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Aldermen give support for same sex marriage
BY KATY DOLL
SENIOR WRITER
The Carrboro Board ofAldermen
passed a resolution supporting civil
marriage for same-sex couples at
Tuesday night’s meeting.
Language of the same-sex mar
riage resolution especially focused
on giving couples respect and
rights to health care-related deci
sions, marriage benefits and child
care issues.
“I’ve had other people ask me,
what good does it do for the town
of Carrboro when all we can do
is squawk?” said Alderman Lydia
Lavelle, who is openly gay. “That’s
what we do squawk”
This is the type of grassroots cam
CARSON
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who call and report crimes some
times inadvertently reveal their
identify through the information
they give. The person who receives
the call fills out a tip sheet, which
is what the defense would receive
in this case.
Wake County District Attorney C.
Colon Willoughby Jr. said the possi
bility of someone calling to report a
family member would decrease if the
caller doubted the anonymity.
“The defense would like to make
this ‘Oh, we’re supposed to get
everything’” said Willoughby, who,
ADDERALL
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prescribed to Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder patients to
aid in concentration. But in a drive
to succeed, students who don’t
have a prescription use the drug for
intensely focused study sessions.
The tougher the school, the easi
er the drug is to find, Todd said.
David Work, executive direc
tor emeritus of the N.C. Board of
Pharmacy, said students don’t real
ize that taking Adderall without a
prescription is a felony. Along with
drugs like cocaine and metham
phetamine, Adderall is listed as a
Schedule II controlled substance
by the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration.
And though students swear by it,
Allan Chrisman, the medical direc
tor of Duke University’s ADHD pro
gram, said studies show that students
don’t increase their academic success
through this use of the drug.
But during finals week, looming
tests call for desperate measures.
“There’s this ‘study hard, play
hard and share everything’ environ
ment,” Chrisman said. “There’s a lot
of pressure to help a friend out.”
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way to developing well-rounded
artists.
“Part of the business of being an
artist is experiencing everything
the world has to offer, so a lot of
interesting art comes from inter
esting artists,” Lloyd said.
Grabowski said the cultivation
of interesting artists is aided by
the diverse curriculum required
by UNC’s College of Arts and
Sciences.
“We are great for students who
have talent in art, but also wider
talents and interests,” Grabowski
said.
Lloyd fits that mold perfectly.
“I considered Savannah College
of Art and Design, but I knew UNC
would provide me with a more bal
anced education,” Lloyd said.
“I’ve taken so many classes I
wouldn’t have been challenged to
take at art school,” she said. “I’m
also double majoring in English, so
I’ve been able to pursue that pas
sion as well.”
This diversity in interests and
pursuits can be seen in artists both
in and out of the art program.
Morgan Thompson, a first
year, who won this year’s
Undergraduate Art Association’s
art competition, is not an art
major. She is working toward
admission into Kenan-Flagler
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paign that the issue needs, she said.
“It’s important to let people
know and be aware and work on
these rights,” Lavelle said.
Alderman Jacquie Gist introduced
the resolutions two weeks after voters
elected Barack Obama and approved
Proposition 8, which banned same
sex marriage in California.
Mayor Mark Chilton said even
a small town like Carrboro can
make a difference through these
resolutions.
“Why should anyone care if a
couple of college towns support
it? It was just a couple of college
towns when we started in on the
civil rights movement and just a
couple of college towns when we
like Woodall, said that he had never
had to deal with this circumstance.
“What this is really about is a quest
for the truth.”
Woodall also said he’s concerned
with taking precaution to protect
the anonymity of people who call
to report crimes.
“I think it could have a chiller
effect that fewer people would uti
lize Crime Stoppers,” Woodall said.
Lt. Kevin Gunter, Chapel Hill
police spokesman, said the possible
effect on tips is yet to be seen.
In the motion requesting the
disclosure of any witnesses who
received awards, Atwater’s attor
ney cited in particular a $25,000
Sophomore Joelle Kaplan, who
is prescribed Adderall for her ADD,
said friends who know she has a pre
scription often ask her for the drug.
“Around finals time is usually
when it’s the worst,” she said. “I feel
like a jerk saying no.”
Kaplan needs Adderall to bring
her to normal attention levels. But
for non-ADHD students, it brings
an unnatural focus.
