The Daily Tar Heel for February 5, 2009

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VOLUME 116, ISSUE 143

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Setting the course for the

ENVIRONMENT

By Eliza kern

dive | page 5 IMAGES OF INDUSTRY An exhibit at the Ackland Art Museum focuses on the art of industry, showing coal, iron and steam since 1750 in a merger of history and art.

forum of record ATTEND THE DTH FORUM We’re hosting a public forum for students to ask student body president candidates questions.

7 p.m. today Union multipurpose room Can’t attend? Too shy to speak?

Submit questions in advance at DailyTarHeel.com/sbpforum.

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Staff Writer

It’s not up to the student body president to ensure that the dining halls have organic food. Nor is it his or her job to create renewable energy projects on campus.

When it comes to environmental issues, the president serves not as a policy setter, but as a key promoter of ongoing initiatives.

With more than 18 passionate and knowledgeable environmental groups on campus, the president’s job is to facilitate and advocate for others’ projects, not to initiate new programs.

Though the next president won’t be counted on to come up with new ideas, his or her support is vital for an idea’s success.

“The SBP doesn’t need to be totally hands-on,” said environmental affairs committee co-chairman Bill Bobbitt, who also works for Thomas Edwards’ campaign.

“The environmental affairs committee is the expert, and if the SBP feels like they know what’s best for the community, they should just give them full steam ahead.”

Director of Sustainability Cindy Shea said that she has talked with many of the candidates about their platforms and that she welcomes their help in promoting a green lifestyle.

“It’s always a process of getting better,” she said. “If student govern-

The issues

This week, The Daily Tar Heel is examining the top issues facing the next student body president. Friday: budget concerns

Carbon neutrality and alternative energy The University’s commitment to carbon-neutrality by 2050 will require more sustainable energy alternatives.

The student body president can advocate for institutional changes and encourage students to adopt sustainable practices. Implementing building and energy guidelines fall to facilities services and the office of sustainability.

From the candidates

The candidates have several platform points addressing the environment. Here are some of their proposals:

Campus dining Several campus groups want to increase sustainable food options in campus dining locations. There is also a large push for reusable containers to replace Styrofoam. The president can meet with administrators and student groups to encourage change in dining options and practices. He or she can also encourage students to use these new options.

Recycling and waste management Campus groups have pushed for recycling programs in Granville Towers and Greek houses. Past presidents worked with administrators to reform the printing system to reduce paper. Many of this year’s candidates want to reduce paper by using alternatives to blue books and Scantron sheets — which would require faculty and departmental consent.

Water conservation

Michael Betts

Push Carolina on a track to being a paperless campus.

Work with committees to increase campus energy efficiency.

Create a green events guide to publish the activities of student groups.

Ron Bilbao Work with the Environmental Affairs committee to get funding or grants for more recycling bins around campus.

Hold environmental training to teach students and groups good practices.

Create a sustainability outreach officer to coordinate efforts between parties.

Thomas Edwards Clarify and discuss the mission statements of all environmental groups to avoid overlap and increase efficiency.

Decrease the amount of bottled water sold on campus.

Create a bicycle-sharing program.

Jasmin Jones

Last year’s drought brought to light the issue of water use on campus, and many of this year’s candidates are pushing for water usage changes, including installing shower heads and toilets that use less of water. The ultimate decision to install these measures rests with facilities services and the housing department.

Create incentives for students living offcampus to use mass transit instead driving to minimize gasoline emissions.

Work with Chapel Hill businesses to encourage more environmentally friendly practices such as less packaging.

See environment, Page 9

Ashley Klein Ensure that products bearing the UNC logo are all produced by eco-friendly manufacturers.

Increase the proportion of food Carolina Dining Services purchases from local and organic farmers.

sports | page 3 SIGNS POINT UP UNC signed three out of Rivals.com’s top four in-state football prospects and 12 of the top 35.

Matt Wohlford Evaluate campus sprinkler systems to more efficiently use water.

Create a program where students can buy Green Stickers to put on reusable containers to use them as alternatives to dining hall disposable boxes and cups.

university | page 3 MICROFINANCE GURU Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus’s speech today is expected to draw more crowds than the auditorium will hold, prompting the speech to be broadcast at other locations.

online | dailytarheel.com ELECTIONS GUIDE Student body president candidates list their top three campaign priorities, as well as speak via video about tuition, academics and safety.

this day in history FEB. 5, 1966 …

Students petition against Communist lecturer Herbert Aptheker, who was invited to speak by student government and The Daily Tar Heel.

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Cuts would threaten classes, jobs

by Andrew Dunn University Editor

The University has put together scenarios for what it would have to do if the state mandates permanent budget cuts — and the results would touch every aspect of life at UNC. In November, the UNC system was forced to undergo a one-time 5 percent budget cut and has since been instructed to reduce budgets by an additional 1 percent.

Administrators fear that significant budget cuts could be made permanent, and the possibility has caused a stir within the Faculty Council and Employee Forum.

The University was asked last

DTH ONLINE: Read the full report to the Board of Governors detailing budget cut scenarios. month to project what would happen if cuts were extended.

Documents sent Tuesday to the UNC-system Board of Governors give the most specifics of how these cuts would affect life at UNC. Even at the lowest possible level, administrators say the needed cuts would severely hurt the University academically and significantly impair research.

Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.

3 percent 5 percent 7 percent Cancel 212 courses in the College of Arts and Sciences and journalism school.

Cancel 517 class sections; 236 undergraduate and 281 graduate.

Cancel 41 faculty searches.

Cut 39 non-faculty jobs.

Release hundreds of temporary faculty and staff positions.

Reduce ability to serve 603 students at existing class sizes.

Cancel 282 courses.

Cancel 442 courses.

Cancel 717 class sections.

Cut 232 faculty positions.

Cut 121 faculty positions.

Cut 178 non-faculty jobs.

Cut 86 non-faculty jobs.

The number of undergraduate classes with more than 100 students would reach an all-time high.

UNC would have to mandate a five-day furlough for nearly all employees.

Reduce the University’s enrollment by 3,426 students, or the equivalent population of a first-year class.

Three department chairman positions would not be filled.

The school’s accreditation status would be jeopardized.

Y elections now gender-blind Candidates’ plans for Student elections

By Dean Drescher Staff writer

The Campus Y has abolished a decades-old amendment to its constitution that had required one male and one female to serve as co-presidents.

The decision, made last month at an executive cabinet meeting, allows this year’s co-presidents to be of the same gender.

“Originally the rule was put in to make it more fair for women, who were a minority at the school, but times have changed,” said Jeff Chen, Campus Y co-president.

“Holding with the Y’s stance on diversity, the majority of the cabinet felt that the rule was counterproductive to the mission the Campus Y was founded on.”

The tradition dates back to 1963, when the YMCA and YWCA on campus were combined. Today, the Campus Y is the largest service organization at UNC. Three candidates are vying for this years co-presidency positions: two females and one male.

Jimmy Waters, current Campus Y minister of information, is the

sole male candidate. Waters indicated no stance regarding the amendment abolition.

“I think that there are both advantages and disadvantages that will be shown in future years,” Waters said.

“Whether it was the right decision will be determined by time and future elections.”

The two female candidates, Maryam Farooq and Chelsea Journigan, said that a candidate’s gender should be irrelevant.

“I don’t think gender should be the deciding factor in a leader,” Farooq said.

Elizabeth McCain and Austin Hairfield, candidates for the minister of information position, said they believed the Campus Y was moving in the right direction by repealing the amendment.

“It makes it a more competitive election process and only the most qualified candidates, regardless of gender, will be elected,” Hairfield said.

McCain, a member of the executive committee that made the decision to abolish the amendment,

Candidates for Campus Y offices

Co-Presidents (2 spots) Jimmy Waters Maryam Farooq Chelsea Journigan

Minister of Information Austin Hairfield Elizabeth McCain

Internal Treasurer Allison Howard

External Treasurer Empty

said she thought, if necessary, the decision could be reversed.

“We believe it is a step towards equal opportunity, and we’re always up for amending it should it prove to be ineffective,” McCain said.

At a forum held Wednesday night — which about 25 students attended — candidates for the copresident, minister of information, and internal treasurer positions

See campus y, Page 9

ASG involvement vary

By Olivia Bowler Senior Writer

The next student body president candidate will have to decide how best to represent UNC-Chapel Hill in a statewide student leader association.

Few of the candidates, however, have specifically outlined their plans for the UNCsystem Association of Student Governments in their platforms, and only one has ever attended a meeting.

The ASG, an organization of student leaders from across the system, has the power to lobby the state legislature on behalf of the students and takes $1 in fees from each student in the system to fund its projects.

In addition, the ASG president represents the only student voice on the UNC-system Board of Governors, which weighs in on tuition issues annually.

Despite the ASG’s ability to

“A lot of times they don’t really get a lot of familiarity with ASG until they are elected.”

JEFF NIEMAN, FORMER ASG PRESIDENT advocate for the students at the state level, the organization’s history of inefficiency and infighting has left some candidates uncertain about its effectiveness.

“I would work with ASG and attend meetings as long as I felt like it was directly beneficial to the Chapel Hill student body,” candidate Thomas Edwards said.

Current Student Body President J.J. Raynor’s decision to send a permanent delegate in her place ruffled some feathers in the ASG, and the

See ASG, Page 9

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ecause of plummeting ad revenue, Juicy Campus, the online college gossip site, shut down today.

