The Carolinian [October 4, 2005]

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IN THIS ISSUE
GREEKS AS
PHILANTHROPISTS
Phi Mil's annual rock-a-thon
meets a lower goal for
this semester.
Lambda Chi has an event
for women to help raise
funds for Red Cross.
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KEEPING THE
STUDENT BODY PURE
Garon Anders writes an
open letter to Ontario
Christian School.
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DUKE V8 UNCO:
FREE TICKETS
AVAILABLE
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TATE STREET
COMES ALIVE
The annual Tate Street
Festival links community,
UNCG students through
live music, crafts and fun.
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"I CANT BELIEVE I
SOLD MY BLOOD"
You can get $50 a week for
selling blood plasma...but
is it worth it?
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DIRECTORY
News 2,12
Classifieds 2
Opinions 4
A&E 6,13
Sports 8
Life 10
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THE CAROLINIAN
VOL. LXXXVI
ISSUE 8
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EUC hosts Truth & Reconciliation panel
Janine Camara
Staff Writer
"It's like a real bad zit, you
squeeze it and it hurts like crazy, but
you gotta clean it out so that it will
heal."
This was Jeff Thigpen's, a Guilford
County Board Commissioner, earnest
advice to the Greensboro Truth and
Reconciliation Commission (GTRC)
on their mission to mend the hurts
caused by 88 seconds of violence that
left Greensboro reeling from the
effects some 26 years later.
Some 15 months ago on June 12,
2004, the seven members of the
GTRC embarked on a journey to
blaze the unmarked road toward heal-ing
justice for the betterment of
Greensboro. The third and final hear-ing
was held in UNCG's Elliot
University Center Auditorium last
Friday and Saturday. The seven, each
esteemed members of their commu-nities,
began their mission armed
with little else than their Kingian
commitment to fight injustice and
their respect for righteousness.
Their hope was to gain an under-standing
of the issues surrounding the
eruption of brutality in Greensboro
6n Nov. 3,1979, in which five people
were shot to death and 10 were
wounded at a rally planned by the
Communist Workers Party.
A selection panel formed from 14
organizations and entities chose the
commissioners. The selection panel
chose the commissioners based on 67
nominations from the Greensboro
community. The members include
Co-chair Cynthia Brown of The
Spjourner Group, Co-Chair Atty. Bob
Peters of NC Court and Better
Business Bureau, Pat Clark of
Fellowship Reconciliation, Dr.
Muktha Jost of NC A&T State
University, Barbara Walker of the
Greensboro YWCA, Community
Activist Angela Lawrence of
Greensboro and Rev. Mark Sills of
FaithAction International House of
Greensboro.
The commission held three public
hearings examining multiple themes
and allowing individuals to make
UNCG students to bring aid
for Darfur victims
Lauren DiCiaccio
Staff Writer
This week students saw hundreds
of red handprints clustered through-out
campus - 500 to be exact. They
represent the number of deaths per
day currently taking place in Darfur.
The handprints are intended both
to draw attention to the crisis and
then to give students a productive
way to help.
On Thursday, Students Taking
Action Now: Darfur (STAND) is
hosting a fundraising event for the
genocide in the Darfur region of
Sudan. The event, which happens
nationwide, intends to call attention
to the atrocities currently ongoing in
Darfur. STAND'S members will fast
for 24 hours, giving the money they
would have spent on food to victims
of genocide.
Organization Co-Chair Katie
Mariategui explained they are asking
people to give up a luxury item for
the day and use the money for aid!
In attempts to inform and educate,
the event, which starts at 8 a.m. and
runs to 6 p.m. at the fountain, will
have live music, donated merchan-dise
for sale, information, and MTV
U cameras. It will culminate with a 7
p.m. vigil and guest speakers.
The funds raised will be given to
the Darfur Peace and Development
LOGAN YORK / THE CAROLINIAN
Five hundred red handprints were posted across campus by STAND to
represent of deaths occuring per day in Sudan's Darfur region.
Organization, a Virginia-based opera-tion
run by people with families in
Sudan. It gives money for school
sponsorships to set up educational
centers for the displaced by funding
teacher salaries and buying school
supplies.
The conflict in Darfur was initial-ly
fueled by growing tension in
Sudan between ethnic Arabs and trib-al
groups. Sources of tension include
the lack of tribal recognition in the
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Fill the Fountain deemed a
success by organizers
Sarah Richardson
Staff Writer
Blue and pink chalk messages cov-ered
campus. No pathway was left
unmarked, no comers overlooked. By
Thursday, Sept. 22, the campus knew
the Fountain was where to go to par-ticipate
in what may have been one of
the largest fundraisers in UNCG his-tory.
