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UNC theater group's play to
focus on economic issues
Interactive Theatre Carolina
will present “Be Reasonable,” a
performance dealing with socio
economic differences at UNC,
today at 6:30 p.m. in the Campus
Y Lounge.
The show is free and open to
the public, and refreshments will
be served afterward.
In its second year of existence,
ITC creates productions based on
issues pertaining to health, wellness
and social justice on campus.
The performance is part of Race
Relations Week at UNC.
Clef Hangers move ticket
sales for concert to Oct. 24
The Clef Hangers a capella group
has moved ticket sales to Oct. 24 at
10 a.m. The tickets were originally
to be sold Monday.
The concert is $lO for students.
For nonstudents, tickets are sls
for lower level or sl2 for upper
level.
Tickets can be purchased at
Memorial Hall or by calling the box
office at 843-3333.
The concert will take place
Nov. 9 at 8 p.m.
General Alumni Association
awards two entrepreneurs
Two UNC graduates received
the GAA’s Young Alumni Awards
for their efforts at a banquet
Friday.
Sindhura Citineni of Morrisville,
N.C., and Tony Deifell of San
Francisco, Calif., were named win
ners.
Citineni, now a UNC dental
student, started Hunger Lunch
and later expanded it into the
nonprofit organization Nourish
International with chapters at 23
campuses.
Deifell, who graduated in 1991,
helped create the APPLES service
learning program. Since graduation
he has created several arts-based
public-service organizations.
The GAA has given the awards
since 1989 to alumni age 40 or
younger who have made sig
nificant contributions to the
University.
CITY BRIEFS
Commissioners to discuss
permits for Buckhorn Village
The Orange County Board of
Commissioners is scheduled for a 7
p.m. meeting at the F. Gordon Battle
Courtroom in Hillsborough.
Items on the agenda include:
■ The commissioners might
take action on applications
for rezoning and permits for
Buckhorn Village submitted in
December 2007.
The Orange County Planning
Board and the commissioners held
joint public hearings in February
and April to review the proposed
1.14 million-square-foot retail
development.
■ Resolutions that endorse
priority transportation projects
for the 2011-17 Transportation
Improvement Program.
■ Receiving a consultant’s
report that concludes that the
available technologies for dispos
ing of waste would not be justified
for Orange County;
Aldermen to discuss repair
funds, new disc golf course
The Carrboro Board of
Aldermen is scheduled to have
a meeting at 8 p.m. today at
Carrboro Town Hall.
Items on the agenda include:
■ An update by the Carrboro
Parks Project on the progress of
the funds raised for a proposed
disc golf course in Anderson Park,
a project that the board approved
in March.
■ A request for funding from
the Affordable Housing Special
Revenue Fund for Empowerment
Inc. for an emergency repair to a
sewer line at 105 Cobb St.
Local school to give virtual
desktops to students, faculty
Frank Porter Graham
Elementary School will take part
in a pilot program for virtual desk
tops. .
The pilot is part of the SlMtone
Education Thunder Program,
which aims to close the digital gap
and provide people with access to
computers without having to own
one.
The educational content of the
program is provided by the U.S.
Fund for UNICEF.
The school will provide about
600 students and faculty mem
bers with SlMtone’s Universal
Cloud Computing products, also
called “PCs in the Cloud,” which
are usable anywhere there is
broadband connection without a
computer.
The pilot will be launched dur
ing the fall 2008 semester.
—From staff and voire reports
Breaker caused Kenan light outage
Crowd energetic through game delay
BY LAURA HOXWORTH
STAFF WRITER
A faulty breaker caused the
21-minute power outage in Kenan
Stadium during Saturday’s football
game, athletics officials said.
Lights in the northeast corner
of the stadium shut off unexpect
edly during the third quarter of
the game against the University of
Connecticut.
Electricians then shut off a sec
ond bank of lights and postponed
the game until they found the prob
lem, said Steve Kirschner, director
of athletic communications.
The band played, the dance team
danced and the athletic department
played Carl Douglas’ 1970s hit
“Kung Fu Fighting” to keep energy
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Junior Jen Forrest protests the death sentence of Troy Davis, who was convicted of murder in 1991. Seven of nine witnesses who testified
against Davis have recanted their stories since the original trial. The U.S. Supreme Court will consider his appeal in conference Friday.
Sorority protests apathy toward death row case
BY CAROLINE PHILLIPS
STAFF WRITER
UNC’s chapter of Theta Nu Xi
Multicultural Sorority Inc. has joined the
ranks of those determined to make Troy
Davis’ story heard.
In 1991, Davis, who is black, was convict
ed for the murder of Mark MacPhail and
sentenced to death, largely based on the
testimony of nine key witnesses.
