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Gaining new insights through diversity
Literacy Council seeks
volunteers
The Cape Fear Literacy Council is search
ing for volunteers to help adults and youth
improve their basic literacy skills in reading,
writing, spelling and math. A background in
education is not required, but volunteers are
required to attend a 12 hour training work
shop. The next workshop runs from Oct. 17
to Oct. 19, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the coun
cil office. The council also needs tutors to
teach English as a second language (ESL).
The next training session for that will be OcL
27 from 6:30-9:30 p.m. and Oct. 28 fiom 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. Fot more information, caU 251-
0911.
Ohio State professor
lectures on UN
Carole Fink, professor of European in
ternational history at Ohio State University,
will present a lecture on “The United Na
tions and Human Rights, 1945-2000” Oct.
22 in the Hawk’s Nest. Lunch will be served
at 1 p.m., and the cost is $9. Reservations are
due by Oct. 18. The lecture itself is free and
will start around 1:45 p.m. The Office of In
ternational Programs Critical International
Perspectives lecture series and the Coastal
Carolina Chapter of the United Nations As
sociation are sponsoring the lecture. For more
information, contact Assistant Provost for In
ternational Programs Jim P. McNab at 962-
3859.
Organizations focus on
helping kids
Child Watch, an annual event that focuses
on issues vital to the health and welfare of
children, will take place at 9 a.m. to 12:30
p.m. Oct. 21 at Aldemian Elementary School.
More than 20 oiganizations will participate
in the event. Christopher Eaddy, executive
director of the governor’s statewide Support
Our Students Program, wiU give an interac
tive presentation. Child Watch will target pre
school, elementary, middle and high school
children. Two other sessions will examine
communities of faith and community service
oiganizations. Registration is $3, which in
cludes refreshments and a copy of Peter
Benson’s "What Kids Need to Succeed." Fot
more information, call the Quid Advocacy
Commission at 791-1057, extension 30.
Tania Urbinati
Staff Writer
The Office of Campus Diversity,
formerly known as the Office of
Minority Affairs, attempts to pro
vide leadership to students of vari
ous ethnic backgrounds, including
African-American, Hispanic Ameri
can, Native American and Asian"
American.
Th? office provides essential net
working and social ties for all mi
nority students and those interested
in minority and multicultural issues.
The office encourages anyone who
is interested in becoming involved
with or is concerned about diversity
issues to get involved.
Leeann Dualtre, secretary to the
director of campus diversity said,
“You don’t have to be a minority to
become involved.”
According to Dualtre, the goal for
the year is to get as much informa
tion out to students about the office
and what the office can do to help
students and relate to their own
needs.
“ It is hard to tell exactly how
many students come in wanting in
formation, it is important that stu
dents should come and become in
volved,” Dualtre said. “The biggest
challenge has been to get the word
out about our office and what we can
do to help minority students,” she
said.
One way the Office of Campus
Diversity pla’ns to help minority stu
dents is the selection of November
for the first annual Native Atnerican
Heritage Month. The kick-off for the
montH will be a lecture from Billy
Mills, a Lakota Sioux who won a
gold medal in the 1964 Olympics.
He will give a lecture titled, "Your
Pursuit of Excellence. ” The lecture
will be Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. in the
Warwick Center Ballroom.
Students can also get involved
through the African-American Cul
tural Center, which is located in the
University Union, room 208. It pro
vides students with information and
resources concerning ethnicity and
minority groups. All students may
use the facility, which contains re
sources such as books, magazines
and videos. The cultural center is
sponsored and funded by the Stu
dent Government Association
(SGA).
“It provides the linkage and in
formation for all students of differ
ent backgrounds to learn more about
their culture, they can come here
and find almost anything on any cul
ture,” Cookie Mattocks, member of
Alpha Kappa Alpha said.
The National Pan-Hellenic
Council (NAPC) is also a member
of the cultural center, and represents
traditionally African-American so
rorities and fraternities. Students
can go to the center and learn more
about their cultural backgrounds.
While there, they can also meet and
interact with other students. The
Center stresses the concern for more
diversity involvement, and knowl
edge of minority affairs.
“It is important to spread the
word that there is diversity pro
grams that students can become in
volved in, and we hope to provide a
place for everyone here at UNCW,”
Dualtre said.
Writers for Readers’ benefits library
Megan D’Brien
Features editor
The Bristol Books “Writers for
Readers” series, which features read
ings by local, regional and nationally
known writers, began last year when
the Friends of the New Hanover
County Library were raising money for
the new Northeast Branch facility.
Nicki Leone, buyer for Bristol
Books said, “We wanted Bristol Books
to be a community oriented store, so
we picked a cause.. .We picked this one
because it’s our neighborhood library.”
To support the newest branch of the
county library system, Bristol Books
donates a portion of each book sold
during the Writers for Readers events
to the library. According to Bristol
Books owner Joanne Bristol, the store
raised $1,200 for the library last year.
“Their donation amounts to ap
proximately 20-25 percent of gross
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Wendy Brenner
book sales,” Bristol said.
Leone said that libraries and book
stores are both necessary in the book
world.
“I’ve had customers in the store
who will sheepishly tell me they can’t
afford a book, that they are going to
get it from the library,” Leone said.
“That’s great, because libraries create
readers for us. It’s a mutually benefi
cial relationship.”
This year’s series falls around the same
time the new library opened and
Bristol Books hit its tenth year and
moved into a new space in Lumina Sta
tion. According to Leone, the new
store is more than twice the size of the
previous one, which was located in
another part of Lumina Station,
“We’re celebrating the new library,
our tenth anniversary, and the opening
of our new space,” Leone said.
The line-up for the series has grown
from six events to eight, which Leone
attributes partly to last year’s success,
but also to the larger space the store
now occupies.
The first event in early October was
a discussion of "New Stories from the
South ” by author and UNCW lecturer
of creative writing Wendy Brenner and
Algonquin Books Editor Kathy Poires.
Last Friday, October 13, WriterTim
McLaurin read from his new memoir.
See Writer, Page 1?