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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2003
BOT approves
building design
BY JONATHAN M. CARL
STAFF WRITER
The UNC Board of Trustees
unanimously approved the design
of the Global Education Center
along with five other action pro
posals Wednesday.
The proposals were approved in
the wake of a recommendation
from the board’s Buildings and
Grounds Committee.
By approving the proposal for
the education center, both the
committee and the full board
accepted the building design as
specified by design team Leers
Weinzapfel Associates.
The building, which will be
located on the comer of McCauley
and Pittsboro streets, aims to coa
lesce many of the international
factions at the University and ded
icate itself to academic, social and
research pursuits in foreign
affairs.
The design, a split-level edifice
separated by an atrium, will sit
atop a 129-space parking deck.
Anna Wu, UNC’s director of
facilities planning, cited the build
ing’s adeptness to its surrounding
area and glass-sided north end as
the its strong points.
“We think the (center) will cre
ate a good flow from Miller (Hall)
to Tate-Turner-Kuralt (Building),”
Wu said.
Despite the committee’s unani
mous approval, BOT members
raised several concerns about the
building’s design.
The concerns included the
building’s modern design in con
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trast with the historic campus
buildings, the ability to maintain
the cleanliness of the windows and
offices on the north end and the
material used to construct the edu
cation center.
Trustee Rusty Carter said he
was concerned about the pro
posed modern architecture in the
middle of campus, creating a con
trast to the University’s historic
setting.
The $29 million budget for the
project will come from a combina
tion of resources, including North
Carolina’s Higher Education Bond
Bill, private gifts and parking and
energy services receipts.
Other approved proposals were
renovations to the Ambulatory
Care Center, the second phase of
a residence hall proposal to
accommodate 1,000 students in
apartment-style housing, an addi
tion to Cobb Residence Hall, an
addition to the Faculty-Staff’
Recreation Association and the
purchase of property on Mason
Farm Road.
Of all six action proposals, only
the recreation association propos
al was up for final approval. The
other proposals will return to the
board throughout various stages of
their development.
The BOT also discussed the
proposed Information Technology
Services and Genetic Medicine
buildings, although no votes were
cast.
Contort the University Editor
at udesk@ unc.edu.
News
Cursive achieves unscripted success
BY PHILIP MCFEE
ASSISTANT ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
Uttering the word "Cursive” in
an independent record store will
start a riot.
In 2003, following the release of
its jabberwocky of an album The
Ugly Organ, the Omaha quintet
raked in praise from mainstream
and underground critics alike.
In fact, the word “Omaha”
might suffice for a mob incentive.
Cursive hails from Nebraska’s
musical hot spot —a city quickly
becoming anew indie rock Mecca,
thanks to Saddle Creek Records
and the efforts of starry eyed
Bright Eyes crooner Connor
Oberst.
On its most recent album,
Cursive optioned cellist Gretta
Cohn, adding new melodic depth
to the buzzed-about release.
The Ugly Organ, a follow-up to
2000’s Domestica, bears the same
labels its predecessor did: “meta
rock,” “postmodern” and more.
“Well, I think people are start
ing to accommodate for the quirk
of the band,” said bassist Ted
Stevens. “There’s definitely a stan
dard influence in music, and
there’s a rock formula ... people
Experts: Defense costs not No. 1 factor in deficit
BY SHELLEY MAYO
STAFF WRITER
The country's more than S4OO
billion budget deficit is a result of
the cyclical tendencies of the econ
omy, not defense spending on mil
itary operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan, some experts say.
Domestic and discretionary
spending played a larger role in the
budget crisis than costs related to
the war on terror and the Iraqi sit
uation, said Stephen Slivinski, an
economist at the Goldwater
Institute, a public policy research
organization based in Arizona.
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are always going to (respond) with
clever verbiage for types of clever
music.”
To further confound the formu
la, Cursive is touring with hard
core starlets The Blood Brothers,
the band behind the March
release, Burn Piano Island, Burn.
With his tour mates, “it seemed
like there was a budding friend
ship,” Stevens said. “(It’s) music
that’s kind of bold and really spaz
oriented. We like the energy.”
Chapel Hill is a frequent stop on
Cursive’s roadshow.
“We totally connect with Chapel
Hill: we always have. It was one of
our first cities where we felt like we
really (got) a great response from
the audience," Stevens said.
Cursive’s ever-growing fan
base has been salivating for a
new release, more so given the
explosion of Saddle Creek pop
ularity.
“If the U.S. were to leave Iraq
today, the budget would be bal
anced only two years earlier than
the intended 2010-11 date estab
lished by the Office of Budget
Management,” said John Skorburg,
an economist at the Heartland
Institute in Chicago.
Defense spending affected the
economic downturn by 20 percent
to 25 percent, he said.
Positive changes to one of many
economic variables eventually
could improve the economy, said
Bernard Wasow, an economist for
the Century Foundation.
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Omaha-based indie band Cursive, still rolling off the success of The
Ugly Organ, will stop in Carrboro on its tour with the Blood Brothers.
After Domesticas splitsville
story and The Ugly Organ's vaude
ville escapades, followers want a
new saga.
The tour set won’t disappoint.
“We’re doing a couple of songs
we haven’t done before. We’re
reworking an old song... we have a
Until then, people will have to
wait two years before the invest
ment incentives contained in
Bush’s tax cuts take effect,
Skorburg said.
U.S. citizens faced an August
unemployment rate of 6.1 percent,
the Bureau of Labor Statistics of
the U.S. Department of Labor
reported, and there is a slow infu
sion of revenue into the market.
But the state of the stock mar
ket, the leading indicator of U.S.
economic trends, indicates some
growth, Slivinski said. There is
more good news, namely that this
deficit does not indicate a path
toward a downturn on the same
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cover we pull out once in a while,”
Stevens said.
The band may have a song on its
latest album called “Art is Hard,”
but playing live is no chore.
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scale as the Great Depression of
the 19305, Wasow said.
“Deficits get bigger and then
start declining in years,” he said.
‘We have now passed the bottom
of the hill and are on the way up,
but not at the same altitude or at the
top as we have been in past fiscal
years.”
But the downturn might have
an impact on President Bush’s re
election campaign in 2004 unless
he is able to do two things,
Skorburg said.
Bush has to prevent the nation
al budget deficit from becoming
any bigger, he said, and the presi
dent has to show voters that he can
increase future revenues.
Skorburg added that the only
path Bush can take in getting a
handle on the budget crisis is not
to implement any new government
programs. “He should let the pro
grams increase with the rate of
inflation while the growth of the
economy brings in money.”
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