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i 1 ''g wir" y ring) The Daily Tar HeelFriday, October 27, 19893 Campes and City r.i '. ; i . . i - Students to invade Poland UNC's journalism school and the ournalism school of Ohio Univer sity will offer a three-week study abroad course this summer, "Mass media in the New Poland." Students participating in the ses sions will spend the first two weeks in Warsaw and the last week in Cracow one of Poland's oldest cities and Gdansk, a port city in the north. Richard Cole, dean of the UNC School of Journalism, has said the June 11 -July 1 course would be valuable to journalism students because Poland was undergoing a lot of change and the students would have the chance to get instruction directly from the country's top jour nalists, politicians and educators. Students from UNC will receive three semester hours credit for the course. Professional journalists are also invited to participate. Jerzy Oledski, director of the Institute of Journalism in Warsaw, will be in charge of the part of the program conducted in Warsaw. The courses in Poland will re volve around lectures covering such subjects as Glasnost and the mass media; socio-economic problems of Poland; the Polish mass media sys tem; and information policy in Pol ish radio and television The course fee, $ 1 ,700, covers all food, lodging, lectures and instruc tion, plus travel expenses in Poland. Airfare is not included. Registration is limited to 20 par ticipants, and completed applications must include a $300 deposit. Prereg- istration is in progress at the UNC Summer School Office in Pettigrew Hall. Union displays King's paintings An exhibition of paintings by Marcia Gygli King will open Sun day in the Gallery of the Student Union. The exhibit will run through Nov. 19 and is sponsored by the Carolina Union Gallery Committee in coop eration with the Katzen-Brown Gallery of New York. The free exhibit will be open 1 1 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. King and Hal Katzen, director of the Katzen-Brown Gallery, will at tend a reception from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday in the gallery. The public is invited to attend, and there will be no charge. Southern writers share wisdom A series of lectures by Southern writers will begin Monday with a presentation by author Clyde Edger- ton. Edgerton, author of "Walking Across Egypt," "Raney" and 'The Floatplane Notebooks," will speak at 8 p.m. in Gerrard Hall. All programs are free and open to the public. The Carolina Union Forum Committee is sponsoring the event. The series continues Nov. 6 with a talk by John Ehele, author of 15 books, including "The Winter People." Jill McCorkle, author of 'The Cheerleader" and "July 7th," will speak Nov. 7. Greensboro author and poet Fred Chappell will speak Feb. 3. Edgerton play set for Cabaret A stage adaptation of Clyde Edgerton ' s "Walking Across Egypt premieres Nov.'2 at the Union Caba ret. Tickets are available at the Caro lina Union box office. UNC to host Elders series "Gorbachev's Russia" is the first in a series of lectures beginning Oct 28 at UNC that are aimed at bringing together campus scholars and Tri angle retirees. The talk, which will be given by Samuel Baron, Alumni Distin guished professor emeritus of his tory at UNC, marks the opening of the 1 1th Village Elders Series. The lectures will feature Baron and five other UNC faculty mem bers. The event will be held at 10 a.m. at the Hanes Art Center Audito rium. Other speakers will include Herbert Bodman Jr., professor of Islamic history, on Jan. 20; Rollie Tillman, director of the Kenan Insti tute of Private" Enterprise, on Feb. 17; and Francis Whang, associate professor of music, on March 17. All lectures are free and open to the public, but participants are asked to call for reservations the week before the program. Call the Depart ment of Aging at 968-4478 between 8 p.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays for information. compiled by Will Spears Decision '89 to By DIONNE LOY Staff Writer Various administrators and student leaders will attend Decision '89, a state wide conference on alcohol awareness next Tuesday and Wednesday. The conference will be held in the Omni Durham Hotel & Convention Center and will feature speeches by experts and notable guests in the morn ing, followed by small group meetings in the afternoon. "We'll have speakers including Bobby Jones (former UNC basketball player); William Powell (the state ABC commissioner); the Governor's Action needed to By STACEY KAPLAN Staff Writer The world's rainforests will disap pear in 50 years if no steps are taken to preserve that resource, Randall Hayes, chairman of the National Rainforest Action Network, said in a lecture Thurs day night. "By the year 2040, at the present rate of destruction, all the world's rain forests will be gone," Hayes said in his speech, "Halting the Chainsaw Mas sacre: The Tropical Hardwoods Ban," an event sponsored by the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC). About 100-200 acres of rainforests in tropical regions are destroyed each minute, and the extinction rate is 30 species each day, Hayes said. "Rain forests are a non-renewable resource like mining gold. Rainforests cannot be s.