VOLUME 113, ISSUE 84
Race for Town Council down to seven
WALKER RUTHERFURD WITHDRAWS FROM RACE
BY BRIANNA BISHOP
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
UNC graduate Walker Rutherford
announced Thursday night that he
would no longer be seeking a seat on
the Chapel Hill Town Council.
“I feel like at this point seeking elec
tion is not the best thing for me to do,”
he said at a candidate forum hosted by
The Daily Tar Heel.
After apologizing to the people he
K
Bill Birmingham (left) twirls Kwa gok Shin at the
Chapel Hill Senior Center on Thursday night.
Birmingham has attended waltz sessions at the
Senior Center since the sessions began eight years ago. Live
music accompanies the dancing sessions held every other
Public service in N.C. m
UNC coordinates 811 service projects J? jffQgja
in the state. Below are some from ,1 L
each region. '—-\rv j—
□ Mountain Region
Synopsis: The Urban Investment Strategies Center at the Kenan Institute is
developing an economic model for enhancing the competitiveness of North
Carolina's seven severely distressed rural communities.
□ Piedmont Region
Synopsis: A study evaluating the N.C. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Housing Pilot Program hopes to look at the extent to which the program
helps eligible families secure safe and affordable housing.
H. Coastal Region
Synopsis: UNC Epidemiology doctoral student Kristen Kucera is conducting
research that has the potential to prevent back injuries that result in lost
wages for N.C. fishermen.
SOURCE: HTTP://CCPS.UNC.EDU DTH/BOBBY SWEATT
Athletics toughens up policy
BY BRIAN MACPHERSON
SENIOR WRITER
Director of Athletics Dick
Baddour found his inspiration
from professional baseball when
he made the decision to toughen
North Carolina’s substance abuse
education and testing program.
But the new program deviates
from the diamond in one critical
area when it comes to anabolic
steroids, UNC student-athletes
only get one strike.
As part of its newly revamped
drug-testing policy, the North
Carolina announced a zero-toler
ance policy for steroid use among
online | dail>larheel.tH>m
CARRBORO COMEDY Dirty South
Improv moves into the Carr Mill Mall
BACK WITH A VENGEANCE Officials
warn of spreading avian flu pandemic
NOT PLAYING Professor puts together
documentary about movies, civil rights
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
01ir Imfo oar Jfrrl
felt he had let down in the campaign,
Rutherford said he would continue
to stay involved in local government,
especially in the effort to provide wire
less Internet service downtown.
“I’m going to make sure that I con
tinue to stay involved in the things that
are important to me,” he said.
Rutherford made the announce
ment in his closing statement at
the forum. Council candidate Will
LIGHT UP THE NIGHT
Dick Baddour
strengthened
the University's
substance
abuse policy
its student-ath
letes.
“We have
not had an
issue with ana
bolic steroids,”
Baddour said.
“It has not been
something we
have seen here
that has caused
us any concern.
But... this is (an
issue) that really
should be treated
and stated outright. We’re going to
treat this one in a different way.”
8
DAYS LEFT TO
REGISTER TO VOTE
for more information, see
www.caorange.ncus/electy
www.dailytarheel.com
Raymond encouraged him to stay
involved by joining the town’s technol
ogy committee which Rutherford
said he intended to do.
Following the meeting, Rutherford,
who graduated last year from UNC
with a degree in business, said the
decision stemmed from several differ
ent sources.
Noting that he had a commitment
to his company, Liquidia Technologies,
Thursday. Though donations are accepted to cover facility
fees and the band, the event is free to community members
of all ages. Anew senior center, to be built off Homestead
Drive, will host activities such as the sessions. Visit daily
tarheel.com for the frill story on the new senior center.
UNC center reaches across N.C.
BY STEPHANIE NEWTON
STAFF WRITER
Traditionally incubators of elite
academic and athletic perfor
mance, top universities across the
country are making room in the
coop for public service.
Whether advertised vocally
or visually —and many times at
UNC in the Pit the passionate
endeavors promoted by students
on a regular basis attest to the rise
of outreach beyond the fringes
of baby blue borders, said Lynn
Blanchard, director of the Carolina
Center for Public Service.
A positive test for an anabolic
steroid automatically will result in
the termination of a student-ath
lete’s eligibility at North Carolina.
“If it makes it tougher for every
body else not to be able to use any
drugs to help them get bigger or
faster, I’m all for it,” said Ronnie
McGill, a tailback on the football
team and a representative on the
school’s student-athlete advisory
council.
Administrators and athletes
alike emphasized that they have
seen no evidence of steroid use on
SEE DRUGS, PAGE 6
city | page 8
STILL LOADING
Plans for a wireless network
in downtown Chapel Hill
slowly develop. The town's
technology board discussed
the program this week.
Rutherford said it was not the appro
priate time for a council run.
“It was really hard,” he said of the
decision.
