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r'--- tow-" -xtrf Rrdn cf Tcrrcr Haavy rain and thundershowsrs early today; chance of rain con tinuing throughout the day. High will be near 60 and low in the mid-20s. V 1 1 s f X i ,-i - I J .A ' 0O f II r ! i I Spring Cresk - There will be no newspaper Friday es the DTH staff prepares for spring break. Publication will resume March 16. Enjoy your vacation. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Vcduma CD, Izzuo i ' Thursday. March 5, 1901 Chspe! HHI, North CsroHna NwaSportsArts 833-0248 Buini;AJvrtilng 833-1163 6(0 77 o mr-m Wu(3 77 ' 9 ooo 9 v. Dy LUCY HOOD Staff Writer Sitting near the concession stand inside Dorton Arena, I enjoyed a box of popcorn and a Tab, while throngs of children poured through the doors. A man standing behind a table piled with programs bellowed, "Programs! Get your pro-. gram for the greatest show on earth." The women behind the concession stand bustled around getting popcorn, candy, drinks, etc., for the customers. It was a three-ring circus. After waiting 30 minutes in this circus, I entered the arena to watch another three-ring circus, one performed by the members of Ringling Eros, and Barnum & Bailey's company which will be performing in Raleigh until March 10. I especially watched for the ringmaster and two female clowns whom I had iust interviewed. Talking to these performers without their make-up and behind the scenes makes you realize that work goes into the glitter-coated costumes, the graceful stunts, and even into clowning. Work, not a magician's wand, creates The Greatest Show on Earth contrary to what I thought as a child. Lawrence Kelly is the ringmaster. He has been with the circus for two years and debuted as ring master Jan. 29. "That (opening night) was really nice something I'll never forget," Kelly said. However, no magic wand helped Kelly be come ringmaster. His performing career began in grade school. "I was always the class clown r- the practical joker," he said. He said he would do impersonations and other stunts that brought, the reaction, "Oh, there goes Larry again." After completing high school and graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1976, Kelly con tinued entertaining people with impersonations in New York City nightclubs, where he added singing to his act. In addition, he did mini-plays in New York before applying to Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey's Clown College in Venice, Fla., the home base for the circus. He was accepted as one of 60 to attend the Clown College from a field of approximately 3,500 applicants. Finished with clown training, Kelly worked, or played, as a clown for the circus for approximately two years before recently becoming ringmaster. He said that a performer usually remains with the circus for 4 to 5 years before pursuing a career with his or her strongest talent. The ring See CIRCUS on page 2 ....... r 0 ;V :: . -" 1 .v ) - i s. t , i . . I r Animal attractions are always a circus drawing card .. Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey in Raleigh now mow nm die By DAVID POOLE Surf Writer It used to be that the only thing that mattered in Atlantic Coast Conference basketball was a three-day war in March. Back before the NCAA decided to expand its field and allow more than one team from a conference into the national tournament, the ACC Tour nament was do or die. Only the team which could survive the three-day pressure cooker and emergj as conference champion went on to play in the NCAAs. The others, no matter how well they'd played all year, were banished to the purgatory of the National Invitational Tourna ment or sent home to wait for the next season. Now things are different. The NCAA invites 48 teams to its national playoffs and three, four or even five teams from a league get the chance at a national ti tle. The ACC Tournament still com mands a lot of attention, but the con ference title and bragging rights are now the only real things up for grabs. Dean Smith likes it that way. "Now you can have your cake and eat it too," Smith said. "If you have a good year, you go to the NCAAs any way. If you've had a bad year, you have another chance." Smith's Tar Heels open play in the ACC Tournament tonight at 7 against the N.C. State VVoifpack. The Tar Heels are seeded second, State seventh. The event opens at the Capital Centre in Landover, Md., at. 11 a.m. when third-seeded Wake Forest plays sixth seeded Clemson. Top-seeded Virginia plays last place Georgia Tech at 1 p.m. and Maryland, seeded fourth, faces Duke, the fifth seed, at 9 p.m. The Carolina-State game is the third meeting between the teams this season. North Carolina won the other two meetings, 73-70 in Chapel Hill on Jan. 14, and 57-54 in Raleigh on Jan. 31. Smith's Tar Heels go into the tour nament in a somewhat suspect condi tion of team health. James Worthy, who missed Saturday's Duke game with back spasms, is still an iffy starter. Trainer Marc Davis said that Worthy's condition has shown improve ment since Monday. Pete Budko may also be able to play in the tournament, returning from an ankle injury that has kept him out of action for about six weeks. Sam Per kins, who was sli-htly injured (knee) in the Duke game, is expected to be ready to go tonight. M : 4 4 x0 ; CarcHna's Jamss Worthy shoots for two over Stata ... he's a questionable starter in ACC round at 7 "We are a very good basketball team when we're healthy," Smith said; "People will say Carolina is hurt but they're still good. I think we have a chance to win the national tourna ment, but I don't remember a single team that has won