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HOME WIN
After a three-game losing
streak, North Carolina swept
all three games in the 2008
Carolina Volleyball Classic.
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Friday to raise awareness for
the group's efforts. The game
is "very psychological," said
winner Chris dayman.
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this day in history
SEPT. 8,1996
The CAA announces that
students will choose a
homecoming king and
queen, eliminating the Mr.
UNC talent contest.
CORRECTION
Due to a reporting error,
Friday’s pg. 1 story, “Not all
want photos funded,” incor
rectly stated who is the Carolina
Students for Life president.
Ashley Tyndall was president
last year, and Melanie Simpson.
is 2008-09 president. The
chart that accompanied the
article should have made clear
that the numbers refer to sub
sequent allocations, not overall
yearly appropriations.
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gizes for the errors.
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Many dorms contain asbestos
BY SETH WRIGHT
STAFF WRITER
Even after a $22-million reno
vation, Morrison Residence Hall
remains one of six dormitories
on campus containing potentially
cancerous materials.
Hinton James, Avery, Parker,
Morrison, Ehringhaus and Craige
residence halls all have asbestos
containing materials in their cin
der block walls, which were used
during their construction. Most
were built in the 19605.
Officials said the asbestos pres
ent no immediate health risk.
“It isn’t a problem,” said Mary
HANNA MISSES, MOSTLY
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Tropical storm brings minor damage to the area
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Chapel Hill missed most of Tropical Storm
Hanna, but the winds didn’t pass unnoticed.
Friday night, junior Shannon Glatz returned
home from hanging out with her friends in the
ballroom dancing club.
“I parked in the only spot available, which happened
to be the most unlucky spot ever,” she said.
When Glatz woke up, she saw the bad news.
A tree had crashed into her Saturn SLI, the first car
she bought on her own.
The car cost Glatz $2,000 in June, but her car insur
ance won’t cover it because it is an old car. There was
not much to salvage.
After Hanna brought a night full of rain, Chapel Hill
saw scattered flooding, but no injuries. Umstead Drive
Camping is OK, but no tents
BY BENNETT CAMPBELL
ARTS EDITOR
The University doesn’t allow
camping out for tickets, but as
of 11 hours before Ben Folds Five
tickets officially go on sale, about
75 students were in line at the
Memorial Hall box office.
The no-camping policy is turn
ing out to be more of a “no tents”
policy as lining up with pillows
and decks of cards in hand was OK
as early as 3 p.m. Saturday.
Nathaniel Wasson, a sopho
more, was one of the first to arrive.
He said he tried to clarify the pol
icy before staking out his spot at
the head of the line.
“I called the ticket office on
Friday and they directed me to
the Department of Public Safety,”
Wasson said. “And then DPS said
they weren’t sure what the deal
was.”
Not everyone seems to be aware
that University polity bans tenting.
“The biggest thing that I’ve been
made aware 0f... is that those tents
are just not allowed,” said DPS Lt.
Lawrence Twiddy. “It’s a University
policy, and those policies usually
come from the executive staff in
South Building.”
Wasson said he was told that he
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Beth Koza, director of environ
ment, health and safety, adding
that it just needs to be monitored
and maintained.
Koza said officials always attempt
to remove asbestos during renova
tions. But at Morrison, where reno
vations were finished in 2007, offi
cials decided against removing the
asbestos-containing materials.
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Sophomore Nathaniel Wasson and first-year Cydney Swofford wait
outside Memorial Hall’s box office for tickets to see Ben Folds Five.
could stay outside the box office, and
that DPS would be running routine
patrols of the area to make sure
nobody was violating the policy.
TVviddy said the point of the policy
is to ensure public safety, not discour
age students’ interest in events.
“It really depends on how
crowded it is. It could be a public
safety issue,” he said. “But as long
Both Koza and Rick Bradley,
assistant director for housing, said
material was not removed during
the renovations because it was
beneath many layers of paint.
Bradley said it would take
extreme action to cause the asbestos
to become airborne, such as punc
turing or cracking the wall paint.
Still, students were warned not to
scrape the walls or tape posters to
them using anything but 3M Scotch
Removable Adhesive Putty.
