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Monday, April 8, 1996
Student Groups Launch Registration Drive
BY JOE MILLER
STAFF WRITER
With the last day of final exams being
May 4, many UNC students will have left
for home before the May 7 primary. Stu
dent government is trying to make sure
these students will still have the opportu
nity to vote.
Student government, along with the
Chapel Hill-based Musicians Organized
for Voter Education (MOVE), will spon
sor a table in the Pit every day this week
between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. where stu
dents, faculty and staff can request an ab
sentee ballot and register to vote.
MOVE is part of the Youth Empower
ment Project to encourage students to vote.
FOOD
FROM PAGE 1
mittee.
The $13.5 million food services plan
included proposals to renovate Lenoir Din
ing Hall, expand Chase Hall and increase
food services capabilities in the Student
Union.
The renovation plan, which was a cul
mination of the work done by the Food
Services Task Force, was approved in a
student referendum during February's stu
dent body elections by a margin of nearly
2-to-l. The plan was then forwarded to the
UNC Board of Trustees by Chancellor
Michael Hooker.
The BOT unanimously approved the
plan at its March 22 meeting, after its
Business and Finance Committee recom
mended it.
From the BOT, the plan was sent to the
BOG. Nelson said he thought student sup
port for the plan should make it a priority
with the administration.
“Students supported the renovations 2-
to-1 and it is critical that food services on
this campus be upgraded,” Nelson said.
Nelson said the renovation plan must
be approved during this year’s short ses
sion of the General Assembly or the con
struction would not be completed in time
for the 1998 Special Olympics.
The 1998 Special Olympics will be
hosted by UNC.
The University would probably have to
wait until after the Special Olympics to
even begin construction if the plan is not
approved soon.
COUNCIL
FROM PAGE 1
Council member Joe Capowski said he
voted to deny filming based on the content
of the book, which he had read.
“I had read the book, and I found the
content disgusting,” Capowski said. “I
personally would not want the town of
Chapel Hill to be associated with that.”
However, Capowski said he did not
discount the opinions of the other council
members.
“The council by and large had various
reasons for their vote on the filming,” he
said. “This was just my personal reason to
vote no.”
Council member Richard Franck said
he voted against the filming because of its
potential effect on the town and not be
cause of the movie's content. He said the
policy of not allowing private companies
to use public land was good and should be
upheld. “I would be willing to reconsider
if the studio had made a donation to the
town,” he said. “But it wouldn’t matter to
me if they were making a porno movie.”
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ItisagroupofNorth
Carolina bands and
performers whose
goal is to increase
involvement in the
political process
among their audi
ences.
Erik Ose, co
founder of MOVE
and director of the
North Carolina Par
ticipatory Democ
racy Project, said
MOVE was trying
to register at least
100,000 young vot-
SBP Adviser JOHN
DERVIN said there
would be another voter
registration drive in the
fall.
ers across North Carolina by November.
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Student leaders at UNC ran an aggressive publicity campaign during February's campus elections to garner
support for the referendum to overhaul food services. The referendum passed by a 2-to-1 margin.
FIRES
FROM PAGE 1
Lacock said. “We have no suspects at this
time.”
Canboro Police Chief Ben Callahan
said in an earlier interview that all of the
fires have been set with combustible mate
rials. Investigators said this led them to
believe the fires have been the work of
harmful pranksters and not professionals
MONDAY
5 p.m. HARVEY GANTT, Democratic candi
date for N.C. Senate will meet in the Union film
auditorium. Reception immediately following in the
Black Cultural Center. Please sign up for reception at
the Union Desk. For more information call Lainey
Edmisten at 942-9055.
5:30 p.m. DR. COLLIER OF THE NC
HEALTH CAREER ACCESS PROGRAM will
speak about health occupations and the summer
enrichment program. All are welcome in this meet
ingofthe American Chemistry Society in 224Venable
Hall.
7:30 p.m. DIALECTIC AND PHILAN
THROPIC SOCIETIES will hold their bicentennial
debate, “Is the state of nature one of war or one of
UNIVERSITY & CITY
“We’re trying to increase voter partici
pation by young people,” Ose said.
John Dervin, adviser to Student Body
President Aaron Nelson, said the drive
was to ensure people would be able to meet
the upcoming registration deadline. He
said another registration drive would be
needed in August or September because
students would have changed addresses.
Nelson said he was confident turnout
would not be stifled by Senate Majority
Leader Robert Dole’s clinching of the Re
publican nomination because of the up
coming senatorial and gubernatorial elec
tions.
