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March 16, 2010 Vol 22, No. 38

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AlySSA RinAldiStaff Writer

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Corey Thompson, 34-year-old History and Journalismteacher at West MecklenburgHigh School has announcedhis candidacy or MecklenburgCounty Commissioner At-Large.

Thompson completedpost-graduate work and hisTeacher Licensure throughUNC Charlottes Program, sohe counts himsel among theNiner Family.

Thompson grew up in theMecklenburg area and considersCharlotte a place he calls home.He and his wie Jenny are theproud parents o 2-year-old sonCharlie.

Considering that my wieand I are both teachers, weunderstand what the averageamily is acing right now. Wehave a young son, we have amortgage, and we know all-too-well just how dicult timesare. People are growing tired o

waiting on the government tosolve their problems. We dontneed politicians right now, weneed leaders, Thompson says.

He eels he can oer theleadership Mecklenburg Countyis looking or.

Thompsons pledge i s to domore which is a response toMecklenburg County ManagerHarry Jones statement that

with our current budget weneed to do less, with less.

Thompson eels theoundation o change will notcome by doing things wevealready done, his new visioncalls or the understanding that

we do not need to settle, thatwe can build to prosperity onceagain.

Thompson recalls that lastspring Mecklenburg CountyCommission gutted the

Charlotte Mecklenburg Schoolbudget by an upwards o $35million. As a result o thiscut, teachers were laid o andeducation programs were cut.Good people lost their jobs,and the children o our county

were drastically impacted by thedecision to cut school unding.Classroom size expandedtremendously, making it moredicult or teachers to reacheach and every student. I sawthis rsthand.

However, ater making thisdecision, another decision wasmade shortly ater to award

Jones with a $38,400 bonus ora job well done. Thompsonacknowledges the amount

awarded or bonus pales incomparison to the amount cutout o the budget, but he saysJones $38,400 would havekept a well-qualied teacherin a CMS classroom. So, whenI hear him say that we need tobe prepared to do less, withless, it just doesnt make sense.His team has taken previousdecisions like these to inspirethem to aide in areas they cancontrol.

Thompsons team held adrive to raise school supplies orCMS School and donated themto Classroom Central, on behal

o the people o Mecklenburgcounty. He says this is a primeexample o what we, thepeople, can do when inspiredto pull together and overcomethe current challenges we ace.

The Primary orMecklenburg CountyCommission vote takes place onMay 4, and Thompson knowsthey need to nish in the top-3to make a di erence in the Nov.General Election. Thompsonchallenges people to join hisvision, I would invite anyone

who has questions about thecampaign, or might be interestedin getting i nvolved, to check outthe campaign website: www.coreythompson.us

New candidate or

CMS CommissionerJAmie BRownStaff Writer

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The economys downwardspiral has not only aected as-pects such as buying or selling ahouse and buying cars but alsothe enrollment process at UNCCharlotte. The university cur-rently has 700 students on thedeerred list. Earlier this year,the list rose to 800, making itthe largest list that Tina McEn-tire, Director o UndergraduateAdmissions, has seen in her 14years at the university.

McEntire used this past weekend to reexamine the ap-plications and plans to takebetween 150 to 175 people othe list. She hinted at the pos-sibility o accepting up to 200,but stressed no more than that.When processing and narrowingdown the list, McEntire looks tosee i students took a rigorousschedule their senior year andimproved their test scores.

In the past, admissions wereable to admit some students inthe spring but are unable tothis year with an already largerspring class. Students on the listare expected to receive a naldecision by March 15.

To clariy, students on thedeerred list indicates that they

are on the border line and havethe opportunity to retake theSAT and ACTs. Although, sincethe college is trying to decreasethe reshman class, as well asthe number o transer studentsand graduates, the deerred listis essentially the same as a waitlist in that the university cannotaccept that many applicants.

Last year, the universitywelcomed 3,170 students to thereshman class. They are cur-rently working to bring thatnumber down to 3,090 or nextyear. McEntire said its impor-tant to slow down the growth

a little so that (students) dontwalk into a classroom with 400students.

While McEntire does notbelieve the slow down in growth

will last orever, as the econ-omy improves and the schoolis granted more money, it willhowever, grow at a slower rateover the next ew years.

The new slow down ingrowth will aect the univer-sitys master plan o having35,000 students by 2020. Thenumber was ormed when theschool was growing at a our tove percent rate each year. Witha lack o unding, which aectshiring more sta and construct-ing more buildings, concern ishigher than ever. They are look-

ing at how the university canhold any more students and dothat in a timely manner so thatthe students who currently herecan have a good experience.

McEntire, who started de-erring students at the end oNovember, keeps in mind thatUNC Charlotte is an institu-tion that wants to give people achance.

I never approach it (with)a gate keeper mentality, saidMcEntire. She added, I ap-proach it as a let me see i I canadmit this student.

Since the university has de-

nied more students this yearthan previous years, the phonesin the admissions oce havebeen ringing more than ever.McEntire tells the concernedparents and students that a notoday at UNC Charlotte doesnot mean a no tomorrow, or ano a year rom now.

For these students, they tryto turn a no into a plan. Wheth-er that means taking classes ata community college and trans-erring later or retaking theSAT and/or ACT, students canstill make it into UNC Char-lotte. With more applicationsreceived this year as opposed tolast year, the process is just be-coming tougher.

Applicants deferred to slow

growth of UNC Charlotte

END OF AN ERA: LUTZ FIRED

JoSh CARPenteRManaging [email protected]

UNC Charlotte Chancellor Dr. Phillip

Dubois and Director o Athletics JudyRose announced Monday that 49ers mensbasketball head coach Bobby Lutz hasbeen released rom his contract, eectiveimmediately.

Since Bobby is an alumnus o thisinstitution and has served here as a head orassistant coach or a decade and a hal this

was a personally and proessionally dicultdecision or us but we believe its in the long-term interest o 49ersbasketball and theuniversity as a whole,Dubois said.

In his 12-yearcareer with the Niners,Lutz helped Charlotteto eight post-seasontrips and was theprograms all-time winningest coach. Othe eight post-season bids, ve were to

the NCAA Tournament and two to theNational Invitation Tournament. Charlotteslast NCAA Tournament appearance camein 2004-05 when the team lost in the rstround to N.C. State. Charlottes last NCAATournament win came against Tennessee in2001.

This was an extremely dicult decisionand not one that was made lightly or in haste,said Rose. Bobby has been an importantpart o the 49ers amily and represented ouruniversity in a most positive manner. Ourexpectations or our program are high andour goal is to strive to be in the upper echelono the Atlantic 10 with an opportunity tocompete in the NCAA tournament on a

regular basis.In a statement Lutz said, In closing, it

has been a privilege and pleasure to coach atUNC Charlotte, my alma mater. I have been

truly blessed and will orever bleed green.Lutz owns a 218-158 win-loss record whilewith Charlotte and owns 399 career coachingwins in 21 years. The Niners have posted justan 83-75 record over the past ve years andare just 41-39 in the Atlantic 10 Conerence.

Its not cool man; its not cool, juniorJoshua Galloway said.

Charlotte suered through an 11-20 seasonin 2008-09 but rebounded emphatically inthe rst hal o 2009-10, jumping out to an

18-5 overall recordand the top o theA-10 with an 8-1record. The Ninershowever, lost seveno their last eightgames to all outo A-10 contentionand missed out on

postseason play altogether.In addition to Lutz, his coaching sta o

Rob Moxley, Rob Perron, Bobby Kummerand Chris Cheeks has also been released.

