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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2008
Town explores opening
anew farmers’ market
BY KEELY STOCKETT
STAFF WRITER
A nearly forgotten Chapel Hill
tradition might be given the chance
to reestablish itself this spring in
the form of a fanners' market.
Town officials and local vendors
are working together to develop
a Friday afternoon market on
Wallace Parking Deck, a vacant
rooftop space in the heart of town.
Farmer I-awrence London said
he can remember Chapel Hill’s
first market many years ago, which
thrived in an abandoned church on
Columbia Street.
“It was an indoor market held
year-round, filled to the brim with
vendors who were from all over,"
he said.
lamdon said the market closed
in the late 1940s or early 1950s
after the property sold. But he
believes the demand in Chapel
Hill is high enough to support a
new one.
"There are enough people here
interested in the buy local move
ment. sustainable community
development and healthy foods."
County buildings to go smoke free
BY KRISTEN CRESANTE
STAFF WRITER
Starting April 1, smoking will be
prohibited in all Orange County
owned buildings and vehicles after
a Tuesday vote from the Board of
Commissioners.
“It will help us protect our
employees’ health and the publics
health in public buildings," Orange
County Health Director Rosemary
Summers said before the meeting.
Now, smoking is allowed inside a
building with a heating and air sys
tem and in a car in which all occu
pants consent to smoking, Assistant
County Attorney Brian Ferrell said.
The new rule also prohibits
smoking within 50 feet of county
health department and social ser
vices buildings.
Jim Giunta, the N.C. coordina
tor of The Smoker's Club, which
advocates for smokers' rights, said
banning smoking in government
office buildings is unfair.
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London joined other vendors
and approached the Chapel Hill
Downtown Partnership with his
idea.
Meg McGurk, the assistant
director of the partnership, said
a market would aid in the group’s
goal of enhancing the downtown
area.
“One of our strategies is to have
community events that bring peo
ple downtown," McGurk said.
Kevin Mason, who wants to be
a vendor at the Chapel Hill farm
ers’ market, said the market would
cater to all segments of the popu
lation, especially UNC students, as
the Wallace Parking Deck is within
walking distance from campus.
In recent years, farmers’ mar
kets have flourished in surround
ing areas, including Carrboro,
Hillsborough and Pittsboro.
Sarah Blacklin, the manager of
Carrboro’s market, said a Chapel
Hill market would complement
those existing market locations.
The demand exceeds the supply
of markets," Blacklin said. “I think
there’s definitely room for more
buildings and I am part of the public,
I have an issue with that” he said.
Board Chairman Barry Jacobs
said the ordinance will help to
reduce secondhand smoke.
“Imposing smoking on people in
confined areas is something we con
tinue to try to get away from," Jacobs
said. ‘lnside a building, you’re in a
confined space with somebody, and
you have to share the air."
“If there’s smoke in the air you
have to share that, too, whether
you like it or not."
Bronwyn Charlton, a research
specialist for the UNC School of
Medicine Tobacco Prevention
and Evaluation Program, said
about 3,000 people a year die
of secondhand smoke in North
Carolina alone.
“When you are exposed to sec
ondhand smoke, it’s like someone
else is killing you or hurting you,
and you can’t see it happening,"
Chariton said.
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support local food, the better."
Although competition will not
be an issue, Blacklin said every
new farmers’ market faces inher
ent challenges because of the way
the business is run.
"It’s difficult to work as one unit
while listening to at least 20 dif
ferent voices that are usually very
different and very opinionated, if
we’re talking about farmers," she
said.
Blacklin added that it’s impor
tant to find vendors whose level of
interest in the market won’t dwin
dle over time.
Despite any obstacles. London
said he expects the market to be
open by April, before UNC stu
dents leave for the summer.
There are legal and procedural
issues to be ironed out, but there
are no issues that are particularly
sticky," London said.
“We feel sure that this is going
to happen.”
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tions should not be based on the
issue of secondhand smoke being
a carcinogen.
“I believe the studies that these
bans are based on are fraudulent"
Charlton said North Carolina has
made significant efforts to overcome
previous legislation that requires all
buildings to have smoke-free and
tobacco-use areas but still allows
smoking in some public areas. An
increase in smoking bans in work
places, hospitals and campuses such
as UNC show that there is progress
being made, she said.
In Orange County. 12 percent
reported that they smoked in 2006,
according to the Orange County
Community Health Assessment
that was released in December
2007. That is already below the
state’s average of 22.6 percent.
“But we can always do better,"
Summers said.
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
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Cancer awareness promoted
BY LINDSAY RUEBENS
STAFF WRITER
At 37, Leigh Hurst is a breast
cancer survivor.
