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Thursday, November 3,1994
V-8, More Beer Lead
List of Hangover Cures
BY GREG KALISS
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The first sign of danger is the pounding
headache, the kind that feels as if every
blood vessel in the brain is thumping like a
massive, swelling sledgehammer.
Then, after smelling beer left over from
the night before, the queasy stomach kicks
in as that single odor brings back memories
of drinks too many and too soon.
And finally that allover lethargy envel
ops you as you lie in bed vowing to “never
drink again.” Yep, hangovers can be a
miserable experience, indeed.
Thankfully, numerous “cures” for the
miseries of hangovers have been devised,
stumbled upon and otherwise documented
through the years. These remedies, which
vary from the grotesque to the surprisingly
simple, may or may not work for everyone.
But on the morning after, they could prove
to be a saving grace.
Some conventional remedies seem to
work well for a lot of people. Troy Arnold,
a sophomore from Raleigh, said he just
went for the standard aspirin and coffee as
Campus Calendar
THURSDAY
11 a.m. Rock the Elections! Campus Green Vote
will be passing out Green Voter Guides until 2 p.m.
in the 1%. Come by and pick up your very own guide
to the candidates for the Nov. 8 elections. Don’t enter
the voting booth unprepared!
3 p.m. Pnblic Lecture: Londa Schiebinger of
Pennsylvania State University's Department of His
tory will speak on “The Gendered Ape and Indig
enous Knowledges (Science in the 18th Century)’’ in
Toy Lounge of Dey Hall. Sponsored by the curricu
lum in women’s studies.
Career Clinic: Develop an action plan for select
ing a major or choosing a career, in the University
Counseling Center, 106 Nash Hall.
3:30 p.m. Special Seminar on Physics Educa
tion: "Is Innovative Teaching of Physics Better ...
And What Does ‘Better’ Mean?” will be held in 215
Phillips Hall. Richard Price from the University of
Utah will speak.
Particle and Field Theory Seminar "Fractional
Statistics and Chern-Simons Physics,” will be pre
sented by Wei Chen in 227 Phillips Hall.
6 p.m. Presbyterian Campus Ministry join us
for dinner and a program with Presbyterian faculty
and staff members at 110 Henderson St.
6:30 p.m. UNC Investment Club will meet in T 1
Carroll Hall.
Baptist-Jewish Dialogue will meet over dessert to
discuss topical issues and concerns at N.C. Hillel,
210 W. Cameron Ave. Call 942-4057 for more infor
mation.
7 p.m. Outing Club will meet in 109 FetzeT.
Members and nonmembers are welcome!
Joint Warfare Analysis Center will hold apresen
tation open to all interested students in 210 Hanes
Hall. Sponsored by University Career Services.
Psychology Club presents: Dr. Paul Solitsky, who
will speak on all aspects of sports psychology, in 112
Davie Hall. Everyone is welcome!
Students for the Advancement of Race Relations
will meet in the Campus Y lounge. Anyone inter
ested may attend.
SNCAE will meet in 10 Peabody Hall to discuss
“Student Teacher Discussion Panel”.
7:15 p.m. International Folk Dancing will meet
in Union 205-206. Beginners are welcome!
Bp.m. Assodatronoflntcmational Students will
meet in 108 Bingham.
9p.m.Chatlemos,elprogramadelacasaEspanola
va a reunir al segundo piso de Carmichael dorm.
FRIDAY
1 p.m. Astronomy/Astrophysics Journal Club
presents Laura Fullton, who will speak on “Forma
tion of Thick Disks: The Case of the Edge-On Sc
Galaxy NGC 5907,” in 227 Phillips Hall.
2 p.m. Particle and Field Theory Seminar: "Frac
tional Exclusion Statistics and Generalized Ideal
Gases,” will be presented by Y.S. Wu of the Univer
sity of Utah in 212 Phillips Hall.
