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Strong known for his spirit
diversions | page 5 GREATEST OF OH-NINE Diversions ranks its top tens from arts and entertainment in 2009. The staff weighs in on music, overall and from North Carolina, as well as movies.
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Will Soehner feeds the sows Tuesday morning in Chapel Hill on Eco Farm. The cold weather has caused the farm to lose its cabbage, collards and brussels sprout crops. The weather caused the water hoses to freeze, and they have had to use buckets of water to give the sows water instead.
Cold snap hits farmers Still, N.C. spared fate of other states BY Matt Bewley staff writer
sports | page 9 ORANGE CRUSH The men’s basketball team fell behind by more than 20 early in Wednesday’s game against Clemson, a deficit fueled by turnovers. Backup guard Dexter Strickland led the Tar Heels with 17 points against the Tigers.
A record-setting cold snap has deprived Chapel Hill farmer John Soehner of his cabbage, collards and brussels sprout crops. “It’s the coldest winter I’ve seen,” Soehner said. “My collards never freeze. It’s a couple of weeks making no money.” He and other N.C. farmers have had to adjust to a particularly cold start to the winter, but the state has escaped much of the pain other southern states have endured. During the week of Dec. 28, average temperatures in N.C. cities were five to nine degrees colder than normal, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service report. In some areas of the country, damage to farms was drastic. In Florida, an estimated 30 percent of
crops were destroyed by a 10-day cold snap, which might raise produce prices nationally, said Terence McElroy, the Florida Department of Agriculture spokesman. But due to timing, the cold has had a limited impact on N.C. farmers this winter, said Brian Long, spokesman for the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. “What would really concern us is if we were having a cold snap like this in late March or early April,” he said, because a spring freeze would affect many more crops. Darian Sturdivant of D&L Farms, Inc. said his strawberry crop is healthy. Although the recent temperatures nearly damaged the crop, he said he and other strawberry farmers have decided not to cover them with tarps
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Baby, it’s cold outside: How to survive winter How do you stay warm? “I use my Carolina Snuggie.” -Autumn Locklear, senior “Every winter, I eat homemade soup, and it’s the only time I eat it.”-Shuronia Johnson, junior “Walking around campus and exercising as much as possible helps a lot.” -Rachel Myrick, freshman KEEP ENERGY COSTS DOWN Jane Munro, the manager of Bolinwood Apartments, has a few suggestions on how to save energy and stay warm: • Turn the heat to low when you aren't home. “I turn mine down to 50,” she said. • Fill up the dishwasher completely before running it. • Use plastic shrink wrap. Munro said that some of her tenants use it on the doors that lead to their balconies to keep the heat inside. You can buy it at stores like Lowe’s. SOURCE: STAFF REPORTS
EXERCISE INDOORS It’s below 30 degrees outside, making an outside workout impossible, and the gyms are filled to capacity. Try exercising indoors. Carolina Hurant, the health enhancements director at the Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA, says the best kind of exercise to do indoors is a mini-circuit with body resistance exercises. Hurant says she prefers exercising in a circuit style. Here’s an exercise to get you started: • Alternate between push-ups, plain body squats and tricep dips using a chair. Do 20 repetitions of each three to five times. • Alternate between walking lunges with jump roping. Do 50 lunges and jump rope for a minute. Repeat the circuit at least three times. DTH/KRISTEN LONG
Campaign signs to be regulated BY Stephanie Bullins Staff Writer
arts | page 3 GRAFFITI ART Stencil graffiti with tag names, used to show the artist while still keeping their identity secret, have appeared around UNC in the past few years. The most noticeable tags on campus currently are “EC” and “Garuda.”
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They’re inconvenient, unsightly and one of the most popular ways to campaign for student government. And they’re threatening students’ health. Campaign signs, often referred to as “A-frames” because of their shape, STUDENT have grown taller than ELECTIONS candidates (more than 8 feet), flown through 2010 the air because of a stiff breeze and distributed more than their fair share of splinters and cuts. That’s why the Student Union stepped in. Officials have imposed new rules regarding the size and number of signs candidates can use during this campaign season — a game changer in the world of campus elections. Candidates for student body president and Carolina Athletic Association president can have only two signs in the area around the Pit that do not exceed 42 inches tall by 30 inches
PAGE 3: Campaign staffs and candidates patrolled residence halls Wednesday, collecting signatures. “Dormstorming” was not allowed last year. wide. The policy does not limit the number of signs placed in other areas of campus. Before this year, there had been no limit on sign size or amount, aside from budgets. With six student body president candidates and three CAA president candidates last year, signs cluttered the area in front of Lenoir Hall. One particularly pointy sign even spurred a kvetch to The Daily Tar Heel. “As the number and size of A-frames has increased, there have been issues related to pedestrian flow, in particular in relation to our vision-impaired and other disabled members of the University community,” said Jon Curtis, associate director for student activities and student organizations. “Additionally, we have received complaints regarding the placement of A-frames and objects sticking out from them, as well as dealt with
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Officials have imposed new rules regarding the size and number of signs candidates can use during this campaign season.
The Board of Trustees approves a proposal for a women’s dormitory, which is now known as Spencer Hall.
Haiti reels after earthquake
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How you can help
As UNC senior Jeanne Vodicka waited to board her flight home from a mission trip in Haiti, the world of the people she said she grew to love was crumbling. Vodicka left Haiti on Tuesday for an airport in the Dominican Republic only hours before a devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince. Haitian President Rene Preval predicted thousands of dead, McClatchy News Services reported. Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said that number could be more than 100,000. The city has about 2 million residents. The earthquake leveled much of the city, including the Haitian parliament building and many schools and hospitals. Vodicka, who volunteered and stayed with a
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Professor Ken Strong was quick to smile, bringing an intense spirit to his classes and the stage alike. Students remember him long after their time in Drama 116, and his fellow actors and colleagues mention the presence and joy he brought to the office and the stage. Strong, 52, died Tuesday afternoon after a battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife, Kee, his parents, Sara and John, and a brother, Richard. Strong was a member of PlayMakers Repertory Company and a professor in the Department of Dramatic Art. He graduated from UNC with a bachelors degree in 1979 and a master’s of fine arts in 1983. “He radiated love to really everybody that knew him,” said R a y D o o l e y, a member of PlayMakers and Drama professor professor in the Ken Strong dramatic ar t died Tuesday department. after a battle Everyone with cancer. who knew Strong seems to share this sentiment, noting he was always smiling, joking and putting others before himself. McKay Coble, chairwoman of the dramatic art department who also knew Strong when they attended UNC, said she at first wanted to grieve privately when she heard the news of Strong’s passing. Instead, she had a celebratory dinner with her family, honoring his spirit. “I thought, ‘How many heads were hung in thought and prayer or were smiling and thinking of Ken last night?’ and I thought it must be in the thousands — thousands and thousands of people who were having one great big communal thought about the loss of this man,” Coble said. Senior Sarah Peck first met Strong in her freshman acting course and remembered the way he told the students, “I love you!” at the end of every class. “He was as fearless an actor as he was a person who famously told anyone who was willing to listen that he loved them,” she wrote in an e-mail. Peck is directing an upcoming play Strong chose, and proceeds
A memorial will be held at 1 p.m. on Monday in the Paul Green Theatre at the Center for Dramatic Art to remember and honor Ken Strong. The family has requested that in lieu of flowers, donations be made in Strong’s name to The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University Medical Center.
UNC student on mission trip left just hours before assistant state & national editor
Haitian family in the northern part of the country for two weeks, was returning to the United States when the lights at the airport — about 140 miles from the epicenter of the earthquake — went out for a few seconds. It was not until Vodicka’s flight landed in Miami and she saw a string of worried texts from her mother that she said she became aware of the cause of the power outage and of the devastation that had struck Haiti. “I broke down into tears. I can’t really even watch the news right now,” she said.
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Residents of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, mourn as a girl’s body is removed from rubble on Wednesday after the capital was hit by a magnitude-7.0 earthquake.
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college student in London has adapted an equation usually used to predict the chance of finding aliens to predict his probability of finding a girlfriend. The results aren’t pretty. After looking at factors like the number of women in the city, the number of “age-appropriate” women (ages 24-34), and the percentage of women he would find attractive, Seattle native Peter Backus determined that he has a 0.0000034 percent chance on any given night of meeting a woman he would be interested in and who would be interested in return, MyFoxNational reports. In a paper summarizing the study, Backus wrote that the chance of finding love is only about 100 times better than the chance of finding intelligent life in our galaxy. NOTED. A hippopotamus is at large in Montenegro after a flood this week allowed her to escape from the zoo. Nikica, a two-ton female, swam away during the flood, discovered a dry spot a mile away and parked herself. Zoo guards will wait until the floods subside to capture her. Until then, one zoo employee is responsible for feeding her daily.
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QUOTED. “It’s just like a little pet.” — Prena Thomas, a Lakeland, Fla., resident, who has kept a snowball in her freezer as a pet for 33 years. She said she sometimes takes it out of the freezer, unwraps it from the bag it is in and shows it to friends, reports KCCI in Des Moines, Iowa. She said she has been lucky not to experience a power outage that could melt her pet.
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today Graduate school session: Thinking about graduate school? University Career Services will host an information session today to teach potential applicants how to research and apply for different programs, find recommendation letters and figure out which tests to take for admission. Time: 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Location: Hanes Hall, second floor Interviewing skills: University Career Services will also host a workshop today focusing on interviewing skills. Students considering applying for both jobs and internships are encouraged to attend. Time: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Location: Hanes Hall, second floor Rush kickoff: The Interfraternity Council will hold its spring rush kickoff event tonight. The event is mandatory for those interested in rushing an IFC fraternity this spring. The rush process will officially begin Friday and will last until Jan. 22. Time: 6 p.m. Location: Student Union, Great Hall
Meeting: The Graduate and Professional Student Federation Senate will hold its January meeting tonight. Guest speaker Mary Covington, director for campus health services, will discuss issues related to campus health and student health insurance. Time: 6:30 p.m. Location: Bingham Hall, Room 103 Nourish International event: Nourish International will host its second annual winter fundraising event tonight. The evening, “A Classy Wine Affair,” will include wine, food and music to help ring in the new year. Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: Carrboro Century Center
Friday Artistic discussion: The Office of the Executive Director for the Arts will present “Creating through Collaboration: A Conversation with Bill T. Jones.” Jones will be joined in discussion with Janet Wong, associate artistic director of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and UNC’s Executive Director for the Arts Emil Kang will moderate.
Time: 1 p.m. Location: Hyde Hall, University Room Speaker: Alyson Zandt will give a lecture titled “Engaging in Workforce Development, Economic Development and Community Change”as part of a social justice speaker series designed to help students make the transition from college to jobs and internships. Zandt is former co-chairwoman of Nourish International and currently the Autry Fellow at MDC, Inc. Time: 3 p.m. Location: Campus Y Solar energy: The UNC Solar Energy Research Center will sponsor a public solar energy forum. A panel of energy experts will discuss issues and take questions at 7 p.m. Time: 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Location: Friday Center To make a calendar submission, e-mail dthcalendar@gmail.com. Events will be published in the newspaper on either the day or the day before they take place. Submissions must be sent in by noon the preceding publication date.
