The Daily Tar Heel for January 29, 2009

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VOLUME 116, ISSUE 138

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Bowles wants less tuition hikes

By Brian Austin state & national Editor

sports | page 9 BUZZER BEATER UNC’s Ty Lawson hits a game-winning three to put the Tar Heels up 80-77 against Florida State University on Wednesday night.

To weather the economic storm, UNC-system officials want to slow down tuition hikes on campuses across the state.

UNC-system President Erskine Bowles has asked the chancellors of the 16 system universities to cut their proposed tuition increases by a third, a move that will remove thousands of dollars of revenue from schools already facing a lean year from the N.C. General Assembly.

The cut applies only to the tuition increase recommendation for resident undergraduate students.

The goal is to spare the system from making permanent the 6 percent budget cuts mandated by the state, Bowles said in a memo to the

Board of Governors on Monday.

“Imposing permanent cuts would be equivalent to sacrificing the future of North Carolina,” he said.

While Bowles acknowledged that decreased funding would hurt schools’ priorities for increased faculty salaries, he stressed the importance of limiting the strain of financing college on families — albeit only those with in-state undergraduate students.

Bowles also mandated that 40 percent of the increase will go to need-based aid.

The BOG will probably make its final tuition recommendation at its next full board meeting on Feb. 13.

The board’s budget and finance committee will meet Friday to lay out further reasoning for the tuition decision.

But even after the board votes on tuition increases, the General Assembly could also initiate its own hike, and that revenue would not automatically go to universities.

UNC- Chapel Hill Provost Bernadette Gray-Little says University officials will be forced to make tough decisions about academic services, including graduate support, and other top priorities such as increasing faculty salaries.

“For us to have our tuition increase reduced is especially salient,” Gray-Little said, pointing out that undergraduate tuition did not increase last year.

“Over the last two years, whatever increase we have had has been decreased by half.”

Other N.C. campuses are feeling the burden, too. And without a tuition increase, enrollment growth

— a major systemwide initiative — will likely go unfunded for now.

In past years, the General Assembly has given campuses support to increase their enrollment.

“I think that it will be damaging because inevitably we’re going to have to increase class sizes, and cut sections of classes in some cases,” said Joan Lorden, UNC-Charlotte provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs.

“I think next year could be very difficult.”

If Bowles’ suggestion goes through, tuition would increase by an average 2.8 percent across the system, as opposed to the 3.8 percent average that the campuses’ trustees had requested.

And officials still don’t know how limited funding will affect their campuses in years to come.

Proposed increases Tuition increases for resident undergraduate students Original: $240 (6.5 percent) Revised: $160 (4.3 percent)

Subsequent revenue increase Original: $10,408,370 Revised: $9,293,730

Increase for nonresident undergraduate students $1,150 (5.6 percent)

Graduate student increase $400 (8 percent) “The lower the source of the revenue, the lower the number of things we can do,” Gray-Little said.

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A cappella group wins competition

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By Ashley Nicole Lewis staff Writer

ATTEND THE DTH FORUM We’re hosting a public forum for students to ask student body president candidates questions.

7 p.m. Feb. 5, Union multipurpose room Can’t attend? Submit questions in advance to Editor Allison Nichols at nallison@email.unc. edu, subject line “forum.” dth/alexandra brawley

The 2008-09 North Carolina State University women’s basketball team players, coaches and other mourners sing the N.C. State alma mater in remembrance of coach Kay Yow in Reynolds Coliseum Wednesday. Hall-of-fame coach Yow died Saturday after a long fight against cancer.

By Daniel Price Senior Writer

university | page 3 ‘CATALYST FOR CHANGE’ An event hosted by the Olde Campus Lower Quad Community examines black musical genres in an effort to promote cultural understanding.

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Graham Memorial, the first Student Union, is dedicated.

Students pay $1 per quarter for membership.

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It wasn’t a typical memorial. But Kay Yow was not a typical basketball coach.

For those in attendance, it felt like there were two services Wednesday: the celebration Yow would have wanted and the time for grief that everyone else needed.

On the court bearing Yow’s name, the N.C. State pep band blared the school’s fight song as loud as ever. There was a moment of silence.

The Wolfpack cheerleaders cheered their hearts out. Almost everyone cried their eyes dry.

Yow’s favorite a cappella group, Grains of Time, sang with inspired voices. Yow’s closest friends spoke moving words.

At the end of the day, those who loved Yow the most were able to give their longtime friend the farewell she deserved.

“I feel pretty sure that she’s up there today smiling,” Yow’s assistant coach Jenny Palmateer said, holding back tears.

Robin Pate, N.C. State’s director of basketball operations, knew Palmateer was right.

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But he also knew that Yow — the competitor that she was — would be just a bit disappointed in the way the day unfolded.

“I know she’s dancing and singing in heaven with the angels,” Pate said.

“But still wondering why we cut practice short today.”

That’s where Yow loved to be — in practice, teaching.

But Yow’s leadership extended well beyond the confines of the 94 feet of hardwood.

Simply put, she was more than just a basketball coach.

“If that’s all you know about her, you didn’t know coach Yow,” Pate said.

“If you didn’t learn from her, you didn’t really know her.”

In Yow’s long battle with breast cancer that eventually took her life, there were good days and bad.

But no matter how fatigued she became or how much pain she felt, making her way into Reynolds Coliseum always made any day a

little bit better.

“She had a different look on her face when she came in here,” N.C. State Director of Athletics Lee Fowler said. “When she came up here, she had a glow on her face.”

Yow surely spent a lot of time in Reynolds.

Beyond the games ­and practices, Yow was a leader for countless girls at her youth summer basketball camps.

Many of her former campers were in attendance Wednesday.

One of her earliest campers, now N.C. State interim head coach Stephanie Glance, reminisced Wednesday of that summer when she first met her inspirational friend and colleague.

“When I was a kid, I used to look up to her and think, ‘Wow, this is a really cool person,’” Yow’s longtime assistant said.

That feeling never subsided. In fact, it grew along with Glance.

“I grew up, and coach Yow was still on a pedestal. And she was even greater than I thought she was when I was 13.”

Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu.

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student elections

SBP candidates seek out common mentors Admins, student leaders advise

By Blake Frieman

Friday’s weather

DTH ONLINE: Watch a video of coaches and former players’ memorial service speeches at blogs.dailytarheel.com.

Last fall, the Loreleis a cappella group entered a contest on a whim.

Now they are waiting for a Ben Folds-produced album featuring university groups to hit stores.

The Loreleis heard last semester that Folds was hosting a competition between university a cappella groups’ versions of his songs.

Even though they had little time, the group decided to make a last-minute submission.

“It’s tough to pick a song that will translate well into a cappella music,” said Loreleis Music Director Emily Riehl. “It was such a manifest thing.

All of the other submissions were available on YouTube and no one was performing ‘Jesusland,’ so we leaned toward that.”

Although the Loreleis did not currently have a Folds piece in their repertoire, they were able to quickly put together an arrangement for the song.

“We arranged the piece, learned it in a night, and then filmed and submitted it the next night,” Loreleis member Meredith Rountree said.

“Our video was one of the last ones submitted. We were really lucky that we got it in on time.”

Within a week, Riehl received a phone call from Folds informing the group that they had been chosen.

“We had a long conversation,” Riehl said. “He’s a musical genius.

He had so many great ideas of what we could do with dynamics.”

The Loreleis were one of 18 a cappella groups chosen to record for the album out of 200 submissions.

Groups from UNC-Greensboro and Florida State University also will appear on the album.

“I think we were chosen because we’re a bunch of girls. It’s a different

staff Writer

There are certain people on campus that have something all six student body president candidates want: experience and knowledge of how to win a campaign and do the job.

Since last spring, this year’s candidates have sought advice from several key UNC students, administrators and alumni. They have gone to these people for help with platform points as well as general moral support.

The consultants have been as varied as the candidates, but a few

have been approached by multiple students vying for office.

Reaching out to these advisers helps add depth to candidates’ platforms and helps them focus their campaign strategies to reach out to as many people as possible.

Margaret Jablonski, vice chancellor for student affairs, said she has been approached by candidates who want to improve the relationship between student government and the administration.

Jablonski has been a traditionally important resource for student body presidents once elected. In the past, she has held meetings with them to help their administrations.

In addition to providing advice,

hopefuls have met with administrators and student leaders to Six degrees of preparation SBP discuss the campaign. Here are some connections created so far.

See preparation, Page 9

REPORTING BY: BLAKE FRIEMAN

J.J. Raynor current Student Body President

Bryan Hassel last sophomore SBP (1986-1987)

Margaret Jablonski Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs

Lauren Anderson former Graduate and Professional Student Federation President

Michael Betts

Ron Bilbao

Student Body

Matt President Wohlford Candidates Ashley Klein

Thomas Edwards

Logan Liles SBP Candidate last year Terri Houston Director of Recruitment and Multicultural Programs

Virginia Carson UNC alumna and director of the Campus Y

Jasmin Jones

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on’t tell Yo-Yo Ma, but complaints of inflamed ‘cello scrotum’ will no longer cut it at the chiropractor.

The ailment, allegedly caused by repeated rubbing of a cello or similar instrument against the inner groin, was revealed to be the fictional invention of the husband-and-wife doctors who first reported it.

Elaine Murphy, a former professor of old age at Guy’s Hospital in London, first shed light upon the falsified skin condition in a letter penned by her husband John to the British Medical Journal in 1974.

