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Exotic art
Students act as consultants
By SUSAN HUDSON
Special lo the DTH
To call the cubbyhole that the Business Assistance
Program at UNC operates from an office is surely a
misnomer.
But despite these conditions, BAP manages to turn out
a considerable amount of work, an amount comparable
to that of a 100-member consulting firm, said one of its
leaders.
The student-run program, whici has offered free con
sultation to local businesses since 1971, is unique in the
Triangle because its studentconsultants do not charge
fees, only operating expenses, for their services.
"We have a two-fold purpose," said Wyatt Alston, a
second-year MBA student and co-chairman of BAP.
One is to serve area businesses by giving them an extra
resource, and, two is to allow MBA students to get in
volved in business by giving them some practical ex
perience." i
About 120 of the more than 300 UNC MBA students
volunteered to work for BAP, advising 48 area
businesses. Although students usually spend one to three
hours per week working on BAP projects, they receive
classroom credit only when two or three students work
on a complex project. ,
The responsibility for getting the businesses and the
students together rests with Alston and the other co
chairman, Thomas Arant, a second-year MBA student.
The chairmen rely on word-of-mouth and their pamphlet .
for advertisement.
When the calls from businesses come in, Alston and
Arant determine if the request is project oriented. If the
business has a specific goal and a definite deadline, pro
ject work can begin.
The students who volunteer perform services ranging
from ODinion survevs to advertising strateev to accoun
ting analysis. They can tell an entrepreneur that his
business will flourish or that the market is already
saturated.
Since BAP does not benefit from a continuing relation
ship with a business, as a professional consultant would,
its members are free to be objective, Arant said.
"We tell them whatever we feel," Arant said. "We
have nothing to gain but experience."
The expression "Free advice is usually worth the
price" does not seem to apply to, the services offered by
BAP, according to its satisfied customers.
Edward Mann Jr., president of Orange Federal Sav
ings and Loan, went to BAP for an analysis of his adver
tising campaign. Students assigned to the project
surveyed area residents for their opinions of the savings
and loan.
"A professional firm is not available to do this small a
study," Mann said. "And the cost would make it pro
hibitively expensive."
Because of the problems of availability and expense,
Mann decided to use BAP instead of a professional con
sulting firm. "It allowed us to do something we couldn't
otherwise do," he said.
John Walker Jr., currently the assistant to the dean of
the School of Business Administration at UNC, was
financial controller for Wheeler Airlines when it asked
BAP to do a marketing study a few years ago.
"Many of the ideas were taken up," Walker said.
"Wheeler used the survey results to improve their
scheduling and relations with travel agents."
It is easy to see how businesses benefit from the free
services of BAP, but what does the student get out of it?
"Students and owners benefit from the program,"
Alston said. "After working on a BAP project, when it
comes to life in the real world, they will have a feel for a
certain business problem when it comes up.f'
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'Gandhi'
History of a monument
By LEAH TALLEY
Special to the DTH
Any type of presentation of the life of
Mohandas K. Gandhi is bound to succeed. His
life is a monument to admirable, even holy,
principles. And Richard Attenboroughs Gan
dhi fulfills its three-and-a-half-hour promise,
revealing Gandhi in glory, humor, and
sometimes humanness.
The film begins eerily wiih the assassination
of the Mahatma. Then Attenborough carries
the film back to 19 IS, with a young Mohandas
K. Gandhi on his way to South Africa. Here, a
not-so-well-known side of Gandhi is seen.
Gandhi is an attorney at law, complete with
business card, suit, and a full head of well
groomed black hair.
Gandhi's political actions are also in
troduced here. Indians are the victims of
British discrimination in South Africa. They
are not allowed to walk on the curb with
Englishmen and are required to carry passes
identifying them as Indians. As both South
Africa and India are under British rule, Gan
dhi begins to argue for "one rule, one law,"
and has his first experience with civil disobe
dience when he burns these passes in front of
the police. He is beaten by the police as a
result.
Scenes like this one are the most powerful
aspect of Gandhi. When row after row of
passive Indian protestors , walk unarmed to
take over a salt factory and are beaten by
guards carrying huge sticks, the power of
. peaceful resistance is not only seen, but felt.
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After Gandhi solves some problems for
South African Indians,' he returns to India.
