The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, November 20, 19905
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By ERIC BOLASH
Stan Writer
Misconceptions about Israeli people
are part of what makes the Carolina
Association for Israel Support (CAIS) a
necessary group on the UNC campus,
CAIS president Becca Freedman said.
The mission of CAIS, which meets
every other Tuesday night, is to dispel
any myths about Israel and the intifadeh
(or Palestinian uprising), further educate
students about aspects of the life and
culture in Israel, encourage representa
tives in Congress to support Israel, and
promote programs to Israel.
Freedman intends to educate the UNC
campus about Israel herself. She already
has written a guest column for the Daily
Tar Heel to try to provide UNC students
with the viewpoint of a pro-Israeli.
She also wrote a letter to the editor to
oppose an editorial cartoon which she
thought presented Israel's situation in a
false light. But the headline over her
article read, "Cartoonist Needs A Jew
ish History Lesson," a headline she said
Southern drawls, expressions get the best of Northern students
By KRISTIN LEIGHT
StaH Writer
Hey y'all. I've heard some of y'all
jest caint get a fix on the way Suthunus
tawk. Ah 'spect fur a spell y'all
Yankees'll feel purty darn ignert. But
don't get all tore up. If y'all new folks
try to make yerselves to home,
Carlinyuns'll learn you how to speak
raht, ah garntee.
Most speech heard at UNC is not
quite this saturated with Southern ex
pression and twang. However, this
campus is peopled with many South
erners whose speech is infiltrated with
expressions from their native region.
Students unacquainted with the
South, as well as a few city-dwelling
Southerners, find some of the expres
sions puzzling and incomprehensible.
Some are just amused by "Southern
speech."
Linguists and folklorists have re
ported that the speech of the South is
derived from archaic English, from the
speech of southern England Wiltshire
and Hampshire, Cambridge and
Stratford-on-Avon. It is said to also
' have come partially from the Highland
Scots and Scotch-Irish of Ulster. The
words of the Old World and their pro
nunciations took root in Southern soil.
It is also reported that a host of phrases
from the slave culture were absorbed by
Southern speech.
However, there is not one common
Southern tongue. Dialects segregate the
speech of the South.
"What are called linguistic geogra
phers claim that there are at least two
distinct speech patterns in what's tra
ditionally called the Deep South," said
: Connie Eble, an English professor who
. has studied Southern speech.
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LOS ANGELES The band Milli
.Vanilli was stripped of its Grammy
award Monday because the pop duo
didn't sing on the "Girl You Know It's
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nounced. The group won the Grammy for best
new artist last February.
.' The Grammy was rescinded by a
telephone vote of the trustees of the
National Academy of Recording Arts
& Sciences, which gives out the music
industry awards. It wasn't known if the
award will be given to another artist.
"This action comes as a result of
admissions and revelations by Milli
Vanilli's producer, record label and the
two performers Rob Pilatus and Fab
Morvan that the label credit on their
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Pilatus and Morvan said during the
weekend they wanted to give up the
Grammy and return it to the artists that
actually sang on their hit album. They
had planned to forfeit the Grammy
during a Tuesday news conference.
"Fabrice and I want to give the
Grammy back to the real singers,"
Pilatus told the Los Angeles Times.
The 1 ip-sync controversy erupted last
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was inaccurate when speaking broadly
about Israeli people.
Freedman had firsthand opportunity
to observe the Israeli people. In 1987,
she left the United States to study for a
year at Hebrew University in Israel.
During her stay, Freedman witnessed a
people with one eye perpetually fixed
on its surrounding countries with the
fear that it could be invaded and over
taken any day.
Americans wrongly try to put Israel's
actions as a country on the same moral
level as their own; they look at Israel as
a violent country because of the seem
ingly constant wars with which it is
involved, Freedman said. But America
would have to react the same way if it
were under the same pressure, she said.
"It's difficult for America to under
stand because it's at peace," she said. "It
(America) does not have people who
hate it so much they try to attack it every
day."
She said that Israel's tight security
system was meant to thwart attacks. A
"One of the patterns is what we might
think of as the Deep South, and the other
would be the one in higher elevations
that maybe we would consider to be
mountainous."
Eble said this created a problem in
defining exactly what Southern speech
is. She also said Southern pronunciation
cannot easily be characterized.
