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CORRECTION
Due to a reporting error, I
Friday’s brief‘All-female a cap- j
pella group to perform spring
concert” incorrectly states that
Cadence is releasing its first studio
album and that guest performers
Grains of Time are a UNC a cap
pella group. Cadence is releasing
its second album, and Grains of
Time is a group from N.C. State
University. The Daily Tar Heel
apologizes for the errors.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
CUAB to host Forrest Gump
festival in Union Great Hall
Carolina Union Activities
Board will host a free festival cel
ebrating the 1994 movie, “Forrest
Gump," at 7 p.m. in the Union
Great Hall.
CUAB will serve 25 pounds of
fried shrimp, 25 pounds of grilled
shrimp, 288 glass bottles of Dr.
Pepper and 15 pounds of boxed
chocolate.
The movie will not be shown,
but pingpong tables will be made
available for play.
125 new members inducted
into UNC Phi Beta Kappa
The nation's oldest honor society
inducted 125 UNC students into its
chapter this weekend.
Students are eligible if they
have completed 75 hours of course
credit and have a 3.85 grade point
average or have completed 105
hours with a 3.75 grade point
average.
Inductees were honored in a
ceremony in which they received a
certificate and a key the Phi Beta
Kappa symbol.
Board of Visitors holds its
spring meeting on campus
On Thursday and Friday, the
Board of Visitors convened to dis
cuss the state of the campus.
Members attended classes,
heard about the University Cancer
Research Fund, possible enroll
ment plans for growth in the
future and progress of the Carolina
Covenant.
“These are people who you see in
Forbes magazine, but they take this
time out of their schedules to see
what they can do for Carolina," said
Linda Douglas, director of commu
nity relations.
The Board of Visitors meets once
each semester, acting as ambassa
dors for the University during rest
of the year.
STATE BRIEFS
Greg Doucette named ASG
president for 2008-09 term
The UNC-system Association
of Student Governments held a
meeting Saturday that included
elections for the upcoming school
year.
Greg Doucette, president of
the Student Senate at N.C. State
University, was elected the new
ASG president by a vote of 22-21.
Ashley Yopp, speaker of the
East Carolina
University
Student Senate,
ran as Doucette's
vice president.
The vote
originally stood
as 22-21 in
Doucette and
Yopp’s favor,
but departing
ECU Student
Body President
Keri Brockett
led a delegation
that challenged
N.C. State's
Greg Doucette
was elected
ASG president
this weekend.
the legality of one of ECU’s voting
delegates.
Thomas Brigman of Appalachian
State University, former ASG chair
man of academic and student affairs,
presided over the meeting. He
upheld the challenge after a lengthy
debate, bringing the vote to a tie of
21-21.
UNC-Chapel Hill delegate Andy
Woods and another delegate chal
lenged the legality of an N.C. State
delegate, who was acting as a proxy
for Doucette.
Brigman decided that the N.C.
State delegate’s vote was legal,
and as chairman of the meeting,
Brigman broke the tie in favor of
the Doucette-Yopp ticket.
Docuette said he wants to refo
cus the organization on the needs
of UNC-system students.
“I’m hoping we can finally put
up some of the reforms to repre
sent the students.”
Chase Matson, a UNC-CH dele
gate, ran in opposition to Doucette,
with Atul Bhula, an ECU delegate
and ASG east regional director, as
his vice presidential candidate.
*1 think either one of them
would have sent ASG in the right
direction,’ said UNC-CH del
egate and ASG Vice President of
Academic and Student Affairs
Jake Parton.
*1 can’t find any problem with
the process," he added, commend
ing Brigman’s handling of the
election.
Prom staff and wire reports
CAA solicits ticket input
BY DANIEL PATE
STAFF WRITER
As soon as this year’s college
basketball season ended, prepara
tions for the next one began.
The Carolina Athletic Association
will hold a basketball ticket forum
Tuesday for students to voice their
opinions about the ticket policy.
The forum will consider not only
changes recommended by the stu
dents attending but also issues the
CAA took note of during the year.
“It’s not a forum to change the
system," said Clint Gwaltney, asso
ciate athletic director for ticket and
Smith Center operations.
“It's a forum to take the online
system and continue to enhance it
and make it better for students."
CAA President Andrew Coonin
VESTS, AT LEAST,
STAY THE SAME
Clefs celebrate
30-year evolution
BY CATARINA SARAIVA
SENIOR WRITER
When the curtain went up
Saturday night in Memorial Hall,
the auditorium was bathed in an
orange glow and filled with the
energetic and tight harmonies of
the Clef Hangers' trademark song.
Toto’s “Africa."
Dressed in khakis and their
traditional button-clad vests,
they bopped to the 1980s hit in
front of a sold-out audience that
included about 72 of the group's
alumni.
