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The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, October 23. 19903 (BARMS SDonoa Offl Medical School signs pact with Japanese The UNC School of Medicine signed :an institutional memorandum of ; agreement with the Nagoya University School of Medicine in Nagoya, Japan. Hie agreement provides for faculty : and fellows exchange, and for collabo ration in medical research by the two ; schools. The new relationship was marked by : a recent visit to the UNC Department of ". Surgery by Dr. Shigehiko Shionoya of ; the Nagoya University medical faculty. ; Similar institutional agreements are ! in effect between the UNC School of : Medicine and medical schools in China, : France, Israel and the United Kingdom. : Dances to highlight fall class reunions Members of four UNC al umni classes land others will swing and sway to the ;Big Band sounds of the Casablanca Orchestra during the fall reunion ; weekend Oct. 26-27. The reunion weekend for the classes iof 1970, 1975, 1980 and 1985 will be ! highlighted by the Fall Germans Dance, ;a traditional event from the 1930s i through the 1 960s that was successfully '.revived in 1988 by the UNC General : Alumni Association. The Fall Germans Dance will be co ; sponsored by the 1991 Senior Class and ! the Order of the Bell Tower. The use of ; the word "Germans," which was a col loquial Southern expression for ; "gentleman," comes from the Germans ' Club, a student organization that planned : the dance in its earlier days. Health sciences staff : appointed to journal Five people with ties to the Univer sity have been named to the editorial staff of the American Journal of Public Health. As a result of three of the appoint ments, the Health Sciences Library will receive an estimated 1,200 free books per year for its collection. Dr. Michel Ibrahim, UNC School of "Public Health dean, was named editor tof the journal last June and made the editorial appointments recently. ' Ibrahim selected Dr. Ernest Schoenfeld, associate dean of the School .of Public Health, to serve as assistant Ceditor. Carol Jenkins, director of the CHealth Sciences Library, has been 'named a contributing editor to the journal. ;. Marjory White, Health Sciences Li brary head of acquisitions services, and Suzanne Porter, monographshistorical .collections librarian, also were named contributing editors. Human resources office names director Kitty McCollum was recently ap pointed director of benefits in the Office of Human Resources. ; She will be responsible for develop ment and administration of benefit programs for all University faculty and staff. McCollum has been employed by the University for 13 years. Since 1985, .she has served as assistant director for personnel exempt from the State Per - sonnel Act in the Office of Institutional .Research and Faculty Benefits. Workshop changed to November 4-19 The UNC workshop on "The Re combinant DNA Technology: Oocyte Injection and Gene Expression" con ducted through the Program in Mo lecular Biology and Biotechnology has been rescheduled for Nov. 4-19. The session was originally scheduled for next week. Instructors will be Dr. Brian Kay, assistant biochemistry professor, and Dr. Howard Fried, associate biochem istry professor. The workshop is sup ported in part by the N.C. Biotechnol ogy Center. For more information, call 962-8920. Anthropology lecture scheduled for Oct. 31 As a part of the Wednesday colloquia Series, the anthropology department will present "Being There: Doing Ethnogra phy in China, April November, 1 989" Oct. 31. The lecture will be conducted by Carolyn Bloomer, of the UNC anthro pology department, at 3 : 1 5 p.m. in room 308, Alumni Building. Car owners mfeled by notices in Mamhead; By SUSIE KATZ Staff Writer Without proper authorization, the Carolina Athletic Association notified car owners parking in Ramshead lot that their cars would be relocated if they were not moved by 4 p.m. Friday. Deborah Hawkins, parking enforce ment supervisor, said CAA had asked for authorization to place notices telling people to move their cars or face towing Sept. 21 for the "Beat Kentucky" pep rally and band party held in Ramshead Parking Lot. The University Parking Control Di 'IhdispensiHe Guide' proceeds to aid ailing University By ASHLEY F0GLE Staff Writer "The Indispensable Guide to Classes" is now available for students who are confused about which classes to choose for the spring semester. The guide, which is designed to provide students with information about classes, departments and professors, was released for sale Monday. The publication features 32 depart ments. Student Body President Bill Hildebolt said the book would be especially helpful to freshman and sophomores trying to decide on a major. Juniors and seniors can use the guide for information about perspective and elective classes, he said. Tracy Lawson, editor of "The Indis pensable Guide to Classes," said the book was meant to be positive. "We wanted students to see what the best classes on campus