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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2003
Poetry to replace ads in mural
BY JENNY HUANG
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
Local residents passing through
downtown Carrboro soon can play
a larger-than-life game of word
scramble.
Through a recently approved
project by the Carrboro Arts
Committee, portions of a down
town mural will be replaced by
poetry' within the next two weeks.
The existing mural, located at
103 E. Main St., portrays a patch
work banner combining images of
flowers, moons and stars with the
names of local restaurants, retail
ers and online businesses.
Town officials ruled last spring
that the 32 squares displaying local
business names represent “off
premises signs," a violation of the
land-use ordinance prohibiting the
SUPPORT
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The UNC system still appears to
be one of the top priorities of the
legislators who allocate money to it.
Wilson said he doesn’t see any
indication that the system is mov
ing away from state funding, but
he said budget cuts cannot contin
ue.
“We cannot sustain the level of
cuts being imposed upon the (sys
tem), because it is like not getting
the appropriations in the first
place,” he said.
James Oblinger, N.C. State
University provost, said his uni
versity has seen budget cuts from
the state during 12 of the past 13
years.
But Oblinger said N.C. State is
accustomed to looking for outside
funding. He said the university
always has pursued alternative
funding from sources such as grants
and contracts from businesses.
“We have a complete source of
funding of which the state is one
portion,” he said.
But cuts still had a negative
impact on N.C. State’s classrooms.
Oblinger said the university has
increased the size of its classes and
reduced the number of its teaching
assistants.
These kinds of changes are
widespread, forcing schools to look
for other sources of funding.
“I think, as most of the schools
within the system, we must expand
our resources," Johnson said.
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incorporation of logos or adver
tisements in public art.
The redesign plan calls for
replacing the squares with a 32-
word poem that would allocate a
word for each square.
Committee members say the
new design will be interactive for
viewers.
“Each block will have a word
from the poem, and it’ll be like a
puzzle to figure it out,” said mem
ber Jackie Helvey-Hayes.
Helvey-Hayes said the redesign
will be a unique way to cover up
the sign violations and preserve the
original design.
“There’s a lot of logos, but
around the logos there are designs
that can be salvaged.”
The arts committee has com
missioned Patrick Herron, the
aspect of university life inhibited
by cuts.
Officials are worried that the
cost of attending a UNC system
school might become too much to
bear.
Bill Friday, UNC-system presi
dent emeritus, said tuition prob
lems could change UNC-CH’s rela
tionship with the public.
But, he said, precautionary steps
have been taken at the University
to ensure that sufficient need
based financial aid can be provid
ed for enough students.
About 40 percent of the revenue
that comes from tuition increases
goes to student aid, Friday said.
This is an essential step for
UNC-CH in order for it be able to
maintain the school’s role as a serv
ice to the people.
“It is a terribly important thing
to do because North Carolina has
always been home to a diversity of
the North Carolina population," he
said.
Although the point at which the
system goes from being state-fund
ed to state-supported is not fixed,
its place in the state will come into
question as schools are forced to
cut back on salary benefits,
increase class sizes and decrease
the number of courses offered,
Wilson said.
“If you are not doing those
things, and you continue not to do
those things, are you being sup
ported?”
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town’s poet laureate, to compose
the poem.
Committee member Catherine
DeVine, who suggested using
poetry as a replacement, said this
project is more appealing than the
alternative options of painting
over the entire mural, sandblast
ing the wall or transforming the
32 squares into 32 separate proj
ects.
“My main objective was to keep
it one project,” she said. “Keep it
intact and keep the (original)
design.”
Herron said he is exploring
potential themes but is struggling
to compose a creative poem that
will fit the puzzle structure.
“You write poems for occasions,”
he said. “(But) this is a site-specif
ic piece.”
FACULTY
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we can to get our salaries in the
ballpark," he said. “What you’re
able to trade on is Carolina’s rep
utation. But if I’m competing with
the University of Virginia or the
University of Michigan, then a fac
ulty member’s decision will hinge
on other things.”
In the Department of English,
despite the fact that the depart
ment has hired five people during
the last three years, some class sec
tions were dropped because there
are not enough instructors. But
the department found room for all
incoming students in English 11
and English 12, two core classes.
“I hope, keeping both of my fin
gers crossed, we will be able to do
that next semester,” said James
Thompson, the department’s
chairman. “If they come and ask
for more money, we will not.”
The English department is not
an anomaly in the College of Arts
and Sciences, in which the average
age of a professor is 51. The college
also is battling to continue hiring.
Darryl Gless, senior associate dean
of the college, said that it has lost a
number of professors to retire
ment in recent years and that it
now is hurting for new faculty.
Gless said the college success
fully has been supplementing state
money with private donations
from the Carolina First fund-rais
ing campaign in order to offer new
faculty members good salaries.
UNC retained a number of fac-
Kimberli Matin, former owner
of Zodi Gallery, conceived the orig
inal mural design last year as a
community-building project.