-y&'. '"t m ',"' ... L ..I ' w-uvvyT"-!-!v.-.-.j.:.;.;.' iw.w"-:- vw-rv-y-:-.- ...'.'w.v.w. e ' : -s- .. .. ... . - mmxmmzm?r ,,: ill y-.yy:yyy-yyy-r-'yyy-'yy'yy yyyyy-yyy-yyy-yyy. 'A,W't'M - y if'- ,y;v. 4 , L7 Reach for it Susan Ross, a senior from Rock Hill, S.C., reaches for a muffin during the morning rush at Union Station. Union Station offers students a Board passes landfill search process By JENNIFER DICKENS Staff Writer Monday night the Orange County Board of Commissioners approved a process to select a new landfill for Orange County which ensures repre sentation from the towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. When Orange County residents throw away trash, it does not disappear. Approximately 97.5 percent of all trash ends up in the landfill on Eubanks Road. In a report Town Manager David Taylor said the Orange County Re gional Landfill was expected to be full by 1 997. In response to this, the Landfill Owner's Group (LOG) which consists of Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Orange County governments is working on re cycling and waste reduction programs. According to Gayle Wilson, Chapel Hill solid waste planner, Orange and Durham counties are preparing to con duct a waste stream analysis at the present landfills. The Regional Solid Waste Task Force has initiated this NCICGA come together and address them," Davis said. The effects of the convention are already showing at UNC. Davis intro duced a bill to Student Congress this week to form a Safety Walk Commis sion after learning of a similar program at Appalachian State University. The convention featured several speakers who addressed how to lobby in the N.C. General Assembly. Only nine schools, including one private school, attended the conven tion, but Bibbs said he was not discour aged. "Even though the turnout wasn't as large as it could be, this was just the first meeting." wife, Dottie Martin; and Eileen Ste vens, whose son was killed in a hazing incident," said Frederic Schroeder, dean of students. "Interest sessions will be held on various issues." Issues ranging from women's alco holism, groups for high risk of alcohol ism and family to college consumption, dating dynamics and faculty involve ment will be the subjects of the ses sions. Alcohol advertising, the governor's highway safety program and campuscommunity outreach also will be featured, Schroeder said. The conference contains resources from throughout the region. Law en reforested." A grassroots movement to ban the use of tropical hardwoods will help stop the destruction of rainforests, Hayes said. 'There is an exciting global market building. If we organize prop erly, we have clout. "People are interested in helping. All they need is an avenue to do it. We've received letters from concerned carpenters, and we'll send them infor mation on domestic timber alterna tives." Hayes described four stages that have led to the destruction of rainforests. The first stage is roadbuilding in the tropical rainforest regions. U.S. tax dollars finance much of the construc tion, he said. "Gutsier legislation is needed to stop this." The second stage occurs when log gers enter areas from the new roads and I ' yT 14 liilp:ii; study to determine the composition of wastes. Such a study is an essential step in evaluating alternative technologies to combat future solid waste reduction. In addition to recycling efforts, composting and incinerating, a landfill will still be needed for those residues which cannot be eliminated by the other processes. Chapel Hill Town Council member David Pasquini said the Green Track on Homestead Road was purchased about eight years ago to replace the Eubanks Road landfill, but it cannot be used now. "Although this area was designated as a landfill site, houses were built and people have moved in around there. People don't want to live next to a landfill, and we understand this." The LOG needs the help of Orange County residents in finding a new landfill site, and residents can partici pate in the the Orange Regional Landfill Search Committee (LSC), Taylor said in the report. This group will determine from page 1 Student government leaders said they considered the convention a success and looked for it to grow in the future. "I think that for the schools that at tended, they left with a bevy of creative suggestions for improvement," Davis said. Mark Miller, a student government representative from UNC-Charlotte, said the group would help schools. "I think it's an excellent idea. At the meetings we exchange