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Wednesday, September 9, 2009 {The Blue Banner} Page 7 Festival spotlights avant-garde music DRONE VALLEY 09 nSHEVILLE NC Thursday boiler ROOM mm flN& Ml mimi •TWO PLANES •MACHIAVILLAIN3 •GUNSLINGER •SONS OF HIPPIES •HATORI HANZO Friday boiler room •DARIEN ^ •SOUTH FRENCH BROADS •WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAMED •THE WHITE CASCADE •GOODBYE. TITAN Saturday SbEVEN ON GROVE •THE VOLUME •MELISSA MAY & THE THUNDER- CHICKENS •GRAY YOUNG •lEATA •SOLITO MYSPACE.COM/D80NEVALLEY PBR "ALL YOU CAN SLAM" *5 PER NIGHT / 18 + SHOWS IN THE GROVE HOUSE Thursday September 10th - The Boiler Room stage 9:00pm -1:00am- Local art displays, video shows & performance art. 9:00- Two Planes (Asheville, NC) > , h 9:45- The MachiaVillains (Asheville, NC) i 10:30-Gunslinger (Nashville,TN) 11:30- Sons of Hippies (Tampa, FL) • ; 12:30-HatariHanzo (Asheville, NC) Friday Sept 11th-The Boiler Room stage 9:00pm -1:00am- Local art displays, video shows & performance art. 9:00-Darien (Asheville, NC) 9:45- The South French Broads (Asheville, NC) 10:45- Where the Buffalo Roamed (Asheville/Pittsboro, NC)' ■ 11:45- The White Cascade (Raleigh, Np . 12:45-Goodbye,Titan (Raleigh, NC) Saturday Sept 12th-The Club Eleven on Grove stage (Front of the Grove Building) 8:00pm- 10:00pm- Local art displays,videc _shows8i performance art. 8:30-The Volume (Greenville, SC) • ' 9:15-The MachiaVillains (Asheville,tilp - . _ i 10:00- Melissa May&TheThunderchickens(Michigafi3, :■ 11:00- Gray Young (Raleigh, NC) : 12:00-Irata (Greensboro, NC) 1:00- Solito(Sylva,NC) Flier courtesy of Ian Galdy. Image courtesy of Gray Young. prone Valley 2009 takes place Thursday through Saturday. The Boiler Room and Club Eleven are located iri the Grove House on Grove Street off Patton Avenue downtown. Grove Street venues to host 15 regional bands By Timothy Meinch Staff Writer TMMEINCH@UNCA.EDU Drone Valley Music and Art Festivals Will bring an underground, indie-rock al- emative to Asheville music lovers Thurs- ay through Saturday night. , ” {®ally caters to that group of people hat like experimental music, but don’t necessarily like jam bands every single night, which Asheville is known for,” rumpeter Dan Meier said of the third an- nual Drone Valley Festival. kicks off tomorrow night at “Oiler Room with all-you-can-drink R and cover charge, both of which cost ^nt’s a college offer if I ever heard ne, said Meier, who traveled from Den ver and will play with Where the Buffalo named at the Boiler Room Friday night. The Boiler Room, Club 11 and Scandals are located under one roof, allowing all at tendees 18 and older to wander from one locale to another for $5 a night. “Last year it was a little too hectic,” said event coordinator Andy Meier. “We had five different venues, and it was all over town.” . According to organizers, this made it difficult to see all the shows and created a conflict of interest for attendees: beer and driving. . “It was so spread out that it was tough for everybody to see without driving across town,” he said. “This year every body stays in the same building, ideally, and never has to travel to go see the next band.” The festival also brings some changes and more diversity to the stage. “This year there’s a lot more perfor mance art,” Andy Meier said. “We’ve got a contortionist, a mime, a couple of belly dancers, live painting inspired by the live music being played and a couple video shows.” But the music is the real heartbeat and gravity behind the festival with 15 bands packed into two venues for three nights. “To my knowledge, I didn’t know of any kind of smaller festival that focuses in on this kind of music,” Andy Meier said. The drummer of Where the Buffalo Roamed has played in several local bands and always liked the business side of mu sic as well as playing. The festival started with just him and his computer. “If you go out to Deerfields for a festi val, you may see the same bands you saw at the last festival and the year before that, and then you may have one experimental, indie band worked in there for a half hour on a side stage,” Meier said. He decided the area needed something See drone valley Page 11 | Amnesty policy may improve students’ safety By Erica Grabon Staff Writer INDIVIDUALTASTES@YAHOO.COM Anyone who saw the movie Pulp Fiction will remember the famous overdose scene. Now imagine it happens on campus. Call ing for help could potentially bring legal ramifications upon the person seeking medical attention or the person attempting to save their life. A medical amnesty policy could work toward relieving these concerns, accord ing to substance abuse counselor Elizabeth Likis-Werle. “Medical amnesty polices are based on the assumption that students fear trying to call for help if one of their friends is in trouble” Werle said. “If you put a medical amnesty policy in place, students won’t be held liable for their own involvement with drugs and al cohol because they were trying to get help for a friend” she said, UNC Asheville students expressed con cern at the lack of a written policy, said Werle. “From what I’ve heard about this policy it seems very critical and very important for our student’s safety and well-being,” said Student Body President Cortland Mercer. “I think that when we are talking about a college environment where people often experiment with things that they should or should not experiment with, it’s a very se rious issue that needs to be looked at by administrators.” At least 91 nationwide schools imple ment medical amnesty policies, also known as the “Good Samaritan” policy, according to the Students for a Sensible Drug Policy, a campus organization. “The handful of universities that do have a medical amnesty policy have two differ ent ways of approaching it,” said Dean of Students Jacquelyn McHargue. “The first way is that if the university is notified that somebody is in a serious medical condi tion, either the result of alcohol or drugs, there will be no disciplinary ramifications for that individual student. Other schools will say that there will be a lesser disci plinary action.” While UNCA lacks a written policy. See AMNESTY Pagp qI
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