Woof woof uidres Serrano and other are showcased in a new TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1992 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 87, NO. 100 'Five Old Men' receive positive response to ad By KATIE CROCKER "crusade." About 15 people have expressed "We have had just short of 100 interest in running for seats on good solid letter replies, saying, the Durham county commission 'Let us know how we can help,' " with the support of "Five OldMen." said Paul Wright, one of the men •The five businessmen placed two who appears in the ad. People have advertisements in the Durham approached them on the street Herald-Sun, offering support to asking to help with the crusade, candidates who believe in the goals Wright said. and recommendations they ex­ The group hopes to support can­ pressed in the ads. didates for all five county commis­ The Feb. 17 ad, entitled "These sion seats. "We wish we could find 'Five Old Men' Feel Much Younger five candidates who have the same Today," expressed concerns simi­ [governmental philosophy] as we lar to the first one, which ran Feb. do," Wright said. 10. Both ads stressed the need for The group is interviewing re­ Durham to become fiscally respon­ spondents to determine which ones CLIFF BURNS/THE CHRONICLE sible, without crime or drugs, and they want to back. with an improved educational sys­ The group plans to provide word- Required reading tem. The second ad also stated the of-mouth support, as well as fi­ Colby Walton, a Trinity sophomore, reads up on creative cheering in Tent No. 1, Krzyzewskiville. success of the Feb. 10 ad in mus­ nancial backing, said Floyd Walton and his tentmates pitched their tent Sunday, two weeks before the Carolina game. tering positive support for their See MEN on page 10 • Employee fitness program to change By JAY WOFFINGTON manager of Trent Cafeteria, who in the Finch-Yeager Building in University employees will soon currently is unable to use the cen­ September of 1991. have to pay to use their fitness ter. The club is open to all full-time club, but the money will be used Increased interest in the pro­ University employees with at to make it a better place. gram is another reason for the least one year of service. The health center, Live for Life, expansion, Bryant-Comstack Live for Live is funded by the will begin charging members a said. "Seven out of 10 businesses University's Department of Hu­ fee of $10 per month as of April have health promotion services. man Resources, at a cost of 13, said Lynda Bryant-Comstack, It has become a part of occupa­ $800,000 per year, said Toby senior accounting manager ofthe tional health and safety. It shows Kahr, associate vice president for center. The money will be used to how the national norms of the human resources. Club programs, expand the operating hours and country are changing [Health which include fitness workouts, services the facility offers. promotion] is not a trend but part health education classes and nu­ The new hours will be 6:30 ofthe fabric of business." Studies trition and safety programs, pro­ a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekdays and 8 have shown increased fitness in mote overall employee health. a.m. to noon on Saturdays. Cur­ employees to boost attitude and "The purpose of the program is rently the center is open from 8 feelings of productivity. not merely recreational," Kahr a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays only. Live for Life is a contract pro­ said. "It is to encourage a healthier The present hours are inconve­ gram that is owned by Johnson lifestyle." nient for many workers because and Johnson and marketed na­ Bryant-Comstack said the $10 they coincide with the Univer­ tionwide. Although the service is fee should not cause many prob­ sity business day. "It is difficult used primarily by corporations, lems for the operation ofthe cen­ to go because ofthe conflict with the University is one of its largest ter, or a decrease in the number of hours that they are open and clients, she said. The program participants. Limited "scholar­ hours that I work. It's hard for a originated at the University in CLIFF BURNS/THE CHRONICLE ships," she said, will be available person with an eight-hour shift," 1989, and moved from Duke Hos­ to those who meet a specified base Employees at a Live for Life aerobics class said Margo Van Kuren, assistant pital South to its current location See FITNESS on page 10 • Martial arts? Psychoanalysis? No, it's Introduction to Acting By ERIC LARSON circle as Instructor Stephen neral scene, an actor should be number of students at 15. more on other things such as voice Person A and person B both Schilling sits