a lot of informa tion, and the more input the better." i Bibbs said he expected the next meeting, tentatively planned for late February or early March, to make big strides. tfocnos odd aDcohol issue forcement agencies and substance control centers from North Carolina and Virginia will be represented. Also, most of the schools in the UNC system will send speakers. Twelve individuals from UNC, in cluding Schroeder, will attend the conference. They will represent sev eral aspects of the University. Susan Ehringhaus, assistant to the chancellor; Liz Jackson, Residence Hall Associa tion president; and Allan J. Colarco, associate director of University Hous ing, will represent the housing depart ment. Dr. Judith Cowan, director of Stu save rainforests cut down 10-20 trees out of 1,000 in each acre, Hayes said. "Seventy per cent of each canopy can be destroyed by cutting down only a few trees be cause every one tree knocks down another one, and that tree knocks down another, and so on." Small-scale farmers clear the de stroyed areas for subsistence and cash crop fanning in the third stage. This lasts only about three to five years because the crops deplete the nutrients in the soil, Hayes said. Cattle ranching is the final stage in the destruction of rainforests, he said. "After crops have been planted for a few years, there are only enough nutri ents left to plant grass for cattle." After five to 10 years, the soil is depleted of nutrients. "What was once a lush rainforest has now become a wasteland," Hayes said. 'V?y?t variety of carryout breakfast foods hot and cold drinks. criteria for selecting the next landfill site, will recommend specific sites from among those which have been selected by the LOG and their consulting engi neer, and will educate fellow residents of the importance of the new landfill. The LSC will consist of 10 residents from each of the seven townships, and three members from each of the gov erning bodies. The search has begun in the hopes that the new landfill will have been sited, purchased and prepared when the landfill on Eubanks Road becomes full. The new site will accept only solid waste. Town council member Nancy Preston said the site must be large enough to accommodate 10 to 20 years of Orange County's solid waste and cannot be in a floodplain area or near major streams. Town Council member Joe Herzen berg said the process would take a long time. "A minimum of a year or a year and a half will be involved in the search." Rape from page 1 Carter asked anyone who called and left information on the Crime Stoppers line to call him at University police at 966-2120. Comar said Carter needed to ask these callers some follow-up ques tions that could add to the information already received. "Those who already called probably know some things that will help out tremendously," said Comar. Carter encouraged anyone else who might know anything about the assail ant or the assault to call him at the station. He assures complete anonym ity to any caller, and money will still be awarded to those who called Crime Stoppers with information. dent Health Services (SHS); Sue Gray, director of health education; and Wil liam Riddick, health educator, were chosen from the Student Health Serv ices. It is logical for representatives of SHS to attend the conference, Cowan said. "It makes sense. Student Health has a good deal of responsibility in the counseling, education and treatment of substance abuse." Several portions of the convention, such as alcohol risks and psychobiology, are health related. The University's fraternity and sorority members will be represented Action taken in the United States can help save the tropical rainforests, Hayes said. A boycott to stop Burger King from buying beef from rainforest cattle was successful after 18 months. Members of SEAC sent a letter to Chancellor Paul Hardin on Oct. 10 requesting the University to cease the purchase and use of tropical hardwoods. The chancellor's responded that he cared about the issue, but that it was not his place to take a stand, said Finis Dunaway, chairman of the Committee to Ban Tropical Hardwoods. Many letters have since been written to Har din asking for the ban, Dunaway said. The Student Affairs Committee of Student Congress has approved a bill that will be presented to the full Con gress Wednesday, encouraging the ad ministration to ban tropical hard woods. .'v.vwra-w.v.' . .J el M-:-.