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CORRECTIONS
Due to reporting errors,
a Wednesday page 3 article,
“Residents eat out, give back,” con
tains three mistakes. First, the arti
cle states that profits from RSWP
go to the Inter-Faith Council.
Proceeds from the event go to the
IFC along with other community
kitchens and shelters. The article
also incorrectly states that 114 res
taurants participated in the event.
That total is only for Chapel Hill
and Carrboro. More participated
across the Triangle. The Daily Tar
Heel apologizes for the errors.
Due to a reporting error, a
Wednesday page 3 article, “Austin
named solicitor general,” incor
rectly states that Robert Austin
and seven other candidates inter
viewed for the position. Seven total
applied, only three interviewed.
The Daily Tar Heel apologizes
for the error.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
Trustees enthusiastic about
first phase of Arts Common
Members of the UNC Board of
Trustees’ buildings and grounds
committee reviewed Wednesday
preliminary design of phase I-A of
the Arts Common
Although no formal action was
taken, trustees responded favor
ably to the design.
“I think it’s going to be a neat
building,” said Trustee Robert
Winston, vice chairman of the
committee.
Phase I-A, budgeted at $26.2
million, will provide UNC’s music
department with new faculty offic
es, practice rooms, rehearsal space
and classrooms.
Phase I-B which among other
projects will provide anew recital
hall does not have funding in
place, but trustees said they support
plans for the project in its entirety.
Business students come out
on top in fund competition
A student team from UNC’s
Kenan-Flagler Business School won
the first Evergreen Investments
Alpha Challenge, a competition
focused on popular hedge fund
trading strategies, held Nov. 11 at
the school.
John Fairey, Dennis Greenway
and Kevin Nicholson won the
$6,000 first prize, competing in
the finals against the University
of Michigan Business School and
London Business School.
STATE AND NATIUN
Finalist to lead N.C. lottery
resigns from current post
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - After
more than five years on the job, the
chief executive officer of the New
Mexico Lottery Authority is calling
it quits.
Tom Shaheen, who has guided
the lottery to record sales, submitted
his resignation Tuesday, according
to the lottery’s board of directors.
Shaheen is among those in the
running to lead North Carolina’s
lottery. The others include Paul
Lanteigne, director of the Virginia
lottery board; Wanda Wilson, exec
utive vice president and general
counsel of Tennessee’s lottery; and
Sidney Chambers, executive vice
president of sales and marketing
for the Tennessee lottery.
Charles Sanders, North
Carolina’s commission chairman,
wouldn’t say Tuesday night if the
commission had offered the job to
Shaheen. He did say that Shaheen
had an impressive resume and that
several commission members were
impressed with him, particularly
because of his experience in help
ing to begin Georgia’s lottery.
The commission is scheduled to
meet Thursday, when Sanders said
it will vote on a choice.
WORLD BRIEFS
Avian flu kills first human in
China, experts fear mutation
BEIJING China reported its
first human cases of bird flu on the
mainland Wednesday, including at
least one fatality, as health workers
armed with vaccine and disinfectant
raced to inoculate billions of chick
ens and other poultry in a massive
campaign to contain the virus.
The World Health Organization
confirmed that the virulent strain
experts fear could cause a world
wide flu pandemic has now infected
humans in the world’s most popu
lous nation.
China’s Ministry of Health report
ed confirmed cases of infection with
the deadly HSNI strain in a poultry
worker, who died, and a 9-year-old
boy, who fell ill in central Hunan
province but recovered, the official
Xinhua News Agency said. It said
the boy’s 12-year-old sister, who died,
was recorded as a suspected case.
Experts worry the virus could
spread and mutate in China due to
its huge poultry flocks and their con
tact with humans. It also has migra
tion routes for geese and other wild
birds that might carry the disease.
-From staff and wire reports.
Sapikowski moved to Central Prison
Trial could start by next summer
BY JESSICA SCHONBERG
STAFF WRITER
A Chapel Hill teen accused of
murdering his parents last spring
is headed to Central Prison in
Raleigh after a superior court
judge asked the state Wednesday to
determine the best facility to house
the youth.
Adam Sapikowski, 17, is charged
with two counts of first degree
murder for the shooting deaths of
his parents, James, 52, and Alison
Sapikowski, 49.
Judge Wade Barber asked the
secretary of the N.C. Department
“We need government to keep the peace. But how much
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John Stossel, of ABC News, speaks to a packed Memorial Hall on Wednesday, presenting many of his Libertarian
viewpoints. Stossel talked about problems with what the media chooses to cover and government regulation.
STOSSEL OFFERS
CLEAR VISION
CO-ANCHORMAN HASHES OUT POLITICAL VIEWS
BY COURTNEY LEIGH MILLER
STAFF WRITER
Memorial Hall opened its doors
Wednesday night to welcome ABC
20/20 co-anchorman John Stossel,
who aired out his political views and
visions for a society with less govern
ment intervention.
Asa libertarian Stossel subscribes
to the belief in less government inter
ference in economic decisions.
His lecture focused on what he
says are the values of a free market
economy and his support for govern
ment deregulation.
