Lou Bonds
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Harry Bryan. Editor
Wednesday, February 16, 1972
Still
no solution
to Barking; hassle
Plans for improving parking
conditions on the UNC campus are
right back where they started about
10 years ago. Several ideas have
been suggested, but no one seems
to know what to do.
One proposal, written by Allen
Waters, director of UNC operations
and engineering, and "approved"
by the Traffic and Safety
Committee, calls for a S3. 95
million expenditure for the
construction of two parking
garages, providing an additional
1 ,500 spaces.
Another plan, authored by Lee
Corum and Student Body President
Joe Stallings, would involve a SI. 85
million expenditure for the
construction of one 500-car parking
garage and two 1,000-car fringe
lots.
Though the Stallings-Corum
proposal is definitely the better of
the two, neither is really sufficient.
Cougars: stay away
McAd
roni
from the Charlotte Observer
The Atlantic Coast Conference is
threatening to pull its basketball
games out of arenas where the pros
play if the pros sign underclassmen.
Will the Carolina Cougars, for
example, draft Robert McAdoo, the
sensational junior forward from
UNC?
The threat may never be carried
out. It is part of a game the
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The Quiz Bowl enters its third year this
week, provided by the Carolina Union for
all us non-athletes who want to learn
about character, courage under fire and
all the other qualities that previously
were the exclusive property of the men in
blue.
This is a crossroads for our team. Last
year, hampered by the inexperience of
three sophomores, we were brilliant on
occasion but choked in the quarter-finals.
A relaxed DU team, the eventual champs,
beat us on the last question, and we've
been reliving that last second all year.
Two years ago, the pain was even
harder to bear. Starting out with three
seniors, we were locked in a tough battle
with TEP. With the score tied, the
moderator asked the last question. "Who
The Waters plan would not
provide enough parking spaces to
even approach solving the problem
and would cost so much that future
expansion might be stalled for
years. The Stallings-Corum plan
would have more spaces at a lower
cost, but it. too, fails to brought
about a final solution.
The Faculty Council failed to
determine anything definite at its
meeting Friday, coming up with a
vote of 20 in favor of the
Stallings-Corum plan. Five in favor
of the Waters plan and 10 in favor
of taking no immediate action.
And Chancellor N. Ferebee
Taylor said following the meeting
that there "is no decision imminent
on this matter."
So who knows? Maybe it'll be
another 10 years before something
is finally done to help people find a
place to park.
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American Basketball Association
(ABA) is playing to try to force a
merger with the National Basketball
Association (NBA), a merger that
Congress will have to approve.
By threatening to sign
underclassmen, the ABA is
escalating the recruiting war
between the two professional
leagues and putting pressure on the
college game. The aim apparently is
to make the situation desperate
enough that it appears merger is the
only answer.
We suspect that rules prohibiting
the pros from signing college
players are unconstitutional, as a
judge in California recently ruled.
But active campaigns by
professional teams to sign
underclassmen are detrimental to
the college game and to education.
There is a difference between
drafting an athlete and signing him.
But the simple act of drafting a
young man could tempt him to sign
before completing his education.
That decision could haunt him
later, especially if he is one of the
bright college stars who fails in the
pros and never earns stardom to
trade on later.
There will always be legitimate
exceptions, but we think the pros
should make it general policy not
to draft or sign underclassmen. We
also think the ABA"s tactics to
force a merger are deplorable. They
could backfire. If the Cougars draft
McAdoo, they just may find
themselves out in the cold.
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won the Oscar for best actress in 1959?"
I said Liz Taylor, the TEP said Simone
Signoret, and he was right.
Last year, Bruce was the captain of our
sophomore-laden team. (I had switched
teams because I was disillusioned with the
little cheating that went on. It's an
amateur competition, yet I could tell
something was wrong when my
teammates started getting gold-bound
World Almanacs and brand-new sociology
texts.) Bruce was the only senior, and
provided great leadership plus he was a
good all-around man, good for 10
questions a game and lots of assists on
bonus questions.
Then we had our individual
performers. Steve was a good history
man, and on any question remotely
Will
Young people, who arrived on campus
Friday for a NAACP youth conference,
proved young voters aren't "gonna take
no jive" with their vote. Obviously, the
politicians they confronted have not yet
been informed of the fact. The whole
affair made for a strange sight and some
genuinely funny occurrences.
Hargrove S k i p p e r " Bowles.
Democratic candidate for governor, was
first on the firing line and first to learn
his lesson. Bowles scored a victory with
the young audience in answering
questions honestly. But he blew it with
too much "grass roots."
"I would like to leave you with this
one little story I heard not long ago," he
said. The emotion in his voice told
everyone this was going to be a tear-jerker
with a moral. "There were two little boys
who wanted to fool the old wise man
living on the hill.
"The boys hatched a plan to catch a
little bird (Bowles has a monopoly on the
word "little'). They figured they would
hold the little bird in their hands and ask
the old wise man if the little bird were
alive. If he answered 'no' they would let
the bird fly away. And if he answered
'yes' they would crush the bird in their
hands.