4 p.m. Feedback, UNC’s Student-Run News
Show , will air on WXYC 89.3 FM. Lend us your ears
and tune it in! Call Jon at 933-3184 for more informa
tion.
UNC Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "Cos
mic Gamma Ray Bursts: A Persistent Mystery” will
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a hangover cure. “Most people do that, ”he
said.
But not everyone, he was quick to note.
“Some of my friends just get up and drink
beer in the morning,” he said. But he isn’t
up for that. “I’d rather just stay in bed.”
Sleeping in also sounded pretty good to
David Cummo, a sophomore from Greens
boro. “A widespread hangover remedy is
skipping class,” he said. “Going to class
always heightens the symptoms.”
For those days when sleeping in isn’t an
option, Chris Read, senior bartender in
charge at Linda’s Bar & Grill; Michael
Toth, bar manager at the Groundhog Tav
ern; and Tim Mehringer, a bartender at
Spanky’s, all agreed that a Bloody Mary
was the best remedy for a hangover.
Toth, however, had an even stranger
method for curing the morning-after blues.
“I take a pint glass, fill it with V-8, a shot or
two worth of draft beer, some tabasco, and
maybe a little bit of black pepper and drink
it as fast as I can,” he said. “It really works.
I swear to God.”
See HANGOVER, Page 4
be presented by Dieter Hartmann from Clemson
Univeisity, in 265 Phillips Hall. Refreshments will be
served at 3:30 p.m. in Phillips 227.
6:15 p.m. Interfaith Sabbath Take time to
leant about Judaism by attending services and a great
dinner at N.C. Hillel, 210 W. Cameron Ave. Call
942-4057 for more information.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Spring 1995 Study Abroad Applications-Accep
tance Packages are ready! Pick them up at the office
in Caldwell Hall.
Can We Talk? Coffee Talk with the GLOBE
Committee of the Campus Y will be held at 8 p.m.
Monday in Union 208 to discuss Bosnia.
Spanish House is accepting applications from
males and females until Nov. 11. Applications are
available at the Union desk, Carmichael desk or
outside 0f250 Carmichael dorm. Call Valerie at 914-
2355 for more information.
Speak Up Carolina, oratorical competition on the
proposed policy concerning relationships between
students and faculty is coming up. Sign up at tbe
Union desk until Nov. 15. Sponsored by the Dialectic
and Philanthropic Societies.
Open Mic Nite... at the Cabaret will be held at 9
p.m. Nov. 11. Come sing, rap, dance, play guitar,
dramatize, juggle, recite, do some comedy, laugh
and more! Anyone with any talent is welcome. Spon
sored by CUAB.
EE-YIP! Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. is
celebrating Founder’s Week Sunday through Nov.
13, starting with “AIDS in Health Professions,”
Monday; “Emphasis on the Elderly,” Tuesday;
“Women’s Health Issues,” Wednesday; “Sorority
Social,” Thutsday; “Pledge toBCC,” Friday; “Medi
tation of Pledge," Saturday; and a Service on Sun
day. Call Eva at 914-4454 for more information.
Come run in the annual 5-mile Chapel Hill
Women’s Center Race Nov 19. Applications can be
picked up at the Campus Y and the Student Union.
Both men and women are encouraged to participate.
Entrance fee is Sl2, which includes a long-sleeved T
shirt.
Yum! Yum! You should come! Join CUAB for a
vegetarian stir-fry cooking class at 7p.m. Wednesday
m"the Cabaret Participants receive hands-on instruc
tion and free samples! There is limited space, so
hungry Tar Heels should visit the Union desk for
sign-ups. Don’t miss this yummy event!
Free Yearbook Portrait Sittings will be held daily,
from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. until 7 p.m.,
through Nov. 18 in Union 213. Special purchase
deals are available for seniors!
