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wednesday, february 17, 2010 VOLuMe 117, Issue 153
MEDLIN WINS BIG
Hogan Medlin
Shruti Shah
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By Stephanie BullinS and andy thomaSon
STAFF WRITERS
Hogan Medlin won the student body president run-off election Tuesday night, maintaining his status as theelection’s front-runner when he swept to a substantial victory over Shruti Shah.Medlin received 61 percent of the vote, while Shahreceived 39 percent. All results are preliminary untilthe Board of Elections certification, which must occur by Saturday.Medlin’s election marks the end of a race character-ized by a lack of surprises — he has been planning his bid since his freshman year, was the front-runner head-ing into the race and gathered 44 percent of the generalelection vote in comparison to Shah’s 16 percent.The president-elect said he was not expecting sucha large margin of victory and was stunned by the showof support from students.“The percentage and number of votes is inspiring andtruly supportive,” Medlin said.Medlin said he hopes to use the support to make hisadministration an organization more representative of the student body.“That’s what I want to channel,” he said. “We’ve gotthe support. Now let’s act on it.” At least 5,499 votes were cast in this election, a dropfrom the 9,513 votes cast in last year’s runoff, which alsoincluded a contentious fee referendum.Medlin’s election means he will serve as the student body’s chief voice to the administration and have achance to influence issues such as tuition, Greek affairs, budget cuts and the academic future of the University.His vision for student government was where he dif-fered most from his opponent. Throughout the election,Medlin has emphasized his belief that a larger studentgovernment will allow more voices to be heard, in con-trast to Shah’s call to downsize the organization to pro-
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The Carrboro Latino community met its new advocate Tuesday — aDurham organization that came tofill the void left by El Centro Latino.Set to open in Carrboro on April1, the Durham-based El CentroHispano will replace Carrboro’sLatino-focused resource centerthat closed last year. At least 100 community mem- bers attended, anxious to getacquainted with the new resourcecenter that plans to open simulta-neously in Carrboro Plaza on N.C.54 with a branch of the LatinoCommunity Credit Union.“The hope and mission of thisorganization thrives,” read ElCentro Latino board member ElanieCintron from a statement prepared by the board. “Even though the fund-ing may have dwindled, the need fora center has not diminished.”El Centro Hispano had about $1.5million in revenue in 2008, whileEl Centro Latino brought in about$210,000, according to tax forms.It also has a wider array of servic-es that it will bring to Carrboro. While El Centro Latino was well-
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In an attempt to lure touristsaway from growing Wake andDurham counties, the Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureauhas proposed a tourist shuttlefor downtown Chapel Hill andCarrboro.But history suggests it might not be as successful it is hoped to be.The shuttle, as proposed, would be about a 90-minute round trip with stops at sites such as University Mall, the Carolina BasketballMuseum, the N.C. BotanicalGarden and Weaver Street Marketin Carrboro to pick up tourists.“They’re typically unsure abouthow to navigate the University, where to park, where to go,” saidLaurie Paolicelli, executive direc-tor of the Visitors Bureau.The proposed shuttle system isnot the first of its kind.Chapel Hill purchased twotrolley-style buses in 1989, mostly using federal and state grants. Thetotal cost was about $300,000.The trolley buses ran the lengthof Franklin Street between down-town Chapel Hill and Carrboro.They were intended in part to boostpatronage of local businesses.
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ATLANTA — They couldn’tstop their opponents, couldn’tscore, could barely hold onto the ball. They struggled with routinepasses, made one good play andtwo bad ones.Just another Tuesday for the TarHeels.In a season filled with thesame repeating story line, NorthCarolina dropped another con-ference game by double digits.Tuesday night, it was at GeorgiaTech, by a score of 68-51.“I’m at a loss,” coach Roy Williams said. “I have no idea.Fifteen turnovers in the first half.”It had all the hallmarks consis-tent with North Carolina’s 11 otherlosses.Turnovers galore? UNC (14-12,3-8 ACC) had 15 in just the firsthalf and 19 for the game.Give up a big run early and fall way behind? As if on cue, GeorgiaTech went on a 21-3 run in theopening period and closed the first
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UNC freshman Leslie McDonald has his shot blocked b Georgia Tech’sBrian Oliver. McDonald scored three of the Tar Heels’ 10 bench points.
