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By SETH WRIGHTFeatures editor
Chapel Hill’s 80-year-veteran and only remaining Franklin Street movie venue, Varsity Theatre, is undergoing negotiations for a potential sale this week.
Bruce Stone, owner of Varsity Theatre and Chelsea Theatre, said he was hoping to hear from a party interested in buying the theater by Monday night but had yet to receive confirmation of the sale. He expects to be able to validate the negotiations this week.
“We’re considering a transition and possibly a sale,” Stone said about the theater’s ownership. “I just thought I would explore the possibility of a change.”
Stone said he could not give
details about who was interested in buying the theater and for how much it might be sold.
Rumors have been floating around that Varsity Theatre, which has been at its downtown location for nearly a century, might close due to financial troubles, yet Stone said his decision to sell had noth-ing to do with money. Rather, he said he felt it was time for change after his long run in the movie business.
“I’m getting old. I’ve been doing this for 20 years — me and my wife,” he said. “I have just learned in the last day or two the most outrageous rumors floating around town.”
But Stone said it’s likely that the Varsity will continue operation regardless of the results of the sale. Fans of the theater do not have to worry about the Chapel Hill staple rolling up its screens.
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NO BLUES IS BETTERdave alvin and the Guilty
Women do well with bluegrass and zydeco on their new al-
bum, but they just don’t quite nail the blues.
DEMS IN THE HOT SEATrecent investigations of
democratic Party leadership, including Mike easley, could cause consequences for the
party down the road.
LEARNING TO COPEYoung refugees from Myanmar
express their memories of violence with a new program through the N.C. art therapy
institute.
diversions | page 8
NOT SO SWEETsugar, showing at the Varsity, is not a sports movie with a
sparkling ending or a predict-able one, but the ending fits
like a broken-in glove.
May 28, 1961Peter Beneson’s article in the
London observer sparks a worldwide movement, inspiring human rights group amnesty
international a year later.
university | page 6
SUMMER IS INthis year, 6,665 students are enrolled for the first summer session, up from last year’s 6,589 after several years of waning enrollment figures.
LEADING OFFafter being removed from the leadoff spot for four games, sophomore left fielder Ben
Bunting regained his role for the NCaa tournament.
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kochfaces court datearrested during april 14 protest
By ANDREW HARRELLuNiVersitY editor
Senior Haley Koch, the only person to be arrested so far for last month’s protest of former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., has jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Who started the fire is still up for debate, with University police and protestors placing the blame on each other for escalating the situation.
Koch said she will be keeping her Morehead-Cain scholarship after meeting with Morehead-Cain
F o u n d a t i o n Director Chuck Lovelace to dis-cuss what took place and her role in the April 14 protest.
Now, Koch faces a court date Monday a f t e r b e i n g arrested nine days after the p r o t e s t f o r disturbing the peace.
Meanwhile, the University’s Department of Public Safety is in the middle of an internal review sparked by a formal complaint submitted by students.
Koch and the authors of the complaint have said that what was a peaceful demonstration was esca-lated by the police’s use of pepper spray and pushing students down and grabbing them by the hair.
University police have said their use of pepper spray on students and the discharge of a Taser as a warning were necessitated by the rowdy nature of the protest, which culminated in a broken window in the Bingham Hall classroom where the speech was to be held.
Randy Young, spokesman for DPS, was unable to comment on the internal investigation other than the fact that it is ongoing.
Young said Koch was arrested once the investigation yielded information from sources such as video and photos of the event that implicated her.
Koch and another student stood with a banner in the front of the classroom where Tancredo had been invited to speak on immigra-tion by the campus group Youth for Western Civilization, shouting over Tancredo so he was unable to speak.
Although he was unable to com-ment further on the protest inves-tigation because it too is ongoing, Young added that further arrests
uNC responds to swine flu
By jENNIFER kESSINGERstaFF Writer
A UNC Health Care worker was identified as having the 13th con-firmed case of swine flu in North Carolina on Friday.
But the single case has not been enough to raise alarm in the University’s pandemic response strategy, which has been in devel-opment for more than a year.
The staff member, who has not been named, came in contact with patients and other staff at the University Pediatrics at Highgate
clinic in Durham last week. Those who were potentially exposed have been contacted by the clinic.
A 14th case was confirmed in Durham county over the weekend as well.
James Thomas, an associate professor of epidemiology, has been involved in planning the University’s response to a possible outbreak. He said there is the pos-sibility of the flu spreading on cam-pus, but that the University will be sufficiently prepared.
“The influenza is an infectious disease, and it is hard to control,” he said. “We have been waiting for the day that it would come to our
senior Haley Koch said she will keep her Morehead-Cain scholarship.
NC swine flu cases by countyFourteen cases of swine flu have been confirmed in North Carolina. Craven county has had the most with seven confirmed cases.
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one confirmed casetwo confirmed casesseven confidermed cases
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in the tar heels’ aCC tournament opener, first baseman dustin ackley paced uNC with two home runs and four rBis. But against Virginia, uNC was held to five hits and only one run. ackley redeemed himself the following day with his 20th homer of the season, but the team still fell.
hEELs sEt FOr rEGIONaLsBy jOE MCLEANseNior Writer
DURHAM — Patrick Johnson pushed North Carolina baseball to the brink of elimination. Then he almost pitched them out of it.
With only one out on the board and the bases loaded in the bottom of the 11th inning Saturday, Johnson faced a difficult task: Get the next two Clemson batters out cleanly.
Since even a walk or a sacrifice fly would win the game for the Tigers, Johnson had no mar-gin for error — and appropriately so. Johnson put the Tar Heels in the predicament by mak-ing a bad throw while fielding a bunt that sent Clemson’s Mike Freeman all the way to third.
The first batter worked a full count before striking out. The second raised the stakes further — fouling off two off Johnson’s fast-balls with the count at 3-2 and Durham Bulls
Athletic Park in a frenzy.But the Tiger’s Wilson Boyd sent the next
pitch all the way to the left field wall, bringing Freeman home and securing a 4-3 win for No. 15 Clemson (40-19). Johnson’s error voided a ninth-inning comeback by the Tar Heels as the team was bounced from the ACC tournament.
“We tell our pitchers try to make plays on balls like that,” coach Mike Fox said of the error. “We should have been backing up that play — that guy wouldn’t have ended up on third.”
But the Tar Heels will turn their focus to their NCAA Regional, which they will host at Boshamer Stadium. They face Dartmouth in the first game, and the other teams in the regional are Coastal Carolina and Kansas.
No. 15 CCU is especially dangerous, having beaten UNC 7-3 on Feb. 24.
“We gotta shore up some things this weekend and get a little bit of our confidence back,” Fox said.
“I don’t know that we lost any today, but any time you lost two going into regionals, we got to get back with some good practices, some enthu-siasm, and get some guys going a little bit.”
UNC’s first tournament lost was an 11-1 blow-out at the hands of No. 14 Virginia (43-12-1).
REGIONAL OPENER vs. DARTMOUTHTime: 6 p.m. FridayLocation: Boshamer StadiumInfo: www.tarheelblue.com
DTH INSIDE: uNC batters have begun to hit left-handers well. Plus, a preview of the NCaa regional.
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uNC dominated in final
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after beating Maryland, 8-7, on Friday night, uNC had scored just three goals at the half against Nu. Jenn russell chipped in two in the game.
By CHRIS HEMPSONsPorts editor
TOWSON, Md. — They didn’t know what to say.
Coach Jenny Levy knelt on the sideline. Goalkeeper Logan Ripley turned and faced away from the field. Senior Amber Falcone walked back to the midfield circle.
None of them could ever have fathomed that this would occur. That in the pinnacle of women’s lacrosse, the NCAA Championship, they would match the worst loss in UNC history — a margin of 14.
It was unimaginable. It was incomprehensible. But the way Northwestern was playing, quite
frankly, the 21-7 defeat was unavoidable.
So even in the first half, there they were, blank-faced and emo-tionless, most seemingly unaware of their surroundings.
Each was in the midst of being
thoroughly blitzed by a 10-0 Wildcat run. A run that would leave no doubt as to who is the best team in the nation. A run that left many scrambling to put
1st-half run dooms tar heels in defeat
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WOMEN’S LACROSSENorthwestern 21uNC 7
Varsity theatre set to be sold but not closedOwner finds it’s time to move on
2 Newsthursday, may 28, 2009
WeEkLY DOSe
NOTED. Some wedding receptions can get out of hand. In Taipei, a Taiwanese groom died on his wedding day after having too much beer and wine to drink, police said.
The man, who was 35, passed out at home after having too much to drink at a high-end restaurant among more than 100 wedding guests. He was hospitalized after his face turned black and died despite treatment.
QUOTED. “I pushed him off because jump-ers like Chen are very selfish. Their action vio-lates a lot of public interests.”
— Lian Jiansheng, 66, said about his pushing of Chen Fuchao, a would-be suicide jumper, off a bridge. Chen held Bejing traffic for more than five hours. After being pushed, he sustained only minor injuries. He was the 12th person since April to threaten suicide at the spot.
Rookie luck happened in the right place for Patricia Demauro. At an Atlantic City casino, the novice craps player set a new record for the longest craps roll. Demauro held on to the dice for four hours and 18 minutes at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, beating the previous record set nearly 20
years ago by one hour and 12 minutes.“This was only my second time playing craps, so this was very exciting for me to
be a part of history,” Demauro said. She lives in Denville in northern New Jersey.Demauro bought into the game with only $100 and quickly amassed a cheering
crowd. She finally lost after 154 rolls of the dice at 12:51 a.m. and was greeted with a champagne toast. Officials would not say how much she had won.
Beginner’s luck makes new high rollerFrom staFF and wire reports
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under new ownership?
Varsity Theatre, an 80-year-old landmark on Franklin Street in downtown Chapel Hill, may potentially change owners. According to the owner, the outcome
of the potential sale will not affect whether the Varsity con-tinues to screen films.
