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VOLUME 115, ISSUE 20 BOT set for fresh trio Alumni to be sworn in at board’s July meeting BY ERIN ZUREICK UNIVERSITY EDITOR As three veterans of the Board of Trustees prepare to step down from their posts, three fresh faces are poised to take their places atop the University’s governing structure. UNC alumni Phillip Clay, Alston Gardner and Sallie Shuping Russell will be sworn in at the board’s July meeting. Their nominations were approved recently by the UNC-system Board of Governors. They will replace trustees Tim Burnett, Jean Kitchin and Richard “Stick” Williams, who have served on the board for eight years each. Burnett and Williams are former board chair men, while Kitchin is vice chairwoman of the board. Their final meeting will be May 24. While the three represent a wealth of institu tional knowledge, Board of TVustees Chairman Nelson Schwab said the change is part of a natural process. DTH PHOTOS/KATE LORD Ben Folds sings "All U Can Eat" during his concert Wednesday in Memorial Hall. Folds performed in front of a sold-out crowd, many of whom camped out overnight to get coveted tickets to the show. eroblem ■ ' \ V r#“-- - A w Online I dmhtarheel.com CLOSE CALL A battery explodes at N.C. State, leaving one with minor injuries RIGHT COMBINATION? Orange County discusses merging elementary schools RIGHTS THING TO DO Campus Y pumps summer forum on human rights Serving the students and the University community since 1893 3hr laity ®ar Mrrl “It’s kind of mixed emotions,” Schwab said. “You’ve got three very valuable trustees ... who have done a tremendous amount for the school. “At the same time we have three bright, intel ligent people coming in.” Clay, a 1968 UNC graduate, is chancellor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The position is the equivalent to the provost’s job at UNC. He has worked with the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC and also has spoken at UNC several times. Gardner, a 1977 alumnus, is the founder of Fulcrum Ventures, LLC, a venture development firm. He was involved with the planning of the new FedEx Global Education Center and has taught classes at the Kenan-Flagler Business School. A $lO million gift by Alston in 2001 estab lished scholarships for selected students to dive | page 5 HOMEGROWN RECIPES Diversions takes a look at how local music labels, including Merge Records and Yep Roc, make the jump from conception to reality in producing new music. www.dailytarheelxoif! attend an annual study abroad program in Singapore. Shuping Russell, also from the class of 1977, is managing director at Quellos Private Capital Markets. She serves on the board of directors for the UNC Health Care System and the University’s endowment fund. “They’re going to bring a fresh perspective to the board, which is always good,” Schwab said. The board, which consists of 12 full members and the student body president as an ex-officio trustee, meets every two months. Among their duties, members are charged with approving personnel decisions, ensuring the academic quality of the University and forming a selec tion committee in case the chancellor’s office becomes vacant. The announcement of the new trustees comes at a time when the board is in transition. Schwab soon will wrap up his term as chair man. His successor will be named during the SEE TRUSTEES, PAGE 9 UNC BROUGHT INTO THE FOLD Musician comes home to ovation BY MARGARET HAIR SENIOR WRITER Walking onto a Chapel Hill stage for the first time since 2001 to the tune of “Final Countdown,” pop pianist Ben Folds was greeted by a full house of standing fans. A champion of singable melo dies and on-stage silliness, Folds worked a sold-out crowd into a - fai/nrahfcimnTy WfyjppgfTay flight at Memorial Hall. V . • = Si *•. nyH v kIIL Sophomore Lindsey Barlow (center) distributes tickets to her sister, Gwen, and sophomores Joe Regan and Detgen Wardle before showtime. Tar Heels use balance as edge Team looks to surpass last year’s mark BY GRAY CALDWELL ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR On the surface, there’s not much difference between the 2005-06 and 2006-07 Thr Heels. Last season, the North Carolina women’s basketball team won 33 games. Three Tar Heels averaged COUNTDOWN toth# 3W the Final Four. It also failed to reach the title game after losing to eventual champion Maryland. This season, UNC has won 34 games —a school record. Three Tar Heels average double-figure points, and two others are close. UNC won the ACC Championship r; , A I Phillip Clay ► Trustees are chosen either by an appointment by the UNC system Board of Governors or the N.C. governor. ► Of the 13 members, eight are appointed by the BOG and four by the governor. The other trustee is the student body president. ► New members will be sworn in during the trustees' July meeting. ► Members cannot serve more than two four-year terms. The concert was presented by Live Nation live music company, Cat’s Cradle and the Carolina Union Activities Board. Folds, who plays the piano in a uniquely uncomfortable posture that is half-standing, half-squatting, ran through an hour-and-a-half set, mostly of songs written since the breakup of his Chapel Hill-bred trio, Ben Folds Five. He did, though, play a few older tunes that, he said, “prob ably would have first been played .atibe. Local - A performer who is nothing Help send off the team in style ► Time: 8 a.m. Friday ► Fans should gather at 7:30 a.m. ► Meet at South Road entrance to Carmichael Auditorium next to Woollen Gym. ► Park for free in the Cobb Deck and on South Road. You can park in the N.C. 54 Visitors Lot and the Rams Head Deck for $1.25 an hour. >■ Come early and get a free visor. and has reached the Final Four for only the third time in school his tory, where it’ll battle Tennessee on Sunday. So what is it about this team SEE BALANCE, PAGE 9 double-figure points, and another was close. UNC won the ACC Championship and made it to SportS | page 11 NO MERCY RULE The North Carolina baseball team dominates all evening and blows out Davidson at Boshamer Stadium, winning 28-3 THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2007 Selecting the Board of Trustees Alston Gardner ► Trustees have the final say on academic appointments and compensation. ► In the event the chancellor's office becomes vacant, the trustees will establish a search committee. ► The board advises the chancellor on the development of the budget, approves building sites, designs plans for capital projects and determines tuition levels, pending the approval of the BOG. if not silly, Folds chatted up the crowd at one point joking for an entire song that he would hit a “brown note” on his shiny new synthesizer, making the night a gross embarrassment for about 1,400 people. He later played that synthesizer with his foot. While Folds’ song selection left out well-known favorites such as “Brick” (his only radio hit) and “Rockin’ the Suburbs,” his audi ence did not seem disappointed. Will Hemsworth, a freshman who camped outside Memorial Hall for 23 hours to get tickets to the concert, said he was not surprised the older songs were largely left out. Still, he said, the song selec tion was strong, and the night spent sleeping outside wasn’t wasted. “It was an amazing experi ence and was definitely worth it,” Hemsworth said. Perhaps the most well-received number of the night was one that Folds didn’t write: Dr. Dre’s “B — —s Ain’t S—t.” “My favorite way to write a song is to take lyrics someone else wrote and put music to it,” Folds said, introducing the song, which is his biggest-selling single. Whether anyone in the audi ence knew all the words when SEE BEN FOLDS, PAGE 9 DTH FILE/KEVIN TSUI UNC sophomore Rashanda McCants drives the lane Feb. 22 against Wake Forest. Her improved play has added depth to the team. this day in history MARCH 29,1993... San Francisco activist Susie Bright delivers a "Sexual State of the Union" to 300 people in the Great Hall, decrying a lack of openness. I 1 Sallie Shuping Russell weather Rainy H 56, L 36 index police log 2 calendar 2 games 9 sports 11 opinion 12
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