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BY TED STRONG
SENIOR WRITER
Burning some food is bad.
Incinerating your home is worse.
That’s the message fire offi
cials nationwide are trying to get
out through the 85th annual Fire
Prevention Week, which runs
through Saturday.
“The scenario is almost always
the same, somebody starts cook
ing something, they get distracted,”
Chapel Hill fire Chief Dan Jones
said.
Fashion designer
talk all business
Alexander Julian
shares experiences
BY JORDAN LAWRENCE
STAFF WRITER
Entrepreneurship is a difficult
business. Don’t believe it? Well,
just ask Alexander Julian, fashion
designer and UNC alumnus.
University students got that
opportunity Thursday as the Chapel
Hill native returned to deliver a
lecture about the
subject.
Julian spoke
to an introduc
tory entrepre
neurship class
at 2 p.m. in the
Student Union.
“He’s been a
great entrepre
neur and has
been for over
30 years,” said
Buck Goldstein,
the class profes-
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Julian gave
advice for the
business world.
sor and entrepreneur in residence
for the Carolina Entrepreneurship
Initiative.
Julian spoke about the successes
and failures of his career.
“Buck really encouraged me to
be honest about failures,” Julian
said. “Failures are a weigh station
on the road to success.”
Julian is the designer of the cur
rent UNC basketball uniforms and
plays tailor for Roy Williams pro
viding the coach’s sideline wardrobe.
He also earned a Distinguished
Alumni Award in 1989.
“I was raised literally in the con
fines of a little store,” he said of his
childhood time spent in his parents’
clothing store Julian’s which
still is located on Franklin Street.
“I was bom and raised in Chapel
Hill,” he said. “I was a townie.”
He advised students not to be
naive in the business world.
“I went to New York thinking
everyone was going to be friend
lier,” he said, telling his audience
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Chapel Hill Fire Marshal Alvin
Ward said the national statis
tic of three in 10 fires starting in
the kitchen is met, and possibly
exceeded, in Chapel Hill.
“Being a college town, we do
have a lot of kitchen fires and a lot
of people who aren’t used to cook
ing,” Jones said.
Jones said that fires can start
from any kind of cooking but that
the use of grease or fat on the stove
top is the most dangerous.
He also said that oil can ignite
about how he ventured to the city
to break into the fashion business.
“It’s a tougher world than you
realize.”
He told students to be wary of
business partners, noting three
men —with whom he started a
clothing line who soon began to
use drugs and embezzle money.
“He had a bowl of coke on his
desk, and a Bowie knife and a
magnum and a cross bow,” he said,
describing one of his partners. He
would shoot an arrow at a picture
of James Dean whenever he fired
someone, Julian said.
He warned the class not to make
the same mistakes and to pay atten
tion to the balance sheets.
“I really appreciated his frank
ness,” said Matt Hendren, a junior
economics major.
Julian also encouraged the stu
dents to be creative.
“The way to teach creativity to
kids is exactly the same as you do for
adults, except kids listen,” he said.
He called his technique “E
--squared,” which stands for expo
sure times empowerment.
“You have to expose them to
different kinds of thinking.... You
have to make someone self-confi
dent enough. That’s where you get
creativity.”
Julian encouraged students to
follow the path that fits them best.
“You have to answer your calling
... even if it’s risky as hell,” he said.
“The harder you work the lucki
er you get,” he said in closing before
receiving a standing ovation.
After his lecture, Julian said he
thought it was important to give stu
dents an idea of the “real life gratifi
cation” that can happen in business.
The decision to speak at UNC
was an easy one, Julian said.
“It’s a great kick to come back,
to have any chance,” he said. “I
breathe easier when I’m back”
“The women just keep getting
better and better looking.”
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at udesk@unc.edu.
without a spark if hot enough, and
that throwing water on it will fuel
the flames.
Jones recommends dry-powder
fire extinguishers with an ABC rat
ing for cooking fires.
