VOLUME 113, ISSUE 125
A Broad legacy to define
3RD SYSTEM PRESIDENT STEPS DOWN
BY KAVITA PILLAI
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
Etched into the stone wall of the
rotunda at Syracuse University’s
Maxwell School of Citizenship and
Public Affairs is an Athenian oath
that has been a part of the UNC
system’s governing philosophy for
the past eight years.
“We will transmit this city not
only not less, but greater, better
and more beautiful than it was
transmitted to us,” it reads.
System President Molly Broad,
who will end her tenure Dec. 31,
was a freshman at Syracuse when
she first saw that quote. A copy of
it hangs on her office wall in the
General Administration building.
Reactions mixed
on impending
homecoming
BY ALLISON NICHOLS
STAFF WRITER
Going to college for the first time
is one of the biggest changes in a
person’s life. Often freshmen go
through an adjustment period of
several months before they become
acclimated to their new lives.
But for this year’s frosh origi
nally enrolled at Ttilane University,
that period will start all over again
next month.
After Hurricane Katrina hit
in late August, Tulane closed for
the fall semester, and its students
dispersed to various universities
across the country. North Carolina
residents were welcomed for a
semester at UNC.
“I really settled in here,” said
freshman Weston Davis, a Tulane
student from Durham. “I really
loved it.”
Many freshmen struggle with
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Freshman Weston Davis studies in his dorm room Thursday. Davis was
displaced from Tulane University after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.
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“It talks about striving for ideals,
a sense of public duty, reverence...
that’s my organizational philoso
phy” she says. “More than anything
else it has been to transmit this
university to my successor better
and stronger from my service.”
Broad’s eight years at the
helm of one the nation’s larg
est university systems has been
a fruitful one, and most would
say the growth and change on
the 16 campuses is evidence that
the new president will inherit a
healthy institution.
A tough act to follow
When Broad joined the UNC
homesickness. Even those who
handle the transition fairly well
still must learn to live in a whole
new environment. It often takes at
least a semester for life at college
to feel like home.
When Tulane freshmen begin
the process all over again, they
are not just living away from their
parents and hometowns, but they
also have to say goodbye to all the
friends they have made at UNC.
“It’s kind of sad, but I’m trying
to think of it less as leaving and
more-as-moving on” said Davis.
He added that he intends to
come back toUNC to visit friends.
Steve Farmer, directdr of UNC
undergraduate admissions, said
displaced students were told at
the beginning of the semester
that they would have to return
SEE RETURN, PAGE 6
END-OF-SEMESTER EXAM, LIBRARY AND DORM SCHEDULES
Exam schedule
Saturday
exam time class meets at
8 a.m. 8 a.m. MWF
noon 11 a.m. MWF
4 p.m. 4 p.m. MWF
Sunday
Reading Day
Monday
exam time class meets at
noon 1 p.m. MWF
4 p.m. 5 p.m. MWF
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COME WITH ME
Mr. UNC Matt Mullane and
various UNC groups continue
Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
Mullane will visit affected
areas during Winter Break.
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system in 1997, she faced an
uphill battle as the first non-
North Carolinian and woman to
lead the university.
But her administrative experi
ences at the Arizona and California
State university systems gave her
the skills she needed, she says.
“I came in with a lot of back
ground information and a clear
eyed view of the challenges that
the future would hold,” she says.
“It took a number of months get
ting to understand in detail the
University of North Carolina
before setting out goals.”
In her April 1998 inaugural
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Jaree and Maria Ellena Reeves pray before lunch at the IFC community kitchen Thursday. The pair come
for lunch and sometimes dinner. They also call an IFC shelter home for the night if the weather is cold.
Beds, second chance offered at downtown shelter
BY AARON KREMER
STAFF WRITER
The teenage faces of Mary
Jones, 20, and Casper Pierce, 18,
stand out as mostly middle-aged
black men congregate in the
cramped halls of the commu
nity house on a rainy December
evening.
The Inter-Faith Council for
Social Service opened the com
munity house homeless shelter
and soup kitchen in the former
Rosemary Street Chapel Hill
police station 20 years ago.
