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As Reagan boosted Republican candidates' morale Tuesday
...not everyone came to praise him, approximately 80 protestors
Barnes says N.Y. theatre
'not just Broadway plays'
By KAREN ROSEN
Staff Writer
" 'The Plight of the American
Theatre' sounds rather grim," said Clive
Barnes, drama and dance critic for the
Avv York Post, commenting on his lec
ture topic Monday night in Memorial
Hall.
, "It's really not in a plight. It is in a
flux, a position of change that is very
easily reflected by the situation of the
New York theatre," said Barnes, who
was born in London and moved to New
York in 1963.
Barnes said that although New York is
probably the heart of the English - speak
ing theatre, "people tend to think only of
Broadway, which is really very, very
foolish."
Barnes, who attends the theatre an
average of eight times a week, said that
Broadway does indeed have a plight,
which he blamed on astronomical pro
duction costs. For example, the musical
'A Doll's Life' lasted about three days
and lost $3 million.
"Broadway has had to play it safe and
it's taken away the right to fail an im
portant right," he said. "A show is either
dead at the end of a week, or a great,
huge, smashing success."
'Cats', a $6-million success story,
received bad notices, but Barnes said that
word - of - mouth, not critical praise,
keeps a show going. "You pay more at
tention to someone at a cocktail party
than you would to a critic," Barnes told
his audience of 250.
The one thing Broadway still produces
in style, said Barnes, is the musical,
although today's musical is "a com
promise between a rock concert on one
side and opera on the other."
But the term "Broadway" is
misleading, Barnes said. "New York is
the largest theatre town; it has 254
theatres," he said. "I must tell you I
make up statistics it's much easier than
trying to remember them. Anyway, we
have 217 New York theatres and of these,
only 34 are in fact Broadway theatres.
Only two are actually on Broadway, but
five off-Broadway theatres are on Broad
way and even more off-off-Broadway
theatres are on Broadway."
The name actually refers to size, but
most of the shows that make it to the
Great White Way have come from
smaller theatres in New York or from
regional theatres.
Besides union contracts that reward
stagehands with salaries of $ 1 ,400 a week,
Barnes said that real estate in New York
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Reagan campaigns for 4th Congressional District Republican candidates in Raleigh Tuesday
...speaking to a crowd of about 4000, the president boosts his economic policy
Reasan lauds GOP in Ralei
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By LYNN EARLEY
Staff Writer
RALEIGH President Ronald Reagan told a crowd
of about 4,000 in Raleigh Tuesday,. "Nothing could be
finer than tojbe in Carolina" as he campaigned for North
CarolinaRepublican congressional candidates in a GOP
rally at the Raleigh Civic Center. About 2,500 more peo
ple waited outside, unable to get into the crowded
auditorium.;
During the rally, only a week before congressional elec
tions, Republican supporters interrupted Reagan's speech
with applause about 40 times as the president discussed his
economic policies and spoke about the congressional
races. The president's economic programs are seen as cen
tral issues in next Tuesday's elections.
In his first visit to the Tarheel state since his election in
1980, Reagan briefly praised each of the 1 1 GOP congres
sional candidates. Reagan spoke from about 12:45 p.m.
to 12:55 p.m.
The president described 4th Congressional District can
didate Bill Cobey as a tiger. Cobey, former UNC athletic
director and unsuccessful 1980 lieutenant governor can
didate, is currently waging a strong battle against incum
bent Democratic Rep. Ike Andrews in the district, which
includes Orange County.
"Let me just say a few words about these tigers you
have for challengers Bill Cobey from the 4th District,"
Reagan said, glancing at his prepared text. "He's bright
and I understand he's done some mighty good recruiting
for one of your great universities. I think that anyone who
can produce that many champions is a champion himself
and deserves to be elected."
In his opening remarks the. president also referred to
UNC when he said North Carolina was rich in tradition
and strong in character. He added,! "If you want the
proof, watch the Wolfpack and the Tar Heels." The
crowd cheered and a few people yelled, "Go Heels!"
Reagan focused mainly, however, on a defense of his
administration's record and a reiteration of Republican
goals instead of on specific congressional candidates. He
used his statements about 3rd District candidate Red
McDaniel, a former prisoner of war in North: Vietnam, to
introduce his comments-on sacrifice and courage.
"Now the problems we face today do not require the
same sacrifices heroes like Red were called upon to
make," Reagan said. "But they do require courage
courage to look to the future rather than cling to the past;
courage to say, 4I will carry on,' rather than 'I give up'
and courage to believe in our hopes rather than to be ruled
by our fears."
See REAGAN on page 4
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New policy adopted
RH A increases time requirement
for dorms to leave confederation
Barnes'
has made it expensive to get a show off
the ground.
"Broadway was foolish enough to be
built on the most expensive chunk of dirt
in the Western world," Barnes said.
Tearing down the Morosco and Helen
Hayes theatres made good economic
sense, he said, because a theatre is only
used once or twice a day and has so much
air space above it not advisable in a
skyscraper world.
But Barnes said that ticket prices are
not so extravagantly out of line. "During
the Depression, tickets were $4.99 top,"
Barnes said. "I submit that four dollars
50 years ago was worth more than $40-50
today."
