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Students bring world home
BY DAVID GILMORE
STAFF WRITER
More than 10 years and 100,000
K-12 presentations after its found
ing, the Carolina Navigators pro
gram is still thriving.
The free program gives
University students the chance
to present their personal study
abroad accounts in K-12 class
rooms around the state.
And in the past five years, the
program has more than doubled
the number of presentations stu
dents have given. In the 2002-03
academic year, students gave 213
presentations, and last year that
number rose to 523.
“For many North Carolina stu
dents who have never been really
outside of North Carolina, it’s real
ly exciting to hear about the world
outside of our state to better
understand the world we live in,”
said Tara Muller, program coordi
Play depicts passion of death penalty
BY SARA WISE
STAFF WRITER
The Tony Award-winning
“Parade” confronts controversy
directly by exploring topics includ
ing the death penalty and lynch
ing.
“While these themes may be for
eign to the musical form, there are
so many uplifting moments, even
some comic moments, so the whole
thing is really a journey,” said Joseph
Megel, director of “Parade,” which
opens today in Memorial Hall.
The musical, which runs until
Tuesday, is produced as part of the
Carolina Performing Arts series’
“Criminal/Justice: The Death
Penalty Examined,” in conjunction
with the departments of music and
communication studies.
“Parade” depicts the true story
of Leo Frank, a Jewish man who is
tried and convicted of the rape and
murder of a young girl in Atlanta
during the early 1900s.
Although Frank is sentenced to
death, the governor commutes his
sentence. Asa result, the towns
people decide to take justice into
their own hands.
“It shows that the death penalty
is too associated with passion and
too little associated with justice,”
said sophomore Yorick de Visser,
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nator for Carolina Navigators.
More than 70 UNC students
spoke with 15,154 elementary,
middle and high school students
through the program in the 2006-
07 academic year.
UNC students who have lived
or studied abroad can participate
in the program, which sends them
to different N.C. schools to discuss
their stories about other countries.
Interested students must attend
a mandatory training session. The
next session will be held in January.
For many UNC students, the
program provides an opportunity
to delve more deeply into their
international experiences.
“They get really excited to
see a college student coming to
spend time with them and teach
them about another country,” said
Eleanor deGolian, a junior who
attended the UNC Honors Program
in Rome last summer.
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an ensemble member in the show.
Although the death penalty is
an important theme in “Parade,”
Megel said that it also touches on
wider themes.
“One important strain in the
music is the culture of the South,”
Megel said, “of the Confederate cul
ture and the pride of that culture.”
Music director Terry Rhodes
said an important aspect of the
musical is the exploration of the
growing relationship between
Frank and his wife.
“It’s a love story bound up in the
tragedy of what was happening at
that time,” Rhodes said.
Asa result the music has an
emotionally uplifting quality that
is not completely overshadowed
by the more serious themes of the
play, Megel said.
“The music shows a real range
of genres,” Rhodes said. “We have
everything from cakewalks to the
blues. It’s a real interesting mix of
genres, and it captures the spirit of
the time.”
Although the music fits in well
with the show’s time period, Megel
In the 2006-07 academic year,
students volunteered at 83 differ
ent schools in 14 counties.
“When students return from
studying abroad, their roommates
usually give them about 90 sec
onds to wrap it up,” Muller said.
“Carolina Navigators allows study
abroad students to share their
experiences with a captive audi
ence who are eager to learn more.”
Muller also teaches a service
learning class that uses the pro
gram, and UNC students also can
get service hours through Carolina
Navigators.
And K-12 teachers say the pro
gram is a good supplement to their
classes.
“It’s a very, very effective
resource,” said Robin McMahon,
a French teacher at Chapel Hill’s
Smith Middle School, who fre
quently uses the program.
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The musical "Parade” explores the death penalty through the story of
Leo Frank, a Jewish man who was killed in Marietta, Ga., in 1915.
said other aspects of the perfor
mance are somewhat modern.
