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Paramedic keeps credentials GrayGri∞n allowed to practice elsewhere By Steven Norton City Editor

university | page 4 NEW MANAGEMENT Granville Towers will be known as Granville Community next year after it falls under the jurisdiction of Housing and Residential Education in July.

A seven-member disciplinary review board with the N.C. Office of Emergency Medical Services decided unanimously to take no action against the credentials of the Orange County paramedic who responded to a Chapel Hill High football player who died shortly after he was provided with care. But the paramedic, James Griffin, still cannot work in Orange County

without repeating his training. Atlas Fraley, 17, died Aug. 12 after paramedic Griffin, along with a fourth-year medical student, responded to Fraley’s complaints of cramping all over his body and dehydration. Griffin advised Fraley to continue to drink fluids and to work out his cramps. He then allowed Fraley to sign his own release form, despite his lawful status as a minor. Fraley’s parents found their son

Atlas Fraley died Aug. 12 at 17. EMS paramedic James Griffin responded to Fraley’s call. dead in their home later that night. A report released Monday by the state office of EMS stated that while Griffin violated Orange County protocol during his response to Fraley’s call, he did not act incompetently under state regulations.

“We were not investigating Orange County, we were looking at Griffin,” said Drexdal Pratt, chief of the state office of EMS. Pratt said the board’s decision rotated around two main issues. The first was that Jane Brice, Orange County EMS medical director, found Griffin to be competent as a paramedic. After reviewing Griffin’s actions, Brice terminated his practice privileges in Orange County later in August. According to the report,

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Chancellor Holden Thorp in the fall to discuss the possibility of both. The University does not currently have such a policy, but the UNC-system is looking into a hate crimes policy after racist

After a nearly 40-year-long tenure at UNC, Bernadette Gray-Little will step down from her current position as provost to assume the role of chancellor at the University of Kansas. Her decision, which comes as a surprise to some administrators, will test the experience she has gained over the years at UNC in a larger role with greater challenges at a new university. “I was pleased and frightened,” Gray-Little said of her selection last Friday. “I was pleased they were interested in having me do it, but this is a big decision and a big commitment.” Gray-Little said she is confident that her Bernadette extensive work Gray-Little leaves UNC for as an administrator at a pubKansas after lic university, nearly 40 years. especially one structured similarly to KU, will ease her transition into chancellorship when she takes office on Aug. 15. Bruce Carney, current interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will serve as interim provost until a replacement is found. “The chancellor’s job is much more than the provosts,” Carney said of her transition. “She has to be more engaged with the community and state legislature, but I think she’ll carry those duties very well.” Many of the difficulties UNC has faced in light of the recession — including reductions in state funding — will also be felt at KU, Gray-Little said. She said the severe budget situation is among the biggest challenges she will face as chancellor but that the last five months at UNC have prepared her for the task. “The people involved and how they interact will be new and has to be learned,” Gray-Little said. “I’ll be getting to know the nuances, the people and the system for months to come.” A search committee — comprised of faculty, staff, alumni, community members, regents and the student body president — was assembled after Robert Hemenway, the outgoing 16th chancellor of the University of Kansas, announced his retirement

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REACHING NEW HEIGHTS Pixar created an instant classic in “Up,” the animated motion picture that grossed $68.1 million last weekend, good for tops in the nation.

sports | page 5 SUPERMEN

university | page 7 SOUTH FOR SUMMER Summer school students are living on South Campus this year to make room for maintenance, CTOPS and other summer programs.

state | page 8 THE CLIMB CONTINUES UNC-system schools will have to raise tuition by either $200 or 8 percent in order to make up for the $4 billion shortfall in the state’s budget.

city | page 9 ANIMALS ON THE MOVE The Orange County animal shelter will has moved to its new home on Eubanks Road, where it will be able to better serve visitors.

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Haley Koch, a senior charged with disrupting the peace for her role in the protest of Tom Tancredo’s visit to campus April 14, stands outside the Orange County District Courthouse after her hearing Monday. She joined other protesters and activists in a rally opposing the charges.

PROTESTORS REJECT PLEA Rally outside courthouse supports Koch, others BY Andrew Harrell University Editor

The six protesters arrested for disrupting a speech on campus April 22 rejected plea agreements Monday, moving their hearing to Sept. 14. Haley Koch, a seventh protester and the only UNC student of the group, was granted a continuance of her case to the same date after choosing not to hear a similar deal offered by Assistant District Attorney Jeff Nieman. Koch said Chancellor Holden Thorp had encouraged her to accept a deferred prosecution if offered, but she felt continuing the case would be more important to raising issues she cares about. She was arrested April 22 for a separate protest eight days earlier. The quick hearings were dry and anticlimactic after the initial protest sparked national coverage and debate. But they were punctuated by a rally outside the courthouse

June 4, 1989 The People’s Army of China continues its killing of prodemocracy demonstrators for the second consecutive night in Tiananmen Square, China.

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with microphones and neon posters with messages like “drop the charges” and “investigate police brutality.” Before and after the rally was like a family reunion, with hugs and laughs between the protesters and their supporters. But once noon hit, it was nothing but glares and zealous words for the news cameras. The turnout of about 35 was modest compared to what some organizers had said to expect, but still enough to stop some foot traffic on Franklin Street and even a couple of curious drivers for a moment. The statements from Koch, her parents, Rev. Troy Harrison of St. Joseph C.M.E. Church, local poet C.J. Suitt and others covered a broad range off topics related to racism and justice. The two points that stuck out most were demands for an independent review board to examine the Department of Public Safety and the adoption of a new hate speech policy at UNC. Koch said she plans on meeting with

The story so far April 14 Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., is scheduled to speak on campus about immigration through Youth for Western Civilization. More than 100 protesters arrive a the event and are moved out of the building by University police. Tancredo decides not to speak after a brick is thrown through a window. April 22 Haley Koch is arrested for standing

in front of Tancredo with a banner and yelling while he tried to speak. Later, six protesters are arrested for disrupting another Youth for Western Civilization-sponsored speaker.

University faces less funding UNC system prepares Budget draft calls for 11 percent cut BY daniel pate staff writer

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UNC Baseball cruised through its regional and now faces ECU in a best-of-three series with a trip to the College World Series up for grabs.

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Exacerbated budge t c uts could mean UNC students will face higher tuition, while forcing administrators to further cut resources and faculty. While numbers are still in flux, the N.C. House of Representatives’ current draft of the budget would increase UNC tuition by $200 and cut a total of $337 million from the University, or 11.1 percent of the budget. This is a significant jump from the 5 percent cuts that Chancellor Holden Thorp had told the University to prepare for in March. The cuts would be made to UNC’s state appropriations, which make up about a fourth of the University’s budget. Dick Mann told the Board of Trustees last week that 81 percent of state appropriations are used for

University salaries. Further cuts in the budget could result in layoffs and firings, larger classes, higher teacher-tostudent ratios, delayed construction and reductions in University maintenance. Jean Folkerts, dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said a budget cut increase to 11.1 percent would have an “absolute major impact” on service to the school’s students. She said because of the about 800 undergraduates in the school, the bulk of its money is allocated to teaching. This makes classes the primary element on the chopping block. The school has also had to cut all faculty development grants and hire more graduate students to teach classes. Students say an increase in tuition would be burdensome,

but not enough to cause any major lifestyle modifications. “I’d rather not have a fee increase, but I would understand why they did it,” said sophomore John Blackmar. Senior Hongsuk Song said he also said he felt a $200 increase wasn’t enough to cause an uproar in the student body, but added he thought “$500 is when it starts to look big.” With the University seeing the quality of education at stake, officials are encouraging others more than ever to contact N.C. House of Representatives committees in hopes of limiting as much harm as possible to students. “We just hope that the legislature isn’t short-sighted in education of the future,” Folkerts said. She also said she was concerned an increase in layoffs due to cuts might not necessarily alleviate the budget crisis.

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for more budget cuts By Matthew Lynley State & national editor

North Carolina State University officials have been told to prepare for budget cuts of up to 18 percent. The proposed budget cuts came after a new house budget that would cut funding to the UNC system by 11 percent. “Balancing the budget on the backs of students is something the general assembly has been doing for years,” said Greg Doucette, president of the UNC Association of Student Governments. The proposed 18 percent cut was still an overestimate of the potential cuts the university may face, Doucette said. “The hope is that they’ll start thinking more creatively,” Doucette said. UNC-System Vice President for Finance Robert Nelson said he expected the budget cuts proposed by the house to be the furthest they

will go. “We think this is the worstcase scenario given everything we know,” he said. N.C. State already cut 7 percent of its operating budget to accommodate the revenue shortfall in the state’s budget. The new cuts could lead to up to 75 additional jobs lost. Doucette said in addition to N.C. State, campuses like East Carolina University and UNC-Chapel Hill would see the worst damage from the proposed budget cuts to the UNC system. “Everyone’s gonna get hurt, but really people at the large-sized campuses and small-sized campuses are going to be doubly whacked,” he said. The cuts are already hurting the chances of recently unemployed residents going back to school to acquire more technical training, said

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ark Malkoff, a comedian based in New York, lived in an Ikea store for a week last year. But now he is taking his antics to the next level. Malkoff, who has always been afraid of flying, took off from New York’s LaGuardia Airport for Atlanta. He will then travel to San Francisco and back to Atlanta. That’s only Monday. For the next month, Malkoff will be living on an airplane in order to get over his fear of flying. He will be flying on the budget carrier Airtran, which will allow him to live on planes and travel almost nonstop. He intends to blog and video about himself throughout the marathon. The main issues he said he will face are being able to shower and figuring out where he is going to sleep. NOTED. A popular U.S. Roman Catholic priest photographed frolicking with a woman on a Florida beach announced Thursday he had joined the Episcopal Church to pursue the priesthood in a faith that allows married clergy. Father Alberto Cutie’s removal from his parish has sparked debate in the Catholic Church about its celibacy requirement for priests.

