April 1, 2002- The Virgin Islands News Association will hold a general membership meeting at 4 p.m. Saturday on the St. Thomas campus of the University of the Virgin Islands in Teacher Education Building Room T102.
The meeting will address a variety of issues, including the recent Police Department press conference at which it was announced that news media representatives will be required to present police-issued identification cards that will cost $11 each in order to enter any V.I. government building.
Non-members working in the news media and related fields who are interested in learning more about the organization are encouraged to attend.
Following the general meeting, the board will meet to elect officers.
Previous VINA meetings have been teleconferenced between the UVI St. Thomas campus and meeting facilities on St. Croix. Saturday's gathering, however, will take place only on St. Thomas.
The V.I. News Association, formed last year, has adopted bylaws and recently elected its first board of directors — Michael Burton (TV2), Jean Greaux (WVWI News), Patrice Johnson (UVI Public Relations), Will Jones (The Avis) and Shaun Pennington (V.I. Source).
The organization was founded to promote excellence in the practice of journalism and advance the development of responsible journalism in the Virgin Islands; to foster freedom of information and actively oppose all actions tending to limit or curtail that freedom; and to encourage fellowship among those active locally in the mass media.
Membership in VINA is by application. There are four categories of members:
– News media members: individuals engaged locally in news gathering and reporting for the media.
– Charter members: news media members who join the organization within a year of ratification of the bylaws (Aug. 11, 2001).
– Allied members: individuals working in other mass communications or media-related fields (these members have no vote).
– Business, corporate, association or agency members (these members have no vote).
Individual dues are $50 per year for news-media members and $25 for allied members. Organizational dues are on a sliding scale based on number of employees.
For further information about VINA, telephone 693-1058 or e-mail to newsdog@viaccess.net.

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April 1, 2002 – The V.I. National Park has written a set of regulations governing use of St. John's Hurricane Hole during major storms. But if the V.I. government's challenge to the federal designation of the area as part of the Coral Reef National Monument isn't resolved before the next big storm hits, the park won't implement the regulations.
Hurricane season begins in two months, on June 1.
Following a community meeting Monday at the Marketplace shopping complex to discuss the park's proposed Vessel Management Plan, Park Superintendent John King said he does not know when the matter will be resolved.
President Bill Clinton in the closing days of his office designated Hurricane Hole and waters off the south shore covering 12,700 acres as a national monument. The V.I. government contends that the submerged land belongs to the territory because President Gerald Ford in 1974 transferred it to the Virgin Islands. King said the federal General Accounting Office is reviewing the matter.
"But we've been told that GAO opinions are just that — opinions," King said. He said the Interior Department, which has jurisdiction over national parks and national monuments, could concur with the GAO's opinion or ignore it.
King said if the matter is resolved in favor of the federal government, the park will enforce the new regulations. They allow boats to preregister for a space in Hurricane Hole. The park will charge a fee for this service, but King did not know what it will be, other than that "it depends on the size of the boat."
He said boaters may put down ground tackle after they register, but must remove it when hurricane season ends on Nov. 30.
When a major storm is five days away from possibly hitting the territory, boaters will be allowed to enter Hurricane Hole. They must leave within two days of the storm's passage.
King said that eventually, if the federal government prevails in the monument designation dispute, the Friends of the V.I. National Park organization expects to install a hurricane mooring system. This system of moored chains allows boaters to hook their anchors to the chains to prevent damage to the marine and land environments surrounding Hurricane Hole's bays.
The Friends group has raised $60,000 of the $140,000 needed for the mooring system, King said. He said the Friends may install the system in just one of Hurricane Hole's four bays if it is economically feasible to do so. If not, the group will wait until it has enough money to do all four bays.
Vessel Management Plan not ready for review
While King had expected to have the Vessel Management Plan ready for public review Monday, it has been held up in the park's regional office. He said he expects it to be made public within the next few days.
The major change for local recreational boaters comes in the extension to 30 days of the 14-day limit on stays within park waters. However, boats may use moorings or drop anchor only 14 consecutive days in any one bay.
When the mooring fee program begins later this spring or in the summer, boaters will have to pay $15 a night to use the moorings. They may anchor seaward of the moorings only if no moorings are available. There will be no charge for anchoring.
