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March 18,1997
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Issue 39,
Volume 76
Former Reynolds executive elected to UNCG Board of Trustees
from Staff Reports
I Hudnall Christopher Jr., re-tired
executive vice president of
K.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in
Winston Salem, has been elected
to the Board ofTrustees ofUNCO.
Christopher was elected by the
I INC Board ol Governors on Feb.
14 to till the unexpired term of
Norms Twinge of Rocky Mount,
who resigned last Oct. 29. His
lei III will continue through June
of 1999
Christopher spent 30 years with
KIR Nabisco and its various sub-sidiaries
lie held executive posi-tions
with three ofthe company's
subsidiaries
From 1983 until his retirement
in 1989, Christopher was execu-tive
vice president of R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co. and a
member of the company's board
of directors and executive com
mittee.
He is a former president and
chief executive officer of RJR
Archer Inc., and a past member of
its board of directors.
He is a past director of Planters
LifeSavers Company.
Christopher is active in a vari-ety
of business and civic activities
He is a director of Wachovia
Bank ol North Carolina, serving
as chairman of the Forsyth County
Board.
He is chairman of the Piedmont
Triad Airport Authority, vice
chairman of the Reynolds House
Museum of Art. and serves as a
member of the board of directors
of Pleasants Hardware. Inc., Pied
mom 11 uid Partnership and Lead-ership
Winston Salem
He is a member and past chair-man
of the College Board ot Visi-tors
ol Wake Forest University and
a membei of the Cancer Center
Advisor) Board of Bowman Gray
School ol Medicine.
He is chairman of the capital
campaign of the University of
Virginia's School of Engineering
and Applied Science.
He is also a member ol the Ad-
VISOI\ Committee for Business
and Economics ai Winston-Salem
State University,
He is past chairman of the Win-ston
Salem Foundation and the
United Way of Forsyth County,
and a past member of the
North Carolina Board ofthe
Department of Transporta-tion
He formerly served on the board
ol directors of Sweet Briar Col-lege,
and formerly was vice chair
man of Winston-Salem Business
Inc.
In addition, he has been active
with such organizations as the
Winston-Salem Chamber of Com
merce, Winston-Salem Civic Ven-tures
and the City County Utili-ties
Commission.
He is a member of the Rotary
Club of Winston-Salem.
A native of Franklin. Va, Chris-topher
is a graduate of the Univer-sity
of Virginia and received his
Master of Science degree in indus
trial management from the Mas
sachusetts Institute ol technology.
According to the web page of
the Office of the Chancellor,
UNCG is governed by a 13-mem-ber
Board ofTrustees Fight mem-bers
are elected by the UNC
System's Board of Governors,
lour are appointed by the gover-nor,
and the final member is the
president ol the student govern-ment,
ex officio.
The Board of Trustees serves as
an advisor) board to the Boaid of
Governors and the Chancellor.
with responsibilities in ^opera-tional
areas, including Academic
Programs. Budget Administration,
Tuition. Fees and Deposits, and
Student Services
New music building under way
Chris Binkowski
News Writer
There is light at the end of the
tunnel lor music students at
i NCG
Music students forced to go to
«lass, study, and practice in only
around 4f>.0()0 square feet, will
soon six- the first shovelful <>t dm
moved lot the new music build-ing.
I he ground breaking ccr-cmonv
will held on April 3, for the
building located on the corner of
\1n kct and Mclver streets.
This is a state of the art facility.
I he three story building, to be
opened in August of 1999. will
have 150,000 square feet. Accord-ing
to Tied Patrick, from the De-partment
oi Design and Construc-tion,
the building will have sev-
. i ii features that will be extremely
helpful foi students and faculty
.iliki. I he building will have 55
practice rooms. Almost all will
ha\ e upi ighl pianos, though eight
practice rooms will have grand
pianos According to Arthur
I ollefson, Dean of the School of
MUSK , grand pianos are essential
foi piano majors. Approximate!)
JO 25 new upright pianos will be
in (he I.milling The grand pianos
w ill be new or used ones that have
been rebuilt.
The Music Library will be uni-fied,
containing the bulk of the
music library material. This room
on the second floor will be 50ft
by l(M)ft and will contain the mu-sic
collections that are currently
located in the Brown building and
Jackson library. There also will be
a separate Jazz and Band library
in the building.
