The Daily Tar Heel for Sept. 10, 2009

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VOLUME 117, ISSUE 66

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Greeks take lead in investigation Judicial board looks for DKE party violations

BY Brian Austin Senior Writer

diversions | page 5 LITERARY FESTIVAL The N.C. Literary Festival arrives on campus today, bringing an array of authors, storytellers and performers.

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UNC administrators say they have left it to the Greeks’ system of self-governance to make an initial determination on whether a party at the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity house violated UNC and Greek policies.

While alcohol-related fraternity violations are not uncommon — and the University usually leaves it up to the Greek system to investigate incidents and determine punishment — the Aug. 22 party has received an unusual emphasis because of the circumstances around it.

The night of the party was the same night junior Courtland Smith, who was president

features | page 13 ‘FRESHMAN 15’ Irregular meal times and changing exercise schedules sometimes lead to weight gain — even beyond the stereotypical 15 pounds.

city | page 3 SEEKING VOTES Three candidates, including two incumbents, are running for two seats on the Hillsborough Town Board.

BY Lauren Ratcliffe Staff writer

On Sept. 9, 1909, English professor Edward Kidder Graham kicked off a rich tradition of journalism at UNC with English 16, a news writing course taught in Playmakers Theater.

One hundred years later, students and faculty members gathered Wednesday in front of Carroll Hall to mark the anniversary.

In that century, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication has undergone significant changes, attempting to broaden the skill sets of its graduates and adapt to new media technology.

The school’s story is one of innovation, adapting to the emergence of radio, television and public relations as prominent communication fields.

Today the curriculum seeks to reflect the emerging influence of multimedia and divides the school into two categories: journalism and advertising/public relations.

The school encourages graduates to become familiar with modern media and technology.

Dulcie Straughan, senior associate dean of the school, said the curriculum aims to prepare its graduates for the current job market.

“What the dean really hopes is that this is a curriculum that emphasizes core principles but helps the student become more flexible with what they can do after graduation,” Straughan said.

The changes came after consulting with news media across the

1909 First journalism course, English 16, offered in Smith Hall (Playmakers Theater)

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The Loreleis sing Wednesday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The school celebrated at Carroll Hall with cake, coffee and giveaway items. state about what journalism students should be learning to become successful, Straughan said.

The school also offers opportunities outside the classroom for students to hone their technology skills.

Kyle York, assistant to the dean for communications, said students can get involved in online multimedia projects dealing with such topics as energy use and the Galapagos Islands.

York said these special projects investigate how to tell stories in alternative formats.

“The idea is to tell the story in whichever media tells it best,” York said.

The school has also upgraded its equipment to high-definition technology to get students familiar with the technologies they will use after graduation.

After 100 years of change and innovation, the school’s faculty said they are looking forward to where the industry is headed and how to best prepare their students.

Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.

1958 School of Journalism is accredited

1953 Neil Luxon becomes dean and changes the direction of the school

this day in history SEPT. 10, 2005 …

“A Classical Opening,” featuring violinist Itzhak Perlman, took place at the renovated Memorial Hall.

Today’s weather Partly cloudy H 81, L 59

Friday’s weather Mostly cloudy H 83, L 66

index police log ......................... 2 calendar ........................... 2 crossword ..................... 10 nation/world . ................ 11 sports . ............................ 11 opinion ........................... 14

2009 New curriculum takes effect to reflect changes in the media landscape

1979 Richard Cole 1999 becomes dean and School moved transforms the school to Carroll Hall 2006 Jean Folkerts becomes dean

1960 The school is moved to Howell Hall

FEAST AFTER FAST

1909

Provost search a quick process Assistant university editor

1948 Department of journalism applies for accreditation and is denied

1924 Department of journalism is located in New West

Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.

BY eliza kern

School of Journalism and Mass Communication

About 300 students gathered at sundown Wednesday to break the Ramadan fast and raise money for a Durham charity.

Senior Patrick Fleming, the fraternity’s co-president and treasurer and a DTH editorial board member, said he only found out about the investigation Tuesday and hadn’t been asked any questions.

“Nothing has been asked of us, but we are willing to fully cooperate with the investigation, and we’re confident that they won’t find anything wrong,” Fleming said.

Administrators have used the opportunity to open the door to further review fraternities and sororities.

“I think the University might take a look at what our relationship is with the Greek organizations, but it’s a little premature to determine at this point,” Jablonski said.

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of Delta Kappa Epsilon, was killed by a police officer at about 5 a.m. near Greensboro.

Smith was seen at the party around 12:30 a.m., according to a statement released by members of his fraternity.

Administrators have been quick to say that there are no ties between the investigation and Smith’s death, but they observed potential violations when they visited the fraternity to talk to members about it.

Administrators have put the first part of the investigation on the Greek Judicial Board, a group of fraternity and sorority members who evaluate potential violations.

“They are the ones really moving forward on investigating the allegations around the

party,” said Margaret Jablonski, vice chancellor for student affairs. “They should be wrapping that up very soon.”

The judicial board is responsible for determining if there is evidence to hold a hearing on whether the fraternity violated Greek rules. Determining that evidence exists will not imply the organization’s guilt.

Administrators could use that information to move forward with their own review.

The judicial board’s co-chairmen declined to comment on the ongoing investigation.

Greek policy stipulates that all chapter activities be without alcohol during recruitment. One of the board’s tasks will be to determine if underage people drank at the party or if it was a recruitment event.

Official recruitment for fraternities is taking place this week.

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Notable journalist alumni Charles Kuralt Winner of a Peabody Award for “On the Road” segments for CBS and served as first anchor of “CBS News Sunday Morning.”

Ed Yoder Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing and columnist for the Washington Post.

Jonathan Yardley Book

critic for the Washington Post and winner of a Pulitzer prize for Criticism.

Stuart Scott Anchors ESPN SportsCenter and hosts “Late Night with Roy.” Draggan Mihailovich

Producer on 60 Minutes.

Brooke Baldwin

Correspondent and anchor for CNN in Atlanta.

Woody Durham

Legendary play-by-play announcer for University football and basketball games; dubbed “the voice of the Tar Heels.”

Alan Murray Executive editor of the Wall Street Journal Online.

The list of potential candidates for UNC’s No. 2 administrative job is already more than 100 names long, and it won’t stop there.

In the next few months, a search committee of 17 students, faculty, staff and administrators will work to select the executive vice chancellor and provost position — UNC’s top academic officer.

At a meeting Wednesday, committee members set an ambitious schedule, discussed qualities they will look for in the new provost and reviewed their progress so far.

Members also hinted that the next provost might not come from within UNC’s walls, a departure from recent high-level searches.

After recruiting during the next few weeks, the committee will narrow the field down to three finalists and submit those to Chancellor Holden Thorp, who plans to hire the provost by early February.

To aid the selection process, UNC hired R. William Funk & Associates, a consulting group that helped select Thorp as chancellor in 2008. The firm was paid $100,000 for the chancellor search.

Bill Funk, the firm’s lead consultant, said his team has identified about 75 percent of the expected total candidate pool.

Bernadette Gray-Little held the provost role from 2006-09 before she was named chancellor at the University of Kansas.

Shelton Earp, director of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer

See PROVOST, Page 11

Provost Search Open Forums Sept. 29

Time: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Location: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall

Oct. 5

Time: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Location: Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library

Researchers study Honduran infant malnutrition

By Tracy Boyer Special to the DTH

SANTA LUCIA, HONDURAS — Deep in the mountains of southwestern Honduras, Maria Digna Ramos Mendoza spoon-feeds Plumpy’Doz, a peanut-based supplement, to her infant daughter.

Four other hungry children watch while either sitting on the dirt floor of their one-room hut or swinging from a hammock.

Chickens, dogs and rats roam around the cluttered room, scavenging for their next meal.

Mendoza is part of a research study being conducted by professors and students at UNC, part of the University’s larger focus on international health.

Researchers aim to improve the growth and development of young infants in rural Honduras.

The Mathile Institute for the Advancement of Human Nutrition, a philanthropic orga-

nization founded by former Iams CEO and board chairman Clayton L. Mathile, funds the year-long project.

The study is also in conjunction with the U.S. nonprofit organization Shoulder to Shoulder, an organization founded and directed

by UNC School of Medicine faculty member Dr. Jeffrey Heck.

Heck proposed the study in hopes of improving the well-being of the people his organization serves in the town of Santa Lucia and the surrounding villages of southwestern Honduras.

A glaring need Santa Lucia is a tiny village nestled in the remote region of Intibucá. Lack of adequate infrastructure isolates these residents from the outside world, with the nearest large commercial center located eight hours away by car.

To see a slideshow, videos, interactive graphic and more information about the Honduras project, visit: www.internationalhunger.com.

Moreover, permanent potholes and washed-out areas from torrential rains cover the gravel and dirt roads, creating a nearly impassable route.

Malnutrition affects a large percentage of this population due to the consequences of poverty and lack of sanitation.

The World Bank states that Honduras is the third-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with a child malnutrition rate of 23 percent.

“However, poverty and malnutrition rates are thought to be as high as twice the national average

See HONDURAS, Page 11

courtesy of tracy boyer

Maria Digna Ramos Mendoza cares for her five children in their crowded one-room hut in the mountains of southwestern Honduras.

