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State Fair frenzy begins the legacy of a century 100 YEARS This week, the DTH celebrates 100 years of North Carolina basketball. Today we look at UNC’s fourth national championship in 2005. Rashad McCants scored 14 in the final.
Czajkowski has more than others By Mark Abadi and John Taylor Staff Writers
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The North Carolina State Fair starts today and will run through October 25. This year’s State Fair features new rides and attractions including chocolate-covered bacon. Anoop Desai will perform on October 22.
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State Fair promises to dazzle yet again
PLAYERS GOES LIVE
By Emily ellis
After switching ownership this summer, Players on Franklin Street is revamping its style, hosting live music acts in addition to its usual dance hits.
Correction Due to a reporting error, Wednesday’s front-page story, “The legacy of a century,” misstated the record of the 1993 men’s basketball team, which was 34-4. Due to a reporting error, Tuesday’s front-page story, “The legacy of a century,” misstated UNC’s tuition in 1982, which was $364 per year in-state. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the errors.
this day in history OCT. 15, 1966 … Old East, the oldest public university building in the nation, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Where to vote early Today: Board of Elections, 110 E. King St., Hillsborough Monday: Morehead Planetarium and Carrboro Town Hall
Chocolate-covered bacon
Election Day is Nov. 3
Chicken-fried bacon Deep-fried Ho-Hos
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A new ride: Swings riders 86 feet above the ground. It’s the only one in North America.
livestock competing in exhibitions.
H1N1 could spread from person to pig at fair By Emily ellis staff writer
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Hand sanitizer and gloves are a must at this year’s N.C. State Fair because officials fear that humans might infect animals with H1N1.
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Williams has first trip to the pinnacle
After months of panic about swine flu, the tables have turned. The pigs at the N.C. State Fair now have to worry about catching their own virus. The fair, which opens today, will be home to hundreds of pigs and fair officials are worried about not only the spread of the virus from human to human, but from human to pig and other livestock. There will be more than 6,000 livestock at the fair. “We are the nation’s No. 2 producer of swine, and we want to keep our swine population healthy,” said Brian Long, director of public affairs for the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Nationwide, there are not yet any reported cases of pigs con-
tracting H1N1, although it has happened in other countries, said Karen Beck, an N.C. Department of Agriculture veterinarian. Beck’s department is encouraging farmers bringing livestock to the fair to prevent the spread of H1N1 by vaccinating their livestock with flu shots, she said. While the normal influenza shot will not necessarily protect against H1N1, it will at least keep pigs from getting the regular flu, she said. All animals that come onto the fairgrounds will also be inspected by a veterinarian on site, Beck said. There will be a clinician on hand in case there are signs of illness. The pigs will only stay at the fair from Thursday through Sunday this year, she said. The sow and piglets on display will also be sur-
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The 100th season of UNC basketball kicks off this Friday at Late Night with Roy. This week, The Daily Tar Heel is looking back at each National Championship season.
Friday: 2009
Hacker attacks under scrutiny Investigation to probe case further By Lyle Kendrick staff writer
The N.C. Attorney General’s Office has launched an investigation into a security breach in a UNC School of Medicine computer server. The office is trying to determine what kind of information was exposed during a hacker attack on the server identified earlier this year and whether UNC acted improperly, Noelle Talley, public information officer for the attorney general’s office, stated in an e-mail. “We’ve got some concerns about the breach and are trying to find out exactly what kind of data has been compromised and whether or not proper consent was obtained to collect patients’ data.” Since the attorney general’s office has little understanding
See SECURITY, Page 11 On Friday, check the paper for the DTH's picks of the top 10 players in UNC history and go online for an interactive timeline with photos and video from the last 100 years.
FLASHBACK: Won And Done
By Mike Ehrlich Senior Writer
It had been more than a decade since North Carolina ended a season on a sweet note. The exit of Dean Smith and the subsequent struggles eventually led to that 8-20 rock bottom in 2002. Roy Williams, too, had been stymied in his pursuits of the promised land, as four close calls in the Final Four produced no championships for his Kansas program. But two short years after Williams returned to UNC, his spark would combine forces with the Tar Heels’ reinvorgated spirit to turn the program around. When North Carolina beat dth file photo Illinois 75-70 on April 4, 2005, in Sean May lit up the NCAA Tournament, St. Louis, Mo., Williams solidified
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New foods at the State Fair this year:
It brings contests and exhibits that are likely to dazzle even the most seasoned The N.C. State Fair is here and it’s as fairgoers. UNC alumnus and American wacky as ever. The fair starts today and is Idol star Anoop Desai performs Oct. 22. open through Oct. 25. The fair opens with a preview day today The State Fair, known for its bizarre featuring discounted ticket prices. foods, wild rides and freaky sideshows, is growing — officials expect to exceed last Contact the State & National Editor year’s 765,067 attendees. at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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One candidate is continuing to outraise and outspend the others in the race for mayor of Chapel Hill, but it doesn’t necessarily mean he has more support. Matt Czajkowski raised $23,629 — more than his opponents, Augustus Cho, Mark Kleinschmidt and Kevin Wolff, combined, according to campaign finance reports filed Friday. Czajkowski, a Chapel Hill
ST. LOUIS — They started their careers by getting cut down. Three cocky college freshmen with dreams of stardom and championship banners were humbled, humiliated. That’s what a 20-loss season will do, especially at a program where 20-win seasons are viewed as a birthright. But seniors Jawad Williams, Jackie Manuel and Melvin Scott ended their North Carolina careers holding on to a piece of the Edward Jones Dome nets they cut down, a trophy from their dramatic 75-70 win against Illinois in the national championship game — a game that elevated a program from
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President: George W. Bush Price of gas: $2.30 UNC enrollment: 25,913 UNC tuition: $1,602.50 per semester in-state In the news: Baseball’s Barry Bonds averaging 22 points and 11 rebounds on the was indicted before a grand jury way to Most Outstanding Player honors.
embarrassment to the pinnacle of college basketball in just three years. “We finally did it,” said Williams as he wore one of the nets around his neck. “I told people I didn’t want a net until we won a national championship, and if we didn’t win it I just wasn’t going to get a net. But I had faith in my team that we would get here and we would win.” The title was the first in the 17-year coaching career of Roy Williams and North Carolina’s fourth national championship in its 16th trip to the Final Four. “It’s very gratifying to see Coach smile and to know that people aren’t going to be
THE TEAM Team Record: 33-4 Leading Scorer: Sean May, 17.5 points per game Leading Rebounder: Sean May, 10.7 rebounds per game Starters: Sean May, Jawad Williams, Rashad McCants, Jackie Manuel, Raymond Felton
able to criticize him anymore because he’s finally got that one championship ring,” said Sean May, who was named the Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player after scoring 26 points and grabbing 10 rebounds Monday. “It doesn’t define anybody’s career, but it will take a lot of pressure off him.” The first matchup between the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in 30 years supplied a thrilling conclusion to a fantastic basketball season. The game started with the two teams exchanging sizable runs. After Illinois (37-2) scored on its first possession, North Carolina
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he Office of the Executive Director for the Arts is hosting an MP3 event at 12:30 p.m. today at Polk Place. To join the event, visit eda.unc.edu/mp3 to download the recording from the office’s Web site. The event will take approximately 45 minutes, and all participants are asked to wear a red, blue, green or yellow shirt. The mysterious instructions also suggest wearing closed-toe shoes and clothes that can get dirty. Participants are also asked to bring an uninflated balloon, and those with a host of balloons should bring extras for those who may not have access to balloons. Although weather forecasts are bleak, the event will start at 12:30 p.m. sharp, rain or shine. The event is open to everyone. NOTED. Sales of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer are up more than 25 percent this quarter, according to Information Resources Inc. But the beverage has increased its price to be $1.50 more than Keystone, $1 more than Busch and 50 cents more than Miller High Life. Despite the higher cost, Pabst is doing better than other beers because of its attraction for non-mainstream, younger drinkers.
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QUOTED. “And they asked me to show it to them. I didn’t realize it was going to be a problem. I knew it wasn’t illegal — my police chief grandfather gave the knife to me.” — Matthew Whalen, a senior at Lansingburgh Senior High School in New York. Whalen, an Eagle Scout, was banned from campus for 20 days for having a two-inch blade in the safety kit of his car.
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Journalism history: This year’s Gladys Coates University History Lecture, “The Origins of Journalism Education at UNC-Chapel Hill,” will take place tonight. Tom Bowers, professor emeritus at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, will give the lecture and discuss his book, “Making
News: One Hundred Years of Journalism & Mass Communication at Carolina.” Time: 5 p.m., reception; 5:45 p.m., program Location: Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library Global food lecture: Fred de Sam Lazaro, Sharon Schmickle and Samuel Loewenberg, three awardwinning journalists, will discuss the mounting threats to the global food supply and the challenges of reporting them. New documentary footage featuring reporting from Africa, Asia and Central America will be shown. Time: 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Location: Nelson Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Education Center
Friday Road Trip Nation: Road Trip Nation, the successful PBS television series about career exploration, will be on campus. “Roadies” from the show will share their experiences and talk about using informational interviews to explore career options, as well as the many paths available
when you rely on your passions to guide your direction in life. Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Location: Hanes Hall, Room 239 B Film and discussion: Join documentary filmmaker George C. Stoney, from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, for a screening of his movie clips and discussion. Stoney is known for his five decades of socially engaged filmmaking and teaching. His 1952 film “All My Babies” was placed on the National Film Registry in 2002. Time: 5 p.m. reception; 6 p.m. program Location: Sonja Hanyes Stone Center Evening of song: This concert will feature a selection of UNC voice students performing songs and arias. Time: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Location: Person Recital Hall To make a calendar submission, e-mail dthcalendar@gmail.com. Events will be published in the newspaper on either the day or the day before they take place. Submissions must be sent in by noon the preceding publication date.
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uniors Maria Devlin and Brett Kessler participate in a staged reading of “The Importance of Being Earnest” as part of an early birthday party for Oscar Wilde sponsored by the Student Organization for Undergraduate Literature in the Donovan Lounge on Wednesday evening.
