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Tke Carolinian CM News l-4/Sports6 Opinions 7 / Arts & Leisure 8 Tuesday, April 22,1997 ^^^^^pa*^ The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Telephone- (910) 334-5752 Fax-(910) 334-3518 Online httpV/caroliman uncg.edu/ Tennis Team, Number 1!: See the Story, Page 6 International Festival: See the Story, Page 8 Lwue48, Volume 76 W7 Air Force finds mountain wreckage of possible A-10 Tom Kenworthy Times/Post News Service EAGLE, Colo.-Military pilots searching for an attack jet that dis-appeared during a training mission in Arizona spotted pieces of gray painted metal Sunday they believe to be the plane's wreckage pro-truding from the snow near a Colorado mountain peak. "It is our collective judgment that what we have seen is likely to be A-10 airplane pieces," Air Force Maj. Gen. Nels Running said at a news conference Sunday night at Eagle County Airport, the search headquarters for what has become one of the greatest mys-teries in military aviation. Running said a Colorado Army National Guard helicopter pilot hovering just off the south side of a peak in the New York Mountain range, some 12,500 feet up the sheer, rocky face, had seen pieces from interior sections of the plane with the Warthog's distinctive grey paint and yellowish-green anti-corrosive undercoating. Air Force pilots flew to the spot to verify the sighting. Snow, wind and the sheerness of the face made a ground search for remains impossible Sunday, Running said, and may forestall those effort in the coming days as well. He said there is some "urgency" to get to the site because there were explosives-four 500-pound general-purpose bombs-on board the A-10. Melting snow, hastened by the heat of the aircraft's metal, was probably responsible for finally making the invisible, visible. Run-ning said. He described the terrain as "very steep," adding: "There is no way to get there easily." Helicopters and planes in the massive search effort had flown many times over the mountain where the wreckage was found. Running said. About 15 miles southwest of the Vail ski report, it was the last place sensors and witnesses tracked what could have been the plane on April 2, the day it disappeared from a training exercise that be-gan from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson. On Sunday morning, two days before the Air Force was set to suspend its search, searchers de-cided to go over the area again "spot by spot, looking at the mountain wall," Running said. "It took that disciplined look." Maj. Chuck Mitchell, an A-10 pilot who flew to the mountain in a helicopter to help identify the aircraft Sunday, said weather con-dition made the ride "harrowing." He said he saw 18 to two dozen pieces of metal strewn over a large area. "It was like seeing the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle," Mitchell said. See Wreckage, Page 3 Weather Outlook Tuesday: 30% Chance for Rain J High in upper 60's Wednesday: ______ 60% Chance High in 60 to 65 Source: National Oceanic mod Atmospheric Administration UNCG marched against violence Natalie Watson SeniorNews Writer "Take Back the Night," the eighth annual UNCG March Against Violence, drew students and community members alike, dedicated to renewing support for the victims of violent crimes and taking a stand against violence ev-erywhere. Sponsored by Student Health Services and the UNCG Wellness Center, the march, held Thursday night, was one of a series of week long events planned to help reduce the negative stigma surrounding victimization, and to draw atten-tion to the degree of violence that exists in our society. Although not able to attend the march. Chancellor Patricia Sullivan supported the event, and issued a statement of support to be read during the opening remarks made by Carol Disque, Vice Chan-cellor for Student Affairs. Dr. Disque stressed the impor-tance of increased awareness of the effects of violent crimes. "Personal violence is unaccept-able in campus communities and surrounding communities ... someone has to speak out before violence occurs. Do not just wait for your friend or family member to become a victim ..." she said. Personal stories of UNCG stu-dents, placed anonymously in a box throughout the week, were read before the march. The stories told of experiences with rape, domestic abuse and the touchy subject of male victim rape. The stories were read to bring the issue home to participants and to illustrate that violent acts hap-pen every day, and can not be ig-nored. The path of the march was paved with murder victim monu-ments, giving memorial to victims of various senseless acts of vio-lence. The victims ranged from chil-dren that were victims of horrible sexual and physical abuse by rela-tives, to victims of gang related violence. Glenn Trent, one of the spon-sors of the Silent Witness Display, expressed his dismay at the high number of monuments in the dis-play, 215 in all. "The violence has got to stop ... one way to reduce crime is by getting to know each other, and breaking down barriers, racial and otherwise..." said Trent. In addition to the march a vari-ety of other events were held last week to increase campus aware-ness of violent crimes. Throughout the week, the Clothesline Project was held in front ofJackson Library, allowing students to make T-shirts, convey-ing messages about stopping rape and other violent crimes. According to Phase II (Peer Helpers Advancing Sexual Educa-tion) Coordinators, Tammy Watts and Jennifer Wolowitz, "The pur-pose of the Clothesline Project is to bear