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thursday, february 3, 2011

COMMITTED AMID ADVERSITY Parking

services
diversions | page 5
fees to
NOISEMAKERS
Local noise musicians are
increase
looking to give listeners
something they’ve never
To cope with $6.1M
heard before. Also in Dive, an in anticipated costs
interview with Hawthorne by Lauren Ratcliffe
Heights singer JT Woodruff. staff writer
Parking and transportation costs
affecting the University are set to rise
by $6.1 million by the 2015-16 fiscal
year.
And to account for that increase the
University is looking to its students
and employees, regardless of whether
they own a vehicle.
The proposal, set for review by the
Board of Trustees in March, would
dth/nivi umasankar bring average annual transportation
UNC head coach Butch Davis speaks to reporters at UNC’s Signing Day press conference in the Kenan Football Center on Wednesday fee increases of $14 for students begin-
afternoon. Twenty-five high school seniors signed letters of intent with UNC, giving the football team a competitive recruiting class. ning in the 2011-12 academic year for
the next five years. Employees would

video | online Tar Heels ink 25 recruits on Signing Day
by Louie Horvath
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE senior writer
Meet David Crawford, a In what is becoming almost a tradition
for North Carolina’s football program,
senior in a dual degree pro-
head coach Butch Davis rang in another
gram with the University of successful National Signing Day — but this
year, he did it with a degree of difficulty.
Singapore who will intern in
Despite the specter of NCAA rulings
Budapest. Visit clouding the Tar Heels’ football future,
prospective players still sent in the nation-
dailytarheel.com to watch al letters of intent in droves as 25 recruits
signed a commitment Wednesday to play
the latest Close Up. at UNC.
These weren’t just any 25 high school
football players. Twenty were ranked
three stars or above by Scout.com and five
were in the Scout.com Top 100, including
one five-star surprise in 6-foot-5, 265 lb.
defensive tackle Delvon Simmons.
Simmons only started listing UNC on
his college list recently and went on an offi-
cial visit to Chapel Hill just this weekend,
but on Signing Day, he sent his letter of
intent to Kenan Stadium.
“I won’t tell you that it was a slam-dunk
100 percent that we knew emphatically
university | page 3 that he was going to sign, but we felt over
the last three or four days that we had a
great chance,” Davis said. “When he came
RICK REACHES OUT back from his official visit, that night he
Student body president called up (offensive coordinator) John
Shoop and said, ‘I know where I want to
candidate Rick Ingram wants
to decrease student fees, BY THE NUMBERS
go to school, I want to go to Carolina.’”
Save Simmons, UNC didn’t get many
surprises on Signing Day. But they didn’t
lose many commitments, either.
First-year recruiting coordinator Allen
Mogridge was able to haul in a top-20 class
even after former recruiting coordinator
John Blake resigned amid speculation of his
involvement in the NCAA investigation.
In the cutthroat world of recruiting,
any sign of weakness can erode a univer-
sity’s recruiting class to the core, but UNC
warded that off by being up front with all
prospective recruits, Davis said.
“First and foremost, we were always
honest with the kids that we recruited,”
Davis said. “We told them exactly what
transpired in August and September, we
told them absolutely everything that we
knew. Things that had transpired, and we
never tried to paint a picture of something
that wouldn’t be realistic.”
Davis said other coaching staffs engaged
in negative recruiting, but that for the most
part had no adverse effect on UNC, as the
program did not lose many commitments
once the NCAA investigation came out in
the summer.
“For the most part, the significant part
of this class had made a commitment that
See signing day, Page 4
Notable signees
T.J. Thorpe A January
enrollee, Thorpe comes
to UNC as the 50th
best wide out in the
country. At Durham’s
Jordan High School, he
set the state record for
most kick returns for
TDs with five.
Travis Hughes Hughes won the skills
competition at the Under-Armour All-
American Game. Scout.com ranks him as
the nation’s fifth best middle linebacker.
Marquise
Williams A January
enrollee, Williams
threw for more than
3,000 yards and
accounted for 64 TDs.
Kiaro Holts Scout.
com ranks Holts as
the nation’s third best offensive tackle.
Anchoring his line, Holts did not allow a
single sack on his QB in his senior year.
Delvon Simmons He led his high
school team with 57 tackles — 11 of
them for loss — as a senior at the defen-
sive tackle position. He is the 15th best
prospect overall according to Scout.com.
also see a fee increase.
“We have tried very hard looking at
what needs to be done, what we’re fac-
ing and distributing costs among all of
our users,” said Cheryl Stout, assistant
director for parking services.
Over the next five years, the trans-
portation fee will increase from $73.50
to $142, an increase of 93 percent.
Meanwhile, parking permit costs
will rise 2 percent annually, with an
average increase of between $5.78 and
$7.60 for students.
Stout said spreading the costs
among transit users will ensure that
daytime users aren’t bearing more than
their share of the costs.
The UNC Department of Public Safety
does not currently charge bus fares or for
parking in the University’s park-and-ride
lots. In order to come up with the $6.1
million while maintaining services, it
needs to make changes to generate rev-
enue in other ways, she said.
Dakota Williams, student body trea-
surer, said he understands the fee but
is worried that it might be excessive.
“I’m concerned,” Williams said. “I
think people know that parking is a
tough issue, but we’re looking at a $77
increase in the next five years.”
The most significant of the proposed
changes will go into effect beginning in
2013, when permits for the once-free
park-and-ride lots will cost $250.
“The biggest concern now for grad-
uate students is the park-and-ride

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improve the organization pass,” said Laura Blue, president of
the Graduate and Professional Student
of student groups and link Federation.
“It seems like students already pay
government to students. the transit fee and now they have to
high school seniors signed let- ranking in Scout.com poll ranking among ACC schools in average star recruit for class
ters of intent with UNC among all FBS schools recruiting class
city | page 8 See parking, Page 4

ONLINE IN JEOPARDY

Complaints target
State financial cuts could Campaign issues: Academics

Race focuses on advising, ITS

affect the 700 area high
school students who take
online classes. Last year,
online classes cost the
school district about $355
per student.
this day in black
history
FEB. 3, 1870…
The 15th amendment is ratified,
prohibiting the denial of suf-
frage based on “race, color or
previous condition of
servitude.” Discrimination in
voting would still be practiced
until 1965, however.
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By Andy Thomason
Assistant University Editor
In the University’s academic con-
versation, the old encounters the
new.
Old is the seemingly perpetual
effort to further personalize students’
academic experience, represented by
the upcoming release of the 2011 aca-
demic plan.
New is ConnectCarolina, the online
system facilitating academic activity,
and concerns surrounding that pro-
gram.
This body of
conversation is
reflected in the
SBP platforms of the
student body
elections president candi-
2011 - 2012 dates.
All of the can-
didates lay planks in their platforms
for the improvement of both academic
advising and ConnectCarolina.
But their specific platform points
underscore a reality that comes with
the territory of the highest office in
student government: that whoever
wins the Tuesday election will have On the ‘front burner’
little singular effect on UNC’s aca-
demic future.
As is a tradition among candidates, that Larry Conrad, vice chancellor
this year’s batch has put the academic for information technology, said are
focus on advising.
wants to help implement the faculty
mentorship program proposed by the
academic plan — a voluntary pro- See academics, Page 4
gram, she said, that would be aimed
at incoming freshmen.
The academic plan’s implementation
will be overseen by a committee start-
ing next year, said Holly Boardman,
student body vice president.
Candidate Rick Ingram favors
implementing a system in which class
syllabi are posted from past classes
during registration.
“This is something that can really
help students when they’re trying to
search for classes,” he said.
Boardman challenged how effec-
tive this venture, also proposed by Ian
Lee, could be.
“The next student body president
could definitely work toward chang-
ing how we do our syllabi, but it has
to be a very strong effort, and I think
it will take more than one administra-
tion to get that fully completed,” she
said.
Ideas like the faculty mentor-
ing program and department-based
advising — advocated by Lee — are
supported by the academic plan,
Boardman said.
The candidates have one promise
about ConnectCarolina.
They will improve it.
But the proposals outline changes
already close to being implemented
All of the candidates except Cooper
Union renovation
Hopefuls on academics Cite inappropriate petitioning
Student body president candidates
have advocated several approaches to by Amelia Nitz
improving academics at the University. staff writer
Complaints to the Board of Elections this season have a
Mary Cooper, new target: the Student Union.
junior from As students and Union officials have scrambled to gather
Nashville, Tenn., the 2,939 unique signatures required so students can vote on
wants to con- the proposed $11 million UCommons renovation project, the
duct a survey board has received complaints alleging petitioning practices
of opinion on that violate Student Code election law.
Andrew Phillips, the board’s chairman, said about a half
ConnectCarolina.
dozen complaints have cited violations including petitioning
and collecting signatures online and in prohibited areas.
Rick Ingram, On Wednesday, UNC student Marc Seelinger submitted
junior from
a complaint that petitioners were collecting signatures in
Asheville, wants Rams Head Dining Hall, a prohibited area. Other com-
to add more plaints have cited the posting of campaign materials in
information to prohibited areas and the misuse of online campaigning,
the undergradu-
including the use of Twitter and marketing UCommons
ate bulletin. on the home page of Union computers.
“As I understand it, the line from dining services is that
Ian Lee, junior distributing materials or gathering signatures inside their
facilities is prohibited,” Phillips said.
from Cary, wants
Union officials submitted 3,416 signatures on Wednesday
to Student Body President Hogan Medlin, said Tyler Mills,
grievance option
president of the Carolina Union Activities Board. Medlin,
for student com- who will need to verify the signatures and direct the board
plaints against to vote on the referendum, said he will decide by Sunday.
professors. If 2,939 or more of those signatures are approved, the
referendum to raise fees for bottom floor renovations will
Brooklyn appear on the Tuesday election ballot.
Stephens, A majority of at least 735 students must vote in favor of
junior from the fee increase for it to pass. Students would pay $16 more
Wake Forest, per year for the next 30 years to fund the project, which
wants to pub- would provide more meeting and rehearsal space on the
licize existing bottom floor and keep the building open 24 hours.
resources. Don Luse, director of the Student Union, said the student
See union, Page 4
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Ingram intends to reform Drive

