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Students face down tuition hikes diversions| page 6 FIN FANG FOOM Chapel Hill trio Fin Fang Foom has created an adventurous new album that celebrates the guitarist’s courage in the face of illness.
arts| page 4 KING OF AWKWARD Mike Birbiglia, a stand-up comedian known for finding the humor in his awkward experiences, will perform at Memorial Hall today.
Maximum out-of-state undergraduate increase proposed by the tuition task force:
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From left, Evangeline Mee, Beth Moroney and Ryan Morgan, president of the UNC Out-of-State Student Association, led a rally against proposals to raise undergraduate and graduate student tuition to fund the University’s priorities for the next academic year. DTH ONLINE: Visit dailytarheel.com/multimedia to find out how much you could pay next year with our interactive tuition calculator.
city | page 3 IN MEMORY Orange County honored its veterans, both young and old, on Wednesday at an event held in Hillsborough.
university| online CRASHING DOWN Another big tree fell Wednesday on campus, this time crashing into Saunders Hall and breaking at least one window. The windy weather is said to be the culprit.
sports | page 13 RUNAWAY The UNC men’s basketball team crushed N.C. Central by 47 points Wednesday night, led by Marcus Ginyard’s 17 points.
this day in history NOV. 12, 1998 … A UNC sophomore from India announces plans to fight a policy banning burning incense in residence halls. He had received two citations for his actions, part of his Hindi rituals.
Today’s weather Puddle-jumpin’ day H 51, L 47
Friday’s weather The crap-ola continues H 57, L 50
index police log ......................... 2 calendar ........................... 2 nation/world . ................ 10 crossword ...................... 13 sports . ........................... 13 opinion .......................... 14
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O∞cials suggest hikes of 6.5 percent on all, going against state mandates
Student leaders are lone voices in favor of lower tuition increases for 2010-11
BY Brian Austin
When it comes to tuition, not many students understand exactly what the money is used for and how the increase proposal process works. But they know one thing: Their bill likely will be higher next year. T h e r e’s a l a r g e d i s c o n n e c t between what students and administrators value when it comes to tuition increases — and student government leaders found themselves caught in the middle of the two Wednesday. They face a difficult task — one that consists of fighting misconceptions, representing the students and determining what is best for the University. Often these three values cannot coexist.
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The tuition and fee advisory task force favored increasing in-state tuition more than state law currently allows in its meeting Wednesday amid a packed house of student advocates. The task force sent two proposals to Chancellor Holden Thorp that would increase tuition by the same percentage for both in-state and out-of-state students. The task force recommended either a 6.5 percent increase for all students, or 5.2 percent for undergraduate students and 3.7 percent for graduate students. The task force’s focus on parity might be mostly a symbolic gesture, intended to show that administrators have student concerns about fairness in mind. But it also emphasizes UNC administrators’ perceived financial need, an issue the task force must take up with state lawmakers. “This is the first bullet we’ve got to fire at the legislature,” said Bruce Carney, UNC’s interim executive vice chancellor and provost. Administrators must now make their case to a series of higher authorities that UNC’s financial need is enough to justify the fight required to make significant changes in the state’s budget plan. Increasing in-state tuition more than $200 had not been officially discussed before Wednesday. The state budget, passed in August, included a provision that limited in-state tuition increases to $200 — or 5.2 percent above current rates — next year. Task force members had said several times in previous meetings that in-state tuition was not under consideration. Administrators brought this idea forward because they said keeping the increase at 5.2 percent for all students simply wouldn’t bring the University enough in revenue to pay for its priorities.
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BY Eliza Kern
Assistant University Editor
In Wednesday’s talks, this conflict isolated student government leaders from University administrators as most members of the task force expressed interest in hiking undergraduate nonresident tuition by as much as $1,414.30 and resident tuition by $251. Student Body President Jasmin Jones and Vice President David Bevevino — the two undergraduate students sitting on the tuition and fee advisory task force — were the only two members to vote against the higher tuition increase proposal. They favored a lower increase. “I did appreciate the fact that student leaders stood up for us in there,” said freshman Nicole Pradel, who
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$251 Maximum
in-state undergraduate tuition increase proposed.
$200 Maximum
in-state tuition increase currently allowed under state law.
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Percent of tuition increase revenue earmarked for financial aid.
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votes in favor of a lower tuition proposal — 5.2 percent.
How tuition proposals are passed After tuition proposals are created by the tuition and fee advisory task force, they go through five levels of management before being approved.
CHANCELLOR HOLDEN THORP
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
UNC-SYSTEM PRESIDENT ERSKINE BOWLES
The tuition and fee advisory task force has sent a recommendation to the chancellor, who will consider these proposals and make a recommendation.
The audit and finance committee of the Board of Trustees must first approve the recommendation. The full body then will vote on the proposal.
Last year: Thorp recommended the smaller of two proposals put forth by the task force.
Last year: The trustees unanimously passed Thorp’s recommendation.
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
N.C. GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Bowles has the option of adjusting increase requests for all UNC-system schools before recommending them to the Board of Governors.
The UNC-system board debates Bowles’ recommendations and makes a final decision for each of the 16 system universities.
Incorporates tuition increases into the state budget. Legislators can change any aspect of tuition as they see fit.
Last year: Bowles asked the chancellors to cut in-state students’ tuition increases by a third.
Last year: Board of Governors approved Bowles’ suggested increases.
SOURCE: STAFF REPORTS
Last year: Incorporated Board of Governors’ proposal. Mandated that next year’s increase would be $200 for all in-state students. DTH/ARIEL RUDOLPH
Medical records lead the way Army to collaborate with system schools UNC Hospitals UNC digitize charts
By Chelsea Bailey Staff writer
President Barack Obama’s health care reform policy calls for a nationwide switch to electronic medical records by 2014. UNC Hospitals are almost 25 years ahead of him. What began as a pilot program in 1991 is now the Web-based Clinical Information System, or WebCIS. The Internet-based program was created by a team of UNC doctors and technicians to transfer all paper records into electronic code. “WebCIS makes everything more efficient,” said Dr. Robert Berger, chief architect of design for the program. “Paper records were a hassle. If your chart wasn’t available, then we didn’t know about you.” The focus of health care reform legislation winding its way through
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the U.S. Congress has been insurance. But the national government has expressed support for making major reforms to other components of the U.S. health care system if this legislation passes, including how records are saved. Berger estimated the WebCIS program has cost UNC Hospitals upward of $20 million over the past 18 years. But he stressed that the benefits far outweigh the costs. Electronic medical records allow doctors to seamlessly prescribe medication, check labs and access a patient’s medical history electronically. WebCIS also tracks a patient’s
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Graduate students in the Gillings School of Global Public Health’s health care policy and management program are being trained for any reforms that emerge from national discussions. allergies and immunization history and prompts doctors when it’s time for a checkup. Berger said he and his team decided to switch to electronic medical records as a way to keep up with technology and other industries. “The PC was almost seven years old when the program started,” Berger said. “When it came to computers, the medical industry was in the Stone Age compared to other industries.” Now, almost 20 years later, UNC is leading the race for electronic medical records and is one of the
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By Ariel Zirulnick State & National Editor
The UNC system and the U.S. Army will launch a new chapter in their already-extensive collaboration today. The two institutions will centralize the interaction b e tw e e n t h e military and the academic communities when UNC-system Lt. Gen. John President Mulholland E r s k i n e Jr. will sign an Bowles and agreement on Lt. Gen. John campus today. Mulholland Jr., commanding general of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, sign an agreement before today’s Board of Governors meeting. The top three priorities for collaboration are language instruction,
DTH ONLINE: Read this story at dailytarheel.com to see a copy of the agreement. particularly for in-demand Asian languages, research and programs that foster negotiation, communication and leadership skills. The command has collaborated with individual campuses for years, but it will now come first to the system’s central administration so administrators can point them to the campuses and programs that best meet their needs, said Kimrey Rhinehardt, UNC-system vice president for federal relations and the system’s point person on the partnership. “It’s my job to go out and say, ‘We’re really good at this discipline at this campus,’” Rhinehardt said. “It’s enabling them to have a better understanding of where our strength and expertise lie.”
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n N.C. middle school is selling test points to students as a fundraiser. The idea came after a failed chocolate sale at the school the previous year. A parent advisory council at Rosewood Middle School in Goldsboro decided that they would sell children 20 points on their tests for $20. They would be able to add 10 points to any two tests of their choice, allowing them to move from a “B” to an “A” (or a “D” to a “C”). How intelligent. This is obviously a policy that should be adopted in the American education system to help combat the lack of grade inflation. Except, why stop at 20 points? The richest students will be able to buy their way to the top, and poor people will have to do ridiculous things like study and work hard. It all just makes sense. NOTED. In Britain, one pet owner had her dog christened in a pub. Instead of using holy water, she used holy beer. Delicious. The dog’s owner, Amanda Solloway, dripped Pedigree beer onto the tongue of the 20-weekold dog, Bob, at The Nags Head in Borrowash, Derby. Twenty dog guests attended and feasted on a cake made of liver, cheese and iced dog biscuits.
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QUOTED. “My children have to appear in court. They were handcuffed, slammed in a wagon, had their mug shots taken and treated like real criminals. They’re all scared. You never know how children will be impacted by that. I was all for some other kind of punishment, but not jail. Who hasn’t had a food fight?” — Erica Russell, mother of two eighth-grade girls who were jailed in Chicago for a food fight.
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Pasta for the kids: Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Kappa Phi are holding a pasta dinner benefiting the UNC Dance Marathon. Tickets are $5 in the Pit or at the door. Vegetarian and gluten-free options will be also be available. Time: 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Location: Kappa Kappa Gamma, 302 Pittsboro St.
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Dance lessons: Teachers from the Chapel Hill International Folk Dance Club will teach a selection of dances from eastern Europe and the United States. The club has been in the Chapel Hill area for 45 years. Time: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Location: FedEx Global Education Center, Nelson Mandela Auditorium Comedy show: Tony-nominated comedian Mike Birbiglia will be performing live tonight. He has appeared on Comedy Central, David Letterman and the Conan O’Brien show, as well as NPR’s This American Life. Tickets can be purchased online at memorialhall.unc.edu or in person at Memorial Hall Box Office. Time: 8 p.m. Location: Memorial Hall
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Art Lab open studio: The Art Lab will host an open studio night. Work by graduate student artists, including Emily Beck, Kia Carscallen, Travis Donovan, Jessica Dupuis, Jessye McDowell and Ray Padron will be on display, and refreshments will be provided. Time: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Location: Art Lab, 108 Airport Drive Chamber music: The University Chamber Players, a student chamber music ensemble directed by Donald L. Oehler, will perform a concert. Contact 962-1039 for more information or visit music.unc.edu/ ensembles/chamber. 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.