The former members were
in town to celebrate the group’s
30th anniversary, which culmi
nated in a three-hour-long con
cert.
Along with singing current hits
such as Chris Brown's “Kiss Kiss,"
the Clefs talked about their his
tory and invited the alumni on
stage to sing a medley of UNC
fight songs.
“We had no idea that we were
establishing what would become
a tradition at UNC," said Tom
Terrell, one of the original Clefs.
“We didn't even know that the
group would be around each next
year."
While many elements of the
group have changed since it was
created in 1977, its history has left
lingering marks.
UNC didn’t have a cappella
groups then, and Barry Saunders,
the group’s founding member,
set out to get a group of his own
together.
“He went around grabbing peo
ple who claimed they could sing
it was very haphazard," Terrell
said.
“We started to meet and har
monize, and by late December or
early January of 1978, we were
wearing vests and bow ties. We
called ourselves the Clef Hangers,
and we began throwing ourselves
in front of audiences uninvited,"
Terrell said.
Back then the Clefs’ repertoire
consisted mostly of barbershop
SEE CLEF HANGERS, PAGE 7
Development a key in election
Proposed Buckhom Village spurs talk
BY ROBERT C. GUNST JR.
STAFF WRITtR
Growth will be a central issue
in the campaign for the Orange
County Board of Commissioners
as plans for anew shopping center
take shape.
Some contenders said the pro
posed Buckhom Village develop
ment will stimulate growth in the
local economy,
and others said
it is something
that needs to
be executed
carefully.
N.C. Primary
MAY 6
’We need more commercial
expansion to widen and diver
sify the tax base,’ said Pam
Hemminger, a candidate for the
board in District 1.
The development will be
equidistant to Durham’s Streets
at Southpoint mall and the
Alamance Crossing shopping cen
ter in Burlington, said Margaret
Wood Cannell, Orange County
Chamber of Commerce executive
director.
“It will bring needed infrastruc
ture into the area and will jump
start other economic activity,’ she
said.
But Carrboro Alderman Dan
Top News
said that the student organization
can’t directly change the ticket
policy but that it can work with
University officials to serve as the
voice of the student body.
“This year’s was the best it's ever
been," Coonin said of the ticket
policy.
Coonin said the system showed
flaws, though, when it caused
confusion about the Duke game
distribution, in which latecomers
missed an impromptu lottery that
determined which phase one ticket
holders got the front rows.
The standby line also was not
publicized well, Coonin said. The
line gives students without tickets an
opportunity to attend games, taking
spots of those who don’t show up.
Coonin said students who aren’t
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The Clef Hangers, pictured here in 1978 after only recently starting to sing publicly on UNC's
campus, started out as a quartet that specialized in barbershop and other four-part harmonies.
Coleman, who is not running for
a county commissioner office, said
the location of the development is
a major drawback.
The development will create
many low-paying jobs in an already
struggling economic district of
Orange County, Coleman said.
He added that the location does
not have easy access to any form of
public transportation.
But Cannell said the ability to
develop the area makes it a good
site.
’The most positive aspect of
Buckhom Village is that it will be
developed in an area where nothing
has really happened," she said.
County commissioner at large
candidate Bernadette Pelissier
said she encourages economic
development.
“I’d like to see the focus be on
locally owned businesses with good
wages," she said.
She didn't want to comment on
the Buckhom issue because she
hopes to vote on it in the future.
At-large candidate Neloa Barbee
Jones also said she would like to
see more expansion.
"We certainly need economic
expansion and to find a good bal
ance between our housing and
ATTEND THE TICKET FORUM
Time: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday
Location: Murphey Hall, Room 116
Info: studentorgs.unc.edu/caa/
comfortable speaking at the forum
can submit written suggestions.
“It’s great to have the confirma
tion from the students that this is
how they feel," he said.
And the forum has proved to be
effective in the past.
Last year students received two
tickets with assigned seats, mean
ing groups could not sit together.
To remedy this, student tickets
were assigned to phases that gave
a certain arrival time. People could
then sit together if they entered in
the same phase.
commercial development," she
said. “Too much revenue is hurt
from property taxes."
If approved. Buckhom will show
case a variety of large retail stores,
restaurants and office space.
But Coleman said it won't pro
vide the right kind of economic
growth for the county.
“It will harm existing businesses
and is not going to recirculate the
w ealth of Orange County," he said.
Still, others believe that there is
a possibility of a local presence in
the development
“There might definitely be local
businesses in the development,"
Cannell said.
Others want to see the develop
ment break ground as long as it is
done with long-term intentions in
mind.
“1 want us to do this the right
way," Hemminger said. “We know
how to build green, and the county
needs to be proactive in that."
Hemminger said efficient build
ings and surface runoff control are
important steps toward a success
ful sustainable development.
