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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2005
Republicans plot
future N.C. plans
BY JUSTIN ORTIZ
STAFF WRITER
RALEIGH Looking to their
college constituents for support,
conservative politicians and judg
es came to N.C. State University
on Saturday to talk to College
Republicans from across the state
about the future of North Carolina
and the Republican role in it.
Rep. John Rhodes, R-
Mecklenburg, was among the
speakers at the N.C. Federation
of College Republicans Fall
Convention and gave a scathing
review of the state legislature.
“Let me tell you something,
ladies and gentlemen: In that
group of 120 representatives from
across the state, you do not want to
be sitting with anyone to your back
on that house floor, I can assure
you that,” he said.
“There are some interest
ing critters inside that House of
Representatives, and you know
what? A lot of them are out there
for themselves.”
Rhodes started off the morning
by talking about the corruption of
the current legislative body.
He said he believes the “thuggish
methods of the Democrats,” the
raising of taxes, the irresponsible
spending of funds and the use of
slush funds are the reasons North
Carolina’s economy is not the best
it can be.
Rhodes said the best way to
fix that is to be able to elect truly
conservative representatives to the
legislature.
“I believe that North Carolina
can be No. 1 in education; I believe
that North Carolina can be No. 1
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The Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity
presents
Strategies for Improving
the Wages & Working
Conditions of
Low-Waged Workers
Tuesday, November 22
4:30-6:oopm
UNC Schodof Law, Rotunda
The Center of Poverty, Work and Opportunity is
hosting a panel to examine strategies for
improving the economic situations and standards
of living of low-waged workers. The event will be
introduced by Sen. Edwards and moderated
by Arne Kalleberg, Kenan Distinguished
Professor of Sociology and Senior Associate Dean
for Social Science, College of Arts and Sciences,
UNC. The panel includes the following experts:
• Annette Bernhardt, Deputy Director,
Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law
• Tom Clarke, Program Director, Justice for
Smith field Workers’ Campaign, United Food and
. Commercial Workers
• Melanie Stratton, Student Action with Workers
• John Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO
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This event is free and open to the public.
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in transportation and roads; and I
believe we can be at the letter Z and
dead last in the lowest taxes in our
country,” he said.
“We can fix that by getting these
people out of office and putting the
right people in their place.”
Rep. Ed McMahan, R-
Mecklenburg, said the prob
lem with North Carolina is that
there is a Democratic political
machine in place, which is the
reason North Carolina is one of
only two states in the South with
out a Republican majority in the
legislature.
The importance of getting out
to vote was a key issue in all of the
speeches, and all called on their
college student constituents to stay
active in politics.
“In spite of the gerrymandering
and everything else going on, the
numbers are moving in our direc
tion,” McMahan said.
Despite the current situation
conveyed by the speakers at the
College Republicans’ convention,
there was optimism among the
speakers for the future.
“It takes grass roots campaign
ing, it takes youthful energy to get
us elected into office,” N.C. Superior
Court Judge Rusty Duke said. “We
can do it with your help.”
Eighty people registered to
attend the convention, though not
all showed up.
Tripp Costas, chairman of the
NCFCR, said more students turn
out for the spring convention, when
the group elects new officers.
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Students hypnotized for fundraiser
BY KELLY GIEDRAITIS
STAFF WRITER
Sophomore Rufaro Sikipa
pranced around the Student
Union Cabaret on Saturday night
equipped with a pink-feathered
tiara and a sparkling wand.
He was a fairy godmother sent
to grant audience members’ wish
es, which he did with glee.
Sikipa and other volunteers
agreed to let Medusa, the stage
name of hypnotist Stephanie Embry,
enter their minds during a show
sponsored by the UNC Circle K.
“We figured it would be some
thing new and interesting, some
thing no one had done before,” said
senior Chris Reed, Circle K mem
bership and publicity chairman.
Embry has been a full-time pro
fessional hypnotist since 2002.
“Everybody can be hypnotized,”
she said. “People’s hypnotizability
changes day to day, depending on
how relaxed they are or will let
themselves be.”
She asked members from the
audience to volunteer themselves
for hypnosis, encouraging them to
relax and to fall into a deep sleep.
