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4 Wednesday, February 15,1995 Breakfast Raises Money for Heart Research BYKERRYOSSI STAFF WRITER For the 14th year in a row, Spanky’s restaurant on Franklin Street held a break &st fund-raiser for the Orange County Chapter of the American Heart Associa tion. Last Friday, from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., the restaurant served blueberry pancakes, fruit salad, omelets and muffins for the cause, said Spanky’s general manager, Kevin Brooks. Spanky’s owner Mickey Ewell, whose parents both died from heart-related ill nesses, said he had been a member of the American Heart Association board for 15 years. He suggested the idea of the break fast to the board and volunteered his res taurant, where the fund-raiser has taken place ever since. Ewell donates all of the food for the Girl Scouts Bring Famous Cookie Sales to the Pit BY JONNELLE DAVIS ASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR Tough decisions 101. Which candidates to vote for in campus elections. Where to go for Spring Break. And the ever-impor tant choice among Samoas, Thin Mints and Tagalongs. Continuing what has become one of the most anticipated events each year, the Girl Scouts of America kicked off their 1995 cookie sale Jan. 14 and will begin booth sales and deliveries Friday through March 12. In addition to their traditional favorites, the Girl Scouts have introduced The Snap, a low-fat oatmeal and raisin cookie. In its 80th year, the organization aims to assist young women in the areas of career training, the arts, health and fitness, history, and travel. The Girl Scouts learn these skills throughoutdoorprograms, such GPSF FROM PAGE 3 he said. “I’ve developed contact with fac ulty, administration and students to find what we need and to present that well to the administration and the state.” As president of the GPSF, Hoffmann said, he will continue to address the spe cific concerns of graduate students at UNC. “The new issue will be the budget. To work effectively for the least deleterious effects of Gov. Hunt’s new budget.” Hoffmann said he also intended to con tinue to work on issues the GPSF had already begun to face, including health insurance and tuition remissionJfor gradu ate students. UNC does not pay health insurance to •: - ~ Bar USA Raft 1-SOO-USA^RAFT Cheat, New, Nolichucky, NantahaJa & Ocoee Rivers V PO Box 277 • Rowlesburg.WV 26425 J A SERVICE PROVIDER \ ( I WISH I HAD HAS TO GIVE ME l A CLUE J FTP, Gopher, wf \ . Slip Connection / [ j° 0 Available at Your Campus Bookstore ® WILEY breakfast, and the staff of his restaurant work for free. “We had six floor employees and five kitchen employees who all came in at 6 a.m. to volunteer their time and worked only for tips,” Brooks said. Brooks said 175 people filled both floors ofthe restaurant and paid $lO each to raise money for the AHA. “This was the busiest breakfast that we’ve had for the American Heart Asso ciation in a few years,” Brooks said The breakfast raised $ l ,900 for the Or ange County Chapter of the AHA, Small said. “Some people donate more than the required $lO, and some people pay for a ticket but don’t come to the breakfast,” she said. Many of the diners at the breakfast have come to the fund-raiser each year since it began 14 years ago, Ewell said. as weeklong summer camps, and through volunteer services in the community. In 1963, the Pines of Carolina Girl Scout Council was chartered by America’s Girl Scouts. The Pines of Carolina Council which includes Durham, Orange, Wake counties benefits 20 North Carolina counties, or one-fifth of the state, and has about 22,500 members. The sale of cookies, which cost $2.50 a box, is the biggest fund-raiser for the scouts. The money from cookie sales and other efforts benefits the scouts’ individual troop. “Each troop determines the program they want to do for the year,” said Sue Thomas, Orange County cookie sale chair woman. “They have to decide where their funds are going to come from for that. And usually it’s the cookie sales.” One of the primary uses of the money is to pay for summer camps and other trips the girls take, said Elizabeth Schliebe, a GPSF [Q President V Steve Hoffmann 112 IVILiX % A Results research or teaching assistants. According to Hoffmann, most of the schools compet ing with UNC, such as the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Virginia, and the University of Michigan, do offer health insurance. Additionally, UNIVERSITY & CITY “People really look forward to it because we’ve been doing it so long. It gives them a chance to get together with people they haven i seen in a while. ” KEVIN BROOKS Owner of Spanky’s “People