City's high school students get a
sample of environmental theatre
Chronide Staff Report
>. Studenis and teachers from the Winston
> Salem/Forsyth County schools got a look at ways they
; can save the environment when RECYCLE THIS! came
?-to town with performances at Reynolds High School
March 22. The theatrical production is traveling to high
schools across the country with a show designed to cap
ture the imagination of the MTV generation.
Using music, humor, video, and a cast of five profes
? sional performers, RECYCLE THIS! delivered a Broad
way-style assembly which, without sermons, challenges
-? youth to reduce, reuse, and recycle their trash. They
received a message delivered in their own language.
Three performances were held at Reynolds at 8:55
a.m., 10:45 a.m., and 1 p.m. The program began with a
10-minute video warm-up that included M.C. Hammer
and Paula Abdul videos interspersed with news clips that
introduced the solid waste problem in America. The
opening on-stage scene placed the audience in a landfill,
surrounded by garbage and featured the five-member cast
performing "We Didn't Start the Landfills." That was fol
lowed by a skit shattering the myth that waste degrades
quickly in landfills. Recycling was discussed through a
spoof on the nightly news.
The "Plastic Rap" promoted plastics recycling, RECYCLE THIS! performer raps about recy*
explaining in song and video what products are being cling plastics In/'PlastiC Rap" tune and video.
"Dr. Jimmy Jam" (right), the King of Recycled Rock 'n' Roll, renders an environmental version of
"Shout."
recycled. Next, in what proved to be the most popular
feature of the show, students were contestants in "Envi
ronmental Jeopardy," where they were tested on their
environmental know-how. Contestants had trash dumped
on them if they gave a wrong answer.
The production closed with three motivational songs
that call the students to action. The closing includes "Dr.
Jimmy Jam," the king of recycled rock 'n' roll, singing an
environmental version of "Shout." Students received
information on where to recycle in Winston -Salem and a
free audiocassette ? made of recycled plastic ? that fea
tures the theme song from the program.
The RECYCLE THIS! production Started in March
1990 anci has already visited high schools in 65 cities. It
will appear in more than 100 cities before its national
tour ends in I
June.
The national ?
tour is sponsored
by the plastics
recycling busi
ness of The Dow
Chemical Com
pany.
NAACP questions killings
ROANOKE (AP) ? A woman
who was stabbed as many as 30
times has identified her assailant as
the man Roanoke police shot and
killed after they say he stabbed an
officer while being questioned
about the woman's attack.
Police said they were able to
talk to the woman Tuesday at
Roanoke Memorial Hospital, where
she picked Leonard A. Morris from
a photographic lineup.
? The identification came one
day after Morris' family members
said they were convinced he had
nothing to do with the attack. Mor
ris' brother, Desmond, spoke at a
news conference* in which he
accused police of excessive force.
Leonard Morris, 27, was shot
as many as nine times by police
after he stabbed one officer and
rushed others at knifepoint while he
was being questioned at his home
Saturday, authorities said.
The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple is calling for a federal investiga
tion into the death of Morris, saying
excessive force may have been used
by police.
Police said the woman wa^ able
to give details about the inside of
Morris' home that only, someone
who had been there would know.
The woman told police she met
Morris at a Roanoke nightclub last
Friday night She said she agreed to
go home with Morris, and he then
began to make sexual advances.
When she resisted, he became
angry, she told poli^. ? ?
She eventually ran from the
house, but Morris chased her. He
caught her a few blocks away and
used a knife to cut away her blouse,
police said.
The woman was stabbed
repeatedly in the chest, arms and
back and was left in a parking lot
about two blocks from Morris'
home. A man on his way to work
found her about 5:30 a.m. and
called for help.
Fed threatened at UNC-CH
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) ? A
federal official investigating discrimi
nation charges against the University
of North Carolina at Qiapcl Hill was
threatened in a phone call, school
officials said.
Pete Fountain of the U.S.
Department of Education's Office of
Civil Rights said he received a threat
ening phone call early Wednesday at
his hotel room, according to Clifton
Metcalf, director of UNC News Ser
vices. /
Susan Ehringhaus, the univcrsi
^ ty's lawyer, said she did not know
The Chapel Hill Newspaper
Ms. Ehringhaus said Fountain
told her he had finished his on-site
investigation before leaving the cam
pus.
Fountain arrived in Chapel Hill
Monday to begin investigating allega
tions that the university practices dis
crimination. The original complaint
was filed by Police Officer Keith
Edwards, who charges that the uni
versity practices widespread discrimi
nation against blacks and women.
During his three days on campus,
Fountain was expected to interview
said Fountain did not sound shaken against the university. UNC-CH also
when she talked to him. is being investigated by the Raleigh
Fountain declined commcnt office of the Equal Employment
when callcd at his Atlanta home by Opportunity Commission.
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