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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012

SPORTS

LIFESTYLE

FEATURE: EPIPHANY WOODSON ‘Dear Ex-Roomate’ is back this semester enjoying her time without out you. Seeing you pack your bags was too enjoyable.

From all the dirty dishes, unwashed laundry, hair-filled sink, and screaming, she is glad to have a new roomate.

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Charlotte women’s basketball senior Epiphany Woodson’s choice to transfer to Charlotte has given her

Woodson also has the opportunity to play in her hometowne, everytime she plays at Halton Arena. p.11

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Lambert signs first class of 24

Coach Lambert discusses his first class of recruits for the 2013 football season.

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Nathan Butler

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The Charlotte 49er Football program made history Wednesday, as the first class was signed for the 2013 football season.

Will Thomas, wide receiver from Hampstead, N.C. (Topsail H.S.), was the first to sign with the 49er Football program.

Thomas made his declaration at 7:02 a.m., just two minutes after the ‘official’ start of National Signing Day. The next signee: Maiden High School quarterback, Matt Johnson.

“This is just a huge day for our program and our university and to see first two come across — it’s really exciting,” said head coach Brad Lambert. “It’s kind of neat that

it was a receiver and quarterback — I guess we’re ready to score some points. The thing is — it just makes it real. We’ve got a team now. The players are coming in.”

24 signees made their pledge to join something that has not yet begun, in a sense, but the feeling of something grand.

In order to understand why Wednesday was such an sssssimportant day for the 49er Football program, one must first relive the process that got us to where we are today: -December 2007 – The Football Feasibility Committee voted unanimously to recommend the addition of football in accordance with Title IX at UNC Charlotte.

-September 2008 – Students lead a ‘March to the Endzone’ pep rally in support of 49er Football.

-November 13, 2008 - The UNC Charlotte Board of Trustees votes on Chancellor Phil Dubois’ recommendation to add football to the Charlotte 49ers athletic program.

-March 1, 2011 – UNC Charlotte announces the hiring of Coach Brad Lambert (Former Wake Forest Defensive Coordinator).

-Spring 2011 – Construction for the Football stadium got underway.

-February 1, 2011 – Charlotte takes place in its first National Signing Day To put this in perspective, a lot has taken place over the last few years, but even more is set to take place over the next couple.

Connecting with friends

A freshman’s take on making friends at a big unviersity Samantha Glenn SGLENN11@UNCC.EDU

College campuses offer a world of diversity with a huge melting pot of friends to choose from. You quickly learn that people come from different places, have varied backgrounds and different academic and social interests.

As a freshman at UNC Charlotte one of the most challenging things to accomplish

during the first year is the transition from high school to college life, which includes making new friends. In a new environment, finding friends can be intimidating, however if you look at all the opportunities, you may just be surprised.

Interestingly enough, we always gravitate to people who are like us, since that already provides a common ground from which to start friendships.

Roommates

Roommates are amongst the first group of friends you can make when first coming to college. Generally people search for others like themselves through online sites

FRIENDS p.9

OPINION

SPORTS

Freshman Fireside: Basket-

INTERMURAL STATISTICS

ball Etiquette for Niner Nation.

Dear Norm: A few words of advise to keep your stress level at a minimum.

What is beauty?: Is today’s version of beauty different from yesterdays, or are we simly adjusting to current trends? p.5-6

such as RoomSurf.com and utilize Facebook to learn more about each other.

Your roommates can be your best friends or become your worst nightmare. At UNC Charlotte you can select your roommates or they can be selected for you by Housing and Residence Life, which means cross your fingers and hope for the best.

Not every roommate is perfect for the other individual living in the room. When this happens things can get rough. By rough I truly mean it and it can definitely get ugly.

I live here on campus in a suite. My first roommate experience was not a good one as my roommate and I turned out to be a

NEWS

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CHARLOTTE IDOL

Find out who is leading the current

UNC Charlotte Senior Brittany

standings in intermural basketball.

Brown recounts her experiences

-Points per game.

trying to make it onto American

-Assists per game.

Idol in June of last year. Yet to her

Rebounds per game.

dissapointment, she did not make

GET TO KNOW HOMECOMING COURT: PT. 1 p.12

the cut. p.3

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“Next Fall when we bring these guys in, we’ll do an offseason conditioning drill.

Similar to what you do in a normal January or February kind of conditioning,” said Coach Lambert.

What’s after that? The 49ers will hold their first practice.

“I’ll have to hold the coaches back more than the players – We don’t have to win a championship the first week.”

If you want an idea of what to expect over the next few months, just look to the University of Texas at San Antonio, as they just finished their two-year period Charlotte has just begun.

In a recent interview, Coach Lambert pointed out several different parallels between the two programs: -Both universities are located within a major city -UT San Antonio is in the University of Texas system, while UNC Charlotte is in the University of North Carolina system “Coach (Larry) Coaker has been great to us, and we’ll probably go out there this spring to see how their first year went,” said Coach Lambert Needless to say, Niner Nation will have the privilege of being able to witness the first-step in a long process that will give us something to cheer about for generations to come.

Local church receives service award Ciera Choate NEWS@NINERONLINE.COM

“And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end,” Luke 1:31-33.

The interpretation of these verses draws one of the defining differences between the World Mission Society Church of God and other Christian or Catholic religions.

While most religions do not believe Jesus has returned to earth the Church of God believes he was born in 1918 – Christ Ahnsahnghong.

“We must not just have faith. We need to be like the salt and the light of the world,” said Gaurav Gautam of the World Mission Society Church of God. “It just takes 3 percent of salt to purify the world. To purify FRIENDS p.2

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SENATOR from p.1

The World Mission Society Church of God at one of their many service clean-up events. The organization also held a concert this past year in Korea where they raised over $100,000 to help disaster stricken areas. The group donated the money to the United Nations. Photo courtesy of Gaurav

Gautam

it takes 3 percent of salt, so we believe that even if 3 percent of us throughout the world participate that 3 percent can purify the whole world.”