While boats 12 feet and under are now allowed to anchor on the south shore, the proposed vessel management plan will prohibit their doing so.
"Small boats do a lot of damage to sea grass," said Jim Owens, the park's former acting planner and author of the vessel management plan. He said the only exception to the prohibition will be during blue runner season. Larger vessels already are prohibited from anchoring on the south shore and must use moorings.
About half a dozen people showed up for Monday's meeting. King said many of the proposals in the Vessel Management Plan were aired during the discussion of the recently-adopted Commercial Services Plan and many people had already had their say.
A similar meeting on the Vessel Management Plan will be held at 8a.m. Wednesday in the Marketplace third-floor meeting room.

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April 1, 2002 – Danish Heritage Day was celebrated Monday on St. Croix at the Lawaetz Family Museum — significantly one day after the annual Transfer Day observances took place on St. Thomas.
It was on March 31, 1917, that sovereignty for the territory was tranferred from Denmark to the United States, which under the leadership of President Woodrow Wilson purchased the Virgin Islands for $25 million in gold.
An architect's appreciation
In his keynote address Tuesday, Gerville Larsen, an architect, artist and fifth-generation Virgin Islander of Danish descent, focused on the community's need to treasure and celebrate its West African heritage.
Celebrations such as Transfer Day "are formulated around the Danish rule, but leave out the Afro-Danish, Afro-Caribbean and Afro-European aspects of our culture," Larsen said. He feels there is a need for an Afrocentric organization similar to the Friends of Denmark, perhaps the Friends of Ghana or the Friends of West Africa.
Larsen, a graduate of St. Dunstan's Class of 1983, channeled his love of the arts into a career as an architect. He said his profession fueled a desire to research the craftsmanship of his African ancestors, and that in turn led him to become a member of the Historical Preservation Society more than five years ago. "'Transfer' is to pass the past from one person to another and create a link from our cultural past to the present," he said.
His artwork can be found at Taller Larjas, a Christiansted art gallery at 20 Queen Street, just a block from Sunday Market Square, also known as the "freed slave" area of town where vendors showed their wares and conducted commerce.
"I've always been cognizant of the beauty of our architecture," Larsen said, sharing childhood memories growing up in the town of Christiansted and attending school at St. Mary's, a few doors away from the art gallery.
A designer's delivery
On March 6 at the Fort Frederik Museum, another "transfer" event took place, when Wayne James, president of the Homeward Bound Foundation, initiated the transfer of documents from the Lachmann family of Denmark, the last private owners of the Bethlehem Sugar Factory, which is now undergoing restoration by the Farmers in Action agricultural cooperative.
The family once owned 27 estates on St. Croix — two-thirds of the island. "The documents were housed in a private archive for over a hundred years," James said. "The slave trade has fragmented us, but those of us who have access to historical treasures need to do what we can to get those items for all to discover and enjoy."
Documents presented to the people of the Virgin Islands in last month's transfer included the original deed from the Carsons, who sold to Lachmann; the purchase agreement that led to the deed; two books on government statistics, dated 1860-1890 and 1890-1902; the Danish colonial laws; handwritten accounting logs and photographs.
The foundation has presented copies of the documents to the St. Croix Landmarks Society, to the Planning and Natural Resources Department's Historic Preservation Office, to its Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums for distribution to the libraries; to Farmers in Action and, just last week, to Hovensa, which back when it was known as Hess Oil V.I. Corp. replaced the Bethlehem Sugar Factory as the largest employer on St. Croix.
James said the articles will be displayed in a mahogany framed glass case at the Florence A. Williams Library in Christiansted.
Wayne James feels Virgin Islanders should seek ways to incorporate historical preservation into the process of acquiring the American Dream. He feels disheartened when he sees old buildings being bulldozed and replaced by concrete structures bearing no resemblance to the islands' architectural heritage. An artist and fashion designer, he grew up in a home where the arts and craftsmanship were a part of daily life.
"I once heard an intelligent person say that we need to just push down all the old buildings," he commented. "It comes from self-hate. The V.I.'s Danish-era furniture is different from what is found in Denmark. Here, there was an African influence in the design."
West Indian furniture is widely recognized for its fine craftsmanship. Just recently the Landmarks Society held its annual antiques auction at the Estate Whim Plantation Museum, where crowds gathered to view and perhaps acquire pieces for their personal collections.
