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The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, November 27, 19905 'Sylvia' creator to discuss image By MANDY MATULE Staff Writer Ever find yourself getting involved with someone you were not supposed to be with? Well, Love Cop, a superhero created by Nicole Hollander, is here to stop those unnecessary relationships. At 8 p.m. tonight, Hollander, a na tionally syndicated cartoonist, will come to UNC's Memorial Hall to give some insight to the evolution of women in comic strips. Hollander is the writer and illustrator of the comic strip "Sylvia," which ap pears in 45 daily and weekly newspapers around the country. "The Chicago Tri bune," "The Los Angeles Times," "The San Francisco Chronicle" and the local 'Triangle Comic Review" are among the publications that print her work. Thirteen collections of Hollander's cartoons have also been published by St. Martin's Press and Random House. Her books include "Hi, This is Sylvia" and "Mercy, It's the Revolution and UNC graduate student writes well-received novels about college By MARY MOORE PARHAM Staff Writer UNC's School of Public Health and Duke Medical School were not enough for Mark Vakkur. Not only did the West Point graduate survive his first two years of medical school, he also wrote a novel about the academy in the process. A Russian studies major at West Point, Vakkur took only one English class in his four years there, yet Vakkur's "A Matter of Trust" was put on the shelves last month. The novel is set at West Point and chronicles the oppressive relationship between a first-year plebe and his nar cissistic upperclass mentor. When the plebe accidentally discovers that the upperclassman has raped his girlfriend, he begins his own form of psychologi cal warfare upon his mentor. It is not until the upperclassman has been totally broken down that the plebe realizes he Jacksonville will swim upstream against UNC By NEIL AMATO Assistant Sports Editor For the Dolphins of Jacksonville University, this is the beginning of a sink-or-swim season. Lacking any big catches, Jacksonville paddles into the Smith Center tonight at 7:30 to take on 1-0 North Carolina, ranked 4th in the latest Associated Press poll. Jacksonville is also 1-0, but any thought of a winning season for the Dolphins is just a big fish tale. JU de feated Flagler College an NAIA school in St. Augustine, Fla. 81-61 Saturday. The Dolphins, under fourth-year head coach Rich Haddad, would probably need the help of that magic mammal, Flipper, if they hope to upset the Tar Heels. Jacksonville returns only one starter from a team that finished 13-16 overall and 5-9 in the Sun Belt in 1989 90, (not so) good enough for sixth place in the eight-team league. UNC leads the all-time series 4-0, winning the last meeting between the teams in 1986 in Chapel Hill, 98-69. Dolphin senior forward Reggie Law, a 6-foot-8, 220-pounder, averaged 14 points and 6.7 rebounds per game last year, but he'll need to summon some " help for Jacksonville to succeed. Law scored 14 and snared eight boards in the Flagler win. The Dolphins' predicted demise they're picked by publications to finish at the bottom of the Sun Belt this season stems from two problem areas: players lost from a year ago and players " lost from injury or academic casualty. All-Sun Belt guard Dee Brown ( 1 9.3 ppg, 6.6 rpg) is now backing up Brian Shaw on the NB A's Boston Celtics, and Curtis Taylor (16.2 ppg) and Chris Capers (10.7 ppg, 6.8 rpg) had their eligibility expire. Add the career-ending injury in the offseason for 6-8, 250- I 'pZU-- I I LrU r 1 I We are marketing students conducting a confidential survey for a class project. WE NEED YOUR HELP! Please answer the questions below and return this survey to the box outside the J DTH office by Thursday, November 29 at 5:00. Thanks! ' I Sex: Male Female Age: I Are you sexually active? Yes No I I Have you ever been tested for AIDS? Yes No I If so, where? Private Physician I I If not, please state reason for not being tested: I J Would you be interested in a test I own home? If not, please state why: L. I'm in my Bathrobe." Two children's books, "Messie Jessie" and "Hot Henry," house some of Hollander's il lustrations. An appointment calendar for 1991 called "A Sylvia Book of Days" as well as greeting cards, stationery and mugs are available for sale. Hollander is visiting the UNC cam pus as a part of a series called "Re markable People: Women of Today." She plans to show slides of her strip and others. She will talk about the origins of her "Sylvia" strip as well as where she gets the ideas for them. "I read a lot of publications, see movies and listen to conversations; anywhere I see a story," Hollander said. "I do develop other characters. Sylvia is a wisecracker, and I don't want the same type of humor." The devil has appeared as a character in "Sylvia" along with a waitress named Ruby and su perheroes, including Love Cop. The series is sponsored by the Union Forum and has hosted several speakers has been just as abusive and sadistic. For Vakkur, "A Matter of Trust" is not his college experience put