$1.

50

SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 2012

Committee: No age discrimination for cop

Police officer loses another round in grievance against Chapel Hill
Department, filed a complaint against the department because he believed he was transferred to a different position one he didnt want and knew little about as a form of constructive discharge, because he wouldnt retire. They have made my work environment so hard to deal with that they want me to just leave, he told the committee during a hearing in March. They dont know me. I wont do it. The committee, which is a citizen committee that hears employee grievances, heard testimony during the hearing from Chapel Hill Police Chief Chris Blue, Chapel Hill Assistant Chief Leo Vereen and Carden. The committee for warded its recommendation to Town Manager Roger Stancil, who is expected to make a decision about Cardens grievance on Wednesday, according to Carden. After listening to the testimony, which was held in a hearing open to the public at Cardens request, the committee went into a closed session to discuss the evidence. The Committee wanted to note for the record that they appreciate the ser vice Lt. Carden has provided to our community, the finding said. However, after carefully considering the facts as presented
BVELLIQUETTE@HERALDSUN.COM; 919-419-6632

BY BETH VELLIQUETTE

CHAPEL HILL The Chapel Hill Personnel Appeals Committee has unanimously agreed that an age discrimination grievance filed by a Chapel Hill police lieutenant was unfounded. Robert Carden, 55, a lieutenant who had been working in criminal investigations for 16 years at the Chapel Hill Police

by the appellant and the department, the Committee unanimously agreed that the grievance was not well founded and the decision to transfer Mr. Carden should be upheld. The committees report continued by saying that it feels that when managers and super visors have premature and unsolicited discussions regarding an employees retirement, they are
SEE COP/PAGE 3

Three-year-old Quiz Bowl team at CHS qualifies for Nationals

CHH@HERALDSUN.COM; 419-6675

Buzzer beaters

BY KAYLEE BAKER

Jury selection to begin in Carrboro murder trial

BVELLIQUETTE@HERALDSUN.COM; 919-419-663

CARRBORO Jason Ilieve loves academics. He loves facts, trivia, geography, Wikipedia and filling his brain with compelling information. But Ilieve, a Carrboro High School senior, also loves competition dirty, tough, intense and fast-paced competition. When Ilieve was a freshman, he could not find an organization outside the classroom into which he could pour his passion for learning and academics. Ilieve said the school offered few outlets for testing knowledge in the form of competition. Now in the second semester of his senior year, Ilieve and about seven other students spend their lunch period on Wednesdays quizzing each other on topics from obscure literature to sports. These students make up CHSs Quiz Bowl team, which Ilieve founded as a sophomore. During their Wednesday lunch periods, shouting and buzzing can be heard from their practice room, where they prepare for actual Quiz Bowl competitions with mock versions of the heated match. The team is student-led, a rarity for a North Carolina Quiz Bowl team. My role as leader is to make sure people know how to play, but as far as answering questions goes, we are each leaders on the topics we specialize in, said Ilieve. Im good at state geography, while another team member is good at literature and classics. About five miles down the road, laughter, quizzing and buzzing can be heard from a classroom in Chapel Hill High School ever y Monday during lunch. CHHSs Quiz Bowl team, about double the size of Carrboro Highs at full capacity, loves the thrill of learning as well, but say their interest in the game is fueled by the fun and enter-

BY BETH VELLIQUETTE

Jason Ilieve is the President and founder of Carrboro High Schools Quiz Bowl Team. Quiz Bowl is a competition in the North Carolina Scholastic Association Activities Scholastic Tournament. tainment rather than the competition. English teacher Ormand Moore has coached the team for more than eight years. Both teams knowledge, skills, and more than a semesters worth of practicing were tested March 24, at the Nor th Carolina Association for Scholastic Activities State Quiz Bowl Tournament. The teams traveled to Atkins Academic and Technology High School in Winston Salem to show off their talents. The competition consisted of eight
SEE BUZZER/PAGE 5