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Brooklyn boy learns guns aren’t toys

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f you’ve ever heard not to play with guns because you’ll shoot your eye out, there is officially a more convincing statement.

A 15-year-old from Brooklyn, N.Y., shot himself in the penis while he was playing around with a gun stored in his waistband, authorities said. The boy was arrested for criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment.

The boy told police he was walking home at about 1:30 a.m. when the gun began to fall out of his waistband. As he grabbed for it, he unintentionally pulled the trigger, sending a bullet through his penis. He then limped home and was taken to the hospital, where he was arrested. Now he knows — don’t play with guns. You’ll shoot your penis off.

NOTED. Jessica Watson, a 16-year-old Australian girl attempting to be the youngest person to sail solo around the world, had her journey cut short. She ran her yacht into a cargo ship on a short 10-day preliminary journey.

Waton’s media spokesman said that she would continue the journey and that the wreck was a minor incident. The current world record is held by a 17-year-old boy.

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QUOTED. “We are not exactly sure what he was thinking at the time. She recognized him right away when he returned and was able to have her cousin call 911.”

— Columbus, Ohio, police Sgt. Sean Laird about a suspected robber that police arrested when he returned to his victim’s home soon after the crime. The man asked his victim if she had a boyfriend and wanted to go on a date.

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today Concert: Grab a blanket or a chair and head over to Hillsborough for a free concert performed by John Dee Holeman and Red Rover. Warm weather and free music are the main draws.

Time: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Location: Weaver Street Market, Hillsborough Phi Beta Chi meeting: If you never thought a sorority could be a good fit for you, Phi Beta Chi might prove you wrong. It is a national sorority founded in 1978 that embraces academic achievement, self-growth and high standards with the framework of Christian values.

They will be holding an interest meeting today to discuss recruitment.

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: Student Union, Room 3206 Interest meeting: Perhaps your mind wonders to far-off places, maybe even southeast Asia? The Southeast Asia Interest Association will be holding a meeting today to explain the group’s goals. You can

learn more about the location itself and the many humanitarian efforts made there by our local community.

Time: 8 p.m.

Location: Student Union, Room 2502

Friday Public service fair: Ever felt the urge to volunteer? Go visit the Pit for a student-run public service fair with more information on ways you can contribute to the community, whether it be on campus or in the surrounding areas. No registration is required. Come with an open mind and your planner.

Time: 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Location: The Pit Fridays on the Front Porch: Venture out on a bright and sunny Friday for a little bit of bluegrass and a whole lot of fun. You’ll hear the sounds of the Cadillac Stepbacks while lounging under the huge trees outside. There will be a full-service bar and buffet. There is no cover charge.

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

Location: The Carolina Inn

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Sculptures for sale: View various Chinese paper sculptures at the Turning Point Gallery. These small hand-cut pieces are set on bright backdrops and already framed.

Time: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Location: 201 S. Estes Drive

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tudents take a break from studying in the Student Union to listen to President Barack Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. Obama focused on reforming health care to offer a public health care plan and also spoke about the state of the economy.

Police log n Somebody sawed off and

stole a Village West sign from a residential community between 4 p.m. Sunday and 11 a.m. Monday at 1 Bluff Trail, according to Chapel Hill police reports.

The sign was valued at $500, reports state.

Art walk: Every month, local art galleries and music venues open their doors to residents and visitors from all over the area for the 2ndFriday Artwalk. Visit www.2ndfridayartwalk.com for more information and a map of the route. n Somebody reported excessive Time: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. road tar damaging his car between Location: Various 7 p.m. and 8:13 p.m. Tuesday at Legion Road and Jackie Robinson Music festival: Faculty musicians Street, according to Chapel Hill from Juilliard, Yale, Bard and UNC police reports. He reported damwill perform. Tickets are $15, or $10 age to his white Lexus LS 400 at for students, faculty and staff. Call $100, reports state.

843-3333 for tickets or information.

Time: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. n A 19-year-old man was arrestLocation: Gerrard Hall ed for two counts of felony breaking and entering at about 10:12 p.m. Monday on Schultz Street To make a calendar submission, e-mail dthcalendar@gmail.com. after police saw that he attempted Events will be published in the to break into vehicles, according to newspaper on either the day or the Chapel Hill police reports. day before they take place.

Carlos Aaron Rangel Grimaldo Submissions must be sent in by of Carrboro was taken to the noon the preceding publication date. Orange County Jail in lieu of $1,200

secured bond, reports state. n Somebody stole a motorized scooter from the parking lot of an apartment building at 1100 U.S. 15-501 between 1 p.m. Sunday and 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to Chapel Hill police reports.

The 2007 Honda Metropolitan is worth $1,500, reports state. n A man who had a warrant out for his arrest in Durham was transported back there after an officer saw him with a stolen bicycle in Carrboro, according to Carrboro police reports.

The bicycle was reported stolen at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday on East Poplar Avenue after a man was seen looking in yards then riding it, reports state. n Somebody reported that dogs were running at large at 1:36 p.m.

Tuesday at 120 Circadian Way in Chapel Hill, according to Carrboro police reports.

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Public Service Fair when: Friday, September 11 10:30am - 2pm where: The Pit Near UNC Student Stores

Interest Meeting Monday, September 14th 4:30-6:00pm Carolina Union Room 1505

participating organizations include: A Helping Hand, Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership, Chapel Hill Museum, Chapel Hill Service League, Cornucopia House Cancer Support Center, Extraordinary Ventures, Inc., Kidzu Children’s Museum, Orange County Animal Services, Orange County Partnership for Young Children, Orange County Rape Crisis Center, Rainbow Soccer, Ltd., SECU Family House, The Family Violence Prevention Center, The Women’s Center, Triangle Youth Ballet, UNC Platelet Donor Program and more!

The Public Service Fair is a chance for students, staff, faculty and the public to learn about service opportunities in our community. Representatives from 40 local nonprofit organizations will be on campus to recruit volunteers. Volunteering and other forms of public service are great ways to make a difference in the quality of our community.

Sponsored by the Carolina Center for Public Service, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, The Foundation for a Sustainable Community, and UNC Student Government

The Executive Branch of the UNC-CH Student Government Contact: Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce • wwoodyard@carolinachamber.org • 357.9980

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The Daily Tar Heel Student audit committee passes five fee increases T h e S t u d e n t Fe e A u d i t Committee was admittedly critical Wednesday in its vetting of six proposed fees before preliminarily approving five.

The five that received approval will now go before the student fee advisory subcommittee for consideration Friday. One of the fees considered Wednesday, the law student activity fee, was tabled for further review.

“We’re just being critical for the sake of it,” said Student Body President Jasmin Jones.

Four of the five approved proposals would raise application fees if passed. The fifth would charge public health students $45 for receiving a certificate in maternal and child health.

The law student activity fee increase of $14.50 was tabled so committee members could consult the UNC Student Bar Association.

“Any time a fee affects an entire student population, it’s necessary for all voices to be heard,” said Harrison Brooks, a member on the committee who advocated delaying the vote for further review.

CITY briefs

Health department receives grant to expand services The Orange County Health Department received a two-year grant from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust in August to start a Diabetes Self-Management Education program.

Starting in September, the health department will offer DSME services to Orange County adults who have type 2 diabetes. The program will take special measures to ensure that uninsured residents and those living in rural parts of the county have access.

“This program will offer a muchneeded service in our county especially for residents who don’t have the means to access existing services,” said Renee Kemske, Nutrition Program Manager for the Orange County Health Department.

The award comes after the health department’s acceptance into the N.C. Division of Public Health’s Diabetes Education Recognition Program, which is an umbrella of local health departments providing diabetes education services.

Town of Hillsborough to host development meeting The town of Hillsborough will host a civic discussion from 7 to 9 p.m. Sept. 22 to determine the specific parts of the built environment that contribute to the town.

People with a particular area of interest or a general interest in the future development of Hillsborough are encouraged to attend.

“Choosing Character: A Civic Discussion to Establish the Physical Components That Contribute to Our Quality of Small-Town Life” will take place at the Orange County Senior Center. Feedback gathered from the session will serve as the primary guide to the development ordinance’s rewrite.

A local restaurant looks to attract University crowd R&R Grill, located in the Bank of America building on Franklin Street, is hoping to draw in University students and employees by offering a free appetizer with the purchase of an entree.

E-mails were sent out to students in a wide variety of majors inviting them to try the restaurant which opened over the summer.

Ross Moll, the owner of the bar and grill, said he hopes the strategy will get people coming through the door.

“It’s trying to get the university people to come out and join us,” Moll said.

State briefs

Marshall announces she will run for U.S. Senate in 2010 N.C. Secretary of State Elaine Marshall filed papers this week to run against Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr in 2010.

Marshall is the first woman elected to statewide office in North Carolina.

Only one other person — Durham lawyer Kenneth Lewis— has filed papers, but Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy is considering it, as well as some others. Party primaries are scheduled for May.

NCCU announces 30 percent enrollment increase this fall N.C. Central University in Durham enrolled the largest freshman class in its history this year — 1,347 freshmen, according to WRAL. Overall enrollment at the university is up 30 percent this year, its centennial year, bringing total enrollment to 8,501.

—From staff and wire reports

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Growth is town’s central issue Living Hillsborough race focus is ‘town feel’ BY matthew mcgibney staff writer

The mayor of Hillsborough said he hopes the two town commissioners elected in November will focus on sustainable growth while maintaining the small town’s character.

