The Daily Tar Heel for Sept. 18, 2009

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VOLUME 117, ISSUE 72

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Administrators feel cuts

By Ariel Zirulnick And Tarini Parti Senior Writers

sports | page 6 RIVALRY GAME The Tar Heels prepare for Saturday’s game against rival East Carolina.

city | page 3 MAP ATTACK Students at Rashkis Elementary are discovering the world through a 41-footby-31-foot map of Asia on display this month.

UNC-system leaders saw in black and white Thursday what it looks like to cut 900 jobs.

Vice President for Finance Rob Nelson showed the Board of Governors every university’s plan to deal with a 10 percent budget cut at each school — which hits administrators especially hard.

“I can look you in the eye and tell you we have protected our academic core and we have protected our ability to manage this place effectively,” said UNC-system President Erskine Bowles.

Chancellors are in the final stages of deciding how they will implement the cuts mandated earlier this year by Bowles. The cuts are

intended to close the gap created by a $171 million budget cut.

Bowles told chancellors last month to focus 75 to 85 percent of cuts on the administrative sector.

Instead, about 96 percent of their cuts are there, said Chairwoman Hannah Gage.

“You will be impressed by the magnitude of the cuts that have been made,” she said. “We said a year ago that we were not making budget cuts, that what we were doing was designing the university of the future.”

The demand for focusing cuts on administration came after an August article in The (Raleigh) News & Observer disclosed that UNC-system administrative growth

See Cuts, Page 5

What 900 eliminated jobs looks like across the UNC system: Fayetteville State University: 17.1 N.C. Central University: 21.5 UNC-Pembroke: 14.5 UNC-Wilmington: 47.3 Western Carolina University: 34.9 Winston-Salem State University: 31.5 UNC-Asheville: 18.0 Elizabeth City State University: 13.2 UNC School of the Arts: 8.0 N.C. School of Science and Math: 3.0

Of the jobs cut, about 96 percent are administrative jobs, Board of Governors Chairwoman Hannah Gage said. Some are partial positions.

UNC-system General Administration: 65.8 UNC-Chapel Hill: 202.7 N.C. State University: 205.3 East Carolina University: 69.6 N.C. Agricultural and Technical University: 32.0 UNC-Charlotte: 59.5 UNC-Greensboro: 57.0 Appalachian State University: 31.2

Reduce commercial mail

Strategies for reducing footprint From UNC’s Climate Action Plan

Reduce commercial mail

Reduce the amount of junk mail or undeliverable mail sent to campus.

dth/Andrew Johnson

Increase use of composting

arts | page 4

Extend composting to additional campus dining facilities.

ONE-MAN SHOW Mike Daisey’s humorous “The Last Cargo Cult” explores humans’ perceptions of money and wealth in a solo performance.

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Increase computer efficiency Make double-sided printing the default for campus printers.

Manage computer sleep and standby modes for campus computers.

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Increase fuel efficiency

Increase fuel efficiency of campus fleet based on federal standards.

arts | page 3 MIXED EMOTIONS Artist Kip Fulbeck explores how mixed-race people identify themselves through stand-up comedy, two short films, slam poetry and a photo exhibit. The exhibit will be on display until Oct. 31.

Correction Due to an editing error, a photo caption in Thursday’s front-page story, “Five arrested on cocaine charges,” misspelled Eliza McQuail Vaughan’s name.

The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error.

this day in history SEPT. 18, 1992 …

Spike Lee, director of such films as “Do the Right Thing” and “Malcolm X,” spoke at the Smith Center about the importance of a freestanding black cultural center.

Today’s weather Showers H 80, L 65

Saturday’s weather Afternoon showers H 81, L 64

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Source: climate.unc.edu Graphic: Duncan Hoge and Ashley Bennett

UNC aims for carbon neutrality

BY Andy Thomason STAFF Writer

UNC’s new Climate Action Plan, a road map released Tuesday that seeks to make the school carbon-neutral by 2050, presents short-term solutions that reduce emissions and save money.

In the long run, however, the plan might cost the University more. Administrators said they are willing to depart from the plan if new technology and government policies would reduce estimated costs.

The University submitted the 14-page plan to the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment, which provides universities a framework to reduce carbon emissions.

A carbon-neutral institution balances the amount of carbon it produces with the

amount it saves.

The plan lays out 17 short-term solutions to reduce emissions to the same level they were in 2000 within 11 years, starting this year.

The University has already begun implementing many of these short-term solutions, said Cindy Shea, director of the Sustainability Office, who worked on the plan.

Most of the short-term strategies will save the University money, said Carolyn Elfland, associate vice chancellor for campus services and chairwoman of the central committee that devised the plan.

Solutions include making double-sided printing the default setting for campus printers, improving the energy efficiency of computer labs, reducing the amount of junk mail sent to campus and improving teleconferencing facilities.

These 17 measures should be sufficient to allow the University to reach its 2000 level of emissions by 2020, said Conor Farese, chairman of student government’s environmental affairs committee.

“The near-term goals are really well-structured to meet that first benchmark,” he said.

But members of the project team said longterm strategies to make the campus carbonneutral by 2050 are more expensive, though feasible. Many of these include switching UNC’s main energy source away from coal.

“There are alternatives that we have looked at that we know we can go with, but we’re leaving the door open for new inventions,” Elfland said.

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Police expose more cocaine

By Dean Drescher and Lyle Kendrick Staff Writers

Police found an additional 121 grams of cocaine Tuesday night in the apartment of one of five Chapel Hill residents arrested earlier that day on drug charges.

Police searched Jonathan Ray Plymale’s apartment at 107 Fraternity Court after he was arrested off campus at about 10 p.m. Tuesday, said Chapel Hill police spokesman Lt. Kevin Gunter. It was there that police located the additional drugs, Gunter said.

The building at 107 Fraternity Court is not an official fraternity house. It is a set of apartments that houses members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

Plymale, 22, of Greensboro, and UNC junior Eliza McQuail Vaughan, 21, of Nags Head, were originally Jonathan Ray charged with Plymale was trafficking and found to have cocaine posmore cocaine, session with police said. the intent to distribute after police found them with 197.6 grams of cocaine, Chapel Hill police reports state.

Both also were charged with conspiracy to commit a felony, maintaining a dwelling to keep drugs and misdemeanor counts of drug paraphernalia.

Two other people, Julianne Kornegay Howard, 19, a sophomore from Greensboro, and Hugh Graham Jones, 22, of Chapel Hill, were arrested and charged with felony possession of less than two grams of cocaine, reports state.

Benjamin Thomas Nash, 24, of Elizabeth City, was arrested and charged with felony possession of less than one gram of cocaine, the reports state. He was also charged with misdemeanor possession of four grams of marijuana.

The street value of the drug is about $60 per gram, said two students who said they have purchased cocaine in Chapel Hill. At that price, the amount recovered this week would be worth about $19,116 to the people selling it.

Plymale, Howard and Jones have ties to UNC’s fraternity and sorority system. On Plymale’s Facebook page, he lists himself as a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Howard’s residence is listed as the address of the Chi Omega sorority house. Jones has been affiliated with the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. The other two people arrested have not been tied to the Greek system.

Melissa Biediger, Panhellenic Council president, declined to comment on the arrests.

UNC Department of Public Safety spokesman Randy Young said Tuesday’s drug arrests are an isolated incident and not a com-

See PlyMale, Page 5

Thorp to reimburse YWC for Tancredo speech Group will bring back Bay Buchanan

By Andrew Harrell Assistant University Editor

Chancellor Holden Thorp has offered to reimburse the student group Youth for Western Civilization for the cost of bringing a controversial speaker, who cut his talk short after a protest got out of hand in April.

The group brought former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., to campus to speak about his views on illegal immigration.

Tancredo ended his talk after roughly five minutes when someone broke a window. The talk was already delayed by protesters. The incident drew national attention.

Nikhil Patel, president of UNC’s

chapter of YWC, said the money will be used to bring former U.S. Treasurer Bay Buchanan to speak on campus in October.

