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Brian Dewer personalizes letter templates Thursday to be sent to
the Board of Trustees concerning graduate student tuition hikes.
Applicant pool
leaves board
feeling floored
Aldermen to discuss seat Jan. 31
BY TED STRONG
SENIOR WRITER
It was a long, long night for the
Carrboro Board of Aldermen on
Thursday, as members interviewed
all 12 applicants for a lone vacancy
on the board.
By the end of the meeting,
Mayor Mark Chilton who served
as moderator was having a hard
time remembering which appli
cants already had answered.
But the aldermen clearly were
wowed by the quality of the
responses they received.
“I am so moved right now that
I could almost cry” said Alderman
Jacquelyn Gist. “I’ve never been
prouder or more in love with my
town than I am now.”
“I will always thank God that I
live in Carrboro,” she added.
The answers came during a
protracted process that involved
splitting the would-be aldermen
into three groups of four.
The board asked that applicants
who had not yet been questioned
leave the room voluntarily to give
each slate equal time to prepare.
Then, each alderman asked a
question, and each of the candi
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Carrboro Board of Aldermen members listen to the final group of
candidates applying for the board's vacant seat at a hearing Thursday.
Farmer harvests seeds of renewal
Pooling money
for return home
BY EMILY FISHER
ASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR
There’s a rap on the door of a
nondescript Carrboro apartment. A
friendly Hispanic man fumbles for
the lock, enveloped in darkness.
A few mumbled Spanglish words
later, the dark face and angular jaw of
Francis Anim appears nsxt to him.
“We haven’t been able to pay some
of our bills let’s go to Burger King
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answer.
Asa result, members of the
same subgroup tended to answer
questions similarly, often referring
back to one another’s statements.
The aldermen’s questions
focused on the balance between
ideals and practical necessity;
the ability to forge compromise;
the key traits of leadership and
good governance; and how to
address a possible cultural divide
in Carrboro.
Answers tended to be uniform
on some issues and divergent on
others.
Some applicants spoke on a
variety of divides in town, while
one candidates denied that such
schisms exist.
“I think there are differences,
and there will always be differ
ences, and the question is how do
you keep differences from becom
ing divides, and then what do you
do if they do become divides?” said
applicant Dan Coleman, who said
Carrboro has not yet formed those
divides.
SEE INTERVIEWS, PAGE 5
and talk instead,” Anim says of the
apartment’s lack of power, his wide
smile showing the slight gap in his
teeth.
The 35-year-old Anim speaks with
the unflinching optimism of someone
much younger —and someone for
whom circumstances aren’t so dire.
Seated in a booth at the nearby
fast-food chain, he tells a story that
holds ironic weight Anim is an
organic farmer in his home country,
Ghana.
In November 2004, his 10-acre
farm, consisting of mostly mangoes,
was destroyed in a wildfire.
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Grad students speak up
TUITION PROPOSALS PROMPT
LETTER-WRITING CAMPAIGN
BT NATHAN HEWITT
STAFF WRITER
Graduate students have com
plained perennially that their
voices aren’t heard in campus
administrative decisions.
Now they’re giving the written
word a chance to effect change.
Graduate students, concerned
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Ernest Green, a civil rights activist and member of “The Little Rock 9,” talks about Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy Thursday night in the
Great Hall. Green discussed racial issues as they exist in modern times, and the need for education and economic issues facing blacks.
BEDROCK OF FIGHT
REMAINS SAME
BY SHANNON CONNELL
STAFF WRITER
Carrying Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream
into the 21st century, Ernest Green
—a pioneer of civil rights and deseg
regation addressed UNC students
Thursday night about King’s legacy and racial
issues in today’s society.
“We all have the opportunity to take charge of
the course of events. They may not be as monu
mental as Rosa Parks giving up her seat,” said
Green, who was on the forefront of the Civil
Rights Movement as one of the first black stu
dents to enter Central High School in Little
Rock, Ark.
“There are a lot of ways to be a revolutionary in
this country,” he told a crowd of about 250.
In May 2005, he pooled enough
money to come to North Carolina,
where his goal is to save $7,000
to bring home in May. It will be
enough to buy a used truck to trans
port manure and other goods for his
rebuilt farm.
He is an “akwafo,” or the word for
farmer in his native language, Krobo.
He speaks almost perfect English it’s
the national language of Ghana, and
he’s been studying it his whole life.
“I just want people to know of my
presence in the community,” he says.
This is Anim’s third trip to the
United States; it was during his first
about proposed tuition hikes,
penned about 100 letters and e
mails this week in an attempt to
sway decision makers.
“It’s something that was initi
ated by grad students who were
alarmed and upset about the
way the tuition proposals have
been handled,” said Mike Brady,
visit in 1994 that he learned organic
farming techniques in Bear Creek, a
town south of Pittsboro. The trip was
sponsored by the Mennonite Central
Committee, a church of which he is
a member.
During his six-month apprentice
ship at Sustenance Farm, he practiced
the general principles of organic farm
ing: using natural means of fertility,
disease and pest control which
means no synthetic chemicals.
Harvey Harman helps run the
farm and fondly remembers Anim
SEE MANGO FARMER, PAGE 5
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Tar Heels drop second straight
ACC game with tough 72-68
loss to UVa. Thursday.
Youth-laden team commits
14 turnovers, fades late.
president of the Graduate and
Professional Student Federation.
GPSF members said they want
to see a fair increase for gradu
ate and undergraduate students
when the UNC Board ofTrustees
meets Thursday to discuss tuition
options for next year.
Trustees will consider four plans
for graduate tuition hikes rang
ing from a S3OO to SSOO increase
for residents, and between SSOO
and SBOO for nonresidents.
The letters state an opposi-
Green was younger than almost
all of the audience when he became
an icon. In 1957 Green, 17 years old
at the time, was one of nine black
students escorted into the school
by federally ordered paratroops
sent to enforce integration.
He faced angry mobs of con
cerned residents and the might
of then-Arkansas Governor Orval
Faubus, who ordered the state’s
National Guard to prevent the black
students from entering the school.
“Ernest Green was one of the
foot soldiers. He was actually there
being the person desegregating,”
said Timothy McMillan, a profes
sor in the department of African
and Afro-American studies.
“‘Lessons from Little Rock in
Achieving the Dream’ is part of
Martin Luther King’s idea the
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Francis Anim, an organic mango farmer from Ghana, talks
of the circumstances that brought him to the United States.
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Three top student government
officials, including SBP Bill
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$184,443 in surplus funds
from the student council.
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tion to three of the four options
because they include a larger
increase for graduates than for
undergraduates.
The graduate students are urg
ing the trustees to back the only
option with a flat raise S3OO
for all residents and SBOO for all
nonresidents.
Ben White, a graduate student
of philosophy, wrote his letter
Thursday afternoon.
SEE GRAD LETTERS, PAGE 5
dream of integration and equal
opportunity,” McMillan said of
Green’s speech.
Green linked the past struggle
against discrimination with pres
ent racial issues.
He said re-segregation has
emerged in contemporary society
the side effects drawing a schism
between the races in achievement.
“Schools are as segregated today
as in the time of Dr. King’s death in
’68,” he said.
“This is still a very stratified soci
ety,” he said. “Employment opportu
nities are still far from equitable.”
Green also identified the need
for better education, improved eco
nomic development and political
activeness among black Americans
SEE GREEN, PAGE 5
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