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2 THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 2008 Daily (Har Heri www.dailytarheel.com Established 1893 115 years of editorialfreedom ALLISON RACHEL NICHOLS ULLRICH EDITOR-IN-CHIEF SPORTS EDITOR 962-4086 962-4710 NALLISON@EMAIL. SPORTS@UNC.EDU OFFICE HOURS: BRENDAN MON., WED., FRI. BROWN, 2 P.M. TO 3 P.M. LINDSEY SARA NAYLOR rnprnnv INVESTIGATIVE maSTgingeditor, team 96 c 2 °oT ßS iteam@unc.edu GSARA@EMAIL.UNC. STACEY EDU AXELROD NIfOIC PHOTO EDITOR NICOLE 962-0750 NORFLEET DTHPHOTO@GMAIL. MANAGING EDITOR, COM ONLINE 962-0750 BECCA BRENNER, NORfLEEOEMAIL. 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Corrections also are noted in the online versions of our stories. ► Contact Print Managing Editor Sara Gregory at gsara@email.unc. edu with issues about this policy. P.O. Box 3257, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 Allison Nichols, Editor-in-Chief, 962-4086 Advertising & Business, 962-1163 News, Features, Sports, 962-0245 One copy per person; additional copies may be purchased at The Daily Tar Heel for $.25 each. © 2008 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved I Off,cal Carolina I Ring Kick Off Event: i*- ' Ball, mm www.halfour.com " UilMMa>tai,gßM, """ ,,>lll,,Mlll " lßlll,ll * DOSe Woman to sell Obama’s Jeep on eßay FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS A45-year-old Illinois woman learned that her Jeep Grand Cherokee was once owned by presidential candidate Barack Obama during his final four years as Illinois state senator. . The woman plans to sell the vehicle on eßay after the November elec tion, and she is hoping to get three or four times the estimated trade-in value of the Jeep if Obama wins the election. When the woman tetft-drove the Jeep four years ago, she noticed a heavily worn spot on the wheel, indicating that Obama gripped the steering wheel with his left hand slightly to the left of 12 o’clock. Obama bought the Jeep new in 2000 and later sold it to a Dodge dealership in Forest Park, 111. NOTED. A 9-year-old boy from Ottawa, Canada, was arrested for holding up a restau rant with a toy gun. Police are investigating the robbery because it is unclear if the boy was playing or not. Nothing was taken from the restaurant, and no one was injured. A manager at the take-out restaurant attributed the incident to “just kids.” TODAY Career clinic; All UNC students are welcome at a seminar hosted by University Career Services. Staff members will be interpreting Strong Interest Inventory surveys avail able online at careers.unc.edu to help students make decisions about suitable majors and careers. You must register for the clinic at careers.unc.edu or by calling 962- 6507. Time: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Location: Hanes Hall, Room 2398 Jazz concert: Extended Disaster Relief, a special project of the Campus Y, is hosting a concert by the UNC Jazz Band. Free New Orleans cuisine will be served, and donations will go to Gulf Coast recovery efforts. Time: 6 p.m. Location: Hill Hall Auditorium MAPS interest meeting: The Minority Association for Pre-Health Students is having an interest and informational meeting. Pizza will be served. Time: 6 p.m. Location: Student Union, Room 32068 QUOTED. “Are you kidding, I loved it. It gave me chills.” Ashley, a waitress at a Denver Hooters, on watching Sen. Hillary Clinton’s Democratic National Convention speech while serving Newsweek’s Jonathan Darman and four other journalists. The journalists had gone to the Hooters to “watch Hillary’s big convention speech among her people.” COMMUNITY CALENDAR GLBTSA meeting: The gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, straight alli ance is holding its first meeting of the year. Refreshments will be provided. Time: 7 p.m. Location: Student Union, Room 3209. Carolina meditation: The public is invited to a student-led medita tion session through the Carolina Meditation Club. E-mail Ben Rieth at breith@email.unc.edu for more information. Time: 7 p.m. Location: Chapel of the Cross Church, 304 E. Franklin St. Fiction club: The Contemporary Fiction Club will discuss "Everything is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer at the Carrboro Cybrary. The book is about a young man who sets out to find the woman who might have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Time: 7 p.m. Location: 100 N. Greensboro St. FRIDAY Bluegrass for babies: Carolina News Inn’s weekly music series "Fridays on the Front Porch" will be hosting a special session to raise money for the N. C. Children's Hospital. Twenty-five percent of proceeds will be donated to the hospital's Newborn Critical Care Center. Time: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Location: 211 Pittsboro St. Documentary screening: Internationalist Books will be show ing a documentary to recognize the upcoming third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. "New Orleans: Past, Present, Future?" by Walter Williams is a series of three short films that docu ments the evolution of the crisis in our coastal wetlands and the solutions for survival. Call 942-1740 for more information. Time: 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Location: 405 W. Franklin St. To make a calendar submission, visit www.dailytarheel.com/calendar, or e-mail dthcalendar@gmail.com. Events will be published in the news-, paper on the day and the day before they take place and will be posted online when received. Submissions must be sent in by noon the preceding publication date. FIDDLIN’AROUND DTH/ZACH GUTTERMAN THhe Cadillac Stepbacks, a bluegrass band from Raleigh, Hplays to a large crowd at the Carolina Inn on Friday as Hpart of its weekly “Fridays on the Front Porch” music series. This Friday the Big Fat Gap, another local bluegrass band, will play at the event, which lasts until Oct. 17. POLICE LOG M There were at least six inci dents of breaking and entering reported Tuesday morning on Village Crossing Drive, according to Chapel Hill police reports. All six incidents involved a sus pect breaking a car window, and in all but one a suspect stole electron ics from the car, the reports state. A total of $2,407 worth of elec tronics were stolen from the cars, including five GPS units, an MP3 player and an iPod, according to the reports. A total of $1,700 of damage to the cars was reported. N Someone broke into a vehicle at 105 Carriage Circle and stole SIO,OOO in cash Tuesday, accord ing to Chapel Hill police reports. The passenger side window in the car, a 2008 Suzuki, was bro ken and a bank deposit bag with the money wels removed, reports state. M Someone stole a catalytic con- uHj? iailg ®ar Heri verter from a car Ttiesday afternoon, Chapel Hill police reports state. The catalytic converter, valued at S2OO, was taken from the bot tom of a 2002 Toyota Sequoia, according to reports. The car was located in enclosed parking at 1414 Raleigh Road, reports state. H Carrboro police received a report of assault with a deadly weapon Tuesday, according to Carrboro police reports. The victim had a one-inch cut in his forehead after he was hit with a brick during an argument, reports state. M A Chapel Hill man was arrested Tuesday on misdemeanor counts of displaying a fictitious tag and driving with a revoked or sus pended license. Justin Roy Jacobs, 27, of 328 Azalea Drive, was released on a written promise to appear in court Oct. 7-
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