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By Madeline Will
Staff Writer
UNC sophomore Crystal Smithhas always wanted to be a teacher.But concerns about low pay and job security led Smith to hesitate infollowing her passion.She declared a nursing majorfreshman year, but her desire toteach didn’t disappear and sheswitched to an elementary educationmajor at the beginning of this year.“I decided to switch because Iknew I would love it,” Smith said.“But (the job market) definitely worries me and causes me to thinkof backup plans,” she said. “I’mthinking of double majoring insomething, maybe English.” As position cuts and teacher lay-offs climb, more education majorsare echoing Smith’s concern andtaking extra steps to get jobs.State public schools eliminatedabout 6,300 positions and laid off about 2,400 employees for the 2011-12 academic year — the largest cutsin recent history.Since the 2008-09 academic year, North Carolina has eliminat-ed almost 17,000 positions and laidoff more than 6,000 employees,said June Atkinson, state superin-tendent of public schools.“It could have an impact on peo-ple going into the field,” Atkinsonsaid. “They might feel like they won’t have a job.”Of the positions cut since the2008-09 year, 35 percent wasteachers and 33 percent was teach-er assistants.The state’s public schools expe-rience a 10 percent turnover rateeach year, so as teachers retire ormove to other schools, the state will continue hiring, Atkinson said.But for those in UNC’s School of Education, the data is still worri-some.Last fall, there were 174 under-graduates in the school. In fall2009, there were over 200.“The reality is that we all knowthere aren’t as many jobs as there were a year or two ago,” said Kara
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Alcohol enforcement on the rise, police say
By Jenny Surane
Staff Writer
Students who drink underage andabuse alcohol in Chapel Hill mighthave a greater chance of getting caughtthis year.Police have responded to 40 inci-dences of underage drinking already this year, compared to a total of 67 in 2010,said Lt. Kevin Gunter, spokesman forthe Chapel Hill Police Department.He said that number is on track for asubstantial overall increase from 2010— but police don’t think the upswingnecessarily comes from a rise in studentdrinking.“The spike in numbers may reflect achange in enforcement,” Gunter said.“We recently created a team dedi-cated to alcohol-related cases, and their work has allowed us to enforce drink-ing laws more effectively.”He said the town’s Alcohol LawEnforcement Response Team is in itsthird year and has grown into an effec-tive means of enforcement.The team was created to supplementregular alcohol-related enforcement andis composed of officers from Chapel Hill,Carrboro and UNC Public Safety.The team has undercover opera-tions in the area and has conductedcampaigns against underage drinkingthis year.Gunter said though high school stu-dents are sometimes cited during thosecampaigns, most citations involve UNCstudents. And he said students’ drinking has
UNC system aims to serve veterans
By Jeanna Smialek
City Editor
Chapel Hill police havecharged Antonio Aleman-Hernandez, 23, of HamiltonRoad, with four counts of secret peeping and one count of attempted breaking and entering. Aleman-Hernandez is beingheld in Orange County Jail ona $10,000 bond, according to apolice report.During the past months, GlenLennox residents have reportedthat a man has looked intotheir windows and scratched ontheir doors, prompting police toincrease patrols in the area.Sgt. Josh Mecimore, ChapelHill police information sergeant,said extra monitoring of the area brought about the arrest.“The arrest was made after apeeping call last night where offi-cers were in the area,” he said.Police arrested Aleman-Hernandez at 132 Hamilton Rd.at 12:33 a.m. Thursday, accord-ing to Chapel Hill police reports. An incident in which someoneknocked at a window and spoketo the resident was reported at127 Hamilton Rd. at 11:32 p.m.,according to reports. Aleman-Hernandez wasalso charged with peeping onHamilton Road in January,according to police reports.Mecimore said though Aleman-Hernandez has beencharged with four counts of peep-ing this time, he might be linkedto at least six incidents that haverecently been reported.He said even more peepingincidents might have taken place but been classed as suspiciousperson reports.Mecimore said most of theincidents occurred between10:30 p.m. and midnight.He said all of the reports were by women, and some of them reported the individualapproaching the house.“What his intent was, I’m notsure,” he said.Mecimore said it is importantto stop peepers early on.“People who do that tend toprogressively get more brazen asthey go,” he said.He said this is not the firsttime a peeper has been an issuein the area, but that peeping isnot a regular problem in ChapelHill.Glen Lennox residents saidthey are relieved that someonehas been arrested in connection with the incidents.“It made me really nervous,”said Amanda Sobnosky, a UNCsenior and Glen Lennox resident.But one of her roommates,senior Ashley Andersen, said she wasn’t concerned.“It’s pretty innocent as far ascrimes go,” she said. “It’s just afunny crime, he’s not doing any-thing to anybody.”Mecimore said peeping is aClass 1 misdemeanor.He said it would be difficult toguess what Aleman-Hernandez will be facing if he is convicted.Each charge could carry apunishment of one to 45 days of community service or jail time if it leads to a conviction, he said.But he added that the inves-tigation is ongoing, and NorthCarolina has a misdemeanor planthat makes it difficult to guesspunishment, so it’s too early totell.
