The Carolinian [September 21, 1999]

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-S3 Carolinian The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Tuesday Phone: (336) 334-5752 Fax: (336) 334-3518 Issue 6,
September 21,1999 Online: http://carolinian.uncg.edu Volume 79
Just one of those weeks:
Natural Disasters Affect Nation
By AKIR KHAN
News Editor
It was just one of those
weeks where everything goes
wrong. Mother Nature was in
a bad mood and the result was
disastrous for people around
the nation and the world.
* Australian-led Peacekeep-ers
head for East Timor.
Shattered cities and towns
and a starving population
await international Peacekeep-ers
who set sail for East Timor
—along with the possibility of
armed resistance from militias
who want to keep the half-is-land
in the name of Indonesia.
On Saturday, nine warships
from three countries headed
out of Darwin, Australia, the
first wave of peacekeepers
making their way to a territory
left in shambles by rampages
following East Timor's his-toric
vote for independence.
* Floyd Hits NC.
Rescuers in fleets of helicop-ters
and boats rushed to help
people still stranded by floods
from Floyd's heavy rainfall.
Officials warned that major
ivers across eastern North
Carolina were still rising,
early 50 helicopters, with more
expected from other states,
were in the air for rescue
misions, Saturday, in
dgecombe. Nash, Pitt and
Duplin counties. In
Edgecombe County alone,
3,500 people had been res-cued.
At least 41 people died,
including 16 in North Caro-lina,
as Floyd churned up the
East Coast and thousands of
homes and businesses were
amaged.
* Worse Than Fran
Federal Emergency Man-agement
Agency Director
James Lee Witt says the dam-age
from Floyd appears worse
than the estruction caused by
Hurricane Fran in 1996. Fran
inflicted $6 billion worth of
damage and is widely consid-ered
North Carolina's worst
natural disaster ever. Terrence
Johnson, senior at UNCG
feels that he "was not afraid,
[he] assumed it was going to
pass according to the topo-graphical
map that was shown
on the weather channel. The
best thing that [he] had going
for [him] was [his] friends
to...keep [him] safe. [He]
wondered, at times, if this was
the end, but as [his] friend
Zeshan Baig always said, 'Life
is short. You are not sure when
it is your turn to go.' In the
end, it all worked out."
Hurricane Floyd
prompted the largest peace-time
evacuation in history;
some 2.6 million people in
Florida, the Carolinas, and
Georgia fled their homes aftei
receiving mandatory and vol-untary
evacuation orders.
Floyd's torrential rains also
grounded planes and halted
train service from Maryland to
Massachusetts. Now, the
storm has passed, but many
roads are still submerged oi
caked with mud.
Carnival lite documentary to be
aired by UNC- TV:
Created by UNCG Filmmaker
STAFF REPORTS
GREENSBORO — The
gritty road life of the traveling
carnival in America is the sub-ject
of "Carnival Train," a
documentary film by Matthew
Barr of The University of
North Carolina at Greensboro.
Barr's film is a six-year
work of love that focuses
on life within the James E.
Strates Shows, which is the
nation's longest-running trav-eling
carnival, and the only
carnival that travels by train.
The Strates operation has been
the main attraction of the
North Carolina State Fair for
many years. It also does the
New York and Delaware state
fairs, and has been at the Dixie
Classic Fair in Winston-Salem.
The two-hour film can
be seen twice this fall. A free,
public screening is scheduled
Baroque
Southeast to
play at UNCG
By SCOTT LAFAINE
Guest Writer
Guess what's coming
to town? Does the name ring
a bell? Baroque Southeast, a
period instrument ensemble,
will perform at The University
of North Carolina at Greens-boro
at 7:30 p.m., on Monday,
Oct. 4, in the Organ Recital
Hall of the School of Music
Building. The cost is a little bit
high, but this is something you
cannot miss. General admis-sion
tickets are $8 for general
public, $5 for seniors, and $3
for UNCG students. They are
available through the Univer-sity
Box Office and Arts Infor-mation
Center (334-4849)
with locations in the Elliott
University Center, and at the
School of Music Building box
office. Members of the Ba-roque
Southeast ensemble play
on original or replica instru-ments
from the 18th century.
The use of authentic baroque
violin, oboe, harpsichord and
cello enables the performers to
recreate the instrumental
sounds of the 17th and 18th
centuries. The instruments also
help performers to capture the
baroque style more effectively.