in paper back. "I was miserable at West Point and really became disillusioned with the military Disney Land there, but the novel doesn't slam the academy," he said. "It's an expose but not in the classic sense of an insider telling all." When Vakkur's years at West Point convinced him that he was not destined for infantry and armor, he wanted to try something unorthodox. Medicine pro vided the appropriate outlet, he said. "At face value, medicine and the military are worlds apart. One operates to preserve life and the other to destroy it. But if you look into the institutions themselves, the methods each uses to train people are very similar," Vakkur said. Although Vakkur adm itted he wanted to write disaster novels ever since he pound monster Sean Byrd and the subpar scholastics of recruits Stacey Williams and Willie Fisher, and the Dolphins cupboard boasts only a can of tuna and a few sardines. Those smaller prizes include" 5-8 junior guard Danny Tirado, 6-8 junior forwardTim Burroughs, 6-4 senior GF Tabarris Hamilton and 6-5 sophomore forward Alonzo Harris. Certainly Haddad, 33-53 in three seasons at JU, must come up with a master plan to defeat UNC's Dean Smith, who will go for his 690th coaching win. North Carolina looked sharp at times in its 99-63 win against San Diego State Saturday. But the Dolphins shot only 42 percent versus Flagler, so don't be surprised if the Tar Heels look even better, probably forc ing JU into 30 turnovers and sub-40 percent shooting. Burroughs, a JUCO transfer, poured in 16 points and 13 rebounds against Flagler, and Tirado, a gritty New York City product, had 1 1 points and 10 as sists. But Tirado will be running the JU offense against UNC senior King Rice and freshman Derrick Phelps, a pair of defensive menaces. Tar Heel freshman Clifford Rozier was first off the bench against SDSU, and his play versus the Aztecs ( 1 0 points and seven rebounds in 13 minutes) should continue to garner him some time. Eric Montross, another of the superfrosh, played 1 8 minutes at center. Freshmen Brian Reese and Pat Sullivan played 14 minutes each in the SDSU contest and will again get the chance to shine versus the Dolphins. In fact, depth will play a bigger role in the non-televised contest because there will be no TV timeouts. With the teams getting fewer breathers, UNC's mentor should substitute liberally. 7 Lr o Hospital ClinicStudent Health you could do in the privacy of your Yes No this year. The forum is trying to focus on various aspects of feminism, but is also planning to work on some projects outside of the series. "I'm happy to be known as a feminist cartoonist," Hollander said, but her strip does branch into political issues as well as other issues. "I think AIDS, contraception and drugs are tough issues," she said. "It is hard to get a handle on it and bring out a point. These are touchy, sensitive is sues." "Nicole Hollander fits into our series because of her professional success," said Peter Hayes, forum chairman at the Student Union. "Since our campus is 60 percent women, we feel that she will be widely accepted." The lecture and slide show that Hollander plans to present is titled "Images of Women in Cartoon." The presentation is sponsored by the Caro lina Union and is open free to the public. The slide show itself will contain was a child, "A Matter of Trust" was a surprise to him. During the first year of medical school, however, his roommate went out of town for the weekend, leaving his new computer behind. Vakkur began writing on the com puter an hour each day in addition to the rigors of obtaining his intended psy chology degree. Over the next two and a half years, Vakkur did a lot of adding a whole novel's worth. "There were chunks of time that I didn't write at all," he said. "Clinical rotations left me no time to write. It was then that med school really lived up to its name." At UNC, Vakkur is in the midst of secondary data analysis for his research oriented year of medical school. In ad dition, VakkuFhas just finished the rough draft of a second novel on the medical profession in just four months. From July to November, Vakkur MEW! . . ' . ... ... . 1. . . l, j L . 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She also will talk about her career and "art" work. The tone of the presentation will be funny and informal. Hollander will talk wrote a story of a surgeon second in line to run a medical department at a fictit ious southern medical school , who runs down a girl in a freak accident. Knowing there is alcohol on his breath and his career may be at stake, he leaves the girl in the road. "It's about trying to maintain hu manity in a society that engenders in humanity and values success more than human life," Vakkur said. Although both of Vakkur's novels are set in situations and locations he is quite familiar with, neither exploits his own experience. "I believe that there's a little bit of me in all my characters, but I think that comes from being able to take parts of me that don't exist in pure form and expanding them into charac ters," he said. "When I played hockey as a senior in high school, I spent