VOLUME 114, ISSUE 27
FARLEY
RETURNED
TO POST
Edges Gould to remain Speaker
BY MAC MOLLISON
STAFF WRITER
Student Congress members
chose a slate of new leaders in
a roller coaster opening session
meeting Thursday night.
Luke Farley won out over Kris
Gould to hold on to the position of
speaker amid contentious debate
that culminated in a 17-14 vote.
Gould was criticized for his treat
ment of fellow Young Democrats
who voted against him on a piece
of legislation last session.
“I myself was pulled out of a
meeting of Congress and intimi
dated as to why I voted a certain
way,” Rep. Caroline Spencer said.
Gould apologized for the inci
dent and said later in the meeting
that he doesn’t think partisan poli
tics should play a role in Congress.
“It wasn’t me trying to pressure
anyone on how to vote,” he said.
He promised not to endorse
candidates in campus elections
saying such support could cause
rifts between student government
branches.
He urged Farley to join him in
that stance.
“No, I won’t take that pledge,”
Farley said, standing behind legisla
tion passed in the 87th session ensur
ing that privilege for the speaker.
For his part, Farley was scruti
nized for a recent purge of graduate
students with poor attendance.
Representatives said the action
was out of line with Farley’s pledge
to retain graduate students in the
body by relaxing attendance rules.
“Whatever I’ve said was in line
with the (Student) Code,” Farley said.
“I don’t think you want a speaker
who plays around with the Code.”
He proposed several unique ini
tiatives, such as holding Congress
in the Pit and establishing a con
gressional endowment.
Before the vote, Rep. Dustin
Ingalls urged representatives not to
let affiliation with campus political
groups decide their votes.
“Traditional notions about par
tisan politics don’t matter,” he said
during a debate spanning about an
hour.
After the vote, which elicited
cheers from two observers outside
the room, Gould remained in high
spirits.
Farley rose to the front of
Peabody 08 to continue business
as usual after the vote.
“I feel fine,” Gould said with a
smile during a session break.
He decided not to oppose Ingalls
for the position of speaker pro tern
the North Campus representative
was selected with little discussion.
SEE LEADERSHIP, PAGE 5
Committees to be scrapped
Mayor proposes
rearrangement
BY JESSICA SCHONBERG
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
The same day a University
advisory committee for Carolina
North convened for the second
time, a town group with a simi
lar charge heard that it could be
disbanded.
Different ways to conceptual
ize guiding principles for devel
opment were laid on the table
Thursday at the second meeting
of the Carolina North leadership
advisory council.
The committee is charged with
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Congress cements
term leadership
At Student Congress' Thursday
meeting, representatives elected
leadership for the coming
yearlong session.
Congress Speaker
Presides over
Congress and
serves as an
ex-officio
member on
each committee
Luke Farley
Speaker pro tem
Assists speaker and serves as an
ex-officio member of each
committee; in charge of outreach
to student body
Dustin Ingalls
Rules and judiciary
committee
Reviews legislation dealing with
the Code and nominees for high
level executive and judicial branch
positions.
Caroline Spencer,
chairwoman
Quentin Ruiz-Esparza, Adam
Farag, Pablo Friedmann,
Tyler Gamble, John Michalak,
Megan Paul, Joyce Pope and
Kate Thompson
Finance committee
Reviews appropriations requests
for student fee allocations
submitted by student groups.
Val Tenyotkin, chairman
Aja Barretto, LaToya Evans,
Kris Gould, Christopher
Helms, Jordan Myers, Mark
Peppers, Bayard Stringer and
Tiffany Waddell
Student affairs
committee
Reviews all other legislation and
considers low-level
executive external appointments
(such as general resolutions made
by Congress)
Tyler Younts, chairman
Koreena Bobo, Tyson Grinstead,
Charissa Lloyd, Cindy Plante;
Layne Powers, Brian Troutman
and Katherine Willett
developing guiding design prin
ciples for Carolina North the
University’s proposed satellite
campus.
Before the meeting a memo
was circulated by Chapel Hill
Mayor Kevin Foy stating that he
will petition the Town Council on
April 10 to disband the Horace
Williams citizens committee,
as well as the town’s technology
committee.
He stated that the committees
have fulfilled their charges..
Chapel Hill Town Manager Cal
Horton presented on behalf of the
citizens committee Thursday.
The town has adopted the
committee’s report on the Horace
Williams property as Chapel Hill
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FIRST THING FIRST
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Board of Education approves
a delay to the First School, a
progressive K-3 school, at its
Thursday meeting.
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policy.
“The committee would be a
great resource for the town to
have on hand to evaluate what the
University is putting forth,” said
an upset Will Raymond, who sits
on the citizens committee.
