Just a little sumpin I shot last spring.
Honey, why isn't that one printed and framed yet? It's a beaut!
Quote:Police remove Pit Preacher
Birdsong to appeal trespass warning
Kelly Giedraitis, Assistant University Editor
Posted: 3/9/07
Two University police officers escorted Gary Birdsong, better known as the Pit Preacher, off campus late Thursday morning after issuing him a trespassing warning.
Officers issued the warning after Birdsong refused to leave the Pit when asked, said Randy Young, spokesman for the Department of Public Safety.
The warning states that Birdsong can be arrested if he sets foot on campus within the next two years.
Birdsong, who has preached in the Pit since the '80s, said he is appealing the warning to DPS higher-ups.
The officers approached Birdsong after receiving a complaint from Carolina Adventures, an organization that reserved half of the Pit to promote programs.
David Yeargan, the expedition program manager for Carolina Adventures, said Birdsong interfered with the organization's ability to broadcast its message.
"After about five minutes after I got set up, Mr. Birdsong came and stood four or five feet from the table," said Yeargan, a UNC staff member.
He said he asked Birdsong, who was preaching about the evils of homosexuality, to move away from his table.
Yeargan said that when Birdsong refused to move, he approached the officers to help him handle the situation.
"I was preaching the gospel, and the security came up and said that the boy behind me had a permit," Birdsong said.
He said the officers refused to produce the permit when he asked to see it.
Birdsong finally agreed to move, but Yeargan said he moved only five feet and refused to move again - opting to take the punishment rather than accept the attempt to regulate his speech.
Officers then wrote the warning and escorted Birdsong off campus, amid jeers from students about violation of free-speech rights.
The Pit, one of the free-speech zones on campus, has historically been a venue for radical speakers to present their views.
But even some of most famous locations for free speech can be controlled, said Bill Marshall, a UNC law professor who specializes in First Amendment rights.
"Even if you have a public forum, you can regulate the use of it - as long as you can do it on an equal basis," Marshall said.
Young said that when speech keeps the University or a recognized entity from operating, it can be regulated.
Because the campus organization had reserved Pit and Yeargan reported Birdsong as an interference, he was considered to be trespassing, Young said.
Second-degree trespassing occurs after a person has been notified not to enter or remain on the premises by the owner or other authorized person, according to N.C. law.
Yeargan said that he applied for the reservation of half of the Pit though Events Planning but that he was not exactly sure what privileges the reservation entitled him.
Events Planning staff did not return calls or answer e-mail inquiries about how a reservation of the Pit affects free speech.
"From my understanding of it, I was the only one there who could present," Yeargan said. "He wasn't just standing there; he was presenting."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q7mP12TfBo
Above Birdsong preaches on why he wants to marry a white woman
![[Image: birdsong-hk.jpg]](http://www.theapp.appstate.edu/archives_04-05/05-4-21/Images/birdsong-hk.jpg)
email I rec'd today ...
Quote:Members of the campus community:
The University will host a new series of meetings about Carolina North
for the campus and local communities on the last Tuesday of each month
through May, beginning Tuesday, March 27.
You are invited to attend one of two sessions on March 27. The first
session will be at 3:30 p.m., Room 2603, School of Government,
Knapp-Sanders Building. The presentation will be repeated at 5:30 p.m.
in the same location. Parking is available in the Highway 54 lot and
Rams Head deck. The School of Government parking deck is available only
for the 5:30 p.m. meeting.
University representatives will present potential uses of Carolina North
and three conceptual approaches to its development. Attendees will have
opportunities to ask questions and share comments. The feedback will
help the university as it develops a concept plan for the UNC-owned
property.
The conceptual plans that will be presented draw on the guiding
principles developed by the Leadership Advisory Committee for Carolina
North, an ecological assessment of the property and sustainability
strategies.
At the same time the university is working on its plans, several
supporting studies are under way or planned involving the campus and
various government and community entities. Topics include transit,
transportation and fiscal impact.
University officials believe Carolina North, the 900-plus-acre tract
located about two miles north of the main campus in Chapel Hill,
represents an unprecedented opportunity to develop a mixed-use academic
community that will benefit the campus and the community.
The university's Board of Trustees has directed the administration to
submit a development plan for Carolina North to local governments by
next October.
For more information about Carolina North, go to the website,
http://carolinanorth.unc.edu.
This email is sponsored by: Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
and Economic Development
====================================================================
"INFORMATIONAL:" email will only be sent to those who have indicated
that they do want to receive mass email. To set your informational mass
email preference, logon to the on-line directory web site at
https://dir.unc.edu/dir/update.
a change it is a comin' ...
