The Daily Tar HeelThursday, June 14, 19903
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UNC scientists research
viral defenses
'Working independently, groups of
scientists at the School of Medicine and
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology have developed an important
tool for studying how the body protects
itself against viral infections.
This "tool" is a strain of mice whose
forefathers were altered to not produce
a key protein known as Beta 2
microglobulin, which tells the body
which cells have been infected by viruses
and must be destroyed.
. Using the altered mice, researchers
say they should be able to learn more
about the protein's role in the immune
system and what unknown defenses may
protect humans and animals when class
I proteins do not work.
Public Health looks at
cholesterol levels
Concerned about the high choles
terol levels among the nation's elderly
population, scientists at the School of
Public Health want to know if reducing
those levels helps control heart disease.
The National Heart, Lung and Blood
Institute has awarded the researchers a
two-year, $565,000 grant to design a
national study, which could have a ma
jor impact on how doctors treat millions
of senior citizens.
i - Dr. Ed Davis, principal investigator
for the project, said increases in the
elderly population makes knowing what
tfo do about elevated cholesterol ex
tremely important.
! ; "We want to know if lowering cho
lesterol will reduce the incidence of
fieart disease in older persons,firm sci
entific evidence is not yet available," he
said. "Since we are a graying popula
tion, the public health implications of
this question are really enormous as we
go into the 21st century."
Coleman appointed head
of research
Dr. Mary Sue Coleman, a trustee,
professor and researcher at the Univer
sity of Kentucky, has been appointed
associate provost and head of research
at UNC.
The appointment, effective July 1,
was approved June 8 by the UNC Board
of Governors. Coleman will also be
come professor in the Department of
Biochemistry and Nutrition in the
School of Medicine.
Coleman's duties will include devel
oping new research initiatives and
funding sources, providing technical
assistance to faculty seeking outside
funding through the Office of Research
Services and serving as a liaison and
spokesman on research matters with
other institutions, funding agencies,
organizations and alumni.
Department of Pediatrics
to study anemia
The department of Pediatrics' Divi
sion of Hematology in the School of
Medicine has been awarded a three
year, $149,334 grant from the Kate B.
Reynolds Health Care Trust to develop
materials about sickle-cell anemia.
Sherree Drezner, clinical social
worker, and Dr. Herbert Cooper, pro
fessor of pediatrics, are co-directors of
the project. They will oversee the de
velopment of clinic guides and educa
tional materials for preschool, school
age and adolescent patients with sickle
cell disease as well as their families.
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Stademts
By PAUL BOYD
Staff Writer
A group of University students will
join thousands of others next week in a
series of events including a march and
rally at the White House to focus at
tention on issues facing ethnic groups
and minorities in the United States.
The rally and march are part of the
Student Call to Washington, a week
long program in Washington, D.C., from
June 1 6 to 22 sponsored by the National
Collegiate Black Caucus (NCBC).
The local chapter of the NCBC, in
conjunction with the Black Cultural
Center, is sponsoring 20 delegates for
the march and rally.
"I believe the Student Call will have
C-TOPS helps new students adjust to UNC
By KENNY MONTEITH
Staff Writer
While most students are sweating it
out in the classroom, the student-run
orientation program is shifting into
high gear preparing incoming fresh
men, junior transfers and graduate
students for university life.
Carolina Testing and Orientation
Program Sessions (C-TOPS), which
run every week during the summer
from Thursday to Sunday, provide
incoming students and their parents
with a chance to learn more about
specific programs and opportunities
offered by UNC.
All but one weekend of C-TOPS
are set up to help freshmen adjust to
college life. They are housed in Cobb
and Joyner Residence Halls along with
the orientation leaders. An estimated
360 freshmen and their parents attend
each C-TOPS , said Orientation Leader
Zack Schroeder, ajunior from Raleigh.
Each orientation leader is assigned
a specific group of freshmen or par
ents to lead to various sessions con
cerning university life, Schroeder said.
The sessions are presented by the ori
entation leaders and other University
officials.
In these sessions, freshmen and
parents fill out forms and question
naires on religious preferences, dating
and other social issues. They are also
informed about the academic life at
UNC, personal and property security,
dating safety and other Tar Heel events.
The orientation leaders also per
form exaggerated skits for the parents
explaining the pitfalls that may face a
college freshman, Schroeder said.
"There's also a question-and-an-swer
session for the parents," he said.