Police log n Someone stole tools in two sep-
arate incidents from a construction site at 200 Environ Way, according to Chapel Hill police reports. One person stole an impact drill worth $80 between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Nov. 2, reports state. Someone stole more tools between 3 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Nov. 5. The tools were collectively worth $175, reports state. n Two people were seen in the woods smoking something at 8:40 a.m. Tuesday at 206 Alta Court, according to Chapel Hill police reports. n Someone entered a residence between 9 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. Saturday at 102 E. Longview St., according to Chapel Hill police reports. The person stole a laptop worth $700, reports state. n Someone stole seven pairs of glasses from the demo rack at Chapel Hill Eyecare at 235 Elliott
Road between 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday, according to Chapel Hill police reports. The glasses were collectively worth $500, reports state. n Someone stole a student’s bicycle worth $100 from a residence between 5 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Friday at 121 S. Graham St., according to Chapel Hill police reports. n Someone kicked in the back door of a residence between noon and 6 p.m. Tuesday at 201 Elderberry Drive, according to Chapel Hill police reports. The person stole two televisions collectively worth $3,199 and an XBox 360 worth $300, reports state. n Someone broke into a home and stole $400 in cash between 7:50 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. Tuesday at 304 Caldwell St. Extension, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
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D u e t o a n e d i t i n g e r r o r, Wednesday’s page 3 story, “Getting low,” misattributed a statement to Kate Gillam, media representative for Dance Marathon. Gillam did not say that organizers did not expect all 1,800 people who signed up last year to participate. Due to a reporting error, Wednesday’s page 3 brief, “UNC Veteran’s Day ceremony moved indoors to avoid rain,” misstated the time of the event, which began at about 10 a.m. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the errors.
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UNC opens WWI postcard collection on Veteran’s Day The UNC Library fittingly opened an online collection of WWI postcards on Veteran’s Day. The postcards released on the library Web site are the first of 6,400 the library intends to digitize by June 2010. Each postcard was taken from the Bowman Gray Collection of World Wars I and II in the Rare Book Collection of the Wilson Special Collections Library. The collection includes 16,000 graphic images from the wars including prints, postcards and posters. When it is completed, the postcard collection will be one of the largest on the Web. Libby Chenault, interim curator of the Wilson Library’s Rare Book Collection, said the postcards provide a powerful image of WWI. “This was the golden age of postcards,” she said. “Scenes, especially those of devastation, will stay with you long after you view the image.” The collection’s namesake, Bowman Gray, attended UNC in the late 19th century and obtained most of the postcards from stationary companies during and shortly after the war. Visit dailytarheel.com/pit-talk for the full story.
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Vote results could be tossed Congress alleges errors in the election By Jeannine o’brian Staff writer
An error in last week’s election kept two Student Congress representatives from voting at Tuesday’s meeting, which could have altered the direction of a close decision. Freshmen Adam Jutha and Evan Ross were elected in Thursday’s special election to fill two empty South Campus seats, but they were not sworn in with the other new representatives. Jutha and Ross were not able to vote on several issues, including a contentious 18-16 vote that appropriated $2,095 to Students for a Democratic Society. Congress Speaker Joe LevinManning said the Board of Elections made procedural errors that could invalidate these seats and force
another election. He said he didn’t want to complicate the process by letting these representatives vote. Neither Jutha nor Ross indicated which way they would have voted. Had they both voted against the appropriation, the vote would have been a tie and the money would not have been given to SDS. “My biggest concern with the way matters were handled during yesterday’s Congress was the sole idea that South Campus students were not fairly represented,” Jutha said in an e-mail. “Students did their part and voted in the election.” The $2,095 will pay to bring three speakers to campus. Several people protested funding the speakers, claiming they were not qualified to receive student money.
Representative Maggie Zhou called Congress’ attention to the fact that the Board of Elections accepted an official declaration of candidacy from a South Campus candidate 10 days late. The timetable for declaring candidacy is outlined in the Student Code. The candidate was freshman Dan Peterson, who lost the election. Zhou also said the board failed to follow the Student Code procedure for determining the order in which candidates appear on the ballot. She filed an official complaint with the board Wednesday regarding the mistakes. Zhou said she planned on suing the board in Student Supreme Court but decided not to after speaking with the three losing South Campus candidates. “They were just ready for it to be over with,” she said.
Pete Gillooly, chairman of the board, said he did not hold a lottery to determine the order of the names on the ballot. He said he doesn’t know if one of the candidate’s declarations came late, but all had submitted paperwork by the time he made the ballot. “I’m not sure what happened,” he said. “I’m not really sure who’s at fault.” Zhou said the board’s mistakes were minor. “At this point, all I really care about is that these mistakes are brought to their attention,” she said. Levin-Manning said he’s working out what to do next. “I am currently taking steps to resolve this in a timely fashion,” he said. Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
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Bad weather on Tuesday night might have hurt a charity event that was already seeing fewer restaurant participants than last year. Irene Briggaman, the founder of Chapel Hill and Carrboro’s Restaurants Sharing 10 Percent program, said this was the first time she could remember stormy weather on the day of the event in its 21 years. The event raises money for hunger programs of the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service and has traditionally drawn customers for participating restaurants. But R&R Grill, a first-time participant, made less money than they made last Tuesday. “The weather really killed us,” owner Rob Moll said. “It’s not as great as we thought it was going to be.” Visit dailytarheel.com/section/ city for the full story.
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Board of Governors begins November meeting today The UNC-system Board of Governors, the policy-making body for the state’s 16 public universities and the N.C. School of Science and Math, will begin its monthly meeting today. The personnel and tenure committee is expected to approve the retreat rights policy for chancellors and presidents that was presented last month. The policy dictates the amount of leave time and salary that those administrators receive after they step down to faculty positions. At the budget and finance committee meeting, board members will receive an overview of the tuition process, which will officially begin next year. The audit committee will discuss irregular findings at Appalachian State University, Elizabeth City State University, Winston-Salem State University and N.C. Agricultural & Technical University. —From staff and wire reports.
courtesy of the ackland art museum
A graphite and watercolor painting by Dickens’ illustrator George Cruikshank titled, “A Brush with Shakespeare.”
Dickens images now on display By Lauren Russell Staff Writer
scendos, suggested the difficulty of modern music. The piece ended on an unassuming and generally unremarkable downward passage, leaving the audience unsure on the appropriate time to clap. It was modern music at its best.
Charles Dickens is known for creating memorable literary characters through his words. But the grouchy-voiced Scrooge that comes to mind may have been created through the influence of performances and illustrations of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” not his original writings. Likewise, “Nicholas Nickleby” is another classic that has been manifested visually on the stage and in drawings, including here at UNC. The connections among visual, literary and performing arts in Dickens’ time are recreated and celebrated on campus this month in a showcase of art, manuscripts and a performance relating to Dickens. “ The Illustrated World of Nicholas Nickleby” is a collaboration between PlayMakers Repertory Company, the Ackland Art Museum and the Rare Book Collection in Wilson Library. The program is designed to maximize the impact of cultural events on campus. Dickens presented the book in episodes, releasing a few chapters and illustrations at a time. He would tell his illustrators the premise of the episode before he wrote it, and the artist would work on the drawing while he worked on the writing. “Nicholas Nickleby,” which PlayMakers premiered Wednesday, is the biggest production in the theater’s history, with 25 actors playing more than 150 characters. Rob Colby, coordinator of academic programs at the Ackland, said PlayMakers approached him about having joint programming through the museum. After looking at the Ackland’s collection, Colby found 16 drawings, sketches and prints in the museum’s permanent collection from the early Victorian era, including works by Dickens’ chief illustrators and inspirers. “We have such a rich collection,” Colby said. “It was a wonderful thing to find the connection with an artist working in collaboration with Dickens.” Drawings by Dickens’ illustrators George Cruikshank and Hablot Knight Browne, who went by “Phiz,” and other works illuminating the print-making process comprise the Dickens installment. The exhibit, which also includes a print from the classic “Oliver Twist,” will run through Dec. 6. Wilson Library is currently displaying a complete collection of the original serial editions of “Nicholas Nickleby” and two early theatrical adaptations of the novel. The exhibit runs through Jan. 2. “It is rare that we identify an exact connection,” said Nic Brown, director of communications at the Ackland, of the theater’s performance and the University’s existing resources. “But we hope this can be an example.” To further enhance the Nickleby experience, English professor Marc Napolitano will give a presentation at 1 p.m. Dec. 2 at the Ackland. Na p o l i t a n o , w h o d i d t h e research that led to the connections of the three art forms, will speak about the installment as a part of the Ackland’s “Lunch with One” program.
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More than 3,000 gallons of sewage water overflowed
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A 3,600-gallon sewage overflow near Rosewalk Lane in Carrboro was caused by the storm Wednesday, an Orange Water and Sewer Authority news release stated. At about 9:30 a.m., an OWASA crew responded to untreated wastewater overflowing from a sewer manhole near Rosewalk Lane and Berryhill Drive, the release stated. Stormwater entered the sanitary sewer during heavy rain. Crews stopped it at about 11 a.m. The spill was reported to the N.C. Division of Water Quality, which will review the situation, the release stated.
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A table was set up Wednesday at the Orange Senior Center in Hillsborough to honor a soldier killed while on duty in Iraq in 2006. The memorial was part of the county’s Veterans Day remembrance. Veteran Services Officer Lois Harvin-Ravin coordinated the event.
County honors its veterans and their advocate BY caitie forde-smith staff writer
A fellow soldier broke into tears after commemorating the loss of a local fighter and the anniversary of his death. For the county’s first Veterans Day Appreciation Celebration, Lois Harvin-Ravin joined Staff Sergeant Misael Martinez’ mother on Wednesday at the front of the room and comforted the community Harvin-Ravin has both cultivated and honored. For 11 years, she has connected with veterans as she’s worked to connect them with services. As the county’s only Veteran Services Officer, Harvin-Ravin, a Vietnam War veteran, is in charge of addressing all 8,000 county veterans’ financial and medical needs. “More veterans are asking for my help as a result of job losses and an increase in daily expenses,” Harvin-Ravin said. Harvin-Ravin coordinated Wednesday’s event, held at Hillsborough’s Central Orange Senior Center in collaboration with the Orange County Department on Aging, which drew about 200 community members. “This event is most special to me because I have the chance to say to fellow veterans, ‘Welcome home,’” she said.
