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OV &riiy (Ear Rppf CORRECTIONS Due to an editing error, Thursday’s page 13 story, “Center’s career officially over,” incorrectly stated Damion Grant’s hometown as Kingston, Jamaica. The former player is from Portland, Jamaica. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error. New recreation center kicks off its grand opening today The Rams Head Recreation Center will celebrate its grand open ing from 6 p.m. to midnight today with GO For It!, a fitness extrava ganza. The RHRC officially opened its doors Sept. 7. Students, faculty and staff will be able to participate in fitness classes, health screenings and sports activi ties. Student performers and musical groups also will provide live enter tainment in the outdoor plaza and multipurpose room. UTi BRIEFS Club's barbecue fundraiser raises funds for area projects The Kiwanis Club of Chapel Hill- Carrboro is holding its 18th-annual BBQ Cook-off fundraiser in the University Mall parking lot from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $7, and 50 percent of the funds raised will go to the club. The funds will support Kiwanis International’s “Disaster Relief Fund” for Katrina victims as well as other local service projects. El Centro Latino to hold first soccer tournament Saturday The first El Centro Latino Tomeo Independence, an all-star soccer tournament and event for the whole family, will be held 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday at the Chapel Hill High School soccer field. All proceeds from the event will go to El Centro Latino, a nonprofit organization committed to improv ing the quality of life for Latinos in and around Orange County. The Torneo Independence will include eight all-star soccer (futbol) teams from Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Orange and Wake counties. There also will be two noncompeti tive games Sunday and food, activi ties for children and artists selling international crafts and artwork. SNATION Officials name nine members to N.C. lottery commission RALEIGH The members of the first N.C. State Lottery Commission include Glaxo’s former chief execu tive and a political operative who helped bring a numbers game to South Carolina. Charles Sanders, the former chair man and chief executive of the drug giant, was tapped Thursday by Gov. Mike Easley to lead the commission for the next year. The nine-member committee also includes Bryan Beatty, the state’s crime control and public safety sec retary, and Kevin Geddings, who led the pro-lottery campaign before a referendum in 2000 that allowed a lottery in South Carolina. There’s no word on when the com mission will hold its first meeting. One of its immediate tasks is to hire an executive director and choose a lotteiy operator who can get out the first scratch cards next spring. Besides Sanders and Beatty, Easley’s other appointments are former Easley aide John McArthur, Wilson attorney Robert Farris Jr. and Linda Carlisle, vice chairwom an of the UNC-Greensboro Board of Trustees. House Speaker Jim Black, D- Mecklenburg, appointed former state Board of Transportation member Gordon Myers as well as Geddings, former chief of staff to S.C. Gov. Jim Hodges. Senate President Pro Tempore Mark Basnight, D-Dare, appointed former Charlotte city council mem ber Malachi Greene and Wilmington accountant Robert Appleton. Raleigh to host upcoming hurricane benefit festival Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker will address attendees Sunday at a hurricane benefit and music festival to be held at The Lincoln Theatre. The event was organized by Band Together, a local nonprofit group that raises awareness and funds for other nonprofits. Proceeds will go to the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina and will be distributed to hurricane evacuees in the TViangle. Performers confirmed to play include The Vibekillers, Six String Drag, Arrogance, Tres Chicas, Patty Hurst Shifter, The Cartridge Family, The Woods, $2 Pistols, Hobex, Rob Watson, The Greatest Hits, Los Pelones and The Bleeding Hearts. The event runs from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. Tickets are sl7 in advance and S2O at the door. From staff and. wire reports. Viruses infect campus e-mail ITS officials work to shut down link BY SHARI FELD STAFF WRITER A deluge of e-mail viruses found its way into the inboxes of University students, faculty and staff since Wednesday afternoon —and more infected e-mails are on the way. The e-mail typically arriving with the subject line “Account Alert” or the name of a campus group claims to be sent by admin@email. unc.edu. It tells recipients that in order to avoid account suspension, they must follow an Internet link within 24 hours. Immediately after learning of the virus, Information Technology Services officials started working to stop it from spreading, said Jeanne DTH/BRAOY NASH Steven Waters explains the Segway Human Transporter to Chapel Hill High student Rhys Baker at Weaver Street Market on Car Free Day. LOCALS START UP DEBATE, NOT CARS BY MICHAEL TODD STAFF WRITER They came on foot, they came by bus, they came by bike, they came by high-tech gizmo. But they didn’t come by car. About 200 residents gathered Thursday to promote alternative transportation as part of the area’s celebration of'Car Free Day —a day honored internationally by about 1,400 U.S. cities, as well as 37 other countries. And many walked, jogged, hiked and rode the bus the rest of the day, too. “The