Rutherford said it was unlikely that
he would throw his support behind any
specific candidate but said he would
support some of their ideas.
He was the only registered
Republican of the eight candidates.
Rutherford said he felt obligated to
announce his decision at the forum.
“I was thinking I was going to have an
opportunity at the beginning,” he said.
DTH/STEVE ANDRAWES
“I do think that over the last
decade to 15 years there has been
a growing interest in connecting
universities to their communities,”
Blanchard said.
“There is
such a history,
and tradition
and culture of
this.”
Coming to
Carolina
ThJjnthe
jp. STATE
fruition in 1991 as a grassroots group
of faculty and staff members keen on
centralizing teaching, research and
campus events aimed at public ser
vice, the center placed itself between
MCCANTS FINDS NEW NICHE
E| • -jr 1
BRUCE BISPING/THE STAR TRIBUNE
Ex-Tar Heel Rashad McCants battles with forward
Kevin Garnett at a practice this week.
3
Mr*
“I felt like I had to do it here because
I made the decision at the beginning
of the week, and I thought it would be
insincere to keep campaigning.”
Council candidate Robin Cutson
said she was surprised by his
announcement but noted that it was
a mature decision to make.
“I think it’s sad, of course, when
anyone drops out of the race,” she said.
“I think it’s very responsible.”
Attendee Ruby Sinreich, chairwom-
SEE WALKER, PAGE 6
System reviews
revised peer list
BY STEPHEN MOORE
STAFF WRITER
Recommendations for updated
lists of peer institutions are being
reviewed by schools throughout
the UNC system and already are
prompting debate between cam
pus and system officials.
A revised slate of recognized
peers for each system school could
have major significance for a range
of campus policies that are based on
comparisons to other universities.
The system Board of Governors
is considering a policy that would
base tuition hikes on a peer-based
analysis.
Lists of both public and private
Proposed peer institutions
University officials have anew draft proposal of peer institutions. The list could
be used for setting tuition and examining faculty salaries in the future.
| CURRENT PEER INSTITUTIONS j
DIFFERENCES ON
University of Florida
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
University of Washington - Seattle
University of Wisconsin - Madison
University of California - Los Angeles
University of California - Berkeley
University of Virginia
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
University of Texas - Austin
Ohio State University
Emory University
Vanderbilt University
Johns Hopkins University
Duke University
University of Chicago
SOURCE: OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT DTH/BOBBY SWEATT
the initiating and receiving sides of
the service itself.
“It was about being at the center
of the hourglass, with the commu
nity on one end and the University
at the other,” said Ned Brooks, a
clinical professor of health policy
and administration.
This semester, Brooks, who
worked with the center for two and a
half years, is teaching a course titled
“Organizational Leadership Theory
and Practice,” which uses the center’s
rocky start as a case study on put
ting definitions and descriptions of
public service into practice.
BY DANIEL MALLOY
SPORTS EDITOR
MINNEAPOLIS Near the end of his first offi
cial practice with the Minnesota Timberwolves on
Tuesday, Rashad McCants faced a predicament.
JtgjfinA
“It’s OK,” McCants said as he stepped off the court.
“I’m the rookie.”
“That don’t mean shit,” shot back superstar for-
SEE MCCANTS, PAGE 6
Sports | page 8
SWEET REVENGE
The UNC women's soccer
team exacts vengeance on
UVa., the team that ended its
championship hopes last
year, 2-1 at Fetzer Field.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2005
■
Walker
Rutherford
said he could
not balance his
job and the race.
peers carry serious importance to
UNC-Chapel Hill, said University
Provost Robert Shelton.
“We use the public list when we
compare for things like tuition,” he
said. “We use the complete list for
things when we do things like fac
ulty salaries.”
UNC-CH’s policy is to keep
tuition within the lowest quartile of
comparable universities, so a change
in the approved slate of peers could
prompt a change in rates.
Of the public universities des
ignated as peers for UNC-CH on
the system’s newest proposal, the
SEE LIST, PAGE 6
I PROPOSED PEER INSTITUTIONS I
University of Florida
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
University of Washington - Seattle
University of Wisconsin - Madison
University of California - Los Angeles
University of California - Berkeley
University of Virginia
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
New York University
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Southern California
While the center’s balance point
was established to “serve those
who serve,” a database that was
never completely comprehensive
is struggling to compile services
for state needs, Brooks said.
There are 811 service projects
currently active around the state.
The database, at www.unc.edu/cps,
provides information on projects
in all state counties.
“At the beginning, we didn’t
want to create expectations around
the state that the University simply
SEE PUBLIC SERVICE, PAGE 6
His team for a half-court scrim
mage had seven players, but only
five could be on the floor at once.
McCants decided to show off his
humility and offered to sit out first
in his group. He is no longer a star.
He now has to defer, rather than be
deferred to.
weather
-ART* Rain/Thunder
H 77, L 68
index
police log ~2
calendar 2
crossword 6
sports 9
edit 10