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UNC
system
seeks new
health
insurance
Increased costs have led to a
search for a new provider.
By Amanda Albright
Staff Writer

Today, the UNC system will release applica-

tions to insurance companies nationwide in
search of a plan with a smaller price tag after
this year’s $248.50 per-student increase in
health insurance costs.
dth/brookelyn riley
A new plan for UNC-system students for
David Shannon’s brother, Stephen, who is a senior at Elon, embraces UNC student Emma Berry after a vigil in the Great Hall on Monday night. 2013-14 will be chosen by Feb. 15.

‘Good guy with a big heart’

Student David Shannon’s vigil
attracted hundreds Monday.
By Chelsey Dulaney and Andy Thomason
Senior Writers
alone at the time of the fall.
“That is obviously something we’re still
investigating,” said Atack.
On Saturday night, a group of UNC stu-
dents who knew Shannon went searching
for him.
SCHOLARSHIP FUND
If interested in giving to the David Palmer
Shannon Memorial Fund, contact Lanier
Brown May at 919-963-5883.
The N.C. Department of Insurance and
the Independent Insurance Agents of North
Carolina will help review qualified applicants,
such as Aetna and BlueCross BlueShield of
North Carolina.
“This gives them a chance to compete for
our business, which we hope will make prices
competitive,” said Bruce Mallette, vice presi-
dent for academic and student affairs for the
UNC system.
The cost of the plan for students increased
this year from $460.50 to $709 per semester,
partially due to the expansion of benefits per

As hundreds of students gathered

Monday night to mourn the death of fresh-
man David Shannon, Carrboro police con-
tinued to piece together the details of his
final hours.
In the early hours of Saturday morning,
Shannon fell 17 feet while climbing a piece
of machinery at the Ready Mixed Concrete
Plant on Guthrie Avenue in Carrboro, suf-
fering injuries that may have led to his
death.
He was found dead Saturday night by
friends.
Soon after Shannon was discovered
Saturday night, police began asking those
who saw or heard from him since Friday
night to come forward.
Witnesses told police that Shannon was
drinking alcohol on Friday night and into
Saturday morning. Police said Monday that
alcohol might have been a factor in the
incident.
“We don’t know quite what he was doing
in that area,” said Lt. Chris Atack, spokes-
man for the Carrboro Police Department.
Atack said police believe Shannon was
At 10:34 p.m. Saturday, the group found
Shannon’s body near a bike trail off Brewer
Lane and called police.
Shannon was pronounced dead at the
scene.
Atack said Shannon was found about 90
yards from where he first fell.
“He was able to move,” Atack said.
Atack said investigators are looking into
whether Shannon’s death is related to his
involvement in fraternity life. Shannon was
a pledge in the Chi Phi fraternity.
“It’s one of the angles you have to look
into,” he said. “That’s going to be one of the
angles we explore.”
University officials cautioned against
premature speculation until the investiga-
tion has concluded.
“There’s always going to be speculation
and rumor surrounding any time a student
dies,” said Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs Winston Crisp.
“I always want to be careful to let the
investigation play out.”
John Childress, president of the frater-
nity, said members are grieving the loss of
Shannon.
Give INFORMATION
Those with information on Shannon’s
whereabouts Friday night should contact
Sgt. Mike Metz at 919-918-7409 or Lt.
Anthony Westbrook at 919-918-7417.
Dean of Students Jonathan Sauls said
administrators have been providing coun-
seling services for students, as well as
coordinating with professors on behalf of
students who need to miss class.
“Quite honestly, we’re so concerned with
the immediate needs of the community of
students … The sheer scope of that occupies
the majority of our concern,” he said.
Shannon’s death marks the third student
death this semester, and the second that
has required a police investigation.
Junior Faith Hedgepeth was found dead
Sept. 7 in her Chapel Hill apartment.
Police identified the case as a homicide
investigation just hours later, but police
have yet to make an arrest or announce any
See SHANNON, Page 4
the 2010 Affordable Care Act.
The increased benefits include coverage for
birth control, pre-existing conditions and pre-
ventative services, such as vaccination shots.
About 50,000 students use the system’s
plan, which is provided by Pearce & Pearce, a
service arm of the insurance company Chartis.
About 70 percent of students waive out of the
plan.
Mallette said only about 12 percent of the
cost increase was due to the Affordable Care
Act.
Mary Covington, executive director of
UNC’s Campus Health Services, said the
increased amount of claims filed has also
increased the price of the plan.
“There was concern about escalating cost,
but students are voting on how much they like
the policy by using its benefits,” she said.
Carolyn Pearce, chief operating officer at
Pearce & Pearce, said the agency plans to bid
on UNC again. She said the bidding process
might not affect the cost of UNC’s plan because
companies would all consider the same history
of claims as a parameter.
See INSURANCE, Page 4

Future state immigration Northeast states prepare for

policies are unclear
The N.C. legislature
might discuss its
immigration policy.
By Jacob Rosenberg
Staff Writer
Arizona’s controversial
illegal immigration law has
thrust state immigration
policies into the spotlight, but
a recent U.S. Supreme Court
ruling leaves N.C. legislators’
next steps unclear.
An N.C. House of
Representatives special com-
mittee on immigration is set
to meet Nov. 13 — without
any plans to pass legislation
that would crack down on
illegal immigration.
But legislators say that
if Republicans retain con-
trol of the N.C. General
Assembly after the Nov.
6 election, they will likely
pursue such a policy, despite
the federal government’s
recent assertion of author-
ity regarding immigration
enforcement policies.
The Supreme Court’s high-
profile decision on Arizona’s
immigration law in Arizona
v. United States put immigra-
tion issues largely under the
purview of the federal gov-
ernment, said UNC law pro-
fessor Deborah Weissman.
“The decision has certainly
been seen as one that reas-
serts that immigration is a
federal matter, not a state
matter,” she said.
The Supreme Court struck
down most of Arizona’s
immigration law on the basis
that the federal government
has absolute authority on
immigration policy. This rul-
ing leaves state legislators on
unsure footing moving for-
ward on immigration policy.
Rep. Harry Warren,
R-Rowan, co-chairman of
the House committee, said it
plans to issue a report to con-
tinue studying immigration
issues and making only rec-
ommendations — no policy
proposals — until the new
session begins next year.
Warren and Rep. Frank
Iler, R-Brunswick, the other
co-chairman, both said if leg-
islation is proposed next ses-
sion, it would encourage the
federal government to more
strongly enforce the law to
prevent costs caused by illegal
immigrants in the state.
“I have a resolution that
the federal government
do its job and (the U.S.
Immigration and Customs
Enforcement) help local
law enforcement, instead of
basically doing as little as
possible,” Iler said. “It is a
federal issue, but they aren’t
doing their job very well.”
Warren said state costs
related to illegal immigration
are estimated at $2 million
every year, but he stressed
that any legislation must
See IMMIGRATION, Page 4
Hurricane Sandy’s impact
The storm is also
bringing snow to
western N.C.
By Graham McAlister
Staff Writer
Families of UNC stu-
dents on Monday braced for
Hurricane Sandy’s impact
and a torrent of rain, snow
and wind all along the East
Coast.
For UNC senior Justin
Sapir’s family in Long Valley, mct/Audrey C. Tiernan
N.J., safety precautions A fallen tree and power line lie on top of homes on Harvard
included filling their bathtubs Street in Garden City, N.Y., on Monday.
with a supply of water in case
their power went out due to But according to the National expected in the northeastern
the hurricane-force winds. Weather Service, there were part of the state.
Sapir’s relatives who live tropical storm warnings in N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue has
in Atlantic City had already effect in the eastern part of declared a state of emergency
evacuated Monday. North Carolina. for 24 of the state’s western
“My uncle has to evacu- The organization also counties so that they can
ate. He’s going to my (other) reported that Sandy is receive national assistance.
uncle’s house in Philadelphia,” expected to bring at least a “People need to continue
he said. foot of snow to western North to take this storm seriously
The storm made landfall in Carolina in addition to the
the Northeast Monday night. 3 to 6 inches of rain that are See SANDY, Page 4

