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VOLUME 114, ISSUE 104 Police await tips in crime Shooting victim still in hospital BY CUNT JOHNSON STAFF WRITER Chapel Hill police do not have any suspects in connection with a Wednesday shooting on Merritt Mill Road and are looking to the community for tips. At about 1:40 a.m. Wednesday, Daniel Robert Blythe, 20, and Ryan Andrew Minicozzi, 19, were assaulted and searched by two men and a woman as they walked to their car from the Halloween celebration on Franklin Street. The perpetrators stole a cellular phone from Minicozzi before let ting him and Blythe go free. The perpetrators got into their vehicle, which they had parked on nearby Grant Street, and drove up to the two men. One of them fired a handgun out of the passenger win dow, striking Blythe in the chest. Police spokeswoman Jane Cousins said investigators, led by Jabe Hunter, are in the process of SEE SHOOTING, PAGE 4 Crest St | Ujvrata Grant St llSee 0 WO hr* SOURCE: GOOGLE MAPS DTH/KURT GENTRY Colleges embrace Latino film fest Event to celebrate 20 years running BY AMY ZHANG STAFF WRITER After years of steady growth, the annual Latin American Film and Video Festival has chosen an appropriate theme for this year. “The theme this year is ‘celebra tion’ because it’s been 20 years of the Latin American Film Festival, and we feel it’s time to celebrate,” said Sharon Mujica, festival coor dinator and outreach director for the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UNC Find Duke. From its modest beginnings, the festival now includes the par ticipation of 16 campuses in the Triangle, Triad and Charlotte. In all, this year’s festival will hold 33 screenings. “I started the film festival 20 years ago with three films, and now it’s grown so much,” Mujica said. This year, the festival will pres ent a number of renowned Latino films at UNC. “Oh, I’m very excited,” she said. She listed “Fidel,” "Luminous Online | dailytarheel.com SUMMER BUMMER City schools examines its summer class offerings A HELPFUL HEADS-UP Speaker brings attention to conflict in Burma JAMMER TIME Loreleis to perform this weekend during their annual fall jam Serving the students and the University community since 1893 ®ljp Sally oar Hcri A lightning-quick love search Seniors engage in speed dating BY KATY DOLL STAFF WRITER Few people can say that their first date ended in five minutes —and to the sound of a buzzer. But UNC seniors had the chance for maximum inter action during a night of speed dating at Goldies on Thursday. Organizers offered a variety of suggested questions from innocent to innuendo. They ranged from “What is your dream job?” to “Last time you got lucky was ... ?” Students said they felt mixed emotions about the dating, with most feeling a little nervous and awkward. Edward Rowe said he felt “a little bit of everything,” as he prepared for the dating to start. Daters spent about five minutes interviewing each other as potential friends or partners. Most used no strategy in their questioning, as they asked mainly about home towns and majors. “We’re practicing with the questions and trying to nail it,” said Laurin Massengale as she prepared. Although the dates began with a sense of awkwardness, that faded as the conversa tions continued. “Have you done anything like this before?” asked Rowe, beginning his date. He stayed with his stan dard question of intended major and deftly picked ques tions from the list. “Number 30?” Massengale joked, referring to the ques tion “The last time you got lucky was... ?” Rowe quickly answered that he was able to get tickets to the first basketball game, receiving a response of “Good answer” from his date. Selected screenings from tne festival Sunday ► 1 p.m. “Sin Embargo’ ► 3:30 p.m. “Viva Cuba’ ► 7 p.m. “Fidel* Friday, Nov. 10 >■ 7 p.m. “Cidade Baixa* Friday, Nov. 17 ► 7 p.m. ’Cananea’ Shadows: The Artists of Eastern Cuba” and “Viva Cuba” as some of the acclaimed films coming to UNC. That all of these films focus on Cuba is not as much coincidental as it is intentional. “We particularly emphasize Cuba because it’s a part of the world that doesn’t get much expo sure,” she said. But the film festival does show films from other parts of the Latino world. “There’s a broad range of films, from Mexico to Brazil, Chile and Cuba and some indigenous films,” said Natalie Hartman, co-coor dinator of the festival’s branch at SEE FILM FESTIVAL, PAGE 4 city | page 4 OUT FOR A STROLL Go! Chapel Hill Active Living by Design hosts a Walkable Communities Workshop to target ways to spur walkability nearTimberlyne. www.dailytarheeX.com B;v : DTH/DAVID ENARSON Senior Corey Davis talks to senior Meagan Griffin during a speed-dating night sponsored by the senior marshals at Goldies on Thursday. Participants traded dates every five minutes, holding quick conversations and getting to meet several new people during the hour of dating. But after the first few laughs and forced smiles, the daters moved on to talk about graduate school, trav eling and where they live. “It’s strange that we’ve been in school for four years and never met each other,” Michael Adams said to his date, Charlotte Nunn. Daters stuck with tried-and true questions, but some