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Police logn Someone stole a purse out of
a shopping cart at a store on South Estes Drive on Saturday, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
The items in the purse includ-ed a California driver’s license, a JCPenney card and a debit card, reports state.
n Someone broke into an apart-ment on Old Chapel Hill Road on Monday, damaging property and assaulting a female, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
The man used his hands and feet to break down the apartment door, reports state. A total of $10 in damage to a brass door chain and wood frame were reported.
n A man broke a car window and stole an Apple iPod Sunday, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
The iPod worth $300 with headphones was stolen, and dam-age to the car window totaled $400, reports state.
n A man communicated threats to two women at a store May 21, according to Carrboro police reports.
Two women shopping at a store in Carrboro went up to the counter to buy some jewelry, reports state. When they inquired about an item, the owner told them they could not afford the items and began to laugh, reports state.
The man proceeded to call a security guard and told him to arrest the women for shoplifting, reports state.
When the women requested a discount for purchasing two items, the man laughed and said he would rather pop them in the face, reports state.
When officers arrived on the scene, the man was very defensive and told officers that he would call the chief, according to reports.
The man demanded that the officer leave his store, reports state. The two women made their exchange and left the store.
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Friday
last fridays: art galleries, attrac-tions and other businesses stay open late with music, crafts, performers, refreshments and more.time: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.location: downtown hillsborough, churton and king streets
Stargazing: morehead educators and amateur astronomers hold a skywatching session to observe sky objects with telescopes.time: 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.location: ebenezer church recreation area at Jordan lake
Art opening: the public opening of “aldwyth: work v./work n. - collage and assemblage 1991 - 2009,” the first major retrospective of the collage artist. aldwyth will be in attendance.time: 1 p.m.location: ackland art museum
Plant lecture: denise lawungkurr Goodfellow, a writer, natural history guide and biological consultant, speaks about the transformation of australian wetlands for the 10th annual evelyn mcneill sims native plant lecture.time: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.location: nc Botanical Garden, totten center
concert: the magnolia klezmer Band, which specializes in Jewish dance music, will give a free concert. Bring chairs or picnics, or purchase from nearby restaurants.time: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.location: southern village on the Green
Tuesday
rose gardening class: come out and learn all about rose gardening with susie whaley, a landscape super-visor for the town of chapel hill. she will give a tour of the Gene strowd community rose Garden as well. Free. time: 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.location: community center Garden, 120 south estes drive.
civil war: lecturer Fred w. kiger continues his course, “Gettysberg and Beyond,” one of the civil war programs presented by the unc General alumni association.time: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.location: George watts hill alumni center
lunch lecture: historian david s. cecelski presents “the last daughter of davis ridge,” investigating african-american traditions in coast-al carolina and relating them to the artist aldwyth. $5 for non-members.time: 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.location: ackland art museum
guided tour: take a guided tour of historic Franklin street. cost is $5.time: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.location: horace williams house
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Campus BriefsTrial finds new way to fight dysplasia in the esophagus
A clinical trial led by Nicholas Shaheen of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health has shown radiofrequency ablation to be an effective treatment for dysplasia in people with Barrett’s esophagus, a condition that can lead to deadly gastrointestinal cancer.
The ground-breaking find is the result of a study involving 127 peo-ple who received either the radiof-requency ablation technique or a placebo procedure.
Radiofrequency ablation is a noninvasive procedure using ther-mal energy to target and eradicate abnormal cells in the esophagus.
N.C. Collection examines history of local community
A new exhibit in Wilson Library will explore the past two centuries of history in Chapel Hill’s Rogers Road community.
The exhibit, “We’re all Family Here: Preserving Community Heritage in the Rogers Road Neighborhood of Chapel Hill,” will find a home in the N.C. Collection Gallery from June 12 to Aug. 31.
A panel on June 25 will feature residents of the community and researcher Emily Eidenier discuss-ing the exhibit and the history of Rogers Road.
UNC students immersed in Cherokee nation over break
A new American studies course will send 12 UNC students to study in the Cherokee Nation.
Designed by UNC faculty mem-bers Theda Perdue and Tol Foster, the “Tribal Studies: The Cherokee Nation” course is the result of a partnership with Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Okla., where the students will live for a month this summer.
In addition to learning about Cherokee history, law, language and art, students will visit histori-cal landmarks, participate in cul-tural activities and be required to blog about their experiences.
Students, faculty receive funding for space research
The North Carolina Space Grant Program has awarded more than a dozen students, faculty and staff at UNC with funding for research and course development.
The grants are a piece of the $733,000 awarded to 11 different universities for the 2009-2010 by the program. Working with NASA, nonprofits and state government agencies, the program is a group of academic institutions support-ing aeronautics and space-related fields within the state.
CiTy BriefsCarrboro Free Press stops lending trend, goes co-op
The Carrboro Free Press, a weekly community newspaper, recently announced that it would become cooperative. The once pri-vately owned publication is being sold to West Main Press.
The cooperative status of the publication means that the busi-ness will be owned and controlled equally by the people who use its services and the people who work at it. The Carrboro Free Press debuted Oct. 10, 2007 and has since increased circulation by 150 percent.
Chapel Hill police seek 3 men for purse snatching
T he C hapel Hi l l Po l ice Department released a notice Friday that they were searching for four men as suspects in a robbery at a Chapel Hill bookstore.
As of 10 a.m. Wednesday, only 19-year-old Dennis Morris Jenkins had been placed under arrest. Warrants are also out for Robert Christoper Williams, 19; Ricky Michael Edwards, 18; and Littbarski S. Blackwood, 19.
Individuals with information should call Chapel Hill police at 968-2760 or Crime Stoppers at 942-7515 and my be eligible for a cash reward of up to $2,000.
Atwater’s lawyers request Nov. 2 trial to be delayed
Lawyers for Demario James Atwater Jr. — one of the men charged with killing former student body president Eve Carson — have requested that his federal trial be postponed until May 2010.
The trial was set to begin Nov. 2.The attorneys say the state crime
lab needs more time to look at a shoe print, an ATM receipt and other evidence found in Carson’s SUV. In addition, they want more time to research Atwater’s upbring-ing and background.
Along with Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr., Atwater faces felony charges.
-From staff and wire reports.
Hearings address budget concerns
CrEatIVE COuNsELING
By SArAH MorAyATiStaff Writer
A yellow dragon breathes fire and drips blood onto one page. On another, a dino-saur saunters over green hills.
For some kids, this is just another day in art class. But for the roughly 40 chil-dren in the N.C. Art Therapy Institute located in Durham, it’s more than that — it helps them cope.
There are more than 400 refugees from Myanmar, formerly Burma, in Chapel Hill. Most of them are of the Karen ethnic group, the minority group in Myanmar. Conflicts between the Karen and the coun-try’s majority group, the Burmese, caused some to flee to the United States.
Many of the children in the program spent their entire lives in refugee camps before coming to the United States and have had little formal education.
“You don’t see them around because they’re in their own little communities,” said Caitlin Murray, an intern with the institute.
In Chapel Hill, the refugees face language barriers and a lack of public awareness.
Their experiences, furthermore, have left many children with post-traumatic stress symptoms. But the Art Therapy Institute hopes to help them heal.
According to the American Art Therapy Association, art therapy is a mental health profession which integrates creative art with counseling and psychotherapy to help people recover from trauma, abuse or loss.
“A lot of times with trauma, art-making is a less threatening way to process the experi-ence,” said Ilene Sperling, an art therapist and clinical director of the institute.
Sperling said it’s been especially helpful for the children from Burma because art doesn’t require words. They can express themselves freely without having to worry about the language barrier.
UNC alumna Megan Ellenson had worked with the refugees before as part of her graduate school coursework. Another class introduced her to the Art Therapy Institute, and for her master’s project, she received a grant to start the program for the children from Burma in fall 2007.
“I just put two and two together
because I recognized that there was an unmet need,” she said.
The groups meet at school. During a typical session, the children introduce themselves and begin the day’s project — anything from painting to clay sculp-ture to drama. Each project incorporates some aspect of the children’s personalities, experiences or lives.
About half an hour later, the children present their work. A translator is there to help if needed.
Some images depict violence — in the past, children have drawn guns and war scenes — but others are more hopeful. One
day, for a “peace flag“ project, several Karen children painted the group’s flag, with white and blue sections symbolizing purity and faith.
It’s also a way for the children to get to know and understand each other. In one group, two Burmese children were bullied. After a few months with the therapist, the bullying mostly stopped.
And the fruits of their labor will be framed and on display from June 2 to June 14 at University Mall.
“We wanted a treat for the children,” Murray said.
A reception will be held on June 7 from 2
p.m. to 4 p.m. The event is donation-based and a fundraiser for the institute. But if they do not receive enough money, Sperling said, this would be the program’s last year.
More children, she said, have been referred to the program through the schools than the therapists can work with.
Eventually, the therapists hope to expand throughout the Triangle to reach more children. They plan to become a non-profit in the next year and have a physical building within the next three years.
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an intern with the n.C. art therapy institute uses art to help refugee students from Myanmar recover from trauma witnessed in their country, which has caused many of them to exhibit post-traumatic stress symptoms. the art helps them express feelings.
art therapy helps refugee children cope
By SArAH MorAyATiStaff Writer
Orange County residents raised concerns about the county’s pro-posed $177.6 million operating budget during two public hearings, one held Tuesday and the other on May 21.
These included a sewer and water rate increase in Efland, fund-ing cuts for county schools and the possible closing of two libraries.
The budget was proposed by County Manager Laura Blackmon to the Orange County Board of Commissioners.
“We did not have to take any earth-shattering measures,” said
Orange County Budget Director Donna Coffey, who presented the budget at the hearings.
The first public hearing was held May 21 at the Central Orange Senior Center in Hillsborough and about 50 people attended. The second, held Tuesday at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, was attended by about 150 people.
Several Orange County residents protested a 300 percent sewer and water rate increase in Efland.
The sewer increase would affect about 213 people in the Richmond Hills and Ashwick subdivisions, who would have to pay $70.75 a month, up from $15.20, for 3,000 gallons.