Magnificent site just put up by the North Carolina Collection
McGuire's Miracle
Quote:The season started on December 4, 1956, and ended on March 23, 1957. In between, North Carolina and the nation witnessed a perfect season—“McGuire's Miracle.” The University of North Carolina men's basketball team, which was led by Coach Frank McGuire and featured All-American Lennie Rosenbluth, finished the season 32-0. The Tar Heels won games in almost every imaginable way: they soundly defeated teams, such as their 32-point win over Clemson University in Chapel Hill; they won four overtime games, including two triple overtime wins in the Final Four; they won the coveted Dixie Classic, beating Wake Forest for the first of their four wins against the Demon Deacons that year; they won the Atlantic Coast Conference regular season and tournament championship; and, finally, they outlasted a Wilt Chamberlain-led University of Kansas team in a triple overtime contest played before a decidedly partisan Jayhawk crowd in Kansas City, Missouri, to secure the Tar Heels' first NCAA national championship.
Many, many pictures
"McGuire's Miracle"
Oh, were things different. Did you notice the staff. Just two coaches, a trainer and, someone I don't remember. For home games we sat on temporary metal bleachers in Woollen Gymnasium. The entire seating was a student section. Students complain about the limited number of seats available today! For ventilation the doors on either side would be open;so, it was not unusual for the game to be interrupted by meandering dogs.
We knew all the players as they lived in the dorms with us. They ate most of their meals with us in Ptomaine Poison Hall (aka Lenior Hall).
how about all the frigging high rises going up allover Franklin st?
13 and 11 stories on Graham and 2 8 stories at MJ's old 23 bistro.
pretty neat pics there, don
http://gazette.unc.edu/file.3.html
UNC Dedicates Memorial to Alumni War Dead
Quote:v\William Friday stood solemnly before the assembled throng, his head bent to read from the pages flapping in protest against the wind. And in a knowing rasp fitting of his years and the occasion, he spoke not as president emeritus of the UNC system, but as someone who understood all too well the toll of war.
Friday harkened back to when he was a small boy and his father pulled out his uniform and some faded photographs and told him what little he had learned about war. His father spoke of the hectic days of the Army camp and about the rain and the mud and the drilling — and of high school classmates who went off to fight who he would never see again. His father’s war was the first big war of the century that was supposed to be the last, the one fought to end all wars and make the world safe for democracy.
Picture of the Memorial
PICTURE IS REALLY BIG, CLICK AND IT WILL OPEN IN ANOTHER WINDOW. IT IS WORTH A LOOKSEE.
Quote:The memorial sits at the heart of campus on Cameron Avenue between Phillips and Memorial halls and consists of a long bench that points to the Old Well. The street side is a stone wall like those commonly found across campus. The other side, facing the rest of the memorial, is a red sandstone bench inscribed with a quote from “Look Homeward Angel,” a novel by University alumnus Thomas Wolfe.
The bench faces six low stone walls and 10 small blooming trees, bisected by a sidewalk inscribed with quotes from or about 16 of the 684 Carolina alumni who were killed during wartime, from the Civil War to the Gulf War.
Their names are listed in a bronze Book of Names with pull-out panels. The book includes space for additional names of those who may be lost in the future. To date, the war in Iraq has claimed no Carolina graduates.
The North Carolinians
We are modest and immoderately proud of that modesty, a somewhat paradoxical condition. We like to cite with self-effacing pride the famous quote: “North Carolina is a vale of humility between two mountains of conceit.” Those mountains, of course, are the old aristocratic bastions of Virginia and South Carolina, though now they too are becoming chopped-up subdivisions of suburban values similar to North Carolina’s. The aristocrats have all gone underground, as in died.
The North Carolinian believes in niceness as b oth a practice and a veil, as an expression of Christianity and democratic values, and as a disguise. Even the Carolinian’s most unseemly moves will occur behind a screen of Christian rectitude. Or a silly Christmas sweater that suggests roly-poly affability. Again, a prideful possession of the middle.
The average male North Carolinian wears khaki pants the way other men wear fancy suits, as a badge of his identity. He won’t get too far above his raising. The choice these days is really between pleats or flat-fronts.
We are what we are.
Unable to express hostility with much directness, restrained as we are by an ill-fitting Christianity (and if male, by those middle-of-the-road khakis), we North Carolinians will come at you sideways with either shy irony or truculent sweetness. First, we’ll try to save you from yourself. If that doesn’t work, we might try to kill you with kindness. And if that doesn’t work, we’ll just kill you, but politely. This is what good manners are for. We’re masters of a complex, coded set of manners. There are many ways to kill that don’t require actual bloodshed.