Moxley, a top-ranked recruiter, had beenrumored in the last three days to be a topcandidate or the head coaching positionat Gardner-Webb University and had beenresponsible or many o the Niners recruits.Moxley recruited the likes o Derrio Green,Chris Braswell, K.J. Sherrill and transer

Jamar (Deuce) Briscoe.Wow, I didnt think hed be getting

red, UNC Charlotte junior Jay Jerkins said.I just want to know why.

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ViCtoRiA CReASyCopy Editor

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College lie is, at times, syn-onymous with late night study-ing, 10 page research papers, andcoee via IV. Amid the stress andpressures o college lie, somestudents use recreational drugsin an eort to keep up with orstay ahead in their studies.

Students call them studydrugs while scientists call themcognitive enhancers, but never-theless, the use and distributiono such drugs is illegal withouta prescription, and yet, collegestudents are abusing them at an

increasing rate.One such drug is Adderall,

an amphetamine drug commonlyprescribed to people withAttention Decit Hyper-activity Disorder. Addy,as students call it, is themost popular study drugon college campuses acrossthe country, accordingto an article rom NPRsMichelle Trudeau. TheADHD drug market wasa $4.8 million industry in2008 according to Reuters.

According to the Na-tional Institute on Drug Abuse,ADHD aects between 8 per-cent and 12 percent o childrenand 4 percent o adults in theU.S. ADHD is a persistent pat-

tern o inattention and/or hyper-activity-impulsivity that is morerequently displayed and moresevere than is typically observedin individuals at a comparablelevel o development.

Physicians prescribe stimu-lant medications such as Adder-all and Ritalin in order to treatindividuals diagnosed with thedisorder. The website warns us-ers that these drugs can increaseblood pressure, heart rate, bodytemperature, decreased sleep andappetite, hostility and paranoia.At high doses, they can lead toserious cardiovascular complica-tions, including stroke.

A variety o conclusive medi-cal research nds that stimulantscan induce a rapid rise in dop-amine in the brain, which is the

likely cause o a high addiction

rate among users. Withdrawalsymptoms include atigue, de-pression and disturbed sleeppatterns.

Nearly one in ve U.S. teensshare prescription drugs withtheir peers, according to a newstudy released online by the

Journal o Adolescent Health.One o the most used drugs wasADHD medications.

In 2008, The National In-stitute on Drug Abuse reportedthat more than 7 million peoplein the U.S. have abused meth-ylphenidate, also known as Rit-alin, to get high or to improveacademic perormance.

More than 40 percent o teensabusing ADHD drugs had mod-erate to severe side eects, andmany ended up in emergencyrooms.

Lie-threatening symptomsinclude agitation, rapid heartbeatand extremely high blood pres-sure. Reuters reported that U.S.poison control centers received a

76 percent increase in calls overthe past eight years or teens whooverdosed on attention decitdisorder drugs.

The report showed the num-ber o prescriptions doubled orsuch medications, rom aboutour million eight years ago, toeight million prescriptions to-day, making it easier or teens toget the drugs without a prescrip-tion.

Many students claim theseADHD drugs boost their cogni-tive unction and enables themto study or hours on end with-out eeling tired.

Claire*, a junior at UNCCharlotte, said her physician di-agnosed her with ADHD whenshe was in eighth grade.

I started taking it, and it

did help me, but with some un-ortunate side eects, she said.I would get jittery and restlessa lot.

John*, a sophomore, said hehas taken an ADHD medication

without a prescription severaltimes.

I have a riend who takes it,and I ask her or one every oncein a while when I need an extraboost during midterms or nals.It really helps me stay up andstudy all night.

Out o 30 UNC Charlottestudents surveyed at random orthis article, three out o ve saidthey have taken ADHD medica-tion or recreational purposesand more than hal o those saidthey have taken it more thanonce. One o the students sur-veyed said he takes Adderall rec-

reationally as much asthree times a month inorder to study or tests.

The Federal DrugAdministration andphysicians are tryingto cut the recreationaluse o these drugs byregulating prescrip-tions or ADHD medi-cations. Currently, doc-tors write prescriptionsor drugs like Adderall

or a three-month span, dated orone month at a time. When theprescriptions have expired, thediagnosed individual must visitthe doctor or another three-

month rell.There are plenty o other e-

ective study techniques to helpstruggling students, many o

which are available on campus.One option is The University

Center or Academic Excellence,which oers a variety o tips oreective studying or collegestudents. Students can browsean array o fiers or tips to helpthem study eectively, such astutoring, peer mentoring, learn-ing communities, workshops,courses and special note-takers.Students with special needs,such as learning disabilities,

which include ADD and ADHDdiagnosis, may visit the Oce oDisability Services.

*Names have been changed.

The use of study drugs is becoming more prevalent on college campuses. Prescription drugssuch as Adderall, are used illegally by students to help study for classes.

MCT Campus

Some college studentsabuse prescriptionsPrescription drugs promote concentration whenused properly, however students today areusing drugs such as these improperly.

Bill CRotheRSStaff Writer

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Many UNC Charlotte stu-dents are amiliar with the dread-ul sound o the Atkins libraryspeaker system announcing thatthe library is about to close orthe evening. Beginning April4th, however, Atkins will remainopen 24 hours a day rom Sun-

days to Thursdays. Then, duringnal exams this spring, it wontclose at all until May 13th.

The change has long beenrequested, both by SGA and stu-dents generally.

Stanley Wilder, the univer-sity librarian, said, Atkins andthe University are responding to

what is by ar the most requentrequest made by students aboutthe Library: that the Library beopen 24 hours.

This desire became more ap-parent recently when the com-ment boards went up on the rstfoor o Atkins and students be-gan writing 24 hours in dier-ent onts, sizes, and colors on thelarge white pages o the easels,

which have recently been taken

down.Though there was also othereedback written on the boards,Keri Newsome, a student andlibrary employee, said that themost common comment she hasseen on them was the 24-hourrequest. Newsome said she wasamong the students who wouldtake advantage o the increasedhours.

Awesome, was the response

o another pleased student.When and why would stu-

dents be using the library at suchlate hours?

A big midterm, said one.Another said throughout the year.One o the reasons c ited or com-ing to the library to study or writea paper was that it oered a quiteplace to concentrate, somethingoten dicu lt to nd or studentsliving with college roommates.

Although the changes willhave less eect on members o thelibrary sta who are not students,there is still support among themor the idea.

I have no problem with it iit helps the students, said a onesuch library employee. The 24hour trial during all nals wasvery successul.

It was successul rst becauseso many students took advantageo it, Wilder said o the librarysexperiment with remaining open24 hours or nals last semester.He continued at 2 AM on thosedays, we had about 350 people inthe Library, and on one occasionmore than 40 0.

Most o the sta will not beat Atkins during the early hours

o operation when security per-sonnel will be on hand or saety.Campus police will also havea periodic presence ater mid-night.

Without sta during theseextra hours o operation, thelibrary will have to reduce theservices it oers students at thosetimes. This means students withtheir UNCC IDs will be able to

get into the building to study, butwithout the day-time and eveningbenets o a ull sta.

In part or these kinds oreasons, one library employee,

working at the circulation desk,argued that the changes did notgo ar enough. She gave an ex-ample o one o the limitationsduring the o-hours You cantcheck in and out books [at thecirculation desk]. She added

that during these hours students would probably not have accessto many o the higher foors, andthus could not use the majority othe librarys book collection.

This limited access likely willnot go into eect until the all se-mester.

Another thing students haveto keep in mind is the increasedresponsibility or students thatcomes with the expanded hours.

