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Sherrod Banks, in his Suite B officefounded his own company this summer rather than look for a job.
'anks founds summer business
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By MARGARET CLAIRBORNE
Staff Writer
From sweeping and mopping to waxing and dusting, Sher
rod Banks is cleaning up.
This past summer, while thousands of other students filled
out application after application in search of part-time work,
Banks and his brother Darryl went into business for
themselves. They are now co-owners of Lateshift Office
Maintenance, a Durham-based office-maintenance service.
"I was tired of looking for jobs and needed summer work
so I asked myself, 'Why not start my own business and employ
myself?' It was a challenge," Sherrod Banks said.
The opportunity arose when the Banks' oldest brother, a
physician in Durham, complained that building maintenance
was overpriced. Sherrod and Darryl Banks offered to take the
job on themselves at a cheaper rate. Their business grew from
there.
"Working for my brother's office was like getting our foot
in the door." Sherrod Banks said. "We were able to use his
office as a reference to get other and better paying jobs."
Finding those jobs didn't come easy. There is a lot of
research and planning involved in beginning a business, said
Banks, who handles research and sales.
"A lot of time is spent on the phone, going places, asking
questions, and rinding out who your competition is," he said.
"To be successful you have to do your homework."
Through research, Banks learned which offices had
maintenance contracts coming up for renewal, where the
weaknesses were in each contract, and what his business could
offer that others coult not.
Being students, Sherrod, a junior at UNC, Darryl, a senior
at N.C. Central in Durham, and being supported by their
parents, the Banks could afford to keep competitive prices.
While days are spent drumming up business, researching
and keeping up with office work, nights are reserved for the
"real" work, hence the name: Late shift.
"We would usually begin cleaning an office at around 6
p.m., and, if it was just a routine job, we'd be out by 10,"
Banks said. "Sometimes, however, we could be out as late as 2
a.m."
Since Lateshift opened for business, it has branched out to
Hillsborough and Chapel Hill, where it has contracts with
several local businesses. In August the brothers hired a third
employee to take over consumer relations and to do the actual
janitorial work while Sherrod Banks is in Chapel Hill.
At UNC, Banks is active in a fraternity and president of the
Black Student Movement. He said he hopes to go on to law
school. Therefore, while in school, he leaves Darryl Banks and
their employee to run the Lateshift so that it won't interfere
with his studies.
Concert pianist 'hot' Sunday in Memorial
By JEFF GROVE
Arts Editor
When pianist Leon Bates strode onto the Memorial Hall stage
Sunday afternoon, he did it with an air of confidence. He perched
on a black piano stool, bowed his head and seemed deep in con
centration while straggling audience members were seated. Then
he proceeded to demonstrate the reason for his confident attitude.
To say that Bates played very well would be to actively bid for
the Understatement of the Century Award. Bates was, as the ver
nacular has it, hot.
The program, comprised of works by Maurice Ravel and Sergei
Rachmaninoff, offered a study in contrast.
Ravel brought French music into the 20th century. He took a
form somewhere between late romanticism and impressionism,
added a few harmonic twists culled from American ragtime and
jazz, and produced some decidedly unconventional music.
The first work Bates performed, the 1905 composition
Sonatine, is less wildly adventurous than Ravel's later works. Cast
in three movements, Sonatine demonstrates a pianist's dexterity
by making use of a number of rippling effects up and down the
keyboard. Bates played imaginitively a vital part of performing
music by Ravel and sensitively, though the second moyement,
marked Mouvement de menuet, did not exactly trip along at a1
graceful minuet tempo.
Bates was just warming up. He concluded the first half of the
concert by playing Gaspard de la nuit (1908), one of the most
fiendishly difficult works in the piano repertoire. The title, literal
ly translated Caspar of the Night, is an old French nickname for
the Devil. The piece evokes programmatic images of the fantastic.
The first movement, Ondine, tells the story of a water nymph
who falls in love with a mortal. Bates created a shimmering
aquatic scene before introducing a passionate yearning to the
music. At the same time, he did not make the mistake of sounding
Wagnerian.
