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Ms. co-founder
to deliver 1993
Sarratt lecture
Patricia Carbine, co-founder of Ms.
magazine, will present the 1993 Reed
Sarratt lecture at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday
in the Hanes Art Center auditorium.
The annual lecture, sponsored by the
School of Journalism and Mass Com
munication, honors the late Sarratt, a
■1937 UNC graduate who was the long
time director of the Southern Newspa
per Publishers Association in Atlanta
and a member of the N.C. Journalism
Hall of Fame.
Carbine is expected to discuss her
own career, which includes the co
founding of Ms. in 1972 and serving as
the magazine’s publisher and editor-in
chief for 16 years.
Carbine currently serves as a con
sultant for the magazine and is director
of the Ms. Foundation for Women Inc.
and president of the Ms. Foundation for
Education and Communication Inc.
Senior class, GAA offer
Career Symposium
Job-hunting seniors take heart—the
senior class and General Alumni Asso
ciation are sponsoring a Career Sympo
sium Saturday and Sunday to help se
niors learn more about fmding a post
graduation opportunity.
The symposium, which begins at 10
a.m. Saturday, will consist of seminars
on different career fields and tips on
how to make the best impression on
potential employers.
All seminars will be held in Carroll
Hall.
Interested seniors should contact the
senior class office.
Workshop to focus
on black experience
The School of Social Work will spon
sor the fourteenth annual Black Experi
ence Workshop March 4-5, this year
focusing on “Our Children, Our Future,
Ourselves.”
The event will include debates, panel
discussions and seminars about the role
and future of blacks in the United States-
Participants include Julius Chambers,
chancellor at N.C. Central University,
and professors, sociologists and noted
scholars from across the country.
The cost of the two-day program is
$55, and the event will take place at the
Friday Center located off Highway 54.
For more information, call 962-1225.
Undergrad teaching
award nominations due
Nominations for the 1993 Under
graduate Teaching Awards are due Sun
day at drop boxes around campus.
The awards, which are chosen by
students, honor excellence in classroom
teaching.
Applications are available at the
Union information desk, in Lenoir Din
ing Hall and at the Undergraduate Li
brary.
See the University’s
history at Wilson
A photo exhibit detailing the first
200 years of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill is on display at
Wilson Library.
The exhibit, which includes photos
from throughout the Universtiy’s his
tory, commemorates the Bicentennial
Celebration, which begins next Octo
ber.
The display is on exhibit on the
ground floor of Wilson.
UNC award-winning
musicians to perform
Winners of the annual Concerto
Competition tonight will perform in a
free Hill Hall concert. The 8 p.m. show
will feature pianists Anthony Moore
and Molly Morkoski, sopranos Anne
Marie Folchetti and Sacha Powers and
flutist Megan Maiorana.
Powers, a junior from Shelbyville,
Ky., will sing Ravel’s “Cinq Melodies
Populaires Grecques.” Maiorana, a se
nior from Southold, N.Y., will perform
Martin’s “Ballade for Flute, Strings and
Piano.” Morkoski, a junior from
Hendersonville, will perform Listzt’s
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat Major.
The soloists were selected after a
competitive audition Dec. 5.
Also tonight, the UNC Symphony
Orchestra will perform pieces by Walton
and Humperdinck.
YACKETY YACK PORTRAITS
through Thursday, February 25, from 9 am—6 pm
Room 213 of the Union • Call 962-3912 to make an appointment
Activists plan strategy to fight dump
By Katy Wurth
Staff Writer
Environmental activists said at a
meeting Monday night that they planned
to contact local businesses, realtors and
community groups to gain support for
their fight against the construction of a
radioactive waste dump in Chatham
County.
The meeting, which was held at the
Chapel Hill Public Library, was spon
sored by Love Your Mother, an envi
ronmental and animal protection orga
nization.