Students are going to haveto be careul about their late-night comings and goings, saidWilder. Theyre going to need totake care o themselves and eachother.

In a sort o complement tothe student body combined witha request, Wilder added, Were

going to need to continue to seethe pattern o responsible behav-ior we saw during the last nalsperiod.

For many students who justwant a sanctuary away rom theirnoisy rooms, a comortable placeto study, or simply big tables tospread out a semesters-worth onotes, the expanded hours willbe a welcome addition.

Library hours extended

Julie Osteen

I have a friend w ho takes it, andI ask her f or one every once ina w hile w hen I need an extraboost during midterms or finals.It really helps me stay up andstudy all night.

*John


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The minute you hear the name Michael Jordan,you think o all o the amazing things he has donethroughout his lietime. Jordan can now add ownero the Charlotte Bobcats to his long list o businessventures. On Feb. 27, 2010, Jordans ownershipgroup, MJ Basketball Holdings LLC, was able toacquire enough unds to buy out the controllinginterest rom previous owner Bob Johnson. Noone knows the exact price, but ESPN estimates theprice to be around $240 million.

While Jordan is no stranger to the Bobcats (hehas been a part o the organization since 2006),he now has nal say in all basketball decisions.Bob Johnson paid $300 million or the Bobcatsthat started play in 2004-2005. Over the past ewseason Johnson has lost millions o dollars on theBobcats, and was projected to lose even more thisseason. Johnson recruited Jordan to be a minorityinvestor beore giving him nal say over allbasketball decisions. Jordan has been criticized or

not being involved more with the Bobcats everydayoperations, since North Carolina is his home state.

Everyone knows o Jordans success onthe basketball court; he has done pretty mucheverything one can do in a basketball uniorm.However, many people do not know about all o hi sbusiness ventures o the court. He has owned car

dealerships, restaurants and lets not orget all othe lucrative endorsements. Jordan being involved

in so many ventures has some people worried thathe is not as ocused as he should be. Despite all o

Jordans activities, the rst thing Jordan did aterbuying the Bobcats was attend a practice. Duringthe shoot around Jordan challenged ormer Dukeguard Gerald Henderson to a game o H-O-R-S-E.

Jordan ended up losing both games to Henderson.Hopeully, this is a sign o Jordans new commitmentto the Bobcats.

Many people are hoping Jordan can turnaround the Bobcats and put them on the righttrack to success. The Bobcats need help not onlyin the win column but also in the attendance area.The team is currently ranked 22 out o 30 teams inattendance this season, according to ESPN. Jordan

just attending games regularly will bring in someA-list ans.

Jordan is known as one o the most competitiveathletes ever. His dislike o losing is what drovehim to being the best in the world at basketball.I hope to see his competitiveness switch rom a

player to an owner and show he can succeed as anNBA owner. He has made some great steps in theright direction lately, especially with the Stephen

Jackson trade. The Bobcats are having a goodseason with the potential to make it to the playosthis year; Hopeully Jordan is the person to propelthem into a regular playo contender.

Michael Jordans leadership will be benefcial or the Bobcats

Anni SimPSonAsst. Copy [email protected]

Boys and girls cant be trusted with each other.At least, that is the viewpoint o the bus system

reported by a Charlotte news station last Thursday.Students were supposedly moved and separated orgetting too involved with the opposite sex in theback o the bus.

For years now, the issue o separating studentsbased on gender has sparked up in pockets romirritated students, shocked parents and rustratedschool ocials at a loss o how to make rowdystudents behave. For a while, it was a rule on myown bus in middle school.

Beore anyone jumps down the throat o thedrivers, a ew things must be considered. Theyhave a dicult job. Not only are they expected tochaueur large numbers o students to and romschool everyday, but they are tasked with monitoringthe saety and behavior o those schools. My owndrivers back in Durham could and did reportbad behavior to the school administrators ordisciplinary purposes. Buses, especially in largerareas, are oten overcrowded, packing students likesardines with little regard to the bulging book bagsor overbearing instruments with no other choicebut to spill into the aisles. These kids are not onlycramped, but they are also loud, not necessarilybehaved and eager to move around in the bus,despite the saety concerns associated with movingaround on the bus. Bus drivers are given the roomto make rules as they see t or the understandableneed o being able to pay attention to the road

without ignoring the students. Some people aremore gited with the art o multi-tasking thanothers.

However, who can blame the students oracting this way, either? Within reason, students

are going to act out, because they need to, too. I astudent is lucky, they get 30 minutes to eat lunch. Insome schools, the number is actually 20. Teachersassume you can use this 20 or 30 minutes to eat,socialize, use the bathroom and visit your locker, iyoure actually allowed to roam the halls to do so.

Aternoon teachers oten bank on the assumptionall o that is out o a students system, but its not.Students have trouble ocusing and acting like themature adults, which is unair, as they are not, oreight hours, minus that 30 minutes. By the timestudents get out, theyre raring to social ize, to movearound and to be loud like they havent been ableto. Ater all, theyre still kids. That goes or bothhigh school and middle school students.

With all o this in mind, school bus driversshould be allowed to make up disciplinary rulesbased on what is best or their students. However,its never air to punish all students based on theactions o a ew. Students caught misbehaving byexploring where they shouldnt or the other many,numerous and creative ways to misbehave shouldbe moved to the ront.

Its an issue that leaves out a variety o things.Separating them on the bus doesnt actually solvethe problem a school and parents have o studentsanxious to discover each other. I you separate them

there, theyll gure out another way to subvert theirboundaries. Separating everyone unairly punishesstudents who have not, in act, misbehaved byorcing them away rom riends or preventing themrom meeting new, potential riends. Finally, itmakes the assumption all middle- and high-schoolstudents are heterosexual. Gender in itsel is a poor

way to determine mischievous behavior. A muchbetter way to prevent sexual behavior would be toseparate the oending students and to keep themin the ront, ater inorming their parents.

Should bus drivers decide when

and how to separate students?

Sexual assault accusations are propelling bus drivers tocreate specifc seating arrangements--but is it air?

Jordan, far left, watches the beginning of the teams game against the Dallas Mavericks at TimeWarner Cable Arena on Monday, March 1. MCT Campus

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New credit card rules wentinto eect on Feb. 22 to sae-guard consumers interest.But who is saeguarding theinterest o credit card compa-nies? And whatever happenedto personal responsibility?

The new rules are prohib-iting companies rom increas-ing interest rates i customersare late with their payments.

The new rules also giveconsumers a reasonable pe-riod o time to make theirpayments. But in light o theact that most companies a-ord their consumers between20 to 30 days grace periodto make their payments, thisbegs the question: What doesthe government deem reason-able?

Most credit card compa-nies I have dealt with allowtheir customer service agentsto waive late ees at least onceper year. In addition, they al-low various venues and more

than ample time or consum-ers to make payments.

Last year, when the talksabout credit card reorm weretaking place, politicians gavespeeches ull o platitude.Phrase like unair lendingand predatory lending werethrown around. I can think oone politician who mentionedpersonal responsibility intheir speech.

Whatever happened topulling ourselves rom our

bootstraps and not spend-ing beyond our means? Ocourse, no one wants to saythat because that would meandealing with whats really atthe heart o this ordeal.

I do not blame politiciansor trying to appeal to themasses. Ater all, they are try-ing to get reelected. Nowadays,our electoral and governmentbody system boils down to apopularity contest. Who intheir right mind would shitthe blame where it really be-longs and then ask that sameaudience to reelect him?

