1
4mie Daily Tar HeelTuesday,. November 28, 1989
Chamber to solicit foods
By SAM ANTHA GOWEN
Staff Writer
; . The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber
Stf Commerce. has such high hopes for
v future president David Taylor, it de
; tided to raise the average salary of the ,
- position from $50,000 to $75,000.
N Chamber director Todd Zapolski said
the Board of Directors thought that
vSTaylor, with 30 years experience in
N town management, would help the
chamber prosper.
"We have a unique situation with
; David Taylor," he said. "He is a great
BFC Community Kitchen, Homeless Shelter to share quarters
By KATHER1NE SNOW
Staff Writer
The Chapel Hill Town Council voted
7-2 on Nov. 21 to accept $108,000 from
the N.C. Building Finance Commis
sion so the Inter-Faith Council's Com
munity Kitchen can relocate into the
renovated Municipal Building.
The kitchen, now located on Merritt
Mill Road, has limited facilities. The
johnny Quest combines witty stage show
It's noisy.
That's how Joe Farmer, lead singer
of the funkrock band Johnny Quest,
describes the group's sound.
And according to other members,
he's pretty accurate.
"It's ahigh smiles-per-beat quotient,"
bassist Jack Campbell said. "Loosely
translated, it's funk, you know funky
drums, chunky bass a la James Brown
or Cameo, just funk music. The other
side of the Johnny Quest coin is rock
V roll. It's the most noise the four of us
can make."
Johnny Quest, which takes its name
from the Saturday morning adventure
cartoon, was formed in 1983 with
Campbell, Farmer, lead guitarist Bill
Ladd and drummer Peele Wimberley.
The foursome started off playing
hardcore music "but it was unlike
most of the hardcore in Raleigh it
was fun," Campbell said. In 1985,
Wimberley left to join the Connells,
and Campbell became the bassist for
the Pressure Boys, so the group dis
banded for a couple of years.
However, after the demise of the P
Boys, Campbell, Ladd and Farmer re
formed in 1988 with Ladd's younger
brother Rob on drums. Steve Hill re
placed Rob Ladd as drummer in De
cember 1988.
'This last incarnation of the band is
almost a new band," Campbell said.
"We're taking it far more seriously
than we ever did before. We're still a
Tar Heel Voices offers unique
By HEATHER SMITH
Staff Writer
Good friends, good fun and even
better music is what Carolina's Tar
Heel Voices is all about, said junior
nVHA
fK Put your college
degree to work in the Air
Force Officer Training School.
Then, after graduating from
Officer Training School, become a
commissioned Air Force officer
with great starting pay, complete
medical and dental care, 30 days
of vacation with pay per year and
management opportunities. Learn
if you qualify for higher education
in the Air Force. Call
OFFICER PROGRAMS
1-800-423-USAF
TOLL FREE
We've Captured the Best of 100 Years
You Can Too,
Capture your
1990 Yackety Yack Now!
On Sale this week in
the pit.
continuing a 100 year
investment for the chamber. Raising
his salary raises the whole program, the
whole budget and what the chamber's
doing overall."
Zapolski also said he thought Taylor
would bring increased membership to
the chamber. Increased membership
provides more money for the budget
which improves the chamber's effec
tiveness, he said.
The chamber only budgeted $50,000
for the president's salary in 1990, so the
additional $25,000 will be solicited from
chamber members.
funds will allow the kitchen to be moved
into the renovated building on Colum
bia and Rosemary streets, where the
IFC's Homeless Shelter is located.
'The place is very makeshift," IFC
President James Sounder said. "The
stove and storage space are not even as
big as in an apartment.
"The new location will offer more
modern quarters, and we'll be able to
Vicki Hyman
Band Profile
fun band. We're still practicing and
getting tighter and better."
Influences on the band are as varied
as its musical styles. Campbell lists
Led Zeppelin, Public Enemy, the Red
Hot Chili Peppers and the Rolling
Stones among the band's favorites.
Farmer said he admired some musi
cians for their stage antics. "I'm sort of
silly on stage. I think Mick Jagger and
Steven Tyler from Aerosmith are pretty
silly and goofy. I just run around, shoot
ing my mouth off, very sarcastic,
tongue-in-cheek."
Part of the group's popularity can be
attributed to the members' witty and
fun stage presence. "We try to host the
party," Campbell said. "We like to draw
attention to ourselves while making the
crowd feel welcome and at ease, so
they can enjoy what's going on."
The band's fever onstage is conta
gious, he said. "We talk a lot, and
there's a lot of power we're pretty
intense, and we play hard."
Farmer agreed. "We talk to the crowd,
tell them to get up and dance, don't be
lazy. It's more my job ... I pay close
attention to the crowd. I love to get
down there and dance with them. It's a
very active show kind of crazy-man
Chris Carter, the musical group's di
rector. "We're close friends. It's hard to say
which is more important, the music or
the people involved," he said.
GO TO OFFICER
TRAINING
STHOOI
The group has 581 members includ
ing retailers and members of non-profit
organizations and the business com
munity. Although the chamber has not offi
cially started its campaign to raise
$25,000, Zapolski said response, so
far, had been very positive.
