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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2. 2008
Groups join to register voters
BY JACKI HUNTINGTON
STAFf WRITER
As the April 11 deadline approach
es, voter registration drives are
branching from the Pit into residence
halls and the Greek community.
The bipartisan Project SERY.
Students Engaging in Registering
Voters, is venturing to register to
vote as many on-campus students
its possible by Election Day.
"It was an idea that some of
Young Democrats came up with,
and then we talked to College
Republicans." said senior Sarah
Shah, a SERY coordinator.
Holding two competitions
among housing communities and
Greek houses. SERY is offering a
SSOO prize to both the community
and house with the highest per
centage of registered voters at the
end of the two-week competition.
Students also can register and
vote during the one-stop voting
period, which begins April 1“
UNC Students for Barack Obama
plans to engage students by way of
their residence halls.
Haring identified chapter mem
bers in dorms on campus. President
Vivek Chilukuri said the group will
campaign, publicize events and
encourage early voting in the May
6 Democratic presidential primary
from within residence halls.
And the campaigning doesn't end
at the edge of campus. Music venue
Local 50b' has publicly endorsed
Obama, and its employees have
even volunteered in the campaign,
which stationed its Chapel Hill
headquarters next door.
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in “a fortuitous ianding."
'We’ve had Obama signs up for
quite a while.’ he said. ‘He’s the guy
who appeals to our staff as a whole.”
Meanwhile. UNC Students for
Barack Obama will continue to reg
ister voters in the Pit and outside the
dining halls throughout the week.
'We re the most active student
chapter in the state,’ Chilukuri
said. “1 think our support is much
more of a passion.”
Heels for Hillary is involving
its members in a "Why do you
support Hillary?" competition,
where students who register the
most new Clinton supporters will
receive campaign merchandise as
a prize.
After coordinating with North
Carolina for Hillary to organize
Chelsea Clinton’s appearance on
campus Monday, Heels for Hillary
President Amanda Vaughn said
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A member of Students Engaging in Registering Voters promotes voting
during Chelsea Clinton’s speech in the Student Union Monday.
“Either candidate could win. Its very
important to get .young people out to
work for a campaign."
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tration and on-campus canvassing.
"It's a competitive primary: either
candidate could win," Vaughn said.
"It's very important to get young
people out to work for a campaign."
The recent efforts of Young
Democrats as a whole have cen
tered around registering voters and
bringing speakers and candidates
to campus.
Without a competitive primary
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of their own, College Republicans
Chairman Derek Belcher said the
chapter has not really started mobi
lizing support for its presumptive
nominee. Sen. John McCain.
Belcher said the group plans to
join in voter registration efforts and
continue to be a presence in the Pit.
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Opening date
delayed again
for Starbucks
Shop now should
open in late May
BY MEGAN HANNAY
STAFf WRITER
The Starbucks that once was
planned to open early irt the fall
semester now will not be ready
for business until well after stu
dents have left for their summer
vacations.
The popular coffee franchise set
to be in the Rams Head Dining
Hall most recently was scheduled
to open before spring exams.
Its original opening date was in
September now it will be late
May.
Scott Myers, director of food
and vending for Carolina Dining
Services, said the most recent
delays do not result from one spe
cific problem but are the effects
of many smaller construction
issues.
“It’s just been a lot of little
things." he said.
“For instance, to reduce energy
usage we combined a project we
were doing over there with tem
perature control. Coordinating that
took a long time."
Myers added that workers have
had to reconstruct the spaces ceil
ing to cover the exposed pipes
and electrical wires to make the
Starbucks a more comfortable
atmosphere.
The other delays involved in
the construction and opening of
the Starbucks —a project that
has now been in the works for
almost a year were related to
an ambitious timeline and prob
lems getting an on-site review,
Myers said.
The project is estimated to cost
about $250,000. The space was
first occupied by the End Zone
Sports Cafe, and dining services
has not been bringing in any rev
enue from the space since that res
taurant closed.
Carolina Dining Services is still
determining the operating hours of
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“It's just been a lot
of little things....
Coordinating...
took a long time."
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the shop, but it will probably close
between 11 p.m. and midnight each
night. Myers said.
The Starbucks on Franklin Street
closes at 11 p.m. on weeknights and
11:30 p.m. on weekends.
Before it opens, though, there
will be some activity within the
shop.
Applications to work at the
Starbucks on campus now are
available in the food service
offices.
Besides looking for students
who love coffee, the office hopes
to find employees who will be
available for two weeks of train
ing in May.
Dining services also will likely
hold a coffee tasting in late April.
Participants will have the chance
to taste a variety of Starbucks cof
fees along with their corresponding
pastries.
“One thing Starbucks does is
educating people about coffee,"
Myers said.
“Coffee is kind of like wine
there are different kinds of
foods that complement different
coffees."
Freshman Sara Beth Pannell.
who will be living on Middle
Campus next year, said she is anx
iously awaiting the opening of the
Starbucks, (though she expects it to
become an overly popular on-cam
pus coffee shop.
“1 really think it's going to be
really crowded, because everyone
loves Starbucks," she said. “We’re
college students. ... We have to
have coffee."
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