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CAMPUS BRIEFS
BOT hears about impacts of
increased UNC enrollment
At Thursdays Board of Trustees
meeting, two preliminary reports
showed potential effects of an
increase in UNCs enrollment
UNC officials are planning how
to deal with the surge of N.C. high
school graduates. They have three
scenarios on the table ranging from
an increase to 29,447 students to
33,000 students.
The Arts and Sciences Foundation
and Paulien & Associates Inc. have
been reviewing the effects that
enrollment will have on the quality
of education and the physical space
on campus, respectively.
So far, they’ve found a correlation
between an increase in enrollment
and a decrease in the SAT scores and
class rank of admitted students. The
report showed UNC would need at
least 2 million assignable square feet
to meet the projection 0f29,447.
Musical group has no permit
gets kicked out of the Pit
A band playing jazz, rock, hip
hop and funk got through one song
before being shut down by UNC offi
cials for not having a permit
The People's Party, an indie-labei
band based in Los Angeles, drove
its makeshift stage —a van in
front of the Pit and started playing
at 1 p.m. Thursday.
An official at UNCs Department
of Public Safety said the band could
not continue playing because it did
not have a permit and was too loud.
The impromptu nature of the
band's concerts means the group
usually doesn’t haw time to get per
mits, said Orlando Boyd, a member.
The group, which is a part of the
Rock the Vote campaign, also showed
support for Democratic presidential
candidate Barack Obama.
The band played at N.C. State
University on Wednesday, where
they were also kicked out for not hav -
ing a permit They plan to stay in the
area for a few more days and want to
hold a concert at Duke Uniwrsity.
UNC upperclassmen honored
for prestigious scholarships
Four seniors have been awarded
prestigious awards and were recog
nized by Chancellor James Moeser
at the Board of Thistees meeting
Thursday.
Senior Mike Ihrrant, student body
vice president was granted the Luce
Scholarship, one of 18 given nation
wide, to live and learn in Asia.
Tarrant is a political science and
communications studies major
and is one of 27 UNC students and
alumni to win the Luce since 1974.
Junior Danielle Allen has
received the TVuman Scholarship,
which is $30,000 for graduate
studies. She is a public policy and
economics double major and said
she plans to attend law school.
Seniors Lisa Bond and
Stephanie Jones received Churchill
Scholarships for graduate work at
Cambridge University in England.
Bond is a biology major, and Jones
is a chemistry major.
GLBTSA opens The Laramie
Project' today on campus
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,
Transgender-Straight Alliance
will present its production of “The
Laramie Project," a play focusing
on the 1998 murder of Matthew
Shepard in Laramie, Wyo.
The play opens at 8 p.m. today in
the Hanes Art Center auditorium
and will be offered Saturday at 4
p.m. and 8 p.m.
The Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro
Baptist Church has announced plans
to picket GLBTSA’s performance.
A group from WBC was on cam
pus earlier this month in protest of
Student Body President Eve Carsons
memorial service.
Tickets to the play are on sale in
the Pit today for $5 and will be on
sale at the door for SB. Proceeds
from the production will benefit the
Matthew Shepard Foundation.
Local orchestra Lost in the
Trees to play Gerrard Hall
Carolina Union Activities Board
will host Lost in the TVees, a 13-per
son orchestra with local musicians,
Saturday in Gerrard Hall.
Lost in the Trees combines
orchestral scores with folk melo
dies and electronics.
The show, at 8 p.m., is free for
UNC students with a valid One Card
and costs $3 for the general public.
CITY BRIEFS
Count of homeless finds
more living without homes
There are at least 1,929 home
less people living on the streets in
the Triangle, according to the 2008
Point-In-Time Count
The numbers, announced by
U.S. Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C.,
revealed that homelessness has
increased in Orange, Wake and
Durham counties.
From staff and wire reports
WATER WATCH
OWASA doesn’t ease rules
BY ANASA HICKS
STAFF WRITER
Customers will still have to pay
high water rates, despite rising
reservoir levels.
