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CORRECTION
Due to an editing error, the
Thursday page 3 story, “Town touts
diverse staff” incorrectly states
when the report was compiled. It
has been compiled every year since
2002. The Daily Tar Heel apologiz
es for the error.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
Reeves, 85, UNC professor,
dies from breast cancer
Mavis Reeves, an adjunct pro
fessor in UNC’s Department of
Political Science, died Saturday
at her home in Chapel Hill from
complications related to breast
cancer.
Bom in Athens, W. Va., in 1921,
Reeves earned her bachelor’s and
master’s degrees at West Virginia
University before coming to
Chapel Hill. In 1947 she was the
first person to receive a Ph.D. in
political science at UNC and also
was one of the first women to
earn a doctorate.
With a teaching career spanning
some 60 years, Reeves also taught
at the University of Louisville and
the University of Maryland, in
addition to stints at the Kyoto and
Keio universities in Japan.
“Aside from being the world’s
greatest mother and a tremendous
role model... she was terrifically
independent, smart as a whip, and
as kind a person as anyone would
ever want to meet,” said Reeves’
daughter, Andree Reeves.
In addition to her daughter,
Reeves is survived by her husband,
Benjamin Reeves, and several niec
es and nephews.
There will be no memorial
service, in accordance with her
wishes.
In lieu of flowers, the family
requests that any contributions be
made to the American Political
Science Association Congressional
Fellowship Program, Duke
Home Care and Hospice, UNC
University Libraries or another
charity of choice.
Most candidates certified,
some must redo petitions
The Board of Elections
announced Thursday its list of
certified election candidates and
those who still need petition sig
natures.
Each candidate was required to
collect a certain number of signa
tures, ranging from 800 for student
body president to 20 for Student
Congress, by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
The board counted all of the
signatures and checked for dupli
cates, but according to its list,
juniors Sade Carter and Beth
Hopkins, candidates for senior
class president and vice president,
respectively, must turn in 10 more
signatures by 5 p.m. today. They
needed 350 signatures to stay in
the race.
David Zoppo, a Student
Congress candidate for district six,
must resubmit his entire petition,
and Ambika Sahni, a candidate for
district seven, must turn in four
signatures. Both also have until 5
p.m. today.
All other candidates have been
certified.
STATE BRIEFS
Two scheduled to die get
stay of execution
RALEIGH Citing a century
old law, a judge put a pair of execu
tions on hold Thursday as North
Carolina struggles with the role
doctors should play in carrying out
the death penalty.
Marcus Reymond Robinson,
33, was scheduled to be execut
ed Friday, and James Edward
Thomas, 51, was set to die next
week.
The ruling further complicated
the ongoing debate over whether
the state can carry out execu
tions without the assistance of
an attending physician. State law
requires a doctor’s presence at
executions, but the N.C. Medical
Board decided last week that any
participation by a physician vio
lated medical ethics.
Two more players charged
in Guilford assault case
GREENSBORO Two more
Guilford College football players
were charged Thursday in con
nection with the alleged assault of
three Palestinian students.
Jonathan Blake Underwood, 20,
of Clinton, S.C., is charged with
three counts of ethnic intimida
tion, two counts of assault and one
count of communicating threats.
Jazz Alffay Favors, of Alpharetta,
Ga., is charged with two counts of
assault and two counts of ethnic
intimidation.
Both were jailed on $5,000
bond.
Roughly 100 students staged a
walk-out during class Thursday
to protest the Guilford admin
istration’s response to the event.
Officials at the Quaker campus
have hesitated to call the attack a
hate crime.
From staff and wire reports
Advising review under way
May result in structural changes
BYASHLEE SADLER
STAFF WRITER
A plan to review the University’s
advising system that could lead
to internal improvements was
unveiled Thursday to members of
the Board of Trustees.
An eight-person committee is
set to deliver a comprehensive
report to the board in May.
Madeline Levine, interim dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences,
said the review is a timely response
to the concerns of trustees about
the advising program, which was
implemented in 1999.
The advising program offers
guidance and clarification to under
graduates who need assistance
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Junior David Campbell gave up soda as his New Year's resolution. Twenty-four days later, he has
yet to have a sip. He said that giving up soda has encouraged him to drink a lot more water.
BY CORI SUE MORRIS
STAFF WRITER
Week four: Have you kept your New
Year’s resolution?
According to statistics from Proactive, a
self-coaching Web site, 64 percent of people
have kept their resolutions after one month.
Indeed, three out of the four students we
talked to at the start of the semester are still
going strong.
“It’s kind of a cake walk, though. It’s just
soda,” said David Campbell, a junior who
decided to go soft-drink-free to support his
brother with the same resolution.
Freshman Caroline Mack, who resolved to
read the Bible consistently, already has read
three books: Matthew, Mark and Luke.
“They’re really small books, but I’m happy
that I’ve gotten through it.”
