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CAMPUS BRIEFS
Win lower-level Duke tickets
through dribbling contest
Students can compete to win
two lower-level tickets to the men’s
March 4 basketball game against
Duke.
The competition, sponsored by
the Carolina Athletic Association
and the Duke-Carolina Student
Basketball Marathon, is a dribbling
contest Winners will win tickets and
beat the Guinness World Record for
the longest dribbling time.
The dribbling competition
begins at 4 p.m. Thursday.
Students can sign up at promo
tions.basketballmarathon.com.
Neptune to be fined for not
removing A-frames on time
Nick Neptune, a former candi
date for student body president, is
being fined for violating election
rules that say candidates must
remove all campaign materials
within 96 hours of the election.
After the Feb. 20 runoff election,
candidates had until Saturday to
remove A-frames and posters from
various sites around campus.
Candidates with materials still
set up beyond that day must be
fined by the Board of Elections $1
per day that they remain.
As of TUesday, Neptune garnered
a total of $3 for leaving his A-frames
out for three days after the election.
General public tickets for
Ben Folds concert set for sale
General public tickets for
Ben Folds’ March 28 concert at
Memorial Hall will go on sale at 10
a.m. Thursday.
Tickets, priced at $35, will be
available through the Memorial Hall
box office and through etix.com,
Carolina Union Activities Board
President Erika Stallings said.
CUAB secured the piano rocker’s
performance earlier this month,
and student tickets for the show
sold out within 90 minutes of their
Feb. 21 sale date.
30th annual Carolina Jazz
Festival to begin today
This year’s Carolina Jazz Festival,
a four-day event that brings jazz
artists of national recognition to
teach and perform, begins today.
Jim Ketch, festival organizer
and the director of the UNC Jazz
Bands, will lead a “meet the art
ists” discussion and jam session at
4 p.m. in Hlffffall auditorium.
Artists-in-residence Terri Lyne
Carrington, a drummer who has
played with Herbie Hancock; saxo
phonist Steve Wilson; and Ron
Westray, a trombonist who has
played lead for the Jazz at Lincoln
Center Orchestra will be on hand to
play and field questions about their
professional experiences.
Local jazz musicians and adjunct
UNC music department faculty
members John Brown and Thomas
Taylor also will perform.
For a complete preview of this
year’s Jazz Festival and informa
tion on the headlinirig Battle of
the Bands concert, see Thursday’s
edition of The Daily Tar Heel.
CITY BRIEFS
Carrboro recreation looking
for spring sports coaches
The Carrboro Recreation and
Parks Department is accepting
volunteer coach applications for
the 2007 youth baseball and girls’
volleyball programs.
Coaches must exhibit the ability
to organize practices and commu
nicate effectively with players ages
9 to 15 years old, parents and rec
reation department staff.
They also must exhibit the ability
to teach proper playing skills, fun
damentals and sportsmanship and
must provide an enjoyable atmo
sphere at practices and games.
To receive an application or
additional information, please
contact the recreation department
at 918-7364.
STATE BRIEFS
Duke football player faces
charges in traffic death
REIDSVILLE - A Duke foot
ball player has been charged in the
traffic death of another driver after
a weekend accident.
Raphael Chestnut, 20, of
Reidsville, was charged with mis
demeanor death by vehicle follow
ing the accident about 11:30 a.m.
Sunday, according to the state
Highway Patrol.
Chestnut, a sophomore wide
receiver who played in 10 games and
had 39 catches this year, was driving
at 65 mph on U.S. 158 in Stokesdale
when his vehicle collided with a car
driven by Hubert Douglas Smith, 50,
of Ruffin, who died at the scene.
He is scheduled to appear in
Guilford County court on April
16. Chestnut is not expected to be
disciplined by the team for the inci
dent, Duke spokesman Art Chase
said Tuesday.
From staff and wire reports
Student finance records in
BY SERGIO TOVAR
STAFF WRITER
Campus elections are finally
over, and all of the paperwork
has been filled out, filed and pro
cessed.
Student government candidates,
including those
for student
body president
and Carolina
Athletic
Association
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president, were required to submit
their financial statements to the
Board of Elections after the con
clusion of their races. The results
then were audited by the student
body treasurer, who certifies elec
tion results.
This year’s candidates varied
in how they chose to divide their
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Country musicians (from left to right) Mike Loudermilk, his father John Loudermilk, George Hamilton IV and his son George Hamilton V
perform for students at Hill Hall on Tuesday. They are joined by Jocelyn Neal, a professor in the music department who emceed the event.
