VOLUME 114, ISSUE 95
BUNTING BAGGED
COACH TO REMAIN AT HELM FOR SEASON’S FIVE REMAINING GAMES
BY DANIEL MALLOY
AND BRANDON STATON
SENIOR WRITERS
John Bunting will not be North
Carolina’s football coach next season, the
University announced Sunday night
Bunting will coach the remaining five
games of the season, but not return f0r2007,
according to a press release issued by the
Athletic Department shortly before 9 p.m.
Neither the coach nor any players
were available for comment, and Athletic
Director Dick Baddour did not return a
phone message seeking comment
A news conference is scheduled for 11
a.m. today at Kenan Stadium.
Radio station WCHL reported Friday that
Bunting was going to resign, but the decision
UNC fills
finance
position
Job includes oversight of
the University’s budget
BY WHITNEY KISLING
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
In about a month, the University will be just
one step away from filling all of the vacant seats
_ injSouth Building. _ __
Officials announced Friday that Rich'md Mann,
vice president for administration at the State
University of New York-Stony Brook, will serve as
vice chancellor for finance and administration.
“It’s a wonderful place,” Mann said of UNC. “It’s
a fine university.”
The last open administrative
position is the vice provost for
enrollment policy and manage
ment, which has been vacant
since Jerry Lucido left this
summer to take the same post
at the University of Southern
California.
Mann will assume his post
Nov. 27 to oversee UNC’s $2.2
billion operating budget
“I have a pretty good under
standing of what the nature of
the job is,” Mann said. ‘lt’s not
dissimilar from what I’m doing
at my university."
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Richard Mann
will take the
post on Nov.
27 and comes
from New York.
He was one of about five candidates both
internal and external that the search commit
tee interviewed, said Student Body Vice President
Brian Phelps, a member of the committee.
“When die committee members met with him,
it was clear that he would be a very good fit for
the University of North Carolina particularly to
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Congress, BOE fight heads to court
BY MAC MOLUSON
SENIOR WRITER
A dispute between two student
government bodies has led to the
first Student Supreme Court case
in about a year.
Conflict among student leaders
centers on the use of social net
working site Facebook.com dur
ing student election campaigns.
Student Congress’ Facebook
Protection Act, passed in the early
hours of Oct 11 after an extended
meeting, overturned a Board of
Elections decision announcing that
students can’t use Facebook.com,
MySpace.com and AOL Instant
Messenger away messages to cam
paign in campus elections. The leg
islation amends the Student Code
to allow the use of these venues.
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was BaddouFs according to the release.
‘I am disappointed, and of course I don’t
agree with the decision, but I know I must
accept it,” Bunting said in the release.
“I am very proud of the many great
things we have accomplished over the past
six years. We simply have not won enough
games this year.”
The Thr Heels are 1-6 after a 23-0 loss
at Virginia on Thursday night that proved
to be foe final straw.
But as late as Sunday evening, in his
weekly teleconference, Bunting did not
seem to know his job was in jeopardy.
When asked if he would resign, he
responded: “Absolutely not. I’m here to
talk to you about foe Virginia and Wake
Forest (games).”
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MONDAY
SPOTLIGHT
BY LINDSAY MICHEL
SENIOR WRITER
It was the end of an
attempted presidential nom
ination and a subsequent run
for foe vice presidency. But,
for former U.S. Sen. John
Edwards, it was not foe end
of his fight for socioeconom
ic equity in America.
“This campaign may end
today,” he told a crowd of sup
porters at Boston’s Faneuil
Hall on Nov. 3, 2004. “But
the battle for you and the
hard-working Americans
who built this country rages
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for the Center on Poverty,
Work and Opportunity,
where he would serve as the
director.
“I wanted to take a hard
look at the situation with
respect to poverty and the
causes and new and creative
solutions about what to do
about it,” said Edwards, a
1977 UNC School of Law
graduate, in an interview
with The Daily Thr Heel. “I
think that is essentially what
we have continued to do."
Since its creation in
February 2005, the center
has hosted 14 programs fea
turing more than about 100
panelists, speakers and mod
erators, laid the groundwork
Allied said he signed the bill into
law Wednesday.
The recent election* board
decision was basel on a stipu
lation in the Student Code that
all campaign Web sites must be
hosted on UNC Web space.
The Court is responsible for
interpreting the Student Code,
which outlines the rules for die
branches of student government
and some groups that receive
funding from Congress.
In a court brief filed Wednesday
afternoon, Jim Brewer, elections
board chairman, alleges that
Congress acted illegally in inter
preting the Student Code—a power
reserved for administrative groups
such as the elections board.
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With five games remaining in his ten
ure as head coach, Bunting is 25-42 at
UNC, and 16-23 in ACC play.
