The Daily Tar HeelMonday, October 29, 19903
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Employment group
to hold open house
The Employment Security Commis-
nri awards
ceremony Tuesday, Oct. 30 from 2 p.m.
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tional rehabilitation and employment
security.
The Employment Security Commis
sion office is located at 1 10 West Main
St., Carrboro. Those planning to attend
should call the office at 967-1077.
CUTTER DAY to be
held this weekend
Cleanscape of Chapel Hill is spon
soring the semi-annual G 'LITTER
DAY, an all-volunteer roadside cleanup,
Saturday, Nov. 3 from 9 a.m. to 12
noon.
Volunteers are asked to meet at the
Chapel Hill Department of Public Works
on Municipal Drive off Airport Road.
Safety vests, gloves and trash bags will
be provided.
Polish food, dancing
featured at Cary event
The Polish American Club will hold
a dinner and dance from 9 p.m. to
midnight Saturday, Nov. 10 at the Cary
VFW on Reedy Creek Road.
The dinner will feature traditional
Polish food, such as pierogi, kielbasi
and golabki. The Brassworks Band will
provide the music. For tickets and in
formation, call 929-1244.
Parks department
announces schedule
The Chapel Hill Parks and Recre
ation Department has announced its up
coming events.
a On Saturday, Nov. 17, there will
be a two-hpur session about Earth edu
cation. The day will include an "active"
outdoor walk and concludes with a slide
show on Sunship Earth, a earth educa
tion program for upper elementary
students.
This session should interest class
room teachers; "outdoor instructors,
youth leaders and environmental edu
cators;"althoagh? the general public is
strongly encouraged to attend.
The session is scheduled for 10 a.m.
to 12 noon at the Umstead Center at
Umstead Park in Chapel Hill. Call 968
2784 to pre-register for this free pro
gram. B The rec department is sponsoring
introductory rock climbing classes this
winter. The first is scheduled for Sat
urday, Dec. 8 from 7:15-9:30 p.m.
: During the session, participants will
learn basic information about harnesses,
delay systems, equipment and climbing
techniques.
Anyone 13 years old and up can
participate, and the fee is $8 for resi
dents and $9.50 for non-residents.
; B The rec department is also spon
soring a tour of the Duke Primate Center
Saturday, Dec. 15 at 3:30 p.m.
; All ages are welcome, but children
Onder 12 must be accompanied by an
adult. Children under 12 will not be
allowed through the indoor part of the
tour, approximately the last 20 minutes,
due to federal health regulations.
; All participants must pre-register with
CHP&RD to attend. Orange County
residents will get priority for the tour.
Agendas
Chapel Hill
Town Council
The Town Council will meet at 7:30
p.m. Monday in the council chamber in
the Municipal Building. The meeting
will be televised live on Carolina Cable
Channel 13.
The agenda includes discussions on
the Northside land-use plan amendment,
the single-familyduplexrooming house
development ordinance text amendment
and the thoroughfare plan. The council
will consider alternate resolutions con
cerning the 1985-20 10 Durham-Chapel
Hill-Carrboro thoroughfare plan.
The council will also talk about the
design for the N.C. 86 and South Co
lumbia corridor. It will consider a
resolution authorizing the town manager
to proceed with design studies for lane
improvements and widening options on
South Columbia Street.
: Discussion about rural buffers is
also on the agenda. The council will
consider a resolution about amendments
to the joint planning agreement and the
joint planning land-use plan. It will also
consider a resolution requesting techni
cal assistance from the Orange Water
and Sewer Authority.
The council will also discuss hotel
motel tax allocations. It will consider
alternate resolutions authorizing the
manager to enter into performance
agreements for visitor information ser
vices and support of cultural events.
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen
does not meet this week.
Basketball ticket distribution policy to chant
By YU-YEE WU
Staff Writer
Diehard basketball fans will have to
trek down to the Smith Center on
Tuesdays instead of Sundays to pick up
tickets for most non-conference games
because of a change in the basketball
ticket distribution policy.
The Carolina Athletic Association
(CAA) usually gives out basketball
tickets for two games on one distribu-
tion day, but not all students use both
game tickets, said Vonda Hampton,
CAA ticket co-director.
"Last year, it was common practice
to pair ticket distribution for a big game
IMC, Columbia U.
loin, forces to build
powerful
By BRIAN G0LS0N
Staff Writer
The UNC physics and astronomy
department is working with Columbia
University to build one of the world's
largest and most powerful telescopes.
The Southern Observatory for As
tronomical Research (SOAR) project
includes building an advanced four
meter telescope capable of producing
the best image quality possible.