Police log n Someone stole an emergency
information card from a backpack at 980 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. between 7:16 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Tuesday, according to Chapel Hill police reports. The emergency information card was valued at $1, reports state. n Someone stole furniture from a porch at 234 McCauley St. between 6 p.m. Monday and 1:56 p.m. Tuesday, according to Chapel Hill police reports. The two pieces of furniture were valued at $360, reports state. n Someone reported that a per-
son was looking in a window at 130 S. Estes Drive in Chapel Hill at about 1:10 a.m. Wednesday, according to Chapel Hill police reports. n Someone broke a vehicle’s passenger side window and stole one Garmin GPS unit between
7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tuesday at 1807 N. Fordham Blvd., according to Chapel Hill police reports. The GPS unit was valued at $320, reports state. The damage to the vehicle was estimated at $200. n Someone attempted to pick the locks of a front door at 5:17 p.m. Tuesday at 303 Deepwood Road and at about 6:01 p.m. at 301 Deepwood Road, according to Chapel Hill police reports. The suspects attempted to use a jimmy or pry tool, reports state. n A 39-year-old Lincoln Center employee was arrested for possession of 1 gram of marijuana and driving while impaired at 11:47 p.m. Tuesday at 100 Park Road, according to Chapel Hill police reports. Rodney Jerome Farrington, also known as “Nut,” was released on a written promise to appear in court, reports state.
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Due to a reporting error, Tuesday’s pg. 4 story, “Durham institute practices art therapy,” misstated the date the institute will hold a training session. The event will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. By Julie Crimmins The Daily Tar Heel apologizes Staff Writer for the error. Community members have their first chances to share input on the University Square development at Campus briefs a forum today. Graduate student injured in “This is a listening session,” said Gordon Merklein, executive direccar accident on Wednesday tor of real estate development for A School of Medicine student UNC. was critically injured Wednesday “No agenda, no drawings; we morning when he was struck by a just want to hear from the public car on U.S. Highway 70 near Lynn what they think about University Road in Durham, said Mike Smith, Square, Franklin Street, Granville interim director of Durham County Towers and what can be done that Emergency Medical Services. would improve their overall expeKeith Lamont Small, 64, of rience, not only for the project site Durham, was taken to Duke but for all of downtown.” University Hospital in critical conThe 12-acre tract, referred to in dition after shortly after being hit development plans as 123 Franklin at 6:15 a.m., WRAL reported. Street, incorporates University Square and Granville Towers.
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Merklein has said the plans for the 12 acres include triple the current retail space, a multilevel parking deck with 300 more spots and more than 200,000 square feet of office space. But the plans aren’t final. “I can’t emphasize enough that there are no ideas that have been decided on,” he said. “Virtually all elements of the project are up in the air.” Merklein said the redevelopment team hopes to hear from members of the community several times this fall about building design, public use space and types of housing and retail space. Depending on public input, the developers could keep Granville Towers or knock it down and add a mix of student housing and mar-
ket-value housing. The UNC-Chapel Hill Foundation’s real estate arm, Real Estate Holdings, purchased the space in June 2008. Because the property is privately owned, the foundation has no obligation to hold public meetings. But the redevelopment team chose to open the project to suggestions before a plan has been completed to gauge public opinion. Merklein said many private projects wait until a proposal is submitted to the town to complete this step. The development concept plan is scheduled to be submitted in the spring, according to a university press release. The project’s architect, David Manfredi of Elkus Manfredi Architects, will lead the discussion. Others available to answer questions at the meeting include
Italian Baroque musicians to give performance today Tr a g i c o m e d i a , a n I t a l i a n Baroque musical group, will perform at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Memorial Hall. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $10 for UNC students, faculty and staff. The group plays 17th century versions of instruments, including the viola da gamba, the lute, the chitarrone and the harpsichord. “The core members of Tragicomedia are not only some of the top early music soloists in the world, but they are brilliant ensemble players and sensitive accompanists of vocal music,” said Brent Wissick, professor and the head of strings for the department of music. The title of the group, Tragecomedia, references the varied emotions with which the group deals. “Each concert is a once-in-alifetime experience. Listeners will want to laugh, cry, dance and think about it for a long time,” Wissick said. The Tragicomedia members also will be spending a week in residence coaching students in the Baroque style and technique. Students also hope to put on an Italian Baroque opera this semester. —From staff and wire reports.
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Merklein and John Goff, senior vice president of development at Cousins Properties Inc. Cousins Properties Inc. will partner with Chapel Hill Foundation Real Estate Holdings in the redevelopment. Jim Norton, executive director of the Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership, said he expects University Square will greatly impact Chapel Hill’s downtown, By David Riedell especially in the next 50 years. Staff writer “People ought to be prepared to Everyone likes a happy ending. give their ideas about the project But this idyllic saying takes on now, on the front end,” he said. an entirely new meaning when applied to a local massage parlor. Contact the City Editor In fact, it might be a sad story at citydesk@unc.edu. for many young women. Donna Bickford, director of the Carolina Women’s Center, gave a lecture Wednesday about sex trafficking, particularly as it relates to a longtime Chapel Hill location. Officially called Tom Cat’s 2, although formerly known as All Ralph Byrns’ stats Girl Staff and University Massage, the business at 403 W. Franklin St. Name: Ralph Byrns has had a mysterious history. Department: Economics In 2007, Daily Tar Heel columPosition: Adjunct professor nist James Edward Dillard wrote about his experience at University Years at UNC: Nine Massage, where he said he was Degrees: B.S. from Arizona State offered sexual services in exchange University (1965) and an M.A. (1972) and for money. Ph.D. (1977) from Rice University Dillard wrote that he posed as a customer and selected a masseuse, Classes he has taught: Introduction who led him to a bare mattress in to Economics, History of Economic a back room. Doctrines and Financial Markets He was asked to undress and was Published works: co-author of presented with rates for services “Economics” text, used by one million including “a massage in a “special students at more than 1,200 universities place.” since published in 1981 “Porno mags were on a bed stand. A sign directed customers to Hobbies: Building interactive economics step into the shower and wash their Web sites, golf and backgammon ‘private parts’ before the massage,” Backgammon accomplishments: Dillard wrote. 2002 winner of the “World On-Line Police launched an investigation Backgammon Championship” in response to Dillard’s article, but did not find evidence of sex trafficking. A woman who answered the The best burns phone at the business Wednesday night said she could not comment. In her speech Wednesday, Bickford said she would like to see the police revamp the investigation. “We don’t know that there’s trafficking going on there, and we won’t know until it’s investigated,” Stephen Lich-Tyler, Economics lecturer she said. The front door of the business on West Franklin Street used to read “University Massage.” The store now displays a sign that says simply, “Open.” Bickford said she thinks the police should do a comprehensive evaluation of the business, looking for evidence of other illegal activities, including money laundering, tax fraud and organized crime. But Bickford cautioned students not to take matters into their own Bomani Jones, former student hands. She asked them to leave the law enforcement to the police and use the event to get students more involved write to their state and national with their professor while having some “chagovernment representatives to otic entertainment.” convey their concerns. “Byrns was more than happy to be our Bickford said sex trafficking sacrificial lamb,” Johnston said. exists in the Triangle area. After decades of teaching, Byrns said he “It’s underground and often doesn’t think students can break through his invisible, but it’s hidden in plain thick skin. sight,” she said. “At my age, I’m fairly bulletproof,” he Between 600,000 and 800,000 said. “I was drafted to the Army, and I lived individuals are trafficked across through that.” international borders each year, And he left the roast unscathed. Bickford said. She said most traf“I did okay,” he said. “I survived.” ficking victims in North Carolina are brought from the Philippines, Contact the University Editor Indonesia, Thailand, Mexico, at udesk@unc.edu.
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The Board of Elections will hold a mandatory meeting for all candidates planning to run in the Nov. 5 special election for vacant Student Congress seats. The informational meeting will take place today at 7 p.m. in the Board of Elections office, Student Union Room 2500. The seats up for election are: n One seat in District 3, which represents South Campus. n One seat in District 4, which represents students living in Granville Towers. n One seat in District 6, which represents undergraduate students living off campus. n One seat in District 8, which represents graduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences. n Two seats in District 9, which represents graduate students in the professional schools. n Three seats in District 10, which represents graduate students in the medical school. Any qualified student who would like to be on the ballot to run for a Congressional seat must attend the meeting. In addition, all candidates who wish to be eligible for campaign financing must submit a letter declaring their candidacy at the meeting. For more information, contact Board of Elections chairman Pete Gillooly at pgillool@email.unc. edu.
Dr. Thomas Egan, a professor of surgery at UNC School of Medicine, has received a $1.47 million grant to research lung transplants. The two-year grant, awarded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, will be used to research the condition of lungs outside the body before transplant. Egan’s project is aimed at perfecting a technique to ventilate lungs outside the body to determine whether they are suitable for transplant. T h e g ra n t i s aw a r d e d t o researchers to translate fundamental research into proof-of-concept ideas that can be patented. It is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly known as the federal government’s stimulus plan. Egan is internationally known for his research on lung transplantation, which he has been conducting since he came to UNC in 1989.
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Popular economics professor Ralph Byrns was subjected to a good-natured ridiculing, or a “roast,” on Wednesday night to raise money for Another Way of Learning.
Well-known professor mocked for fundraiser By Katie Oliver Staff Writer
Economics professor Ralph Byrns stands in front of more than 500 students a semester and makes jokes about sleeping with deans and the economics of punching students in the face. But Wednesday night in the Great Hall of the Student Union, the jokes were on him. Byrns, a teacher known around campus for his interaction with students, whether debating on the steps of Gardner Hall or talking with students about their career
paths, became the subject of a “roast” — a good-natured ridiculing — to help support student-teacher interaction. “I’m sort of considering bringing a water pistol full of ammonia to squirt the people who say nasty things,” he said before the event. The event, sponsored by Connected for Cause, raised money for Another Way of Learning, a student group that attempts to improve student-professor relationships to enhance the academic environment. Michael Johnston, a member of Another Way of Learning, said the group wanted to
“One thing I’ve learned about teaching from professor Byrns is that … you can just come in there and talk about whatever the hell you want.”
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Six school board candidates vie for three positions Early voting for seats opens today
Michelle Brownstein, a retired surgeon, said she will cut programs that are not meeting goals.
Susana Dancy said she plans to improve older school facilities to keep up with newer schools.
Joe Green, a Seawell Elementary PTA member, plans to improve high school counseling.
Christine Lee said she wants to make sure programs for at-risk students are costeffective.
Greg McElveen, the only incumbent in the race, plans to offer more teacher support.
