VOLUME 114, ISSUE 64
Moeser readies annual address
BY WHITNEY KISLING
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Six years ago Chancellor James
Moeser started a tradition when
he issued the first State of the
University address, and today he
still pens it himself.
“It certainly helps me to focus
where I want to lead this University
over the year,” Moeser said.
The sixth annual address, to be
held at 3 p.m. today in the Great
Hall of the Student Union, will give
Moeser a way to engage the commu
nity and detail University projects.
Some of the topics he will cover
are graduation rates, research, state
engagement and globalization.
In years past, Moeser has used the
address to make major announce
ments. In 2003 he introduced the
Carolina Covenant program— an
Tuition
talks
fire out
of gate
Task force lays
initial foundation
BY ERIN ZUREICK
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The tuition advisory task force
began to lay the groundwork
Hiesday for this year’s talks.
The initial meeting focused on
briefing task
members
about policy
background
and history
the tough work
of pinpointing
specific num
bers won’t begin
until later this
month.
Provost
Bernadette
Gray-Little, co
chairwoman of
the task force,
began the
Bernadette
Gray-Little
reminded the
task force of its
lofty charge.
meeting by instructing members
about their dual responsibilities: to
balance the economic impact hikes
have on students and to ensure that
UNC’s academic quality continues
to improve.
“It’s a very important process
and important task,” she said.
The group, which will have to
adapt to any restrictions or guide
lines handed down by the UNC
system Board of Governors, got its
first taste Tuesday of what it might
be up against.
SEE TUITION, PAGE 6
Shooting heroes honored
BY RACHEL ULLRICH
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
“I don’t usually get to intro
duce heroes,” county spokes
woman Anne D’Annunzio said
at an Orange County Board of
Education meeting Tuesday.
This meeting was an exception,
she said.
At the beginning of the meet
ing she recognized four men from
Orange County who exhibited
exemplary efforts in response to
last week’s shooting at Orange
High School.
Deputy London Ivey, former
state trooper Russell Leßlanc,
SEE HEROES, PAGE 6
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Chancellor
James Moeser
will talk about
graduation
rates, research,
globalization
and service.
initiative that allows low-income
students to graduate debt-free.
Moeser declined to say whether
he will make any similar revela
tions during today’s address.
Joe Templeton, the faculty
chairman, said the speech helps
set a tone for the year.
“I think that... at an institution
the size of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, the tone is
set from the top,” he said. “We kind
of need some big common targets
VICTIM GETS DAY OF JUSTICE
BY TED STRONG SENIOR WRITER
The man who drove onto a Carrboro sidewalk, injur
ing a blind woman and killing her Seeing Eye dog
was sentenced Wednesday to four months in prison
for driving while impaired.
After hitting the two on Oct. 5, Stephen Coffee, a former
employee of Chapel Hill bar He’s Not Here who had been out
all night drinking, drove home.
Judge Orlando Hudson Jr. also imposed a
concurrent 45-day sentence on Coffee, of
Carrboro, for after-hours drinking and two
years of parole with a suspended six- to eight
month sentence for the actual hit-and-run, a
felony.
“I think his actions require some sort of
active sentence,” Hudson said.
Hudson also ordered Coffee to pay restitu-
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tion to Danielle “Aoife” Iredale, the woman Coffee hit.
Coffee pled guilty on all counts.
The judge also denounced Coffee for topping off his bundle
of misdemeanors with a felony by turning the accident into
a hit-and-run.
“Bad judgement continued, obviously, when you left the
scene, and that’s why you ended up with a felony,” Hudson
said.
Before the sentencing, Iredale
spoke about the impact the acci
dent had on her.
She said she sustained several
physical injuries, including a bro
ken leg, along with bleeding inside
her skull that caused some brain
damage.
She also said she suffered short
term memory loss and other brain
difficulties, including problems
understanding language.
“People would talk to me, and
I could understand the words,
but I wasn’t able to translate that
into anything meaningful,” Iredale
said.
Iredale, who was struck at a
bus stop on BPW Club Road, said
that some of the ill effects faded
but that others, such as post traii
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Board Chairman Dennis Whitling presents an award to Orange County
Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass to honor the swift response to the shooting.
inside
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that everyone can agree on.”
Graduation rates have become a
hot topic recently, and Moeser said
he plans to address the issue.
