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State Seeks Summer Interns for Flood Relief
By Rachel Leonard
Staff Writer
College students looking to make a dif
ference in the state this summer might be
able to aid eastern North Carolinians in
the flood recovery process.
To provide ongoing relief for counties
battered by last September’s Hurricane
Floyd, the N.C. Department of Health
and Human Services is offering 175 paid
summer internships for college students.
Interns will be assigned to local health or
social services departments in the 26
counties where help is still needed.
Any N.C. student at a four-year college
can apply for the program, called the
“Floyd Recovery Corps.”
Students of any major can apply for
the program, but preference will be
given to those studying health or bio
logical sciences, human services, com
munications, business or public admin
istration and mathematics.
Minority and bilingual students are
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also encouraged to apply.
But because the program does not
provide housing, it is preferable that
interns already reside in eastern North
Carolina.
Floyd Recovery Corps Director Phillis
Gray said a tremendous need for assis
tance prompted the DHHS to start the
program.
“Communities are still suffering.
Recovery is in process, but we are a long
way away from rebuilding eastern (North
Carolina),” she said.
Student interns would work in the
areas of physical and mental health,
housing and community services, Gray
said. Most jobs would focus on research
and public outreach.
“For instance, a student might be
asked to help in making contact with
elderly residents who applied for emer
gency assistance at the beginning ... to
see how they’re doing,” she said.
Students can benefit from the posi
tions, Gray said. “You get to put theo
By Russ Lane
Staff Writer
Jazz fans take note - Medeski, Martin
and Wood return to the fundamental
things on Tonic and produce an amaz
ingly supple live recording in the
process.
Triangle residents can sample the
trio’s creative sound tonight at
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Carolina
Theater.
Trading
acoustic instru
ments for an
electronic
sound early,
MMW spent
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Medeski, Martin
& Wood
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the ’9os exploring synthesized sound
scapes with abandon.
On this effort, the band returns to a
traditional piano/bass/drums setup.
True to the album’s title and the bar
for which it is named, Tonic has a refresh
ing, intimate quality. While many
“unplugged” albums (both within and
beyond the jazz genre) suffer from a
forced “intimacy,” MMW’s live, acoustic
sound is both relaxed and focused -and
above all else, very much alive.
A mixture of new songs and arrange
ments of Duke Ellington, John Coltrane
and Bud Powell compositions, each of
retical models into place.”
Rachel Stevens, director of the N.C.
Center for Public Health, said the intern
ships provided great opportunities for
students.
“It will help make their learning in
the classroom real,” she said.
“It would be a great experience.”
Stevens said the program would help
counties provide adequate relief services
to residents.
Evelyn Dawson, director of the
Halifax County Department of Social
Sendees, said the internships would ben
efit the county’s residents.
“This is really needed," Dawson said.
“It might not feel like people are being
helped as much as they were initially -
many feel isolated.”
Floyd displaced many Halifax
County residents, a large portion of
whom still have no permanent resi
dence, Dawson said.
Her department also has seen an
increase in the number of people
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Tonite eight songs are stamped by
MMW’s own inventiveness. Ellington’s
“Afrique” trades the famous composer’s
rhythmic “less is more” style for blister
ing lines more in Oscar Perterson’s
image than the Duke’s.
MMW’s recasting of “Afrique” is typ
ical of the album’s style-bending tone.
Tontfs songs are unafraid to entwine the
many subspecies of jazz into one seam
less style.
With traces of Miles Davis’ cool
audacity and John Coltrane’s “sheets of
sound,” pianist John Medeski switches
from modal to free jazz styles without
awkwardness.
On “Thaw,” Medeski turns from the
melodic playing of several tracks and
heads toward a loose, free sound. While
Freejazz is often criticized for its sprawl
ing, “noise as beauty” aesthetic, Medeski
somehow maintains his focus during
these extended improvs.
Encompassing many influences and
styles, the band places its unplugged
album into jazz’s 100-year history.
Like Wynton Marsalis, Cassandra
Wilson and other modem jazz artists,
MMW’s work builds upon jazz’s past
while maintaining the genre’s only rule
- strive for something new.
