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2 Friday, October 20,1995 Cookout Seeks to Increase Student Involvement ■ UNC students will get the chance to meet two Town Council candidates. BY LAURA GODWIN ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR A Chapel Hill resident has found a way to involve younger people in the adult dominated political scene. Newly elected Chapel Hill Transportation Board Chair woman Ruby Sinreich will host a cookout to give the public a chance to meet Chapel Hill Town Council candidates Richard Franck and Mark Chilton. The cookout will be held at 2 p.m. Town Council Hears Request for Homeless Shelter BYMARY-KATHRYN CRAFT STAFF WRITER Residents of Chapel Hill voiced con cerns Wednesday about the need fora new place to accommodate the homeless as well as battered women and children. In a public hearing held by the Town Council, there was no opposition to modi fying a special use permit for Project Homestart. The project would allow for the construction of anew facility. The proposed project would include three five-bedroom houses that would ac Lab! to Present Homegrown ‘Heathen Valley’ BY DEAN HAIR ARTS & DIVERSIONS EDITOR AND NICOLE QUENELLE ASSISTANT ARTS & DIVERSIONS EDITOR Saturday the Lab! Theatre will present their second production, “Heathen Val ley,” a play about the Episcopal Missions of the 1840s in the Appalachian Moun tains of North Carolina. North Carolina playwright Romulus Linney wrote “Heathen Valley” and Playmakers Repertory Company’s last sea son production of “2.” Directed by Ted Shaffner (“Equus,” “The Cause of Thunder” and “Greater Tuna”), a junior Drama and English ma jor, “Heathen Valley” is a play about how a person’s experiences affect them for years. “Basically it is a play about rediscovery and the discovery ofhow your experiences have shaped who you are,” Shaffner said. “It deals with human emotions and pas sions which are universal.” The conflict in the play stems from the characters themselves, Shaffner said. “Ev Chapel Hill Town Council Saturday at Jones Park off ofPurefoy Road. Sinreich said she had decided to host the event in an effort to get more young people involved in local elections. “I feel like people complain a lot about young people’s lack of involvement in poli tics,” Sinreich said. She said the idea for a cookout originated atthe very beginning of Franck’s campaign. Older members of Franck’s campaign committee were planning events for the voters of Chapel Hill to get to know Franck, commodate up to five families or 20 people. Battered women and children and home less families will be able to use this facility. People living in the facility will primarily be those individuals who have a good chance of living independently in the fu ture. Chapel Hill Planning Board member Mary Reeb said there was really no place for the homeless and battered women and children in the current downtown shelter. The new facility will provide long-term shelter if necessary. “Sometimes the women and children erybody is trying to do the right thing and the ways in which they do it is what causes the conflict,” Shaffner said. “The conflict comes with each character trying to find the right thing, and they all turn out to be right.” Shaffner encouraged his actors to use their instincts, to be spontaneous and to do what they felt would be real for the charac ter. “It’s totally spontaneous,” he said. “The actors have a creativity and sponta neity given to them, the only requirement is they have to be honest to their charac ter.” What has been most exciting for Shaffner during the directing of this play has been his cast, he said. “They’ve (the cast) be come a total ensemble and that has been really exciting for me to work with,” he said. “Heathen Valley” will begin on Satur day, Oct. 21 at 8 p.m. and will run through Tuesday, Oct. 24. Show times are at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Sunday and Monday and a 5 p.m. show on Tuesday. All shows are in the basement of Graham Memorial across UNIVERSITY & CITY and Sinreich said she knew she needed to do something. “We discussed kind of vaguely that I should do something,” she said. “People often have house parties for candidates. I see this as a similar event but in a relevant environment.” Sinreich said that she hoped the cook out would attract at least 50 people but that she would be happy with any size crowd. “It’s totally open to folks, especially if they are registered voters in Chapel Hill,” she said. “My pie-in-the-sky goal is 50, but I would be happy with half that.” Sinreich said she would like students to know their vote was important to the local political scene. “Mark Chilton got elected on the student vote,” she said. “I hope we havetostayanentireyear,”Reebsaid. She said it was essential to find a place for these women and children, and this project of fered a creative solution. “It is a much betterplaceforthe homeless than the down town shelter,” Reeb said. Council member Pat Evans said the proposal was well received by the public. She also said she was pleased about the possibility of this type of facility in Chapel Hill. Evans said the only concern raised dur ing the hearing was the recommendation by the planning board for a pedestrian path from Vance Hall on Franklin Street. Seat ing is limited, so arrive at the show early. For more information, contact Ted Shaffner at 914-2838. The play begins as the character Billy (Laura Blake) returns to his mountain home and is greeted by the ghosts of those he once knew. Billy is a central character who helps to tell the story. “From here, I can see the broken stones where the Mission was, ” he says.” The play immediately jumps into the center of the story, as an Episcopal Bishop (Matt Orbach) converts a homely drifterby the name of Stams (Andy Bums) into a Christian. Stams is eventually made into a deacon. However he is guilty of a great crime, murder. The Bishop and Stams go to Heathen Valley, where, the Bishop says, “the people have forgotten their religion. Evidently, they live dreadful, primitive lives, debased into savagery. They are violent, carnal and heathen. I am going to