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thursday, december 2, 2010

Wake
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asks for
records
Says UNC tactics
predatory, opaque
by jen serdetchnaia
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974 new private housing units
Assistant State & National Editor
WakeMed Health and Hospitals
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is requesting UNC Hospitals to
single-family houses
stop its “predatory behavior” in
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N.C. Census Statistics: owned Rex Hospital in Wake
Surrounding this circle is recently County.
people of all distributed data from the U.S. Census people of all
WakeMed submitted a formal
9.9 ages in poverty Bureau. It shows the changing face ages in poverty 13.9 request for financial information
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and other public records from
data drawn from 1998 and
UNC Hospitals on Monday.
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Jennifer James said.
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she said. “That’s really where we
are right now.”
Although WakeMed’s request
=1 comes on the coattails of UNC’s
announcement a month ago about
=10 a new partnership with the pri-
vate cardiology clinic Wake Heart
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Atkinson, president and CEO for
WakeMed, said that was not the
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The letter is in response to a
DTH/RYAN KURTZMAN decade-long tension starting with
UNC’s acquisition of Rex Hospital,

‘GROWING AND GROWING’

Residents debate benefits
of becoming more urban
by Caitlin McGinnis
staff writer
Bill Livengood first visited Chapel Hill in the 1950s
when he played on the Wake Forest baseball team.
He moved here 40 years ago after getting his mas-
ter’s at UNC and marrying his wife Lelia, whom he
met at a University dance.
“I married a Chapel Hill girl born and raised, so we
had to live in Chapel Hill,” the 79-year-old said. “It
wasn’t a question.”
During his time here, Livengood has seen the street
he lives on — Smith Level Road — transform from a
dirt road to a busy intersection that he said can take
up to 10 minutes to cross.
And according to a recently released census database,
this urbanization is not exclusive to Livengood’s neigh-
borhood. The data shows that in little less than 30 years,
Orange County’s population has grown by more than
53,000. And the number of private nonfarm establish-
ments has almost tripled, marking the transformation of
an area that once spanned a mere 72 acres.
While Livengood said he doesn’t dislike the prog-
ress he is seeing, he just doesn’t think it’s necessary.
which is in WakeMed’s market,
Atkinson said.
He said WakeMed does about
80 percent of the charity care in
Wake County without the state
“I’ve always lived in a small town. I don’t think all
this construction is necessarily an improvement,” he
Dottie Schmitt said in addition to economic progress,
the county is also focusing on adding agriculture and
support that UNC receives.
Rex Hospital CFO Bernadette
said. “I don’t want or need the things that are being
added to the town, and I don’t think they are appropri-
infrastructure to areas that have not seen as much
growth.
Spong said in an interview a month
ago that the hospital totaled $94
ate in a recession.” “Both the town of Chapel Hill and the county have million in charity care and bad
Chapel Hill Town Council member Penny Rich said made a point to make sure the quality of life is attrac- debt expense for the 2009 fiscal
the town will become a much more urban area in the tive,” she said. “With all the parks and cultural activi- year.
next four to five years. ties we are able to attract people from different demo- “That’s a big number when you
“We don’t have land to build more neighborhoods graphics.” start breaking it down on a daily
and continue to build McMansions,” she said. “It will A mother of two, Tammy Samuelson decided to basis,” she said.
be impossible to grow (the population) from 50,000 move to Chapel Hill from Kentucky after completing But Atkinson questioned the
to the projected 80,000 without putting them some- her residency here. She said the town seemed like a transparency of Rex.
place to live.” good place to raise a family. “Rex Hospital is a very different
Rich said this additional living space will come from “Though downtown is changing, I don’t think this animal,” he said.
current development projects like 140 West Franklin will affect how many families Chapel Hill will attract,” Although it is owned by the
and University Square, which will include high-rise she said. University, Rex does not release
condominiums, apartments and retail stores. Samuelson said the town’s continued support of the same financial data as a state-
Rich, who has lived in Chapel Hill for 14 years, said public libraries, school systems, cultural opportuni- owned hospital, Atkinson said.
she has watched the town undergo immense changes. ties and other family-oriented institutions will make “We don’t know how to talk
Rich said she supports development, but she thinks Chapel Hill an attractive place to live for years to about what it is they do without
the town needs to determine what its vision will be, come. knowing what it is,” he said. “They
specifically how it will support families. “I don’t know if my kids will decide to move back operate outside of daylight with
“I have seen this place growing and growing. The here,” she said. “But if they don’t, it won’t be because this.”
town wins so many awards, and so many people want Chapel Hill has become a bad place to raise a family.” Atkinson said he is also con-
to come live here,” she said. “The town moving toward cerned about UNC spending tax
a more urban landscape is a smart push.” Contact the City Editor
Orange County Economic Development Specialist at citydesk@unc.edu. See hospitals, Page 11

Budget cuts leave county schools with tough decisions

by Victoria Stilwell
city editor
ditures without compromising quality of
instruction, a task that may be easier said
“I think tomorrow (Rhodes) is creating the
picture, what it looks like,” she said. “We need
student at Hillsborough Elementary School and
the principal of Middle College High School in BY THE NUMBERS
As local and state officials gear up for a than done. to start giving him direction.” Durham, said he’s still concerned about what

third year of heavy budget cuts, many are
concerned about what the reductions will
mean for academics, staff and the future
of N.C. education.
Orange County Schools alone is project-
ed to lose as much as $7.7 million next year,
the combined effect of dried-up stimulus
funds and a shrinking state budget.
School board members and district
leaders will meet Friday to jump-start
the budget drafting process, which will
‘Tough choices’
The inaugural budget work session
comes earlier than most years, a conse-
quence of the grave financial situation
officials are facing, said school board
member Debbie Piscitelli.
School board members will receive
information from Superintendent Patrick
Rhodes, Finance Director Donna Brinkley
District spokesman Michael Gilbert said
the system will see an 18 percent reduction in
overall state and federal funding, though it’s
too soon to tell where cuts will come from.
“It’s way too early for that,” he said. “I think it’s
safe to say there’s going to be cuts across areas.”
Gilbert said over the last two years, the dis-
trict received more than $3.3 million in stimulus
money, which was designated to fund programs
for disadvantaged students, expansion of pre-
kindergarten classes and positions like substitute
$7.7 million
possible cuts might mean for his children.
He and his wife will also have a child enter-
ing kindergarten next year.
“They have some tough choices they’re going Orange County Schools projected
to have to make pretty soon,” Nolan said. “I’m funding shortfall for 2011-12
sure they’ve trimmed as much fat as they could
outside the classroom, and now they might
have to go to the classroom.
“I’m concerned about that,” he said. “What’s
$3.3 million
Total stimulus money received by
her kindergarten class going to look like?” Orange County Schools

continue until the document is pre-
sented to the Board of Orange County
Commissioners in the spring.
They’re charged with addressing the
funding shortfall and streamlining expen-
$1.1 billion
and other district officials on the most up- teachers and custodians. ‘Cut to the bone’
to-date projections of possible areas and Anticipating further reductions, district
impacts of reduction. officials opted to hold some of the stimulus School board member Stephen Halkiotis
No firm decisions will be made at the money to help soften the blow, Gilbert said. Potential N.C. public school
meeting, Piscitelli said. But Chuck Nolan, the parent of a first-grade See school budget, Page 11 budget cuts

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school budget cent cut required from the state’s

public school budget, although hospitals ships with private physicians prac-
tices are a redistribution of the care
charity care, they would look for a
way to provide more mental health
“It’s an example of the University
straying way beyond its traditional
from page 1 from page 1
North Carolina already ranks 42nd that already exists. care spots instead, Atkinson said. focus and into an area that’s con-
said the challenge of reducing an in the nation for the amount of dollars in forming partnerships “Chasing hearts is exceedingly Atkinson is also calling into venient, but it’s a very uneasy place
already strained budget is not lim- money spent per student. with private physicians’ practices profitable,” he said in reference question how UNC reports its for the University to be,” he said.
ited to Orange County Schools. “We’ve already cut to the bone and disrupting markets at a time to UNC’s recent partnership with charity care — a lot of the losses
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City over the last two years,” Halkiotis when the University system is Wake Heart. UNC reports are expected and Contact the State & National
Schools stands to lose about $13.5 said. “I don’t, quite frankly, know expecting deep budget cuts. If UNC was really interested in predictable. Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
million next year, and districts what we’re going to do other than “This University has become more
across the state are left with a simi- fall to the bottom of the 50 states.” and more aggressive,” he said.
larly grim outlook. The statement identifies eliminat- In a statement released Monday
“I think we’re going to be facing ing teaching assistants for all grades of remarks made to the Wake County
perhaps the biggest challenge that except kindergarten and reducing Medical Society Nov. 18., UNC
the local school system and systems services for gifted children by up to Hospitals CEO and Dean of the
across the state have ever faced in 10 percent to satisfy the cuts. UNC School of Medicine Bill Roper
their history,” Halkiotis said. “Things that it took over 25 years said partnerships with private physi-
The Office of State Budget and to build up here in North Carolina, cians’ practices is part of a national
Management is requiring all gov- we seem to be losing in the last two trend toward consolidation.
ernment agencies — including the to three years,” Halkiotis said. “It’s It is also a strategy to serve
Department of Public Instruction not a very optimistic picture that patients better and more cost-
— to identify budget cuts at both we’re having painted for us.” effectively, he said.
the 5 percent and 10 percent levels, “We have no intentions of
according to a Nov. 22 statement. Contact the City Editor siphoning patients,” Roper said.
These reductions add to a 4 per- at citydesk@unc.edu. But Atkinson said these partner-

