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Susan Grey Akers, the first woman
academic dean at UNC died Monday
at the Hillhaven Convalescent Center
of Chapel Hill. She was 94.
Akers was a former director and
dean of the School of Library Science
at the University. She was one of the
original faculty . members of the
School of Library Science when it
opened in 1931. She was named acting
dean in 1932, when Louis Round
Wilson left the school. Akers was
named director of the school in 1935,
and in 1942 her title was changed to
dean.
A recently hired employee of
UNC's University Dining Services is
working to make cafeteria meals more
appealing both taste-wise and health
wise to students and faculty.
"One of the main goals here is to
improve the quality (of food) and to
get a little more variation in what we
offer," said Phyllis Smith, who
became the University's first registered
dietician about three weeks ago.
"We're trying to become a little more
nutritionally oriented, too," she add
ed. Smith, who was hired through ARA
Services, with whom she has worked
for three years, said she has already set
up a three-week cycle of meats, breads
and desserts that will make the meals
in the Pine Room more nutritious and
well-balanced.
UNC's Institute for Environmental
Studies will host a series of seminars
during the semester on the topic of
risk analysis.
Risk analysis is the process by which
a society sets acceptable levels for
hazardous substances in the environ
ment. The seminars will culminate with
the Carolina Environmental Essay, an
address to be held at 4 p.m. March 14
in Rosenau Hall. The address will be
given this year by Dr. Edward
Calabrese, professor of environmental
health at the University of
Massachusetts. Calabrese will speak
on "The Environmental Gender Gap:
Differential Responses to Pollution by
Men arid Women."
Sign-up dates for this semester's
special interest classes at the Union
will be Feb. 6, 7 and 8 between 1 p.m.
and 4 p.m. This semester several new
classes will be added such as a course
in American Sign Language,
Astrology, and Tai-Chi, a form of
martial art.
"We were concerned last year
because most of the classes were
oriented toward girls; this semester
there are more offered for men," said
Laura Kirby, chairman of the Union
Special Class Committee.
Many of the instructors have
background in their area, Kirby said.
Most have either taught the course
before or have taken enough lessons
that they feel confident in teaching it,
she said.
The UNC Individual Events team
of the Forensics Union recently won
the first-place sweepstakes award
defeating 17 other major universities
including the University of Alabama
and the host school, UNC
Wilmington. Seniors Sammy Hill and Joanne
Gilbert tied for first place individual
sweepstakes, while team members
Vikki Barrett, Pam Parker, Lori
Young, Lisa Smith, Jim Fitzgerald
and Jeff Knight all won top honors
contributing to the team's first place
win. r
At the last debate tournament at
West Georgia College, UNC placed in
a tie for fifth place out of 45 teams
from across the nation.
Jeremy Ofseyer and Mike Eques,
both of Dallas, Texas, qualified seven
of their eight preliminary debates for
elimination debate. Ofseyer also plac
ed sixth as individual speaker.
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By RICHARD J. BOYCE
Staff Writer
A flu virus among people under 25 is sweeping across
North Carolina, taking an especially heavy toll on UNC
students, health officials said this week.
Dr. Newt MacCormack, acting head of the N.C. Divi
sion of Health Services' communicable disease control
branch, said 225 cases were reported at the University
last week -r- more than at any other college campus in
the UNC system. The week before, 150 cases were
reported here, while three weeks ago saw no cases of the
flu.
Other colleges in the UNC system also are experienc
ing outbreaks of the flu but have not seen the number of
cases that Chapel Hill has, MacCormack said. UNC
Greensboro has the second greatest number of reported
sicknesses, for instance, with 98 students afflicted last
week, .he said.
This particular strain of the flu A-Philippines is
a form of the Russian flu, first isolated by scientists in
1977 It i! moinlv nffecfinji people of college age or
younger because a similar strain of the flu hit the United
States from 1947 to 1957. Most people born before 1957
have built an immunity to the virus, MacCormack said.