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nnie Ellis, left, a senior journalism and economics major from Elk Park, helps gather student signatures Wednesday afternoon around the Pit for Brandon Finch (not shown). Finch and Tom Kuell are candidates for Carolina Athletic Association president.
Police log n Someone broke the passen-
ger side window of a gold 2000 Chevrolet Tahoe at 3:03 a.m. Wednesday at 1901 Fountain Ridge Road, according to Chapel Hill police reports. Damage to the vehicle was valued at $200, reports state.
n Someone broke into and stole from two unlocked vehicles on Fan Branch Lane between Sunday and Tuesday, according to Chapel Hill police reports. Someone entered a tan 1999 Mazda Protege between midnight and 6 a.m. Sunday at 104 Fan Branch Lane. The person stole a CD player worth $200, reports state. Someone also entered a silver 1987 Lincoln Town Car between 12:15 p.m. Monday and 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at 106 Fan Branch Lane. The person stole a CD player worth $179, reports state. n Someone took out a window
air conditioning unit to enter a house between 1:45 p.m. and 3:24 p.m. Tuesday at 112 Milton Ave., according to Chapel Hill police reports. The person stole computer hardware and software collectively worth $1,900, 5 video games collectively worth $500, jewelry worth $1,000, a Braille data system worth $600 and $200 in cash, reports state. n Someone damaged and disconnected a public bench, leaving it unusable, at 11:17 a.m. Tuesday at 100 E. Franklin St., according to Chapel Hill police reports. Damage to the bench seat was valued at $1,000, reports state. n Someone entered an unlocked red 1989 Honda Civic between 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Saturday at 100 Crest St., according Carrboro police reports. The person stole two piano keyboards, report state.
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The Daily Tar Heel Correction
Due to a reporting error, Wednesday’s pg. 3 story, “New lights more efficient,” misstated the amount PlayMakers Repertory Company received for replacement lights. They were awarded $67,500. The story also incorrectly states that it is the first project the Renewable Energy Special Projects committee has funded since it expanded to include smaller projects. It is the second project. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the errors.
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Carolina Women’s Center names new faculty scholars The Carolina Women’s Center has named two faculty scholars to pursue independent research projects. Funding will come from the CWC faculty scholars program. Sahar Amer, professor of Asian studies, will study alternative sexual practices in the Arab world, as well as Arab lesbian literature. Mimi Chapman, associate professor in the School of Social Work, will explore gang affiliations among Latina middle school students in Siler City.
Policy Judge delays decision on tips allows Defense seeks Crime Stoppers info ‘dorm storms’ Carson investigation
Story so far
March 5, 2008: Student Body
BY anika anand assistant city editor
Attorneys of the two men charged with killing former Student Body President Eve Carson will have to wait a little longer to hear whether they will receive evidence they feel is pertinent to their case. Demario James Atwater, 23, and Lawrence Alvin Lovette, 19, were indicted for the first-degree murder and kidnapping of Carson. In a Wednesday hearing in Hillsborough, Judge Allen Baddour heard arguments for and against releasing more than 200 pages of Crime Stoppers reports to the defense. The debate, which has been going on for more than a year, addresses one major constitutional question: Does the state have to turn over all material that could help the defense impeach the
state’s witnesses? Or, in the context of this case, does the defense have a right to see information that it could use to discredit the prosecution’s witnesses? The defense argued for full disclosure of all evidence. The state argued to maintain the integrity of anonymous tip organizations like Crime Stoppers.
Baddour needs more time Baddour spoke deliberately during the hearing. He asked both sides questions such as how Crime Stoppers gathers and documents their tips and which exact documents the defense wanted. He ended the hearing by stating he needed more time to look over additional discovery documents he had recently acquired. Baddour said he expected to
President Eve Carson is found shot to death in a neighborhood off East Franklin Street.
March 12: Demario James Atwater is arrested.
Demario James Atwater
Lawrence Alvin Lovette
issue a ruling next week. During the trial, Dis tric t Attorney Jim Woodall pointed out that Baddour had the option of turning over all the reports to the defense but disallowing the defense from publicizing the records. “The judge could craft an order, if he decided to do that, that would keep the material confidential,” Woodall said in a post-hearing
March 13: Lawrence Alvin Lovette is arrested.
March 31: Atwater and Lovette are indicted for first-degree murder. April 11: District Attorney Jim
Woodall announces plans to pursue the death penalty for Atwater.
Oct. 27: A federal grand jury
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Jan. 16, 2009: The U.S. Attorney General approves plans to pursue the death penalty against Atwater. Dec. 11: Attorneys for Atwater file
a motion requesting that the federal trial be moved out of North Carolina.
The bus stop on Franklin Street at Church Street will be closed temporarily due to construction today. The bus stop will reopen on Friday. Passengers can board buses at the Carolina Coffee Shop or Franklin Hotel stops instead.
Development expert set to analyze town office outlook Economic development expert Ernie Bleinberger, who is studying the Chapel Hill office market, will mingle with the business community at a meeting at 2:30 p.m. Jan. 21. The event will be held at the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, located at 104 S. Estes Drive. Chapel Hill hired a firm, Strategy 5, to analyze existing office space and determine ways to improve the office market outlook for the town. The project’s goal is to increase the commercial tax base and job creation in Chapel Hill, which is a part of the town’s new economic development plan. Participants can meet representatives from the firm, share their opinions on local office space and ask questions. To attend, please contact economicdevelopment@ townofchapelhill.org.
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Dormstorming rules
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Access to the residence halls for the purpose of door-to-door canvassing and campaigning in the common lobby area happens from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday through Thursday over a four-week span starting with the release of petition forms to students declaring their intent to run for SBP.
ANSWER KEY: (1) back side of Manning Hall; (2) front steps of Manning Hall; (3) back side of Manning Hall; (4) Pit entrance to Student Stores; (5) side of Bingham Hall near Greenlaw Hall; (6) steps of Murphey Hall.
18-year-old Chapel Hill man arrested for Durham killing
Franklin Street bus stop to close today for construction
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Can you figure out Where these stencils are?
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Jaron Webb, 18, of Jackie Robinson Street in Chapel Hill, was arrested late Wednesday morning for a Durham killing. On Dec. 28, Durham police officers responded to a call about disturbance with a weapon just before 2 p.m. near the intersection of Allgood Street and Belvin Avenue in Durham. Jaron Webb Officers found Jonathan Royster, 18, of Piper Street in Durham, lying dead in the street with a gunshot wound. A suspect was seen fleeing on foot. Investigators said the incident does not appear to be random but are not releasing a motive.
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ART OR VANDALISM? Artists’ designs create havoc for maintenance By Lauren Russell Assistant Arts Editor
In addition to the traditional vandals from rival schools and bathroom visitors with Sharpies, UNC’s public structures face a new threat: the stencil graffiti artist. But unlike other nocturnal criminals, some stencil artists say they use the public surfaces as canvasses for the enjoyment of passersby, not just to share their favorite lyrics or boast about their exploits. Stencil graffiti with tag names, used to show the artist while still keeping their identity secret, have appeared around campus in the past few years. The most noticeable tags are “EC” and “Garuda.” The stencil movement decorating campus is inspired by European works. French artist Blek Le Rat is credited as having originated this form of street art in the ’80s. It has recently gained worldwide attention from London street artist Banksy’s work.
The stencils appear more like an intricate painting than a piece produced with a bottle of spray paint. Blek Le Rat and Banksy exhibited subject matter that was just as controversial as the illegal nature of graffiti art. For instance, one of Banksy’s works in New Orleans portrays soldiers passing a TV out of a window and into a grocery cart. Chapel Hill stencil artist Garuda said he was first inspired to decorate a building after the Web site Stumbleupon.com led him to him to Banksy’s Web site. Garuda scopes out exteriors during the day and returns at night with a notebook in hand and a hidden spray paint bottle. He sticks the carefully crafted stencil to the surface with spray glue, coats it with spray paint and sneaks away until he can admire his work in the daylight. Applying the stencil takes only a few minutes, but designing the carefully crafted stencil takes hours.
BY Andy Thomason This time last year, residence halls were quiet, removed from the petitioning campaign staffs of candidates for student government positions. That will not be the case this year. Beginning Tuesday night, a flurry of campaign workers descended on residence halls, knocking on doors in an effort to collect signatures to get their names on the Feb. 9 elections ballot. Throughout the election, candidates and their campaign workers will be allowed to canvass residence halls between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, a process commonly called “dormstorming.” The new policy marks a departure from last year’s Board of Elections rules, which prohibited candidates’ campaigns from dormstorming during the first week of campaigning. The change made it harder for potential candidates to gather signatures, since they had to find alternative ways of reaching students. Student body president and Carolina Athletic Association president candidates must gather 1,000 signatures to get their names on the ballot. Potential candidates for other offices must gather a smaller number. But Larry Hicks, the director of the Department of Housing and Residential Education, said this change does not reflect a change in the department’s policy on solicitation in residence halls. He said the same policy has been
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indicts Atwater.
Foundation awards grants to fight child obesity problem The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded 41 communities with grants to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015 as part of a UNC program. Each of the communities are funded through Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities, a program at Active Living by Design, which is a part of the N.C. Institute for Public Health at the Gillings School of Global Public Health. The program’s goal is to improve access to affordable healthy foods and physical activity opportunities for children and families. The four-year grants award each community up to $360,000 to develop solutions for healthier living. The program has committed $33 million over five years to the communities, making it the foundation’s largest investment in confronting childhood obesity. The communities were selected for having particular trouble with childhood obesity caused by unemployment, poverty, crime, dangerous traffic, aging infrastructure and too few grocery stores. Moore and Montgomery counties and Nash and Edgecombe counties were the two communities receiving grants from North Carolina.
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He estimates that he has five visible works around campus, though one drawing has been hidden by bushes planted in front of it, possibly strategically so, and another covered by a flier about swine flu. “I don’t really care, if just one person walking by gets to enjoy it, it’s worth it,” Garuda said. One of Garuda’s stencils shows Albert Hofmann, the developer of LSD, holding a rubber ducky instead of the LSD model Hofmann holds in his famous photograph. He also created a “Calvin and Hobbes” stencil and a stencil showing a monk on fire. While the stencil artists may believe their works to be an asset to a barren wall, the drawings create a chore for UNC’s maintenance team. The team power washes the wall with water and has to block the storm drains to prevent the paint chemicals from contaminating the runoff. “You do see some artistic graffiti, but
The Board of Elections has designed a“Non-Solicitation Notice” that it will distribute to students via its Web site, studentorgs.unc.edu/boe, that students who live in campus housing will be allowed to print and stick to their doors. Violators of this posting should be reported to the Board of Elections. Only 10 people from the same campaign shall be permitted to have access to a campus housing community at one time. However, there shall be no restriction on how many campaigns can have access to a campus housing community at one time. Candidates or staff are not allowed to slide items under doors or post anywhere other than designated spaces.
