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CAMPUS BRIEFS
CAA accepting applications
for its committee positions
Students are invited to apply
for positions within the Carolina
Athletic Association, and applica
tions are due Monday.
The CAA is mainly responsible
for helping with ticket distribution,
as well as organizing events related
to sports games.
Some of the committees include
public relations, Homecoming,
special events community service
and ticket distribution.
To get an application, go to
unc.edu/caa, where you can also
find more information about each
committee.
Everyone who applies will be
accepted to a committee, though it
might not be the first choice.
E-mail questions to CAA
President-elect Andrew Coonin at
coonin@email.unc.edu.
Undergraduates can submit
nominations for advisers
Nominations are being accepted
for exceptional advisers.
The Class of 1996 Award for
Advising Excellence and The
Mickel-Shaw Excellence in
Advising Award are both reserved
for advisers who have helped out
on the undergraduate level.
To submit a nomination, go to
advising.unc.edu and view “News
and Announcements.’' All nomina
tions are due by 8 a.m. Friday.
Forum held to discuss the
funding of UNC publications
Members of Student Congress
and the editors of different stu
dent fee-supported publications
met Wednesday to discuss the fea
sibility of two plans about funding
publications.
Both plans are under consider
ation by student government.
The first would have all, or at
least the majority of campus publi
cations, use the same printer to saw
money from discounted prices.
The other would create a stu
dent publication alliance that, in
addition to using the same printer,
would get a set percentage of stu
dent fees to be divided between
publications without having to go
in front of Congress.
Visit University News at www.
dailytarheel.com for the full story .
Award winning author E.L.
Doctorow to speak at UNC
Internationally acclaimed author
E.L. Doctorow will give a free pub
lic lecture at 6:30 p.m. today in the
auditorium of Hanes Art Center.
Doctorow is the author of more
than 15 works and his novel, “The
March,” was awarded the National
Book Critics’ Circle Award, the
PEN/Faulkner Book Award and
was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
in 2005.
A book sale and signing will pre
cede the lecture in the center lobby.
CITY BRIEFS
Mayor Foy given bourbon
by NCAA opponent's mayor
In the event that UNC’s wom
en's basketball team loses to the
Uniwrsity of Louisville on Saturday.
Chapel Hill mayor Kevin Foy will
have some bourbon to drink.
Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson
is sending Foy, as well Knoxville’s
Mayor Bill Haslam, bottles of
bourbon in preparation for the
University of Louisville's appear
ances in the NCAA Sweet 16.
The Louisville men play the
University of Tennessee in the
East Region on Thursday, and the
Louisville women play UNC on
Saturday. UNC’s men's team could
face Louisville on Saturday as well
if it defeats Washington State and
Louisville beats Tennessee.
“These great bourbons will
serve as some solace for Lady Tar
Heel fans and Mayor Kevin Foy,“
Abramson said in a press release.
The spirits sent to Foy via
United Parcel Service Freight on
Wednesday were supplied by four
Louisville-area distillers.
The bourbons provided includ
ed: Woodford Reserve from the
Brown-Forman Corp., Bulleit
Bourbon from Diageo Corp.,
Maker's Mark from Maker’s Mark
Distillery and a bottle of Evan
Williams Single Barrel Bourbon
from Heaven Hill Distillery.
STATE BRIEFS
Raleigh Community College
to host Hillary Clinton today
Hillary Clinton is scheduled to
make a speech at 10:30 a.m. today
at Wake Technical Community
College in Raleigh.
Doors will open at 9 a-iru, and the
event is scheduled to last until 12:30
p.m. TTiis is Clinton’s first speech in
North Carolina this year.
Many view this as the kickoff for
her campaign in the state, although
Bill Clinton has previously spoken
at several locations in the state.
From staff and retire reports
Siren test reveals some gaps
BY ALICE MILLER
STAFF WRITER
One minute before noon
Wednesday, the Alert Carolina safety
campaign launched with an emer
gency siren that could be heard for
the most part all around campus.
The siren was just a practice run
of the campus’s new outdoor wam
nui IMF in 8 system.
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Residents react successful,” said
to Wednesday's Jeff McCracken,
test of the chief of police
University's and director of
alert system. the Department
of Public Safety.
“But it did confirm there are a few
technical issues still.”
Some of those issues were the
limited range that the siren tone
reached.
The four alert towers are located
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Students and residents march on Franklin Street to protest acts of sexual violence during the annual Take Back the Night rally Wednesday night.
Besides the march, the rally included speakers and performances to urge the public to speak out and fight violence against women
MARCHERS TAKE
BACK THE NIGHT
BY CHIARA AUSTIN
STAFF WRITER
When a man on Franklin Street mocked
the chants of students marching to support
an end to sexual violence Wednesday night,
the voices only grew louder.
“Out of the halls, into the streets, we won’t
be raped, we won’t be beat.” shouted the stu
dents participating in Take Back the Night,
the 11th annual march to raise awareness of
sexual assault as part of the UNC Women’s
Week.