Last week, during the

Bank o America shareholdersmeeting, Rev. Jesse Jacksonasked the CEO, Brian Moyni-ham, to reduce the principalloan amounts o amilies withnegative equity in their homesand to start a program that

would orgive student loans. Ashareholder sitting adjacent tome leaned in and said, Whatabout us who pay our bills ontime?

It is true that some creditcard companies have em-

ployed questionable practices,but revamping the system othe account strikes me as a bitradical.

I one makes $2000 permonth and is spending $3000a month, something is simplynot adding up.

Most Americans are so ob-sessed with keeping up withthe Jones that they are aultingon core values. We constantlyshit the blame and rarely evertake responsibility or our ac-tions.

How about we quit ourbelly aching and take on ourshare o the responsibility?

New credit rules will encourage

Americans to take responsibility

JUlie oSteenStaff Writer

[email protected]

As a uture educator, I know the importanceo technology in the educational system. Manyclasses here at the university encourage the in-tegration o various orms o technology into thelessons that are taught to our students. The worldo education is quickly moving rom pencil andpaper to smart boards and laptops.

With the declining costs o computers andother technologies, school systems are intro-ducing the idea o issuing a laptop to be usedin the classroom and at home. Already a ew othe surrounding school systems in the Charlottearea have started pilot programs, in which they

have seen great success. With each student in theclassroom having access to a personal computerin and outside o class, the options are endless

when it comes to reaching every student a nd giv-ing them all equal opportunities. However, at

what cost does technology start hurting studentsinstead o helping?

Last week, a lawsuit suraced in the media oa high school distributing Mac laptops to 2,300students in which they would spy on them via

webcam. The school issued the laptops to thestudents to be used or school use only, and the

webcam application had been turned o or stu-dent use. Many o the students thought that the

camera just didnt work at all, and other studentscovered the webcams with tape or sticky note.But or those students that d idnt cover the cam-era lens, the school was remotely accessing their

webcams and taking pictures o anything andeveryone within the picture rame.

Ater reading the news reports o the incidentand reading that the school was trying to put othe webcam shots were used as a security-track-ing eature, I started to become more and moredisgusted with the whole issue. Why would theschool have to track the computers via webcam;Wouldnt a GPS chip be enough? The articlesonline stated that a amily is suing the school be-cause their sons privacy was invaded.

This spying suraced because the school

contacted the parents o one o the students thathad one o the computers and told the parentsthat they had evidence that their son had beendoing illegal drugs and that they had picturesto prove it. Ater the school day is over and thestudents leave the school premises, the schoolshould lose their power over the students. Theyare not longer responsible or the students; Theylose their authority. What the students do intheir spare time should not matter to the school,only to the students parents. When does the au-thority cross the line?

Webcams are a good learning

tool, but only in the classroom

Teachers shouldnt be allowed to take advantage owebcams and spy on students while they are at home


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By ed niSeRAsst. Sports Editor

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The bats o Kevin Gillespieand Ryan Rivers helped to pro-pel the Niners over Austin PeayFriday evening 12-7. Gillespietied the ball game with a two-run home run to right eld, ty-ing the game at 5-5. The two runhome run marks the rst homer

o the red shirt juniors career.It was the The Governors thatlit up the scoreboard rst onan RBI single down the righteld line rom Austin Peay rstbaseman, Jon Hogan scoring

Jared Delong rom second.Charlottes hal o the rst

appeared promising with theNiners loading the bases, butthe runners would be letstranded. The bottom o therst ended on a Zane Williamsground out, leaving the Ninerstrailing 1-0 ater one.

The Governors recorded ahuge third-inning, gatheringour runs on three hits withdoubles coming rom Lewellynand Reed Harper. The Gov-ernors were out in ront 4-0going into the Charlotte halo the third. Charlottes bats

would remain dormant in thebottom o the third but wouldsoon nd the smelling salts inthe bottom o the ourth on aZane Williams single scoringRivers, who doubled earlier inthe inning.

Niners ans were on theedge o their seats when Riversconnected with a 3-run homerun to let eld in the Bottomo the seventh inning to breakopen the 5-5, tie making it 8-5Charlotte.

Monster Charlotte thand eighth innings proved tomake the dierence in Fridayscontest with the Governors.The Niners scored our runson two hits in the th, two othose runs coming o the bato Kevin Gillespie clearing theright eld wall.

The eighth inning our runsurge provided the Niners withenough insurance to put awaythe Governors 12-7 at Robertand Marriam Hayes StadiumFriday aternoon.

Junior reliever Tyler Pilk-ington would get the win orthe Niners, throwing our anda third scoreless innings sur-rendering just one hit and veStrike outs.

Charlottes luck would wearout in the Saturday matinee

with the Governors droppingthe game 8-2 with reshmanCorey Roberts taking the loss,dropping him to 1-1. Willi amscontinued to nd his oensivegroove, leading the Niners

with three home runs, his thirdcoming by way o a solo homerun in the second inning o theloss.

The Governors improvedto 9-6 on the season, while the49ers ell to 7-4.

Charlotte is o until Tues-day when they play host to the#5 nationally ranked ClemsonTigers at 6 p.m. The Tigers arecoming o a weekend series

with conerence oe NorthCarolina State and boast a 12-1record coming into Hayes Sta-dium. Clemson is 11-2 all timeagainst the Niners. Charlottelooks to add another chapter tothe bitter regional rivalry.

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The Atlantic-10 tournament got under-way at Halton Arena Tuesday night, pittingthe #6 seed Charlotte 49ers against the #11seed UMass Minutemen. Charlottes shoot-ing woes continued, because the Ninersmanaged to only connect with 37.1 percento their shots rom the eld. UMass did notair much better rom the eld, shooting 32.1percent, but they managed to put together anity 9-0 run to close out the game, deeatingthe Niners 59-56.

The Charlotte aithul were let scratch-ing their heads at the hal as the 49ers wentinto the locker room, trailing the 11-19 Min-utemen 31-29. The surprise o the night wasthe stellar play rom Anjuan Wilderness,

netting nine o his points in the rst hal.Ricky Harris plagued the Niners deense,scoring 16 points o his team high 24 points

in the rst hal.Anjuan Wilderness connected with a tip

in at 18:47 to knot the score at 33-33. Wil-derness would lead the Niners scoring attack

with 11 points or the evening.Charlotte went on a bit o a scoring

draught ollowing a 3-pointer rom Ian An-derson, putting the Niners on top 47-44

with 12:27 let in the game. Anderson wouldnd the bottom o the basket again ollowinga ve minute lull in scoring or the Niners,making a 2-pointer giving the Niners a 49-47advantage.

The 49ers kept on pressing oensively,struggling to get a basket to all until ShamariSpears nailed an inside jumper with the as-sist, credited to Derrio Green with just 6:30remaining, giving the Niners a 51-47 lead.

Gohikan Sirin dialed up rom long dis-tance with a 3 pointer to cut into the Min-

utemen lead to 56-54 with just 0:47 let toplay.

Charlotte would add another basket, but

it would be too little too late to surmount acomeback. The sixth man would be a decid-ing actor in the game or the Niners. Char-lotte ell victim to a technical oul or havingsix men on the foor, sending UMass guardRicky Harris to the line to shoot the reethrows. The ree throws would all and so

would the Niners 59-56.The UMass Minutemen won their rst

Atlantic-10 tournament game in eight yearsand went on to play Richmond in AtlanticCity but would come up short 77-72.

Charlotte nishes the season with anoverall record o 19-12 on the season andhopes to secure a bid in the NIT.