“It is key that students participate in
their community and that they participate
in their government, because when stu
arsonists.
“I can well confirm that these fires were
not set by a professional person, ” Callahan
said.
State Bureau of Investigation Director
Ron Keane said the fires in Carrboro were
the work of a serial suspect. “Fortunately,
series of fires like these are few and far
between in the state,” said Keane, who had
no further comment.
Lacock said another fire, which con-
Campus Calendar
peace?" in the Dialectic Chambers, third floor New
West. All are welcome. For more information, con
tact Eric Tytell at 929-9690.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
PLAYMAKERS REPERTORY COMPANY’S
20th anniversary season continues with “From the
Mississippi Delta" by Endesha Ida Mae Holland.
Directed by guest director Tazewell Thompson. This
autobiographical and inspirational work runs through
April 7.
MIGUEL DE LA MADRID, former president
of Mexico, will discuss presidential leadership dur
ing a free, public talk April 9 at 4:30 p.m. in the
Morehead Banquet Hall. A reception will follow.
The talk is sponsored by the Duke-UNC Program in
Latin American Studies.
The Black Student Movement UMOJA
AWARDS BANQUET will be held April 10 at 6:30
p.m. in the Skipper Bowles Building.
DR. EDWARD WAGNER, director of the Cen
ter for Health Studies in Seattle, will discuss “Careers
in Preventive Medicine” at noon April 10 in 357
Wing C, Division of Health Affairs building. Free.
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dents participate and when students regis
terto vote in large numbers, thenwewillbe
listened to by our town councils, our gov
ernor, our state legislature, and it’s impor
tant that we participate,” Nelson said.
One student from New York took ad
vantage of the table and said she would
have found a way to vote even if such a
drive didn’t take place.
“I think it’s important because a lot of
people don’t take the time to do stuff like
that, to vote and to register themselves or
to get the absentee ballot.she said.
Ose said Chapel Hill had had organized
voter registration drives nearly every year
for the past six yean. “We’re pretty confi
dent that Chapel Hill will have a very high
turnout in the fall.”
sumed a house Wednesday night on Hatch
Road, had been termed an unrelated acci
dent. The blaze, which destroyed all of the
contents of the house, caused only minor
structural damage to the house. Firefighters
took approximately 45 minutes to bring
the fire under control.
No one was hurt in the blaze but two
family pets died due to smoke inhalation.
Monetary losses to the family are esti
mated to be $40,000.
residence GHADA AMER will run through April
11. Amer will discuss her work at 6 p .m. Thursday in
die Hanes Art Center auditorium.
Mixed-media works by seniors JASONFRANK,
KELLY JOHNSTON AND HONG-EUN KIM,
1996 honors candidates in studio art, will be on
display in the Hanes Art Center Gallery from April
12 to May 2.
"CONFLICTS WITHIN THE AMERICAN
LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, 1960’S—PRESENT”
will be presented on April 12 by the School ofLibraiy
and Information Science in 208 Manning Hall. For
more information contact Kim Stahl, vice president
of Student Chapter of the American Library Associa
tion at 408-8078.
Ait historian THOMAS EUGENE CROW will
discuss “The Art of Indigenous North America” at 6
p.m. April 12 in Hanes Art Center auditorium. The
free talk is first in a series of four lectures by Crow, the
inaugural Bettie Allison Rand Lecturer in art history.
NATIONAL HUNGER CLEANUP April 13.
HOPE needs organizations to participate to raise
money for the local Inter-Faith Council shelter. Stop
by the Campus Y for details.
4 Six Degrees’ Connects
Audience With Characters
Christopher Johnson, the director of
Company Carolina’s latest in a streak of
successful productions, states in his pro
gram notes, “theater should be an experi
ence —not just an event. ” Not only is “ Six
Degrees of Separation” a complete experi
ence from the live piano during seating
to the impromptu intermission dance party,
from the superb acting to the intriguing
direction—but this idea ofexperience-for
its-own-sake also serves as a principal theme
in John Guare’s provocative story.
The plot of the play revolves around a
mysterious young man, Paul (Chris Burris),
and the families
into whose
lives he infil
trates and
leaves unfor
gettable im
prints. Neither
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‘Six Degrees
of Separation'
Company Carolina
the audience nor the characters ever learn
Paul’s true identity or history and yet we all
witness his vivid imagination, his love of
life and his apparent disregard for the con
sequences of his actions. Burris communi
cates all of these facets of Paul convinc
ingly while adding his own natural charm
and an aura of perverted naivete.
