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(11/23/09 4:15am)
When I go home for the Thanksgiving holiday, I’ll be on poultry duty. My family has charged me with turning a big frozen bird carcass into a deliciously delectable entree by Thursday. Am I prepared? Overly. A few friends of mine have voiced their terror of cooking. They’ve had their mothers and grandmothers prepare food for them their entire lives. But what happens when they leave college and are out on their own? How will they be able to live?Granted, takeout is always available. Restaurants are always happy to cater to whatever flavorful fix you ask them to. Some even stay open until ungodly hours. But cooking at home saves money and is generally healthier (depending on how closely one follows a Paula Deen recipe). The trick is to know how to do it. It’s important to know how to prepare food, but our busy schedules may steer us away from this option. Grabbing a Nutri-Grain bar for breakfast is never more appealing than in the five minutes before you leave for a morning class. When we do grab that quick prepackaged breakfast, we’re giving in to the food companies; we’re letting them cook for us.With my family, immediate and extended, I advocate a return to the basics. Cooking for yourself is enjoyable, cheaper, healthier and much more satisfying than takeout from the Chinese place. My grandfather has kept a small garden in his backyard for as long as I’ve been alive. He always has fresh Roma tomatoes, jalapeños and bell peppers ready at the end of summer. They go straight from the garden to the stove. And as with my grandfather’s garden, the fresh parts of the meal really make up for the parts that you do buy from the grocer. My family and I don’t grow our own grain for fresh pasta nor do we slaughter a chicken every morning, but adding fresh vegetables really makes a meal taste exponentially better. But you can’t grow a garden in your dorm room, nor can you cook to your full potential. That is why I encourage you to practice your culinary techniques when you return home for Thanksgiving. This Wednesday, help your family out by preparing a dish that can be made in advance — perhaps the turkey’s dressing or a dessert. Your mother will love you for it, and you get to gloat at the family dinner table as you practice for life outside of campus living.You’ll discover some humbling qualities when you cook. You’ll find that, in your infallibility of being a Carolina student, that you can, remarkably, make mistakes. You’ll find that, no matter how many times you make a recipe, you can still mess it up. Arrogance breeds error, and that is no more apparent than when some sauce isn’t homogenous or some tenderloin goes dry. Learn from your mistakes, in the kitchen and in life, and you’ll figure out how to do it right the next time. At the dinner table, a positive result is much more gratifying: It tastes good. In life, results aren’t as starkly divided: flavorful or bland, black or white, good or bad — those distinctions aren’t as apparent in life as they are in the kitchen. So cook a meal with your family this Thanksgiving. Don’t forget to gloat about your culinary contribution during Thursday night dinner, don’t forget the dessert, and don’t forget to clean up. Your mother will be proud.
(11/09/09 5:22am)
Do you remember your first crush?I had a late-night talk with a friend of mine earlier this week on how to deal with her unwanted suitor. It was the usual story of a boy’s mindless love taps and the girl’s flat-out rejection.I used the opportunity to tell her and a few of her friends about my theories on infatuations and why men and women act the way they do.I laid out for her how to deal with her situation, simple and plain.“Nip it in the bud,” I told her. “You’re a pretty girl. Just like Spider-Man, with great power comes great responsibility.”She shuddered as I said it. I’m not a big fan of the recent Spider-Man sequels, either, but it’s true.I told her that her responsibility was to break hearts as softly as possible, in as few pieces as she could — and maybe even sweep up afterward.Love stories are sappy, unrealistic representations of the human condition. And in this naive idea, you can imagine the look on his face as she told him, “No, thanks.”I told her not to worry about his disappointment. Through the repeated rejection of women, men are some of the most durable bags of emotion you can find. I’ve been there before, and most guys have, too.Do you remember your very first crush? Do you also remember how awesome it was to finally confess your attraction for her? That feeling was awesome. It happened