VOLUME 114, ISSUE 61
EX-STUDENT ATTACKS SCHOOL
POLICE: MAN KILLED FATHER
BEFORE ATTACKING SCHOOL
IV TED STRONG
SENIOR WRITER
HILLSBOROUGH - A former
Orange High School student opened
fired on school grounds Wednesday
afternoon and was arrested on
charges of first-degree murder stem
ming from an earlier incident
Orange County Sheriff Lindy
Pendergrass said Alvaro Rafael
Castillo, 19, of 230 Lipps Lane,
shot his father at home before
heading to the school at about 1
p.m.
Castillo is being held in Orange
County Jail.
No serious injuries were report
ed at the school, though two stu
dents did sustain minor wounds.
School district spokeswoman
Anne D’Annunzio said the first
sign something was wrong came as
Castillo’s silver minivan sped past
the guard who sits at the entrance
to the student parking lot.
“It stopped up there by the patio,”
sophomore Jarrett Remington
said. ‘This guy jumped out, and
he started lighting fireworks or
flares, and then he just started
shooting.”
Students often sit on the patio,
which runs between two main halls
of the school, and eat their lunches.
A bullet grazed one female stu
dent’s shoulder, and flying glass
very slightly hurt a male student.
A home after the storm
BY JULIE TURKEWITZ
ASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR
The trio shows up regularly at
TXipelo’s, a Southem-and Creole
style bistro in Hillsborough. They
order gumbo or shrimp remou
lade and talk about home New
Orleans.
Tracy Carroll, co-owner of
Hipelo’s, doesn’t know their names
or even exactly where they’re from.
What she
knows is that
the husband,
wife and child
who frequent
her restaurant
are just a few
of the former
Gulf Coast residents who came to
North Carolina after Hurricane
Katrina —and decided to stay.
A year after the hurricane, the
largest pockets of families tossed
by Katrina’s winds into North
Carolina reside in the Wangle and
Charlotte.
They have joined churches,
enrolled in schools and transport
ed morsels of Crescent City culture
to the Tar Heel state.
The Federal Emergency
Management Agency received 5,037
applications from individuals, fami
lies and couples who gave an N.C.
address when requesting hurri
cane-related aid, according to Renee
Bowles delays tuition proposal
Four-year strategy
pushed to October
BY ELIZABETH DEORNELLAS
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
The much-awaited long-range tuition
proposal that UNC-system President
Erskine Bowles planned to present in
September will be kept under wraps for
another month.
The president was planning to present
his four-year tuition plan to the tuition pol
icy task force at its September meeting.
The proposal will determine the maxi
mum annual tuition increase that each
campus can request in the next four
years.
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The woman was treated and
released from a hospital, and
D’Annunzio said she saw the girl
talking and laughing after the
incident The other student wasn’t
transported to the hospital.
Remington said the shooter wore
a black trench coat and a bandana.
Two school resource officers saw
the man shooting, approached him
as he was firing and ordered him to
drop his weapon and handcuffed
him, according to a press release
from the Orange County Sheriff’s
Department.
Castillo then told officials he had
murdered his father, Rafael Huezo
Castillo, the release states.
Officials found two rifles with
Castillo, Pendergrass said.
Castillo had weapons, ammu
nition and homemade pipe bombs
inside the van, the release states.
The Durham County Sheriff’s
Office Bomb Squad was called to
take the bombs.
Police believe the crimes were
premeditated.
Pendergrass said charges stem
ming from the school incident
likely will follow today.
Castillo is scheduled to be in court
today for his first appearance.
As Castillo was led from the sher
iffs office to the squad car waiting
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Brian Battistella moved to Clayton after Hurricane Katrina and opened his dream restaurant
Louise's A Taste of Louisiana. Among the menu favorites are a variety of authentic po'boys.
Hoffman at the state Department of
Crime Control and Public Safety.
But it’s impossible to deter
mine the total number that came
through the state, she said. And
no one has tracked just how many
decided to stay.
There’s a reason for that, said
Seanyea Rains, coordinator for the
Durham Job Link Career Center’s
Katrina Project, which links former
Gulf Coast residents in the Triangle
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Tuition increases that fall short of
the maximum amount will be approved
automatically.
