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Plan targets sustainablility on campus Meeting highlights plans and allows for discussion Anastasia Astrashevskaya Staff Writer
Project manager and engineer for the University Damien Lallathin presented a plan targeted toward self-sufficiency in electricity at the Physical Environment Committee meeting Thursday. “We need to increase our selfreliability and meet the energy needs of the growing University,� Lallathin said. The University is utilizing two types of fuel, gas and diesel, according to Lallathin. Now, steam will be the new source of energy in order to reach the capacity, he said. The total estimated budget for the project is $55 to $60 million, Lallathin said. Financing for the project will be paid back by the energy savings in less than twenty years. “The new equipment in the plants will have the same longetivity as the current one [equipment],� Lallathin said. According to John Giles, visiting lecturer from the College of Management, the equipment in place now has been there for more than 50 years. Lallathin said he plans to start the project by creating steam powered electricity on North Campus, from the railroad tracks to Hillsborough Street. Attendees at the meeting also discussed Yarborough Central Plant and Cates Avenue Central Plant, the next renovative project. According to Douglas Hall, a design representative from BBH, an architectural design firm with expertise in Higher Education facilities, better pedestrian paths will be offered around the two plants. “All the equipment in Yarborough Central Plant will be taken out and replaced with new equipment,� Hall said. “More and more students use the path between Carmichael Gym and First Year College, which shows that the path needs development.� The second segment of the meeting focused on campus parking and transportation. Dick Bernhard, an industrial and system engineering professor, said everything that can be done regarding parking and transportation has been done. However, Bernhard presented several issues. FUEL continued page 3
Wade Burrell, a senior in history, performs with the Grains of Time in Stewart Theatre Dec. 2, 2007. The all-male a cappella group is celebrating its Spring concert and 40th anniversary reunion on Saturday at 8:00 p.m. in Stewart Theatre.
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elebrating 40 years as the University’s premier male a cappella group, Grains of Time organized a concert Saturday as a tribute to groups past.
The group, composed of eight members, has diligently worked for a year to recruit former Grains of Times groups to return to the stage, according to Daniel Knight, a senior in history and political science who has been a member since 2005. Knight said the performance will include about 50 Grains alumni, including almost all members from the early 90s and the original group from 1969. “We are really wanting to showcase through the years with the Grains,� Knight said. “We’re going to come out, do a couple songs and then introduce the next group and
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A coalition of students will march to several banks and the N.C. Legislature in Raleigh today to demand a student bailout. Students from N.C. State, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNCGreensboro, UNC-Charlotte, Hampton University and high school students from across the state are taking part in a worldwide movement aimed to freeze tuition, cancel all student debt, create job programs with living wage and fund human needs, accord-
ing to Ryan Thomson, a junior is to counterbalance the effect in political science. of lower income and the higher Thomson, also the lead dele- price of education. gate of Students for Social ProgMaddie Miller, a senior at Durress, said its objective is to fight. ham Academy and member of “The recession the UNC-Chais star ting to pel Hill Students hurt everybody for a Democratic and we see that,� Society, said it he said. “We are organized this ex pec t i ng fee as a call to acand tuition intion. creases despite “May 1 is the budget cuts. traditional day The quality of Maddie Miller, a senior at to protest workeducation is goer’s rights, so Durham Academy ing down with we’re basically larger class sizes calling a demand less classes.� onstration tomorrow to prepare Thomson said opportunities for May 1,� she said. “The people are slipping away from students that are becoming most paraand the goal of the movement lyzed by the economic crisis are
“The goal is to get people involved in the movement.�
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forty more.� About 75 percent of the material the group performs is contemporary pop music, Knight said, but songs such as “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot� and “Stand by Me� have been passed down from previous incarnations. “It’s the Grains’ tradition to keep those songs alive and to keep them performed,� Bliss said. “In the history of the Grains, there has always been a steady change in the styles of music.� With respect to the pieces they actually perform, regardless of pay, it all depends on their audience. “A lot of times, they’ll ask us [to sing certain songs] beforehand,� Stephen Wrightenberry, a sophomore GRAINS continued page 3
Movement aimed to freeze tuition, cancel student debt Students will march to banks, N.C. Legislature
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chronologically go from the original members and work up. We are going to focus the concert on the Grains as a whole through our history, all 40 years.� Milton Bliss, former faculty member of the Music Department, said he first founded a smaller men’s vocal group from select members of the Varsity Glee Club in 1967. Each year the Glee Club would tour, performing at high schools around the state, he said. The new group, originally named the Statesmen, was intended to extend the length of the shows as well as perform music that was more appealing to high school students,
according to Bliss. “I tried to form a group with a more modern type of singing,� Bliss said. “At that time the Kingston Trio was prominent, the youngsters liked the folk songs and ballads.� The group was also briefly known as the Bell Towers, Bliss said, before settling on the Grains of Time in 1969. “I don’t know why that particular name was suggested but that’s what they wanted,� he said. Although the Grains included acoustic guitars as late as the 1980s, Bliss said it has operated as a selfmanaged, student-run group that performs its own arrangements since the beginning. “I’m amazed that it’s been forty years,� he said. “I hope they have
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students, the working class and elderly.� She said her goal is to be as vocally and visually present as possible to help form the student bailout. “The goal is to get people involved in the movement,� she said. “It’s something which is just as important as the Civil Rights Movement.� Protestors are marching to the Bank of America and Wachovia because they have been recipients of billions of dollars of federal bailout money and are the two biggest holders of student loan debt, according to Thomson. He said as the banks get bailed, education is becoming less affordable and students are falling deeper into debt. As the march
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continues, they will pay a visit to the legislature to demand a real jobs program that can provide work for young people, no education cuts and no tuition hikes, he said. “Since the banks got the bailout, they need to pass money back to the students,� Thomson MOVEMENT continued page 3
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