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Wednesday, February 27, 2002
University Celebrates
Asian Heritage Week
By Jessica Sleep
Staff Writer
Calligraphy, origami, sushi and the
sounds of traditional Korean drum music
will soon fill the Pit as Asian-American
Heritage Week celebrations continue.
The Asian Student Association is
sponsoring the cultural celebration,
which will also include film screenings,
food tasting and Asian games.
Events kicked off Monday night with
a screening of “Eat Drink Man
Woman,” a 1994 Oscar-nominated
romantic comedy about a Taiwanese
chef and his family. On Tuesday, Asian
Studies Professor Jan Bardsley gave a
lecture titled “Reel Men Don’t Eat
Sushi: Why Hollywood Hatesjapanese
Men and Lovesjapanese Women.”
Heritage week continues today at 11
a.m. as ASA members sell traditional
cuisine in the Pit for $1 per serving.
Linda Kim, president of the ASA said
members will dress in traditional garb
while selling cuisine, including Hmong
jello, Japanese sushi and Vietnamese
sweet rice balls and tapioca pearls.
Caroline Um, an organizer of Asian
American Heritage Week, said many
students are only familiar with popular
Americanized versions of Asian foods,
like egg rolls and fried rice.
This year’s events signal a departure
from previous heritage weeks, Kim said.
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She said that in past years, ASA dedicat
ed each day of the week to individual
Asian countries, but this year’s organizers
wanted to give each day a specific theme
so that more Asian countries could be
included in the cultural celebration.
Other events this week include playing
games in the Pit on Friday. The games
include Chinese chess and mah-jongg as
well as Korean cards and yut -a Korean
game in which players throw sticks in the
air to advance pieces on a game board.
The week will close with a semi-for
mal held at Cafe Parizade, a
Mediterranean restaurant in Durham.
Kim said the heritage week is impor
tant because the events provide students
with the chance to practice their tradi
tional customs while away from home.
She said cultural celebrations are also
important to improving diversity at UNC.
“If you just walk through the Pit, you
can see that different groups of people
segregate themselves,” she said. “A lot of
people don’t understand each other and
they’re stuck in their own social cliques.”
Um said she hopes the events will
educate students about different aspects
of Asian culture. “I hope this week will
help break down the stereotypes people
have about Asians, and they will become
aware of how diverse our culture is.”
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at udesk@unc.edu.
University
Events Honor Native Culture
By Joy Buchanan
Staff Writer
Native American cultural celebra
tions will take place on campus all this
week, culminating Saturday with an
annual powwow in which students will
dance in traditional tribal dress.
The purpose of the week’s events,
which are sponsored by the Carolina
Indian Circle and other campus organi
zations, is to educate the University
community about Native American cul
ture and history, organizers said.
The Carolina Indian Circle, founded
in 1974, is a support group for UNC’s
Native American students. The organi
zation’s goals are to increase awareness
about Native American students and to
recruit and retain more of them.
There will be one event each night this
week, culminating in Saturday’s powwow
in Polk Place. The events include an exhi
bition of traditional Native American
dress and dance, a forum on Native
American women’s issues and ClC’s
annual banquet Friday night.
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like, this is just the way it is. But I know
- putting it in perspective - that this is
not the way it is. But after a while, you
just think this is the way it’s supposed to
be- this is how I’m supposed to live.”
Donald moved to Chapel Hill from
Raleigh several weeks ago, hoping there
would be more opportunities for him to
find work and receive medical care at
UNC Hospitals. Donald has been stay
ing at the IFC shelter for several weeks.
“Man, but it starts to smell,” he says,
laughing. “Especially once people take
off their shoes. You’ll get used to it. But
once you walk outside you’ll realize how
bad it smells in here.”
But Donald recendy was given a bed in
the upstairs part of the shelter, which is
reserved for more permanent residents.
The IFC shelter has 56 beds that peo
ple are given depending on their situa
tion. If temperatures drop below 40
degrees, the shelter officials will allow
people to sleep on the floor in the
lounge and the dining area on a first
come, first-serve basis.
“It’s like I took one step, and they
took two steps, and that made me feel
really good,” Donald says, referring to
the volunteers who offered him a spot
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The Native American Women’s Issue
Forum, sponsored by the multicultural
sorority Theta Nu Xi, will take place at
6 p.m. Wednesday in 107A Dey Hall.
Alpha Pi Omega, a Native American
sorority founded in 1994, will sponsor the
dance exhibition at 7 p.m. Thursday in
room 104 in the Center for Dramatic Art.
“Before the dances we’ll explain the
significance of the regalia and of the
dances," said junior Tonia Jacobs, pres
ident of Alpha Pi Omega.
The powwow, sponsored by CIC,
starts at noon Saturday at Polk Place and
continues until 5 p.m. Junior Rachel
Blue, the group’s president, said the
powwow has taken place at UNC for
more than 10 years.
The powwow, Jacobs said, is “a time
when Native Americans come together
to dance and sing.” A powwow is a
Native American ceremony during
which tribes gather to dance and social
ize, wearing traditional dress.
Blue said Native Americans from
across the state - including students from
UNC-Pembroke, N.C. State, Duke and
upstairs that he thinks will help him get
back on his feet. “They gave me a bed,
even though I’m on the top bunk and
the guy below me stinks.”