"There is a vast literature on what is
the Southern drawl, and there's no
consensus," she said.
According to Eble, there is also no
strong evidence to confirm the common
accusation that Southerners speak more
slowly than people from other regions.
"As far as I know, no one has been
able to identify physically, as far as the
physical sound wave goes, that South
erners speak more slowly than people in
any other part of the country," she said.
Yet Eble does concede that there are
certain generalizations that can be made
about Southern speech.
"It does seem that in some places
Southerners will do what they call break
vowels," Eble said. "They will say sa
at' instead of 'sat. They'll add a little
'ah' sound after their vowels that might
make the word longer."
But Southerners also have a contra
dictory tendency to shorten a word in
stead of lengthening it, Eble said.
"Another thing Southerners are accused
of is dropping off consonants from the
end of words that makes the word
shorter."
Stephanie Jayne, a freshman from
Chicago, said she believed this. "No
one says -ing" she said.
Another characteristic of Southern
speech is eliding words, which has re
sulted in the ever-popular "y'all," de
rived from "you all" and pronounced
Grammy Award
producer, Frank Farian, disclosed that
others actually sang on the record
credited to Pilatus and Morvan. The
duo also lip-synced their way through
live performances, including one at the
Grammy Awards show, Farian said.
The duo's first and only album, "Girl
You Know It's True," sold 7 million
copies and helped Milli Vanilli garner
the Grammy.
Music industry leaders were embar
rassed and stunned by the deception.
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person in Israel cannot leave a bag of
groceries unattended on the sidewalk
and then come back to it; the police will
assume there is a bomb in the bag and
clear the area so they can blow it up
themselves.
Seeing the situation of the Israeli
people, Freedman said she came to un
derstand their fight to keep their coun
try, not because she was Jewish, but
because she believed in their cause.
So when she returned to the United
States in 1988, Freedman decided there
was a need for an Israeli group on the
UNC campus.
"I think the strangest thing that hap
pened to me when I came back from
Israel was seeing the (American)
newspapers," she said.
The American press provides a
twisted view of the Israeli situation,
Freedman said. She said she agreed
with an essay written by Charles
Krauthammer for Time magazine. In
his article, Krauthammer spoke of a
"yawl."
"'Y'all' is my major Southern ex
pression," said Christy Grigg, a sopho
more business major from Mars Hill.
Valerie Halman, a sophomore speech
communication major from Montreal,
has adopted this word. "I think y'alF is
charming," she said. "And it's so much
easier to say."
Some non-Southerners do not agree.
"I said it once, and I swear I'll never say
it again," said Jenn Burnell, a freshman
nutrition major from Long Island. "You
wouldn't be caught dead saying 'y'all'
up North."
Another word unique to the South is
"hey." "No one says 'hello' or 'hi' here
it's always hey,'" Jayne said.
Halman said that when she first ar
rived on the UNC campus, someone
said 'hey' to her. and she looked around
to see what she had done wrong. "You
only say 'hey' where I'm from if you're
yelling at someone."
Another word that has puzzled
Northerners is "barbecue," sometimes
pronounced "bobbycue." In the South,
it is a dish of chopped pork in hot sauce.
"Barbecue is a way of cooking things up
North," said David Long, a freshman
journalism major from Philadelphia.
"Barbecue to me is hot dogs and
hamburgers on a grill," Burnell said.
Another discrepancy in food words
is the way Southerners refer to carbon
ated drinks.
Northerners are unaccustomed to the
way Southerners substitute "Coke" for
every type of soft drink. According to
Halman and Jayne, non-Southerners
refer to soft drinks as "pop" or the actual
name of the drink.
"If you're drinking a Pepsi, you're
not drinking a Coke," Jayne said.
According to some Northerners,
Southern speech is still somewhat
genteel, as it used to be labeled. "We
use a lot more curse words up North,"
Burnell said.
"Up North, all we do is barbecue on
the grill, drink Pepsi and use expletives,"
Long agreed.
These expressions are not the only
facet of Southern speech foreign to non
Southerners. The other is what
Hyonmyong Cho, a freshman English
major from Chicago, calls the "twang"
or "drawl" the Southern accent.
"Every time I talk to a friend from
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news."
Thus, the need for CAIS.