Bruce Mann
Art experiences
The quest for enlivening entertainment
in the Chapel Hill area grows evermore
complex. If it's not the overpriced
tickets, it's the over-extended queues
emanating from free amusements. If it's
not the various promoters who have an
amazing talent for programming the
finest of nullity, it's the area audiences
who make the experience virtually
painful.
The London Symphony arrived Friday
for the Friends of the College Series in
Raleigh. Concert-goers clapped between
movements. At the beginning of
Vaughn-Williams' Symphony No. 5 a
clandestine player tooted on his horn in
the dark depths of Reynolds Coliseum.
Andre Previn, the orchestra's conductor,
promptly halted the movement, and
when the pastoral interruption
concluded, flipped his tuxedo tails,
turned to the audience and exclaimed,
"Do you think it's our turn?" His aplomb
is all the more commendable, since the
Series printed a pretentious sheet for its
program "Notes for Young Folks
Attending Their First Concert" including
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concerned with beer, he had the buzzer
ringing before any of us could
comprehend the inquiry. Bob was tough
in economics, science and math his
"trillion-dollar GNP" answer was a
life-saver in one of our games.
My main strengths were sports, music
and geography -questions which arose
quite frequently. No one could accuse us
of being intellectuals. I might not know
Paul Samuelson from Sam the Sham, but
when the moderator asked us what the
capital of Bolivia was, I figured he wanted
La Paz instead of Sucre and picked up ten
points.
Like all competing organizations, we
started looking ahead to this year right
after the DUs beat us. We all spent the
D
with
"Weil, the two little boys took the bird
:o the old wise ma- and said. 'Old man. is
is b:
dead or alive." Th:
S ocked down at the boys w isely I that's
the way old wise men look these days!
and he said. As you will it. my sons, as
v ou will it."
Weil, i: wasn't all that bad a story
except most of the audience had heard it
years before in Sunday School.
The honorable Governor Robert W.
Scott it said ''honorable" on the
program) spoke next and. as scheduled,
said nothing at all. Scott evidently thinks
young people haven't ever heard about
Abraham Lincoln. So, to teach us more,
he quoted Lincoln through half of his
speech - quotes from the Gettysburg
Address and Emancipation Proclamation
(he even quoted the bit "With malice
toward none").
"I wish I could dispel for all time the
notion that a person has to be devious -or
worse - to be a success in politics,"
Scott said. "Those who make that
assertion do not take into account the
essential nature of politics."
Scott is right, of course. Being devious
isn't all. You have to have money. And
where do you get money? Simple, by
an admonishment for "Those Over
Thirty" to not walk out of the concert
while a number is played.
Needless to say, those over thirty
considered the whole thing the most
exciting hootenanny since "Hee Haw"
and they behaved accordingly.
The Chapel Hill Concert Series
traditionally reverses the situation. While
the attendees are remarkably
well-composed, the promoters and
organizers manage to ruin the experience
as best they can. When Philippe
Entrement, the renowned pianist, made
his Chapel Hill debut earlier this year, the
Concert Series gave him the same old
worn-out Memorial Hall piano, which
seems more designed for a
turn-or-the-century music-hall
ivory-tickler. The stained and dirty
acoustical shields were thankfully
missing, but my date did manage to find
one of the Hall's cockroaches to add
another dimension to the art experience.
While concerts are the topic, there's
also Hill Hall, which hosts the Tuesday
Evening Music Department Series, an
ta
THE PRESS AUVAVS DWELLS ON THE BAP HEWS!"
udtey
summer watching Jeopardy until Art
Fleming completely nauseated us. Then
we started recruiting.
This is the only part of Quiz Bowl that
I really dislike. For every big-city honor
student hotshot that doesn't know how
tall the Washington Monument is, there's
a small town dropout that can tell you
Norm Cash hit .361 in 1961.
We also needed depth. You may recall
the famous story of the player who drew
two technicals and was kicked out of the
Union two years ago because he tried to
put the make on the scorekeeper.
Lingering furiously just outside the snack
bar, he tried to relay instructions to room
202, but unfortunately the messenger
stopped long enough to listen to the
the new electorate
being devious and promising all your
heavy campaign contributors a
government position after you win. Slick.
The students had a lot of fun with Jim
Holshouser. Republican candidate for
governor, and our on Mayor Howard
Lee. At the workshop session, both
candidates said it didn't matter which
party we join as long as we join a party.
And before the workshop was over, each
candidate was endorsing his party as best.
"Mr. Holshouser, Mr. Lee. could vou
please list your qualifications for office in
the so-called hip language of the young
people" asked a cute little girl m back.
Lee definitely scored a victory over
Holshouser on this question, but said he
didn't want to patronize anybody.
Holshouser wisely kept his mouth shut.
Another phenomenon of the
conference, was frequent appearances by
that Sage of the Young People, Pete
Tripodi. Pete, if you will recall, is the
UNC student running for the N C.