The Orange Water and Sewer
Authority Board of Directors decid
ed Thursday to defer a decision to
lower water rates until they have
billing information for Stage 3.
The board wants to know
how severely the increased rates
affect customers before lessening
restrictions.
At its Feb. 28 meeting when the
board implemented Stage 3 water
restrictions, OWASA staff recom
mended the board consider mov
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Attendees at last semester s ’Bos dance, put on by campus radio station WXYC, show off their moves. The dance is the station's biggest
fundraiser and will be held from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. today. Tickets can be bought in advance for $5 in the Pit and $8 at the door.
LET THE MUSIC PLAY
BY ALYSSA GRIFFITH
STAFF WRITER
It might be difficult to imagine a time when
big hair and even bigger shoulder pads were
the height of fashion and Michael Jackson was
seen as a sex icon rather than a sex offender.
This infamous decade was known as the
'Bos, when the Brat Pack dominated the sil
ver screen and people reveled in Madonnas
antics instead of Britney's.
And beginning at 9 p.m. tonight, UNC’s
campus radio station. WXYC 89-3. will pay its
biannual tribute to the decade as Cat's Cradle
will fill with material girls, punks, metal heads
and yuppies flash-dancing to stellar jams.
“WXYC created its own brand of 'Bos
dance that has developed quite a follow
ing over the years," said Lauren Brenner,
WXYC's station manager.
And the decade has been preserved in
Chapel Hill for almost 16 years in the form
of a dance.
“When the 'Bos dance was initially
brought onto the UNC campus by WXYC,
students were actually living the ’Bos," said
Frank Heath, the owner of Cat's Cradle.
System seeks to up outreach
BY REBECCA PUTTERMAN
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
When the UNC Tomorrow-
Commission released its final report
in December, calling on UNC-system
schools to engage in finding solutions
to the state’s problems, Mike Smith
was already ahead of the game.
The UNC vice chancellor for
engagement and public service
spent nine months researching the
viability of a resource center, the
Center for Public Policy, that would
tap the brains of the system's fac
ulty for policy suggestions to send
to the capitol.
“There are faculty on all of our
campuses, including Carolina, that
would like to do more of this work
but don't really know how to do
it. What we see this center doing
is funding what would be used to
support faculty," Smith said.
But at its March 6 meeting, the
Committee on Budget and Finance
expressed concern about the center’s
neutrality and delayed including its
$1.2 million budget in the 2008-09
budget proposal to go before the N.C.
General Assembly in May.
Dealing directly with policy as
a publicly funded institution is a
delicate balance to strike, but Smith
assures critics that an advisory board
will review research for neutrality
before its submission to lawmakers.
He now must submit a detailed
report for committee members to
review- before they vote May 9 on
Top News
ing back to Stage 2 if reservoir levels
reached 60 percent by April 1.
Since then, reservoirs have gained
700 million gallons of water and are
near 60 percent full, said OWASA
Planning Director Ed Holland.
Conservation also has increased.
“We’ve actually- exceeded the
conservation goal for March, which
is unprecedented," he said.
“People are doing a commend
able and responsive job of using
less water."
Still, the area isn’t out of danger
yet.
“This is good news, but the bad
news is that reservoirs are lower
today than they’ve ever been at
ATTEND THE 'BOS DANCE
Time: 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. today
Location: Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
Info: www.wxyc.org
Despite the fact that some current UNC
undergraduate students were only knee
height or shorter during the celebrated
decade, the dance is still the radio station’s
most profitable fundraiser of the year.
“Even though students today were bom on
the brink of the decade, the culture was still
an influential part of our memories growing
up," Brenner said.
Dressing the part, often to an outrageous
degree, is a big part of the fun, some orga
nizers say.
“Students get to play dress up for our
dance," said Steph Russ, WXYC’s event
coordinator. “Most dance attendees find it
hard to resist throwing on a neon leotard, a
svveatband and a pair of leg warmers."
