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Volume 103, Issue 153
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INSIDE
FRIDAY
UNC Refuses to Be Site for Controversial Flick
■ The University’s decision
follows Duke’s similar refusal
of the movie.
BY HILARY SPARROW
STAFF WHITER
A day after receiving Paramount Pic
tures’ official request, University officials
announced Thursday they will not allow
the filming of the motion picture “Kiss the
Girls” to take place on campus.
“We have too much respect for women
Five Local Notables
Will Carry Torch
Toward Olympics
BY TODD DARLING
STAFF WRITER
The Olympic Games began in Greece and have been in many
different places throughout the years. This year, as the torch makes
its way across the world to Atlanta, Chapel Hill and Canboro will
get a taste of the Olympic spirit as five community members will
help carry the torch through the town this June.
Thursday at a press conference at town
hall Canboro Mayor Mike Nelson an
nounced the chosen torch-bearers Frances
Hargrave, William Smith, Art Cleary, Pro
fessor Carl Henley and Professor Chuck
Stone. Cleary and Henley were unable to
attend the press conference due to prior
engagements.
“We all feel a sense of pride today,”
Chapel Hill Mayor Rosemary Waldorf said.
“We look to them to carry the spirit of this
great city. It is truly an honor and achieve
ment.”
“I’m flattered; Ijustcan’tget over this,”
Stone said. “All these people have over
come formidable odds, and that’s what this
is all about."
Hargraves, a veteran Orange County Senior Games participant
and racewalker, said she felt she would be well prepared for the
run.
“I’ll be 82 in April, andlthinkl’mgoingtodojustfine. I’dnever
thought at my age I’d be doing something like this.” Hargraves
said. A volunteer for the Orange County Women’s Center and the
Chapel Hill Public Library, Hargraves said she felt this was an
honor for all senior citizens as well as herself.
Clifton Metcalf, associate vice chancellor of University Rela
tions, said he thought it was important that the University be
recognized along with the community.
“We are proud to join with the host community to be repre
sented in the selection of torch-bearers,” Metcalf said.
On June 23,' the torch will be received at the 140 interchange
See TORCH, Page 4
‘Beer Patriot’
Issued Second
Citation
■ Jonathan McMurray won
his first court battle against
the open container law.
BY KARYN MITCHELL
STAFF WRITER
Jonathan McMurray, the self-pro
claimed “originalbeerpatriot,” was issued
a second citation Wednesday for alleged
violation of the open container law, begin
ning round two of his battle to eliminate
the law.
McMurray, a
UNC graduate stu
dent, said he was
issued the violation
as he walked past
Varsity Theatre on
Franklin Street
holding a nonalco
holic beer. There
were two witnesses
and a television
crew from Court
TV, the national
cable network,
present when
McMurray was
cited.
UNC graduate student
JONATHAN
MCMURRAY said the
citation begins round
two against the open
container law.
“I’ll gladly walk down the street with a
nonalcoholic brew,” McMurray said.
“They have no hope for a conviction."
McMurray was first cited Oct. 19 for
See MCMURRAY, Page 4
Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it just in time.
Wilson Mizner
Teaching TAs
The Graduate School is circulating
a draft proposal of University
guidelines to regulate TAs. Page 3
fit
to associate ourselves with an activity
even fiction that portrays such violent
treatment of women,” Clifton B. Metcalf,
associate vice chancellor for university re
lations, stated in a press release.
The S3O million film starring Morgan
Freeman is based upon James Patterson’s
novel “Kiss the Girls.” The film centers
around two sadistic serial killers who kid
nap and sexually assault students from
UNC and Duke University.
UNC’s decision follows a recent an
nouncement by Duke officials denying
Paramount Pictures permission to film on
Duke’s campus.
Making a mark
The Man Who Sets the Stage
BYLOURUTIGLIANO
STAFF WRITER
Amidst the piles of wood, old
custumes and other assorted dusty
leftovers from Company Carolina’s
past plays sits Mike Pryal. There is
only a week to go before the winter
show, “Passion”, starts its run, and
Pryal showed up a few hours before
rehearsal to tinker with some ob
scure electric device.
