Offering students a
By HOLLY YOUNG
Staff Writer
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"any UNC students arc dis
covering French culture
.and earning credit toward
graduation by participating in the
UNC Year at Montpellier Program,
which offers opportunities for edu
cation and personal growth.
Catherine Maley, a French pro
fessor who has been the director of
the Montpellier program since 1980,
said studying abroad is a wonderful
opportunity for students who want
to continue their education and
experience life in a different culture.
"You will not be the same person
you were when you left to go
abroad," she said.
, The program involves a nine
month stint at the Universite Paul
Valery in Montpellier, which is
located in the southern part of
France near the Mediterranean.
The Montpellier program, which
has been offered since 1975, is uni
que because students take regular
French university courses rather
than courses taught in English that
are designed for Americans. This
allows the students to become an
integral part of the university life in
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Due to the academic requirements
and demands placed on students, a
solid background in spoken and
' written French is essential. Two or
three courses in French beyond a
Eek-A-Mouse scores
Sunday night Eek-A-Mouse
treated the audience at Cat's Cradle
to some post-Super Bowl entertain
ment, reggae style.
Named for a race horse, this 6-foot-6-inch
performer delighted a rather
disappointingly small crowd with
authentic Jamaican reggae. A Trench
Town native, Eek-A-Mouse came
into the public eye with a dynamic
performance at the 1981 Sunsplash
festival, and his most notable single
is the chart-topping "Wa Do Dem."
Although the 30-year-old star failed
to appear in one of his outlandish
costumes such as a Mexican,
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Tuesday
2 p.m. Carolina Union Activi
ties Board will hold a
question and answer
meeting for students
interested in applying
for the 1988-89 Carolina
Union presidency.
3 p.m. American Advertising
Federation members
are invited to learn to
use the Macintosh com
puters in 201 Howell
Hall until 5 p.m. AAF
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fourth semester are required, and
Maley said it was also a good idea
to take a French course that
involves reading.
The program is competitive, with
a B average required for applicants.
Because of the strict requirements,
students rarely have academic prob
lems while in France, Maley said. In
fact, many students come back to
Chapel Hill with improved GPAs.
"You will be much more marketa
ble after having this experience,"
Maley said.
It is not feasible for a student who
has problems in French to apply for
the program, Maley said, because
those problems would be magnified.
But most students who participate in
the program are not French majors.
Montpellier's culture is a classic
blend of the old and new, including
discos, futuristic shopping centers
and fast food places along with
among ancient Roman ruins and
narrow cobblestone streets lined
with pastry shops and boutiques.
Many students find Montpellier
particularly appealing because it is
about 10 kilometers away from the
beaches and the clear waters of the
Mediterranean. Ski resort areas are
also fairly close by.
Montpellier also has an active cul
ture with many theaters, an art
museum and concert halls.
As in most university towns, bicy
cling is a popular and easy way to
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Concert
Robin Hood or a Vietnamese sport
ing a coolie hat he captured the
crowd with humorous expressions
and call-and-response techniques.
More of a dub-poet than a true
singer, Eek-A-Mouse, who is some
times called "the Al Jarreau of
reggae," sang in a scat-like style. He
has coined the term "sing-jay" to
will have a meeting for
prospective English
majors in 222 Greenlaw.
4:30 p.m. Career Planning and
Placement Services will
offer a panel on careers
in publishing in 210
Hanes.
5 p.m. Students for Brien
Lewis will meet in
Union 205.
Psychology Club will
meet in 112 Davie. AH "
welcome.
5:30 p.m. Carolina Fever will
sponsor a Dunk Contest
in Woollen Gym. Bring
your student ID, regis
tration card and athletic
passes.
5:45 p.m. Anglican Student Fel
lowship will have its
weekly fellowship night
at Chapel of the Cross.
Dinner is $2, $7 for T
shirts. 6:30 p.m. Order of the Bell Tower
will meet in Union 205.
7 p.m. NCSL will meet in. the
Union. A special forum
is planned.
Dillon School Program
for volunteers wishing
to assist juvenile offend
ers in a maximum secur
ity prison will meet in
the Union.
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French connection
get around the almost-too-narrow
streets of Montpellier. Transporta
tion across town and around Europe
is never a problem, with buses,
trains and airport readily accessible.
Students can choose from a var
iety of living arrangements while
studying in Montpellier, which a
housing coordinator organizes for
them. Students may live on or off
campus, in a dormitory, with a fam
ily or in an apartment.
Each arrangement has its advan
tages, depending upon the student's
personal preferences and interests.
Dormitory life is less expensive,
and it enables a student to expe
rience French university life first
hand and to interact with French
students on a more personal level.
On the other hand, living with a
French family can ease the loneli
ness and homesickness, and students
can experience the French culture
through home life. Amy Shaw, a
senior English major from Sanford
who participated in the Montpellier
program, stayed with a family in a
village about six kilometers from the
Universite Paul Valery.
"They regarded me as a boarder
in their house, which was hard for
me to adjust to at first," Shaw said.
But Shaw spoke enthusiastically
about her experience and said some
low points are always to be
expected.
in Cradle
describe this combination of toasting
(Jamaican-style DJ. rap) and his
unique high-pitched nasal sounds.
While "skanking" around the stage,
"the Mouse" challenged the crowd to
repeat a series of non-word phrases.
The audience rose to the challenge
and was rewarded by the star saying,
"I don't believe it ... so many Eek-A-Mouses
out there."