The site prompted controversy and lawsuits concerning anonymous hate speech and targeted gossip claims.

Wednesday, amongst last-minute juicy chatter about students’ love lives and rants about campus groups, people posted about the shutdown.

“I think shutting it down could ultimately be a good thing,” sophomore Amanda Curtiss said. “It can pretty much destroy relationships. It’s just not healthy.”

In spite of the mean-spirited personal attacks, the site prompted a healthy discussion about internet censorship, CEO Matt Ivester said in a press release.

NOTED. A traveller passing through the Sydney airport en route from Dubai was arrested for hiding two live pigeons in his pants during the flight. Australia has strict guidelines on the importation of wildlife, plants and food into the country.

The pigeons were wrapped in stuffed envelopes and held to the man’s legs inside a pair of tights worn under his pants.

QUOTED. “It wasn’t mine.”

— Atlanta cab driver Walter Fernandez on his return of a bag full of valuable items to a former passenger.

Fernandez, 64, discovered the bag — which contained three diamond rings, a Rolex watch and other valuable goods worth several thousand dollars — on the floor of his cab.

He earned a $200 reward for his kindness.

COMMUNITY CALENDAr today

Friday

Silent (No More) auction: Proceeds benefit the Family Violence Prevention Center of Orange County and UNC Healthcare Beacon Child and Family Program.

Time: 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Location: William and Ida Friday Center

Group meeting: “New Horizons,” a group for widowed individuals meets once a month, usually in Durham or Chapel Hill.

Time: 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.

Location: Nantucket Grill, 5925 Farrington Road

Lecture: Stephen Greenblatt, a Harvard Shakespeare scholar, will present the John W. Pope Lecture on Renewing the Western Tradition. He will discuss “The Strange Travels of Shakespeare’s ‘Cardenio.’”

Time: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Location: Hanes Art Center auditorium Jazz: The David Youngman Quartet plays jazz selections and popular composers from the 20th century, combining those traditions with more contemporary interpretations.

Time: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Location: Pittsboro General Store, 39 West St.

Workshop: International students are invited to attend a workshop titled “Understanding Americans: Customs, Culture and Communications.” Registration will be available soon.

Time: 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Location: Graduate Student Center, 211A W. Cameron Ave. Lecture: J. Clayton Fant of the University of Akron will give a lecture titled “Carrying Caesar’s Marbles: Wheels, Hulls and Locatioconductio.” Presented by the classics department.

Time: 5 p.m.

Location: Murphey Hall, Room 104

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Lecture: Professor Jonathan M. Lees in the geology department will describe his travels around the globe studying volcanoes. A roundtable discussion with coffee or tea and cookies will follow.

Time: 7 p.m.

Location: Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, Banquet Hall Recital: Faculty from the Department of Music will perform.

Soprano Melissa Martin and pianist Wonmin Kim will perform works

by Wagner, Verdi, Gounod and Dvorak.

Time: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Location: Hill Hall

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he brothers of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity receive money from Patience Obasaju while collecting money for St. Jude Hospital. The brothers have been holding different events all week. Today was their wacky tacky day, which they hoped would help draw attention to themselves.

Police log n Police responded Tuesday to a car break-in on Carver Street, according to Chapel Hill police reports.

Someone smashed the driver’s side window and caused $300 worth of damage, reports state.

A $100 GPS unit was stolen from the car, reports state. n A man was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with a fictitious registration, according to Chapel Hill police reports.

Reports state that police saw a vehicle pulling into University Ford at 2 a.m. They checked the license plate, which did not belong on the vehicle, reports state.

Michael Levon Purdie, 41, of 1250 Ephesus Church Road, was arrested and is due back in court March 17, reports state. n Two people were cited for possession of marijuana Tuesday on West Rosemary Street, according to Chapel Hill police reports.

Tameika Denise Hunter, 22, of Carrboro, had 1.8 grams of marijuana in her possession, reports state. Cordell O. Baldwin, 19, of Efland, had 1.6 grams, reports state. n Someone dumped a desk in the parking lot of a Standish Drive apartment complex Tuesday, according to Chapel Hill police reports.

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BSM endorses Jasmin Jones for student body president Student body president candidate Jasmin Jones earned the Black Student Movement’s pick for student body president at a forum held Wednesday evening.

Jones discussed the programs she has planned, which include a violence prevention program in which male students play a greater role. Another program, called “Join a group for a day,” allows members of certain organizations to be part of another organization for a day.

But members of BSM wanted to know how she would measure her success if she wins.

Jones responded that if her decisions and actions were to positively affect students, then she would be successful.

“We’re one of the largest minority organizations on campus and we represent a large part of the student body,” said Mykia Johnson, membership and elections cochairwoman. “Whatever group we decide to endorse can affect the campus in a major way.”

Edwards, Jones endorsed in transfer, nonresident forum Student Body President candidates Jasmin Jones and Thomas Edwards received endorsements at a joint forum held Wednesday night.

The forum was sponsored by a number of groups for out-of-state and transfer students. All students who showed up could vote.

Jones received seven of the 17 out-of-state votes, and Edwards received four of the seven transferstudent votes, to win their respective endorsements.

As out-of-state students, Jones and Edwards voiced their ability to relate to students’ needs.

Five candidates attended the forum, and Michael Betts sent a representative.

The forum gave students the opportunity to ask specific questions and mingle with the candidates afterward.

In a separate event sponsored by the Carolina Debate Association and held later that evening, candidates answered students’ questions and also posed questions to each other.

The debate was broadcast live by Student Television.

The group plans to air the debate online at iTunesU or Google Video.

Congress shoots down two fee hikes, OKs referendum Congress voted down a referendum to increase the Child Care Services Fee — which would help fund care services for student parents — and a referendum to increase the Student Government Student Activity Fee — which raises almost a million dollars to help fund student groups.

It also voted not to create a proposed Legislative Audit Board, which would assist in reviewing groups’ funding requests.

But Congress did pass a referendum for students to vote to renew a student fee to fund renewable energy projects on campus and in North Carolina.

The referendum will appear on the Feb. 10 ballot.

CITY BRIEFS

City school board will meet and discuss student policies

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CAROLINA NORTH

First center may be delayed

By Katy Doll

are working on a development agreement for most of the 250acre research campus with regular joint meetings and plan to put it up for approval by the end of June.

The University asked town officials to approve the Innovation Center before the rest of the campus because it was originally planned to be built as early as this year.

But the economy has forced the company that is building the Innovation Center, Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc., to wait until conditions improve to begin construction.

Jack Evans, executive director of Carolina North, said having the separate permit for the Innovation Center allows the University and

the developer to move forward whenever funds allow.

The larger development agreement expected in June will cover the Center, but even if it takes longer than expected to pass this agreement, the Innovation Center could still be constructed.

Many proposed buildings for Carolina North, such as the new law school, will rely on state funding. This could mean many years before construction begins, as state budgets are tight.

“Even though we don’t have money yet, it is important for us to move ahead with these discussions,” Evans said.

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Leaders look at budget options

Alexandria officials are still negotiating details of the lease for the The first building in UNC’s building. About 25 percent of the proposed research campus could building will be reserved for UNC start construction far later than technology staff, and the rest will 2011. be owned by UNC-related comThe permit issued when the panies. project was approved Jan. 26 Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy stipulates that the Innovation said even if an agreement for the Center at Carolina North must rest of Carolina North does not begin by 2011 and be finished by pass, the town manager and coun2013. cil have the authority to grant a But the required timeline will two-year extension on the special likely be much later. use permit, Foy said.

The Center, which aims to help “Everybody knows the economy start-up companies, will take the is bad right now,” Foy said. deadlines for the whole first phase “Essentially they’ve got about by mark abadi Staff Writer of Carolina North when town and four years to start, and I assume the Carrboro officials are trying to University officials come to a final economy will stabilize by then.” take a proactive role in reducing agreement. This would give it 20 the effects of the economic recesyears to build, officials said.

Contact the City Editor Town and University officials at citydesk@unc.edu. sion on residents.

They already implemented a soft hiring freeze — leaving noncritical positions unfilled — and discussed ways to manage the town’s budget.

Carrboro began the soft freeze in January, leaving two police jobs and one planning position unfilled until at least early March when the board reevaluates the budget.

The town decided against a Position: WR complete hiring freeze like that of t’s official: Coach Butch Davis’ 2008 recruitHeight: 6-2 Chapel Hill and will continue to ing class was no fluke. Davis and his assistant fill positions it deems immediately Weight: 185 coaches brought in the No. 8 class in the counnecessary, Alderman Lydia Lavelle Hometown: Gastonia, NC (Ashbrook) said. try this season, according to Rivals.com, and “It’s part of an overall strategy to Rivals.com ranking: No. 3 WR, No. 48 overexcelled in the state of North Carolina, signing 12 of save money,” said Lavelle. all “Our staff is looking at every its top 35 players.

Priority No. 1 for North Carolina was filling the gap single program in every departJheranie left by the departures of five receivers, including Some of the class’ real standouts come from inment and having them look at ways All-ACC Hakeem Nicks. Boyd, rated the No. 6 state; others fill crucial voids left by graduating Tar Boyd they can trim their budgets without wideout in the nation, eases that loss. With great affecting service.”

Heels. Here’s some of the best of the best. jumping ability and hands, Boyd can be a To pinpoint what the governgame-breaker along the lines of Brandon Tate. ment could do, town officials met Monday for a board retreat, where they discussed a list of 22 ideas to Position: DL Position: QB manage the town budget.

