20The Tar Heel Thursday, July 14, 1988
Foreign students paired with Carolina Friends
By SHARON KEBSCHULL
Editor
"It's pretty wild taking someone
from mainland China into McDon
ald's or taking them into a grocery
store and showing them shelves of
cereal when all they're used to is little
markets."
But that kind of experience is what
students who participate in the
Carolina Friends program can
expect, said Tracy Hall, assistant for
the program that matches up incom
ing foreign students with UNC
graduates and upperclassmen to show
them around Chapel Hill.
"The program is designed to
provide initial contact for students on
campus," Hall said. "It's a very
difficult time ... the culture shock
is tremendous."
The International Center program
matches about 200 to 220 interna
tional students, mostly graduates,
each year, Hall said. It tries to have
one Campus Friend for each student,
but that may not work this year, he
said.
"We have a lower turnout (of
applications) this year because we
weren't able to advertise as exten
sively as I ad hoped," Hall said.
"Last year the response was
overwhelming."
The program has only received
about SO applications, he said.
The program will accept lower
classmen as Campus Friends, but it
prefers upperclassmen who really
know their way around Chapel Hill
and the University, he said. It
sometimes also accepts UNC
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The time commitment varies for
each student, Hall said, but the main
requirement is that each student come
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That is held in the Student Union's
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After that, it's up to the students
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tions, he said.
"Some students need hardly any
help at all, and some just need
someone to talk to," Hall said.
Expertise in another language is
not a requirement, he said; most
foreign students coming into the
University have very good English
because they had to pass a stringent
language test when they applied.
There is only an occasional problem
when students have very good written
skills but not such good verbal skills,
he said.
Students who aren't interested or
don't have time to participate in the
whole program can volunteer just to
pick students up from Raleigh
Durham Airport the week of Aug.
22 or find them a place to stay for
a few nights while the foreign students
look for apartments, he said. Many
just let international students sleep on
their floor for a few nights, he said.
This is especially important for
Western European students who
dont have an extensive network on
campus or clubs to represent them,
Hall said.
Interested students should contact
Hall at the International Center in
the Student Union at 962-5661
between 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. daily
for more information.
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By ANDREW LAWLER
Staff Writer
While much of the United
States swelters under record heat
and low water levels, Chapel Hill
remains in relatively good shape,
and fears of a repetition of 1986's
water restrictions are unfounded,
according to Orange County
Water and Sewer Authority and
University housing officials.
Pat Davis, assistant to the
executive director of OWASA,
said while it is too early to say
for sure if Chapel Hill will need
water restrictions, it seems
unlikely at the moment.
"Water levels are normal for
this time of year," he said.
"University Lake is 13 inches
below full and the quarry is 13
inches below full."
In comparison, University
Lake was 36 inches below full in
1986, and the quarry was 49 Vi
inches below full.
But Davis cautioned that an
extremely hot and dry July and
August could lead to some con
servation steps.
"Then again, one good rainfall
can change things drastically for
the better. It's all hard to say,"
he said.
When students return in fall,
water demand increases from 15
to 20 percent. On-campus hous
ing officials said they are not
planning to implement any dor
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such as four-minute showers.
The National Weather Service
has predicted above-normal rain
fall for July in the Triangle.
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