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2 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2005 Ram Village charges forward BY DANIEL WILKES STAFF WRITER The completion of the first-ever undergraduate apartments next fall might hail anew era at UNC upperclassmen might actually want to live on South Campus. Construction is on schedule for the Ram Village apartments, and they should be housing students next fall, said Larry Hicks, direc tor of housing and residential education. The five apartment buildings, two behind Hinton James Residence Hall and three near CAMPUS CONSTRUCTION 5 SPOTLIGHT ON: RAM VILLAGE a " v Craige Residence Hall, will house more than 900 students. Apartments will have four bed rooms. About 800 students will live in single rooms, while a little more than 100 will live in double occupan cies. In both types students will share two bathrooms, a kitchen and a liv ing area, Hicks said. Juniors and seniors will have first pick of the rooms. Hicks said he expects most to be taken before they ■ “Stand for Sudan” will be held in the Pit from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. today to spread awareness of the genocide. The event is co sponsored by Students for Darfur Awareness Now. ■ The first Student Arts Forum of the year will take place at 5 p.m. today in Hill Hall 103. Refreshments will be provided. ■ Community service awards from the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce’s Foundation for a Sustainable Community will be presented at 6 p.m. today at the Sonja Haynes Stones Center. ■ “Journey to a Hate-Free Millennium” will be shown at 6 p.m. today in Hanes Art Center 121. The award-winning docu mentary explores hate crimes and features an insightful look into the Columbine shootings. ■ The Chapel Hill-Carrboro UMS NOW HIRING Start your Career at Car Max as a... Car Max is a FORTUNE 500 company and one of the FORTUNE 2005 “100 Best Companies to Work For. 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A single room in a dormitory runs at $2,900, and a double goes for $2,190, Bradley said. The rates are comparable to high er-end off-campus apartments. A private bedroom in a simi larly equipped apartment utili ties included in The Warehouse costs $595 per month, or $2,380 for the equivalent of a semester. As many students living in Hinton James and Craige residence halls this year can attest, the mas sive construction project has cre ated a noisy living environment. “It’s a little noisy in the morning and wakes me up on occasion,” said Dave Lorance, a sophomore living in Hinton James. “But the construction itself is not a problem growth is positive for UNC as a campus,” he said. Lorance said he likes the apart ments but not the location. “South Campus is a separate but special place for my underclass man years. Since I do not aspire to attend the (nearby Kenan-Flagler Business School), the location is Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. tonight at the Chapel Hill Town Hall. School board mem bers will be discussing a process for naming the district’s third high school, among other things. ■ The Daily Tar Heel will host a Town Hall-style candidates’ forum from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today in Greenlaw 101. Editor Ryan Tuck will read half of the questions some generated by the newspaper’s editorial board and others submit ted by readers —and the audience will ask the rest. ■ “Representatives of Race in the Media” will be held at 8 p.m. today in Hanes Art Center 121. The panel will feature professors Debashis Aikat and Harry Amana of UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, among other speakers, and will look at how race is represented in the media. ■ Expressions After Dark will not desirable,” he said. But that project and others are a work in progress to make South Campus a more attractive place to live, Bradley said. He pointed to the recent addition of the Rams Head Center as an example. Students will be able to view a model apartment later this semes ter, Hicks said. He said it is impor tant for students to get a feel of the rooms before the recontracting process begins in March. The entire project will cost SB7 million, up from the fall 2003 esti mate of S7O million, Hicks said. “What’s impacted this project mostly is the rising cost of steel, concrete and labor,” he said. “The statewide bond projects are taxing the availability of resources.” The completion of Ram Village by fall 2006 and the reopening of Morrison Residence Hall in 2007 will bring the number of undergrad uate beds on campus to 9,100. Just four years ago there were 6,800. Hicks said the University will have met student demand by 2007. “We’re definitely in pace with enrollment trends.