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Hip-hop artist Common serenades junior A. Christine Thomas during his Sunday performance in
Memorial Hall. Campus groups brought Common to campus for an estimated $50,000 pricetag.
SOLD-OUT MEMORIAL HALL SHOW
KICKS OFF HOMECOMING FESTIVITIES
BY TANNER SLAYDEN
ASSISTANT ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
Hip-hop artist Common played at the newly
renovated Memorial Hall on Sunday night and
proved to be one of the more memorable acts
ever to kick off Homecoming.
“I don’t even remember the Homecoming
concert a couple of years ago,” said senior
Eric Gardner. “I’m pretty impressed they got
Common.”
UNC alumnus Kaze and DJ 9th Wonder also
appeared on stage, opening for the rapper.
“Stand up, this is a hip hop function,” Kaze
said to fire up the crowd. “Let’s turn this 1,500
seat Memorial Hall into a sweaty jukebox
joint.”
No one sat down while music was playing,
and Memorial Hall finally got a mainstream hip
hop makeover.
Carolina Union Activities Board President
Jonathon Benson said the event turned out to
Dearmin sees work
to be done in town
BY DON CAMPBELL
staff writer
When he ran for student
body president last spring, Seth
Dearmin made improv
ing town-gown relations
a campaign priority.
Platform points
included the creation of
a single-voting precinct
for the campus and
more recycling bins on
Franklin Street. Many
of those points remain
to see fruition.
Tuesday: Examining
Dearmin's progress
on platform points
focused on the Board
of Trustees and the
administration.
With the passing of bill 98 in
August, the campus superprecinct
quickly was becoming a reality.
However, a debate about voter
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be everything he had hoped and that he was
impressed on how well organizers worked
together.
The concert was a collaboration between the
Carolina Athletic Association and CUAB.
“This is the start of even more things to
come,” said Benson. “I want to have more big
shows in this place, and I want to stress big in
quality.
“If you can sell out in three days, you are
doing something right.”
If the reaction to Sunday’s concert was any
indication, that goal should be well received.
After Common was introduced by CUAB and
the CAA, the theater went dark, and the audi
ence put up their cell phones. Common was
greeted by hundreds of blue lights while he
went into his first song, “Be.”
Common didn’t waste any time after that.
SEE COMMON, PAGE 9
identification requirements pre
vented the bill from earning unan
imous approval from the Orange
County Board of Elections.
Dearmin said he plans
on following up on the
superprecinct issue by
talking to members of
the board and Sen. Elbe
Kinnaird, D-Orange, one
of the bill’s sponsors, to
find a compromise.
Although he
applauded the idea,
council member Jim Ward said no
specific proposal has been made
to the council about adding recy-
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CARNIVALE!
The Chapel Hill Public Arts
Commission hosts a fall
themed festival downtown
this weekend with guests
such as Willie the Clown.
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Graduate,
“I had some free time
today and I don’t
want to wait in line
(on Election Day).”
Vote early at Morehead Planetarium and Science Center through
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From mash to bash,
Franklin’s seen it all
Downtown celebrations evolve from small
’7os disco to sprawling crowd of 70,000
BY JULIE TURKEWITZ STAFF WRITER
When Police Chief Gregg Jarvies and more than
360 officers head to Franklin Street this evening
to protect a predicted 70,000 ghosts, goblins
and scantily clad coeds, Chapel Hill will look a little differ
ent than it did 30 years ago.
“It was a relatively small affair,” Jarvies says of the
Halloween celebration in the mid-’7os.
Jarvies, a 1979 UNC graduate, has seen more than 30
Halloweens in Chapel Hill.
“It’s gone from a local event to
an event where thousands of peo
ple come from around the area,”
Jarvies says.
Students in the ’7os partied at
the Monster Mash disco in the
Student Union or participated in
Kappa Kappa Gamma’s annual
Pumpkin Walk, handing out
carved pumpkins to prominent
members of the University.
“When I was in school as an
undergrad, we would just hang
out in the dorms,” Jarvies says.
“Downtown was not as active.”
Some students, baited by cos
tume-contest prize money and
drink specials, headed to He’s
Not Here, Ham’s or Tijuana Fats’
(which was located where Fuse
Restaurant & Bar now stands.)
