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t/The Daily Tar Heel/Wednesday, February 24, 1993
Awards give students chance to honor teaching excellence
By Shakti Routray
Staff Writer
Ever had an instructor whose class
you went out of your way not to miss?
■ Did this teacher have an impact on
you that is hard to explain but made all
the difference?
Now you have a chance to show this
outstanding educator your appreciation.
Students can nominate outstanding
teaching assistants and professors for
the Students’ Undergraduate Teaching
University, N.C. groups to pay tribute to Duke, Dizzy at 16th Jazz Festival
By Alex Frew McMillan
Staff Writer
We might have missed Mardi Gras
this year, but that’s no reason to go
without a healthy dose of New Orleans
jazz.
The 16th annual UNC Jazz Festival,
which opens today and runs through
Sunday, will feature jazz from Univer
sity bands and individuals, profession
als and bands from other N.C. schools
The festival is co-sponsored by the
Carolina Union Performing Arts Com
mittee and the University’s Department
Clark
she worked as a maid at the Carolina
Inn, she was subject to racial slurs and
intimidation. “We did have to take it
until we found better,” she said.
Clark decided to find “better” and
become involved in the community in
the late 1940s when she helped cam
paign for her step-uncle, Fred Edwards,
who was running for the Chapel Hill
Town Council. After Edwards was nar
rowly defeated, new district lines were
drawn, making it difficult for blacks to
be elected to public office, Clark said.
Angered by the redistricting, Clark
decided to continue working in local
politics, encouraging black residents to
register to vote and distributing materi
als about candidates both blacks and
whites whom she thought would
benefit the community. “I’m a firm be
liever in if I live in a town and have got
to pay taxes and insurance, I’m as much
a part of that system as anybody else,
despite my color.”
During the 1940 sand 19505, many
black residents were reluctant to regis
ter to vote because they felt intimidated
by the registrars. Clark personally would
accompany them to the polls.
“Black folk cannot win elections by
themselves,” she said. “They have to
Moody
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innovative student governments of the
year and that the organization can “help
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Forms are available at the Under
graduate Library, Davis Library, Union
Desk, Chase and Lenoir halls, Campus
Y and Granville Towers. Nominations
are due by 5 p.m. Sunday.
Hal Kitchin, chairman of the Stu
dents’ Undergraduate Teaching Awards
Committee, said the awards were the
only teaching honors funded and se
lected by students alone. “It’s a chance
for the students to speak out and say
what they decide is good teaching,”
of Music.
Two free Union Auditorium films
kick off the week. “Bird,” a biographi
cal film directed by Clint Eastwood
about bebopper Charlie Parker, will
show at 6:30 p.m. today, followed by
“Thelonius Monk: Straight No Chaser”
at 9:30 p.m., a film built around docu
mentary footage of the N.C. native.
The festival continues Thursday as
University students perform vocal and
instrumental jazz in the Union Cabaret.
The free program will last from 8 p.m.
until 10 p.m. Rick Gardner, program
assistant for the Carolina Union Activi
have other folk (both blacks and
whites).”
Clark served as chairwoman of the
Lincoln Precinct from 1973 to 1990 and
is now an assistant. She also is active in
the Orange County Democratic Party.
“She’s involved in every election,
somehow, some way and for some
body,” said Lee. Clark assisted in the
campaigns of Lee’s husband, N.C. Sen.
Howard Lee, D-Orange, who was the
first black mayor of Chapel Hill.
Chapel Hill Town Council member
Joe Herzenberg, who has known Clark
for 20 years, said she had been instru
mental in helping black residents obtain
equal rights. “No one deserves more
credit than she in making African Ameri
cans full-fledged citizens in Chapel
Hill,” he said. “She’s the godmother of
black politics in southern Orange
County.”
While active in local politics, Clark
also pursued a more personal ambition.
Three years of working and learning as
a nurse’s aide at UNC Hospitals paid off
in 1956, when she received certification
as a licensed practical nurse.
“I just cried. My prayers had been
answered,” she said. “You just have to
keep saying ‘I can make it, I can make
intercollegiate athletics, race relations
and other fields to your campus.”
McCurry said he did not know where
Moody had gotten the money for the
mass mailings. “You ’ll have to ask John
about that,” he said. “Yes, my name is
on (the letter), but John is doing most of
the work.”
