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BCC Series to Begin With
Discussion of Pope Ad
The Black Cultural Center’s Cross-Cul
tural Community Institute Workshop se
ries begins at 7 p.m. today with a discus
sion of a newspaper advertisement protest
ing plans for anew BCC. The meeting will
be held in the current BCC, which is lo
cated in the Student Union.
The ad, placed by former Board ofTrust
ees member John Pope, encourages stu
dents and alumni to protest the new free
standing Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cul
tural Center, which was approved by the
BOT this summer, on the grounds that it
would promote separatism. The ad ran in
the Sunday issue of the Chapel Hill News.
“John Pope’s ad is reflecting ignorance
about what a black culture center is,” said
Margo Crawford, BCC director. “To have
a specific program is not separatist.”
The discussion, the first in a series of six
weekly meetings, is designed to break down
racial barriers, Crawford said.
"We will talk dialogue about the ad
itself— what it is doing for the community,
what it is doing in terms of separating the
races.”
Griffith, Jordan, Kuralt
Help to Pitch University
New public service announcements fea
turing Andy Griffith, Charles Kuralt and
Deloris Jordan mother of the famed
Michael Jordan began airing on televi
sion stations this month to commemorate
UNC’s Bicentennial.
Griffith is featured in 13 of the 15 spots,
which will air during the eight-month Bi
centennial Observation. One announce
ment includes an excerpt from “The Andy
Griffith Show” where Opie discusses with
Griffith his plan to attend UNC.
Steven Tepper, executive director of the
Bicentennial Observance, said he was de
lighted with the way the announcements
turned out.
“The point of the campaign is to salute
the people of North Carolina and to recog
nize the people who support UNC,” he
said.
Tepper said Griffith, one ofUNC’s most
famed alumni, was the perfect person to
help reach the people of North Carolina.
Four of the announcements, including
those by Deloris Jordan and Kuralt, were
sent to national television stations for broad
cast during nationally televised UNC ath
letic events.
Decision-Making Class
Offered in Medical School
UNC’s School of Medicine is offering a
new class this semester that focuses on
improving the decision-making skills of
future doctors.
Dr. Robert McNutt, assistant professor
of medicine, developed the course to help
students utilize various problem-solving
techniques not often taught in medical
schools.
“The main focus is a way to teach them
to make medical decisions by going through
a system of steps,” McNutt said.
The course stresses the medical prob
lem-solving technique instead of focusing
on the problem itself, he said.
McNutt said doctors who possessed
problem-solving skills improved patient
care and cut health care costs.
The course includes about six hours of
instruction a week and is open to third-year
medical school students.
Medical Researchers Win
National Attention
Researchers at UNC’s School of Medi
cine recently gained national attention for
their success in correcting a defect in ge
netic material from patients with
thalassemia, an inherited illness that pre
vents normal production of hemoglobin.
Hemoglobin is the oxygen-carry mg sub
stance that gives blood its red color. The
illness, prevalent in people of Mediterra
nean, Middle-Eastern and Southeast-Asian
decent, results in severe anemia, organ
complications and premature death.
Dr. Zbigniew Dominski, research asso
ciate, and Dr. Ryszard Kole, associate pro
fessor of pharmacology, are the authors of
the report and members of the UNC
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Cen
ter.
Dominski said he was pleased with the
study, conducted in laboratory glassware,
because of the many benefits that came
from the research.
“In the long run I am pleased because it
opens up chances for basic research,” he
said.
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Campus Y to Vacate Second Floor
BY JIFFER BOURGUIGNON
STAFF WRITER
The Campus Y will vacate the second
floor of its building as soon as renovations
are completed in the basement, Campus Y
Director Zenobia Hatcher-Wilson said
Tuesday.
The Campus Y was ordered to leave the
upper level in late June because of a state
ment by the N.C. Department of Insur
ance condemning the two upper floors.