witness to the survivors and victims of sexual violence." Ribbons were also distributed, a different color for the different categories of violence, such as sexual assault, abuse against chil-dren and hate crimes. On Wednesday, a panel discus-sion was held on the topic, "Vio-lence against Women." Featured presenters were Dr. Jacquelyn White from the UNCG Department of Psychology, Dr. Paige Hall-Smith from the Depart-ment of Public Health Education, and Dr. Laura Williams represent-ing the UNCG Counseling and Testing Center. Fraternity Sisters Sing for Greek Week Jennifer Schnabcl/THE CAROLINIAN Members of Lambda Chi Alpha lip-synch a performance in costume for Greek Week. Owens Gives Lecture Jennifer SchnabelTHE CAROLINIAN Congressman Major R. Owens gave the Cora Paul Bomar Lecture, Satur-day, for the 1997 UNCG Library and Information Studies Alumni Day in the Virginia Dare Room of the Alumni House. Campus invited to attend Spring Garden Streetscape Presentation from Staff Reports UNCG and the City of Greens-boro are jointly participating in a streetscape project to provide a more "pedestrian friendly" Spring Garden Street. This project will eliminate or conceal overhead utility lines, improve street and pedestrian lighting, provide distinctive cross-walks and new traffic signals. A landscaped island will sepa-rate the traffic lanes creating a boulevard with large sidewalks on each side of the street. Trees will be planted along each side of the street and in the me-dian which will provide a canopy for future generations. Construction will begin in mid- July and it is anticipated that Spring Garden Street between Tate and Forest streets will be closed for approximately four months. See Spring Garden, Page 4 Homosexuality threatens Charlotte s image, says Martin Eric Harrison Times/Post News Sen ice CHARLOTTE, N.C-Hoyle Mar tin doesn't like it, the steady creep, the constant surge and seep of sex into everyday life. He especially abhors "deviant sex." It's everywhere, he says. Just look at Ellen DeGeneres on the cover of Time magazine, he says with disgust. Why can't homo-sexuals keep their private lives private? That's what he wants to know. "People ask me if I have any gay friends," said Martin, 69. "I tell them that if I do I don't know it. And that's the way it ought to be." Martin's opposition to homo-sexuality is not uncommon, espe-cially among people of his genera-tion here in the Bible Belt. What makes his views notewor-thy is that the retired college in-structor and journalist has man-aged, as a member of the Mecklenburg County Commis-sion, to enshrine his notion of morality into law. Earlier this month, the County Commission, voted to approve Martin's measure to stop funding organizations that expose the pub-lic to "perverted forms of sexual-ity." In so doing, it plunged this thriving New South Mecca into the country's seething culture wars, and opened a rancorous and potentially transformative local debate. In the churches, boardrooms, bars and art studios in North Carolina's largest city, residents are asking fundamental questions about their community: What manner ofplace have we become? What kind of city do we want to be? The answers likely will take time to hash out, but the mere pos-ing of the questions is causing star-tling new political and social alignments. Charlotte, home to some of the nation's largest banking concerns, is the South's Second City, a re-gional business center with de-signs on rivaling Atlanta as a ma-jor metropolis. But the County Commission's vote-evoking as it does memories of a kind of traditional Southern intolerance-threatens the city's carefully crafted progressive im-age. As such, the vote was inter-preted locally not only as an as-sault on homosexuality but as a challenge to the downtown busi-ness interests that shaped the mod-ern cityscape and its culture. Now, in an unlikely alliance, starched-shirt bankers and busi-ness executives have joined with artists and gays to battle Christian conservatives over the soul and image of the city. The County Commission's vote was sparked by the Charlotte Rep-ertory Theater's production last spring of the Pulitzer Prize-win-ning play. "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," and by the same company's plans to stage a pro-duction (which has since opened) of John Guare's acclaimed "Six Degrees of Separation." Martin acknowledges that ho-mosexuality is incidental to the plot of the latter play, which is based on an actual incident. But even a peripheral gay theme is too much for him. "There's enough smut out there in movies, on tele-vision and in magazines without us putting that stuff on the stage," he said. "To spend (tax) money on something like that just seems in-comprehensible." The Charlotte Repertory The-ater receives funding from the lo-cal Arts and Science Council, See Martin, Page 4 UNCG Gets A Taste of International Culture - ? 1 • 11 • i m • ' 11 W'^li tm B • /V ^^^sssnV H t m.: 41 * 1 * mm Diana CoOJns/THK CAROLINIAN The Mariachi band was just one of the many bands that played during the International Students Association Festival on College Ave, Sunday. MBMM
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Title | The Carolinian [April 22, 1997] |
Date | 1997-04-22 |
Editor/creator | Whitlow, Jeff |
Subject headings | University of North Carolina at Greensboro--Newspapers;College student newspapers and periodicals-- North Carolina--Greensboro;Student publications--North Carolina--Greensboro;Student activities--North Carolina--History |
Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | The April 22, 1997, issue of The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. |
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Original publisher | Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
Language | eng |
Contributing institution | Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
Publication | The Carolinian |
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Object ID | 1997-04-22-carolinian |
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Full text | Tke Carolinian CM News l-4/Sports6 Opinions 7 / Arts & Leisure 8 Tuesday, April 22,1997 ^^^^^pa*^ The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Telephone- (910) 334-5752 Fax-(910) 334-3518 Online httpV/caroliman uncg.edu/ Tennis Team, Number 1!: See the Story, Page 6 International Festival: See the Story, Page 8 Lwue48, Volume 76 W7 Air Force finds mountain wreckage of possible A-10 Tom Kenworthy Times/Post News Service EAGLE, Colo.-Military pilots searching for an attack jet that dis-appeared during a training mission in Arizona spotted pieces of gray painted metal Sunday they believe to be the plane's wreckage pro-truding from the snow near a Colorado mountain peak. "It is our collective judgment that what we have seen is likely to be A-10 airplane pieces" Air Force Maj. Gen. Nels Running said at a news conference Sunday night at Eagle County Airport, the search headquarters for what has become one of the greatest mys-teries in military aviation. Running said a Colorado Army National Guard helicopter pilot hovering just off the south side of a peak in the New York Mountain range, some 12,500 feet up the sheer, rocky face, had seen pieces from interior sections of the plane with the Warthog's distinctive grey paint and yellowish-green anti-corrosive undercoating. Air Force pilots flew to the spot to verify the sighting. Snow, wind and the sheerness of the face made a ground search for remains impossible Sunday, Running said, and may forestall those effort in the coming days as well. He said there is some "urgency" to get to the site because there were explosives-four 500-pound general-purpose bombs-on board the A-10. Melting snow, hastened by the heat of the aircraft's metal, was probably responsible for finally making the invisible, visible. Run-ning said. He described the terrain as "very steep" adding: "There is no way to get there easily." Helicopters and planes in the massive search effort had flown many times over the mountain where the wreckage was found. Running said. About 15 miles southwest of the Vail ski report, it was the last place sensors and witnesses tracked what could have been the plane on April 2, the day it disappeared from a training exercise that be-gan from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson. On Sunday morning, two days before the Air Force was set to suspend its search, searchers de-cided to go over the area again "spot by spot, looking at the mountain wall" Running said. "It took that disciplined look." Maj. Chuck Mitchell, an A-10 pilot who flew to the mountain in a helicopter to help identify the aircraft Sunday, said weather con-dition made the ride "harrowing." He said he saw 18 to two dozen pieces of metal strewn over a large area. "It was like seeing the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle" Mitchell said. See Wreckage, Page 3 Weather Outlook Tuesday: 30% Chance for Rain J High in upper 60's Wednesday: ______ 60% Chance High in 60 to 65 Source: National Oceanic mod Atmospheric Administration UNCG marched against violence Natalie Watson SeniorNews Writer "Take Back the Night" the eighth annual UNCG March Against Violence, drew students and community members alike, dedicated to renewing support for the victims of violent crimes and taking a stand against violence ev-erywhere. Sponsored by Student Health Services and the UNCG Wellness Center, the march, held Thursday night, was one of a series of week long events planned to help reduce the negative stigma surrounding victimization, and to draw atten-tion to the degree of violence that exists in our society. Although not able to attend the march. Chancellor Patricia Sullivan supported the event, and issued a statement of support to be read during the opening remarks made by Carol Disque, Vice Chan-cellor for Student Affairs. Dr. Disque stressed the impor-tance of increased awareness of the effects of violent crimes. "Personal violence is unaccept-able in campus communities and surrounding communities ... someone has to speak out before violence occurs. Do not just wait for your friend or family member to become a victim ..." she said. Personal stories of UNCG stu-dents, placed anonymously in a box throughout the week, were read before the march. The stories told of experiences with rape, domestic abuse and the touchy subject of male victim rape. The stories were read to bring the issue home to participants and to illustrate that violent acts hap-pen every day, and can not be ig-nored. The path of the march was paved with murder victim monu-ments, giving memorial to victims of various senseless acts of vio-lence. The victims ranged from chil-dren that were victims of horrible sexual and physical abuse by rela-tives, to victims of gang related violence. Glenn Trent, one of the spon-sors of the Silent Witness Display, expressed his dismay at the high number of monuments in the dis-play, 215 in all. "The violence has got to stop ... one way to reduce crime is by getting to know each other, and breaking down barriers, racial and otherwise..." said Trent. In addition to the march a vari-ety