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n Someone stole from an unsecured work van on Market Street last Friday, according to Chapel Hill police reports. Among items stolen were a floor buffer, a pressure washer, a blower, a wallet and $200 cash, reports state. In total, the stolen items were worth $2,280, reports state. n Police responded to an assault complaint on Jones Ferry Road Monday, according to Carrboro police reports. The complainant said a woman at his house grabbed his shirt and ripped it open, reports state. After ripping the shirt, the woman said she would kill the complainant if he took out a warrant, reports state. The complainant was referred to the magistrate, according to reports. n A raccoon was spotted in a shed on a property on West Main Street on Friday, according to Carrboro police reports.

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Due to a reporting error, last Thursday’s pg. 3 article “Hearings address budget concerns” incorrectly stated the amount of the proposed Orange County budget allotted to education. The 48.1 percent portion is a decrease of about $3 million. The Daily Tar Heel apolo- By elly schofield gizes for the error. Senior writer Jeanne Tilley, a 2009 UNC graduate, has a political science degree, Campus Briefs earned a 3.7 GPA and spent much Second case of swine flu of her time at UNC working for the confirmed in Orange County Roosevelt Institution — a political think tank run by students. A second Orange County resiThe spring of her junior year, dent and UNC employee has she studied abroad in an intense a confirmed case of the H1N1 program at a prestigious French virus, or swine flu, the University university. Her classes, she said, announced Friday morning. were grueling. The employee works in the UNC “I had never worked so hard in School of Medicine but does not my entire life,” she said. have patient care responsibilities. But even with a strong work County health officials said the case ethic, Tilley is only one of many is unrelated to the UNC Health 2009 UNC graduates who have yet Care worker who was confirmed to find a job. to have the virus on May 22. “You hit that point where it’s In the past week, the number like, ‘It can’t just be me.’ You’re not of confirmed H1N1 cases in North crazy, you’re not stupid, it’s just an Carolina has jumped from 12 to 21. unfortunate time to be job searching, particularly for liberal arts-y type stuff,” Tilley said. Swanson tapped to be the According to the National next School of Nursing dean Association of Colleges and Kristen M. Swanson has been Employers, of every 100 graduating selected as the next dean of the seniors who applied for jobs this year, only about 20 have landed one. UNC School of Nursing. Numbers are down from last Chancellor Holden T horp announced her acceptance to the year, when 26 percent of students Board of Trustees on May 28. were able to find jobs. In 2007, 51 She will begin Aug. 1 if approved percent of students reported being through mail ballot by the Board. able to find jobs — 31 percentage Swanson is currently a professor points higher than this year. and chairwoman of the family and child nursing department at the University of Washington, where she had been a member of the faculty since 1987. Linda Cronenwett, the current dean, will step down in July. She will resume her work as a faculty member after spending a decade as dean.

Job hunt more di∞cult than in 2007 Fewer jobs for college graduates

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Tilley said she plans to take a year or two off before applying to graduate programs. She had hoped to find an office job, but doing so has proved difficult. “I certainly anticipated it being easier to find that kind of filler job while you’re applying to go to grad school, but unfortunately there aren’t that many of those jobs this year,” she said, adding that laidoff workers who have had time to accumulate more skills are more likely to be hired than a student right out of college. Right now she nannies part-time for three different families, which helps her make ends meet. Like Tilley, more students than usual are choosing to go to graduate school, said Tim Stiles, associate director of University Career Services. “Right now we’re looking at around 39 percent, and typically we’re in the 25 percent range,” Stiles said. “People want to park themselves in some graduate programs for the next few years to kind of ride things out.” Lauren Tuttle, another recent graduate, is in the same boat as Tilley. An environmental science major, she has submitted about 10 job applications so far and has been searching for work since January.

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The Ackland Art Museum premiered the artist Aldwyth’s first major retrospective exhibit May 31. Aldwyth said the large collage (pictured) is symbolic of the path of an artist’s career. Many other works were also displayed, including a cigar box encyclopedia and other assemblages.

PIECING IT TOGETHER Dozens of art enthusiasts of all ages flocked to the Ackland Art Museum this past weekend to take in the giant 6-by-6 collages and smaller assemblages adorning the gallery’s walls. The exhibit “Aldwyth: work v. / work n.” premiered for the public at 1 p.m. Sunday. Members could also attend an exclusive preview Saturday evening to hear the story of the 73-year-old artist who created them. “I’m just thinking, do we do it for love?” she asked. “Do we do it for the love of the arts?” Aldwyth, as she prefers to be called, has never had a major solo exhibition until now. She encouraged viewers to see her art as not only a collection of objects, but also the culmination of her efforts. As a part of her assemblage, “Tonic,” Aldwyth elaborates on her philosophy. “In this case as in most of my work, the idea is the creation of itself,” she said. “From the

Digital library research and development and the preservation of unique films at UNC have been bolstered by grants totaling almost $60,000. The UNC Library’s program Documenting the American South received $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to produce new tools for historical and literary archives. These tools will help the online use of historical documents for research. The National Film Preservation Foundation has also awarded money to the UNC Library’s Southern Historical Collection. The money will go toward preserving three 8 mm films in the Allard Lowenstein Collection, a UNC alumnus, liberal activist and one-term democratic congressman. By tarini parti

fragile shell of the initial idea to the solid (but still fragile) product, missteps are preserved.” In another piece titled “re-su-me/resume,” she gives an overview of what has and has not defined her art career: She has not received any number of prestigious recognitions; instead, she has her work. “To expose yourself like that is scary. She’s having to be so brave,” said Karen Thomas, Aldwyth’s daughter-in-law. Despite her late introduction into the world of solo exhibits and her outsider status, Aldwyth is clearly well-versed in art history, said Timothy Riggs, the Ackland’s Curator of Collections. “The images she’s incorporated into her collages, they include works of art that everybody knows about, like the Mona Lisa, Michelangelo’s Sistine ceiling,” he said. “But she also includes artists that are not at all well-known except to the people who are real familiar with contemporary art.”

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in environmental science partly because she thinks the significance of the field is growing. “I think it’s going to be something really important in the future, especially now with global warming and climate change,” she said. But despite her lack of success so far, Tuttle prefers to look on the bright side. “I’m optimistic. I don’t want the economy to get me down,” she said. “If nothing pulls through I’m just going to keep on looking.”

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Alan Shapiro, a professor of English and creative writing at UNC since 1995, has been awarded the Ambassador Book Award in poetry for his work “Old War.” The award is one of many given out yearly by the English-Speaking Union of the United States to books that represent life and culture in the United States for international readers. As part of the award, copies of the books will be sent to libraries in about 30 countries worldwide. “Old War” is a collection of poems divided into two parts. The first half focuses on Shapiro’s marriage during the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003. The second set of poems imagines the last thoughts of fictional American characters.

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Children’s librarian Ginger Holler came to see the show for personal inspiration as well as ideas with which she can teach her students. “She is accessible because it makes you feel like it’s for everybody,” Holler said. Aldwyth’s latest piece, titled “What’s love got to do, got to do with it,” is literally larger than life, taking up a significant portion of the gallery’s largest wall. The collage documents the process of ascension to fame in the arts. “Thinking about how many people are artists or are connected with the artists,” she said. “It’s just unending.” After the tour, Aldwyth plans to return to her octagonal house on the South Carolina coast to continue making artwork, just as she did before this pivotal event in her career. “It’s just that I enjoy doing it. You get up every day and you work at it,” she said. The exhibit will stay at the Ackland until Sept. 13 before traveling to other museums around the country.