To help spread their beliefs and interpretation of the Bible the Church of God does community service all over the globe.

The organization donated over 4,000 hours of their time, which won them the President’s Volunteer Service Award.

“Throughout the whole world our church is actively participating in volunteer activities, so we can spread the word that if we are all like this how much of a greater society we can live in,” said Gautam.

Last year the church, which is a national organization, held a concert in Korea where they raised about $100,000 for areas that have been struck with disaster.

“We’ve been doing street clean-up and volunteering at nursing homes and disaster relief,” said Gautam. “When we raised $100,000 our general pastor went directly to the [United Nations] to give that gift to them.”

To further spread their reach throughout the world they are working to establish an organization at UNC Charlotte. Students interested in finding out more about the Church of God and the university organization can visit www.english.watv.org.

They are not yet an official student organization on campus, but do have a place in the Charlotte community. The group is trying to gain enough on campus support to go forward in forming a student organization under the Student Government Association (SGA).

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Who will be the next

King and Queen

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**Check out next Tuesday’s issue of the Niner Times to see more of the Homecoming candidates!**

Matthew Murrow for Homecoming King

Favorite Show Growing Up: Friends Favorite Color: PMS 347 Green Milk: 2% Favorite Food: Jack Daniel’s Chicken at TGI Friday’s Hidden Talent: Competitive Bowling Proudest Moment: When we beat Temple in the basketball game two years ago. We got to rush the court. they were ranked fifteenth at the time; greatest experience of my life.

Embarrassing Story: It’s usually falling up steps. I do that a lot.

Future Plans: Graduate. Make enough money to give back to the university and get a building named after me.

Dana Boone

Jerrell Collins for Mr. Sophomore

Favorite Show Growing Up: Naruto/ Dragonball Z Favorite Color: Blue Milk: Skim Favorite Food: Mac & Chesse with eight cheeses and fried lobster Hidden Talent: Walking on my hands and spoken word poetry Proudest Moment: The day I got accepted into NYU but decided to go to UNC Charlotte to be close to my family.

Embarrassing Story: One time I forgot to put on shoes when I was running out the house and went to school barefoot.

Future Plans: To go to the Marines for four years then come back and get my masters in bioinformatics and doctorine in nanoscale technology to one day use nanoscale technology to wipe out all of the disease and ailments plaguging the world.

for Homecoming Queen Favorite Show Growing Up: Rugrats Favorite Color: Pink Milk: Whole (chocolate) Favorite Food: Bacon Hidden Talent: I can step, as in Stomp the Yard.

Proudest Moment: Closing on my condo. Homeownership makes me feel like a grown up.

Embarrassing Story: Getting my shoe caught in an escalator at the mall. It started smoking and beeping. I left the shoe and walked out with my head held as high as I could while only wearing one shoe.

Future Plans: Marry Ryan Gosling

Michael Kowalchyk for Homecoming King

Favorite Show Growing Up: Survivor Favorite Color: Nantucket Blue Milk: Skim Favorite Food: Honey Nut Cheerios Hidden Talent: My ability to talk to people.

Proudest Moment: Breaking the record for the biggest blood drive in the universities history with 874 donations Embarrassing Story: I used to roll down the flight of stairs in my house.

Future Plans: I will pursue a position within a mixed use development corporation to foster community relationship and economic opportunities within the Charlotte area.

Courtney Parks for Ms. Junior

Favorite Show Growing Up: Rugrats Favorite Color: Pink Milk: 2% Favorite Food: Cheddars croissants Hidden Talent: Crafting Proudest Moment: Becoming a 49er Embarrassing Story: Falling down the fretwell stairs freshman year Future Plans: Own my own adult day care and opening a free healthcare clinic for African American and Hispanic women specializing in sexual health.

Sandra Uwera

for Homecoming Queen Favorite Show Growing Up: Captain Planet Favorite Color: Yellow Milk: 2% Favorite Food: Lasagna Proudest Moment: Becoming a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. Embarrassing Story: I just have too many to pick from.

Future Plans: To start a non-profit for teenage girls in Africa.

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New residence hall underway Ciera Choate

NEWS@NINERONLINE.COM

UNC Charlotte’s student population continues to increase year to year causing Housing and Residence Life to build more residence halls to accommodate students.

One way they are doing this is with the addition of Residence Hall X located next to the Student Union parking deck and Miltimore Hall.

The name for the residence hall has not yet been set in stone, but there has been talk of it being named Walnut Hall, according to Brian Kugler, the project manager for Residence Hall X. The building will be placed where Lot 22 currently resides, moving all parking to North Deck and Lot 25, which is located across from Miltimore Hall. The lot will close Feb. 10 to begin the electrical and utility part of construction, and the university plans to have the dorms open by the Fall 2013 semester.

“We’re going to minimize [blocking traffic]. There may be a time when we have to close a lane on Cameron and reroute traffic around, but as far as the impact on

Cameron as a whole we’re going to try and minimize that because it is a main route in and out and around campus,” said Kugler.

“The contractors will be doing everything they can to keep traffic flowing smoothly.”

Cost for the project comes to about $28 million and is funded entirely through Housing and Residence Life, who took a loan from the N.C. State Government and will pay it back in its entirety. Residence halls, unlike academic buildings, are not funded through state appropriations but are funded by student fees.

“As with all housing projects it’s all housing funded. They use room and board fees,” said Kugler.

“They show the state what they intend to charge for tuition. how many rooms, the expected interest rate and they take a loan from the state. It’s not appropriated money.”

Residence Hall X will have 426 beds.

Three hundred and ninety beds will be in apartment style dorms, and 36 beds will be suite style dorms. There will only be 12 three-bedroom suites. The hall’s appearance will be modeled after Miltimore Hall.

