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Monday, October 16,1995
UNC Employees Asked
To Donate to Charities
BY RUTH BORLAND
v STAFF WRITER
University employees have a chance to
donate money to a variety of local, na
tional and international charities during
the two-week State Employees Combined
Campaign which begins today.
„* Volunteers for the campaign will ap
proach University employees over the
course of the next two weeks and ask for
.contributions to a variety of charities.
‘‘This is the only authorized workplace
.solicitation for many state employees,”
said volunteer Regina Oliver. “It’s a good
. campaign because charities are able to make
one broad appeal and individuals are able
to designate where they want their gifts to
go.”
In Orange County, SECC officials said
they hoped to raise at least $500,000 for
charities. This is $49,529m0re than it raised
in last year’s one-week campaign. SECC
officials also said they hoped to increase
participationinthe fund-raising campaign.
Today’s kick-off events include a fair at
which employees may meet representa
tives from more than 30 of the 289 charities
participating in the campaign, and a lun
cheon and training session for the
campaign’s 300 volunteer solicitors.
The fair will be held in the Great Hall
today from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.
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. the awareness of the effects of drinking.
' “We’re trying to raise the seriousness of
campus drinking and help colleges with
their policies,” Quinlan said.
AccordingtostatisticsfromtheNCADl,
159,000 of current freshmen nationwide
will drop out of college next year because
of alcohol and other drug-related causes.
Cowan said she agreed. “We do indeed see
| a very dark side of binge drinking here,”
'she said.
Alcohol companies themselves are
. working to cut down underage drinking
a nd to promote responsible drinking among
’college students of the legal drinking age.
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“We want every University employee
to come to the fair,” said volunteer coordi
nator Majorie Crowell. “The idea is for
employees to talk to people from the agency
and get information to decide which one
they want to support.”
Forthe two-week campaign, 300 volu
nteer solicitors will try and approach all
University employees individually to ask
them to fill out a pledge card. Employees
may designate which charity they would
like to support, and may donate with a
personal check or through a payroll deduc
tion. All gifts are tax deductible.
Undesignated gifts are divided among the
Orange County United Way agencies.
The United Way, which is managing
the campaign, will receive no more than 10
percent of the proceeds to cover adminis
trative costs, said Anita Daniels, a cam
paign organizer for the United Way.
Charities which participate in the fund
raising campaign are screened by state
employees. Each organization must meet
state licensing requirements, provide au
dited financial statements, meet state and
federal tax-exemption rules and keep fund
raising and administrative costs to 25 per
cent or less of their annual revenue. Today ’ s
agency fair in the Great Hall is open to all
UNC employees. SECC will hold the vol
unteer training session in the Union film
auditorium today from 10 a.m. until noon.
Kent Martin, a representative of Anheuser-
Busch Companies, said, “Frankly, these
are sales that Anheuser-Busch doesn’t
want.”
One major focus of Anheuser-Busch is
the support of BACCHUS & GAMMA, a
nationwide program that educates students
on the dangers of drinking and promotes
positive peer pressure and peer education
against alcohol abuse.
Two other programs supported by
Anheuser-Busch are National Collegiate
Alcohol Awareness Week, a week-long
alcohol prevention initiative, and NCAA
Choices, a grant program funded by
Anheuser-Busch that provides grants for
alcohol abuse prevention programs, Mar
tin said.
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UNIVERSITY & CITY
Gleaners Do ‘Dirty’ Work to Help Area’s Needy
■ Volunteers picked sweet
potatoes at a Smithfield farm
on Saturday for “Yam Jam.”
BY ANGELA EAGLE
STAFF WRITER
Members and friends of Inter Varsity
Christian Fellowship joined other religious
organizations and community members
on Saturday morning to gather food for the
needy in an event known as Yam Jam.
Yam Jam is an event in which gather
ers, called “gleaners,” pick up the remains
of the sweet potato harvest on a farm near
Smithfield. The food is distributed to needy
SEAC
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chairwoman.
SEAC members spent the weekend at
tending issues panels, workshops and so
cial events. Issue panel topics ranged from
“The Conservative Right Agenda” to
“Toxic Waste and Race.” Workshops dis
cussed fund-raising techniques, campaign
and media strategies and other important
topics.
Saturday evening, conference partici
pants had an opportunity to relax. They
could choose from “Intoxicating: an Eco-
Cabaret,” an Underground Railway The
ater production, an evening of acoustic
guitar music by local and visiting folk
musicians or a concert by Archers of Loaf
MEADOWMONT
FROM PAGE 3
legally dubious stipulation,” he said.
“(Meadowmont) is a very complex issue. I
think the vote missed some essentia] and
subtle arguments.”
Chilton, who opposes the project, said
effects on Chapel Hill schools had not yet
been adequately addressed. The plan cur
rently calls for a majority of single-family
homes to fall on the Orange County side of
the site. He said this would translate into a
mass influx of students to Chapel Hill-
Carrboro schools.
“Is that really what’s best for Orange
and Durham County school systems?”
