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This Weekend’s ‘Visions of Africa’ Showcases Lectures, Fashion, Art BY JON GOLDBERG FEATURES EDITOR - The African Students Association has sponsored the occasional lecture, cultural event and party over the years. But for the first time ever, it has decided to make a weekend of it. Starting Thursday, the group is co-spon soring the first-ever “Visions of Africa,” a three-day affair filled with dance, craft ex hibits and other events meant to stir inter est in African culture. The Triangle African Students Associa tion, which includes ASA and similar groups from N.C. State and Duke univer sities, started planning for the weekend in September and is glad to finally see its hard work become a reality. “I’m definitely excited,” said Ify Nwokoye, a sophomore from Amherst, Mass., who serves as president of ASA. “It’s been a lot of programming, and it will be nice to see something tangible.” Vincent Maphai, a visiting professor at Stanford University who hails from South Sketch Your Own Unique Definition Of Femininity With Quirky ‘Tank Girl’ Sometimes there is good reason to be pissed. If the Department ofWater were to invade your home, kill your husband and steal your kid, you’d have every right to inflict a little more damage than your aver age fcoot to the head. In fact, you’d prob ably want to do a lot of damage. For some, the way to go here would be to grab a rifle, machete or chain saw. But others might jump in their tank and blast the living crap out of them. Well, kids, |^B^EwUil£9l !5’ s h , ap P. e ",f d - Movie Review Tank Girl is - T , . here. And she’s Tan * G,rl mad. You can ■ talk until my ears bleed about feminism or helpful hints in political correctness, but when it comes down to it, this chick has really got it together. And this time she means business. Based on a comic book, this movie crams outrageous sets, firm plot and quirky dialogue into a fun-filled 90 minutes. It's the year 2033 and a comet has smashed into the Earth, destroying the climate that we know today. Water has become a pre cious commodity and thereby the basis for INAUGURATION FROM PAGE 1 “(In Jim Copland’s administration,) he was by far the most energetic, hardworking person I’ve ever seen in student govern ment," Battle said. “Some of us even won dered if he went to class or even was a student.” Battle praised Cunningham’s willing ness to take on the most menial of jobs. “No job is too small for Calvin,” Battle said. “He goes about everything with the same zeal.” After Student Body Vice President Amy Swan was inaugurated, she spoke of her desire to make the Cunningham adminis tration one of activism. She said she wanted to see University students flocking to the polls in November to make their voices heard. She assured the audience that the Cunningham adminis tration would try to see that student con- BICENTENNIAL FROM PAGE 1 Because the college’s initial SSO million goal for various projects has been reached, attention can now be more focused on these individual college goals, Cross said. “We’re working on each of the projects differently,” he said. A steering committee has been set up to raise money for the center for dramatic arts, Cross said. “The committee will have its first meeting May 5. It will give the project some special attention and focus on lobbying in the legislature,” he said. GUNS FROM PAGE 1 than a ban.” The recommendations deal with the storage, use and transportation of hand guns, Robinson said. Two separate plans were drafted be cause of the committee’s basic disagree ment about whether a need exists for a firearm ban in Carrboro at all. CLINTON FROM PAGE 1 Colorado Springs, left there in a pickup truck on Sept. 30 after seeing a series of visions in which a multicolored alien being told him that the mist had hung over the White House for 1,000 years, Blumberg said. After court was adjourned Tuesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Dubelier ridi- WEDNESDAY 7 a.m. See-Saw-A-Tbon will be held in the Pit until 10 p.m. Delta Zeta members will see-saw for 30 minutes each to raise money for the UNC Hospitals Hearing and Speech Center. T-shirts will be sold, and donations will be accepted. 8 a.m. AAF Bake Sale will be held in the lobby of Howell Hall today. Raffle tickets, muffins, cookies and drinks will be for sale. 11 a.m. Basketball Tournament signup will be held today and tomorrow in the Pit. The tournament will be held April 22 at the Cobb courts. T-shirts, food and prizes up to $l5O will be awarded. Proceeds support literacy education across the country. 