She is still waiting to hear back from many of the positions. “You know I thought with this whole green revolution coming there would be a lot of jobs, but there isn’t a lot of funding for them,” she said. So far, she has applied for summer internships as well as entrylevel research positions, which would require her to do lab and field work. She is interested in water resources, so she would eventually like to work as a city planner or environmental consultant where she could focus on water use. She said she decided to major

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done after 4 terms Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy announced last Thursday that he would not seek re-election for a fifth term. Foy, who was elected in 2001, said he would not run because he accomplished his goals from when he first took office. “It just seems to me that it’s time for new energy and new ideas and new people to be taking these leadership positions,” Foy said. So far, the only person to announce candidacy is Chapel Hill Town Councilman Mark Kleinschmidt. Foy’s goals from 2001, he said, were to enhance public transit, revitalize the downtown area, create more affordable housing, strengthen environmental protections and put effective management into place. Of these, he said public transit would be the most pressing issue for future candidates. As the region grows, he said, traveling by car would become more difficult. “Anyone who goes to Washington, D.C., or New York City knows that if all of those people tried to get around by car, it’d be impossible,” Foy said. Also among Foy’s recent actions was proposing a waste transfer site on Millhouse Road last month. Foy said he chose the new site both because it is close to the center of waste generation and because the proposed N.C. 54 site would be a significant investment of county dollars. No decisions have been made. “Partly, it’s just a matter of reality as to how to spend local money,” he said. Kleinschmidt, who has been on the council for eight years, praised Foy’s leadership, transparency and involvement of citizens. He said he would not have run had Foy decided to seek re-election. For the upcoming election, Kleinschmidt cited three primary issues, the first being navigating the economic recession. He said his experience on the council and with the budget would help him. “Chapel Hill is not immune to the national financial crisis,” he said. “It’s affecting our bottom line, and we’re going to need experience to help guide our community.” He also said town development needed to be studied because the town could not grow any farther out. He also cited “smart growth” practices, such as environmental protection and affordable housing. “I’m one of the most outspoken members on these issues,” he said. “Unlike some council members who identify specific areas of interest, I’m involved in all of them.” Last, he said, was oversight of the proposed Carolina North campus. “We’re creating a living document,” he said. “It’s not something that we’re going to sign and put up on the shelf.” Kleinschmidt plans to declare himself a participant in VoterOwned Elections, an organization that advocates for government transparency, within the next few weeks. He said this would make him the first publicly financed candidate at the municipal level. Council member Matt Czajkowski and Mayor Pro Tem Jim Ward said they were considering running but have yet to decide. Municipal candidates have until July 17 to file.

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University to become part of tech research program UNC will be part of a new Global Education Research program created by Lenovo that looks at the impact of technology on students’ educational experiences from first grade to higher education. The project will be based at the Center for Faculty Excellence. Lenovo will fund UNC’s research activities with at $300,000 gift. Starting in September 2009, some grants will be awarded to UNC faculty to evaluate the use of technology in teaching and learning. -From staff and wire reports.

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The controversial suspension of the Young Democrats chapter at Liberty University suggests that the concept of liberty at the university might just be limited to its name. Liberty University, a private evangelical university in Lynchburg, Va., revoked its recognition of the democratic organization just a few months after the club’s founding, while allowing the College Republicans to continue being an official part of the university. Since Liberty is a private university, the legal action that members of the organization can take is not as clear, said Michael Gerhardt, law professor at UNC. “It’s unusual for student democrats to lose their opportunity to

organize,” Gerhardt said. John Lawrence, chairman of the Lynchburg Democratic Party, said he was just as surprised when the university revoked its recognition but now thinks such measures are becoming a pattern with the university. “Students were doing good, positive things,” he said. “They had done everything they could to conform to the university. They were approved all along.” But Gerhardt said it was unlikely the ban could be challenged in court. The act is causing concern among democrats and student organizations nationwide after Vice President of Student Affairs Mark Hine said the organization wasn’t living up to the image of

the university. “We are unable to lend support to a club whose parent organization stands against the moral principles held by the university,” Hine said in the e-mail. “The Democratic Party platform is contrary to the mission of Liberty University and to Christian doctrine (supports abortion, federal funding of abortion, advocates repeal of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, promotes the “LGBT” agenda…),” Hine continued in the e-mail. Lawrence said Hine’s implied message in the e-mail is what is disturbing. “The language implies that you can’t be a democrat and Christian,” Lawrence said. After facing national criticism, Liberty University President Jerry

“Students were doing good, positive things. They had done everything they could to conform to the university.” John Lawrence, Lynchburg Democratic Party Chairman Falwell Jr. announced on May 21 that the organization could still exist and hold meetings as long as the name of the university was not associated with any of their activities. “Official recognition carries with it the benefit of using the university name and funds,” Falwell said in a statement. “While this group will not be an officially recognized club, it may still meet on campus,” he said. “Liberty University will not lend its name or financial support to any

student group that advances causes contrary to its mission,” he said. Lawrence said Liberty’s taxexempt status should be examined if they continue to take such political actions. “Liber ty seeks to control Lynchburg,” he said. “You can be against democrats, but then don’t portray yourself as though you aren’t political.” Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.

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Trustees rule Town welcomes Bolshoi Ballet on pressing campus issues by Steven Norton Senior WRITER

One of the world’s premiere ballet companies will be coming to Chapel Hill in less than a week. The Bolshoi Ballet will perform Swan Lake and Don Quixote to soldout crowds in Memorial Hall in performances that are drawing spectators from as far away as Japan.

Budget, new members among discussions The Board of Trustees met on May 27 and 28 to discuss some of the University’s most pressing issues. Here are some of the major decisions and discussions from their committees:

Audit & Finance: The Board approved a new agreement between University police and the Chapel Hill Police Department that will give campus police jurisdiction over Granville Towers, as well as the ability to make arrests in downtown areas if they witness a crime. Dick Mann, vice chancellor of finance and administration, updated the committee on the latest budget concerns and potential tuition increases. Chancellor Holden Thorp announced that Bain & Company has agreed to return to campus in a few years free of charge to analyze the effectiveness of their recommendations. He added that their final report will be presented in July.

University Affairs: Etta Pisano, vice dean of medical administration, detailed a potential new compensation plan for School of Medicine faculty at UNC. Ruth Walden described her plans as the new director of the Center for Faculty Excellence, focusing on making faculty aware

of the diversity and variety of resources and activities on campus.

Building & Grounds: The Board approved renovations and additions that will extend the Smith Center closer to Koury Natatorium, into the space where students line up to enter for basketball games. Construction is expected to begin in early 2010 and will include the expansion of offices used by the Men’s Basketball coaches and staff. Carolina North negotiations with the town of Chapel Hill are moving along, with meetings later this month to discuss the development agreement, which Thorp called “riveting reading.” Because of budget concerns, the first two years of allowed development will likely not see anything built on the property.

Other highlights: Student Body President Jasmin Jones took the oath of office to induct her as an official member of the Board. The five outgoing members of the Board were recognized with honorary membership. Two of their replacements, who will begin their terms in July, were in attendance during the second day of meetings. -Compiled by Andrew Harrell

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The Bolshoi Ballet The Bolshoi, founded in 1776, is one of the world’s oldest ballet companies. It is part of the national theater of Russia and serves as a major symbol of Russian culture. “I think it represents who the Russian people are, especially in terms of their own history,” said Emil Kang, executive director for the arts at UNC. This is the Bolshoi’s first performance in the U.S. since 2007, its first performance since 2005 outside Washington, D.C., and its first performance ever in the Southeast. Swan Lake and Don Quixote will only be performed in Chapel Hill.

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sells art, antiques and paper goods on Franklin Street, created a window display of paper ballet costumes and ballet figurines. The store is also crafting gifts for the company. Sugarland, a desert cafe next to Toots and Magoo, is making a cake to display in its own window and will be selling ballet-themed cupcakes. Owner Katrina Ryan noted that edible promotions add a special touch to the welcome. “When something is food, it’s just better,” she said. Banners are hanging from light poles on Franklin Street and in front of the Ackland Art Museum. The Chapel Hill and Orange County Visitor’s Bureau is also promoting the shows through their new arts blog, Carolina Culture Zone. Linda Convissor, director of local relations for UNC, stressed the importance of community outreach when the Bolshoi arrives. “We want to make sure that our Southern and University hospitality really welcomes them,” she said. “We want to give them the full Chapel Hill experience.” Bolshoi members will be arriving in Chapel Hill at the end of the week.

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Paper ballet costumes hang in the window display of Toots and Magoo on Franklin Street, designed to welcome the Bolshoi Ballet next week.