really look forward to it be cause we’ve been doing it so long,” Ewell said. “It gives them a chance to get together with people they haven’t seen in a while. And, of course, they come back for the good food.” The early hours of the fund-raiser allow for a pre-workday breakfast for many people, Ewell said. Junior Girl Scout in the Pines Council. “After we sell cookies, we get money, then we go on trips and we shop,” she said. Elizabeth and her sister, Mary, a Senior Girl Scout, became involved in the Girl Scouts through their mother, Barbara, who was also a Girl Scout and is now a troop leader. Barbara Schliebe said being a Girl Scout had helped her choose a career. “I guess I had such a good experience as a Girl Scout myself in leadership and ca reer interests,” said Schliebe, a dietitian with the Clinical Research Center at UNC. Mary Schliebe has been a Girl Scout for 13 years. She said there was a lot more to the Girl Scouts than just selling cookies. “Community service is fun because people in the community get to see what we’re doing and that we don’t just sell cookies,” she said. Some of the other activities Girl Scouts participate in include Adopt-A-Highway; UNC is short on tuition remissions for 385 graduate students, he said. “The biggest goal is to educate the state and the legisla ture as to the benefit and the service that graduate students and professional students provide the state,” Hoffmann said. Besides lobbying the administration and the state, Hoffmann said he also would try to improve communication among gradu ate students through e-mail and a joint newsletter with the Graduate School. “It’s important to get everyone involved instead of being in the dark,” he said. “Most graduate students are teaching and in the lab all day.” He said graduate students were often unaware of issues that affected them, in cluding scholarships, fellowships, intern ships and job opportunities. Hoffmann said he believed that issues that affected graduate students also affected the entire University. As graduate students are instrumental parts of both research and teaching, the quality of graduate students at UNC has an effect on the entire Univer sity population, he said. “It’s important that the whole Univer sity benefit from the GPSF.” Hoffmann has attended UNC since fall 1990. He has been a member of the GPSF since 1991 and in the GPSF Congress since 1993. He has applied to the School of Public Health to work on a degree in health policy administration. $5 OFF 1 Good on any tanning package of 10 or more visits with this coupon. Good until February 28,1995. i ! TANNERY i ■ Open ’Til Midnite • 7 Days a Week ■ 169 E. Franklin Street • Near the Post Office ■ V ?2?;5409_ J v. - SunoU^k. A \ l GALAdELOifA Next io Coprjtr-orTJ \ ~ kS Mmtenude cteficicus Joed.*. Caston (Vdilernsneonlk f tfcjttoMan. C.h.Hl<ie. “Some business owners are able to bring their entire office staff, because the break fast starts at 7 a.m.,” he said. Small said the first fund-raiser had been a business executive breakfast. Many people who attended the event were doc tors, local business owners and hospital staff, she said. Small said 100 percent of the donations go to the Orange County Chapter of the AHA. Less than 12 percent of that money is used for administrative costs, with the re maining amount going toward research. Every person who attended the break fast was added to the invitation list and will be invited back next year, Small said. “But the breakfast is open to the public; it’s not by invitation only,” she said. “Ev eryone willing to donate the $lO for a ticket is welcome to attend, and more new people come each year.” preparing food for the homeless and resi dents in the Ronald McDonald House; working with the rape crisis center; and Carolina Clean Sweep, a program adopted by the Carolina Campus Scouts in which scouts take responsibility for parts of a campus and keep it clean. “At school we go around and pick up trash and plant trees and flowers,” said Elizabeth, a student at Seawell Elemen tary School. The Girl Scouts will set up booth sales fortheircookiesthisyearonFranklinStreet, in Nationsßank Plaza, at University Mall and at Wal-Mart and Food Lion stores in Hillsborough. They will also be visiting the UNC campus Feb. 27 to March 1 to set up sales in the Pit. The Girl Scouts encour age people to support their efforts. Schliebe said, “It’s a female organiza tion to make girls feel good about them selves in an all-girl atmosphere.” RHA FROM PAGE 3 tences were affirmed when Godwin said they would continue to work together no matter what the outcome of the race. “We don’t hate each other,” Godwin said, laughing. The final results of Godwin’s victory