BACK TO THEIR ROOTS
BY JESS THOM
ASSISTANT ARTS EDITOR
Returning to the town that gave them
their start, music legends George Hamilton
IV and John Loudermilk strummed their
guitars while they sang, reminisced and
poked fun at each other Tbesday in front of
a packed Hill Hall auditorium.
Loudermilk and Hamilton performed and
discussed their music as part of celebrating
the decision to donate their personal and
musical memorabilia to the Wilson Library.
“We’re interested in preserving their
items because a lot of things get lost, or
their family may decide not to keep them,”
said Steve Weiss, director of the Wilson
Library Southern Folklife Collection. “It’s
about the local connections, but it’s also
about achieving national success and the
whole aspect of going from the microcosm
to macrocosm.”
Hamilton, 69, and Loudermilk, 72, gained
fame after collaborating on the hit 1956 pop
single “A Rose and a Baby Ruth.”
The song, written by Loudermilk and
sung by Hamilton, was recorded in Swain
Hall after Hamilton signed with Colonial
Hopeful eyes web of issues
Recommendation could come today
BY COLIN CAMPBELL
STAFF WRITER
Photos posted to Web sites
such as Facebook.com and
CollegeHumor.com might encour
age substance abuse and hazing in
the Greek community, said Dean
Harwood, a finalist for UNC’s
assistant dean for fraternity and
sorority life.
Harwood, current director of
Greek life at George Washington
University, said at his candidate
forum Tuesday that these pho
tos can contribute to destructive
behavior.
“You can find some amazingly
inappropriate photos of substance
abuse,” Harwood said. “They’re glo
rifying the behavior.”
Harwood is the last of four
finalists to interview for the posi
tion.
The search committee could
make a recommendation as early
as today to Winston Crisp, assis
tant vice chancellor for student
affairs, and Crisp will make the
final decision.
Harwood is competing against
Roy Baker, director of frater
nity and sorority life at Syracuse
University; Jenny Levering, inter
im assistant dean for fraternity
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budgets, with some focusing on
Internet advertisements and oth
ers on traditional campaign mate
rials. One candidate didn’t make
any purchases.
UNC’s election rules state that
each candidate has a budget cap,
which varies from S2O for Student
Congress candidates to S4OO for
student body president candidates.
Eve Carson, student body presi
dent-elect, said the campaign fund
ing caps are important for candi
dates to showcase their ingenuity.
“Spending limits make things
really fair in forcing us to be cre
ative,” she said.
Carson spent $424.48 the
most of any of the four student
body president candidates. Carson
SEE FINANCE, PAGE 4
ATTEND THE CONCERT
Time: 7 p.m. today
Location: University Baptist Church
Info: www.ubc-ch.org
Records, the first independent record label
in Chapel Hill.
“I’m glad I was from Durham because they
understand music out there,” Loudermilk
said.
After the single proved to be a success,
Hamilton went on tour with big name art
ists such as Buddy Holly and the Everly
Brothers.
“They didn’t know what to do with me I
wasn’t a hillbilly and I wasn’t rock ’n’ roll, so
they put me on tour with Buddy Holly and
The Crickets,” Hamilton said.
Hamilton reflected on his years spent tour
ing, and he discussed at length his memory of
performing in the former Soviet Union.
“They told me it was the first time a
country singer performed behind the Iron
Curtain,” he said.
SEE MUSICIANS, PAGE 4
and sorority life at UNC; and Kyle
Jordan, coordinator for student
leadership and programming in
UNC’s Department of Housing and
Residential Education.
The search has been going on
since December, but the assis
tant dean position has been open
since Jay Anhorn left last summer
to take a similar position at Elon
University.
Harwood outlined his philoso
phy for addressing the problems
of hazing and substance abuse in
the Greek community and said that
most issues are caused by environ
mental factors.
“If the students are strong
enough to push back, they can
change the environment,” Harwood
said. “Ultimately, it’s about the
students and helping them change
that culture.”
He cited alcohol abuse as an
example of the negative culture.
“If the sole purpose is to get
drunk, why are you doing it?”
Harwood said. “That doesn’t add
value to anything.”
Harwood explained how he uses
a campus environment model to
address the causes of problems in
the Greek community.
He said environmental factors
Candidate financial statements
All candidates were required to submit a financial statement to the
Board of Elections. The following is the total amount they spent
including fines from the Board of Elections. Winners are in bold.
SBP president: S4OO cap
► Eve Carson $424.48*
► Nick Neptune $398.32*
► Caroline Spencer $376.04
► Jon Kite $372.22
CAA president S4OO cap
>- Colby Almond $314.58
► Marcus Carpenter $185.93
RHA president: $250 cap
► Brian Sugg $184.51
GPSF president: $250 cap
► Doug Whitfield $153.55
► Lauren Anderson $0
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Jaqueline Morgan claps during the country
music stars’ show. She has the chance to
see them again tonight at University Baptist
Church and donate to Habitat for Humanity.