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UNC considers halting use of paper applications Officials worry it could limit diversity BY Emily Banks Staff Writer
UNC is considering shredding the traditional paper application. At a meeting Tuesday, a group of faculty members and administrators who oversee admissions discussed ceasing the printing and distribution of the paper application, which could save the University about $60,000 a year. But some committee members expressed fear that disadvantaged prospective students who don’t have Internet access — many of whom are minorities — might be alienated by discontinuing the paper application, which could occur within two years. UNC and many peer institutions such as the University of Michigan include paper applications in the basic information packets they send to prospective students. The percentage of prospective students using the paper applica-From staff and wire reports. tion has dropped from 27 percent
in 2003 to 2 percent in 2009. But the numbers vary among ethnic groups. This year, 10 percent of black applicants applied using the paper application, compared to 2 percent of white applicants. Other ethnic groups, such as Native American and AsianAmerican, also were around 1 percent or 2 percent. Because of this discrepancy, Director of Undergraduate Admissions Stephen Farmer said he is hesitant to end the paper application immediately. “We want to make sure we foster access,” he said. “We’re concerned with students who don’t have access to online tools.” Steve Reznick, associate dean of the Undergraduate Education Office, suggested that UNC only send paper applications to schools where students are less likely to have access to computers. David Ravenscraft, associate dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business
School, said UNC could use the money to encourage diversity in alternative ways. “The economist in me has to ask, ‘Couldn’t you take the money we’re spending on paper applications and put it toward a scholarship for first-generation college students?’” he said. B’anca Glenn, president of the Black Student Movement, said she did not think eliminating paper applications would decrease the diversity of the applicant pool. “If 10 percent of African American students are using it, the solution could be to encourage that 10 percent to use the online application instead,” she said. Farmer said black applicants were not deterred when the school stopped sending paper applications to prospective transfer students. “We did away with printing and mailing transfer applications five or six years ago, and diversity didn’t differ in that applicant pool,” he said. At the University of Virginia, paper applications must be requested.
Application methods vary by race While 90 percent of white applicants to UNC apply online, only 73 percent of black applicants do. Black applicants are also more likely than white applicants to apply through the College Foundation of North Carolina and by PDF or paper. 100% 80%
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“We wanted to go green and save money. We still carry paper applications when we travel and give them out to whoever needs them,” said UVa admissions counselor Julie Roa. Barbara Jo Polk, senior associate director of admissions at UNC,
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said paper applications will eventually be eliminated. “It’s one of those things where, realistically, it’s not a matter of if, but a matter of when,” she said. Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
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flying or tumbling A-frames when there have been strong winds or gusty winds.” Union staff members have been working to address these concerns for more than a year, Curtis said. Student body president candidate Joe Levin-Manning said the new regulations will force him to change his campaign strategy. “It definitely means I have to regroup and think of the two most effective spots to put my A-frames, as well as think of more creative ways to get my name out there,” he said. Monique Hardin, Nash Keune, Hogan Medlin, Shruti Shah and Gregory Strompolos are also running for student body president. “Considering last year, things did get out of hand,” Levin-Manning said. “But these policies should have taken more student input into
“There have been issues related to pedestrian flow, in particular in relation to … disabled members of the University community.” Jon Curtis, associate director for student activities and student organizations account.” Following the Board of Elections Chairman Peter Gillooly said the board will student elections discuss penalties for disobeying The Daily Tar Heel will track the sign regulations at its meeting student body president candiThursday. He said that any sign dates’ support on Facebook at not meeting the specifications will be thrown out. dailytarheel.com/pit-talk. The regulations are part of an Check in daily to see how each updated Union policy that limits candidate is boosting the totals. signs to one per organization per event on the day of the event. Curtis said he plans to help be a learning curve,” he said. “I also enforce the policy by educating don’t expect that anyone will go out candidates about the regulations. with a tape measure.” “This is a new policy and while Contact the University Editor it would be great if everyone folat udesk@unc.edu. lowed it exactly, there’s bound to
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“It’s only with the heart that one can see rightly,” Quaintance said. “Ken embodied that so sincerely. The whole production had a spirit behind it that was unlike any other I’ve ever done.” Jeff Cornell, a fellow professor in the drama department and a member of PlayMakers, said he first met Strong on the set of “Beauty and the Beast.” For the show, Strong wore a 10-foot-tall costume, operating parts of the costume with pulleys. “I had never seen such a largerthan-life performance, but that was Ken. He was perfect for that,” Cornell said. Strong’s fellow actors spoke about his ability to portray any role, calling him an actor from top to bottom. “When the history of PlayMakers is written, he will hold a place of honor,” Dooley said.
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from the show will benefit the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, she said. Sophomore Skylar Zee said her favorite part of his class was dancing to the music Strong played before class began each day. Many of his colleagues remember his time on stage, especially the roles of Uncle Vanya and the Aviator in “The Little Prince.” Strong was diagnosed with a brain tumor shortly after the end of the production “God’s Man in Texas.” After having surgery and receiving treatment, his first large show was “The Little Prince.” Tom Quaintance, who directed “The Little Prince,” said he and Strong talked the first day about how the play follows someone who learns to look at life in a new way, determining what is truly important.
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A UNC graduate student living in Haiti remains there. She contacted a friend Wednesday morning to let her know that she was safe although the house she was living in collapsed during the earthquake, said Margaret Bentley, associate dean for global health at UNC. The student is staying in a United Nations relief camp. University officials are not allowed to release the name of the student, Bentley said. Bill Gentry, director of the community preparedness and disaster relief management program at
“This place needed help before this happened. People down there don’t have anything.” Jeanne Vodicka, UNC Senior UNC, said as many as 3 million people are reported to be affected by the earthquake. “Earthquakes have historically proved to be larger-scale disasters than floods and wildfires because they do more structural damage,” he said. Gentry, who aided relief efforts following Hurricane Katrina and the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attacks, said rubble will be the big-
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to protect them from the cold. “We might have done the wrong thing. We’re right on the border line,” he said. Soehner wanted to cover his crops — it might have saved them — but the covers he ordered didn’t come in the mail on time. “(The crops are) all fried. It looks like someone torched them,” he said. Carl A. Matyac, Wake County agricultural extension agent, said the cold was nothing compared to destruction by rampant wildlife. “There’s more damage from deer than from the recent cold snap we’ve been having,” he said. But some farmers have still had to overcome obstacles presented by low temperatures. “The cold weather slows down activity,” said Sarah Blacklin, the Carrboro Farmers’ Market manager. “There’s not that much that can be done with the ground.” Harder ground prevents planting and delays the beginning of certain crop seasons, she said. Winter is a season in which farmers don’t have much of their income at stake, Blacklin said. They can take advantage of the lapse in outdoor work to do taxes, order seeds or plan for the year. Instead of harvesting his frosted greens, Soehner and his employees at Chapel Hill’s Eco Farm are collecting and selling wood dried out by the cold as firewood. Soehner has also used his extra time to prepare a shiitake mushroom crop, drilling dime-sized holes into logs, implanting them with fungi spores and sealing them with hot wax daily. In the fall, he’ll be able to sell one pound for about $10, he said. “I’m not going to cry about the weather. This could be beneficial,” he said. “I’m going have a lot of shiitake mushrooms in the fall.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.
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Animal Collective
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Feedback and guitar play together hazily. A voice envisions a garden as field recordings waft in and out, visions out of a daydream. Suddenly, “In The Flowers” explodes into a rainbow of shimmering synth. Dream has become reality. The album of the year has been born. On Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective turns afternoon musings into blissful electro-pop that makes anything seem possible. And for this band, it just might be. - Jordan Lawrence
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Tarot Sport
With its perfectly timed crescendos and decrescendos, the Fuck Buttons’ Tarot Sport floats on dreamy chord progressions melded with static and electronic noises, navigating between otherworldly ambience and danceready beats. The album’s seamless production and smooth transitions give it dexterity and accessibility that few other noise records — from this year or any other — can boast. - Linnie Greene
Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
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Actor is a strange name for such an honest record. Excepting the alias under which Annie Clark pens her songs, the sophomoric album layers intimate lyrics with Clark’s pristine vocals and noisy rock sensibilities. It’s an unlikely pairing that results in a set of simmering tracks, all of which burn with raw emotion, a refreshing antidote to the Lady Gagas and Black Eyed Peas of the world. - LG
Phoenix
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St. Vincent
Volcano Choir
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Unmap
Once again, Justin Vernon’s sweet croon can do no wrong. This collaboration between the Bon Iver singer and Collections of Colonies of Bees is breathtaking. With soft, instrumental layers, and Vernon’s shrill falsetto, Unmap is familiar yet distinctive, an album that beautifully embraces experimentation. And while the depth is alluring, it’s Vernon’s raw emotion that’s truly entrancing. - EB
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Few records defy boundaries as Gather, Form and Fly does. On simple songs and longer experiments, Durham’s Megafaun mixes folk, blues and country into an evershifting melange of influences. It defies convention and categorization and proves that even old-fashioned genres contain new ground to be covered. - JL
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Raekwon
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. 2
While Raekwon never abandoned the grimy street tales that proliferate the original, this long-awaited sequel features his best verses since. With cameos from Wu brethren and top production via the likes of Dr. Dre and RZA, the 14 years of waiting can finally be forgiven. - BW
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Of 2009 films, “Up in the Air” was by far the most timely. George Clooney gives a deep and charming turn as a man who flies around firing the employees of wussy bosses, as director Jason Reitman takes an unflinching look at love and loss in a great recession. More than movie of the year, it’s a movie for our time. - JL
Where the Wild Things Are
Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story flourishes with unique visual and emotional life. It blends indescribably beautiful aesthetics with a script that’s just as poetic as the book to explore the most unhinged dimensions of youth. Realizing the world of a young boy’s subconscious, this masterpiece bursts with imagination and heart. - Rocco Giamatteo
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The Blueprint 3
The debut album from this British trio showed that sometimes, less really is more. With tidy instrumentation enhanced by the male and female lead singers’ dreamy back and forth musings on love, xx creates a moody and sexy atmosphere that will haunt you long after the album is over. - Anna Norris
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Alive with brooding tension that drips from Ed Droste’s eerie vocals, Veckatimest scrapes feeling out of meticulous nuance. It ranges from subtle to energetic, but the transition is always flawless. From its dulcet, dreamy harmonies to its barely-there drums and punchy piano, Veckatimest is a studio masterpiece that shines with polished finesse. - Elzabeth Byrum
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Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is nothing short of an energetic symphony, packing intensity into near-baroque melodic schemes. With sharp, danceable synths and catchy lyrics, these Frenchmen establish themselves as makers of infectious fun. Cadillac commercial be damned, it’s still impossible to resist these guys. - EB
While many may feel slighted by the outcome, it’s only because of their mammoth expectations. On BP3, Jay tries some new things and although not every experiment is a complete success, he provided the soundtrack for the year in doing so. As he eclipses the metaphorical hill in age, Jigga remains atop the pile of prominent MCs. - Benn Wineka
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Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Fantastic Mr. Fox
A film with “fantastic” in the title has a lot to live up to, but Wes Anderson’s first animated film is exactly that. Overflowing with visual style and boasting the vocal talent of George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Bill Murray, Anderson takes Roald Dahl’s story and flawlessly applies his own quirky, quickwitted characters. - Mark Niegelsky
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Sin Nombre
Cary Fukunaga is a young director and Edgar Flores is a young actor, but experience radiates from “Sin Nombre,” a transnational epic of immigration, poverty and young love. The gangs are brutal, the trains meander and the hopes of Latino immigrants are as bright and as dark as the Meso-american landscape. - Jonathan Pattishall
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Pixar blows minds so often that a year without them in the top 10 feels incomplete. “Up” is as much for adults as it is for kids. It’s aesthetically engaging and just as important for its message to the young ones: Love your family, respect nature and always reach as high as you can. - JP
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
In “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” director David Yates distills J.K. Rowling’s bestselling young adult novel into an ageless film. This exploration of angst, adolescence and darkness takes flight with incredible special effects and a cast of young actors who can carry the weight of their roles. - LG
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Inglourious Basterds
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(500) Days of Summer
Director Marc Webb translates his experience directing music videos into a music lover’s cinematic dream, juxtaposing choreography and gravitas in one all-encompassing package. Through equal whimsy and bleakness, Webb takes his audience to the root of the film’s subject matter — love — and its uncanny power to change the world around you. - LG
Taking an ingenious new approach to war epics, Quentin Tarantino has crafted his best film since “Pulp Fiction.” This near-perfect World War II adventure is dangerously funny and wholly original. Brad Pitt and Christoph Waltz are nothing short of glorious, milking every bit of dark humor and incisive drama from Tarantino’s brilliantly bloody script. - RG
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The Hurt Locker
The beginning of “The Hurt Locker” states that “war is a drug,” and director Kathryn Bigelow shows us how dangerous and strangely addictive it can be. Jeremy Renner’s turn as an adrenaline-craving bomb disposal expert in Iraq is entrancing, and the film is unrelentingly intense from start to finish. - MN
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Public Enemies
Michael Mann’s lightly stylized take on ‘30s bank robber John Dillinger is not perfect, but it was the most refreshing and serious of the summer action pack. It’s also a good reminder that Johnny Depp is a well-rounded actor capable of more than just variations on Captain Jack Sparrow. - JP
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The Daily Tar Heel Thanks to its third-place ranking on the cover’s overall top ten, you know we love Megafaun. But here are the 10 other albums from North Carolina that Dive loved most from 2009.
