2The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, October 6, 1992
'Bad Ass' Hedges set to perform
acoustic guitar mastery, diversity
By Duncan Young
Staff Writer
"Bad Ass."
This is the descriptive slang term of
endearment used by college students to
describe guitarist Michael Hedges.
And most people who leave Memo
rial Hall tonight after seeing Hedges' 8
p.m. concert will have that same term
on their lips.
' Hedges, a guitarist capable of doing
.' just about everything with an acoustic
guitar except eat it (and even then, it
probably still would sound cool), brings
his virtuoso mastery of the instrument
and amazing stage presence to dazzle
' Chapel Hill audiences tonight. An artist
' (in the giant jazznew age label Windham
Hill since 1 98 1 , Hedges' guitar mastery
' arid musical diversity have made him a
favorite among critics.
XJeoff Ossias, one of California's
leading music critics, writes, "Hedges
is such an unusually complete musician
' that his music defies a categorical pi
"' ge'onhole. His music is too engaging to
call new age and too complex and apo
litical to call folk."
But, he does produce great live mu
sic. Michael Hedges' live concerts have
dazzled music-biz types for the past 1 1
ears, and he always has been critically
' acclaimed. Hedges' concerts are like a
kaleidoscope you'll never see the
same thing twice but past shows and
a live album, "Live on the Double
Planet," offer a clue to what listeners
can expect.
The first staple of a Michael Hedges'
concert is, of course, his original mate
rial. He calls his music, somewhat amor
phously, a cross between "acoustic
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thrash," "heavy metal" and "savage
myth." In any case, his style is all his
own.
Hedges is capable of switching from
the Beatlesque introspection of a song
like "Ready or Not" to the wacky tongue-in-cheek
disco of "The Funky Avo
cado" without missing a beat. He plays
most of his songs on the obscure harp
guitar, a deep, full-sounding instrument
that consists of a traditional six-string
guitar armed with an adjacent set of five
bass strings. Listeners can also expect
to hear material from Hedges' new al
bum, his fifth, entitled "Taproot."
The second integral part of a Hedges'
concert is the choice of covers. Hedges'
can make his guitar suck up another
artist's song and spit it back out, keep
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ing both the original character of the
song and Hedge's unique imprint in
tact. While traditional covers include Bob
Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower"
and the Beatles' "Come Together,"
Hedges also mixes in contemporary
cover songs. A 1991 show, for example,
included hilarious covers of Neneh
Cherry's "Buffalo Stance" and Prince's
"A Love Bizarre."
More important and outstanding than
any of his compositions or cover choices
is Hedges' sheer style and mastery of
the acoustic guitar. After edging out
Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt as
acoustic finger-style champion in Gui
tar Player's latest annual reader poll,
Hedges has been considered the most
physically adept guitarist in the world.
Those going to the concert tonight
can look forward to an amazing show.
"Bad Ass" might not be strong enough
to describe what the audience will see of
Michael Hedges, but used in the sense
of a timeless compliment, "Bad Ass" is
completely accurate.
Michael Hedges plays at 8 p.m. to
day in Memorial Hall. Tickets, avail
able at the Union box office, are $9 for
students and $15 for the general public.
Animal-protection officials say cruelty charges unfounded
By Robert Strader
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill Animal Protection Soci
ety officials said Friday that charges of
animal cruelty and records mismanage
ment were unfounded and arose from
"personal vendettas."
'To speak out of silence': Women
tackle language dominated by men
By Mondy Lamb
Senior Writer
Poet Adrienne Rich didn't make an
appearance Saturday night, but her
voice and the voices of many other
women were heard throughout
Bingham Hall in the performance of
her poetry.
"To Draw This Circle: Learning to
Speak Out of Silence" dealt with
Rich's theory on the English language
as an extension of a male-dominated
society. Presented by the Department
of Speech Communication Oct. 1-3,
the performance was conceived by
senior speech-communication major
Sarah Ruccio for her Honors Project
Kuccio selected poems that built on
a theme illustrating how the voices of
women are silenced and how their
experiences are marginalized in our
patriarchal culture.
