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Assistant University Editor
Jay Bilas
urges NCAA
to pay athletes
By Pat James
Assistant Sports Editor
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R.C. Mulcahy, a 9/11 witness, spoke to students on Wednesday night
in New West about human resilience and his novel One From Two.
Jay Bilas, an ESPN college basketball analyst, isnt shy to admit he profits from studentathletes but he said that doesnt make him
ignore their exploitation by the NCAA and the
universities they represent.
When you are making money off of someone
while at the same time restricting them from
making money, you are by definition exploiting
them, Bilas said at a panel Wednesday.
Bilas sat on the panel with UNC Professor
Barbara Osborne, Associate Director of
Athletics Paul Pogge and lawyer Ken Hammer
in the Blue Zone at Kenan Memorial Stadium.
UNC School of Laws Sports and
Entertainment Association and Campbells
Sports and Entertainment Law Society hosted
the event.
In August, a judge ruled in favor of former
UCLA basketball player Ed OBannon, in the
federal anti-trust case of OBannon v. NCAA,
prohibiting the NCAA from enforcing any rules
that would disallow Division I football or mens
basketball teams from making money off their
recruits image, likeness or name.
The athletes are the ones that have to
make the sacrifice, Bilas said. No coach is
taking a discount so we can have wrestling; no
administrator is taking a discount so we can
have a really good womens lacrosse program.
But student-athletes are already receiving
extra benefits, said Osborne, an adjunct sports
law professor.
The education that a person receives,
through participation in athletics, is something that is valuable, Osborne said.
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR
today
the victims of the 2001 attack. Attendees will gather on the front
lawn of Hillsboroughs Historic
Courthouse and have the opportunity to write their reflections
and memories on remembrance
cards, which will be provided.
Time: 8:30 a.m.
Location: 106 E. Margaret Lane
Muslims for Life Blood Drive:
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Student
Association and the American
Red Cross have partnered to host
the third annual Muslims for Life
blood drive. The event aims to
honor the victims of 9/11 and
emphasize Islamic teachings
about the sanctity of life. Participants will receive a free T-shirt
when they give blood.
Time: 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Great Hall of the
Student Union
Friday
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POLICE LOG
Someone reported stalking at 1330 Ephesus Church
Road at 9:00 a.m. Tuesday,
according to Chapel Hill
police reports.
Someone reported lost
property at a high school
at 500 Weaver Dairy Road
between noon Tuesday and
2:35 a.m. Wednesday, according to Chapel Hill police
reports.
The persons purse was
either stolen or left at the
school. It contained five credit
or debit cards, $900 in cash
and an iPhone 5, reports state.
Someone reported a breaking and entering with no force
at Mary Scroggs Elementary
School at 501 Kildaire Road
between 1:30 a.m. and 7:00
a.m. Tuesday, according to
Chapel Hill police reports.
A computer and three iPads
were stolen, reports state.
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UNC is consistently one of the most represented schools among the Teach For America
corps and has 65 graduates entering its
most recent class, ONeill said.
Briana Jackowski, a 2013 UNC graduate with
a biology degree, is in her second year teaching
in Detroit through Teach For America.
She said she plans on teaching for longer
than the required two years.
My experience in the program has been
really great, she said. I have had a lot of support and met great people. Teaching is difficult,
but Ive been fortunate to have a lot of support.
Jacquelyn Gist, assistant director at University
Career Services, acts as an on-campus liaison for
Teach For America and said the program is very
beneficial to participating K-12 schools.
I know there is a lot of political swirl going
on, she said, But at the end of the day, our
students are going in and making a difference
in kids lives.
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Members of SAW hung a banner at the Old Well on Wednesday in hopes of gaining the attention of Chancellor Folt and UNC students.
Junior Gnonkonde, whos still developing his skills on the field after moving from Africa in 2010.
Drennon leads the defensive
line with eight tackles and is the
first freshman defensive lineman to
start for UNC since Martin in 2010.
Drennon said hes benefited from
the senior leadership of Farmer and
was pushed by Gnonkonde, who
plays behind him, to get better in
training camp.
The chemistry on the line is lovely. Were all friends on and off the
field, Drennon said. Theres no beef
between starters and (backups).
True freshman defensive lineman
Tyler Powell has been a go-to option
in the defenses money package. As
a wrestler in high school, Powell
had to worry about cutting weight.
Hes now focused on putting on the
pounds, which he hopes will help
him see more time on the field.
(The Liberty) game was the most
important for me, getting out there,
getting on the field for the first time
and getting the feel for the pace of
Sports
inBRIEF
university briefs
US News & World Report
ranks UNC no. 5
UNC was ranked the fifth
best public university by U.S.