James said a majestic old castle in Denmark occupied by a family named Hagemann has a "West Indies room" that displays furniture designed by the ancestors of today's Virgin Islanders. And, he said, those treasures rank next to the family's paintings by Van Gogh.
"We are just going through a healing process," James said. "In the '70s we celebrated our blackness. You know, 'Black is Beautiful.' I think people are starting to change their perspective on slavery. We no longer are shameful about it — because it was imposed upon us."
An author's impressions
Richard Schrader, the author of 13 books on V.I. history, culture and folklore, said the Danish colonial era was very painful for those of African descent. He recalled hearing stories in his village about the brutal treatment of people by the gendarmes, the Danish military police.
He said a woman named Maude told him that she cried during a Transfer Day ceremony in Frederiksted, back in the days when the event was commemorated in both towns. She could not raise or wave her flag, he said, because she remembered the severe beating her father had endured as a suspect of a crime while he was being held in the Fort Frederik jail. He later was found innocent and released.
"The scars are deep for some of us," Schrader said. He said many Virgin Islanders, like Rothschild Francis, were exiled to the U.S. mainland and died away from the homeland they loved. "The U.S Navy was very brutal, too," he said. Pointing to the architecture of the Lawaetz Museum and ruins on the property, he said, "These things are ours. We inspired them. This is a part of our heritage. We can't stay away. We must stay involved."
The museum's meaning
The Lawaetz Family Museum is tucked in the lush green rainforest on the north side of the town of Frederiksted in Estate Little La Grange. Begun by Carl and Marie Lawaetz on property owned by this Danish-American family since 1896, the estate was once a sugar plantation and cattle farm.
It is a fitting setting in which to study the rich heritage of the Danes, Africans and other ethic groups that operated and worked the grounds of the historic property. Stately remains of long-ago structures tell of an era "when sugar was king" in the Virgin Islands. Walking through the estate, one encounters an extensive collection of flora and more than 60 kinds of trees, all tagged to show their origin and species.
Some visitors on Tuesday braved the hillside trail which offers a majestic view of the botanical gardens below wherein more than 50 varieties of hibiscus grow. Kai Lawaetz is an avid collector and propagator of several species.
The 19th century greathouse holds the family's collection of locally crafted furniture and memorabilia. On the veranda where a bell rang to signify the transfer, two books by family members were on display: a biography of Peter Von Scholten by Herman C.J. Lawaetz and "Emancipation — The Virgin Islands of the United States Celebrates its 150 Year Anniversary 1848 July 3 1998," by Erik J. Lawaetz.
The Danish Heritage Day program was sponsored by the Friends of Denmark and the Landmarks Society. Nancy Fisk, Landmarks Society education director at the Whim Plantation Museum, said events such as the Transfer Day celebration are part of the society's outreach to foster cultural appreciation in the Virgin Islands. The society's e
ducational program also includes Christmas and summer "Explore St. Croix" camps for children. "Kids are fascinated by this site," Fisk said of their two-day experience at the Lawaetz Museum.

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April 1, 2002 – A weeklong "Humanities Festival" got under way Monday on the St. Thomas and St. Croix campuses of the University of the Virgin Islands and in downtown Charlotte Amalie. All events are free and open to the public.
The first day of the festival, presented by UVI's Humanities Division, featured a lecture by Gilbert Sprauve, professor of modern languages, who is not only an expert in linguistics and foreign languages but also a local culture bearer, especially as regards St. John, his home island. The final day includes soprano/piano recital. In between are a daily smorgasbord of events covering in a variety of approaches the humanities topics of debate, theater, poetry, journalism, literature, foreign languages and music.
While the majority of events are on St. Thomas, three presentations on Wednesday and Thursday will take place on St. Croix. In addition, several of St. Thomas events are being shared with the St. Croix campus via teleconferencing.
Building on the first Humanities Festival, held in 2000, "The festival celebrates the art of communication," Lorna Young-Wright, division chair on the St. Thomas campus, said in a UVI release. Representatives of the division's various academic areas began organizing the festival last October.
The festival theme, "Celebrating 40 Years of Artistic Expression in the Humanities," is a part of the wider celebration of UVI's 40th anniversary.
