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ft' Course review rates classes, profs The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday, November 28, 19843 ByJIMZOOK SUIT Writer Ever have a class you really enjoyed but didn't know how to show your appreciation to the professor? Or have you looked for a way to express your views about a professor you thought wasn't so hot? One way you can do this is by participating in surveys to be used in the Carolina Course Review, a student-to-student guide to UNC courses and professors. Surveys are now being conducted in more than 700 courses. The Carolina teaching surveys and Carolina Course Review represent a partnership between students and faculty with the mutually shared goal of promoting excellent teaching," said CCR editor Lynn Crowder, a senior from Gastonia. Students in more than 25 percent of the 2,500 courses offered at UNC will have the chance between now and Dec. 7 to express their opinion about their professors and courses by filling out a survey on the classes. The results of these surveys will be published during spring semester pre-registration as a guide for students to use when choosing their classes. But Michael Salemi, associate professor of economics and faculty adviser to the CCR, said the publication served a much larger function. 44 1 think this process is not unlike the Honor Code," Salemi said. "If both (students and faculty) make a concerted effort to use this in a constructive way, then the educational process is better for it." Salemi said that in the spring of 1984, 520 courses were surveyed and around 17,000 forms were turned in. The only way the CCR can be an effective tool is if students take the surveys seriously, Crowder said. "Students should answer each question as objectively, carefully and accurately as possible," she said. "This provides faculty with useful information and other students with an accurate picture of the class." Salemi said the CCR underwent a major overhaul in 1981 after what he described as an all-time low for the tabloid in 1979. "The faculty lost confidence in it back in 1979," Salemi said. "Nonsense results were printed. For example, 99 percent of the faculty showed up below the second percentile. Salemi said one of the main focuses of the rebuilding effort was to regain the confidence of the faculty, something easier said than done. "We redesigned the format, and we made promises on how quickly the faculty would see the results. We delivered on them, and each semester weVe been getting them back a little sooner," he said. Salemi said the faculty would see the results of the survey during the second week of January, a much quicker return rate than the six months it took a couple of years ago. He stressed that a quick return was essential to the effectiveness of the review. "If they (the faculty) don't remember what they did, how can they use a pattern of discontent to improve their teaching? They say 'Was that the semester I was really tough? Was that the semester I restructured the course?' " he said. Crowder said she had noticed a relationship between a student's class performance and the types of comments made about the class and instructor. "There's definitely a correlation between people getting A's that represents students who took the survey seriously and giving their teachers good recommendations, and those getting C's and D's thinkiing less of their teacher," she said. "We're trying to eliminate that. We really want students to take this seriously." Debate team sees busy Thanksgiving The UNC Debate Team was involved in intercollegiate competition over the Thanksgiving holiday, both as participants and as hosts. The UNC team of Jeremy Ofseyerr a junior from Dallas, and sophomore Mike Egues, also from Dallas, com peted in a field of 90 teams from more than 50 colleges and universities at the Wake Forest University Debate Tour nament, earning third place honors. In the elimination rounds, UNC defeated Dartmouth College and Redlands University before losing a 2-1 decision to Northwestern Univer sity. Also representing UNC was the freshman team of David and John Hood, both from Charlotte. UNC hosted the Tar Heel Debate Tournament this past weekend, with more than 55 teams representing 40 universities from Maine to California. In the final debate, Harvard Univer sity defeated Claremont-McKenna College of Claremont, Calif. Har vard's second team and the University of Kansas team tied for third. According to UNC debate coach Bill Balthrop, this has been the team's most successful fall semester. "If a national poll were conducted that ranked the top debate teams, UNC would probably rank fifth and cer tainly no lower than seventh." He said other teams in the top five would be Claremont-McKenna, Harvard, the University of Kentucky, and Northwestern. Tar Heel debaters will begin spring semester competition in at Auburn University and West Georgia College. Commissioners to support school bond By ROBBIN ROBERTSON Staff Writer The Orange County Board of Com missioners voted unanimously at Mon day night's special meeting to support five funding options recommended by the School Capital Task Force, includ ing an $8 million to $9 million bond issue that will finance capital improve ments for the school system. Most of the discussion centered around a possible bond issue to fund construction and replacement of A.L. Stanback Middle School, but commis sioners C. Norman Walker and A. Ben Lloyd were hesitant