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Susana Dancy
Six candidates are running for three open seats on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School Board. The district covers 18 schools and more than 11,000 students. Early voting starts today at the Board of Elections office in Hillsborough and Monday at Morehead Planetarium and Carrboro Town Hall.
Susana Dancy has worked on projects building houses for firsttime homeowners. She served on the Carrboro High School improvement team and helped raise money for its MaryAnne art wing. She said she plans to: Gucciardi aims n Target the achievement gap to improve the by focusing on students in kinderlanguage garten through second grade and curriculum and programs that offer early intervenboost school tion for student engagement. technology. n Improve the quality of older schools’ facilities to match that of newer schools. attend a four-year university.
books for cost efficiency.
Greg McElveen
Joe Green
MaryAnne Gucciardi
Christine Lee
Joe Green worked as a counselor preparing low-income students for higher education. He is a member of several education-related committees and the Seawell Elementary School PTA. He said he plans to: n Smooth the transition for students as they move through elementary, middle and high school. n Improve high school counseling for students not planning to
MaryAnne Gucciardi lived in Hong Kong and Italy. She was a founding member of a bilingual school in Hong Kong, where she organized buses and uniforms for students. She said she plans to: n Improve the world languages curriculum by making foreign language mandatory in middle school and making sure the curriculum continues through each grade. n Increase use of classroom technology like electronic text-
Christine Lee is an optometrist at the Eye Institute of North Carolina. She has also worked with school improvement teams districtwide. She said she plans to: n Evaluate high-risk student programs. Struggling programs should be replaced with effective, cost-efficient ones. n Expand the Professional Learning Community Program through the district and state.
Greg McElveen, the only incumbent, has worked on several districtlevel boards including the School Governance Committee and the Parent-Teacher-Student Association Board. He said he plans to: n Ensure all students are appropriately nurtured and challenged. n Offer more support to teachers and staff by giving rewards and feedback through programs like the Professional Learning Community.
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Michelle Brownstein Michelle Brownstein is a retired surgeon who volunteered on several boards in the last seven years, including the Student Health Advisory Committee and the North Carolina PTA State Board. She said she plans to: n Maintain and improve the quality of schools despite budget cuts by measuring program effectiveness and cutting those that are not meeting goals. n Improve communication between schools, the district and the community.
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National and World News Dow makes gains, U.S. reassures closes above 10k Pakistan on aid NEW YORK (MCT) — The the U.S. stock market basked Wednesday in betterthan-anticipated results from bellwethers Intel Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. The near-euphoria that came with the results helped push the Dow Jones Industrial Average index past 10,000 for the first time in more than a year. The Dow last closed above 10,000 on Oct. 3, 2008, a day that had it finishing at 10,325.38 only to fall more than 18 percent over the following five days. The index set its record high of 14,164.53 a year earlier, on Oct. 9, 2007. Financial shares paced the Wednesday gains as the major stock indexes surged higher, with the Dow reaching an intraday high of 10,027.7 before finishing up 144.80 points, or 1.47 percent, at 10,015.86, its first finish above 10,000 since Oct. 3, 2008.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — President Barack Obama will sign a $7.5 billion aid bill for Pakistan by week’s end, the White House said Wednesday, after lawmakers crafted a statement designed to assuage Pakistani concerns that the aid comes with strings that infringe upon that country’s sovereignty. The bill provides Pakistan $1.5 billion a year for five years for new schools, hospitals and other development aid. Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari hailed the package last week as Pakistan’s greatest source of nonmilitary aid. But the bill infuriated the military and the political opposition in Pakistan and fed into a wave of anti-Americanism. In an extraordinary move last week, the military issued a statement saying it has “serious concern” over the legislation’s wording.
Congress resumes AIG full retention health care talks pay not needed WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and other officials met Wednesday with Senate Democrats to craft a health care proposal that can get the 60 votes needed to overcome procedural hurdles. The Senate aims to begin the week of Oct. 26, and the House is unlikely to start before November. If the two versions win approval, negotiations will combine them into one measure that must win majorities in both houses. The Senate’s Finance and Health committees disagree on whether to create a government alternative to private insurers. The House and Senate disagree are on how to pay for changes: the House wants higher income taxes on the wealthy, while the Senate prefers higher taxes on insurers.
SAN FRANCISCO (MCT) — Some of the retention payments being made by American International Group, including awards to a kitchen assistant and a mailroom assistant, aren’t needed, according to the inspector overseeing the massive government bailout program. Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, said roughly $168 million in retention payments that AIG paid and another $198 million in payments that the insurer has promised in March 2010 are based on legally binding contracts. However, AIG could have renegotiated them, and the government’s “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg is encouraging the insurer to do so with the remaining contracts, Barofsky said during Congressional testimony on Wednesday.
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UNC system approves new sustainability policy By Jonathan Michels Staff Writer
Higher education policy makers put UNC-system schools on a defined track Friday toward becoming carbon neutral by 2050. At its October meeting, the UNC-system Board of Governors approved a new polic y that requires system schools to comply with certain standards of environmental sustainability on campus. The policy asks schools to make sustainability a key consideration in campus operations, planning, capital construction and purchasing practices. It also asks schools to become carbon neutral — net zero carbon dioxide emissions — by no later than 2050 and to work toward climate neutrality, which entails cutting emissions of gases other than carbon dioxide. “The policy is a recognition of the fact that universities need to be leaders in addressing societal challenges,” said Cindy Shea, director of the Sustainability Office at UNCChapel Hill. The policy’s guidelines are broad and give universities ample room to interpret the policy based on their specific needs, said Shari Parrish, an associate vice president for finance for the UNC system. It was created in response to recommendations made by UNC Tomorrow, which outlines ways for the UNC system to work for the benefit of the state. The board also was motivated by a state law passed in 2007 mandating the creation of energy-efficient programs that include standards for reductions in water and energy consumption. The law also called for campuses to decrease energy consumption by 30 percent and water consumption by at least 20 percent. Although the policy gives few concrete recommendations, it does recommend specific practices that they can use to become more energy-efficient. The only concrete requirement for universities is that they integrate sustainability principles into their construction projects, maintenance, transportation, and recycling and to work toward carbon neutrality. “This will make things more systematic,” Parrish said. “This is
also a change in how we do business — how we design, plan and maintain from an energy-efficiency standpoint.” UNC-CH is already well on its way to becoming wholly compliant with the new policy. It adopted its own policy in 2005. “Many initiatives have already been integrated into campus operations,” Shea said. Climate neutrality is the most ambitious goal outlined in the system policy because it requires expensive changes such as building renovations and transportation changes, Shea said. More efficient systems will be implemented within buildings, residents will be provided with environmental education and renewable materials will be purchased for the facilities. Ninety percent of UNC-CH’s emissions come from heating and cooling buildings, Shea said.
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PLAYING A NEW GAME by LINNIE GREENE
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For several years, if you followed a scantily clad girl or a boy with a popped collar, chances are you would end up at Players. Operations manager Nick Stroud is aiming to change that perception — at least partially. Players, the East Franklin dance club that’s been a staple among UNC students for years, changed ownership this summer, and under the new guidance of Stroud, the club will host live music. With a lineup of shows that includes Jupiter One, Warpaint and Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, the Players that gained notoriety for its line of patrons stretching down the street might soon be receiving attention for something entirely different. Players reopened in July with its first live concert in 19 years after changing ownership. Hammer No More The Fingers played there for The Club is Open Festival, the first band since Hootie & the Blowfish to do so. Since then, the club has had about one show a week. And though bands are becoming an important part of Players, Stroud is quick to point out that the club will also retain its dance elements. “That’s still our bread and butter,” he said. “Shows are always from 8 to 12, and the bands are done at 12, and we’re a dance club again.” Stroud, who took over operations of the venue this summer, has already seen the benefits of the timed system. “That’s worked out really well, because you get that cross-traffic. There were people at first who were like, ‘Live music, what’s up with that?’ And now they come in and they catch an act and they’re like ‘That was awesome!’ And they dance and come back,” he said. The Club is Open Festival allowed musicians such as Betsy Shane of Pink Flag to test
out the venue. “It turned into a booty-dance club again after we were all done packing up,” she said, adding that she still sees potential in Players. “Having a kind of crossover place like that could be really good, because it could get people exposed to something they’re not used to seeing,” she said. “They’re going to be able to coast off the fact that it used to be the club to go to for pretty much anybody who goes to UNC-Chapel Hill.” Though Players has hosted several successful shows, its financial viability in an area saturated with music venues could be cause for concern. With clubs such as Local 506 and Cat’s Cradle a few blocks away, Players will have to compete to attract audiences. Glenn Boothe, owner of Local 506, explained that operating a venue in Chapel Hill’s music scene comes with a unique set challenges and rewards. “It’s a smaller town, but the quantity of music that we have rivals some of the bigger towns,” he said. “Really that becomes an issue in the sense that there are so many options for a person going out that it does become the venues competing when they’re booking similar bands.” In the face of this problem, Boothe advised booking genres that are largely ignored at other clubs. “I think the venue has to be distinct from the other venues in town. There are definitely some niches that are overlooked. Another venue that’s going to book local bands and more in the indie rock vein — it’ll be tougher on everybody.” Though Players’ presence has caused concern in the local music scene, Stroud is striving to differentiate the club from other venues. “I don’t want to lose the novelty,” he said. “I don’t want to book bands that are at other venues. The local bands, I have to book them,
and I want to book them to open up for these bands that are on good indie labels. “It’s not my goal to unhealthily compete with those venues. I mean, they were here before we started doing live music. It’s just another angle.” And Players, an East Franklin bar that doesn’t subsist solely on music, comes with a different set of difficulties based on its location and size. “You definitely have to think more about crowd appeal. You can’t really book a band because you like the way they sound,” he said. “This isn’t a place that survives on live music six nights a week.” For now, Stroud, who put in the club’s sound system himself, is attempting to learn the ins and outs of managing a club that offers both a club and concert atmosphere. “I’ve been doing the sound. I’ve been behind the board or running around doing lights or whatever needs to be done, so I’ve yet to enjoy a live performance,” he said. “But I definitely look over there and see them dancing and see them singing, and that’s all that matters.” And though bringing live music to the East Franklin environment will be difficult, it’s a challenge that Stroud embraces. “I know that it’s hard and I know that it’s different crowds, but juggling is something that I’m good at,” he said. “The street’s just so homogenized. It’s the same drink specials. It’s the same deals, and everyone plays rap music, and everybody has beer pong. I wish that every bar had something special about it, some kind of niche. “I want Players to be the place where you can get a little bit of everything. I want to expose kids to some culture besides what they’re used to.” Contact the Diversions Editor at dive@unc.edu.