Seven of those witnesses have now
changed their stories, saying police coerced
them into naming Davis the killer.
Asa result, Davis received a stay of execu
tion Sept. 23, less than two hours before he
was scheduled to die. The case has drawn
international attention, including a state
ment from UNC’s 2009 commencement
speaker, Desmond Tutu.
Members of Theta Nu Xi lined the Polk
Place walkway Monday in a protest to raise
awareness of Davis’ plight, brandishing
signs and shouting, “Google Troy Davis!”
and “Apathy kills!”
Dining offers cage-free eggs
BY MEGAN HANNAY
STAFF WRITER
For UNC students, breakfast egg
options are no longer just between
scrambled or fried.
This fall, Carolina Dining
Services began offering students
the option of cage-free eggs in their
omelets.
Cage-free eggs are considered
a more ethical option by many
animal rights activists because
they come from hens that do not
spend their entire lives in battery
cages.
“In battery cages all the animal
instincts are frustrated,” said Loren
Hart, UNC alumnus and animal
rights activist.
“They can’t stretch their wings,
they have their beaks cut. These
practices cause an extreme amount
of suffering to hens.”
Hart and senior Kori Crosson
were among those who spoke with
dining services about making the
switch to cage-free eggs.
Crosson first contacted Scott
Myers, director of food and vend
ing for dining services, about cage
free eggs last fall.
In February, Crosson and Myers
visited caged hen farms and cage
free farms in Nashville, N.C., about
an hour east of Chapel Hill.
“There’s just thousands of hens
who are sometimes five to a cage
and had no room to spread their
wings,” Crosson said.
“It made me realize how bad it
was that this is how the animals
have to live.”
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up during the break.
“I think our fans enjoyed it,”
Director of Kenan Stadium James
Burling said of the entertainment.
Fans also started a wave that cir
cled the stadium multiple times.
“It was fun for three or four
times, but then it kind of got
old,” said Andrew Bannister, a
first-year student who attended
the game.
Chelsea Cook, a sophomore
women’s studies major, said she
thought the excitement from beat
ing a ranked team helped fans
maintain energy.
“We actually had a really fun
time with it,” she said. “I know a
lot of people got frustrated and
left, but we were standing up on
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Daniele Dickerson, the sorority’s social chair
and historian, said she read about Davis’ case
in The New York Times and shared it with her
sorority, inspiring them to act
“Theta Nu Xi is really passionate about
social justice and multiculturalism,”
Dickerson said.
“We wanted to put his name out there,
make people think a little.”
The sorority hosted a similar event last
spring featuring a talk by Darryl Hunt, a
black man who was set free after wrongfully
spending 18 years in prison.
“Having learned about Troy Davis and
knowing Darryl Hunt, it is important that
this time we make sure people know about
this injustice and we don’t come back to it
after the fact,” said Sherea Burnett, the chap
ter’s adviser and a 2007 UNC graduate.
Many students showed little response to
protestors’ chants of “No justice, no peace!”
and “Tomorrow it could be you!”
A few did stop to learn about Davis, how
ever, and several promised to Google him.
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Hens living in Nashville, N.C., spend their lives in cages with little
room to move around. Cage-free farming is considered more humane.
Crosson added that the caged
hens were living in conditions
where it seemed that they were no
longer living creatures.
“When you confine a being in
a cage so they can’t even move
and you’re mass producing them
and mass killing them, you’re not
even treating them like animals
anymore. We’re creating little
machines.”
Myers said he had not been
aware of the conditions of caged
hens until Crosson contacted him
about it.
After he visited the farms, din
ing services worked cage-free eggs
the bleachers and dancing.”
While fans were dancing, elec
tricians worked to turn back on the
lights. They couldn’t fix the defec
tive lights because there was no
replacement breaker on hand.
The electricians then turned
off a second bank of lights in the
northwest corner of the stadium
because they thought it might
pose a problem, said William
Scroggs, senior associate athletic
director.
“Their idea was that the north
east corner would come back up
to full power quicker if they shut
both banks off on the same side,”
Kirschner said.
The game resumed after the
lights came back on, but the defec
tive breaker caused the northeast
bank to shut off again during the
fourth quarter. This time, officials
Junior Kat Loeven, an anthropology
major, said that she hadn’t heard of Davis
before but that the protest educated her.
“I am going to look up more about this,”
Loeven said. “I wish people cared more.”
Sophomore Jessica Booker, who had read
a little about Davis on Facebook, said she
was angered and saddened by his case.
“It just seems very typical, another black
man falling through the cracks of the U.S.
judicial system,” Booker said.
She said the protest helped by showing
students that they do not live in a utopia.
“I think people don’t realize that racism
is still institutionalized, it’s still around,”
Booker said. “So if it can open the eyes of
just a few more of our students who are
ignorant of this, then the protest has done
a good job.”