Martinez’ mother was presented with a plaque honoring her son, who was killed in action in Iraq on Veterans Day in 2006. “I will remember Misael’s smile the most,” Rosalie Martinez said. “Though I realize he is not with me anymore, I remember him each day. It is nice for him to be recognized.” Harvin-Ravin said her office mainly helps veterans apply for financial pension, health care and scholarships. She said the county’s veterans receive more than $20 million from the federal government in pension. Barry Jacobs, an Orange County commissioner, said the county is responsible for providing Harvin-Ravin her title and salary. Though she is defined as a county employee, state and federal governments are in control of her project and pension funding. “This smaller army of volunteers provides critical support to veterans,” Jacobs said. “The homelessness evident in our county is often affected by the influx of soldiers who served in Vietnam and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.” In his final remarks, county manager Frank Clifton praised Harvin-Ravin’s efforts. “What Lois does is important to us and important to you,” Clifton said.
Rosalia Martinez of Chapel Hill holds a plaque given to her Wednesday at a Veteran’s Day service in Hillsborough. Martinez’s son served three deployments in Iraq and was killed in his last tour of duty. With the encouragement of community members, Harvin-Ravin said she is confident she can meet the needs of her larger audience. “Everyone is experiencing change. I just have to recognize and react to this new climate,” she said. “I am a soldier. I make it happen.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.
Orchestra hits most of the right notes By Nick Andersen Senior Writer
Modern music is notoriously difficult to tackle. Complicated rhythms, disjointed melodies and unusual tone qualities make much of the traditional classical music written in the last 50 years so nontraditional that many ensembles avoid it altogether when crafting concert programs. But in a forceful declaration of modernity, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz presented a concert consisting entirely of more recent pieces — and, for the most part, they succeeded. Under the direction of Dennis Russell Davies, the orchestra of the Austrian city of Linz played with shifting confidence, at times unified and strong, and in other places ever so slightly off. Part of this hesitancy might have stemmed from the music chosen. The three pieces, Leonard Bernstein’s triumphant “Symphonic Dances from ‘West Side Story’” and two weighty works by seminal modernist composer Philip Glass, were high on rhythm and short on melodic passages, making any kind of confusion within the orchestra immediately apparent. The tight space provided to the
concertreview Bruckner Orchestra Linz Memorial Hall Wednesday ensemble on the Memorial Hall stage — it held three rows of choir bleachers and a complete orchestra formation — severely crowded the orchestra, narrowing their focus. Issues of space or musical difficulty aside, the ensemble played with great skill, improving as each song and the evening itself continued on. In Bernstein’s jazzy suite, the Bruckner orchestra seemed to gradually warm up, only truly coming into their own by the riotous mambo section in the middle. The first Glass piece, a violin concerto featuring French soloist Renaud Capucon, also suffered from a sense of hesitancy. The swirling, repetitive piece — so typical of Glass’ work — only seemed to come together in the final, technically challenging movement. In what was perhaps the evening’s finest — and most surprising — piece, the Bruckner orchestra joined with UNC’s Carolina Choir,
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The Bruckner Orchestra Linz performs Symphonic Dances from West Side Story and a symphony by Philip Glass on Wednesday in Memorial Hall. offering an unusual and sweeping Glass symphony, the orchestra’s only performance of this piece on their current U.S. tour. Each movement, propelled by the choir’s steady, syllabic chanting, rose in intensity and mastery. The third movement, riddled with inexplicable and lengthy pauses following dramatic cre-
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Town police and local business and organizations teamed up Wednesday to keep prescription drugs and alcohol locked up and out of the hands of children. To promote their new “Talk it Up, Lock it Up� campaign, the Coalition for Alcohol and Drug Free Teenagers of Chapel Hill and Carrboro worked with several local groups to organize Operation Medicine Cabinet. The event aimed to raise awareness about the dangers of substance abuse and educate the public on the proper disposal of prescription drugs. “‘Talk it Up, Lock it Up’ encourages adults to secure their alcohol,� said Dale Pratt-Wilson, director of the coalition. “Drugs should also be secure.� The groups set up a place in the University Mall parking lot for residents to drop off their unwanted medicines. Dropped-off drugs will be collected and sent to an incinerator. “People can use this to get rid of the drugs people have laying around,� said Robin Clark, community services officer for the police department. “Any time children can get their hands on prescription medicine, it can be a problem.� Pratt-Wilson said studies showed 30 percent of Chapel Hill and Carrboro teens have taken alcohol from parents without their knowledge. Sixty percent get drugs at parties with their friends. “It flies under the radar sometimes,� Clark said. Stephen Lair, franchise owner of Home Instead Senior Care, said drugs left in the house can become toxic and get into the
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If you have ever been in an awkward situation, comedian Mike Birbiglia knows how you feel. The comedian has become famous for his stand-up, which usually plays off awkward situations. Students and the community alike have the opportunity to hear about these awkward situations and more as UNC welcomes Birbiglia for a performance tonight. Birbiglia has made appearances on Comedy Central Presents Mike Birbiglia and late night got his comedic shows such as t h e To n i g h t start with an Show with award in the Conan O’Brien third grade. and the Late Show with David Letterman. He is a regular contributor to the radio show “This American Life.� “I’ve always been a huge fan of his stand-up and thought he’d be perfect for Carolina,� said Amanda Kao, president of Carolina Union Activities Board. The show has not yet sold out, but once the show was opened to the general public, ticket sales increased. More general public tickets have been sold than student ones. Kao anticipates many people just showing up at the door the night of the show. “I think his comedy is really special because he is such a gifted story teller,� said Cody Hughes, a
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As the next decade stands impatiently on our doorstep, Dive takes a look at the past 10 years in arts and entertainment. Whether it’s the potential threat of rap’s demise or reality TV’s utter inundation of broadcast and cable, the shifts in popular culture over the new century’s first decade have been profound and far-reaching. In an effort to explore our generation’s place in our first decade of seeming cultural relevance, Dive has decided to take on four of the topics that have indelibly shaped the popular landscape of the American media and arts. So read on with us as we attempt to understand the decade that has made us who we are.
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TRACK 1: THE FALL OF HIP-HOP by Benn Wineka Staff Writer
Back in 1998 the young Earl Simmons, better known as rapper DMX, released two albums within six months of each other. By year’s end, both had well eclipsed the platinum retail sales mark. DMX’s domination of the music world was a sign of the times. Now hip-hop music shows little resemblance to the pop culture
force it was at the turn of the century. Y2K brought us artists such as Nelly, and a second coming of LL Cool J that could compete with boy bands for pop supremacy. Then after the inevitable fall of the St. Lunatic and his hoarse comrade Ja Rule, there was no hip-hop left on Top 40 radio besides a novelty one-hitter or Atlantabased snap music, neither of which have guided pop culture like their predecessors.
Eminem broke into the TRL crowd and sold 1.76 million albums in one week. Last year it was amazing that Lil Wayne even broke the “milli” mark, and he was barely 5,500 albums over it. Jay-Z has had five solo No. 1 albums in the last 10 years. Yet Jay-Z didn’t put out an album for more than two years and upon his return was trading bars with Chris Martin of Coldplay instead of Memphis
Bleek. Now, Jay is being spotted at Grizzly Bear shows. Lil Wayne is being out-weezed by Rivers Cuomo. Arguably the biggest song of noted trendsetter Kanye West’s career is a Daft Punk sample. Hip-hop was the genre being borrowed from, and now it’s the borrower. Samples have always been used as a frame for hiphop songs, but now it takes a flipped Lady Gaga song, one that is still being played on
the radio, to get new hip-hop acts exposure. It took DC emcee Wale, whose Attention Deficit is one of the most highly anticipated debuts in recent years, rapping over Justice’s “D.A.N.C.E.” to get major buzz. Not that there isn’t hope for hip-hop out there. But for it to be culturally relevant like it was in the early years of the century, it will take innovation within the genre instead of simply looking outside it to get there.
While the backwash of grunge and factory-made rap dominated in the early years, indie heroes have gained ground as the decade has progressed. The examples at this point are numerous. From Modest Mouse to Radiohead to Arcade Fire, a bevy of bands once seen as left of the mainstream’s conservative center are now hit makers, scoring Top 40 singles and selling hefty amounts of
records — the last albums by those three bands spent 25, 52 and 17 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart, respectively. The reason for this rise is emotionality. While most of the period’s radio rap has been built on boasts of jewel-encrusted gunshot wounds and the lion’s share of modern rock has blindly driven itself on simpleminded angst, indie rock has stumbled on something far more universal: moping.
Everyone likes to over-indulge in emotions, and these bands have given listeners an easy way to put that latest break-up in perspective. Now, indie rock hasn’t taken over completely. There will always be some cleancut Disney bubblegum or a brand-new Kanye-West protégé to make sure of that. But in the leaps it’s made, the category has become far more universal than niche.
one of the most universally loved trends of the last 10 years. Another trend, not nearly as popular across the board but still drawing heavy crowds among college students, is the “Frat Pack” comedy. Some people prefer Will Ferrell’s deadpan antics of idiocy, while others identify with the suave everyman they see in Vince Vaughn.
The movies such comedians star in are too mainstream to be labeled as “cult,” but too off-kilter to be considered run-of-themill. Whether you find them obnoxious or hilarious, you can’t deny that they have developed into their own distinct genre over the past 10 years and that they don’t look like they’re going away. Every age has its nay-sayers, those who
loudly proclaim that everything is going to hell in a hand basket. But I find the Academy Award Best Picture selections from the past 10 years, compared to those of the 1990s, a heartening revelation. With frat packs and epic trilogies or not, it shows that things really can improve and that we can always find a better gold standard for our movies than “Braveheart.”
Obviously. Detrimental to my IQ? Well, that’s up for debate. One glance at VH1 or MTV and it’s easy to forget that they once operated under the pretense of being music television. A few minutes of commercials plugging upcoming shows are all too indicative of America’s burgeoning interest in voyeurism. There are the reformists, like “Tool Academy,” a show for douchebag reha-
bilitation. Then the dating shows, like “My Antonio,” where a B-list model looks for someone who can adapt to his, ahem, hectic lifestyle (read: worships at the altar of Antonio). Who knows if these shows really reflect the people who watch them. When you consider scripted dramas on Showtime or AMC, it gets harder to say for sure—are the same people who watch “Real Chance
of Love 2: Back in the Saddle” tuning in to “Weeds” or “Mad Men?” I can name plenty of folks, including myself, who fit that dichotomy. Maybe, between all the “realities” of shows both real and staged, the decade’s television represents more than just cheap thrills and momentary escapes—maybe it’s not as much a screen as it is a mirror of 10 eventful years.