The second movement is about the most grisly piece of music
ever written. Titled Le Gibet (The Gibbet), it describes a body
swinging from a gallows. One single tone is softly but constantly
played while decorative flourishes representative of wind and
creaking wood sound from the far ends of the keyboard. Bates
played this piece with an almost hypnotic intensity.
The final movement, Scar bo, is a sort of musical Punch and
Judy show. Bates' pugilistic pounding on the keyboard here was
appropriate and skillful.
After intermission, the carefully studied wit and grace of Ravel
gave way to the gushing melodies of Rachmaninoff. Widely
respected as a pianist, Rachmaninoff was a composer of rather
limited skill but great popularity.
Bates performed three of Rachmaninoff s Etudes Tableaux,
two dating from 191 1 and one from 1916-17. Bates executed them
with perfect technique, but their lack of substance was still ob
vious. The original 1913 version of the Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor
was more up Bates' alley, offering a fiery, exciting conclusion to
the announced program. Bates sank his musical teeth into the
piece, going for all possible effects without milking the music dry,
As an encore, Bates performed Brahms' Intermezzo in B-flat
minor, an ethereal piece which sent the audience home in a
dreamy, reflective state.
The only real failing of the concert, in fact, was a rather rude
audience. Ignoring the ushers, some late Ucketholders barged in
and sat down noisily during the performance. Bates deserved bet
ter. Some music critics have labeled Bates "the next black concert
hero." Sunday afternoon, however, he proved that he will pro
bably be the next concert hero, black or white.
Pi? to comedy, Parks to perform tonight
By SHERYL THOMAS
Staff Writer
Being a student in drought-stricken
Chapel Hill grappling with premature
mid-terms and anticipating a fall break still
weeks away gives few people anything
to laugh about. But a solution may be just
around the corner on West Rosemary
Street when a very funny man will perform
at Rhythm Alley tonight at 8.
Tom Parks is not black and he's not
Jewish, so how can he be funny? That is a
question Parks has been asking himself
ever since he decided to become a come
dian. A 1973 graduate of the University of
Florida, Parks decided rather abruptly to
abandon a career in public relations to
become a comedian. He credits a perfor
mance by the late singer-songwriter Harry
Chapin with inspiring his decision. "I
watched him tell stories between songs and
talk to the audience and people would
laugh," he told Ampersand magazine. "It
hit me that 1 had stories that were similar
and just as funny."
Parks' decision paid off. He has played
such prestigious clubs as The Comedy
Shop in both Los Angeles and La Jolla,
Calif., and The Punch Line in Atlanta. He
has appeared in concert with big names
like Jean Luc Ponty, Jimmy Buffet and
the Pointer Sisters. Believe it or not, he has
shaken hands with David Steinberg and
knows someone who knows a friend of
Kris Kirstofferson.
His biggest honor came in February
when he was chosen 1983 Campus Enter
tainer of the Year by the National Associa
tion for Campus Activities. The NACA
annually recognizes entertainers whose
focus is the college market.
Parks' style is more like that of a story
teller than a joke-teller. He loves to share
collections of his own campus experiences,
everyday situations and various observa
tions on topics of special interest to college
students. Unlike many young comics,
Parks' comedy is inoffensive, involving the
audience rather than attacking it.
Eventually Parks says he would like to
expand his work to include not only
nightclubs, but also television, films and
writing. But right now he is doing very well
as a comedian. Although he says he is
merely a "white, upper-middle-class Pro
testant," Parks has overcome his "handi
cap" and has proven he definitely can be
funny.
Campus Calendar
Public service announcements must be turned into the box outside the DTH offices in the Carolina Union by 1 p.m. if
I hey are to be run the next day. Only announcements from University recognized and campus organizations will be printed.
Al announcements must be limited to 25 words and can only run for two days. In the event that the Calendar does not run
because of space limitations, groups should turn in announcements at least two days in advance te ensure they ran at least
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the end of the month, if they did not want to
continue the service, they would have to call and
have it disconnected.
