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BY ERISHA LIPFORD
Reporter
Virginia Lee, a junior
Indisciplinary Studies major with
a concentration in Emerging Cult
ure Studies: Philsophy, Religion
and Art, from Philadelphia is
spending this academic year on
an international study tour. She
will make her rounds in
Japan,Thailand, Bombay,
Bangalore, India and Israel. Her
tour is funded by The Friends
World Tour Scholarship Pro
gram.
Adrienne Bailey, a 1998 graduate
from Columbus, Ohio is a 1998
Summer UTK McNair Fellow.
She attended the Ronald McNair
Post Baccalaureate Achievement
Program at the University of
Tennessee where she partici
pated in summer research.
Shaneiklssac, a junior majoring
in music education from Wash
ington, D.C. toured Russia and
the Baltic states for six weeks
this summer as a member of the
United Methodist Youth Chorale
1998. She will return this mondi
to New York to complete a
recording with her ensemble.
tion this summer. She won a
prize from a radio station for
her singing during Fun Fourth.
Dorthea Taylor, a senior music
education major from
Marshville, NC served as an
intern for the Bennett College-
Greensboro Opera Camp for
Middle Schoolers this past
summer. The program coordi
nated music for the Humanities
Summer Institute and conducted
a workshop in Winston-Salem
for members of her denomina-
Jennifer Boone, a 1998
graduate participated as a
vocalist in the Marilyn Hickey
Crusade and the Rev. R.W.
Shambach crusade. She sang
with Alvin Slaughter Minis
tries to Brazil August 9-29,
performing in the cities of Bel
Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, and
Sao Paulo.
Naima Barbour, a senior mass
communications major from
Fort Washington, Md is the
1998-99 recipient of the Triad
Black Media Professionals
scholarship.She will be
honored at the annual banquet,
OcL 10.
The 411 about body piercing
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BY DEANNA HARRIS
Staff Reporter
Throughout the years there have
been many fads ^ The latest fad is
not only hard to keep up with, but
it is also painful.
Holes are now being placed in
the various body parts such as
tongues, navels, noses, eyebrows,
nipples and the genital areas.
According to" A
Parent's Guide to Body
Piercing," an article
about body piercing in
the September 1996 is
sue of Forbes Maga
zine,people whocome
from different ethnic,
social and economic
backgrounds get body
piercing.
“I wanted to get my
tongue pierced, but my
grandmother wouldkill
me,” said Aiyana
Sledge, a sophomore
mass communications
major from Stanford,
Conn.
Brandi Bradshaw, a
Bam bam, a body piercing spe
cialist at Backwoods Tattoo on
McConnell Road says that the
basic procedure for a tongue pierc
ing is that you sign a consent form.
"Then what I’ll do is clamp your
tongue, pierce it with a sterilized
piercing needle, put the ring in and
screw the barbell to the bottom and
have you rinse afterwards." He
Shani Albert, a j unlor mass comm unicatons
major from Los Angeles got her tongue ^
pierced five years ago. Photo by Marie smith, piercing use sterilized
cian performing piercing has the
patron lying down. He [Terry]
marks the area and pierces it with
an 18-gauge needle. Terry said the
whole process takes about three
minutes and about six months for
the piercing to fully heal.
The prices for a navel piercing
can range from $30 to $35. Eye
brow piercing depending on the
stud (gold or silver)
used for piercing range
from $45 to $60.
Tongue piercing costs
range from $45 to $65,
and nose piercing
prices range from $35
to $40.
The person doing
the piercing should al
ways wear gloves, ac
cording to "Body
Piercing/ Now Infec
tion is the Latest
Trend" an article in
Forbes May 1997.
The writer also sug
gests that the person
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Terry, a tattoo artist at "Forever
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