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THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 2006
Farley defends missed meeting
More than 10 others did not attend
BY MAC MOLUSON
SENIOR WRITER
Luke Farley, speaker of Student
Congress, defended Wednesday
his decision to forgo the body’s
first meeting of the semester for a
Republican fundraiser.
“It was a work-related event,”
said Farley, who interned with a
political group this summer. “I
wanted to attend, and it was an
opportunity to have dinner and
get to know some people in North
Carolina politics. Having worked
with them I thought it would be a
good idea, and I chose to go.”
The Tuesday absence lined up
with the Wednesday publication of
a letter to The Daily Tar Heel prais
ing Farleys dedication to the body.
“Any criticism that Luke pushed
a conservative agenda is base
less,” wrote Congress veteran Kris
Wampler.
Farley, who claims never to have
missed any previous Congress
meetings, stood behind those state-
Funding options for building schools on table
N.C. officials meet to discuss issues
BY ERIN FRANCE
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
About 100 representatives from
38 N.C. counties participated in a
forum Wednesday to discuss non
traditional funding alternatives for
school construction.
The officials met from 10 a.m. to
3 p.m. at the Exploris Museum in
Raleigh.
Paul Meyer, the assistant gener
al counsel for the N.C. Association
of County Commissioners, said
the forum was not only about
finding a solution to funding
school construction but also talk
ing about the experiences of some
counties.
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He said he previewed Tuesday
night’s legislation all of which
was passed unanimously with little
debate before deciding to allow
Speaker Pro Tern Dustin Ingalls to
conduct the meeting in his place.
Rep. Tyson Grinstead, chair
man of College Republicans, also
missed Congress’ meeting to attend
the Charlotte fundraiser for Hal
Jordan, a Republican candidate
for the N.C. House.
He gave a different rationale for
making the partisan fundraiser a
priority.
“I went down there to meet some
state leaders that could probably
add to the marketplace of ideas on
campus, to see if I could bring them
(to UNC-Chapel Hill) through
College Republicans or some other
group on campus,” he said.
Farley and Grinstead’s absences
were in accord with the rules of the
body, said Megan Paul, chairwom
an of the ethics committee.
“The idea is to define the issues
and the barriers,” he said.
Sen. Vernon Malone, D-Wake,
spoke about the N.C. General
Assembly’s take on the issues of
school construction.
He said legislators would be
willing to consider many sugges
tions for funding schools but would
likely not vote to raise taxes.
“I know they are not moved
toward significant tax increases,”
he said.
“There is very little taste for rais
ing taxes.”
Malone referred to a law that
was passed during the last session
that allows state schools to form
Student
Congress
Speaker Luke
Farley spent
Tuesday night
at a Republican
fundraiser.
“Congress members are allowed
unexcused absences for reasons of
their choosing,” she said. “They’ve
got two unexcused absences, and
whatever they want to do with those
is fine. They both have political
aspirations after college that have
nothing to do with Congress.”
She added that partisan involve
ment in off-campus politics gener
ally doesn’t conflict with the body’s
activities.
“Ninety percent of the issues
we deal with are nonpartisan,” she
said. “I’m sure everyone in Congress
has some partisan tendencies, but
I’m pretty sure most of the time it
doesn’t play a part in what we do
in Congress.”
Besides Farley and Grinstead
two other members missed the
partnerships with private compa
nies to construct schools.
This might be one solution to
the need for more schools, Malone
said.
“I can tell you there are certain
school systems in the state that are
struggling mightily,” he said.
After lunch officials from five
different counties presented their
ideas on how to raise school funds
outside of the public voting on a
bond referendum.
“We’ll be doing some sharing,”
Meyer said. “You’ll probably hear
about year-round school.”
Wake County will be voting on
a controversial bond referendum
Nov. 7-
Friends of Wake County, a steer
ing committee for the referendum,
News
meeting Rep. Kate Thompson
was sick, and Rep. Layne. Powers
was excused because of a sorority
commitment.
Ingalls said more than 10 gradu
ate students were missing, causing
a delay in the meeting when a lack
of members provided an obstacle
to meeting quorum.
Rep. BriEm Troutman, who is a
first-year law student and didn’t go
to the meeting, said many graduate
students were too busy to attend.
“There’s a period in every semes
ter where you have to adjust to
something, especially something
new,” he said. “Right now we’re in
a very fluid part of the year.”