around middle school for me. Everyone spread the gossip and had a reason to talk to you about you — an egoist’s dream. You were the talk of the school on the day you told her how you felt.Do you remember how your first crush crushed you? How that rejection was like a treacherous Cupid shooting a canister of napalm at you?Most of us, at least for the people like me who don’t know when to shut up, had our first crushes blow up on us. We were young, inexperienced and stupid. From the wreckage, we learned more about ourselves than we could have ever learned had we kept our secrets and remained, onlooking, in the safety of our comfort zones.Emotional maturity is based on trial and error. If you don’t try and make mistakes, you won’t learn. Not dating around and waiting for a knight-in-shining-armor is like not doing the homework for a class: Don’t expect to do well on the tests. You can’t succeed if you don’t do the work.A few girls I talked to think they know what they want. Some of these girls are even willing to hold out until they find him. But how do they know when they find him, if they’ve never emotionally invested in a man? I think they’re waiting for Ryan Gosling to ride up on horseback and sweep them off their feet. It’s as if they’re saying, “Unless you pick me up and plop me on the back of your horse, I’m busy Friday night.”So throw a napalm canister at a man every time he has an empathetic feeling. We learn from negative reinforcement. We have been conditioned to not show emotion from an early age. Our fathers always told us not to, schoolyard crushes showed us not to and then here we are today repeating the process, still.But the cause of our different attitudes toward emotion are caused by the same idea. Maybe we’re all just too in love with love.
(10/19/09 4:19am)
In the overwhelming response to my last column, I was asked by several of my fellow students: “Why don’t you go off on the frat guys?”I said I would, but I lied. They wanted blood after a few bad experiences and some trumped up stereotypes, and I told them that they couldn’t lump people together based on groups.I’ve been to frat parties. I’ve been kicked out of frat parties.In fact, I believe that the number of times I’ve been kicked out of frat parties is equal to the number of times I’ve attended them.Maybe it’s my personality, maybe it’s not butter, or maybe it’s just them. First off, I know that the term they prefer is “fraternity,” citing the negative connotation of the abbreviated “frat.” “Frat” implies “party boy.” It brings up images from which our UNC Greek community is currently trying to distance themselves. No Greek I know snorts coke. But of course, we make stereotypes. It’s easier for us to associate actions with groups. If one sorority girl sleeps around, we label her a “sorostitute” and call it a day. If one frat guy can’t keep it in his pants, we just assume that’s the head he thinks with.We shouldn’t lump everyone together. One bad apple shouldn’t spoil the whole bunch. Of course, there are the more visible cues that we associate with fraternity members: Shorts a few sizes too small, pastel colored wardrobes, Oxfords by day and Polos by night. Not every member of every fraternity wears these, and most frat guys keep their noses clean from the magic white powder. Some don’t, and that’s what we see. But most do. We shouldn’t give in to generalizations and stereotypes.We should let everyone stand for their own individual merits and shortcomings. To further illustrate the point, just look around frat court and sorority row. Do you see mountains of crack? No. Do you see beer cans strewn about from last night’s party? Yes. And when we make assumptions based even on these highly visible clues, there are still exceptions. Exceptions like the sorority girls that didn’t go out to the frat parties Saturday night and instead drove their younger members to the State Fair. Funnel cakes and meats dipped in chocolate are not stereotypical of a Greek Saturday night.When we consider all these stereotypes of the Greek community, we know that some are true and some aren’t. For example, it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to refute the widely-held belief that Greek men only wear pastel short-shorts. After all, the more thigh you show the more manly you are. To those that believe this, I say the truth shall be known: Only some should be doing this.Walking along Cameron, you can see the Greeks that make the stereotypes and those that don’t. Some drink, few don’t.Some snort, most won’t. And most don’t wear shorts that are colored like Easter eggs — as they throw me out of their parties.