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On The Love Language’s self-titled debut, songwriter Stu McLamb proves, through a lo-fi crackle and some plaintive wails, that sorrowful pop songs withstand the test of time and trends. With its gritty sound and infectious chord progressions, the Raleigh band’s self-titled debut finds an elusive balance between catchy melody and authentic sorrow. -Linnie Greene
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Hammer No More The Fingers
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Looking For Bruce
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No band in North Carolina cultivates a catharsis like Durham’s Hammer No More The Fingers. Muscular, bouncing bass lines tangle with smoothly slithering guitar and steadily pounding drums, creating an indie-rock powder keg. And when it explodes with achingly distorted riffs, Looking For Bruce becomes a formidable full-length debut. -Jordan Lawrence
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Horseback
The Invisible Mountain Few artists are as versatile as Chapel Hill’s Jenks Miller. After two full-lengths — one a slice of warmly ambient distortion, the other an entrancing improvisational guitar piece — Miller returns as Horseback with smoldering black metal that’s as nuanced as it is terrifying. It’s an incredible triumph that cements Miller as one of the state’s brightest talents. -JL
Built on a break-up, Horror Vacui eviscerates emptiness with ferocious pop-rock. Riding a slew of catchy melodies, Rachel Hirsh and ex-boyfriend John Booker strain for restitution with rebellious hooks. I Was Totally Destroying It adds flavor to formula, turning synthesizers and power chords into an atom bomb of instantly identifiable emotion. -Joseph Chapman
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The Mountain Goats
The Life Of The Word To Come John Darnielle’s interpretation of favorite Bible passages takes form in emotionally heavy, detailed songs about forgiveness, salvation and love that are instantly relatable. Even if this Mountain Goat’s songs seem oblique without a quick glance at scripture, Darnielle’s evocative writing still strikes a chord with the listener’s heart. -Anna Norris
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Bowerbirds Upper Air
A languid, haunting introspection on love, Bowerbirds’ Upper Air blankets the listener in warm harmonies and inventive lyrics. The album transitions through its set of seamless pop songs with the same grace as Phil Moore’s voice, a voice as unpretentious and immaculate as the flight of a bird. -LG
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The Warm Up Leaving the state to gain some cred, Fayetteville’s J. Cole scored a hell of a year. Signing to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation label and spitting a verse on The Blueprint 3, he also dropped The Warm Up, a mixtape that could have been an album. With J. Cole’s infectious beats and smooth flow, it proves he has chops and staying power. -Benn Wineka
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I Was Totally Destroying It Horror Vacui
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Red Collar Pilgrim
Pilgrim is anthemic bar-rock at its best. Durham’s Red Collar sidesteps the habitual pretension of modern rock bands — Jason Kutchma’s lyrics aren’t gratingly sarcastic, and gaudy irony is absent from their angst. Instead, with hard-edged ballads like “Used Guitar,” Red Collar super-heats its blues until they burst into punk rock flames. -JC
Lonnie Walker
These Times Old Times Whether he’s rattling off lyrics at breakneck speed, stringing you along with his playful drawl or twisting words around until you no longer know what they mean, Brian Corum’s charisma allows Lonnie Walker to blend country, folk and punk with a sense of fun that only enhances its compositional strength. -AN
The Beast
Silence Fiction Fusing jazz and hip-hop, The Beast jumps onto the scene with a fresh, experimental debut. Setting out on a mission to “silence the fiction,” Pierce Freelon’s rhymes are confessedly preachy but outweighed by the charismatic quartet’s exuberance for innovation. From the high recording quality to the versatile piano work, Silence Fiction is polished and fun. -JC
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Like a confection straight out of Willy Wonka’s factory, Vampire Weekend’s Contra blends sugary, falsetto harmonies with enough nimble arrangements to satiate any musical sweet tooth. The album boasts a smorgasbord of instruments and electronic elements alongside the band’s trademark African-infused pop. And while the ingredients might work separately, Vampire Weekend’s latest effort fails to unite its disparate forces into a concise whole, resulting in a schizophrenic mash-up with little sense of direction. Though Contra relies largely on the same blend of African rhythms and Cape Cod style, the new album finds the bowtie-clad band exploring new musical territory. Unlike songs on previous releases, these new tunes fuse the band’s manic rhythms with occasional strings and a heavier dose of electronic influences, adding texture and depth to songs that would otherwise sound like a second helping of what listeners have already heard. Closer “I Think UR A Contra” breaks from the album’s turbulence with a slower pace and ambient strains of piano and strings, a welcome respite from the fervor that characterizes the preceding songs. The varied sound might add depth to an otherwise repetitive album, but it fails to salvage the record’s more frenetic tracks. With so many influences drawn from such incongruous territories, the album quickly turns into an indecipherable mess. For instance, “Diplomat’s Son” packs too many dissimilar elements into one song, and in the maelstrom of changing tempos and artist samples — M.I.A. and Toots & the Maytals — it’s easy to get disoriented. Sure, it’s multidimensional, but with so many different influences, the song becomes simply inaccessible. The band finds its niche with the song “Cousins,” a short, feverish track that successfully funnels
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‘Doctor Parnassus’ just too much By Jonathan Pattishall Staff Writer
Plot isn’t so much an ornament or a fixture as it is a messy obstruction in “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.” It feels like director Terry Gilliam was just looking for a visual outlet for his retro-surreal imagination, some excuse to channel Dali with giant CGI stilts and Candyland-scapes, and was content to bounce around whatever narrative path was required for maximum wonder. The result is a carnival ride of a movie. It goes around and around until you’re back where you started and you’ve thrown up a bit of popcorn in your mouth. Gilliam’s slapdash story concerns a series of ongoing bets between the immortal Dr. Parnassus, the benign leader of a traveling theater troupe from a magical realist world, and the Devil. Parnassus owes the Devil his beautiful 16-year-old daughter as payment for a deal, but Tony, a mysterious new troupe member with unexplained powers, does what he can to save (and woo) the girl. Or so it seems. The plot is one huge conceit, insufficiently grounded and obnox-
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iously undeveloped with unconvincing conflicts galore. We know every character is strapped with multiple problems, but amidst all of Gilliam’s usual bells and whistles it’s hard to decipher just why we should care. What everyone should care about is the fact that this was Heath Ledger’s last movie. He died in the middle of filming, leaving his character (Tony) dangling in midair. He is also the backbone of the film. What Gilliam’s story fails to establish with its plot arc Ledger partially salvages with his acting. Such cinematic heroism is a good reminder of just how much movielovers lost with his death. Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law all portray physically altered versions of Ledger to fill in the missing footage, but even they pale in comparison to Ledger’s bright star. “The Imaginarium,” like all of Gilliam’s movies, is a realistic fantasy. It has revealing angles and honest dirt. But with flying jel-
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lyfish and luminescent CGI, this one is Gilliam for a new digital decade. I think I liked him better in analog. Contact the Diversions Editor at dive@unc.edu.