“The Board of TVustees has been
focusing a lot on graduation rates,”
he said. “I’m going to be much
more specific in targets.”
University officials hope to
increase graduation rates and will
present a report that details meth
ods to improve retention to the
board later this semester.
They also are considering a
policy change in which students
would have to petition UNC to take
a ninth semester of classes.
The progress of the Task Force on
Engagement with North Carolina
which was announced at last
year’s address also will be noted.
The task force focuses on three
matic stress disorder and clinical
depression, have been harder to
shed.
She said the accident signifi
cantly undermined her faith in the
world she must navigate.
“I really never thought about the
underlying risk of being a blind
person travelling on a daily basis,”
she said.
“The hit-and-run shattered that
trust.”
During her testimony, Iredale
said she had trouble finding a job
or doing anything beyond baseline
functions because of hardships
brought on by the accident.
She finished her testimony with
a poem she wrote about Inka, her
SEE COFFEE, PAGE 6
Sports | page 13
STICKING IT TO THEM
UNC field hockey team
disposes of Davidson in a 2-0
shutout, but both players and
Coach Karen Shelton said
improvement is needed.
ATTEND THE SPEECH
Time: 3 p.m.
Date: Today
Location: Great Hall of the Student
Union
aspects of University-state rela
tions: K-12 education, health care
and the economy.
“What we’re looking at is how
does this three-fold mission fit into
a way in which we are engaged as a
University with the state of North
Carolina or the world,” said Kevin
Fitz Gerald, special assistant to the
chancellor and a member of the
task force.
Globalization has been on Moeser’s
agenda since his first address, and it’s
been a popular issue among ofißcials.
UNC recently announced a dual
degree program with the National
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Hit-and-run victim Danielle "Aoife" Iredale sits with her new Seeing Eye dog, Flurry, on Tuesday as
she awaits the sentencing of Stephen Coffee at the Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough.
Students lament ticketing policy
BY STEPHANIE NEWTON
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Unclaimed tickets for
Saturday’s football game versus
Virginia Tech, the online system’s
first test, are up for grabs.
Clint Gwaltney, associate ath
letic director for ticket and Smith
Center operations, said 7,200 stu
dents registered for the game using
the online ticketing system. After
accounting for the marching band,
block seating and Carolina Fever,
9,500 tickets were available.
Gwaltney said 4,750 confir
mation e-mails were sent out to
students, who could receive two
tickets, but not all of the tickets
were claimed.
He declined to say how many
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2006
University of Singapore.
Moeser said that he will discuss
globalization today but that he
will give the issue greater empha
sis at the opening of the Global
Education Center later this year.
“I’m delighted that it’s going to be
one of the topics that he’ll address,”
said Marjorie Crowell, the assistant
provost for international affairs.
Fitz Gerald said the speech will
echo the mission Moeser spoke
about during his first address.
“This really is about the steps
that the University is taking to real
ly marry up the idea of being a great
and a good public university.”
Staff Writer Colin Campbell
contributed to this report.
Contact the University Editor
at udesk@unc.edu.
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tickets remain.
A second notice was delivered
to those who failed to obtain tick
ets from the lottery the first time
around, noting that extra tickets are
available at the ticket office.
On the heels of the system’s first
trial run, Student Congress held
a public hearing Tuesday to sift
through concerns and questions.
Select Congress members and
about a dozen students gathered in
SEE TICKETS, PAGE 6
this day in history
SEPT. 6,1994...
Officials say UNC's December
graduates will for the first time in
10 years have a full commencement
ceremony, complete with speakers,
academic regalia and a reception.
Past addresses
2005 Moeser announced
the creation of the Task Force
on Engagement with North
Carolina and focused on inter
national engagement.
2004 After his travels to
Singapore, Moeser said he want
ed to increase globalization at
UNC and become more devoted
to public service.
2003 Moeser revealed the
Carolina Covenant program,
which allows some students to
graduate debt-free.
2002 In light of the terrorist
attacks Sept. 11,2001, Moeser
commended the University's
handling of the summer reading
selection. He also addressed the
budget shortfall.
2001 For his first address,
Moeser talked about three main
issues for the University
monetary needs, the academic
plan and campus growth.
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Tyler Younts (right) and other mem
bers of Student Congress bring up
students' concerns about ticket dis
tribution at a Tuesday night hearing.
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