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NO BROADWAY SHOWS
FOR BUTCH
UNC is looking to win its first
out-of-state game since 2002.
Coach Butch Davis said the
team's game in Piscataway,
N.J., is strictly "a business trip."
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MOBILIZING SUPPORT
Almost 50 students came
to hear former U.S. Sen. Bill
Bradley, D-N.J., speak Monday
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BATTLE FOR BLOOD
Appalachian State University
wants to top UNC-CH's blood
drive collection this year. North
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SOUNDS OF THE SOUTH
A two-day festival
highlighting contributions to
Southern music will feature
several documentaries by
UNC filmmakers.
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Policy aims to push
Class of 2011 must finish in 4 years
BY MARY COLE ALLEN
STAFF WRITER
UNC is making it more difficult
for students to take a fifth-year
“victory lap.”
The University has implement
ed a policy that requires students
to finish their degree requirements
in four years, replacing the previ
ous system that allowed students a
ninth semester.
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of 2011 and after; students who
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After finishing a ride, sophomore Daven Quinn
fixes the shifting on his bike to help the machine
run smoother.
This summer Quinn participated in Bike and Build, a
cross-country riding trip from North Carolina to California
Homeless are ready to write
Campus Y starts
up free magazine
BY AARON TAUBE
STAFF WRITER
You probably know Ron Moore.
You might have seen him with
his distinctive white beard on
Franklin Street outside of the
Tarheel Book Store, tip bucket at
his feet, strumming away at his
acoustic guitar.
But chances are, you’ve never
heard his story.
Ron and other homeless men and
women will have a chance to have
their voices heard in anew literary
magazine headed by the Hunger and
Homelessness Outreach Program of
the Campus Y.
HOPE plans on having the mag
azine finished by the end of the
semester. Students will distribute
the magazine for free on campus,
while the homeless contributors
will pass them out themselves on
Franklin Street.
The project started last semes
ter as an extension of a creative
writing program for the home
less held weekly at the Inter-Faith
Council Community House on
Franklin Street.
To start, HOPE Co-Chairwomen
Megan Strickland and Maggie
West contacted people they met
last year while working on a docu
mentary about members of the
Chapel Hill homeless community,
“Faces of Franklin."
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enrolled in fall 2007 or later.
Bobbi Owen, senior associate
dean for undergraduate edu
cation, said she hopes the new
policy will encourage students
to finish their degrees in eight
semesters.
“We really want our students to
graduate on time, and if they can’t,
we need to understand why,” Owen
said.
The new policy has elicited con
cerns about the stress it could put
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Ron Moore, pictured above with his guitar on Franklin Street, will
create a photo essay for anew literary magazine sponsored by HOPE.
“We found out they’re really
intelligent, well-spoken people,
creative people. I guess that broke
down some prejudices that I had,”
said Jonathan Young, a junior
photojournalism and philosophy
double major who worked on the
documentary last year.
Young distributed disposable
cameras to members of the home
less community in hopes that they
will take pictures and submit them
to the magazine. Moore says he is
using the camera to put together a
photo essay for the magazine.
“They just told me to take pic
tures that other people might not
notice because Fm out on the street
on students.
TYey Kenemer, a ninth-semester
senior and transfer student from
UNC-Wilmington, said the new
policy puts a lot of pressure on new
students and transfers.
“It almost makes it that you have
to come in knowing exactly what
you want to major in,” Kenemer
said.
Under the new policy, students
who are not on track to graduate in
the allotted amount of time will be
notified and must petition to stay
at UNC.
“The petitions are handled by
with stops to build affordable houses along the way.
He was not a serious biker before participating in the
program, but he has kept riding to stay in shape.
“It’s a lot more fun than running and it’s easier to
hold a conversation with someone while biking.”
and I see things,” Moore said.
Moore, originally from Ocala,
Fla., has been living in Chapel Hill
for 22 years. He spent the first 17
working at UNC Hospitals before
complications with his legs forced
him out of his job and into a career
as a street musician.
