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UNIVERSITY BRIEFS
UNC camp collects shoes to
make playgroundsurfaces
As part of their ‘Carolina Goes
Green’ theme this reek. Carolina
Kids Camp is colkcting athletic
shoes to donate tc/Nike’s Reuse a
Shoe program, though which the
grindsthe rubber soles
and makes the naterial into play
'*ground surface*
The campen, aged 6 to 12, are
spending the reek learning about
.recycling andother environmen
tally friendly practices.
Anyone wishing to donate their
shoes can bmg them to Paul Green
- Theater D-ive, off Country Club
Road, from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 am.
and 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. week
days thoigh Aug. 4.
Shoe.* also can be left dur
ing the Jay in Room 2416 of the
Frank Porter Graham Student
Union.
CITY BRIEFS
Chapel Hill to seek charges
against racist graffiti artist
Criminal charges could be
brought against the person or per
sons who vandalized a Chapel Hill
Town Operations Center bathroom
in late June, according to a state
ment released by Chapel Hill Town
Manager Roger Stancil.
“The appearance of racial and
sexual graffiti in a public restroom
has led to investigations, both
administrative and criminal, by the
Town ind the Police Department."
Stancil said in his statement.
According to a police report filed
on July 3, the graffiti was drawn
with a magic marker and only
caused about SlO in damage.
Visit www.dailytarheel.com for
; the full story.
Parham farewell party to
; be held at Franklin Hotel
; The Chapel Hill Downtown
• Partnership is holding a farewell
party for departing Executive
; Director Liz Parham.
The reception will be held July
• 18 at The Franklin Lobby Bar in
. The Franklin Hotel.
• It will last from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
• Parham announced her resigna
■ tion last month and will be taking a
I job as director of the office of urban
• development for the division of
Community assistance in the N.C.
Department of Commerce effective
July 21.
She was the partnership's first
director in July 2005 after serving
as executive director of Uptown
Lexington Inc.
STATE BRIEFS
N.C. House bill would put the
brakes on Real ID spending
An NX. House of Representatives
judiciary committee has passed a
bill that would require the state to
stop spending taxpayer money on
the federal Real ID program, which
aims to make identification cards
more secure.
The federal government plans
to demand that states incorporate
more security checks to keep iden
tification cards away from terror
ists and illegal immigrants.
The Real ID program, if fully
implemented, could cost North
Carolina tens of millions of dol
lars.
The bill passed by the N.C.
House panel requires the state to
stop spending taxpayer dollars and
instead try to use federal grants
and other funding sources.
The bill still would need to pass
both houses of the N.C. General
Assembly and be signed by Gov.
Mike Easley to become law.
State might gain power to
limit water use in a drought
The N.C. House of
Representatives tentatively passed
legislation July 14 that gives
state officials the power to man
date water restrictions during a
drought.
The bill gives power to state
leaders, who last year during the
severe drought could only ask
communities to decrease water
use.
If the bill is passed in the Senate,
the state would require communi
ties to impose drought conserva
tion plans. The plans would be
written in advance and must be
approved by the state Department
of Environment and Natural
Resources.
If initial conservation plans do
not save enough water, the state
can order localities to require more
restrictions.
House members also eliminated
a requirement of the bill that would
require a separate meter on new.
in-ground sprinkler systems.
installing those meters would
allow utility companies to discon
nect the sprinklers separately from
indoor water service.
From staff"and wire reports
Planning begins for Raynor
BY BRIAN AUSTIN
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Student Body President J.J.
Raynor and her executive branch
staff haven’t been wasting their
time this summer, but still, they
don’t have a lot to show for it.
Student government is still com
piling its reports from various com
mittees and will release that infor
mation with its annual Summer
Report in late August.
Much of student government’s
work this summer has been in
fostering productive relationships
with town and University lead
ers, holding numerous meetings
and starting projects that will be
continued by committee members
when they meet again in the fall.
“Last semester I was sad that
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Competitive bikers race in the final event of the Carolina Speedway Series on July 15 at the Orange County Speedway. Bikers from all
areas of expertise have raced several times already this season, and the track continues with motorcar races for the rest of the summer.
BY ANIKA ANAND
STAFF WRITER
ROUGEMONT Judy Rhyne laughed
and shook her head as two of the competing
Carolina Speedway Series cyclists zoomed
past her on the track.
“They’re just so competitive, no matter
what," she said.
Rhvne served as one of the two USA
Cycling officials during the third and final
races of the Twilight Points Race Series on
July 15 at the Orange County Speedway.
The series was hosted by Mike Tandy,
president of Flight Club, a sanctioned USA
Cycling club in Raleigh.