"Fill the Fountain," a fundraiser
organized by the Community
Advisor's of Ragsdale-Mendenhall,
was created as a means for students
to donate money for the' victims of
Hurricane Katrina. The event lasted
24 hours and included two Gulf-themed
dinners in the CAF and the
Atrium, a concert in the Quad and
several booths constructed by student
organizations.
"I've been here for three years now
and we've never seen a program of
that capacity," said junior Rob
Wilson, one of the chief organizers of
the event. "Everybody, especially
college students, see a situation like
this where people in their country are
suffering and they want to help, they
want to make a difference."
To do this organizers felt the need
to create an event that would help
students provide for the victims in the
most efficient way possible.
"They don't need anything really
but money down there so that's what
we decided to provide," Wilson said.
"(Students) can't make a monetary
difference, or a major one. So you
take all of these small monetary dif-ferences
and put them together and
it's like one big difference. And that's
the way that we looked at it."
Totals for the fundraiser are still
being calculated and are currently set
at $6500.
Over 45 clubs and departments
participated in the planning of the
event as well as several individual
students. Preparations began well in
advance in order to resolve bureau-cratic
issues
"There were definitely a lot of red
tape issues," Wilson said. "Stuff you
wouldn't even think about like police,
food, parking, noise violation."
For the event, students were able
to donate anywhere from $1 to $5
using Declining Balance in addition
to making regular monetary dona-tions.
"We came up with the idea of see-ing
if this [Declining Balance] would
be able to happen because everybody
likes to use fake money," Wilson
said.
To turn this idea into a reality, the
organizers talked with Associate
Director for Resident Services,
Guy Sanders to find the contacts that
they needed.
"After a while, things started to
formulate," Wilson said.
The availability of Declining
Balance made a significant difference
in the amount of money raised,
changing totals from an average of
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statements concerning their personal
experiences, knowledge and outlooks
on the tragedy.
This weekend's hearing sought to
explore the relevancy of the past to
the present and future and included
22 speakers including eye-witnesses,
directors of community foundations
and college professors. Among the
speakers were figures such as
UNCG's own Dr. Spoma Jovanovic,
Thigpen, the Rev. Mazie Butler
Ferguson, Former Mayor Yvonne
Johnson and renowned writer Dr.
Timothy Tyson, author of the novel
Blood Done Sign My Name.
Orators engaged in dialogue about
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Bicyclists
escape
high gas
prices
Sarah Richardson
Staff Writer
The rise in gasoline prices may have
you a little apprehensive about get-ting
somewhere close or running to
the store, but a group of UNCG stu-dents
say they have a solution that's
more productive than just complain-ing.
The Bike Me! Collective is a stu-dent-
run organization hoping to pro-mote
bicycling as a reliable means of
transportation, bring together the
community, provide free bikes and
help its members learn and teach bike
repair.
"Biking is happening more
because of gas prices. You can't live
off fossil fuels forever. They pollute,
they're limited, and they're related to
corrupt businesses. We don't want
people to depend on that," says junior
Sue Edelberg, the collective's co-founder
and head coordinator.
"I know that gas prices will catch
a lot of people's attention. It takes
different things to get people into
biking. I got into biking in high
school because I was interested in
exercise, and it eventually lead me to
the countryside where it became a
spiritual experience. It became a
freedom thing -1 could ride wherev-er
I wanted at whatever pace, while
exercising and cruising," says
Edelberg.
Edelberg believes that biking helps
the parking situation, which is count-er-
productive in her opinion.
"It takes so long to drive, park, and
walk. It's almost faster to ride bikes
because you can ride up to the door!"
she says.
Besides providing transportation,
it provides a sense of community
through meetings, poducks, group
bike rides and workshop days. The
group also participates in Thursday
night bike rides at Gate City noise,
which they do not organize, but par-ticipate
in and promote.
"We can bring together people that
otherwise don't know each other. So
many people bike but wouldn't stop
to talk," says Edelberg.
On the last Friday of each month,
they have critical mass, which
intends to reclaim bikers' presence on
streets in an empowered unit.
"When we ride together, it's hard
to miss us and disrespect us. Are you
going to plow people down? We try
to use the 'share the road' ethic vs.
'take over the road,' since critical
mass has been known to pulverize the
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