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FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 2004
‘Figaro’ to cap strong year
Show marks first opera for company
BY JACKIE RANDELL
STAFF WRITER
Company Carolina’s final per
formance of the 2003-04 season is
quickly approaching, and the com
pany is ending spectacularly with a
performance of “The Marriage of
Figaro” by Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
“Le Nozze di Figaro” as it is
titled in Italian, will be performed
in its original language with
English superscripts.
Executive producer Michael
Gagnon said the company decided
to perform in Italian to be true to
Mozart’s idea and music.
The opera is also double cast.
Two casts will perform the same
play on different nights.
“Because the show is running
about 2 hours and 45 minutes and
because there is no dialogue, we
Revamp helping honor system
Aiding increase of
speed , efficiency
BY ALICE DOLSON
AND ALLISON PARKER
STAFF WRITERS
Nine months after its imple
mentation into the UNC Honor
Court system, faculty-student reso
lutions now account for 31 percent
of all guilty pleas in academic cases.
The new method has been used
to resolve 14 cases and allows for
faster and sometimes more lenient
verdicts for academic violations.
Under the new system, involved
parties can determine a punish
ment if they agree upon the cir
cumstances of the violation. The
agreement must be approved by 3-
member Honor Court panel.
“The panel will likely approve
the resolution unless it feels that
there are compelling reasons to do
otherwise,” said Carolina Chavez,
recently appointed student attor
ney general for 2004-05.
Using the faculty-student reso
lution method, a case can be
resolved in about two weeks, com
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decided it would be safer if we dou
ble casted so we could give people
a rest,” Gagnon said.
The opera’s comedic overtones,
exploration of love and bawdy
scenes have attracted audiences
since Mozart’s time.
And the tribulations, humilia
tions, and obstacles that Susanna
and Figaro must endure before
being wed promise to translate into
a comedic and entertaining per
formance at UNC.
“The challenge is to make this
show that has been done many dif
ferent ways several different times
for a couple hundred years, and
make it relatable not only to a col
lege campus but Chapel Hill and
the Triangle community,” Gagnon
said.
Company Carolina is putting
their own twist on the famous
pared to the usual three to five
weeks, said Deputy Student
Attorney General Patrick Weede.
In addition to providing a fester
resolution, Dave Gilbert, assistant
dean of students said the method
also likely caused an increase in
Honor Court cases.
Earlier this semester, Honor
Court reports numbered 150, com
pared to 100 at the same time last
year, Gilbert said. He attributes this
to faculty members’ willingness to
report offenses because they have
more of a say in the matter.
Glenna Goldis, president of the
Independent Defense Council, said
the process motivates more faculty
to report cases to the Honor Court.
The faculty could make recom
mendations before, but now those
recommendations carry much
more weight, said Student
Attorney General Jonathan Slain.
“The gains (of the new system)
are so great that they would over
come any loss of control by the
Honor Court,” Slain said.
But some professors have no
sympathy for students who cheat
and are unwilling to reach a com
promise, said chemistry Professor
opera by marrying it with the
Roaring Twenties feel of Sevilla,
Spain, prior to the Spanish Civil
War, as opposed to the late eigh
teenth century setting that Mozart
intended.
Because the play deals with class
disruption and social conflict, it
translated best into pre-Civil War
era Spain.
Originally, it took place in pre-
Revolution France.
In addition to being an enter
taining event, one performance of
“The Marriage of Figaro” will serve
a charitable purpose.
Senior music major Chrissy
Bischof proposed an opera to the
company because the Department
of Music was not able to put on an
opera workshop this semester due
to the absence of Professor Terry
Rhodes, who was diagnosed with
breast cancer and is on medical
leave.
The opera has been dedicated to
“The gains (of the new system) are so
great that they would overcome any loss
of control by the Honor Court”
JONATHAN SLAIN, student attorney general
Thomas Sorrell.
“Many professors have no
patience with the students that
cheat, so they don’t want to deal
with if at all,” he said. “In that case,
it wont work very well.”
