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thursday, september 16, 2010

First black UNC students return to speak

Will celebrate 55 “What they Desegregation anniversary events
year anniversary endured really is Friday, Sept. 17 6:30 p.m.

the Carolina story, 1:30 p.m. University Recognition Dinner. Rev.

diversions | pages 5-9
NO SMALL MATTER
Durham’s Megafun, an indie
trio, will revive the sounds
of the South in a three-day
performance series at the Hayti
Heritage Center. Also see Dive’s
picks and reviews.
BY victoria cook
staff writer
Fifty-five years ago today, UNC’s
first black undergraduate students
set foot on campus. On Friday, they
will do so once again.
On Sept. 16, 1955, Ralph Frasier,
his brother LeRoy Frasier and John
Brandon were the first black stu-
dents to be admitted to UNC.
Their enrollment came after an
original denial from UNC to admit
the men because of their skin color
and a lawsuit filed against the Board
of Trustees by the Frasier brothers.
The North Carolina lower fed-
eral court was unanimous in its
ruling that qualified black students
could not be denied admission
because of their race.
The University then appealed to
the United States Supreme Court
that reached the same verdict.
and they need to be
honored.”
Geeta Kapur, event organizer
The desegregation celebration
begins Friday to honor the men and
the history they made at UNC.
The three men, who are being
called the Desegregation Soldiers,
will share their stories in the Sonja
Haynes Stone Center auditorium
and answer questions from audience
members. More than 500 students
are expected to attend.
Geeta Kapur, assistant profes-
sor of law and an organizer of the
event, said during her time at UNC
as an undergraduate and law stu-
dent, she’d never heard the story
of the first African American stu-
dents’ experience.
courtesy of the north carolina collection
On Sept. 16, 1955, the first
three black students, Ralph and
LeRoy Frasier and John Brandon
(above) were admitted to UNC.
After finding an old picture of
them, she contacted Ralph Frasier,
who visited UNC in February.
Kapur said when she saw students
react to his story, she knew the men
needed to be properly honored.
“It then became a mission of
mine to make sure that they were
honored for the sacrifice that
they made,” she said. “What they
Sonja Haynes Stone Center audi-
torium.
Discussion and Interview of Ralph
Frasier, LeRoy Frasier, and John
Brandon. Moderated by Geeta
Kapur.
Open to all.
3:30 p.m.
Celebration Reception at
the Stone Center Hitchcock
Multipurpose Room
Open to all.
endured really is the Carolina story,
and they need to be honored.”
“From my perspective, we’ve got
two men who are very important
figures in African American history
at UNC-CH.”
Students said they’re excited to
hear the men speak.
William Barber, president of N.C.
branch of National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, to deliver address.
By invitation only.
Saturday, Sept. 18
Noon
Kenan Stadium. Ralph Frasier, LeRoy
Frasier and Brandon will be honored
by the University at the first home
football game against Georgia Tech.
“As a student scholar, this just
means so much to me,” said senior
B’anca Glenn, executive assistant
for the Black Student Movement.
“They took a step that a lot of peo-
ple during that time did not take
See Anniversary, Page 13

arts | page 3
SHOW STEALERS
Although Earl Scruggs, the
headliner at Memorial Hall’s
Wednesday night concert, fell
ill, his special guests the Red
Clay Ramblers delivered a
lively show of their own.
campus | page 13
SAFETY FIRST
Greek organizations teamed
up with the Chapel Hill Fire
Department to prevent house
fires as a part of Campus Fire
Safety Month.
CORRECTION
Due to a reporting error,
Wednesday’s page one story
“Students allowed to vote on bas-
ketball ticket policy” misquotes
Claire Atwell saying the one-ticket
policy accounts for unfilled seats.
Atwell said Wednesday that
her comments were about hear-
ing criticism of the policy from
students who couldn’t sit with
their friends. She said separately
that the Dean Dome was surpris-
ingly hard to fill last year.
A COLLECTION OF TRAVELS
Local couple gathers
pottery and memories
by Olivia Barrow
staff writer
Betty Neese didn’t include the little pots
behind the tub when she counted her col-
lection.
With more than 125 pieces of fine pottery
decorating every available surface in every
room of her home, 79-year-old Neese just
got tired of counting.
A friend bought Neese her first piece of
pottery from Jugtown, a pottery shop and
store near Seagrove, N.C., in the early 1980s.
Since then, Neese, who lives at 109
Carolina Ave. with her husband, Perry
Colwell, has added pieces from all over the
world.
The majority of her collection comes
from North Carolina.
“It’s so tactile,” she said. “You can feel it
and turn it around, and it changes direc-
tion. It changes beauty.”
Neese’s collection of pots and other
pieces of fine art represents the extensive
overseas travels she and her husband have
done since retiring.
Next Thursday, the couple is leaving for a
riverboat tour of the Danube River that will
go through Germany and end in Budapest.
“We wanted to see as much of the world
as we could,” she said.
Neese has pots from Chile, Romania, dth/stephen kirsch
China, Greece and the Grand Bazaar in Betty Neese (above) and her husband, Perry Colwell, collect pottery from a variety of North Carolinian and international artists.
Istanbul, just to name a few.
Neese and Colwell have traveled to
almost every continent, mostly through What is The Dart?
Smithsonian tours.
The Dart is a series that highlights the
Neese recalled seeing 1,500 penguins in
Patagonia, Chile, and pointed out her pic- idea that everybody has a story. To write
this piece, a dart was thrown at a map
tures of Iguazu Falls, located on the border
of Orange County, and a reporter went
of Brazil and Argentina, hanging on her
where it landed to seek out interesting
wall.
community members.
Every wall, shelf or windowsill reminds
Neese of a story from her travels — like the
DTH ONLINE: See a video of
time she nearly ran into a tiger while driving
Betty Neese in her home on
through Kenya and Tanzania, or when she dth/stephen kirsch
Carolina Avenue.
visited each of the United Arab Emirates, or Neese has a variety of pots in her home on
when she rode through Guatemala on the Carolina Avenue in Chapel Hill. 109 Carolina Avenue
backs of her sons’ motorcycles. that she teases Colwell about.
“We’ve given up two-wheelers, but we’ve “I made a special quilt for my husband,”
got a couple of sidecar units out there,” she “Terry” Zug, retired UNC English professor she said. “I made it as lightweight as it could
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said. “Once a motorcyclist, always a motor- and chairman of the curriculum in folklore, be, but he tells me that it bothers his feet, so
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Neese said she is starting to consider early 1980s. ing each of the pots twice a year, in spring
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SEP. 16, 1932 …
In his cell at Yerovda Jail near
Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi
begins a hunger strike in pro-
test of the British government’s
decision to separate India’s
Battle Park
what to do with her pots after she dies but “It was an office romance,” Neese said. and fall.
has not made any decisions yet. “He will tell you that we kissed in the eleva- “Oftentimes I turn everything around,”
She plans to have them appraised in tor. We were old people, but still.” she said. “I love the colors, I love the peo- Countr
order to insure them, as she doesn’t know Neese’s love of art and beauty pervades ple who make the pots, but I love to feel
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the full value of her collection. the home. In addition to pots on every table, them.” ad
“I don’t have a clue,” she said. “I’ll prob- each bedroom displays her own handiwork
ably be shocked.” with colorful quilts spread across the beds. Contact the City Editor SOURCE: GOOGLE MAPS
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Cuba study abroad canceled Food processing center to open

electoral system by caste.

Today’s weather by Katie barbee expand on in the commercial market, this is

BY victoria cook
Lil Wayne: “Hotter staff writer
than Nevada … Havana nights will no longer be possible
H 93, L 67 for UNC students.
At least not this year.
The University of Havana in Cuba canceled
Friday’s weather its program that allows UNC students to study
… in the middle of abroad there after two professors who taught
the summer.” the English portion of the program retired,
H 92, L 65 said Bob Miles, associate dean for study
abroad and international exchanges.
The school in Havana decided it would be
index too difficult to find English-speaking profes-
police log ......................... 2 sors to fill the spots, Miles said.
calendar ............................. 2 “What we have to do in this situation is
nation and world ........... 11 create a new program,” Miles said. “The
crossword ....................... 13 original program we designed to be taught
opinion.............................. 14 in English in order to maximize the oppor-
tunities for UNC students to be able to par-
ticipate in study abroad in Cuba.”
While many students and faculty members
said they are disappointed by the program’s
cancellation, some students feel that it might
have been for the best.
“Honestly, I felt like if the program was
going to be like it was last spring, then it was
probably better for everyone that it was can-
celed,” said senior Anasa Hicks, who studied
there last spring. “I felt like there wasn’t a plan
to the maximum benefit of us as students.”
The original program was designed for
students to take five classes, three of which
were taught in English. One course was a
Spanish-language course based on a place-
ment test, and the other was an introduction
to Cuba class that was taught in Spanish.
See Cuba, Page 13
staff writer
Soon, there will be a way to see if your
grandma’s jam, your dad’s spaghetti,
or your friend’s salsa could ever make it big
in the market.
By the end of the year, Orange County
will be home to the Piedmont Food and
Agricultural Processing Center, a 10,400
square foot incubator for new food busi-
nesses that will also add value to local farm
products.
Participants will be able to experiment at
one of the center’s two commercial kitchens
that will offer a wide range of food process-
ing equipment. They will also be able to
enroll in programs on food safety regula-
tion and business development.
“The idea is that if you have a home-
based business that you are struggling to
a kitchen available for rent,” said Elizabeth
Read, executive director of the Alliance for
Historic Hillsborough.
While the venture is being shared by
Alamance, Chatham, Durham and Orange
counties, Read said Orange County has
taken the lead on the project. The process-
ing center will be located at 500 Valley
Forge Road in Hillsborough, near Interstate
85 and N.C. 86.
The county’s Economic Development
Director, Brad Broadwell, said he thinks
the incubator has the potential to boost the
local economy.
He said one of program’s goals is to
attract food industry hopefuls from across
the state to Orange County.
See Kitchen, Page 13
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Rail demand not systemwide New