Campus Briefs
Cooper, Lee tie for computer
science club endorsement

through
Student body president can-
didates Mary Cooper and Ian
Lee gained the endorsement Complaints make him ‘stronger’
Wednesday of the computer sci-

rules
ence club following a forum hosted by Deborah Strange
by the group. staff writer Candidate profiles
Cooper and Lee tied with a score Student body president candi- Monday: Brooklyn Stephens
of 7. The candidates were all rated date Rick Ingram has been a poli-
Tuesday: Ian Lee

on a scale of one to 10.
Junior Brooklyn Stephens, a
candidate, finished third with a
score of five. Rick Ingram, who
did not attend the forum, earned
a score of one.
His rating was based solely on
his platform, group officials said.
UNC program helps doctors
to adopt electronic records
A program headquartered at the
UNC School of Medicine is helping
more than 1,500 primary health
care centers around the state adopt
electronic health records and other
technology upgrades.
The N.C. Area Health Education
Centers program was awarded a
$13.6 million federal grant last
year as part of a national federal
initiative to improve health care
quality and efficiency.
That money established a
regional center to help extend
health technology.
To date, 17,000 primary-care
providers have enrolled in the pro-
gram nationwide, and more than
1,500 of those are from N.C.
The participants are mainly
small private practices and com-
munity health centers.
Tom Bacon, executive associate
dean of the UNC School of Medicine,
is the director of the N.C. Area Health
Education Centers program.
City Briefs
Students begin registration
Feb. 7, lasts through Feb. 25
Students in Chapel Hill-Carrboro
City Schools begin registering for
next year’s classes Feb. 7.
Registration for rising sixth grade
students lasts through Feb. 11.
Counselors from middle schools
will visit the district’s 10 elementa-
ry schools during that time to meet
with rising 6th graders.
Students in 7th, 8th, 10th and
11th grades register from Feb. 7 to
Feb. 18.
Rising 9th grade students regis-
ter from Feb. 22 to Feb. 25, when
counselors from the high schools
will talk to students about what
classes are available to them as
freshmen.
All students will receive course
books, which are also available
online, to help them choose their
courses.
Nine Chapel Hill police cars
to get fuel-saving system
Nine Ford Crown Victoria patrol
cars with the Chapel Hill Police
Department will be outfitted with the
IdleRight Vehicle Fuel Management
System, paid for with a $3,600
tician since childhood.
“I’ve always loved politics,” he
said. “My parents always say that I
was campaigning when I was four
years old outside the grocery store.”
In place of promoting the 1992
presidential candidates, Ingram is
now promoting himself.
Some have complained he start-
ed too early.
In early December, the Board
of Elections
decided to
i nv e s t i g at e
SBP I n g r a m
elections based on an
2011 - 2012 unaddressed
e-mail to a
board member inviting him to
work on Ingram’s campaign – an
e-mail that some interpreted as
falling under the Student Code’s
definition of public campaigning.
Possible candidates are prohibited
from publicly campaigning until
they declare their candidacy.
The board dropped the investi-
gation citing insufficient evidence.
In addition to that investigation,
Ingram’s campaign has been the
subject of several others. He was
fined $12.50 on Tuesday for pre-
mature dorm-storming.
Communication studies graduate student Cameron Ayres, UNC alumna Victoria Facelli and communication studies professor Tony Perucci
rehearse “Sterilize,” a production by The Performance Collective. The show will be performed Thursday and Friday at The Artery.
Wednesday: Mary Cooper
Ingram dismissed the fine as a
slap on the wrist. And he said he
hasn’t let the complaints put a
damper on his determination.
If anything, he said the complaints
have had the opposite effect.
“There are going to be people
who are going to try to knock you
down and stop you from meeting
your goals,” he said, “but that doesn’t
stop you — it makes you stronger.”
Ingram said the complaints that
have swirled around his campaign
and others have not dampened his
resolve to help others.
He said the most important part
of his campaign is helping students
afford UNC’s escalating price tag by
decreasing student fees.
Because of the anticipated $3.7
billion state deficit, Ingram said
in-state students may see a tuition
increase of nearly $1,000 next year.
To his campaign staff, that is
unacceptable.
“Having a public university no
one can afford is worthless,” said
Billy Kluttz, one of Ingram’s three
campaign managers.
Their plan is to dissect every stu-
Rick Ingram, a candidate for student body president, says he wants to help
students afford UNC during a year of tuition increases and budget cuts.
dent fee, looking at their planned
usage and actual utility. Under-
utilized fees would be lowered.
Ingram said he also hopes to
build a better relationship between
student government and the stu-
dent body, something his campaign
believes to be severely lacking.
“Students appreciated being
asked to get involved,” said Jeff
DeLuca, a member of Ingram’s
campaign team. “Students don’t
feel connected, but they want to.
You just have to ask them.”
Ingram would put student orga-
dth/erin hull
nizations into communities based
on similar interests.
He attributed the volume of
complaints to his plans to reform
student government.
“The system works well for them,
but it doesn’t work well for other
students,” Ingram said. “When you
stand up and reject that the sys-
tem is working for everyone, you’re
going to get a little bit of a backlash,
and I think that’s what happened.”
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debated
Town considers
clearer regulation
by Michelle Zayed
staff writer
Two businesses with drive-
throughs are in talks with the
town of Chapel Hill to open up
shop.
Meanwhile, the Economic
Development Department is
trying to clarify drive-through
rules.
Businesses constructed after
2003 are not allowed to have
drive-throughs, which can affect
sales.
The construction of drive-
through windows is only allowed
in Chapel Hill with a special
use permit, Senior Planner Kay
Pearlstein said.
The department is reviewing the
results of past applications, and
Economic Development Officer
Dwight Bassett will present the
findings at a hearing.
“What we’re seeking is to have
clarity on what the council desires,”
Bassett said.
The permit is awarded after
the council reviews the appli-
cation and holds a public hear-
ing. The entire process can take
between 12 and 18 months,
Pearlstein said.
The McDonald’s on Franklin
Street would have better sales if
it had a drive-through, General
Manager Martinez Hernandez
said.
A lot of customers are looking
for a quick meal and do not want
to stop and park.
Hernandez said many of his
customers turn to other busi-
nesses that have drive-through
windows.
A shortage of parking also
deters business, Hernandez
said. Although the restaurant
has its own parking lot, custom-
ers of other businesses often use
McDonald’s parking lot.
“You have no idea. We get [com-
plaints] every day,” Hernandez
said.
The Chapel Hill Town Council
did not allow McDonald’s to con-
struct a drive-through out of con-
cern that it would affect the traffic
flow.
“I understand where they are
coming from,” Hernandez said.
“But as a business, we want to do
what is best for us.”
Restaurants like Wendy’s in

