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4The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, January 27, 1982 j
Former basebsiE star Ret glowlv walks toward reeo very
By KIM ADAMS
l)TH Staff Writer
When UNC baseball star Joe Reto was paralyzed
in a car accident last July 26, doctors at N.C. Memo
rial Hospital gave him a one-an-a-million chance of
ever walking again.
Reto has been walking regularly between parallel
bars since December. Then Monday, for the first
time, he walked with only the help of a metal walker.
"I can't believe how well I'm doing," Reto said.
"They've guaranteed me that I'll be able to walk
under my own power, and I hope I can by next Janu
ary. I can move around on crutches now."
Reto is undergoing rehabilitation at the Kessler In
stitute in West Orange, N.J., which is close to his
home in Brielle. He will be discharged by Valentine's
Day and will become an out-patient, living at home
and going in for rehabilitation three days a week.
Reto is neither bitter about the accident nor about
the gloomy outlook given him in Chapel Hill. He's
just grateful to the Kessler Institute, which he said
was one of the finest therapy centers in the country".
For a week after his accident, Reto was in a coma.
Then doctors at Memorial Hospital performed an
operation to stabilize the area of the neck around the
fracture. That's when they diagnosed almost certain
permanent paralysis.
"When they opened me up in the operation, all
they saw were a bunch of nerves," he said. "They
didn't know which nerves were shot and which ones
were intact. More of them were intact than they
thought."
The prognosis was emotional for Reto and parti
cularly for his older brother, Bob. Right after that
first operation, a doctor told Bob his brother would
never walk again.
"When 1 stoned moving my arms in Chapel Hill,
they said I was an exception to the rule," Reto said.
"When I started moving my legs, I became a total ex
ception to the rule."
Dr. Richard Sullivan has been Reto's doctor at
Kessler. He said the outlook was positive and that
Reto was in good spirits, coping well with his situa
tion. "He's had the best solution to his depression re
covery," Sullivan said. "He has more strength in his
right leg than in his left. He can move his ankles and
toes in his right leg, but needs a brace for his left
ankle.
"Lord knows what will happen, but the outlook is
very good," Sullivan said. "But I don't think he'll be
able to play baseball again."
Reto has no illusions of playing baseball again. In
fact, he sounds more sure than his doctor that his
playing days are over.
"Putting down sports isn't going to be easy for me
when I start to walk," he said. "If you can walk, you
can run ' and if you can run, you can slide. But I
know my baseball career is over."
Baseball is still constantly on his mind, however,
and he'll be coming to Chapel Hill for the conference
baseball tournament in April. UNC baseball coach
Mike Roberts and former UNC star Scott Bradley
keep in constant touch with Reto.
"ScottyB. is a great guy; I have the highest respect after my junior year, and I just wanted to blow
for him," Reto said. "He came in and told me that if school off and play pro ball, and my parents didn t
this had happened to anyone else or the team, that .want me to do that.
he would have felt sorry for them. ;But he said he "We have really gotten close now, and they've
didn't feel sorry for me because I was such a flake, been a tremendous inspiration to me," he said.
Now my dad tells me that he wouldn't have even
"Then he winked and said that he did feel sorry,
but that he knew I could do it."
Next semester, Reto will be returning to UNC to
finish his degree. Nothing pleases him more. He said
he would probably major in education and that he's
also thinking about coaching. ; . ,
Reto was perhaps one of Carolinajs best all-time
hitters. His 46 home runs in one season is the second
highest total in UNC history. i 1
"No. 1, I'm doing this for myself," he said. "But
No. 1-A, I'm doing it for all the people in Chapel
Hill. I can't wait to see all my friends. I never realized
Carolina was so good until I came up here."
Reto's therapy includes lifting weights for his up
per body. He said that when he first got to Kessler he
couldn't lift very much, but now his: upper body is
back in shape.
"I went from weighing 190 to 152 pounds," he
said. "Now I'm back up to 180 or 185. I '.pig-out'
constantly here." ;
Reto said that there have been gfeins from his acci
dent, j
"I was a little distant from my mom and dad when
I was in school," he said. "I would have been drafted
minded if I had gone ahead and played baseball."