CAMPUS BRIEFS
Rameses Recycles program
to kick off at Saturday game

A new campus initiative aimed
at expanding environmentally
friendly efforts at UNC athletic
events will begin Saturday.
science
by MADELINE WILL N.C. State University already In any given school year, the “While the story did catch our
staff writer provides rails for every lofted bed housing department has not attention, we do not have a track
After a woman died from fall- upon move-in, but does not require received more than three requests record with this,” he said. “We are

The Rameses Recycles program
will be a broad-based effort aimed
at reducing waste and improving
recycling at sporting events. The
ing off a lofted bed at UNC-CH, a
spike in requests for bed rails was
reported by the University’s hous-
ing department.
students to use them, said Thomas
Stafford Jr., vice chancellor for stu-
dent affairs at NCSU.
At other UNC-system schools,
tours
for rails, he said. discussing our options.”
In light of the incident at UNC- Appalachian State University
CH, they did order more rails in case
does not have plans to change its
the news caused a jump in requests,policy regarding lofted beds.

program will focus on UNC foot-
ball.
A pilot program for tailgate
recycling began in 2008, but this
year will be the inaugural year for
Rameses Recycles. It will serve
more tailgating lots than before,
along with two parking decks.
The Office of Waste Reduction
and Recycling, the UNC Athletic
Department, the Carolina Athletic
Association and the environmental
affairs committee of student gov-
ernment are among the partners
involved in the program.
Former professor receives
additional charge in case
Nearly one year removed from
charges of second-degree mur-
der for the death of a 20-year-old
ballerina, a former UNC medical
school professor now faces another
charge.
Raymond Dwight Cook, of
Raleigh, was arrested Tuesday
after being indicted on a charge of
felony death by vehicle, said Wake
County Assistant District Attorney
Jeff Cruden.
Cruden said Cook could be con-
victed of the felony death by vehicle
charge only if he were ruled not
guilty for the charge of second-
degree murder.
“When I try him for second-
degree murder, I want to make
sure he is exposed to most severe
punishment allowed under the
law,” Cruden said.
city BRIEFS
Appeal of Marilyn Kille
delayed until November
T he appeal of an Orange
County resident accused of forg-
ery has been postponed until
November.
Marilyn Kille, horse trainer and
owner of Peppermint Spring Farm,
was found guilty of forgery for
altering Town of Carrboro docu-
ments last September.
Kille decided to appeal the
court’s ruling, and her trial at the
superior courthouse, previously
scheduled for Wednesday, has
now been postponed until Nov. 1,
said Assistant District Attorney
Meredith Amador.
Kille said this is the fifth time
her trial has been postponed.
Kille’s struggle with the town
began in 2006 with a formal com-
plaint that an apartment she had
constructed in her barn was located
in a watershed area, violating town
But the concern has not spread to lofted beds have not been a cause
students or administrators at other
UNC-system schools, and system
leaders have no plans for coming
up with a uniform policy yet.
Rails will remain just an
option system-wide, said Joni
Worthington, vice-president of
communications for the UNC sys-
tem, in an e-mail.
“There is currently no plan to
implement a system-wide policy
on bed rails,” she said.
The response from the UNC-
system schools is varied — some
are ordering more rails and others
are investigating their policies.
The Red Clay Ramblers perform in the Beasley-Curtis Auditorium at Memorial Hall on Wednesday night. The band changed from
the opening act to the main event when Earl Scruggs became too ill to perform. Refunds were offered as a result of the change.
of concern.
“I think the incident at UNC was
an anomaly,” said Arthur Jackson,
vice chancellor for student affairs
at UNC-Charlotte.
He said there have been no safe-
ty issues with lofted beds. Although
UNC-C offers railings as an option
for students, there has been no
increase in requests, Jackson said.
At UNC-Wilmington, only two or
three students have reported falling
off a lofted bed in the past 11 years
and none sustained serious injuries,
said Brad Reid, director of housing
and residence life at UNC-W.
Reid said.
Not only was there no increase rails, said Tom Kane, director of
in requests, but there were also nouniversity housing.
phone calls from parents, he said.
“It might just be a matter of
time,” Reid said.
East Carolina University has also
had few serious incidents involving
lofted beds reported.
But ECU is now taking a closer in requests for rails, Kane said.
look at its safety policies.
ECU currently does not offer
the choice of installing bed rails on
lofted beds, but university officials
are looking into the option, said
Aaron Lucier, director of housing
operations at ECU.
The university owns about 100
He said while 70 rails are typi-
cally checked out by students at the
beginning of the semester, many are
returned midway through the year.
The pattern is expected to con-
tinue as there has been no increase
“I do worry about students who by emily banks
are intoxicated or using any drugs, staff writer
that they might get a little confused
and fall off,” Kane said.
Contact the State & National to enroll — or apply — to UNC.
Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
dth/allison russell
in labs
70 prospective
students invited
Three newly renovated build-
ings will be put to use Friday and
Sept. 24 for students who have yet
At 12:30 p.m. Friday, 35 stu-
dents will check in at Jackson Hall
to kick off a new tour showcasing
on-campus research and entrepre-
neurship opportunities.
The “Science and Technology”
tours, which the admissions office
will provide to an additional 35
prospective students Sept. 24,
were organized at the request of
Chancellor Holden Thorp to attract
students interested in research and
student entrepreneurship.
The groups will be directed
through the Carolina Physical
Science Complex, which includes
the recently renovated Caudill
Laboratories and Chapman and
Venable halls.
And Andrew Parrish, assistant
director of undergraduate admis-
sions, said further specialized tours
might follow.
Depending on the success of the
tours, Parrish said the admissions
office will begin brainstorming dif-
ferent kinds of specialized tours.
“I think these tours will help us
recruit more energetic and moti-
vated students,” he said.
“Maybe they’ll be the ones that
end up causing us to reduce our
dependency on fossil fuels or cure
cancer, HIV and the other prob-
lems the world is facing today.”
Parrish added that the tours,
which were organized by chemis-
try professor Joe DeSimone and his
research group, will aim to attract
higher quality students to UNC.
“I think we want to try to attract
students that are curious and that
are eager to learn in a hands-on
way, and to help contribute to solv-
ing the world’s problems,” he said.
He said the two tours have both
been full for two weeks.
Students will first be led to
Chapman Hall by an Admissions
Ambassador, then shown around
by a group of student researchers
and faculty members. After the
“Science and Technology” tour, they
will return to Jackson Hall for an