Michael Bronson, acting treasurer for
Project Dinah, a women’s safety and empow
erment initiative at UNC, said he hopes he
inspired the men who saw the march to take
sexual assault more seriously.
“At least I’m here doing it, maybe they will
see that," he said.
After hearing from speakers, students
rose from their seats on the bricks in front
of Wilson Library and marched to Franklin
BOT hears advising plans
BY ABBY FARSON
STAFF WRITER
The overhaul to academic advis
ing is under way and the advising
implementation committee is
working to polish a final report on
its proposed changes.
Steve Weiss, professor of comput
er science and chairman of the aca
demic advising implementation com
mittee, gave a brief progress report
Wednesday on
the commit
tee’s draft to
the University
affairs commit
tee of the Board
oflYustees.
“We’re deal-
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The Board of
Trustees also
discussed
renovations to
UNC buildings.
ing with a system that’s pretty
good, and we’re trying to make it
better,” Weiss said.
Weiss heads the commit
tee, which is in the process of
designing recommendations to
improve advising. The final draft
of the report is due to the Board of
Trustees in May.
The goal of the advising reform
is to develop a comprehensive
model for juniors and seniors that
involves the departments.
These changes to advising were
a top priority of Student Body
President Eve Carson, who was
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by Hinton James Residence Hall,
behind the Dogwood Parking Deck
by UNC Hospitals, outside Winston
Residence Hall and near the Giles
Homey Building off Martin Luther
King Jr. Boulevard.
After the test, officials are con
sidering the addition of an alert
tower on North Campus to increase
coverage, McCracken said.
Sophomores Jessica Swoveland
and Kate Reak were on South
Campus when the siren went off.
“I thought it was just a fire
truck at first going really slow,”
Swoveland said.
Reak said she heard the siren, but
the announcement afterward that
said it was a test was hard to under
stand as she walked by the Rams
Head Recreation Center.
“Anytime you put a warning
system outside there are going to
Street carrying candles, banners and 61 stars
to represent the number of sexual assaults
reported at UNC since 2006.
The rally and march were organized by the
Carolina Women’s Center, the Orange County-
Rape Crisis Center and Project Dinah.
“This is a way for survivors and allies to
feel that they can take back the night and to
share the experience with other people who
are against violence against women,” said
Emily Dunn of Project Dinah.
About 75 students, sexual assault survi
vors, friends and family members gathered
to listen to guests from all over the Triangle
speak out against sexual violence before the
march.
“I used to think that Chapel Hill was a
safe place,” said Dr. Mary Schlegel, professor
of obstetrics and gynecology. “With the sting
of Eve Carson's death still in our hearts, I'm
not so sure."
Bryan Proffitt of the Durham-based Men
a member of both the University
affairs committee and the advising
committee.
“Eve was always pushing the
idea that we want to create a small
neighborhood on campus,” said
Bobbi Owen, a member of the
advising committee and senior
associate dean for undergraduate
education. “She pressed the idea of
students carrying one adviser with
them throughout their four years."
Following Carson’s vision, advis
ing teams are being phased out and
replaced with individual advisers
from specific departments. This
change, to be implemented next
fall, is intended to give juniors and
seniors more specialized attention
from faculty- within their majors or
schools.
“The nature of advising changes
when you declare your major," said
Todd Dalrympie, student represen
tative on the committee. “Students
are directed to their department and
can get more of a mentoring role, as
opposed to the clerical role that they
needed the first two years.”
The trustees seemed concerned,
however, with the plight of fresh
men and sophomores.
Trustee Rusty Carter, chairman
of the committee, said he wondered
how this change to advising would
be issues with sound around large
buildings,” McCracken said.
The sirens are designed only to
inform people outside.
Normally the sireas would sound
in the case of a campuswide emer
gency such as a chemical spill, an
armed or dangerous person on cam
pus or a tornado sighting nearby.
Beyond the sirens, UNC has sev
eral programs that would be ased to
spread information, such as sending
out text messages and updating the
Alert Carolina Web site.
Junior Kara Schreier, who was
studying in the Undergraduate
Library when the sirens sounded,
said she could barely hear them.
‘I probably would not have
thought anything of them if 1 had not
known they were setting them offT
she said, adding that she knew about
the test from a campus e-mail.
Against Rape Culture, said educating men
could help stop the violence.
He also pointed to society's tendency- to
stereotype perpetrators of sexual assault as
being men and most often black men.
“We see the images of Eve Carson’s killers,
and we know who it is we are supposed to
fear," he said.
Juliette Grimmett. rape prevention edu
cation coordinator at N.C. State University-,
told her own personal experience as a
rape surviv or and said one in four college
women will be raped or will be the victim
of an attempted rape before they gradu
ate.
“We know that Eve would have been ral
lying right along with us tonight and in that
sense, she still is," senior Jessica Scruggs
said.
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affect the students who had not yet
found their career direction.
“We need to think more about
the students who arc second
semester sophomores who are try -
ing to find what their passion is,"
Carter said. “I’m concerned about
those who might feel lost."