The couple was forced to admit their fraudulent creation after the British Medical journal referred to cello scrotum in a list of health risks involved in playing music.

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A man in Everett, Wash., was overheard in the stall of a police station bathroom on his cell phone trying to sell prescription Oxycodone.

An officer using the bathroom confronted the man, who is on probation for attempted robbery, as he left. He is currently in custody.

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QUOTED. “They looked really comfortable walking down the street, which led to many curious stares.”

— Singaporean blogger Leonard Tan, reacting to an uncommon display of public nudity in a popular area of the Asian city-state.

An unidentified male and female, now held in police custody, wandered nude through a crowd for 15 minutes Saturday evening.

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Lunchbox Concert Series: Bring your lunch and hear music from Southern Routes. Influenced by jazz, blues, rock and even the Caribbean, this band plays a variety of music.

Time: Noon to 1 p.m.

Location: Carrboro Century Center

Coffee hour: International and American students and scholars and their families are having an informal get-together with light refreshments. The event is sponsored by English Language & American Culture at the Writing Center and International Student and Scholar Services.

Time: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Location: FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 Informational session: The Peace Corps is holding an informational session. The Corps offers international service assignments in over 75 countries. French or Spanish speakers with environment or education experience are encouraged to apply.

Time: 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Location: Hanes Hall, 2nd floor

studies.

Time: 2 p.m.

Location: Hitchcock Room of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center Benefit reception: Dance Marathon, UNC’s largest student fundraising group, will be hosting a benefit reception dinner.

Time: 7 p.m.

Location: Carolina Inn The Piedmont Perennials: This trio draws from the sounds of Townes Van Zandt, Mississippi John Hurt, Tom Waits, and many others. The Piedmont Perennials solidly represent many American musical traditions while also bringing original works to the stage, as well as performing a variety of old songs.

Time: 8:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Location: Pittsboro General Store

Friday Black women’s roundtable: This is the first day of the two-day symposium, “Black Women in the Academy: Strategies for Survival, Success and Transformation,” which will focus on black women’s

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tephanie Wagner and Seton Mazzocchi, members of Company Carolina, got in full character Wednesday in the quad to promote the group’s upcoming adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic “Alice in Wonderland.” The show will begin 8 p.m. Friday at the Carrboro Arts Center.

Police log n Someone fraudulently used a

credit card and then stole two bedspreads and a television from the hotel on Erwin Road, according to Chapel Hill police reports.

A total of $5,773 was stolen from two victims, including $4,500 from credit or debit cards, reports state.

The incident occurred between Sunday and Tuesday morning at the Residence Inn Marriott, according to reports. n Someone also stole two flat-screen televisions from the Marriott Hotel on Marriott Way, according to Chapel Hill police reports.

The two televisions, together valued at $874, were taken between Sunday and Tuesday afternoons, reports state. n There was an attempt to steal

$25 in food from the Food Lion on North Fordham Boulevard, according to Chapel Hill police reports.

The suspect was asked Tuesday to not return to the property, reports state. n A person entered an unlocked Ephesus Church Road apartment and stole an iPhone, clothes and jewelry, according to Chapel Hill police reports.

A total of $1,750 in goods were stolen Tuesday, reports state. n Police responded to a report of a man bothering customers at Wendy’s Restaurant on South Greensboro Street on Tuesday, according to Carrboro police reports.

The man told police that he was standing under the awning of the restaurant to keep dry from the rain, reports state. n A l i v e b a n d o n No r t h Greensboro Street disturbed someone in a neighboring house at about 11:54 p.m. Tuesday, according to Carrboro police reports.

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Sport Clubs Council chooses Bilbao for SBP endorsement Student body president candidate Ron Bilbao won an endorsement from the UNC Sport Clubs Council, which consists of at least two representatives from each of the 53 sports clubs.

Each representative voted for one candidate, but the votes did not determine the endorsement.

The five members of the Sport Clubs Executive Council and the group’s director, Jason Halsey, discussed the endorsement and then unanimously voted to back Bilbao.

“Well, the quote would be that I’m thrilled, honestly,” Bilbao said.

“I think this is a turning point in the campaign, and these forums help us get our bearings and show us how we are performing.”

Each candidate was allotted eight minutes to speak and take any questions. Few council members asked questions, but the need for field space for sports practices emerged as the most pressing concern.

This is the first time the council has endorsed a candidate.

Kathleen Casanova, president of the executive sports club council, organized the forum.

“He definitely won us over with his plans to increase visibility, administer a space survey, and work with us to try to pin down some one-time funding for things like risers and other equipment,” Casanova said.

Candidates Michael Betts, Thomas Edwards, Ashley Klein and Matt Wohlford also attended the forum.

The council expected candidate Jasmin Jones to attend but she was absent.

Local author Sarah Dessen will speak in Wilson today Author Sarah Dessen, a Chapel Hill resident and UNC alumna, will read from her most recent book today in Wilson Library.

Dessen, who graduated from UNC in 1993 with highest honors in creative writing, will read from her most recent book, “Along for the Ride.”

Dessen is the author of eight novels for young adults. “Along for the Ride” will be released this summer.

The program is free for students and the public.

A reception will begin at 5 p.m. in the library’s lobby and the program will start at 5:45 p.m. in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room.

city briefs

Hillsborough looks to keep down taxes, costs next year The town of Hillsborough is looking to a number of options to get through the recession.

Town Manager Eric Peterson and accompanying staff are looking at new financial models to prevent a tax increase in the 2009-10 fiscal year.

The town board of Hillsborough said that if a tax increase were necessary, it would try to keep the increase below the inflation rate.

“The financial model we’ve been working under is no longer working. It’s got to change,” Peterson said in a press release.

The board discussed a variety of options, including reorganizing the police station, increasing the amount of time necessary to be eligible for employment bonuses and retirement benefits and a reorganization of some fire safety standards.

The board also discussed the possibility of temporarily selling water.

Peterson said that, without substantial changes, the town would not see any substantial revenue until 2012 — even if all construction projects were approved.

“I’m hoping that this next budget year will be the worst hump that we have to get over,” Peterson said.

Memorial service for George Tomasic, Chapel Hill barber The memorial service for George Tomasic Jr. was held Wednesday morning at the Immac ulate Conception Church in Durham.

Tomasic, a Durham resident, worked at Tar Heel Barbershop for about 50 years. He became the owner of the business in 1972.

About 85 family and friends at the service reflected on Tomasic’s character at the service with Father Dan McLellan.

“He didn’t have to draw stature and place from celebrities. He was a celebrity enough himself,” McClellan said.

Tomasic passed away Saturday at the age of 72.

See City News at dailytarheel. com for the full story.

—From staff and wire reports

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Student elections

TE: straight-talker, man of many words

Jones’ priorities are spirit, collaboration

By ANDREW HARRELL

By Danielle Adams

staff Writer

It’s all about buzzwords for student body president candidate Thomas Edwards.

There are certain ones that keep popping up over and over when he talks: honesty, enjoyment and interaction are a few of them.

And then there’s the 27,775 words that make up his 65-page platform.

(For skimmers, there’s a 9,740 word, 33-page abbreviated version.)

Succinct in his answers, Edwards has a confidence in what he’s saying that he said comes in part from his experience travelling.

Edwards spent last summer in Africa volunteering at Ghanaian medical clinics.

Edwards sounds like he’s always trying his hardest to be truthful, starting most answers with, “honestly?”

Ask him what he thinks is implausible about his platform, and he’s very upfront, explaining why not all of his points will be immediately possible — like budget constraints preventing wireless Internet in dorms within the next year.

“You have to be someone people believe talks straight,” current Student Body President J.J. Raynor

“The biggest thing I learned (last year) is making sure you’re visible to the campus body.”

staff Writer

Juniors Thomas Edwards (above) and Jasmin Jones are two of six candidates running for student body president, including Michael Betts, Ron Bilbao, Ashley Klein and Matt Wohlford.

thomas edwards, SBP CANDIDATE said of an ideal candidate.

Edwards uses the word “passionate” often, too, but it never shows through in his voice or demeanor. No matter what he’s talking about, nothing breaks his steady tone or gets him perched on the end of his seat.

The word that does carry weight with Edwards is “enjoyment.” He makes it evident that campaigning isn’t a chore for him. He genuinely has fun waving around MagicMarkered paper plates in the Pit and talking to students about his platform.

Edwards isn’t afraid of words that sometimes have negative connotations, either, talking about his membership in Chi Psi fraternity. He said that has shaped him more than any

See edwards, Page 10

As a public relations major, Jasmin Jones is adept at answering questions in a diplomatic way.

She aims to turn those answers into votes in the student body president race.

“I’ve invested my years at Carolina discovering who I am as a student and an individual,” she said.

“I feel like I embody the Carolina spirit — a feeling that’s developed through all the students that I’ve met and the work I’ve done on campus.”

As an out-of-state student from Atlanta, Ga., Jones said she had a difficult transition coming to UNC. But now, UNC is more than a university for the candidate.

She said with the help of student government, UNC should be a community that all students are able to connect with.

In her candidacy for student body president, Jones said she plans to use that idea to ensure an unforgettable Carolina experience for the entire student body.

She has worked with such groups as the Carolina Union Activities

“The office should be filled with someone who can represent all the cross sections of the student body.” jasmin jones, SBP CANDIDATE Board, Multicultural Council and Student Television.