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By Daniel Wiser
Assistant State & National Editor
Christopher Davis didn’t have to makemany decisions when he woke up every-day on a Navy frigate ship.Davis served for three years as anoperations specialist, working with radarand navigation tools in an environmentdesigned to instill discipline.Then Davis enrolled at N.C. StateUniversity, and suddenly decisionsabout time management confrontedhim constantly.“It’s your choice whether to go to classor not,” he said. “Really having to spend alot of time pushing yourself to study wasthe biggest transition.” And it’s not always easy blending in with traditional college students, he said.“You’re used to an atmosphere where you have an entire support systemaround you,” he said. “You spend themajority of your time with the samepeople — everyone becomes brothersand sisters — and it’s family.“And then you come back to college,and you’re in class with 18-, 19-year-olds,and you’re much older, and you knowthey just don’t get it. It’s kind of hard totalk to them because they ask you ques-tions — they don’t know any better. Andit’s just hard to relate.”To ease the transition process for thesestudent veterans and other military-affili-ated students, UNC-system administratorsare focusing on attracting the state’s grow-ing military population to its universities. Administrators convened a workinggroup last year known as UNC SERVES
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Someone was assaultedaround 9:38 p.m. Wednesday at200 Westminster Drive, according to Chapel Hill police reports.The domestic assault occurred when a mother and daughter were arguing and the daughter bit the mother’s hand, reportsstate.
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Someone reported seeing a suspicious person at 11:46 p.m. Wednesday at 1521 E. Franklin St.,according to Chapel Hill policereports.The subject claimed to see aninvisible devil, police reports state.Someone stole food fromFood Lion around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at 1129 Weaver Dairy Road, according to Chapel Hillpolice reports.The report states the subject con-cealed three packages of steaks inhis pants and left without paying.The stolen items were valued at$120, according to police reports.
Someone was assaulted at 6:11p.m. Wednesday at FordhamBoulevard near Sage Road, accord-ing to Chapel Hill police reports.The assault occurred after a road rage incident, reports state.Someone was assaulted with a deadly weapon at 9:25 p.m. Wednesday at 1800 Martin LutherKing Jr. Blvd., according to ChapelHill police reports.The victim was hit in the face with a block of wood, reportsstate.Someone reported a suspi-cious person in their yard at 8:54a.m. Wednesday at 101 GraingerLane, according to Chapel Hillpolice reports.