Dean Harwood
2005-06: Director of Greek Life,
George Washington University
2001-05: Coordinator for
Greek Affairs, Bowling Green
State University
2000-01: Greek House Director,
Bowling Green State University
1999-00: Doctoral Fellow for
Greek Affairs, Bowling Green
State University
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range from the design of the chap
ter houses to organization policies
to decades-old traditions.
The perceptions of the
University can combine with
these factors to produce a culture
of substance abuse and hazing,
Harwood said.
Don Luse, director of the
Carolina Union and chairman of
the search committee, said the
SEE HARWOOD, PAGE 4
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2007
Senior class: $l5O cap
> Kareemah Lewis and Nick
Harper $133.40
> Ashley Shores and
Veronica Mora $123.89
> Sade Carter and Beth Hopkins
did not submit a statement
‘These two candidates were
involved in a runoff election.
They received an additional SIOO
to campaign for an additional
week.
More beds available
on campus next year
BY TORI HAMBY
STAFF WRITER
As the deadline for housing
recontracting approaches, students
might have an easier time this year
securing a room of choice.
Students will be able to access
the online housing application
Thursday, after paying a S2OO
deposit. The application will
remain online until March 9-
The applications for Morrison
Residence Hall and Ram Village
Apartments were made available
Monday, said Rick Bradley, assis
tant director for the Department
of Housing and Residential
Education.
Morrison, which is reopening
after two years of renovation, will
feature “super suites” on the top
three floors, Bradley said. The
suites will consist of three bed
rooms, a bathroom and a shared
living area.
Students have expressed great
interest in the new suites, Bradley
said, noting that 180 applications
for the 200 available beds already
have been submitted to the hous
ing department. Three hundred
students also have applied to the
other rooms in Morrison.
Officials said they expect a
O’Brien
spends
week at
UNC
Author to give
lectures, reading
BY BENNETT CAMPBELL
STAFF WRITER
Tim O’Brien might be consid
ered an unlucky man.
He was tapped to serve in the
Vietnam War in his youth. In 1970,
he decided that Harvard was not
for him. He even moved out of
Boston the year before the Red Sox
won the World Series for the first
time in 86 years.
But for O’Brien, the 1979
National Book Award for fiction
winner and UNC’s Morgan Writer
in-Residence, a lot of bad luck
makes for some great storytelling,
and he will expound on that idea
during a talk at 7:30 p.m. today in
Memorial Hall,
and two panels
—one today and
one Friday.
“Real life is a
launching pad for
writing,” O’Brien
said. “You don’t
need to go to war
or get cancer,
but the world
will deliver you
things that snap
you awake at
night, and you
Author Tim
O'Brien is this
year's Morgan
writer-in
residence.
should write about them.”
O’Brien’s first work was a war
memoir, “If I Die in a Combat Zone,
Box Me Up and Ship Me Home.”
“Other guys would horse around
and smoke, but maybe every third
day I’d write about it, simply to
record,” he said of evenings spent
in foxholes in Vietnam.
Upon arriving back in the United
States, O’Brien had about 30 pages
of materia], which he transformed
into the memoir.
But he acknowledged that pro
spective writers cannot just start
with a pencil and paper.
“The'way tdleam howto write is
to read,” he said.
For O’Brien, books like “The
Hardy Boys” series were a big part
of his literary education.
“You don’t start reading with
Shakespeare,” he said.
And it was all that reading,
SEE O'BRIEN, PAGE 4
Tim O'Brien's
visit to UNC
Attend the panel
"War: Telling the Story’
Time: 2 p.m. Wednesday
Location: Pleasants Assembly
Room in Wiison Library
Attend the lecture
Morgan Writer-in-Residence
Program Reading
Time: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday
Location: Memorial Hall
Attend the panel
“War: Telling the Story’
Time: Noon Friday
Location: Toy Lounge in Dey
Hall
Housing deadlines
> Today: Morrison and Ram
Village online applications due
> Thursday: S2OO housing
deposit due to Cashier's Office
> Thursday to March 9:
Open campus and recontracting
applications available online
net gain of 375 beds next year
despite the closing of Carmichael
Residence Hall.
The renovation process for
Morrison is ahead of schedule,
relieving the concern of some stu
dents that Morrison might not
open in time for the fall semester.
While Bradley said there are no
guarantees, he expressed confi
dence the residence hall would be
ready by the fall.
“There is absolutely no concern
that the building will not open on
time.”
Bradley said he also expects
the apartment-style living that
Ram Village offers to be in high
demand.
“Over 600 students have
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