diverecommends Album from the Vaults: Carole King, Tapestry: This 1971 pop gem unites polished songwriting, expressive lyrics and girl power in one neat and tidy package. It’s something you can listen to with your mom, and it doesn’t hurt that Courtesy of XL Recordings New York band Vampire Weekend poses among some books for a press it provided the theme song for “Gilmore Girls.” King solidified her photo. The band’s sophomore album Contra hit record stores Tuesday. talent with this sophomore release, and provided an outlet for angstthemselves to a short and restless filled twenty-something women MUSICreview attack, and the band capitalizes on everywhere. Vampire Weekend this aesthetic. Contra Amid the chamber music, hip- Movie from the Vaults: pop hop samples and tribal beats, “Homeward Bound: The Incredible Vampire Weekend’s latest fails to Journey”: Shadow, Sassy and make a cohesive statement, instead Chance prove that there’s really no Vampire Weekend’s preppy pop dwindling into a jumble of incon- place like home in this 1993 family into a drum-driven rock song. Ezra gruous sounds. Though songs like staple. Sure, vacation is great, but Koenig’s animal wail complements “Cousins” prove that the band has when a porcupine takes issue with the steady bass line, and the fren- the potential to channel its frenzy your face, well, it’s not pretty. It’s the zied drumming builds momentum into something polished and acces- perfect antidote for those of us who until the song halts in a well-timed sible, the majority of Contra leaves miss our pets almost as much as all the listener wondering just where and abrupt stop. Bill T Jones Newspaper Ads v2:Layout 3 12/16/09 12:37 PM Page 7 that home-cooked holiday food. Timing is one of the redeem- Vampire Weekend was trying to Events: ing qualities of the album. The go. bulk of the tracks on Contra end Thursday Contact the Diversions Editor well before the four-minute mark, at dive@unc.edu. The Tomahawks ceasing suddenly instead of rattling to a close. In this sense, Vampire Weekend knows its audience’s attention span. The songs lend
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You know a movie is going to be breezy and cute when the very first thing you see is a young man fiercely masturbating in his bed sheets. A sex-driven slap-in-theface to merrily vacuous teenageromance flicks, “Youth in Revolt” is uproarious in every way but its humor. Sharp one-liners and frequent vulgarity will keep the audience chuckling throughout, but despite its blatant efforts, the film won’t spur belly laughs. Sixteen-year-old Nick Twisp (aforementioned masturbator) is a soft-spoken, latently sarcastic oddball (played by — surprise! — Michael Cera). During his temporary stay in a town called Ukiah, he meets the sexy and sophisticated girl of his dreams, Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday). To be closer to her, Nick creates a badass alter-ego named Francois Dillinger (Cera a la mustache), whose antics get pawned off to his father in Ukiah. But Francois serves up more trou-
ble than Nick bargained for, and his life spins out of control. As Francois, Cera flaunts neverbefore-seen versatility. Sporting hypersexual charisma with a cigarette and shades, Cera acknowledges his typecast, slipping into his caricature with a middle finger to the unsuspecting audience. Director Miguel Arteta has found something wonderful in Doubleday, who balances wit and sensitivity in every line. She cultivates a lascivious female personality that’s compatible with our maladroit hero in every way. Indulging in hysterical character dysfunctions and raw exploration of the adolescent male libido, the film is refreshingly honest but doesn’t fully deliver the rambunctious fun that its title suggests. Caught up in an outcast’s narrative, the side characters bring the big laughs. At some points, the film needs a loudmouthed Jonah Hill to balance out Cera’s awkward humor. It’s “Fight Club” with much lower stakes. And though its eccentricity overshadows its adventure, this charmingly crude coming-ofage tale is the perfect bar-setting comedy to usher in the new year. -Rocco Giamatteo
Daybreakers In our “Twilight”-obsessed culture, “Daybreakers” provides a welcome shift back toward more traditional and certainly gorier vampiric fare. While avoiding clichéd plot lines, this occasionally inventive tale of a vampire majority suffers from a flawed execution that relegates it to mediocrity. In “Daybreakers,” a plague has caused vampires to become the dominant species, while humans
are hunted down and put in blood farms to feed the population. As humans become scarce, scientist (and vampire with a conscience) Edward Dalton (Ethan Hawke) is working on a blood substitute that could replace the need for human blood when he meets a human resistance leader (Willem Dafoe) who offers him a cure for vampirism. The movie’s attention to detail is impressive. The sun-shy populace drives blacked-out cars that they control via video-cameras, and ads feature fanged visages hawking the latest products. The vampires behave mostly like humans — they wear suits, smoke like chimneys and just can’t get going in the morning without a cup of bloodinfused coffee. Unfortunately, becoming a vampire sucked not only the life, but also the energy, out of the normally dependable Hawke. Much of the movie revolves around a dubious cure, and when the credits finally roll, the ending seems less like a cliffhanger and more like the writers just got tired and didn’t feel like writing a passable conclusion. “Daybreakers” has a premise that could have offered a lot more entertainment, especially given the caliber of actors in the movie. While there might be a way to cure vampires of their need to suck blood, the film’s talented cast can’t stop it from being a total drain of your time.
The Daily Tar Heel
Jason Kutchma: Tour Guide
Singer to share tips on hitting the road
before they went out. It’s really tough because there’s just so many bands that are out there. I think before there used to be this underground, and the tough part was just being good. That’s unfortunately the fault of the underground. Before, you just had to work really, really hard to be a great band, and if you were a great band, well, then you’d probably start to get in touch with the underground and what kind of venues were going to be in touch with your music. Now you don’t really have to be good. You just have to sound professional in an e-mail Diversions: Why do you and have OK songs on MySpace. think touring is something that Dive: Has it become more needs to be discussed? that way as you’ve gone along? Jason Kutchma certainly lives up to the definition of “road warrior.” From Durham to St. Louis, Kutchma’s band, Red Collar, has toured tirelessly over the years, with him going so far as to quit his job at UNC’s School of Pharmacy to pursue his musical dreams. Kutchma will lend his wisdom Wednesday to a touring edition of Secondhand Freespace, a quarterly music industry forum at Local 506. Looking forward to the event, Diversions Editor Jordan Lawrence sat down with Kutchma to talk about the hardships of planning a life on the road.
Jason Kutchma: There is no magic bullet. As much as the industry changes and technology changes, you know you hear of people being written about say in Pitchfork, and then they take off. You’re given the impression that there is a magic bullet. You know, ‘All I need is to just get here, get this opening slot for so-and-so or get this great review, and then that’s it.’ Those happen very rarely for people that are lucky more often than talented. It’s still the tried-and-true way. You have to write a great album, and then you go out on the road and play that great album for peo-Mark Niegelsky ple. It’s been that way for 50 years, and it’s not going to change. Dive: What do you find that’s hard about the process of booking and getting a tour together? JK: You’re just one of another at least dozen people that e-mailed that person that day. And what’s really interesting is I think the bigger the venue the less e-mails they get. So we’re all in this big ship full of s--t that keeps e-mailing these smaller venues. I mean, I’ve played with some of these bands and just wondered, “What the f--k is the matter with them? Why do they think they should be going out now?” They should have waited a little bit longer and worked on their craft a little bit more and got it together
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example. It took me six different venues until I got a response from one venue in Memphis, which is a pretty big city, and I don’t e-mail the big places. We had a former band member one time when we were going to travel to Boston or somewhere. They said, ‘Well, we should try this place.’ And I said, ‘Well, how big is it?’ And they said, ‘Well, it’s about as big as the (Cat’s) Cradle, maybe a little bigger.’ I thought ‘Not a good idea.’ You got to aim low.
Dive: Do you find that each time it gets better and encouraging JK: No. I used to feel bad. or was it discouraging at first? You’re always trying to be posiJK: It is always discouraging tive about people like, ‘You can do actually because you’re always it. Attaboy,’ patting people on the playing to new cities. Once you get back and everything. I used to say that Little Rock connection or that you can find at least one good thing Charlotte connection where you’re to say about any band. Admittedly welcome all the time, you’re still — I’m admitting this to you even trying to crack Asheville. You’re though I’ve never really admitted still trying to crack D.C. it to Red Collar — they would say You’re constantly trying to get some of these bands were awful, new cities. And even when you and I would say, ‘Well, they’ve got retread the same cities. Even withnice shoes.’ in them, like we have St. Louis, and I try not to be cynical because it’s we have Little Rock, but everything so easy. Once you’re on that path, in between is still a mystery. forget it. It’s Mr. Negative. So you Dive: At the end of the day, want to be positive about people. That being said, people are mak- are whatever accomplishments you ing CDs today that just should not feel you’ve made on a tour enough be made. You know, taking the best for you to stay positive? two or three songs off of every CD JK: They’re enough for me to and after three years have a really feel that what we’re doing is a good great CD as opposed to spending thing. The people that do respond so much time and investing money are so positive and affectionate into something that shouldn’t be and supportive of us. You’re thinkout there. ing, ‘Wow, there’s another me in It does end up being like a bell another town that gets it.’ curve, just like anything. You have I’m not looking at it in terms of A students. You have F students. shows. I’m looking at it in terms of You have a couple B students, cou- individuals. So yeah, it’s definitely ple D students, and everyone else is worth it, and it’s definitely enough a C. It doesn’t matter. It’s the same to stay positive. thing for rock ’n’ roll. Dive: When you are planning a tour, how many venues do you contact in comparison with how many actually get back to you? JK: The bigger cities are always
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Turnovers doom Tar Heels By David Reynolds SportS Editor
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All-ACC forward Trevor Booker dominated the paint and North Carolina by scoring 21 points and grabbing a game-high nine rebounds for the Tigers. It was the fifth loss away from the Smith Center this season for UNC.
UNC handled by Tigers in second ACC contest By Joe McLean senior WRiter
CLEMSON, S.C. — They might have been picked to win the conference, but if North Carolina doesn’t change something soon, they’re not going anywhere in the ACC. The Tar Heels (12-5, 1-1) were dismantled by No. 24 Clemson in their first ACC road game, losing 83-64. An early 18-4 run put the Tigers in control, and well before the end, the Tar Heels stood with heads down, hands on hips. Sure, Clemson coach Oliver Purnell’s full-court defense forced plenty of turnovers (26, tying UNC’s season high), but it wasn’t the only problem. More than once, the No. 12 Tar Heels got into scoring position only to throw the ball into the stands. They also failed to get good looks for their big men and broke down on defense, leaving a bounty of open 3-point shots. In short, they were rattled. “They’re always doing the same press defense, we’ve just never played this bad against it,” Marcus Ginyard said. “We just didn’t give ourselves a chance to win.” The turnovers turned into easy scores and open 3-pointers for the Tigers (14-3, 2-1), who shot 58 percent in the first half.
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Deon Thompson and Ed Davis had only one field goal between them in the first period. UNC’s best sources of scoring early were guards Dexter Strickland and Larry Drew II driving to the basket. The guards didn’t shoot poorly for the most part, and Strickland led the team with 17 points, but even that played into the Tigers’ hands. “We felt like we were the quicker, faster team, so the faster the game went, the better,” Purnell said. The Tar Heels weren’t much better in the second half. No possession was more futile than the three-offensive-rebound disaster with 12 minutes to go. UNC had just given up a runner from Booker at the other end to make the score 64-43, and seemed determined to be patient and not just throw up the first chance they got for a tip-in. But it just wasn’t their night. Despite good looks, Will Graves missed a pair of 3-pointers on the wing, and Travis Wear got one shot blocked and the other missed from the low post.
