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VOLUME 116, ISSUE 81 Bill Thorpe, long-serving town council member, dies BY MAX ROSE CITY EDITOR Bill Thorpe, long-time Chapel Hill Town Council member and fighter for civil rights, died in his home Saturday night from heart problems. Thorpe was the voice for the least fortu nate during his total of 11 years on the council and almost 4o years living in Chapel Hill. He was known for his ability with people and wBF Bill Thorpe for his love for politics. He would work the council chamber or any other room, greeting everyone with a smile and asking names and hometowns. “He had a big talent and ability to where he would never meet a stranger,” said Fred Battle, the for mer president of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who has known Thorpe since 1970. “And he was one who would look to help everybody.” Thorpe fought for renaming Airport Road after his idol Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 2005 and in 1984 was instrumental in Chapel Hill becoming one of the first Southern municipalities to officially recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day. “He really kept our feet to the fire as far as remembering what out values were,” council member Mark Kleinschmidt said. “He always understood that issues that we worked on involved the lives of people.” Thorpe is survived by his wife Gene, a retired educator, and two children. Dailytarheel.com will post related stories during the day. City | page 3 DRY HALLOWEEN? Local bar owners met with town staff Friday and raised objections to the possibility that Chapel Hill bars would have to close early Oct. 31. online | dailytarheel.com MIAMI FOOTBALL GAME View photos from Saturday's contest with the Hurricanes. N.C. PRIDE FESTIVAL Watch float decoration and highlights from the parade. SHARE WHERE TO PUMP Report the cheapest gas pumps and where to fill up. this day in history SEPT. 29,1992 Student Congress introduces a bill to impeach Speaker Jennifer Lloyd for infractions, including making personal, long-distance calls from office phones. Today’s weather Sunny H 82, L 60 Tuesday weather iffc T-storms H 80, L 59 index police log 2 calendar 2 opinion 9 nation/world 11 crossword 13 sports 14 ®hr iaily ®ar Reel Chapel Hill gas stations run out Western N.C. hit harder at pump BY TARINI PARTI STAFF WRITER Two consecutive hurricanes have hit North Carolinians where it hurts the most— at the gas pump. Hurricanes Hanna and Ike hindered the ability of suppliers to distribute gas and created an acute shortage in the state. Most gas stations in Chapel Hill have run out and some are unsure when their next shipment is com ing in. 0100 Makoyo, a cashier at the BP gas station at 1201 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, said the sta tion was out of gas by 5:50 p.m. on Saturday, despite receiving a ship ment earlier that morning. “I’ve been around the gas indus try, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” he said. “I didn’t realize the magnitude. I didn’t realize everyone would be out.” The BP received another gas shipment at noon Sunday, but other stations weren’t so lucky. John Taylor, the assistant man ager at the Kangaroo station at 201 S. Estes Drive, said that the station ran out of gas on Thursday SEE GAS SHORTAGE, PAGE 8 Tuition task force begins year’s talks BY ANDREW DUNN UNIVERSITY EDITOR 'Mtion prices are almost sure to go up this year. When the Tuition and Fee Advisory Task Force kicks off its meetings today, they’ll be start ing to figure out how much. The task force’s 14 members will be the first to navigate the factors that determine tuition increases. Two of those factors are pointing tuition northward: directives from the Board of Trustees and money from the N.C. General Assembly. “The cost of our education is getting higher and higher,” board Chairman Roger Perry said Friday. “If we’re going to continue to give our students the quality of education they deserve, tuition is going to have to go up.” The task force is scheduled to meet three times before pre senting a recommendation to Chancellor Holden Thorp. He will then present a plan to the Board of Trustees, the 12-member committee that gov erns UNC. Trustee recommenda tions still must be approved by the systemwide Board of Governors. That body, along with system Thorp to tour N.C. high schools and colleges BY LINDSAY RUEBENS STAFF WRITER Chancellor Holden Thorp is taking his show on the road. He won’t be strumming on his signature guitar, but will be speaking at a dozen universities and public high schools this week as part of an introductory tour of the state. The trip will be one of Thorp’s first major interactions with the state as chancellor. “I want to talk about Carolina and higher education and get students in high school excited about college and coming here,” Thorp said, “and to also visit col leagues who are chancellors in other systems and how we can work together.” Starting this