There is no timetable in place
for the future of the development.
The proposal is still in the public
hearing process.
Contact the City Editor
at dtydesk@unc.edu.
Ticket distribution
forum
► There will be free food.
► Students can question Clint
Gwaltney, director of ticket
distribution and Smith Center
operations.
► This will be the only forum
this year.
Although some students said the
online system is convenient and
fair, others long to return to the
days of old, when bracelets were
used to determine who got tickets.
“Bracelets require you to be a
SEE TICKETS, PAGE 7
Election irregularities
crop up within system
BY OLIVIA BOWLER
STAFF WRITtR
The recent East Carolina
University election controversy
illuminated an issue campuses face
across the state: how to run a legiti
mate student government election.
Whether it's a technology glitch,
inappropriate use of campaign funds
or fliers in off-limits library bath
rooms, the UNC system has seen its
share of election flukes.
But the most notable of the recent
hiccups were more like belches. In
addition to the recent contested elec
tion at ECU, N.C. Central University
and UNC-Pembroke had their
names added to the list of schools
that have recently experienced woes
in student government.
The charges against the ECU
board of elections included improp
er swearing-in of election poll work
ers, candidates campaigning in the
25-foot off-limits box around poll
ing stations and the withholding
of candidates' names and pictures
from the elections Web site.
Abey Dessie, departing ECU
Student Government Association
attorney general, said the student
judicial board upheld three of the
charges against the elections board
in a hearing two weeks ago but voted
MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2008
Sit-in
protest
outlasts
weekend
Some unsure of
SAW’s motives
BY MARY COLE ALLEN
STAFF WRITER
Shouts of “Adopt the DSP"
rang out across Polk Place on
Friday afternoon as members of
the Student Action for Workers
continued to protest Chancellor
James Moeser’s refusal to sign the
Designated Suppliers Program.
In August. Moeser said that
after reviewing the proposal, he did
not feel confident the DSP would
| accomplish what it set forward:
requiring a university to buy 75
| percent of its licensed apparel from
factories that pay bring wages and
i allow collective bargaining.
The students held the rally
j at 4:30 p.m.. just before South
Building closed for the weekend. At
5 p.m. they were locked in the lobby
of the building for the weekend.
“We’re not going to get tired,
| and we re going to stay here untii
Moeser adopts the DSP.“ said
Salma Mirza, ail organizer for the
| protest.
But though the students have
j shouted their reasons for protest
ing, many others say they don't
understand or don’t know why the
group is protesting.
“It's a good cause." sophomore
Bethany Hartness said. “But I think
the majority of the student body is
pretty uninformed."
Members of the coalition handed
out fliers detailing Friday’s protest
and asking students to attend.
Sophomore Andrea Blanford was
on Polk Place on Friday when she
was approached by protesters.
“Everyone has been just telling us
I to protest but not what I’m supposed
: to protest." Blanford said. "How am
1 supposed to protest something I
don't have a definitive opinion on?"
Other students who are con
cerned about sweatshops making
UNC clothing said they thought
the protest is ill-timed.
“They have been very loud, and
it made me stop and think, but it's
the end of the year, and ... we all
have other priorities as students
right now," freshman Sarah DuPre
said.
The protest has been going on
for several days, but officials in
South Building say the students
have been cooperative and civil.
"I respect their right to have
free speech and organize,’ said
Jodi Fruth, executive assistant in
the provost's office. “They haven't
| been disruptive at all."
Moeser held a round-table
| discussion with the organizers
Wednesday, and though Moeser
said he thought the conversation
went well, members of the group
j said little was accomplished.
Steve Local, a member of the
; N.C. Public Service Workers Union,
| said at the rally Friday afternoon
that he is in full support of the stu
j dent protesters.
“I’m outraged as a taxpaying citi-
SEE SAW, PAGE 7
against holding another election.
“They felt that those three viola
tions wouldn't have had that much of
an effect," Dessie said of the board 's
decision, adding that the decision
was largely influenced by the fact
that the judiciary board felt that
candidates were affected collectively,
rather than one being singled out
“Everyone is really glad the situa
tion was resolved now," he said. “Now
we can look ahead to the future."
Such incidents are not isolated
to a few campuses.
In February 2007, N.C. Central
University Junior Class President
Edmund Lewis was impeached and
removed from office, disqualifying
him from ninning in the upcoming
student body president elections.
At the time, many students pro
tested the impeachment charges,
claiming that the charges' proximity
to the elections smelled of foul play,
Last fall at UNC-P, there was an
unsuccessful movement to impeach
Student Body President Dwight
Humphrey on charges of miscon
duct such as using inappropriate
language, missing meetings and not
submitting a budget. Humphrey
resigned shortly after.
SEE ELECTIONS, PAGE 7
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