The town has welcomed artists ATTEND DON QUIXOTE such as cellist Yo-Yo Ma, jazz musiTime: 7:30 p.m. June 10 cian Wynton Marsalis and the Alvin and 7:30 p.m. June 11 Ailey American Dance Theater. Location: Memorial Hall But Kang said the Bolshoi’s Info: www.carolinaperformingarts.org appearance will probably send Carolina Performing Arts over the top in terms of the kinds of acts it the first time in Moscow in 1869. “It is very colorful, fiery, lots of brings. “I think it really underscores our leaps, jumps and twirls, very differdesire to become a major cultural ent from Swan Lake,” Kang said. The first performance in Chapel destination for this country.” Hill will take place at 7:30 p.m. on June 10 at Memorial Hall. Don Quixote

The town is making special preparations to welcome the bal- ‘Cultural destination’ let, working with the University and local merchants to promote Carolina Performing Arts has the performances. Don Quixote was written for the been bringing renowned acts to Toots and Magoo, a boutique that Chapel Hill for the last five years. Bolshoi, and they performed it for

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University to manage Granville Towers O∞cials don’t anticipate much change BY Chiara Austin Staff writer

Granville Towers is on the way to becoming the Granville Community, managed by the University while still working to maintain its own identity. When the UNC-Chapel Hill Foundation buys Granville Towers on July 1, two UNC community directors will be sent over, campus police will have jurisdiction there, and UNC will train Granville’s resident advisers. Granville will not be completely under University ownership, but UNC Housing and Residential Education will oversee the towers. The new presences could mean exits for current Granville staff members. Speaking on condition of anonymity, an administrator with

Granville said he or she expects the three tower managers to be let go any day now, to be replaced by the new community directors. In the past, tower managers headed each of the three dormitory towers. Beginning in August, UNC community directors will manage all Granville administration. But Dennis Erny, Granville’s general manager, said the administration at Granville will not change much. “We don’t anticipate having to lay off or fire anybody,” he said. The Granville administrator disagrees. “When you bring in community directors... I don’t see a need for any of the tower managers,” the person said. Sophomore Guillermo Perez lived

in Granville as a first year, and he said a lot of his friends think things will get much stricter come August. Many of the tower managers at Granville were only 24 or 25 years old, Perez said. “They were actually like kids. I feel like the campus management is going to be more separate from students.” Larry Hicks, director of UNC Housing and Residential Education, said the new community directors have already been hired and will take over a lot of the duties of the tower managers. “We’re going to be managing Granville like we’ve been managing everything else,” Hicks said. The issue of security at the dorms is still up in the air. Right now, Chapel Hill police patrol Granville regularly from their substation in the adjacent University Square. But a new jurisdiction

agreement has transferred responsibility of Granville to University police, who are overseen by UNC’s Department of Public Safety. Both Granville and the parking lot around it will become part of campus police’s normal patrols. Whether the private security Granville currently uses in addition to the Chapel Hill police will be replaced by DPS has yet to be determined. Granville’s dining hall, The Agora, will continue to be operated by Allen & O’Hara Education Services, Inc., and not by Carolina Dining Services. Hicks said he doesn’t see the purchase as a major shift. “The average resident wouldn’t notice much of the changes,” he said. Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.

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Baseball team’s offense explodes in regional win By Powell Latimer

Friday Dartmouth Before the NCAA tournament, Kansas coach Ritch Price saw the UNC scouting report on North Carolina: saturday Throw your best left-handed pitcher at UNC, and you’ll have a chance Coastal Carolina UNC to win.

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Somewhere along the line, someone forgot to give the Tar Heels a copy of that memo. And by Sunday e vening, Kansas was the third team whose left-hander had been chased off the mound by Dustin Ackley, Kyle Seager and the rest of the Tar Heels, who seem to have found their hitting groove at just the right time. UNC, known for most of the season as a team built around pitching and defense, blew up offensively with 46 hits in three games — and two of those were against the best left-handed pitching Coastal Carolina and Kansas could throw. “All I ever read about in the scouting reports are if you’ve got a good left-hander, match them up

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against North Carolina and you’ve got a really good chance to win,” Price said after his team’s loss. “But I think you better run a really good left-hander out there — that’s my take on it.” UNC chased Kansas starter Travis Blankenship from the mound after just 2 2/3 innings and never looked back as they advanced to the super regional and downed the Jayhawks, 12-1, in the final game of the regional. Nobody was more productive than Ackley. The junior went 10-for-14 during the weekend — for an average of .714. Against No. 4 seed Dartmouth in UNC’s first game of the regional, Ackley broke the UNC career hits record with his 329th hit.

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DTH ONLINE: The UNC pitching staff posted a strong performance in the regional. It took him just 200 games. Two games later, he had the career runs record. “He is the best player in the country,” UNC coach Mike Fox said. “He has to be.” But Ackley’s bat wasn’t the only one singing for the Tar Heels. Right fielder Garrett Gore launched two home runs in the regional final — his first-ever multi-homer game. Ryan Graepel moved to the cleanup spot for the first time, and batted a season-best .364 with four runs batted in. Gore went 6-for-14 (.428) and drove in seven. Seager also brought in seven runs, and leadoff hitter Ben Bunting batted .462 for the weekend with three RBIs. So it was no surprise that Fox

Heck, even senior Mike McKee got in on the act, hitting a single in his first-ever NCAA tournament at-bat. McKee, along with fellow seniors Adam Warren and Gore, have now been through four straight regionals and will now seek another fourth: their fourth straight College World Series appearance. “I’m just enjoying the ride,” Gore said. “I mean it’s been unbelievable. I thank God every day that I was blessed to come to school here. “This is the reason why I came to school at the University of North Carolina. Not only to get a great education but to try to make it to Omaha and try to play in these big games. I’ve been fortunate enough to do it and to do it with a special group of guys.”

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Tar Heels enjoy magical run Healthy pitchers a key for UNC Lacrosse made ﬁrst title game By Chris Hempson Sports Editor

Rewind past the stunning win against Maryland in the Final Four. Skip over the two March victories against top-five opponents. Look past the unlucky weather that quite possibly cost UNC an early-season win against No.1 Northwestern. And stop at the preseason camping trip to Lutherock near Boone. It was there that the women’s lacrosse team enjoyed a weekend together that would help set the tone for a season filled with exceeded expectations. Along with team chats to learn about each other off the field and a fiery display of the basketball game Knockout by freshman Laura Zimmerman, the Tar Heel squad also partook in a team-building exercise. “We did an obstacle course-like thing,” junior Jenn Russell said. “We had to climb up this wall. “A lot of people — including myself — we’re terrified and did not want to do it. But we just decided that the whole team was going to do it, and everyone was going to help each other out,” she said. From there, well, the lacrosse part seemed relatively easy. After entering the season ranked

No. 9 in the country, the North Carolina team went on a tear never before seen in school history. Yes, they suffered early-season losses against NU and Penn, but they followed with eight straight victories. “We kind of took each game one at a time, but by the end of the season, we were like, ‘Oh my god. I can’t believe this is happening,’” Russell said. Still, in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament, the team got a wakeup call — losing 14-4 to Duke. It seemed that their magical season might end early in the NCAAs after such a dreary performance. But then North Carolina won. Then again — advancing to the Final Four after losing in the quarterfinals the four previous times. Problem was, the undefeated Maryland Terrapins stood in the way of the program’s first-ever trip to the national championship game. T here was no way Nor th Carolina would win again, right? Especially after a first half that saw the Terps run their offensive plays effortlessly and efficiently — scoring four goals. But so too had the Tar Heels, and when the second half began, UNC eventually slid ahead and won. “It’s not always pretty,” Russell said. “But we have really talented, hardworking people, and it just worked out.” North Carolina had finally made

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the national championship for the first time in the program’s history. “I will always have a special bond with my teammates because we accomplished something together,” Russell said. “It was special. It was great.” Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu.

The top of the third inning on Saturday started as uneventfully as it gets. With UNC holding a 2-0 lead against Coastal Carolina, all-ACC pitcher Alex White toed the rubber. The first batter he faced grounded out to third. And although he allowed a single right after, the junior produced a flyout for out No. 2. But from there, things got dicey. He hit CCU’s Tyler Bortnick. Then he threw a wild pitch. Then another. And to top it off, he walked a batter. All told, he allowed three runs that frame. And though such a performance is rarely a cause for alarm, the fact that White was battling a blister on his finger and a tweaked hamstring surely is. “We got to get Alex healthy,” coach Mike Fox said. “We’ll monitor that situation.” Such a statement doesn’t exactly scream out “panic,” but if the Tar Heels are to make their fourth straight trip to Omaha and the College World Series, a dominant — or at least effective — White is probably going to be a must. Senior Adam Warren went for 6 2/3 innings in the regional final and will probably be counted upon for

one start during this weekend’s super regional against East Carolina. But that appearance won’t come until game two of the series — as Fox tries to give Warren enough rest. “We got Adam out as soon as we could — pitch-count wise — because we don’t know when we’re going to play,” Fox said Sunday. Two days later, that changed. The NCAA assigned UNC’s super regional a Saturday start date. And in reaction, Fox named White his opening starter. After strong pitching performances ensued during the team’s two previous meetings, the choice of the Greenville-native seems logical. The teams combined for eight runs, though the likelihood of such an occurrence happening again is quite unlikely. ECU boasts a team average of .341

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at the plate – good for 14th in the nation. Six of its hitters have gone yard 11 or more times. The squad ranks fifth in hits in the NCAA. And after UNC scored 31 runs during its regional, such signs point to an offensive struggle — making White’s appearance all the more key. “We have similar teams, and I think we’re playing our best baseball right now,” Warren said. “Hopefully that carries over to next weekend.” Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu.