We lost our condence, and that issomething that is hard to get back. We justlost our edge, said Charlotte 49ers HeadCoach Bobby Lutz during the press coner-ence ollowing the Niners A-10 Tournament

opening round.

Minutemen Ambush Niners

Junior Minutemen guard Ricky Harris drops 24 points in UMass win

Niners Split Series Xavier Slashes Charlottes bidat consecutive A-10 Titles

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Come out to Robert and Mariam HayesStadium tonight at 6 p.m to watch the 7-4Charlotte 49ers host their regional rivalClemson Tigers. The Tigers come roaringinto Charlotte with a 12-1 record with winsover Michigan State and Atlantic-10 oeand regular season conerence championDayton.

The Charlotte 49ers opened last season with a three game stint with the ClemsonTigers in South Carolina and dropped allthree games. Charlotte is just 2-11 in their 13meetings with the Tigers and look to make asmall dent in the series.

Clemson comes into the game ranked #7

overall in the ESPN/USA poll, but the 49ers

have knocked o top ranked opponentsbeore. Last year, it was the Tar Heels whoell to the Niners 2-1 in Chapel Hill o thebat o Ryan Rivers.

The Charlotte 49ers played just two otheir scheduled our games leading up totonights contest with the Tigers. Charlotte

went 1-1 in the short weekend series with theAustin Peay Governors. Rivers. Provided thedierence maker with a 3-run homer to leteld in the seventh inning liting the Ninerspast Austin Peay 12-7, but the bats wentsilent Saturday, dropping the Niners to theGovs 8-2.

Zane Williams accounted or Charlottesonly runs Saturday with a solo home run inthe bottom o the second that barely cleared

the wall. Williams leads the team in home

runs with three on the young season andtied Rivers or the team lead in RBIs withhis sixteenth coming on a Sacrice fy in thebottom o the ninth.

Clemson OF/1B Kyle Parker is leadingthe Tigers with six home runs and 15 RBIs .Outelder Je Schaus leads the Tigers with20 RBIs.

Tickets or tonights game are stillavailable, but quantities are very limited.General Admission tickets or students areas always ree, but you are encouraged toarrive early since it is a rivalry game to assureyoursel a good seat.

Charlotte looks to avenge the drummingthey took at Doug Kingsmore Stadium tobegin last season tonight at 6 p.m.

Niners look to deeat Clemson

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The Charlotte 49ers womens basketball

team came into last Sundays matchup withthe #5 ranked Xavier Musketeers on theheels o an overtime win against Saint Joes87-85.

Charlotte came out o the gates, ringwith a 3-pointer rom Jaquaria Forney withthe dish rom senior Erin Floyd, puttingthe Niners out in ront 3-0 just 0:26 into thegame.

The Niners trailed or the entire rst halollowing the Forney 3-pointer, and it wasntuntil Shannon McCallum dialed up romlong distance with only 0:52 remaining in therst hal to knot the score at 21-21 until they

tied the score.Both teams struggled to get their

oensive attacks in check or the rst halwith Charlotte only shooting an abysmal 31.6percent rom the eld or the game. Xavierdid not air much better, mustering just 32.7percent rom the eld.

Xavier went on an 8-0 run to begin thesecond hal, putting the Musketeers on top29-21 with 16:02 let in the game.

Charlotte did not put any points on theboard in the second hal until McCallumconnected with a jump shot to cut theMusketeers lead to 29-21 at the 15:47 mark.

The Niners would cut the lead to withinone with 7:15 let to play in the game 38-37.Xavier center TaShia Phillips headlinedthe Musketeers attack with 15 points and 6rebounds.

Shannon McCallum gave the 49ers theironly lead with a 3-pointer giving t he Niners a40-38 advantage with 6:17 let.

Xavier went on a 9-0 ru n towards the endo the game, giving them the lead or good.

Jones connected with two ree throws to diginto the Musketeers lead, making it 49-46.

Jones hit a 3-pointer to beat the buzzer, butit was too little too late or the Niners as t heirrun at consecutive Atlantic-10 titles came toa crashing halt in Upper Marlboro Maryland

51-49 to the 5th ranked musketeers.The Associated Press interviewed 49ers

Head Coach Karen Aston ollowing theXavier game. We gave ourselves a chanceto win the game, and thats all you can askout o players, said Aston, adding that hersquad learned a lot rom their 81-61 loss atXavier on Feb. 24.

By JeFF milleRThe Orange County Register

All the players can win is a championship, alousy title.

But you, you could win $1 million or a newcar or, at FOXSports.com, $1 million plus a yearssupply o chicken wings, the heart-attack helpercoming compliments o Hooters, where, i you asknicely, they might be willing to just drop your as-cending aorta into the deep ryer.

All it takes to claim your prize is correctly pre-dicting the outcome o 63 consecutive college bas-ketball games, which, mathematically speaking, isabout as probable as Dick Vitale giving birth.

That, however, isnt the point. The point isthat the NCAA tournament is upon us once again,meaning its time or everyone to dream big, even i

we have a Winthrops chance in hell.But we do have a chance, all o us do, a chance

to dance, this event becoming as interactive as aboozed-up Ben Roethlisberger.

Doesnt everyone ll out a bracket or two or10 now? Every oce, every Web site, every vacantstreet corner oers a contest. And yet, not a singleperson is picking East Tennessee State to win agame.

Experts say nearly $2 billion in lost productiv-ity will accumulate at American businesses duringthe tournament. (All these losses despite the actthat nearly everyone was laid o six months agoanyway.)

A big part o the allure is that anyone thisside o Woord, we mean can win, armed withno more inormation than each teams seeding.In other words, you dont need to know that JohnCalipari is so greasy Jiy Lube goes to him or oilchanges.

Years ago, the Atlanta Hawks had a pool. These

were the same Atlanta Hawks whom then-coachMike Fratello criticized or having a low basket-ball IQ. Their pool was won by power orwardAlexander Volkov, a Russian who thought a BlueDevil was a mixed drink.

Possessing just an ounce o knowledge, though,can be a large enough oundation upon which tobuild something impressive. That is, ater all, howESPN came to exist.

As a public service today, wed like to pass alongsome inormation to help as youre losing moneyto your riends and being conounded by how inthe name o all thats holy someone who has playedbasketball since being able to walk still cant makea stinking ree throw when it matters!

Contrary to what this tournament loves to sell,the Cinderellas the real Cinderellas have nochance. Teams seeded 15th and 16th are 4-196 inRound 1. Even Donald Sterling thinks thats badbasketball.

Villanovas victory over Georgetown in 1985is widely considered the greatest upset ever in thetitle game. True, the Wildcats were seeded eighthand the Hoyas rst. And true, Villanova had toshoot 78.6 percent to win.

But also true is the act the teams played twiceduring the regular season and Georgetown barely

won both times by two and seven points. Andthose gutty, overmatched Wildcats? Seven o themeventually were drated by NBA teams.

As or champions that really came out o no-where, how about Utah in 1944? The Utes not onlyrebounded ater losing in the rst round o thethen-more-prestigious NIT, they made the NCAAeld only ater Arkansas pulled out ollowing a caraccident that injured two o its players.

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The night was cold and rainy, andlarge amounts o people were trottingthrough the doors, ve minutes late.Sinbad rubbed his head, magnied bythe beaming li ght that spot lit him in thecenter o the stage.

So youre blaming the rain? Hebegan to point out and strategically

welcome ans in a comedic way. He pro-ceeded to ask i anyone knew what wind-shield wipers were, and when he got alaugh in response, simply shrugged.