“The town has been around for over 250 years, so we have a long history,” Mayor Tom Stevens said.

“I think we all want to see continued vitality, not the turning of the town into a museum.”

Three candidates are running for the two seats: incumbents Mike Gering and Frances Dancy, and challenger Bryant Kelly Warren Jr. The two members will work closely with Stevens, who is running unopposed for the second

time in a row after winning his first election in 2005 by only 43 votes.

He said nobody has run against him because of his administration’s transparency.

“People do have access and participation,” Stevens said. “It’s defi- Frances Dancy Mike Gering is the second nitely one of our goals to have a is one of two incumbents incumbent high degree of civic engagement.” running for Hillsborough has a council- running for commissioner. manager government system. The commissioner.

Town Board is the legislative body, while the town manager directs the Hillsborough Town Board for three terms. day-to-day affairs of the town.

She has also served on the board Board commissioners are electof the Chapel Hill/Orange County ed to staggered four-year terms.

Visitor’s Bureau and the Triangle J Council of Governments, which Frances Dancy brings together municipal officials Frances Dancy has served on the in a seven-county region to discuss

Mayor Tom Stevens wants candidates to focus on small town feel.

Bryant Kelly Warren Jr. is the lone challenger in the field.

Writers present lectures Series also kicks off Literary Festival

issues.

As a commissioner, she said she has helped the town modernize.

By Abe Johns “When I first came on the board, Assistant Arts Editor the town staff didn’t even have As a paratrooper during the computers, so I made sure the Vietnam War, a high school teacher, a night watchman and an See hillsborough, Page 4 honors English student at Oxford University, Tobias Wolff garnered a variety of life experiences that inspired him to write.

Now, as the first of four distinguished visiting writers this fall, the acclaimed memoirist and short story author will sit down with the Living Writers creative writing class to talk with students who have been studying his work.

Wolff will speak at 5:30 p.m. tonight in the University Room of Hyde Hall.

“They’ve read seven or eight of his stories and some supplemental interviews,” said Pam Durban, an English and comparative literature professor who teaches the class.

“The point of the writers’ visits is that there is no substitute for being able to read someone’s work and then a sk them questions personally.”

Wolff is currently a distinguished professor of English and creative writing at Author Tobias Stanford. His works, includWolff kicks ing the memoir off the N.C. Literary Festival “This Boy’s Life,” and recent short today. story collection “Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories,” have received multiple awards.

“He’s a great individual to inaugurate this program and curricudth/Laura Melosh lum,” said Evan Gurney, the teachFrom right, Bushra Farooqui, a senior, and Umber Siddiqui, a freshman, both members of Sangam and the Muslim Student Association, ing assistant for the class. “It seems prepare plates of food Wednesday night in the Great Hall for students who fasted for charity for 14 hours and 12 minutes during the day. appropriate that his reading coincides with the start of the literary festival.”

The N.C. Literary Festival opens today and continues through the weekend. Although Wolff ’s lecture is part of the Distinguished Visiting Writers series, the event is one of What is Ramadan? the first of the festival.

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic The class closely examines the Sana Khan, who was impressed by the turnBY David Riedell year. stylizing and sequencing of conStaff Writer out for the event, said that about 70 percent temporary writers’ works.

About 300 people on campus didn’t eat of the participants were not Muslim.

Ramadan has several interpretations but “I have them reading in a paror drink between 5:22 a.m. and 7:34 p.m.

Participants were asked to donate $5, the is generally considered to be a time of inner ticular way,” Durban said. “They Wednesday, avoiding water fountains and approximate price they would have paid for reflection and devotion to God. are reading like a writer, reading enduring growling stomachs. lunch Wednesday. The event raised about for how things get done on a page, Whether Muslim or just interested in the $1,000, Khan said. looking at time, character developannual monthlong holiday, participants in “I thought the donations would limit the How is Ramadan observed? ment and usage of grammar. They the Fast-A-Thon fundraiser abstained from numbers, but it’s been pretty impressive that From sunrise to sunset, all Muslims are will be writing their own material food and drink to appreciate the plight of we have almost 300 people,” Khan said. obliged to fast throughout the month unless near the end of the semester based the hungry and poor while improving their After sundown, participants gathered in they are physically or financially incapable of on what they’ve learned.” inner spirituality. the Great Hall of the Student Union to break doing so.

Gurney said that he finds the The event, inspired by the Islamic holy their fast. class’ alternative style of curricumonth of Ramadan, was sponsored by the They ate cake and Biryani, an Indian rice One of five pillars of Islam, fasting is lum exciting.

Muslim Students Association. dish made with spices, assorted meat and required for Muslims to gain an appreciation “Students read the writer’s work All proceeds from the event will be vegetables. for God’s gratefulness and to sympathize in the context of their own writing,” donated to the Urban Ministry for Project The gathering featured entertainment with the poor.

Gurney said. “It makes the whole Downtown, an educational and food service acts and student testimonials about the craft of writing come alive.” program helping the poor in Durham.

Muslim Students Association President See fast, Page 4 Contact the Arts Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu.

FASTING FOR CASH

Diverse crowd goes hungry to raise money

Local businesses make changes

CLUCK-U CHICKEN

By Mark Abadi, Sarah Frier and SarAH Glen

STaff Writers

TOP OF THE HILL The owner of Top of the Hill Restaurant and Brewery will start up a distillery where the Chapel Hill News’ printing presses used to be.

Owner Scott Maitland said he hopes to have the micro-distillery up and running by the spring. Top of the Hill’s will be one of the first

vodka micro-distilleries in the state, he said.

“Chapel Hill and Carrboro can say, ‘Hey, we got this in our town,’” Maitland said.

Maitland said it will be a separate business, selling the alcohol to the state. Bars, restaurants, and private citizens will be able to buy the products through ABC stores, he said.

WALGREENS

After closing in the spring due to high overhead costs, Cluck-U Chicken has reopened with new management and aggressive advertising.

If all goes according to plan, new Cluck-U manager Roberto Fernandez will start serving beer at his restaurant.

To help advertising, he’s planning to add video game systems to the premises.

“I’m meeting with a representative from EA Sports this week to discuss introducing Madden Mondays to Cluck-U Chicken,” Fernandez said.

He said he looks forward to busy nights now that summer doldrums have passed.

JACK SPRAT CAFE

FRANKLIN STREET ARTS COLLECTIVE

The orange cones surrounding the space under Top of the Hill Restaurant and Brewery mark the future site for a Walgreens.

Walgreens will occupy the space between November and January, said corporate representative Robert Elfinger. He said the corporation chose the location after reviewing traffic patterns and close proximity to campus.

“Construction has been a mixed bag,” Elfinger said.

He would not speak about competition with nearby Sutton’s Drug Store.

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Walgreens

The Franklin Street Arts Collective plans to open an art co-op on the east end of the street, where Rite Aid used to be.

“This addition will draw visitors into downtown, encourage shoppers and act as a small economic engine of growth,” said Dwight Bassett, economic development officer of Chapel Hill.

The co-op will exhibit a wide range of art and is already negotiating with more than 70 different artists.

“There are still hurdles to cross, so it will be three to four weeks before opening dates can even be discussed,” Bassett said.

Now that Jack Sprat is owned by the people who own The Library, it will serve food until 1:30 a.m. and start making alcoholic drink smoothies and espresso martinis.

It’s also going to have live jazz from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. every Thursday, add new appetizers to the menu and expand catering.

Other than that, new owners Kyle Heath, Jason Ray and Willoughby Nute are going to try to keep Jack Sprat’s atmosphere as is.

“Most people won’t know that it changed ownership,” Heath said. “This is not going to turn into The Library.”

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I’m on a boat.

Brooks Remy, right, and the crew of the Sailing School Vessel Jeannie B haul up the foresail to get under way just outside Silver Lake on Ocracoke Island.

Remy was one of a 12-man teenage crew that ran the 72-foot schooner for 13 days as a part of a leadership program in July and August.

The trip took them on a 250-mile loop from Camp Sea Gull near New Bern to Manteo, then Ocracoke Island and back to Camp Sea Gull.

The crew was responsible for keeping the boat shipshape and navigating using traditional paper charts.

Broken up into fourman watch groups, the teams took turns steering, navigating, watching in front of the boat and supervising the whole operation.

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technology has been improved,” Dancy said. “We’re working more efficiently now with the staff to help serve the citizens better.”

She said she sees improving Hillsborough’s economic health and managing growth as the most important tasks for the next term.

“I’ve enjoyed being on the board, and I hope that the citizens think I’ve done a good enough job to elect me again,” Dancy said.

“I’ve demonstrated that I can lead the town board, and I successfully guided us through a number of difficult times,” Gering said. “There are a number of things I’ve started and that still need to be completed.

I want to see them through.”

He said the town’s challenges during the next four years include controlling growth and improving the town’s financial health.

“When I ran for election in 2001 and again in 2005, I wanted to help shape Hillsborough’s future to preserve its unique qualities,” he said.

“I would like to continue guiding Hillsborough’s future in constructive ways.”

served on town government boards since 1998.

He is the chairman of the Parks and Recreation Board and a former chairman of the Planning Board.

“I don’t have any problems with the two incumbents. They’ve done a great job,” Warren said.

