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The Daily Tar HeelThursday, January 23, 19865
By MIKE GUNZEMHAUSER
StatfWriter
Some Chapel Hill businesses might
have to remove their signs if the Town
Council adopts an abatement plan to
make all existing signs comply with an
August 1985 ordinance.
At a public hearing Tuesday night
that drew no public comment, the
council voted to return the abatement
plan to the planning board for further
study.
If the council approves the plan, the
town will survey all signs to identify
those that do not conform to local
specifications, a process that may take
as long as a year, town planner Dave
Roesler said Wednesday.
The ordinance established stricter
design requirements for all signs,
including size and height, Roesler said.
But there was no provision about
removing existing signs.
The planning board recommended
that the council adopt a two-stage
program for removing nonconforming
signs. The owner of a sign considered
dangerous would have 90 days after
notification to remove the sign, plan
ning director Roger Waldon said.
Waldon said he knew of no current signs
that would be considered dangerous.
A dangerous sign is one that is poorly
maintained, too close to an intersection
or in conflict with traffic signs, Roesler
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By DEN1SE JOHNSON
Staff Writer
What message would you leave for
future generations if you knew it
would be the last thing you would
tell them?
Four notable professors from
different University departments will
be able to do just that during "The
Last Lecture Series" sponsored by
the Carolina Union Activies Board
Special Projects Committee.
"We're asking notable professors
to set up a lecture as if it were his
last," said Carwile Leroy, commit
tmee chairman. Leroy said students
from different University organiza
tions were asked to select notable
professors based on speaking ability,
popularity and charisma.
There was a similar program, four ,
or five years ago, he said, but, k has
been modified. In the earlier ' pro- 1
gram, the professors spoke on one
night, rather than on several nights.
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said.
Other nonconforming signs would
need to be removed within three years
of notification. The plan would also
require removal of signs from aban
doned businesses within four months.
Many existing signs also violate old
sign ordinances, Roesler said. But
previous ordinances included grand
father clauses that allowed a noncon
forming sign to remain until it was
repaired or no longer needed.
New requirements prohibit any signs
more than 8 feet, he said, whereas the
previous ordinance allowed signs up to
20 feet in some areas of town. The
ordinance also prohibits pole signs
signs must be attached to a building
or displayed from ground level.
It is not unusual for a town like
Chapel Hill to have a strict sign
ordinance to preserve its special char
acter, Roesler said. Chapel Hill has
special permission from the N.C.
General Assembly to prohibit bil
lboards within its planning jurisdiction.
"Sometimes the ordinance hinders
creativity," Roesler said, adding that the
appearance commission wants a pro
vision to allow approval of some
nonconforming signs that may be
acceptable in certain cases. Such a
provision may not be legally possible,
he said.
The first program will be Jan. 27
with Richard Richardson, chairman
of the political science department,
as speaker. Trudier Harris, a pro
fessor in the English department, will
speak Feb. 17, and Nancy Hyer, an
assistant professor in the School of
Business Administration will speak
March 24. The speaker for April 7,
the last date of the series, is uncon
firmed. All the lectures will be held at 7:30
p.m. in the Carroll Hall auditorium.
Richardson said Wednesday that
he had not yet selected his lecture
topic. "I'm just going to share a few
ideas on what I think is important,
not just in political science."
Leroy said he hoped the series
would be a chance for professors to
share ideas with students outside the
classroom. "We hope it will have
some gravity to it, be serious, yet
entertaining," he said.
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TODAY
'lEyes Without a Face will be shown at 7
Jand 9:30 p.m. in the Union Auditorium.
Jungle Book will be shown at 1 and 3 p.m.
at the ArtSchool. Call 929-2896 for ticket
information.
The Holy Ghostly and Reunion will be
performed by the Actors Co-op through
Saturday at 8 p.m. at the ArtSchool. Call 929
2896 for ticket information.
. North Carolina Symphony will perform with
Amy Lin, pianist, and Emily Controulis, flutist,
at 8 p.m. in Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh.
Call 733-9536 for ticket information.
Return of the Comet is the current show at
the Morehead Planetarium. Call 962-1248 for
more information.
Rebecca Martin will speak on "Northern
Baroque" at 1 1 a.m. at the North Carolina
Museum of Art. Call 833-1935 for ticket
information.
FRIDAY
APee Wee's Big Adventure will be shown
AfHat 4:30, 7, and 9:30 p.m., and at midnight
in the Union Auditorium. Call 962-2285 for ticket
information.
Running Fence and Valfey Curtain will be
shown at 8 p.m. at the North Carolina Museum
of Art. Call 8.1.1-1935 for more information.
By JEAN LUTES
Staff Writer
The Carolina blue sky is gray, the
weather is cold, spring break seems
incredibly far away, and the despairing
looks in the eyes of students all over
campus are hard to miss.