General Assemble and 'almost' met
President Nixon last year. He was
everywhere the big guys were, explaining
what they said, asking questions,
campaigning, instructing, campaigning.
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excellent and varied program of fare. A
few Tuesdays ago. though, audience
members must have privately cringed as
one of the South's Finest string quartets
performed while sitting on four of the
area's most insultingly ugly wood chairs.
Granted, music speaks louder than chairs,
but if the department wants to recruit a
new generation of concert-goers, it might
help to make it more aesthetically
pleasing visually. A fine concert, but a
disgrace, despite the financial woes of the
campus arts.
Last week, audience members managed
to freeze the atmosphere at a local dinner
theatre. While the third act of "Gypsy"
sped at enormous velocity to its finis, a
group began to burst into laughter as
Rose, the mother of Gypsy Rose Lee in
the play, went through an intensely
frightening trauma in the plot. The
actress's movements were broad, and they
were meant to be so. Her mental
confusion had to be drawn out and
reframed in a musical production number
during which she goes through the
suggestive motions of stripping. This
oright:
1.9.
Jackson Five tune on the juke box. That
lapse cost a chance for glory.
The search for players continued -one
guy knew all the books of Nathaniel
Hawthorne but couldn't remember that
Mort Drucker and Don Wilson were
contributors to Mad magazine, not ABA
refs. Finally, Steve called, interrupting
my attempt to memorize all the Nobel
Prize winners.
"We found him. We found our man.
We got him," he said feverishly.
"Found what? Who? What is this?"
"Our man. Our Quiz Bowl man. We've
got it. We've won already."
"Now, hold it. What can he do? Can he
move? Has he been on Klassroom Kwiz?"
"Not only that, I asked him how many
hed
making speeches and campaigning. 0-?
prl said he looked like a teddy bear
Bat the real fun of the conference had
to be the kids themselves The asked
more pointed questions of the candidates
than Harry Reasoner could ever hope to
Every now and then, when a politician
said something significant, vou could hear
a tiny voice in the audience: "Bu'.Khit'"
On a questionnaire, nest students a:d
they preferred Shirley Chisholm for
president. A few black students said the
would join the American Party. It's going
to be a swinging electorate this ear.
The conference did prove a few things
The new student voters are going to be
sharp, tough and mean. Some w ill be
serious; those who aren't will not vote
They know the issues and thev kno.v :he
candidates' stances.
Part of Scott's speech told of the new
student attitude among high schoolers.
"Again, we have only to turn to
Abraham Lincoln for guidance Mr.
Lincoln expressed it this way: i shall tn
to correct errors where shown to errors,
and I shall adopt new views as fast a the
shall appear to be true views.'"
Abraham Lincoln couldn't have sjid it
better.
with time
audience lacked the discriminating taste. I
suppose, or they simply failed to reason
that their giggling came between the
viewer and the artist's sensitive attempt
to mutually and syrnbiotuil!
communicate.
We're all aware of the free Hick
audiences which can turn even a bum trip
movie into a bummer of an evening by
flipping the plastic chairs like those
dime-store crickets we used to buy for
Halloween. Sometimes it's entertaining to
have the accompaniment -kinda like a
player piano to signal high points in the
action -but usually it's a moment to bury
your head in your hands and wonder
whether, between those new
lousy-speakers and the noise, you'll ever
get to hear Bogey drawl.
Carolina Playmakers audiences, surely
the most comfortable of viewers, still
remain a bit too staid. During "A I lea in
Her Ear." a delightful farce which ran last
week, audience members wittheld their
laughs while the script's few risque lines
fired through the theatre. Certain viewers,
during "Amanita" earlier this year,
refused to even stay, some walking out
during mid-show.
It's not so much that audiences should
or shouldn't behave according to some
authoritative rules. We've all been to
concerts to plays or even operas where
applause during the proceedings is
inevitable. Nor should the decor of a
concert hall or theatre be a definite
criteria for a good or a bad concert. Hut
the overall experience can be tarnished
one way or another, depending on how
much audience or organizers or artist are
willing to contribute.
Few probably remember the days of
Durham's Rialto Theatre, which brought
art films to the Triangle before Chapel
Hill theatres ever knew the word. I he
torn, slit seat covers and the scratched,
unpainted seatbacks all gave evidence to
the rumor that you could throw up a
piece of popcorn and the rats would jump
for it. True or not, the place was decrepit
and delapidated. Yet, that special interior
decoration had its own charm.
Heckling audiences, out-of-tune pianos,
flipping chairs, old wood seats et al
simply lack charm, however.
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prongs were on the crown of the Statue
of Liberty and he got it. It was right on
the tip of his tongue and he spit it out.
He can do it."
"Great. Sign him up. Call the Durham
Morning Herald."
"Well, there is one thing."
"What?"
"Scouts from the Who, What. Where
game have been after him already. They
want him to turn pro and he's just a
junior."
"Well, that does it. If they get him,
well just refuse to play in any place
that's got a television that can pick up
channel 28. This is war. Now, ask him
how many back injuries Roberto
Clemente had in 1966...."