(09/18/09 3:17am)
New York Fashion Week has arrived. I’m using this time in the year to foster reflection on what we put in our closets and on our backs. As you read this and think about what your own personal style means for you, fashion week will come and go. It will showcase what we’ll be wearing come spring, before we even get into our winter coats. But, at any time during the year, I want you to dress it up.Poring over photos and articles of Marc Jacobs’ new spring collection, I noticed that the designer chose not to accompany his East-meets-West theme with high heels — flats and sandals with everything. It’s a bold move, because everyone knows that high heels make the wearer look better, leaner and sexier.I think flats are fine with garments retailing in excess of $3,000, but I’m making a call to the ladies of our campus to bring back the high heel this year. The simplest pair of jeans that you wear every day can be made into your favorite outfit just with an inch or so boost in the height of your heel.I asked a few UNC girls what their preferred footwear was. They, of course, said keeping a pair of heels intact while walking the uneven bricks on campus was next to impossible. They said they loved to wear them when they go out on the town, trying their best to dress to impress. Some said, sadly, that they caused blisters.The last group has an easy problem to fix: Buy the correct size, not too loose nor too tight. Not all women wear the right-sized shoe, and of those even a smaller portion have blisters. Feet are rugged. A little high-heeled femininity really helps the ruggedness to be wrung out. And where’s the lipstick? Most girls I spoke with on this subject were either afraid or reluctant to smear color on their lips. They thought it made them look like they “tried too hard,” as one girl put it. Some said their fear stemmed from looking like their grandmothers. They associated lipstick with the color red and conjured up memories of “Leave it to Beaver” in Technicolor. Lipstick doesn’t have to be red, although it is much appreciated. But it is predominantly red because of our species’ inherent laws of attraction. The same principle can be applied to the long, slenderizing effect high heels have on the legs, as having longer legs is associated with higher fertility. Red lips and red cheek color show that the female circulatory system is doing its job, and a bit of accentuation doesn’t hurt.Lipsticks can be of a more moderate tone, if not nude. They smooth out the various imperfections on the lips and make them a uniform color. Gloss doesn’t do that alone. All the makeup artists I know line the lips, apply the lipstick and top it off with a coat of gloss. The attractive properties of gloss on lips are evident.Combined, as some of the girls said, you will “stand out.” Four-inch heels and red-orange lips aren’t the best way to duck under the cover of a crowd at a party. If you want to stand out, use these tricks of the trade. They’re proven, and there’s a reason they’ve been passed down to the generations before us.I’m a patron of the arts; most definitely the art of attraction.
(09/04/09 3:14am)
A few protesters in Raleigh have a strange definition of rape. And through them, we can all learn about decorum in disagreements, how to listen and why we learn before we speak.I went there a few weeks ago to see the premiere of “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell,” a movie based on a collection of stories of the same name written and lived by Tucker Max. He is the quintessential bar-party boy, famous for his sweet talking and subsequent sexual conquests. His genre is a guy’s version of chick lit, and his audience is the college crowd.He was in Raleigh for the premiere, part of a series of premieres across the country.What differentiated the Raleigh premiere from those before it was the presence of protesters lining the streets outside of the theater with signs saying that the movie contained, promoted and condoned rape.Bill Dawes, who tours with the film, took action and interviewed some of the protesters, showcasing select interviews in a YouTube video in which some protesters admit they never actually saw the movie or read the book. Stretching the definition of something as serious as rape belittles the crime. But I had to remind myself that they were just a group of student protesters, protesting for protest’s sake. It seemed like some of them didn’t even know what they were protesting.And then my thoughts converged and I was reminded of the ongoing debate on health care and the lack of decorum and civility in those infamous town hall meetings.Although the protesters in Raleigh kept their composure, some of them had their facts wrong.When you have your facts wrong, or when they’re exaggerated to the brink of falsity in order to incite such passion from those who believe them, tensions will build and tempers will fly — as in many a case regarding these protests over national health care.And as I thought about the health care debate, I was reminded of yet another protest gone awry. The visit last semester from former U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., caused only a few on the University’s campus to think he deserved a banner in the face and a swift silencing before he’d even spoken.The chanting of “no dialogue with hate” goes against everything I want this campus to learn how to do: listen and learn. If you have a valid point, let people hear it. That does not require you to silence your opposition with banners and chants, or craft lies or labels to smear them like “rapist” or “communist.”Make sure you know what your point is before you start shouting. Make sure you’ve studied up on it. Use knowledge as a weapon. Know why their ideology is different from your own. Don’t follow a ringleader into battle with passion fueled only by his words.And make sure that you are for something before you are against something else.Alliances of hate don’t last long enough to make a difference. Be for something, not against.