Sinbad continued on to make uno the dierences between people romNew York and North Carolina, espe-cially how they both drove. He spoke ohow people in North Carolina would leteveryone in, even i they had not seenthe spot, but New Yorkers would yelland honk i you even thought o steal-ing their spot.

He laughed about how pedestriansin North Carolina thought they ownedthe road, where as, in New York, they

would get run over in a heartbeat. Healso, compared Charlotte to Atlanta,calling it an almost ake-lanta, andtalked about the buildings and storesthat were so minuscule in comparisonto Atlanta.

He did, however, bring up how heloved some Southern hospitality andoods, o course, but he questioned

why Cheerwine was called Cheerwinei it was not really wine at all. He alsolaughed about the way southernersdrink sweet tea, as it made them look

more or less like crack addicts, eindingor more.

But the one comedic topic that roaredthe entire room was o course dealing

with relationships. Sinbad picked on thedierences between the daters that weresnuggling and holding hands, where asthe married couples were on oppositeends o their seats thinking DO NOTTOUCH ME!

Sinbad even reached out to a dad

and daughter at the ront o the stagethat he repetitively went back to withquestions, about daddy-daughter argu-ments over who his daughter shoulddate. It was almost psychological howhe brought up the questions and tried tohelp the amily with understanding, andalmost benecial or couples to listen tothe controversies he brought up.

It was healing and hilarious to learnabout the dierent views and sides oa man, woman, and even a dad in rela-tionships.

He even brought up controversialissues, such as the ear a black womanbrings in a relationship (as compared toa white woman, who will not say any-thing because they do not want to makea scene), how girls want guys with mon-

ey at 28, but how Little Wayne shouldnot have eleven kids because he is ugly.He even talked about how we shouldbe glad Obama was our president,because he was the nicest black guy we

were ever going to get. He joked abouthow any other black man would havemade them sign the health care plan,and how there would have been no oth-er discussion.

The most controversial to our regionwas a Bank o America comment, claim-ing that they were better than Wacho-via. Many o the ans laughed, but oth-ers groaned, and oreited their smiles.

When Sinbad brought up TigerWoods and how he believed his mar-riage should not aect his gol, menclapped and applauded, while womenrolled their eyes. He talked about how

women would never understand, andthat guys would admit, Oh, I can see

that happening. He laughed about thedierences, but made a point to statethat the there should be a separation be-tween proessional and personal lie.

That being said, it was not surpris-ing when Sinbad had audience membersstand up and name their proessions,only to be embarrassed by what he wasabout to say. No matter what anyonenamed, Sinbad had something unny tospit back at the audience.

Why do you walk away? Heasked, looking directly at a guy who hadannounced he took X-Rays or a living.He was talking about how the guy giv-ing you an X-ray leaves you all alone ina room, strapped in a machine, and howno one is there to take care o you.

He went on to mumble words, actinglike he was a doctor studying X-rays, andthen told the invisible patient to move,like a doctor would have done. Why

would you make anyone that thoughtthey had a broken bone to move? andDo you really know what youre look-ing at when you mumble things to theX-ray? he asked.

He laughed about how policemenneed to help the people driving drunknd their way home. I they are swerv-

ing on the road, they are just calling orhelp, and want you to pull them overto tell them what their address on theirlicense plate says! I drunks make ithome without being pulled over, AL-LY-ALLY-OXEN-FREE!

He wound up his stand up act atertwo and a hal hours (with no intermis-sion) with the crowd still laughing, andapplauding vigorously. Sinbad can re-late to common, everyday people. Henever let his stardom aect his comedy,and throughout his act, he even men-tioned buying generic over pharmaceu-tical name brands because they werecheaper.

Ater struggling all over the na-tion to nd meals or himsel at a ripe27 years o age, its no wonder. Sinbadmade it big in 1985, only ater becom-ing a nali st on Star Search. From there,TV shows including Dierent World

and The New Redd Foxx Show beganrecruiting him. HBO would star him in

what would become one o their mostsuccessul comedic shows, Brain Dam-aged in 1991. The shows would leadhim, however, to bigger things, includ-ing movies like First Kid and JingleAll the Way, in 1996.

Being such a dynamic character,Sinbad has appeared in a range othings including Late Show with David

Letterman, Howard Stern, HappilyEver Ater, Bill Nye the Science Guyand even his own show, The SinbadShow. Although he has starred and ap-peared in many more, recently, Sinbadhas appeared in Family Guy in 2008,The Apprentice and EntertainmentTonight.

To kick o the start o his tour, Sin-

bad had a special comedic stand up showon Comedy Central February 21. Ater adecade o not perorming standup, theshow was entitled, Sinbad: Where UBeen? His comedy tour will carry on

with laughter. For more inormation,visit www.comedycentral.com.

JeSSiCA ARenASAsst. A&E [email protected]

Premiered on Sunday March 14, Sons o Tuc-sons rst episode Pilot took fight on FOX, de-livering a new twist on amily comedy. Featured inthis new comedy series are Natalie Martinez, Mat-thew Levy, Frank Dolce, Benjamin Stockham andTyler Labine. The main character, Ron Snukin,played by Labine, is a stone-broke Joe that crossespaths with three kids: the Gunderson brothers.Thinking that their lives are already in shambles,little do they know that more madness is to come.

The three brothers are an independent bunch,due to their ather being recently sent to jail. Theyare on a mission to nd a ake guardian to play astheir dad, so that the brothers would ght o childservices in order to stay together. Being a dad isntcheap; Snukin takes on the dad-or-hire job

with a lot o green in his pocket.The show provides much comedic relie, with

the spin o children being in control. Immediately,the show reminded me o a amiliar FOX amilyshow, Malcolm in the Middle. As I presumed,ormer Malcolm in the Middle star Justin Ber-eld is the executive producer behind the show.The Gunderson brothers were very similar to theMalcolm in the Middle brothers: Dewey, Mal-colm, Francis and Reese. In the Gunderson crew,no brother is alike. Youve got Gary, the sanemiddle brother, the dumb older brother Brandonand last but not least, the youngest and mischie-vous Robby.

Post their athers indiscretions; the Gunder-

son brothers immediately claimed their indepen-dence by leaving their home in New Jersey to theirhideaway, in Tucson, Arizona. The boys strive tohave a normal lie back. They place their bets onmaking Snukin their ather gure or the mean-time to attempt at having normal lives, and aboveall, keep their small amily together.

Day-to day challenges are made between theboys and Snukin. Always on the agenda are cra-zy antics made by Snukin, such as talking dealson Mexican pharmaceuticals, collectible war gu-rines, authentic movie memorabilia and selling alot o soccer balls. It doesnt end there; much con-vincing is to be done among authorities and am-ily bonding nds its way to t in between. Thisdysunctional amily is never what it seems.

Despite Snukins lack o single-parentingskills, he overcomes the array o pranks that theGundersons plot. Not only are these pranks madeto drive Snukin insane, theyre to prove his wor-thiness to be apart o the Gunderson clan. Thebattle between the brothers and Snukin are on-going schemes o amily un. Who knew that thebest dad is ound working at Sport Space as anundercover agent or section eight?

Over coming all the craziness, the relationshipbetween the Gunderson brothers and Snukincontinue to evolve. The strict business plan soonturns into a amily beyond compare. I ound my-sel laughing at the myriad o witty jokes made bythe Gunderson brothers. I recommend this showto restless college students that need a good laughbeore a manic Monday. Be sure to catch Sons oTucson on FOX, airing every Sunday at 9:30 p.m.