the national cham pionship with a key man injured." Carolina's 66-65 overtime loss to Duke in Durham Saturday won't hurt the team's momentum. Smith said. "I've used this example for years. In 1965, we won eight straight games, then lost in the first round of the NCAAs. In 1968, we'd lost two straight before the (ACC) tournament and then we went to the national finals. "I don't think it really has a bearing. You build momentum throughout the tournament, not before it." This year's site of the tournament has been the subject of much discussion around the league. The non-North Carolina schools have said for years that holding the tournament in Greens boro every year is not fair, and the league apparently has agreed. This is the second time the tournament has been held in Landover (Virginia won there in 1977). The tournament will be held in Atlanta in 1983. Smith, though, feels the site of the event does not have that much effect. "I don't think it matters where you play," he said. "I don't mind playing in Wisconsin if everyone in the stands is cheering for us." And though the tournament no longer is the sole master of an ACC team's post season fate, Smith thinks the 28th An nual Atlantic Coast Conference basket ball tournament is an important event. "It's fun to play basketball," Smith said. "But there's not as much pressure on the ACC tournament now. 9 "Still, it would be nice to be called champions." Trllsirm n TO s J ( : ' II SI n yJXLDIF WdDHU 9 11 o 9 (B (ID Ell (B IF en By ELAINE McCLATCHEY Staff Writer James Taylor has decided not to perform for the Chapel Thrill concert scheduled for April 25, making chances for a large scale concert in Kenan Stadium very low, Chapel Thrill Com mittee Chairman Bert Johnson said Wednesday. "Everyone, from the promoter up to the personal manager, thought it (the concert) was a really good idea," Johnson said. "They've been working overtime trying to get the band together to get down here. They finally decided it was just not possible," Johnson said. : s.. -r -At an emergency. roeeting;,Ass!s?ant Director for the Union, Linda Wright, who was working with the Chapel Thrill Com mittee and Beach Club Promotions to find bands, said the rea son it took so long for a decision was that there was a lot of interest. . f " The Public Broadcasting System even expressed an interest in filming the Outdoor concert, she said. But there was a prob lem with getting the band together a week before they were scheduled to start a tour of the West Coast. "Money is not what anybody in the band needs so they didn't want to gather early and change thejr personal plans," Wright said. Wright said that there would be problems getting another big name band because there were not many bands touring the East Coast during April. "You can have the second annual Beach Boys concert," Wright said. Other bands expected to be in the area include Cheap Trick, the Marshall Tucker Band and the Outlaws. Chapel Thrill Committee member Danita Morgan said that she did not think that the bands available had enough drawing power to risk a concert such as Chapel Thrill. 032 6 billion for 'balance9 mmi(DlF ElChino Martin, speaker for the Campus Governing Council, expressed concern that it was too late to get a name band. Committee members agreed that the chance of getting a band big enough to perform at Chapel Thrill was not viable and that they would have to look at other options. One of the options discussed was a free concert on Ehringhaus or Carmichael field with three to five local bands. Johnson said that he had received a letter from Brice Street, expressing an interest in playing for Chapel Thrill. Other bands discussed were the Blazers, Matthew Barrett, Movement and Janice. Members are checking into the options and the com mittee will meet again today to discuss more ideas.' Johnson Former CGC speaker Cynthia Cur rin suggested trying to incorporate other, events, such as a field day, with the small-scale concert. In order to have a small concert, the Chapel Thrill Committee would have to apply for a direct appropriation from the general surplus of student fees. When the committee applied for the money for Chapel Thrill, the un derstanding was that the money would be taken out of the gen eral surplus temporarily. Revenue from the Chapel Thrill con cert would go back into the general surplus if it earned money. The money to be set aside for a smaller concert would not be returned to the general surplus. Martin said he was unsure of how the CGC would vote on a fiat-out allocation for a smaller concert. "I think it all depends on how it's presented if it's well organized," Martin said. "I think the council would like to do something for the student body." Deffeimse asks ffor spending Mtie The Associated Press WASHINGTON Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger asked Wednesday for a $32.6 billion surge in the Pentagon's budget as the down payment for a larger Navy, a faster bomber and other new weaponry because "the United States cannot allow the military balance to swing further" in favor of Russia. "I think we've fallen dangerously far behind in a number of vital areas, and I think it essential that we ... do something about this as quickly as we can," Weinberger said to the Senate Armed Services Committee. "We are asking for things that we believe are absolutely es sential," he said. At the same time, the defense secretary said that "this is not a one-year program for summer soldiers," signaling that the Reagan administration plans a long-term and costly buildup of the nation's conventional and strategic military power. Taking note of Reagan