Stossel argued for a laissez-faire
approach to the economy, which
argues that the motivations of indi
viduals ensures the good of all.
Competition will protect domestic
Graduate schools
see global interest
BY STEPHANIE NEWTON
STAFF WRITER
Exchange programs are not the
only venues through which inter
national students add a Chapel Hill
sticker to their luggage trunks.
This semester, 14 percent of the
graduate student population hails
from outside the U.S.
With about 8,000 graduate stu
dents studying at UNC, that equates
to 1,120 who come from abroad to
pursue their academic interests.
“Our departments are still wel
coming students at the same rate
—and they’re coming,” said Linda
Dykstra, dean of the graduate
school.
In a system that Dykstra says is
incredibly competitive, more than
11,000 international applications
for graduate study come through
UNC each year, and less than 30
percent are accepted.
Avery high yield rate brings a 50
percent return on those offers.
In the School of Dentistry alone,
one-third of the approximately 100
graduate students enrolled are inter
national, said Kim Muser, who works
for the school’s graduate registrar. Of
the applications the dental school
receives, Muser said half are submit
ted by international students.
But in a post-Sept. 11 world the
number of international students
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of Health and Human Services
and the secretary of the N.C.
Department of Correction to
determine whether Sapikowski
should continue to be held at John
Umstead Hospital in Butner or be
transferred to the prison pending
trial. The judge ruled out a third
option sending Sapikowski
to Western Youth Institution in
Morganton.
Sapikowski was involuntarily
committed to John Umstead on
Sept. 14 because of concerns about
his mental state and the risk of
potential suicide attempts.
interest better than governments and
lawyers will, he told the crowd.
“Markets work in unintended ways
to help consumers,” he said.
Stossel cited modern examples to
support his argument. The overuse of
product labels, he said, are an unnec
essary byproduct of government regu
lations and the nation’s litigiousness.
Overabundance of tort has resulted
in too many warning labels. At one point
Stossel reached into his jacket pocket to
pull out a birth control insert.
“Nobody reads labels,” he said.
“Ever look at a birth control insert?
I happen to have one here.”
He unfolded it, and held it up for
the audience to see the fine print that
covered both sides of the paper.
“Fewer rules would protect us bet
nationwide has decreased.
Dykstra said UNC has defied
that trend the number of coun
tries represented by international
graduate students has increased.
During the 2004-05 academic
year the University saw a 12 per
cent increase in the number of
international graduate students
admitted, Dykstra said.
But while the number of stu
dents enrolled this semester has
not changed, one piece of the
admissions equation has.
“Applications are down,” Dykstra
said, though she called UNC’s
number “healthy.” “They’re down
all over the place.”
From her perspective UNC
now is competing with schools in
Australia, Europe and Canada
“They are spreading their appli
cations out,” she said. “That whole
thing is very difficult to track.”
Euan Griffiths, a French teach
ing assistant at UNC, came to the
U.S. from Salisbury, England, in
August. Griffiths considered gradu
ate study options in France, Britain
and the University of Notre Dame
along with two N.C. schools with
competing shades of blue.
“I knew I wanted to go to an
English-speaking university,”
SEE GLOBAL GRADS, PAGE 4
Adam
Sapikowski is
charged with
two counts of
first degree
murder in his
parents’ death.
He has been in police custody
since confessing to the shootings
in mid-May.
The bodies of the Sapikowskis
were discovered wrapped in
blankets inside their home May
14 after an out-of-town relative
told local law enforcement offi
cials that she had been unable to
contact the family for more than
ter,” he said.
Stossel also pointed to drug laws as
an area in which he says the govern
ment’s involvement results in harm
rather than good.
He argued that crimes don’t come
directly from drugs, but rather are
fostered by the illegal drug market.
Drug laws prevent citizens from
making choices, he said.
“Did Patrick Henry say, ‘Give me
safety or give me death?’” he asked.
“The worst places to live are the
places that don’t have enough govern
ment. We need government to keep
the peace,” he said. “But how much
government do we need?”
Among the journalism world,
SEE STOSSEL, PAGE 4
Hindsight 20/20 with spending
More fundraising
not always enough
BY SHANNAN BOWEN
SENIOR WRITER
After something as exhausting as
a municipal election, second guess
ing is all but inevitable especially
when it comes to finances.
According to studies by
Democracy North Carolina, a
trend has developed of candidates
spending more money in hopes of
garnering more votes.
“Every election, we’re seeing
an increase in campaign spend
ing,” said Peter Walz, community
organizer for Democracy North
Carolina.
“If you’re one of the top four
spenders, you have a better chance
of winning than the bottom four
spenders,” Walz said, referring to
findings from a 2003 study of the
Chapel Hill Town Council elections
from 1995 to 2001.
But that finding seems to be
refuted this year by Carrboro alder
man Jacquie Gist and Hillsborough
Town Board candidate Paul
Newton.
Gist said she received S7OO in
contributions and spent about
SBOO on her campaign. She was
the top vote-getter in the race.
“I have never, in all my five cam
paigns, broke $1,000,” Gist said.
How does she do it?
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2005
one week.
Investigators believe the mur
ders happened in late April.
