Guilford goes to the gala
DANIEL T. SUMMERS, JR.
staff writer
The Human Rights Campaign,
formerly known as the Human
Rights Campaign Fund, is the larg
est national lesbian and gay politi
cal organization. According to the
campaign, the HRC is "envision
ing an America where lesbian and
gay people are ensured of their
basic equal right and can be open,
honest, and safe at home, work,
and in the community."
The Human Rights Campaign's
1997 North Carolina Gala was Sat
urday evening, February 8, 1997
at the Embassy Suites hotel in
Greensboro. The event was at
tended by various supporters of the
HRC, the mayor of Greensboro
and other prominent city figures,
along with many Guilford stu
dents, faculty, and staff members.
Jenny Crane and Daniel Sum
mers were two students selected by
the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Sup
port and Awareness club (GLB A)
to represent the club at the event.
Other members of the GLB A
worked at the event hosting the
registration table, supervising a
silent auction and various other
tasks. Members of both Guilford
faculty and staff helped with the
organization and the production of
the event.
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The evening's events included
a silent auction, cocktail party, and
catered dinner. Throughout the
dinner, various speakers talked
about the HRC and of the injus
tices in America. The "To Form a
More Perfect Union" dance fol-
The Human Rights Cam
paign is "envisioning an
America where lesbian and gay
people are ensured of their ba
sic equal right and can be open,
honest, and safe at home, work,
and in the community."
lowed the dinner. Kami Rowan (a
Guilford professor) played guitar
and other artists performed during
the dance. The event was co
chaired by Jeffery Lawson and
Eliza Taylor, the partner of Guil
ford professor Kathy Tritschler.
TTie evening was a fund-raiser
and a celebration of the successes
that the North Carolina chapter and
the national HRC have witnessed
this past year. The HRC contrib
utes money to political candidates
from various parties that not only
support gay, lesbian, bisexual, and
transgendered rights, but also ad-
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vocate the rights of all Americans.
The HRC spearheaded the intro
duction of the Employment Non-
Discrimination Act (END A), a bill
to protect Americans from sexual
orientation-based job discrimina
tion. Currently, there are no fed
eral laws protecting Americans
from being fired from their jobs
because they are homosexual.
One of the many programs
sponsored by the HRC is the Na
tional Coming Out Project, an on
going campaign to advocate and
enable all gay men and lesbians to
educate America by letting others
know about them. Other HRC pro
grams include Action Grams, the
10,000-member Action Network,
and the HRC's Action Center on
the World Wide Web, which allows
users to send electronic messages
directly to their members of Con
gress.
To find out more about the
Human Rights Campaign contact
Kathy Tritschler at
extension 2145. Also check out the
Human Rights Campaign's Home
Page on the World Wide Web at
http://www.hrcusa.org .
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WILL DODSON
staff writer
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This week's movie is very
special to me. "Sleepaway
Camp" is the reason I have my
girlfriend. It was sometime
early in the fall, and for some
ungodly rea-
son I was in
Binford.
My soon
to-be-girl-
friend was
excitedly
pulling
people into
her room to
watch what
she called
her "favorite
movie of all
time." I fig
ured it was
going to be
some drivel
like "How to
Make an
V
Hey there, Will
American
Quilt" or something, but she
managed to get me in there.
When I left, I knew my life
would never be the same.
"Sleepaway Camp" is the
most romantic movie I've ever
seen: it's got violent death,
very young children with very
filthy mouths, and really hor
rid 'Bos fashion.
The r premise of a peaceful
summer camp being terror
ized by a maniacal killer was
an old hat by 1985, when
"Sleepaway Camp" was re
leased (see "Friday the 13th,
1980).
But "Camp" had something
"Friday" didn't: Brooklyn ac
cents. Every actor/actress (I
use the term loosely has the
most pronounced Brooklyn
accent I've ever heard. Lines
like "Angeler! What're youse
doin'?" vault this film into the
Hall of Fame.
The movie starts with a
flashback of a daddy and his
two little kids, a boy and a
girl, frolicking in a lake. Dad
and one of the kids get run
over by a boat. Fast forward
to the present where the sur
viving kid, Angela, now
around twelve or thirteen
years old, lives with her
cousin Ricky and Aunt Mel
issa.
Ricky and Angela go to
camp. All the kids run around
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screaming while the kitchen
staff watches them. The head
cook, Artie, likes young girls.
"There's no such thing as be
ing too young," he tells some
old black guy, "You're just too
old." Words to live by, I say.
Artie gets a vat of boiling
water poured on him, and his
face
bubbles
while he
screams.
Mes
sage:
pedo
philes
get boil
ing wa
t e r
poured
on them
eventu
ally.
"Sleep
aw a y
Camp"
has lots
and lots
of great
death scenes. There's a
drowning (the corpse has a
snake crawling out its mouth),
a beehive on the face of a guy
trapped in a bathroom stall, a
curling iron inserted in an ori
fice, a decapitation, and of
course a shower knifing. Yay!
Another fun thing about
the movie is that you get to
see one kid smack his face on
another kid's naked butt.
These guys blindfold him and
tell him that they've hynotized
him so he can't sit up. When
he sits up, there's a butt in his
way. It's really bizarre.
The profanity level is very
high, allowing for interesting
exchanges between charac
ters:
Bill: EATS*** AND DIE,
RICKY!
Ricky: Eat s*** and live,
Bill.
What a comeback, huh?
This is great. Watch for the
hilarious plot twist in the very
last scene (it's worth watch
ing the whole movie for) and
for Ricky, Aunt Melissa, and
Mel. They're funny.
Rating: This got me a girl
friend; maybe it'll work for
you. If nothing else, you get
to see some guy vomit white
stuff while on an overnight
camping trip.