Above: An artist’s rederring of the projected plans for Residence Hall X. Below: The floorplan of Residence Hall X, including bedrooms and outdoor features, based on the third floor of the planned building. Photos courtesy of Malcolm Carter

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OPINION Beauty is in the eye in the beholder... or is it?

Maurii Davenport M D AV E N 1 4 @ U N C C . E D U

Walking around campus, it would not be out of the norm to see our peers with dyed hair, eye contacts, and even tips on their nails to make them appear longer.

It is a great debate as to whether any of these cosmetic changes are actually necessary, or if these individuals do not “love” themselves enough to live with what they are born with.

Although there is no correct answer, if you have to look at cultural norms, there is absolutely no difference between these modifications and the ones your orthodontist makes you deal with for two years of your adolescence.

In today’s society, physical beauty is highly valued and can sometimes hold as much weight as intelligence.

The idea of perfection can drive many towards insanity, but one must ponder, by whose standards do people consider what is factually beautiful.

Even more confounding is trying to decipher who is responsible for determining which physical adjustments are justifiable.

In an ideal world, it should only be your personal opinion when choosing what features you want to alter.

According to orthodontics.org, at any given time, there are about four million people wearing braces. Now, this is modifying your beauty as well because most

people do not have impeccably straight teeth. But, it is deemed acceptable to get dental work, costing thousands of dollars, but wearing contacts to lighten the color of your eyes is superficial.

Again, it is only personal opinions that should matter, and any others should not be of concern.

With the evolving world we live in, it would not be wise to look at our civilization for conformation either.

In the ‘50s Marilyn Monroe was iconic for her blond hair and curvy figure and for many years women were falling suit.

She was portrayed as attractive and desirable and her moments where she lacked smarts were described as comical.

Nowadays naturally fair-haired women are coloring their tresses to avoid the “dumbblond” stereotype.

Ask one person and they would suggest this change is reasonable, and that the perpetrator is only protecting their image; while another would imply that the modification is strictly shallow.

There is no right or wrong way to make yourself feel as though you are good-looking and your peers will not be the one with the deciding answer.

Having a mind to think for yourself is one of the advantages of life, and having the power to change what you are not fond of is just an added perk.

Although what you do today may not be accepted, with the constant changes on the outlook of perfection, someone will always agree with what you decide.

After all, beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

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Dear Norm, A particular feeling seems to roll in towards the beginning of most years for me.

I get burned out by the end of the previous year, and a sense of rejuvenation fills my soul to its maximum capacity.

I’ve been thinking a lot about life and what I want my legacy to be as a student and as a person; consequently these thoughts are transpiring into “Lessons to Live By,” a mere attempt to freshen my attitude as the writer and your attitude as the reader.

I recently heard an illustration that caught my eye, a lesson that would make the world a better place if everyone decided to let the following concept flow through their veins. Bear with me through this illustration. The mere words may seem juvenile, but the impact is profound.

Imagine standing on the area in front of the Student Union. In front of you on the road is a huge crowd of children talking amongst each other and running around like a swarm of bees. The children are buzzing around so fast that you can hardly keep your head on your shoulders. Now beyond the street full of crazy kids is a tall,

towering man reaching up about seven feet into the air.

This man represents what is really important in your life, what should be the center of your focus. But what do you see?

You sure as anything can’t see the tall man across the street. Instead, you see the mob of small children; that is just where your eye and focus are naturally drawn.

This illustration represents where our focuses lie. So very often, all we see is the children running around in our midst.

These kids are the busyness of our lives, the quizzes, the assignments, the emails, the organization meetings, the laundry, the papers, the obligations, and the classes. Sometimes I wonder how we get by and still manage to sleep a wink every now and then.

All of our focus is centered on this rat race we are all running, but we forget the big picture. As flippant as it may sound, who really cares about the club meeting you have to go to or about the quiz you have tomorrow? Does it really matter? In the grand scheme of things, none of this matters.

It is your job to search deep into your core existence to decide what matters to do and to try to focus solely on that. Is your focus becoming a nurse one day?

Then do you best every day while you are in school so you can be the best nurse you can be one day. Is your goal to be a friend that anyone can rely on? Then be the best friend you can be a prune yourself to be a faithful, reliable person in all aspects of your life.

When you feel like you are running your life as if on a treadmill, remember to lift your head and look ahead of you and within you to remember what the core focus of your life is, the towering man across the street from you.

Keeping that thought in the back of my mind seems to take the sting out of the monotony that encompasses my days.

Discover who you are what your aspirations are for your life and look out from the distracting crowd of busyness so you can see what really matters ahead of you.

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Freshman Fireside:

Sideline etiqutte

Jordan McSwain

J M C S WA 1 7 @ U N C C . E D U

Collegiate basketball is one of the best parts of any university. Here at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, basketball consumes months out of the year.

Right now, we are in the heat of it.

This week is going to give a few tips and the do’s and don’ts as a student section member. It is possible to have both spirit and class so read and take notes.

NO CURSING. Every time you yell a cuss word in the stands, everyone in front of and around you rolls their eyes at you.

At these games, lots of alumni come with their families and that means kids. You do nothing but completely ruin the student section’s reputation and make the whole group look bad.

No one is more disappointed in someone that a person that cusses in front of cute little kids.

KNOW THE SPORT. When you yell at the referee for a call against us that was clearly our fault, you look like an idiot. Definitely know the terminology and the hand signals.

When the ref’s motion a travel and you complain about a foul, which is worse than a bad call. Supporting the team is okay but a real fan can recognize a mistake.

DO YOUR RESEARCH. Making fun of players and coaches is always okay and acceptable but make sure you aren’t making fun of something they can’t help.

Usually stay away from the aesthetics because you never know if a sickness caused that or a freak accident but if you know they had some trouble with the law, have at it. Anything from their past that was under their control is fair game.