Troy Alston Cain and Erin Cottrell star
as Flanders and Ouisa, the principal couple
with whom Paul comes into contact. Cain
and Cottrell do a superb job, giving depth
to their characters through minute facial
and inflection changes, as “smart, sophis
ticated New Yorkers ” who eventually show
a strange kind of mercy to Paul. The actors
also shift effortlessly between their roles as
characters and narrators. Cottrell especially
flourishes during the second act, when her
character is more developed.
The other 17 actors fill in the partly
comic, partly tragic backdrop ofNew York
society, where millionaire art dealers and
doctors are yards away from impoverished
artists. Although the play seems to want to
combat stereotypes, it is full of them
from the four spoiled, angst-ridden college
Proposal Seeks to Expand
Educational Opportunities
BYLOURUTIGLIANO
STAFF WRITER
A proposal to expand educational op
portunities for highly-gifted middle school
students in Chapel Hill and Carrboro was
announced April 2 during a public hear
ing.
The proposal would give more students
access to advanced classes and would put
an end to the practice of separating aca
demically-gifted students from the others.
Presently students in the gifted educa
tion program must take buses to Culbreth
Middle School, the only middle school in
the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school system
that offers these classes. The proposal would
allow gifted students to take equally chal
lenging courses at Phillips and McDougal
Middle Schools
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Task Force
on Gifted Education spent three years
working on the proposal.
Robin McCoy, co-chairwoman of the
committee and director for accelerated
education, said parents of the gifted stu
dents should not be concerned about the
proposal.
“Each school will be responsible for
providing a program that provides stu
dents with the same level of instruction,”
McCoy said. “There will continue to be
advanced classes for all students that are
academically gifted.”
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trayed hilariously by Jason Hoey.
Other roles—such as the South African
millionaire Geoffrey (Johnny Knight), Flan
and Ouisa’s pleasant yet dysfunctional
friends, Kitty and Larkin (John Lazzari
and Jenny Schwartz), and the sleazy nerd
Trent (Seth Shelden), who introduces Paul
into high-class life all add to the play
with their cleverportrayals. Of special note
are Rick and Elizabeth (Mike Oakley and
Amy Heidt), a struggling Utah couple who
are tragically involved with Paul.
Imagination and experience form an
other axis around which script, characters
and production all revolve. The script deals
with difficult issues while evoking symbols
of art and color. The characters employ
their imaginations, often destructively as
in the case of Paul, throughout the show.
The production also shows many creative
decisions on the part of Johnson and crew;
from the energetic opening, original music
by Jim Rock, myriad of sound effects,
minimalist set and wonderful costumes,
“Separation” continues Company
Carolina’s trend of emphasis on experi
mentation in theater production.
This show does have a few problems,
such as the occasional flaw in otherwise
solid acting and the questionable appropri
ateness of certain comic sound effects, but
these are easily overlooked in light of the
overall satisfactory experience. Further
more, the play presents provocative ques
tions and concepts such as the value of
experience over accumulation, the quality
of mercy and chaos vs. control while
abstaining from clear answers.
Another main theme is the connection
of humanity —everyone on the planet, we
are told, is connected by no more than six
degrees of separation. This means you’re
probably connected to everyone involved
in this production by no more than three
degrees; if for nothing else, go see it for
that. Shows are at 8 p.m. nightly through
Thursday at Studio Six, Swain Hall.
There are 570 students in the gifted
program from grades four to eight. Under
the proposal, an educational technique
called differentiation would be used in the
middle school gifted programs.
Kim Hoke, assistant to the superinten
dent for Chapel Hill and Carrboro schools,
said differentiation would provide “more
creative grouping methods among classes
of students and among grade levels.”
“It allows flexibility to group students
according to where they need accelera
tion,” she said.
McCoy said there should be no concern
over the ability of middle school teachers
to handle these possible changes. “We have
a real strong staff development component
in the plan,” she said.
The proposal will be presented to the
Board of Education on May 2 at an open
school board meeting. If approved, the
proposal could begin to go into effect by
September. The process would involve tak
ing three years to phase out separate gifted
classes for sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grad
ers and is estimated to cost $1 million.
Members of the Board of Education
said they needed more information before
they could make a decision.
“I will rely heavily on the recommenda
tion of the committee and parental input,”
said Mark Royster, the vice chairman of
the board of education. “I am behind what
I believe is best for the students.”