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VOLUME 115, ISSUE 59 ■F* IPP ' ■,%<} > i a viy 'iff WnlmM JUr ;V 1 jESyHH >-| WL *•:-*—*.."...... I B ■ --..: V 4 / 'j£r-"' ' ' | / H ■ p**" 11 -■• • \.JL. ’ 1 OTH/BETH ELY For miles along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, concrete slabs and eerie skeletons are all that remain of most homes. Rebuilding progresses inland, but the beachfront is missing. BY ERIC JOHNSON AND JOSEPH R. SCHWARTZ SENIOR WRITERS WAVELAND, Miss. one. M ’ That was the word most often used to ■ ■"•“describe this beachfront community after Hurricane Katrina came ashore Aug. 29, 2005. The storm shattered the town’s main street, leaving nothing but a hardened bank vault and a collection of concrete slabs. Whole neighborhoods disappeared as street after street of solid, older homes disin tegrated into scattered piles of debris. The core of Waveland was not simply INSIDE View "Still Vacant," a Waveland, Miss., photo story. PAGE 10 damaged or flooded. It was gone. And now, nearly two years later, much of the town remains that way. SEE KATRINA, PAGE 8 Katrina's destructive patT The actual eye of Hurricane Katrina ran alonqColemß . Avenue inWavefarid,fvliss., 50 miles from New Orlefl 77. P ■ r'f. when it came ashore Aug. 29,2005. f H LA \ I Miss. AL ■WIPIPHBH && S^L° A > vr p ass Christian New Orleans* £7 •'- N SB Gulf of Mexico 0 Mites 2ft SOURCE: GOOGLE MAPS, NOM £ 'DTH/REBECCA ROLFE Carson administration touts summer progress Sophomore Reorientation set for September BY KELLY GIEDRAITIS AND WHITNEY KISLING SENIOR WRITERS Student Body President Eve Carson wants her first progress report to be acces sible to students and administrators alike. The Summer Report, a 123-page docu ment that details committee and Cabinet work on Carson’s platform so far, was released Sunday night. “I want this to be a workable document,” she said. announcement WE'RE HIRING The DTH is accepting applications for new staff. Come to our interest meeting at 5:30 p.m. today in Union 3411 for more information. Applications are available in Union 2409 or at www.dailytarheel.com. alte Haifa (Ear MM Among the platform accomplishments is the new Sophomore Reorientation pro gram, which aims to acclimate returning students to academic and student ser vices. The report also recaps unanticipated projects, such as advocating for a nearby location for the one-stop early-voting site at the Franklin Street post office. “This voting thing it was important, but at the same time we lost some valuable time on our other projects,” Student Body online BLOGGIN'WITH THE DTH Check out the DTH online for our revamped blogs section. Read about and discuss campus, town, and state and national news. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 www.dailytarheel.com Rebuilding from scratch New home, life destroyed in days BY JOSEPH R. SCHWARTZ SENIOR WRITER WAVELAND, Miss. Susan Underwood always wanted to move to the beach. Twenty four days after settling into her dream house, the beach moved to her. “It looked like it was going to be the coolest place to live,” TUESDAY Chris and Crystal Blissett are trying to raise a family in a FEMA trailer. to sell pharmaceuticals in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and Alabama, the then-Atlanta residents and Tar Heel-state natives could pick anywhere in the four-state region to make a home. They didn’t know anyone from Waveland. A map and a single visit was all it took for them to buy a three-year-old home in this prime beachfront Vice President Mike Tarrant said. As Cabinet members settle into their offices, they said they’re realizing the time constraint of being in office for just one year. “The pace can be so challenging,” Carson said. “I just have such a tremen dous sense of urgency.” Carson set out her goals in a 43-page plat form last semester. Most of her main points then remain her key objectives now. From a campus community integrated via technology to a big-name speaker series and a junior-level scholarship, Carson said she plans to tackle all of her platform points. “We’re going to be working on every- s Two years after Hurricane Katrina: a latly ®ar Wni special report, part 1 of 5 Tuesday: Business returns to the coast ~ : ’ liSHiLi. Mil she says. “Overnight, it was all gone.” When her hus band, Frank, was tapped Susan Underwood describes the damage Hurricane Katrina left in the neighborhood she moved to three weeks before