Members of the ensemble move
and adjust the props, which include
minimal benches and a platform, in
full view of the audience. Most of
the actors remain onstage through
out the performance.
“Since it is theatrically trans
parent, it makes us conscious that
there is a message in the story and
we are here to learn from it,” de
Visser said.
And “Parade’s” message is still
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program, though it has a focus on
schools in lower income areas, such
as Alamance County’s B.E. Jordan
Elementary School. Last academic
year, 47 percent of the presenta
tions were made at schools in such
counties.
“It creates global awareness,
especially among students who
may not have the means to go by
themselves,” deGolian said.
The program, which has run
since 1996, exemplifies Chancellor
James Moeser’s goal of making
UNC more global while simultane
ously reminding itself of its com
mitment to the state.
“This is a great opportunity to
engage both the University stu
dents and the outside commu
nity in learning about the world,”
Muller said.
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just as relevant now as it was in
the early 1900s, Megel said.
“Some people think we’re
beyond a culture that lynched a
particular group of people, but we
still see seeds of discontent and
anger and racism,” he said.
“It continues to be very uncom
fortable to confront these issues,
but this story can lead to thinking
about that confrontation.”
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2007
UNC, Duke host
mock trial invite
BY ALLISON MILLER
SENIOR WRITER
They hold practices, have scrim
mages and attend competitions to
test their skills against other teams.
But these university students are
lawyers-in-training, not athletes.
This weekend, 38 mock trial
teams from colleges across the
country came to UNC’s and Duke’s
campuses for the second annual
Tobacco Road Invitational.
This year the invitational was
the largest in the country, said
Duke senior Megan Woodford, vice
president of Duke’s team.
The tournament gave each team
a chance to practice before regional
and national competitions that take
place next semester, tournament
coordinator Christine Fang said.
Fang also said she wants to make
sure the Tobacco Road Invitational
remains “a staple on the mock trial
circuit.”
During four rounds of competi
tion on Friday and Saturday, the
teams were pitted against each
other to present the prosecution
and defense sides of a predeter
mined trial.
This year’s trial involved a
woman who stabbed a social work
er with an HIV-infected needle.
For a Friday trial between Ohio
State and Wake Forest universi
ties, tables and chairs were set up to
make the Class of 2000 Lounge in
the Student Union look like a court
room.
Students acting as lawyers, clad
in black suits, took turns ques
tioning students acting out wit
ness parts, such as the defendant’s
brother and psychologist.
About 100 local attorneys, judg
es and law professors judged the
trials based on students’ presenta
tion of the case.
Furman University won the
competition with a perfect score.
Zac Corrigan, a Furman University
senior, said his team practices every
day for a couple of hours.
“For a lot of us, it’s our most
time-consuming extracurricular,”
he said. “But it’s a lot of fun.”
Each team that participated in
the invitational paid a SIOO fee.
Proceeds from the event were dis
tributed equally between UNC’s
and Duke’s mock trial teams.
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UNC's Nick Butler and University
of Richmond's CJ Pisano examine
a document at mock trial's Tobacco
Road Invitational on Friday.
“It’s a major fundraiser for us,”
Fang said.
The competition was funded by
a $2,000 contribution from the
Robertson Scholars Program and
$2,000 from the Princeton Review.
The University of Southern
California was one of several West
Coast teams at the competition.
USC junior and team mem
ber Christine Sihn said the team
sometimes travels long distances to
competitions to get more practice.
USC placed third behind George
Washington University.
Carolina Mock Trial had two
teams participate in the competi
tion. Duke had one team, and some
students were part of a joint UNC
and Duke team.
Though none of UNC s or Duke’s
teams placed in the top seven, judg
es’ comments were generally posi
tive, said senior Palmer Heenan,
Carolina Mock Trial president.
Heenan said that all of UNC’s
senior team members helped
organize and run the tournament,
leaving teams composed primarily
of freshmen to compete.
“I was extremely pleased with
the results,” he said.
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atfeatures@unc.edu.
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