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Staff Sgt. Grant Kimmel (right), a UNC sophomore currently in the Air Force Reserves, speaks to students in Connor Residence Hall about his experiences in
the Air Force serving overseas. He was joined by Sgt. Chris Arndt, of the U.S. Army, also a sophomore, who spoke about his time serving in Kuwait and Iraq.
BY SAMUEL LAU
STAFF WRITER
On Veterans Day last year, UNC soph
omore Jason Barber was stationed
150 miles north of Baghdad, serv
ing as part of the headquarters unit near the
Iranian border.
Today he is back in Chapel Hill as a stu
dent and will take part in UNC’s annual
Veterans Day ceremony at noon in Hill Hall
Auditorium.
The event will include more than 150
ROTC midshipmen and cadets, a number
of veterans of foreign wars dating back to
World War II and the UNC Brass Quintet
playing a traditional military tribute. Retired
Navy Lt. Wade Phillips, of Greensboro, who
served in both World War II and the Korean
War, also will give a speech.
“To me, during the rest of the year the mil
itary generally goes unnoticed,” said Barber,
28, who also served in the Australian military
for seven years before moving to the U.S.
“Veterans Day is the one day the entire
country can show their appreciation for what
millions have done in the past, are doing now
and will do in the future.”
Senior Craig McLemore, a student in the
UNC Navy ROTC program, said he is excited
to see all the veterans around campus.
“It’s a good day to go around in uniform,”
he said. “It’s good to see the veterans come to
the ceremony and see that we’re continuing
their legacy.”
Violence spotlights
immigrant policies
BY KRISTEN POPE
STAFF WRITER
Violent uprisings and blazing
cars across France’s immigrant
communities have ignited discus
sion about the way nations treat
their immigrant populations.
Youth began rioting in immi
grant and Arab communities across
France more than two weeks ago.
And experts consider France’s fail
ure to integrate those populations
a major factor in the rioting.
F. Peter Wagner, professor of
European politics at N.C. State
University, said that France has a
highly stratified society and that
class plays a major role in how
integrated a person is in French
society.
Immigrants in France tend to
be poor and packed away in par
ticular housing projects on the
outskirts of the city, he said.
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Junior Rafael F. Barbosa was stationed
in Afghanistan with the 1-130 Aviation
Regiment from July 2003 to June 2004. He
also will attend the ceremony, but said people
constantly should remember the troops.
“It’s good to have a holiday, but I guess if
you really care about those guys, you think
about them throughout the year,” he said.
But some students, such as Daniel Nichols, a
senior in the UNC Army ROTC program, said
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my grandpa fighting,” he said. “Now, it sheds
a whole new light on the situation.... It rings
truer when you know people in harm’s way.”
Mike Barton, deputy director of joint
public affairs for Marine Corps Base Camp
Lejeune in Cherry Point, said that being in
the military for a long time makes him heav
ily appreciate Nov. 11 every year.
“It’s natural to place a high emphasis
on Veterans Day,” he said. “But it’s not just
about what’s going on now. It’s about now
and everything in the past.”
While none of the student veterans
thought classes should be canceled for the
holiday, Barbosa said everyone who wants to
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“By and large, as the French
case tells, immigrants tend to be
at the lower end of societal strati
fication,” Wagner said.
“The problem is, of course, for
immigrants, as people who were
not integrated in the first place, they
tend to be poor, less educated and
therefore have little chance of actu
ally partaking in French society.”
He said that while the U.S.
has done better in blending
Americanism and opportunity,
Americans often feel too secure that
integration has happened and tend
to overlook the problems of poverty
and lack of opportunity that hit cer
tain groups more than others.
The U.S. requires that immi
grants seeking citizenship learn
English, U.S. history and the
nation’s government system. That
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VETERANS DAY 2005
the prevalence of the war
in Iraq and having friends
overseas makes the day a
lot more personal.
“Before on Veterans
Day I used to think back to
World War 11, Vietnam and
Dorrance’s dynasty goes for 600th victory
BY BRIANA GORMAN
SPORTSATURDAY EDITOR
The king sits on his throne,
surrounded by the spoils of war.
The 2005 ACC Tournament
Championship trophy rests on a
table.
A signed picture of Mia Hamm
hangs on the wall.
Framed newspaper headlines
and magazine covers proclaim
ing the feats of his dynasty line
the hallway of his palace, the
McCaskill Soccer Center.
Yes, when it comes to women’s
college soccer, Anson Dorrance is
Caesar and North Carolina is cer
tainly his Rome. For the past 27
years he has dedicated his life to the
UNC soccer program, amassing an
astonishing 599-27-17 record.
