VOLUME 114, ISSUE 101
Town, community prep for festivities
BUSINESS OWNERS READY
FOR HOLIDAY FOOT TRAFFIC
BY LAURA SMITH
STAFF WRITER
For Franklin Street thrill seek
ers, Halloween means a night
of seeing friends and strangers
attempt to wow the crowd with
unforgettable
costumes.
For local busi
nesses, it means
a night of rowdy
customers fight
ing the crowd
for a drink or a
bite to eat
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Halloween
In preparation for a busy eve
ning where officials expect 50,000
to 70,000 people on Franklin
Street, many bars and restaurants
are increasing the number of staff
on duty during peak hours.
Spanky’s Restaurant and Bar
manager Aaron Stumb said he
expects the crowd to keep his extra
staff busy through closing at 2 a.m.
“We’re stocking up on food, beer,
everything,” Stumb said.
“It’s usually less rowdy than
a football game, but it’s usually
pretty fun.”
Steinbrenner
incident halts
campus play
YANKEES OWNER FALLS ILL AT
GRANDDAUGHTER’S UNC SHOW
BY HARRY KAPLOWITZ
ARTS EDITOR
Pauper Players’ Sunday after
noon performance of “Cabaret”
was cut short when Department of
Public Safety officials responded
to a call that a man was suffering
from chest paints, DPS spokes
man Randy Young said.
Sophomore Emily Riehl, who
was in the audience, said the man
was New York Yankees principal
owner, George Steinbrenner.
Steinbrenner, 76, was in atten
dance to watch his granddaughter,
junior Haley
Swindal, per
form the lead
role of Sally
Bowles.
Young said
the man was
“conscious, alert
and breath
ing” when DPS
officials arrived
at Playmakers
Theatre
between 3:30
and 3:41 p.m.
George
Steinbrenner
returned to his
Tampa, Fla.,
home Monday.
The inci
dent left some audience members
shaken and forced the company to
cancel the performance.
“I didn’t notice anything until
intermission when people started
going up to him,” said Riehl, who
added that she was seated two
rows behind Steinbrenner.
“He was pale and his eyes were
closed it looked like he had
fainted.”
Riehl said someone called an
ambulance at intermission and
then, shortly after, someone else
canceled the performance and
asked audience members to leave.
“I was just dazed and confused,”
Riehl said. “I didn’t know what
was happening, and then I saw
him and I froze in my seat.”
University alumnus Danny
Coles, assistant music director for
the production, said the decision
announcement
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
The Daily Tar Heel wishes you
a happy Halloween and hopes
that you keep safe on Franklin
Street or wherever your costume
might take you this evening.
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Site Sally (Tar Heel
Buffalo Wild Wings Grill and Bar
general manager Jason Kerwin said
he hasn’t yet decided when to dose
down the estab
lishment for
the night, but
the restaurant
is staffing up in
preparation for
a big crowd.
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Homes across
the county
feature spooky
histories and
haunted tales.
“Tuesdays are
typically busy nights for us anyway,
so I expect to see plenty of people
show up,” Kerwin said.
He said Buffalo Wild Wings will
have one off-duty police officer as
well as three hired security guards
on hand.
Customers of Buffalo Wild Wings
will have to pay a cover charge for
admittance on Halloween night.
Luke Stepleton, manager at
Top of the Hill Restaurant and
Brewery, said with four extra staff
at the bar and two or three more
on the floor, he hopes to keep pace
with the increase in customer flow
he has seen in the past.
SEE BUSINESSES, PAGE 7
to cancel the performance came
when paramedics arrived.
He would not confirm the iden
tity of the man who was taken to
the hospital.
“I’m not completely sure what
the circumstances were,” Coles said.
“I’m not even sure if it was chest
pains or if it was caused from issues
with the heat in the theater.”
Coles said the heat had been
turned on in the theater Sunday
morning but was later turned off.
“The paramedics came, and we
just felt the best decision was to
cancel the rest of the show at that
point.”
Coles said audience members
were offered refunds and encour
aged to attend the Sunday evening
performance, in which Swindal
performed.
The man, Young said, was later
put in the care of Orange County
Emergency Medical Services techni
cians and taken to UNC Hospitals,
where he was evaluated.
Howard Rubenstein, spokesman
for Steinbrenner and foe Yankees,
said Steinbrenner is “doing well” in
his Tampa, Fla., home.
“All I know is a few minutes ago,
I spoke to George, and he was at
home in Tampa, and he sounded
OK,” Rubenstein said.
After calling Steinbrenner “a
little after 4 o’clock” on Monday,
Rubenstein said Steinbrenner
“arrived in Tampa a short while
ago.”