to support the bond issue. Board Chairman Don Wilhoit said the purpose of Monday's meeting was to make the commissioners' position known to the school boards before the boards presented revised requests for long-range project funding to commis sioners next Monday. The board discussed a "pay-as-you-go plan" that would require the school system to accumulate all necessary funds before the project is started. According to Lloyd, the Orange County and Chapel HillCarrboro school boards said they would need $5 million in the next five years for short term projects. Diabetes The projects could be funded by the $8 million the county should receive from the local one-half-cent sales tax, with 80 percent of the new revenue directed to the school systems. But Commissioner Richard Whitted said the county had spent part of the $8 million on handicapped access improve ments and roof repairs for county buildings. In addition to authorizing a bond issue, the task force recommended that each school system receive $750,000 per year from the county for capital needs, a $250,000 increase from 1983-84 budget allocations. from page 1 Campus Calendar The Carolina Student FundDTH Campus Calendar will appear daily. Announcements to be run in the expanded version on Mondays and Thursdays must be placed in the box outside the Carolina Student Fund office on the third floor of South Building by 3 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Wednesday, respectively. The dead lines for the limited editions will be noon one day before the announce ment is to run. Only announcements from University recognized and cam pus organizations will be printed. Wednesday Noon Lecture: "Changing Defini tions of Hazardous Wastes: Medical Paradigms, Mea surement Instruments, and Public Policy; 1850-1980" by Dr. Joel A. Tarr of Carnegie Mellon University. 3:30 p.m. Order of the Bell Tower con ference committee meeting in the Union. Creating Your Own Intern ship workshop in 210 Hanes. Pre-Law Club meeting in the 4 p.m. Union. Gay Awareness Week pres ents "Black Concerns in the Gay Community" in 210 Union. 5:15 p.m. Lutheran Campus Ministry Communion and Fellowship meal at Holy Trinity, 300 Rosemary St. Call 942-2678 for information. 7 p.m. Gay Awareness Week pres ents Tom Chorlton on "Gay Political Strategies After the Election" in Gerrard Hall. 7:30 p.m. Riding Club meeting in 220 Union. 8 p.m. UNC Gaming Society organ izational meeting in Graham Lounge, Union. Dillion School volunteers Christmas party meeting at the Campus Y. 10 p.m. Anglican Student Fellowship Communion at Chapel of the Cross. Items of Interest Womens Crew will continue water practice for all interested members Saturdays at 2 p.m. and Sundays at 1 1 a.m. morning at seven and the next morning at noon, and it doesn't matter," she said. "One who has diabetes has to get their morning shot at the same time each day. If you stay up all night writing a paper, getting up at seven is kind of hard." "And do you tell your date why you have' to eat at the same time if your date asks you to go out to eat at eight, and you have to eat at six? And then you Jell c him, you have diabetes? You may never see that guy again if you tell him that," ShalOtH'said. Many discoveries are being made about diabetes, Shalom said. For example, a drug now in the experimen tal stage, called cyclosporin, can be given to newly-diagnosed diabetics to keep them from needing insulin for several years. Different forms of insulin are being researched, and insulin pumps now are available, Shalom said. "The most exciting thing on the horizon, but it will be a while before it becomes available, is a pancreas transplantjshe said. "The pancreas is the organ ttrat$" defective, so if you can ' take pancreas cells that are functioning and transplant them in the arm of a diabetic, then theyH be able to make their own insulin and regulate it themselves. "During my training I saw about five individuals in their thirties who had diabetes, were blind and had kidney failure," Shalom said. "It was really tragic. I guess my sense is that this is a population in which some education and intervention early on can prevent that."' - --z--v.:: Craft bazaar this weekend Artisans from several states will sell their handmade crafts this weekend at the 21st Annual Cam pus Y Handicrafts Bazaar in the Great Hall of the Student Union. Most of the 47 craftsmen will offer inexpensive, gift-oriented items as well as more costly art merchandise. The bazaar, the largest student run fund-raising event sponsored by the Campus Y, will be open Friday 2-9 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday 1-5 p.m. A coffee house offering food and live entertainment will be held on the second floor of the Union Friday 4-8 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday 1-5 p.m. 6 American Heart Association Avoid the lottery blues. Apply now! All apartments on the bus line to UNC. Fantastic Social Program. Call today for full information. 967-223 1 or 967-2234. In North Carolina call toll-free 1-800-672-1678. Nationwide, call toll-free 1-800-334-1656. The Apartment People AN EVENING AT THE PROF'S Faculty-Student get-together & discussion at Faculty homes. Sunday, December 2 7 to 9 pm Sign up in the Pit Mon., Nov. 26-Fri. Nov. 30 11 am-1 pm A Carolina Union Special Projects Committee Presentation IP JWIWs'H All Shampoos are Not the Same! 967-2887 SttSS f2 $3 OFF" I With Selected I . 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