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First-class ﬁlmmaking from just down the road By Jonathan Pattishall Staff Writer

North Carolina has a great artist on its hands. Ramin Bahrani has already received notice for his portraits of working-class immigrants in New York City (“Chop Shop” and “Man Push Cart”), doing as much as anybody to aid the widely heralded rebirth of neo-realist cinema. Now he’s brought his story back to his home in Winston-Salem, for another look at the intersection of the immigrant’s American dream with the rocky road of real life. In the neo-realist tradition, Bahrani casts unknown and nonCourtesy of Walt Disney Pictures actors in his roles. The result is Carl and his stowaway, Russel, explore a desert in the new movie “Up.” The film is the 10th Disney feature prounique and visceral. This is what a duced by Pixar Animation Studios and was America’s highest-grossing movie last weekend, taking in $68.1 million. movie can do when nothing is forced or blown out of proportion. At 24 frames per second, it’s nothing more than moving pictures telling a spare and touching story, able to capture all ranges of human emotion in exact detail. It doesn’t hurt that the three principle actors in this film give tremendous, measured performances. Souléymane Sy Savané plays Solo, a Senegalese cab driver in Winstonan eight-foot-tall saurian atavism Salem who tries to befriend William By Jonathan Pattishall Moviereview Staff Writer (think “Technicolor velociraptor”), (Red West), a depressed old roughUp “Up” is a case study in universal but with a wordless warmth and wit. neck who wants a one-way drive to appeal. Take your little sister and Her appeal is nowhere near cashed at your granddad, because they’ll both the end of the movie and I wouldn’t diverecommends love it. 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Falls; Doug wants acceptance in wife is heavy stuff, told in a sober- listening to the Bay Area punk trio’s With “Up,” Pixar has another his hunting pack; Russell wants ing montage at the opening that will bloated new opera, take a trip back to the ridiculously catchy slacker fun Oscar for Best Animated Feature to earn his Assisting the Elderly affect even the kids. locked up. But more than that, it fol- badge to graduate in the Wilderness But from that start, “Up” turns of this 1994 classic that started it all. lows “Wall-E” with the second part Explorers; and Kevin, who in a hilar- into the life-affirming celebration Movie from the Vaults: of the most important cinematic ious plot twist turns out to be female, of human culture that it sets itself endeavor of our times, wrapped up wants to return to her babies. up to be. 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and Parachute Refusal. 9 p.m., FREE friday CPSFC Benefit Concert Trotter Building, Durham | This benefit for Durham’s Central Park School for Children is pretty packed. Chapel Hill’s charming and consistent The Never will perform with dancers from N.C. Dance, and Megafaun’s Phil Cook will be playing solo. 6 p.m., suggested $10 donation. Holy Ghost Tent Revival Local 506 | Greensboro’s HGTR is an explosion of influences ranging from bluegrass to E Street, and it’s all one hell of a hullabaloo live. Friday they’ll be joined by rustic, emotionally disarming Durham twee outfit Midtown Dickens along with Concord’s Paleface. 10 p.m., $7 saturday Erie Choir Local 506 | The pop-oriented vehicle of Sorry About Dresden’s Eric Roehrig, Erie Choir uses large,

to Tar Heels with a sense of place, particularly those familiar with the former mill towns of the Piedmont. Bahrani captures Winston-Salem on camera in a way that people who live there see every day, but probably never stop to appreciate. In these post-industrial cities people live their lives cigarette to cigarette, at the bottom of a social ladder where everyone can be brother and sister. It’s Winston, but it could just as easily be Greensboro or Durham. Bahrani’s nighttime aesthetic is bleak and retrograde, unfolding under streetlights and motel lamps. It’s cinema as real life. With Blowing Rock as a metaphor for the buoyancy and dangerous beauty of the human spirit, this is a movie about North Carolina. With Solo’s irresistible patois as the lyrics to his cab’s reggae soundtrack, it’s a movie about the immigrant’s place in the world. But the most pleasant surprise belongs to William, and it must be seen to be understood. It’s a refreshing reminder of what directors are capable of when they take their art seriously, delivered right out of our backyard. Contact the Diversions Editor at dive@unc.edu.

melodic arrangements to propel the singer’s emotionally rich songs. Durham’s The Travesties and Raleigh’s The Magic Babies also play. 10 p.m. , $6 Nathan Oliver The Pinhook, Durham | Nathan White, frontman of the differently last-named Chapel Hill band, weaves heartache and macabre horror into a sadistic and cathartic package. And with the band’s dark mix of indie-pop and grunge fueling the fire, it becomes irresistible. Durham’s Luego and Pittsboro’s Mike Slaton also play. 10 p.m. Monday The Future Kings of Nowhere The Cave | As he will be doing often in coming months, FKON lead singer Shayne O’Neill will deliver his propulsive, rhythmically wordy songs with just him and a guitar. Andy Gardner and Eberhardt’s Rebekah Meek also play. 10 p.m., $5

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thursday, june 4, 2009

Summer housing moves south Weaver St. co-op changes program BY jennifer Kessinger Staff writer

This summer, students are waking up earlier to prepare for their daily hike from South Campus to class. Summer School housing moved south this year, with 600 on-campus students living in Horton and Koury residence halls and Ram and Odum Village during the first session. Rick Bradley, assistant director of assignments and communication for housing, said housing expects about 400 students living on campus for the second summer session. In past years, housing has been available further north. Bradley said several factors led to students living on South Campus this summer. He added that the main factor was availability. “The students are on South Campus because that’s what was available,” he said. Bradley explained that building availability was affected by events like CTOPS, maintenance and other summer programs. “Every year we deal with renovations and CTOPS, and from year to year it’s different,” he said. Residence halls in the upper quad are closed for both summer sessions because of sprinkler installation, Bradley said. He added that lower quad communities are closed to students so that incoming first-years and parents at CTOPS can stay close to orientation activities, while other North Campus communities are being used for summer programs

like Project Uplift and athletic camps. “It’s like putting a jigsaw puzzle together,” he said. So far, Bradley has not received any complaints from students living on South Campus. He said he thinks that students are generally happy with the newer buildings that are being used for summer housing. Ram Village was opened in the fall of 2006, and Odum Village recently received new dressers and desks, and bathrooms are being renovated as well. Koury and Horton were completed in 2006. “It’s been well received,” he said. Sophomore Dasha Menafee lives in Koury. Although she is surprised that students are living on South Campus this summer, she does not feel inconvenienced by the location. “I like living down there. It’s new; it’s a nice area to live,” she said. Brittney Akpobiyeri is a sophomore living in Horton this summer. While she said it would be easier walking to class from North Campus, her biggest concern is the lack of on-campus dining options. Akpobiyeri said that when Rams Head Dining Hall and Top of Lenoir are closed, living on campus is more challenging. “I can’t just walk in and swipe my card,” she said. “I’ve spent a lot of money on food so far. I feel like that’s the biggest inconvenience.” Rams Head is closed during the summer while Top of Lenoir is only open during CTOPS ses-

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sions. Lenoir Mainstreet is open most weekdays until 6 p.m., and only some of its usual vendors are in business until the fall. Dining options on Franklin Street are more than a mile’s walk away. Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.

To counteract recent financial losses, Weaver Street Market will change its customer rewards plan from a five percent discount to a patronage dividend program. The co-op is losing $65,000 per month, and sales are down 12 percent due to the economy and local competition. Dividends paid to customers would be based on how much money each customer spent during the year while also taking into account Weaver Street Market’s financial performance. Ruffin Slater, general manager of Weaver Street Market, believes the new program will be a much more sustainable and flexible system. Slater said the program should increase sales in the long run because people care about the co-op. “It’s more of a true ownership situation,” he said. “You’re actually connected with how the business is doing.” Slater said customer dedication to Weaver Street Market’s co-op mission and new rewards plan should help pull Weaver Street Market back into positive profit. “I think it will potentially increase the sales even though people don’t get an immediate discount because

they care about the co-op,” he said. While Weaver Street Market decreased staff hours to increase economic efficiency, changing the rewards system seemed to be the most profitable solution. After studying other co-ops across the United States, the board of directors learned that the new system has the potential to succeed if it is wellplanned out in advance. “It makes such perfect sense that we couldn’t ignore it,” said Micki Cashman, a Weaver Street Market store manager. “A lot of owners, after seeing the new plan, say they actually prefer it,” she said. Cashman cited competition from Trader Joe’s and The Fresh Market as well as the economic recession which have both led to a decrease in sales. “We had to look for other avenues to get back into profitability. We realized if we took the discount away at the register we would be in the black,” she said. Some Weaver Street Market cus-

Micki Cashman, store manager tomers believe that while the new program may be more complicated, it has the potential to be more efficient in the long run. Nancy Cripps, a frequent customer at Weaver Street Market in Carrboro, believes that the new system will be more efficient. “It seems like it would be a winwin for both parties,” she said. The program will go into effect June 28. Depending on its success, Cripps said she might become a co-op member. “It means nothing to me on a daily basis, but if someone said $150 at the end of the year, I would say, ‘oh that really makes a difference.’” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.

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Tuition to rise; ﬁnancial Teachers battle budget woes Want taxes to save jobs, programs aid unable to keep pace By tarini parti Senior Writer

By Matthew Lynley State & National Editor

The N.C. House of Representatives is proposing a new tuition increase to close the budget gap. Schools in the UNC system now face an additional tuition increase of $200 or 8 percent, whichever is lower, which will go directly to funding the $4 billion revenue shortfall in the state’s budget. The tuition increase does not account for any new financial aid, which will make it more difficult for some students to attend universities in the UNC system. When the UNC Board of Governors proposes a tuition increase for universities in the system, 52 percent of that increase is directed to financial aid. When the legislature proposes one, it goes directly to fund the state’s budget. “It’s money they’re basically taking from our budget,” said UNC-System Vice President for Finance Robert Nelson. The tuition increases would also hamper the ability of some students in the state to attend schools in the UNC system as well, said Greg Doucette, president of the UNC Association of Student Governments.

