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Page 6 Greensboro. N.C. Love poetry reading draws big student turnout Genevieve Holmes Staff Writer A T ove and be loved by me"--"Annabel * * Lee," Edgar Allan Poe On Feb. 9, over 150 stu dents and faculty members gathered in the Founders Gallery for a reading of love MAGGIE BAMBERG/GUILFORDIAN Junior Heather Wunner Foreign languages department hosts Mardi Gras party Kaitlyn Moore Staff Writer T t was vivacious. There were .L floats, parades, scantily clad people. Instead of throwing candy and beads, they were throwing condoms from the floats," said Steffany Drozo, Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages, of the 1993 Mardi Gras in Barcelona, Spain. "We've actually kept it quite tame in the Boren Lounge." The Mardi Gras party, thrown by the Foreign Languages department on Feb. 8, avoided those "carnal" implications of Carnival. Rather than drunken debauch ery, students milled around wearing masks and beads, listening to music, and gobbling fried pastries. Visiting Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages Maria Bobroff start ed Guilford's Mardi Gras party to bring students together during the gloomy winter, and make them aware of French traditions. Mardi Gras, also known as Carnivaie, is the "Fat Tuesday" before the Catholic Church's Ash Wednesday. Celebrants poetry. The number of read ers nearly matched the number of people in the room, as many filtered in throughout the event. Refreshments were served, including home made deserts. The podium stood in the company of a lamp - the only light in the room. Its warm glow made the atmos phere romantic. Last semester there were two poet ry readings. At the first, faculty mem bers alone read poetry on any theme, and about 30 people attended. Word spread throughout campus, multiplying attendance for the second one: a stu dent and faculty reading focusing on politics and war. During the Feb. 9 reading, Academic Skills Center Director Sue Keith give up rich foods, meat, or alcohol dur ing Lent, so Mardi Gras is a fling to use up these ingredients. Carnival began in European countries with a long Catholic history such as Spain, Italy, and France, and then spread through their colonial rule. Cities worldwide now celebrate with hordes of people in the street, music, dancing, and parades. Bobroff says that French children cel ebrate Mardi Gras by eating crepes and beignets, and by throwing flour and eggs at their friends and teachers. "At the end of the school day all of the teachers, myself included, huddled in the teacher's lounge, afraid to walk outside for fear of being pelted by raw eggs," Bobroff said in an email. "We kept peering out the window to see how many children were still waiting for us, and more importantly, how their ammu nition was holding up." Associate Professor of Spanish Sylvia Trelles and Associate Professor of Foreign Languages & Division Director Dave Limburg brought their knowledge of Europe, South America, and the FEATURES began by introducing the love theme, in honor of Valentine's Day. Next, Academic Skills Center tutor Doug Smith stepped up to the podium and read the poem "Quarantine" by Edwin Bowen. The readings ranged from the love and devotion of God in Psalm 23 to the love of child and wife in Henry Taylor's "At the Swings." Of course, the passions of two lovers entered the reading as well, in such poems as e. e. cummings' "Somewhere I have trav eled," and John Donne's "Holy Sonnet Number 14." Unusual poems made their way into the reading, too. First-year Henry Vogt read "The Memory of Burning in New Harmony, Indiana," by George Looney, which discussed a monk's vow of celibacy. One of the biggest hits in the evening was first-year Maria Walsh-Cole's enthusi astic reading of "A Finger, Two Dots, Then Me" by Derrick C. Brown. It spoke of life and love after death and memories from a fond lifetime. Persons interested in reading had a choice of signing up before the event, or waiting until the end to read. Junior Heather Wunner's poem didn't even include words. She sat on a chair and played her guitar. The piece was about a compos er loving a student who left him. One of the most memo rable poems was English professor Carolyn Beard Whitlow's reading of "Remember," by Christina Georgina Rosetti. It gave the advice: "Better by far you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad," when a loved one dies. People stood in the hall just to hear the words of famous and unknown writ ers. The compelling evening Caribbean to this celebration. Trelles presented the Spanish tradi tion of carrying a sardine in a small casket, followed by a trail of mourning women. ' | AS | - v.... QSKjt . WWW. CHEZ-PIERRE. NET Mardi Gras in New Orleans Feb. 18, 2005 Www, guilfor dian. com provided an atmosphere of camaraderie between stu dents and faculty as they all contemplated the spectrum of emotions that love can create. 9S ■ 1 MAGGIE BAMBERG/GUILFORDIAN English lecturer David Bowen Limburg and Vice President for Finance & Administration Jerry Be volunteered to have their ties cut a German prank that pokes fun al taries. One part of the French tradition King Cake, a cake with a small pi baby baked inside. Whoever finds trinket is King or Queen of Mardi Early College student Trae Middlebrooks was crowned king. Middlebrooks, asked if he expe any special treatment from the co as the reigning king of Mardi Gra; said: "Well, of course. I couldn't e stay the whole time because I ha to class, but that doesn't mean I'r eating my throne. Maybe some fo Expected attendance was 100 ; dents, and almost twice that numl attended. Most traditional student came after dinner, with CCE studi arriving after 8 p.m. The food was by 7:45. It was easier to obtain beads in Lounge than in New Orleans, witt 170 strands distributed without ar nudity. 3S
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