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The Daily Tar Heel chatted with
Jill Menard — a UNC student and
This day in history
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Rec leader will retire in June 2012

After 28 years at UNC,
the director of Campus
Recreation will retire.
By Sarah Niss
Staff Writer
The director of Campus
Recreation has spent the past 21
years encouraging UNC students to
be active.
As Marty Pomerantz plans for his
June retirement after 28 total years
at UNC, those who work with him
say he will leave Campus Recreation
bigger and better than he found it.
“He’s done a very good job as
director,” said Kevin Guskiewicz,
chairman of the department of exer-
cise and sport science. “He has been
instrumental in the success of cam-
pus recreation for a long time.”
Pomerantz said he will miss the
relationships he has with staff and
students but will stay involved.
“I just decided it’s been a won-
derful adventure, but it’s time to
move aside for some young stud,”
Pomerantz said.
During his time at UNC,
Pomerantz has worked to improve
and expand the facilities available to
students, faculty and staff.
His first challenge was updating
Woolen Gym, which at the start of
his career was the only recreation
facility on campus.
“That truly is one of his biggest
accomplishments — to expand
what we have available for stu-
dents’ programs and facilities,” said
Lauren Mangili, associate director of
Campus Recreation.
Pomerantz has also played an
important role in the expansion of
facilities to South Campus.
“We were moving student hous-
ing down to that end of campus, and
they needed a recreation facility as
well, close to their residence halls,”
Guskiewicz said.
Mangili said Pomerantz was
involved in the development of
South Campus and the Rams Head
Parking Deck, Recreation Center
and Dining Hall. Rams Head
opened in 2005, she said.
Guskiewicz said Pomerantz also
Marty Pomerantz,
Campus Recreation
greatest strengths is his enthusiasm,
which makes others want to get
director, announced involved.
he will retire in “Whether it’s a bike trip or a fun
June after 28 years run, these are things he enjoys doing
at UNC. He helped so he wants other people to enjoy
develop Rams Head them as well,” she said.
“He’s a good problem solver,”
Recreation Center.
Guskiewicz said. “I’ve always
helped gather funds to build the out- admired his ability to come to the
door facility across from the Smith table with an idea.”
Center, which offers tennis and Pomerantz said that after he
beach volleyball. retires, he hopes to use the extra
Pomerantz also helped cre- free time to play golf and spend time
ate Kids ROCK­, which stands for with his grandson.
Recreational Opportunities for “I look forward to a smooth ride
Carolina Kids and offers programs into the sunset,” he said.
for the children of students, faculty
and staff. Contact the desk editor at
Mangili said one of Pomerantz’s university@dailytarheel.com.

Sweet carolina candy NC medical

schools
increase
enrollment
Schools are increasing enrollment to
compensate for a shortage of doctors.
By John Howell Jr.
Staff Writer

As the country faces a shortage of doctors, North

Carolina medical schools are making a concerted
effort to provide for the needs of the state.
In 2006, the American Association of Medical
Colleges estimated a shortage of 90,000 doctors by
2020 and asked medical schools to increase enroll-
ment by 30 percent.
And Dr. Darrell Kirch, president and CEO of the
dth/logan savage association, said in a recent teleconference that medi-
Mary Butler operates Carolina Confectionery out of her home in Chapel Hill. Her legendary toffee is shipped around the world. cal schools have responded.
Since 2011, the number of applicants to U.S.

Candy company brings local treats to the masses
By Gayatri Surendranathan
Staff Writer
Mary Butler’s legendary toffee is rou-
tinely shipped from Chapel Hill to places
as far as Austria and Japan.
Butler, who discovered her love of
making candies decades ago, started
Carolina Confectionery Company after
being urged to by friends.
“I started when my kids went off to
college just making toffee and chocolates
for my friends and family,” Butler said.
“They kept telling me I should make
them more available so I thought, ‘Why
not?’”
On Halloween, a day typically devoted
to candy consumption, Butler plans on
making pumpkin truffles and witch-
shaped chocolates.
Though Butler doesn’t usually see a
spike in sales on Halloween because of
the gourmet nature of her treats, she is
preparing for the onslaught of orders
that comes with the holiday season.
“I make chocolate pumpkins filled
with toffee for Thanksgiving that people
like to give to their friends and cowork-
ers,” Butler said.
She works from home, taking phone
calls and making custom candies in her
kitchen.
She used to have a shop in Chatham
County, but found the flexibility of work-
ing at home more suitable.
“I make all of my candy according to
what people ask for,” Butler said. “Once,
a company in North Carolina wanted
shark’s tooth chocolate, so they sent me a
real old shark’s tooth, and I made a mold
from it just for them.”
Her most popular candy — and the
one she likes best — is her toffee, which
she makes using her mother’s recipe.
Anna Tabor, an old friend of Butler’s
and a regular customer, said her toffee is
the best she has ever tasted.
“She used to make it for Christmas
and I would hide it from my husband
and kids. It was that good,” Tabor said.
Tabor’s husband was Butler’s first cus-
tomer when she opened shop.
“Mary doesn’t have to advertise
a lot. She has a lot of followers who
appreciate that her stuff is all hand-
made,” Tabor said. “It’s mostly word-of-
mouth.”
Butler’s customers don’t just come
from North Carolina — a map in her
home that tracks where her orders come
from has marks in almost every state and
a few foreign countries.
When business started growing,
Butler’s daughter Whitney Goodman
decided she would help out.
“My mom’s a perfectionist and it’s
hard for her to delegate, so I thought I
would help,” Goodman said.
She said she mostly helps with pack-
aging and making the toffee.
“I know I’m her daughter, but she
really does make really nice chocolates,”
she said.
Butler said her favorite part of her job
is the customers.
“I get a lot of positive interaction
because usually when people are buying
candy it’s for happy reasons,” she said.
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medical schools increased by 3.1 percent to a total
of 45,266. First-time enrollment reached 19,517 stu-
dents, the highest amount since the association began
tracking these statistics in 1989.
Dr. Robert Bashford, associate dean for admissions
at the UNC School of Medicine, said that in response
to the looming shortage of doctors nationally and in
the state, the school has increased its class size by 20
students in the last two years. The school admitted
180 out of 550 applicants this year.
The school has also initiated a program to identify
and train physicians to work in the state’s rural areas by
engaging students with a tailored curriculum, he said.
The rural scholars program will gather medical
students who grew up in rural areas with a desire to
return as primary care physicians, he said, adding that
other states have seen success with similar programs.
“We have done all the ground work,” he said. “We’re
going to pick the rural scholars in early 2013.”
Dr. James Peden, associate dean for admissions for
East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine,
said the highest need lies with primary care positions.
He said 32 percent of graduates practice in under-
served areas, and 19 percent serve rural communities.
Peden said this year, the school enrolled its largest
class ever with 80 students — the maximum number
that can be accommodated with its current facilities.
The mission of Duke University School of Medicine
focuses more on training specialists, said Dr. Edward
Buckley, vice dean for education.
“I’m still not sure that what we need is more doc-
tors,” he said, adding that Duke has increased its
nurse practitioner, physician assistant and physical

