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VOLUME 116, ISSUE 35 LANDFILL PUSHES LIMIT i _* - JA - ii /' --jr ' * w - Mf i|Sß|. . HlI . -?) ..- -Jf WL ? ' r\ ; v*' 1 ' * . J| DTH/ADAM GRAETZ Municipal solid waste is moved and buried at the Orange County Landfill. The landfill is set to reach capacity by 2010, and county officials are looking for a location to build a waste transfer site. Transferring trash outside of the county is less expensive than burying it at the landfill.- ■■■BHHhßlj L DTH/ADAM GRAET7 Compressed cubes of steel recyclable cans await transfer at the Orange County Landfill. The county recycles almost 50 percent of its trash. Whose trash fills the county's landfill? 30%r "iff ftffjf Town of The rest of UNC campus Town of Town of Chape! Hill Orange County and hospitals Carrboro Hillsborough SOURCE: WWW.COORANGE.NC US/RECYCLINGSTATS.ASP DTWCHRtSTINE HE LUNGER Dance company advances ‘non-narrative art’ Show incorporates atypical elements BY PHILLIP CROOK STAFf WRITER The work of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company is of the sort that often challenges audiences' intuitions about what is and what isn’t ‘art.’' For many in attendance at Carolina Performing Arts’ pre sentation of the company Friday, the convergence of jarring music, graphic sets and atypical move ment defied expectation and resulted in utter confusion. Others came to Memorial Hall to indulge in the non-nar rative choreography of Merce Cunningham considered the world's greatest living choreogra pher —and left satisfied with the simple appreciation for bodies in city I page 5 50 YEARS OF PUBLIC BOOKS Five Chapel Hill residents with close ties to the public library tell how it has evolved during the past 50 years at an anniversary panel discussion Sunday. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 altr latlu @ar Mrrl motion. The inevitable clash between innovation in artistic expression and people's desire for familiar perceptions was expressed at first through laughter and applause when five audience members were selected to roll a die to determine the sequence of elements in the first dance, “Split Sides." But what started as amusement concluded in an erratic murmur after the performance as the hall buzzed with people's reactions, tastes and questions. “I didn’t find myself look ing for meaning in w’hat I saw,’ said Michal Osterweil, a UNC graduate student in attendance. "Maybe that’s the point. Maybe we’re not supposed to know the State i page 9 THIRD-PARTY ACCESS Michael Munger, a Libertarian running for N.C. governor, will speak today at UNC about third-party ballot access. Third-party candidates often face an uphill battle. >\ www.dailytarheel.com | COUNTY'S TRASH IN QUESTION WITH LANDFILL SET TO CLOSE BY CATARINA SARAIVA SENIOR WRITER For years, controversy sur rounding the Orange County landfills closing has riddled both county leaders and residents. The landfill, which is expected to reach capacity around June 2010, will be sealed, and all trash will start being shipped out of the coun ty, said Gayle Wilson, solid waste manage ment director. Rogers- Eubanks com munity mem bers, who have been neighbors to the landfill ffff tnuh. teium OTH ONLINE Video stories from neighbors of the landfill. since it opened, have complained about its impact, but leaders say the transfer station’s effects will be minimal. After touring a similar site in Greensboro last year. Commissioner Mike Nelson said the closed-in facility would hold trash for no more than a few hours. “The impact will be a lot less than a landfill,' Nelson said in March 2007. DTH/SARAH RIAZATI Dancers from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company performed two pieces, ’Split Sides* and ’eyeSpace,” Friday night in Memorial Hall. point.’ Emil Kang, UNC’s executive director for the arts, said that no matter what audience members thought leaving the evening's per formance, the purpose of bringing such a progressive dance company Lack of space for another land fill in Orange County led com missioners to decide on a waste transfer station, a closed facility that will receive waste and ship it back out on trucks. “Probably once we decide where our transfer station is going to be-, we wi11... solicit proposals from var ious landfills that are interested in receiving our waste," Wilson said. He said landfills will quote pric es they will charge Orange County for its waste and the commission ers will pick the most viable option, based on the landfill s location and other elements such as whether it’s in a minority neighborhood. The price will likely be in the $22- to S2B-per-ton range, Wilson said. In 2005 the landfill took about 85,650 tons of waste. At that rate, it would cost $1.9 million to $2.4 mil lion annually. The county's 2007 commission er-approved