primary goal is to expand awareness about how dependent we are on our cars,” Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy said. “If you think about it, there are ways to use your car less.” Nearly 800 Orange and Durham county residents pledged online to go “car lite” or “car free” Foy was in the “car free” category. “The easiest way to go without a car is to plan for it,” he said. The town’s fare-free transit system and its greenway trails and sidewalks make these alternatives feasible, he said. Groups promoting those alternatives turned out at Weaver Street Market in Carrboro to show locals creative ways to get around town. Take the time to explore the world around U.S. BY ANDREW PATTERSON CONTRIBUTING WRITER Most of you reading this have been to Charlotte. It is 141 miles from Chapel Hill, roughly a two hour drive going slightly faster than the speed limit. Now imagine that when you arrived, you discovered that the average salary of an adult was sl6 a month. Ninety five percent of all businesses were govern ment-run. And outside half of the houses were busts of George Washington and the paint- TRAVELDIARIES A series on travel complementing education v today: HAVANA, CUBA r ed slogan, “Long Live George W. Bush.” Now you’ll begin to understand how different life was for me during the four months I spent in Havana, Cuba, last semester. Although it sits only 90 miles south of Florida, Cuba is as close to a mirror opposite of America as one could find anywhere in the world. To start with the obvious, Cuba is a communist country. . The type of communism where you buy eggs from ration cards and find ice cream on a black market. Yes, black market ice cream. Top News Smythe, director of computing pol icy for UNC. “When we realized that was out there, the fastest thing we could do was block access to anyone on cam pus to that link,” she said. “We’ve gotten some e-mail from people say ing, ‘Hey, your link doesn’t work.’ “That’s the purpose.” ITS officials also are updating the software for the campus’ central antivirus server and central mail server about every 15 minutes. The virus affected 25 to 30 peo ple, Smythe estimated, before ITS officials removed the link. Many students said they sus pected there was something wrong with the e-mails before even click The Village Project, a nonprofit group for sustainability, hosted the event. Carrboro resident Steven Waters brought a Segway scooter to demonstrate its uses and limitations. “I’m a pedestrian activist,” he said. Waters said he chose his home in Carrboro so he would be able to walk to work. Waters joined the other locals gathered on the lawn to listen to music and learn about alternative methods of transportation. The Triangle Transit Authority and Zipcar also were on hand to give out information and sell folding shopping carts for pedes trian use. Town officials who participated in the day cited several benefits of using public transit. “I walk and take the bus not for environ mental reasons to decompress, to see what’s going on around town, to feel connected with my community,” said Carrboro Alderman Jacquelyn Gist. “It takes me 25 minutes to walk to work. If I drove it would take 30.” Chapel Hill Town Council member Ed Harrison said he went car free for 24 years, and until he completed graduate school at Duke University, he never owned a car. Harrison said he limits driving by packing many tasks into each trip —a tactic called trip chaining. “(My wife and I) very seldom Senior Andrew Patterson was First you walk down the drive way of a nondescript house. You reach your hand through two metal, gated doors and give the woman behind them your plastic shopping bag. Your ice cream would be dropped into the plastic bag and you would be instructed to wait two blocks before eating your contraband. We’re all familiar with feel ing like it takes an hour to get an omelette at Lenoir. In Cuba, it liter ally takes an hour. In Cuba, it’s a common occur rence to have nine people working in a restaurant with 20 tables and five customers, and it still takes 45 minutes to get a sandwich. That isn’t a joke, it is a daily reality. Both of these problems would be fixed if people had the ability to sell the goods the market demanded and would receive payment based on their performances two of the pillars of a free-market system that were outlined in your Economics 10 lecture right before you fell ing the link. “I realized you (had) to down load stuff and the way it was worded was kind of weird,” said sophomore Lauren Ferguson, who deleted the e-mail. Junior Abbey Smith said ITS officials should have been more proactive in warning students about the threat. “I was disappointed that ITS, after finding out there was a virus, didn’t send out a mass e-mail saying not to click on that link because it was a virus,” she said. “The Webmail account is through the University, so they should take responsibility and tell us when there’s a problem.” But taking action is a higher pri ority than sending a mass e-mail to 40,000 people not all of whom get into the car just to go to one place,” he said. He said another benefit of Car Free Day is that it garners feedback from residents who seldom ride the bus on their views of the transit system. But aside from the crowd gathered on the Weaver Street lawn, some say the day passed by unnoticed. “I don’t think that I see a difference in traf fic on Car Free Day,” Foy said. “But for people who do know about it, it probably has some effect on their thinking on other days.” Town bus driver Nancy Hayes also said she noticed no difference in ridership Thursday as she drove her regular S route. “It was about the same,” she said. “My load is always heavy.” Blair Pollock, Orange County solid waste manager, said the community works well with a car-free lifestyle. “You don’t really need a car in Chapel Hill, it’s just a choice,” he said. “It’s not like I’m anti automobile, it’s just a tool.” He also said the day lets locals take a pro active approach to a global problem. “Car Free Day is one little way a person can fight global warming.