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Activities slated
to celebrate
Fourth of July
Chapel Hill residents and UNC stu
dents will have lots to do but not a lot of
ways to get around during the Fourth of
July holiday.
Those staying in Chapel Hill for the
weekend will be able to enjoy free fire
works Saturday night at Kenan Sta
dium. The program, which will begin at
8:30 p.m. July 4th, will include a wel
come to residents and a performance by
the Triangle Brass Band.
Although organizers are suggesting
that those attending donate $1 for next
year's Fourth of July celebration, ad
mission is free.
The July 4th celebration is sponsored
by the towns of Chapel Hill and
Carrboro, UNC, the Village Compa
nies Foundation, Cablevision and
Pepper's Pizza.
For amateur astronomers, the
Morehead Planetarium will hold a free
public session with the Morehead Ob
servatory telescope July 3. Participants
may use the observatory s 24-inch tele
scope and some smaller ones starting at
9 p.m. Friday.
Observatory staffers may be able to
see Jupiter, the Ring Nebula and the
Great Global Cluster of stars in Her
cules. If the weather is cloudy, the ses
sion will be canceled.
Interested stargazers should call 962
1235 for more details.
The Ackland Art Museum will be
closed boih July 4 and 5 in observance
of the holiday.
The museum will resume its normal
schedule July 8. Normal hburs are noon
to 3 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays,
1 0 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and 1 p.m.
to 5 p.m. Sundays.
Vandals deface CGLA
cube announcements
Unknown vandals defacedCarolina
Gay and Lesbian Association announce
ments on the cube in the Pit Saturday for
the second time this summer.
On the west side of the cube, the
vandals wrote: "To all gays I know who
you are here all your names and where
you live I will be by tofillyourcoffins."
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paiBteiloyei; CCttuiV iriargftftibn on the
east side of the cube.
In a letter to The Daily Tar Heel,
CGLA member Kathy Staley stated that
the CGLA "decided not to repaint our
advertisement immediately so that ev
eryone can see what lesbigays have to
confront daily."
Book published about
African-American hymns
Jon Michael Spencer, an associate
professor of African and Afro-American
Studies, is the author of a new book,
"A Hymnological History of the African-American
Church."
The book documents the
hymnological tradition of black
churches in America through an analy
sis of the hymnbooks of 10 denomina
tions representing every persuasion of
the Afro-Christian faith.
Spencer is a graduate of Hampton
University and received his Masters
degree and Ph.D. from Washington
University.
The book is a publication of the Uni
versity of Tennessee Press.
University begins glossy
magazine recycling
Starting July I , UNC students, staff
and faculty members will be able to
recycle glossy magazines in addition to
newspapers, aluminum and glass at the
more than 30 outdoor sites.
The newest outdoor bins, provided
by the UNC Office of Waste Reduction
and Recycling, will be for glossy maga
zines and catalogs.
No bags, strings, phone books news
papers or other types of paper should be
put in the new bins.
In addition to the numerous recy
cling sites around campus, outdoor bins
behind Craige Dormitory, between
Davis Library and Hamilton Hall, be
side the Circus Room and between
Alexander and the tennis courts are
available for students.
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English department
instruction at risk,
Locke report states
By Anna Griffin
Associate Editor
Although it still remains highly
competitive on a national level, the
UNC English Department may be fac
ing a long-term erosion of traditional
liberal arts teaching, according to the
report "A Tradition at Risk: Under
graduate Education at the University
of North Carolina."
In the study, conducted for the John
Locke Foundation.researcher Charles
Sykes suggests that the UNC English
program slowly is succumbing to the
politically-correct thinking that has
turned other schools, such as Duke
University, into centers of "trendy,
ideologically-charged (literary) criti
cism." If retiring faculty members are not
replaced and if the University does
not reaffirm its commitment to a core
of liberal arts courses, the English
department faces adecline in the qual
ity of education it provides, Sykes
said.
"Although the general consensus
of my report was that the department
was fundamentally sound, there were
concerns that there is not a solid cojn
mitment to core courses and provid
ing a fundamental, nonpolitical edu
cation," said Charles Sykes, author of
the report.
UNC no longer has established pro
fessors teaching fundamental courses
such as Victorian literature, the works
of Geoffrey Chaucer or the literature
of the Renaissance, Sykes said. In
stead of filling these positions, the
University is searching for someone
to teach critical theory and feminist
literature, he said.
Mother figure' Bridgers retires
By Todd O.Walton
Staff Writer
Mary Bridgers, director of Victory
Village Day Care Center, recently re
tired after nearly 30 years of service at
the University-affiliated center.
Phoebe Alston, a worker at Victory
Village for the past three years, said
Bridgers had been a leader in child care.
She s a remarkable and wonderful
woman, Alston said, bhe s influenced
me a hell of a lot." Alston also said"
Bridgers was a "mother-figure for the
staff. Mary is great with the kids and
supports the staff wonderfully."
