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4 Tuesday, March 6, 2001 SWEET From Page 3 pie that care about the records - that’s super gratifying,” he said. The touring process also has allowed Swreet the opportunity to visit his family, most of whom still live in his native Nebraska, more often. But being forced to leave the com forts of home behind is trying, if not physically exhausting. While most of his longest tours have lasted only three months, Sweet has toured for almost an entire year with only an occasional three-week break to recuperate. While the play-late, get-up-early and do-promotions-all-aftemoon lifestyle may suit the musician, that doesn’t mean the lifestyle will always suit the spouse. But Sweet said time spent apart from each other, on the other hand, is somewhat more manageable. “Although I would like to have my wife with me, 1 know she would hate it,” Sweet said. “We learned early on in our relationship how to deal with (the separa tion) so it’s never really been a problem.” Besides his wife, Sweet said he wished he could take his four cats and the ability FUG From Page 3 together. “The forum represents a moment where the inside and the out side of the (NAACP) intersect,” Henderson said. “We need to always try to cultivate the grounds between us.” While most of the speakers argued in opposition to the Confederate flag and said it represents the oppression that blacks are still fighting today, some audi ence members attempted to argue for the Confederate flag as a symbol of Ulilllj """ ill mil — -a CAMPUS RECREATION UPDATE Sport Clubs Innertube Water Polo entries opened yesterday (3/5). UNC Men's and Women's Club Tennis Tennis, Softball and Roller Hockey entries dose tonight at 10 PM. March 16-17th, UNC Men's and Women's Club Tennis will travel to Austin, TX to defend CONGRAULATIONS TO THE WINNERS last yeaTs national title in the second annual USA Team Tennis National Campus Bowling Men's Rec-Feats of Strength Men s Comp/Frat-Tau Epsilon Championships. The tournament will feature dub teams from all over the country. Women's Open-Ruff in Muffins Co- Rec- Jolly Rollers ... , .... ... _ including the University of Michigan, Wake Forest University, and the University of Texas. Team Racquetball Men's Rec-Tooth etal Men s Comp- Piazo Reamers Sign ups sheets for "The Thrill on the Hill" are available. This tournament is the largest regional tournament that is held and SCO cor np e tition will include UNC players this year it is going to be March 23-25, 2001. For more information about the Target 5 on 5 Regional Championships, Reid Chaney, Haley Chitty, Scott Fischer, Drew g£| presented by Nestle Crunch and Schkk/Edge please stop by Office of Campus Recreation (203 Woollen Gym). James Matt Loeb Nate Mail'd Employee Intramurals: in the championship game of the Employee Basketball League, the M r\ Or^m. Pharm Rats outclassed the Bookheads in a surpnsingly lopsided game, 64-35. The Rats were _ y „,Wk i brilliantly coached by Mike "Little Coach K" Fisher and led by hot shooting Rick Peterson with ~ W Parks, Lynlee Jpr ‘ J-V V' ’ Af'jß 21 points. The Bookheads, who survived a tense 1 -point semi-final win against the ~ ' Squires, Noelle |§ Gummers, were led by the inventive scoring of Tony Patterson who finished with 15 points. Stone and Amy Stuckey Congratulations to all 7 teams and Commissioner Jay Victor for a super season. W i$T f % Student Recreation Center PERSONAL TRAINER WORKSHOP % r~ /\ |\/l PI |C Presented by Interactive Fitness Trainers of America J J'J.Y _ _ Date: Saturday, March 24 RECREATION Time: lOam-noon (exercise science)/12:30-5:30pm (certification) Center To register call 800-582-1814 fitness rewards program Sign up today!! at the OEC Each time you work out at the SRC have your card initialed by the fitness staff (workout must be at least 'k hour, limit of 4 credits per week). Prizes available on a first come first serve basis. mnk mmm mm mam mm mm i2 15 workouts- water bottle El DE E |2 EE O 30 workouts-T-shirt I mlvlv Kvfcftfl •• • • | ’doSL ’ Coming 500n... < tMI Regional Fitness challenge will not be available on the Carolina Adventures I .0:00 am. coo pm Spring break trip, but tons of other wonderful healthy < | Two divisions (men's & women's) and each team will consist of two people , . ... , .. MUiifwiH Top combined score awarded trip to National Competition Los Angeles, California tllinQS Will D6. 319 R UP HOW. IdfIIMMBTSI Individual event winners awarded pnzes ((join Us Wednesday Night for Matt Doherty LIVE! at Michael Jordan's 23 - 50% Off Bar Appetizers from 7-8 p.m.lj LdL * ALWAYS COCA-COLA. ALWAYS CAROLINA!! (|S||l to get a normal night’s sleep with him on the road. En route, a lot of time is taken up with promotional activities such as radio appearances and telephone inter views, but trying to fit in seven to eight hours of sleep is a necessary precursor to a good performance, he added. He also recommended that the tour ing musician always carry “a cell phone and an extra course of antibiotics; you almost always get sick.” Sweet has slowly put touring on the back burner over the past four to five years of his career. He said that this change is partially due to a narrowing music market, citing live music’s declining popularity in the Internet age. In the meantime, Sweet is working on a book focusing on artists such as Margaret Keane, Gig and Maio and their portrayal of harlequins, paintings that depict children or animals with droopy, unusually large eyes. Part of the book is based on Sweet’s own collection of harlequin works, from which one of Keane’s 1963 paintings was chosen as the cover image of In Reverse. On the current road tour, Sweet is conducting interviews with other art collectors and relatives of the artists Southern heritage. But Henderson continued to argue that flying the flag represents hate. “The sight of the Confederate flag, to me, is repug nant,” she said. “To me, and to blacks, it doesn’t mean all (of the) different things that it means