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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2005
VETERANS
FROM PAGE 1
was a trombone player for the Tar
Heels.
Phillips also shed light on the
ongoing change of the University
at the time. He described how he
watched Ted Williams, who was
undergoing training for the Navy
at the now-site of the Horace
Williams Airport, hit home runs
on the campus’s baseball field
now the site of the Student
Union.
Students who attended the cer
emony said listening to a veteran
discuss his military life deepened
their appreciation for the day.
“This is the best holiday in the
country,” said Jordan Kennedy, a
freshman history major and Air
Force ROTC cadet. The sentiment
was a common opinion among
those in attendance.
Once Phillips concluded, anoth
er officer took the podium and
recognized the veterans of special
conflicts by calling out each of the
eight wars or special operations
from World War II to the current
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FINAL BUSINESS
FROM PAGE 1
He added that faculty, who might
feel slighted by the board’s action
to grant chancellor salary hikes in
excess of the 2 percent given to all
state employees, also are high on
the board’s priority list.
But addressing controversial sal
ary hikes was not the first thing on
BOG members’ minds Friday.
A standing ovation signaled the
end of Broad’s final President’s
Report, which focused on the
changes the system has seen during
her tenure, including the passage of
the largest bond referendum in the
history of U.S. higher education.
“For American universities to
maintain their preeminence ... we
must invest more capital in every
student, every faculty member and
every worker,” she said.
Zack Wynne, president of the
UNC Association of Student
Governments and the only student
member of the board, told Broad
that her leadership has bettered
the experience of each student of
the university system.
“The best thing I’ve done is sit
and learn in a building built by the
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conflict in Iraq. As veterans rose
from their seats to be recognized,
a moment of heavy silence was fol
lowed by a dignified applause.
“The ceremony is a time to
honor those that have fallen in
the past, now and in the future,”
said Gysgt Hogancamp, assistant
Marine officer instructor for the
University’s ROTC program.
And as dozens of young, uni
formed ROTC members applaud
ed the veterans, the contrast of
the generations that Hogancamp
mentioned was strikingly preva
lent.
Soloway, whose father served in
the Marine Corps in the Vietnam
War and whose grandfather served
in World War 11, said Veterans Day
is not only a day to remember fam
ily members but those who fore
went celebrating Christmas and
birthdays to serve.
“(It’s) a day to remember those
who give students a chance to walk
on Franklin Street to attend this
great liberal college.”
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“The best thing
I’ve done is sit and
learn in a building
built ... because of
your vision.”
ZACK WYNNE, ASG PRESIDENT
people of this state ... because of
your vision,” he said.
But Broad also said the future
of the university lies in recognizing
global competition. She told the
chancellors in the room to shift their
focus to new challenges and oppor
tunities. “You must keep your vision
clear and your eye on the horizon.”
BOG member emeritus and for
mer Gov. Jim Holshouser gave the
final remarks. He praised Broad for
her work, saying the job of presi
dent is no easy task.
“You leave scars and you pick up
a few. It comes with the territory,”
he said. “History is going to show
just how remarkable this term has
been.”
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Show a celebration of cultures
Venue allows for
bigger program
BY EMILY BISKER
STAFF WRITER
Lions danced to the beat of
a drum and attentive onlookers
cheered and laughed as the crea
tures jumped and flowed across
the stage.
But these lions, dancing with
their shiny bodies and elaborate
heads on Memorial Hall’s stage
Saturday, were not ordinary lions.
For one thing, they were wear
ing sneakers.
The animals or students
in disguise were part of “Lion
Dance,” a traditional Chinese per
formance, in the Asian Students
Association’s 13th annual cultural
show, “Journey into Asia.”
Held in the renovated hall for the
first time, the event brought together
some 1,200 UNC students and their
families and friends in addition to
guests from area universities.
Previously, the ASA held the show
in the Great Hall, with a seating
capacity of about 500. This year, the
group had the opportunity to accom
modate more people in the almost
1,500-capacity hall.
The extra seating was help
SQUIRRELS
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University concerning the high
number and evil intentions of cam
pus squirrels.
Gregg Elovich, who created
the Web site, says squirrels are
attracted to college campuses due
to a lack of predators, such as cats
and dogs.
“As urban wildlife goes, squirrels
are the most visible non-bird crit
ters,” Elovich says. “They’re curi
ous and social and easily adapt to
humans, especially the ones with
food.”