Freedman said she was inspired for
her group when she attended a meeting
of the American Zionist Youth Foun
dation. The people in the group were all
Americans with the same pro-Israel
opinions, and it made her feel more
comfortable to hold these opinions and
to freely discuss them.
Freedman said what separated CAIS
from other groups on campus is that
they had a political view, although they
welcomed people with any opinions
about the Israeli situation.
"We support and relate to a country
that has been bad-mouthed, and we are
not ashamed of it."
home, I ask if I'm getting a Southern
accent," Jayne said.
"I'm afraid one-syllable words are
going to be four-syllable words when I
go home," Long said.
Some non-Southerners admitted that
they first perceive people with a strong
Southern accent as unintelligent.
Braxton Gillam, a freshman history
major from Harrellsville, has a South
ern accent. He believes people stereo
type those with Southern accents as
unintelligent. "I think it's done," he
said. "I'll tell you why I do it. I'm
Southern, and I do it," he said.
Eble admitted that she had the same
reaction to a Brooklyn dialect. "I have
to overcome that and listen to what the
person has to say. It's absolute prejudice.
"It's one of the things that we have
the strongest feelings about the way
people talk," she said. "It has an awful
lot to do with feelings."
Brent Myers, a freshman English
major from Wilkesboro, said he knew
people sometimes reacted negatively to
his Southern expressions and accent. "I
always say, 'It's not how I say it. It's
what I say.'"
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Opera Theatre to throw
ball in Shakespeare vein
By MONDY LAMB
Staff Writer
The UNC Opera Theatre Workshop
will present scenes from 19th-century
operetta in a performance tonight titled
"A Night at Orlofsky's Ball," featur
ing scenes from three different operas.
In the tradition of Shakespeare's
play within a play, the Opera Theatre
Workshop has composed a 'show
within a show.' Famous opera scenes
such as Orlofsky's "Chacun a son
gout," Adele's "Laughing song" and
"the Watch Duet" are all presented in
this opera medley.
In the central scene, from Strauss'
masterpiece "Die Fledermaus," a
prince holds a masquerade ball and
characters come in disguise. Comedy
arises from the fact that no one knows
who the other people are; in one comic
scenario a disguised Hungarian
countess is pursued by her husband,
who is oblivious to her true identity.
In the other two scenes, which are
acts put on to entertain the Prince,
segments are taken from the operas
"Gypsy Baron" and "Orpheus in the
Under World."
Terry Rhodes, assistant professor in
the music department, directs and pro
duces this medley. Rhodes said the
inspiration behind the combination was
the desire to be stylistically different.
"We wanted to work with a variety
of composers," he said. "All the sing
ing is in translation so the audience
should have no problem understand
ing it."
Kristin McCommons, a senior mu
sic major from Virginia, plays Adele,
the chambermaid who receives an in
vitation to the Prince's ball. In a story
reminiscent of "Cinderella," she at
tends the dance in disguise.
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"All the scenes are comedic,"
McCommons said. "Everyone is in
vited as someone else."
Although her part has a high voice
range, McCommons said the most,
challenging aspect of her role was the ;
character acting.
"I usually play very serious parts,:
but this is a challenge because Adele;
is funny, naive and stupid."
The students participating in "A
Night at Orlofsky's Ball" exhibit a
wide range of experience and future
ambitions.
Kit Bennett, a junior music major
from Atlanta, plans to pursue her
theater ambitions. "This is what I want
to do with my life," she said.
"There is the magic of the ballroom
scene and everyone is disguised, which
is a good setting for this joke," Bennett
said.
Stacy Basinger, a sophomore mu
sic major from Statesville, said this
was her first experience with opera
theater. "This show is so different
from what people expect (of opera),"
Basinger said. "It's silly and funny."
The UNC Opera Theatre Work
shop is sponsored by the music de
partment and is offered as a one-hour
credit class. While they only receive
an hour of credit, the performers have
spent four or more hours each week
since the beginning of the semester
rehearsing for this performance.
"This is a wonderful opportunity to
see students (your) own age capable ;
of performing opera," Rhodes said. ;
The Opera Theatre Workshop will
perform "A Night at Orlofsky's Ball" '
tonight at 8 p.m. in Hanes Art Audi-;
torium, in Hanes Art Center. Admis-
sion is free.
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(212) 629-0888
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