VOLUME 114, ISSUE 6
SMITH REMEMBERED
FOR COMPASSION, DRIVE
Family, friends share stories of student who died in tragic accident
BY STEPHANIE NEWTON
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
GREENSBORO When family
members came to pick up belong
ings from Keith Shawn Smith’s
room following his third-floor fall
from Stacy Residence Hall last
week, they found something that
forever will encapsulate his drive.
It was a list, written in 2005, of
goals Smith had for his sophomore
year at UNC.
“Following God’s plan” was the
fourth bullet point.
As friends and family gathered
Wednesday afternoon at New
Zion Missionary Baptist Church in
Greensboro to pay their respects to
a life cut short, the motto of Smith’s
list “keep it moving” quickly
became a theme of his legacy for an
audience far exceeding the church’s
450-seat capacity.
“Keith Shawn Smith has already
preached his own funeral,” said the
Rev. William Wright, enumerating
the UNC student’s ambitions.
The list began with Smith’s
insistence that he always be “wor
kin’ on something,” followed by
an aim to make the dean’s list.
“Finding patience” and hoping to
“stack that cake” or invest his
money wisely preceded a final
desire to “hit the gym hard three
days a week.”
“That’s what holds me down,”
said Anthony Boulware, Smith’s
uncle. “He was a Christian man at
20 years old.”
After generating a reverberating
applause from the reiteration that
the young man died with no alco
hol in his system, Smith’s father,
Kenneth Boulware, addressed his
son for the last time.
The brevity of Smith’s life was no
reason for him to quit on his goals,
said Kenneth Boulware, giving
charge to a young man enveloped
in floral wreaths, a photo collage, a
Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon T
shirt signed by former co-workers
Council inundated
with budget pleas
BY TED STRONG
SENIOR WRITER
The Chapel Hill Town Council
heard wish lists from a number of
town advisory boards Wednesday
night.
Those lists will be considered,
along with a number of other crite
ria, as the town continues to shape
its budget for fiscal year 2006-07.
“All of these suggestions are
taken into consideration, but not
everything makes it into the final
budget,” Mayor Kevin Foy said.
“That’s what the process is about.”
Foy said the requests are a good
opportunity for the council to hear
different perspectives on its finan
cial priorities.
“It’s a good opportunity for the
council to hear from boards that
are more directly and frequently
involved with various aspects of
the services that we as an organi
zation deliver.”
On March 8, town staff will
show what the budget would look
like if every “halfway-reasonable”
request is met, said Town Manager
Cal Horton.
A forum will be held March
22 to garner input on the bud
get, which will take effect July 1.
In April town staff will be able to
provide the first look at what the
town’s tax rate will be next year.
Contact the City Editor
at dtydesk@unc.edu.
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been a judge in the county dis
trict court for 10 years.
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Sekou Sidibe, Keith Smith's best friend since high school and his freshman-year roommate, shares personal accounts of their friendship during
Smith's memorial service Wednesday at New Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Greensboro. Sidibe said Smith was a motivation in his life.
and a New York Yankees baseball
cap laid in his casket.
“You still got work to do,” he said.
“When you get there, don’t say that
you don’t want it.”
The message was echoed by stu
dents who addressed mourners to
verbalize an admiration of Smith’s
work ethic.
“Keith is the reason why I’m doing
so many things in my life right now,”
said UNC sophomore Sekou Sidibe,
Smith’s best friend from high school
and freshman-year roommate.
Sidibe reflected on an occasion
when he had a flat tire and Smith
COMMUNITY DESIGN COMMISSION
The commission asked the council to allow
“tasteful” advertising on the outside of town
buses, an idea that has been kicked around
for some time, and recommended a part-time
position for the planning department.
The commission also asked the council to
increase the fees it charges across the board. The
most notable recommendation was that the town
begin charging S3OO for concept plan reviews.
TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY BOARD
The town’s transportation board did not
have specific requests for the Town Council at
the meeting.
Instead, Eleanor Howe, the board’s chair
woman, said that the board still is working
through the myriad requests it has received to
determine which are most important.
“It is clear that the transportation system is
straining under the current demands,” she said.
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The commission asked for what board chair
man Jeff Cohen deemed “a modest increase”
in its budget, which would increase this year’s
bottom line from $150,000 to $185,000 next
year.
The funds would help continue the com
mission’s work, which includes managing the
town’s percent for art fund, expected to top $1.5
million, and a public sculpture project that has
placed artworks at various public locations,
SEE REQUESTS, PAGE 10
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came to his rescue less than 30
minutes after a 6 a.m. wake-up
call.