The statement, originally issued in 1949
by J. Mark Boone Jr., says, “This Depart
ment condemns the use of all floors of this
building above the first for any use, except
Hospital School Keeps Patients From Falling Behind
BY KRISTEN IANEY
STAFF WRITER
Children who visit UNC Hospitals as
in- or out-patients no longer will get behind
in their schoolwork thanks to the Hospital
School.
The seventh floor ofthe hospital is home
to the Hospital School, which is run as part
of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City school
system.
Dolores Paylor, the school’s principal,
said that although the school's enrollment
varied day-to-day, lately the school had
averaged about 37 to 50 students daily.
“The Hospital School is important so
there’s not a lapse in the child’s educa
tion,” Paylor said.
The length of a student’s enrollment
lasts about as long as the hospital stay. The
school employs a principal, a secretary and
10 teachers who teach kindergarten through
12th grade at the school.
“The teachers are classifiedby the medi
cal areas they cover, not the grade levels
that they teach,” she said.
Most of the teachers have special-edu
cation certification, with specialties rang
ing from pediatrics and psychiatrics to can
cer, bum, and transplant patients, Paylor
said.
Although other hospitals have schools,
UNC Hospitals’ school is one of the larg
est. The Duke Medical Center and the
hospitals in Winston-Salem and Charlotte
also have schools.
Kim Hoke, Chapel Hill-Carrboro
schools spokeswoman, said, “The school
is therapeutic because it restores some nor
malcy in (the children’s) lives.”
Paylor said the high enrollment this
year had caused the need for anew class
room, which is in the process of being
added to the two existing classrooms.
“Those patients who are able to go to
the classroom go, but many are served in
their rooms, bedside,” she said.
Plans are being developed for anew
Children’s Hospital, and the Hospital
School definitely will be a part of it, Paylor
UNC Freshman’s Prize-Winning T-shirt Design Targets Violence
BY KARA SIMMONS
STAFF WRITER
Michael Farmer’s T-shirt design is more
than, just a fashion statement.
The design features an animated bullet
with a Band-Aid over its mouth and the
phrase “Silence Violence.”
Farmer, a freshman from Durham, was
one 0f6,000 students to submit entries to a
contest that contributed money to high
school art departments nationwide.
“The message behind the design is re
ally that there should be a halt to petty
Phoenix to Publish Despite Defunding
BY JUDY ROYAL
STAFF WRITER
Despite Student Congress’ refusal to
fund the Phoenix, the newsmagazine is
determined to continue publication even if
only on a sporadic basis, University alum
nus and former Phoenix staff member
David Madison said Tuesday.
The first issue of the publication should
be out in the next three weeks. Funds will
come from private donations and advertis
ing revenue, he said.
Student Congress rejected a request from
the Phoenix for funding at its first meeting
of the year last Wednesday.
“Through the stubborn will of the Phoe
nix staff, we will not be deterred by the self
serving actions of Student Congress,” said
Madison.
Madison said the Phoenix planned to
publish one issue in hopes of showing
Student Congress that the magazine was
“a responsible publication that is able to
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storage, until proper and approved means
of escape have been provided.”
The second and third floors don’t have
fire escapes, and the winding wooden stair
case leading to the upper floors would
make it difficult for people to leave the
second floor quickly, Hatcher-Wilson said.
Identifying this concern as its main focus,
the letter of condemnation states, “Should
fire, from any source, involve the one wind
ing wooden stairway, all persons above the
first floor would have no way of escape,
save jumping.”
Hatcher-Wilson said the letter some
how was misplaced and forgotten until it
resurfaced again in 1989 when the Univer
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Dolores Paylor is the principal of the Hospital School, which serves school children while they are patients at UNC
Hospitals. The school, which grew from a volunteer tutorial program, has been open for 25 years.
said. The school, which started as a volun
teer-tutorial program, has served hospital
patients for 25 years. “The school operates
year-round because children are admitted
throughout the year, but we operate with
less staff in the summer,” Paylor said.
The school always has contact with the
student’s home-based school so that re
entry into the typical school setting goes
more smoothly.
violence,” he said. “There’s a time and a
place for violence, but over foolish things,
it’s just not necessary.”
