4The Daily Tar Heel Friday, November 18, 1988
aw professor reminisces
By MARY JO DUNNINGTON
Staff Writer
ouis Bilionis is glad to be
back at UNC. He proclaims
J himself "not the type to remi
nisce," but he is full of old stories
and reflections about the value of
his experience here,
j At his office in UNC's School of
Ilaw, he props his feet up on his
desk, chews on a pencil and talks
about being editor of The Daily Tar
Heel, dreading the undergraduate
science requirement and taking
Thursday nights on Franklin Street
seriously sometimes. But his
favorite topic is the wide range of
opportunities available for students
aj UNC.
Born and raised in Massa
chusettes, Bilionis visited UNC as a
finalist for the Morehead Scholar
ship and fell in love with Chapel
Hill. "I saw the opportunities here
were boundless, and the students
were doing interesting things," he
said. His decision to attend UNC
was made more easily when he
learned he had received the
scholarship.
"The tradition and the setting
rhake it a great place to come," he
s'aid. "It's a very good place to spend
four years."
Bilionis spent much of his time as
ah undergraduate in the DTH
office. He began working on the
paper as a sophomore and served as
editor his senior year. "For me the
DTH was very consuming," he said.
"It was like a full-time job. It was
invigorating and challenging, and I
took the responsibility seriously. It
also took a toll on my class
attendance."
He considered journalism as a
career. "I wasn't real sure what I was
going to do when I left college."
Bilionis graduated from UNC in
1979 with a double major in eco
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nomics and English. In 1982 he
received a law degree from Harvard
University. He has worked as a clerk
for an appellate judge in Baltimore,
Md., as an attorney with a firm in
Boston, Mass., and as a public
defender in Raleigh. Last July he
began his appointment as a profes
sor in the law school!
Bilionis remains active in the legal
community in North Carolina, espe
cially in the area of capital punish
ment. He said he finds satisfaction
in the exchange of ideas and the
opportunity to explore many facets
of issues gained through teaching
law.
"To teach here is a real pleasure,"
he said. "It's like being a student
again. Professors are themselves stu
dents. They learn from each other
and from the experience of trying to
teach you. We're all exploring and
trying out ideas."
Because he lives in Raleigh and
spends his time on campus in the
law school, Bilionis says he does not
have much contact with
undergraduates.
"I understand better now why the
graduate students always seemed to
be in a separate world," he said. He
notes that the school does not pro
mote interaction between under
graduate and graduate students, and
the campus geography also makes
any interaction unlikely.
"Integration is important in a uni
versity community," he said. "We
should try to break down the artifi
cial barriers and force our paths to
cross from time to time. That's how
you find enrichment."
Bilionis has noticed some changes
in Chapel Hill since he was a stu
dent. The town and campus have
grown "in leaps and bounds," he
said. "The dividing lines between
Durham and Chapel Hill have col
lapsed. I remember when Darryl's
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of our world here."
Traffic is heavier, and more stu
dents have cars, he said. The Smith
Center makes it easier to get basket
ball tickets, and more games are
televised. Student social life has
changed somewhat, he adds, with
the increased development of Frank
lin Street and the change in the legal
drinking age.
As a whole, the student body is
more conservative than it was 10
years ago, he said. The students in
his classes hold more moderate and
conservative views than Bilionis and
his classmates held.
When asked about the student
protests currently causing such con
troversy, he says the activism "is not
uncommon for Carolina.
"There were protests then, too,"
he said. "That's a virtue of the Uni
versity community. It forces you to
see other sides of an issue and to
respect others' views."
Does he have any advice for stu- '
dents now experiencing many of the
same things he experienced 10 years
ago?
"One might ask, 'Who am I to
Wilder play to examine cycles
By ANDREW LAWLER
Staff Writer
The Lab Theatre presents its
penultimate production of the semes
ter with the opening of "The Skin of
Our Teeth" by Thornton Wilder this
weekend.
Kasey Jones, a senior from Texas
and the show's director, said the play
is about the beginning, middle and
end of mankind by following the life
of the Antrobus family.
In act one Wilder introduces
George Antrobus, a scientist who has
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give advice?' " He grins. "Open your
mind. Be imaginative. Have a
respect for individuality, because it
enhances your own self-esteem.
Take advantage of all that is going
on around you, because it will edu
cate you, not necessarily in a strictly
academic sense, but in ways that will
surprise you again and again."
College is a time to do "some
serious growing for four years," he
said. "It's a time to learn as well as
to do some really dumb things." He
laughs, perhaps thinking of a
memory he doesn't want to share.
"Of the things I did in college, there
was nothing remarkable, but
nothing trivial."
Bilionis says he prefers devoting
his energy to the present rather than
looking too far ahead. As for his
personal life, he enjoys cooking, lis
tening to all kinds of music and
being an avid fan of baseball and
Carolina basketball.
"There are lots of things I'd like to
do," he said. "There's never enough
time to do everything." Leaning
back in his chair, he smiles. "I'm
having a good time."
discovered the alphabet and the wheel
during the ice age. Act two has him
elected world president shortly
before the Biblical flood. Act three
shows the family after an unspecified
war.
Jones emphasized the play's theme
of history repeating itself. "It's about
the circularness of our universe, the
repetition of war and peace, and
lessons that weVe not yet learned in
spite of the repetition." Despite this
potentially grandiose theme, Jones
emphasized that the show was
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"extremely funny, like life is funny."
The universality of the play's theme
and characters was stressed by Joel
Johnson, a graduate student who
plays Antrobus. "George is an 'every
man.' Now when we say that we
usually mean 'anyman,' but George
really is everyman. He represents the
driving force that moves humanity
forward."
Bradley Coxe, a sophomore, plays
Henry, the Antrobuses' son. Henry,
who changed his name from Cain
yes, that Cain is the chaotic
element of the play, according to
Coxe.
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By JESSICA YATES
Staff Writer
The "Star of Bethlehem" holiday
presentation has begun its 40th
season at the Morehead Planetarium.
The annual show focuses on what this
Biblical star might have really been.
The show reviews historical data
in trying to determine when the star
was actually seen. Possible astronom
ical explanations for the star are then
provided for the audience.
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"He feels blocked in; he hates
rules," he said of his character. Coxe
said he believes students will get a
lot out of the production. "It's very
entertaining; there's so much funny '
and silly irreverent stuff that the '
message just slips in."
"Skin of Our Teeth" will be
performed in the Lab Theatre on
Sunday and Monday at 4 p.m. and
8 p.m., and at 5 p.m. on Tuesday'.
The Lab is located in the basement
of Graham Memorial. Reservations
are available on the first floor of
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"There is not a lot of clear evidence;
as to the exact date that the Star of'
Bethlehem appeared. We look at this,
first," said Lee Shapiro, the planet-;
arium director. "Then we look at
some of the possible explanations as
to what the star actually was, such',
as a supernova, or a comet or an effect, '
from the alignment of the planets."
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from the work done by some.astron-,
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ently, a lot of their curiosity is shared
by the students of UNC, since
Shapiro calls the "Star of Bethlehem"
show one of their most popular
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at 8 p.m., with matinees at 1 p.m;'
and 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
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