half the year in the penalty box. I took some of that darker DTHG. Thacker the Jacksonville Dolphins tonight portrayed in cartoons I PftCAMt t in a humorous style and create a "laid back" atmosphere. At the same time, she hopes the presentation will be edu cational, social and entertaining. Hol lander is known as a remarkable and successful cartoonist, as well as an ex pert on women's issues. Those attending the presentation will side out of me and gave it to one of the cadets in 'A Matter of Trust.'" Vakkur's workaholic side also sur faces in the character of the surgeon in his new novel. He describes himself as a little neurotic and obsessive-compulsive when it comes to work, but not in the same way as the surgeon. "I know I'm not the easiest man to be married to," Vakkur said, "And more than once I've taken both my wife and all my characters out to dinner." Vakkur said his wife, Duke graduate Ilene Silverman, had been invaluable to his writing. "She's my ballast and counterweight, and it's helped tremen dously to have someone to bounce ideas off of. "She understands my unbelievable energy levels when I feel I need to write the entire novel in one night and brings me down to earth," he said. Learning from the tragic flaws of his AP Football Top 25 Record Pts Pvs Record Pts Pvs 1. Colorado (41) 10-1-1 1,468 1 1.UNLV(45) 0-0 1,600 1 2. Georgia Tech (10) 9-0-1 1,338 3 2. Arizona (19) 4-0 1,576 3 3. Miami, Fla. (2) 8-2-0 1,332 2 3. Arkansas 3-1 1,378 2 4. Brigham Young (3) 10-1-0 1,275 4 4. North Carolina 1-0 1,344 5 5. Texas (3) 9-1-0 1,260 6 5. Michigan St. 1-0 1.325 4 6. Florida (1) 9-1-0 1,218 5 6. Alabama 1-0 1,218 7 7. Notre Dame 9-2-0 1,170 7 7. Syracuse 3-0 1.133 13 8. Florida St. 8-2-0 1,060 8 8. Duke (1) 3-1 1,077 6 9. Washington 9-2-0 1,051 9 9. Georgetown 2-0 1,061 9 10. PennSt. 9-2-0 1,026 11 10. Indiana 2-1 948 8 11. Houston 9-1-0 862 12 11. Ohio St. 1-0 937 10 12. Tennessee 7-2-2 856 14 12. UCLA 2-0 927 11 13. Michigan 8-3-0 793 15 13. Pittsburgh 1-0 873 12 14. Clemson 9-2-0 707 16. 14. Georgia Tech 1-0 689 16 15. Mississippi 9-2-0 487 21 15. Connecticut 1-0 615 17 16. Illinois 8-3-0 449 22 16. Virginia 2-0 595 18 17. Louisville 9-1-1 444 20 17. Georgia 2-0 524 21 18. Iowa 8-3-0 402 13 18. Oklahoma 1-1 441 15 19. Nebraska 9-2-0 397 10 19. Southern Miss. 0-0 294 24 20. Auburn 7-2-1 339 23 20. LSU 0-1 292 14 21. Southern Cal 8-3-1 292 18 21. St. John's 2-0 291 25 22. Oklahoma 8-3-0 259 22. Texas 0-0 284 22 23. Michigan St. 7-3-1 230 24 23. Missouri 0-0 279 20 24. Southern Miss. 8-3-0 216 25 24.Villanova 1-0 239 25. Ohio St. 7-3-1 194 19 25. Louisville 0-0 236 23 Other receiving votes: Texas A&M 165, Other receiving votes: New Mexico 126, Virginia 106, San Jose St. 27, Oregon 23, Kansas 86, Temple 86, Houston 78. New Alabama 14, Arizona 13, California 10, Mexico St. 46, E.Tennessee St. 43, DePaul Colorado St. 4, Maryland 2, North Carolina 38, Oklahoma St. 37, James Madison 32, N. 2, Temple 2, Virginia Tech 2, Baylor 1, Carolina St. 32, Cincinnati 31, Minnesota Central Michigan I.Louisiana Tech 1,Wyo- 29, Kentucky 25, Michigan 23. Murray St. ming 1. 23. Clemson 18, Ala.-Birmingham 17. 0L J QnpB UJRKC Special Every Mon., Tues., & Wetl. delivered FREE to UNC dorms, frats, sororities and UNC Hospitals nQDaDaDaDnan LTj f-vrfi-t niirrnr miiR " n 1 LJUIllLJ Ulitthl U " J J nine tnv- D Additional toppings 75t each Not valid with any other offer. Oil I! aeaar i LBl'J d m -m 6 mini upniBEs Siper Pickup Special Not valid with any other offer. 2 23 E3 E3 ESI E3 E3 E3 E3 E3 E3 by Nicole Hollander HA Afte X Ate $one . . . . JL SfAyeP feurCr and ftm have the chance to talk to the cartoonist about her work, her views as a feminist and their relation to her field. On Wednesday, Nov. 28, Hollander will be at Southern Sisters Inc. in Durham for a book-signing session. Randy Basinger also contributed to this story. experiences own characters, Vakkur is trying to rid himself of some of the discipline and rigidity he acquired while at West Point. "Before now, I was never able to watch TV because I always felt I should be reading something instead. And not just any reading, either," he said. "Quality reading for me was anything written before World War II, so I never read any bestsellers." A potential bestseller, "A Matter of Trust" is being marketed extensively, sold not only in bookstores, but in drug stores and supermarkets such as Kroger and A&P. "It's great to get such wide exposure as a first time novelist, but it was a bit weird to see the book in supermarkets," Vakkur said. "I guess since everybody must eat, this is a good thing." Regardless of how the book is selling in supermarkets, "A Matter of Trust" sold out on its first day in West Point. AP Basketball Top 25 Pizza Transit Authority Home of the "3 For 1 Promise" and Sweetie Pies 300 W. Rosemary St. (Beside Col. Chutney's) ESI ESI E3 E9 ESI C3 E3 ESI ESI E9 ET ILAOSEGiiEESE PIZZA 5 Q plus tax fe; Additional toppings fl each Not valid with any other offer. Super Delivery Special n EmM ihui vdiiu wiui any uwci unci. mm w pi El i?fi Fi w? E3 tfl n f" ' zdMA u y
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