The Carolinian [April 22, 1997]

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April 22,1997
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Tennis Team, Number 1!:
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International Festival:
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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
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The Mariachi band was just one of the many bands that played during the International Students Association
Festival on College Ave, Sunday.
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