Buchanan spoke at UNC in March to a much smaller crowd and less notice than the other two YWC-hosted speakers.

The reimbursement will come from the Chancellor’s Discretionary Fund, which is made up mostly of private gifts and donations.

Thorp originally offered the reimbursement to last year’s YWC president, Riley Matheson, who has since graduated. The offer was mentioned again to the group’s new faculty adviser, Elliot Cramer, a retired psychology professor.

“I thought the chancellor was very generous,” Cramer said. “I think he felt a moral obligation.”

Senior Haley Koch, who was arrested for the protest of Tancredo’s speech, thinks differently. The case against her was later dismissed.

“It’s ridiculous and reprehensible, though not surprising,” she said. “I hope the administration is thinking very carefully.”

Thorp said that he would offer no more than $3,000, that the group must show him receipts and that the speaker must already be lined up.

“What I won’t do is just send three grand over to do whatever,” he said.

Thorp added that he made the offer because he felt the University was partially responsible for allow-

See Tancredo, Page 5

The story so far March 19: Former U.S. Treasurer Bay Buchanan speaks about illegal immigration with little fanfare. She is the first speaker brought to campus by conservative group Youth for Western Civilization.

April 14: Former U.S. Congressman Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., an ardent opponent of illegal immigration, speaks on the subject in Bingham Hall. More than 30 protesters show up to oppose the subject and are broken up by police after they say the protest got out of hand. Five minutes into the speech, a window is broken, and Tancredo ends the speech and leaves campus.

April 22: Police arrest senior Haley Koch for her role in the protest. Another protest of a YWCsponsored talk on immigration by former U.S. Congressman Virgil Goode leads to the arrest of six people, but no UNC students.

Summer: YWC’s faculty adviser Chris Clemens resigns due to the group’s negative perception.

Monday: Koch and three of the other protesters have their cases dismissed. One protester is found not guilty, and the other two are fined. YWC also renews its official student organization status, with professor emeritus Elliot Cramer as adviser.

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t seems Facebook may be good for more than just creepily stalking random people and procrastinating on homework ­— it can also be used to catch criminals. Jonathan G. Parker, of Fort Loudoun, Pa., was arraigned for one count of felony daytime burglary after leaving his Facebook open at the victim’s house.

The victim called the police to report that her windows were broken, her cabinets were opened and two diamond rings were missing. It wasn’t until later that she realized Parker had opted to check his Facebook during his burglary and left it up on her computer.

Parker was in custody Tuesday with a $10,000 bail. If found guilty, he faces up to 10 years in prison. Maybe next time he’ll remember to log off.

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NOTED. A new study suggests that states whose residents have more conservative religious beliefs have a higher pregnancy rate among teenagers. Mississippi tops the list.

An explanation for this correlation may be that such religious beliefs tend to disapprove of the use of contraceptives.

The study will be detailed in the upcoming issue of “Reproductive Health.”

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Haley Koch, a senior at UNC, speaks to reporters after her case was dismissed at the Chapel Hill Courthouse on Monday.

QUOTED. “Your super (boss) Matt talk a lot of thangs about you. I hope you stay with us a long time. If you got ? please ask Matt.”

— E-mail allegedly sent by Matthew Don Reed, 32, of Hinton, W.Va., in an attempt to steal Social Security numbers from job hunters by pretending to be West Virginia’s governor.

He was eventually found out because of the myriad grammatical errors.

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Saturday ECU game tailgate: The General

Alumni Association will host a tailgate before the football game against East Carolina. Bojangles’ biscuits and tea, Alpine bagels, fresh fruit and orange juice will be available on a first come, first served basis. Tickets are $2 for members or $5 for non-members.

Time: 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Location: Bell Tower (Rain location: Student Union, Room 1505)

Location: Fetzer Gym wrestling room

Benefit concert: John Doe and the Runners, Sea Wolf Mutiny, the UNC Clef Hangers, Steve McQuaid, Tar Heel Voices, the UNC Achordants and others will perform a concert to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer research and awareness. Tickets are $10 at the door, and free Locopops come with admission.

Don’t forget to bring your blanket.

Time: 12:30 p.m.

Location: Forest Theater

Sunday

Self-defense: Join the UNC Wun Hop Kuen Do self-defense club’s mixed martial arts fight team for a class on submission grappling. Danny Daniels of East Coast Submission Academy will also be present to share some tips.

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

Birth of a band: Arrogance, the band that resulted from musical collaboration between Robert Kirkland and Don Dixon, will celebrate its 40th birthday with a party at Cat’s Cradle. Tickets are $16.

Time: 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.

Location: Cat’s Cradle, 300 G E. Main Street, Carrboro

Meet and greet: The Chapel Hill group Citizens for Responsible Government will host a meet and greet session with the candidates for the 2009 Chapel Hill municipal election. The event will provide an opportunity for citizens interested in local politics to speak one-on-one with the candidates.

Time: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Location: The Franklin Hotel To make a calendar submission, e-mail dthcalendar@gmail.com.

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Performer Mike Daisey appears at the Kenan Theatre on Wednesday night in his one-man show, “The Last Cargo Cult.”

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Police log n Somebody entered an

unlocked 2003 Toyota Camry and stole it between 7 p.m. and 8:36 p.m. Wednesday at a parking lot at 300 Northern Park Drive, according to Chapel Hill police reports.

The blue car was worth $8,500, reports state. n Somebody wrote in wet concrete by Southern Community Park between 8 a.m. and 8:10 a.m.

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A man had been lying on a blanket beside the car periodically throughout the day, reports state. n A man stole tobacco products from Tar Heel Tobacco by stuffing them in his pants sometime before 4:12 p.m. Tuesday, according to Carrboro police reports. The man was found passed out behind an ABC store, reports state. n Somebody reported at 11:16 a.m. Tuesday that a cow was grazing near the sidewalk on James Street, according to Carrboro police reports.

After police arrived, the owner of the cow arrived and walked it back to its field, reports state.

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The Daily Tar Heel Correction

Due to a reporting error, a photo caption with Thursday’s pg. 3 story, “Students protest use of coal,” misspelled Brendan Watson’s name.

Due to a reporting error, Tuesday’s pg. 5 article, “Duke studies spread of H1N1,” misquotes David Weber, assistant dean of the UNC Department of Medicine, as saying that UNC has no specialists in infectious diseases. Weber said UNC has no infectious disease specialists studying H1N1 specifically.

The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the errors.

Campus briefs

Research finds blood vessels support themselves, tumors UNC researchers have found that blood vessels contribute to their own growth through a biological process.

Scientists previously believed the growth signals came from outside blood vessels.

The newly found process allows for oxygen and nutrients to be carried to various tissues. The findings could help explain the creation of blood vessels that support tumors.

Fulbright gives 11 awards to students, grads for study

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Immigrant decision coming Artist Community colleges likely to rule today

By Estes gould Staff Writer

After more than a year of delays, community college leaders are expected to decide today whether to allow undocumented immigrants to enroll in the system.

A committee on the N.C. Community Colleges unanimously recommended ­to allow it Thursday.

The decision, which many predict will mimic the committee’s, would be a relief for pro-immigration activists who have been trying to overturn a ban on undocumented immigrants’ enrollment that is more than a year old.

The policy pending approval requires that undocumented immigrants be U.S. high school graduates and pay out-of-state tuition.

The debate on the issue has often focused on whether the costs of allowing them into the system outweigh the benefits.

Those who support allowing undocumented immigrants to

enroll say that the out-of-state tuition is unfair — but it negates the belief that they are a financial burden on taxpayers.

A North Carolina study based on tuition rates from 2006-07 found that the average in-state community college student costs the public $5,344 to put through school, said Ron Bilbao, founder of UNC’s Coalition for College Access.

Average out-of-state tuition in 2006-07 was about $7,000 — reflecting about $1,500 in profit, Bilbao said.

But opponents of the plan say other costs are a burden.

N.C. Listen Director Ron Woodard said that schools would lose money because more land and construction would be required.

There are economic costs down the line as well, Woodard said.