“But I feel like it might be time to see what I can do.”

He said the biggest challenge facing the town during the next four years will be managing growth.

“I’m going to try to make sure the growth coming into the town is the growth Hillsborough wants and that it will benefit the people of Hillsborough,” Warren said.

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experience of fasting.

Mohammad Moussa, a sophomore from N. C. State University, gave a humorous spoken-word performance in which he suggested using an IV to bypass the rule prohibiting the consumption of food or drink during daylight hours.

Moussa also jokingly complained about having to watch others eat during the day.

April Vinson, a senior nursing major, spoke after Moussa’s performance about her own fasting Mike Gering experience.

Mike Gering has been on the “Fasting makes you want food board for eight years. He said his Bryant Kelly Warren Jr. you don’t usually want,” Vinson accomplishments include pushing said.

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Like most of the Fast-A-Thon participants, Vinson is not a Muslim.

She said she is a Christian and that fasting helps strengthen her faith.

“Every time my stomach growled today or my mouth felt parched, I was reminded that God has a purpose for me,” Vinson said.

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Reflecting back on a long day T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F N O R T H C A R O L I N A AT C H A P E L H I L L without food or drink, Pritchett said fasting wasn’t as bad as it sounds.

“It wasn’t really that bad, but not being able to drink water was tough,” he said.

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Tar Heels hit the books N.C. Literary Festival begins this weekend

by Jordan Lawrence Diversions Editor

As the people who put out this publication are only too aware, reading gets a lot of competition these days. Inundated with a constant tidal wave of distractions from TV, the Internet and the frantic pace of modern life, many people let sitting down with a good book or periodical slip into that category of “I’d really like to get to it if I had more time.”

But this weekend, many of the facilities at UNC will be taken over by an event that’s out to change that mindset. Today through Sunday, the fifth biennial N.C. Literary Festival will hit campus, bringing an array of authors, storytellers and performers out to show the community just how rewarding reading and writing can be.

“The one thing about the festival is it’s free and open to the public, and it’s for the community,” said Amy Baldwin, director of the festival, speaking to how the sponsors of the event have tried to pack it with a variety of activities for a large spectrum of people to enjoy. “Our community is comprised of people that like all kinds of different things relating to reading and writing.”

Packing such high-profile speakers as famed legal thriller author John Grisham and Elizabeth Edwards in addition to other performers and a jam-packed children’s program, it’s pretty much certain that the event will garner a high level of interest.

“It was important for us to try to have different components that appeal to different parts of our community,” Baldwin said, noting such off-beat presentations as a lecture on graphic novels and a food writing presentation with free samples from local chefs as examples of how the festival has expanded its palette from years past.

“We felt that it was very important to try to provide something for people in the community.”

One aspect of the festival that has been beefed up this year is the children’s area. Sporting keynote speakers such as Goosebumps author R.L. Stine in addition to a bevy of other activities including storytellers and theatrical performances, the new and improved program is designed to make literature entertaining for the young ones.

“The festival has always had a component of children’s literature or some activities, but what we’ve done is that we’ve grown that area,” Baldwin said, adding that one of the biggest additions to the children’s section is an activity tent. “We’ll have about six to eight activity stations where kids can make their own character puppet, their own character mask. There will be a station where they are given an illustration and they have to write a short story based on it.”

In addition to the activities, the children’s area will also be taking children’s books to be donated to the pediatric oncology department at UNC Hospitals.

And though the kids will be well taken care of this year, the event is also full of serious fare for those more interested in taking on weighty issues in literature.

Edwards will be at the festival talking about her new book “Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life’s Adversities,” which turns her fight with breast cancer and adversity in the face of her husband’s adultery scandal into an inspirational tale for readers. And Edwards is adamant that students should take advantage of not just her presentation but all the other great things the festival has to offer, too.

“There is not a single cultural thing that I did, not a single opportunity I had at this University that I regret going to,” she said in a press conference for the event.

“But almost everything I didn’t go to I regret. In real lives when you start getting busy, and you have kids, and you start having other responsibilities, it’s really hard to fit in these incredible opportunities that you have at UNC.” The weekend will also feature contributions from some of the University’s professors. Paul Cuadros, whose “A Home on the Field” was selected as this year’s summer reading book for incoming freshmen, said he’s excited to be part of a literary festival that’s highlighting the literary arts in a community that could really benefit from them.

“I think any community that can embrace the written word helps itself to advance and get new ideas and get experience about a lot of different things,” he said.

“For the Chapel Hill community, this is an opportunity for the community to celebrate these authors and to get a chance to meet them. I think that’s really exciting.”

And with a lineup that’s packed for the entire weekend, Baldwin said it would be impossible to pick out one session for which she’s most excited.

“Having planned this, I’ve gotten to know a lot of the authors and to know their writing more. I just can’t say I have a favorite,” she said. “I’m looking forward to all of them.

“I think one of the challenges for people attending is going to be deciding on which sessions to go to.”

Senior writer Katy Doll contributed reporting.

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Over the years, the blues have gained a misleading reputation.

In an environment where pop and rock dominate iPods and airwaves, many people have come to associate the blues with the woeful rants and raves of embittered old coots.

V. Dianne Pledger, producer of the upcoming 22nd annual Bull Durham Blues Festival, knows that the stereotype is dead wrong.

“People tend to think blues is sad, old music, nothing up to date,” she said. “But the blues talks about life. It talks about what goes on every day.”

The Bull Durham Blues festival, which runs Friday and Saturday at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, boasts an impressive lineup and an equally remarkable history. Since 1988, the festival has brought legendary blues musicians to the city, where the style has been a major part of the music scene since the 1920s.

Since then the event has grown from about 2,500 people in its early years to an estimated 10 to 15 thousand attendees this weekend. Such increases have allowed the festival to expand.

“The music has grown, the artists have grown, and we’ve been able to bring in aspiring blues groups with

established artists,” Pledger said.

Past performers at have included such legends as Buddy Guy, Ruth Brown and, this year, Elvin Bishop.

But the lineup is not the only draw of the event. Tom Gray of Atlantabased band Delta Moon, slated to play the festival for the first time, says blues festivals provide a sense of community.

“You meet a lot of other musicians,” he said. “We get to see a lot of other shows and talk with the other musicians. It’s a good chance to compare notes and see what’s going on.”

The atmosphere of the festival, situated in the heart of Durham’s historic tobacco district, also brings in the crowds.

“We get visitors from all 100 counties in North Carolina, and we have people from 10 countries who set their vacation to attend,” Pledger said.

And as the festival draws near, the city will once again be out to disprove the old-fashioned notion that the blues’ main ingredient is depression.

“Folks who aren’t hip to it all hear the blues and they think, ‘sad,’” said Nancy Lewis-Pegel, manager of Delta Moon. “But that’s just the opposite of what you find, because if you go out to a good blues festival,

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Where The Blueprint hit a crescendo, reflecting on Jay’s ascent to the throne of hip-hop, BP3 is a swelling beast. Aiming not just for hip-hop preeminence, Jay-Z looks to transcend music and dominate our cultural landscape.

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And thanks to Kanye West, he has the innovative beats to back it up. West, the architect of the original, returns with avant-garde production, pushing the boundaries of where hip-hop is headed as he mans the boards for seven songs.

Opener “What We’re Talking About” features Jay and Empire of the Sun’s Luke Steele oozing cha-

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“Beggar’s Bowl” tangles twisting guitars with a steady bass line to power its vicious attack on nostalgia. It’s a powerful blast that manages to keep its rhythm chugging forward even as disparate melodic strains struggle for attention.

But when the band slows down the results sometimes fall limp.

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risma in a hip-hop siren song that blend’s Hov’s laid back style with Empire’s kinetic electro pop.

And it only gets better. “D.O.A. (Death of Autotune)” and “Run This Town,” both of which feature West beats, are the most powerful radio singles you’re likely to hear this year.

But it wouldn’t be a Jay-Z album without off-the-radar producers manning a few monster jams.

Producer Shux and Alicia Keys join Jay to create the album’s first triumph, “Empire State of Mind.”

Over an expansive backdrop of simple piano chords and skittery rhythms, Jay rhymes, “I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can,” in an ode and a challenge to his New York home.

Moving from its apex to its epilogue, BP3 ends by borrowing Alphaville’s synth-powered update

of Bob Dylan’s “Forever Young.” As guest Mr. Hudson croons the chorus, distorted keys build around some of Hov’s most reflective verse, an introspective look at his legacy.

“I’m forever young, my name shall survive,” Hov preaches over the grandiose music. “My name shall be passed down to generations while debating up in barbershops.”

And with a canon that includes such landmarks as Reasonable Doubt, The Blueprint and now The Blueprint 3, Jay-Z has built a legacy that’s not only the most storied in hip-hop, but one that should allow his music to live on long after he’s left the game behind.

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BILLY SUGARFIX: BUSINESS PLAN To the mix CD mavens out there hoping to strike the right chord with that special someone, meet Billy Sugarfix (aka Billy McCormick).

The Carrboro-based musician operates his Custom Serenade business in addition to recording songs he writes for himself, many of which are on his new album, Summer Tempests.

In advance of his Saturday CD release party at Cat’s Cradle, Dive staff writer Luis Torres caught up with Sugarfix to discuss his business and his music video fame.

Diversions: What exactly

is Custom Serenade?

