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Western Carolinian Volume 72 Number 08

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  • >| 7 wr ealkkim ee 4 ; " niete See ae oe z Kina bs a =. display, noon-7 p.m. display, 10 a.m.-/ p.m. display, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. adult content), 7:30-9:30pm display 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Jones, AIDS Quilt founder, and reception, 6 p.m. TTA atten eee Se TOOT TTT TTT PORT Attention students, faculty, and staff! Have you heard that the largest on-going community arts project in the World is to coming campus? That's right, and we want YOU to be a part of this momentous week! Western Carolina University is proud to host The AIDS Memorial Quilt. The Quilt will be on display everyday from noon until 7pm Monday, December 3 through Thursday, December 6 in the UC Grand Room. The Quilt is a composite of three-foot by six-foot panels, each commemorating the life of someone who has died of AIDS. Starting in 1987, The Quilt has grown to include more than 45,000 different panels, made by friends, family members, and other loved ones. It includes a wide variety of materials, from wedding rings and bubble wrap to cowboy boots and Barbie dolls. seventy-two individual panels will be displayed during Western's exhibit. Cleve Jones, founder of the AIDS Quilt and author of Stitching a Revolution, will be the honored speaker for the closing ceremony at Schedule of Events: Monday December 3, Quilt Opening ceremony, noon Tuesday December 4, Quilt Wednesday, December 5, Quilt Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens (musical theatre, Thursday, December 6, Quilt Closing ceremony with Cleve esternGarolinian 6pm on December 6. Jones came up with the idea of constructing a quilt after he saw a wall covered with note cards containing the names of local people who lost their lives to AIDS. To add more of a personal touch he created The NAMES Project Foundation AIDS Quilt. The Quilt was first displayed in Washington, D.C where 1,920 panels were on display. Over the course of several days, more than half a million people visited The Quilt. The success of the initial display led to a tour that visited 20 cities in four months. As The Quilt visited each city, new panels were added and by the end of the tour it had almost tripled in size. The Quilt is now said to stretch across the entire National mall, making it the largest community arts project in the world. Those wishing to design a piece for The Quilt, or organizations needing service hours, please contact the Carol Petricevic at 828-22 7- 293/ or send an email to wellnesscenter@ email wou.edu. Cleve Jones, AIDS Quilt founder On October 25 around 9:30 PM the fire alarms at Scott dormitory were activated and the sprinklers went off on the fifth floor. The entire building was evacuated. When reached for details, Officer Barker from the campus police commented that it looked as if a sprinkler head on that fifth floor had been vandalized, which caused the spontaneous fire alarm and subsequent flooding. An investigation is currently being conducted to discover exactly how the sprinklers were activated and to find the vandal that supposedly triggered the flooding.
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