“The fact of the matter is, these tuition increases, they just don’t generate that much.” John Dornan, Public School Forum executive Director “It’s gonna prevent some students from going to schools like UNC and N.C. State, and it’s gonna hurt students in their junior and senior years the most because they won’t get any new financial aid,” Doucette said. He said some universities in the UNC system still don’t have an option to raise tuition to accommodate for their own budget shortfalls. “You’re going to have some serious devastation for specialized places like NCSA and (UNC-)Asheville, where raising tuition really doesn’t do anything for them,” he said. But most of the frustration came from the legislature’s reluctance to raise taxes, said John Dornan, executive director of the Public School Forum. He said the state could easily raise anywhere from $500 million to $1 billion if they raised taxes. “The fact of the matter is, these tuition increases, they just don’t generate that much,” he said. The proposed increase to tuitions

is expected to generate roughly $35 million — about 9 percent of the state’s budget shortfall. In addition, the house proposed to eliminate the EARN scholarship, worth $4,000 to new students, by the 2010-2011 fiscal year. Without the scholarship, some of the most needy students in the state would be unable to attend universities in the UNC system, Nelson said. “We have no other source of revenue to offset those needs, it means that those students will have to find the money elsewhere,” Nelson said. Dornan said the legislature wasn’t considering other options because it had always made cuts through the education system. “The university system has always gotten special treatment, but at the moment tuition is being singled out for new revenue,” he said. Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.

Educators across the state would prefer to raise taxes rather than cut programs from public schools. In order to close a $4 billion shortfall in the budget, N.C. educators are lobbying to raise taxes instead of cutting funding for public schools by $1 billion. Educators from organizations such as the N.C. Association of Educators and N.C. Association of School Administrators said Monday that deep cuts to education funding will have severe long term effects on education in North Carolina. “We have worked so hard in N.C. for the past 20 years to make significant education reforms,” said Sheri Strickland, president of NCAE. “The impact of the cuts will certainly be felt across the state,” she said. In addition, recent polls conducted by NCAE showed a majority of voters would prefer raising taxes rather than cutting education funding. Up to 85 percent of respondents said they opposed cutting the number of teachers in public schools and raising class sizes, opting for an increase in taxes to balance the budget. “The poll indicated that while

“It is one thing to reduce costs and another to devastate public schools.”

voters would be unhappy about increasing taxes, they would be even more unhappy with cuts,” Strickland said. The poll showed that a majority of voters want to see an increase in taxes on alcohol, tobacco and personal income taxes for households with an income greater than $150,000 a year. Sen. Tony Foriest, D-Alamance, co-chairman of the appropriations committee on education, said he does not want to increase taxes. “Raising taxes should be an absolute last resort,” he said. “A lot of people are having trouble making ends meet as it is right now,” he said. Foriest said the poll conducted by NCAE might not reflect the views of some in the state. “For every voter who supports increasing taxes, there are those that will vehemently oppose it,” he said. He said legislators are making tough decisions to balance the budget. It is still too early to gauge the final damage it will have on public education, but programs that are “near and dear” to most residents are going to have to be re-examined, he said. Strickland said the proposed cuts will result in an increase in

Debra Horton, N.C. PTA President class sizes and an elimination of programs. It will also cause 62,000 teachers and many teachers’ assistants to lose their jobs. “We already have the nation’s fourth highest unemployment rate and the cuts now being considered would cause unemployment lines to swell,” said Debra Horton, president of the N.C. Parent-Teacher Association in a press release. “It is one thing to reduce costs and another to devastate public schools and deepen our economic crisis,” Horton said. Teachers statewide have been expressing their concern and frustration ever since Gov. Bev Perdue released her proposed budget, Strickland said. “There’s a lot of concern and anxiety,” she said. “There is also some form of disbelief that this could happen to public education in North Carolina.” Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.

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Animal shelter gets new home New building consolidates services by kaylee baker staff writer

After countless meetings and planning sessions, the Orange County Animal Service Center’s staff decided to pack up its pets and move to a more contemporary and user-friendly building. The shelter, which moved from its old location in Hillsborough to Eubanks Road in Chapel Hill, brings all aspects of animal services to one location. The new center combines animal control, the animal shelter and the administrative staff, eliminating the need for animal service users to travel to multiple locations. “There was a need to move into a modern facility that has a principle of animal wealth and husbandry,” said Bob Marotto, Orange County director of animal services. “We designed this place as a destination. It is a place people will want to come to access resources about animals, look for the lost and find new family members.” The shelter moved over 200 cats, dogs and even a rooster to its new location last Thursday.

Marotto and his assistant Andi Morgan trust the building’s large space and state-of-the art features will not only benefit the animals, but the environment as well. The center runs mainly on natural light. “It has more capacity than the old, but this is not the most important feature,” Morgan said. “It has disease control, which is a huge step up for this type of building.” The new system utilizes a highly advanced ventilation system that keeps air from one animal’s cage from mixing with another’s. Marotto and Morgan both agree that the way the animals are presented — in floor-to-ceiling glass display containers — distinguishes the new center from others of its kind. “The design is intentional to make people actually want to come here. We don’t want people to think shelters such as this one are sad and gloomy,” Marotto said. The primary purpose of the center is to take care of the animals that come to it, keeping them happy and healthy throughout the time the shelter is considered their home. “We don’t want to hold animals

indefinitely. Our goal is to re-home and return home animals that come to us. We are not a sanctuary, we are a shelter. The design of the building is oriented toward that mission,” Marotto said. The staff at the center also hope to educate the people of Orange County about animal control. “Our department and advisory board are committed to working with the community to stem the reproduction of unwanted litters of cats and puppies so in the long run we can help control the number of animals that come to us,” Marotto said. The center used fliers, ads and public service announcements to share the news of their relocation with the public. “We have used as much outreach as our budget and resources allow,” Morgan said. The shelter plans on having an open house later on in the year. “We want to serve the community, reach out and invite the public in. This is their building. We are their program. We are here to work for them.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.

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Executive Director of Public School Forum John Dornan. “Education is one of the few tickets back to a job, and we are gutting our programs,” Dornan said. Dornan said the cuts to the primary education and higher education levels would amount to roughly 20,000 new jobs lost in the state. “That is the equivalent of General Motors right now,” he said. He said the proposed cuts would probably fall onto specialty programs like Slavic studies. “It’s those kinds of centers and institutes that make UNC and (N.C.) State prominent among colleges across the country,” he said. Those cuts would have a lasting impact on the quality of universities in the state, Nelson said. “It’s gonna have a serious impact

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in December. The committee approached Gray-Little earlier in the spring to consider her to fill the vacancy. She accepted their consideration and, after a series of interviews, was among the final three candidates still being considered Friday. Though Gray-Little will be the first African-American and first female chancellor at KU, she said that her priority as of now is set-

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Brice said she had never had a paramedic violate so many protocols at once. Brice later said that she believed Griffin was capable of being a paramedic anywhere except Orange County due to the higher standard of service it has for its paramedics. The second reason Pratt stated that helped the review board come to their decision was that the medical report did not indicate that Griffin’s actions directly contributed to Fraley’s death. Fraley’s autopsy report concluded that the cause of death was “undetermined natural causes.” Pratt said the state stood by its

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on the kids we can admit and the quality of education we can offer,” he said. Doucette said the cuts were frustrating students because the legislators weren’t considering other options. “If they were serious about fixing the budget problem, they would look at how taxes are set up and give the Board of Governors the authority to delegate where cuts come from,” Doucette said. Nelson said the proposed severe cuts would spur the house to look into finding new sources of tax revenue. “We’re hopeful that these budget cuts are so severe that it will help the house realize they need a balance of cuts and revenue enhancements,” Nelson said.

This is because employees who are fired become immediately dependent on services that the state provides, such as medical care and insurance, Folkerts said. “In some ways, it’s not really cutting budget,” she said. Relief may come in the form of analysis by Bain & Company, a private firm hired by an anonymous donor to evaluate UNC’s budget effectiveness. Thorp told the Board of Trustees on May 27 that the group had agreed to return to UNC after a number of years to evaluate the effectiveness of the recommendations UNC uses. Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.

Where is the new proposed budget coming from? The new proposed budget was introduced by the N.C. House of Representatives.

How much of a tuition increase might UNC face? The tuition increase for the whole system is either $200 or 8 percent, whichever is lower. UNC’s tuition would go up by $200.

What happens now? The new budget has to go to a conference committee where the differences between the house budget and the senate budget are reconciled.

Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.

decision even though the board had not received some of the information it requested, including a report from the medical student who accompanied Griffin. “We thought we had enough based on interviews to not pursue that any farther,” he said. Other information not released to the state includes records from the phone Griffin said he used to call Fraley’s parents while on the scene. Fraley famliy attorney Donald Strickland said the family is preparing to take legal action against Griffin and Orange County Emergency Medical Services, but he did not mention a specific date. Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.