College students aren’t the only ones
infatuated with the tubular fashions and
killer beats. High school students have been
known to clamor around the doors of Cat’s
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Mike Smith,
vice chancellor
for engagement
and public
service, wants
more public
policy research.
whether to add the center’s funds
to the budget proposal.
“I don’t have any doubt about
Mike's commitment to what he’s
been saying about neutrality," Board
of Governors Chairman Jim Phillips
said at the March meeting.
“If you’ve got faculty that want
to do it non-neutrally, that'll be
a disqualifier; those won’t be the
people who will participate."
Other system universities also are
responding to the UNC Tomorrow's
mandate for statewide engagement
UNC-Greensboro is launching
an Institute for Community- and
Economic Engagement approved
by its Board of TYustees in February ,
that will integrate both campus and
community groups to combat local
and regional issues.
“If the partners identify- an
effort that the institute needs to be
involved with, then it’s going to be
like working with interdisciplinary
research," said Rosemary Wander,
an associate provost and director of
the institute.
The organization will provide a
center where the government, the
this time in previous years," he
said.
Stage 3 restrictions have finan
cially- affected businesses and could
affect athlete safety, officials said.
“I would urge the board to ease
the water restrictions from Stage 3
to Stage 2,” said Doug Chapman, co
chairman of the N.C. Green Industry-
Council’s legislative committee.
Chapman said many small
gardening businesses earn most
of their annual revenue between
March 1 and June 15.
Carolyn Elfland, UNC’s associ
ate vice chancellor for Campus
Services, recommended the board
seriously look into using Jordan
No. 1 songs from the 'Bos
1980: "Call Me* Blondie
1981: 'Bette Davis Eyes* Kim Carnes
1982: "Physical* Olivia Newton-John
1983: 'Every Breath You Take" Police
1984: “When Doves Cry' Prince
1985: “Careless Whisper" Wham!/
George Michael
1986: “That's What Friends Are For"
Dionne Warwick & Friends
1987: “Walk like an Egyptian* —The
Bangles
1988: 'Faith* George Michael
1989: “Look Away* Chicago
Cradle, anxious to enter the party, too.
“We definitely want to serve the commu
nity, but the station is first and foremost for
the (college) students," Russ said.
Heath said the price at the door was
raised to keep the dance more focused on
the University. UNC students have been able
SEE 'BOS DANCE, PAGE 11
Community
engagement at
UNC-system schools
N.C State: The Institute for
Emerging Issues: A public policy
think tank composed of
businesses, nonprofits, public
officials and university officials to
research and debate issues facing
North Carolina.
UNC-Greensboro: Institute
for Community and Economic
Engagement, a virtual organiza
tion that will integrate campus
activities into community
economic development.
UNC-Chartotte: Now
developing community engagement
and social justice cumcukim that
could lead to a future certificate in
community engagement.
Winston-Salem State:
Simon Green Atkins Community
Development Corporation, a
nonprofit that creates
community-based leadership
focused on improving the
neighborhoods surrounding WSSU.
private sector and the university can
work together on solutions.
“We are definitely addressing
issues in the community," Wanders
said. ‘Because the Triad has lost
SEE ENGAGEMENT, PAGE 11
Lake as a water source. She also
asked the board to allow UNC to
import water from neighboring
towns to irrigate athletic fields.
“The fields have to be watered at
specific intervals, or they literally
get as hard as concrete and pose
a real danger for the athletes," she
said.
OWASA will consider moving to
Stage 2 restrictions if reservoir levels
are at 65 percent by May 1.
The board agreed to reconvene
as soon as it had more telling infor
mation on the impact of Stage 3.
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at citydesk(aunc.edu.
Relay for Life begins
short of initial goal
BY AMANDA YOUNGER
STAFF WRITER
One of UNC’s largest student
fundraisers hopes to reach a mile
stone this weekend by topping
$1 million in UNCs fight against
cancer.
