Act
requires schools to make measur
able yearly progress in test scores
or face possible penalties.
A school that fails to meet fed
eral goals for two consecutive years
is labeled in need of improvement,
and if students continue to fall
short, the school could face a loss
of funding.
“These schools who open their
arms to students are going to be
punished financially for accepting
these students,” Lillie said. “The
NEA is asking for a year extension
for schools that have taken in large
numbers of students.”
The organization sent a let
ter Sept. 1 to U.S. Secretary of
Education Margaret Spellings ask
ing her to consider this proposal.
But for school systems flooded
with thousands of evacuees, a more
immediate concern is making sure
the new students are enrolled as
FIRING
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At no point did Khaki, Salameh or
Nasser ever think the only quotes
Bandes would use would be their
comments on the subject.
I asked Bandes as I read her
column whether the quotes were
accurate; whether they were fair;
whether they truly represented the
feelings of the people quoted.
She said yes.
Now, I don’t know if Bandes
simply misrepresented herself or
whether she intentionally fudged
things when she talked to her sourc
es. But either way, when I talked to
all three of them Wednesday, they
told me they felt not only lied to,
but betrayed.
None of them support racial pro
filing. None of them want Arabs to
get “sexed up” as they go through the
airport. And none of them thought
Bandes would use their words the
way she did callously and without
regard for their actual meaning.
In other words, their quotes
were wrong, even if the words were
correct. They were used recklessly
and thoughtlessly.
And that’s not something we can
stand behind.
Let me be clear: As you can tell
by visiting my blog (http://apps.
dailytarheel.com/blogs/bullhom.
php) and reading a post I made
Tuesday morning before the
impropriety came to light, I did not
choose to fire Bandes because her
column was offensive.
In fact, I stood behind her even
when most of the campus’s Muslim
community —and some people
in this newsroom thought I
shouldn’t have.
(For the Muslim Students
Association response to Bandes’
column, go to dailytarheel.com and
search for the name of the group. It
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soon as possible.
More than 6,500 students have
registered with the East Baton
Rouge Parish School System.
So far, 4,400 have been assigned
to a school, and even fewer have
actually begun to attend, said Tai
St. Julien, a public information
officer with the school system.
“We are making the necessary
arrangements for these students
to become permanent students,”
she said.
For now, the new arrivals will
be required to meet the same stan
dards as other students, she said.
North Carolina has welcomed
651 school-age children so far,
according to the N.C. Department
of Public Instruction.
The academic refugees have not
put any real strain on N.C. schools,
said Vanessa Jeter, director of com
munications for DPI.
But in Texas, the sheer number
of transfers is stretching resourc
es.
“As of Monday, we had approxi
mately 33,318 (new students),”
said DeEtta Culbertson, a spokes
woman for the Texas Education
Agency.
Some formerly shuttered
schools have been reopened, and
the maximum teacher-to-student
ratio required by the state has been
waived in some cases, she said.
But so far, she said, the state has
been able to accommodate all of
the relocated students.
The Texas Education Agency also
sent a letter to the U.S. Education
Department on Thursday asking
for more funding and more flex
ibility when it comes to No Child
Left Behind.
Spellings has not responded
yet to the demands, but she met
with about 40 different education
groups last week and has shown a
willingness to negotiate, Lillie said.
“They had a very productive meet
ing.”
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should be the first link.)
I can’t disagree more strongly
with what Bandes wrote. But I
think free speech is a cornerstone
of our democracy even when,
as it was in the case of Bandes’
column, it is unprofessional and
insensitive.
That’s because I believe in what
journalists and lawyers call the
marketplace of ideas: If two ideas
collide in the public sphere, the
good one will prove itself as such.
Should I have changed Bandes’
inflammatory language before it
went to print?
To be frank with you, I’m not sure.
It offended a lot of people who didn’t
deserve to be offended, not because
of what it said but because of the way
it said it But at the same time, I am
not in the business of censoring it
breaks down the marketplace.
It’s a tough call, at least for me.
But this one isn’t: When any
member of the DTH staff abuses
the freedom of the press that’s cru
cial to our democracy, that person
won’t be a member of the DTH
staff much longer.
So Bandes isn’t even if she’s
not the only person to blame here.
“I feel there was a letdown in the
editing process,” said DTH Editor
Ryan Hick, who ultimately over
sees the opinion page (but who, I
must say, is very good about letting
me make the final decisions).
“Either Chris or I should have seen
the obvious red flags from the way
the column was worded.... I blame
myself (for Bandes’ inaccuracy) as
much as I blame anyone involved.”
Me, too. One look at me TViesday
unshaven, unkempt, uglier than
usual would have told you that.
So I’m going to try to make it up
to you all by doing my best to make
sure you get my best.
Today’s paper is a start: We’ve
removed the board editorials to run
your letters on Bandes’ work.
Hopefully, that will get some of
your juices flowing without any
of your bile.
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