Last year, Emily’s sorority sister
lent her a pill for a study session, 14
hours before her 11 a.m. final with
a semester’s worth of economics
reading to do.
“I had this feeling, this cold feel
ing on my eyes, that just kept them
open,” said Emily, now a sopho
more. “Around my face it was just
like my nerves were awake.”
She didn’t sleep all night, and
the drug wore off before her final.
Kristin, a sophomore, said she
was driven to try Adderall because
of the pressure to have a simulta
neously successful social life and
academic life.
“It’s really hard to do both,” she
said. “With Adderall, you can hang
out with your friends then study all
night.”
She said the drug feels harmless
Business School, with the goal
of remaining involved in art,
but with a focus on the business
aspects of the industry.
“I knew I wanted to come
here, and coming from Durham
School of the Arts, art has been a
huge part of my life,” Thompson
said. “But, I want to pursue other
things and sort of keep art on the
side.”
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started on protests of Vietnam,”
he said.
The living wage
The Board also discussed
reviewing how living wages for
town employees are calculated.
Currently, the town evaluates
wages based the federal poverty
level for a family of four, and adjusts
that to the Raleigh-Durham area.
Coleman said he would rather
the town use housing-based wages
rather than poverty-based wages.
Two parts of the personnel ordi
nance were inadvertently left off the
when it was reviewed in 2005, said
Town Manager Steve Stewart
reward offered by the UNC Board
of TVustees and a SIO,OOO reward
from the governor’s office for infor
mation related to any accessory to
Carson’s murder.
The hearing to address the
motion will likely be scheduled
for one of the first days in January,
Woodall said.
The judge could ask the pros
ecution to let him see the evidence
before determining what the pros
ecution should turn over.
Assistant City Editor Emily
Stephenson contributed reporting.
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
and common.
Betsy Sleath, a professor at the
School of Pharmacy, said even if stu
dents don’t inform their parents or
teachers they’re taking Adderall ille
gally, they should tell their doctors.
“It’s a safety issue,” she said. “In
these cases, students don’t even
have a chance of getting prescrip
tion information.”
The list of warnings on the
Adderall label include risks for
people with high blood pressure
and heart conditions.
“A lot of people fake their way
through the whole process and
get a prescription,” said a Miami
University student who crushed
and snorted Adderall in high school
almost daily.
Because Adderall is limited to
the few who have access and wish
to break laws, junior Will Scotten
thinks using it without a prescrip
tion is cheating.
He has at least seven friends
who take it illegally, he said.
“It’s meant to help students with
trouble focusing, not to give people
an unfair advantage.”
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ativity in other fields is not lost
on Grabowski, who says whatever
field UNC art students choose,
their unique perspective will prove
to be an advantage.
“I really think the new asset will
be people who can think creatively
and see things in creative and
wholistic ways,” she said.
Contact the Arts Editor
at artsdesk@unc.edu.
News
“Both of these items are techni
cal corrections,” he said. “They were
inadvertently left out so the language
is exactly as it had been before.”
The amendment adding the
conditions to the ordinance was
passed and the staff will investigate
the wages for future review.
The board also heard a review
of a long-term transit study from
Andy Henry, of the Durham-
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan
Planning Organization.
The board postponed a review of
the anti-lingering ordinance until
January.
Contact the City Desk
at citydesk@unc.edu.
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While those students will still
have access to campus services,
they might have trouble with exter
nal sources.
“I think for many students,
it will not affect them, but if
they have health insurance that
requires them to be enrolled full
time, they need to check what they
need to do,” Provost Bernadette
Gray-Little said.
While some scholarships and
loans require full-time status,
University-provided financial
aid should not be affected by the
change.
“Our policy has been that if
students take an underload, we
still offer financial aid. We just
recalculate tuitions and fees based
on hours they take,” said Tabatha
Turner, senior associate director
of the Office of Scholarships and
Student Aid.
Some seniors were caught off
guard by the new practice.
“The new rule I understand, I
am just frustrated that we were
told on Nov. 26 and that it was
effective immediately,” said senior
Anna Dorn.
Poehls said she failed to get the
message out to advisers and stu
dents quickly but is willing to help
anyone with the issue.