TRACK 2: THE RISE OF INDIE ROCK by Jordan Lawrence Diversions Editor
As any walk into Frat Court on Friday night will clearly prove, so-called “indie music” has thoroughly infiltrated the mainstream. With strikingly un-nerdy girls dancing to the electro-pop of MGMT and Busch-Light-chugging bros passionately fist-pumping to awkward arena heroes such as Kings Of Leon, it’s clear that the
casually listening mainstream has found a supplement to their musical diet. As mainstream rock and rap have seen their quality go down the drain with the tanking economy, there’s not much else for the casual listener to latch on to. In a twist of terms and tastes, indie rock has become a sector of mainstream music and the only one that can claim the ’00s as a victory.
TRACK 3: THE MOVIES by jonathan pattishall staff writer
Distinct trends have characterized Hollywood’s evolution over the last decade. One of the most prominent, lucrative and entertaining has been the production of epics and trilogies. Almost everyone can name their favorite three-part series from the first decade of the new millennium, but no one can pretend
like they’ve never seen Johnny Depp as the swashbuckling Captain Jack Sparrow. And I have yet to run into a Tolkien fan who is capable of reading any of the Lord of the Rings books without picturing Viggo Mortensen’s stubbly mug every time Aragorn is mentioned. Tastes differ, of course, but if box office sales are any indication, the proliferation of adventurous and epic trilogies has been
TRACK 4: THE TELEVISION by linnie greene
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Who knows when television, in all its proletarian glory, became such an integral part of the American identity, but in a world of “I Want to Work for Diddy” and “Wife Swap,” it’s safe to say that this national emblem has experienced more than a few shifts in the last decade. It’s not hard to detect the changes that
have come to characterize modern television. And while I admit that in the year 2000 I was only a wee little 9-year-old, I fondly recall my first rendezvous with trash TV. I remember the anxiety coursing through my veins as I waited on an “American Idol” verdict. I recall the bated breath that accompanied judging on “America’s Next Top Model.” Mindless? Sure. Addictive?
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Fin Fang Foom defies odds with new album Album succeeds in creating tension Band overcomes illness to endure By Jordan Lawrence Diversions Editor
Like many great things in music, Fin Fang Foom’s sound is built on tension. The Chapel Hill trio potently distills elements that just shouldn’t work. Brutal intensity with delicate emotionality, primal fury with existential angst, vigorously adventurous rhythms with guitar lines so strung-out they seem like they haven’t slept for days — that’s the razor’s edge the band navigates. In “Regret,” voluptuous bass opens dancing with cagey guitar, as piano plays ominously in the background. It’s a perfectly unsettling setting for bassist/singer Edwin Sanchez to unleash shocking metaphors. “I tried to find an exit/But smoke just filled my lungs/I was trying not to panic/As my flesh was burning,” he sings, assaulting the listener’s psyche before the music erupts in flaming retribution. It’s an unrelent-
ing indictment of a troubled mind. But Foom isn’t always vicious. On “Lonely Waves” a musical elegy of violin and prickly guitar forms the backdrop for Sanchez’s beautifuly forlorn duet with his Bellafea partner Heather McEntire. It’s when the band leaves behind this flexibility that it fails. On the tracks that stick to a furious bassand-drums-with-controlled-guitar formula, the impact gets lost. Still, when the band endulges in nuanced languor or lets loose a tumultuous cavalcade, Monomyth is hard to resist. The instrumental title track is the best success in both regards. Disjointed piano paints an unease as guitar, bass and drums enter in an enthralling slow build. Then suddenly the band unleashes a lacerating onslaught that will have you worshipping at your speakers. It’s not an easy trick. It balances brittle restraint with destructive force without letting either win
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If a band you like took six years between full-length albums, you’d likely be annoyed and incredulous as to how the process could actually take that long. But if you’re a fan of Chapel Hill’s Fin Fang Foom, you’d probably understand. Michael Triplett, guitarist for the epic post rock trio, had a near deadly bout with spinal meningitis in 2004. The band, a force to be reckoned with since its late ’90s start in Jacksonville, Fla., ceased touring for about a year as Triplett recovered from a disease that came close to taking his life and mobility. “I think it’s kind of affected everything in my life,” Triplett said. “Really coming that close to dying, the things that come out are just learning to be content with what’s around you and trying to take it in, the small moments that matter.” Overcoming the prognosis that he would never walk again, Triplett
rejoined his band, toiling away, touring and releasing a Japanonly EP on the way to new LP Monomyth, The record will have its release celebrated at Local 506 on Saturday. Because of his courage in the face of the illness, singer and bassist Edwin Sanchez wrapped the album name around his friend’s struggle. The term refers to a hero in epic literature who wanders out into the world and tries his hand against monstrosities away from his home. It seemed a perfect to Sanchez. “He pretty much took a year out of his life,” he said. “He was pretty much alive on machines briefly. I was just kind of describing what I think he might have went through with the whole term ‘monomyth.’” And that epic concept is backed by equally large music, a construction of thunderous bass, propulsive drumming and anxious guitar. It’s a sound that both members said benefited from the band taking more time to finish it. “There was a little more time to craft these songs,” Triplett said. “We had a little extra time in the studio to get them closer to where we want them.” Though the band is back to music, Triplett pointed out that he looks at making music from a new perspective this time around. “Musically I think it just changed
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priorities for us,” he said. “It just became less about ‘we need to put out that record because it’s been so many years.’ It’s become more like ‘we’ll record this record when we record it.’” That willingness to take the music as it comes extends beyond the band’s process and into the way it conducts itself as a business. “We don’t have any big goals,” Sanchez said. “We just want to be able to travel. We write it just because it’s our passion and what we do. Fortunately we all share that and have been together for so long. We don’t play music in hopes to be successful because if you do that you’re just going to be always disappointed.” With a new lease on musical life, the band says it’s just excited to keep pushing forward together. “The main thing is we have a good time doing it. Triplett said. “We still have fun. We still enjoy having like a weekly hang-out time together for some reason.” Contact the Diversions Editor at dive@unc.edu.
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LAKE INFERIOR: TAKING ON THE TOWN When most music lovers think of Chapel Hill-Carrboro, the first things that come to mind are the town’s venues and the prolific scene. But Lake Inferior, an artist on student-run label Vinyl Records, proves that UNC is a contributor to the town’s pool of talent. Diversions Assistant Editor Linnie Greene sat down with Lake Inferior’s Nasir Abbas, Logan Hornebuckle and Derek Torres to hear about the band’s new album, Pegasaur, and why falling trees can be a guitarist’s worst enemy.
Diversions: So what’s different about this EP versus your last one? Nasir Abbas: The first EP we recorded in our apartment, so we had a lot of time to fiddle about and mess with our computer. We self-produced it, so it kind of took a while to do that kind of stuff. Logan Hornebuckle:
NA: We were in an actual stu- NA: Yeah, we played in some dio, recording tape. bands in middle school and high LH: If we didn’t get done at a school. LH: Dax (Beaton) and Bo certain point, we had to keep paying to keep doing this. That was an (Beard) who aren’t here and I, we knew each other in high school in extra kick in the pants, I guess. It all started out when Derek Torres: The sec- Greensboro. Dax and Bo started. You know Dax ond thing that’s different other had some demos and Bo had been than that is that our first EP, if playing drums for seven or eight you heard it, if you notice it’s like years and just picked up a guitar a hodgepodge. You could listen and really wanted to do something to track two and track five and be creatively, but while playing guitar, like, ‘Is this the same band?’ And and they were called The Moose that came a lot from we were just And Me. writing songs, and we were just like DT: Who was the moose? writing whatever or playing whatever because we hadn’t really found LH: I think Dax was the a sound yet. You can hear it. moose. But when we went into this NA: Which is really, really Pegasaur thing we were like, ‘alright, we’ve got to have a theme.’ weird because the band that me Derek were in in high school, NA: The first one’s kind of like and we had this pop-opera-long thing, a sampler platter, and this one’s and Derek’s character was actukind of like … ally a moose, so I think it was just DT: A four-course meal. meant to be.
It basically gave us a lot of time to over-think and overdo everything, Diversions: How did Lake LH: And I’d just started playing and we kind of resented that, but Inferior form? drums, and Dax had asked me if I now, this past time, we had certain DT: Me and Nasir have known just wanted to just jam with them. time limits because time is money. NA: And then I met Dax outeach other since we were 11.
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LH: Weren’t you also crying in the parking lot? You got kicked out graduate we can start to tour a lot. for dancing. LH: We want to be self-supDiversions: How has being porting enough so we can put all our energy into it and not have to a student affected the band? about a part-time job or this LH: I don’t think it really has. worry exam the next week or this paper NA: It’s kind of like going to that’s due. parties and stuff and going to difNA: It seems so distracting ferent things around and hearing sometimes. A lot of times I feel what people like and going, ‘Oh, like school is getting in the way what is this? I like this, I want to of the band for me. I don’t know. dance to this.’ It sounds really bad, especially I want to make music that people if you’re going to print this in a can put on, at least for this album it school paper, but all I really want kind of was. I don’t know if this is like to concentrate on is music and the always — but something that people band stuff. And I have to write this can put on and just kind of groove to, stupid paper about music when I put on at a party and just enjoy. could actually be making music. Diversions: What are your DT: A funny story about the plans after you’re all graduated? Vinyl thing — when we heard LH: I think we kind of all want about it, we all talked about it for to relocate at some point. Why not? like three or four days, and we were We’ve established ourself here, but like, ‘This is really important, we I guess our next short-term goal is should try to do this.’ But Bo was to really establish ourself, to kind in Boone, and I ended up going to of spread the love throughout the Boone, too. It’s like three of us were South, out into the rest of the coun- in Boone or something, and Bo try. You know what I mean? calls me and he’s like ‘I just broke DT: We want to get paid for my hand.’ A tree had fallen on him doing this. Just like, really want to or something. It was crazy. make a living. I don’t want to work a day job.
LH: They were in the river. NA: And a log just fell on his
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Derek Torres of UNC’s resident electro-pop outfit Lake Inferior plays bass during a performance at the University’s Fall Fest in August.
knew our songs really well and he can play guitar, so I’m like, ‘Don’t worry Bo, don’t worry, Graetz can probably play for you at the show,’ and Bo apparently didn’t know about the Vinyl showcase so he just got like really upset. He was like, ‘I just can’t believe this, like you guys are about to replace me like that.’ There was miscommunication for like three days before the Vinyl showcase. Bo was like ready to quit the band.