Height: 6-4 Height: 6-2 The press was not sent standard Weight: 235 e-mail notification prior to the Weight: 195 event.

Hometown: Jacksonville, N.C. (Northside) Hometown: West Springfield, Va. (West Some of the items suggested Springfield) Rivals.com ranking: No. 2 WDE, No. 16 were controlling the tax rate and overall Rivals.com ranking: No. 5 QB supporting the growth of environmentally friendly industry.

Butch Davis wants a speedy defensive line that can Renner gives UNC one of the 10 best quarterbacks “Green energy in Carrboro Donte generate more pressure on opposing quarterbacks, Bryn in the nation. His arm and overall athleticism means would provide jobs,” Alderman and to that end, Donte Moss can help, especially Moss Renner that there is some serious potential coming in Joal Hall Broun said. “And having with UNC’s young defensive line. Moss is ranked behind T.J. Yates. people install solar panels can help the best player in North Carolina by the Charlotte them pay for their rent, clothe their Observer. children and buy food to eat.”

Broun said with falling tax revPosition: QB/ATH Position: DL enues and an increasing number of residents seeking aid from social Height: 6-2 Height: 6-3 services, Carrboro residents will Weight: 205 Weight: 295 need the government to help them Hometown: Cartersville, Ga. (Cartersville) through the recession.

Hometown: Chapel Hill, NC (Chapel Hill) “Many more people are asking Rivals.com ranking: No. 5 ATH, No. 83 Rivals.com ranking: No. 12 DT for services, and the people asking overall A local recruit, and yet another speedy, athletic for services don’t fit the demographTate proved to be a sensational athlete in high defensive lineman, who can play inside or outside ics,” she said. “People with college Jared Donavan school, playing on both ends of the ball. Davis loves and really get to the quarterback. McAdoo showed educations are seeking aid because his charisma at quarterback and said Tate will start what he can do in the Shrine Bowl and proved why of layoffs and the downturn of the McAdoo Tate out playing under center, though he might move. he’s considered the No. 12 Defensive Tackle in the economy.

Tate is also a phenomenal baseball player and nation by ESPN.com.

“If we’re not the providers, how projected to be a top-10 pick in the MLB Draft. do they get those resources they need?” she said.

Assistant town manager Bing trying to contact him.

Carolina,” Davis said.

Roenigk was one of three speak“Burning up the cell phone line, calling “As much as possible, we want to turn ers who provided the board with mom, high school coach, baseball coach, over every stone in this state.” information at Monday’s meeting. football coach — everyone,” Davis said.

The strategy paid off, with five-star defenShe said that although the nation“We got out bloodhounds and FBI and sive end Donte Moss, four-star wide receiver al economy is struggling, she still By mike ehrlich CIA. Jheranie Boyd and defensive tackle Jared has found indicators that Orange senior writer “We’re like, ‘Did he get kidnapped, McAdoo, among others.

County is faring well.

Butch Davis was sitting by the fax machine hijacked? Do we have to get a ransom out?

The 2009 recruiting class is also notable for The county’s unemployment at 7:30 a.m. when the letters began to pour Did George Steinbrenner find him?’” its sheer size. The Tar Heels signed 29 players rate for December was 4.8 percent in.

Eventually, the mystery was solved — but only have 25 scholarships to dole out.

— the lowest in North Carolina, Ten minutes later, 14 of the eventual 29 Tate’s mother simply couldn’t locate a fax Davis said the practice of over-signing is Roenigk said. signees had their letters in, and Rivals.com’s machine until late morning. common among schools. The situation is “We have a stable employment No. 8-ranked recruiting class was beginning Tate was just one cog in a huge recruiting typically resolved by “grayshirting” players situation,” she said. to take shape. class that addressed some key needs for the for injuries or sending some temporarily Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton But where was Donavan Tate’s?

Tar Heels — and it all began close to home. to postgraduate schools and delaying their recognized the area’s relative ecoThe athletic quarterback and two-sport UNC signed three out of Rivals.com’s top entry into UNC. nomic status compared to the rest star from Cartersville, Ga., said he would four in-state prospects and 12 of the top North Carolina solved some positionof the U.S. have his letter of intent sent to UNC by 35. specific needs with the recruiting haul. After “But everyone’s feeling it right 7:30 a.m. But with Signing Day Live about “It started, first and foremost, that we now,” Chilton said. “Our tax revto begin at 10 a.m., Davis began frantically wanted to do a great job in the state of North See signing day, Page 4

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Carrboro works to lower costs

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ALL SIGNS POINT UP

Football team brings in nation’s No. 8 class

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. tonight at the Chapel Hill Town Hall.

The board will discuss, among others, the following topics: n Approving amendments for staff complaints. n Approving a law that would allow school officials to supervise students who are registered sex offenders. n Approving measures to ensure children of military fami- BY Joe Woodruff lies receive the same opportuni- Staff Writer ties for education as all other Sales tax revenues for Chapel Hill students. were down 1.24 percent in the most recent data, a potential hazard for Auction promotes money for next year’s budget.

“Sales tax revenues aren’t supdomestic violence awareness posed to go down,” said Town The Family Violence Prevention Manager Roger Stancil at the Center of Orange County and UNC Wednesday meeting of the Chapel Health Care’s Beacon Program are Hill Town Council. holding their fourth annual Silent The revenues, he said, are sup(No More!) Auction today. posed to provide the town with a The auction is the primary fund- constant stream of funds, but with raising event for these agencies, spending down, the government will and serves to raise funds for fam- have to make cuts. ily violence services and prevention The council met for preliminary efforts. discussions on next year’s budget.

The Family Violence Prevention As a result of the decrease in revCenter offers multiple services, enues, Stancil is asking town departincluding a 24-hour hotline, sup- ments to create two budget estimates port groups, court advocacy and for next year.

Latino/Latina services.

One estimate will evaluate the cost The auction will be at the of maintaining services with the curWilliam and Ida Friday Center rent budget, a best-case scenario. from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tickets The other will estimate the feasiare $35 in advance and $40 at the bility of maintaining services if a 3 door. percent budget cut is necessary.

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Town asked to plan for worst Microfinance guru, Less tax revenue could lead to cuts tax revenues for November will not be available until Feb. 15.

But losses for November are anticipated to be greater than for October, because national economic conditions deteriorated further, Stancil said.

The government is already cutting $2.5 million, or 5 percent, from this year’s spending. So far, $2.3 million has been transferred to a reserve.

The 2008-09 projected budget is about $50 million.

But Stancil said unforeseen events could impact the final goal.

“The drop in fuel prices will produce more savings,” he said. “Things like national championships will cost us money.”

Housing worries Representatives of three housing organizations asked the council for funds.

Susan Levy, executive director of the Orange County Habitat for Humanity, requested $450,000 to fund housing in the Rogers Road community.

Habitat is seeking the money to build Phoenix Place, a 50-home development, she said.

The organization still needs $900,000 to complete a $2.4 million budget, Levy said. Habitat will cover half of the cost and hopes to receive the remainder from the town.

Robert Dowling, executive director of Orange Community Housing and Land Trust, asked the council for $300,000 to help with the affordability and maintenance of homes.

The trust has 122 homes in Chapel Hill and expects to increase that figure by 30 percent next fiscal year.

The homeowners the trust represents are feeling the effects of the economic crisis, Dowling said.

Twenty of the homeowners are behind in payments, and one has received a foreclosure notice, he said.

Others have lost work hours or seen wages cut back.

Delores Bailey, executive director of Empowerment Inc., requested $200,000 to assist in the purchasing of affordable rental homes.

Stancil will present the final budget to the council May 6.

Nobel winner to speak

by Chelsea Bailey Staff WRITER

A speech today by 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus has attracted more interest than Koury Auditorium can hold.

Yunus, who received the award for his work alleviating poverty in developing countries, will speak about the role of microfinance to achieve social justice.

As of last week, about 1,200 people had e-mailed organizers saying they wanted to hear the lecture.

The auditorium holds fewer than 400 people.

“Yunus is the biggest person we’ve had speak here in my four years,” said Ryan Leatham, general coordinator for the Carolina Microfinance Initiative.

In 1976, Yunus, then a professor of economics at University of Chittagong in Bangladesh, began advocating the concept of microcredit — a system that provides small, collateral-free loans to the poor so that they can begin to pull Contact the City Editor themselves out of poverty.

Yunus was one of the first people at citydesk@unc.edu.

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus’s speech on microfinance is expected to draw hundreds.

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to advocate such a system, which has proven successful in developing countries across the world.

Today, Yunus’ concept has grown into the Grameen Bank, an internationally recognized microfinance bank with more than 7 million borrowers in 83,566 villages in Bangladesh.

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separates us,” Leatham said. losing its top five receivers from The success of Grameen, which last year, UNC signed five more, means “rural” in Bangla, has including Boyd and fellow fourencouraged the creation of thou- star Joshua Adams. sands of microfinance initiatives The Tar Heels also signed seven worldwide. defensive backs to the class to bol“Yunus is charismatic, but hum- ster the coverage unit. ble,” said Lisa Jones Christensen, “We said we needed speed, and a professor at the business school. a great deal of these guys can really “He’s an important example of some- run well,” Davis said. “We needed one fighting for social change.” playmakers, guys that can make The Nobel winner waived his plays that can change the complexhonorarium, payment for his ion of the ball game. And that’s in speech, but the University purchased the history of these guys.” multiple copies of his new book, Davis said that he expects about “Creating a World without Poverty: half of the class to step in and play Social Business and the Future of a role next year but that the real Capitalism,” which will be available test for the class will not come for for signing after the lecture. another two years, when most of Christensen said microfinance works because it’s based on a system of self-reliance and trust. from page 3 Loans typically are given to women, because they invest the money into enues are down, and it’s a difficult the home and choose to spend it on situation.” children and clothes. Women have Six local businesses and 10 nona 98 percent payback rate. profit organizations filled out sur“It’s not a hand out but a hand veys about the economic impact in CPA Ad-Contin Citysaid. and Marsalis.qxd:Layout 11:38 AM up,” Leatham response 1to a1/14/09 town request.

