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4The Daily Tar HeelMonday, January 18, 1982 1 Yalid political ideas back novel's fictional account By LEAH TALLEY Arli Kditor Everyone has his own attitude toward Vietnam and American intervention in foreign countries. But unless you were directly involved, then you may not have a strong feeling for the reality of those times and situations. In Robert Stone's A Flag For Sunrise, Stone intimates the per sonal side of such politics. He recounts the fictional revolution of a small South American country, Tecan. And in doing' so, he gives insight into American motivation in foreign intervention. Review Stone has written two previous novels both successful. A Hall of Mirrors won the Faulkner Award for a first novel in 1967. Dog Soldiers, which won the Na tional Book Award in 1975, is also known as the basis for the film, Who'll Stop The Rain. Stone's third novel doesn't stray from this track record. He fills the scene with vivid characters thrown into a politicial turmoil. The revolution and politics of Tecan become almost secondary as Stone creates for the reader the people within the revolution, not the revolution itself. SIMM Public service announcements must be turned into the box outside DTH offices in the Carolina Union by noon if they are to run the next day. Each item will be run at least twice. TODAY'S ACTIVITIES The UNC Karate Club will be holding an introductory meeting for all persons interested in learning karate at 6 p.m. in Room 209, Student Union. Everybody is welcome. The Humaa Relations Committee of the L'nioa will meet at 3:30 p.m. in Room 218, Student Union. Here's your chance for campus involvement. All interested persons welcomed to at tend. The UNC Orw Club will hold an organizational meeting at 7 p.m. in 224 Union. A film will be shown of Championship rowing, and new members are welcome. Afl those Interested ia volunteering at Jota U instead Hospital must come to one of the organizational meetings at 7 p.m. today or Tuesday in 206 Union. Everyone is welcome. There wifl be a CGC RAJ netting at J p.m. in the OCC of fice to elect a new chairperson. The CaroBaa Disc dub will hold a meeting at 4 p.m. in 206 Union. We'll talk about our upcoming ultimate tourney and more. So be there or lose hair. The UNC Outing dub wiQ begin regular meetings beginning at 7 pjn. Monday in the Union. . The University Counseling Cesttr resumes at 6-9 p.m. Call for appointments for career counseling. Occupational Infor mation Library is open for research and browsing. For more information, call 962-2175 or drop by Nash Hail. The UNC Media Board will meet at 5 p.m. in 400 New East. The UNC Model United Ninon Club will meet at 6 p.m. in 352 Hamilton. Assignments for Princeton: Jordan, Gabon;. Nationals: Uganda. ' A lecture titled "Eavtroomentai Policy Analysis.- The Dar in outh Approach,' will be givea by Dr. Dennis Meadows, a professor at Darmouth College and author of the book Limits to Gfowth at noon "in 20? Hamilton Hall. ' A rctare titled "The" EavtroameaU TTfects of Increased Fuel Wood' XltiluatiooV' will be given by Dr. Dennis Meadows, a professor at Dartmouth College and author of the book Limits to Growth will be at 2 p.m. in 228 Rosenau Hall. The Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, will hold the spring invitation meeting at 7 p.m. in 203 Howell Hall. Business will include considering candidates for officers. AO new members must attend; all interested persons are invited. COMING EVENTS Aa iafonnatioaal meettag oa a six-week University credited Summer Program la Quebec, Canada will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday in Toy Lounge, fourth floor of Dey Hall. HH'-JG-:G3FORTUWITIES: B Lao Vanco Wilson, Southeast Director of Independent Educational Services (IES), will interview candi dates interested in teaching in independent schools Tuesday, January 19 from 2 to 8 p.m., at the Carolina Inn. IES is a non-profit placement service for inde pendent schools in all 5fJ states. There are no mem bership dues to teachers new to. the profession; placement feeb are 6.5 of the first years salary, the lowest fee of any school service in the country. FIcr.ee call (!01) 222 CO for an appointment " 7 UNIVERSITY DINING SERVICES . f' F-leal Card Holder Special Vi Lb. Hamburger French Fries Large Soft Drink )Ius tax I I Good vj) this Coupon Only Hon., Jan. 10 at Student Union Only UDS VALUABLE Smut . m tesw , "lift JM c c m Z r In f "3 w r : m 'V i , to The reader gets to feel each character's motivation for joining or resisting the at tempted overthrow of the government in Tecan. This makes a powerful portrait of individuals in the political maelstrom, but falls short of actually defining whr v.