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COURTESy OF THE CHAPEL HILL/ ORANGE COUNTy VISITORS BUREAU
Chapel Hill ran two trolle-stle buses in the late 1980s and 90s fortourists. Now a downtown group has proposed bringing back a shuttle.
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Hogan Medlin celebrates his overwhelming victor Tuesda with Michelle Heal, one of his campaign managers.
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Robert Bach, Microsot divisionpresident and UNC alumnus,spoke about his vision o theuture o entertainment andtechnology Tuesday as part o the Collaborations: Humanities,Arts & Technology estival. Theestival lasts through Saturday.
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Several student organizationsgot together Tuesday to learnabout Haitian culture and raisemoney or a UNC charity thatbenefts the relie eorts inthe country as part o “SelebreHaiti: A Cultural Experience.”
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First-chair violinist CynthiaBurton will solo or the frsttime with the UNC SymphonyOrchestra at a concert tonightthat will beneft scholarshipsor incoming music students.She will play Tchaikovsky.
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Someone broke a windowand entered an abandoned build-ing at 2:31 p.m. Monday at 412-DCaldwell St., according to ChapelHill police reports.Damages to the window totaled$200, reports state.
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Someone stole $455 of prop-erty from a car between 6:15 p.m.Sunday and 11:38 a.m. Monday at5639 Old Durham Road, accord-ing to Chapel Hill police reports.The stolen items included a carstereo, 12-inch box speakers, anamplifier and an MP3 player.
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Someone stole an iPhone at afraternity party between 1 a.m. and2 a.m. Sunday at the Beta ThetaPi house at 114 S. Columbia St.,according to Chapel Hill policereports.
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A Chapel Hill woman wasarrested for misdemeanor profan-ity on a public highway at 2:47p.m. Monday on the 100 block of North Columbia Street, accordingto Chapel Hill police reports.Samantha Jones Elabanjo, 43, was released on a written prom-ise to appear in court in March,reports state.
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Two people were arrested formisdemeanor larceny for steal-ing meat at 2:31 p.m. Friday fromthe Food Lion at 104 N.C. Hwy.54, according to Carrboro policereports.Tobias Alexander, 34, andDarren Dante Townes, 40, enteredthe store and concealed meat insidetheir clothing, reports state.They were taken to the mag-istrate’s office and delivered toOrange County Jail, reports state.
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Htoo Kyaw, 40, was charged with misdemeanor assault with adeadly weapon Sunday at 306 EstesDrive Extension in Carrboro, accord-ing to Carrboro police reports.
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. A New Jersey man was arrestedafter stealing items from a police station andtrying to sell them in a Taco Bell drive-thru. Anthony Williams, 41, strolled into policeheadquarters past an unmanned counter andswiped a police radio, a computer monitor anda sergeant’s attache case, police said. A TacoBell customer recognized the items Williams was peddling and called 911.
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. “The dogs can urinate and def-ecate. But they can’t copulate or impregnate.”— Dexter Blanch, a Louisiana dog breederand creator of the Pet Anti Breeding System, acomplex eight-buckle chastity belt for dogs.The system is an alternative for owners whodon’t want to have their pets spayed or neu-tered. Dogs that can’t seem to say no won’t behurt by trying to get around the rigging.
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ew York is living up to its nickname as “The City that Never Sleeps.” About 70 percent of New Yorkers have heard their neighbors hav-ing sex, according to a recent poll by brickunderground.com, a site forhomeowners.The most common complaint was a thumping sound, followed by moaning,screaming and “other” sounds.“I heard everything!” one frustrated woman wrote on a Brooklyn blog. “I hate to be a buzzkill, but if they really feel the need to explore their sexual needs in public,they should at least try to keep it on the low.” A fifth of those surveyed said the noises actually turned them on.
