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'Camp Darfur' exhibit shows effects of genocide
2 p.m., March 13, 2007--On March 7, the Rodney Room of Perkins Student Center was transformed into a refugee camp. Five canvas tents formed a semicircle in the small room, with signs identifying the genocide and the date it took place. The last tent represented Darfur, with the date "now" and a death toll of 400,000 and counting. From 8 a.m.- 5 p.m., Students, faculty and staff were exposed to the effects of genocide at Camp Darfur, a traveling interactive awareness and education exhibit funded by the grassroots community Stop Genocide Now. The all-day event was part of Smyth residence hall's first annual "Hunger and Homelessness Week," from March 5-10. Smyth Hall is a part of UD's Central Complex, whose residence curriculum is based upon the concept of service learning. Slide shows of refugee victims and an iTunes video about Darfur
were projected on the walls and information about the event and others throughout the week also were available at information tables.
Trail of History
Sharon Heist is an area resident who recently spent time with a re-enactment group in the Dragoons. This is her story and the impressions it left on her.Night falls quickly in the Dragoons, and the high desert rapidly cools down. Light comes from a small campfire in front of an old canvas wall tent. You can easily transport yourself into the 1880s, especially as a black cavalry trooper comes to the fire in full uniform to fill his coffee cup from the pot simmering there. Beyond the fire, the only sounds come from picketed horses and occasional coyote calls. Overhead the Milky Way is so bright it almost glows.The trooper is Linus Hinton, first sergeant and leader of Company E, Tenth Cavalry. This group was in the Dragoons recently as part of their continuing pursuit of authenticity and historical accuracy, not only in the clothes and equipment they use, but to get the feel of the actual sites where events happened.You won't see western saddles or other inappropriate gear when these guys saddle up.
Beastie Boys, Primal Scream & Bjork for Connect
Connect - the new festival for 2007 from the organisers of T in the Park, which is taking place at Inveraray Castle, Loch Fyne, Argyll has announced the first acts.
Headling the Oyster Stage on the Friday are The Beastie Boys, joined by The Jesus and Mary Chain, and CSS. On the Saturday, there's Primal Scream, as well as The Only Ones. Sunday has Icelandic squeaker Bjork, and LCD Soundsystem.
The Guitars & Other Machines tent will have amongst others Idlewild, and Tilly and the Wall on Sunday, and King Creosote on Friday. There will be many more international, UK and Scottish bands and artists to be announced over the coming months for both these stages.
As well as music, there's to be woodland walks, comedians, old school games mixed with a touch of the Highland Games, visual artists and installations, and the strange and unusual in performance in The Unknown Pleasures Tent.
The Power Of Powder
Summer hikers throng to the granite-rimmed alpine lakes of Northeast Oregon's Wallowa Mountains, but only a few diehard skiers venture there in winter. The lure is powder snow. This vast range of snow-buried 9,000-foot peaks often boasts the dry, fluffy snow that skiers rave about in the Rocky Mountains, and that falls so rarely in the soggy Cascades. Powder snow can also be dangerous, because it slides so easily from steep slopes. Avalanche-prone canyons guard the Wallowas' backcountry. Roger Averbeck of Joseph opened the Eagle Cap Wilderness to diehard Nordic skiers in the late '90s by establishing a series of tent and cabin outposts. Averbeck, a nervous-looking, soft-spoken 50-something, is known to his part-time staff of cowboy ski guides as the guru of Telemark.
Back to Nature Spring has sprung
The squirrels are working overtime gathering moss and twigs for nest building. The male cardinal is sporting his bright crimson jacket to woo his golden mate. Raucous blue jays in flashes of brilliant blue stage mock battles in the high oaks. A fresh shade of translucent sap green swashed over the forest canopy shimmers with each gently warmed breeze.
Theres something about all that spring activity that zest for life, that reborn commitment to the future, family, species, renewed hope for the new season of births, flowers, fruit and cleansing rains that deems spring a favorite to humans and wildlife alike. Spring invokes a mixture of emotions; Spring fever is marked by restlessness and contentment, excitement and lethargy, energetic and laziness. In essence we simply dont know what to do with ourselves so we cut the new blades of grass, clean out the garage, paint the walls, purchase new curtains, clean out the fireplace, organize a garage sale, wax the boat, dust off the canoe, air out the tent, open up the camper, Google the maps, shine up the motorcycle, waterproof the boots, rake the leaves, repot the plants, repair the screens.
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