Dickerson said the existence of injustice
should be a concern to every UNC student.
“Today it’s Troy Davis, yesterday it was
Darryl Hunt. You never know who it’s going
to be tomorrow,” she said. “It could be you.”
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into some of their meals, and they
expanded the option to the omelet
bars, he said.
Signs posted in the dining halls
inform students that cage-free
eggs are now available, Myers
said.
The majority of dining services’
eggs still come from farms that use
battery cages.
Myers said cost issues are a con
cern, as each cage-free egg costs
about two cents more than non
cage-ffee eggs.
“What dining services is look-
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2008
“I know a lot of people gotfrustrated
and left , but we were standing up on the
bleachers and dancing
CHELSEA COOK, SOPHOMORE
continued the game without the
lights.
The power outage is the second
problem with Kenan Stadium to
disrupt football fans during a game
this season.
In September, a structural engi
neering firm repaired cracks in
the stadium’s ceiling after a small
chunk of concrete fell into the
stands during the season opener
against McNeese State University.
The lights were added to Kenan
as part of a renovation in 1987-
88, one of many renovations the
stadium has undergone since its
DOJ may seek death
penalty in Carson case
Unclear why feds
want to weigh in
BY ARIEL ZIRULNICK
STATE AND NATIONAL EDITOR
The federal government could
also seek a death penalty for Demario
Atwater, one of two charged with the
shooting death of former Student
Body President Eve Carson.
The U.S. Department of Justice
committee that handles capi
tal cases met last week to review
charges that could give them juris
diction in the case, a department
spokesman confirmed.
The federal and state govern
ments have overlapping jurisdiction
on crimes that have a federal interest
There are many reasons a case could
be judged to have federal interest
The carjacking charge is a possi
ble reason federal authorities might
have gotten involved, said Lynne
Klauer, assistant U.S. attorney for
North Carolina’s middle district.
Federal officials will not release any
information regarding the review.
Anytime the U.S. attorney’s
office is involved in a case with the
potential of a death penalty, they
are required to file for a federal
review, Klauer said.
The death penalty is already
being sought in state court for
Atwater, 22. The two cases will be
tried independently of each other.
completion in 1927.
Kirschner said the problem is
unusual and hasn’t happened since
a game against Marshall University
in 2000.
Officials assured that anew
breaker has been ordered and the
problem will be completely fixed
when the Tar Heels take on the
University of Notre Dame this
weekend.
“I promise it won’t go out this
Saturday,” Burling said.
Contact the University Editor
at udesk@unc.edu.
Sheriffs
try to
identify
body
Autopsy reports
gunshot as cause
BY EMILY STEPHENSON
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
The Orange County Sheriff’s
Office is trying to identify the body
of a man found Sunday shot in the
head.
According to a press release,
a resident called 911 at 1:45 p.m.
Sunday to report a body in an
embankment by a western Orange
County road.
Deputies checked the area,
which was near Morrow Mill
Road’s 8300 block, and discov
ered a male lying on his side in the
undergrowth.
They think the body had been
in the same location for a few
days.
Monday’s autopsy report deter
mined that the man died of a single
gunshot wound to the head.
Investigator Chan McDade said
Monday that the sheriff’s office
doesn’t have any more informa
tion, but the office will release
further details as they become
available.
“We don’t have anything else
to say right now,” he said, adding
that the body’s location about
12.5 miles west of UNC’s cam
pus was not near residences or
businesses.
Police now are conducting a
homicide investigation in the case
of the man discovered Sunday.
Police are checking missing
person reports to identify the man,
who sheriffs say is a Hispanic
male, 25 to 35 years old, 5 feet 5
inches tall and about 145 to 160
pounds.
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
“We are not preempting any
state prosecution of this individual
by investigating it,” Klauer said.
“They are distinct charges, dif
ferent elements. It doesn’t impact
the state prosecution from a legal
standpoint.”
But reasons for a federal review
are still murky in the Atwater case.
“(Federal authorities) generally
don’t get involved in cases that are
in essence state cases,” said Thomas
Maher, executive director of the
Center for Death Penalty Litigation.
“It strikes me as being a state case.
It’s not one that there’s any obvious
federal interest’
Orange County’s tendency to
oppose the death penalty has led to
some speculation that the case could
be up for federal review to increase
the chances of a capital sentence.
“This was a tragic case, but it was
a street crime in North Carolina,”
said Duke University law profes
sor Jim Coleman. “It is about the
death penalty, not about any fed
eral interest in the case.”
It has been more than 10 years
since the middle district last pros
ecuted a federal capital case.
The two most recent state cases
brought to the federal court that
Maher could recall were both
reviewed because the crimes
occurred on federal land, signaling
an obvious federal interest
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