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New Director to Lead Black Cultural Center
Joseph Jordan has been
named as BCC director,
pending Board of Trustees
approval later this month.
Bv Ama Boaten
Staff Writer
UNC’s Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural
Center is one step closer to having anew
leader.
Joseph Jordan, head of Atlanta’s
Auburn Avenue Research Library on
African-American Culture, has been
offered the position of BCC director. If
approved at the July 26 Board of
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UNC Begins Plans to Redevelop Historically Rich Property
By Matt Viser
City, State & National Editor
Former UNC Professor Herman G. Baity sold
most of his land to the University more than 25
years ago. Soon, the University may accomplish
a Master Plan goal by breaking ground on the
Baity property and making space for anew mar
ried-student housing complex.
In a wooded, park-like setting, the Baity prop
erty is located on a hill just off Mason Farm
Road. It is a secluded area, featuring the Baity
estate, with the Smith Center just visible through
the trees.
Much of the land was sold to the University
'Creek' Filming Expands to Durham
By Ashley Williams
Staff Writer
DURHAM - “Dawson’s Creek" will
soon begin filming in Durham, and last
weekend 5,000 area residents lined up
to audition for the WB’s hit show.
As the show’s cast prepares for the
fall season, some characters will be
going off to college. The school scenes
take place in Boston, but will be filmed
at Duke University.
Fincannon and Associates, a
Wilmington-based agency, held an
open casting call for extras in the
lower-level Belk court of South Square
Mall in Durham last Saturday and
Sunday.
Although not highly publicized, the
casting call received a great response.
“I got here at 10 a.m. and the line was
backed up down the mall,” said
Shannon Deantonio, extras casting
director for Fincannon and Associates.
“This is a really great turnout.”
Deantonio said the agency holds cast
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Trustees meeting, Jordan will replace
Interim Director Harry Amana on Aug.
13.
Amana, a professor of journalism and
mass communication at the University,
has served as interim director since
1999.
Provost Robert Shelton said he thinks
Jordan was an excellent choice out of a
number of qualified applicants for the
position.
“Our criteria were for somebody who
understood the university atmosphere
and goals, somebody familiar with cul
tural issues, somebody who is a good
organizer and fund-raiser and somebody
who can work with folks at a university,"
Shelton said.
in 1974 by Baity and his wife, Dr. Elizabeth
Chesley Baity.
H.G. Baity and His Property
H.G. Baity was a 1917 graduate of UNC, a
renowned scholar and a former associate editor
of The Daily Tar Heel.
He was the recipient of the first Ph.D. in san
itary engineering in the United States. In 1928,
while working on a doctorate at Harvard
Engineering School, Baity won the Clemons
Herschel Prize for the most outstanding work
done in America in the field of sanitation. He
was invited to join the Harvard faculty, but
chose to return to Chapel Hill instead.
ing calls only when they are working
outside the Wilmington area.
As word has spread that the show will
be filming in the Durham area, rumors
have circulated that “Dawson’s Creek”
was making a permanent move from
Wilmington to Durham.
But Deantonio said the show will be
filmed in both
Wilmington and
Durham.
“They are
expanding their
territory,”
Deantonio said.
“They are still
shooting in sound
stages in
Wilmington.”
While some
“I have been in love with Katie
Holmes since the very first
episode of the show. I came
hoping to meet her today. ”
Kyle Payne
'Dawson's Creek’ Auditioner
auditioners came with headshots and
mile-long resumes in hand, others had
no prior experience.
“I came out because I thought it
would be a lot of fun,” said Meghan
Crawford of Fuquay-Varina.
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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Jordan said he plans to provoke
greater conversation between the black
community and outside voices.
“I hope to initiate dialogue between
communities, and document the dia
logue,” he said. “In most cases, we bring
people together through dialogue, but
we don’t often keep a record of the
good things that come out of the dia
logue.”
Jordan has taught and conducted
research at Xavier of Louisiana, Ohio
State and Howard universities, among
other institutions.
He was a senior research analyst in
the Federal Research Division of the
Library of Congress, and has co
chaired the international nonprofit
“He was a man who loved the University,”
said Daniel Okun, who replaced Baity as the
head of UNC’s Department of Sanitary
Engineering. “He was a big power in the
University for a long time.”
Baity served on the faculty at UNC until 1955.
He was later appointed chief engineer and direc
tor of sanitary engineering in the World Health
Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
Helen Martikainen, who served as chief of
health education in the WHO with Baity,
remembers the parties the Baitys would have at
their home,abroad and in Chapel Hill.
“It wasn’t just older people who attended, it
was young students, too - it was like a small
Fincannon and Associates was look
ing for a variety of people to fill the extra
positions.