(04/22/09 4:00am)
The Sonja Haynes Stone Center became the streets of the inner city Tuesday night with a performance of ""The Spectrum.""The spoken-word event provided a glimpse into the lives of inner-city youth in the Triangle"" showing the evils of street crime.The play was sponsored by the criminal justice action and awareness committee of the Campus Y.""The Spectrum"" was created partially in response to the growing presence of gangs and street crime in the Triangle and partially because of the violent killing of former Student Body President Eve Carson. It was written by UNC junior Kane ""NovaKane"" Smego.The performance followed protagonist Troy" played by sophomore Travis Melvin as he faced situations such as rampant drug use and sales drug-related deaths and other unfortunate circumstances.Kane used several plot twists" and characters mourned over a brother killed in Iraq and a sister in a coma.The play was peppered with philosophical catch-phrases: ""You can't drink six-packs when you're six feet underground"" and ""Even Lucifer started out as an angel.""The Mighty Arms of Atlas break dancing group also performed during the show.""I really enjoyed the play"" said junior Lorenzo Hopper. It showed a lot of the struggles that some children growing up in inner-cities have to go through that some of us don't realize.""The play was meant to promote conversations about the perils of youth in cities.""We've got to build our own rainbows — for us and for them — before the spectrum vanishes"" a narrator said at the play's end.Audience members were then solicited for their volunteer time as the director, playwright and sponsors began a panel discussion with the audience.Several of the panelists reflected on their experiences volunteering at the Durham County Youth Home, a juvenile detention center. They related their personal stories working with youth and the play.Donations accepted at the event went toward local charitable work, such as purchasing books for the youth home.The panel discussed gang issues and the perpetual cycle of surviving on the streets.The discussion also turned to the recidivism rates of inner-city youth who fall back into gang culture even after mentors and volunteers try to pull them out.Kane said that true life for inner-city youth isn't like the movies.Not everything is ‘Coach Carter"""" he said.Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
(04/14/09 4:00am)
Student poets and their fans gathered in Graham Memorial on Tuesday night for a reading of their favorite parts of their own work.Eight honors poetry students presented original compositions they wrote as part of a class this year. The students produced 1000 lines of poetry each to earn creative writing honors.The building's Morehead Lounge hosted about 50 people some sitting on the floor.Subjects ranging from love to hate and death to life echoed from the wooden walls.One of senior Katherine Oberembt's poems" ""Proposal"" took the perspective of a defense attorney who represented a mother accused of child negligence. In the poem, she writes about a woman being prosecuted after drain cleaner spilled onto her young daughter's face.The smooth hum of her voice was a stark contrast to the substance of the stanzas she read.Aaron Vose read Your Things"" which he described as the closest thing to a love poem (he'd) ever written."" It describes all the belongings left over at his home from a recently ended relationship.Speaking about his student's generation as a whole" Alan Shapiro the English professor who oversaw the students' work all year" expressed his excitement for their passion for poetry. ""It's like the '60s without the self-indulgence" he said.Several students said they attended the event to hear friends read their poems.I've read a lot of work on paper and it was really cool to see them in person said junior Zena Cardman. It was fantastic" Shapiro said. It was great to have so many people come and support these writers.""The students said they were very appreciative of the time and effort their classmates put in to developing and discussing their compositions.""We worked all year for this and it was really fun to be able to share it with someone"" said senior Jon McDonald, who read his poem Winter Flora" among others. The poem describes the memory of a lonely homeless woman.It was technically a class" but it was basically a group of friends getting together and sharing poems."" While Travis Smith read his poems" the audience laughed as his humor was excellently conveyed into his works. This was even evident in the title of one of the poems he read" called ""X-Rays of Snakes"" about memories of a childhood home that was converted into a veterinarian's office.Other poets spoke on topics as diverse as suicide, a cross-country road trip and the history of the ax.After the reading, refreshments provided the audience with an opportunity to speak with the poets and their professor.The work has been extraordinary"" Shapiro said. It's one of the best classes I've ever taught."" Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
