The Blue Banner
September 12, 1996
Speakers discuss realities of AIDS
Band's innovotive sound addresses Generation X
Jason Wicks
Staff Writer
An AIDS victim and one of his college frater
nity brothers will share their personal experi
ences with the disease during a lecture spon
sored by the Greek Council and Special Events
Committee in Highsmith Center Lounge on
Sept. 12. They will address living with HIV via
personal stories, a video
presentation, as well as a
time for audience discus
sion and questions.
In the presentation,Joel
Goldman shares his ex
periences as a fraternity
member at Indiana Uni
versity and the risks of
mixing unprotected sex
and alcohol. An old col
lege friend, T.J. Sullivan,
teaches students about
the workings of the HIV
virus and ways students
can reduce risk and pre
vent infection.
“Just about everybody
these days is touched by
AIDS,” says Emily
Head, member of the
Greek Council, “and I
think [this event] is
something that could help them deal with it.
From living on campus I know how people are
promiscuous...hopefully [the presentation] will
make them think twice.”
According to Head, Goldman learned of his
illness several years after college. After calling
his friend Sullivan, they both began to attend
help sessions and soon realized how they could
make a difference in peoples’ lives. The two men
put together a presentation and now speak at
conventions and colleges all over the U.S. Since
they began traveling in 1993, more than 150,000
students have seen the program. Goldman and
Sullivan travel full-time with their program to
more than 80 campuses each academic year.
“This is our generation’s Vietnam. We are
going to be losing our friends if we don’t get
busy and start protesting. We have to make sure
our campuses and our friends are dealing realis
tically with this issue,” said Sullivan.
The presentation is designed to help people
befriend AIDS victims as well as to help the
victims deal with the disease. According to
Head, “other people are out there having to
deal with this and hearing [Goldman and
Sullivan’s] story is something that could help
them along.”
Head, required to plan an educational event
for the students, heard excellent reviews of
the two men and asked them to speak at
UNCA. “I’ve heard so much good informa
tion about these two speakers. We felt that it
was directed toward a college audience...It’s
something
that is defi-
'[•'// nitely here and
we’re living
with it,” said
Head.
Head
handled the
preparation
for the event
through the
Greek Coun
cil, who,
along with
the Special
Events Com-
m i t t e e ,
sponsored
the Greek
Week pre
sentation.
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Joel Goldman and T.J. Sullivan will present "Friendship in the
Age of AIDS" tonight in Highsmith Center.
Folk musician
Stephen Taylor
will perform in
Highsmith Center
Lounge on Friday
at 9 p.m. free of
charge.
Jay Malinoski
Staff Writer
ThKind, a New Jersey- based
rock band known for intense performances and
originality, has released a self-titled album on
Swami Records. The album is a refreshing alter
native to the post-teenage, “life sucks,and so do
money and fame” genre that seems to have
dominated popular music for the past few years.
For once, there exists a modern rock band that
doesn’t make sacrifices to Kurt Cobain s whin-
ing.
Musically, ThKind show innovation that is far
beyond such rock gods as The Offspring and
Nada Surf. Their drummer. Tommy Dillon,
displays some of the best percussion I’ve heard
m recent years, with beats that reflect the styles
ot Neil Feart ot Rush and even Stewart Copeland
of The Police.
Stirring acoustic and electric riffs, similar to
bands like Blind Melon, provided by lead gui
tarist Joe Serin and rhythm guitarist Kevin
LaCarubba, combined with the bass of Sam
Magill make ThKind’s sound one of the most
innovative heard in recent times. It is hard to
relate the overall sound to much of anything
that’s come out recently. GOOD!
Lyrically, ThKind do address the Generation
X attitudes of depressing self-unfulfillment in
their debut, but do so in a more lighthearted
way. In the faster paced “Insanity Knocks,”
LaCarrubba writes “Cast your fears off and lose
your doubt/ Where we’re going you can do
without those bags,” and then “Come through
my TV/ Can’t take no more/ Here’s what to
wear and what to think/ Don’t stop to ponder
just take the drink.”