Steinbrenner was hospitalized in
December 2003 after fainting at a
memorial service for football great
Otto Graham in Sarasota, Fla.
Junior Lori Mannette, direc
tor of the production, said Pauper
Players is not commenting on the
incident
The last performance off Cabaret”
is set to take place Wednesday at 8
p.m. in Playmakers Theatre.
Contact the Arts Editor
at artsdesk@unc.edu.
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MAPPING OUT THE DAY
The Downtown Partnership
launches a Web site detailing
where to eat and what to
do during your visit to Chapel
Hill's main streets.
www.dailytaiheel.com
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Four Corners restaurant and bar, like many other
businesses on Franklin Street, gets prepared for today
with Halloween decorations. Tonight will be the one
night of the year that Four Comers will have a cover charge,
which will be $5. They will clear out the furniture on the
County missing prosperous past
Editor’s note: The Daily Tar
Heel traveled to North Carolina’s
five poorest counties to gauge the
University’s mission to provide
service to the state.
BY LINDSEY NAYLOR
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
WINDSOR The Historic
Hope Mansion, home to 19th cen
tury N.C. Gov. David Stone, once
entertained political powerhouses
and graced die lucrative land of a
6,000-acre plantation.
Stand on the back porch of
Stone’s Palladian mansion today,
and straight ahead is a cotton
field where tenant farmers have
toiled to make ends meet since
the Emancipation Proclamation
and through years of corporate
consolidation.
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MUM’S THE WORD
Wednesday: Tyrrell County
A stone’s throw beyond that is a
local school, where Bertie County
teachers struggle to prepare the
young within an under-funded
system.
Drive a few miles down the road
to find a squat metal building with
years of accumulated rust, where the
county’s social workers stretch their
resources to help the large percent
age of welfare-eligible residents.
The prosperous times of Stone
and his contemporaries are in
Bertie’s past: The county is the sec
ond poorest in North Carolina.
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A FOREIGN TONGUE
Our monthly Spanish section
features stories on Dia de los .
Muertos, elections in the Latino
world and a spotlight on Chilean
UNC golfer Martin Ureta.
HALLOWEEN PROTOCOL TO
INCLUDE CLOSURES, TRANSIT
Street closings
Beginning at 9 p.m. Frank|jn Street will be closed between Raleigh and
Roberson streets. Columbia Street will be closed from Rosemary Street
to Cameron Avenue, and Henderson Street will be closed between East
Rosemary and Franklin streets.
Residential streets near downtown will be closed except to residents of
those streets and their guests.
i Transportation
I The town will offer a shuttle between four park-and-ride lots and
downtown. The cost of the shuttle is $5 round-trip and $3
one-way.
second floor and have a beer tub. Other downtown eateries
and bars are gearing up for an estimated 50,000 to 70,000
people to flock downtown tonight in costumes ranging from the
mundane to the extraordinary. Police will be out in full force,
some on horseback, to keep the event safe for all involved.
Still, economic development and
programs spearheaded by UNC
service institutes could mean a
revitalized legacy of hope in Bertie’s
future.
A University for the People
UNC’s mission statement lays
out its three-pronged purpose of
education, research and service.
Kevin Fitz Gerald, special assistant
to the chancellor, said that mission
is the driving force behind UNC’s
increasing concern with aiding poor
communities in North Carolina
“The University is really raising
its profile and its interest in rais
ing the question of, ‘How can we
strengthen our engagement in other
SEE BERTIE, PAGE 7
this day in history
OCT. 31.1918...
The Board of Trustees appoints
Marvin Stacy as chairman
of the faculty, replacing
the recently deceased
President Edward Graham.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2006
The buses will leave from the Jones
m Ferry Road Lot, Southern Village, the
■ Friday Center and University Mall and
I will run until 1:30 a.m.
' Chapel Hill Transit also will run
modified night routes, ending at about
9 p.m.
Detailed information about Halloween
transportation is available at www.townof
chapelhill.org/transit.
Parking
Cars parked within the festival area will be
towed starting at 6 p.m.
Vehicles that are parked illegally will be tick
eted and towed with a minimum recovery cost
SEE HALLOWEEN, PAGE 7
Bertie County
Total population: 19,773
White population: 7,178
Black population: 12,326
Hispanic population:
Families below the
poverty line: 19.3 percent
Individuals below the
poverty line: 23.5 percent
Unemployed percent of
civilian labor force: 7.1
percent
SOURCE: 2000 U.S. Census
Bureau data
weather
♦Sunny
H 75, L 51
index
police log 2
calendar 2
opinion 5
sports 8
games 9
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