Sanctions received under the
resolution have been probation
sentences, instead of the usual sus
pension sentence.
Probation is the minimum sen
tence in such cases. The sanction
prohibits students from participat
ing in activities representing UNC.
“A lot of students are willing to
do this because they have a sure
resolution, most likely a lighter
sanction,” Slain said.
Gilbert said the frequency of
lighter sanctions results from the
very nature of the resolution
process. “You probably will not
have a faculty-student agreement
unless it is lenient,” he said.
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Rhodes, and proceeds from
Sunday’s performance will go to
the Foundation for Breast Cancer
Research.
Gagnon said that “The Marriage
of Figaro” will usher out a great
year for Company Carolina, adding
that this season was more techni
cally advanced and more profitable
than previous years.
“I think this year has been
incredibly successful,” he said. “It
has been a groundbreaking year for
us.”
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The teacher also decides the
outcome of the student’s grade. In
all of the 14 student-faculty cases,
the student either failed the course
or the assignment in question.
If the student and teacher do not
agree about the violation or sanc
tion, a student still can go through
normal Honor Court channels.
Gilbert said he thinks the new
system is an improvement, offering
more options for students to learn
their lesson rather than simply
receive a punishment.
“There’s no dialogue (in normal
Honor Court processes). It’s a very
antagonistic process,” he said.
But Goldis said she is hesitant to
call the method an improvement “I
don’t think it’s that much different.
It’s just much more for show.”
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N.C. honored
by international
program award
Named top state for global education
BY ALEX GRANADOS
STAFF WRITER
RALEIGH - More than 100
education professionals and state
policymakers gathered Thursday
night at the N.C. Museum of
History to honor North Carolina as
the top state for education in inter
national relations.
Three UNC-system schools,
along with 16 K-12 public schools
applied for the $25,000 award
given by the Goldman Sachs
Foundation. Instead of one pro
gram in the state winning, all of
North Carolina received the award.
Four individual education
organizations across the nation
also received the reward.
Howard Lee, chairman of the
N.C. State Board of Education,
gave credit to the schools that
applied. “Because of our schools,
North Carolina is the best in the
nation,” he said.
The only three higher education
institutions among the 19 appli
cants were East Carolina
University’s Global Partnership
Consortium; N.C. State
University’s Office of International
Scholar and Student Services’
Culture Corps program; and UNC-
Chapel Hill’s World View.
Representatives from some of
the applicants said bringing atten
tion and interest to the interna
tional programs was their primary
professional motivation.
“I wanted to bring more recog
nition to a program here at N.C.
State,” said Michael Bustle, direc
tor of the Culture Corps program.
The program began four years
ago as a speaker’s bureau at N.C.
State, he said, but things have
changed since that time. “We did a
makeover for a previous program
and expanded it.”
Bustle said that the OISSS now
operates more than 100 different
programs, including ones like
Habitat for Humanity, but that
there is still a strong focus on
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bringing international students
and scholars to North Carolina.
Stephanie Carter, communica
tions director for the Center of
International Understanding, said
the collective weight of the appli
cations encouraged Sachs to rec
ognize the entire state.
Lee accepted the award for
Excellence in International
Education for North Carolina
schools, and proclaimed the state a
a member of the international
community. The state’s interna
tional progress in other areas gives
some credence to Lee’s claim.
According to the numbers col
lected by Visiting International
Faculty Program, the state was 21st
in the nation in exchange students
in higher education and eighth in
the nation in International
Baccalaureate programs. In North
Carolina 5,664 college students
studied abroad during 2002-03.
All the prize money will go to the
N.C. Center for International
Understanding to support its efforts
to build an action plan for the state.
Carter said the action plan will
try to prepare North Carolina for
business, government and eco
nomic demands of a global world.
A release from the center states,
“Today’s students need to be ready
to communicate, cooperate and
compete in the global arena. Many
of North Carolina’s children will
work for international companies
that operate in North Carolina.”
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