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Apparently Mayor Kevin Foy’s resolution that Apple Chill (and hopefully After Chill) be ended was adopted unanimously and without debate.

I personally welcome the chance to rid our fair town of hoodlums that come to town. Some have said this might be killing an “African American cultural event” (*cough* Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton *cough*). But quite frankly it’s silly to say rampant thuggery that results in armed robberies, three shooting victims and who knows how many fights and incidents of sexual harassment and assault is a cultural event. And if it is, then maybe we should think carefully about whether that really makes it any better.

Because it doesn’t. Yes, there are racial overtones here. But race has nothing to do with it. Gang activity and lawlessness are bad things no matter what the miscreants’ ethnicity is.

Those are my thoughts. What say y’all?

So, this band from Gainesville, FL that calls itself No Pronto was kind enough to send us an advance copy of their brand new 9-song EP, Tired in exchange for a few words acknowledging the band’s May 10th engagement to appear at Wetland’s Dancehall on E. Rosemary Street. 

I must say, it is a pleasure to drop a few words. The EP is solid. No Pronto plays a riff-based style of rock and roll, which they refer to as blues-punk, bringing to mind blues-based riff rockers from the 1970s, like Deep Purple or maybe even early Led Zeppelin. But the band’s sound is more rooted in 1980s post-hardcore, in the vein of SST bands like Hüsker Dü or maybe even a little Sonic Youth. 

In the band’s own words, “From music production to booking a 1,000+ miles tour, No Pronto is as DIY as they come.” 

In my own words, “They’re definitely worth checking out.” 

No pronto will be at Wetland’s Dancehall in Chapel Hill on May 10 with The City Drive. Doors at 9pm. $6 cover. 

Check out No Pronto at their website or their MySpace.

-Bryan Reed / Arts Desk-

Debates should use facts and opinions, not dogma
TO THE EDITOR:
I’m not sure when the letters to the editor section at The Daily Tar Heel became a soapbox for religious testimony, but the trend is getting worse and the standards for what constitutes a reasoned opinion worthy of publication are dropping.
The fiasco surrounding Don Wheatley’s antics was bad enough, but Thursday’s letter from Marianne Tioran on the Gospel of Judas sent me over the edge. Tioran’s banter demonstrated a complete ignorance of information regarding the gospel itself, thinly veiled with Christian confessional rhetoric.
For starters, Bart Ehrman never said the gospel was written by Judas himself. In fact, in his Monday lecture following the National Geographic special, Ehrman specifically emphasized that the gospel was written after Judas’ death. The authentication process was only intended to show the document is in fact an ancient manuscript.
It is strange that Tioran’s letter speaks so confidently of the books from the Orthodox canon, all of which were similarly authored decades after the death of Christ and many of which, from a historical perspective, are of disputed or unknown authorship. She mentions that “it was also witnessed by the other apostles that Judas hung himself … after he realized he had betrayed the Messiah.” Is it really witnessed as such? Matthew’s Gospel certainly relays this account, but where is this story “witnessed” in the other Gospels? The Book of Acts tells a completely different story, one in which Judas falls headlong into a field, his intestines spilling out at impact.
Then again, rhetoric like Tioran’s is not particularly strange at all on the back page of the DTH these days. Tioran is absolutely sure that the Gospel of Judas “has no truth in it,” but what she really means is that from her Christian perspective, the Gospel is not theologically significant. The fact that the message of this gospel does not corroborate Ms. Tioran’s personal religious opinion does not relegate its historical value to “entertainment” or “fantasy” status. The back page should be a place for substance and enlightened debate, not for cheap proselytism or religious testimony.

Ben Lundin
Junior
Religious Studies

Everyone, partisan or not, should vote in the primary
TO THE EDITOR:
I am writing in response to the recent articles about primary voting in Orange County.
First, I would like to thank you for your information on early voting, you are providing a valuable service to the campus community. Secondly, I wish to clear up a misconception.
In both articles you mentioned that “to participate in the primaries, voters must be registered with a party.” This is not the case. The Orange County Board of Elections Web site states: “Unaffiliated voters may vote in Party Primary Elections by choosing one of the party ballots that is being voted on. Doing so will not change the voter’s party affiliation.”
Unaffiliated voters can vote in either the Democrat or Republican primary — they just have to choose one or the other, and not vote in both. Therefore, I hope to see all voters — Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated — at Morehead Planetarium starting today.

