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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2008
Ethnic violence disrupts Kibera relief
Date to return
still uncertain
BY REBECCA PUTTERMAN
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
In hopes of dispelling ethnis.
tensions in Kibera, aid
encouraged the youth of this <um
of Nairobi, Kenya, to cast aside
their differences to play >tu multi
ethnic soccer teams.
Yet the very ethnic tension that
the nongovernmental organization
Carolina For Kibera was hoping to
calm came to a head last week as
Kenya's tribes clashed violently in
protest of the December election
results, forcing even peace-keeping
efforts to shut down.
The two main ethnic tribes of
Kenya were pitted against each
other in elections that were alleg
edly rigged in favor of presidential
incumbent Mwai Kibaki's histori
cally wealthy tribe, the Kikuyu.
After the initial outburst whole
villages in the Kibera slum were
reduced to charred ruins.
"We have a situation where
swaths of Kibera have been burned
to the ground and hundreds of fami
lies have been displaced," said Emily
Pierce, vice president for develop
ment and former volunteer at CFK.
"And a lot of youth members of
CFK’s program have been affected
by the burning and the lack of food,
and they’ve lost everything."
In the midst of week-long violence
that, according to the Associated
Press, has left more than 500 people
dead and 255,000 displaced, CFKs
soccer program, clinic and reproduc
tive health and women's rights center
had to shut their doors.
"Immediately after the elections
on Dec. 27, we got a report that
they just ft't like something was
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Senior Laura Williamson, a Carolina for Kibera program officer, volunteered in Kibera last summer. Ethnic
violence and looting following the elections in December caused CFK to shut down its clinics and programs.
going to happen," Pierce said.
CFK is only closed temporarily
and has opened an emergency food
service for the program's youth who
have been displaced by the vio
lence.
Though Kibera is an impover
ished area that struggles with eth
nic tensions. Kenya typically is not
a site of ethnic violence in Africa.
“Usually Kenyans are the ones
taking in refugees from Somalia
and elsewhere, and now Kenyans
are the refugees, ’ said Laura
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Williamson, a UNC senior and
CFK program officer. “It’s turned
what people know about the coun
try and their lives on its head."
Optimistic that its programs will
reopen within the coming months.
CFK is going forward with recruit
ing volunteers for the summer.
“I think that there’s an oppor
tunity here for some of the great
students that we have at UNC and
from Duke to make a significant
impact in the lives of people who
have been destroyed by this vio-
HOUSING
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said.
The next formal step for the
foundation is its presentation to
the Chapel Hill Town Council in
March.
Didow said that alternative
plans haven't been finalized but
that they should be completed by
late February.
For some, such as Wesley Student
President William McKinney, the
new building cannot come fast
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lence," Pierce said.
Though refugees have yet
to return and aid groups have
described the violence as sporadic,
Peter Ogego, the Kenyan ambas
sador to the U.S., expressed confi
dence that the country will stabilize
both politically and socially .
“Schools will open next week,"
he said. “Things are getting back
to normal."
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McKinney said the structure,
w hich is beginning to show its age,
lacks the outreach capacity that the
new building promises.
“Everyone else already has a
community that fits them, like
foreign language or substance
free," McKinney said. “There's a
need for a community based on
faith."
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LATTA
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crowd on her way off the court.
“I had a great career here," Latta
said. ‘I had a lot of ups, I had a lot
of downs, and when 1 think about
that we went to three ACC
championships, two Final Fours.
Just not even all the basketball
just being here is a great h0n0r.... I
miss everything about Carolina."
And the UNC community assured
her a lofty place in history with her
second halftime honor, the Patterson
Medal, the program's most presti
gious award. Given since 1924 in
memory of John Durand Patterson,
the award recognizes athletic excel
lence both on and off the field.
“There's so much that I learned
here," Latta said. “I just learned to
be a better person. Just be a better
person and play with a lot of heart,
a lot of passion. Just being in the
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NH PRIMARY
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of the state's non-partisan issue:
keeping its primary first
The walls of his office, covered in
pictures and murals, tell the stories
of past campaigns. Ronald Reagan
holds an ‘I (Heart) New Hampshire"
sweater in ’B4. Bill Clinton, bright
eyed in ’92, runs bingo for senior
citizens. A myriad of others bowl,
swim and snowmobile their way
towards the presidency.
Challenging the candidates
There’s only one real key to
doing well in the New Hampshire
primaries, Gardner says: “Let vot
ers here take part in events and
test the candidates, as they’ do over
quite a lengthy period of time
I observed that process through
out the week, watching the last of
the undecided voters challenge
candidates.
At an ‘Ask Mitt Anything" rally in
Derry, a middle-aged man hunches
over the microphone and challeng
es former Gov. Mitt Romney’s treat
ment of “the undocumented’ in the
Irish community.
“When you sit down tonight Gov.
Romney, will you do me a favor?"
he asks in a heavy Irish lilt. “Just
remember that they’re human."
Romney stands patiently and
allows the man to continue.