She also serves as chairwoman for many committees, including the “Intellectuals of Our Time” committee she created in CUAB, the outreach committee for the Carolina Hispanic Association and the student life committee for student government.

Tom Allin, a senior and president of CUAB, has worked with Jones for about two years and said her collaboration with other student organizations has helped to make CUAB’s programs so successful.

He added that Jones’ lively personality, breadth of experience and connections with numerous organizations is something any

See jones, Page 10

MUSIC BEYOND THE BEATS

By Leah Hughes staff Writer

Diversity hit a high note Wednesday afternoon as students experienced black culture through music in the ballroom of Carmichael Residence Hall.

The Olde Campus Lower Quad Community sponsored “Black Music: Beyond the Beats!” — an event that provided information about black musical genres in an effort to promote cultural understanding.

“Part of our job as RAs is to open people’s eyes and minds to issues they wouldn’t have known about before,” said Nicole Watts, a sophomore resident adviser who helped plan the event, which cost $208.10.

“We promote inclusivity so everyone feels at home while they’re here.”

As the rain poured outside, the mood was lively inside Carmichael.

More than 90 students sang along to background music as they perused the displays representing five musical genres: work songs, gospel, rhythm and blues, jazz and hip-hop.

The colorful poster boards showcased different roles music played in developing African-American culture throughout history, such as the way slaves expressed their desire for freedom through song.

“We looked at music as a venue of social activism,” said Lee Storrow, a sophomore resident adviser who also helped put on the event. “Music has been a catalyst for social change.”

As attendees toured the exhibits, they encountered interesting trivia, like which songs by black artists have been No. 1 singles.

Aja Kennedy, a first-year, said the event provided the opportu-

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Members of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity perform at Black Music, an event held by the Olde Campus Lower Quad Wednesday evening.

Erot, Harmonyx and The Kamikaze Dance Team also performed at the event, which showcased various types of African-American music. nity for her to learn more about one of her favorite genres, rhythm and blues.

Recorded music was not the only song in the air. Several student groups also performed.

The numbers varied from a step routine using striped canes

by Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity to a high-energy song by Harmonyx, an a cappella group.

“A lot of times students only

know about only one musical genre,” said Robert Barker, the community director for Olde Campus Lower Quad.

He said one purpose of the event was to promote the Department of Housing and Residential Education’s goal to encourage communication about diversity.

Every residential community on campus is responsible for

sponsoring one diversity event during the year. Other communities’ themes include AIDS awareness and gay rights.

Barker said community officials chose to focus on music because it easily relates to college students.

Several students took away a prize with their new knowledge.

Every 15 minutes, a shout of joy rang out as Watts announced a winner in the CD giveaway.

The event made a good afternoon escape for several students.

Danielle Mearis, a first-year, said she was thankful for the learning opportunity outside of the classroom and library during the week.

“It brings people out of their bubbles,” she said.

Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.

Few following Carolina North Tourney winner to Handful of regulars attend meetings get year tuition free

By Andrew Hartnett Staff Writer

Longtime Chapel Hill resident Will Raymond is concerned that a new research campus could drastically change the look and feel of the town he loves so much.

Raymond said he spends 20 or more hours per week reviewing town documents, attending meetings and publishing his own thoughts online regarding Carolina North.

But he is one of only a small handful of residents who are actively participating in the town review process.

Regular attendees say that a project of such large magnitude should be important to residents as it will bring increased traffic and revenue to the town.

Carolina North, UNC’s proposed satellite research campus, is planned for 250 acres two miles north of campus.

UNC officials and the Chapel Hill Town Council are working on a final agreement about what will be included in the development, which is scheduled for a vote in June.

The town will hold a public education session today to try and get

more people involved.

Joyce Brown, a resident and former town council member, said that she is surprised that there have been so few people attending and participating in the planning sessions.

“This is a very large development, and it will have a tremendous impact on the town for a long time,” Brown said. “I would hope that people will become a lot more interested in the project as it moves forward.”

Council member Mark Kleinschmidt said that there are still economic and environmental questions to be answered, ones that could benefit greatly from citizen comments.

These include land preservation issues, noise and light pollution, adaptations to the transit system and the off-site impact of development.

When residents raise questions or concerns, they are compiled by the town. University and town officials said they will consult the public feedback when finalizing the terms of the development agreement.

George Cianciolo, director of the Planning Board and another

ATTEND THE SESSION Time: 7 p.m. today Location: Chapel Hill Town Hall Info: Call 968-2728 or email carolinanorth@townofchapelhill.org.

frequent attendee of Carolina North planning sessions, advises that residents become involved sooner rather than later.

“When the final development agreement comes for public hearing in June, there isn’t going to be a whole lot of time,” Cianciolo said.

“For the advisory board members who have been attending most of the meetings, a lot of it won’t come as news.

“But if people come to the last meeting and voice concerns, it will be too late to make changes.”

As the process towards a final development agreement rolls on, one thing is for certain.

Raymond will be present, taking every opportunity to speak his mind.

“The community has a chance to be engaged in this process, and we need to take it,” Raymond said.

“We need more than the usual suspects.”

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Rock, paper, scissors … free tuition.

Amp Energy will host a Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament at UNC on Feb. 14. The winner will receive a paid trip to MTV’s Spring Break in Panama City, Fla., and a chance to compete in another tournament for a year’s tuition.

Taikein Cooper, a UNC junior who doubles as a campus event coordinator for several companies, will act as Amp’s representative and help to put on the event. He said the tournament was Amp’s idea.

“We wanted to do something to give everyone an equal opportunity to win, regardless of skill level,” Cooper said.

In light of the current economic recession, Cooper said, Amp also wanted to show students it Contact the City Editor cared about their financial needs at citydesk@unc.edu. and gain a little positive publicity

along the way.

The tournament will be open to 150 students who can register by contacting Cooper or by joining the Facebook group “Free Tuition & Spring Break!!!”

The competition will be in the form of a single-elimination tournament.

The second tournament will be held in Panama City and will pit winning students from about 20 universities from around the country against each other.

Last September, UNC’s student group Students for Students International hosted a similar tournament that attracted about 35 participants. The winner of that contest got gift cards to local restaurants.

Sophia Woo, a junior business major who helped put on the competition, said another similar tournament should boost the popular-

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Renewable Budget review process may grow energy fee to be voted on Congress considers adding audit board

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The renewable energy student fee is up for renewal.

Students will determine whether to renew a $4 student fee used to fund environmental projects on campus — if Student Congress votes next week to place the referendum on the Feb. 10 ballot.

The fund raises almost $200,000 a year for environmentally sustainable projects such as the solar panels on the roof of Morrison Residence Hall, the use of biodiesel in P2P buses and geothermal wells under the N.C. Botanical Gardens.

Originally instituted in 2003, the fee was renewed in 2005 with 85 percent of the vote. The renewable energy special projects committee determines which projects to fund.

Students gain a better understanding of environmental issues by putting their fees toward tangible projects on campus, said Cindy Shea, director of the sustainability office.

“It helps people see firsthand benefits,” she said. “It renews the message to students that we need to work quickly and aggressively to mitigate the effects of climate change.”

The rules and judiciary committee of Student Congress met Tuesday night and gave the fee initial approval. Next week, the full Congress will vote on whether the measure will appear on the ballot.

Student Body Vice President Todd Dalrymple said he thinks because the group is not requesting a fee increase, Congress will most likely approve the measure.

“There’s no increase, so I don’t anticipate a whole lot of resistance,” he said. “If there was an increase, that might be a different story. I’d

“It renews the message to students that we need to work quickly.”

CINDY SHEA, DIRECTOR OF THE SUSTAINABILITY OFFICE

be pretty surprised if it didn’t make it to the ballot.”

In addition to the fee renewal, the renewable projects committee is requesting a broader interpretation of its oversight and responsibility.

Currently, the committee’s primary purpose is to fund renewable energy projects, but committee chairwoman Shannon Mentock said the group hopes to expand to cover energy efficiency projects, environmental education and general advocacy.

“We’re collecting fees every year, so to see more immediate results we want to include efficiency because it will give us cheaper short-term projects that will have a big impact.

“One of the biggest problems we’ve run into is that these projects take such a long time to be completed,” she said.

“The Morrison project took four years, so students who started it were gone by the time it was finished.”

Shea said the fee is a small price to pay for the benefits it produces.

“Students investing $4 a semester can help to stimulate markets for renewable energy technology and help raise awareness about the benefits of reducing climate change.”

Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.

Student Congress members don’t want to waste students’ money. A proposed board might help ensure that they don’t.

If approved, a new legislative audit board would help Congress conduct extensive reviews of all budget requests from campus groups.

The rules and judiciary committee of Congress passed the proposal at Tuesday’s meeting. It will be up for final approval at the full Congress meeting next week.

The board, which would consist of nine members, would function independently of other Congressional committees.

It would provide another committee to review all budget requests of $15,000 or greater and all requests made outside the standard allocation process — adding another step before going to the finance committee and the full Congress.

To get through the audit board, campus groups seeking money will likely have to prepare more extensive reports than they do already.

Student Congress is responsible for distributing more than $400,000 a year in student fees.

Last semester, Congress accused Concept of Colors, a student modeling group, of requesting more money than it needed to put on a show.

Congress Speaker Pro Tem Bryan Weynand and representative Michael Betts, who is also a candidate for student body president, wrote the proposal.