Jill Trufant
Secretary
Orange County Dem. Party

Turn to the printed media for accurate information
TO THE EDITOR:
Recently it struck me that this spring has been a very tumultuous time for the academic world here in the Triangle. What I mean is that we are facing shocking, controversial events in our local community which might cause us to re-evaluate our world view.
I am referring specifically to two events: the SUV attack in the Pit that some people have chosen to label as terrorism, and the charges being pursued against members of the Duke men’s lacrosse team.
We all have to be aware that the printed word is our most important source of information in this kind of situation. The national media can’t tell us what to think, because although these things are very important to us, they’re not that important to the rest of the country. And we can’t let rumors or secondhand information cloud our judgment, either, because our peers are bound to no standards of objectivity or truthfulness.
As bystanders, no one says that we have to hold an opinion on these matters. But if we want to hold an opinion, then we have a responsibility to be reliably informed. And the most reliable source we have for information is not our peers, or our teachers, or television, or the Internet, but the printed press. There’s a reason the right to a free press is listed specifically in the Bill of Rights — this is the reason.

Tyler Boyd
Junior
Psychology

Cartoon wasn’t sensitive in lynching comparison
TO THE EDITOR:
I am writing in response to the publication of the April 20 editorial cartoon that likened the recent Duke lacrosse rape case to the numerous lynchings that occurred in the New South, 1880-1920.
Such a comparison was done in poor taste and was a gross historical misrepresentation. Blacks were lynched based on false accusations of rape without any judicial due process and had no opportunity to refute these claims legally.
The two lacrosse players have the exceptional ability and access to both legal representation and due process under the law. Contrary to the cartoon’s implications, the players have not been strung up, killed, burnt alive, castrated, mutilated or made into souvenirs by the media or black community.
Before making such comparisons in the future, I highly recommend that you consult the numerous scholarship on lynching, a general textbook, a historian or an individual who has been directly affected by lynching.

Hilary Green
Graduate student
History

Predecessor: Brewer will make good BOE chairman
TO THE EDITOR:
I am writing to express my support for Jim Brewer as Board of Elections chairman.
I know him to be judicious with his decisions and fair with punitive actions. His hard work has been displayed in our organization of the many polling places during the previous election and will continue to be prevalent in his movement to replace faulty elections software. Jim is not only the right man for the job but also the best man for the job.

Nicholas Mosley
Junior
Economics, Political science

The UNC-system Association of Student Governments doesn’t have any known history of discriminating against ugly people or Green Party members, but the student senate at UNC-Greensboro apparently wanted to be on the safe side.

Senators put forward a resolution calling on the ASG to amend its non-discrimination policy to include a whole range of interesting categories, since the current version, they claim, “creates an enumeration of characteristics that is incomplete and implies that all characteristics not listed are legitimate grounds for discrimination.”

The current policy lists race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, national origin, ethnic origin and disability. (Please see correction posted in the comments section).

The UNC-G resolution would have expanded it to include political beliefs, political affiliation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, socio-economic status, physical appearance, height, weight, life experiences and place of residence.

When the ASG General Assembly opened debate on the resolution Saturday, it was fairly clear that most delegates weren’t keen on the more comprehensive policy. One delegate noted that he’d never been asked to submit a tax return to the ASG, and therefore didn’t understand how socioeconomic discrimination could possibly be a problem. Another pointed out that there were pretty obvious differences in the height and weight of various delegates, and no one seemed to be discriminating against them.

While it was apparent that the motion was headed for defeat, the assembly ultimately decided to table it until next year. In the meantime, the UNC-G student senate might want to consider a petition to the state government. After all, the non-discrimination clause in the N.C. constitution prohibits only four kinds of discrimination (race, color, religion, or national origin), which is only about 1/5 as much non-discrimination as UNC-G senators would like.

- Eric Johnson

Oh, I love economics. Sure, it’s called the dismal science for a reason. And yes, math majors deride us for being essentially a four year “Math for Dummies” course, and everyone else just thinks we’re boring. But economics is the ultimate smart-aleck major, designed specifically, I think, to annoy your friends. Wondering why frat boys have a lot of, well, platonic touching and slapping? Assume it’s a non-repeatable zero-sum game, and you’ll find you have a Nash equilibrium*. Wondering how much money going to grad school will get you? Take opportunity cost into account, and you might think differently about getting
that PhD.