Local residents and businesses
were invited to purchase wall space
and paint whatever design they
wished according to the theme
“What does community mean to
me?”
Most of the painting was com
pleted in conjunction with the
Carrboro Music Festival last
September.
The Carrboro Board of
Aldermen has set the mural com
pletion deadline as Sept. 28 —one
year to the day the mural first was
created.
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at citydesk@unc.edu.
ulty members by using those pri
vate funds to pay for things such as
research and travel. Gless said the
college has managed to keep 50
percent of all faculty who receive
outside offers.
“We’d like to do better," he said.
At the English department,
where as many as 10 faculty mem
bers face retirement in the next few
years, Thompson has had to decide
whether to use the department’s
attractive endowed professorships
to bring in new faculty or keep the
talented faculty he already has, who
often get offers from private univer
sities for as much as 25 percent
more than their UNC salaries.
“We have kept three faculty out
of four who got outside offers in
the last three years,” he said. “As
economic conditions here worsen
and as salaries worsen... the prob
lem will worsen.”
Thompson added that current
conditions are taking their toll on
job satisfaction as well.
“All of these budget problems are
severely affecting morale,” he said.
“People want to feel they have a
future here; they'd like to see a pay
raise.”
Gless said the College of Arts
and Sciences is recognizing facul
ty work with calls from the dean
and teaching awards, as well as
offering chances to teach First
Year Seminars and honors classes.
“What faculty value in addition
to good salaries and benefits,
which we can’t provide without the
state, is knowing they are valued.”
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CLASSES
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much as double the original
amount.
Some classes in the Departments
of African and Afro-American
Studies, Chemistry, International
Studies and French were overen
rolled by more than 15 students this
semester, according to the Office of
the University Registrar.
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unabashedly irreverent as “Killer
Differ” might not have a central
theme or a moral.
“But one ... might be, without
being too preachy, to make little
people big and big people little,” he
said.
Music plays an essential role in
telling the story, and performing
throughout is a five-piece band led
by songwriter Billy McCormick,
with many of the songs written by
Edgerton himself.
The repertoire includes stan-
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(John McGrew), energetic and
eager to reform with the aid of
Christian guidance. He’s part of a
blues-rock group, The Noble
Defenders of the Word, which vio
lates Ballard University policy by
using school equipment to play
music other than gospel.
At the same time, Wesley meets
and becomes enamored with an
overweight girl named Phoebe
(Sarah Kocz) and finds himself
wrestling with wanton sexual
impulses.
Discrepancies between the char
acters’ desires and the school’s strict
moral code color the show’s con
flicts with a healthy dose of humor.
For example, consider the scene
in which Wesley attempts to justi
fy his raging libido with the aid of
Scripture, noting King David’s
adultery and possession of a con
cubine. “Maybe,” Wesley says,
“Christian rules were made in
Bible times before rubbers.”
Meanwhile, Phoebe, enrolled in
the School of Nutrition —a
department that’s little more than
a glorified dieting program—
struggles with her weight.
Resulting are scenes such as a
movie theater date between her and
Wesley. Speaking their thoughts
aloud to the audience, Wesley raves
about his urge to pounce on
Phoebe, while Phoebe raves about
her urge to pounce on her popcorn.
The creative liberties given to the
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Peter Kaufman, professor of
Peter Kaufman, professor of
religion, said more attention needs
to be paid to recruiting qualified
TAs and faculty to offset the
increases in enrollment.
“We’re bleeding," he said. “We’re
losing a lot of our instructional
personnel because we can’t offer
competitive salaries.”
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at udesk@unc.edu.
dards such as “This Little Light of
Mine” as well as originals “Jesus
Was a Banker” and “Big Girls Can’t
Be Choosers.”
Ferguson said that the connec
tion between music and spoken
word text is inherent in Edgerton’s
novel since it contains bits of songs
and lyrics the characters were writ
ing.
“It’s going to be difficult for peo
ple to stay in their seats during the
show,” he added, with no effort to
mask his confidence.
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at artsdesk@unc.ediL
expressions of characters’ thoughts
and motives are characteristic of
the play. Aside from monologues in
his own voice, Wesley’s intentions
and dreams are shouted in unison
by other actors, their wild voices
driving home the fervid pace of
Wesley’s racing thoughts.
The musical numbers are even
more reliant upon the actors’ vocal
performances, as each of them put
a different cast member’s distinct
voice in the limelight.
The tongue-in-cheek lyrics and
song titles, including “Big Girls
Can’t Be Choosers” and “Jesus
Dropped the Charges,” were aptly
suited to the play's tone at some
points lighthearted humor, while
irreverent social satire at others.
Whatever the issue at hand,
“Killer Differ” takes it with a grain
of salt. It adopts a certain bounce
in its stride, uplifted not only by
the performance of the actors and
musicians but also by the philoso
phy that nothing is too good for a
little ridicule.
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at artsdesk@unc.edu.
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