Student sections are there to taunt and antagonize the other team so much that they lose all focus and begin making mistakes that will hopefully cost the game.

When you are making fun of a team member, try some creative humor like puns or play on words with their names or mistakes from their past.

If the 49ers lose, never complain about it. Be upset but be respectful, our boys work too hard for you to sit in the arena and whine about a loss when you weren’t the one playing.

Support with class is our motto.

Anyone can be a member of Niner Nation; you just need to know how to do it.

If you want to get even more involved with supporting UNC Charlotte’s athletics join Niner Nation Gold.

Twenty dollars a year gets you a t-shirt, priority seating, and access to limited events.

If you are ever wondering if you are doing it right in the student section, just look at Ryan Benson. He’s usually doing it right.

Farewell classic rock n’ roll MCT Campus

The Jan. 20 death of 72-year-old rhythm-and-blues legend Etta James, just three days after the death of her mentor, bandleader Johnny Otis, is a sad reminder that the early pioneers of rock-n-roll are a dying breed.

Of those who helped define rock’s earliest years, only a handful of stars remain, such as Chuck Berry, Pat Boone, Fats Domino, Don and Phil Everly, Jerry Lee Lewis and “Little Richard” Penniman.

The first to go on Feb. 3, 1959, 53 years ago _ were Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the “Big Bopper,” J.P. Richardson, who died in a plane crash after their performance at the Winter Dance Party show at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa.

Back then, the “cool rockin’ daddies” and “teen queens” who entertained teenage America did so with their passion and voices, not by flashing their private parts.

Sure they were rebels in their time.

But music in the 1950s was a tough, uncompromising and somewhat shady business. Pretenders might get lucky once in a while, but they didn’t last. Today’s highly scripted sound-alike performers couldn’t have cut it.

While the list of departed pioneers is long and growing the great, near great, one-hit wonders, and those, like Esquerita and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, who helped push the envelope for those who followed the death of Holly, Richardson and Valens, immortalized as “the day the music died”

by Don McLean in his 1971 hit single, “American Pie,” was a defining moment for many older baby boomers.

I was 13 at the time and can remember sitting in stunned silence when the news broke.

Even the Arnie “Woo Woo” Ginsburg, the freewheeling Boston deejay whose show on WMEX was sponsored by Adventure Car Hop, was subdued.

In 1959, most teenagers had never been in an airplane. Dying in a plane crash seemed unbelievable.

This was the post-war generation’s

first real tragedy. Younger boomers wouldn’t feel such loss until November 1963, when Lee Harvey Oswald gunned down JFK. We older boomers, who took our rock-n-roll straight up, without the drugs that followed, got our kick in the butt early.

The Surf Ballroom, which still operates today (www. surfballroom.com), is one of America’s iconic dance halls, with a dark lofted ceiling, hand-painted murals and a 6,300-square-foot dance floor surrounded on two sides by tiers of booths.

I last visited the Surf more than a decade ago for the 40th anniversary Winter Dance Party tribute show.

The lineup that weekend included Holly’s original band, the Crickets; the Roses, who often sang backup for Holly; the Fireballs, whose music is dubbed over Holly’s voice on several songs released after his death; Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon, who first appeared at the Surf in April ‘59; Chris Montez, whose career was inspired by Valens; J. P. Richardson Jr., just 3 months old when his father died; and Bobby Vee, a then 15-yearold who was asked to substitute for Holly on the Winter Dance Party’s next tour stop in Fargo, N.D. The tradition continues, with this year’s Dance Party, on Feb. 2, featuring Tommy Allsup, the Bobettes, Pat Boone, Danny & the Juniors, the Flamingos, Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, and Jason D. Williams, among others.

Holly was born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas, in 1936.

In the pre-Beatles era of rock-n-roll

he was one of just three white boys who really, really mattered, and the only one who didn’t live long enough to cash in on it.

Elvis, of course, went on to superstardom, and had the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s pop chart for 50 weeks in 1958 and ‘59. Roy Orbison, the Caruso of rock-nroll, had two No. 1 hits.

Holly had just one song reach the top, “That’ll Be the Day,” which peaked at No. 1 for a single week in September 1957. Yet, even to this day, Holly is considered one of the most influential figures in rock history.

Some 53 years after his death, Buddy Holly is still with us. The many twists and turns rock-n-roll has taken since his death hasn’t dimmed his star even a little.

Don McLean was only half right: Buddy Holly died that February weekend in 1959, but his music lives on.

Is your sexual innocence in jeopardy?

MCT Campus

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ approval of the .xxx domain suffix has created a global response, mostly positive.

The new symbol will soon dominate the adult cyberspace.

Dot XXX may represent three strikes on sexual innocence. Not so long ago, during the halftime show of the Super Bowl when pulse-skating Justin Timberlake bounced off the super talented Janet Jackson, the politically correct definition of “wardrobe malfunction” got exemplified for the history books, when her breast popped up long enough for the high-speed cameras to capture its curvature in a glimpse lasting a millisecond.

The world heard the outcry of Americans on how deeply they suffered when exposed to female flesh.

Was this the first strike on sexual innocence?

The marking of .xxx to adult content movies, used by the Motion Picture

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Association of America and now an ICANNapproved domain suffix identifies the adult and porn industry websites.

Now online users can identify for example if birdbath.com is a pet store and birdbath.xxx is an adult site.

However, nothing stops birdbath.com from streaming bathing beauties, but just by using .xxx it helps market segmentation and also for parents to block certain sites.

The .xxx is the forbidden area. In some way this designation provides a well segregated identity and now seems to be a booming business.

Close to 100,000 .xxx domains have been already sold. Was this the second strike on sexual innocence?

Now that the stage is set, Manwin Licensing and Digital Playground have filed a lawsuit against the owners of the dot .xxx domain and ICANN claiming that .xxx is an anti competitive business practice that works a disservice to all companies that do business on the Internet.