And, of course, economics can make you money. Not in the traditional way of course. Many of my fellow majors somehow think their intimate knowledge of IS-LM equilibrium models is going to net them a high salary after school. Uh, no. But economics can make you money in much subtler ways.

Take, for example, the penny. This article in today’s New York Times spells the situation out quite well. Because of rising demand (and therefore prices) of zinc (they’ve doubled in the past year), a penny now costs 1.4 cents to make. Now, the metal in one penny is only worth .8 cents — the rest comes from the printing cost. But it’s totally feasible, and even likely, since the demand for zinc will probably only rise and I don’t know how many more new mines they can find, that the price of zinc will go up and continue to rise. Let’s assume the price of zinc doubles, so each penny has 1.6 cents of metals in it. You have $1,000 worth of pennies and you sell them and melt them down — you’ve just made $600, bra. A 60% return on an investment, especially within a year, is pretty darn amazing. You’re not going to get something like that in the stock market.

Sounds too good to be true, don’t it? Well, the situation’s already happened. According to my good friend Wikipedia, the U.S. government stopped making copper pennies in 1982 because of rising copper prices (you can hear it from the cow’s mouth, if you want). Now, copper prices haven’t risen that much since then, but a pre-1982 penny is worth 1.75 cents. 75% returns, people. So you should go out and horde pennies before the U.S. switches penny metals again, probably to steel like they did in World War II.

Now, I know you’re probably thinking, “Well, gee, Adam, this sounds too good to be true! Are there any downsides?” Well, not really. Pennies will likely remain legal tender, so you won’t lose your money. If they’re ever phased out, the government will probably offer a grace period to convert them back to cold hard cash. Assuming zinc prices don’t increase, the only lost money would be in the form of the opportunity cost of holding the pennies (since you could have invested that money somewhere) and rising inflation. IE, not much. So even in the worst case scenario, you don’t lose much money.

So what are you waiting for, people? Go convert $10,000 to pennies at the nearest bank! It’s the best investment you can make, I imagine. And you can thank me when you’re rich. You know, by, like, giving me money or something.

- Adam Rodman

Money Guru

* Mind you, it’s not EXACTLY a zero-sum game — there can be some collaboration — and more importantly, it is repeatable, but it’s a useful abstraction. Just ask me for, uh, elaboration on my theory and I’ll be glad to talk about it!

Today’s back page is a little crazy. Too crazy in my opinion. And I think the cartoon would look better in the center.

Visual elements are meant to supplement narrative content, not vice-versa. The graphic on the bottom does not really need to be that large. Actually, it doesn’t really need to be there at all. Instead of pointing out the low turnout, let’s figure out a way to make people get interested. I think we should have ran this stuff earlier and used that space to tell people what meetings and forums they could attend to learn more about the candidates. That would have been more useful to readers. Sorry guys - but this is just my opinion. Others may love it. A for effort.

Anyone else feel differently?

Housing is not as unfair as Kite’s letter would imply
TO THE EDITOR:
I understand Jonathan Kite’s frustration with housing in Craige Residence Hall, but I would like to clarify some statements from his letter.
First, the tossing of one chair was not the first incident of vandalism in Craige during the past month. Craige residents also recently received an e-mail informing us of vandalism in the elevators.
Second, although the housing contracts are not available on the housing Web site, the “community living standards,” the “residence hall conduct process” and “resident expectations and responsibilities” are.
The Facility Issues section of the community living standards would be of particular interest in this case. The vandalism of University furniture is explicitly prohibited. In the conduct process, housing states that sanctions might be determined based on the seriousness of the violation.
In this case, since the community director does not know who committed this destructive vandalism, it seems appropriate that she impress on the whole community the seriousness of the violation by closing the study lounges until an investigation is concluded.
Third, the sixth floor has not been “charged and held collectively responsible” for the vandalism. The sixth floor is simply the scene of the crime. As a Craige resident, I’m angry that the actions of two or three individuals have cost the entire building their studying facilities just prior to the start of exams, but we are all being held accountable for this incident.
Fourth, I’m surprised that Kite finds our director’s e-mail confusing. I see nothing “incoherent” in her e-mail. She makes it quite clear that a new plan for study lounge use is currently under development and that she is open to resident suggestions. In addition, she reminds residents that while the majority of the lounges are closed, the first floor Green Room and basement Coffee House remain available for studying.
I hope that the investigation into this serious incident of vandalism concludes as soon as possible, so the study lounges will reopen and that in the future residents will consider the impact their actions have on their community.

