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Airport site search provokes worry over procedure
Some claim neglect of local interests
BY KATY DOLL
SENIOR WRITER
The search for a replacement
site for Horace Williams Airport
has some questioning the state’s
involvement.
An Aug. 8 bill passed by the N.C.
General Assembly gives the UNC
system Board of Governors the
power to form an airport authority
that can select and seize through
eminent domain a location for anew
airport
The airport is closing its doors
to make way for Carolina North,
UNC’s research satellite campus.
The Board of Governors hasn’t
taken any action toward forming
the authority, but a local group
already says that the state has dis
regarded local input in the proj
ect.
Professor’s DNA study
reveals ‘violent genes’
Social factors also believed to play part
BY DAN BYRNES
STAFF WRITER
Some boys may really be bad to
the bone.
A study published by UNC
professor Guang Guo and his
team last month in the American
Sociological Review isolated three
genes that predispose people to
violent behavior.
The findings could explain
why some men raised in under
privileged neighborhoods become
violent criminals, while others do
not.
“Both genetic and social influ
ences contribute to delinquent
acts,” Guo said.
This new finding could influ
ence the criminal justice system,
though it’s too early to know how,
Guo said.
“Teens may not be held respon
sible for criminal acts,” he said.
Traditionally, predispositions
based on character are not includ
ed as evidence in court, said Eric
Muller, a professor in the UNC
School of Law.
But Muller said that could
change.
“This more scientific evidence
of character might warrant anew
approach in the future,” he said.
The Carolina Population Center,
a group that tries to advance under
standing of population issues,
interviewed individuals in 1996,
2002 and 2008 for this study. The
participants provided their IQ, age
and ethnicity.
Participants were students in
the seventh through 12th grade
who were continually observed
into their 30s.
The study used males of every
ethnic group to represent the U.S.,
Guo said.
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Bonnie Hauser, a member of
the Concerned Citizens Against
the Abuse of Eminent Domain,
has spoken against the process
because UNC was empowered to
create the authority by the N.C.
General Assembly, not Orange
County officials.
“The real issue is that the airport
authority is being formed in a way
that bypasses input from the com
munity and our ejected officials,”
she said in an e-mail.
In June, Barry Jacobs, chair
man of the county’s board of com
missioners, asked the county’s
state representatives to fight the
• House’s version of the bill. Verla
Insko and Bill Faison, two Orange
County legislators, sponsored and
co-sponsored the House legisla
tion.
“We controlled for ethnicity,
and did not notice many differ
ences in delinquency by race,”
said Guo.
About 1 percent of the par
ticipants contained the gene that
increases propensity to violence,
Guo said.
The gene can be found on the
X chromosome. There are several
different forms of the gene, but one
variant contributes to delinquent
actions.
It regulates several chemicals
called neurotransmitters that con
vey information for aggression,
emotion and thought.
In the study, participants would
self-report their delinquencies
through an electronic voice record
er, and were guaranteed that their
names and voice would not be
revealed, Guo said.
Some social factors that corre
lated with peaceful behavior were
religious identity, friends, educa
tion and having two biological
parents in a household and eat
ing regular meals with them, Guo
said.
Guo and dozens of his graduate
students composed the hypothesis
that the gene is linked to violence
through the reward system, a col
lection of brain structures which
attempts to regulate and control
behavior by inducing pleasurable
effects.
The variant Guo studied is
linked to a deficiency of dop
amine, the neurotransmitter
which induces those pleasurable
effects. Without it, the person is
angrier and more prone to vio
lence, Guo said.
The researchers started out test
ing mice before testing humans.
Mice share more than 90 percent
The authority approved by the
legislation will find the new loca
tion and purchase the land from
the owner at market value, which
is called eminent domain.
People who support the use
of eminent domain in this case
have suggested opening up the
new airport to small commercial
flights.
The new airport could then help
the county by bringing in revenue,
Board of Trustees Chairman Roger
Perry said.
“If done properly, and done sen
sibly, and done sustainably, it could
be an asset to the community,”
Perry said.
But Hauser said this plan
seems to benefit UNC, not the
county.
“The legislation ignores our
zoning and land use ordinances
as well as our own environmental
and economic plans. The claims of
“Both genetic and
social influences
contribute to
delinquent acts .*
GUANG GUO, UNC PROFESSOR WHO
ISOLATED THREE GENES THAT PREDISPOSE
PEOPLE TO VIOLENT BEHAVIOR
of genes with humans.
The mice with the variant geno
type acted more aggressively.
“We would see the behavior
change, especially in aggressive
ness,” Guo said.
Guo will continue his studies of
genetics and violence by looking at
other genes in animal models.
