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The Daily Tar Heel
“FORE” THE KIDS VOTING MADE SIMPLE DOUBLE THE TROUBLE CHOICES TO MAKE
Dance Marathon’s fifth annual The election of Mr. and Miss Halloween and Homecoming Learn all about the six candi-
Golf Classic will tee off this UNC is approaching, and now week promises lots of excite- dates running for Mr. and Miss
weekend with golf, philanthropy all your questions ment and plenty of ghoulish UNC and the projects they
and many prizes. will be answered. events to choose from. support.
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Shows, games to related events and activities. One
of the most popular events is the
inspire weekend weeklong “Humans vs. Zombies”
game starting on October 25. Chen
is one of the participants in this
by Preeti Arunapuram game. “I got my Nerf Gun,” Chen
staff writer said eagerly.
Fall would be nothing without On October 25 at 7 pm, there will
football and Halloween. This year’s be a showing of the film “Let the
Homecoming week is October 25 Right One In” in the Student Union
through October 31, resulting in Cabaret. The Swedish film served
one jam-packed weekend full of as the inspiration for the American
madness and excitement. film “Let Me In.” Halloween candy
Halloween seems to have incor- will be provided.
porated itself into Homecoming. On October 29, from noon to
Even the Homecoming T-shirt 1:30 pm, Project Dinah will host
has a haunted theme. With a full its third annual Halloween fashion
schedule of activities and attrac- show. Project Dinah is a student
tions, students will have many group committed to opposing acts
options to allocate their time. of violence. Students will model on
“I think it’s a good thing that it’s the catwalk to declare their right to
after fall break and after the mid- personal space while wearing vari-
terms,” said freshman T. J. Tkacik. ous costumes. The group will also
Sophia Chen believes that provide the opportunity for people
Homecoming weekend will result to sign pledges against violence.
in too much activity for students. Even the Morehead Planetarium
“Some people will have to end up has come up with Halloween-
choosing between one or the other,” themed shows. On October 29 and
Chen said. She also mentions that 30 at 8 pm, Ana Sayle, the adult
because Halloween takes place on educator, will present “Scare-olina
a Sunday night, people may have Skies,” a Halloween-oriented ver-
difficulty getting back to classes on sion of the classic sky stories.
the next day. Micke y Jo Sorrell, the
Others, like freshman Sean Planetarium educator said, “there
Crews, disagree. “It’s weekends will be some surprises, some excite-
like that that make college what it ment.”
is,” he said.
Various student organizations Contact the University Editor
have been preparing Halloween- at udesk@unc.edu
homecoming CALENDAr
Time: 9:30 p.m.
today Location: Varsity Theatre
Treasure hunt: The Order of the
Bell Tower challenges you to scour Thursday
the campus for a medallion! A clue
will be released every day this week Mixer: If you are a part of the class
at 8 a.m. The first person to find and of 2012, get ready to go out tonight!
return the medallion to the GAA It is ladies night, so dress to impress
will be the “True Blue Trek” win- and let loose. There will be a DJ pro-
ner. Several valuable prizes will be viding music and lots of excitement.
awarded. Cover is just $10 for 2012 students
Time: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday under 21.
through Friday Time: 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Location: UNC Campus Location: East End Oyster &
Martini Bar
Letters to soldiers: Do you know
someone serving our country over- friday
seas? Show your support by writing
a letter to deployed UNC alumni. Set and spike: Find two friends
They will certainly appreciate your and get out to the volleyball courts
kind thoughts! for some healthy competition! The
Time: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday entry fee for a three-person team is
through Friday $10. You receive a T-shirt for just reg-
Location: The Pit istering. All proceeds go to Get Real
and Heal. There will be prizes for the
Tuesday winning teams.
Time: 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Every drop counts: Your dona- Location: South Campus Recreation
tion of any amount can save a life. Complex
If you are not sure whether you are
eligible, visit anyway. A member of saturday
the American Red Cross can provide
more information. If you cannot give Football in the fall: Join all your
blood, supporting those who can is fellow students for one big tailgate.
just as important. BBQ will be available. The band
Time: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Starfish Bungalow is performing.
Location: Student Union You can get into the game day mood
with cornhole and ladder games too.
Wednesday Time: Noon
Location: Bell Tower
Varsity night: It’s movie night
and everyone is invited! The old Keep celebrating: Spare Change
Halloween staple “Hocus Pocus” will will play at the post-game party.
be showing. If students bring their Time: 7 p.m.