Betts said he hopes the added board would work in favor of campus groups.

“This committee will put more money in the hands of more groups,” Betts said.

According to the bill, the board would have the power to solicit any information deemed relevant from groups upon evaluating the groups’ efficiency.

The board could also require groups to submit receipts after completing events or projects

funded by Congress.

“This will help Congress make more sound decisions,” Betts said.

“Congress would be able to better understand the need of each group and why they’re making their requests.”

Congress member Ryan O’Quinn questioned the need for the board at Tuesday’s meeting, saying that it would be unnecessary since the finance committee

already reviews proposals.

But Betts said the addition of the board will not be taking power away from the finance committee currently in place.

“It will make sure that power and that authority is more accurate,” Betts said.

Some campus groups are optimistic about the bill.

“If it’s passed and it’s capable of making groups more responsible with how they control their funding, it’ll definitely be beneficial,” said Justin Rosenthal, co-president of the

Young Democrats, which received $1,523 from Congress last year.

“If the proposal increases transparency, then it could definitely impact the student body.”

Betts also said this proposal is not a campaign strategy in the upcoming Feb. 10 election.

“I’m still a congressional representative, so I still have a job and responsibility to my constituents,” Betts said.

Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.

National and World News US envoy backs Gaza cease-fire

House passes Obama’s stimulus plan, $819 billion to create millions of jobs

JERUSALEM (MC T) — President Barack Obama’s special Middle East envoy said Wednesday that strengthening a cease-fire in Gaza is of “critical importance” hours after Israeli warplanes pounded smuggling tunnels in retaliation for the killing of an Israeli soldier in a roadside bomb attack.

The flare-up of violence was the worst since separate cease-fires declared by Israel and Hamas took effect Jan. 18.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — After a sharply partisan debate Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed an $819 billion economic stimulus package by a party-line vote.

The measure, which now goes to the Senate — where it’s likely to be changed considerably — has $544 billion in spending and $275 billion in tax cuts.

The plan is designed to quickly create millions of jobs and give consumers more to spend.

President Obama called for quick passage, invoking anxious Americans losing jobs.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., estimated that the bill would help create and save 3 to 4 million jobs during the next two years.

None of the House’s 178 Republican members voted yes.

Republicans said that the spending would trickle out too slowly and the tax cuts weren’t generous enough.

Gov. Sarah Palin Obama meets with Joint Chiefs founds new PAC

ACLU might get Bush’s memos

WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — President Obama is holding his first meeting with Joint Chiefs on Wednesday at the Pentagon to flesh out his strategy on Iraq and Afghanistan.

The military leaders are expected to brief the president on plans to shift their focus from Iraq to Afghanistan.

The Obama administration may instead ask NATO nations to step up their contributions in police training and democratization as part of a revamped Afghanistan war strategy.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — Dozens of secret documents justifying the Bush administration’s spying and interrogation programs could see the light of day because of a new presidential directive.

The American Civil Liberties Union asked the Obama administration Wednesday to release Justice Department memos that detailed the legal justification for many of these practices.

The Bush administration had classified these documents for national security reasons.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin opened a political action committee Tuesday, a move that indicates she intends to remain a regular in national politics.

SarahPAC, which will raise money online at www.sarahpac. com, was registered Monday night with the Federal Election Commission.

“SarahPAC will support local and national candidates who share Gov. Palin’s ideas and goals for our country,” read part of the Web site’s mission statement.

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The Bull City has a lot to offer, especially in music and art.

As the new Durham Performing Arts Center kicks off its opening season of big name performers and large-scale shows, the Triangle and the nation should see Durham as the cultural and artistic haven that it really is.

One of the arts center’s most notable aspects is the impressive and diverse line-up for 2009. Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel are followed by Ben Folds in February, with Morrissey performing in March. The center doesn’t restrict itself solely to popular music; if musicals sound more appealing, The Color Purple and Legally Blonde: The Musical are also playing in the upcoming months. (Linnie Greene)

The Theatre is a true institution, having opened its doors in 1926. In the ’30s, it started showing movies in Fletcher Hall, and never looked back. Now it has three screens (Fletcher, and two equally awesome rooms upstairs, added in the ’90s) and a marquee that puts the Varsity to shame.

The Carolina, as us Durhamites affectionately call it, does many things for its city.

It’s our only venue for indie, art, foreign, quirky, kinky and off-the-beaten-path films. It’s also the only place to see movies downtown and avoid the strip malls of cookie-cutter south Durham, providing a classy slap in the face to all who think that Southpoint is as good as the Bull City gets. (Jonathan Pattishall)

Along with the recent revitalization of the artistic community in Durham came a resurgence in do-it-yourself events and counterculture.

This is due in no small part to the establishment of Bull City Records and subsequently Bull City Headquarters.

Bull City Records was established in 2005 thanks to a series of Internet credit card offers and loan applications and has quickly established its place as a staple within the local music scene.

“I knew I eventually wanted to start a record store and as far as music goes it’s been one of my favorite environments to work in. Something new comes in every Tuesday.

Even if you get jaded there’s always something that will revive your interest,” said Chaz Martenstein, founder of Bull City Records. (Ben Pittard)

Durham was founded on tobacco, so it’s fitting that the source of its rebirth would be found in the old American Tobacco factory.

Having been brought back from a state of disrepair, this space, encompassing several blocks between Willard and Pettigrew Streets, has been turned into what the American Tobacco District Web site refers to as an “urban chic” environment, whatever that means, with five restaurants, space available for rent, and plenty of offices with lots of large glass windows and stainless steel. (Evan Hughes)

Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way — Durham has a bit of a seedy reputation.

Whether that reputation is deserved is a conversation for another day. We at Dive decided to take it upon ourselves to dispel the myth that Durham is a big scary town with nothing to offer the average student.

Durham has a rich history in the blues, and those cultural treasures live on through the city’s efforts to revitalize downtown without forsaking any of the unique Southern charms that make it what it is.

So, here are some of our favorite spots. Get out and explore if you’re looking for more.

Located in the 5-points area of Durham, Toast was a Finalist for Best New Restaurant in Durham County by the Indy. Toast, a paninoteca, prepares authentic Italian paninis, bruschetta, crostini, and homemade soups.

Part of Durham’s renovation, Toast creates a fresh and light atmosphere to match their fresh ingredients and flavor. The bright lights and turquoise walls lend to its Mediterranean ambience, while one wall of the restaurant becomes the focal point with the definition of toast on the wall.

Toast is certainly worth the trip. (Rachel Arnett)

Brightleaf Square is a beautiful little outdoor mall featuring a myriad of different types of restaurants, shops and even a little boutique record store.

Perfect for an afternoon of browsing through the shops followed by a nice meal from restaurants representing food from across the world.

If you’re looking for a Brazilian style steak, then this is your place. The square can also accommodate your tastes for Mexican, Greek or Italian.

Placed smack in the middle of the larger Brightleaf neighborhood, Brightleaf Square provides enough options to take up an entire day of shopping and dining, sitting in the sun and people watching. (Jamie Williams)

Bull City Headquarters is an all-ages venue spearheaded

by Chaz Martenstein and a board of artistically like-minded community members.

A completely substance free venue, BCHQ’s community focus extends beyond the atmosphere and into its management as well. The space features an open booking policy, which allows community members and bands to organize their own events with the help of the venue.

“I think it’s an important space to exist in Durham. It’s important to have all-ages spaces. Anyone who is interested in booking shows should become more involved,” said Rebekah Meek, visual arts coordinator. (Ben Pittard)

Located in downtown Durham, the Pinhook is a new bar featuring performances by local artists.

The bar is named after the Pin Hook settlement which once stood in what is now Old West Durham and is owned by Kym Register of Durham country-twee combo Midtown Dickens.

Having opened last fall just in time to take part in the Troika Music Festival, the venue continues to offer up a consistent lineup of great local music week in and week out.

This weekend you can check out a dance party to raise money for Midtown Dickens’ new album and a set by Chapel Hill’s Schooner.

(Jordan Lawrence)

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into her character’s motivations, as she tiptoes a fine line to create a spectacular enigma of a woman.

In fact, “The Reader” is more about Germans facing the reality of their complicated involvement, at differing levels, in the Holocaust.

Hanna is a symbol of a confusing and horrible past — and the schoolboy is the naive and disillusioned present.

Screenwriter David Hare ignores the elephant in the room, and treats the Holocaust as only a minor part of the overall story.

As a result, the film feels very small — and presents no clear theme or message. The audience is left feeling an emotional disconnect with the story and the characters.

Like the young schoolboy, you’re left feeling intrigued, confused and wondering exactly what role the two-hour love story just played in your life.

Director Stephen Daldry creates a complex love story in post-World War II Germany featuring the talents of Kate Winslet in “The Reader.”

Winslet plays the middle-aged blue-collar Hanna Schmitz, who seduces Michael Berg, a young schoolboy (David Kross) — all the while requiring that he read her literature aloud.

The romance is twisted and complicated, with Berg and Schmitz both intent on avoiding clothing at all costs.

Things get more complicated after the summer fling ends, when the schoolboy goes to law school and sits in on a mass murder trial against Schmitz. It turns out she hid a past as a Nazi guard.

Winslet’s success is her refusal to give the audience any easy looks

- David Berngartt

Notorious “Notorious” is a chronicle of the rise and fall of Christopher Wallace, better known as Biggie Smalls or the Notorious B.I.G., one of hiphop’s most famous (and infamous) personalities and performers.