The festival opened at noon Monday with the Humanities Division hosting a ceremony honoring retiring UVI President Orville Kean. The final event is a modern languages society induction ceremony Sunday evening in the campus cafeteria.
The lecture by Sprauve, who is on pre-retirement sabbatical for the semester, was titled, "How About 'Right as Defined by Need' as Opposed to 'Might Makes Right'?" Sprauve said his "basic argument is that in our society socialization and acculturation within the family generally instill an ethic that clashes in very essential ways with that imposed institutionally, pedagogically and otherwise by the dictates of free enterprise efficiency and profitability."
He argued that academia "while usurping the language of reason has abrogated its traditional role as beacon of humanistic didacticism and foment." And, he added, "The present condition has much to do with shortcomings in the public policy process in our islands."
The schedule of events began Monday with a noontime opening ceremony in Chase Auditorium, followed by a lecture at 2 p.m. by Prof. Gilbert Sprauve, also in the auditorium, that was teleconferenced with the St. Croix campus. Remaining events are as follows:
Tuesday
2 p.m. — discussion on "Humanities and Sustainable Development," Chase Auditorium (teleconferenced with St. Croix campus). After Hurricanes Hugo and Marilyn, Prof. Gene Emanuel said, "the artist's landscape flattened." Everyone's landscape flattened and lost color, he said, but artists lost their inspiration. Farmers and people in general found their landscape altered, he said, and all need sustainable development to preserve and honor their surroundings.
7 p.m. — debate at the Harvey Student Center. The UVI student debate team, fresh from Caribbean successes in Guyana, will tackle the subject, "Be It Resolved: That the Institution of Marriage Remains One of the World's Most Popular Illusions." Debating in favor will be Sharyn Niles and her second, Paula Gumbs; arguing against will be Martha Joseph and her second, Amandy Williams. None of the four students is married.
Wednesday
4 p.m. — a "Celebration of 40 Years of Theatre Productions," Little Theater. This symposium/panel discussion, presented by speech and theater area faculty Rosary Harper, Dennis Parker and Michael Prenevost, will be a look at UVI theatrical productions from 1963 to the present. Parker said it's hoped that many individuals who have acted and worked backstage over the years will be on hand — including UVI Vice President Malcolm Kirwan, music faculty member Austin Venzen, Reichhold Center director David Edgecombe and community members Irose Payne, Hans Eisler, Wanda and Charmaine Dipnarine and Lee Vanterpool.
6 p.m. — panel on "Finding the Personal Artistic Voice Beyond the Marketplace," St. Croix campus Student Activities Center. Presenters will be St. Croix artists Maud Pierre-Charles, Gabrielle Di Lorenzo, Gerville Larsen, Alicia McKay and Cy Levine. The moderator is Valerie Combie, Humanities Division chair on the St. Croix campus.
7 p.m. — poetry reading, off campus at Bethania Hall, next door to Frederick Evangelical Lutheran Church. This event is a continuation of the pattern established by poetry readings at the former L'Hotel Boynes a few years ago, metamorphosed into the present "Rock Lounge" presentations, all fostered by Mary Alexander of the Humanities Division. Students and community members are expected to read.
Thursday
2 p.m. — lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Melvin Claxton, Chase Auditorium (teleconferenced to St. Croix campus). Claxton, a member of the St. Thomas Source editorial advisory board, is a former UVI student who earned his Pulitzer while working at the V.I. Daily News; he currently is a senior investigative reporter for The Detroit News.
4 p.m — Erica Waters, editor-in-chief of "The Caribbean Writer," will present the Margaret Cobb McKay award, St. Croix campus Student Activities Center. The ceremony will be followed by readings of short fiction and poetry. Writers included are Di Lorenzo, Sagata Howell, Sharmaine Moiuette, Winston Nugent, Richard Schrader, Lolita Paiewonski and Edgar Lake.
5:30 p.m. — "Virgin Islands Music Tradition: Celebrating and Respecting Self," St. Croix campus Student Activities Center. Emanuel will moderate a panel consisting of Dimitri "Pikey" Copeman, Louis Ible, Stanley Jacobs of the Ten Sleepless Knights, Ernest "Prince" Galloway and Campbell "King Kun Fu Plentae" Barnes.
