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6 TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2003 Trial, reward accompany honors theses BY PATRICK WINN STAFF WRITER Last summer, UNC senior Lydia Guterman had to share a bamboo house with nine women, two pigs and a slew of chickens in Oaxaca, Mexico. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have UNC Student's Pizza Headquarters Lunch, Dinner, Late Night Buy any XjJ-VSI&'JI 1 at regular price and get any XjJVSiG/LEi at equal or less for FREE! Coupon required. Carry-out or delivery. c IVe accept Master Card, Visa, American Express and UNC One Card (fit&Uwul. CAMPUS RECREATION UPDATE tostc^uPFO^ 1 DAY spo/t Club Spotlight Sport Clubs 1 HH Carolina's Water Ski Club consists students all skill |Si|j|K jr* M levels - from those who have never stepped foot on the "jrm H water to those who compete on a national level. We slalom, H wr trick, jump, and wake board at Apnl Coble s ski school in ' * ■ - ; nffpf l Lillington, NC. 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She ended up living with native Zapotec women in a weav News ing cooperative community which had no plumbing and sporadic electricity. “I feel like living with those women was the only way to do them justice in my thesis,” the jour nalism major said. Whereas Guterman got her hands dirty, Natalie Phillips had to clean hers thoroughly to research her paper. In a rare book library near Boston, the UNC English major carefully handled the personal let ters of Elizabeth Browning with sanitized fingers to explore the Victorian poets gender anxiety. “I went through each letter, see ing how she wrote in the margins ... how she wrote on the envelope to save money,” Phillips said. “It really added a unique per spective to writing my thesis.” Phillips is one of the fortunate few who put together her paper with the help of a large grant. Of her $4,600 grant from the Smallwood Foundation, SI,OOO went to recruit a graduate student The Student's Choice for Great Apartment Living! 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Whatever the topic and the presentation style, however, one common thread remains: the year long, research-intensive process of completing a thesis is extremely difficult work. The time commitment of research, writing and meeting with a faculty mentor rivals that of a part-time job, anthropology and “Some days I couldn’t look at (my honors thesis).... But I loved it —it reconfirmed that I want to go into anthropology.” ERIN MAHAFFEY, SENIOR biostatistics major Erin Mahaffey said. “Some weeks, I couldn’t look at it,” said Mahaffey, who haunted libraries and coffee shops to chip away at her paper, which exam ined the concept of infinity in Western culture and in New Guinean tribes. “But I loved it it reconfirmed that I want to go into anthropology,” she said. She also said it confirmed that she has a passion for research. Derek Farias, who soon will fin ish his paper on Rhode Island zon ing restrictions and their implica tions for affordable housing, learned just the opposite. “It taught me that I don’t want to do research for a career,” said the public policy major, who also learned that he’ll be putting a few years between himself and gradu ate school. Working on a thesis paper proved more stressful than he imagined and hasn’t been fully gratifying, he said. “It really depends on which day you ask me,” Farias said. Undergraduate theses comple ment UNC’s role as a premier research university, said James Leloudis, associate dean of the Honors Program. Each student’s —is — CAROLINA Baseball vs. High Point 6pm at Boshamer Stadium s' SPORTS VALTREX m wBP mSSm Si m*P Students & Faculty Admitted FREE w/lD! ®l)p iaihi (Tar MM paper is given a card catalog listing and is archived permanently in Wilson Library. “It’s the perfect capstone to an education at an elite research insti tution,” Leloudis said. The end of the school year can be extremely stressful, as students are required to turn in their research for evaluation so their department can assign them “highest honors” or “honors.” Most students also must under go a rigorous oral defense of their work. The experience of creating an honors thesis runs the gamut of emotions among soon-to-be hon ors graduates, but most share the same feeling upon completing their projects: relief. Though Guterman’s unfunded research had her bathing in a bucket on a dirt floor, she regards her experience as “extremely rewarding.” “My thesis couldn’t have hap pened without that trip,” she said. “I learned more living (with the Zapotecs) for three weeks than I could have reading all the books ever written about them.” Contact the Features Editor atfeatures@unc.edu.
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