While this isn’t a bad movie, it doesn’t live up to the life of the man it tries to depict.

Accurately portraying the life of a legend is a pretty tall order, especially when that person’s life was as controversial as Biggie’s, given his background as a successful drug dealer.

Even so, he was known for improvisation, whether on the

streets or in the studio, and this film displays none. It feels too clean, too glossy, and all together too predictable. Though there’s plenty of sex and bad language and guns and weed and various beefs, none of the grit and anger that defined his life ever really breaks through and grabs you.

To be fair, Jamal Woolard, a Hollywood newcomer, does a fair job of tackling the difficult role, and Angela Bassett, though limited somewhat, does a fine job as his worried mother. Anthony Mackie plays Tupac Shakur, Biggie’s friendturned-arch nemesis, but his role is completely two-dimensional, giving the impression that he was completely responsible for their widely-known feud.

This flat, biased quality, however, is expected considering the role that Sean “Puffy” Combs, the man that launched Wallace’s career, had as one of the film’s biggest producers. It makes this movie just another piece of mythology that further confuses the real story of the man who died.

“Notorious” is a movie that will please rap fans and make uptight critics sniff in derision. Not bad, but overall a letdown given the impact the man had on the music industry, not to mention the entire world.

- Evan Hughes

Underworld: rise of the lycans Often a prequel means that the producers of a movie series have exhausted their ideas but still want to cash in on a sequel. And, unfortunately, “Underworld: Rise of the

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Lycans” fits that profile exactly.

The movie tells the story of Sonja (Rhona Mitra), a young vampire who isn’t Kate Beckinsale, but wears the form-fitting leather just as well. As the first two “Underworld” movies hinted at in flashbacks, Sonja falls in love with Lucian (Michael Sheen), one of the Lycan slaves that protects the vampire clan, led by her father Viktor (Bill Nighy), during the daylight hours.

It seems as if the goal was to create a werewolf and vampire version of “Romeo and Juliet,” but to actually compare this mess to Shakespeare would be insulting the great bard. The acting is laughable, and Nighy’s icy gaze is the only convincing emotion in the whole film.

The fight scenes, which were the saving grace of the first two “Underworld” films under the direction of action guru Len Wiseman, suffer under new director Patrick Tatopoulos.

Almost wholly shot in dimly-lit environments, the film makes it hard to figure out what’s going on.

In fact, the lighting of the entire film seems to suggest that it was shot during a prolonged total lunar eclipse. Vampires are naturally partial to the dark, but “Underworld” seems to take place in a world where sunlight doesn’t even exist.

“Underworld: Rise of the Lycans” seeks to explain the long-running conflict between the vampires and Lycans, but only the most hardcore fans are likely to care.

It’s time for this series to end, its lifeblood having been sucked as dry as a vampire victim.

The Wrestler shows dirty side of America Film looks at a

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By Jonathan pattishall Staff writer

Darren Aronofsky has made a directorial career out of depicting pitiful human subjects strained to the breaking point in the struggle against life.

“The Wrestler” is the greatest of these movies, because Aronofsky no longer has to rely on abstract fantasy (as in “The Fountain”) or repulsive circumstances (as in “Requiem for a Dream”) to tell his story.

Instead, all he has to do is give us a shot of real life, and, what’s harder, everyday living. This is a movie of dirt and blood and brutal necessity, set on the fringes of the entertainment industry; it’s hard to watch, but infinitely rewarding.

The story follows Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke), an aging professional wrestler with a love for the sport (or, as he treats it, the art), who is decades past his heyday.

Living in a trailer park in a rundown, overcast, post-industrial New Jersey, the Ram works in supermarkets by day and wrestles in sad, underappreciated independent matches by night.

The only thing more disheartening than his failed relationships with his daughter (Evan Rachel -Mark Niegelsky Wood) and would-be stripper girlfriend (Marisa Tomei) are the long looks on the faces of his fans, overweight middle-aged men and pubescent boys, all seemingly conscious of the pathos of The Ram’s slow slip from his glory days.

Here it’s vintage Aronofsky: gray skies to accompany the gray lives of his characters.

Though the movie is set in the present, the hopeless texture of the 1980s is always looming in the background, from closed factory doors to the stale rock of the big hair bands to the whole notion of the pro wrestler with shoulderlength blond hair.

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The setting is established flawlessly as a critical throwback to the seedy cultural underbelly of the Reagan years.

Even the dialogue, without a spare word, is made to match. It’s as sparse as domestic social spending under the Gipper. (As if to underscore this theme, the movie includes a title song by Bruce Springsteen.)

But the Ram’s life, and what his life represents, is greater than this sadness. At the showing I attended, two moviegoers walked out on the film’s most memorable scene, a wrestling match that involves barbed wire, thumbtacks and an unforgiving staple gun.

It’s a masterful episode of sadism and masochism told in gruesome reverse, and it shows Aronofsky at the height of his editing abilities, but it was too much for these two weak stomachs.

Little did they know they walked out on one of the most important scenes in the movie, which shows us who the Ram really is: a proletarian gladiator for the blue-collar trailer trash of America.

Aronofsky has worked deliberately to make a material movie about the salt of the earth, and he’s wound up with a Marxist’s wet dream.

This film is both high art and low, accessible and painfully beautiful. “The Wrestler’s” subjects are some of the most underrepresented and interesting in Hollywood.

They’re roughneck pugilists and strippers, all more tender and pleasantly unpredictable than you’d expect.

They are modern, workingclass folk heroes, and this honorable movie is the least of their dues.

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The music of Phosphorescent is best enjoyed late at night. After wrestling with sleep for a few hours, the tender, yet pained voice of lead man Matthew Houck has an almost intoxicating quality.

Floating over shakers, plinking keys and mournful strums, Phosphorescent often takes the shape of a weekend bender personified through sonic form.

With that said, it makes sense that Houck’s latest, a tender tribute to Willie Nelson, would work

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so well. To Willie is a covers album by definition, but Houck owns the songs in such a way that they quickly become his own.

For the disc’s 11 tracks, he’s dug deep into Nelson’s catalogue, eschewing the obvious hits in favor of the drinking songs, the praying songs and the “too sick to pray” songs. These songs have lives of their own, with characters and stories that combine pain, regret and lapsed faith.

Houck does these songs like he’s lived them. When he opens the record with “Reasons to Quit,” an old Merle Haggard and Nelson song that kicks off with the declaration “Reasons to quit/The coke (Nelson sang smoke) and booze don’t do me like before/I’m hardly ever sober and my old friends don’t come around here anymore,” you feel it, and more importantly, you believe him.

Houck has lived with these songs and knows them inside and out, which is, of course, what makes this record such a success.

In recent years, Nelson’s image has been turned into a sort of caricature: a long haired aged hippie who has become the butt of jokes after a few drug possession arrests,.

It would be easy to lose sight of what a true songwriting talent Nelson really is.

When Phosphorescent takes on these songs, there’s no denying their power.

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Houck has referred to this project as a “musical love letter” to one of his heroes, and that’s exactly what it is.

Having established himself as an important and dynamic voice, Houck now has the luxury of having a terrific label (Dead Oceans) to release this love letter that otherwise may have just been tucked away in a drawer, deemed too private and a little too beautiful to see the light of day.

It’s an aching tribute to hard living Saturday sin mixed with the Sunday repentance tradition of country music, created by a man who sounds like he’s sitting in his bedroom staring out the window strumming and singing with a few empty bottles on the dresser, trying to come to grips with his lack of sleep, lapse in faith and surplus of sin.

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Working on a Dream is a silly, silly album. And that’s its best trait.

From the stylized cover of a black-and-white, smiling Bruce Springsteen pasted on a night sky to the Buddy-Holly-and-Brian-Wilsoninspired pop of several of the songs, it’s his most outrageous outing with the E Street Band since reviving the collaboration for 2002’s The Rising.

Take album opener “Outlaw Pete.”

It’s an eight-minute long epic about a fictional bandit that starts with the lines, “He was born a little baby on the Appalachian Trail/At six months old, he’d done three months in jail.”

Complete with overdubbed strings and chimes and reverb-drenched harmonica, it’s exactly the kind of outrageous character study that provided both comic relief and meaning to Springsteen’s ’70s classics.

And because of the perfectly over-the-top arrangement and mix of pleading emotion and goodhearted humor, it’s a welcome return to the outsized ridiculousness of his early days.

The weird choices don’t stop here.

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es to use country-tinged Beach Boys magic to turn a come-on to a grocery store clerk into a touching love song.

As odd as it sounds, the waves of harmony, strings and check-out beeps that end the song are just beautiful.

And unlike most of Springsteen’s latter-day works, the album is actually a grower, largely because he is so unwilling to sound like himself.

“Good Eye” melds a typical “E Street Shuffle” rhythm to straightup Delta blues as Springsteen lashes out in a playfully wounded howl that sounds as if he’s been singing the blues his entire career.

But not all the successes go against Springsteen’s image as “The Boss.” “My Lucky Day” is one of the best straight-ahead love songs he’s produced this decade, and the title track uses a simple rock ‘n’ roll shuffle to give light-hearted power to lines such as “Sunrise come, I climb the ladder/The new day breaks, and I’m working on a dream.”

