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Valentine's
Day around
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months now. It's been said that once you
hear your first hog call, you're a Carolinian
for life.)
The first stop on our whirlwind tour of luv
is right here in Greensboro where the world
famous Ringling Bros, and Bamum & Bai
ley Circus will just be starting its four-day
stop in the Gate City. As everyone knows,
the circus is now making its 122 nd tour and
this year features The Amazing Mongo
lians, an attraction no Associate Justices in
their right minds would want to miss. Rec
ommended night: Thursday,7:3op.m. Cost:
511.50 plus $ 1.25 service charge. Tickets
available at all Ticket Master outlets or by
calling (919) 852-1100.
After the show, our lucky couple spends
the night (in separate rooms, of course) at
the Coliseum Motel just right across the
street on High Point Road. The next morn
ing, Valentine's Day, they hit the road for
Hickory where Valley Hill Mall celebrates
Sweethearts' Day. Yep, it'll be food, bal
loons and luvstruck guys and gals galore
from open to close. (While Sweethearts'
Day Preserved for those 65 and over, there's
no reason to think something couldn't be
worked out for a couple of our nation's
public officials.)
But there's no time to waste hanging
around malls—it's off to Fayetteville for a
night of magic and romance at the Valentine's
Day Dinner and Dance, sponsored by
theFayetteville Parks and Recreation De
partment (Prices were not available at press
time, but tickets can be purchased at the
door—special discount for couples.) Rest
assured there will be no shortage of our
nation's fighting men and women from
nearby Ft. Bragg, and hence no shortage of
entertainment for those who enjoy a good
old-fashioned drunken brawl.
After a good night's sleep and a lazy
Saturday morning watching cartoons and
try ing to track down a copy of The Washing
ton Post, all roads lead to Charlotte for an
evening performance of "Music of Our Heri
tage and for Our Time" at the Dana Audito
rium. (While Cheryl at the Neath Carolina
Department of Tourism couldn' tgive us any
details on the performance, she did assure us
it would revolve around the central theme of
Our Heritage.)
And with that, an end to the weekend. The
Supreme Court will be on break until Febru
ary 24, thus giving our potential luvbirds
another nine days of vacation time here in
the great state of North Carolina.
But why should Supreme Court Justices,
or anyone for that matter, choose the Old
North State to spend Valentine's Day? I
think our state motto says it best: "Esse
Quam Videri." In English: "You'll Be in a
State of Luv."
Tales from
Guadalajara
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with animals that are indisputably classified
as such. His friends' names are Chato and
Chiquita. They are gorillas.
Chiquita, the female, was shy with Doug.
The male, Chato, however, seemed more
outgoing and less afraid of him. These two,
among other animals he came in contact
with, learned to recognize him—for better
or worse. One female orangutan knew Doug
well and every time he came near her, she
would either run away or come as close as
possible and spit or throw a rock at him.
"She hated me," he said. All of this,
unprovoked? We 11... one time she tried to
escape, propping a log against the wall of
her cage. They had to get the log out, and to
keep her back, they used water —which or
angutans hate. Doug's supervisors appointed
him hose-man, and perhaps she never for
got. The recognition, even when manifested
unfavorably, enhanced in Doug the feeling
these creatures are "more than just this soul
less animal type-thing."
So when Doug thought a little too much
about the cages the animals live in, he got
pretty down. But he and his supervisor tried
to improve the conditions of the facilities.
"We tried to put up some rope in there, just
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to incite more activity, give them more to
do. We put straw in their cages, whereas
before it was very barren," he said. Doug's
supervisor, a female, had made efforts to
take action like this but in the male-domi
nated society, she was not supposed to take
such initiative. Perhaps she was supposed to
remain like Chiquita, shy and somewhat
fearful —even though she knew more about
primates than anyone else in the zoo.
Doug and his supervisor did not necessar
ily accomplish any reform of patriarchal
ways, but they did make some improve
ments. "I think it kind of helped that I was
there, because, at some points, I felt they
would kind of let me do what I wanted t0...
so I would maybe go back to the U.S. and say
good things about their zoo. And so if I
would say, "Hey maybe we should do this,
they would put a little more effort into
getting it done. Which I think I should have
taken more advantage of, but I didn't want to
get in the way and ruin my internship with
the administration there not liking me."
Alas, the Guadalajara fall semester abroad
provides yet another illustration that some
human phenomena truly know no bound
aries.