“Resistance in Nazi Germany,” a photo and text
collection, will be on exhibit in the Union Gallery
through Sunday. “This exhibit honors the courage of
many men and women—members of very different
social, political and religious groups—who dared to
challenge one of the most atrocious dictatorships in
history."
IBM’s Software Solutions Division will be host
ing the program "Project View” Tuesday through
Nov. 11 for minority students with a computer sci
ence background. If interested, contact Marian
Holmes at University Career Services in 211 Hanes
Hall, 962-6507.
UNIVERSITY
The Dean E. Smith Center: What Happened to All the Concerts?
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FROM PAGE 1
Springsteen and Genesis.
Several thousand Grateful Dead fol
lowers flooded Chapel Hill for the 1993
shows, bringing an economic boost to the
community as well as some headaches for
local law enforcement officials.
During one of the concerts, federal drug
enforcement agents arrested two drug traf
fickers, which resulted in a small alterca
tion between the agents and fans.
After tentative agreements were reached
and dates set for both return performances
by the band, negotiations fell apart.
Hardin abruptly canceled both Grateful
Dead shows, citing a conflict with the
University’s Bicentennial Celebration. The
concerts would have taken place in March,
several months after the highlight of the
Bicentennial Celebration, the Kenan Con
vocation with President Clinton.
Students, Chapel Hill residents and
Grateful Dead fans speculated about the
real reasons behind the cancellation.
Some held that Hardin wanted to avoid
town criticism because of the previous
year’s problems of traffic and crowds of
camping Deadheads, an element that might
appear unseemly beneath the bright Caro
lina blue skies of Chapel Hill.
Several Chapel Hill residents and Uni
versity students protested Hardin’s deci
sion —one demonstration included about
a dozen Dead fans carrying signs and walk
ing in small circles in front of the Franklin
Street Post Office in the rain.
One fan was upset enough to spray
paint “Dead rules” on the side of Hardin’s
house.
The Jackson Affair
Just weeks after the Grateful Dead deci
sion, a concert by Janet Jackson was also
canceled, this time not because of a Uni
versity administration decision but by ac
tions of local officeholders.
The Orange County Board of Commis
sioners denied Jackson a pyrotechnics per
mit for the special effects used in her show.
County ordinances require that certain
pyrotechnics for shows held in public build
ings be approved by a series ofagencies.The
Chapel Hill Fire Department and the
University’s health and safety office found
no problems with the pyrotechnics, but the
commissioners, who had the final say in
granting permits at the time, were not con
vinced of the safety of the fireworks.
The show was canceled, and Jackson
played the same show at indoor arenas
across the country.
The commissioners revised the policy
for granting the permits a few months after
the Jackson cancellation, affording the
University more power in determining the
safety of special effects used in the center.
After watching two UNC shows get
canceled, Pace decided not to renew its
year-to-year contract with the center.
Wilson Howard of Cellar Door Produc
tions, which had promoted both shows,
said the arrangement with Pace “would
have worked well for a long time, but any
time you have shows canceled at the last
minute like that, it will not work.”
“We are on our own,” said Jeff Elliott,
director of the Smith Center, of the center's
concert booking policy.
The University is now responsible for
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enticing and signing acts to play in the
Smith Center.
The Figures
Some might argue that the University
doesn’t need to hold regular concerts in the
Smith Center. After all, it was built for
basketball, and it’s paid for. Why not just
let it sit in the off-season?
However, the Smith Center is losing
money. It has operated under a consistent
deficit of about $500,000 in each of the past
three years. Although construction of the
center was privately financed to the tune of
$33.4 million, operating and maintaining
the Smith Center (including Koury Nata
torium) cost the University about $1.2 mil
lion annually.
Until three years ago, in 1991, the state
paid two-thirds of these costs, the same
proportion it paid to maintain the
University’s academic buildings, Elliott
said. Ticket sales made up the rest. But in
1991, the state funding decreased, and the
rate was dropped to just one-third.