Billy Sugarfix: It’s a custom songwriting business where basically people provide me with information, usually about a girlfriend or boyfriend or a couple that’s getting married or someone whose birthday is coming up, and I write a song based on that information. And I make a recording of it and that’s what they get for their money.

Dive: How long have you been

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BS: Six years. The first time

that gas prices spiked, it stomped Dive: In New Orleans?

GO TO THE CONCERT on it pretty hard. The unemployTime: 9:30 p.m. Saturday BS: Actually, I went to Florida ment being what it is, I do just a because a week after Katrina, Rita Location: Cat’s Cradle few a month now. and Wilma hit, both in Florida. 300 E. Main St., Carrboro Dive: In your free time you’ve They sent me there and I just kind Info: www.catscradle.com recorded your first solo album. Is of got in touch with the dark side that a breakup album?

DTH ONLINE: Check dailytarof my psyche. heel.com/dive to see Sugarfix’s BS: That’s very accurate. Dive: Where did your turn as “It’s Carrboro!” performance.

There’s this whole chicken or the a Beastie-Boys-style rapper for “It’s egg question that’s like, “Am I mis- Carrboro” come from?

Dive: Going back to Custom erable because I listen to depressBS: I had the initial idea, but Serenade, what’s the weirdest thing ing pop songs or do you listen to that kind of stuff when you’re going it was really my roommate at the someone has ever asked you to time Brian Risk’s thing. write about? through a breakup?”

I was complaining about how At the same time, it’s really comBS: There was this one time, forting. I decided to just dive head- I didn’t want to go all the way to a guy was going blind and he had long into it and purge myself of this Chapel Hill from Carrboro, and he gone around to see all the women self-pitying victimization that you thought it was really funny. he had dated to physically see them feel when someone breaks up with Dive: What was the commu- one last time. And in the process, you. So I kind of unapologetically nity’s feedback to the song? he reconnected with one of the wrote the most depressing, heartwomen, so I did a series of three BS: You know, hot and cold.

A breaking songs that I could, which lot of (businesses) were disappoint- songs for this woman from him as is kind of what came to mind. this guy’s eyesight was deterioratIt was a cathartic process, but ed that they weren’t mentioned in ing more and more. it.

We didn’t sit down and decide while I wrote the album I went to Dive: Did they end up togethNew Orleans and I really loved the which places we liked to exclude.

A song can only be so long. But er? place, and a month after I came back was right when Katrina hit. most people were pretty excited BS: They did. Oh yeah. They So that made them even more for it. The mayor of Carrboro even were engaged. depressing. I went back and joined came to the official first showing at Contact the Diversions Editor the Cat’s Cradle.

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movieshorts Gamer Writing and directing tandem Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have a devoted following thanks to the “Crank” series, which showcases a high-octane, unabashedly trashy style of action. With “Gamer,” the pair tries to switch from the distinctly over-the-top to more conventional and serious action fare, with unfortunately mixed results.

“Gamer,” the umpteenth retread of 1987’s “The Running Man,” stars Gerard Butler as Kable, a wrongly imprisoned man who is a soldier in a futuristic video game called “Slayers” in which real people fight to the death while being remotely controlled by gamers (tagline: “It’s

not murder, it’s ‘Slayers’”). If Kable can win three more matches, he will receive a full pardon and can return to his wife and daughter.

Besides the lack of an original story line, “Gamer” suffers from a dearth of character development and fluid storytelling, as each scene is just another onslaught of violence and gratuitous nudity. As the film nears the end, all the viewer has learned is that Kable has a family and he would prefer not to die. Oh, and the creator of “Slayers” (Michael C. Hall) is nefarious.

Thankfully, there are still traces of the wit and bizarre humor that has characterized the “Crank” series. There is a biting and hilarious parody of “The Sims” called “Society,” a moment where Kable

fuels an ethanol-based car by vomiting vodka into the gas tank and a surprisingly good dance number.

“Gamer” is a decidedly mediocre film, but it isn’t a bad start. If its directors can infuse their manic energy and absurdity with more coherent plots and developed characters, they might be able to meld their absurdity with more weighty story lines and make something that actually means something.

-Mark Niegelsky

All about steve “All About Steve” is another example of the failed art of the modern preview. While carefully

crafted to make someone believe it had romantic comedy potential, the trailers also revealed the majority of the plot. It wasn’t romantic and it definitely wasn’t funny.

And the movie doesn’t have any more to offer than the trailer.

“All About Steve” tells the story of Mary (Sandra Bullock), a crossword creator who has a mind like an encyclopedia and a mouth that never stops moving. Mary, who has never been quite “normal,” meets Steve (Bradley Cooper), a part of a TV news team, on a blind date that goes painfully wrong.

Steve attempts to rid himself of her by playing the nice guy, but Mary can’t resist stalking him across the country.

Mary is intended to be the

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bright, unique girl who catches our hearts, while teaching us that you shouldn’t have to be normal by everyone else’s standards. If Bullock didn’t play the part as such an over-the-top psychotic, it might have worked, but she misses the mark, as does the film.

In one particularly awful scene, an unjustified critique of the insensitivity of the media, the film shows several children running down a hill and crashing into a mine.

Hartman, the anchorman to Steve’s producer (a far too overthe-top turn by the usually fantastic Thomas Hayden Church) dives into the abyss to become the hero, momentarily realizing his own selfabsorption as he meets Mary, who is already in the mine rescuing a child.

This particular incident is just a haphazard deus ex machina so that Steve may reach the realization that Mary is wonderful in her own special way.

From start to finish, the movie is a train to nowhere, complete with bad jokes, pathetic attempts to impact the audience with meaning and an impressively bad Sandra Bullock. You should probably just watch the preview.

-Rachel Arnett

extract “Extract” uses Mike Judge’s name to attract attention. “From the director of Office Space,” the ads claim. Fair enough. The movie is, after all, written and directed by Judge, and it bears his brand.

Anyone who has seen “Office Space” will recognize similar

tropes: the workaholic average Joe with the unfaithful wife, the boors of the world who keep you forever running late because they never shut up, the need to break out of routine and do what you love so that you can love what (and, as this movie has it, who) you do.

But on another level this movie doesn’t feel like Judge at all. It doesn’t even approximate the soul that we know he can put into a comedy about working life. “Office Space” became a cult classic, probably even the definitive cult comedy of our generation, because it makes people laugh out loud without being cheap, at the same time that it has an almost heroic resolution. “Extract,” on the other hand, has no resolution that isn’t cheap, and when it tries to be heroic (or meaningful at all), it might make you laugh out loud.

But not in a good way. Because then it would be funny, and “Extract” as a comedy is a pretty serious failure. With only one or two exceptions, all the funny moments in the movie are character-driven and not situational. Coupled with the fact that there just aren’t a lot of them, it makes for pretty static humor. The dialogue and the lines are flat, and everything everyone says becomes predictable immediately and insufferable shortly thereafter. At the very least, Gene Simmons spices things up with a very strange cameo. No one saw that one coming.

But then again, it’s Gene Simmons. Not exactly a redeeming quality. And certainly not something that belongs on the shelf next to “Office Space.”

-Jonathan Pattishall

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Keegan DeWitt has embarked upon the third phase of his fulllength career, and on Islands, his latest release, he demonstrates the dexterity of the highest quality musicians, crafting a menagerie of delicate, cinematic songs that beg to be explored.

DeWitt’s voice, like a blanket on a cold rainy day, is the album’s biggest asset. From the first song on Islands, DeWitt’s purr instantly draws the listener in, transferring the emotion packed into the lyrics directly to his audience.

Like Roman Candle, the band that produced Islands and with which he regularly plays, DeWitt never falters in intensity. Instead, he translates the frantic energy of his rock and roll counterparts and fellow Nashville crooners into a soft, powerful brand of pop.

And while Islands utilizes a plethora of instruments, the album never loses its effortlessness. DeWitt maintains a nuanced softness that never sounds contrived or overdone — on the contrary, he makes harmonica-laden tunes like “Walk Alone,” a sorrowful song about the difficulties of starting anew after an unsuccessful relationship, sound perfectly natural.

“Complicated” epitomizes everything that DeWitt gets right on Islands. From its initial chords, the melody transfixes as he sings “Need it, fake it, you can’t complicate it, it’s love.”

The bittersweet lyrics and steady, building momentum create an incredible intimacy, especially when violins and trumpets whine slowly in the background.

The depth on Islands — ranging from its haunting vocals to its multi-dimensional instrumentation — seems limitless, the kind

of record that withstands multiple listens without ever growing dull.

Islands is like an iceberg— and clearly, DeWitt aims to engage listeners far below surface level.

Tooth and the claw tooth/the claw Metal

The English poet Dylan Thomas once advised his readers not to “go gentle into that good night.”

Durham’s Tooth and Philadelphia’s the Claw are examples of two bands who have lived up to this creed.

With Tooth calling it quits and the Claw having to change singers after Mikey Brosnan was tragically killed by a drunk driver, the powerful split 12” record the bands made together will serve as the end of an era for both outfits. And what a furious ending it is.

With Tooth pummeling through three roaring indictments of society and the Claw tearing at your eardrums like a lunatic in the asylum, it’s a testament to the power that a few guitars and a well-placed primal scream can have.

