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Serving UNC students and the University community since 1893 The Daily Tar Heel VOLume 118, Issue 77 thursday, september 23, 2010 www.dailytarheel.com NCaa rules on burney, Williams Along with being sidelined, the two seniors must also repay Kendric Deunta players must sit out games money they received through improper benefits. Burney Burney Williams received $1,333 in benefits, including trips to California, Las has to must repay BY JONATHAN JONES Vegas and Atlanta. The majority of the costs were paid by an sit out $450.67 SPORTS EDITOR individual who the NCAA defines as an agent, or one who pro- four more and sit out North Carolina athletic director Dick Baddour said the motes or markets a student-athlete. Burney must repay $575.19 games this two more penalties levied by the NCAA on football players Kendric to a charity of his choice before he can compete again. season games. Burney and Deunta Williams are too harsh and said the Chris Hawkins, a UNC football player from 2001-03 who diversions | page 5 University plans to appeal the rulings. has been linked to the investigation and is classified as an Burney must sit out four more games agent, said Wednesday night that Burney stayed with former “It doesn’t matter how that individual calls himself — an CARRBORO MUSIC FEST after missing UNC’s first two, while UNC football player Mahlon Carey in Atlanta. agent, a runner or a relative,” said Stacey Osburn, associate In its 13th year, Carrboro Music Williams must sit two more games before Carey went to high school in Marietta, Ga., and played for director of public and media relations for the NCAA. “What returning. Both suspensions are due to the UNC between 2002-05. we look at are the activities that person does and what that Festival boasts more than 170 players violating NCAA agent benefits and “They stayed with Mahlon Carey down in Atlanta,” said person provides.” acts and has come a long way preferential treatment rules. Hawkins, who added that Burney paid for the other trips with Williams, who took two trips to California, received $1,426 “For what was involved with these two student-athletes, his own money. in benefits and must repay $450.67 to charity. The violation from its original inspiration. what was imposed is out-of-bounds for what the circum- Hawkins said he is not an agent and repeatedly said he does stances were,” Baddour said. not understand why the NCAA classifies him as such. SEE NCAA, PAGE 11 Bridging the city | page 3 ONE STRONG BREW Beer-brewing students talk about the culture of their craft and a growing festival. campus | online WINKLER TALKS FOIA DTHPHOTO ILLUSTRATION/ CLYDE ATKINS, CAROLANN BELK, KELLY McHUGH AND LAUREN VIED Matthew Winkler, editor of Students use the crosswalk between Fraternity Court and the area between Kenan Music Building and AbernathyGap Hall on North Columbia Street. Bloomberg News, speaks about government transparency. the immediate social and academic support board member Roger Perry told fellow board Freshmen assimilation at center of rush issue it provides new members. members that he believed deferring rush The direction of the discussion changed would be a beneficial change to the Greek CORRECTION BY C. RYAN BARBER forward to us by members of board and com- when Chuck Lovelace, executive director of system. Wednesday’s page 1 graphic, AND ANDY THOMASON munity is that forcing freshman to make a the Morehead-Cain Foundation, said mov- The suggestion prompted the creation of “Connecting the Dots,” incor- SENIOR WRITERS decision in the first 10 days that affects their ing rush to the spring is a necessary change the committee, which pledged to look both rectly stated the minimum sanc- Big changes are in store for the Greek next four years is not fair to them,” said com- to improve both the freedom of incoming at other universities’ Greek systems and tion for academic dishonesty. system. mittee chairman and board member Alston freshmen as well as Greek life. more closely at UNC’s. The usual sanction is a semester’s But members of the Board of Trustees com- Gardner in an interview Tuesday. “I don’t think you can really make a substan- The committee found that similar public suspension, but the minimum mittee responsible for making a recommen- He said the committee will continue its tive change to the culture unless you change universities’ systems put greater emphasis sanction includes a failing grade dation to the University are still unsure about review of the system by looking inward at the the platform it launches off of,” Lovelace said. on a large network of alumni for support. in the course and probation for a the best method to carry out that change. experience of freshmen who consider but