NA: But he ended up playing NA: It’s just some of us are still hand. with like a broken hand. in school. It’s hard. We can’t really DT: A log fell on his hand and it put together tours or anything broke bones in his hand and I was Contact the Diversions Editor because we have to work around like, ‘Oh my God, man!’ At that at dive@unc.edu. that, but hopefully when we all point our friend, Adam Graetz, he
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A Serious Man “It’s subtle. It’s clever. But is it convincing?” So says Sy Ableman, the seemingly benevolent acquaintance of the Coen brother’s latest ill-fated protagonist. The victim this time is Larry Gopnik, an average suburbanAmerican Jew in the late 1960s, and Sy has actually stolen his wife (in a totally kosher way, of course). It’s one of many misfortunes to befall poor Larry, who seeks guidance from three very different rabbis, searching for the reason why God is punishing him. Sadly, Sy’s commentary has to be turned on the movie itself. We know it’s subtle and clever, like everything the Coen brothers do. But for some reason it just isn’t that convincing this time around. Their trademark black humor is neither particularly black nor particularly humorous. Save for Fred Melamed as Ableman, none of their actors stand out — they didn’t collaborate with any of their usual stars. And the fool-proof crowd pleaser for any Coen brothers fan — a sudden act of unexpectedly brutal
The good thing about the Coens is that one can always appreciate what they’re trying to do, even if one doesn’t necessarily appreciate what they have done. “A Serious Man” is without a doubt a thoughtprovoking translation of “The Book of Job.” Like the Hebrew parallelisms of the original poetry, the Coens’ inventive side plots and pensive long takes labor intensively over the question of human suffering, folding and unfolding in drowsy Semitic rhythm. I can also say, without giving away too much, that God has a cameo out of the whirlwind that’s bewildering at first but increasingly meaningful the more I reflect on it. But overall the Jobcorrespondence might be a little too perfect. It’s always infinitely frustrating to get to that point in Job where the poor guy finally receives his answer from God about why he suffers. “Where were you when I made the hippopotamus?” asked God rhetorically and senselessly. Had I been Job, I would have asked God what I now ask the Coens: “WTF are you talking about?” - Jonathan Pattishall
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subtle, scary and charming at the Ben Davis and the JetTs same time. But in trying to do all, it achieves nothing. -Suzanne Enzerink
The box
Just about anything is possible in the 1976 world of “The Box.” A strange mix of amputated toes, nosebleeds, “employees,” morality, Mars and potential alien embodiment should really trip the audience out. But with so much to work with, director Richard Kelly drops the box. Norma (Cameron Diaz) and husband Arthur (James Marsden) live a seemingly happy life outside D.C. in 1976. Their son, Walter (Sam Oz Stone), even brushes his teeth without being asked. He attends the private school his mother works at, and Arthur works for NASA. But the seams of their innocent life come undone when Arlington Steward (Frank Langella), a missing, potentially dead, come-back-to-life scientist, offers them the cash opportunity they desperately need, if only they will press a button to kill someone else. Cue the dramatic music. I don’t know which part is less believable: the ability of Steward to control people and raise timetraveling waters or the fact that this family really needs that million dollars that desperately. Norma notes that it’s a bit too early for Arthur to have a mid-life crisis as he drives away in his Mustang. Either way, audiences across the country should roll their eyes at the inability to convey any convincing acting, directing or life to make us buy into this bedlam. Diaz is so slow to the punch it’s painful, and Kelly’s pandemonium with little cause and value dampers the unsustainable plot. Most of the detail that is weaved into the storyline ends up being unnecessary. Good teaser details that trick the audience into wandering down all the wrong paths make a good movie. But the audience shouldn’t be gasping for breath, peeved and disappointed at the end, either. A poorly orchestrated weave of bizarre occurrences does not make a film good. Instead, it just it makes it plain old annoying. Kelly just didn’t know where to stop with this one. Translating a 10-page short story to a two-hour conundrum proves unlikely and challenging. It’s too bad they even tried.
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It will likely surprise unfamiliar listeners that Charge It Up! is spearheaded by a mild-mannered, wellbearded Carrboro family man. But Ben Davis, who leads his Jetts, fits that description, though you’d never know it from the 10 redhot cuts on his band’s album. Wrangling the blistering fuzz of Sonic Youth and hitching it to rocket-powered rhythms, the outfit has produced an album that careens down the cathartic back roads that turn art rock into jubilant pop. “Robocoppin’” is an excellent example of the approach. Atop swaggering, distorted riffs, a pounding beat and the late-night sheen of colorful synth, Davis brags about how he’s moving on from a failed relationship. “I’m about to paint this town a couple of colors you shouldn’t ever mix now,” he sings, throwing away the line with all the casual cruelty of a man just released from his romantic leash. On this and a good supply of other up-tempo songs, the band rocks their problems right out of town. And while the tools they use occasionally get repetitive, they’re assembled with too much energy to ever approach boring. But it all gets nailed home when Davis’ runaway train crashes into darkly emotional pay dirt. On “Rincon Pio Sounds,” bassist Megan Culton piercingly sings of the obstacles between two people as guitar, keyboards and bass tangle into a knot of pure momentum. “A rock will only skip so far/Until it sinks through into the dark,” she sings as the music solidifies the notion into certainty. It’s an impeccably crafted pillar of pure frustration that burns with passion. So whether the attack is powered by sneering disregard or angst-ridden admission, Davis and his Jetts provide furiously rocking release. As a result, there’s nothing mild or family-oriented about it.
Fall break is past, Thanksgiving yet to come, but “A Christmas Carol” already present. This time Disney tries its luck with a performance-captured animation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel. The result can be best described as something like an adolescent facing an identity crisis. It’s unsure of what it wants and goes back and forth between extremes. And while the name Robert Zemeckis seems reason for excitement because of his earlier successes such as “Forrest Gump” and “Back to the Future,” and previous Disney work “The Polar Express,” the result is disappointing. The story is classic. Scrooge is punished for his greed and indifference to fellow human beings and is visited by three ghosts: the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and yet to come. They take him on a journey that will change his life and afterlife. On the one hand the film adheres closely to Dickens’ novel, with formal dialogue and infamous catchphrases such as “Bah, humbug” and “God bless us, everyone.” But then again, Dickens certainly did not write about Scrooge shrinking -Jordan Lawrence to a rat-sized puppet and running -Rachel Arnett through drainpipes high on helium, Lake Inferior as Zemeckis interpreted Scrooge’s pegasaur attempt to stay out of the hands of the quite creepy Ghost of Christmas starSystem Yet to Come. pop/electronic While the visuals are brilliant, Poor abundant in detail and expression, As a band that got its start at a Fair they could have used a little bit more handful of UNC house parties, Lake color. The depressing grays definitegood ly complement the tone of the story Rubin Ads v2:Sarna Ads 9/8/09 11:02 AM Page 1 but are a bit heavy on the eyes. Excellent This does not prevent the charClassic acters to coming to life visually — Colin Firth’s Fred looks uncannily real — but they lack in emotion. divestaff Scrooge’s bitterness is never really Jordan Lawrence, Editor explained or highlighted, and all of 843-4529 | dive@unc.edu the other characters remain flat. Linnie Greene, Assistant Editor Jim Carrey does all of the important voices. At first this is admiraRachel Arnett, Elizabeth Byrum, Joe ble. Scrooge’s voice is impressive. Chapman, Suzanne Enzerink, Rocco But after hearing the same laugh Giamatte, Mark Niegelsky, Anna for the 70th time it becomes reason Norris, Jonathan Pattishall, Benn for annoyance. Wineka, staff writers “A Christmas Carol” never comes Duncan Hoge, Design Editor to fruition. It tries to be witty, serious, realistic, fantastical, loud, Cover Design: Anne Krisulewicz
Inferior knows how to make people dance. With an infectious mix of pop and electronic music, the band has crafted an EP that far outshines its humble beginnings. A flagship band for the University’s own Vinyl Records, Lake Inferior blends synthesized sounds with whimsical lyrics. Pegasaur confidently delves into a dance-happy journey sure to please anyone looking for rhythmic, youthful fun. From funky synths to dreamy melodies, Lake Inferior sports a multifaceted mix that falls somewhere between Arcade Fire and Animal Collective. Although these influences and others are noticeable, the band’s willingness to explore makes its music stand out as a local version of pop trends. With a mix of sounds that ranges from clapping to racing drums and poppy guitars, Lake Inferior has created an album with layers that unfold after multiple listens. “Gepeddo,” with its infectious hand claps and upbeat synthesizers, unfolds in a vein almost identical to Vampire Weekend. The feel-good quality of the song is only amplified by its foolish lyrics that recount a twisted reference to Pinocchio. Though the band often resembles identifiable artists, it still displays a unique sound. The tendency to create complex songs showcases its fondness for experimentation. Pegasaur may not make a sweeping statement, but it ensures a good time. After all, it’s the combination of experimentation, youthfulness and energy that makes Lake Inferior a band you can’t help but dance to. -Elizabeth Byrum
wale attention deficit hip-hop
With his proper debut, Wale presents the epitome of an Internetrap dilemma. His debut features everything we’ve come to know and expect from the DC artist: the “indie” appeal, a go-go influence and the attempted reinjection of consciousness into mainstream hip-hop. But where Wale once held the cards to become one of the first artists to break into a radio-friendly environment while preserving the artistic integrity he came to be known for on his mixtapes, the opportunity was simply missed. Record executives were obviously at work when recruiting Lady Gaga for the hook on “Chillin’” and Gucci Mane for a verse on “Pretty Girls,” but those aren’t even the tracks that are an issue. When listening to the entire album, however, there isn’t a moment in which you stop and wonder why Wale never broke out sooner. There are songs fit to establish the D.C. rap scene. The Mark Ronson
produced “Mirrors” features Bun B over an artfully arranged composition of whining horns and hi-hats. Both tracks produced by TV On The Radio’s David Sitek and the triumphant “Beautiful Bliss” with J. Cole also add to the standouts. But it’s hard to overlook the absence of “Letter,” a guaranteed crossover hit featuring John Mayer that was left off. It doesn’t compute. Wale has assembled an album that will appease the most ardent comment section ballbusters, yet it’s not quite accessible enough for casual hip-hop fans to fully comprehend and appreciate. At least not with the cultural A.D.D. of our society. -Benn Wineka
little tybee building a bomb pop
It’s rare that a band fuses disparate sounds and influences effectively, but Atlanta-based Little Tybee accomplishes this feat on Building a Bomb, deftly blending bluegrass, pop, Americana and world music in one seamless package. The title track exemplifies the band’s ability to unite this menagerie of influences. Integrating the mournful sounds of fiddle and keyboards with traces of Brazilian bossa nova, the band wrangles what could have been a disjointed sonic array into something smooth and intricate. The song’s ebb and flow mirrors the aesthetic of the rest of the record. Multifaceted and winding, it’s an exploration of sonic texture. Unlike many other freshly formed bands — Little Tybee came into being in the winter of this year — Building a Bomb feels intentional in its every facet. The arts-and-crafts-style album art that opens like origami to the order of the tracks, the lyrics, melodies and illustrations perpetuate a delicately balanced momentum. While the band proves to be skillful at uniting an array of influences, the record grows homogenous after a few songs. With the exception of the hymn-like, “I Wonder Which House The Fish Will Live In,” tempo and instrumentation rarely differ from track to track, and after a while, the poignant strains of violin begin to sound commonplace. And Brock Scott’s soft, illustrative vocals run together. Little Tybee might forsake heavy experimentation on its first fulllength, but its combination of storytelling and stylistic innovation imbues each song with a playfulness and texture that should keep audiences interested. Building a Bomb may rely on repetition, but when the sound is so intriguing, it’s hard to care. -Linnie Greene
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Series of mistakes will be delaying Abortion debate to move to Senate closing of Guantanamo Bay prison WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — The health care bill that the House of Representatives has passed would bar insurers from selling policies that cover abortion to anyone who gets a federal subsidy. It does allow insurers to offer optional abortion coverage that consumers could purchase with their own money. Based on some states’ experiences, however, it’s unlikely that insurers would sell such coverage. The abortion debate rivals the controversy over the “public option.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — President Barack Obama’s decision to close the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison by Jan. 22 was followed by a series of mistakes and missteps by his administration that will delay the prison’s closure for months, according to a report from a policy organization with close ties to the White House. Those mistakes — which ranged from initially having too few people on board to handle the workload to misreading Congress — will push the prison’s closure well beyond the January dead-
line, which Obama announced two days after he took office. The White House declined to comment on the report. The administration is expected to announce within days the results of its review of legal cases against the remaining detainees at Guantanamo, a review that originally was scheduled to be finished in July. It is also expected to say whether it will prosecute the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and four alleged co-conspirators in a federal civilian court.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (MCT) —Sen. John McCain, former presidential candidate, called last week’s shooting at Fort Hood “an act of terror” during a speech at the University of Louisville Wednesday morning. He called for swift disclosure of questionable behavior at military bases. Twelve soldiers and one civilian were killed in a shooting rampage last week, and the suspect, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was shot and wounded. He told the crowd that President Barack Obama needs to make his decision about the military strategy in Afghanistan soon.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — On a day when Americans acknowledge the service of veterans past, President Barack Obama on Wednesday told members of the military currently serving around the world that he will honor their work with a commitment to the “hard work of peace.” Speaking to veterans and their families at a memorial service at Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington, Obama said modern service members belong in history alongside veterans of “wars whose names have come to define eras.”
