VOLUME 115, ISSUE 149
'Covering: The Hidden Assault on
Our Civil Rights," by Kenji Yoshino
of Yale University, will be read by
the class of 2012 this fall.
YOUNG MORMONS
SPREAD FAITH AT UNC
New missionary
assigned to area
BY ALLISON MILLER
SENIOR WRITER
At first glance, Jeremy
McDougle looks just like all the
other UNC students strolling
through the Pit.
But look again. His dark, for
mal suit and his name tag become
apparent. And a short conversa
tion reveals that the 21-year-old
with closely cropped, brownish
blond hair is a Mormon mission
ary, not a college student.
“We don’t come to change
the world; we just come out to
draw people closer to Christ,"
McDougle said.
McDougle, a native of San
Diego, Calif., came to the Thangle
about six weeks ago to start his
two-year mission. Church leaders
assign missionaries to locations.
Members of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
are not required to go on religious
missions. But many young men
and women, called elders and sis
ters, choose to do so, with 182 serv
ing in eastern North Carolina.
When McDougle visited
UNC’s campus last week, he was
paired with Scott Roseman, a
missionary from Utah who has
been in North Carolina for about
four months. Roseman said he
has traveled all over the Triangle
doing his missionary work.
Anew missionary is paired
with one who has more experi
ence and is familiar with the mis
sion area, said Madge McGUvary,
an employee in the Latter-day
Saints Raleigh office who con-
SEE MORMONS, PAGE 5
Gubernatorial hopefuls spar
BY DEVIN ROONEY
STAFF WRITER
The contenders for N.C. gov
ernor all discussed their plans to
overhaul health care at a UNC-TV
debate on Thursday night.
With the May primaries three
months away, both parties' races
are still wide open.
Lt. Gov. Bev Perdue and State
TYeasurer Richard Moore have
been in a heated contest for the
Democratic nomination for several
months.
On the Republican side,
Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory
recently threw his name in with
Justice Bob Orr, State Senator Fred
Smith and attorney Bill Graham.
Thursday's UNC-TV debate
focused on health care. The debate
SEE DEBATE, PAGE 5
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‘Covering’ is summer reading choice
Self-expression is focus of selection
BY DANIELLE KUCERA
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
“Covering: The Hidden Assault
on Our Civil Rights" will be the
summer reading book for the
class of 2012, officials announced
Thursday.
The book, which focuses on
freedom of self-expression in a
society full of standards, was unan
imously picked by UNC’s summer
reading selection committee. Kenji
Yoshino, a professor of law' at Yale
University, wrote the book.
“He believes we don’t have true
equality unless people are free
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Elder Christman gives recent graduate Greg Carrero a copy of the Book of Mormon on Thursday in the Pit. Young Mormon men who
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N.C. governor candidates debated Thursday. Pat McCrory (left), Bob Orr,
Bill Graham and Fred Smith (not pictured) are Republican candidates.
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groups will perform John Philip Sousa.
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to express their true individual
ity and true identities," said Peter
Coclanis, associate provost for
international affairs and commit
tee chairman.
Kenji uses the sociological
notion of “covering," downplay
ing one’s true identity to assimi
late to the cultural mainstream,
to highlight the sometimes dam
aging effects of social integration,
Coclanis said.
“If someone is African-American
and has com rows... in a corporate
setting, they might not be able
to do that and get ahead. Or you
might not, if you're gay, be able to
bring your partner to a luncheon,"
Coclanis said.
The summer reading program
functions as an academic ice
breaker, aiming to stimulate criti
cal thinking and discussion among
new students. Freshmen partake in
informal discussion groups about
the reading before the start of fall
semester.
The committee consisted of
three faculty, three staff and three
students. Members began sift
ing through more than 160 book
recommendations made by the
University community- in the fall,
SEE SUMMER BOOK. PAGE 5
Dance brings ’9os back to town
BY BENNETT CAMPBELL
ASSISTANT ARTS EDITOR
In a decade in which the trag
edy of Kurt Cobain, the tension of
the Gulf War and the mysterious
allure of crop tops all played out,
today’s UNC students began to
dictate what music was popular.