Rebecca Bonham-West
Sophomore
Education

Go out to the Pit to speak your mind from ‘soap box’
TO THE EDITOR:
Today from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., Democracy Matters is hosting an open mic in the pit as part of our Democracy Day activities. We are inviting you to come speak out about our government, specifically democracy and your place in it.
We feel that the government is dominated by big money right now, and most people are left out of the process, which is far from democratic.
We want people who feel that their voice is not heard to get on the soap box and speak their mind.
You can bring up any issue you wish, and it is also a good opportunity to publicize any events your group is organizing in the near future. Prizes will be awarded to participants.
I hope to see you there.

Jeremy Fiel
President
Democracy Matters at UNC

Letter glibly labels all the opposition as being racist
TO THE EDITOR:
Reuben Baker’s initial statements about the advertisement placed by the Patrick Henry Foundation in Monday’s The Daily Tar Heel are as follows: “The ad pronounces the same racist and anti-Muslim sentiments that were expressed by certain individuals on campus following the Pit attack and that thinks Middle Eastern/Muslim equals terrorist.”
I would disseminate from this poorly structured sentence that Baker thinks the statements made by myself and others after the Pit attack equate Islamic terrorism with the whole of Islam. Therefore, Baker’s claim that “nowhere in (his) letter” does he interpret the condemnation of “Islamic terrorism as condemnation of Islam,” is flat out illogical.
He was not the one being questioned about equating Islam with terrorism after holding a rally in the Pit the Monday after the Pit attack; I was.
He then cites “previous statements,” as evidence that I do indeed equate Islam with terrorism and says that the “vagueness” of the advertisement — and by default says the vagueness of the Pit rally — implies that both the ad and the rally equates Islam with terrorism.
String along whatever arbitrary assumptions you will, but my well documented support of profiling Arabs in airports does not mean I believe the nature of the Islamic religion lends itself to terrorism, as Kris Wampler is unafraid of stating.
Furthermore, insinuating that “vagueness” equals ignorance of the differentiation between Islam and Islamic extremism is ignorance to the highest degree.
Lumping viewpoints together allows Baker to wantonly apply the “racist” label to anyone who disagrees with him and polarize the debate instead of producing respectable counterpoints.

Jillian Bandes
Junior
Peace, War and Defense

Come out to eat and chill at Chapel Hill’s Apple Chill
TO THE EDITOR:
The Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Department invites students to attend the 35th annual Apple Chill Street Fair on Sunday, April 23 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Apple Chill is a great opportunity to support local artisans, enjoy international cuisine, see performers and spend the day with friends.
The fair will stretch along Franklin Street, from Henderson Street to Roberson Street, in downtown Chapel Hill.
Local arts and crafts artists will be selling their handmade products, including pottery, woodcrafts, paintings and jewelry. Vendors will be serving up food from around the world will satisfy any taste palate, from gyros to Caribbean cuisine. Musicians will play a variety of types of music, including rhythm and blues, acoustic, big band, Latin, beach, jazz and soul along side performers including the Apple Chill Cloggers and Neill’s Tae Kwon Do Demo Team, on five different stages.
So come out with friends to enjoy Apple Chill, Chapel Hill’s most dynamic and enjoyable fair.

Kacey Faberman
Junior
Journalism, History

Here’s what there is to vote on:

Democratic Primary

Board of County Comissioners (pick 3)
Mike Nelson
Barry Jacobs (i)
Alice Gordon (i)
Artie L. Franklin
Betty Tom Phelps Davidson
Robin Cutson
Fred Battle

District Attorney, district 15B
Jim Woodall

N.C. Senate, district 23
Ellie Kinnaird (i)

N.C. House, district 56 (Chapel Hill and Carrboro)
Verla C. Insko (i)

U.S. Congress, district 4
David Price (i)
Oscar Lewis
Kent Kanoy

County Sheriff
Lindy Pendergrass (i)

Clerk of Court
Jamie Stanford (i)

Register of Deeds
Joyce Pearson (i)