They say that ICANN and ICM Registry conspired to eliminate other bidders by

giving sole and exclusive rights to ICM. The global digital expansion spanning hundreds of countries and connecting 2 billion online users makes marketing and advertising of adult content one of the most dynamic new cyber frontiers in the world.

These turf wars simply prove the healthy and mature attitude to a booming multibillion dollar porn industry.

Manwin already banned doing anything with any .xxx brands on its adult tube sites and will not permit any advertising marked with .xxx on Manwin networks, which already gets about 60 million visitors daily.

That daily visits number would be equal to the entire population of California and Texas. Now is this the final and the third strike on sexual innocence?

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Year after year, American Idol tryouts came and went as UNC Charlotte senior Brittney Brown quietly went about her business.

The 21-year-old had been singing since she was a small child and had always wanted to try out for the popular singing competition. However, she suffered stage fright in front of large crowds and for that reason, had never brought herself to try.

She heard about the 2012 tryouts about six months before they were held (in June of 2011).

“Something just kind of came over me and I decided I have got to get myself out there if I want the things that I want,” she said.

She looked up the dates for the audition in Charleston, SC and immediately got to work with her voice coach, Sylvia Hawe, whom she had worked with before and calls “a second mom.”

When late June rolled around, Brown and her mother set out for south of the Carolina border on the same day she would be expected to camp outside of the convention center.

They soon realized their mistake.

“We didn’t bring anything. That was so stupid.

People had chairs and blankets and food,” she said.

Brown didn’t even have a wall to lean against.

Luckily, she made quick friends with a girl named Kasey Johnson from Fayetteville, NC. “She gave me a blanket that I shared with my mom.

[Kasey] and I are still great friends to this day,” said Brown.

It was during this night of waiting that Brown realized how hard it would be to sleep, blanket or not.

“Random people would stand up and start belting out notes, whether they were good or bad.”

Being exposed to so many random acts of choral expression had a few unexpected downsides for Brown.

“I hated [Adele’s song] ‘Rolling in the Deep’ by the end of that night, because everybody was singing it.

And I used to love that song.”

At around 10 a.m., Ryan Seacrest showed up and Brown and some others near the front of the line were able to get close enough to touch him.

Then came the anticlimax of the registration period.

After all that waiting, Brown simply walked into the auditorium and got her registration ticket.

Once they handed her a ticket, she had a couple of days to spend in Charleston before she would need to audition.

Brown spent this time making a sign for the filming of the show and making sure she would be prepared for the next big camp out.

When two days passed by, Brown made her way back to the Charleston Convention Center early so she could remain at the front of the line. This time she brought comfortable clothes, chairs and food.

The media was out in full force the next morning.

Brown sang for a local radio station as well as a local ABC news station. Contestants were then let into the auditorium.

“This is where you find out that it’s all show business,” Brown said.

“The girls’ bathroom was complete madness. I changed clothes in a stall and then couldn’t even get to the mirror to do my makeup. I just did it in the middle of the room and hoped it looked OK,” Brown said.

In the packed auditorium, the film crew continued to tell the crowd what to do while filming them over and over.

They were told to all sing Lady Gaga’s “Edge of Glory” and then told to chant different things while cameras filmed.

“This is what took the longest. It took hours,” said Brown. “Once the auditions started it went fast.”

The stage is broken into 12 stations with two producers in each station acting as judges. Four contestants go in front of the judges at a time.

“I went up with Kasey and two other girls. I knew

Brown (left) and Johnson kill time after registration.

the two other girls weren’t going to make it. Kasey sang beautifully and I thought she had it but she cracked near the very end,” said Brown.

According to her, the producers’ behavior was the most intimidating part.

“Singers only had about five seconds before being told to stop and the judges seemed more interested with what was happening on their computer screens than what was happening in front of them.”

Brown went last in her foursome and began belting out Amy Winehouse’s “Valerie.”

The men looked away from their computers and began smiling as they let her sing long after 20 seconds.

They then called all four up.

After a nerve-wracking discussion, the men told all four girls that they would not make the cut.

Out of the 10,000 people in the auditorium, only 500 made the cut. They had to make it through three more cuts before even getting into a room with Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson.

Considering those odds, Brown said she was proud of herself. She and her new friend Kasey are planning to try out for NBC’s The Voice next summer.

As she left, there was a door marked “Winners” and a door marked “Non Winners.”

“I had to walk through that second door, but I walked through it with a smile on my face,” she said.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Where a Niner’s spare moments go

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Dear

A yogi’s journey: week 4

roommate

Ciera Choate

NEWS@NINERONLINE.COM

Going into the last week of my 28-day challenge I’m beginning to realize how much I have enjoyed spending so much time on my mat. Every time I walk into the studio and roll my mat out I immerse myself in a world of breathing, stretching and surrendering to my practice.

As the time has gone by I find it easier to let go while in class but at the same time push myself to work my hardest and get through it. It’s all about balancing somewhere between ease and effort. Yogis need to feel that sensation of work but at the same time an effortlessness that comes with relaxing all through the body.

I almost broke and skipped class Monday night because I had so many other things going on with school and work, but I knew if I started skipping now then it would only be a downward spiral causing me to skip more and more.

The thing is my yoga practice is what helps me deal with my busy schedule and what gives me the energy to stay up all night finishing the reading for my classes. It has instilled in me the desire to never stop or back down. It has given me the mental strength to keep pushing even when I don’t think I can, both mentally and physically.

With the challenge ending I am making a new challenge for myself: to not stop or slow down in my yoga practice. I can feel myself changing from the inside out, and I don’t want that to stop. I feel at home when I am on my mat.

Last weekend I was talking to a lady in my class named Anna who is also participating in the 28 Days to Make a Change, and it was nice to know I wasn’t the only one experiencing these changes with my introduction to yoga. It may only be a couple of months into both of our journeys, but we both call ourselves yogis through and through.