3 p.m. Dissertation/Thesis Support Group: Handle the problems that block progress with spe- ARTS & FEATURES Africa, will kick off the weekend with a lecture titled “Affirmative Action: A South African Perspective.” Maphai will speak at 5 p.m. Thursday at Duke at2o4 Breedlove Hall in Perkins Library. Nwokoye is particularly excited about Friday’s schedule, which includes the key note speech by Professor Julius Ihonvbere of the University of Texas at Austin. Nwokoye first became inspired to orga nize such a festival after attending a lecture by Ihonvbere at Harvard University in spring 1994. “He is really a dynamic speaker,” she said. “I was really hoping he could fit into our schedule. He loves to talk to people.” Ihonvbere’s lecture, “The Role of De mocracy in Africa,” will be held at 7 p.m. Friday in Gerrard Hall. A reception will follow at 8:30 p.m. in Toy Lounge of Dey Hall, where Ihonvbere will be on hand for one-on-one conversation and a book sign ing. Saturday will be the busiest day of the festival. Vendors will be selling a variety of goods, including African crafts, T-shirts, conflict between the forces of good and evil. On one side is the all-powerful Water and Power, a business dictated by a mad man who gets a kick out of watching his employees walk on shards ofbroken glass. On the other is our punchy hero Rebecca (Lori Petty), who gets nabbed by the bad guys after a raid on her house and gets put to work in the dreaded mines. It's here that she teams up with Jet, a clever technician who has access to priceless classified infor mation. With a little bit of courage and brains, Rebecca and her newfound friend manage to escape, recover a lost daughter, and turn the tables on the corrupt and sinister faction that enslaves them all. What makes this story work so well is that it has the guts to be weird as well as to follow it through with truly funny lines. Where else could you find Ice T dressed up as a kangaroo, a girl driving a tank while downing a martini and a chorus line of silver shimmering G-strings in step to Cole Porter’s “Let’s Do It,” all in the same movie? As far as insanity goes, you just can’t beat it. It’s so crazy that somehow it just ends up being cool as hell. But while you’re watching all of this, cems were served by the University ad ministration and the N. C. General Assem bly. Donyell Phillips, vice president under George Battle, left the new officers with a few words of advice. She encouraged them to be available to students and to listen to their concerns, regardless of how unimpor tant they might seem. Phillips also emphasized that press cov erage did not determine the effectiveness of the administration. “Strive to serve students to the best of your ability despite what The Daily Tar Heel says,” she said. After Steve Hoffmann, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Fed eration, took the oath of office, he spoke about the needs of graduate students and of the entire University. He congratulated his predecessor, Ramesh Krishnaraj, for having made the work of graduate students known to the The meeting will bring together all com mittee members and give them an over view of the current plans, Cross said. “They will be shown the architects' drawings and will review a list of prospects,” he said. “Hopefully, we will find more people who will be interested as well." The funds raised by the Bicentennial Campaign will be used in addition to funds received from the state, which cover most of the University’s needs. The funds that have already been received have been used to create 20 new professorships, to add $4 million to merit scholarships, $4 million for faculty development, in addition to John Kessler, a member of the Gun Control Committee but not of the subcom mittee, said he did not favor a ban of all handguns. “I am in agreement with the vast major ity of the items proposed,” Kessler said. “But I am not for the banning of all hand guns.” He said he questioned whether a ban on handguns would be effective because any ban would only be in the form of a city culed the defense’s case, calling it “prepos terous.” Prosecutors described Duran as a hate-filled anarchist who was pretending to be mentally ill to escape punishment. Prosecutors said Duran began firing al most immediately after a 14-year-old Indi ana tourist pointed to someone inside the White House gates and told a friend that the man looked like Clinton. The man, New York City businessman Dennis Basso, who has a haircut similar to Campus Calendar cific strategies in the University Counseling Center. 3:30p.m. Support Group for Women Graduate Students: Discuss the challenges and explore prob lem-solving strategies in 101 Nash Hall. 4 p.m. Academic Credit Applications are due. 5 p.m. Campus Y Applications for all commit tees are due in the Y. Apply now to be a co-cHhirman! Applications are available in the Y. 6 p.m. Confronting Racism: A forum on “Ex panding the Notion of Civil Rights" will be held in 209 Manning. The Rev. Robert Seymour, minister emeritus ofßinkley Baptist Church, will be speaking. WESLEY invites everyone to 214 Pittioro St. for a home-cooked meal and a chance to fall ever more deeply in love with nature. 