“I take full responsibility that
students didn’t have the informa
tion in a timely way,” she said. “I’m
happy to talk to any students or
parents about the matter, whether
it be on phone or in person for
however long about the matter.”
Contact the University Editor
at udesk@unc.edu.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2008
ACCIDENTS
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Chapel Hill Transit has seen a
total of 70 accidents both pre
ventable and non-preventable so
far this year, a slight decrease from
the 90 in all 0f2007, stated Transit
Director Steve Spade in an e-mail.
The town employs 109 drivers.
Capital Area Transit, which
serves the Raleigh area, averages
about 0.62 accidents per driver
per year.
“We have some drivers that have
worked here for 30 years acci
dent free,” stated Scott McClellan,
general manager at Capital Area
Transit, in an e-mail. “Some have
gone millions of miles without a
preventable accident.”
And the disciplinary methods
used by transit systems encourage
drivers to keep clean records.
The Durham Area Transit
Authority operates on a points
based system. Drivers receive a
certain amount of safety points for
different types of preventable acci
dents, said James Tinsley, safety
manager at Durham Area Transit.
At Capital Area TVansit, employ
ees can be terminated if they have
three preventable accidents within
24 months, McClellan said.
Chapel Hill Transit has had
3.32 accidents per 100,000 miles
for 2008, Spade said. The transit
industry standard is 3.1 accidents
per 100,000 miles.
Transit systems are making
efforts to improve safety.
Hughes, who police have said was
walking in the crosswalk when she
was hit, was the second to be struck
by a Chapel Hill TVansit bus.
In May, Scottish exchange student
Lisa Carolyn Moran died after being
hit by a bus on Manning Drive while
jogging outside of a crosswalk.
No charges have been brought
against the driver of the bus that
hit Moran, and Orr is expected to
appear in court Jan. 12 to face the
misdemeanor charge.
Spade said Chapel Hill TVansit
hopes to learn from these deaths.
Chapel Hill TVansit puts all of its
new drivers through three weeks of
training in which they learn about
defensive driving modules. After
that, drivers continue to attend
training once a month to discuss
safety topics.
Capital Area Transit does ride
along and trail behind checks for
its drivers, McClellan said.
Durham Area TVansit installed
cameras in all of its buses after
an increase in accidents in 2005,
Tinsley said. The cameras monitor
drivers’ behavior.
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a left turn, Orr fails to yield the
right of way and collides with
another vehicle as it proceeds
through an intersection at
University Mall.
Itaylttit: Orr sideswipes
a utility pole while traveling
south on Pittsboro Street.
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up between two parked vehicles
at University Mall, Orr strikes one
of them in die passenger side of
the rear bumper.
Orr collides
into the rear of another vehicle
that had stopped suddenly for a
bicyclist.
Orr fails to stop
in time and strikes the rear of
another vehicle that had stopped
to yield to traffic on Raleigh
Road.
lift. 1% JMSc Orr fails to stop
in time and rear ends a vehicle
that had stopped on N.C. 54 to
yield to traffic on Raleigh Road.
iMkHMi; Orr backs
up into a vehicle that was pull
ing into the travel lane on North
Columbia Street from an alley.
Orr said he was backing up at
the bus stop and did not remem
ber hitting the car.
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power pole on East Franklin
Street with the rightside mirror
of his vehicle.
*Some drivers have
worked here for 30
years accident-free,
some have gone
millions of miles ”
SCOn MCCLELLAN, GENERAL
MANAGER OF CAPITAL AREA TRANSIT
“There’s a discipline rate that
comes with it,” Tinsley said. “We
have a very strict policy when it
comes to accidents we don’t play
around with it
“When little things happen big
things can occur later on so we just
try to stay on top of it”
Contact the City Editor
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Race to a win
The men’s basketball team faces
Michigan State’s lightning-fast Kalin
Lucas tonight See pg. 7 for stay.
Representing all
Graduate students are more
involved in Student Congress this year
than in the past See pg. 5 for story.
Changing plans
Because of the economy, many
professors nearing retirement could
reconsider. See pg. 3 for story.
New rules
Seniors who underload next
semester won’t be considered full
time students. See pg. 1 for story.
The perfect tree
Researchers are trying to find a
cure for a common Christmas tree
disease. Go online for story.
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