-i'-:: the reason for revolution and why everyone is worried. But this may be what Stone wants. Those characters caught in Tecan's turmoil see it from one point of view, their own. The revolution to them is what is happening directly around them, and that is what the reader experiences. So the reader ex periences the same confusion as if he were actually in the revolution. The horror, disillusion and mystery are more real especially the disillusion. Stone pulls this off through presenting completely believable, entrancing characters, building them carefully through dialogue and action. And as the revolution begins to roll, Stone begins to weave the paths of these Americans in a foreign land together for an unsettling climax. The story of Tecan and all humans is ultimately one of survival. Even within , the grand scale of a revolution, each per son can only experience it individually. Most of the characters in A Flag For Sunrise asc bent first for individual sur vival. Stone presents the inside of a The UNC RacouetbaB dub will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Union. We will have courts available in Fetzer gym following the meeting. All members are encouraged to attend. Ask at the Union desk for the room number. The Graduate Student Fellowship will meet for a meal and discussion at 5:4 J p.m. Tuesday at the Battle House of the Bap tist Student Center. The Committee for the Freedom of Stephen J. Kabbnski will have its first winter wonderland meeting at 2 p.m. Tuesday in front of Connor dorm. Afterwards, we will adjourn inside for hot Ruskie tea. All are welcome. PI Delta Phi, the French Honor Society, will have a meeting to discuss upcoming events, including films and Mardi Cras at 6 p.m. Wednesday in 207 Dey Hall. Organizational meeting to prepare the Carolina United Jewish Appeal Campaign at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Hillel. 210 W. Cameron Ave. Everyone is welcome. For information con tact Lucy Fried at 933-0149. You too can be a star. The Friends of the Library will sponsor a speech by Milton Carothers on "Early and Unusual English Bibles and Religious Tracts" at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Newman Center, 218 Pitts boro St.. Chapel Hill. The Operations Research and System Analysis of UNC-CH will sponsor a Colloquium by Professor J. Scott Provan. Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics of the State University Of New York at Stony Brook and Operations Re search Division National Bureau of Standards, on "Network Reliability Analysis: Algorithms and Complexity" at 4 p.m. Thursday in 107 Smith Building. CHEC (Contraceptive Health Education Clinic), now meeting at 7 p.m. every Tuesday in the Health Education Sec tion of the Student Health Service and at 3 p.m. every Thurs-. day in the Frank Porter Graham Lounge of the Union, is ' geared to help UNC students to be responsible partners in mat ters concerning sexuality: CHEC provides an informative, in formal discussion and slide presentation of contraception. . The UNC Juggling Club will hold its first meeting 7-9 p.m. Thursday in the Great Hall of the Union. Membership open to everyone no experience necessary. Free instruction. Bring balls andor other anti-gravity devices. ITEMS OF INTEREST Organizational meeting for team captains in IM basketball, originally scheduled at 4 p.m. Friday has been rescheduled at 5 and 7 p.m. Monday in 109 Fetzer Gym ... Deadline for IM basketball, faculty-staff basketball and faculty-staff racquet ball has been extended to 8 p.m. tonight. COUPON UDS 1 fc " I W fo I.. r'4 ' A 4 .4 - v vX V' t Robert Stona Vietnam-like situation, reinforcing the comparison by allowing the characters within the book to refef to Vietnam and compare that situation with Tecan. And perhaps Stone is making a statement on American intervention. Within a foreign country, survival comes first for Americans, so intervention is bound to fail, as it did in Tecan and Vietnam. Stone brings this simple statement to life is his novel with intriguing characters and their lives and deaths in Tecan. Intramural: Officials (referee) clinics begin at .7 p.m. tonight ... Clinics are MANDATORY for all perspective IM basketball referees Monday through Thursday from 7-9 p.m. . in 304 Woollen Gym. Contact Asst. IM-Rec Director Janis Matson. Student Health Service is offering a three-week bag luncheon "Freedom From Smoking Clinic" emphasizing positive life style behaviors in a supportive group setting. Enrollment is limited to UNC students. This group will meet from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. Jan. 26..Feb. 2, Feb. 3. Feb. 4, and Feb. 9. To pre register (mandatory) call 956-2281, ext. 275, tefore Friday, Jan. 22. , Interested in becoming a student volunteer at North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Registration has begun -for the spring semester and will continue through Jan. 22 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the Volunteer Office which is located on the first floor of the Old Clinic