Many students complain about
burnout around this time of year, from
those who barely make it to class each
day to office-holders whose terms are
drawing to a close.
"I feel very burned out now," said
Student Attorney General Mary Evans.
". . . Lots of the problems are shared,
especially senior pressures. We're
looking for jobs, and graduation's
coming up. Everybody feels it.
"Academic burnout is hard to avoid
for any senior who's been through seven
semesters," she said. "And it's frustrat
ing to know that this is the last time
well all be together and not have time
to spend with friends."
Senior Resident Assistant Melody
Conilfereracefffi). and oMmoded ' execs
By GORDON RANKIN
Staff Writer
New executives entering the job scene
will find that to avoid becoming
outmoded, it will be necessary to
explore revised business ideas and
training alternatives.
"Managing in the Nineties," a con
ference sponsored by graduate students
of the UNC master V in business
administration program, will aim to
address those needs.
Conference participants will come
from varied fields within the business
community, and those attending will
hear lectures by professors, writers and
Royale
The Phantoms will perform at Rhythm Alley.
Call 929-8172 for more information;
Other Bright Colors will perform at Cat's
Cradle. Call 967-5053 for more information.
SATURDAY
A Touch of Evil will be shown at 7 and
j9:3Q p.m. in the Union Auditorium.
Robin Hood will be shown at 1 and 3 p.m.
at the ArtSchool. Call 929-2896 for ticket
information.
A Moon for the Misbegotten will be performed
by Asolo State Theater at 8 p.m. in Stewart
Theatre at N.C. State. Call 737-3104 for ticket
information.
Contemporary Drawings will be displayed
through March 2 at the Ackland Art Museum.
Three Hits will perform at Rhythm Alley. Call
929-8172 for more information.
SUNDAY
J S Richard III will be shown at 8 p.m. in the
JLJ Union Auditorium.
Ciompi Quartet will perform at 3 p.m. at the
North Carolina Museum of Art.
Robert Parkins and Monica U. Rossman,
organists, will perform at 5 p.m. in Duke Chapel
at Duke.
Frederic Moses, bass-baritone, and Jane
Hawkins, pianist, will perform t 8:15 nm in
Barnes agreed. "I'm at the point where
I want to do a lot f things since it's
my last chance to do them, but I still
want to relax and enjoy the rest of my
senior year."
It's easy to be depressed at this time
of year, Barnes said. "What happens in
January and February? It's boring."
Many students said the start of
second semester just wasn't as exciting
as first semester. Also, Christmas break
is so short, a number of students don't
have time to get ready to start all over
again.
"We're not busy getting settled in like
last semester," sophomore Sally Schultz
said. "In second semester we have
nothing to look forward to until spring
break. You have such a good , time at
Christmas that you arent ready to come
back."
Visits home for the holidays can be
a factor in the number of burnouts
occurring this time of year, clinical
corporate executives.
Lecturers will concentrate on the
central theme that during the next
decade human values will transform
American business and make it a more
efficient competitor around the world.
Throughout the conference, sche
duled for Jan. 27-29, speakers will
address the concerns of business stu
dents with ad vice on job opportunities.
They, will also address public concerns
with their economic predictions for the
1990's.
Main speakers scheduled to partic
ipate in the conference include James
Ferguson, chairman of General Foods
Corporation; Nancy Austin, co-writer
of A Passion for Excellence; pollster
Lou Harris; and John Naisbitt, author
of the bestsclling novel Megatrends.
Also on the conference agenda are
author Milton Moskowitz, Columbia
University professor Kathryn Harrigan,
business consultant Felicia Scwartz and
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By ALEXANDRA MANN
Staff Writer
Troll is perhaps one of the worst movies ever made. In
fact, it's almost as difficult to find one redeeming quality
in the film as it is to discern its worst offenses the acting,
directing, writing or the story itself.
Troll is essentially a fantasy film, but it has trouble deciding
whether or not to also be a comedy or a horror show. It
fails at all three, but not before trying almost every cliche
known to movie making. '
The story centers around a nice American family, the
Potters, who have just moved into a new apartment in San
Francisco (this location only being apparent because of a
false backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge in one scene).
While mom and dad (Shelley Hack and Michael Moriarty)
finish moving into the place, their son Harry Jr. (Noah
Hathaway) takes off on his own, and their daughter Wendy
Ann decides to play ball in the basement.
This is bad news because the troll in the apartment building
resides in the laundry room. When the little girl's ball rolls
down there he gets her with his magic green ring and takes
on her identity.
