VOLUME 115, ISSUE 106
Report weighs forced exit
May signal system policy
shift for mental health
BY ERIC JOHNSON
SENIOR WRITER
As part of a post-Virginia Tech review of
campus safety, UNC-system officials are consid
ering a range of potentially controversial mea
sures, including the forced removal of students
who demonstrate threatening behavior.
The UNC-system campus safety task force
was created in the aftermath of the April 16
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2,000 alumni returned to Chapel Hill for the Homecoming weekend. Gatherings were also held for the classes of 1987,1992,1997 and 2002.
Alumni celebrate Carolina tradition
BY MATTHEW PRICE
STAFF WRITER
This weekend, 40 years after graduating from UNC with a master’s
degree in public health, Otto White was back in Chapel Hill.
“I married a Chapel Hill lady, and this is home for her,” White said.
“We’ve spent a long time up in New York, but now we’re back in Tar
Heel country.”
White is one of more than 2,000 alumni who came back to campus for
Rampage 2007, the weekend Homecoming celebration sponsored by the
General Alumni Association and the Carolina Athletic Association.
The celebration started Friday, as alumni reunions began and the Pit
N.C. plagued by extreme drought
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ting suicide.
The group considered a
broad range of campus secu
rity measures, and its list of
final recommendations cov-
ers everything from door locks to police train
ing. They add up to more than $5.4 million in
potential new expenses.
But the most contentious policy suggestions
are likely to be those dealing with student
behavior and mental health.
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POWER SHIFT UNC students lobby in
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Most significantly, the task force advises that
all 17 UNC-system campuses develop a policy
“for the involuntary withdrawal of students who
demonstrate through their behavior that they
potentially pose a threat to themselves or oth
ers, but who may not have otherwise violated
the campus Code of Conduct.”
That language suggests campuses should
consider removing students thought to be a
suicide risk, even if those students have not
violated any university rules.
It will be up to the system’s Board of
SEE UNC SAFETY, PAGE 5
was transformed into a carnival of food, lights and
brightly colored balloons for the fourth annual Feast
before the Fight Homecoming festival.
“We don’t have a pep rally tradition at UNC,” said
Anita Walton, manager of Homecoming and affin
ity reunions for the GAA. “So we try to put all of the
things that you’d find in a parade or pep rally into
one event.”
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Campus crowns
Homecoming
king and queen
on Saturday.
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Various reunions continued into Saturday morning, leading up to
what Walton called “the culminating event before the game” the class
and affinity tailgates at the Bell Tower and across campus.
Hundreds of hugging and reuniting alumni drifted through the Bell
SEE HOMECOMING, PAGE 5
Drought causes layoffs
Some blame state s efforts
BY AARON TAUBE
STAFF WRITER
The drought being endured by the South has devel
oped into one of the worst the area has ever seen, and
some are wondering why the government left them
hanging high and dry.
The entire western part of North Carolina has fallen
into “exceptional” drought conditions, the most severe
level on the Palmer Drought Severity Index.
“This is a pretty severe situation,” said Brian Fuchs
of the National Drought Mitigation Center, adding
that the type of drought conditions seen this year in
the South are a “once-every-50-years event.”
Gov. Mike Easley, who testified on the drought’s
effect on farmers for the U.S. House agriculture com
mittee last month, has exhorted North Carolinians to
cut their water consumption in half.
But the state’s landscapers say they have been hit
hardest by the drought and by a lack of government
preparation.
According to a recent study by the N.C. Nursery
& Landscape Association, the drought has been
responsible for layoffs of 15 percent of laborers, a loss
of 18,750 jobs.
The industry has also sustained a huge economic
loss as a result of the drought.
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UNC field hockey celebrates winning its 16th ACC title against
Wake Forest on Sunday. The NCAA tournament begins Saturday.
Perfect Heels
win ACC title
BY DANIEL PRICE
STAFF WRITER
Tie score. Overtime. ACC Field Hockey Championship game. One
shot to remain undefeated.
North Carolina senior Rachel Dawson lined up for a penalty stroke
Sunday against Wake Forest goalkeeper Crystal Duffield.
With a perfect season in the balance, UNC’s leading goal scorer did
what she’s done all season exactly what she had to do.
“I said to myself, ‘Make a decision about where you’re going to put
it and don’t second guess yourself,’” Dawson said.
FIELD “It’s either going to go in or it’s not. You might as
HOCKEY well put all your faith in the fact that it’s going to
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Wakp Forest The goal gave Na 1 UNC its onl y lead of the
c 1 game, but in sudden-death overtime, it was the
only one the Tar Heels needed to claim the confer
ence crown.
“I think that there is a comfort in knowing how we can play and
how well we can play together,” head coach Karen Shelton said. “There
was never any kind of panic.”
The 2007 title is UNC’s 16th and the first since 2004.
The No. 3 Demon Deacons scored the first goal in the 15th minute
of play, as Chelsea Cipriani tipped in a Liz Fries shot. With the goal,
Wake Forest became the first Tar Heel opponent this season to score
first.
But the Tar Heels remained focused. Less than four minutes later,
sophomore Danielle Forword tied the game at one with her eighth
goal of the season.
Fries scored a goal herself with 2:10 remaining in the first half, giv
ing the Tar Heels only their second half-time deficit of the season.
“Our coaches said just sit down, take a deep breath, relax, this is
why we practice seven on five. This is why we train every day,” UNC
freshman Katelyn Falgowski said.
And less than six minutes into the second half, the training paid
off, as Dawson scored on a penalty comer, set up by senior Jesse Gey
and Falgowski, tying the game at 2-2.
But Gey, who is also second on the team in goals, was forced to
leave the game in the second half after taking a stick to the face on a
pass follow through.
Gey lost at least one tooth and was taken to the hospital in Boston,
where a CAT Scan will check for broken bones in the face.
Shelton said Gey is still likely to play in this weekend’s NCAA first
round play.
“They’re going to try to wire her up and piece her back together,”
Shelton said. “She wants to play.”
With less than eight minutes remaining, it looked as though Wake
SEE FIELD HOCKEY, PAGE 5
“It’s had a big impact,” said Ron Gelvin, executive
vice president and CEO of the association.
“A lot of the landscape jobs we’re normally doing
this fall —with no water use, you can’t do those. It’s
something you won’t be able to do later in the year
when it rains, so it’s a lost opportunity.”
Gelvin was highly critical of the state govern
ment despite claims that drought management offi
cials had been holding meetings as early as April.
“Raleigh has known since 2002 that in 2008 to
2009 they would not have enough water to supply
all the demand if we had perfect weather, much less
a drought,” he said.
N.C. Water Supply Planning Section Chief Linwood
Peele said that there is only so much the state can do
to prevent water supply from running out.
“Drought is based on impacts, so the state can issue
drought advisories but people at the local level have
to implement those,” he said.
The drought is the fourth in the Southeast during the
past three decades, leading some to think there should
have been more comprehensive prevention plans.
“State water planning groups did not keep track of
what was going on year-to-year, day-to-day,” said Mark
Crisp, a consultant with the C.H. Guernsey engineer
ing firm in Atlanta, where the rapidly dwindling water
supply led to confrontations between Georgia politicians
SEE DROUGHT, PAGE 5
this day in history
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Hunger and Homeless Awareness
Week kicks off with a sleep-in in
the Pit. The Campus Y sought to
promote homelessness education
by being homeless for a night.
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