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Drama shows serious, sordid slices of life
By D'ANN PLETCHER
Sfaff Writer
The setting is a New York City all-
night coffee shop, full of heroin ad
dicts, homosexuals, pushers, hustlers
and prostitutes.
Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead,"
this season's production by the UNC
Department of Dramatic Art, brings
this scene to life today at 8 p.m. in
PlayMakers Theatre.
Director Adam Versenyi said the
production, which will run through Nov.
12, is as relevant now as it was when it
was first produced in 1965.
"In today's climate of the war on
drugs, the spread of crack houses and
concerns about AIDS, the characters in
this play demand our attention."
In contrast to plots which depend on
action, this play uses the "slice of life"
technique. The play employs an open
setting (designed by Marty Dejardins)
which allows the audience to step in
side the scene.
"The audience is made to feel that
they are actually in the cafe with the
characters," Versenyi said. The setting
also is symbolically moved several
times by the actors during the perform
ance to gradually complete a circle.
The catch in the realism is that this
particular slice of life is shockingly
sordid. While Joe, a would-be drug
pusher (played by Shawn Stuf flebeam),
waits to unload his first supply of her
oin, Darlene (played by Marcy Walsh),
discusses the financial drawbacks of
using a pimp in the prostitution busi
ness, which she is considering enter
ing. In the background, one addict wan
ders in and out of the cafe, ordering
coffee and then forgetting to drink it,
while another fears his numbness will
keep him from knowing when it's too
cold to stand outside. Lesbian prosti
tutes fight over each other.
The constant variety of stage busi
ness and bits of dialogue often divide
the attention of the audience while at
the same time heightening it by in
creasing the realistic effect of the scene.
At the end of the two-act play, Joe is
murdered for failing to unload his her
oin in time, and the realistic moves into
the realm of the surrealistic. The lights
flash as the scene of Joe's murder is
repeated three times, and the opening
dialogue is repeated.
This circular effectcould be called
surrealistic, but it is nonetheless the
most true-to-life element of the play. It
show that no resolution to end this
hellish existence has been reached in
side or outside the play.
More than two decades have passed
since its first production, yet the prob
lems the play addresses the futility
of the war against drugs and the result
ing "class" of the down-and-out still
remain unsolved. The final words of
the play, spoken by Darlene, reflect this
dilemma. "Christ, aren't we even moving?"
Precinct proctors watch voters from poll positions
By NOAH BARTOLUCCI
Staff Writer
Virginia Julian sat at the table with a
stack of ballots, an American flag and
an apple chewed straight to its core.
Julian, precinct registrar, arrived at
the table in Fetzer Gymnasium at 6 a.m.
Tuesday morning.
At 7:30 p.m., she was still there.
The Chapel Hill, Carrboro and
Hillsborough municipal elections were
decided Tuesday, and Julian, with her
Republican and Democratic judge col
leagues, was there to proctor her pre
cinct as she has for the past 20 years.
All three were veteran proctors.
Jeannette Tol ley , the Democrat ic j udge,
has worked the table for the past 15
years. They know the system and all
the faces.
"Here come the Fergusons," Tolley
said. After the Fergusons left, the grand
total as of 2 p.m. came to 5 1 voters for
the Fetzer Gym precinct.
"It's just a municipal election and
there's not too much opposition," Jul
ian said, explaining the low turnout.
'The mayor is running uncontested and
there are only three people running
against the town council members."
John Fincke, the Republican judge,
predicted maybe 1 0 to 1 5 percent of the
1,300 registered voters would come
out. "This isn't quite a typical pre
cinct," he said. "It's largely student
populated, and the students aren't here
the entire year."
Fincke has nicknamed himself the
"male token"; he's the newcomer to the
precinct, having proctored the table with
Julian and Tolley off and on for only
the past eight years.
But Tuesday's turnout was not the
worst Julian has ever seen.
"I remember three or four years ago
we had 65 votes for an August re
count," she said. "It was after the sec
ond summer session ended, and a lot of
faculty were out of town vacationing.
Chapel Hill was dead.
