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HP 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. PAGE 3 KEEPING THE STUDENT BODY PURE Garon Anders writes an open letter to Ontario Christian School. PAGE 5 DUKE V8 UNCO: FREE TICKETS AVAILABLE PAGE 9 TATE STREET COMES ALIVE The annual Tate Street Festival links community, UNCG students through live music, crafts and fun. PAGE 7 "I CANT BELIEVE I SOLD MY BLOOD" You can get $50 a week for selling blood plasma...but is it worth it? PAGE 10 DIRECTORY News 2,12 Classifieds 2 Opinions 4 A&E 6,13 Sports 8 Life 10 ON THE WEB Find all these stories and more online at www.carolinianonline.coin. CONTACT US the_carolinian@hotmail.com PHONE: 334-5752 FAX: 334-3518 THE CAROLINIAN VOL. LXXXVI ISSUE 8 EST. 1919 The Carolinian CAR0LIN1AN0NLINE.COM IICGREENSBORO t 4. ac< ()( mitl-'K 4. :i)li: 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 Continued on page 2 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 Continued on page 12 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 Continued on page 2 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 Continued on page 2 ■^M _
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Title | The Carolinian [October 4, 2005] |
Date | 2005-10-04 |
Editor/creator | Lowrance, Chris |
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 October 4, 2005, 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 |
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Publication | The Carolinian |
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Date digitized | 2011 |
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Full text | HP 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. PAGE 3 KEEPING THE STUDENT BODY PURE Garon Anders writes an open letter to Ontario Christian School. PAGE 5 DUKE V8 UNCO: FREE TICKETS AVAILABLE PAGE 9 TATE STREET COMES ALIVE The annual Tate Street Festival links community, UNCG students through live music, crafts and fun. PAGE 7 "I CANT BELIEVE I SOLD MY BLOOD" You can get $50 a week for selling blood plasma...but is it worth it? PAGE 10 DIRECTORY News 2,12 Classifieds 2 Opinions 4 A&E 6,13 Sports 8 Life 10 ON THE WEB Find all these stories and more online at www.carolinianonline.coin. CONTACT US the_carolinian@hotmail.com PHONE: 334-5752 FAX: 334-3518 THE CAROLINIAN VOL. LXXXVI ISSUE 8 EST. 1919 The Carolinian CAR0LIN1AN0NLINE.COM IICGREENSBORO t 4. ac< ()( mitl-'K 4. :i)li: 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 Continued on page 2 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 Continued on page 12 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 Continued on page 2 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 Continued on page 2 ■^M _ |