His first season proved to be his most
successful, as foe 2001 Tar Heels went 8-5
and won foe Peach Bowl. But disappointing
seasons of 3-9 and 2-10 followed.
In 2004 Bunting faced criticism simi
lar to this year, but quieted naysayers with
dramatic home wins against N.C. State
and No. 4 Miami. After UNC beat Duke
to finish foe regular season 6-5, Baddour
rewarded foe coach with a two-year con
tract extension.
Bunting is under contract through foe
2009 season for $286,200 per year.
Last season, a possible bowl bid was
derailed by a home loss to Maryland, and
PUSHING OUT POVERTY
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months
later that
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as Edwards
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Ray Boshara (left) of the New America Foundation and former U.S. Senator John Edwards participate in a summit on Hurricane
Katrina held in November. The summit was sponsored by the UNC Center for Poverty, Work and Opportunity, founded in 2005.
for a book and a documen
tary and raised $2.9 million
in private gifts and pledges.
“I’m very proud of what
we’ve been able to accom
plish here,” Edwards said.
“It’s been remarkable what
we’ve done.”
Building a reputation
For many academic orga
nizations, home is where its
ideologic foundation is.
’ Biit for the poverty renter,
its location in the law school
is more a matter of logistics
than a matter of purpose.
“The University could have
Student Supreme Court cates
The Student Supreme Court hears
disputes of the Student Code. This
will be the third time it has con
vened during the past 18 months.
Four justices will decide the case.
October 2006; The court is set
to hear a case about the validity of
a UNC Board of Elections adminis
trative decision that limits the use
of Facebook.com and AOL Instant
Messenger during c?mpos elections.
Earlier this month, Student Congress
passed legislation that the board
dams would overturn its dedsion.
October 2005: The court heard
complains alleging that the elec
tions board breached the Code
when it decided to certify and
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COVETED CHOICE
Seniors react positively
to the selection of the
Carolina Covenant as the
official fund for the senior
class gift.
the team finished 5-6.
Off foe field, Bunting earned praise with
his work in foe community and discipline
within his team. Character problems were
dealt with quickly and harshly, and for foe
first time in the program’s memory, each
returning player entered training camp
with at least a 2.0 GPA this season.
“Changing coaches is never a pleasant
experience, but it is even more difficult
when you consider the character and
integrity of someone like John Bunting,”
Baddour said in foe release.
But regardless of integrity and charac
ter, Bunting’s fate was sealed by wins and
losses.
“Hopefully our football team will start
experiencing some success after this,”
easily established the cen
ter as a part of any school,”
Deputy Director Marion
Crain said. “It is abit odd in
its fit here because we are so
interdisciplinary in nature.”
The center draws from
all comers of the University
to approach poverty issues.
Its advisory board has 20
members representing 12
areas of study.
“Poverty is a very com
plex problem and needs
to be addressed from dif
ferent points of view,” said
Arne Kalleberg, an advisory
board member and senior
associate dean of social sci-
seal the results for District 2 and
when it decided to remove from
the re-election ballot one of the
seats in District 3. The incident
was sparked by technical difficul
ties related to Student Central,
justices ruled unanimously that
another election would be held to
fill vacant seats in Congress.
March 2005: The court took
decisive action, dismissing a case
against the Carolina Athletic
Association at a pretrial hearing. A
member of Congress alleged that
CAA violated Title VII of the Code
by retaining more than 40 men’s
basketball tickets for its members'
use.
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“I think the panel discus
sions have really discussed
a broad range of possible
ways we can better deal
with this problem of pov
erty,” said Kalleberg, who
has served as a moderator
for three panels.
The center’s staff recruits
academicians and practi
tioners who are well estab
lished in their fields and are
interested in working with
others to alleviate poverty.
Last year Edwards hosted
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this day in history
OCT. 23,1959...
The Ackland Art Museum makes
its first purchase an oil-on
canvas painted in 1838 by Eugene
Delacroix titled "Cleopatra and
the Peasant."
MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2006
John Bunting
is 25-42 as
UNC's head
football coach
since taking
over for Carl
Torbush in 2001
said freshman Philip Chauncey, after
being informed of foe news outside of foe
Undergraduate Library.
“And we get a coach in here that can
experience more success than Bunting.
I thought he was a really good guy, and
he was obviously liked by the public. It’s
just a shame that we struggled as bad as
we did.”
Contact the Sports Editor
at sports@unc.edu.
Bound and packaged
The center is working on two
projects, coming to stores soon.
Book: "Ending Poverty: How to
Restore the American Dream"
► Published by The New Press
► A collection of 19 essays by
prominent researchers affiliated
with the center.
► Expected Spring 2007
Documentary: Not yet titled
► Documentarian: Kevin Flood
► An exploration of the
hospitality industry in
Los Angeles from a variety of
perspectives.
► Expected November
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