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with a Coin” — “Cause truth be told I ain’t made it yet/Big wigs ain’t paid a check/And it’s still nine to five for the corporate/But I love this game, can’t forfeit it.”

Everything there is to love about Kooley High is here in Tabloids. TabOne proves he can hold a song on his own and doesn’t skip a beat solo.

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Last week symbolized the end of summer. This is upsetting in its own right, but it’s even more displeasing because it meant the end of another “summer” as well.

The Kool Summer of 2009, consisting of several solo projects to come out of Raleigh’s Kooley High, ended with its last project, emcee Tab-One’s The Tabloids.

Continuing from where he left off on Kooley High’s last mixtape, Kooley is High, Tab-One maintains the soulful, jazz-infused sound of both his own group and influences such as A Tribe Called Quest.

Aided by production from fellow group member Foolery, as well as Ka$h and Napoleon Wright III, Tab weaves a more personal tale than we heard from him on previous verses.

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On Tooth’s A-side, slashes of razor sharp guitar ricochet off deep, booming bass as singer J-Me Guptill bends his intimidating bark around vicious critiques of what we do and think.

With “Suicide Myth,” Guptill rides one of his band’s most propulsive performances as he picks apart the way humanity will destroy itself.

“We do this to ourselves/Blame the omnipotent,” he bellows, taking a hammer to our inability to take responsibility for our actions.

With its three songs, the Claw takes a haunted thrill ride, with deep growls coming in and out of the background as guitar, bass and drums race to the terrifying finish.

Singer Mikey Brosnan conjures terrifying images, nailing the raving delivery of a psychotic. His performance is riveting throughout, but it’s most impressive on the band’s last song, “The Big Sleep.” Belting with throat-tearing fury, Bronsan vocalizes the kind of pain most people can only come to terms with inside.

These two concise sides allow Tooth and the Claw to make pristine documents of themselves in full command of their powers. They rage without any fear that you can’t take it, packing as much wallop into three songs as they can. There’s nothing

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I probably started commenting seriously in sophomore year.

As it was primary season, there was a lot to say.

Q: Why do you comment on the Web site?

I’m a Libertarian, which is a viewpoint that doesn’t get much mainstream coverage. In my time at UNC, I’ve seen the Libertarian presence on campus grow by leaps and bounds; I’d like to think that I’ve been able to contribute to the spread of those ideas with my writing.

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I usually go straight to the opinion section. It’s always been where the most interesting (i.e., infuriating) stuff can be found.

I’ve always enjoyed seeing the “Most Commented” list of articles, too, since it lets me know where debates are raging.

Q: What makes a good online comment?

A good comment brings in alternative ideas and points of view, preferably with reference to outside material not mentioned in a given article. I do my best to challenge the ideas presented in an article and not touch on the authorship. In the past I saw quite a few ad hominem comments— many directed at myself — that did nothing to contribute to intellectual debate.

I’m always very disappointed by people who just insult writers and don’t actually engage the arguments presented. The best comments will always deal, first and foremost, with the content at hand.

Comment by Tom VanAntwerp on “Schoolkids set president-inspired goals” “I like the speech Obama made. His emphases on perseverance, hard work and personal responsibility are deadon. These are qualities we should all aspire to have.

That said, I am still not OK with the idea that one man can address nearly all the schoolchildren of the nation at his own discretion. The speech wasn’t very political, but it did contain hints of nationalism (“What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. The future of America depends on you. …

Don’t let your … country down.”) and religion (“God bless you. God bless America.”) — themes that make me, as an individualist and an atheist, uncomfortable.

I don’t think any man, whether he be Obama or Bush or the ghost of George Washington himself, should have the arbitrary power to command the ears of America’s children. The idea of a national father figure who can tell children what’s what — whether he happens to be right or not — is simply disturbing and un-American.

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If the financial aid was bulked up as to cover that cost (even though I’m pretty healthy during the year and only have occasional seasonal illnesses) — despite my age, I would still be in need of funds for office and prescription co-pays and would quite honestly only use the insurance for the kinds of visits I already pay a discounted student rate for on campus via Campus Health Services.

The other side of the coin is that having been without health insurance for some time — it would be “nice” to have it again as “just in case” assurance. I am just not sure how low-income students who do not have health insurance now can realistically be required to have insurance and be expected to live on a smaller amount of money.

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Three and out The Connecticut football team has revamped its punt formation for this season. See pg. 11 for story.

Weighty problems The dreaded “freshman 15” is real, and it’s usually caused by odd meal scheduling. See pg. 13 for story.

Wheels on the bus The new bus route linking Chapel Hill and Pittsboro has had limited success. See pg. 13 for story.

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Junior linebacker Bruce Carter blocked three punts when North Carolina played Connecticut in 2008, and will look to duplicate that at UConn. you’ve just got to be flexible and benefit some of UNC’s young receivadaptable week in and week out.” ers on offense, North Carolina’s defense already has plenty of trust in itself.

Déja vu The Tar Heels racked up four UNC’s trip to Storrs, Conn., interceptions in their first road might give a couple players deja vu test last season, and cornerback of the 2008 season.

Kendric Burney set the tone for Just like last year, the Tar Heels’ UNC in the first quarter with a first road game is the second game bone-crushing blow that decleatof the season, and it will again be ed Scarlet Knights receiver Tiquan against a Big East school in the Underwood. northeast.

Burney noted that with nine of The similarities to the Rutgers 11 starters returning, the defense game were not lost on Davis, but will again be ready to swarm to the he was quick to point out a couple ball, and Carter said he knows how differences. his teammates will react on what “Last year that game really was he calls a “business trip.” a shot of confidence for a football “I think we’re just going to go team that really had only won four in there with great intensity — games the year before,” Davis said. everybody’s going to be jacked up,” “Rutgers was ranked in the pre- Carter said. season, and it was a Thursday night game and going to New York.”

Contact the Sports Editor While a shot of confidence may at sports@unc.edu.

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peanut butter spread, packed with essential nutrients including zinc, from page 1 iron and vitamin A. The supplein the rural remote areas of west- ment is given to the infants three ern Honduras,” Heck wrote in a times a day in addition to their 2007 study published in “Family normal diet.

Medicine.”

Making it happen Because Shoulder to Shoulder was too small to undertake this research project, Heck contacted researchers at the Gillings School of Global Public Health for help.

UNC public health professors Margaret Bentley and Anna Maria Siega-Riz enthusiastically joined the research project as nutrition advisors. Both were eager to test Plumpy’Doz on this population, as they were not familiar with any similar study in Central or South America.

“I think it’s important to do this study here in Honduras because the work that has been done already testing this nutrition product has primarily been in sub-Saharan Africa,” Bentley said.

Bentley recruited 2004 UNC alumna Yanire Estrada to lead a team of 11 local and U.S. health promoters to provide educational sessions for the mothers and assess each infant’s health on a monthly basis.

Estrada’s team evaluates nearly 300 infants from 18 villages in both a control and intervention group.

Heck insisted that both groups receive some beneficial subsidy for participating in the study, so every mother obtains food vouchers in addition to the educational sessions.

Estrada said they are educating the mothers on how to best utilize the food vouchers so that they can provide a balanced diet for their family. This, in turn, enables mothers to complement a healthy Honduran diet of rice, beans and tortillas with the nutritional supplement.

The intervention group receives Plumpy’Doz, a fortified lipid-based

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By David Reynolds Connecticut remembered this offseason just what North Carolina linebacker Bruce Carter can do.

A season after Carter blocked three punts in the Tar Heels’ 38-12 beatdown of the Huskies, UConn’s special teams completely revamped its punting formation into an elephant scheme to relieve some of the pressure.

“It’s different from a traditional punt team where everybody is set in one area. It’s kind of like defending the goal line versus a spread-out shotgun formation,” Carter said.

“You kind of spread the field.

You’ve got to have guys in areas in case they run a fake or something like that.”

Carter wasn’t the only one who got his hands on a punt against the Huskies last season. Connecticut had a total of six punts blocked to prompt the change.

And in addition to the new formation, punter Desi Cullen said during UConn’s media day that he worked with his long snapper after last season to expedite the punting process.

The value of all those offseason changes will be put to the test Saturday when Carter and UNC’s special teams unit comes calling.

Carter said that while the elephant punt formation will force him and the rest of the punt team to think a little bit more, he thought the unit should be prepared.

Coach Butch Davis agreed.

“We have to adapt, but we’ve been practicing,” Davis said. “What they changed to is something we saw several times last year. So

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Looking forward

The goal of the study is to test whether this product has a positive effect on the growth and nutrition of Honduran infants. The researchers must also evaluate the acceptability of the product.

If the supplement proves effective, Shoulder to Shoulder plans to implement a larger-scale program to distribute it.

“This project also has scientific value that is international in its scope,” Bentley said. “And the community and its generosity in participating in this will benefit millions of children around the world, and I really mean that.”

Greg Reinhart, vice president of research and nutrition at the Mathile Institute, oversees the funding of the project. During his last visit to Honduras in June, he noted the willingness of the Honduran community to invest in this project.

To participate in the program, mothers have to attend monthly meetings, allow their children to be weighed and have blood drawn, and commit to feeding the supplement correctly.

“There are families that want to help themselves, and they eventually want to become independent,” Reinhart said.

A student’s perspective Lane Erickson, a senior public health major at UNC, spent her summer in Honduras entering

24-hour dietary data recalls for the project.