Donald Boulton, vice chancellor for
student affairs, said Bridgers built Vic
tory Village, a state-funded center that
primarily serves students and faculty
members, into one of the area's finest
child care facilities.
'Mary has been a leader and an inno
vator, Boulton said. Because of her,
we found out what good is. She has
produced a model for day care in
America, and we are very fortunate for
her. She runs the best day care center
around."
Bridgers said the retirement gave her
the opportunity to try new things. "I
think this starts a new part of my life.
and now I'll have time to do things I've
always wanted to do, like travel," she
said.
But she added that she would miss
working with kids. "The children are
what I' 11 remembermost,"Bridgers said.
Friends, family mourn law student's death
By Anna Griffin
Associate Editor
While police this week continued
their investigation into the motorcycle
accident that killed third-year UNC law
student Bryan Tighe Crooks, friends
and family mourned the loss of a man
described by almost everyone who knew
him as humorous, intelligent and well
liked. Crooks, 29, of 463-B Orange High
Loop Rd., Hillsborough, died at UNC
Hospitals at 4:36 a.m. June 23. Hospital
officials said Crooks died of head inju
ries sustained in the crash.
Crooks was driving his motorcycle
on East Franklin Street last Tuesday
when he ran into a sharp curve near the
Park Place intersection. Because of slick
road conditions, Crooks lost control of
his vehicle, which went over the curve
"What you're seeing is a slow break
down of the study of classical litera
ture at UNC," Sykes said. "It is not an
immediate, pressing need. It's a slow,
erosion of a very quality department."
Although he has not seen the re
port, Laurence Avery, chairman of the
English department, said he did pot
believe the department was shifting
away from basic liberal arts teaching.
"I don't know of any distress (within
the department) or shift from what
we've been doing," he said. "I don't
give much credence to the report."
Because the study of literature is
based on the individual professor and
the individual student, it may seem as
if different instructors are focusing on
unique aspects of a work or period,
Avery said.
"When you have a department with
65 professors, each brings their own
background and experience to what
they teach," he said. '"The study of
literature changes are the teachers of
literature and students of literature
change."
Avery dismissed suggestions that
the department was suffering from
any sort of generation gap.
"When you have a faculty of 65,
people are always going to be retir
ing," he said. "Some of the younger
faculty members have just as firm
dedication to education as someone
who's 70-years-old."
Sykes said that during his four
months of researching, he spoke to
more than 20 UNC faculty members
and between two-: and three-dozen
students. His study of the English de
partment included interviews with
"several" teachers and close rev iew of
course syllabi, he said.
"Dealing with the children every day
meant a lot to me because of the instant
gratification they give. If they're happy
they'll come and give you a hug or
smile at you."
Working in a University community
made for an unusual mix of children and
parents, Bridgers said.
"Dealing with the children of the
students and faculty from other coun
tries was wonderful because everything
was new to them," she said. ''It renewed
''"my cfwn "views through'tttetreyes." ' "
Bridgers said lowering teacher-child
ratios was a goal she emphasized while
at Victory Village. "The creative teach
ing methods of the teachers really in
spired the children," she said.
Bridgers added that reform still was
needed in the national day care system.
"We've got a long way to go before the
problems are solved," she said. "It is a
problem that's not going to go away, so
the government has to look towards the
future."
The state of child care in the United
States is a growing problem, she said.
"We've got a lot of work to do," she
said. "We need more subsidies for the
people who can't afford the full cost of
day care.
"It takes two people to raise a family
... but at the same time, they need care
for their child. The caregivers, how
ever, are being paid very little."
Bridgers said the problem was a fi-
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and crashed into a tree, according to
Interim Police Chief Ralph Pendergraph.
The town medical examiner's office
reported this week that Crooks was le
gally intoxicated at the time of the acci
dent. Crooks received his bachelor of arts
in international studies from UNC in
December 1986. He was a graduate of
Washington High School, where he
served as a member of the student coun
cil, played football and basketball and
served as sports editor of the paper.
As an undergraduate Crooks served
in the Air Force ROTC and was a mem
ber of Sigma Nu fraternity.
He also worked part time at the Caro
lina Union and had worked as a bar
tender at Spanky 's for about four years
and at Squids for the past three years.
Crooks was a favorite of both em
ployees and regular customers because
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Buses to connect RTF,
Chapel Hill next month
By Dana Pope
City Coordinator
A new bus service linking Chapel
Hill and the Research Triangle Park
will begin in mid-August and plans for
additional services are in the works, the
director of the Triangle Transit Author
ity said this week.
"The intent is to permit service from
Chapel Hill to Research Triangle Park
through south Durham," said Jim
Ritchie, director of the authority.
Citizens will be able to voice their
views on the proposals at a public hear
ing Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. The
hearing will be held on the first floor of
the Chapel Hill Post Office located at
179 E. Franklin St.
Another bus also will be added in
mid-August to the Blue Line route run
Internal strife divides congregation
By Richard Dean
Staff Writer
The most traumatic problem for mem
bers of Olin T. Binkley Memorial Bap
tist Church is not the church's recent
expulsion from the Southern Baptist
Convention, but having to deal with
disagreements among church members
on controversial issues, a church offi
cial said this week.
