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ENDORSEMENTS
Di-Phi and Young Democrats
endorse Hill for president
The Young Democrats became
the second campus group to
endorse Kristin
Hill for student
body president
Monday night
at their candi
dates' forum.
SBP candi
dates Logan
Liles and J.J.
Raynor were
also present at
the debate.
Kristin Hill
Hill stressed collaboration and
support for student groups while
Liles described his theme of stu
dent dynamism and Raynor focused
many of her comments on her plan
to deal with tuition increases.
Hill was also endorsed by the
UNC Dialectic and Philanthropic
Societies last Wednesday at the
first candidate forum.
The next candidate forum will
be sponsored by the Campus Y and
will take place at 6 p.m. Feb. 4 in
the Campus Y building.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
Water heater issue cuts
showers in Hinton James
A leak in a Hinton James water
tank caused officials to turn off the
water supply to the dorm at around
8:30 p.m. Sunday.
A rusted gasket blew a quarter
inch hole in the top of the main water
heater causing the need to turn off
the water to the entire dorm.
Officials said they had to lower
the water in the tank to weld the
hole and fix the leak. Cold water was
restored to the dorm about an hour
after the incident, but residents
had to go without hot water until
approximately 4 p.m. Monday.
Freshman Erik Straub said the
lack of hot water inconvenienced
him.
‘I had to take a really cold show
er this morning. It was really bad.'
Steve Lofgren, assistant facilities
director, said they are considering
creating backup water heaters to
ensure that students have a water
supply in case of a similar situation.
Deadline to apply for arts
grant approaches in Feb. •
Attendees at Mondays Student
Arts Forum were asked to spread
the word about the Carolina Student
Arts Grant worth up to SI,OOO to
support student-led arts initiatives.
The deadline to apply is Feb. 8.
"To be eligible, you have to attend
two of three of the Arts Forum
meetings,” said Michelle McGraw,
executive and artistic assistant at
Carolina Performing Arts, the orga
nization that funds the grant
Mondays forum was the first of
three meetings to occur this semester
and saw only three student attendees
in addition to the co-chairmen of the
Arts Advocacy Committee, Tom Allin
and Shivani Chudasama
The grant may be applied to cul
tural projects ranging from work
shops to concerts and publications.
For more information about the
grant visit www.carolinaperformin
garts.org/aboutus/studentaspx.
CITY BRIEFS
Chamber of Commerce to
honor Chancellor Moeser
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Chamber of Commerce will award
Chancellor James Moeser with
the Duke Energy- Citizenship and
Service Award today.
Past recipients of the award
include state Rep. Joe Hackney and
Robert Dowling, executive director
of the Orange Community Housing
and Land TVust
The recipient must demonstrate
a key set of values, including integ
rity, initiative and accountability.
Aaron Nelson, the chamber's presi
dent and CEO, said that Moeser
embodies each of those traits.
“1 could go through a whole list of
reasons he deserves the award, from
the Carolina Covenant to his citizen
ship in the community,’ he said.
Nelson said the award was tre
ated as a tribute to valuable indi
viduals or groups around southern
Orange County.
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story.
Chapel Hill affirms support
for creek restoration grant
The Chapel Hill Town Council
voted Monday night to support a
grant application for the Bolin Creek
Watershed Restoration Project
If the grant is approved by the
Environmental Protection Agency,
town staff will work together with
Carrboro to restore and maintain
the water quality of Bolin Creek,
which flows through both towns
into Jordan Lake.
"We want to make sure that the
water... is clean and safe," council
member Mark Kleinschmidt said.
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story.
—From staff and win reports
Town plans fog sculpture art
BY MAX ROSE
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
Fog will fall on downtown
Chapel Hill in the coming years.
The plan for public art to accom
pany the mixed-use development
at Lot 5 between Franklin and
Rosemary streets includes stainless
steel sculptures that use rainwater
to create a mist
Lead artist Mikyoung Kim pre
sented the plans, two years in the
making, to 30 people at the public
library and to the Chapel Hill Town
Council on Monday, and most said
they were impressed.
"It engages people in terms
of sound, sight and feel,’ said
Carrboro resident Gary Cramlinge.
“I love the fact that it’s sensitive to
harvesting rainwater.'
The public art will be incor
porated with Ram Development
Company’s mixed-use project, 140
West, which is expected to cost
about $75 million and include con
dominiums. retail and parking.
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Freshman Leah Brown gets help from the audience by using her lifeline during trivia at the Harry Potter Feast and Trivia Tournament. The
event held Monday evening in the Great Hall of the Student Union, brought out fans to enjoy food, drink and games based on the book.
THE MUGGLE GREAT HALT,
BY ZACK LEVINE
STAFF WRITER
Students didn't even have to search
for Platform Nine and Three-Quarters
on Monday- night to be transported to the
Hogwarts Great Hall.