And unlike 2007’s Magic, there’s nary a dud to be found, although Springsteen’s tribute to recentlypassed-away keyboardist Danny Federici, “The Last Carnival,” lacks the emotional resonance such a

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tribute needs. The album would have been better off ending with his excellent title song for the film “The Wrestler,” which appears as a bonus track.

But taken as a whole, Working on a Dream is a return to the spontaneous mixing of genres and influences of his early works. And while this album doesn’t come close to matching his classics, it’s nice to see that he still has some magic left in him.

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Carter Gaj has been living with the songs on his band Max Indian’s debut for over a year now.

Through the process of recording the terrific You Can Go Anywhere, Do Anything, problems with the tape machine Gaj and bandmate James Wallace were using to record caused delays at different points.

But Gaj said these little bumps in the road only spurred more creative approaches to getting around them.

Lemons make lemonade right?

Gaj said those creative flourishes aren’t exactly obvious on the record, but do add greatly to Gaj’s idea of the record as snapshot.

“We really just wanted to sound like ourselves,” Gaj said. “That was the main reason we decided to record it at home. It’s all built out of necessity; this is how we could record it at this time.”

Those charms only add to the undeniable quality of the record that immediately recalls The Beatles. Gaj said that was partially

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intentional, but was quick to identify the songs as uniquely his own.

“We wanted to record it the way all of the greats recorded, but it can’t really be The Beatles because these songs are mine, they went through the filter of me,” Gaj said.

That filter often juxtaposes fast and sunny melodies with lyrics based around memory, death and loss. It’s those contrasts that make the record what it is.

And Gaj said he knows that people will come away from it with different reactions. He’s ok with that. Now that it has been released into the world it doesn’t belong to him anymore. It’s for everyone.

“Ultimately, I’m a big believer that the people listening get to decide, in the end, what the record is about,” he said.

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The sound of the record is something that Gaj and Wallace like to augment in their live show with additional backing from Jeff Crawford on keys and Nick Jaeger on a fierce guitar that often blends with Gaj’s in harmonized glory.

Gaj said reimagining the songs

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on stage allows him to keep the songs fresh.

“I just think it’s more interesting to do it that way,” he said. “It would get pretty boring to just go out every night and try to perfectly recreate the songs on the record.”

The louder guitars don’t do anything to detract from the songs themselves, something Gaj said he is well aware of.

“I think our live show is a lot more immediate for people,” he said.

Through the long grind of making the record, Gaj said the musical community in Chapel Hill was one of the main factors in that kept him optimistic.

“This is such a special place,” he said.

“I mean, where else can you live like a pauper, take a year and a half to make a record and then actually have people listen to it when it actually comes out?”

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musicshorts Bon Iver Blood Bank Pop/folk

One strength of Justin Vernon, the leader of the now four-member Bon Iver, is his ability to know when he has a good line and then hit the listener with it again and again.

On “Woods,” a song from the Blood Bank EP that’s totally different from anything on 2006’s acclaimed For Emma, Forever Ago, he takes one of his well-pruned lines and weaves multiple copies of his voice around it using auto-tune, the vocal processing technology used by such artists as T-Pain.

Because of the auto-tune, his voice becomes an army of regretful croons and painful screams as he repeats the killer line, “I’m up in the woods/I’m down on my mind/I’m building a still/To slow down the time.” With the vocal layering and palpable emotion, it’s a song that proves that Vernon does bittersweet (well, mostly bitter) emotion as well as any artist working today.

The title track also exudes this all-consuming regret. Using the ridiculous premise of a couple meeting at a blood bank and then getting snowed-in in a car, Vernon creates a powerful break-up song.

And while the middle tracks of this four-song EP don’t live up to its powerful bookends, neither are stagnant replicas of what Vernon

has done before, proving that Bon Iver is a creative force and not just a name to be associated with one of the greatest break-up albums of the decade.

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Mr. Oizo Lamb’s Anger Electro

It’s been a while since the creation of Mr. Oizo’s lovable sock puppet avatar, Flat Eric. On this record, Eric returns with a slew of tracks that are more maniacal than ever.

The album cover features the aforementioned mascot in a grip that parodies Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s classic film, “Un Chien Andalou,” as a razor is held precariously in front of the puppet.

This sort of perverted yet playful attitude is what Oizo is known for, and the album doesn’t disappoint.

Lamb’s Anger is a fractured listen, jumping from track to track with heavily abrasive and fidgety electrobangers. It’s not all ear-bleeding floor stompers though.

“Jo” is a classic French House track, reminiscent of early work by Cassius and Bob Sinclar. Soulful vocals collide with sweeping horns atop clipped vocals for what is probably the best proper house track Ed Banger has ever released.

“Gay Dentists” is the highlight of

sort of hippie commune out there in rural Oklahoma. I heard they all had the same girlfriend.”

The first thing you’ll find from Colourmusic’s newest album (read above for the ostentatiously long title) is that they’re not afraid to veer off the beaten path. As indicated by the self-deprecating quote on the album’s packaging, the group waves its obscurity like a flag.

Through layered, bubbly vocals that mix claps and chimes with childlike, sing-song choruses, Colourmusic build high-energy, footstamping melodies that are likely to make cold morning strolls to class a little less dismal. Lines like “If I buy you alcohol, will you give me what I want?” strike a balance between lightness and irony.

And though originality is not its strong suit ­— each song sounding like a band you’ve probably heard before ­— the constant energy, evident in the high-pitched wailing of the vocalists and the driving pulse of post-punk songs like “You Can Call Me By My -Jordan Lawrence Name,” balances the album’s schizophrenic nature.

It’s amazing what three or four colourmusic While the bulk of the album is standouts can do for an otherwise f, monday, orange, a pleasantly energetic mash up of lackluster album. A few tracks that february, venus, lunatic, accessible tracks, the repetitiously really grab attention help to point out 1 or 13 minimal lyrics can wear thin after the better elements of average songs pop several listens. So, though the that might have been ignored. album demonstrates potential, it’s And in the case of Durham/ ultimately just another mediocre Chapel Hill based trio Death To The Wikipedia contains some interest- debut.

Details, it’s a phenomenon that keeps ing information about Colourmusic’s their eponymous debut from falling unusual reputation: “They run some -Linnie Greene into the black void of mediocrity.

While about half of the songs come off as lackluster interpretations of indie-rock firebrands such as Modest Mouse, the others are intricately constructed, catchy attacks of hot guitars and insightful lines.

“Twenty Something Miles” uses a tumultuous rhythm and a guitar line with the torrential power of a waterfall to give vigor to Brian Overington’s laundry list of regrets.

“Lessons in Animation” beautifully uses a call-to-arms guitar riff and lines such as “I’m a Saturdaymorning cartoon that never seems to last past noon,” to set up for a fist-pumping chorus. It’s an irresistible argument for leaving behind the small details in life in the interest of utilizing our brief time on earth.

And though the great successes help to highlight the merits of the -Ben Pittard lesser tracks, in the end this debut would have been better as a blazDeath To The Details ingly powerful EP than the merely Death to the Details respectable full-length it is.

the record, stealing the deep-disco vibes seen earlier in the album with the fidget-house that seems to define Oizo. The track shakes around to a wonderfully used sample from Bohannon’s classic, “Let’s Start the Dance,” for a track that is closer to Basement Jaxx in its heyday as opposed to anything within the contemporary electro scene.

But these tracks feel like timeouts that allow the listener to breathe before trying to attack the rest of the album. As infectious as it is, the majority of this record is a bit too abrasive to appeal to most people.

It boils down to whether or not the listener gets the joke. Like the slightly obscure reference within its album cover, if you get the joke you’ll find a lot of fun here. Otherwise, you’ll probably just be annoyed.

sleepsound Breathe pop

A cross between Keane and Snow Patrol, Sleepsound tries to use deep emotions and the piano to capture attention, but at times pale in comparison on Breathe, a digital-only release from the Chapel Hill band.

Just as Geoff Register’s voice seems to lead into meaningful lyrics, it cuts out before the important words are understood. Despite the inability to understand all the words, the majority of tracks are laced with the emotional headiness of Register’s voice, which carries the record.

“The Lead” exemplifies the record’s best qualities, with pleading words that remind us that we control our future. As he sings “As far as I can tell you only hurt yourself,” the emotional plea for survival coats Register’s voice, touching the darkest creases of the listener’s mind.

“Will I Rise?” creates a voyeuristic vibe. The piano feels as if we are meant to tip-toe around unseen, in order to hear the heartfelt confession that was intended to be kept in secrecy. As he sings, the intruders both identify with his feelings and feel misplaced by the angst.

But ultimately, a lack of original sounds and ideas keep this from being a real stand out.

-Rachel Arnett

Lawson’s heroics lift Heels MEN’S BASKETBALL UNC FSU

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Hits last-second 3 for 80-77 win By powell Latimer Senior Writer

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In the final seconds, Florida State was prepared for Tyler Hansbrough — they just weren’t prepared for what came next.

That would be the lightning strike that was Ty Lawson’s 60-foot drive and buzzer-beating floater — a drive that started with only 3.2 seconds left and gave No. 6 North Carolina an 80-77 win against the Seminoles.

The plan in the huddle had been for Lawson to call time-out at halfcourt if FSU allowed it. But the Seminoles’ soft defense allowed for Roy Williams’ plan B. “Throw it in to Tywon, and let him go as far as he could go and shoot it,” Williams said.

The result was a drive and

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Jablonski also refers candidates to other administrators based on their specific ideas.