The telescope will be built in Cerro
Pachon, Chile, which is a well-known
astronomical site.
Astronomy professor Bruce Carney
said the telescope "would ultimately be
one of the most important telescopes to
astronomers anywhere."The telescope's
ability to aid and focus research will
help UNC attract the nation's most
distinguished faculty in astronomy and
physics, he said.
The telescope will be among the
largest in the world. New technology
will allow the telescope to produce better
images than any other telescope. Active
optics, the primary technology behind
the SOAR project, allows computer
control to better adjust the telescope
under changing conditions. These au
tomatic adjustments will produce im
ages that are 1 0 to 1 5 times clearer than
those of most telescopes.
Despite its location in northern Chile,
students and faculty will have easy ac
cess to the telescope. Monitors and
computer control of SOAR will be
placed on UNC's and Columbia's
campuses. Morehead Planetarium will
Sorority house completion
date still plagued by delays
By TIM BURROWS
Staff Writere
Members of De lta Zeta sorority have
been waiting for their house to be fin
ished, but they still have a while to go
before their patience will be rewarded,
said member Heather Summey.
The house was supposed to be ready
Oct. 1 , but because of delays, members
may not be able to move in until the end
of this semester or early in the spring
semester, she said.
Delta Zeta President Alisa Carrigan
said, "No definite date has been given to
us."
Delays have plagued the construction
of the Delta Zeta house since the March
ground-breaking ceremony.
Summey said some of the delays
were inevitable, such as Hurricane
Hugo. The storm interrupted availabil
ity of building supplies and caused
substantial price increases.
But bureaucratic requirements for
building a house also caused many
problems, she said.
Before construction could start,
Chapel Hill officials required soil and
water tests on the site. The sorority had
to send members to tree maintenance
class.
'They now know how to take care of
all our trees, Summey said. 1 he house
was built around certain trees that could
not be cut down, she said.
Because the house has three stories,
the sorority had to install equipment to
provide handicap access, Summey said.
Parking for all 40 residents and guests
also had to be considered in the con
struction.
Smaller elementary classes
By JANICE DAUGHTRY
Staff Writer
A four-year study conducted in Ten
nessee indicates that smaller classes in
elementary schools are more conducive
to learning than classes with more than
20 students, but the Chapel Hill
Carrboro schools continue to have larger
classes.
"This statewide longitudinal study
showed that smaller classes can raise
student achievement," said Kim Hoke
of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School
System. "This is the focus that teachers
have been saying for years."
The project, called STAR, studied
how students learned using pre- and
post-tests. It was funded by the Ten
nessee state legislature.
(conference game) and a small game,"
Hampton said. " But students would
only go to the big game. It was obviously
a problem that lots of the seats were
empty for the smaller games, even
though the tickets had been picked up.
This problem left a limited number
of undistributed student tickets to sell
and lots of vacant seats to fill, she said.
A specific list of distribution dates
and games is available in the CAA
office in the Union.
Adding Tuesday to ticket distribution
days was the only change in the policy
from last year, she said. Tickets for
conference games still will be distributed
telescope
probably be the site for UNC's location.
Thomas Clegg, chairman of the
physics and astronomy department, said
this access would allow the telescope
"to be an extension of the UNC campus
in Chile and, due to new communica
tions technologies, would not require
faculty or students ever to leave Chapel
Hill while using the telescope."
The department is a Me to support the
SOAR project because of its ability to
redirect research and growth at the
University, Clegg said. The telescope
will benefit the entire UNC system be
cause of its effects on education and
research for students and teachers
throughout the state.
The total cost of the project is esti
mated to be about $17 million, with
UNC and Columbia each raising half of
the total cost from private contributions.
About $1 million has already been
spent on the first stages of the project.
The University is still searching for
large donations to make the project
possible. Carney and Clegg said they
were optimistic about fund-raising
possibilities for the project.
The projected completion date of
SOAR coincides with the University's
bicentennial.
Carney said it was important that the
completion of the project coincided with
the anniversary of the first student's
admittance at UNC, because in 1825
UNC became the first American unt-;
versity to open an astronomical obser
vatory. ,
Inspections also complicated the
construction. Each stage of the con
struction had to be inspected before
building could continue, and many of
the inspectors were slow to respond to
requests for inspection, she said.
During fall rush, an insulation m-
spector took two weeks before coming
to the site to approve some wonc.
While waiting for the inspector,
building almost ground to a halt. The
sorority was unable to give rushees tours
through the house until the inspector
arrived.