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. ■hlaf ' s COURTESY OF ANDREW PATTERSON People gather for the Worker's Day rally in Havana, Cuba, this May. Jose Marti, the father of the Cuban Revolution, was honored that day. asleep. The simple economic principle of supply and demand is made real when literally five to 10 people a day ask you for a lighter because no one has taken the time to evalu ate the demand for lighters. In Cuba, things become real. When your credit card suddenly becomes useless and you have only S2OO left in your pocket for the next three weeks, the policy read FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2005 were affected Smythe said. Also, people might not have read the infor mational e-mail or others might have read it when it was too late. “We acted first to minimize the problem,” she said. “If it’s something we can contain quickly, containing it is much more important.” Everyone should take precaution to prevent getting a virus, Smythe said. “When you see something that you think is suspicious, don’t click on the link or the attachment,” Smythe said. Students should install and update antivirus software, Smythe said, because preventing a virus is easier than getting rid of one. Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. ings that you had skipped over seem a lot more relevant. Past American presidents such as Ronald Reagan become more than just historical figures when the policies enacted during their terms explain why the house keepers keep eating the chocolate powder and Pringles in your closet and leave the S6OO in your drawer SEE CUBA, PAGE 6 Election forum sparsely attended Two candidates debate issues BY MEGHAN DAVIS ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR With only two candidates par ticipating, a Hillsborough election forum became a dialogue between an incumbent and a challenger who are competing for different seats. The Orange-Chatham Group of the Sierra Club hosted a forum Thursday for Hillsborough Town Board and mayoral candidates. Commissioner Mike Gering, who is running for his second term, and Tom Stevens, who is a challenger for mayor, talked about —and agreed on many environmental issues. Mayor Joe Phelps could not attend due to a family emergency. MUNICIPAL c ELECTIONS 2005 Commissioner Frances Dancy and challenger Paul Newton had previously scheduled engagements. The event was the first Sierra Club election forum held for Hillsborough candidates and the second forum the club has hosted this election cycle. “There’s a target for a lot of growth here,” said moderator Melissa McCullough. “We recog nize that most town issues do affect the environment.” Both candidates called for a mas ter plan for sustainable development and to protect the Eno River. “We need to have a master plan we need to have a backbone to preserve the greenways and protect the watershed,” Stevens said. Gering mentioned his initiative to create a master plan for side walks that he hopes to see more folly realized. “Nobody on the town staff could remember the last time a sidewalk was built,” Gering said. “Unfortunately it’s a kind of a stark realization to see how much a sin gle foot of sidewalk costs about $Bl per foot of sidewalk.” The candidates were asked about new developments and what they would like to see in the future. “There’s no question about growth in Hillsborough: It’s here. There’s no question about traf fic in Hillsborough: It’s here,” McCullough said. SEE FORUM, PAGE 6 Local bands rally behind relief effort Cat’s Cradle will host benefit show BY WHITNEY ISENHOWER STAFF WRITER Not every concert for a good cause has to feature Bono. Famed Triangle artists and bands from as far as San Diego are scheduled to play a benefit concert Saturday at Cat’s Cradle for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Pop rock to hard rock acts will help raise proceeds for the American Red Cross and Music Maker Relief Foundation Inc., a Durham-based nonprofit dedicated to helping Southern musicians. Music Maker has set up a fond specifically to help the afflicted New Orleans artists. Tim Duffy, president of Music Maker, said he hopes to see more benefits of this type to aid those hurt by the hurricane. “It’s a great tragedy, and it’s overwhelming that the govern ment can’t take care of everything,” he said. The show features acts such as SpencerAcuff, Slewfoot and Memphis. Frank Heath, the owner of Cat’s Cradle, said the bands helped make the show’s planning process go smoothly. “The first week the idea kind of came to me and then a bunch of bands approached me,” he said. “They’ve all pretty much volun teered generously.” The show also is raising funds by having local businesses and indi viduals match money from ticket sales dollar for dollar. “It’s sort of doubling exactly what comes through the door,” Heath said. The benefit sees musicians SEE BENEFIT, PAGE 6 3
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