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Fe tfest Fc( Committee, the Intramural/Recreational Sports denartment Student 5555S5555C5535*553 Spor i i*y juiiiN VAUUHAN and CHRIS HUGHES tntertalnmenl Editor and InlMmuuh Editor The Spring Sportfest makes its debut tomorrow at Bell Camp. The day of events, which begins at 12 noon, is sponsored by the RHUU Special Programs yiziLZ _" l ; rr i3\z 3^11 i?!r_i^ 0:il IT 11 1 xi ?iii ndii cu <tnu me at the Spring Sportsfes Author Do H7?:. w liters, 4 By CHRIS H Book Cri North Carolina writer Doris problem. According to her: "Yoi nrritnr a?* o t utiwi ui a wwixicl11 W1 ltd . 1 JU writer." Betts, at USC Wednesday as p< is author of four novels and thre She explained a little of her back have usually written about is a : ? Wm- ~ - ~ W^TriT^ffir' Doris Betts says she fifth novel to follow *1 -T Government, Bell Camp and Budweiser of Columbia. The sponsors hope the Sportfest becomes an annual event. The afternoon features sporting competition; when dusk rolls around? Bill fl 7wr IKyI i^^iWH^ 1H Bll Virginians will perform ?t tomorrow. ris Belts 1 , Differenc IANDAL * itk Betts is a woman with a li either get called a Southern st want to be called a good jrt of the 1982 Writers Series, e collections of short stories, ground, saying, "The South I small town Piedmont." She n ? . - ] / .'. I I would like to write a [leading West.' atux r.mcr atures C Harrell and the Virginians will perform a bluegrass concert at the Camp. Natlirallv enontaHnfi Jo . y U|/VVVUVlUg IO expected to be the sport with the largest number of students. Eight events are scheduled throughout the day and the games and their bluegrass music alks Aboul :es, And Th said she grew up there, in " the my parents worked in cotton mi "But there are lots of Souths the differences between North becoming less distinct. "I do th Violence in the North is name Here it's likely to be your first c< But other differences are les we'll all end up talking like Wj enough." By Betts' admission, her fit easier to write sad fiction. W sadder than when you are rr writing optimistic is that you'll like the story "the Ugliest Pilg that won an Academy Award a because it has an upbeat ending "There are happinesses that character and not of circumsl tears," she said. Though most of her work has said she wants to write more natural novel writer. I think s< story writers and some are i mingway aid ootn well. Henry J novels seem like extended short "I think if somebody did a stu writers have a high rate of m< and novelists have a slower fuse "When you're young you \ because s<ttnething happens fasi When you're young you think change your life. By middle-ag< less and less and you want to t want to write about characters 1 and die. "It has been hard for me to 1< write a chapter like a little stor right. I think I have 15 years ol write a good novel in that time,' n :t:? - - ? ucsiucs wi IU11K, ttt'llS IS aiSO i of North Carolina where she tea< fiction writing as well as Americ like the university," she said, living. I don't think it helps ; students write and what inter hardening your arteries. I think 1 renews my faith." e Frida :OCk! NT?RTrtlNM?M Competition, ( competition follow an Toss contests. The "almost anything goes" Pole Relay involve fashion. The teams compete members from eac in additional events. Prizes and five member fnr lirinnnro nf * - .v. .>?uivio v/i cacu cvciii teams will also c will be awarded and points without paddles. will be given for each place. Refreshments w The team with the largest served during the eve point total at the conclusion Bill Harrell is a re of the competition will be the name among the bl overall Sportfest winner, artists in the nation. Each member of the winning been a performer for team will receive a cooler 30 years, with the Vii from Budweiser of in the early 1960s a Columbia. Don Reno and the Team events include Tennessee Cutups 1 Pyramid Building, which is 1966 and 1976. a nmea contest. The After that, F pyramid must consist of a reorganized the Vii four-person base and is and has been witl complete when the top since. The five-mai person is steady. Another features Harrell on team event, the Gamecock Darrell Sanders on Relays, require an in- Carl Nelson on fid< teresting combination of Ferris on bass and talents. This competition Stephenson on mando includes a four-legged