Here is the Gandhi that is most well-known.
Dressed in a simple loincloth and wire-rimmed
glasses, he proceeds to unite and lead the In
dian people to independence.
Ben Kingsley has perfected Gandhi in his
every manner arid movement. But he is not ac
ting the part it seems that he is the Mahat
ma. Wisdom radiates from his voice and body
as if he were the real thing, not to mention his
convincing likeness to Gandhi.
The cinematography in the film is beautiful.
The dusty, dry and hot Indian countryside, the
dirty peasants crowded into train cars and
stooped on the street corners, and the
meticulous offices of British officials are vivid
enough to breathe their air. One scene is par
ticularly visually breathtaking: Gandhi is sit
ting cross-legged with his wife on a platform in
front of hundreds of Indians. The day is
humid enough to feel. The hundreds of
listeners who look like colorful dots on a near
by hill are what gives this scene its power.
Here, the magnetism of Gandhi is believable.
The camera becomes simply another part of
the huge audience that sits in rapture at Gan
dhi's words.
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But King's actions were not original he had
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So Gandhi is not only excellent enter
tainment; it is a service to those born since
Gandhi's death. It breathes life into history
thanks to a marvelous production. This film
reveals Gandhi's life like a fairy tale about a
white knight dressed in homespun loincloths,
not like the dry-as-salt pages of history.
Perhaps its only shortcoming is making a
monument out of a man instead of making a
monument to a man's work. We see Gandhi's
sense of humor and holiness continually; only
once do we see a human side. He asks his wife
to cover the latrines, the work of the lowest In
dian caste, and she refuses. He asks her to
leave if she cannot live like him, then regrets
demanding that of another human. His wife
points out the human qualities in this impa
tience, but she ends up covering the latrines
anyway. Gandhi was right all along.
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Newman is an alcoholic lawyer in 'Verdict'
By GIGI SONNER
Staff Writer
The case that lawyer Frank Galvin argues in The Verdict never
should have gone to court. Anyone who is not distracted by that fact
will enjoy the movie.
Galvin, played by Paul Newman, represents a woman who went
into a coma after a doctor at a Catholic hospital in Boston gave her
the wrong anesthetic. A bishop offers to settle out of court to the
tune of $210,000 but Galvin turns him down because he has a feeling
that somehow that would not be right.
This refusal enrages the working-class sister and brother-in-law of
the comatose woman. The money would have helped them to offset
the financially and emotionally draining situation that came from
being the woman's guardians. If Galvin loses the trial, they will not
be able to afford the nursing home bills.
Galvin must face Concannon, the toughest lawyer in Boston.
Played by James Mason, Concannon runs his network of a dozen
researchers with evil efficiency. The judge, played by Milo O'Shea,
is angry that Galvin will not settle out of court, and hears the case
with blatant bias.
Divorced, alcoholic, and broke, Galvin must win this case not on
ly for his clients, but for himself. It will be the victory he needs to re
establish himself as a lawyer there is a hint of a, past scandal for
which he was almost disbarred. But more importantly, he needs this
win to re-establish his self-respect, and to put his ambulance-chasing
days behind him. .
Review
Although the script makes Galvin the underdog and Concannon
the corrupt bad guy, Galvin does not corner the market on scruples.
Turning down the generous settlement is of questionable morality
and makes potential paupers out of the sister and her husband so
that Galvin can win his big case. And he finds his major witness by
breaking into a mailbox and reading someone's mail. Whether the
viewer hopes he wins or not, there is a strong feeling that he
shouldn't, and the jury's verdict is a less than ideal legal judgment.
Newman's performance has- been talked about as a potential
Academy Award winner, and he plays the alcoholic has-been very
well. But there is no depth to his role and therefore no depth to his
portrayal. James Mason and Jack Warden (as Galvin's partner) por
tray their one-dimensional characters well.
Eubie Blake
1 00-year-old Ragtime pianist, composer dies
The Associated Press
NEW YORK Eubie Blake, the ragtime
pianist and hit composer who opened Broad
way to black songwriters, lied Saturday five
days after lie celebrated Ms-lOOth birthday.- '
k Bfake composed such 1920s Broadway song
hits as "I'm Just Wild About Harry" and
"Memories of You," and made a hugely suc
cessful comeback when he was in his 80s.