-x $ DTHSheila Johnston Including muffins, yogurt, fruit and In Chapel Hill: An employee of the Continentale Cafe reported to police that two trash dumpsters which had been positioned behind the restaurant were missing. Police noticed lights on in School Kids Record's on Franklin Street early last Wednesday morning and stopped to investigate. They found the lights were on because an employee of the store was there studying for an exam the next day. Police were called to the intersec tion of Columbia and Stevens streets last week with a report of a man sleeping in the street. Officers arrived to find the subject asleep and intoxi cated. An address was obtained, and the subject was followed home. Chapel Hill police received a report Saturday of a stolen 1 987 white Subaru. The owner of the car said the car had been parked at the Cats Cradle parking lot and was last seen at about 12:30 a.m. Malinda Whitley Smith, 38, of Chapel Hill was charged with assault this week after a complaint was filed against her by her neighbor. The complaint said Smith hit another woman with a stick Sunday at about 11:20 p.m. Two people were charged with driving while impaired in Chapel Hill last weekend. Rigoberto Bonilla, 20, of Hender son was charged after he was seen driving erratically on Airport Road Sunday morning. Bonilla was also charged with carrying a concealed weapon, a handgun. Mark R. Gundlach, 24, of Carrboro was charged with driving while im paired after he was seen driving on the City Police Roundup by Becky Mustard, Panhellenic Coun cil president, and Sterling Gilreath, Interfraternity Council president. "Hazing and Alcohol a Greek Trag edy" is a section of the program espe cially geared toward the dangers of hazing. Brien Lewis, student body president and Sharon Kebschull, Daily Tar Heel editor, will also attend. "People tend to associate alcohol with Greek life, and that isn't always fair," Lewis said. Lewis said he could bring needed experience in student life to the conference. Event to rid town By ERIK ROGERS Staff Writer "Give a hoot, don't pollute" was the slogan of the Woodsy Owl anti pollution campaign. Chapel Hill and Carrboro resi dents will do some pollution fight ing of their own when they pick up trash along neighborhood roads during G' litter Day. The event, which is sponsored by Cleanscape Inc., will be from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. This marks the eighth time that the semiannual event has been conducted. Cleanscape usually holds the event once in the spring and again in the fall. Francis DiGiano, Cleanscape board member, said the cause was a noteworthy one. "Litter is a prob lem everyone should be concerned with. A program like this makes people more aware of the need to take care of their environment." DiGiano compared G'litter Day to another highway cleanup pro gram, Adopt A Highway. "The main difference is Adopt A High way is a government run program but G'litter Day is not. Also, Adopt A Highway concentrates on the entire state of North Carolina while G'litter Day is strictly local." DiGiano said participation had been satisfactory, but there was definitely room for improvement. "There were approximately 60 participants during the first year of the program. Within the past couple of years that number has dwindled to 25. "We seem to catch college stu dents at the times when they are extremely busy. During our spring projects they are normally taking final exams. This Saturday they will probably be too busy thanks to the Threshold conference." But DiGiano does have projects to encourage participation. "Last spring we awarded $50 to the group with the largest number of participants. We may do that again, we may not. One thing we will definitely do is hide $5 gift certificates among the litter." Volunteers are to meet at the Chapel Hill Department of Public Works on Municipal Drive. Safety vests, gloves and trash bags will be provided. shoulder of U.S. 15-501 Sunday morning. He was also charged with careless and reckless driving. Two Chapel Hill women were arrested this week after police, re ceived a repoit that the women were preparing to fight at 849 Airport Road. When the police officers arrived, they discovered the women had out standing warrants for assault. Both women resisted arrest, and according to the police reports, one woman bit an officer. Annie Marie Parrish, 27, of Chapel Hill was served a warrant for two counts of assault. She was also charged with delaying and obstruct ing a police officer. Parrish was re leased after posting $1,000 secured bond. Mary Anne Parrish was served a warrant for one count of assault. She was also charged with assault oh a law enforcement officer after she reportedly bit the arresting officer on the arm. Parrish was released after posting $1,000 secured bond. In Hillsborough: A 1 -year-old infant was kidnap ped from its home in Hillsborough this weekend but was returned sev eral hours later. According to police reports, some one entered a trailer at Daniel Boone Campground on Old N.C. 86 SaturT' day night, grabbed the baby and ran'. A babysitter taking care of the baby was not injured during the incident. Police found the unharmed baby later that night in the area. Details on the baby's identity are sketchy and the incident is still under investiga tion. compiled by Steven Adams of Sitter
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