Forty-five percent of the residents are low-income and might have problems affording the services at the new rate, said Sam Gharbo, a resident of Efland. Furthermore, many feared that sewage backflow would cause health problems for those who live in the area.
“Any way you look at it, it’s just plain wrong,” Gharbo said.
A few residents argued against the proposed closing of the Carrboro and Cedar Grove libraries. Their collec-tion is valued at about $500,000 and contains art and DVDs the Chapel Hill library does not, said Chapel Hill resident Alex Brown. A new library is planned for Hillsborough.
“If these two branches close, the relatively small community of Hillsborough will enjoy their new
library, but many more residents of Orange County will have nothing,” Brown said.
School funding was highly con-tested. Under the proposed budget, schools would get 48.1 percent of the general fund, down from 48.4 per-cent, a decrease of about $300,000.
“You’re asking all the schools to take a smaller piece of a smaller pie,” said Eric Dingfelder of Chapel Hill.
More than 50 representatives of Carrboro High School attended Tuesday, wearing purple T-shirts reading “Build It Now” to ask that a previously requested arts wing to the school be funded and built.
The arts wing would provide facilities for theater, art and music programs. The school board recent-ly voted to prioritize the project and
federal stimulus money is available, but they have not heard from the board. The school uses classroom space for their arts program.
“It’s hard to take spirit in some-thing where you’re lacking what you need most,” said Darien Lombardi, a Carrboro High School student.
Commissioner Valerie Foushee said school funds and safety net programs were among the board’s priorities, but nothing was decided.
“Everything in the budget should get more, but there is no more.”
The commissioners will hold work sessions tonight and June 4 to discuss the proposed budget, which will be approved by June 16.
Contact the City Editor at [email protected].
Numbers should be approved by June
Glenwood dresses up gardens
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Masons richard johnson, arthur jones and Glenwood elementary School Principal Minnie Goins dedicate the three stone walls thursday.
By reBeCCA BreNNerSenior Writer
Glenwood Elementary School’s science specialist Sally Massengale wanted to dress up the gardens in front of the school, but she wasn’t sure how.
“Then we found these living treasures of our town,” she said.
The living treasures she was referring to are the five masons who recently built three stone walls for the elementary school’s gardens.
Thursday afternoon, Glenwood held a dedication ceremony for its three new stone walls, which Massengale said she hopes will both beautify the school and facili-tate students’ outdoor education.
“The whole process of the wall building was to educate the chil-dren,” Massengale said.
She said the walls were integrated into all facets of the curriculum, from the geometry behind the construc-tion to the history of Chapel Hill.
Younger students identified dif-ferent types of rocks, while older stu-dents gathered material to compose a documentary about the walls.
Students also had the opportuni-ty to build small model walls using granite rocks and pebbles in order to get a feel for the specialized skills that the masons use.
Most of the masons have been working on the stone walls at UNC and around the town for years, and the work has been in their lineage for generations.
“These men are the direct link to this stone wall-building that defines the University and Chapel
Hill,” Massengale said.Richard Johnson, one of the
wall’s builders, said he first learned the art of masonry by trial and error when he was a teenager.
“Whenever a fella went to the bathroom, I’d lay a rock,” said Johnson, 78. “If it looked like their work, I’d leave it. If it didn’t, I’d take it down. Otherwise they’d come knock down the whole wall.”
The ancestors of Johnson and Arthur Jones, another mason, were involved in the construction of stone walls around the University and the town as early as 1832.
Eleanor Morris of The Chapel Hill Historical Society — a group that helped fund the project — said she was drawn to it by its focus.
“It was unique. It presented the beauty of this place and preserved its historic nature. And it involved
students,” she said.Lee Perry, project manager for
the East 54 development next to the elementary school, said Massengale contacted him about funding.
“We’ve been looking for ways to give back to Glenwood, and this just seemed like a really good project and a good way to give back,” he said.
Glenwood has a long-standing partnership with the North Carolina Botanical Garden, which will be donating some of its native plants and advising the school as to what will grow best in the gardens.
The garden walls are located in front of the school where children wait to be picked up.
“Now they’ve got somewhere to sit,” Jones said.
Contact the City Editor at [email protected].
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BOT members discuss budget, new dean hireThe University’s Board of
Trustees began their May meet-ing Wednesday and continue today at the Carolina Inn. The 13-member board is responsible for many of the University’s major decisions. Here’s a look at some of the biggest topics that will be discussed:
NeW DeAN: Karen Gil, a distinguished professor of psychology and senior associ-ate dean of social sciences and international programs at UnC, will be recommended as the next dean of the College of arts and Sciences. the board is expected to approve Gil, who was selected by Chancellor holden thorp and Provost Bernadette Gray-little to replace thorp, who previously held the position. “the chancellor and provost are the ones who find the new dean,” said Board chairman roger Perry. “all we do is ratify their selection as a formality.”
THe BUDGeT:dick Mann, vice chancellor for finance and administration, will update the Board’s audit and finance committee on the state of the University’s budget. he will also provide an update on the findings of private consul-tants Bain & Company, who have provided budget recommenda-tions after interviewing hundreds of campus employees over the past few months.
PoLiCe JUriSDiCTioN:after being approved by Chapel hill town Council, an extended jurisdiction agreement between University police and the Chapel hill Police department will likely be approved by the Board of trustees as well, according to members. the new agreement will place Granville towers under Unversity police jurisdiction, as well as grant them the ability to intervene in some off-campus crime. the agreement would also increase collaboration in training exercises.
NeW MeMBerS:this meeting will be the last for five trustees, whose terms expire this year, an unprecedented num-ber to be leaving at one time. they are: Vice Chairwoman Karol Mason, Secretary rusty Carter, nelson Schwab, don Stallings and Paul fulton. the new members to be inducted are: don Curtis, Wade hargrove, felicia Washington, eddie Smith and john townsend.
STUDeNT BoDy PreSiDeNT:ex-officio member of the board and former student body president j.j. raynor will also be replaced. the new student body president, jasmin jones, was scheduled to take the oath of office Wednesday evening. She will also have time for remarks to the Board today. the student body president is the sole student representative on the Board of trustees.
Lots on the table for may trustee meeting
4 From Page Onethursday, may 28, 2009 The Daily Tar Heel
“You wake up in a cold sweat in themiddle of the night dreaming about those kind of innings.”Mike Fox, UNC baseball CoaCh, oN VirgiNia’s 10-rUN third iNNiNg Friday
“It’s an opportunity to raise the issue and also call for the charges to be dropped.”Haley kocH, UNC seNior, oN the protest she aNtiCipates oN her CoUrt date
doorstep, and now it’s here.”In planning for a pandemic, the
University has adopted different plans for different levels of alarm. Thomas said that even with the recent case, the University is still operating at a low level of concern. He added that a campuswide shut-down is unlikely at any level.
Despite worries surrounding the latest cases of the virus, Thomas said it is no worse than the seasonal flu.
The Gillings School of Global Public Health has developed a plan to determine how operations will continue if key leaders contract the virus.
In the response program, Thomas emphasized preparedness at all levels.
“At every level of government, they are saying everybody needs to prepare,” he said. “One of the rea-sons they say that is because find-ing help is going to be hard to do if we experience a pandemic.”
Stephanie Haas, a professor with the School of Information and Library Science, has studied responses to the H1N1 virus. Her research focuses on communica-tion between hospitals, schools and state and local governments
regarding patient information.She said that uniformity in com-
munication between these bodies is important during an outbreak.
“We need to look at the strate-gies that are effective and say that this is what everybody needs to be doing,” she said.
Haas also talked about a “social network analysis” program in which public health officials could get a better idea of which organi-zations have shared patient infor-mation. She said this would help set up more direct communication during an outbreak.
Thomas said the University needs to prepare for the possibility that the virus could resurface in the future.
In the case of a second outbreak, the University has set out plans to re-examine existing programs and prepare for different levels of alarm. University officials will also examine how well the school oper-ated during the situation.
Thomas credits the University’s comprehensive response plan to the combined efforts of the schools of public health and medicine.
“We have a lot of perspectives and we’re putting them to work for the University,” he said.
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Starting pitcher Alex White looked to be off to a great start. He had four strikeouts in his first six batters and took only eight pitches to get through the second.
But it all unraveled from there, as the Tar Heels (42-16) gave up 10 runs in a crushing third inning. White allowed a double by Virginia’s Tyler Cannon to start the frame.
He then went through the entire Cavaliers lineup, getting only one out. White gave up a total of six hits and two walks before being pulled for Brian Moran, who faced anoth-er six batters before he got the last
two outs.“I made some bad pitches that got
hits, and I made some pretty decent pitches that got hits,” White said.
“It was just one of those innings.”
By the time they escaped from the inning, the Tar Heels were down 10-0. It was the most runs given up in an inning since 1998 for UNC.
“You wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night dream-ing about those kind of innings at times where you just cannot get an out,” Fox said. “You can’t get the first one, you can’t get the second one, can’t get the third one.”
Dustin Ackley and Levi Michael provided a pair of bright spots for the Tar Heels on the weekend. They
hit home runs on separate days that cleared the left field wall (nick-named “The Blue Monster”) at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
Michael scored UNC’s lone run Friday, while Ackley — currently tied for the lead in the ACC with 20 home runs — hit one in the fifth that cut Clemson’s lead to 3-2.
UNC had opportunities in the eighth, ninth and tenth innings Saturday but got only one run out
of all three. The Tar Heels finished the game with 13 runners left on base.
In the top of the 10th, Mark Fleury was tagged out at the plate while trying to score from second on a Cavasinni hit — ending the inning and the Tar Heels’ last good scoring chance.
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of the more than 100 protestors are still possible.
Koch said she had faith in the Morehead-Cain Foundation and couldn’t have imagined her schol-arship being revoked although she acknowledged they had every right to initiate a conversation.
But she did say she was shocked and astonished by the reactions of DPS and the University, citing Thorp’s apology to Tancredo and her
arrest outside a campus classroom.Other reactions to the protest
have varied. Koch said they have ranged from letters written by incoming UNC students thanking her for her part in the protest to death threats on the Internet from what she defines as hate groups and white supremacists.