Students rank University values in survey
The survey will help
guide the search for
the next chancellor.
By Ellen Black
Staff Writer
Student government is
trying to make it easier for
students to make their voices
heard in the search for a new
chancellor.
And the results of a short
online survey show that, so far,
they rank the top two priori-
ties as academic excellence and
accessibility and affordability
­— with athletic excellence at
the bottom.
More than 360 students
have responded to the sur-
vey so far, said Jason Dunn,
senior adviser to Student Body
President Will Leimenstoll.
The survey information
was distributed to leaders of
student organizations to be
sent to as many listservs as
possible.
“We did get a pretty wide
distribution of students,” Dunn
said.
The survey, which can be
found on the student govern-
ment website, was also adver-
tised in the Pit and through
social media.
“We tried to make it as acces-
sible as possible to make sure
all students had the opportu-
nity to fill it out,” Leimenstoll
said.
The survey gives students a
list of values they would like to
see upheld in the University’s
future, and then are asked to
rank them in order of their
importance.
“We were just trying to get
an idea of what students want-
ed,” Leimenstoll said.
The full results of the sur-
vey will not be released until
a public student forum on
Nov. 8.
It is part of four forums
held for students, faculty, staff
and the community to voice
“We were just trying to get an idea of what
students wanted.”
Will Leimenstoll,
student body president
their opinions about what val-
ues they would like to see in
the next chancellor.
These results will be used to
develop a document outlining
the top qualities students voted
for.
Dunn said that this docu-
ment, which will be presented
to the chancellor search com-
mittee, is intended to be used
as a guide for the committee,
illuminating what values stu-
dents want the next chancellor
to possess.
“We just hope that it will help
shape how the chancellor search
committee views the student
perspective,” Dunn said.
Senior Chanel Porter said
she thinks it is important for
the next chancellor to be con-
cerned about the University’s
therapy programs to provide more mid-level profes-
sionals who can care for chronic disease.
But Buckley said the nation might be facing another
crisis — too many medical students and not enough
residency positions.
“The number of federally funded residency slots
has been stable and stagnant for the last 15 years,”
Buckley said.
Kirch said without a change in legislation, new
doctors won’t be able to finish training and practice in
their communities.
image. “Until Congress lifts the cap on residency training,
“I think it would be good to America won’t have enough doctors,” he said.
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school.”
90,000
estimated doctor shortage by 2020
But regardless of students’
preferences, Leimenstoll said
the important part is that stu-
dents give their input.
45,266
applicants to U.S. medical schools
“The University would not
be here if it weren’t for the stu-
dents,” Leimenstoll said.
“They definitely need to have
19,517
first-time enrollees at U.S. medical schools
their voices heard.”
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inBRIEF
City briefs
Project Connect helped
roughly 250 area homeless
On Oct. 11, the sixth annual
Project Connect event, held at the
Hargraves Center in Chapel Hill,
helped roughly 268 homeless people
get connected to local businesses to
get the services they need.
Roughly 1,000 people received
health or dental care the most used
service at Project Connect.
At the event 243 people sought
help for mental health services or
substance abuse treatment, and 33
guests registered to vote.
Also, 272 guests received employ-
ment, education and job-training
assistance, and 272 people connect-
ed with housing resources.
campus briefs
UNC Press editor-in-chief to
retire at the end of this year
UNC Press Editor-in-Chief David
Perry has announced that he plans
to retire in March 2013.
Perry has worked with the pub-
lishing house for 34 years. UNC
Press was founded in 1922 and is the
oldest in the South and one of the
oldest in the United States.
Perry acquires books in Southern
studies and history. He has a special
focus on Civil War and military his-
tory, and he also collects books for
the UNC Press’s regional general-
interest list.
Perry joined UNC Press as an edi-
torial assistant in 1979, and he was
named editor-in-chief in 1995.
Other notable achievements dur-
ing his time on the press include
serving on the North Carolina Arts
Council, the board of the North
Carolina Writers Network and the
board of the North Carolina Writers
Conference.
He was also a member of several
task forces to craft new University
copyright and intellectual property
policies.
Perry also helped found the
Working Group in Scholarly
Communication at UNC.
Perry is a UNC alumnus.
— From staff and wire reports
 4 Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Lieutenant governor race
running close in NC
By Lucinda Shen
Staff Writer
Although most political
analysts give Republican
gubernatorial candidate Pat
McCrory the upper hand in
the N.C. governor race, the
race for the state’s second-in-
command is still up in the air.
According to a recent poll
of more than 1,000 likely N.C.
voters by left-
leaning Public
Policy Polling,
ELECTIONS McCrory
2012 is ahead of
Democratic Lt.
Gov. Walter Dalton by 10 per-
centage points.
But the candidates for
lieutenant governor, Linda
Coleman, a Democrat, and
Dan Forest, a Republican, are
neck-and-neck in the poll.
Thirty-seven percent of voters
surveyed said they would vote
for Coleman, while 38 per-
cent support Forest.
“We think it’s because
people don’t really know who
Tuition hikes relatively modest
By Claire Bennett
Staff Writer
The College Board’s annual
trends report suggests that
once again, college tuition is
on the rise — but as not as
much as in years past.
The report, released last
week, indicates that previous
trends are leveling off.
It shows a modest increase
in tuition, a decrease in stu-
dent borrowing and a leveling
off of student enrollment.
The UNC system had
a 0.3 percent increase in
enrollment this year, said
system spokeswoman Joni
Worthington in an email.
The system raised tuition
and fees for the 2012-13 year
by a systemwide average of
8.8 percent.
Nationally, there was an
Linda
Coleman
is the
Democratic
candidate for
North Carolina
lieutenant
governor.
they are and are basing them
on their party affiliation,” said
Holly Holbrook, intern at
Public Policy Polling.
President Barack Obama’s
campaign efforts in the state
and Forest’s conservative
orthodoxy will give Coleman
a slight edge, said Steven
Greene, political science pro-
fessor at N.C. State University.
“Forest really is a pretty
far-right politician in a state
much more inclined to elect
someone closer to the center,”
Greene said in an email.
On higher education
issues, Forest and Coleman
both agree that performance-
based funding — tied to
retention and graduation
average 4.8 percent increase
in in-state tuition and fees at
public universities this year —
lower than in recent years.
Sandy Baum, independent
policy analyst for the College
Board and co-author of the
report, said the report does
not provide enough informa-
tion to confirm that tuition
rates are on the decline.
She said these trends tend
to be cyclical. Tuition rates
typically experience a steep
increase and then level off
before the cycle begins again.
Rob Schofield, director of
research and policy develop-
ment at N.C. Policy Watch, a
left-leaning public policy think
tank, said it appears to him
that tuition is rising — and
will continue to do so.
“As we experience the
impact of a struggling econ-
News
Dan Forest
is the
Republican
candidate
running for
North Carolina
lieutenant
governor.
rates — would improve uni-
versities’ efficiency.
But the candidates differ
on other platform points.
While Forest wants to
reevaluate the current educa-
tion system and appropriate
funds accordingly, Coleman
believes that funding educa-
tion is key to the state’s eco-
nomic success.
“We need to invest more
in education,” she said. “It is
education that attracts busi-
nesses to our state and creates
jobs in the private sector.”
But Forest, who worked
in the private sector, believes
the way to bring jobs to North
Carolina and fix the economy
is to run the government like
omy, we see pressure put on
universities to reduce funding
and financial aid,” he said.
Schofield said this reduc-
tion in aid, coupled with
higher tuition rates, could be
a reason why student borrow-
ing has decreased.
“It could be that students
are giving up and realizing
it isn’t worth it to take out a
loan,” he said.
Schofield said he believes
conservative groups in North
Carolina are trying to de-
emphasize the importance
of higher education and as
a result, students are not
receiving needed support.
But Jane Shaw, president of
the right-leaning John W. Pope
Center for Higher Education
Policy, said she thought the
decrease in student borrowing
and the leveling off of enroll-
a business, he said.
“Our government is broke.
They don’t call it that, but it’s
broke,” he said.
The state’s budget could
be managed more efficiently
with people used to managing
money, Forest said.
“The public sector spends
money — somebody else’s
rather than their own,” he
said. “We need people with a
business background to run
the government.”
Only two lieutenant gov-
ernors have come from the
opposite party from the
governor in the past 50 years
— once in 1972, and again
in 1984, said Ferrel Guillory,
UNC-CH journalism profes-
sor.
“They didn’t get into fist
fights. In some cases they
work together, in other cases
they didn’t,” he said. “There’s
a certain amount of political
rivalry.”
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$8,655
average tuition and fees for
residents in four-year public
schools for 2012-13
4.8 percent
increase in tuition and fees
nationally for 2012-13
ment are good signs.
“Young people are finally
realizing that they don’t want
to be in debt,” she said.
The plateauing of enroll-
ment is a step in the right
direction, especially since sev-
eral students are not ready for
college, she said.
“We have seen in research
that many people go to col-
lege who really shouldn’t be
there,” Shaw said.
As for tuition, Shaw said
she sees continuing increases
as an indicator that higher
education institutions are still
failing to gain control of costs.
But Baum cautioned
against drawing conclusions.
“People have a real urge to
come up with an explanation,
but there really isn’t enough
evidence to say anything defi-
nitely,” she said.
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Shannon
from page 1
suspects.
Friday will mark eight
weeks since her death.
“Unfortunately, and really
tragically, we’re developing
more experience with this
than we’d really like,” Sauls
said.
At the Monday night vigil,
Shannon’s friends and fam-
ily spoke about his lasting
impact on those he knew.
“The fact that this room is
packed is a testament to what
a great person David was,”
said his brother, Stephen
Shannon, a senior at Elon
University.
“David would have loved
it — to have a room full of
friends.”
At the vigil, Chancellor
Holden Thorp discussed plans
for a scholarship in Shannon’s
name — the David Palmer
Shannon Memorial Fund.
insurance
from page 1
“I would be surprised if
prices went down, unless the
benefits were changed,” she
said.
Former UNC Association
of Student Governments
member Christine Hajdin will
help review applications.
“Finding a balance between
good coverage and low premi-
ums is so important,” she said.
Covington said the plan is
cheaper than plans at other
institutions — the University
of Virginia’s plan is $1,977
for both semesters, and the
University of Michigan’s plan
is $2,350.
“There was so much talk
about the cost that students
didn’t get enough education
about the benefits,” Pearce said.
“Student plans are better
than they have ever been,” she
said. “Cheaper plans don’t
have these benefits.”
Lindsey Rietkerk, co-
founder of Tar Heels for
Obama, praised the act for
letting students stay on their
SANDY
from page 1
as we face flooding in the
east and significant winter
weather in the west,” Perdue
said.
Political observers
remarked that Sandy might
also adversely affect early
voting.
James Stimson, a UNC
political science professor,
said in an email that, though
the storm could affect the
number of people that vote
early, the effects will be less
severe because early voting
takes place over multiple
days.
“Early voting should reduce
the effects, if any, since you
don’t have to vote on a par-
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“Even though he had just
arrived, David had already
made a difference,” Thorp
said.
“It’s easy to get caught up
in classes, meetings, study
sessions and all the details of
our lives. Look out for each
other and love each other.”
Stuart Castillo, who was
in Shannon’s Chi Phi pledge
class, spoke about Shannon’s
uncanny ability to make
friends.
“David was a good guy with
a big heart,” he said. “David
was the heart and soul in our
Chi Phi pledge class.”
Carrboro police continue
to ask people with informa-
tion about Shannon’s where-
abouts since Friday to come
forward.
Assistant University Editor
Liz Crampton contributed.
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BY THE NUMBERS
$460.50
2011-12 system rate
$709
2012-13 system rate
12 percent
increase due to ACA
parents’ plans until age 26.
But Greg Steele, chair-
man of the N.C. Federation
of College Republicans, said
student voters should factor
rising health care costs into
their decision at the polls.
Steele agrees with
presidential candidate Mitt
Romney’s proposal to repeal
the Affordable Care Act.
“Obama is advocating for
expanding the government
role, which will cripple the
economy.”
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ticular day as is the case with
Election Day voting,” he said.
According to the N.C.
Board of Elections, several
early voting sites were shut
down on the eastern coast
of North Carolina this past
weekend due to severe weath-
er concerns.
Stimson said the storm is
likely to impact Democratic
candidates more than
Republicans.
“Anything that reduces
turnout has the potential to
be harmful to Democrats
because the social and
economic composition of
Democratic voters includes
more sporadic voters who
are likely to not vote when
conditions are unfavorable,”
he said.
But Stimson noted that the
states in Sandy’s path, includ-
ing Pennsylvania, New York
and New Jersey, are solidly
Democratic-leaning.
Stimson added that
President Barack Obama’s
handling of the crisis has the
potential to negatively affect
his campaign if relief efforts
are not handled in a way
appreciated by voters.
“If he did badly, that could
add the last minute issue that
Romney needs,” he added.
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Immigration
from page 1
address these costs without
hurting an economy that often
depends on these immigrants
and their benefits.
“Anything that we seek to
introduce has to take into
account the reliance of some
our industries, particularly
agriculture and hospitality,
on an available workforce,” he
said. “Those industries have
to understand there has to be
compliance to legal proceed-
ings.”
Cinthia Marroquin, a
member of N.C. Dream Team,
a group that advocates for
immigrant rights, said the
legislation should focus on
integrating illegal immi-
grants into local communities
instead of increased enforce-
ment.
And Weismann said states
have more legal leeway to leg-
islate on issues of integration
rather than enforcement.
But Iler said it is not an issue
of hurting others, but rather
protecting North Carolinians.
“The state has to protect
itself and our budget,” he said.
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Young voters feel less Pew poll:

engaged this election
WASHINGTON, D.C.
(MCT) — The love affair
between young voters and
President Barack Obama
that ignited his candidacy in
2008 and powered him to the
White House seems like a dis-
tant memory in 2012.
As Election Day approach-
es, there’s an enthusiasm
gap among young voters.
New polling from Harvard
University’s Institute of
Politics found that just 48
percent of voters younger
than 30 say they’ll definitely
vote in November. Four years
ago that figure was much
higher, at 72 percent, accord-
ing to a Pew Research Center
study at the time.
Absent the national anger
about the Iraq war and the
sense of history that came
from electing the nation’s first
African-American president
in 2008, young voters can’t
seem to find their motivation
this time.
“When I talk to young
people who aren’t as pas-
sionate, who aren’t as enthu-
siastic about the November
election, they talk about it in
those terms,” said John Della
Volpe, the polling director at
Harvard’s politics institute.
“2008 was an historical event.
They needed to participate,
even if politics wasn’t impor-
tant to them, to say that they
were there, that they had a
hand in changing the course of
America. It’s kind of like our
parents, perhaps, saying they
were at Woodstock in 1969.”
After securing the
Democratic nomination four
years ago, Obama won two
out of three general election
voters ages 18-29. That strong
support helped him flip
North Carolina, Indiana and
Virginia from red to blue.
College of Charleston student Megan McCorry asks a question at a campus voter registration drive.
But recent polling by the
Pew Research Center found
that only half of voters young-
er than 30 are even certain
they’re registered to vote this
year. That’s the lowest per-
centage in 16 years. And just
61 percent are highly engaged
in the 2012 elections, com-
pared with 75 percent at the
same time in 2008.
With the exception of
some recent college campus
speaking events, neither
Obama nor Republican
presidential nominee Mitt
Romney has focused much
attention on young voters,
said Heather Smith, the
president of Rock the Vote, a
nonpartisan group set up to
mobilize the political power
of young voters.
“If you register young
people so they can vote and
you engage them in a conversa-
tion on their issues and you
ask them to show up, they
respond,” she said. “It’s just that
there has been a lot less of that
leading up to the elections than
there was four years ago.”
Part of the problem is that
the anti-war and environ-
mental themes that excited
young people in 2008 have
given way to concerns about
Medicare, tax policy and
health care, which have never
been high priorities for twen-
ty-something voters.
“There’s just so much
focus on programs that deal
with older citizens,” said
Olivia Adams, a 20-year-old
sophomore at the College of
Charleston in South Carolina.
“Even the stuff about the
mct/Randall Hill
economy is really focused
more on people who (have)
full-time jobs, not people who
are in school who’ll have jobs
in the future.”
Campus enthusiasm for the
president has been noticeably
absent.
“In the last election,
students seemed to be the
foundation of his campaign,”
Adams said. “And this year,
honestly, I haven’t seen any-
thing on campus.”
That could be trouble
for Democrats, who’ve
won young voters by sig-
nificant margins compared
to Republicans since 2004,
according to CIRCLE, the
Center for Information &
Research on Civic Learning
and Engagement, at Tufts
University near Boston.
presidential
race is even
WASHINGTON D.C.
(MCT) — With only one week
left in the 2012 campaign,
a major new Pew Research
Center poll is projecting a rel-
atively high level of voter turn-
out in the dead-even presiden-
tial contest between Barack
Obama and Mitt Romney.
The national opinion sur-
vey, released Monday, shows
the president and the former
Massachusetts governor each
drawing support from 47 per-
cent of likely voters.
In an encouraging sign for
the Republican challenger,
the poll found that Romney-
leaning voters are more likely
to turn out to vote than those
leaning to Obama. And the
results clearly pointed up
the continuing benefits of
the presidential debates to
Romney’s chances of success
next Tuesday.
The poll found that Obama
has yet to win back most of
the support he lost after the
opening debate in Denver.
At the same time, more than
one in three voters — 36 per-
cent — said they had a better
opinion of Romney as a result
of the debates. Only half that
many — 18 percent — said
the same of Obama.
Among the factors that
might produce a historically
close election, there is cur-
rently a much smaller — and
offsetting — gender gap in
2012 than there was four
years ago.
Romney leads among men
by seven percentage points,
according to the Pew survey,
while women favor Obama by
six points. In the 2008 elec-
tion, Obama won the women’s
vote by 13 points compard
to Republican John McCain,
according to exit polls, and he
also won men, by a one-point
margin.
The Pew survey, of more
than 2,000 adults, was
completed Sunday, before
Hurricane Sandy made a
significant impact on the
East Coast. The margin of
sampling error among likely
voters was plus or minus 2.9
percentage points.
In the latest poll, the pro-
portion of voters who said they
have given a lot of thought to
the election was higher than in
2000 and 1996 and only a bit
lower than in 2004 and 2008,
both of which were high-turn-
out elections.
“While turnout forecasts
are very difficult, the level of
engagement at this point in
the campaign suggests that
a relatively high percentage
of voters will go to the polls,”
Pew’s analysis concluded.
As in other recent elec-
tions, turnout favors the
Republican, by a slight mar-
gin. Romney voters are four
percentage points more likely
than Obama’s to say that they
have given a lot of thought to
the election, and five points
more likely to say that they
definitely plan to vote.
Beyond the national opin-
ion surveys, most state polls
show that Obama is cling-
ing to a tiny edge in enough
battlegrounds to secure the
270 electoral votes needed to
win the election.
But the Pew poll under-
scores the enormous potential
for a late opinion swing to
shift the race either way in
the days leading up to next
week’s election.

