VOLUME 115, ISSUE 87
FAMILY WEEKEND
The University wiii provide severaf activities
throughout the weekend. For a full list, see page 5.
UNC prepares
for Hispanic
student growth
Officials try to
cater to group
BY ANDREW DUNN
FEATURES EDITOR
At the current 20 percent growth
rate, Hispanics will overtake blacks
as the University’s largest minority
in the year 2013.
And as the number of
Hispanics on campus continues
to soar, two groups in particular
the Carolina
Hispanic
Association
and the office
of Diversity and
Multicultural
Affairs have
begun step
ping up efforts
Hispanic
Heritage
to account for the changing
dynamics.
“I don’t know when it’s going
to level off or if it will,” said Terri
Houston, the department’s direc
tor for recruitment and multicul
tural programs. “It doesn’t matter.
We’ll be prepared. We’re excited
Hispanic student level projection
The Hispanic student population at UNC is estimated to increase by nearly 470
percent in the next 10 years, reaching almost 4,500 students by 2017.
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Gala part of BSM
40th anniversary
BY DAVID GILMORE
STAFF WRITER
Members of one of UNC’s largest
cultural organizations are celebrat
ing its 40-year anniversary tonight
with a gala at the Millennium
Hotel in Durham.
The gala is one of many events
celebrating the creation of the Black
Student Movement in 1967
“It’s a happy time, but it’s also a
time to reflect on the history of the
organization,” said Derek Sykes,
president of the BSM. “We have to
make sure our voice is really being
heard.”
Organizers of the annual gala
said they expect 150 students to
attend. The event is open to every
one, and tickets are sls for individ
ual attendees and $25 for couples
who purchase tickets before 8 p.m.
Tickets are S2O per person at
the door. The proceeds will bene
fit the United Negro College Fund
and Ms. BSM’s service project. Ms.
BSM will be selected tonight.
The only candidate is senior
Angela Crocker, so she is nearly
guaranteed the title. Crocker also
is running for Homecoming Queen
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HALO TOURNEY Students battle for
bragging rights as best halo player.
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about the growth.”
Pedro Carreno, Chispa presi
dent, said the increase of the
Hispanic population on campus
will help fuel even more growth.
And one of the main efforts to
encourage that growth is through
the fourth annual Hispanic
Recruitment Weekend, hosted by
Chispa, which begins today.
Hispanic students from across
the state will be invited to campus
and hosted by Hispanic UNC stu
dents, Carreno said. Visitors will
sit in on classes and attend a panel
discussion.
“It’s motivational seeing people
you can relate to,” Carreno said.
“Just seeing the number of minor
ity students is very comforting....
It lets them see the Latino side of
Carolina.”
The office of Diversity and
Multicultural Affairs is also a
sponsor of the event. The Hispanic
community has become a higher
priority for the department in
recent years.
For the division that meant hir-
SEE FUTURE, PAGE 7
“The BSM basically
is a place called
home. It became a
home away from
home.”
RACINE PETERS, BSM VICE PRESIDENT
against senior Meredith Jones.
A slideshow presentation with
pictures of the BSM’s past also will
be shown at the gala.
The group’s official anniversary
celebration kicks off Nov. 11 and
lasts through Nov. 17, and includes
a march through campus and artis
tic performances.
“I think it’s a time of celebrat
ing our past, especially the people
that came before us,” said Racine
Peters, vice president of the orga
nization. “We wouldn’t be able to
attend this school so freely or have
the privileges we have now if it
weren’t for those individuals who
paved the way for us in the past.”
SEE BSM, PAGE 7
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JAZZ SINGER
Four-time Grammy award-win
ner Dianne Reeves will bring
her jazz vocals to
Memorial Hall as part of the
Carolina Performing Arts Series.
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Carrboro sees new voters
Annexed voters may elect fresh faces
BY ANDREW DUNN
SENIOR WRITER
When Carrboro annexed six
unwilling subdivisions last year,
it brought more than new taxes
to the land north of
Homestead Road.
The repercussions
of the unpopular
decision could have a
sizable effect this year
in the first municipal elections in
which the new residents can vote.
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Highlands, Highland Meadows,
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Carrboro family farm
raises ram for UNC
BY RACHAEL OEHRING
STAFF WRITER
Right before the season kickoff at Kenan
Stadium, UNC fans, alumni and students
alike banged on the stands in excitement.
And UNC’s mascot, Rameses, the represen
tative of the spirit and history of the University,
stood on the edge of the field chewing on
the hedges.
This is not the Rameses who flamboyantly
leads the band and dances with the cheerlead
ers. This Rameses is real, down to his woolly
Cambodian dance fuses world cultures
BY ALEXANDRIA SHEALY
ARTS EDITOR
Sophiline Cheam Shapiro has
come a long way from her days
working in a field collecting cow
dung in rural Cambodia during
the Khmer Rouge regime.