“Most people go to community college to find a job or a better job,” he said. “The community college board is helping people who shouldn’t be in the country anyway compete against legal citizens.”

The story so far 2004: Former N.C. Community Colleges President Martin Lancaster allows undocumented immigrants to begin enrolling in the community college system.

May 2008: Former N.C. Gov. Mike Easley tells the N.C. Community Colleges board that it can decide whether to continue allowing undocumented immigrants into the system.

August 2008: The board decides to temporarily ban the immigrants’ enrollment while a study of the costs and benefits is conducted.

Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee protested the policy change at Thursday’s meeting in Raleigh. About 50 people joined Director William Gheen.

“A lot of North Carolinians are going to be very upset,” he said.

Megen George, director of marketing and external affairs for community colleges, said if approved, the policy change could take a year

August 2009: The panel

convened to address the issue presents to the board a policy that will allow undocumented immigrants to once again enroll in the community college system.

Thursday: A committee of the community colleges board approves unanimously the policy permitting undocumented immigrants’ enrollment.

Today: The full community colleges board votes on the final policy.

to implement.

Pro-immigration activists said the decision is long-awaited.

“It’s time to put this behind us and move forward,” said Elanie Cintron from El Centro Latino. “These are not rich families here, so community colleges are the only option.”

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

Nonini to discuss modern food economy, alternatives

Nourish International will host benefit concert in Cary The UNC chapter of Nourish International will host Carolina Hopefest 2009, a benefit concert, featuring the Indigo Girls and singersongwriter Matt Nathanson.

The concert will take place from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sept. 27 at the Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary.

Students can purchase tickets online at www.carolinahopefest. org or in the Pit on Sept. 23 at the weekly Hunger Lunch event.

Students who want to volunteer at the event to attend the concert for free can e-mail Allie Treske at allie.treske@nourishinternational. org for more information.

city briefs

Carrboro Farmers’ Market to host annual chef event Carrboro Farmers’ Market is hosting its seventh annual chef event Saturday.

The event will celebrate local farms and locally owned restaurants and is themed “Chefs Who Shop the Carrboro Farmers’ Market.”

The event will begin at 9 a.m. and last until the food runs out.

Seven chefs who regularly shop the Carrboro Farmers’ Market will create a “Blue Plate Special” using ingredients available now at the market.

Participating chefs include Kevin Callaghan from ACME, Bret Jennings from Elaine’s on Franklin, Ricky Moore from Glasshalfull, Matt and Sheila Neal from Neal’s Deli, Adam Rose from Il Palio, Bill Smith from Crook’s Corner and Amy Tornquist from Watt’s Grocery.

Sports briefs

Junior varsity basketball to hold mandatory meeting All male undergraduate students interested in trying out for the junior varsity men’s basketball team are invited to attend a meeting with coach Jerod Haase on Sept. 24.

The meeting will be held at 4 p.m. in the memorabilia room in the Smith Center. This is not a practice, but it is a mandatory meeting.

— From staff and wire reports.

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Media specialist Marj Moe of Rashkis Elementary School talks to the students of Claire Nelson’s third grade class. Kyuhyun Kim, 8, and Harry Kwon, 9, both of South Korean heritage, stand on the interactive National Geographic map of Asia on Thursday afternoon.

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Elementary school enjoys huge map of Asia by sam rinderman Staff WRiter

For two weeks, geography at Rashkis Elementary School will be taught in the gym.

It’s the only room big enough to hold the school’s enormous map.

Thanks to National Geographic, the Chapel Hill school will use a 41-foot-by-31foot map to study Asian geography.

National Geographic is shipping the map to a different school every two weeks.

Rashkis received it last week, and will have it until next Friday.

The school’s librarian, Marj Moe, said the map is an interactive way for students to learn geography.

“The kids need to know that information

comes in all forms,” she said. “What better way is there to teach geography than use a gigantic map?”

Last spring, after searching National Geographic’s Web site for maps to use for the school’s social studies curriculum, Moe said she found the oversized topographic maps available for schools.

“The ability to read a map is critical for our social studies curriculum,” she said.

After applying last spring for Rashkis to use the map, Moe was notified by National Geographic in May that the school could use the map of Asia at the beginning of the 2009-10 school year.

Moe said Asia was her first choice because the student population is 30 percent Asian.

The map came with equipment to play

depicts mixed races Videos and photos tell people’s stories

By Laney Tipton Staff Writer

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program has awarded 11 UNC students and recent graduates money to study, teach or conduct research internationally.

The recipients will be traveling to places such as France, Germany, Albania and Ireland.

Last year’s student body president, J.J. Raynor, is one of the students who received a Fulbright award. Raynor, who received a degree in economics, is studying the impact of capital controls in Malaysia.

Anthropology professor Donald Nonini will discuss the modern food economy today from 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. in the Hickerson House of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies.

Nonini’s discussion will focus on the growth of sustainable farming and community food security movements in recent years.

The talk will also touch on the role of the modern, corporatebased food economy as a distinct movement with its own alternative forms of knowledge and practice.

The National Science Foundation recently awarded Nonini a research grant to investigate agricultural movements in four local communities in North Carolina, where his research is based.

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educational games.

It is sprawled on the gym floor, taking half the basketball court’s space. Second grade students split into teams Thursday and competed to name all the countries.

Second grader Ben Huang said it was fun to see where China was on a map.

“It was fun to stand on China and see where all of China’s mountains, grasslands and desserts are,” said Huang.

“It’s kind of fun learning about islands, peninsulas and other countries.”

The map provides a sense of welcome as children who are new to the country adapt to their surroundings, Moe said.

“What better way to welcome them than with a map from where they came from so they can feel welcome and recognized?”

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Through stand-up comedy, slam poetry, two short personal films and highlights from his two identity-based exhibits, artist Kip Fulbeck gave a dynamic and compelling presentation Thursday in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium.

The performance and reception that followed was the culmination of Fulbeck’s piece, “part asian, 100% hapa.” The exhibit — videos and portraits of a variety of individuals — has lined the walls of the FedEx Global Education Center since July 1.

Fulbeck, also a professor of art at the University of California at Santa Barbara, explained the current exhibit and one of his additional works, “Permanence.” The latter is a book about people, their tattoos and their stories.

He shared his experience creating these exhibits through slideshows of individuals and anecdotes from the photo sessions.

Hapa is a Hawaiian word derived from the English word “half ” and can be used to describe people of mixed descent.

Fulbeck, son of a Chinese mother and English-Irish father, felt like he didn’t really fit in growing up.

When he was a little boy, Fulbeck wished he had some visual way to connect with others like him, he said. He initially envisioned an illustrated book.

The idea stayed in the back of his head, and a few years ago, Fulbeck decided to take action.

He put the word out about his project, asking for hapas to volunteer, and was overwhelmed by the response.

“I’d get there at 4 o’clock for a 5 o’clock shoot and there would be 30 people lined up waiting,” Fulbeck said.

In three years, he has taken 1,200 portraits of people who come from mixed backgrounds, and the project that started out as a book has evolved into an exhibit. More than 100 photos line the walls of the Center.

The portraits are all taken in the same way — from the collarbone up, devoid of any jewelry, clothing, glasses, makeup or smiles.

Fulbeck chose to represent the participants this way to play off neutral forms of identification, such as driver’s licenses.

Also included with the photos in the exhibit are the handwritten responses to the question that hapas are constantly asked: “Who are you?”

Every response is different, ranging from simple to funny, poetic or angry.

Some participants chose to mention their racial and ethnic backgrounds in their answer, such as one man who wrote, “I am 100% black and 100% Japanese.”

Others chose to focus on things other than ethnicity.

“I am goddess. I am woman.

Confident and arrogant,” wrote

See Hapa, Page 8

Immigrant policy to be Carrboro election issue Candidates want to o≠er more support

said she plans to: n Incorporate Latino residents by distributing bilingual emergen— past 11 a.m.