"Sometimes we run out of time, so we
just ask them to ask us questions af
terwards." The July 28 session, however, is
geared toward junior transfers and
Bill in legislature similar to chancellor's idea
By THOMAS HEALY
Staff Writer
A bill introduced in the General As
sembly last week would give schools in
the University of North Carol ina system
greater administrative flexibility in the
day-to-day management of their finan
cial affairs.
The UNC Management Flexibility
Bill was introduced by Rep. George
Miller and Sen. Kenneth Royall and
calls for many of the same actions
proposed almost a year ago by UNC
CH Chancellor Paul Hardin. The bill is
based on joint findings of the Board of
Governors and the Office of State
Early-learning program can help premature babies
From Associated Press reports
Underweight, premature infants have
higher IQ scores and fewer learning
problems when they are enrolled in an
early-learning program, say researchers
at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
"We already knew that early inter
vention made a big difference in eco
nomically disadvantaged children," said
Donna Bryant, associate director of the
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to participate m Call to Washington
a tremendous effect locally and nation
ally," said Sherry Waters, president of
the local NCBC.
Waters stressed the importance of
improving education, reducing unem
ployment and creating a drug free en
vironment for black Americans.
"Students will definitely come back
with an open awareness of the national
crisis and become more willing to get
involved in the issues facing society,"
she said.
Cassandra Caldwell, chairwoman for
local NCBC public relations, said stu
dent response has been tremendous, and
encouraged others interested in the
march and rally to attend.
"I feel the march on Washington will
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Orientations leaders Christine Santos, Jason Burke, Chip Sudderth and Chris Shelton rehearse a C-TOPS skit
graduate and professional students.
Gretchen Diffendal, orientation leader
coordinator, said orientation is.handled
different for these groups. They don't
need to learn how to be a college student
(like the freshmen)," she said. "They
just need to know how to be a college
student at Carolina."
The focus for transfers and graduate
students is on the services that they may
need while at UNC, Diffendal said.
Services such as the Career Planning
Budget and Management which were
put forward at the request of the General
Assembly.
The purpose of the proposed legis
lation is to provide for better manage
ment and more effective use of resources
by the institutions of the University of
North Carolina.
The bill would cut in half the number
of line item controls on University
budgets, would raise the ceiling on
purchases to be made directly by the
universities and other State agencies
from $5,000 to $10,000, and would
make research-related purchases exempt
from state sales tax.
study, which was developed by the Frank
Porter Graham Child Development
Center at UNC-CH. "Now we know it
can make a significant difference for
low-birth-weight babies, too."
Results of the four-year, $33 million
study are reported in today's issue of the
Journal of the American Medical As
sociation. Bryant and two other re
searchers presented the findings at a
news conference in Chapel Hill on
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be a positive step towards increased
student activism," she said. "Many
people think that students are apathetic
towards social issues. This will prove
them wrong."
The event is attracting nationwide
attention and has been endorsed by
several institutions including Amnesty
International and The Martin Luther
King, Jr. Center for Social Change.
The event is separated into three parts.
The first, "Soweto Day," will be held
June 16 in rememberance of the mas
sacre of 300 South African students in
1976 by apartheid security forces dur
ing peaceful demonstrations.
The second part is titled "By Any
Means Necessary." Participants will
and Placement and Health Services are
examples of the services that could help
transfers and graduates, she said.
C-TOPS is run by 1 6 student orienta
tion leaders, who were selected in
January by an orientation committee. In
addition to conducting the C-TOPS
weekends, orientation leaders work
during the week compiling data on the
freshmen and filling the registration
packets with schedules, name tags, and
other information.
All 3 of the actions were recom
mended by Hardin in a report to the
UNC Board of Trustees Sept. 1, 1989.
Hardin recommended reducing budget
lines so that funds could be moved
around to needed areas. He also rec
ommended that the ceiling on purchases
made by the University through com
petitive bidding be raised to $25,000.
But the bill would not allow UNC
schools to carry over funds from one
budget year to the next, nor does it
consider using tuition as a means of
revenue for the schools. Both steps were
recommended by Hardin.
The bill also would not affect general
Tuesday.
The research, sponsored by the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, was con
ducted at eight universities across the
nation and evaluated by a research team
at Stanford University.
The study found that youngsters
weighing between 4.4 and 5.5 pounds at
birth who were given learning exercises
at home and in special schools scored
13 points higher on IQ tests than a
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assemble outside the U.S. Department
of Education and march to the White
House on June 1 7. The rally will be held
immediately afterward across from the
White House in Lafayette Park. The
rally will focus on problems facing the
black community and will feature
speakers and entertainment.