grant from the North Carolina Solar
Center’s Alternative Fuel/Advanced
Vehicle Technology project.
The town also received almost
$18,700 from the solar center
to help pay for four Ford Escape
Hybrids, which have double the
fuel economy of the old vehicles.
The IdleRight sensor monitors
battery charge and turns on the
car engine only when the battery
is low, saving fuel and potentially
reducing emissions.
The town is currently finalizing
the contract with the center, after
which it will take a few months
to equip five vehicles with the
IdleRight.
Four new cars that will be added
to the police fleet in the fall through
the vehicle replacement plan will
also be equipped.
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Orange County looking at
social enterprise program
Orange County is looking at
social enterprise as a possible solu-
tion for employing the homeless.
A social enterprise program
would provide employment oppor-
tunities for homeless people or
those at risk of becoming home-
less.
Chris Gergen, executive director
of Bull City Forward, an organiza-
tion that supports social enterpris-
es, said he believes a social enter-
prise service is feasible for Orange
County, but it would be difficult.
Initial funding for the proj-
ect would have to be donated or
borrowed. However, the project
would be able to earn most of
its costs once it got started, said
Aaron Nelson, president of the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of
Commerce.
One of the most well-known
social enterprises is the Girl Scouts,
which sells cookies instead of ask-
ing only for donations.
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story.
-From staff and wire reports
COLLECTIVELY CLEAN
Carrboro and Sunrise Biscuit
Kitchen on East Franklin Street
predate both towns’ legislation
and are allowed to have drive-
throughs.
Performance group’s play explores sterility SEE ‘STERILIZE’ In 1998, Carrboro adopted a
permit policy for drive-throughs.
Time: 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday
Location: The Artery, 136 E. Rosemary Street The legislation allows certain busi-
by Tariq Luthun any pressure, said Tony Perucci, an assistant
nesses to earn a conditional use
staff writer professor in the department of communica- Tickets: Pay-as-you-wish admission
Info: www.thestudentartery.com permit, which requires a public
The members of the Performance tion studies.
hearing, planing administrator
Collective don’t call themselves activists. The Performance Collective emerged in
Trish McGuire said.
But their latest production definitely car- the spring of 2009 from a series of Friday known as the cleaning squad as they attempt
Drive-through businesses are
ries a message. workshops for art students. to purify Loribird, a character serving as the
required to be at least 1,000 feet
Their original production, “Sterilize,” “For us, the process of collaborative per- entity of beauty and purity within the show.
apart from each other and are
which questions the concept of purity, opens formance-making is just as important as the “I wouldn’t say that the characters exist out-
not allowed in residential areas,
at the Student Artery tonight. product itself,” Perucci said. side the story in any regard, but we are trying
McGuire said.
The show is a satirical look at modern “We didn’t set out to be a performance to place it within a larger social construct,” said
“The reason was to limit the
society’s obsession with seeking medical, group, we just realized that we were one.” senior Lori Baldwin, who plays Loribird.
amount and not have a prolifera-
cultural and ethnic sterility. The roughly 40-minute show features an “We don’t consider these characters to be
tion of them,” McGuire said.
“We are giving a performance to point eight-member cast working with minimal realistic, and they’re not intended to be.”
Bassett said he believes Chapel
to sterilization as a cultural obsession, props as they struggle to deliver a humor- A lot of societal stigmas will be addressed,
Hill’s regulations are just as strict
but also as a cultural practice,” said Peter ous yet thought-provoking experience. from hand sanitizer use to the North
as Carrboro’s, but stricter than
Pendergrass, a senior studio art and perfor- The idea for “Sterilize” — which debuted as Carolina female eugenics crisis in the early
Durham and Raleigh.
mance studies major. a part of the Durham Art Walk in November 20th century, Baldwin said.
Neither town is considering
Pendergrass said the performance does — arose when members of the collective began And though the piece might be too topi-
revoking the legislation, which
not have any hidden political motives but discussing ideas for their next performance. cal for some, members are excited about the
is forcing affected businesses to
instead serves as a way to open up the topic During the discussion, dirt and messes outcome.
conform.
for discussion. came up. “There are definitely people who wouldn’t
“There should be something
Coming off of a successful perfor- “It was that talk that we rallied around like this,” Baldwin said. “But I still want
in the middle that we could work
mance of “The Activist” — which won Best and got us thinking about cleanliness as them to come.”
out,” Hernandez said.
Original Script, among other awards from something we could approach from differ-
the Independent Weekly — the collective ent angles,” Pendergrass said. Contact the Arts Editor
Contact the City Editor
wants to add to its repertoire, but not with The piece will follow the story of a group at arts@dailytarheel.com.
at city@dailytarheel.com.
Library relocation debated Learning Center to
Town Council hears public opinion cated to University Mall, she would
be inclined to shop rather than
study.
teach speed reading
by Mary Choi
staff writer
expanded in its current location.
They cited children’s safety, jobs at
Simmons said she had attended
town council meetings to learn 5-week class free form of a new, free class that could
teach students to double or even
It was a full house Wednesday
evening at the Chapel Hill Town
Dillard’s and less attractive scen-
ery as reasons to stay on Library
more about the issue after her
mother expressed concern. She for UNC students triple their reading speed.
The “Reading for Retention”
Hall as residents discussed wheth- Drive. said she handed out more than course offered by UNC’s Learning
er to relocate the town’s only public Sydney Simmons, a senior at 400 fliers and created a petition by Jacqueline Kantor Center and the Center for Student
library to a mall. East Chapel Hill High School, said last Sunday that garnered more staff writer Success and Academic Counseling
The town held a public hear- students use the library for study- than 200 signatures in opposition A reading speed of 200 or 300 aims to make a 600 words-per-min-
ing on the option to move the ing, tutoring and escaping distrac- of the move. words per minute might seem like ute pace possible for any student.
Chapel Hill Public Library from tions from home. Madison Marquette offered in a lot. Registration opened Tuesday for
its current location at 100 Library “I feel like our voice isn’t heard November to permanently house That is unless it’s compared to the the five-week class taught by Mary
Drive to University Mall, replacing in this issue, and that’s a big rea- the library in the space Dillard’s typical number of pages college stu- Willingham, the assistant director of
Dillard’s. son why I wanted to be heard,” currently occupies. dents have to read — and retain — in the success and counseling center.
Most residents present said Simmons said. a night of regular reading for class.
they would prefer the library to be She said if the library was relo- See library, Page 9 But help is on the way in the See speed reading, Page 9
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National and World News N&W Club teams PLAY at local school
by Seth Crawford throughout the day,” Sachdeva said. coming to play with them,” he said.
Know more on US warns Egyptian government to staff writer
Jason Halsey had long envi-
A different club sports team vis-
its all three Orange County middle
Rugby, ultimate Frisbee and
handball were also popular.
today’s top story: not use violence with demonstrators sioned his club athletes giving back
to the community.
schools twice a month. The team
spends one day going over funda-
Tiffany Dyer, vice president of
the women’s club rugby team, said
LOS ANGELES (MCT) — has spoken about the situation in Halsey, UNC sport clubs director, mentals of its sport and another day the students at A.L. Stanback were
A CNN production crew was The White House on Wednesday settings that precluded questions, had a problem: He didn’t know how guiding students in competitions. itching to get active.
attacked by a pro-Mubarak mob warned the Egyptian government will be available to the media later to make that dream a reality. “Feedback has been overwhelm- “I remember what it was like to
in Cairo http://lat.ms/fFFgzk that it should not instigate violence this week, Gibbs said. It wasn’t until he met Nidhi ingly positive,” Sachdeva said. be after school, stuck inside when
(via Los Angeles Times) among demonstrators in Cairo and Gibbs spoke after a day of Sachdeva, coordinator of Healthy The club sport department’s it’s nice outside and you’re just sit-
Facebook has had the should stop if it had a role in the violent confrontations between Carolinians of Orange County, at intern, senior Morgan Taylor, ting there waiting for your parents
highest number of users dangerous confrontations. anti-government protesters and the Health Promotion Workgroup oversees PLAY. She traveled with to pick you up,” she said.
from Egypt ever, since it Speaking to reporters, White those supporting President Hosni of the Healthy Carolinians of the club basketball team to C.W. TJ Herrmann, travel coordina-
was restored in the area House spokesman Robert Gibbs Mubarak, who has been in power Orange County program that the Stanford Middle School. tor for men’s club volleyball, said he
Wednesday http://on.wsj. condemned the wave of violence for about three decades. Tuesday idea of PLAY began to take form. One boy wore all UNC gear on the was impressed by how willing and
com/fgHwgy (Via The Wall among demonstrators in Cairo. night, Mubarak announced he Combining his vision with her second day, and a girl exuded confi- excited students at Gravelly Hill
Street Journal) He repeated that the United States would stay in office but would not resources, Halsey created Preparing dence after a layup drill. Middle School were.
Go to dailytarheel.com/ wanted to see democratic changes seek re-election in September. Lifelong Active Youth, a program “She ran up to me, gave me a “It was really nice to be able to
index.php/section/state in Egypt and that it was in favor of That partial concession was far promoting physical activity, using a hug and told me ‘Morgan, I’m so help out and get them out of the
to discuss the situation a transition of power. less than the demonstrators and portion of the Eat Smart, Move More good at this. I’m trying out for the library and out of the classroom,” he
in Egypt. President Barack Obama, who many outside Egypt were seeking. N.C. community grant. basketball team,’” Taylor said. said.
Sachdeva authored a grant pro- James Proffitt, co-president of Club teams will begin going back
posal to minimize Orange County’s the men’s club basketball team, said out to middle schools this month.
Groups say stop Smithsonian gets Charles Manson role in making North Carolina rank
No. 14 in childhood obesity.
some kids asked for autographs.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT)

