Transfers from women's colleges
Dy ELENI CHAMIS
Staff Writer
T Thy would a woman, enter
'y ing college for the first
V time, choose a private
women's college over a university
like UNC?
Cant think of any reasons? Try:
1. a better faculty-student ratio; 2.
more individual attention; 3. know
ing almost everyone on campus; 4. a
family-like atmosphere; and 5. not
having to worry about what you
look like when you roll out of bed
and go to class in the morning.
Those are some of the reasons
Ann Matthews, director of news ser
vices at Queens College in Charlotte,
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Daniel Auteuil (left) and Yves Montand in a scene from 'Jean de Florette'
French film features exceptional acting
Beautiful cinematography and
powerful acting performances com
bine to make "Jean de Florette" an
exceptionally moving motion picture.
The film exhibits a grace and subtlety
that is rarely seen in contemporary
films, but these qualities do not
detract from the film's strong emo
tional impact.
The movie's plot concerns the
interaction between three French
farmers during the 1920s. Cesar
Soubeyran (Yves Montand), an
elderly farming patriarch, runs a large
and lucrative vineyard, and Ugolin
Soubeyran (Daniel Auteuil) is his
ambitious nephew. The Sdubeyrans
try to buy a neighbor's farm to obtain
a large spring that they1 need to
expand and diversify their opera
tions. The neighbor refuses to sell, but
after his death, his farm is inherited
by his nephew Jean de Florette
(Gerard Depardieu). Jean is a tax
collector from the city, but he moves
to the farm resolved to become a
successful farmer.
The dramatic focus of the film
concerns Jean's desperate attempts to
preserve his farm, and the Soubey
rans' attempts to hasten his downfall.
"Jean de Florette" serves as a
showcase for the acting talents of all
three principal actors, but the finest
performance is delivered by Gerard
Depardieu. Depardieu nicely cap
tures both Jean's early exaltation with
life on a farm, and his later emotional
devastation as his farm begins to
crumble around him. Depardieu
brings great passion to his perfor
mance, which enables the viewer to
feel the depth of Jean's love for his
family and his farm. His performance
brilliantly exhibits both the strength
of a man who tries to overcome great
obstacles in order to succeed and the
gracefulness of a man who takes great
joy in growing things and taking care
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"There's really a close rapport
between teachers and students,"
Matthews said. "We expect a great
deal of students and hardly let them
get by with less than their best."
Queens College, however, has
broken its long-standing tradition of
"women only" and will begin accept
ing men in the fall of 1988.
There are less than 100 women's
colleges left in the United States.
More and more women who attend
women's colleges, such as Peace,
Meredith and St. Mary's, are
transferring to universities like
UNC
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of his wife and young daughter.
Making the title character a many
sided man with whom the audience
can empathize, Depardieu turns in a
deeply moving portrayal which is the
emotional core of the film.
Yves Montand also gives a super
lative performance as the wily and
ruthless Cesar. Montand makes
Cesar seem like an amusing old man
at the beginning of the film, but . as
the film progresses, he brings -out
Cesar's self-centeredness and driving
ambition. Although Cesar seems to
become increasingly mean-spirited
throughout the course of the film,
Montand's even performance pre
vents Cesar from becoming a one
sided villain.
So convincing is Montand's per
formance that the viewer feels some
what betrayed as Cesar progresses
from a sympathetic and wizened old
curmudgeon to a ruthless and brutal
opponent to Jean, and Montand's
performance therefore serves as an
excellent counterbalance to
Depardieu's.
Daniel Auteuil also brings great
zest to his portrayal of the earthy
Ugolin. He brings out the simplistic
nature of Ugolin's character but does
not make him seem excessively
foolish or stupid. Auteuil's weather
beaten face looks like the face of a
man who has spent most of his life
in the fields, and Auteuil expertly
portrays the attitudes and manner
isms of a simple small farmer.
Ugolin's complex relationship with
Jean is an important part of the film,
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Deborah West, a junior pharmacy
major from Warsaw, said, "There
are more educational opportunities
at Carolina. And there are more
things to do. At Peace, the academ
ics were really limited."
Barbra Beth Burkot, a fifth-year
senior in pharmacy from Newburn,
said, "At Peace, a closeness develops
with your professors. You get more
special attention, which makes it
easier to do better."
Mary Wyman, a senior speech
communications major from
Raleigh, said, "There's not as much
activity going on (at a women's col
lege), so it's easier to concentrate."
"I wasnt really ready for college
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and Auteuil's performance excel
lently displays Ugolin's confusion
about how he should treat Jean.
Director Claude Bern's depiction
of the French countryside is one of
the most moving elements of the film,
and it greatly enhances the viewer's
understanding of the characters'
motives. The depiction of the land
is breathtaking, and Berri's slow and
careful presentation of different
elements of the French countryside
is one of the most striking visual
displays in recent cinematic memory.
By showing the beauty of the moun
tains, springs and storms of Provence,
as well as the beauty of the crops that
arefgrowh by Jean and the Soubey
rans, Berri helps show the viewer why
the film's central characters are so
obsessed with the land.
