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University Police to Hold
Safety Fair in the Pit
University Police will sponsor a safety
fair in the Pit area from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
today.
Police officials will offer information
about personal and property safety on cam
pus to students during the event. Students
also can register to win prizes, including T
shirts and a personal alarm system. Offic
ers also will be conducting a survey to
gather suggestions on how to better serve
the community.
Business Symposium Set
For Early November
The Kenan-Flagler Business School will
host the annual undergraduate Business
Symposium Nov. 1 and 2.
Thisyear’sprogram, “Moving Forward
With Technology” will present informa
tion about the information highway to
business students.
William F. Baker, president and chief
executive officer of New York-based Thir
teen/WNET, will deliver the symposium’s
keynote address.
The symposium is open to undergradu
ate business majors and minors and gradu
ate students in the master’s of accounting
program. Interested students can register
for the program between 9:30 a.m. and
3:30 p.m. today through Thursday in the
lobby of Carroll Hall. The registration fee
is $lO.
Expert to Give Lecture on
Urban Poverty Wednesday
Nationally renowned scholar William
Julius Wilson, Lucy Flower University
professor of sociology and public policy,
will deliver the first Frank Porter Graham
Lecture on Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Memo
rial Hall.
Wilson will speak on “The New Urban
Poverty and the Retreat From Public
Policy. ” The speech is free and open to the
public.
Wilson will also lead a discussion,
“What Future for Affirmative Action?”
from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. the same day in Toy
Lounge on the fourth floor of Dey Hall.
UNC Alumnus Kuralt
Honored by Clinton
President Bill Clinton honored the
nation’s distinguished authors, performers
and artists last week, with Charles Kuralt,
CBS News correspondent and UNC alum
nus, being honored for his contribution to
the nation’s cultural life. Kuralt received
the 1995 Charles Frankel Prize.
In all, 17 individuals and one organiza
tion were recognized by Clinton.
Blacks in Diaspora Series
Continues Thursday
An associate professor in the UNC
School ofMedicine will speak Thursday at
the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center
about new treatments for sickle cell ane
mia.
Dr. Joseph Wiley, professor in the De
partment of Pediatrics in the School of
Medicine, will give the free speech at noon
as part of the bi-weekly “Blacks in the
Diaspora Lecture Series."
Gold to Be Sworn in as
UNC Police Chief Today
Maj. Donald Gold will take the official
oath as the new University Police chief in
an 11:45 a.m. ceremony today at the Caro
lina Inn.
Gold has served as the interim police
chief for the past four months and was
chosen as the permanent chief after a na
tionwide search.
Chamber of Commerce to
Host Networking Event
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of
Commerce will host a networking event
titled “Business After Hours” at the Vil
lage Market & Cafe, located in the South
ern Village, on Thursday from 5:30 p.m. to
7:30 p.m.
The function will provide an opportu
nity for business people to meet and mingle
with other business people in Southern
Orange County.
All Chamber members and their guests
are invited. All employees of Chamber
members are also invited.
The evening will offer the opportunity
to board a trolley and tour three of the
homes on the Parade of Homes route.
If there are any questions, call Joel
Harper, the president of the Chapel Hill-
Carrboro Chamber of Commerce at 967-
7075.
Parents and Students
Invited to Planning Team
The parents and students of the future
East Chapel Hill High School are invited
to apply to serve on the planning team for
the high school. The new high school will
open in August 1996.
The team will meet at least two eve
nings per month for the next six months.
The group will formalize the curricular
and philosophical principles that will guide
the teaching and learning at the new high
school.
Interested parents and students should
contact Principal David Thaden at 933-
1556, ext. 3110 to get an application. The
deadline for submitting an application is
Oct. 11.
Crowd, Panel Oppose BaDenger Bill
■ U.S. Rep. Major Owens,
D-N.Y., participated in the
work-safety public hearing.
BYGREGKALISS
FEATURES EDITOR
“Stand up for health and safety!” was
the closing chant by the 100 gathered at
Monday night’s open public hearing about
the effects of the so-called Ballengerbill, a
piece of federal legislation aimed at reduc
ing the power of the Occupational Safety
and Health Administration.
The evening’s panel members, U.S. Rep.
