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North Carolina Collection Gallery
By GLENN O'NEAL
Assistant State and National Editor
Equipped only with a porcupine skin
and an ostrich egg, UNC professor
Charles Harris set out to establish a
University museum in the late 1790s.
That ambitious goal resulted in the
North Carolina Collection Gallery lo
cated in Wilson Library today, a col
lection that has captured 400 years of
North Carolina history in an area about
the size of an average classroom.
The gallery houses artifacts relevant
to N.C. history, ranging from the first
attempts of colonization on the Outer
Banks to a collection of Audubon prints.
The museum, a part of the N.C.
Collection, opened last November to
the general public, according to Neil
Fulghum, keeper of the gallery. The
gallery is the brainchild of the curator of
the N.C. Collection, H.G. Jones.
"The gallery is simply an out-product
of what started in 1844 (the beginning
of the N.C. Collection)," Jones said.
"Over the years, we accumulated quite
a number of artifacts, pictures of art
work, materials that are not normally
considered library materials.
The collection, which first displayed
some of the artifacts in its reading room,
did not have enough room to adequately
exhibit the artifacts. But Wilson
Library's 1983 renovations gave more
space to display the artifacts, he said.
Fulghum said the collection's mission
was different than the mission of tradi
tional museums. Here, literature is
stressed first, then the artifacts, he said.
The exhibits in the gallery are as
sembled as if a time traveler went
through North Carolina's past, collected
representative samples and placed them
in the present time in their exact form.
"This looks like somebody just got
up from the desk," said Mary Orr, a
sophomore art history major from
Greensboro. A pencil, a piece of
scribbled-on paper and an open law
'Trial of God' explores atrocities of genocide
The Lab Theatre's latest produc
tion, "The Trial of God," is ahorrifying
and disturbing glimpse into the
atrocities of genocide and religious
persecution.
Through his experiences as a Ho
locaust survivor, writer Elie Wiesel
vividly creates Shamgorod, a village
which only a year earlier was pillaged
and destroyed on Purim Eve.
Greg Miller plays Berish, an inn
keeper who witnessed the murder of
his entire Jewish community, includ
ing his wife and two sons. Through
his brilliant portrayal of a full range of
emotion, including compassion as well
as anger and resentment. Miller gives
dimension to this tormented man.
Wendi Black is Hanna, Berish's
surviving daughter, who also has been
scarred by the pogrom. Black con
vincingly depicts a girl of childlike
naivete, pushed to the brink of insan
ity by the brutality she has suffered.
Also notable is Katie Sherman, as
Maria, a barmaid at the inn. Initially,
Maria appears to be a simple peasant
woman who has become hardened
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book are placed on a table in one of the
Early Carolina Rooms, ready for the
scholar of mid-1700 North Carolina to
sit back down and read.
A visitor can step back 300 years in
time by entering the Sir Walter Raleigh
Rooms near the front of the gallery. A
gold plate on the threshold announces
the transition. The walls are elaborately
paneled in the style of the Elizabethan
period of England. The room smells
old, not musty, but much like the smell
of an old church. A dam draft completes
the image of being in England in the
1500s.
Furniture of the period is placed
around the room, but a lifelike wood
statue of Raleigh grabs the visitor's eye.
Period maps illustrating the countryside
of England and the New World adorn
the walls.
More detailed maps of the period are
located directly outside the Raleigh
rooms, along with a display of naviga
tional and mapping techniques of the
time.
"I think when people look at some of
these early maps," Fulghum said, "they
are struck first by 'Well, isn't it crude?'
or You know that isn't shaped right' or
whatever, but when you look at what
they had to work with ... it is amazing
they could find their way from England
to here.
"That in itself was a major accom
plishment," he said.
The most popular attraction of the
gallery, according to Fulghum, is the
exhibit on Eng and Chang theoriginal
Siamese twins. The glass display case
shows small objects owned by the twins,
as well as a journal of their worldwide
visits.
The twins, born in Siam in 1811,
traveled worldwide and became celeb
rities, Fulghum said. The world-famous
brothers decided to retire in Surry
County in the 1830s.
"North Carolina was so far off the
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and cynical due to the injustices she has
encountered. As her character unfolds,
however, Sherman is able to effectively
reveal Maria's complex sensitivity and
her sympathy for Hanna and Berish.
In the play, three minstrels played by
Jeff Trussell, Tim Cole and Joe Fanner,
enter the inn, hoping to celebrate Purim.
Instead of their usual holiday play,
Berish insists they improvise a mock
trial that indicts God.
Allen Simpson, as Sam, appears at
the inn and offers to act the part of
God's defense attorney. He seems to
have all the answers and articulates his
arguments with an extraordinary amount
of confidence. Simpson skillfully plays
this suave and mysterious character who
exhibits absolute faith in God.
Christopher Quails plays a Catholic
priest who informs them of the threat of
yet another pogrom in Shamgorod that
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beaten path; that appealed to them,"
Fulghum said. "(It was) an area where
they could establish life as normal as
possible and get away literally from
center stage."
The brothers settled down and mar
ried two sisters, Sarah and Adelaide,
and the two families had 22 children
between them.
The time traveler who assembled this
impressive collection also paid attention
to the history of the University. Dis
played is a friendship and peace pipe,
smoked by the seniors during their last
class meeting at UNC in the school's
early days. In addition, there are pictures
of early University leaders and other
small objects.