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The Daily Tar Heel
Established 1893,
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of editorial freedom
Kyle Olson
Musings from Mendoza
Junior international studies major
from Stafford, VA.
E-mail: kdolson@email.Unc.Edu
Finding
faith in
study
abroad
T
oday is the last day of the
study part of my time
abroad. Not that I spent
much time studying or that my
classes were difficult, but, like all
of you, I will be happy to finish
another semester.
Unlike most of you, though,
my next trip is not hometown-
bound. I will not be back to
Stafford, Va., until January, with
just barely enough time to hug
my family hello and pet my dogs
before I load up the car, say my
goodbyes and drive down to
Chapel Hill to move into a dorm
I have never lived in — the day
before the semester starts.
As much as look I forward to
getting back, I have found myself
wondering, as many college stu-
dents do, where my physical and
spiritual home really is, or wheth-
er I have one at all. Spiritually, I
grew up as a nominal Christian,
but I had drifted away.
Legally, my permanent address
is in Virginia, but I spent more
time in India than there this year.
Chapel Hill, though awesome, is
unlikely to be much more than a
four-year stay for me. Likewise, I
am not so pretentious to say that
five months in Mendoza makes it
my home either, considering that
I have only just now (kind of ) fig-
ured out (one of ) the bus routes.
But to my surprise, I have found
a home over the past year. It is in
places ranging from basements of
community centers to shacks in
the campo (country) to large ware-
houses, in locations as distinct and
diverse as New Delhi, India and
Rodeo del Medio, Argentina.
It is a community that does not
look primarily at my exterior — a
bearded, clueless foreigner — but
looks rather at the convictions of
my heart. I found my home in the
familiar but unexpected interna-
tional, multi-lingual and multi-
cultural church of Yishu (or Jesus,
as you may know him.)
To say that I would not have
expected that when I left the
U.S. is an understatement. I
expected that I would be, as in
the U.S., too apathetic or too
busy on most Sunday mornings
to find time for church, especially
since I was only passing through.
Or, if I went, that I would find
something wildly different from
church in the U.S. — a foreign
and unrecognizable meeting.
But, to my surprise, I ended up
in a rickshaw or a taxi or on foot
nearly every Sunday. And as for
the services, they were different in
form and language but identical in
substance. Jesus, the Bible, sing-
ing and preaching were all center
stage, everywhere I went. What
I had thought of as a Bible Belt
thing suddenly was not. Hearing
the Gospel preached in Hindustani
for the first time, I found out that
the church ain’t just in the South
— it is worldwide.
Seemingly great gulfs of
nationality, language, race, eco-
nomic opportunity and histori-
cal context do exist. But like our
antecedents, when it came down
to the core and important object
of our faith we are in accord: A
33-year-old Jewish carpenter is
the only Son of God.
Coming from a country where
beliefs, tastes and right and wrong
are constantly on the move, that
was pretty amazing to me.
Therefore, my deep and oh-so-
relevant study abroad-derived wis-
dom is this: I can live my whole life
just passing through, too busy with
right now to establish permanent
connections. Instead, I found that
eternal grounding is unlinked to
time and geography. Not bad, for a
few months abroad.
Friday:
Ron Bilbao finishes his column series
with thoughts on the DREAM Act.
Sarah Frier
EDITOR, 962-4086
Frier@email.unc.edu
Cameron Parker
Opinion EDITOR
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Pat ryan
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EDITORIAL CARTOON
Early electioneering
Ingram’s complaint to the Board of
Elections is self-serving and frivolous
R
ick Ingram isn’t fooling
anyone with his Board
of Elections complaint
about Student Body Secretary
Ian Lee.
Months from the elections,
Ingram says that Lee is violating
the Student Code clause prohib-
iting the student body secretary
and select executive branch
members from endorsing a can-
didate or campaigning.
Ingram alleges that Lee is
e-mailing friends about running
for student body president.
Ingram’s motives are obvi-
ous: If he is trying to hide his
own campaign to be student
body president, he’s not doing
a very good job.
Since there are no official
A funding nightmare
Impending insolvency of escheats fund was avoidable
B
ecause of the General
Assembly’s mismanage-
ment of the escheats
fund, UNC may not be able to
award state-funded grants to
every student who needs them.
The escheats fund is com-
posed of revenue from unclaimed
property. It consists of capital,
which gains interest over time. If
the state wants to keep the fund
from dwindling, they should
only spend what they make in
interest off of the fund.
The escheats fund’s first pri-
ority is financial aid for public
institutions. Irresponsibly, the
General Assembly has ignored
the purpose of the escheats
BYOB events
UNC-A and Appalachian State
host BYOB events
for students. At App
State, students can
bring in a six-pack
while hanging out
at a school-owned late-night
venue. Maybe they have golf
carts to drag home drunkards.
Sweepstakes cafes
Sweepstakes cafes — the
glimmers of hope
in many people’s
otherwise hope-
less lives — will
have a tough
time preying on unrealistic
dreams, now that the N.C.
legislature just banned elec-
tronic gambling machines.
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Opinion
EDITorial BOARD members
callie bost
Robert Fleming
Taylor Holgate
By Drew Sheneman, The Star Ledger
candidates until January, Lee
is not a candidate, whether or
not he will become one.
And if Ingram wishes to fol-
low the letter of the law on cam-
paigning, he’d be wise to read the
line which prohibits public and
private campaigns before official
declarations in the spring.
The Code has many flaws
regarding campaigning, and it
is often contradictory.
But the Board of Elections
has in the past set a precedent
that official campaigns begin
after the declaration of intent
to run for office in the spring.
And as the board investigates
the complaint, it should recog-
nize this for what it appears to
be: an attempt by Ingram to use
fund in the last couple years.
But instead of planning
ahead and drawing aid fund-
ing responsibly, the General
Assembly has been taking more
than the interest accrued.
This practice has caused the
escheats fund to plummet, and
its value is estimated to dip
below $200 million, forcing the
legislature to take drastic action
to make up the loss.
This may involve another
raise in tuition or a cut in the
amount of financial aid given
out. But one thing is for sure: It
is going to hurt North Carolina’s
students.
The escheats fund provides
QuickHits
Turkey humanity
Well, the farmers at Asgard
Farms slit their
turkeys’ throats,
but that’s actu-
ally the most
humane way to
k i l l t h e m . We s u p p o r t
lethal injection, but we’ll
take the farm’s word for it.
UNC basketball
Alright, we’re off to a slow
start. Barnes isn’t
exactly living up to all
the hype — yet. The
team doesn’t look
like a cohesive unit
— yet. But hang in there. We’ll
come back. Unfortunately,
there are no investiga-
tions to blame for this one.
Sam Jacobson
Mark Laichena
Maggie Zellner
technicalities to undermine his
opponents and gain publicity.
Because if Lee is breaking
rules, then Ingram himself
deserves investigation.
Ingram says he is only trying
to maintain “integrity” in student
government and get beyond per-
ceptions that its members are
“just in it to help themselves.”
But he has no problem bend-
ing the rules himself, judging by
the “rick4sbp” listservs, and his
shameless invitations to join his
campaign machine in order to
evade the prohibition on public
campaigning.
If anyone is undermining the
campaign process right now,
it’s him — and he’s not building
any respect for his candidacy.
for 83 percent of state-funded
grants. If the General Assembly’s
spending woes do not change,
students would have to find
other ways to pay for college,
and many may not be able to
make ends meet.
Improper management of
the fund in the good times has
led to a potential nightmare in
the bad times. Lawmakers must
now find a way to replenish the
fund, or push on to students an
entirely avoidable burden.
This should be a lesson to
those who poorly handled sensi-
tive funds under the assumption
that the consequences could be
put off.
Easley convicted
Former Gov. Mike Easley was
convicted of a felo-
ny last week. While
it speaks poorly of
N.C. politicians,
at least we won’t
have to worry about him
running for sheriff after the
recent amendment passed.
Street racing
Two people caused an acci-
dent on Franklin
Street Saturday
night trying to imi-
tate Vin Diesel in
a street race. The
only saving grace for this move
could’ve been if the cars were
actually cool. Too bad they
were a Civic and a Silverado.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Things that it took over 25
years to build up here in North
Carolina, we seem to be losing in
the last two years.”
stephen halkiotis, school board member
Featured online reader comment:
“Only a two hour drive to Wallace,
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BEN, On the decision by the N.C. ABC commission to
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
‘Freshman’ term makes
women seem non-existent
TO THE EDITOR:
I believe that Khan (“Why I’m
not a ‘first-year’ student,” Nov.
30) completely missed the mark
on why everyone should use the
term ‘first-year.’ The problem
with using ‘freshman’ is that it
reinforces sexism and gender
inequality in our society. It sym-
bolically annihilates all of the
women in our society, subsum-
ing half of the population under
the other. It makes it seem as if
women do not exist.
How would first-year males feel
if the term were “freshwomen?”
How would first-year people of
color feel if the term was “fresh-
white?” There is no difference
between saying “freshman” and
either of those terms.
Women suffer from huge gen-
der inequalities in our society.
They are constantly at risk of
sexual assault, earn an average of
74 cents to the dollar compared
to men and have to fight for their
reproductive rights (the rights to
control their own bodies).
If we continue to subsume
women under men in our daily
speech, we will never be able to be
seen as true equals to men in our
society. We can modify our speech
and do our part for the feminist
movement.
Nora Blalock
Sophomore
Political Science and
Women’s Studies
‘Freshman’ title stunts
progress toward equality
TO THE EDITOR:
Saffa Khan (“Why I’m not
a ‘first-year’ student,” Nov. 30)
argues that words like “freshman”
were once “an example of the
lower status of women but now
represent the change in our under-
standing of gender equality.”
Our understanding, however,
is still lacking.
T he UNC men’s hocke y
team reminded us of this with
its cube of a cartoonish, biki-
ni-clad woman with enlarged
breasts standing above the
words, “Come watch us score.”
And here’s a graver reminder:
a recent Department of Justice
study reaffirmed that almost 25
percent of college women “have
been victims of rape or attempt-
ed rape since the age of 14.”
“Freshman” makes women
invisible and does nothing to
move us forward on a path to
gender equality.
Besides, it’s easy to change.
“Freshman” is becoming obso-
lete. Worldwide, universities
and other learning institutions,
including UVA and Hogwarts,
refer to students as first-years,
second-years, third-years and
so on. Khan suggests that we
amend male bias by adopting
“freshwoman.” The goal isn’t to
get even, but to use a term that
is truly generic, inclusive to non-
gender conforming folks as well.
“First-year” does exactly that.
In September 2009, the
University adopted a gender
inclusive language policy. If the
DTH truly cared about inclusive-
ness, it would do the same.
These steps would not only
build the campus community’s
understanding of gender equal-
ity, but also initiate change.
Anthony J. Maglione
Class of ’09
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TO THE EDITOR:
Yesterday, Andrew Tamayo
wrote a letter to the editor decry-
ing the DTH’s new “Quote File”
as propagating, in his words, a
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Support the ‘DREAM Act,’
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TO THE EDITOR:
In the past few years, more and
more brave young people have
decided to “come out” and live
publicly as undocumented stu-
dents. Some Tar Heels have even
made this tough decision. They
are simply asking for the chance
to earn their right to stay in the
country that they call home.
In the coming days there will
be a cloture vote in the Senate
for the Development, Relief
and Education of Alien Minors
(DREAM) Act, which would
give those students that chance.
The bill is S.3992 for those who
would like to read it.
The DREAM Act would allow
young immigrants who are already
here and were brought before the
age of sixteen to earn their legal
residence by going to college or
joining the military. Only those
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be eligible and they would not be
able to facilitate chain migration
for at least ten years.
The DREAM Act is a limited
but sensible start to reforming
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and need a break? Enjoy yoga but
can never fit it in your schedule?
Come enjoy Namas-Day: A Day of
Yoga, where seven free yoga classes
will be offered throughout the day
at various times and locations. Mats
will be provided.
Time: 8 a.m. to 8:45 p.m.
Location: Student Union, Rams
Head and Student Recreation Center
Information session: Interested
in becoming a nursing major? Come
learn more from the UNC School of
Nursing.
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Location: Carrington Hall, Fox
Auditorium
Seminar: In this month’s Carolina
Innovations Seminar, Merrill Mason,
of Smith Anderson, and David
Pierson, of Intersouth Partners, will
discuss the identification of exciting
new technology and how to move
that technology forward.
Time: 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Location: Sitterson Hall, Room 14
Book signing: Author Vassiliki
samples and Greek music.
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: FRANK art gallery
Art party: In November, YIKES!
held a contest where participants
were asked to create art with at
least 85 percent waste or recycled
materials. Join YIKES! for prizes,
food and guest speakers as they
announce the contest winners.
Entrance is free and dinner is $3
with a pair of old shoes and $5
without.
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: Hyde Hall
Film screening: In conjunction
with the Warhol gallery at the
Ackland Art Museum, the film
“Basquiat,” directed by Julian
Schnabel, will be shown. This event
is free.
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Varsity Theatre
Friday
Guest speaker: American Politics
Research Group will present Jack
Time: Noon
Location: Hamilton Hall
Carol competition: The first annu-
al Caroling for Causes: A Musical
Battle for the Common Good, a
benefit concert showcasing the vocal
talents of various students, will be
held. Departments will earn money
for their respective causes by gaining
audience votes and winning the top
three spots.
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Hanes Art Center
Auditorium, Room 121
Music concert: Cadence, an all-
female a cappella group, will present
its fall concert “Cadence Hits the
Road.” Tickets will be $7 at the door.
Time: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Location: Hamilton Hall, Room 100
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Police log
n  Someone reported fighting
between 1:27 a.m. and 1:32 a.m.
Wednesday at the intersection
of Henderson Street and East
Rosemary Street, according to
Chapel Hill police reports.
n   A Chapel Hill man was
arrested for simple possession of
marijuana at 8:20 a.m. Tuesday at
the intersection of 949 Old Lystra
Road and Zapata Lane, according
to Chapel Hill police reports.
Carlos Ravon Taylor, 29, had 9
grams of marijuana at the time of
his arrest, reports state.
n  Someone broke into a resi-
dence and stole property between
8:30 a.m. and 6:14 p.m. Tuesday
at 234 Wesley Drive, according to
Chapel Hill police reports.
The person stole jewelry and
precious metals worth $1,000,
three jewelry boxes with a com-
bined worth of $90 and a cookie
tin worth $5, and caused $350 of
damage to a door, reports state.
n   Suspects entered a busi-
ness and stole items at 5:30 p.m.
Monday at 1800 E. Franklin St.,
according to Chapel Hill police
reports.
The suspects stole 17 pairs of
shorts worth a total of $948.92,
reports state.
n  Someone reported an
unknown dog laying in a leaf pile in
the backyard of a residence at 3:42
p.m. Tuesday at 706 Hillsborough
Road, according to Carrboro police
reports.
When an officer arrived at the
house, the dog immediately bolted
away and the officer was unable to
catch it, reports state.
n  Someone reported that a cat
was possibly bitten by unknown
wildlife at 9:09 a.m. Tuesday at 112
W. Main St., according to Carrboro
police reports.
The cat’s owner said the cat is
not up to date on its rabies vacci-
nations, reports state.

