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THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 2006
Vol. XXXII No. 28
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Strip club ads removed by Whiteheart
County Commissioner
says he did not buckle
to public pressure
BYT. KEVIN WALKER
THE CHRONICLE
A Forsyth County Commissioner is
denying that pressure from a prominent
pastor led his advertising company to
pull controversial billboard ads promot
ing a local strip club.
Whiteheart Outdoor Advertising
Company, owned by first-term
Republican County Commissioner Bill
Whiteheart, has removed ads for Paper
Moon Gentlemen's Club from two of its
billboards along Highway 52. The bill
boards were removed less than a week
after the Rev. Seth O. Lartey, pastor of
Goler Memorial AME Zion Church,
threatened to picket Whiteheart outside
of the Forsyth County Government
Building during commissioner meetings.
Lartey also warned that he and others
would protest outside of Centenary
Photo by Kevin Walker
A Paper Moon ad was removed from this Whiteheart Billboard on Highway 52.
United Methodist, where WJiiteheart
attends church. ?
The Paper Moon ads only show the
faces of two heavily made-up women,
but Lartey says that the ads send a bad
moral message, especially in East
Winston, which needs as much positive
imagery as it can get. Lartey also argues
that businesses like Paper Moon exploit
women and sends a message to young
girls that their bodies, not their minds,
are the only things worthy of praise and
attention.
"If it is a "gentlemen's club.' then
they should put pictures of men on these
ads," Lartey said in late January, when
the pastor and several members of his
church held a news conference near one
of the billboards to express their dis
pleasure.
The site of the that news conference
was on the campus of Winston-Salem
State University. A Paper Moon ad is still
on a billboard behind the university's
new computer science building, right off
of Highway 52. Members of Goler
believed that that billboard, like others
featuring Paper Moon ads along the
highway, belonged to Whitf heart's com
pany. But the county commissioner told
The Chronicle that his company no
longer has Paper Moon billboards up in
the area cited by Lartey.
A city inspector had no information
about the owner of the billboard that sits
behind WSSU. The owner of the land on
Sec Whiteheart on A12
"Hotel Rwanda"
hero says to
embrace Africa
Paul Rusesabagina tells packed
house about genocide
BY TODD LUCK
0 THE CHRONICLE
It was standing-room-only last week when Paul Rusesabagina,
the real life hero of "Hotel Rwanda," spoke at Salem College.
About 1 ,200 people attended the free event, filling all 750 seats
in the Hanes Auditorium and all 250 seats in the auditorium across
Jhe hall, which had a live video feed of the lecture. The auditorium
doors were left open so the approximately tw<j hundred people left
standing in the hall could look on and listen.
Rusesabagina is the Kigali , Rwanda hotel manager who sheltered
and protected more than 1 ,200 refugees in the Mille Collines Hotel
during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He received Amnesty
International's
"Enduring Spirit"
Award and the
Immortal
Chaplains Prize
for Humanity. His
story was told in
the 2005 movie
"Hotel Rwanda"
which was nomi
nated for three
Academy Awards.
Rusesabagina
talked about his
experiences dur
ing the genocide.
He described the
tensions between
the Hutu and
Tutsi, two ethnic
groups that live
together in
Rwanda, and how
they exploded into
the violence that
?? led Hutu extrem
Paul Rusesabagina helped save the lives of more than a j (f) yj| an cs(|
I flOO people. mated 500 000
Tutsis and moder
ate Hutus in the 1990s. Dead bodies were laying everywhere as
sheer terror descended over the country. Rusesabagina said, describ
ing the genocide.
"In Rwanda, we saw husbands kill their wives. In Rwanda, we
saw children killing their parents. We saw wives kill husbands.
Priests and pastors killed their church members. Church members
we saw kill pastors. It was a total disaster." said Rusesabagina.
When describing the Rwandans' reaction to the horror, he would
say "People went so white," He would repeat that sentence many
times during his story.
