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VOLUME 116, ISSUE 26 TOURNEY RECAP rA J? VMT ' ' ' • m NBorth Carolina fell short of its March Madness Ha.spirati<)ns. hut made it> presenc e felt in the Ibracket. See pg. 14 for a photo story chronicling the Tar Heels' run through the NCAA Tournament and ulti mately to the Final Four in San Antonio. UNC campus attune to race Some concerned after violent act BY DANIELLE KUCERA ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR While police searched for sus pects in Eve Carson's murder, freshman Tara Gibbs was thinking about the implications for blacks on campus if an African American was convicted of the crime. *1 told one of my friends that if this person is an African American. 1 don't know what's going to hap pen. I anticipated things going a little off the wall," she said. Others on campus seemed to echo her thoughts. “Within the context, 1 guess you just know it’s coming when stuff like this happens," junior Shaniqua McClendon said. After police charged two black men, Lawrence Alvin Lovette and Demario James Atwater, with killing Carson, Gibbs and McClendon saw their predictions realized in bitter and hateful com ments directed at the black race on the anonymous forums at JuicyCampus.com and The Daily Tar Heel Web site. “Nobody wants to be called a racist, so they use their computer as this sort of safety net so they can say what they really think," junior Tiffany Merritt said. And although some students said hiding behind anonymity is a weak approach to expressing opinions, others said it's a better method for venting than yelling racist comments in the Pit. Regardless of the medium of communication, students said they were shocked by the inten sity of the campus’s response. “It does hurt, because those are my counterparts," McClendon said. “Asa black person, it makes me pretty angry that I have to defend my own race against one person’s actions." Timothy McMillan, an Afro- American studies professor, said violent circumstances are unlike ly to prompt a decrease in racial stereotyping. In 2006, UNC experienced another traumatic incident when UNC alumnus Mohammed Thheri-azar drove a Jeep through SEE CAMPUS. PAGE 5 university | page 7 STUDENT RECITALS UNC music majors often give recitals where they have the chance to sing for classmates, friends and the general public. The recitals let them brush up before auditions. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 ohc Satlu ®ar lUcrl TRUSTEES SHARE THE WEALTH Hillary Clinton Tohn Edwards Barack Obama . John Kerry (and related (and related (and related - . . . (and related BTSWIffiB committees) committees) committees) uworaiser committees) MpgWflgHlF Kar °* Mason Phillip Clay v mW I A RusseH Carter Nelson Jw G ZKat!T h |1 I I $69,250 / tlAr \ Schwab 111 P committees) till ( .UCJto the.\ $83,800 | s,7 ' so ° = fr* board %M --commmees) ?. •jfv, Alston Gardner ' Paul Fulton iS y~J Elizabeth Dole 55.900 ; . p\ $12,400 A look at the UNC Board of Trustees members' $63,350 / (and related \ .W ‘ total political contributions in the past decade, Vft commmees) | y | links to significant campaigns or parties. \ Kay Hagan , ; Ac ■ Individual contributions, as percent of board total Sallie Russell , , . Barbara Hyde /A \ $19,000 1 \ \ $121,700 "jjjf Donald Stallings Robert John Ellison v Kooo Want to know how much your neighbor gave? Find out at www.fec.gov Rushing attack featured in Spring Showcase BY MIKE EHRLICH ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR On just his second snap of Monday's Spring Football Showcase, Greg Little took a hand off and began running upheld only to get smothered by a swarm of white jerseys and driven back ward into the ground. Welcome back to the gridiron, Greg. But the soph omore tailback would carry four more times on the drive and INSIDE Officials are planning for a Kenan Stadium expansion. PAGE 8 eventually wind up in the end zone after a tough five-yard scamper. The drive the first featuring the top offensive and defensive units was part of a trend in which the North Carolina offense ran all over the Tar Heel defensive university | page 11 UNION DETAIL Students are assigned community service hours to be carried out at the Union for anything from underage drinking citations to being charged with resisting arrest. www.dailytarheel.com | Town lighting up for debate Council will hear resident concerns BY SARA GREGORY CITY EDITOR Residents have a chance tonight to comment on plans to increase lighting in three off-campus areas with heavy student populations. A recommendation from town staff calls for three new emergency call boxes and varied pedestrian friendly street lighting downtown. It is the next step toward the installation of call boxes and light ing, an initiative driven by students who said they feared for their safe ty’ in dark off-campus areas. “The main thing is residents agreeing to this additional light ing," Engineering Services Manager Kumar Neppalli said. “Some like it dark, some like more light, some like it in the middle." Student-approved fee increases funded the 880,000 cost which will “We talked a lot of smack coming out, so they really hit us in the mouth. " DEUNTA