Newspapers / Daily Tar Heel (Chapel … / Nov. 14, 2007, edition 1 / Page 3
Part of Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
®fje latlg (Ear Hwl CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, the Tuesday pg. 4 article “Council may extend area’s moratorium” incorrect ly states that the Chapel Hill plan ning board recommended rezoning in the NW area. It was actually the planning department that made the recommendation. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error. CAMPUS BRIEFS UNC partnership launched to find new energy sources UNC has joined forces with N.C. State and Duke universities and RTI International to research problems related to energy. The joint effort, called Research Triangle Energy Consortium, aims to solve economic, environmen tal, technical and social problems, among others. Among the consortium’s goals is to develop new and sustain able sources for energy, reduce the environmental impact of current energy production and educate leadership. The consortium’s first event, the RTEC Sustainable Energy Symposium, will be today and Thursday. It includes research ers from the Triangle to debate the issues and identify ways to fix them. New committee talks about Carolina North forest trails The Carolina North trails and for est advisory committee had its first meeting Tuesday to update members on several projects’ progress. The committee is responsible for advising the forest management team on policy implementation for trail management. Forest Manager Greg Kopsch gave a presentation outlining what the team has done so far. Some of these projects include building entrance columns and kiosks, as well as putting up signs and data collection boxes to get some feed back from those who use the trails. The team also has demarcated part of the property’s boundaries, as well as set up guidelines about property usage, such as having no motorized vehicles and having dogs on leashes in the forest. Residences experience issues with scheduled cable outage Students in residence halls expe rienced a cable outage early Thesday that continued into the day. . The initial outage was scheduled by student telecommunications to change cable providers. The contract with Time Warner Cable was up for renewal, so UNC considered all bids and chose Campus TeleVideo as the best offer. Several stations also have changed channel numbers, and there are additional channels to come. Visit dailytarheel.com for the whole story. CITY BRIEFS Triangle Transit sees record number of riders in October For the second time this year, Triangle Transit ridership has set ridership records. Ridership was 87,721 in October, compared with 82,662 in October 2006, a 6.1 percent increase during the same month last year. October’s increase in ridership is the equivalent of taking 30,000 auto trips off the road. “Thanks to our riders, we’re pleased that we’ve hit anew mile stone,” Sig Hutchinson, chairman of the TIA board of trustees, stated in a press release. There were 62 van pools in October 2007, compared with 61 last October. Chapel Hill police seek tips about residential burglaries Officers responded to a reported burglary in progress at 329 Tenney Circle at about 3:20 a.m. Friday. Officers believe the suspect escaped through a glass door that was bro ken, cutting their scalp severely in the process. There was a large amount of blood on the rear patio and a trail of blood leading toward North Street A resident at 606 North St. woke up about 5:30 a.m. to find that someone had entered their residence. The victim’s cell phone and 2004 Acura MDX was taken from the residence. Because of the seriousness of the head injury, police believe that the suspect has sought medical care in the area. Urgent care facilities and hospitals are encouraged to call if they have treated or have any infor mation on this individual. If anyone has information about the suspect, please call either the Chapel Hill Police Department at 968-2760 or Crime Stoppers at 942-7515. Calls to Crime Stoppers are confidential and anonymous, and the caller might be eligible for a cash reward up to $1,200 for information that leads to arrest. From staff and xoire reports Dean search narrows to 7 ERIN BECKER STAFF WRITER The committee searching for anew dean for the School of Education has narrowed its selec tion from 40 initial applications to a group of seven semifinalists. The selected candidates are now being interviewed via video, said Jean Folkerts, committee chairwoman and dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. So far, six candidates have been interviewed, she said. After the committee discusses and ranks the candidates, the pool will be narrowed to three or four final candidates, Folkerts said. “We anticipate bringing people to campus in the early part of the year," Folkerts said. “ Two-hundred thousand of our service members are deployed overseas at this moment. It’s no time to rest on our laurels.” rep. david price, and orange JfeaHp .yC' t , m ■ a ww *4 : jus • -.ve, ■ j&i.. ~ \ DTH/ELYSSA SHARP United States veteran Frank Rea listens to a report from Veterans Affairs at the Congressional Veterans Breakfast in Raleigh. The event was hosted by U.S. Democratic Reps. Bob Etheridge, Brad Miller and David Price and addressed concerns from attendees about VA services. STARS, STRIPES AND EGGS Congressional