administration plans for deep cuts in domestic programs, Weinberger told a news conference that sacri fices were going to be required to compensate for essential increases in U.S. military strength. The administration called for a $6.8 billion addition to the Carter administration's finl proposals for this fiscal year, bringing the total to $178 billion for fiscal 1931. At the same time, it recommended a leap of $25.8 billion in budget authority for fiscal 1982, starting next Oct. 1. That would raise the level next year to $222.2 billion, a total never before matched in peacetime. Only $5.8 billion of the additional budget authority will actually be spent this year and next. Most of the additional authority would be spent in future years as new ships, planes and other equipment, including a new form of nerve gas, are manufactured. The vast bulk of the additional funds asked for in fiscal 1931 and fiscal 1932 will be earmarked for improving the weaponry and readiness of the conventional sea, air and land forces. The only major strategic weapons initiative is a nearly $2.5 billion request to push development next year of an advanced bomber called a "long-range combat aircraft." The Pentagon has not settled on any of several different de sign possibilities, but the aim is to produce a faster and less vulnerable craft than the aging B-52. About $20 billion of the $32.6 billion increase would be applied to ordering a wide variety of weapons and equipment. Ho 11 3) i g n m(drii o By KATIIY FIT?! AN Stiff V.'.iter The Governor's Task Force on Waste Manage ment will make its final legislative recommenda tions this month, including a controversial plan that would give the state power to establish waste sites in the state if necessary and to override local zoning laws and ordinances to establish them. Gov, Jim Hunt, vho rrpc.- k force in July, has been looking for possibls ways to dis pose the hazardous wastes In Nsrth Carolina, The state ranks I Ith in production cf wastes but does net have a dUpos-i site. I I fl - - r i 1 S f-A mcstly of toxic cbemics and low4eveI radioactive uaste materials used primal ly In the state's hospi ta!s end universities for res-arch. lhd:r thi recommendation cf the task force, the drvdeper cf a facility that has state and fed eral fnm:;s vvou'j Is tHbvJ to ,r?-l to a 4xiut um4.u voiisiiuction h blocked by local ordinances. '.' The proposed Waste Management Board would evaluate rules and regulations governing hazar dous and low-level wastes to see if they are strin fcnt enough to protect public health and the en vironment. The board also would continue to sack solutions to waste problems and would advise so lutions to waste problems and would advise Hunt on waste management issues. The board, if it determines the facility to be safe and necessary for the state, can recommend that lh- governor override the local law and &How con strujticn of the treatment or storage fad'ay. Dr. Bernard Grcenrxrg, chairman of the 17-mcrnber task force and dean of the UNC School of Public Health, said the Wadins priorities of any vavte management s stern should be tocm-ph.s-iae prevention and to recde waste. Gwnhrfg said the U.S. Cer.-.iitution chd not a!- low states to prohibit iitfentate commerce,' so there 'was nothing to keep other states from cominj in and dumping their w astes In North Carolina. He said the state would not encourage ether states to use North Carolina disposal sites, however. The task force's recommendations would be submitted to the General Assembly for considera tion this month, possibly by early next weak. The recommendations would encourage private enter pri ,t, rather than state govemrr.ar.t, to Cferate any central waste sites in the state. Some cf the task force's recommendations Include: Incorporation of the Waste Management Emphasis to be placed en the ctlsalnaticn cf recycling cf pctent:a"y dangerous wanes; State encourartmer.t cf industry to r:iLni.?ize the production of harmful waste materials; The development cf a waste Lnfc-rmadlcn ex change so that one com gsny's wa.:es can become another company's resourcs; Privilege tax.es to be levied by local govern ments cn waste treatment or dispcsaJ plants based on actual costs and lost revenues of the community where the plant is located. The taxes would be a way to offset any losses incurred by the commumty as a result of the plant; The establishment cf revenue bonds for haz ardous and low-level radioactive waste treatment and recycling plants. The bonds would not be issued for storage or burial faailJici. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency spokes man Ray S'rkkland said North Carolina had a choice cf managing or not managing its cn m & "The nr.tra! CPA 17 is thai it's a state pro- "J slates ere goin to have to manage it. iXatch GunneHt, ar-adyt. ith Iks North Carc'dna Cc;ty Ccmmdfdcners Association, tald that group would oppose any state legislation to over ride local roninj ordinances. "It's jast a tough issue from the state's stand point," Gunnctls said. "There's no danyinj that North Carolina is one of the bJggcr states in its production of wastes, Task force project coordinator Glen Dunn said the task force recommendation would "set V? a decislon-malini process that states can use if lo calities block it. "The task force it convinced that the state should have ihe faciei kt We need thou." Dunn said. The Protect Our piadmont Coalition ha ltn a.tiuly cp;c-d la V : ta.k fcrcc'i recommend ti-r.s, cr--!,-" the f h 1 : give the state the f.nui word cn whrre the c ;-.sJ sites may be located, Cea WASTE cn pz?,z 2
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