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Granville to get cable TV system Iby OTmrner By JEFF HIDAY DTH Starr Writer Granville Towers residents will have cable television soon, possibly this spring.' But cable TV for the rest of campus is not yet available "The primary reason we're getting it (cable TV) is for the better picture, but the extra channels are a real divi dend," Granville General Manager Melvyn P. Rinfret said Wednesday. But Home Box Office, Showtime and The Movie Channel will not be available because of legal problems, he said. MI guess it's just too public." But at least 29 channels will be available, a Village Cable representative has said. Village Cable has an ex- , elusive franchise arrangement with Chapel Hill; Alert Cable serves Carrboro. Although the "movie channels" will not be provided in Granville, many specialty channels will be available: Entertainment and Sports Programming Network; USA (sports programming); news and weather 24 hours a day; dubbed and subtitled European broadcasts on the Satellite Programming Network; music and music inter pretations on the Music Television Network, and two "super stations": WTBS from Atlanta and WOR-TV from New York. A converter on each television set allows a normal TV to handle 36 channels. Granville Towers had considered a dish antenna before deciding on cable. But the factors of safety, van dalism, reception and problems of anchoring a dish led them to choose cable, Rinfret said. Also, Rinfret said, "Village Cable is tied into the students needs." A future-use channel has been set aside by the company for the broadcast of UNC sports. "All in all, it makes more sense," he said. - Rinfret said his staff was investigating the possibility of cable hook-ups in individual rooms. "Right now it looks pretty poor. The cost to wire all 750 rooms would be prohibitive' he said. Present plans include the wiring of all 26 lounge TVs in the three Granville Towers. Installation of the cable system depends on the weather, Rinfret said. "We hope to do the ditch-digging during spring break," he said. . : Because the pavement in the parking lot must be torn up for the cable line to be laid, the construction will have to be done when the cars are gone, Rinfret said. "If (the lines) can go in March, (the system) hooked up in April, then that's great." But Rinfret said that summer session students living in Granville definitely would have cable TV. The cable installation and maintenance will cost Gran ville students nothing, Rinfret said. "We're putting it in as a capital improvement." 'Ragtime' spells big time for actor Howard Rollins By JOE C1NCOTTI Special to the DTH For Howard Rollins, 30, it was an over night success that took 13 years. By play ing the enraged but dignified Coalhouse Walker in Ragtime, Rollins leapt from obscurity to notoriety and earned an Academy Award nomination. Rollins, who is being compared with Sidney Poitier and Billy Dee Williams, seems to be surprised by the sudden ac claim Ragtime has brought him. "In the original screenplay there were more characters involved; although the role looked good, it did not stand out so much," he said. "Once the process was finished and certain characters had been eliminated, that 'something else' took focus." Now that Rollins' performance has taken focus, film, television and theater offers are coming in. Rollins, who had said meaningful parts for black actors were few, said that since performing in Ragtime he had been given a broader choice of parts. Rollins recently returned to the stage to re-create one of those meaningful roles. This weekend he will appear in Medal of Honor Rag at the Playhouse in Fort Bragg. This play is a probing, disturbing drama based on a true story about the Vietnam conflict and those soldiers who tried to readjust to the United States. Rollins plays black Medal of Honor win ner D.J. Jackson, a role he created off Broadway 1 1 years ago. "I never saw it as an anti-war play," he said at a recent Playhouse press con ference. "I see it as a play that addresses itself to an aspect of war r a soldier's re turn and the ensuing pain." Rollins praised the military for pro ducing Medal of Honor Rag at Fort Bragg. "I'm very pleased that the army can look at itself and say, 'Yes, this is one possible repercussion.' " . Playhouse director Lee Yopp echoed Rollins sentiments. "No one has voiced dissent," Yopp said. "In fact, many of Exclusive agency for ? 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"Howard is so unique and special; he has the potential for greatness," Yopp said after opening night. "Together he and Ed Dennehy (Rollins' co-star, who plays the psychia trist) just heat up the stage. "I told the audience opening night that . - 10 years from now they will remember be ing in his presence," Yopp said of Rollins. "We're eavesdropping on a mo ment in the life of a young man grooming his talent." MedaT'of Honor Rag will be presented at 8:15 p.m. today through Sunday and at 2: 15 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in Fort Bragg. Tickets are $5. For more informa tion, call 933-8633. 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The breach of warranty suit, is against F.A. Wilhelm Construction Co. Inc. and Woolen Associates Inc., both of Indianapolis, and American Casualty Co. of Reading, Pa. "(The facility) didn't get built the way it was supposed to,' said Cliapel t Hill attorney William Bayliss, who is representing Carol Woods in the suit. The suit charges Wilhelm with poor workmanship and Woolen of im proper inspections while the center was under construction. It also alleges that the firms acted in collusion to defraud the plaintiff by knowingly constructing the centers buildings with defects. Carol Woods Community has had problems with the complex's flooring, air conditioning, foundation and drainage system, the suit said. . "(But) a lot of work has been done since (the suit), Bayliss said. "Carol Woods is not about to fall down" The dispute between the retirement community operators and the firms has been going on since construction of the facility, he said. WENDELL WOOD Posters must go Candidates in the Feb. 9 campus elec tions are required to remove all remaining campaign posters or be fined $1 per poster, Neal Lattimore, an elections board member, said Wednesday. "We've been telling all the candidates we've seen to get the posters down," Lat timore said. By Election Board laws, campaign posters must be removed within 96 hours of the election. "All the candidates and probably their campaign managers have copies of Elec tion Board laws," he said. The Elections Board will meet this morning to decide how to remove the re maining campaign posters, he said. 'DTH' sets dates for writing test . The Daily Tar Heel will give writing tests for people interested in becoming staff writers at 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. Sign-up sheets for the tests will be posted outside the DTH office, Carolina Union. Students interested in becoming ' copy editors should contact Lynn Peithman. 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