“Have you no shame in the way
you've talked about our citizens?"
the man asks.
By now the crowd of Romney
supporters has had enough.
“Sit. Down," a woman says as
if scolding a pre-adolescent. The
crowd follows with angry shouts:
“Shut up!" and “They’re illegal!"
It seems that for many the decid
ing process is over dissent will no
longer be tolerated at these rallies.
The media takeover
“The time period we're in now,
this isn’t the way the real New
Hampshire primary is," Gardner
says.
He lauds New Hampshire's pat
ented one-on-one politics, called
retail politics, because they force
candidates to talk to real people.
But now, large packs of press dom
inate the scene.
In the weeks before the voting,
the media are an invasive species
here, a organism all their own.
At a John McCain event, I tread
“What she didfor womens basketball ...is
just unbelievable. Because she's such a small
package , hut yet she's got so much energy
SYLVIA HATCHEU, UNC BASKETBALL COACH
thing to you."
After concluding her career at
UNC in 2007, Latta was drafted 11th
overall by the Detroit Shock and is
now playing for Elitzur Maclaren
Holon, a club in Israel. But she still
keeps up with the current Tar HeeLs
and was glad to be on hand Saturday
to witness the 99-78 win.
Midway through the first half,
Cetera DeGraffenreid, the heir
apparent to Latta’s point guard
position, cut through the Georgia
Tech defense, spun and drained an
acrobatic layup while getting fouled.
Latta smiled, showing approval from
an unusual place in the second row.
“I played with her three years,
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timidly around the boom mikes
and shoulder cameras to get a bet
ter view of the senator.
I notice "flicker Carlson, his tan
ning-booth orange gleam stand
ing out against the winter-pale
background. People approach
the MSNBC anchor for pictures,
temporarily forgetting the stump
speech of the presidential hopeful.
At the Democratic Party’s
100 Club Dinner set in the
Hampshire Dome with fancy white
table cloths over AstroTiirf the
media sit in a cordoned-off sec
tion. Mingling with dinner guests
is highly discouraged.
Veterans and volunteers
Ron Paul minutemen, drums
and flags in hand, march down
Main Street in Concord. In a near
by coffee shop I meet Daniel Carr,
a previously unregistered 20-year
old up from Central City, Penn.
“Maybe Ron Paul will endorse
a third party if he’s not elected
for Republican," he tells me.
“Otherwise I would probably just
skip politics and get out of H."
On the other end of the spec
trum there’s Betty Hall, a Dennis
Kucinich supporter who says she
got hooked on working at cam
paign canvassing for Gen. Dwight
Eisenhower in 1952.
When I ask her if Kucinich has
a chance despite the polls, she tells
me that anything can happen in
New Hampshire.
Too much?
Before I set off for home, I sit in
my car and listen to the Paul and
Kucinich supporters chanting at
the intersection behind me.
A guy a little older than myself
crosses the street and looks up at
the throng of supporters. “Get. A.
Life," he mutters to himself, mock
ing the rhythm of their chants.
It's a telling moment a reminder
that even in New Hampshire, at
the heart of it all, there are a few
who want little to do with the great
American horse race.
For others, it’s all about the fight
Chet Rogers, a McCain supporter
from Hollis, says he’s only engaged
in politics every four years.
“I like good contests, good sport
ing events, and this is a lot like that
like North Carolina and Duke."
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and throughout the course of the
years you don’t pay attention to
stuff that she does,’ said a nos
talgic Erlana Larkins. 'But when
you really sit down and look at the
things she’s done for the team, it’s
just amazing."
Now, with a spot reserved in
the Carmichael Auditorium raf
ters, Latta can look down on the
next generation of Tar Heels, even
while she is off taking over Israel,
as she puts it.
“Carolina comes first no matter
what.”
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CUSS GIFT
FROM PAGE 1
“There’s 700 options for people
to choose from,' she said. ‘Also, I
would be disappointed if someone
said this makes them war)'.’
So far the senior class campaign
has raised a total of $11,515.56,
given by 71 seniors.
But only seven of the 71 students
have earmarked their money to go
toward CFK, said Scott Ragland,
director of communications in the
Office of University Advancement
Last year at this time, the cam
paign had received only 46 dona
tions, Shores said. That’s not sur
prising, though, as most campaigns
pick up toward the end.
Senior Lauren Miller said that
the donation campaign itself is
a good idea but that not many
seniors know about the effort.
‘I think this might affect the way
people donate,' Miller said.
Shores said class officers haven’t
emphasized the campaign much yet
“People don't want to think that
they’re graduating,’ she said. ‘Until
this semester, we don’t emphasize
the campaign.’
After 2006, administrators
advised the senior class not to give
physical gifts to the University. The
Class of 2007 voted to donate funds
to Carolina Covenant, which makes
it possible for students of poor fam
ilies to graduate debt-free.
Barcott said the senior class’
selection of CFK as its primary
charity should be highlighted
because of the organization’s mis
sion in the country’s current state.
“This makes it even more rele
vant needs are more pronounced
now.’
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