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Sons o Tucson:boys that put unin dysunctional

Disappearing or about a decade, comedian Sinbad makes a comeback

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ChRiS leeLos Angeles Times

In the music video or Lady Gagas hit singleBad Romance, the pop diva vamps across severalnightmarish tableaux wearing a variety o barelythere lingerie get-ups. The fashy clip caused asensation when it debuted in November and hasracked up 85 mil lion views on YouTube.

But perhaps its most striking aspect is theunabashed product placement, conspicuous vi-

sual shout-outs to Nemiro vodka, Nintendo Wii,Burberry and other brands.Back in the proverbial day, say, the Woodstock

era, punk rocks 70s heyday, the slacker-era 90s asong was a song and a jingle was a jingle and rare-ly the twain did meet. But now, with CD sales inree all and opportunities or radio or televisionairplay increasingly rare, the rules governing theinterplay between pop music and advertising arebeing rewritten.

Its no longer possible to sell out at least, not within a certain time-cherished understanding othe term. Rockers, rappers and up-and-coming poptitans o all stripes are licensing music and imageas an integral part o brand-building, which largelyhas usurped selling music and concert tickets asmany musicians proessional end goal.

Consider Chris Browns smash hit Forever, which cracked the Top 10 in seven countries in2008 (beore his career-derailing assault on Rihan-na) and went double platinum. At the start o thesongs video, Brown is shown sliding a piece ogum into his mouth beore heading out or a nighton the town. On Forevers chorus, he croons:Cause we only got one night / Double your plea-sure, double your un. Turns out the song wascommissioned by Wrigley to promote, you guessedit, Doublemint gum. Three months ater releasingthe single, the chewing gum conglomerate airedits reveal: a TV commercial version o Forevereaturing Brown singing about gum and dancing

with a pack o Doublemint.The spot generated outcry among music pur-

ists, but marketers greeted the spots with awe.When the reveal happened, some people gotupset, recalled Steve Stoute, ounder o the rm

Translation Consultation & Brand Imaging. Butthe number o spins went up and Doublemint wentup in awareness.

Stoute, who was behind Forever, also is re-sponsible or Justin Timberlakes Im Lovin Itspots or McDonalds as well as Beyonces endorse-ment deal or Tommy Hilgers True Star perumeand the career game plan to treat Lady Gaga likea brand in her own right.

Using entertainment assets to introduce prod-ucts is a platorm that needed to get exploited,said Stoute, a ormer executive vice presidento Interscope Records. The lines needed to be

blurred. When done correctly, theres consumeracceptance.

Stoute said his marketing company gets severalcalls a week rom major artists in pursuit o theirown Forever. Its not selling out, he argues, itheres an authentic relationship between the mu-sic and the product being hawked.

Marketing isnt successul i the consumer eelshe or she is being sold something, Stoute said.

Mariah Careys most recent CD, Memoirs oan Imperect Angel, was accompanied by a 34-page mini-magazine bearing the R&B divas im-age and emblazoned with an Elle magazine logo.Its a co-production between Careys label IslandDe Jam Music Group and Elle that eatures suchbrands as Angel Champagne, Elizabeth Arden andthe Bahamas Board o Tourism intermingled withlighter-than-air Mariah-based editorial eaturettes:VIP access to her sexy love lie, Fantasy: theve-time Grammy winner goes behind the sceneso her new drama .

Carey pointed out she is personally or commer-cially invested in everything advertised.Angel Champagne, I guess Im part owner.

The Bahamas, we have a house down there, Car-ey explained, between bites o caviar at the PoloLounge. It all has to do with things that are or-ganic to me. And honestly? Im a big kid. I thoughtit would be cute.

Island De Jam is exploring similar brandedCD booklet deals or arti sts including Kanye West,Rihanna and Bon Jovi.

It all makes The Whos rollicking 1967 con-cept album The Who Sell Out which eaturedaux commercials and cover art depicting bandmembers shilling or deodorant and baked beans

appear prescient. (In urther irony, The Whosepochal 1965 single My Generation is currentlyeatured in a commercial or Flo TV).

Scott Lipps, owner and ounder o the NewYork modeling agency One Management, recallsa time not long ago when indie rock acts wouldsooner pack in their skinny jeans than appear inashion ads. But now, Lipps has augmented thesuccess o his agency (which represents such A-listglamazons as Bar Reaeli and Claudia Schier)

with its oshoot One (M), dedicated to help placerock and pop stars in precisely such commercialenvironments. Among them: Alison Mosshart

o the Kills and Dave Gahan o Depeche Mode, who were eatured in ads or the ashion line J.Lindeberg, and the New York pop-rock band theVirgins, who were photographed or a Tommy Hil-ger campaign.

Peoples views on endorsements, doing maga-zine stu any way to reach ans its all changed. Itsnot taboo anymore, Lipps said.

Lipps, ormerly drummer or 80s rock groupBlack Cherry, remains attentive to the alliance obrand and band.

Im never going to ask a very cool band to dobusiness with a brand that they would never associ-ate with, said Lipps. Its about nding that rightt.

Ater the rock quartet OK Go broke into main-stream consciousness with the homemade videoor its 2006 single Here It Goes Again (eatur-ing the band members perorming a synchronizedroutine on exercise treadmills), they were bom-barded with oers to re-create the sequence or TV

commercials. The group developed what rontmanDamian Kulash calls OK Gos hell-no criterion:I its a product we eel is demeaning or that can-nibalizes the meaning or artistry o our song, heexplained.

Still, the band has remained receptive to over-tures rom corporate America. Last year, the musi-cians appeared in print ads and billboards or BananaRepublic its spring ashion line campaign that alsoincluded such artists as Liz Phair, Dashboard Con-essionals Chris Carrabba and Sara Bareilles atti redin natty suits, playing their instruments.

The recording industry has so entirely bottomedout, advertising is one o the only distributionmethods that stil l works, Kulash said ater return-

ing rom Japan, where he did a photo shoot or theashion brand Uniqlo.

The music side has a deep ambivalence. Itsa pretty major paradigm shit that requires a re-thinking o how we see what we do.

He added: I wish we never had to get in bedwith that stu. It doesnt eel particularly good towear the marketing hat. But our record label isntpaying to put up billboards across the country.

Fashion designer John Varvatos aced a simi-lar reluctance when he approached Ryan Adamsabout appearing in print ads and billboards or hisstreetwise clothing line in 2005. But ater convinc-

ing the alt-country singer-songwriter that therewould be nothing akey about him appearing inthe clothes, Varvatos went on to land Iggy Pop,members o Velvet Revolver and Cheap Trick, Per-ry Ferrell o Janes Addiction and Aerosmiths JoePerry or subsequent ads.

Varvatos said attitudes toward commodiyingstardom have changed.

I was besieged by people wanting to hook upwith us, Varvatos said. There are a lot o peoplecoming ater us now. Its almost the opposite prob-lem now. We have to lter out.

The designer was quick to dispel the notion,however, that the perormers in his ads were sell-ing out their images in return or some hety pay-day. We dont pay the artists much o anything,Varvatos added. Theyve got to really want to dothis.

Katie Vogel certainly has no regrets over her de-cision to star in Sprites online series Green EyedWorld, a digital marketing push that aired la st year.

The series used YouTube clips, social networkinginteraces and the promotion o soda to help theLondon native launch her career; she brandishes aSprite-green guitar in the clips and at times peoplearound her are seen quenching their thirst with acertain lemon-lime-favored rereshment. Askedi she was concerned that the association with thebrand might limit her career prospects, Vogel, whonow goes by the proessional moniker Katie V., in-sisted there were no downsides.

