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THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2006
UNC gathers to fight
rising sexual violence
Joins national effort to reclaim ‘night’
BY ROBBY MARSHALL
STAFF WRITER
Women made up the major
ity of the almost 100 attendees
Wednesday night silently protest
ing sexual violence.
But a man was the center of
attention.
The audience members gathered
in a tight group in front of Wilson
Library and held flickering candles
around guest speaker, Christopher
Kilmartin, to commemorate Take
Back The Night an international
chain of rallies and marches that
protest against sexual and domes
tic violence.
“Men’s violence is the single
most serious health problem for
women,” said Kilmartin, a psychol
ogy professor at the University of
Mary Washington, stand-up come
dian and playwright.
“There is this unconscious need
by men ... to keep women in their
place,” he said.
Colored with witty humor and
strings of expert psychological ter
minology, Kilmartin’s message ulti
mately was stem in urging men to be
proactive in stopping the violence.
“The main issue is about good
guys being passive bystanders ...
when other men are causing harm,”
Kilmartin said.
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we recognize bluegrass,” he said.
“This will give us an opportu
nity to examine a time in the ’3os
and ’4os when a very modem kind
of music was being cultivated.”
Located outside Asheville,
Black Mountain College opened in
1933 to foster the arts and creative
thinking.
During the college’s 23-year his
tory, a wealth of noteworthy mate
rial was created particularly
music under the school’s influential
music director, Heinrich Jalowetz.
Artists, such as the experimental
music composer John Cage, were
among the Americans who came
to the college to hone their craft
and, in effect, took inspiration from
the Europeans there. In fact, Cage
composed one of his most famous
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He addressed several notorious
cases, including the Kobe Bryant
trial and the recent rape allega
tions against members of Duke
University’s men’s lacrosse team.
“There were probably nice men at
that party who just didn’t speak up,”
he said of the Duke party, at which an
exotic dancer says she was raped.
Take Back the Night rallies and
marches began in England, and
first appeared stateside in 1978 in
San Francisco as a protest against
the fear that plagued women while
they walked the street at night.
This is the ninth year that UNC
has participated, said Chimi Boyd,
interim director of the Carolina
Women’s Center.
“It’s important to end silence
around sexual violence,” she said.
“Anyone of the University should
be able to walk anywhere and feel
safe.”
Among a slew of statistics
Kilmartin listed after his presenta
tion, he said the most astounding
was the fact that about 50 percent
of women’s emergency room visits
regard domestic violence.
“And only about 1 percent of sex
ual assault perpetrators ever spend
a day in jail,” he added.
Local domestic violence has
been on the rise since 2003 for
works, “4’33,” a composition of
silence, while at Black Mountain.
Hiam noted that many North
Carolinians do not know that such
avant-garde music was being cre
ated in their own backyard.
The festival also will feature
more traditional music, said music
professor Severine Neff.
Folk singer Judith Rhodes, a
native of Black Mountain and the
sister of UNC music professor Terry
Rhodes, will perform Saturday.
“We’re showing how Black
Mountain affected the world, but
there are people who live in Black
Mountain,” Neff said, referring to
other types of music in the area.
The festival begins today with
a Memorial Hall performance by
the Brentano String Quartet and
mezzo-soprano Mary Nessinger. It
runs through Sunday and features
performances from UNC students
reasons unknown to police.
The Chapel Hill Police
Department saw 562 domestic dis
turbance calls in 2005 —a 6.8 per
cent increase from the year before.
Kilmartin warned against those
domestic crimes that often go
unnoticed or unreported.
“A stranger rape always makes
the papers, but an acquaintance
rape never does unless it’s a celeb
rity,” he said.
Wednesday’s event was spon
sored by Project Dinah, a campus
women’s advocacy group.
“This represents the need for
women and men to step forward,”
said Allison Rose, chairwoman for
the project. “It’s about survivors
having a voice and making sure
they don’t feel alone.”
Following the speech, a silent
march ensued. The participants
started at Wilson Library, head
ed to Franklin Street and then
returned to Hanes Hall, where the
ceremony’s final events were held.
Kilmartin said he is happy with
the increasing number of men
attending his lectures.
In addressing spousal abuse, he
offered some advice.
“If you can’t understand your
wife, I recommend the much-over
looked method of listening to her.”
Contact the News Editor
at udesk@unc.edu.
and professors, among others.
Sunday’s performance at Hill
Hall will feature Cage’s “Theater
Piece, No. 1.”
Hiam said this performance is
known in the musical world as a
“happening,” or a free form, mul
timedia performance.
“There’s also a rumor that the
happening will involve some live
animals,” he added jokingly.
Many of the performances are
free, and those at Memorial Hall
and some at Hill Hall are dis
counted for students. Weekend
passes are also available.
More information can be
obtained by calling the music
department at 962-1093 or vis
iting music.unc.edu/calendars/
blackmtn/.
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at artsdesk@unc.edu.
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included that Chapel Hill would
determine how the Rogers Road
area would be developed.
“It’s an area that is perfectly
positioned for some good planning
attention right now,” said Roger
Waldon, former Chapel Hill plan
ning director. Waldon, who helped
develop much of the zoning deter
minations for the area, retired last
year after 21 years with the town.
Because it’s outside Chapel Hill
limits, a portion of the region doesn’t
receive some needed amenities.