When the massacre started he found that many people fled to his
house to hide from Hutu extremists.
"Why my house and no where else? 1 never understood," he
?aid.
When soldiers came to his house and demanded Rusesabagina
See Rusesabagina on A5
Kirsten Williams works on the floor-size art project.
Artistic Expressions
Young professional artists visit East Forsyth.
BY JAESON PITT
THE CHRONICLE
Expression ultimately equals
knowledge. That is what David
Ellis and Kenji Hirata believe.
They are members of the The
Barnstormers, a self-proclaimed
"painting quartet" that includes
Ellis, Hirata and other artists. In
all. more than 30 artists are in
The Barnstormers. They usually
work in groups of four or less.
The Arts Council of
Winston-Salem, Winston
Salem/ Forsyth County Schools
and SECCA brought The
Barnstormers to town this week
to work with art-minded young
people.
At East Forsyth High
School, Ellis and Hirata demon
strated a technique called
"motion painting." The process
involves the taking of aerial
p n o t o -
graphs as
a work of
art is in
progress.
Upon
comple
tion, a
film ver
sion of
the entire
project
can be
Ellis
played
back to view in time lapsed
sequences. Imagine old black
and white silent films where the
characters scurry around. The
only difference is there is no cli
max leading up to a great end
ing. The only thing climactic is
seeing beautifully intricate
paintings of a massive size
being "buffed"(painted over)
and painted over repeatedly for
video's sake.
Ellis, fe Winston-Salem
native, helped to advance the
motion painting movement. The
Barnstormers' appearance here
was coordinated last summer as
the group expressed an interest
in working with young people.
SECCA's Terri Dowell Dinnis
was happy to oblige the painting
orchestra.
"They immediately under
stood that we were going to
offer a very rare experience to
the students where thoy would
not only learn collaboration but
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Students
to eat on
just two
bucks
Project drives home
the severity of hunger
here and around world
BY SANDRA ISLEY
THE CHRONICLE
Do you know what it is like
to be hungry?
That's the question that the
students at Winston
Salem/Forsyth County Career
Center will find out the answer
to as they take on a $2-a-day
eating challenge for a week.
Starting Saturday, local stu- '
dents will volunteer to live on
just $14 worth of food for a
week. Jonathan Milner, a
teacher at the Career Center,
con
ceived
the proj
e c t .
M i 1 n e r
teaches
govern
ment and
politics.
He . has
incorpo
rated the
study of
world
Milner
wide poverty into his curricu
lum for the past seven years.
"We're studying poverty in
my class and it's pretty
abstract: the idea of all the.se
people hiving in poverty
around the world," said
Milner. "So. I thought how
could I make it seem real to
the students?"
According to Hunger
Notes, a world hunger educa
tion service, approximately
850 million people worldwide
are malnourished.
The project grew from a
study that shows that half of
the people on the planet live
on $2 a day.
"I want (students) to real
ize that they are participating
in something very hard, and
it's something that most peo
ple in the world do every sin
gle day of their lives," Milner
said. "Hopefully, it will spur
them into some kind of action.
They'll learn and then act on it
in their own personal way."
Milner said. ,
More than half of Milner's
students/about 60, are partici
pating in the challenge. Junior
Steven Grzan plans to take the
experience to the max by get
ting rid of his cellphone and
other luxury items.
"I believe that I'm going to
have to carpool. because I
don't think that I'll be getting
that far on 10 cents worth of
gas,"Grzan said, "I don't think
that I'll be using my cellphone
either because that costs
money."
Grzan also said that he will
not be accepting charity and he
knows that it's going to be
extremely hard in just finding
enough to eat.
It's a matter of giving up
chocolatc for senior Franny
Civitano. Bread is going to be
a hard one for her as well. She
knows that there will be a lot
of beans and rice meals in her
near future. She understands
why so many around the world
are malnourished.
See Hunger on A5
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