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Substance-free event
sees low teen turnout
Gathers input
on youth center
BY ALLISON MILLER
STAFF WRITER
Maybe high-school students just
had other plans Friday night.
Whatever the reason, the first
Late Nite at the Y, hosted by the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA and
the Coalition for Alcohol & Drug
Free Teenagers of Chapel Hill and
Carrboro, yielded a smaller turnout
than organizers expected.
The event, held from 9 p.m. to
midnight, was put on to give stu
dents from Chapel Hill and East
Chapel Hill high schools a fun
alternative to drinking or doing
drugs on a Friday night.
At about 11 p.m., 78 teens had
walked through the door.
Jeff Lloyd, assistant youth direc
tor at the YMCA, said he was hop
ing for 200 to 300 teenagers to
show up, but he stressed that orga
nizers didn’t know what to expect.
“I think it’s a step in the right
direction,” he said.
Dale Pratt-Wilson, director of
the coalition, said her organiza
tion works with the community to
keep teenagers away from drinking
and drugs.
“It’s another tool in the tool box,”
she said of the event.
She added that organizers took
suggestions from students.
“It sends a message that we real
ly care about what they want.”
Small groups of teens walked
around the YMCA, checking out
the event’s offerings: concessions,
a lounge area, sports and a dance
in the gym.
Aaron Strom, a freshman at
East Chapel Hill High School, said
Project to connect local musicians
Students soliciting artists for mixed CD
BY SHELLEY FULLWOOD
STAFF WRITER
The one thing every artist pas
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Kind of Blue is a student-run
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by compiling a mixed CD of origi
nal tracks.
The project is funded by the
Connected Learning Program
at Cobb Residence Hall, which
is sponsored by the James M.
Johnston Center for Undergraduate
Excellence and Housing and
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“It’s there to promote commu
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senior Alex Watson, the project’s
leader.
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music to some degree.”
Watson, a music major, said he
was interested in starting the proj
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chance to get their music out,” he
said.
“On campus we don’t have a
compilation of the music that hap
pens, and this is a way to represent
what happens.”
The project invites all musicians
to submit one track of original
music or to audition in front of the
group’s members Nov. 15.
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final track list in January and the
resulting compilation will be sold
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High schoolers Nick Rider (from left), Emi Hernandez and Robert Susick
grab a bite at Late Nite at the Y at the Chapel Hill YMCA on Friday.
he went with his friend because he
was looking for something to do.
“I guess it would be more fun
if more people knew about it
and more people showed up,” he
said.
Strom said he would be inter
ested in going to a future Late Nite
at the Y if more teens attended.
“There’s more adults here than
kids,” he said.
“The supervision is kind of crazy,”
he added, citing the metal-detect
ing wand and the Breathalyzer at
the door.
YMCA staff members, parent
volunteers and police officers from
Chapel Hill and Carrboro chaper
oned the event.
“If it kept one kid from drinking
alcohol or doing drugs, I think it’s
been pretty effective,” said Capt. J.
G. Booker of the Carrboro Police
Department.
“I think it’s done at least that
and maybe more.”
Watson said.
Watson stressed that Kind of
Blue doesn’t want to limit the
CD to musicians and bands only.
Solo artists, a cappella groups
and combos also are invited to
take part.
“People could chant or even
a drum solo and submit that,”
Watson said. “The more crazy it is
and unique, the more chance it has
of getting on the CD.”
The album will feature about 20
bands, but if there is extremely high
interest from local artists, Watson
said they might expand the project
to two discs.
“It’s a way to get a band out
there, and it’s good exposure for
local bands,” he said.
Featured artists also will be
eligible to perform as part of the
Johnston Center’s Thursday on
the Terrace concert series, which
is held on the patio of Graham
Memorial every Thursday.
But the project isn’t just lim
ited to student works. Musically
inclined teachers and faculty are
encouraged to submit works to the
project because, as Watson said, it’s
important to include all aspects of
the community.
“How cool would it be to know
your professor is in a band?” he
said.
“Who knows, the professors’
bands may whoop the students’.”
Watson stressed that the proj
ect is providing artists with the
opportunity to record through
the music department’s student
run studio.
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Chapel Hill High School fresh
man Amanda Macedo was more
skeptical.
“The kids that do drink and do
drugs don’t come here,” she said.
“It’s fun just to talk, but the
activities they have aren’t that
great.”
Macedo said she would have
liked a place to watch movies at
the event.
Gary Monroe, a YMCA board
member, said the event served as
a way to get suggestions for the
youth center the YMCA plans to
build.
Another Late Nite at the Y is
planned for December, with pos
sible additions of Dance Dance
Revolution games and karaoke.
Monroe said, “The real test will
be if kids come back if we do it
again.”
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
Kind of Blue
How to submit:
Send one original track, including
your band's name, the names of
all members, an e-mail address
and the title of the selection.
Visit Kind of Blue on the
Web: myspace.com/unckind
ofblue
Contact Kind of Blue:
Kind of Blue
Cobb Residence Hall
UNC-Chapel Hill
110 Country Club Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
kindofblue@gmail.com
“If a band comes in and has a
good song but not quality, then
we’ll help them record it.
But the main focus of the proj
ect is to bring music communities
together, Watson said.
“Music is a really communal
activity.”
Contact the Arts Editor
at artsdesk@unc.edu.
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Study: U.S. free press stifled
Journalists face increased censorship
BY JACQUELINE RICE
STAFF WRITER
The United States is falling
behind in press freedom, accord
ing to a study published by an
international organization aimed
at promoting journalists’ rights
worldwide.
Reporters Without Borders
released the study last week, rank
ing the United States at 53 out of
the 168 countries surveyed.
The ranking has dropped 36
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Lucie Morillon, the organiza
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“Our credibility is at stake,”
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Morillon said the index was
based on 50 questions concerning
press freedoms and was calculated
on a Reporters Without Borders
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Journalists, free-press organi
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OAXACA, Mexico (AP) Federal police with
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at protesters at least eight people have died.
Policemen
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -
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including 17 in one attack in the
predominantly Shiite southern
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Political tension deepened in
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Charles Davis, professor of
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Missouri-Columbia, said the study
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Nations ranking first, including
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The Free Flow of Information
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Deadly crash
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killed was the man regarded as
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Muslims, Muhammadu Maccido,
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of people gathered at a regional
airport to receive his body.
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it cannot be done at
the expense of
freedom of the press.”
LUCIE MORILLON, FREE PRESS ACTIVIST
“It’s a tremendous incentive for
those in the halls of powers to do
the right thing when it runs coun
ter to their own self-interests.”
Sheldon Rampton, research
director for the Center for Media
and Democracy, said journalists
also should be concerned with pro
tecting the legitimacy of requests
for freedom.
“There are a fair number of jour
nalists who are classified as lazy
or not subjecting their sources to
scrutiny,” he said.
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Morillon said eliminating cen
sorship of the press is important in
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“If we really want national
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