VOLUME 114, ISSUE 143
Moeser receives Carolina North report
Praises committee for years work
BY DANIEL PRICE
STAFF WRITER
The group charged with lay
ing the groundwork for Carolina
North got a pat on the back
Wednesday from Chancellor
James Moeser.
The Leadership Advisory
Committee, after almost a year of
meetings, presented its final report
to Moeser, outlining several aspects
of the proposed satellite research
campus.
“I think the University and entire
community is in your debt,” Moeser
said to the committee members
who attended the meeting.
“Many people thought it couldn’t
be done.”
The report lays out several issues
with the construction of Carolina
North, including general land use
and housing issues, environmental
principals, fiscal equity and trans
portation.
Chapel Hill Town Council
member Cam Hill, who served
on the committee, heard doubts
Police cut off
Guilford case
BY BRENDAN BROWN
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
The Greensboro Police
Department decided Wednesday
to halt its investigation into the
alleged attack of three Palestinian
students at Guilford College two
weeks ago.
There was no evidence that
would allow police to continue
investigating the case, said Howard
Neumann, assistant district attor
ney for Guilford County.
Six Guilford football students
have been arrested on charges of
assault. Five of them also have
been charged with ethnic intimi
dation. All were released on
bond.
Prosecutors likely will wait for the
college to complete its own investi
gation before proceeding with the
case in the Guilford County District
Court, Neumann said.
“An option we’re considering is
to see what the school does.”
Neumann said the scrapped
investigation would not hurt the
case because police have gathered
all of the information they can.
“I don’t think there’s anything
further the police could do.”
Police have interviewed the
three students who filed charges,
and the college has interviewed 25
students as part of its inquiry.
“Our investigation is complete
ly separate from the Greensboro
Police Department’s,” said Nic
Brown, assistant director of col
lege relations.
UNC fundraiser nears target
BY HANNAH EDWARDS
STAFF WRITER
Ten million dollars might sound
like a lot of money, but for the
Carolina First campaign it’s just
pocket change.
That’s all that stands between
the University reaching its $2 bil
lion private fundraising goal —lO
months ahead of schedule.
The campaign, which began
in 1999, is on pace to achieve the
mark sometime this month.
In December2oo6the campaign
raised $36.7 million. Monthly com
mitments since the start of Carolina
First have averaged $22.4 million
—much more than the needed $3.1
millioh average.
But while the overall goal is
on pace to be met by the end
CORRECTIONS
Due to a reporting error, the
Wednesday front-page story,
“Guilford campus divided by
incident,” incorrectly identi
fies the residence hall where
the incident took place. It
actually is Bryan Hall. The
Daily Tar Heel apologizes for
the error.
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from the community but said he
was impressed by the committee’s
effectiveness.
“Definitely there were some
skeptics,” he said. “For a commit
tee this large to get anything done
is very impressive.”
According to the report, the
campus should create a “livable
community” that will include areas
for living, shopping and recreation,
as well as academic facilities.
The report also states that
the campus should meet the
University’s goal of environmen
tal sustainability, which reflects
“reasonably anticipated environ
mental goals over the next 50
years.”
Sustainability was a key topic
in Wednesday’s meeting, as it has
been in previous meetings. Many
of the leaders involved said it is an
important element in setting up
the site.
“We want UNC to be seen
nationally as the leader in this
area,” Moeser said. “I think
The college judicial board,
made up of students and faculty,
will take two to three weeks to
reach a decision.
The case records are confiden
tial and only can be released with
written permission from the stu
dent on trial.
Guilford freshman Natalie Bent
said students are more concerned
with the school’s handling of the
issue.
“The attitude on campus is more
focused with what the administra
tion is going to do than with the
actual judicial ramifications.”
Nevertheless, students still will
be looking to see how the case
plays out in the courts, Bent said.
“If the players are given any
break, or this isn’t addressed as a
hate crime, then people would be
upset.”
Jeremy Bante, managing edi
tor of the campus newspaper and
a student-athlete, said the district
attorney’s likely decision to wait
on the school’s judgment is trou
bling.
“It’s the mixing of two judicial
processes that don’t have any rela
tionship to each other.”
As the case progresses in both
the county and school courts, and
in the midst of each new develop
ment, students are simply trying
to return to normalcy, Bent said.
“We’re focused on healing.”
Contact the State & National
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Carolina First approaches $2 billion goal
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of the month, some priorities
the University set are further
behind their targeted amounts
than others.
Funding for the strategic ini
tiative portion which supports
programs in the sciences, arts and
Due to a reporting error,
the Monday front-page story,
“Residents fight for right to
silence,” incorrectly states
that Chapel Hill police issued
235 citations last year. Police
responded to 235 violations,
not all resulting in citations.
The Daily Thr Heel apologizes
for the error.
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Carolina North can do that.”
Because the campus will be
situated in both Chapel Hill and
Carrboro, Moeser stressed the
importance of the University’s
continuing communication with
both towns, as well as Orange
County.
“We intend for this to be a trans
parent and participatory process,”
Moeser said.
He also said he would like to
form more jointly appointed com
mittees to continue the project.
Project leaders hope to have a
presentation approved by the UNC
Board of TVustees by October, he
said.
