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ARTS BRIEF
UNC professor to perform
in European play premiere
Play Makers Repertory Company
announced Monday that resident
artist and UNC professor Ray Dooley
soon will take his talents on die road,
traveling to Vienna’s English Theatre
in Vienna, Austria.
Dooley will play Father Flynn
in the European premiere of John
Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize
and Tony Award-winner “Doubt:
A Parable,” directed by Martin L.
Platt. Performances begin in Vienna
on Jan. 30 and end March 11.
CAIipUS BRIEFS
Scientists catalog molecule
that affects prostate cancer
UNC scientists in the UNC
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer
Center have identified a molecule
that stimulates the aggressive
growth of prostate cancer.
The study indicates the mol
ecule, Ackl, could be a potential
target for developing novel drugs
against prostate cancer.
Tests of Ackl demonstrate the
effect of more rapidly growing
tumors in experimental systems.
The study also found that Ackl
activity can be inhibited through
interference with its molecular
interactions, which means the
study offers a target for treatment.
The senior author of the study
is Dr. Shelton Earp, director of the
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive
Cancer Center, Lineberger profes
sor of cancer research and a profes
sor of pharmacology and medicine.
Glazier, Gell speak about
N.C.'s need for moratorium
Rep. Rick Glazier, D-Cumberland,
and Alan Gell spoke to the UNC
Young Democrats on Monday night
about the need for a death penalty
moratorium in North Carolina.
Gell told the room full of students
about his experience as a wrongfully
accused murderer on death row and
about his many trials and tribula
tions on the road to freedom.
Asa former defense attorney,
Glazier was able to offer the law
yer's view of capital murder cases.
Both men stressed the importance
of a moratorium until the flaws in the
system can be resolved. They asked
the students for help and support.
CITY BRIEFS
Nelson declares Saturday
will be 'Bolin Creek Day'
Carrboro Mayor Mike Nelson
has proclaimed Saturday “Bolin
Creek Day” in the town.
The day will coincide with a
fundraiser held by Friends of the
Bolin Creek at Townsend and
Bertram Adventure Outfitters,
which will begin at 5:30 p.m.
The event will mark one of
Nelson’s last official acts as mayor
as his term expires in December.
STATE S NATION
Highway patrol trooper shot
Monday, in critical condition
FAYETTEVILLE - A state
Highway Patrol trooper was shot
several times Monday morn
ing when he stopped a vehicle
on Interstate 95 in Cumberland
County, authorities said.
Trooper J.C. Horniak, 30, was
in critical condition at Cape Fear
Valley Medical Center, Lt. Everett
Clendenin said.
He was shot a total of three or
four times in the leg, abdomen and
shoulder during the stop at about
10:15 a.m. within the city limits of
Fayetteville, Clendenin said. He
didn’t fire his own weapon.
Horniak, a nearly six-year vet
eran of the patrol, was wearing a
bulletproof vest, Clendenin said.
Cumberland County sheriff’s
deputies said they arrested Marvin
Bell Johnson, 40, of Richmond,
Va., and charged him with assault
with a deadly weapon inflicting
serious injury with intent to kill,
attempted murder and assault on
a government official.
A woman with Johnson, Nichelle
Steel, 21, of Gardin, S.C., also was
being questioned in the shooting.
Calif, representative pleads
guilty to fraud and resigns
SAN DIEGO - Rep. Randy
“Duke” Cunningham, an eight-term
congressman and hotshot Vietnam
War fighter jock, pleaded guilty to
graft and tearfully resigned Monday,
admitting he took $2.4 million in
bribes from defense contractors to
steer business their way.
He could get up to 10 years in
prison at sentencing Feb. 27 on fed
eral charges of conspiracy to commit
bribery and fraud, and tax evasion.
Investigators said Cunningham, a
member of a House Appropriations
subcommittee that controls defense
dollar's, secured contracts worth tens
of millions of dollars for those who
paid him off. Prosecutors did not
identify the defense contractors.
From staff and wire reports.
UNC students linked by erudite feats
Earn Rhodes, Marshall scholarships
BY LAUREN BERRY
STAFF WRITER
While Jud Campbell has his
future set on conflict in Israel,
Kate Harris has her eyes toward
the sky.