He said they can be bought
at hardware or discount stores
and come in sizes as small as five
pounds.
They should be stored between
the stove and the door so residents
trying to access them are not
trapped inside a burning home.
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“They’re really perfect for the
kitchen,” he said.
Jones also urged that residents
attack the fire, but leave it on the
stove.
“If you have a fire on the stove,
don’t try to pick it up,” he said.
Jones said residents trying to
carry the fire out the door could
drop it, spreading the fire, or even
ignite themselves.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2006
‘Rent’ not just
not great, it’s
downright bad
The production of “Rent” at
Memorial Hall has some
how, disturbingly, managed
to move tickets faster than the
University’s homecoming concert
And I fail to see the attraction.
It’s a cultural phenomenon.
It was controversial. It pushed
boundaries for theater. It spoke to
anew generation.
I think based on my experi
ence with the production it’s
trite, pseudo-bohemian drivel.
I worry more about paying my
own bills than I care if Mark and
Roger actually will pay theirs.
“We’re not gonna pay this year’s
rent!” What do you mean you’re
not going to pay this year’s rent?
You’re a starving artist, you say?
Get a job! We can’t all be failed
musicians and screenwriters.
Honestly, I’d love to tell my
landlord that I shouldn’t pay rent.
I have no insulation, holes in my
floor and walls, and plumbing
that works once every three days.
But I also understand it’s signifi
cantly better than chilling in front
of the soup kitchen all day.
It just all seems so contrived.
People talk about how brave
and adventurous this play was,
but people have been doing far
more radical things in New York
experimental theater since the
’7os junkies and drag queens
on stage are nothing new, thank
you very much.
Granted, “Rent” made itself a
much easier pill to swallow for
the masses because our genera
tion was desperate enough for a
new identity to eat up the pathetic
characters with a misappropri
ated silver spoon.
I have a very hard time getting
myself to identify or sympathize
with any of these characters.
They’re getting evicted, and it’s
Christmas. Of course it’s Christmas!
When else would it be?
Desperate people in New York
during Christmas it’s a pathetic
and poorly executed attempt at
tagging heartstrings.
I mean, I didn’t cry when Old
Yeller died, and I’m sure as hell
not about to cry for Angel.
And my criticism isn’t because
I fail to appreciate musical theater
it’s quite the opposite, actually.
My appreciation makes me
despise this musical.
And oh my golly that atonal
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music! If I hear “Seasons of Love”
needlessly reprised one more
time, I’ll jam a rusty screwdriver
through my ear.
During my viewing experience,
I was really worried that eventual
ly the songs would ingrain them
selves in my head for a week.
Thankfully, they’re all bad
enough that I easily can sweep
them under my mental rug.
Angel’s intro song is kinda
great though. In a certain “What
if Gloria Estefan was actually a
cross-dressing percussionist all
this time?” kind of way.
And Roger... man, I can’t stand
that guy. I have decided that the
entire production would be great
ly improved if Meat Loaf played
Roger, because Meat Loaf is actu
ally talented and stuff.
And this so-called “important
social message” how it spread
awareness across the country?
Screw that.
The concept of setting the story
in the Lower East Side in the late
’Bos is very clever, as this is natu
rally when AIDS became an impor
tant topic of discussion in America.
Which is why I was disappoint
ed to see it so poorly portrayed
throughout the entire show.
The most realistic and human
aspect of these characters and
scenarios is the disease itself, and
I managed to feel completely dis
connected the entire time.
AIDS and its dissolution of
relationships and
something I wanted to ses”. I
wanted to see Angel’s pain and
Collins’ pain of knowing that he,
too, shares the same fate.
But that’s too much to ask.
Instead we get another reprise
of that god-awful theme, and
Angel dies.
Oh no, did I spoil it for you?
To be blunt, I find “Rent” about
as enjoyable as I find AIDS.
Contact Ben Pittard at
jhenton@email.unc.edu.
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