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The solid class, though, is another indication of a program on the rise.

“I think that there’s been a significant amount of buzz about this program for the last 18 months,” Davis said.

“As the wins have gotten better, certainly the stadium expansion, going to a bowl game, being on national television — there’s an awful lot of very, very positive momentum.

“And I think that the ’09 recruiting class just continues to add to another step in that process of building this program.”

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Chilton expressed concerns that the economic recession will lead to increased sales taxes.

“I’m not optimistic — I think it’s going to be difficult to cut costs enough,” he said.

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Employees fear job losses Meeting focuses on effect of budget cuts

By Danielle Adams Staff Writer

Chairman Tommy Griffin said he wasn’t going to mention the “F” word to start off the Employee Forum meeting Wednesday.

But talk of furloughs and layoffs was impossible to avoid when members began discussing the University’s budget crisis. Employees voiced worries of losing their jobs should budget cuts continue.

The University has already been asked to take a 6 percent budget cut for this fiscal year.

Administrators have warned of possible layoffs if the state makes such cuts permanent.

And since UNC-system President Erskine Bowles announced the possibility of furloughs­— forced time off without pay — last week, talk of job insecurity has been circulating among employees.

“It’s about more than just having to do without pay, though,” Griffin said.

“It’s about whether it will be done

fairly, who is going to be affected and who is not going to be affected.

There isn’t even enough information out to discuss it yet. It’s just been thrown out there.”

He added that because of the little information that has been provided, employees are concerned more than ever as to whether they will be able to keep their jobs.

Fo r u m m e m b e r s d e c i d e d Wednesday to hold a community meeting to discuss how they will handle layoffs, should they occur.

Anyone on campus may attend the meeting to ask questions. It will be held March 2 in the Great Hall of the Student Union.

“There are a lot of rumors and talk going on, and we just want to get the facts straight,” Griffin said. “That’s when we’ll talk about the budget crisis in more detail, because we should know more by then.”

Also on the agenda were committee reports and special presentations.

The membership and assignments committee presented their plans for the upcoming Employee Forum election, which will be held March 8.

Members of the forum are

nominated by fellow employees, and many of their terms will be up soon.

With more than half of the members leaving, attendees discussed possible ways to connect with other employees and to make the forum more widely known.

The staff relations, policies and practices committee also brought news to the meeting.

Mike McQuown, chairman of the committee, presented the issue of parking harassment of UNC employees.

Members discussed numerous occurrences when they were ticketed for parking in areas that were meant for employees.

One member of the forum was even ticketed for parking as a patient when off the job, as she was visiting a family member in the hospital.

Members also had concerns about parking without paying in certain lots and decks, and members voted unanimously to request for more clearly written parking policies.

“It’s becoming a really big problem,” McQuown said. “People have been abusing the system now more than ever.”

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Ackland Art Museum showcases industry inspired prints and posters

by jonathan pattishall staff writer

The premise seems as dry as a history textbook at first. The images hanging on the walls of the Ackland Art Museum are of factories and coal mines and workers. Mostly, they’re the kind of mass-circulated prints you actually do see in history books, illustrating some important social concept or other from the Industrial Revolution or Great Depression. What aesthetic purpose do these pictures serve? What, in other words, are they doing in an art museum?

“At The Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron and Steam Since 1750,” which opened on Jan. 24, draws its offerings from the collection of John Eckblad, an American who grew up in the coal hills of Pennsylvania and went on to work as a factory consultant in northern England. His familiarity with these locales prompted him to start a unique art collection in the ’70s, focusing on the imagery of industry, and the result — part of which is on display in the Ackland — is striking.

Though most of the images are 70 years old or more, a quick turn through the exhibit proves that this is far more than a history lesson.

“As the curator of an art museum I choose things to show that I think are worth looking at from an artistic point of view,” said Timothy Riggs, the curator of the exhibit. “For me every object in the show is both a work of art and a historical witness.”

Eckblad identifies what makes these works special in his collector’s statement. Like the machinery and occupations that they depict, these pictures and posters have a natural and keen sense of “color, intensity, size, complexity, power and movement.”

For instance, a common motif of radiation appears in a number of etchings and sketches by various artists, such as “Teeming Ingots,” the black and white etching by James Allen that is the poster child for the exhibit. This radiation gives the viewer a strong impression of energy, often causing images to jump off of the museum wall.

A brawny, muscular language accompanies this energetic aesthetic as well.

The artists who portrayed working men in factories and mines might have done it impressionistically or expressionistically, but they often took their titles realistically, straight from the workplaces themselves.

“Blast Furnace,” “The Forge,” “The Great Hammer” and “Teeming Ingots” combine such industrial jargon with

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their counterpart images, and when considered together, the result transforms the atmosphere of the museum. You might not actually be standing in front of a blast furnace in the Ackland, but with artistic aid it becomes pretty easy to imagine.

At the same time that it waxes artistic, however, this dynamic exhibit also manages to pack in lots of factual information and social documentation. The prints and posters provide the occasion to learn the meanings of such terms as “colliery” and “coke,” or what exactly smelting entails.

Other images explore the tough sociological implications of industrialization. One interesting French print from the mid-1800s portrays a neat utopian city of factories in a background overshadowed by a wistfully dominant foreground cathedral, like a highly stylized question mark begging to know what will become of religion in the new world order.

The exhibit is also notable for those social and political questions of industrialism that it doesn’t ask.

Though it pays lip service to the poor working conditions of coal miners, it doesn’t bring politics and labor together until the very end, and even then it seems only an afterthought. Seeing as Eckblad grew up in union country, it’s both surprising and disappointing that artistic depictions of unions are all but absent from the selected works.

Riggs claims that this was not an intentional move on the part of the museum or the collector. “Although there are images of the social cost of industrialization, of the heroism of labor, and of political protest, in the collection (and in the exhibition) there hasn’t been a focus on the history of organized labor,” he stated in an e-mail..

He also notes that “the collection itself is a work in progress” and hopes that the Ackland will be able to display more of the collection, including more of those works that deal with the politics of industrialism, in the future.

Despite the slightly incomplete feeling, “At the Heart of Progress” still manages to be informative, interesting and, most importantly, aesthetically engaging; it will please art majors and history buffs alike. The exhibit is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

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Teeming Ingots, the 1935 etching from James Allen, is one of the best examples of the art contained within the “At the Heart of Progress” exhibit.

The scene depicts two metal workers preparing a cast of metal for processing. In industry, an ingot is a cast used to mold metal into a certain shape before it undergoes further work.

The etching, which was done by Allen in the middle of his career, shows the process with great detail and a special eye toward the epic nature of the practice of working with metal at extremely high temperatures.

Industrial art was never far from Allen’s focus. Throughout his artistic career, he trained his eye on the hard work and most dire circumstances surrounding industrial workers.

Allen, who was born in 1894 in Louisiana, but lived and worked the majority of his life in New York, was a noted artist, author and illustrator until his death in 1964.

This work, like so many others in the exhibit, takes a direct look at the world of hard labor. There is no sugarcoating. Nothing is left to the imagination. This piece is simply a photographic look at the hard work of preparing metal for processing.

It isn’t a sympathetic look, but realistic, with the power of the furnace palpable in the piece.

This piece is from a bygone era, an era that will be foreign to most of the exhibit’s viewers. And therein lies a bit of the importance of this collection. The piece Teeming Ingots is an example of what else is to be seen in the exhibit. It shows an important side of life in America that is not often associated with the world of art. But as a representation of history, Allen’s piece is as legitimate as any other work of art and begs to be seen, studied and enjoyed. (Jamie Williams)

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Local musicians mix things up Artists to expand into new territory

By Jordan Lawrence Assistant Diversions Editor

If there’s one complaint heard more than any other from regular patrons of local music, it’s that the shows are always the same.

When you live in the same town as a band that plays around a lot, the performances don’t have the same freshness as a touring band that comes to town once a year.

Friday night, Local 506 will present a solution to this problem. The show, called One Night Stand, will feature local musicians playing original and unreleased songs in different line-ups and genres than those of their main projects.

“The show is them playing this

one song they’ve created for this one show, and it’s a genre they’re not familiar with,” said Tamara Oxley, who makes up one-fourth of the newly formed planning collective, the Golden Girdles, who organized the event. “Imagine that you have a secret side project and you want to play your secret side project’s best song or their greatest hit.”

Oxley added that it’s been an idea that hasn’t been as simple to describe as it was to come up with.

“It sounded like a really simple idea,” she said. “Every time we try to explain it, the explanation gets longer and longer. When people come to the show hopefully they’ll

get what we’re going for.”

The styles that are going to be played cover quite a range. John Harrison, a member of Chapel Hill bands North Elementary and Hundred Air, for instance, will be abandoning the pop-rock of his two main groups to join with members of the latter in presenting an original reggae song.

