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Thursday, January 26,2012
Arts & Li e
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Alex Macon, Arts & Life Editor
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UNT student acts as Kerrs resident doorman
Ashley Grant
Intern
It's become a familiar sight
for residents of UNT's largest
residence hall: the stoic young
man with the black zip-up
hoodie and thinframed glasses,
backpack at his feet, door at
his back.
He doesn't say much, lending
an air of mystery to the quiet,
polite student who sometimes
spends hours at a time holding
open the front door entrance
to Kerr Hall.
Many students don't
know why Sola Akinola,
the 18-year-old pre-music
freshman and Kerr resident,
has taken it upon himself to be
the dorm's resident doorman.
Akinola said he doesn't really
know either.
He began holding doors
open for people when he was
a junior at Bowie High School
in Arlington because he said
it seemed like a nice thing to
do.
"It just became a habit," he
said. "I kept it up throughout
my senior year and it just kind
of followed me here."
When he arrived at U NT last
semester, he only held the door
open for 10 to 15 minutes at
a time. As the semester went
on, Akinola would stay longer
and longer.
A rare sight on weekends,
Akinola can usually be spotted
manning the door Monday
through Friday between the
hours of 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Holding the door open isn't
where his kindness ends;
Akinola recalled an incident
earlier this week when someone
broke a glass bottle in front of
the building.
He took it upon himself to
pick up the pieces and throw
them away in a nearby trash
can.
Word about Akinola's
unusual service spread.
Zach Kraft, a finance junior
and Kerr Hall resident, said
he heard about Akinola while
living in a different dorm last
semester.
"I was at College Inn, and
I knew of him," Kraft said. "I
think what he does is pretty
cool."
Rain or shine, Akinola said
he still goes out to hold the door
open for students.
Frances Bizer, a radio televi-
sion and film junior and resi-
dence hall advisor at Kerr said
that last November Akinola
was inducted to the National
Residence Hall Honorary for
the courtesy he displays to resi-
dents.
Photo by Colin Dobkins/Intern Photographer
Music freshman Sola Akinola holds the door open Jan. 20 on the north entrance of Kerr Hall. Akinola can be spotted Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
"I don't really even know why [I hold the door open] anymore," he said.
The NRHH exists to recog-
nize outstanding leader-
ship, service and dedication
to the residence hall system,
according to the ResLife
website.
"I think most residents
appreciate and like having him
around," Bizer said.
When he's not keeping his
post in front of Kerr, Akinola
said he has a passion for music
and plays the cello, viola, violin,
piano and recorder.
Akinola eventually wants to
double major in music perfor-
mance and music composition,
and hopes his love of music
will carry over to his life after
graduation.
" I haven't thought about that
too much," Akinola said. "I
know I want to be in a profes-
sional orchestra."
Photo by Kristi Soto/Staff Photographer
The Bancroft String Quartet, comprised of violinists Ekaterina Tarasova and Sun Hye Oh, violist Veronika Vassileva,and
cellist Lejing Zhou, practices Jan. 25 in the Graham Green Room for an upcoming concert.
Music students, faculty look
forward to semester events
LaMecia Baines
Intern
UNT's College of Music is
offering a variety of performances
for students this semester,
including guest recitals, master
classes, piano concerts and choral
collaborations.
Along with the tried and
true shows UNT puts on every
year, the College of Music is
trying several new and exciting
programs, according to students
and professors in the depart-
ment.
"I'd have to say I am most
excited about all of the collab-
orative choirs that will be
performing," music sophomore
Caroline Hunt said. "This will
include Singers 1 and 2, and they
will be singing vertical voices,
which are new this semester."
Hunt said students could
expect a broad selection of
different styles in performances
this semester.
"Ohyeah, most definitely, you
all can expect jazz, love ballads,
swing tunes, art songs, and opera
and tap," Hunt said.
College of Music students and
"Most definitely, you all
can expect jazz, love ballads,
swing tunes, art songs,
opera and tap"
—Caroline Hunt
Music sophomore
faculty said it was tough picking
a favorite from the list of sched-
uled events.
Linda Strube, music programs
officer with the College of Music,
said February in particular was
set to kick off with a bang.
