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The Newi I J / (>| ons 3 Arts At I cisurc 4-5 / Sports 6 ^olinian ^^^^^^^^ The I Diversity of North Carolina at Greensboro OH Telephone- (910) 334 5752 Fax (910)334 3518 Online http //carnlmian uncg.edu/ Tuesday, March 18,1997 U2 Delivers the POP : See the Story, Page 4 UNCG Doubleheader: See the Story, Page 6 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 Bookstore Has Booksale Geoffrey Gartner/ THE CAROLINIAN 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 Atmospheric Administration 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 Diana < ,,ll -.Vl UK < AKOl.INIAN The UNCG Softball team defeated Dayton University, yesterday, 1-0. For more, ttcp«gt6. 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. mmmm
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Title | The Carolinian [March 18, 1997] |
Date | 1997-03-18 |
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Description | The March 18, 1997, issue of The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. |
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Full text | The Newi I J / (>| ons 3 Arts At I cisurc 4-5 / Sports 6 ^olinian ^^^^^^^^ The I Diversity of North Carolina at Greensboro OH Telephone- (910) 334 5752 Fax (910)334 3518 Online http //carnlmian uncg.edu/ Tuesday, March 18,1997 U2 Delivers the POP : See the Story, Page 4 UNCG Doubleheader: See the Story, Page 6 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 Bookstore Has Booksale Geoffrey Gartner/ THE CAROLINIAN 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 Atmospheric Administration 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 Diana < ,,ll -.Vl UK < AKOl.INIAN The UNCG Softball team defeated Dayton University, yesterday, 1-0. For more, ttcp«gt6. 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. mmmm |