Farmer’s T-shirt design was selected as
one of 44 to be sold in department stores
nationwide. “I’m hoping that people read
(the shirt) and give it some thought,” he
said. “Maybe if someone just takes the
time to read it, they’ll get the message.”
Dave DeTone, president of Design For
Education, the New York-based company
that sponsors the contest, said Farmer’s
design was a strong piece.
“It was done well, ” DeTone said. “He’s
produce ad revenue and handle finances
responsibly.
“The problem Student Congress has
with us is our history, and we’re trying to
overcome that,” he said.
“I think it’s unfortunate that Student
Congress has been put in the position where
they’re nervous about giving us funds.
“Last year’s Student Congress didn’t
have a good name, and we didn’t hold that
against them,” he said. “Everyone should
start with a clean slate.”
Madison will use his personal computer
to create the first issue. If publication con
tinues, successive issues could be produced
with a staff member’s computer or student
government’s Scapegoat system. Student
Congress voted to sell the system last
Wednesday, but members said the system
probably still would be available to student
publications.
However, Madison said finding a sys
tem to produce the Phoenix wastheleastof
the publication’s problems.
sity started plans to renovate the building.
“It was hoped that a re-examination of the
building would render it usable,” she said.
“Apparently this was not the case because
the order to move off the second floor was
reiterated.”
Students have asked about the possibil
ity of putting in fire escapes, she said. “I’m
assuming that this is not possible because
the order to vacate still came down. ”
Michelle LeGrand, co-president of the
Campus Y, said she was not pleased with
the forced relocation but said it wouldn’t
distract the organization from its purpose.
“The vision, mission and mandate of
the Campus Y will continue to guide us in
Major Geer, who has taught at the school
for 25 years, said teaching patients was
rewarding for students and teachers. “By
our having the school here in the hospital,
we keep them up with their grades so when
they go back they’re not going to have to
catch up as much.”
Geer said he liked teaching at the Hos
pital School because it was an opportunity
to work with students on a one-to-one
just as good as any designer I could’ve
hired.”
So far, Farmer’s design has earned him
S2OO in licensing fees, but it’s possible his
winnings won’t stop there. “If my design
sells the most T-shirts, then I can win a
$5,000 scholarship,” he said.
Response to Farmer’s design and his
message have been extremely positive so
far, he said.
“Mostly people congratulate me on my
success. Especially in church.”
DeTone said his company started the
contest in order to support high- school art
“Our main problem is financing. A lot
of the first issue is people making sacrifices
to get it out,” he said.
“The first issue will demonstrate that
we are worthy of Student Congress funds, ”
Madison said.
At a Sept. 8 meeting Student Congress
considered an amendment to the funding
bill that would have created a Phoenix
board of directors to monitor the
magazine’s finances. After congress was
unable to agree on how to form the board,
the amendment was dropped.
Madison said the Phoenix would wel
come the measure only if “(Student Con
gress) can come up with a sound plan with
a board of directors that won’t interfere
with the editorial content of the Phoenix. ”
Madison said the board should serve
solely as a director of finances.
“Even if we don’t get the funding, the
Phoenix will not roll over and die,” said
Madison. “We’ll be funded issue to issue,
week by week if we have to.”
our commitments to those affected by so
cial injustices and those who will open
their ear toward pluralism, regardless of
the administration’s intent upon condemn
ing our current building,” she said.
The second floor currently contains sev
eral offices that serve as headquarters for
Campus Y student organizations, includ
ing the Big Buddy program, Youth United
and Project Literacy.
Renovation is being done on the base
ment, which will eventually house the of
fices. “The second floor will be padlocked,
as the third floor is presently, following the
relocation of the activities’ offices,”
Hatcher-Wilson said.
basis, and the students’ progress was easy
to, measure. “The children don’t look to
ybu as a'fhefnber of the medical staff, they
look to you as both a friend and teacher.”
Paylor said the school helped children
focus on the positive to help them over
come obstacles. “The children have to de
velop survival skills, and even though they
have an illness, they still have to adapt and
five in this world.”
departments across the country.