Building. A REQUIRED ORIENTATION will be held 5-7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28 in the Fourth Floor Clinic Auditorium. Questions, call 966-4793. Applications lor editor and business manager of the Phoenix will be accepted by the Media Board, Box 13, Union until 2 p.m. Jan. 23. For further information call Dodd Haynes at 933-4293. APO Book Co-Op is now setting. Come find your bargain. Selling continues through Jan. 19. Cash back begins Jan. 20 and runs through the Jan. 22. The Co-Op is located in the Stu dent Union. Rooms 202, 204, 206, from 9:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. LSAT (Law School Admissioa Test) is Feb. 20. Applications must be postmarked by Jan. 21 and cost $18 for Basic Fee plus S20 for LSAT. Late registration, until Jan. 28, costs extra $15. This is last test date for current test edition and 1982 ad mission. Next test will be new version, in June. For application or info, contact University Counseling Center, 101 Nash Hall 962-2175. NTE (National Teacher Examination) is Feb. 20. The cost is S27 each for Common and Area exams or $49 for both. Ap plications must be received in Princeton, N.J. by Mon., Jan. 18. Late registration, until Jan. 25, costs $10 extra. Make sure you register for correct Area exam. For applications or info, contact University Counseling . Center, 101 Nash Hall, 962-2175. PtT-medPir-denlPre-vet students: Come to an interview ing workshop on Monday, Jan. 25, from 5-7 p.m. Be prepared for your professional school interviews. Sign up at 201-D Steele Building. , Attention Freshmen! Would you like to develop your leader- ship potential? If so, "you are invited to apply to the North Carolina Fellows Program. Applications are available from your RA, Union Desk," and the Fellows Lounge (Room 11 Union). Find out more about the program at our Open Hoase from 3-5 pm. Tuesday at the Fellows Lounge. SAVE A TREE RECYCLE ME s X. f Win ....... in. . i.r -i,-rOx. at APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE FOR CAROLINA' UNION ' FUESiOENT A question answer session will be held on THURSDAY, JAIL 21 at 5:00 pm in Rm. 217 Union. Applications are available at the Union infor mation Desk, Deadline THURSDAY, JAN. 23 at 5:00 pm. - FOR BEGINNERS " Classes begin Wed., Jan. 20th at Elliot's Nest, Chapel Hill . 6:30-0:00 PM . Wednesday nights for 4 weeks $20 per person Registration at 6:15 Wednesday night prior to first lesson, or you " may call K . dalcigh 787-2942 Durham 682-2480 sponsored by ; ;bANCES.DirwlllNSIONS:'r of Raleigh 'Taps' premise might have work ed. Mutton's sensitivity well displayed By GUHA SHANKAR DTH Staff Writer With every role he undertakes Timothy Hutton establishes himself as one of today's better actors. Taps is the most recent example of his potential. Hutton's. sensitive portrayal of Brian Moreland, the leader of a group of cadets trying to keep their school from being sold to land developers, is the highlight of an otherwise slow, predictable story. The premise for Taps, although a bit far-fetched, might have worked. The in tent was to raise serious questions about the values and attitudes that military education fosters in impressionable young minds. The film's early moments promise good entertainment, particularly George C. Scott's performance as Gen." diicator tells story of rerfimij Her dreaiii By DENNIS GOSS DTH Staff Writer Lucianne Bond Carmichael had a dream. She wanted a child-centered school which departed from conventional -educational systems, a school which bas ed its decisions not on economics or test scores, but on what was best for its students. McDonogh 15: Becoming A School is the inspirational story of Carmichael's ef forts to realize her dream. As principal, she started with nothing rnore than a bare schoolhouse. The initial chapters of the book deal with her efforts to obtain ideas, materials and faculty for her "lighthouse" school. Carmichael's child-centered concept is relatively simple, that children learn more by experiencing and actually doing than any other-way. There are few textbooks as the children read and write their own stories. They raise rabbits, take camping trips, cook, play music and paint murals. McDonogh IS spans the school's first 10 years of revitalization under Car michael. The school's success is the result of a combination of factors. Diversity is probably the main reason; diversity in faculty as well as in students. McDonogh 15 attracted an excellent cross section of New Orleans students, and Carmichael selected her faculty on the basis of their various specialties. The schoolisalsoja sticcgssbjtause Carmichael'msistsT thV'facultyTmSTibers really want to be there and care about the children. Her personal touch is evident in the way the kids of McDonogh 15 con duct themselves and in the emergence of her school as the center of the communi ty. . f Carmichael's book works