Don Tirrell, who said he had fought
against toxic dumping in Cirleville,
N.Y., said residents had to organize
statewide because a single locality could
Price decries lost potential in N.C. students
By Julie Nations
Staff Writer
In a conference Monday at UNC’s
Kenan Center, U.S. Rep. David Price,
D-N.C., said the lost potential of chil
dren who were not prepared to leam
when they entered school had dimin
ished the United States’ competitive
edge.
“Once we lose those children in kin
dergarten or the first grade, we can’t get
them back,” Price said.
Price spoke to a group of principals
from across the state at a symposium
titled “Children in Crisis: Programs that
Work,” about the Ready-To-Leam Act
of 1992.
Price said he and the bill’s co-spon
sor, U.S. Rep. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,
planned to reintroduce the bill to Con
gress in the upcoming session. The sym
posium was sponsored by the UNC
Principals’ Executive Program and the
chancellor’s office.
Price said 40 percent of the students
in North Carolina entered kindergarten
without being prepared to leam. Early
childhood deficiency hurts the economy
when these children become adults un
prepared for the work force, he said.
“Our nation has embarked on anew
and hopeful course,” he said. “Also
critical is education and preparing our
youth for the work place.”
The congressman said there were a
variety of reasons why children entered
school unprepared for learning. He cited
Database system to network universities’ libraries
By Caselia Foster
Staff Writer
You don’t have to be a computer buff
to appreciate the new database system
scheduled to be installed in the libraries
of UNC-CH, N.C. State University and
Duke University this summer.
Thanks to a grant from the Triangle
University Center for Advanced Stud
ies Inc., a firm located in Research
Triangle Park, anew database system
called Data Research Associates will be
High vaccine costs deter compliance with immunization laws
By Richard J. Dalton Jr.
Staff Writer
Although state laws require that chil
dren receive basic immunizations, many
families do not comply because of the
high cost of vaccines until local school
systems force them to produce immuni
zation records, local health experts said
this week.
N.C. state law requires that all chil
dren receive vaccinations against eight
childhood diseases: diphtheria, tetanus
(lock jaw), whooping cough, measles,
mumps, rubella, polio and haemophilus
influenzae b.
$320 reported missing
from UNC One Card office
By Gary Rosenzweig
Staff Writer
The UNC One Card office has re
ported the disappearance of about $320
during a three-week period, according
to a Thursday police report and One
Card officials.
The report stated that the One Card
office on the second floor of Student
Stores came up short by SIOO on Feb.
2, Feb. 3 and last Tuesday and was
short by S2O on Feb. 4. The internal
auditor’s office is investigating the
shortages, the report stated.
Anywhere between about S2OO and
several thousand dollars comes into
the One Card’s Student Stores office
CAMPUS AND CITY
not stop a waste dump.
“As you go up the ladder of com
mand, you encounter a wall,” Tirrell
said.
He said he had encountered large
scale corruption in the management of
waste disposal across the country.
Debi Bird, founder of Love Your
Mother, said: “We are not in this on our
own. We’ve spent the last months build
ing a coalition of North Carolina grass
roots organizations. It is important for
local groups to do local things, and then
the coalition can bring everything to
gether.”
Bird also stressed the importance of
speaking to the Chamber of Commerce
about the effects of the dump.
“It’s not too late to stop this thing
inadequate housing, poor nutrition and
the loss of a traditional family support
system as contributing factors in the
breakdown of the educational process.
“North Carolina has the highest per
centage in the country of parents work
ing outside the home,” he said.
The first part of the bill would pro
vide for a comprehensive assessment of
services and would increase health care
for children, Price said.
“Health and education are insepara
bly related,” he said. “Our immuniza
tion record is disgraceful.”
Price said the immunization rates for
schoolchildren in some U.S. cities were
as low as 15 percentand added that the
United States ranked 15th in the world
for immunizations against polio.
“For every dollar we spend immu
nizing children against disease, we save
$lO in health-care expenses,” he said.
“We need to get more medical profes
sionals out in needy areas.”
Price said the country did have sev
eral “phenomenally successful” educa
tional and family support programs al
ready in place. He cited the Head Start
and Women, Infants and Children pro
grams as examples of U.S. efforts to
boost preschool education.
