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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2005
Films ‘gadding’ about campus
BY MIKE SULLIVAN
STAFF WRITER
The UNC communica
tions department’s Screen Arts
series will host an installment
of the fourth annual Gadabout
Travelling Film Festival today in
Bingham Hall.
The festival, orchestrated by Eric
Ayotte, was designed to introduce
moviegoers to new and unusual
films.
“If you are interested in inde
pendent filmmaking, this is the
place to be,” said Shannon O’Neill,
curator of the Screen Arts series.
Each year, Ayotte travels the
United States in an ambulance van
powered by vegetable oil and die
sel fuel, looking for up-and-com
ing independent filmmakers from
across the world.
He will be rolling into Chapel
Hill this year for the first time
ever with a collection of about 20
music videos, animated shorts,
documentaries and live-action
pieces.
The films come from across the
world, representing places from
New York to California —with
additional submissions from
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
■ Carolina Cancer Focus will
be in the Pit from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. all week to celebrate Cancer
Awareness Week.
■ The Morehead Planetarium
and Science Center director search
committee will meet at 10 a.m.
today in South Building 307.
■ The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,
Transgender-Straight Alliance
will sponsor Midtown Dickens
and karaoke at 8 p.m. today in
Gerrard Hall as a part of Coming
Out Week.
■ The North Carolina Jazz
Repertory Orchestra Series kicks
off at 8 p.m. today at Memorial
Hall with “Portraits of Ellington.”
■ Lab! Theatre will present
“Waiting for Godot” by Samuel
Beckett at 8:15 p.m. today in
Kenan Theatre in the Center for
Dramatic Art. The show will run
through Monday, and two bonus
performances also will be shown
at 4 p.m. Monday and at 5 p.m.
Tuesday. Admission is free.
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Spain, France and Canada.
Gadabout primarily screens
shorts, and submissions usually
have a running time anywhere
between 15 seconds and 15 min
utes. In some local festivals, how
ever, Gadabout occasionally pre
miers longer shorts and full-length
feature films.
One of the shortest films this
year, “Rubber Band Ball,” directed
by Ellen Lake of Oakland, Calif.,
runs for exactly 3 minutes.
Ted Passon’s “Robot Boy,” a sub
mission from New York City, has
the festival’s longest running time
at 20 minutes.
“What’s most interesting about
the Gadabout festival is its truly
independent nature,” said O’Neill.
“It allows people to pick up a cam
era, do their thing and have their
work shown across the country.”
Gadabout provides a different
twist on large film festivals such as
Sundance and Cannes.
“Most films shown at major fes
tivals have big budgets and appeal
to more of a mainstream audience,”
O’Neill said.
“Gadabout is much smaller in
scale and only screens short films
■ The Carolina Women’s Center
will host the Women in Leadership
Development Conference from 9 am.
to 4 p.m. Saturday in the Student
Union. The conference will focus
on the “voice” of women’s leadership
and will offer a variety of workshops,
including “Self-Empowerment
and Self-Worth” and “Women and
Conflict.” For more information go
to leadership.unc.edu.
■ The United Nations
Organization will host a dis
cussion on “Building a Safer
World: Defining the U.S.-U.N.
Relationship” from 9 a.m. to 11
a.m. Saturday in the Friday Center.
Discussion will center on how this
relationship affects world poverty.
Breakfast will be provided.
■ The 18th-annual “Sculpture in
the Garden” artists’ reception and
award ceremony will be held from
3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at the N.C.
Botanical Garden. The exhibit fea
tures 50 sculptures located through
out the garden and can be viewed
by the public through. Nov. 18. Call
962-0522 for information.
Gadabout Traveling Film
Festival
Time: 7 p.m.
Date: today
Location: Murphey 116
Info: www.unc.edu/screenarts
that tend to have a primarily low
budget.”
The festival also prides itself on
traveling anywhere and everywhere
to screen films.
The festival debuts works any
where from coffeehouses to living
rooms in order to “get films out
there.”
After Friday’s screening, Ayotte
will speak about the festival and
conduct a question-and-answer
session with anyone interested in
learning more about Gadabout and
independent film.
Screen Arts leaders anticipate a
warm welcome for Ayotte.
“We’re pleased to have Eric
(Ayotte) come to Chapel Hill, and
we’re interested to see what comes
of it,” O’Neill said.
Contact the AdE Editor
at artsdesk@unc.edu.
■ The North Carolina
Symphony will play its second
feature show at 8 p.m. Sunday
at Memorial HalL The perfor
mance will be conducted by Stefan
Sanderling and feature Antonio
Pompa-Baldi on piano.
■ Orange County Girl Scouts
will run their weeklong “Blanket
the Community” service project
beginning Sunday. Donate new
or clean blankets to benefit local
women’s shelters and foster homes,
among other organizations. For a
list of drop-off sites, go to www.
pinesofcarolina.org or call 1-800-
282-GIRL.