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A new method of energy gath-ering is creating friction amonglegislators and environmentalactivist in North Carolina.The state could soon be enter-ing a new era in energy if statelegislators override Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto of a bill that wouldopen the state to hydraulic frac-turing, also known as “fracking.”Fracking releases natural gastrapped in rock deep beneath theground by pumping a highly pres-surized water mixture up to thou-sands of feet beneath the soil to break up the rock and allows natu-ral gas to escape to the surface.Sen. Tommy Tucker,R-Mecklenburg, sponsoredthe bill, the Energy Jobs Act,that would open up the state tofracking.“It is going to create high paying jobs in parts of the state that des-perately need it,” Tucker said.But the bill was vetoed by Perdue in June. The Senate hasalready overridden the veto, butthe House has not.Tucker said it might takeanother election cycle before theHouse can find the votes to over-come the veto.“I just don’t understand why anyone would want to dependon the Middle East for energy,”he said.The Senate recently commis-sioned the N.C. Departmentof Environment and NaturalResources to conduct a study toexamine the potential effects of fracking in the state. The study isexpected to be completed in April2012.The technology for fracking isnot new. The state is following inthe footsteps of others that arealready open to fracking, saidRick Bolich, a hydrogeologist with the department.However, North Carolina is geo-logically different than other states,he said.“We can see what’s been donein other parts of the country,”Bolich said. “Certainly there have been mistakes made, and we cantry and keep those mistakes fromhappening here.”But those mistakes are a bigconcern for local environmental-ists, who said the costs of frackingfar outweigh its possible benefits.The amount of water used infracking is a cause for alarm, saidKatie Hicks, assistant director of Clean Water for North Carolina.“At drought time, it can bedevastating, since the processuses such huge amounts of water,” she said. “Anything that we can do to conserve the waterfor people is really going to bemore and more essential.”But Tucker said he thinksfracking, if adopted in the state, would cease during a drought.Hicks also said the processmight contaminate groundwater, which is used for drinking water.The water mixture used to break up rock contains a smallamount of chemicals that couldleak and contaminate the state’saquifers, she said.“There’s a specific concernfor groundwater here, especially since there are so many ground- water (well) users in NorthCarolina,” she said.So far, Hicks said she has beenpleased by the public response toClean Water’s fight against the bill.“In general, the response has been pretty astounding,” she said.Jose Rial, a professor of geo-physics and climatology at UNC,said he doesn’t like the idea either.Even though only smallamounts of chemicals are used inthe process, supporters of frack-ing shouldn’t dismiss the poten-tial dangers, he said.“That’s like saying Kools aregood for you because they tastelike mint,” Rial said.But Tucker said possible con-tamination by chemicals usedin fracking should not deter theprocess.“Regrettably, if it happens, ithappens,” he said. “When you havea crash, you don’t stop flying.“We’ll continually improve theprocess.”
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Today is the last official day to opt intoHeelMail, UNC’s new email service that willchange addresses to live.unc.edu. About 18 percent of students have not yetopted into HeelMail, out of more than 27,400student accounts, Information Technology Services officials said.Tim McGuire, manager of ITS messagingsystems, said accounts will be forcibly transi-tioned in batches over two weeks beginningMonday.McGuire added that users will be able to movetheir data, like old emails and contact informa-tion, from Webmail to HeelMail up until the endof the semester. All messages sent to Webmail will be forward-ed to new HeelMail with no lag time, he said.The response to HeelMail has generally been very positive, said Mike Barker, assistant vicechancellor for infrastructure and operations.He said one of the main complaints is confu-sion with HeelMail’s added services, like calen-dar integration and a task list.“Most of those folks are accustomed to usingthe mail and using a reading environment justfor mail,” he said.Faculty and staff won’t be using HeelMail because of information security issues but arealso transitioning to a new platform calledMicrosoft Exchange.HeelMail is stored on Microsoft’s serversacross the country, while Microsoft Exchange,the faculty and staff email, is stored on servers within the University, McGuire said.This distinction was made because faculty email often contains sensitive information pro-tected by law.“It’s not a secure versus insecure distinction,”Barker said. He added that HeelMail could notguarantee the level of protection that the HealthInsurance Portability and Accountability Actrequires. About 3,500 faculty and staff have not yetopted into Microsoft Exchange, which is alsoreplacing Webmail, he said.McGuire said some students who work for theUniversity, such as student researchers, are alsorequired to use Microsoft Exchange because they could come into contact with sensitive data.Microsoft Exchange does not allow users toautoforward emails to another account.John Miller, a blind graduate student, said hecould not transition into HeelMail when he first visited the website because the menu was notcompatible with his screen-reading software.He said he contacted ITS and they eventually helped him with the problem.“They have a specific thing for screen readers which alleviates a lot of my concerns,” Miller said.
