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The University and Towns
In Brief
Journalism Professors
Nab Awards for Books
The books of Philip Meyer, Knight
Chair in journalism and mass commu
nication, and Donald Shaw, Kenan pro
fessor of journalism, were included in a
list of 35 works lauded by “The
Journalism and Mass Communication
Quarterly.”
The books were cited as “significant
journalism and communication books
of the twentieth century.” Walter
Spearman Professor Chuck Stone also
received accolades for his novel, which
was the subject of a scholarly discussion
during the 25th Twentieth Century
Literature Conference in February.
Student Stores Begins
New Evening Schedule
Student Stores, which has been a
late-night bastion for study snacks and
last-minute supplies, is now closing its
doors two hours earlier.
John Jones, director of Student
Stores, said the decision to close at 9
p.m. instead of 11 p.m. Monday
through Friday was made several
months ago to set the new hours after
Spring Break.
Jones said the sales were not cover
ing payroll and operating expenses, so
closing earlier would save money.
The new schedule coincides with
Union Station’s decision to stay open
until midnight following Winter Break.
But officials said the stores operated
on'independent schedules.
But some students say they are
dependent upon late-night accessibility
to supplies.
“I don’t start my homework until 10
or 11, and I don’t want to waste time
during the day to buy supplies,” fresh
man Jeff Sears said.
Students Could Claim
Prizes in Sweepstakes
UNC is one of 42 selected schools
across the country to participate in the
“Pick your Prize” Sweepstakes, spon
sored by Student Advantage, Inc.
Students can register for the contest
at www.studentadvantage.com/unc.
Chances of winning are increased if stu
dents locate their campus manager,
w'hose name can be found at the sweep
stakes’ Web site. Winners will be listed
online May 8.
UNC Historian to Lead
Folk, Country Session
Historian Bill C. Malone, known for
his cultural studies of Southern folk and
country music, will host a special pre
sentation at 7 p.m. tonight
'The talk, entitled “Take Thisjob and
Shove It: Country Music and Work,”
will be held at the Tate-Turner-Kuralt
Building.
Malone was the first recipient of the
Lehman Brady Chair Professorship in
American Studies and Documentary
Studies, a joint professorship recently
established at UNC and Duke
University.
Asa retired professor emeritus in the
Department of History at Tulane
University, Malone holds a joint visiting
faculty appointment at the Center for
Documentary Studies at Duke and in
the American Studies Curriculum at
UNC for spring 2(X)().
Applications Available
For Sports Information
The Sports Information Office is
looking for student assistants for the
2000-01 school year. Writing experience
is preferred but not required.
Interested students can pick up appli
cations at the Sports Information Office
in the Smith Center.
Chapel Hill to Collect
Waste on Saturday
The town of Chapel Hill will collect
household hazardous waste and con
duct its latex paint exchange on April 1
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The collection will
take place at the Orange Regional
Landfill.
The collection is for household
chemicals, lawn, pool and automotive
chemicals and batteries and paint.
The waste collection is held the first
Saturday of every month from March to
November.
Carrboro Offers Clinic
For Baseball Players
The Carrboro Recreation and Parks
Department will be sponsoring a youth
baseball clinic for 9- to 12-year-olds
throughout April.
The fee is $lO per clinic. For addi
tional information, call 968-7703.
From Staff Reports
Cota, Newby Granted Continuance in Case
By Evan Markfield
Senior Writer
When the North Carolina men’s bas
ketball team embarks for the Final Four
in Indianapolis this week, point guards
Ed Cota and Terrence Newby will be
temporarily free of any legal distractions.
The two seniors were granted a con
tinuance Monday in the court case stem
ming from their alleged involvement in
a Halloween brawl. The case had been
scheduled to go to trial April 3, the same
day as the NCAA championship game.
“I think pretty soon after the date was
set, it came up that it was the date of the
national finals,” said Bill Blue, the attor
ney for Cota and Newby. “In late
February, when the date was set, it did
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John Cusack plays Rob Gordon, a vintage record store owner plagued by a run of rocky relationships,
and Iben Hjejle plays his ex-girlfriend Laura in "High Fidelity," Disney's newest romantic comedy.
Honest Comedy 'Fidelity' Rocks
By Justin Winters
Staff Writer
For every large group of hopeful box-office blockbusters
released each year there is usually a small handful of truly
smart films that slip through the Hollywood machine, sur
prise audiences and become instant cult classics.
This year “High Fidelity,” a
comedy about men, women and
pop music that slyly jumps from
poignant to hilarious, is a crowd
pleaser that will appeal to those
who cherish such ’Bos classics as
“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and
“The Breakfast Club.”
“Fidelity,” based on the cult novel by Nick Hornby,
stars the quintessential everyman John Cusack (“Grosse
Point Blank”) as record store owner Rob Gordon. As the
movie opens. Rob has just repeated an oft-taken relation-
Moyers Touts Campaign Finance Reform
Former White House Press
Secretary Bill Moyers spoke
Tuesday on "Money, Politics
and the Soul of Democracy."