MIAMI (MCT) — The U.S. State Department has told Cuba it deplores last week’s assault on blogger Yoani Sanchez, one of the toughest of several expressions of support for the Havana writer. Sanchez and fellow blogger Orlando Luis Pardo said they were beaten Friday by presumed state security agents to keep them away from a “march against violence.’’ Blogger Claudia Cadelo and another woman were detained in the incident but without violence. Cuba’s government-controlled mass media has made no mention of the incident.
Honors Program seeks to expand and improve By COLLEEN VOLZ STAFF WRITER
UNC’s Honors Program could soon see more students, more courses and more options for graduating with honors. The University has proposed a major overhaul of the program in response to low retention rates. Administrators also hope to use the program to better recruit top students. The program will look to increase the number of honors students from 5 to 10 percent of the student body, bringing the total number to about 400 per class. “I think we’ll come out on the other side with an honors program not quite like anything else out there at a public research university,” said Jim Leloudis, associate dean of the Honors Program. Any changes put forth will not be confirmed until spring 2010. Under the proposed changes, the program would hire 15 new professors for the College of Arts and
Sciences to expand course offerings. They will be hired across several departments and over the course of several years, Leloudis said. The new jobs are expected to cost UNC about $22.5 million. Gifts made during the Carolina First Campaign — private donations and matched state money — are being used to hire the faculty members. Leloudis said each professor hired will translate into four additional honors courses. Research consultants were hired in December to address concerns about the program. Students and faculty members expressed discontent with the courses offered through the program, many of which are focused in the humanities. The program currently selects about 5 percent of the incoming freshman class to enter the program. While honors classes are open to all students, honors students get first priority for enrolling in these classes. Students are required to take two
honors courses per year to stay in the program, but many students majoring in natural sciences have had difficulty finding honors courses that also fulfill their major requirements. “I think too often science students have to make a choice,” said junior Chris Carter, co-chairman of the academic affairs committee of the Honors Program Executive Board. “We don’t want them to have to choose between the honors program and their major.” Junior Ben Hawks, a math and computer science double major, said he dropped out of the program after his first year. “Taking the honors classes had become a chore,” he said, adding that he would rather take more interesting classes in his major. Any student who wants to graduate with honors, regardless of whether they are a part of the Honors Program, can do so by writing an honors thesis in their senior year. Leloudis said he hopes the new program will allow for new pathways to earning an honors degree. He said the new idea might include a research method, but the proposal is still in the planning stages.
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Current African aid method fails the needy, author says BY Zach White STAFF Writer
Dambisa Moyo tells it like it is when it comes to Africa. Avoiding glossing over the problems, she expresses the harsh reality that persists throughout the continent. “We need to take a good hard look on what is happening across Africa. Aid has absolutely failed,” Moyo said in a call to arms to change the approach of the direction of aid given to Africa. She gave an hour-long presentation Wednesday at the Friday Center to a packed crowd. The lecture was part of the Business Across Borders series run by the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise within the business school. Moyo has been a major figure on the African aid debate since she released her book, “Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa,” last year. The book became a New Contact the University Editor York Times best-seller, and she at udesk@unc.edu. has since been named to the 2009
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Time magazine list of the 100 most influential people of the year. Moyo, a native of Zambia, is now part of a group of Africans educated in the U.S. and Europe who are looking to change the debate on how aid money is spent in Africa. “There was a real interest among students to bring more people into the business school who have had on-the-ground experience in the different countries’ business markets,” said Raymond Farrow, the executive director of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise. During the lecture, Moyo went over the key points brought up in her book on the differences in aid, the problems and what changes can be made. She has been exceptionally critical of the celebrity approach to African aid. “People are not listening to the presidents in Africa on what to do with Africa,” Moyo said. “You must be able to strum a guitar to be heard. I love good music, but I do not trust (celebrities) running my country.” Moyo also said she believes the African countries need to systematically move away from aid and look within to install institutions that would help Africa develop. “The emotion has not helped,”
“People are not listening to the presidents in Africa on what to do with Africa.” Dambisa Moyo, Author she said. “Africa must be looked on from logic — with stats and figures — and look for long-term solutions.” The Business Across Borders program started two years ago and holds two series each year. Previous discussions focused on China, India and Latin America. The series moved from focusing on a distinct country to instead focusing on a particular continent. “On this campus, there are a lot of interests among students and faculty on Africa, and it is an area that usually does not get as much visibility as Asia or others on having experts come,” Farrow said. “Having a high profile speaker on Africa can really help reshape the debate here.” Contact the Features Editor at features@unc.edu.
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few institutions that has created its own system. In a July press conference on health care reform, President Obama noted the advantages of electronic medical records but stressed they would require an investment. Berger said while he supports Obama’s push for electronic medical records, there will be financial stumbling blocks. “It’s a very expensive proposition,” Berger said. “The problem is that only about 10 percent of hospitals have full electronic records, so you can imagine the costs to get everyone computerized by 2014.” Dr. Alan Cheng, a chief resident of internal medicine at UNC Hospitals, said he enjoys the daily ease of access to patient information WebCIS provides. “As a patient, I’d rather go to a hospital with electronic medical records,” Cheng said. “I think it provides for better patient care.” He added that although he enjoys working with WebCIS, doctors have to be careful not to use the system as a crutch. “If we think that everything we need to know about you is online, we won’t ask questions. So we have to be careful,” Cheng said. In 2006, UNC Health Care and WebCIS were named a laureate in Computerworld Magazine’s Honor Program. The yearly award recognizes organizations’ use of technology and information to benefit society. “Our system has been recognized as top flight,” Berger said. “We just signed a contract with one of the top five computer companies in the world, and they’re going to sell it to other big universities.” And further down the line, a national network of hospitals would mean a doctor could easily access the medical records of an out-of-state student here at UNC. “If we could get this national network, then you could have tremendous benefits,” Berger said. He added that a national network also has implications for bioterrorism and disease prevention because it allows doctors to follow trends in medical histories. Earlier this year, the exposure of sensitive medical information from a UNC mammography study to computer hackers raised the issue of the security of computerized records. Berger said he’s confident in the measures that have been taken to secure WebCIS. For now, he and his team continually work to improve their program. “The days of doctor’s notoriously bad handwriting are gone,” Berger said.
They said only increasing outof-state students’ tuition 6.5 percent, while keeping the 5.2 percent increase for in-state students, would generate enough revenue but would not be fair. The $200 mandated by the legislature will go back to the state instead of being controlled by the University. To make up for that lost revenue, UNC had been looking to raise outof-state tuition in order to fund its
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attended the meeting. “They did give us some voice in the process, but there were only two of them.” While they pushed for lower increases, the duo still supported increases of 5.2 percent for all undergraduate students. Throughout the tuition increase talks, members of the task force have struggled against student misconceptions of what the increases will fund.
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priorities. The legislature might be willing to change its stance on the cap on in-state students’ tuition increases and could even return the $200 mandated increase to the campus, UNC trustee Roger Perry said at the meeting. The $200 from every student would total about $5.3 million. While task force members supported keeping the same percentage increases regardless of residency status, most task force members indicated preferences for the higher figure.
The 6.5 percent increase is the maximum allowable for in-state undergraduate students under UNC-system guidelines. The only dissenting votes on the preference came from Student Body President Jasmin Jones and Student Body Vice President David Bevevino, who preferred the smaller increase. UNC trustee Sallie ShupingRussell abstained from indicating a preference. Task force members said they thought the talks went well and sent the debate in a positive direction.