— A coalition of 51 religious
and civil rights groups is calling
on top congressional leaders
to either stop hearings on the
radicalization of U.S. Muslims
or have the investigation refo-
cused to include other hate
groups.
The coalition, working with
the San Francisco-based Muslim
Advocates legal organization,
said the March hearings by Rep.
Peter T. King, R-N.Y., would
demonize Muslim Americans
and persuade many of them not
to cooperate with police.
“Our first preference is for
him to kibosh the whole thing,”
Farhana Khera, executive direc-
tor of Muslim Advocates, said
Wednesday.
signing day
from page 1
they were going to come to North
Carolina before the start of the sea-
son,” Davis said. “Very few of them
ever wavered or vacillated.”
The Tar Heels brought in five
early enrollees who signed their
letter of intent on Wednesday.
Each one attending the press
conference brushed off questions
LOS ANGELES (MCT) —
The swimsuit worn by the late
Farrah Fawcett in the iconic
pinup poster that sold more
than 12 million copies in 1976
was donated Wednesday to the
Smithsonian Institution’s popu-
lar culture history collections,
along with other items related
to her career.
Longtime love Ryan O’Neal
and friend Nels Van Patten, who
was at the 1976 poster shoot, were
scheduled to attend the ceremony
in Washington, D.C. O’Neal is the
father of Fawcett’s son, Redmond
O’Neal.
Fawcett died of cancer at age
62 on June 25, 2009 — shortly
before news broke the same
day about Michael Jackson’s
death.
about reconsidering his commit-
ment because of the investigation.
“When everything came out,
you kind of wanted to know what’s
going on because that’s the school
you committed to,” tailback Travis
Riley said. “We talked to coach
Davis, he came to my house, and
he was really reassuring. He made
me more comfortable.”
Some of the recruits even found
interesting ways to combat the
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (MCT)
— For the second time in less
than two years, California prison
officials caught Charles Manson,
mastermind of one of the most
notorious killing sprees in U.S.
history, with a cell phone behind
bars.
Guards at Corcoran State
Prison found the phone on Jan. 6,
according to prison spokeswoman
Terry Thornton.
Manson was charged with
violating prison rules, but not
with a crime, because there is no
law in California that prohibits
inmates from possessing phones.
Thornton declined to provide any
details about where Manson got
the phone, or who he called, say-
ing the case is still under investi-
gation.
negative rhetoric from other col-
lege coaches.
“I just remember countless times
I was on the phone with coaches,”
wide receiver T.J. Thorpe said. “As
soon as they’d start talking about
Carolina, just put the phone down,
walk downstairs, get a snack, come
back up, still talking.”
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union
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fee advisory committee told him it
was the Union’s responsibility to
inform students about the project,
which led to the distribution of
information across campus.
“It has been a multi-pronged
approach, and students were able
to sign petitions in every place but
the Union,” Luse said.
UCommons proponents collected
about 100 signatures in the Union,
Mills said. But he said it happened
Jan. 27, before Phillips told them the
practice was against the rules. Those
signatures have not been removed
from the final count.
After Jan. 27, students who
wanted to sign the petition after
receiving information inside the
Union were directed to volunteers dth/daniel turner
campaigning outside the building. Senior Student Union employee Haley Fail (left) watches as senior Craig
Tony Patterson, senior associate
director of student life and activi-
Barclay (foreground) signs a petition in Student Stores for UCommons.
ties at the Union, denied rumors no one was forced to do this.” better place to study, relax, rehearse,
that the Union was providing extra Evidence for the complaints perform, eat, talk, learn, and enjoy
incentives to its student employees include photographs of campaign whatever it is you love to do.”
who petitioned for the referendum banners affixed to the outside of If a referendum hasn’t been certi-
during their work hours. the Student Union and on lamp fied for the ballot, public campaign-
“Student employees that went out posts on South Road. ing is not allowed, the student code
and petitioned did not receive incen- Another complaint contained states.
tives,” he said. “It wasn’t a result of a screenshot of the UCommons
management telling students that Twitter account on Jan. 10, urging Contact the University Editor
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all students in order to cover part of
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photo courtesy scotty irving, clang quartet

Clang Quartet’s Scotty Irving integrates his Christian beliefs into his
shows, melding performance with his use of new sounds and textures.

NOISE artists craft novel

sounds for growing base
by linnie greene
diversions editor
As a noun, “noise” carries with it a connotation of cacoph-
ony. When something is branded as “noisy,” it’s often the
lawn mower that wakes you up on Saturday mornings or the
neighbor’s obnoxious dog.
A group of local musicians is out to prove that noise is more
than jarring, pedestrian sounds — it’s an entire genre that’s
pushing sonic boundaries, in and outside the Triangle.
“Somebody will say, ‘Oh, I heard a noise outside.’ What
they’re usually saying is they don’t know what they heard —
they just heard something outside,” said Scotty Irving, the
sole force behind N.C. outfit Clang Quartet.
Even for the plethora of local musicians who traffic in
noise, defining the genre proves tricky.
“It’s different things for different people. I guess that’s kind
of expected,” Irving said. “To a certain extent, it’s unstruc-
tured sound, but it’s also in some ways still structured. It
may seem unstructured to an untrained ear, but there’s still
some structure there.”
Bryce Eiman, curator of the 919 Noise Showcases held
frequently at Nightlight, puts it more simply. “If it doesn’t
sound like music, it’s probably noise,” he said.
It takes an open-minded audience to appreciate the uncon-
ventional elements that are integral to noise, and Irving has
seen such fans during his years performing in the area.
“There’s a reason that most of the people that perform
something that resembles, that falls under the heading of
this genre — they always tend to gravitate toward Chapel
Hill is because the audience is there,” said Irving. “The peo-
ple there seem to understand it and seem to appreciate it
more.”
But when the genre itself encompasses everything from
free jazz to the whirs of kitchen appliances, it’s often difficult
to classify the bands who operate within it.
“I wouldn’t say that the noise scene is much of a ‘noise
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There’s plenty of eccentricity in noise performances, but
Irving is adamant that there’s depth below the surface.
“There’s definitely some visceral qualities, but there’s people who like it, like it, and the people who don’t, don’t, and always be an element of discovery.
a lot of cerebral qualities, too. I think some people think they probably never will,” said Fols. “Every time there’s a noise performance, I usually hear
that there’s so much going on below the belt that there’s not But in Eiman’s eyes, there’s still been plenty of growth. something I’ve never heard before,” he said.
enough going on above. “I think it’s pretty prolific. It’s got a pretty strong fan base Even beyond experimentalism, Fekete sees the genre as
“I find that amusing that somebody could watch a per- here,” he said. vital to both music’s past and present.
formance like mine and not think that there was something As alien or bizarre as noise might seem to new listeners, “If you think about it, noise is like the mother of all music.
going on that I wanted your brain to focus on as well as Boat Burning’s Andras Fekete sees its influence spanning It all kind of started out that way, and then from time in the
— well, let’s not get into where the other direction might numerous styles. world, it was like, ‘Well, what kind of pattern can the brain
be,” said Irving, whose performances integrate his Christian “Even today in hip-hop, you have lots of sampling and loops,” sort of assign to these random noises?’
beliefs alongside drums and layered sounds. he said. “Twenty, 30 years ago, that was in academia. That was “You start getting rhythm and melody, and that process
While noise isn’t lacking in profundity, it’s certainly not very out-there, experimental egg-head stuff, and now it’s in is still continuing.”
straightforward, and area musicians are well aware of dance clubs. It’s more pervasive than people think.”
that. Despite its amorphous meaning, noise’s ultimate defining Contact the Diversions Editor at
“I’d say as a scene, it’s not really marketable and that the characteristic is its progressiveness. For Eiman, there will diversions@dailytarheel.com.