After having his neck brace removed a month ago,
Reto has been struggling to walk. He said the effort
was frustrating at first.
"It's tough, and my balance is for the birds," he
said. "But a lot of people can't believe how well I've
done.
"If my knees lock I can stand up fine. One time, I
got my brother to stand me up behind my wheelchair
at my house. My mother came in and spilled a glass
of wine all over the shag carpet because she was so
shocked. I can't believe she did that."
But Reto can talk now about all the obstacles he
has overcome in the past five months. "The emo
tional side of this whole thing was a hard pill to swal
low," he said.
"I was a little bitter at first, but then I realized that
I wouldn't get better that way. You can't make every
one else miserable."
His goal for his return to Chapel Hill is simple.
. ''If I gave anyone enjoyment by watching me play
baseball in Chapel Hill," he said, "then I want to
give them enjoyment in watching me be able to walk
again."
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... says playing days over
Dialogue of director, playwright
makes for important new movie
By TOM MOORE
Special to The Daily Tar Heel
My Dinner With Andre is an important
work, but it's not really a movie, at least not in
the conventional sense.
It's a slightly fictionalized dinner debate bet
ween Andre Gregory, the famous avant-garde
theatre director, who once headed the Manhat
tan Theatre Project, arid Wallace Shawn, the
playwright and actor best known for his per
formance as Diane Keaton's ex-husband in
Manhattan. They discuss how find meaning in
life.
A thin story surrounds the exchange.
Gregory, who directed Shawn's first play,
wants to see the playwright after a few year's
separation. The director dropped out of the
theatre almost a decade earlier to search the
world for meaning. Shawn has heard rumors,
the most recent being that the director was seen
running over the east side of New York and
weeping over the line in Bergman's Autumn
Sonata. "I could always live in my art, but
never in my life," and he fears that Gregory's
sanity is not all it should be. But what Shawn
finds at his dinner discussion both conforms
and dispells such rumors.
Gregory tells him of his roamings through
the forests of Poland, through India, through
Scotland, through Tibet and through the
Sahara. He tells of such things as eating sand
with a Buddist monk, of being buried alive and
living amongst 40 people for a month when
neither he nor they could speak a common
language. 1 - " .
With his wild tales, Gregoiy,"who looks like
a sad-faced clown, a sort of intellectual Stan
Laurelt makes a case for how stifling modern
culture is, how affluence is slowly killing us all
intellectually. He even goes so far as to call
New York the perfect concentration camp,
"where the inmates are the guards, and are
unable to leave," and compares himself to
Albert Speer, because both are designers of
horrible cultures who think that the rules of or
dinary men don't apply to them.
Gregory's views are those of a director
disenchanted with a dying theatre, who feels he
. must take his theatrical quest for meaning to
every part of life.
Shawn takes the keen, analytical approach
to life found in most writers. Throughout most
of the tale he sits and listens with an obvious
look of intrigue on his face. Then he slowly
begins to rationally refute Gregory's argu
ment. Shawn, who looks like sort of pudgy,
balding and ugly elf, feels Gregory is too
steeped in romanticism to realistically access '
the world.
Shawn defends the comforts of modern life,
such as the electric blanket. They don't cut us
off from reality, as Gregory claims, but pro
vide a little shield against a harsh world.
.Shawn, who presents himself as a sort of
Everyman, says, "I'm just trying to earn a liv
ing. . .trying to pay my rent and my bills. . .1
enjoy staying home. . .reading Charlton
Heston's biography.