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. feature Chapel Hill Players and Ebony Readers/Onyx Theater at 10 p.m. today in Hanes Art Center 121. CHiPs is a predominantly white improv comedy group and EROT is a predominantly black collective of spoken-word artists. ■ Students for Darfur Awareness Now will hold events today in accordance with a nation al Darfur Fast to raise awareness about the current genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. To become involved in the fast or other events, contact Tracy Boyer at tracyboyer@unc.edu. ■ The groundbreaking for the Southern Orange Senior Center will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the Southern Human Services Center on Homestead Road. To make a calendar submission, visit www.dailytarheel.com for a list of submission policies and contacts. Events must be sent in by noon the preceding publication date. News S || W** } IB .. r % M fcjL 111 II MlH^— DTH/GALEN CLARKE alter Bums, the editor of Chicago’s largest newspaper in the 19205, frantically searches for his star reporter, Hildy Johnson, via the telephone during a night of journalistic corruption. ■ Carolina Inn management contacted police Tuesday at 8:27 a.m. to report a man trespassing on the property', University police reports state. Reports state that witnesses saw Antonio Cay Morrow, 28, enter the Carolina Inn and eat food from the employee break room. After Carolina Inn managers told Morrow to leave, he became hostile and threw a coffee cup at an employ ee, according to police reports. Reports state that police spotted a man fitting Morrow’s description outside the Caribou Coffee on West Franklin Street later in the day. But when an offi cer attempted to approach him, he fled to Rosemary Street. Officers advised Carolina Inn employees to call the police if Morrow returned. ■ A Durham man was arrested Tuesday on charges of assault on a female, according to Chapel Hill police reports. Ike Johnson, 31, initially was picked up by University police at 3:46 p.m. behind Ehringhaus Residence Hall after he fled to cam pus from an incident on Fordham Boulevard, reports state. Johnson then was turned over to Chapel Hill police, reports state. Johnson was released on an unse cured $2,000 bond and handed off to Durham police for warrants of aggravated assault and assault with a deadly weapon inflicting WANT 10 WORK FOR THE BEST COLLEGE ADVERTISING STAFF IN THE NATION? It s a fun & flexible job that allows you to learn about the way advertising is bought, sold & produced by the largest circulating paper in Orange County. 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Johnson is scheduled to appear in district criminal court in Hillsborough on Nov. 7. ■ Three University students were cited early Tuesday morning for various alcohol-related charges, Chapel Hill police reports state. Megan Victoria McMurray, 19, of Concord, and Laura Carolina Meredith, also 19, of Jamestown, were cited at 2:24 a.m. for fraudu lent use of an ID and underage possession of a spirituous liquor, according to reports. Police also cited Maria Milan Jovanovic, 18, of Cary, for underage possession of a spirituous liquor, reports state. The three students will appear in district criminal court in Chapel Hill on Nov. 15. ■ UNC Hospital Police report ed that a juvenile walked off from the mental ward at 11:31 a.m. Hiesday. Hospital police requested help from University police in detain ing and transporting the patient, who had an involuntary order at the mental ward, according to University police reports. Police found the patient on Manning Drive and transported her back to the hospital, reports stated. ■ A Chapel Hill resident was cited Tuesday for possession of marijuana, according to Chapel Hill police reports. ahp Baiiy (Tor Hppl Walter Guillermo Morizon Xutuc, 17, a native of Guatemala, was cited for possession of 0.4 grams of mari juana when an officer approached his car in the Homestead Place parking lot after smelling marijuana smoke, reports state. Morizon Xutuc admitted to hav ing the remains of two joints under his seat, according to reports. He is scheduled to appear Nov. 14 in district criminal court in Hillsborough. ■ Police arrested William Frank Schrader Jr., 21, for driving while intoxicated at 2:40 a.m. Wednesday morning as he drove the wrong way on South Columbia Street, University police reports state. After questioning Schrader, police arrested him for driving while intoxicated and having an open container of alcohol in his vehicle, according to police reports. Reports state that Chapel Hill police determined Schrader’s blood alcohol level to be .11 percent. Schrader was released with a writ ten promise to appear in court. ®hr Doily ®ar Uppl P.O. Box 3257, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 Ryan C. Tuck, Editor, 962-4086 Advertising & Business, 962-1163 News, Features, Sports, 962-0245 One copy per person; additional copies may be purchased at The Daily Tar Heel for $.25 each. © 2005 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved
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