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Monday, February 15, 1999
Coming Together For a Carnival
By Sheiufa Meguid
Staff Writer
Far from their native country, some
area Brazilians found a reminder from
home.
For Brazilians living in the Triangle,
the 19th annual Brazilian carnival held
Saturday at the Carrboro Arts Center
was a way to celebrate what has long
been an integral part of their culture.
Carnival is the main event in Rio de
Janeiro, and is a pre-Lent celebration,
much like Mardi Gras in New Orleans,
that has its roots in festivities held by
the ancient Greeks. The dates for the
carnival change every year, but it
invariably is a four-day celebration
from Saturday to Fat Tuesday.
The crowd at the the Carrboro
Arts Center on Saturday crossed all
racial boundaries. People wearing
Brazilian soccer jerseys and costumes
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filled the Arts Center to get a taste of
Brazilian customs. Children, Hispanics
and college students danced feverishly
to the beat of samba.
“It’s a real meeting ground for all
cultures and colors,” said Robert
Anderson, associate director of the
Institute of Latin American Studies at
UNC.
Carnival can bring people of all
social classes and races together if
there is not an economic obstacle,
Anderson said.
The party livened up when Claudia
Auble, a native of Rio de Janeiro, gave
samba lessons in the auditorium.
Dressed in a hot pink and black cos
tume, she energetically danced on
stage to get the crowd warmed up.
Nobody seemed to have any inhibi
tions about shaking their hips.
Auble said carnival was a party of
the people. “When you’re poor you
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don’t have much to celebrate, but in
carnival people can forget about their
difficulties,” she said. “It’s like magic.”
Yet Lucas Pinto, a 15-year-old boy
from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, only likes
carnival because it is a holiday and he
doesn’t have to go to school, he said.
For those Brazilians nostalgic for
carnival, the Carrboro carnival provid
ed its own unique spectacle. It began in
1980 when George Entenman moved
to the area from Austin, Texas.
After beginning to host Brazilian
parties in the Triangle, Entenman
received sponsorship from the local
chapter of the American Civil Liberties
Union in 1985. This year’s carnival
was both a fund-raiser for the ACLU
and the Brazilian Association of the
Triangle.
Clarice Mota of Rio de Janeiro has
lived in North Carolina for five years
and attended the Carrboro carnival
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ed 12.5 percent of Chapel Hill’s 43,977
population to to be black.
“There has always been just one
African American on the Town Council,
and of course I would like to see this
improve,” council member Edith
Wiggins, the council’s lone black mem
ber, said.
The racial makeup of Carrboro is not
known, but there are two black mem
bers on the Board of Aldermen.
This gradual advancement has not
improved enough to please everyone,
including Battle and Carrboro
Alderman Hilliard Caldwell.
Batde said the NAACP, the BPWA
and other minority organizations would
continue their fights for racial equality in
town governments and in life as a
whole. “In order to have a good force
we need to increase black representa
tion in city governments,” he said.
When Alderman Jacquelyn Gist ran
for her seat on the Board of Aldermen
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almost every year.
In Brazil, she said, prices varied for
carnival events ranging from street par
ties to parties for the Brazilian elite.
“There is a reversal role,” Mota said.
“You can live in a slum and in the car
nival you are beautiful. Everyone
watches you in the parades of the
samba schools.”
The parades of Brazilian samba
schools involves floats, unique cos
tumes, thousands of dancers and music
to move the crowd. The dancing for
this year’s carnival in Rio de Janeiro
began on New Year’s Eve, Mota said.
“It’s impossible for a Brazilian not to
enjoy carnival,” she said. “It means joy
and freedom and being able to dance
and move your body. It’s like another
sort of Christmas, you can’t miss it.”
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last year, a gay man was re-elected
mayor and two women and a black man
were re-elected to three of the seven
seats on the board.
“When I moved to Carrboro in 1976,
this would have made headlines in Life
magazine,” Gist said. “Here it was a
non-issue, and I think that shows
progress.
“Looking back we have come a long
way, but we are not yet where we want
to be. There are not any Hispanics hold
ing political positions anywhere in
Orange County, and I find that disgust
ing.”
