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Volume l_III J Number 27 Serving UNC Wilmington Since 194H WWW.THESEAHAWK.ORt3 Inside This Issue... Filmmakers speak during weekly series/ 3 A Student’s ‘Guide to Going Veggie’/ 5 Ultimate Frist)ee Team goes to Nationals/9 INDEX UNCW Life... The Scene... Classifieds.. Resource Center to serve as liaison Location chosen to house Women^s Studies minor Will Klinger University officials are working with professors and volunteers to develop the Women’s Resource Center, a university-funded program for women. While the center is still in the pre-planning phase, a location at Westside hall has already been chosen to house the program. Elizabeth Ervin, professor of English and Women’s Stud ies, will direct the center. She said having a physical location for the Women’s Studies minor will draw more attention to the program. “In terms of academics . . . we’ve had a successful women’s studies minor for a Research class sluSesheaMi of local Inmans Lqrrie Laliberte r,.i— u The Women’s Resource Center will help coordinate pro grams and performances such as “The Vagina h^onologues.” This dramatic reading of Eve Ensler’s one-woman show is performed annually to celebrate Women’s History Month while now and the university In addition to housing the is looking to expand the pres- women’s studies minor, the ence of it,” she said. “Having center will serve as a liaison an actual place for the minor Center PAGE 2 will set the stage for this.” BEE CENTER, KAt5E_£ Summer gas prices continue to rise RYAN JESSUP A significant decrease in national gas prices is nowhere in sight According to a recent press release fiom the Enei^gy Information Admin istration, “gasoline pump fsices for spring and summer 2002 are expected to average $1.46 per gallon, 8 cents lower than last year’s average of $ 1M.” In Wilmington, gas prices cuirently range fixjm $ 1.25 per gaUon at GOGAS to $ 1.33 at Amoco and Exxon. “The market is the market,” said Randy Smith, Global Services Man ager for Public Aflfairs for the Exxon Corporation. “Prices go up and prices go down.” Smith refrained from providing in formation on what Exxon was doing to help lower prices for the craisumer. Accoiding to the American Petro leum Institute, how high gas prices will [s came from the crude oil and costs of trans porting, refining, storing and marketing the fuel,” accord ing to API. Wilmington resident Darrin Long said he wouW be very upset if gas prices got extremely high in Ihe upcom ing summer months. Prices are not expected to ■ . gethigherlhanlastsummer’s If gas prices continue to nse, it could costs, but conflicts in Middle cost motorists an arm and a leg. Eastern countries could get has several determinant factors, change that, causing prices to keep How expensive crude oil is in the mar- hiking. ketplace, the expense of manufactur- ‘It takes someorie with a crystal inganddistributingtheoil,andthetaxes ball to predict the exact future amount that are then added to the oil all affect of gas prices, but I beUeve that prices the final price of gasoline for the cus- tomer. “In 1995, 56 ... -—e- ■ $1.20 that motorists paid for a gaUon fessor of economics in the Cameron of gasoline came firom taxes, and 64 School of Business, _i Wilmington will fall somewhere between $1.30 and $1.50 per gaUon of the average this summer,” said William Hall, pro- An interdisciplinary research class began in the fall of 2001 with the help of a small grant from the World Health Organization. UNCW was awarded one of 19 grants from the WHO as a result of a health research study set up by vari ous academic departments. UNCW was the only institution in the United States to receive one of the grants. About a year ago several univer sity departments, including the de partments of social work and nurs ing, collaborated on the wellness study specifically involving the Waccamaw-Siouan Indians in Bladen and Columbus counties. They wanted to look at the Indians’ atti tudes and ideas concerning several health issues, including such aspects as emotional and physical well be ing. After receiving the grant of al most $7,000, a participatory research class was set up with Bob Blundo, associate professor of social work, as the facilitator. Most of the grant money was used to hire six Indians to work part time in coordinating and planning the meetings. A small amount also went to help with transportation for the class. Blundo said the students work on an equal footing with the commu nity to talk about various issues. The class was also able to learn about another culture by being im mersed in it. ‘The research comes out of their conversations [between the community and the students],” Blundo said. They discussed what the Indians wanted to change about their community, what would help them and what they liked. The class is now in its second se- See Class, Page 3
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