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THE CAROLINA JOURNAL
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FLICK FACTS INFO
...Wednesday, November 18, 3:30 and 7:30 p.m..
Room C-2 2 0... RULES*OF*THE*GAME...“some
critics consider this the finest film ever made.” ‘Jean
Renoir’s greatest work...a masterpiece’-London
Observer. From France....
...Wednesday, December 2, 3:30 and 7:30 p.m..
Room C-220...THE*GOLD*RUSH...‘‘Chariie Chaplain
looks for both gold and romance in the Klondike. One
of his most sur-really funny yet most touching
films....”
...Friday, December 4, 9 p.m.. Room C-220...Pray
for ROSEMA RY'S* BABY...“Roman Polanski’s
chilling thriller of witchcraft in Manhatten. Mia
Farrow is excellent as Rosemary, the pregnant young
wife convinced witches are after her baby; John
Cassavettes and Sidney Blackman are properly
ominous as the treacherous husband and suave head of
the witch cult; and Ruth Gordon won an Oscar for her
role as the busybody witch-next-door. Don’t see this
one alone...”
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Women
Win war
presented on
and Saturday
overwhelming
by donna raley
Fantastic Play! The Theatre
Workshop must be congratulated
lor a fine performance of
Lysistrata. Directed by Catherine
Nicholson and Richard
Abernathy. Lysistrata was
Thursday, Friday,
night. Due to an
demand by those
turned away and those wanting to
see it again, the play was given
again on Monday night. What a
compliment!
Lysistrata, played by Lloyd
Rose leads her compatriots
Kalonike, (Ginny Kleinhous),
Myrrhine (Martha MacGregor),
Lampito (Caralo Haines) and
Boiotian (Diann McKnight) into
an Oath to the Goddess of
Persuasion. They all drink to an
agreement not to sleep with their
husbands until a peace pact is
signed between Athens and
Sparta.
The ribaldry flows freely as the
Women are pitted against the men.
Aristophones had to have been
the master of the phallic joke.
There are insane scenes of
horseplay between the harridans
and decrepit old men. These
scenes between the male and
female choruses drew applause
because of the blatantly funny
outbursts of bawdiness.
James Kulpepper, as a Bacchian
drunkard, was especially funny
providing linkage between the
scenes, in addition to stumbling
around the stage picking up props.
Richard Abernathy as Kinesias
drew applause in his portrayal of a
horny Athenian. “What’s life
without a wife?” he asks. And this
is exactly what the women want
him to say. Success!
Scene design by William
Rackley, Assistant Director and
Choreographer: Cathy
Kaemmerler, Stage Manager: Julia
Willis.
Congratulations for an
excellent presentation of an oldie
but goodie theme.
In colloquim
Anderson on architecture
The Distaff Club of the
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte invites you to hear
Professor Robert Anderson in
Colloquim on November 20, 1970
at 8:00 p.m. in room 229 in the
and of the
Collegiate
Architecture.
Association
Schools
of
of
Physical Education Building. The
topic wilt be “Architectural
Education and Problem Solving in
the University’s Physical
Environment.”
Professor Robert Anderson is
Chairman of the College of
Architecture at UNCC. He comes
to Charlotte from Miami where he
taught at the University of Miami.
Before that, he held positions at
the University of Southern
California and Auburn University.
Professor Anderson completed his
undergraduate work at North
Carolina State University and his
graduate education at Harvard
University. He is a member of the
American Insitute of Architects
Choir to perform
at St. Patricks
The UNCC chorus, under
the direction of Mrs. Roselyn
Gaither, will perform
“Shubert’s Mass in G Major”
on Sunday, November 22.
The “Mass” will be sung for
the High Mass ceremony at
Patrick’s Catholic Church
Dilworth East, at 10:30
St.
on
a.m.
Dressed in their blue robes,
the choir will process in, and
will join tlie congregation in
the singing of hymns and
other parts of the mass.
All interested persons are
invited to attend.
last of a series
by Charlie peek
After examining
Liberation is and
Liberation is, some
wonder how far the movement
has come since its conception. On
June 28 th, 1970 the cause
celebrated its first anniversary,
demonstrating both to the world
and to itself that it is here to stay.
This anniversary gave
encouragement to the movement’s
members and prompted
not-yet-converted homosexuds to
join in the fight to “liberate”
themselves.
New York City spawned the
liberation movement and was the
setting for its first anniversary.
Members of three different groups
of liberationists were on hand to
stage a parade through New York
and a rally in Centrd Park. These
three groups were the Mattachine,
the Gay Liberation Front, and the
Gay Activist Alliance. The
Mattachine was in effect the Gay
NAACP about a year ago. From
this beginning sprang the GAA
and the more militant GLF.
Throughout the past year all
three groups have been using
demonstration tactics to bring
their cause to the public
attention, to stop exploitation of
homosexuals by Mafia owners of
gay bars, and to resist police
harrassment. These tactics
included groups of boys and girls
going through department stores
in boy-boy, girl-girl couples,
showing obviously that they were
COUPLES, pamphleteering in
Central Park, and bringing false
arrest charges against police.