race, balloon pop relay and an f/" obstacle course. The Tug of War involves V/k all members in a single _ _ _ elimination tournament. The Ml _ f last team event will be ff" ^ I volleyball or earthball as | assigned to each team. insists that he Representatives of each psychic, not an occul team participate in Balloon a fortune teller, not Swat and Water Balloon reader, not a medi | a not a hypnotist. Wha h \\1 0"I"11W?Q I the world's most U JL 1 ctl U Jl Cl- J. mentalist and a f ? authority in the field Pk W Lft sensory perception. IC OOlll/ll He is Kreskin, a n has devoted his lif< red-clay foothills country and tangling the fas< lis." unknown of the hunu Betts said, explaining that And he will be worl tern and Southern living are "magic" at 8 p.m. Aj ink that violence is different. the Russell House B< ;less. Anyone could kill you. sponsored by the Id ousin," she said. Issues Committee, ssening, Betts said. "I guess alter Cronkite if we live long r<? ;tion has been gloomy. "It's rhen you are young you are auuic-agcu. liic Ulg I'ISK OI KSflV 1 lie or become sentimental. I rim" (a short story by Betts s best short film of this year) ||j||ga?i ; abide but they come out of tance. But it's easier to pull been with short stories, Betts novels. "I don't think I'm a >me people are natural short latural novel writers. Hem- L lames was a novelist. Welty's MipS^^ Mk, ^ stories," she stated. PjP* ..jf dy they'd find that short story ^ J| itabolism and drove fast. . . ^Wm "" : and take their time amaz|ng vant to write short stories w ? i t and BAM! there is a change. Kusseil Mouse l something could happen to i you believe in those changes Kreskin admits th ell something that's longer. I he does is within nati __A _ 1 1 44II7 .nctt di c uuni, ^i uw up, gel OIU ov-iciiwiiv. nicana. w is inherent in every( earn to write a novel. I try to what I have done is 1 y and then go back and do it sensitize myself : good writing left. I'd like to reactions and attiU 'sherevealed. people around me; certain conditions, a professor at the University sense their thoughts ihes beginning and advanced as influence their tho an and British Literature. "I he once explained. It's a good way to make a His "conditions /our writing, but what the certainly not restrict ests them keeps you from only thing he asks pr theyoungaregoodforyou.lt performance is tl children under five 3 y Concert Dizzy The eroum nerforms in ? r k is four strumentals, solos, duets, h team trios and quartets and tints canoe each performance with :ompete humor. . The reorganized * e Virginians have recorded 1 , three albums: Ballads and spec Bluegrass, Bluegrass Gospel Pure and Simple and I Can "c Hear Virginia Calling Me. almost 6 .6 .ginians Harrell says he is 'very rid with proud" of what he is doing famed now- "My band keeps me >etween inspired," he says. "They play like I want them to play, [arrell an(* **s 6oin8 to Set even ginians better. 1 them "You're there on stage to n band entertain people, and when guitar, you do it right, it makes you banjo, happy. When everything's jl? n J -:-LI *1? ?1 * iic, cju i igiu...iue circie closes Larry round and everyone's lin. happy." skin Insists Sot Psychic is not a age be allowed ? they tenc tist, not to break everyone's cona mind centration. um and On stage, Kreskin uses theisis conjuring, sensitivity, famed suggestibility and humor. Unmnr io or* ?1 1. 1/lCllluai numui 10 an lilicglctl of extra of his performance, not only for the benefit of his lan who audience, but also to allow i to un- himself a break from the nnating binding tension he works in mind, under. During a stage ring his presentation, he says the >ril 21 in mental pressures cause him illroom, to lose almost three pounds, eas and "People have asked me why I don't call myself a ; Kreskin will appear in toe iallroom Wednesday. at what sensitive or some kind of iral and psychic name rather than a hat I do mentalist," he says. >ne, but "There's a reason. I decided learn to very early in my life that I to the have to be brutally honest ides of about my work because I under believe in it, and because I I can have such a bad memory as well that if I had to cover up I'd ughts," be in a real mess." " are Tickets are still available ive; the at the Travel Center in the ' ior to a Russell House Activities lat no Office and are free with a fears of student ID.