The number affected by the virus, however, is con
siderably higher than the official reports show, said Dr.
James McCutchan of the UNC Student Healih Services.
"The only people Student Health Service reports are
those with temperatures of 101 or more and with all the
flu symptoms. If we can't identify them for sure as hav
ing the flu, we don't report them," he said.
"We saw a lot of people Monday who had it. But
Tuesday, the number decreased. We hope it's passed the
point of being an epidemic."
MacCormack classified the current outbreak as an
epidemic, but the term could be a little misleading to the
public, he said. To an epidemiologist, an epidemic is
defined as "An unusual occurrence.": And that is what
UNC students are now experiencing, he said.
Flu viruses spread rapidly because they require a short
incubation period of only 24 to 72 hours, MacCormack
said. Once started, the virus can spread quickly.
I ast week. 557 cases were reported at 10 cnlWe cam
puses across North Carolina. N.C. State University
recorded 67, down from 91 the week before. MacCor
mack calls infirmary officials at each of the 10 campuses
every Friday for updates.
Among elementary and high schools, Wake County
schools reportgd-an absenteeism rate of almost 50 per
cent two weeks ago, MacCormack said. But the
epidemic there is on the decline. Chapel Hill-Carrboro
schools reported that about 15 percent of all students
were absent two weeks ago.
MacCormack warned that children should not take
regular aspirin for treatment of flu symptoms because of
the possibility of contracting Reye's Syndrome, a disease
first identified in 1963 and associated with this particular
strain of flu. Reye's Syndrome causes a fattening of the
liver and a swelling in the brain that is fatal in 10-15 per
cent of all cases, he said.
Children who need medication should take an aspirin
substitute, MacCormick said.
Staff writer Beth O'Kelley contributed to this story.
Carrboro aldermen send thoroughfare plan to transportation board
By JIM HOFFMAN
Staff Writer
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen
voted 4-3 Tuesday night to send its own
version of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
thoroughfare plan to the N.C. Board of
Transportation for approval.
The plan, which was adopted in
November, includes a controversial pro
posal to extend Estes Drive east from
Chapel Hill to 1-40, which is being built
through Orange County. The Chapel Hill
Town Council has opposed the extension
and will submit to the state board of
Transportation a separate plan without it.
The Carrboro board considers the exten
sion important because it would solve ac
cess problems on Greensboro Street and
U.S. 15-501 Bypass, aldermen have said.
Edison H. Johnson Jr., an engineer
from the N.C. Department of Transpor
tation who has been involved in the
thoroughfare study, told aldermen
however, that the submission of two
plans could jeopardize approval by the
23-member state board. In the past, the
board has not. onsid$red area
thoroughfare plans when differences ex
isted between : two closely integrated
towns, he said.
At one point in the meeting, Alderman
Jim White made a motion to adopt the
Chapel Hill plan without the extension
but withdrew it when Johnson said the
board would lose some of the bargaining
power it held under the present situation.
White made the motion at the recom
mendation of Mayor Jim Porto, who
proposed dropping the Estes Drive exten
sion plan "in the interest of community
harmony." ,
Porto had hoped the board could
review the plan annual and amend it to
include the extension in the future. But
Johnson said that once the thoroughfare
plan was approved only Chapel Hill
could submit a proposal to include the ex
tension because the proposed road would
be in its planning jurisdiction.
White then submitted a motion to send
Carrboro's version of the plan. Aldermen
John Boone and Zona Norwood voted
for the motion, along with White, while
aldermen Doug Anderson, Milliard
Caldwell and Joyce Garrett voted against
it. Porto, who can only vote in case of a
tie, broke the 3-3 deadlock in favor of
sending the town's own plan.
In other business, the board approved
an application of Rogers-Triem, Inc. for
a $200,000 low-interest loan through the
Towns Community Development Block
Grant Program.
The Carrboro company, which makes
small motors for vending machines, will
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