(04/14/09 4:00am)
Humor and sex dominated the annual Stevies the Student Television award show Monday night in Hanes Art Center. About 70 attendees voted on their favorite STV shows with a Stevie award going to the winners in categories like best romantic scene and best actor and actress.STV airs several TV shows including the drama General College and the sketch comedy Bluelite District in which students act.During the awards show cast members parodied other shows on STV prompting constant laughs throughout the event.Tara Lowe who is in several shows" won for best actress. ""I went to the STV interest meeting and they promptly stole my soul" she said.She won for her portrayal of a drunken actress.It feels good to be nominated but it feels even better to win" she went on to say, crediting the quote to actress Kate Winslet.But all eyes were on General College, which was referred to as the most-watched show on STV.General College has been really risque this season and done some great" juicy stories" said Julia Stanton, STV marketing liaison and the award show's host.She was referring to some of the winners, including the scene Jizz Biscuit"" from the STV show Bluelite District"" a scene in which three actors masturbate onto a biscuit as a game.""I really liked the lesbian scene and the porn scene"" said sophomore Chris Moffitt. I wish they could have both tied for first place romantic scene.""Stanton won for best supporting actress for her lesbian kissing scene" a favorite among the audience. As she reveals to her boyfriend that she is bisexual and is willing to have him join a threesome his mouth drops and the famous Hallelujah chorus is sung by a choir.Station manager Eric Ellington received a surprise lifetime achievement award" which was an STV poster signed by the staff.""This season featured some of the most engaging and entertaining programming ever offered by STV" Ellington said. This year was a historic landmark in terms of efficiency production value" and diversity of content.""The STV clips shown at the award show varied from gun violence" child molestation" domestic abuse and risque sex scenes.""I think everyone was really motivated this year to put out some great episodes" said next year's station manager Streater Kelley. We have several new shows planned for next year" he said. A group is trying to put together a sitcom.""Tar Heel Voices" Chips and Mighty Arms of Atlas provided the entertainment for the evening giving performances of a cappella improvisational comedy and break dancing respectively.Contact the University editor at udesk@unc.edu.
(03/25/09 4:00am)
Death row came to campus Tuesday afternoon when Glen Edward Chapman who was exonerated after 15 years in prison spoke at the School of Law about the overturn of his death sentence last April.Chapman was sentenced to death in 1994 for the murders of Betty Jean Ramseur and Tenene Yvette Conley in Hickory. But a judge ordered a new trial last year because of withheld evidence and an officer who lied in court. Catawba County District Attorney James Gaither Jr. then dismissed the charges.Chapman was accompanied Tuesday by Pam Laughon a professor at UNC-Asheville who helped free him. Laughon spoke about the defense she and her students used to clear Chapman's name in 2007.He recounted his release experience saying that officers who escorted him out made a joke about being on the phone with the governor" who said that Chapman's release was a mistake.""Chapman" pack up. You're going home" Chapman said, quoting an escorting jailer. Well" I've been packed since I got here he replied.Laughon gave a presentation of the facts of the case and showed what she called the overwhelming lack of evidence that the prosecution used to initially convict Chapman.The lead attorney literally testified at our hearing — and if you're a law student you know this — and he did not know that he could actually interview the state's witnesses ahead of trial Laughon said. Now even in '92" you could interview the state's witnesses ahead of trial.""She also showed that the evidence used in his 2007 retrial amounted to even less than that used for Chapman's original conviction.""You know that officers initially write notes" and those get turned into a typed version" she said during her presentation. We lost count of how many times something very critical from the handwritten notes managed to be left out of the typed version.""Chapman described his initial disbelief and reaction to being acclimated into society again.Laughon said that he was given little to no psychological treatment to prepare for the transition" which usually comes standard to most inmates returning to normal lives. Laughon let Chapman live with her immediately after his release" and also helped him to find a job. She bragged that Chapman has been employed since three weeks after his release and has not missed one day of work.Laughon also said that finding a permanent residence for him was more of a challenge.""If you have a felony record" as far as I can determine the only place you can live is Jupiter" she said.Chapman ended his visit with a poem he wrote in honor of his attorneys and his supporters that he titled Until You.""Chapman and his attorneys recently requested a pardon from Gov. Bev Perdue. Although Chapman has yet to receive it" Laughon said the governor's office said that producing the perpetrator of the murders could expedite the process.Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