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Staff Writer n Continue Carrboro Board of Aldermen Sharon Cook to support curcandidates are carving out ideas for rent policies Sharon Cook’s grandfather was that limit local how to cater to the town’s dense and a first-generation immigrant, a fact police officers growing immigrant population.

At least 12.3 she said helps checking for percent of the her understand immigration town is of Latino the immigrant status. o r H i s p a n i c experience. “ We d o n ’ t Jacquie Gist She said she descent, comwant residents pared to 5.6 plans to: to feel that they can’t call the n Provide Orange County p e r c e n t i n police,” Gist said. “If people feel Orange County, more bilingual Elections like something bad is happening according to El support to make in their neighborhood, but they’re Centro Latino. i t e a s i e r f o r Sharon Cook afraid to call the police, it’s not a And the refugee population contin- Spanish speakgood thing.” ers to conduct business with the ues to grow drastically.

Ilana Dubester, interim director town.

Randee Haven-O’Donnell n Focus on improving educaat El Centro Latino, said Carrboro’s government should include more tional opportunities for Carrboro’s Randee Haven-O’Donnell has Burmese and Karen populations. bilingual public officials. been on the Board of Aldermen “You can do service worldwide, since 2005.

She also said immigrants tend to lack work, language services and but we have that opportunity right She said she plans to: here,” Cook said. access to affordable health care. n Increase government support Day laborers became the center to Latino organizations already in of controversy in 2007 when they Jacquie Gist the community. were barred from standing at their n Support the creation of a Jacquie Gist has been on the workforce station for day laborers unofficial waiting spot — the corner of Davie and Jones Ferry roads Board of Aldermen since 1989. She to gather.

“I’ve been working on finding a suitable workforce station where day laborers can gather and be picked up for work,” HavenO’Donnell said.

“Folks need a place that is dignified.”

them to gather.

“It’s important if these people want work and we have the work, that it exists for them,” Peck said.

“It’s unfair to target people that are good workers.”

Sammy Slade Randee HavenO’Donnell

Sammy Slade is the only Latino alderman candidate and said this will make him the most likely to see that perspective.

Tim Peck He said he Tim Peck said he can relate to plans to: n Create a the Latino immigrant commuforum where nity because day laborers his father spent l o o k i n g f o r Sammy Slade much of his work can find childhood in businesses that are hiring.

Guatemala, n Continue existing policies that and Peck has an limit local police officers checking adopted child for immigration status. from the coun“Our area is a place for immitry. grants,” Slade said. “I’d be open to He said he Tim Peck finding ways to facilitate the coexplans to: n Support allowing driver’s istence of different groups.” licenses for day laborers. n Support day laborers in the Contact the City Editor community by continuing to allow at citydesk@unc.edu.

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‘Last Cargo Cult’ tests conceptions of money Hilarity, gestures add to the event

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By Adam Hinson Staff Writer

The audience members who went to see Mike Daisey’s “The Last Cargo Cult” spent the duration of the show richer than they were before, if only for two hours.

As part of Wednesday night’s act, they received bills ranging from $1 to $100 upon entering Kenan Theatre.

The crowd resisted the urge to pocket the money, which would ultimately play a role in the end of the performance.

“The Last Cargo Cult” was the first production of the season for PRC 2 , a less conventional subgroup of PlayMakers Repertory Company. The performance runs through Sunday.

Hilarious and thought-provoking, Daisey addressed the role of money in our society. He also touched on the global financial crisis by relating it to the island community of Tanna in the South Pacific.

The people of Tanna have developed their own religion based on America’s wealth.

Daisey’s monologue was as absorbing as being told a bedtime story by a favorite relative.

The show’s initial image was

surprising — a stage decorated only by a desk, a chair and a glass of water.

Daisey took the audience on a journey that had them either rolling with laughter or, at other times, sitting in stony silence.

He kept the audience’s attention by using a wide variety of cartoonish facial expressions and wild gestures, filling the stage with his personality.

Although some of his comments were somber, he used comical analogies more often to convey his points.

His stories ranged from chasing a pig that stole his PowerBar to getting in a car wreck in the Hamptons to his experience with the village chief ’s son on the edge of a volcano.

Daisey also recalled a moment when his plane went out of control on an island runway.

“When you’re about to die, you want to scream, ‘Why didn’t I steal more money?’ But then if you live … it’s awkward,” Daisey said.

To prove a more serious point, Daisey revealed that the money given out at the beginning of the

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performance was the amount he was paid for the performance.

While he realized he needed the money, he also knew that money only has the value you assign it.

In the end, Daisey challenged the audience’s perception of money and the role it plays in our society and the world.

He offered audience members a chance to keep the bills, but doing so would have gone against the moral of the show.

“The religion of the First World is finance,” Daisey said. “In our country it is legal to burn a flag, but it is illegal to burn money.”

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KABUL (MCT) — After winning 54.6 percent of the vote in the initial tally of a fraud-tainted election, President Hamid Karzai said Thursday that he hoped to serve another five years.

But he said he would accept the results of investigations that could force him into a runoff.

“Even if they take away all my votes and say, ‘You are no longer president,’ I will accept that,” Karzai said.

Less than an hour after his news conference, a suicide bomber attacked a NATO convoy in the heart of Kabul.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — President Barack Obama announced Thursday that he is scrapping the Bush administration’s controversial missiledefense shield, citing new intelligence that shows a diminished threat from the long-range Iranian missiles the system was supposed to guard against.

Key components of the program were to be stationed in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Obama’s shift in strategy appeared aimed in good part at Russia, which has vigorously opposed deploying the system

near its western borders.

The United States apparently hopes that the move will ease Moscow’s opposition to imposing tough new sanctions on Iran if talks on its nuclear weapons program fail.

While he was canceling the system of interceptor missiles and tracking radars slated for Eastern Europe, Obama said he had signed off on a new missile defense strategy that would be based on proven technologies and aimed more at the short- and medium-range missiles that Iran is thought to be developing.

U.S. missile kills GOP rejects some Health care revamp divisive an al-Qaida chief of its own ideas ISLAMABAD (MCT) — A missile fired by a U.S. drone killed a top al-Qaida operations chief and two other militant commanders in the volatile North Waziristan region, Pakistani military and intelligence sources said Thursday.

The death of Ilyas Kashmiri, a Pakistani national who headed up al-Qaida’s paramilitary operations in Pakistan, is the latest in a series of successful strikes against al-Qaida and Taliban militants. An Aug. 5 strike in South Waziristan killed Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, the country’s most-wanted militant.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — Republicans are denouncing the Democrats’ latest health care proposal, even though some Republican ideas are embedded in the plan.

The Senate Finance Committee bill that Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., unveiled contains provisions that were inspired by Republicans, including testing new ways to handle medical malpractice cases, creating avenues for consumers to cross state lines to buy insurance and launching a high-risk pool covering people with pre-existing medical conditions.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — The White House tried — and failed — Thursday to cool fierce Republican opposition to its health care overhaul by announcing a $25 million preliminary program aimed at eventually revamping the nation’s controversial medicalmalpractice legal system.

Republicans in Congress remained bitterly critical of Democratic health care efforts, while Democrats remained divided over how to proceed.

The malpractice plan was authorized by a two-page “presidential memorandum.”

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Improv group amazes

By Mark Sabb Staff Writer

Board games. Disappearing dining halls. Eating condoms. Aliens and cats versus humans and dogs.

Those are just a few of the topics that created echoing laughter at the improv show Thursday night.

The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre touring group, a professional comedy group from New York, performed in the Student Union Auditorium, and UNC’s own Chapel Hill Players opened the event.

After Chips’ opening act, the brigade hit the stage, and the audience erupted with applause.

To start off the show, the group turned to the

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crowd for help, and one student happily fulfilled their request.

When onstage, the student was asked questions ranging from his major to what he likes to do in his free time, to which he answered, “Play board games.”

The group ushered the student offstage and started their performance using some of the odd stories, such as guys and girls attempting to take showers together, as the basis of their performance.

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The scene: Aliens attempt to translate cat poop.

How it played out: While the aliens were working on the meaning of the poop, a boy arrives riding a child his mother gave him so that he could learn to be responsible.