"I used the theme of language spe
cifically to talk about how language is
really an appendage of patriarchy,"
Ruccio said. "There is a progression
throughout the performance, begin
ning with women accepting the tradi
tion that they should be silent or ac
cepting labels placed upon them.
In response to citizen complaints, the
Orange County Board of Commission
ers voted last month to form a commit
tee to investigate whether the Animal
Protection Society should be allowed to
continue operating the Orange County
Animal Shelter, located at 1 08 1 Airport
Road in Chapel Hill.
If the committee finds the shelter is
operating improperly, the county could
step in to manage it.
The committee, which will be com
posed of an APS representative, a county
commissioner, a member of the board
of health, a member of the county
sheriffs department and four members
of the public, has not been selected.
Susan Sexton, a former candidate for
the board of commissioners, said an
investigation was necessary because the
APS had abused its authority.
"(The APS) does not answer any
questions from the county or let anyone
see any paperwork," Sexton said. "They
have failed to live up to their contract
with the county."
Sexton also said county commission
ers had refrained from taking any action
in an attempt to delay investigations
until after the election.
Pat Sanford, APS director, called
Sexton's charges "totally irresponsible
and totally unfounded."
Although Sexton has been the main
critic of the APS, other residents have
registered complaints with the commis
sioners as well, County Commissioner
Don Willhoit said Monday.
Willhoit said that in at least one in
stance, the APS euthanized an animal
that was going to be adopted.
Sexton said 500 to 700 animals re
mained unaccounted for and added that
numerous instances of financial mis
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Passive acceptance of these tradi
tions when speaking, using the misogy
nist language most people learn, as well
as remaining silent and not striving for
change because of the people that are
not aware that anything is wrong per
petuate the problem, she said.
Ruccio compiled, adapted and di
rected the performance, which featured
nine women dressed in white perform
ing Rich's poetry and using various
choreographed movements to demon
strate how women are si fenced and how
they find their voices. In order to show
that they are labeled with confining
definitions, slides of words commonly
used to describe women including
whore, dyke, bitch, slut, angel and
madonna were projected across the
bodies of the performers, illustrating
the English language's deficiencies in
imaging women.
At one point, the women searched
through stacks of books, presumably
looking for books written by women.
All that was available were books writ
ten by men, about men, in which women
virtually were excluded.
Eventually, the women turned to
books written by women, about women,
to find their own voice and a language
management have taken place during
the past year.
"(There are) ample reasons to termi
nate the contract with the APS," she
said.
Willhoit said the committee would
perform a "status check" of the current
management structure.
Sexton also said the shelter's county
allotted $237,100 annual budget was
excessive. "The shelter could be oper
ated better, cheaper and more account
able." But Orange County Manager John
Link said he did not think the costs of
operating the shelter could be reduced,
even if the county were to overtake it.
'The county cost of running the shel
ter would be about the same," Link said.
Sexton said an audit of the animal
shelter was supposed to have been com
pleted by August but never took place.
Link said, "The audit of the shelter
would have been done except that an
audit of the county is still in progress."
Sexton added that the APS ignored
the rights of property owners when in
vestigating charges of animal cruelty.
"APS officials do not have not the
statutory authority to investigate charges
of animal cruelty (because) the board of
commissioners appoints investigators,''
she said.
But Sanford called Sexton's claim
"absolutely false." "We have had the
authority for the past 20 years," she
said.
Sanford said Sexton's charges
stemmed from a personal vendetta re
lating to an incident last spring. Sexton
had to be removed by the police for
refusing to give information concern
ing her pets, Sanford said.
Link said county ownership would
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women can use without limiting them
selves to traditional, narrow roles.
"They search for real women like
themselves who are trying to write
and trying to speak," Ruccio said. "So
they go from being isolated and afraid
to awareness. Adrienne Rich also calls
for changing language so that it can
express female experience."
Killian Manning, perfonnancecho
reographer said, "1 think that
Adrienne's struggle for language is
one that a lot of us face, in a lot of
different ways. I don't know if I've
copped out, but I've chosen body as
language, to sort of work that way."
In her choreography, Manning also
attempted to express a development
of the sense of community among the
women, she said.
One difficulty Manning and Ruccio
faced was performing a text about
silence.