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DIGGIN’ UP ROOTS Dive looks back at the
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Durham rap group The Beast
Dive sits down with Polvo vocalist
Dive takes a look at “It Might
Durham’s Luego delivers radio
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The Beast prepares to ‘silence the fiction’ and move forward with the band,” said Freelon. With five songs resulting from that first meeting, the band moved forward, making its own twist on its genre, attempting to prove that by Jordan Lawrence Diversions Editor hip-hop can achieve a larger appeal A jazz trio. A frenetic MC. A com- when its executed with great craft. plex social message. A litany of refer“Hopefully this band has crossences that range from Stormtroopers over appeal because the emphasis to Dragon Ball Z. is more on songrwiting than on It’s not a list of random words. It’s verse-hook-verse-hook-beatsthe formula for a hip-hop monster. beats-beats,” said Hirsh, the group’s Durham’s The Beast makes jazz- keyboardist. “Hopefully there’s infused, genre-bending music that something universal about that.” uses booty-shaking rhythms to The band doesn’t just use this accomplish a long list of goals. accessible attack to have fun. In A year after graduating from UNC fact, the band chose its name to be in 2006, music students Eric Hirsh, emblematic of its social message. Pete Kimosh and Stephen Coffman “There’s a lot of different reasons hooked up with MC Pierce Freelon we’re called The Beast,” Hirsh said. for an experimental jam session. The “One of them is that phrase, ‘in the resulting band has honed its skills belly of the beast.’ Here we are in for two years and will release Silence the middle of this crazy society and Fiction, its debut full-length, Friday universe that ultimately we are at Duke Coffeehouse. responsible for.” Bang Newspaper 3 10/12/09 Page 1 of higher respon“That Ads firstv1:Layout jam session was such1:11 AM This sense a crazy experience for all of us that sibility goes further than musiwe knew that we had to take that cal intent. In addition to playing creative energy and momentum shows, the band also administers
Durham hip-hop group thinks big
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workshops on the makeup and history of hip-hop. “It’s just consciousness-raising,” Freelon said, adding that the band wants to show that “all hip-hop is not violent, misogynist, hedonist materialism, that it can actually be progressive intelligent, uplifting, community-building music.” But while the band wants to use its sound and talent as a conduit to facilitate change, its members realize that they aren’t perfect. “It would be sophomoric of us to claim to be the people with the answer,” Hirsh said. “We’re just a band. We’re just like everybody else. We’re just some people experiencing some stuff, and we can express it through music.” Contact the Diversions Editor at dive@unc.edu.
Whatever preconceived notions you have about a nearly all-white band producing a hip-hop album are about to get annihilated. The Beast’s debut album, Silence Fiction, is an iconoclast — a shot of jazz-infused revolution from four Durham boys who just can’t take it anymore. Silence Fiction is a modern hip-hop album, except by all conventional standards, it’s not. The drum tracks are gone, Auto-Tune is mercifully absent, and the overproduced “thug life” imagery has been replaced with scenes from the Bojangles’ down U.S. 15-501. With a full jazz quartet, The Beast is something like if Big Bad Voodoo Daddy had been taking massive testosterone supplements and meditating on social issues for six months. And the band’s thoughts hit hard off the start. On firebrand opener “Collective,” Pierce Freelon screams “Grab the crucifix, for they more deceptive than Judas/
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trumpets. But what really sets The Beast apart is that it’s genuine. It paints a portrait of a world pigeonholed by expectations, and then smashes that portrait to pieces. Because when a band with a makeup this unlikely makes a record this genresmashing, those preconceived notions seem useless. Contact the Diversions Editor at dive@unc.edu.
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Durham hip-hop band The Beast poses in its practice space in drummer Stephen Coffman’s basement. The group’s new CD comes out Friday.
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Gratuitous exposure to media, they confuse us.” With a dueling rhythm of horns and rumbling bass, the listener won’t know if they should get up and dance or start a riot when the song hits its cataclysmic crescendo. In “Translation,” The Beast masterfully and inimitably bridges the gap of world music. Featuring salsa supergroup Orquesta GarDel, “Translation” utilizes a full-on Latin rhythm without sacrificing the authenticity of the Latin music it samples. Where you might find a hokey World Cafe sample on your generic, unoriginal hip-hop release, The Beast confidently strides with syncopated saxophones and wailing
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Pit Spit lets students learn from the pros by Benn Wineka Staff Writer
Hip-hop cyphers are a lost art. It needs to be said. These freeflowing groups of MCs improvising and playing off each other, once a mainstay of the genre’s culture, have become rare. It’s a sad decline when the BET Awards have the best examples of cyphers gone right. Tonight Hip-Hop Nation, UNC’s hip-hop culture appreciation club, will be hosting its second Pit Spit, an essential renaissance of true hiphop and cyphering in the middle of campus, the first of which was held this April. Any fledgling rappers are invited to partake in the event alongside some of North Carolina’s premier hip-hop artists. “When I was a freshman, HipHop Nation did something called Cypher Fest,” said senior and HHN President Berk Ozturk. “They never brought enough rappers. There would be two guys that would be really good, and a bunch of other guys that could spit five bars but couldn’t hold their own. So what it turned into was a battle between
“Carolina is where I was able to spread my wings and even work toward being where I am today.” kaze, Participating rapper these two guys, not a Cypher Fest.” When Ozturk, who took control of the club his junior year, was planning on the first Pit Spit in the spring, he enlisted some of the leaders of the local hip-hop scene to grace the mic and maintain the flows. “M1 Platoon came out and brought a couple guys, and some of Kooley High came out,” Ozturk said. “There were also a couple guys from campus, so there was like 10 people, and it worked really well,” he said. An audience of about 40 also turned up, despite impending exams. Durham’s M1 Platoon and part of Raleigh’s Kooley High will again be present, while breakdancing crew Mighty Arms of Atlas will “vibe out” during the two hour event. Also on hand will be HHN founder and Chapel Hill rapper Kaze.
“Carolina is where I was able to spread my wings and even work toward being where I am today,” Kaze said. “This is one of those events that helps you find your way and helps hone your skills.” With Ozturk still hoping to add members from producer 9th Wonder’s camp, such as Big Remo or GQ (Quentin Thomas) to the lineup, UNC’s up-and-coming talent will get the chance to spit alongside some legitimate names. “If that happened we’d have pretty much all of N.C. hip-hop in the Pit,” he said. Ozturk also hopes to use the strength of tonight’s event to draw more people to future HHN events, such as a showing of the recent Big Pun documentary, “The Legacy,” Tuesday evening in Greenlaw.
SPIT IN THE PIT Time: 6 p.m. today Location: The Pit Info: www.myspace.com/hiphopnat
And HHN’s weekly meetings draw a diverse crowd. “The people that come to our meetings either have their niche in hip-hop they really like, or they don’t know that much,” said Ozturk, who produces under the name B Logik and has had songs featured on Web sites such as AllHipHop.com. “We even have people who come out and play us new tracks they recorded or produced.” But besides promotion, Ozturk just wants to liven up the Pit. “We got a great time to catch the class, dinner and study crowds and we got a bunch of dope artists,” Ozturk said. “It’ll be cool for people to see their friends performing on the spot with all these MCs.” dth file/Benn Wineka
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Chapel Hill rapper Kaze performs at East Franklin Street’s The Library. Kaze will join other N.C. rappers in the Pit Spit today on UNC’s campus.
Lips still have many things to say by Linnie Greene
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Back in the ’80s, these weirdos from Oklahoma decided to unleash some distorted, electronic pop on the world. Since then, the band’s cheerful, hard-rocking songs charmed the hearts of critics and college students alike. Now, The Flaming Lips are back with Embryonic, a record that combines the band’s eccentricities with meditation and nuance. Embryonic is a monster — 18 winding compositions with enough dimensions to baffle even die-hard fans. But this isn’t a flaw. Like most great albums, it warrants concentration and focus, and after a few listens, it blooms like a lily in water. “Evil,” with its haunting keyboard and off-kilter harmonies, is one of the most impactful tracks on the album, peppered with eerie static. “Aquarius Sabotage” follows with an immediate dose of distorted, frenetic guitar and unexpected chimes. These songs demonstrate the Lips’ inimitable dexterity. Just when the album builds an aura of contemplation, it becomes forceful and brash, a
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jarring yet welcome shift that makes the record feel like an odyssey. Though it’s largely contemplative, the tracks never feel stale. Each song brims with myriad instruments, stray sounds and layered vocals, and disassembling the components is no easy task. Subtle variations in tempo, subject matter and instrumentation ensure that each song reads as a chapter in a well-constructed novel; the plot may not be linear, but the components are cohesive. The lyrics are equally impressive. Juxtapositions between the mechanical and natural world and the daunting linearity of time characterize a group of songs that address modernism in a postmodern era. “The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine” deals with a bird whose fears prevent him from flying while “See the Leaves” proposes a George
Harrison-esque reincarnation saga. It’s intimidating subject matter, but it imbues each song with depth and profundity, ensuring that few verses, if any, seem remotely pedestrian. “If ” stands as a melancholy critique of human nature, a hymn-like parallel to 2002’s “Do You Realize??” Wayne Coyne whispers, “People are evil, it’s true/But on the other side they can be gentle too,” alongside ambient keyboards and the distant drone of an organ. It’s the most pared-down track on the album, and as such, it’s a startlingly beautiful moment of reflection. Embryonic is a meditative journey from one song to the next, with The Flaming Lips abandoning the carefree sensibilities of its more popular songs in favor of a brooding, intricate epic. It may not be the Lips many casual fans have come to know and love, but it proves that even at this late date in its career, the band has experimentation and depth to spare.