Half a dozen amputees in
wheelchairs always get first
access, and Saturday night was
no exception as they passed the
old clerk’s window and entered
Tuesday
exam time class meets at
8 a.m. 9:30 a.m. TR
noon 12:30 p.m. TR
4 p.m. 5p.m.TR
Wednesday
Reading Day
Thursday
exam time class meets at
noon 11 a.m.TR
4 p.m. 3:30 p.m. TR
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school basketball matchup.
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Waiters at Molly Broad’s farewell banquet in the Grand Ballroom at
the Carolina Inn on Wednesday night carry a painting dedicated to her.
the dining room —a white
walled rectangle with views of
downtown traffic.
Jones and Pierce went next,
filling brown compartmental
ized trays with pasta, vegetables
and pastries. The pair are the
youngest patrons today and two
of approximately six white per
sons in the room.
The food at the community
kitchen is nutritious and palat
able at its worst like cafeteria
fare, but at its best, it satisfies
like a home-cooked specialty.
“It gives us pleasure serving
people,” said Subu Darbha, a
Raleigh resident and data ana
lyst in Research Triangle Park,
as he handed out garlic bread.
8 a,m. (Thursday) for Foreign
Language Common Exams
Friday, Dec. 16
exam time class meets at
8 a.m. 10 a.m. MWF
noon 2 p.m. MWF
4 p.m. 3 p.m MWF
Saturday, Dec 17
exam time class meets at
8 a.m. Ba.m.TR
noon noon MWF
4 p.m. 2p.mTR
He and four fellow volunteers
purchased all the ingredients
from grocery stores and pre
pared the dishes on site, as they
do once a month.
The kitchen occasionally pur
chases food, but most is donat
ed, either from restaurants,
churches, hospital food drives
or by volunteers.
People in need of free meals
are hard to categorize, said
Chris Moran, executive director
of IFC.
Many are working, others are
chronically homeless and some
have mental illnesses. One vol
unteer noted that he has seen
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Library schedule
Davis Library
Today: 8 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m. to midnight
Sunday: 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Monday through Friday:
8 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Dec. 17:9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Dorms schedule
Dorms close
6 p.m. Dec. 17
SportS | page 13
CRUISIN' TOGETHER
The women's basketball team
improves its perfect record to
9-0 with a 87-50 thumping
of Wofford College at home
Thursday night.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2005
UNC ATHLETES
IN HOT WATER
Wide receiver Mike
Mason and wrestler
Drew Forshey, both
juniors, find themselves
in trouble with their
respective teams,
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Long
road to
become
citizen
BY GREGORIO URBINA
STAFF WRITER
University students expect
their degree to help secure their
financial and social futures. Few
think that external social, eco
nomic and political circumstances
could jeopardize their stability.
In 1990, Gulnara Trauco was
living in Peru with a pharmacy
degree from la Universidad
Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.
She owned a local pharmacy and
took care of three kids at home.
But her life was sharply dif
ferent from a typical American’s.
Her daughter was
escorted to school
by a professional
to prevent kidnap
ping. Terrorism
from the
Communist group
Grupo Sendero
Luminoso, or
Shining Path,
was peaking. She
received demands
for “protection
payments” to be
put in an envelope
under a bench in
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the market. Or else.
Even though there usually
weren’t explicit threats, she under
stood how far the group would go
to coerce payment.
“The threats were implicit,”
said Trauco. “But easily they could
be bomb threats.”
Even if she paid, she could
not be sure if it was terrorists or
opportunistic criminals.
Still, Trauco tried to provide her
children with a good upbringing.
In September 1990 she reward
ed Sarelli, her eldest daughter, for
good school marks with a trip
around the U.S. The vacation cul
minated in a visit to Sarelli’s grade
school friend in Monterrey, Calif.
Both left Peru expecting a fun
getaway.
“To tell you the truth, I had no
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Undergraduate Library
Today: open 24 hours
Saturday: closes at midnight
Sunday: opens at 10 a.m.
Monday through Dec. 16:
open 24 hours
Dec. 17: closes at 5 p.m.
Dorms reopen
9 a.m. Jan. 8
weather
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