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Volume 94, Issue 52
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UNC officials denounce chaos
By MARIA HAREN
Staff Writer
"Disappointed" and "embar
rassed" were the words two Univer
sity officials used to describe their
feelings on the destructive party on
Franklin Street late Sunday night.
"It was an embarrassment for the
University and the student body,"
said Frederic N. Schroeder Jr., dean
of students.
The gathering had its roots in the
drinking age law, which focused on
drinkers' maturity, he said. Students
fell far short of showing that quality
of maturity on Sunday, Schroeder
said.
"It was a sorry situation from start
to finish," he said, adding that the
University's relationship with the
Chapel Hill community was dam
aged as a result.
Chancellor Christopher C. Ford
ham III also said the crowd was
lacking in maturity. Crowds lend
themselves to anonymity, he said.
"When you're anonymous," Ford
ham said, "you show your real
maturity."
The incident's negative effect on
the community could be repaired by
the community and the University
More than 300 lost
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MOSCOW A tourist
packed Soviet cruise ship,
rammed and torn open by a
freighter, sank so fast that there
was no time to deploy lifeboats,
and more than 300 people are
feared dead, a maritime official
said Tuesday.
The same vessel, then under a
Red Cross flag, sank during
World War II after striking a
mine.
Lenoid P. Nedyak, a deputy
minister for the Merchant
Marines, told a news conference
that rescue boats plucked 836
survivors from the Black Sea,
most of them clinging to rafts that
floated free when the liner Admi- x
ral Nakhimov plunged to the
bottom at about midnight
Sunday.
There were 1,234 people
aboard, according to official
reports.
Nedyak said that 79 bodies
Charlie Goodnight's tickles
By BETH RHEA
Staff Writer '
RALEIGH Three years ago,
opening a new comedy club in
Raleigh was no joking matter to
Tom Williams and Carlton Midyette
it was serious business.
"Three years ago it was brutal,"
Williams said.
Today, the national reputation of
Charlie Goodnight's comedy club
lures many of the country's top
comedians to the state capital.
Boasting professional comedy five
nights a week, Charlie Goodnight's
has become a venue for comics
ranging from young stars just break
ing into the business to nationally
known comedians who are regularly
seen on "The Tonight Show" and
"Saturday Night Live." The tre
mendous success of the club has
made the name Charlie Goodnight's
known throughout the Research
Triangle and beyond,
i The club began with acts which
Williams described as "good but
local," and over the years the quality
of the comedy increased as the
owners learned what appealed most
to their audiences. Some of the well
known acts which have appeared at
Goodnight's include ventriloquist
Willie Tyler and Lester; Rich Hall,
the originator of Sniglets; Dennis
Miller of "Saturday Night Live"; and
Bill Hicks, a four-time performer on
"The David Letterman Show."
Perhaps the biggest star who has
appeared at the club is Jay Leno,
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working together, he said. "Well not
let one episode destroy our
reputation."
UNC students, having help from
other university's students, were not
all to blame, Fordham said. "Our
students are usually more civil than
other schools," he said, "never just
plain hostile."
Chapel Hill was a magnet for area
students, which were told by the
media ahead of time about the party,
he said. What resulted was not the
media's fault, Fordham said, just
society's normal reaction to
publicity.
Maj. Charles E. Mauer with
University Police disagreed. He said
the media are "the biggest agitators
weVe got."
The media started publicizing the
party over a week before the fact,
he said, sending neighboring univer
sity students to Chapel Hill.
Mauer said he believed the inci
dent would never have occurred
without the media's influence.
Sgt. Ned Comar of the University
Police also blamed the news media
were " recovered arid that 319
people were still missing two days
after the collision.
"1 hope and all of us hope that
out of the (319 missing persons
there may jbe some survivors,"
Nedyak said. But he added, "I
believe that most of these pas
sengers are still aboard the ship.
Until the divers do their work it
will be difficult to confirm this
supposition."
He said the vessel rests on the
bottom at a depth of 155 feet.
Nedyak said the information he
had indicated that no bodies had
been recovered since late Mon
day. He said 29 of the survivors
were hospitalized, but he did not
give their conditions.
He said the liner was rammed
amidships on its starboard side
at 11:15 p.m. Sunday by the
Soviet freighter Pyotr Vasyev.
