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6 Thursday, June 20, 1996 Summer Bridge Gives Freshmen a Head Start ■ Incoming minority fresmen take classes for credit through the program. BYSHENGLEE STAFF WRITER While most incoming freshmen are wondering how their first year at UNC will be, a select group of incoming black and Native American freshmen will be receiving a hands-on experience of what college life is like in a program called Summer Bridge, which begins today. Program Director Joseph Willow, Jr., said the focus of the program was to shrink the gap between high school and college life. "We try to acclimate the students to Carolina’s atmosphere, socially and aca demically,” Willow said. Summer Bridge is an academically oriented program that lasts for seven weeks. The 62 in-state participants are selected based upon academic records, the sizes of hometowns and the educa tional structures of high schools. Expenses such as tuition and room and board are covered. Participants also receive stipends for textbooks and school supplies. The students enroll in an En glish and a math class. The course they take is contingent upon the results of i cbfdm | | With this coupon of | I UNC Student ID, get., I l OFF I V I wl ■ Dinner Buffet op I Weclmd Lunch! 968-3488 %£#%> Square Offer upim 6/26/96 Take Kaplan and get a.higher score... ————► ...or your money back.* Summer Classes Starting Soon! Final MGATfor August exam begins July 8! GMAT begins Sunday, June 23 For more information call 1 -800-K AP-TEST KAPLAN E-mail: infoekaplan.com America Online: ksywordKaplan' Internet home page: http://wwvy.kaplan.com •Qflw imrted to wiected kxatiom nd tett dates. Rwtnctiora apply. Cal lor details. ■ All the Carolina Union Summer Programs are open to currently registered UNC Students & their guests. JH Admission to films is free with UNC-ID, Union Privilege Card or conference Identification. Projams H indicated as open to the public require no identification. All programs are limited in space avaHabitty. fi Thursday, June 20 Mr. Holland's Opus fl fl 8:00 PM • Union Auditorium fl 9E Mr Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) is a music teacher who, faced with the ■B disappointment of his son’s deafness, finds fulfillment and success in his |M profession. Immersed in his work, he does not realize how much his H H teaching influences and inspires his students. (145 minutes) ■ fl Thursday, June 27 & Friday, June 28 Schindler’s List fl 8:00 PM • Union Auditorium H Speitberg creates a heart-wrenching drama about life, death and despair. Liam ■ Neeson portrays one man’s fight to save more than one thousand Jewish men, women, and children during the Holocaust (195 minutes) fl Sunday, June 30 440th Army National Guard Band fl fl 6:00 PM • Polk Place (grassy area between South Building & Wilson Library) fl fl Rainsite: Memorial Hall fl H Come hear the patriotic sounds of the 440th Army National Guard Band in the -j area between the South Building and Wilson Library. In addition to saluting Old ■ Glory, one can also hear the )azzy melodies of the Troubadours at this concert event Bring a blanket and/or chairs and enjoy a fun-filled evening of music on the fIK lawn. Free and open to the general public. ■ NO SMOKING, FOOD OR BEVERAGES ARE ALLOWED IN UNION AUDrrORIUM. H Ait foreigi films are suMtfed. Shov times iary. so please check rhe schedule carefully. SB placement tests, which participants must take before attending class. If the students successfully complete their courses, they can enter as freshmen with a total of six credit hours on their transcripts. Summer Bridge students are exposed to the same course material as UNC stu dents, but they do not have class with them, Willow said. “We hire instructors to teach the courses so the students are placed into classes where there are only Summer Bridge participants,” Willow said. Besides attending workshops about school-related topics such as financial aid and academic advising, participants are also exposed to leisure activities. Students get a taste of the culture that makes up the area. In former years, stu dents attended plays and a ballet. Orga nizers planned similar events this year. Brandi North, a counselor and former participant, said the program prepared the students for the quality of academic work expected of them at the University. “The program gets the students into the mindset of the college’s academic environment,” North said. Former 1995 Summer Bridge partici pant Cheryl Chance said she thought the program helped to prepare