The debate ends in a draw. But for two
hours, what seems like a hopeless idea for the
cinema turns out to be fascinating. This is a
high amount of wit and intellectual stimulation
that the two actors brings to the script, distilled
by Shawn and Gregory from about 100 hours
of such intriguing dinner talk. Each is brilliant
ly articulate and able to hold an audience's full
attention not an easy task in a two-man con
frontration that goes on for two hours. The
skill of Gregory and Shawn as actors in further
demonstrated by the fact that they are playing
themselves, not as easy a task as it might seem,
especially when they are trying to make old
lines and thoughts sound completely new. --
The brillance of Gregory and Shawn is
enhanced by the unobtrusive direction of
Louis Mallette throws in a few effects like
street sounds of sirens and the background
prancing of the waiter and bartender, but wise
ly doesn't flesh things out much more. He just
lets Gregory and Shawn talk, and the result is
the most intriguing time I've spent in the movie
theatre in some time. My Dinner With Andre
shouldn't be missed by anyone.
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For more information call 688-1939.
Sports
events
changed
Times for two coming UNC sporting
events have been changed.
The women's basketball game with
Clemson scheduled for 3:30 p.m. today
has been moved back to 3 p.m. The
Women's game and a subsequent men's
junior varsity game must be completed in
ime for the 7:30 varsity start against
pemson.
A fencing meet scheduled at Ohio State
Jniversity this weekend will be held
Saturday,- not Friday as incorrectly
reported in The Daily Tar Heel. Tri-State
and Illinois will participate in that match
with Carolina and Ohio State.
Writer's vivid memories of 1960s show insight
y By JULIAN KARCHMER
DTH Staff Writer
The hippies,! Marcuse, the Chicago Convention, Vietnam,
Woodstock, Easy Rider, Joplin, Dylan and the Kennedys are among the
topics vividly recalled with earthy style in Ellen Willis' Beginning to See
the Light: Pieces of a Decade.
The book compiles disperse 1960's articles that the author wrote for
New York-based publishers like Rolling Stone and The Village Voice.
Their tone, as Willis readily admits, is directly out of the Greenwich
Village espresso shops and beatnik parlors that flourished in the 1960s.
As our national consciousness swings to the right and into the Me
decade, it is refreshing to reflect on a period not so, distant in time, yet so
greatly different in character.
What makes Beginning to See the Light especially interesting is that
Willis was a direct spectator and, at times, even a participant in what she
writes. Her reminiscences usually add an intimacy that probably would
not have been possible from an outsider's point of view. Willis cares
about her subjects. .
She writes of ! Woodstock, usually cited as the symbolic end of the
1960s, "I just happened to bump into some friends with a leakproof tent
and plenty of food, I found the inconveniences trivial compared to the
pleasures. But then I did not have to sleep out in the mud for two
nights," these diary-like comments give her more serious analyses a
striking air of credibility.
This book does more than simply rehash events. It is also a deep ex
amination of a climactic time. On the Chicago Democratic Convention,
"Chicago was a case study in the indifference-cum-contempt that
radicals, especially post-hippies, reserved for ordinary Americans."
In a chapter on the quintessential X-rated film Deep Throat Willis
observes, "not only do most porn movies fail to build tension or portray .
people and situations in a way that might involve the viewer, they u?e a
variety of techniques to actively discourage involvement."
While Willis' informal style adds flavor to the reading, her frequent
digressions into feminism and introspection are strangely out of place.
The 1960s were many things, but the women's movement was not the
forefront of attention.
For example, Willis states that "the essence of women's oppression is
the denial of our autonomy," and "most successful marriages I knew of
were based on a sexist detente: the husband had made it clear that he
would not give up certain prerogatives and the wife pretended not to .
hate him for it." Much of her feminism rings true, but it would have
been more appropriate in a book that consistently deals with that sub
ject..' In a couple of chapters, that read like projects for group therapy,
Willis examines her own psyche, broken marriage and Jewish heritage.
Fortunately, these interludes are usually short, and she pops back on the
right track and into the 1960s. . v-
At times, these articles demand rare depth of knowledge of the
decade. They are crammed with fleeting references to obscure events
and people, and the result is occasionally frustrating for the reader. Part
of this is no doubt due to the original publication dates of the articles.
Beginning to See the Light is an enjoyable, offbeat volume especially
for those with a background or interest in 1960s history, but be prepared
for research if this is your first excursion into this decade.
Even with the lack of continuity in a book of this type, there is, an ap
parent unifying thesis that runs throughout Ellen Willis' articles.
