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VOLUME 115, ISSUE 83 1 DEAD IN BLAZE Fire destroys apartments early Sunday BY LAURA OLENIACZ, ANDREW DUNN AND CATARINA SARAIVA SENIOR WRITERS A woman died and at least two were injured in a fire that left a Colonial Village at Highland Hills apartment build ing destroyed and 20 residents dis placed, including ONLINE See more photos from the fire at dailytar heel.com. One-stop voting to be put to test Orange County voting precincts Weaver Dairy Satellite - \ V nN Coker Hills, ) WeaverJ \ / DainrT Cedar Fa ||s\ Battle Park / NortliS^'9 xiVidei East Franklin „ Carrboro f Vttj Northside; I Town Hall 1 y i J P\ I Lincoln j Westwood Carr Cedar Grovel Tolars Caldwell J West Hillsborough, _ 1 U *-i Efland St. Mary's I 0m JfHllsbt r6ugfT I Cheeks V Eno N j r'' Hillsborough] Grady 1.35 I Coles Store / I Orange Grove Vr Patterson | Hogan YsEßNs£j|l Farms n White Cross St. John /l l Dogwo id Acres *Lf { Kings / \ DadTl / MiH J JL n j DTH/REBECCA ROLFE V V ■ ■ . SOURCE: ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS Film festival tests students’ mettle BY ALEXANDRIA SHEALY ARTS EDITOR From run-ins with police on the roof of Swain Hall to filming a moustached “janitor” in a bathroom at 2 a.m., Carolina Production Guild gave 20 participants a taste of “a lit tle Hollywood” in just 24 hours. The guild’s first-ever 24-Hour Film Challenge, where three groups of six or seven people collaborated to make digi tal short films against time and a maze of specifications, kicked off at 1 p.m. Saturday and conclud ed at 1 p.m. Sunday. “The main thing we talk See dailytarheel. com for a photo slideshow and pg. 7 for a story on one contestant. CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, the cutline of the photo with Friday’s front-page story, “Varsity sticks to art through the ages,” spelled Varsity Theater employee Stuart Hoyle’s name incorrectly. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error. tEbr Daily 3ar MM UNC students. The Carrboro Fire-Rescue Department was dispatched at about 2 a.m. Sunday to the fire at 180 BPW Club Road, off of Smith Level Road. Most of the 14-unit G building was already destroyed when fire rescuers arrived. The name of the woman who died, age 55, was not released. Two women who jumped from the second story to about is Murphy’s Law,” said Robyn Hoskins, who along with three others, helped run the event as executive producers. “What can go wrong, will go wrong.” And things did go wrong, but luckily no one was arrested, said Garrett Kemble who arranged the challenge and served as one of the executive producers. CPG required groups to fulfill five out of 10 “elements” included in the films, ranging from “some thing being broken” to having a scene filmed on top of a building. One group was filming a char acter dressed as a gorilla on the roof of Swain Hall when authori ties asked them to come down. “Besides getting nearly arrest ed, it’s run a lot smoother than SEE FILM FESTIVAL, PAGE 4 Online I dailytarheel.com SLAMMIN' PLAYS Playwrights proved that not just poets can "slam" at the sth Annual N.C. Play Slam Saturday night. Contestants had three minutes to put on a play for an audience of about 200, and the winner took home a jar full of cash. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 www.daiSytarheel.coni escape the flames were taken to UNC Hospitals for broken legs and ankles. One displaced resident, UNC senior Kate Connor, said about half of the complex is made up of students. The cause and starting location of the fire at the apartments is still being investigated, said Lt. William Kitchin of the Carrboro Fire-Rescue Department. Carrboro firefighter Hugh Miles said the source might never be determined. “The damage is so extensive, it’s very BY MELISSA MOSER STAFF WRITER This summer N.C. lawmakers made it easier for voters to take part in the upcoming municipal elec tions on Nov. 6 particularly for transient residents like students. And UNC graduate student Sara Peach plans on voting. “Local elections are the ones in which your vote has the potential to make the most dif ference,” she said. The new “One-Stop No Excuse” voting process gives N.C. residents the ability to register and vote at the same place and time during a designated two-week period before the election. This allows residents who fail to register before the Oct. 12 deadline to vote. Three locations offer this new I. prl“ r * Kgr I Ho"*".. H.Ttyo'O**" - mi** ‘ "* B n 1. SefißonT* l "*' **’ ww*.