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Tuesday, November 23,1993
3 Groups Raise $60,000
For Habitat for Humanity
BYMARISSA JONES
STAFF WRITER
Three Chapel Hill organizations have
created an unusual partnership to provide
at least one area family with a home—Chi
Omega Sorority, Sigma Nu Fraternity and
Chapel of the Cross are working together
to raise money for the Orange County
chapter of Habitat for Humanity.
Torn Buell, a co-chairman of the Habi
tat Partnership’s Steering Committee from
Chapel of the Cross, said the partnership
was unique among Habitat projects. There
are 900 college chapters of Habitat for
Humanity in the United States, butUNC’s
is the only one composed of a sorority, a
fraternity and a church, he said.
Hadley Peer, a junior from Charlotte
and co-chairwoman of Chi Omega’s Habi
tat committee, said the groups had raised
an estimated $60,000 to finance the house.
“We weren’t expecting to raise this much
- it was a nice surprise,” she said.
The ground-breaking ceremony for the
partnership’s house was held Sunday, and
work on the house will begin in January.
Peer said the Mary Whiting Ewing
Foundation, which helps fund area groups
and projects, gave an unexpected donation
of $25,000 to the partnership. The
contribution helped the three groups
surpass their fund-raising goal, she said.
Another $25,000 was raised at an auc
tion Oct. 31 at the University Mall, and it
was attended by area residents and
members of Chapel of the Cross. About
300 businesses and individuals donated
items including a basketball signed by UNC
players, tickets to Europe and various
vacations. Peer said.
The auction was subsidizedby the Coca-
Cola Company and included a performance
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have to make four connections.”
Cole said she was angry at the situation
the flight attendants caused. “It’s very in
considerate of the union to pull a strike
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ence and history major, had booked a ticket
with American to Buffalo, N.Y., but
changed airlines Monday before the strike
was settled.
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and got another ticket for U.S. Air,” he
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by the Carolina Heartland doggers, she
said.
The partnership raised the rest of the
money by usheringatDeanE. Smith Center
concerts, selling telephone books with the
phone numbers of sorority and fraternity
members and sponsoring “Hip-hop for
Humanity,” a concert held last spring
featuring the band De La Soul.
Peer said members of Sigma Nu came
up with the idea of building a Habitat
house last fall and proposed the project to
Chi Omega. Every member of the sorority
voted to join the partnership, she said.
Buell said Chapel of the Cross was
invited to participate in the project soon
after Chi Omega agreed to join Sigma Nu
and officially joined the project in April.
Part of the church's mission is to work
with UNC students, and members were
enthusiastic about the partnership, he said.
“We accepted their invitation with a
great deal of delight," he said. “We’re
always looking for ways to work with stu
dents to help the community.”
Members of the church have worked on
other Habitat projects, but have never built
a house with students, he said.
Edward Marshall, a junior from
Charlotte and a member of Sigma Nu, said
having raised the money made the project
more exciting.
“We were ready and willing to commit
a huge amount of time, and now we know
that we ’re actually going to build a house, ”
he said. “Everybody is very enthusiastic to
say the least.”
Peer and Buell said the partnership might
use money remaining from building this
house to continue the project next year.
“I think it will become an annual thing,
but we’re not sure yet,” Peer said.
Buell said the church hoped to use some
said.
Other students, like O’Brien, already
have changed their reservations and plan
to fly other airlines.
“I have a flight (Monday) at 2 p.m.,”
said Kate Sullivan, a freshmanhealthpolicy
administration major. “I didn’t know for a
while whether I was going home at all.”
Carol Hill, a chemistry doctoral student
who was planning to fly with American, is
unsure of what will happen to her travel
plans. “I’m still going to go if I can, but I
won’t find out until Tuesday or Wednes
day,” she said.
Hill is from Cleveland, and if she cannot
fly, she will have to drive 101/2 hours to
get home.
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Junior Hadley Peer and senior Will Current (right) stand with Pablo and Emelia
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of the extra money raised to involve other
student groups in similar projects.
He said, “There is certainly a hope that
we could get other campus organizations
“The whole point of me going home is
not Thanksgiving but my parents’ 25th
wedding anniversary, ” she said. “It would
be nice to fly and not have to worry about
driving home.”
Along with students, some athletes are
having problems getting to their destina
tions on time for tournaments.
“We’re in the process now of trying to
reschedule travel arrangements for the
cheerleaders,” said Jeff Elliott, University
associate athletic director. “A travel agency
is trying to reschedule for us.”
Elliott said he did not foresee a problem
with rescheduling the cheerleaders’ trip to
the National Invitational Tournament in
New York City.
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warding for Sigma Nu and Chi Omega
we’re looking for interest from other cam
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Campus Calendar
TUESDAY
sp.m. PassedOut(A Juggling Club) will meet in
Carmichael Ballroom.