embar rassing moments and drunken stories also made their way into the conversation. “What did that guy say about getting drunk, throwing pea nuts and ending up in the wrong Tar Heels to face Quinn’s golden arm BY BRANDON STATON SPORTS EDITOR A lot has changed since North Carolina head coach John Bunting sat down for a news con ference to announce his top-25 class of incoming fresh man for 2006 last February. INSIDE A breakdown ofUNC's matchup with Notre Dame PAGE 7 During that conference, Bunting said that, though he couldn’t put his finger on who it was, he thought he had Columbus County lacking health, options 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 ELIZABETH DEORNELLAS ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR TABOR CITY Beyond the Bell Tower lies a North Carolina that is completely alien to the world of elite education —a state where rural communities struggle against entrenched poverty, and poor farm ers fight to save a dying way of life. The hardscrabble life in Columbus County, the fifth-poor est county in the state, wears down residents —and economic room?” Massengale asked her friend as they prepared to leave. Although the dating was scheduled to last for two hours, the 13 senior participants parted ways after only an hour. The senior marshals who orga nized the event said that they had mixed thoughts about the turn out. “I wish there were more people here,” said Leniqua Blue, a senior marshal. Others thought the turnout was encouraging. “I’m really glad that we got a a “Sunday quarterback” on his team. Well, a few months later it’s pretty obvious he doesn’t. But the No. 11 Fighting Irish of Notre Dame the team UNC will face in South Bend, Ind., on Saturday do. Senior Brady Quinn has started every game of his college career, save three —a consistency under center that the Tar Heels haven’t seen in years —and it seems certain that he’ll do the same on Sundays in the NFL someday. Quinn is the most prolific pass- Today: Columbus Countv’Mßl^ deprivation often manifests itself in deadly disease. “Eastern North Carolina, along this area, is considered the stroke belt of the nation,” said Deborah Albritton, director of Columbus County Healthy Carolinians. The health service area that encompasses Columbus, Bladen, Robeson and Scotland counties also faces daunting levels of car diovascular disease, she said. “We are the worst in the nation with heart disease and stroke rate.” campus I page 5 NOTASING-A-LONG The Carolina Choir will perform one of its most elaborate songs this weekend at the St. Patrick's Music for Charity Series along with UNC Chamber Singers. “It’s strange that we’ve been here school for four years and never met each oth§£L* MICHAEL ADAMS, SENIOR, TO DATE CHARLOTTE NUNN fair amount of people that weren’t senior marshals,” said Meagan Griffin, chairwoman of the social committee of senior marshals. “We’re just trying to reach out to the class.” Organizers said they saw the dating as a chance for seniors to meet new people, not just a way to find a match. Notre Dame Quarterback Brady Quinn reminds Coach John Bunting of ex-NFL star John Elway. er in the history of Notre Dame football throwing for 10,569 yards and 79 touchdowns to this point in his career. North Carolina needs its last four quarterbacks combined to post numbers like that. Many residents simply aren’t aware of basic healthy practices such as how to store fresh pro duce, she added. “A lot of time it’s not that it costs more, it’s just get ting the information out.” She said student interns are a great help in distributing infor mation across Columbus County, the state’s third-largest county in terms of geographic area. The county’s health depart ment has worked with several UNC-system schools, including UNC-Chapel Hill. Students from the nursing and pharmacy programs at UNC-CH SEE COLUMBUS, PAGE 4 this day in history NOV. 4,2004... A rally of more than 100 people gather on Franklin Street to protest President Bush's re-election, which was confirmed hours before. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2006 “It doesn’t matter if you are going to meet guys, girls or just friends,” Griffin said. “We want people to make the most of their senior year as pos sible by meeting as many people as possible.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. This year’s quarterbacks, Cam Sexton and Joe Dailey, last season’s starter Matt Baker and UNC’s all-time leader in career passing, Darian Durant, togeth er have barely eclipsed the Irish’s single biggest weapon, totalling 13,120 yards and 86 touchdowns through last Saturday. Not to mention that Quinn has thrown just 36 career inter ceptions to the UNC quad’s 67. Quinn, in fact, said he doesn’t even remember the time he last SEE QUINN, PAGE 4 Columbus County Total population: *■ White population: 63.4 percent > Black population: 30.9 percent ► Latino population: 2.3 percent Families below the poverty level: 17.6 percent Individuals below the poverty level: 22.7 percent Percent of civilian work force unemployed: 7.7 percent SOURCE: 2000 U.S. Census Bureau weather Sunny H 52, L 27 index police log 2 calendar 2 sports 7 games...., 7 opinion 8
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