The boy challenges the aliens, and a humans and dogs versus aliens and cats war ensues.

Before determining the victor, the improv actors left the stage, leaving the fate of the world up in the air.

A boy rides his 13-year-old child, Fire, into battle against two aliens who have teamed up with cats to destroy the world.

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An overexcited student annoys his roommate about the brilliance of the character Neo in the movie “The Matrix.”

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eclipsed enrollment and faculty growth in the last five years.

Nelson disclosed the number of jobs eliminated at every university — more than 200 at both UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University, the two largest schools.

‘Gray areas’ in benefits The board is also struggling to revamp its administrative benefits policy, which Gage told The Daily Tar Heel has gray areas and was not highly regulated.

The policy has been the subject of media and public scrutiny since recent scandals highlighted generous salaries and benefits packages at many schools.

On Thursday, the personnel and tenure committee discussed what they needed to do to clarify and enforce the policy — specifically, who is eligible and just how much money they should receive.

Chancellors were told to come to next month’s meeting with a list of people at their school who qualify for benefits and how much they cost.

The discussion highlighted the

needs of two types of system schools — major research universities and smaller regional universities.

E a s t C a r o l i n a Un i v e r s i ty Chancellor Steve Ballard asked the board not to change the policy. He said it’s crucial to compete with other schools for quality leaders and retain faculty for administrative positions.

“This policy helps us find, keep and change leaders if we need to, and that’s a very critical thing for universities,” he said.

However, Fayetteville State University Chancellor James Anderson said many schools don’t need the benefits to bring in the faculty and administration they need.

“I don’t have to think about the competitive edge. In your deliberations, keep the difference in mind.”

Committee members requested that they hear from UNC-CH Chancellor Holden Thorp or N.C. State University Interim Chancellor Jim Woodward at the next meeting, as well as faculty members.

The board concludes its monthly meeting later today.

Senior writer Emily Stephenson contributed reporting.

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ing the protest to get out of control.

“I felt that we didn’t do the best job we could have at maintaining order,” he said. “If we had done a better job, Tom Tancredo could have given his talk and the protesters could have expressed themselves.”

Cramer said the Chancellor told him he’s confident the University will be ready the next time YWC hosts a speaker.

“I feel pretty confident that there will be a protest,” Koch said. “We’ll just have to be more creative.”

A conservative public policy group, The Leadership Institute, funded two of YWC’s campus events with up to $3,000 per speaker. As of June, they have funded two other YWC speeches at other schools.

mon University trend.

“We do get a small number of charges and incidents involving marijuana, but this is fairly rare,” Young said. He said UNC police typically deal with underage alcohol use.

Gunter declined to comment on Tuesday’s arrests, saying an investigation is ongoing. As of Thursday afternoon, police officials had not returned the search warrant executed in the arrests to court.

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The scene: Two roommates watch “The Matrix,” and one is overly excited.

How it played out: Roommate one continues to be more annoyed by his excited roommate. When the excited roommate receives a pair of shoes, he jumps around until he has a nosebleed, and roommate one calls him “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Excited.”

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A young man showers in a three-piece suit with a girl in their dorm’s co-ed bathroom.

The scene: The actor on the left is a man in a three-piece suit, while the actor on the right is a naked woman.

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For UNC’s Deunta Williams, this one’s personal.

It’s not just about the third-year safety’s connections to the eastern part of North Carolina. His memory of 2007 has had him hankering for a second chance for two years.

“It’s more than a game,” the Jacksonville native said about Saturday’s contest between No. 24 North Carolina (2-0) and East Carolina (1-1).

“This is one of the games that me personally, I’ll remember for the rest of my life. They got us last time, and since then I’ve had that in the back of my mind when people ask me about it.”

That day, the Pirates squeaked by the Tar Heels 34-31 on a lastsecond field goal in front of a raucous crowd in Greenville.

ECU quar terback Patrick Pinkney torched UNC’s defense for three touchdowns and more than 400 yards through the air, dealing North Carolina its first loss under Butch Davis and sending the Tar Heels on their way to a 4-8 season.

The defeat also impacted a few other UNC defenders who were freshmen in that game.

Linebackers Quan Sturdivant and Bruce Carter also saw action against the Pirates, and Williams said both of them still haven’t forgotten the final score.

“It was our first loss as a unit, so it was kind of hard to express in words how that felt,” Williams said. “I think if we would’ve won that game, our season would have been a lot different.”

While most of ECU’s offensive playmakers from that year have departed, Davis said this year’s Pirates are still built in the typical

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Junior safety Deunta Williams grew up in Jacksonville, just down the road from East Carolina University in Greenville. Williams and many other UNC players come from eastern North Carolina, adding to the rivalry. mold of the program. That means they’ll have plenty of speed at the skill positions — running back, wide receiver and defensive back.

There is one constant that bridges the gap from 2007 to 2009 — sixth-year senior Pinkney.

But despite his wealth of experience, his final season has gotten off to a rocky start.

Pinkney has completed just 42 percent of his passes through two games, and he’s barely eclipsed 300 yards passing for the season.

Despite those numbers, Davis said UNC is preparing for him to be at his best.

“You’re not going to disguise

him, you’re not going to bluff him, you’re not going to trip him,” Davis said. “He’s going to have seen just about everything from an experience standpoint.”

Of course, UNC’s defense isn’t the only one with unfinished business on its mind. Quarterback T.J. Yates, who hails from Georgia, said he’s learned just how much the rivalry means in his time with his teammates.

Yates said that when Davis asked everyone who knew an ECU player to raise their hands, 75 percent of the room shot their hands up.

To redeem itself, UNC’s offense will need a better effort than last

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week against the Pirates’ veteran front seven. UNC could only muster 35 rushing yards and surrendered six sacks against UConn.

“Their defensive line and their linebackers are the strength of their defense,” Yates said. “They’re always moving around.”

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Despite three years of power running and blocking, no opponent ever kept Bobby Rome out of a game.

But without even stepping into the backfield, the fullback was left watching North Carolina’s last-second win at Connecticut from his couch in Chapel Hill on Saturday.

The senior, along with thirdstring defensive tackle Jordan Nix, remained home with suspected cases of swine flu.

“It’s my last year and stuff, and you never expect something like that to happen,” Rome said.

“When you have something like that come out of the blue — especially at a time when you are trying to win games — to have something like Fullback Bobby swine flu come Rome missed in and knock UNC’s second you out of a few games really game with hurts.” swine flu.

The pair marked the second suspected cases of swine flu in the ACC since Duke had more than 30 players diagnosed with it this summer.

The North Carolina football coaching staff has launched several initiatives to keep any other players on the team from getting sick and avoiding a breakout on the level of the Duke team.

Rome first suspected he was sick when he noticed a cough on the way to watch film Tuesday morning last week.

He picked up some cough drops, went to practice and took a nap.

By 6 p.m., he had a temperature of 102.6 degrees. His temperature continued to climb until it reached 103.7 degrees the next day.

But after a few days of fluids, rest and isolation, Rome said he is ready to return to the backfield — but not without some lingering effects.

“My energy level was real down,”

Playing with swine The following universities have reported outbreaks of swine flu on their football teams:

Wisconsin 10 players dealing

with flu symptoms at the start of the season

Mississippi 22 reported flu cases

Washington State 16

players missed season opener.

Stillman College FCS school in Alabama had to cancel its opening game because 37 players had flu symptoms.

Duke According to coaches,

nearly half the team has been treated for conditions related to the swine flu.

he said. “I didn’t have an appetite, and I ended up losing about 10 pounds throughout the whole thing.”

As Rome and Nix readjust to practice, Rome said the coaching staff has taken his condition into consideration.

He has engaged in fewer repetitions at practice while the team’s doctors and trainers continue to monitor his progress.

“The coaching staff is doing a great job not trying to push me too fast,” he said. “I’m just going to try and ease into it.”

UNC football team physician Mario Ciocca said that two other players are currently recovering from illnesses.