“I think it gives the chancellor the flexibility he needs, and it sets the parameters for the discussion,” Shuping-Russell said. The discussion about which proposal Thorp will choose will focus on UNC’s needs and on the way to meet them with tuition dollars. Increased tuition will go to fund financial aid, faculty salaries and academic services. The University saw students with financial need increase 23 percent this year, and half the tuition increase is slated to ensure that UNC can meet all of students’
“From the letters I have seen, and replies I’ve gotten through e-mail, there is clearly a problem of communication,” said Bruce Carney, interim executive vice chancellor and provost. Out-of-State Student A ssociation President Ryan Morgan sent e-mails to the association’s listserv telling students that their tuition would fund the South Road pedestrian “bridge to nowhere” and “useless plasma screen TVs in Lenoir.” Tuition increases pay only for financial aid, faculty retention,
graduate remission and academic services. But many students see only the higher price tag on their tuition and feel targeted. “Their mind-set is that they can raise tuition as much as they want,” said senior Ben Carroll, a member of Students for a Democratic Society, who protested against the increases. Morgan said it is easy for administrators to forget about the students. “We can all agree that the University needs money, but I don’t agree that the out-of-state students should be the cash cows for the
“I did appreciate the fact that student leaders stood up for us in there. They did give us some voice in the process.”
demonstrated need with the same percentage of grants. Campus officials also say the cost of faculty retention is a critical fight. “Our primary obligation and responsibility to you as students is to make sure that the quality of education here at Carolina stays the same or gets better,” Perry said. At next week’s Board of Trustees meeting, Thorp likely will present his preference for approval. Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
Nicole Pradel, Freshman University,” he said. Bevevino said he and Jones are committed to helping students understand the issue, but also explaining to administrators how students feel. “I think you have to understand the values that students have,” he
said. “If we don’t take that seriously and we don’t communicate that, then we’re pushing our own values and that’s not OK.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
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The command is likely to turn to UNC-Chapel Hill for research and language instruction, she said. One collaborative project already exists between the UNC School of Medicine in Chapel Hill and the command’s combat medic training program. “We bring to bear all the best that the army and special forces has to offer to teach combat medics,” said Sgt. 1st Class Eric Hendrix of the command’s public affairs. Me a nw h i l e , c o m b at m e d ics benefit from the School of Medicine’s ability to provide civilian training and experience, Rhinehardt said. Plans are underway for the medical school to take on instructors from the command’s medic program to work alongside UNC doctors and to count battlefield experience for course credit to fast-track combat medics’ transition to civilian medicine, she said. General administration will back out after subpartnerships between schools and the command are cemented, Rhinehardt said. No new positions have been created. Rhinehardt will serve as the point person for the system, and Mulholland will be her counterpart. Schools and the command will be responsible for covering any costs that arise from collaborative projects. Retired Gen. James Lindsay first thought of the idea many years ago, but the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan pushed it to the backburner, Hendrix said. Mulholland, who assumed command in November 2008, put it back on the agenda and arranged meetings with Bowles and the Board of Governors. “Gen. Mulholland saw it as something that was of top importance. He didn’t want to wait anymore,” Hendrix said. “We have a home school now — a school that we can call USASOC’s home.” Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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State PKs oust UNC in first round of ACCs By Chris Hempson
Men’s Soccer N.C. State CARY — Ten members of the N.C. State soccer team kneeled. Each put UNC
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one knee on the ground. Left arm locked with the teammate beside. It was as if they had been in this position before, and in some ways, they had. Several times in recent memory, the Wolfpack had pushed No. 2 North Carolina (13-2-3) to the brink. And now, in the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament — in penalty kicks, no less — the 10 stared blankly ahead. When NCSU defender Tyler Lassiter calmly knocked in the first penalty kick, none of the remaining nine showed any emotion. Sure, they were linking arms to actually keep from freezing in the cold November air. But it seemed more like a routine. They weren’t going to let the moment or UNC get to them this time. They expected to win. And minutes later, they did, 0-0 (4-1 PKs). “I’m on an emotional high, to be honest,” Wolfpack defender Chandler Knox said. “Both my parents went to Carolina, and that’s a game that always gets me really excited. They’re an excellent team. We were prepared. We were excited. We were ready to rock ’n’ roll.” N.C . S t a t e c o a c h G e o r g e Tarantini told his players before the game that things would be dif-
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ferent this time. But with the game pushed to an earlier kickoff due to rain, a sloppy, physical game ensued. No. 20 N.C. State (12-5-2) found itself creating golden opportunities — just like recent clashes with UNC — but no one could finish. NCSU forward Ronnie Bouemboue missed just wide less than 30 minutes into the match. Knox pushed a header badly past a nearly wide-open net early in the second half. By overtime, Knox could only cringe and bite his jersey after another missed opportunity — this time when he hit the crossbar from the right side of the 18-yard box. “The last shot I took was halfway a cross, halfway a shot,” he said. “I got kind of lucky (that it hit the crossbar).” But not lucky enough. Two overtimes couldn’t decide a winner, so the teams went to penalty kicks. As the N.C. State players walked to midfield, the team huddled and grabbed each others’ shoulders. Then they sent Lassiter on his way to take the first penalty kick. He walked forward and met
DTH ONLINE: North Carolina couldn’t find its rhythm in penalty kicks. UNC keeper Brooks Haggerty at the penalty spot. Haggerty held the ball in his hands, grin fully on his face. Even in such a tense situation, the moment didn’t appear to be giving Haggerty any nerves. But Haggerty didn’t block the attempt. Nor did he block any of the following three. His grin faded. His counterpart, NCSU goalkeeper Chris Widman, saved his smile for after the win. The senior missed a penalty attempt from UNC midfielder Michael Farfan. But then he blocked attempts from Kirk Urso and Billy Schuler. And for good measure, Widman even smashed in N.C. State’s third penalty kick. “I think we have one of the premier goalkeepers in the country,” Tarantini said. “I thought Chris carried us the second stretch of the season.” So it was fitting that Widman’s play was the reason that N.C. State stormed the field against UNC for only the second time since 1997. “Carolina is really a great team,” Widman said. “We’ve played some tough games with them, come out on the wrong end a few times recently. It was great to finally win.” Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu.
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In 2008, North Carolina downed N.C. State 2-1 in overtime. In the 2009 ACC tournament, the Tar Heels weren’t so fortunate, falling to the Wolfpack in penalty kicks (4-1) in the opening round of the tournament.
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The second half of Wednesday’s game between North Carolina and N.C. Central started a lot like the first half ended. An NCCU airball. An Ed Davis block. Two Eagles turnovers. When the Tar Heels finally conceded a bucket almost three minutes into the second half, the game was a long time in the books. They had already held NCCU scoreless for a 21-0 run that lasted eight minutes in the middle of the first half. This 6:54 period that spanned halftime made it an insurmountable 39-3 UNC run. When all was said and done, the Tar Heels (2-0) cruised to an easy 89-42 win against the Eagles, who were making their season debut. Marcus Ginyard led all scorers with a career-high 17 points on 7-for-10 shooting. Deon Thompson and Tyler Zeller added 13 and 12, respectively, and 12 Tar Heels found the scorers’ column. Sure, the outcome was partially a result of a much bigger and more talented North Carolina squad. But it was also due to UNC’s effort on the defensive end. The evidence was clear all night. Tipped passes, blocked shots, shot clock violations and inbound plays that never got in bounds. “I think talking on defense a little more tonight got us in better position to get some more steals and some more blocks tonight,” Ginyard said. “And just getting out denying the passing lanes a little bit, we just had a little bit more energy out there defensively than we did on Monday night.” The Tar Heels tallied 10 steals and swatted away nine Eagles shots. UNC was able to transform this defensive effort into offensive output. They scored 19 points off of 21 Eagles turnovers, including 20 points on fast breaks. North Carolina ran an efficient offense. Thanks to their ability to exploit mismatches inside and their 29 assists, the Tar Heels shot 59.3 percent for the game. On the other side, the Eagles shot just 25.5 percent. UNC’s oversized bigs dominated the paint. In addition to their nine blocks, the Tar Heels claimed a
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In the Army now The UNC system and the U.S. Army are teaming up for a special mission. See pg. 1 for story.
Rethinking Honors Administrators are considering massive changes to the Honors Program. See pg. 10 for story.
Comedian extraordinaire Comedian Mike Birbiglia will share his awkward experiences at UNC today. See pg. 4 for story.
Did you RSVVP? Restaurants saw mixed results from a fundraising program for hunger relief. Go online for story.
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Senior Marcus Ginyard lays in two of his 17 points over N.C. Central’s Dami Sapara. UNC used its size to dominate the Eagles in the paint. 46-24 rebounding advantage. “A couple times we were almost playing volleyball back and forth across the goal,” coach Roy Williams said. UNC also dropped in 46 points in the paint, 30 more than NCCU. North Carolina’s inside-out offense and crisp passing were effective in defeating a zone defense by the much smaller Eagles. “There’s no question that that’s a huge focus of this team is working inside-out and really pounding the ball inside,” Ginyard said. “We had an advantage inside, and we did a pretty good job of trying to take advantage of it.” UNC even had a little time to have some fun in the late stages — although Williams repeatedly chided his young team to stop looking
DTH ONLINE: Visit dailytar heel.com this afternoon to see a video and photo slideshow from the Tar Heels’ victory. at the scoreboard and simply play. A couple minutes after an authoritative John Henson block (and the ensuing flex and scream toward the Smith Center crowd), he was about to inbound the ball when Thompson snuck up and jokingly squeezed his bicep. “We were just laughing at him because he’s so skinny and when he flexed, you don’t really see it,” Thompson said. “No, I was happy for him. I like to see him flexing and getting excited.” Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu.
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Opinion
14 thursday, november 12, 2009
The Daily Tar Heel QUOTE OF THE DAY:
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By Mark Viser, mviser@email.unc.edu
“This is the first bullet we’ve got to fire at the legislature.” Bruce Carney, interim executive vice chancellor and provost, on the tuition recommendations sent to the chancellor on Wednesday
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“Scoring 43 points higher on the SAT does not entitle you to moan and groan about how much ‘better’ you are.”