Price said the bill called for full fund
ing of these programs. “Both of these
programs are underfunded and reach
only a fraction of the people they need
to,” he said.
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operational by this fall, said Joe Hewitt,
head University librarian.
Doris Segal, systems implementa
tion coordinator for the NCSU libraries,
said the system would allow communi
cation among university library sys
tems across the country and possibly
the world.
“We’re all really excited about get
ting anew system that will do a whole
lot more than (the current system),” she
said. “Computers have come a long
way.”
But even with mandatory vaccina
tions, studies show that only about 55 to
65 percent of North Carolina children
younger than 2 years old receive the
required immunizations.
For children older than 5 years, North
Carolina’s immunization rate jumps to
more than 95 percent because children
must be immunized to register for
school, said Karen Enns, a former Uni
versity public health student who gradu
ated in December with a master’s de
gree.
“The law is completely unenforce
able until they reach school registra
tion,” she said. “They’re not going to go
every day by check, cash or credit
card, said Wallace Walker, manager
of the UNC One Card office. The
office is in charge of cash accounts
that are accessed by students, faculty
and staff by using die magnetic strips
on UNC identification cards.
Walker said the shortages were not
reported until the fourth occurrence
because he wasn’t sure if the discrep
ancies were due to a bookkeeping
error or if there really was money
missing.
“We had no reason to believe that
there was a shortage,” he said.
After the fourth occurrence, Walker
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until it has been built, and even then we
can still work to get it closed down,” she
said.
The waste dump, which would be
located 25 miles fromtheTriangle, could
be built by November 1993, according
to an information sheet Bird compiled.
The proposed waste dump site would
be the largest in the country, Bird said.
Bird’s major concerns were that most
low-level radioactive dumps to this date
have leaked, and “low-level” waste is
still hazardous.
“These ‘low-level’ materials include
Plutonium-39, which is one of the most
dangerous substances known to man
kind,” she said.
Bird also said she was concerned that
trucks carrying radioactive waste might
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U.S. Rep. David Price answers questions after addressing a conference at UNC's Kenan Center Monday
Hewitt said the new system had plenty
of advantages over the outdated Bibli
ography Information Systems currently
installed in all three school libraries.
BIS demands that a student know the
correct catalogue name of the subject
they are searching.
With DRA, students can punch in a
vague word related to the subject, and
the computer will display any corre
sponding books in the library.
“It allows people to search for terms
they are familiar with,” said Patrick
door to door checking on it.”
Enns said for children 5 and older,
the immunization rate was less than 100
percent because some children were !
exempted from immunizations for reli
gious or health reasons.
Susan Spalt, health coordinator for
Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools, said chil
dren had 30 days to be immunized after
starting school.
She said most school children were
immunized properly but added that
many children needed to be immunized
again because their parents did not have
the proper immunization papers.
Kim Hoke, spokeswoman for Chapel
UNC fellow researches local
By Maile Carpenter
Staff Writer
HILLSBOROUGH Fifty-dollar
reward offered. Two Negro men. One
has a scar on his right leg. Has very
slow motion. The above reward paid
out upon return of runaways. E.
Mitchell, UNC professor.
The above message ran as an adver
tisement in the Hillsborough Recorder
March 7, 1835, and was used by UNC
postdoctoral fellow Freddie Lee Parker
in his study of North Carolina slavery.
Parker, who will release a book next
month on the state’s runaway slaves,
said Sunday that he had pursued anew
angle in his study of colonial slavery.
Rather than focusing on the institu
tion of slavery in his study, Parker ex
amined the personalities and family re
lationships of N.C. slaves in his book,
The Daily Tar Heel/Tuesday, February 23, 1993.
leak while driving through North Caro
lina to get to the Chatham site.
Bird said the Chatham county site
was unsuitable for both political and
geographical reasons.
“The site was chosen on a social
basis and was placed in a minority com
munity,” Bird said. “The site also has
geographic problems including wet
lands and underlying faults.”