Cheryl Hoggard, a veterinarian
at the Piedmont Wildlife Center,
encourages people to avoid feed
ing squirrels because “that makes
them feel too safe.”
However, sometimes feeding the
squirrels can be unintentional.
John Harris, a member of the
groundskeeping staff, says that
squirrels love the leftovers from
any sort of campus event involving
food.
“After football games at Tar Heel
Town, you come out at 6 a.m, and
pick up the trash and the squirrels
are out eating everything, all the
food that the alumni left behind,”
Harris says.
Squirrels also abound in the quiet
days during Fall and Spring breaks
when students leave campus.
“The squirrels would be up on
the walls, taking the students’ plac
es,” Harris says, laughing. “It just
tripped me out. It was as if they,
too, knew it was break.”
Though the squirrels at UNC
may act strangely at times, Hoggard
says they are not frequent carriers
of rabies, unlike raccoons.
But squirrels do carry harmful
bacteria and external parasites.
“You have to be very careful with
squirrels don’t handle an animal
without the proper instructions
and experience,” Hoggard says.
Student opinions differ on the
behavior of the populous bushy
tailed creatures. Dark rumors of
strategic acorn-hurling, shoulder
jumping and unusual boldness
continue to prevail on campus.
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ful, said Janet Ahn, ASA cultural
co-chairwoman. While the show
always sold out in previous years,
she said, everyone interested was
able to come this year.
The theme of the show, “Return
to the Roots,” was chosen to encour
age the Asian community to think
about its cultural heritage.
Ahn, who has been working on
the show for the past six months
with co-chairman Arman Tolentino,
said many Asian-Americans could
relate to the theme.
Ahn said the event allowed people
to see things from both traditional
and modem cultural perspectives.
The show included performanc
es by N.C. State University’s Fusion,
a dance group that combines
cultural dance with hip hop, and
Dreams, a rap group that delves
into the Asian-American dream
through original Asian culture
inspired hip-hop hybrid music.
Special guests included “Kims of
Comedy” members Kevin Shea and
Ken Jeong, comedians who have
performed at college campuses
across the nation.
In between performances, hosts
Danny Fu and Mike Vikitsreth
incorporated the event’s main
theme into a skit.
Through the skit, Fu and
Vikitsreth confronted Asian ste
you, you know?” junior Sarah
Humphries says. “They don’t seem
to have much fear.”
Despite the odd atmosphere sur
rounding UNC squirrels, most stu
dents and faculty members exist in
harmony with their tree-dwelling
colleagues.
“I think they’re adorable,” junior
Emily Scott says. “I think we have
very friendly squirrels.”
Freshman Natasha Wilson says
she once saw a squirrel relaxing on
a nearby student’s book bag.
“I was amazed. They were like a
couple in harmony neither was
affected by the other,” Wilson says.
Harris says he thinks the abun
dant, unusual squirrel population
adds to UNC’s environment.
“It’s part of the ambience, isn’t
it?” he says. “It’s all part of the trees
and the landscape that we try to
do to make Carolina look like a
Carolina campus.
“Everyone interacts with them.
It’s their home, too.”
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GAMES
FROM PAGE 1
Twenty-six-year-old Dan
Disorbo of New Haven, Conn., is
the creator of a beirut kit named
“Bombed,” released this past April.
It is sold in Spencer’s Gifts and
Urban Outfitters, and at his Web
site, www.getbombed.com.
“We came up with a rack tc keep
everything clean and avoid spill
ing,” he says. “I came back from a
party one day, and I was like, ‘We
need to get this.’”
More than 10,000 kits which
contain a ten-cup rack as well as
cups and balls have been sold in
stores, and at least a couple dozen
are ordered from the Web site each
week, Disorbo says.
“I don’t know if drinking games
as a whole is increasing. I know
beirut or beer pong is increasing,”
he says. “I think beer pong has a lot
of marketability.”
Bars in Chapel Hill seem to have
picked up on the trend.
Lucy’s Restaurant on Henderson
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Sophomore Nancy Tan performs a ribbon dance in Memorial Hall on
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reotypes while also exploring the
various traditional and modern
Asian cultures.
It is important to blend tradition
al culture values with modem ones
to get the best of both worlds, said
UNC junior Mona Soni.
Soni, who said she enjoyed the
performances, said she also was
impressed that not only Asians
attended.
“The acts are relatable to every
one,” Soni said. “Music is universal.”
4TH SEAT
FROM PAGE 1
But no clear, established prece
dent exists to guide the aldermen on
who to appoint or how to do so.