this event is free and open to the public. books are on sale
at the bull’s head bookshop and at the event for 20% off.
all proceeds go to support unc student scholarships.

“The Grace of Silence is an insightful, elegant rendering of how the history of an

American family illuminates the history of our country.” – Toni Morrison

Most will know Norris’s name from her exceptional journalism career. She has served as a
correspondent for ABC News, and has reported for the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune,
and the Los Angeles Times on education, poverty, and numerous other social issues. She is
a frequent guest on NBC’s Meet the Press and The Chris Matthews Show. And her voice is
heard by millions every weekday as co-host of NPR’s All Things Considered.

Last year Norris was named “Journalist of the Year" by the National Association of Black
Journalists. NABJ recognized her for her body of work and particularly her coverage of
the 2008 presidential campaign, during which she covered both conventions, anchored
multi-hour debates, election and inauguration live broadcasts, and moderated a series of
frank conversations with voters on the intersection of race and politics.

It was that award-winning series, “The York Project: Race and the 2008 Vote,” which
planted the seed for The Grace of Silence. Originally intending to write a book that
continued those discussions, Norris found herself confronting hard truths about her own
family’s racial history that had been left unsaid by her parents—from her father’s shooting
by the Birmingham police within weeks of his discharge from service in World War II to
her grandmother’s work as an itinerant Aunt Jemima peddling pancake mix.

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UNC involving consultant Mobile

Campus briefs
Elections board launches
investigations of Lee, Ingram
The Board of Elections voted
Wednesday night to launch inves-
tigations into alleged campaign-
ing for student body president by
Housekeeper concerns to be reviewed to every single individual in house-
keeping services, whether they are
staff or management or whoever,
phone
o≠er
Student Body Secretary Ian Lee By Kelsey Finn housekeeping ranks that began the opportunity to have some one-
and junior Rick Ingram. Staff Writer with a debate over the Wage-Hour on-one engagement,” she said.
Title VI, Article IV, Section 408 The University will hire an exter- Policy, which prohibits employ- Malone described the ideal
of the Student Code prohibits the nal consultant to address a range ees from taking additional breaks consultant as understanding the

