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6TrVe Daily Tar HeelThursday, January 10, 1990 r t " FEOTUJlHiES Perdue G SplMft Brf (O j(0 Golden rS ; v Indian Summer Apple Juice 64 Oz. 7T , M'YmtSL. S. ' 2 Liter Bottle Clorox Bleach (g)p vs (0Y6 EceMitiGk -.Gal. S S Pfces Good Through Tuesday, January 15, 1991 Prices In This Ad Effective Through Tuesday, JanuaVy, 1991. In Chapel Hill Stores Only. We Reserve The Right To Limit Quantities. None Sold To Dealers. We Gladly Accept Federal Food Stamps. UNC physician takes time to help students with emotional problems By MARY MOORE PAR HAM Stan Writer With a wall of medical school di plomas behind him and pink pig figu rines lining his shelves, Dr. Walter Faribault Jr. might pass for a veterinar ian. "Normal," he says to a patient over the phone. "You're completely normal. How about that?" It is not pigs but students that Faribault treats as part of the Student Health Service (SHS) staff. A graduate of Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, Faribault worked as a physician's assistant at N.C. Central University for eight years before com ing to Chapel Hill in 1988. Three years later, Faribault continues to treat students with everything from winter colds to mononucleosis, but as his patients have come to learn, he also goes a step further. The father of two children in their 20s, Faribault has accumulated his share of parental knowledge and attends to the emotional as well as the medical problems of his patients. He is able to advocate condom use in between plugs to eat more vegetables and maintain a balance between the social and academic sides of college life. If the letters from home haven't quite fulfilled an inborn need to be parented, a visit to Dr. Faribault will do the trick. "So often kids have been told to go to college and when they get there, haven't really thought the decision through," Faribault said. "Part of the environment of Chapel Hill allows me to experience instructional aspects of medicine and teach patients basic information about their well-being." Because of his interest in his patients, visits to Dr. Faribault are never short. "I'm not a mill medical person aiming to turn out patients," he said. "We all try to take the time to deal with the personal aspect of the person. Background may have a lot to do with an individual's prognosis." For this reason, Faribault diligently responds to his patients' needs, on or off call. "We're not here to get a paycheck," he said. "SHS is available for students' health and we're proud of the full range of services offered." However, it is not only in the medical profession that Faribault has chosen to spend his time. He chairs the Landfill Search Committee of Orange County and is a deacon at the Mt. Bright Baptist Church. He is also the owner of the newly opened Faribault's Pit Cooked Bar-B-Q in Hillsborough, which fea tures a recipe for barbecue that has been in his family for over 100 years. Clearly, pigs are Faribault's thing. "I like pigs," he said in reference to his shelf of statues. "They're much smarter in the cerebrum than people think and pigs are also good to eat, especially when I cook them." N.C. Museum of Life and Science offers classes to encourage learning by doing By VICKI HYMAN Features Editor Look but don't touch is not the motto of Durham's N.C. Museum of Life and Science. One of the museum's goals is to offer classes for people of all ages exploring aspects of science and tech nology, said Betsy Pozzanghera, coor dinator of community services. "On staff, we have people who are skilled in both the areas of wildlife and technology, so we're doing a series of classes focusing on" nature and a few classes on the technology aspect of science," Pozzanghera said. Pozzanghera is teaching a course in which students build their own robots, an example of the technology aspect, she said. Students working in pairs, generally childadult pairs, will build either Me dusa, a four-legged robot, or Peppy, a three-wheeled robot. Both use sound fencing, which enables them to respond to a person's voice, Pozzanghera said. After building the robots, the class will conduct tests to see how well they work. "We do all of our. science programs,; hands-on, so it's not lecture," Pozzanghera said. "It's people actually building things, exploring and discov ering what makes things work." The class, scheduled for January 26, is full, Pozzanghera said. "We have room for 30 people in the museum, but we have 49 registered." The museum will offer the class, which costs $17.50 for a childadult pair and $27.50 for a family of up to four, again in April. A class that explores the wildlife aspect of science focuses on owls and features an evening walk in search of these nocturnal creatures. Students will learn specifically about the owls of North Carolina, their habits, lifestyle, envi ronment and needs, said community educator Mark McKeller, who will teach the class. "We'll get out one of the screech owls from the museum, which is tamer," McKeller said. "They can't hold it, but they can get up close." After the class instruction, the