The mountains of North Carolina have beckoned hikers, campers and touring motorists for generations with the promise of natural beauty unequaled east of the Rockies.In 1999 alone, nearly 20 million sightseers drove the Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina's most-visited tourist attraction and most scenic road.Each year, tourists from out of state decide to make the N.C.
Read More »Exit Wounds2 StarsWhat's the easiest way to resuscitate the career of an over-the-hill action star? Apparently, the formula doesn't entail quality acting, exciting special effects and a plot to match. Instead, simply pair your aging actor with a white-hot, multiplatinum rapper who's building his movie career and just let it roll.In "Exit Wounds," Steven Seagal returns to the screen as Orin Boyd, a good cop in a bad situation (please insert ominous baritone voice-over).
Read More »A panel of legislators and policy advocates discussed campaign finance reform and the use of soft money in state and national elections Wednesday in Carroll Hall.The town-meeting-based discussion, which was followed by a half-hour question-and-answer session, was co-sponsored by the Common Cause Education Fund: Project North Carolina and the UNC program of Southern Politics, Media and Public Life.Common Cause is a nonpartisan organization that focuses on ensuring the political process serves the general interest, rather than special interests and curbing excessive influence of money on g
Read More »TO THE EDITOR:The controversy over allegations of corruption and misdeeds within the Carolina Athletic Association has come into Student Congress' court this week. I have played a significant role in this development by introducing two censure resolutions this past Tuesday.
Read More »TO THE EDITOR:As our season comes to an exciting close, the UNC gymnastics team would like to thank everyone who so generously supported us this year. Your enthusiasm was inspiring and did much to make this one of the finest seasons in UNC gymnastics history.Our season will conclude at 6 p.m. this Saturday in the Smith Center with our conference championship meet. The event promises to be exciting, as some of the nation's top gymnasts will be here to compete. Eight teams will fight to become the 2001 Eastern Atlantic Gymnastics League champion.
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Read More »TO THE EDITOR:My knee-jerk reaction upon reading Linda Chupkowski's column in The Daily Tar Heel ("Racism Can Be Difficult to Notice," Feb. 19) about "only white people are racists" is to respond, "Is that what they spend their time teaching students at UNC with our tax dollars?" Actually, it probably is.
Read More »Dave Matthews BandEveryday2 1/2 StarsIn the recent Rolling Stone profile of the Dave Matthews Band, there's a picture of Matthews with Midas-touch producer Glen Ballard, the man behind the boards for the band's fifth full-length studio release, Everyday. Ballard gives off a creepy, Siegfried-and-Roy vibe in the photo, clad in all white, seated at his white piano, ensconced in his white studio.
Read More »Duke University sophomores might soon have little choice of living locations if a recently proposed housing measure is approved.The school's Residential Program Review, which examines campus housing policies, has proposed that all sophomores be required to live on Duke's West Campus starting in fall 2002.Judith White, director of the Residential Program Review, said the proposal builds on the success of the first-year program, which requires freshmen to live on campus in an attempt to ease the transition to college life."(The proposal is) a follow-up on the success of the first-y
Read More »New accusations and the threat of student congressional oversight of Carolina Athletic Association Cabinet appointments have angered CAA members and prompted vehement denials of impropriety."We don't have anything to hide," said CAA President Tee Pruitt on Wednesday."But it's ridiculously hideous for (Congress) to think they can do that," he said, referring to a bill passed Tuesday by Congress' Rules and Judiciary Committee that would make the CAA's procedures subject to Congress' approval.
Read More »Standing, knees locked, before "The Circle of Life." Matisse in December, tied up on a green gallery wall, overstuffed. Green-faced Chicago. Sunlight through an open window. Cold air corrodes canvas. Sun melts the snow outside.For some reason I'm thinking of now.This minute, much later, on the verge of spring. One of two verbs, one falling, one leaping. This one gives birth, for the living rebirth, and some say, redemption for the dead. It's redemptive because the dead live on, through the living.It's a circle. They gave us a way, and words I speak not in any clear manner.
Read More »I would like to add my perspective to the current Carolina Athletic Association controversy. Let me first say that I have not been a source of information for The Daily Tar Heel in any past article dealing with the Duke ticket distribution. I am currently leading a Board of Elections investigation into election law violations stemming from the race for CAA president. Most of the findings I present in this letter are independent of that investigation.
Read More »For all the adversity the North Carolina men's lacrosse team has faced during the past four years, the ACC has been the bane of its on-the-field existence.The numbers are harsh and don't lie. Since 1997, UNC has compiled a record of 1-16 in the conference and lost in the first round of the ACC tournament each season.
Read More »Every day, hogs in North Carolina produce more than 50,000 tons of waste -- more than is produced by all of the people in California combined -- without an effective system of disposal.The hog waste adds up to almost 19 million tons a year, leading to a series of ecological problems that have sparked a heated debate between the pork industry and environmentalists.At the center of the controversy is the pollution caused by the current methods of feeding hogs and disposing of the waste, which environmentalists believe is destroying the state's air and water.But industry officials say ho
Read More »A proposal with the potential to add affordable housing in Chapel Hill was opposed by residents and town staff at a public hearing Monday night.At the hearing, the Chapel Hill Town Council discussed the possible rezoning of 32 parcels of land. Rezoning these properties would give the council leverage to insist that 15 percent of the development be low-cost housing when the developers apply for their special-use permit.But the Planning Board unanimously voted 7-0 against the proposal to rezone the properties.
Read More »The recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Europe, especially England, is a major concern for the agricultural officials in North Carolina.In England, large numbers of livestock have been slaughtered and then burned to control the epidemic - but the disease is still running rampant and has spread to mainland Europe and several other parts of the world.Jerry Hostetter, vice president of corporate communications for North Carolina-based Smithfield Foods, the country's largest pork producer, said the disease's contagious nature poses a threat to the state's livestock.
Read More »The UNC Board of Trustees will vote to accept or reject the Master Plan on Thursday despite the Chapel Hill Town Council's request for it to wait for results from the Major Investment Study.The findings of the Major Investment Study, a collaborative research project conducted by the N.C.
Read More »The presentation of a study examining successful African-American women heading families in Chicago's inner city kept a full audience captivated Tuesday night at the School of Social Work.Robin Jarrett, professor of human development and family studies at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, shared her findings and encouraged continuing such research in her lecture, "In Their Own Words: The Lives of Inner-City African-American Women and Their Families."Her research arose out of the desire to explain how some families prosper in inner-city neighborhoods, unlike other
Read More »Spring Break doesn't have to be about getting the best tan or spending entire days on the beach.Among the alternative Spring Break plans that spread students across the country doing service and good works, one UNC organization headed north for the break to explore transit systems in other metropolitan areas.As its members explored and learned, Teaching How to Incorporate New Kinds of Transit (THINK Transit), cemented its position as a campus organization focused on issues outside the stone walls.THINK Transit's members spent the break in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia and
Read More »Two Student Congress committees, citing persistent student concerns about the Carolina Athletic Association, paved the way Tuesday for the full Congress to examine the organization's current credibility and decide its future accountability to the student body.Student Congress' Rules and Judiciary Committee passed a bill to amend the CAA's constitution, while the Student Affairs Committee passed two resolutions to censure the organization's top officials and CAA President Tee Pruitt.A censure would publicly air concerns and could prompt further investigations but would not adversely affec
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