THE SHOW MUST GO ON

zoning laws. information session and standard
But Kille maintains that a cer- campus tour.
tificate of occupancy for the barn Mary Napier, a research associate
was issued by the town in 1997. in the Department of Chemistry who
“Carrboro’s leadership has helped plan the tours, said she thinks
altered and distributed multiple
versions of my property’s 1997
Ill Earl Scruggs replaced by Red Clay Ramblers concertreview
The Red Clay Ramblers
they will showcase the strength of
UNC’s science program.
documents to the (Carrboro) “I think the major impact is that
by katelyn trela Jack Herrick, on bass and mandolin Memorial Hall a lot of students look at Carolina
board of alderman, town com- Wednedsay, Sept. 15
Assistant arts editor among other instruments, introduced and don’t see how strong of a sci-
missioners and the citizens of the
A lively mix of gray hair and budding another piece as an unguided sing-along.
town in an effort to discredit me,” ence school we are,” she said.
youth filled Memorial Hall for the sold- “It’s kind of an anarchy thing,” he
Kille said. “We want to show prospective
out performance of legendary banjoist Earl explained to laughs. ated the audience further with their exclu-
Carrboro’s attorney Michael students our facilities and talk about
Scruggs. The laughs continued to roll, perfectly sive between-song banter. how undergrads can get involved
Brough said he believes the town
The only person not in attendance? complementing the down-home atmosphere But with the music, the Ramblers came
employees are telling the truth with doing research on campus.”
Scruggs himself. of the night. At times, the crystal harmonies back to life. Carrie Donley, director of
about what they saw in the docu-
An anxious crowd applauded for Emil of chord and voice made the performance By playing songs about a hungry man
ments. the Chapel Hill Analytical and
Kang, executive director for the arts, who feel like standing in line at Walt Disney with only 15 cents or a group of country men
“The town isn’t sitting on the Nanofabrication Laboratory, said
was thought to be giving an introduction for World­— the happiest place on Earth. at a Pal-Yat-Chee opera, laughs and cheering
sidelines cheering,” he said. “It’s she became involved with the tours
the bluegrass banjoist. Instead, he broke the Chancellor Holden Thorp, known for his praise came to redeem them. because the facilities she oversees
out of our hands.”
news that Scruggs had fallen ill and would regular appearances with the Clef Hangers, And when a group plays as superbly as
offer a glimpse into hands-on
not be able to play. joined the Ramblers on stage for a ballad to the Ramblers’ did, they can sing about any- research.
Road construction causes But, as has always been said, the show the Old North State. Seven voices on stage thing. Four of the six men rotated through
“We have a cleanroom — an
a US 15-501 lane closure must go on. melded together in a melodious chord, dedi- the stage’s supply of instruments, one mov- environment where you have to
The Red Clay Ramblers, on the bill as cating heart and soul to their home state of ing from stand-up bass to trumpet, another
The right northbound lane of US dress in the bunny suit in order to
Scruggs’ special guests, took over the show. North Carolina. trading his accordion for a trombone.
15-501 near Old Mason Farm Road keep the labs clean — so that’s kind
The North Carolina natives quickly won over Though the arrangements were superb ­— Before the show’s standing-ovation finale,
will be closed for road construction of an interesting thing for some of
the audience with their foot-tapping moun- at one point, the group announced a quick the Ramblers sent out good thoughts for a
Sept. 15-24. the undergrads to see,” she said.
tain bluegrass. change of program and proceeded to turn healthy Scruggs — and for their own good “The idea was that, as incoming
The closure will occur between Clay Buckner began the show with a soul- out a flawless gospel a cappella — the con- business.
9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday through undergrad students, we wanted to
ful solo on the fiddle, bringing in the other versation seemed to distance the group from “Buy our record,” Herrick said — “or we’ll
Friday. make sure that they had an idea
five players to kick off their signature round the audience. have to drown our dogs.”
about what was available to them.”
sound. With roars of applause from the After the show’s head-scratching opening
Sports BRIEFS crowd, the group carried on, easily making threw the audience into a state of separation Contact the Arts Editor
Contact the University Editor
Coiner takes John Blake’s the show their own. from the performance, the Ramblers’ alien- at artsdesk@unc.edu.
at udesk@unc.edu.
position with UNC football
Former NFL assistant coach
Charlie Coiner was hired as an
assistant defensive coach, the
University said in a press release
‘Nothing Pink’ play explores religion, sexuality
on Wednesday. by Laney Tipton what his parents believe and what Actress and script consultant wonderful in their own very differ- SEE “NOTHING PINK”
Coiner has worked with tight staff writer he believes,” Ferguson said. Dayna Bowers, a UNC alumna, ent ways — but it leaves you won- Time: Sept. 16 to 18 8 p.m., 3 p.m.
ends with the Buffalo Bills for the It would be easy to take a story The story takes place in a small, agreed. dering, ‘Wow, how do I choose? Sept. 19
last four seasons. of religion and homosexuality and conser vative southern town. “We knew it was right because of Which one is more right?’”
Location: Swain Hall, Studio 6
UNC football spokesman Kevin make it dogmatically simple. Vincent’s father is a Baptist minister the serendipitous timing,” Bowers Ferguson said he is very excited
But “Nothing Pink,” the UNC Tickets: $5 students, $10 public
Best said Coiner will work with — played by local actor Allan Maule said. about the work that Hartman,
the defensive line but has not Department of Communication — who raised his son to believe that Broadway musical director who plans to conduct the show,
replaced former associate coach Studies’ first production of the year, homosexuality is a sin. Mark Hartman wrote the musical has done. thing at the core of your roots.”
John Blake. is looking to shake up convention. But when Vincent meets Robert, compositions and arrangements, “There’s a reason he is a Broadway Ferguson stressed the universal
Blake, who was the defensive line Opening tonight, “Nothing played by 2010 UNC alumnus which play a key storytelling role musical director,” Ferguson said of message of the play’s plot — even
Pink” was written and produced
coach as well as recruiting coordi- Phil Denny, and feelings develop, for the production. Hartman’s talents. though it might not be apparent
nator, stepped down last week amidby off-Broadway playwright and Vincent must work to find his true The music shifts between popu- A choir, made up of Bowers, at first.
speculation of his involvement in award-winning communication identity. lar and hymnal pieces, which come Susan Burcham, Michelle Gear, “Everybody ultimately comes to
the NCAA investigation. studies professor Paul Ferguson. It Ferguson took on the project to represent Vincent’s internal chal- Morgan Hoffman and Turner a crossroads where the beliefs they
At UNC, Coiner reunites with is an adaptation of a novel of the after friends told him about the lenges. The music is interspersed Popalis, performs most of the grew up with aren’t necessarily what
fellow coaches John Shoop and same name by Mark Hardy. novel. After reading it, Ferguson throughout the performance to music. is still true for them,” he said.
Everett Withers, with whom he The one-act play examines the knew it was something he wanted convey the struggle to the audi- Bowers said she thinks the play’s “I hope everyone who watches
worked at the Chicago Bears and teenage character Vincent as he to pursue with this creative pro- ence, Ferguson said. complexity will surprise audience finds solace, or sees that they aren’t
Austin Peay University, respec- struggles to reconcile his newly duction team, he said. “First, there’s a Counting Crows members. alone with their struggles.”
tively. discovered homosexuality with his “We’d been looking for a project song, and then the hymn ‘Softly “I think it can speak to a lot of
Christian upbringing. to work on together for eight years,” and Tenderly,’” he said. “Both sound people in a lot of different situa- Contact the Arts Editor
—From staff and wire reports “It shows Vincent’s struggle with Ferguson said. beautiful and both fit and both are tions,” she said. “It just gets some- at artsdesk@unc.edu.
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Setback for homeschoolers

explaining the mess

by victoria stilwell Carolina School Board Association a well-rounded experience, and in gram specialist for virtual and
city editor for help analyzing the policy. order to get that you would need to home education, said most schools
If Tim Tebow had been home- “She did some homework for us be a part of our school district. are happy to accommodate home-
schooled in North Carolina, he and sent samples of policies across “Homeschooling is fine,” she schooled students.
might not have gone on to win the the state,” Morton said. said, “but it’s not broad.” “I don’t think that most parents
Heisman Trophy. Boyd, a senior staff attorney for School board member Anne get into homeschooling because
At their latest meeting, Orange the association, said she sampled Medenblik voted to approve they’re dissatisfied with the dis-
County Board of Education mem- state school districts that addressed the policy draft but said she can tricts,” Bozeman said. “They just
bers approved the first draft of a extracurricular participation by understand the side of parents who want something different for their
policy that bars homeschooled stu- non-public school students, find- homeschool. children—not necessarily better,
dents from participating in extra- ing five with policies. “I’m kind of like, ‘Look, these folks just different.”
curricular activities. The policy will “Typically schools don’t address do pay taxes,’” she said. “I’m kind of Spencer Mason, president
be revisited at the board’s Sept. 20 issues like this in their policy until open to it because most of the time of North Carolinians for Home
meeting. an issue comes up,” Boyd said. there aren’t that many kids.” Education, said the state high
Denise Morton, the district’s Board members voted unani- Medenblik said parents who school athletics association lim-
chief academic officer, said the mously to approve the first draft of homeschool across the nation are its extracurricular involvement of
change follows several years of the policy. No advocates of home banding together to lobby for “Tim homeschooled students.
calls from parents of homeschooled education were present at the Tebow laws,” which ask legislatures Mason said the organization
students that have been met with meeting. to allow their children to partici- is developing its own state sports
ambiguity. Board member Brenda Stephens pate in extracurricular activities. conference to work around the ath-
“We really needed to provide said this isn’t the first time the issue Tebow, who is now a quarter- letic association’s rules.
the principals some guidance,” said has come to the table, and the lack back for the Denver Broncos, was “In order for us to participate,
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Morton, who explained that par- of policy needed addressing. homeschooled in Florida. we would have to meet all the regu-
ents often called the schools direct- “I’ve always been of the notion Florida law allows homeschooled lations that they impose on student ick Luettich, director of UNC’s Institute for Marine
ly instead of district officials. that if you’ve chosen not to be a students to take part in sports and athletes that are in public schools,” Sciences, presents at “Oil in the Water” at the George
After meeting with part of our classroom and of our interscholastic activities. Tebow he said.
Superintendent Patrick Rhodes district, then let’s not use it as a played football at Nease High “We don’t want to do that, quite Watts Hill Alumni Center on Wednesday night.
and other district leadership offi- buffet to pick and choose what you School in the St. Johns County frankly.” Luettich has contributed to and provided modeling to help spill
cials in the spring, Morton said she want,” she said. school district. Contact the City Editor
contacted Kathy Boyd of the North “I believe all the students need Kristin Bozeman, district pro- at citydesk@unc.edu.
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This weekend, Megafaun, Fight the Big Bull, Bon

Iver’s Justin Vernon and Sharon Van Etten will
breathe new life into classic Southern folks songs.
SEE THE SHOWS
Friday, September 17
8 p.m., $26
Saturday, September 18
8 p.m., $26
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Durham’s Megafaun specializes in a modern interpretation of folk
music. This weekend’s event marks a foray into older, historic material.

