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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2008
Task force discusses
idea of Latino center
BY ELIZA KERN
STAFF WRITER
A task force of students, fac
ulty and administrators has been
created to discuss the growth of
ethnic and cultural groups at the
University —and specifically the
creation of a Latino center on
campus.
The task force on promoting
emerging campus communities
will seek to combine administra
tors’ goals with those of the Carolina
Hispanic Association, which is advo
cating for a Latino center.
The group met for the first time
Thursday.
Ron Bilbao, member of the stu
dent advisory committee to the
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chancellor and member of Chispa,
said he sees the new task force as a
combination of both his goals and
those of other groups.
Ron Strauss, task force chair
man and executive associate pro
vost, outlined five goals for the
task force. The first four involve
investigating ways to promote
ethnic and cultural diversity on
campus.
The fifth goal of the task force
is to determine the roles of ethnic
centers, such as the Latino center.
Strauss said at Thursday’s meet
ing that a Latino center will even
tually exist on campus, but he was
unsure how the project will mani
fest itself.
University
“When this task force wraps up
its work, there will be some sort
of Latino center in some way,
shape or form,” he said. “What it
will look like is undetermined at
this time.”
Bilbao began discussing the
idea of a Latino center with for
mer Chancellor James Moeser two
years ago.
Administrators, including
Chancellor Holden Thorp, have
been hesitant to support such a
project.
The decision to create a separate
task force for the project is just the
next step for formally determining
whether the campus needs a cen
ter, Student Body Vice President
Todd Dalrymple said.
Bilbao said he believes hav
ing a Latino center would benefit
all students, not just Latinos, as
some administrators have sug
gested.
“We never wanted it to be a
Latino student center. We wanted
it to be a center for all students
about Latino studies,” he said.
“What we’re aiming to do is to raise
awareness about our culture and
what makes us unique.”
Andrew Hunt, administra
tive assistant to the provost, said
Strauss supports the idea of a
Latino center, but the construc
tion of a building for that specific
purpose is unlikely.
“As of right now, it’s not an ulti
mate goal,” he said.
The task force will instead con
sider the use of existing spaces
to promote awareness of Latino
issues.
The 21-member group is made
up of nine students, seven faculty
members and five administrators.
The students represent the
interests of various ethnic and cul
tural groups on campus such as
American Indians, South Asians,
Latinos, black and Muslim stu
dents.
The task force will have several
more meetings throughout the
year. Bilbao said it would send
recommendations to Thorp and
Provost Bernadette Gray-Little by
the end of the school year.
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Student art to be showcased
Art Crawl to turn campus into gallery
BY ANDREW HARRELL
STAFF WRITER
Student government’s arts advoca
cy committee is stirring up interest for
a campuswide Spring Arts Crawl.
The crawl, which will take place
March 27, is the manifestation of
one of Student Body President J. J.
Raynor’s platform points. It will
turn the entire campus into a gal
lery for students’ work.
It’s now up to arts advocacy co
chairwomen Skylar Gudas and
Allison Rackley to make it a reality.
About 15 students, ranging from
musicians to writers, showed up to
the first interest meeting Monday.
“The goal is seeing groups and
individual people whom you don’t
usually get to see on campus, as
well as old favorites,” Gudas said.
She added that the organizers
plan on connecting artists, show
casing opportunities and stimulat
ing collaboration.
“The goal of this project is to be
as absolutely inclusive as we can be,”
Rackley said. “If every single stu
dent at Carolina wanted to submit a
Student record label up for award
BY TRIP SMITH
STAFF WRITER
Vinyl Records might finally have
spun onto the music scene big
time.
UNC’s student-run record label
will be among 15 ventures com
peting in the Race to BE Creative
Entrepreneurship Challenge this
week.
The challenge is a part of Global
Entrepreneurship Week, a weeklong
initiative sponsored by the Kauffinan
Foundation and involving nearly 100
countries, aimed at promoting entre
preneurship worldwide.
Tripp Gobble, a co-founder
of Vinyl Records, will pitch the
company to a panel of judges in
Austin, Texas, on Wednesday as
part of a contest that pits the 15
young entrepreneurs against one
another.
Vinyl Records was selected from
hundreds of applicants as one of
the top five music ventures created
by people aged 18 to 29.
If the label wins, Gobble will
receive $5,000 and exclusive men
toring opportunities from leaders
painting or sing a song, we would do
everything in our power to make it
happen.... Ifyou’re a culinary artist
and you want to be included, we’ll
make it happen.”
Young Democrats member John
Fillette is not in any arts group on
campus, but said at the meeting he
was interested in the potential to
showcase political art.
“I’ve taken a few art classes and
been to Memorial Hall shows,”
Fillette said. “I’d like to participate
as well.”
The crawl inspired by simi
lar events in SoHo, New York is
tied to this year’s Creative Campus
theme, “The Gender Project,” a
yearlong campaign to encourage
conversation on gender and iden
tity through the arts.
But Rackley said the art would
not be held strictly to the theme.
“We’re not going to be really
demanding of how groups interpret
The Gender Project,” she said.
The budget and logistics of the
event are still in early planning stag
es, but the co-chairwomen expect to
H
Vinyl Records
Co-Founder
Tripp Gobble's
label is in the
running for an
entrepreneurship
award.
of the American music industry.
“I don’t know what to expect yet,”
Gobble said. “It will be a great oppor
tunity. We’ll see what happens.”
Hip-hop pioneer and entrepre
neur Russell Simmons will host the
event.
Gobble will spend the first half
of his day in Austin at a coaching
session with mentors.
Then he will give a 20-minute
pitch of Vinyl Records to a panel
of judges, who will decide on the
winning venture before the end of
the day.
“This is exactly the kind of
venture I thought would be good
in this challenge,” said Raymond
Farrow, the executive director of
the Kenan Institute at UNC. It was
Farrow who encouraged Gobble to
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“The whole point is
to give students a
chance to access the
talent of the people
they sit neoct to in
class every day.”
ALLISON RACKLEY, arts advocacy
CO-CHAIRWOMAN
have plenty of volunteers between
members of the committee and vari
ous arts organizations on campus.
Rackley said it would be nice to
see a famous work by Picasso or N.C.
musicians such as the Avett Brothers
as part of the crawl, but she empha
sized that this is the one day of the
year those would take a backseat to
lesser-known artists.
“The event is geared toward the
students,” she said. “The whole
point is to give students a chance to
access the talent of the people they
sit next to in class every day.”
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apply for the challenge.
Earlier this year, Gobble and
A1 Mask, the other co-founder of
the label, entered their venture
in the Carolina Challenge, a com
petition hosted by the Carolina
Entrepreneurial Initiative.
“It’s all about giving people
the tools necessary for entrepre
neurship,” said Cyndy Falgout,
a representative of the Carolina
Entrepreneurship Initiative.
And though the duo did not win
the challenge, they said the expo
sure eventually led to a $25,000
grant to grow the label.
Now, less than a year later, the
label comprises 16 volunteers and is
working with three student bands.
Gobble said he isn’t nervous
about the outcome of Wednesday’s
competition.
“We’ll see what happens. I
believe in the idea enough that
hopefully they will see that this is
viable and important,” he said. “It’s
all in the follow-through.”
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