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Due to a reporting error,Tuesday’s pg. 8 story, “N.C. tax-payers could see delays in refundchecks,” incorrectly stated that thestate sent out fewer than 300,000individual income tax refundchecks totaling about $364 million by this time last year. They actually totalled about $264 million.Due to a reporting error, theFeb. 3 pg. 3 story, “Massive SBPsign raises safety concerns,” mis-stated the amount that formerstudent body president candidateNash Keune spent on his woodencastle sign. He spent $246.51 totalin the election.The Daily Tar Heel apologizesfor the errors.
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Junior Tyrone Sampson waselected president of the Bachelor of Science in Business Administrationon Tuesday night. He won with 87percent of the vote.
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UNC public health researchersare leading a multistate projectthat will look to prevent or eradi-cate cervical cancer through vacci-nations and more effective screen-ings.The Cervical Cancer-FreeInitiative, which was initially fund-ed through a $1.5 million educationgrant from GlaxoSmithKline tothe UNC Gillings School of GlobalPublic Health, is led by UNC pro-fessors Noel Brewer and JenniferSmith. Both are members of theUNC Lineberger ComprehensiveCancer Center.The initiative will help coordi-nate efforts in Alabama, Californiaand North Carolina, with the intentof expanding the project to morestates in the future.Each state will make demon-stration projects on preventionmeasures, including providingschool-based access to adolescent vaccines such as the HPV vac-cine. Other measures will includeprojects to coordinate more cervi-cal cancer screening for women,along with treatment services andprograms
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The Heelraisers Council, a groupthat recognizes student giving, will be by handing out information andT-shirts and displaying banners between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. today.The purpose of the event, calledTag Day, is to demonstrate howcritical private donors are to theUniversity’s functioning. The group wants to emphasize that 10 percentto 15 percent of the University revenue is provided by gifts fromstudents, alumni, parents and cor-porations, which contribute to allfacets of campus life.
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The Carrboro Board of Aldermenmade strides to improve the town’spedestrian walkways after severalresidents complained about thesafety of downtown crosswalks atits meeting Tuesday.The board unanimously decidedto look further into the issue afterresident Tom Henry notified the board of several dangerous situationsnear North Greensboro Street.Henry, who lives on Mulberry Street near North Greensboro Street,said his life has been put in danger.“I have been in situations whereI’ve lunged my body into thecrosswalk while waving my arms, but cars will still drive through,attempting to beat me through thecrosswalk,” Henry said. Alderman Jacquie Gist said thetown needs to increase its trafficlaw enforcement.“I once almost got hit near theCentury Center,” Gist said. “The board could ask for more attentionon the subject.”
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Today’s events: Collaborations: Humanities, Arts & Technology festival
Most events require a fee andregistration, but some are free (*).Register at
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Interactive Project Exhibitions
,9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at WilsonLibrary, FedEx Global EducationCenter, Hanes Art Center and theJohnston Center for UndergraduateExcellence at Graham Memorial
Using Vodcasts and Podcasts inthe math classroom
, 9 a.m. to9:50 a.m. Peabody Hall, room 216
Create Wikis Using PB Works
,9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. PeabodyHall, room 02
Create simple Web Sites
, 10a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Howell Hall,OASIS “Sandbox” room 05
Digital Video
, 10 a.m. to 11:30a.m. Undergraduate Library, MediaResource Center
User Driven: Does size matter?