Friday
9 a.m.to 5:30 p.m. — student literary conference, Sports and Fitness Center, west mezzanine. The conference theme is "Literature and Life: Weaving the Threads of the New Millenium with Tradition and Vision." This daylong event is organized and managed by students and will have senior Kimberly Lloyd as mistress of ceremonies. Included are presentations of student papers and by student panelists. The keynote speaker is Jamaican author and poet Geoffrey Philp. For program details, see Showcase article, Festival features student-run conference.
5 p.m. — journalism forum on the First Amendment, Teacher Education Building, Room T101 (teleconferenced to St. Croix campus). Participants are attorneys Adriane Dudley and Frederick Watts and TV2 producer and news director Haven Daley.
7 p.m. — poetry slam, Music Education Building. This creative event includes impromptu poetry interspersed with music. Emanuel explained that one person will get up and present an impromptu poem; this person will be "answered" by another person with the attitude of "See, I can go you one better."
Saturday
9 a.m. — "Celebrating Creative Expressions at Sea," MacLean Marine Science Center dock. Particiants will board the UVI boat Willie Mac II for a cruise north toward Botany Bay; during the trip, they will write, draw and otherwise express themselves creatively. There'll be a video filmed aboard.
4 p.m. — "Humanities Celebration on the Green," Herman E. Moore Golf Course on campus, near the clubhouse. There will be music by the UVI Jazz Band, Concert Choir and Concert Band; a visual art display at the clubhouse; games a
nd food.
Sunday
4 p.m. — recital by JoAnne Stephenson, soprano, and Lorna Young-Wright, pianist, off campus at Frederick Evangelical Lutheran Church. Stephenson is a member of the voice faculty at the University of Central Florida; Young-Wright is on the UVI music faculty. The recital is a "kickoff" to a European concert tour by the two.
6 p.m. — induction ceremony and celebration by the UVI chapter of the Alpha Mu Gamma National Collegiate Foreign Language Association, cafeteria.
The schedule will be updated as more specific information becomes available.

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April 1, 2002 – A weeklong "Humanities Festival" got under way Monday on the St. Thomas and St. Croix campuses of the University of the Virgin Islands and in downtown Charlotte Amalie. All events are free and open to the public.
The first day of the festival, presented by UVI's Humanities Division, featured a lecture by Gilbert Sprauve, professor of modern languages, who is not only an expert in linguistics and foreign languages but also a local culture bearer, especially as regards St. John, his home island. The final day includes soprano/piano recital. In between are a daily smorgasbord of events covering in a variety of approaches the humanities topics of debate, theater, poetry, journalism, literature, foreign languages and music.
While the majority of events are on St. Thomas, three presentations on Wednesday and Thursday will take place on St. Croix. In addition, several of St. Thomas events are being shared with the St. Croix campus via teleconferencing.
Building on the first Humanities Festival, held in 2000, "The festival celebrates the art of communication," Lorna Young-Wright, division chair on the St. Thomas campus, said in a UVI release. Representatives of the division's various academic areas began organizing the festival last October.
The festival theme, "Celebrating 40 Years of Artistic Expression in the Humanities," is a part of the wider celebration of UVI's 40th anniversary.
The festival opened at noon Monday with the Humanities Division hosting a ceremony honoring retiring UVI President Orville Kean. The final event is a modern languages society induction ceremony Sunday evening in the campus cafeteria.
The lecture by Sprauve, who is on pre-retirement sabbatical for the semester, was titled, "How About 'Right as Defined by Need' as Opposed to 'Might Makes Right'?" Sprauve said his "basic argument is that in our society socialization and acculturation within the family generally instill an ethic that clashes in very essential ways with that imposed institutionally, pedagogically and otherwise by the dictates of free enterprise efficiency and profitability."
He argued that academia "while usurping the language of reason has abrogated its traditional role as beacon of humanistic didacticism and foment." And, he added, "The present condition has much to do with shortcomings in the public policy process in our islands."
