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VOLUME 116, ISSUE 5 WATER RATES INCREASING OWASA declares Stage 3 shortage BY ANASA HICKS STAFF WRITER Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents can say goodbye to swimming pools, car washes and sprinklers. Stage 3 water shortage restric tions will go into effect Saturday, and corresponding water rate increases will start March 17. The Orange Water and Sewer Authority's Board of Directors voted unanimously Thursday to move into Stage 3 restrictions despite the urging of a majority of residents who spoke at the meeting. “I don't see that we have a choice right now," board mem ber Gene Pease said. Because reservoir levels did not reach the goal 45 percent of full capacity by Thursday. OWASA Planning Director Ed Holland recommended upping the restrictions. OWASA staff also recom mended residents voluntarily reduce their water consumption to 35 gallons per day per person. Raymond Du Bose, direc tor of UNC’s energy services, praised the University's conser vation efforts and pointed out the obstacles UNC would face under Stage 3 restrictions. In addition to construc tion limitations and the need to water athletic fields, the restrictions will cost UNC a projected Si. 2 million dollars if the drought lasts another three months, Dußose said. “We’re gonna have to find alternative means to do things that w r e want to," he said. Business owners who attended the meeting asked the hoard to consider the impact restrictions will have on their industries. Tara Onthank, vice president of the Association of Pool and Spa Professionals and co-owner of Rising Sun Pools in Raleigh, cited the benefits of contained water during emergencies and the health risk of “foul, unsightly bodies of water.” Candidates may revisit tax credit Tuition returns a part of aid reform BY REBECCA PUTTERMAN ASSISTANT STATE ft NATIONAL EDITOR Tax credits are one form of financial aid that often goes unno ticed, showing up in a tax return long after tuition has been paid. But for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, tuition tax credits are part of their multifaceted plans to meet the mutual goal of making college more affordable. Two aspects of their higher edu cation priorities have recently been addressed by the U.S. Congress. Increases to Federal Pell Grants became law in September, and a simplification of FAFSA is part of a bill that passed the House Feb. 7. Increases in tax credits have not been revisited since 1997 “Generally tax cuts and tax credits are targeted toward that middle-income family that actu ally filed a tax return," said Kinney Rhinehardt, UNC-system vice president for federal affairs. “When you're running on a national platform, you’re try ing to appeal to a broad array of constituencies, and I think this is their attempt to appeal to the middle-class voter" online I duilytarheel.cnm STATE & NATIONAL A study says N.C. religion mirrors nation, not South UNIVERSITY Campus hosts eating disorders awareness events ARTS Pauper Players musical ‘A New Brain' highlights heart, music Eljp 9a% ®ar Mtti MSKINS RIBY BBBE EBHNI { ; Take a took at the l following numbers and team how you can save water in light of the J Ho w often do you follow these water conservation strategies? ! Orange Water and Sewer Authority’s implementation of stneter water restrictions 1 A = Always S = Sometimes N = Never ' AS N 1 Daily water demand ' / 1 1 Shower in less than 5 minutes 1 ■ Stage 2 Restrictions □ Stage 3 Restrictions m .s (15 percent reduction) (20 percent reduction) , j Turn off the water while brushing teeth g , 3 Turn off the water while washing face or shaving y y y 1 0 ■ J 4 Flush the toilet only when necessary 0 n ~• ] JLJuJUIIJ— 1 5 Turn water faucets 0 .- 6 Htfllliilili S.ffiraH 6 Run only fuli loads in the washing machine 5 bucket when washing cars ___ Feb. 1 through Feb. 27 | J f"''~— ——— 3 t How did you score? 1 Where can I get more information? 1 Give yourself 3 points for every "A" response. 