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2 Monday, November 26, 2001 This Week in Tar Heel History... 0 4 Years Ago: ■ This week in 1997, then-former University police Lt. C. E. Swain filed a lawsuit against University officials claiming 'y 1 they violated his constitutional rights, wrongfully fired f I him and discriminated and conspired against him. l 38 Years Ago: \ \ 1 This week in 1963, Bobby Lewis set an all-time school \ record of 51 points as he led the junior varsity basketball team to a 111 -65 victory over Eton. Lewis holds UNC's varsity record for points in a game, which he set in 1965. 85 Years Ago: ■ This week in 1936, junior class officers scheduled a swing band to play at the class' budget meeting in the hopes of attracting the required half membership quorum needed to pass the class budget. Calendar Today 4 p.m. - The Curriculum in American Studies presents “Marriage Vows and Modem Verbiage,” a staged reading featuring words from 20th cen tury authors. Professional actors David zum Brunnen and Serena Ebhardt will be enacting the staged reading, which is arranged in stages of a courtship and marriage - from the ceremony to the honeymoon, from the affair to aging together. The performance will take place until 5:30 p.m. on Stage 6 in Swain Hall and is free to the public. Zum Brunnen and Ebhardt are UNC Basketball Ticket Distribution for Wake Forest, Virginia, NO State Bracelet Distribution at Gate 5 of Kenan Stadium Tuesday, November 27, spm-7pm Wednesday, November 28, Bam-spm Thursday, November 29, Bam-spm “Magic Number” drawn in the Pit, Friday, November 30 at 12:00 Line Check: Saturday, December 1 6am at the Smith Center *. i : ■ *T '/f i \ ! i - jr- # ’ ! & rif -I - * * i;i — r - , : , . , 1 , , r - 1T . .. 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By Elliott Dlbe Staff Writer Play Makers Repertory Company is changing the pace from usual Christmas fare. Last year “An O. Henry Christmas” was the company’s holiday contribution; George Kaufman and Moss Hart’s “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” this year’s show for the holiday season, opened Nov. 21, and its connection to the Christmas season is tangential at best. Set during the holidays, the play focuses on Sheridan Whiteside (Philip Davidson), a famous critic and lecturer who is also considered to be “the world’s rudest man.” He injures himself in Mesalia, Ohio, just before Christmas and is forced to live out the holidays with the Stanleys. Sheridan turns their lives upside down, as his New York wit and attitude clash with their middle-American men tality. Things get even crazier when Sheridan’s secretary, Maggie Cutler (Kathryn Hunter Williams), falls in love with one of the townspeople. News Play Makers chose to produce “The Man Who Came to Dinner" largely based on its wit and its non-yuletide skewering of American celebrity cul ture. Hart and Kaufman wrote the play in 1939, and the combination of the pair’s talents has maintained its popu larity. Kaufman was the one with the acerbic wit and knack for satire, while Hart was more of a natural storyteller, said Michael Sexton, the play’s direc tor. Real-life celebri ties were Hart and Kaufman’s inspira tion for a number of characters, including play wright Noel Coward (Beverly Carlton), and Harpo Marx of the Marx Brothers (Banjo). Sheridan “So many theaters do A Christmas Carol’ over and over again, and this will be a nice, different something. ” Alton Fitzgerald White Actor was modeled after a friend of Kaufman and Hart’s. But for the satire to work, many of the cast studied those on whom the characters were based. Alton Fitzgerald White, who plays Coward’s counterpart in the play, did his research - to prepare his role, he looked through a series of articles and photos to get a sense of how Coward acted. “I got his confidence and his above- FfcEEWHI with the purchase of two beverages and one lunch at the regular price, receive a second flipy lunch of equal or lesser value FREE! ' fS (Dine-in only. One coupon per table. J| • j ■ Valid Monday - Friday. Expires 12/10/01) 159 Va E. Franklin St. Downtown Chapel Hill ♦ 919-967-5048 | Great schools aren’t necessarily the most prestigious, or the most expensive, or even the largest. They are schools where faculty and students can interact, and where they are engaged with the world, and with the world of ideas. You can t do that unless you have a bookstore that is willing to take risks, to listen to what people want, and sometimes, to tell its customers what they need to read. A great bookstore