Moody did not return repeated phone
calls to both his home and office Mon
day and Tuesday.
Student Body Treasurer Kevin
Hunter said that as far as he knew, no
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Kitchin said.
The annual awards honor three pro
fessors with $5,000 each and five teach
ing assistants with $ 1,000 each, he said.
Michele Ware, a teaching assistant in
the English department and 1992 award
recipient, said she thought the under
graduate teaching award was the best
possible recognition a teacher could get
because it came from her students.
Michael Folio, an assistant geology
professor and 1991 recipient, said the
award was a way for students to let their
ties Board, said the performance would
be a special one.
“It’s in a neat location, and it will be
nice to see students perform in a club
like atmosphere,” Gardner said. The
Cabaret is an excellent setting for jazz,
he said, adding that he encouraged stu
dents to get out and support friends who
are performing.
The festival’s scheduled headline
performers, the Brecker Brothers, un
fortunately have canceled their perfor
mance Thursday night to perform at the
Grammy Awards, for which they also
were nominated.
it, I can make it,’ just like the choo-choo
train.”
Lee said Clark’s perseverance was
also a plus for her community work.
“She is a strong-willed person, and of
course, that’s a good thing, to accom
plish some of the things that she’s ac
complished.”
Clark served on her first board, the
Chapel Hill Recreation Commission, in
the 19505. One of her proudest accom
plishments while serving on the board
was helping to raise funding for the
Hargrave Community Center, she said.
She also has served on the Citizen
Advisory Board, the Redevelopment
Commission, the Chapel Hill Housing
Committee and the Chapel Hill Person
nel Grievance Committee.
In the past seven years, one of her
main projects has been the historical
preservation of the cemetery located
near Carmichael Auditorium where
many black slaves were buried. She
also is a member of two committees on
community safety and has worked to
obtain better lighting and more police
officers in area neighborhoods.
Ken Mclntyre, who has known Clark
for nearly 50 years, said Clark was
someone who always could get things
student fee money had gone to the NASG
mailings.
“I would know about something like
that,” Hunter said. “He could, of course,
use money from his stipend to pay for
any mailings. I have cut several checks
for him from that money recently.”
Moody receives SIOO permonth from
the Student Activities Fund Office, but
until last month had been donating the
entire amount to the APPLES program,
said Howard Brubaker, S AFO director.
Funds for the organization—or funds
brought in by the organization—do not
have to be reported to S AFO and could
be kept in a local bank. “As far as I
know, (Moody) hasn’t done anything
out of (the SAFO) office concerning
(NASG),” Brubaker said.
Charlie Higgins, student body vice
president, said Monday that he wasn’t
working on the project.
“I haven’t had anything to do with
that,” he said. “John is the one you need
to talk to.”
But according to a letter dated Feb. 3,
sent by Higgins to Ed Ryan, a member
of Moody’s staff, Higgins had been
involved in the planning.
“After talking to a number of people
about the feasibility of such an organi
zation, I am convinced that we have
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instructors know when they were hav
ing a definite impact. “You don’t get a
lot of positive feedback always,” he
said. “It was reassuring that the students
thought I was doing a good job because
they are the ones who are important.”
Ware, who said she wanted to con
tinue teaching at the college level, said
the award got her “energized” about
teaching. “It told me that I was doing the
right thing, that I was good at what I was
doing and that other people thought so
too,” she said. “I only wish there were
Jazz professionals can, however, be
heard Saturday in Memorial Hall. Tenor
saxophonist Jerry Coker and trumpeter
Vaughn Nark will featurlas guest solo
ists in an 8 p.m. free performance by the
UNC Jazz Band, directed by music
Associate Professor James Ketch.
Coker is a performer and teacher of
jazz who was a featured soloist with
Frank Sinatra. At the University of Mi
ami, he established the first bachelor’s
and master’s program of jazz. His al
bums include “Extensions,” “Rebirth”
and “Re-emergence.” He has been teach
ing jazz for 34 years.
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done. “She has always fought for equal
rights and good will in the community,”
said Mclntyre, who met Clark through
the Orange County Democratic Party.
“Everyone turns to Rebecca Clark.