Charles Mercer, co-chairman of the
tuition policy task force, said he doubts
the committee will meet in September. “I
imagine we will postpone our meeting.”
Jim Phillips, chairman of the UNC
system Board of Governors, said that
Bowles has solicited a wide range of
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Alvaro Rafael Castillo is placed into a squad car Wednesday after driving to Orange High School and shooting at students. Castillo also is accused
of killing his father at his residence. No students were seriously injured, and Castillo will make his first appearance in court today in Hillsborough.
Evacuees in N.C.
The map illustrates the number of Hurricane Katrina and Rita
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UNC-system
President
Erskine Bowles
wanted more time
to consult leaders
from campuses at
all 16 schools.
opinions about his tuition plan and that
the president is delaying his proposal to
carefully consider all the advice he has
received.
“His feeling is that we’ve got one
chance to get this right,” Phillips said.
Hannah Gage, co-chairwoman of the
tuition policy task force, said Bowles want
ed to meet individually with all 32 board
members, as well as the chancellors.
“He wanted some more time so that he
could complete the process,” she said.
The president is seeking input on all
aspects of tuition policy, from financial
aid concerns to guidelines on allocat
ing money from tuition increases, Gage
said.
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Sports | page 15
FILLING HOLES
Two days before the season
is slated to kick off the Tar
Heels still have openings at
key positions after injuries
have plagued the team.
Sorority rush season
kicks off with a bang
BY KELLY GIEDRAITIS
STAFF WRITER
It’s official: Rush has begun.
Wednesday’s Panhellenic kick-off event
marked the occasion as nine hand-clap
ping, foot-stomping cheers introduced each
sorority to potential new members.
Despite having to trek through the rain
hundreds of students poured into the
Student Union’s Great Hall to learn more
about the rush process.
No seat was left empty, and even those
standing in the back had to cozy up with
Creek rush
Fridays.
About 600 potential new members
have signed up to participate in this fall’s
Panhellenic rush, said senior Sara Loges, a
recruitment counselor coordinator.
Both new and returning students attend
ed the event, eager to learn more about
Greek life.
“I wanted to find out what it’s like to be
Greek,” sophomore Sophia Estrada said.
She said that negative stereotypes of
sorority members discouraged her from
rushing last year but that now most of her
friends are in sororities.
“I think coming into Carolina I had no
interest in joining,” Estrada said. “But after
being here and seeing the girls it changed
my mind.”
Many said they hope to make long-last
ing friendships by joining a sorority or just
meet new people during the rush process.
“Everyone said it was a really good expe
rience,” freshman Amanda Leger said. “It’s
a way to meet new people and get really
good friends.”
Speakers at the event introduced nine
Panhellenic sororities on campus and
encouraged potential new members to get
excited about the rush experience.
They also explained that sororities are
about more than social outings and are
committed to completing philanthropy
projects.
After an informational slideshow and the
introduction of the sororities, rushees met
their neighbors.
The event allowed
rushees to learn more
about Panhellenic
sororities and to meet
the members of their
rush groups sets of
about 20 women who
tour houses and meet
sorority members on
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Senior Rachel Madsen tries to locate the
women in her recruitment group at an event
Wednesday in the Great Hall signaling the
beginning of rush season for sororities.
their recruitment counselors temporarily
unaffiliated sorority members who serve as
unbiased guides throughout the hectic rush
process.
In keeping with the enforcement of
the “no boys, no alcohol” rule for sorority
members during the rush period, the kick
off event which last year was held in
Fraternity Court relocated to the more
neutral territory of the Student Union, said
Lisa Foltz, president of the Panhellenic
Council.
The rule also will force sororities to focus
more on the potential new members’ per
sonalities rather than social encounters,
she said.
“In the past girls have complained that
they’ve not enough time to meet members,”
Foltz said. “We’re working to change that
this year.”
Sororities are working to promote Greek
life for everyone, not to recruit from certain
social cliques, Loges said.
“They’re trying to promote more the
chapter experience,” Loges said.
“It’s not about, ‘Oh, we’re the hottest girls
on campus, and we hang out with these
people.’”
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