were posted a little before midnight. “Personally, I think Jessica will do a wonderful job,” Holder said. He said he would still remain active in RHA. Godwin, a junior from Durham, said she intended to commence her office re sponsibilities with a campuswide survey to get the opinions of residents on campus. “I want to have a big program at the beginning of the year so the residents know what we’re here for,” Godwin said. Godwin said she would use informa tion from a campus survey and informa tion meetings to implement the programs for residents. She said she thought the most impor tant part of her platform was the idea of increasing visibility and resident programs. “I think the students were more con cerned with increasing visibility and the limelight of programming," she said. “In creasing programming was the main em phasis.” In her written platform, Godwin said she hoped to increase the visibility of the RHA at the statewide level. In order to accomplish this, the RHA had anticipated hosting a conference for all universities affiliated with the N.C. Association of Residence Halls, a state association of resi dence halls. The University did not receive the bid, however. “That was a big disap pointment,” Godwin said. “We are still looking at expanding statewide visibility. ” She said she hoped she and Holder would work together closely. Holder, a junior leisure studies and rec reational administration major, is the former area governor for Hinton James Residence Hall and the former N.C. coor dinator for the RHA. He has also served as Do you know... a junior, senior, grad student, faculty/staff member who has: ■ ■■ outstanding personal integrity; a superlative record of achievment; made significant contributions to student life? —■■■ If so, nominate them for the Order of the Golden Fleece, UNC's oldest and hightest honorary society. You can either; 1) Mail (campus or US) your name and phone number to Box 10, Carolina Union. C8#5210. or, 2) Pick up a form at the Union Desk. Deadline Feburary 17th Order of the Qoldcn Flcccc $$ REWARDS! $$ Think hack over all your classes at UNC...Which professors have influenced you the most? Who has kept you awake during your 8:00? Who has really made you think, gone above and beyond the call of duty, influenced you to change your major, influenced you NOT to change your major? lake a few minutes to give back to that professor or TA and nominate him or her for the Students’ Undergraduate Teaching Awards. Nomination forms available in Suite C and are due by sp.m. Friday, February 17 Chancellor’s Awards Accepting Nominations BYHEATHER N. ROBINSON STAFF WRITER Nomination forms are now available for the 1995 Chancellor’s Undergraduate Awards for Excellence in Student Activi ties and Leadership. Faculty, staff and students are eligible to nominate students based on their leader ship and academic activities, said Cindy Wolf-Johnson, chairwoman of the Chancellor’s Awards Selections Commit tee. “This is a wonderful opportunity to recognize individuals who have contrib uted outstanding service throughout the years,” Wolf-Johnson said. Ten awards will go to seniors, two awards will go to juniors and six awards are open to any undergraduate. Wolf-Johnson said each award had its own focus that varied from broad catego ries to more narrow areas. She said the categories ranged from the open-ended—such as the award given for character, scholarship and leadership—to the more specific principles involved with the honor, leadership, initiative and ere Corps Recruits Students For Environmental Work BY MICHELLE CRAMPTON STAFF WRITER Students interested in environmental careers now have two opportunities to gain hands-on experience and skills through a program called Green Corps. Green Corps, a field school for environ mental lobbying, can provide students a useful transition period between gradua tion and their plunge into the job market. “It’s kind of a year to get experience and help out national groups and work on different issues at the same time,” said Susan Comfort, a 1993 UNC graduate and West Coast coordinator for Green Corps. The program is divided into two sepa rate groups: Traditional Green Corps started in 1992, and the newer Neighbor hood Green Corps started in 1994. Both train their participants through classroom work, one-on-one instruction and field training. Traditional Green Corps is a 13-month program specifically designed for college graduates who are interested in raising awareness and in getting file public politi cally active in environmental campaigns as a career. “It mostly involves changingpolicy as a way of solving problems,” said Robert Hickey, field organizer for Chapel Hill. Traditional