down with them. able to sense "the smell of the Schilling takes much of his own quality, range of emotion and body suspect that the other is carrying On this day, Schilling opens flowers, residual of the acting philosophy from his mar­ placement. a concealed weapon. Each must the class with a passage from formaldehyde, what they had for tial arts experience. He studies One exercise has a student try to disarm the other. But in­ "Zen and the Martial Arts" by Joe breakfast. Instead of having to Kenpo, a Chinese-Japanese amal­ learning his favorite song and stead of violence, each must try to Hyams, which talks about allow­ play-act, 'I'm so sad,' your body gam art which was Americanized reciting it as a monologue. talk the other into giving up the ing oneself as much time as it does it for you." by Ed Parker for street-fighting. "They learn what to do with weapon. takes to do an activity well. Schilling stresses that the in­ Tie art is particularly suited for their bodies," says Schilling. The But here's the catch: The only For Schilling the passage shows troductory class is not strict acting, Schilling explains, since it words maybe routine, even mean­ words they are allowed to speak that to do a good job in acting "you method acting, in which the actor is not only concerned with the ingless, thus requiring extra in­ are the numbers 1 through 10. have to work in the moment," he works from the inside outward, opponent's point-of-view, but that genuity. " 'Da-doo-doo-doo, doo- A dark alley confrontation be­ says. but a combination of method and ofthe onlooker—or audience—as dah-dah-dah,' . what are you tween absurdists? One ofthe lost "If you look too far ahead, it technique, which involves work­ well. going to do with that?," in refer­ episodes of Sesame Street? Nei­ doesn't make the moment true." ing from the outside in. "The best "When someone asked Master ence to the song by The Police. ther. The situation is one of many Actors may "build" a moment schools blend both," Schilling Parker why he did not teach pure The exercise in which the ac­ off-the-wall exercises that Intro­ using the props of their imagina­ says. "We don't say 'Pretend style, he said, 'When pure fist tors' only fines are numerals il­ duction to Acting students per­ tion. Schilling uses guided medi­ you're a bottle. How does a bottle meets pure flesh, I cannot think lustrates the dynamics of the form in class three times a week, tation as a tool for introductory feel?' • of any purer style.' "Schilling tells stage. Instead of explicit lines that whether in preparation for the students to rediscover their "sense Three instructors combine to his students much the same. "I may clearly indicate a characters world, the stage, or both. memories." teach five sections of Drama 99S, give them technique and say, 'Use motives, the actor must speak Students bow to the mat as "Most people think of the im­ which routinely has enough ap­ whatever works for you.'" their "numbers" in an expressive they enter the classroom in the age as a picture... what we try to plicants for twice the number of Many of the exercises in the manner and use body movements East Campus Union. They remove do is treat an image as virtual available slots. The classes are introductory class put less impor­ to coerce or intimidate. their shoes and sit relaxed in a reality." For instance, in a fu­ seminar size with the average tance on reciting the lines and See DRAMA on page 5 • PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1992 World and National Newsfile Baker lists conditions for loan guarantees By THOMAS FRIEDMAN Associated Press not stop settlement building in the West N.Y. Times News Service Bank and Gaza "even for a day," He says GM loses billions: General Mo­ WASINGTON — Secretary of State that settlements are necessary both for tors Corp. reported a record $4.5 James Baker III for the first time publicly security reasons and to drive home Israel's billion 1991 loss Monday and identi­ laid out on Monday the Bush philosophical and biblical claim to the ter­ fied some ofthe plants it must close administration's conditions for granting ritories. to restore profits to the world's larg­ loan guarantees to Israel. Baker, in laying out the Bush est industrial corporation. He said Washington would back $10 administration's conditions, adopted a billion in loans over five years only if Israel nonconfrontational tone, indicating that Justice Stricken: Justice John agreed to freeze all construction of Jewish he was still negotiating the issue with Paul Stevens, one of the conserva­ settlements in the West Bank and the Israel's ambassador, Zalman Shoval, and tive Supreme Court's most liberal Gaza Strip.