student body secretary from partic-
ipating in campaigns for positions
in student government.
But the Code also prohibits
public campaigning before candi-
dates are certified. Ingram will be
investigated for sending e-mails
aimed at organizing his campaign
addressed indiscriminately rath-
er than personally, said Andrew
Phillips, chairman of the board.
Junior Rick Ingram, who is
widely rumored to be planning
his own run for student body
president, filed a complaint to the
board Sunday night, saying he was
made aware that over the past
three weeks Lee has been sending
e-mails declaring his intent to run
for the position.
The board will meet to review
the information and make a deci-
sion early next week.
of complaints raised by housekeep-
ers in recent months, Chancellor
Holden Thorp said at the Employee
Forum meeting Wednesday.
“I want to help everybody who’s
had difficulty in this situation, and
I’m happy to make this investment
of time and some money to pay
an external consultant to see if we
can come up with some new ideas,”
Thorp said.
Jackie Overton, chairwoman of
the forum, said four themes were
expressed at the meetings with
Thorp: retaliation, intimidation,
management issues and inconsis-
tent application of rules.
Housekeepers presented their
complaints to Thorp in a previous
meeting. The meeting followed
weeks of controversy within the
without prior approval from their
supervisors.
“He heard quite an earful,”
Overton said. “And after that meet-
ing, we had three others, because
the chancellor really wanted their
concerns to be heard fully.
“So the decision was, after much
discussion, bring in an outside
source,” Overton added. “Let’s not
let anybody at the University han-
dle this, because there can always
be the accusation that it’s tainted.”
Brenda Malone, vice chancel-
lor for human resources, said each
employee will be able to voice con-
cerns to the consultant.
“One of the things that is abso-
lutely a requirement for the suc-
cessful bidder is that they will
engage and give the opportunity
stops
importance of an equitable envi-
ronment.
“We have no incentive to get
anyone other than someone who
can help us straighten out the com-
munication and understand the
various problems,” she said, adding
that the consultant will not evalu-
UNC to provide
ate of the structure or functionality
dth/beth niegelsky
stipends instead
of housekeeping services, but rath-
er offer means to address problems Chancellor Holden Thorp tells By Robert Langdon
with the work environment. Employee Forum members that Staff writer
Thorp also addressed budget UNC will hire a consultant to In an effort to cut costs, the
concerns, saying a 6.5 percent review housekeeper complaints. University changed the way it will
tuition increase has been forwarded provide cell phones to employees,
to the UNC Board of Governors. because we believe we can fight transitioning to a policy of provid-
The University has been asked to keep from having the cuts be at ing stipends instead of phones.
to provide proposals that include that magnitude,” Thorp said. UNC will provide stipends to
10 percent cuts. most of the employees who have
“We have resisted being super Contact the University Editor University-provided phones as a way
specific about how we’d do that, at udesk@unc.edu. of reimbursing them for using their
personal cell phones for University
business. In the past, employees

FIR
were issued cell phones or personal
UNC student receives award digital assistants and service con-
for public service projects tracts through the University.
Personal use of these mobile com-

FARMS
A UNC student has received the munication devices was prohibited,
North Carolina Compact Award causing many employees to carry
for her service project, Carolina both a University-issued phone and
for Amani. a personal cell phone, according to

TO THE
Morgan Abbott, a junior from an announcement sent Wednesday
Raleigh, received the Community by Vice Chancellor for Finance and
Impact Student Award from North Administration Dick Mann.
Carolina Campus Compact. The new plan is projected to

The organization aims to build
ties among public, private and
community colleges to produce
more civically minded gradu-
ates.
The public policy and religious
studies double major founded the
program to help make adoptions in
Kenya easier.
Abbott is one of 34 North
Carolina students to be recognized
for their work.
Deadline nears for Middle
Eastern librarian fellowship
Students have less than two
weeks to apply for a fellowship that
pairs library science with Middle
Eastern studies.
The program is being offered
at UNC through the School of
Information and Library Science.
The deadline is Dec. 15.
The school is recruiting Ph.D.
candidates who are interested in
a specialty that mixes coursework
about the Middle East and its cul-
ture with an internship at one of
the partner institutions as compo-
nents.
The fellowship, sponsored by the
Institute for Museum and Library
Services, provides a $20,000
annual stipend and health cover-
age. Fellows also receive in-state
tuition.
Fellowship candidates who
receive it will have the opportunity
to travel to American University in
Cairo or Al Akhawayn University
in Morocco, the program’s partner
institutions.
Agency examines business
school’s social media use
Clairemont Communications
completed an audit of Kenan-
Flagler Business School’s use of
social media, the agency announced
Wednesday.
The organization analyzed the
school’s use of social media com-
pared with that of its national com-
petitors.
Aspects of the system examined
by the agency included viral scoring,
social media mention and e-mail
effectiveness, among others.
City briefs
Chapel Hill Transit buses to
run on a limited schedule
During winter break, Chapel Hill
Transit will operate on a limited
schedule from Dec. 18 to Jan. 8.
While most students are out of
town, the weekday CM, CW, D, J,
NU and V routes will end earlier
than normal, and Safe Rides and
weekend U and NU routes will not
operate.
During this period, EZ Rider
services will end at 10:35 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
Regularly scheduled services
will resume Monday Jan 10.
Chapel Hill Transit will also
employ the following schedule
changes for the Christmas and
New Year’s holidays.
- There will be no U or NU
routes Dec. 24.
- No services will be offered Dec.
25 and 26.
- There will be no U or NU
routes Dec. 27 or 31.
- There will be no services Jan.
1 or 2.
Chapel Hill Transit administra- Research, said she created the sym-
tive offices will close from Dec. 24posium to promote awareness of
to Dec. 27.
- From staff and wire reports in 1981, HIV has become one of
RESCUE
save the University $1 million to
$1.5 million annually as part of
the Carolina Counts program. The
program was initiated to carry out
the recommendations prepared
Christmas tree sales a by Bain & Company, a consult-
ing firm hired through a sizable
success for the state private donation to evaluate the
University’s efficiency.
“Bain consultants issued a report
Viviana Bonilla Lopez that we look at the University’s cell-
staff writer
phone expenditures,” said Martha
This Christmas morning, Vice President
Pendergrass, director of procure-
Joe Biden and billionaire Donald Trump
ment services.
will be opening presents under a North
Under the new policy, employ-
Carolina-grown Christmas tree.
ees will either receive a stipend of
North Carolina ranks second in the
$35 for a voice-only plan or $70 for
nation for Christmas tree production with
a voice and data plan included in
approximately 5 million trees harvested
their paycheck.
every year from more than 15,000 growers,
“The cheapest option for the
said Jennifer Greene, executive director of
University would be to go with
the N.C. Christmas Tree Association.
a stipend program,” Mann said.
The N.C. Fraser fir Christmas tree has
“We’re looking at this as a cost sav-
been chosen to be the official White House
ing move.”
tree 11 times. This is more than any other
Other UNC-system schools —
species, she said.
including N.C. State University —
In North Carolina, the trees are equally
as well as general administration,
coveted, farmers say.
have already adopted a similar type
“Christmas tree selling has been grow-
of stipend plan, Mann said.
ing steadily for the past 30 years,” said Paul
In addition to the stipend plan,
Smith, president of Cool Springs Nursery
the University considered a pooled
and UNC alumnus.
minutes plan. However, it would
Smith’s trees are sold internationally,
have required administrative over-
with recent customers including Trump.
head expenses that the stipend plan
In 2009, sales in North Carolina reached
does not require.
$100 million, Greene said.
“Someone would have had
She said consumers might downsize
to administer the pooled plan,”
because of the economy, but they should
Pendergrass said. “It’s slightly more
not stop purchasing.
labor intensive and would add
But trees help more than the economy — dth/chessa rich
some additional labor costs.”
growers say they are also eco-friendly. Lindy Sparrow prepares to unload a truck full of Christmas trees at the Amity UMC Under the stipend plan, employ-
“For every tree cut, two to three seedlings
tree lot, which raises money for charity and capital improvements on the church, on ees receiving the stipend will have
are replanted in its place,” Greene said.
Wednesday. The church has been selling Christmas trees on the same lot since 1958. three days to provide phone records
Christmas tree farms help prevent urban-
if the University’s public records
ization in the N.C. mountains and provide
officer requests them. During those
habitats for animals such as deer and rab- Earl Deal, National Grand Champion Tree the state and local economies but also help-
three days, employees may redact
bits, Smith said. Grower and provider of the official White ing the community.
any information related to personal
One acre of Christmas trees provides House tree in 2005, went to Washington, One local seller is using Christmas tree
calls, text messages or e-mails.
enough oxygen for 18 people per day, and D.C, for the official tree-acceptance ceremo- sales for fundraising.
Employees who deal with time-
each tree is recyclable, said Joe Freeman, ny and decorated the tree himself. He said “For us it represents families coming
sensitive information or who need
National Grand Champion Tree Grower he enjoyed the experience but missed being together to pick up a Christmas tree,” said
access to a cell phone 24 hours a
and provider of the official White House at the farm during peak harvest. Terry Howes, financial chairman of Chapel
day will be provided phones for
tree in 2007. “That was a once in a lifetime kind of Hill’s Amity United Methodist Church
business use only under a pooled
Freeman was this year’s Reserved Grand thing. I’m not sure I can stand it again. But Christmas Tree Fund. “It’s fellowship.”
minutes plan.
Champion, which means his tree will go to it was a great experience,” Deal said. Half of the proceeds go to charitable
University employees autho-
the vice president’s residence. Deal’s family-owned farm, Smokey Holler funds and half go to the church building,
rized by their department to have
“As a grower, we donate the tree to Tree Farm in Alleghany County, provided the Chairman of Amity’s Christmas Tree Fund
a cell phone will be asked to turn
the nation,” Freeman said. “It’s a very big trees for the Oval Office, the Blue Room and Lindy Sparrow said.
in their device at the end of their
honor.” the private residence of the White House “Everybody loves Christmas. And every-
current contract and switch to the
This year, Freeman’s farm, Mistletoe that year as well as eight trees for various body loves Christmas trees,” Smith said.
stipend plan.
Meadows in Ashe County, also provided White House locations this year.
trees for many Washington, D.C. monu- Christmas tree sales from farms like Contact the State & National
Contact the University Editor
ments and White House rooms. Deal’s and Freeman’s are not only boosting Editor at stndesk@unc.edu.
at udesk@unc.edu.
Researchers share advancements in HIV study
World AIDS Day DTH ONLINE: Free, rapid HIV testing
was offered in the Student Union. “Though we’ve achieved much, there is
honored in talk the most prevalent and damag-
a lot more to do. We can’t be complacent
ing health issues facing our world, regarding an issue of this size.”
by Kari Johnson and with more than 30 million people
Lindsay Sebastian infected. Ann Dennis, UNC researcher
staff writers World AIDS Day, a UNAIDS-
In what amounted to a State of the sponsored event, is dedicated to Center for AIDS Research and other focused solely on the biological
Union address on the University’s increasing awareness and raising international organizations have pro- aspects of the virus.
efforts to cure and stymie the spread money for research combatting duced results that have proven suc- Ann Dennis, a researcher at
of HIV, a group of researchers pre- the disease. Every year, researchers cessful in preventing the transfer of UNC, discussed ethnicity as a risk
sented their findings Wednesday in who specialize in HIV gather at the HIV, like the CAPRISA 004 gel that factor for HIV infections. She said
honor of World AIDS Day. University to discuss the newest was successful in half of its trials. her research found that Latinos are
From a topical gel that curbs developments in the field. Kashuba said the breakthrough the largest-growing minority group
the transfer of HIV to producing “Its important for us as a com- is a major development in pre- in the United States being infected
enzymes that train cells to “ignore” munity to keep this problem in the venting the spread of HIV/AIDS, with HIV.
the virus, researchers presented their public eye,” Menezes said. although research on the subject She said she is researching HIV’s
findings before a crowd of about
T his year, eight speakers has a long way to go. potential for affecting different eth-
130 that gathered in the Center for addressed different developments “We need to get the right drugs nicities in different ways, focusing
Bioinformatics for the twelfth annu- in HIV research, including preven- to the right sites,” she said. on the effects found in the Latino
al World AIDS Day Symposium. tative strategies, antiretroviral treat- Ke ynote speaker Richard population.
Prema Menezes, associate direc- ment and demographic risk factors. D’Aquila agreed, saying more “Though we’ve achieved much,
tor for UNC’s Center for AIDS One of the most significant devel- research must be conducted regard- there is a lot more to do,” she said.
dth/jankee shah
opments discussed at the symposium ing the transferring of the virus. “We can’t be complacent regarding
was a microbicide gel presented by “We, as humans, need a stronger an issue of this size.”
Four HIV-positive people partici-
HIV/AIDS and its effects. Angela Kashuba, a professor in the and better defense against HIV,” he pate in an open discussion as a
Since the virus became known Eshelman School of Pharmacy. said. Contact the University Editor part of the 12th Annual HIV/AIDS
Collaborations between the But not all of the presentations at udesk@unc.edu. Symposium on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT)
— The bipartisan debt commission
issued its final report Wednesday,
warning that without the sacrifices
it calls for, a fiscal “reckoning will be
sure and the devastation severe.”
Based on an initial blueprint
offered Nov. 10 by the panel’s co-
chairmen, former Republican
Sen. Alan Simpson and former
Clinton administration chief of
staff Erskine Bowles, the bud-
get blueprint outlines steps that,
when taken together, would slash
the federal deficit by $828 billion
by 2015.
“Even after the economy recov-
ers, federal spending is projected
to increase faster than revenues,
so the government will have to
risk of a crisis will increase, and the
options available to avert or rem-
edy the crisis will both narrow and
become more stringent.”
Final recommendations include
a cap on discretionary spending
through 2020, an overhaul of the
tax code and reforms to Social
Security.
Changes to the latter were the
source of much of the criticism of
the initial draft issued by Bowles
and Simpson, and the final draft
offered few changes. But under-
standing Social Security’s role as
the “third rail” in American politics,
the proposal includes deficit pro-
jections with or without changes
to the program.
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to discuss the debt com- continue borrowing to spend,” nothing plan” would be far less
missions’s final report.
the report states. “If we do not act desirable, leading to an across-the anoch Labowitz of Miami lights the first candle on a giant ice sculpture of a meno-
soon to reassure the markets, the board cut in benefits. rah before a large crowd in the Pit on Wednesday evening. Students and com-
munity members gathered to celebrate the first day of Hanukkah with members
FTC backs privacy option for Web Afghan elections of Chabad of Chapel Hill. Activities included crafts for kids, singing, free food and a live
WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) Those pitches are known as anger majority performance by Gmish, a klezmer band. See dailytarheel.com for the full story.
— The Federal Trade Commission behavioral advertising because

