VOLUME 114, ISSUE 99
UNC
readies
to greet
families
Annual weekend
features food, fun
BY KATY DOLL
STAFF WRITER
As students scramble to clean
their dorm rooms before parents
arrive, UNC officials are prep
ping the campus for an invasion
INSIDE
It snot too late
to find a place
to eat with
your parents.
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° f Carolina
This week .
end thousands
0 f parents
will arrive in
Chapel Hill for
UNC’s annual
Family Weekend.
“For parents, it’s a time to
come and explore student life,”
said Laurie Beck, coordinator of
communications and programs
for Carolina Parent Programs
the group in charge of planning
the annual tradition.
The weekend offers a wide range
of events that vary in cost, from
free seminars to the $26 Carolina
Family Grand Lunch Buffet on
Sunday at the Carolina Inn.
The weekend costs about
SIOO,OOO to put on, said Sheila
Hrdlicka, assistant director
for parent programs. “This is a
free-standing event. The funding
comes strictly from the revenue of
ticket sales and registration.”
Funding covers venue rentals
and the free shuttles and events,
she said.
The Tar Heel Barbecue and
the Carolina Family Grand Lunch
Buffet usually draw the crowds, but
many new, space-limited events are
already booked, Beck said.
This year Family Weekend falls
later in the semester than previ
ous years. The event is always
scheduled for the weekend of a
home football game, Beck said.
Program officials said they
do not expect the team’s season
record to affect participation.
“We’ve generally had people
excited about it,” Beck said. ‘lf
there is any decrease in atten
dance, it’s because Family
Weekend is after Fall Break.”
Sophomores also register
Saturday, which could interrupt
festivities, Hrdlicka said.
The weekend features altur Heel
barbecue, a Southern dinner, semi
nars and a free concert in the Pit
In addition new events were
added to the schedule this year.
SEE FAMILY, PAGE 5
Court sets date to hear cases
Board of Elections serves
as defendant, then plaintiff
BY KATE SULLIVAN
STAFF WRITER
The Student Supreme Court will hear two cases
Sunday, both involving the Board of Elections.
The last time the Student Supreme Court heard
a case was a little more than a year ago, when The
Daily Tar Heel and two other student groups sued
the BOE.
The two cases were given pretrial hearings
Thursday night.
The first case, McLamb v. Board of Elections,
involves a candidate who won a seat in the off-cam
pus district.
Stephanie McLamb ran as one of five candidates
for one of two congressional seats for district six.
Jessica Thompson was the top vote-getter, with
McLamb falling just seven votes behind.
But when Thompson was found to be in viola
tion of election rules for passing out candy with her
CORRECTION
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Thursday front page photo
cutline accompanying the
story, “All Hallow’s Month,”
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Heel apologizes for the error.
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EQ loses permits for Apex site
Company says cleanup first priority
BY JEFF SOPLOP
STAFF WRITER
Several new developments
stemming from the Apex chemi
cal fire reduced the Environmental
Quality Company’s chances of con
tinuing to do business in the area.
A federal judge ordered a freeze
Tuesday of the company’s clean
up efforts at the facility in Apex
because of pending lawsuits. On
Wednesday the N.C. Division of
Waste Management suspended
hazardous waste storage and treat
ment at the site.
New movie make funny for Heels
Students line up for
advance screening
BY HARRY KAPLOWITZ
ARTS EDITOR
Only 30 broken chairs kept the
Carolina Union Activities Board from
filling the Student Union auditorium
with UNC students anxious to see what’s
been called one of the funniest movies
ever made.
CUAB screened the new film “Borat:
Cultural Learnings of America for Make
Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,”
an event sponsored by Jetßlue Airways.
The movie opens nationwide Nov. 3.
“We ended up turning away a lot of
people, more than double the people we
were able to admit,” CUAB community
committee chairman Ethan Lin said.
All told, 345 students were able to
attend the screening at 8 p.m.
Thanks to a media-fueled controversy
surrounding the film and its satirically
negative portrayal of Kazakhstan, “Borat”
has become one of the most anticipated
comedies of the year.
“Have a sense of humor he’s a really
clever guy,” University history professor
Louise Mcßeynolds, who plans to see
the movie, said of Borat’s creator, Sacha
Baron Cohen.
“This guy comes from a corpus of come
dic material that’s not about Kazakhstan,
and if you want to look at it from that
perspective, he’s made fun of a lot of dif
ferent societies,” said Mcßeynolds, who
works in the department’s Russian and
East European offices.
“Any government has the right to be
offended, but it’s a waste of time to be,”
she said.
And though many students were look
ing forward to the laughs and inappro
priate gags they’d get from Cohen’s por
trayal of a Kazakh journalist coming to
America to learn about our culture, a lot
weren’t buying the hype.
“I know Kazakhstan is upset about it,
but I don’t think it’s necessary,” sopho
more Brad Lockwood said. “I don’t think
it deserves all the media hype it’s getting
campaign fliers, the BOE voided the results, calling
for a re-election.
McLamb filed a complaint with the BOE, stating
that as the second highest vote-getter, the BOE should
certify her as the winner of one of the two seats.
“Title VI states that we are not able to certify one
seat while voiding the other seat,” said Jim Brewer,
chairman of the BOE, citing the Student Code.