Owen said that undecided stu
dents will be better served by shift
ing advisers from paper and pen to
computers.
"For a 15-minute appointment,
it takes all that time to fill in those
boxes by hand,” she said. “This
is something that the computer
should be doing, and that time
should be spent in better wavs."
Weiss also said students can be
given better tools in the advising
process, such as deleting obso
lete information on Web sites and
improving the course catalogue.
“We need to get students to real
ize that they arc their own ultimate
advisers,” he said.
Weiss said he felt good about how
the trustees received Wednesday's
presentation.
“I thought they asked good ques
tions," he said. “I think we’re all on
the same track."
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THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2008
Despite the different volume lev
els, McCracken said it’s important to
know how to respond to the alert.
“Any time wu hear the siren, seek
shelter and go inside to the closest
facility.” McCracken said. That is the
important thing to know.”
The siren system also was tested
once in December while students
were on Winter Break.
McCracken said many aspects of
the system, such as the tone dura
tion and the PA. message, changed
between the first test and Wednesday
to improve effectiveness.
Officials have vet to test the entire
system simultaneously. “The next
step would be to do a complete test
of the system to include text-mes
saging as well.” McCracken said.
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Multiple schools hold
chancellor searches
BY REBECCA PUTTERMAN
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
They must understand a universi
ty s academic mission, be committed
to community engagement and pro
mote the university’s values.
Those who exhibit these quali
ties are chancellor applicants
not only at UNC-Chapel Hill but
at universities systemwide and
nationwide.
In the last year alone, seven UNC
system schools have conducted or
are conducting chancellor searches.
Fayetteville State University ended
its six-month search March 7 by
offering the job to James Anderson.
With so many chancellor search
es happening at once, both within
the system and across the nation :
overlapping applicant pools are a
possibility.
All UNC-system searches are
conducted nationwide and confi
dentially, with most of the appli
cants coming from dean, provost,
chancellor and president back
grounds.
Although search processes are
similar and applicant pools might
overlap, the individual mission of
each school attracts different can
didates. said Ann Lemmon, the
School
selects
its new
dean
Alumnus to lead
education school
BY ANDREW RYAN COSGROVE
STAFF WRITER
The School of Education
announced Wednesday the selec
tion of Bill McDiarmid as the new
dean of one of the oldest profes
sional schools at the University.
A professor at the University of
Washington, McDiarmid agreed to
allow his name to be recommended
to the Board ofTrustees. If approved,
he will be start Jan. 1.
McDiarmid was unavailable for
comment by press time.
“I am happy that the selection
process has ended, and I look
forward to working with our new
dean,” said Gerald Unks, a profes
sor at the School of Education.
In February, McDiarmid, a UNC
alumnus, came to campus to pres
ent his ideas for improving North
Carolina’s educational programs.
“People in
the community
need to turn to
the School of
Education when
they have policy
questions," he
said in February.
“The need
to be visible
enough and to
be recognized
for excellence in
preparation and
scholarship is
Alumnus Bill
McDiarmid
will take over
as education
dean Jan. 1.
to me one of the most important
things you have to achieve."
McDiarmid proposed continu
ing to develop the infrastructure of
the school so that professors do not
hare to spend time on administrative
details and can focus on research.
Before he was selected, he said
his plans included focusing on
improving educational opportuni
ties for underrepresented popula
tions and minority students.
“You want them spending time
thinking about problems and getting
to write data,” he said in February.
“The degree to which you can create
a solid infrastructure has a lot to do
with how productive vou can be."
Within the education school.
McDiarmid said the representation
of underserved students and faculty
should be improved, and better eval
uation programs for the state’s public
schools should be put in place.
The search began after the former
dean, Tom James, took a position at
Columbia University- last April.
A 13-member committee began
to search for anew- dean, invit
ing three finalists, including
McDiarmid, to campus for in-per
son interviews in February.
Jill Fitzgerald, senior associate
dean and professor of literacy in the
School of Education, has served as
the interim dean during the search.
According to a letter to the
school's faculty and staff from
Provost Bernadette Gray-Little.
Fitzgerald will continue as dean
until McDiarmid is appointed.
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General Administration liaison for
search committees.
“The universities have very dif
ferent visions," Lemmon said, citing
the difference between an under
graduate liberal arts college like
UNC-Asheville and a research and
graduate institution like UNC-CH.
“The campuses the candidates
will be looking at will be different
in that regard."
John Brown, chairman of the
FSU Board ofThistees and a mem
ber of that school's search commit
tee, said that realistically, candidate
pools might overlap.
“We wanted the best available
out there we didn't care where
they came from," he said. “We’ve
gotta move beyond any other thing
than going for the best."
The chancellor search com
mittee at UNC-Greensboro
began accepting applications in
December, allowing for the possi
bility that rejected candidates from
the UNC-CH search that began in
September could end up in that
applicant pool.
The Chapel Hill search is much
closer to a conclusion than are we,
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