WILLIAMS, SAFETY ON UNC’S OfFENSE unit “I got to give big ups to the offense," safety Deunta Williams said after the practice. “We talked a lot of smack coming out so they really hit us in the mouth the first half of scrimmage." For a defense that has been tout ed all spring as the superior unit the first several drives were a dis appointment and UNC tailbacks repeatedly found the paydirt. Little, joined by Ryan Houston, Devon Ramsay and Anthony Elzy, all sparked the running attack for the blue-clad offense. UNC ran for 143 yards and three scores. “It's been an uphill battle for the *#* be split between the call boxes and pedestrian lighting. The town will fund the continued maintenance of the lights once they are installed. When the Chapel Hill Town Council accepted funds for the proj ect in September, several residents said they were upset that the neigh borhood hadn't been consulted. “I know that there was some opposition by a few people, but mostly we have heard positive com ments." police Sgt Jack Terry said. Street lighting will be targeted at three areas where increased needs have been identified: Rosemary Street between Hillsborough and Boundary streets, the Northside neighborhood and the area near Cameron and McCauley streets. Student government represen tatives were advised to pick loca tions with both higher crime rates Up to $3,000 $3,001-SIO,OOO SIO.OOI-$30,000 $30,001+ dth/REBECCA roife offense going against such a com petitive defense, and it’s only made us better," Little said. “And I feel like this spring game, we made a tremendous stride as an offense." The defensive unit eventually would strike back about halfway through the allotted 75 minutes and would be in control the rest of the way. As its intensity jumped, the big hits started to pile up. and Little was on the hurting end of a couple of them. “We’ve dominated, I felt like, all spring," linebacker Chase Rice said. “And that’s what we need SEE SPRING GAME, PAGE 5 university | page 9 ROBERTSONS COME HOME The Robertson Scholars Program, which includes students from Duke and UNC who take classes at both universities, plans to construct a building on North Campus. and student populations. “Because students are paying for them, it only makes sense that they benefit from them if they need them,” Terry said. The call boxes and increased light ing are expected to deter crime. “We know that criminals use dark ness for concealment," Terry said, adding most serious crimes happen at night “Darkness Ls not your friend if you are looking for safety." The strategies to address the darkest areas vary. Between Hillsborough and Boundary streets, decorative light poles are recommended. Along McCauley Street, the plan is to add light fix tures to existing street lights. “We can only do so much with the funds that were given to us," Neppalli said. “We want to start from one point and look into the future." Contact the City Editor at city desk (a unc.edu. Mil r—a r--- - ■ - • ‘MmEmu a OTH/SAM WARD Sophomore tailback Greg Little takes a big hit from cornerback Kendric Burney (16) during UNC’s Spring Football Showcase in Kenan Stadium. this day in history APRIL 8,2002 ... Former UNC law student Wendell Williamson, who killed two UNC students on a 1995 Henderson Street shooting spree, describes living with paranoid schizophrenia. TUESDAY. APRIL 8, 2008 Emergency Blue Lights Students and residents can hear the town s recommendations for three off-campus call boxes at an information meeting tonight £ Proposed blue light locations •shoe St W Rosemary St W Franklin St ~ $ Colony Court = m N W Cameron Ave t , 1000 ft oth'au it vvassuv • McCauley Street SOURCE CHAitlMlUl>ol Cf PFMRTMENT ATTEND THE MEETING Time: 7 p.m. today location: Chapel Hill Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. Info: www.townofchapelhill.org UNC leaders give often, generously BY BRENDAN BROWN SENIOR WRITER The most politically active group on campus, by far. is the Board of Trustees. In the last deeade the board's current 12 members have given 8483.500 to federal candidates, political parties and political action committees, not to men tion thousands more in state level contributions. With this year’s high-profile races for governor, senator and president, the trustees are sure to be heavily tapped for fundraising. "1 feel like somebody's call ing me every day," Paul Fulton, a trustee and former CEO of Bassett Furniture Industries, said about requests for campaign con tributions. But whom the trustees support is determined less by political ideology than by personal rela tionships with candidates and their fundraisers. Fulton, a self-described "life long Republican," gave SI.OOO to Barack Obama because he said he was asked by fellow trustee Karol Mason, an Obama fund raiser. Nine of the 12 trustees have contributed to Obama's campaign, a total of 818.500 dollars to date. “People I respected and have done things for me" have asked for money, Fulton said. “Now. what am I going to do?" Even giving to opposing sides in the same race is not unusual. SEE TRUSTEES, PAGE 5 weather Vi V cloudy index" 661,9 police log 2 calendar 2 opinion 10 games it sports 13
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