were," she said. "We didn't set out to target the worst classes." Students can purchase copies this week in the Pit, Student Stores, Scuttlebutt, the Blue Ram and the Cir cus Room for $2 plus tax. Hildebolt said the sales tax was added to raise additional revenue for the state. "Five percent of the proceeds are going to what we call the 'Indispensable State Budget Fund'," he said. "In Ra leigh they call it a sales tax." Grant Vinik, student body vice president, said proceeds from the sale of the guide would be donated to cam pus libraries. "We're calling it The Indispensable Library Fund'," Vinik said. "All profits will go to buy-backs and library hours, and possibly (for) subscription pur chases." To generate a profit for the fund, more than 2,000 copies of the guide would have to be sold, Vinik said. More than 600 of the 3,000 printed copies were sold in advance to residence halls. John Jones, assistant manager of Student Stores, said he was enthusiastic about the guide and expected it to sell well. "It's always important to dissemi Awards to recognize TAs, outstanding professors By MATTHEW MIELKE StaH Writer Do you have a professor this se mester who stands above the rest a teacher who does not merely regurgi tate textbook facts, but personally draws you into his or her chosen field, challenging you and stimulating your brain? Maybe you have wanted to give that professor an appreciative pat on the back, but were too embarrassed to do so. Until Nov. 7, UNC undergraduates can voice their approval by nominat ing their favorite professors and teaching assistants for the Chancel lor's Awards for Distinguished Teaching. The awards include six Tanner Awards, valued at $5,000 each, that are given to professors and three teaching-assistant awards worth $1,000 each. George Lensing, selection com mittee chairman, said students' nomi nations would be given to a commit tee of si x faculty members, all of whom are past award recipients, and six students. Students cannot nominate professors or teaching assistants who previously have received an award. After the committee conducts in terviews with the nominees, a list of finalists will be sent to Chancellor Paul Hardin for confirmation. Chapel Hill-Carrboro Jaycees to haunt local house to benefit hospital By MARIEL WILSON Staff Writer With Halloween just around the corner, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Jay cees are gearing up to present their annual haunted house. The event has become more suc cessful each year and attendance has consistently been high, said Jaycees. Susan Clay, who is in charge of the event, said that as many as 2,500 people are expected to visit the house this year. vision granted the request, Hawkins said. "We had put our own sign up asking people to move by 4 o'clock," she said. But her department was unaware of last weekend's notices that threatened relocation until a student complained. Lydia Worley, one of the Home coming planners, said CAA had per mission to put the notices on cars. "Labron Reid (special events super visor for the Parking Control Division) gave us permission to put notices on the cars," Worley said. "We didn't actually move any cars. Most of the cars were moved by 4 p.m. when we wanted to Mbraries nate information on campus, especially information that is important to stu dents," he said. "We (at Student Stores) want to provide a mechanism so that it can get out to the students. We are going to put it around and make sure people see it. I expect that it will sell itself." Hildebolt said the project was one of his campaign promises from last year. "I always thought we needed a guide," Hildebolt said. "We had the Carolina Course Review, but it was very quan titative and still not comprehensive. It was fairly biased and subjective, and it folded a couple of years ago. I knew about a guide at Harvard and Penn and also at Duke. "(The 'Indispensable Guide') is can did and written in prose. We put the grapevine on paper." Vinik said he was pleased with the outcome of the guide. "The publishers did an outstanding job on short notice," he said. "We're billing it as something students can pick up and take home, and when they pre register next week they can sit down with the guide on their lap, and when they call Caroline, they can tell her what they want." Although the student leaders were pleased with the overall result of the guide, Hildebolt said there were some problems. "The viewpoints are too limited," he said. "Not enough people have written only 25 or 30, maybe 40 people contributed. We need more to provide a broad spectrum. We also need to cover more classes. It's a great, great start. I'm hoping people will say, "It's good and it helps, but I could make it better.'" The next copy of the guide will be published in the spring, Hildebolt said. New editions then will be published annually. Vinik said he hoped the guide would be beneficial to students. "For something very inexpensive, it can provide a lot of happiness," he said. "Speaking personally, if I've got one outstanding