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VOLUME 114, ISSUE 97 Allred touts progress in October Report BY ERIN ZUREICK UNIVERSITY EDITOR Two years ago James Allred was busy compiling the October Report for then-stu dent body president Matt Calabria as part of his duties as student body secretary. # Tuesday the blue r cover of the just lrt released 167-page document bore Allred’s name, and the pages serve as the executive branch’s evaluation of his accomplishments midway through his term as student body president. “It’s just been far less sleepless nights,” Allred said, referring to the fact that put- Fans, finances caused demise Bunting failed to fill stadium BY DANIEL MALLOY SENIOR WRITER After watching the North Carolina football team lose, 34-0, to Louisville in Kenan Stadium in 2004, Matt Gers was angry. The UNC senior was frustrated at the failures of the team, which had gone a combined 5-19 during the previous two seasons. g G Gers and a friend started firebimting.com with a mission as simple as the Web site’s INSIDE A look at who could replace Bunting next year. PAGE 13 name. “I felt like we should have had a coach of a higher caliber,” Gers said. “If you look at the other sports, we should be better.” Gers’ proposal Ms shot down two years ago by UNC’s strong fin ish “we put it on ice for a while,” he said —but gained steam after the Tkr Heels’ sluggish start to this season. The number of hits for fire bunting.com went through the roof. Message boards, radio talk shows and Athletics Director Dick Baddour’s e-mail filled with fan vitriol. In the news media, Bunting was portrayed as a coach on the hot seat And that reaction to the team’s 1-6 start, more than anything, led Congress backs off on ticket reform Allred veto stands following debate BY MAC MOLLISON SENIOR WRITER Student Congress members voted 10 to six to uphold a veto by Student Body President James Allred Tuesday night, reversing the passage of a bill the body voted unanimously in favor of only four weeks ago. The defeat of the bill, which would have ensured equal treat ment of all students requesting athletic tickets by subjecting them to one ticket lottery, means ticket distribution will not change before Congress’ next fall meeting, at the earliest Allred vetoed the bill because of concerns that student athletes, dis abled students and others would be treated unfairly if it were enforced. He also said Congress doesn’t have purview over ticket distribution. Speaker Pro Tern Dustin Ingalls Online j dailytarheel.com WATER-LOGGED UNC, OWASA partner to conserve water on campus FREAKY FRIDAYS "Friday Night Lights" author says sports need fixing HAVE A GIFT Parents send care packages to students year-round Serving the students and the University community since 1893 ahr Sailu ®ar Heel ting together the report was Student Body Secretary Clay Schossow’s responsibility this time around. “In some ways, I’m much more proud since it’s my administration this time around and my platform and my vision,” he said. Since taking office in early April, the Allred administration has sped through 47 John Bunting's contract will pay him until 2009 unless he accepts another job elsewhere. to the decision to fire Bunting on Sunday. “I felt like we Were already being bombarded with those questions, that it could only create a more severe difficult situation for the players and the staff to operate in,” Baddour said Monday, when asked why he announced the change in the middle of the season. Though Gers’ part in creating the maelstrom around the program was minimal, it was an example of a method that didn’t exist more than a decade ago. Former UNC head coach Carl Torbush, who is now the lineback ers coach at Division II Carson- Newman, said technology can play a large role in coaching decisions at high-profile schools. “Once they invented the Internet, once they invented talk radio, once they invented the computer, things sped up,” Torbush said in a phone interview Friday. “Things that used to take months or years now get going instantaneously.” And nothing starts an Internet controversy faster than a losing streak. SEE BUNTING, PAGE 6 said that if the bill had been upheld, he would have introduced an amendment to forbid only student government and Carolina Athletic Association members from receiving advantages in ticket distribution. The bill’s failure prompted him to promise to introduce anew bill next week with only those changes. Allred told Congress he wasn’t prepared to comment on whether or not he would veto Ingalls’ new bilL “If that’s the will of Congress, I can’t see going against that at this time,” he said. “I’d be disappointed, but I think there are better things we can deal with right now. “Come talk to me as you’re draft ing it, I’ll be happy to talk about it,” he told Congress leadership. Congress’ reversal of the deci sion is one more aspect of an ongoing power struggle between the body and the Allred admin istration, which leaders of both branches have acknowledged. SEE VETO, PAGE 6 State I page 4 FIERY ISSUE A governor's task force on hazardous materials weighs in on the Apex chemical plant fire that forced residents to evacuate. www.dailytarheel.com Student Body President James Allred released the report Tuesday hailing that he's already completed 47 of his total 83 platform promises. platform planks out of 83 total, according to the 2006 October Report. Allred said he expects an additional 23 planks to be completed in the near future. Chief of Staff Christie Cunningham, who is responsible for coordinating foe work of executive branch committees, said she attri butes foe progress largely to good research that went in when developing foe platform. “We didn’t create new programs,” she said. “We just wanted to fix student ser vices and, most of all, improve them.” Allred’s campaign platform included promises for tuition predictability, an increase in student advisers, more