VOLUME 115, ISSUE 98
Report says pace is on track
October Report lists progress of Carson’s goals
BY COLIN CAMPBELL
STAFF WRITER
Student Body President Eve Carson’s
administration released its October Report
on Thesday, detailing its progress in a 149-
page document.
The report updates the student body and
administrators on the executive branch’s
progress as Carson reaches the midpoint of
her term. It also helps the administration
evaluate itself.
IT’S RAINING ACROBATS
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Cast members of Canada's Cirque Eloize perform at Memorial Hall on Tuesday in the second production in the troupe's Sky Trilogy, “Rain." Featuring a mix of acting, dancing, con
tortion and acrobatics teamed with circus music and a nostalgic childhood theme, the performance aimed to connect audience members with memories of their own childhoods.
Troupe explores childhood creativity
BY PHILLIP CROOK
STAFF WRITER
If Cirque Eloize’s “Rain” were
actually a meteorological phe
nomenon, it would be the kind of
downpour most people look for
ward to an unexpectedly lively,
sun-drenched afternoon shower.
The Canadian contemporary
circus troupe enchanted a sub
stantial Memorial Hall audience
Tuesday night with a series of
comedic and moving vignettes
displaying contemporary circus
acts.
Acrobats tumbled high above
the stage, contortionists warped
their limbs into seemingly impos-
Homeless families seek aid
BY ROSE ANNA LAUDICINA
STAFF WRITER
For some homeless families, Chapel
Hill’s Home Start is just a temporary
middle ground as they wait for available
housing.
For others, it is
a more permanent
situation while they
try to turn their
lives around.
“When a family is
homeless, they move
out and the kids lose
their neighborhood
friends and a sense
■PROJECT
■homeless
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What's next:
Finding a home
of stability,” said Laurie Ticker, residen
tial services director for Home Start.
Home Start, an organization that
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“It keeps us accountable for what we’re
doing and keeps us on task,” Student Body
Vice President Mike Tarrant said. “It’s diffi
cult to stop and think and look back at how
far you’ve come.”
Tarrant said the administration is on
schedule for completing the initiatives pro
posed in Carson’s platform by the time her
term ends in April.
“Everyone has a very forward-thinking
attitude,” Carson said.
sible shapes and musicians per
formed joyful, energetic melodies,
drenching audience members in
the romance of the production.
“In any theatrical performance
the object is to blow dust off peo
ple’s imaginations and rekindle it,
bringing emotions and memories
to the surface,” aerial performer
Anna Ward said.
“Rain” was inspired by writ
er and director Daniele Finzi
Pasca’s childhood memories and
his desire to further explore the
playfulness of youth expressed
through the adult actors’ trans
formation into children.
The performance successfully
provides emergency, short- and long
term services to homeless women
and children, is one of the services
available to the homeless of Orange
County.
Combating homelessness in the
county is a continued focus for offi
cials as the 10-year Plan to End
Chronic Homelessness, which began in
September, gets off the ground.
The average time that a family stays
at Home Start is eight months, but that
depends on each family’s situation,
Tucker said.
While there are programs and facili
ties in place where families who become
homeless can go, these programs are
understaffed and underfunded, Ticker
said.
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united striking imagery and profi
cient skill without overwhelming its
audience, instead creating an inti
mate atmosphere. Watching “Rain”
was almost like taking part in some
bizarre family’s living room theater.
Jonas Woolverton, who has been
with “Rain” since its inception and
performed the show more than 500
times, said that the cast members
developed under Pasca’s direction an
inner playfulness they already had.
Pasca wanted to keep the raw
SEE RAIN, PAGE 13
Long waiting lists also prevent fami
lies from getting immediate help, she
said, noting that for Home Start, there
usually is a wait list of about 15 to 20
families. The program’s facilities can
house 10 families at a time.
But Ticker said there is one family set
to move out of the facility within a week
after residing there just three months
because of the amount of effort and per
severance the mother put into finding a
job and securing an apartment.
Finding a home
But it is not always that easy. Sonia
Poteat, 44, said she has worked for
SEE FAMILIES, PAGE 13
■ Tuition: Carson’s platform states that
she will demand that the Board of Thistees
explain how tuition increases will be spent
and that she will advocate a five-year pre
dictability plan.
The October Report states that Carson
has talked to trustees and administrators
about the expense report and that they now
are working out the details and structure for
the initiative.
■ Student fees: Carson states in her
section of the report that she helped to
create a process that allows programs and
departments requesting fee increases to
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Performer Ashley Carr juggles devil sticks during one of the opening
sequences of “Rain." During the act, he also balanced on a teeterboard.
explain the reasons for
the increases.
Carson also explains
in the report why
she vetoed a Student
Congress bill that would
have required a two
thirds majority, rather
than a simple majority, in Congress for
some student fees to go to a student body
referendum.
But Congress Speaker Tyler Younts said
SEE REPORT, PAGE 13
Incumbents bring in
most endorsements
BY MAX ROSE
STAFF WRITER
In the Chapel Hill Town Council race,
incumbents are raking in the endorsements.
But local history has shown that these
endorsements are not necessarily
decisive in the election outcome.
This year both the N.C. Sierra
Club and Hank Anderson
Breakfast Club endorsed only
incumbents for town council and mayor.
“It demonstrates to voters that I have lived
up to my commitments and been true to the
principles and policies that I was going to
pursue as a council member,” Mayor Pro Tem
Bill Strom said.
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SOCCER SHUTOUT
The men's soccer team defeated
High Point on Tuesday night 4-0,
kicking off a three-game stretch
at home. Two Tar Heels contribut
ed their first goals of the season.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2007
2 drop
out of
state
race
Sen. Kinnaird to
seek 7th term
BY ELIZABETH DEORNELLAS
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
The mere announcement
Tuesday that six-term Sen. Elbe
Kinnaird, D-Orange, is running
for re-election cut the field in half
in the race for the N.C. Senate dis
trict 23 seat.
Orange County Commissioner
Mike Nelson and Carrboro
Alderman John Herrera, who had
declared their candidacies under
the impression that Kinnaird
would not be running, said they
plan to drop out of the race
port the incumbent.
But Moses Carey, chairman
of the Orange County Board of
Commissioners, said he will con-
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tinue his cam
paign.
“My plans are
the same,” he
said. “I plan to
stay in die race
and run hard.”
Carey said
he has a longer
history of pub
lic service than
Kinnaird.
“I think I’m
better prepared
to make a dif
ference in the
Senate.”
But Kinnaird
said her experi
ence and ability
to push through
important pub
lic policy goals
sets her apart
from Carey.
Diversity has
been an issue in
the race so far,
with Kinnaird
expressing a
desire to main-
tain female representation in the
50-member N.C. Senate. She has
previously stated that four of the
seven female senators might step
down.
But on Tiesday she said that con
sideration was not a major factor in
her decision to run again, declaring
that her main motivation is to con
tinue the good work accomplished
during the last session.
“As the decision went on, I
became more encouraged at what
we were able to get done,” she said.
SEE KINNAIRD, PAGE 13
Council member Jim Ward is receiving the
Sierra Club’s endorsement for the first time in
his three council races. He said the endorse
ments are helpful but not necessary to win.
“It’s a vote of confidence that you receive,
so that feels good,” he said.
Ward is not the only case in which endorse
ments have not reflected the final outcome.
Town Council candidate Will Raymond
said he received several endorsements in his
2005 run, including the Sierra Club and The
Independent Weeldy, but still fell 600 votes
shy of a seat on the council. “Obviously I had
all the endorsements last time, but it didn’t
SEE ENDORSEMENTS, PAGE 13
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