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hat do the deaths oa woman and her twochildren in South

Arica and the fctionaldeath o an Americanmother and her children

ave to do with eachother? What do they

ave to do with us? And

what do they have to dowith North CarolinaBookwatch on UNC-TVthis aternoon at 5?

Hold on. Thesestories are dark.

In South Arica, PumlaLolwana, a black woman roma squatter camp carrying threeyoung children, deliberatelystepped in ront o a train,

killing hersel and the children.The white operator o the trainunwillingly became a part o

the tragedy.While visiting Chapel

Hill last week as a parto the Morgan Family

Writer-in-ResidenceProgram, noted South

Arican playwright AtholFugard explained howhis reading a newspaperaccount o this event ledto his writing the recentplay The Train Driver.

At frst he tried to make thedrama work rom the pointo view o the woman whokilled hersel and her children.

What, he asked himsel, were

the conditions in South Aricaor the squatter camp or herpersonal lie that could have ledher to this awul act, throwingher lie and her children intocertain death?

Fugard could not do it.He told the North Carolinaaudience that he just could

not get inside the head o thewoman. He knew the acts werecompelling, but he could notmake the character work.

Later he realized that therewas another story, the one othe unwilling killer, the drivero the train. Fugard ound hecould identiy with this whiteman and was able to step intohis shoes and write the play.

In Fugards play, the traindriver, haunted, depressedand driven, goes back to the

womans village to track downher story and to fnd relie romthe guilt he eels or his part inher death.

What he inds , instead osatisaction or relie, are morethings to make him eel guilty.

The conditions o the squattercamp and the plight o the

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Mothers who kill themselves and their children

HILLSBOROUGH Juryselection is set to begin Mondayor Tuesday in the irst-degreemurder trial o Brian GregoryMinton, who is charged in the kill-ing o Joshua Bailey in 2008.

Jur y selection is expected totake most o the irst week, andOrange-Chatham District Attor-ney Jim Woodall said he expectsthe presentation o evidence willlikely begin April 9.

Minton, 22, is acing irst-

degree murder and irst-degreekidnapping charges in the deatho Bailey, who disappeared in thesummer o 2008.

Investigators believe that Bai-ley, who was 20 when he died, hadbeen peripherally involved withgroup o teens and twentysome-things rom the Chapel Hill andCarrboro area, who were involvedin drugs, break-ins and guns.

When they suspected that oneo the their gang had snitched topolice, they ocused in on Bailey,

whom they beat and kidnapped,then drove him to an isolated are

northwest o Carrboro, where oneo them shot and killed Bailey,according to investigators.

Baileys parents had adoptedBailey when he was a child, know-ing that he had been born withetal alcohol syndrome. He hadcognitive disabilities and wassomewhat naive and easily manip-ulated but a good-hearted and lov-ing son, they said.

Woo da ll pr ev io us ly st at edin open court that he believed

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Jury selectionto begin inCarrboro

murder trialBY BETH VELLIQUETTE

BVELLIQUETTE@HERALDSUN.COM; 919-419-663

CARRBORO Jason Ilieve lovesacademics. He loves acts, trivia, geog-raphy, Wikipedia and flling his brainwith compelling inormation. ButIlieve, a Carrboro High School senior,also loves competition dirty, tough,intense and ast-paced competition.

When Il ieve was a reshma n, hecould not fnd an organization outsidethe classroom into which he couldpour his passion or learning and aca-demics. Ilieve said the school oeredew outlets or testing knowledge in

the orm o competition.Now in the second semester o his

senior year, Ilieve and about sevenother students spend their lunch peri-od on Wednesdays quizzing each otheron topics rom obscure literature tosports.

These students make up CHSs QuizBowl team, which Ilieve ounded as asophomore. During their Wednesdayunch periods, shouting and buzzing

can be heard rom their practice room,where they prepare or actual QuizBowl competitions with mock versionso the heated match. The team is stu-dent-led, a rarity or a North CarolinaQuiz Bowl team.

My role as leader is to make surepeople know how to play, but as ar asanswering questions goes, we are eacheaders on the topics we specialize in,

said Ilieve. Im good at state geogra-phy, while another team member isgood at literature and classics.

Abo ut ive miles down the road,aughter, quizzing and buzzing can beeard rom a classroom in Chapel Hill

High School every Monday duringunch. CHHSs Quiz Bowl team, about

double the size o Carrboro Highs atull capacity, loves the thrill o learn-

ing as well, but say their interest in thegame is ueled by the un and enter-

tainment rather than the competition.English teacher Ormand Moore hascoached the team or more than eight

years.Both teams knowledge, skills,

and more than a semesters worth opracticing were tested March 24, atthe North Carolina Association or

Scholastic Activities State Quiz BowlTour nament . The teams traveled toAtkins Academic and Technology HighSchool in Winston Salem to show otheir talents.

The competit ion consisted o eight

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Buzzer beatersBY KAYLEE BAKER

CHH@HERALDSUN.COM; 419-6675

CHAPEL HILL The Cha-pel Hill Personnel Appeals Com-mittee has unanimously agreedthat an age discriminationgrievance fled by a Chapel Hillpolice lieutenant was unound-ed.

Robert Carden, 55, a lieuten-ant who had been working incriminal investigations or 16

years at the Chapel Hill Police

Department, iled a complaintagainst the department becausehe believed he was transerredto a dierent position one hedidnt want and knew little about as a orm o constructivedischarge, because he wouldntretire.

They have made my workenvironment so hard to deal

with that they want me to justleave, he told the committeeduring a hearing in March.

They dont know me. I wont

do it.The committee, which is a

citizen committee that hearsemployee grievances, heard tes-timony during the hearing romChapel Hill Police Chie ChrisBlue, Chapel Hill AssistantChie Leo Vereen and Carden.

The committee or war dedits recommendation to TownManager Roger Stancil, whois expected to make a deci-sion about Cardens grievance

on Wednesday, according to

Carden.Ater listening to the testimo-

ny, which was held in a hearingopen to the public at Cardensrequest, the committee wentinto a closed session to discussthe evidence.

The Committee wanted tonote or the record that theyappreciate the service Lt.Carden has provided to ourcommunity, the inding said.However, ater careully con-

sidering the acts as presented

by the appellant and the depart-ment, the Committee unani-mously agreed that the griev-ance was not well ounded andthe decision to transer Mr.Carden should be upheld.

The committees report con-tinued by saying that it eels that

when managers and super vi-sors have premature and unso-licited discussions regarding anemployees retirement, they are

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Committee: No age discrimination for copBY BETH VELLIQUETTE

BVELLIQUETTE@HERALDSUN.COM;919-419-6632

Police ofcer loses another round in grievance against Chapel Hill

BOOKWATCH | 5 p.m. on April 8The April 8 guest is Chapel Hill native and UNCChapel 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 Gonewith the Wind, to Ethel Waters in Member of the Wedding in 1952,AfricanAmerican actresses made their way into American movies in

the rst half of the last century. In her new book, Regester tells the realstories of these women who became stars in a time of segregationand oppression.

D.G. Martin

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

The HeraldSun | Ashley Blue

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.