Smith’s friendship style was con
firmed more than once.
“He was willing to wake up at 8
a.m. on Friday and call me up, even
though he didn’t have any classes
on Friday,” said UNC sophomore
Tiffani Neal, Smith’s girlfriend.
The two spoke for the last time
at 11:30 p.m. Feb. 23, less than
an hour before the accident was
reported.
SEE SMITH, PAGE 10
Employees call for respect
BY NATE HUBBARD
STAFF WRITER
An e-mail discussing discipline issues
sent earlier this year to Facilities Services
leaders would have been a typical mes
sage.
But the e-mail referred to employees
as “children,” leading many employee
leaders to point to it is an example of
larger labor concerns.
“It reflects a certain disrespectful atti
tude by some supervisors,” said David
Brannigan, a groundskeeper and vice
chairman of the Employee Forum.
The e-mail, sent Jan. 30 from Joe
Emory, a maintenance superintendent,
told supervisors to “remind your chil
dren that someone is watching them and
it needs to stop,” referring to Facilities
State races attract few hopefuls
Many incumbets fail to attract competition
BY ERIN GIBSON
SENIOR WRITER
The 2007 N.C. General Assembly will
look a lot like the old one.
Sixteen candidates for the N.C.
Senate and 50 for the N.C. House of
Representatives will run unopposed in
the 2006 elections.
Ferrel Guillory, director of UNC’s
Program on Southern Politics, Media and
Public Life, said he’s not surprised.
“It’s been fairly common over the past
couple of decades,” he said. “When North
Carolina was a one-party state, it didn’t
have much competition at all in the gen-
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WEEK OF THANKS
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity Inc,
organizes a week full of
festivities, including dances
and a luncheon to honor
black women at UNC.
Keith Smith's parents, Gloria Smith and Kenneth Boulware, share
their final words face to face with Keith Shawn on Wednesday.
Services trucks being driven off campus
so employees could buy lunch.
Emory, who was unavailable for com
ment, sent an apology e-mail two days
later.
Both Brannigan and Chuck Brink,
an electrician and forum member, said
the frustration felt by the employees in
Facilities Services goes deeper than one
e-mail.
“So many things have been swept
under the rug with what management
does to employees,” Brink said, speak
ing as an employee and not in his official
forum capacity.
“This is the whitehead on the pimple,
if you will,” he said.
Brannigan said he thinks many of
the problems between supervisors and
eral election, but you would see it in pri
mary elections.”
There still is some competition within
the parties. Six Senate districts and 14
House districts have single-party com
petition.
One will be chosen during the primary
elections May 2 and will run unopposed
in November.
Two of Orange County’s three repre
sentatives, Democrat incumbents Bill
Faison and Verla Insko, will run for
re-election unopposed while Rep. Joe
Hackney, D-Orange, will run against
Alvin Reed, R-Chatham, for a seat in
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Moeser
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senior
purse
Will provide funds
for ‘welcome sign’
BY KELLY GIEDRAITIS
STAFF WRITER
Raising money for the senior
class gift usually involves a barrage
of calls to students and parents,
but this year anew name has been
added to the list Chancellor
James Moeser.
Senior class officers asked
Moeser to collaborate with them
in an effort to generate funds for a
welcome sign on McCorkle Place.
Moeser’s partnership with the
class marks the first time he has
become monetarily involved with
the senior class gift.
In an e-mail sent to seniors last
week, Moeser pledged his support
to help senior class officers reach
their goal of 35 percent participa
tion in raising $40,000.
SEE FUNDRAISING, PAGE 10
“We have places with
great relationships and
places with strained
relationships”
LAURIE CHAREST, UNC HUMAN RESOURCES
employees could be solved through
opportunities for employees to give
supervisor feedback.
“You can’t mandate respect but it
would at least let management be able to
find out if there are problems,” he said.
Brannigan said there is a double stan-
SEE EMPLOYEES, PAGE 10
District 54.
Sen. Elbe Kinnaird, D-Orange, will
campaign against E.B. Alston, R-Person,
for a seat in District 23.
The lack of party competition is not
symbolic of a lack of interest in state poli
tics, said David Mills, executive director
for the Common Sense Foundation, cit
ing ongoing attention to the lottery, edu
cation and lobbying.
“I think people still do care about state
politics,” Mills said. “They just find it hard
to run for state office.”
Guillory said that one of the main fac
tors contributing to the lack of competi
tion is redistricting every seven years by
SEE UNOPPOSED, PAGE 10
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