6The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, October 28, 1986
Union offers opportunities
By JENNIFER HARLEY
Staff Writer
Student involvement in the Carol
ina Union goes beyond enjoying
movies, art shows, public speakers
and all-campus parties.
The Union also offers interested
students opportunities for part-time
employment and the chance to work
on one of several committees respon
sible for bringing entertainment to
the campus.
The Carolina Union Activities
Board is made up of 10 committees:
film, forum, gallery, publicity, public
relations, social, current issues,
human relations, special features and
performing arts. Each committee
contains about 20 volunteer students
and is headed by a student chairman.
Lauren Lindsey, chairman of the
human relations committee, says
that the 10 Union committees span
an entire spectrum of interests,
Research
By MOLLIE WOMBLE
Staff Writer
Dealing with cancer is what the
oncology department of the North
Carolina Memorial Hospital and
the Lineberger Cancer Research
Center do daily.
The oncology department is an
out-patient clinic at the hospital
which deals with terminally ill
patients and w orks jointly with the
Lineberger Cancer Research Cen
ter to fight cancer. The Lineberger
Cancer Research Center, which
opened in 1984, is located across
the street-from NCMH.
Some of the clinic's patients
agree to go to the research center
to test new areas of research that
could possibly eliminate their
cancer. The decision to test new
drugs is entirely voluntary, but
patients who test drugs are
No matter how full the stadium. No
matter how loud the cheering. No matter
how hard the practices. No matter how
cruel the weather. Time comes when the
job lias to be done, when winning or
losing rests oh one play, one decision,
one action. It can seem, for just a mo
ment, like being all alone.
For any age performer, success and
failure often become a matter of inches.
Inches that can seem like miles. .
Covering sports involves writing them
as you see them. To see them, you have
to be there. That means a lot of places.
High school, college, pro games.
"appealing to the needs of all
students whether they are into film,
women's issues or Soviet relations."
The performing arts committee
seeks to expose students to areas of
dance, theater and music, according
to Edward Boehm, committee chair
man. Its repertoire this year features
seven performances, including
"Evita" and "A Little Night Music."
Performing arts committee
members do more than serve as
ushers at performances, Boehm said.
"They have the opportunity to go
into the office and make calls to
performers and actively get involved
in the programming of
performances.
"Being on a committee is a great
way to meet other committee
members and performers," Boehm
said.
Another committee, human rela
tions, seeks to raise student aware
clinic treats cancer patients
required to sign a consent form
w hich explains what could happen
as a result of the treatment.
Martha Reeves, oncology nurse
clinician at NCMH, said patients
react to their illnesses in many
different ways.
"A lot of people think God is
punishing them," said Reeves.
"Some people are. passive and
simply accept it as God's will.
Some become angry. Others look
back to find a reason for their
disease such as exposure to some
sort of chemical at their work. But
some people are real fighters."
Each terminally ill patient
responds to his prognosis differ
ently. Reeves explained. "Most
patients either want to try new
drugs or they don't want any
treatment at all. Every decision is
highly individual."
ness of campus, local and national
issues, attracting speakers and spon
soring panel discussions. The social
committee plans informal events for
the entire campus and is not nar
rowly focused, according to chair
man Alex Dickey. It sponsors events
that range from bands to fashion
shows to bridge lessons.
To apply, students interested in
working on a committee submit
written applications at the beginning
of the fall semester. Then they are
interviewed by the chairman, who
makes the final selections for his
committee. Suzanne Bolch, chair
man of the public relations commit
tee, looks for applicants "who are
friendly, open and express them
selves well." The social chairman,
Dickey, looks for "people with fresh
ideas."
The Activities Board often func
tions as a unit. The recent all-campus
Scientists at the center are
researching cancer treatments
through hightechnology equip
ment. I
The center's 8 1 core-faculty
members hope to discover ways
of preventing cancer where it
begins at the cellular level, said
Dianne Shaw, public information
director at the Lineberger Cancer
Research Center.
The center investigates cell
biology, chemical carcinogenesis,
drug development, immunology,
virology, cancer control, cancer
epidemiology and clinical
research.
Reeves stressed that the diagno
sis of cancer does not mean death.
She urges women to do the breast
exam and men to perform the
testicular exam. Two common
cancers in the college age group
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Team sports. Individual sports. Inter
national sports. Even the practices.
Sometimes even the street corners and
playgrounds.
A newspaper's job is being there. To
tell you not only who won and who
lost, but how. And why. To give you not
only the big plays, but also the reasons
behind them. To analyze. Sometimes to
criticize. And to tell you what was said.
, The Durham Morning Herald provides
that kind of in-depth coverage.
Some games go well into the night.
Hut the Herald stays with them, right up
to final deadline. It's the only way you
for on-the-job experience
bash sponsored by the Union is an
example of its joint efforts, says
Michelle Barger, chairman of the
gallery committee. "Each committee
sponsored certain events and every
one worked together to publicize it,"
Barger said.
The 10 committee chairmen,
Activities Board president Jeannie
Mitchell and two non-student advis
ers meet once a week to discuss
proposed ideas. Though each com
mittee develops its own ideas for
events it would like to sponsor, the
entire board must agree to a proposal
before a committee can start work
ori it.
Committee members and chair
men agree that serving on the
Carolina Union Activities Board is
a worthwhile experience.
As a committee chairman, Boehm
says he "learned an indescribable
amount as far as setting up perfor
are Hodgkin's Disease and testic
ular cancer.