On top of these problems, a large
factor in the construction delays is the
house's size. The house has 10,000
square feet and cost $ 1,000,000.
Sorority members are not daunted by
the cost, Summey said. The National
Delta Zeta chapter has arranged for the
mortgage and will hold the actual deed.
Chapel Hill Delta Zeta members will
pay rent to the national organization.
The national organization is paying
for housing for members scheduled to
move into the new house in October.
After staying a month and a half at
the Omni Europa Hotel, members now
are lodged at Foxcroft Apartments.
The outside of the house is almost
finished, and much of the work is taking
place in the interior, particularly on the
upper floors.
Carrigan said Delta Zeta members
were very excited about the completion
of the house. "We haven't needed a
house to have a close sorority, but its
addition will enhance our sisterhood."
According to Hoke, the state of North
Carolina funds classrooms and sets lim
its on the numbers of students in classes.
For kindergarten through third grade,
one teacher and a teacher's aide are
allowed for every 29 students. The same
holds for fourth through sixth grades,
except there is no teacher's aide. For
seventh through 12th grade- , there is
one teacher for every 30 students.
"According to the BEP (Basic Edu
cation Plan),there are plans to reduce
class size to 22 to 23 students," Hoke
said.
Hoke said Tennessee officials prob
ably took a sample of districts in the
state and gave extra funding to hire
more teachers at some schools. They
maintained control classes with the
Sundays.
'The Athletic Department was hop
ing that by pairing smaller games to
gether, or basically, by not pairing them
with big games, that they could solve
that problem of having empty seats,
Hampton said
The initial proposal was to have a
separate distribution for each game, but
it was not feasible.
"An original idea was to have single
distribution for each game, but that is a
lot of times for students to come down
to the Dome and there weren't enough
Sundays to have single distribution,"
Hampton said. "So we decided to pair a
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Growing senior citizen
may bring
By NICOLE PEREZ. .
Staff Writer
The senior citizen population of
Chapel Hill and Carrboro will grow 1 03
percent by the year 2000, said Janice
Tyler, a spokesperson for the Orange
County Department on Aging.
Because there are a large number of
people older than 60 in the Chapel Hill
area, many public officials think the
community is in dire need of increased
programs for seniors.
"We've outgrown everything we
have here. The population is growing
and we need to ensure something ad
equate for them," said Melody Trent,
the Senior Center specialist tor tne
chapel Hill Parks and Recreation De
partment.
A public hearing, scheduled for Nov.
wjn anow the members of the
community to express their opinions
regarding the development of a com
munity senior center for southern Or
ange County.
"At the public hearing we will try to
see if there is a need for a Chapel Hill
senior center or if there will be a need
Halloween should be safe for area
By NANCY JOHNSON
Staff Writer
Trick-or-treaters should make their
rounds early and travel with an adult
this Halloween, but if the past few years
are any indication, they can feel rela
tively safe, in the Chapel Hill and
Carrboro areas, police officials said.
"We've been real lucky," said Chapel
Hill Police planner Jane Cousins.
Cousins said the pol ice received a report
of a straight pin in some candy about
three years ago, but that Halloween
usually runs smoothly.
Cousins added that crowds of Uni
versity students generally remain under
control and do not pose an increased
threat to the children,
"There doesn't seem to be as much
alcohol involved, because people are
interested in the costumes," she said.
can raise student achievement, study says
typical number of students in a class,
she said.
Some of the classes were reduced to
between 1 3 and 17 students, others kept
22 to 25 students with one teacher, and
others had 22 to 25 students with a
teacher and a teacher's aide. About 7,000
students took the test at the end of the
year to determine which students had
achieved more.
"The greatest gains were found to be
in the classes with 13 to 17 students per
teacher," Hoke said. "Smaller classes
have an advantage over larger ones in
reading and mathematics in the primary
levels." .
The 22- to 25-student classes
achieved the same level with or without
couple of conference games, to pair a
couple of small games and to put some
distribution on Tuesday. Tuesday is just
a random day that we chose."
The decision was not just based on
the size of the games but also with when
the game is, she said. Sometimes they
fall on a holiday, and other times, they
fall during exams, she said.
No numbers will be given out for
Tuesday distributions, because students
are not expected to camp out or line up
for those games, Hampton said.
The first Tuesday ticket distribution '
is Oct. 30 for the West Germany and the
San Diego State games.
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need for more services
for a senior center by the year 2010,"
Tyler said.
Orange County Commissioner Don
Willhoit said the county was doing what
it can to help senior citizens.