Republican Primary

Board of County Comissioners (pick 3)
Jamie Daniel

N.C. Senate, district 23
E. B. Alston

U.S. Congress, district 4
Steve Acuff

County Sheriff
Buddy Parker

Stuff everyone votes on

Superior Court Judge, district 15B (pick 2)
Adam Stein (D)
Michael Patrick (D)
Kenneth B. Oettinger (D)
Carl R. Fox (D)
Allen Baddour (D)
Chuck Anderson (D)

N.C. Court of Appeals Judge
Linda Stephens (D)
Donna Stroud (R)
Chris Parrish (R)

N.C. Court of Appeals Judge
Bob Hunter (D)
Bill Constangy (R)
Kris Bailey (R)

N.C. Supreme Court Associate Justice
Robin Hudson (D)
Bill Gore (D)
Gus Gray (R)
Ann Marie Calabria (R)
Jill Cheek (D)

Letters fail to grasp initial concerns over center’s ad
TO THE EDITOR:
In response to Kris Wampler’s letter, what is racist about the Patrick Henry Center’s ad is that it does not simply point out that an act of terrorism took place. It is vague in its accusations.
If one checks the center’s Web site, they can find center director Gary Aldrich’s response to a letter written to him by none other than Wampler himself.
In this letter he characterizes the University as “pro-Islam” not as “pro-terrrorist” or even “pro-Islamic terrorist.” Because the center’s ad was a direct response to Wampler’s complaints, I conclude that the “one cause” the ad refers to is not terrorism but all of Islam.
Even if my interpretation is wrong, I am still concerned that the advertisement’s vagueness should have been taken into consideration before the ad was printed because The Daily Tar Heel has a policy against printing ads that “discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color or sex.”
If the ad’s aim was simply to condemn terrorism, then the ambiguity should have at least been addressed.
However, because the Pit attacks have also not been officially declared as “terrorism,” I would also reconsider the rationale for printing an ad that declares the acts something they are not officially recognized as.
Jillian Bandes, who earlier this year wanted “all Arabs to be stripped naked and cavity-searched if they get within 100 yards of an airport,” assumed that I see condemning Islamic terrorism as condemnation of Islam, but nowhere in my letter do I make that conclusion. I completely agree with her that condemning Islamic terrorism “express(es) disdain for the perverted individuals who skew an otherwise peaceful religion,” however contradictory this seems to her previous statements about Arabs.
I did not feel that the advertisement was condemning Islamic terrorism but rather Islam itself.
Finally, I would like to point out that, yes, the acts were motivated by Islam, but to make this the only point in one’s condemnation of the attacks is to imply the conclusion that I found so asinine before — that Muslim equals terrorist.

Reuben Baker
Sophomore
Public Policy

Dental researcher weighs in on the ‘Gospel of Judas’
TO THE EDITOR:
I am writing to dispute the claims of professor Bart Ehrman who claimed that the Gospel of Judas was authentic.
While it might be true that the document might be ancient, to automatically claim it was written by the real Judas is totally unfounded.
For Jesus to lie to his apostles, telling them that Judas was a traitor and that Judas was essentially the son of the devil by betraying the son of God, when he actually had permission to turn him in, would be uncharacteristic of Jesus and would set Judas up to be attacked or shunned by the others.
This would not be a loving thing to do to a “most beloved apostle.” Jesus was always open with the truth, and for someone to conspire in a sneaky way like this would immediately make him not messiah material and would make any apostle suspicious of Jesus, not cooperative.
It was also witnessed by the other apostles that Judas hanged himself immediately in despair after he realized he had betrayed the messiah. Judas, therefore, was not alive to write any gospel.
The true gospels agree with each other but contradict this particular document. The document, although ancient, was written about 250 years after the death of Jesus, so it could not be written by anyone alive at the time of Christ.
Just because something is old does not make it true. This would be analogous to finding transcripts of the Jerry Springer Show a thousand years from now and claiming he was having a church service, or thinking that the tabloids we see in the grocery line must be true because the tabloids would be 2000 years old in the future.
Jesus had no need to conspire with anyone. He accomplished many miraculous works, and there were witnesses to these events. The Gospel of Judas might be entertainment and fantasy, but it has no truth in it.
It seems secular people are very hungry for strange stories about Jesus from odd places like Egypt, but they cannot accept the accounts in the gospels written by eye witnesses.