Moore says even though his
background is in music, he still
enjoys reading and writing.
“It gives you another avenue of
escape besides putting on some
earphones and listening to some
band,” he said.
Though this is the first such
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students out
the College of Arts and Sciences,
and a board carefully reviews each
student’s petition,” Owen said.
The College will look at peti
tions on a case-by-case basis to
determine if the student has a
legitimate reason to take extra
semesters, Owen said.
If the petition is denied, the stu
dent cannot stay.
Owen said that about 76 per
cent of UNC students graduate
in eight semesters, compared to
94 percent of Duke University
students.
“Asa competitive university,
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Carrboro’s common
workspace set to go
BY JEFF WOODALL
STAFF WRITER
To open Carrboro Creative
Coworking, Chapel Hill resident
Brian Russell used his own home
as collateral.
“The goal was about developing
a community and having resources
for people to get along together,”
Russell said. “I wanted a space for
people who are involved in mak
ing things and who thrive in col
laboration.”
Although the workspace
intended for professionals with
out an office who want their own
space— won’t open until Oct. l,
writers, designers and engineers
have begun reserving space.
The concept of co working began
in California when people worldng
in homes, restaurants and coffee
shops wanted a place to collaborate
and work with other people.
Russell said he discovered
coworking communities online
and wanted to bring the informal
business atmosphere to Carrboro.
On June 17, Russell post
ed “We’re in Business’ on the
Creative Coworking Web site
after the Carrboro Board of
Aldermen approved a $90,000
Carrboro Revolving Loan to help
Russell establish the business,
North Carolina’s first professional
coworking space.
Last week, Russell welcomed
those interested to view the build
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we have to investigate why stu
dents aren’t graduating on time
and encourage students to work
toward that four-year degree,”
Owen said.
She added that if students are
staying extra semesters, it pre
vents new students from being
admitted.
And with only a 22 percent
admission rate for out-of-state stu
dents, Owen said a spot filled by a
ninth-semester senior is especially
valuable.
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Greeks
average
only 8
Some groups like
their smaller size
BY MEGAN HANNAY
STAFF WRITER
Families come in all shapes
and sizes, and this axiom is no
different for members of Greek
organizations.
Of the 12 fraternities and sorori
ties that make up the Greek Alliance
Council, the average number of
members per organization is eight
Smaller organizations can face
problems with name recognition
and large-scale member recruit
ment. But what they lack in quan
tity, members say they often make
up for in group connectedness and
involvement.
The group of mostly multicul
tural fraternities and sororities
will vote on an update to its con
stitution Wednesday that would
require each to participate in more
academic and service events.
Sergio Acero, president of the
Latino-focused Lambda Upsilon
Lambda, said he would never
want his organization to increase
beyond a small group.
“A dozen is the most we would
probably want to have at one time,”
he said. “We all are an integral part
of the organization.”
Acero added that he likes the
personal atmosphere of his three
member fraternity and says he
hasn’t found another group on
campus that has the same mis-
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“The goal was about
developing a
community and
having resources for
people to get along
BRIAN RUSSELL. COWORKING FOUNDER
ing on Lloyd Street that will house
Creative Coworking.
The inside of the building is
still empty, but Russell thinks the
loan approved by the Board of
Aldermen will soon bring the office
space to life.
He plans to outfit the space with
printers, copiers, video equipment,
a computer server, a television and
all the coffee needed to burn the
midnight oil.
“There is a great need for confer
ence space, and I’m really trying not
to nickel and dime people like nor
mal conference spaces do,” Russell
said. “I want people to have a chanre
to collaborate with each other.”
James Harris, Carrboro’s direc
tor of economic and community
development, said the aldermen
decided a coworking space would
benefit local mobile workers.
“We saw it as a way to create jobs
and add to the Vitality of the com
munity,” Harris said. “The idea met
SEE COWORKING, PAGE 11