Major Owens, D-N.Y.; N.C. Rep. Paul
Luebke, D-Durham; and N.C. AFL-CIO
Secretary-Treasurer James Andrews, lis
tened intently for the first portion of the
meeting held in McGavem Greenberg Hall.
More than a dozen speakers took the stand
to speak out against the bill.
“The Ballenger bill is a threat to our
program, "said CharlesJeffress, directorof
the Occupational Safety and Health Divi
sion of the North Carolina Department of
Labor. “It will cripple the OSHA program
as we know it.”
Some, such as Brenda Enfmger, a
Gastonia resident who had one son killed
in a work-related accident and another
severely injured, offered personal testimony
supporting the necessity of work-safety
laws.
Brett Dillon, a coal miner from West
Virginia who said he had witnessed vari
ous safety hazards while on his job, vehe-
UNC's Chris Watson watches in disbelief as The Blues Brothers’ perform their classic routine before the kickoff of the second half of Saturday's
football game. The UNC band played the theme from the movie as the duo did their dancing act before they were motioned to leave the field.
College Board Study: Prices
Rose By 6 Percent Last Year
BY KARRI L.ZAREMBA
STAFF WRITER
The price of a college education is rising
at more than twice the inflation rate, a
study by the College Board released last
week revealed.
The College Board's “Annual Survey of
Colleges, 1995” reported that the price of
college tuition rose an average of 6 percent.
This year’s inflation rate was 2.6 percent.
In addition, the imbalance between
grants and loans has shifted in favor of
loans offered by the federal government,
which account for 56 percent of all aid.
This is an increase of 50 percent over the
past two years.
These figures could become a grim fi
nancial reality for seekers of higher educa
tion. Eric Godfrey, assistant vice president
for student affairs and director of financial
aidattheUniversity ofWashington, points
to the approval of a House bill which would
increase the size of the maximum Pell
Grant by $ 100 to $2,440. The total number
of available grants would have to be scaled
back to accommodate the increase. Godfrey
predicts that 250,000 students would be
eliminated nationwide from the program
as a result of this reduction.
The College Board found that loans
Performance Class Lets Students Act Out Poetry, Prose Writings
BYEMILYGORMAN
STAFF WRITER
Shakespeare said all the world is a stage,
and these words are put into practice by a
unique literature class at the University.
The introduction to the “Study of Lit
erature Through Performance,” taught by
Paul Ferguson, enables students to per
form works of literature of their choice in
front of the class.
The students present performances of
poetry and prose fiction. The class includes
written assignments and examinations, but
focuses on the discovery and exploration
ofliterature through physical performance.
“This is a class about the performance
ofliterature, but where it differs from tradi
tional literature classes is that it asks that,
after you analyze a work, then you present
UNIVERSITY & CITY
n , r /■ , „ . . DIH/KATHERINE BROWN
Brenda Enfinger of Gastonia tearfully gestures at a picture of her late 18-year-old son Richard, who was killed on the
job in a chamical tank accidant. Enfingar and others pleaded at a forum on Monday to retain current work-safety laws.
mently criticized the bill as an example of
politicians’ and businesses’ greed.
“It’s a bunch of Republicans that spon
sored a bill that turned the clock back 25
years, ” Dillon said. “It amounts to the rich
getting richer and the poor getting poorer. ”
The second portion of the meeting al
lowed the panel members to speak their
minds about the pending legislation.
Owens said the matter of decreasing
work-safety enforcement was an impor
amount to $26 billion while Pell Grants
have leveled off at $5.7 billion. The in
crease in money loaned bumps up the
amount of money students are required to
pay back. This trend may create a chasm
between upper and lower classes attending
college.
“It appears that there is beginning to be
a squeeze on middle-class students,”
Godfrey said in an article in The Chronicle
of Higher Education.
Donald M. Stewart, president of the
College Board, said in The Chronicle ar
ticle, “We should look hard at the growing
grant and loan imbalance and ask our
selves how much we can reasonably ex
pect a student to borrow.”
However, James C. Walters, director of
undergraduate admissions at the UNC,
saw the reality of rising tuition rates as a
problem bore mostly by private institu
tions.
“Some private schools are pricing them
selves out of the market,” Walters said.
“State schools are relatively reasonable."
Walters said the high costs of many
private schools have required them to
change their policies. He said they have
had to renounce the “need-blind” selec
tion process, which accepts the best appli
cants without considering their financial
that work in a performance that empha
sizes both the intellectual and emotional
elements of the poem,” said Ferguson,
professor of communications studies.