Though Tandy says the races are about
“fitness and fun," don’t let these cyclists fool
you they definitely enjoy some healthy
competition.
The races are judged by a points system
whereby cyclists get points for each lap in
which they finish in first or second place and
for finishing in the top five during the sprint
lap usually halfway through the race.
A Sls entry fee and a licensed rider mem
bership with USA Cycling are the only things
required of riders to participate in the event.
It is possible for anyone to purchase a one
day license for $lO just to compete in one
Kidzu unveils original exhibit
-BY BRITTANY JACKSON
STAFF WRITER
The growing pains are fin
ished for Franklin Street’s Kidzu
Children’s Museum.
After two years of renting other
children's museums' exhibits while
raising the money to create its own,
Kidzu unveiled its first original
exhibit July 11.
“This is a really momentous time
for us as a children's museum." Kidzu
Executive Director Cathy Maris said.
“The rented childrens exhibits really
didn’t reflect and show our commu
nity or our creativity."
Kidzu closed its doors to the pub
lic for approximately two months
to prepare for the installation of
‘KidZoom: The Power of Creativity."
Maris said the focus of this exhibit
comes from many angles.
“One of our primary goals was to
make this exhibit enormously inter
active, with a lot of open-ended fea
tures," Maris said. “We really wanted
to celebrate kids’artwork, in addition
to that of adults in this area."
In early 2007, the nonprofit orga
nization put together an exhibit
advisory- committee responsible for
creating the concept for its debut
The exhibit combines the work of
13 local artists challenged to incor
porate hands-on learning experi
ences for children in their artwork.
“This is definitely a big step for
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I couldn't really get my hands on
things," Raynor said.
“The summer’s been nice
because I’ve really been able to sit
down with administrators and talk
through ideas."
One of the first things student
government had to deal with this
summer was installing three blue
lights off campus —a project that
has now plagued three student
government administrations.
The administration has gotten
the locations of two blue lights
passed by the Chapel Hill Town
Council and proposed moving the
third to a location on Merritt Mill
Road to accommodate residents’
concerns that student government’s
previous place was unsuitable.
That project brought town-gown
SPEED RACERS
racing event, or an annual license for S6O.
Currently, cyclist Keith Weitz is taking
advantage of races like these to train for the
Furnace Creek 508 in October.
He and his fellow teammate will bike
508 miles, which will include parts of Death
Talley, in about 30 hours.
“Sprinting just kills me," said Weitz. who
prefers long-distance biking to race sprinting.
But he said he welcomes races such as this one
as “something to mix up the training."
The first race was for class C riders, who
are considered beginners. Five cyclists par
ticipated in the 25-minute race around the
track, and Linus Owen-Garni claimed the
most points and the race. Owen-Garni. who
works at a bike shop, just recently started
riding competitively.
“It’s a great way to stay in shape, bik
ing is good transportation, and 1 love the
sense of camaraderie with everyone here,"
he said.
Though the second race was originally
in tender! for more advanced category B and
A riders, to increase the sense of competi
tion for riders. Tandy decided to open the
race to everyone. Many of the beginner rid
ers who participated in the first rare elected
to race again, completing 50 minutes and
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Parents and children play under a large Keith Norval print in Kidzu
Children’s Museum. All the art in the exhibit comes from local artists.
Kidzu. The exhibit is so much more
interactive than the ones we’ve had
in the past," said UNC sophomore
Teresa Meredith, a visitor service
associate at Kidzu. “The others
offered hands-on stuff, but this
goes above and beyond what we’ve
had. It allows kids to be creative."
The bilingual exhibit houses
three primary creation “zones:*
the ‘Green Thumb’ Garden
to-Table Market, the “Build-A-
relations front and center for the
Raynor administration, a focus it will
pursue as the summer turns to fall
Among their projects, her officers
plan to reach out to the community
with a Good Neighbor Initiative on
August 18. in which they will dis
tribute resources that include safety
information and will promote con
structive town-student relations.
When her Cabinet arrives on cam
pus. Raynor will also be able to hand
off projects for students that she has
been spearheading this summer.
She said that though she had
enjoyed making headway, passing
off the projects on her platform
was inevitable.
“Part of the point of student
government is giving people the
chance to see how they can get
Races at Orange County
Speedway
► All races start at 7 p.m. unless other
wise indicated.
Racing General Admission: Adults
SlO, Students SB,IO & under Free, VIP
tower seating $25.
► July 26 ►Sept. 13
► Aug. 2 ► Oct. 4,2 p.m.
► Aug. 16 ►Oct 18,2 p.m.
► Aug. 23 ► Nov. 1,2 p.m.
about 60 laps around the seven-tenths-of
a-mile track.
