VOLUME 115, ISSUE 139 Carolina First exceeds goals Fundraising campaign finishes with $2.388 BY DAVID GILMORE STAFF WRITER Eight years ago, organizers of the Carolina First Campaign were aiming to raise $l.B billion by the end of 2007- By the time the fundraising project fin ished in December, though, that goal had been reached —and left in the dust. The campaign made SSBO million, or 32 percent, more than originally sought, bringing the total amount of money raised to $2.38 billion. “The Carolina First Campaign isn’t just STUDENTS STORM S.C. UNC groups go south to push for each Dem. With North Carolina’s primary still more than three months away, UNC students are heading south to get a piece of the presi dential campaign action. Supporters of all three Democratic front-runners will be in South Carolina this weekend to give their campaigns a last minute boost before Saturday’s primary. Heels for Hillary HeeLs for Hillary, which held a Nevada caucus phonebanking event last Saturday, will head to South Carolina this weekend. UNC junior Amanda Vaughn, director of the Clinton group, said seven volunteers will be in Rock Hill, S.C. Saturday to can vass and phonebank. “Hillary in South Carolina is a tough one,’ ONGOING STORY A DTH team will bring back SC. coverage for Monday's paper. Vaughn said. “1 think it’s going to take a lot of effort, but 1 think we can do it’ Carolina Students for John Edwards Carolina Students for John Edwards has opted out of traveling to South Carolina, choosing to spend Saturday making calls from headquarters in Chapel Hill. “They need as much help calling as they need help in South Carolina right now,’ said freshman group member Laima Stroud. Edwards is third in S.C polls. “I’ve always been keeping up hope for him,” Stroud said. UNC Students for Barack Obama UNC Students for Barack Obama, which has organized a total of six trips to South Carolina, will return this weekend. Junior Vivek Chilukuri, director of the group, said he had 48 confirmed volunteers as of Thursday afternoon. One group leaves today for Orangeburg, S.C, with another leav ing Saturday morning for Dillon County. Although Obama is ahead in the polls, Chilukuri said the campaign can’t take any thing for granted. “I felt this way right before New Hampshire, so I’m really nervous." See pg. 9 for a story about UNC Students for Barack Obama canvassing in South Carolina last weekend. DTWTIMOTHY REESE Andrew DiMartino plans a close shave as Sweeney Todd, Fleet Street's demon barber. online I dailytarhed.com MORE SPORTS The low down on wrestling, fencing and track. A COMPLEX PROJECT The Science Complex is about halfway to completion. WATER WORRIES Residents air concerns and get tips at an OWASA meeting. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 She latljt ®ar Heel good to great; it’s great to preeminent," Chancellor James Moeser said at Thursday's Board of TVustees meeting, where the final figures of the campaign were announced. The campaign is now the largest fundrais er by a higher education institution in the South and the fifth largest in the country. More than 193,000 private and pub lic donors contributed to the campaign, though most of the money came from pri vate gifts and pledges. “Those private gifts are really providing a margin of excellence." said Matt Rupee, vice chancellor of University advancement. He stressed that although UNC is a state school, public funds finance only SEE CAROLINA FIRST, PAGE 9 | f - jlglS L IBte 111 * DTH/OEVIN ROONEY Barack Obama speaks at a rally at Dillon High School in Dillon County, S.C., on Wednesday. It wasoofeoi.. Obama's last rallies leading up to Saturday's Democratic primary, which polls predict he will win. mu r in OTH/DEVIN ROONEY Daisy Crawford, a former teacher, leads the crowd in Obama’s signature chant of 'Fired up, ready to go! ” before his speech at a rally in Dillon County, S.C. The chant has followed Obama across the country. Murderous musical opens today BY ALEXANDRIA SHEALY ARTS EDITOR With less than 10 hours until curtain at 8 p.m. today, the cast and crew of Company Carolina’s produc tion of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ should final ly receive the barber's razors they ordered more than a week ago. But during a three-week rehears al period for a large-scale musical, time is relative. In that period five different chairs, including a 400-pound den tist's chair, were used as the barber's chair on stage and scrapped, the show's entire set was built and a cast of more than a dozen people joined an orchestra to study and memorize lines of complex operetta State I page 8 N.C. AIDS INITIATIVE The state has launched a program meant to fight disproportionate numbers of Hispanics contracting HIV, drawing praise from Hispanic advocacy groups. www.dailytarheel.com A final tally for Carolina First Launching on July 1,1999, the Carolina First Campaign raised $2.38 billion, making it the largest completed fundraiser at a university in the South. FUND ALLOTMENT DONATION GROUPS Strategic Corporations and Initiatives foundations Reseatch 26%ES- alumni . Friends of the University 3CU HBNB and other organizations Students HHH| BY THE NUMBERS , ■■l 208 new endowed professorships Facilities MO c ,, , , , ; ■ . 577 new student scholarships OtherFTo be HB 196 new student fellowships Designated S •*. pRj I 1 —i M Trustee Rusty Carter has been a key advocate for graduate funding. weather O Sunny H 41. L 25 index police log 2 calendar 2 sports 5 games 9 opinion io