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Researcher to study breastreconstruction decisions
A UNC researcher will use afive-year National Institutes of Health grant to examine patients’decision-making process aboutpost-mastectomy breast recon-struction.Clara Lee, a UNC School of Medicine physician and scientist, will also evaluate the effects of reconstruction on body imageand patients’ quality of life.The career development awardtotals $862,700.
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Following more than 7,052 hours of work by more than 1,400 University students, faculty and staff, leaders of the Build a Block project will welcometheir first family this weekend.The project, organized by the UNCchapter of Habitat for Humanity, will house UNC Hospitals employeesand their families in 10 houses, all of which were built in the last year.In the fall of 2009, Habitat forHumanity Orange County approachedUNC student Megan Jones with thenews that a record number of UNCstaff had recently been approved forHabitat low-income housing.Out of that conversation, the Builda Block project was born.This weekend, after one year of work and more than $300,000 infundraising, community members andthose involved in the project will cel-ebrate the successful effort.Chancellor Holden Thorp willattend the dedication ceremony,as will UNC alumnus JonathanReckford, CEO of Habitat forHumanity International.Susan Bourner, director of devel-opment for Habitat for Humanity Orange County, said the project wasone of the largest such developmentsundertaken by a university in the U.S.She said the project represented a“paradigm shift” in the way universi-ties approach low-income housingdevelopments — building 10 housesin a year when the norm is two orthree.This summer, UNC Habitat chapter won Habitat for Humanity’s campuschapter of the year, which includeda $4,500 grant from State FarmInsurance.
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Lee is a plastic and reconstruc-tive surgeon. She said patients’decisions to have breast recon-struction should be personal, notinformed by race, geography orsocioeconomic status.The study will examine thosechoices.Lee is a member of the UNCLineberger ComprehensiveCancer Center and a recipientof a 2010 Lineberger PopulationSciences Award.
Joint hepatitis study showsshorter treatment is effective
A new study, conducted in part by UNC, found that a 24-weekhepatitis C treatment course is aseffective as a 48-week treatment.The study found that 92 per-cent of 24-week patients had nodetectable hepatitis C in their blood after treatment discon-tinued.Having that sustained viro-logical response is analogous toa cure.In the 48-week group, 88 per-cent had no detectable hepatitis Cafter treatment discontinued.Up to four million people in theUnited States have this chronicliver disease. Many will seek treat-ment for hepatitis C.Michael Fried, a profes-sor of medicine at UNC, was aco-author of the study, whichappears in the September issueof The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Chapel Hill receives awardfor being bicycle friendly
The League of AmericanBicyclists has named Chapel Hilla “bronze bicycle friendly busi-ness.”The town was one of 111 new businesses that received theaward.Chapel Hill applied for the des-ignation to encourage bicyclingto and from work. The town has worked to increase bicycle friend-liness in the workplace.The town encourages bicyclingas a form of transportation by providing amenities such as bikecheck-out and workshops as wellas incentives for riders such asgiveaways.“We are happy to recognizethe Town of Chapel Hill for theirinvestment in bicycling as a vehi-cle for improved employee health,social responsibility and economicgrowth,” said Andy Clarke, leaguepresident.“Some of the most success-ful companies in the world areshowing that investing in bicy-cling is not only good for healthand sustainability but also the bottom line.”
Chapel Hill to host car-freeday to promote town health
The Town of Chapel Hill will be hosting a day without carsThursday.The day is part of Chapel Hill’seffort to reduce traffic congestionand improve air quality.The town is encouraging resi-dents to walk, scooter, rollerbladeand carpool instead of driving.Residents may also useChapel Hill Transit, a free bussystem that offers routes toanywhere in Chapel Hill andCarrboro. As part of Car Free Day, any-one riding Chapel Hill Transit onSept. 22 can ask the driver for a“car-free” sticker.The sticker can then be broughtto the planning department to be entered into a drawing for giftcards and other prizes.