***™ RHPIEHHHHi i ***"•*.. o'** - —- .. .... ... i 'ggsi o.m*' 11 _ DTH/BLISS PIERCE 1 • SOURCE: N.C. STATE ms*"**"* I’** 1 ’** BOARD OF ELECTIONS wfLU DTH/ABBY METTY Tiffany Dixon, a sophomore psychology major, films the romantic comedy Gonzo 6 during the 24-Hour Film Challenge on Saturday. IBH hard,” said Miles, a six-year veteran of the force. “You really can’t do a point of origin, maybe an area of origin.” The fire also melted the wind shields and front bumpers of cars parked nearby and drew neighbors out of their homes. “All I could see when I opened the front door was fire,” said apartment resident Zack Strange, who called 911 when one-third of the building was in flames. “Within 10 minutes, the SEE FIRE, PAGE 4 way to vote. Voters can register and vote in Chapel Hill at the Franklin Street U.S. Postal Service office starting Oct. 22. In Carrboro, voters can go to the Town Hall starting Oct. 18. The Orange County Public Library in Hillsborough will start Oct. 18. Nov. 3 will be the last day for one stop voting, and all locations close at 1 p.m. that day. The traditional system of voting, in which you register ahead of time and visit your local precinct on elec tion day, will still be available. Voter registration forms are avail able at the Department of Motor Vehicles, post offices, county libraries and online. Voter registration forms must be postmarked by Oct. 12. If this deadline is missed, one stop voting should be used in order to make sure the vote counts. university | page 5 TOPPING OFF A ceremony commemorated the new Kenan Music Building on Friday with the signing of the last beam. The building is expected to be completed in October 2008. WjaWTjf DTH/JENNY TENNEY A two-alarm apartment fire started early Sunday morning in Carrboro and destroyed 14 apartments, killing one woman. A provisional ballot is given to voters who vote on election day but have not previously registered. That ballot will need to be verified in the weeks after election night. Though he expects the one-stop voting system to work, Bariy Gamer, Orange County elections director, doesn’t expect a huge turnout. “Municipal elections have a lower turnout than partisan elec tions, so I expect a 10 to 15 percent turnout,” he said. Katie Baker, chairwoman of Vote Carolina, said students tend to focus on national elections, but municipal elections are important. “It allows students to choose representatives who can voice their concerns.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. Lejeune confronts chemical exposure BY MEGHAN COOKE STAFF WRITER When retired Marine Corps Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger’s daughter Janey was diagnosed with leukemia in 1983, he wanted answers. “Any parent who ever had a child diagnosed with a catastroph ic illness begins to wonder why,” he said. “It was a mystery. I went to researchers, and nobody could answer that nagging question.” It wasn’t until 1997 l2 years after Janey’s death that he found a possible answer. Between 1957 and 1987, as many as one million people living and working at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune were exposed to this day in history OCT. 1.1973... The Union Board of Directors announces its plan to end a student directory and locator service due to a lack of funds. Officials deemed the service too expensive to continue. MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2007 ANALYSIS Task force starts talks Nonresident tuition an issue BY ERIC JOHNSON SENIOR WRITER In the last two years, a tuition process that used to be governed by uncertainty and frustration has been largely stabilized. As the University’s tuition and fee advisory task force gath ers today for the first time this year, members know there will be specific guidelines on what kind of in-state tuition hikes they can consider. The UNC-system Board of Governors implemented detailed guidelines in 2006 to clarify what used to be a highly unpredictable process of setting resident tuition. Anything outside those guide lines is unlikely to win approval from the board and therefore unlikely to be considered by the campus task force. “I think that policy has been successful in giving campuses a clear idea of what they can expect,” said Hannah Gage, who served as chairwoman of the BOG’s budget and finance committee in 2006. But the policy only applies to resident tuition. For out-of-state students, uncertainty still reigns. University trustees have abandoned the goal of setting SEE TUITION, PAGE 4 dangerous chemicals through the base’s water wells. The contamina tion was discovered in 1980, and the last of the tainted wells were closed in 1987- The U.S. Senate approved a measure last week to require that military officials notify all Marines, their families and civilian employ ees who lived or worked at Camp Lejeune during the 30-year period of chemical exposure. Outreach efforts would include a volun tary health survey and a national media campaign. Ensminger, of White Lake, learned of the contamination in 1997- While making dinner, he SEE LEJEUNE, PAGE 4 weather O Sunny H 82, L 57 index police log 2 calendar 2 opinion 10 games 13 sports 14
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