by linnie greene
diversions editor
Like kudzu, Coca-Cola and pecan pie, there
are some facets of American culture whose roots
will always run below the Mason-Dixon line.
This weekend, as the hazy days of a Southern
summer fade into a North Carolina fall, several
indie musicians will revisit and reinterpret a set
of recordings that epitomize one of the South’s
most important contributions to American
music: Folklorist and musician Alan Lomax’s
“Sounds of the South.”
The three-day performance series, which
unites Durham’s Megafaun with Fight the Big
Bull, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and Sharon Van
Etten, will explore many of the tracks Lomax
gathered, culminating in a live recording to be
released late next year.
Megafaun’s Brad Cook has a longstanding
attachment to the Lomax material that the band
will cover.
“In 2006, I was working at Schoolkids Records
and somebody brought it in used one day, and
I was just like ‘Cool man, this looks awesome,’”
Cook said. “I picked it up, brought it home,
smoked for a while and kind of fell in love with
it. There’s a lot of familiarity with the record.”
Aaron Greenwald, director of the Duke
Performances series, sees the collision of con-
temporary indie musicians and historic material
as an opportunity to cross musical boundaries.
“I’m interested in the collapsing of genres, and
how that seems much easier for musicians that
are the age of the guys in Megafaun than it has
been for a long time,” Greenwald said.
“I think that it’s an opportunity for these guys
to make more work, and to make work that
engages these sources and is truly collaborative,
and to really get inside this material that is really
fundamental.”
For Cook, a previous experience at the Hayti
center augmented his desire to work with his-
torically significant music in an equally presti-
gious venue.
“I saw this concert there last year called the
Hallelujah Train with Brian Blade and Daniel
Lanois,” he said.
“I had never been in the Hayti center before,
and it was one of the best-sounding rooms I had
ever been in. When I talked to Aaron, we both
had the exact same reaction, and we agreed that
if we did this project, it should definitely be done
there.”
Though the musicians participating in the
event are respected in local and national music,
most of them grew up far from the sites of
Lomax’s recordings. But in Greenwald’s opinion,
this doesn’t detract from the artists’ understand-
ing of the material.
“I think that they know enough and are knowl-
edgeable enough about this music to pay it the
respect that it’s due, and also creative enough
and showmen enough to sort of make it work,”
he said.
“You risk, with this kind of material, making
a museum piece of it, but with these guys — it’s
evidenced by the albums they’ve released that
they’re not interested in making a museum piece
or anything, that their engagement with the stuff
is earnest.”
Assistant Diversions Editor
Joseph Chapman contributed reporting.
Contact the Diversions Editor
at dive@unc.edu.

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THE SMALL PONDS: BETTER THAN SWELL

Caitlin Cary and Matt Douglas
speak the language of love. Not
with each other, exactly, but as The
Small Ponds, a folk-infused group
out of Raleigh.
Diversions Editor Linnie Greene
met up with the duo to chat about
future plans, male-female song-
writing and why The Swell Season
should watch its back. The band’s
CD release show happens tonight at
Raleigh’s The Pour House.
Diversions: What recep-
tion have you gotten in the local
music scene since you formed
about a year ago?
Caitlin Cary: I think that
we’re just now kind of starting to
get enveloped into this scene, and
through this band I feel like I’m
getting reacquainted with this
scene. Even though I work at a
music venue (The Pour House),
there’s something about being in a
band that’s working right now.
Dive: Do you think working
as a duo impacts your music?
courtesy of the small ponds MD: We do a lot of duo stuff
Matt Douglas (above) and Caitlin Cary comprise Raleigh duo The Small and we write and blend our music
together, but we do play with a live
Ponds. The band’s new album will be released today at The Pour House.
September
Chick
Corea Trio 24 Chick Corea Trio
Sept 24
28 Dynamic Korea: Dance
and Song
Dynamic Korea Sept 28
October
1 Ozomatli
8 Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
11 Hugh Masekela
13–14 Mariinsky Orchestra
November
5 Omara Portuondo
8 Kremerata Baltica with Gidon
Kremer, violin/leader
10–11 Sutra – Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui /
Sadler’s Wells London
17 Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Sollee
band. DTH ONLINE: Head to dailytarheel.
com/dive for a review of the record.
CC: We wanted to take some
band pictures as the whole band,
but that’s just laziness and the fact all the time.
that I don’t like taking pictures. Dive: How does the male-
MD: Photos are dumb. female dynamic play into your
songwriting?
Dive: Yeah, they can get pret-
ty trite. CC: The Bowerbirds kind of do
the boy-girl thing, but I think that
MD: We should get on the it’s actually pretty unique in the
train tracks. Also, I think we want world of music, and it always sur-
to have the flexibility to be a duo prises me because it’s so much — it
and then kind of invite whoever seems to me that music is pretty
we want.
much about things that happen
CC: And to be sure, thus far between boys and girls. To be able
The Small Ponds has been this to articulate that more literally
thing that happens in my office, because you’re both there is really
where Matt and I are writing these — it seems so vital to me. I don’t
songs and even recording them know why it doesn’t happen a lot
before we bring them to the band. more than it does.
I mean, chemistry really does
Although we’re really close friends
— well, I’m really close friends with have to be there. Otherwise it’s
not good. But I mean, I am real-
the drummer (Skillet Gilmore).
He’s my husband, so to be sure ly surprised. We had fun with
he’s involved in somewhat of the a little review that we got from
creative thing. Jesse (Huebner), Rick Cornell at the Independent
who plays bass, is a phenomenal (Weekly) when The Swell Season
musician, and he has very nice was in town. There was a cute little
recording gear at his house. He’s conceit in his review where he said
really flexible about doing pretty something really nice about The
much anything we ask him to do Swell Season, and then he said the
exact same thing about us, except
for changing the name —
MD: Like, he used the exact
same words. It was like the “ver-
sus” section.
CC: It still didn’t cause people
to come to our show instead of The
Swell Season’s show. We were a
much better economic value.
CC: Yeah, we’ve got to make a
movie.
Dive: What would you call
it?
MD: “The Amazing Season.”
Wait, no — “We Are Way Better
Than Swell.”
CC: Theirs was “Once.”
MD: Oh yeah, “Once.”
CC: We could do “Twice.”
MD: I think as far as the guy-
SEE THE RELEASE SHOW
Time: 9 p.m. today
Location: The Pour House
224 S. Blount St., Raleigh
Info: www.the-pour-house.com
girl thing, I think we both sort of
share a little bit of disdain for the
front man and tambourine girl.
Not that there’s anything wrong
with the tambourine girl, because
somebody has to rock that tambou-
rine, but it’s like —
CC: It’s rare enough to see a girl
that can do it.
MD: That can really do it. The
backup girl who sings some harmo-
nies and does a little something or
whatever — that has nothing to do
with whether it’s a woman or not.
It’s sort of like a decorative thing.
We both want to be the decorative
part, together.
CC: I would say too that we’ve
both been the front man, and both
of us, I think we’ve had conversa-
tions where we’ve both said, “Wow,
this is so much better.”
Sharing the weight makes the
whole thing a lot more — it’s really
a large responsibility. All that social
networking and actually just play-
ing the shows and being the guy
and being in charge of managing
the band is really hard for one per-
son to do. It’s fun to have somebody
to share it with that you like a lot. It
makes it a whole lot nicer.
Dive: What are your influ-
ences on the new record?
CC: I don’t know whether we —
it’s funny, I don’t know if we know.
This record’s all about finding out
what we sound like. I feel like it
comes just out of what happens,
us writing together and singing
together.
I mean our influences are prob-
ably as big as all of his and all of
mine. That’s really hard to say. Are
we a new wave band? Are we a
country band? I don’t think we’ve
ever really had that conversation.