It is just another day for this resi
dent handy man. Pryal is a master
carpenter/producer/set designer for
Company Carolina, UNC’s newest
theater group. He doesn’t get in
volved in directing, acting, music or
any of the other things that take
place on the stage. He builds the
stage.
Company Carolina started in the
fall of 1994 as a student-run main
stream alternative to UNC’s other
theater groups, Pauper Players and
Lab! Theatre. Since then the group,
which ranges from 20 to 40 mem
bers, has presented shows like “Man
of La Mancha”, “Glengarry Glen
Ross” and “Noises Off” to packed
houses.
From the beginning, modest, un
assuming Pryal has been present in
Journalism professor
CHUCK STONE was
selected to carry the
Olympic torch through
Chapel Hill.
the background, aimed with his tools and mak
ing sure that everything will be ready for open
ing night.
But this is not a solo act. Pryal constantly
emphasizes that he is part of a team, and that
everyone involved is vital to Company
Carolina’s success.
GOP Candidates Spar Over Negative Ads, Foreign Trade Policy
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Bob Dole
and Pat Buchanan had several crackling
exchanges over taxes and trade Thursday
night as eight Republican presidential hope
fuls offered competing conservative agen
das in a debate five days before New
Hampshire’s pivotal primary.
Looking to revive his troubled cam
paign, multimillionaire publisher Steve
Forbes said he had made a mistake airing
negative ads. Yet in the next breath he
labeled Dole a tax raiser and raised ethical
questions about the financial dealings of
former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander.
Firing back, Alexander demanded that
Forbes release his tax returns. “That is a
diversion,” Forbes said.
Campaign tactics were also a hot topic,
beginning at the outset when Buchanan
and Alexander lashed out at Dole for
launching ads critical oftheir views. Later,
when Forbes was lamenting his negative
ad barrage, Dole joked that he knew the
reason: “too much money.”
While they sparred over the tone and
tactics of the campaign, the candidates
were in broad agreement over why a Re
publican president would be better than a
second Clinton term: the budget would be
balanced, taxes cut and reformed and more
power shifted to state and local govern
ments.
With New Hampshire’s primary loom
ing Tuesday, Dole and Buchanan are in a
tight race for first place, and some new
polls suggest Alexander’s third-place show
ing in lowa last week has him inching up.
Forbes has fallen in recent days from a
challenging first to fighting for third, and
hoped the debate would halt his slide.
There was a spat over negative tactics at
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“In talking with Duke officials I decided
that the negative associations with our
being a part of the production were greater
than anything the University stood to gain, ”
said David Roberson, director of univer
sity relations at Duke University.
According to Metcalf, UNC considered
Duke’s decision before denying Paramount
Pictures permission to film on campus.
Metcalf said he read the book and re
viewed a copy of the screenplay before
making his recommendation to Chancel
lor Michael Hooker. “I strongly recom
mended that we not permit the film to be
shot here,” Metcalf said.
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the outset, and when the subject turned to
the economy and trade, Buchanan and
Dole had several short but pointed ex
changes. “Pat is off on this isolationist
kick,” Dole said at one point. At another,
he said “Pat has gotten carried away to
night” and turned to his rival and said,
“Had a bad day?” Earlier on Thursday,
Buchanan’s campaign chairman took a
leave of absence because of a report linking
him to white supremacist and militia
groups. Returning fire, Buchanan said Dole
Duke announced its decision on Feb. 9
after nearly three weeks of debate. “There
was substantial concern about what this
project would say about Duke and general
discomfort about the subject matter of the
film,” Roberson said.
But according to Reyn Bowman, presi
dent of the Durham Convention and Visi
tors Bureau, who had been working closely
with Paramount Pictures’ location scouts,
Duke’s denial did not stifle current produc
tion plans.
“The majority of the shoot wasn’t on
Duke (campus) anyway. The majority of
the things they were doing on Duke can be
“There are a lot of people working very hard
for this group, and I’m just one of them,” he
said.