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The UNC Squash Club will hold its first meeting at 6 p.m. at
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A meetuiK of AIS will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Inter
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The Sports Club Council Candidates Forum has been chang
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Union Gallery Committer will meet at 4 p.m. in the Frank
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The IM Use it and Lose it Club will begin today at 5:30 and 6
p.m. Fetzer Gym C and will run Monday, Wednesday and
Thursday from now on. For more info, call the IM office at
962-1006.
ECOS will meet to organize for Earth Day 1982 at 6:30 p.m.
in the Union.
The Women Lacrosse Club's organization meeting is at 4:30
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p.m. in 217 Union.
May Stevens, New York socialistfeminist artist, will give a '
slide talk on her work,!"The Artist in Her Times," sponsored
by the art department, at 8 p.m. at 1 IS Ackland.
An organizational meeting of the Wrestling dub will be held,
at 6:30 p.m. in Fetzer, Gym wrestling room with Coach Bill
Lam. AU are welcome.' If unable to attend, call 933-6148.
United Christian Fellowship General Body meeting will be
held at 7. p.m. in Upendo Lounge. Members are urgea to at
tend. j
Kenneth Thompason, Orange County manager, will lead off
a new scries of short talks sponsored by the dqartment of city
. and regional planning at 1 p.m. in 102 New East Building. The
talk is on "Background Experiences of the Orange County
Manager in Planning." '
Anglican Student Fellowship Holy Communkm is at 10 p.m.
in the Chapel of the Cross. Ail are welcome.
The Ebony Readers Onyx Theatre will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
the Craige Rec. Room'. Bring all play possibilities, and if you
plan to perform in "Hello Blackness," attendance is manda
tory along with 2 copies of your performance piece.
Dr. Eduardo Stein will speak on "How-the Mass Media In-
form about the Central American Region in the United States"
at 2 p.m. in 307 Manning HaO.
The LDSSA sponsors Institute at 7:30 p.m. in 203 Dey Hall.
This is a scripture study and anyone is welcome to attend.
COMING EVENTS v
The Campus Martia Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration
has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday in Great Hall of the
Union. Dr. Prezell Robinson, president of St, Augustine will
deliver the first annual lecture. , .
There will be an organizational meeting for all those in
terested in participating in the Campus Y Tutoring program
this semester at 7 p.m. Thursday in 08 Peabody Hall. There
will also be a meeting at 3:30 p.m. in 08 Peabody for those who
cannot attend Thursday.
Pi Delta Phi, the French Honor Society, will meet at 6:30
p.m. Thursday jn the front foyer of Dey Hall. They will have
short discussion of Jean Luc Godard then go to the 7 p.m.
showing of his "The Weekend." They will then retire to the
Phi in New East for refreshments. All French students are en
couraeed to attend.
The Poverty Actio Committee of the Campos Y will have
its first meeting of the semester at 4 p.m. Thursday in Jim
. Smalley's office of the Y Building. Plans for a placement ser-
vice for student volunteers in social agencies will be discussed.
All interested persons are invited to attend.
Women's Volleyball Club is meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursdav
in 303 Woollen Gym. It uMeresTedln playing Urn season please
attend.
UNC Pre-Law Club's first meeting of the semester will be
held at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in 217 Union. Plans for the semes
ter will be discussed. AD members please attend, interested
students welcome.
Come to Kaffeeklatsch from 3 until 5 p.m. this Thursday at
jhe Nrvman Cri"r p-1 "T" "p ""th f .gupaf rnffowMd
". speak German. All Germanspeakers are welcome.
7- The International Center will host "a gmuf redial'by Dr. '
Eduardo Stein. AH interested persons are invited to attend the " and dance contest. BYOB
University Placemen! Services will have evening appoint
ments available by prc-arrangement on Tuesday evenings.
Contact the receptionist in 211 Hanes Hall, 962-6507 for an
appointment.
Sign up this week in the Campus Y office to interview for
Co-director of the 1982 Campus Y Freshman Camp. .