Yoga is more than a physical practice, although in some of my classes my teachers push me to the point where I can’t move the next day. It shapes your mind to ground you and be aware of everything going on in and out of your body. You are more in tune with your senses.

Not to mention the patience I have acquired while doing yoga. I have become more relaxed. I don’t stress out about being a few minutes late, and I don’t start getting tense when I am walking across campus and a group of people walking way too slow are in front of me.

I’m letting my time on the mat better the rest of my life. I make sure to enjoy the little things now.

The theme in my classes this week is to commit to our practices, which can mean during that particular time at the mat and by continuing to show up on our mats day after day.

I may be a broke college student who can barely afford gas, but somehow I will find the money to continue attending class at Gotta Yoga because it’s no longer a luxury- yoga has become my addiction.

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Everyone knows that sometimes the roommates we receive when it comes to on-campus living are not always ideal. We met the first anonymous bad-roommate victim in December when we published a letter to his or her beloved ex-roommate. Now we have another upset student who can’t seem to hold the frustration in any longer.

Dear Ex-Roommate, While you moved out at the end of last semester the trauma I endured while sharing a living space with you was too great to let go. With the writing of this letter I hope to rid myself of the grief I have caused by your bad habits, your uncleanliness and your decision to never really learn my name.

When I first moved in last fall I had no idea what to expect considering no matter what I searched I could not find you on any social networking websites. When we met I was assured by you that you are easy-going, clean and all-in-all a good roommate. But you fell short of your promises very quickly.

The first of the problems began one morning at around 11 a.m.

I remember that morning for two reasons: 1) It was the first morning in about a month that I had the opportunity to sleep in as late as I wanted. 2) It was the morning when I was yanked out of my deep, peaceful sleep by your loud fight with your boyfriend.

It is not any of my concern why you and your boyfriend could not get along, and I did not need to know all of those details that morning when you screamed them at the top of your lungs...with your dorm open...in the room directly next to mine.

I laid in my bed, wishing and hoping that you would simply close your door. Then I almost had a heart-attack when my wish came true. I’ve never heard a door being slammed so hard in my life.

A few weeks later, still perturbed from the screams my poor ears were forced to endure that fateful morning, I came home ready to study all night for a test the next morning only to find that my living room was full, and I mean jam-packed, with your friends.

The music was loud, the pizza boxes were plentiful and it didn’t seem like the party was ending anytime soon.

Deciding to go to my room, get my books and study elsewhere I was halted by your introduction of me to your friends. As you called me “Julie” to the entire room of people I assured you that Julie is definitely not my name.

I should have just kept my mouth shut. This resulted in an awkward hug and what felt like 100 stares as all eyes were on me: the weird roommate whose name was not significant enough to be remembered.

At this point in our relationship I really was not happy. Call it a grudge but I couldn’t forget the fact that you forgot my name almost two months into our living situation. It happens; yes, I know.

But if you had not been busy making my apartment a mess, maybe I would have moved on.

As you let the trash pile up for weeks on end, left toothpaste residue all over the sink (and the counter somehow), broke the glass plate inside the microwave and left it there in pieces, crowded

the sink with dishes that were beyond dirty and sprayed an awfulfragrance inside our tiny bathroom whenever you decided to use it, I was getting quite annoyed with you, to say the least.

All the while you seemed to be blind to the messes you were making, yet you demanded nothing but the utmost cleanliness from all the rest of us.

Do you recall the day when you finally decided to “clean” the kitchen? I came out ready to make lunch for myself and discovered that you had taken my dirty dishes out of the sink and placed them, unwashed, inside the kitchen cabinets.

Let’s just say I was irritated.

It came closer and closer to the end of the semester and eventually you told us that you had decided to move out. While I jumped for joy I also was scared that you would do what you normally do and leave your mess behind for the rest of us to clean up.

I cleaned the entire apartment, toilet and all. And while I left for my house for Christmas break I prayed that you would keep your end of the deal when you moved out.

You didn’t.

Less than a week later I was contacted by housing and informed that my apartment was not “roommate ready” for the new person to move in. I was told that if I didn’t clean the messes I would be charged.

I angrily drove back to UNC Charlotte, wondering what the messes could have been from since I had already cleaned. Of course the messes were from you.

Not only did you leave your toothpaste residue all over the sink, but you also left ALL your food behind, forcing me to use all my trash bags in the process of hauling it all out to the dumpster.

While the new semester has started and I no longer need to worry about you disturbing my semester, I am still very upset with the way things went down. I was nothing but nice to you, very clean and always took on my share of the chores you established.

I did not get the same respect in return, and I feel bad for your next roommates.

For their sakes I hope you are able to remember their names.

Not-so-sincerely,

UNC CHARLOTTE ON-CAMPUS HOUSING BY THE NUMBERS

4

The number of highrises on the UNC Charlotte campus.

These are normally housed by freshmen or people who want a single room.

1

The number of women-only housing options available on campus. Hickory Hall is an all-girls option.

80

The number of channels available for on-campus residents provided by UNC Charlotte cable.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Connecting with friends Samantha Glenn

SGLENN11@UNCC.EDU

A freshman’s take on making friends at a big university.

FRIENDS cont. from pg. 1 Roommates poor match for one another, and some of my other suitemates jumped on board with my roommate and felt the need to be “mean” to me.

There really wasn’t a chance for us to be friends because we were all so different from each other, and it stresses the need to tell the truth when filling out roommate surveys like the one we did. It becomes hard to live with someone who says they may be a morning person, yet hates the sight of daylight.

On the flip side, after moving out and into a new suite, I now have three amazing suitemates and a roommate who is like a sister.

We are all neat and organized and we respect each other and our living space, which is a result of ground rules that we all abide by. We are all friends and enjoy going to dinner with one another during the week to have some time away from our room and studying.

Friends from high school Another person you never want to room with is your best friend from high school. Unfortunately for most when you live together you find out how different you are and can become competitive with one another.