The collision occurred about nine
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who is, according to Williams, "the
number one comedian in the USA
right now." Leno will soon be a
regular host on "The Tonight Show"
and will be performing on Sept. 28
at Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh
in a special birthday celebration for
Charlie Goodnight's, sponsored by
the club and WZZU.
But Goodnight's has also served
as a training ground for local
comedians to make their first venture
onstage. Barry Soble is a comedian
who first appeared at Goodnight's
soon after its opening when he was
new in the comedy business.
"Soble was pleasantly surprised at
the sophistication of our audiences,"
Williams said. "He has gone on to
be as big a star as weVe had."
Since then Soble has gained
experience and grown in popularity
so that now he sells out shows,
including his return engagements at
Goodnight's.
Williams said much of his business
day is spent digging up the scoop
on the latest comedians touring the
country.
"I take calls all day long, and I
hear who's hot and who's not,"
Williams said. He said he asks
comedians to recommend others
because "the comedians who have
performed at the club get a feel for
the club, and they know what works
and what doesn't."
Raunchy comedy is one act that
doesn't work at Goodnight's. Wil
liams said that both he and Jerry
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"When you're anony
mous, you show your real
maturity."
Christopher Fordham,
UNC chancellor
for the crowd's large numbers and
violent behavior. "I believe the media
created this situation for its own
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Faculty Council
Report
By JO FLEISCHER
Assistant University Editor
The spring Faculty Council report
that could require UNC students to
enroll in more writing-intensive
courses is now being reviewed by
University schools and departments,
UNC officials said.
The departments and schools will
respond to the Ad Hoc Committee
on Writing Across the Curriculum
report and make recommendations
in late September. The council will
consider that input in October.
An ad hoc committee led by
George W. Houston issued the
report to the Faculty Council at its
March meeting. The report stated
"writing is at the heart of the
educational experience," and impor
tant in undergraduate education to
provide a better understanding of a
subject by students' efforts to explain
or present it logically.
The council recommended
changes to: '
B require freshmen who place out
of English 1 and 2 to take one English
composition course during their
Brown, director of operations,
believe that in a nightclub atmos
phere like Goodnight's, comedians
have much more freedom of lan
guage and material than they have
on television. But Brown said a
concerted effort is made "to keep it
clean."
"If all our shows were G-rated, it
would sure cut out a lot of material,"
Williams said. Nevertheless, Willi
ams said he "look(s) for the guy
whose material is funny. If a come
dian has to be filthy to be funny,
he's not our kind of comedian, and
he's not a good comedian. The good
comedians don't have to be dirty to
be funny, and they know that."
Comics who appear at Good
night's do not use blue humor, which
Williams described as the "depress
ing" kind of humor that is often
found in the nightclubs of major
cities such as New York.
"Those who do the more intelli
gent, heady humor are usually the
more successful," Steve Reynolds, of
WRDU-FM's "Reynolds and Com
pany," who has been an emcee and
a regular patron at Goodnight's, said
of the club's acts.
Reynolds described the club's
clientele as "a very well-educated,
intelligent market" that can appre
ciate the humor that makes one think
before laughing.
The bulk of the club's patronage
is between the ages of 25 and 35.
But, Williams added, "We work
really hard to cultivate the college
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina
emparirassmeinit
Five students charged in ruckus
By LINDA MONTANARI
City Editor
Charges have been filed against 12
people and damage to downtown
businesses is estimated at between
$ 10,000 and $ 1 5,000 in the aftermath
of one of Chapel Hill's most violent
drinking blowouts ever on Franklin
Street Sunday night.
Eight college students, including
five UNC students, were among the
12 people charged. The students were
charged with offenses ranging from
possessing spiritous liquor and
resisting police officers to larceny.
"We had an unfortunate occur
rence this weekend, and to us it
brings forth clearly the drug and
alcohol problems in our society
today," Chapel Hill Police Chief
Herman Stone said Tuesday. "We
who were there saw first-hand the
potential of injury and even death
in situations like this."
Fifteen people were treated for
minor injuries by the South Orange
Rescue Squad, including six that
were transported to N.C. Memorial
Hospital, according to Ray deFriess,
squad chief. The injured were treated
by members of the four rescue squad
units patrolling the party.
favors mandatory wfitim
freshmen year.
o require sophomores, juniors
and seniors to register for a least one
course per semester that includes a
substantial writing component.