online | dailytarheel.com/dive column music movies Q&A

FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD The Movie Trail will get you MIXING THINGS UP FAMILY MATTERS TALKING BACK SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS
up-to-date with a smattering of upcoming movie previews to check out. You’ve made your fair share of Akron/Family’s latest is an “The Way Back” shows a Hawthorne Heights is rolling into
CONCERT PHOTOS We’ve been out and about this week, and mixtapes, but have you wooed exercise in weird freak-folk, full snowy Siberian landscape town for an acoustic show at
even if you’re in bed with the flu, you can see what we saw too. a lover with Joy Division or of unexpected influences and after World War II as prisoners Local 506, and Dive caught up
FRESH TRACKS Looking to find a new mix for your next party? Liberace? Didn’t think so. innovative compositions. flee a labor camp. with vocalist JT Woodruff.
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Q&A: JT WOODRUFF OF HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS
“So cut my wrists and black
my eyes,” sings lead vocalist JT
Woodruff on “Ohio Is for Lovers,” a
song that has been described as “The
Emo Anthem.” Hawthorne Heights
was made famous by its screamed
vocals and catchy, intense rock ‘n’
roll.
The band took a new direction
after the accidental death of gui-
tarist Casey Calvert, and this week,
Woodruff talked with Diversions
Assistant Editor Joseph Chapman
about the band’s upcoming acous-
tic tour.
Diversions: So how did
you land on the album name
Skeletons?
JT Woodruff: I guess this
is kind of a darker record for us.
We’re going through a lot of brutal
life issues and I guess it just kind
of fit to strip everything back to its
beginning. You have to start with
a skeleton no matter what kind of
idea you’re thinking about and you
start piling stuff on top of that. We
wanted the album to be basic and
just write about where we’re com-
ing from.
Dive: Looking at just the visu-
al aesthetic of the album, it looks
like you guys are paying homage
to the art surrounding the Day of
the Dead, a Mexican festival that
is more of a celebration of the dead
than a mourning. Did you guys
have this in mind when you put
together the album?
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ers of a Russian labor camp that
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JW: No, it’s kind of a coinci-
dence. We chose our album name
when we were writing and every-
thing and then our drummer
Eron (Bucciarelli) was really into
this artist from Pittsburgh named
Mike Egan and that’s exactly what
he draws and everything. So he
painted our cover and it was just
kind of a happy accident I guess.
As it turns out, that’s kind of
what the album is about: it is about
thinking back on good terms in a
good way and having good memo-
ries of the dead.
D ive: Do you feel that the
Hawthorne Heights has been
pigeonholed as a screamo band?
JW: I guess people could say your
that. I don’t really read too much
into that stuff. I’m not a big fan of
like ten different subgenres of rock month, we’ve been sitting in our
and roll. If it’s loud, if it has dis- rehearsal studio just rehearsing
tortion – it’s rock and roll. I don’t these songs, just rehearsing these
think anybody needs to come up different versions and reworking
with some sort of fancy name for and rearranging these things.
it because then you start listening
to stuff just because it has that tag cool experience because it makes
on it or you don’t listen to stuff you fall in love with the songs
because it has that tag on it.
I think you just listen to stuff over live, it tends to lose its luster
because it’s good and you like the to you, the songwriter, and then the
way it sounds. Whether it’s opera performer. You’re just playing it.
or our band or whoever — I think
if you like it, it doesn’t really need digging in and playing these songs
a name.
Dive: The acoustic tour comes cool.
as a surprise. What led you guys to
strip down the instrumentation?
Siberia is their true prison — not
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JW: I think that it just kind of
came about. We’ve been a band for
a while, we’ve got four records out,
we’ve been touring for a couple of
years now and we’ve never done
anything like this.
We wanted to do something
we’ve never done, we wanted to
challenge ourselves and also chal-
lenge the listener. If someone is
really into our band, we wanted
to invite them to this show and
say, “Here, listen to this music in a
different way.” Maybe they’ll hear
something totally different from
same exact songs. If you’re not
challenging yourself, you better
give up I guess.
Dive: How does it change
sound live?
JW: Well, for about the past
And I tell you, it’s been a really
again. If you play a song over and
So we’ve been having fun just
in a different way, it’s been really
You know, different live —
we’re going to be sitting up there
with acoustic guitars as opposed
or kamikaze pilot.
The movie follows the escape of a
ragtag group of multinational pris-
oners from a Russian Gulag camp
as they trek through the wilderness
of Russia and southern Asia.
While none of the performanc-
es stand out and main character
Janusz’s (Jim Sturgess) Polish
accent sometimes falters, the
actors work well together as a unit
to bring to life a collective sense of
desperation.
When the escapees come across
a well in the heart of a Mongolian
desert, the actors’ groveling towards
the water is like a litter of puppies
suckling for milk.
But it is the grandeur of nature
itself that steals the film (it was
produced by National Geographic
Films).
Through wide landscape shots
and stunning effects, the Russian
winter looks like a Narnia apoca-
lypse and a climactic sandstorm
feels like it could rip through the
screen.
Despite the cast’s chemistry and
impressive effects, some of the
movie’s plots are left undeveloped.
Colin Farrell’s character Valka,
a wild-eyed Russian thug who is
heavily focused on in the beginning
of the movie, fades out before the
group crosses into Mongolia and is
not addressed again.
Even with no stunning perfor-
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to standing with our electrics and
the drums are kind of scaled back.
We’ve got a lot of percussion-type
instruments and Matt (Ridenour)
is playing piano as well as bass. It’s
going to definitely be a different
vibe.
Dive: Where do you see your
band going in the next few years?
JW: I don’t know man, it’s real
tough. The music industry is crazy.
These people have no idea what’s
happening tomorrow. I can’t con-
centrate on what’s happening a
year later or five years later because
I have no idea if music is going to
be around in five years.
I don’t know if it’s going to be a
subscription service on your TV or
just ringtones, so I think that we’ll
continue making music as long as
we’re totally happy doing it and as
long as it can be under our terms.
We’ll continue to write together
because we do get along together
and we do have a good time. I hope
they figure out something, because
I think a lot of bands are not going
to get to be heard. We’re fortunate
— we got in before everything got
really crazy, we’re just trying to
stick around. Are we going to get to
mances and occasionally weak plot
points, the movie takes a unique
look at a region of the world that’s
often neglected in World War II
films.
-Lyle Kendrick
The Mechanic
There’s no denying that Jason
Statham and Ben Foster have all
the skills and machismo to play a
pair of hyper-skilled, cool-headed
assassins.
Un f o r t u n at e l y, e v e n w i t h
their considerable talents, “The
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The Daily Tar Heel
Courtesy of Pamela Littky
Hawthorne Heights will play its reworked acoustic set Sunday night at
the Local 506. Attalus, Harbor the Grudge and Hey Euphony will open.
hear the next Nirvana? Is anybody have to be able to hear it. I’m in a
going to listen? tough spot as a musician: I’d love
Dive: Is it piracy? Do you for everybody to hear everything
that I’ve ever written, but I don’t
think it’s killing the industry?
make those decisions at all.
JW: Yeah, I really do. I really I do this for a living. So imagine
think that it is. I think it’s really if somebody’s parents had to do
tough. Back in the day, if you didn’t what they do for a living for totally
have money to buy something, you free – they couldn’t support their
either waited until it came on the kids. I don’t know what everybody
radio, came on MTV – you didn’t is supposed to do, but not every-
own it. body is an 18-year-old kid with no
Now, there’s such a sense of enti- responsibilities. Writing a song,
tlement. Somebody thinks that just you used to be rewarded, but now
because they want to hear it, they it’s almost frowned upon.
Mechanic” is just another entry in before anything happens.
the massive action film subgenre of At least, that’s what film intend-
“violent badassery.” ed the audience to do with the
Arthur Bishop (Statham) is a opening lines ­— but “The Rite”
“mechanic,” a contract killer who loses us soon after.
takes the jobs no one else can do. Michael Kovak (Colin
He also loves to work on his clas- O’Donoghue) heads to Italy for
sic car, making the title the deep- a convention on exorcisms at the
est and most layered element in the insistence of a priest at his semi-
movie. nary school.
After Bishop is coerced into off- The skeptic in him can’t help
ing his friend and mentor, he takes but balk at how preposterous it all
on Steve (Foster), the dead man’s sounds – holy water, demons pos-
son, as his apprentice in order to sessing people and medicine that
ease his conscience.
Eventually Bishop discovers that
he may have unjustly killed Steve’s
does nothing to help the afflicted.
The doubter is put to the test and
so is the audience as we encounter
father, forcing the duo to wage war Father Lucas Trevant (Anthony
on the shadowy company for which Hopkins), an exorcism specialist.
they work. Things start getting unstable
This is a film all about action, when Trevant works on the exor-
and in that respect it delivers. There cism of a young girl pregnant by
are plenty of explosions, unneces- her father.
sarily complicated and inventive After a series of interactions with
assassinations and more headshots her and a few revelations about
than you can shake a Glock at. Kovak’s past (i.e. daddy issues and
Not wanting to leave any base going into the family mortuary
uncovered, there’s also the obliga- business), Trevant’s soul can’t take
tory sex scene to fulfill the movie’s anymore. Now he is the one who
random T&A quota. needs the exorcism. Can Kovak
Statham and Foster are always overcome his doubt to fight off the
a joy to watch in action films, but evil spirits plaguing the priest?
“The Mechanic” misuses them. Other than strange body contor-
As singular characters they’re the
epitome of cool, but when their
inevitable battle comes, they’re so
tions and some great makeup for
Hopkins, it’s not Friedkin’s “The
Exorcist.” Even Trevant notes,
poorly characterized that it’s hard “What did you expect? Twisting
to pick one to root for. heads and pea soup?”
Without this element, the show- He even answers his cell phone
down has plenty of visual pizzazz, in the middle of an exorcism on the
but nothing to keep the viewer young girl. It’s clear the Devil can
invested in the outcome. wait and exorcism is much more
“The Mechanic” has two great subdued than audiences were led
actors but a standard premise to believe almost 37 years ago.
implemented in a by-the-numbers Did director Mikael Hafstrom
way. forget “The Exorcist” exists? To try
Without any sort of emotional to update the classic, Hafstrom rec-
core or anything new to add to the ognized that music, makeup and a
genre, it’s never anything more demonic voice wasn’t enough, so he
than mechanical in its execution. thought the Satanic mule would be
the next best option. The red eyes
-Mark Niegelsky are just the finishing touch to this
ridiculous demon whose hoof
the rite prints are found on the body of a
young boy visited by the image in
his dreams.
“Based on a True Story:” five
words that a horror flick inserts at
the beginning to set the audience
Talk about an amateur hour.
Not one person in the audience