And tonight at Local 506,
WXYC 89.3 is aiming to bring
back the nostalgia of the 1990s
with the return of the station's
early '9os dance at 9 p.m.
“That was our childhood,' said
Lauren Brenner, WXYC’s station
manager. “It was a breakthrough
time in music, and a lot more diverse
music entered the mainstream.'
And the station wants to ensure
college students have the oppor
tunity to relive the onset of music
ranging from hip-hop acts such as
Public Enemy to the house music
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HATCHELLWINS 500TH
Women's basketball coach
Sylvia Hatchell won her 500th
game at UNC on Thursday
against Clemson. It was also
her 772 career victory.
Past summer reading selections
► 2007: “The Death of Innocents:
An Eyewitness Account of
Wrongful Executions" Tells the
stories of two men who Sister
Prejean, a nun, claims were
wrongfully executed. She follows
them from the appellate hearings to
the death chamber.
► 2006 “The Namesake" The first
work of fiction chosen by the
committee, the novel follows an
Indian immigrant family as it adjusts
to life in the United States.
► 2005: “Blood Done Sign My
Name: A True Story " Students
So you want to dress early 'SQsfr
Go Grunge: Break out your
ripped jean shorts and tie a plaid
flannel shirt around your waist. Add
combat boots for that post-Nirvana
concert effect.
Parents Just Don't
Understand: A neon windbreaker
and an inside-out baseball cap will
Show your teenage defiance in the
scene out of Manchester, England.
“The ’Bos dances we have bring
in alot of high school kids,' Brenner
said. “We figured that this would be
more nostalgic for college kids’
The DJs want that nostalgia to
manifest itself in the form of dance.
“A lot of the DJs are incorporat-
this day in history
FEB. 8,1967 ...
Fraternities experience a larger
interest in rush than ever before
with 800 students interested,
compared to the previous year's
400 students.
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discussed an account of the culture
of white supremacy and black upris
ing and the circumstances surround
ing a racial murder in 1970s Oxford.
► 2004 “Absolutely American"
The book chronicles young West
Point cadets as they experience the
military academy and the aftermath
of Sept. 11,2001.
► 2003 “Nickel and Dimed: On
(Not) Getting By in America" The
selection of a journalist's account
of the low-wage workforce prompts
disagreement from a state legislator
over the book’s merit.
BOG:
books
still too
costly
Bowles: textbook
costs must be cut
BY ERIC JOHNSON
SENIOR WRITER
Most of the UNC system’s 17
campuses are falling short in their
effort to reduce textbook costs.
That is the conclusion UNC
svstem administrators drew after
analyzing campus responses to a
directive issued last March.
Last year system President
Erskine Bowles ordered campus
officials to take specific steps to
reduce textbook costs, warning
that a failure to make significant
headway could jeopardize annual
requests for tuition hikes.
He reiterated this warning
Thursday in a strongly worded let
ter to chancellors, financial officers
and campus bookstore managers.
“Hold those who are respon
sible for this effort accountable
because I am going to hold you
accountable," Bowles wrote. “If
these textbook-cost controls are not
put in place, please don’t complain
when your requests for tuition and
fee increases are denied by the
Board of Governors in 2009"
The only reason campuses
are not already facing sanctions.
Bowles said, is because the text
book policy is still relatively new.
The board gave blanket approv
al to proposed tuition hikes at
every campus Thursday, includ
ing increases for graduate students
and nonresident undergraduates
SEE TEXTBOOKS, PAGE 5
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ing many different genres," said
WXYC’s Promotions Director
Steph Russ, who will be spinning
the dance for one hour tonight “But
we’re going to keep it to where peo
ple will always be able to dance.’
SEE 90S DANCE. PAGE 5
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