On the wire: national and world news
Sandy steers Obama
away from campaigning
AVON LAKE, Ohio (MCT)
— Trying to strike a delicate
balance of sensitivity about
the impending hurricane
with stumping for votes, Mitt
Romney told thousands of sup-
porters here on Monday that
both he and storm victims were
relying on Ohio for support.
“We’re counting on Ohio.
I know the people of the
Atlantic Coast are counting
on Ohio and the rest of our
states,” he said, after urging
them to donate to the Red
Cross or another relief agency.
“But I also think the people of
the entire nation are counting
on Ohio. Because my guess
is — my guess is that if Ohio
votes me in as president, I’ll
be the next president of the
United States.”
Hurricane Sandy’s impend-
ing landfall, just eight days
before Election Day, puts the
GOP nominee in an awkward
position. President Barack
Obama is dealing with hurri-
cane preparation, which helps
him because he will be on the
airwaves looking authoritative,
but hurts him because it takes
him off the campaign trail.
Romney has free reign to
campaign throughout the bat-
tleground states, but his mes-
sage will likely be drowned
out by storm coverage and he
has to avoid looking craven
by politicking as millions of
Americans are in danger.
Romney has canceled cam-
paign rallies Monday night
and Tuesday, as the hurricane
makes landfall and batters
are here today to think about
making a contribution to the
Red Cross or another relief
agency, to be of help if you
possibly can in any way you
can imagine to help those who
are in harm’s way,” he said, and
the crowd roared in approval.
Stock markets remain
stifled by Sandy
NEW YORK (MCT) — The
New York Stock Exchange
announced it would remain
closed another day because
of Hurricane Sandy, which
is due to slam into the East
Coast on Monday evening.
Hurricane Sandy already
closed U.S. stock markets
Monday. The New York Stock
Exchange closed its trading
floor, its iconic Wall Street
headquarters barricaded with
sandbags as rising waters
threatened lower Manhattan.
Monday’s closure was the
first time the New York Stock
Exchange had closed because
of weather since 1985, when
Hurricane Gloria forced
trading to halt. The stock
exchange’s last unplanned
closure came in 2011, follow-
ing the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
“We intend to re-open our
U.S. markets on Wednesday,”
NYSE Euronext said, adding:
“conditions permitting.”
Syrian fighting resumes
after holiday cease-fire
BEIRUT (MCT) —
Fighting appeared to have
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returned to its former pace
Monday on the final day of
Syria’s four-day holiday cease-
fire, underscoring the difficul-
ties of finding a negotiated
end to the country’s civil war.
Anti-government activ-
ists who’d reported a drop
in violence Friday, when the
cease-fire began, said Monday
that shelling, clashes and
airstrikes had resumed their
previous intensity, and they
claimed that government
forces had launched the heavi-
est airstrikes in the capital,
Damascus, since fighting
began there three months ago.
The four-day cease-
fire, proposed by Lakhdar
Brahimi, the United Nations
special envoy to Syria,
coincided with the Muslim
holiday of Eid al-Adha. The
Syrian government had
agreed to the cease-fire with
conditions, along with some
of the rebel groups that are
fighting the government,
while other rebel groups
rejected the idea outright.
Violations came from both
sides, including rebel car
bombs and government aerial
bombing.
Court sets date for Casey
Anthony’s appeal
ORLANDO, Fla. (MCT) —
An appeals court in Daytona
Beach, Fla., is now scheduled
to hear Casey Anthony’s appeal
of her four convictions for
lying to law enforcement early
next year, after her legal team
Monday filed the last paper-
work necessary to proceed.
Oral arguments in the
appeal have been scheduled
for Jan. 8, just days after the
trial in a defamation suit
against Anthony is set to
commence.
The lawsuit, brought by
Zenaida Gonzalez, is set for
trial Jan. 2. Gonzalez’s law-
yers have been hamstrung by
Anthony’s appeal — she cited
it to avoid answering questions
— and hoped it would con-
clude before trial in the suit.
Anthony, who was acquit-
ted on all major charges in
her daughter’s death in a
high-profile trial last year, is
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contention in the appeal:
Anthony argues that the four
lies she was accused of are
really just one continuous
act — and should have been
charged as such.
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that her statements to law
enforcement should have
been thrown out of the mur-
der trial, because she was
briefly handcuffed and put
in a law enforcement vehicle,
but wasn’t read her rights.
The state argues Anthony
wasn’t technically under
arrest, and therefore didn’t
need to be read her rights,
rather “(s)he was simply
handcuffed at her mother’s
insistence in order to prevent
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A plan to expand Southern
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“They look like they’re lower
income housing,” Rich said.
During the meeting, coun-
cil member Matt Czajkowski
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rent prices of the homes to
determine their affordability.
Rich said the demolition of
the homes would represent a
trend with the lack of afford-
able housing in Chapel Hill.
She said the council has
been fighting to protect
“organic” affordable homes.
CF: I’m a journalist, so my
goal is to wake people up.
My message is that most
water problems are solvable,
and if you personally are in
charge of the problem and
don’t know how to solve it,
someone has solved it.
DTH: Are there any water
issues facing UNC that you
know of?
CF: UNC is planning this
second campus (Carolina
North) … And part of the
planning for that expansion
of the campus is to make sure
that the water systems are
managed there as carefully
and imaginatively as pos-
sible. So, I don’t know if that
represents a challenge in the
way that running out of water
would represent a challenge.
DTH: What do you want the
audience to take away from
your talk?
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“They’re ‘organic’ because
they are not these luxurious,
big family homes,” she said.
Rich said despite the coun-
cil’s efforts to protect these
homes, the loss of affordable
housing continues to be a
problem.
“We are losing affordable
housing left and right,” she
said. “It’s that big challenge
that we’re facing right now.”
Rich said she was also con-
cerned because current ten-
ants would be forced to move
out if the properties were
acquired for the project and
CF: If there are places
where there is inadequate
water or inadequate water
service, then we should swoop
in there and insist on know-
ing why and insist on fixing
the problem.
DTH: How many people
attend the conference?
CF: I think this year,
between 400 and 500.
DTH: What’s the purpose of
the event?
CF: The purpose of this
meeting at UNC every year
is to bring together people
who actually typically work in
somewhat separate commu-
nities from each other, trying
to solve water problems all
over the world.
DTH: You’ve won the Gerald
Loeb Award for journalism
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that is the unfortunate part of project — said he did not
it,” she said. believe the three homes were
But Timothy Holleman, considered affordable.
who owns one of the homes He said he thought the
set to be demolished, said project received positive feed-
after owning the property back from the Town Council,
for 30 years and struggling and no changes were going to
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times, and I’ve won three UNC is trying to do (with the
times. I mean, it’s a wonderful water theme). We need UNC
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and Wall Street Journal people. ability to solve problems that
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Eco-friendly library Q&A with Jill Menard

