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MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2006
Hargraves hosts fall
carnival for the kids
BY ALEXANDER TROWBRIDGE
STAFF WRITER
The Town of Chapel Hill Parks
and Recreation Department motto,
“Play is our thing,” came to life
Friday as children went from game
to game at a fall carnival.
Poor weather did not stop a num
ber of Chapel Hill and Carrboro
children from enjoying them
selves at the event at Hargraves
Community Center.
The indoor festival drew about
40 children ages 6 to 10 to run and
play with their peers.
Robbin Justice-Jones, recreation
specialist for the town, said the car
nival was geared toward celebrat
ing the fall instead of Halloween so
as not to offend anyone.
She said she had received posi
tive responses from parents.
“The kids enjoy it. I think it’s a
good thing, and it brings joy to any
child to win something.”
Attractions included face-paint
ing, ring toss, a magnetic dart
game, arts and crafts, a bean bag
toss and a cake walk.
The cake walk was attendee
Kiki Sanders’ favorite part of the
carnival “because we get cup
cakes, and I’m the one who got
the most.”
Bridget Mahoney, a graduate stu
dent at UNC working as a therapeu
tic mentor with Carolina Outreach,
brought a 5-year-old patient.
“It’s great, especially since it’s
free,” Mahoney said.
“It’s a valuable resource in the
community.”
Leaders push exam-free days
BY ANNA KIM
STAFF WRITER
Within a few years, students
might see some extra relief during
final exam week.
Student government is advo
cating for an extension and better
placement of reading days.
Student Body President James
Allred said reading days which
are intended to be a break from
classes and exams can be
scheduled more effectively so stu
dents can use at least a full day to
study.
“Sometimes they say you get
a Sunday to count as a reading
day, but a lot of students have
other things to do than study on
Sundays,” he said. “We’d like to see
a legitimate break from the exam
schedule.”
This semester, the reading
days fall on Thursday, Dec. 7 and
Wednesday, Dec. 13.
In the spring, a Saturday will
count as a reading day.
Allred said his administration is
advocating a weekday or a Saturday
to be protected as a reading day for
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Sophomore Korsica Lassiter paints a rocket on the arm of a volunteer
at a Fall Carnival held at Hargraves Community Center on Saturday.
The UNC women’s ultimate
frisbee team helped to set up,
and Delta Sigma Theta sorority,
the first black Greek sorority at
UNC, ran activities such as face
painting and pin the nose on the
pumpkin.
Chloe Russell, a senior journal
ism major and the service chair
woman of the sorority, said the
carnival was important because
of Hargraves’ importance to the
black community in Chapel Hill
and Carrboro.
That’s why she said her chapter
wanted to help out.
The sorority prepared about
200 bags of candy in preparation
for a larger turnout.
Not all of the volunteers were
students.
Each calendar year is planned
two years in advance with the help
of the student body president.
This year’s calendar was created
by Matt Calabria, student body
president for the 2004-05 school
year.
Allred will plan the 2008-09
calendar, and student government’s
calendar committee will meet in
January and February to plan the
dates.
The academic affairs committee
also is working to catalog reading
day processes of other institutions
within the Association of American
Universities. The information will
help guide arguments that have
been introduced by student gov
ernment.
“We want to make sure we pro
tect the ideas of having reading
days for students and that stu
dents have the time to process and
review the material between the
end of classes and the beginning
of exams," Allred said.
Duke University and N.C. State
University have adopted differ-
college students. Jamarius Jones,
an 11-year-old Carrboro resident
who attended the carnival last
year, came this year as a volun
teer.
“It’s pretty fun,” he said. “We all
just decided to come up here and
help out.”
Clown Willie, in his third year
at the carnival, provided chil
dren with balloon shapes. The
most popular, he said, were dogs,
swords, butterflies and hats.
“The other two years, there
were a lot more people,” he said.
“I guess it’s because of the
weather.”
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ent forms of preparation for finals
week.
N.C. State has what students call
“dead week” during the last week
of classes. The school’s administra
tion specifically asks that no exams
or new assignments are given dur
ing the week, said Thomas Conway,
dean of the Undergraduate
Academic Program at N.C. State.
“Students can plan their time
ahead of time to keep their study
hours free to prepare for examina
tions,” Conway said.
Duke’s exams generally begin on
a Monday, with one or two reading
days on the calendar.
Reading days are scheduled
for the Thursday and Friday of
the week before exams begin, and
sometimes they are split into half
days when there are no exams dur
ing the week, said Sue Wasiolek,
Duke’s assistant vice president of
student affairs and dean of stu
dents.
“Our general hope is to try to
have Saturday and Sunday with
two additional weekdays,” Wasiolek
said.
Allred said that most of the 60
AAU institutions try to set up an
ideal reading schedule, and that he
is pushing for UNC to follow suit.
“We are just trying to encourage
Carolina to follow the best practic
es that have been set up by other
AAU universities.”
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Village project on track
to meet fundraising goal
BY KATHRYN BALES
STAFF WRITER
A partnership to help end pover
ty in Africa is growing after Bennett
College made an announce
ment last week that it joined the
Millennium Village Project
The Greensboro-based col
lege is joining with UNC and
Duke University. The student-led
partnership is part of the U.N.
Millennium Project.
The project seeks to end extreme
poverty in Africa by giving aid to
poor villages and help achieve the
U.N.’s Millennium Development
Goals by 2015.
