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TV," in Fraternity Court it's
"SIGMA NUS D0i4'T SLEEP" and
almost anywhere you lock around
campus it's "CAROLINA FEVER."
If you haven't hued your kid
today, loved a nurse or skied on Suar,
you're missing out on a popular means
of communication bumper stickers.
Dumpers stickers are everywhere.
They're stuck on cars, dorm mirrors
and walls of every kind. These sticky
s:ns relay messages in a variety of
ways. Politics, entertainment and
sporting activities, promotion and
group affiliation are just some of the
most advertised topics.
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By SCOTT GREEN ' '
Siaff Writer
Chapel Hill bicyclists may be their own worst traffic
hazard, according to Chapel Hill Police Crime
Prevention Officer Rick Butler.
About SO percent of an estimated 40 auto-bicycle
accidents this year can be traced to the negligence of
bike riders, Butler said.
"We have a lot of people who go right through an
intersection," Butler said. "A lot of people on bicycles
don't think that the law applies to them. The law is the
same (as for motor vehicles)."
Bicyclists often pass on the right, go through stop
lights and step signs and change lanes without
signalling, all of which are dangerous traffic violations,
Eutler said.
Inside Tracks'
WXYC'S Inside Tracks for next week
are: Dire Straits Making Movies at 11
p.m. Monday; Rockpile's debut alburn
at 11 p.m. Tuesday; Jean Luc Ponty's
Civilized Evil at 11 p.m. Wednesday;
The Specials' More Specials at 1 1 p.m.
Thursday.
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be held at 3 p.m. Sunday in Great Hall.
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Stickers of the entertainment variety
may " include those classic - Disney
World and Twcctsie Railroad d seals
that adorn the family station wacn.
Or, for the avid sports fan, there is
always "LOVE TENNIS" or
"SWIMMERS HAVE BETTER
TIMES."
Although many stickers are purely
for fun, others are serious
advertisements. Radio and television
stations frequently use them for
promotional purposes, as in the ever
popular "I'D RATHER BE IN
CHAPEL HILL WCHL 13:0." This
is probably the most traditional sticker
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"Bikes assume that they're seen, but they're not,"
said Lee Schweninger a UNC graduate student in
English and a bicyclist. "The cars just don't see you.
They're looking for other cars. But then, the bicycles
don't obey the laws."
"You don't really notice a bike," senior economics
major Ernest McCutcheon said. "They come out of
side streets and get flattened," he said.
"Here there are a lot of casual cyclists who treat
bicycles as toys," UNC Cycling Club President Mark
Westray said. "They're not aware that they axe
vehicles. They feel like they are something between a
pedestrian and a motor vehicle." j
Senior math major Paula Murray said, "When you
ride around campus, you get used to going wherever
you want, so it's easy to be careless on the road."
Westray said that stricter law enforcement might be
on - WJLYC.
The station's guest on "Open Line,"
a talk show aired at 8 p.m. Sunday, will
be UNC Chancellor Christopher C.
Fordham III. He will be interviewed by a
WXYC news reporter and Thomas
Jessiman, associate editor of The Daily
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Shadroui and Matt Doherty. The Winter
Student Fashion Show is sponsored by
the Carolina Union and features
fashions provided by local merchants.
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vay to advertise a product or service
than by flashing the name in front of
moving vehicles everywhere?
Group affiliation is probably the
largest source of stkkers, with
messages ranging. from "WOMAN'S
. LIB NOT ADAM'S RIB" to "NOISE
POLLUTION NEEDS A SOUND
SOLUTION." Action groups make
their points well through this -nonverbal
method of communication and
try to gain support for their cause.
Occupational groups such as nurses,,
teachers and doctors, also have
identifying stickers; as do fraternities
and sororities. I
With lack of communication
continually being blamed for many
- disagreements, it is rather interesting
that the silent way has become so
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It's an interesting phenomenon,"
said Cobby Alien of the RTVMP
department. "Cars are mobile, so you
can relay messages to someone without
being on a personal basis. It would
seem to me that as American culture
fragments into so many interest groups
that people think of themselves more
as belonging to a subculture. With
bumper stickers, they can identify
themselves."
As long as there are organizations,
ACC schools and drivers who want: to
express their beliefs, the American
public will be stuck with bumper
stickers.
So next time you want to dress up
your vehicle a little, why not try "MY
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the only way to get bicyclists to ride more safely.
"You can tell them until you're blue in the face to
ride as though they were a motor vehicle," Westray
said. "The police should make it clear that cyclists are
governed by the same laws and obligations as motor
vehicles. If that means giving them tickets, then that's
the way they ought to do it."
"You can only do that so long, because you have to
let other things go," Butler said. .
Butler suggested having a bicycle safety program on
campus, consisting of one or two afternoon seminars.'
The seminars would include a review of traffic laws, a
question-and-answer period, a discussion of bike
safety, an analysis of common accidents and bicycle
registration, Butler said.
Butler gives weekly talks on bike safety at area
elementary schools. -
Cy TED AVERY
Siaff Writer
After spending a year helping the
disadvantaged, a Volunteer in Service to
America volunteer may wish to pursue a
career helping others, a former VISTA
volunteer said Wednesday.
VISTA is a government program
through which volunteers work to
alleviate poverty in America while living
in the community they serve.
For Alex Wilson, a UNC graduate on
campus .this week recruiting volunteers,
the work involved developing a literacy
program in Scotland County to enhance
the economic success of the
disadvantaged.
Wilson said such work could lead a'
person to re-evaluate his career.
Lawyers, for example, may alter their
lifetime goals, he said.
"While they have a very distinct plan
of going out and having a law practice,
their success (after VISTA) would be
defined as making laws more accessible
to the poor and handicapped," Wilson
said.
Wilson's VISTA volunteer- work
entailed organizing community members
to establish a literary program to teach
non-reading adults.
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VISTA, through a volunteer tutoring
system, sought to give prisoners,
businessmen, high school students and
others the reading skills necessary to get
jobs. Tutors were recruited from the
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By working for and v-ith a poor
community, Wilson said that as a
VISTA volunteer he "became very
sensitive to what makes a community
ork."
"If you're involved with a '"poor
community, you see a necessity for
change."
Students interested in becoming
VISTA or Peace Corps volunteers may
get information from booths in the
Carolina Union Nov. 17-21. Students
may also sign up for interviews that
week in the Hanes Hall Placement
Office. . .
Most VISTA volunteers will spend a
year living at the poverty level, Wilson
said. Volunteers, though, will receive
$1,000 in a savings account from VISTA
while Peace Corps volunteers will get
$3,000 for two years.
Traditionally, UNC students have
been very responsive to the programs.
"There's a pragmatic social
consciousness on this campus that's
unparalleled in the" Southeast," Wilson
said.
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