“When the parties ended, there
would be people walking back and
forth from the bars that were hav
ing costume parties,” Jarvies says.
By the early ’Bos, the number
of costume-clad partiers traipsing
from bar to bar increased.
“In the (early) 1980s, you might
see 500 people dressed in costume
on Franklin Street,” says Don
Pinney, Sutton’s Drug Store man
ager and a Chapel Hill resident for
more than 40 years.
By 1985, Franklin Street was
“rocking,” Brian Sipe, a freshman
Streets to close for Halloween celebration
With a crowd as large as 75,000 expected to celebrate Halloween in Chapel Hill this year, many streets will be closed
past 9 p.m. to traffic, including Franklin Street from Mallette to Raleigh streets. Parking will be available on campus.
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WHO'S ON DECK?
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during that year, told The Daily
Tar Heel.
“Chapel Hill literally will howl
with student activity,” the DTH
reported on Halloween that year.
Unlike today, Franklin Street, at
that time, still was open to motor
traffic, and police were forced to
herd overeager pedestrians back
onto the sidewalk.
“The fun back then was going
downtown, trying to fight off the
police a bit,” says Spanky’s restau
rant owner Tom Herzog. “They
knew at some point the partygoers
would take over the street.”
“It was kind of a make-fun-of
yourself event. Almost everyone
dressed up,” Herzog says.
Dave Drake, a 1992 graduate,
participated in the revelry as a stu
dent. “Group costumes were really
big,” Drake says. “One year, we ail
went as popular talk-show hosts.
“We had a cameraman with us
who filmed everything that hap
pened that night. We had some
crazy stuff on that tape —a lot of
nudity and a lot of drinking.”
Law enforcement, he says,
was more relaxed. Most students
didn’t have a problem drinking on
Franklin Street.
By the ’9os, the celebration
SEE HALLOWEEN, PAGE 9
Parking on campus
Available from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m. - $7 for the public and free to
students, staff and faculty that show University identification.
Park Place Lot - Located on Park Place off East Franklin Street
Nash Lot - Located on Pittsboro Street between the Newman
Center and the Nash Building (across the street from the
Carolina Inn)
Highway S4 Lot - Located just past the intersection of South
Road and Country Club Drive
School of Government Deck - Located between the School of
Government and the Hooker Intramural Fields
Bell Tower Lot - Located just past the Bell Tower behind the
Sonja Haynes Stone Center
Rams Head Deck - Located on Ridge Road behind Kenan
Stadium
Bowles Lot - Located next to the Dean Dome
Manning Lot - Located next to the Dean Dome
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Candidates sign on
to wireless proposals
BY TED STRONG
CITY CO-EDITOR
Town Council candidates are
pushing to bring anew amenity
to residents, no strings attached.
Wireless Internet access is a
well-established feature on cam
pus, but still a novelty in the town,
available only in certain business
es that opt to offer the service pri
vately.
The process for offering access
has dragged on for some time
now, but appears finally to be
picking up the steam it needs to
see progress, in part through the
attention it has received in the
campaign.
“I really don’t see it as a case
of‘are we going to do it or not?’”
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ASK THE FACULTY
A University task force formed
in wake of a controversial
gift proposal last spring has
recommended involving the
faculty in reviewing gifts.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2005
ADDITIONAL
COVERAGE:
HALLOWEEN
INSIDE
Ghosts of campus
Officials say rampant
tales of ghosts haunting
campus landmarks are
nonsense, though many
still believe them, Page 7
ONLINE
A different take
A campus religious group
plans to spend Halloween
in a less Franklin Street-y
kind of way
Gearing up
Business owners take
extra precautions to
prepare for the crowds
expected for Halloween
on Franklin Street
Beware the dead
University- community
members go on an annual
tour of the on-campus
cemetery, pointing out
notable plots on the eve
of Halloween
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locals are
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CHAPEL HILL
said council candidate Will
Raymond.
Others, such as Gregg Gerdau,
chairman of the town’s technol
ogy committee, aren’t as certain
as Raymond, but do say the pro
posal is gaining momentum.
WiFi access to the Internet is
not so much a concrete proposal
that merely needs to be set in
place as it is a medley of models
SEE WIRELESS, PAGE 9
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