emer gency blue light boxes off campus and improved campus parking for students. EDWARDS ON THE ROAD A political stumping ground? John Edwards has spoken at multiple events across the nation since the beginning of September, raising questions as to whether he is laying the groundwork for a possible run for presidency in the upcoming 2008 election. Visit apps.dailytarheel.com/blogs for details about Edwards' visits to other states. — L~k —l ■ ii •* I 0 MILES 200 l— l. -1. I ‘Based on 2004 presidential election results SOURCE: ONE AMERICA COMMITTEE CALENDAR DTH/REBECCA ROLFE Travels point to political ambition BY SHANNAN BOWEN INVESTIGATIVE TEAM EDITOR Other than a few family por traits, some books and a couple ..o^O'ncu. nnn Former student searches for Hollywood fame BY KATIE HUGHES STAFF WRITER An anonymous friend slipped Erin White the key to a ritzy apartment complex in Studio City, Calif. The key has been passed down for years, its owner gaining access to a world where the well heeled lease space fit for Hollywood royalty. The aspiring singer and actress, who gradu ated from UNC in May, blends in here. Next to the pool, fiddling with her broken iPod (which she cannot afford to replace, she said), she indulges in the privileges of her new membership. This membership is not to the five-star edifice or the high society that pays its rent, of course, but to the “Los Angeles contenders,” an unof ficial temp community of Hollywood hopefuls responsible for this in-the-know behavior. It’s a sharing and caring attitude that doesn’t seem very LA. “I think everyone in LA. is crazy” White said. “My next-door neighbor plays piano for Dr. Dre ent that the office, where Edwards sits as director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, is not his only workplace. An analysis by The Daily Thr Heel of Edwards’ calendar items shows that the potential White House hopeful has spent about half of the past two months away from Chapel Hill, where he and wife Elizabeth recently built a $4.2 million estate. His travels are leading many to believe that the former senator of cans of mixed nuts, John Edwards’ office at the UNC School of Law appears unused. It’s appar- everyone knows somebody out here.” A serious car accident during the summer left White depressed, broke and unable to put the finishing touches on her upcoming album, Anticipation. After a month-long recovery, White was towing her life in a fally packed U-Haul down Interstate 40, completed album in hand. “(The accident) taught me to roll with the punches,” she said. White, who graduated with a degree in exer cise and sports science, shares a one-bedroom apartment with a children’s dance teacher who moonlights as a hip-hop dancer. The two met last year while White was per forming aboard the Palm Beach Princess cruise liner in Florida. White’s roommate, Casey, grew up on a “cow farm” in Wisconsin, and the two clicked immediately, a pair of‘down-home girls” dreaming of the bright lights in the big city. Her hometown of St. Pauls, N.C., is uncon- SEE WHITE, PAGE 6 campus I page 5 HAVING A BALL Zeta Beta Tau holds a fundraiser for the Orange County Rape Crisis Center by having students sign an oversized beach ball to support the cause. The report is broken down into sec tions written by cabinet and committee members. Platforms planks recognized include: ■ Tuition and student fees: Although this year’s tuition and fee talks are far from complete, Allred has seen some progress in predictability. A revamped student fee process, in the works before Allred took office, led to a rec ommended increases of $56.48 —a signifi cantly lower increase than last year’s raise of $170.05 for undergraduate students. Tuition predictability has improved for in-state students now that UNC-system President Erskine Bowles’ 6.5 percent tuition cap passed. Talk of a long-term is gearing up for 2008. Edwards said he typically spends about one day a week at the law school office. “When I’m here it varies dra matically” he said. Usually his three-person staff at the center has his schedule booked for the day with inter views, conferences, guest speech es in classrooms and meetings with members of the center’s advisory board. “I spend a lot of time travel ing, making phone calls, meet ing with donors or potential donors,” he said. “I don’t keep a this day in history OCT. 25,2002... Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, who received his A.B. from UNC in 1965, is killed in a plane crash. At the University he was a member of the wrestling team. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2006 plan also preceded Allred’s tenure. “We are on foe brink of one of foe best tuition and fee increases we’ve seen in years,” Allred said. ■ Academic advising: Representatives from the administration worked with aca demic advisers to help select five new full time advisers. Cunningham said foe plank was intended to address an area that stu dent government leaders thought could be improved academic services. ■ Printing: Allred advocated for the installation of One Card readers at campus Information Technology Services computer labs. A limit ofsoo pages per semester was SEE OCTOBER REPORT, PAGE 6 time sheet, so I don’t know how much time that all takes.” Since the end of August, Edwards has led four events for the center —a coffee hour with campus community mem bers, a panel about Hurricane Katrina relief progress and two other panels concerning poverty issues. “If you were to break up what I spend my time doing, basically it’s this and everything connect ed with this, which is by far the major component of what I do,” SEE EDWARDS, PAGE 6 COURTESY OF ERIN WHITE Erin White, who graduated from UNC in May, sings aboard a Florida-based cruise ship. She is pursuing a career in music and acting. weather Sunny H 57, L 33 index police log 2 calendar 2 games 13 sports 13 opinion 16
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