Music School faculty will have
60 offices in the building. Accord-ing
toTollefson, almost all faculty
will be getting far more space than
they currently have. He described
his office as extremely cramped,
and that is normal for the current
building The new space will
greatly help.
There will be 7 classrooms, in-eluding
a ISO-person lecture hall
on the second floor, which will be
wired for multimedia use. simi-lar
to the Randel Jarrell leclui e hall
in the library. In addition there will
be 3 large rehearsal halls: one de-signed
for percussion, one forcho
rus/opera and one for orchestra.
The building will contain two
recital halls The first will be a
350-seat recital hall for orchestra
and choral concerts. This two-story
hall will have a 40x20-foot
stage. The second recital hall is an
organ hall, and will seat 150
people. The organ for this is be-ing
custom built, and is currently
under construction in Massachu-setts
by the Andover company, It
will have just under 2.000 pipes
The building materials also will
give the building an advantage
The building is going to be mostly
a concrete structure and is de-signed
to be much heav icr than a
non-music building on this cam-pus.
According to Patrick this de-sign
will help in the "separation
and isolation of musical instru-ments."
In the current music build-ing,
one can hear almost every in-strument
practicing nearby The
new building's massive structure
will alleviate this problem. A clas
sical guitarist in one practice room
will not be disturbed by a trum-peter
in the practice room next
door. None of the practice rooms
will have four parallel walls, one
will always be at an angle, also
helping to isolate sound.
There will be 85 different types
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Jeremiah Jenkins, senior, browses through the I M <. Bookstore s book sale, which will
also be held today and tomorrow from 9a.m. to 5p.m. in the Cone Ballroom.
oi wall coverings employed
throughout the building.
each with a different musi-cal
instrument in mind, Tor
example the Organ recital
hall will be an active room.
meaning the sound will be
bouncing around the room.
This room will promote
echoing because an'organ
needs a room that will carry
sound The other recital hall,
for voice and orchestra re
( Hals, will have a much
"quieter" design, meaning
there will not be many ech-oes.
These looms are also
designed io be comfortable.
According to Tollcfson.
anyone w ho has attended an
event in H.ut Recital Hall m the of pianos, as well as one which less ideal facilities. Tollefson is
Blown building, w ill like the new will employ the WAVE technol- "tickled to death" for the people
Ogy. This technology enables the
acoustics of the room to he ad-justed
not just to that of the recital
halls in the new building, but of
major halls around the world, such
as the Kennedy Center in Wash
The building w ill also house an ington This will specifically help practice rooms. The sound isola-acoustics
lab. which will be voice majors, who are used to lion construction sounds like it
equipped for students, specifically practicing in small rooms, allow - v\ ill make a big difference."
students who play wind insiru ing them to adjust their technique
menis. to work on their technique, for a large recital hall.
There will be a Psycho-acoustical This facility will greatly en-lab
for experiments, a central re- hance the music program at
cording studio on the first floor, UNCG. According to Tollefson,
and certain parts of the building.
such as the recital halls, will be
wired lor recording from the cen
tral location A room will be set
aside for maintenance and repair
recital halls. There also will be
some moveable acoustical ele-ments
throughout the building
These would allow foi adjust-ments
of the acoustics of rooms
between certain events
who aie going to use the facility.
Students are also excited Erik
Petersen, a sophomore majoring in
voice, says "I wish I could have
more time with it. It sounds awe-some,
especially the number of
Sophomore KiniNusbaumsays
'"It is long overdue. A school with
this quality of a |music| program
should have good facilities. It will
help the progiam a lot. students
Tuesday:
40% Chance of Rain
High in mid60's
Wednesday:
(r0% Chance of Rain
High in mid 50's
Source: National Oceanic and
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As They Shouted Out in Glee
this facility is what the University will want to come to UNCG be-deserves
for all the v ears it has had cause of this facility
FBI warned of Chinese
influence-buying plans in 1995
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Times/Post Sews Sen-ice
WASHINGTON The FBI told the
Stale Department, the CIA. the
Justice Department and some
members of Congress in 1995 that
China was planning to make ille-gal
campaign contributions to
members of Congress. Sen On in
G. Hatch. R-Utah. said Sunday.
The assertion on CBS's "Face
the Nation" by the chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee,
which was immediately dis-counted
by administration olli
cials, would indicate that the FBI's
concerns about alleged attempts to
direct illegal campaign funds to
U.S. politicians were disseminated
earlier and more widely within
government circles than had pre
iously been disclosed.