Representatives of the Carrboro
Board of Aldermen, University
and Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Chamber of Commerce presented
their own sets of principles to the
council Thursday.
Development principles varied,
with the representatives keeping
the interests of their own constit
uents at the forefront
The next step for the leadership
SEE PLANNING, PAGE 5
Council discusses strained community relations
BY LINDSEY NAYLOR
STAFF WRITER
DURHAM The Durham
City Council met Thursday to
discuss the town-gown tensions
brewing in wake of the March 13
rape allegations against mem
bers of the Duke University men’s
lacrosse team.
Council members expressed
concern that the national public
ity stirred by the incident has cast
the town in an unflattering light.
“It’s unfortunate that the city
of Durham, in my opinion, has
been victimized by what has
happened, coast to coast,” council
member Howard Clement said.
The alleged rape occurred in a
Durham neighborhood popular
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HE’S LIBERAL ENOUGH
Franken brings political show back to campus today
BY MARGARET HAIR
SENIOR WRITER
After 15 years writing sketch
es for Saturday Night Live, A1
Franken was ready to enter the
realm of politics.
He was prepared to publicly
comment on presidential missteps
and the spin of what he calls the
right-wing media.
He was set to call Rush
Limbaugh a big, fat idiot.
Author of “Rush Limbaugh
is a Big Fat Idiot” and “Lies and
the Lying Liars Who Tell Them:
A Fair and Balanced Look at the
Right,” Franken, now a radio talk
show host, has made a name for
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BLOWING IN
The Tar Heel baseball team
heads to ACC rival and
national powerhouse Miami
for a weekend series that will
prove pivotal for rankings.
with Duke students for off-cam
pus housing. The black woman,
hired as an exotic dancer, said
she was harassed and raped in
the house of three lacrosse team
captains, who since have moved.
University officials bought 15
rental properties in the area ear
lier this year, further pushing pre
dominately student housing into
the surrounding community.
Council members expressed
concern that such sites often
are incubators for partying and
underage drinking.
“In my opinion, when you have
that type of environment, it’s a
breeding ground for trouble,”
council member Thomas Stith
said.
Veteran SNL
writer and
political activist
Al Franken
returns to UNC
for his radio
program.
himself by providing commentary
on conservative spin.
“Talk radio was really a mono
lith of conservative talk,” he said.
“I felt somebody really had to
enter the fray and start doing lib
eral talk or progressive talk.”
Franken comedy writer, polit
ical satirist and creator of “Daily
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Five students are arrested
as the deadline passes for
them to remove a Polk Place
"shanty town" set up
to protest apartheid.
FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 2006
Kent Barrett, associate direc
tor of public and media rela
tions for the National Collegiate
Athletic Association, said all
allegations should be addressed
at the local level because NCAA
bylaws do not cover cases outside
the classroom and playing field.
No charges have yet been filed,
and the results of DNA tests con
ducted on 46 of 47 team members
by the State Bureau of Investigation
have not been released.
Many see Wednesday’s resig
nation of Coach Mike Pressler
and the cancellation of the team’s
season as significant steps toward
allaying the bitter rancor in the
SEE TOWN REACTS, PAGE 5
Judas
gospel
to alter
views
Jesus requested
deed, scholars say
BY DEBORAH NEFFA
STAFF WRITER
The infamous apostle known for
betraying Jesus with a kiss now has
a 1,700-year-old alibi that some say
will exonerate him.
The Gospel of Judas Iscariot,
recently restored and translated 30
years after it was discovered, states
that Jesus asked
Judas to betray
him.
The gospel’s
text was revealed
in a news confer
ence Thursday
at the National
Geographic
headquarters
in Washington,
D.C.
A TV special
detailing the gos
pel which the
experts called
Professor Bart
Ehrman said
the gospel
paints Judas in
a different light.
“the greatest discovery in the past 60
years” will air at 8 p.m. Sunday on
the National Geographic Channel.
“This gospel portrays the act as the
greatest thing that Judas could do for
Jesus,” said Bart Ehrman, chairman
of UNC’s Department of Religious
Studies, at the news conference.
Ehrman is on a team of archeo
logical experts hired to translate and
authenticate the text.
SEE JUDAS, PAGE 5
Affirmations with Stuart Smalley”
will bring his brand of progres
sive talk radio to campus today.
His program, “The Al Franken
Show,” which he said addresses
topics such as economic justice and
the separation of church and state,
will be broadcast live over the Air
America network from the Union
Auditorium from noon to 3 p.m.
In keeping with the show’s
usual format, Franken said he
plans to talk politics with people
from the community including
Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy.
The broadcast is co-sponsored
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