The Herald-Sun | Ashley Blue

HILLSBOROUGH Jur y selection is set to begin Monday or Tuesday in the first-degree murder trial of Brian Gregor y Minton, who is charged in the killing of Joshua Bailey in 2008. Jur y selection is expected to take most of the first week, and Orange-Chatham District Attorney Jim Woodall said he expects the presentation of evidence will likely begin April 9. Minton, 22, is facing firstdegree murder and first-degree kidnapping charges in the death of Bailey, who disappeared in the summer of 2008. Investigators believe that Bailey, who was 20 when he died, had been peripherally involved with a group of teens and twentysomethings from the Chapel Hill and Carrboro area, who were involved in drugs, break-ins and guns. When they suspected that one of the their gang had snitched to police, they focused in on Bailey, whom they beat and kidnapped, then drove him to an isolated area northwest of Carrboro, where one of them shot and killed Bailey, according to investigators. Baileys parents had adopted Bailey when he was a child, knowing that he had been born with fetal alcohol syndrome. He had cognitive disabilities and was somewhat naive and easily manipulated but a good-hearted and loving son, they said. Woodall previously stated in open court that he believed a
SEE JURY/PAGE 3

Mothers who kill themselves and their children W

hat do the deaths of killing herself and the children. a woman and her two The white operator of the train children in South unwillingly became a part of Africa and the fictional the tragedy. death of an American While visiting Chapel mother and her children Hill last week as a part have to do with each of the Morgan Family other? What do they Writer-in-Residence have to do with us? And Program, noted South what do they have to do African playwright Athol with North Carolina Fugard explained how Bookwatch on UNC-TV his reading a newspaper this afternoon at 5? D.G. Martin account of this event led Hold on. These to his writing the recent stories are dark. play The Train Driver. In South Africa, Pumla At first he tried to make the Lolwana, a black woman from drama work from the point a squatter camp carrying three of view of the woman who young children, deliberately killed herself and her children. stepped in front of a train, What, he asked himself, were the conditions in South Africa or the squatter camp or her personal life that could have led her to this awful act, throwing her life and her children into certain death? Fugard could not do it. He told the North Carolina audience that he just could not get inside the head of the woman. He knew the facts were compelling, but he could not make the character work. Later he realized that there was another story, the one of the unwilling killer, the driver of the train. Fugard found he could identify with this white man and was able to step into his shoes and write the play.

BOOKWATCH | 5 p.m. on April 8

The April 8 guest is Chapel Hill native and UNC-Chapel Hill professor Charlene Regester, author of African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 19001960. From Birth of a Nation in 1915 to Hattie McDaniel in Gone with the Wind, to Ethel Waters in Member of the Wedding in 1952, African-American actresses made their way into American movies in the first half of the last century. In her new book, Regester tells the real stories of these women who became stars in a time of segregation and oppression.

In Fugards play, the train driver, haunted, depressed and driven, goes back to the womans village to track down her story and to find relief from the guilt he feels for his part in her death.

What he finds, instead of satisfaction or relief, are more things to make him feel guilty. The conditions of the squatter camp and the plight of the
SEE MOTHERS/PAGE 3

Business...............Page.D9 Classifieds.......Page.5,.B6 Crossword. ..Page.3,.5,.D4 . Editorials..........Page.2,.D7 Obituaries............Page.C2

Copyright 2012, Durham Herald Co. Inc.

HOW TO REACH US
Circulation Service 419-6900. Display Advertising 419-6700 Classified Advertising 419-6910 Obituaries 419-6640. Weddings 419-6610 The Chapel Hill Herald Newsroom 419-6654

SEE AN ERROR?
Call Betsy ODonovan at 419-6675 or email her at eodonovan@ heraldsun.com

Sports...................Page.B1 Television............... INSIDE

COMMUNITY NEWS LOCAL FACES: If your civic group has share, send us information, and a photo if elected new officers or received an honor, possible, to chh@heraldsun.com. send the information and photo to chh@ WISH YOU WERE HERE: Have you been heraldsun.com. somewhere special recently? Send us a THATS MY KID: If your child has done photo of your vacation to chh@heraldsun. something special that you would like to com.