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POLVO: BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME In the early ’90s, there must have been something in the water in Chapel Hill. As bands such as Superchunk and Archers of Loaf emerged, critics and fans alike took notice of the Triangle’s talent, and local legend Polvo was at the front of this pack. Polvo doesn’t just have the distinction of being local rock royalty — it was Merge’s first signee after Superchunk, and now, after a 12-year hiatus, the band is back with a new record and an upcoming show at Cat’s Cradle. Diversions Assistant Editor Linnie Greene spoke with guitarist and vocalist Dave Brylawski, a UNC alumnus, to hear about the ins and outs of rocking in Chapel Hill and around the world.
Diversions: How has your
sound changed since you started playing in the area in the early ’90s?
Dave Brylawski: I think the changes in the sound are that the technology’s gotten a little better, our instruments have gotten a little better, and we used this guy Brian Paulson, a legendary producer. He did Spiderland (by Slint). He’s pretty hot stuff, and he lives in Carrboro, but he’s very well known.
Dive: When you first started playing in Chapel Hill, how did people react to your sound? Was the reception positive?
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DB: I would say I don’t think people reacted that strongly to it. We were a little more chaotic and noisy and hadn’t really matured into our sound yet, so I think some people were into it, but I’d say the majority shrugged it off a little bit. It took us a few months to get up and running in Chapel Hill.
so he was sort of like the big music guy in our high school. Steve and I were younger and inexperienced, and we looked up to him in a way. He was in a bunch of bands, Waxx and Bricks and Superchunk, so Steve and I didn’t really know him Dive: Looking back, what in high school. We met him through effect do you think signing with Polvo. There wasn’t really any musical collaboration, but everyone was Merge had on your career? DB: Well, they gave us our first inspiring each other. Dive: How did your expebreak in 1991. They sort of broke us, so they had a huge impact on riences as a student at Carolina our career. And we’re very fortu- influence Polvo? nate to be back with them now, DB: So I did the Spanish placebecause they’ve gotten a lot bigger. ment test and I’d taken three years They were and still are very home- of Spanish at Jordan. I didn’t grown, so they gave us our first understand some recording they break and our last break, so we’re played in Spanish, so I sort of made very fortunate. up every answer and just winged it, Dive: When did you first and for some reason I got placed encounter Superchunk? Was there into a mid-level Spanish. Ash was in my Spanish class at collaboration going on before you Carolina, like Spanish two. We sort signed to Merge? met and bonded over R.E.M. DB: Mac went to Jordan (High of He lived in Winston and I lived in School) and Steve (Popson), the Mangum. bass player and I went to Jordan, Dive: Obviously the Triangle and Mac was a year ahead of us,
is a really fertile environment for producing musicians, especially when Polvo and Superchunk were forming. Why do you think that is? Is there anything in particular about this place that makes such great musicians?
DB: I don’t think we have any goals; I’m way too old for that. We’re not trying to make it big or anything like. It’s actually a lot lower key than that. Dive: What changes have you noticed since your last tour several years ago? How has the tour been going so far?
DB: I think it’s the same thing that makes everywhere that’s a good music scene so good. It’s relatively inexpensive, the university’s there, so there’s culture, there’s cheap beer and cheap rent. You get a bunch of young people together in a young place, and music gets made. Dive: After Polvo’s long hiatus, what was the impetus for coming together again to record In Prism? DB:
We got asked to play this festival in England called All Tomorrow’s Parties. It’s this pretty big festival where they have gotten bands back together in the past. It’s curated by bands, and Explosions in the Sky curated ATP. When you curate you ask the bands you like to play. They asked if there was any band that had broken up that they wanted to play, and I was sitting at work and got this e-mail from their manager. I got the e-mail, and at the time we had no plans to get back togeth-
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Dave Brylawski of Chapel Hill rock band Polvo poses for a photo. Polvo will play its first home show since its new release In Prism.
er, but we decided to try it. Once we made that decision, we hadn’t played together in 10 years, so we decided if we were going to do it we were going to write new material, so that led to the record.
DB: We’ve been playing off and on for the last two months, so we’ve actually played most of the American shows we’re going to play and then we’re going to Europe for a little while. You know, it’s like when you’re up on stage playing, it’s funny how little things changed. It’s not that different though, still the same crowds and mix of ages. There’s definitely some people our age who saw us the first time around and this time, there’s also young people, too, that come out. The crowd’s sort of mixed, young and old, which is nice. Dive: How do you think the scene in Chapel Hill has changed since Polvo emerged in the early ’90s?
DB: There were great bands in the ’90s, but there are great bands Dive: What do you hope to coming out of there now. achieve on from the current tour? Contact the Diversions Editor Do you have any specific goals? at dive@unc.edu.
Megafaun carves out a creative niche of its own by Jordan lawrence Diversions Editor
Sometimes in the heat of telling a story, journalists can get caught up in their own momentum, trampling the people involved in order to present something compelling on the page. Durham’s Megafaun has been the victim of one such stampede. The experimental folk trio made up of brothers Phil and Brad Cook and lifelong friend Joe Westerland was once in a band called DeYarmond Edison with Justin Vernon. When Vernon moved back to the group’s native Wisconsin and headed to a snowed-in hunting cabin to nurse a broken heart, the resulting music made a big splash. Forming a new
band and dubbing it Bon Iver, Vernon has stormed the indie world, leading many to misconstrue Phil, Brad and Joe as the leftovers. “We were just written off as a band he left behind in really f--ked up ways,” Phil Cook said. “You just realize how much it’s out of your control, how quickly things just explode.” But with a new critically acclaimed record in Gather, Form and Fly, Megafaun has begun receiving its own wave of national attention. Coming off tours with fellow Triangle folk act Bowerbirds as well as Bon Iver, the group has risen to a stature where references to former groups are not necessary. “We’ve gotten a chance to tour
and play some historic venues and tour with our friends,” Cook said. “We’re making just enough money to not have to work as much when we get home. Things are good, man. Things are good.” This success is owed to an offkilter sound that’s like nothing else. A fluid mix of folk, noise, blues and pretty much everything in between, Megafaun’s music could only be made by artists that are incredibly familiar with one another. “We run into bands on the road and hear a lot of stories about bands where it’s turmoil and all business,” Cook said, talking about how great it is to play with people you know well. “That’s going to
happen no matter what, but I feel lucky, all of us do, that we play in a band that gets along so well.” Though the group has had success putting its music to tape, Cook says that the live performances are where the heart of the band truly lies. “The only way we truly convert people is when they see us live,” he said. “It’s brought us around to this really good place where we really feel emboldened to be these road warriors, one by one, building up fans that we’re going to convince to keep coming to our shows. We’ll build it the old-school way.” And in the wake of everything that’s happened over the past few
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years, Cook is insistent in pointing out there are no hard feelings between his band and Vernon. “This last tour we did with him was a chance we had to hang out for two straight weeks on a bus. It kind of came full circle. It was a chance for us to just be together, which is what we wanted.”
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rock ’n’ roll’s ironic Luddite poserphilosopher. The Edge becomes its gooey moral conscience. And Page remains, now and forever, its wise old sage of monster riffs. Rockers of all stripes will find satisfaction in the music of “It Might Get Loud.” The brief biographical snippets of the artists are nice, but this is primarily a soundtrack movie, and one of the very first order. Its centerpiece is “the Summit,” where the guitarists sit down, boxed in by amps, to jam on each other’s songs. The Summit pinnacles in a primitive rendition, three guitars deep, of Zeppelin’s earth-shaking “In My Time of Dying.” As Page, White and The Edge face off over those immortal chords, it is obvious that the documentary is witness to some kind of perverse and wonderful rock ’n’ roll Trinity. All disciples of the heavy and the loud should come Acoustic purists sometimes say worship at this amplified alter. that electric music is watered down, that there are numerous degrees of -Jonathan Pattishall separation between what comes out of an amplifier and what genuinely Couples Retreat comes out of an instrument, that only these “experts” know what is raw and right about the guitar. “It Might Get Loud” says, in riffs and volts more adequate than words, that acoustic purists can go right to hell. That electric music, far from being watered down, is like a gamma ray burst from deep space that will rip the dome of your skull wide open. That every medium between instrument and amplifier is one less medium between amplifier and brain-child. That rock ‘n’ roll electric guitar is still the rawest, coolest, most bad-ass junk around. To explain these points, director Davis Guggenheim sits down with Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), The Edge (U2) and Jack White (The White Stripes, The Raconteurs) to discuss their personal histories with the guitar. In these candid, illumiWe a l l h o p e d t h at V i n c e nating interviews, clear patterns emerge about the personalities Vaughn could recapture the glory of the musicians. White becomes of “Swingers” and “Wedding
Crashers,” but “Couples Retreat” is no comedy classic. But Vaughn, the co-writer, works in too many one-liners and not enough substantial humor, making this a 107-minute sitcom that’s inconsistent at best. The couples, a group of close friends, head to a tropical getaway to revive their marriages and relationships. Insert the new-age “couples’ whisperer,” Marcel (Jean Reno), and the stale comedic ploys become gratingly obvious. Sexual innuendos abound, including but not limited to, a boner during a massage and vulgar thrusting motions from the Fabio-esque yoga instructor. Sure, this prompts a few laughs, but are we really laughing at the jokes, or are we simply mocking how far this film will go to make us laugh? The neurotic PowerPointobsessed Jason (Jason Bateman) and his relationship with the cute wife who lacks the guts to tell him to shut up is the main reason the four couples head out on this retreat. After marrying this nut job, I don’t blame Cynthia (Kristen Bell) for needing therapy. Mixed in with the sex-starved Joey (Jon Favreau), and Dave (Vaughn), the laid-back cool guy, the movie becomes funnier because you probably know people a little bit like this. Overall, the film is pleasant and doesn’t induce too many cringes, except when Dave challenges the stingy resort host to a Guitar Hero duel to gain access to the single side of the island. These jabs stick out in sharp contrast to the relationship problems these couples face, and it’s hard to reconcile the crudeness of the jokes with serious marital issues. It’s not as bad as it could’ve been, but with such a talented comedy cast, it’s hard not to expect a lot more. -Rachel Arnett
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rian Corum of rambunctious Raleigh folk-rock group Lonnie Walker points at the crowd as he spits out his off-kilter words during a Saturday show at Cat’s Cradle. The band played as part of the CD release party for Chapel Hill pop-rock band I Was Totally Destroying It, whose sophomore effort Horror Vacui dropped Tuesday. For more photos and a full review of the concert, visit the Dive blog at dailytarheel.com/dive.
