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Thursday ] February 2, 2006
Serving UNC Wilmington since 1948
Volume LVII I Number 15
In Memorium
G)retta Scott Kii^
April 27, 1927 - January 30,2006
Coretta Scott King, widow of civil rights piraieer, Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr., passed away aw^ this past Monday. Coretta King
suffered a heart attack and stroke in August of 2005, and was under
going treatment at Hospital Santa Monica at the time of her death.
After Dr. King was assassinated in 1968, she raised their four chil
dren and continued to preserve his legacy of racial equality. In 1983,
Coretta King was successful in getting Dr. King’s birthday signed
into law as a national holiday. She will be remembered for her support
and efforts in the Civil Rights movement
Film Studies department gets
new outlook and expanded
support from community
to grow in terms of the rentals they
need for DVDs or purchases for
that.”
The school-owned equipment
can only be used for class projects
right now, but students are able to
use their own equipment for projects
as well.
The administration has created
a new office staff position along
with as two faculty positions, one in
critical studies and one in produc
tion. Donations from parents have
helped the department grow and
new courses are also being offered.
Buttino said that because of the
growth, space for offices and class
rooms is needed, but he emphasized
that space limitations are a problem
see FILM p^e 3
Amanda Hutcheson
Assistant News Editor
Lou Buttino has a vision. As the
new head of the Film Department,
which has grown from 40 majors
to 280 majors in two years, he has a
lot of changes to keep up with.
“The administration has really
been very supportive of that growth
in terms of we’ve got a substantial
amount of money to get our equip
ment up to speed even though we
are behind with so many students,”
Buttino said. “We are trying to
keep our movie-making, actual
film-making equipment, rising
along with our digital equipment,
and helping critical studies, that’s
the other area of our department.
Civil rights activist Benjamin Chavis-
Muhammad comes to UNCW
Courtesy of youngandbl8ck.nel
Civil rights activist Benjamin Chavis-Muhammad will be speaking in the Warwick Center Ballroom
tonight. Chavis-Muhammad, one of the Wilmington Ten, was wrongly imprisoned for nearly a decade.
Hollan Peterson
Senior Staff Writer
BenjaminChavis-Muhammad
will be the keynote speaker at an
event to commemorate the 35th
anniversary of the Wilmington
Ten in the Warwick Center
Ballroom tonight.
The Wilmington Ten was
based on the violence that erupted
in downtown Wilmington in the
wake of both the assassination of Dr
Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and
a court-ordered desegregation of
Wilmington’s high schools in 1969.
Frustrated by the failure of educa
tional and governmental institutions
to enforce federal legislation and
court decisions aimed at eliminat
ing racial discrimination, African
American students announced a
boycott of Wilmington schools in
January of 1971.
see CHAVIS-MUHAMMAD page 2
Chuck D of Public Enemy to speak on 'Race, Rap and Reality' as part of Leadership Lecture Series
Benjamin Mahan
Senior Staff Writer
Chuck D, author, social com
mentator and founding father of the
legendary rap group Public Enemy,
will speak at LFNCW as part of his
“Race, Rap and Reality” lecture
series on Feb. 14 at 7:00 p.m. in the
Warwick Center Ballroom.
,>• “We wanted Chuck D to speak
at UNCW
because of
his
on
pop
said
r
effect
modern
culture,”
Lathan
Goumas, a
representative
of the ACE
Contemporary
Culture Department. Goumas said
most speakers invited to UNCW
Chuck D
present material academic in nature,
and he wanted to bring in someone
who could entertain as well as edu
cate.
Public Enemy released their first
album, “Yo Bum Rush Show.” in
1987. This album introduced pop
music to a unique cut-and-paste
sampling style of production that
brandished a subversive sociopoliti
cal message articulated by Chuck
delivery. Public Enemy’s second
album, “It Takes aNation of Millions
to Hold Us Back,” was hailed as a
instant classic and solidified Public
Enemy as one of the most important
rap acts of all time.
Between periodic releases from
Public Enemy, Chuck D launched
two Web sites, appeared on numer
ous news talk show outlets and
wrote an autobiography titled
Xhe Autobipgf^y • - of
Mistachuck.”
Rolling Stone magazine named
Chuck D as one of the “fifty most
important performers in rock & roll
history” in May 2004.
Chuck D’s appearance is spon
sored by the ACE Contemporary
Culture department. Tickets are
available at the University Union
information desk. The event is free
for students and faculty with a
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