screamed.
sinking further into their seats - Rachel Arnett
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diverecommends
Album from the Vaults:
Kansas, Song for America: For the
genre of progressive rock, Kansas’
contribution has largely been
ignored. Maybe it has something
to do with their ‘80s venture
into born-again Christianity and
subsequent power pop folly, but
Song For America has enough con-
ceptual jams to redeem even the
worst religious pop rock. The title
track rivals Yes’ arrangements with
its instrumentation and staccato
articulation.
musicshorts
Akron/Family
S/T II: THE COSMIC BIRTH AND JOURNEY ing or singles, an album best expe-
OF SHINJU TNT
PSYCHeDELIC FOLK
Akron/Family is delivering the for the sober listener.
first radically diverse folk album of
the year with the release of S/T II:
The Cosmic Birth and Journey of
Shinju TNT. This album balances British Sea Power
innumerable influences from across
the globe with the band’s folk-rock
roots and odd personality.
An unmarked cardboard box
containing a futuristic dino-
saur diorama, 3 pictures and
3 song snippets recorded on a
CD were dropped outside Dead
Oceans, the band’s record label,
in November. The leak-paranoid
group wasn’t ransoming anything
— just informing its label that it
wasn’t sending the completed
album to anyone but the printing Valhalla Dancehall
company.
The album was written in a cabin
in Akan National Park in Hokkaido, Rock/pop
Japan, then recorded in an aban-
doned train station in Detroit.
These unorthodox means of pro- albums, British Sea Power still
duction imbue the album with a sounds like it is trying to achieve a
lively sense of camaraderie, but cre- combination of U2’s stadium sound,
ate an inside joke that the listener Bruce Springsteen’s working class
can’t crack. One can only enjoy the appeal and The Clash’s rock sensi-
With love, from me to you
I Let Your Freak Flag Fly
hate to be the bearer of bad
news, but it’s February, and
that means one terrifying
thing: It will be Valentine’s Day
soon.
This isn’t Dive’s official
Valentine’s issue. That’s coming
next week, full of all the witty sar-
casm you’ve come to expect. This
week, I’m giving you some tips
on making it through this holiday
to end all holidays, armed with
a menagerie of friends who can’t
break your heart, eat your candy
or pick a bad romantic comedy —
namely, I’m going to discuss a few
tips on the art of the mixed tape.
Get a Little Weird
Frank Sinatra, Marvin Gaye,
The Beatles — yawn. You’ve heard
it so often that putting it on a
mixed tape is about as original as
a box of Wittman’s chocolates. If
you’re making a mix (for yourself
or the object of your affection),
you’ve got to shake things up —
I’m talking noise, dubstep, what-
ever gets your heart rate up or
your palms sweaty. The best mixes
are the ones that come completely
out of left field.
Go Old School
Chillwave, revivalist bluegrass
and lo-fi pop can be charming,
but often it’s because they draw
on some badass original sources.
If you’re trying to wallow alone
in your room — and who is
Dive to judge? — Echo and the
Bunnymen or Joy Division can
be as tear-jerking as a chopped
onion. And if you’re trying to feel
starSystem
Poor
Fair
good
Excellent
Classic
divestaff
Linnie Greene, Editor
843-4529 | diversions@dailytarheel.com
Joseph Chapman, Assistant Editor
Joe Faile, Rocco Giamatteo, Mark
Niegelsky, Lyle Kendrick, Anna Norris,
Jonathan Pattishall, Rachel Arnett, Allison
Hussey, Lam Chau, staff writers
Kelly McHugh, Design Editor
Cover Design: Jeffrey Sullivan
Movie from the Vaults:
“Bladerunner”: This movie will take
your mind, spin it around and then
turn it into a pile of space-age Jell-O.
Sound unpleasant? Well, it’s not —
take our word for it. Harrison Ford
makes love to a robot, and it’s not
even awkward (in context, at least).
Events:
Thursday
Thee Dirtybeats, The Malamondos
and Los Naturales
Local 506 | The 506 might be dark
whimsicality from afar.
The tribal drums and ascending
electronic bleeps of “Silly Bears” not
only start the album with a bang, but
its anyplace attitude leaves listeners
expecting the unexpected. The clap-
driven breakdowns are discordant
from the call-and-response guitar
riffs, but in the grand scheme of
S/T II: TCBAJOSTNT, their oppo-
sitions meld with an air of ethereal
tastefulness.
Akron/Family has created an
album that lacks any sort of polish-
rienced from beginning to end. The
band has taken the liberty of enjoy-
ing the music-making process on S/
T II: TCBAJOSTNT and come out
on top, but maybe a little too high
-Joe Faile
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At least on most days of the week.
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Thee Dirtybeats, The Malamondos
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The Pneurotics
Nightlight | This veteran Chapel
Hill trio, recently joined by drum-
mer Chris Burzminski, crafts tight
bilities. Those are some lofty goals,
and if you’re wondering whether or
not all that trying can start to wear
on a band, you’ve got confirmation
with Valhalla Dancehall.
The group’s sweeping sound is
still there, along with the gran-
diose backing choirs and instru-
mental buildups from its last three
albums.
While it’s a pleasing formula,
there’s nothing exciting or new
about it, and it’s readily apparent
that British Sea Power cannot exist
outside this box. As a result, there is
a noticeable lack of purpose to the
album.
After all, could frontman Yan
possibly be serious when, on opener
“Who’s In Control,” he sings, “over
here, over there, over here, every
fucking where?”
The radio-friendly British pop
of “Living Is so Easy” is ruined by a
mind-numbing chorus of “Living is
so easy, Shopping is so easy, / Dying
is so easy, All of it is easy.” This kind
of hokey songwriting is indicative of
a band that’s just going through the
motions.
The album begins to collapse
under its own weight in the last half.
“Luna” attempts the classic por-
trait of a troubled girl, but without
enough charisma to make you care,
and “Baby” is a vaporous, ethereal-
sounding ballad with about as much
substance.
The punkish rock of “Thin Black
Sail” is a standout, but it’s buried
between so much filler it can barely
retain any interest.
While Valhalla Dancehall is
a harmless, head-nodding rock
album, it’s ultimately plain and
less than memorable. British Sea
Power can keep putting out as many
albums as it likes, but if it doesn’t
regain a sense of creativity and vital-
Ultimately, the best mixes are
the ones that represent you in
all your strangeness. If you’re a
closeted Liberace fan, it’s time to
say it loud and proud. Besides, if
you’re trying to woo a Valentine’s
sweetheart, there are few better
ways than through a great piano
solo.
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the deal — husband and wife In the Year of the Pig Secret Boyfriend
Rich (a mathematician) and Mimi
Nightlight | In case your eardrums All Day Records | The noise scene
McLaughlin have as much on-stage aren’t ready for a rest by Saturday is percolating as of late, and if
chemistry as their years of mar-
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riage might suggest. Gambling the to blast them to outer space. Don’t your toes into the genre, this free
Muse and Steph Stewart and The
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Boyfriends also play. 10 p.m., $5 indie rock — ITYOTP will have songs have a pulse, but you won’t
Jonas Sees in Color, The Decour the amps on high, and you best mistake them for a typical pop
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Local 506 | Their band name may
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hated reading in high school, but
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attention. Both have studied music for like they were cranked out of
much of their lives, but the pair’s GarageBand, and the guitars are
-Anna Norris experience hardly shines through your standard cookie-cutter wan-
its second release, The Curtain of nabe semi-punk.
Primal static Many Faces. “Waking Shadow” is the biggest
the curtain of many faces Primal Static’s website touts its offender, and though it gets close to
“blues-infused” sound, but those being catchy, it ends up just plain
seeking it will be sorely disap- annoying.
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Between The White Stripes, no such evocation. The Curtain of Many Faces might
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by madeline will
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While UNC freshman Danielle
Gillyard doesn’t text and drive, she
has many friends who do.
And she said she doesn’t think
older people would be able to text
well enough to do it while driving.
“I guess it’s a teenage thing,” she
said.
That was the public perception
when the law against texting while
driving passed in North Carolina
in Dec. 2009, but recent reports
show that the majority of citations
from the new law have come from
an older demographic.
Since the law went in effect,
1,200 have been cited, said
Brendan Byrnes, spokesman
for the American Automobile
Association.
More than half of those cited
were 26 or older, with an average
age of 28, he said.
“This study shows that this
problem is much broader than just
with teens,” Byrnes said.
“People of all ages are texting
and driving.”
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kids you can trust to work on their
staff writer assignments independently.”
Time: 7 p.m. today
About 700 area high school stu- Julia Houser, a sophomore at
dents take online classes, but with- Location: Chapel Hill Town Hall,
Carrboro High, said she chose to
out the state’s financial help these 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. take online classes to fit in higher-
courses could face major cuts. Info:www.chccs.k12.nc.us level classes before graduation.
After a 200 percent increase “I like to take classes online if
in online course enrollment since while suffering funding shortages, I don’t have room for them in my
the 2007-08 school year, Mia especially when the state does not schedule,” she said.
Burroughs, vice chairwoman of allow the district to charge students Carrboro High senior Dianna
the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City for classes or textbooks. Samples transferred to the school
Schools Board of Education, said “We have a responsibility as a pub- this year. Taking online classes is the
the board will consider online lic school to be economically frugal only way she can graduate on time.
course restrictions at its meeting and fiscally responsible,” he said. Yet both Houser and Samples
Thursday before voting on the Last year, online classes cost the agreed that there are perks to tak-
measure March 3. district $252,000 — about $355 ing classes in the traditional set-
Burroughs said these restrictions per student enrolled in the pro- ting versus online. Samples said
could include limiting the number gram. While the district pays for the she liked the teacher interaction of
of classes and the number of stu- actual class, individual schools are a traditional classroom.
dents allowed to enroll in North required to buy textbooks and other While Davis said she doesn’t com-
Carolina Virtual Public School. materials needed for the classes. pare the two settings, she empha-
Initially online classes were free But Cathy Davis, a guidance sized the importance of both student
for public schools, said district counselor at Carrboro High, said and teacher input.
spokeswoman Stephanie Knott. online classes offer students the “It ’s dependent upon the
But last year the state Board of opportunity to take specialty class- instructor and how much quality
Education began charging districts es they couldn’t take otherwise, like time they’re willing to put into the
to access online services. digital photography and Mandarin lesson plans and the course itself,”
Kelly Batten, principal of Chinese. she said.
Carrboro High School, said he “Kids that are signing up for
doesn’t know how the district will online classes — they are com- Contact the City Editor
account for increased demand mitted,” she said. “They are the at city@dailytarheel.com.
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Goforth runs for CAA library “I feel like our voice

