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>/The Daily Tar Heel/Thursday, April 1, 1993
Local bands to perform at Cat’s Cradle’s annual Springfest party
By Alex Frew McMillan
SttffWriter
The University’s last all-campus,
nonfratemity party will take place Sat
urday at the Cat’s Cradle when 1993’s
version of Springfest, replete with three
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bands and a DJ, takes the stage.
Springfest has been a campus staple
since the ’7os. The party used to take
place on Connor Beach outside Connor
Residence Hail.
Last year, because of rain, the party
relocated to the Cat’s Cradle, where it
sold out.
After the demise of Burnout,
Springfest is the only all-campus party
outside of Fraternity Court. Such no
table musicians as Jimmy Buffett have
played at past Springfests.
The party is co-sponsored by
Henderson Residence College (Win
ston, Connor and Alexander dorms) and
the Residence Hall Association. The
proceeds will benefit the Ronald
McDonald House in Carrboro, which
houses children who are being treated at
N.C. Memorial Hospital and their fami-
Prideen
were made on Pridgen’s life before he
arrived, and several callers threatened
him on the air, he said.
“Jacksonville is a bigot town,” he
said. “People attacked the advertisers
on the show. This man slapped this
woman who was working (at a Jiffy
Lube) because her company had this
commercial. That’s just stupid.”
Pridgen said he thought the hostility
he had experienced was based on mis
conceptions. “Every straight man thinks
there’s a gay man after him,” he said.
“There are too many cute gay men in the
world. I just don’t understand. We do
have careers. We do have interests. We
aren’t in the sack 24 hours a day. It’s
time for us all to come together without
judging. I don’t ask for approval of my
lifestyle, I just ask for acceptance.”
Pridgen compared his beating to the
Tailhook scandal, in which naval offic
ers were accused of sexually harassing
and assaulting women at a weekend
convention. “This Tailhook’s not going
to go away. I’m going to do everything
in my power to make sure that they no
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lies. Peter Berl, who is organizing this
year’s Springfest, said he hoped to raise
SBOO for the charity, which is holding a
challenge grant from March 15 to June
15. Any money raised during that pe
riod will be matched by a grant from
Ronald McDonald’s Children’s Chari
ties.
The show will open at 8 p.m. with DJ
Joe Bunn spinning an hour of early ’ 80s
tunes. Bunn will make way for the At
lanta-based Catfish Jenkins, who are a
Southern ’9os rock band in the Spin
Doctors mode. Local cover band The
longer wear our country’s uniform.”
Pridgen said the three Marines who
attacked him were angry about Presi
dent Bill Clinton’s policy of lifting the
military ban on homosexuals. The men
were shouting, “Clinton will pay. All
you faggots will die,” he said.
“There was a sense of helplessness,”
he said. “There was a point where I
thought I was gone. Where the fear
stopped was when I decided to stand up
and say ‘l’m not going to take it.’
“I’ve received letters from hundreds
of people across the country asking me
to stand up for their rights because they
can’t, because they’re afraid of losing
their jobs or of ridicule,” he said. “When
we look back at 1963, what the blacks
were going through is what we’re going
through.”
Pridgen made a trip to Washington
shortly after his beating to meet with
representatives and other federal offi-
Meetine
bers’ questions, Manning said she was
happy with the outcome of the meeting.
“I think overall, it was general ap
proval, but they had a lot of questions
we hadn’t considered at all,” Manning
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Stegmonds step up to the mike next,
playing classic rock, and, following a
repeat appearance by DJ Joe Bunn,
reggae band Seventh Tribe will round
out the program. The party should end
at 2 a.m.
“Springfest is the last all-campus
party that’s not a ffat party,” said Berl,
a junior from Knoxville, Tenn. “We’re
not catering to a specific group on cam
pus all people are welcome. We just
want people to come dance and have a
good time.”
Berl said he hoped the diverse musi
cials, including Pentagon officers.
He said he had been denied meetings
with U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C.,
and U.S. Sen. Lauch Faircloth, R-N.C.
‘We’ve got to push in North Caro
lina to make sure that Senator Helms
and Senator Faircloth are no longer in
office,” he said. “Helms’ day has come,
and it’s going to be the next election.
It’s not going to be just North Carolina.
It’s going to be 49 states of gay people
down here campaigning.”
Pridgen also said homosexual-rights
advocates should present their griev
ances to representatives who had not
yet taken a stance on the issue. “There
are a lot of people in Congress who
don’t know which way they’re going to
be swaying on this,” he said. “Those are
the people we need to be working on.
People who have already made up their
minds, we’re just wasting time on.”
Pridgen said that although some ho
said. “I still think it’s a mandate for the
proposal to go forward.”
The same resolution went before Stu
dent Congress at their Wednesday night
meeting. Student Congress members
cal content of the show would encour
age people to come. He said that Johnny
Quest had been scheduled as the origi
nal headline band but that the band
would not be playing because they had
been in a car accident.
Tickets will be on sale in the Pit
today and Friday. A T-shirt and ticket
cost $lO in the Pit, and tickets will be $3
(but no T-shirt) at the door.
Berl said 300 of the 500 tickets had
already been sold, so get them quick.
Call the Cat’s Cradle, located at 206 W.
Franklin St, at 967-9053 for details.
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mosexuals were upset with Clinton for
the six-month waiting period he im
posed on efforts to lift the military ban,
he felt the president was supportive of
gay and lesbian rights. “He could have
very easily... signed an executive order
on the ban,” Pridgen said. “Congress
could have turned it down and he could
have said ‘Well, I tried.’”
Although Pridgen said he had not
met with Clinton, the president arranged
for his Pentagon meeting, the first such
meeting to involve homosexual issues.
He also said he had received a letter
from Clinton. “He said that... he was
going to stand behind us 100 percent.”
He said his family had been support
ive, though they had faced attempts by
his attackers’ lawyers to “dig up” infor
mation to use against him. “Nobody
can take away the love I and my family
have for each other,” he said. “They can
try, but we’re going to stay together.”
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voted 13 to 6 Wednesday night to en
dorse an amended version of the resolu
tion.
Manning said the coalition was not
responding to the case of UNC track
star Reggie Harris who pleaded no con
test and was convicted of second-de
gree attempted rape last month. Harris
was removed from the track team but
was allowed to remain enrolled at the
University.
The committee is pushing for a
change in the University policy, Man
ning said. “It’s no longer associated
with Reggie Harris,” she said. “It’s not
an object at all at this point.”
Manning said RAP also had received
approximately 250 signatures on a peti
tion calling for the new policy.
Committee member Dorothy
Bemholz, Student Legal Services di
rector, said that if expulsion from the
University became an automatic pen
alty for rape or sexual assault convic
tions, court battles would rise in fre
quency.
“Asa lawyer, I would never advise a
student to plead no contest,” she said.
“It will always go to trial, and that can
be ugly for the victims.”
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