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SENT PACKING North Carolina beat N.C. State 74-55 without starter Dexter Strickland. Senior Tyler Zeller posted 21 points. See page 5. Serving UNC students and the University community since 1893 Volume 119, Issue 140 dailytarheel.com Friday, January 27, 2012 ‘AN EPIC JOURNEY’ DTH/ELIZABETH MENDOZA John Dreher, who plays Mortimer in “Henry IV” and Gloucester in “Henry IV” and “Henry V,” takes a break backstage with his iPad. Some rehearsals have gone as long as 14 hours this week. than a decade and a production history ‘THE MAKING OF A KING’ ‘The Making of a King’ was 20 lasting more than a year, every aspect of years in the making for Joseph “The Making of a King” is epic. Time: Tuesday through Friday from “Let’s do this slowly,” Joseph Haj, Jan. 28 to March 4 at 7:30 p.m. in rotat- Haj, co-director of the plays. PlayMakers’ producing artistic director ing repertory; Saturday performances and co-director of the plays, instructed his of both plays at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., By Grace Tatter cast as they began their first rehearsal on Sunday performances at 2 p.m. Staff Writer stage with the set — a skeletal iron frame, heavy iron panels and few props. Location: Paul Green Theatre The 24 cast members of PlayMakers Actor Michael Winters began his lines Info: www.playmakersrep.org Repertory Company’s production of with exaggerated slow motion before “Henry IV” and “Henry V” will more quickly snapping into the fast-paced witti- or less live in Paul Green Theatre until cisms his character Falstaff — Prince Hal’s ‘HENRY’: BY THE NUMBERS March. ne’er-do-well second-father figure — is In the final week before “The Making of known for. a King” opens, some rehearsals call for 14 If there’s one thing that the produc- 2,724 hours in the theater, keeping the cast and tion hinges on, it’s this jovial but efficient lines in Shakespeare’s unabridged scripts crew in the Center for Dramatic Art for approach to storytelling that is necessary for “Henry IV” parts 1 and 2 and “Henry V” most of the day. to keep the audience engaged during the Between scenes, a wooden table in the marathon theater event. center of the stage becomes a spot for a Haj has been engaged with the story 85 quick nap. since 1990, when he first worked on characters in the two plays, played by 24 Some evenings, the cast and crew gath- the three plays at Guthrie Theater in actors er for a “family” dinner, momentarily for- Minneapolis. getting — or at least pretending to forget He has dreamed of a project that — the challenges posed by the magnitude encompasses the plays since he came to 6 of the production. PlayMakers in 2006. hours of theater in “The Making of a King” Shawn Fagan plays Prince Hal, who eventu- With each play lasting around three between “Henry IV”’s three and a half ally becomes King Henry V. The shows mark hours, a combined plot that spans more SEE HENRYS, PAGE 4 hours and “Henry V”’s two and a half hours Fagan’s debut at PlayMakers. Gov. Bev Perdue will not seek re-election Pat McCrory, who lost to Gov. Bev Perdue funds. Republican Pat McCrory, schools and schoolchildren do economy has loomed large in vot- campaign finance reports. claims the GOP the former Charlotte mayor who not continue to be the victims of ers’ assessment of Perdue’s perfor- Perdue’s campaign reported Perdue in 2008, will run majority has “wrong narrowly lost to Perdue in 2008, shortsighted legislative actions mance. The state’s unemployment having $1.34 million cash on priorities.” She will officially kick off his guber- and severe budget cuts inflicted rate — currently 9.9 percent — hand as of mid-2011, compared again for NC governor. issued a record 16 natorial campaign Tuesday. by a legislative majority with the has remained in double digits for to about $940,000 for McCrory’s vetoes and clashed The Democratic governor wrong priorities,” Perdue said in much of Perdue’s tenure. campaign. Campaign finance has clashed repeatedly with the a statement. “The sour economy and the reports for the second half of By Daniel Wiser with the party. Assistant State & National Editor N.C. General Assembly’s first A poll released by Public Policy clash over priorities with the leg- 2011 are due today. Republican majority since 1898, Polling, a Democratic firm based islature sapped her of the ability Rep. Bill Faison, D-Orange, has Gov. Bev Perdue shocked some issuing a record 16 vetoes and in Raleigh, earlier this month to win public support by a list of hinted at a possible run to replace political observers Thursday by just two weeks before the filing publicly sparring