Marianne E. Tioran
Research Specialist
UNC Dental Research Center

Women and men unite in Raleigh to protest the GA
TO THE EDITOR:
N.C. Women United, a volunteer organization composed of more than 40 women’s organizations from around the state, is hosting Women’s Advocacy Day to be held on June 20 at the General Assembly building in Raleigh.
The event will bring together hundreds of constituents to lobby their state legislators on an array of issues like raising the state’s minimum wage to $6 per hour, opposing the Defense of Marriage Act, instituting needle-exchange programs and correcting some of the medical inaccuracies and biased language in the state’s currently mandated Abstinence Until Marriage school health curriculum.
Participants can advocate for whichever issues they personally support. A lobbyist training session will be provided for neophytes. Refer to www.ncwu.org or contact me for more information.
On a more personal note, I challenge Nathaniel Gindele to attend, as he done much to denigrate others’ activist efforts while doing little himself to advocate for change.

Nicolette Hylan
Sophomore
Women’s Studies

Go to Fetzer to check out sweet handball action
TO THE EDITOR:
Unless you happened to catch NBC’s 3:30 a.m. coverage during the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, you’ve probably never seen team handball.
It is a fast-paced, high-scoring, hard-hitting, action-packed game that is the world’s second most popular team sport.
This weekend the Carolina Team Handball Club is proud to host the 2006 U.S. Team Handball Collegiate Nation Championships, sponsored by the U.S. Olympic Committee. Men’s and women’s teams from colleges across the country will be competing in Fetzer Gym on Saturday and Sunday to take home the national title.
Game times are from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday and 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday.
The Carolina Team Handball men’s club is the two-time defending national champion and the women’s club won the title in 2004.
Students are encouraged to check out this exciting sport and cheer on the Tar Heels this weekend, as the men attempt an unprecedented threepeat, and the women try to win their second title in three years.

Johnny Massengale
President
Carolina Team Handball Club

Andrew Jones
Sophomore
Economics

There ya go, Ryan. If you want to promo me again, the work is all done for you. Just copy-paste! I’ll even write an alternative promo: “A 21-year-old’s super duper exciting time with Wikipedia! YAY YAY YAY!!!!”. That’s four exclamation marks in a row.

But now my point. I’m sure we’ve all heard of Wikipedia by now. Man, I love it. I’ve been a Wikipedia nerd for some time now. It’s like when people have those bands that they like, and then they have a hit single or something, and they’re like, “That’s SO passe. I liked ‘em before they were popular!” You know, like the Arts desk! Well, I’m like that with Wikipedia. I went to see Jimmy Wales speak here at UNC, and when he asked if any of us were Wikipedians, my hand shot up. And, uh, just me, actually. I expected there to be a few more there, but nope. Just ol’ Adam. I’ve made quite a few edits to the ol’ Wikipedia, and a few UNC-related ones too.

But maybe you’ve heard some about Wikipedia’s problems, too. So in the interest of, like, research and stuff, I took a look at The Daily Tar Heel’s Wikipedia sites to see how we match up.

Well, I ran into problems pretty quickly. First of all, there are two Wikipedia pages about our paper, one at Daily tar heel and the other at The Daily Tar Heel (the first, incidentally, created by a “CCameron”, who I imagine is our very own opinion editor). The second is probably the right name, seeing how The New York Times is at “The New York Times” (with the “the”).

So let’s take a look. It reads:

“The independent student newspaper of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, started on February 23, 1893.”

Well, problem 1: It’s not really a sentence. That’s right, there’s no verb! But believe it or not, this is actually an improvement over what was originally here. The first version, by one Firmitas, reads, “A Radical Campus Newspaper.” That was our mark in history, at least on Wikipedia. Not only is it not accurate, it’s also very specious as a sentence. You will notice, dear readers, that this also has no verbs. Furthermore, while A deserves to be capitalized, Radical, Campus, and Newspaper are not proper nouns. Copy would have a fit.

Now, I wonder how many people actually learn about the DTH through Wikipedia, but we can do better! That’s why I now officially announce the Features Desk 2006 Improve Our Wikipedia Article Now! Wikipedia article improvement drive, or FD2006IOWARN! for short. So scooch on over to The Daily Tar Heel site at Wikipedia, and let’s let ‘em have it! Thank you all for your time.

By the way, I was just kidding, Arts desk. Y’all are awesome.

- Adam