The ensemble, which
is in residence at the Florida
State University School of
Music, has drawn large audi-ences
since its inception in
1990. They are scheduled to
play at Carnegie Hall's Weill
Recital Hall in New York in
October. The performance
will feature J.S. Bach's "So-nata
in A Major," CPE. Bach's
"Solo Harpsichord Works,"
Tommaso Albinoni's "Trio
Sonata in E Minor," Michel
Corrette's "Suite in C Major,"
and Dario Castello's "Prima
Sonata." If you want to pur-chase
tickets, you can visit the
Box Office at the Elliott Cen-ter
between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
or the School of Music Box
Office We'll see you at the
show.
Poet Gibbous coming
to UNCG
BY AKIR KHAN
News Editor
Poetry can be very
bowerful and moving. Poet
Gibbons Ruark will read from
his works at 8 p.m. on Wednes-day,
Oct. 13, in the Faculty
Center at The University of
North Carolina at Greensboro.
The best thing about
Ithis is the price. The reading
is open to the public at no
charge, and is sponsored by the
UNCG Master of Fine Arts
Creative Writing Program.
His books will be
lavailable for purchase, as well
as a reception and book sign-ing
following the reading,
Ruark, who has taught English
at the University of Delaware
for over 30 years, is author of
seven books of poetry. These
include his most recent vol-ume.
Passing Through Cus-toms:
News and Selected Po-ems,
along with Small Rain
Reeds, Keeping Company, A
Program for Survival and Res-cue
the Perishing. His poetry
has been published widely in
magazines such as The New
Yorker and many others. Foi
more information, call the
UNCG MFAWriting Program
at 334-5459.
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for 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 24,
in Room 100 of the Ferguson
Building at UNCG. UNC-TV
will air "Carnival Train" at 6
p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 10, prior
to the State Fair's run in Ra-leigh
from Oct. 15-24. More
information is available by
calling the UNCG Department
of Broadcasting/Cinema and
Theatre at 334-5360.
"Carnival Train" was
presented at a juried screening
on Aug. 4, in Boston, at the
annual meeting of the Univer-sity
Film and Video, Associa-tion,
which is the nation's larg-est
professional organization
for media educators.
Barr traveled with the
Strates Shows for four seasons
to film more than 100 hours of
footage for the documentary.
The program explores the car-nival
world from the lives of
the workers, or "carnies". Barr
says the documentary has an
ethnographic perspective of
carnival workers as a niche in
society.
"A carnival is raucous;
it is slightly on the wild side,"
said Barr. "There's an intensity
to the experience. The grilled
onions. The kielbasa. People
stuffing their faces. You don't
get that at Disney World.
Disney World is enormously
successful, but it is...clean and
sanitized.
"A carnival is gritty.
It's kind of sexy and rough and
raw. You smell diesel exhaust
(from the ride power plants).
The game operators, they're
calling you over, 'Hey buddy.
Yeah, you, come here.'
They're aggressive.
"Walking the midway,
you are distracted by a million
things. The rides are grinding.
The rock and roll is blaring. It's
very intense. One minute, it's
like being in Las Vegas, with
rows and rows of games. The
next minute, you're on a ride
that is grinding and growling.
And all the ride guys are cov-ered
in tatoos and tough-look-ing.
It's Americana."
Barr has a long-run-ning
interest in carnivals that
goes back to his graduate
school days at the University
of California at Los Angeles.
There, he made a Super 8 film,
"Duke," which focused on a
carnival worker. Earlier, dur-ing
the 1970s, he spent three
seasons working with a carni-val
that worked along the West
coast.
"The carnival train and
its journey is used as a story
line for this documentary,"
said Barr. "It will interweave
archival still photographs of
the Strates show with in-depth
portraits of the carnies and
scenes of the cycle of carnival
life. I regard this documentary
as one of the pivotal works of
my artistic career."
Barrjoined the UNCG
faculty in 1994 and teaches
undergraduate and graduate
courses in production and
screenwriting. Earlier, he
taught from 1989-94 in the
film program at the University
of Miami at Coral Gables.
Since he began work on "Car-nival
Train," he has received
over $27,000 in grant support.
He is a graduate of San Fran-cisco
State ITnlverslty and
holds
the MFA degree in film pro-duction
from the Film School
at UCLA.
Thought
QfTHe
"The idea of di-versity
becomes
our strength, sa-cred
to us.
The range
broadening, the
potential becom-ing
a way and a
song.
Many havel
Eought this real-ty.
We know the
wounds."
•Muriel Rukeyser\
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