“The players that have been sick have been in isolation until 24 hours after their fever breaks,” he said.

The team has also continued to take the recommended precautions to prevent the spread of the disease.

“We’ve been having them washing their hands a lot,” Ciocca said.

“This weekend we had separate towels, separate water baths.”

Ciocca added that the players have been encouraged to stay away from big crowds.

“Our doctors and trainers did a great job of watching them,” coach Butch Davis said.

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Laptop use under scrutiny Lecture focuses on schools’ role

Several professors suspect abuse

BY Emily Tracy STAFF Writer

Sophomore John Short walks into class, takes a seat and pulls out his laptop. After quickly opening Microsoft Word to (maybe) take notes later in the lecture, he shrinks the window. Then it’s a frenzy. He’s perusing ESPN, Facebook and personal e-mail.

“In my defense, fellow students are usually doing similar things as me — e-mail and ESPN,” he said.

From the back of a classroom, there is more to see than students furiously scribbling down notes.

Facebook, Skype and checking the latest scores on ESPN are all common appearances on students’ laptops.

A recent study at the University of Colorado at Boulder showed that students who brought their laptops to class did 11 percent worse than their peers who did not.

Some professors have caught on to the trend and started forbidding laptop use in class.

Clay Stuart, a current UNC graduate student and anthropology teaching assistant, only allows students with learning disabilities or an extreme necessity to use their

laptops. Stuart said students’ lack of computer knowledge led him to restrict laptops in class.

“It is like giving every student a jet fighter, but not teaching them to fly,” he said. “So instead of students going supersonic right now, they are stuck taxiing their jets around on the ground, back and forth to the mall.”

Hi s t o r y p r o f e s s o r Jo s e p h Glatthaar said he used to allow laptops but banished them after constant abuse.

“Some students transcribe every word I say, which means they are not listening, digesting and understanding the lectures,” he said in an e-mail.

English professor Mae Henderson is an advocate of laptops and strongly recommends them in class. She said she believes that most students use them strictly for educational purposes.

“I teach by concept and close reading,” she said.

“It is important students are able to understand, define and apply sophisticated critical and theoretical concepts to textual reading and exegesis.”

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Students use their computers for a variety of educational and recreational activities while attending a News Writing lecture Wednesday in Carroll 111. said she resists the temptation to bring her laptop altogether by leaving it at home.

“By not using a laptop, I can actually pay attention to the lecture and save myself that much more time when trying to study the material,” Latham said.

The use of laptops, Glatthaar said, distracts not only the student using it, but others around.

“If students prefer to surf, write e-mails, send text messages or make phone calls, they need not come to class,” he said.

“But in my current courses, which have over 100 students each, the use of laptops in class appears to me to be counterproductive.”

Contact the Features Editor at features@unc.edu.

Career expo draws fewer recruiters

BY Natalie Prince Staff Writer

Although students have said it has been harder to find jobs in the struggling economy, few took advantage of Thursday’s Career Expo in the Smith Center.

Some companies said they have tempered recruiting efforts, and while the fair saw about 40 percent fewer companies, recruiters said they had nearly the same number of job openings as last year.

Many representatives said they saw a noticeable decrease in the number of students who attended this year’s fair.

“Traffic has actually been lower.

Even the number of representatives is lower,” said Chinyere Alu, a Peace

Corps recruiter. “But there has still been quite a lot of interest.”

About 75 different companies signed up for this year’s fair.

Despite the struggling job market for this year’s seniors, students at the fair seemed to have a positive outlook about their future. Several students said they were encouraged by the number of recruiters.

Senior Shaun Hampton, a chemistry major, said it would not be too hard to find a job as long as he kept his options open, which he was doing at Thursday’s fair.

“My main goal is to explore options for when I graduate,” he said.

“Overall, I think it will be harder, but I still think there will be jobs

“You just need to diversify yourself. …

You have to be willing to do something that may not relate to your major.”

Darryle Bajomo, SEnior that will be easier to get than others, like chemistry.”

Other students were nonchalant, saying they were confident in their job prospects despite the rising unemployment rate.

Senior journalism major Darryle Bajomo said he thinks he can find a job as long as he does not limit his options.

“You just need to diversify yourself and be flexible,” he said. “You

have to be willing to do something that may not relate to your major.”

Senior Maurice Simmons said he was confident he could find a teaching job. Carrying around a bag of pens and pamphlets, he added that he was primarily at the career fair to pick up free gift items and to scout for job opportunities.

As a former U.S. ambassador to South Africa, James Joseph would frequently travel great distances to share his expertise.

On Thursday, Joseph, who currently teaches public policy at Duke University, enjoyed a shorter commute to Gerrard Hall, where he delivered the third annual Thomas Willis Lambeth Lectureship.

Joseph’s speech, titled “Remaking America: Higher Education and Civic E n g a g e m e n t ,” called upon universities to take responsibility for James Joseph the “economi- served as cally and social- ambassador to ly marginalized” South Africa through commufrom 1996-99. nity service.

After being introduced as the “voice of God” at Duke University by former Lambeth Lectureship speaker and Duke professor Joel Fleishman, Joseph, an ordained minister, began his speech with a question.

“What role should universities play in the remaking of America?” he asked.

He promptly answered, saying universities should do everything in their power in pursuit of the global “common good.”

“It has been my experience that when neighbors help neighbors, and even when strangers help strangers, both those who help and those who are helped are not only transformed, but experience a new

sense of connectedness,” Joseph said.

Joseph provided powerful examples of members of society joining together for different causes and goals across the globe.

He cited the efforts of blacks in the South to organize for equal rights in the late 19th century.

Chip Gaul, a junior public policy and communication studies double major, said he was impressed by the lecture.

“It’s nice to have someone articulate very clearly why we need to be engaged in our community,” he said.

Hodding Carter, last year’s guest speaker and a member of the lectureship selection committee, said the selection of Joseph was made with confidence.

“If you’ve been in any kind of public life over the last 30 years, you know him,” said Carter, a UNC professor of public policy.

Joseph said he doesn’t usually speak at schools about the civic responsibility of university administrators and students, but said this lecture was a special occasion.

“It’s very important that universities bring to campus people who are practitioners of what they are teaching,” he said.

Joseph launched the United States — Southern Africa Center for Leadership and Public Values at Duke University. The center works to empower leaders in South Africa.

“The gift of hope is as big as the gift of life itself,” he said.

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Forward play will be key for Tar Heels

By Chris Hempson Assistant Sports Editor

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Jonathon Lew, left, participates in a demonstration during Kip Fulbeck’s presentation in the FedEx Global Education Center on Thursday.

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one woman.

The exhibit will remain on display until Oct. 31.

Junior Justin Crowder slammed the exhibit in a blog on the Carolina Review Daily online and spoke harshly of it when asked what he thought about the exhibit.

“I think this is disturbing,” Crowder said. “They are putting their identity in their race, and

I think it’s stupid that they’re naked.”

Fulbeck does not let the negativity bother him and said he actually enjoys the negative feedback.

“It is the job of the artist to provoke an emotion,” he said. “If I was doing it for people who felt the same as me, what’s the point?”

Assistant Arts Editor Abe Johns contributed reporting Contact the Arts Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu.

Before the preseason No. 1 ranking to start the 2009 season, before the close loss to Maryland in the national championship game and before the magical run to the Final Four, there was Duke.

Back in 2008, North Carolina was teetering between being a good team — evident from the team’s quick start to the season — and a team that couldn’t beat top competition, evident from the team’s two losses to ranked opponents in Virginia and Boston College.

But when the Tar Heels traveled to Durham to play the then-No. 24 Blue Devils, something changed.

UNC left 90 minutes later with a 2-0 win and, perhaps, a whole new outlook for the season.

“That was actually a game that was a little bit of a turning point last year,” coach Elmar Bolowich said. “It gave us the belief that we could do some great stuff. We were clicking on all cylinders. There was not a weak link on the field.”

Still, as North Carolina gets ready to play Duke again tonight, things

appear quite different from the last go-around between the pair.