“You’re trying to do it not making fun of the genre,” he said. “I’m really trying as hard as I can to write a reggae song. That’s what I think is kind of neat about it.”

In an attempt to add to the fun of the event, it will be a competition with the winner getting a prize as well as a trophy the planners made themselves.

“We’re not trying to make this be some cut-throat competition,” Oxley said, emphasizing the prizes are just for fun. “There’s also going to be a number of free prizes given during a raffle.”

Paul Finn of Chapel Hill’s Kingsbury Manx is taking the opportunity to pull out a joking tribute he’s had around for a while.

“I’m doing an original song, ‘Curmudgeon’s Cudgel,’” he said, explaining that the song is a trib-

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“It’s about an old evil man who’s looking back on his life of cruelty. The cudgel is his mace.

It’s got a lot of verses. I don’t know if I’m going to be able to remember them all.”

And though he’s excited to be playing the show, he said he’s disappointed that one of the ideas he was to be part of didn’t come through. “ S t e v i e ( Mu r t a u g h ) f r o m Transportation was going to have a boy band song,” he said explaining that the act would have been called Billionaire Boy’s Club. “It just hit every single cliché of a boy band song with harmonies and the obligatory rap in the middle.

“Stevie’s going to be out of town so we had to cancel. Maybe next time.”

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n a recent visit to the Ackland Art Museum to see the new exhibit, “Cultural Politics and Contemporary Art,” I was immediately called out as a museum novice by the security guard.

“You’ve obviously never been here before,” he stated bluntly, eyeing the pen in my hand. “No pens in the galleries.”

While I’m actually a pretty regular patron of the Ackland, the new, student-curated exhibit integrated a mix of abstract and traditional art that proved to be a very eye-opening experience.

The exhibit was put together by graduate and undergraduate students in an art class on contemporary art and politics led by professor Cary Levine.

As I entered the gallery, my senses were assaulted by the menagerie of mediums and genres, a bright and noisy mixture that spanned many periods of American history, culture and art.

Most notably, one corner of the space contained an orb onto which an eye was projected, its

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pupil dilating as different TV clips resonated in the background.

It’s a display that throws the conventional, stuffy museums of the elementary-school-field-trip brand right out.

While the entire exhibit was multifaceted and thought-provoking, certain pieces were especially memorable.

Andy Warhol’s unexpectedly somber photo “Birmingham Race Riot” evoked the tension and discomfort that challenges the viewer to face such a dark period in history.

Mabel Dwight’s cartoonish “Life Like” examined gender through a sketch of a nude woman posing for a room full of gaping men.

As I shuffled from tapestry

to painting, the photographs of Robert Frank proved most captivating. In “Charleston, South Carolina,” the wide-eyed and weary (respectively) faces of a white baby and its black caretaker juxtaposes the discrepancies in privilege that were once an integral part of the South.

Frank’s “Rodeo, New York City” artfully — no pun intended — depicts the relaxed figure of a cowboy on the sidewalk of a New York City street, an unexpected and thought-provoking subject that expands the scope of the exhibit’s commentary.

The student curators of “Cultural Politics and Contemporary Art” compiled an exhibit that struck the right balance of realism and abstraction, accessibility and complexity.

And as I left the gallery, I realized that the cultural politics addressed in the exhibit extended far beyond the confines of a small, crowded room inside the Ackland.

Contact the Diversions Editor at dive@unc.edu.

Student acts improve their game

By Jordan Lawrence Assistant Diversions Editor

Friday’s party for the first three releases from Vinyl Records, UNC’s newly formed student-run record label, inverted the going logic that playing a lot of shows will help the quality of your record.

Instead, in the cases of student acts Lafcadio, Apollo and Lake Inferior, the intense work of making a record has refined the live performance as each performer laid down better sets than they ever have before.

Lafcadio opened the night, delivering a handful of songs that channeled the greats of folk and rock ‘n’ roll.

And though the group continues to wear the influences of its predecessors not just on its sleeve but as the entirety of its shirt — flannel. The four-piece has finally gotten to the life force of its heroes as it delivered vibrant readings of Dylan’s speed-fueled blues and the soft country of such greats as Loretta Lynn.

And singer Liz Ross has the pipes to do it all. Owning the stage like she’d been touring for years, she belted it out with enough power to, at times, allow Lafcadio to seem less

like the serviceable student band they are and more like a polished collection of local veterans.

Apollo’s performance was more than enough to keep the energy going, but most of the time this was more because of the fantastic grooves and rhythms of his band than the somewhat tired quality of his verses.

This is not to say that Apollo can’t write a great song. There were times when his lyrics were quite insightful and funny, especially when he was rapping about his troubles with college life, a point which connected with what was possibly the largest student crowd Local 506 has seen.

But there were times when the band’s danceable and organic mix of hip-hop and hard rock had to carry Apollo, whose flow sometimes lapsed into boring Jay-Z rehash.

Lake Inferior clearly displayed themselves as the most ambitious of the three acts with its headlining set. Sitting in a state of mind that seemed to be right between high school love of art-rockers such as the Strokes and Franz Ferdinand and artistic admiration of current boundry-pushers Animal Collective.

And the band proved that this

concertreview vinyl records cd release party local 506 friday is fertile ground, ripping through songs that layered distorted keys onto raging guitar rock with explosive results. But the foray into cover-land with a version of MGMT’s “Electric Feel” was ill-advised and came off as a little half-hearted, though the band smartly knew it would be a crowd pleaser.

So, at the end of the night, even though the three short sets thrown down by Vinyl Record’s first class of artists weren’t the best Local 506 has ever seen, they were more than adequate for an entertaining evening.

And the sight of the room filled with students having more fun than any crowd I’ve seen there in some time is a testament to the fact that, when they actually put the effort in, UNC students can be a major factor in the local music scene.

The only question is if the effort will continue pouring in.

Contact the Diversions Editor at dive@unc.edu.

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Goodnight Oslo rock

On his most recent album, Robyn Hitchcock, one of England’s most revered singer-songwriters, displays the diverse songwriting style he’s become known for, producing a myriad of sounds.

The songs range from light and whimsical to touching andpoignant.

“Saturday Groovers” is a bouncy track that is reminiscent of British Invasion-era bands, particularly the Beatles and Herman’s Hermits.

“Sixteen Years” is a hauntingly dark tune, with lyrics such as “You pegged me for a fool/But I’m the one to blame/I played a pretty mean fool for you/But you don’t know my name” that are saturated with bitterness and regret.

The strength of Hitchcock’s album lies in his lyrical creativity.

On “Up to Our Nex,” Hitchcock flippantly sings, “We’re up to our necks in love/So rad/We’re up to our necks in love/So sad.”

In stark contrast, in “I’m Falling,” Hitchcock’s tone is more contemplative, and decidedly somber as he sings lines such as “There’s a thin line between what you are and what you aren’t/I’m afraid of loving you/And you’re afraid I can’t.”

Unlike many albums today, which contain only a couple standouts, Goodnight Oslo is solid through and through. The album is entertaining enough musically to warrant a second listen, a tall order in a music industry that produces such an onslaught of material.

-Cassie Perez

Perhaps it’s just because of the relative lack of great hardcore records in recent years, but Vicious Ciricle, the newly re-issued 1981 cult classic by Indianapolis’s Zero Boys, still sounds as fresh as any punk release.

But even if this was the middle of a renaisance, it would be hard to imagine this cavalcade of blazing guitar and insightfully hilarious snot-nosed wit ever losing resonance.

It’s an album alive with contradiction.

While the songs are filled with melodic intensity thanks to the fact that Zero Boys chose not to abandon the rhythms and hooks of rock ‘n’ roll, one of the best examples of this success is a song that rips the hell out of the band’s forbearers.

In “Livin’ in the ’80s the band commandeers a “Johnny-B.Goode” rock shuffle as singer Paul Mahern spits out the beautifully insolent line, “I have no heroes, I’m just having a good time/I don’t like the Beatles, I don’t like the Stones.”

This 100-mph re-reading of rhythm and blues is what keeps the album’s continual barage of one-to-two-minute nuclear bombs ever entertaining and inescapably powerful.

And as the cherry on top of all this magnificent agression, Zero Boys turn in a true punk classic with “Civilizations Dying,” which features the war-cry-chorus “The Pope and the President and the big rock star that made a lot of money/ They’ve all got one thing in common/They know it ain’t no fun to get shot with a gun.”

It’s a song that hits with the same irresistable “stick-it-tothe-man” attitude it would have almost twenty-years ago, and it’s cuts like this that make Vicious Cycle a great early punk album and one well deserving of this reissue.

-Jordan Lawrence

Otis Gibbs writes the kind of twangy, emotive songs that beg to be blared from a rusty pickup truck, depicting various hardscrabble rural lives that draw the listener into alien circumstances. With the rough honesty of his voice and the delicate picking of his guitar, Gibbs abandons pretension on a record that deals with an oft-gruesome reality.

The focal point of the music is Gibbs’ abrasive, gruff voice, which serves as a further testament to the fact that traditional soft, pretty vocals aren’t always the objective. The occasional fiddle, banjo, and two-part harmonies recall old Southern porches that straddle the line between beauty and dilapidation, a fitting setting for music that embodies the same sensibility.

Part of the album’s appeal is its simple and understated packaging. An eco-fiend’s dream, the cardboard case is stamped with a black folk art image of a man raising his hand before a restless crowd. The inside dedication, which begins with “thank ya kindly,” promotes the same homegrown feel that works in Otis Gibbs’ favor.

