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Scholarship. 2. Community Service. 3. Campus Involvement. 4. Sisterhood/Brotherhood Three Winners of Burch Program Will Travel the World This Summer BY BRIAN VANN STAFF WRITER Juniors Daniel Aldrich, David Cherwek and Dawnelle Hyland will spend their sum mers in various parts of the world working and studying as award winners in this year’s Burch Fellows Program. Thanks to the Burch program, this year’s winners will travel to Japan, Kenya and Los Angeles, respectively. Aldrich, an Asian studies major from Chapel Hill, will spend six months study ing rural Japan. He said he would spend the first two months working with a gov ernment organization and improving his language skills. He will spend the remain ing four months with a rural Japanese family, working with them while observ ing the culture in which they live. In high school, Aldrich traveled to Ja pan through the Sony Student Abroad Pro gram and visited many industrial centers. He now hopes to focus his attention on rural, unindustrialized Japan. Survey: Bikers Often Don’t Don Helmets BY ADAM GUSMAN UNIVERSITY EDITOR Results from a recent survey on bicycle helmet use by UNC students highlight the need for more education about injury pre vention in bike accidents. Students in the UNC School of Public Health’s "Principles of Epidemiology” class surveyed 1,119 other students about how often they used head protection while riding. Of the 517 respondents who were bi cycle users, 43 percent actually used hel mets. And more than half of the helmet owners said they used helmets infrequently to never. The number of people who wear hel mets while riding on campus is probably even lower, said Amanda Briggs, an un dergraduate student in public health ad ministration. “Something that stood out in our results was the perceived safety of riding on campus, ” she said. “People don’t seem to realize that sidewalks can cause as much damage as asphalt.” According to the UNC Highway Safety Research Center, an estimated 800 people under the age of 19 are hospitalized annu ally in North Carolina for bicycle-related injuries and an additional 13,300 receive emergency room treatment. Bicycle helmets reduce the likelihood of head injury by 85 percent and the likeli hood of brain injury by 88 percent, accord ing to the center. HOI Carl Shy, faculty director of the epide miology course, said people needed to understand that they were at a high level of On-Line Class Info Keeps Students Up to Date BYKAMALWALLACE STAFF WRITER This semester, students were able to use the directory of classes in a different way to register for the courses they wanted. For the first time, the directory of classes went on-line. With the use of nothing more than a personal computer and a modem, the new on-line directory allowed students to find out when their classes were being held, what professors would be teaching them and whether that section was open. Wendy Perry, programmer for the on line directory of classes, said the new on line directory would be beneficial to stu dents in two ways. “The hope in this process is that it will cut down on the paper usage,” Perry said. “I also think students will be able to find more up-to-date information while being on-line,” she said. “When they get the information from the written directory of classes, that infor mation is usually out of date,” Perry said. “With this new on-line directory, people can get updated information.” 24 KARAT ADULT ENTERTAINMENT FREE ADMISSION emir? every WEDNESDAY with valid college ID 301 N. Harrison Ave. Cary - Take 1-40 to Harrison Exit, then 3 miles into Carj. 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He will research various tapeworm diseases and will prac tice limited medical fieldwork. The medicalfieldisnot new to Cherwek. In addition to working as an emergency medical technician with the South Orange Rescue Squad, he spent last summer in London researching a hematological dis order. A biology major, Cherwek hopes to attend medical school after graduation. Hyland, a secondary English education major from Hickory, will spend her sum mer teaching at least three classes to Los Angeles junior high school students. She Reasons SOURCE LORRAINE ALEXANDER DTH/MATTLECLERCQ risk when they chose not to wear a helmet. “Head injuries from bicycle accidents can result in a very long-term period of recov ery just to get back to normal intellectual functioning. The bicycle helmet is designed to prevent that.” A Chapel Hill ordinance requires pro tective head gear for bike riders aged 15 and under. Surveyors asked participants whether they would support the expansion of the ordinance to require helmets for riders of all ages. Sixty-six percent of helmet users said they would support expansion of the ordi nance, while only 42 percent of the non Donna Redmon, associate University registrar, said she thought the new on-line directory would be very helpful when stu dents became more computer literate. “I think the new directory will be very helpful as students become more accus tomed to using new computer technology such as the Internet and Worldwide Web,” Redmon said. “I also think it will be another important reference to find out about course informa tion and course availability,” she said. “For instance, if someone was at home and did not have a copy of the written directory of classes, that person could use the on-line directory to find out about their classes,” she said. Steven Schneider, a freshman econom ics and philosophy major from New York, said the new on-line directory might not be such a good idea. “There are a large number of people who are not computer literate that the on line directory will not benefit," Schneider said. “Although I have not used the on-line directory, it seems that reading it on-line would be just as easy as it is reading from ©ljr Sails sar Urri . will participate in the Los Angeles Summerbridge program—an educational initiative for students who demonstrate strong potential yet face socio-economic obstacles. “Student-teachers are the staff for the Summerbridge program,” Hyland said. “We run it and will make curriculum deci sions as well as talking to the student’s families.” In addition to teaching, Hyland plans to study her students’ families and cultures to better understand how family environment affects the students’ education. “I want to see how culture interfaces with their school experiences and how the schools handle kids with different social backgrounds,” she said. Now in its second year, the Burch Fel lows Program awards students of extraor dinary promise as much as $6,000 to par ticipate in a self-designed activity. In order to apply, students must present the selec tion committee with their proposal and an expected budget. helmet-users would support such a pro posal. “I think the feeling was we don’t want to make people wear helmets but we should educate people about why they should,” he said. “The University could be helpful in this education.” Another key to preventing serious inju ries from bike accidents is offering incen tives to buy helmets, Shy said. “ Some towns or universities offer a dis count on helmets,” he said. “It may only be a voucher for $lO, but it’s an incentive for people to buy them. Helmets usually cost S4O to $50.” the book,” he said. Redmon said she was aware that stu dents’ reaction to the new directory would be gradual. “We will be in a better position later, after we find out the students’ reaction,” she said. Perry said the on-line directory would be enhanced in the near future. “Right now, it is an ongoing process, but we hope to have anew search feature called indexing where the student would enter the instructor’s name and the on-line directory would give which sections of his or her course are open,” she said. The new on-line directory could also have more uses in the future, Redmon said. “In the future, specifically, the students could view grades as well as their course schedules,” she said. Redmon said the University would con tinue to print a directory in the near future because of the limited access students had to computers. “The written directory will still be here for a long time because many students do not have access.” Dissertation and Thesis Special 100% Cotton 80 Plain White 60 it C.O. COPIES Open Til Midnite 7 Days A Week 169 E. Franklin St. • Near the Post Office . 967-6633 j
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