The seventh annual Relay
for Life is expected to see more
than 1,300 students participate.
Activities kick off at 6 p.m. today
in an opening ceremony and last
until 2 p.m. Saturday.
Relay for Life is an annual
nationwide event in support of the
American Cancer Society.
Since the first relay in 1985, the
event has spread to about 4,800
communities and universities
across the U.S. and eight foreign
countries.
Teams must keep at least one
person walking around the Fetzer
Field track at all times.
There are 135 teams of 15 regis
tered at UNC, short of the goal of 200
set this fall. Committee members
also hoped to raise about SIBO,OOO
to meet the $1 million goal.
The organization needs a big last
minute push to meet that mark. As
of 7:30 p.m. Thursday $101,814.71
has been reported, according to the
American Cancer Society .
"Were hoping by the end of the
event on Saturday that we can say
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2008
UNC
leader
steps
down
Was in charge of
green initiatives
BY MEGAN HANNAY
STAFF WRITER
After 25 years at UNC and six
years as director of the Institute
for the Environment, Douglas
Crawford-Brown resigned his post
this month to accept two opportu
nities in Cambridge. England.
“We re all very disappointed to
have Doug leave. He was the sort
of vision that created the institute."
said Robert Peet, the interim direc
tor of the institute until Cravvford-
Brown’s replacement is found.
Peet said he expects anew direc
tor to take over by July 1.
Although he will miss the stu
dents and faculty with whom he
worked, Crawford-Brown said now
is the right time
to give up his
position.
“What I’m
doing (in
England) is
going to have a
larger impact on
climate change
than anything
1 could have
done at the
University," he
said.
Crawford-
Brown added
Douglas
Crawford-
Brown led the
Institute for the
Environment.
that working with universities pro
vides more long-term results but
that with climate change there Is not
much time to make a difference.
While UNC searches for anew
director, Crawford-Brown will
begin his new position as a senior
sustainability adviser for Pell
Frischmann. a European and Asian
building design company.
He also will help establish an
operation to bring investors, innova
tors and manufacturers together to
create more sustainable products.
During his time at UNC, Crawford-
Brown aided in the development of
the institute and its predecessor, the
Carolina Environmental Program.
He also helped establish two differ
ent environmental degrees.
Ttiming these degree programs
into a school for environmental
studies is something Crawford-
Brown tried to do and now hopes
his successor will consider.
“I would say this campus has
the potential to produce the best
school of the environment in the
country," he said.
Last year Crawford-Brown and
some students worried that the
future of the environmental pro
grams was unclear when UNC began
evaluating how to put them in the
College of Arts and Sciences.
And all his work to focus UNC
on sustainability will make him
hard to replace, colleagues said.
"Doug was the right person for the
environment at Carolina" said Tony
Reevy, senior associate director of
the Institute for the Environment.
SEE INSTITUTE, PAGE 11
ATTEND RELAY FOR UFE
Tune: 6 pm. today to 2 pm. Saturday
Location: Fetzer Field
Info: tincedu/relay
for sure that we have raised $1 mil
lion," said Mark Shifllet. event co
chairman.
Relay for Life raises money by
sponsoring concerts and other events
throughout the school year, as well as
seeking donations from race partici
pants and the general public.
Last year the event raised a
record $220,000 with 123 teams.
But despite not meeting partici
pation goals, UNC Relay for Life
event co-chairwoman Amy Bugno
said that the fundraisers visibility
and overall participation has grown
considerably throughout the years.
“Were hoping to keep that prog
ress going," she said. “Even though
last year was a super successful
event, it’ll be a challenge."
Bugno said many staples of
the event such as the luminary'
ceremony to remember people
who have died from cancer will
remain unchanged.
But the American Cancer
Society’s new motto "Celebrate.
Remember. Fight Back!" will add a
new focus on activism to the event,
SEE RELAY, PAGE 11
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