OneCard, they receive free popcorn. Location: The Carolina Inn
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ing ice cream, with 15 to 25 percent On Friday, Oct. 29, students
of the proceeds going to the foot- can trick or treat in the pit. Ben &
ball team’s chosen charity. Jerry’s will be serving ice cream.
Tuesday, Oct. 26, is “Campus From 3-7pm, students can par-
Celebrity Pie in the Face” day. With ticipate in a three-on-three vol-
a one dollar donation, students can leyball tournament at the South
throw a pie at a well known member Campus Recreation Complex. All
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Alumni to reunite
at Top of the Hill
by Emily Palmer to go and ready for Homecoming
staff writer weekend.”
Carolina graduates are expected Alumni who attend the event
to return in droves for the William can socialize with fellow graduates,
and Mary football game Oct. 30. listen to live music by DJ A-Minor
However, alumni are not coming and order from a wide selection of
home just for a football game. drinks, including specialty cock-
The General Alumni Association tails at the cash bar. Semmoms
is hosting an Alumni Milestone said that alumni can even ask for a
Mixer at Top of the Hill’s new Back piece of chalk to write about their
Bar on Oct. 29 from 8 to 10 p.m. Carolina experience on the restau-
Laura Sheppard, coordina- rant’s walls.
tor of Homecoming and Affinity On Saturday, Oct. 30, alumni
reunions, said that the General can continue dine together at the
Alumni Association created the annual Bell Tower tailgate at noon.
Milestone Mixer this year to Carolina Barbeque of Garner will
encourage alumni to return for cater the event which is open to all
Homecoming. alumni.
She said that the General Immediately after the game,
Alumni Association chose Top of current students and alumni are
the Hill because many graduates invited to the Carolina Inn for a
have fond memories of going to the post-game party with a cash bar
restaurant and would be interested and the band Spare Change.
to see the new addition. Alumni are encouraged to make
“Alumni are always coming back use of the Tar Heel Kids and Teens
to campus and they want to see Camps Friday and Saturday night.
their old stomping grounds,” said While the children visit sporting
Sheppard. “But they also want to events and museums, their parents
see what’s new and what’s changed. can reconnect with old friends.
The new part of Top of the Hill Sheppard said that although
offers a great event space for a some graduates use the reunions
gathering.” as a business networking tool,
Hallie Semmoms, Top of the the main emphasis of Carolina’s
Hill’s event coordinator, said that Homecoming is purely social.
the restaurant’s new bar will pro- “Most of our events are about gath-
vide a nice venue to mingle. ering with friends and celebrating
“ They’re going to see peo- who we are as Tar Heels.”
ple they’re not even expecting,”
Semmoms said. “It’s going to be a Contact the University Editor
great event to get everybody ready at udesk@unc.edu.
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last year. The American Red Cross continually
encourages people to donate blood, particularly
those who have Type O negative. There will be another
blood drive on Tuesday, Oct. 26 in the Student Union.
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Beyond service events, Aiken
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said they are hoping to reach out to
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“I thought running for home Tyler Aiken, Caldwell’s cam- According to Victoria Welburn, University Square • 143 W. Franklin Street • Chapel Hill • 919.968.3488 • www.citysearch.com/rdu/35
coming king would be the best paign manager, said the week will a supporter and friend, being per-
way possible to get the entire UNC be busy. There will be wheelchair sonable is something that comes
campus involved,” Caldwell said. races, kick ball tournaments, a easily to Caldwell.
“I wanted to make it a joint effort
between myself and the UNC com-
lecture on “the R-word”, meet and
greets and a discussion panel with
“Micah is an open person. He’s
honest and real. He’s doesn’t try to
THE SECRET IS OUT!
munity.” doctors. On the last day, Caldwell fake anything to please people. He The secret to finding a great place
For his service project, he plans has planned a benefit concert is who he is and embraces people
to work with the Arc of Orange involving his musical connections, for who they are,” Welburn said, to live is to decide NOW!
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Orange County for over two years mation to students in the univer- I wanted to be unique in my plat-
with Pi Kappa Phi, his fraternity. sity that they wouldn’t be regularly form and do something I’m pas-
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earlier than last year. They intend to minimize the crowd’s
rowdiness and to hopefully restrict the size of the events.
START STRong.
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ampaign volunteers urged students to vote online
for a Homecoming candidate in the Pit last year.
People should vote at Student Central this Friday.
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Tweets on Katie Ray’s social net- themselves in over the greater Chapel Hill area.”
working profiles. If elected Miss Ray’s desire to give back to the
the online com-
UNC, she wants to do her part to surrounding area is not unwar-
Mon, Wed & Fri make this true for the entire online munity. ranted. Her ties to the university
community. are far-reaching.