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musicshorts squirrel Nut Zippers
Lost at Sea big band
Listening to Lost at Sea, one thing becomes immediately clear: Chapel Hill’s Squirrel Nut Zippers haven’t lost any of the spunk or energy that made them famous in the ’90s. And on this live album, the band delivers enough sliding trombones and attitude to get any hipster into the swing of things. Lost at Sea is a live recording full of hoots, claps and a few improvisations. It’s a fine line to walk. The live album has left a chink in the armor of many a musician, but the Zippers’ combination of storytell-
ing and musicianship keeps the crowd audibly engaged. This isn’t to say that the record is oversaturated with background noise. Though a few jokes and songs are followed by applause, the focal point always returns to the music itself. The music is classically big band — full of trumpets, jazzy instrumentals and the be-bopping vocals of Jim Mathus and Katharine Whalen. Songs like “Fat Cat Keeps Getting Fatter” exemplify the tongue-in-cheek style that made the Zippers so successful in the past and prove that they haven’t lost any of their quirky appeal. The record is refreshing in the wake of the recent influx of polite indie releases, but its length is often a hindrance. Anyone not already a jazz aficionado will feel mired down by songs with riffs that cascade into improvisational oblivion. The album is decidedly breezy, an exuberant tribute to an oft-forgotten genre. Squirrel Nut Zippers prove that they still possess the talent and energy that made them famous, even if that energy results in a few lengthy tracks.
Luego Taped-Together Stories pop/rock
There was really something special about the ’70s AM dial. Combining thick studio polish with visceral emotionality, bands such as Fleetwood Mac and Steely Dan blurred the lines between rock credibility and pop accessibility in a way never heard before. Durham’s Luego plays the same game on Taped-together Stories. As Patrick Phelan croons out downtrodden odes that suggest Rod Stewart minus the alcohol issues, his band wraps it all up in wellrounded, retro-leaning pop-rock. The result is an album that, for the most part, plays like a blissful collection of hook-driven singles. Marching along on a charismatic bassline that’s augmented by shining keys in the chorus, “Held Up” is a sweetly rendered yet wonderfully bitter break-up song. “I undress her, but it don’t matter/ Don’t impress, but it won’t flatter,” Phelan sings in a voice that grinds -Linnie Greene with frustrated angst. Other songs live up to this prom-
at all. Or at least on Hey Man, I Understand, it seems like he just doesn’t give a rip. Emmert’s overreaching one-man show, Inspector 22, pours on the dissonance in his latest release, his first album with Carrboro’s Odessa Records. The Chapel Hill native is known for his instrumental experimentation, as well as a fondness for religious allusion. This album combines these elements with convoluted layers, ranging from seemingly random piano smashing to a superfluous smattering of maracas. When Emmert decides to use his voice, the result is elementary: jarring, muddled vocals that don’t really communicate anything. “Tea With Pazuzu,” six minutes - Jordan Lawrence that border on auditory seizure, Inspector 22 proves that Emmert either dabbles in beekeeping or relishes the sound of plastic kid kazoos. The incessant
ise. “Leave On” runs wild with the spirit of Lindsey Buckingham’s Rumors tracks, while “Jesse James/ Framed” makes a honky-tonk romp of Robert Ford’s crime. But not everything here is Top40-ready. “Nineteen” is too heavyhanded in its coming-of-age message to be saved by its passable riff, and “You Better Run, Boy” plays like a trite reread of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Gimme Three Steps.” Still, when a band has songs worthy of the references made here, it’s hard to quibble over a few missteps. Classic rock is a thoroughly wornout game, but when it’s played as well as it is here, it’s hard to think that it will ever get old.
fly-in-your-ear buzzing combined with out-of-sync pianos drones on with little diversity, eventually creating an unbearable malaise. If that doesn’t do the listener in, perhaps the other tracks of screeching feedback interspersed with Emmert’s disarrayed twang will. While his willingness to explore musical boundaries is admirable, the album fails to deliver anything accessible. It’s clear that Emmert knows a lot about making music, but by trying to show it all off at once he’s arrived at a product that’s little more than sensory overload. Music is around to be enjoyed. And no matter how impressive this can be, there’s just no point in something this abrasive. It hurts without much of a point, making it not just painful but pretty useless. -Elizabeth Byrum
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Talking Heads, Remain in Light: And you may ask yourself, why did Dive pick this album? And you may ask yourself, how did it get here? 1980’s Remain in Light is a new wave romp through David Byrne’s endearingly awkward vocals. There are several standout tracks, but “Once in a Lifetime” is a classic, forcing a generation of ‘80s yuppies to ask themselves the tough questions.
When it comes to harmonious Movie from the Vaults: music, it’s not clear whether Todd “The Seven Year Itch”: Believe it or Wesley Emmert understands it not, that iconic skirt scene where Marilyn Monroe stands over an air vent belongs to this hidden gem. starSystem The 1955 film deals with infidelity, lust and the perennial question Poor of whether men and women can ever be “just friends.” Guess we still Fair haven’t quite figured that one out.
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Events: Friday Atlas Sound Local 506 | Atlas Sound is the solo vehicle of Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox. Playing alone with guitar and electronics strips away his band’s wall of sound, highlighting the reverb-laden sweetness behind his invigorating sound. 9 p.m., $14 saturday Luego Local 506 | Durham’s Luego polish good-natured rock ‘n’ roll into a pop sensation centered around Patrich Phelan’s old-school,
whiskey-hewn vocals. Saturday the band celebrates the release of its new record Taped-Together Stories with The Tomahawks and The Huguenots. 9 p.m., $5 Tuesday Dent May and his Magnificent Ukulele Local 506 | As fall descends on Chapel Hill, Mississippi’s Dent May and his ukulele will bring a little dose of summer to Local 506. Just nerdy enough to be trendy, May and his elegant pop tunes are the perfect antidote for the chilly weather, especially in the cozy confines of Local 506. The Drowning Lovers opens. 9:30 p.m., $8 wednesday Jacquelyn Lee Jack Sprat | UNC troubadour Jacquelyn Lee brings her quirky, off-kilter songwriting sensibilities to Jack Sprat. Grab a coffee and cozy up to Lee’s expressive vocals and lone guitar. It’s a simple, contemplative set, perfect for a Wednesday night. 10 p.m., $3 Sea Wolf Nightlight | Sea Wolf brings its spare, melodic pop to the Nightlight, and though the band borrows its name from a Jack London short story, the set is sure to be as warm and inviting as the band’s native L.A. Port O’Brien and Sarah Lov, two other acts receiving a hefty amount of buzz in the indie world, open. 9 p.m., $10
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(33-4) scored nine straight points. The Illini responded with a 10-0 run, but UNC had the final counter of the half, rattling off a 13-2 run in the last five minutes to give the Tar Heels a seemingly comfortable 40-27 lead. Illinois shot just 27 percent before the break — including 5-of19 on 3s — but stayed within striking distance by grabbing 13 offensive boards. The Illini stormed out of intermission gunning from deep, and this time the shots started going down. Thanks to the hot shooting of Deron Williams and Luther Head — who were combined two for 15 in the first half — Illinois all but erased a 14-point UNC lead with a 15-3 run. May held the Illini at bay, responding with 10 points and an assist on a Jawad Williams trey as UNC opened up a 65-55 lead. “From the beginning, we knew it was tough for them to stop Sean,” Manuel said of May, who scored 18 second-half points. “Their big guys were getting in foul trouble, so it would be dumb not to go into Sean.” But once again the Illini, who battled back from 15 points down with 4 minutes remaining in their regional final victory against Arizona, responded by scoring the next 10 points to level the score. The end of the run looked to be the breaking point for UNC’s title dreams. Raymond Felton, who had 17 points and seven assists to make the all-tournament team, picked up his fourth foul with 5:34 left, and when Dee Brown knocked down two tying free throws, the predominantly orange-clad crowd erupted. “ We didn’ t panic,” Jawad Williams said. “We knew we’d been in tough situations on and off the court before, so we just went out there and made plays.” On the ensuing possession, Felton silenced the crowd with a spot-up 3 from the left wing. Still, Illinois wouldn’t fade and retied the
Security numbers as identification at the beginning of the study but has suspended that practice. UNC informed patients through letters sent out in September that their information was exposed. “As of Monday, we had 1,620 out of 180,000 plus that had called the call center with questions regarding receiving a letter,” said Karen McCall, vice president of public affairs and marketing for UNC Health Care and the School of Medicine. About 30 of the patients had called the consumer protection division of the attorney general by Wednesday, Talley said. The division works to fight unfair business practices such as fraud. McCall said the investigation by the attorney general was expected. “Basically at this point, a numMay in the first round of the NBA Draft. Their season didn’t start out quite as smoothly as it ended up, though. UNC entered with a No. 3 preseason national ranking, its highest in seven years, only to be upset by Santa Clara in the first game. The Tar Heels went on to win 14 in a row and finish the regular season 26-3 after Williams’ dramatic tip-in in the season finale against Duke. They were regular season ACC champions for the first time since 1993 — also the last year they won the national championship.
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ber of people have contacted the attorney general to look into this, so it would be perfectly appropriate for them to do that,” McCall said. “It’s a research project and everybody is very, very concerned about security and identity theft, and so it’s not surprising that other people are taking it as seriously as we are.” McCall said because less than 1 percent of affected patients responded, the school is anticipating more calls. She added that the School of Medicine is working to increase security of patient information. “We’re doing a survey of all research bases, making sure that everything is meeting the standards,” she said. Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
Town Council member, has spent $13,043, almost four times any other candidate’s spending, for everything from a reception with former UNC men’s basketball coach Bill Guthridge to a $400 photo shoot for his Web site. His money comes from more than 200 donors, several of whom gave the maximum $250 allowed by Chapel Hill ordinance. Although Czajkowski’s private donations are more than quadruple those of Kleinschmidt, the finance reports show Kleinschmidt as having nearly as many donors — 196 compared to Czajkowski’s 201. Czajkowski raising more than $21,000 triggered a “rescue fund” payment to Kleinschmidt, who is part of voter-owned elections. The program uses public funds to help finance the campaigns of those who participate. In addition to the $9,000 he can receive from the program, Kleinschmidt will receive $4,000 in rescue funds, N.C. Board of Elections spokesperson Amy Strange said. Kleinschmidt’s September report shows he has raised $4,505 from individual contributions and a political committee. Voterowned elections rules prohibit participants from raising more than $4,500, so the extra $5 will have to be returned. Kevin Wolff originally signed up for voter-owned elections and would have received rescue funds. But he was disqualified after loaning himself $10,000. Wolff has raised $10,275 so far, which includes 14 individual contributions and the loan to himself. Cho’s latest report, filed Friday, shows he has raised $1,642, which, besides a $200 donation from his campaign treasurer, all came from his own money.