Living with your best friend from high school can fail miserably and it seems to not allow either one of you to grow and experience new things which is what college is all about.

Fortunately, my two best friends Erin, a softball player at Chowan University and Briana, a student at Belmont Abbey University have kept our strong friendship even though we are hours and/or minutes apart.

Friends since middle school, we have gone through pretty much everything together and no matter where we are, we are always able to be there for one another. As the old saying goes, “Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”

Hallmates While on the subject of roommates, I will add that another great place to make friends is in your dorm and on your hall. People are friendly, keep doors open when they wish to invite others in and are inviting.

It’s always a good laugh when a bunch of guys like my hallmate and his friends decided to dress up like the Blue Man Group (it wasn’t even Halloween yet) and run up and down the hall inviting themselves into everyone’s rooms.

These are fun people to be around and make excellent friends just because you know these are the ones who will keep you laughing.

Classes The next easiest place to make new friends on campus is in your classes. With classes ranging from 20 to 200 students, if you just turn on your charm, smile and strike up a conversation, you will easily start interacting with someone enabling the start of a new friendship.

I am left-handed, so when I enter my classrooms I automatically need to find a desk that is suited for a lefty. I head to the side of the room where I am able to be accommodated.

Funny enough, after a few classes, my lefty comrades all began talking to one another simply because we have this in common and we joke around that we won’t know what to do with ourselves if we have to sit at a righty desk since everything would be backwards to us.

Clubs & organizations Friends are also found in the clubs and organizations that we join. I look at it like this: If you are choosing to be part of a particular group, it’s because it holds something of interest to you and because you want to be a part of activities with people who have common interests.

As a freshman, I was overwhelmed at first by the number of clubs on campus. I narrowed it down and decided to pick and choose from different areas of interest.

I joined the Kinesiology Student Organization and Allied Health Club (students who are in my major), became a University Tour Guide (fun people who like to talk a lot), joined Hillel (a religious affiliation), joined the UNC Charlotte Swim Club (fellow competitive swimmers who like to have fun and parade around the pool deck in skimpy bathing suits wearing reflective goggles in an indoor pool) and joined the Niner Times because I love to write.

I am also in the University Honors Program, which allows me to be in a community of students who are part of this as well and maintain the same goals with regard to academics, community service, citizenship, leadership and social activities.

Greek Life Some students choose to join sororities and fraternities. These organizations provide an excellent opportunity to make friends upon acceptance into them after going through a rush period.

You are choosing these organizations as much as they are choosing you.

It has to be the “right fit” for both parties. Students who belong to these organizations pursue community service and citizenship activities together as well as spending time together at events, which can range from casual to formal.

They share similar interests and form close-knit friend-

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ships that can last long after college is over.

Dating Friends can also be made through the people we date.

It’s hard not to become friends with people when you are all hanging out together or having dinner together as couples or in a group. I’ve met some great friends through my boyfriend who also happens to be on the track team.

Sports Did I mention that I now have some great friends who are on the track team? It’s amazing how forming relationships with people opens up other circles of people in our lives.

While on the subject of teams, athletes have the best opportunity to make instant friends. They are teammates and have the commonality of their sport and desire to win that brings them together.

As a former competitive swimmer (I swim on the Club team at UNC Charlotte now), that is truly the camaraderie that I miss the most.

While going through the recruiting process to swim in college, that was one of the things that I looked at while going on my recruiting trips: was the team tight or not?

A tight team meant people who didn’t mind being together for as many hours as they were during practices and yet still wanted to hang out together in their “down time.”

That was impressive to me because it made it easy to see they were a group of friends who just happened to also be athletes.

Cafeteria, gym & more There are so many other friends to be made: cafeteria friends (the ones you meet up with for meals or nod a hello at or strike up small talk when you sit near them on a daily basis), gym friends (the ones that spot you when you’re pumping iron or that you call and say come work out with me so that I don’t gain the Freshman 15) and even people who just share their opinions with others about the eccentric individuals who preach at Belk Tower.

Some people gravitate toward each other and form friendships because they enable each other to party with one another.

Awkward Moments Elevator friends are the random ones that you meet who can either create awkward moments of silence or can talk your ear off about things that happened to them that day.

The awkward ones will stare at each other and remain quiet, most likely wondering to themselves, “do we have anything in common?”

Then there are the people who you meet on the elevator and share that awkward moment with when the couple that needs to get a room gets on and decides to make out the entire ride from the top of Atkins Library to the bottom floor.

That’s the new friend you make when you both get off and look at each other, start laughing and start talking about how completely weird that way.

Next thing you know, you have each other’s names and you say, “friend me on Facebook!”

Small talk is the start of every friendship so look around you at all the opportunities.

Friends for life College is where you can meet best friends who will stay with you for your whole life. They may start as people who you have that casual acquaintance with, but they stay with you and become the people you laugh with, celebrate with, cry to when you are frustrated and are by your side to help pick up the pieces when you suffer a bad breakup or if you are just having a bad day.

They never judge you and accept you for who you are.

The opportunities to meet people are endless. So get out of that dorm room, there’s a whole world of friends out there!

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012

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Thursday

International Coffee Hour

Prospector Faculty/Staff Dining Room 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Listening Lounge with Austin Renfroe Student Union - Norm’s 7:00p.m.

Friday

Amateur Radio Licensing Preparation Class Student Union Multipurpose Room 12:00pm - 1:00pm

CAB Jingle Off Student Union Rm 221

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Saturday

SAT Exam Prep UNC Charlotte Main Campus See Website 8:00am - 12:30pm

Speed Dating

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Sunday

C4 Charlotte Super Bowl Party Crosspoint Worship Center 9116 University City Blvd 6:00pm - 11:00pm

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Eyes on the Prize: Prepping for the Test Fretwell 310

12:30p.m. - 1:30p.m.

