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Alcohol {The Blue Banner} Page 13 Continued from Page 1 1 “The idea stemmed from the big party early this semester where a lot of students got caught with alcohol. It brought up the question of, ‘what is your role and your rights in terms of alcohol?’ Burrowes said. A question-and-answer session with campus police about rights in terms of al cohol happened yesterday at 7 p.m. in the Highsmith Union. According to Pyeritz, authorities came and talked about designated drivers’ rights and expectations “It’s important to know what your rights are if you are over 21 or not,” said Pyeritz. The Midnight Moonshine Dance featur ing DJ Raj will occur Friday at 10 p.m. at the beach volleyball court behind Mills. “We’ve had a lot of questions about if moonshine will be available. But the an swer is no, it’s illegal. We’ll have bar with ‘mocktails’ and the aim is to dance and have fun without alcohol,” Burrowes said.- Other events include a ‘one night only’ party featuring crafts, food and an alcohol awareness meeting, which is an open dis cussion about students’ experiences with alcohol. Eric Lanno - Staff Photographer Forrest Barnett, an environmental studies student, simulates driving under the influence in a UNCA golf cart on the Quad. “Alcohol can do pretty bad stuff to your include memory loss and loss of judge- body. Long term effects include damage ment. Our goal is to help educate so that to the brain and liver. Short term effects you don’t put yourself in a position where you make bad decisions,” Burrowes said. Students said they are aware of alcohol, and have varying perceptions of the drink. . “I think for college kids it is a part of so cial life, but it depends which college you go to,” said Andrea Morrison, 18-year-old freshman. “UNC Asheville is not a high alcohol drinking college compared to oth ers. When people drink, most times, peo ple are aware of the effects, but they don’t really care.” Kenny Paradiso, a 21-year-old junior„said he does not always drink to get drunk. Regardless of the reason for drink ing, education is always valuable, he said. “I drink for the taste or for socializing. It depends on the setting,” Paradiso said. “For me, there’s a difference between drinking beer, because I like to try and taste the different brewing processes, and drinking to just get drunk. When doing, either one it’s always a good idea to plan ahead.” For information on alcohol awareness and peer education go to http://www.bac- chusgamma. org. Violence Continued from Page 10 Anna Sharratt, a community educator with Our VOICE, an Asheville organi zation serving the sexually abused, in troduced Porter for his keynote speech. She said one in six women in the United States are victims of rape or attempted tape, and one in six boys under the age of 18 are sexually assaulted. “We know that sexual violence impacts : more than just one victim or survivor,” she said. “Sexual violence is not a prob lem you can ignore.” When Sharratt spoke, she repeated the phrase “let us” over and over, in an al most church-like repetition of phrasing. ; Everyone was silent. Porter told the men of the crowd , ne couldn’t trust any of them with his daughter. , Hill’s art fixture has a Catholicism- based audio component that rings every Iwo minutes. “I ordered sanctus bells from a Catholic • supply store and recorded those, so that every two minutes your attention is being brought to the fact that another woman is being attacked,” Hill said. She used a bit of wordplay to draw at tention to her fixture, which is based on , the issue of human rights. I came up with the title, ‘Human Rites , ^d the Body and Blood.’ The body and blood are something in the Eucharist,” Hill said. Everything in the art fixture has mean- mg, she said. The honeysuckle basket her grandmother made sits in a table in the center of the room as an altar. The bowl,shape is suggestive of wom en. So are the rose petals, which are red for blood and dried into a bowl shape. “The sticks and the broken bottles in the comer are about what’s happening in the Congo, because the women are raped with bayonettes and sticks and broken bottles,” Hill said. “It’s a tactic of war there.” Hill didn’t want to put such sugges tively violent objects in the center of the room with the altar, because they aren’t there in people’s minds, she said. “I felt that I had to have that startling image of sticks and broken bottles in the gallery someplace, but I didn’t want it just sort of under the table or around the altar, so the hard est part of the installation was deciding where to put the sticks and the bottles,” Hill said. She decided to place the sticks and bottles in the shadows and comers to rep resent the way rape is treated in our soci ety, hiding in the shadows and not talked about. “It’s an intense topic. I wanted it to be very subtle, and I wanted it to have el egance,” Hill said. Luzcne Hill Koinonia Continued from Page 9 owns them, she is unsure of what the fu ture holds, she said. “To me, they have the best mix of com fort in a modem society but also the pos sibility of being off the grid. Solar in that house would be really, really simple. There are 13 windows and the layout of the windows follows the moon cycle,” she said. “They could probably exist very simply and independently.” Harmon and Festa recognize the unique ness and particular energy embodied in the domes. “The domes sing,” Harmon said. “When you’re in the domes you can hear the mu sic, and Brian and 1 connected around that understanding. We both heard the music in the domes.” Festa is currently transitioning into the loft of the upper dome, where he will co coon all winter, he said, focusing on per sonal development in three distinct prac tices: meditation, yoga and tablas. Tablas are Indian hand dmms that are extremely sacred, according to Festa. They are also his instrument of choice, out of more than 10 that he plays, includ ing piano, guitar, saxophone, clarinet and dulcimer. He said he will teach percussion and yoga lessons inside the domes and hopes the entire property will offer much more to the community in the near future. “With this being such a special place, it has tremendous educational possibili ties. Getting the right like-minded people Taliaferro Pollock - Staff Photographer Dome carteakers Daniel Delap and Brian Festa in the lower dome. together in a place like this is very ener getically conducive. There are exponential possibilities,” Festa said. “That’s been my challenge since I’ve been here.” Visit www.koinoniaasheville.org for more information about Koinonia or scheduling a practice with Brian Festa.
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