The schedule of events began Monday with a noontime opening ceremony in Chase Auditorium, followed by a lecture at 2 p.m. by Prof. Gilbert Sprauve, also in the auditorium, that was teleconferenced with the St. Croix campus. Remaining events are as follows:
Tuesday
2 p.m. — discussion on "Humanities and Sustainable Development," Chase Auditorium (teleconferenced with St. Croix campus). After Hurricanes Hugo and Marilyn, Prof. Gene Emanuel said, "the artist's landscape flattened." Everyone's landscape flattened and lost color, he said, but artists lost their inspiration. Farmers and people in general found their landscape altered, he said, and all need sustainable development to preserve and honor their surroundings.
7 p.m. — debate at the Harvey Student Center. The UVI student debate team, fresh from Caribbean successes in Guyana, will tackle the subject, "Be It Resolved: That the Institution of Marriage Remains One of the World's Most Popular Illusions." Debating in favor will be Sharyn Niles and her second, Paula Gumbs; arguing against will be Martha Joseph and her second, Amandy Williams. None of the four students is married.
Wednesday
4 p.m. — a "Celebration of 40 Years of Theatre Productions," Little Theater. This symposium/panel discussion, presented by speech and theater area faculty Rosary Harper, Dennis Parker and Michael Prenevost, will be a look at UVI theatrical productions from 1963 to the present. Parker said it's hoped that many individuals who have acted and worked backstage over the years will be on hand — including UVI Vice President Malcolm Kirwan, music faculty member Austin Venzen, Reichhold Center director David Edgecombe and community members Irose Payne, Hans Eisler, Wanda and Charmaine Dipnarine and Lee Vanterpool.
6 p.m. — panel on "Finding the Personal Artistic Voice Beyond the Marketplace," St. Croix campus Student Activities Center. Presenters will be St. Croix artists Maud Pierre-Charles, Gabrielle Di Lorenzo, Gerville Larsen, Alicia McKay and Cy Levine. The moderator is Valerie Combie, Humanities Division chair on the St. Croix campus.
7 p.m. — poetry reading, off campus at Bethania Hall, next door to Frederick Evangelical Lutheran Church. This event is a continuation of the pattern established by poetry readings at the former L'Hotel Boynes a few years ago, metamorphosed into the present "Rock Lounge" presentations, all fostered by Mary Alexander of the Humanities Division. Students and community members are expected to read.
Thursday
2 p.m. — lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Melvin Claxton, Chase Auditorium (teleconferenced to St. Croix campus). Claxton, a member of the St. Thomas Source editorial advisory board, is a former UVI student who earned his Pulitzer while working at the V.I. Daily News; he currently is a senior investigative reporter for The Detroit News.
4 p.m — Erica Waters, editor-in-chief of "The Caribbean Writer," will present the Margaret Cobb McKay award, St. Croix campus Student Activities Center. The ceremony will be followed by readings of short fiction and poetry. Writers included are Di Lorenzo, Sagata Howell, Sharmaine Moiuette, Winston Nugent, Richard Schrader, Lolita Paiewonski and Edgar Lake.
5:30 p.m. — "Virgin Islands Music Tradition: Celebrating and Respecting Self," St. Croix campus Student Activtities Center. Emanuel will moderate a panel consisting of Dimitri "Pikey" Copeman, Louis Ible, Stanley Jacobs of the Ten Sleepless Knights, Ernest "Prince" Galloway and Campbell "King Kun Fu Plentae" Barnes.
Friday
9 a.m.to 5:30 p.m. — student literary conference, Sports and Fitness Center, west mezzanine. The conference theme is "Literature and Life: Weaving the Threads of the New Millenium with Tradition and Vision." This daylong event is organized and managed by students and will have senior Kimberly Lloyd as mistress of ceremonies. Included are presentations of student papers and by student panelists. The keynote speaker is Jamaican author and poet Geoffrey Philp. For program details, see Showcase article, Festival features student-run conference.
5 p.m. — journalism forum on the First Amendment, Teacher Education Building, Room T101 (teleconferenced to St. Croix campus). Participants are attorneys Adriane Dudley and Frederick Watts and TV2 producer and news director Haven Daley.
7 p.m. — poetry slam, Music Education Building. This creative event includes impromptu poetry interspersed with music. Emanuel explained that one person will get up and present an impromptu poem; this person will be "answered" by another person with the attitude of "See, I can go you one better."