I say that the North Carolinian is unable to express hostility with much directness—that is, unless he or she has the mixed blessing of being a redneck, very few of which still exist in their original state, having been suburbanized to the point of neuter by improved economic circumstances and Republican campaign strategists. Indeed, the cult of the redneck, as celebrated in popular culture by the likes of the late newspaper columnist Lewis Grizzard (who never met a bowl of grits he couldn’t eulogize like Pickett’s Charge) and by the comedians Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy, is a sure sign that the redneck’s original badass vitality has been largely sucked dry. Toothless and enfeebled, and in that sense looking a lot like he did in his prime, the redneck has been helped into the Museum of Old Stereotypes, an institution that has been franchised and broadened to include NASCAR racetracks. At the big raceways like Talladegga and Rockingham, an entire species stuck in limbo between old country ways and the tedious demands of suburbia celebrates the wild way life used to feel, even if they never felt it personally. Remember them bootleggers cornering on a hairpin mountain turn? The cars roar by, and the fans shake with the engine vibrations as if they were equipped with all that horsepower themselves. Want to see rednecks these days? They’re safely sealed inside television glass. They’re a concept, not a class. They’re caricatures of disenfranchisement sold by intellectual merchants who’ve found profit in resentment.
The suburban Carolinians have an entirely different relationship with the world. They’ve been civilized. Where their redneck antecedents may have cursed and grumbled and taken the Lord’s name in vain (or shouted for Him in desperation at a later-summer revival), the suburbanites slather prayer over everything like ketchup. They believe in a personal relationship with Jesus that makes the Lord sound like the best bank loan officer/therapist/career counselor a guy or gal could ever have.
The new Carolinians like to preface the word “family” with the definitive article “the” as if family were something new and brave in the world, a political party of its own. The way they say “the family” makes the two words reverberate together with Mafioso undertones and suggests an exclusive organization prepared to eliminate all competitors.
Such Carolinians inhabit their suburbs like little islands unto themselves, each family a separate nation. The Reconstructionist ideal might have been 40 acres and a mule. These days, the Carolinians want 1.4 acres and a gleaming SUV that’s as durable as a mulle and a whole lot shinier.
So much niceness! Such family values! Between megachurch and maneuvering decently at the office, how’s a fellow or gal supposed to cut loose? What if a bad thought crosses that sweet, Jesusified mind? Where’s it supposed to go?
Well, brothers and sisters, that’s where basketball comes in. In a state otherwise deprived of outlets for the vehement passions—that forbidden emotion of hatred, for instance—there is ACC basketball, a veritable festival of hatred, sanctioned and almost sanctified. And the most antagonistic relations within the ACC can be found between Duke [sic] and North Carolina.
Will Blythe, pp. 46—48 in To Hate Like This is to be Happy Forever
Oh...and check this out (found at WXYC blog)
Quote:Look who heated up the phone lines yesterday...
"The Pride" of Latta, South Carolina, former UNC point guard of the 2005 UNC National Championship team, and current Charlotte Bobcat, Raymond "The Truth" Felton was interviewed by Bret Dougherty on a "Special Edition SportsRap" session yesterday.
Check out the interview here.
Special kudos goes out to Neil, the 6-9AM DJ, on Thursday. Very impressive set that precluded the interview...The freshman phenom kept it "local" with cuts by Little Brother, Edgar Allen Floe, and the classic 'Criminal Minded' of Boogie Down Productions.
The solid piece of the interview is that Bret Dougherty asked Felton if he would guarantee a playoff appearance for next year. The answer...Same guarantee rests for Felton next season, he's guaranteeing a playoff appearance. Bold call from the young gunna'!
Check back in to SportsRap on Sundays between 9-10PM.
Special thanks to Raymond for joining us on the show. Now, if we can get Raymond to rock a WXYC 'T' with the number 2 emblazoned on the back. That would be Chapel Hill love.
P.S. Felton swears he's not wolfing Chick-Fill-A Chicken sandwiches on gamedays anymore. What a shame...His pre-game meals placed him as a Honorable Mention Selection on the "All-Lenoir" team.
Wow! Then it's no longer really Morrison is it? Glad they did the upgrades but Morrison with AC?!?
I guess it was '90 or '91 when the Braves won the World Series-Morrison had to be the loudest dorm on campus. The kids and I were across the road in Odum Village (Family Housing) and the noise from Morrison was amazing!! Almost didn't need to watch the game on TV.
http://tarheelblue.cstv.com/sports/m-bas...07aad.html
Quote:Smith Center Floor Is Repainted, Refinished
Aug. 2, 2007
Photo Gallery
CHAPEL HILL - The University of North Carolina men's basketball court in the Dean Smith Center has been refinished and repainted this summer in preparation for the 2007-08 season.
Over 20 years of finish was sanded off the court, stripping it down to the bare wood for the first time since the building was built in 1986. From that point, the wooden floor was repainted to match the court's previous appearance and then refinished.
The finish on top of the paint currently is curing and needs several weeks to dry. No one is allowed on the court until at least the end of August while it dries. The Smith Center is closed to the general public until that point.
To view a photo gallery taken by photographer Jim Bounds of the court's refinishing and repainting, please click on the link above.
There is a slideshow link at the tarheelblue site above...
wrongtimezone Wrote:how about all the frigging high rises going up allover Franklin st?
13 and 11 stories on Graham and 2 8 stories at MJ's old 23 bistro.
I absolutely hate what is happening to a once gorgeous compus. More bricks, buildings and parking decks than at NC State.