The format of the class is divided into
three rounds. The first two rounds deal
with contemporary poetry written by North
Carolina poets, and the last round includes
American short stories. “These are all po
ets who are either from Carolina or have a
connection to the state,” Ferguson said.
“So the subject of a lot of the poems are
places where many of the students have
been, so they can relate to it.”
Along with the three graded rounds of
performance is the final exam, which is
also a performance .Grades for each round
were based on how the students translate
their literary analysis into their perfor
mances, Ferguson said.
tant issue. “What you’re dealing with is a
life and death matter,” he said. He said
there were 56,000w0rk-related deaths each
year in the nation and that 10,000 deaths
actually occurred while on the job. Any
decrease in OSHA’s powers would only
increase those numbers, he said.
Owens also said the Republican Con
gress’ passage of a House appropriations
bill that cut OSHA funding and the loom
ing Ballenger bill, which takes away the
Prices of Higher Education
How UNC compares in price to other
public universities.
95-96 Additional
Tuition Out-of-State
Univ. of Michigan $5,476 $11,524
Univ. of Virginia $4,614 $9,386
N.C. State $1,666 $8,116
UNC-CH $1,640 $8,116
Univ. of Maryland $3,794 $5,944
State Univ. of $3,956 $4,900
N.Y. at Albany
Ohio State Univ. $3,507 $4,794
Arizona State Univ. $1,950 $6,028
Univ. of Georgia $2,542 $4,287
Trenton State 4,168 $2,417
SOURCECHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
resources.
“They (private colleges and universi
ties) need someone to pay the bills for four
years,” Walters said.
Walters felt public institutions would be
affected the least by the rising tuition rates.
“That’s not a problem at our cost level,” he
said. “We’re the best educational bargain
in the U.S.”
But a study conducted by the American
Council on Education contradicts Walters'
opinions. Fred Galloway, a policy analyst
with the ACE, said in an article in The
Wall Street Journal on July 20 that every
$ 100 tuition increase causes a 2.2% decline
in enrollment among students with annual
family incomes under $30,000.
“Ipick a poem that I can
relate to so I can learn more
about what the author was
trying to say and more about
myself. ”
JADA HUFFMAN
UNC Sophomore
“For example, they would read a poem
and after analyzing the text, come to a
conclusion about the voice of the poem,”
Ferguson said. “They may decide that the
voice is a middle-aged woman who has
lost her child and act on that character.”
Students claim to have gained much
group’s ability to fine businesses and re
duces their overall enforcement powers,
was a continuation of Republican under
cutting of the country’s workers.
“It’s an ideological war that’s being
waged by the Republicans against the work
ers,” Owens said. “I call it the ‘Death and
Injury Act.’”
Luebke recommended increased activ
ism in the upcoming months as a way to
stem the bill’s passage.
Investigators Examine
Spate of Campus Fires
BY MOLLY FELMET
STAFF WRITER
Repairs have been completed in a
Carmichael Residence Hall room dam
aged in an Aug. 31 blaze, while investiga
tion continues into a Sept. 22 fire at Old
West Residence Hall.
AnnePresnell, assistant director ofhous
ing and special programs, said the resi
dents of 425 Carmichael, who relocated
after the fire, have returned to room.
An unattended candle sparked the
Carmichael blaze and caused over $30,000
worth of damages to the building, Presnell
said. Three fire trucks and several ambu
lances and police cars were called to the
scene. Residents ofCarmichael were evacu
ated from 2 a.m. until 4:15 a.m..
The room’s two residents told officials
they had left the room briefly to go to a
snack machine and found the room in
flames when they returned.
“We replaced the overhead storage,
cleaned up the heating and air condition
ing unit,” said Bob Humphreys, superin
tendent of housing support. “It was mostly
cleaning and painting. There was pretty
heavy smoke damage.”
Presnell would not comment on whether
more from the class than the completion of
an aesthetic perspective.
“I was hoping that this class would help
me become more comfortable with public
speaking,” said Jada Huffman, a sopho
more from Morganton. “I pick a poem that
I can relate to so 1 can learn more about
what the author was trying to say and more
about myself.”