University Counseling Center offers group programs to im
prove the quality of your life at Carolina. Topics include speech
anxiety, assertion, time management, career planning, weight
control, single-parenting. Drop by Nash Hall or call 962-2175
for more information or pre-registration.
The Cellar Door needs business manager to finish this
year. Send a letter, resume, and three letters of
recommendation to Box 13, Union, by Jan. 29, . .
WXYC second annual 60's dance with Dan Greenfield and .
Ken Friedman will be from 8 p.m. until 1 a.m.. Friday. Dress,.
recital at 4 p.m. Thursday in the International Center.
AIESEC Marketing and Fundraising Training Workshop
general office orientation at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the
AIESEC office in th International Center.
The UNC Squash Chib will meet trom 4-6 p.m. Thursday at
the Squash Courts.
An organizational meeting of Campus Girl Scouts will be
held at 6:30 p.m.- Thursday in 206 Union. For more informa
tion caB 933-42.
Campus Christian Fellowship will continue a Bible Study on
Romans at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Union. Check Union desk
for room number. Call 942-8952 for information. All are wel
come. Catholic Campus Ministry is holding a potluck dinner to
bring friends together and discuss upcoming activities at 5:30
p.m. Thursday t NewmanCatholic Student Center.
The Baptist Student Union will have a worship service at
5:45 p.m. Thursday at the Battle House.
The Christian Science Organization at UNC-CH will meet at
3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Union. All are welcome to attend.
The UNC Water Polo dub will have an organizational
meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday in 205 Union. Beginners and ex
perienced men and women are all welcome to join in the "sport
of the future."
Come and demand to be heard on housing and other matters
at 9 p.m. Thursday in the Teague basement.
FeHowsWp of Christian Athletes will meet at 8:30 p.m.
Thursday in the Union. Danny Lotz will speak. Bring your
Bibles and have a good time. Mark Camacho will be there to
smile.
; The Aviation Society of UNC will hold an organizational
meeting at 4 p.m. Friday in 102 New East. Plans for the semes
ter will be discussed. All with an interest in aviation and air
ports are invited to attend.
Campus Y Dinner Dbcussioa, potluck dinner and chamber
music by a Student Ensemble at President Friday's home at
5:30 p.m. Friday. Please sign up at the Campus Y.
Representatives of the Work m Britain program will hold an
informational meeting for all interested students at 3 p.m.
Friday in 226 Union.
' Chamber music by a student ensemble will be the Campus Y
Dinner Discussion at 5:30 p.m. Friday. Please sign up at the
Campus Y for this pot luck.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Lean to Sail on a field study trip la the Bahamas In May.
Slide show and information at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10
in Fetzer Gym. For more information contact IM-REC Sports
in 203 Woollen Gym or call 962-1153.
Application ucaauncs lor norm Carolina State Government
Internship Programs is Feb. 12. Information and applications
available at the Pre Career Experience Program, second floor
Nash Hall.
Pre-MedPre-Dent Pre-Vet students: Come to an interview
ing skills workshop from 5-7 p.m. Monday. Be prepared for
your professional school interviews. Sign up at 201-D Steele
Building. "
lntramurab: Lifetime Leisure Activities Program has re
sumed for spring semester. UNC students, faculty and staff
members can attend these introductory clinics in 15 different
activities.
Students who wish to vote by absentee ballot for the Feb. 9
election must present a written request to the Elections Board
by 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. I in Suite C.
SHE is out. Pick one up at the Union or the Library.
if you have signed up to volunteer at North Carolina
Memorial Hospital this spring semester, don't forget the re
quired orientatipn at 5 p.m. Thursday in the 4th floor Clinic
Auditorium. You must attend the orientation in order to be a
volunteer.
Cellar Door, UNCs student literary magazine, is accepting
poetry, fiction and graphic submissions until Feb. 12 for the
spring issue. Submission guidelines and drop box are near the
Union desk. Questions: can 962-0373 or 967-9757.
1112 rDlA CaariD will be interviewing
editorbusiness manager teams ;or . the
Vc!r, and Yao Afshcrnbf on February 8 &
9. Candidates for these positions should
submit an application, resume and three
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