Despite the distinct directions
the two plan to take, both seniors
have received prestigious scholar
ships to help them along their way.
Harris was one of 11 schol
ars awarded the 2006 Rhodes
Scholarship in Canada and
Campbell was one of 43 col
lege seniors chosen for the 2006
Marshall Scholarship.
Harris, an Ontario native, will
use her scholarship to attend
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the new southern Orange County senior center to be built off Homestead Road will be named for The Rev. Robert and Pearl Seymour.
HONOR EVOKES
A SENIOR MOMENT
BY ANTONIO VELARDE
STAFF WRITER
When the honor finally was revealed to
them, the Rev. Robert E. Seymour and his
wife, Pearl Seymour, were more than a little
surprised.
Especially Robert Seymour, who could
think of only one thing: “I was supposed to
be deceased.”
While many buildings are named after
deceased persons, anew senior center to
be built in southern Orange County was
recently named after the very-much alive
Seymours to mark Robert Seymour’s tireless
work on the center and the couple’s more
than 40 years of community service.
The center, which will be built on the
Southern Human Services Center site at
2501 Homestead Road, in Chapel Hill, hon
ors a couple whose activism in the commu
Exhibit renews campus conflict
Group advocates
for worker rights
BY ROBBY MARSHALL
STAFF WRITER
Student protesters did not waver
in the face of threats of police arrest
and Honor Code violations Monday
in a call on the University and its
food service subcontractors to end
alleged intimidation and harass
ment of food service employees.
Members of Student Action with
Workers displayed inside the main
entrance of Lenoir Dining Hall
a standing cardboard timeline
advertising past protests, strikes
and breakthroughs of University
employees with newspaper clip
pings and copied photographs.
“We demand ... the University
affirms the right of workers to
democratically organize unions by
a method of their own choosing,”
SAWs public flier declared.
The display caused an imme
diate reaction from officials of
Aramark the private corporation
that administers the dining halls in
cooperation with the University.
“Aramark has been anti-demo
cratically denying workers’ rights,”
said Mike Hachey, a SAW member
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Oxford University in England for
two years following her December
graduation.
Campbell will attend the London
School of Economics and Political
Science, earning master’s degrees
in international relations and
political theory.
Both students boast a long list of
recognitions since coming to UNC,
including grade point averages
nearing 4.0 and inductions into
Phi Beta Kappa, a national honor
society for the liberal arts.
Harris said her lifelong interest in
the possibility of life on other planets
led her to apply for the scholarship.
Specifically, she wants to work
nity since their arrival in 1959 extends from
the civil rights movement to senior issues.
“I think it’s a very worthwhile record of
what the Seymours have meant to Chapel
Hill over the past 40, 45 years,” said Roy
Brock, president of The Friends of the
Chapel Hill Senior Center.
Sitting in their parlor in Carol Woods
Retirement Community one chilly Friday
afternoon, Robert Seymour, 80, and Pearl
Seymour, 78, discussed their life in Chapel
Hill and their work on the senior center, a
labor of love, especially for Robert Seymour.
“Well, I’m very pleased that at last it’s
happened,” said Robert Seymour, who after
1988 began campaigning for anew facility
to replace the current Chapel Hill Senior
Center on South Elliott Road.
Recently retired from a pastorship at
Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church,
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Sophomore Clarisse Rodriguez examines photos of pro-union protests in
an exhibit by Student Action with Workers at Lenoir Dining Hall on Monday.
and senior international studies
major, who handed fliers to pass
ers-by.
Less than hour after the dis
play went up, Margaret Jablonski,
vice chancellor for student affairs,
called for an immediate meeting
with members from SAW.
She expressed her willingness to
Kate Harris
wants to pursue
her interest in
the possibility
of there being
life on other
planets.
with Oxford scientist Martin
Brasier, known for his work on the
Earth’s earliest life forms.
“I want to work with him to
develop my skills and learn more
about simply what is life and what
is not life,” Harris said.
She said she hopes to explore the
possibility of life on other planets
as part of a future NASA mission
to Mars.
“As long as I can remember I’ve
he noticed that the current center was too
small and only frequented by seniors in its
immediate neighborhood.
He said the new center, a 25,000-square
foot facility with everything from a comput
er lab to a 100-seat theater, is meant to be “a
nerve center for services for seniors.”