knows what book you want before you ever knew it was out, and they have it waiting for you A great bookstore is staffed by wonderful people who love to read, and talk and even more important, help you. Theres no doubt about it. The Bull s Mend Is a great bookstore. As far as I'm concerned, it is our best resource. wL Lawrence Grossberg, Professor, Communication Studies ■ii^KENAN-FLAGLER Wzf BUSINESS SCHOOL ▼ UNC-CHAPEL HILL Applications for Fall 2002 admission to the business major or minor are due no later than 5:OOpm f Friday, November 30th in room 3122 McColl Building Late applications not accepted. it-all attitude, his kind of super wealthy, super elite kind of attitude," said White, who previously performed in “Ragtime” on Broadway and will shortly join the national tour of “The Lion King.” Play Makers hopes the attitude of the rich and famous depicted in the play will strike a chord with audiences, although it presents its share of chal lenges. Sexton said establishing proper comedic timing in such a comedy is dif ficult to accomplish considering its 30- member cast. “It’s an incredi bly complicated logistical set of challenges,” he said. Despite the obstacles, White enjoyed performing a play in December that didn’t revolve around Scrooge or Tiny Tim. “So many theaters do ‘A Christmas Carol’ over and over again, and this will be a nice, different something,” he said. “The Man Who Came to Dinner” will run through Dec. 16. Shows are at 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and at 2 p.m. Sundays. For ticket information, call the Play Makers box office at 962- 7529. The Arts & Entertainment Editor can be reached at artsdesk@unc.edu. (Blip Daily (Ear Mppl Ist Human Embryo is Replicated Cloned human embryos might allow replacement of stem cells in patients with diseases such as diabetes. The Associated Press BOSTON - A group of scientists in Massachusetts claimed Sunday they had cloned the first early human embryo, a step toward providing genetically matched replacement cells for patients with a wide range of diseases. The scientists at Advanced Cell Technology, in Worcester, Mass., say they have no immediate interest in transplanting such early embryos into a woman’s womb to give birth to a cloned human being. Several states, including California, have banned human cloning. Congress is considering such a ban. “These are exciting preliminary results,” said Dr. Robert P. Lanza, one of the researchers at Advanced Cell Technology. “This work sets the stage for human therapeutic cloning as a potentially limitless source of immune compatible cells for tissue engineering and transplantation medicine.” In findings published Sunday by The Journal of Regenerative Medicine and described online in Scientific American, the scientists said they had grown a six cell human embryo. They said they created the early embryo by injecting a very small cell with its genetic material into a woman’s donat ed egg. In such cloning, the injected DNA often comes from a skin cell, but the researchers this time used a cumulus cell, which nurtures a developing egg. In a separate experiment, the scientists showed they could push the development of human egg cells even further with a technique known as parthenogenesis. They exposed 22 egg cells to chemi cals that changed the concentration of electrically charged ions within them. Six eggs reprogrammed themselves to devel op into early embryos known as blasto cysts, which contain dozens of cells. The scientists described the work as preliminary. Neither experiment has yet produced the coveted stem cells that grow inside an embryo and differentiate into other body tissues. But the researchers described the work as an important step toward pro ducing these stem cells to generate replacement cells as treatments for dia betes, heart disease, spinal injuries and many other ailments. Asked about the research on “Fox News Sunday,” Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., said while he only had sketchy details, he was worried about reproductive cloning. He called the reports “disconcerting.” “I think it’s going in the wrong direc tion,” he said. On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Richard Shelby, D-Ala., said, “I believe it will be perhaps a big debate, but at the end of the day 1 don’t believe that we’re going to let the cloning of human embryos go on.” w 1 Dissertation 8< Thesis Special 100% Cotton 140 C.O. COPIES 169 E. Franklin St. • Near the Post Office Open 7 Days a Week 933-9999
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