Pryal, a junior from Gastonia, spent his high
school years mastering the art of woodworking
while his fellow company members were hang
ing out in the drama department. But at his C-
What GOP Presidential Contenders Said in New Hampshire
The candidates for the GOP presidential nomination met in their first televised debate Thursday night. Front-runner
Bob Dole and a multitude of challengers gathered together to discuss the issues before Tuesday’s key primary.
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had supported tax increases, a point raised
later by Forbes, also. In the trade fight,
Dolegotplenty ofhelp. Alexander, Foibes,
and Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar warned
Buchanan’s protectionist views would kill
many more jobs than they saved. The last
time such views were popular, “We got a
Great Depression.”
Fotbes said President Clinton was ill
equipped to revive the economy, which he
said was burdened by a corrupt tax code.
“This recovery is the slowest in the last 50
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A troupe of actors brings
Shakespeare's tale of Scottish
tragedy, Macbeth, to UNC. Page 2
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simulated elsewhere,” Bowman said.
According to Bowman, Paramount Pi
ctures had not made final decisions on film
ing locations. Filming is scheduled to be
gin in April and will last about 18 days.
Filming prospects have also raised con
troveisy within the Durham community,
Bowman said.
“A lot of people are concerned that the
movie might reflect negatively in this re
gion,” Bowman said. “When you become
famous enough to be known nationally
you not only have really good things hap
pen to you, but you become the setting for
how people fictionalize things.”
Tops freshmen orientation he happened to meet
a student director forming anew theater group
that needed someone with some technical ex
pertise, and he signed on.
After raising some money and setting up
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years,” Foibes said. “It’s sluggish. It’s noth
ing to brag about. We’re like a patient with
walking pneumonia. We’re out ofbed, but
we’re not well.”
Antiabortion candidate Alan Keyes,
however, said Republicans were short
sighted to focus on economic statistics,
blaming America’s angst on the decline of
the two-parent family. Republicans, hesaid,
needed to promote “the beating heart of
our moral discipline and our moral respon
sibility, two things Bill Clinton seems to
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CAARace
Remains
Knotted
■ For the first time in
memory, two candidates tied
in the general election.
BY JAMES LEWIS
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS EDITOR
Call it a once-in-a-century phenomenon.
Call it a bizarre one-in-a-million campus
electoral fluke.
Whatever you call it, UNC election
history may have been made Tuesday. For
the first time in recent memory, the vote
tally for two candidates vying for a major
campus office was
equal. Tied. Dead
even. Overtime.
Carolina Ath
letic Association
president candi
dates SethNore and
lan Walsh each re
ceived 1,565 votes
for the post.
They will face off
again in a run-off
Tuesday.
Elections Board
Chairwoman
Annie Shuart said
she had never heard
ofafirst-placetiefor
a major campus of
fice.
Campus histo
rian John Sanders,
former director of
the Institute of Gov
ernment and a past
UNC student body
president, also said
he could not re
member a tie. “I
CAA president
candidates SETH
NORE and IAN
WALSH each
garnered 49.3 percent
of the vote.
don’t recall it in the time that I have been
observing (campus elections),” he said.
Both Shuart and Sanders admit the oc
currence is an oddity. “It’s certainly very
unusual, given you’re dealing with 1,500
votes or so,” Sanders said.
Initially, the Elections Board repotted
on Tuesday evening that Walsh was ahead
of Note by one vote, 1,562 to 1,561.
In results posted Wednesday, which
included the previously untallied 11 votes
cast on the Worid Wide Web, Walsh and
Nore each received 1,565 votes. The vote
by-site breakdown released Wednesday
added up to a 1,568 to 1,562 lead for
Walsh, but Shuart cleared up the numbers’
SeeCAA,Page2
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the top four.-have
made it imperative that
New Hampshire voters
need to have Okk lugar
as an alternative’
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know nothing about.”
Buchanan said his rivals were blind to
therealcauseofeconomicanxiety. “When
you cut trade deals that force Americans to
compete with people making $1 an hour...
wages are going to go down,” Buchanan
said. But Dole said Buchanan’s protec
tionist trade views would kill more jobs
that they would save. As Buchanan rolled
his eyes and shook his head, Dole said of
Buchanan's trade views, “he’d build a wall
around the United States.”