VOLUME 114, ISSUE 68
Community looks back on tragic day
Campus remembers
with ceremony, 5K
BY AMANDA YOUNGER
STAFF WRITER
Thousands of tiny American flags lined
Polk Place in the shape of two towers
Monday as the community came together
to reflect on Sept, ll’s fifth anniversary.
The remembrance sought to pay tribute
to those who perished in the attacks, as well
as the men and women
who fight overseas.
Students drifted
toward the event as
they walked through
the quad around noon,
eventually drawing a
crowd of about 200.
Senior Hilary
Hellens said she
doesn’t want Sept. 11
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to fade out of anyone’s mind.
“I hope it never becomes a statue in a
museum,” she said. “I hope that people
always connect with this.”
Several speakers reflected on the
attacks and their hopes for the future as
they addressed the audience.
After Student Body President James
Allred led the Pledge of Allegiance, the
guest speakers took to the lectum.
Douglas Dibbert, president of the
General Alumni Association, shared mem
ories and anecdotes of the six UNC alumni
whose lives were claimed in the attacks.
Chapel Hill Fire Chief Dan Jones
reflected upon the heroism demonstrated
by New York City’s firefighters and police
officers in what he said was the largest res
cue operation in the nation’s history.
“We now call them heroes, but if they
were still here today, they would say they
were only doing their job,” he said.
Senior Chris Arndt, an Iraq war veteran
and Army ROTC Battalion Commander
gave a military perspective.
Arndt, who joined the army reserve
after witnessing the events of Sept. 11,
recounted the acts of heroism that he saw
during his year in Iraq.
He called for everyone regardless of
their political preference to support the
troops, noting the importance of public
support for the armed services.
“I hate war, but I love the warrior,”
Arndt said.
After a moment of silence Bryant
Applegate, senior counsel for the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban
Development and a former firefighter,
spoke his post-attacks shock.
He recalled telling his 11-year-old daugh-
SEE CAMPUS, PAGE 6
Moeser cautions employees
BY ERIC JOHNSON
SENIOR WRITER
The UNC-Chapel Hill Employee Forum was dealt
a blow Monday in its efforts to champion the right of
collective bargaining for state workers.
While voicing general support for the rights of
University staff, Chancellor James Moeser warned
that the forum would be overstepping its bounds by
trying to directly influence a legislative issue.
“It is not appropriate... for die forum, which was
established to advise the chancellor, to engage as a
body in directly lobbying legislators,” Moeser wrote
in a letter to forum chairman Ernie Patterson.
Patterson was among the strongest advocates of a
resolution passed last Wednesday calling for the repeal
of North Carolina’s prohibition on collective bargain
ing for state employees. Under the current statute,
state workers are forbidden from unionizing or engag
Pope donation ends Western studies rift
BY BETHANY BLACK
STAFF WRITER
The John William Pope
Foundation’s announcement
Thursday that it will donate $2.3
million to the University ended two
years of controversy regarding fac
ulty control of curriculum changes.
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Senior business and economics major Trey Winslett (left) and junior business and political science major Tyson Grinstead place 3,000 flags for the victims of 9/11 on the grass of the
lower quad on Monday afternoon. The display was sponsored by the Committee for a Better Carolina, UNC College Republicans, the Federalist Society and the Young American Society.
ORANGE COUNTY RESIDENTS TAKE PAUSE TO REFLECT ON U.S. TRAGEDIES
BY EMC SHEPHERD MARTIN
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
When Hillsborough-resi
dent Chavis McPherson heard
of the attacks on the World
Tirade Center on Sept 11,2001,
he thought he was the victim
of a prank.
“I was laying bricks in
Durham and quit as soon as I
heard,” McPherson said.
“I thought it was a big joke,
I guess.”
McPherson was one of
more than 50 people who
gathered Monday at the Old
Orange County Courthouse
in downtown Hillsborough
for a remembrance ceremony
hosted by the Orange County
Board of Commissioners.
The ceremony also was held
ing in organized negotiations with their employers.
The chancellor’s letter makes clear that any for
mal advocacy on the issue will have to come from
the UNC-system president, Erskine Bowles, with
approval from the system’s Board of Governors.
But longtime observers of the system’s lobbying
efforts suggest Bowles and the board might be reluc
tant to add collective bargaining to their priorities.