climb those moun tains, find those people and take to them the Word of God.” can make that a regular thing.” Sinreich called the Chilton victory four years ago the turning point in student in volvement in local politics but said more involvement was necessary. “This is a chance for us to step up the involvement,” she said. “Each of our votes counts just as much as theirs (older voters) do. We are allowed to do it on our our terms, not our parents.” Chilton said he was happy to be a part of this unusual campaign dinner. “It’s always good to take advantage of any opportunity to meet folks.” Sinreich said anyone interested in more information could contact her via tele phone or e-mail. between the proposed facility and the County Health Services Building. The spe cial use permit applicant, Inter-Faith Coun cil for Social Services, did not want the path because of security reasons, Evans said. The public hearing was held to look into modifying a special use permit so that the shelter could be built on Homestead Road. It would be located on Southern Orange Human Services property. Reeb said that the applicant would run van pools to the residents’ jobs, and they would also run a general shuttle system. GRANATO FROM PAGE 1 simple majority vote. Congress passed the legislation by a vote of 23-1-2. “However, the committee felt that fur ther examination of the actions of the speaker, student body president, student body treasurer and the speaker pro [tempore] in regards to the available bal ance was warranted,” Ethics Committee Chairman Steve Oljeski, Dist. 4, said. Oljeski said he would draft a letter to Finance Committee Chairwoman Julie Gasperini, Dist. 22, requesting that her committee look into a series of conversa tions among the four officials. The discus sions concerned a change in budget esti mating procedures that would increase the money available for congress to allocate, Granato said. Gasperini said that, as finance commit tee chairwoman, she should have been involved in budget estimation discussions. Granato said the discussion only in volved himself, Student Body Treasurer Nathan Darling, Student Body President Calvin Cunningham and Speaker Pro Tempore James Kilboume, Dist. 1. “Now that I look back upon it, I am sorry that I did not call Julie Gasperini and include her in my conversation with Nathan, Calvinand Jamie,” Granato said. JmHuntnSQS\ FAST FREE DELIVERY! 968-FAST Career opportunities at J.P. Morgan for I Jniversity of North Carolina students interested in Investment Banking Please plan to attend our information presentation on Thursday, October 26 7:00-9:00 pm ('arolina Inn, ('hancellor West AH majors welcome JPMorgan Internrl lilt|>://www.j|)itiorgun.<-m J-l’. 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According to junior Marissa Tiamfook of Brooklyn, the Hillel representative to the CMA, the event was planned in con junction with an annual occurrence recog nized throughout the nation. “The third weekend of October is known as the National Observance of the Campus Calendar FRIDAY 1 p.m. FIRST TRIANGLE UNITED WAY GOLF TOURNAMENT at Chapel Hill Country Club. For more information, call the United Way of Greater Orange County at 929-7273. CONDENSED MATTER INTERNAL/IN FORMAL SEMINAR by Ginny Long in room 258, Phillips Hall. 4 p.m. UNC PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM by Robert Tycho (National Insti tute of Health). Room 265, Phillips Hall. Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m., room 277, Phillips Hall. 6 p.m. HOMECOMING PARADE begins at Morehead Planetarium and ends at Ramshead park ing lot. 7 p.m. PEP RALLY at Kenan Stadium. 8 p.m. CAA AND BSM will sponsor a Home coming conceit featuring Keith Murray, Faith and Rap City’s "”BigLez.” Tickets are J 12.50. 15th ANNUAL BLACK ALUMNI REUNION theme “What’s Going On?” is holding a reception at the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center, followed by a cultural extravaganza featuring a Greek step show. SATURDAY BLACK ALUMNI REUNION Tailgate Party will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. before game. Dance win be held at the Sheraton Imperial Cen ter. Awards Breakfast and closing session at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center Sun morning. CUAB FILM COMMITTEE is showing “Be fore Sunrise” at6:3oor9p.m.in Union Auditorium. Admission is Free. More info 962-1187. SUNDAY CAROLINA TAR HFET. VOICES presents, “A Forest Theatre Sing” (an afternoon of a cappella ®ljp Daily 3ar Hppl Children’s Sabbaths across the United States,” Tiamfook said. “It’s sponsored nationally by the Children’sDefenseFund, which lobbies heavily for rights and pro grams for children." The theme of this year’s nationwide observance is poverty. Events held around the United States will center on ways to help those children living in poverty. At UNC, the CMA will collect school sup plies to donate to children in need of them. “The school supplies that are donated will be distributed through the Inter-Faith Council’s shelter on Rosemary Street,” Tiamfook said. Along with the collection of donations, the Children’s Defense Fund Interfaith Children’s Sabbath Service will also fea ture a keynote address by Daniel Hoy, Southern regional field organizer for CDF and trainer for the Black Student Leader ship Network in the Southeast. This year’s event is small, Tiamfook said, but only because it is the first year in which the National Observance of the Children’s Sabbaths has been formally observed at UNC.“We are starting small, ” Tiamfook said. “The CMA does hope to make this an annual event.” The service will be held in 106 Carroll Hall. It is open to the public, and a recep tion will follow. Donations of school sup plies are welcome. music) 3 p.m. in the Forest Theatre. Admission is free. CAMPUS MINISTRIES ASSOCIATION is sponsoring an interfaith Sabbath service on from 1-2 p.m. at 106 Catroll Hall. Please bring school supplies to donate for needy children. CUAB FILM COMMITTEE is showing “Meet Me in St. Louis”” at 4 p.m. in Union Auditorium. Free Admission. For more information call 962- 1187. 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