7 p.m. The Center for Slavic and East European
Studies will present the film “Uncle Vanya,” a Brit
ish film starring Michael Redgrave and Laurence
Olivier based on the play by Anton Chekhov, in 303
Dey Hall. Admission is free.
7:30 p.m. B-GLAD will meet in 211 Gardner
Hall.
8 p.m. The Men’s and Women’s Glee Clubs will
present their fall concert in Hill Hall Auditorium.
Admission is free.
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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity will sponsor a coat
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Research on Diabetes
Sparks Hope for Cure
BY JENNY SCHMIDT
STAFF WRITER
In the Nov. 4 edition of the journal
Nature, new discoveries were announced
regarding the treatment of diabetes.
Researchers from Stanford University and
UCLA were able to pinpoint the first pro
tein that develops antibodies in the devel
opment of diabetes in mice.
The research indicates that if the mice
are made to be tolerant to this insulin
producing cell, diabetes can be prevented.
These findings apply to Type I diabetes
where insulin, the hormone that regulates
glucose in the body, is absent from the
pancreas because it is attacked by the body’s
immune system.
Dr. Margaret Vimmerstedt, a physician
at Student Health Services who manages
care for students with diabetes, said the
purpose of the experiment was to study the
details of the immune system’s response to
the disease, using a strain of mice that
spontaneously develops diabetes.
“Researchers wanted to find out the
first steps or key players in the reactions
that lead to diabetes and block the steps,”
Vimmerstedt said. “It is very important to
learn how the immune system works.”
She said the research pointed specifi
cally to a protein in the body that could be
targeted to prevent diabetes. “It is not clear
how it will work in humans, however.”
David Ontjes, a professor of medicine
and endocrinologist at UNC, said the im
mune processes in mice were very similar
to those in humans. “But there would be
several steps in applying these findings to
humans over a period of at least 10 years.”
Diabetes is a disease that affects about 2
percent of the population of the United
States. Added to undiagnosed cases, the
actual figure might be as high as 6 percent.
Type I diabetes has an abrupt onset,
usually when a person is under 20. People
with Type I diabetes are completely depen
dent on insulin injections. Type II diabetes
affects the most people. Insulin might be
present in the pancreas of people with
Type 11, but because of genetic defects,
there is an abnormal response to the insulin.
Insulin is important for regulating glu
cose, which acts as fuel for the body’s cells.
Control of the blood glucose level is the
most important factor in diabetes care.
“One of the hardest things about the dis
ease is that there is no vacation from it,”
Vimmerstedt said.
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Peter McCracken, a graduate student
from Seattle who has had diabetes for the
past 10 years, also believes that planning
ahead in order to control his blood glucose
level is difficult. “The worst thing about
the disease is that it kills spontaneity.”
Dee Watson, an employee at the UNC
One Card office who has had diabetes for
22 years, explained, “Whereas a person
without diabetes might get up and say, ‘l’ll
grab a bite to eat here or there, ’ or not even
worry about it, I have to plan ahead or I
will run out of energy.”
Other problems that people with the
disease must face are its future implica
tions.
“Generally I try not to think about the
long-term effects,” McCracken said. “I do
sometimes, like if I’m eating something
I’m not supposed to. It is scary, always
worrying about if something will show up.
It’s always there.”
Long-term effects of diabetes are caused
by increased damage of blood vessels over
time. People with diabetes stand increased
chance of heart attack, neurological dam
age and loss of circulation.
Cathy Lowe, a spokeswoman for the
American Diabetes Association, said the
study was a major breakthrough.
“All research is important because it
leads us closer and closer to a cure,” she
said. “It provides a better understanding of
the disease, even if treatment may not turn
out to be the actual cure.”
Vimmerstedt said everyone, not just
people with diabetes, should be concerned
with treatments. Because the long-term
effects of diabetes are very expensive, a
good policy for preventing the disease ac
tually would save money, she said.
As for advice to those who have been
diagnosed with diabetes, a support group
can be helpful to many, she said.
She is one of the leaders of a group for
students with the disease. When she diag
noses a patient, she recommendsseeing a
counselor. “It is important to let patients
go through the normal reactions of grief
and loss.
“Learning the tasks of daily care and
things that they can do to help feel optimis
tic are also provided by support groups.”
McCracken said that those with diabe
tes should educate themselves. “A lot of
people I know say they wouldn't trade the
disease for all the friends that have been
made because of it and the leadership quali
ties it has brought out.”
Diabetes is unique in that the majority
of the responsibilities of controlling the
disease fall upon the patient. “I am im
pressed with the strength and courage of I
have seen put to bear the responsibility.”
Vimmerstedt said. “Diabetes is a frustrat
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