Pearl Seymour said the center brings atten
tion to an important issue. “Well, I think it’s
brought a focus to retirement,” she said.
But for the Seymours, living in Chapel
Hill for more than 40 years has meant more
than just a senior center.
Robert Seymour helped to found such local
organizations as the Inter-Faith Council and
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty.
In addition to serving on myriad commit
tees and boards such as the advisory board to
SEE SEYMOURS, PAGE 7
work and comply with the group,
but she also made clear that the
display must be taken down within
half an hour because of violations
with the facilities-use policy.
The policy states that student
groups such as SAW must sched-
SEE EXHIBIT, PAGE 7
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2005
been fascinated with the idea of
aliens,” she said. “Space exploration
is the way to figure that out.”
Harris, a Morehead scholar,
has traveled the globe conducting
research.
Her work has taken her as far
as Antarctica, where last January
she collected and analyzed sam
ples of surface water to identify
the source.
Harris said she went to
Antarctica because its environ
ment is similar to what she expects
on Mars.
“Antarctica is the most alien
place on the planet, where the nor
mal measures and standards that
tell you you are on Earth are gone,”
she said.
After her studies at Oxford,
Depth of religious
fervor uncertain
BY EMILY FISHER
STAFF WRITER
Brought up by his parents in the
Pentecostal church in Murphy, junior
Matthew Wright took a seldom-trod
path as a college freshman.
Amid the social mayhem that
characterizes the freshman expe-
rience, he was
confirmed in
a Chapel Hill
Episcopal
church.
Wright is a
notable excep
tion to the rule
among college
students, who
some experts
say often stow
Spirituality
REVIVAL
Wednesday:
Spiritual diversity
among students
at the University
religious questions away until after
graduation.
Seated at a wooden table in a
cozy hall of Chapel of the Cross
on Franklin Street, Wright joined
students from a cross-section of
campus religious groups as they
discussed the usual the dreary
weather, creeping exams and week
end happenings.
“It was due ...to the
amazing professors
I’ve had at Carolina
that I’ve gotten
where I am today.”
JUD CAMPBELL, MARSHALL SCHOLAR
Harris plans to return to North
America, where she will pursue a
doctorate degree in microbial life
in the Arctic.
In contrast to Harris’ space
ambitions, Campbell said he hopes
to employ the resources of interna
tional law and social justice to help
SEE SCHOLARS, PAGE 7
GOP
divided
on own
leader
Disputes recent
endorsement pick
BY ERIN FRANCE
STAFF WRITER
A decision by the N.C.
Republican Party to work actively
to oust House Speaker Pro Tern
Richard Morgan, R-Moore, from
his seat has emphasized the split
among state Republicans.
Joe Boylan, a small-busi
ness owner who will run against
Morgan in the 2006 primaries,
said the N.C. Republican Party
will support his campaign against
Morgan.
He is cur
rently the only
Republican
candidate run
ning against
Morgan.
“They are
authorized to
send money my
way,” Boylan
said, though he
has not received
any donations as
of yet. “Now I’ve
got moral sup
port, but that
Speaker Pro
Tem Richard
Morgan's
job performance
is being debated
doesn’t buy any posters.”
Boylan said Morgan has done
a poor job representing the
people of Moore County and the
Republican Party.
He said Morgan is too focused
on pleasing the Democrats rather
than his constituents.
“I wouldn’t run against him if
I didn’t think I couldn’t win,” he
said.
But there are several residents
of Moore County who feel the N.C.
Republican Party has betrayed
Morgan.
Ted and Beverly Shebs, who are
both retired, said they strongly
support Morgan and attribute
his conflict with the state party
to a personal disagreement with
a Republican leader a few years
ago.
SEE PARTY SPLIT, PAGE 7
Indicators of
students'
religiousness
entering freshmen in 2003
79% believe in God
69% pray
81% attend religious
services occasionally or
frequently
40% follow religious
teachings in everyday life
SOURCE: UCLA
They also talked God.
A diversity of opinions about
Him, whomever He might be, was
represented by students from the
Interfaith Alliance, which held its
second annual progressive dinner
last week. They ate appetizers at
SEE COLLEGE EFFECTS, PAGE 7
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