breakfast honors area veterans BY ALEX COOK STAFF WRITER RALEIGH About 200 area veterans adorned with service patches ranging from World War II to the 1991 Persian Gulf War shared breakfast Tuesday on the dime of three N.C. congressmen. U.S. Reps. Brad Miller, D-Wake, Bob Etheridge, D-Harnett, and David Price, D- Orange along with officials from regional Veterans Affairs offices spoke to those gathered about a variety of veterans’ issues and fielded concerns from attendees. The congressmen lauded current VA operations and praised Congress’ recently passed funding for VA services the larg est increase in the program’s history. Price said that he was pleased with the increases in VA funding and capacity but Alum’s work first of its kind in N.C. Latino film to be shown at UNC BY ALEXANDRIA SHEALY ARTS EDITOR Filmmaker Rodrigo Dorfman said he can barely stand a five-min ute-long educational video. So when the UNC alumnus was approached by Durham’s Latino Community Credit Union to make a 90-minute educational film aimed to serve as a manual to the Hispanic community about the process of buying a home, he came up with a different idea. “Ninety minutes is a long time for an educational video,” Dorfman said. “So I said let’s just make a film that has a real story with characters and an arc, and we will mix actors with real people and a real story that will illustrate this idea.” Dorfman’s film, “Los Suenos de Angelica” or “Angelica’s Dreams,” will be presented at a free screening at 7 p.m. today at the FedEx Global Education Center Auditorium. The film is the first Latino feature film to come out of North Carolina. Dorfman will lead a discussion Top News Steve Allred, executive asso ciate provost who helped set up and facilitate the committee, said when the finalists come to campus for interviews, the committee will hold open public forums. “It’s important that the faculty, students, staff, other people in the community have an opportunity to see the candidates and ask them questions,” Allred said. The post was first advertised in the Chronicle of Higher Education. “We look for somebody who is interested in teacher education, somebody who is interested in lead ership,” Folkerts said. “They also have to have a real knowledge about what goes into an educational system.” Fenwick English, an education professor, served as interim dean that there is more work to be done. “Two-hundred thousand of our service members are deployed overseas at this moment,” he said. “It is no time to rest on our laurels.” Improvements cited by panelists included expansion of the capacity and staff of VA facilities in North Carolina. Bob Keteles, assistant director of the Winston-Salem VA regional office, said the expansion should help VA offices assist North Carolina’s growing veteran population, which he said has put a strain on die system. The number of employees in N.C. VA facili ties has increased 67 percent since 2000, to 496 employees statewide. Keteles said it’s like ly that 30 to 50 more will be hired in 2008. Veterans’ benefits, such as those for educa tion, were also discussed at the breakfast. ATTEND THE SCREENING Time: 7 p.m. today Location: FedEx Global Education Center Auditorium Info: www.ilas.unc.edu after the screening. Shot entirely on location in Durham over a three-month peri od, Dorfman’s film tells the story of an immigrant Latino couple who must decide whether to face the challenges of staying in the U.S. or to return to their native country. “The main thing before you even try to buy a home is the question, Are you going to stay or not?’” Dorfman said. “I’ve had people come up to say, ‘This (film) really talks to me because I’m in the same situation.’” Dorfman, who lives in Durham and is an immigrant himself, said he wanted to keep the educational aspect of the film intact without infringing on its aesthetic and entertaining qualities. “When you’re trying to create an educational film, you have a message, and you also have a story SEE LATINO FILM, PAGE 5 during the search that resulted in the hiring of former Dean Tom James. James, whose salary was $211,000, left UNC in June to take the position of provost of the Teachers College at Columbia University. Interim Dean Jill Fitzgerald will hold the position until the search committee’s selection takes office July 1 of 2008. Salary for the new dean has not yet been decided. Although not a member of this search committee, English said he’s hoping for a dean who can help solve the state’s teacher shortage. “We have to be concerned about teacher quality. We can’t just be pumping people out the doors,” English said. The committee is looking to balance the teacher shortage with Etheridge said that he was pleased by the results of the GI Bill and that it has helped many veterans attend affordable colleges, but he wants to modernize the bill. “Now, the college costs are skyrocket ing. We need a GI Bill for the 21st century,” Etheridge said to applause. The breakfast meeting began with cadets from the N.C. State University Army ROTC program leading the room in the pledge of allegiance. An a cappella singing group fol lowed with the national anthem. The anthems of each branch of the armed forces were played between speeches, and the veterans stood for the anthem of their branch of service. Earl Mann, an Army veteran from the Vietnam War, said