She said she expects at least a
hundred students to be present at a protest outside the courthouse at noon Monday, including leaders of various campus organizations.
“It’s an opportunity to raise the issue and also call for the charges to be dropped,” she said.
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“If we sell, it will still be there. If we don’t sell, there will be other options. There still might be the Chelsea,” Stone said. “Hope springs eternal.”
Stone bought Varsity Theatre nine years ago. The theater has since undergone numerous reno-vations, including new screens and updated equipment. All the while, emphasis has been placed on keep-ing the theater independent.
Chapel Hill has seen its share of movie theaters leave town.
Stone was also owner of the now-closed Carolina Theatre, a two-screen cinema below Top Of The Hill Restaurant and Brewery, for 13 years. The theater closed in 2005 because it was too expensive to run.
The Ram Triple Theater was another downtown theater located on Rosemary Street. It was even-tually closed and replaced by night clubs because of parking problems and low revenue from tickets.
Stone said even if this sale does not go through, there might be another interested party to run the theater.
“I’m trying to deal with one thing at a time,” he said.
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this Northwestern team in a histor-ical light but left UNC struggling for respectability.
“It kind of got to the point where we just wanted to keep our heads up and keep going at it,” Falcone said. “Give them everything we had until the end. Unfortunately, it wasn’t going our way. There wasn’t much to say. We knew what was going on, and we knew what we had to fix.”
Moments after Kristen Carr lost the opening draw, there was Northwestern’s Hilary Bowen charging at the goal. But with UNC defender Meredith Newton in her way, she had no opening. Yet somehow, the Tar Heel sophomore slipped, and there was the first tally. The first of several, to put it lightly.
Newton slowly rose to her feet as Falcone called the defensive group together — apparently searching for answers, for something that might reassure a team unknow-ingly on the edge of disaster. Ripley banged the post with her stick once, an action that would become habitual by day’s end.
Three minutes in, and there was Northwestern’s second. Six min-utes later, another. Fifteen seconds more — boom — another.
“It was 4-2, and the thing I was noticing was we were having quick possessions on offense, and we were turning the ball over on unforced errors,” said Levy of her team’s eight first-half giveaways. “If you play Northwestern, you can’t do that.”
The North Carolina coaching staff tried any and everything to adjust, but to no avail.
They paced. They panted. They told the team to not try and save the world. Nothing worked.
Northwestern scored their first 15 goals on 17 shots. They had scored 10 straight without a UNC response.
Such was the Tar Heels’ mis-fortune that after a Wildcat goal made it 11-2, a yellow card issued to freshman Laura Zimmerman gave Northwestern possession again — a possession that quickly led to another subsequent score.
Ripley could do nothing to pre-vent the onslaught. Even with Levy talking and encouraging her dur-ing media timeouts, the shots were just too high, time after time.
“Unfortunately, we weren’t getting saves in the cage that we’ve gotten this year,” Levy said. “Logan’s been great all year. At times we’ve made mistakes this year on defense that we’ve been able to recover from.
“The looks they were getting on cage were high percentage, so we weren’t giving Logan a lot of opportunities to save the ball.”
When it mattered most, even in the most successful season in the program’s history, victory was thor-oughly taken from the team’s grasp.
“I think emotionally it’s hard on anyone to end your season in a game like this,” junior Jenn Russell said. “But we’ve done a great job this year, and I’m proud to be a part of this team.”
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tar heels prep for NCaa play
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As a regional host, the tar heels begin their quest for another Omaha appearance. One of their opponents, CCU beat them earlier this year.
By Scott PowerSSeniOr writer
There will be a buzz about Boshamer Stadium this weekend.
All of it will surround the answer to one question: Is this the year preseason No. 1 North Carolina wins the national championship?
The Tar Heels have traveled to Omaha for the College World Series in each of the past three years. They are looking to do it just a little bit better this year.
O n S u n d a y, t h e N C A A announced that No. 7 North Carolina would be one of 16 region-al hosts in the first phase of the NCAA Tournament.
Then on the ESPN selection show Monday, the Tar Heels learned that they were the No. 4 national seed.
Coach Mike Fox and UNC were pleasantly surprised by the high seed after losing two of three in the ACC Tournament.
The top-eight national seed means that the Tar Heels will likely host a super regional series if they win their region.
But UNC cannot turn its atten-tion to the super regionals just yet, even though it has won that series each of the past three years.
The Chapel Hil l regional
includes No. 15 Coastal Carolina, Kansas and Dartmouth.
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CCU is the No. 2 seed in the regional and the biggest threat to UNC’s hopes of advancing in the tournament.
The Chanticleers feature a handful of dangerous players, including the Big South Player of the Year — senior first baseman David Anderson — and Pitcher of the Year Cody Wheeler, who went 10-0 with a 3.34 ERA.
Other players have filled out the stat sheet, too. Tyler Bortnick and Adam Rice each hit better than .370, and sophomores Rico Noel and Scott Woodward have com-bined for 76 stolen bases.
Kansas
KU is coming into the regional on a cold streak — having lost all three games in the Big 12 Tournament.
The Jayhawks went 37-22 over-all and 15-12 in the Big 12. No one on the team was selected for the all-conference team.
Sophomore third baseman Tony Thompson leads the way for the
Kansas offense with a .374 bat-ting average and 19 home runs. Sophomore ace T.J. Walz is 8-2 with a 4.18 ERA.
Dartmouth
Dartmouth is UNC’s first-round opponent — having earned an automatic bid by winning the Ivy Championship. It is their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1987.
The Big Green lost their first eight games to start the season but dominated Ivy League play to the tune of a 16-4 record.
J u n i o r o u t f i e l d e r N i c k Santomauro leads the Dartmouth offense as the Ivy League player of the year, boasting a .365 batting average and eight home runs.
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Offense has more power than 2008’s
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the Blue devils sent out a lefty to face the tar heels on wednesday. Junior Kyle Seager went 3-for-3 with two doubles and a triple.
By Powell latimerSeniOr writer
It was, in fact, the conventional wisdom at the time.
Duke needed a win against No. 4 North Carolina in the opening day of the ACC baseball tourna-ment last Friday. So the Blue Devils threw out their best left-handed pitcher, Christopher Manno.
The strategy made sense — the Tar Heels had struggled to hit left-handed pitching all year. Why would May 22 be any different?
Five innings later, UNC was up 4-0 and Manno was walking off the mound after giving up seven hits.
What happened?Duke didn’t take into account
that UNC was entering the tour-nament fresh off shelling another left-handed pitcher — Boston College’s Pat Dean. Against Dean the damage was even more severe: six innings, ten hits, six runs and three walks.
It seems that UNC’s batting is finding the groove at just the right time. Coach Mike Fox, early in the season, said his team needed to learn how to hit off-speed pitching from left-handed pitchers — those breaking, moving, junk throws that lefties toss out to baffle hitters.
It took the Tar Heels most of the season, but it seems as though their bats are finally starting to come alive.
Take a look at North Carolina’s hitting numbers this year. So far, UNC has 380 RBIs on 414 hits. They are batting .301 as a team, with 62 home runs on the year as well.
In 2008, the Tar Heels batted .324 for the year, based mostly on the strength of Dustin Ackley and Tim Fedroff, both of whom finished above .400. They hit 58 long balls and drove in 468 runs.
So what does all of that mean? UNC is a different team offensive-ly from last year. In 2008, the Tar Heels stuck to small ball for the most part. Singles and doubles are down from last season, where UNC knocked 175 two-baggers (only 108 this year). But UNC’s lineup has the thing that it was most in need of last year: power.
Mark Fleury (.310, 12 home runs) Levi Michael (.293, 13) and most importantly, Ackley (.399, 20), have all been able to send the ball out of the yard with regular-ity this year. Thus the Tar Heels already have more homers (62) than they had in ten more games last season (58).
Part of that is the fact that in 2008, UNC was playing in the expansive U.S.A. Baseball Training Complex in Cary, N.C., where home runs are hard to come by.
But it is also true that Fleury and Michael give UNC more power than they had in 2008, when a struggling Chad Flack managed one home run all postseason. And in Omaha, Neb., during UNC’s five College World Series games, the Tar Heels only managed two long balls.
Still, if UNC can continue to put bats on left-handed pitching, it’ll go a long way toward making sure they have a chance to send a few more balls out of the park in a fourth straight trip to Omaha for the College World Series.
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defender Amber Falcone was named defensive Player of the year by womensLacrosse.com tuesday. the senior also garnered first-team All-America sta-tus — becoming the first four-time selec-tion in school history.
She was part of a defense that held Maryland to seven goals in the nation-al semifinal on May 22 — as the tar heels won, 8-7. north Carolina held the terrapins to less than half their normal scoring output.
Several of her teammates joined her on the list. Junior Jenn russell earned sec-ond-team honors. One of her partners in the midfield, Megan Bosica, was selected for the third team.
Freshman Laura Zimmerman also was honored for her play this year. She played sensationally against the terrapins as well — scoring a hat trick.
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OwinGS MiLLS, Md. — At the nCAA Championship, UnC played its way to the highest finish in school history. the team earned seventh place after carding a final round score of 304 to push their overall total to 1,210.
Freshman Allie white paced the tar heels in the final round with a score of 71 — good for one under par. Senior Sydney Crane and and first-year Catherine O’donnell also played well.
Both carded five-over 77s. the day gave them totals that left them in 21st and 52nd place, respectively.
white, on the other hand, came in 16th.
in previous years, north Carolina had come awfully close to this position — fin-ishing in eighth on four occasions. Arizona State captured the team title. the Sun devils fired a 30-over 1,182 total.
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COLLeGe StAtiOn, texas — though the north Carolina team lost earlier in the nCAA tournament, senior taylor Fogleman and junior Clay donato con-tinued play in the doubles’ realm.
But on Sunday, the pair lost in the nCAA semifinals to a familiar foe from Virginia.
After becoming the first tar heel duo to reach the nCAA semifinal round since 1973, the pair lost to the Cavaliers’ dominic inglot and Michael Shabaz.