Open Late Nights Ray, a senior journalism major
from Hillsborough, hopes to edu-
hand in a number of campus orga-
nizations. She is currently serving
“I was born and raised right
down the street,” Ray said. “My
Friday & Saturday till 3AM cate area high school juniors and as the vice president of the Zeta love for Carolina has grown ever
seniors on the importance of social Tau Alpha, her sorority. She has since I learned to ride my bike
919.960.0440 networking. also worked on the public relations on the upper quad. It would be a
100 N. Columbia St. • Chapel Hill, NC 27514 She is designing a Social Media staff of the Blue & White and the definite honor to represent UNC
101 course for Orange County layout staff of Kaleidoscope, UNC’s in this way.”
Schools. The UNC chapter of the fashion magazine. While studying abroad in
Public Relations Student Society of Although she has an interest in England, Ray discovered how
America will help her accomplish numerous branches of journalism, deeply connected she was to her
this goal. her true love is evident. hometown and university. She also
“In our increasingly global com- “I’m really passionate about realized how important it was to
munity, how people utilize these social media,” Ray said, “and if give back to that community.
websites will be vital to the success elected, I want to use my position Tori Bliss, her sorority sister,
of the next generation,” Ray said. to help people who may not know confirmed Ray’s explanation.
Her mission is much more than as much about it.” “Katie is the personification of
teaching youth about negative situ- Ray is hoping that she can enact the love we all feel for this place,”
2711-B Hillsboro Road ations on Facebook. the Social Media 101 class in all Bliss said. “Her passion for the
Durham, NC “My goal is to teach high school Orange County high schools with school and her dedication to the
919.286.3442 students not only what not to put the funds received from winning community make her a perfect
www.beckerautonc.com on these sites, but also how to the title and with the help of the candidate.”
brand themselves effectively,” Ray PRSSA. Perhaps Katie Ray is best sum-
went on to say. She doesn’t want her project to marized by her Twitter bio. It
Ray most certainly embodies stop there, though. “I want to start reads, “I will forever bleed Carolina
this ideal here at UNC. She has a with Orange County schools, but Blue.”
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Murphy, the alumni relations chair UNC Dance Marathon participants at the 24-hour fundrasier last
for Dance Marathon. They are also February. The organization’s Golf Classic fundraiser will be held Oct. 29.
reaching out to area businesses and
players from the past two years. Brenner said. “We want people is a Chick-Fil-A lunch and a post-
Golfers will begin to tee off at from all walks of life.” tournament dinner held at The
Printery
noon following a 10:30 a.m. reg- Murphy was optimistic about Preserve’s clubhouse at 6 p.m.
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istration. Teams are organized in getting the 100 participants signed Extra dinner tickets can be pur-
groups of four, though groups with up. “We’re targeting students main- chased separately for $15, which
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less are welcome to sign up and ly through an interfraternity chal- includes entry to the raffle.
play with others. lenge,” she said. Though rumors about a patient
T-SHIRTS
The event will benefit Dance John Scotton, a senior business attending the tournament were
Marathon’s “For The Kids” cam- major and member of the Chi Psi circulating, Brenner said the plan
paign, which raises money to assist fraternity, has participated in the fell through. “We actually have not Licensed for UNC Trademark.
patients and families at the North past and will play this year as well. confirmed a child from the hospi-
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Carolina Children’s Hospital. His fraternity plans to enter two or tal coming to the tournament,” she
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At each of the course’s eighteen three golf teams, said Scotton. said. “Hopefully in future years we
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holes, there will be a “For the Kids” Scotton said the tournament is a can get a patient or family lined up
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story detailing Dance Marathon’s treat for students because the golf to come to the tournament.”
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effect on specific patients and fami- course is highly ranked. “It’s a dif- Proceeds from the golf tour-
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the tournament reflects our pas- “It’s overall just a great time.” Marathon’s yearlong fundraising
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sion for the patients and families Brenner agreed. “Even people efforts. The total amount raised
at the N.C. Children’s Hospital,” who go there and don’t golf or is kept tightly guarded until the
said Brenner. don’t expect anything from it really much anticipated reveal at Dance
The stories are there to keep enjoy it,” she said. “It’s a great way Marathon itself.
the golfers connected to the cause, to reach an audience that we might Murphy said the main goal this
said Murphy. Knowing that they not reach through other events.” year is numbers, both in partici- Featuring
are helping others makes the game The event’s benefits reach farther pants and money raised.
more enjoyable. than just those in the Children’s “I hope for numbers in sponsor- Ladies Cut Tees
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