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shr Saily oar Hrrl CAMPUS BRIEFS Chancellor search committee meets, closes doors to public The search committee to find UNCs next chancellor had its second meeting of the semester Thursday. For about three hours, the com mittee met to discuss potential can didates for the position. Before going into closed session. Bill Funk head consultant for R. William Funk & Associates, which is helping the search committee review candidates reported to the com mittee that the pool of applicants is diverse and possibly the best he has seen in five years for a position such as UNCs chancellor opening. “I think we’re exactly where we’d hoped we'd be, and I think we have a great pool," he said. The committee next meets Feb. 28. Carolina Club reopens after fire for Valentine's dinner The Carolina Club, which has been closed since a fire Monday night, reopened Thursday for a special Valentine's dinner. After investigating the fire, UNC fire officials said an electrical prob lem started the fire, and grease on a stove fed the flames. This was the first fire the club has seen since the George Watts Hill Alumni Center opened in 1993. The fire caused about $25,000 worth of damage, according to a press release. UNC to host youth health and fitness fair on Sunday In recognition of National Girls and Women in Sports Day on Sunday, UNC Athletics and UNC Family Medicine are hosting a youth health and fitness fair. The fair aims to promote healthy eating and living for youths, but it is open to all. Activities will be held at 11 a.m. in Woollen Gym. Durham to host casting call for MTV's 'The Real World' Casting directors from Bunim/ Murray Productions will hold an open casting call for MTV’s series “The Real World" from 10 a,m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Shooters II on VV. Morgan Street in Durham. The reality show, in its 21st season, focuses on seven strangers who live and work together for five months. Applicants must be between 18 and 24 to apply and are asked to bring a recent picture of themselves and a photo identification to the casting call. For more information, visit www.bunim-murray.com. Free HIV testing is available to students today in Union A number of organizations are sponsoring free, confidential walk in HIV' testing today in the Student Union. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. in room 3411, and the testing will last until 5 p.m. For Sexual Responsibility Week, Project STYLE; Campus Health Services; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender-Straight Alliance; LifeAIDS; the Department of Housing and Residential Education; and the Lesbian. Gay, Bisexual. Transgender and Queer Center are co-sponsoring the event. Half of all new infections in the United States occur in people 25 years old or younger, and in 2003 4,364 people between the ages of 15 and 24 were infected with HIV or AIDS, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CITY BRIEFS OWASA to decide on water restrictions at next meeting The Orange Water and Sewer Authority will wait to decide on Stage Three water restrictions until its Feb. 28 meeting. At the OWASA Board of Directors Thursday meeting, planning director Ed Holland proposed implementing Stage Three water shortage restric tions if water levels are still below 45 percent at the next meeting. Even after this week’s rain, water levels are at 40 percent of their full capacity. Stage Three restrictions include limiting water uses such as laundry, gardens, toilet flushing, car washing lawn watering and dog washing. Visit www.dailytarheel.com for the full story. Candidate files for Orange County Board of Education One more candidate filed for a seat on the Orange County Board of Education on Thursday. Tony McKnight, of Hillsborough, who serves on the Orange County Economic Development Commission, ran for the school board in 2006. There are three open seats on the board. So far, only Stephen Halkiotis, a former county com missioner, has filed. All candidates have until Feb. 29 to file. From staff and wire reports Bowles’ role unique in search System president has strong UNC ties BY ERIC JOHNSON SENIOR WRITER Erskine Bowles is not a mem ber of UNC’s chancellor search committee. But long-standing ties to UNC- Chapel Hill could give the UNC system president key influence in selecting the University’s next chancellor. The chairman of UNC’s search committee. University trustee Nelson Schwab, is a longtime friend of Bowles. The two cofounded Carousel Capital, a major investment firm based in Charlotte, in 1996. Schwab remains the managing director of Carousel, and Bowles continues to serve as a senior adviser to the firm. That puts the two in regular contact. “He’s one of my closest friends," Bowles said of Schwab. “I’ve asked Nelson a few times how the search "It brings in more community members and makes them aware that we have healthy animals here who are looking for homes” sarah fallin, ANIMAL SHELTER VOLUNTEER DIRECTOR JF '"'t 1 | WK x ~jp —: m- r wf DTH/SABRINA SHORT Chip, a German Shepherd mix, looks out from behind his cage at the Orange County Animal Shelter on Thursday. The shelter, located in Durham, held a Valentine's Day party for prospective pet owners to meet and greet stray dogs and cats that are up for adoption. Shelter hosts Valentines Day promotional part} BY ROBERT C. GUNST JR. STAFF WRITER With eager eyes, Petunia gazed from behind the steel cage door of a cold and pun gent cell at two people with caring hearts. Josh MacNayre and Katie Grossman, a Chapel Hill couple, took the chocolate brown pit bull from the confines of the Orange County Animal Shelter to anew