The crowd was rather small, but
that should have been expected on
Super Bowl Sunday. Also the per
formance was not spectacular, but
"the Mouse" will surely be remem
bered for his stage rapport and
Sangam will meet to
discuss International
Festival and "Sangam
Night" in Union 21 1-12.
All interested are wel
come. The group will
meet again at 8 p.m. for
those who were unable
to make the 7 p.m.
meeting.
8 p.m. UNC Young Democrats
will present former U.S.
Senator and State
Bureau of Investigation
Director, Robert Mor
gan, to talk with stu
dents in Union 224.
8:30 p.m. Students for Kevin
Martin will meet in
Union 205. All
welcome.
Items of Interest
Women's Lacrosse Club will
practice at 4 p.m. on Finley Fields
Monday through Thursday, Feb. 1
4, weather permitting.
Student Government All Campus
Candidates Forum will be Feb. 7.
If you have a question you'd like
to ask the candidates for student
body president, please deposit your
question in the marked folder at the
Union desk.
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Students do have many adjust
ments to make, and some will adjust
better than others, Maley said. For
instance, students who live in dormi
tories learn that French students are
more private than Americans, and
the dormitories are definitely more
quiet than those at UNC.
Perhaps the biggest adjustment
for students is their increased inde
pendence. The UNC program pres
ents many academic and personal
options to students, and it is up to
them to take advantage of their
opportunities. Students are basically
on their own.
Any student interested in the
Montpellier Program can pick up
information and applications in 239
Dey Hall, and a videotape about the
program is available at the Under
graduate Library.
Scholarships and financial aid are
available for students participating
in the program. Those students who
are eligible and want financial assis
tance should apply for aid even
before they are accepted into the
program.
Though the competition for
acceptance into the program is stiff
and the prospect of living in a for
eign country may be a bit frighten
ing, students who have participated
agree that there is no better way to
get a taste of French life and expe
rience the culture firsthand.
concert
peculiar singing style which many
times seemed to mock a drum
machine.
The show was short, just over an
hour, and the Love Masters, the band
that was supposed to open, failed to
show. The show's brevity may be
blamed on the crowd's not-so-frenzied
responses to Eek-A-Mouse's
questions, "Do ya wan' me to stay?"
and "Do ya wan' me to go?" The
audience left contented, however, and
Eek-A-Mouse, who promised to
return, should be treated to a much
larger turnout for his next area gig.
Graduation Applications from all
seniors graduating in May are due
Feb. 10.
Student Government Tutoring
Program applications are available
in Suite C of the Union or at the
Union desk. Deadline is Feb. 19.
Workshops for sophomores'
major declaration week will be held
on Feb. 2, 3:30-5 in Nash Hall, and
Feb. 3, 2:30-4 in Nash Hall.
The Phoenix is accepting appli
cations for editor and business
manager through Feb. 8. Come by
the Phoenix office for info.
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'Fatigue Syndrome'
has doctors puzzled
By JIM MOCK
Staff Writer
Some of America's youth
could be under attack by a
puzzling virus that has no
known cause or cure, and its vic
tims claim it causes a chronic and
sometimes almost paralyzing
fatigue.
The "Chronic Fatigue Syn
drome" or "Yuppie Flu" is still a
very controversial illness. Some
skeptics say the disease is overdi
agnosed, and some claim that the
disease does not exist and that
the causes of the symptoms are
psychosomatic.
Some physicians believe that
the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV),
the same virus that causes infec
tious mononucleosis, may also
cause this long-lasting infection
that exhausts its victims with
severe fatigue and listlessness.
Dr. Janet Fischer, professor of
infectious disease at the UNC
School of Medicine, said she felt
that available evidence on EBV
suggested that this complex,
chronic mono-like syndrome or
"Yuppie Flu," was very rare.
Fischer said she has treated
hundreds of students with mono
in the past, and none have deve
loped this chronic mono or
fatigue.
"The data which supports the
idea of chronic fatigue from EBV
is complicated and comes from
anecdotal (isolated) reports of
chronic mononucleosis," Fischer
said.
But in 1984, private physicians
in Lake Tahoe discovered
patients suffering from a mono
like illness who complained of
fatigue, weariness, sporadic fevers
and muscle aches long after their
initial mono infection had cleared
up, Fischer said.
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Some of the 200 patients with
this unusual illness recovered,
some got better but did not
totally recover and a third of
them continued to experience the
symptoms.
"This led doctors to believe
that they had found a new form
of EBV which could cause long
lasting fatigue in its victims,"
Fischer said. "However, blood
work done on that group by the
Center for Disease Control in
Atlanta did not adequately estab
lish that EBV was the cause of
these long-term symptoms."
Fischer said that "Yuppie Flu"
caused by EBV might be a real
illness, but it probably only
affected people with immunity
problems caused by other
diseases.
Rare cases of mono lasting
months to years following the
initial infection have been
reported, Fischer added. How
ever, physicians found that the
patient often had other diseases
such as leukemia, AIDS or other
types of tumors, which hinder the
body's ability to fight off EBV
viral infections, he said.
People who support the theory
that the Epstein-Barr Virus indu
ces this chronic fatigue illness
argue that EBV is a member of
the herpes family of viruses along
with herpes simplex (the cause of
oral and genital herpes) and vari
cella (the cause of chicken pox
and shingles). These viruses are
well known in medicine for their
ability to cause relapsing infec
tions years after patients get the
initial infection.
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