The Tar Heels briefly cut the deficit to 11 with six minutes to go on a nice feed from Thompson to Drew, but Demontez Stitt came right back for a layup on the other end to make the score 71-57. Stitt finished with 20 points and forward Trevor Booker had 21 to go with nine rebounds for the Tigers. “Guys who are leaders on this team didn’t contribute well tonight, like myself, and we turned the ball over like it was going out of style,” said Thompson, who finished with four points. “We definitely have to do better.” Ginyard lost several passes out of bounds early, and apart from one steal for a breakaway dunk, was a non-factor in his second game back from an ankle injury. The Tar Heels are now 0-3 in true road games and 1-2 at neutral sites. If they still hope to finish in the top of the ACC, they’ll need those upperclassmen to teach them how it’s done, and quickly. “Clemson showed what aggressive means,” coach Roy Williams said. “They had a great sense of urgency and poise and we need to play with that.” Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu.
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CLEMSON, S.C. — In the hours leading up to No. 12 North Carolina’s first ACC road game against No. 24 Clemson, the Tar Heels’ bus was involved in a car accident on its way to a shootaround at Littlejohn Coliseum. It w a s n’ t t h e o n l y w r e c k Wednesday night. UNC’s offense struggled to find its way through the traffic of Clemson’s high pressure defense in the first half, committing 15 turnovers in the game’s opening period. And that was only the beginning. For the game, the North Carolina (12-5, 1-1 ACC) committed 26 turnovers in its 83-64 blowout loss to the Tigers (14-3, 2-1). The 26 turnovers tied UNC’s season high. “We thought we could turn them over because they’ve struggled with that,” Clemson coach Oliver Purnell said. “That’s what we do, that’s Clemson basketball.” Clemson’s collapse defense rattled the Tar Heels from the opening tip. After UNC’s first three possessions, Clemson already had three steals and six points off those turnovers. Three starters — Larry Drew II, Marcus Ginyard and Deon Thompson — were the main culprits for the Tar Heels, turning the ball over a combined 15 times. “It’s tough when you turn the ball over almost 30 times,” Ginyard said. “We never really gave ourselves a chance to win.” The mistakes led to plenty of easy baskets on the other end for Clemson, who turned UNC’s sloppy play into several easy transition dunks and layups. UNC’s inability to consistently break the pressure also gave the Tigers plenty of energy in half-court sets. After one turnover caused by the defense of Clemson’s Trevor Booker, the forward had an extra bounce in his step as he found his place on the block and demanded the ball down low. A pass and one solid post move later, Booker added two more points to his total and posed to the thunderous applause from the Clemson crowd. The 15 first-half turnovers were matched by only three assists, leaving UNC coach Roy Williams far from pleased with the effort from his starters at the break. And after another sluggish start after intermission, he pulled all five
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UNC’s Dexter Strickland committed three turnovers against Clemson. Three Tar Heels coughed up five turnovers each, while the team had 26 total. starters out of the game with 18:02 remaining and replaced them with all five of UNC’s freshmen. While he reinserted them only a few possessions later, the message was clear. “All the mistakes we made were things that they told us in practice, things that they’ve always shown us what’s the right thing to do and we make the same mistakes over and
over,” Will Graves said. After the game, no one spoke in a somber UNC locker room other than to ask a question or to ask for a towel. Ginyard, a fifth-year senior, best summed up the team’s mood on its offensive performance. “I’ve never felt like this before.” Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu.
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Child Care Wanted PART-TIME BABYSITTER for toddler in Southern Village. $10/hr, Mondays, Wednesdays and some Fridays, 8am1pm. Send an email with 3 references to rsshapard@earthlink.net. TU/TH SITTER NEEDED. Seeking energetic, creative student for afterschool care. Tuesday, Thursday, 2:30-6:15pm. Involves some transport of 4th and 9th grade girls to activities. Own car required. Downtown Carrboro location. $12/hr. Contact: acbg85@yahoo.com. NANNY NEEDED! UNC faculty member seeking full-time experienced and loving nanny for their 18 month-old daughter, Monday through Friday 8:30am-6pm. $10/hr. Must have own car and be a non-smoker. References and background check required. Position available first of February, 2010. Contact Amanda at amanda_dorn@med.unc.edu. 520-820-3727. CARE NEEDED ON Thursdays 1:30-6pm for 2 year-old twin girls in home near campus. Additional hours possible. $15/hr. Must have child care experience. Contact garywinz@med.unc.edu. SPRING BABYSITTER NEEDED Thursday mornings: 8:30am-12:30pm, in our home in NW Chapel Hill, for our 3 yearold boy, girl twins. Some possible Friday hours also possible. If interested, email tkbkbaby@hotmail.com. TU/TH BABYSITTER NEEDED FOR 6 monthold in Carrboro from 10:00am-2pm Tu/Th. Prior experiences with infants, references and non-smoking required. Send your resume to: babysitls2010@gmail.com. SITTERS NEEDED FOR 1 year-old boy and 3 year-old girl for these 3 shifts: (1) M/W/F 7am-1pm. (2) Tu/W/Th/F 5:30-8pm. (3) Saturday 7am-1pm and 5-9pm, Sunday 4-8pm. Near campus. $11/hr. Email desired shift, resume: chapelhillsitter@gmail.com. SITTER, DRIVER NEEDED for 2 children, ages 15 and 10, from 2:30-5:30pm, Tuesday thru Thursday. Must have reliable car and valid US driver’s license with insurance. 919-454-5281.
PART-TIME NANNY NEEDED looking for motivated, energetic nanny with previous child care experience to care for 2 girls (3 and 1.5 years-old) in our home in North Chatham county (6 miles from campus). Must drive and have excellent references. Will pick up girls from preschool at 12:30pm in Carrboro and stay until 5:30pm. if interested, please email misung@mail.com or call 919-949-2466.
FAIR HOUSINg
All REAl ESTATE AND RENTAl advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination.” This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis in accordance with the law. To complain of discrimination, call the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development housing discrimination hotline: 1-800-669-9777. RESEARCH lAB: 2 Kewaunee fume hoods. Extra bench space and storage. Office area, conference area. located in North Raleigh 1 mile from I-540 off Capital Blvd (US 1). Easy access to RTP, RDU, Universities. Very low lease rate. This research lab is ideal for a small or start up company. If you are interested in establishing a private, off site research facility, then don’t hesitate to contact me to discuss the details. Please contact me at 919-632-3936 or aebrink@nc.rr.com for more details. WAlK TO UNC. NEW RENNOVATIONS. 209 North Roberson. 3BR/2BA with W/D, dishwasher, central air and heat. Available immediately. $1,700/mo. 933-8143, www. merciarentals.com. HOUSESHARE: CHAPEl HIll TENNIS ClUB. Pleasant person needed to share. 2 miles UNC, 1 block Chapel Hill busline. January through July with possible extension. 919-929-6879. HOUSE FOR RENT: Charming 3BR/1.5BA home nestled on 1/2 acre wooded lot has large kitchen, huge deck and is just 5 minutes from I-40. Great Chapel Hill schools! bbteam05@yahoo.com, 919-408-8110. SOUTHERN VIllAGE CONDO. 1BR in the heart of Southern Village. Great location, numerous amenities and conveniences On the busline. $850/mo. 919-636-5794. SPACIOUS, MODERN 6BR/5BA town-
house on busline. large bedrooms, hardwood floors, outside wooden deck, W/D, dishwasher, all appliances. Free parking, storage and trash pick up. $400/BR. Available May or August 2010. 933-0983 or spbell48@hotmail.com.
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COUNTRY lIVING. Duplex apartment on large wooded lot, 7 miles from Chapel Hill. Central air, heat, 2BR/1BA: $500/mo. 3BR/1BA: $600/mo. Entire house 5BR/2BA: $1,100/mo. 919-225-4776. WAlK TO CAMPUS. 2BR/1BA with W/D, dishwasher, central air and heat. Available immediately. $750/mo. 933-8143, www.merciarentals.com. WAlK TO CAMPUS. 2BR/1BA with W/D, dishwasher, central air and heat. Available immediately. $750/mo. 933-8143, www.merciarentals.com.
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is excited to welcome our new full-time dog Groomer, Daniele. She comes to us with 10 years experience & looks forward to pampering your pets! Call 919-942-1788 to schedule an appointment. Bring this ad in with your appointment & receive $10 OFF your first groom or $5 OFF your first bath.
WAlK TO CAMPUS. 203 Carver Street. 5BR/ 3.5BA duplex with W/D, dishwasher, central air and heat. Available June. $2,400/mo. 933-8143, www.merciarentals.com. WAlK TO CAMPUS. 1BR/1BA with W/D, dishwasher, central air and heat. Available immediately. $600/mo. 933-8143, www.merciarentals.com.
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29TH ANNUAL MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION JAN. 17-22, 2010 MONDAY
8:30am...Day of Service - Great Hall, Student Union 9:00am...Rally, March, Service
Help Wanted
Help Wanted
Barista / Commercial Cashier Join the UNC Hospitals’ team at the new Starbucks Coffee in the N.C. Cancer Hospital. We are looking for cashiers who will also be trained as coffee baristas to ensure service standards are met and surpassed by creating the Starbucks Experience, providing customers with prompt service, quality beverages and products, and maintaining a clean and comfortable store environment. Responsibilities include: • Promptly provide quality products to customers. • Record sales & provide daily, weekly or monthly cash register reports. • Comply & maintain financial documents for the audit of sales receipts. • Assist in the maintenance of vendor products through merchandising efforts and assist customer support in dining areas. Prior retail and barista experience is highly desired. Requires a high school diploma/GED, or completion of the eighth grade and two years of experience as a cashier, or an equivalent. Competitive wages of $12 an hour.
Help Wanted
For Rent WAlK TO CAMPUS. 1BR/1BA with W/D, dishwasher, central air and heat. Available immediately. $600/mo. 933-8143, www.merciarentals.com.
For Sale TEXTBOOKS BOUGHT AND SOlD, new and used, online buybacks. Buy, sell, rent at cheapbooks.com. 260-399-6111. Español: 212-380-1763. Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi: 713429-4981. See site for other support lines. 2003 JEEP lIBERTY $9,200 66K miles. limited edition. Great condition. All bells and whistles. For more info, call 919-946-6915.
Help Wanted ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: local investment firm seeks proven performer to: provide administrative assistance to the team, including scheduling appointments, booking travel, creating itineraries, expense reporting, answering phones and welcoming guests. Detailed knowledge of and prior experience with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint is highly preferred. Send resumes to info@truebridgecapital.com. PIEDMONT VETERINARY ClINIC in Hillsborough is seeking veterinary assistants for our multi doctor practice. Part-time and full-time positions needed. Contact: 919-732-2569, piedmontvet@embarqmail.com. A HElPING HAND, a non-profit organization recognized for its service learning opportunities, has paid and unpaid internships working with older adults in the home setting and/or assisting in the office. Excellent training and experience for all majors, but particularly for those pursuing careers in health care. Please send letter of interest to servicelearning@ ahelpinghandnc.org or call 919-493-3244. WEBSITE ASSISTANCE: www.trianglecares. org. Non-profit animal welfare organization seeking website help. Pay negotiable. Contact: trianglecares@aol.com. SURVEY TAKERS NEEDED: Make $5-$25 per survey. GetPaidToThink.com. PROFESSIONAl OFFICE HElP NEEDED: Approximately 10 hrs/wk. Good pay. Flexible schedule. Must have experience. Call 919969-6580 for an appointment. SITTER, DRIVER WANTED. Afternoons from 2:30pm, some evenings. Hours vary weekly. Must have own car, valid insurance and driver’s license. Spring and summer hours. 919-969-9164.