Saturday
9 a.m. — "Celebrating Creative Expressions at Sea," MacLean Marine Science Center dock. Particiants will board the UVI boat Willie Mac II for a cruise north toward Botany Bay; during the trip, they will write, draw and otherwise express themselves creatively. There'll be a video filmed aboard.
4 p.m. — "Humanities Celebration on the Green," Herman E. Moore Golf Course on campus, near the clubhouse. There will be music by the UVI Jazz Band, Concert Choir and Concert Band; a visual art display at the clubhouse; games
and food.
Sunday
4 p.m. — recital by JoAnne Stephenson, soprano, and Lorna Young-Wright, pianist, off campus at Frederick Evangelical Lutheran Church. Stephenson is a member of the voice faculty at the University of Central Florida; Young-Wright is on the UVI music faculty. The recital is a "kickoff" to a European concert tour by the two.
6 p.m. — induction ceremony and celebration by the UVI chapter of the Alpha Mu Gamma National Collegiate Foreign Language Association, cafeteria.
The schedule will be updated as more specific information becomes available.

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April 1, 2002 – Managers of men's modified fastpitch teams wishing to participate in the sixth annual Ruby Rutnik Memorial Softball Tournament on St. John next weekend are asked to contact tournament directors Gayle and George Deller by calling 774-0352 or e-mailing to ggdeller@islands.vi. Or call tournament organizers Andrew Rutnik and Janet Cook-Rutnik at 776-6809.
There are four available men's team berths in the tournament, and they'll being allocated on a first-come basis, Gayle Deller said. The men's games will be played Friday and Saturday night with the playoff Sunday in Cruz Bay. The team entry fee is $50. The winning team will take home a $250 cash prize.
Playing separately in the tournament are girls' high school teams from St. Thomas and St. Croix. Proceeds from inning sponsorships and other fund-raising activities will go toward creating an endowment for an annual scholarship in memory of Ruby Rutnik, who died in 1996 at age 21 in a car crash in Washington, D.C., where she was a college student.

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April 1, 2002 – Managers of men's modified fastpitch teams wishing to participate in the sixth annual Ruby Rutnik Memorial Softball Tournament on St. John next weekend are asked to contact tournament directors Gayle and George Deller by calling 774-0352 or e-mailing to ggdeller@islands.vi. Or call tournament organizers Andrew Rutnik and Janet Cook-Rutnik at 776-6809.
There are four available men's team berths in the tournament, and they'll being allocated on a first-come basis, Gayle Deller said. The men's games will be played Friday and Saturday night with the playoff Sunday in Cruz Bay. The team entry fee is $50. The winning team will take home a $250 cash prize.
Playing separately in the tournament are girls' high school teams from St. Thomas and St. Croix. Proceeds from inning sponsorships and other fund-raising activities will go toward creating an endowment for an annual scholarship in memory of Ruby Rutnik, who died in 1996 at age 21 in a car crash in Washington, D.C., where she was a college student.

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St. Thomas, VI's STARfest 8 theme is "Legendary Rhythms," focusing on the history and styles of music. Talents of 40 Virgin Islanders will be showcased at the Reichhold Center for the Arts.
Due to overwhelming demand, the STARfest has been extended to four nights.
Tickets are available at the following: Krystal Gifts Galore at Tutu Park Mall, Modern Music, UVI Bookstore, Parrot Fish on Backstreet, Connections on St. John and the Reichhold Center Box Office.

St. Thomas, VI's STARfest 8 theme is "Legendary Rhythms," focusing on the history and styles of music. Talents of 40 Virgin Islanders will be showcased at the Reichhold Center for the Arts.
Due to overwhelming demand STARfest has been extended to four nights.
Tickets are available at the following: Krystal Gifts Galore at Tutu Park Mall, Modern Music, UVI Bookstor, Parrot Fish on Backstreet, Connections on St. John and the Reichhold Center Box Office.

St. Thomas, VI's STARfest 8 theme is "Legendary Rhythms," focusing on the history and styles of music. The talents of 40 Virgin Islanders will be showcased at the Reichhold Center for the Arts.
Due to overwhelming demand STARfest has been extended to four nights this year.
Tickets are available at the following: Krystal Gifts Galore in Tutu Park Mall, Modern Music, UVI Bookstore, Parrot Fish on Backstreet, Connections on St. John and the Reichhold Center Box Office.