"In the beginning images, and some
of the end (images), the women did
not speak; there was a tape playing -;
they themselves were silent," Ruccio
said. "Also you see images of them
silencing themselves hands over
the mouth and then silencing each
other."
result in a reduction of volunteer time,
which is vital to the shelter's operation.
But Sexton disagreed with Link, say
ing volunteers would continue to play
an important role in operating the shel
ter, even if it switched over to county
management.
Although she was the first person
officially to request to be on the com
mittee as a member of the public, Sex
ton said she thought her request would
be denied.
Link said he was optimistic that the
committee would be beneficial.
"(The committee) will improve work
protocol which should make the inves
tigation of animal cruelty charges much
easier and make the shelter and its staff
more accountable to the public."
Sanford said the shelter was invited
into the Standard of Excellence Pro
gram, along with 63 other animal shel
ters in the United States.
Court to review
Haitian decision
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON The Supreme
Court said Monday that it would decide
. whether the Bush administration' was
violating immigration law by sending
-. Haitian boat people back to their coun
try without a hearing.
A lower court declared the policy
illegal, saying the government should
give Haitians plucked from the sea by
the U.S. Coast Guard a chance to prove
they were fleeing political terror.
The Supreme Court is allowing the
government to continue the immediate
repatriations until it decides the issue
sometime in 1993.
Initially, the Bush administration
decided to take the refugees to the U.S.
naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
and hear their requests for asylum. About
27,000 of them were returned to Haiti.
On May 24, President Bush decided
that Coast Guard cutters would inter
cept the Haitians at sea' and immedi
ately return them to their country. The
Haitians could apply for asylum through
the U.S. Consulate at Port-au-Prince.
A federal judge in New York upheld
the new policy. But the 2nd U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals said immigration law
''clearly states that the United States
may not return aliens to their persecu
tors, no matter where in the world those
actions are taken."
Campus Calendar
TUESDAY
3:15 p.m. University Career Services will offer
information on resume writing for internships for
freshmen, sophomores and juniors in 306 Manes.
3:45 Hunger and Homelessness Outreach Project
members signed up for shelter orientation will meet in
front of the Campus Y, Another group will meet at
6:45.
4:30 p.m. Diabetes Support Group will have a
special meeting on exercise at the Woollen Swim
ming Pool. Information: 966-6562,
5 p.m. UNC Juggling Club will meet at the flag
pole between Wilson and South Building. The rain
location will he Carmichael Ballroom.
6 p.m. Upward Bound will have a meeting for
those interested in tutoring area high school students
upstairs in the Campus Y.
We Are All Housekeepers will welcome At
McSurely to give a presentation on "How the Univer
sity Has Systematically Oppressed the Housekeep
ers" in 206 Union.
6:30 p.m. UNC-Russla Exchange will meet in the
Union. Check the Union Desk for room number.
7 p.m. CHIspA: nos juntaremos con Carolina In
dian Circle en 100 Hamilton.
UNC Model United Nations will have a general
interest meeting in T-6 New Carroll. Information:
Hans, 914-5106.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity will present the First
Black Uplift Symposium with Jon Michael Spenser
presenting "The Theology of Rap Music" in the
SHSBCC office.
7:30 p.m. AED will welcome Dr. Hugh Peterson to
speak on surgery and the bum unit in 224 Union.
8 p.m. UNC Young Democrats will meet in 212
Union. All campaigns will be represented.
Carolina Union Activities Board will present
Michael Hedges, acoustic guitarist, in Memorial Hall.
Tickets are available at the Union Box Office at $9 for
students and $ 1 5 for the general public.
Campus Scouts will meet in the Union's FP Gra
ham Lounge.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Truman Scholarship: Juniors interested in a ca
reer in public service should see Dean Scott, 308
Steele, about this scholarship that covers as much as
$30,000 for senior year and graduate school.
Youth United has applications available at the
Campus Y, the BCC and the Union Desk.
ALGE is organizing a carpool to Washington,
DC, to view the AIDS Quilt. Information; B-GLAD
962-4401.
Carolina Union Social Committee has applica
tions available at the Union Desk for a Pizza Pig-Out
(due Oct. 12) or the UNC Dating Game (due Oct. 19).