Basic Web Design

Student Union Multipurpose Room

UNC Charlotte Center City

1:00pm

Tuesday

Get Hammered CHHS/COED Plaza 11:00am - 2:00pm

Multicultural Movement - Zumba SAC Group Fitness Studio 5:30pm - 6:30pm

6:00pm - 9:00pm

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Home: where the heart is

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SPORTS SCHEDULE

Thursday Football Signs first recruiting class (All Day)

Saturday Men’s Basketball @ Fordham 1 p.m.

Women’s Basketball vs. Rhode Island 7 p.m.

Sunday Photo(left) by Chsris Crews/File Photo (right)

Travis Durkee

TCDURKEE@UNCC.EDU

As a senior point guard at Providence Day School in Charlotte, Epiphany Woodson was named Mecklenburg County’s Player of the Year, first team All-Mecklenburg County, second team All-State, and earned a spot on the All-Charlotte Observer team.

Fast forward to 2012, five years, two programs, three head coaches and one bachelor’s degree later, Woodson is one of 49ers Women’s Basketball’s undisputed leaders.

Coming out of high school Scout.com rated Woodson as the number three senior in the state of N.C. and one of the top 100 players in the nation.

Woodson would eventually sign with the University of Miami where she played in 50 games, making 29 starts, in two seasons with the Hurricanes.

Woodson had 14 double-digit scoring efforts in her time at Miami against top ACC competition such as Carolina, Duke, Florida State, and Maryland.

Following the 2008-09 season Woodson decided to become a 49er and transfer to Charlotte for a number of reasons.

“Charlotte was a winning team and I felt I could come into the Atlantic 10 Conference and be an impact player,” Woodson said of her decision to come to Charlotte.

As important as winning is to Woodson, she makes it clear that her teammates are an equally integral part of her experience in Charlotte.

“I wanted to be on a team where at times

I could forget they were my teammates and just look at them as my friends or my sisters,” Woodson said about her team.

“That’s exactly what I got when I came to Charlotte. I can honestly say that everyone on this team is a friend of mine.”

Playing at Charlotte, Woodson’s hometown, also gives her a chance to play basketball in front of her family on a regular basis, something that rarely happened during her time at Miami.

“They’re at every home game. I don’t think they’ve missed one since I’ve been here.” Woodson said about her parents.

“I love to look up and see my mom clapping for me. It really does something for me.”

Woodson’s transfer to Charlotte did more than bring her closer to her family; it’s made her a prolific scorer, something she never was prior to becoming a 49er.

“I’ve never really been a scorer. I played point all my life so I was never in a position to score” Woodson stated.

Woodson averaged a mere 7.5 points per game while at Providence Day and 6.5 during her two seasons at Miami.

Since coming to Charlotte, Woodson has moved to the two-guard spot where she has the freedom to be more of a scorer than a distributer in Coach Cara Consuegra’s offense.

Though Woodson is averaging 12.2 points per game this season she gives credit to Charlotte’s former coach for her newfound scoring prowess. “[Former] Coach Aston really helped me see my ability to shoot and attack the basket,” Woodson said about Aston.

Hayes Stadium sold out for 2012 season

Hayes Stadium’s lower bowl is sold out for the third year in a row, season starts Feb. 17th.

File Photo

Ed Niser SPORTS@UNCC.EDU

Charlotte 49er Athletics is reporting that in Hayes Stadium, the lower bowl has sold out for the entire 2012 baseball season.

The 49ers shattered their record from 2010 last season packing an average 1,043 fans per game.

Charlotte enjoys an unprecedented home-field advantage compiling a record of 115-31.

The 49ers are coming off yet another A-10 Conference title, their fifth in six years.

Charlotte made a trip to Tempe,Ariz., for the NCAA Regionals, where they went 1-2, with their only win coming against Arkansas.

Charlotte is picked by the Atlantic 10 to repeat as champions in 2012. The 49ers will be without outfield standouts Cory Tilton and Justin Wilson who have since graduated.

The Niner’s season opens up against St. Peters on February 17 at 4 p.m.

The 49ers look to Woodson to put points on the scoreboard but also look to her to be a leader on and off the court.

As a fifth-year senior Woodson takes it upon herself to coordinate activities for the team at practice and outside of the gym.

“I coordinate what everyone is going to do when we do community service, or going to Coach’s house, or having recruits here for visits.

Just being the organizer, making sure everyone is on the same page,” said Woodson about her new role.

Leading by example, staying focused and having fun comes with the territory of being an elder member of the team.

“In practice when we start to go south I try to keep everyone going, and then just being whatever they need me to be, laughing, talking, hanging out,” Woodson said with a smile.

In a losing effort against St. Bonaventure Jan. 21 Woodson eclipsed 1,000 points in her collegiate career, a feat that fully shows her success at Charlotte in the past season and a half.

Woodson came to Charlotte with only 328 points after her two seasons at Miami.

Even with that accomplishment under her belt she has her sights set on bigger things.

“We want to get to the NCAA tournament,” Woodson said about this year’s team after last season ended in the Final Four of the NIT. “It was a good run to be in the NIT, but I think any team that can make it to the Final Four of the NIT is an NCAA team.”

Men’s Tennis @ N.C. State 1p.m.

SPORTS RESULTS Men’s Basketball

LOSS

vs. Xavier

74-70 Women’s Basketball

LOSS

@ Temple

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Intramural basketball student leaders Leading Points Per Game Elvis Danne Santonio Poole Zachary Follrod John Naillon Taylor Luegers

31.0 25.5 23.3 23.0 23.0

Leading Assists Per Game James Woodham Raj Gandhi Julian Abbott Rad Crowell Matthew Davidson

8.0 6.5 5.0 5.0 4.0

Leading Rebounds Per Game Andrew Harding Casey Lentz Zachary Follrod John Alexander Andrew Bowen

18.0 14.0 13.3 12.0 12.0

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