Caldwell said the Board of
Aldermen’s racial makeup was a good
representation of the community as a
whole. “As we get bigger, it will only
improve,” he said.
Chapel Hill is also doing well with
minority representation in town gov
ernment, Lee said. “I think we should
just leave it alone, because it is working
well.”
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ENDORSEMENTS
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thirds majority, or 67 votes, needed to
remove him from office.
Standing with the other 44 represen
tatives from his party, Edwards found
the president not guilty on both articles
of impeachment.
The former Raleigh attorney tapped
his knowledge of the judicial system
and justified his vote with a legal expla
nation rather than a substantive evalua
tion. “I think the prosecution failed to
prove beyond a reasonable doubt that
the president was guilty of these
charges,” he said. “You cannot convict
and remove a president from office
based on speculation.”
Edwards said Lewinsky’s testimony
and that of White House aide Sidney
Blumenthal, whose depositions he wit
nessed, along with the viewpoints of his
colleagues caused him to constantly
reevaluate his own opinion. “All of it
had an influence, but none of it ever
really changed my mind,” he said.
Helms also stood by his first impres
sions, saying he knew Clinton was
“guilty as sin” from the beginning.
Calling the process a "political gambit,”
Helms said he told other Republicans
in their first conference that they
should do nothing.
“I knew exactly how it was going to
turn out,” the 27-year veteran of the
Senate said. “We were destined to lose
from the very start.”
Helms said the American people
easily tired of the trial. Throughout
media coverage, opinion polls showed
that most Americans did not want the
president removed from office.
But those numbers did not stop
Helms from trying to convince his fel
low senators to find Clinton guilty.
“There is a constant deluge of public
opinion polls telling us which way to
go, almost without fail showing the
popular way,” he said in his closed ses
sion speech. A printed copy of his
remarks was provided to reporters.
“But I must put it to you that we will,
at our own peril, look to opinion polls
to decide how we vote, when the real
need is to look to our hearts, to our con-
Morrison said Faulk told him that
since he had done his best to remove
and nullify the expenditure, as stated in
the Student Code, he would not have to
pay for the publication.
“I did everything I know to do,”
Morrison said. “I can’t very well go
around stealing all the copies of the
Carolina Review.”
Anne Kim contributed to this article.
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sciences and to our soul.”
As senators emerged from their 1
chamber, they were met by a small '
chorus of protesters on the Capitol
lawn who, according to polls, did not
share the views of most Americans.
One man repeatedly shouted
“Clinton is Satan” while a well-dressed ,
woman several feet behind him broad
casted her prayer for the nation’
through a megaphone. *,
With this circle of protesters in the
foreground, Edwards said he also was
offended by Clinton’s actions.
“I think this president has shown a
profound disrespect for his office,” he
said, adding that he shared this same
sentiment in his speech to the Senate.
“To me, that display of disrespect rose
to the point it was breathtaking.”
Helms said other Democrats had
expressed similar feelings about the
highest-ranking elected official in their
party.
“I’ve heard him called things by
Democrats that I haven’t called him,”
he said, his voice rising in disgust.
“Then they got up there and said ‘not
guilty,’ and they stressed the not
“I know everybody has two sides to
his face, but I hope everybody is not
two-faced like that.”
Though they had differing view
points on Clinton’s guilt or innocence,
both Edwards and Helms said they did
not support censure.
Shortly after the vote, Sen. Dianne
Feinstein, D-Calif., entered a motion to
censure the president for his behavior.
The measure was defeated, and
Democrats said they would not try to
revive it later.
Edwards said his objection to this
effort stemmed from the desire to use
his own words to criticize Clinton’s
actions instead of other senators.
Helms, on the other hand, reasoned
that a censure measure would allow
Democrats an opportunity to justify
their votes in the impeachment trial.
“That is a cover-my-fanny kind of
move,” Helms said. “Democrats want
to go home and say, ‘Well I voted to’
censure him.’”
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kind of unexpected.”
Reeves said he had plans to stay
involved with RHA next year.
“There’s no use in giving up now,”
he said. “I don’t know exactly what I’m
going to do yet but I will be there.”
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