"We are receiving widespread sup
port throughout the commerce com
munity," he said. "We are very excited
to have David as our president."
Charles House, owner of University
Florist, is a chamber member who
serve more people. There will be enough
room to use for recreation, meetings
and other functions as well."
Grace Higgs, who has worked with
the Community Kitchen for seven years
and now co-directs the shelter, said she
was pleased about the move.
"We need it desperately. Now the
only storage space we have is a small
cabinet and two small freezers."
music.
Johnny Quest is known for its eclec
tic lyrics as well as its music. "Lyri
cally, we're trying to do what we do
onstage be funny and powerful,"
Campbell said. "A lot of tough talk and
mumbo-jumbo. We have the Johnny
Quest theme, which is an overblown,
heavy metal song about how we are the
saviors of the world. A big song of ours
is 'The Heisman,' which is slang for
giving something the stiff arm treat
ment." The Heisman is also the name of the
tape Johnny Quest now has available.
But according to Campbell, "It's not
fheeasiest thing in the world to get."
It's available at Poindexters, which
Campbell owns, Schoolkids Records
and at the group's shows.
The band has been very busy this
year, playing shows all over North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Virginia and Washington, D.C. Next, it
is headed north for a show at CBGB's
in New York City.
Johnny Quest hopes to attract some
label interest in the coming months.
"It's looking good right now," Farmer
said. "It's just talk, but it's good talk."
The group should have an album out
soon, which could mean extensive
touring in the future, Hill said. "I'd be
on the road everyday, playing all the
time, the whole time."
Johnny Quest's popularity could be
translated nationwide, Campbell said.
The Tar Heel Voices formed early
last year after the music department
decided to alter the format of the mixed
Glee Club to form separate men's and
women's singing groups.
"The old members of the Glee Club
wanted to sing mixed music like we had
in the past," Carter said. "We have the
Clef Hangers and the Loreleis, but other
than those two groups, we don't have
another group that is affiliated with the
University, especially one that is
mixed."
The group's soprano-alto-tenor-bass
combination includes some sacred
music, Engl ish madrigals, classical, folk
and some livelier selections. The sec
tion leaders and the group's conductor
Notes sell
By MARA LEE
Staff Writer
The worst book Blan Holman never
read was "Mayor of Castorbridge" by
Thomas Hardy.
Like most students, Holman, a jun
ior English major, was forced to con
front the book in English class, but he
was saved by that little black and yel
low superhero, Cliffs Notes.
Cliffs Notes, which began in 1958,
annually sells 5 million copies in the
4 I Vr'r
Foster
tradition
MM- ft
f jig m w
4 '
to cover
supports Taylor as president. House
was a member of the national search
committee mat selected Taylor as a
potential candidate for the position.
"I do feel very obliged to give a
contribution," he said. "With Taylor as
president, we can broaden the base of
the entire commerce program."
House is one of many commerce
members willing to contribute to
Taylor's salary increase, Zapolski said.
"Right now, members are pledging
$200 to $300, and the project hasn't
even started yet," he said. Letters solic
The kitchen feeds 30 to 40 people at
breakfast and dinner and sometimes as
many as 80 people for lunch, Higgs
said. In the new shelter she hopes there
will be room to handle up to 1 50 people.
Sounder said because the Municipal
B u ilding belonged to the town of Chapel
Hill, the town council had to decide to
accept the $ 108,000 and the provisions
that came with it. "At first it was a
Jack Campbell, Steve
"The band could enjoy the kind of
success in other parts of the country as
we've had here. Meanwhile; we're
I ONiY 4 .J
! 1 ,
. i j, !at u-I In in in mi in i il mi. .mini fJlCs.jF. u '. ,
blend of friendships
decide which pieces to perform. "We
sing a lot of jazz actually pretty
much whatever we want and enjoy,"
Carter said.
"While we sing some of the same
types of music (as the Clef Hangers and
Loreleis), the music has got a different
twist since it's men and women."
The 15-member group rehearses
three times a week, but the number of
practices increases when performance
times approach. While the Tar Heel
Voices aim for one large concert a
semester, it has performed many other
times, singing for the chancellor's
cookout during Parent's Weekend and
performing a number of out-of-town
engagements as well, Carter said.
quickly despite shortcomings
United States and 40 foreign countries.
About 7,000 retail outlets carry the 225
titles. All notes are fewer than 100
pages long and contain plot summaries,
character analyses, discussions of theme
and study questions.
But are Cliffs Notes really a legiti
mate study aid, or just an easy way to
avoid reading assigned literature?
As the Cliffs Notes publishers might
have said, Cliffs Notes don't cheat on
tests; people cheat on tests. Sara Mack,
classics professor, explains both ways
the notes are used. "Some students read
them instead of the works I am sure
of that. And some students use them as
an aid instead of reading the work with
care. I wouldn't sell them in the book
store." But if the notes are used properly,
they can be an enormous help in re
view, said Townsend Ludington, Bos
hamer professor of English" and Ameri
can studies.
