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Students Get Hands-On Experience in Sign Language Class
BY MICHELLE CRAMPTON
STAFF WRITER
Communication can take on many
forms. It can be expressed verbally through
everyday conversations and formal pre
sentations. It can be artistic as in paintings
and music. And it can also be more physi
cal like dance and sign language.
Through a non-credit course taught by
junior Lindsay Mclntyre, 20 students at
the University are getting a chance to leam
and experience the art of sign.
Mclntyre, who works as an interpreter
for deaf students on campus, said she de
cided to offer the course to students when
she saw there was an interest in signing and
discovered there was no class offered at the
University.
“(This sort of class is important be
cause) there are deaf students in and
Street Hockey to Come to Craige Deck
■ The Nike-sponsored event
offers prizes to participants,
sports equipment to IM-Rec.
STAFF REPORT
Students will compete in the second
annual Nike “POWER PLAY” Street
Hockey Challenge 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m
Saturday and Sunday in the Craige over
flow parking lot.
Nike will provide two inflatable hockey
rinks, an obstacle course, a speedshot con
test and all equipment.
Students must organize in teams of five
to eight players. A team consists of four
SENIOR CORPS
FROM PAGE 3
“Our initial intent is to get seniors to
give back to the community and promote
class unity,” he said. “This is our way of
doing this. We plan on doing this once a
month.”
In the coming weeks, a meeting will be
held to discuss future projects. King said
350 letters had been sent out to local agen
cies inquiring about projects. The meeting
will be a brainstorming session to get input
from seniors, he said.
“We want seniors to let us know what
are some of the things that need to be
done,” he said.
VEGETARIAN
FROM PAGE 3
Lai said there was a lot of variety at
Lenoir with the additions of the
veggiebuiger and the addition of the salad
bar. She also said most restaurants offered
vegetarian fare, too.
“A lot of restaurants make exceptions
and are very flexible,” she said. “You just
have to ask them.”
Scott agreed. “Chapel Hill is a great
place to eat if you’re a vegetarian,” she
said. “(The restaurants) are very accom
modating.”
Tim Perkins, a senior from Cary, said:
“You can generally find something to ac
commodate you, but it’s the vegetarian in
the group that limits you (when you want
to eat out). There’s only one or two things
that you can always order.”
A popular alternative to the dining hall
or cooking one’s own meal is the vegetar
ian dinner sponsored by the Hare Krishnas
every Wednesday.
Each week, vegetarians flock to Gerrard
Hall for a free meal that is served to anyone
interested.
“It’s good and tasty and a variety to a
vegetarian diet,” said Perkins, who
switched to being a vegetarian two sum-
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amongst us on this campus and in the
community,” she said. “Through this you
can reach out into the community with
those people and leam from them. The
deaf community has a lot to offer.
“It’s almost like teaching a foreign lan
guage, only it’s not on paper and not in the
classroom,” Mclntyre said. “It’s a lan
guage unto itself. I think it’s equally as
valuable as knowing a foreign language.”
Mclntyre said the class was a co-cur
ricular opportunity for students to get ex
posure to the deaf culture.
She said students registered for her class,
which isn’t actually offered through the
University, by putting their names on sign
up sheets.
Mclntyre said 70 students registered
this semester for the 20 spots available,
which meets on Mondays and Fridays for
eight to 10 weeks.
players, a goalie and as many as three
substitutes.
Nike will donate all of the equipment
used this weekend to UNC’s intramural
program.
“It is really exciting that they are donat
ing the equipment and providing the pro
gram to our students at no cost,” said
Marty Pomerantz, director of IM-Rec
sports. “They’ve put up a lot of money to
offer this to UNCandtheother campuses.”
Pomerantz said students should wear
T-shirts, shorts and tennis shoes.
The event will include 32 teams, and
there will be male, female and coed divi
sions, he said.
Pomerantz said that there was room left
Dervin said some of the future projects
would include registering students to vote
and helping the Student Environmental
Action Coalition.
Woody said students who wanted to
join Senior Corps would be asked to pay a
membership fee of $lO, for which they’ll
get a T-shirt. The money will go to chari
ties, which will be discussed at the meet
ing.
“We really expect to generate more
(members) after the event," Woody said.
Besides these major projects, seniors
could also sign up outside the Senior Class
office to get involved with smaller projects
like Head Start, King said.
“Whether you have an hour or 10 hours
mers ago.
Students offered several explanations
forpracticing the vegetarian lifestyle, rang
ing from health reasons to ethical ones.
“I started cooking for myself and read
through nutritional information,” Perkins
said. “I reached the conclusion that it was
healthier and also cheaper to be a vegetar
ian."