“We’re looking for all shapes, sizes
and ages to build a database,”
Deantonio said. “Predominantly, we will
be using ages 18 to 32 to play people in
their college years.”
Although extras
do not play a
prominent role in
television shows,
they help bring
realism.
“They work as
background extras,
which makes the
scene look real,”
Deantonio said.
The audition
consisted of filling out a card with gen
eral information such as height and
weight, which was then attached to a
Polaroid headshot taken by Fincannon
& Associates’ staff.
Some auditioners took the casting call
Southern Africa Support Project,
where he helped organize Nelson
Mandela’s first post-prison visit to the
United States.
Jordan has taught and researched
African and African-American studies
for more than 30 years.
Jordan said he is excited about mov
ing to UNC and working with the BCC.
“It’s a dual reaction,” he said. “You
have a great deal of satisfaction, which is
tempered by an understanding that you
have a very important task ahead of
you.”
Named after late UNC Professor
Sonja H. Stone, whose ideals it seeks
to uphold, the BCC has offered schol
arly, cultural and social programs that
community party,” she said. “They were very
generous with their hospitality.”
Martikainen said the home provided a pleas
ant setting for the parties and gatherings. “When
you drove on the road out to the house, you
enjoyed the beauty of birds and trees and flow
ers,” she said. “In a few minutes you were in a
country setting. It was beautiful.”
The land Baity owned and the house he built
also had an ideal location on the southeastern
border of campus. The University saw advan
tages in the land and thought it might solve
expansion needs in its long-term future.
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very seriously, in hopes that becoming a
“Dawson’s Creek” extra could launch
their acting careers.
“You never know who may spot you
out and say, ‘I want her in my movie,’”
said Donna Bass of Durham.
Bass also viewed the casting call as an
opportunity for diversity on the show.
“There are no black people on the show
and I think they need some diversity,”
she said.
Auditioner Jessica Factor, a Maryland
resident, said she has wanted to be an
actress since she was 2 years old and
thought the casting call was a great
opportunity.
Other auditioners simply wanted to
meet the show’s cast.
“I have been in love with Katie
Holmes since the very first episode of
the show,” said Kyle Payne of
Carrboro. “I came hoping to meet her
today.”
Ashley Williams can be reached at
willia3o@email.unc.edu.
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This week, Brian and Daniele
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further the understanding of African
and African-American issues since
1988.
In April, University administrators,
officials, students and families gathered
to celebrate the groundbreaking of a
new, free-standing BCC building. The
groundbreaking ended a long, some
times controversial struggle, and ful
filled one of the BCC’s longtime objec
tives.
The center, currently situated in the
Student Union, is scheduled to move
into the $9 million dollar building in
2003.
Jordan said the free-standing center
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Calvin Trisolini of Hillsborough and his cousin, Alexandra Miller of Davis,
Calif., enjoy their ice cream cones Tuesday afternoon at Mapleview
Community Store.
Thursday, July 19, 2001
Assembly
May Raise
Tuition
If enacted, a proposed 15
percent out-of-state tuition
increase might not be
implemented until spring.
By Matt Viser
City, State & National Editor
State legislators continue to debate a
bleak revenue picture this week as they
try to protect the state’s superior bond
rating.
A House proposal also indicates a
large tuition increase for out-of-state stu
dents in UNC-system schools.
The Senate budget proposal indicated
a 9 percent tuition increase for all stu
dents, but House budget writers submit
ted an amendment that would increase
out-of-state student tuition by 15 percent
This proposal
would raise $24
million, but with
out any in-state
student tuition
increase.
Several legisla
tors strongly disap
prove of this mea
sure, however.
“That is an
unreasonable
tuition increase,”
said Sen. Howard
Lee, D-Orange,
co-chairman of
the Senate confer
ees. “We’re at a
Sen.
Howard Lee,
D-Orange, feels a
proposed tuition
increase is unfair to
out-of-state students.
high level of out-of-state tuition as it is.”
But some students may not have
enough time to prepare for the large
out-of-state tuition increase, with the fall
semester beginning in mid-August.
“It sets a horrible precedent,” said
UNC Student Body President Justin
Young. “The timing is inappropriate.
They’ve left no time for students or their
families to prepare for this type of
increase."
But Lee says the tuition increase
could be delayed until the spring, how
ever.
“When passing a late budget, it has
been our procedure in the past to look
at the feasibility of delaying tuition
increases,” Lee said. “We should give
them that lead time by not implement
ing it until the second semester.”
But legislators say nothing can be
certain until they figure out exactly how
much revenue can be raised.
“The House has indicated they are
considering some revenue increases,”
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