“Our purpose is to save the art depart
ments because programs nationwide are
suffering due to budget cuts,” he said. “Art
teaches kids how to be creative and inquisi
tive. It’s a vital part of any curriculum. Art
is sort of like a quiet sport.”
He said the contest was unique because
it allowed students to raise money for them
selves and their schools using their own
imaginations.
“We have high-school students around
the country create designs, ” he said. “Then
the kids vote on them and select the ones
Date Set for Special Election
To Fill Vacant Congress Seats
BY KIRK ROYAL
STAFF WRITER
The resignation of two Student Con
gress representatives will send some stu
dents back to the voting booth early next
month.
The Elections Board has scheduled a
special election to fill two vacancies in
Student Congress, board Chairwoman
Melinda Manning said Tuesday.
Residents of District 22 and students in
the business school will vote on Tuesday,
Oct. 5, to replace representatives Derek
Shadid and Rick Lane, election officials
said Tuesday. The board will open a poll
site in front of the Student Union from 11
a.m. to 5 p.m.
Congress Speaker Wendy Sarratt said
Shadid resigned his post on Aug. 29 and
Lane resigned Tuesday.
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Candidate
Invited to
Forum
BYKELLYRYAN
CITY EDITOR
A write-in candidate for the Chapel-Hill
Carrboro School Board will be invited to
participate in a League of Women Voters
candidate debate next month.
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro League of
Women Voters decided Tuesday night that
Chapel Hill resident Richard Kiyder, who
entered the race about three weeks after the
filing period ended, would be invited to its
candidate forum Oct. 21.
Kryder said he
was surprised hy
the decision but
happy that a letter
he sent the league
last week had con
vinced the group
he was a credible
candidate.
“I really take my
hat off to them,”
he said. “There are
important issues
out there that need
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to be discussed, and I think it’s good forthe
people of the community to hear them.”
The filing period tosecureaspotonthe
Novemberballot ended Aug. 6. But Kryder,
a former elementary teacher who then was
fighting the school board to regain his job,
officially could not enter the race because
he still was considered a school employee.
Kryder will be allowed to participate in
a Tax Watch forum Sept. 23 and a Parent
Teacher Association forum Oct. 5.
The local league chapter follows the
state rules, which do not specify whether a
write-in candidate should be allowed to
participate along side other official candi
dates.
Ann Williams, the co-president of the
League ofWomen Voters, said sheplanned
to write Kryder a letter to invite him to the
forum.
“There is no precedent that a write-in
candidate can’t be invited, provided they
demonstrate they are a serious candidate,”
Williams said.
“It’s the first time, to my knowledge, a
write-in candidate has challenged the
board’s decision.”
Kryder said he thought the decision set
a precedent for future write-in candidates.
“If they’re going to allow me to come ’ 1
believe they will treat me like the other
candidates.”
It would look bad for the league to
exclude him from the forum, Kryder said,
because one of its members, Bea Hughes-
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that best represent their schools. We then
take the winning designs and turn them
into T-shirts, sweatshirts, and hats.
"Kids can be self-expressive and at the
same time they can raise money for the
schools and themselves.”
DeTone said students submitted vari
ous T-shirt designs that were unique in
their messages.
“There was a broad spectrum of de
sign,” he said. “Michael Farmer’s design
was a popular one though. Violence is
something kids seem to be very concerned
about.”
“There are usually several people who
resign from congress after the summer,”
Sarratt said. “There was a good turnout for
the first meeting, so there are no problems
with quorum.”
District 22 includes the off-campus area
to the north and west of the intersection of
Franklin and Columbia Streets, Manning
said. Some of the major apartment com
plexes included in the election are
Bolinwood, Estes Park, University Gar
dens and Highland Hills, she said.
Ruth Campbell, the remaining repre
sentative for District 22, encouraged her
constituents to participate in the election.
She said the turnout in the last election
was very poor.
“In the last election, each of the two
winners Derek Shadid and myself
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