"I don't know about all of the
shows that will be performed this
semester because they hadn't
given me all of the informa-
tion yet," Strube said. "But the
biggest and most exciting show
that we are looking forward to
is the Concert and Symphony
Orchestra."
Strube said it has been almost
ten years since UNT hosted a
symphony.
The Concert and Symphony
Orchestra will take place Feb.
4 at 8 p.m. at the Murchison
Performing Arts Center. Tickets
are free for students and avail-
able at the box office,
Strube said she was enthusi-
astic about this first big concert,
but there was more to come.
"The Italian Baroque will be
international; it will be famous
people from around the world
that will be performing," Strube
said." 'Fleurs- de- Lys' will be held
on the fifth of February."
With the many guests artists
lined up, the College of Music is
set to take off this semester.
For a list of upcoming music
events hosted at U NT, visithttp: //
music.unt.edu/calendar/.
Foreign
Israel to
LONDON (AP) — Their
settings span the globe,
but this year's foreign-
language Academy Award
nominees are united in
giving local stories a
universal resonance.
The five finalists range
from World War II Poland
to modern-day Israel and
Quebec, from an Iranian
divorce court to the
bruising world of Belgian
cattle-rearing.
Front-runner among the
contenders announced
Tuesday in Los Angeles is
"A Separation," the story
of a marital breakdown
and its far-reaching conse-
quences from Iranian
writer-director Asghar
Farhadi.
The widely praised film
— hailed by some as a vital
cultural bridge at a time of
souring relations between
Iran and the West — has
already won the Golden
Globe for best foreign
language film, and also
gained Farhadi an Oscar
nomination for best orig-
inal screenplay.
Farhadi said in a state-
ment that it was a very
personal project — a senti-
ment echoed by other
nominated filmmakers.
"For a long time I had
this picture carved inside
my head," he said. "I don't
know how it got there, but
once it was there I just
knew I had to make this
film and here we are today
with not one but two nomi-
nations."
"A Separation" is up
against four other films,
including "Footnote," a
mordant tale of rivalry
between father-son
Talmudic scholars by
Israel's Joseph Cedar.
Cedar said there was
"something poetic" in
the fact that Israeli and
films from Iran,
compete for Oscar
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Iranian films were both nomi-
nated. The two countries are
bitter enemies, and Israel has
been a leading voice in inter-
national calls to halt Iran's
nuclear program.
Cedar, who was Oscar nomi-
nated in 2008 for "Beaufort,"
said it was "very flattering"
to be nominated in what he
called "a great year for foreign
film at the Oscar."
Lior Ashkenazi, who plays
the son, said he was shocked
to hear the film had been
nominated given its subject —
"two Talmudic scholars, the
most drab thing that could
be."
The director dedicated
the film to the more than
6,000 Poles, including
Socha, named by Israel's Yad
Vashem Holocaust memo-
rial as "Righteous Among the
Nations," an honor reserved
for non-Jews who risked their
lives to save Jews.
It's a third Oscar nomina-
tion for 63-year-old Holland,
one of the Country's best-
known directors, after
"EuropaEuropa" and "Angry
Harvest," both of which also
dealt with the Holocaust.
Holland said she felt the
nomination defied a "stereo-
type" that everything has
already been said about the
Holocaust.
"People react emotionally
both in Poland and in the
United States. And afterward,
the film goes from the heart
to the mind and awakens
thoughts," she told news
channel TVN24. "Peoplefeel
the film is enriching."
The fifth contender is
"Monsieur Lazhar," Canadian
director Philippe Falardeau's
story of an Algerian immi-
grant substitute teacher who
helps a group of children get
over a death.
It's the second straightyear
a filmmaker from Quebec
has made the shortlist. Denis
Villeneuve was nominated
last year for his war drama
"Incendies."
Falardeau said he was over-
whelmed by the recognition
for the French-language
film, adapted from a play by
Evelyne de la Cheneliere,
The director likened
himself to "a hockey player
trying to describe the feeling
after he wins the Stanley Cup
— he looks stupid because it
is indescribable and unbe-
lievable."
"So there you are: inde-
scribable and unbelievable,"
he said.
But he admitted the
looming ceremony left him
with a dilemma — "I don't
have a tux."
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