“It is impossible to manipulate
human behavior, but animal mod
els can be controlled,” said Guo.
The work of Guo and graduate
students Michael Roettger and
Tianji Cai have had their work
published in Washington, D.C.,
the U.S. Department of Health &
Human Services, China, Columbia,
India, Germany, and more.
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economic benefit are suspicious
particularly since there is no eco
nomic plan related to this project,”
she said.
Horace Williams, located at
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
and North Estes Drive, has served
as Chapel Hill’s primary landing
site for 77 years. The airport is
scheduled to close soon due to
the continued construction of
Carolina North.
Horace Williams serves mainly
medical flights, such as the N.C.
Area Health Educator Centers,
and small planes, said Paul Burke
Jr, general manager for Horace
Williams.
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“The county needs one,” he said
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‘Two Masters’ misses mark
BYALYSSA GRIFFITH
STAFF WRITER
Masquerading as her dead
brother is the least of Beatrice’s
woes as one of the stars of Deep
Dish Theater Company’s pro
duction of Carlo Goldoni’s “The
Servant of Two Masters.”
The theater’s season opener,
which plays Aug. 21 to Sept. 13, is
a fast-paced and humorous type of
Italian comedy known as comme
dia dell’arte.
The cliched plotline of doomed
marriage, mistaken identity and
the quest for true love is comedic
when mixed with speedy entranc
es, witty banter and several prat
falls.
The cartoon-like characters are
made to appear even more ani
mated than their personalitieSr
Unfortunately, some cast members
are overly enthusiastic and exag
gerated, forcing their jokes on the
audience.
Think the 18th century version
of “The Three Stooges” with far
more eyeliner and tights.
The play features a broad range
of stereotypes: the bully, the prin
cess, the goof and the outcast. One
might even think John Hughes,
writer of the cult classic “The
Breakfast Club,” took a few hints
from Goldoni.
The lines are comical, but the
jokes aren’t properly delivered. On
MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 2008
“If done properly, and done sensibly, and
done sustainably, it could be a real asset
to the community ”
ROGER PERRY, chairman of the unc board of trustees
Orange County or Chapel Hill
and they fly. It’s easier for them
to get here —a more efficient
and quicker means of transpor
tation."
Perry said securing the best
possible location for AH EC is the
number one priority of the UNC
CH Board of Trustees.
An airport nearby also is crucial
to accommodate University part
ners, he said.
The Board of Thistees has asked
the BOG to create the authority,
Perry said.
The BOG will decide whether to
form the authority in the next few
more than one occasion cricket
chirps could have filled the silence
following the jokes.
Although this type of show is
by no means supposed to be sub
tle, the amount of extreme facial
expressions, overly enthusiastic
laughing and obnoxious antics is
enough to wear out the audience
within the first 20 minutes of the
performance.
The real beauty of the piece is
the way in which each of these
characters and their conflicting
desires drives the plot forward and
offers continuous surprises.
Audience members are imme
diately introduced to Truffaldino,
a con-artist of a servant wreak
ing havoc along the streets of
Venice, and his master Beatrice,
a woman on a quest to find her
lover while scamming her brother’s
betrothed.
Ironically, Beatrice’s brother was
killed by her lover, Florindo.
Florindo, a bully who is far from
a genius, becomes Thiffaldino’s sec
ond master.
Each character’s personality is
unique, but only one of the actors
gives a memorable performance.
Laurie Wolf, who plays the ser
vant Truffaldino, nails her char
acter’s crafty and devious nature.
Wolf’s outlandish and conniving
performance is the glue that holds
the show together.
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months, Perry said.
If they decide to, they must form
a committee with members from
the University and community to
receive input.
“This will also be a public body
subject to all of the open meetings
and open records law,” said N.C.
Sen. Richard Stevens, R-Wake,
who co-sponsored the Senate’s
bill.
Hauser said she and the group
are mobilizing and continue to talk
to local officials.
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Physical comedy is not missing
from this rendition of the show.
Several talented cast members
could even audition for jobs in
the circus as jugglers or gym
nasts.
The actors fly across the stage at
such breakneck speeds it appears
that they barely have a chance to
breathe.
The stage is set very basically
with a backdrop of a villa with an
abundant amount of doors that
the characters quickly pop in and
out of.
The big, puffy sleeves and
bright stockings appear as over
done as some of the actors’ per
formances.
This rendition’s modernization
of the show does not fit the Old
English-like text.
Although Goldoni revamped
Italian renaissance theater with
“The Servant of Two Masters” 300
years ago, the team behind this
production makes the slapstick
comedy seem dull.
Contact the Arts Editor
at artsdesk@unc.edu.
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