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Fruits gives a fresh take on slack rock
by linnie greene
diversions editor
Local slack-rock outfit
Embarrassing Fruits is deceptively
casual. But don’t let it fool you.
Frontier Justice, the Trekky
band’s sophomore full-length, is
an impressive collection of idle
anthems that evoke the same
weed-smoking, flannel-wearing
aesthetic of ’90s greats Pavement
and Archers of Loaf.
But behind a familiar façade,
Embarrassing Fruits channels its
sound in unconventional and unex-
pected directions.
In many ways, the term “fron-
tier” in the record’s title is an apt
one. Where oft-cited influences still
maintain a major foothold in the
group’s latest, the band embarks on
a decidedly new path.
Sure, it draws on beloved sounds,
but Frontier Justice also creates
new and unanticipated ones.
“Long Distance Breakup
Summer” exemplifies the balance
the band strikes between expected
evocations and imaginative song-
writing. At a little over three min-
utes, it’s a quick and hard-hitting
tale of a bad news hookup set to a
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embarrassing fruits
frontier justice
rock
grinding, lucid bass line.
Lyrically, it’s a brazen rant about
a friend with a “seven and a half-
month itch” who ends up pairing
off with a “skinny bitch,” but melod-
ically, it veers from the prescribed
alt-rock formula. Its slow, weaving
melody changes tempo briefly as
it reaches the song’s chorus, weav-
ing a tale that’s as touching as it is
apathetic.
Where some of the band’s prede-
cessors muddled incoherent prose
with hurried, power-chord heavy
riffs, there’s a sense of intention-
ality on Frontier Justice that dis-
tinguishes it from contemporaries
and forebears alike.
It’s no wimpy indie pop record,
but for an album so rooted in slack
rock, there’s a startling and impres-
sive sense of craftsmanship. You
won’t find strings or glockenspiels,
but the Fruits’ guitars, bass and
drum set cover wide and innova-
Diversions
Local outfit Embarrassing Fruits will hold its album release party Friday
at Duke Coffeehouse with Lonnie Walker and Midtown Dickens.
tive expanses that unfold more and
more with each listen.
As a fast-paced narrative about
drug-induced love, “Sugar Train”
is one of the album’s highlights,
boasting, “You’re a hot little heart
attack / and I know you like to
dance when you’re on cocaine.”
It’s a tongue-in-cheek epic whose
lyrics transmit with the same
bravado as Superchunk’s “Slack
thursday, september 16, 2010
movieshorts
Resident Evil: Afterlife
courtesy of trekky records
Motherfucker.” The history of film adaptations
On Frontier Justice, of video games is notoriously spot-
Embarrassing Fruits take a genre ty, and the “Resident Evil” fran-
that once symbolized local music chise has never been an exception.
and revitalizes it for a new audi- “Resident Evil: Afterlife” continues
ence. It’s a balance of innovation the trend and raises the question of
how a series so devoid of creativ-
and slack-rock sensibilities, buried
under layers of cool nonchalance. ity can lumber on for four install-
ments, as seemingly unkillable as
Contact the Diversions Editor its undead antagonists.
at dive@unc.edu. Milla Jovovich returns as geneti-
7
cally-enhanced super-soldier Alice,
bringing with her a crew of actors
and actresses whose best days are
either behind them or never existed
at all.
Years after the shadowy Umbrella
Corporation unleashed a zombie
plague upon the world, Alice con-
tinues to hunt for survivors and seek
revenge against its chairman, Albert
Wesker (Shawn Roberts).
The movie throws any sem-
blance of an emotionally-involved
plot out the window, and the char-
acters exist solely to move the film
to the next 3-D action sequence.
Ultimately, the inherent ridicu-
lousness of the film bogs it down.
In an apocalyptic wasteland where
humanity barely survives, how
can Alice find such a consistent
supply of makeup and knee-high
leather boots? Why does a charac-
ter choose to battle with a sword
instead of putting her telekinetic
powers to good use? These ques-
tions are never answered.
“Resident Evil: Afterlife” offers
little else than explosions and a
chance to stare at Milla Jovovich in
3-D. It may be a big-budget studio
release, but it seems destined for a
3 a.m. slot on the SyFy channel.
— Mark Niegelsky
8 thursday, september 16, 2010 Diversions The Daily Tar Heel

Local band prizes Old Ceremony crafts

spontaneous music charming pop on ‘
A ge’
by elizabeth byrum
staff writer
After six years in the local
music scene, Chapel Hill’s The Old
Ceremony still believes in the beau-
ty of spontaneous live music.
In keeping with its influences,
the local favorite will release its
fourth album, Tender Age, on
Friday at Cat’s Cradle with the
Lifted Praise Gospel Singers.
For Django Haskins, the band’s
founder and front man, the new
album marks a change in the
recording process.
From a group sing-a-long in
Raleigh to a small number of stu-
dio overdubs, the album’s songs
emphasize the instrumental bleeds
that result from infusing a live aes-
thetic with a traditional studio pro-
cess.
“Every record has been kind of
a step in a new direction in some
ways, and in other ways there is def-
initely a thread that goes through
all of them. The goal of this record
was to really get as much of the live
energy from our shows onto record
as possible,” said Haskins.
Although multiple influences
are prevalent throughout The Old
Ceremony’s discography, some less-
expected artists find their way into
the group’s music.
On Tender Age, the band was
influenced by Nigerian multi-
instrumentalist Fela Kuti, whose
music garnered frequent listens
courtesy of simon taachi/the old ceremony
Chapel Hill’s Old Ceremony drew on a myriad of influences for its latest
album. Catch the record release show Friday at Cat’s Cradle.
during the Old Ceremony’s tour.
Crafting a live energy on Tender
Age was important for the band,
allowing it to transmit the excite-
ment that accompanies a show.
“I think it is a really common
problem with making records that
once you get in a studio, the micro-
scope is out and the lights are on,
and a lot of the spontaneity can go
away,” said Haskins.
“Even if you do something in the
moment, you still have an infinite
amount of time to go back and
change it or change your mind,
whereas live, whatever happens
at that moment just happens and
then you move on.”
Moving for ward, the Old
Ceremony plans to remain busy.
From organizing an upcoming
tour for the new album to working
on a score for a film, the band is
embarking in new directions.
Despite its members’ obliga-
tions, the band plans to remain
entrenched in the local music com-
munity.
Haskins sees the Triangle’s pro-
lific music scene as an asset and a
major reason to stick around.
“It is kind of an exciting time
now,” said Haskins.
“My excitement about the local
scene has just catapulted. I am
excited to bring out our new album
and show everybody.”
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at dive@unc.edu.
Latest album is a
sunny pop romp
by anna norris
staff writer
The Old Ceremony has been a
mainstay in local music for several
years now. Its fourth album, Tender
Age, is an amalgamation of many of
the good qualities that have shaped
the band so far.
The album is filled with small
quirks that make for an entirely
lively and unexpected listening
experience, bringing a new level of
craftsmanship and innovation that
earlier the Old Ceremony albums
lacked.
“Guo Qu,” one of the most musi-
cally arresting songs on the album,
opens with mournful, Oriental-
sounding violins and turns into a
lilting guitar and violin ballad sung
entirely in Chinese.
“Wither on the Vine, Part 2,”
has definite radio and commercial
appeal thanks to acoustic guitar
echoed by gentle banjo plucking
that brings to mind the success-
ful stylings of the Avett Brothers.
And the slinky and devil-may-care
swagger of “Good Time to Leave”
sounds like it should be sputtering
out of an old-time jukebox in a rock
‘n’ roll bar.
Even when singer Django
Haskins sings about topics like rela-
tionship problems and loneliness,
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there’s an eagerness and energy to
all the songs that belies the serious
topics sprinkled throughout.
Detractors could chalk it up
to insincerity on the band’s part,
but instead, it feels like the Old
Ceremony is having too much of
a good time to bother with melan-
choly, making it easy for the listen-
er to engage in the material.
Clocking in at around an hour
with most of the 14 songs close to
four minutes, the record runs long
and could do without some of the
filler at the end of the album.
Indeed, the last five songs seem
more like an excuse for the band
to jam and play around aimlessly,
causing more than a little wear and
tear on the listener’s patience.
“Gone Go The Memories” espe-
cially lacks the charisma and sig-
nature flair so present in the rest
of the songs, and closes the record
on a disconcerting flat note — even
though it boasts guest vocals from
members of The Love Language,
Schooner and Annuals.
But it’s still not enough to
detract from the record’s charm.
Tender Age is proof that the Old
Ceremony remains adept at pro-
ducing the kind of upbeat pop that
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has made it such a staple in the
Chapel Hill music community, and
if the group’s latest is any indica-
tion, the band will be crafting sun-
shiny pop long into the future.
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Local SATs hit record high School board