Moeser, who recently met with
Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy to
discuss zoning issues on Chapel
Hill’s side of the campus, said get
ting input from the surrounding
communities is key.
Though long-term issues domi
nate the report, Moeser said two
projects are on a faster track,
including the creation of a school
for children in pre-K through third
grade on the Carrboro side of the
campus and an innovation center
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humanities has reached 99
percent of its $550 million goal,
according to the Carolina First’s
January progress report.
The research priority is 94 per-
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A spotlight on local musician
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Chancellor James Moeser (right) discusses proposed plans for Carolina
North with Ken Broun, chairman of the Leadership Advisory Committee.
for start-up businesses adjacent to
the campus in Chapel Hill.
Ken Broun, chairman of the
committee, University law profes
sor and former mayor of Chapel
Hill, emphasized his view on
Carolina North’s historical signifi
Students vital to firefighting effort
BY JAMIE WILLIAMS
STAFF WRITER
A house fire that occurred at
2520 Whitfield Road on Monday
night has been described as a stan
dard structure fire.
The firefighters from the New
Hope Fire Department who
responded, however, were not
standard firefighters.
Among them were members of
the University community, includ
ing several students and Bob
Dennis, a biomedical engineering
professor who also acts as chief of
the New Hope station.
New Hope’s public information
officer, Capt. Sean Kaye, said the
department received an emergen
cy call at about 5:50 p.m. Monday
and arrived on the scene three
minutes later.
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cance at the meeting.
“Carolina North is the most
important project in Orange County
since the University was founded.”
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
Wrestlers change
weight-loss tactics
BY DAVID ELY
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
Dehydration. Starvation. And
of course, those infamous rubber
suits.
All of those methods have been
thought to be common practice for
wrestlers as they endure the week
ly attempt to make weight.
But in the collegiate wrestling
world, they are nothing more than
urban legends based on practices
that have long been outdated.
“There’s a tremendous amount
of hype about cutting weight in
wrestling and it’s way, way over
done,” North Carolina coach C.D.
Mock said. “You can’t cut a whole
lot of weight when you have an
hour before the match weigh-in.
“So these wild
stories that peo
ple have about
dehydration
and kids hurt
ing themselves
... absolutely
bullcrap. It’s a
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lot of ridiculousness that people
who don’t understand the sport are
trying to give their opinions on.”
The two-time ACC Coach of the
Year is all too familiar with the
weight-cutting methods that have
earned the sport a bad rap.
When Mock wrestled at UNC in
the early ’Bos, people would go to
extreme lengths to drop the needed
pounds to compete.
“When I wrestled there was a
Bob Dennis
is a professor
of biomedical
engineering but
also is chief of
the New Hope
fire station.
Dennis said they encountered a
vigorous fire upon arrival that was
glowing red from all the windows.
“We attacked the fire aggressive
ly and were able to save the struc
ture of the house,” he said.
Kaye said the fire was under con
trol in a few minutes and completely
extinguished within 15 minutes.
The exact cause of the fire is
unknown as of yet, but Dennis said
it began in a wastebasket. He said
the paramedics were seeing an
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Dean of Student Affairs Fred
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System to be strengthened in
order to crack down on academic
integrity violations.
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Carolina North:
What's in the plan?
Housing: The University will
provide housing units for a
minimum of 25 percent of day
time employees and students at
Carolina North.
Transportation: The
University will encourage the
use of public transportation and
will discourage single passenger
automobile trips by balancing
the development of buildings,
housing and other features.
Education: FirstSchool will
provide school facilities for
children in pre-K through third
grade in partnership with
the University's Frank Porter
Graham Child Development
Institute.
Open space: The University
will develop parks, trails and
greenways, keeping as much of
the open space as possible in
one place.
Drew Forse/s
weight targets
Matchday: 125 lbs.
Monday: 130 lbs.
Tuesday: 128 lbs.
Wednesday: 126 or 125 lbs.
Thursday: Less than 125 lbs.
five-hour weigh-in (before the
match),” he said. “So we used
rubber suits when I stepped
on the scale I was completely
dehydrated —but I had five
hours to hydrate, so I wasn’t
hurting my body.”
Mock said that one time
at Nationals he dropped nine
pounds in 45 minutes to reach
his goal naturally with the
aid of a rubber suit
However, those methods
have been done away with.
Gone is the five-hour weigh
in time. In its place is one just
60 minutes before the match.
Gone is the rubber suit.
In its place are smart, nutri
tion-conscious wrestlers.
Doing it the right way
At UNC there is a simple
formula that states how most
of the members of the wres
tling team make their weight.
Work extremely hard. Eat
a little bit less. Eat the right
things.
SEE WEIGHT, PAGE 4
elderly man who lived at the home
by the time the squad arrived.
University seniors Mark Foster
and Michael Easley Jr., son of Gov.
Mike Easley, cut a hole in the roof to
help ventilate the house.
Foster and Easley have worked
with the department for two years,
since they started a volunteer fire
fighting program for students.
“My roommate and I used to
drive by there all the time,” Easley
said of the New Hope fire station.
“One day we said we ought to
go in there and see if they take
volunteers.”
Foster said that as part of the
program students spend two nights
a month at the station and attend
training sessions. He added that
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