home Thursday morning. “I just didn’t want to see another puppy get put down," MacNayre said. The shelter hosted a Valentine's Day party for prospective pet owners to enjoy food and refreshment while visiting with rescued dogs and cats who were up for adoption. “It brings in more community members and makes them aware that we have healthy animals here who are looking for homes," said Sarah Fallin, volunteer director at the shelter. Smith calls for spending curb Fred Smith is an N.C. senator from Johnston county. He is run ning for the Republican nomina tion Jbrgpiemor. Assistant State E 2 National Editor Devin Rooney sat down icith Smith in Smithfield. DTH: Why did you choose to run? Smith: I think we need a change in management in Raleigh. If you look at our out-of-control spending... if you look at our road failures ... we have not dealt with the SEE MONDAY'S DTH FOR A Q & A WITH CANDIDATE RICHARD MOORE. illegal immigration problem; if you look at the lack of medical liability reform, if you look at the corruption, and the many people going to jail, if you look at all that, we need to give the people another choice. We need to give them a choice from bigger and more intrusive government to a belief that people matter. The private sector creates 83 per cent of our jobs, and we need to try to make them as strong as possible. DTH : Why do you think you're the best candidate? Top News is going." And so far, Bowles said, he has been impressed with the candi dates being considered. During an interview last week, he said the current list includes both internal and external candidates. “1 think the search committee has been very receptive to what I said I would consider," Bowies said. As system president, Bowles has the power to interview and choose from three nominees chosen by the committee; he has said his involve ment will not go beyond that role. “I shouldn't have any involvement in it until it comes to me." he said, describing his discussions with com mittee members as “cursory." But John Sanders, a profes sor emeritus in the School of Government who has been a close observer of past searches, said it is common for the president to remain involved from the early stages. PUPPY LOVE The shelter currently has 34 dogs and 29 cats up for adoption, said Thom Freeman, a statistician at the shelter. The Valentine's Day party is not the only event that the shelter hosts to try to promote the adoption of stray animals. The shelter hosted an open house in December and brought people out to gen erate support for adoption. Volunteers at the shelter participated in Home for the Holidays for nine weeks from November to January to advertise the shelter and encourage pet-lovers to adopt instead of purchasing pets at retail venues, Fallin said. “I don’t support puppy mills because there are too many strays,” Grossman said. Fallin said strays are given a seven-day peri od to be reclaimed by their owners, which is two days longer than the state law requires. Smith: Well, I think that 1 bring both experience and I’ve been tested. I’ve worked in the private sector, in the public sector. I’ve worked in small businesses and large businesses, and I think that I haw learned and been successful at struggle. 1 know what it’s like to make a paycheck. 1 understand how the economy works; I understand also how government works. ... Some candidates haw never done anything but be involved in government DTH: What do you think of the job North Carolina is doing serving its students? Smith: What do you think about an education system that's losing one-third of our kids to dropout? 1 don't think that’s getting the job done. In business, if I were losing a third of my customers, 1 would try to haw anew plan. When you lose a third of our kids to dropout, that’s a statistic, but that’s a lot of lives... that are going to be facing ignorance, a life of igno rance, a life of poverty and a life of potential crime. That’s not good for society, and that 's not good for those students or people, and we'w got to do all we can to try to saw them. “There has been, in the past, at least some communication between the search committee and the president as the search has been going on," Sanders said. “I would be astonished if there were not some discussions between them." In addition to his friend ship with Schwab, Bowles has a lengthy personal history in Chapel Hill. He graduated from UNC in 1967 before earning his MBA at Columbia University. His father, Skipper Bow les, was a prominent fundraiser for the University, as well as a trustee. His service to UNC was so highly regard ed that the South Campus road near the Smith Center is named for him. Whether that has heightened Bowles' interest in the chancellor search is difficult to gauge. “It’s something he holds very close," said Jeff Davies, Bowies' chief of staff. Davies, like many UNC-system officials, said there is a palpable sense of excitement about the search. VISIT THE ANIMAL SHELTER Time: 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday Location: Pet Smart, 3615 Witherspoon Blvd. Durham Hosted by: Orange County Animal Shelter After this period strays are then placed on the adoption level, where they receive care and two meals a day, Fallin said. Last month nearly 34 percent of the ani mals at the shelter were euthanized, com pared to about 41 percent in all of 2007. The other 66 percent of the animals were adopted, reclaimed or transferred to a dif ferent shelter. “We don't have a magic number of days that an animal can stay here," Fallin said. “It really depends on the animal’s health, the amount of space we have and other variables." Contact the City Editor at citydesk(a! unc.edu. SgW