A resident of Rogers Road
has become an annual fixture at
municipal budget hearings.
“It’s in the planning jurisdiction
for the town of Chapel Hill but not
HOUSING
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a number of renters.
Waldon, who now works as a
consultant for the town helping to
draft the districts, said in Northside,
which falls under a conservation
district, the ratio of bedrooms to
bathrooms is used to limit renters.
Waldon explained that the
districts are designed to prevent
development from changing
neighborhood flavors.
“There are a number of neighbor
hoods around town that have char
acteristics that make them particu
larly vulnerable to changing market
pressures and demands,” he said.
He cited specifically neigh
borhoods that are older, close to
downtown or close to campus.
Districts are used to align cov
enant lot size rules and town zon
ing, prevent absentee landlords
and avert tear-downs.
Tear-downs occur when devel
oped property value increases dra
matically. If prices spike enough, it
becomes lucrative for developers to
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would be they’d redo they process,”
he said.
Deans said he isn’t worried
about which way Allred will lean.
“I’m confident that he will end
up going with Mark because there
are no other candidates,” he said.
But Congress isn’t likely to let up
the pressure on Ihnat the second
time around, Farley predicted.
“My vote would be incumbent
upon hearing from the nominee a
definitive statement that elections
would no longer be a part of the
nomination process,” he said.
Ihnat says that he would not be
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7 p.m., Sonja Haynes Stone Center Auditorium: “Body and Sold,” a play about sexual
trafficking. Written by Deborah Lake Forston, and performed by the Tempest Company. “Body and
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within the town limits, so there’s
no garbage pickup for example and
no bus transportation,” said Susan
Levy, executive director of Habitat
for Humanity of Orange County.
Habitat has built two neighbor
hoods in the Rogers Road area
New Homestead Place and Rusch
Hollow. In those areas, Habitat has
helped extend sewer access.
“I think now that we have two
communities that we’ve built there,
we clearly feel a commitment to
helping the neighborhood to the
degree we can to work on com
mon problems,” Levy said, adding
that file town and county should
become more involved.
She cited other problems includ
ing wells which could be contami
nated due to a nearby landfill.
But the blame for these prob
buy a house, tear it down and erect
a newer, often larger, home.
“Some people think that that’s
a fine idea; other people are wor
ried,” he said.
Waldon said the trend was just
starting in Chapel Hill a year ago,
but it is established elsewhere.
“That’s a trend that a lot of com
munities all across this country are
experiencing,” he said, noting tear
downs in places such as Charlotte;
Princeton, N. J.; and the suburbs of
Chicago.
If all the conservation district
applications except the one for Coker
Hills, recently slowed by a neighbor
hood spat at a planning board meet
ing, were to pass, the campus would
be ringed by such districts.
And while the applications do
go through the planning board,
board member and student Tom
Jensen said the final step in the
process is the most important.
“Ultimately all that matters is
what the (Town Council) wants,”
he said.
And it’s not just Chapel Hill
that’s been tackling the problem.
willing to rule out the elections
process completely were he to
become court chairman, but that
he might be willing to compro
mise by not publicly releasing the
results of the election.
The elections process has been
honored even since its removal
from the Instrument of Student
Governance in 2003.
“I think the Honor Court’s mem
bership is the most knowledgeable
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One audience member said she
came not only for the event but also
for the organization it benefits.
“First of all, it’s a really good
cause,” said Cristina Garcia, a 2005
UNC graduate.
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really like their shows,” she said.
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lems cannot lie with current lead
ership, said Barry Jacobs, chairman
of the Orange County Board of
Commissioners, who is running for
re-election this year. “The Rogers
Road community has historically
been overburdened with landfill
uses that were created long before
any of the current elected officials
came on the scene,” Jacobs said.
Jacobs said there has been some
planning in the past to bring ame
nities to the neighborhood, and new
plans will continue to be made.
But Foy said the small area plan
does not necessarily ensure change.
“The plan is like any plan; it can be
modified, or it can be ignored or it
can be executed upon.”
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk @ unc.edu.
In 2002, Carrboro, which has a
large renting population, passed
ordinance changes designed to
deal with similar problems after
residents complained about a
house on Pine Street.
The new rules make it tougher
to expand buildings that do not
follow current zoning regulations
and have multiple dwelling units.
Mayor Pro Tern Joal Hall Broun
said families with young children
often don’t like living next to rowdy
college kids.
“When you’re 18,19, you don’t
have a lot of sense,” she said.
But she said considering renters’
rights and the needs of families is
not a cut and dried proposition so
much as a “balancing act.”
Broun added that the Pine
Street-prompted changes aren’t
necessarily where the aldermen
vyill stop, and that districts like
Chaptl Hill’s can’t be ruled out.
“WC don’t have one, but I’m ...
sure it could evolve to that.”
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
body on this campus in deciding
who their leadership should be,”
Ihnat said, echoing the sentiments
of other court members.
“It’s been an interesting and
eye-opening experience,” he said,
referring to the contentious con
firmation process. “I really love the
honor system.”
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“I’m actually in an improv class
right now. This is something
that I just wanted to support and
enjoy.”
Despite the situation in Malawi,
North said, the event could serve
as a source of hope for the future.
“There is hope due to our spirit
of compassion not charity, but
compassion.”
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at udesk@unc.edu.