VOLUME 116, ISSUE 72
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LEARN ABOUT ISLAM
The MSA is sponsoring a
week of awareness events in
the Pit. Check out a story
on Monday's event and a
schedule for the week.
sports | page 9
WOMEN'S GOLF
The battle-tested Sydney Crane
and the talented underclass
man Allie White currently are
turning their efforts to the
opener of UNC's fall season.
State | page 3
GETTING OUT THE VOTE
Groups on campus have been
working to register voters ahead
of the November's election.
online | dailytarheel.com
HURRICANE IKE RELIEF
Triangle groups mobilize.
NEW AIRPORT LOCATION
Community group will decide
the location of new airport.
EDITOR'S NOTES BLOG
We hired about 140 new staff.
Leam about how they factor
into our teaching mission.
CORRECTION
Due to reporting errors,
Wednesday’s pg. 1 story, “Play
probes life of women with
HIV" misidentified the char
acters in “In the Continuum.”
Abigail is a middle-class
housewife in Zimbabwe, and
Nia is a black woman living
in South-Central Los Angeles.
The article also misattributes
the following quote, “It is
essential for us to pick shows
that will evoke controversy and
debate in the community.”
The Daily Tar Heel apolo
gizes for the errors.
this day in history
SEPT. 16,1980
More than 300 students camp
out at the UNC Traffic
Office for parking stickers.
They threw frisbees and drank
beer to pass the time.
Today’s weather
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Wednesday weather
Showers
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police log 2
calendar 2
edit 6
crossword 9
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Quality a factor for growth
BY LAURA MARCINEK
STAFF WRITER
As North Carolina grows, so
shall the University.
But as the University expands,
administrators fear the quality
of the student body will decline,
something Chancellor Holden
Thorp and other administrators
are working hard to prevent.
Up to 80,000 students are
expected to
flood into the
UNC system
within the
next decade.
“It wouldn’t
be to our
advantage to
say we weren’t
UNC
Challenges:
Wednesday:
research expansion
Thursday: faculty
retention
going to participate at all” in shoul
dering that growth, Thorp said.
An ongoing study presented to
the Board of Trustees in March
shows that the University’s aca
demic quality is at risk unless it
does a better job of attracting more
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Singapore festival
reveled at UNC
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BY NATE HEWITT
FEATURES EDITOR
Paper lanterns and boxes of
Chinese delicacies adorned a
North Campus quad Monday night
in celebration of the Singaporean
Mooncake Festival.
About 40 students snacked on
mooncakes and sipped Chinese tea
before performing a skit that told
the story of the festival’s origin.
The festival which com
memorates a Chinese queen who
sacrificed herself to save her coun
try traditionally is an occasion
to spend time with family and
friends.
“It’s really good to learn more
about their culture and how
they celebrate,” said sophomore
Bridgette Scholl, who has got
ten to know several Singaporean
exchange students who attend her
Bible study.
The newly formed Carolina
Singapore Association sponsored
the event.
“I had such an incredible time in
Singapore,” said senior Jessie Poteat,
who studied abroad in Singapore
during spring 2007. “And this is a
great way to connect with people
who understand the culture.”
Junior George Fu ShengJie said
spending time with friends during
the festival helped alleviate his
homesickness.
“Since my family would not be
around, it would be a different
experience,” Fu ShengJie said.
Two co-presidents, one
Singaporean and one American,
head the group, which is in the
process of becoming officially rec
ognized by the University.
SEE FESTIVAL, PAGE 5
Researchers look at town IDs
Program would aid undocumented
BY UNNIE GREENE
STAFF WRITER
Community members who
want Carrboro to provide munici
pal identification cards to undocu
mented residents are looking into
the types of identification that
local service providers require.
For those without valid Social
Security cards or driver’s licenses,
access to many services is limited.
Starting this week, UNC senior
Drew Felts will be interviewing
business members of the Comite
de Asuntos Latinos de Orange, a
Latino rights group comprising
several area businesses and social
service organizations.
The study is composed of a
series of questions that attempts to
get an idea of what identification
information local companies need
to provide services for residents.
“CALDO had interest in trying
to see what other kinds of programs
out there are available to try to
provide undocumented Hispanic
immigrants with some form of
documentation,” Felts said.
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of the best in-state students.
To prevent that decline, admin
istrators will need to juggle the
many problems accompanying
enrollment growth, such as a need
for more merit-based aid and a
need for more class space.
Those challenges guarantee that
enrollment will be at the forefront
of the University’s agenda for years
to come, and Thorp has made get
ting the best in-state students one
of his three priorities for this year.
“What you’re going to see com
ing from me is an extraordinary
emphasis, really like nothing we’ve
seen in the past, on how to recruit
the undergraduate and gradu
ate students we want to come to
Carolina,” Thorp said.
Getting the top N.C students
Stephen Farmer, UNC-Chapel
Hill’s director of admissions, will
take the leading role in finding cre
ative new ways to recruit students.
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Senior Alexius Yeo assigns skit lines by luck-of-the-draw to students re-enacting a traditional
legend at a celebration of the Singapore Mooncake Festival in a North Campus quad Monday.
UNC professor Darcy Lear, a
Comite member who is working
with Felts, said the group is look
ing at a municipal ID program
already in place elsewhere as part
of its research.