Kristin Curran, a junior from Ho-Ho-
Kus, N.J., said she became a vegetarian
because a lot of people around her were.
“I though about why they were vegetar
ians, and I thought about what I was eating
and how animals were treated,” Curran
said. “It’s totally not appealing anymore. ”
Scott said she agreed and gave several
other considerations as to why she became
a vegetarian two years ago.
“First, the whole philosophy of eating
lower on the food chain," Scott said. “The
chemical dioxin gets in the meat and
bioaccumulates in the body. Eating meat
increases the concentration, and then it’s
passed on to your children. It’s very carci
nogenic.”
She also said the issue of deforesting
rain forests for pasture land had influenced
her decision. “It cripples developing
country’s economies,” Scott said.
“I realize it is a luxury to live in a
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“It’s a language unto itself. I
think its equally as valuable
as knowing a foreign
language. ”
UNDSAY MCINTYRE
UNC junior
A$ 10 photocopying fee was required of
the participants so Mclntyre could provide
literature showing the signs and informa
tion about issues affecting the deaf.
Currently, Mcintyre is not working with
any hearing impaired students. The En
glish and communications major from
Chapel Hill is teaching the course for the
third semester.
Katharine Maddocks, a junior from
for eight or nine teams and that each team
was guaranteed three games.
The entry fee is S2O per team, and stu
dents may register from noon until 4 today
in the Pit.
Students may also register in the IM-
Rec office, he said.
All proceeds go to IM-Rec.
Toumament prizes include Nike/NHL
Street Hockey jerseys, Nike Street Hockey
shoes, and Nike T-shirts, sweatshirts and
caps. Nike will also hold prize drawings
every hour.
Nike Street Hockey will visit 12 cam
puses, including Florida State University,
the University of Michigan and the Uni
versity of California at Berkeley.
to give, you can still make a difference,” he
said.
Dolby said he envisioned Senior Corps
becoming an active organization in the
community.
“Senior Corps has the potential to be a
great organization,” he said. “There are
many opportunities we are looking at and
can be a part of.”
Dervin said it was necessary for stu
dents to understand the causes for which
they were volunteering.
“Although we’re doingvolunteer work,
we’re going to focus on the issues,” he said.
“That’s been a constant criticism the
kind of mindless volunteering. We want to
understand the issues as well.”
country and get my nutrients though meat, ”
Scott said. “But I don’t miss eating meat.”
The main question that vegetarians are
often asked is how they get their nutrition
and protein, Perkins said.
“You get it through a varied diet,”
Perkins said. “You’re not gonna get pro
tein through a bean. You need to incorpo
rate a variety of whole grains. No one
source will give you all the protein you
need.”
Curran said she ate lots of carbohy
drates like pasta and couscous.
“I’ll eat tuna and chicken for the sake of
protein, but I don’t enjoy it,” Curran said.
“It depends on your philosophy (of veg
etarianism).”
Vegetarians agreed that they didn’t feel
any less healthy because ofthe lack of meat
in their daily regime, in fact they felt better.
“I eat a lot better,” Scott said. “I try to
eat lots more vegetables.”
Perkins said there had been a noticeable
change in how he felt since he became a
vegetarian.
Cravings for meat do not come up ei
ther.
“It’s probably because I’m used to it,”
Lai said. “Since I've never tried meat be
fore, I have nothing to lose. It’s probably
difficult for people who eat meat.”
High Point, said she could use what she
learns in the class in her summer jobs.
“I worked at a camp where, for two
weeks, you are surrounded by deaf chil
dren,” she said. “If you didn’t leam to
speak to them, you were going to be by
yourself.”
After working at the camp, Maddocks
said she felt she needed to develop her
signing skills further, which led her to
Mclntyre’s class.
“It sparked my interest, and I felt I
needed to leam more and become more
proficient in it,” she said.
Maddocks said the class had helped her
to appreciate her own hearing more than
she ever had before.
“ I just never realized how important it is
for me that I can hear,” she said. “I think
before I would have been devastated if I
had lost my hearing, but now it’s not as big
Senate Subcommittee Votes
To Slash AmeriCorps Funding
BY MARK SWEET
STAFF WRITER
A U.S. Senate subcommittee added
another obstacle to the future of President
Clinton’s AmeriCorps program when it
voted to defund the National Service Corps
for the upcoming fiscal year, and one N.C.
senator vowed to continue to fight funding
for the public service program.
Despite its lack of support in the House
of Representatives, AmeriCorps members
were more confident of their chances of
gaining financial backing in the Senate.
The VA/HUD Appropriations
Subcommittee’s Monday vote, however,
tarnished any hopes for a quiet approval
from the Senate.
