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aggielife
the battalion
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Friday, April 2002
Islands of adventure
BYX hosts annual Island Party at
Simpson Drill Field on Saturday
ADRIAN CALCANEX) • THE BATTALION
By Thomas Phillips
THE BATTALION
Bringing
Jider Christ
The free
six musical acts to the stage for a day-long festival. Brothers
fraternity will hold its annual Island Party on campus Saturday,
event begins aJ^noon and will run until 11 p.m. on the O.R.
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Simpson Drill Field, a new location for the event usually
held on the Polo Fields.
Featured musicians include Likeminds, Soul Dance
Free, The Awakening Praise Band, Ross King, Ashaun
Jones and Miranda Skaggs.
Music will be the primary entertainment of this
year’s festival, but organizers said music is not the main
focus of Island Party.
“I think Island Party would be horribly ineffective if
all it was was just a concert,” said John Erwin, vice pres
ident of Brothers Under Christ and a junior soci
ology major. “We wouldn’t get done what we
feel like God wants us to do if we just sat back
and listened to bands and listened to speakers all
day long.”
Erwin said the purpose of the event was “to
give people an opportunity to meet with God, to
come out and enjoy fellowship, as well as have
a good time.”
Other entertainment planned for the day
include inflatable games, inexpensive food
and lots of free time.
“There’s a lot of time at Island Party
where you don’t have to listen to the music.
You don’t have to listen to the speaker,”
Erwin said. “There’s time in between the
band sets that you can spend talking to peo
ple, and we hope that people aren’t so closed
off just talking to their friends that they don’t
meet people.”
Erwin said the festival is not limited to Christians and
hopes people of all faiths will attend.
“We provide things that anybody can come out and
enjoy, whatever their belief,” Erwin said. “Last year we
played up bringing in kids and families from inner-city Bryan, and I know
they all had a wonderful time. Hopefully you’re going to see the love of
Christ, and hopefully you won’t see a bunch of Christians saying, ‘Get out
of here if you don’t believe what we believe.’"
Funding for Island Party comes from several sources including private
donations, fundraisers and T-shirts sales. These help to offset the cost of
renting equipment and paying entertainers.
“We want to give a chance for anybody that wants to come out,” Erwin
said. “If somebody’s pondering going or not, if it costs $5, they’re probably
going to say no. If it’s free, hopefully they’ll come out and see what we’re
all about. At least give us a chance.”
Laci Waller, a junior agricultural development major, attended last
year’s Island Party with her friends and said the comfortable weath
er and relaxed atmosphere added to her enjoyment.
"We took a blanket and chairs and sat; it was a really pretty day,”
Waller said. “We listened to the music and speakers, talked to people and
met new people. It was just a good chance
for everybody to get together.”
Trey Arbuckle, assistant to Erwin and a
junior philosophy major, said that even
though the event is organized by a Christian
group, the force of Island Party reaches
beyond religion.
“It’s a chance to hopefully see some
thing larger than yourself, and even if you
don’t believe what we believe, then [you]
will eventually see why we believe what we
believe,” Arbuckle said. “We want every
body to come out and see that.”
Singer/songwriter Miranda Skaggs
will open the musical performances
with her “acoustic folk alternative”
stylings.
“I’ve gone to [Island Party] in the
past and it’s just a good time to get
together and hang out and just listen to some music,” Skaggs said.
“This is what I want to do eventually, and it’s just good to get in front
of people and sing.”
Skaggs has only five years of experience playing the guitar, but she
is not limited by any musical inabilities when it comes to performing.
“The main reason why I do it is because I found hope in Jesus
Christ, and even though I’m not putting that so up front in my music —
some of the songs you don’t even hear anything about being a Christian
— I think people find that connection, even though it’s not so apparent.”
Skaggs takes the stage at 12:45 p.m. with other acts and speakers following.
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I think Island
Party would he
horribly ineffective
if all it was was
just a concert.
—John Erwin
vice president of BYX
GUMBEL
umbel leaves CBS’
The Early Show”
NEW YORK (AP) —
Bryant Gumbel said
^Butsday he was quitting as
I hosto!CBS’ morning news
' Wognm. “The Early Show,”
tantf will be leaving CBS”
|riie longtime host of
“Today” show was
Kdback to morning televi-
Min November 1999, and
^spent $30 million to build a new street-
destudio in Manhattan to launch “The Early
>w.”
‘After more than 17 years of hosting a
oming news program, I feel it’s time for me
move on and do something else with my
Gumbel said in a statement Thursday.
His contract with CBS expires in May. The
tw ork did not immediately know when he
wld exit “The Early Show.”
The show never climbed from third place
competitive morning news race against
st-place “Today” and ABC’s “Good
orning America.” Yet after many years of
Hindering, “The Early Show” has become
°fitable for CBS and will continue after
'umbel’s departure.
I Simply put, Bryant has put us on the map
■the morning,” CBS News President Andrew
Jyward said. “His professionalism, his
|f rao rdinary versatility and his enormous
I'Hs as a live interviewer have been invalu-
P e to the development of ‘The Early Show.’”
|CBS signed Gumbel to a five-year, $5 mil-
n annual contract in 1997 — a relative bar-
ln m inflationary times in the TV business.
Pinbel’s former partner, “Today’s” Katie
fane, makes three times as much.
Gumbel was host of a newsmagazine,
ablic Eye,” that was canceled for poor rat-
HURLEY
lio
Bo k,?f° re he started again with “The Early
he 53-year-old recently went through a
P ss y divorce and is engaged to marry Hilary
mlan, a former research analyst at
Wtaan Sachs.
As 1 prepare to begin a new chapter in my
Ipnal life, it makes sense to me to turn the
=e on my professional life as well,” he said.
- Um b e L who is also host of “Real Sports”
i HO. didn’t detail his other plans.
Hurley gives birth
to baby boy
LONDON (AP) —
Elizabeth Hurley gave birth to
a baby boy on Thursday, fol
lowing a high-profile preg
nancy in which her ex-
boyfriend questioned whether
he was the child’s father.
“Elizabeth Hurley is
delighted to announce the
birth of her son, Damian
Charles,” a spokeswoman for the model-actress
said in a statement.
“Both mother and baby are happy and
healthy.”
Hurley, 36, has said the boy’s father was her
former boyfriend, American film producer.
Stephen Bing. In December, Bing sued the
British tabloid The Mirror, alleging he faced
death threats when the paper urged readers to call
him after he said he was unsure whether he’d
impregnated Hurley.
For several years she was the international
face of Estee Lauder cosmetics.
Allen to appear at Cannes
Film Festival
PARIS (AP) — Woody Allen, famous for
avoiding awards shows and festivals, will appear
at the Cannes Film Festival this year to present
his new comedy about a has-been movie director.
“Hollywood Ending”
opens the French Riviera
film festival on May 15,
organizers said in a statement
Thursday. Allen, Tea Leoni,
Tiffani Thiessen and George
Hamilton star in the tale
about a director who gets a
chance to make his first
movie in years, then goes
blind. The film is not com
peting for prizes.
About half dozen of Allen’s films have played
in Cannes over the years, including “Manhattan,”
“The Purple Rose of Cairo” and “Hannah and
Her Sisters.” But the New York-based writer-
director has never made an appearance.
Last month, Allen made a rare appearance
at the Academy Awards to urge Hollywood to
make movies in post-Sept. 11 New York.
The 55th Cannes Film Festival runs
through May 26. Director David Lynch is the
head of the jury.
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