For one, the Blue Devils are already more highly regarded now than in 2008. Duke is ranked No. 11 and boasts a stellar defense that has allowed just one goal on the season.

And although the Tar Heels scored on just their second shot of the game in 2008, UNC may find more difficulty this year. “(Coach is) telling us not to take them lightly,” midfielder Cameron Brown said. “He’s emphasized that it’s a top-ACC game. He’s emphasizing how much better they are and how big a game this is.”

What’s more, UNC no longer employs the services of Brian Shriver — he of the multiple-goal game against Duke last October.

Shriver was the team’s leading scorer in 2008, and since then, North Carolina has struggled to find a steady replacement for him.

Granted, the season is just four games underway, but Bolowich already reiterated during the exhibitions and during the first few games that he wanted more out of his forwards. Although such words

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could have been more of a wake-up call to his younger strikers, whatever the reasoning, it seems to have worked.

Though the statistic sheet may not show it — the team’s three main forwards accounted for one goal and two assists in the past two games — the trio has supplied an immense amount of pressure and scoring chances. “(The forward play is) getting better, I must say,” Bolowich said. “When you see the work rate that a Billy Schuler puts in, Enzo Martinez, Alex Dixon, how fast he is running down balls and putting pressure on the opposing defender.

That’s where it really starts. I’m actually pretty pleased where we are at this point.”

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No. 3 UNC will rely heavily on forwards and midfielders like Kirk Contact the Sports Editor Urso for offensive production at sports@unc.edu when they take on No. 11 Duke.

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Students describe work in rural areas

By JEanna Smialek Staff Writer

UNC graduate students established personal connections with local governments this summer while helping them cut costs and improve efficiency.

Students and faculty­ involved with the Community Campus Partnership program, designed to help rural counties, described their work and outlined future plans during a presentation in Wilson Library on Thursday.

“CCP is intended to establish effective and valued partnerships between the University and the community,” said Lynn Blanchard, director of the Carolina Center for Public Service.

The success of the program has encouraged expansion to other

counties in the state.

About 40 people associated with the program discussed their accomplishments working with government officials in Lenoir and Caswell counties.

Will Lambe, director of the project, said the organization has raised an estimated $1 million, mostly through grants. The focus now is deciding how best to apply resources to make a lasting impact in N.C. communities.

During summer 2009, students interned full time, aiding community directors with various local projects — the first step in a twoyear pilot phase of the program.

“We have an opportunity to be successful here in doing something collaborative,” said Jesse White, associate director of the

Office of Economic and Business Development.

Students who completed internships in the two counties agreed that their role led to a better relationship between the University and communities.

“We feel like we have a really great base of support there,” said Kate Pearce, a second-year masters student in city and regional planning.

Pearce said she felt like she was truly integrated in the Yanceyville community in Caswell County. She said the personal connections she made will form a basis for the program’s future.

Adam Parker, a second-year masters student in public administration, worked in Lenoir County.

“I really describe my role in two

ways — utility player and matchmaker,” Parker said.

Parker worked on projects such as improvements in street lamp efficiency and helping with the science and technology-related education. A major part of his job was bringing the right people together to accomplish initiatives, he said.

Ten graduate students are still directly involved in the program, and a number of faculty and staff members also play major roles.

Undergraduate students might be getting involved with the program as well, Lambe said.

“The future is to demonstrate what a concerted effort can accomplish,” he said.

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

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Will Lambe, director of the Community Campus Partnership, delivered a speech Thursday regarding students’ work with rural county governments.

Passing the pigskin UNC’s football team, like several others, has benched players with swine flu. See pg. 6 for story.

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Laptop lament Some professors forbid laptops in the classroom to reduce student distractions. See pg. 7 for story.

Rosh Hashanah begins Local groups are celebrating the Jewish New Year, which begins tonight. Go online for story.

Admitting all?

Community colleges decide today whether to admit undocumented immigrants. See pg. 3 for story.

Ambassador to UNC Former Ambassador James Joseph spoke Thursday about civic engagement. See pg. 7 for story.

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10 friday, september 18, 2009 andrew dunn

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The Daily Tar Heel QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“It is like giving every student a jet fighter, but not teaching them to fly.”

Clay Stuart, tA, on not allowing laptops in class because of students’ lack of computer skills

By Alex Lee, lobin@email.unc.edu

Featured online reader comment:

“I’m all for saving the world and everything. But … let’s stop and ask ourselves if we’re really saving it.”

Justin Chandler Wilcox Sophomore philosophy major from Hickory E-mail: justinchandlerwilcox@ Gmail.com

Tom VanAntwerp, on a rally to convince unc to change its policies on energy from coal

Don’t be afraid to look good, ladies

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR DTH shouldn’t promote film that demeans women

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ew York Fashion Week has arrived. I’m using this time in the year to foster reflection on what we put in our closets and on our backs.

As you read this and think about what your own personal style means for you, fashion week will come and go. It will showcase what we’ll be wearing come spring, before we even get into our winter coats. But, at any time during the year, I want you to dress it up.

Poring over photos and articles of Marc Jacobs’ new spring collection, I noticed that the designer chose not to accompany his East-meets-West theme with high heels — flats and sandals with everything.

It’s a bold move, because everyone knows that high heels make the wearer look better, leaner and sexier.

I think flats are fine with garments retailing in excess of $3,000, but I’m making a call to the ladies of our campus to bring back the high heel this year.

The simplest pair of jeans that you wear every day can be made into your favorite outfit just with an inch or so boost in the height of your heel.

I asked a few UNC girls what their preferred footwear was.

They, of course, said keeping a pair of heels intact while walking the uneven bricks on campus was next to impossible.

They said they loved to wear them when they go out on the town, trying their best to dress to impress. Some said, sadly, that they caused blisters.

The last group has an easy problem to fix: Buy the correct size, not too loose nor too tight.

Not all women wear the rightsized shoe, and of those even a smaller portion have blisters.

Feet are rugged.

A little high-heeled femininity really helps the ruggedness to be wrung out.

And where’s the lipstick?

Most girls I spoke with on this subject were either afraid or reluctant to smear color on their lips.

They thought it made them look like they “tried too hard,” as one girl put it. Some said their fear stemmed from looking like their grandmothers. They associated lipstick with the color red and conjured up memories of “Leave it to Beaver” in Technicolor.

Lipstick doesn’t have to be red, although it is much appreciated. But it is predominantly red because of our species’ inherent laws of attraction.

The same principle can be applied to the long, slenderizing effect high heels have on the legs, as having longer legs is associated with higher fertility. Red lips and red cheek color show that the female circulatory system is doing its job, and a bit of accentuation doesn’t hurt.

Lipsticks can be of a more moderate tone, if not nude. They smooth out the various imperfections on the lips and make them a uniform color. Gloss doesn’t do that alone.

All the makeup artists I know line the lips, apply the lipstick and top it off with a coat of gloss.

The attractive properties of gloss on lips are evident.

Combined, as some of the girls said, you will “stand out.”

Four-inch heels and redorange lips aren’t the best way to duck under the cover of a crowd at a party.

If you want to stand out, use these tricks of the trade. They’re proven, and there’s a reason they’ve been passed down to the generations before us.

I’m a patron of the arts; most definitely the art of attraction.

Review should be public Town and Chapel Hill Police Department should release investigation into the Charles Brown incident

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he Chapel Hill Police Department and the Town of Chapel Hill should complete and release their internal reviews of the Charles Brown incident.

As long as these reviews are pending, there can be no real resolution to the question of whether Brown’s detention was racial profiling. And it’s unclear why the investigation has taken so long.

Brown was mistakenly detained by Chapel Hill police for about 40 minutes on June 1.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People then became involved.

The organization filed a complaint on behalf of Brown on Aug. 10, suggesting that racist motivations led to Brown’s detention.

The complaint asked for a written response from Mayor

Kevin Foy, meetings with city organizations and a civilian review board to study complaints lodged against police.

The town’s response thus far reflects a welcome desire to work with the NAACP. But the town has not indicated whether it will take action to create a civilian review board.