her for college life. “It was a big help because it made the transition easy.” P Jim Carrey harasses Matthew Broderick with his zany sense of style in Ben Stiller's 'The Cable Guy." ‘Cable’ Unplugs Audiences With Boring Humor ■ Carrey’s new film pits the actor somewhere between serious and pathetic. You should not expect much from Jim Carrey. He delivers the empty laughs, ri diculous slapstick and face-bending hu mor that America has come to love. Every film he has starred in since “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” has been a hit. Well, that has changed now that he is the S2O million star of Ben Stiller’s “The Cable Guy.” DEAN HAIR Movie Review The Cable Guy' D Carrey plays the title character who was raised by television. Carrey adopts names such as Larry Tate from “Bewitched” and Chip Douglas of “My Three Sons” throughout the film. He is a sulky, pathetic man who is a leech to anyone who shows him a glimpse of kindness. The man who gives him some much Bizarro r 'fes, officer, it [£ A Very V\s- Concerting quirk, sut i ASSURE NoU, Mgs oNIV SLEEfiNG. J 1 t-2g j" FAStfFREE DELIVERY] \<i 9 §S a A j Keep your sunny side up with our new sun-dried tomato and oregano bagel. A fresh-baked bagel with sun-dried tomato and oregano. What a idea. BRUEGGER’S BAGELS" RALEIGH: 2302 Hillsborough Street • North Hills Mall • Pleasant Valley Promenade Sutton Square, Falls of the Neuse Rd. • Mission Valley Shopping Center Stonehenge Shopping Center, Creedmoor Rd. • Harvest Plaza, Six Forks & Strickland Rds. CARY: 122 S.W. Maynard RdfPreston Business Center, 4212 Cary Pkwy. Coming soon-RTP: Hwy. 54 atS. Alston Ave. DURHAM: 626 Ninth Street Commons at University Place (1831 MLK Parkway at University Drive) CHAPEL HILL 104 W. Franklin St • Eastgate Shopping Center Open Seven Days a Week NEWS needed attention is Steven (Matthew Broderick) who has recently broken up with his girlfriend and moved out. Carrey becomes the friend that every one hates, the one that calls all the time, leaves long messages on the answering machine and shows up at every comer. Carrey invades Steven’s world and forces him into an unwanted friendship that soon turns into terrorism as the cable guy real izes that the friendship is one-way. The scenes that follow are pointless. They serve only to show how inventive the cable guy can be in harassing Steven. The only humorous scene is during dinner at Medieval Times, where Carrey and Broderick wear armor and fight out their frustrations. Carrey thinks that since he has dyed his hair black and has a lisp that he is now an evil character. The film’s central problem can be attributed to its director, Ben Stiller. Is Stiller attempting to direct a dark drama with some comedy or a dark com edy with some drama? This question plagues the audience as Stiller forces the BUDGET FROM PAGE 1 reach. “We thought we were going to have a hard time getting the money for graduate health insurance,” Walters said. Instead, the Senate allocated $4.5 million for health insurance for graduate assistants in a plan that would allocate S7OO per graduate teaching and research assistant to buy insurance. Graduate and Professional Student Federation President Katherine Kraft said the Senate’s budget was particularly friendly to graduate students. Mo Nathan, a member of the team, said he was particularly impressed with money allocated to research. The Senate allocated $17.8 million to enhance research at UNC-CH and NCSU. “I’m particularly pleased that the budget works to enhance the research mission of UNC and North Carolina State,” he said. The Senate’s budget also included $200,000 to survey seniors on their education. Under the proposal, any item with a 33 percent or more disapproval rating would be revised. Now the budget is in the hands of the conference committee that will iron out the differences between the budget proposed by the House and the Senate. Dibbert said he thought the University’s main goal, to let the legislators know how important higher education was to the state, had been met. “It’s taken the administration, the faculty and the alumni to accomplish this, and it’s not over,” Dibbert said. University leaders will find out if their efforts paid off today. The committee is expected to have the budget completed by today, or Monday at the latest. audience to jump from one form to the other. If Stiller had gone for the goofball hu mor that has made Carrey a “leading man, ” then the film would have worked. The film could have also been successful had it been made into a