EGG DONORS NEEDED. UNC Health
Care seeking healthy, non-smoking females 20-32 to become egg donors. $2,500 compensation for COMPlETED cycle. All visits and procedures to be done local to campus. For written information, please call 919-966-1150 ext. 5 and leave your current mailing address.
EGG DONOR WANTED for infertile couple. Seeking healthy, non-smoking white female 19-30, blue or green eyes, 5’4-5’7, slender to medium build. $3,500 compensation for completed cycle. lszpir@nc.rr.com. OFFICE SUPPORT (ENTRY lEVEl): Full-time. Our growing company seeks an individual who can provide support for our office staff, including basic administrative functions and running errands. Great communication skills and attention to detail required in a dynamic company. Please submit resume to carrielarson@momentum-research.com. $10/hr. THE CAROlINA ClUB: Part-time receptionist. The ideal candidate possesses a flexible schedule, (including evenings and weekends) outstanding written and oral communication skills, attention to detail, the ability to multitask and work independently, strong computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel and database management. We offer flexible hours, competitive wages and shift meals, all within a beautiful upscale setting on the UNC campus. Fax resume and cover letter to 919-962-1635. EOE.
The YMCA at Meadowmont is in need of after school counselors! Email Jess Hanlin at jhanlin@chcymca.org for more information or call us at 919-945-0640.
Lost & Found FOUND: IPOD TOUCH and HEADPHONES, found after Econ 101 review session in Murphey on Wednesday, December 9th. Contact aaronhroz@gmail.com. FOUND: KEYS. Keys kicked off J bus outside Carrington Hall on Tuesday 12/15/09. “I Make a Difference” silver apple key chain with car and “lowe’s” keys. 573-275-5573.
Parking STUDENT PARKING ON BUSlINE. $60/mo or $240/term. Adjacent to Cat’s Cradle, safe location, spot guaranteed. Call 968-4321, M-F, 9am-5pm. PARKING SPACES ClOSE TO CAMPUS. Guaranteed, well lit. $250/semester. 2 locations available immediately. Call 923-6787. PARK NEAR UNC. Nice, new, private, paved lot located between West Franklin Street and West Cameron Avenue. $265/semester. Call owner at 919-967-4155.
Pets/Livestock FREE HOUSE DOG: Free dog to a good home. House trained, cat and child friendly. 919645-8855.
Roommates ROOMMATE NEEDED: Kingswood Apartments. Moving out of a 2BR apartment and need someone to move in with roommate. $320/mo. +utilities. Call for info, 828-551-6739.
Services CALLIgRAPHy
Getting married or have a special event this spring? Experienced Chapel Hill calligrapher will make your envelopes beautiful. For more information, go to www.listlettering.com or call 919-323-2177. FOUR PAWS ANIMAl ClINIC is excited to welcome our new full-time dog groomer, Daniele. She comes to us with 10 years experience and looks forward to pampering your dogs. Call 919-942-1788 to schedule your appointment today.
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KICKBOxINg INSTRUCTOR The YMCA at Meadowmont is looking to hire an energetic kickboxing instructor available to start immediately! For more information contact Jess Hanlin at jhanlin@chcymca.org or call us at 919-945-0640. PART-TIME SAlES: National marketing firm looking for aggressive t-shirt sales reps for the campus and Greek community. Multiple positions available. Excellent part-time opportunity with guaranteed base to start. Email rick@southlandgraphics.com.
1BR/1BA APARTMENT next to University Mall. large living, dining area, spacious BR, hardwood floors, new kitchen, W/D, parking. Available immediately. $675/mo. Call 919923-3461, email HobsonSJ2002@yahoo. com. 1BR OR 2BR TOWNHOME AVAIlABlE. Walking distance to UNC. Rent $537/mo. +utilities per room. Separate baths. W/D, dishwasher and parking included. 828-404-8892.
PART-TIME DRIVER NEEDED to transport busy grad student on periodic short trips to nearby cities. Car and gas provided. Background check. 614-313-0782.
Paid research opportunity participants are needed for studies using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Studies are conducted at the Duke University Brain Imaging and Analysis Center. Must be 18 years of older and no history of neurological injury or disease. Studies last 1-2 hours and participants are paid approximately $20/hr. For more information call 681-9344 or email volunteer@biac.duke.edu. (10672). REC. GYMNASTICS COACH. Gymnastics experience preferred. Part-time position. Will train the right candidate. Must be able to work with children. Minutes from UNC campus. 919-942-7687. Resume and salary requirements to info@thetumblegym.com. $8.50/hr+ depending on experience.
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5:00pm...Unity Dinner
Great Hall, Student Union, RSVP required
7:00pm...He Was a Poem: A Gathering in Tradition
Stone Center Theater, Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture & History
The Daily Tar Heel office will be closed Monday, January 18th in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
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29TH ANNUAL MEMORIAL LECTURE
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Travel/Vacation BAHAMAS SPRINg BREAK
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Tutoring Wanted AFTERSCHOOl TUTOR NEEDED. For 7th grader. Homework help, test prep in all subjects. M-Th. Walk from UNC. Educational, tutoring experience required. Email info: smithj@sog.unc.edu.
Volunteering VOlUNTEERS: Mentors needed for local at risk youth. Spend one on one time with a child each week and make a real difference. Call or visit our website (www.volunteersforyouth.org) to register for the January 23 training. 919-967-4511. UNC ClASS SEEKING senior citizens interested in writing life stories. Meet weekly with student at the Seymour Center. Work will be printed. Kathleen Curtin: 919-923-6709. lIKE HElPING CHIlDREN lEARN? Sign up to VOlUNTEER for a variety of roles, all grades with Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools: www. chccs.k12.nc.us. Information on UNC Campus in Student Union Room #2518, 10am3:30pm, January 13, 19, 21. Email: volunteer@chccs.k12.nc.us, 967-8211 ext. 28281.
Wanted To Rent lOOKING FOR A SUBlET for spring 2010 in walking distance to UNC, $550/mo or less. Call 336-264-6821.
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OUTREACH COUNSElOR: The Chapel HillCarrboro YMCA is now hiring for an Outreach Counselor position. Must be 21 years or older and have experience working with a diverse community of 5-12 year-old children. looking for a staff member who has great communication skills with kids, parents and teachers. Staff member will need to obtain a Commercial Driver’s license and be available Monday thru Friday from 2-6pm. Application can be obtained at our web site www. chcymca.org. or apply at the YMCA located at 980 Martin luther King Jr. Blvd, or send electronically to nchan@chcymca.org.
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National and World News Al-Qaida fighters Google shares fall Bank CEO admits amid cyber-attacks to serious flaws killed in Yemen YEMEN (MCT) — Yemeni special forces killed a suspected al-Qaida leader and captured four fighters as the country increased pressure on the militant network, officials said Wednesday. Yemen’s government, juggling a civil war in the north and a secessionist movement in the south, had been slow to react to a widening al-Qaida threat. Its stepped-up raids amid international concern over the country’s ability to defeat a branch of Yemeni and Saudi fighters that has claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas Day attack on a Northwest airliner heading for Detroit.
SAN FRANCISCO (MCT) — Shares of Google Inc. faltered Wednesday as Wall Street analysts expressed concern about whether the company will follow through on its threat to cease operations in China. L a t e Tu e s d a y, G o o g l e announced it has been the target of cyber-attacks on its infrastructure. Chief Legal Officer David Drummond said the attacks originated in China and seemed to be aimed at identifying human rights advocates in that country. Shares of Google’s biggest Chinese competitor, Baidu Inc., rose more than 13 percent Wednesday to close at $439.48.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — The chairman and CEO of investment titan Goldman Sachs acknowledged Wednesday that his company engaged in “improper” behavior when it made financial bets against $40 billion of securities backed by risky U.S. home loans it was selling to investors. Lloyd Blankfein testified before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, a 10-member panel that Congress created to look into the causes of the financial crisis. During the hearing, the CEOs acknowledged serious flaws in both their models and business practices that helped bring about the nation’s financial crisis.
Disaster in Haiti A UNC student on a mission trip left just hours before the earthquake hit Tuesday. See pg. 1 for story.
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Hannah Cashmon, right, and Maddy Merrill, center, greet student body president candidate Hogan Medlin on Wednesday. Monique Hardin, Nash Keune, Joe Levin-Manning, Shruti Shah and Gregory Strompolos are also running.
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in place since he came to UNC in 1985, which states that any sort of solicitation in residence halls is prohibited in order to protect students’ privacy. He said campaigns for student body president and Residence Hall Association president are the only exceptions — although the Board of Elections rules allow candidates for any office except senior class officers to dormstorm. The Board of Elections also released a non-solicitation notice that students can post on their
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they’re not part of the campus scenery so we remove all of it,” said Brandon Thomas, communications director for facility services. Artists must also constantly dodge law enforcement. For example, Montreal’s street artist Roadsworth claims he was charged with 53 counts of mis-
doors, notifying campaigns that they do not wish to be solicited. Peter Gillooly, chairman of the Board of Elections, said the housing department was primarily responsible for the decision. “I thought it was more appropriate for them to decide what worked best,” Gillooly said. But last year’s board came to a different conclusion. Ryan Morgan, last year’s chairman of the Board of Elections, said Wednesday that his ruling was in line with the housing policy. Junior Hogan Medlin, a candidate for student body president, said he valued dormstorming as a
means of campaigning. “It’s a great tool for us to get out and see different students,” Medlin said. Junior Joe Levin-Manning, another candidate for student body president, said dormstorming can be perceived as annoying but ultimately helps. “It helps us get our visibility out there, and helps give a face to the name,” Levin-Manning said. Monique Hardin, Nash Keune, Shruti Shah and Gregory Strompolos are also running.
chief in 2004, though he is now commissioned for his work. From the perspective of Beth Grabowski, a professor in the art department, the skilled taggers have an internal battle regarding the legalities and legitimacy of their activities. “This is part of what the artist has to contend with, whether they’re creating an interesting art or just graffiti or defacement,” she said.
The stencil artists must hide behind their pen names to avoid prosecution, and therefore lose the personal glory, but this can be a perk for the artist. “I like being anonymous,” Garuda said. “It’s for everyone else to look at, and the attention doesn’t go to me personally. It’s the art.”
Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9.
Solution to Thursday’s puzzle
This year’s student government elections signs must be smaller and less numerous. See pg. 1 for story.