By Jonah Mitry
Staff Writer
Former White House Press Secretary
Bill Moyers called North Carolina’s
young people Tuesday to work toward
eliminating excessive campaign contri
butions during his speech at the Friday
Center.
In a speech titled “Money, Politics
and the Soul of Democracy,” Moyers
emphasized the
need for campaign
finance reform, an
issue brought to
the forefront by
the presidential
campaigns of John
McCain and Bill
Bradley.
“It is the fight of
our time to take
democracy back,”
“We can change the system.
Every vote is a reminder that
each citizen is a moral agent
with a political value. ”
Bill Moyers
Former White House Aide
he said, speaking to a predominately
white, middle-aged audience.
Referring to Democrats and
Republicans, Moyers said one side
would start taking contributions and the
other side would follow suit.
Moyers criticized politicians who
took campaign contributions in return
for political favors, citing the pharma
ceutical industry and the rising cost of
not seem to be a
problem. But it’s a
pleasant problem.”
At the time the
date was set, the
Tar Heels were
mired in a
mediocre regular
season, and it
seemed unlikely
the court date
would cause a
conflict.
Ed Cota
But when UNC defeated Tulsa on
Sunday to make the national semifinals,
Blue was forced to make a written
request for a continuance.
Now Cota and Newby can focus on
their next opponent, Florida, instead of
ship route - for him -of breaking up w'ith his girlfriend.
Rob is such a music junkie that he arranges his own
vinyl collection autobiographically, which constitutes using
songs as memories just as others might use family photos.
He, along with two polar opposite employees, Barry,
played with scene-stealing fervor by Jack Black (“Enemy
of the State”), and Dick, subtly played by Todd Louiso
(“Jerry Maguire”), run the store Championship Vinyl in a
part of town where random customers don’t just walk in.
After the breakup, Rob makes a list of his worst
breakups and calls each of his ex-girlfriends to truly figure
out the “feminine mystique.”
Director Stephen Frears (“The Hi-Lo Country”) and
Cusack have created a refreshing one-two punch. As an
antithesis to estrogen-soaked films such as “'Hie First Wives
Club,” “Fidelity” gives an amazingly honest look at the
evolving differences between the sexes.
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prescription drugs as an example of how
this practice harmed citizens.
“(Prescription drugs) have become
unaffordable to people in their senior
years,” he said. “Pharmaceutical com
panies want to make sure they give to
the right members of Congress.
“If a baseball player was to hand
money to an umpire we would call it a
bribe. With politicians we call it a con
tribution.”
The key to American politics,
Moyers said, was representation and
equality.
He said Americans believed in voting
as a way to influence what was right for
the country and that it provided democ
racy for every citizen.
Nelson Rivers
111, director of
national field oper
ations for the
National
Association for the
Advancement of
Colored People,
who spoke before
Moyers, empha
sized the need for
blacks to support
campaign finance
reform but explained why more blacks
have not been involved. “African
Americans want to know if politicians
really care,” he said.
“The right to vote doesn’t mean
much if my vote doesn’t count.”
Moyers said citizens must believe
their vote counts. “We can change the
system,” he said. “Every vote is a
News
their off-the-court troubles.
“I’m definitely relieved, but I wasn’t
letting it bother me at all,” Cota said
Tuesday. “I’m on a mission to win a
national championship, and I’m not
going to let anything distract me at all.”
University Police arrested Cota and
Newby on Nov. 1,1999, for their alleged
involvement in a fight. The two players
were released on SI,OOO unsecured
bond. UNC coach Bill Guthridge sus
pended the players indefinitely once he
learned of their arrests and reinstated
the pair Nov. 11, 1999.
“There are two sides to the story,”
Guthridge said after reinstating the senior
guards. “Police have done a thorough job
investigating, and now we have to let the
judicial system deal with the matter.”
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Former White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers speaks
about the Clean Elections Act at the Friday Center on Tuesday night.
reminder that each citizen is a moral
agent with a political value.”
Len Stanley, field director for N.C.
Voters for Clean Elections, a coalition of
organizations that support public fund
ing for state elections, said she was
working at the county level to educate
and mobilize voters to go to their legis
latures. “What we are doing is helping
to focus people’s outrage.”
Moyers said he got involved with
campaign finance reform because he
has three grandchildren. “I don’t want
them to grow up in a country where
civic worth depends on net worth.”
The case had
already been con
tinued three times,
but Guthridge said
this was the first
time the defense
had requested the
continuance.
According to
the motion Blue
filed on behalf of
the players, the
hearing was set for
Terrence Newby
Dec. 6,1999, but was continued because
the date conflicted with the UNC exam
schedule for several key witnesses.
Asa result of mediation sessions con
ducted by the Dispute Settlement
Center, the hearing for Jan. 19 was
'Bos Idol
Now Juggles
New Roles
By Justin Winters
Staff Writer
John Cusack has come a long way
since his first role as a friend to
Anthony Michael Hall’s “The Nerd” in
the ’Bos teen classic “Sixteen Candles.”