District attorney Jim Woodall
and assistant attorney general
Angel Gray, representing the
state, had filed a motion to transfer
Sapikowski.
Dr. Oliver Goust, his treat
ing physician at John Umstead,
testified that Sapikowski no lon
ger is having suicidal thoughts
and therefore does not meet the
standards for involuntary com
mitment.
He said Sapikowski should be
moved to a secure correctional
facility but noted that the teen
should receive continued treatment
Law students
set to take
cases pro bono
during break
BY COLIN CAMPBELL
STAFF WRITER
A group of law students stood in line at 7 a.m.
Wednesday, drowsily awaiting distribution.
But they weren't trying to score tickets to a basket
ball game.
The several dozen students woke up early to get
their choice of assignments for pro bono legal work
during Winter Break.
These law students, most of them in their first
year, will spend part of their break working for a legal
organization or firm that works without compensation
around the state.
Many of the students said that their assignment is
in their area of interest and that they are looking for
ward to the project.
First-year student Sara Weed will be working
with the Immigrants Outreach Project, a program
UNC law students started to help foreigners with
legal needs.
“I’m mostly interested in international law and
immigrant issues,” Weed said. “I can’t think of any
thing better to do with my break than work in the
community.”
Other students said they hope to work directly with
people who need their help.
“The best (assignments) are flexible and give you
exposure to clients,” said Chris Lightner, a law stu
dent.
UNC will send 15 students to thg Gulf Coast to aid
Hurricane Katrina victims.
The team will help individual prove title to their
property so they can receive aid money from the
Federal Emergency Management Agency. They also
will work with those who have been made homeless by
the disaster and those who are at risk for being evicted
from their homes.
The purpose of the pro bono program is not only
to give students valuable experience in the legal
field, but also to use their expertise to provide a
public service.
“Giving back to the community is something we all
do as lawyers,” said Diane Standaert, director of the
program.
“(For first-years), this is their first opportunity to get
their hands on a project.”
The program began in 1997, when many at the
School of Law wanted to focus volunteer work on
projects that made use of their knowledge of the
law.
“We had students who wanted to volunteer and
gain legal experience but didn’t have time to make the
phone calls,” said Sylvia Novinsky, law school associate
dean for student affairs, who helped start the program
and serves as its faculty advisor.
UNC’s pro bono program is unique because it is one
of the only such programs in the country that is run
SEE PRO BONO, PAGE 4
What they spent
Now that election results are official, campaign finance reports filed Oct. 31
might indicate whether the candidates' fiscal efforts paid off.
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Laurin Easthom / $4,454 $2,384 3,788
Mark Klemschmidt / $4,485 $1,665 3,772
Ed Harrison / $2,286* $3,638* 3,106
Bill Thorpe / $4,100 $1,751 3,040
Will Raymond $2,360 $1,732 2,336
Robm Cutson $1,401 $951 1,625
Jason Baker $1,293 $1,066 1,240
CHAPEL HILL MAYOR
KevmFoy/ $1,265 $4lB 4,289
KemnWom S3O $5 1,178
CARRBORO BOA
Jacquelyn Gist/ DNR ONR 1,545
Randee Haven-0 Donnell / $3,047 $1,277 1,280
John Herrera/ $578 s3l 1,247
Katrina Ryan $2,760* $2,300* 736
Catherine tovine $1,150* $1,150* 601
David Marshall DNR DNR 437
CARRBORO MAYOR
MarkChitton/ $3,064 $2,156 1,337
Alex Zaffron $2,515 $1,467 776
HILLSBOROUGH TOWN
COMMISSIONER
Raul Newton $7,581 $6,234 573
MikeGering/ $3,000* $3,000* 689
Frances Dancy/ DNR DNR 653
HILLSBOROUGH MAYOR
tom Stevens/ $4,750 $2,171 589
Jttt Phelps ONR DNR 546
'Estimates for total campaign; DNR means did not report
SOURCE: ORANGE COUNTY Bo£ AND CANDIDATE REPORTS DTH/BOBBY SWEATT
Gist received a complimentary
box of signs after a printing com
pany printed an incorrect spelling
of her name last election. She also
kept her expenses simple.
“My biggest expense was my
Web site,” Gist said. She also spent
money on bumper stickers, post
card mailings and fliers.
“I didn’t have high-glossy stuff,”
and monitoring at that facility.
Forensic psychologist James H.
Hilkey, who has conducted a psy
chiatric evaluation of Sapikowski
and has met with him about 14
times, disagreed, saying the teen
still poses a high suicide risk and
should remain at the hospital.
During the hearing, Barber
questioned Goust about the
appropriateness of the treatment
Sapikowski received at Western
Youth Institution shortly after his
arrest.
Sapikowski’s lawyers said he
informed them that he was stripped
naked and kept in a cell by himself
SEE SAPIKOWSKI, PAGE 4
she said. “What I did was have a
lot of friends hand out literature in
neighborhoods, and I handed out
literature in neighborhoods.”
Newton, on the other hand,
had the largest war chest among
all municipal races, though he
did not receive a seat on the
SEE FINANCES, PAGE 4
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