He conceded that a night on the town
can run from $140-$I80 including dinner,
drinks, parking fees and a babysitter for
the average suburban couple. .
"It's a question of hard cash. We have
to decide whether iwe want arts or not.
By PAM DUNCAN
Staff Writer
The Residence Hall Association Governing Board voted Mon
day to adopt a new policy that would increase by 45 days the time
required for a dormitory to secede from a confederation.
According to the old policy, a dormitory had to wait 30 days
for its secession petition to be finalized.
In a three-hour meeting, the board approved a secession policy
drawn up last week by an RHA committee and revised during the
board meeting.
The secession issue sprang from the board's debate on indepen
dent dormitories voting on the RHA Governing Board, RHA
members have said.
The committee decided last week to re-examine a proposal that
would have changed the waiting period for a dormitory's seces
sion from 30 days to three semesters. Grimes dormitory had
threatened last week to secede if RHA approved that proposal.
"What we were really upset about was the three-semester
deal," Grimes President Mike Murray said Tuesday. "It was pret
ty impossible. This one is pretty hard, but as far as compromises
go, it was the best we could hope for."
The petitioning process for secession from a confederation can
begin no earlier than four weeks from the day classes begin in the
fall semester, according to RHA's new secession policy.
The policy also dictates that two sets of two forums must be
held by the petitioning dormitory the first within three weeks
of the petitioning and the second within one week after the end of
the 75-day waiting period. Two-thirds of the petitioning dormi
tory must attend one of the first set of forums and 75 percent
must attend one of the second set.
Under the old policy, petitioning residents were required to at
tend the forums.
The policy also provides that the last two forums for any peti
tion for secession made after Feb. 1 must be held after Oct. 1 .
"This policy makes it (secession from a confederation) a little
more of a thought-provoking process," Scott Templeton, RHA
president, said after Monday's meeting. "I think this falls in line
with a lot of what I was hearing from confederation-member
dormitory residents.
Terri Blackwood, governor of Olde Campus Confederation,
said Tuesday she hoped forums under the new policy would pro
vide education for petitioning residents before they agreed to
secession.
"At least people that come to these forums that makes con
federations work or not is the strength of the commitment by
dormitories to the confederation."
Mark Dalton, governor of Ehringhaus dormitory and chair
man of the RHA committee that studied the secession issue, said
Tuesday that there was a definite need for a change in the seces
sion policy. The new policy will allow for a little more education
of residents, he added.
"This way residence halls cannot be railroaded through seces
sion by the two petitioners," Dalton said. "It also gives the con
federation time to redeem itself in the eyes of individual residence
halls if it needs to."
JSee RHA on page 3
Mondale criticizes Reagan in Greensboro speech
By CHRISTINE MANUEL
Staff Writer
GREENSBORO Criticizing' President
Ronald Reagan's economic policies, former
Vice President Walter Mondale campaigned for
6th Congressional District candidate Robin
Britt in Greensboro Tuesday.
Mondale spoke first at a Regional Airport
press conference with Britt and 5th District
Rep. Steven Neal, who is running for re
election. "I understand that someone else is in North
Carolina today," Mondale said, speaking of
Reagan's appearance in Raleigh Tuesday. -
Mondale went on to criticize Reagan's
"radical economic policies" and said that after
President Jimmy Carter left office the
American economy was booming.
Mondale's solution was to get rid of the
federal deficit, decrease defense spending,'
repeal the tax cuts, control hospital costs and
persuade the Federal Reserve Bank to decrease
interest rates.
Later Tuesday night, Mondale appeared at a
fund-raising dinner for Britt attended by more
than 400 people.
The Nov. 2 election will decide several funda
mental issues, Mondale said. He stressed the
election will send a message to President
Reagan ih r ; ....witus. politics aic not working.
"Two years ago, they (Republicans) said that
recovery is on the way," Mondale said. He said
the Republicans' answers were to cut taxes,
raise defense spending and at the same time,
balance the budget.
"There's only one thing wrong with that pro
gram," Mondale said. "It's nuts."
The Reagan administration came in with a
deficit, he said, but added that it had caused the
highest deficit in the history of the nation and
the world. .
"They have choked this economy almost to
death," Mondale said.
Mondale said Reagan and the Republicans
did not know what it was like to lose a job or
lose personal dignity. Reagan is out of touch
with the people, he added.
People are not better off than they were two
years ago, as the Republicans claim, Mondale
said. He said the small farmers, small
businessmen, senior citizens and college
students who. depend on government aid were
not better off.
Mondale added that the nation was not
preparing for the future and called it a major
problem. He said America needed to restore
our competitiveness in the world economy.
"We need to keep working on the energy
problem," Mondale said, noting the progress
of the Carter administration. The United States
needs to conserve more energy and seek alter
natives, he added.
"We need to protect our environment,"
Mondale said. "We're not going to do that
with (Secretary of the Interior) James Watt."
Mondale also said that the United States
needs a strong but sensible defense policy and
that Washington should reduce or even
obliterate the chance that "those God-awful
nuclear weapons" will ever be used.
"This country is for everyone, not just for
the rich," he said.
Former 6th District Rep. Richardson Preyer,
who introduced Mondale, almost stole the
show, calling Mondale one of the best vice
presidents in American historv. and saying that
See MONDALE on page 4