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VOLUME 115, ISSUE 62 GO ONLINE FOR THE COMPLETE EXPERIENCE videos. SLIDtSHOWS & m[ WWW DAHYIARHf [ t COM KAIRINA '(>'■' " 5 " Ef |Sr. BEjjgg^pr fif Li TL ; |X DTH PHOTOS/BETH ELY A shed is all that remains on a piece of property on North Roman Street, in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where a levee broke. Family finds reasons to stay in Lower Ninth Miss Gertrude amid emptiness BY JOSEPH R. SCHWARTZ SENIOR WRITER NEW ORLEANS - Miss Gertrude’s routine hasn’t changed much at all. She still gets up every morning at dawn, sits on her porch and reads her Bible. She still prepares strawberries and cream for visitors and still calls home 1738 Tennessee St. in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward. Miss Gertrude’s routine hasn’t changed much at all. But everything around it has vanished. Save for a group of Common Ground Collective volunteers who cut grass, cook and offer clothing in three restored houses, Gertrude Leßlanc, her daughter, Jennifer Landix, and her teenage granddaughter, BSM holds year’s first meeting in historic room BY SERGIO TOVAR STAFF WRITER The Black Student Movement found “love” and historical significance in their new meet ing place Wednesday night. The group held its first general body meeting of the year in the Upendo multi purpose room at the Student and Academic Services Buildings. “This room basically represents integra tion,” said Racine Peters, BSM vice president, as she opened the meeting. The name of the room also means “love” in Swahili. BSM President Derek Sykes said the group is excited to have a room to meet in regularly. The room is convenient for meetings because it can serve as a large space or be divided into three smaller rooms. The original Upendo Lounge opened in 1972 on the second floor of Chase Hall, said Archie Ervin, associate provost for diversity and multicultural affairs. arts I page 12 STRIKE A CHORD Go behind the scenes to see what it takes to make it through the audition process of a premier campus a cappella group such as the Loreleis or Clef Hangers. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 @hr latlu ®ar Urrl A region divided by race Leaura Landix, are the closest signs of life to the Industrial Canal levee break. They aren’t hard to miss, usually sitting out side their FEMA trailer waving to tourists and telling anyone who will listen about their slow path out of tragedy. They tell them about their historically black neighbor hood that they moved back to four months ago, but which two years later still is only at 7 percent of its pre-Hurricane Katrina self. Sixty percent of the overall New Orleans popu lation is back. “I’m used to neighbors, so it’s lonely, but with God, you’re never lonely,” Miss Gertrude says, sur veying from her rocking chair the overgrown brush with signs numbering where families once thrived. Katrina swept her three-bed room home of 45 years across the street and left most of her “Over the years many of the groups or members of organizations like BSM used the room for meetings and functions,” he said. The lounge was referred to by some for mer students as the “Black Student Union” because it was used for more than just an organizational meeting place. The room also served as a recreational cen ter and a dance hall for the first black stu dents at UNC, who were required to live in Hinton James Residence Hall during the first years of integration. When Chase closed in 2005 as part of the University’s master plan, BSM leaders asked officials to remember the legacy of the lounge, leading to the name of the SASB room. The group approached the Division of Students Affairs to reserve the Upendo room for most of their meetings this year. “There was a history of attachment,” Ervin said. Sykes reinforced the belief that the room is important to black history at the University. www.dailytarheel.com Two years after Hurricane Katrina: a lailg ©ar HM special report, part 4 of 5 Friday: What you can do to help the Gulf Coast SOURCE: GOOGLE MAPS DTH/ALLIE WASSUM belongings resting atop a tree, when more than 12 feet of water rushed around, over and through the levee. And despite being at the center of media attention, the Lower Ninth’s scars still are in full view. “I’d love to come back 20 years from now and still see BSM in this Upendo room,” he said. At the meeting, BSM officials discussed opportunities of how to get involved in the organization and the community. More than 200 students attended the meeting. Sykes added that this year’s focus will be on the celebration of the group’s 40th anniver sary during the week of Nov. 11. The group’s membership has grown exponentially since it first started. It is now the second-largest group on campus, with an annual membership of about 400, Ervin said. Students who attended the meeting said they like the new room better than the old meeting space in the Student Union. “A lot of us live down here, so it is more eas ily accessible "junior Jamie Pearson said. Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. diversions | pages SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK Students aren't the only ones who can jam out. UNC employees are making themselves known on the local music scene. Miss Gertrude Leßlanc displays personal photographs of the destruction left behind by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Two years later, residents have been slow to return, and many of the 900 that have say they don’t feel wanted. “This is one part of the city they don’t want you to see,” says Miss Gertrude, who retired after 37 years with the U.S. Postal sports | page 13 KICKIN' IT UNC senior kicker Connor Barth has had an up-and-down career at UNC but once again is riding high after being named to a preseason watch list. Bitter schism mars recovery BY ERIC JOHNSON AND JOSEPH R. SCHWARTZ SENIOR WRITERS NEW ORLEANS - From the moment the first television images began to emerge from post-Katrina New Orleans, the racial subtext of the disaster became impossible to ignore. Scenes of thou sands of evacuees —most of them black, and INSIDE Students and businesses remember the Gulf Coast. PAGE 4 most of them from the city’s poverty-stricken neighbor hoods waiting for days on rooftops or freeway overpass es shocked viewers across the world. Now, two years later, ques tions about the role of race in New Orleans’ recovery still prompt startlingly raw responses up and down the Gulf Coast. SEE RACE, PAGE 13 Service. “Uptown? Yes. Down here? No, because the city isn’t doing anything to help us.” “They could’ve rebuilt this whole subdivision with all the money we’re getting, but they SEE GERTRUDE, PAGE 13 pT- —J } - . 5 j|| DTH/LAUREN COWART Cederick Moore sings with members of the UNC Gospel Choir at the first meeting of the Black Student Movement on Wednesday afternoon. this day in history AUG. 30,1995... The Student Recreation Center remains closed after being flooded with more than 12 inches of rain four days earlier from Tropical Depression Jerry. THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2007 Greek rush set to start Rush rules evolve through the years BY BLAIR BYRUM STAFF WRITER As sororities and fraternities prepare for Labor Day week end recruitment, potential new members already are learning the gamut of Greek rules. Under the “No boys, no booze” policy initiated last year, Panhellenic Council sorority mem bers and potential new members must refrain from consuming alcohol during recruitment week, which begins today. Sorority members and perspective recruits also are prohibit ed from visit ing fraternity houses and discussing Creek rush recruitment matters with men. “It’s to have a more values based recruitment,” said Meredith Martindale, Panhellenic Council vice president of recruitment. “It forces recruitment to take place only in the chapter houses.” She said the rules are intended to level the playing field and give every one an equal chance to get to know the personality of each house. “The recruitment rules are aimed at providing potential new members the chance to openly par ticipate in recruitment without hav ing other factors guide or influence their decision,” Martindale said. She said this is also the reason ing behind the “strict silence rule,” which states that women participat ing in recruitment cannot talk about their experiences at the houses with other potential new members. “It allows each girl to real ly think about it on her own,” Martindale said. Like the Panhellenic Council, the Interfratemity Council also will conduct recruitment sans alcohol. “Our formal recruitment has been dry for at least four years now,” said Alton Wright, IFC vice president of recruitment. “That way, each individual recruit can get to know the fraternities and the brothers a lot better.” Wright said the process is SEE RUSH POLICY, PAGE 13 weather Partly cloudy index H 93 L “ police log 2 calendar """"'2 games , 12 sports 13 opinion 14
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