While the album’s honesty is admirable, Gibbs is by no means a musical pioneer. He relies on the same tried-and-true methods employed by countless other bluegrass and folk musicians. His lyrics are unremarkable, but they get the job done in depicting the rural hardships of his subjects.

While the monotonous complaints of the latest whiny indie band get old, Gibbs’ tales of everyday people in working class mining country are a pleasant escape from all the Death Cab for Cutie wannabes.

You won’t hear Gibbs’ voice blaring over the speakers at your local Urban Outfitters, and to me, that’s a welcome departure.

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Lady DJs pump up the volume

By Ben pittard Assistant Arts editor

“Ladies night” takes on a new meaning tonight at Local 506 as five dedicated female jockeys take to the decks for Lady DJ Night.

Alex Chassanoff, a UNC graduate student in the School of Information and Library Sciences and WXYC DJ, planned the event in hopes of bringing more exposure to the underrepresented female presence within the scene.

“The original idea came about in about October just because there were several of us that were in the same graduate program,” she said, adding that she and her friends were excited at the prospect “not because we feel there’s no space for us in the traditional DJ scene but instead to have a night that showcased women playing music.”

“This is all Alex’s brainchild for sure,” said Heather Wilson, a DJ for WXYC and graduate student in Information and Library Sciences.

“She dreamed this whole thing up and made it happen from the get go.

It’s been crazy getting this lined up.”

Steph Russ, also a WXYC DJ and

Promotions and Events Planning Director for the radio station said she feels that the diminished presence of female DJs stems not so much out of sexism but a lack of exposure.

“When I’m trying to plan events it’s usually males that respond,” Russ said. “I don’t know if there’s just more guys out there that do it or maybe girls would rather be on the dance floor than the DJ booth.

I have no idea. Maybe if you don’t see a lot of girls DJing you don’t see it as an option.”

Wilson echoed the sentiment, saying that the lack of female DJs stems from shyness, not misogyny.

“I imagine a lot of it has to do with our own selves,” she said. “Women tend to be very timid about getting on the tables. We all get asked to do it a lot, but women tend to show trepidation. It’s important to cater to this aspect and empower women in the community.”

Wilson said she hopes that a successful event will lead to a regular schedule which would feature open decks to allow any interested women to try their hands on the mix after seeing the others in action.

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“I do think female DJs do it differently,” she said. “My approach is to do all songs that are directly related to women, either about women in an empowering way or produced by women. It’s not uncommon to go to male DJ shows and hear music that is degrading to women, and I don’t think that will happen here,” she said.

“Whenever I DJ, people come up and say it’s awesome to see a girl at the booth. I think some people think it’s empowering and some people think it’s sexy,” Russ said.

Wilson said that the main goal of the evening will be to have a good time and throw a killer party.

“The overall principle is to make people dance, shamelessly if possible,” she said.

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iz Ross, lead singer of Lafcadio, performs last Friday at Local 506 as part of the release party for student-run record label Vinyl Records, which celebrated the completion and release of the records by the label’s first batch of artists. The show packed Local 506 with Contact the Diversions Editor students coming out to hear Lafcadio, Lake Inferior and Apollo. Diversions has the show covered at dive@unc.edu. from all angles. Check page 7 for a review and blogs.dailytarheel.com for more photos.

movieshorts Taken While “Taken” won’t win any Academy Awards, it is a resounding success of a revenge thriller that entertains with a cathartic brand of violence.

Liam Neeson plays Bryan Mills, a retired military badass trying to make up for all the time he spent on secret ops by being closer to his seventeen-year-old daughter.

Mills is suddenly in need of his former skills when his daughter is kidnapped and sold into the sex trade by Albanian thugs.

Before and after the kidnapping, the movie is a waste of time. Luckily, director Pierre Morel keeps this part of “Taken” mercifully short, and gets right into the action.

This also helps keep the film to a cool 93 minutes, which is always a positive.

Neeson is convincing as an anguished but seriously pissed off father. He’s merciless, coolly brutal, slightly scary and does to the bad guys exactly what the audience wants him to — and sometimes more.

Sure, “Taken” is just a revenge flick — and like its peer films, its success rests squarely on the shoulders of its

advocate who finds love in the last place she expected, dries out with the annoying and unconvincing performances of Renée Zellweger and Harry Connick, Jr. The film follows Lucy Hill (Zellweger), a high-powered successful consultant who desires to continue climbing the corporate ladder, to a small town in Minnesota.

Complete with small town val- David Berngartt ues and blue-collar workers, it’s new in town the last place you’d expect to find a woman such as Hill.

At least that’s what the audi“New in Town,” a cheesy story of ence was suppose to deduce from a corporate snob turned small town Zellweger taking an early morning protagonist, and Mills is wonderful.

So while “Taken” is by no measure high art, watching it still feels satisfying. It makes you feel better about whatever crap you take in your day-to-day rat race, because at the end of the day, at least you get to see Mills pop some righteous caps in the domes of myriad thugs.

jog, wearing a skirt and a killer pair of heels, and attending a meeting.

Because of such lifeless humor, the movie fails to develop Zellweger’s elitist attitude.

When the laughs die out completely, Hill and her love interest, Ted Mitchell, the local union representative (Connick, Jr.) fail to make their spark convincing.

The romantic scenes just fail to resonate. The cookie-cutter conversation in which Lucy rejects Ted with fervor until they bond over Ted’s sadness is the only believable moment in the movie. If there were more scenes like this in the

movie, the pair’s predictably awkward courtship might actually have been charming.

Adding to the pain of the experience, the movie projects the “smalltown” feel to a clichéd level with the ladies of the town scrapbooking, making tapioca pudding and preaching about the importance of religion.

In the end, “New in Town” is far worse than “just another romantic comedy.” It’s an example of the genre at its worst: when it fails to both funny and romantic.

-Rachel Arnett

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ment wants to work with the staff to improve our performance and reduce our environmental impact, we will gladly partner with them.”

The president’s closest adviser on sustainability issues is the environmental affairs committee.

Though the chairman is picked by the student body president, committee membership is open and composed of members of many active environmental groups.

Brock Phillips, the committee’s co-chairman last year, said student body presidents come to office with different levels of interest and experience with environmental issues.

They often consult with the committee to execute their platform.

“I definitely think it’s a strength that the EAC has people who are in so many groups,” he said.

“Everyone is much more knowledgeable about issues on campus.

It helps to speed things up a little and connect people.”

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introduced themselves and shared their platforms.

Candidates were also given a standardized set of four questions including, “What do you believe the Campus Y’s mission is?” and, “What improvements to you believe you can make to the Campus Y?” Campus Y members and officers in attendance seemed excited for

The committee members’ extensive knowledge will allow them to connect the next president with groups already working on the initiatives they propose, and put him or her in touch with groups who can get new ideas off the ground.

“The EAC does work to carry out the goals of the platform, or they’re charged with finding other groups that can do it more effectively,” Phillips said. “A lot of things that the candidates propose are already happening.”

One of the best examples of this interaction is with Fair, Local and Organic Food, a group that advocates for sustainable dining options.

This year, all the candidates committed to supporting all of FLO’s ongoing initiatives.

FL O members mee t with Carolina Dining Services every other week and have been instrumental in getting cage-free eggs and grass-fed beef in the dining halls.

Scott Myers, director of food and vending, said the president can provide a public face for

existing initiatives.

The president has the ability to promote to a wider audience issues that environmental groups are already working on.

“I think (the president) validated some of the issues that FLO food has been working with us on sustainable food,” Myers said.

He said current president J.J. Raynor was key in getting reusable to-go containers in the dining halls.

In light of the current economic situation, most of the candidates are emphasizing small, inexpensive changes that can be accomplished in one term.

Although the campus as a whole is facing severe budget cuts, it may not necessarily have a negative impact on environmental initiatives.

Shea pointed out that improving energy efficiency on campus may actually reduce expenses at a time when money is tight.

“There are two approaches to take,” she said. “You can say ‘economy’s in the tank and we have no money,’ or you can say, ‘the economy’s in the tank, and (energy costs of ) $72 million is a huge share of the Feb. 10 election.

“I honestly think there’s a lot of the campus budget, so we need potential for the candidates to make to be more proactive in trying to positive changes and go on and reduce that amount.’” make a great executive board,” said Contact the University Editor Hayley Thompson, Campus Y coat udesk@unc.edu. president.

Only Campus Y members who have paid their $5 annual dues may vote in the election.

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new student body president will have to choose whether or not to attend regularly.

Ron Bilbao and Michael Betts, who both included specific points about the ASG in their campaign platforms, have pledged to attend every meeting in person.

Bilbao is also the only candidate who has ever been to an ASG meeting or who has been in contact with the ASG president, Greg Doucette.

Most of the other candidates have less developed ideas about the ASG, something other student body presidents in the system said is common.

“When I was running last year I didn’t know a whole lot about it, I just knew we wanted to make it better,” said Jay Dawkins, student body president of N.C. State University.

Jeff Nieman, Orange County assistant district attorney and a former ASG president, echoed that sentiment.

“A lot of times they don’t really get a lot of familiarity with ASG until they are elected,” he said of candidates across the state.

“ASG isn’t the front and center of what they’re thinking about when they’re running.”

Regardless of how much the can-

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long as they are beneficial for UNC-CH students.

Has no specific platform points.

Will attend each meeting himself.