about the exten- found McCrory leading Perdue by accomplishments,” Guillory said. Perdue. He said he will make an announcing that she will not seek period begins and could lead sion of a temporary sales tax and a 52 to 41 percent margin. Former members of Perdue’s announcement soon and isn’t re-election in a swing state crucial to a scramble for Democratic cuts to education spending. Ferrel Guillory, a UNC jour- campaign staff were also indicted concerned about McCrory’s early to Democrats’ political fortunes. candidates to quickly assemble a “The thing I care about most nalism professor and expert on charges of violating election Perdue’s announcement came campaign organization and raise right now is making sure that our on Southern politics, said the laws recently, including false SEE PERDUE, PAGE 4 A MUSICAL MARK TWAIN This day in history Today’s weather FOR A CAUSE Playwright Paul Newell Inside JAN. 27, 1911 Expect scantily- UNC sophomore imagines Mark Twain’s In its first men’s var- clad ladies ZUMBA ZEAL Rachel Kaplan wrote reactions to contempo- sity basketball game, H 62, L 34 Friday at the YMCA, a musical about the rary issues this weekend UNC defeated Virginia Saturday’s weather dance to raise money upcoming vote on at the ArtsCenter. Read Christian 42-21. The team Perfect for the gay marriage ban. more at www.dailytar- went on to finish the for the We Build People picnics campaign. Page 3. Page 9. heel.com/canvas. year 7-4. H 62, L 31 Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 2 Friday, January 27, 2012 News The Daily Tar Heel The Daily Tar Heel DAILY SuMMER SEARCH DOSE www.dailytarheel.com Established 1893 118 years of editorial freedom I like big butts and I cannot lie STEVEN NORton From staff and wire reports EDITOR-In-CHIEf [email protected] ’all otha brothas can’t deny. When a girl walks in with an itty-bitty TARINI PARTI waist … you inject her butt with Super Glue, right? ManagIng editor [email protected] OK, no. But that’s just what two people in South Florida did recently, KELLY McHUGH sparking a furor in the Sunshine State that has been dubbed the “toxic vIsual ManagIng editor Ytush” case. Here’s the gist: Transgender woman Oneal Ron Morris, 30, also known [email protected] ANDY THOMASON as “Duchess,” and her assistant Corey Eubanks, 40, of Hollywood, Fla., allegedly in- unIvERsITy EDITOR jected women with a near-lethal concoction of cement, Super Glue and Fix-a-Flat, [email protected] JEANNA SMIALEK a product used to inflate tires. The case has become so contentious that Eubanks’ CITy EDITOR recent appearance on a local talk show turned into an episode worthy of a good [email protected] “Jerry! Jerry!” when audience members lunged on to the stage to attack. ISABELLA COCHRANE sTaTE & NATIONAL EDITOR My anaconda don’t want none of that. Not none. [email protected] KATELYN TRELA NOTED. Back in the day, we would imagine find- QUOTED. “She just wanted cigarettes. That’s all Arts Editor ing a package of moonshine would make postal she wanted. She wanted cigarettes.” [email protected] workers happy. No longer. — Lillian Morales, neighbor of Joan Mayo, DTH/ELIZA WILLIAMS JOSEPH CHAPMAN The Martin County (Fla.) bomb squad was of St. Cloud, Fla. llison Press, a freshman from Chapel Hill, left, DIvERsIOns editor called to a post office Thursday after a pack- Mayo was arrested Tuesday for abusing [email protected] speaks to Jim and Denice Dunn, directors of Camp age began leaking an unknown, oily substance. the 911 system after she dialed the emergency KELLY PARSONS It was moonshine. No one was harmed or got number six times, attempting to get an officer Merrie-Woode for girls, on Thursday’s internship sPORTs Editor A [email protected] drunk in the incident. to buy her smokes. fair in the Student Union. They were recruiting counselors ALLIE RUSSELL for their summer sessions in Sapphire, N.C. Employers and photo editor [email protected] COMMUNITY CALENDAR company representatives set up booths from noon to 4 p.m. GEORGIA cAVANAUGH, CHRIS HARROW 980 Martin luther King Jr. Blvd. copy co-EDITORs TODAY SATURDAY POLICE LOG [email protected] Soup and chili cook-off: Kick-start Benefit dinner and auction: attend Wrestling vs. Maryland: Come out SARAH GLEN your weekend and come help judge the Engineers Without Borders an- and cheer on the unC wrestling OnlInE EDITOR a selection of locally made soups nual benefit dinner and auction. The Someone attempted to take a Road, according to Chapel Hill [email protected] and chilis. Each sample costs $1, and team as they take on the Maryland event will feature a cocktail recep- wallet from a subject between police reports.