lisa lefever
staff writer
A local school district achieved
the highest average SAT scores in
its history and in the state. But
officials said there is still room for
improvement.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City
Schools had an average score last
year of 1194 for the math section
and reading section combined.
“CHCCS typically has the high-
est SAT score in the state, and ours
is a community that deeply values
higher education,” said district
spokeswoman Stephanie Knott in
an e-mail.
Knott said district high schools
offer SAT courses, but most of the
preparation for the test occurs in the
classes that encourage critical think-
ing and problem solving skills.
But not every demographic
within the district saw improve-
ment. The changes in scores varied
between racial groups.
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Asian students’ average score went
down about 2.6 percent.
Latinos and whites had increased
average scores of about 3.2 percent
and 1 percent, respectively.
East Chapel Hill High School
was the highest ranking non-
charter public school in the state,
with an average test score of 1218
in math and reading.
Assistant Principal Kylon
Middleton said this year, he hopes
to see more students engaged in
their studies as well as helping stu-
dents who are challenged based on
economic status or race.
Carrboro High School was the
second in the state, but school prin-
cipal Kelly Batten said teachers still
have their work cut out for them.
“We acknowledge the accom-
plishments of our students partici-
pating on the SAT,” Batten stated in
an e-mail.
“However, we also openly
acknowledge that much work
remains for us as a professional
faculty to increase achievement
outcomes for struggling students,
which in our school are dispropor-
tionately represented by minority
students.”
Batten said both students and
parents have come to develop high
expectations and want to see each
other succeed.
“Our parents are extremely sup-
portive of our school and student
body,” Batten said. He said the
PTSA sponsored an SAT workshop
last year, which included a drawing
for free test prep books for some
students.
Batten said improvements in
the district can also be attributed
to students taking advantage of
Advanced Placement courses.
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Elizabeth johnson
staff writer
A new accountability model for
public schools might mean anoth-
er standardized test for the high
school class of 2014.
The North Carolina State Board
of Education will vote in October
whether to use the ACT as part of
the high-school curriculum to mea-
sure how prepared students are for
college, said Vanessa Jeter, director
of communication and information
services for the board.
The state will use money from
the N.C. Public School Fund to pay
for the administration of the test,
Jeter said.
The fund is made up of state
taxes, she said.
If the proposed plan passes,
juniors will take the test during the
school day as part of a curriculum
requirement, Jeter said.
High school students in North
Carolina are not required to take
the ACT or SAT within the current
system, she said.
Schools in the UNC system
require applicants to submit either
SAT scores or ACT plus writing
scores, said Barbara Jo Polk, senior
associate director for UNC admis-
sions.
The ACT is a curriculum-based
test, while the SAT is used to mea-
sure students’ critical thinking and
reasoning skills.
“Colleges around the country
look at ACT and SAT scores as
a way to measure how well they
think the students will do at their
school,” Polk said.
“A 33 on the ACT means the
same thing in California as it does
in North Carolina.”
Polk said 2,684 students sent in
applications with only ACT scores
last year. Out of those students, 514
were admitted. Comparable statis-
tics for SAT-only applicants were
not immediately available.
“At UNC, if we receive an appli-
cation with both ACT and SAT
scores, we use the score that advan-
tages the student most,” Polk said.
Ed Colby, spokesman for the
ACT Testing Center, said one of
the benefits of the plan is that every
student gets an ACT score that they
can use to apply to college free of
charge.
“We have gotten a lot of positive
feedback from states who have
similar plans,” Colby said.
“One of the most positive effects
this program has had on students
is getting them to at least consider
college,” he said.
Some even change their minds
about not going to college, he said.
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Protest over Quran-burning threat
KABUL, Afghanistan — A
violent protest that left dozens
of people injured in the Afghan
capital Wednesday points to
concerted efforts by the Taliban
to keep the controversy alive over
an American pastor’s discarded
plans to burn copies of the Quran,
Afghan authorities said.
White Taliban flags flew above
a crowd of about 800 people
who burned tires, shouted anti-
American slogans and pelted
security forces with stones.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT)
— The Tea Party’s upset victory
Tuesday by an insurgent conser-
vative in Delaware’s Republican
Senate primary puts GOP chanc-
es to win control of the U.S.
Senate in November in serious
jeopardy.
They need to gain 10 seats to
run the Senate. Most leading prog-
nosticators had said they appeared
to be within reach of that until
Tuesday. Analysts say Republicans
still have a good chance to gain
a majority in the U.S. House of
Representatives, where they need
to pick up 39 seats.
D e l aw a r e’s n o t t h e o n l y
Senate race in November where
Police fired assault rifles into the
air to break up the early-morning
protest on the outskirts of Kabul.
At least 35 police officers and
about 15 demonstrators were
injured in the melee, the Interior
Ministry said.
The demonstrations, which have
persisted for days after the aban-
doning of plans by a small Florida
church to burn the Muslim holy
book, suggest an orchestrated
campaign that could continue for
some time.
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Republicans will field a Tea
Party candidate vulnerable to the
“fringe” label against well-known
Democrats in the Nov. 2 general
elections.
Colorado and Nevada face the
same scenario, with incumbent
Democrats seeking re-election
against Tea Party insurgents
who defeated better-known
Republican candidates in low-
turnout contests.
However, among the Senate
seats most analysts expect-
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Delaware’s, where the GOP
establishment’s choice for Senate
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SACRAMENTO — California
Republican gubernatorial can-
didate Meg Whitman gave her
campaign an additional $15
million last Tuesday.
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spending in the race to $119
million, shattering the record
for the most money ever spent
by one political candidate on
a single election in American
history.
Children’s storybook
shows town history
by SYDNey LEONARD
staff writer
Two locals are bringing Chapel
Hill’s history to life through the
pages of a new children’s book.
Chapel Hill author Irma Tejada
and Carrboro artist Chris Kanoy
have joined forces to create “Once
Upon a Hill.”
The story is set in Chapel Hill
and is full of historical facts about
the town. It is the final installment
in a children’s book trilogy.
The book tells the story of
9-year-old Cara Eugénie, who
moves to Chapel Hill from France
and is nervous about starting at a
new school.
To welcome the newcomer, her
classmates give a presentation
about Chapel Hill for Cara.
Tejada, originally from the
Philippines, said she called upon
her personal experience of com-
ing to the United States when she
wrote the book.
Tejada said the book is the per-
fect medium for introducing lots of
things about Chapel Hill. Historical
thursday, september 16, 2010
classics like the Old Well, the Bell
Tower and Franklin Street are all
mentioned.
C h a p e l Hi l l May o r Ma r k
Kleinschmidt will read the book to
Denise Cowan’s fourth grade class
at Seawell Elementary School this
morning.
“The kids are really excited,”
Cowan said. Her class of 29 chil-
dren will hear the book in the
school’s media center.
Tejada and Kanoy said they
first became friends while work-
ing together at UNC Hospitals in
1996.
Remembering her artistic friend,
Tejada said she approached Kanoy
about illustrating the book.
“I had been drawing all my life,
but it was just a hobby,” Kanoy
said.
“We kind of had to learn what
we were doing together.”
They didn’t collaborate artisti-
cally until fall 2005 when Tejada
was inspired to pay homage to
Carrboro for supporting France in
its opposition to the war in Iraq.
11
“You have to admire the cour-
age of the little town of Carrboro,”
Tejada said.
It took the pair more than two
years to finish their first book,
“A Weekend in the Paris of the
Piedmont – A Carrboro Story.”
At the time, neither Tejada nor
Kanoy had publishing experi-
ence. The two approached Laurie
Paolicelli, executive director of the
Chapel Hill and Orange County
Visitors Bureau, for help.
Bureau officials decided to pub-
lish the book and asked Tejada
and Kanoy to write two additional
stories about Hillsborough and
Chapel Hill.
“It was almost like a serendipi-
tous experience with the bureau
being interested and pointing the
way to publication,” Tejada said.
After Thursday’s launch, the
book will be available for sale at the
visitors bureau and the N.C. Crafts
Gallery in Carrboro.
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
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US study finds LGBTs harassed on campus

by kristen mcavoy ual identity, results showed. find resources, she said. The center is to include college campuses on a
staff writer “Discrimination is still a pervasive raises awareness through educa- website that rates GLBT climates on
A national survey found that a factor on college campuses,” said tion, advocacy and support. campus, Windmeyer said.
significant number of university Shane Windmeyer, executive direc- She said that 7 percent of those UNC-CH is not listed on the web-
employees and students who are tor and founder of Campus Pride. who use the center’s resources are site, but system schools including
lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgen- Less than 8 percent of accred- UNC faculty members. UNC-Greensboro and Appalachian
der experience harassment or an ited colleges and universities in There are also 1,400 Safe Zone State University are on the list.
uncomfortable climate. the country have LGBT inclusive allies trained through an educa- UNC-G received 3.5 out of 5 pos-
Campus Pride, a nonprofit that policies, he said. tional program where participants sible stars while ASU got 3.
conducted the study, drew from UNC is one of the institutions learn how to be supportive of all Phoenix said the benchmark
about 5,150 people at about 100 that has sexual orientation includ- gender identities, Depuy said. used by the website is the number
institutions nationwide in the spring ed in its non-discrimination policy, UNC students have been approved of GLBT policies that are imple-
of 2009 and found that LGBT said Danny DePuy, assistant direc- to purchase health insurance for a mented, which might not be an
respondents on campus felt they tor of the UNC LGBTQ center. same-sex partner since the summer accurate measurement at UNC.
experienced greater discrimination “Carolina is pretty intentional of 2004, said Terri Phoenix, director The survey offered universities
than heterosexual respondents. about being welcoming,” DePuy of the UNC LGBTQ center. with a list of recommendations
Results showed that 23 percent said. Brad Becker, GLBT National to make LGBT students feel more
of LGBT respondents were likely Gender identity and gender Help Center helpline executive comfortable. They include offering
to experience harassment, com- expression were added to the policy director in California, said it is gender-neutral restrooms and gay-
pared to 12 percent of heterosexual in 2008, she said. fairly rare for his organization to friendly roommates.
dth/chessa rich
respondents. LGBT respondents UNC’s LGBTQ center, where find a college that does not have
were also more likely to indicate students, staff and faculty can par- GLBT policies. Contact the State & National Ph.D neurobiology student Rebecca Balter (center) listens to a peer
that harassment was based on sex- ticipate in Safe Zone programs and Another Campus Pride initiative Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. speak at the LGBTQ Center’s roundtable discussion Wednesday.