The Arts & Entertainment Editor can
be reached at artsdesk@unc.edu.
referred to psychological services and in
food stamp applications.
In a county of only 57,000 people, an
additional 4,000 households applied for
food stamp benefits in the wake of the
storm.
Dawson said interns were especially
needed for community outreach.
“People don’t always know what ser
vices are available,” she said.
Full recovery in Halifax County is
still a future goal, Dawson said.
“People certainly did rally around
their neighbors and still do,” Dawson
said. “These funds and this program will
allow us to rally even more.”
Interested applicants can receive
information online at
www.dhhs.state.nc.us/floydcorps.htm.
The State & National Editor can be
reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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Violent Protests Shake
May Day Celebrations
Demonstrators vandalized
businesses and monuments
across Europe to publicize
anti-capitalist messages.
Associated Press
LONDON - Anti-capitalist protest
ers clashed with police Monday in cen
tral London, tearing down the golden
arches of a McDonald’s and spray-paint
ing a hammer and sickle on a statue of
Winston Churchill in a May Day
protest.
In Berlin, a march against “capitalism
and imperialism” Monday night erupt
ed into violence in the Kreuzberg neigh
borhood, a stronghold of leftist activism.
More than 100 police officers were
injured as they used water cannons, tear
gas and nightsticks against a crowd of
10,000 anarchists. At least three dozen
leftists were arrested.
Elsewhere in
Europe, the work
ers who are usually
commemorated on
May Day took a
back seat to the far
right, as neo-Nazis
rallied in German
cities and national
ist parties demon
strated in France.
The riots erupt-
“It is only because of the
bravery and courage of our
war dead that these idiots can
live in a free country at all. ”
Tony Blair
Prime Minister of Great Britain
ed in London when a group broke away
from a peaceful demonstration held by
protesters planting seeds in front of the
Houses of Parliament.
Demonstrators threw stones and
other objects near Prime Minister Tony
Blair’s official residence at Downing
Street, where a dozen officers in riot
gear took up positions. The protesters
then stormed a nearby branch of
McDonald’s, breaking windows, tearing
down the large “M” sign and distribut
ing food.
The demonstrators tried unsuccess
fully to storm St. Martin’s in the Field
Church, daubed anti-war slogans on the
Cenotaph war memorial and defaced a
Churchill statue by putting red paint on
his mouth to look like blood and spray
ing the communist symbol on his jacket.
They also covered the lower part of
Nelson’s Column, the slender white
Tuesday, May 2, 2000
tower that anchors Trafalgar-Square,
with anarchy symbols and scrawled
“Reclaim the Streets 2000” across it
As darkness began to fall, about
2,000 protesters corralled in the square
were allowed to leave, resulting in more
violence. They smashed car windows
and severely damaged several business
es before being pushed across the
Waterloo Bridge to the south bank of the
Thames, where authorities once again
penned them in.
“The people responsible for the dam
age caused in London today are an
absolute disgrace,” Blair said.
“To deface the Cenotaph and the stat
ue of Winston Churchill is simply
beneath contempt,” he said. “It is only
because of the bravery and courage of
our war dead that these idiots can live in
a free country at all.”
Three police officers and nine civil
ians were taken to the hospital and nine
other policemen suffered minor injuries.
Forty-two people were arrested.
Earlier in
Berlin, about 1,200
neo-Nazis rallied
in a depressed
eastern neighbor
hood. The young
crowd, many with
shaved heads,
waved German
imperial flags and
listened to speech
es calling for
“Germany for Germans.” There were
no outbreaks of violence, as police kept
a group of more than 100 counter
demonstrators separated. More than 100
people from both right- and left-wing
groups were detained.
About 1,800 more neo-Nazis held ral
lies in other cities around Germany.
In Hamburg, Germany, several hun
dred rioters threw stones, broke win
dows and set bonfires early Monday,
until the melee was broken up by police
using water cannons. Twenty-one police
officers were injured and 134 people
arrested.
Police used a water cannon against a
Monday night march of about 5,000 left
ists through Berlin’s Kreuzberg district
after demonstrators lit a barricade on
fire and threw stones, bottles and fire
works. Several dozen people were
arrested.
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