Still, when asked when he first began
feeling like a grown-up, Cusack’s
answer shows his youthful, cynical and
self-deprecating side.
“Just this morning at about 10 (a.m.)
actually,” he said in an interview
Monday.
This week, Cusack juggles the
grown-up duties of star, co-producer
and co-writer in his newest film about
men, women and pop music in “High
Fidelity.”
According to Cusack, the benefits of
filling so many roles in a film’s produc
tion outweighed most of the conse
quence*
“I didn’t have to worry about offend
ing the jkriter or producer mosdy,” he
said. “Instead, you just try to express
what is going on with the character.”
His character in “Fidelity,” a vintage
record-store owner named Rob
Gordon, has some people comparing
the role to that of Cusack’s nice-guy
Lloyd Dobler in “Say Anything.”
“I saw him as a very different char
acter though,” Cusack said. “Both
movies are about relationships and
matters of the heart, but Rob is more of
a beat-down romantic while Lloyd was
an idealist.”
While Cusack said that he was not a
constant list-maker like his character,
he did share the same love for music.
Cusack, along with his childhood bud
dies and co-writers/producers Steve
Pink and D.V. DeVincentis, meticu-
See CUSACK, Page 8
Moyers congratulated the audience
for showing interest. “Your presence
confirms an idea whose time has come.”
But former Raleigh City Council
member Barlow Herget did not think
the audience represented all voters. “I
saw too many folks my age and older. I
think more young people are needed.”
Moyers encouraged listeners not to
leave disheartened and paralyzed. “I see
an America of, by and for the people.
Go to it, Tar Heels.”
The State & National Editor can be
reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.
Wednesday, March 29, 2000
rescheduled for Feb. 24.
That court date was postponed
because of a scheduling conflict con
cerning the assistant district attorney
responsible for prosecuting the case,
although Cota and Newby were avail
able and prepared for trial on that date.
“(The prosecutors) have a high
degree of confidence that the matter will
go forth,” Blue said.
The players’ new court date would
definitely be determined by Wednesday,
Blue said, but setting the date involved
finding an open courtroom because of
the lack of facilities in Orange County.
Rachel Carter contributed to this story.
The Sports Editor can be reached at
sports@unc.edu.
BCC Plans
Begin to
Take Shape
Plans for the freestanding
center correlate with UNC's
Master Plan, a 10-year map
for future campus growth.
By C.B. Mabeus
Staff Writer
The Board of Trustee’s preliminary
approval has plans for the freestanding
Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center
getting closer to breaking ground.
Members at last week’s BOT meet
ing were presented with preliminary
plans for the new center, which has
been in the works since 1994, said Phil
Freelon, architect for the project.
“The building design was approved
by the BOT, to date,” Freelon said.
BCC members were involved in an
8-year struggle to garner funds for the
center before a
$28.6 million
alumni bequest in
September
cemented plans
for the project.
Last week,
trustees had the
opportunity to
make suggestions
and comment on
the building’s ini
tial design.
Actual
approval of the
building design
will come up in
May’s BOT meet-
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Harry Amana
said he was pleased
with the plans
and the design
of the new building.
ing, said Chairwoman Anne Cates.
“I think it’s going to be a very lovely
building,” Cates said.
Freelon said most of the comments
he received concerned the exterior
appearance of the building in relafion to
other campus buildings.
The exterior of the center is designed
similarly in scale and proportion to
Coker Hall and will feature a two-story
glass curtain wall gallery with a view of
Coker Woods.
The 36,000-square-foot center will
house a 400-seat auditorium, class
rooms and conference rooms within its
three floors.
In addition, the center will contain a
library and art gallery centered on black
themes, said Laurie Clark, publicist and
program coordinator for the BCC.
Harry Amana, interim director of the
BCC, described the building as a com
plement to existing buildings on
campus.
“We’re quite pleased with the
design,” he said. “I think it’s a wonder
ful way to fit in. It’s a traditional build
ing with a small modem element - the
glass front.”
The new center is Phase 1 of a two
phase addition that will be constructed
near the Bell Tower and Coker Woods
areas of campus.
Phase 2 includes plans for a Bell
Tower parking deck and a pedestrian
bridge crossing South Road.
Freelon and Amana said the build
ing’s position near the Bell Tower cor
related well with the University’s
Master Plan, a 10-year blueprint for
campus grow'th.
“One of the challenges was to plan
for before and after so it looks complete.
The parking deck may not be complet
ed for another five to 10 years,” Amana
said.
About $6 million of the $9 million
cost for the design and construction cen
ter is a result of the donation.
An additional $3.1 million in contri
butions and pledges will cover the
remainder of the bill, according to the
BCC Web site.
Freelon said the plans for construc
tion were in line with the centers' sched
uled January 2001 groundbreaking
date.
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
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