Wants to create a plan to properly use surplus money in the ASG budget.

Wants to create a systemwide vote for the ASG president.

Will attend the meetings as often as possible.

Has no specific platform points.

Ron Bilbao

Ashley Klein

Jasmin Jones

Will attend the meetings as often as possible.

Has no specific platform points.

Will attend each meeting himself.

Wants to work for college access through the ASG. Wants to collaborate with and learn from leadership at other system schools.

Matt Wohlford

Will attend each meeting himself.

Wants to lower the fee money ASG takes from system students from $1 to 15 cents.

Thomas Edwards

Will attend the meetings as

didates know now, whoever wins the election will have to decide how to handle dealing with the organization.

Chazz Clevinger, UNC-CH student and also an executive officer in the ASG, said that UNC-CH’s reputation has suffered this year because of a lack of involvement.

“I think the actions of the next student body president will be extremely important to bring Chapel Hill’s prestige back,” he said.

Raynor said the new student

body president will have to make a decision about how the ASG fits into their priorities.

“I feel like, especially in this coming year, there are so many things a student body president needs to be focusing on on campus,” she said.

“They need to understand how that priority fits into other things they are working on.”

Doucette said that despite previous disagreements with UNC-CH, the incoming student body president will not be greeted with any hostility.

“It will ultimately be their conduct that determines their reputation,” he said. “Everyone will have an opportunity to start fresh.”

Obama sets limits Stimulus still expected to pass, but for executive pay not without partisan complications WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — This much is clear: Sometime soon, probably this month, President Barack Obama will sign an economic stimulus plan.

However, it probably will have at least $50 billion less spending than the Senate’s current version does, and it probably will win a handful of Republican votes after lengthy White Housecongressional negotiations.

Senators huddled on Wednesday — with one another and with Obama — trying to craft a plan that will get the 60 votes needed under Senate rules

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to stop any filibuster, the tactic that obstructs extended debate.

Republican moderates, joined by some Democrats, were looking for a way to pare the $900 billion-plus package by at least $50 billion, likely by cutting much of the education aid and a long list of small spending initiatives.

Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, met with the president at the White House and listed programs that she thought didn’t belong in the stimulus package.

She said the president was “very amenable” to the centrists’ ideas but made no commitments.

Kyrgyzstan moves Iraq officials calm to close US base election tensions

Israel-Al Jazeera relations get tense

MOSCOW (MCT) — At a time when the U.S. urgently needs alternative routes to supply its troops in Afghanistan, the sudden announcement that Kyrgyzstan planned to shut down a vital American air base poses two new potential challenges for the Obama administration — Central Asian bargaining and possible Russian meddling in it.

A day after the Kyrgyz leader made the announcement during a visit to Moscow, the government drafted legislation Wednesday formalizing its intent to shut down the base at Manas, next to the airport in the capital, Bishkek.

JERUSALEM (MCT) — Israel has been gradually disengaging from Al Jazeera, the Qatarbased news network, over the past year.

Last March, Israeli leaders threatened to stop working with Al Jazeera because they were unhappy with their coverage of the most recent Israeli military operation in Gaza.

Israel has decided to deny work visas to Al Jazeera reporters and only allow the station’s journalists to talk only to spokespeople for the prime minister, foreign minister and Israeli military.

BAGHDAD (MCT) — Iraqi officials moved Wednesday to quell rising tensions between rival Sunni Muslim factions in once restive Anbar province, announcing that they’ll recount some of the votes cast in last weekend’s provincial elections — even before official results are known.

T h e In d e p e n d e n t Hi g h Electoral Commission sent a committee Wednesday to recount ballot boxes from some polling stations in the province after tribal leaders accused the Iraqi Islamic Party, IIP, which currently controls the provincial council, of rigging the vote.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — President Barack Obama ordered steep cuts in pay and perks Wednesday for bank executives seeking taxpayer bailouts.

The new rules come with a loophole for the executives. The compensation limits can be waived in most cases if shareholders feel the executives should earn more.

Citicorp and Bank of America are excluded from this benefit.

Obama’s proposal comes after reports that some big banks were still planning to lavish executives with purchases and bonuses after taking taxpayer rescue funds.

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Auto parts industry falters Decreasing auto Economy causes loss in auto industry are buying fewer cars in this economy. Manufaturers have seen a sales impact N.C. Consumers nearly 16 percent decline in wages and a 10 percent decline in national car sales.

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we are already seeing the effects,” he said.

Wages in the N.C. auto sector for 2007 were roughly $2.8 billion, while the projected wages for 2008 are roughly $2.2 billion — a 21 percent loss.

According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the average wage for a manufacturing job in North Carolina is $44,715, placing most workers in the 7 percent state income tax bracket.

The resulting projected tax income from the auto sector in the state is around $154 million, compared to $195 million in 2007.

The $41 million deficit represents a substantial 2.1 percent of the current $2 billion estimate of the Intended Publication Date(s): Thursday, February 05, 2009.

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Slipping car sales have driven down auto parts manufacturing in North Carolina, potentially pulling the rest of the state down as well.

Millions of dollars of lost income to the state could have come from the now-faltering auto parts manufacturing sector of the state, money that could have helped mitigate cuts throughout the state.

Automakers suffered a series of losses in new car sales since gas prices peaked at $4.11 in July. Car sales in 2008 were 10 percent lower than they were in 2007, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. And even since gas prices went down in the fall, car sales have continued to decline.

As a result, parts orders have gone down, leading to a downturn in auto parts manufacturing.

North Carolina’s manufacturing sector is no exception, said David Cole, chairman of the center for automotive research.

“For suppliers and also the dealers, they can be invisible and the pressure coming down on them because of low sales is unbelievable,” Cole said.

The auto parts manufacturing sector of North Carolina employed around 17,000 workers in 2007, and roughly the same in the first and second quarters of 2008.

Dealerships in North Carolina also employed nearly 40,000 workers in the same time period.

Steve Swain, who manages business relations with manufacturing companies and the engineering programs at N.C. State University, said the state faced significant hardships as a result of the failing auto industry.

Swain said auto parts manufacturers and dealerships in North Carolina were facing losses roughly equivalent to those in the automotive industry — around 40 percent.

“It means our unemployment is going to continue to rise, it means that it will significantly affect the economy of North Carolina, and

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state’s budget deficit.

The income deficit equates to the cost of a four-year tuition for roughly 500 out-of-state or 2,767 in-state UNC students. It also represents 8.2 percent of UNC’s annual budget.

Ralph Byrns, UNC professor of economics, said that the change was predictable with the globalization of the economy, and that companies should have predicted the losses.

“Any expectation that any industry will remain vibrant in any company is just naive,” he said.

Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.

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Campus Y eliminated its tradition of electing male and female presidents. See pg. 1 for story.

Signs point up North Carolina recruited a large class of seniors who signed with UNC Wednesday. See pg. 3 for story.

Lessons of microfinance Demand to hear a Nobel laureate today is expected to exceed the lecture hall. See pg. 3 for story.

These economic times Faculty discussed the potential of furloughs and budget cuts at a forum Wednesday. See pg. 4 for story.

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12 thursday, february 5, 2009 Allison nichols

The Daily Tar Heel Established 1893, 115 years of editorial freedom

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By Nate Beeler, The Washington Examiner

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I think the actions of the next student body president will be extremely important to bring Chapel Hill’s prestige back.” chazz clevinger, UNC-CH SENIOR, executive officer in the association of student governments

Featured online reader comment:

“I’ve been here for three years, and the SBP never has had an effect on tuition raises no matter how passionate the students are.”

Eric Johnson public editor

DTH alumnus and contractor at a Raleigh law firm.

E-mail: ericjohnson@Unc.Edu

Student election coverage important

— on “setting the course for tuition”

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Jones’ approach to safety gets to the problem’s root

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ith student body elections less than a week away, DTH campaign coverage is kicking into high gear.

Which means, invariably, that criticism of DTH campaign coverage will be kicking into high gear.

The paper doesn’t tread lightly with its election coverPulbiC age, and this EDITOR year has been no exception.

Candidates had scarcely been certified before the DTH was embroiled in a successful fight with the Board of Elections for prompt access to candidate petitions.

Then the DTH scheduled a candidate forum for tonight, pushing back a previously planned BoUNCe forum. (“We are being shoved around,” wrote BoUNCe editor Sam Morgan in a letter to the editor.)

And looming next week is the prospect of endorsements by the DTH editorial board. Every year on election day, the back page of the campus newspaper declares full-throated support for one candidate above all others.

All of which leaves a great many readers asking: Does the DTH exercise outsized influence in student elections?

University Editor Andrew Dunn said the DTH is basically the only source of election news.

“The Carolina Review in an editorial earlier this year called us the ‘de facto supreme authority’ on campus. I kind of enjoyed that.”

There’s no way to measure the impact DTH coverage has on student voting, but it seems inarguable that the only daily paper covering the race will have some sway.

The paper’s editors know this (see Dunn, above), and they take it seriously. That’s why you have seen profiles of every candidate, running in the same location on page three, in alphabetical order.

It’s the reason you’ve seen very cautious summaries of candidate platforms in the paper, without much subjective analysis.

“We’ve tried to focus on important issues,” said Allison Nichols, DTH editor-in-chief. “As much as possible, we let the candidates speak for themselves.”

Still, every article contains plenty of phrases for partisans to parse.

Was it opinion to suggest that Ashley Klein’s platform contains “inconsistencies?” Or to write that Matt Wohlford “speaks like a well-edited English paper?”