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Memorial Hall
K-12 Teacher Translationalsession
, noon to 1 p.m. PeabodyHall, room 206
The Ubiquity of Games
, noon to1 p.m., Hyde Hall, Incubator
Wired! New RepresentationTechnologies for HistoricalMaterials
, noon to 1:00 p.m.Hyde Hall, University Room*
Seminar with Electro-AcousticComposers
, 12:15 p.m. to 1:45p.m., Kenan Music Building, room3029
Collaborative Authorship:Writing Zombies into Austen
,1 p.m. to 2 p.m., Hyde Hall,University room
Scientific Method andNarrative Form
, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.Hyde Hall, Incubator
Introduction to VoiceThread
,1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 2:45p.m. to 3:45 p.m., Peabody Hall,room 02
VoiceThread: MultimediaProjects Made Simple
, 2 p.m.to 3:30 p.m., Howell Hall, OASIS“Sandbox” room 05
Music & New Media
, 2 p.m. to3:30 p.m. at Memorial Hall*
The Bathysphere: MotionCapture as Art
, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Gerrard Hall
Games & Storytelling
, 4 p.m. to5:30 p.m. at Memorial Hall*
Interactive ProjectExhibitions
, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. atITS-Manning and the RenaissanceComputing Institute*
Art Walk
, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.across campus
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STAFF WRITER
Chapel Hill residents are askingGoogle to consider this area for anexperimental fiber-optic Internetnetwork that the company is plan-ning to install in several areasacross the country.Google will choose several citiesas testing sites for its high-speed broadband service, which has adownloading rate of 1 gigabit persecond. Public interest will be a key factor in the decision.Brian Russell, owner of CarrboroCreative Coworking, started aFacebook group to get residentsinvolved in the selection process.The 1-gigabit network could pre- vent “brain drain” from Chapel Hilland Carrboro populations, Russellsaid.“It would allow them to do busi-ness globally and could keep all of these smart people from movingsomewhere like Boston or New York or Los Angeles, where rightnow they feel like they can be moreglobal,” he said.Google claims the technology will allow users the ability to stream3-D images online or download afull-length film in five minutes.The company has created a Web site where both local gov-ernments and private citizenscan nominate their communitiesfor the service. The final selection will be based partly on the levelof response generated by each city that applies.Jim Bulbrook, a local mortgage broker who completed Google’sonline interest form, also said he wasexcited about these possibilities.“If we could open up thistechnology to the engineers andentrepreneurs of Chapel Hill, thepossibilities would be limitless,”he said.The town of Chapel Hill createda network of downtown wirelesshot spots in 2007.But UNC junior Jorge Ramos, who works at McAlister’s Deli,said the new Internet could bringopportunities for local businessesand students alike.“The Internet at McAlister’s has been broken for two months,” hesaid. “More people would come hereto eat, come here to study, maybe,if Chapel Hill got the new Internet,especially if it was faster.”The mayor’s office is also work-ing to bring the Google network toChapel Hill.“The town is applying for it,”said Town Council member LaurinEasthom. “We don’t know if we’regoing to get it or not.”Google estimates that it will begin its trial Internet period by providing between 50,000 and500,000 people with its servicesat what it calls “a competitiveprice.”The deadline for interest formsubmission is March 26. Googleplans to choose its sites this year.
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BY TAYlor HArTleY
STAFF WRITER
At Carrboro’s McDougleElementary, students will have to wait at least another year beforea bilingual curriculum is intro-duced.Members of the schoolimprovement team wrote a letterto the county Board of Educationrequesting to delay a dual lan-guage program that was set tostart this fall.Concerns include fundingthe program, finding adequateSpanish-teaching materials andhiring capable teachers, said SoniaFrischemeier, a member of theschool improvement team.Frischemeier said she wouldlike to see the program createdone day but does not think now isthe time.“The program would be suc-cessful when certain concerns theprogram faces are addressed,” shesaid. A dual language program isin effect in several Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools elementary schools. Students learn lessons inEnglish for half of the day, andthe rest is taught in a foreign lan-guage.The goal is to make students bilingual by the time they reach fifthgrade, said McDougle Elementary principal Amanda Hartness.“I’m the fourth principal infour years at McDougle,” she said.“When I first came on, the faculty asked the program be delayed because we had not been meet-ing standards of achievements, so we needed to focus on getting ourschool where it needs to be.”McDougle is attempting tomeet requirements of No ChildLeft Behind, a federal act that setsspecific targets to ensure studentsmeet certain performance stan-dards, she said.“As a parent and a taxpayer, I hateto see these things happen, because you implement these programs andthen, in year two or year three, youdon’t have the funding to keep themgoing,” Frischemeier said.Liz Buchman, president of theparent-teacher association, said she believed the school made the rightdecision to delay the program.“I’ve been at McDougle for eight years, and the school has gonethrough an enormous amount of transition,” she said. “To add onemore thing right when this ship isturning around concerns me.” A school with multiple popu-lations, such as McDougle, mustmake sure that each group of students meets certain academicrequirements, she said.Glenwood Elementary offers aMandarin Chinese program.“It makes the students moreglobally competitive,” said princi-pal Minnie Goins. “Parents say ithas made them more resourceful.”Buchman said her faith inHartness’s leadership helps herfurther support the decision.“Today in our culture, we wanteverything, and we want it rightnow,” she said. “I don’t think that’sthe right thing to do.”
Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.
BY mArY CHoi
STAFF WRITER
The next generation of videogames will include signing in, nav-igating and connecting with yourfriends without using a control-ler, said Microsoft Entertainment& Devices Division president andUNC alum Robert Bach.He spoke about his vision forthe future of technology and enter-tainment in the opening keynotespeech for the Collaborations:Humanities, Arts & Technology festival on Tuesday afternoon.Bach discussed Project Natal, an Xbox add-on device where a 3-Dcamera enables recognition of yourmovement, face and speech. Thisnew program, scheduled to releasethis fall, will allow the player to actas the controller. Project Natal will be compatible with all Xbox 360consoles. Along with this example of Microsoft’s innovations, Bach high-lighted the importance of converg-ing technological breakthroughsand digital art.“Guitar Hero,” for example, blends music and television whileallowing the consumer to actively participate, he said.He emphasized change and howit creates opportunities for con-sumers, creative people, businesspeople and others.“You’re going to have a wholeschool of artists who think of them-selves as artists who use technol-ogy to create their vision. This isa fundamental change within ourcommunity,” Bach said.Bach advised current digital artand humanities students to takemath and science seriously becausethey will play a big part in creatingthe future’s entertainment world.
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The UNC Symphony Orchestra, irecte by Tonu Kalam, rehearses in Hill Hall on Monay to prepare for its concert toay. The concert willbenefit music scholarships an will feature Cynthia Burton an Joncie Sarratt, winners of this year’s UNC Concerto Competition.
BY kellY BleSSiNg
STAFF WRITER
Cynthia Burton has been playing the violin since the age of three and has beenthe concertmaster, or first chair violinist, of the UNC Symphony Orchestra for the pasttwo years.But when she takes the stage tonight,she will do something she has never done before with the group — perform as a solo-ist.“I’m thrilled to play Tchaikovsky with theUNCSO for my solo debut,” Burton said inan e-mail. “This performance is very mean-ingful for me, and I can’t wait to share that with the audience.”Burton and vocalist Joncie Sarrattare winners of this year’s UNC ConcertoCompetition and will be performing solosat a scholarship benefit concert tonight.The benefit concert, hosted by the UNCSymphony Orchestra, will raise money forthe UNC music scholarship fund for incom-ing students.This concert is also an opportunity for the winners of the UNC Concerto Competitionto perform as soloists. The competition isheld each fall and is open to juniors andseniors who have in some way contributedto the music culture at UNC.This year, three judges from Wake ForestUniversity, Duke University, and UNCSchool of the Arts were brought in to choosethe winners of the competition.Their solo performances tonight are theprize for winning.Burton said she is very excited to have won this opportunity.She said that though she has been play-ing in an orchestra for a long time, beingfeatured as a soloist is a completely differentexperience. She will be playing a piece by Tchaikovsky, with which she won the com-
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ATTeND THe SYmPHoNY PerFormANCe
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7:30 p.m. today
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Hill Hall Auditorium
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music.unc..edu
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