to white Southerners.... It stands for a nation that was predicated on the enslavement of African Americans.” Audience members frequently inter vened during the formal speakers’ com ments and said they felt the Confederate flag represents black oppression. “I think the flag is horrific,” said Tola Atewologun, a junior public policy analysis major. “Any themselves as research. The future for Sweet is somewhat uncertain. He’s contemplating releasing a live record or a demo compilation, but he is caught in a debate over whether to sign to another record label or just produce his own next album. “If I do sign to a label it will probably take a bit of time (before another album is produced),” he said. “It’s kind of hard to say at this point.” The Arts & Entertainment Editor can be reached at artsdeskounc.edu. Today; Matthew Sweet March 8 at Cat's Cradle Show starts at 8:30 pm Wednesday: Donna R. of The Donnas March 7 at Cat's Cradle Show starts at 8 p.m. Thursday: Mamadou Diabate March 9 at Cat's Cradle Show starts at 8 p.m. Friday: John Strohm of The Blake Babies March 13 at Cat's Cradle Show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets available at SchoolKids Records and Cat's Cradle, 967-9053. state-sanctioned symbol that obviously offends a large group of people is wrong.” Henderson spoke adamantly about the Confederate flag as a symbol. “Look at the cross or the swastika. ... Symbols move us emotionally,” she said. “They provide a deep inspiration for wars that have been fought. “What used to be a symbol of sec tional differences of North and South ... has now become a symbol of the differ ence between black and white.” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. BYNUM From Page 3 how God worked in his life and his pres ence in everyone’s lives,” Cort said. Bynum calls his experience on the plane a true miracle. While he did not continue on to Uganda, Bynum said he still went on a mission trip, just not the one he had planned. “I could have touched 1,000 Ugandans’ lives, but with this story I have travelled to four conti nents and delivered my story to 30 mil lion people,” he said. “I want people to know I am just an ordinary person chosen by God to do an extraordinary thing.” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. City Mayors Request Transit Help By April Bethea Staff Writer Mayors throughout the Triangle - including Chapel Hill Mayor Rosemary Waldorf - are asking state legislators for help improving transportation in the region, which they say could cost $lO billion over the next 25 years. But state legislators are divided on whether state ftinds should be allocated to the cities to alleviate transit woes. Durham Mayor Nicholas Tennyson said he believes many of the transporta tion problems can be attributed to divid ing the responsibility for managing traf fic among several agencies. “The challenge is that we plan trans portation with two different agencies, and then the transportation (service), which is a third agency,” he said. The mayors have devised a plan, dubbed the Regional Transportation Strategy, which they hope will ease future transportation planning, Tennyson said He said the plan calls for a multifac eted effort in combating the transporta tion problems, including revamped tran sit systems and land-use strategies. THE Daily Crossword By Diane C. 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But he said he does not believe the current budget shortfall - which is reach ing nearly SBOO million - will affect what money, if any, the cities will receive. But N.C. legislators are divided on whether the state should pay for trans portation improvements in the region. Sen. Elle Kinnaird, D-Orange, said she believes the mayors are asking state legislators to allow them to raise funds for the transportation improvements on their own and not necessarily asking them to completely foot the bill. “The strategy is a combination of allowing local governments to raise money on their own and asking the state for help with the big projects,” she said. Kinnaird said she thinks the cities might raise funds through county enter tainment, sales or food taxes. She also said she believes officials should work on transportation improve ments now and not wait to see if the problem will improve over time. But Sen. Robert Carpenter, R- 29 Broadway fig ure 31 Frequently 32 Way out 33 British under shirt 34 Catch sight of 36 Scanty 37 Mystique ,38 Absent 42 Shot like a lock 5 Courtly dance 6 Sidled 7 Barbecue sta ple 8 Sticky stuff 9 Zeta follower 10 Starts off 11 Occurrence 12 Heckle 13 Goofed up 18 Press 19 Class-cutter 23 Opportunity to play 24 Unseasoned 25 Bring up 26 On the waves 27 Repast 28 Galley pro pellers ■lO in 12 13 ■■32 33 38 _ 45 46 47 H4B 49 ■■■■fin ■■il 52 ~ _ . I ; „ I: 58 ■■ ■■6 o 4- - +- - ®ljr laily (bar Hrrl Buncombe, said he opposes the use of state funds to fix the transportation prob lems, especially in light of the shortfall. Carpenter said he believes Triangle leaders should take the responsibility to find ways to fund their strategy. Carpenter, a member of the Senate Transportation Committee, said he believes many of the problems in the region result from the area’s population growth. “The population explosion has created a situation where there are triple the number of cars on the roads than 10 years ago,” he said. Carpenter said he believes local offi cials should examine tactics of other urban areas which used bond packages to raise transportation improvement funds. While transportation in the Triangle has become an issue in recent years, Carpenter said he does not believe offi cials should focus only on the region because transportation has become a problem throughout the state. “I think across the whole state of North Carolina we have transportation problems.” The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. (C)2001 Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights reserved. 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