The Carolinian [October 18, 2004]

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IN THIS ISSUE
MARIACHI BANDS
AND CONGA UNE8
The vibrant Latin Arts Festival
attracted a crowd to the Curry
Auditorium on Thursday
evening.
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WEEKEND CALENDAR
Don't go home! Check
out some cool concerts in
Greensboro.
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A SENSE OF THE
SERENE
Local gardens help ease the
transition from school to
play. Find the best ones to
visit inside this issue!
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WOMEN'S SOCCER
ON A ROLL
by an impressive
defense and a steady
offense, the UNCG
women's soccer team
remains atop the Southern
Conference.
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ONE TRACK MINDS
Politics, politics and more
politics in our Opinion
section.
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DIRECTORY
Arts & Entertainment 4
Comics ,.5
Opinions 6
Sports 8
Classifieds 10
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THE CAROLINIAN
VOL. LXXXV
ISSUE 8
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OWRR makes a "Hefty" statement at Caf
Volunteers from the Office of Waste Reduction and Recycling manned conveyor belts in the Caf to find out just
how much food is wasted on a daily basis.
Charla Duncan
Staff Writer
Water, water everywhere, and not
a drop to drink. Well, sort of.
Keeping in mind that wasting water
is a problem as well, the. Office of
Waste Reduction and Recycling
spent Thursday's Caf hours collect-ing
leftover food off of student's
plates.
In an effort to raise the aware-ness
of our wastefulness as a society,
and in conjunction with professors
from the Anthropology department
as part of World Food Day, members
of the OWRR were seen at convey-ors
in the Caf, diligently scraping
into cans what our eyes had overes-timated
to feed our stomachs.
Friday, when the bags were
weighed, the OWRR announced that
547 pounds food had been collected
in that one-day period. Amy
Armbruster, volunteer coordinator
for the organization, did the math,
and reported that if Thursday was an
average for wasting, then UNCG
students waste "a huge amount" of
food on a larger scale: two tons on
food per week, and 105 tons per
year in the Caf alone.
According to the Department of
Environmental Protection, our
nation wastes % billion pounds of
food each year, approximately 27
percent of the 356 billion produced
worldwide. The Economic Research
Foundation released a report in 1995
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KE KEMP / THE CAROLINIAN
The wasted food piles up as OWRR volunteer coordinator Amy
Armbruster (right) pitches in for a few hours throughout the day to dump
some plates. They collected 547 pounds of food in a one-day period.
Former UNCG professor returns to share new book
Fred Chapell, professor at UNCGforforty years, shared exerptsfrom his new book Backsass and spoke of life
experiences Thursday night in the Alumni House.
DEVIN SINGLEY / THE CAROLINIAN
Writer and former UNCG professor Fred Chapell signs a copy of his lat-est
book of poetry, "Backsass" for admirer Jan Hensley. Chapell took
questions from and offered a signing after his reading Thursday night.
Devin Singley .
Staff Writer
On Thursday. October 14, UNCG
students and faculty poured into the
Alumni House on College Avenue to
hear Fred Chapell talk about his
time as a UNCG professor and read
from his numerous published books.
Chancellor Sullivan introduced
Chapell to a room lined with stu-dents
ready to haw fron»ene of the
university's most celebrated writers.
In 1987 the O. Max Gardner Award,
was awarded to Chapell. It is the
highest teaching award given by the
University of North Carolina sys-tem.
Sullivan listed his numerous
acclaims, including the nine books
Debate Watch attract many
for discussion of varied issues
The Carolinian
On Thursday the last of the pres-idential
debates was held in Tempe,
Arizona.
At UNCG, The American
Democracy Project sponsored it sec-ond
Debate Watch, bringing students
of all political persuasions together in
the Atrium's State Dining Room to
watch the debates on large screen tel-evisions
and hold discussions after-ward.
This was the follow-up event to
the initial Debate Watch that took
place on October and was hailed a
sucess by all who were involved or in
attendance.
A CNN, USA Today, and Gallup
snap poll taken immediately after the
debate found a significant edge for
Kerry over Bush, 52 percent to 39
percent.
The poll had a margin of error of
plus or minus 5 percentage points.
Here are a few UNCG students
who attended Debate Watch, and
their thoughts on the outcome and the
issues discussed.
For more information on
voter registration status, desig-nated
polling places for the
November 2 election and who
the other candidates are
appearing on your ballot, log
on to www.ncsboe.gov.
ALL PHOTOS (right) TAKEN BY
DEVIN SINGLEY FOR
THE CAROLINIAN
Ruby Carlson, 47, senior
"Bush spent the whole night
defending himself. He didn't make
an argument at all. He was just
petty. Kerry may be rich, yes. But
he was in Vietnam. He was down
there with the grunts and the aver-age
Joes. I believe that he cares
about the middle class."
Sarah Santoloci, 21, senior
"I thought it was a very good
debate and they both spoke well.
But Kerry covered more of the
issues that needed to be covered.
I'm voting for Kerry so the country
can have some hope - to make this
a better four years, get people out
of poverty, create more jobs."
Ian Tuten, 19, sophomore
"I think Bush addressed the issues
better than Kerry. He didn't fall
into repeating all the things from
the other debates. It took until
tonight to make up my mind who
I'm voting for, but I'm voting for
Bush."
Jonae Wartel, 18, freshman
"I feel like Kerry recognized a lot
of holes in Bush's arguments and
that just made his own arguments
stronger. Kerry has a grasp of the
issues and can defend his points to
the hilt. He's obviously done his
homework and he came to play."
he wrote during his five years as
Poet Laureate of North Carolina.
"He makes us laugh at ourselves,
when the value of humor seems to
be rapidly diminishing." the
Chancellor said, raving about
Chapell's work.
Fred Chapell taught at UNCG for
forty years, a fact he commented on
multiple times. Despite the English
department's attempts at keeping
him ofTrWaTd. the poerilJtll tllCTI);-
"No more in oh-four."
The names of Chapell's book
read like a secret message to UNCG.
including the titles Farewell. I am
Bound to Leave You, I Am One of
You Forever., and Backsass. the latter
a name Chancellor Sullivan
remarked she must be careful say-ing.
Chapell brightened the corner
where he was by calling Chancellor
Sullivan "Pat" for the first time in
public. He invited those listening
into his life, remarking on comments
about his wife, as his muse. He dis-agreed
by stating that generally.
"Muses don't iron shirts."
Much of the work Chapell read
sounded as though it mirrored his
life as a professor over the last four
decades. Verses read aloud were
clearly decorated with his unique
view on educating.
"Students, Forty to a classroom.
Taking up nothing but ass-room."
one of his poems read.
He quickly explained, however,
that he harbored no hard feelings or
complaints about his career in edu-cation.
"I had the greatest time teaching
for 40 years," he said. "I thought I
had the greatest job in the world."
Chapell introduced a work cur-rently
in progress following com-ments
that he was sick of teaching
the same fundamentals.
He joked. "If you find plot,
theme, or meaning. I shall have
failed utterly," and added that the
work ended with a twist that even
surprised the writer.
"With a glass of chardonnay...
and pages out of order... that's what
comes of re-writing a story the same
day your read it." he explained.
Chapell also told those in atten-dance
about his creative process.
Commenting that the title was in
fact the hardest part to write, and
that if he was stumped, he might
randomly open to a page in the
Bible for a title to reveal itself.
He 1.it in-in i'd over his inability to
imitate a characters voice as he
hears it in his head. Following that
claim, he read in a forced southern
accent about a man in a position of
leadership, with a brother named
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