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‘a peaCeful plaCe to rest’
By Katie Reilly
Staff Writer
Evelyn Poole-Kober believes that every-one should have a peaceful place to rest,even after death.Poole-Kober, a UNC graduate, has been working to repair the once-abandonedMargaret Lane Cemetery in Hillsboroughsince 1985.She was honored Monday by the Townof Hillsborough for her work at the histor-ic cemetery, which includes uncovering oldheadstones and improving the landscape.“Everybody on the awards committeethought it was really important to recog-nize her since preserving history, especially something this important, is one of themost important things we try to do inHillsborough,” said Town Manager EricPeterson.The cemetery, also known as the OldSlave Cemetery, was used before the Civil War as a burial ground for slaves and blacks. According to a 2006 archeological sur- vey, the cemetery contains 151 graves.Poole-Kober said the cemetery wasovergrown and cluttered with trash whenshe first moved to Hillsborough.“People used to just hang out in thecemetery,” she said. “I was picking up trashevery Sunday.”In the early 1980s, she approached thetown and requested that they maintain theproperty.“I wanted it to be preserved and main-tained,” said Poole-Kober. “You don’t wantit to fall into disarray.” As secretary of the Margaret LaneCemetery Committee in the 1980s, Poole-Kober worked with the committee torepair the cemetery and research who was buried there.The committee’s most recent project was the creation of a monument thathouses three uncovered gravestones.The monument was unveiled inJanuary.District Court Judge Beverly Scarlettsaid she attended the dedication ceremony.“To finally have the work of the slavesand the slave descendants recognized ispowerful,” said Scarlett.“I hope it’s going to bring our commu-nity closer together.”One of the headstones in the monument belonged to a relative of Scarlett.Poole-Kober said the monument hasalready brought more recognition to thecemetery.“I see a lot of people stop by,” said Poole-Kober. “That’s nice to know that peoplenow are recognizing it as a place to see his-tory of the town.”Hillsborough Mayor Tom Stevens saidPoole-Kober’s work in the cemetery has been important to the town.“She is a real advocate for what she believes in about Hillsborough,” saidStevens. “She has been a champion.”
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Evelyn Poole-Kober, a UNC graduate, sorts through newspaper clip-pings that illustrate her revival of the Margaret Lane Cemetery.
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The Build a Block model will bediscussed as an example of what ispossible from a college Habitat chap-ter at the Habitat for Humanity YouthLeadership Conference in November,Bourner said.Lauren Blanchet, co-director of theBuild a Block project, said the entireUNC community became involved.“Most people contributed to thisproject somehow, whether they bought a cookie at a bake sale, attend-ed our a cappella concert or signed upto the build,” she wrote in an email.“Our University can break down boundaries and come together tomake some positive change.”Blanchet added that the UNCchapter will not stop here, and hasambitions to continue working toprovide accommodation for families who need it.“The truth is, there are still fami-lies living in substandard housing inChapel Hill, and we believe that as acommunity we have a responsibility todo what we can to help them.” Ashley Gremel, a UNC student who volunteered for Build a Block, wrotein an email that going to the build sitegave meaning to the extensive processof organizing and fundraising.“Build A Block is Tar Heel pridetaken off the basketball court,” she wrote. “If you go to a build once, you will be hooked for life.”Franklin Niblock, co-chairmanof the UNC chapter of Habitat forHumanity, said it was nice to make adifference at home.He said Sunday’s dedication rep-resents the culmination of the entireproject, and it will be great to seeall of the different volunteers cometogether to celebrate.
Contact the University Editor at university@dailytarheel.com.
“Build a Block is Tar Heel pride taken off the basketball court… If you go to a build once, you will be hooked for life.”
ashley Gremel,
UnC studet who voluteered for build a block
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