AmeriCorps, a service program in which
members receive a $4,725 tuition voucher
in exchange for a year of community ser
vice, has just completed its inaugural year
and currently enlists 20,000 members. The
Clinton administration had proposed a
$817.4 million financial package for pro
gram. The subcommittee “zeroed out” the
program Monday.
“The action is a triumph of politics over
principle, ” said Eli J. Segal, CEO of the
Corporation for National Service, the group
which runs the program.ln a statement
released Wednesday, Segal said, “Those
most harmed by today’s actions are the
communities who will wonder if they will
get the help they need, and the young
Americans who are trying to decide
whether to continue their schooling, head
to the work force—or commit a year in full
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a deal. They (the deaf) are happy, fulfilled,
and live perfectly normal lives.”
And while many students find it hard
enough to attend the classes for which they
receive credit, these students attend the
class without receiving University credit.
“I enjoy it more than any of the classes
I’m taking for credit in my major,”
Maddocks said. “I like learning it and
doing new things with the deaf culture. I
would definitely recommend it.”
For April McMahan, a freshman from
Marion, Mclntyre’s class is her first expe
rience with signing.
“I really think it helps you understand
other people more,” she said. “I think I’ve
learned more in three days here than in any
other class.”
“I think it should be implemented as a
foreign language on campus,” she said.
“It’s a whole different culture.”
time service to their communities through
AmeriCorps.”
AmeriCorps representatives said they
remained confident in their prospects for
success, despite being disappointed by the
Senate’s actions. Wendy Grassi, a
spokewoman from the AmeriCorps’ Of
fice of Public Affairs, said she was “confi
dent that the President would not sign any
bill which zeroes out the program.”
Zenobia Hatcher-Wilson, who directs
the Campus Y and also serves as the UNC
liaison for AmeriCorps, said she thought it
was “unfortunate that the senators took
such a punitive look at a worthy student
service.” She said the program gave con
tributing members with a need to work the
opportunity to help their community that
they normally would not have.
Similar to the opinions of most Repub
lican senators, North Carolina’s Lauch
Faircloth, who voted against the program
originally, did not support the continua
tion of the AmeriCorps program.
Heidi Wood, a spokeswoman for
Faircloth, explained that the program was
“extremely expensive.” Overall, she said
the program was not cost-effective because
it benefited so few people. The program is
“a gimmick,” Wood said. “Participants
were being paid for something they should
be doing without pay anyway.”
A spokeswoman for Sen. Christopher
Bond, R-Mo., who headed the subcom
mittee, said “the overridingreasonfor Sena
tor Bond’s decision was due to budget
allocations,” of more than 20 major inde
pendent agencies.
Friday, September 15,1995
Night Owls
Find Nest at
Undergrad
BY JENNY SMITH
STAFF WRITER
Officials and students who pushed for
an experimental 24-hour Undergraduate
Library said Wednesday that many on
campus were taking advantage of the pro
longed schedule.
The Undergrad has been operating 24
hours on weekdays since Sept. 5
Dave Taylor, head librarian, said the
new hours were becoming more popular
with students. “The most interesting thing
to me is how steady the crowds seem to be
increasing,” he said.
The extended hours allow students ac
cess to computer labs and reserve lists,
along with many other resources, he said.
Depending on the day and time, around
30 to 100 people have been using the li
brary during late-night hours, Taylor said.
John Dervin, who co-authored a pro
posal to keep the library open 24 hours a
day, said he was satisfied people were
taking advantage of the extended hours.
“Students are using it and like it,” he said.
"I’ve been there at 3:30 a.m. and I’ve
seen at least 30 people,” Dervin said. “I
stood outside last November and counted
up to 100 people leaving at 2 a.m.”
Dervin said the all-night hours for the
Undergraduate Library provided an essen
tial service for students. “24-hour access to
computers is a necessity at the University, ”
hesaid. “It’sagreatplacetoengageinlate
night studies and it’s safe.”
A guard is stationed at the front en
trance every night to ensure safety for stu
dents. Taylor said the guard could also call
SAFE Escort or Point-2-Point for students
leaving the library in the early morning.
“Security is well taken care of,” Taylor
said. “With a guard at the door who has
access to campus police, we have no prob
lems ... We’ve had no incidents of people
who didn’t belong here.”
Amy Swan, student body vice presi
dent, said members of student government
had worked hard to get the extended hours
for students. “We’re really excited that we
were able to get this accomplished,” she
said. “It’s something that the (student gov
ernment association) has been talking about
for several years.”
Taylor said that the continuation of a
24-hour Undergrad looked promising, but
said that it was too soon to tell if the
extended hours would become permanent.
“It’s really too early to tell, but it looks
pretty positive from my point of view.”
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