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2 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2007 ahp Daily (Tar Hrrl www.dailytarheel.com Established 1893 114 years of editorialfreedom UNDSAY MICHEL SARAH RABIL INVESTIGATIVE TEAM CO-EDITORS 962-0750 ITEAM9UNC.EDU BETH ELY PHOTO EDITOR 962-0750 DTHPHOTO©GMAIL. COM LINDSAY NAYLOR, BRITTANY SPENCER COPY CO-EDITORS 962-4103 AMY DOMBROWER, GINNY HENDRIX DESIGN CO-EDITORS (919) 962-0750 ALUE WASSUM GRAPHICS EDITOR 962-0750 CLINT JOHNSON ONLINE EDITOR 962-0750 ONLINEaUNC.EDU CHRIS SOPHER MULTIMEDIA EDITOR 962-0750 ONLINEaUNC.EDU SHARI FELD, ERIN GIBSON, JESSICA SCHONBERG WRITERS' COACHES 962-0372 FELD©EMAIL. UNC.EDU, EQGIBSON©EMAIL. UNC.EDU, JESSI22@EMAIL. UNC.EDU JOSEPH R. SCHWARTZ EDITOR-IN-CHIEF 962-4086 JOSEPH.SCHWARTZ OUNC.EDU OFFICE HOURS: MON., WED., FRI. 2 P.M. TO 3 P.M. KAVITA PILLAI MANAGING EDITOR 962-0750 KPILLAIOEMAII.UNC. EDU REBECCA WILHELM DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR, 962-0750 BECCAO7OEMAIL. 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Schwartz, Editor-in-Chief, 962-4086 Advertising & Business, 962-1163 News, Features, Sports, 962-0245 One copy per person; additional copies may be purchased at The Daily Tar Heel for $.25 each. © 2007 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved JFellow Americans, at this time, lil£f to formally announce our candidacy for BEST NSjW BAR IRI(klILA IIR ll Ill.H . ' NOW HIRING All Positions: COMJMG SOON" a lciuli.com ft ■ ■ y Km # • M . P , • ;• •: v t v \* % . *4ll WE ST<M 0 DOSe What if they named her rock ’n’ roll? FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS Metallica may be a cool name for a heavy metal band, but a Swedish couple is struggling to convince officials it is also suitable for a baby girl. Michael and Karolina Tomaro are locked in a court battle with Swedish authorities, who rejected their application to name their six-month-old child after the legendary rock band. It suits her, Karolina Tomaro, 27, said Tuesday of the name. “She’s decisive, and she knows what she wants.” 1 he Swedish National Tax Board refused to register the name, saying it was asso ciated with both the rock group and the word “metal.” Tomaro said the official han dling the case also called the name “ugly.” NOTED. A woman is suing her dance part ner, claiming he dropped her on her head after flipping her into the air at an office party. Lacey Hindman, 22, was a victim of “negli gent dancing,” said her lawyer, David M. Baum. Hindman said that during a party at a Chicago bar and restaurant in April 2006, David Prange grabbed her by the forearms and tossed her in the air, and then she crashed to the wood floor. TODAY Women's health research day: Researchers across the biomedical, social and public health sciences will give presentations. Registration is free, and lunch will be provided. Time: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Location: Friday Center Employee meeting: The Employee Forum will hold its monthly meet ing and will discuss a resolution advocating for state employee pay increases, among other items. Time: 9:15 a.m. Location: Wilson Library Pleasants Family Assembly Room Hunger lunch: The School of Public Health will hold a hunger lunch featuring foods such as rice, beans and cornbread for $3. Proceeds will benefit Nourish International. Time: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Location: Hooker Center Atrium Gutierrez book signing: Lolita Gutierrez Brockington, professor emeritus at N.C. Central and a fellow with the Institute of African American Research at UNC-Chapel Hill, will dis cuss and sign her new book, "Blacks, QUOTED. “The strangest thing I’ve tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father.” Keith Richards, the 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist, telling British music maga zine NME that he mixed his father’s ashes with cocaine and then snorted them. His father, Bert, died in 2002, at 84. . Richards advised young musicians against try ing to emulate him, saying his survival was luck. COMMUNITY CALENDAR Indians, and Spaniards in the Eastern Andes: Reclaiming the Forgotten in Colonial Mizque, 1550-1782." Time: Noon Location: Dey Hall Toy Lounge Documentary screening: A 35- minute documentary film featuring interviews with people who lived in Chapel Hill during segregation will be shown. It will be followed by a question-and-answer session. Time: 4 p.m. Location: Peabody 104 Urban bike meeting: Students United for a Responsible Global Environment and graduate students at UNC and Duke will host a forum on a community bike program. Time: 5:30 p.m. Location: New West 219 Surviving the cycle: Christina Lawson will speak about how she endured her father's murder at the age of 9, and how when she was 20, her husband was convicted of mur der and seven years later executed in Texas. The UNC Law Death Penalty Project is co-sponsoring this visit. Time: 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Location: Newman Catholid Student Center News THURSDAY Author speech: Best-selling author Anna Lappe will speak. Lappe is the author of "Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen.” Time: 12:30 p.m. Location: Michael Hooker Research Center auditorium Exhibition and auction: The OASIS ACTS Initiative, a community service subgroup of the group called Organization for Africans Students' Interests and Solidarity, will host a one-day art exhibition and charity auction. Money will go toward an education scholarship fund. Time: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Location: Sonja Haynes Stone Center multipurpose room To make a calendar submission, visit www.dailytarheel.com/calendar, or e-mail Deputy Managing Editor Rebecca Wilhelm at beccao7@email. unc.edu with "calendar" in the subject line. Events will be published in the newspaper on the day and the day before they take place, and will be posted online when received. Submissions must be sent in by noon the preceding publication date. MINI-BITE OUT OF CRIME .JIT | DTH/MAGGIE SARTIN NHoah Lee, 3, introduces himself to McGruff the Crime ■Dog on Tuesday at Kidzu Children’s Museum. The ■“Our Neighbors” event hosted a safety talk by Chapel Hill police officer Mark Geercken and offered a chance to meet the National Crime Prevention Council’s famous mascot PfILiCF i,in: H Bryan Montreez Upchurch, 26, of 1008 Bengel Drive in Durham, was arrested at 3:58 a.m. Sunday at 100 Park Place on mul tiple drug-related charges, Chapel Hill police reports state. Upchurch was arrested on charges of possession of marijua na with intent to sell and distrib ute, a felony count of possession of cocaine with intent to sell and distribute, possession of mari juana for personal use, driving under the influence and driving with a revoked license, according to reports. He was arrested after running a red light, and additional charges were pressed after a K-9 unit locat ed the controlled substances in his car, reports state. According to police reports, Upchurch remains confined in Orange County Jail in lieu of SIO,OOO bail. He was scheduled to appear Monday in Superior Court in Hillsborough. sfj t BaUg (Ear Hwl M An incident of larceny was reported at 11:15 a.m. Monday at 305 West Rosemary St., according to Chapel Hill police reports. Reports state that an unknown suspect stole a purse and fled the scene. The purse contained items includ ing a Motorola Razr phone, a wallet, credit cards, a camera memory card and a camera. The total value of the stolen items is more than S7OO, according to reports. All leads are exhausted and the case is closed, reports state. M An incident of vandalism was reported at 6:44 p.m. Monday at 308 McMasters St., according to Chapel Hill police reports. An unknown suspect caused $175 worth of damage to a 2006 Subaru Forester by using a sharp object to scrape the side of the vehicle, reports state. The case has been closed as all leads have been exhausted, accord ing to reports. -m< ...
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