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proposals this year to lower GPAs.
Mton Banks, co-chairman of the aca
demic advisory committee at N.C. State,
said the issue had not been brought to
the academic policy committee this year,
despite the fact that N.C. State’s aggre
gate GPA increased 17 percent from
1990 to 1999. UNC-CH's GPA rose 18
percent during the same time period.
Similarly, UNC-W administrators
said they were not overly concerned
about a GPA increase there. The school
saw a 24 percent boost in aggregate
GPA from 1990 to 2000, well above the
increases at UNC-CH and N.C. State.
Melton McLaurin, UNC-W associate
vice chancellor of academic affairs, said
the increase was not a concern for two
reasons. First, UNC-W’s aggregate GPA
is 2.55, well below UNC-CH’s 3.0.
Second, the school has seen an enor
mous jump in SAT scores, indicating
students are better prepared for college
and thus, able to gamer higher GPAs.
Other system schools have also seen
an increase in the SAT scores and GPAs
of incoming freshmen. At ASU, GPA
has increased 16 percent from 1991 to
1998. “(Grade inflation) is something of
a concern but not a front-burner issue
right now.” Ward said.
Gary I .owe, interim vice chancellor
of academic affairs at ECU, said that
while statistics reflected a 17 percent
GPA increase between 1992 and 1999,
grade inflation was not the only expla
nation. Lowe said other reasons could
be an increase in student quality. This is
the explanation several UNC-CH stu-
Outdoor Theater Seeks Talent
By Matt Mansfield
Staff Writer
When performing, the last thing an
actor wants is to be heckled by a “baa
ing” goat.
But the actors in the Snow Camp out
door drama program in Burlington last
summer had to contend with that
mishap for half an act.
“We had live pyros for battle scenes,”
said Christa Arnold, a Snow Camp vet
eran, whose play used livestock. “It just
freaked the animals out,” she said,
recalling the animals rioting backstage.
These instances highlight some of the
unique aspects of working in an outdoor
drama production.
The Institute of Outdoor Drama will
hold auditions at UNC for 16 outdoor
theater companies, hailing from states as
far away as New Mexico and Texas.
And the 13th is the final deadline for
aspiring actors to register to audition.
The Carolina-based program brings
in performers from across the nation,
but its home school is continually under
represented, said Cindy Biles, an
Outdoor Drama representative.
To encourage involvement, UNC stu
dents will receive a $.5 discount from the
S3O cost of auditioning this year.
The companies put on historical
plays local to the area, Shakespeare fes-
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dents offered as part of backlash to the
committee’s report.
UNC-Pembroke saw the smallest
increase in GPA during the 1990s at
only 3 percent. Charles Jenkins, provost
and sice chancellor of academic affairs,
said he was not aware GPA had risen.
Not all system schools are experienc
ing increased GPAs. One school where
the aggregate GPA actually decreased
was UNC-Charlotte, falling by 4 per
cent between 1991 and 1999. UNC-C
administrators attributed the decrease to
changes in academic policy.
Administrators speculated on why
grade inflation had become a concern at
UNC-CH. UNC-W Faculty Senate
President Lynne Snowden said concern
over grade inflation at UNC-CH might
be due to the fact that the aggregate
GPA at UNC-CH had reached 3.0.
Monika Moore, UNC-CH student
body vice president, said the University
had to research SAT scores of incoming
freshmen and advanced class enroll
ment more before acting on grade infla
tion. She said rumors that actions
amending grading policies would be
taken in April were false. Economics
Professor Boone Turchi, chairman of the
UNC committee and primary author of
the report, said fall was the earliest time
changes could be implemented.
Moore said, “The fact that other uni
versities in our system have researched
the issue and have not opted to make
changes says to me that they have come
to the decision that it would be more
harmful than helpful to students to
implement a grade inflation plan.”
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tivals, or religious dramas called passion
plays. They hire actors, singers, dancers
and technicians to work on shows run
ning 10 to 12 weeks in the summer.
“They try to tie it in with most college
summer breaks,” Biles said. In fact, 90
percent of the performers are college
age, she said.
“I auditioned here at the Great Hall
with the Institute of Outdoor Drama,”
said Amber Sherrill, a sophomore
graphics design major.
After being called back by three com
panies for her dancing, Sherrill signed
on to the Manteo production of “The
Ixrst Colony."
“I moved after school and stayed
there the entire summer,” she said.