Residents of the six dormitories
were warned in an e-mail Thursday
from Janet Phillips, asbestos coor
dinator for the Department of
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was closed Saturday, and there were reports of 6 to 8
inches of water on some roads. The town of Chapel Hill
activated a shelter for displaced residents, but it was
closed Sunday after no use.
As of Sunday night, an uprooted loblolly pine still
lies across the path next to the Coker Arboretum.
Power has been restored to almost all Orange County
residents, the floods have died down and the tree is
off Glatz’s car.
And as her landlord’s homeowners insurance may pay
for the damage, she sees a bit of a silver lining.
“It’s a convertible now,” she said.
as walkways are not obstructed, it
should be OK.”
Cydney Swofford, a first-year
student waiting with Wasson, said
she thought not allowing tents
contradicted the policy’s intent to
protect students.
“We just feel less safe, which is
SEE TENTS, PAGE 6
Environment, Health and Safety,
that there is asbestos in the wall
coatings beneath several layers of
paint.
Asbestos is a small fiber once
used to insulate and fire-proof
buildings.
Breathing in high levels of asbes
tos fibers can lead to lung cancer or
other ailments, according to the
Environmental Protection Agency.
The EPA also states that small
amounts of asbestos exposure
does not usually lead to health
problems. But airborne fibers can
be inhaled and are more likely to
be hazardous.
Student to appear as
Jeopardy! contestant
BY EMILY STEPHENSON
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
By June, Kurt Davies had
almost forgotten he was in the
running for a spot to compete on
Jeopardy!.
After qualifying for the game
show in an online exam in
September
2006, the
Carrboro resi
dent flew to
Los Angeles in
January 2007
to audition.
But after a
year and a half
without word,
Davies, 29,
assumed he
hadn’t quali
fied for the
show.
Then he got
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Kurt Davies
practiced for his
Jeopardy! run at
bar trivia nights
in Chapel Hill.
the call.
An episode featuring Davies
will air tonight at 7 p.m. on
ABC.
“All my friends are coming over,
and we’re going to drink if I win
and drink if I lose,” he said.
Davies had just returned to
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
Low levels of asbestos were also
found in the floor tiles of Lewis and
Stacy residence halls just before
students moved in.
Morrison resident Cole Anderson
said he doesn’t think much about
the asbestos.
“I knew it was cancerous, but I
figured if it was bad enough they
wouldn’t have us stay here,” he said.
Anderson also said he feels the
asbestos is not dangerous enough
to be removed.
Bradley said Thursday’s e-mail
was intended to be mostly informa-
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Raynor,
UNC
officials
differ on
SBP role
Student platforms
increase in scope
BY MATTHEW PRICE
SENIOR WRITER
J. J. Raynor unveiled her 50-page
behemoth of a platform in January
just hours after campaign rules
allowed, setting an ambitious tone
for her tenure as student body
president.
Now her platform, which deals
with issues beyond student govern
ment’s budget and its ability to effect
change, is creating an uneasy rela
tionship between University admin
istrators andthe executive branch.
Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs Margaret Jablonski said
an issue she has with increasingly
comprehensive platforms is that
student government has assumed
a “quasi-administrative” role.
“It’s like they’re a mirror to the
University administration at times.”
Administrators say it hasn’t
always been that way. Student body
president platforms used to be much
smaller and less far-reaching.
Recent student body presidents
have pushed for larger and more
SEE SBP, PAGE 6
Potential "risk
points" from
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UNC to work toward a degree
in anthropology after an eight
year hiatus from school when
he was invited to compete on
Jeopardy!.
His preferred cram method in
the month before the show was
taped in July: bar trivia nights.
“In Chapel Hill and Carrboro,
you can do a pub quiz just about
every night,” Davies said. “I went
to a lot of trivia nights.”
His friend Brooke Baker
became his coach, making flash
cards and religiously taping every
episode of the show Davies
doesn’t have a television.
“I love trivia, but I don’t have
the kind of head for trivia that
Kurt does,” Baker said. “There’s
a lot of stuff that he was learning
that I actually wanted to lmow”
Jeopardy! veteran Will Schultz,
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