Fogleman and donato forced three sets but were unable to finish. the pairs had split the four previous meetings this year.
inglot and Shabaz would go on to win the nCAA Championship.
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memorial day event calls for more peace
“I came out here to bring a message of peace and to hear the RagingGrannies.”Clark Jones, folk musician
By steven nortoncity editor
Cries of “Peace” and trumpet blasts accompanied a Memorial Day ceremony at Carrboro Town Commons on Monday.
But this event was slightly dif-ferent than most. While citizens came together to honor soldiers, the gathering mainly sought to promote peace.
The event began in 2003, and was created by the Orange County Peace Coalition, an alliance of local groups who promote peace through education and outreach.
The event honored what the peace coalition called “victims of war,”
those who lost their lives in battle, while looking to promote solutions to conflicts that do not involve war.
The Raging Grannies, a group of women who sing political songs and encourage nonviolent activism, offered their voices against the war.
Folk musician Clark Jones played his banjo, leading the crowd in singing lyrics including “I dreamed the world had all agreed to put an end to war.”
“I came out here to bring a message of peace and to hear the Raging Grannies,” Jones said.
Mona Dakrouri, a Middle East scholar and activist, gave an Islamic view on war and its victims. Her speech highlighted the peace coali-tion’s desire to incorporate multiple views when discussing solutions.
“The only way you’re going to get people to take into consideration other cultures is to expose them to other cultures,” said Jan Broughton, co-chairwoman of the coalition.
After hearing a list of casualties in the Middle East during the past month, the crowd recited a declara-tion of preemptive peace — a state-ment that aimed to honor the war dead and injured while promoting the making of peace throughout the world.
In response to the victims of war, Vivian Plonsey, a member of the activist group Elders for Peace, shared her views on the war and the lives of soldiers.
“It is unbelievable that we would want this to go on for one more day,” she said. “We’re robbing them of a chance at life.”
Many other activist groups came and shared information at the event, passing petitions between acts. Donation cans were passed around to cover the costs of the event.
Broughton said she hopes to promote the idea of peaceful solutions rather than war and to realize that those sent to war are victims.
“Although the emphasis is on peace, we’re still aware that there is so much asked of these soldiers,” she said.
In the end, Memorial Day in Carrboro became a celebration of something more than simply hon-oring soldiers: Its focus became achieving peace worldwide.
“The event is held definitely to honor those who have lost lives, but also with the idea that there’s a different way to solve our prob-lems,” Broughton said.
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The 21st annual Carolina Blood Drive wil l attempt to reclaim UNC’s record for most units of blood collected in one site on one day. The
blood drive will take place in the Smith Center on June 2. For the full story, see page 7.
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By Matt saMpsonstaff Writer
The UNC Summer School is seeing a slight increase in student enrollment after a few years of diminishing interest from students in taking summer courses.
Though only 76 more students enrolled for the first summer session this year than in 2008, the marginal increase could indicate a reversal of the 2 or 3 percent decreases seen in recent years, said Jan Yopp, dean of the Summer School.
“These numbers are turn-ing the tide,” Yopp said. “We’ve done a lot of promotion for these courses, and we’ve done really well.”
This year, 6,665 students are attending the first session of summer school. Yopp said she expects this year’s second session enrollment to increase from last year’s 4,134 as well.
University officials plan to cir-culate a survey to students who enrolled this summer to pin-point the possible causes for the increase.
But until definitive responses come in, Yopp said she and other administrators can only give edu-cated guesses for the increase.
“I attribute the upturn in enrollment to the economy,” Yopp said. “Students weren’t getting jobs, so they decided to spend their summer taking more classes instead.”
Because of the economic reces-sion, officials didn’t know what to
expect for enrollment this summer, Yopp said.
Taking additional classes before entering an increasingly competi-tive job market could bolster a stu-dent’s resume, but paying tuition per credit hour could be a turnoff.
Yopp also attributed the previ-ous drop to the success of online courses, which continue to grow in popularity
As summer school enrollment fell in recent years, the number of students who registered for online classes through the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education has increased since summer 2006, said Tim Sanford, associate director for credit pro-grams at the center.
In years past, students preferred the ease and accessibility of online courses instead of filing for hous-ing and taking classes on campus, Sanford said.
The total number of students taking summer classes through the center has increased from 1,210 in summer 2006 to 1,460 this year, the highest it’s ever been.
“We’ve noticed a large increase in out-of-state enrollment,” Sanford said. “People who are not familiar with UNC are finding us through online courses.”
Sanford also attributes the increased popularity of online courses to the economic climate.
Yopp said she plans to take advantage of this upturn in enrollment to prepare for next summer.
“We’re going to build on what we’ve started,” Yopp said. “We’re just making sure students are get-ting what they need out of summer school.”
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mary Easley won’t resignBy Matthew LynLeyState & NatioNal editor
Former N.C. State Provost Larry Nielsen hired the wife of former Governor Mike Easley in 2005 to host a speaker series.
Mary Easley’s attorney, Marvin Schiller, said that her hiring and promotions were conducted “above board,” and that she had over-whelming approval from the UNC Board of Governors and the N.C. State Board of Trustees.
“Based on what I do know, I have not yet seen anything that came close to any ethical impropriety to Mary Easley,” Schiller said.
UNC-System President Erskine Bowles even sang her praises.
“Mary — When do I get to vote for you!” Bowles wrote at the time. “You constantly inspire me. You go everywhere, you bring such positive energy, your judgment is respected and you communicate.”
But her husband, Mike Easley, recently came under investiga-tion regarding several relation-ships with businessmen in North
Carolina — particularly the chair-man of the N.C. State Board of Trustees McQueen Campbell.
And an investigation of Mary Easley followed shortly afterward.
She had previously been under pressure last year when she signed a new contract with N.C. State worth $850,000 over five years.
Campbell also told Bowles he had a hand in the hiring of Mary Easley.
“As a member of the board, McQueen would have an obligation to have done so — simply mention-ing that is part of his duty,” Schiller said.
Since then, Neilsen and N.C. State Chancellor James Oblinger were subpoenaed by federal inves-tigators regarding the hiring, promotions and salary of Mary Easley.
Federal investigators also subpoe-naed all employment records from State Auditor Beth Wood Tuesday.
Many officials, including Bowles, have also asked Mary Easley to leave her position at the University,
even after expressing overwhelm-ing support during the hiring pro-cess.
Schiller spoke for Mary Easley last week, saying that she would not resign despite repeated requests. He said she had signed a contract with N.C. State and would not break it.
“When you make that promise, you make a promise that the politi-cal winds can change, but you will keep your promise,” Schiller said.
“We shouldn’t penalize her for her husband’s present issues,” Schiller said.
Mary Easley had not made a public statement as of Tuesday.
Nielson and Campbell have since resigned, and Schiller said Bowles’ reaction had left Mary Easley “very perplexed.”
Schiller didn’t say whether Easley would accept a buyout of her contract, but said that there was a chance she would speak with Oblinger in the future.
Contact the State & National Editor at [email protected].
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democrats’ future uncertainBy tarini partiSeNior Writer
The ongoing investigation of for-mer Gov. Mike Easley could have a lasting impact on politics in North Carolina.
Recent scandals in the Democratic Party — including former Speaker of the House Jim Black being charged with public corruption in 2007 and the Easley investigation — might have tarnished the image of Democrats in the state.
“Our Democratic Party has been in power for so long that we tend to take it for granted,” said Sen. Jim Jacumin, R-Burke.
“When one party rules for so long, we do things we wouldn’t normally do.”
The state has elected a Democrat to the office of governor for the past five terms after Gov. Bev Perdue narrowly beat Charlotte mayor and Republican candidate Pat McCrory in November.
Easley, who left office in January after serving two terms, came under investigation after The News
& Observer published a two-part series which revealed how he might have used his executive role for his personal benefit.
Republican U.S. Attorney George Holding will lead Easley’s investigation along with the inves-tigation of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., announced last week.
McQueen Campbell, a close friend of the Easleys, has also resigned as chairman of the N.C. State University Board of Trustees. Former Lt. Gov. Bob Jordan has been appointed by Gov. Perdue to take his place.
Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, D-Orange, said the Easley investigation will not specifically affect the Democrats.
Such investigations change the public’s regard for the people in office as a whole rather than their regard for a particular political party, Kinnaird said.
But Jacumin said a change of party is necessary in order to curb
such corruption in the state.“Competition makes democracy
work the way it was intended to work,” he said.
He said the corruption in the state continues as members of a long-ruling party do favors for their friends.
Gov. Bev. Perdue, who served as lieutenant governor under Easley, has not been giving the investiga-tion enough attention, Jacumin said.
“It’s difficult because he is a friend of hers,” he said. “But if you have a responsibility, then you should carry out that responsibil-ity.”
Kinnaird said it is still too early for Perdue to play a significant role.
“The investigation has just start-ed and we just have to let it run its course,” she said.
“We certainly can’t arrive at con-clusions.”
Contact the State and National Editor at [email protected].
By aLison shayStaff Writer
The 21st Annual Carolina Blood Drive will attempt to reclaim UNC’s record for most units of blood col-lected in one site on one day.
“We want to take back the record of the most units collected in one day on the East Coast,” said Katrina Coble, a member of the Carolina Blood Drive committee. Last year, Appalachian State University col-lected 1,060 units of blood, beating UNC’s 1993 record by eight pints.
The blood drive is a large-scale event that attracts people from all over the campus and community.
Coble said this drive has pro-duced more than 2,700 first-time donors over the past 20 years, and many dedicated volunteers and donors return year after year.
“We are always happy to see new faces as blood donors at this blood drive,” she added. “People who experience it come back time and time again, but there’s always room for more donors.”
Blood drive planning began in late fall 2008, involving volunteers and blood drive recruiters, as well
UNC, Chapel Hill and all of Orange County has, and it truly cannot happen without their support,” Allison said.
More than 1,300 donors need to donate in order for 1,000 units of blood to be collected. A normal donation typically lasts between one and one and a half hours.