Now as the artistic director of the
Khmer Arts Academy —a dance
troupe specializing in Cambodian
classical dance Shapiro has trav
eled around the world both as a
performer in other groups and as
the head of her own company.
“Pamina Devi: A Cambodian
Magic Flute,” the company’s clas
sical dance rendition of Mozart’s
famed opera choreographed by
Shapiro, will be performed at 8
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Highlands North and Meadow
Run neighborhoods were annexed
in 2005.
And some candidates from the
annexed area, which is about four
miles from downtown, are using
the issue to woo voters, though
most candidates from pre-annexed
Carrboro insist it is not something
that should be heavily weighted.
Three of the town’s Board of
Aldermen spots are up for grabs,
with just two incumbents running
to keep their seats.
And three of the four alderman
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p.m. today in Memorial Hall.
It is presented in Khmer,
Cambodia’s national language,
with English subtitles.
While the performance includes
the same characters and premise of
the original opera, Shapiro incorpo
rated into the dance her own experi
ences during the frequent transfer
of political power in Cambodia.
“The characters forget to pro
vide the environment, the warmth
and the nurture to Pamina Devi,”
Shapiro said. “This is reflect
ing through my own experience
through the changing political
system in Cambodia.”
Shapiro, who incorporated the
academy in 2001, said that while she
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BUBBLES ABOUND
Chill Bubble Tea will open on
East Franklin Street in November.
Existing bubble tea vendors are
Lime and Basil, the Daily Grind
and the Global Cup Cafe.
challengers live in the annexed area,
as does one mayoral challenger.
After the Board of Aldermen
voted 5-2 in January 2005 to annex
the land, about 850 residents were
brought into the town.
But the newest town residents
didn’t gain voting rights until Jan.
31,2006, and thus couldn’t vote in
the 2005 municipal elections.
Several of the candidates from
above the line are using that situ
ation what some have called
“deliberate disenfranchisement”
—as a campaign mantra.
“If (voters) approve of the injus
tices heaped on die annexees, then
it won’t matter at all,” mayoral can-
coat and penchant for eating shrubbery.
The tradition was started in 1924 by a
cheerleader who thought the University
needed a mascot, inspired by a popular foot
ball player nicknamed “The Battering Ram”
Jack Merritt.
The tradition of having a live ram at foot
ball games has been passed down through one
local family for 83 years.
“It goes back four generations to my great
granddad,” local farmer Rob Hogan said of
the long-standing family custom. After his
great-grandfather was killed by a bull two
years later, Hogan’s grandfather stepped up
to carry on the tradition.
Hogan’s Magnolia View Farm is even older
than the University. Started in 1757, the farm
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didn’t think she could be as expres
sive as Mozart, she was willing to try
when renowned American theater
director Peter Sellars came up with
the idea for “Pamina Devi.”
“With this work, people both
in Cambodia and in international
audiences appreciate it,” Shapiro
said. “It is anew production, and
the costume is beautiful, and it
represents both the preservation of
the classical dance even though I
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2007
didate Brian Voyce said. “They only
come up here to tell us how to live.”
And the only current candidate
who ran and lost in 2005 said she
should have a much better chance
this year to win a seat.
Katrina Ryan, from The
Highlands, lost to John Herrera by
511 votes, 1,247 to 736. But Ryan
largely blames the loss on the fact
that her neighborhood had not yet
gained Carrboro voting rights.
“None of my friends and neigh
bors could vote,” Ryan said. “My
husband couldn’t even vote for
me.”
SEE ALDERMEN, PAGE 7
stretched out more than 1,600 acres and was
a dairy farm until 1929.
Throughout the years, the farm has been
whittled to its current 180 acres, and the only
livestock still raised on it are beef cattle and
sheep —but the sheep aren’t for meat or wool.
“The only reason we have the sheep is to pro
vide the ram to the University,” Hogan said.
Hogan isn’t sure how his family became the
official ram provider of the University, but he
thinks it has something to do with the farm’s
deep ties to the school.
Hogan’s ancestor Col. John Hogan was one
of the first benefactors of the University and
gave 200 acres of his own land to help start
SEE RAMESES, PAGE 7
choreograph new movements; it’s
still in the same frame of work.”
Classical Cambodian dance
takes dancers more than nine
years of training to become quali
fied to perform.
The form is traditionally a court
dance that has been performed
for the country's royalty for thou
sands of years. Dancers perform
by bending back their limbs to
express characters’ emotions while
wearing golden outfits that must
be sewn onto the body.
One of the reasons Emil Kang,
UNC’s executive director for the
arts, chose “Pamina Devi” for per-
SEE FLUTE, PAGE 7
this day in history
OCT. 5,1947...
Frank Porter Graham, president
of the consolidated UNC system,
leaves Chapel Hill to begin his
tour as U.S. delegate on the U.N.
Indonesian Commission.
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