professor or class each se mester, I'm a happy man. This guide lists hundreds." The committee has changed the award process since last year, Lensing said. Students in the past nominated professors and teaching assistants for the Chancellor's Awards in the spring. But the nomination time was changed to the fall semester so it would not coincide with the Students Under graduate Teaching Awards selection process, he said. Also new this year is the addition of a Johnston Scholars Teaching Award, valued at $5,000. Professors will be nominated by the Johnston Scholars, and the committee will select the re cipient. Eleanor Browning, a committee member, said the committee selected people who have an outstanding knowledge of their chosen area of study and show a deep concern for their students. Above all, the candi dates should inspire their students and bring an air of excitement to the classroom, she said. Lensing said visiting faculty usually cannot be nominated. A very small percentage of the stu dent body nominates professors and teaching assistants for the awards, Lensing said. Nomination forms are located at Davis Library. Under graduate Library. Campus Y, Black Cultural Center, Student Union and Health Sciences Library. She based her estimate on last year's numbers, and said she expected even more people to attend this year. "The haunted house is our second largest event each year," Clay said. The group has been working on the project since it secured a location for the house in mid-September. Clay said finding an appropriate site is one of the most difficult parts of producing a haunted house. This year the house will be located in line up for the parade, or we just worked around them." Reid said he gave CAA permission to place notices on cars in the Ramshead parking lot informing car owners of Friday evening's events and asking them to move their cars by 4 p.m. But he did not give CAA authority to tow cars that were not removed from the lot, Reid said. "We did not approve anything in the notices about towing cars," he said. An employee of the Parking Control Division found one of the notices and brought it to his attention, he said. SS?- ftSf k ft 1 z 2P1'5?tz"R ........ ... .Li-' ecu. 33 i in laiiiiiy .. Freshman Mark Perini hurls his body into a pile of $1 bet with his roommate, freshman Chris Moran, that leaves near Lenior Dining Hall Monday afternoon on a he would not jump when others could see him. Flooding disrupts Union activities, causes plumbing, phone problems By BURKE K00NCE Staff Writer Flooding between Davis Library and the Student Union Sunday afternoon caused little damage to the Union, Union Director Archie Copeland said. "Everything is business as usual again today," he said. A broken water pipe between the two buildings caused the flooding, Copeland said. The pipe, which broke when its cement casing fractured, spewed water through the Union's northern doors and the Union's underground loading docks and storage rooms. The flooding disrupted telephone lines in the Union Sunday night and caused minorproblems in the building's plumbing system, Copeland said. Herbert Paul, physical plant director, said the pipe burst at a joint where there was a considerable amount of expansion and vibration because of heavy con struction traffic near the pipe. Squad jumps By STEVE POLITI Staff Writer The Varsity Cheerleading Squad is not only diverse in routines and stunts, but culturally as well. Last year, Erica Bryant, now a senior, was the only minority cheerleader on the 1 6-member varsity team. This year, four Afro-Americans are on the varsity squad. The junior varsity squad's two captains are Afro-Americans, and an other member is Korean. Racial equality on the cheerleading squad is a small step, but one that should not go unnoticed, Bryant said. "I think it's made a lot of us realize that the differences between us are not as great as people would like to think," she said. "Being the only black on the squad put me in a lot of uncomfortable positions. If I made mistakes it would stick out more than mistakes made by other people." But the squad focuses on the team's overall improvement rather than its ra cial diversity, she said. "We're in the gym every night, and we see who has the ability," she said. "It's (racial diversity) more evident for the people not on the squad the fans who attend the games or players on the teams." Carr Mill Mall in Carrboro behind Talbot's. It will run Oct. 26-3 1 from 7 10 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Friday, and 7-11 p.m. Wednesday and Satur day. Because the haunted house is an an nual event, most of the costumes and props are already available and the cost is low. Clay said. Admission to the haunted house will be $3. Beneficiaries of this season's project include the South Orange Res CAA President Lisa Frye said the entire incident was caused by a misun derstanding between her and CAA staff members. "What happened was for the 'Beat Kentucky' pep rally, we did need the lot completely or almost completely