UNC-G looks into

on Wednesday backed the cre-
ation of a “Do Not Track” option
— similar to the popular National
Do Not Call Registry for people
who want to avoid telemarket-
they are tailored to a person’s
behavior.
“Consumers live in a world
where information about their
purchasing behavior, online
KABUL (MC T) — In a
move likely to anger members
of Afghanistan’s largest ethnic
group, the Pashtuns, election
officials on Wednesday upheld a

personal alert devices

ers — to allow consumers to pro-
tect their privacy as they use the
Web.
The recommendation, which
would require congressional
action, comes in a lengthy and
long-awaited draft report titled
“Protecting Consumer Privacy in
an Era of Rapid Change.”
The report comes as lawmak-
ers and regulators are focusing
increased attention on privacy
amid the rapid growth of social
networks, mobile Web surfing
and other online activity.
Many websites collect data from
people, including past searches
and sites visited, and share that
data with advertisers, who use it
to target online pitches.
browsing habits, and other
online and offline activity is
collected, analyzed, combined,
used, and shared, often instan-
taneously and invisibly,” the FTC
said.
The agency said that “long,
incomprehensible privacy poli-
cies that consumers typically
don’t read, let alone understand”
are not the answer.
Neither are voluntary industry
efforts, such as the tool offered
by the Network Advertising
Initiative to allow consumers to
opt out of behavioral advertising
offered by its members, which
include Google, Microsoft and
Yahoo. Those efforts have “fallen
short,” the FTC said.
sweep by a rival minority group
in a Pashtun-dominated province
in September’s parliamentary
election.
The discord over the election
outcome in Ghazni was only one of
a number of quarrels that remain
unresolved more than two months
after balloting that was intended
as a showpiece of democracy.
Thousands of fraud complaints
are still pending, and Afghanistan’s
attorney general is threatening
more arrests in connection with
the vote. Some Western diplo-
mats are concerned that President
Hamid Karzai might seek to retro-
actively alter the supposedly final
results that were announced last
month.
by Jessica Seaman UNC-G already sends out notifi-
staff writer cations via text message, e-mail and
Campus police at UNC- social media, similar to UNC-CH’s
Greensboro are considering imple- AlertCarolina, which uses a siren,
menting alert devices to strengthen website and text message system to
safety, but lack of funding may pre- notify of campus danger.
vent the change. But when UNC-G sends them
The device, which has been through multiple means, they have
developed by New Centurion to change systems to do so. The
Solutions, Inc., would improve alert device would allow them to send
notifications and police response messages all at once.
times on campus, said Paul Lester, “It is just part of the university’s
assistant chief of police. effort to improve notifications,”
If they are approved after test- Lester said. “We have pretty good
ing, all students would be outfit- notification; it is just not as fast.”
ted with a stopwatch-sized device He said the devices would still
that would send out notifications send out alerts if the campus were
quicker to both police and to to lose power when some students
other sources such as Twitter and wouldn’t have access to e-mail.
Facebook. The device also has a GPS
Katie Marshall, UNC-G’s stu- accountability that would allow
dent body president, said all stu- police to respond to student alerts
dents would be required to carry on campus. Students would send
the device and it would replace alerts by pressing a button.
their SpartanCards, which are “It is almost like a panic but-
similar to UNC-Chapel Hill’s stu- ton that you carry across campus,”
dent One Card. Lester said.
They would become students’ Marshall said the devices need
identification cards, and students some fine tuning, but if they
would be able to use them to check increase safety on campus she
out library books and to pay for would support getting them.
meals, Lester said. “If we knew we could fund it
completely for the school and see
the benefit for the school, then I
would support it,” Marshall said.
Lester said if police find that
the devices improve campus safety,
they will make recommendations to
buy them to Reade Taylor, the vice
chancellor for business affairs.
But Taylor said that because of
expected budget cuts for next year,
the university doesn’t have the
funds to pay for them.
“We are a long ways from procur-
ing these for our student body,” Taylor
said. “I need to hear the results. Is it
worth the money? The hassle? It is
not until you need it. But when you
need it, you wish you had it.”
Taylor said UNC-G is laying off
faculty, so it would be a difficult
decision if police, students and
faculty approve of the devices.
He said UNC-G would only be
able to pay for them through stu-
dent fees or additional cuts to the
university budget.
“I hate to be blunt about it but
that is the environment we are in,”
Taylor said. “I told them they could
test them, but I’m not going to
make promises of buying them.”
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DIVE
PARTY
Once every semester, Diversions brings you a celebration of
local music in the form of a free show at the Local 506. This
Saturday marks the ninth Dive Party — and our best yet. The
IX when: Friday
time: 9:30 p.m.
where: Local 506
gathering will highlight some of the best bands the Triangle’s
price: Free!
growing music scene has to offer. In preparation for the
info: www.local506.com
impending fun, Dive’s Linnie Greene and Joseph Chapman sent
out a questionnaire for the bands. These are their responses.