the storm. community with an eclectic local music and art scene, once home to 7,000 residents. They moved into a neighborhood half a mile from the water. Before their last moving box was unpacked, the couple’s new town became ground zero for one of the most vicious natural disasters in U.S. history. Their home was devastated. A 70-foot pine tree fell into the dining room and kitchen. Water splashed 7 feet high inside. All that remained was the basic City | page 4 HAPPY BIRTHDAY Poet Laureate Mike Troy spoke and recited poetry in honor of Horace Williams' 149th birthday Friday at the former philosophy professor's house. structure. “There were nothing but slabs or a pile of rubble ftom here to the beach,” Susan says, pointing from her doorstep. “We were just one house away from being in destruction.” A lucky bend in the road and a grove of trees sheltered them from some of the flooding. And although bad timing put them in harm’s way, their inexperi ence helped out in surprising SEE UNDERWOODS, PAGE 8 Student Body President Eve Carson released a 123-page report about summer initiatives. thing this year,” she said. “We’ve already started working on probably everything.” And though the Cabinet has delegated responsibilities and committees have begun work, Carson said it hasn’t been easy. She has met with administrators to dis- this day in history AUG. 27, 1965... A Chapel Hill board unanimously votes to disallow the use of a house on Vance Street for UNC offices, citing a fear that "hippies would move into the neighborhood." MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2007 Brawl erupts during party Spray clears out Blend nightclub BY KAYLA CARRICK CITY EDITOR A birthday party at the down town nightclub Blend ended with a visit from police officers and paramedics early Sunday. Two UNC students rented the Rosemary Street nightclub to cel ebrate their 21st birthdays, but the soiree turned chaotic when two men started a fight, said Idan Eckstein, Blend’s general manager. The fight turned into an all-out brawl that several partygoers say was ended by clouds of a chemical spray that sent people scrambling for the doors. “I don’t know how anything was handled,” said Gabe Wright, who walked into the club to help a friend after the fight started. “All I know is it was complete chaos. It was like a scene out of a movie.” Club employees immediately called the police, and Chapel Hill police confirmed they responded to the fight call for crowd control. One officer said that she respond ed to the scene but that no officers went inside the building. The offi cer said no incident report was filed with the department because it was a “crowd-control call.” The officer declined to answer any more ques tions or give her name. The crowd left the scene once the police arrived, Eckstein said. It is unclear who sprayed the chemical that cleared the club, but Blend manager Ryan Earls said it must have been someone in the crowd. Senior LaToya Evans said she couldn’t see for 30 minutes because of the chemical. “It was really like a run-for your-life type thing,” she said. “A lot of people had asthma and were gasping for air.” Evans, a former Daily Tar Heel summer columnist, was bleeding after crawling out of the club on broken glass. Several people who left the club were immediately helped by paramedics, she said. UNC Hospitals and the police department were unable to con firm if anyone was taken to the hospital Sunday night. The club sustained significant damage bar stools were thrown around, and furniture was destroyed. Blend’s owner and Earls both were punched during the fiasco. Wright graduated from UNC in May and traveled from Charlotte for the party. He was outside the club when the fight broke out. All of the people tried to escape the SEE BLEND, PAGE 8 cuss key ideas, but seeing her plans to frui tion requires more, she said. “Administrators work with a different time schedule than students,” Student Body Secretary Mac Mollison said. “They think in decades. We think in years.” One of Carson’s planks was to encour age the creation of more study-abroad exchange programs at UNC, so members of her Cabinet met with Bob Miles, associ ate dean for study abroad. According to the report, “Dr. Miles was not necessarily optimistic about the pros- SEE REPORT, PAGE 8 weather T-Storms H 90, L 64 index police log 2 calendar 2 sports 16 games 5 opinion 14
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