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  • western ■• • arolmian features October 29, 199 7 \ WCU Students Featured in North Carolina State Juried Exhibition for Undergraduates by Kim Falls On Saturday, October 4, members of WCU's Art Students' League traveled to UNC-Greensboro to compete with UNC-Chapel Hill, NC State, UNC- Greensboro, Appalachian State, East Carolina, and all other state universities in North Carolina. The North Carolina Student Juried Exhibition for Undergraduates is a prestigious annual art competition. With high hopes, the Art Students' League traveled with a vanload of 28 art pieces to enter the art work in this extremely competitive state exhibition. Ninety-one of the 276 works of art submitted were accepted. Eight pieces were accepted from WCU. Congratulations to Bill Petrie, Chris Mallonee, Robyn Shufelt, John Reising and Kim Falls. A special congratulations to WCU student Matthew Turlington for having two works accepted and receiving an Honorable Mention award. Roger Dinofa also received an Honorable Mention award. Daniel Jans from ECU won an Honorable Mention award. UNC-A student John Rudel won third place with an articulate pastel drawing. UNC-G student Anne Mclnnis won second place with a dramatic figurative sculpture made from plaster and wood. UNC-G student Nancy Stoll won first place with an abstract sculpture created of plaster and steel. The show presents many diverse ideas and expressions in various media. One piece by UNC-G student Megan Sullivan, entitled Teddy Bear Bagpipes," was a humorous set of bagpipes made of felt, wax and fake fur. The exhibition also shows more traditional media such as sculpture, painting, and photography. If you are interested in seeing this wonderful exhibit at UNC-G, the show opened on October 17 and will be up until November 7,1997. For further details call (910) 334-5248. • Doris Davenport will be reading at City Lights Bookstore/ Cafe at 8 p.m. on Thursday, October 30. • The Art Students' League is having a exhibition, "Western Expressions," at the City Lights Bookstore and Cafe in the cafe gallery November 1 through December 1. All interested are welcome to attend the opening on Saturday, November 1st, at 5 p.m. Don't Open the Door... by Brian Postelle Know any good ghost stories? It's always important, especially out here in the woods, to keep a selection of supernatural tales on hand for special occasions. We are fortunate to live in an area that is especially suited for such tales. Two of the most popular locales for scary tales are college campuses and the remote woods. The folklore history of the mountains has a tendency to encourage these stories as well, since tradition is rooted in tall tales, both scary and not. There is a wealth of ghost tales in these mountains. An early ghost story that is documented in several texts has its origins in the 1800s at Chimney Rock. In 1802, a young woman saw hundreds of ghostly figures flying around the chimney pinnacle. Though they looked human, gender, age, and facial features were indistinguishable. Her reports were later verified by witnesses. In 1811, a couple observed two large groups of apparitions above Chimney Rock. According to their stories, the two ghost armies converged in battle, and the clash of weapons and cries of pain could be heard throughout the valley. Another historical mystery is the Brown Mountain Lights. Legend and modern testimony has it that fiery balls of light can be seen to rise up from the valley below Wiseman's View. The balls float up and hang in the air for a moment, then disappear. Tales of the Brown Mountain Lights date back to the 1700s. Also beware strange creatures lurking in the woods. The Boojum, WNC's version of bigfoot, has been spotted repeatedly throughout the years. Black Rock and Waterrock Knob seem to be its favorite places to dwell. Any place with a history as deep as WNC is bound to have tales of ancient ghosts floating in the mists of the woods. Judaculla Rock, Lake Toxaway, Aunt Sally's Curve, and even the mighty Tuckaseigee are reported to have their own ghosts haunting nighttime visitors. Ghost stories are based in folk tradition, so it would be negligent to ignore WCU's own traditional Halloween tale of horror. Stories ofthe Moore building have circulated around campus for years, and the variation of the tales makes up for any base in fact. Sometime in the past, be it the '20s or the '50s, doesn't matter, Moore was a women's dormitory. It appears that two women stayed in the dorm over Thanksgiving holiday. Or Easter, doesn't matter. A spectre haunting the halls of Moore building? You be the judge... Spectograph by Seth Sams. Anyway, as the story goes, the two women were living on the third floor, and one decided to go take a shower while the other was getting ready for bed. The girl in the dorm room had just begun wondering what was taking so long when she heard faint scratching at the base of her door along with weak moaning. The sounds scared the girl so much that she spent the night huddled in the corner. When she awoke the next morning, her roommate had yet to return, and when she opened the door to GO OUTSIDE.... She found her roommate with her throat slit, lying in a pool of blood! BLOOAAAHHHAAHAHAHAH!!! This story understandably has many variations. In some, the girl in the room is terrified when blood begins running under the door. In others, fingernails are lodged in the paint on the other side. Whatever version of the story that is told, its effectiveness was magnified by the mysterious fact that, until recently, the third Stories of the Moore building have circulated around campus for years. . . as the story goes, the two women were living on the third floor, and one decided to go take a shower while the other was getting ready for bed. floor of Moore was abandoned and boarded up. Ramshackle buildings are perfect fodder for such stories. Unfortunately for ghost stories, the third floor of Moore has been renovated and is now in use by the Physical Therapy Department. If the famous stories still circulate and get to the students during late night physical therapy sessions, they aren't saying. It's too bad that we don't have any abandoned buildings today (other than Hardee's). They add illustration to stories of past horrors. Fortunately, fact has never been a prerequisite for ghost stories. All it takes is imagination to create one on any appropriate evening. Late nights in the dorms or around campsites provide the perfect atmosphere for freaking out your friends with tales of terror. The later and darker and quieter it gets, the less anyone cares whether or not you made it up. Accounts of mysterious, ghastly, and even downright disgusting occurrences keep us on our toes, senses heightened to the point of near hallucination. There is nothing like walking through a dark doorway and for, a moment, thinking that there just might be something there...waiting.
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