to open in February
The Chapel Hill Public
Library is expanding
and going green.
By Sam Fletcher
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill is well on its
way to having a renovated
eco-friendly library.
Scott Cutler, vice presi-
dent of Clancy & Theys
Construction Company, the
company responsible for the
library’s construction, said
the expansion of the Chapel
Hill Public Library is going
well with no major hiccups.
The $16.23 million expan-
sion project is expected
to open to the public in
February 2013.
Mark Bayles, interim direc-
tor of the library, said the proj-
ect is on budget and on time.
The project will add
35,500 square feet to the
library’s original space of
27,000 square feet.
Not only will the expansion
create more space, but it will
also make the library greener.
Cutler said the new build-
ing will be LEED certified.
The different levels of
LEED certification depend on
the environmental friendli-
ness of a building.
Developers will not know
the library’s level of certifica-
tion until the project is done.
The new building will have
solar panels to provide hot
water and reflective roofing
to help control the building’s
temperature.
At least 75 percent of the
The Chapel Hill Public Library is undergoing a $16.23 million
expansion project that will add 35,500 square feet.
construction material will be
recycled, but Clancy & Theys
is working toward 95 percent.
In keeping with the envi-
ronmental nature of the proj-
ect, the expansion will also
include an art garden.
Cutler said while aware-
ness of green issues has been
rapidly increasing in the
construction industry, it was
up to the Chapel Hill Town
Council to decide how much
money to contribute toward
energy efficiency.
He praised the council for
its commitment to creating a
green space and its support of
the attempts to recycle build-
ing material.
During construction, the
library has moved to a tem-
porary location at University
Mall on South Estes Drive.
Bayles said the move has
not impacted use of the
library.
dth file/chloe stephenson
“Circulation is roughly
equal to the statistic that we
had in our previous full year
of operation in our older
building,” he said.
While use of the library has
remained consistent, some
visitors complain of less space
and a smaller selection in the
temporary library.
David Diaz, a resident of
Chapel Hill, said the tem-
porary library is noisier and
there seemed to be fewer
places to sit down.
Despite these difficulties,
Chapel Hill resident Richard
Osha commended the library
for its temporary facilities,
which include public comput-
ers and a program room.
“They have done a wonder-
ful job setting this up as a
good alternative,” Osha said.
Contact the desk editor at
city@dailytarheel.com.
Author Jill Menard lives
in Carrboro and is a student
at UNC.
She is ranked No. 6 out of
284 writers in the ongoing
national short story writ-
ing contest, America’s Next
Author. The contest consists
of several rounds in which the
public votes for writers.
Staff writer Rebecca
Pollack spoke with Menard
about her childhood creativ-
ity, the writing competition,
and the inspiration behind
her story “The Odd Duck,”
which is entered in the con-
test.
DAILY TAR HEEL: You’ve lived
all over, from rural Wisconsin
to New Zealand. And you’ve
trained with the circus and
work as a natural foods chef.
How have these things influ-
enced your writing?
JILL MENARD: I had a really
unique childhood. I grew
up in a log cabin without
running water or TV. That
allowed me to spend all of
my free time to be creative
and write lots of stories. And
without a TV, I would spend
lots of time out in the woods
acting out the characters I
created, and then I would
write about these characters.
I’ve met a wide range of dth/kaki pope
eclectic people, and that Jill Menard, author and aerial dance instructor, is ranked sixth
just allowed me to create a out of 284 writers in the national contest, America’s Next Author.
unique, diverse group of char-
acters in my stories.
DTH: You’ve said you have
beautiful swan now, but I’m
popular with what I do. I’ve
vote for menard
wanted to be a writer since found my niche in life. In round three of the con-
age 5. Was there an event I’m a teacher, and I teach test, Menard is ranked sixth.
that triggered the decision, or aerial dance, and these kids Vote for her to receive this
was it just something you’ve look up to me like a role round’s nomination.
always known? model. I have a lot of friends
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JM: I was learning to read in the dance community and
and write. And they asked me in the circus community —
in school what I wanted to be more than I did when I was I’ve basically been writ-
when I grow up and I said an a kid. ing all my life, and I’ve writ-
author — a writer. I’ve embraced my differ- ten a couple of novels, but I
ences and created my own haven’t been published yet.

