6The Daily Tar HeelThursday, April 12, 1990
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Ebony Readers bring
By ERIK ROGERS
V Start Writer
Sudden fear struck the grandmother
when she saw the soldiers open fire
near her.house. The soldiers appeared
to be firing their guns at anything they
saw; move. A bullet shattered a window
irr;!the house, and the grandmother
picked up her grandchild to run over to
the neighbor's house.
As she was running she stopped to
look down at the grandchild she was
carrying. The grandmother's hands
were soaked in blood, and the bundle in
her arms that used to be breathing was
now lifeless.
' It is true stories 1 ike this that prompted
a: group of 34 dedicated students to
r&ise public awareness of racial oppres
sion in South Africa.
. ''Mandela, The Land and The
People," which The Ebony Readers
presented in conjunction with the Black
Cultural Center Wednesday night,
showed an intense side of Nelson
Npndela and South Africa.
Jhe crowd that filled Hanes Art
Center came to witness a telling of
South African events. And that is ex
actly what the audience got. The chat
tered laughter of the people came to a
hatt as the lights dimmed. Then the two
aisles filled with students clad in color
fut costumes. As they walked toward
the' bottom of the auditorium, their
rhythmic walking joined their harmo
nious voices as they sang "Bring Back
Mandela."
Special Easter
By BETH TATUM
Staff Writer
Easter brings to mind different im
age's for different people. Bunny rab
bit Easter egg hunts, new church
dresses, an empty tomb all relate to
this holiday.
Traditionally, Easter is the Christian
holiday marking the crucifixion of
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"It was not a hard choice
about what the group
would do this year."
director
Soyini Madison
Meanwhile, there was just as much
activity going on on stage, as young
girls waved beautifully colored blan
kets. And after the performers were in
place, they enlightened the audience
about Mandela and his homeland. Many
of the stories cited were so heartbreak
ing that it brought tears to the eyes of
some audience members.
In one instance, a black man and his
wife were taking a stroll when they
came across two black girls sitting on
the ground eating fish and chips. At that
moment, the couple saw two white boys
run up to the girls and kick the food out
of the girls' hands. The boys then ran
away, laughing about what they had
accomplished.
Although they turned around to see
the two pathetic girls, they did not see
the tears of one girl and the bloody hand
(from the kick) of the other.
Acts of violence are nothing new in
South Africa, according to Soyini
Madison, director of the play and an
instructor of speech communication.
Madison said there was a twofold pur
pose in presenting the play.
"My goal was to entertain the people,
traditions, symbols different
Christ and the celebration of his resur
rection, which Christians believe oc
curred three days later. The word
"easter" comes from the Germanic root
meaning dawn, east, or rising sun.
Several area churches have planned
special services throughout the week
that coincide with the last events of
Christ's life.
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but at the same time I wanted to educate
them as well. The performance must be
political and beautiful at the same time.
And until this planet is free of racial
oppression, and until we have accom
plished establishing world peace, then
I will continue to make it my aim to
work toward that end."
Madison said the play centered
around a selection of poetry, speeches
and letters written by Nelson Mandela,
his wife, Winnie, and their daughter.
"It was not a hard choice about what
the group would do this year because of
the fact that Mandela was freed on
February 11, and it was about the time
. when we needed to have a definite idea
about what we were going to do. So I
decided to go with a story that focused
on Mandela and South Africa."
Madison said the students who took
part in the play should be commended
for their efforts because the task of
learning the material was not an easy
one.
"There were certain words that are
only indigenous to South Africa, and
the students had to adapt to using those
words. So it was a learning experience
for them."
Performer Cheryl Grant, president
of The Ebony Readers, said, "There
were times when we would practice
into the early hours of the morning."
Grant, a junior speech communica
tion and psychology major from Fay
etteville, said it was challenging to
become acquainted with the material
Maundy Thursday stands fortheLast
Supper, when Jesus ate with the dis
ciples for the last time and told them of
his upcoming death. Churches hold
Communion, symbolic of the Last
Supper, in which the body and blood of
Christ are shared
For .Christians, Good Friday cele
brates the day Jesus was crucified. To
remember his death, University Baptist
Church will hold 1 2: 1 0 p.m. and 1 2:30
p.m. meditation services. University
United Methodist Church will reflect
on the day with a musical representa
tion of the seven last words of Christ.