Last week, the FBI said its
counterintelligence specialists had
briefed two members of the Na-tional
Security Council staff about
the alleged Chinese attempts on
June 3. 1996.
"The FBI briefed back in 1995
that the Chinese had a plan to in-fluence
members of Congress, to
improperly influence members of
Congress." Hatch said in a later
interview.
Hatch, who said he has spoken
in the past few days with FBI ex-ecutives
about the China investi-gation,
declined to specify when
in 1995 the briefings occurred.
The members of Congress who
received the FBI briefing in 1995.
Hatch said, served on the House
and Senate intelligence commit-tees.
White House press secretary
Michael McCurry discounted
Hatch's remarks "If he is certain
ol that, his information is contrary
to what has been communicated
to me and contrary to what I've
briefed you," McCurry said at a
new s conference Sunday.
T suspect that this is another
case of a senator hyperventilating
on a Sunday talk show "
Asked to comment on Hatch's
remarks Sunday, a senior law en-forcement
official said. "I have no
idea what he's talking about "
GOP floats balloon
of impeachment in
fund controversy
Art Pine
Times/Post New s Sen ice
WASHINGTON The chairman
of the House Judiciary Commit-tee
said Sunday he has ordered a
study of impeachment procedures
in case a "smoking gun" emerges
in the White House fund-raising
controversy.
A Republican, Sen Orrin G.
Hatch of Utah, did his part to in-tensify
the heat on the White
House, charging that the Clinton
administration knew well in ad-vance
of the 1996 election of al-leged
Chinese efforts to illegally
funnel money to U.S. politicians.
Despite that knowledge, he said.
White House and Democratic
Party officials continued to rely on
fund-raisers with ties to Chinese
business interests.
The While House has said nei-ther
the president nor his senior
aides learned of the allegations
until earlier this year. Hatch, ap-pearing
of CBS-TVs "Face the
Nation," disputed that, though he
offered no evidence to support his
claim.
Meanwhile, Democratic Na-tional
Committee Chairman Roy
Romer called on his GOP coun-terpart,
James Nicholson, to agree
to a ban on all "soft money" con-tributions
to their respective par-ties,
starting Monday. Such dona-tions
_ largely unregulated contri-butions
that are not supposed to
directly benefit a candidate and
frequently involve large sums,
have been at the center of much
of the current controversy.
Nicholson dismissed the offer,
making it clear that he and other
GOP leaders want to focus on
whether Democrats broke any
laws in their 1996 fund-raising,
not on reforming the existing do-nation
system
Hyde's remarks came two days
after Rep Bob Barr. R-Ga., said
he had written to the Judiciary
Committee chairman asking for a
meeting of the panel to discuss
whether campaign fund-raising
activities by President Clinton and
Vice President Al Gore warranted
impeachment proceedings.
Rep. Henry A Waxman. D-Ca-lif.
who appeared on the CBS pro-gram,
dismissed the impeachment
talk, saying it was merely an ef-fort
by some Republicans to "get
even for Watergate, but they don't
have the basis for it.
Hatch, who heads the Senate
Judiciary Committee, made his
remarks in response to earlier
claims by the White House that the
president was never informed
about FBI warnings last June that
the Chinese were trying to runnel
large sums of money into U.S.
political campaigns.
It was recently learned that the
FBI warnings were given to sev-eral
members of Congress as well
as to two mid-level members of
the president's National Security
Council, but that those staffers did
not pass on the information to
higher-ups.
The White House has blamed
"miscommunication" between the
FBI and the two staff members for
the failure of the warning to be
passed along, but Hatch scoffed at
this explanation.
White House Press Secretary
Mike McCurry told reporters that
Hatch's assertions were "not con-sistent"
with the administration's
view of what happened. McCurry
said he was "not sure whether the
senator is hyperventilating." but
urged Hatch to present any facts
he has.
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