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2 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2008 Ullj? Daily ular MM www.dailytarheel.com Established 1893 115 years of editorialfreedom RACHEL ULLRICH SPORTS EDITOR 962-4710 SPORTS@UNC.EDU BRENDAN BROWN, LINDSEY NAYLOR PROJECTS TEAM CO-EDITORS 962-0750 DTHPROJECTS® GMAIL.COM STACEY AXELROD PHOTO EDITOR 962-0750 DTHPHOTO@GMAIL. COM BECCA BRENNER, WILL HARRISON COPY CO-EDITORS 962-4103 JILLIAN NADELL, MOLLY JAMISON DESIGN EDITOR 962-0750 BLISS PIERCE GRAPHICS EDITOR 962-0750 RACHEL WILL ONLINE EDITOR 962-0750 WILLRI ©EMAIL. UNC.EDU GRACE KOERBER MULTIMEDIA EDITOR 962-0750 scon POWERS SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR ALLISON NICHOLS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF 962-4086 NALLISON@EMAIL. UNC.EDU OFFICE HOURS: MON., WED. 2 P.M.TO 3P.M. SARA GREGORY MANAGING EDITOR, PRINT 962-0750 GSARA@EMAII.UNC. EDU NICOLE NORFLEET MANAGING EDITOR, ONLINE 962-0750 NORFLEE@EMAIL. UNC.EDU ANDREW DUNN UNIVERSITY EDITOR 962-0372 UDESK@UNC.EDU MAX ROSE CITY EDITOR 962-4209 CITYDESK@UNC.EDU ARIEL ZIRULNICK STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR, 962-4103 STNTDESK@UNC.EDU NATHAN HEWITT FEATURES EDITOR 962-4214 FEATURES@UNC.EDU BENNETT CAMPBELL ARTS EDITOR 843-4529 ARTSDESK@UNC.EDU ► The Daily Tar Heel reports any inaccurate information published as soon as the error is discovered. ► Corrections for front-page errors will be printed on the front page. Any other incorrect information will be corrected on page 3. Errors committed on the Opinion Page have corrections printed on that page. 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 Committing Journalism: Contempt for Reporters in Post-9/7 7 America Toni Locy / *PP ■ • ■ & , p# > Former USA Today reporter who refused to reveal her sources for stories about the 2001 anthrax attacks Wednesday, Sept. 24, 5:30 p.m. Carroll Hall Auditorium presented by UNC Center for Media Law and Policy with support from L incoln Financial Media Ihi- l INC Center for Media law and Polity is a collaborative initiative of the School of Journalism and Mass C ommunication and the School of Law. lj| UNC □ Lincoln ff| UNC Vni.'mvsV. ummiW. 'xi’io-. Financial Group s ' 1 v> ‘ Dose British man won’t ‘Lego’ of addiction FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS A British man has an obsession. He collects colorful toys made of Lego building blocks. His collection is worth SIOO,OOO. Darren Smith, 32, has the largest private collection of Legos more than 2 million bricks, which surpasses the previous British record of 500,000. He started collecting the toys when he was five years old and his parents gave him a Lego set as a Christmas present. Today, the collection has overflowed into his garage and a specially converted loft. Smiths collection includes pirates, police, cowboys, astronauts and super heroes. But his favorite Lego figures are the “Star Wars” characters, especially C-3PO and Darth Vader. NOTED. Scientists have discovered anew global warming threat —a massive methane “time bomb” under the Arctic seabed. The average temperature of the Siberian continental shelf has risen by 4 degrees Celsius during recent decades. As the Arctic heats up, millions of tons of the greenhouse gas which is 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide are floating to the surface. TODAY Lecture: The Preservation Society of Chapel Hill will present a lecture on "Orange County's Native Americans The Occaneechi." The suggested donation for each lecture at the Horace Williams House is $5. For more information, contact the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill at 942-7818 or chpreservation@mindspring.com. Time: noon Location: 610 E. Rosemary St. Games presentation: Peter Krapp, associate professor of film and media studies at the University of California at Irvine, will deliver the talk "Games of War: Counter Culture, Cyber Culture, Popular Culture." Krapp does research on digital culture, the history and the ory of gadgets and representations of north and south pole regions. To RSVP, call Kirsten Beattie at 843-2654. Time: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Location: Hyde Hall Press lecture: Toni Locy will deliver the free lecture "Committing Journalism: Contempt for Reporters in Post-9/11 America." Locy was awarded the Freedom of the*Press Award in 2008 from the National Press Club for QUOTED. “It’s the public school system. Let’s be honest, it’s full of liberal loons.” Dann