“He’ll stand trial, and we’ll all go
to the court. We’U hold hands in
the courtroom. We will be the
first homosexual group in history
to hold hands in the courtroom.”
The parade in New York
marking the first anniversary was
organized by the Christopher
Street Liberation Day Committee.
Homosexuals of all sizes, colors,
and affiliations gathered on sixth
avenue where they were handed
flyers proclaiming, “Welcome to
the first anniversary celebration of
the Gay Liberation Movement. We
are united today to affirm our
pride, our life-style, and our
commitment to each other”. At
the head of the parade, one boy
stood carrying an American flag.
On Hollywood Boulevard, one
gay led a fearsome white husky
dog that wore a sign: NOT ALL
OF US WALK POODLES.
Another poster proclaimed:
HOMOS FOR REAGAN. Still
another one read boldly:
BETTER BLATANT THAN
LATENT. And no demonstration
march would be at all complete
without the chants: “Say it loud!
Gay is proud!” “two, four, six,
ei^t! Gay is just as good as
straight!”; and “Out of the
closets! Into the streets!” Crowds
quickly gathered to watch, as they
would at any demonstration. The
marchers flashed the V-sign and
invited anyone who felt the call to
join them in the march. Several
accepted. These were greeted with
tremendous cheers of approval by
the other marchers. Ten Thousand
proud gays marched up sixth
avenue and settled in Central
Park’s Sheep Meadow for the
rally, which was held in a holiday
atmosphere, symbolizing at last
near complete freedom and
openess for the participants. For
some, the first such experience of
freedom in their lives. Perhaps the
general feeling of the celebration
can best be summed up by one of
the participants when he chided,
“Would you believe it! It looks
like an invading army. It’s a gay
Woodstock. And after all those
years 1 spent in Psychotherapy!”
Another measureable milestone
for the movement can be seen also
in New York City. In a rundown
theatre, Reverand Troy Perry
regularly conducts services of the
Metropolitan Community Church.
It is not unlike many other
churches in the area except for
one factor. All of Rev. Perry’s
parishoners are homosexuals. Rev.
Perry, a homosexual liimself,
found his calling one day when
trying to console a deeply
distressed and depressed fellow
gay-
“No one cares for us
homosexuals.”
“God cares.”
“No, not even God cares.”
This was all the inspiration
Perry needed to establish a place
that tries to prove to the world
that God does care for
homosexuals too. In addition to
holding religious services, the
Metropolitan Church also sustains
a job placement center,
psychological counseling, and
discussion and study groups,
similar churches are functioning in
Chicago, San Diego, and San
Francisco.
Pride, determination, and
militancy are all present in the
statements of Guy Nassberg as he
sums up the goals of the Gay
Liberation Movement, “Our first
task is to get ourselves together.
We are going to have to spend a
lot of time talking openly to each
other about our lives, our doubts,
our fears, and our encounters with
straight-walled fronts called
people. We are going to have to
come out, to confront, then rip
apart the anti-liomosexiial
motions that even our best friends
hold against us.
“Our strengtli will come
through unity, and through the
new relationships we will build
with each other. Coming together,
we will develop the sense of
brotherhood and sisterhood that
will give us strength so we can
emerge from the closets of our
oppressions. Moving inward, our
focus will always be on the goal of
moving outward.
“Outward to what? In the end
we are going to have to take the
space that is necessary for our
survival. This society gives nothing
to people who won’t pay the price
of selfihatred and life-destroying
competitiveness. And we will not
pay the price, or play the games
of straight society. WTiat America
will not grant us, we are going to
have to take for ourselves.”
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(continued from page 4)
sleep undisturbed during their
professor’s lectures in class.
Even the hours between 2 and
5 a.m. provide orJy a slight
reduction in the disturbance. TTie
lounge has provided for all night
poker games and endless debate
on visitation.
But after-midnight festivities
have not only been restricted to
the lounges. At 2:30 in the
morning one might have heard a
loud off-key quartet droning the
words of “The Star Spangled
Batmer” while accompanied by
the local tv station signing off for
the night. This was then followed
by banging on the walls and
singing (?) even louder, “Oh, the
Kappa Sig family is the best
farnlly...”
There is however one location
on campus that not only provides
sufficient lighting but almost
complete tranquility. This is none
other than the top of the famous
Belk Tower at 4:00 in the
morning. Quiet yes, though it is a
bit cold. One should avoid this
location at all cost during the
daytime. Especially twelve noon...
MINIMUM DAILY REQUIREMENT
Appearing nightly, November 30-December 5, in the
basement of Sanford Hall, will be MINIMUM DAIIY
REQUIREMENT, our Coffeehouse’s second session of the
year Mon-Thursday showtime, 8-10:30 p.m. (2 shows);
p.m. (3 shows). Admission charge
of $.50 and refreshments will be served.
The group, composed of Peter Bradley, Robert Becker, and
Susan Bradley, sing an assortment of music, including folk
ballad, pop, and gospel sounds.