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Monday, April 24,1995
Performances, Intelligent Writing Benefit Sometimes Slow ‘College’
My affection for all things “Pulp” won
out over my disdain for this play’s title, and
I found myself anxiously awaiting Lab!
Theatre and UNC’s John Travoltas and
Uma Thurmans to come and remind me
why I loved the film so much.
“Morass,” written and directed by
Daniel Kois,
tells the story
of, well, ...
nothing. Revel
ing in nihilism
and pop culture
| TODD GILCHRIST |
Theater Review
'Pulp College'
Lab! Theater
references (often one and the same) is the
college student’s favorite pastime, and the
two principals, Matt and Abby (Steve
Alexander and Claire Smith), ably demon
strate an average Tar Heel’s late October
evening on Franklin Street. The dialogue
HARDIN
FROM PAGE 1
“Be careful of careless denigration of
graduate students as teaching assistants,”
he said. “They are the professoriate of the
future.”
One of the goals of the budget cuts is to
get University professors to concentrate
more on teaching and less on research,
Hardin said. However, teaching will not
improve if 90 faculty positions are cut at
UNC.
After graduate students are discouraged
from attending UNC, there will be fewer
people to teach labs and do other “grunt
work” for professors, he said.
The UNC faculty is committed to teach
ing, as shown by the faculty’s choice to
emphasize the teaching mission in the
University’s self-study, Hardin said.
Student satisfaction with teaching at
UNC upon graduation is 95 percent, and
Hardin said that was a remarkable figure.
He also used graduation rates to show
the quality of teaching at UNC.
The five-year graduation rate for under
graduates was 83 percent for freshmen
who entered in 1988, well above the aver
age of 59 percent for other members of the
American Association of Universities.
The five-year graduation rate for Afri
can-American students at UNC is 65 per
cent, compared with the 43 percent aver
age of other AAU schools.
Hardin said, “The graduation rates at
UNC-Chapel Hill are stunning, not just
good stunning.”
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between the two ebbs and flows from the
film to their relationships, past and present,
and back again, stopping only briefly to
throw in a Chapel Hill reference or two.
Quentin Tarantino’s dialogue is clever,
but mostly because it’s just there, and the
conversations in this sound like the script
might have read “add clever dialogue here.”
I found the lines enjoyable and funny, but
the quirk behind them seemed forced, as if
each character was trying to outdo the
other. Despite this, I found the progression
from topic to topic surprisingly natural,
just like in any conversation in which you
end up talking about something you never
expected to at its beginning.
Johnny Knight’s “Stiff Upper Lip,” set
in 1970, is the story of a man whose life
appears to be falling to pieces, even as he is
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Chancellor Paul Hardin speaks Friday to the Board of Visitors about the
proposed budget cuts to the UNC system. The chancellor's comments were
his strongest to date on this subject.
trying to help others put theirs together.
Christopher Johnson plays Albert, a pro
fessor who is awaiting word about his
missing son and is passing the time by
holding office hours to help his students.
Amy Amerson is his co-worker, Vivian,
whom he tells about his affairs and his
dealings with students, most notably Zack
(Chris Barge), who is desperate to change
his grade on a paper so he won’t be sent to
Vietnam. Johnson is great as Al, easily
getting across the realism of the character’s
situation of being tom between emotion
and so-called bravery, which was simply a
suppression of his true feelings.
Written more intelligently than most
films I’ve seen, Mac Rogers’ “Belinda”
brings the audience into the middle of two
characters’ lives, Belinda and Jeremy (Holly
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Den and Ted Shaffner), as they are tossed
into worlds much bigger than they ever
expected. Belinda finds solace in Jeremy’s
lack of a need for anything beyond com
panionship and communication because
her husband supports her almost too much.
Jeremy, “slack-ass mother
CAMPAIGN
FROM PAGE 1
state university raising that much endow
meritmoney seemed unlikely, McColl said.
But by late in 1993, UNC almost had
the $320 million goal in the bag. It was time
for more challenge, officials decided, and
so the goal was bumped up SBO million
with only a year and a half left in the
campaign.
“I was optimistic from the very begin
ning, but even I was surprised when we
went past the $320 million goal and the
S4OO million goal,” Hardin said.
The guiding theme of the campaign was
to shore up UNC’s financial foundation
with solid endowments that would cover
gaps left by the unpredictable state budget.
“What (the campaign) is all about is
ensuring a strong foundation for the Uni
versity,” Hardin said.
All of the money raised by the campaign
will go to academics.
During the Bicentennial Campaign,
fund-raisers knocked on many doors and
dialed thousands of phone numbers. In the
College of Arts and Sciences alone, more
than 20,000 donors made contributions to
the campaign —and two-thirds of them
came from alumni and friends of UNC.