I * ,Ji DTH/DEVIN ROONEY N.C. Sen. Fred Smith, R-Johnston, speaks at a stop on his statewide barbecue tour. For the full Q & A visit dailytarheel.com. Make (traditional schools) the best we can, we need to do that. That's going to meet the needs of about 60 percent of our students. But there’s another group that we need to meet their needs, and I think that's vocational education. SEE SMITH, PAGE 7 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2008 E UNC-system president Erskine Bowles will narrow the chancellor field down to one. There is an almost universal expecta tion that the University 's prestige will draw a top-notch applicant pool. “Can you imagine?" Davies said, smiling at the thought. “We re talk ing about the cream of the crop in higher education." Given those high expectations, Bowles could have the toughest job of anyone in the search process. It will be up to him to turn down two of the committee’s three nominees. “I expect those three candidates will meet the criteria I set out, and if they do. I’ll have a hard time picking the best among them." Contact the University Editor at udeskfa. unc.edu. Power comedian brings humor education home BY PHILLIP CROOK STAFF WRITER Take CNN, dress it in a black blazer, add expletives and you’ve got UNC alumnus and comedian Levis Black. Noted for his "Back in Black’ segment on Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show," Black is the name power and motivation behind the Carolina Comedy Festival, which kicked off its fifth year Thursday with a student stand-up competition. Presented by Carolina Union Activities Board, the festival has evolved under Black's inspiration into a weekend-long series of per formances, workshops and semi nars that allows students to explore comedy in unconventional ways, said Mallory Cash, CUAB’s comedy committee chairwoman. In her second year as chairwom an. Cash, a senior, has worked close ly with Black over the past years in preparing for the festival. His per sonality out of the spotlight, she said, might surprise most people. "His style of comedy is like reading the news but angrier. He’s Anderson Cooper with attitude," Funk helps narrow field Consultant aids chancellor search BY KELLY GIEDRAITIS SENIOR WRITER Although he has no ties to UNC, Bill Funk is playing an integral role in selecting the next chancellor. As the lead consultant for R. William Funk & Associates, Funk works with colleges and universi ties to find their new leaders. “We’re aiding and abetting." Funk said. “We re different things at dif ferent times but always an adviser." UNC hired the firm for SIOO,OOO in October to help solicit applicants, schedule interviews and negoti ate a contract for the University's next chancellor. He has attended all three committee meetings since hired, including one Thursday. In the past 25 years, Funk has worked on more than 250 searches for college and university presi dents and chan cellors. Cornell University President David Skorton said Funk solicited his application for the Cornell position. “He’s very straightforward and honest," H UNC awarded Bill Funk a J 100,000 contract to help find a chancellor. Skorton said. “As his chief concern, he has the needs of the institution at heart." To learn about “Carolina culture,” Funk has attended forums in Chapel Hill and on campus. He’s also toured UNC with student leaders. About 90 percent of the candi dates for UNC’s post were asked to apply. Those names came from sug gestions from the search committee, third parties and Funk’s firm. “Most of the people that you w ant don't know that they want the job they’re successful artfl ener gized in their current position, and they typically need convincing," said University of Delaware President Patrick Harker, who worked with Funk during his candidacy. Funk completed his first search in higher education in 1983 and has been in the game ever since. But he never planned to be in the consulting industry. Instead, Funk who has a mas ter’s degree in political science and the equivalent of an MBA began his career at Exxon Mobil. An executive consulting firm met with Funk to recruit him to another oil company, but Funk ended up join ing its team of consultants instead. Today, about 70 sitting academic presidents owe their positions, at least in part, to Funk. ‘He has such a knowledge base of all candidates that we just don’t know," said Nelson Schwab, chancel lor search committee chairman. But Funk has seen his share of controversies on the job. Funk recruited John Shumaker to the University ofTennessee in 2002. but an audit revealed Shumaker spent more than $700,000 on unau- SEE FUNK, PAGE 7 said junior Russell Johnson, one of the winners of last year’s stand-up competition. "But he’s just a nice guy who’s really laid-back." The prize for winning one of three spots in the stand-up com petition is the opportunity to open for "Levis Black and Friends" at Memorial Hall Saturday. The lesser-known side of Black will be on display at 5 p.m. today during “Class with Black," an open forum for anyone to ask the come dian about anything from politics to academics. Black said he wanted to start the festival because he felt humor was an undeveloped muscle, especially in politically charged times. "Comedy is just not taught; it’s idiotically ignored," Black said. “It's treated as an accident, like we’re primitive men finding fire.” Black said he hopes the festival will grow into a nationally recognized event, drawing big names in comedy and students across the country. He said he is pleased that while the festival began with the big-ticket SEE BLACK, PAGE 7 3
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