drama. “The Cable Guy” is precisely filmed by Stiller, but it seems he may have had too much control over the film, adding too much subtle humor to the already unfunny screenplay. One interesting scene is when Carrey performs karaoke to Jefferson Airplane’s “Somebody to Love. ” Carrey is explosive and imaginative during this scene and the audience glimpses the side of Carrey they all know and love. Carrey wants to be taken seriously in Hollywood now with “The Cable Guy” acting as a transition vehicle into his “seri ous” roles, where he leaves his slapstick humor behind. What Carrey needs to focus on is the kind of humor he is known for. He should not step out on a wire for anew, darker humor. The cable just might not hold. nrs NOT HERE on tho Village Groan PRESENTS Friday, June 21... LEMONADE PIE Saturday, June 22... MAINSTREET Sundays: Karaoke Night * Tuesdays: Blue Cup Special BANDJDO'2 MEXICAN CAFE Visit Bandido's —A for lunch before or after v The Olympic Torch Relay" \ Sunday June 23,1996 by 15 Lunch Specials js3j Under ss®i Open for lunch and dinner 7 days a week 12pm-10pm Serving Lunch Specials from 12pm-3pm 159 7a E. Franklin Street-919-967-5048 Downtown Chapel Hil (Next to Rathskeller) Haihj Star Herl UNC System Honors Kenan With Memorial STAFF REPORT The UNC Board of Governors passed a resolution in honor of Frank H. Kenan on Friday. BOG member Earl Phillips, Jr. presented the memorial. “I am honored to offer the following words about one of the state’s giants,” he said. The memorial stated, “Frank Hawkins Kenan was a visionary who belie ved in the power of education to transform lives, economies, societies. Asa philanthropist, he channeled his considerable talents and energies toward bold moves that encour aged educators to recruit the best teachers, to set high standards in research, to foster the arts and to work through public and private enterprises to eradicate illiteracy and poverty. Incapable of accepting unpal atable conditions as inevitable, he sought solutions, always optimistic that the right combination of people and ideas, backed by a little encouragement and seed money, could work miracles... In simplest terms, he had profound faith in God and in hu man beings. “The University of North Carolina was one of his abiding interests. It was no secret his greatest loyalty was to his alma mater in Chapel Hill, endowed since early in this century by his Kenan forebears and from its very inception by a gift of land from his ancestors. But he was also generous to other UNC constituent institutions... “When he died last week at age 83, he left an immeasurable legacy to our Univer sity and to other institutions of higher edu cation up and down the nation’s east coast. Asa trustee of the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust, he was a key figure in the establishment of endowed professorships and significant challenge grants for 56 col leges and universities apart from the Uni versity of North Carolina. The trust was also an early benefactor of the National Center for Family Literacy, through which parents and children are learning together to read and to write. As trustee, Frank Kenan spearheaded the establishment of three new endowed funds: the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enter prise, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Institute for Engineering, Technology and Science and the Thomas S. Kenan in Institute for the Arts... “Frank Kenan set high standards for himself and for others. Courteous and well mannered to the very end, he generated a steady stream of thank-you letters until the last weeks of his life. He valued integrity and hard work, he was a fair and fierce competitor, he loved his family, he nur tured his friends, he knew how to have fun and he knew how to share his success with others. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the UNC Board of Governors incorporate these remarks in the record of its meeting of June 14, 1996, and that they be con veyed to Frank Kenan’s widow, Elizabeth Price Kenan, to his four children Tho mas, Owen, Liza and Ann —and to his stepson, Owen Gwyn, with the board’s deep sympathy for the family’s loss and with gratitude for Frank Kenan’s life, his generosity and his indomitable spirit.” Elizabeth Kenan attended the meeting and accepted copies of the resolution for herself and her family. “I feel really very humble,” she said. “Our work is cut out for us. Frank left us all with work to do, so you all have to help us.”
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