According to Dick Spellman, the
corporate chairman of Cliffs Notes,
BIRTH CONTROL
GYNECOLOGY
FREE PREGNANCY
TRIANGLE WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER
salary increase
iting voluntary contributions will be
sent to chamber members during the
formal campaign.
Taylor decided to leave his position
as Chapel Hill Town Manager when he
was chosen chamber president,
Zapolski said. As town manager,
Taylor's salary was about $89,570.
Chapel Hill Mayor Jonathan Howes
said the search for a new town manager
had yet to start.
"The search will be nationwide as
we've done before," he said. "We ac
quired Dalvid Taylor in a national
dilemma because we had the money
offered but couldn't accept it."
The Building Finance Commission
stated that the $108,000 must be ap
plied to a building that will still be in
use in 15 years. The money is consid
ered a loan, but if the shelter and the
kitchen continue to function in 1 0 years,
. Chapel Hill will not have to pay it back,
Sounder said.
with powerful lyrics
Hill, Joe Farmer and Bill Ladd of
having some success, our reputation
seems to be growing, and we're loving
life."
The group has been approached by
WCHL radio to record Christmas music
for the station to broadcast during
Christmas day, Carter said.
Because the group is new, it is flex
ible and open to changes in procedure
and group lineup. "We haven't really
set many precedents as far as auditions
go, since last year was the first and we
had many of the old members, of the
Glee Club," Carter said. Formal audi
tions won't be held for the spring but
will be conducted in the fall.
Although procedures and policies
are important, group members thrive
on just being around each other and
enjoying themselves. For sophomore
member Richard Von Hagen, the other
"One of the things these are designed
for are ... review purposes."
But Cliffs Notes often are used as a
substitute for the actual text. "I wrote a
term paper on 'Brideshead Revisited,'
and I read the Cliffs Notes instead of
reading the last 100 pages because I
was pushed for time," said Melanie
Wade, a sophomore English major.
Perhaps students' most serious abuse
of Cliffs Notes is not substitution but
plagiarism. "In English 1 and English 2
they use (Cliffs Notes) the most. People
will have a take-home exam and use
verbatim Cliffs Notes," Holman said.
Most professors easily recognize the
cover-up attempt. "Certainly one can
make a good guess," Mack said. "I
might just think that this was inferior
work by a not-very-good student."
Misusing Cliffs Notes can be an
honor code violation, said Virginia
Mewborne, student attorney general.
"If your professor said, Wo, you are not
to use Cliffs Notes,' then it is (a violation)."
Private. Confidential. Caring.
Personalized Women's Health Care including:
TESTS
101 Conner Dr., Suite 402, Chapel Hill,
Across from University Mall
942-0011 OR 942-0824
VISA.
Because you have enough to worry about.
search." Howes does not expect Taylor
to help screen any new applicants.
Although an acting town manager
has not been named, Howes said that
one of three senior staff people would
be considered for the position.
Zapolski said the chamber would
budget Taylor's salary for two years,
but after that period, Taylor was on his
own to raise additional funds.
In addition to his salary, Taylor will
receive a car from Performance Chev
rolet and free use of the Chapel Hill
Country Club, Zapolski said.
Council member Julie Andresen
voted against accepting the money and
moving the kitchen. She said she had
concerns about how the two different
programs of the shelter and the kitchen
would work together and what effects
they would have oh the surroundings.
"Now I want to press ahead and hope
that it will all work so we can serve the
people in need," Andresen said.
the band Johnny Quest
Johnny Quest will play at the Cat's
Cradle Dec. 9.
and music
singers are the main reason he likes
being a member of the group. "The
most enjoyable part of Tar Heel Voices
is the people who are involved. They're
the most fun. Just people and singing
with the girls and the guys is great. The
harmony is really good."
Carter agreed. "I really love the
people, and I still love standing in front
of my friends and hearing the music
come out."
The Tar Heel Voices will perform in
the Union Cabaret at 8 p.m. Wednes
day, Nov. 29. They also will present
their fall concert Dec. JO in Hanes Art
Center. Admission is free for both
concerts.
But some students use Cliff Notes
solely as a supplement. Tara Weber, a
freshman journalism major from Spruce
Pine, said although she depended on
Cliffs Notes throughout high school,
she always finished reading the works.
Holman said he sometimes leaned
on the notes for interpretation when he
really couldn't understand the work.
Because of such situations, even
critics are hesitant to condemn the notes
completely. "I have mixed feelings,"
Mack said. "There's a semi-legitimate
way of using (them)."
In addition, the notes aren't a practi
cal tool at the university level, students
said. "I don't trust the people who write
Cliffs Notes they're not the most
brilliant people in the world," Holman
said.
Despite shortcomings, Cliffs Notes
continue to sell millions of copies of the
hundreds of titles each year. And it's
easy to see why, according to Luding
ton. "People try to get away with not
reading stuff all the time."
m -.-. .v. - .urn- jbtoo aiar.'.vAV.v.xjooci . ... . v. ,
1 l.-sr -Mr
ABORTION ( up to 20 weeks)
BREAST EVALUATION
PMS TREATMENT
NC