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Thursday, April 30, 2009 Clowns Continued from Page 6 and clowns often work with the injured, hurt, old and downtrodden confined to beds or wheelchairs. “It’s about feeling people’s energies, understanding direct eye contact and ap proach,” she said. “You have to approach them and feel if they are scared, or not into what you’re doing.” You make it a game, she said, creeping forward and pulling back. It is about the dance, and the clown has to base progres sion on the other person. “You have to get outside of yourself enough to see what other people want,” Huggins said. “You have to notice what’s going on around you and feel how to be with people.” Volunteering at a local nursing home last Friday, Krauss led a group sing-a-long with her ukulele while Huggins sat quietly, hold ing a patients hand and talking. Global Outreach Through their work with the Geshundheit institute, Krauss and Huggins haye combat ed ‘global depression’ all over the world. On Aug. 4 through the 18 the clowns will travel to Peru for two weeks of clown ing in the Amazon, Huggins said. An “international gathering of Joyful so cial justice advocates,” Huggins said over 15 countries were represented in the same trip last year. Olson Continued from Page 2 lead. Wengrow also said he recalled a ru mor that it had been a mental health pa tient from the Highland Hospital nearby on Montford Avenue. There are no planted trees or stoic benches in memory of Virginia “Ginger” Olson. Evidence of her exists only in the buried pages of the Ridge Runner, The Blue Banner’s predecessor, or in pictures of theater productions only identifiable by the disappearing group of people who knew Olson. Most have forgotten Olson’s death, or never even knew about it. Detective Co- boum, however, said she’s not giving up. “Even though 1 never knew Ginger, I be come attached to her pictures. All she was doing was studying for a Spanish test on a beautiful afternoon, just like today. 1 will see it through to the end,” Coboum said. Festival — Continued from Page 3 nual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is held in Manchester on a 700-acre farm. “Bonnaroo is one of the biggest festi vals around, period,” said Sam Everest, 19, a business major at UNCA. “There’s so many people at the festival, like 80 or 90 thousand people.” Bonnaroo’s list of performers for sum mer 2009 includes Bruce Springsteen, Phish, A1 Green, Snoop Dogg, Nine Inch Nails, Ben Harper, Toubab Krewe and dozens more. Bonnaroo is not atop Ever est’s list this summer because of its mas sive attendance and its increasingly “cor porate” nature. But one band could invigorate the festi val this summer, he said. “This year Phish is playing for two nights, and that is going to bring them so much attention,” Everest said. Remaining tickets to Bonnaroo cost $249.50 per person. All tickets are full- weekend passes and cover camping and parking. There is an extra $125 dollar fee for RV parking. There are two must-see festivals this summer: Ail Good Music Festival and Campout and Rothbury Festival, which will both require some traveling, Everest said. Rothbury Festival, held in Rothbury, Mich., hosts a lineup of artists that in cludes Damian Marley, The Dead, Bob Dylan and rappers Nas and Gift of Gab, among others. “Rothbury definitely tops off the list of summer festivals,” Everest said. “It tops the lists of most people 1 know, too.” The Michigan festival runs from July 2 to July 5. A weekend-long ticket equals the price of Bonnaroo’s admission at $249.50 per person. {The Blue Banner} Donation noNiroRb pooo Enjoy free lemonade and stock up on your summer reading with 20% off on; Scl-FI • Fiction • Mysteries Saturday, May 16 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. 31 Montford Ave. (across from the Chomber of Commerce) Info ot (828) 285-8805 Page 8 Continued from Page 2 being deferred or eliminated, the dona tion matches our needs perfectly and is incredibly timely and valuable, according to Ponder. “The donor might be anonymous, but their intention, to help out universities during this recession, was clear,” said ju nior Josh Robinson. The UNC system had its budget cut by 7 percent this semester, according to Robinson. “I heard some of the schools were asked to sign contracts saying they wouldn’t try to learn the identity of the donor,” Robinson said. “It’s somebody or a group that just doesn’t want any recog nition for their actions. I don’t see how it could be anything bad.” The school contacted the IRS and De partment of Homeland Security to make sure the donation was legal, according to William Massey, vice chancellor for alumni and development. “It is odd that the donations are only going to schools with female leadership, but I suppose it’s alright, as long as they don’t try to dictate where the money goes,” Robinson said. Robinson hopes there are no stipula tions on how the money is spent, espe cially not on who the scholarships go to because he wants the scholarships to be accessible to everybody, including men. “At the anonymous donor’s request, $1 million will go toward scholarships and $500,000 toward operating support,” Epstein said. UNCA wilt use $250,000 to purchase equipment needed for the new Zeis Sci ence & Multimedia Building that will be dedicated this fall. The remaining $250,000 will be set aside to help create a new endowed fac ulty chair. Private funds and the state’s Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund will match those funds in the future. A portion of the financial aid dollars will be available to qualifying students beginning in fall 2009, and the remainder will be invested in scholarship endow ments to provide continuing financial aid to undergraduate students in the future, according to Epstein. “I could do with some financial help,” said junior Delaney Brown. “I work at a gas station, pay most of my expenses and go to school. With the state of the econ omy, a lot of students, including myself, will need the money soon.” Thirteen universities received money from the mysterious donor since March. “At a time when a college education has never been more important and eco nomic challenges face us at every turn, this kind of gift is transformational for our university and for the students who will attend UNCA next year and in the years to come,” said UNCA Board of Trustees Chair A1 Whitesides. 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