Campus Y Director Virginia Carson said her conversations with candidates often begin with how they can further incorporate public service ideas into their platforms, but they eventually end up discussing a wide variety of topics.

Carson said she usually stresses to candidates the importance of making sure their platform goals are realistic.

Terri Houston, director of recruitment and multicultural programs, agreed. She takes a similar approach with candidates.

3-point runner that found the bottom of the net and an ensuing pile of blue jerseys on the court with Lawson in the middle.

“I didn’t see it get past the rim,” Lawson said after the game — he was already being dogpiled.

But just before Lawson’s shot, Danny Green had set the stage for UNC (18-2, 4-2 ACC) by picking his sixth steal of the night and converting a 3-point play to tie the game at 77.

That was the final tip in a seesaw second half that saw FSU (165, 3-3) come roaring back from a 13-point deficit.

Much of that comeback was the result of Seminole point guard Toney Douglas putting his team on his back. The senior hung 32 points on UNC, including 24 in the second half as he carried his team to a lead that lasted until the final buzzer.

“God almighty, what a game he played,” Williams said. “Toney Douglas is a load.”

Countering Douglas’ floating jumpers was Lawson as much of the second half turned into a point guards’ duel — Douglas and “I think a lot of candidates come in wanting to change the world.

Well, good luck,” she said.

Houston said she does not give the same tips to everyone and tailors her advice depending on each individual candidate’s personality.

“You would want to customize your message in a way that doesn’t appeal to stereotypes and perceptions,” Houston noted.

“If you assume all black people relate to a particular subject matter just because of their ethnicity, you’re sadly mistaken.”

Candidates also have reached out to those who have been though the process before. These conversations focus more on the personal aspects of running rather than specific platform strategies.

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Lawson finished with 21 points, a team high.

Hansbrough, and all of the UNC frontcourt, struggled against the uber-athletic Seminoles.

Hansbrough in particular was frustrated, picking up four fouls, and with eight points, breaking a 55-game streak of double-figure scoring.

But all of his struggles were forgotten when, in the waning seconds, it was Hansbrough who twice took the assignment of guarding the cat-quick Douglas on the perimeter. It was No. 50’s hand that blocked Douglas’ final shot.

“He didn’ t play very well,” Williams said. “I told him he stunk tonight, but two straight defensive possessions, he did a great job of keeping the ball in front of him.”

The Tar Heels managed the win

despite shooting only 38 percent for the game and turning the ball over a season-high 21 times. Williams gave credit for that number to the Seminole lineup.

“They’re athletic, they’re quick, they have great size up front,” Williams said of the Seminoles.

“Our inability to shoot was directly related to their defense.”

With Hansbrough out for much of the game with foul trouble, freshman Ed Davis took up the mantle in the post, corralling eight rebounds and eight points in 22 minutes. Davis also swatted two shots on the evening.

“He was the only guy who was tough enough to go in there and get a rebound for us,” Williams said. “A couple of his blocks were important for us in the first half.”

The three candidates who ran last year — J.J. Raynor, Logan Liles and Kristin Hill­­ — have talked to many of this year’s candidates in one form or another.

These conversations were geared more towards keeping good spirits and a positive attitude.

“I didn’t want to give anyone ideas,” Raynor said. “I talked about maintaining their mental health while running because sometimes people start to see you as a politi-

cian and not a person.”

Liles said he has offered similar thoughts to the candidates and emphasized to them that enjoying themselves is a key to success.

“You should really have fun with it,” he said. “If you don’t wake up every day and want to go out and campaign, then you should know you don’t want to keep running.”

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Emily Riehl of The Loreleis reacts to Ben Folds in a recording session.

The group sang parts of “Jesusland” for Folds’ upcoming album.

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sound,” Riehl said. “A group of girls tends not to be as full-sounding as a group of guys, and ‘Jesusland’ is a very delicate arrangement.”

The Loreleis recorded the song for the album in Swain Hall in December with Ben Folds present and acting as producer.

“He was very excited to be here,” Rountree said. “Ben Folds is from Chapel Hill, so I think being here evoked a sense of nostalgia.”

During the recording, Loreleis members said that Folds expressed his humorous side.

“He’s just so funny,” Riehl said.

“Even just the little things he would say, all sorts of one-liners like ‘Jump on that Jesus’ and ‘Everyone just nailed that Jesus.’”

Then Folds sent the Loreleis’ producer out to Starbucks to bring him a green tea. “The people at Starbucks said they knew him and gave him a free soy latte, but he didn’t want it,”

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All of the proceeds from the album will go directly to the Save the Music Foundation, an organization that aims to maintain music programs in schools. The album’s release date and title have yet to be announced.

“We have some die-hard Ben Folds fans in the group,” Rountree said. “We are so humbled and honored to have met him. It really is a monumental thing.”

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other organization on campus.

“People think being Greek equates to being a drunkard, or not caring about your schoolwork,” he said. “But, the reason I got involved in student government is because of fraternity brothers of mine.”

When it comes to the responsibilities of student body president, “interaction” is the most important word for Edwards.

If elected, he plans to spend a lot of time reaching out to students for input, including sending chairmen of executive committees into dining halls to listen to what students have to say during meal times.

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Edwards decided to run for student body president after working on Kristin Hill’s campaign, who lost to Raynor’s last year.

“I think the biggest thing I learned with Hill’s campaign is making sure you’re visible to the campus body,” he said.

Edwards also served as the technology and Web services committee chairman for the past year and a half.

If not elected, Edwards still plans to contribute by working to develop the Eve Marie Carson Memorial Scholarship.

But, for Edwards, the key word in that sentence is “if.”

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successful student body president must have.

“Jasmin is the single most energetic person I know, and she has an infectious energy that spills over into others,” Allin said. “She also can dance like no one I’ve ever seen before. That’s got to count for something.”

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Community, collaboration and outreach are the themes of her platform, so she plans to work with a variety of groups on campus, including the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Center and a number of religious groups.

She plans to promote UNC as a “safe space” for LGBTQ members in high schools and work with the Inter-Faith Council to celebrate a larger number of religious holidays on campus.

“It’s about being the ultimate Tar Heel and sharing the ‘Tar Heel love’ to everyone involved with the University,” Jones said.

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ity of future events.

“I think it’s awesome,” Woo said.

“I’m surprised more organizations haven’t done it because it’s pretty easy to put on, and it’s something people have a lot of fun with.”

One student who is sure to be a favorite in the upcoming tournament is sophomore Chris Clayman, who won the S4Si Challenge.

His secret weapons, he said, were intense study and psychological warfare in dominating September’s 32-person field.

Contact the University Editor But students such as junior at udesk@unc.edu. business major Richard Paules are

“It’s pretty easy to put on, and it’s something people have a lot of fun with.” sophia woo, s4si member looking to give Clayman a run for his money.

“I am in an equal position with everyone out there because it’s all about luck,” Paules said. “I think it would be a sick trip to Panama City if I won.”

Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.

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You’ll do well in creative endeavors this year.

Build on what you already know. Your greatest success and most fun comes from a craft you already like doing. That’s as good as it gets.

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Taurus (April 20-May 20) Today is a 7 - Some people just don’t understand your sensitivities. That’s why you should hang out with the people who do. Be nice to them, by the way, or you’ll scare them off.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) Today is an 8 - All sorts of new opportunities are opening up for you now. Some of these are things you’ve always liked, but never done as a career. Consider new options.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) Today is a 7 - Leave your savings tucked away. You won’t be needing them now. Get out for a breath of fresh air. The best things in life are still free.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 7 - Try not to be too critical of a person who wants to help. It’s a loving gesture and should be treated as such. You may find that this person can do more for you than you thought.

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12 thursday, january 29, 2009 Allison nichols

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I think a lot of candidates come in wanting to change the world.

Well, good luck.”

Terri Houston, director of recruitment and multicultural programs, on student elections

By Alex Lee, lobin@email.unc.edu

Featured online reader comment:

“Well, I guess somebody knows basketball better than coach Williams. Maybe they should have hired you?”

Rachel Steindel language columnist

Junior linguistics and English major from Glen Ridge, N.J. E-mail: srachel@email.Unc.Edu

Linguistic defense of a∞rmative action

— on letter to the editor “in light of poor season, frasor should play less”

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

W

hen you applied to Carolina, admissions staff evaluated certain “diversity considerations,” which take into consideration, among other things, “underrepresented racial backgrounds.”

In other words, affirmative action.

Some on this language COLUMNIST campus (or more likely, those who weren’t fortunate enough to get here) find reason to gripe about that policy. Isn’t America “postracial” now?

No. Because even if all students with the same potential for learning and intelligence were thrown into the same school, some students would still be at a disadvantage. Because they speak a different language.

African-American English, or AAE, has many names, but you’ve probably heard it referred to in hushed whispers as Ebonics.

Contrary to popular belief, AAE is not just a bunch of jumbled-up bad English that hip-hoppers and wannabes use to sound cool.

At first glance, it might appear to be so: The verb “to be” is often left out (“he cool”) or seems to be conjugated wrong (“he be running”). Third personal singular “s” is dropped (“he run”), and possessives disappear (“my aunt house”).

These changes seem to come from just not having the volition to finish a word or a sentence properly.

But as we all know, first impressions are often wrong. In AAE’s defense, I present to a sentence of Southern-American English (SAE) that my roommate once said: “I done did the dishes.” Now, as many of you Southerners can attest, this does not mean “I did the dishes.” It means “I already did the dishes.”