he was pleased with the breakfast and the presentation. “I am glad they are going to do more for SEE BREAKFAST, PAGE 5 Ravellette, 67, dies in car wreck BY DAVID CROW STAFF WRITER Local inspirational figure Marty Ravellette, 67, died Monday when the driver’s side of his GMC van collided with a logging truck at an Alamance County intersection. “(This morning) we expected that gray van to pull up anytime, but inside our minds we knew he wouldn’t,” said Don Pinney, man ager of Sutton’s Drug Store. Ravellette, bom without arms, had been going to Sutton’s Drug Store for breakfast for the last 15 years. “There is no such thing as a dis ability. He showed people to work with what they got,” Pinney said. Known to be a very vocal person, Ravellette carried on conversations every day with regulars at the drug store and students. “Sutton’s is a big family, and Marty was part of our family,” Pinney said. “Sometimes he was here twice a day ... especially in the spring when he was working a lot.” Ravellette, a self-made busi nessman, owned Hands on Landscaping. Using his legs, he managed to work on more than a dozen lawns a week operating a push mower, riding mower, leaf blower, edger and chain saw. Jock Lauterer, a lecturer in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said people can WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2007 UNC’s role in conducting research, Folkerts said. And the job, English said, is also no place for someone without experience as a dean. “I don’t think this is a place for someone to be a dean for the first time,” he said. “This is not where you get on-the-job training.” Noteworthy achievements dur ing James’ deanship include the restructuring of the education school around four broad focus areas and his role as a “great spokesperson for UNC’s role in higher education,” Allred said. “A lot of the qualities he brought to the job are things they’ll be look ing for in a candidate.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. .A DTH FILE Marty Ravellette, a well-known local man, died Monday in a car wreck in Alamance County. Ravellette often dined at Sutton’s Drug Store. learn a lot from Ravellette. “He teaches you to make do with what you got,” Lauterer said. Lauterer met Ravellette at Sutton’s when Ravellette was drink ing a cup of coffee with his left foot. After meeting him, Lauterer invited Ravellette to speak to his “News writing” classes for the last 12 semesters. “What you want to do is present kids with the opportunity to write interesting, fascinating and com pelling stories,” Lauterer said. “He’d walk into a class and lift up the chalk with his left foot and write Month raises diabetic issues UNC events to target awareness BY MONIQUE L. NEWTON STAFF WRITER Senior Anna Swisher doesn’t mind giving herself an insulin injection in a public place. “I’m very open about it,” said Swisher, who has had diabetes since she was 4 years old. “I’ll pull it out and do it any where because I’m used to it.” And it doesn’t hurt that people have become more educated about diabetes and insulin injections in the past 10 years, Swisher said. In order to spread awareness, the American Diabetes Association has designated November as American Diabetes Month. About 21 million Americans 7 percent of the population have diabetes, and about 54 million are at risk for developing the disease, according to the association. Throughout the month, UNC Campus Health Services is spon soring diabetes prevention walks with physicians and dietitians on hand to answer students’ ques tions. The first walk will be today. Diabetes is an illness charac terized by unusually high levels of blood sugar, which must be monitored and stabilized with an increase of insulin in the body. Swisher, like many others with diabetes, has an active schedule. And that’s what can make it chal lenging when it comes to keeping her blood sugar in check. “Time management is really tough because there are always immediate demands,” said Dr. Margaret Vimmerstedt, a physi cian at Campus Health Services who specializes in diabetes. Most of Vimmerstedt’s patients have TVpe 1 diabetes, which is sometimes known as “childhood” SEE DIABETES, PAGE 5 Diabetes prevention walks Dates: Today, Thursday, Monday and Tuesday Time: 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. Location: Walks start at Rams Head Plaza More info: A physician and registered dietitian will be on hand to answer students' questions during the walks. Diabetes information talk Date: Nov. 27 Time: 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Location: UNC Wellness Center at Meadowmont More info: Dr. John B. Buse, chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the UNC School of Medicine, will speak about 'How to Avoid Diabetes and How to Treat It.* on the whiteboard in beautiful cur sive his name, Marty Ravellette.” Lauterer was present at Sutton’s on Tuesday. The drug store was mostly quiet, and Ravellette’s chair remained empty. “The lunch counter people said they’re not letting anybody sit in Marty’s chair today... it’s a shrine,” Lauterer said. Ravellette is survived by his wife Maree, 65, and his daughter Nancy Jo, 41. Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. 3
Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Nov. 14, 2007, edition 1
3
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75