Dalton, father of a fifth grader in Colorado, who said his son’s First Amendment rights were violated. The 11-year-old was sus pended from school for wearing a homemade “Obama is a terrorist’s best friend” T-shirt on a day when students were asked to wear red, white and blue to show their patriotism. COMMUNITY CALENDAR refusing to reveal her sources about the 2001 anthrax attacks despite personal risk. The lecture is open to the public. Time: 5:30 p.m. Location: Carroll Hall, Room 111 Live music: Blue Diablo's Pete Waggoner will perform at the Blue Horn Lounge. For more information call 929-1511 or visit www.bluehorn loungechapelhill.com. All shows are free. Time: 9 p.m. Location: 125 E. Franklin St. THURSDAY Special speaker: Former "Bachelor" Lt. Andy Baldwin will speak to medical school students and undergraduates about his career and life. Baldwin has had experiences as an undersea medi cal officer, Ironman triathlete, Navy diver and humanitarian. Time: 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Location: MacNider Hall, Room 321 Career panel: University Career Services will hold a panel for students to hear about career opportunities in economics from experts in the field. Business casual attire is recommend ed. Call UCS at 962-6507 for more . information. News Time: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Location: Hanes Hall, Seminar Room 2398 > Free ice cream: Enjoy ice cream for free at Cold Stone Creamery; all donations will benefit the Make-A- Wish Foundation. For more informa tion, call 933-2323 or visit www. coldstonecreamery.com. Time: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Location: 133 E. Franklin St. Lecture: The N.C. Collection Gallery will host speakers Lew Powell and Rob Christensen as part of the "Soapboxes and Tree Stumps: Political Campaigning in North Carolina" • exhibit. For program information, con tact Liza Terll at 962-4207. Time: 5:45 p.m. Location: Wilson Library, Pleasants Family Assembly Room To make a calendar submission, visitwww.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. Dean & Company S T R ATEGY CON SULTANTS —-———— We provide high impact results ... • Creating the business plan for a high-tech start-up • Developing a growth strategy for a Top 10 bank • Evaluating investments for a private equity fund ... in high stakes issues Resume Drop Deadline: September 25, 2008 through University Career Services Cover letter, resume, transcript and SAT scores requested. PhD students send resumes to recruiting@dean.com Questions? Email us at recruiting@dean.com www.dean.com ___ • ■■ ■"" 1 " 1 ■— ■■ CREATIVE COSTUMES i mm*. DTH/HANNAH SHARPE Barry Keith, better known as “Sid” of Surplus Sid’s in Carrboro, assists a customer at one of his many dis play cases filled with odds and ends. “It gives me the chance to be creative somewhat on a limited scale,” he said. “I’d go stark-raving mad if I couldn’t do that” POLICE LOG ■ Police responded to reports of a fight in a Chapel Hill parking lot Tuesday, according to Chapel Hill police reports. The fight, which occurred at 106 Ephesus Church Road, was reported at 12:26 a.m., reports state. ■ A 2005 Jeep Wrangler was reported stolen Monday night from a Mallette Street parking lot, according to Chapel Hill police reports. The black Jeep is worth $20,000, according to police reports. ■ An incident of breaking and entering at a construction site on Environ Way resulted in the theft of more than SI,OOO worth of tools, according to Chapel Hill police reports. Reports state that someone forcibly broke into storage units at a construction site and stole $1,167-72 worth of items such as copper wire, machine screws, latlg ®ar MM duct tape, eye bolts and a cordless drill. Someone used a saw or cutting tool to get into the sheds and also caused S2O in damage each to two metal locks, according to police reports. ■ A woman was dropping her child off Monday when she saw a man exposing his genitals beside a building on Jones Ferry Road, according to Carrboro police reports. The woman tried to take a pic ture of him with her mobile phone but he left, reports state. ■ Someone on Main Street com plained to police that a dog barks nonstop at 7 a.m. every day, accord ing to Carrboro police reports. The owner of the dog told police Tuesday that he doesn’t let the dog out until 9 a.m., reports state. The officer advised the com plainant to call police when the dog is barking, according to reports.
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