"The greatest difficulty forthe church
has been to try to come to grips with
how we make decisions," said church
spokesman Forrest Page.
Last April, a Binkley church confer
ence voted 1 45-107 to grant licensure to
John Blevins, a former Duke divinity
student who is gay. Granting licensure
meant that the church deemed Blevins
qual ified to become a minister, although
the licensure was not itself an ordina
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Mary Bridgers (left) celebrates her retirement from Victory Village Day Care with
of his sense of humor and ability to
make conversation, said Greg Overbeck,
owner of Squids.
"He wasn't just an employee to me,
he was a good friend," Overbeck said.
"That's just the kind of guy he was.
"You couldn't help having a rela
tionship with him. He could talk to
anybody about anything. He was just a
really interesting, friendly guy."
Crooks mother, Kay Crooks, said her
son was an open, personable young
man who always tried to live life to its
fullest. "He cared so much about what
he was doing," she said. "He tried to do
everything as well as possible. He gave
life everything he had.
"The sad thing is, he had so much
more to give."
Funeral serv ices for Crooks were held
last Thursday in Paul's Funeral Home
in Washington.
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ning between UNC and Duke Univer
sity. A bus will run once about every 45
minutes instead of the 85-minute inter
val now in effect, Ritchie said. Chapel
Hill Transit will use existing buses for
the new Blue Line route and the Chapel
Hill-RTP route, he said.
Bus service between Raleigh and RTP
is slated to begin next January, Ritchie
said. "Someone could easily ride the
bus from Chapel Hill to work in Ra
leigh," he said.
The funding for the regional express
bus service comes from a $5 vehicle
registration fee that was approved by
the General Assembly and the Orange
County Commissioners last year.
Residents began paying the fee in
January, and will end up providing $2.5
million for the bus service, Ritchie said,
adding that the anticipated cost for the
tion.
The Southern Baptist Convention,
the nation's largest Baptist organiza
tion, voted June 1 0 to expel B inkley and
to amend its constitution to bar any
churches that tolerate homosexuality.
North Carolina's Baptist convention
voted in May to expel Binkley.
Despite the pub! icity surrounding the
expulsions, many church members say
they are more upset by disagreements
within Binkley than by the SBC's ac
tions. "It's been hurtful," said former Dea
con Gove Elder. "It has hurt to have
friends that have decided differently
than you have."
But Elder was optimistic that the
church soon would recover. "We're
pulling together, and I think it will be
fine," he said. "We'll continue with
perhaps a smaller congregation."
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Mill Creek residents fear
strangers in their homes
By Dale Castle
Staff Writer
Some Mill Creek Apartment resi
dents have said they fear that break
ins through adjoining attics and faulty
door locks may jeopardize theirsafety.
Meredith Irvin and Mary Craven,
residents of a Mill Creek apartment in
building E, asked an officer recently
to walk around their apartment with
them after they heard strange noises
and saw a shadow of either a man or of
the pull-down attic door closing.
The next day they demanded to
have the attic sealed off before they
would sleep there or pay rent.
Apartment managers blocked the '
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two services for Chapel Hill was
$171,300.
Fares have not been determined for
the Chapel Hill-RTP route, but Ritchie
said the cost was not expected to vary
from the $1.20 now charged on Blue
Line routes.
The Triangle Transit Authority still
is working with the Durham Area Tran
sit Authority, which runs Durham's bus
system, to begin bus routesfrom Durham
to RTP, Ritchie said, adding that Ra
leigh did not have sufficient equipment
to begin the regional service yet. "Chapel
Hill is starting earlier. because it has the
equipment," he said. "The regional bus
service is still in its infant levels."
The authority also is in the prelimi
nary stages of its Fixed Guideways
Study, which will consider construct
ing a light-rail system in the Triangle.
Page said it was too early to tell how
many people would move their mem
bership from Binkley to other churches.
Binkley's ties to the SBC had been
weakened in recent years, said church
member Bob Phillips, who is also UNC's
Baptist minister. Phillips said thechurch
had not sent representatives to the South
ern Baptist Convention for the last two
or three years.
"I think (Binkley) has grown dissat
isfied with the Southern Baptist Con
vention, as many churches have,"
Phillips said. "The church was dually
aligned with the Southern Baptist Con
vention and American Baptist Churches
USA and will probably just strengthen
its ties with that organization."
Some church members are unhappy
with the attention Binkley has attracted
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friends in the Student Union Tuesday
adjoining attics with a two-by-four
that afternoon, but didn't use a lock as
initially promised.
"We've had some prowler reports
in that area," Interim Police Chief
Ralph Pendergraph said.
The police officer showed the
women that anyone could pull away
the fiberglass insulation and crawl
into the next apartment.
Irvin said the officer's demonstra
tion confirmed what friends had told
her. Often, when Mill Creek residents
are locked out of their apartments,
they knock on a neighbor's door and
crawl to their apartment through the
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