“She should not have to run in another election,”
said Congress Rep. Tyler Younts, who is represent
ing McLamb in court. Younts said the BOE instead
should hold another election for one of the two dis
trict-six seats.
But BOE officials cited the small margin of cast
votes for the five candidates as reason enough for a
re-election.
“There is no way to determine where the affected
votes would have been cast if there hadn’t been a
violation,” said Candace Debnam, student attorney
general and counsel for the BOE.
In the other case, Board of Elections v. Student
Congress, the BOE is the plaintiff instead of the
SEE COURT, PAGE 5
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The controversy results from
the Oct. 5 chemical plant fire that
forced about 17,000 residents to
evacuate.
The revocation of the permits
was just a formality, said Bob
Doyle, corporate communica
tions manager for Environmental
Quality.
“We haven’t accepted waste
since the fire,” Doyle said. “We
weren’t planning on doing so until
we get through all this. That’s not
really on the radar.”
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it’s probably just going to be a funny
movie.”
Lif| said he sees the controversy as an
even greater pull for bringing “Borat” to
UNC.
“I think that’s just another great reason
to make this movie available to students
to let them judge it for themselves,” he
said. “We took that into consideration, but
determined that bringing it would do more
benefit than not.”
Senior Jan Ahlen, who was first in a line
that stretched the length of the Student
Union and up to Davis Library by 6 p.m.,
said he is worried the movie’s popularity
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TRADITIONAL TREAT
As Halloween in Chapel Hill
gets more adult-oriented,
events in town still cater to a
traditional Halloween crowd
the kids.
Radford said he thought
Environmental Quality had hoped
to continue operating as a nonhaz
ardous waste facility.
“Yesterday the state slammed
the door on their ability to do that
by revoking both their hazardous
and nonhazardous waste permits,”
he said.
Doyle said the company had not
yet decided whether it will seek
reinstatement as a nonhazardous
waste facility. It will its options
after the cleanup is completed, he
said.
Radford said he supports
the temporary suspension of
Environmental Quality’s permits
will affect Cohen’s ability to do what he
does best —be funny.
“I think it’s pretty cool,” Ahlen said of the
media blitz. “But it sucks that it’s going to
get bigger and that he won’t be able to inter
view all the high-profile political figures that
he does because they’ll be onto him.”
The Internet has proven to be a useful
tool for Cohen and his film, as many fans
including freshman James David and
senior Amelia Hummel have used sites
such as YouThbe.com as a way to feed their
“Borat” fix.
SEE BORAT, PAGE 5
Former provost at home at ASU
BY ELIZABETH DEORNELLAS
ASSISTANT STATE a NATIONAL EDITOR
As North Carolina gears up for
the start of the basketball sea
son, former UNC Provost Robert
Shelton said he eagerly is awaiting
Jan. 27 the day the Tar Heels
travel to Arizona to take on the
Wildcats.
Shelton, who officially assumed
his role as president of the
University of Arizona during a
ceremony Thursday, said his new
job has changed his perspective.
“I’ve got to root for Arizona.”
Shelton began his work with
the University of Arizona in July.
During the first few months he
kept busy, meeting with students
and community groups and accli
mating to his new role.
“It’s different as a president as
opposed to a provost,” he said.
Shelton reports directly to the
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Is the student government
executive branch too powerful,
or is Student Congress over
stepping its bounds? Leaders
from both sides weigh in.
even though it means the town
permanently could lose the com
pany as a business.
“We have always had concerns
about not wanting them to come
back into town,” he said.
Because the Environmental
Quality facility and its hazardous
waste management units were
damaged in die fire, the company
cannot manage the waste in com
pliance with permits, said Cathy
Akroyd, public information offi
cer for the N.C. Division of Waste
Management
She said the division of waste
management wants the cleanup
process to continue right away.
A line of hundreds of students stretched
from the Union Auditorium around Davis
Library for the sneak preview of "Borat."
■L ■
Former UNC
provost
Robert
Shelton was
inaugurated
Thursday as
ASU president.
Arizona Board of Regents. He is
working on several broad goals,
including expanding Arizona’s
flagship university.
“Enrollment management is
a big thing,” he said, adding that
the university is seeking to add
300 students a year to the current
population 0f37,000.
Before Shelton arrived the
University of Arizona had no
plans to grow its enrollment, but
the new president convinced the
state of the need for expansion,
Arizona Student Regent Edward
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“We want to remove any remain
ing risks as soon as possible,” she
said.
Environmental Quality is com
plying with the judge’s order and
will do whatever it can to facilitate
the process, Doyle said.
“We want to continue to work
closely with the state to get the
facility completely cleaned up.”
Although most of the waste
from the site was collected into
containers, the material is exposed
to more air and water than it was
before, Radford said, referring to
the delayed cleanup.
SEE APEX, PAGE 5
Hermes said.
“It’s a very important step for
UA.”
Hermes is one of the 11 voting
members on the Arizona Board
of Regents.
Two students are appointed
to the board. Students spend one
year as a nonvoting member and
then another as a voting member.
“It’s a very clever way of getting
the student educated and oriented
so that he or she can be effective,”
Shelton said.
Board members agree that
Shelton is effective in his new
post.
Hermes said that Shelton takes
different approaches to old prob
lems, and that he has streamlined
the bureaucracy to divert funds to
new educational projects.
SEE SHELTON, PAGE 5
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