elect The committee is examining how best Gardner said the University of Indiana, with semester, among other possible And while many agree that recruitment not to join the Greek system. But that’s all that to improve the freshman experience and its roughly 400 alumni advisers, provides an sanctions. The Daily Tar Heel is at the root of the issue, some board mem- seems to be certain of the board’s next steps. not the Greek system as a whole — a senti- intriguing model for the future of the system. apologizes for the error. bers and University officials are at odds with At a meeting Wednesday of the board’s ment echoed by Vice Chancellor for Student Indiana University, along with the Big Ten Greek leaders over whether moving rush to the University affairs committee, speakers Affairs Winston Crisp. Conference as a whole, could serve as a good spring would most effectively link the Greek debated whether deferring rush to the spring “What I’m about and what I’ve always model, said Pete Smithhisler, president and this day in history and campus communities and avoid pigeon- was beneficial to the system and students. been about is how we improve our students’ CEO of the North-American Interfraternity holing new members in their organizations. Several local and national Greek leaders success across the board,” Crisp said. SEP. 23, 1880 … “The biggest concern that has been put spoke in support of keeping fall rush, citing The process began when committee and SEE GREEKS, PAGE 11 The University opens a School of Medicine and Pharmacy within the greater Medical uNC faces work study demand education ﬁnancing School. It would serve as a BY MADIHA BHATTI AND “More students are valuing Ort said the American Recovery precursor to today’s Eshelman KATYAYANI JHAVERI the ability to work,” she said. and Reinvestment Act gave UNC an to dominate meeting STAFF WRITERS “Awareness of unemployment and additional $500,000 last year for School of Pharmacy. This year, the Office of their parents’ situations contribute its work study program. This year, BY VICTORIA STILWELL Next year, both districts will lose Scholarships and Student Aid to their appreciation for it.” those funds will not be coming. CITY EDITOR millions of dollars in federal and Today’s weather received 40 student work study She added that the University Despite the decreased percent- Two school districts minus mil- state funding as stimulus money applications — for one job. offers work study like an airline age of government funding, the lions of dollars in funding equals dries up. Putting tanning beds “This has never happened sells plane tickets: They over- Office of Scholarships and Student one uncertain future for Orange “What we’re looking at is a out of business. before,” said Shirley Ort, associate book so to ensure that the space Aid will look for more ways to pay County education. potential gap of $7.9 million,” said H 95, L 68 provost and director of the Office of is full, or in this case, so that all for the program, such as matching The school boards from Chapel Orange County Schools spokesman Scholarships and Student Aid. “We the money available is used. If funds from the state. Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Michael Gilbert. would like to think it is because we the University did not do this, Ort And Ort said the University will Orange County Schools will meet This would equal a loss of about Friday’s weather are a nice place to work.” said the total funding would not figure out how to pay all the stu- tonight with the Board of Orange 131 new-teacher positions, he said. The University is trying to place be used, because not all students dents who want jobs. Make sure to use County Commissioners to discuss “We have under 1,000 employ- more students than last year with accept work study jobs. “Carolina has never rescinded how this new math could affect the ees total,” Gilbert said. “There’s no that koozie. work study jobs — hundreds lined Suzanne Rucker, a museum offers of work-study or cut jobs, next school year. way we could lose one in 10.” H 93, L 67 up on the brick walkway outside administrator at Ackland Art and we won’t this year either,” Ort “The whole agenda is focused on Pedersen said his district stands Vance Hall on Aug. 24 to apply. Museum, said the museum hired said. “If more students accept the financial issues,” said Neil Pedersen, to lose 5 to 6 percent of its budget index And the University is giving out 24 people this year, though at least funds than what we have planned, superintendent of Chapel Hill- if the county doesn’t do something less money than last year because three times that many applied for we will use some institutional Carrboro City Schools.

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