North Carolina started its tournament run with blowouts against Oakland and Iowa State, followed closely by a narrow 67-66 win against Villanova in the Sweet 16. The Tar Heels went on to beat Wisconsin by six and Michigan State by 16 before reaching the finals. Just three years removed from 8-20, North Carolina was sitting back on top of the college basket- Czajkowski hosts receptions ball world. Donors to the Czajkowski camAnd after receiving criticism for his decision to leave the Jayhawks paign include UNC Health Care and return to his alma mater, Roy CEO Bill Roper, the Kenan family Williams had reached that final and Guthridge. score at 70 on a 3-pointer by Head, summit. The reports also show Czajkowski who along with Deron Williams spent hundreds of dollars on inviwas named to the all-tournament Contact the Sports Editor tations to receptions featuring team. at sports@unc.edu Guthridge and John McAdams, But that would be the last shot Illinois would hit, as the 3s the Illini relied on so heavily to make the comeback stopped falling again. Illinois misfired on 28 of 40 3-point attempts, including its final five. “We fought back and tied it up, but they made the plays and we didn’t,” Deron Williams said. “They made the plays down the stretch, and we didn’t.” Two possessions after Head tied the game, Rashad McCants, who scored all 14 of his points in the first half, drove baseline and missed a reverse layup — but freshman Marvin Williams swooped in for the tip that pushed UNC to the victory. “I just play as hard as I can,” Williams said. “Good things happen when you play hard — Coach always tells us that — so I give it everything I have.” Felton, who made a crucial steal with 30 seconds left and UNC clinging to a 72-70 lead, added three free throws to clinch the national championship for the Tar Heels. As the final buzzer sounded, May ran to embrace Roy Williams as the rest of his teammates piled on each other at center court. Several minutes later, Scott was eagerly waiting for his chance to take the first snip at the net, and with it, the realization that North Carolina had completed the journey from 8-20 to No. 1. “I could not wait. I knew I was going to be the first one because number one is on my jersey, number one in the country and all that. It’s a great feeling, man, just to cut these nets down,” Scott said with the twine wrapped around his neck. “It’s finally over. We finally did it. My dream has finally come true.” The pride you’ll feel in being a doctor increases dramatically when you care for our Soldiers and their —Daniel blank Families. Courage is contagious. Our Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP) helps you reach your goal by Contact the Sports Editor providing full tuition, money towards books and lab fees, a at sports@unc.edu. $20,000 sign-on bonus, plus a monthly stipend of $1,992.
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thursday, october 15, 2009 “You’ll see signs that we are putting up around our exhibits that say ‘Our animals are healthy, are you?’” Beck said. Despite the H1N1 scare, Long said advance ticket sales are up from last year, so it seems like the illness has not been a deterrent. The key to preventing the spread of the flu, according to both
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Long and Beck, is hand washing. Fairgoers are being asked to wash their hands before entering the livestock areas. “We want to protect the people, but we want to protect the swine too,” Long said. Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
Mayoral candidates vary in campaign funds and sources Individual contributions Augustus Cho
Own money Political committee contributions Rescue funds Voter-owned elections
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$23,629.50 Czajkowski has received contributions from high-profile donors.
Mark Kleinschmidt
$17,505 Kleinschmidt has been using public funds and taking small donations.
Kevin Wolff
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CEO of the John R. McAdams Co., a land development design firm. These types of gatherings are commonplace during election season, said former Chapel Hill mayor Jonathan Howes. “That is the bread and butter of politics in Chapel Hill,” said Howes, mayor from 1987 to 1991. “Receptions at private homes, by people who are public figures, well-known, people whose houses you want to go to — that’s a very important element to any campaign in Chapel Hill.” But no other candidate has reported events or receptions. Howes said the gatherings help candidates personally connect with voters in small communities like Chapel Hill. Cam Hill, a former council member who donated to Kleinschmidt, said Czajkowski spends more than other candidates on these events. “It’s normal to have gatherings, but usually they’re absolutely as bare bones as possible,” Hill said. Czajkowski beat Hill for the final council seat in 2007 by only 63 votes. Czajkowski also outraised his opponents that year, collecting $20,777. He loaned himself $12,000, more money than any candidate spent. This year, he hasn’t used any of his own money so far. “Some people argued I bought the election, which to me is a little
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insulting to the electorate in Chapel Hill,” Czajkowski said. “I spent $10,000 more than somebody else, and people were dumb enough to think somehow I swayed them with that? I have real issues with that view.”
The golden rule Sugarland Bakery owner and Czajkowski campaign donor Katrina Ryan said campaign financing is especially important in Chapel Hill due to its limited media coverage. “You don’t have a lot of free opportunities to get your message out to people,” said Ryan, who ran for Carrboro’s Board of Aldermen in 2007. “Every voter that you talk to costs.” But Czajkowski and his supporters have emphasized the importance of the campaign’s issues rather than its funds. “I don’t think money raised should be viewed as a negative impact on a candidate’s ability to do a job,” said Randy Cox, who supports Czajkowski. But more money gives candidates more exposure. “In politics the guy who spends the most money does win,” Ryan said. “It’s sort of the golden rule.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.
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Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is a 7 - You’re more persuasive when you go with the flow. Tune in to your partner’s desires. Teamwork! Taurus (April 20-May 20) Today is a 6 - Use your personal magnetism to draw your partner close. Be prepared for the thorns that come with roses. Gemini (May 21-June 21) Today is a 6 - Your psychic antennae are electrified today. You get more information than you can possibly use, but store it anyway. Cancer (June 22-July 22) Today is a 6 - Don’t let anyone push you around. You know what you want. You can have it all. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a 6 - Romance could occupy the entire playing field if you allow it. if that’s what you want, go for it. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 7 - Dreams take over your awareness. These could be dreams from last night, or long-term plans. Positive action is needed.
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Galápagos project showcases stories Author to advise
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By Lauren Ratcliffe Staff writer
Stop 10 people on the street with a question about the Galapagos Islands, journalism professor Pat Davison says, and eight will talk about giant tortoises or Charles Darwin. But Wednesday night at the FedEx Global Education Center, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication unveiled its latest Web site, “Living Galapagos,” to try to change some of those ideas. The multimedia site, created by 21 journalism students through a partnership with La Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador, focuses on the islands’ residents and the issues placing it at risk. The site features four distinct parts — stories, people, places and facts. Each uses multimedia techniques to show how people are affecting the islands and tell the residents’ stories. “This is the first of its kind in the world as far as I know,” said Davison, who served as the site’s executive producer and multimedia coach. He said that other sites have focused only on land and animals. The Web site is bilingual, offering stories in both English and Spanish through the help of La Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Each story is told directly from the source without narration by the students and includes the option of a direct English translation. Graduate student Lauren Frohne said the site is important because the stories have never been told before. “People don’t realize that there are a lot of people living there and don’t realize the impacts of people living there,” Frohne said. The project’s topics range from goat hunting and surfing to immigration and health care. Senior photojournalist Sabrina Short said the site required a lot of work but provided a clearer glimpse into daily life in the Galapagos Islands. She said she hopes the site will portray the islands as having more than just turtles and pristine surroundings. “I hope it brings awareness more than anything — awareness of the people that live there and struggles they face,” Short said. Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
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Of 27 species of reptiles that can be found in the Galápagos Islands, 17 are endemic, or species found only in the Galápagos. The Pacific Green Sea Turtles are an endangered species, and their eggs are often eaten.
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For Chicago native Stuart Dybek, UNC is more than just the location of his latest speaking event. It’s home to the Carolina Quarterly, one of the first publishers of his work. Many years, books and awards later, Dybek is back at UNC to discuss his work as part of the creative writing program’s Living Writers series. The series is part of a class in which authors visit the classroom, have lunch with students and hold a public discussion. Dybek has Author Stuart Dybek written three ficsaid one key to tion books and writing well is two collections of reading often. poetry. His most popular works include “The Coast of Chicago” and “I Sailed With Magellan.” Dybek said he believes that fiction and poetry are not all that separate. “I know people make a big distinction between them,” he said. “But from childhood that hasn’t been true for me, and they kind of overlap in my mind and reinforce each other.” He said he has found inspiration in his hometown of Chicago, and many of his writings come from neighborhoods he grew up in. For students wishing to pursue a writing career, his standard advice is to read. “If you’re going to want to play an instrument, paint, make photographs, dance professionally, whatever the art is, you have to dedicate
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yourself to learning the craft of it,” Dybek said, adding that the same is true for the craft of writing. Pam Durban, professor of the class, said she chose the authors in the series for their variety and because she admired their work. “I wanted the class to be able to see many different styles and approaches to writing fiction,” she said. The visiting authors read to a public audience, and the audience is given a chance to ask questions after the reading is finished. “Every reading I see people who are not students, so it’s worth going out and getting there,” Durban said. While the readings are directed at students, everyone is encouraged to attend. The Living Writers program has been well-received by both faculty members and students alike. Maria Devlin, a student in the class, said the class provides a unique experience. “The writers, both in the interviews we read and the discussions they have with us in class, offer us their own distinct and comprehensive theories about writing … specific, technical analyses of how successful stories work,” Devlin said in an e-mail. The next author in the series is Andrea Barrett, who will be visiting on Nov. 5. Contact the Arts Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu.