The same feature shows up in AAE. This may seem trivial. But just consider: AAE, along with SAE, has a verb tense you don’t have. In fact, AAE has a few other verb tenses that you don’t have.

And those “lazy” deletions I list above? All of them are systematic and rule-based. Just as we use “a” and “an” in different contexts, things disappear and reappear in AAE according to set rules.

What does this have to do with affirmative action? Imagine coming to school and learning how to read. Except instead of being given Dick and Jane, you are given a primer written in Middle English.

It kind of looks like the English you speak. But things are just different, in ways you can’t quite figure out. And when you ask your teacher for help, she just corrects what you say (“Now Susy, you forgot to use the genitive case again!”) and tells you to get back to work. The next day, you find yourself in a class for people with language deficits.

The thing you really need, then, is explicit instruction in Middle English, like I got on my first day of Chaucer here at UNC. Professor Wittig didn’t teach me either to erase my own English or expect me to speak Middle English all the time, but rather to learn a skill set that I needed to know to succeed.

And the same should be true for children who speak AAE. But they are not getting this explicit instruction. And until educators and the general population wake up and hear the Ebonics, children who speak AAE are going to be drastically behind and stay behind no matter how many other educational reforms are passed and new schools built. And I think that’s a good a reason as any to keep affirmative action around.

Friday: Andrew Moon will advocate for a comprehensive effort to fight America’s growing obesity problem.

Stop ‘shoulder taps’ Police method to catch illicit alcohol purchasers red-handed is unproductive and coercive

T

h e C a r r b o r o Po l i c e Depar tment should cease operations that use minors to persuade ofage drinkers to buy them alcohol.

According to The (Chapel Hill) Herald Sun, the police department recently conducted such an operation, planting a “confidential underage buyer” at three separate locations.

The underage buyer asked more than 20 of-age individuals to purchase alcohol for a minor.

Unfortunately, such operations are commonly used by police departments across the country, says Dr. Irving Joyner, a law professor at North Carolina Central University.

“In fact, you can expect to

see them annually during the spring months. This one is a little early,” he said.

From a legal standpoint, there is nothing illegal with these operations.

They do not constitute entrapment because police action did not overcome the will of the person not to commit a crime.

But in this case the minor had to go to three locations and solicit more than 20 people before one would commit a crime.

T h e C a r r b o r o Po l i c e Department is wasting time and resources.

It is also distasteful that the police department is employing an individual to persuade of-age buyers to purchase alcohol.

If the person who pur-

chased the alcohol had not been provoked, he or she might never have committed a crime.

Joyner warns of-age students should be wary and never allow their sympathy for their underage peers to persuade them into doing something illegal.

Of course, enforcing the law is the duty of all police departments.

However, such coercive practices are not the best way to curb underage drinking, and seem to be an ineffective use of resources.

T h e C a r r b o r o Po l i c e Department should find more productive and less coercive methods to carry out their mandate to prevent underage drinking.

Reimburse good suits N.C. should pass an act that reimburses lawsuits to keep government accountable

T

he N.C. General Assembly should work this session to make government more accountable.

An act passed in the Senate last year that was voted down in the House would have increased government accountability and transparency by reimbursing legal fees to plaintiffs who won document disputes with government agencies.

Without such a law, those looking to use a lawsuit to correct wrongs committed by the government would get bogged down in legal fees.

Smaller organizations and individuals, in particular,

would likely find legal efforts to hold state departments and officials accountable to be cost-prohibitive.

Some state agencies are hesitant to hand over such documents that are considered public under the Public Records Law. Litigation is often needed to force state government officials and agencies to yield documents.

It’s possible that reimbursement of legal fees will open the door to extraneous lawsuits against the state, but under the bill passed by the Senate last year, only winning plaintiffs — those the courts deemed had been wronged

— would be financially reimbursed.

Residents or organizations should be able to sue the government for access to public records and “not go broke doing it,” said Beth Grace, executive director of the North Carolina Press Association.

North Carolina residents will benefit from a more open government.

We are ultimately responsible for our government’s actions.

The way we hold the government accountable in this country is through the legal system, which should be open to all.

QuickHits Alpine toaster

Anoop Desai

Bathroom poets

The whole UNC community was bereaved Monday morning by the heartrending loss of Alpine Bagel Cafe‘s beloved toaster. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all who have been deprived by this tragedy.

Congratulations to Anoop Desai, recently renamed “Anoop Dogg,” for being selected as a semi-finalist on “American Idol.” Here’s hoping that you become as successful as Ruben Studdard.

When using the bathroom, who doesn’t contemplate all? Yet only the bravest of us bare our souls to the wall. Indeed the pen is mightiest when within the stall. Bathroom poets, continue to scrawl.

Toilet paper

Campaign signs

Once you flush toilet paper, you usually don’t see it again. Unless that toilet paper has the strength of a coarse paper towel, clogging all the pipes on campus. Thanks, Unisource, provider of UNC’s “toilet paper.”

We like campaign signs in a student election, but we’re head over heels for them this year. Literally. Not enough space to walk in the Pit isn’t democracy. It’s omnipresent obnoxiousness.

Shower peeper Never has an act of vileness warranted a downward thumb more than this.

Vo y e u r i s m h a s no place on this campus. We hope that the Peeping Tom will come out to face his crime.

The closing of detention center is a horrible plan

Editorial advocating right to pollute was absurd

TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR: Thank you, editorial board, for defending the sacred right of homeowners associations (“Preserve collective rights,” Jan. 27).

These bodies are the bedrock of our sprawling cities and must be barricaded from “unsightly features” such as solar panels, outdoor clotheslines, rain barrels, and garden fencing.

In short, individuals must be stopped from reducing their carbon footprint and lowering their energy bills.

Moreover, lawns not laced with various and sundry chemicals should be outlawed.

Persons or families caught engaging in environmentally thuggish behaviors such as installing bike racks on the front porch must be jailed in lieu of bail.

Closing detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay would be detrimental to our country’s security at this time. As of right now there are 245 prisoners being detained at Guantánamo Bay including Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.

After Guantánamo Bay closes, what do you propose we do with these prisoners of war? Are we as taxpayers going to be paying for their “proper” judicial treatment?

If these men were to be given to our judiciary system, most of them, by our laws, would be freed because they were denied due process alone.

Once these prisoners are released what are we to do with them? Send them back to their countries and pray that they don’t enter the fight against us again?

This has already proven to be a problem with numerous released detainees rejoining Al-Qaeda.

Videos were released last week

by Al-Qaeda revealing that two ex-prisoners are now back with Al-Qaeda and more are feared to have joined. Given this evidence does it make sense to release these prisoners? What are we to do with Mohammed, let him go as well?

President Obama promised in his inaugural address “for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.”

The costs of closing Guantánamo are too high for Obama to be swayed by Leftist ideologies. Obama, I’m fine with most of what you are doing in this country, but you have me seriously questioning your peace, war, and defense policies.

Tim Wander Senior History

Encourage homeowners to practice sustainability

TO THE EDITOR: The article on bathroom graffiti was ridiculous enough as frontpage news — but the fact that the Young Democrats’ student body president endorsement was only mentioned in campus briefs (“Campus briefs for January 27,” Jan. 27) makes it even more absurd. The Di-Phi SBP endorsement was on the front page last week (“Di-Phi picks Jones,” Jan. 23), and nobody even hears about Di-Phi anytime during the year except for SBP campaign season, when they are typically the first endorsement released.

Young Democrats, in contrast, is one of the largest and most active student groups at Carolina. And yet, their endorsement, which was given to Thomas Edwards without a runoff — an impressive feat considering six candidates present — was a mere paragraph on the third page.

Since when is actual campus news tucked away, and the rants of immature vandals given precedent?

TO THE EDITOR: “Preserving collective rights” sounds nice, but what does it actually mean?

Does it mean accountability for our actions and the consequences for our neighbors, our environment, and ourselves?

Well, maybe by most definitions, but The Daily Tar Heel editorial board (“Preserve collective rights,” Jan. 27) seems to think that we can protect collective rights by enforcing homogeneity.

Is it ridiculous to imply that a resident of Carrboro, or anywhere in the U.S., should not have the right to “unsightly features of environmental sustainability” like compost heaps or bins, solar panels, garden fences, rain barrels, or clotheslines?

First of all, “potential homeowners,” or anyone wanting to pursue a more sustainable lifestyle via the simple means listed above, should not have to worry they might be in violation of some “perfect lawn” neighborhood ordinance.

People have a right to lawfully use their own property as they see fit, especially when it is clearly positive-impact use.

Describing these sustainability measures as “unsightly” borders on the absurd: is a clothesline or garden, typical of nearly every culture and generation, really so hard on the eyes?

If you want some really “unsightly” residential trends to regulate, take a look at those gasguzzling, and absolutely unnecessary sport utility vehicles parked in the driveways and four-car garages? Or at the chemical-laden, and water-intensive, fake green lawns that serve no purpose.

We should celebrate, encourage and even restrict the ability of neighborhood groups to prohibit great sustainable practices such as energy efficiency, wise water use, and gardening.

Good work, Carrboro Board of Aldermen, and thanks for thinking.

Anneliese Arno Sophomore Biology, Economics

Andrew Crosson Senior Political Science, History

Alex Rhodes Sophomore Exercise, Sports Science

Graffiti article shouldn’t have been on front page

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