The actors move into apartments or
communal housing offered by the com
pany, and Arnold said she experienced
the most unique living conditions.
“There were 14 people living in one
house in the middle of nowhere,” she
said. “We were together 24-7.”
In addition to tolerating dirty dishes
all over the living room, the performers
spent a grueling 10 hours a day in the
hot sun rehearsing for the production.
“You’re trudging in the hot sand, it’s
a hundred degrees outside and even at
night it’s hot,” Sherrill said.
But all the toil and suffering paid off
when performances started.
PARKING
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she said. “I’m a senior, and I can’t even
get a permit.”
Bates said she had not been able to
park anywhere lately without receiving
a ticket. “I’ve gotten four or five tickets
in the past year. I’ve noticed the officers
more, and they just don’t care.”
University Police Officer Doug
Arwood said parking tickets were a nec-
INTERNET
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equipment, Weiss said.
What all this really does is take care of
the expenses and logistics of starting a
new business so the student teams can
focus on their concept and vision, he said.
He said StartEmUp would take the
student’s business from “dorm room to
board room.”
UNC students must submit their
ideas online through the
StartEmUp.com submission form by
11:59 p.m. March 31.
StartEmUp is not necessarily looking
for extensively thought-out plans, Weiss
said. The submission form requires a
summary of the idea along with what
market the business would target and a
background of the team members.
“There is a lot of value in anew idea,”
Huang said. And that is how these guys
sold their own idea to investors.
StartEmUp is funded by a private
group of investors out of Miami as well
as by the families and friends of the
“You’re out there performing for an
audience that wants to see you perform,
and it’s exciting,” she said.
If the two weeks of rehearsals are
rough, the nightly shows are arduous.
In a 30-minute process, Sherrill
would routinely paint her whole body
in brown paint to transform into an
Indian. Add a wig, braids and skimpy
leather outfit, and she was ready.
Her first of two quick changes had
her rinse the paint off her body in four
minutes and change into Elizabethan
garb for her character as a queen’s page.
But the pressure gave Sherrill new
strength. “You just have to go out there
with a confident attitude that you can
conquer the audience and that you’re
professional, even at the age of 19.”
Most companies put on three shows
during the summer as well as a chil
dren’s show, so performers who audi
tion this year will have many opportu
nities to take the stage, Biles said.
Arnold said the experience the pro
gram offered outweighed the hardships,
and she encouraged others to audition.
“It was hard work, but I learned a lot.”
So never mind the “baa-ing” goats,
they’re just keeping in spirit with the
rowdy, front-row hecklers in the out
door drama of the Shakespearean era.
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be reached at artsdesk@unc.edu.
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essary evil on a campus with a messy
parking situation.
“There’s no good solution,” he said.
“The parking guys are just doing their
job.”
Hawkins said the DPS, which accrues
$850,000 a year from parking fines, did
not want to issue a lot of tickets.
“We just want to catch the people
who are in violation.”
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founders. It has an advisory board
made up of business executives and
entrepreneurs who help the founders
evaluate the entries as business models.
StartEmUp will take a 20 percent cut
of the profits from the new Internet
companies it helps found, once they are
up and running.
But do not be fooled by the exten
siveness of the backing these students
were able to procure. The brunt of the
work is done by the four students.
“It is for students, by students,” Weiss
said. The company is based on a part
nership between StartEmUp and its
incubator companies.
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La. Mardi Gras Free-for-All
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NEW ORLEANS, La.- Revelers
shed inhibitions -and some their
clothes -as hundreds of thousands of
people jammed the streets for Mardi
Gras, the final fling before the austerity
of Lent.
While families with children gathered
along mansion-lined St. Charles Avenue
for a day of parades, a police ban on
nudity went mostly unenforced in the
French Quarter.
“I haven’t had a shirt on in five days,”
said Ashley Kennedy, a New Orleans
bartender.
While an artist painted designs on
Kennedy’s breast, four police officers
watched from across the streeL
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flesh adds to everybody’s fun,” Kennedy
said.
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Street with her breasts concealed only
by a layer of paint and carrying a sign
that read “The right to bare breasts.”
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shouldn’t I show them off?” asked Jones,
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“This is my sixth Mardi Gras, and it’s
the largest crowd I’ve seen,” Pennington
said. “I’m sure we’ll set a record. I’d esti
mate we have well over a million,'
maybe a million-and-a-half people on'
the streets.”
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