Junior Manisha Panjwani, a co
coordinator at UNC, said the alli
ance is a mutual effort on the part
of the three schools.
“(Bennett is) a small school so
all the students are very involved
with what goes on, so it wasn’t
hard to get them on board,” she
said.
UNC junior Jaymin Patel, a stu
dent-group liaison with the proj
ect, said adding another school
into the mix is an advantage for
the project.
“It was definitely a big positive
step for us,” he said. “It’s a truly
unique partnership with a pri
vate university, a public university
and a traditionally black college.
These three very different schools
coming together really means a
lot.”
UNC’s contribution to the proj
ect, which involves several campus
student groups, has reached $1 mil
lion to aid an impoverished village
Students participate in radio show
Program features music, news talk
BY EMILY GALUMORE
STAFF WRITER
A few weeks ago, 12 Smith
Middle School students launched
“Teen Spirit,” anew radio program
on WCOM-FM 103.5.
The show, which runs from 2
p.m. to 4 p.m. every Sunday, is a
production of the Smith Middle
School eighth-grade radio club
and is sponsored by teacher Boyd
Blackburn.
The title wa!s inspired by the
Nirvana song “Smells like Teen
Spirit.”
It describes the program’s target
audience students in Chapel Hill
and Carrboro.
“We get to play whatever music
we feel like, as long as it’s clean,”
said Nathan Harris, a radio club
member.
The students play songs by
artists including U 2, Rascal
Flatts, System of a Down, Hilary
Duff, M.C. Hammer and The
Cranberries.
“We want to promote local bands
as well,” club member Matthew Lee
said.
The program recently has fea
tured selections from local Chapel
Hill band The Old Ceremony.
In addition to the music, the
students talk about issues in the
news, including the Chapel Hill-
Carrboro Board of Education’s
decision earlier this month about
in Kenya.
The funding has come from
an anonymous alumni and other
interested parties. The anonymous
donor agreed to match funds raised
up to $500,000. Panjwani said she
hopes the campuses will raise $1.5
million by August 2007-
“The fact that all these schools
are working together on this is
great,” she said. “We’re well into
November, and we’ve gotten way
further than we thought. Right
now we’re trying to inform stu
dents.
“We’re really going to make a dif
ference in children’s lives.”
To stay on track, coordinators have
planned “MVP Week” which will run
from Nov. 6 through Nov. 10.
There will be events throughout
the week, leading up to a free public
speech from Jeffrey Sachs at 11 a.m.
Nov. 10 in Memorial Hall. Sachs is a
Columbia University professor who
has played a large role in advocating
for the Millennium goals.
A student rally will follow Sachs’
speech at 12:15 p.m. in the Pit.
Panjwani said she’s hoping for a
full house. “(Sachs will) do the rest
of the job in convincing people how
important this cause is,” she said.
The week’s events are supposed
to increase awareness and start a
dialogue about the most effective
way to enact the project.
“Bringing this kind of thing to
light for students will make them
ask questions and really start
to understand what’s going on,”
Panjwani said.
“MVP is not just another group
which students should be allowed
to stay at their old school when
Carrboro High School opens in
the fall.
The students invite listener
feedback and have recently added
an AIM screen name and a blog to
facilitate comments, club member
Henry Gargan said.
“The show is for teens, by teens,”
he said. i.
Blackburn offers some sugges
tions, but students mostly run the
program.
One student always occupies
the power seat, running the broad
cast.
“I’ve done just a little bit as
we’ve been getting things rolling
but the main idea is... to have the
students do everything,” Blackburn
said.
Before Teen Spirit took over,
Blackburn had his own show,
Dance Jam, in the same time
spot.
Teen involvement began when
Blackburn opened the studio to
his students last year.
“Dr. B was running this time
spot on the radio and he invited all
his students ... I was the only one
who showed up,” student Tucker
Jones said.
“The first weekend of the sum
mer I showed up again unin
vited —with a CD.... Dr. B wasn’t
there so I ran the show.”
Blackburn trained Jones to run
the program when he would be out
of town last summer.
Then when school started this
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► A coalition of several student
groups, partnering with other
universities
► First-ever student led coalition
to finance a village and eradicate
extreme poverty
► $1 million raised so far and a
goal of $1.5 million for the year
► Three diverse schools involved:
UNC, a public university; Duke
University, a private university; and
Bennett College, a traditionally
black, all-female college
► MVP Week from Nov. 6
to Nov. 10: a week of events
supporting the goals of the
Millenium Village Project
on campus —but a student move
ment. It’s something that everyone
can get involved in.”
Patel said the campus movement
has been raising funds through T
shirt and headband sales, online
donations and overtures to corpo
rations and student groups.
“You can pretty much name a
group, and we’ve contacted them,”
Patel said. “They’ve all shown a lot
of enthusiasm.
“We’re not asking just one group
of people, we’re trying to ask any
one and everyone.”
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Eighth-grader Henry Gargan of
Smith Middle School conducts his
first live interview Sunday, Oct. 22,
on the WCOM youth radio show.
year, Blackburn held a meeting
inviting interested students to
broadcast their own program dur
ing his time spot.
“I thought it would be more
valuable and more in the spirit of
community radio if I turned it into
a club program,” he said.
Andrew George, the station’s
programming coordinator, said
WCOM-FM 103.5 welcomed the
idea of having students on the sta
tion.
“That is exactly what community
radio is about.”
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