I don’t think so. A little bit of colorful writing makes for better candidate profiles.

Those endorsements that will run so prominently on election day are the product of lengthy candidate interviews by the editorial board. Although no reporters are involved in the board’s discussions, Nichols has been active in the endorsement process.

“Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one,” wrote Ryan Thornburg, a professor in the School of Journalism, in response to an e-mailed question.

“If endorsements are the way that the DTH wants to use its freedom, then it should have no hesitation about doing so.”

Still, owning a press doesn’t guarantee monopoly on public opinion.

While the editorial board has backed the winner for the past four years, it found itself on the losing side in 2002, 2003 and 2004.

No matter what runs in these pages, it will be the students who pick the winner next week. Even the “de facto supreme authority” has its limits.

friday: Tim Lockney will fill you in on the subconscious biological reasons why people choose mates.

Leave sit-ins alone Policy to regulate civil disobedience doesn’t make sense

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hancellor Thorp tried to make his new protest policy about protecting the safety of students.

Really, it’s an attempt to decrease or prevent sit-ins from occupying his office.

Under the new guidelines, students are expected to leave at 5 p.m. or be subject to arrest.

They’re free to resume the sitin at 8 a.m. when the building reopens.

Thorp wants you to believe that he has students’ best interest at heart. He said that he wants to make sure students can both go to class and protest — but the new guidelines restrict sit-ins to the times when most classes are being held.

He wants you to think that there’s a safety issue here.

He said that last spring when a 24-hour sit-in was held for 16 days in South Building, one of the eight campus police officers was required to be stationed guarding the protesters instead of the rest of campus.

Thorp says guarding such protests is not worth losing one-eighth of the safety pres-

ence on campus.

Of course it’s not. But why does a police officer need to be present?

Student protesters can handle themselves without monopolizing police officers.

If students choose to remain in a building past business hours, they should simply be warned that they are accountable for themselves and any damages that occur.

Same as any student staying late in the Student Union, The Daily Tar Heel office, the student government office or any other building accessible after hours.

The student advisory committee to the chancellor held forums to solicit student input before Thorp developed these new rules.

The policy also outlaws posters, signs and loud noises. It says that the number of protesters cannot exceed building capacity and that food cannot be heated or stored in containers.

These new rules apply to South Building, Student and Academic Services Buildings, and Carr Building.

There is precedent in the U.S. for regulating protests.

But these guidelines go beyond what it means to stage a sit-in.

Typically, sit-ins are not loud or violent. The goal is often to be present in silent opposition that in no way breaks a law.

Sit-ins are one of the most obedient means of engaging in civil disobedience.

We’re in no way supporting the objectives of Student Action with Workers from last spring.

We’re not sure their conduct was effective. But we respect their right to express their views in the way they deem effective.

Thorp has cut the legs out from under students with this new policy.

He’s turned the concept of a sit-in into a joke.

And he’s done it using the red herring of safety and hoping we won’t notice the flawed reasoning.

Thorp was right about one thing: The right to protest is a hallowed tradition at the University of the People.

We want it back.

Let there be light For safety’s sake, Franklin Street needs more lighting

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mproved lighting on West Franklin Street is long overdue. The Chapel Hill Town Council should act now on new lighting initiatives.

Adequate lighting is important to the safety of town residents and students.

Students should feel safe onand off-campus. With more than half of undergraduate students living off-campus, the University should ensure students are comfortable walking through downtown at night.

According to Chapel Hill police reports, 13 break-ins and 24 incidents of vandalism occurred on West Franklin

Street in 2008 alone.

Something needs to be done to curb these numbers.

Even though the town budget is constrained, there are cost-effective measures to accomplish the goal of better lighting around the town.

For example, a consultant to the Public Works Department suggested pruning tree canopies to distribute light better and installing higher wattage bulbs.

Students can make a difference in safety issues as well.

Student concerns last semester over McCorkle Place lighting led to the installation of higher wattage bulbs.

And in 2008, student government allotted $80,000 to install lighting in off-campus locations, including McCauley Street and Rosemary Street .

This year, Sue Koenigshofer, owner of SCK Design, is circulating a petition requesting the town for improved lighting.

She said that a Web site would soon be available for students to add their names.

But the question remains: Will the town council follow through on the proposed plans?

To improve safe ty and curb crime in Chapel Hill, it should.

QuickHits

TO THE EDITOR: Andy Rickelman, chairman of the student safety and security committee of student government, emphasized that student body president candidates must bring a new perspective to the ongoing discussion of campus safety (“Setting the course for campus safety,” Feb. 2).

Student body president candidate Jasmin Jones’ approach shifted the focus of prevention from the victims to the perpetrators.

Her platform calls for involving men in the discussion of women’s safety. A 1997 National College Women Sexual Victimization study found the annual rape victimization for undergraduate women is 2.77 percent.

Learning self-defense moves might ward off an attacker, but having men learn about interpersonal violence would get at the root of the problem. Let’s make strides to end violence, not just have women learn to defend themselves against it.

Lauren Traugott-Campbell Sophomore International Studies, Spanish Traugott-Campbell says she’s not a member of Jones’ campaign.

New protest regulations don’t resolve injustices TO THE EDITOR: Chancellor Thorp bills the new speech restrictions as safety measures, citing concern for the protesters who occupied South Building last spring. Is South Building really so dangerous that it requires round-the-clock police presence? If so, don’t Thorp’s housekeepers deserve the same protection?

Thorp’s concerns here for the security of the campus are thus baseless at best.

There are indeed still plenty of ways for students to protest.

However, these new restrictions would contain protest, deflect its energy and prevent those in charge of the University from being held responsible for its actions. Protest is a vehicle of social change, not some academic exercise.

If Thorp doesn’t want occupations of South Building, he should make UNC live up to its claim of being a “university of the people,” so students wouldn’t be forced to choose between their education and moral responsibilities.

A good place to start would be the fair treatment of house- and groundskeepers.

The sit-ins will end when the injustice does.

Charlie Soeder Senior Member of Student Action with Workers

Column did not understand African-American English

Sue Johanson

Business of the Year

Juicy Campus

We all want to hear a septuagenarian talk about dildos and lube. But we’ll never be more disappointed with anything “premature” than we were when “Sex Talk” sold out so quickly.

Call it a pat on the back if you must, but here’s some news that’s fit to print: The Chapel HillCarrboro Chamber of Commerce named The Daily Tar Heel its Mid-size Business of the Year.

The Web site infamous for anonymous taunting finally comes down. Good riddance. The hated and promiscuous can now rest in peace. But there’s always the Kvetching Board…

Littering

N.C. infrastructure

The state’s Swat-A-Litterbug program, in which people who see littering can report it, saw a 23 percent increase in reports in 2008. Let’s hope littering isn’t increasing, just its reporting.

North Carolina’s water systems and roads got panned by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Maybe we do need some stimulus money for our infrastructure woes after all.

Groundhog “Sir Walter Wally” is a jerk.

T h e Tr i a n g l e ’s official groundhog predicted six more weeks of winter. What’s the matter, Wally? Bad breakup? Don’t take it out on the rest of us.

TO THE EDITOR: What was the point of last Thursday’s column, “Linguistic defense of affirmative action”?

As we see it, affirmative action is a policy that seeks to correct the inherent hierarchical prejudices of all individuals against underrepresented groups, and to provide opportunities to these groups that have been socio-historically denied.

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The University does not have an explicit affirmative-action policy. Rather, the University considers diversity a factor among other admission criteria.

These criteria include “students of underrepresented racial backgrounds, first-generation college students, students who come from economic or educational disadvantage, or students who present unusual circumstances, among others.”

Certainly this does not exclude linguistic considerations, but it does not compel us to focus on African-American English as the sole justification for such a policy. The column highlights a common problem in our discussion of affirmative action and diversity. We often choose to focus on race-based factors, and, in doing so, miss the point and misunderstand the problem.

The narrow focus of the column also illuminates another concern. The column mentions Southern-American English as a comparable hindrance of the standard English language as AfricanAmerican English, yet never states that Southern-American English retards the learning of the population that speaks it. This raises the question of why African-American English is the language variance that makes its speakers slower than their counterparts.

It was interesting to see that by the standards of the column, most of my friends are bilingual, since they speak both African-American English and proper English. We all know that this claim of “bilingualism” is ridiculous, so the correction must be asserted that African-American English is not another language, it is a dialect and should be treated as such.

We enter into a dangerous territory of hierarchical prejudice being masked by academia when we begin to single out a specific dialect and yield its speakers as being the most incompetent out of speakers of other dialects and languages.

And that be the problem.

Amber Koonce First-year Public Policy, AfricanAmerican Studies

SBP forum by Computer Science Club was valuable TO THE EDITOR: It was hypocritical of the University Desk to question the legitimacy of election forums (“Forums poor indicator of election success,” Feb. 3) without reporting the detailed findings from the technology forum hosted by the Computer Science Club.

Our forum included rigorous analysis of the candidates’ platforms and presentations, and we gave feedback to the candidates afterward. Members of the club have offered to meet with every candidate who attended our forum to help improve their platform. There is nothing more legitimate than a forum that provides both analysis and discourse to help choose the best candidate for student body president.

The final breakdown and an explanation of the scoring can be found at cs.unc.edu/~cs-club/ sbp/.

Maggie Zhou Sophomore Computer Science Club department and phone number. ➤ Edit: The DTH edits for space, clarity, accuracy and vulgarity.

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