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4 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2008 TUNNEL FROM PAGE 3 speech. N.C. State’s Chancellor, James L. Oblinger, called Tuesday evening for a student and adminis trative task force to foster construc tive discussion of the issue. Student leaders have met with the college chapter of the NAACP. The Rev. William Barber, president of the N.C. chapter of the NAACP, called for “a strong response and punishment” and warned against taking the lan guage lightly because such inci dents have evolved into worse things in the past. “It’s wrong for the school to call it graffiti, because you won’t find any definition of graffiti with this kind of hatred and violence,” he said. Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@ unc.edu. CHRISTMAS FROM PAGE 3 deal with the Christmas rush.” Early sales trends are driven by efforts to push more holiday-themed merchandise off the shelves for a longer period of time, according to a recent report from a financial con- $5 Cover ■Hffi IJ. Draft RHIM 1 r Beer |||||| WEDNESDA YS May 2009 Graduates!! Interested in working full-time helping kids get to college? Apply to be a Carolina College Adviser UNC-Chapel Hill’s College Advising Corps seeks new Carolina graduates to serve as college advisers in low-income high schools across North Carolina. “It’s been an amazing opportunity to be a part of the solu tion to the issues going on in our society. Regardless of what you're going to do-whether it's business, law, medicine-the lessons you learn here about the inequalities in education, you’ll carry those with you for the rest of your life.” -Ebonie Leonard, Carolina College Adviser serving Hillside and Southern High Schools in Durham County. Information Session Thursday, November 20 6:00 p.m. Career Services Hanes Hall, 4th Floor Application deadline: January 15,2009 See job listing at careers.unc.edu (log in & go to Jobs) To learn more, contact: ' Jennie Cox Bell National College jcoxbell@admissions.unc.edu Advising Corps 843-7286 EAST-WEST FROM PAGE 3 said that Perdue appealed to unde cided voters, and that her campaign in Charlotte had the final say in her win over McCrory. “Once they got an opportunity to know and understand Perdue’s skill set, relationships and experience, they were more comfortable with her and her approach to Charlotte- Mecklenburg,” he said. “She was basically focusing on a message of cooperation, that the east and west part of the state needed to work together to solve the crisis.” McCrory announced Monday that he would throw his support behind the Perdue administration. Arrington said the majority of Republican voters generally reside west of the Triangle, while Democrats mostly reside to the east. The divi sion is largely historical. suiting firm. But some consumers seem to buy into the early arrival of bells and elves. Across the country, radio stations have been switching to an “all-Christmas” format. Early holiday music generates higher ratings, said Barry Fox, pro gram director on WRAL-FM. “The east has been dominated by Democrats for over 100 years, and a lot of people in the west, like the Piedmont area, are a bunch ‘Yankees from the south.’ They’re new people in North Carolina,” Arrington said. Martha Kropf, a UNC-Charlotte political science professor, said that as a Republican, McCrory faced poor odds this election but could fare better in the future. “It was an overwhelming anti- Republican election. It was anti things the way they have been, and it’s unfortunate that anything that he could have gotten credit for in Charlotte was lost in the election,” she said. “But I expect he will run again, and I expect he will perform better in his next bid in the election.” Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. “We have to please the mass es, and the masses want it to be Christmas early,” he said. And if it means a reversal of struggling sales trends, so do busi ness owners. Contact the Features Editor atfeatures@unc.edu. I the : UOGURJ ) . T pump l • „ • Downtown Chapel Hill • 106 W. 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