(03/18/09 4:00am)
Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone ""did it her way"" on the stage of Memorial Hall on Wednesday night" bringing her big voice and even bigger personality to a nearly full house. LuPone is a famous Broadway actress and singer" noted for her full and wide-reaching voice and vibrato. Her more recognizable roles include Eva Peron in ""Evita" Fantine in Les Miserables" and Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd.""""Patti LuPone is a big name in musical theater"" said sophomore Slater Lawrence, a drama and communications major. She's a powerful instrument.""Patti performed her one-woman show ""Coulda" Woulda Shoulda" in which she sings famous show tunes from roles that she has played as well roles she wanted to play.One of the songs she sang, My Way"" is a famous show tune that has been sung by Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, among others.She sings big"" said Carol Schachner, an audience member from Chapel Hill. Like that lady in the first row that she talked about that said she was too loud."" Schachner was referring to LuPone's anecdote of a woman in the front row from a previous performance. LuPone said that she stopped the band and stopped singing when the woman waved her arms wildly to inform the singer that she was too loud. ""I got into her quite some time ago. I think with ‘Les Miserables""'"" said Duke University junior Cameron Simmons. ""You know"" it's Patti. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity for her to be this close."" LuPone has made her face recognizable to television audiences in cameo appearances in popular shows such as ""Frasier" Will and Grace" and an episode of NBC's 30 Rock"" that aired just two weeks ago. ""Seriously" my jaw has been dropped the entire time" Simmons said. How do you describe Patti LuPone's voice?"" In terms of her voice" LuPone has an instrumental ensemble in her throat. Her voice can hit notes with the blare of a trumpet" and then descend down a scale with the vibrating hum of a woodwind section.""She's fantabulous!"" said sophomore Kelsey Reinhard"" a sociology major. ""She's such a name and such a well-known. She's the most recent Tony winner for best actress in a musical."" LuPone's voice was accompanied only by piano. After two separate standing ovations" she left her audience with an a cappella farewell" still filling the theatre without the assistance of the microphone.Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
(03/04/09 5:00am)
The Carolina Union Activities Board has a new president in Amanda Kao — a rising senior and promoter of pure fun.Kao will replace current Union President Tom Allin in April. She will be responsible for leading both the Union Board of Directors meetings and CUAB.CUAB is entirely student-led with a budget of $300000. The board brainstorms and implements ideas for student diversion and stimulation on campus bringing to the University a variety of entertainment from authors and comedians to spontaneous s'mores roasts.Before being selected as CUAB president" Kao was a member and then chairwoman of the appropriately named fun committee.""If you happen to stumble upon Locopops in the Pit"" then why not take the opportunity to have fun?"" Kao said. ""Our main goal is to brighten a person's day— unexpectedly."" While she plans to spontaneously heighten students' morale"" her colleagues expect her to bring new ideas and programs to campus.""I believe I'm speaking for the board here when I say we have high hopes for Amanda" Allin said. I have no idea what she will do" but I'm certain that it will be great.""Kao's committee most recently sponsored author Chuck Klosterman's visit. Kao said Klosterman is her favorite author.""She has had a lot of programs and has been very active on that committee" Carolina Union Director Don Luse said. He was on the committee that interviewed Kao for the position. Interviewing for the presidency was almost like I was being interviewed for how much I loved Carolina" Kao said.Five applied for the position, Allin said in an e-mail.Amanda brought an exciting vision of what a student union can and should be"" Allin said. She brings passion and experience and a desire to share them with others. She has an unmatched love for the Union and CUAB.""Her optimism for her position was relevant in the cover letter she wrote for the application"" which even included a smiley face emoticon.""Above all" love is our purpose her cover letter reads. My all-time favorite Beatles' quote is ‘And in the end" the love you take is equal to the love you make.'""Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
(03/04/09 5:00am)