The American Red Cross will provide donors with post-donation snacks and prizes to thank them for their donations.
Door prizes will include tickets to football and basketball games and a cruise giveaway. Every donor will receive a free T-shirt.
“You’ll never know how much your donation may mean to a stranger in a hospital somewhere,” Coble said. “Only 5 percent of the population actually donate blood, yet 97 percent may need it in a lifetime.”
Contact the University Editor at [email protected].
DTH/CHRISTINE HELLINGER
Summer 2008Mary Easley receives a newcontract with N.C. State for$850,000 over 5 years.
May 9The News & Observer begins publishing a two-partseries detailing the relationship between the Easleysand several other individuals like the former chair of the N.C. State Board of Trustees McQueen Campbell.
May 14N.C. State Provost Larry Nielsen resigns.
May 19Federal investigators subpoenaemployment records regarding Mary Easley from former N.C. State Provost Larry Nielsen andN.C. State Chancellor James Oblinger.
TuesdayFederal investigators subpoena documents involving the hiring, salary and promotions of Mary Easley from State Auditor Beth Wood.
2005SOURCE: STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
May 2005Mary Easley is hired at N.C.State University.
May 20Former Lt. Gov. Bob Jordanis appointed to chair ofthe N.C. State Board. May 21
Mary Easley holds a news conference, where her attorney Marvin Schiller says she will not resign.
May 20092008
May 15Chairman of the N.C. State Board ofTrustees McQueen Campbell resigns.
Timeline of the Mary Easley Controversy
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“The key difference with this drive is that it is mostly faculty and staff that donate,” said Caroline Allison of the American Red Cross. “And of course this drive is vastly larger than the other drives we have on campus.”
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Album a feast for the earsMUSICrevIewGrizzly Bear VeckatimestPsychedelic
‘Sugar’ not a cliched sports flickMovIerevIewsuGarBy Jordan Lawrence
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As it has been since its incep-tion, the goal of psychedelic music is the trip — a total immersion in sound that transports the listener to another world full of blissful, or sometimes scary, wonder.
Filled with colorful melodies, entrancing sounds and a plethora of invigorating and ever-shifting ideas, Veckatimest, the third album from Brooklyn’s Grizzly Bear, takes its listener on a lush, engrossing musical journey that in every way lives up to this ideal.
Pulling from a large range of styles including jazz and rock, the group expands its pallet far beyond the psychedelic folk brand it has often stuck with. By so doing it creates an album that captivates by consistently deliv-ering that additional melodic thread or shocking sound that turns its good songs into super-lative compositions.
Opener “Southern Point” is a perfect example. Built from a jazzy intro that sways about lazily and seductively on acoustic gui-tar, the song is soon caught up in caterwauling percussive elements that vary from drums to piano
and gaudily gorgeous overdubbed harmonies.
Purely based on sonics, it’s a jug-gernaut that surrounds the listener with so much attention-grabbing sound, he is hopeless to escape. But like most everything here, it has words, and they’re pretty great, too.
After issuing an ethereal siren call about a vacation spot on the title locale, Daniel Rossen sings out, “I never found any other I could ever” with incredible convic-tion over strings and piano that stampede toward heaven. It’s a place so dear to him that he can’t even finish a thought about losing it, and the music is so propulsive you can’t help but be dragged right into sympathizing.
The immediate standouts share this larger-than-life feel. Lead single “Two Weeks” builds from a hopelessly catchy bounce of piano and harmony into a spaced-out acid trip filled with distorted keys
and harmonies that arch over it all. Like its fellow big, jaunty numbers, it can sometimes overshadow the subtler and weirder material in the listener’s mind once the album is over.
But it’s the softer, weirder songs that serve as the mortar for this castle, cementing it as a self-con-tained whole.
Opening harmonies that imi-tate the chiming of a bell and bold slashes of acoustic and electric gui-tar allow “Fine for Now” to balance incredible beauty and foreboding menace. But the precarious balance doesn’t last as the song gives in to a roaring guitar solo that aches with every bit of Rossen’s well-sung fear in the face of time’s continual pass-ing.
And though only a few of the songs have received mention here, while you’re in the middle of it, each song feels like the best, and that’s why this record is so suc-cessful. Each moment is as lus-cious and invigorating as the last, making Veckatimest one endlessly enjoyable trip—and one you want to keep taking again and again.
Contact the Diversions Editor at [email protected].
By Jonathan PattishaLLstAFF Writer
It isn’t hard to believe, in a professional sport so riddled with cheating and shortcuts, that almost all Major League Baseball teams operate puppy mills in the Dominican Republic.
That’s what their “baseball acad-emies” amount to, for the most part: puppy mills for young ball-players aspiring to the American major leagues. They’re fed decently and sleep in barrack-style bunk-beds under curfew and armed guard. In return, they get a one-in-a-hundred shot against cut-throat competition for a place in the major leagues.
It ’s this fine line between exploitation and opportunity that Miguel Santos (Algenis Perez Soto) walks in “Sugar.” Santos, whose nickname is “Sugar,” is a young Dominican pitcher who gets called up from one of those baseball academies to the minor leagues in the Iowa corn coun-try. It’s the break he’s been wait-ing for to improve his and his family’s prospects in his jobless homeland.
Apparently, being a chicken in a pen (as the directors suggest Santos is in his academy) is bet-
ter than being hungry in the Third World, but both are trumped by living with an embarrassingly un-cosmopolitan host family in lily-white middle America.
Or so Sugar thinks at first. He’s a promising pitcher and strong-willed, but with a temper and an unfavorable learning curve. With a good pitch (a knuckle-curve, for the record) and a prayer, he hopes to avoid the fate of so many other Dominican players in America who are deported when their abilities slip and their contracts are not renewed. As this fear begins to materialize, he takes his life into his own hands and leaves Iowa for the only thing more American than baseball: New York City, the immi-grant’s Eden.
Like it sounds, “Sugar” is a story of Americanization, but it isn’t star-spangled. Directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, a young couple that tag-teamed on the directing and screenplay, make it clear on multiple occasions that the road to American prosperity is paved with
the bodies of those who fall by the wayside.
This paradox even extends to baseball. One person tells Sugar that baseball is a game to be enjoyed, while another tells him he has to look out for him-self and best his brothers to stay alive. Welcome to the American Dream, son.
Boden and Fleck do a surpris-ingly decent job not getting bogged down in the usual cliches of their genre. It’s not a sports movie with a sparkling ending or a predict-able one, but the ending fits like a broken-in glove.
They also, thankfully, don’t overuse the montage that has become so stale in most sports movies. Their style has an urban cultural freshness to it, with a dozen colors for every borough in New York.
If the movie bogs down for the long middle section, it’s because the slow story through Sugar’s Iowa excursion doesn’t mesh with this cinematic cosmopolitanism. Like a good baseball game, it’s slow going till the ninth inning. It just might not be the best formula for a movie.
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Cancer (June 22-July 22)Today is a 6 - Your natural politeness pays off again, as you benefit from the very person who tried to give you grief. This is as it should be. If he or she pays out of guilt, that’s OK. Sometimes, guilt is appropriate.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)Today is a 7 - Don’t talk much about what you’re doing; you don’t need the criticism. People mean to be helpful, of course, but you’re not quite ready for that. You can do the job by yourself, if you concentrate.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Today is a 6 - Your friends commiserate with you, but don’t go too far down that road. It’s good to get their support, but don’t let yourself get depressed. Truth is, you’ll do just fine.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Today is a 7 - Your friends would like to drag you off on an adventure. You might think you’re not up for it, but they’d be so disappointed. You’d better at least give it a try. It might turn out to be fun.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Today is a 6 - Produce work of the highest quality. Others are depending on you to do exactly that. Don’t let them be disap-pointed. The points you’re making now will be transformed into profits later.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)Today is an 8 - After the mess is cleared up, you’ll be able to relax. You’ll know when this happens too, because you’ll start think-ing about trips you’re going to take. And then, you’ll get ready and go.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Today is a 6 - Figure out what you can afford before you go shopping. It’s very important not to get more than you can afford. Read the fine print carefully. Don’t make a promise you won’t be able to keep.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)Today is an 8 - Somebody comes to your rescue, and not a moment too soon. You do someone a good turn and he or she will be there when needed. This is a person whose back you’ve scratched in the past.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)Today is a 6 - Move quickly to make extra bucks. You can provide a service that some-body needs. This is probably temporary, but it can lead to more if you want. It’s always good to have more than one income flow.
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Memorial DayCarrboro citizens came together
to honor soldiers and promote peace. See pg. 6 for story.
Record chasersWhen Carolina Blood Drive gets
competitive, it’s those in need who win. See pg. 7 for story.
A feast for the earsGrizzly Bear ’s new album
Veckatimest gets a rave review from Diversions. See pg. 8 for story.
Scholarships abroadTwo UNC students will study
in the Middle East and Russia on scholarship. Go online for story.
Positive feedbackUNC employees have come to
appreciate Bain & Company’s input. Go online for story.
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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) con-tains every digit 1 to 9.
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(C)2009 Tribune Media Services, Inc.All rights reserved.Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
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check4 Height: Pref.8 Part of a diploma accolade
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climate change43 “Dang!”45 U.S. document issuer46 Fellow48 *Pitched percussion
instrument53 Enthusiastic okay, in
Seville55 The first requirement56 *Sorcery60 Arguing61 “An Essay Concerning
Human Understanding” author
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Blues don’t fit in alvin album
‘terminator’ series back on track
MUSICrevIewDave alvin anD the Guilty Women Dave alvin anD the Guilty Womenamericana
MovIerevIewterminator salvation
By Linnie GReeneSTAFF WRITER
Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women, a collective of musicians that straddle a plethora of genres, aren’t afraid to impart their fair share of life lessons.
The songs on the group’s self-titled album recall anecdotes rang-ing from the absurd to the tragic, and though these tales are told with mixed results, the album’s pristine vocals are consistent where lyrics and subject matter often fall short.