of other events were held last week to increase campus aware-ness of violent crimes. Throughout the week, the Clothesline Project was held in front ofJackson Library, allowing students to make T-shirts, convey-ing messages about stopping rape and other violent crimes. According to Phase II (Peer Helpers Advancing Sexual Educa-tion) Coordinators, Tammy Watts and Jennifer Wolowitz, "The pur-pose of the Clothesline Project is to bear witness to the survivors and victims of sexual violence." Ribbons were also distributed, a different color for the different categories of violence, such as sexual assault, abuse against chil-dren and hate crimes. On Wednesday, a panel discus-sion was held on the topic, "Vio-lence against Women." Featured presenters were Dr. Jacquelyn White from the UNCG Department of Psychology, Dr. Paige Hall-Smith from the Depart-ment of Public Health Education, and Dr. Laura Williams represent-ing the UNCG Counseling and Testing Center. Fraternity Sisters Sing for Greek Week Jennifer Schnabcl/THE CAROLINIAN Members of Lambda Chi Alpha lip-synch a performance in costume for Greek Week. Owens Gives Lecture Jennifer SchnabelTHE CAROLINIAN Congressman Major R. Owens gave the Cora Paul Bomar Lecture, Satur-day, for the 1997 UNCG Library and Information Studies Alumni Day in the Virginia Dare Room of the Alumni House. Campus invited to attend Spring Garden Streetscape Presentation from Staff Reports UNCG and the City of Greens-boro are jointly participating in a streetscape project to provide a more "pedestrian friendly" Spring Garden Street. This project will eliminate or conceal overhead utility lines, improve street and pedestrian lighting, provide distinctive cross-walks and new traffic signals. A landscaped island will sepa-rate the traffic lanes creating a boulevard with large sidewalks on each side of the street. Trees will be planted along each side of the street and in the me-dian which will provide a canopy for future generations. Construction will begin in mid- July and it is anticipated that Spring Garden Street between Tate and Forest streets will be closed for approximately four months. See Spring Garden, Page 4 Homosexuality threatens Charlotte s image, says Martin Eric Harrison Times/Post News Sen ice CHARLOTTE, N.C-Hoyle Mar tin doesn't like it, the steady creep, the constant surge and seep of sex into everyday life. He especially abhors "deviant sex." It's everywhere, he says. Just look at Ellen DeGeneres on the cover of Time magazine, he says with disgust. Why can't homo-sexuals keep their private lives private? That's what he wants to know. "People ask me if I have any gay friends" said Martin, 69. "I tell them that if I do I don't know it. And that's the way it ought to be." Martin's opposition to homo-sexuality is not uncommon, espe-cially among people of his genera-tion here in the Bible Belt. What makes his views notewor-thy is that the retired college in-structor and journalist has man-aged, as a member of the Mecklenburg County Commis-sion, to enshrine his notion of morality into law. Earlier this month, the County Commission, voted to approve Martin's measure to stop funding organizations that expose the pub-lic to "perverted forms of sexual-ity." In so doing, it plunged this thriving New South Mecca into the country's seething culture wars, and opened a rancorous and potentially transformative local debate. In the churches, boardrooms, bars and art studios in North Carolina's largest city, residents are asking fundamental questions about their community: What manner ofplace have we become? What kind of city do we want to be? The answers likely will take time to hash out, but the mere pos-ing of the questions is causing star-tling new political and social alignments. Charlotte, home to some of the nation's largest banking concerns, is the South's Second City, a re-gional business center with de-signs on rivaling Atlanta as a ma-jor metropolis. But the County Commission's vote-evoking as it does memories of a kind of traditional Southern intolerance-threatens the city's carefully crafted progressive im-age. As such, the vote was inter-preted locally not only as an as-sault on homosexuality but as a challenge to the downtown busi-ness interests that shaped the mod-ern cityscape and its culture. Now, in an unlikely alliance, starched-shirt bankers and busi-ness executives have joined with artists and gays to battle Christian conservatives over the soul and image of the city. The County Commission's vote was sparked by the Charlotte Rep-ertory Theater's production last spring of the Pulitzer Prize-win-ning play. "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes" and by the same company's plans to stage a pro-duction (which has since opened) of John Guare's acclaimed "Six Degrees of Separation." Martin acknowledges that ho-mosexuality is incidental to the plot of the latter play, which is based on an actual incident. But even a peripheral gay theme is too much for him. "There's enough smut out there in movies, on tele-vision and in magazines without us putting that stuff on the stage" he said. "To spend (tax) money on something like that just seems in-comprehensible." The Charlotte Repertory The-ater receives funding from the lo-cal Arts and Science Council, See Martin, Page 4 UNCG Gets A Taste of International Culture - ? 1 • 11 • i m • ' 11 W'^li tm B • /V ^^^sssnV H t m.: 41 * 1 * mm Diana CoOJns/THK CAROLINIAN The Mariachi band was just one of the many bands that played during the International Students Association Festival on College Ave, Sunday. MBMM |