Green Corps offers a yearly salary of $14,500 plus benefits. Neighborhood Green Corps is a 10- month program supported by President Clinton’s Americorps program and de- — ißaz —' President and Jessica Godwin 1,508 b. Results the regional committee coordinator for NCARH. Godwin said she was excited about her new job. “I am going to strive to represent student residents to the best of my ability. I’m going to be RHA president!” uHjp Saily filar Me?l ativity in the multicultural activities award. Nominations are due by Feb. 24. The nomination forms can be picked up at the Union Desk, the Campus Y, the Office of Leadership Development in the basement of Steele Building and in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs in 104 Steele Building. The decisions will be made by the Chancellor’s Awards Selection Commit tee , which is made up ofthree faculty, three staff and six students. Wolf-Johnson said that the staff and faculty on the committee rotated on a three year basis and that the students rotated once a year. She said this was to keep a bias from forming within the committee. The committee is formed by nomina tions from faculty, staff and students. Wolf- Johnson said she thought it was an honor to serve on the committee. “It is a true honor to see what a differ ence so many outstanding students make on this campus,” she said. The awards will be presented at a cer emony at 3 p.m. April 11 in the Great Hall Chancellor Paul Hardin will also present other academic awards at the ceremony. signed for high school or college gradu ates, or for those students who want to take a year off from school to work on commu nity-based environmental service. Neighborhood Green Corps participants earn a stipend and a $5,000 educational award that can be used to go back to school or to pay off college loans. Green Corps helps national environ mental groups work on their campaigns but is not an environmental group itself, Comfort said. “We’re actually an organization that ties all these groups together in a way because we’re working with them and working for them and training people to join their ranks in years to come,” she said. Traditional Green Corps participants are placed in cities to work on four to five national campaigns, individually raising awareness by educating people to lobby legislators and by getting media attention. This year, the foci of Traditional Green Corps are a “Boycott Mitsubishi” cam paign, a “Free the Planet” campaign for Earth Day, and fall’s Campus Green Vote, which ivas used to get students registered to vote and to make them aware of envi ronmental issues that might appear on the ballots. Neighborhood Green Corps sends teams of five people to urban communities to work on three service projects. Projects that Neighborhood Green Corps will be working on this year will be energy conser vation, childhood lead poisoning and com munity gardening. Comfort said Green Corps was impor tant because it involved the training of future environmental leaders. “In 20 or 30 years, it’s going to be we who are running these groups,” Comfort said. “If we don’t get the training and experience, how are we going to have the know-how to do it?” “Green Corps is a national program designed to train the next generation of environmental and social activist leaders, ” Hickey said. “It’s a fantastic program that is really intense,” he said. “It offers a ton of learn ing opportunities.” Traditional Green Corps is hiring 20 people nationwide, and Neighborhood Green Corps will be hiring 60 nationwide. Information sessions will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday in 209 Hanes Hall. Interviews will be held Friday. Anyone interested in environmental work as a career may apply. “I would say that both programs are for people who want a challenge, because this is difficult work, and these are difficult issues that we’re dealing with,” Comfort said. “It takes a lot of guts and a well-rounded individual to handle the pressures.” Romano’s 9za <JQjtcbeo 9 **** ‘From gcratcb Fa*t, Friendly FREE Delivery! H >29*8005 Open lunch end dinner BIJ pizza (A bed of lettuce and mozzarella lopped off with bacon, tomato, onion and Romano cheese) •mail $8.49 medium SS.4S large 10.49 i-large 12.4S Maateater’s piyyy (Italian sausage, pepperonl, ham, bacon, fresh beef on a bed of mozzarella with extra mozzarella and Romano cheese on top) small M W medium tin larga 10.99 <-larga 12.99 Vegetarian Pizza (Fresh green peppers, onions, mushrooms, black olives and tomatoes on a bed of mozzarella with extra mozzarella and Romano cheese on top) small W.SS medium U.S9 larga 10.99 x-tarflel2.es
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