The trend of major individual giving
carried over to the rest of the campaign.
The Kenan family, for example, gave or
pledged more than $27 million to the cam
paign. Corporations suchasNationsßank,
Glaxo and Wachovia also kicked in sub
stantial sums.
Hardinsaidthe Bicentennial Campaign
SALARIES
FROM PAGE 1
the necessity of asking the General Assem
bly for more money at a time when legisla
tors had just proposed S4B million in cuts
to the UNC system.
Lois Britt, chairwoman of the BOG
personnel committee, agreed. “It certainly
does not look like an appropriate time to
ask the state for additional resources. Funds
from foundations seem like a viable re
source at this time,” Britt said.
University administrators often take pay
cuts when they come to work in North
Carolina, she said.
“We don’t want salary to be a barrier in
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f***er,” is comforted by Belinda’s need for
response, which is something with which
he isunfamiliar.l thought ofEthan Hawke’s
character in “Reality Bites” while I watched
Jeremy parade his defiance of norms, but I
thought this character was much closer to
reality than the caricature Ben Stiller cre
was an important and interesting part of
his tenure as chancellor.
“I guess you would put me down as an
enthusiastic volunteer who does not mind
asking people to support the University,”
he said. “I like asking people to support
something I really believe in.”
Hardin has been good at collecting
money for the University. In a 1993 na
tional ranking of fund raising among re
search universities, UNC rose to 29th place
from 34th and came in eighth among pub
lic schools.
The University raised $63.9 million for
academics and athletics in 1993, putting it
behind a handful of public schools such as
the University of California at Berkeley
and Indiana University.
In 1994, UNC is expected to report
contributions of more than $Bl million.
But at the same time as UNC has topped
its overall goal of s4oomillion, the Univer
sity has fallen short on some big-name
projects like the freestanding Sonja H. Stone
Black Cultural Center. This happened as
donors increasingly targeted their gifts to
ward pet projects, a trend observed across
the nation.
“We need to raise money for the black
cultural center. We need to continue to
raise money for the SOAR telescope,”
McColl said. “We’ve met our monetary
goal, but there are individual goals we
need to press on.”
One area where the campaign went over
its goal is in creating endowments it
raised $139 million overall in endowment
money.
Billy Armstrong, who directed the cam
any way,” she said. “We strongly believe
that the University system is one of the
strongest in the nation, if not in the world,
and we want to be able to compete.”
Britt said the members of the University ’ s
Board of Trustees, Spangler, and the ongo
ing chancellor searches at UNC and Win
ston Salem State University had played a
role in the adoption of the policy.
Travis Porter, outgoing chairman of the
BOG, said the supplement was necessary
for the University and other campuses
searching for a chancellor to be nationally
competitive.
“It makes sense,” said Porter, who will
step down in May from his position as
BOG chairman. “We are trying to hire the
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ated for his film. Shaffner made him clever
and witty, but “serious” scenes didn’t be
come melodramatic because, between the
acting and the writing, Jeremy didn’t take
himself to have the soul of a poet—just of
someone who knows all about Fat Albert
and can occasionally not be a smart ass.
paign with McColl, said that the endow
ments would go toward professorships and
scholarships that would greatly benefit the
University.
“It will help us retain and keep profes
sors and keep outstanding students from
North Carolina in the state,” he said.
In the College of Arts and Sciences, S3O
million will go toward endowments to sup
port everything from establishing new en
dowed professorships and increasing stu
dent scholarship money.
Dennis Cross, executive director of the
Arts and Sciences Foundation, said the
endowments would provide UNC with a
permanent source of income.
“We’re very excited about the cam
paign, its success and the difference it
makes,” Cross said.
In addition to S3O million in endow
ments, the College of Arts and Sciences
topped its goal of raising S2O million for
projects such as the construction of anew
music library, a center for dramatic art and
a center for undergraduate excellence.
The success of the Bicentennial Cam
paign has been sweet for its organizers.
“We have been thrilled ■with it, ” McColl
said. “It’s been fun to be successful. We
have all come away with this with good
feelings about the University and its lead
ership.”
Hardin also said the campaign had met
success on many fronts.
“The principle objectives of the cam
paign have been met, ” he said. “It has been
successful in another way. We have dis
covered that our alumni are not just enthu
siastic about Carolina but generous.”
same type of person as our chancellor that
an Ivy League school would want to hire
as their president.”
Although a higher salary might help
entice the most qualified applicants to the
chancellor position at UNC, Britt said the
University’s chancellor search committee
had not pushed the BOG to adopt the
policy.
The BOG has been considering this
type of policy for about a year, she said.
Britt said, “In the last several years, we
have had several new chancellors, and this
has been a growing issue.”
The Associated Press contributed to this
report.
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