The Student Call to Washington will
end with Student Action Week, June
1 8-22. This event will begin at Howard
University with a teach-in to focus on
such issues as homelessness, education,
civil rights and environmental concerns.
A meeting with President George
Bush has been requested by the NCBC,
but has yet to be confirmed. If the
meeting takes place, a rally will be held
In August, the orientation leaders
will organize the fall orientation pro
gram for incoming freshmen. This
program, which is separate from C
TOPS, is designed to help freshmen
move into residence halls, go through
dropadd and learn housing rules and
regulations. The orientation leaders
are paired off into areas such as
STOW, Hinton James and Scott
Residence College to help entering
freshmen, Schroeder said.
fund appropriations for 1990-91, ac
cording to Miller and Royall.
In a report to the UNC Board of
Governors, CD. Spangler, president of
the University of North Carolina system,
praised the bill for its attempt to give
each of the system's campuses "needed
flexibility in financial management."
Spangler also sent copies of a letter to
members of the Board of Trustees asking
their support for the bill. In the letter,
Spangler said, "This bill is very im
portant to the University. It would
provide your chancellor important au
thority to manage and lead your campus
more effectively."
comparable group of children not en
rolled in such programs.
Infants weighing less than 4.4 pounds
at birth averaged 6.6 points higher than
those not given the special attention.
All of the children were tested at age 3.
Researchers studied 985 babies born
at 5.5 pounds or less and delivered at 37
weeks or less. Most babies are born at
40 weeks.
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Supreme Court to report its results.
On Capitol Hill Lobbying Day, par
ticipants will meet with members of
Congress to hold them accountable for
the current status of education, unem
ployment, housing and other issues.
The group will also lobby for the re
authorization of the Higher Education
Act and for passage of the Civil Rights
Act of 1990. Students will conclude the
week with the development of a Student
Action Agenda for the coming school
year and will conduct an Interfaith Ser
vice prior to departure.
For more information, contact
Cassandra Caldwell at 933-1892.
BOG selects
new UNC-W
chancellor
By KELLY THOMPSON
Editor
The Board of Governors for the UNC
system selected a former UNC-CH
professor as the new chancellor of UNC
Wilmington and reported that the
number of black applicants to system
schools passed 1 0,000 for the first time
ever last year at their meeting June 8.
James R. Leutze, a former professor
of military history at the University,
was recommended to the BOG by UNC
President CD. Spangler and approved
by a unanimous vote. He will succeed
William H. Wagoner, who is retiring
July 15.
The new chancellor said in a news
conference he planned to strengthen
research, add more master's programs
and increase ties to the community, but
cautioned the improvements would take
time. "Greatness is almost being thrust
on this university," he said. "But ex
cellence is never easy."
Leutze began his teaching career at
UNC-Chapel Hill in 1968 and was
named chairman of the Curriculum in
Peace, War and Defense in 1986. He
left Chapel Hill in 1987 to become
president of Hampden-Sydney College
in Hampden-Sydney, Va.
Later in the meeting, the Committee
on Educational Planning, Policies and
Programs presented its study of minority
enrollment within the UNC system.
Committee chairman Earl Danieley
reported that enrollment of in-state black
students increased 16 percent and Na
tive American students went up 38
percent from 1 980 to 1 989, while white
in-state student enrollment rose 17
percent in the same period.
Danieley also said black students
comprised 8.25 percent of the total en
rollment within the 1 1 predominantly
white institutions in the system. UNC
system schools as a whole have never
reached their goal of 10 percent black
enrollment, although a few individual
schools including UNC-Greensboro had
as of last fall.
The committee's report also showed
white student enrollment had risen to 17
percent of the toial on traditionally black
campuses in 1989, such as Fayetteville
State University and Elizabeth City State
University.
One Board of Governors member
said the numbers show that the system 's
integration plan is not aggressive enough
inThe Chapel Hill Newspaper Monday.
"I'm not sure the recruiters are really
going after them," said Maceo Sloan, a
retired black businessman who was
appointed to the board in 1972.
In other business, Board of Governors
appointed nominees to several groups
including the Board of Trustees for the
UNC Center for Public Television and
Faculty Assembly Chairman Fred
Hinson gave a presentation on the fac
ulty group.
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