Andrew moon health columnist
Second-year student in the School of Medicine. E-mail: andrew_moon@med.unc.edu
Toward a Jetsons’ world of nutrition
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he creators of “The Jetsons” were geniuses. Foreseeing the trend of a healthobsessed population on the run, they created a technologically advanced utopia where people ate three course meals in pill form. Starry-eyed kids fantasized of a future filled with painless capsule-sized portions of broccoli and green beans. Companies of today have gone a step farther by making delicious, vitaminenhanced foods that aim to prevent or treat disease — the aptly named nutraceuticals. It is terrific that manufacturers are striving to produce healthier foods, but these products’ advertised benefits must be taken with a grain of salt. Consumers might be tempted to use vitaminenhanced snacks to justify eating KFC and avoiding exercise. If this became a trend, nutraceuticals could actually push America further down the road of fat butts and heart disease. Nutraceuticals have been around for ages and can play an important role in public health. Vitamin D-fortified milk and iodized salt have prevented countless cases of rickets and thyroid deficiency in the U.S. Due to blossoming numbers of health-conscious consumers, the nutraceutical sector’s growth has easily outpaced the rest of the food industry. But success has attracted charlatans. For instance, the Kellogg Company advertised Frosted Mini-Wheats as a breakfast food “clinically shown to improve kids’ attentiveness by nearly 20 percent.” The Federal Trade Commission punished the company, noting that the clinical study cited by Kellogg compared kids eating Mini-Wheats to peers who ate no breakfast at all. Even worse, the average difference in attentiveness between the children who ate the cereal and the starved group was just less than 11 percent, and only about half of the breakfast eaters showed any improvement at all. In light of irresponsible food marketing, the Food and Drug Administration has unveiled plans to monitor health claims made on product packaging. Oversight is badly needed but will not solve the problem. Vitaminwater will probably continue to masquerade as a health drink despite packing more sugar than a 12 ounce Coke, and potato chip makers might still slap “No trans fats” labels on products containing unhealthy saturated fats. In addition, questionable scientific claims about Echinacea for colds, ketchup for prostate cancer and green tea for heart disease will continue to be spread by anyone who is out to make a buck. This might seem unscrupulous, but a switch in teen preferences from soda to green tea, for whatever reason, would be a good thing. Plus, companies are working on tasty forms of substances with stronger scientific backing for their proposed benefits like EPA and DHA omega-3 acids. Just remember that no product can replace fruits and veggies as part of a balanced diet and regular exercise. And no matter how good a health food might sound, remember the wise proverb: Even an antidote becomes a poison at a high enough dose. So if you think twice before chugging a few gallons of water, definitely take pause before wolfing down a family-size bag of vitamin-enhanced gummy bears.
friday: Gender columnist Jessica Fuller will comment on abortion and the recently passed health care bill.
“John Black,” about out-of-state students
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR DTH wrong not to include coverage of Veteran’s Day
Congress’ good compromise Student Congress made wise decision in divvying up funds for Students for a Democratic Society
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tudents for a Democratic Society deserves to have the financial means to host speakers on campus. But that does not mean it is free to waste student money by making unreasonable funding requests. And Congress, recognizing this, did the right thing by cutting the requested appropriation to a more reasonable amount. This allows SDS to have a voice on campus but prevents the wasteful spending of student fees. SDS had originally asked Congress for $6,095to bring three speakers to campus. All three speakers are current or former members of the SDS chapter at UNC-Asheville. Yet SDS deemed that each speaker deserved a $2,000
honorarium. This request was unreasonably large. First, the speakers do not have the credentials to receive such a large payment for coming to speak. Also, the honoraria are too high given the relatively low turnout the event is planned to draw. SDS estimated in its funding request that a mere 70 to 100students would attend. Rather than grant an exorbitant request or deny funding altogether, Congress compromised by approving a reduced appropriation of $2,095. It is all too easy to want to deny the most radical groups on campus a voice. But if Congress has the money, then there is no reason for any group to not have an opportunity for funding . But appropriations should
be a reasonable use of the fees that all students pay. Congress has recently had issues granting the right amount of funding. In October, it squandered $9,675in an appropriation to Carolina Students for Life to fund an abortion debate that drew 138people. That event raised questions about the efforts student organizations are undertaking to minimize costs, especially for speakers. It also raised questions about the efforts of Congress, as an agent of the students, to responsibly appropriate money. This time, Congress has struck a better compromise. Given who the speakers are and the size of the expected audience, $2,095 is nothing to protest about.
Better technology ITS has done excellent work upgrading our technology
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he University has done a solid job updating the campus’s technological infrastructure. ConnectCarolina has been successful thus far in bringing much-needed change to student digital services. The new admissions Web site is up and running and greatly improved. The new campus directory also received a face lift to its user interface that makes searching it easier. The real prize will come next semester when students register. As part of ConnectCarolina, students will be registering with a new and much improved interface. Instead of the arduous way we register now, students will virtually shop for classes. They
will be able to place classes in a shopping cart that will keep track of classes they’re waitlisted for. Plus, the University will be updating its information management technology with ConnectCarolina. This probably won’t be as visible a change to students, but it should help the University increase efficiency. But Information Technology Services haven’t stopped there. They’re rethinking the way the University does Webmail. Kudos. Even with this year’s updated Webmail interface, Webmail leaves a lot to be desired — like Gmail’s labels and other extra features. Many students already circumvent the experience altogether by forwarding their mail to another service.
Michael Barker, ITS associate vice chancellor for infrastructure and operations, said ITS isn’t sure what route it will pursue on e-mail. But they are considering several options including outsourcing the e-mail for students or a system that would be similar to the forwarding services ITS already offers. Barker said these ideas aren’t all-inclusive but just ideas that have come as they’ve assessed student e-mail services. He also said ITS is going to work with students to come up with an idea that meets students’ needs. ITS has done a commendable job updating our electronic services. They should be proud of the progress and keep up the good work.
QuickHits Trees
Sesame Street
Old Well rifle
Another tree fell on campus, breaking a window. Two trees in as many weeks? Mother Nature means business. Time for drastic action. Let’s cut them all down. Then she’ll learn who’s boss.
This QuickHit is brought to you by the word ‘awesome’ and the number 40. Happy birthday, Big Bird, Elmo, Bert and Ernie! Beloved children’s TV show “Sesame Street” is turning 40.
The Historic Armory has decided not to include UNC’s iconic Old Well on its planned “Historic Orange County Rifle.” Great news! But this begs the question: Why do we care so much about this?
David Price
Union movie rental
Sammy Slade
Rep. David Price, D-N.C., joined 219 fellow congressmen in voting to pass historic health care legislation. Congress is finally acting? It can’t be. We must be going crazy. Quick, somebody order a psych test now that it might actually soon be affordable.
The
Carolina Union Activities Board plans to bring a 24-hour DVD rental kiosk to the Union. Way to go! Now students finally have a place to get movies besides iTunes, Blockbuster, Netflix, the Media Resource Center and their dorms …
Slade was appointed to fill the vacant seat on the Carrboro Board of Aldermen before taking his elected seat. Can you get more Carrboro? From the DTH: “As (Slade) walked around the garden … he picked off plant leaves and tasted them.”
TO THE EDITOR: Wednesday, Nov. 11 was Veterans Day. But you sure wouldn’t know it if you picked up a copy of The Daily Tar Heel yesterday. I find it absolutely appalling that there was not one article written by any staff member on Veterans Day. I could not believe it. I would be willing to bet that there is not one newspaper in the country that covered Veterans Day in this fashion. Oh, but there was one blurb stating that the Veterans Day event on campus was moved indoors due to the weather. Wow. I sincerely hope that the DTH staff comes out with an apology to all those brave men and women who fight to preserve the freedom of this great nation. They deserve better. Matt Oakes Freshman Political Science
Negative stereotype of Asians in Daily Tar Heel TO THE EDITOR: O n t h e s e c o n d p a ge o f Wednesday’s Daily Tar Heel (Nov. 11) paper, the Daily Dose contained an article titled “Woman finally passes driver’s test.” This article talks about how a South Korean woman has just passed the written exam portion of the driver’s test after her 950th try. Although this piece was somewhat humorous, newsworthy and entertaining, it also works to confirm the negative stereotypes. Was the fact that the woman is South Korean really so important that it had to be explicitly stated? The article would not have even mentioned the woman’s race had she been white. If her race was really that important, people could have figured it upon reading her last name. This is just like the way that news stations use the black male when talking about violence and/ or acts of crime. It is like linking all Republicans with racists or white supremacy groups. Negative stereotypes are enforced through articles like this one. I am sure that the person who wrote the article did not mean for it to sound like this, but we all need to be more careful about how we portray and receive people. Ebony S. Montgomery Sophomore Communication Studies
Cultural change needed to end problems with alcohol TO THE EDITOR: In his letter to the editor (“Problems of binge drinking by UNC students persist,” Nov. 10) Ronald Bogle was right to bring up the issue of binge drinking here on the UNC Campus. However, his assessment of the problem is inherently flawed. Most people fail to understand the societal causations of binge drinking. Here in the U.S. drinking alcohol represents adulthood, independence and maturity. The average American teenager drinks because he or she feels as if it is a necessary component of the transition from
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adolescence to autonomy. Also, the current laws prohibiting drinking do not account for the fact that the vast majority of American youths will not wait until their 21st birthday to have their first drink. This fact renders these laws about as effective as speed limits. These factors combine to make binge drinking among young people a major problem that often leads to alcoholism, especially on American college campuses. What our culture doesn’t realize is that alcohol has the potential to be a safe, fun beverage. However, this depends on something Americans have trouble comprehending: moderation. What we need is a gradual shift in our drinking culture and our drinking laws. If we were to collectively make an effort to introduce alcohol to our kids at a younger age, eventually drinking would lose its glorified status, and alcoholism would begin to decline. Luke Wander Freshman History and Asian Studies
Student Congress’ enmity towards SDS unwarranted TO THE EDITOR: In a Student Congress hearing on Tuesday, the Carolina Review expressed its opposition to funding for the group Students for a Democratic Society to host three speakers via posters and a speech. The proposed speakers spent two months in Colombia, engaging with farmers and workers living in a war zone, thus accessing vital information rarely examined in the higher echelons of academia, much less presented in mainstream media. As an international studies student, I realize a predominate area of international study is Latin America, and such information provides a vastly enriching opportunity to these students. However, when two SDS representatives addressed Congress regarding their relatively meager request, they came under overtly hostile questioning — its precipice when one of Student Congress’ own representatives patronizingly referred to all three of the group’s proposed speakers as “kids.” Thankfully, other Congress representatives did criticize their colleagues’ obvious political agendas and inappropriate language. Since then, there has been no consideration to the fact that the same groups proselytizing over their right to free speech and expression not six months ago in regards to former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., are in full force working to abridge this same right to their perceived rivals. Hypocrisy aside, such attitudes pose a dangerous threat to academic diversity on campus, as certain members of Student Congress, those same people who control funding, are unwilling to set aside their own political beliefs in service of the greater student body. As leaders of tomorrow, our charge is to learn from the mistakes of the past, not to repeat them. Julia Etter Senior International Studies
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