These courses will be designated with
a W in the course number.
a expand the the Writing Center
and its responsibilities. The center
should have a full-time faculty
member as its director, and its staff
of graduate students should be
expanded to at least 10, the report
said.
Gillian T. Cell, dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences, said Tuesday
that she had asked for a meeting of
all the department heads at the end
of September to discuss reactions to
the study and its possible
implementation.
"Each department has to think
what it will mean to its own program
of courses, and a lot of thought has
to be given what affect the addition
of another layer of requirements will
have on the departments and their
resources," Cell said.
"The general question that needs
Triangle
market."
Williams said he does not think
the new drinking age will hurt the
club's business. It has been the club's
standard practice to allow anyone 17
or older into the club, and the
question of whether a customer is
legally eligible to drink arises at the
customer's table and not at the door.
"WeVe tried not to restrict the show
based on whether you can drink or
not," he said.
The 250-seat club filled to capacity
on a recent Thursday night when Bill
Hicks, the scheduled headliner,
entered clad completely in black
right down to his sunglasses and
wearing a shirt proclaiming himself
"The Sane Man." In the first of
several amusing moves, he dropped
to one knee and crouched with one
hand over his head then rose to his
feet and declaredrTm bringing back
the Elvis bow, 'cause I figure he
ain't!" At one point in the show he
mentioned John Lennon and then
burst out, "John Lennon is murdered
and Barry Manilow is still putting
out albums! Something is WRONG
here!!"
Many of Hicks' lines were appeal
ing because the audience could relate
to them. Nearly everyone empa
thized with him when he said of
bosses: "Jesus, they put a cramp in
the workday. It's just a job, dude!
Chill out!!" The students in the
audience particularly appreciated
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"There were a couple of fairly
good lacerations from beer bottles'
to people's heads and things like
that," deFriess said.
The worst injuries were cuts from
broken glass and bruises from
several fistfights that broke out,
police liaison Keith Lohmann said.
An estimated 8,000 to 10,000
people turned out to live it up during
the waning hours of legal teen-age
drinking in North Carolina. The
legal age to purchase beer and wine
rose from 19 to 21 at midnight
Sunday.
During the six-hour spree, the
throng broke at least a dozen
storefront windows, threw beer
bottles, obstructed police officers
and smashed automobile
windshields.
The celebration, though similar in
scale to the NCAA men's basketball
championship party in 1982, differed
in the mood and intentions of those
drinking, Stone said.
"It seemed their primary concern
was to drink, as a pasttime in
complete disregard for everyone lse
concerned," he said. "It was open
defiance of the new law."
"I did not anticipate the angry
to be answered is is this the right
way to do it or are there other
alternatives?' "she said.
Cell said some faculty members
have raised concern that designating
courses as "writing intensive" may
have an effect opposite to the
recommendation's intention. "Say
ing 'this course is a W' does imply
that writing is an exception. Lots of
faculty members feel that every
course should be a W," she said.
"We want writing to be the norm
it's just a question of the way to
implement the necessary changes,"
she said.
George A. Kennedy, chairman of
the faculty, proposed forming the ad
hoc committee last September.
Tuesday he cited as reasons for his
concern comments from his students
and reports in the press about
graduates being unable to express
themselves clearly.
"From what 1 heard from my
students, from other feedback and
from a general public perception
about it, 1 saw that writing was not
getting enough attention," he said.
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"It seemed their primary
concern was to drink. It
was open defiance of the
law."
Herman Stone,
Chapel Hill police chief
mood of the crowd," he said.
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"I thought that maybe we ought to
take a look at it." . -
The committee studied writing
courses at UNC and sampled 400
undergraduates at random, the
report said. Of the students polled,
more than half said they had writing
assignments of three pages or more
in "a few" or "almost none" of their
classes.
Questionnaires returned by 600
faculty members showed that 96
percent of them felt "the University
should do more to improve student's
writing skills," the report said. The
committee also studied writing
programs at other schools and
resources available to students
besides their classes.
At the time the report was sub
mitted, it was recommended that the
deans of the college and the profes
sional schools and their advisory
boards review the report and send
their responses to the dean of Arts
and Sciences jfor review and com
pilation. Thi responses will be
formally submitted to the Faculty
Council on Oct. 30.
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