Love Your Mother supports on-site,
above-ground, retrievable storage fa
cilities instead of disposal sites.
“There is no ‘disposing’ of radioac
tive waste,” Bird said. “You have to
constantly repackage and monitor it.”
She added that Carolina Power and
Light and Duke Power Company both
supported the waste dump.
Mullin, UNC-CH systems librarian.
BIS also forces library officials to do
all of the programming themselves,
which can be very expensive, Hewitt
said.
Hewitt said another advantage of the
DRA system was that its on-line cata
logue would allow students to see if a
book had been checked out and would
let them put a book on hold.
Infotrac, the system located in the
Undergraduate Library for searching
journals, will be incorporated into the
Hill-Carrboro schools, said children
sometimes did not get the required im
munizations. Hoke said the system told
some parents that their children would
be removed from school because of
insufficient vaccinations.
Most states require immunizations
for school registration, according to Jay
Watson, a medical epidemiologist at
the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention in Atlanta. He added that the
immunization rate was low for
preschoolers.
Denny said the poor immunization
rate was just part of the lack of a decent
health-care system in the United States.
“Running for Freedom: Slave Runaways
in North Carolina, 1775 to 1840.”
Parker described his study of N.C.
slavery at Hillsborough’s Dickerson
Chapel Sunday as part of the town’s
celebration of Black History Month.
“One of the problems I’ve seen with
regard to the study of slavery is that
scholars study the institutions of sla
very rather than looking at the men,
women and children who were the
slaves,” Parker said.
He said he collected runaway slave
advertisements from state newspapers
to analyze the personal side of slavery.
“They give us detailed information
about a human being,” he said.
Parker, who received a doctoral de
gree from the University in 1987, said
many University professors owned
slaves before the Civil War. He added
that he hoped his study would help local
“CP&L and Duke Power don’t want
to be financially responsible for their
waste,” Bird said. “With the waste dump,
if there’s a leak, the public has to clean
it up.”
Bird proposed that the group distrib
ute coupons stating opposition to the
dump that residents could staple to their
power bills.
Spence Leighton, a local resident who
fought a similar waste dump proposal in
Santa Fe, N.M., said it was important to
secure support from the business com
munity.
“In Santa Fe, we got businesses and
realtors to fight the radioactive waste
dump because transportation accidents
or spillage would hurt both businesses
and real estate,” Leighton said.
new DRA system, and the current
Infotrac terminals might be converted
to the new DRA system. The search
commands for the new Infotrac system
will be the same as the old, Mullin said.
All 118 computer terminals at UNC
will be replaced with the new DRA
system, and 31 DRA terminals will be
added, Mullin said.
Wiring already is under way at UNC
libraries, and test runs of the DRA sys
tem will start in June or July, Hewitt
said.
“There are Third World nations that
are better immunized than this coun
try,” Denny said. “We and South Africa
are the only two industrial nations that
don’t have a federally organized deliv
ery of health care.”
Many factors affect whether chil
dren get the required immunizations,
including the high cost, which ranges
from S2OO to $250 in local private clin
ics.
“It’s ridiculous that the cost is like
that. It should be a right,” Enns said.
Katherine Kopp, manager of Chapel
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slave history
residents trace their family roots.
“I’m hoping that more blacks and
whites can look at the advertisements
(for connections),” he said. “This could
be a field day for genealogists.”
Parker said his collection of slave
advertisements would be published this
summer in a three-journal series, which
includes names of N.C. slave owners.
His study focused on slavery be
tween 1775 and 1840, a period of much
activity on N.C. plantations.
North Carolina, in 1775, finally lost
its reputation as the “Rip Van Winkle
State,” Parker said. “North Carolina
came out of its sleeping years.”
Parker said his study would shed a
personal light on slve brutality.
“I found 45 to 50 slaves (in the ads)
who had cropped ears,” he said. “I tried
to look at slaves in every conceivable
way that I could.”
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