UNC-system president Erskine Bowles told the University to prepare for 3, 5 and 7 percent budget cuts. The University went under the assumption that there would be a 5 percent budget cut, but the cuts are much deeper than anyone expected.

What about financial aid? Tuition increases approved by the UNC Board of Governors return 52 percent of the increase in the form of financial aid. The proposed tuition increases from the house will go directly to funding the state’s budget deficit. As a result, there will be no new financial aid returns to accompany the tuition increase.

Abortion doctor killed in Kansas

GM ﬁles for bankruptcy protection, strikes positive note with Obama

WICHITA, Kan. (MCT) — With one bullet, a gunman ended George Tiller’s life and the controversial career of an abortion doctor who had been a target for years, killing him as he stood in the foyer of his church Sunday. Monday, a 51 year-old Johnson County, Kan., man could be charged with murder and aggravated assault in Tiller’s death. The crime has drawn the condemnation and outrage from the president and strong emotions across the nation.

NEW YORK (MCT) — The first day of the rest of General Motors Corp.’s existence began at 7:57 a.m. Monday with the filing of the fourth-largest bankruptcy ever, a venture that will strip the company of 14 plants and 17,000 U.S. jobs, while costing the governments of the United States and Canada $40 billion. Yet for all the carnage, the company and President Barack Obama worked to paint their new partnership in hopeful shades, describing a leaner

GM tackling its long-standing defects of product and finances under federal ownership that has vowed to stay out of dayto-day decisions. “This new GM will be built from the strongest parts of our business, including our best brands and our very finest products,” said GM Chief Executive Fritz Henderson. “We will have far less debt, fully competitive labor costs and the ability to generate sustained and positive bottom line performance.”

Hurricane season causes price spike

Sotomayor has good track record

Cyber-security adviser on deck

NEW YORK (MCT) — Fewer hurricanes are likely to gather over the Atlantic Ocean during the tropical storm season that officially begins Monday, but it would only take one or two aimed at key facilities to fan already rising oil and gas prices, analysts say. Still, this hurricane season again threatens to halt energy production and swamp key agricultural regions, raising the cost of natural gas, gasoline and even some food, and possibly waylaying a U.S. economy recovery.

WA S H I N G T O N ( M C T ) — Before her Supreme Court nomination, Sonia Sotomayor put some crooks in prison and cut others some slack. She’s confronted killers and empowered police. She has also sympathized with inmates and challenged prosecutors. While tilting liberal in some areas, Sotomayor’s five years in the Manhattan district attorney’s office and 17 years on the federal bench appear to place her near the center in criminal law matters.

WASHINGTON (MCT) — Calling the protection of government and private information and communications networks “one of the most serious ... security challenges of the 21st century,” President Barack Obama plans to appoint a new adviser to oversee a national effort at improving “cyber-security” throughout the United States. The president said Friday that his own presidential campaign computers were breached by hackers between August and October.

Southern hospitality Chapel Hill prepares to welcome the Bolshoi Ballet, Russia’s national ballet company. See pg. 4 for story.

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ting a solid framework for a new provost to take over at UNC. “I’m spending more time leaving here than I am being at Kansas,” she said. Perhaps one of the most pressing issues on the minds of students is which team she will be cheering for next basketball season. “I’ll be cheering for my team,” Gray-Little answered ambiguously.

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

Is UNC prepared for this?

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koch comments were spray-painted in the free expression tunnel at N.C. State. Randy Young, spokesman for DPS, said University police have never used an independent review board. A routine internal review was conducted after the April 14 protest that did not find any officer to have acted excessively or inappropriately. The current internal investigation is the result of a formal complaint in which protesters said they were the victims of police brutality. “This trial represents a pattern of abuse by DPS and Chapel Hill police against activists,” said one rally member. “This is a political trial that is intended to silence protest.” Riley Matheson, who was president of Youth for Western Civilization when they invited Tancredo to campus and present at the protest, said he had no doubt that the protesters were responsible for eliciting the police response and that anyone who thought otherwise was both stupid and lying. Koch said there will be another rally held after her next court date on Sept. 14.

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TOPS began this week, and kicked off its two-day orientation process with a performance by Interactive Theatre Carolina. Incoming first-years observed a four-issue performance written by Ben Saypol, the company’s director, and his group of actors. The group focuses on diversity, human rights and social justice. After the performance the students engaged in various forms of discussion with the actors, administrators and each other about these issues.

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Goodbye Solo The movie that opened at the Varsity last weekend is a masterpiece. See pg. 6 for story.

Delayed rewards Weaver Street Market will change its reward system in order to turn a profit. See pg. 7 for story.

Budget battle North Carolina teachers express concern about proposed education budget cuts. See pg. 8 for story.

Sara Watkins The former Nickel Creek fiddler will come to the Carrboro ArtsCenter on Friday. Go online for story.

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Across 1 Gordon Shumway’s title alias, in a sitcom 4 Minnesota twin? 10 Chick follower 14 Chinese chairman 15 Piemonte city 16 Applies lightly 17 Six-pack makeup 18 1963 international treaty subjects 20 Dietary claim 22 Kind of chop 23 Politicians’ dilemmas 26 Varnish ingredient 27 Vacation site 28 “You’ve got the wrong person” 30 Alphabet trio 31 Mil. troop unit 34 Lightweight bayou vessel 37 Heavy gamebirds 39 Triumph 40 Drench 41 Soft & __: Henkel brand 42 Supportive calls 44 Señor’s “Absolutely!” 48 Basic teaching styles 51 They usually involve undercover work 54 Not necessarily against 56 Expand the viewed area, in a way 57 Cowboy boots and

Stetson hats 60 Cholesterol initials 61 Offensive comment 62 Pricey timepieces 63 Conk out 64 Notice 65 Quirk 66 Dawn deity Down 1 Italy’s __ Coast 2 Tags 3 Paleontologist’s find 4 Employees 5 Out-and-out 6 Positive particle 7 Deadeye’s forte 8 Lateral beginning 9 It might be picked 10 Dig deeply 11 Capital ESE of Beirut 12 Drop in the ocean 13 One of the reputed Dead

Sea Scrolls writers 19 Spot for a screwdriver 21 Metallic money 24 Having caught on 25 Brouhaha 29 Rubs the wrong way 32 MMCX halved 33 Time to attack 35 Antipoverty agcy. 36 Drywall mineral 37 Records in detail 38 Even 39 Pushes forward 41 Nap

43 Maker of Boulevard motorcycles 45 Tristan’s love 46 Loft, perhaps 47 Agave fibers 49 Blog piece 50 __ Jeanne d’Arc 52 Title character not in the cast 53 Overbearing 55 Not exactly 58 “Waking __ Devine”: 1998 film 59 Impersonated

Opinion

10 thursday, june 4, 2009 EDITORIAL CARTOON

The Daily Tar Heel QUOTE OF THE Week:

By Don Wright, The Palm Beach Post

“I won’t be living the high life, but that’s all right.” Jeanne Tilley, 2009 UNC Graduate, regarding the

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poor economic conditions and job market.

summer Columnist

Kathleen Sharpe is a senior music major from Winston-Salem.

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E-mail: eksharpe@email.unc.edu

Franklin Street solution is a focal-point event

Inflating grades to new heights

rade inflation. We’ve all heard about it. We’ve all got an opinion about it. Do we love it? Do we hate it? Is it even occurring? I guess I’m a little on the fence about it still. But to rectify my current outlook on the issue, I’ve been trying to put myself in the shoes of someone who might really dig grade inflation, and I’ve done a little research. For instance, I’ve created a fictional muse named Betsy Whiteloafers. Betsy is a super cute, pearlbedecked rising sophomore at UNC. Her major is communication studies, and her personal hero Summer is Elle Woods COLUMNIST from “Legally Blonde.” In her words, she understands that “like, everyone is concerned with UNC’s illustrious history and gleaming reputation, but we haven’t a thing to worry about. I mean, we’re all, like, totally smart, pretty and positive people, right?” So she thinks the school should, “like, totes inflate grades based on attitude, fab footwear and party spirit. Like, Duh. OMG. Stop freaking out! Any diploma gives you bragging rights and looks so cute in a little frame on the wall.” Betsy is not the only supporter of low standards at the oldest public university in the nation. If the University did dumb things down, I don’t think anyone would riot. I conducted a poll among five of my slacker friends and the vote — minus my overachiever friend Jake who doesn’t even go to school here — was YES for A’s. These same students also added that C’s get degrees. I’ve been a “B” student for quite some time now, and I love it. Really it’s my favorite. But if a professor or TA wanted to give me an “A,” I wouldn’t argue. In fact, please inflate my grades like they’re a bouncy house at a 5-year-old’s birthday party. Of course, this is all hypothetical because I’m not even sure grade inflation exists. It has had absolutely no effect whatsoever on my grade point average. The only grade inflation that I can attest to affects those people who are already at the tops of their classes. They scrape for that stupid tenth of a point so that they have a 93 instead of a 92.8 or whatever, which they only squeeze out because they fight for it. But I’m a lover, not a fighter, baby. Even though I’m a Doubting Thomas, I’ve heard through the grapevine that grade inflation is definitely not mythical like the friendship between the U.S. and Russia. In small, struggling departments, it probably makes more fiscal sense to have students with better grades. This is not across the board though, and professors don’t really talk about it. In other words, grade inflation is like the second cousin that your family never mentions because he gave up Freedom Fries and joined the French Foreign Legion. So there you have it. I hope that my research has been helpful. If grade inflation even exists, Betsy and at least four other students back it 100 percent. If it doesn’t, well, then I guess we’ll have to stick with this obnoxious, prestigious reputation. Crap.

