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VOLUME 114, ISSUE 130 Hundreds of students engage in a day of service Monday. See pg 4 for story. JL| * ryft nf j* w jmmt } ■ ■ jft. **' sh|fc J jnrW SIR DTH/COURTNEY POTTER Hillside High School student Terrell Bass, 14, smiles while talking with friend Derrius Best, 15, at the 26th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Triangle Interfaith Prayer Breakfast at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel in Durham on Monday. Many Durham schools brought their classes to the event. KING FOR A DAY Hundreds celebrate at 26th annual breakfast BY ALLISON MILLER STAFF WRITER More than 1,500 people took the advice of Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy and treated Monday as a “day on” instead of a “day off” by filling the Sheraton Imperial Hotel in Durham to celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. The 26th annual Martin Luther King Triangle Interfaith Prayer Breakfast, held at 8 a.m., was sponsored by the Raleigh-Wake Martin Luther King Celebration Committee Inc. The breakfast featured a range of speak ers, including members of the clergy of sev eral religions, elected officials and school children. David Prince, the committee’s vice chair man, said the diversity of the speakers was important. “Dr. King spoke to all humanity. He spoke to America,” he said, noting that King’s inclu sion was revolutionary for the time. Police pursuing assault suspect May be linked to campus crime BY RACHEL ULLRICH CITY CO-EDITOR Daniel Anthony Berarducci, 26, of Mebane, a man wanted by the Chapel Hill and Mebane police departments on sexual assault charges, still is at large and probably is armed, Chapel HiU police said. Lt. Leo Vereen said Berarducci’s father called this weekend to alert police of his son’s plan to carry a gun while at large. “He said something to the effect that he was not going to be arrested, that he had a gun and that he was Daniel Berarducci is also a suspect in a Mebane assault. not going to be turned in,” Vereen said, noting that Sgt. Ed Brooks spoke to the father. Vereen said he guessed Berarducci’s father called to avoid a potentially deadly shootout between announcement WRITE. EDIT. DESIGN. Interested in working for the award-winning The Daily Tar Heel? Stop by our interest meeting 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m Thursday in Union 3413. ohe laUu Star Rrri A rally and march downtown draws community members. See pg 4 for story. The event opened with prayers led by clergy members. Adrian Bullock, a fifth-grader at Fuller GT Magnet Elementary School in Raleigh, precociously recited King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. “That was the most poignant and electri fying for me,” said Sharon Brinson, who has attended the breakfast for the past few years. Many of the speakers focused on the need to continue the work of King in today’s world. The Rev. David Forbes Sr., pastor of the Christian Faith Baptist Church, reported on the progress of the Triangle Lost Generation Task Force, a foundation started two years ago to help keep black and Latino youths out Of trouble and out of jail: “We ought not be able to rest and sleep until we reverse the trend of the lost young men and women,” he said. Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue emphasized the importance of women and minority leaders. “So many of us who are sitting at this table are celebrating the dream partially come true,” she said. But she added that there is still room for improvement “His fight remains,” she said of King. his son and police. Berarducci has been identified in at least two sexual assaults that occurred Hiesday in Chapel Hill and Mebane. Between 12:35 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., Alamance County police responded to a report of sexual assault and assault on a female on the comer of South First and West McKinley streets in Mebane, accord ing to a city police press release. Police went to Tanglewood Apartments and discovered that the woman who had been walking with another woman and children had been grabbed from behind and touched repeatedly in her “pri vate area,” the release states. Around 3 p.m. in Chapel Hill, a woman was walking on the sidewalk on Hillsborough Street when a man walking in the opposite direction groped her and continued walking. Berarducci is suspected in two other assaults in the area within a 30-minute period —another on Hillsborough Street and one at the UNC Forest Theatre, Chapel Hill police spokeswoman Jane Cousins said. The descriptions of the suspect are similar in all three incidents. A witness of the Mebane inci- SEE WANTED, PAGE 8 online I dailytarheel.com UNITED IN REMEMBRANCE The United Way hosts a day of service HOW'S MY DRIVING? The UNC-system president assesses his performance so far QUALITY WIN Additional coverage from the women's basketball game Serving the students and the University community since 1893 www.dailytarheel.cam MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY Tar Heel quartet reaches MLS dreams BY DAVID ELY ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR British megastar David Beckham won’t be the only new face on the pitch throughout Major League Soccer stadiums this year. On Friday four North Carolina seniors were selected in the 2007 MLS Super Draft from the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. Defender Michael Harrington was taken third overall by the Kansas City Wizards; midfielder Corey Ashe was drafted at the end of the sec ond round by the Houston Dynamo; goalkeeper Justin “Juice” Hughes was selected in the third round by the Colorado Rapids; and forward Ben Hunter was taken by the Columbus Crew in the fourth round to complete the Tar Heel quartet. “It’s something that these guys were