In a Sept. 8 letter to Michelle Laws, Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP president, Foy assured her that there is an ongoing investigation through the town manager.

Foy did not comment on the details of the investigation in his letter.

But it’s imperative that there soon be full disclosure on its conclusions.

A desire to work with Brown and the NAACP is a good start.

But the community needs all the information before the case

can be objectively evaluated.

This is a contentious issue, and the allegations that the NAACP is making are very serious — racial profiling, detention without probable cause and public humiliation.

But the absence of conclusive investigations, especially an internal investigation by the police, precludes further progress — regardless of the merits of the NAACP’s claims.

Alan McSurely, Brown’s attorney, has stated that he is willing to sue to make a statement if need be. And he has every right to do so.

But lawsuits are a bitterly divisive and undesirable way to settle an issue. Productive dialogue is certainly preferred.

And hopefully, full disclosure and open dialogue will allow for a compromise that will leave everyone satisfied.

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Chancellor Thorp right to reimburse Youth for Western Civilization for Tancredo debacle

hancellor Holden Thorp’s decision to compensate Youth for Western Civilization up to $3,000 for bringing in a new speaker was the right one.

The decision came after the group’s intended speaker, former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., was unable to address the crowd because of protester disruptions.

The speaker shares many of the group’s extreme, xenophobic views and was met with heavy resistance from certain students.

But regardless of opinion, everyone has the right to speak, and the situation quickly dissolved into an embarrassment for all parties involved.

Ideally, the few protesters that instigated the event should pay the price. But identifying each protester would be nearly impossible.

And Thorp is right in saying that the fiasco was not only the protesters’ fault.

“We could’ve done a better job of handling the situation.

We’re partly responsible,” Thorp said. “We just thought it was the right thing to do.”

Besides, there are lessons that everyone can learn from the event.

The University should’ve had a better grasp of the situation and had more security to ensure the safety of the speaker and the students.

Hopefully, the University

will do a better job of mitigating outbreaks like this one in the future.

The money that Thorp offered will not come from a general fund paid for by students.

Instead, the money will come from the chancellor’s discretionary fund, which is made up of money from private donations and gifts.

And YWC must actually book a new speaker and show receipts to Thorp before receiving the money — which are important conditions.

Protesters, student groups, speakers and the administration can all take something from the event. Consider the $3,000 payment for these lessons.

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Students should be excused for H1N1 absences

nterim Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Bruce Carney made the right decision by requesting that UNC’s faculty continue to be flexible with students who are missing class due to H1N1 .

Carney sent a note to faculty members asking that they allow excused absences for students who are staying home with H1N1 symptoms, regardless of whether they are able to produce a signed doctor’s note.

Carney’s Sept. 14 letter said that rather than forcing students to provide documentations of illness, Campus Health Services should be allowed to focus on providing care to sick students.

Requiring Campus Health to provide a signed note to every student who displays symptoms

of H1N1 would be an unnecessary difficulty.

With more than 300 cases of H1N1 confirmed just last week, Campus Health has been inundated with students calling in or making appointments to get diagnosed and receive a note to show their professors.

Alert Carolina, Campus Health and administrators have all given the same advice to students who display symptoms of H1N1: self-isolate.

Individuals who have contracted H1N1 should be able to stay home and recover without having to make an unnecessary trip to Campus Health, especially since most cases can be cured without direct medical care.

Professors and teaching

assistants should heed Carney’s request and not require written proof of illness.

If students avoid unnecessary trips to receive doctor’s notes, it not only prevents Campus Health from being overly burdened, but it also reduces the risk of those with H1N1 spreading the disease to others.

Excusing absences without notes will help keep doctors’ offices open to those who need care, although the student body needs to keep in mind that this policy should not be abused.

Professors who follow this policy are entrusting students to be truthful, and students should honor their trust by only requesting an excused absence if flu symptoms are keeping them home.

TO THE EDITOR: Wa l k i n g i n t o t h e f r o n t entrance of UNC Hospitals a few days ago, I spotted a stand for The Daily Tar Heel, above which was a large advertising frame containing a poster for the movie “Sorority Row.” I have not seen this movie, and my knowledge about it derives mainly from a trailer I have seen.

The sorority theme, which I’m sure the creators thought would play well to a certain segment of the population, is peripheral to the issue.

I found the theme appalling and wondered how, in a community like ours that values the contributions to society by all its members, including women, the DTH chose to promote a movie that evidently depicts violence against young women in the name of entertainment.

On its advertised face, this is purely and simply a movie about violence against women. Haven’t we had just about enough of that?

This film has no obvious redeeming social value and questionable entertainment value, but it has much potential for harm and evidently is being promoted by the DTH. Doesn’t the DTH tout itself as representing the voice of the students?

Johnny Carson Professor Pediatrics, Cell and Developmental Biology

Fee requests need to be well-scrutinized by all TO THE EDITOR: The Sept. 16 edition of the DTH reported under Campus Briefs that “Congress voted without objections to appropriate $3,316.15 to Carolina Review.”

This funding decision, in particular, is much more salient when considering two facts.

First, two students who have written for the Carolina Review sit on the finance committee of Student Congress, which is the original entity through which any request by a student organization is considered.

I will be the first to say that this is absolutely by no means evidence of misuse of funds.

In fact, it is natural for those who voice their opinions about political matters through media to be involved in these processes as well. Simultaneously, it does raise legitimate concerns about the way in which funding requests are handled within the finance committee.

Second, the Carolina Review has a history of questioning the legitimacy of other student groups.

For example in Feb., the Carolina Review article “Making Demands” undermined BSM’s presence in the Upendo Lounge of SASB. While I am not at all curbing the right of anybody to engage in free speech, perhaps it is time that students voice their own judgment about the value of this publication to the University community.

Especially in a budget climate of rising tuition and fees, students deserve and should demand an explanation of why and how this allocation was made.

Yash Shah Junior Economics, Political Science

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Kvetching board kvetch: v.1 (Yiddish) to complain Dear boyfriend’s friend: I DO NOT HAVE SWINE FLU! But it would be worth getting just to give it to you.

To the guy listening to “The Lion King” soundtrack in the UL at 1 a.m.: The hyenas weren’t the only ones laughing.

Wait, Greek kids using cocaine? Who ever would have guessed?

Sophomore in my running class: We don’t want to know which girl you want to give you oral sex.

Hey, your Chacos make your cankles stand out.

Dear Jasmin Jones: I want to be the Marilyn Monroe to your JFK. To the boy in my lab jamming out to Hannah Montana with your headphones in: We could all hear.

To every boring, unoriginal person whose kvetch looks like this: I hate you.

To the freshman who hated on condom access on the DTH opinion page: Enjoy your eternal virginity! I’ll be having safe, consensual sex and, no, you can’t watch.

Why are all the attractive people communists?

Dear girl in McDonald’s parking lot: It’s okay, I urinated there too.

To the sorority girl who was offended that the ambulance didn’t give you the right of way: You’re stupid.

To my roommate who asked for condoms after I told her I was Catholic: It’s a shame you’re too blonde to understand the irony.

To the girl who pronounced H1N1 the “hiney” flu: I hope you get it.

To the girl complaining about fraternity hickies: If you don’t want a souvenir, then don’t ask to see the gift shop.

To the Davis Library doors: please decide if you’re automatic or not. I look like a fool every time I approach you.

To the girl vigorously stabbing your notebook with your pencil in Davis while you’re surrounded by people trying to study: WTF?!?

To the white girl in the v-neck tee and Carolina blue running shorts: Not you, the other one … Oh no, wait … There are a THOUSAND of you.

Hey, DTH and Kvetchers: I’m straight on fire, yo!!

To the men of Rams Head Rec: As much as I love basketball, shirts versus skins games should be for those under 60.

Sincerely, Indoor Track Runner.

For a campus full of virgins, there certainly are a lot of letters to the editor about sex.

To the guy playing World of Warcraft in Chem 261: I will take my organic friends over your magical ones. Where will that priest be when you’re studying for our exam?

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