“She’s one of those dynamic people
who’s willing to go out and fight for a
good cause.”
Although Clark has been honored
with several community awards, she
insists that she only has done what any
body else could have done for the com
munity and that all of her projects were
accomplished with the help of others.
“Don’t say ‘me,’ I’m talking about
we, the community,” she said. “I don’t
really put myself in a (leadership) posi
tion. If I can be of help to anyone, I will
be at their service.”
In her spare time, Clark enjoys spend
ing time with her family. She has three
grandchildren and six great-grandchil
dren. She also enjoys watching sports.
Clark said that although she was not
as active in the community as she had
been in the past, she would continue to
be involved as long as she could. “I’m
never going to stop until I have to. It’s
just me.
“I’ve worked all my life. I’m not
contented sitting at home.”
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student governments around the coun
try,” the letter states. “I do have a couple
of questions ... Everybody has said that
they wouldn’t say anything until the
appropriate time, so hopefully this will
not be a problem.
“If asked about it, redirect them to
Moody somehow.”
There are several existing national
student government organizations, but
UNC does not belong to any such group.
The United States Students Associa
tion, based in Washington, D.C., is the
largest student government organiza
tion in the country. UNC leaders dis
cussed joining the group several years
ago but decided against it, said Mark
Bibbs, president of the Association of
Student Governments, an N.C. organi
zation.
“We didn’t join it two years ago
because... their dues were very high—
several thousand dollars —and be
cause we wanted the UNC system to
join as one member, and they were
going to charge us more,” Bibbs said.
“They were basically a Washington lob
bying group, and most of our concerns
are in Raleigh.
“I don’t know much about the Na
tional Association, except what John
has mentioned to me. It sounds like a
good idea, though.”
more awards like it so that good teach
ing could be recognized more often.”
Kitchin said the awards committee
divided the nominees into groups based
on areas of specialization. The top 15
percent of the nominees from each group
receive further review.
Each memberofthe 12-member com
mittee will sit in on four classes taught
by a nominated instructor to better judge
their classroom performance, Kitchin
said. Committee members also ran
domly will call students of the nomi
Nark has been a member of the United
States Air Force Jazz Ensemble for 16
years and has performed with such jazz
greats as Dizzy Gillespie, Mel Torme
and Wynton Marsalis. He specializes in
jazz trumpet, flugelhom and valve-trom
bone.
The festival will conclude Sunday
with Collegiate Big Band Day. The
UNC Jazz Lab Band, directed by music
Assistant Professor Keith Jackson, will
open the day’s festivities at 2 p.m. in
Great Hall featuring the works of Count
Basie and Chick Corea, among others.
The program continues with the East
Court
changes in the student judiciary policy
would not take effect until the next fall
semester, Backes said.
Ball said the recommendations had
yet to become official. “These are only
proposals; they have not yet been ap
proved,” he said.
The proposals will be sent for ap
proval to Student Congress, the Faculty
Council and Chancellor Paul Hardin,
who makes the final decision.
“This is a good start, but there’s a lot
more work that needs to be done,”
Campbell said.
Judiciary officials drafted the pro
posals mainly in response to WAR’s
criticism of the existing policy. WAR
submitted a letter to the judicial branch
emphasizing the shortcomings of pur
suing sexual assault cases through the
student judicial system rather than a
criminal court.
Women considering pursuing sexual
assault cases now receive a modified
copy of the letter.
“We’re not doing this to get the Honor
Court to stop trying these cases,”
Melinda Manning, co-chairwoman of
the Rape Action Project, said. She added
that Honor Court trials for sexual as
sault were more private and therefore
Ball
the March 5 deadline.
The attorney general and his staff
plan to increase public awareness by
creating a more “reader friendly” supple
ment to the student government guide
to the judicial system.
Ball said he wanted students to un
derstand how the system worked, not
just the rules and responsibilities of the
Code of Student Conduct.
Ball said he would like to write a
weekly column for The Daily Tar Heel
listing the number of cases, convictions
and type of sanctions levied by the
student Honor Court. He said he also
would use the column as a forum to deal
with concerns and criticisms of the stu
Campus Calendar
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WEDNESDAY
10 a.m. Campus Scouts will be selling Girl Scouts
Cookies in the Pit until 3 p.m.