There is an eclectic bunch of people at
the shelter this Friday night - young and
old, men and women, black, white,
Hispanic and Asian. Conversations range
from theology to the effects of drug use.
Like a family, people ask one anoth
er about how their days were and what
their plans are for the next day. After
dinner, everyone stands around outside
talking and smoking cigarettes. Eight
o’clock is curfew and the point at which
IFC volunteers will announce who can
stay the night and who will have to leave.
Because the temperature is below 40
degrees, floor space will be available.
A list had been placed on a bulletin
board that morning for people who
wished to be given floor space to sign. A
receptionist begins reading off names, and
it seems as though there will be room for
everyone who has signed the list. After
each name is called, people go upstairs to
a crowded laundry room and are issued a
mat, comforter and sheet for the night.
A tall, skinny man who carries a cane
sets his bedding and belongings in the
comer of what is the lounge during the
day. He walks over to the bookshelf and
retrieves an old Sony radio so he can lis
ten to his headphones as he goes to
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pate. The dances and traditional dress rep
resent many N.C. tribes including
Lumbee, Cherokee, Coharie and
Meherrin.
The public also will be included in
Saturday’s friendship dance.
There will be vendors selling tradi
tional Native American crafts, jewelry and
food on Saturday as well. AH events are
open to the public and, with the exception
of Friday night’s banquet, are free.
Blue said the group’s cultural awareness
week used to be an annual event, but it has
not taken place in the last three years.
Although CIC traditionally sponsors
events during Native American Heritage
Month in November, Blue said this
week’s events are similarly important.
Blue said, “We wanted to have this
cultural week so we’d have two times
during the year to celebrate Native
American culture and also to have
events leading up to the powwow.”
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sleep. The man attaches a coat hanger to
the radio for better reception.
“It’s really the only way I can mellow
out,” he says. “I mainly like hard rock
and heavy metal - you know, AC/DC,
Judas Priest, Cinderella, Van Halen.”
By 8:15 p.m., the lights are out and
people begin going to sleep.
The sounds of a Friday night college
town resonate in the background - cars
honking, people yelling. With people
snoring, headphones blaring and no pil
low to soften the hard white tile floor,
sleeping becomes increasingly difficult.
At 5 a.m., after the people on the
floor catch a few hours of light and
uncomfortable sleep, someone turns on
the fluorescent lights and says it is time
to wake up. People begin methodically
folding their blankets and returning
them to the laundry room upstairs.
Then, everyone gathers in the lounge,
groggy from the early morning rise. Most
try to go back to sleep. Some flip through
the old issues of National Geographic that
are lying around in the lounge.
The next night’s temperature is
already on the minds of many because
the temperature will determine where
they will be able to sleep - on the floor
in the shelter, in an abandoned car or in
the bushes somewhere nearby. “It’s sup
posed to be 43 degrees tonight,” one
guy says after awhile. “You know what
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Larkspur Subdivision development.
About 18 residents from the
Northwood Subdivision, which is located
adjacent to the proposed site, attended
the meeting to express their concern
regarding the potential negative impact of
additional traffic along Hunter Hill Road.
Chapel Hill Planning Board member
Bob Reda agreed with the residents and
offered an alternative. “I think in this case,
forcing the merger of these two neighbor
hoods does not makes sense,” Reda said.
“I would ask you to please have pedestri
an, bicycle access into Northwood neigh
borhood.” The council decided to replace
the option of full vehicular access with a
12-foot wide path to accommodate pedes
trians, bikes and emergency vehicles.
Chapel Hill Planning Director Roger
Waldon said the council’s actions were
aligned with its main objective - to
maintain affordable housing options.
“The most important issue is afford
ability,” he said. “(Zinn’s) intention was
not small houses next to big houses but
to make some affordable opportunities.”
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that means. No floor space.”
“Ain’t no big deal,” says another.
“One night ain’t going to kill nobody.”
By 7 a.m., breakfast is ready.
Scrambled eggs, toast, potatoes and grits
are served. People discuss their plans for
the day. “I might go to the library," a
guy across the table says. “Nothing
much to do today - it’s Saturday.”
Someone else is going to work at the
Top of Lenoir.
The crowded dining room empties
around 8 a.m. as people begin to go
about their days, but most reassemble at
the IFC in the evening.
Around dinnertime, Donald says he
spent his day at University Mall buying
some toiletries and applying for a job.
He comments on how much he has
been able to use the recently implement
ed fare-free busing in Chapel Hill.
“Whoever thought of that was a genius.
I rode down to Carrboro five times the
other day - just because I could,” he says.
Donald, like many at the shelter, is
hopeful that he can get back on his feet,
although he admits that he is battling
drug and alcohol problems. “I have to
take it one day at a time and focus on
what I have to do.”
Standing just outside the shelter’s
door, as dusk descends on another day
of attempting a small step toward self
sufficiency, Donald shakes his head.
“Hard is not the word,” he says. “The
vvord is just survival.”
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
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resume and an interview.
The committee looks for criteria
including experience in leadership posi
tions, willingness to make the time com
mitment and the applicant’s initiative,
Baker said. About four or five applica
tions typically are received for each of
the three positions, she said.
Daum said she expects the selection
process to be tough. “From what I
understand, we have a lot of qualified
applicants, so competition will be tight.”
Students interested in applying can
find the application at
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applications.
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
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