Though there is some prize money offered
for the winners, many of this summer's rid
ers have decided to forego the prize money.
“These guys have been very gratuitous, and
it really shows that this racing is more about
respect than anything else," Tandy said.
Normally the speedway is home to motor
car racing during the summer, and those
races will resume next weekend.
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
Dream" ConstructioaZone and the
“Kidoodle Moodle" Art Studio.
Cynthia Fbuschee and her 6-year
old son, Johnell Vann, are regulars
at Kidzu and both expressed their
excitement about this new exhibit.
“The kids are having a ball with
this new exhibit," Fouschee said.
“They can’t figure out what to do
next. There’s so much to do. We’ll
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Student Body
President J.J.
Raynor spent
her summer
networking and
planning for
the fall.
things done," she said. ‘We’d be
cheating people if we didn’t’
Though the administration said
they touched or worked on every
area of the platform over the sum
mer. much of the student leaders'
time was spent learning how best
to work with administrators to
accomplish their goals.
One working aspect of her plat-
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New National Guard
family center opens
BY DEVIN ROONEY
STATE t NATIONAL EDITOR -
N.C. military- families in
Greenville now have anew place
to turn for help.
On July 10, the state, in coop
eration with the National Guard,
opened the second of three state
funded family assistance centers
that aim to usher in anew level of
support for guardsmen and their
families.
The facilities are intended to
make services more readily avail
able to military officers and their
families who don’t live near mili
tary bases.
These new centers are modeled
after five existing family assis
tance centers located across the
state. But the state-funded cen
ters are more expansively funded
than the older ones.
The first center opened in May
in Greensboro. The last, to be
located in Caldwell County at the
N.C. National Guard Foothills
Readiness Center, will open later
in the summer.
North Carolina is the first state
in the country to fund such cen
ters.
State officials are working to
develop additional family assis
THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2008
Board
preps
for final
meeting
Could start up
talk of tuition
BY JOHANNA YUEH
STAFF WRITER
As the summer winds down,
committees of the UNC Board of
Trustees are preparing for their
first meeting, scheduled for July 23
to 24, before the start of the 2008-
09 school year.
Trustees say there is no huge
issue to discuss at the meeting.
Instead, the meeting will cover a
range of routine business matters.
One item that will likely gamer
more attention is Carolina North,
UNC’s satellite research campus,
which received funding from the
N.C. General Assembly earlier this
month.
Bob Winston, chairman of the
buildings and grounds committee,
which has oversight over the proj
ect will not be present at the meet
ing. He said he expects discussion
on what to do with their allocated
budget and how to move projects
forward.
Design plans for the Innovation
Center, the first building scheduled
to be completed at Carolina North,
will be up for approval. The build
ing has been under review since
initial designs were unveiled to the
public in January.
The board is also expected to
vote on the Kenan Stadium expan
sion plan, which will add more
seats and anew academic support
building.
The board aiso plans to discuss,
without taking action, a prelimi
nary design review that includes
the design guidelines for Carolina
North. Roger Perry, chairman of the
board and member of the buildings
and grounds committee, said the
board hopes to have the guidelines
approved by the Chapel Hill Town
Council within the next year.
Guidelines would provide stan
dards for the space that proposed
buildings would occupy, allowing
UNC to approve multiple building
plans with local governing bodies
in a short span of time.
Though tuition is not on the
agenda for the upcoming meeting,
several comparison studies from
the audit and finance committee
may help lay the groundwork for
future talks.
The studies, which are part of
benchmarking discussions that
began in January, compare UNC to
peer institutions on cost of student
and faculty benefits to see how the
University measures up in relation
to similar schools.
Paul Fulton, chairman of the
audit and finance committee,
stressed that faculty benefits cause
some concern for lagging behind
those of other institutions and state
employees.
“We’ve made a lot of progress
on getting faculty salary into the
80th percentile," Fulton said. “But
their benefits are not competitive
at all."
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tance centers farther across the
state to expand service to more
rural Guard members.
Gov. Mike Easley was at the
opening of the Greenville cen
ter. He said the centers will help
relieve stress for soldiers who are
deployed.
“Our Guard members have
enough to do without worrying if
their children are getting medical
care or whether their paycheck got
deposited in the bank," Easley said
in a press release.
Three full-time employees will
work at each of the $95,000 fam
ily assistance centers.
The federal family assistance
centers are staffed by only one
person each.
Diane Coffill, N.C. National
Guard state family program direc
tor, said in a press release that the
centers will continue to be state
funded.
“These are permanently state
funded facilities," Coffill said.
“We have the ability to service
more families and with the part
ners we’ve created ... we are able
to provide these services to families
that are not living on or near a mili-
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