Students filed into UNC’s Great Hall
ready to feast on wizard fare and to test their
knowledge of Harry Potter.
The trivia tournament, hosted by Carolina
Union Activities Board, attracted about 200
Potter fans.
“It was kind of a random idea," said junior
Lindsey Paytes, co-director of the event.
“Sarah (Bagot) and I just asked ourselves
one morning, 'Wouldn’t it be cool to turn our
Great Hall into the Hogwarts Great Hall?”
CUAB got the word out through a
Face book event notice and by posting fliers
throughout campus.
Those who hoped to participate placed
their names in the “Goblet of Fire’ upon
arrival, and the 24 names selected became
the contestants. The event was carried out
similar to a spelling bee, where contestants
were eliminated if they missed a question.
A house hill of 1 man’s trash
BY HEATHER CALDWELL
STAFF WRITER
When Julie Goodstadt furnished
her Town House apartment last
year with a coffee table, stereo, car
pet, printer and wine glasses, she
did it without spending a penny.
Goodstadt found each of these
items on the Freecycle Orange
County Web site, a Web-based
nonprofit group that takes dump
ster diving high tech.
The organization, which focuses
on reducing waste in landfills, uses
Internet message boards where
people can post items they no longer
want and give them a second life.
“Freecycle sort of epitomizes
reduce, reuse and recycle,' said
Caryl Feldacker, a graduate student
in the School of Public Health. “As
an environmentalist, as someone
interested in conservation and
reducing waste, there is no way
to put that mantra into practice
except through Freecycle.”
Members of Fteecyde groups on
Yahoo.com post offered and want
ed items on a message board and
receive daily e-mails with informa
tion on new posts.
Top News
The agreement with Ram marks
the first time that public art will be
incorporated into a private devel
opment. About $671,000 has been
set aside for art.
In 2002, Chapel Hill became the
first municipality in the nation to
incorporate public art as a part of
land planning when they decided to
require that 1 percent of new public
buildings' budgets go toward art
Kim said this project is unusual
because it is being designed at the
same time as the development
"I think what’s unique is the
opportunity to really interplay
the sculpture with the place,’ she
said. "It’s like a big vision working
together.’
The landscape will include bench
es and an outdoor plaza It will incor
porate blue lighting to create the
appearance of permanent fog.
Kim, who is based out of
Massachusetts, designs public art
as far away as Korea
She also is responsible for
Paytes and Bagot the other co-director, kept
the audience involved by giving participants
lifelines to help them answer questions.
The contestants competed for Harry
Potter-themed prizes such as a Hogwarts
school banner.
“We got really excited about getting the
prizes and came up with the idea of the tour
nament to give them away," Paytes said.
Some students took their Potter fanhood
to the next level by dressing the part.
Sophomore Liz Komar was wearing full
Hogwarts attire, including dress robes and
a tie.
The judges began the tournament
with simple questions such as, “What was
Professor McGonagall’s first name?" and
continued as the tournament progressed
with ones like, “What was Arthur Weasley’s
pet name for his wife?"
Competitors proved they knew their trivia
early on when the judges only had to elimi
nate one person in the first round.
Sophomore Patricia Ramos made it to the
third round before being unable to answer
a question.
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Julie Goodstadt plays cards with Omer Levit (left) and Nir Josipovich in
her apartment which is furnished with items from the Freecyde Network.
When members find items they
want, they e-mail the owner and
arrange a pickup location and time.
For convenience, the owner will
often leave the item on the front
porch or in the yard with a sign
bearing the recipient’s name.
"People give away weird stuff, like
life-size Little Mermaid cardboard
■ ART AREA I: Sculptural stormwater
retention in main plaza
■ ART AREA II: Stormwater retention
and architectural light, street effects
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Chapel Hill’s Streetscape master
plan, which will attempt to incor
porate art into daily public life.
“It’s more than just lining a
street with stores and putting con
dos above,’ said council member
Mark Kleinschmidt. the council's
liaison to the Chapel Hill Public
Arts Commission. “It’s a transfor
times but the others not as many," she said.
“I’m a little disappointed I didn't win.'
The trivia junkies competed for about six
rounds before a winner emerged.
After answering some very specific ques
tions, senior Andy Cao was the last one
standing and took home a Hogwarts school
banner as well as a Weaslev family clock for
his knowledge of J.K. Rowling's series.
“I didn’t study for it actually." Cao said. “I’m
just a big fan and a pretty good reader.’
Attendees enjoyed many Hogwarts deli
cacies, including cauldron cakes, licorice
wands, butterbeer, pumpkin juice and the
infamous Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans.
The unusual menu items were created using
everyday food such as TWizzlers. cream soda,
Hawaiian Punch and 56 pounds of cupcakes.
