The Daily Tar HeelFriday, September 19, 19865
Classes rid beginners of fear of water
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By LYNN PHILLIPS
Staff Writer
The swim test: it's a jump into
the pool, a 50-yard swim and a
float for the remaining part of five
minutes.
But for those who must deal
with their fear of the water, it's
not so simple.
That's where survival and
beginning swimming classes are
helping 145 students. Beginning
swimming is for students who
have had minimal water expe
rience. Survival swimming helps
students who either fear water or
have had little water experience.
There are three beginning and
four survival classes.
"1 have some skills, but I'm
afraid of deeper water," senior
Sunday Mclntyre, a beginning
swimming student, says. "1 think
it (the requirement) is great. I
would not take the class if 1 didn't
have to. Now I'm forced to refine
my skills."
The classes move slowly until
the students master the basic
techniques. Instructors teach
skills in a progression: first, floats;
second, kicks; and then simple
strokes.
The instructors strive to create
positive attitudes toward the
water. "The number one problem
is fear," says Susan McDonald,
a first-year graduate student and
survival instructor. "It is only
once students are relaxed that
they can learn."
Adaptation takes time, accord
ing to freshman John Patterson,
a student in survival swimming.
He says he is still afraid of the
water because of a previous bad
experience. "When 1 was little, my
cousins put me in the waves at
the beach. They left me there,
alone, and really scared. Ever
since then, IVe had problem
learning to swim," Patterson said.
Charu Krishnamoorthy, a
graduate student, almost
drowned at Atlantic Beach last
year. "I realize the importance of
knowing how to swim now," she
said.
McDonald starts her students
playing water volleyball or bas
ketball to get used to the water.
"Splashing around seems to put
the students more at ease," she
says.
The physicaLeducation depart
ment tries to keep the classes
small. Survival swim classes have
a maximum teacher-student ratio
of 1 to 14. A graduate assistant
instructs, and two Water Safety
Instructor students aid. In begin
ning swimming classes, the
student-teacher ratio may reach
1 to 25.
"The class is small, and I feel
the instructor has enough atten
tion for each student. It gives me
confidence that I'm not going to
drown," Mclntyre says.
The test has existed since
World War II. It first became
mandatory because of the exten
sive Navy training program at
UNC.
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Survival swimming students dip into a fresh experience
Solo actor
to portray
Don Juan
CTy RENE MEYER
Staff Writer
English actor Ian Frost will
portray Lord Byron this weekend in
"Lessons in Love," a one-man show
based on Byron's "Don Juan," at
ArtSchool in Carrboro.
Byron's poem was adapted into a
two-act play by Bill Studdiford of
New York City. "Lessons in Love"
develops around the excited creator
Byron, who after completing the
narrative poem, recites some 200 of
the 2,011 stanzas for his own
pleasure.
The story traces the adventures of
Don Juan from the scandal in Cadiz,
through a shipwreck and recovery
to health by the nursing of a beautiful
girl. He continues his travels to a
battle at Ismail, and later to St.
Petersburg, England, passing
through all sorts of lessons in love.
"Don Juan", Frost believes, was
not written about some heroic figure,
but about an "ordinary, rather sexy
young lad who finds he only has to
look at a lady and she will probably
make the advances." v "
ArtSchool decided to book this,
new production following the sue-'
cess of another adaption of Byron,
"Byron in Hell," also written by
Studdiford. The earlier play was
performed at ArtSchool two nights
in March 1985. "Lessons in Love"
will follow the footsteps of "Byron
in Hell," touring in Europe later this
year.
Bill Studdiford worked in a com
munity theater in Washington state
before beginning a 26-year engage
ment with IBM. He returned to the
theatre to write his first Byron
production, "Byron in Hell." Stud
diford explained that he felt Byron
was someone he could relate to in
the sense that he started out poor
and struggled until he inherited a
large amount of money and found
artistic freedom.
Frost has starred in both of the
one-man plays by Studdiford. He
trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre
School (breeding ground for the likes
of Jeremey Irons and many other
noteworthy British actors) and at the
Royal Court Actors Studio. He has
worked extensively around England
in everything from repertory theaters
to television and radio.
The character of Byron is not new
to Frost. He has performed as Byron
Trial
from page 1
Marriott was taken into cus
tody Sept. 9 and released on a
$300 unsecured bond. The war
rant charged him with "commit
ting an assault on a female by an
over 1 8-year-old male."
"Every indication I have is that
when the true facts are known,
there won't be anyone who thinks
that any crime has been commit
ted," Bernholz said.
But assistant District Attorney
Bill Masscngale said he believed
the truth of Gaskins's account.
"I believe what she says, and
she believes it happened," he said
in a telephone interview. "I have
tried lots of assaults on females,
and generally as a prosecutor I
tend to believe the victims.
" Wc have a judicial process ...
what I know is that Tonja Gas
kins said she was assaulted, and
wc will present our case," he said.
When contacted Thursday.
Gaskins said, "I have my wit
nesses, and they're going to testily
in court."
Efforts to reach Marriott were
unsuccssiul.
Bcrnhol would not elaborate
on what evidence he had suggest
ing Marriott's innocence.
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Jack-of-ai-trades Plimpton to speak in Oct.
Ian Frost
on at least three other occasions,
including an award-winning produc
tion of "Don Juan" at the Edinburgh
Festival.
"Why Byron?" mused Frost.
"Well, both the writer and the actor
are fascinated by him. He's a man
who contrasts." Frost cited Byron's
constant poking at other poets and
high society and attributed the
occasionally bad rhymes in the poem
to Byron's incessant need to get his
own. The poet also, however, "trans
cends to moments of great beauty,"
Frost added.
"He (Frost) is a highly entertaining
.j actor," said Mary Ruth of Art
. SchooL. "He,, is very , experienced,
with a certain reputation in England
and a definite love for Byron. The
show should be entertainmg even if
the audience doesn't know Byron."
Lessons in Love will be performed
by Ian Frost today and Saturday at
8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at
ArtSchool. Call 929-2896 for ticket
information.
By TOM CAMP
Staff Writer
George Plimpton, author, athlete
and entertainer, will speak Oct. 13
in Memorial Hall.
His lecture, "An Amateur Among
the Pros," will focus on his diverse
dabblings in the sports world and
the impressions and insights he
acquired. Plimpton's sports career
has ranged from quarterback for the
Detroit Lions, to forward for the
Boston Celtics and goalie for the
Boston Bruins. He even pitched an
inning in Yankee Stadium.
His books on sports are first
person accounts of his efforts and
failures in the professional athletic
world. They include: "Paper Lion,"
which tells how he lost 29 yards in
five plays as a third-string quarter
back for the Lions; "Out of My
League," a book about his experien
ces' pitching in Yankee Stadium; and
"Shadow Boxing," inspired by three
rounds with Archie Moore, the
lightweight champion of 1959.
Plimpton's non-athletic endeavors
include editor of the Paris Review,
which he co-founded in 1953, asso
ciate editor of Harper's Magazine
and Horizon Magazine and writer
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