Ryan said she disagrees with
Brough’s interpretation of the code.
She also said the law seems clear, if
badly constructed.
“The section of the charter in
question is very poorly written,”
Ryan said. “It seems to be very
specifically created to fill a vacancy
during an election.”
In his memo, Brough wrote that
because the possibility of an opening
was not known until after the filing
date, the vacancy falls under a N.C.
general statute that allows the aider
men to appoint someone not nec
essarily die fourth-choice candidate
in the last election to fill the seat.
The most recent precedent for
appointing a board member occurred
in 1998, when alderman Joal Broun
took the place of Hank Anderson,
who died in office, after applying and
interviewing for the spot.
Former candidate Catherine
Street is on week six of its eight
week Invitational Beer Pong
Tournament. For a $5 entry fee in
addition to buying pitchers of beer,
teams compete every Tuesday for
bragging rights, prizes and a pot
of money.
“Somebody thought it up last
year,” says tournament host Joe
Caddell, a 2005 UNC graduate,
who works at Lucy’s. “I’d like it (if
I were a customer) because some
body else sets it up and it’s a pain
in the butt to clean up.”
About 11 teams usually show up,
and a local Miller Lite distributor
loosely sponsors the tournament by
providing prizes as long as Miller
Lite is on tap for the games.
Bub O’Malley’s on East
Rosemary Street isn’t going to let
Lucy’s rack up all the beer pong
enthusiasts in the area, though.
The bar started holding weekly
beer pong tournaments last week.
“I’ve been playing beer pong
for over ten years,” says manager
James Rippe, who learned the
game as beirut.
“It became more about the com
petition than being about drink
ing,” he says. “It works naturally
in sports bars. I think bars are just
realizing it’s the new sport.”
“In the ’7os, you had darts; in
the ’Bos, you had foosball. This is
the new thing now, pretty much,”
he adds.
But, as with all drinking games,
concerns exist about the safety of
playing beer pong.
“(Drinking games) are inher
ently designed so that people
override their own internal sense
of their own limits,” says Dee Dee
Laurilliard, a social worker for
the Center for Healthy Student
Behaviors.
“Drinking games push you over
that limit because you’re swept up
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The show not only taught its
audience about Asian culture as a
whole but also about the individual
cultures present throughout Asia,
said NCSU student Diana Pan.
“When people say Asian, they all
think the same thing,” said Pan. In
reality, she said, “their cultures are
different, their music is different,
their food is different.”
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“The whole legal
question is getting
a bit more complex
that anybody
anticipated”
KATRINA RYAN, FORMER CANDIDATE
DeVine said she plans to apply, since
the margin of votes between the top
three contenders Jacquelyn Gist,
John Herrera and Randee Haven-
O’Donnell —and Ryan is large
enough to require an application
process. David Marshall, another
alderman hopeful, has not said
whether he plans to apply.
Ryan said she has support from
Carrboro residents in pursuing vari
ous channels to resolve the issue.
“The idea is not to cause a hub
bub,” she said. “If it’s a prolonged
legal conversation we need to have,
it needs to start as early as possible.”
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in the whole experience.”
Students agree.
“You’re more likely to lose track
of what you’re drinking when
you’re playing a drinking game,”
says Corinne Bums, a senior from
Winston-Salem.
Junior Peter James McCloskey
from Ireland says, “It shortens the
process of getting drunk.”
Yet beer pong proponents try to
focus more on the skills required
for the game rather than the drink
ing involved.
Anheuser-Busch Inc. recently
withdrew its beer pong set with
tables, cups and balls from the
market because the company’s
brass claimed people weren’t using
it with water as they originally
intended.
“Bombed” also recommends on
its package that the game should
be played with non-alcoholic bev
erages.
“Everyone knows they play with
(beer), we don’t encourage it,”
Disorbo says.
In bars, chances are slim that
players are going to use water for
beer pong. But bars may be a safer
environment for the game.
“We have the authority to cut
them off,” Caddell says. “At apart
ments, it’s a lot more difficult.”
Rippe expressed a similar senti
ment.
“In a private party atmosphere,
there may be more pressure to con
sume large amounts of alcohol,”
he says. “We want people to enjoy
themselves and to do it safely.”
Whether it’s at home or at bars,
anyone can play beer pong, and it
seems as if it’s the hot new sport.
“Champions are made one cup
at a time,” Rippe says.
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