Also in 1991, the Walnut Creek
Amphitheatre opened, and the Smith Cen
ter faced very stiff competition for acts.
State money is no longer as tight as in
1991, Elliott said, but the rate of state
assistance has not returned tothe pre-1991
levels. And with fewer concerts, the Smith
Center does not bring in enough to pay its
maintenance costs.
Attempts to bring concerts to the Smith
Center are further hindered because the
center is a University facility. Therefore,
all parking and concession profits from
concerts go not to performers but to the
University. “We’re at a competitive disad
vantage,” Elliott said.
Cellar Door’s Howard conceded that
the lack of the traditional performer profits
made campus arenas “less enticing” than
privately owned venues. Parking and con
cession profits can be substantial for per-
I.
formers, and the business of en
tertainment is a business.
Losses from the Janet Jack
son cancellation were estimated
at $75,000. Losses from the
Grateful Dead were estimated
at $150,000 to $175,000. Profits
from those two acts alone could
have paid almost half of the
facility’s deficit for this year.
But in the long run, future
losses from the acts Pace no
longer brings to the Smith Cen
ter could be far higher.
The Outlook
Since 1986, when the Smith Center
opened, area competition has drastically
increased for entertainment events that
might stop in North Carolina. Besides
Walnut Creek’s opening, Charlotte, to the
south, has built anew arena, renovated the
old coliseum and added an amphitheater.
Also, Winston-Salem has an arena less
than 10 years old complete with an annex
for a variety of sporting events, and Greens
boro has added seats and refurbished its
coliseum and exhibition area.
The future does not look any brighter.
In 1997, N.C. State University (NCSU) is
scheduled to open its new complex, the
Entertainment and Sports Arena, with an
emphasis on entertainment as well as a
new home for Wolfpack basketball.
The N.C. General Assembly recently
gave $8 million to NCSU to help finance
construction of the new arena.
The NCSU complex will seat more than
22,000 people, making it one of the largest
collegiate arenas in the countty.
“N.C. State should be very cautious
regarding the size of their facility and have
realistic expectations of how they will gen
erate profits to maintain it,” Elliott said.
“We need 21,000 seats because we sell
out every home basketball game,” he said,
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Walnut Creek
Amphitheatre in
Raleigh, open
only during the
summer months,
outsells the
Smith Center in
tickets.
The Smith
Center's lost
revenue results
directly from its
decrease in
ticket sales.
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s that
“but we rarely sell out concerts.” In fact,
the Smith Center has sold out just eight
shows in eight years.
Lately, the Smith Center has been put to
increasingly diverse uses.
This year, for the first time, UNC will
hold a fifll Commencement ceremony for
December graduates in the Smith Center,
a event that will be comparable to spring
Commencement in Kenan Stadium.
Additionally, the Indiana Pacers held a
weeklong practice camp in the Smith Cen
ter in early October, but that was closed to
the general public the closest students
got to the Paceis were television clips and
pictures in newspapers, including one
printed in The Daily Tar Heel of Pacer
Derrick McKey blowing out the candles
on his birthday cake (Oct. 11).
But both of these events, while worth
while, contribute to the building’s use yet
minimally contribute to its profits.
However, there is one bright spot in the
center’s future. Hardin’sreversalofhisban
on the Grateful Dead could mean more
revenue and a boost in the Smith Center’s
reputation as a national forum.
The band is expected to tour next spring
or summer and might include the Smith
Center as a stop.
The Final Word
However tempting it might be to
overscrutinize the profit margin, it’s im
portant to remember thatthe Smith Center
is a University complex and should not be
run solely for profit.
“We’re not here to turn a profit, ” Elliott
said.
“We simply want to break even and
bring some diverse shows to students and
the local community.”
With such a modem facility, that’s cer
tainly a reasonable goal.'
Although both Elliott and Howard said
other acts were “in the works” for next
spring, neither offered the names of any
artists.
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