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,’
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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
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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
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“Sweeney Todd,’ written by
Stephen Sondheim, will open
today and runs until Feb. 3 at the
Arts Center in Carr boro.
While members of the cast and
technical crew of the gruesome
musical admit how much of a chal
lenge the production has been,
some say its demanding schedule
has made the experience all the
more rewarding.
Recently popularized in a film
version directed by Tim Burton,
“Sweeney Tbdd’ is die story of one
man’s murderous vengeance against
the society that has wronged him.
“When I signed on to ‘Sweeney,’ I
knew it was going to be a daundng
task,’ said the show's director, Lori
Mannette. “But by doing the show in
Ip'
ATTEND THE SHOW
Time: Various times, today to Feb. 3
Location: The Arts Center in Carrboro
Info: www.artscenterlive.Ofg
the short amount of time, I was able
to get the best talent on campus’
Mannette has directed multiple
productions on campus, but the senior
said she was drawn to “SweeneyTbdd’
because the musical is driven by vocal
numbers rather than dance.
“The show is music-heavy, of
course, and Sondheim is one of the
scariest musical challenges you can
get,’ Mannette said.
Sondheim won a Grammy for
SEE SWEENEY TODD. PAGE 9
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UNC'S NEXT HIS AIRNESS
Contestants in this weekend's
air guitar competition will
be judged on several factors,
including the aimess of their
performances.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2008
Search for
chancellor
continues
at meeting
BY KELLY GIEDRAITIS
SENIOR WRITER
Members of the chancellor search committee dis
cussed Thursday possible candidates for UNC’s top
job.
The committee is interviewing and reviewing can
didates, Chairman Nelson Schwab said.
“We have a great committee,” Schwab said. “We
have different opinions that we have to work through,
but we’re moving along."
The 21-person committee formed in October
and will recommend three finalists to UNC-system
President Erskine Bowles.
After Thursday’s meeting. Schwab said he thinks
the committee is on track for filling the spot before
Chancellor James Moeser steps down June 30.
Here’s an update on the committee's progress:
► Fewer than 50 candidates remain on the
committee’s list. More than 100 applied.
► Committee members still are cutting and
adding to the list as interviews progress.
“We're trying to figure out, ‘OK is this person right?
Should we keep this person on the list?” Schwab
said.
► No specific timeline has been set
“We're still in the front end of it" Schwab said. “We
haven’t really set a specific benchmarks other than we
need to be done in June."
Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
THE NEXT COMMITTEE MEETING:
Time; 1 p.m. Feb. 14
Location; Morehead Building Faculty Lounge
Info; www.unc.edu/chan/search
Funding for
grad students
tops agenda
Trustees discuss stipends,
how to divide tuition dollars
BY WHITNEY KISUNG
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Picking up where they left off in November. UNC
trustees took a deeper look at graduate student sup
port Thursday, suggesting that money should be set
aside specifically for that population.
After hearing a presentation by Provost Bernadette
Gray-Little, the Board of TYustees requested that the
University evaluate the competitiveness of teaching
and research assistant stipends, as well as determine
if about $4.5 million in tuition revenue could be saved
for graduate students.
Data from the presentation
shows UNC at a comparable sal
ary level with peer institutions:
about $17,000 for nine-month
research assistant stipends and
about $14,500 for nine-month TA
stipends. But trustees questioned
whether the peer comparisons
were appropriate.
“1 worry that we’re trying to
figure out the wind speed with a
thermometer,’ Board Chairman
Roger Perry said.
The College of Arts and Sciences
allows each of its 45 academic
departments to determine how' money is spent for
TAs whether it increases the number of positions
or increases individual pay. So because average pay
varies from department to department and even from
school to school, an overall average of about $17,000
is somewhat misleading, trustees suggested.
“We’re using a benchmark peer group that really
may not be the best way to look at it,’ said trustee
Rusty Carter, who has been an advocate of graduate
student support both this year and in years past
When trustees voted in November to increase
graduate student tuition by S4OO for residents and
SEE FUNDING. PAGE 9
this day in history
JAN. 25,1988...
Results of an awareness survey
show that 25 percent of UNC
students and staff believe AIDS can
be contracted like a cold. Officials
plan an education campaign.
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Trustee Rusty
Carter has been
a key advocate
for graduate
funding.
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