familiar with the area.
“Right now, you really only come
from page 3

Jay Lask, the managing direc-

across the library if you’re going
out with the intent of going to the
isn’t heard in this
issue, and that’s a
president unopposed
tor of property investments for library,” Boote said.
Madison Marquette, said relocat- She said it was important to think
ing the library would make the about future patrons and how they big reason why I
mall unique and attract people
from other towns.
would benefit from relocation.
“Overall, we have to do what the wanted to be heard.”
by Alex Hammer executive branch of student govern- Junior Caitlin Ellie Boote, a UNC graduate stu- majority of the community is in favor
of because it’s a public library — it’s
sydney simmons, chapel hill high
staff writer ment and in Carolina Fever. Goforth is the dent in the School of Information
A year ago, as the North Carolina Goforth has worked closely with sole candidate and Library Science, said she leans there to serve the public,” she said. our beloved library this Valentine’s
basketball team entered its Atlantic current CAA president Brandon in favor of the move. Council members plan to consider Day?” resident Tom Farmer
for the Carolina
Coast Conference schedule and Finch, whose biggest initiative was New to the area, Boote said the the proposal at a Feb. 14 meeting. asked.
Athletic library is a good resource for new Until then, residents will have to
student campaigns kicked off, the revamping the basketball ticket
Association residents, but the original location await the decision. Contact the City Editor
campus was peeved. distribution from the year before,
Five phases required students continuing several years of chang-
presidency. isn’t obvious to those who aren’t “Are we really going to forsake at city@dailytarheel.com.
to wait longer before games. And ing policies.
students received only one ticket Goforth said she has not yet do just that. She said one of the perks The price of parking
through the lottery in a policy some decided whether she will keep of not having to run a campaign is
blamed for lower attendance. Finch’s policy or institute yet that she has already started work on Transportation fees will increase