1 point for every "S’ and 0 for TODAY'S WATER LEVEL: • See how much water you are using ] any "N' responses Add them up and compare the total , 40 25% CAPACITY owasa.org/pages/WaterCakulator.htmi 1 1 DVRUIi • Perform a water audit to what you are missing 1 14-21: Your conservation efforts are saving hundreds of gallons of watef 1 owasa.org/pages/WaterAudit asp 1 ®'lT ; This is a good start, but you could conserve even more water —— " j • Tips on conserving water, 1 0-5: You could be saving a lot more water by using conservation strategies. - y 1.432 202 4,700 6.969 6.81 3.79 3.84 billion gallons of water in estimated gallons of average water million gallons of water million gallons of water, inches of February rainfall inches of the University lake. Cane days of water use per month at a demanded Wednesday by the goal of average daily at the tones Ferry Road normal rainfall Creek and Quarry remaining single-family residence OWASA customers demand under Water Treatment Plant for February reservoirs Thursday conservation restrictions SOURCf HTTP ' OWASA PRO PAGES/SURPIYDt MANDGRAPH ASP. HTTP//WWW WATERUSEITWSEIYCOM/FAMIIYWATERfINDf X SHTMt DTH/RFBFCCA RCHFF Under Stage 3, OWASA cus tomers will not be able to top off or refill their pools. “The public health risk is not worth the fraction of w ater it will save," Onthank said, adding that the amount of water that evaporates from pools in a season is equivalent to the water used by a family of four when brushing teeth. Robin Cutson, who ran for the Chapel Hill Town Council in 2005, implored residents to ask local elected officials in both towms to slow residential development, which she blamed for the town’s water problems. “You add population growth, you need more water," she said. Cutson predicted that if Chapel Hill and Carrboro continued to grow, local businesses would leave because they wouldn't have enough Education reform: Clinton •vs. Obama Today: Tax credits The Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Tax Credits, signed into law in 1997 by President Bill Clinton, allows for an income-condi tional tax credit of up to $1,650 that cannot be refunded or advanced. "I haven't liked it a whole lot," UNC-Chapel Hill Director of Scholarships and Financial Aid Shirley Ort said. “Families never consider those tax credits as aid because they paid the bill already," she said. “They see it as something that can help their tax bill but not their financial aid." In the 2006-07 fiscal year 8.5 million people received tuition tax credits, according to economist Sandy Baum, a senior policy ana lyst for the College Board. Hillary Clinton pledges to increase the Hope credit to $3400 and to allow rebinds and advances. “Ten years worth of experience has told us that we need to make it a refundable credit to really help lower-income students," said Karen Regan, UNC-CH director of feder al affairs. “Sen. Clinton's proposal directly addresses this concern." Both Obama's proposal for a new tax credit program, the American SEE TAX CREDITS, PAGE 5 FEATURES A Chapel Hill church encourages sustainability for Lent CITY Residents invited to help build labyrinth for community arts project SPORTS UNC women's lacrosse pulls out a 12-8 defeat of Brown Serving the students and the University community since 1893 www.dailytarheel.coni water to operate. Before voting, Pease recom mended that OWASA encourage businesses to work together to ease the burden of the restrictions. The board also discussed the possibility of partnering with the city of Durham and Chatham County to use Chatham's Jordan Lake as a water source. “We believe that it would be smart for us to participate in these discussions," OWASA utility man ager Pat Davis said. Holland said Stage 3 restrictions are expected until at least April. "Ifat April 1, the lakes are up to 60 percent fiill, we’d recommend going back to Stage 2," he said. "By May 1, it would have to be 65 percent" Contact the City Editor at citydesk(a unc.cdu. Walk-on ready for senior night start BY SAMANTHA NEWMAN SENIOR WRITER Meghan Austin has walked through Carmichael Auditorium countless times during her career on the North Carolina women’s bas ketball team. But Sunday she’ll take center stage well, center court. Austin will be honored, along ONLINE Predictions of how UNC stacks up against Duke at daiiytarheel. com. National, local talent featured in jazz festival 31st annual event ends Saturday BY BENNETT CAMPBELL ASSISTANT ARTS EDITOR Jim Ketch has been a busy man this week. A professor of jazz studies at UNC, Ketch is the driving force behind the 31st annual Carolina Jazz Festival, a four-day event that began Wednesday with a perfor mance by Ketch and other faculty members in Hill Hall. The festival concludes Saturday with the headlining performance in Memorial Hall by the nation ally acclaimed San Francisco Jazz Collective. Ketch created the festival as an extension of the music depart - -.,, ~. . * l|j DTH FILE/HANNAH SHARPE Carrboro’s University Lake, pictured in October, has been reduced to stream. For a slide show of more drought photos, visit dailytarheel.com home game against Duke. And she’s certainly worked to get there. After walking on to the UNC squad as a transfer from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, NCAA regulations forced Austin to sit out a year. An ACL tear her junior sea son sidelined her again, and Austin endured almost nine months