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Opinion
14 thursday, october 15, 2009
The Daily Tar Heel Established 1893, 116 years of editorial freedom
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There’s no place like home on the Hill
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Abortion debate did not address root of problem
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hile talking to a friend just over a week ago about her Fall Break plans, I walked over to my calendar. We were, indeed, already well into October. My internship in New Orleans was already halfway over. I decided at that moment to take my own Fall Break — one home to North Carolina for an extended weekend. Going home for a few days made me realize why I love North Carolina, Chapel Hill in particular, so much. For one thing, it was actually fall when I crossed into North Carolina last Thursday. Don’t get me wrong — I love summer weather, it’s great. Nevertheless, it was awesome being home and having it feel like October, or at least what I think of as the autumnal month that culminates in tricks or treats. Meeting friends for dinner Thursday night at Spice Street was weirdly nostalgic, though I’d been there with the same girls not too long before. We even got a piece of free chocolate cake to share. Our waiter remembered us and was sad that he hadn’t seen us in months. He’ll obviously be seeing us again. And for the rest of the weekend, I was happy to see more friends out and about in Chapel Hill. Furthermore, spending a night at home with Mom, my Yorkie (Mojo), a supreme pizza from the local gas station, Ghirardelli brownies and the movie “Hocus Pocus” couldn’t have been more relaxing. Traditions such as those never lose their appeal. Despite all of this, I’m definitely excited to be back in New Orleans as well. There are still a lot of restaurants I want to go to. Also, I’m pretty psyched about going to the “House of Shock” horror show. The Travel Channel has rated “House of Shock” as the “Number One Most Extreme Haunted Attraction.” There’s a strong possibility that I will regret the latter decision a few seconds after purchasing my ticket as I stand in line hearing the screams from within the attraction. But I’m still going to go. I don’t see how I could live so close to such a great Halloween attraction during the Halloween season and not go. I’d feel like a cultural failure. Oh, and Halloween in New Orleans in general. Halloween. In New Orleans. Cannot wait! All Hallow’s Eve should be a decently fun time in New Orleans. But of course, nothing beats Chapel Hill on Halloween. I’m a bit jealous to be missing it. All in all, spending time away from home to learn new things, meet new people, and experience a different culture is very important, and I’m glad that I’m doing so. However, going home for a weekend reminded me why I think of North Carolina as “home.” You feel so much more at ease when you’re at home, wherever that may be for you. You’re just happy to be there and happy to be around your family and friends. With all of this in mind, I will be sad to leave New Orleans at the end of the semester, but I’ll also be excited to be coming home.
Limit retreat rights
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Payouts given to administrators cost the university system money, should be reevaluated
NC-system President Erskine Bowles is right to lobby the Board of Governors to limit the scope of retreat rights. This term is used to describe the movement of a senior university administrator to a faculty position and the compensated paid time off between posts. “Retreating” administrators may contractually retain a large portion of their administrative salary during this time period. For example, after leaving the office of the chancellor, James Moeser took a year to retool and prepare for his new position within the music department. This year, he received full administrative pay, totaling $390,835.00. And as a music professor, he receives 60 percent of his former administrative salary indefinitely. Retreat rights are not unique to the UNC system. To keep pace with private
university salaries, the UNC system often uses “retreat rights” as an additional incentive in benefits packages. But Bowles is right to question this practice. While it is an attractive recruiting tool for top administrative posts, these perks can drive up administrative costs. Since 2004, 27 administrators and department chairmen have taken advantage of retreat rights, costing the state $547,980.50 and the University $227,669.69 in private funds. When compared to other competitive state university systems, the UNC system is very generous in its retreat rights. Chancellors, deans, provosts and department chairs are all eligible for one year of leave and higher salaries upon returning to the faculty. Compare this to the University of California system, which only allows senior management paid leave. They must also remain in a faculty
position for a fixed amount of time to receive these benefits. In the University of Georgia system, only presidents are eligible, and paid leave is individually negotiated. And in the University of Wisconsin system, administrators must submit sabbatical proposals to show what work will be accomplished during the paid leave. In a letter to the Board of Governors, Bowles calls for shorter leave periods, greater accountability and up-front “work product” agreements to ensure administrators-turnedfaculty are producing. Direc tives like re treat rights are a good idea when state funds are plentiful and ensure public universities can stay competitive with private schools. But in a time of hiring freezes and budget cuts, the UNC system must rein in its current practice to guarantee efficiency and accountability.
Input for the towers As plans for University Square and Granville Towers site develop, public should weigh in
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ranville Towers and University Square have been integral parts of the UNC community for years. Now the site is officially controlled by the University — and there are big plans in store for its future. The redevelopment will have major economic and social repercussions for decades to come. Good thing the public has been invited to share their concerns and offer input to the developers. The meeting will be used to discuss the future nature of Granville Towers and University Square.
Both Cousins Properties Inc., and architectural partner Elkus Manfredi are experienced in similar multiuse, urban developments, but even with their skills, the site still poses a number of difficult challenges to overcome. Granville currently houses 1,300 students, and the University is slated to expand in the coming years. The housing situation in Chapel Hill is already precarious. Adding another 1,300 students to the horde seeking onor off-campus housing could be disastrous. If there are plans to demolish the towers, the University must
plan for affordable housing to serve its students, despite the lucrative retail opportunities at the site. Although it could be 2014 before construction begins on the site, graduates who remain in Chapel Hill will be affected by these decisions, as will anyone with siblings or children who want to live here in the future. Tonight is an excellent opportunity for the public to offer its insight as the redevelopment of the site is planned. ATTEND THE MEEETING: Where: Suite 133-G of University Sq. When: 7 p.m.
QuickHits Nobel committee
Olympia Snowe
Rifle club
In case you missed it, this guy named Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize last week. Come on, Nobel committee, if you like Obama so much, why don’t you marry him?
Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, was the only Republican in the Senate Finance Committee to vote for the health care bill. Sorry, Sen. Snowe, Obama’s already engaged to the Nobel committee.
The Tar Heel Rifle and Pistol Club allocation from Student Congress. Guns are controversial. We’d oppose this, but they’re already getting the ammunition and we’re a little scared of people with guns.
H1N1 beer pong
Lenoir Hall
Burnt hair
College officials have warned that H1N1 can be easily transmitted by beer pong. If H1N1 is an excused absence, and beer pong can increase your chances of contracting it … 10 cup tonight, anyone?
Lenoir has been handing out an unusual amount of styrofoam plates and cups recently. Always looking to put a sustainable spin on things, UNC reportedly requested the styrofoam dyed green …
Strands of Michael Jackson’s hair singed off in a commercial in 1984 are now for sale. WTF. We’d advise that whoever decides to drop thousands on this should take a good look at the man in the mirror.
TO THE EDITOR I strongly disagree that Tuesday night’s abortion debate was the “Best Abortion Discussion Ever,” as Carolina Students for Life advertised the event. I found it highly disappointing, although not the worst I’ve heard. What frustrated me the most was its central focus on the circular argument of fetus viability. This is not the most important issue, and any abortion discussion thus framed will get us nowhere. Both sides failed to address adequately why women seek out abortions in the first place. For many women, particularly poor women of color, the choice to get an abortion is often not a “choice,” but a necessity for survival. Furthermore, on both sides, there is still an unfair stigma attached to women who don’t feel guilty for getting abortions, but rather, immense relief. If the framework doesn’t come from a social justice perspective, then debates remain stuck on viable life and not on how to promote racial, gender, and socioeconomic equality (and therefore reduce abortions). We need to understand the root of the controversy before tackling the philosophical questions. As a final comment, I am outraged my student fees went to fund this event. I had a much more productive abortion discussion today with a minister in Lenoir, for free. Kalli Smith Junior Spanish, Women’s Studies
Just because you aren’t Obama, you can be a hero TO THE EDITOR Columnist Reed Watson’s recent “love letter” to our latest Nobel Peace Prize laureate (“You can do good too, without Nobel,” Oct. 12) left me feeling all kinds of queasy. By his arguments, we should be happy that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize because his life is really, really hard. I mean, just imagine it! All anyone expects from you is to work obediently at a dreadful desk job for the rest of your life. But not Obama! He gets up every morning with the whole world expecting him to fix their problems for them. And even if he miraculously does, there will always be some clearly unpatriotic hooligan who hates him. Never mind that Obama hasn’t fixed global warming yet. And don’t worry about continuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, or his request for renewal of surveillance provisions in the Patriot Act. Oh, and just forget about bailouts to the politically connected at our own expense. That stuff doesn’t matter. His intentions are good, so give him the prize! The fact of the matter is that no one man — especially a politician — will solve our problems for us. Obama is not Superman, and neither he nor anyone else should be treated that way. There are no magic policy solutions for every challenge our world faces. It’s up to each of us to make our world a better place. The truly great people aren’t the ones with Nobel Prizes, but the ones who forsake fame, fortune and power to pursue their
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dreams for a better world. Those men and women are the real heroes of our age, and there’s no reason you can’t be one of them. Tom VanAntwerp Senior Business Administration
No time like the present to push for energy reform TO THE EDITOR I write in response to Meghan Corbet’s letter “UNC can and must do more to wean itself from coal.” I agree with her assessment that we do not need to debate the existence of global warming. A liberal arts university that prides itself on the free exchange of ideas is no place for debate. Never mind that Al Gore’s heralded “An Inconvenient Truth” has inconveniently turned out to make conveniently false claims according to a British court. Let’s look past the fact that the polar bear population has increased 400 percent since the 1960s. The debate is over on our campus. What we ought to be focusing on at UNC, in addition to forcing faculty into early retirement, suffering from shortfalls in financial aid and firing staff, is replacing our relatively cheap and reliable energy source (coal) with newer technologies that are expensive to implement. As Corbet indicated, we should act like Duke and move forward with these costly projects. In spite of the fact that our state funding has been dramatically reduced, there is no time like the present to act. It is a good thing that I agree with Corbet. It’s useless not to because the debate is over! Jason Sutton Junior Political Science
UNC fans should be more active during our games TO THE EDITOR I know it’s “just football,” but in the South, “just football” isn’t “just” anything. And if your blood runs Carolina blue like mine, I know you’ll understand what I’m about to say. I had the great pleasure this past weekend to attend the game against Georgia Southern, my alma mater. But as I said, my blood runs Carolina blue, like my daughter and son-in-law’s. As I sat taking in everything on a gray, threatening day at Kenan Stadium, I was dismayed and embarrassed that so many fans had stayed away. In Georgia, it doesn’t matter what the weather is. It doesn’t matter how crappy you’ve been playing. It doesn’t matter who you are playing. What matters is, the Dawgs are playing, and if you’re not there, then something is seriously wrong with you. UNC has one of the most beautiful venues for football anywhere. What a shame that we don’t get more excited. What a shame that we don’t get a little crazy, like we do when the Heels are in the Smith Center. There is something immeasurable that gets passed onto the field from the fans, and then gets returned to them, when you’re really in the game. We have the legacy. Let’s act like it. Amen. Ron Pelt Parent of UNC student
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