cleared, so Mr. Reid gave us permission to put that the cars would be relocated on the (notices)," Frye said. When the Homecoming staff asked her what to do about cars in the Ramshead lot during Homecoming events, she told them to distribute the same type of notices they had used for "We don't like to see a lot of this, obviously, but these things just happen sometimes," Paul said. The flooding left two floors of the Union wet and stained with red mud, he said. The floor in front of the Union desk still had a orange tint Monday afternoon. "As far as I know, there is little or no permanent damage," Paul said. Water damage, however, often does not be come apparent immediately after the accident, he said. Copeland said water covered much of the floor in the main lobby and cas caded down the stairs to the front of the bowling alley and the Union Cabaret. The water spread into the exhibition gallery, staining about one-third of the carpet and warping ceiling panels of the level below. Water also was standing in the storage areas near the basement loading dock, he said. to increase cultural diversity 'They don't even talk just . . . friends working together. " Cheerleading Cheerleading Coach Don Collins said the squad's diversity has increased. "Our squad members come from all walks of life," he said. "It's not a big change for them. They don't even talk about it. They 're just a group of friends working together." Senior Shea Roberts, a white mem ber of the varsity squad, said she has heard positive comments about the in crease in minority students on the team. "I'm sure people have noticed, and I've only heard positive reactions," she said. "Among the squad, talent is talent. Our basic goal is to keep the crowd up, and the people on the squad are the ones doing that." Collins said a greater number of minority students tried out this year. Minority students may have been encouraged to try out after seeing Bryant cheer at games last year, he said. A 10-person commie, including UNC students, high school coaches. cue Squad and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public School Foundation, Clay said. The Jaycees are anticipating the help of the Alpha Phi Omega service frater nity. "APO has helped in previous years with the program," Clay said. Rick Bruick, a member of APO, said last Halloween was his first time working with Jaycees on the project. "We served as tour guides last year," the Kentucky pep rally, Frye said. . : "I told them to use the same format, not thinking that they said the cars would be relocated," Frye said. "It was just n mistake on my part." . L The CAA wanted people to know the parade was lining up in the Ramshead parking lot, she said. -; ; "We were concerned with the big floats and the golf carts (in the parade), that people knew about it and could move their cars out," Frye said. "Nor mally, we do the parade on Saturday morning when there can't be cars there anyway. It was an unknown." DTHJonathan Grubbs "You name it, the water wentthrpugh it," Copeland said. "Luckily, almost everything in storage was off tbe floor." Several meetings in the Union were canceled or postponed because of -the flooding and cleanup work, he said.; "It was right at the time when people want to use the Union," he said. "But it didn't bother the College Bowl competition upstairs." Sunday's flooding was the largest the Union had experienced, Copeland said. "We're not exactly prepared for flooding," he said. : Paul said the University was Self insured for disasters such as Sunday's flood by the State Property Fire Insur ance Fund. "Hopefully, the insurance will not become an issue," he said; Copeland said a University physical plant spot cleaning crew continued cleanup efforts through Monday after noon. " about it. They're Coach Don Collins UNC basketball and football coaches and graduating cheerleaders, selects squad members. The committee looks for physical fitness, gymnastic abilities and spirit, Collins said. People trying out partici pate in a week of practice sessions.: "These people out there are the: 16 best people to be cheerleading at this University at this time," Collins said. "The team is a lot more physically :fit, and we have a lot of very athletic males on the team who were football players or wrestlers at high school." : ; The cheerleaders practice three days a week and lift weights twice a week to increase their strength. Between football and basketball season the cheerleaders will prepare for the national cheerleading tournament in January. The UNC cheerleaders placed fifth in last year's national tournament in Texas. he said. "This year we might run;our own room." In related news, Mangum Residence Hall is sponsoring a haunted house Oct. 26 and 27. The house, which will b set up inside Mangum, will be open from 7:30-1 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $2 in ad vance and $3 at the door. The money raised from ticket sales will go to benefit the Jaycees' Burn Center at UNC Hospitals. -
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