Levonda Willard, a senior from Winston
Salem, said that she was offered Call Waiting
free of charge during August. She said that
toward the end of the month she called and said
that she did not want to continue the service.
However, when her phone bill came, she said,
she was billed for Call Waiting for August and
September.
Willard said that when she called Southern
Bell in Chapel Hill, the woman with whom she
spoke said that they had not been offering a
promotional service.
"We argued about it for a long time, then she
finally checked my records and found that I was
right," Willard said. "Then she said I could
deduct the charges for August from this bill and
they would give me credit for September's
charges on my next bill."
Bernholz said she feels that if Southern Bell
offers free services in this way, the service
should be disconnected automatically at the end
of the promotional period unless the customer
notifies Southern Bell that the service should be
continued.
"I am also concerned for those students who
may not even realize that they have the services
and who may never notice those $3 charges on
their phone bills," Bernholz said.
"I don't want a student to get the service and
then believe he is obligated to- pay for it even
though he did not initiate it," she said.
"Southern Bell is legally obligated if a person
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The UNC Model United Nations Club will meet at 6 p.m. in
351 Hamilton Hall.
Christian aerobics will be held at 5:30 p.m. at the Baptist
Student Union. All are welcome. If any questions, call Laura
Weeks at 929-2294.
A Prayer Partner's organization meeting will be held at 7
p.m. at the Baptist Student Union.
The New Students Group of the Baptist Student Union will
meet at 8:30 p.m.
The Federation for Progress needs volunteers to help with
their community service projects. A meeting will be held at the
church of Reconciliation on 1 10 Elliott Road. For more info:
call Jean Wagner al 942-6753.
The awesome Daily Tar Heels will free Softball lessons to all
CGC and SG members at 3:30 p.m. on Ehringhaus field, in the
hopes that they lern to provide some sort of competition. The
DTH pities the team that plays us, we pity the' team. Kudos to
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The second meeting for students interested in applying for
Rhodes Scholarship will be held Tuesday at 5:15 p.m. in
Hamilton Hall 569. Prospective candidates should bring -with
them their transcripts, lists of activities, and ; personal
statements.
The UNC Clogging Club and the Apple ChiH doggers will
sponsor clogging workshop at 7:30 p.m. and a square dance at
8 p.m. on Tuesday at the Community Church on Purfoy
Road. Music will be provided by the Rer1 Rose Flyers.
The UNC Ad Club will hold an informational and organiza
tional meeting on Wednesday in 203 Howell Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Ad majors are encouraged to attend. Anyone who is interested
in advertising is welcome. i
There will be an organizational meeting for representatives
of any group interested in Human Rights Week in the Union
Tuesday at 7 p.m. and repeated Wednesday at 5 p.m.
The Buddhist Studies Association will hold a meeting on
Tuesday in the Student Union. Check schedule for room
number.
The UNC Young Democrats will near Howard Lee, a can
didate for Congress from the fourth district, on Tuesday at
8:30 p.m. in room 226 of the Union. We will also elect our new
vice president. Everyone is invited.
UNC Riding Chib will meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the
Union. Entries will be taken for the Ferrum Show. Come or
call Susan at 933-4201.
The N.C Student Legislature will meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. in
226 Student Union. Plans for the October IC at Campbell and
bill topics will be discussed. New members are welcome.
There will be an organizational meeting for all old and new
SCAU members on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Union. Check
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Delta Sigma Pi will hold a pledge meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m.
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be at the Chapel of the Cross. at 304 East, Franklin St. Both
undergraduate and graduate students are invited to attend.
There is no charge.
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United Christian Fellowship is sponsoring a 10-mile walk-a-thon
Saturday Oct. 1, to raise money for missionary fund to
help the needy. Contact Robbie Harrell at 933-3693 or Izy
Lewis at 933-4084 to make pledges.
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meeting every Monday at 4 p.m. in the Health Education Sec
tion of the Student Health Service, is geared to help. UNC
students be responsible partners in matters concerning sexuali
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