News & World Report this
week for the 14th consecutive
year.
The ranking was based
on several factors, including
graduation rates, peer assessments, faculty resources and
the selectivity of the process
for admitting students.
The report also ranked
UNC as the third best public university for the least
amount of debt and its undergraduate business program.
state briefs
Governor orders state to
lower flags to half-staff
Governor Pat McCrory told
North Carolina residents to put
all United States and state flags
at half-staff today to honor the
thousands of people who lost
city briefs
Chapel Hill will host
Carolina North meeting
The town of Chapel Hill
will host a public information meeting for the Carolina
North development on
Monday at 5:30 p.m.
Carolina North is the
Universitys proposed mixeduse research facility. The
development would be located
on 133 acres along Martin
Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Residents can attend
Mondays meeting or review
the annual report, which is
posted on the towns website, for the Carolina North
development and send any
comments to carolinanorth@
townofchapelhill.org.
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literature and calls for philanthropy was particularly appropriate for the society to host.
It is something that really
fits into the mission of DiPhi,
he said.
Warshauer said he was
slightly disappointed that
more students didnt attend.
We tried to publicize. Its
not a huge crowd, he said,
adding that he was happy the
event wasnt too crowded.
Mulcahy, who will continue
his book tour Thursday at the
University of Virginia, said it
is essential that students keep
the terrorist attack and its
victims in mind.
Freedom comes with a
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that paid the ultimate price
must always be remembered.
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The real
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More discussion on
fracking needed
Editorial
tudent Congress
is one of the three
branches that delivers on the promise of
self governance for UNC
students a promise to,
in the words of the student code, enrich each
students experience at
the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Lately, the student
legislative body has had
trouble living up to that
promise.
The realities of this
commitment are often
blurred between student
government representatives obligation to students and the code under
which they are bound
to operate. For the sake
of the betterment of the
campus, members of
Student Congress ought to
rededicate themselves to
the spirit of pursuing the
student bodys interests.
Student Congress is
bound to operate under
the UNC student code a
100-plus-page document
that details procedures
for everything from the
amount of money certain
groups on campus may
receive according to the
nature of the group, to the
manner in which executive
branch nominations are
carried out and confirmed.
The trouble with
Student Congress relationship to the student
code, to put it simply, is
a lack of consistency. For
example, under section
103, The minutes of all
Student Congress meet-
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TO THE EDITOR:
What we need, not only
in North Carolina, but
also in our great nation,
is not revolution or rebellion but a prudent Energy
Reformation.
Yes, we need to be independent in energy and not
depend on Saudi Arabia,
Iraq or Venezuela for oil
and gas. But should we
become Saudi America?
The answer is no.
But is fracking or
hydraulic fracturing
the answer? N.C. State
University geologists found
that the shale gas deposit
in the three Triangle counties is at a shallower depth
(1,500 feet), and occupies a
small volume compared to
northern states, where it is
5,000 feet deep and much
more spacious in volume
and area.
I saw in your Sept. 5
editorial that we must stop
the pipeline proposed by
Atlantic Coast Pipeline,
built with a cost of $5 billion to bring methane from
West Virginia by Duke
Energy and Piedmont
Natural Gas. This plan must
be aborted, and we should
shift gear to solar and wind
energy in North Carolina.
I was in the first fracking public hearing in
McKimmon Center on N.C.
States campus and heard
95 percent of the witnesses
who spoke oppose fracking.
Dr. Vikram Rao, the new
chair of the Mining and
Energy Commission, twisted the truth and said, This
anti-fracking crowd is not
the microcosm of the state
and the display of antifracking animus comes
from vocal minority.
Let me narrate what I
said in the three minutes
given to me graciously
in the public hearing at
McKimmon Center:
We must ban fracking in
North Carolina or at least
reinstate the moratorium
in 2015 for five years to
explore the risks associated
with the process.
We need to establish
whether we can frack safely
and, if so, locate the distance of the wells at least
1,000 feet away from aquifer, reservoir or lake. We
should also identify water
quality and quantity risks
in the light of imminent
contamination and excessive use of water.
The commissions in
charge of this process
should not be made up of
party-line members but a
group representing environmental virtue ethicists,
scientists from academia
and lawmakers. Shift gear to
renewable energy solar,
wind and even nuclear.
Finally, the EPA should
be involved in the decisionmaking process to define
risks to water quality in
North Carolina, under the
Clean Water Act.
Robert Y. George, Ph.D
Former professor of
marine biology,
UNC-Wilmington
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