As she began treatment, Hurst,
from Middletown, Pa., made T-shirts
that said “Feel Your Boobies" as a
joke for friends and created a Web
site about her outlook on breast can
cer prevention.
The shirts gained popularity
online, and what started out as a
joke has turned into a full-time
program— the Feel Your Boobies
Foundation that she now runs.
“What’s really important is basic
breast awareness and being in
touch with your body you know
your body best," Hurst said. “My
mission is to utilize unconventional
methods to reach young women."
So Tuesday afternoon, students
were given the chance to "feel their
boobies" as part of the campaign,
which promotes breast health and
early cancer detection.
Campus Health Services. Relay
for Life and Zeta Tau Alpha sorority
gave out sexual health information.
Although mammograms are
recommended for women 40 and
older, younger women should
self-exam for early detection, said
Ashley Fogle, associate director of
the Carolina Women's Center.
“By the time that we're in our late
teens, we get encouraged by doctors
to do exams, but people don’t really
know what that means," she said.
“It makes girls more comfortable
about talking about self-exams...
and makes it a normal part of life."
Breast cancer is the most com
mon kind of cancer in women. In
2004,186,772 women in the U.S.
were diagnosed with breast can
cer. according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
Hurst said she doesn’t think most
women perform self-exams. “I think
it’s important for women to be aware
of how their bodies feel not neces
sarily following certain steps of a for
mal breast examination," she said.
Hurst said she thinks the cam
paign is a fun, fresh way to bring
awareness instead of a clinical, medi
cal approach. At the event students
practiced giving breast exams on a
synthetic breast that had tumors.
“It's important to start this habit
at a young age," Hurst said. “Young
women need to encourage their
mothers to do it."
She said she thinks today's young
woman is more aware about her
body than previous generations.
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Laura Gifford, Feel Your
Boobies’ marketing director, said
100 percent of the proceeds fund
the foundation's media campaign.
Hurst and Gifford are on a Boobies
Bus tour that stops in Atlanta and
the University of Georgia en route
to a women's conference in Florida.
“I think that it’s a really creative,
funny way to campaign." said senior
Lindsey Marck, whose grand
mother is a breast cancer survivor.
“If you’re going to get people to be
aware, what better way to do it?"
Contact the University Editor
at udesk@unc.edu.
Some campuses work to ban
gossip site JuicyCampus.com
BY BECCA DENISON
STAFF WRITER
Are you wondering how many
couples have hooked up in Davis
Library so far this year?
For one UNC student, the ques
tion was pertinent enough to post on
JuicyCampus.com, a gossip Web site
with discussion forums for various
universities 6O as ofTuesday.
The site, founded by Duke
University alumnus Matt Ivester
in August 2007, urges students to
anonymously post “juicy" gossip.
Users of the site must agree to
terms and conditions, but there
is no other enforcement, Ivester
said. He added that the company
is happy to work with police if a
serious threat is discovered.
On the UNC forum, one post ref
erences racial stereotypes. Another
post speculates about the sexual
health of students.
“I actually went on (the site) for
the first time Monday," freshman
Megan Barbee said. “I don’t think
it’s a very nice thing to do."
The first post by a UNC stu
dent appeared on the site in late
November, and only 56 posts have
appeared since, with the latest
posted Monday.
“I don’t think I’d want to see
them," Barbee said of the posts. “It
just seems kind of high school."
And students on campuses where
the site is popular are fighting back.
Posts on the site urge the gossip to
stop, and a Facebook group called
“BAN JuicyCampus’ asks students
to protest the site by not visiting it
Students have even asked
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administrators to ban the site.
Pepperdine University's student
government passed a resolution in
January banning Juicy Campus.
com from its Internet network.
And when the site exploded at
its founder's alma mater. Duke
University, students and adminis
trators were upset.
"People liked it until their names
showed up," said David Graham,
editor of Duke's student newspaper,
The Chronicle. “We don’t like it. but
there's nothing we can do about it."
Duke administrators are dis
couraging students from using the
site. But Vice President of Student
Affairs Larry Moneta said a han
wasn’t considered.
“We have no interest in giving
it enough credibility to even talk
about it," he said. “It's not hosted
on a Duke site, so there is no ban
ning potential."
UNC officials are aware of the
site but haven't considered a ban.
“We talk constantly about things
students are engaged in." said Demi
Brown, assistant dean of students.
“I don't think our office is a fan of
banning things outright."
Still, administrators encourage
students to think before visiting
the site.
This type of gossipy behavior is
not indicative of what Carolina stu
dents are about." Brown said. "I just
want our students to think about
whether they want to be associated
with this kind of behavior."
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