Blake died at his Brooklyn home shortly after
noon, apparently of old age and complications
from a bout of pneumonia he had in the last
week, said his attorney, Elliot Hoffman.
"Until the last moment of his life, he re
mained alert and appreciative of the affection
and recognition he received from his friends
and colleagues," Hoffman said.
Ragtime and Blake were reborn together in
the late 1960s, and from the start of his new
career, the onetime Baltimore bordello pianist
was a star of the concert stage, jazz festivals
and television.
A smash Broadway revue, Eubie!, an even
ing of his music, was a hit of the 1979 season,
spiced on several evenings by surprise ap
pearances at the piano by the composer.
" -A darling of young intellectuals who sud-
dehiy embraced-the pre-jazz musical form and
1 of talk-show viewers who loved the sprightly
little man chattering away about the early days
of black show business, Blake reached that
height of celebrity where one is instantly iden
tified by his first name.
"Sometimes I think the people are kidding
me. I can't play that good," he told a 1973 in
terviewer after critics praised his performances
at a jazz festival in Carnegie Hall.
"I'll keep performing," Blake once said,
"until one day while I'm on stage, the man
upstairs says, '9, 10 you're out.' "
Blake was honored with a huge 100th birth
day party at a Broadway theatre, but on doc
tor's orders he stayed home, where laudatory
telegrams arrived from all points, including the
White House.
Louis Jacobs of Manhattan, a friend of
Blake, said the musician, "was pushing himself
to reach 100 .... For the last year and a half,
that's what we talked about."
He said, that on Friday, Blake "was joking
wijth his nurses and out of bed. It looked like.
he was going to last for a while." "
His wife and manager, Marion, died last
June. He leaves no surviving relatives. The
funeral will be private, but a memorial service
is planned for Feb. 18.
in gallery
By GIGI SONNER
Staff Writer
From Chinese calligraphy to UPI
photography to surrealist painting, last
semester the Carolina Union exhibited almost
every kind of visual art imaginable.
Union Gallery Chairperson Nadine
Bourgeois is responsible for bringing art to the
Union's two galleries and four display cases.
"I don't like the idea of just paintings on the
wall," Bourgeois said. Children's art, movie
posters, "environmental sculpture," the
graphic arts the diversity of art displayed in
the Union speaks for itself.
Contemporary calligraphy from China came
to the Union last August as part of a goodwill
show that toured the U.S.
"It was a good start for the year kind of
traditional. We've become more radical since
then," Bourgeois said.
This semester may not have any art quite as
exotic as the textural sculpture of Maudy Benz,
exhibited last October, but there are some big
exhibits on the way.
"This semester there is going to be a lot of
continuity," Bourgeois said.
African art will be on display this month as
part of Black History Month. The African
masks and headdresses now displayed in the
lobby showcases are part of North Carolina
A&T's Heritage Center Collection.
Carl Wroodring's Indian art was exhibited in
the downstairs gallery early this -month.
Woodringa native of Charlotte, has had work
displayed at the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington.
The undergraduate juried student photo
graphy show will be on display during the last
two weeks of this month. Entries will be ac
cepted today, and selected works will be ex
hibited until Feb. 27.
Miniatures by New York artist Lila Katzen
will be displayed in the lobby showcases at the
end of this month. Katzen will also be the
juror for the undergraduate juried student art
exhibit. Entries will be accepted Feb. 28, and
selected entries will be on display throughout
March. More information about both juried
shows is available at the Union.
The Fine Arts Festival will occupy the Union
during the first two weeks of April.
, "I hope they (the Festival organizers) can
bring in someone big," Bourgeois said. "We
(the Union Gallery committee) can't really do
that. Well, we can, but we try to bring in the
free things."
The Fine Arts Festival will be followed by a
juried competition sponsored by the Water
color Society of North Carolina. This show
will continue until the end of the semester.
In addition to the exhibits, a series of art lec
tures will be sponsored throughout the
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- Feb. 28, Und Lee Weiss" Of tl&TWatercolor
Society will lecture on April 17. Also scheduled
are an African art lecture on Feb. 20 and a
walking tour of campus architecture on April
10.
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