The somber tone set on Friday lifts
with the dawn of Sunday Easter
morning. Sunrise services begin the
day for Chapel Hill Bible Church and
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"Easter is the crux of the truth of
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eyer, pastor of the Church of the Good
Shepherd. "What makes Easter mean
so much is that not only did Christ rise,
but there is hope for every Christian
too. They have the promise of rising
from the dead into eternal fellowship
with Christ."
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The Ebony Readers perform 'Mandela, The Land and The People' in Hanes Art Center Wednesday night
because it covered a global scale.
Challenging or not, the material did
not stop the students from acting before
a congested crowd, which showed its
approval with a standing ovation. But
Madison said she did not want to give
for everyone
family tradition.
"On Easter my family goes to church;
it's one of the few times I go out of the
year," said Kim Connally, a sopho
more business major from Durham.
"After church, we go out to dinner
and then go see my great-grandmother
who is almost 95 and lives in Hurdle
Mills outside of Roxboro. It's a tradi
tion," she said.
Renee Patterson, a sophomore math
major from Fuquay-Varina, has similar
traditions.
"We go to church for Easter. Nor
mally, we go to my grandmother's for
dinner, it's one of three family dinners
per year where everyone gets together,"
she said.
For others, Easter isn't shrouded in
religious rituals and remains a week
end similar to any other.
"We don't celebrate Easter in Cy
prus so I don't know anything about it.
But I am going on a picnic with the
Association of International Students
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for us so we will not feel so lonely1
because we can't go home," said BetuI
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the event was held.
"The program is not a way of blacks
lashing out at whites, due to racial
oppression. I want it to be known that I
am against any kind of racism, and I
UNC researchers use
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cancerous cell growth
By NOAH BART0LUCCI
Staff Writer
Researchers in the School of Medi
cine have new clues toward halting
the spread of cancer, minimizing the
damage of heart attack and improving
the odds in organ transplant.
Brian Herman and Ken Jacobson,
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.Herman expJainedJhat electron
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One application under study is the
examination of cells to detect cancer
at its early stages. Herman and Jacob
son, along with Research Associate
Stephen Lockett, believe their research
may improve the Pap smear today's
standard for detecting cervical can
cer. "Out of 60,000 women who de
velop cervical cancer each year, 7,000
will die," Herman said. "The Pap
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Jacobson added that because of the
high volume of tests done, human
error resulted.
"The benefit (of video microscopy)
is that you don't have the fatigue
factor entering in the computer
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"I hope people leave this program , ,
and think about what they have seen. If
they do, then we have accomplished tk
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doesn't get tired," he said.
But the computer not only would
be more effective, it also would read
the results faster. The problem is train
ing the computer, Jacobson said.
"It has to get the images and then it .
looks for characteristics of the dis-,
ease."
In another attempt to understand
the spread of cancer, Jacobson uses
the video microscope to study how
cells move. "I'm studying how dif
ferent parts of the cell work together
to produce movement of the cell as a
whole," he said. " -
Jacobson explained that this re
search was linked to cancer through
the abnormal movement of cells.)
Cancer is simply unregulated cell'
growth.
While scientists have experimented
with video microscopy for the past 1 0.
years, only in the past five have the;
medical applications become so ap
parent, Herman said.
Other video microscopy research'
at UNC has helped link the hardening
of arteries to a change in the level of
calcium in cells. A change in the level
of calcium, detected with fluorescent
stains, excites the growth of certain
cells in the walls of coronary arteries.
"We've shown that if we inhibit
the changes in calcium, we inhibit the
growth of these cells," Herman said.
The research also has demonstrated
how cells deprived of oxygen be
come more acidic. According to
Herman, this is a biochemical de-.
fense mechanism used by the cells.
By resupplying the cells with oxygen
when they are more acidic, organ
transplants and heart attack therapies
may be improved.
"We're very interested in what
happens to cells (deprived of oxy
gen)," Herman said. "If we knew what
the process was, we might be able to
modify those processes and increase1
the survival of these cells."
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