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Editor's note: This is the second ar
ticle in a two-part series looking at the
differences between department and
curriculum classes.
By Robin Lowe
Staff Writer
Although it is not difficult for new
programs to evolve into respected
branches of study at UNC, it is practi
cally impossible forcurriculato achieve
departmental status here.
"I can't think of any cases where this
has happened," said Richard Cramer of
the Col lege of Arts and Sc iences. "There
are virtually no faculty who teach only
in a curriculum."
Faculty members in each curriculum
come from various departments. For
example, professors of geography, po
litical science, languages and other dis
ciplines with departmental status teach
classes in the international studies cur
riculum but have a home in their respec
tive departments.
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3 students top-ranked in
AT&T investment contest
By Jenny Mclnnls
Staff Writer
Three University students are
among North Carolina's top-ranked
competitors in the AT&T Collegiate
Investment Challenge.
Robert Baker ranks first among
participating N.C. students; Dan
Springfield, third; and Robert Chen,
eighth.
Anissa Klisch, spokeswoman for
the challenge, described the competi
tion as "an educational stock market
game." Students sign up and are sent
a kit, Klisch said.
Students can call in every day and
choose to buy and sell from more than
500,000 stocks, Klisch said.
Baker, a junior from Summerfield,
ranks 29th nationwide with an ac
count of $759,574. Springfield, a se
nior from Swansboro, has an account
of $671,717. Chen's account has
$620,230.
More than 12,500 college students
throughout the country, including 61
from UNC, are participating in the
investment challenge. k
Baker said participants began with
$500,000. "It's like play money," he
said. "We then pick an actual com
pany and call the broker and tell them
what stock to buy.
"We'replaying the real market with
real money."
Baker, a business major, said he
hoped playing this stock market would
help him later in life. "I want to go into
finance, and I like stockbroking."
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the transformation of curricula into de
partments) is that most of these profes
sors want to keep their home base in a
department which the University rec
ognizes and have a cooperative arrange
ment within different departments,"
Cramer said.
Michael Luger, chairman of the cur
riculum in public policy, said one of the
curriculum's main strains and stresses
was the absence of a faculty. "In times
of budget crises, commitments to us are
the first to go."
The curriculum in leisure studies and
recreation administration, founded
about 50years ago, proves an exception
to this rule. Leisure studies, the largest
and oldest curriculum on campus, does
have its own faculty.
Cramer said the establishment of
departmental status forcurricula was an
item being pushed within the General
Administration. Departmental status
would enable a former curriculum to
have its own faculty.
However, efforts to award depart
"(The investment
challenge) is
educational and
beneficial for students."
Anissa Klisch
The competition already has helped
Baker get a job.
"I applied for a job in the summer,"
he said. "This (investment challenge)
was the first thing the guy asked about
in my resume. A lot of guys got jobs
right off because of this."
Klisch agreed that the competition
was helpful for students trying to find
employment.
"(The investment challenge) isedu
cational and beneficial for students,"
she said. "It led several of the people
to job offers. The companies came to
them."
College students can win between
$10,000 and $25,000, Klisch said.
The top 10 national winners win a
five-day trip for two to the Bahamas,
she said.
The challenge lasts from Nov. 1
until Feb. 28. This is the fourth year of
AT&T sponsorship.
Klisch said participants did not keep
the money they earned.
"It would be nice because some of
them earn a lot," she said. 'The best
part is that there is no real financial
loss."
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mental status to curricula have been
resisted because individual departments
want to keep their faculty members,
Cramer said. Another obstacle stems
from the no-growth period, when no
new positions are being created within
the University, he added.
A major proliferation of curricula
occurred in the 1970s. Departments in
volved with a curriculum were offered
new faculty positions then if they par
ticipated. Since then, few have been
established.
Cramer said he thought faculty op
position to new departments would be
weakened if the University could afford
to hire new people.
"Also, as Ph.D.s start to come out of
interdisciplinary studies, things might
be changed," he said. "As of now, we
have no graduate degree programs which
are interdisciplinary."
Cramer said that more than 100 years
ago social sciences, psychology and
sociology grew out of philosophy and
gained departmental status.
Teens
Loda said: "I think that it is important to
keep in mind that none of the problems
that adolescents have occurred in isola
tion. The drug abuse, pregnancy and
school dropout rate are manifestations
of difficulties that adolescents have in
completing their education, reaching
maturity and getting an appropriate job.
"What the project is trying to do
really is not focus on negative behavior
so much as focusing on ways to develop
services and supports for adolescents so
that they can complete their education,
avoid unwanted pregnancy and become
self-supportive."
One-to-one counseling and home
visits are two methods the project uses
to educate teenagers and address their
social and medical needs, said Hughes,
Adolescents-in-Need program coordi
nator. Orange County is one of the few
counties that offers comprehensive
health care to teenagers. As a result,
there is a day care center with spaces
reserved for children of adolescent
mothers so that they can complete their
educations, Loda said.
"We've helped by being involved
with other community agencies to start
new programs," he said. 'There are
many more services in the community
being done by a lot of different groups
that the Adolescents-in-Need project
has helped support. There are areas that
still need help.... We are going to have
to work on the younger adolescents so
that they don't get pregnant in the first
place."
' Geared toward students, the project
is located and operated out of an office
in Orange County High School.