Spider BAGS
1. If your band was a book, which book would it
be (and by whom)?
“How To Know Higher Worlds” by Rudolph
Stiener
2. Four Loko ban: for or against?
That’s tough.  A lot of liquor companies make
money marketing shitty cheap products to poor
people and alcoholics. They don’t sell Four Loko
at the country club.  At the same time, where do
you draw the line?  Mad Dog has been poisoning
alcoholics for years. I’ve had a lot of Mad Dog; I
don’t drink it anymore because it sucks.  Four Loko
sucks. I don’t need the government’s help in figur-
ing that out, and I don’t want the responsibility of
telling someone they can’t drink hyper-caffeinated
malt liquor if they want to.  If people didn’t buy
Four Loko, it wouldn’t exist. God bless America.    the WWF headquarters on our way from Jersey to
3. What’s your spirit animal and why?
A horse with head of Abraham Lincoln.  A cen-
taur Abraham Lincoln.  It came to me once in a
vision.
4. If you could go back in time and open for any
band, which would it be (and why)?
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band.  Never
got to see them.  Would have been fun. I love the
Captain.
5. If you could play a gig anywhere, at any point in
history, where and when would it be?
The restaurant at the end of the universe.
6. Pick one and explain: Harry Potter, Twilight or
the Lord of the Rings?
Lord of the Rings.  I like Orks.    school had called my parents wondering where
7. What three adjectives do you hope people use
the most about your band after Dive party?
Happy, psychedelic, warm.
8. If your band was a WWE Wrestler, what would
your alter ego be?
When I was young, my dad and I would pass
Connecticut to visit family for the holidays.  You
could see the logo on the top floor of the building
from the highway.  I always asked him to stop
so I could meet Rowdy Roddy Piper. I thought all
the wrestlers would be hanging around in there
all time, lifting weights listening to rock records.
Figured it’d be a lot of fun.  We’d never stop; my
dad knew better.  I took the train up there one time
by myself when I was supposed to be at school.  I
was 9.  I got to the building and asked the secu-
rity guard where Piper was.  “Where are your
parents?” he said. “Macho man Randy Savage?”
I said.  He gave me a WWF wristband and told
me to beat it.  It was a long train ride home.  The
I was.  I told them I’d been to the beach to play
skeeball. I lost the wristband in a card game a
couple weeks later.  My alter ego would be myself
at that age right before I walked into the WWF
building and had my heart broken.
9. When you’re wildly famous, what crazy rumor
do you hope someone spreads about your band?
Pythons in our trousers.
10. On a scale of 1 — 1,000 (1,000 being a reli-
gious experience), where will this semester’s Dive Courtesy of churchkey records/spider bags
Party rank? Spider Bags released its single “Take It Easy Tonite” last October.
1001.

1. If your band was a book, which book would it
be (and by whom)?
It would be a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure pic-
ture book, stained with coffee and held together
with duct tape, co-written by Dorothy, The Tin Man
and Toto.
2. Four Loko ban: for or against?
I’m drinking one right now. Just kidding. Sounds
ridiculous. For.
3. What’s your spirit animal and why?
A seal. If I were to pomade my hair slicked back,
you might begin to understand.
4. If you could go back in time and open for any
band, which would it be (and why)?
The Bee Gees.
BELLAFEA 8. If your band was a WWE Wrestler, what would
5. If you could play a gig anywhere, at any point in
history, where and when would it be?
Playing an intimate show to some dinosaurs
in present-day New Zealand sounds dangerously
fun.
6. Pick one and explain: Harry Potter, Twilight or
the Lord of the Rings?
Lord of the Rings has the best costumes.
7. What three adjectives do you hope people use
the most about your band after Dive party?
I don’t know what to say here. What I will say is
that we should celebrate our 10-year anniversary
as a band with Dive!
your alter ego be?
He’s technically not a WWE wrestler, but we’d
be Jimmy “Super Fly” Snuka. And, no, I can’t
explain it.
9. When you’re wildly famous, what crazy rumor
do you hope someone spreads about your band?
That our “lost album” is titled Pistachio Grove,
inspired solely by pistachios and the Doobie
Brothers.
10. On a scale of 1 — 1,000 (1,000 being a reli-
gious experience), where will this semester’s Dive
Party rank?
No numbers, just letters: L-O-U-D.

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Bellafea combines swirling, textured compositions with gritty rock.

Whatever brains
1. If your band was a book, which book would it
be (and by whom)?
“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” by
Jo Rowling
2. Four Loko ban: for or against?
? the Lord of the Rings?
3. What’s your spirit animal and why?
A baby human. The coolness.
4. If you could go back in time and open for any
band, which would it be (and why)?
The Shaggs. We’re kindred.
5. If you could play a gig anywhere, at any point in
history, where and when would it be?
Flag or The Dead, peak periods, wherever.
6. Pick one and explain: Harry Potter, Twilight or
Potter. The coolness.
7. What three adjectives do you hope people use
the most about your band after Dive party?
Knee-slapping, ass-slapping, funky
8. If your band was a WWE Wrestler, what would
your alter ego be?
Chyna
9. When you’re wildly famous, what crazy rumor
do you hope someone spreads about your band?
Whatever Brains is Bad Brains in white face.
10. On a scale of 1 — 1,000 (1,000 being a reli-
gious experience), where will this semester’s Dive
Party rank?
300. Chapel Hill kind of sucks.