7 p.m. Camp Celebrate needs Volunteers from Slje Daily Star Mppl books and art in the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center office in the Student Union from about4:3op.m.until7:3op.m. Mean while, a buffet dinner catered by The Pal ace restaurant will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Hanes Art Center courtyard, weather permitting. A fashion show, a drum and dance performance, and a theatrical presentation will be among the offerings at a cultural show at 7:30 p.m. in Hanes Art Center. Afterward, a party featuring contempo rary African disco will be held at Crescent City Music Hall from 9 p.m. until 2 a.m. Most of the events are free except for the dinner and the Crescent City party. The buffet costs $4, and the party will be $5 at the door. Nwokoye said students could get a lot out of the weekend. “I would tell the average student to participate because they don’t have the chance to immerse themselves in different cultures,” she said. “A lot of it is free, and also it’s a chance to broaden horizons and have a good time.” there are a lot of completely original ideas within this film that are worth mentioning. Not only are the two heroes in this film women but they are the epitome of any male action heroes you’ve come across before. They are fearless, aggressive and will try anything to get what they want. Yet they have made these characters all their own by sketching in their own definitions of femininity. When they team up with some (apparently) half-man, half-beast creatures, they are the ones who hold fire until a plan is devised. Using teamwork and charm, these sisters become leaders of the winning plan to save the world. Loung ing in a torpedo bra and gazing up at the ceiling, Tank Girl even manages to snag a man in the end. Yes folks, this is the woman you’ve all been waiting for. You know, I think we need more mov ies like this. You could watch “Losing Isaiah” 60 times and not get the same kind of energy pouring out of this film. Instead of being some sort of slow-paced drama that you feel like you have to get all emo tional for at the end, “Tank Girl” comes through as being entertaining and fun. I kind of miss her already. University community. .“Under his leadership, the voice and concerns of graduate students have come very far at the University,” he said. Hoffmann said that as GPSF president he intended to remain open to students and to fight for graduate students’ interests. “Contributions are not measured by honor societies, awards or recognition,” he said. “They are known only by the warmth the soul feels when it knows it has done right.” Almost all the other student body offic ers for the 1995-96 school year also were inaugurated Tuesday. The 77th Student Congress members; Thad Woody, senior class president; Terms Dolby, senior class vice president; Jessica Godwin, president of the Residence Hall Association; Anthony Reid, president of the Carolina Athletic Association; and Stu dent Body Treasurer Nathan Darling were inaugurated. committing more than $4 million to the Honors Program and the Center for Un dergraduate Excellence. Other funded items include off-campus learning experiences, 15 funds in honor of the donors’ favorite teachers at UNC, and a lectureship and television documentary in honor of former UNC President Frank Porter Graham. More than half the campaign’s funds were raised from University alumni. The remaining 45 percent of funding came from foundations, corporations, or ganizations and from people who weren’t alumni. ordinance. Any infraction of the gun ban would amount at most to a misdemeanor and a fine, he said. The state law would have to be changed in order to increase the punishment, Robinson said. Bryan said that if the Board of Aider men approves the proposals, the ordinance would be significantly tighter than state law, although the punishment for infrac tions would be minimal. the president’s, said the gunman appeared to fire at him and three companions as they were finishing upatourofthe White House. The prosecution also said Duran had grown to hate Clinton and the U.S. gov ernment while serving 2 years at a military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., for drunken driving and running down a woman with his car while stationed in Hawaii as an Army medic. Duran was dishonorably discharged over the incident. May 19 until May 20 to work with children who have been burned. Meet in 210 New West to find out how you can help. Call 966-3693 or 968-6977 for more information. Habitat for Humanity will meet in 111 Murphey. Women’s Issues Network invites everyone to 108 Bingham. Learn the art of massage and get one yourself with the peer health educatois at N.C. HiHel, 210 W. Cameron Ave. 7:30 p.m. Kalliiti! will meet in Union 226 to socialize and make posters for our Pit display. 8 p.m. eNeRGy/'Green Games will meet in the Union basement. Community Service Week Forum will be held in 104 Howell Hall.
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