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4 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2005 FAIR CHANGES FROM PAGE 1 company that ran the petting zoo last year and will return again this year, said the zoo will emphasize responsible hygiene with tw o wash stations at the petting zoo’s exit and a sound system to remind visitors to observe basic precautions. Visitors will have to pet the ani mals through a fence, and signs posted outside and inside the tent will explain basic hygienic precau tions in both English and Spanish. An attendant will be on site to enforce the rules. No strollers, baby bottles, sippy cups, pacifiers or food will be allowed inside the zoo. Commerford said petting zoo employees already have tested all the animals for disease. The animals will be washed daily and their bedding STUDENT VOTE FROM PAGE 1 being an independent organi zation, Vote Carolina President Jeremy Spivey said the group is capable of working on its own. “It was pretty much an inde pendent venture since the second week,” Spivey said. Calling the dependence on stu dent government “exaggerated,” Spivey reaffirmed that the orga nization is fully capable of getting the word out. Spivey said he hopes issues, such as those surrounding what to do with vacant building spaces on Franklin Street, will inspire students to vote. “Chapel Hill is becoming a place where you can eat and drink, and that’s about it,” he said. Efforts to get students involved in municipal elections in the past largely have been unsuccessful despite the fact that the 16,000 undergraduates enrolled at UNC make up almost one-third of Chapel Hill’s residential base. “(UNC) is the single largest con stituency and also the smallest vot ing constituency,” Spivey said. He said he is shooting to get 30 percent to 40 percent of already registered students to vote. In past years, voter-interested groups resorted to dorm storming residence halls in the weeks before elections in order to register more students. But administrators denounced the practice last year during the presidential election. Without their greatest weapon, organizations are left to search for new ways to appeal to students. CAMPUS RECREATION UPDATE ALWAYS COCA-COLA. ALWAYS CAROLINA)! WATER POLO UjMI Mj/ 7 players gßKj| Sign up: Oct. 10~Oct. 18 , Today is the last day y=x=j^ I SOCCER 9 players J October 15,2005 b *ToJ? b n I ®a3naßS! I 4 SfaJSs *' od ' l6 1 ■ REGISTER in 203 Woollen Gym. ■ p ayers |B www.unc.edu/Sportclubs all proceeds benefit Carolina Fitness ' ; SJbJ Wftffflffiffi&lfffaSj CAMPUS PUMP S. RUIM tMHWttl* K; event combines MHbHmmM impetition between g Qfitafefif 25 } HOWTO INVENT A GAME gl Mfn’Wi * J - outdoor ed center A October 26 ’’lSnfe'W PACKS, SHELTERS, H| , >■■l KNOTS ~ outdoor ed center MAP&COMPASS I ■ ~ umstead state park ■ . Iness and ROTC register in 203 woollen gym. '‘YT^V'.r? “This may he the only opportunity they ever have (to pet the animals). They still get to feel how soft that wool is.” DR. MARY ANN MCBRIDE, VETERINARIAN will be stripped and thrown away. “We do the basic things that everyone should be doing that exhib its animals to the public,” he said. E. coli is a naturally occurring bacteria that is found in 20 per cent of all sheep, goats and cattle. It can cause severe diarrhea and high temperatures in small children. Mcßride stressed the impor tance of early treatment. “The key is to recognize before children get seriously dehydrated and in trouble, at which point they will have to be hospitalized and Vote Carolina recently has received permission to use A frame sign placards on campus, normally reserved for student body elections. Billy Constangy, administra tive vice chairman of the College Republicans, said he has used face book.com, a social networking Web site, to send messages to students identifying themselves as conserva tives for their support at the polls. Students have set up shop in the Pit almost every day to try to register students. The Young Democrats altered their approach to encouraging registration Monday, having not only representatives in the Pit but also scattered around cam pus areas such as the Rams Head Center, the Student Union, Davis Library and different dorms on South Campus. There also have been numerous forums on campus to discuss issues pertaining to political platforms. Last Thursday’s forum held by The Daily Tar Heel in Greenlaw Hall was intended to accommo date questions students might have had for Chapel Hill and Carrboro candidates, but turnout barely reached 30. Peter Tinti, director of cam pus political affairs and an active member of the Young Democrats, said he is disappointed in the lack of enthusiasm among students. “It’s just not the same buzz as last year,” Tinti said. Last year, a record number of students, fueled by the competi tion of the presidential election, stampeded to the polls. “There is not as much inter est, but that is not enough of an From Page One treated aggressively,” she said. But she said it is important for the fair to continue providing all children access to animals, espe cially as North Carolina’s popula tion shifts toward urban areas. “This may be the only opportu nity they ever have,” she said, add ing that the safety precautions will not detract from the experience. “They still get to feel how soft that wool is.” Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. excuse to not vote,” said Blakely Whilden, co-president of the Young Democrats. Student Body President Seth Dearmin expressed similar senti ments. “This election is everybody’s chance to vote for people who affect us much more directly,” he said. Dearmin said that Vote Carolina’s mission for a more politically active student body is one shared by student government. Vote Carolina representatives sent a letter signed by Dearmin to local businesses encouraging them to provide discounts to customers who have voted. In their attempts to encourage student participation at the polls, campus leaders also have high lighted the ease and accessibility of early voting. There are six precincts, some miles away from campus, to which students will have to travel in order to mark their ballots Nov. 8. If a person chooses to vote prior to Election Day, he or she can visit Morehead Planetarium starting Oct. 24. “Early voting is extremely impor tant,” Dearmin said. “It’s a chance for (students) to vote here on campus.” Candidates are trying to appeal to students as well. Jason Baker, a sophomore at UNC who is running for Town Council, also has used facebook.com to connect to prospective voters. “Voter registration is only half the battle,” he said. “We have to see if people actually make it to the polls.