Uhuru Child group raises

money for Kenyan school
By Nandan Thakkar
Staff Writer
For UNC students, $7.50
can almost buy breakfast at
Rams Head Dining Hall.
For Monicah, a young girl
torn from her village in Kenya,
$7.50 was all it took to get on
a bus, reunite with her lost
family and put an end to two
painful years of wondering if
her loved ones were still alive.
Uhuru Child, a national
nonprofit organization that
has ties to UNC, seeks to
empower impoverished
African communities like the
one Monicah lived in.
The organization helps
fund jobs for native Africans
by founding sustainable
businesses and building
schools.
UNC was the first univer-
sity in the nation to join in
the nonprofit’s efforts, said
Brandon Richard, copresi-
dent of the University’s
Uhuru Child chapter.
With the guidance of
copresidents Richard and
Alejandro Antonia, UNC’s
Uhuru Child chapter is advo-
cating for student involvement
in a national campaign titled
the “750 Campaign,” which
runs through this week.
The campaign was inspired
by Monicah’s touching story.
Students are encouraged
to help out with the cam-
paign, which is trying to raise
$75,000 to go toward the
construction of the Uhuru
Academy School in Jikaze, a
resettlement community in
Kenya.
“The money is going
towards breaking the bonds
of poverty as a result of the
2007 election,” said Kerby
McKinnell, who serves on
Uhuru Child’s marketing com-
mittee.
Violence in Kenya following
the 2007 election destroyed the
homes of thousands of people,
leaving both the wealthy and
the poor with nothing.
To make amends, the
Kenyan government gave
each displaced citizen $50,
said Hannah Harrison, a
junior who serves on Uhuru
Child’s marketing committee
alongside McKinnell.
In response, many of the
homeless came together, com-
bined their money, bought
a stretch of land and started
their own community of Jikaze.
see the documentary
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Location: The Pit
Visit bitly.com/TR0zWu for
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ing and other events.
McKinnell has taken part
in two summer service trips
to Africa, where she helped
Uhuru build schools and
greenhouses for various com-
munities.
“Uhuru has gone in there
to stand by people and to help
people get back on their feet
— not make people feel use-
less,” McKinnell said.
“Uhuru fights for people,
not for issues,” she said.
The Jikaze school is set to
open next February.
Uhuru Child will be
screening a documentary
Friday, Richard said.
The documentary will por-
tray Monicah’s reunion with
her family entitled “#7fifty:
Because $7.50 Goes a Long
Way.”
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Stephen Shannon, at the vigil for his brother, David
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LETTERS TO The complete disregard
the DTH has shown for

A new THE EDITOR

Trevor Dolan’s death
the members of the Chi
Phi fraternity and David
Shannon’s family is truly

kind of has been trivialized

TO THE EDITOR:
appalling.
You have managed to
shift the focus from what

college
At 8 p.m. on Oct. 29, the truly matters, reporting the
UNC community convened facts and helping a com-
for a vigil remembering munity to understand this

credit
David Shannon, yet tragedy, to biasedly specu-
another of our number who lating about what may or
passed away too soon. may not have happened.
A few weeks ago, the I’m extremely disap-

A
s part of the 2009 same was done for Faith pointed in the DTH for
Climate Action Plan, Hedgepeth. The same was publishing such inconsid-
UNC pledged to reduce Editorial not done, however, for erate material, but even

Shaping UNC’s future

its carbon footprint to zero by
2050. This is a noble goal, and
I have no doubt that we have
the potential to meet it.
Unfortunately, according to
campus sustainability leaders,
this goal is not realistic at the
rate at which we’re proceeding.
While there are a significant
amount of changes we can
The chancellor
search forums offer
a chance for input.
tee runs the risk of being
limited by the experience
and incentives of its mem-
bership. But the committee
can avoid this concern by
Trevor Dolan, who left us
on Oct. 7.
But whoever chose not
to (or forgot to) organize a
vigil for Dolan isn’t the only
bers of the University
community.
one who should take time
to ponder their decision.
The forums will also Students and faculty did
give students, faculty and
staff, whose voices might
not receive email notifica-
tion in the hours after Dolan
more so at this upstanding
University for not only
allowing but supporting
such publications.
David Shannon was an
admired member of the
student body, and in this
time of tragedy, his memory
and the accident, should be
respected accordingly.

make on campus, there are
less direct methods to meeting
our goals. One new approach
to consider is the purchase of
renewable energy credits.
A REC is a package con-
taining “credits” of renewable
energy, which anyone can buy
no matter what fuel sources
they are using or where in
proximity to the renewable
energy they are. Credits can be
bought from renewable energy
producers.
The credits are produced by
renewable generators, and one
credit is equal to 1000 kilo-
watt-hours of electricity. They
ensure renewable fuels are
being used and compensate for
emissions released elsewhere.
In other words, UNC would
fund renewable energy sourc-
T
he 21-member com-
mittee created to
find the University’s
next chancellor is holding
four forums on Nov. 7-8
to solicit feedback from
students, faculty, staff and
community members.
The search committee
is taking the right step by
holding these forums, and
the University community
should participate in them.
This commitment to
transparency should be
preserved throughout the
search process.
A small search commit-
using the input gathered to
shape and inform its deci-
sions every step of the way.
The next chancellor will
face serious challenges
— navigating the difficult
relationship between
athletics and academics,
keeping affordability a
priority in a shifting politi-
cal climate and balancing
needs for efficiency and
academic quality.
Determining what
kind of a chancellor the
University needs requires
understanding the hopes
and concerns of all mem-
Editorial
otherwise go unheard, a
chance to give input in the
selection process.
Administrators are tak-
ing a commendable step
in prioritizing openness
in the chancellor selection
process by hosting these
forums.
But this effort will be
wasted if the University
community doesn’t make
use of this opportunity.
Those who care about
the direction of the
University should pres-
ent their concerns at the
forums.
was recovered by police.
Instead, they were
offered a too late news
feature in The Daily Tar
Heel that made Dolan into
a little more than a mascot
for suicide prevention; the
article was supposed to be
about his life, friends said,
much like the recent article
about Shannon.
To make matters worse,
The Charlotte Observer
writer Elisabeth Arriero
effectively erased Dolan from
memory in her article about
Shannon on October 28.
She contextualized
Shannon’s death as “the
second death of an under-
graduate student at a North
Carolina state university in
less than a month,” men-
Katie Allen ’14
Economics
Public policy
Why I won’t be voting
on this election day
TO THE EDITOR:
Tell someone you don’t
vote, and you may as well
tell them you punt kittens.
They’ll say, “It’s your civic
duty” or “If you don’t vote,
you can’t complain.”
I disagree.
When you vote, you
make explicit the notion
of winner take all. If your
candidate wins, you expect
him to take office. If your
candidate loses, your vote
acknowledges that the