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NEWS AND BREWS This week, we’ve got our weekly “Brew Ha Ha” Swap returns this weekend in teenagers in Pascal Pinon may follows the flowing locks of interviews Richard Jaimeyfield,
as well as holiday-themed lists and local and national music news. order to help out a member of a have just hit puberty, but their in- Rapunzel. Let’s just hope that founder of the HearNC music
REVIEWS As usual, there’s too much going on in the world of en- local band in need. nocent pop manages to impress. she’s having a good hair day. video festival.
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6 thursday, december 2, 2010
Art Tatum musical show HearNC prizes visual arts
blends past and present
by anna norris
staff writer
During “Art Tatum: Piano Starts
Here,” a one-man theater and musi-
cal, fictitious jazz club owner Doc
Hanley remembers the jazz heavy-
weights that once played his club,
especially the legendary jazz pianist
Art Tatum. As Hanley muses, the
audience will be able to hear per-
formances of the pianist’s much-
lauded album Piano Starts Here.
In fact, the songs will be played
exactly as Tatum plays them.
Which is a pretty impressive
feat, considering that Tatum died
in 1956.
The key to such impressive live
renditions comes from the state of
the art Mark IV Disklavier PRO
piano. Zenph Sound Innovations,
the Triangle-based music technol-
ogy company that is presenting
the play, used this piano to repli-
cate exactly the notes and style of
Tatum’s playing.
“We studied all his performanc-
es and studied exactly how he plays
the piano,” said Adriana DiFranco,
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that includes the angle of attack
with his fingers, how hard he press-
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takes him to get from this note to
that note.”
Performance analysts, consist-
ing of professional musicians and
professionals with Ph.D.’s in music,
have logged extensive hours study-
ing Tatum’s playing. That informa-
tion is turned into a set of data, a
sort of artistic DNA, and fed back
into the piano. The piano can even
be synchronized with a video of
Tatum playing.
“The first time I heard the piano
play itself with such charisma and
personality, it gave me goose-
bumps,” said DiFranco.
However, Zenph isn’t satisfied
with just analyzing piano playing.
DiFranco says that Zenph plans to
do the same with the saxophone,
then the upright bass, then all
other instruments. The company’s
final challenge will be analyzing
the human voice.
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more tools,” said DiFranco. “The
software we’re creating is going to
help people teach music and help
composers create music.”
An added bonus is the ability
to actually study the compositions
of jazz pianists. Jazz music is built
upon improvisation, and such
note-for-note records of songs like
Tatum’s, who often played a differ-
ent version of the same song every
night, have never existed before.
This would allow jazz students to
learn from actual scores of impro-
vised songs, as classical music stu-
dents have studied the scores of
Handel and Bach.
But you don’t have to be a jazz
student to enjoy the theatrics and
the music of “Art Tatum: Piano
Starts Here.” DiFranco, who said
she herself wasn’t a jazz fan until
this project, likened the experi-
ence to a History Channel special
on Tatum, except it’s a much more
interactive lesson.
“He’s right there in the room
playing with you,” she said.
“This is one of the most cre-
ative projects I’ve been lucky to
be a part of due to the melding of
fantastic musical technology with
artistic visuals and a stellar actor,”
said Chris Burzminski, director of
operations at Zenph and drummer
in The Pneurotics, a Chapel Hill
band. Burzminski has also been
involved in bringing Tatum’s music
to the stage.
“This truly is ‘mixed media,’ in
every sense of the term.”
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The Daily Tar Heel
It might be the inaugural art is unique? How so? One day I was at a catering and
year of the HearNC Music Video this young lady was there and she
RJ: I think that we’ve yet to
Festival, but Richard Jaimeyfield was really hungry, and the owner
really see what those two mediums
is a veteran in the local music and of the company I was in, he didn’t
can do together. I think the words
film scenes. After directing famed allow people to eat on the site. I
“music video” have a negative con-
Chapel Hill band the Archers of gave her some money and the keys
notation due to what’s happened
Loaf ’s “Web in Front” controversial to my car and said, “Hey, there’s a
on MTV and what’s taken place
music video ( featuring a pair of deli down the street, just go.”
over the last two decades, maybe
copulating pigs), the director spent And when she came back, she
three almost.
some time in Washington, D.C. was like, “Oh, that was really sweet,
What do people think of when
Now, he’s back in the Triangle, I really appreciate it.” At the end of
they see music with film, and
and as he prepares for the festival the night, I would have to choose
lip-synching and two-and-three-
this Thursday at Cat’s Cradle at 8 someone to work, but she volun-
hundred thousand dollar budgets
p.m., Jaimeyfield caught up with teered, and when we were breaking
where it’s choreographed, it’s just
Diversions Editor Linnie Greene down that night, she asked me why
— you know, who can do that?
about good karma and National I moved to D.C.
Not everyone can do that. But the
Geographic. I said, “Well, a long time ago I
future, I think, now that the field is
Diversions: Why did you being more equalized due to tech- thought I was going to be a film
start the HearNC Music Video nology, I think we’ve yet to see how director, but apparently I’m a
Festival? catering manager.” She said, “What
creative people can be by combin-
did you direct?” I said, “I did music
ing music, movement and film.
Richard Jaimeyfield: videos.” She asked which ones, and
The impetus was that when I Dive: How would you com- she said, “Oh my god I saw those
moved back to North Carolina, I pare the arts scene in the Triangle videos! I loved them!” It was kind
wanted to start a production com- versus Washington, D.C.? of a nice little ego smack. She
pany, and so I did — I named it said, “Why D.C. and not L.A. or
Dogwood Productions.
RJ: The arts community in D.C.
is thriving and doing really well — New York?” And I said, “Because
I had gotten my start as a busi- I wanted to work for National
I wanted to go up there not to do
ness at the Cat’s Cradle back in Geographic.” She said, “Oh, I work
music videos, because I saw what
1991, ’92 when I shot the Archers of for them — do you want to come to
was happening was that my friends
Loaf video, and it was because two a party next weekend with me?”
that were doing well in the world
people gave me a chance — Frank Talk about instant good karma
of music videos were also still hav-
Heath, the owner of the Cradle, — so it turns out that I’m invited
ing to pay for these extraordinarily
and the band the Archers of Loaf. to Nick Nichols’, who’s a world-
expensive music videos out of their
I directed that music video and renowned National Geographic
own pockets.
it sort of transformed my life, and photographer.
So I was kind of like, “I don’t
then ten years later — more than
know if I want to do these anymore,”
ten years later — I’m moving back.
Dive: What made you decide
because my friends were having to to include dancers, performers and
I felt like going back to the root of
pay me with money they’re barely other art forms aside from film?
where it began for me, to give other
making with money they make on
people that same opportunity that
tour over three or four months.
RJ: Well they’re all visual arts,
Frank and the Archers gave to me. aren’t they? And HearNC, that’s
Dive: What drew you north? our focus — showing people how
I wanted to start HearNC to
RJ: So I moved to D.C. in strong visual arts are in North
show people all over the world
hopes of working for National Carolina, showing them the talent
the incredible talent base we have
here. Geographic, and for about a year base that we have an encouraging
other
people to reach out to these
artists, to connect people and
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movieshorts
FAIR GAME
It ’s se ven years late, but
Hollywood’s dramatic take on the
“Plame affair” is finally here.
Maybe you’ ll remember this
shameful story from 2003, when
Scooter Libby, chief of staff to
Dick Cheney, illegally divulged the
name of undercover CIA operative
Valerie Plame to the media.
But if not, don’t worry. “Fair
Game” is full of helpful, if awk-
wardly delivered background to the
scandal, in which everybody spends
the first half of the film “casually”
dropping encyclopedic facts relat-
ed to weapons-grade uranium and
Sunni-Shia relations.
If by the end of that half you
haven’t figured out that Plame is a
valuable CIA agent being punished
by an unscrupulous Bush admin-
istration for her husband’s public
criticism of the falsified justifica-
tions for the war in Iraq, then you
have highly selective hearing.
Important though the recount-
ing of Plame’s victimization is, this
adaptation has its problems. There
is far too much pseudo-hidden
exposition for the story to grace-
fully unfold. On the same note,
the suffocating political overtone
often makes the film resemble a
bully pulpit being chucked through
the air in the desperate attempt to
approximate a plot arc.
But ultimately, the good out-
weighs the bad. Naomi Watts as
Plame and Sean Penn as Plame’s
slightly narcissistic whistle-blowing
husband Joe Wilson both steal the
show with lead performances. In
fact, lame lines aside, all the actors
are adept, with special mention for
David Andrews as an existentially
nauseating Scooter Libby.
Director Doug Liman, who is
also director of photography, uses
handheld cameras to great effect,
capturing the neurosis Plame suf-
fers in her exposed civilian life. This
allows us to understand the human
costs of the Bush administration’s
unforgivable politiking.
From a flawed screenplay,
Liman manages to blend elements
of espionage thriller, war film and
political/domestic drama with
relative ease and success. I can
only hope he turns his next lens
to last summer’s Russian spy ring
Diversions
in Manhattan. What a movie that Pfizer, Jamie is competing with
would be. other pharmaceutical representa-
tives, wooing nurses and posing as
-Jonathan Pattishall an intern to get to doctors.
It is in the doctor’s office that the
LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS unlikely lust blooms for Jamie and
Maggie (Anne Hathaway), a free-
spirit avoiding commitment.
For a while, their explicit rela-
tionship centering on Jamie being
an asshole with no commitment
potential as Maggie wishes, works.
Meanwhile, the audience is still
being prodded by pharmaceutical
jabs, this time in the form of the
booming new drug, Viagra. Boxes
are being tossed, people are beg-
ging, prescriptions are booming
and Jamie is the thriving seller.
Pushing aside the drug
enhancers (pun intended), Anne
Hathaway’s performance is spot
on. Attractive but scarred by her
past and her illness, Hathaway
nails the conflicted push and pull
any relationship comes with.
Zoloft, Prozac, Viagra, and Anne She can repeat every drug she
Hathaway’s shaky Parkinson’s- takes by name, including quantity
ridden body knocking over one of and time, but she oscillates between
her several prescription bottles — her straightforward matter-of-fact
a more apt title would be “Drugs attitude and a more subdued inner
and this little thing called Love.” silence that fights Jamie’s attempts
Director Edward Zwick seems to of getting any closer.
have no problem hitting us over Their chemistry is astounding
the head repeatedly with his take and holds our attention where pill
on the U.S. drug powerhouses. pushing leads us astray. Without it,
Jamie (Jake Gyllenhall) plays the the audience would be stuck swim-
lust-driven macho that has spent ming among free samples of drug
most of his life charming women after drug.
into his bed. Saddled with a new
job in sales for the drug company - Rachel Arnett
thursday, december 2, 2010
Tangled
If Disney were to lay claim to
anything in the movie industry,
it would undoubtedly be the clas-
sic princess story. The creative
mastermind behind the likes of
“Cinderella” and “Snow White,”
Disney attempts to renovate the
Brothers Grimm’s fable Rapunzel
with the splendor of modern CGI
and 3D in its latest project.
Acting as her fake mother, the
antagonist Gothel (Donna Murphy)
confines Rapunzel (Mandy Moore)
in a large tower and uses her magi-
cal hair as a means to stay forever
young. Only until the dashing rogue
Flynn Ryder (Zachary Levi) stum-
bles into the tower does Rapunzel
garner enough courage to finally
flee the grasp of her mother and
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explore the outside world.
Taking a page out of Pixar’s book,
the film’s designers have created a
visually impressive world. From
lush, open fields to dark, treacher-
ous forests, each environment is
splendidly detailed and collectively,
they give the film a sense of gran-
deur and majesty.
As a focal point of the entire
film, Rapunzel’s hair is mesmeriz-
ing, fluidly swaying back and forth
through the air. One memorable
scene involves thousands of light-
ed lanterns rising into a starry sky,
impressing from both a visual and
technical standpoint.
Moore and Levi’s voice work are
appropriate for each of their indi-
vidual roles, but prove particularly
effective when united together. The
effortless charm of Flynn Ryder and
spirited determination of Rapunzel
combine to create one of the most
compelling Disney duos in recent
memory.
With as many similarities as they
share, Tangled is not a Shrek’d out
retelling of the original Rapunzel
fairytale that tries to challenge the
norms of the genre. Rather, the
film stands as Disney’s return to
form of its trademark hero-prin-
cess story. It’s cinematic proof that
the classic formula can still work
even in today’s constantly chang-
ing industry, and that the Brothers
Grimm are just as relevant as “Toy
Story 3.”
-Lam Chau