Anthony Falzone a lawyer representing the artist who famously depicted President Barack Obama" said copyright laws have become increasingly restrictive of artists' creativity. ""Another word for exclusivity is monopoly"" Falzone said at a lecture Tuesday evening in Wilson Library. Copyrights give authors monopolies over speech and expression.""If you think of copyright as a series of restrictions"" then fair use is the exception to those restrictions.""Falzone — executive director of the Fair Use Project at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University — is representing Shepard Fairey"" the contemporary artist who is being sued by the Associated Press because of his artistic depiction of an AP photograph of Obama.Fairey used the photo as inspiration for the famous ""HOPE"" poster popularized during the 2008 presidential campaign.In the case"" he is arguing that the image is ""fair use"" because" as an artistic representation" it adds new meaning to the AP's photograph.Media law professor Cathy Packer said she was surprised that he was so optimistic about fair use and how it applies to creativity today.""I teach in this area and everything that I read is written by people who are very pessimistic and feel that copyright law is stifling creativity"" she said.Copyright laws give exclusivity rights to authors, producers, musicians, and other creative professionals, granting them the legal rights to own and therefore profit from the content they produce.Examples of fair use of copyrighted material include quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism" or summary of an address or article with brief quotations according to U.S. Copyright Office.The point is to reward authors so they create stuff" Falzone said. Many in attendance were students or professors at the UNC and Duke law schools, who came because of their interest in this rapidly changing area of copyright law.I have been a performer all my life" and I tend to be an advocate of copyright" said Cassie Kriswell, a first-year UNC law student and singer. I think that it was really interesting to see the other side of it and that he put it in a light that I really haven't thought about as much."" UNC professor Paul Jones questioned Falzone about why some artists are the copyright violators being sued"" and later the copyright owners doing the suing. ""All artists and creative professionals fall on both sides of these issues"" Falzone said. This is not about abolishing copyright. This is about drawing lines.""Falzone's visit was sponsored by University Libraries" the Center for Media Law and Policy Duke University Libraries and the Triangle Research Libraries Network.Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
(03/02/09 5:00am)
A UNC program offers students an exploration of a place often thought of as a cold barren tundra.The Summer Field Program in Siberia gives students the opportunity to study the ecological" biological and sociological aspects of the region for about eight weeks — even on horseback.""One of the most enticing aspects of the trip was the constant flux in location and field work"" UNC alumna Lindsay Leonard said in an e-mail. She participated in the first program in 2006.This year is the second time the trip has been offered to sophomores, juniors and seniors, making it the first opportunity for current students to study in Siberia.Leonard said she learned about the ecological impact humans have on the environment and the history of the area. The students not only observed the region's plant and animal life, but also scrutinized the sociology of the region.Leonard observed a game in which men on horseback dragged a ram carcass to opposing sod piles to score.They learn a lot"" said Greg Gangi, associate director for education at the Institute, who helped lead the trip in 2006. They learn about different areas of science from plant ecology to human ecology.""Participants also spend eight days on horseback during their Siberian odyssey.""A lot of us had never been on a horse before" Gangi said. I think I got to be pretty good friends with my horse. I noticed what it liked to eat and by the end of the week the horse put its head on my chest. It seemed like it was saying" ‘Thank you.'""Beth Anne Purvis" who also participated in the trip in 2006" said in an e-mail that she was taken aback by the animal life.""At times we would be camping" and a herd of horses would run through the meadows right next to our tents — something out of a movie" she said. That was the most exciting part — the wonder of what was to come.""The program is offered through the UNC Institute for the Environment and costs approximately $6"400. While in Russia" students also take several environmental studies courses.""I would tell anyone thinking about this trip" ‘Stop thinking.' Do it. Go and get your visa and be ready for the greatest adventure ever Purvis said.From horseback riding through the beautiful Altai Mountains" to waking next to the calming tides of Lake Baikal — Siberia has it all.""Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.