“Hypnosis occurs in a very
relaxed state in which your uncon
scious mind is open to suggestion,”
she said. “Tonight I am going to
hypnotize the volunteer stars and
give suggestions to have ftin.”
The “volunteer stars” modeled,
transformed into cartoon charac
ters and answered an important
phone call that came through on
the “shoe phone.”
When his shoe phone rang,
junior Kyle Fried, a communica
tions studies major, contorted
himself to bring his foot as close as
possible to his ear.
“Who is on the phone?” Embry
asked Fried as he fought to balance
himself with his foot at his head.
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Stephanie Embry, a professional hypnotist who goes by the stage name of Medusa, asks volunteers to
play instruments in the Union Cabaret on Saturday night. The UNC Circle K group sponsored the show.
“The president,” Fried
answered.
“What does he want?” Embry
asked.
“I don’t know,” Fried replied,
pulling his shoe closer to his head.
“I can’t hear him very well.”
Volunteers said later that they
remembered everything they did
while hypnotized but that they
would not have acted without
Embry’s suggestions.
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that I know and love,” said sopho
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ASG to help plan politics program
Set to advise nonpartisan institute
BY LINDSEY NAYLOR
STAFF WRITER
A task force announced Saturday
by the UNC Association of Student
Governments has been charged
with planning anew summer
program for college students with
political aspirations.
The summer program will pro
vide a forum for potential politi
cal leaders, and the task force
will work with the Institute of
Political Leadership to work out
the details.
IOPL is a multipartisan, non
profit institution geared toward
training potential political leaders.
The institute runs a 10-weekend
fellows program that offers leader
ship and political training seminars
and activities.
Zack Wynne, president of the
ASG, said the institute approached
the group last summer for help in
forming a program for college stu
convinced by Embry that he was
“the man.”
“I lit a wad of bills on fire with my
imaginary lighter,” McLean said.
After the show, Sikipa the
fairy godmother said he did
not feel embarrassed as he tapped
audience members on the heads,
fulfilling their wishes.
“I felt really relaxed put it
that way,” Sikipa said. “I was really
chilled out and was willing to do
whatever she said.”
About 60 people witnessed the
show, which raised SSO for the
dents.
“IOPL is very nonpartisan,”
he said. “So we’ve put together a
committee that represents both
parties with people from all over
the state.”
The UNC task force members
include ASG Legislative Affairs Vice
President Ginny Franks, former
Campus Y Co-President Derwin
Dubose, Young Democrats Co
s Kris Gould and College
Republicans Chairman Jordan
Selleck, Franks said.
She said the ASG and its com
mittee will serve in an advising
role, providing input on student
interests.
Wynne said the institute, with
support from private donors,
hopes to begin an application pro
cess in the spring and the program
in June.
ASG members also discussed a
contest among the state’s colleges
that serves both to increase advo
cacy and to thin the number of del
egates on the group’s Washington,
D.C., trip to visit policy groups and
legislators.
The push to cut the trip’s size
came from concerns about costs
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Victory Junction Gang, a summer
camp program in Randleman that
provides special medical treatment
for chronically ill children.
UNC Circle K is working with
other Circle K groups from area
universities to raise funds for a dig
ital photography room and anew
cabin at the camp, Reed said.
“These are kids who wouldn’t
normally have the chance to go to
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and past organizational snafus.
“The trip we took last year was
logistically a nightmare,” Wynne
said.
This year’s trip will include only
delegates from the school with the
most points accumulated from
monthly contests.
In October, schools participated
in the National Call-in against the
Budget Reconciliation Act that
called for cuts in student aid. Franks
said jN.C. State University won the
contest with more than 200 calls.
“We were able to get over 500
phone calls from North Carolina,
which was the most from any state
in the country,” she said.
For November, the ASG worked
with the nonprofit, nonpartisan
lobbying organization Common
Cause to produce more than 500
thank you cards for legislators.
“That’s something that helps
us build our relationships and
reminds the legislators of the stu
dent presence,” Franks said.
Franks said the December con
test still is being planned. Contests
will run until February to deter
mine trip winners and promote
advocacy among N.C. colleges.
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Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.