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2 The Daily Tar Heel/Tuesday, February 16, 1993 Amateur radio course offered By Rama Kayyali Stiff Writer If you’ve always dreamed of having your voice heard across the airwaves, you can train to be an amateur radio operator to assist local emergency relief officials and communicate with other “hams” all over the world. Local residents and students who are interested in radio communication can register for a course that begins March 3 to obtain an amateur radio operator’s license. The Orange County Radio Amateurs will sponsor the course, which costs S3O. Orange County Radio Amateurs is a nonprofit organization sponsored by the Orange County American Red Cross chapter. Amateur radio operators, or hams, primarily communicate with fire and police departments, warn relief work ers of severe weather conditions and assist stranded boy scout troops. I Bob Lackwood, a spokesman for the local chapter of the American Red Cross, said amateur radio operators served an important function. ' “Ham radio operators provide radio service backup for the Orange County American Red Cross and for the Orange County emergency management sys tem,” Lackwood said. During the Sept. 20 Intimate Bookshop fire, six to eight amateur ra dio operators assisted with emergency relief communication, he said. ' “They provided lines of communica tions for us, as there was a lot of com Army’s race relations still model for many The Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Ala. For all of it problems, the military is held up by many as being at the national vanguard when it comes to racial tolerance and equal opportunity. ■ One watcher says, “race relations, in general, are better in the military than any other institution in society.” “There’smoreblackachievement and interracial cooperation than on most college campuses or in any city,” said Recall elected with less than (10 percent),” Ose said. “Elections should be held when the electorate is in town.” Ose said students needed to take an active role to prevent their interests from being ignored. But Chapel Hill Town Council mem ber Joe Capowski said he thought stu dent concerns were not the most press ing issue facing the council, adding that he would not support a provision re stricting the time when recall elections could be held. “There is another factor which I think is more important, and that is that the I Enjoy the convenience , V. l"l ‘l 1 I of door-to-door delivery | | I I I I I I for a nominal fee. I I I | | | I I Or Fax Your Order Authorized Dealer HEWLETT-PACKARD JL .. DESKJET 500 PRINTER I Four built-in fonts for greater versatility and Sff AM flexibility. 300 dpi resolution. Microsoft® Jr iggLyaHv Windows 3.0 and 3.1 support for scalable • M Hr B| ; ’I typefaces and character kerning. Over 600 compatible software packages for maximum A JHf versatility. 3-year limited warranty. ; No. 536-656 List 599.00 j Our Low Price 4 „ . Guarantee J Durnam If you see an identical item r ■ 4001 Chapel Hill BM. 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Amateur radio operator Terry Bubar said, “In a local emergency situation, 911 can only have so many frequencies they can handle.” Sonny Austin, an amateur radio op erator, said ham radio operators worked closely with the American Red Cross. “During the tornado (in Hillsborough), we dealt mostly with the Red Cross who set up shelter in one place,” Austin said. “Then they would fly off to help people and would com municate back and forth between the shelter and emergency site through us.” Lackwood said the Red Cross trained amateur radio operators to assist them in emergency situations. Lackwood said ham operators also helped the Red Cross when electrical power went out because ham radio op erated on batteries. Austin said the Orange County chap ter of radio amateurs, which has grown to 80 members since December 1991, was the fastest growing chapter in the state. Some North Carolina counties do not have radio amateurs clubs, but there are hams everywhere, Austin said. Bubar said members ranged from teen-aged boy scouts to full-time work ing professionals. “Our youngest ham operator is 7 Charles Moskos, a Northwestern Uni versity sociologist. But while current focus is on the treatment of gays and women in the military, there is agreement that divi sive racial issues continue to endure. ‘To some degree, the macho culture crosses racial lines, but there is an edge of hostility,” said Moskos, who is white and served in the Army in the 19505. “Blacks often feel slighted in promo tions, and whites feel blacks benefit recall be prompt,” Capowski said. “Promptness is the most important is sue. “Town government goes on 12 months a year. Some of the most impor tant things we do are over the summer, when the students are gone,” he added. But Chilton said students should not be punished for leaving Chapel Hill during the summer. “It’s essential that many of us leave the community over the summer in or der to make enough money to be able afford to go to school here during the fall and spring,” Chilton said. years old,” Bubar said. There are amateur radio operators all over the world, he added. “This is a universal hobby,” Bubar said. “There are over 1 million hams in the country and approximately 6 mil lion hams in Japan alone.” It does not cost anything to be a radio operator, Bubar said. “Although the radio operators don’t need to own their own equipment, most members do, and that’s when it can be costly,” Bubar said. Some radio operators buy elaborate equipment and spend a lot of money, while others built their own radios, he said. Austin said many ham radio opera tors used their licenses to communicate with people all over the world. Amateur radio has existed since the early 1900s, Austin said. The radio amateurs club meets once a month at Orange County’s 911 head quarters to discuss administrative busi ness. The club also can communicate with one another across the airwaves. The radio amateurs club offers two courses during the year, one in the spring and one in the fall. The course fee includes course mate rial and membership in the radio ama teurs club. A testing session is included in the course, which covers material necessary to qualify for a license. Classes will meet Wednesdays from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the South Orange Rescue Squad, located at 202 Roberson St in Carrboro. For more