Reeves said working at an out
patient clinic is easier than work
ing with patients full-time because
patients do not become quite so
dependent on physicians and clinic
staff. Still, patients and staff
develop a personal relationship.
"It's sad when a patient dies,"
Reeves said. For Reeves, some
days at work are upsetting, but
when patients recover the whole
profession is quite rewarding.
"The process of dying is a
growth process," Reeves said.
"You may not have spoken to
Aunt Bessie for 20 years, then you
find out you're dying and things
change. You try to make things
right with your family and friends.
Many people turn strongly to
religion."
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mances, working with contracts and
making sure publicity and public
relations work is done properly."
The Union also offers opportun
ities for paid, part-time employment.
Sophomore Maria Browne works
six to eight hours a week as a film
projectionist. She said her job is "a
great way to be involved in the
Union." She said running the pro
jector is relatively easy.
Jonathan White, a sophomore
business major, works in operations.
Operations employees are responsi
ble for the day-to-day running of the
building, said White, such as opening
and closing the building, sorting
mail, setting up rooms for special
events and making sure special
equipment for events is available.
' Chris Borg works at the informa
tion desk, answering questions and
being friendly. Desk employees are
also responsible for selling movie
'Alley Cat' creeps in with
enthralling set of characters
The cover of Yves Beauchemin's
novel "The Alley Cat" is mysterious
a very chubby boy is sitting on
a raised wooden sidewalk in a run
down neighborhood. In the shadows
under the sidewalk is an equally
shadowy alley cat.
The novel is a beautifully written
tale of the classic evil against
innocent. The evil is a "dubious fairy
godfather," Egon Ratablavasky,
who seems to help the innocent
French-Canadian Florent Boisson
nault obtain his dream of owning a
restaurant.
But when Ratablavasky pulls the
rug out from under Florent's restau
rant and then begins to wreck his
entire life, Florent realizes that-the
old man is bent on ruining him.
Beauchemin's fantastic cast of
characters are well-drawn and
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tickets, issuing keys and running the
cash register. Borg, a junior transfer
from Huntington, N.Y., says that his
job "helped me to meet a lot of
people."
Theresa Slechta, a senior RTVMP
and speech communications major,
is one of three student supervisors
in charge of the 18 information desk
and operations employees. Slechta
said her job gave her leadership skills
and insight into what employers look
for when interviewing job applicants.
Slechta and Barger said the Union
is more thoroughly student-run than
other campus unions in the South
east, with very few positions held by
non-students. Barger said, however,
that non-students serve as advisers.
Lindsey also sees the importance
of students programming events for
other students. "You definitely see
that there are students here for
students."
Kelly fthodas
Books
diverse. The child on the cover is a
lovable but alcoholic five-year-old
street urchin who calls himself
"Monsieur" Emile. His alley cat, a
serene, placid monster, is named
Breakfast.
Beauchemin creates a perfect,
loyal wife for Florent Elise. She
puts up with all of Florent's enter
prises along with Ratablavasky's
counterattacks, plus a miscarriage,
a birth, the loss of the restaurant and
the opening of another.
Other wonderful characters are
Florent's magical Quebecois chef,
Aurelien Picquot; Florent's cousin,
Father Octavien Jeunehomme, who
reads constantly and searches for
Gogol's stove with the ashes of the
second part of "Dead Souls" in it;
and Florent's ailing Aunt Jeune
homme, living in posh luxury in Key
West.
The book docs take a while to
read, but every page is worth it. The
story, suspenseful and curious, is also
comical and light. The fate of
Ratablavasky is anxiously desired
but the end of the book is not.
Florent and Elise are comfortable
characters; their actions are purely
human and realistic. Their reaction
to Monsieur Emile and his practi
cally motherless situation is believ
able and endearing. Their open
honesty is proven even more by
Ratablavasky's evil schemes and his
filthy past. All these contrasts blend
to create an extremely well-balanced
story.
The "fat tiger-striped alley cat"
Breakfast wanders in and out of the
plot. Monsieur Emile keeps the cat
with a special kind of love: ' "He was
my cat when 1 still wet my pants,' "
he says as an introduction. Breakfast
plays a spirited role in the settling
of accounts between Florent and
Ratablavasky.
Beauchemin first published this
novel in Canada in French as "Le
Matou." This American publication
was translated by Sheila Fischman.
Fischman's translation is excellent,
which is rare especially in novels, but
Beauchemin's original work must be
a dream to understand in the original
language. "The Alley Cat" has been
made into a movie and mini-series
shown in Canada and France.
"The Alley Cat" is an extremely
well-written novel and could fall into
many different categories: mystery,
suspense, romance, humor and
more. Any reader wanting a good
book to read would be glued to this
absorbing story from page one.
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alarms, Robertson said. "That takes
away from the remaining commun
ity's fire protection," he said. Also,
there is always an increased threat
of an accident whenever an emer
gency vehicle gets in traffic, he said.
The most common problem with
a false alarm, Robertson said, is that
it is inconsiderate to the other
residence-hall occupants. "It's a
nuissance when other people are
studying and trying to get an edu
cation, and some fool is out there
disturbing him." Such activity
invades others' privacy, he said.
"When an alarm goes off at 4
a.m.," said Scott Jones, resident
assistant in Granville West, "I have
to get up and make sure everyone
else gets up. It takes away from my
sleep."
To reduce the number of false
alarms on campus, Robertson said,
students should be on the lookout
for suspicious activity and be ready
to report it. "Responsible students
here can discreetly pass information
on to an RA or campus police
without implicating themselves."
If