Leslie Dodson, a sophomore from Gra
ham, said she took the class because she
wanted a change from traditional litera
ture classes.
“I don'tlikejust reading books,” Dodson
said. “(This class) allows you to interpret it
to a degree in your own way.”
Before performing, students have the
option of obtaining suggestions and con
structive criticism from graduate students
in the Communications 608 Rehearsal
Tuesday, October 10,1995
Task Force
Gathering
Food Input
BY SHABIF DURHAMS
STAFF WRITER
Student input is the top priority in deter
mining future dining options, said Rutledge
Tufts, the director of Auxiliary Services.
Student feedback, which was not a pri
ority during the last review, is a major
concern this time around, Tufts said. Dur
ing the last review, 10 years ago, the rec
ommendations of the students were largely
ignored while suggestions from the admin
istration were followed.
“Selection has been driven by the Uni
versity administration,” Tufts said. “The
students are the primary customers and
should be intrinsically involved.”
UNC has been preparing for this review
since last year, in anticipation of Marriott
Corp.’s contract expiring in July 1996.
Officials held focus groups last spring to
gauge student opinion on possible changes
to food services offered at UNC.
“We’re trying to determine what kind
of food service is appropriate for this cam
pus for the year 2000,” Tufts said. To
achieve this goal, the University has hired
a food consultant to conduct more focus
groups during the next few weeks.
This information will be used to de
velop a plan detailing how dining service
will be provided in the future, Tufts said.
“(We) plan to figure out what type of
food service is needed and determine
whether that should be provided by a con
tract, self-operated or a mix,” Tufts said.
Student Body President Calvin
Cunningham, who is a member of the food
advisory task force conducting the review,
said the ultimate decision would be left up
to the students. “The question is what do
the students prefer,” Cunningham said.
Cunningham and other members of the
advisory task force went to Boston during
Fall Break to examine dining programs at
other universities.
The task force saw an array of options in
its visit to Boston College, Boston Univer
sity, Harvard University, MIT and Tufts
University. “Wesawfivehigh-qualityfood
services, each made possible in different
ways,”Cunninghamsaid. “Atallfivewere
far more choices (than at UNC).”
Unfortunately, the choices come at a
large cost. “At all five, the cost of the plan
was about twice what it is here,” he said.
Student Body Co-Secretary Mohan
Nathan, who also went to Boston, said he
was impressed with the quality of the food.
“You could see in the ingredients and the
kitchens that the food was better,” Nathan
said.
The food service advisory task force is
planning trips to universities in Atlanta
and Washington, D.C., to find other op
tions for UNC to consider.
Until the 19605, theUniversityprovided
its own dining services. Mairiot Corp. has
been an independent contractor for the
' UNC for the last decade.
any disciplinary action was taken against
the two female residents involved in the
fire. According to housing policy, open
flames are prohibited in residence halls
Presnell said she could not say whether the
students had to pay for the damages.
A suspicious fire in Old West Residence
Hall is still under investigation. Three weeks
after the incident, police are still waiting
for the lab results taken from the scene.
Detectives could not determine whether
the fire was set intentionally until the lab
reports came back, said Captain Walter
Dunn, supervisor of criminal investiga
tions for University Police. “It’s apparent
that something happened, but we have to
wait to see what chemicals were used and
so on,” he said.
The fire started when a piece of cloth
was lit on a window ledge of the first-floor
laundry room.
Although none of the laundry machines
were damaged, the window casing sus
tained $75 worth of damage, said Sue
Moore, assistant director of student and
staff services. Damage to the landmark
residence hall was originally estimated at
$2,000. Moore said work to repair the
damage was scheduled to begin at the end
of the semester.
Laboratory.
“I love to see people who have abso
lutely no experience but they have a lot of
talent,” said Christina Byrum, a first-year
graduate student from Winston-Salem who
works in the rehearsal lab. “This is a differ
ent arena than drama. You’re concentrat
ing on literature and not just the perfor
mance.”
Ferguson said there were a few things
he hoped that students would learn about
literature from his class.
“Most of all, I hope that they’ll learn to
love it on both intellectual and emotional
levels,” Ferguson said. “The second thing
is, I hope that they’ll discover that perfor
mance is a powerful tool, not just a power
ful artistic tool, but that it can be a powerful
method of analysis and a powerful way of
knowing.”
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