“I was interested in it because it had to do with children and my passion for different third-world countries, Spanish and nutrition,” Erickson said.

She witnessed the consequences of malnutrition firsthand by seeing children’s bloated stomachs during home visits.

Other consequences of malnutrition are stunted growth and atrophy, also known as wasting.

Bentley noted that stunting is more of a concern in this area.

“In this part of the world in Honduras we see rates of stunting that are 50 to 60 percent of the population and sometimes even more than that,” Bentley said.

Home connections Despite Honduras’ unique conditions, Bentley continually draws connections to her other research at the University and considers how global health can be compared to local health. For example, she is currently involved in a project where researchers are studying obesity in North Carolina.

Bentley noticed the easy access to cheap, packaged snacks and soft drinks that exists in North

WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — The House of Representatives’ major health care overhaul plan would virtually pay for itself over the next decade and would expand insurance coverage dramatically, but from 2020 to 2029 it would add $1 trillion to the federal budget deficit, according to an independent study of the legislation that was released Wednesday.

The Lewin Group’s findings came as President Barack Obama prepared to address the nation on health care at 8 p.m.

Wednesday.

KABUL (MCT) — British commandos freed a New York Times reporter on Wednesday who had been taken captive by insurgents, but the reporter’s Afghan interpreter and a British soldier died in the pre-dawn raid, NATO officials and the interpreter’s family said.

Reporter Stephen Farrell and interpreter Sultan Munadi were taken captive last Friday as they interviewed villagers in Kunduz province in the aftermath of a NATO airstrike that caused dozens of deaths in the area. At the newspaper’s request, most news

media didn’t report the kidnapping when it occurred.

In a statement Wednesday, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan confirmed the raid and said a NATO soldier also died during the firefight.

The New York Times said in a report on its Web site that it had no advance knowledge of the raid. The newspaper’s staff in Kabul had been hopeful before the raid that negotiation efforts would succeed, according to people with knowledge of the situation.

Court debating campaign laws

Iran could soon produce bomb

Pictures surface of Al-Qaida man

WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — The Obama administration’s top lawyer withdrew an earlier claim Wednesday that certain books could be banned under campaign finance restrictions.

That didn’t mollify conservative Supreme Court justices, who repeatedly challenged limits on corporate campaign expenditures. The divided court appeared poised to overturn at least some campaign restrictions.

“There is no place where an ongoing chill (against speech) is more dangerous than in an election context,” said Justice Anthony Kennedy, often a swing vote.

IRAN (MCT) — Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program is nearing a “dangerous and destabilizing possible breakout capacity,” a top U.S. diplomat said Wednesday.

T h e c o u n t r y m a y h av e enough low-enriched uranium that, if purified further, could produce one nuclear bomb, the diplomat said. “ We h av e s e r i o u s c o n cerns that Iran is deliberately attempting, at a minimum, to preserve a nuclear option,” U.S. ambassador Glyn Davies said in a speech to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency.

MIAMI (MCT) — Pictures of accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed posing for prayer at Guantanamo surfaced on the Web Wednesday — a startling look at the alleged al-Qaida kingpin just days ahead of the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

In the photo, Mohammed, 44, looks fit. He is kneeling, clutching prayer beads in a photo taken in July by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Counterterror cyber sleuths found the images on Arabiclanguage Internet discussion boards sympathetic to al-Qaida last week.

Carolina also exists in Santa Lucia.

Both are troubling, as Honduran mothers feed this junk food to their infants, causing chronic diarrhea and sickness.

“I don’t think about working overseas as working over there (with) no connection to North Carolina,” Bentley said. “Any problem that we have in North Carolina has a mirror image in another place.”

In addition to feeding sweets and sodas to infants, Estrada noted that the tradition of giving coffee to the baby prior to six months of age is also of growing concern.

Infants do not easily digest coffee, and many times the water used to make the coffee is not treated, both of which result in episodes of diarrhea.

Estrada has spent the past six months consulting with mothers to change these behaviors and educating them about the importance of hygiene and sanitation.

“What I am taking from this project is the fact that I went out there and reached out to the people who are really far away in rural villages … and actually having an impact in their lives and their behavior instead of just hoping to meet our personal project goals,” Estrada said.

Back in the mud hut, Mendoza stares lovingly as her infant begins eating Plumpy’Doz straight from the jar. Just six months ago, her daughter’s fragility deeply concerned her, but now she prides herself as she watches the color return to her child’s face.

“People stop me to ask what I am feeding my child because she is beginning to look so pretty,” Mendoza said. “She is developing extremely well now.”

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“People have been taken to task for not having enough Carolina people involved, but Holden is so decorated in Carolina blue he will shine through. We’re enjoying getting to look for the best person, both inside and outside the University.”

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Center and chairman of the search committee, said past committees have been encouraged to look for candidates with strong ties to the University. He said that this search might be different.

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Obama lays out health care compromises WASHINGTON (MCT) — President Barack Obama on Wednesday laid out a series of compromises he’s willing to make to get a health care overhaul through a nervous Congress this year, including diluting his vision for a new public insurance program and embracing ideas floated

by Republicans.

In a rare evening address to a joint session of Congress, Obama tried to seize control of the Democratic Party’s highest domestic priority after months of party disarray and

raucous public debate across the country. The president said that he’d require all individuals to have health insurance and would provide tax credits to people and small businesses that couldn’t afford it.

“The time for bickering is over.

The time for games has passed.

Now is the season for action,” Obama said.

On perhaps the most controversial single plank of his program, Obama endorsed creating a “public option” government program to compete against private insurers, but

he didn’t insist that it be included.

Instead, he left room for alternatives that liberal Democrats in Congress are resisting. Those include creating nonprofit health care cooperatives; a “trigger” mechanism for a public option to kick in later if private insurers fail to meet benchmarks of coverage; or perhaps simply tightening regulations on private insurers.

He pledged that any “public option” wouldn’t weaken coverage for those in Medicare or insured through their employers.

He promised them “more security and stability.”

In turn, Obama made it clear that he intends to work with congressional Democrats to push some health care plan through Congress this year — on a bare partisan majority if necessary.

“I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last,” Obama said.

“We are the only advanced democracy on earth, the only nation, that allows such hardships for millions of people,” he said.

Obama said that his plan would cost about $900 billion over a decade. He said it could mostly be paid for through the elimination of “waste and abuse” from the existing health care system, but he wasn’t specific. In addition, he’d charge insurance companies “a fee for their most expensive policies” to fund his plan. Beyond that, he failed to specify how his proposals would slow rising health costs.

Three House of Representatives committees have written legislation that would create a public option,

raise taxes on the wealthy to help pay for the plan and mandate coverage for most people.

The House is expected to combine three pending Democratic bills into one piece of legislation and attempt to pass it this month.

The Senate is likely to take longer. Even if both chambers pass versions of the legislation, they’re all but certain to differ, requiring a House-Senate conference to draft a compromise version that each house then must pass.

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14 thursday, september 10, 2009

The Daily Tar Heel

andrew dunn

The Daily Tar Heel

EDITOR, 962-4086 AMDUNN@email.unc.edu

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EDITORIAL CARTOON

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

EDITorial BOARD members ALYSSA GRIFFITH NATHANIEL HAINES CAMERON PARKER PAT RYAN CHRISTIAN YODER

“Any problem that we have in North Carolina has a mirror image in another place.”

Margaret Bentley, public health professor

By Don Wright, The Palm Beach Post

Featured online reader comment:

“The 11 percent who respond to a survey are probably not the ones who are hooking up.”

Andrew moon health columnist

Second-year School of Medicine student from Durham

Colby Rohamp, Junior, on A survey saying that the “hookup culture” does not exist at unc

E-mail: andrew_moon@med.unc.edu

Get your H1N1 facts, vaccine

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Microloan officer clears up editorial’s inaccuracies

T

he fear-mongering scientists have underestimated me again. They forgot that the mutant super-bacteria in beer pong cups are no match for my young immune system, even when it is handicapped by a string of all-nighters.

So why do they think I need a vaccine to protect against a flu that started in pigs? I eat those things for breakfast — literally.

Alas, this is one of those times when sucking up my pride and getting vaccinated is worth it.

What makes this year any different? For one, the H1N1 flu is almost five times more likely to infect 15- to 24-year-olds than those over 60, and its high infectiousness gives it the potential to spread faster than an unauthorized Paris Hilton video.

This is especially true on campus where packed buses, dorms and classrooms can quickly turn into viral orgies.

Vaccine skepticism is only natural. Everyone has a story about getting sick the same year they got the shot. What most do not realize is the majority of these cases are caused by other bacteria or viruses since a well-matched vaccine provides up to 90 percent protection against flu infection.

Nonetheless, there are years when a rapidly mutating virus significantly reduces a vaccine’s effectiveness.

But keep in mind that even a badly matched vaccine can prevent serious complications. While this may not seem important since the 2008 H1N1 illness was mild, the flu virus has already mutated this year and could easily become more dangerous.

This is exactly what happened with the 1918-19 Spanish flu, which was characterized as mild in the spring but came back stronger a few months later, killing 10 times as many people.

In addition to providing immediate protection, vaccination can also bolster your immune system for the future, as displayed by the resilience of old folks to H1N1. The fact that Granny is less likely to get sick with the swine flu has more to do with the dozens of flu viruses she’s been exposed to than the prune juice she chugs every day.

