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Hack Ink Current Events APPLES Initiates Service/Learning Programs InThe UNC Curriculum /• . t n V AC* T 0^1 Tn 1A (if Step of the way.” Deifell went on to name three task force members, Sonja Stone, professor in the African/Afro-American Studies curriculum, Janet Turchi, director of the By Myron B. Pitts Staff Students at UNC will soon gain more opportunities to serve their com munity through a relatively new pro gram designed to incorporate outside service activities in the current curricu lum. The APPLES (Allowing People to Plan Learning Experiences in Service) program, initiated by students, seeks to combine service and learning. By work ing closely with the faculty, students in the organization want to make available to everyone classes that incorporate service. APPLES members said they have focused on three short-term objectives, which are: making students aware of existing service-inclusive courses ^ through a resource handbook slated for students participating in isolated in spring release; creating new service stances of service which they promptly programs to accompany selected classes forgot upon returning home. The new in the College of Arts and Sciences; program would make students take an working with the University’s Bicenten- active role in their projects, he added, nial Observance Committee in order to “Reflection is a big part of what fund future projects. Theultimate goal is makes the service useful,” Steiner said. Opportunities League (COOL), a na tional service organization. Other schools that received the award, the University of California at Los Angeles, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Utah, Chaoel Hill Head Start program, and and other institutions with quality serv ^ . S , . 1 i_. ; ; I Peter Filene, history professor, who at tends an APPLES meeting every Thurs day. The meetings are held to discuss plans for adding service programs to two or three classes during the spring semester. When the new programs are in stalled, members will monitor them, making sure they are mutually benefi cial to the class instructor, students and community citizens, Deifell and others ice programs, largely inspired Deifell and Steiner to try forming a similar program at UNC, they said. “It’s not like a brand new idea,” Deifell said. “It’s happening at other campuses. There were so many impor tant social issues taking place and people (at UNC) just weren’t thinking about these things.” Task Force members Stone and Joel Schwartz, political science professor. campuswide expansion of service-in clusive classes, members said. The APPLES group formed a task force comprised of UNC faculty and lorce tUIIipiloCU Ul jiiai*/ notable members of the Chapel Hill and the Black Greek Council and Campus Y Carrboro communities in late May, said Tony Deifell, APPLES founder and coordinating chairperson. The faculty has been very receptive to the program, he added. “Just to have the faculty support you so much is wonderful,” he said. “The faculty is working with us every said. This evaluation represents one key also said they recognized a need for in aspect of APPLES, members stated. creased service/curriculum integration. Mike Steiner, a Campus Y coordi- “I like the idea of legitimizing serv- nator and APPLES member, said similar ice,” Stone said. “I would like to see the endeavors in the past have resulted in university as a whole more committed to community service.” “I think the students have done an extremely conscientious, thoughtful job in this,” Schwartz said. Future occurrences, such as Sena tor Jesse Helms’ re-election, may be avoided if people increasingly become involved and concerned citizens, Schwartz continued. In addition to a certain amount of positive social change there is also “social meanness and social animosity” that needs to be remedied, Schwartz said. To take part in APPLES, students can contact Emily Lawson , Pilot Pro gram Chairperson (933-2981), Kas De- Carvalho, Resource Handbook Chair person (933-6251), or Serena Wille, Bi centennial Observance Chairperson (933- 0943). “(Service) really becomes part of their lives and they really become part of the community.” Although many organizations like do their own service projects, APPLES will be unique in that it features a unified student effort, Steiner said. Faculty and students associated with the program said they were optimistic about the progress of APPLES, which has been partially funded by a $5000 grant awarded by the Campus Outreach « reteJlmg of Homet'a epic «n orr-Ow-w«U k)Ok ai the duds wvric feanuiag np. bhiM, if ntd. daoM, spoken word, polltial MCk*. and myibtcal cmtum Friday Nov. 16-Monday Nov. 19 Performances at 7:00 and 9:00p.m, Bingham 203 TIcfcMi on aale now. JMicd mtins SZOUUNCStiadcna S4.M0 Oeoenl PubUc ■I Hk Untcn Boa Ofliea Page 3 V November 12 CALENDAR Novptnher 11-16— Human Rights Week —Racism and the Student, 1pm- Union 224 —^The Endangered Black Male 6pm- Union 208 —^Ebony Readers Performance, 8pm- Columbia St. Bakery Nnvetnhef —^Native Ameri cans: Victims at Home, 5pm Caba- ; ret —Civil Rights In the 90’s, 6pm- Union 208 iVnfveftiher l4—UNC Athletes: Discrimination in Drug Testing, 12pm-Union 211 —Black Panthers Remembered, i 1pm- Union 226 —Civil Rights and the US Su preme Court, 3pm- Union 226 —^The King and You, 5pm- Un ion 226 —Sexual Assault, 6;30pm- Carmichael Auditorium —KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Human Rights Week): Randall Robinson —Performance by the BSM Gos pel Choir, the Opeyo! Dancers and the Lorielis, 8pm- Memorial Hall —Reception for Randall Robin son, 9pm- Di Phi Lounge November IS—Breaking the Cycle of Bigotry, 6pm Union 205 —KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Winnie Mandela, 8pm- Dean Dome Nnvemher l6—^Multicultural Curriculum for Educators, 4pm- Hanes Auditorium —^The Total Education of Black Youth, 7pm- Hill Hall —Dick Tracy,7pm, 9:30pm and 12am, Union Film Auditorium November 17—BSM Gospe Choir Performance at Nationa Achievement Day —Special Project Committee Meeting, 5pm November 18—BSM Gospe Choir Fall Concert with a Perform ance by the Opeyo! Dancers, 3pm- Great Hall To place an announcement in Black Ink call Raquel Bushnell at 933-0609 or leave the announce- s ment at the Black Ink office.
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