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Feelings CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 experiences. “Tom has the ability to express an emotional concept, but he doe^ it in a very education al way.” Feelings wanted his art to be available to typically “under served audiences,” said museum director Lynn Robertson. Targeting small and ethnic-spe cific museums, McKissick Museum helped make the exhib it’s journey easier during the past few years. Because of the historical im portance of the Middle Passage to African-American history, ethnic centers in such cities as Birmingham and Charlotte have been important in promoting dis cussion about the exhibit. Much of Feelings’ work through his career was dedicated to children. Feelings created 20 books mostly geared toward chil dren to teach them lessons about heritage. Robertson said Feelings frequently spoke to children view ing his artwork at McKissick. Feelings was the first black artist to win the Caldecott Honor Award as well as the Newberry Honor, both of which are awarded for children’s books. He also won two Coretta Scott King Awards, which are given by the American Library Association. Shaiman said it is hard to find an artist other than Feelings who has published predominantly African-American themed children’s books. “Tom thought of himself as African first, even though he was proud to be an American,” Shaiman said. Even “The Feelings Middle Passage” was intended to be a children’s book, but instead it became Feelings’ first adult book. Feelings is largely known for being able to blend abstract and concrete images with a historical context relating to Africa and its people. “I want my illustrations to reach people on a personal level, drawing them into the story and allowing them to feel the pain of the slaves and learn what hap pened to us on the ships,” Feelings said in a 1995 interview. 'Feelings combines imaginative symbolism into the realism of the figures in his work. The natural style brings the characters and their importance to life for even the inexperienced art viewer. First-year business student Kyle Rouch commented on the graphic quality of the drawings, especially one portraying the cap ture of the Africans. “It’s very vivid; it shows the emotion of the people,” he said. Dawes said Feelings’ ability to create a sense of surroundings is one of the few great historical trib utes to the slaves’ journeys on the Middle Passage. “His work is not just useful to the art student,” Dawes said, “but it is also useful to the student in terested in life and history.” In an interesting parallel to his art, Feelings began his drawings for “The Middle Passage” while in Africa and completed them in South Carolina. r eenngs was mspireu 10 leu me story after working and living in Ghana as an illustrator for African Review magazine in 1964. A Ghanaian once asked him what happened to the Africans taken from their land, which alerted Feelings to the important history of the Middle Passage. Both Shaiman and Dawes said they don’t think most USC stu dents understand how much mod em art critics revere Feelings’ il lustrations. Shaiman said he felt a great re sponsibility in designing the ex hibit to help express Feelings’ themes. He said he wanted people to take away from the exhibit Feelings’ “passion for children, his passion for illustration, but most of all, his passion for her itage.” “I See Your Face,” a collabora tion by Feelings and Dawes, will be released next year. The exhibit, which will be re furbished while at USC, is expected to travel nationally after its con clusion at USC on Dec. 21. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Sniper CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Some legal experts have said it will be difficult to select im partial jurors from a communi ty where people may still have felt vulnerable as the attacks mounted. Intense media cover • age of the case will also make it difficult to find unbiased jurors. Some 120 potential jurors were being brought to the courtroom in groups of around 40 to fill out a lengthy questionnaire. Muhammad stood and said nothing to the first group while the defense and prose cutors said, “Good morning.” By early afternoon, 80 jurors had been brought into the courtroom. The judge excused 30 potential jurors. Two were excused be cause they said they had heard so much about the case they couldn’t render a verdict based solely on the courtroom evi dence. The rest said they couldn’t take time off work for the trial be cause of financial hardship. Millette warned the prospec tive jurors they would have to disregard pretrial publicity. They were to be questioned indi vidually later about what they knew about the case and how they felt about sensitive issues such as the death penalty. Individual questioning is in tended to ensure they are not in fluenced by each other’s answers. Muhammad’s defense lawyers, Peter Greenspun and Jonathan Shapiro, have also ex pressed serious concerns that law-enforcement leaks already have hurt their client’s chances of getting a fair trial. Police violated a court order prohibiting them from dis cussing evidence with reporters “because they feel like nobody is going to complain that Mr. Muhammad’s rights were violat ed,” Greenspun said. Shapiro also says the defense has suffered under Virginia rules that severely limit what prose cutors are required to disclose before trial. “We’re as prepared as the law in Virginia has allowed us. There is a wall, behind which there is a ton of information we just don’t know,” Shapiro said. Outside the courthouse Tuesday morning, the two de fense lawyers took no questions from reporters but Greenspun thanked Virginia Beach resi dents “for their graciousness in accepting this trial.” He added: “We hope to have a fair trial with the help of the citizens of Virginia Beach.” Paul Ebert, a prosecutor from Prince William County where the case originated, dismissed the idea that leaks have rendered the defense unprepared. In fact, he said, a recently published book with inside information from law enforcement actually revealed more information than defense attorneys would otherwise have been entitled to receive. Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, 18, are charged with 13 shootings, including 10 deaths, over a three week period last October that left many Washington area residents duck ing for cover as they filled gas tanks and ran errands. Muhammad faces two counts of capital murder for the shoot ing of Dean Harold Meyers, 53, of Gaithersburg. Md., while he pumped gas at a Sunoco station near Manassas on Oct 9,2002. One charge is under an anti terrorismlaw passed by the state legislature after the Sept. 11,2001, attacks. It has never been prose cuted. The state will have to show not only that Muhammad partic ipated in a murder, but that the intent was to influence the gov ernment or to intimidate the civilian population. The other capital charge al leges multiple murders over three years. Prosecutors will have to prove Muhammad’s involvement in the Meyers killing and at least one other fatal shooting to obtain a conviction under that count. Defense lawyers argue Muhammad can get the death penalty on this count only if he was the triggerman, while pros ecutors say recent case law shows they need only prove Muhammad was the “instigator and moving spirit” of the murders. Malvo goes on trial Nov. 10 in neighboring Chesapeake for a fa tal shooting last October outside a Home Depot in Fairfax County. His lawyers intend to pursue an in sanity defense, saying Muhammad had so indoctrinated his young companion that Malvo could no longer tell right from wrong. Center CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 hotel, restaurant and tourism management student, said she wasn’t too fond of it and that she thought the name should be something more pertinent to the university. “If it was, like, Colonial Carolina or Carolina Colonial, I’d be all about that,” she said. She wasn’t too sure whether she approved of the naming of the recruiting room after a businessman, either. “It kind of sends the message that the university cares more about making money off its athletes,” she said. Daniel Anderson, a third year economics student, didn’t really care one way or the oth er. “It really doesn’t affect me,” he said. “If the school can get money for renaming stuff, then I say go ahead and do it. It doesn’t matter either way.” Regardless, signed into con tract, the Colonial Center’s name is going to stick for at least the next 12 years. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Discussion CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ! Rep. Candy Waites, and one is getting under way in Preston. “We figured this is a good topic to have for our discussion because it affects such a wide range of peo ple, from taxpayers to political ac tion committees to special inter est groups and on. Everybody has an interest in improving public ed ucation,” Graham said. For more info on the discus sion, contact Graham at 777-3621. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk&hotmail.com I coheeSJnd^cambria mlllllKM FRIDAY - NOVEMBER 14 UUY CHE CEKIEII — S sssasisasKS. CHARLOTTEw|2 TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE TREMONT MUSIC HALL BOX OFFICE, ALL TICKETMASTER LOCATIONS, CHARGE BY PHONE 704.522.6500 OR ONLINE AT CC.COM. All dates, acts and ticket prices are subject to change without notice. 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