TYoutman said he plans to attend
future Congress meetings —and to
try to increase interest in the body
among graduate students.
Representatives said they expect
quorum to begin to be met more
easily in the ftiture as members
of the body become acclimated to
their new schedules.
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held a kickoff event at the Exploris
Museum on Thesday.
It was attended by former N.C.
Gov. Jim Hunt, who came out in
support of the bond referendum.
In April 2006, Wake County
proposed a school building pro
gram worth $994 million.
Malone said that while money
from the N.C. Educational Lottery
would assist in covering the costs
of some school construction, there
was no way it would cover the
entire price tag.
“The lottery is just another piece
of the banking plan,” he said.
“We never assumed we could
raise all the money to pay for it.”
Contact the State & National
Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
Student play gets
‘Closer’ to stage
BY HARRY KAPLOWITZ
ARTS EDITOR
“Sometimes when you hold a mir
ror up to people, they’re not going to
like what they see, and this is very
much a true mirror it’s ugly but
true,” senior Katherine Canipe said.
It’s not exactly the best sell for
the Department of Dramatic Art’s
first production of the season,
“Closer,” which premieres Friday
and runs through Monday.
But the principle actors said the
play, originally written for the stage
by Patrick Marber, really sells itself.
“In some ways I think it’s a very
easy pitch because it’s a play Eibout
four attractive people encoun
tering various sexual escapades,”
senior Alec Wells said. “It’s got all
the classic things about storytelling
that make it interesting.”
Wells Eind Canipe —a real-life
couple will play onstage couple
Dsm and Alice in the production.
They will be joined by seniors Kelly
McCrann and Patrick Link, who
will play couple Anna and Larry.
The play, originally produced
for the stage in 1999, enjoys a film
adaptation starring Jude Law,
Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts and
Clive Owen.
But the four student
they feel the movie version won’t
serve as a detriment to people com
ing to see their production.
“They changed the ending vastly
in the movie,” Canipe said. “The
play is completely different
“I really respected and loved the
movie, but the text of the play is very
different. I don’t feel like any of the
characters in our play Eire anything
like the characters in the movie.”
And Wells said the play experi
ence is, in many respects, better
than the movie experience because
of the dramatic personalization the
play affords.
“You choose who you watch,” he
said. “A lot of time in movies you’re
fed what you’re supposed to watch,
but in this you get to decide for
yourself, which I think is the cool
est difference between a movie ver
sion of a play and a play.”
Canipe agreed, saying that mov
ies have tricks that help dictate the
story. And she said one scene in par
ticular proved challenging for her.
the
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she said. Shes hot dancing; you
have to figure out what to do in
a theater space for all that time.
We don’t have close-ups to help us
out. We don’t have clever camera
angles. It’s just us.”
“Closer,” which chronicles the
infidelities and deceptions of two
couples in modem London, is wide
ly known for its candor and sense
of voyeurism, which, McCrann
said, makes the play both intrigu
ing and difficult to take in.
“I think the voyeuristic quality
would make even the crudest and
most insensitive soul shy away from
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Tom Stoppard
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Edward Albee
Candid in its style, this play
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Noel Coward
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it,” she said. “But at the end of the
day, when we look ourselves in the
mirror, we have the option to see that
ugly part of ourselves.”
But the personal, intimate qual
ity the play is known for, Link said,
makes it particularly interesting
for audiences to take in.
“A lot of people know the play
and don’t like it because of the con
tent or what the characters are like,”
he said. “In fact it’s really a caution
ary tale. There’s not much goodness
in the play, but it’s the absence of
the goodness that promotes it and
makes it pure in its message.”
Link also said the play’s humanis
tic qualities make it a deceiving per
formance for actors to undertake.
“What’s hard is that it’s so
Receptive because so easy
way-it’s written. It
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r alts tic, but it’s neither,” he said.
Despite their bravado the actors
said they still wonder what their par
ents will think of the production.
“My dad’s a psychologist, and I
said I was interested to know what
his analysis of these people are. I’m
really interested to hear what they
have to say after the play,” Wells
said. “I’m not nervous in terms of
the dialogue, although they are
seeing my girlfriend in lingerie, so
that’s my newest worry.”
“ Contact the Arts Editor
at artsdesk@unc.edti.