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Greeks work for fire safety
by Sam Smith
staff writer
In ten years, 71 fires have result-
ed in student deaths.
Wednesday, a group of UNC
sorority and fraternity fire mar-
shals partnered with the Chapel
Hill Fire Department to prevent
future fires. They installed fire
alarms and inspected 70 off-cam-
pus residences as part of Campus
Fire Safety Month, a collaboration
of the Chapel Hill Fire Department,
UNC and the Michael H. Minger
Foundation.
The program is designed to pro-
mote fire and carbon monoxide
alarm installations, house safety
checks and distribution of fire
kitchen
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“Participants would come to
this area and utilize the programs
and activities emanating from this
building to develop a market for
their products, whether it’s jams,
jellies or meats,” he said.
During its first year of opera-
tion, the processing center will be
financed by $1.3 million of federal
and state grants, but it will eventu-
ally become a non-profit organiza-
tion.
The incubator will be similar to
Blue Ridge Food Ventures, a venue
near Asheville. Executive Director
of the food ventures kitchen Mary
Lou Surgi said the reactions from
the community to the incubator
have been encouraging.
“I love seeing people come in
here with a dream and an idea,
and we can help get them started,”
Surgi said.
Food Ventures charges $22 per
hour to rent its kitchen — about
the same rate the Piedmont facil-
ity will charge its users.
“For some folks here this is their
full time job,” she said.
“For others, like farmers, cater-
ers or bakers, this is an activity they
use to keep themselves going.”
In addition to food processing,
the Asheville facility also offers
advice on how to efficiently market
and label products.
“You don’t have to mortgage
your house to see if your award-
winning chocolate chip cookies will
be a good investment,” Surgi said.
Surgi, who is familiar with the
new Piedmont incubation pro-
gram, said she thinks it will be
successful.
and could not take.”
“It is a great location,” she said.
The University will host a dinner
“There is so much food energy in
where staff and faculty members can
that area, and I think it will do very
speak to the men more intimately.
well.”
“I felt like it needed to be a prior-
ity of the University to honor these
Contact the City Editor men for their role in the develop-
at citydesk@unc.edu. ment of the campus as we see it
today,” Kapur said.
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safety information. Fire Marshal Matt Lawrence. Shamrock. “At Zeta [Tau Alpha
“As fire marshals in our frater- He said that every UNC frater- sorority], all of their fire codes
nities, it’s our duty to make sure nity and sorority has since submit- are up to date. They encourage all
our houses are safe,” said Stewart ted an inspection request, though their potential new members to go
Smith, a sophomore in the UNC other students have enlisted the online and check it out.”
chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha fra- program’s support, as well. Lawrence said the fire department
ternity, who joined another fire “The fire marshals are extremely does inspections and fire drills every
marshal and two fire department helpful, educating, and we really semester at the Greek houses.
officials for the inspections. appreciate them coming in,” said “Their priority is to keep those
Fire department officials said a sophomore Katie Stark, a mem- locations safe and so is ours,” he
total of 71 fatal fires have occurred ber of UNC’s chapter of Alpha Chi explained. “We want students to be
within the past decade in Greek, on- Omega sorority. able to use this knowledge to make
campus or off-campus housing. Since the Phi Gamma Delta fire, their houses safer.”
In the aftermath of a 1996 fire that Greek organizations have gone to The month of events will con-
took the lives of five people inside the extended measures to ensure that clude on Sept. 23 with the Campus
Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house, their houses are safer. Fire Safety Fair in Polk Place.
local fire departments have taken “I wanted to know that the place dth/allison russell
proactive efforts to serve students where I would live was one that Contact the University Editor Junior Anna Mullen watches as Chapel HIll Fire Department Asst. Fire
living off-campus, said Chapel Hill feels safe,” said freshman Kayde at udesk@unc.edu. Marshall Johnny Parker installs a fire alarm at Kappa Delta sorority.
The Dart
cuba “It was probably The DTH threw a dart at a map of
from page 1
better for everyone the county and went there to find the
None of the courses were taken
with Cuban students, said Hicks that it was games story. See pg. 1 for story.
and senior Gina Bruno, who also Chapel Hill children’s book
studied in Cuba. canceled.” © 2009 The Mepham Group. All rights reserved.
Hicks said she wished that Level: 1 2 3 4 Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt will
the classes had been taught in Anasa Hicks, who studied in cuba read a Chapel Hill children’s book
Spanish, instead of both English during the spring semester today. See pg. 11 for story.
and Spanish. Complete the grid
so each row, column
“You learn a lot more when turing of the program is needed,
and 3-by-3 box (in
ACT could be required
you’re forced to,” she said. “If it was adding that a higher language N.C. high school students may be
bold borders) con-
essential that we knew Spanish we requirement would be advisable. tains every digit 1 required to take the ACT. See page
would’ve tried harder and gotten “I think that sometimes study to 9. 10 for the story.
more out of it.” abroad programs try to make stu-
In the spring of 2010, 14 stu- dents feel comfortable,” she said. Solution to
dents participated in the study “A huge part of studying abroad is Wednesday’s puzzle
No small matter
abroad program in Cuba, out of the feeling uncomfortable.” Believe or not, antimatter mat-
14 or 15 that applied, said Miles. Miles said that he plans to work ters. Find out why at the Pit Talk
Miles added that he is now con- with the University of Havana to blog at dailytarheel.com.
cerned that if a new program is design a new program.
designed, the only option will be to UNC’s program was rare, and Fruits album review
have a direct enrollment program, impossible in states like Florida,
therefore decreasing the number of where a federal appeals court rein- Diversions reviews the latest
eligible students. stated last month a ban on state album from Embarrassing Fruits,
A direct enrollment program university funding for travel to “ter- gives 4 stars. See pg. 7 for review.
would mean that UNC students rorist” countries, including Cuba.
BEST?
would enroll in the University of Louis Perez, a history professor
WANT TO WORK FOR THE
Havana and take classes as the who teaches a class on Cuba, said
Cuban students do. UNC students that maintaining a program in
would be fully immersed in the Cuba will be very difficult because
language of the country and would of the political tensions between >
have the opportunity to engage
with Cuban students.
Miles said direct enrollment
the United States and Cuba.
“Because it’s unlike any other
program, it can’t be treated like any
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dents who completed the program to bring it back.”
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Nick Mykins
The Science Guy
Senior physics major from Raleigh.
E-mail: nmykins@email.Unc.Edu
When
you wish
upon
yourself
T
here’s nothing quite like
looking up at the stars
at night to get an idea
of how small we are compared
to the rest of the universe.
The vastness of space is truly
sublime to behold and very
humbling, too. Somehow when
you’re gazing up at the stars,
some thousands of light years
away, all of your petty, worldly
problems seem to vanish into
insignificance, if only for a few
minutes.
Stars have fascinated humans
since prehistory, and they
remain some of the most beau-
tiful and unique objects not
only in the night sky — but in
all of nature. Aside from being
pleasant to look at, stars are
absolutely awe-inspiring and
actually much more important
to the origin of life here on
Earth than we might ordinarily
think.
First of all, despite their
appearance, stars are unimagin-
ably huge. The sun, an average-
sized star, is about a million
times bigger than Earth in vol-
ume. It’s hard to visualize some-
thing this size, so let’s put it in
perspective: If the Earth is T.J.
Yates, the sun is Kenan Stadium.
What looks like a small, albeit
extremely bright object in the
daytime sky is actually a ball of
burning gas so massive that its
gravity is more than enough to
keep Pluto in orbit more than 3
billion miles away.
Also, the cores of stars are
some of the only places in which
nuclear fusion, the same process
that generates the explosive
power of a hydrogen bomb,
occurs naturally. The sun gener-
ates an enormous amount of
energy; each nanosecond, the
total energy output of the sun
could power the town of Chapel
Hill for more than 100 years.
This energy fuses the hydrogen
atoms that comprise most of the
sun into heavier elements.
In fact, this fusion inside the
cores of stars is just about the
only way elements heavier than
helium can be formed at all. You
may wonder, if the vast major-
ity of matter we interact with is
only made inside stars, how did
it end up here on Earth?
If a star is massive enough, it
will eventually exhaust its hydro-
gen fuel supply and explode in
a spectacularly powerful event
called a supernova. When a star
explodes like this, its contents
form an immense cloud of dust
and gas, which may condense
due to gravity, and over time
form rocky comets, asteroids and
even planets.
When you think about it, this
is utterly astonishing.
Look around you. Look at
the trees, the squirrels, Wilson
Library, your friends nearby,
your Chick-fil-A sandwich —
all of this was, billions of years
ago, inside the core of a star.
The atoms in your body were all
formed inside a star much larger
than the sun, perhaps even sev-
eral different stars, which then
exploded so that you could be
here today.
We are all literally made of
stardust. And here you are, read-
ing about it! It always amazes me
to think that we are all intimate
parts of the very universe we live
in and study. In the words of Carl
Sagan, “The cosmos is also within
us … we are a way for the cosmos
to know itself.”
Suddenly, looking up at the
starry night sky doesn’t make
you feel so small anymore, does
it?
Friday:
David Bierer educates us on the rules
of laziness.
Sarah Frier
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Opinion EDITOR
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EDITORIAL CARTOON
The Interview
New ASG president Atul Bhula is still lacking some
substance to his proposals. But he’s got the right idea.
The Interview is a new opin-
ion page feature. We’ll have
extended interviews with people
who affect our community, writ-
ten by members of the editorial
board. Today, Mark Laichena
writes about Atul Bhula.
L
istening to Atul Bhula,
2010-2011 president
for the University of
North Carolina’s Association of
Student Governments, one gets
the feeling that the association
is on solid ground.
It certainly needs it. ASG has
underperformed through much
of its recent existence.
Never really working out how