New group to host ‘Vagina’
GLBTSA steps in to fill production role
BY JESS THOM
ASSISTANT ARTS EDITOR
When students at Thursday night’s
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Ifansgender-
Straight Alliance meeting were told
that this year’s production of “The
Vagina Monologues” almost didn’t
happen, gasps of astonishment could
be heard throughout the room.
The play has been performed at
UNC in the past as a part ofV-Week,
an event that focused on female sex
uality and sought to raise awareness
about violence against women.
“The Vagina Monologues,” writ
ten by playwright Eve Ensler, con
sists of 10 stories, each of which
is told by a separate woman. The
stories celebrate the female body
and tackle heavier issues such as
rape, but also include humorous
anecdotes about sex and love.
The two students in charge of V-
Week, Jenny Boos and Katie Joyner,
graduated this past spring, and the
V-Day organization could not find
anyone willing to take their place.
When junior Lori Mannette, a
dramatic arts major, discovered that
the absence ofV-Week would mean
that there would be no production of
“The Vagina Monologues,” this year,
she decided to direct the play herself,
with the help of the GLBTSA.
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interpreting course requirements.
“The University’s academic
departments are reviewed every
seven to 10 years to make sure
we’re functioning at the highest
level we can,” Levine said. “The
trustees have been interested, too,
so our dual interests coincide.”
She said there have been com
plaints about the program from
students and parents.
“No organization is perfect,”
Levine said. “There have been
times where people have felt they
weren’t properly advised.”
Forums will be held in the fol
lowing months to ensure students’
voices are heard.
Student Body President James
Mack said she enjoys having the down
time she sets aside to read the Bible at lunch
or in the evenings.
“It’s forcing me to take time out of the day
for myself and not let work and social events
take up all my time,” she said. “I’m taking
more time to relax.”
Nikki Pratt has succeeded with not one,
but two resolutions: flossing daily and limit
ing herself to one dessert a week.
She can thank dining hall food for the lat
ter. “It was a lot harder for me to switch into
the dessert one because I was still at home
with all my mom’s dessert.”
Though she was well on her way to meet
ing her 60-mile goal for January, a foot injury
prevented Ashleigh Jackson from running.
She said the ball of one of her feet hurt for
a week, making it difficult to walk, much less
“Even if V-Week has died, we’ll
still try to resurrect one part of it
this year,” Mannette said. “So many
people were upset when they found
out it wasn’t happening.”
Mannette also said a V-Week
might be possible next year.
But before she could prepare for
the performance, Mannette needed
to ensure that a campus organiza
tion could sponsor the event.
GLBTSA, she said, was the per
fect group to sponsor the play due
to its commitment to equal rights
and empowerment, which are two
themes that are explored in the
play.
Robert Wells, a student on the
executive board of the GLBTSA,
said he was disappointed when
he was told that “The Vagina
Monologues” wasn’t going to be
performed this winter.
“My friends and I were eating
lunch the other day, complaining
about how it wasn’t happening,”
he said.
“Then we realized that we’re the
ater students and could do some
thing about it.”
“The Vagina Monologues” was
well-received last year, selling out
two of its three performances and
donating proceeds to the Family
Allred said he thinks the review
will help make advising accessible
to more students.
“Obviously the advisers who are
there are doing a very good job,” he
said.
“But we think there might be
structural changes that could be
made to make them able to serve
more students and better.”
Two UNC professors and two
UNC students will represent inter
nal interests on the committee.
Outside perspectives will come
from a faculty member from the
University of Virginia and a rep
resentative from the Reinvention
Center, an institution that strives to
improve undergraduate education at
research universities, Levine said.
Additionally, two members of
the National Academic Advising
run.
But she’s not giving up. “I’m
going to still try to keep running in
January and get as close as I can.”
Now the real question. Will these students
keep their resolutions until Dec. 31,2007?
When Lent during which some
Christians give up something they enjoy for
40 days rolls around, Pratt won’t just limit
sweets, she’ll abandon them entirely. “I plan
on making the transition to Lent easier and
then keeping it up after that.”
Jackson said she plans to meet the 60-
mile goal at least one month this year.
And what about no soft drinks until next
January? “No problem,” Campbell said.
Contact the Features Editor
atfeatures@unc.edu.
*Even if V-Week
has died, we’ll still
try to resurrect
one part of it
this year.”
LORI MANNETTE, JUNIOR
Violence Prevention Center of
Orange County and the Orange
County Rape Crisis Center.
Mannette said she expects this
year’s performance to be just as
successfiil.
“I don’t think the monologue or
performance will be different at all,”
said Mannette, who has worked
with both the GLBTSA and “The
Vagina Monologues” in the past.
“I plan on doing the exact same
things that have been done before.”
Auditions for play will be held
Tuesday, and the cast will have only
two weeks to prepare for the perfor
mance before its Feb. 16 premiere.
“Rehearsals are going to be very
intense,” Manette said.
“The Vagina Monologues” will
be performed Feb. 16 and Feb. 17 in
Manning Hall, with two 8 p.m. shows
and a 4 p.m. Saturday matinee.