Make it an inside hire

The new provost should come from UNC

oney is tight, and it’s only going to get tighter. So why scour the country for a new provost when he or she is likely to be just across Polk Place? Chancellor Holden Thorp has pledged to get a search committee in place to quickly replace Bernadette Gray-Little, who will become the new chancellor at the University of Kansas. The University must be thrifty in finding her successor and limit the initial search to internal candidates. When then- C hancellor James Moeser announced he would step down last June, the search committee paid a consulting firm, William R. Funk

and Associates, about $100,000 to solicit applicants. Applicants were flown in and put up in hotels to be interviewed. The ultimate result? Thorp, who was already working in South Building was selected. Similarly, a national search was made to replace Thorp’s vacated post as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Fifty-five applicants from across the country were interviewed. Karen Gil, senior associate dean of social sciences and international programs at UNC, was picked. And guess where Gray-Little was before she was named provost in 2006? Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The provost is an important

job, certainly. We need somebody capable of serving as the chief academic officer at this University. But we have a wealth of experience and talent right here at UNC. Look at J. Steven Reznick, associate dean for first-year seminars and academic experiences. Look at Ron Strauss, executive associate provost. And if UNC still can’t find a replacement, ask Bruce Carney for a recommendation. He’s a nearly 30-year veteran of the University, was the interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and will now be interim provost. He’ll surely know whom to pick. Home cooking is just fine. It’s sure cheaper than dining out.

Enough target practice Koch is being unfairly singled out due to scholarship

o Haley Koch held a banner at the Tancredo protests in April. So she held a 12-foot banner that read, “No Dialogue with Hate.” So she held a 12-foot banner in front of a speaker who had been invited by a student organization to voice his opinion on immigration at the University. But just holding a banner doesn’t seem like it warrants being at the center of such a heated controversy. Perhaps her actions were inappropriate. The protest escalated into a panic scenario with glass breaking and police using pepper spray. Both sides are outraged and citing their right to free speech. And Koch is now the face of

the protest controversy. Not only was she the only student arrested, but Koch is also set apart by her prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholarship. The Morehead-Cain Scholarship symbolizes UNC academic excellence. Koch will be able to keep her scholarship after she met with MoreheadCain Foundation Director Chuck Lovelace. But Koch’s scholarship seems to be making her into an easy scapegoat. When a student involved in a controversy is a MoreheadCain Scholar, it certainly makes for a more sensational story. Having a scholarship means having more to lose. But we need to hold everyone to the same standards. The video of the protest that

implicates Koch as guilty shows her holding a banner while the ruckus begins to spiral out of control. Charges could still be brought against some of the more than 100 protestors involved. But so far none of them have been arrested outside of a classroom. The fact that the University takes pride in its MoreheadCain Scholars does not mean they should be held more accountable for their behavior. If those upset by this controversy think that the protesting students should face consequences, then they should be impartial in their calls for punishment. There is no need to point fingers at Koch simply because of her scholarship.

Better summer livin’

UNC summers are great but need improvement

ummer life in Chapel Hill is blissful. There are fewer crowds, warmer nights and everything seems to move at half the speed. But life on campus is tolerable at best. Few students take advantage of UNC summers. And those who stay find a desolate campus that offers few of the services it does during the school year. That shouldn’t be the case. Summer School is a different animal from the school year. The campus is practically abandoned. All the buildings are locked, and the Pit remains quiet and empty. The libraries close earlier every night — leaving students to hunt for quiet study areas. The Campus Recreation

gyms open early in the morning and close early in the evening — times that aren’t cooperative with students’ schedules. Campus dining all but disappears. Top of Lenoir and Rams Head both have irregular hours based on summer camps and CTOPS sessions. Neither is a reliable food source. Adding to the problem, the P2P Express doesn’t run during the summer. This leaves many South Campus students stranded far from the comforts of Franklin Street when the buses stop running. The cost of running UNC at full strength throughout the summer might be excessive. But it’s entirely possible to adjust to the fewer numbers without cutting off students’

day-to-day lifelines. For example, shifting the gym schedule back a few hours would allow more students to use the gym when it’s convenient — not at 6 a.m. Opening a student grocery store or cafe on South Campus could also bring in money for the University and help out those students stranded on South Campus. If the libraries cannot be open more because of costs, opening the Student Academic Services Building computer lab would provide campus study areas for students in need of peace and quiet after 10 p.m. A few small changes could go a long way toward making summer living in Chapel Hill closer to perfect.

Weekly QuickHits Swine Flu

Maymeseter Ends

Beheaded Dinosaur

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The hype is so over the top. To prevent swine flu, see instructions on how not to spread every other disease on the planet.

Maymester is over, meaning the poor souls enrolled in it are now free. Was it worth it just to save two weeks of June? Absolutely not.

A brontosaurus at a museum in Durham lost its head. Our bets are on an angry 5-year-old. Parents: enough with the violent video games.

First-years: We’re glad you’re here at UNC! But the amount of Tar Heel apparel is overload and only makes it more obvious that you’re new.

TO THE EDITOR: The solution to the dangerous conditions at Franklin Street victory celebrations is breathtakingly simple: There is no focal point for all that pent up energy following a victory. Students rush to Franklin Street to share their jubilation only to find no official University symbol or group to reflect their jubilation. With nothing happening and hordes of television reporters desperate for a story, students are left to their own devices, and we have fires and makeshift group actions. Everyone is desperate for something to happen. The University, together with the town of Chapel Hill, which already has the crowd control plans in place, could provide the missing element by providing an official stage, or the back of a flatbed truck, in the center of Franklin and Columbia Streets. Sports marketing should provide cheerleaders and a pep band to be on hand to lead a traditional pep rally for an hour or so. We would have an event with a beginning and an end to provide crowd control. Everything is in place already. All we need is a focal point. Why is that so hard to understand? We don’t need to disperse the celebration around campus. It just won’t happen. The Franklin Street victory celebrations have become a major tradition at UNC and probably one of the best accidental recruiting tools for the University. Every aspiring high school senior wants to go to a school with that kind of spirit. F. Marion Redd UNC Printing Services

Multiple-choice exams test students’ knowledge TO THE EDITOR: Testing provides a textbook example of the theory that people tend to favor policies that serve their own self-interests. A recent column and a responding letter to the editor characterize multiple-choice exams as boring, focused on trivial facts, based on instructor laziness and likely to produce incompetent nonthinkers. It’s clear that a monkey randomly selecting answers can expect a 20-25 percent success rate. Such accusations may apply to some multiple-choice exams and some instructors, but equally telling criticisms can be applied to almost any testing format. Essay exams, for example, rarely cover more than a very small subset of concepts in a course, inducing many students to game the system by focusing study on the limited materials they think

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likely to be tested. Another major flaw with essay testing is that it rewards bright students for what I call Duke answers: Clueless but bright people can expect at least partial credit for meaningless word salads even if they don’t know anything about a topic. Intelligence is rewarded, but exams ideally test knowledge, not mere ability to waffle plausibly based on intuition about what words might mean. On a more positive note, multiple-choice questions can cover far more concepts than most alternative formats, providing students with incentives to study assigned materials more diligently. Creative multiple-choice questions can also bridge multiple concepts and require students to solve complex problems. If you doubt this statement, please check out a reasonably large selection of the questions on old exams and quizzes posted at my Web site. There are always trade-offs between the techniques used in testing, but I suspect that student complaints about certain techniques vis-avis other techniques are based in students’ senses of personal comparative advantages. Ralph Byrns Professor of Economics

Kvetching board kvetch: v.1 (Yiddish) to complain Roomie: There’s a reason singers get paid to sing: They’re good at it. There’s a reason you don’t get paid, so please spare my ears! To the Pit: No I don’t want to learn about Mormons, get a free hug, vote for student body president or listen to the Pit Preacher. But I will take a free T-shirt. To my roommate who has sex with boys in the room while I’m trying to sleep: I can hear you, and I don’t appreciate it! To Mr./Ms. “Keep your pants on” from last week: Sex is a wonderful thing. Expand your mind a little. Or get laid. Hey, Alpine Bagel dude: How about not using the same knife to slice my cinnamon raisin bagel as you use to slice the onion ones? That onion aftertaste is just a little too much in the mornings. To the person who called me a bobblehead and mocked me for falling asleep in class last week: I beat the class average on the last test by 20 points, semiconscious hangovers aside. Wake me up if you need help studying. Must your profile pic have to be a close-up photo of the engagement ring and not of the happy couple? Or is it more about the ring after all? Send your one-to-two sentence entries to dthedit@gmail.com subject line ‘kvetch.’

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