information, contact Terry Bubar at 933-9352. from special treatment.” The military officially was desegre gated by executive order of President Harry S. Truman in 1948, but Moskos said there was a lag of several years before the Army got in line. Racial strife in the late 1960 sand early 1970 s— much of it discontent among black soldiers concerning dis crimination in promotions and military justice led to creation of the equal opportunity system. from page 1 Mayor Ken Broun said he would support Chilton’s proposal. “When you have a significant amount of your electorate out of town, the demo cratic process cannot work as it should,” fjroun said. ' Council members proposed amend ing the town’s charter to include a recall provision after council member Joe Herzenberg refused to resign in the wake of his conviction for willful failure to fife state taxes. The council passed a motion urging Herzenberg to resign, but Herzenberg refused to step down. I \ Sm X '** **f* ss#is£j| ‘Shooting Back’ photography exhibit showcases talents, plight of homeless By Jennifer Brett Omnibus Editor The most impressive thing about the latest exhibition at Ackland Art Mu seum isn’t the art itself it’s the artists. “Shooting Back: Photography By and About the Homeless,” a display that is part of the senior class “Arts Week ’93" will run through April 4. The show documents urban poverty in and around Washington, D.C., through children’s eyes. Literally. Hanging beside photographs of slums, alleys and homeless shelters are bylines like Arthur Taylor, age 10, and Daniel Hall, age 9. In 1987, profes sional photographer J im Hubbard, along with several other photographers, be gan giving poor children the chance to document the world around them. Plac ing expensive cameras into tiny hands, Employers Recruiting on Campus RESUME DROP DATE: FEB. 16 OPEN SIGN-UP BEGINS: MARCH 3 Date Company Majors Req. lob Grad. 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Feb. 17 I nr ari on 12:00 Noon Location. Basement of Caldwell For further information please contact: Your Study Abroad Office on campus or the Institute for Study Abroad. Butler University, 4600 Sunset Avenue. Indianapolis, IN 46208. Tel: 317/283-9336 or 1/800-858-0229 Ext. 9336. "Girls," by Dion Johnson, age 13 the photographers allowed the young victims of poverty a chance to “shoot back” at a world that seemed so unfair. “I was a juvenile delinquent in De troit until I was 21,” Hubbard said Mon day. “Then I got a job as a copy boy at the Detroit News, and a photographer came up to me one day and asked if I wanted to try. It changed my whole life.” The exhibit, which has traveled throughout America and abroad, offers a fresh look at a social reality, Hubbard said. “The media has an investment in making the poor look pathetic,” he said. “Then this show comes along and shows that these people are just as important as the richest people in America.” Although Hubbard said at a Monday press conference that the show high lighted the strength of family in the worst of times, many of the photos convey a feeling of loneliness and iso lation. “Washington Monument,” taken by Taylor, is a view of the nation’s pristine white monolith as seen from miles away, behind a beat-up van and through the unfriendly fingers of a barbed-wire fence. The brutal honesty of the children attacks subtly through their art. “Play ing by the Tracks,” by 9-year-old Chris Heflin, shows a small black boy skip ping along the ties of a steely railroad track. “The best part of the shelter is the train track,” reads an accompanying statement. In another of Heflin’s photographs, “Kid in Room,” his timid voice once again seems to reverberate from the picture of a boy lying alone in a small, crowded room. “I like better living in a house than in a shelter. At Carpenter’s Shelter (Alexandria, Va.), there was only one room, and the whole family lived in it my brother and my other brother, my sister and my dad and my mom.” A stream of happiness enters a few of the photographs, such as “The Party,” in which a small boy holds a balloon in front of an onlooking clown. Yet the boy, who is pictured in a shelter, doesn’t surrender a smile, as if he knows that his balloon will soon deflate, and the clown will go, leaving only the unfriendly walls of the shelter. Some of the most poignant photo graphs are of young boys holding guns. They seem protective of the cold metal weapons, wielding them as if they were the key to the future. Sadly, for some this might be true, as the crime rate in Washington, D.C., ranks among the top in the nation. Today, from2p.m.to4p.m., Ackland will host a reception for students only. Hubbard, who left for Chicago after the Monday press conference, won’t be there to answer questions. But the pho tographs speak for themselves. Campus Calendar TUESDAY 11 a.m. Senior class will offer finger painting in the Pit until 1 p.m. 12:15 p.m. The Soqja H. Stone Black Cultural Center and the Black Student Movement will spon sor a program titled “Lenoir Food Workers Strike” in the BCC. 2 p.m. Senior class will sponsor a student preview of an exhibit titled “Shooting Back: Photography By and About the Homeless” at the Ackland Art Mu seum. 5 p.m. Lab! Theatre will present Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” in Graham Memorial. 6:30 p.m. Marine Action Committee will discuss the Whaling Conference in the Campus Y. Sigma Theta Alpha, collegiate HOSA, will meet for a tour in the lobby of the hospital. Alpha Phi Alpha will sponsor a program titled “African Americans in the Military” in the BCC. Order of the Bell Tower will have a meeting for old and new members in 211 Union. 7 p.m. AED will have their initiation dinner at the Holiday Inn. Great Decisions will welcome Dr. Stanley Foster of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta to speak on “The Survival of the African Child” in 100 Hamilton. Resident Assistant-Housing department will sponsor a student discussion on ‘The Browning of America: Problems Between America’s Minority Groups” with student leaders in the ninth floor lounge of Morrison. 8 pan. UNC Young Democrats will welcome Billie Cox, Orange County Democratic Party chair woman, to speak in 206 Union. ITEMS OF INTEREST Carolina Athletic Association has 1993-94 CAA director applications available outside the CAA office in Suite A of the Union. we car® hair] i 306 B W. 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