The fun starts when the "possessed" Wendy Ann embarks
on a rampage through the apartment complex malevolently
changing eaich residence into a minitroll haven, complete
with foliage, swamp slime and at least 20 trolls or related
creatures. Sonny Bono, who plays a swinging and very hip
bachelor (at least in his own mind), is the first victim. He
is followed by Julia Louis-Dreyfus (of Saturday Night Live),
Gary Sandy (formerly of WKRP in Cincinnati) and a dwarf
who lives upstairs.
Perhaps one positive thing that can be said about the
film is the actual transformation process, especially in Bono's
case, of the person into a living, breathing troll. The troll,
having shed his Wendy Ann persona and taken on his true
appearance, injects his victim with a needle from the
mysterious green ring, at which point the victim slowly
becomes a Large black pod, from within which all the foliage,
mud and trolls appear.
Campus Calendar
Thursday
11:00 a.m.UNC Nyrop for Congress Com
mittee information table in the
Pit until 1 p.m.
Students Against Multiple Scle
rosis (SAMS) sponsoring
recruitment for Rock-Alike Lip
Sync contest until 1 :00 p.m. in
the Pit.
Noon Women's Studies Program host
ing "Signs: A Decade of Fem
inist Publishing Begins," a
lunchtime colloquium with
Jean O'Barr, Editor, and Mary
Wyer, Managing Editor of
SIGNS: A Journal of Women
in Culture and Society, in Toy
Lounge. Dey Hall, until 1:30
p.m.
3:03 p.m. University Career Planning and
East Duke Building at Duke.
Elizabeth Higdon will lecture on "Abstract
Expressionism" at 1:30 p.m. at the North
Carolina Museum of Art.
Paul Montgomery will perform at 7 p.m. at
the ArtSchool. Call 929-2896 for more
information.
MONDAY
J John Naisbitt will lecture on re-inventing
M I the corporation at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall. ,
TUESDAY
QDr. Grace Baruch will lecture on "Women,
A O Work, and Stress" at 3:30 p.m. in Room
121 Hanes Art Center.
Jane Ferguson will lecture on "Corporate
Values" at 8 p.m. in Carroll Hall Auditorium.
WEDNESDAY
(Ah Fei will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in 101
Greenlaw. .
Joffrey II Dancers will perform at 8 p.m. in
Stewart Theatre at N.C. State. Call 737-3104 for
ticket information.
Robert ZappuHa, harpsichordist, will perform
at 12:30 p.m. in Duke Chapel at Duke.
Duke Symphony and Duke Chorale will
perform at 8:15 p.m. in Baldwin Auditorium at
Duke.
psychologist Katherine Bell said.
"Students run into a lot of issues at
home that they have to face over
Christmas and may still be dealing with
them when they come back," she said.
Barnes said Christmas expectations,
especially for freshmen, usually ran
high. Depression after a disappointing
holiday often results.
"Freshmen think so much about
going home for Christmas, then (they
find out) things at home aren't the same
anymore; so when they come back
there's an added strain on school life,"
she said.
Burnout strikes not only undergrad
uate students but graduate students as
well.
First year medical student Don
Carver said, "A couple of our professors
asked our class last week why we were
all so depressed. It takes a while to get
back into the swing of things."
The weather can be depressing too,
Carver - said. "Not being able to go
community activist Bonnie Wright.
During the course of the program,
smaller, individual workshops will be
formed for those with interests in
particular areas. In all, 24 small-group
lectures are scheduled. .
These lectures will deal with topics
such as how women change the way
business is done, how failing industries
like textiles can regain their ability to
effectively compete, and how the
entrepreneur may perform as an activist
for social change.
The symposium as a whole will be
dealing with the economy's change from
one of industry to one of service, and
it will instruct students on how to
successfully manage business opera
tions when money is replaced by people
as a chief resource.
Free public lectures will be given by
Naisbitt Monday, Jan: 27 at 8 p.m. in
Memorial Hall, and by Ferguson
Tuesday, Jan. 28 at 8 p.m. in Carroll .
cinema
Placement Services hosting a
International Internships and
Summer Jobs Workshop, 209
Hanes.
4:00 p.m. UNC Women's Lacrosse Club
meeting until 5:30 p.m. today
and every Monday through
Thursday, Finley Field. For
information call Chesca at 967
6568. 6:00 p.m. Student Television's newly
formed advertising and publie-
ity committee meeting. 204
Union.
7:00 p.m. Inter-Varsity Christian Fellow
ship showing an Amy Grant
concert from her "Age to Age"
Tour, 3rd Floor Lounge. Gran
ville East. Everyone invited.
UNC Outing Club meeting.
Union. Check schedule for
room number. Everyone
welcome.
Joseph Covington will speak on "Florence and
the Renaissance" at 8 p.m. at the North Carolina
Museum of Art.
MOVIES
Plaza I Out of Africa at 3:30 and 7:45.