'The county is building a southern
Human Services Building which was
approved in the '88 Bond Referendum,"
Willhoit said. "We will be adding some
space for activities for seniors but this
hearing will address their additional
needs."
There is a large senior population in
the county, Tyler said. "Six thousand
people living in Chapel Hill and
Carrboro are over the age of 60," she
said. "These people have major needs,
such as a highly physical focal point
where they can come and get a variety
of services."
Although the task force is working
on a 10- or 20-year plan, they hope to
have at least something temporary in
the next five years, Tyler said.
"Basically, our goal is to give the
seniors a place where they can go at any
time to receive friendship and support,"
she said.
- But to make the kids aware of pos
sible dangers and of safety rules, the
Chapel Hill police have sponsored
programs in the schools, at scout troops
and at day care centers, said Robin
Clark of the crime prevention depart
ment. Clark said the department encouraged
trick-or-treaters to bring flashlights,
wear fire-proof and reflective costumes,
walk on sidewalks, and travel in groups
with adults. Clark said it is also important
to be careful about the candy the chil
dren receive.
"We always tell the kids not to eat the
candy until an adult has looked at it,"
Clark said, adding that there will be
additional patrolmen for the holiday.
The Chapel Hill police are also giv
ing away trick-or-treat bags with a list
of safety rules on them.
the teacher's aide, she said. -
"It seems like common sense to me,"
Hoke said. "If the teacher can devote
more time individually to each student,
(they can more easily find problem ar
eas)." Hoke said dividing classes into groups
was one way to alleviate problems with
large class sizes. Some classes have
three reading and math groups, she said.
It also helps to pull together the higher
achievement group and teach them at a
faster level, Hoke added.
Randy Marshall, principal of
Carrboro Elementary School, said the
range of class sizes at his school was
anywhere from 23 to 28 students per
class.
In the past, students have not brought j
all of the necessary identification j
Hampton said. "We're ha ing a big t
problem with students not bi inging the
proper identification for tickets," she ;
said. "Students must bring a photo ID, ;
registration card and athletic pass for
each ticket or they will not get a ticket,'" ;
Hampton said. Each student can only
pick up two tickets.
Ed Dolby, a junior from Charlotte, j
said he preferred the former distribution i
policy. 1 understand wnat tne ,t
trying to do, but from a student stands i
point, I would rather pick up as many
tickets at one time as I can," he said... .
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DTHKathy Michel-
night to 260 people at a concert
soonsored by "WUNC Jazz at Center Stage" program.-:
population
Phyllis. Peltz, a Chapel Hill senior;
citizen, said older people - in; the area;
were left out of community activities. ;
"Chapel Hill is a university town and;
not really a retirement community,";
Peltz said. "My feeling is that older;
people here are left to fend for them-;
selves. Older people need to meet other;
people their own age because we can;
relate to each other. We need lectures;
and discussion groups and things with;
educational value." ;
Thecommunitycentercould sponsor;
programs to help the community un-;
derstand what it means to be a senior;
citizen. Right now the older population
is misunderstood and neglected, Peltz;
said. '
"When you are neglected, it's a form
of abuse," she said.
There are no definite plans for a
center. One of the community's maiq
concerns involves finding the money to
fund a senior citizen center, Trent sai:
Willhoit said, "The current moneta ;
situation makes it tough. We need to
determine what options we have for
financing."
trick-or-treaters
Capt. Ben Callahan of the Carrbord
Police Department and Lt. Marcus Perry
of the University Police also agreed that
Halloween is not a problem in the area;
"If we have problems, you might
have some eggs thrown or some watef
balloons," Callahan said. He added that
Carrboro will not provide extra patrol;
men for the holiday. '.
The Carrboro police advise people to
trick-or-treat early in the evening and
encourage children not to play any
pranks, Callahan said.
Viravan Maixner, a Chapel Hill
resident and mother, said her kids are
excited about Halloween and that she is
not worried because she is going to
travel with her kids in residential area$
she is familiar with. C
"We just want to be safe," Maixner
said. '
"Research has not been real conclu
sive over the spectrum," he said. "A
good teacher would achieve better with
a larger or smaller size class. A lower
class size would have an impact on the
facilities. We would need more space to
put (students) in (if we reduced class
sizes). We would need a whole .
classroom wing if we reduced classes
by six students. The local count ies would
have to provide funding to build neV
buildings." "
Charles Stewart, principal of Grey
Culbreth Junior High School, said the
average size of core academic classes att
Culbreth was 24 to 25 students. i
"Smaller would
Stewart said.
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