"Just 65 people showed up and I
immediately became the laughing stock
of the Orange County election board. I
still am," Julian said with a chuckle.
This year's election turnout was
higher, but not by much. Ten minutes
before 7 p.m., voters 76 and 77 walked
up to the tables.
"Hey, neighbor," said Barbara Har
din, wife of Chancellor Paul Hardin.
The Hardins live five houses down
from Tolley.
After Tolley told the two what
number they were, the chancellor reas
sured her that "there should be a few
more coming." The Hardins then
scooted behind the red, white and blue
curtains and cast their ballots.
The low turnout did concern the three
somewhat, especially since few stu
dents vote.
"I think sometimes it's important for
students to take part in these elections,"
Tolley said. "Some of the issues do
effect them like the noise ordinance."
Still, despite the small turnout, the
three maintained a healthy sense of
humor and had lots of free time to talk
and joke with each other.
To pass the time, Tolley brought a
book on home decorating.
Fincke came equipped with a radio
and pair of headphones. "I've been lis
tening to WUNC," he said. "It's my fa
vorite station."
Where there's good
food and good times, it's
only Natural. Natural Light
from Anheuser-Busch.
Now in longnecks to go.
Sports
Burton Tee(s) up a quest for success in
golf
By ERIC WAGNON
Staff Writer
A few athletes seem destined to excel
in a certain sport. Based on his name,
Tee Burton's parents must have thought
of golf even in the delivery room.
Burton, now a junior on North
Carolina's golf team, spent his child
hood living next to a public course in
Shelby, N.C.
"I was always around (golf)," Burton
said. "My father plays a lot and he got
me started."
Burton's father also played basket
ball at Lenoir"-Rhyne College and
Burton, who is 6-foot-4, picked up
basketball too. Burton was the golf and
basketball MVP for Crest High School
and all-conference in both sports.
"During the summers, I played a lot of
basketball, so I didn't play as much golf,
as I did basketball in the summer," he
said.
Burton however, decided before
his senior year in high school that bas
ketball was not in his future and that
golf would be his ticket to collegiate
athletics. During his senior year,
Burton enhanced his value in college
recruiters' eyes, finishing second in
the 1987 North Carolina High School
Championship.
After narrowing his choices to
Clemson and UNC, Burton opted to
play for coach Devon Brouse's Tar
Heel squad. While Burton's experi
ence in high-school was limited pri
marily to local tournaments, Burton
cracked the starting lineup as a fresh
man and improved to become one of
the team's top players. He finished last
fall with the lowest stroke average on
the team and made All-ACC last year,
which Burton considers to be his great
est honor.
Due to his background in basketball,
Burton was accustomed to playing a
team sport, but said that collegiate
golf's set-up as a team sport seemed
almost unnatural to the sport. "Golf is
an individual sport, tried to turn into a
team sport," Burton said. "It's kind of
weird being a team sport, because you
have to realize that, even if you're not
playing well, your score may have to
count anyway. You've got four other
guys depending on you. It helps you
grind a little harder coming home on
the last few holes."
Burton added that team format af
fects his play individually, making his
game slightly more conservative.
"Where you might try to pull some
crazy shot off if you were playing by
yourself in a tournament, you'd maybe
play it safe and save a shot, because
you've got other people depending on
you," he said.
At the Old Dominion-Seascape
Collegiate last fall, Burton certainly
did not let his teammates down, finish
ing first individually and shooting a 67
in the first round. "I started well and
just kept going," he said.
Teammate Neal Sullivan, who fin
ished fourth, was particularly pleased
with Burton's performance Burton
explained, 'That was a really neat
tournament. That's Neal Sullivan's
home golf course. So we kind of knew
everybody around. It was almost like
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we were at home, because everyone
was rooting for us."
Burton's best performance this fall
was at the Carpet Capital Collegiate
where he finished 20th individually,
while the team finished fifth. Burton
has not been particularly pleased with
his results this fall and wants to work on
his short game. "I'm probably a better
ball-striker than I am a putter," Burton
said. "That's what I'm working to
improve right now. My short game is
where I'm going to do most of my
improving."