Players, put health first

es, but they would be used
somewhere else.
Would this count toward
our commitment to renewable
energy?
I think so. After all, effects
from UNC’s emissions are not
Concussed athletes
confined to our campus. As long
as we are increasing renewable
should put health
energy overall, I think we are
sure to play anyway.
UNC Department
of Exercise and Sport
Science Chairman Kevin
over the game. Guskiewicz has worked to
themselves more than
helping their team.
Division I athletes tend
to be ultra-competitive,
but that shouldn’t mean
tioning only Tyler Blalock.
The error was reported
Sunday night, but the arti-
cle has not changed as of 9
a.m. Oct. 29.
I hope the irresponsible
nature in which information
about Dolan’s death was
communicated, at UNC and
beyond, is not pushed aside
opposing candidate will
take office. Regardless of
the outcome, you’ve con-
sented to a candidate tak-
ing office and exercising his
role as an elected official.
By refusing to vote, I do
not consent to any candi-
date taking office. I refuse
to legitimize the govern-

working toward our goals.
The cost of a REC varies,
depending on the type of energy
(solar, wind, etc.), the year it’s
purchased and the volume of
energy. The money for our first
REC would come from the bud-
get of the Renewable Energy
Special Projects Committee,
which is financed by the student
sustainability fee.
Per the committee’s plan,
the town of Chapel Hill would
get involved in this effort as
well. Committee co-chair-
woman Jenna Koester would
like to buy 60,000 megawatts
of RECs, with the committee
funding $100,000 of the cred-
its and the town purchasing
the remainder. The committee
is researching the best deal for
its budget.
RECs are definitely a
great initiative. However, it
shouldn’t only be up to stu-
dents to improve UNC’s energy
portfolio. University officials
U
NC is researching
how concussions
can be prevented
in sports, particularly foot-
ball. While this research
has been helpful — and it
will continue to be in the
long run — it is the respon-
sibility of players who
experience these injuries to
change the culture around
playing with concussions.
Concussed players
should take themselves
out of the game, even if
they are up against pres-
Bill Friday and athletics
Friday’s legacy warns us about the dangers of athletic tribalism.
push UNC to the forefront
of concussion research.
The University uses
advanced Head Impact
Telemetry system technol-
ogy that serves as a way to
influence NFL and NCAA
policy. But there is much
more than just research
that should play a factor in
reducing concussions.
It is admirable to have
players risk their bodies
for the University and the
game they love, but many
times they are hurting
Column
sacrificing health.
The University could
bring in former players
suffering from long-term
concussion effects to speak.
Personal anecdotes could
effectively emphasize the
importance of being hon-
est about injuries.
UNC should be proud of
its research on head inju-
ries, but it should also push
for a culture shift. The only
people that can change
the current culture are the
players themselves.
as easily as his memory has
this past month.
Hannah Weinberger ’13
Chinese
DTH has mishandled
the death of Shannon
TO THE EDITOR:
With the death of David
Shannon on Saturday, The
Daily Tar Heel has been a
source for the University
community to look to
for accurate information
regarding the event.
However, the means by
which the Twitter account
has framed the incident has
crossed the line. In a recent
tweet, the DTH stated
“UPDATE: Carrboro police
will explore whether David
Shannon’s death is related
to involvement in fraternity
life,” which completely mis-
represents the subsequent
ment by voting, because I
disapprove of its actions.
You should know that
voting measures only pref-
erence, not intensity. If
you vote for Obama, you’ve
shown only that you prefer
him to other candidates.
Your vote provides no
feedback as to what policies
you like or dislike.
There is no “I voted for
Obama, but I disagree with
his increased use of drone
strikes,” just as there is no
“I voted for Romney, but I
disagree with his denial of
rights to gay couples.” A vote
for Obama or Romney vali-
dates all of their practices.
Don’t vote for the lesser
of two evils, it’s still evil. If
you must vote this year, ask
yourself what that vote is
actually saying, and if that’s
the message you want to
send.

are the ones who committed
to the Climate Action Plan.
They must also do their part.
University funds should be
allocated for RECs.
This would make us com-
petitive with other universities
across the country, such as
Oregon State University, one of
the Environmental Protection
Agency’s top 20-ranked college
green power purchasers. In
2011 the university purchased
about $430,000 worth of RECs,
enough to completely offset its
conventional energy use.
American University also
purchased RECs equivalent to
100 percent of its electricity use.
These universities are not
just setting goals to be green
power users, they are actively
doing something about them.
UNC should make it a point to
follow in their ever-shrinking
carbon footprints. Why wait
until 2050 to be carbon neu-
tral if we can work toward
doing it now?
NEXT
A
s we mourn the
passing of former
UNC-system
President William C. Friday,
members of the University
community should
remember the immediacy
and urgency of his legacy.
Nearly every tribute to the
life of this remarkable man
has noted his commitment
to affordability, access and
service as the ideal for public
higher education, as well as
his tireless efforts to mitigate
the effects of athletic tribal-
ism. The relationship between
these concerns may not be
immediately obvious, but
ignoring them now may be
especially dangerous.
When in the early 1960s
he canceled the popular Dixie
Classic basketball tournament
because of the corruptions
of athletic tribalism, sports
fanatics from every tribe in
the state wanted his head.
And those voices were just
the louder counterparts to a
much more dangerous chorus
Stephen Leonard
Associate professor of political
science at UNC and former
Division I athlete.
Email: sleonard@email.unc.edu
believed that it could and
should be.
Today, the ideals cham-
pioned by Friday are once
again under attack by those
who believe that opportunity
and commitment to a shared
prosperity have no place in
public higher education.
When sports fans celebrated
the resignation of UNC-CH
Chancellor Holden Thorp,
they effectively insulted the
commitments and sacrifices
of all those who agreed with
Friday that “people don’t want
their lifetimes to be measured
unwitting dupes of a crabbed
mindset that would erode
the promise of opportunity
and excellence many North
Carolinians expect from their
universities.
This confluence of destruc-
tive forces may have been
what Friday had in mind
when he told the Washington
Post that recent events in
Chapel Hill have put higher
education in North Carolina
“in a very dangerous situa-
tion.” And like Friday, many of
those who stood with Thorp
recognized that reining in the
corruptions of athletic tribal-
ism is not about cleaning up
sports scandals. It is about
rededication to higher educa-
tion in a democratic society.
None of this is to suggest
that you should not root for
the Heels to beat the Pack.
But as you do, remember
the Carolina Way is about
decades of integrity, excellence
and service to North Carolina
— not a few wins and losses.
Preserving that legacy may
article. R. Kyle Evans ’15
Most people, particularly Law
on Twitter, are not looking
to read the follow-up article
attached to the tweet, COrrection
expecting to receive valid,
pertinent information from Due to an editing error,
the 140-character blurb. Monday’s editorial “A win
Rather than focus on for transparency” incor-
the various leads the police rectly implied that Howard
have been considering, your Manning is a federal judge.
staff selected the one that He is a superior court judge
would shed negative light in Wake County. The Daily
on the community that has Tar Heel apologizes for the
been affected the most. error.
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