“We’re looking at the New
Haven, Conn., municipal ID pro
gram to have a model of a munici
pality that isn’t hostile toward the
hardworking immigrants in the
community.”
New Haven made municipal IDs
available in 2007t0 local residents,
including undocumented immi
grants, so they can access services.
The town offers identification
cards with a debit feature that
also give residents who don’t
qualify for driver’s licenses access
to public libraries, parks and rec
reational sites.
Jacqueline James, a New
Haven alderman, said one major
goal of the program is to make
illegal residents feel safe using
community resources, such as
police and banking services.
“Asa city, we are in support of
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Thorp will supplement that
effort.
“We want to use him as a secret
weapon in those places he can
make a difference,” Farmer said.
For example, Thorp said he
signed “a whole bunch of letters”
to prospective students, some
“We just want to
find out if there
is a need for a
municipal ID.”
DARCY LEAR, unc professor
RESEARCHING POTENTIAL OF MUNICIPAL ID
PROGRAM FOR CARRBORO
addressing immigration issues and
laws and actually trying to be a part
of something positive and affecting
some level of change,” James said.
Victor Melendez, executive
director of El Centro Latino, said
any type of identification card for
undocumented immigrants would
help. He also said a municipal ID
would be limited in its scope.
“It’s a veiy limited type of ID and
doesn’t go beyond those boundar
ies,” he said. “It’s very limited to the
residents of that municipality.”
Both Lear and Felts stressed
that the study into the ID require
ments is in the initial stages.
“We just want to find out if
SEE IDS, PAGE 5
with personal notes at the end.
While the chancellor is an
“excellent resource” in recruit
ment, Farmer said the entire
University and students in par
ticular should get more involved.
SEE ENROLLMENT, PAGE 5
Paranormal investigators
ain’t afraid of no ghosts
Nonprofit looks
at haunted homes
BY NICK ANDERSEN
STAFF WRITER
Move aside, Ghost Busters.
Any unhappy spirits haunting
local homes must now answer to
the Central Raleigh Paranormal
investigation team.
The organization, a nonprofit
team of research investigators,
seeks to provide answers to seem
ingly unexplainable events plagu
ing Triangle residents.
“We want people to feel comfort
able in their homes,” investigator
Niki Sherman said. “No one should
feel alone when they are dealing with
potentially paranormal activity.”
Central Raleigh Paranormal,
founded in January by Jason
Jording and Paul and Niki
Sherman, has tried to fill a gap in
community resources.
“The community didn’t have
anywhere to go to prove that these
things really are happening, that
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
DA: 5
facing
murder
charges
Victim missing
since July 21
BY MAX ROSE
CITY EDITOR
Five men are accused of murder
in the death of a Chapel Hill man
whose body was found Friday after
he had been missing for almost
two months.
Prior to his death, the last
known location of Joshua McCabe
Bailey, 20, was on Weaver Street in
Carrboro on July 21.
Brian Gregory Minton, Jacob
Alexander Maxwell, Jack Johnson
11, Brandon Hamilton Greene and
Ryan Ladar Davis Lee have been
charged with first-degree murder
and kidnapping in his death, District
Attorney Jim Woodall said.
Three people have been charged
with accessory after the fact,
including Minton’s parents
Gregory Lee Minton and Mishele
Slade Minton.
Chris Manley is the third person
charged with accessory.
At least one of the suspects has
had run-ins with the law before.
Brian Minton, born in 1990,
was one of five charged with first
degree rape for a Sept. 2,2006 inci
dent involving a 16-year-old female
victim in Southern Village.
The state dropped the charges,
in part because the many months
between the alleged incident and
the suspects’ arrest in May 2007
left the evidence hard to piece
together, Woodall said.
“The evidence was inconsistent
and it raised too many questions
which we could not definitively
answer,” he said.
Before his arrest Monday,
Minton was under intensive pro
bation for three unrelated felony
convictions, Woodall said.
He received a felony count of
possession of a weapon of mass
destruction for an incident in which
he allegedly shot a sawed-off shot
gun at his house, Woodall said.
Minton also was convicted of
felony possession of a weapon on
school property for carrying a knife
in a backpack and of a felony count
of intent to sell and deliver cocaine.
Police issued an alert in late
August for Bailey that said he
was believed to be suffering from
dementia or some other cognitive
impairment and that he may have
been driving a 1993 Ford Explorer.
Several local news sources report
ed that police found Bailey shot in
the head in Chatham County but
Orange and Chatham county sher
iff’s departments refused multiple
times to comment Monday after
noon.
Contact the City Editor
at dtydesk@unc.edu.
WHO YOU GONNA CALL?
Contact the Central Raleigh
Paranormal Investigation Team at
webmaster@central-rpit.com. |
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they are sane and that others have
gone through the same thing,” Niki
Sherman said. “It’s really a search
for answers that aren’t out there.”
Each member has had personal
experience with the uncanny and
paranormal.
“People told me stories about
my psychic great-grandmother,”
Jording said. “She once predicted
the death of a neighbor months
before it happened.”
And team members believe
paranormal activity does some
times exist.
Using digital voice and video
recorders, electromagnetic field
SEE GHOSTS, PAGE 5