NOON: Latin American Studies Colloquium
will have a Latin American music hour in 209 Union.
Bring your tapes and lunch.
12:15 p.m. Presbyterian Student Center will
have a short Ash Wednesday service in the chapel.
Information: 967-2311.
3 p.m. University Career Services will offer in
formation on how to decide which career field is best
for you in 209 Hanes Hall.
3:30 p.m. UCS will offer information on getting
credit for internships for sophomores and juniors in
the College of Arts & Sciences with 2.5+ GPA in 306
Hanes.
4 p.m. Superlative Strategies for Sophomore
Success will present “Experiential Learning Oppor
tunities For Minority Students” by Robin G. Joseph in
224 Union.
5 p.m. AIESEC will host speakers on Russia,
France and Germany in 210 Union.
5:30 p.m. CHispA will sponsor a minority group
forum in 209 Union.
Feminist Alliance will meet and show a movie in
205 Union.
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nated teachers for their input about the
instructor, Kitchin added.
Kitchin said the monthlong process
would culminate with the formal an
nouncement of the winners at the an
nual Chancellor’s Awards Ceremony
this spring.
Students founded the award in 1989.
A referendum approved in the 1989
campus election raised student fees by
75 cents per semester and 25 cents per
summer school session to fund the teach
ing awards, Kitchin said.
Carolina University Jazz Ensemble, the
N.C. School of the Arts Jazz Ensemble
and the N.C. Central University Jazz
Ensemble.
The North Carolina Jazz Repertory
Orchestra, a “superband” collaboration
of teachers and professionals from
throughout North Carolina, also will
perform, making their debut. Co-di
rected by Ketch and Gregg Gelb, the
orchestra will feature the music of Duke
Ellington.
The program is rounded out by an
other performance by the UNC Jazz
Band and should end at 6 p.m.
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less intimidating.
Backes said the judiciary was not
forced to use the letter submitted by
WAR. The letter had been revised by
Schroeder to make women aware of
their options, she said.
“WAR can (make suggestions), but
it ’ s our decision as to whether we imple
ment it,” Backes said. “We worked with
them to get the joint effort out for
women.”
Campbell said she has had some form
of contact with each of the women who
has pursued a sexual assault case through
the Honor Court. “Not one woman that’s
gone through the Honor Court process
or has taken a case to it has recom
mended (going through the student
courts),” she said.
Backes said the Honor Court’s pur
pose was justice, not providing emo
tional support. “The system’s first pri
ority is to the defendant’s rights,” she
said. “I want to stress that the system’s
primary function is justice, and any
thing that would diminish that is not
going to happen.”
Manning said only three sexual as
sault cases had gone to trial in the past
year. “Lots of people don’tknow it’san
option.”
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dent judicial system.
The new associate attorney generals
will give the attorney general the free
dom to oversee the system to ensure its
efficiency, hesaid. “My main goal will
be to expedite the process,” he said,
citing complaints about the system’s
ability to provide a speedy trial.
Ball said one of his long-term goals
was to hone the system by gathering and
reviewing Honor Court system policies
from the nation’s top 25 schools.
“I see this as a year of transition, to be
able to improve areas that may have
been flawed,” he said. “I have a real
great staff, and I have confidence that
we’ll be successful.”
Newman Center will celebrate an Ash Wednesday
Mass after dinner.
Asian Students Association will discuss prejudice
within the Asian community in 209 Union.
6 p.m. Volunteer Action Center will discuss
volunteer opportunities with the elderly in 206 Cam
pus Y.
Wesley Foundation will have dinner and an Ash
Wednesday worship service.
Kappa Alpha Psi and UNC Housing will sponsor
“A Tribute to Black History” with John Michael
speaking on ‘The Theology of Rap” in the first floor
Green Room in Craige Residence Hall.
7 p.m. Student Peace Initiative will hold a man
datory meeting on the “Decade of U.S. Aggression”
booklet in 218 Union.
Carolina Comic Book Club will welcome John
Constantine in 220 Union.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority will host an open
forum on “Sisterhood Among Black Women" with
Dean Fuse-Hall in the black cultural center.
9 p.m. WXYC 89-3 FM will feature “My Bloody
Valentine.”
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