well because of her honesty in conveying her emotions experienced during her ten-year struggle. Bache, the superintendent of the military academy. The genera' v- m old warhorse who inspires awe and hero-worship in his young charges. As he relives his old bat tles with them, he fills their heads with vi sions of glory. But Bache is unable to discern the impact of his words on the -naive cadets, especially Moreland. When the threat to the school arouses the cadets, who have swallowed Bache's speeches far top liberally, they begin their defense of the campus with machine guns and rifles. Initially promising, the action literally stops halfway through Taps. Moreland goes through some soul-searching when a series of incidents rocks his confidence and forces him to question Bache's speeches. This little interlude is far too cliched and unnecessary. The ending has already been predetermined with the ap of cWldlceiiiteFedl school a ' v y a, 5 " Her uncertainties, fears, triumphs and even her failures are candidly recorded. McDonogh 15 's tone is upbeat and hopeful, yet . governed by a sense of realism. Carmichael is by no means a literary master, but her prose is well-writter and well-organized. Her story flows well, and she deals with all topics of major concern in education: resources, teachers, school roanagemenj mujuty scurriculum,--afttfdisamBe $Oaepar&tilarly fun -chapter," The Bureaucracy: How To Save . the Lettuce." . pits Carmichael against a host of "Catch-22" rules and regulations. But McDonogh 15: Becoming a School is not just one big success story. The book's final chapter, "Epilogue: The Albert Williams Story," is a sobering look at the imperfection of any educa tional system. Despite the faculty's extra mi, aHWiaai. hj .hi,..i-w..ii...).Wi.i.. m'm 1 f KM Ull- looming Soon. "Whose L -t c nun, Last Week! rrm t V. C fS OF THE l U LOST ARK lv Nightly at 7:10 9:2 CAROLINA CLASSICS SERIES II w rpsfr it u & n4 : v J L q ir s s JwSt vv , , 4s & vv fii ' tyt, m wweegf wfvf x"n v w Ate, w f 9 i Our series first feature has James Dean in his dynamic 1955 screen debut. . . "EAST Matinees Of at 2:50 5:05 V- 'EDEN" l-.s' ORIENTATION '82 Applications have been reopened for the 1982 ORIENTATION COMMISSION Positions: coordinator for the graduate programs; Tar Heel Days, Major Pro jects, Information Packets, and Public Relations Publications Applications available at the Union desk and 08 Steele Return applications to 08 Steele by 5 pm Friday, Jan 15 Q.P.A. of 2.0 or better required For more information, call 962-2375 or 966-4041 ALL FULL TIME STUDENTS ARE INVITED TO APPLY pearance of a National Guard tank. No Hollywood director worth his salt would spend so much screen time maneuvering machine guns and mortars into place and then refrain from using them. And Taps director Harold Becker is no exception. When the tanks roll into view, the ques tion becomes not will a battle take place, but merely when it will happen. Taps is a good idea gone astray. The aim was to show the disastrous conse quences in placing blind, unwavering trust in leaders and their ideals. One can't help but feel for the cadets as they put up their paper-thin barricades in defense of outmoded concepts and ideals like honor, duty and loyalty. For all its promise though the movie falls far short of its. mark, another victim of Hollywood's tendency toward the obvious and the predictable. efforts, some children just can't make it in school. Albert Williams was one such child, and his story leaves one with the realization that public education still has a lot of room for improvement. Overall, McDonogh 15 is enjoyable, interesting reading. It is encouraging to experience a living example of the results attainable through diligent, patient work and a little caring. Carmichaers work should be a guidebook to future educators. Arts, features and university staffs to meet The arts, features, copy desk and university staffs will have individual staff meetings with their editors at 5 p.m. Tuesday in the Daily Tar Heel office. All members are asked to at tend these meetings. Important infor mation will be discussed. cold From page 1 Boulder County Sheriffs Sgt. Jim Smith said, "Most of the malls and .hopping centers Jiere have been hit, with businessesf losing roofs and most of their big plate glass windows." But numbing cold was the story in the East where many cities posted record temperatures for the date as far south as Nashville, Tenn., were it was 11 below. It was 34 below at Eagle Rock, Md., the coldest ever noted by Rebecca Harvey in the 17 years she's been checking the weather for the Maryland Forest Service. .. m-p" - un. . .a-urn ! jiJ.,j.j,jtu..i;iM.w)"" Life Is It," "Zoo Motels," Atlantic Qty'V WAKREN BKATTT DIANSKXATON fSWJ PARAMOUNT 3:00 7:30 r - Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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