Based on Burton's record of hard
work, he should continue to improve
and be a consistent force on the North
Carolina team. Burton said that he
spends about five hours at Finley Golf
Course per day and must keep the right
perspective to juggle golf and his stud
ies. He certainly has the right attitude
for success, Winning the team's Mike
McLeod Attitude Award last year.
Looking toward, the .future, Burton
said that he would like to play profes
sionally someday but is realistic about
his chances. As a speech major, he
added that he really is not sure of any
other career path at this point.
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Sports bring out the weirdos
By DOUG HOOGERVORST
Staff Writer
Oddities are the norm.
It's a contradiction in terms, but it's
the truth when it comes to life in the
wacky world of sports. Think about it a
minute. Someone always has a story
about how, without cheating, they
managed to shoot 53 for 18 holes the
other day. Or how they hit a 465 degree
turnaround slam-jam over this 7-foot-4
monster in Woolen Gym. Someone
always has a peculiar story to tell.
Let's look at some oddities.
First, some look alikes. Who thinks
Scott Cherry, the UNC freshman bas
ketball player, looks like Jay Burson,
former b-ball star of Ohio State? Could
it be that Burson wanted to continue his
college career after it was cut short due
to his injury, so he became Scott Cherry?
Has anyone ever seen Cherry and Bur
son at the same time? There could be a
point here.
Another look alike and sound alike
and everything alike is Mel Mroczek of
UNC volleyball fame. The sophomore
looks and sounds like Demi Moore.
After every volleyball game, I expect
to see Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez,
Andrew McCarthy and Ally Sheedy
come down from the stands and do
some sort of "St. Elmo's Fire" reunion.
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ball coach Jerry Tarkanian and Telly
Savalas. But do they act alike?
Annnnnd, no. Savalas played the super
cop, Kojak, and the Tark was caught
cheating by the NCAA. Kojak could
never cheat, and besides, Tarkanian
eats a towel, not a sucker.
Another oddity is that all of Dean
Smith's plays are numbered four. Ev
ery time that basketball mastermind
gets on his feet to call a play, he holds
up four fingers and says, with his nasal
inflection, "Four." Now if all of the
plays are called "four", call me crazy,
but wouldn't that be confusing?
Speaking of confusion, ACC bas
ketball officials Dick Paparo and Lenny
Wertz seem confused about whether
they are to officiate the game or enter
tain the fans. Paparo and Wertz often
decide to showboat and dramatize a
call, real or imaginary, to get them
selves in the spotlight. Strangely
enough, they enjoy their time in the
limelight most when they officiate UNC
games. As a result, the Tar Heels' rec
ord in games with Paparo and Wertz
wearing the zebra suits is a lot worse
than in all other games.
The Buffalo Bills have decided that
boxing might just be their sport. Two
assistant coaches Tom Bresnahan (of
fensive line) and Nick Nicolau (wide
receivers) tried a trial fight following a
film viewing session of the Buffalo
Houston game. The smaller Nicolau
landed an uppercut, stunning Bres
nahan, then took Bresnahan in a head
lock and rammed his head through a
wall. Updates to WBA and WBC rank
ings will be out soon.
What good is a golf captain? In the
Ryder Cup last month, ABC made this
big deal about Ray Floyd and Tony
Jacklin as captains of the United States
and Europe, respectively. The com
mentators commented on how good a
captain Jacklin had been for the Euro
peans. How can this be? Is he allowed
to improve his players lies on the course
and he just does a super job? Or can he
yell and make distracting noises when
the opposition shoots? This concept of
golf captain is indeed an oddity.
Finally, isn't it odd that UNC's punter
Scott McAlister doesn't get more ink?
The sophomore Greensboro native has
been rocketing punts at a 43.0 yard per
punt clip. He boomed an 83 yarder
against Georgia Tech, second longest
in school history and he's ranked 12th
nationally. With all of the negatives
being attached to the football program
McAlister has been a shining spot and
worthy of some good publicity.