stu dents will go to some sites in Durham where they might see owls. McKeller has some owl calls recorded on tape, and he will teach the students to imitate the calls. However, students might not be able to view any owls at all. "I'll have some owls scouted out for when we go that night, but that's not a guarantee," McKeller said. The class will take place Feb. 7 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and will cost $ 1 2 for individuals and $27.50 for families of up to four. Advance registration is required and ends on Thursday, Jan. 3 1 . Other upcoming classes include one on the synthetic and natural methods of dyeing yam for a wall hanging, which is scheduled for Feb. 14,21 and 28 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., and one that will explore pond life under winter's ice. This class, designed for first- and second-grade students, will take place Feb. 14,21 and 28 and March 7 from 3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. To register or for more information about these or other museum classes, call the Education Department at (919) 471-2776. The N.C. Museum of Life and Science is located at 433 Murray Avenue in Durham. t i, .,..;,. i i Teaching assistants lend enthusiasm, fresh perspectives to what they teach By BETH TATUM Staff Writer A hundred ink pens hang on every word. With each deliberate pause, the room fills with the sound of furious scribbling into half-full notebooks. While this may sound like a typical classroom scene, the person all these students devote their attention to is ac tually another student, one of the many teaching assistants (TAs) employed by UNC to assist professors. Most TAs work an average of nine to 10 hours a week. This figure includes time spent attending lectures and grading assignments, as well as actually teach ing labs or recitations. But the actual hours vary depending on incoming as signments, said Marty Scott, a Speech 41 TA. A large factor in becoming a TA is financial need. Bradley Waters, a Chemistry 41 lab TA, said the way the system works is a little ironic. A TA uses the very salary the school pays him to pay. school bills, he said. Most TAs earn around $6,000 a year. Aside from money, most graduate students who choose to become aTA do so because they want to teach in the future. Waters said teaching had given him good experience as well as fun. "I love it. We need science people and to get someone interested in a lab is a challenge, but it's fun," he said. Scott said he also enjoyed teaching because it helped others. Ed Roslof, a History 18 TA, said he found teaching very rewarding. "The best part of being aTA is getting in touch with the students and helping them to improve 'their analytical skills," he said. Many students found the enthusiasm TAs bring to class a definite bonus. "I really like my TAs because they're en thusiastic. They have new approaches and haven't been teaching the same thing for several years," said Andrea Cashion, a freshman journalism and English major from Thomasvillel- Emily Farthing, an English and German major from Norfolk, Va., agreed. "They have a different point of view ... and more specific, recent ex posure," she said. Because TAs are graduate students, most undergraduates find them more accessible than professors. "They are closer to the students, so I think they can empathize more," said John Lindsay, a junior speech major from Fayetteville. "But it's also harder for the TA to com- Welcome Back UNC Students! VFJ (The Best f.p) Price in Tuesday Special GIDIHHK N-GHfD" (Open 9-lam) .$125 24 oz draft Rock, Progressive & Top 40 Music Must be 18 YEARS OLD Thursday Special . JSLFT (Open 9-1 am) Fri&sat . $j95 tegsssEis Call 929-01 01 for Details mand respect," he said. Although most students like having TAs, some think they don't do enough. "My TA just does nothing. I don't un derstand why it takes a week to grade a multiple choice computer exam," said Ruth Kay, a junior political science major from Raleigh. "And I've never heard her speak more than two words. She may be nice, but I wouldn't know." And there is concern about the qual ity of education students get by having a graduate student teach a college class. "I think our education probably suffers because, education-wise, they don't know as much," Kay said. Lindsay said it depended on the TA. "Just like professors, there are good TAs and bad TAs," he said. "But the best situation is a good professor in a small class." Farthing said she thought TAs af fected educational quality, but for the better. "You may not learn as much in facts, but more in life stuff, perspec tives," she said. Anne Hastings, a sociology profes sor, has a TA each year. Her TAs grade exams and papers, average grades, hold office hours and guest lecture during the year. She said TAs did not short change students' educations. "The TAs are capable of teaching, especially at a lower level. They ought to know the introductory stuff. Plus, they are teaching topics that interest them," she said. "The only way to pre pare to teach is to teach." 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