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1 Expand History (But Enough With The Buses); "City vs. Town"
2 Chapel Hill as 4th major improv city?
3 Ben Folds
4 removed paragraph
5 removed kaze
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[edit] Expand History (But Enough With The Buses); "City vs. Town"

As a recent UNC grad, I'd love to see an expansion of the history (I'm not well enough versed in CH history to do it myself), and there is too much written on the free buses. Believe me, there was nobody who loved the fare-free buses than did I (I could afford to live away from campus because of them), but it's not really that important in the town's history. I have trimmed the section down.

Also, the statement concerning "city" vs. "town" status at the beginning is not important enough to be in the article. In North Carolina, there is no official criteria for calling an incorporated area a "city" or "town;" it is up to the community itself (and the "vibe" that it wants to project to outsiders). Chapel Hill and Cary are among the largest communities in the state and are "towns," but two small communities in my home county (Brunswick) that are officially "cities." If the Chapel Hill municipal gov't considered becoming a "city" to be important, it could petition Raleigh and the change would happen ASAP. I have never understood why there is no official criteria; perhaps because it means more work for the state government.--Bjeversole 06:19, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chapel Hill as 4th major improv city?

The town has also become one of the largest centers of improvisational comedy in the country, behind Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles.

Is there any credible source for the above statement? No disrepect intended for the good people of Chapel Hill, but I have to question whether either nationally-known comedians or general comedy audiences would would be likely to think of Chapel Hill right after Chicago, NYC, and LA as a major source of improv. My question is partially motivated by the citing of Chapel Hill High School's Improv Company, which one en:Wikiquote user seems to feel is quoteworthy, even though the much more famous Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (the basis for Fame) has no similar Wikiquote article. If this is a real oversight, I'd like to know. — Jeff Q (talk) 28 June 2005 05:01 (UTC)

IMO it is a non-neutral point of view statement and seems to be plugging a specific entertainment troupe. Not exactly educational.--BAW 21:42, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

I live in Carrboro (which may as well be Chapel Hill), and other than a comedy club or two (like any college town), I know of no signifcant improv culture. There is a pretty good local theater scene, and an excellent music scene... but improv? I think that Chapel Hill is "behind Chicago, NYC, and LA" in the comedy scene in the same way it's behind them in population. I'm removing this pending some better argument.--Schepers 22:55, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ben Folds

Ben Folds is listed in the Who's who in Chapel Hill section, but Chapel Hill is not mentioned in the Ben Folds article. I suspect Ben Folds does not belong in this list. Winston-Salem is mentioned in the Ben Folds article as his birthplace. ~ Apollo Creed 00:30, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

See W-S Journal article where it references him as being currently from CH. Also Ben Folds Five says band started in CH. -Jcbarr 02:18, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] removed paragraph

I just removed the following paragraph from the history section:

On Feb. 3, 2006, an immigrated Iranian recent UNC graduate used a rented Jeep to ram a crowd of students at a popular campus gathering place and later told police he'd done it out of anger over America's treatment of Moslems.

My feeling is that there are probably many crimes committed by UNC grads, and this is not really notable for the town at large. I am moving it here for further discussion. Thoughts? --Hansnesse 00:56, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

I should note that this source has no one killed in the incident (which I think took place on Mar 3, not Feb 3 as stated). --Hansnesse 01:00, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

It's just a bit of breaking news - Mar 3 is the correct date, and I figure someone was just putting it there so that s/he could say s/he contributed to Wikipedia. A troubling news event, but it doesn't have a wide enough impact (at least it doesn't as of yet) to merit inclusion in the article on Chapel Hill. --Ted

[edit] removed kaze

if we list kaze under "who's who in chapel hill" then we have to list every amateur musician. no particular notability (yet) that warrants his inclusion on the list. 64.131.239.217 04:50, 23 June 2006 (UTC)