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Vertical Horizon's Tour Takes Group to Very Top
Bv Justin Winters
Staff Writer
If there is one thing to be said about
Vertical Horizon, according to gui
tarist/vocalist Keith Kane, the band does
have a heck of a work ethic.
“We do a lot of stuff during the day,”
he said. “With this band, we feel that
when we are on the road, it’s time to
work and when we are off the road, it’s
time not to work.”
Touring to promote its first major
label venture, Vertical’s quartet of Kane,
lead vocalist Matt Scannell, bassist Sean
Hurley and drummer Ed Toth is set to
bring its brand of “alternative pop” to
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body president has won the election.
“It was a tough choice. They were all
good candidates, and a lot of people
walked away still questioning (the choic
es),” said Tiffany Black, co-public rela
tions coordinator of the BSM.
Smiley said during the forum that her
focus in office would be on active out
reach in administrative appointments.
“Everyone will have an application in
their hands,” said Smiley, who recalled
the lack of diversity she saw when
approving appointments as chairwoman
of the Rules and Judiciary Committee in
Congress. “I’m not here to be the savior
of the black population, but I’m here to
put students back into student govern
ment,” she said.
Candidate Matt Martin said if
endorsed, he would not disappoint the
BSM. “I have a real desire to tear down
the walls between the black and white
communities,” Martin said.
Both Martin and candidate Brad
Matthews, a BSM member, said they
would continue to be regulars at the
group’s weekly meetings regardless of
the endorsements. Matthews drew
strong reaction from the crowd with his
Swahili language skills, adapting the
BSM’s slogan of “Freedom Through
Revolution" to “Freedom Through
Opportunity.”
Matthews distanced himself from his
position in Student Body President Nic
Heinke’s administration, for which he
served as senior adviser.
“I’m representing me,” Matthews
said, after noting that he had badgered
leaders for more diverse appointments.
Candidatejosh Ray said he support
ed a cultural diversity program in C
TOPS, the summer orientation pro
gram for new students. Ray said his
diversity education came from his expe
riences at UNC. “When I got to
Carolina, I met diversity. I lived diver
sity,” he said.
BSM President Chris Faison opened
the forum by explaining that two stu
dent body president candidates,
Michael Harris and Preston Smith, were
not allowed to speak because they
missed the endorsement paperwork
deadline ofjan. 31. Faison stood by the
BSM policy, but he said the group
planned to inform the Elections Board
of their deadlines in the future in case
candidates did not contact the BSM
personally.
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
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UNC’s Memorial Hall on Sunday.
If there is one rumor that Kane wants
the band’s performances to dispel, it’s
that Vertical can be compared to other
testosterone-dominated groups such as
Backstreet Boys or N’Sync.
“First of all I think we are a little too
old,” he said. “ Secondly, I think that all
the people who like top-40 music are
sort of excited about a fresh air finally.”
Vertical, the “fresh air” that the gui
tarist/vocalist speaks of, hopes to show
the music world that it is more than just
a few guys who can lip-sync and dance.
The band’s first three self-released
albums have sold more than 70,000
copies, and the band hopes to make
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“Parking is obviously a problem and
is going to continue to be a problem,”
Matthews said. “We have to at least
make sure students don’t lose spaces
and gain them where possible.”
Matthews said he wanted to make
Chapel Hill buses free to students via a
S2O increase in the student activity fee.
“I will fight tooth and nail for a refer
endum granting students bus service.”
he said. “If you buy a bus pass once as
a student it pays for itself twice.”
Matthews said the resulting Fare-Free
Busing program would help improve
accessibility to the University.
“It’s just not feasible to build 1,000
parking decks,” Matthews said.
Candidate Matt Martin said students
he had spoken to stressed that parking
should be a major part of his platform.
“The students have put it (high on my
agenda),” he said.
Martin said he would fight for a stu
dent parking deck to be included on
UNC’s Master Plan, a blueprint for
campus growth during the next 10 years.
Martin said that while off-campus
parking lots such as the PR lot were ben
eficial, they were not as significant to
students as campus parking.
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raise their tuitions.
On Tuesday, Jeff Nieman, a UNC
CH student and nonvoting BOG mem
ber, made his own proposal reflecting
many of the same concerns.
In preparation for the discussion,
Brad Wilson, chairman of the BOG
Budget and Finance Committee, solicit
ed comments on Broad’s recommenda
tion from every BOG member and
compiled them in a memorandum.
Broad said she fully expected that
changes would be made to her plan.
“(The proposal) was not intended to be
the exact wording of the plan. It was
meant to come under debate and dis
cussion,” she said.
The portion of Broad’s proposal that
denied tuition requests at three of the
five schools drew criticism from board
members and representatives of the
institutions. Broad said UNC-CH and
N.C. State were the only schools with
urgent faculty salary needs, and there-
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Vertical Horizon a household name with
its RCA debut Everything You Want.