My music, its being heard, Vogel said. Eveni one person says, Shes the Sprite singer, theyveheard my music. So Im happy either way.

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The Evening Muse is something else. A quickglance to the inside would potentially conuse apasserby, because that quick glance wouldnt giveyou much.

It might miss over the human-ocused paintingslacing the walls, the scene, complete with a purpleguitar, built into the stage and the absolute talentthe Muse can attract, which is exactly what it didlast Saturday night when it hosted Anna Bullard,Billy Sugarx and the Houstons.

Charlottes Anna Bullard, who set up the show,opened rst. Her minimalist perormance gentlyeased listeners into what was otherwise a loud andenergetic show. She looked Her slow, sad melodiescontrasted well with Billy Sugarxs somewhat bi-zarre and catchy indie pop and the Houstons raw,honest and loud perormance. Her honest and ear-nest lyrics

The perormance, however, was clouded by lyr-ics that didnt quite t in with the rest o the songand occasionally orcing syllables in spaces wherethey didnt t.

It was unortunate, because the detail s she add-ed into songs; Sing Real Pretty details a woman

who meets a man whos already taken and how shenoticed him a nyhow.

The song itsel illustrated a dicult and bitter-sweet scenario, but lyrics such as a personal con-cert just or me and we danced the night away

were so generic and overused they stained whatwas an otherwise honest and beautiul song. How-ever, the guitar melodies in and o themselves wereconsistently beautiul.

Carrboros Billy Sugarx, ollowing Bullard ortheir second out-o-town show, was nothing short

o unique and memorable. I or no other reason,the group included oboe player Wendy Spitzer, vi-ola player Justin Blatt and double bass player DougVuncannon, instantly setting them apart rom oth-er groups. They were joined by Billy McCormick,Billy Sugarx, on guitar and vocals, as well asellow vocalist Sara Zaleta.

However, that wasnt all that made them mem-orable. They were catchy, they were quirky andthey sang and the way their songs were written,played and sung stood so ar away rom the box it

was hard to compare them to other indie artists.Their songs spanned a wide range o dierent

scenes, made poignant and haunting by the littledetails the group included in the lyrics that madethem realistic and believable.

Some o their better songs included Out Likea Lamb, a religious ballad which, by the way,brought Spitzers playing ability into some well-deserved limelight, and All the Kings Horses,

a sad, heartbreaking song that punned all o yourchildhood nursery rhymes. I you wanted some-thing less serious, they oered that to the audiencethat night, too, with Take a Shower.

The evening ended with a return to the Museby the Houstons. The Houstons Justin Fairclothon drums and keyboard simultaneously and MattFaircloth on guitar drowned out their set withstrong, meaningul melodies. The brothers hov-ered older songs, including the unreleased FallenLeaves. I you want thoughtul, introspective mel-odies or introspective, thoughtul angry music thatyou can relate to, these men are or you.

The highlight o their set inclued a sel-pro-claimed angry song about leaving Charlotte tocome back home later on. The song was highlyrelatable or anyone who grew up in Charlotte, oreven just in the state. It was one o many songs,though, that highlighted the down-to-earth lyricaltalent ellow Charlotteans can produce.

The only major downsideto their set was how loud they

were played, which was beyondtheir control anyway. Their mu-sic literally vibrated through theMuse, making it dicult to ocuson the quality o their songwrit-ing and playing.

What made the show itselspecial went beyond interestinglyrics, melodies or even a rangeo artists. It was that when theartists took the stage, they lookedlike they were truly happy to bethere, at home in their own skinon stage.

Justin Faircloth went so aras to step down in the audiencemid-set to ask the audience howthey were, encouraging members

to sit in the rst ew rows to keepit close, while McCormick triedto entice audience members intochecking out music with a reedownload, complete with candyon the card.

Zaleta grinned rom ear to earand glowed between Sugarxssongs, and Bullard comortablysituated hersel in the audience

with other audience members towatch the other two sets.

The Evening Muse constantlyplays shows by local and indieartists, and their website, includ-ing their schedule, can be oundat www.theeveningmuse.com.Each o the artists that played canbe ound on Myspace, as well.

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I you have ever lived in adorm on the campus o UNCCharlotte, or anywhere or thatmatter, you have come in contact

with a Residential Advisor.Free housing, hanging with

riends and meeting new peoples;.ounds un and easy, right?Well, super senior Faith Smithsheds light on the perks andpitalls o working as a residentialadvisor.

Faith Smith, a PublicHealth major set to graduatethis summer, has worked as anreshmen residential advisor inC.F. Lynch Hall or two-and-halyears. She describes the job o aResidential Advisor to be one ocommitment and balance, not

just un and games.Smith advises 44 college

reshmen in Lynch, which isno easy task. Besides ensuringthe personal wellbeing o eachstudent and staying abreast oincidents that happen on herfoor, she must keep an opendoor policy and be availableor students as a mentor andresource person.

I want the students on myfoor to remember that theyalways have someone to talkto. They are never alone, saidSmith.

Residential Advisors mustorganize and present a numbero programs each semester tohelp students manage college lie.Some topics include academicexcellence, healthy liestyles andsexual health and awareness.

This job is not or the shyor naive. You have to be able tocommunicate and let them knowthings that will help them makeinormed decisions, said Smith.As a senior, she has a lot opersonal experience and adviceto oer in these programs.

Committing to helping otherscan put a strain on ones personallie. The greatest challenges oher job, Smith says, [is] thebalancing act that comes withthe job. I cant get too involved

with others lives, because I havemy own and am in school also.

Smith lives by a simple andamiliar phrase, Academicscome rst.

Because o the condentialitythat Smith has to keep she cantreveal any juicy stories, but whenasked about some o the weirdestsituations she has come acrossas a Residential Advisor, sherevealed roommate conficts,people ghting over anythingand the living preerences.

While she goes on to say thatshe has never encountered anymajor conficts, she expressesthat at times things can get a littletough and one o the challengeso being a Residential Advisor isknowing how to resolve situationsbeore they get out o hand.

I an incident happens where

you are asked to become involved,you have to know how to handlethe situation and prevent it rombecoming a bigger issue.

Smith oered honest adviceto students thinking aboutbecoming Residential Advisorsin the uture, Dont do it or themoney. Behind her statement

is the act that the job is a lot o work and sometimes demandslate hours.

Residential Advisors otennd themselves up late at night,either catching up on school

work or working on something

or their building or foor. Smithadds, You must be willing

to help and keep a positiveattitude.

The experiences as aResidential Advisor arent alwayspleasant ones. As with any job

working with the public, Faithsometimes encounters rude anddisrespectul students. Oneo the keys to the success o aResidential Advisor is alwaysbeing positive.

As Smith prepares to leaveUNC Charlotte this summer, shetakes with her ond memories oher job.

She takes pride in the actthat, as a Residential Advisor, she

was able to develop relationships with the students she advisedand help them to succeed.

For Smith, being a Residential

Advisor is not about the obviousperks o ree housing and oodbut more about what she canoer her willingness to share hertime, experiences and insight

with students.For more inormation on how

to become a Residential Advisor,visit http://housing.uncc.edu

This job is not f or theshy or naive, youhave to be able to

communicate and letthem know thingsthat w ill help themmake infor med deci-sions.

Faith Smtih

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Faith Smith speaks o challenges and rewards o being an RA

I want the studentson my floor t o re-member t hat theyalw ays have some-one to talk to, t heyare never alone,

Faith Smith

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