Plaza II Weetherby at 3, 5:15, 7:25 and 9:40.
Plaza m A Chorus Line at 3, 5:15, 7:30 and
9:45.
Varsity I The Journey of Natty Can at 2: 10,
4:15, 7:10 and 9:15.
Varsity II White Nights at 2, 4.30, 7, and
9:30.
Varsity Lateshows Secret Honor at 11:30 and
White Nights at midnight Friday and Saturday.
Carolina Blue 191 Dalmatians at 3 and 5
ends today. Transylvania i-SCC9 at 7 and 9 ends
today. Twice in a Lifetime starts Friday at 2:30,
4:45, 7 and 9:30.
Carolina White Troll at 7:30 and 9:30 ends
today. American Rabbit at 3:30 and 5:30. My
Chauffeur starts Friday at 7 and 9:30.
Rem I Iron Eagle at 7 and 9:20; weekend
matinees at 2 and 4:20.
Ram II Jewel of the Nile at 7:05 and 9:20;
weekend matinees at 2:05 and 4:20.
Ram III Spies Like Us at 7 and 9: 1 5; weekend
matinees at 2 and 4:15.
Compiled by Elizabeth Ellen, arts editor.
outside is another thing. On nicer days,
IVe noticed everyone always has a more
positive attitude."
Burnout also affects student office
holders as their terms come to an end.
"If you're in a position with lots of
responsibility, and youVe been there for
almost a year, it's a long time to be
doing one particular thing," Evans said.
"Everybody went into office last
February with a lot of goals, and now
we see we've only got two months left;"
she said. "We want to get more done,
but it's hard to find the energy."
Just being tired can be the problem,
Student Body President Patricia Wal
lace said. Coping with burnout is "a
matter of (trying to get) support from
other individuals (and finding) out that
it's just something that happens to
everybody," she said.
Carver said, "Every year in college
at this time it gets like this. It's definitely
a cycle."
Hall Auditorium.
"The conference will be concerned
with social change and what it means
for business, said Peter Solomon,
second-year M.B.A. student and an
organizer of the program. "We've
assembled a unique panel of 'doers',
those with firsthand experience; and
thinkers', those who possess a wealth
of business knowledge and are willing
to share it with us.. u
"When one : thinks" of - business he
almost immediately associates it with
profit," Solomon added. "However, our
goal is to demonstrate that corporate
America feels a responsibility to not
only its stockholders but also its
stakeholders, primarily the public at
large."
A limited number of workshop spaces
are available for those interested in
attending the conference. For more
information about fees and the pro
gram, call 962-3239.
The problem is that the idea is almost directly lifted from
a combination of An American Werewolf in London and
Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Meanwhile Harry Jr. begins to see, unlike his idiotic
parents, that his sister is really not his sister. So he seeks
the help of another neighbor, Eunice Sinclair (June
Lpckhart), who turns out to be a nice witch who has actually
been expecting this troll invasion for quite some time.
At this point the Sinclair and Potter households are the
only normal apartments in the whole place, so it is up to
Harry and his witch friend to save the apartment building
as well as the whole world because, of course, the trolls
plan to reinstate their long-lost troll society by taking over
the earth.
Needless to say, after all this suspense has been built up,
there is a happy ending. The real Wendy Ann, who was
found in a glass box in the troll woods much like Snow
White, is returned to her family; Sinclair makes a strange
exit; the Potters aren't particularly overjoyed because they
didn't know anything was going on in the first place, and
no one knows whatever becomes of the other residents.
Whatever plot there is can be called weak. It draws from
just about every type of movie to try to give it backbone.
The effort of putting relatively big names in the film was
a gallant one, but no one can save these people from a terrible
script and direction so bad that it seems it was meant to
be that way. Besides, putting comedy character actors like
Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall (who plays her boyfriend) next
to a singer from the 70s (Bono) and a Charlie perfume
endorser (Hack) was as successful as putting oil and water
together and hoping for a successful mixture.
The only hope in this movie is found in Hathaway. He
is young, but he has looks and shows some acting promise.
He may have a future on the screen. We can only hope
he will be able to put Troll out of his mind and go on.
7 JO p.m. Society of Physics Students
meeting, 277 Phillips. Anyone
interested in Physics is
welcome.
STAND meeting. Campus Y
Lounge.
S JO p.m. Fellowship of Christian Ath
letes holding Huddle Group
Night. 208 Union. Bring a
friend.
Items of Interest
Applications for Campus Y Executiu
Committee positions are now available in
the Y Building office. These arc due
Monday February 3rd. Any student is
eligible to run.
The Student North Carolina Associa
tion of educators will hold registration lor
the club in 307 I'cahody. and in the lobbv.
from Jan 20-25. All education majors an
urged to join.