Vertical is best described as a “song
writing-based band of four elements that
tries to stretch the boundaries musically
as well as vocally," Kane said. “We are
an alternative-pop band.”
Since first forming back in 1991,
Vertical has transformed from a couple
of guys playing acoustic guitars at
Georgetown University to a successful
band with a multi-sellout tour largely
attributed to its devoted fan base.
The only thing that has stood in
Vertical’s way thus far on the tour has
been the flu, Kane said.
“There has been that flu bug going
He said that making sure resident
assistants also had adequate campus
parking near their residence halls was
important as well. “RAs can’t adequate
ly serve 20 to 30 students without park
ing,” he said. “What if there’s an emer
gency and a student needs his RA to go
to the drug store?”
Martin said he would also sit down
with University officials and examine
underutilized areas such as the Kenan-
Flagler Business School lot and Craige
Parking Deck.
Candidatejosh Ray said he wanted
to control traffic buildup on campus by
creating a reverse Point-2-Point Xpress
route, similar to the reverse U-bus.
Ray said a reverse P2P would great
ly increase the speed of service for some
passengers and thus increase the effi
ciency of campus transportation.
He said a more efficient distribution
pattern could be found for campus park
ing. “We need to use more campus spots
more efficiently,” he said. “In Craige lot
and the business school, a lot of the lots
are open.”
He said another way to alleviate cam
pus traffic congestion was to require pro
fessionals who attended major seminars
and conferences at UNC to park at
University Mall and take buses to cam
pus. “That’s how it is at most universi
ties,” he said. “It’s better than having all
fore, the only schools that should raise
their cost of attendance.
But other board members cited
unreasonable price divisions between
system schools and the need for com
petitive salaries as reasons to include the
smaller schools in the recommendation.
“Some of the board members believe
that we should respect what (ECU,
UNC-C, and UNC-W) have asked for
and shouldn’t second-guess them,” said
BOG member Robert Warwick.
“Personally, I agree with them.”
The BOG meeting will be held today
and Friday at The Carolina Inn.
The State & National Editor can be
reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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around and I think it has landed on all of
the buses,” he said from the band’s latest
gig in Florida. “Sleep is at a premium,
but with a couple of days off we’ve had
a chance to recharge.”
Vertical is no stranger to playing the
college scene in Chapel Hill. They have
packed shows numerous times at Cat’s
Cradle as well as at Greek functions.
Kane said Sunday’s show will give
the band an audience that might differ
slighdy from the tour’s other shows in
venues such as the House of Blues.
“I’m fired up, man,” he said. “The
college crowd is always fun, and we love
coming to North Carolina.”
The band’s newest single,
these professors parking on campus.”
Candidate Preston Smith said his
plan to empower students to take con
trol of their finances, the key part of his
platform, would solve all long-term
parking problems.
“There’s not enough parking, and
already it’s getting worse,” he said.
“With student revenue, we could build
our own parking structure.”
Smith said he also opposed night
parking and said no such policy would
get through his administration.
He said his plan to improve campus
accessibility also involved getting a P2P
shuttle or U-bus route to the Finley Golf
Course, an area of campus that houses
many UNC students who he believes
are being abandoned.
“What good is that to the communi
ty,” he asked.
Candidate Erica Smiley said she was
also opposed to late-night parking
restrictions but said she would support a
small nighttime parking lot for faculty
seeking to return to campus after 5 p.m.
Smiley said she also planned to
improve late-night campus accessibility
by making sure any late-night bus route
had a stop at the Undergraduate Library
or Student Union.
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
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tion day.
Two representatives from the
Washington-based group will also be on
campus to push for student support
until election day.
Even if the referendum gains voter
backing next week, the University’s
membership in USSA must also be
approved by the Board of Trustees or
the Board of Governors before mem
bership can take affect this fall.
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“Everything You Want,” has blasted its
way up Billboards Modem Rock chart,
and its video has landed the band’s faces
on MTV and VHI.
Kane said the song’s universal appeal
makes it an alternative to other songs
today that only appeal to a small group.
“It’s about really liking somebody
and becoming great friends with them
but always being just a friend,” he said.
“It’s feeling like you are the perfect thing
for someone but not having that feeling
returned.”
Kane said the feeling of meeting goals
he first thought impossible, such as sign
ing a record deal with RCA, having a
music video, or receiving mail from fans
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Conner said if student tenants were
well-informed, the conditions would
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across the nation, makes the band’s
newest success all the more sweet.
“It’s just an unbelievable feeling,” he
said. “It’s like that we are not out here
busting our asses for no reason.”
But don’t expect Vertical to rest on its
laurels once it finishes this tour. More
singles will be released from the album,
and the band plans to begin recording
its next album soon after, Kane said.
“We will take off some time to write
and recharge the batteries,” he said. “But
until then, it’s just tour and try to get the
album into as many ears as possible.”
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