Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 12, 1994 TAG: 9410120102
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C2 EDITION: STATE
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The Virginia NAACP said Tuesday that an official of the organization spoke only for himself when he praised a slave auction re-enactment at Colonial Williamsburg as ``passionate, moving and educational.''
Before the event, Jack Gravely, political action director for the Virginia State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, denounced it as crass entertainment that was demeaning to black people. But afterward, he said the poignant re-enactment of African-Americans being sold as property changed his mind.
The NAACP issued a statement Tuesday disavowing Gravely's remarks.
``Mr. Gravely's remarks did not represent the views of the national or state NAACP offices,'' the four-paragraph statement read. ``In the future, any comments given by Mr. Gravely will represent his views as an individual, not as a representative of the organization.''
- Associated Press
UVa students streak in protest
It's done at colleges nationwide at commencement, at football games and late at night on fraternity row after some students have had too much to drink. But what happened at the University of Virginia early Sunday morning, students there say, was a streak above the rest.
Starting at 2 a.m. and lasting for almost an hour, scores of students at the Charlottesville school ran a half-mile loop through campus au naturel. All told, police estimated that more than 2,000 gawkers cheered on 100 students - 80 men and 20 women - who made the jaunt across the school's historic Lawn in the buff, braving the chilly weather and a barrage of flashbulbs and flashlights.
Organizers say the mass streaking was an act of civil disobedience. They contend that school officials and campus police recently have started to crack down on running in the nude, a hallowed campus tradition.
- The Washington Post
Army reprimands heron disrupters
HAMPTON - The Army reportedly has disciplined the commander of Fort Monroe for ordering the destruction of several heron nests.
Four others at the base, a military officer and three civilians, also were reprimanded, the Daily Press reported.
Eight nests were destroyed in April and May because droppings from the yellow-crowned night herons were damaging lawns and cars along the base's main road, base officials said.
The birds were not harmed, but destroying their nests violated the 78-year-old Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
Post Commander Col. William B. Clark, who received a letter of reprimand, hoped that knocking down the nests would force the birds to move to a less populated section of the 615-acre base. But they rebuilt their nests in the same trees.
- Associated Press
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