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Not eeounglh f medls
available for raises
By RON CRAWFORD
University Editor
UNC docs not have the funds
needed to raise the salaries of
campus secretarial and clerical
workers as authorized by the
North Carolina General Assem
bly, UNC officials said Tuesday.
The Office of State Personnel
(OSP) authorized raises in
October that would affect 1,800
UNC employees and cost about
$2 million, said Jack Gunnells,
. UNC personnel director.
Thursday, May 28, 1987
n
Tar Heel Laura Patterson
About 500 UNC secretaries and
clerks rallied in front of the South
Building May 20 to ask why the
raises were not granted and why
University employees were not
informed of the legislation that
authorized the raises.
Kathryn Tippett, a secretary at
the School of Nursing who par
ticipated in the rally, said, "We
were trying to find out what
happened to (the money for the
, . . . . See FUNDS.page 16
Serving the students and the University community
Chapel Hill, North
cmMvates local corfMsioM
By USA LORENTZ
News Editor
UNC officials will present a
proposed land-use plan for the
University at a public hearing June
1 at 7:30 p.m. in 100 Hamilton
Hall. -
The plan, which calls for several
major roadway changes on cam
pus as well as the construction of
four parking decks, is expected to
generate criticism on the part of
students, town officials and resi
dents. One of the parking decks
proposed by the plan would be
constructed on the intramural
field, which is adjacent to Carmi
chael Auditorium.
Claude E. "Gene" Swecker,
associate vice chancellor of facil
Researchers find evidence
linking gene to breast cancer
By SALLY PEARSALL
Editor
Scientists at the University
Biological Sciences Research Cen
ter have found the first evidence
for a specific gene that predisposes
women to breast cancer, an illness
that will cause some 41,500 deaths
in the United States during 1987.
The researchers estimate that
the gene may be responsible for
almost 9 percent of all breast
cancer cases in the United States
or 1 1,700 to 23,400 cases each
year.
Dr. Michael Swift, principal
investigator in the study, said his
findings could have a great impact
on future cancer research.
Swift said he and his colleagues
began their research in 1980. To
analyze the effects of the gene, the
researchers studied adult relatives
of children born with a nerve
disease known as ataxia
telangiectasia (A-T).
A-T, an uncommon genetic
disease, results when a child
inherits a defective gene from each
parent. The disease causes a
wobbly walk in young children
and leads to poor motor coordi
nation and speech.
The scientists studied the A-T
disease, Swift said, because A-T:
patients faced roughly a 100 times
greater than normal risk of devel
oping cancer. The researchers
wanted to determine if there were
higher-than-normal instances of
cancer among the A-T victims'
parents and other relatives who
carried a single dose of the A-T
gene
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Carolina
ities management, said the parking
deck would only take up the space
on the "area of the intramural field
closest to the Institute of
Government."
Even though part of the field
would be covered by the parking
deck, Swecker said the general
plan would provide for "more
green space (on campus) in the
overall than there is now."
"It's a good plan," Swecker said.
"We hope it will receive
acceptance."
But Ed Shields, intramural
director, said the parking deck's
location on the intramural field
would interfere with softball
games. The field is divided into
four separate fields, and the
The researchers visited 128
families that have been affected by
the disease and asked them to
participate in the project. With the
help of the families and their
physicians, the scientists
assembled the families' medical
histories, using sources such as
hospital records, death certificates
and autopsy reports.
"We have developed very close
and continuing relationships with,
these people, who live all across
the United States," Swift said.
"They have been remarkably
cooperative."
The medical records about
cancers and other illnesses among
blood relatives of A-T victims were
then analyzed by computer and
compared with records from
spouses who would not be
expected to carry the A-T gene and
who served as control 1 subjects.
The excess of- breast cancers
among blood relatives was the
most striking finding, Swift said,
although several other forms of
cancer also were found to be
elevated in the blood relatives.
The scientists announced their
findings in a research report
published in the May 21 issue of
the New England Journal of
Medicine. Pamela Reitnauer, a
first-year medical student, and
Daphne Morrell and Charles
Chase, research assistants at the
Biological Sciences Research Cen
ter, co-authored the report.
The next step in the research
plan involves determining the
exact location of the gene on one
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parking deck would be con
structed on field four, which serves
as the outfield for field three. "We
really can't afford to lose even part
of field four," Shields said.
Other aspects of the plan
include an interior road system
designed to remove pressure from
off-campus roads and to pull some
traffic out of the heart of the
campus.
A loop road would run south
east from South Columbia Street,
skirt Hinton James Residence
Hall to the south, cross Manning
Drive and pass through the Laurel
Hill neighborhood, across South
Road and through Battle Park to
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osomes, a time-consuming process
that Swift said would take from
2 to 5 years of further research.
"We're not just sitting back on
our heels and admiring what we Ve
done," he said.
The scientists are continuing
their work with the families
affected by the A-T gene to learn
more about how it functions.
"We're trying to find out what
environmental factors interact
with this gene to actually cause the
cancer," Swift said.
It is not yet possible to deter
mine whether an individual
selected at random carries the gene
for ataxia-telangiectasia.
Although he and his colleagues
began this study seven years ago,
Swift said the research grew out
of a similar, smaller study done
in the early 1970s.
"Enough scientists expressed
interest in (the 1970s study) to
make us think it was important,",
he said, "but it needed to be done
on a much larger scale." .
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