“We wanted it to be a sort of welcome
back to campus, and for students to take
a break from everything, to do something
completely random and fun,’ Paytes said.
“Everything was great. It went above and
beyond our expectations.’
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cutouts’ said Goodstadt, a senior
history major. “Lots of half-used
shampoo bottles and stuff like that'
But Freecycle is not only about
getting; it is also about giving.
“The first rule of Freecycle is you
have to give before you receive,"
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2008
mative downtown project"
Kleinschmidt said the site could
help to bring together the east and
west ends of Franklin Street.
Community members who saw
Kim’s design Monday said the art
could play a central rqje in the future
of downtown Chapel Hill.
"It’s a place that really celebrates
community, and we need more of
these places in town," Cramlinge
said.
Kim told the council that she
will submit a final concept plan
in February based on community
feedback and that an artist will
be picked to design the Rosemary-
Street side of the lot in the coming
weeks. Construction on the art is not
expected to begin until about 2010.
"It’s going to be possibly the
heart of Franklin Street’ said Steve
Wright a staffer with the Public Art
Commission.
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
Study abroad catches
up on credit transfers
BY ANDREW RYAN COSGROVE
STAFF WRITER
Credit transfer issues that have
plagued UNC students who studied
abroad in the past year are finally
starting to be resolved by the Study-
Abroad Office.
“The problem students are hav
ing now is that they have not filled
out the proper forms or we are wait
ing for department majors to send
in forms," said Kathryn Goforth,
associate director for advising for
the Study Abroad Office.
Personnel issues within the office
have caused a delay in transferring
academic credits from internation
al institutions.
Many seniors are worried they
will not be able to register for grad
uation by Feb. 8 because they have
not gotten credit for the classes
they took abroad.
But Goforth said seniors can still
register.
“We have talked to Academic
Advising and they are aware of the
situation,* Goforth said, adding
Retreat
hits top
goals
for year
Aldermen focus
on development
BY ELISABETH ARRIERO
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
On the second and final day of its
annual retreat the Carrboro Board
of Aldermen and key town staff met
to discuss goals for 2008.
At the retreat, town officials
identified transit, land develop
ment and economic development
as top areas that they will focus on
in the coming year.
From a laundry list of 79 recom
mended actions and goals, most of
which were taken from last year's
retreat the town whittled down the
number to 10 priorities.
“Obviously this is an incredible
list," Mayor Mark Chilton said. “We
need to pick our priority items and
work from there."
One item that made the cut was
the need to complete a downtown
parking plan in order to provide
multiple ways to access the area.
Chilton said the item was
clearly- needed based on the origi
nal list.
“About a quarter of these items
have to do with transportation
and parking downtown,’ Chilton
said, referencing goals to make the
downtown more pedestrian friend
ly and improve transit.
Town officials also acknowledged
the need to explore “green-collar"
business development in 2008. That
type of business development keeps
the environment in mind while pur
suing economic development
The aldermen also committed to
exploring how to curtail land uses
and activities that would use large
quantities of water.
“I would make a real strong
argument that this year we need
to make water an economic issue.’
Alderman Jacquelyn Gist said. "We
need to start thinking about the
long-term implications if we don’t
watch our water usage."
Facilitator Phil Boyle also asked
the aldermen to create categories
under which the goals could fall.
The aldermen decided on 10 val
ues to consider when pursuing their
goals in the coming years, includ
ing sustaining existing businesses,
respecting the character and history
of the town, providing long-term tax
revenue and staying consistent with
the town’s environmental ethics.
Alderman Joal Hall Broun said
she wanted to make sure that all of
the projects the town got involved
with provided long-term benefits.
“That should be an overarching
value of this board,’ Broun said.
Gist said that it was important
for the board to remember these
values later on.
“I just don’t want it to become like
a mission statement that isn’t actu
ally considered." Gist said. “Because
it really should be a working part.’
The board asked town staff to
make suggestions for town action
on the list of goals within 30 days.
There was general consensus
among the aldermen that this
year’s retreat was successful.
“This is the first retreat that vali
dates everyone’s position and takes
them into account’ Alderman John
Herrera said.
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@ unc.edu.
that students should check in with
their advisers.
The backup began when four full
time study abroad advisers left their
jobs last year, causing the office to
fall behind in transferring credits for
UNC students who studied abroad.
Students returning from abroad
had to work with multiple tempo
rary advisers.
“Mv adviser changed about three
times, which made communicat
ing much more difficult," said Neil
Gerber, a senior who studied in
Barcelona last spring.
By January, the Study Abroad
Office had filled all the advis
ing positions left vacant last year,
which has helped ease the work
load on advisers.
Gerber said it is now up to him
to go to the office and get the prop
er forms filled out
But other students are still
encountering issues with their
credits.
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