Tonight, the legendary coach
will be looking for his 600th win
when the Tar Heels meet Western
Carolina on Fetzer Field in the first
round of the NCAA Tournament.
But unlike the great leaders
of the world who lost it all after
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Chapel Hill High School
students and professors join
up to promote biodiesel fuel,
which uses vegetable
and soybean oils.
AREA VETERANS
RECOUNT SERVICE
BY MICHAEL TODD
STAFF WRITER
. In his office, Robert Patton is sur
rounded by French, Austrian and U.S.
medals honoring his military service
during World War 11.
“That’s the Combat Infantry Badge,”
he said, pointing to a small blue medal
lion behind the glass case. “They give
it to you when you take on enemy fire
and you don’t run away.”
He said he was nervous about today,
Veterans Day, which would have a dif
ferent meaning for him than in other
years.
Patton, a former staff sergeant,
will be one of the first U.S. soldiers
to be awarded with an Israeli medal
that honors the liberation of the Nazi
concentration camps in the spring of
1945.
The Chapel Hill resident and four
other veterans will be awarded the
medal commemorating the 60th
anniversary of the liberation at 1 p.m.
today in New York City.
“Since it has never been issued to
letting their achievements get to
their heads, Dorrance. remains
humble about No. 600. He even
admits that he doesn’t really find
it to be a big deal and is more
excited about the games his Tar
Heels have been winning lately.
“What’s a big deal to me is that
We’ve played incredibly well in the
last four games,” Dorrance says.
“These are the things that rock
my world.”
And in Dorrance’s world there
sit 16 ACC Tournament titles and
18 national championships evi
dence of the winning tradition he
has built at UNC.
“I used to come out to these
games and be a ball girl. (I would)
watch ihese girls play and just
be in awe of them,” says senior
Kendall Fletcher.
“Now that I’m here, and a
part of it, it’s just a tremendous
amount of pride. To be a part of
Anson’s 600th win, to give that to
him is great because he’s given us
so much.”
an American soldier, we feel like it’s a
pretty big deal,” Patton said.
In May, Patton returned to Europe
with four WWII veterans to retrace
their division’s routes to Germany
from France.
While in
Passau, Germany,
the childhood
home of Adolf
Hitler, along the
Danube banks,
the group attend
ed the town’s first
official Jewish
Shabbat, a holy
day of rest.
Miriam Griver-
Meisels, a Shabbat
attendant whose
father was freed
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Staff Sgt.
Robert Patton
will receive a
medal for his
WWII service.
from a concentration camp in the
area 60 years earlier, went back to
Israel and requested that the govern
ment award the medal to the U.S.
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Anson Dorrance, coach of the UNC women's soccer team, stands at
Finley Reids on Tuesday. He goes for his 600th win with the team today.
Dorrance began as the head
coach in 1977 for the UNC men’s
team. In 1979 he also took over
the women’s program. After post
ing a 172-65-21 record in 12 years
with the men, Dorrance decided
to leave to focus solely on the
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2005
Board
OKs
tuition
controls
Delays decision on
long-term stance
BY ERIC JOHNSON
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
UNC-system officials moved ahead
Thursday with plans to give more
structure to the annual debate about
campus-based tuition.
The budget and finance committee
of the Board of Governors approved a
set of specific guidelines for this year’s
round of campus-based hikes, while the
board’s tuition policy task force largely
postponed until February debate about
a long-term tuition policy.
“The final decisions will take place
in February, but I think that there is
consent about the framework,” said
Hannah Gage, co-chairwoman of the
task force.
“I think the
unresolved issues
are fairly small.”
The long
term policy
draft approved
Thursday would
instruct campuses
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outside help
in analyzing
financial need
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to keep tuition for resident under
graduates within the lowest quarter
of their public peer institutions and
allow annual increases based on aver
age rate hikes among a nationwide
peer group.
With general agreement about the
content of the long-term guidelines,
Gage said the biggest step remaining is
to firmly establish a list of appropriate
peer institutions for each campus.
Because the proposed policy essen
tially caps tuition at each system school
based on rates at peer institutions,
establishing appropriate peers has
taken on greater importance. Gage said
discussions have finished with most
schools, but a few are still haggling.
“I don’t think that’s going to be
problematic,” she said after the
meeting. “The campuses I’ve talked
with that are still discontent in some
way about their peers, they just have
one or two small issues.”
Task force member Craig Souza
expressed concern that campuses
might in the future try to readjust
their peer groups to achieve a desired
tuition target.
“Years ago, we got into a situation
where we changed the peer group to
get the answer we wanted,” he said
during the meeting. “I just want to
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women’s team.
He has never looked back.
Despite all that he has
achieved, Dorrance says he never
envisioned he would be this suc-
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