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. REVIEW FROM PAGE 1 going to talk over whether The News & Observer will join the law suit,” she said. “We would strongly consider it.” Grace said the NCPA, which rep resents newspapers across the state, considers the actions of the system to be a clear violation of the law. “The press association is disap pointed with the way these meet ings were handled and believes very strongly in the spirit and the fact of the state’s open meetings law.” The N.C. attorney general’s office sent out a legal opinion to all state agencies Oct 5 outlining its interpre tation of the law. The opinion states that “motions to adjourn or recess are not permissible activities that can take place in closed session.” Sill said, as far as she knows, system officials have not acknowl edged any wrongdoing or said how they will act in the future. “Our current concern in terms of access is that our government officials operate in public view,” she said. “So, in terms of outcome, we would want the university to follow the law, and not just the letter of the law, but the spirit of the law, which says that the operations of the public university system should be open to the public.” Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. HISTORY FROM PAGE 1 go to in high school. It’s like a big assembly, and I don’t know what I would get out of it.” Some students, however, do make a point of participating in University Day. Sophomore Nick Neptune says he's looking forward to the event. “I think by attending University Day you are almost partaking in that (history),” says Neptune, whose interest sparked him to enroll in a class that examines the role of the University in American life. “We are all a part of the univer sity history in a sense,” he says. University Day events have changed over the years, says Sanders, who was student body president from 1950 to 1951. “... When I was a student here, there was a proceeding on the South Building’s steps, a mock laying of the cornerstone and that sort of thing,” he says. “It’s now a much more for mal and dignified occasion....” Sanders says there are now ■ |L||ggi| Hilldale Professor of the History of Science >- u * and Medlcine ' University of Wisconsin, Department of Medical History and Bioethics Wed., Oct. 12,2005 In 1869 in New York City the president of 7:30 p.m. Cornell University, Andrew Dickson White, Murphey Hall Rm 116 delivered a bellicose lecture on "The The University Battle-Fields of Science." He dramatically of North Carolina described the age-old conflict between at Chapel Hill science and religion: "a war waged longer, with battles fiercer, with sieges more Sponsored by: persistent, with strategy more shrewd minor in the study of than in any of the comparatively transient CHRISTIANITY warfare of Caesar or Napoleon or Moltke." CULTURE ec * ure Donald Numbers will revisit ■ some of the most famous sites and , reassess the nature of the conflict. 1 UNC [ COLLEGE OF ARTS ft SCIENCES TUITION FROM PAGE 1 force member, said via telecon ferencing that trustees probably would prefer a tuition proposal in the form of a range of numbers. By the meeting’s end, students and trustees on the task force were favoring increases on opposite ends of the price range. The trustees supported the higher end increases, citing a price index study released last year. The study found that the University has considerable room to raise tuition before prices discourage students from attending. Mason said she and other trust ees most likely would support a hike that provided as much rev enue as possible. “I would like to make as much movement as we can to increasing faculty salaries,” she said “I would rather go to an option that would give us as much money as pos sible.” But students on the task force favored lower increases, claiming that they still could provide funds to campus needs without putting as much of a burden on students. Student Body Vice President Adrian Johnston, who serves on the task force, said after the meeting that his concern was that a high er tuition increase would reduce UNC’s socio-economic diversity. That concern was presented to more speeches and processions. This year, Student Body President Seth Dearmin will be the first-ever student to deliver an address at the festivities. “It’s the one occasion of the year in which those who observe the day may have their attention focused on where the University has come from —and how it has gotten from earlier years to today —and where it might go in the future...” Sanders says. Sanders says he always has had an appreciation for the relevance of history and is not sure how to con vince students who don’t already have an interest in the University. Some say the format of the cele bration should be altered to attract more students. “I would say that most UNC stu dents don’t know hardly anything (about University history),” says Yonni Chapman, graduate student and leader of the Campaign for Historical Accuracy and TVuth. “But they are interested in it when you present them the information.” He says that the day’s events have disappointed him in the past, Slip Sattg Sar Hppl “I would like to make as much movement as we can to increasing faculty salaries.” KAROL MASON, TRUSTEE the task force in the form of a posi tion paper supporting a locked-in tuition plan. Student Body President Seth Dearmin, task force co-chairman, said the group is limited in what it can do as a one-year organiza tion. “So we’ve talked about ways of expanding our view.” The memo, drafted by Dearmin and Johnston, stated that the task force should have more foresight when drafting tuition policy. “We feel like this is a huge prob lem, and we need to make great er headway for predictability,” Dearmin said. Task force members largely were in favor of more predictability in tuition increases. “None of us like to budget our own budgets that way,” said Jan Yopp, a professor of journalism and mass communication and task force member. “And I don’t think students do either.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. with too much of an emphasis on State of the Union-type speeches. “One way we could start inform ing people about University history is to use University Day as a day long teaching opportunity,” says Chapman, who has attended the ceremony only once, to support a housekeepers’ protest. Students are on the verge of entering the real world and becoming leaders leaders that need to know how to get things done, Chapman says. “History tells us how things came to be, how things got done.” Donald Shaw, a journalism pro fessor and 1959 UNC graduate, says that University Day was created to foster a sense of togetherness. “It’s like joining a great histori cal party for a minute and recog nizing that you are a part of it,” he says. “After you are gone, the University will still be there.” Features Editor Torrye Jones contributed to this report. Contact the Features Editor atfeatures@unc.edu.
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