This love of the land is especially
important to Jean, and Berri often
depicts the loveliness of the land as
it would appear from Jean's point of
view. Berri's brilliant cinematography
is therefore an integral part of the
film, and it also stands as an impres
sive aesthetic achievement in its own
right.
One of the most striking elements
of the film is the attention paid to
subtlety and detail. Cesar's decades
old affair with Jean's mother is never
explicitly explained in the movie, for
example, but the viewer finds out
about this affair when he sees Cesar
in bed on the night of Jean's mother's
death. Cesar is seen clutching a
woman's comb, and the viewer hears
him mumbling about Jean's mother.
This low-key revelation of an impor
tant detail in the film is an example
of the subtlety that exists throughout
the film, and it is one of the reasons
that "Jean de Florette" is such an
impressive motion picture.
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adjust to challenges of co-ed life
at first. At Peace, it was like living
at home," West said.
"I didn't think I coukj handle
Carolina because it was too much of
a step," Burkot said.
"You definitely have to have more
discipline to go to Carolina. You
have to make yourself go to class,"
Wyman said.
For some, meeting people at
UNC can be difficult.
"The variety of people here is
neat," West said. "But a big problem
I had was walking to class and not
speaking to people."
"My problem was that I didnt
decide my major until my freshman
year," Burkot said. "I couldVe
squeezed into the pharmacy school.
Of course, it's easier to get in if
you're already here."
Tony Strickland, associate direc
tor of undergraduate admissions at
UNC, said that junior transfers from
AIDS threat
By CLAY THORP
Staff Writer
Many companies across the nation
have encountered significant eco
nomic growth as a result of the AIDS
scare.
Phoenix Medical Technology Inc.,
in Andrews, S.C., recently announced
a large expansion in its latex glove
making department.
The company is going to release
400,000 additional shares of stock to
help fund the expansion, said Grover
Mixon, senior vice president in
manufacturing for Phoenix.
Phoenix, which also makes vinyl
gloves, surgical drapes, iodine scrubs
and surgical preparations, has expe
rienced a sharp increase in its stock
prices.
Since June, the company's stock
has risen from $3.75 per share to more
than $9 per share.
Mixon refused to relate the rise in
stock prices to the increased aware
ness of AIDS. "We are expanding
because of the demand for latex
gloves," he said.
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women's colleges usually adapt very
well to college life at the University.
"By the time they get here, they've
made most of the freshman adjust
ments like being away from home
and away from parents," Strickland
said.
Strickland did not have informa
tion on the number of female
transfers who come from women's
colleges. However, he said that out
of 430 transfers in the College of
Arts and Sciences this year, 251 are
female transfers. The transfers go
into majors such as health affairs,
nursing and business. For all schools
at UNC, there were 650 transfers
of which 410 are female.
Dating is one concern of attend
ing a women's college, where the
male population is non-existent.
, "I didn't really date much at
Peace, even though N.C. State Uni
versity was right there," Burkot said.
causes rise in glove sales
economics at UNC, said the demand
for latex gloves has quadrupled with
all of the AIDS publicity.
"People are now using gloves in
medical situations that they never
used them in before," he said.
On a larger scale, Carter-Wallace
Inc., maker of Trojan condoms, has
noticed a sharp increase in sales as
well.
From January to July, the com
pany had a 46 percent increase in
sales, said Gianfranco Chicco, a
spokesman for the company. Over
the summer, stock prices went from
approximately $30 per share to about
$90 per share.
"A variety of factors have affected
condom sales," Chicco said. "The
surgeon general's report that has
recommended the use of condoms as
the best means other than abstinence
for preventing the spread of the AIDS
virus has affected sales greatly."
Professor Stanley Black, chairman
of UNC's economic department, said,
"If you get projections of the increase
in the disease, you can see the direct
consequence reflected in the growth
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"If you worked at it though, there
was no problem."
"I date more here at UNC because
there're no rules and no curfew,"
Avent said. "On the weekends at St.
Mary's, you could spend the night
out and come in whenever. They
had to unlock the doors for you, but
it was no big deal."
West said, "I dated more at Peace
than I have here because we were
near N.C. State. There's a whole lot
more girls at UNC and that makes it
harder."
"At Peace, they kept the side
walks so clean that we'd go to class
in our bedroom shoes," Burkot said.
"Then I came here, and I had to
learn how to look nice and apply
makeup again."
Wyman said, "There were no guys
anywhere on campus. You could
wear pajamas to class if you wanted
to."
of the demand of services."
Lee said this economic growth may
last for quite , some time. "Itll cer
tainly last until there's an effective
vaccine."
Black predicted that this growth
may last for at least five years. He
cited the polio epidemic as a guide.
"It took five years to find a vaccine
and another five years before the
people most seriously affected had
reached peak treatment."
The biggest economic issue is how
to pay for the treatment of AIDS
victims, Lee said. Many people who
contract the disease lose their insu
rance and must be given free health
care.
Overall, the losses from AIDS
overwhelm any economic benefits, he
said.
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