to make the most of the $1 it has
collected annually since 2002
from each of the more than
200,000 students in the UNC
system, ASG suffered humilia-
tion as its president was charged
with assault in 2007. Ignominy
continued as some UNC cam-
puses sidelined ASG and others
withdrew their delegations.
Greg Doucette, the next and
most recent former president,
brought stability by serving
enthusiastically from 2008-
2010, though the results were
hardly worthy of the hundreds
of thousands of dollars the
organization cost students.
So Bhula hasn’t exactly
taken on the most popular job
in town.
No matter: For the next
seven months, he represents
the entire UNC-system student
body — even if not all students
support his role.
Bhula launches into a dis-
cussion on tuition when asked
about his top priorities, echoing
practically all his predecessors
by talking about keeping it “as
low as possible.”
Reaching what he thinks ASG
can actually do takes a little
more prodding. He refuses to be
tied to any targets quite yet: The
organization “is still waiting for
output from ASG’s research divi-
sion” on the potential effect of
tuition raises on UNC students,
and a tuition subcommittee has
State schools better
Employers favor big state
schools over the
Ivies when recruit-
ing for jobs. Let’s
recount: we’re
better at sports,
less expensive, more fun,
better looking and now
about to be better employed.
CAA policy vote
Finally, a ticket policy idea
that may actu-
ally satisfy the stu-
dent body. After
a year of com-
plaints, we can
choose our own. Thank
God we don’t have to deal
with the Young Democrats
to register to vote for it.
Opinion The Daily Tar Heel
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
EDITorial BOARD members
callie bost Sam Jacobson “He will tell you that we kissed in
Robert Fleming Mark Laichena
Taylor Holgate Maggie Zellner the elevator. We were old people,
but still.”
Betty Neese, 79, featured in “The Dart.”
By Connor Sullivan, cpsully@email.unc.edu
Featured online reader comment:
“Weren’t many of the professors
wondering why their in-class and
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Duke College Republicans
don’t deserve coverage
But it are wrong to cite “better
access to the city’s transit system”
as one of them.
TO THE EDITOR: The present location of the
I will admit to being quite shelter is vastly superior as far as
amused by the Sept. 14 editorial, access is concerned since most
“Rotten at the core.” Aside from of transit’s routes (as well as
the fact that the main focus of Triangle Transit’s), save several
the criticism seems to be a list of which serve only UNC Hospitals
e-mails whose origin no one seems and UNC on Manning Drive and
to be able to explain and whose South Road, pass through the
validity is also questionable, why is Franklin/Columbia intersection.
the DTH obsessed with a student This is not to say that the home-
organization at Duke? less would be marooned at MLK
UNC does in fact have its own and Homestead. During the week,
College Republicans club right
here on campus. I feel slighted
three routes provide frequent early
morning to late evening service at
that the DTH feels that the Duke that intersection, but on Saturdays
club is more deserving of cover- only one route serves that area.
just been formed. the Capitol last May, around 30 age than our own club is. But irrespective of which loca-
It seems that Bhula, an students went to the legislature: Maybe it’s simply because tion provides better access to
our club is such a paragon of transit, reduced panhandling on
MBA student at Appalachian A significantly larger presence
State University, has embraced during the General Assembly’s virtue that the DTH chooses to Franklin Street, except possibly on
ignore it. But should you choose Sundays, is likely illusory given the
bureaucratic organization as the long session in the spring might
to grace us with an editorial in mobility the homeless are afforded
way to carry ASG forward. He send a strong message.
the future, let me suggest a title: by Chapel Hill’s excellent, not to
says that he could have an action Bhula indicates he is looking
“UNC College Republicans: Bad mention free, transit service.
plan by October — so we’ll have to past projects for ideas. He to the Bone.” Now that’s an opin-
to reserve judgement for now. mentions the Personal Stories ion I could really get behind. Felix S. Bloch
The ASG president’s main project, a book that aimed to Chapel Hill Resident
role is representing students put faces on UNC-system stu- Marc Seelinger
to the UNC-system Board of dents, which was produced Junior
General admission two-
Governors, but “hitting the leg- during president Amanda Economics, Chinese ticket policy is best choice
islature is a main priority.” Devore’s term in 2004-05.
Bhula highlights contin- “You still see it in legislators’ Time to discuss issue at TO THE EDITOR:
gency planning as a challenge offices,” he said. UNC based on their merits Vote general admission two
ahead. The $750 Thinking tickets policy for men’s basket-
tuition raise that “If o∞cers don’t about projects TO THE EDITOR:
Sam Perkins (“Can I get some
ball. It’s the best method for
everyone, undergraduate and
came from the leads us to the
legislature over do their jobs, $260,000 ques-
climate change?” Sept. 15) wrote
that an on-campus clash of politi-
graduate students, die-hard fans
and the newly initiated. Going to
the summer
blindsided the
I’ll fire them.” tion: How ASG
spends its bud-
cal opposites like Keith Olbermann the games with friends is more
and Glenn Beck would refresh the fun. You can bring a date or a
ASG, which had Atul Bhula, ASG President get. Many have political climate at UNC. I doubt friend. You can choose between
led a successful been critical of it. arriving early for great seats or
but comparatively insignificant officers’ stipends, which range Watching a debate between arriving later with a big group of
people set in their ways is like
tuition petition in the spring. from the $7,000 for Bhula down friends and sitting together.
“So it really shows the power to $1,000 for the secretary. capturing a reflection of the very The standby line allows stu-
“stagnant cesspool for political
of the state government, and the Bhula thinks the figures are dents that didn’t win the lottery
thought” that Perkins laments.
importance of engaging them.” fair. to still see the game. The argu-
What’s interesting about listening
There’s a frankness to Bhula’s “Students working for ASG ment for twice as many students
to lone speakers is that you learn winning the lottery is false — the
outlook that is refreshing­ — could be working or intern- about their worldview and follow same number of students get to go
particularly compared with his ing, so if we don’t compensate their reasoning from beginning to to the game either way. The differ-
immediate predecessor, who them, ASG will only be open to end. ence is who you will go with.
engaged in aggressive charac- elites who don’t have to work. When Karl Rove comes, for Reserved seating is lame as it
ter attacks through regular blog “And if officers don’t do their example, students can come and splits up groups of friends and
posts, called “T. Greg’s Tomes”. jobs, I’ll fire them,” he adds. discard their preconceptions and doesn’t reward die-hard fans with
Bhula sees a core part of his He’s quick to suggest other evaluate his ideas in the conser- good seats for showing up early.
vative context he’ll provide. This
job as “selling the university.” ways to save money, such as And there isn’t a standby line. Vote
context is valuable because it
It’s a reminder of how big returning to one- or two-day for the ticketing policy that makes
allows students to see how a suc-
the job is: The UNC system meetings to cut hotel expenses. the most sense for students — vote
cessful strategist on one side of the
comprises 16 universities and And what to do with the general admission two tickets!
political spectrum thinks. It’ll be a
the N.C. School of Science saved money? “It’s all about
much more useful occasion than a Benjamin Heumann
and Math; more than 170,000 returning value to students shout-out between two TV hosts. Graduate Student
full-time students and almost by funding for projects that But we don’t have to rely on Department of Geography
50,000 part-time students. benefit UNC-system students. speakers to bring us out of the
“The legislators aren’t hear- That’s where the Personal stagnant political climate. We can
Opposition to the mosque
ing enough from students,” he Stories book might come in, engage in real discourse by letting
must be because of Islam
says. “They love talking to stu- and I’m not going to give up on go of our preconceptions and
discussing issues on the merits
dents, especially those from the working for campus innovation TO THE EDITOR:
constituencies they represent.” grants.” instead of disparaging whole cat- In the letter “Mosque opposi-
egories of political stances with
“ASG can ge t students Bhula has answers for the tion doesn’t stem from Muslim
the paintbrush of prejudice.
there, and make sure they are standard criticisms of the ASG, fears” (Sept. 14), Kronk writes that
The first item of prejudice
informed.” but he doesn’t have an answer fear of Islam isn’t the reason for
that we drain from the cesspool opposition to the mosque. He says
The ASG president is keeping for everything. should be the author’s own false it’s disrespectful to 9/11 victims.
his cards to his chest on the big The ASG president admits claim that political conservatism, Since he accuses his opponents
ideas for connecting students that he doesn’t know what simi- which is about liberty, opportu- of making a “leap of logic” to the
to the state government, but it’s lar student associations in other nity and equality under the law, idea that Islam is the reason for
not hard to imagine the options states are doing. means “homosexuals and minor- their opposition, I ask him or other
on the table. For Student Day at “But that’s a great idea.” ities get harassed in conservative opponents to explain what quality
parts of the country.” of the mosque is disrespectful.
If it is not the fact that it is a
Zach Dexter Muslim center, I can’t understand
QuickHits
Junior what would be seen as so disre-
Peace, War, and Defense spectful to 9/11 victims. Within
three blocks of the World Trade
More transit options not Center, there are restaurants,
likely if homeless moved hotels, pornographic DVD stores,
Petey Pablo Obama’s new book
bars, liquor stores, churches, syn-
TO THE EDITOR: agogues and clothing stores that
The rapper of “C’mon and After “Dreams of my Father” The editorial “New roof a good have received no public outcry.
raise up” fame and “The Audacity move,” (Sept. 14) adduces sever- What is the difference between
was arrested — on of Hope” comes …
al reasons to affect the move of them and an Islamic center?
9/11 — for trying to a children’s book Chapel Hill’s homeless shelter to
board an airplane about American the intersection of Homestead Lindsay Alexander
with a gun. The plat- p i o n e e r s . Road and Martin Luther King Senior
inum rapper may have been Apparently, the average read- Jr. Blvd. without further delay. Global Studies
trying to fight crime at 30,000 ing age for Obama’s books has
feet, but he’s still an idiot. tracked his approval ratings.
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