diverecommends
Album from the Vaults:
Vince Guaraldi Trio, A Charlie
Brown Christmas: It’s not the most
obscure pick, but this 1965 com-
panion to the beloved movie is
a classic for a reason. Guaraldi’s
Christmas cheer gets you feeling
warm and fuzzy without battering
you with hokey lyrics and artificial
pep (we’re looking at you, Mariah
Carey).
Movie from the Vaults:
“Troop Beverly Hills”: This 1989
Shelley Long comedy might appeal
more to the preteen set than your
average college student, but don’t
underrate its values. It’s more sug-
ary than a tin of Peppermint Bark,
and it’ll remind you during these
last few fall days that being outside
isn’t always so fun after all.
Events:
friday
North Elementary
Nightlight | For an outfit that often
varies in size (see John Harrison’s
Hopscotch solo set at the 307 Knox
Day Party), North Elementary has
a mighty large sound. And what
better place to banish the winter
blues than the cozy Nightlight,
where Harrison’s soundscapes will
surely warm you up more than
your apartment’s tiny space heater.
Gray Young and Wages also play.
9:30 p.m., $6
The Small Ponds
King’s Barcade | Sure, Raleigh’s a
trek — but it’s worth it to hear
The Small Ponds’ artful harmonies
and alt-country rock. Caitlin Cary
and Matt Douglas’ vocals meld as
well as eggnog and brandy, and
in Dive’s opinion, the duo is just
as intoxicating. You’ll be glad you
made the 30- minute drive. 10 p.m.
saturday
Spider Bags, Bellafea and Whatever
Brains
Local 506 | Seriously. Did you read
this week’s cover? Did you? Are you
even looking for plans on Saturday
night? Well, in case you’re looking
for what might be the best show of
the semester (or just another rock
‘n’ roll-filled weekend), you should
head on over to the 506. 9:30 p.m.,
Free
Wednesday
Crooked Fingers
Local 506 |Imagine the vocally-
talented cousin of M. Ward, some
brit pop sensibilities and a little
touch of bluegrass, and you fall
somewhere near Crooked Fingers.
Check out the band’s pedigree
— it’s headed by former Archers
of Loaf frontman Eric Bachmann.
Cotton Jones and Mount Moriah
open. 9 p.m., $12
8 thursday, december 2, 2010 The Daily Tar Heel
The Daily Tar Heel
musicshorts
pascal pinon
pascal pinon
indie pop
Considering the harsh winter for
which Iceland is named, the coun-
try sure knows how to churn out
heartwarming tunes. In this vein,
the young Icelandic female quartet
Pascal Pinon — not to be confused
with a similarly named Mexican
circus performer — conjures sweet
pop music on its self-titled debut.
The album launches with a
whimsical introduction in the
band’s native Icelandic, with a lone
whistling recorder and a delicate
combination of voices. The band,
whose members are all around the
ripe age of 16, continues the child’s
play with xylophones, tinkering tri-
angles and delicate keys.
As each short track flows into
the next, the effervescence that
Pascal Pinon exudes amplifies, as
the band switches between unintel-
ligible Icelandic and cutesy English
vocals in a familiar Jonsi-style.
“I Wrote a Song” is clearly the
album’s standout, and not just
because it is one of the few tracks in
English. Like the rest of the album,
it is catchy from the beginning,
with minimal instrumentation and
a wispy, angelic sing-a-long. The
song plays like an ode to a teen-
age lover, and although the subject
of young romance would often be
regarded as sap, the band turns the
teenage love story into a brisk and
bearable endeavor.
Were the members of Pascal
Pinon five or six years older than
they are, the album wouldn’t have
the same youthful value — the
quartet’s bright-eyed sensibilities
and air of innocence work well in
its favor.
Despite the background gig-
gling, melodic ditties and blatantly
teenage perspective, Pascal Pinon’s
warm, sugarcoated tunes serve as a
cozy remedy to winter’s bite — full
of lovable, ethereal joy that’s infec-
tious at any age.
-Elizabeth Byrum
Zoon Van Snook
(Falling From) the nutty tree
electronic
If Gregg Gillis (a.k.a. Girl Talk)
were to write his own music, it
would sound a little something like
Zoon Van Snook and its latest scat-
terbrained electro-ambient smor-
gasbord.
The obscure (Falling From) The
Nutty Tree will entrance audio-
philes but send the public running
for Advil.
When tuning into the largely
instrumental-based album, it’s easy
to get past the electronic tings that
layer the album, but the piano solos
and speech samplings create a mys-
tifying fog, making comprehension
nearly impossible.
A unique blend of ambience and
techno-vibes disillusion the listener
from reality. The electronics waver
with skills almost comparable to
electronic masterminds like Dan
Deacon or Justice. The ambient
synthesizing is akin to a codeine-
drunk Radiohead or an unrefined
Sigur Rós.
The musical spectrum Zoon Van
Snook blankets on this album is not
as narrow as one would hope, but
wide enough to continue listening,
to see where it goes next.
There is a hint of continual
rhythm in “Ee’m Yorn,” but out-
side of this one, the reader is hard
pressed to find a beat that lasts for
over a minute. Outside of this song,
the album goes from one extreme
to the next, usually within a song,
making a complete listen intoler-
able.
The tangibility of (Falling From)
The Nutty Tree is barely present,
but its degree of obscurity creates
an ounce of interest to triumph
through this turbulent album. But
what would you expect from an art-
ist named Zoon Van Snook?
-Joe Faile of us, you know? He’s been a friend
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843-4529 | dive@unc.edu
Joseph Chapman, Assistant Editor
Joe Faile, Rocco Giamatteo, Mark
Niegelsky, Elizabeth Byrum, Anna
Norris, Jonathan Pattishall, Lam Chau,
Allison Hussey, Rachel Arnett, staff
writers
Kelly McHugh, Design Editor
Cover Design: Alyssa Bailey
Diversions
Friends benefit with local covers
by Joseph chapman
Assistant diversions editor
When The Pinhook hosted The
Great Band Swap three years ago,
the Durham venue delivered a
night of tight-knit local musicians
performing and experimenting
with each other’s work.
The idea, perhaps unsurpris-
ingly conceived from the mind of
Megafaun’s Phil Cook, brought
bands like the pop punk Future
Kings of Nowhere and vegan rock-
ers Midtown Dickens together in
covering other local bands.
“It really was a blast,” Shayne
Miel, lead singer of Future Kings
of Nowhere said. “We just pulled
a bunch of bands together and
thought that it would be a fun idea
to cover each other’s songs.”
A lot has changed for Miel since
his performance at the Great Band
Swap. He moved to New York
alongside his girlfriend, Rebekah,
eager to generate exposure for his
music in a bigger scene while his
significant other enrolled in art
school.
Their plans were cut short:
almost exactly one year ago, Miel
was diagnosed with lymphoma.
The sudden illness prompted a
hospital bed-side wedding and
the news quickly spread through-
out the Triangle’s conscious music
community. The newlyweds soon
moved back to Durham.
“Everybody who heard it – we
were all just in total shock,” Pink
Flag’s Betsy Shane said. “He’s one
to everybody down here.”
Miel’s lymphoma came at a time
when other local artists were also
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facing recently diagnosed medical
problems. Leave it to musicians —
when inadequate insurance meant
financial woes, benefit concerts
were organized to raise funds for
the bills.
“I had gotten sick and Reese
McHenry from Dirty Little Heaters
had recently gotten sick and Chris
Pope from Blood Red River had
gotten sick,” Miel said. “It just
occurred to me that we were all
musicians – some of us didn’t have
insurance, some of us did. We were
all trying to throw benefits to help dth file photo
support our friends.” Last summer, The Triangle Brewery hosted “This Machine Kills Cancer,”
Miel saw the one-off concerts
a benefit to kick-start Shayne Miel’s nonprofit, Friends with Benefits.
as an entertaining way to quickly
raise money and wanted a way to hopes to start insuring local musi- The Pneurotics and the Dry
expand the benefit concept. cians sometime next year. Heathens will take stage to cover
“Instead of throwing a Band- “We’re trying to think outside each other’s songs.
Aid on the problem,” Miel said, “I of your typical benefits,” Miel “Brett Harris is the wildcard on
wanted to have a more long-term said, “And figure out if we can do our bill for sure,” Shane said. “The
solution.” some other things that are fun and rest of the bands on the bill all
His aspiration led to the found- involve the music community.” know each other pretty well – none
ing of Friends with Benefits, a non- In c o o p e r a t i o n w i t h T h e of us really know him very well.”
profit that aims to provide supple- Pinhook, Friends with Benefits “I saw Pink Flag perform at
mental insurance to musicians in is bringing back the Great Band Troika a few years back,” Brett
the Triangle. Swap with an expanded breadth Harris said. “It was a packed room;
“What that means is, we’ll use and purpose. I could barely see the stage, but I
a company like Aflac, where when The format for this year’s swap could just hear this amazing force
you get sick, they don’t pay your spreads the bill across three nights of sound in the room. It wowed
medical bills but they just send you and allows artists to play longer me. I’m looking forward to taking
a check,” Miel said. “Sort of a con- sets and cover more bands. Every those songs and seeing what I can
solation prize for getting sick.” band is required to perform at least do with them.”
Through various forms of fund- one song by each of the other bands
raising, including inventive benefit billed for the night. Contact the Diversions Editor
concerts, Friends with Benefits Tonight, Pink Flag, Brett Harris, at dive@unc.edu.
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