Adolescents-in-Need is campaign
ing for more partner involvement, as
well, Loda said. "Through the years
we've been very successful in encour-
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"Personally, I'm not optimistic about
the establishment (of curricula into de
partments) through faculty channels,"
Cramer said. "It's basically political
push. It could go either way."
UNC administrators and faculty
members respond to national and state
government needs and trends, Cramer
said. "For example, the applied sci
ences curriculum was created in re
sponse to business and political leaders
who said we need students with those
types of degrees."
But some programs have experienced
problems gaining curriculum status.
Officials who govern several con
centrations within the interdisciplinary
studies major that do not offer their own
degrees have tried to acquire curricu
lum status. The women's studies pro
gram, founded in 1976, offers a
bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary
studies with a concentration in women's
studies. The program also offers a cer
tificate in women's studies similar to a
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ery," he said. "Over half of the male
partners of the adolescents have been
present. That's really a very good record
for promoting male involvement."
"We never really talked about it
much. He just kind of assumed that
there would be no baby. He tried to
sway me in what! thought ' You know
you have to finish college before you
have a kid.'"
The NCCAP recently began a poster
campaign focusing on the man's re
sponsibility in teenage pregnancy, Dou
glas said. "They don't see it as a guy's
problem," she said. "People are trying
hard all over the country to get the male
involved. He knows he can leave at any
time.... We are telling them that there is
more to having sex than having sex.
There is a lot of responsibility involved."
"He said, 'I'll pay for it,' not, 'Let's
talk about it.' He seemed real familiar
with abortions. He had been through so
many, his attitude was so nonchalant.
It's really sad that with something so
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Denise Currin, administrative assis
tant for the women's studies program,
said students would be able to minor in
the program officially in the fall.
The program has been trying to attain
curriculum status since 1989. Director
Barbara Harris said the General Ad
ministration had denied the request be
cause of budget cuts.
Harris said she hoped changes in the
spring within the General Administra
tion would loosen up the situation. "I
want to make it known that there's been
a lot of support on this campus; the
problem is not at all in Chapel Hill."
For a prospective program to be
come an established curriculum, any
faculty member, committee or campus
body needs to submit a proposal to the
General Administration. If the adminis
trative board approves the proposal, the
Board of Governors can decide to vote
on the curriculum status.
Cramer said the most important cri
terion in the evaluation of prospective
curricula was the availability of new
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regard. It says something bad about
society. Our relationship just crumbled
at that point. I would have much rather
had the emotional support than the fi
nancial from him."
Loda said young men often were
under stress and didn't have the job
skills to provide for a family. "We have
to help them attain the skills so that they
Campus Calendar
TUESDAY
4 p.m. International Careers Panel will be held in
224 Union. Sponsored by UCPPS and Office of
International Programs.
4:15 p.m. Job Hunt 102: A resume writing work
shop for seniors and graduate students will be held in
210 Hanes. Sponsored by UCPPS.
5 p.m. UNC Juggling Club to meet in Carmichae!
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resources, especially money. The Gen
eral Administration also considers the
program's uniqueness and the merits of
giving the discipline its own degree, he
said.
Whether a field of study offers a
major in a curriculum or department;
does not seem to concern many stu
dents. Elizabeth Goader, who earned a de
gree in African and Afro-American stud
ies, said that majoring in a curriculum
did not bother her but that she believed'
more people would be attracted to a
major if the program had its own faculty'
and more money.
The problems of gaining department
tal status represent somewhat of a Catch-.
22. Drawing from the resources of other
departments gives curricula a wider base
but less independence. If these curricula
grow into departments, they will have
more stability but will lose the advan
tage of professors from several depart
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can support their children in a meaning
ful way," he said. "That's an area I hope
Orange County will take a lead in the
state, in looking at the issue of male
involvement not in just a punitive way,
but also a supportive way."
Despite the efforts of these and other
agencies, the state hasn't seen a signifi
cant change in the teen pregnancy rate
in the last 10 years. Loda said he didn't
think progress would be made until
people recognized the need for a more
comprehensive approach to helping
adolescents. "As long as we just focus
on the specific projects ... we are not
going to make much progress," he said.
'They have to see that there is hope and
opportunity out there for them."
" feel like it was a dream the
whole thing seemed like it happened
while I was asleep. It was something
that would never happen to me. Well,
now I know it can.
"My biggest regret is sleeping with
that guy. The relationship was not true.
It made me do the worst thing in my life.
Yes, I regret having the abortion, but
there was no alternative. I will regret it
to the day I die. I'm probably going
straight to hell."
Corrections
In the Feb. 5 Student Congress
election previews, Jeff McGraw, a
candidate in Dist. 12, said he wanted
to work for the needs of Granville
students, not graduate students.
In the Feb. 5 story "UNC officials,
SEAC hope to ease tension," there
was incorrect information. SEAC still
plans to involve housekeepers in sales
during their fund-raisers.
In the Feb. 10 story, "GPSF hope
ful Harrel 1 targets grad concerns about
fees, insurance," one of Tracey
Harrell's goals for the Graduate and
Professional Student Federation was
incorrect. Harrell wants to work for
health insurance for research and
graduate assistants employed by the
University.
The Daily Tar Heel regrets the
errors.
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