budget appropriated just more than $4 million to total landfill operations. But new state legislation likely will cause transfer prices to increase, Wilson said. Once a landfill is closed, it must also be properly maintained for at least .30 years to ensure harm- SEE TRASH, PAGE 6 to Chapel Hill was to create con versation about challenging artis tic material. “The question of how audi ences experience non-narrative SEE SHOW, PAGE 6 city | page* 4 ON THE FARM Thirty-five local farms were featured during the 13th annual Piedmont Farm Tour. Places visited included Eco Farms of Carrboro, which raises hogs and turkeys. Ice cream race churns moolah Replaces annual poker tournament BY ZACK TYMAN STAFF WRITER Ice cream and running prob ably aren't the best mix. but they did raise money to help fight world hunger. On Sunday, Nourish International hosted the Maple View Challenge to raise money for the group. More than 250 participants came out for the race, which was set up in place of the group's annual Hold 'Em For Hunger Tournament. That event was canceled in March because it violated a state law against gambling. INSIDE A student paper on the Hold 'Em tourney wins an award. PAGE 9 “It was very frustrating for us," said Amy Zipursky. co-chair woman of Nourish International. "We had to cancel it only six weeks before the event, and we had already committed to people." The group's goal was to raise at least $25,000 during the year, which would fund sustainable development projects in Mexico. Honduras and Peru this summer. Last year about 500 people participated in the poker tour nament, and that number was expected to double this year. The Maple View Challenge brought in about $3,800 for Nourish International, said senior David Campbell, the race orga nizer. Each runner paid a sls entrance fee, and Maple View Ice Cream in Carrboro provided the ice cream for a reduced price. Zipursky said Nourish met its goat for the year, lenge and other fundraisers. 1 i Jf COURTESY OF MEGAN LEE Emergency Medical Technician volunteer Megan Lee (left) waits at a fire scene with personnel getting equipment ready to help with rehab Student EMTs get real-life experience BY ERIN WILTGEN STAFF WRITER It’s his first cardiac arrest. Junior Paul Trottman crouch es in the back as the ambulance careens through Raleigh's neigh borhood streets, its sirens a high pitched fanfare for the arrival. As it jerks to a stop, TYottman jogs behind the rest of the Emergency Medical Technician squad —a paramedic and another EMT volunteer into the house. The victim of the arrest is dead. But the team still begins a resusci tation procedure with Trottman in charge of the endotracheal tube, which helps people breathe if they can’t do it themselves. *lf this woman dfd live, it would've been in a large part because of me," TYottman said. "I don’t think I’d ever seen anyone dead before. But there wasn't anv- this day in history APRIL 21,1999 ... The University announces that N.C. Senate President Pro Tern Marc Basnight and presidential candidate Bill Bradley will receive honorary degrees at Commencement. MONDAY, APRIL 21. 2008 T' H- DTH/EMMA PATTI Nourish International hosted the Maple View Challenge on Sunday in place of the Hold’em For Hunger Tournament. Campbell, who is not involved with the gniup, approached it with the idea of the race. “We came to them and proposed this idea, and they w ere elated," he said. “It was a harebrain idea that we put together in four weeks." The runners began at Morehead Planetarium and Science Center and ran about a mile to the inter section of Roberson and Weaver streets in Carrboro. Upon their arrival, the runners had to eat a pint of ice cream and then make the long journey back. Some participants came dressed in costumes. “It was very, very hot but it was very exciting," said senior Nick Hutchins, who came dressed as a gorilla and won best costume, along with his friend Matt Hamrick. “There were lots of people cheering SEE NOURISH. PAGE 6 thing we could do." Trottman, a religious stud ies major on the pre-med track, became an EMT volunteer with Six Forks Emergency Medical Services in February 2007. Six Forks, an oflshoot of the Wake County EMS system with service in Raleigh, has 24 active volunteers. Trottman. who averages about two 12-hour shifts a month, has worked with Six Forks for a little more than a year. He started the semester-long class in August 2006 and passed the certification exam the next December. ‘One day 1 just all of a sudden thought. ’Maybe I want to be a. doctor.'" Trottman said. “I thought that it would be a good indicator of whether I like medicine." At Six Forks, each ambulance SEE EMT. PAGE 6 weather T-storms H 68, L 54 index police log 2 calendar 2 opinion 8 games 11 sports 12
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