The mix of bluegrass, zydeco and blues that pepper the album provides a diverse, if imperfect, sampling of American sounds. The record boasts a menagerie of artists (in this case, mostly women) that hail from different genres, and for the most part, this is a good thing.
The bluegrass and zydeco elements neatly showcase the group’s vocal talents, but when it comes to the blues, Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women prove less proficient.
On tracks like “Boss of the Blues,” it ’s easy to question whether Alvin and his female bandmates have ever experi-
enced anything sadder than get-ting a flat tire. Unlike many of the album’s beautifully harmonized bluegrass tracks, Alvin and the women’s take on the blues feels hollow and insincere.
The chorus is an especially trite example of the shoddy lyrics of the entire song as Alvin sings, “We used to ball all night long, we used to roll way past dawn, everything was jumping out on Central Avenue, back when Big Joe Turner was the boss of the blues.”
Sure, more simplistic and con-ventional blues lyrics exist, but Alvin’s delivery makes even semi-passable lyrics sound hokey.
The stale lyrics and stereotypi-cal subject matter the group uses could be easily interpreted as a parody of the genre instead of a genuine attempt at capturing a style, and more importantly, a feeling.
Anything remotely resembling
the depressed resignation of true blues singers does not speak to the listener — instead, the few blues-oriented tracks leave you questioning why these musicians ever decided to veer away from the areas they’re best at.
While the blues tracks might lack depth and sincerity, the songs that capitalize on the Guilty Women’s adept harmonies prove that Alvin and his cohorts can get it right, too.
“Potter’s Field” demonstrates the Guilty Women at their very best, as the Emmylou Harris-style song is buoyed by gentle vocals and deli-cate mandolin.
Luckily, it comes immediately after “Boss of the Blues,” — just in time to salvage what could have been a disastrous bit of blues gone bad.
So, while Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women may not com-pletely conquer every genre they set their sights on, when it comes to bluegrass, they have the gor-geous harmonies to get it done right. Just don’t ask them to sing the blues.
Contact the Diversions Editor at [email protected].
By JoRDAn LAwRencedIvERSIonS EdIToR
Salvation is right.Twelve years after the first two
remarkably good entries in the Terminator series, 2003’s “Rise of the Machines” proved the shtick of hav-ing Arnold Schwarzenegger don the leather and fight another adversary from the post-apocalyptic future had become as outdated as his killing-machine-meets-biker mystique.
It was a parade of ridiculously hokey fight scenes that was simply unbelievable, and it left the grand-daddy of all sci-fi action franchises in serious need of saving.
With his fourth installment, new director McG rights the ship by plac-ing the audience in the middle of the war between man and machines in 2018. After Skynet — a central defense computer designed by the military — destroys most of human-ity in a nuclear holocaust, John Connor (Christian Bale) and the rest of a somewhat organized resistance struggle to survive against a slew of robotic killers.
When a signal is discovered that shuts down the machines like hit-ting a switch, the resistance decides to mount an offensive and try to win the war for good.
McG’s greatest success is select-ing Bale to play Connor. Pushing the near psychotic fury that has always
been his trademark to perhaps its highest level yet, Bale vividly chan-nels the pain of an orphan who is fighting against the unstoppable force that tore his family apart.
“You killed my father. You killed my mother. But you won’t kill me,” Bale’s Connor says at one point, with eyes full of an anger that reveals that he actually cares more about killing his enemy than saving himself.
Riding this turn and a similarly great performance from Australian newcomer Sam Worthington, who aches with guilt as an executed mur-derer who has been transformed into a machine, McG succeeds through most of the movie as he uses the world after its end as the backdrop for a terrifying thrill ride.
W h e n M a r c u s W r i g h t (Worthington) and his traveling companions are attacked by an enormous robot that tears apart a gas station with the mindless ease with which a toddler throws around its play things, the grittily realistic special effects and McG’s knack for capturing the kinetic intensity of his action make the scene reverber-ate with awe-inspiring terror.
Unfortunately both the riveting suspense and the crispness of the computer images leave “Salvation” during its finale.
Thanks to a shockingly poor, completely unnecessary computer-rendering of Schwarzenegger’s origi-nal Terminator and a failed attempt to remove all of Wright’s delicious ambiguity and replace it with a preachy moral about the goodness of the human heart, the end turns what was a forcefully shocking roller-coaster ride into a convoluted mess.
But taken as a whole, “Salvation” is a mostly entertaining blockbust-er that delivers thrills that should rejuvenate the franchise and give McG another chance to truly real-ize the considerable promise he both proudly displays and nearly squanders with his first attempt.
Contact the Diversions Editor at [email protected].
dIvereCoMMendSAlbum from the Vaults:Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand: With a new dub version of their lat-est album — the first single of which debuted in last year’s incarnation of the Madden football video game series — due next week, it’s hard to remember the time when Franz Ferdinand was a simple, tight and effective art rock band. The band’s 2004 debut collected 11 single-ready pieces of dancy rock that made the band the “it” artist of the year.
Movie from the Vaults:“Toy Story”: With the collective deliv-ering another critically acclaimed, Cannes-winning feature this week in the way of “Up,” now is a prime time to go back to the beginning and see how this whole Disney/Pixar thing began. This 1995 classic started it all. While this first completely computer-animated feature might not look as crisp as today’s movies, it makes up for
it with comedic wit, a heartfelt story and amazing voice performances.
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Cat’s Cradle | Los Angeles’s Isis mixes grunge, hardcore and a bevy of other atmospheric and melodic styles into an always-changing sound that rages one minute and broods the next. 9 p.m., $18
Wes Phillips
Local 506 | Skilled Chapel Hill pop-rock band The Never also play this show, but the real reason to go is the second recent appearance from witty Chapel Hill pop singer Wes Phillips. His songs range from hilari-ous boasts to insightful gems, and up until recently, seeing them live was relatively impossible. 8:30 p.m., $7
Death Came Down The Mountain
Reservoir | DCDTM is an excellent
metal outfit out of Carrboro that rages with a confidently menacing fury that completely lives up to its name. Friday they’ll play with Chapel Hill heavy out-fit Black Skies, which will celebrate the release of a new 7-inch, and Durham’s hard-hitting garage-blues outfit the Dirty Little Heaters. 10 p.m., FREE
Saturday
Schooner
Nightlight | Chapel Hill’s Schooner delivers a rough and tumble, often-reverb-drenched brand of pop that chases singer Reed Johnson down the quirky back alleys of his neurotic song-writing persona as he tackles subjects such as lost love and artistic frustra-tion. Entertaining and cheeky Chapel Hill rock ’n’ roll band Impossible Arms also plays in addition to Uncle Woody Sullender and Actual Persons (Living or Dead). 10 p.m., $6
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National News of the WeekPresident introduces nominee to replace souter on supreme Court
N. Korea tests nuclear device
TOKYO (MCT) — North Korea state media said the coun-try’s military conducted a suc-cessful underground nuclear test early Monday, confirming earlier reports of a suspected test based on seismic data.
Late afternoon, North Korea launched two short-range mis-siles on its east coast, in what appeared to be an attempt to threaten U.S. spy planes that were monitoring the nuclear test site, according to reports by South Korea’s Yonhap.
WA S H I N G T O N ( M C T ) — President Barack Obama introduced his nominee to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Appearing in the White House East Room with her at his side, Obama called Sotomayor “an inspiring woman who I believe will make a great justice.”
He said she met his two basic criteria, intellect and a “recogni-tion of the limits of the judicial
role. ... A judge’s role is to inter-pret, not make law.”
He stressed a third quality, saying that she had the broad experience in law and life that make a good justice.
A 54-year-old graduate of Princeton and of Yale Law School, Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court if she were confirmed. She’d be the sec-ond woman on the high court, joining Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
No abortion cases to be reviewed
WASHINGTON (MCT) — Forget the abortion issue, for a moment. There’s new legal ter-rain for the Supreme Court to explore that goes well beyond Roe v. Wade and the evergreen issues that line the campaign trail.
Some pending disputes already are known, including the 14 cases that are scheduled for Supreme Court consideration starting in October. None involves abor-tion, the traditional flash point for recent Supreme Court con-firmation fights.
Obama to resume more Cuba talks
WASHINGTON (MCT) — Further signaling its interest in engaging Cuba, the Obama administration is asking the Castro government to resume immigration talks that President George W. Bush suspended in 2004.
The move comes a month after President Barack Obama lifted travel and gift restrictions for those with relatives on the island and eased restrictions on U.S. telecommunications firms to do business in Cuba.
Gay marriage ban in Calif. upheld
SAN JOSE, Calif. (MCT) — The California Supreme Court Tuesday upheld a voter-approved law restoring a ban on same-sex marriages in the state, but at the same time left intact the more than 18,000 marriages for gay and lesbian couples who wed last year.
But Proposition 8 altered the legal debate because it actually amended the state constitution itself, the ultimate trump card against Supreme Court interven-tion.
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Carolina North is bring-ing more traffic. Prepare for horns and middle fingers. Southern manners will crumble in a
standstill.
All of our old junk raised money for a good c a u s e . W h a t a great idea. But it will undoubtedly take a toll on the
dumpster-diving culture.
You guys were amazing. Congratulations o n g e t t i n g s o far. Maybe next year will be bet-ter. Northwestern
sucks. We hate them.
We’re glad the construction is happening given the poor economy. But the cost is still too high. We can’t study in Davis or
walk through campus.
QUOTE OF THE WEEk:
“We have been waiting for the day it would come to our doorstep, and now it’s here.” James Thomas, unc professor, on swine flu
WhiTney Kenerlyi’m not lovin’ it
whitney Kenerly is a senior majoring in psychology from Greensboro.e-mail: [email protected]
McFishin’ for more diverse cultureI love the McDonald’s Filet-O-
Fish. It’s my thing. As a seasoned resident
of West Rosemary, I had many a time stumbled over to the old neighborhood McDonald’s to indulge in the Filet’s McMagical guilty pleasure. That tartar sauce slathered over the cheesy, salty, fishy, fried crust cured everything from hangovers to failed exams and even failed relationships.