afternoon, Thorp will travel to 12 high schools and universities all in the span of six days. Thorp said he wanted to tour SEE TOUR, PAGE 8 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 www.dailytarheel.com FV] ] l'/l 1 j Eim lE^' * DTH/STACEY AXELROD "I wonder if I take down the sign if that will make people stop coming," said 0100 Makoyo, a cashier at the BP gas station at 1201 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., which ran out of gas around 6:50 p.m. Saturday. Most Chapel Hill gas stations ran out of gas this weekend, and some are still unsure when they might get their next shipment. The shortage is a result of disruptions in supply following Hurricanes Hanna and Ike. ATTEND THE TUITION MEETING Time: Noon today Location: 105 South Building Info: provost.unc.edu President Erskine Bowles, mostly affects UNC’s tuition through pol icy-setting. The highest possible increase UNC could face is 6.5 percent, based on a cap approved by the Board of Governors in 2006. The policy also links campus tuition increases to money appro priated by the state legislature by lowering the cap in years when the General Assembly increases its funding. In its 2008 budget the General Assembly gave UNC 14.7 percent more money than the year before, wiping out any possible increase for in-state undergraduates last year. Out-of-state student tuition has no such protection. Prices are supposed to stay below the top 25 percent of out-of-state rates at peer institutions. The in-state cap and the out-of state guideline, along with UNC administrators’ frequently men tioned goal to keep up with peer institutions, set the table for this SEE TUITION, PAGE 8 Chanfpllnr Thorn wee * ( ' Chancellor Holden Thorp will criss-cross the state visiting high schools and Wwfifinil VWMuS I ** 3 universities and meeting with students, faculty, administrators and alumni. B Monday Sept 29 • Meet with UNC-Greensboro Chancellor Linda Brady r . . . . 1 T i a • Alumni Dinner • Meet with N.C. A&T Chancellor Stanley Battle \ 'SI Tuesday. Sept 30 -Alumni Reception at the Weatherspoon Art Galley ;jy • Meet with UNC-Asheviljf -aAhimni Dinner marmacy rertnersh.p Program • Visit Asheville High SwM Monday Sept. 29 Elizabeth City \ to observe a djemijfrydass. rJN Greensboro High Scl ”° l '" • \ Jtm Day 3 • to speak with a research class. \ J ---'■--Q Chapel Hill \ fcp - (ft<' '' F,r *l?Sr y A- Thursday Oct 2- \ -*r 111; £pH . Visit the Institute of Manne Sciences 1 m Ashauillo* ** - •—Hi >J3|a • Dinner with Environmental Program \Jr~ Bay 1- 2 ~ f . > ' “ V students and Institute of Marine Charlott| Meo^f faculty Wilmington ihrREN C , • Meet with UNC-VVilmington J SOURCE: UNC NEWS services Regional Theatre Chancelfor dth/ryan kurttman a buss pierce Obama, Biden make Ist joint appearance in N.C. Speeches focus on specific policy BY ARIEL ZIRULNICK STATE AND NATIONAL EDITOR GREENSBORO Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and running mate Joe Biden zeroed in on foreign policy and the struggling economy at a Saturday rally in Greensboro. In speeches substantially more policy-driven than typical rally speeches, both Obama and Biden echoed much of Friday night’s debate and hammered Republican election 2008 opponent John McCain on his state ments from the previous evening. It was their first joint appear ance in the state and the first opportunity for North Carolina voters to see their interaction firsthand. The two, who had an easy repertoire on the stage, each focused almost exclusively on their areas of expertise. Biden opened with a brief men tion of economic issues before launching into a rundown of the contrasts between Obama and McCain on foreign policy. “This is supposed to be John McCain’s turf and Barack Obama owned it last night,” he said, allud ing to the previous night’s debate, when the two went back and forth MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2008 || m&g JfaM & k DTH/USA PEPIN Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and running mate Joe Biden thank the crowd at a rally in Greensboro on Saturday. on the Georgian conflict, the various fronts of the war on terror and their approaches to diplomacy. He rattled off foreign policy matters lran, Iraq, Afghanistan, weapons of mass destruction, home land security —and punctuated it with jabs at the Republican oppo nent that the audience returned. “John McCain says that nothing is more important than judgment,” Biden said. “John McCain’s judg ment was wrong.” The audience cheered at each accusation, shouting back, “Wrong!” Biden’s criticism became specif ic at some points, especially when faulting McCain for his concern with Iraq and Iran. “John McCain was wrong in misunderstanding where the cen tral front of the war on terror is,” he said, explaining that the law less region along the Afghanistan- Pakistan border is where he thinks the United States needs to focus. “We cannot afford a commander- SEE OBAMA PAGE 8
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