■ The West End Merchants will
host OktoberWest, a celebration of
West Franklin Street businesses,
from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday
behind the Carolina Brewery at
460 W. Franklin St.
To make a calendar submission,
visit www.dailytarheel.com for a list
of submission policies and contacts.
Events must be sent in by noon the
preceding publication date.
News
Sports clubs unite to host event
BY ALLISON NICHOLS
STAFF WRITER
In a unique opportunity for
community bonding and com
munity service, more than 500
students will Race for a Reason on
Saturday.
The reason relief for hur
ricane victims is one for which
many groups on campus have
been raising funds since Hurricane
Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast
in September.
The Race for a Reason will be
held at 10 a.m. The five-kilome
ter run will begin and end at the
Ehringhaus field. Participation fees
are sls for students and University
staff, and S2O for community
members.
Entry costs an additional $5 on
the day of the event.
The UNC Sports Clubs Council
is sponsoring the event, which it
hopes will become an annual race
for a different cause each year.
“The response has been out
standing,” said Stacy Warner, direc
tor of the sports clubs.
Warner said 550 students had
registered as of Thursday, but she
said she hopes that even more will
show up on race day.
■ At 10:59 p.m. Wednesday, the
300-block of Franklin Street was
the scene of assault with a deadly,
weapon, according to Chapel Hill
police reports.
Someone using a handgun shot
and wounded one victim in the
buttocks and another in the wrist,
reports state.
Chapel Hill native Lavar Devone
Brown, an employee of Rams Head,
was charged at 11:50 p.m. Wednesday
with aggravated assault, weapon
possession by a felon and discharg
ing a firearm in a city, according to
reports. Brown had consumed drugs
or alcohol, reports state.
Upon his arrest, Brown was
taken before a Hillsborough mag
istrate and received a $50,000
secured bond, according to
reports.
According to a town press
release, the incident was the result
of an encounter between two
groups of individuals downtown.
At least seven shots were fired from
at least two different weapons,
according to the press release.
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University club team members
have taken the initiative to pub
licize the event and register stu
dents.
Each of the more than 50 sports
clubs on campus has taken on the
goal of signing up at least 10 stu
dents, Warner said.
“I can’t emphasize enough how
much club team members have
done,” Warner said. “It’s a great
cause, and we’re very excited.”
Sports Clubs Council intern Josh
Swenson, who conceived the idea
for the fundraiser, also praised the
initiative of club members.
“We’ve relied completely on vol
unteer manpower to get the word
out,” he said.
Members have publicized the
event by advertising in the Pit and
notifying running groups in the
area, Warner said.
Sports clubs typically do fund
raising events, but this is the first
year all members are participating
in a joint venture.
Both Warner and Swenson
said they were pleased that the
club teams could unite in their
volunteer efforts. Swenson said
he believes that community ser
vice is not only valuable for those
POLICE LOG
tigation, reports state.
■ A Rams Head employee was
arrested for assault at 9:39 p.m.
Wednesday, according to Chapel
Hill police reports.
Durham native Troy Arrington
Jr., a server at Chase Dining Hall
at Rams Head, was charged with
pointing a gun at an unnamed vic
tim at Trinity Court in Chapel Hill,
reports state.
Arrington was taken before a
magistrate in Hillsborough and
was released on a written prom
ise to appear in district criminal
court in Hillsborough, according
to reports.
■ Two vehicles parked on the
upper deck of Boshamer Stadium
parking garage were vandal
ized Tuesday, according to police
reports.
Each vehicle had one window
broken by rocks, which were found
inside the cars, reports state.
The owner of the first vehicle, a
Volvo, told police that nothing had
been stolen, while the owner of the
second vehicle, a Toyota Corolla,
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Run for hurricane relief
Time: 10 a.m.
Date: Saturday
Location: Ehringhaus field
Price: Sls for students; S2O for
community members
it benefits but that it also should
be a positive experience for par
ticipants.
“This is a great cause,” Warner
said.
Planning for the event began six
weeks ago. Swenson said that if a
great need had not arisen for hur
ricane victims, the council might
have held a fundraiser later in the
year. But circumstances forced
leaders to work quickly.
The council had not established a
fundraising goal prior to the event.
Although final tallies cannot
be made until sometime next
week, Swenson estimates that the
council had raised SB,OOO as of
Thursday.
“I figured anything we pulled
together and raised would be
enough.”
Contact the University Editor
at udesk@unc.edu.
told police that a case of 250 CDs
valued at $265 was stolen, accord
ing to reports.
Estimated damage was SIOO for
each car, reports state.
There are no suspects or wit
nesses, according to reports.
■ An unnamed victim was
assaulted by a deadly weapon at
5:11 p.m. Wednesday at the comer
of St. Thomas Street and Standish
Drive, according to Chapel Hill
police reports.
The suspect, whose name was
not released, pointed a can of
deodorant with a lighter held up
to it at the victim and sprayed
the deodorant, creating a burst of
flame, reports state.
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