With such quick moving songs as “Tale of
Two Heads,” “Casual Killer,” and the more
Rafrica Adams
Staff Writer
This weekend an Asheville-based theater com
pany will perform a former Broadway play in
Lipinsky Hall.
The theater group The Players will be per
forming “A Streetcar Named Desire” five times
this week, according to Jane Paige, founder and
artistic director of
The Players, and
the play’s director.
“A Streetcar
Named Desire”
was written by
Tennessee Will
iams in 1947.
It ran for two
years on Broadway
before becoming
an Oscar-winning
movie,starring
Marlon Brando.
“This is one of the
theater’s greatest
classics,” said
Paige. “It’s a very challenging, very powerful
drama. That’s actually what made Marlon
Brando. It’s a wonderful work for students of
theater and communication to study because
it’s written so well,” Paige added.
Paige said that a lot of preparation makes up
the pre-production of this play. The company
has been rehearsing the play for eight
weeks.”Normally we can get a play done in
maybe five or six weeks,” she said. “This will
need so much work to really tring good perfor
mances out of the people,” said Paige.
ThKind
lighthearted “Cybill,” about a guy who is (big
shocker) dumbfounded by a woman, the self
titled debut by ThKind is an album that kicks
a@# without causing the neighbors to call the
cops.
On a more mellow note, ThKind do give us a
slower look at relationships and life in general
in songs like “Marshmellow Head,” but the
majority of the album is rife with quick tempos
and swift chord changes that remind us that
yes, talent really can rock.
ThKind, scheduled in the past at venues up
and down the eastern seaboard from Burlington,
Vermont to Key West, Fla., play on circuits
ranging from colleges to clubs. They’ve played
at The Stone Pony in Ashbury Park, NJ, The
Bitter End in New York City, and the 1994 and
’95 Woodstock festivals in Bethel, New York.
Their next album is scheduled for release in
December of this year.
ThKind are originals. They don’t fill your
head with tragic tales of wasted youth, nor do
they play three-chord progressions with the
distortion so loud it cracks windows, and then
call it creative “genius.” They are a good, solid
band that have talent and a knack for original
ity. Of course, that’s iust the wav / see it.
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Company to perform theater classic
Cast members are from left to right:
Mercer, Lane Hollifield, John Stanton
The Players have been operating in the
Asheville area since April of 1995- They will
publicly perform ‘Streetcar’ for the first time as
a group this weekend. Paige recalls acting in the
play before with another theater company.
“I did it in Florida under the direction of
somebody else and got the "best actress of the
season’ for it,” said Paige.
“Tennessee Williams’ works are really fantas
tic. They get right to
, the very depths of each
character. You’ve got
to have top quality ac
tors and a real strong
commitment to do this
one,” said Paige.
The players have
done about ten pro
ductions since they
formed, including
“Deathtrap,” which
they performed in
Photo courtesy of Jane Paige April.
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' ( Deathtrap ) was an-
other great, great play. It had a lot of special
effects.”
The company plans to remain based in
Asheville. However, they do plan to perform
plays elsewhere. “We’ve been asked to do some
festivals, but our base is Asheville. This is our
home, and UNCA is our home too,” said Paige.
The play will have five showings beginning on
Sept. 12. Tickets can be purchased by calling
683-9928 or 683-9893. UNCA students may
purchase tickets for $2.50 with their student
identification card.
Rosh Hashanah Begins
Friday Night,
September 13
Yom Kippur Begins
Sunday Night,
September 22
Congregations Beth Israel and Beth Ha-Tephila
invite students to attend services
For information on services or home hospitality
for holiday meals, call or visit Rick Chess
(251-6576, Karpen Hall 219) or
Sharyn McDonald Groh
(251-6669, Highsmith Center 27)