Contact the Arts Editor
at artsdesk@unc.edu.
Association, which sets the stan
dards for accrediting advisers, will
participate.
“We want their advice about the
best program possible,” said Bobbi
Owen, senior associate dean for
undergraduate education.
“We want their assessment of
what we are doing well and what
we could do better.”
The committee also will draw
from a self-study being conducted
by the advising department to be
finished in early March.
“The professional staff in aca
demic advising were excited about
doing this,” Owen said. “When you
feel your staff is being criticized,
you want to find out why.”
Owen said that after the review
SEE ADVISING, PAGE 7
Ashleigh
Jackson
Year: Junior
Major: Psychology
and Sexuality
Studies
Resolution: To
run 60 miles in
January.
Caroline Mack
Year: Freshman
Major: Education
Resolution: To
read the Bible
consistently. "I’m
taking more time
to relax," she
said.
Nikki Pratt
Year: Freshman
Major: Music and
English
Resolution: To
floss every day
and only have
one dessert per
week.
Students stand to gain
from ‘Loser’ contest
BY MONIQUE NEWTON
STAFF WRITER
Sometimes it’s not all about win
ning.
Take for example UNC’s first
Biggest Loser Challenge. It’s a 12-
week weight loss and healthy lifestyle
program that begins today, spon
sored by Campus Recreation and
Counseling and Wellness Services.
“We realized that there are a lot
of people who are intimidated about
working out
or self-con
scious about
working out,”
said Lauren
Mangili, asso
ciate director
of Campus
Recreation.
“We’ve
always won-
£
Science & Health
dered what would be the best way
to reach people who want to be
physically active it’s kind of an
outreach.”
The program got its name from
the NBC reality TV show, “The
Biggest Loser,” in which contestants
are divided into teams by gender. The
contestant who loses the most weight
is crowned “the biggest loser.”
Chosen from a pool of more than
FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2007
Town’s
Friends
ready to
cheer
Community group
has first meeting
BY TOM HARTWELL
STAFF WRITER
Franklin Street has anew cheer
ing section.
Or at least that’s how Pat Evans,
executive director of the Friends
of Downtown, described the fled
geling organization after its inau
gural meeting Wednesday at The
Franklin Hotel.
“I look at us as being the cheer
leader of all of downtown,” said
Evans, who conceived and coordi
nated the booster organization.
“It’s the heart of the commu
nity, and it’s important both to
the town of Chapel Hill and to the
University” Evans said.
The group plans to discuss ways
to make downtown Chapel Hill
more enjoyable, and anyone can
attend meetings.
Evans, a former Chapel Hill
Town Council member, said she
always has been keen on optimiz
ing the downtown experience.
Close to 60 participants were
treated to coffee, light snacks and
an address by Rick Steinbacher,
associate athletic director for mar
keting and promotions for the
University and a former inside
linebacker for UNC football.
Steinbacher spoke to the group
about giving Franklin Street a big
ger role in UNC athletic events,
including the new “Fifth Quarter”
transportation program that pro
vides bus services from Franklin
Street to park-and-ride lots up to
three hours after football games.
The idea is to keep people down
town longer.
“As I see it, it’s a lot of people
that have a lot of common inter
ests that want to get a lot of good
things done for the community,”
Steinbacher said of the group.
The Friends of Downtown
is not to be confused with the
Downtown Partnership, an orga
nization of business owners that
draws funds from the town and
the University.
Money is the most obvious dif
ference between the groups. The
Friends of Downtown is using funds
left over from a former organiza
tion, the Downtown Commission,
which disbanded in 2005.
These funds amount to less than
$5,000, Evans said, adding that if
the group decides to take on a proj
ect, it probably will need to raise
funds.
The group will hold meetings
at 10 a.m. on the last Thursday
of each month. The next meet
ing, also at The Franklin, will be a
brainstorming session for ideas on
improving downtown.
The Friends of Downtown has
obtained status as a nonprofit
organization so that it can accept
tax-deductible donations.
Downtown Partnership
Chairman Tom Tucker attended
the meeting and said he thinks the
group is a positive influence.
SEE FRIENDS, PAGE 7
100 applicants, 76 people make up
two teams students and employ
ees. The teams are further divided
into two randomly selected groups.
“We felt we selected the people
who could truly benefit the most
from the program,” Mangili said.
They will participate in weekly
weigh-ins, workouts, fitness chal
lenges and group sessions with a
nutrition consultant.
In addition to T-shirts and fitness
journals, participants will receive
diet analysis software to determine
their individual nutrition needs.
“We are fully committed to this
program, and we’re going to do
everything that we can,” Mangili
said. “It’s up to them to take advan
tage of what’s available.”
Mangili said they will partner with
Carolina Dining Services for tours of
Rams Head Market and Lenoir and
Rams Head dining halls to expose
participants to healthy options.
“People will lose weight if they
do make that part of their lifestyle
and make changes to their diet,”
she said. “Not by restricting but by
selecting healthy choices.”
The competitive nature of the
program has its advantages, said psy-
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