Vaccination is not the only important safety measure. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have published some useful tips for college campuses other than the standard measures of hand washing and covering your sneezes.

It recommends that who have flu-like symptoms stay inside or consider traveling home and avoid contact with others until at least 24 hours after the fever subsides.

Holding lectures and tutoring online might be necessary if the flu becomes widespread on campus. So do not be freaked out if you get a Facebook invite from your professor – unless it is for his or her hot tub party.

Joking aside, the report published by a White House advisory panel has mapped out a “likely scenario” with the flu infecting half the U.S. and killing 90,000 people, mostly children and young adults.

While it is hard not to brush this off as a worst-case scenario, it makes the point that H1N1 will devastate many like me who sometimes feel invincible. Do not waste the most powerful tool available to protect yourself and others from this illness.

Get vaccinated.

friday: Abbey Caldwell will comment on the availability of contraceptive devices in local stores.

Liquor laziness In order to fully function, Gov. Perdue must appoint member to the ABC Commission

O

nly pure negligence can account for the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission’s limited operations over the past four months.

Because the commission only has one sitting member, it cannot issue liquor licences to restaurants and no violations can be heard.

Gov. Bev Perdue simply needs to appoint another member to the board in order for it to resume full operation.

The ABC board is supposed to meet monthly, but because N.C. statute requires a majority of members to be present for public meetings, the commission cannot convene.

Currently, John D. Lyon Jr. is the only person still sitting on the commission.

One member resigned last

year. Another resigned in May at the behest of Perdue after forwarding an e-mail with a racist illustration.

While Perdue has managed to find the time to take a trip to Hunan Province in China, a significant part of the state’s domestic economy continues to be ignored.

Revenue from the sale of liquor in North Carolina is more than $200 million annually. This is not an industry that deserves to be so utterly mishandled.

Mike Herring, administrator of ABC commission, said that its basic day-to-day functions have not been hampered.

But without at least two members on the commission, no new liquor licenses can be approved and no violation cases can be heard.

In 1937, the Alcohol Beverage Control Bill was passed by the N.C. General Assembly. That bill established what is today the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission. It now oversees all of the state’s ABC stores.

North Carolina is one of only 19 states that exercise government control over the sale of alcohol.

If the government feels so compelled to essentially monopolize the sale of spirits, then the least it can do is keep a three-member commission filled.

Making two appointments is hardly a monumental task.

The fact that it has taken over four months is simply embarrassing. Perdue must appoint more members to ensure that our state has a functioning ABC commission.

Expansion not priority Plans to borrow $16 million for library expansion could be better used

T

he Chapel Hill Public Library might be one of the top public libraries in the state, but plans that call for the town to borrow approximately $16.3 million to expand the existing facility are excessive.

Dried-up revenues have forced the town to make funding cuts to vital programs.

Spending millions of dollars on a library expansion should be at the bottom of the list.

When the budget tightens and spending is reined in, local government must focus on maintaining the status quo and keeping citizens safe.

Expanding a library does neither.

The Chapel Hill Public Library is a great institution

that has come a long way since its opening in 1958.

The new expansion is part of a long-term plan to ensure that the library continues to accommodate the needs of the growing local population.

But adding more library stacks pales in comparison to making sure citizens are safe and are provided with adequate services. The town and Orange County have more pressing issues.

For example, a study by the Gillings School of Global Public Health recently found the drinking water of citizens living in the Rogers-Eubanks area contaminated with fecal and E. coli bacteria due to a lack of proper water and sewage lines.

In 2008, several pedestrians were killed in road traffic accidents in Chapel Hill, some of which were attributed to a lack of pedestrian crossings and traffic lights. Perhaps a portion of the $16.3 million going toward the library expansion could help provide people safe passage across busy streets.

And the list goes on.

In the middle of a budget crunch, local government must be able to differentiate between what its citizens need and what they want.

A $16.3 million public library expansion is not a necessity. Plans to expand the public library either need to be placed on hold or scaled down until more pressing priorities are addressed.

QuickHits Attractiveness

Snakes

Butt Cake

According to a recent study, more attractive people get higher GPAs in high school. Anybody who didn’t already know high school i s a complete popularity contest just wasn’t paying attention.

A new N.C. law says that owners of snakes must keep their pets in bite- and escape-proof cages.

Keeping a snake in its cage is a good thing, especially if you don’t want to take things too fast.

Sugarland bakery has designed a cake with a mooning Rameses. We can’t figure out what’s worse: the design or that people would actually want to eat a cake that looks like a ram’s butt.

Rameses

Virgins

JuicyCampus

It was reported that thanks to a new species of ram created by scientists at N.C. State, Rameses’ kin are an endangered breed. Hey, State, this just proves the only way you can best us is to cheat.

Apparently 38 percent of UNC students still have their V-card.

Perhaps they had some sway in passing the law to keep snakes caged. Seriously, have these people seen how attractive everyone is at UNC?

After all the fuss over juicy campus.com, t h e r e ’s n o w a new gossip Web site, campus gossip.com. Visit if you enjoy ruining people’s lives with baseless sexual gossip. How wholesome!

TO THE EDITOR: The Community Empowerment Fund seeks to clarify and to correct the editorial “Lending a hand” (Sept. 8) in which suggestions for the program were made.

During the CEF pilot program — currently the only microloan program in the country for the homeless — we processed 18 loan applications and approved five. In place of a loan, the unapproved applicants received support from a minimum of two student volunteers who spent countless hours connecting them to services in the community to better their current situation.

The unapproved applicants also regularly take part in CEF workshops, which are open to everyone in the community.

Workshops cover topics such as financial training, computer skills, and resume building.

Attendees are also provided transportation assistance, a meal, and childcare.

CEF is more than a loan program; we provide all applicants with as many resources as we can.

CEF loans support the empowerment of individual currently or at risk of experiencing homelessness through sustainable investments in housing, small business and employment.

To clarify, the loans we issue are not ‘to pursue skill workshops.’

This semester we hope to expand our services and we need more volunteers. We welcome any students interested in helping to provide these services to the Chapel Hill community to attend our weekly meetings on Sundays at 6 p.m. in the Campus Y. Andrea Ramos Senior Loan Officer Community Empowerment Fund

N.C. Governor’s school is an important investment TO THE EDITOR: As a 2006 Governor’s School alumnus, I couldn’t ignore Ms. Bale’s letter to the editor criticizing the past policy of free tuition (“North Carolina Governor’s School shouldn’t be free,” Sept. 9).

Her ignorance on the subject is excusable, being from out of state with no knowledge of the school.

Please allow me to enlighten you.

At its core is a commitment to diversity. The free tuition makes the program available to students from all socioeconomic levels, rural and urban. Students from myriad backgrounds engage each other in conversation and debate, both in and out of class. The variety of viewpoints expressed in these dialogues are essential for broadening the horizons of the students involved.

When the school charges tuition next summer, some of these valuable viewpoints will be silenced.

You say that making “those who have the ability to pay support those who cannot” is communism. Well, congratulations, you are currently attending a communist University.

What do you think state taxpayers do for in-state students right now? Their tax dollars support us, and we repay their investment to North Carolina upon graduation.

Governor’s School is a similar

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investment. Students return to their high schools with expanded knowledge, greater ability to articulate their thoughts and think critically, with open minds. These students will repay the investment that North Carolina made in them, and enhance the state’s reputation as a leader in research, business and education.

Does this philosophy sound familiar to you? It should, because it parallels that of Carolina.

Laura Hartley Junior Music Performance

Push for a South Campus ‘Pit’ doesn’t make sense TO THE EDITOR: The Daily Tar Heel article “Campus moving South” (Sept.

9) outlined a valid but sophistic line of reasoning for hosting more events on South Campus.

Administrators argued that because the majority of students live on South Campus, events should be held there, presumably because it would make it easier for them to participate.

While this might apply to specific housing-related events, moving more general activities away from the Pit ignores two important factors: classes and Franklin Street.

Both of these attract students during the day and the evening, and neither of them are going to move south any time soon.

No one wants to have to walk from classes to Ram’s Head Plaza in the middle of the day to look at various tables. And events in the evening held on South campus would both exclude North Campus residents and make it more difficult to balance campus activities with Franklin Street attractions.

Besides, walking halfway across campus isn’t going to kill any underclassmen, particularly with the specter of the “freshman 15.”

Alex Jakubsen Sophomore Undecided

Insults help to reinforce gender labels, stereotypes Jessica Fuller’s column (“Slurs only reinforce gender labels,” Sept. 9) is right on the money.

It’s depressing and demeaning to hear serious issues, such as rape, declared in superficial and childish insults. As a close friend of a rape survivor, I am not amused by people who toss such words around lightly.

By the female-negative nature of the insults Fuller described, it appears women don’t waste time forming new insults that offend men or glorify our own bodies.

But since the general consensus is that casual degradation of women is having a substantial impact, and given the fluidity of the English language, I think it’s high time some new phrases were created.

Gender-specific crudeness probably won’t go away entirely, so we might as well level the playing field. I hope my female friends will consider it a compliment if I tell them they have tits of steel.

And to guys who frequently use “rape” casually in conversations: Don’t be dicks.

Caroline Johnson Sophomore Undecided

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