games
So students paid attention to the another one, saying she plans on some of her endeavors for next year. 93 percent over the next five years.
ticket policies put forth by the can- meeting with athletic officials, CAA She has also been working with See pg. 1 for story.
didates for the Carolina Athletic officers and students after the sea- graphics experts to create a recog-
Association presidency. son is over. nizable logo, which will be placed © 2009 The Mepham Group. All rights reserved. Sanitizing the stage
But this year, only one candidate, “I do not have it set in stone that around campus. She aims to increase Level: 1 2 3 4 “Sterilize,” a play that debuts
Caitlin Goforth, has entered the race. I’m going to change anything right the presence of both the CAA and of tonight, will question the concept
Without opposition, she said she is now,” she said. non-revenue sports on campus. of purity. See pg. 3 for story.
without a firm idea of what next Finch said he is confident in “Caitlin wants to put a bigger Complete the grid
year’s ticket policy might be. Goforth’s ability to do great things emphasis on some of the non- so each row, column
and 3-by-3 box (in PLAY under way
Goforth, a junior political science for the CAA and has high hopes for major sports on campus,” said
and Latin American studies major, the organization’s future, especially Kevin North, Goforth’s campaign bold borders) con- Club athletes will visit local middle
is currently the head of campus rela- concerning student involvement. manager and current CAA special tains every digit 1 schools as a part of a new program.
to 9. See pg. 4 for story.
tions for the group and has been a “I hope Caitlin will continue to projects co-chairman.
member of CAA for three years. advocate for the voice of the stu- “She wants to increase the atten- Solution to
Even though she is the only candi- dent body in order to generate more dance to events such as soccer, Wednesday’s puzzle Old texters get caught
date running, Goforth does not want student involvement,” he said. “The women’s basketball and volleyball.” The majority of N.C. texting-
the student body to think of her as an CAA has the potential to be an Only time will tell how her likely while-driving citations are given to
illegitimate appointment. incredible resource to students but presidency will affect attendance at older people. See pg. 8 for story.
“I do think I am the most quali- we need to do a better job at reach- the University’s major sport.
fied candidate for the job next year, ing out, which I hope Caitlin and
for sure. I truly believe that,” said her new administration can do.” Contact the University Editor Park smoking snuffed
Goforth, who has also worked in the And Goforth said she intends to at university@dailytarheel.com. Raleigh voted to ban smoking in
public parks. Visit dailytarheel.com
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Noah Brisbin
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Second year law student from
Salisbury.
E-mail: nbrisbin@email.Unc.Edu
Don’t bask
in Duke’s
big loss
just yet
N
ext to a Tar Heel victory,
the most popular devel-
opment in the college
basketball season for UNC fans is
a resounding Duke loss. During
and after a drubbing such as the
St. John’s victory on Sunday, Tar
Heel fans usually take a moment
(or several) to relish in the vul-
nerability of our nearby nemesis.
To Tar Heel fans who, like
myself, find it too easy to enjoy
those moments, I implore you
that the only Duke losses we
should celebrate are those that
come at our hands.
Why refrain from delighting
in their misfortunes? There are
at least two reasons. The first is
that our target is, after all, Duke.
In 2001, they recovered from
an 11-point Senior Day loss in
Cameron Indoor to Maryland (an
ally in our Duke-detesting cause)
to beat us in the Dean Dome, win
the ACC tournament and take
the national championship.
And last year, in a situa-
tion eerily similar to Sunday,
Georgetown, member of the Big
East Conference along with St.
John’s, hosted the Blue Devils
and turned them away resound-
ingly. Duke rebounded from that
setback by winning 18 of its next
19 games to take (yet another)
national championship.
Those were depressing para-
graphs, but the point of reliving
those pieces of history is to show
that a bad Sunday in late January
is not necessarily going to sink a
good team’s ship. (Take heart: two
instances validate our suspicions
of Duke’s ability — the Tar Heels’
convincing win at Cameron in
March 2008 preceded Duke losses
in the ACC semifinals and the
NCAA Round of 32, and our win
on Senior Day 2007 also propelled
Duke toward first-round ACC and
NCAA losses.) So no good Tar Heel
fan should put too much stock into
the Blue Devils’ mishaps.
But there is a deeper-seeded
reason to focus on our own suc-
cesses instead of the failures of
our rivals. This schadenfreude
— the derivation of pleasure
from others’ misfortunes — is an
interesting enough concept that
philosophers and scientists have
long found it worth examination.
Schadenfreude’s merits have
been questioned since the days
of the ancients. Aristotle, in “The
Nicomachean Ethics,” states that
“the spiteful man falls so far short
of pained that he even rejoices.”
Aristotle compares this spiteful-
ness unfavorably with the envi-
ousness of one who is offended by
other’s fortune.
Jumping forward to the present
day, scientific research has borne
out that people will act in ways
that harm those we envy in order
to enjoy their deprivation or suffer-
ing. That enjoyment can be traced
to increased dopamine reception
in the brain, the biochemical pay-
off, which is the crux of the psycho-
logical concept of schadenfreude.
This biopsychological frame-
work rebuts Aristotle’s under-
standing of the ethics underlying
it. But the means people undertake
to reap the benefit of schaden-
freude belie its payoff. It is not
worth dismissing Duke now when
we may find occasion to celebrate
our own triumph in a week’s time.
After all, the rivalry we enjoy
does not thrive because we have
pummeled hapless Duke teams
into the ground for decades. It
prospers because both programs
have grown into national powers
that test each other in every meet-
ing. The real cause for celebration
is that we can do to Duke what few
others can 130 times in 229 tries.
Friday:
Blair Mikels and Alex Walters shine
light on moonshine.
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EDITORIAL CARTOON
Delegate Dispute
Attempt to dismiss Ingram seems politically motivated,
not in line with the spirit of the Student Code
S
tudent body president
candidate Rick Ingram’s
position as a delegate in
the UNC-system Association
of Student Governments was
called into question last week
by Student Body Treasurer and
Vice President of ASG Dakota
Williams.
This issue brings an incon-
sistency to light that should be
addressed by Student Congress.
The Student Code allows
student government leaders
to remove students serving as
external appointments if they
miss more than one meeting.
Student Body President Hogan
Medlin dismissed the accusa-
tion because Ingram had given
advanced notice of one of his
absences.
Medlin has missed several
ASG meetings, but has not been
expelled from ASG because the
Wrongful eviction
Town regulation a burden on innocent students
T
he decision by the town
of Chapel Hill to enforce
the law banning more
than four unrelated people in
a home fails to recognize the
realities of life here and places
a heavy and unnecessary bur-
den upon students.
The Land Use Management
Ordinance has long been on the
books, but Chapel Hill Senior
Code Enforcement Officer
Chelsea Laws has decided to
step up enforcement.
A law limiting the number
of non-related individuals in
a single-family unit to four
makes little sense.
Chapel Hill is fundamentally
a college town. Residents who
live near the University ought
to recognize that fact.
Of course, the point at
which the freedoms of one
party begin to detract from
those of another is the point
DNC in Charlotte
The 2012 Democratic National
Convention will
be in Charlotte.
I’m sure President
Obama just enjoys
Charlotte’s rich
night life and endearing
populace, not the electoral
votes N.C. has up for grabs.
Basketball
Well, we’ve been giving
thumbs up to the
basketball team
the past few
weeks, and they’re
doing pretty well.
So why stop now? Any
time the scrubs get some
playing time you know we’re
doing something right.
Opinion
EDITorial BOARD members
callie bost
Robert Fleming
Taylor Holgate
Sam Jacobson
Maggie Zellner
By Jamie Berger, jcberger@email.unc.edu
rule in the Code does not apply
to him.
The UNC-Chapel Hill dele-
gation to ASG includes the stu-
dent body president, the speak-
er of Student Congress and two
external appointments.
Under the Code only the
external appointments can
be held accountable for their
attendance, while the student
body president and speaker are
not. Student Congress should
consider legislation making
sure that all are held account-
able in equal measure so that
UNC is fully represented at
meetings — both ASG and
otherwise.
Furthermore, Williams’
accusations reek of political
game-playing. Ingram did
not say that Williams was out
to get him, but he agrees that
the timing of the accusation is
at which that liberty is for-
feited.
But being a nuisance, regard-
less of occupancy, is grounds
for punitive action. So letting
students peacefully occupy a
home that accommodates them
hardly seems like too much to
ask for.
Housing is always in demand
in Chapel Hill and a premium
is placed on living near cam-
pus. By artificially limiting the
supply of housing, the town is
effectively forcing students to
find housing farther from the
University or pay more.
This will lead to increased
traffic, congestion and transit
costs as students require other
means of transportation to
make the longer commute.
Also of issue is the lost rev-
enue of landlords who must
now evict their residents lest
either party pay a fine of $100
QuickHits
Peeing prof
Prosecutors charged a profes-
sor at a California
university with
with peeing on a
colleague’s office
door. Hopefully
t h i s s e a s o n ’s S B P e l e c -
tion losers don’t resort to
similar tactics in the fall.
Alert Carolina
Yeah, we get it: the tests
are necessary for
ensuring our safe-
ty system works.
But man, they
sure are annoy-
ing. Can’t they put a silenc-
er on it or something? Or
maybe ring the Bell Tower
bells? Those sound nice.
Greg Smith
Shruti Shah
Nathan D’ambrosio
Taylor Haulsee
suspicious. The connections
are hard to ignore — Williams
doesn’t seem to have the warm-
est relationship with Ingram.
We’re glad that Williams
knows the intricacies of the
Code, but he only bastard-
izes its spirit by invoking it for
political purposes — which we
believe he has done. Ingram
has only one unexcused ASG
absence, and other members
of the delegation have more.
And the fact that Medlin
decided not to let Ingram go, in
spite of the rule, attests to the
good faith on Ingram’s part of
meeting his delegate responsi-
bilities.
Neither Ingram nor anyone
else should shirk their respon-
sibilities. But determining
the level of dedication often
requires more than glancing
at attendance sheets.
per day. So much for freedom
of contract.
Surely, having one resident
per bedroom represents a rea-
sonable standard. But while
the ordinance may be unrea-
sonable, it is still the law.
In an ideal world, this regu-
lation wouldn’t exist. In the
meantime, students should do
everything in their power to
avoid causing neighbors to file
complaints.
Laws herself basically indi-
cated that the Town won’t seek
anyone out. So any way to avoid
suspicion is good.
Steering clear of overly rau-
cous behavior and drawing
unwanted attention should
keep the eviction notices at
bay.
But that doesn’t change the
fact that students should be
able to live in homes that can
accommodate them.
Super Bowl
Hopefully your professors
were not sadistic
enough to have an
exam or assignment
due on Monday. We
expect the game
will be exciting, but if not
there are always the commer-
cials. Can’t wait for Go Daddy.
P.T.’s
The iconic bar and grill,
known for ‘90s
music and burgers,
was shut down after
the owner assault-
ed an employee,
bursting his bladder. Now
where are we going to get
Beam and Cokes for $2.50
(competition: hint, hint)?
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Countless times I was on the
phone with coaches. As soon as
they’d start talking about Carolina,
just put the phone down, walk
downstairs, get a snack, come back
up, still talking.”
T.J. Thorpe, wide receiver recruited to unc
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Homosexuality not a sin,
Bible for different times
TO THE EDITOR:
I am sure that Adam Blaser
(“God loves all, including homo-
sexuals, equally,” Feb. 2) thought
he was being quite tolerant, even
respectful, of LGBT-identified
people when he wrote that every-
one is a sinner and God loves us
equally. However, he fails to real-
ize that homosexuality is not a
sin. There is nothing wrong with
being LGBT; there is nothing
God wants to change about it.
Yes, there are those six “clobber
passages” that condemn certain
types of same-sex acts. But there
are also verses that condemn get-
ting tattoos (Leviticus 19:28) or
eating shrimp (Leviticus 11:10).
Even in the New Testament we
are told that women must not
speak during church — at all (I
Corinthians 14:34-35). The Bible
is full of hundreds of verses that
Christians ignore, and that is
because the Bible wasn’t written
to us. It was written to specific
cultures at specific times. We must
figure out what still applies and
what doesn’t — after all, God gave
us the powers of critical thinking.
And LGBT people do not
choose to be who they are. They
are just as able to live successful
lives. Their families are as well-
adjusted as opposite-sex-headed
households. So to use the Bible,
in 2011, to explain that homosex-
uality is a sin is to use the Bible
to justify your own ignorance
and/or hatred.
John Michael Watkins
Junior
Spanish
Homosexuality does not
have bearing on morality
TO THE EDITOR:
I agree with the conclusion of
yesterday’s letter to the editor,
“God loves all, including homo-
sexuals, equally.” But I object to
the author’s repeated claims that
homosexuality is “definitely” sin-
ful and condemned by Christian
scripture. The nature and ethics
of homosexuality for Christian
persons is hotly debated within
many major denominations, and
there is solid Biblical scholarship
to support both positions.
Context is crucial for under-
standing the meanings of ancient
texts, and there is a strong argu-
ment to be made that modern
practices of homosexuality have
virtually nothing in common
with the practices discussed
in the Bible, where same-sex
attraction is mentioned only a
handful of times. The concept of
individuals being “homosexuals/
sodomites,” as the author put it,
is only a few centuries old, and
therefore an inappropriate trans-
lation of the original Greek.
Countless lesbian and gay
individuals participate regularly
in church throughout America
as lay members, Sunday School
teachers, deacons, pastors and
many other positions. For many
Christians, including myself, the
question of an individual’s sexual
orientation has no more bearing
on their morality than whether or
not they’re right handed.
So yes, “it’s okay to be gay and
a Christian.” And yes, “it’s not
our job to judge our neighbors
in the first place.” But for many
Christians, diversity of sexual
orientation does not represent
one equal sin among many, to
be grudgingly accepted as a sad
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Anyone`, gay or not gay,
can be a ‘real’ Christian
TO THE EDITOR:
I n r e s p o n s e t o J. E .
Williams’ letter on Feb. 1, titled
“Homosexuality, Christianity
are diametrically opposed,” I
believe your opinion is valid,
and that the Bible does clearly
denounce homosexuality. That
being said, your assertion that
“anyone who deliberately defies
these condemnations can hardly
be a real Christian,” seems to me
closed-minded and empirically
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There is such a range of
Christian interpretation of the
Bible, and that while many do
believe that there is one Truth,
disagreements abound as to what
that Truth is. For example, the
Evangelical Lutheran Church of
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I attest that any follower of Christ
who can bring others to embrace
Him and His word is more “real”
a Christian than you or me.
When it comes down to it, the
guiding values of love and com-
passion that the Bible promotes
have themselves been practiced
in many different ways and social
contexts.
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Sophomore
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Graduate students should
not pay UCommons fee
TO THE EDITOR:
In the face of colorful fliers,
relentless signature gathering, and
all this talk of student opinion, we
have completely neglected one
very important segment of our
student body: graduate students.
Nearly 40 percent of the stu-
dents on this campus are gradu-
ate students who seldom frequent
main-campus facilities, including
the Student Union. Even with the
well-advertised improvements, we
have no reason to believe that the
“UCommons” would change that.
Nevertheless, the current pro-
posal would commit all students
(including graduate) to pay this
biannual fee for the next 30 years
or so. Please bear in mind that
all students already pay $80.75
to service the debt for the Union
each year.
I would be much more com-
fortable if this additional fee
applied only to undergraduate
students, who would actually
be using the space. As much as
I’d enjoy a “vibrant study space”
with adjustable walls and doors,
I can’t justify requiring my grad
student friends to pay for it, even
if the majority of students do
want to buy $8 pairs of socks.
Rep. Stephen Estes
Student Congress, District 6
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