aspir ing to since they ended our program,” North Carolina coach Elmar Bolowich said. “And with the quality of play that they have demonstrated in the college game, they’re certain ly qualified to be in the draft And I’m... happy for diem that they got the reward they wanted.” The road to the draft reached an apex in early January as Harrington, Ashe and Hughes trav eled down to Ft Lauderdale, Fla., along with 5 9 other college all-stars to participate in the 2007 adidas MLS Player Combine. Throughout the five days players were tested, timed and scrimmaged to evaluate who had the skills to make it at the next level. “It was anew experience in that many high-level coaches were there watching you,” Harrington said of the combine festivities. “The pressure was really high just because you know in the back of your mind (is) the draft.... You gotta perform or you might not get drafted.... In the end of the day it’s just soccer.” Helping to alleviate some of the ex-Tar Heels’ Honoring the 1/15/07-1/19/07 dream The daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at N.C. Central University. See pg 4 for story. Keynote speaker, the Rev. Stephen Bauman of New York, used a story detailing how the width of modem train tracks is the same as chariot tracks in ancient Rome to illustrate that people often don’t question established practices such as racism. “It seems to me that we’re all here because Martin Luther King Jr. called this nation to address this problem, to address the gauge of the tracks that we’ve been traveling,” he said. He added that hardships such as. the costs of health care and college also must be addressed. “These are our concerns for our time and our place,” he said. “These are our responsibil ity. We share them.” Plans were announced at the breakfast for a black consortium including The Pope House Museum, a Martin Luther King Jr. resource center and a cultural complex. All three exist, but they will share a loca tion in Raleigh under the plan. Prince said he hoped attendees would “gain anew appreciation of the achievements of Dr. King.” Contact the City Editor at dtydesk@unc.edu. DTH FILE/LARRY BAUM North Carolina senior Michael Harrington (9) dribbles the ball up-field during UNC's victory against Quinnipiac on Sept. 12. Harrington was the third overall selection in the MLS Draft. pressure of performing in front of professional coaches was the knowledge that their team mates were going through the same experience right beside them. “Definitely, mainly because one you had people to talk to, and two, you just kind of felt comfortable,” Ashe said. SEE MLS, PAGE 8 arts I' page 5 MOVIN' OUT WEST Iconic Durham bluegrass label Sugar Hill Records shuts down N.C. operations after 29 years in the Triangle to relocate to Nashville, Tenn. Members of the community spend the holiday volunteering. Go online for story. Civil rights progressing in Chapel Hill BY MEGHAN DAVIS SENIOR WRITER A group of almost 200 people gathered at the Chapel Hill post office Monday to honor the leg acy of Martin Luther King Jr. Many echoed King’s opposi tion to the Vietnam War in call ing for an end to the Iraq war. Others recalled local examples of King’s influence. Chapel Hill was the site of student-led protests and com munity members of all races call ing for local change, despite the town’s progressive reputation. As file group marched from the post office to First Baptist Church, it passed the site where Colonial Drug Store once stood. Only weeks after N.C. Agricultural & Technical State University students began sit-ins at the Woolworth’s in Greensboro, Lincoln High School students followed suit at Colonial Drug Store in 1960. King spoke in Chapel Hill soon after the sit-ins as part of a tour of southern colleges. On May 9, 1960, he addressed a mixed-race crowd in Hill Hall at the invitation of the Carolina Forum. The Rev. J.R. Manley of First Baptist heard King speak 47 years ago. On Monday, he wel comed marchers into his church to remember King. King came to Chapel Hill five years after the first black under graduates enrolled. David Dansby, the first black student to earn an undergradu ate degree from the University, participated in the 1960 pro tests on Franklin Street. Dansby told The Daily Tar Heel in 2001 that some stu- MAJOR LEAGUgjtftR SUPERDRAFT DRAFT PICKS UNC PLAYERS GOING TO THE MLS snsr m,chael HARRINGTON ROUND 1 PICK 3 mmm 6 01 170 ISR Defender/Midfielder COREY ° YNAM ° ASHE ffljjtei ROUND 2 PICK 26 n Wi IIK 5 ' 6 M 4O l sr Forward/Midfielder COLORADO JUSTIN RAP,DS HUGHES ©ROUND 3 PICK 36 6-1 | 180 | SR Goalkeeper COLUMBUS BEN hunter gJlllgj ROUND 4 PICK 49 Si 6-0 | 170 |SR Forward LOGOS: © 2005 MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER this day in history JAN. 16,2001 ... The associate vice chancellor for auxiliary services apologizes to a student after he is incorrectly charged for textbooks, launching an inquiry into Student Stores. TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2007 dents met his activism with threats. “Once I started the picket ing in February 1960, people exploded cherry bombs at my window and door as an intimi dation tactic,” Dansby said. “There were also threatening telephone calls. I thought they were cowards.” Black students’ influence grew as the national movement pro gressed. The Black Student Movement was established in 1967 in response to dissatisfaction with the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter. “(King) stood for civil rights SEE CIVIL RIGHTS, PAGE 8 -w-J COURTESY OF UNC NEWS SERVICES Students, faculty and residents picket in front of Colonial Drug on Franklin Street in 1963 shortly after the sit-ins in Greensboro. weather Rair, y H 55, L 26 index police log 2 calendar 2 opinion 9 games 17 sports 18
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