of rehab so she could play again. For four years she's juggled class es, practices and road trips with the team all for the chance to play a few minutes at ends of blowouts. But when Austin makes her side fellow seniors LaToya Pringle and Erlana Larkins during the Tar Heels’ final regular-season ment in spring 1978 his first year at UNC —and he said the nature of this year’s performanc es are indicative of the festival’s growth. “The size and financial resources have developed it into a University event," Ketch said. “And as a result it does have a regional flavor." Ketch spent Thursday afternoon ensuring die Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Festival, anoth er one of the week’s events, ran smoothly. He said giving high school students the opportunity to per form and also to witness an act as esteemed as the San Francisco sports | pit|p + LAWSON MAY RETURN Point guard Ty Lawson, who practiced lightly this week, could return to the court for the first time in seven games Saturday against Boston College. Senior Meghan Austin will make her first career start for UNC Sunday against Duke. first career start Sunday, it will be worth the time and effort. “If 1 had to do it all over again, I would totally do it," Austin said. “Just being here just fills me up inside.... Everyone always wants to be at the highest level, so I ATTEND THE PERFORMANCES Time: 8 p.m. Today and Saturday Location: Memorial Hall Info: www.carohnaperformingarts. org Jazz Collective is part of the festi val's goal of education. “We have 300 high school musi cians here today, and some of them will never hear the caliber of musi cians we have this week," Ketch said. “(SF Jazz Collective member) Joe Lovano is, to many people, one of the top two or three sax players on the planet right now." Emil Kang, UNC’s executive director for the arts, said the col lective's penchant for innovation made it an ideal choice for the this day in history * v FEB. 29. 2004... UNC guard Melvin Scott air balls the first of two intentional foul free throws with 8.3 seconds remaining in a four-point game against N.C. State. UNC still won, 71-64. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2008 Exam prep classes costly Pre-professional exam costs rising BY ABBY FARSON STAFF WRITER It’s 6 p.m. Sunday, and Austin Spencer is in class. It’s not a UNC class, and he won’t be graded. The junior chemistry major is in an MCAT prep course at the Chapel Hill Kaplan Center. “It's more independent work than I initially expected." Spencer said. “You put in maybe 20 hours a week. It’s pretty rigorous." The five-month class costs $1,849 and meets for three hours on Sundays. Spencer, wdio is planning to take the MCAT this spring, sits in a room with about 25 other students, bent over their thick textbooks as they listen closely to instructor Dan Verges. A first-year medical student at UNC School of Medicine, Verges said he took this class two years ago. He credits Kaplan with helping him achieve his high MCAT score. He said he has seen the interest in prep courses grow during the years. ‘When I took the MCAT. I think there were only two people in the room who hadn’t taken a Kaplan or Princeton Review prep course." Last year 300,000 students nationwide took Kaplan courses to prepare for tests including the SAT, ACT, MCAT, GMAT. LSAT and GRE. said Russell Schaffer, senior communications manager for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions. “As the admissions process becomes more competitive, stu dents and their families are rec- SEE TESTING. PAGE 5 WATCH THE BASKETBALL GAME Time: 5:30 p.m. Sunday Location: Carmichael Auditorium Broadcast: Radio: WCHL, 1360 AM; TV: Fox Sports Network dreamed about it. but I never thought it would be possible." It only took a year for Austin to realize Lafayette wasn’t the right fit. She wanted to be closer to her home in Lynchburg. Va., and the constant sheet of snow covering the ground SEE AUSTIN, PAGE 5 festival’s featured act. "They’re all about the creation of new work for the jazz field." Kang said. “Any one of them could head line a performance at Memorial Hall individually, and here we have eight of them all together." The members of the SF Jazz Collective will perform several original compositions Saturday. “With the work they do, jazz is not just a work of the past but a constantly changing, living art form," Kang said. “Having them rotate members, w’hich they do every one or two years, keeps it fresh." And while the visionary ensem ble brings a national flair to the SEE JAZZ FESTIVAL. PAGE 5 weather Partly Y cloudy index H 54 L 39 police log 2 calendar 2 sports 4 games 7 opinion 8
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