The original corner plate of Old East
dormitory is also displayed, though it
was stolen in the 1870s, Fulghum said.
The plate was discovered 46 years later
by a UNC alumnus at a foundry in
Tennessee, where the plate was close to
being melted down.
Fulghum added that the majority of
the artifacts collected by the gallery
were not actively obtained by the Uni
versity, but rather donated by friends
and alumni of the school. Such was the
case in a bust of Gov. Zebulon Vance
located near the entrance of the gallery.
The bust, a gift to the University
from the class of 1899, disappeared in
the 1940s and '50s only to be found in
March 1988, he said. An alumnus in
Greensboro found the somewhat dam
aged bust on his front doorstep.
The bust has since been renovated,
and according to Fulghum, "Now he is
as good as old."
Fulghum explained that the purpose
of the gallery is to educate people on
N.C. and UNC history and on what the
N.C. Collection has to offer. The gallery
also preserves the artifacts associated
with the collection.
night. Quails comically portrays this
licentious, lewd priest who has a sin
cere interest in protecting his friends.
In "The Trial of God," Wiesel pro
vocatively explores man's relation
ship with God, asserting that ques
tioning is not only compatible with
faith, but necessary in order to con
quer evil. He suggests that if people
who had understood the moral ramifi
cations of genocide would have fought
against it, instead of counting on God's
divine intervention, the horrors of
Shamgorod and Hitler's Germany
never would have been possible.
In selecting the complex "The Trial
of God" as his first major production,
director David Massachi undertakes a
great challenge. His cast is talented
enough to play their roles effectively,
and his efforts do not prove without
reward.
"The Trial of God" will be per
formed at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. today and
at 5 p.m. on Tuesday. The Lab Theatre
is located in the bottom of Graham
Memorial, and admission is free.
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One of the Early Carolina Rooms at the N.C. Collection Gallery in Wilson Library
"I look at it as a means to advertise the resources to be open on weekends, stressing that Wilson is not just a
and promote the holdings of UNC," but the addition of volunteer workers "graduate library."
Fulghum said. may help to establish weekend hours in "Many students don't get past the
The gallery is open 9 a.m.-l p.m. the near future. lobby and realize the many riches of
Monday through Friday and by ap- Fulghum welcomes both the general North Carolina," he said. "It's something
pointment. The gallery does not have public and students to visit the gallery, the student body ought to be aware of."
Despite crisis, NROTC keeps academic focus
By SCOn MAXWELL
Staff Writer
While tension mounts halfway
around the world in the Persian Gulf
crisis, those involved with the UNC
Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps
(NROTC) have growing concerns of
their own.
Colonel George Walls, commanding
officer of the NROTC, was quick to
point out that although the situation in
the Middle East deserves their attention,
"the ROTC students are students first,
just as we are here to be educators."
Walls explained that the ROTC
program was originally created to edu
cate young men and women with mili
tary inclination at many different liberal
arts universities.
NROTC students are in a program
that combines their naval fields of in
terest with the university education, he
said. They take the standard UNC cur
riculum with at least one naval science
course and lab each semester.
Although the ROTC is primarily
academically concerned, often the
military actions of the United States are
a hot topic around the building.
Walls said that often people seemed
to think that the ROTC knew more
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everyone else. But Walls, who currently
has a 19-year-old son in the Middle
East, said, "We get the same thing that
you get from 'Time.'"
There are many different opinions
going around the ROTC building about
the crisis, as well as many suggested
tactics. Guy Connell, executive officer
of the NROTC, said, "However, the
tactics you hear about are only good for
a short while."
Walls agreed. "There are as many
ways to attack Iraq as there are to skin a
cat," he said.
Lieutenant John Steckel went to the
lower level of the ROTC building to
find some first class midshipmen.
Downstairs, there were a variety of
physically fit young men and women
preparing to exercise and joking with
each other.
Steckel requested that some of them
give comments on the Gulf Crisis, and
almost all adjourned to the
midshipmen's lounge in the rear.
"We should definitely go over there,"
said senior Brock Harrill, "Hussein will
get nuclear weapons, and if we don't
stop him now, there'll be no limit to
what he can do."
Most of the group seemed to agree
with him.
Senior Bill Olmstead said, "We've
got to set precedents. We have to go in
deep enough to remove Hussein either
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The group laughed, but most nodded
their heads in agreement.
When asked if they thought they
would be over there fighting the war,
Olmstead said, "It'll be over before any
of us get into it."
However, many of last year's
NROTC are already in the Gulf, and all
of the members of the NROTC class
from two years ago, except one (that
they could recall), have been deployed.
Senior Rob Bracknell said he was
tired of people asking when he was
heading over to Saudi Arabia. He ex
plained that until the NROTC class
graduated, they were not on active duty
and had no greater chance of going than
anyone else.
"When people ask me this," Bracknell
continued, "I usually just tell them,
'You'll be over there before I will.'"
The group all laughed.
Back in the administrative offices.
Colonel Walls explained that they were
just going to keep on track with their
ROTC duties.
Although there are 13 people in the
NROTC department at UNC who are
now on active duty. Walls said, "The
situation is 9,000 miles away, and there
are people there planning the situation.
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