So I wasn’t sure how to feel when it was brought to my atten-tion that this practically historic homage to 1970s construction was going to be torn down and rebuilt into a neat and clean restaurant.
OK, so the old McDonald’s was definitely kind of sketchy. But this gen-
trification is making me uneasy. This community is losing some of its former character.
I’m not going to lie. As a proud card-carrying member of the stuck-up princess club, I enjoy drinks from Lantern with organic strawberries and imported European liquors as much as the next pretentious yuppie.
But I don’t want to let myself become naive.
I don’t want to ignore that my cushy life of cocktails at The Crunkleton and the effects of gen-trification might be at the expense of displacing someone else.
Gentrification, and the inevi-table consequences of a contrived community, occurs in predictable patterns.
Hipsters move in, and busi-nesses start emerging to cater to the parent-funded alternative youth.
More people with trust funds, pugs and monogrammed sweat-ers move in, and what used to be a fun, vibrant area becomes a neighborhood tame enough for your great aunt to start her new bridge club.
Those of lower incomes are pushed to a different area, unable to afford the swollen costs of liv-ing.
The hipsters too, like locusts, must move on to the next indie-chic borough.
Franklin Street is different because it has always been cen-tered around the privileged col-lege student and the surrounding affluent town of Chapel Hill.
Most of us here only know what poverty is like from our Jay-Z albums.
It’s hard to take students seri-ously when they boast an expertise on issues of poverty from the safety of a pristine cultural bubble.
I’m not proposing some sort of “urban immersion” approach to enlighten students.
And maybe this posh, new McDonald’s will be less inviting to potentially dangerous tran-sients, but it certainly does noth-ing to actually confront the issue of poverty in Chapel Hill.
The fact that there are no longer homeless people outside McDonald’s asking for a Big Mac doesn’t mean that they have dis-appeared.
The magic of the Filet-O-Fish is the way that all the ingredi-ents work in harmony with each other. I know that Chapel Hill isn’t a delicious sandwich, but I still believe that diversity in a community is important.
If we are going to move toward a more homogeneous Franklin Street, we should first ask ourselves what we are giv-ing up.
OpiniOn sTaFFEr
Placing Granville Towers and its parking lot under the domain of the
University police is a smart move.
The area is now under the jurisdiction of the Chapel Hill Police Department even though the towers serve as dorms for many UNC students.
T he UNC- Chapel Hi l l Foundation is purchasing the towers and nearby University Square.
It would be inefficient and illogical to allow only Chapel Hill police to preside over the area. To do so would create a 12-acre loophole for the hun-dreds of students who live in the towers.
A University police officer would be as powerless as any
citizen upon witnessing a crime in the towers or surrounding parking lot, even if a UNC stu-dent committed the crime.
Also, leaving the area under Chapel Hill authority would stretch town police resources over a larger area and possibly limit their effectiveness.
It should not be the job of the town police to baby-sit what is essentially a UNC dorm.
Let town police focus on Chapel Hill and the rest of the county and let University police preside over campus safety.
That is not to say that the two police forces should be at odds — only that their jurisdic-tions should allow as few loop-holes as possible.
Including Granville Towers under the control of the
University police actually encourages cooperation and collaboration with the Chapel Hill force.
The move would also allow on-duty University police to intervene upon witnessing a crime when traveling near Granville.
This change will mean more police to protect both UNC students and Chapel Hill resi-dents and fewer loopholes for criminal activity.
At the same time, the town of Chapel Hill’s already shrunken budget will benefit from the costs cut by limiting the money spent on its already stretched police force.
And both police forces will be able to better protect and serve the community.
Use our forceUNC should be responsible for Granville safety
Everyone needs to get off Mary Easley’s case. Thus far, there’s no evidence
of wrongdoing.And until there is, the calls
for her resignation amount to nothing more than a witch hunt.
Mary Easley’s job under the provost of N.C. State has recently come under scrutiny.
She was hired while her hus-band was still in office, and her salary was increased 88 percent to $170,000 a year in 2008.
Now Mary Easley’s tenure at N.C. State has been called into question.
Many have called for her res-ignation. They suspect that her hiring process or salary raise might have been tainted by her husband’s position.
The N.C. State chancellor and provost have both been issued subpoenas to appear in court and testify about Mary Easley’s hiring.
But until there is conclusive evidence against Mary Easley — if any ever comes to light — UNC-system executives and public officials should back off.
Her hiring was approved by both the N.C. State Board of Trustees and the UNC Board of Governors. So was her sal-ary increase.
As of now, it seems that Mary Easley’s only crime was being well-connected and hav-ing a good salary.
But connectivity shouldn’t bar a qualified person from a job.
P l u s , a s U N C - s y s t e m President Erskine Bowles pointed out in 2008, Mary Easley’s job requires contacts. Much of her work has involved bringing guest lecturers to N.C. State’s campus.
Bowles a l so de fended Easley’s salary increase at the time. “I am convinced that the proposed salary fits the job and is fully justified,” he said.
If her work was good enough to elicit such a defense from Bowles, we should give Mary Easley the benefit of the doubt.
If she’s done something wrong, her accusers should come forward with evidence against her.
But if they don’t, we should let Mary Easley do her job.
Most everyone loves a good party. But sometimes parties
need to be toned down a bit.Carolina’s post-victory cel-
ebrations on Franklin Street are good examples of bashes in need of change.
And Student Body President Jasmin Jones is right to create new, safer Carolina victory tra-ditions.
The men’s basketball national championship in April sent stu-dents rushing to Franklin Street, many running from the most southern parts of campus.
Good times.But this celebration style
can lead to some pretty serious issues.
Planning for this kind of event is difficult at best. And
trying to corral thousands of students packed onto one or two roads isn’t an easy task.
The key is to move people off Franklin Street — fewer people, fewer problems.
An easy method of crowd control is to start events in other locations.
For e xample , S tudent Congress has some money it could put toward a preplanned celebration.
They could supply food to people around Franklin and Columbia streets to spread the crowd out.
To prevent burns, let’s make one big University-sponsored fire. This would bring one of the most dangerous elements of our Franklin celebrations under University control.
If Carolina wins, we could just wait until the students start showing up and then light it. If we lose, it could be disas-sembled and saved for another victory celebration.
Student government could also set up a separate operation near the Smith Center. After the game, local bands could take the stage and perform, win or lose.
There are many possibilities to be explored.
Jones has a huge task ahead of her if she wants to organize parties for Carolina victories, and it’s going to take time and maybe some trial and error.
Still, if she can pull it off, she’ ll have started a new Carolina tradition for everyone to enjoy.
Turn it safe to turn it blueJones is right to pursue new victory traditions
Give it a restLet’s see whether there’s evidence against Mary Easley
EDiTOriaL CarTOOn By don wright, palm Beach post
responsible students should keep tuition break
TO THE EDITOR:I was amazed to have read
that some people agree with end-ing “free rides” to the students at the N.C. School of Science and Math.
In a world where irrespon-sible people are getting bailed out left and right, why shouldn’t students who work hard to get into the school and to graduate from it get rewarded?
We “bailed out” people who bought homes they never could have afforded, but we “bail on” the kids at NCSSM whose life decisions were based on the money promised to them.
It seems that people expect to get things from our coun-try for doing nothing, but have a problem with hard-working people getting rewarded for their efforts.
Furthermore, there is nothing wrong with going to the school because of the tuition money.
That’s a responsible thing to do.
I think the people against the grant are simply jealous or regret not studying harder themselves.
Jason MiklowcicNCSSM ’09
multiple-choice does make non-thinkers
TO THE EDITOR:I’m sure that the recent col-
umn about multiple-choice exams raised more than a few eyebrows.
I could almost hear the col-lective comments across cam-pus: “Are you kidding? That’s the only way I could pass (fill in the blank).”
That’s all well and good if your only aim is to get a passing grade, so the parents will con-tinue to fund your “education” here at UNC.
Then there’s the old standby whine: “That class is so hard! I hate that professor’s exams; he or she makes us write essay answers...”
So you feel pretty good about those good ol’ multiple-choice exams, do you?
Think your odds of passing are better than if you had to actually think of an answer on your own?
Well, let me pose a question to you. Someday when you’re faced with a major (or even a minor) surgical procedure — which doc-tor would you prefer to be per-forming it?
The one who closed his eyes and just picked the answer that was statistically safe?
Or do you want the doctor
LETTErs TO THE EDiTOr
10 thursday, May 28, 2009 Opinion The Daily Tar Heel
who actually studied and not only learned the material but learned how to apply it and integrate it into the larger pic-ture of his education?
I think we both know the answer to that one — and it’s not “A.”
Carolyn ShomakerFederal Documents
CoordinatorUniversity Library
kvetching boardkvetch:
v.1 (yiddish) to complain
to all the people who kvetch about “frat boys”: Glad we bother you that much; we will make sure to keep it up.
i finally get a taste of the north campus life everyone longs for, and what do you give me? cold showers and ants. ugh.
to the girl who was looking on as i read an e-mail from my long-distance boyfriend: wtf, mate?
to the guy who showed up to a job interview looking com-pletely disheveled and carrying a folder with a picture of a kitten on the front instead of a leather portfolio: you are not a 7-year-old girl.
my facebook news feed is almost completely filled with people complaining about what bad things happened to them today. fml.
to the random guy who jumped my friend’s car battery — you rock. to all the people who drove by for 20 minutes without stopping — i hope you get hit by a bus.
to the suitemate who polluted the bathroom while i was in the shower: i know who you are. wait ‘till i’m done next time.
would a second entrance to dey Hall be too much to ask? if there’s a fire, no one will ever get out.
to pedestrians: you may be right, but you may be dead right.
when the loudspeaker says that the library is closing in 5 minutes, that means you! it does not mean that it’s time to start printing your 300-page document.
media resource center? more like missing rental center. i’m trying to rent movies, not watch your employees tiptoe slowly through the aisles try-ing to find them.
to the theta pi chapter: why do you exist?
to the student who wants free birth control: you have it already. it’s called keeping your pants on.
Send your one-to-two sentence entries to [email protected], sub-ject line ‘kvetch.’
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