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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2006
Efland rodeo a family affair
BY SHATARRA GIBSON
STAFF WRITER
Bucking broncos and bulls will
be drawing a crowd in Efland this
weekend at the annual Efland
Ruritan Rodeo show.
The Alltel Wireless East Coast
World Champion All Classic show,
produced by the Mid-Atlantic
Professional Rodeo Association,
will begin at 7:30 p.m. today and
Saturday.
The gates of the Efland Ruritan
Club will open at 6 p.m. for early
arrivals.
Tickets are sls for adults, $lO
for children agos 6 to 12, and $5
for children ages 3 to 5. Children
under 3 get in free.
“It’s a family-oriented event,”
said Gloria Kiker, a retired cow
girl.
She said there will be vendors
at the rodeo selling food, Western
COREA
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“It was so innovative that people
were just astounded by it,” Allred
said.
And while Corea has spent the
last three decades shifting his
sound between acoustic and elec
tric, and playing with everyone
from Kenny Garrett to Michael
BREAST CANCER
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For Palmer, diligence was key to
finding her cancer early. A mam
mogram detected a lump that she
hadn’t found with a self-exam.
Dr. Nancy DeMore, a professor in
the School of Medicine, recommend
ed monthly self-exams and yearly
clinical breast exams for women in
their 20s, and yearly mammograms
for women in their 40s.
“I am clearly a case of an individ
ual that the mammogram benefited
because my tumor was really deep,”
Palmer said. “And throughout my
whole treatment, no one ever felt
anything.”
In the U.S., breast cancer is
the second most common form of
cancer in women, according to the
National Cancer Institute, which
funds 115 breast cancer research
projects in North Carolina.
Palmer said she noticed options
for breast cancer treatment advance
in recent years at UNC’s Lineberger
Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her
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apparel and pony rides for the chil
dren.
The seven-event show will last
about two and a half hours, Kiker
said.
Events include cowgirls’ barrel
racing and bareback bronco riding,
as well as bull riding, calf roping
and steer wrestling.
“It’s good, clean, wholesome
fun,” she said.
Kiker added that rodeo is a pas
time in her family.
“I grew up wanting to be a cow
girl, but now I’m retired,” she said.
“My son, when he was 12, he
said, ‘I want to ride a bull,’ and he’s
been riding for 18 years.”
Association co-founder Roger
Harris said that in addition to the
show, there will be entertainers rid
ing horses while standing on one
foot, clowns, a mechanical bull and
a tribute to the armed forces.
Brecker, his emphasis on devel
opment as a musician has stayed
fast.
“He doesn’t just take one thing
and do it and do that for the rest of
his life,” Allred said.
“He’s always innovative and
creative.”
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experience sue years ago was differ
ent from the experience a friend is
having now.
“The things that she now has
available to her the new tech
niques and new medications that
have happened even in the past six
years are amazing,” Palmer said.
“If there is a positive side about
the whole thing, the treatment
options that people can get early on
that will save their life, continue to
advance,” she said.
Passionately Pink Awareness
day was sponsored by the Carolina
Women’s Center, Counseling and
Wellness Services, Zeta Tau Alpha
sorority and Women in Action.
“We’ve had a really good response,”
Rowe said. “And we’re encouraging
guys to come around, too.”
Palmer, too, is urging others to
be proactive.
“If I had been dependent on
waiting until I felt something, it
would have been too late.”
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ATTEND THE RODEO
Time: 7:30 p.m. today and
Saturday
Location: Efland Ruritan Club
Info: (704) 882-6994
“It’s a fun-filled event, cowboy
style,” he said.
Harris started the association with
his wife, Katherine Harris, in 1982
and has sponsored several champion
cowboys, horses and bulls.
“We have the record for the most
East Coast World Champion buck
ing horses and bulls,” Harris said.
Crowd favorites appearing this
weekend include barrel-racing
cowgirl Holly Thomas, East Coast
World Champion bareback bronco
rider John Harvey and East Coast
World Champion bull rider Chad
Brinkley.
Harris said the company has
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“Haystacks" is one of many paintings by Claude Monet featured in
an exhibit opening Sunday at the N.C. Museum of Art in Raleigh.
MONET
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Accumulating the paintings took
more than six years. The works are
loaned from private and public col
lections around the world, despite
the fact that many of the paintings
usually don’t travel, Steel said.
“If someone told me 10 years
ago we’d have this exhibit, I never
would have believed it,” he said.
Throughout the duration of the
exhibit, the Raleigh Visitors Bureau
will partner with the museum to
sponsor French-themed activities
at hotels, restaurants and other
tourist-oriented sites.
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had about 35 champion bucking
horses and more than 40 cham
pion bulls.
“Most people that are champions
have had horse experience all their
life, so they don’t have to conquer
staying on the horse like someone
who is beginning,” Harris said.
Some students said news of the
rodeo hadn’t reached them for dif
ferent reasons.
Junior Crystal Essex attributed
it to competing events.
“I think I’m going to the fair that
weekend,” she said.
Sophomore Gamron Hubbard
said he’s apprehensive about rid
ing anything that bucks.
“If I see a horse rearing up before I
get on, then I don’t think I would get
on,” he said. “But it sounds like fun.”
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“People can view the exhibit as
an individual experience,” Wheeler
said. “But we wanted this to be
about community.”
The N.C. Museum of Art offers
free admission to its permanent
collection, but tickets for the
Monet exhibit cost sls for general
admission and sl2 for students.
“People think, ‘Oh, I know
Monet l’ve seen his work on
a calendar or a postcard,’” Steel
said. “But you can’t possibly say
you know Monet until you see his
pictures face to face.”
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Student Body President James Allred blows out the
candles on a birthday cake celebrating the University’s
213th birthday Thursday in McCorkle Place. After the
candles went out, the celebration began, with performances
by student a cappella groups and games for students.
DRAG SHOW
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“The money from the drag show is
solely for GLBTSA. funds,” he said.
GLBTSA uses the funds for
events the group doesn’t budget
originally but needs during the
school year, said Julian Wooten,
GLBTSA co-chairman.
“It fosters good feelings for the
GLBTSA and larger community on
campus,” Harrison said.
The event is a tribute to the drag
SALARIES
FROM PAGE 3
During the past several years,
campus administrators have come
to rely on campus-based tuition
to bolster faculty payrolls. Many
hope that addressing faculty sala
ries through the state budget will
make that discretionary revenue
less vital.
“It will take enormous pres
sure off of tuition,” said system
President Erskine Bowles.
Others see solving the salary
problem as a way of freeing up
revenue to focus on other issues,
like the long-standing discrepan
cies in funding among the system’s
16 campuses.
Oblinger noted that salary com
petitiveness is a more straightfor
ward concept to present to law
makers than complicated issues
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has helped further gay rights in
years past, Wooten said.
“I have a couple of friends who
are very active in GLBTSA, and
they’ve been talking about it,” said
Hannah Gutterman, a senior in the
audience.
“I think it’s amazing. I’m
impressed,” she said. “That last guy
danced better than I ever could.”
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like funding discrepancies.
“You have to look at what politi
cal capital you want to expend and
where you stand the best chance,”
he said. “The (N.C.) General
Assembly understands competi
tiveness and sees salaries as a
major portion of that.”
Despite such understanding,
both campus and system admin
istrators said that two years might
be an overly optimistic timeline for
securing such a sizable increase in
funding. The important thing, offi
cials stressed, is that it remains a
credible budget priority.
“We’ve got to just keep our eye
on the ball four or five years out
from now,” Willis said. “Everyone
is impatient and they want it now,
but it’s just hard to do.”
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