Drama professor dies Beloved drama professor Ken Strong died Tuesday afternoon after battling cancer. See pg. 1 for story.
Saving the trees UNC might eliminate its paper application, but it could affect minorities more. See pg. 3 for story.
Tough Tigers UNC’s home winning streak against Clemson didn’t translate on the road. See pg. 9 for story.
Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
Contact the Arts Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu.
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“This place needed help before this happened. People down there don’t have anything.” Jeanne Vodicka, senior, who returned from Haiti just before a devastating earthquake
By Mark Viser, mviser@email.unc.edu
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Drink specials at 5? Not in N.C.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Urging release of video only serves selfish interest
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t was a typical Thursday afternoon in D.C., and I was, as usual, relaxing at a bar after work. She was a lovely young woman with vibrant brown eyes — probably an intern, like myself. Summer is intern season in D.C.; the bars flood with them at happy hour, especially at the Hawk ’n’ Dove. I shoot her back a smile, and she starts walking toward me. We make small talk for a minute before I find out that she was interning with NPR and just wants to interview me for a piece. I try not to look disappointed. As it turned out, her piece was on how the recession was affecting the drinking habits of interns. Most of the time, we interns went out for happy hour. The time was right and the prices were reasonable. It was a wonderful little tradition, unwinding over a drink or two after leaving the office. I grew rather fond of it. I’ll never know if she quoted me, but I made my love for happy hour clear. Imagine my disappointment when, after returning to North Carolina, I couldn’t find a happy hour special anywhere. It wasn’t until I queried a bartender in Chapel Hill that I found out why: Happy hour is illegal in North Carolina. No establishment serving alcohol can have drink specials lasting less than the entire business day, per Alcohol Beverage Control Commission rules. That’s great news if you like blacking out for cheap on Tuesdays. But if you would rather enjoy a leisurely drink on a Friday afternoon, expect to pay full price for it. The more I looked into it, the grimmer the situation was for alcohol sellers. North Carolina has a rich history of arbitrary alcohol regulations. Before 2005, beer with alcohol content more than 6 percent was illegal in North Carolina. When grassroots group Pop The Cap fought to raise the limit, former State Senator John Kerr strongly opposed them. He likened stronger beers to “drinking straight vodka,” and insisted that we think of the children. Consider the facts: Sam Adams’ Utopias (the self-styled strongest beer in the world) is 27 percent alcohol, $150 per bottle and illegal in North Carolina. Diesel, which is 95 percent alcohol, sells at the ABC store for one-tenth Utopias’ price. It should be no mystery, even to a legislator, which of these drinks a cash-strapped teenager will try to get. Fortunately for enthusiasts of fine craft beers, the limit was raised to 15 percent. Now beers like Hell’s Belle, a Belgian ale of 7 percent from the Raleigh-based microbrewery Big Boss, can be sold right alongside the mediocre watered-down brews from the corporate giants. But many bizarrely useless rules are still on the books, making it harder for bars to do business. Besides the ban on happy hour, N.C. bars may have neither “Ladies Night” nor “buy one, get one free” specials. They can’t advertise drink specials on white boards outside the bar, nor can they offer coupons for drinks. Bartenders aren’t even allowed to wear T-shirts featuring alcohol brands. It’s a sad state of affairs when Washington, D.C., a city infamous for government meddling, has less strict alcohol laws than North Carolina. In this rough economy, there’s no reason to impose senseless costs on any business or its patrons. For the sake of every working individual and poor college student, it’s time for North Carolina to free the bars.
Don’t move trial Federal trial of Demario James Atwater should not be moved to another state
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change of venue for the federal trial of Demario James Atwater, one of the men charged with killing former Student Body President Eve Carson, should not be granted. Atwater’s federal defense attorneys are attempting to move the trial out of North Carolina, claiming their client won’t get a fair trial if it remains in the state. The defense cited a survey stating that 80 percent of North Carolinians know about the case, and that 53 percent already believe he is guilty before he has been tried. The defense believes that the widespread publicity of the case will affect the prejudices of the jury. “A fair trial in the Middle District, or in any other North Carolina district, is not pos-
sible,” the motion states. However, there are other factors to consider when deciding whether to grant change of venue. Although the Sixth Amendment states that the defendant has a right to a fair trial by an impartial jury, it also states that the jury should be of the state or district where the crime was committed. “These are two constitutional principles that must be balanced,” said Richard E. Myers II, an assistant professor at the UNC School of Law. A change of venue is rarely granted and is simply unnecessary in this case. “You only need 12 impartial jurors for a fair trial,” Myers said. Myers acknowledged that this might be an unusual case
and declined to have an opinion on the matter. But the fact is, a change of venue is only granted in extreme circumstances, like the Oklahoma City bombing. Attorneys also have the right to reject jurors they feel might taint the jury pool, a process known as voir dire. With 20 percent of North Carolinians unaware of the case and close to 50 percent still impartial, it shouldn’t be too difficult to create a fair trial. Besides, the death of Eve Carson is a community matter. All those affected by the tragedy should be able to attend the case and observe its proceedings. Although it is important that Atwater receives a fair trial, moving it to another state isn’t the answer.
No band-aids for graduation Graduation requirements must change; more clusters and more courses, not temporary fixes
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emporary steps to accommodate seniors who are struggling to fill the upper-level fine arts requirement need to be followed by a comprehensive solution. Four years into the new curriculum, the supplemental education fine arts requirement has proven to be especially onerous for students. “We know the division of fine arts is a small division. There is a bottleneck there,” said Bobbi Owen, senior associate dean of undergraduate education. With only three departments from which students can draw — art, music and dramatic art — and with options limited within those departments, the curriculum has placed an unfair burden on the students who are desperate to fill the
requirement. Yet these departments are also burdened with the formidable task of maintaining educational standards while accommodating the demand for their courses. Any solution will have to address this by either increasing course offerings or removing the requirement. The obvious solution is to offer more sections of the above-199-level fine arts classes that students need to take. Even better still would be to expand the options for students to meet the supplemental education requirement through the “integrative” option. The integrative approach allows students to take three related courses in a “cluster” of courses to meet the requirement. Students still have an interdisci-
plinary experience bound by an overarching theme. And because students need only take cluster courses from two of the four College of Arts and Sciences divisions, greater cluster participation would ease demand for fine arts courses. Owen is extremely supportive of clusters, but cited that they can be difficult to develop, especially in the budgetary climate. But it would certainly be worth the effort to actually make the curriculum work rather than face the same situation again next spring. A comprehensive reform with a greater emphasis on clusters, in tandem with greater course offerings, could vastly improve the general education curriculum.
Sarah Palin has finally ended up where her inane, semi-coherent babbling fits right in — Fox News! It’s all about the jobs and making Americans feel safe for those lower taxes. You tell them, Sarah!
Marijuana in N.J. Medical marijuana is now legal in New Jersey. This decision was obvious. The law now recognizes as a valid treatment the only way to tolerate living in the land of pollution, corruption and MTV’s “Jersey Shore.”
Brent Kulman Greensboro
Student Congress elections should follow new system TO THE EDITOR: You were right about the problem but wrong about the remedy in “Yo, Congress, represent!” (Dec. 2). Electing Student Congress all by residence or all by class — neither way reflects each student’s self-chosen basis for representation. The problem started when student government copied its voting system from governments in the United States. As political scientists know, no self-respecting constitution drafters outside this country copy our backward voting systems nowadays. The brightest exception is the advanced ballot system in Cambridge, Mass., — home of Harvard University and MIT. In spite of our public government’s bad examples, many of our most advanced universities elect their student leaders with some form of proportional representation, such as “choice voting.” That way, each student can choose their own basis of voting and not be confined to concepts of residence, class or any other basis chosen for the voter by others. What if a voter thinks sex, race, Greek/independent or field of study is more important to them? Or, heaven forbid, they want to vote for the best candidates with the best platforms of all the residence areas, all the classes, all the sexes, all the departments, etc.? With proportional representation they can, and the election
Korky Day Chapel Hill
Yates a Tar Heel, too; boos during games undeserved TO THE EDITOR: I was in attendance at the Michigan State men’s basketball game and have attended all of the home football games this year. I have heard a smattering of boos directed toward T.J. Yates during the Rams Club commercial, “I am a Tar Heel”. At the Michigan State game, I was fortunate enough to sit in the corner of the lower arena above the players’ tunnel and to the left of the student section. It appeared to me that many of the boos came from the student section behind the basket. I was personally embarrassed to hear the boos. Yates is a Tar Heel, too, and does not deserve to be booed either by someone who dislikes him or is just trying to be clever. He would tell you that he, too, has been disappointed at times in his performance on the field this year, but I can assure you that he has represented the University with grace and class. He also happens to be the best quarterback currently enrolled at the University and appears to have the support of his coaches and his teammates. I am proud of the manner in which he has handled himself both on and off the field. Carolina is a great place, and we have a wonderful athletic program that depends on fan support. Please do your part and refrain from booing the athletes who represent us. Richard R. Newell UNC ’72 Wilmington
Wednesday’s poll Should Donna Bell have been seated by the Chapel Hill Town Council?
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TO THE EDITOR: I note from your editorial, “Release SBI report,” (Dec. 8), that you are urging Judge Bradford Long to release the video of the interaction between Courtland Smith and the police. Knowing full well that the family has opposed the release, I am startled by the interest that you and other media outlets are showing in this case. If the family is not pressing the matter further, then why should you? Despite your protestations, this is not about trust in local law enforcement and it is most certainly not about the grieving and healing process. This is about the media’s prurient interest in attracting eyeballs to its content, and you should take a good long hard look at what you are seeking to accomplish.
results fairly represent everyone for a change. Voter turnout tends to go up because they learn that it works better.
Walgreens
Urban archery
In the most exciting news to hit Franklin Street probably ever, Walgreens is now open. But what is this media frenzy just because a drug store opened downtown? What is this — the 1920s?
The town says it wants to gather more information about an urban archery program to stop deer overpopulation. If allowed, Chapel Hill has it’s fair share of Eagle Scouts ready to serve.
UNC’s value
First week of class
UNC was voted again as the best value in public education by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. But with tuition hikes and grade inflation, we’re not sure there’s anything public or educational about this place anymore.
The first week of spring semester is wrapping up. We know you made all those promises about spending long hours in the library this semester. So, how’s that going? Our guess is that those notions went the way of your New Years’ resolutions.
Is it a bad start to a relationship if I found $320 wrapped around a condom in my new girlfriend’s room? Why are all the attractive people communists? Dear Jasmin Jones: I want to be the Marilyn Monroe of your JFK. Riding a razor scooter to class is a statement. It says, “I still listen to Chumbawamba.”
Group projects are only fun when in the bedroom. Dear stoplight at the Stone Center: What is your purpose? MATH 232 professor: Just because you give us a problem about beer doesn’t make you cool. To the girl complaining about fraternity hickies: If you don’t want a souvenir, then don’t ask to see the gift shop.
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