“I don’t think there’s really any chance at all that
we’re going to be looking at unionization authoriza
tion,” said Judith Wegner, a four-year member of the
system’s Faculty Assembly and former chairwoman
of UNC-CH’s Faculty Council.
The system’s Faculty Assembly considered a collec
tive bargaining resolution in April. Members of the
assembly said at the time that they wanted to avoid
SEE BARGAINING, PAGE 6
ates studying Western cultures.
The announcement came after
a struggle that saw faculty come
together to oppose the donation
process and the Pope Foundation
throw out revised proposals. The
foundation funds the Pope Center
for Higher Education Policy, a con
servative policy think tank.
Andrew Perrin, professor of
sociology and a leading opponent
of the Western studies curriculum,
said he considers the foundation’s
decision a victory for the faculty.
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in commemoration of the vic
tims of Hurricane Katrina.
The event began with a
speech by board chairman
Barry Jacobs.
“We’re here for the victims
of Sept. 11, for the victims of
Hurricane Katrina, but we’re
also here for the people still
suffering today,” Jacobs said,
referring to homeless citizens
and other people in need.
After Jacobs’ speech came
words from John “Blackfeather”
Jeffries, a Hillsborough resi
dent and a descendent of the
Occoneechee tribe.
His daughter, Vivette
“Morning Star” Jeffiries-Logan,
also gave an Occoneechee
“pony peace prayer.”
“We’re here to commemo
“We managed to protect the cur
riculum,” Perrin said.
Perrin said he believes losing
money originally earmarked for
academics was worth maintaining
faculty control.
“The best outcome would have
been to receive money for the
University to pursue honest, intel
lectual goals,” he said. “The Pope
Center made it clear they weren’t
interested in that.
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rate those who died. We’re also
here to commemorate those
who lived,” Jeffries said, walk
ing away with tears in his eyes.
Copies of the U.S.
Constitution and white candles
were handed out and the U.S.
flag was hung at half-staff.
The event ended with a
trumpet performance of “Taps”
by Hillsborough commissioner
Eric Hallman.
Jayne Bomberg, an Orange
County resident at the cere
mony, said her two daughters
were in Manhattan at the time
of the terrorist attacks.
“She was getting ready to
go to work and heard a plane
over Fifth Avenue and said,
‘My, that’s low,’” Bomberg said
of her daughter Joanna.
Inclusion conference kicks off
BY KELLY GIEDRAITIS
STAFF WRITER
When Chancellor James
Moeser enrolled at the University
of Texas-Austin, his family was
hard-pressed
to pay the $25
tuition bill and
additional fees.
A lot has
changed since
the 19505, but
decades later
Moeser said he
sees the same
type of struggle
and skyrocket
ing prices at
INSIDE
Panelists weigh
the affordability
of a college
education
Participants
point to UNC
as a model for
diversity
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Other local officials who
weren’t at the county event
said they too could vividly
recall Sept. 11.
Carrboro Mayor Mark
Chilton said he remembered
driving to Hillsborough
through particularly sunny
weather that day in 2001.
“The contrast between that
and the horrible events in New
York was just terribly tremen
dous,” Chilton said.
Chapel Hill Mayor Pro Tern
Bill Strom said he thought a
small aircraft hit the World
Trade Center by mistake.
“I flipped on the TV and
had the misfortune of seeing
the second plane crash,” Strom
SEE COMMUNITY, PAGE 6
Chancellor
James Moeser
gave a keynote
address at the
event, which
focuses on
college access.
institutions of higher education.
Meeting the needs of students
who cannot afford the education
they deserve should be a top prior
ity for all universities, Moeser said
Monday during a keynote address.
The address was part of a four-day
conference hosted by UNC named
“The Politics of Inclusion: Higher
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getting student funding because
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Hillsborough resident Betty Eidenier listens
to a Saponi peace prayer at a candle
lit memorial ceremony outside the Old
Orange County Courthouse on Monday.
Education at a Crossroads.”
The event brings together uni
versity officials from across the
nation to discuss how to make
higher education more accessible
and affordable.
“We really do have a growing
national problem,” Moeser said
after the speech.
Rising costs of college have
spurred a growing disparity in
educational achievement rates
between the wealthy and poor.
Many who would attend college
opt instead to help support their
families at home, Moeser said.
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