Chilton asked. “I think a provision for the
in the area. Last year, the gleaners har
vested 30,000 pounds of sweet potatoes in
one day.
About 30IVCF members attended Yam
Jam this year, the first year it has partici
pated in the event.
Organized by the Society of St. An
drew, the privately-funded Yam Jam is in
its fifth year in North Carolina. The society
enlists the help of campus and Christian
organizations to glean the leftover food.
Kelly Goldsmith, a senior from Chesa
peake, Va., and the outreach coordinator
for IVCF, said that Yam Jam was an op
portunity for anyone to help the needy and
that the event was not restricted to reli
gious groups.
“The good thing about it is that it’s not
and Superdrag on the Rosemary Street
Parking Deck.
A major theme of the conference was
the unification of different youth activist
groups and different kinds of people in an
effort to achieve a strong base for the youth
environmental and social movement.
“We all have so much to offer when it
comes to planning the movement for today
and the future,” said Meghan McCracken,
the Virginia SEAC coordinator.
“We must come together and share our
creative minds, the strength of our spirit,
the force of our souls and the power in our
voice,” McCracken said. “When we get
together, we can and we will make positive
social change.”
The crowd chanted, “Together, united,
we will never be defeated, ’’ at the end of the
“All approval does is give
Perry permission to come back
and ask to buildprojects over
the next decade. ”
JIM PROTZMAN
Town Council member
school situation was essential.”
Council member Joe Capowski also
voted against the plan. “ Such a large project
passed by a 5-4 vote indicates that we, as
the council, do not have a unified vision.
“Though I’m disappointed with the
outcome, I think the process was fair,”
Capowski said.
Council member Pat Evans voted for
the Meadowmont plan. “I thought it was
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really something that you have to agree
religiously about anything to do,” Gold
smith said. “I mean, feeding people is not
controversial.”
Cori Tingen, a freshman from Oxford,
said she participated in Yam Jam to join
her friends in doing something to benefit
the community.
“It’s a really good cause, and I thought
it would be a lot of fun, ” Tingen said. “ You
just get really, really dirty.”
“It’s a good time with your friends to do
something worthwhile,” said Heather
Wagner, a freshman from Sarasota, Fla.
Kerri Lamb, a junior from Asheboro,
said gleaning was not too difficult.
“It’s not very hard,” Lamb said. “It’s
fun. I like it, digging in the dirt, getting with
speech by Vaneitta Goines, a representa
tive from the People of Color Caucus, one
of the three officially recognized caucuses
within SEAC.
Other caucuses include the Queer Cau
cus and the Womyn’s Caucus.
“SEAC and the People of Color Caucus
remain actively committed to the struggle
against racism and all other forms of op
pression, dehumanization and domina
tion,” Goines said.
SEAC is a part of a larger international
network known as A SEED. Action for
Solidarity, Equality, Environment and
Development was founded in 1990 by
SEAC to unify young people from all over
the world in the fight for global environ
mental awareness and the fight against
social injustice and oppression.
in the best interests of the community, ” she
said. “The project provides for 70 acres of
park, over six acres of greenways, and over
70 acres of smaller parks.”
Evans said the development would in
crease the balance in Chapel Hill’s tax base
through Chapel Hill, Orange County and
supplemental school taxes.
Council member Jim Protzman also
said he supported the plan at last week’s
meeting.
“There’s not much land left in Chapel
Hill, and what we do with the land is
important,” he said. “(Approval of rezon
ing) does not authorize the developer to do
anything. Every square inch of develop
ment must be approved by the town coun
cil through special project permits.
“All approval does is give (Perry) per
mission to come back and ask to build
projects over the next decade.”
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nature.”
Robert Dalton, a freshman from Iron
Station, said participating inYam Jam was
a good opportunity to help the needy and
have fun at the same time.
“It’s a lot offun, and it helps people who
really need it,” Daltonsaid. “Thesepeople,
being homeless, need the food, and if we
can give a few hours of our time to do this,
then it’s no problem. It’s really worth
while.”
Cheryl Johnston, a sophomore from
Leesburg, Va., said she would recommend
that other people get involved in projects
like gleaning that benefit the community.
She said, “I think it gives you a good
feeling, and it reminds you that you’re not
the center of the world.”
“All of us in A SEED think that the
youth of today are restless. We are restless
for emancipation and we are restless for
change,” said A SEED representative
Norman Uy Camay. “Without genuine
solidarity we have no hope. Our common
future is at stake.”
Vital issues addressed at the conference
were clear cutting, affirmative action, im
migrants’ rights, toxic waste disposal, the
conservative agenda, the International
Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the
pollution of North Carolina’s Neuse River
and many others.
“SEAC has expanded the past few years
to encompass social justice as well as the
environment,” said Sandy Chapman, a
Chapel Hill High School SEAC represen
tative.
PEPSI
FROM PAGE 3
Saturday, was the culmination of SEAC’s
Fourth National Environmental Confer
ence.
The current Burmese government,
known as the State Law and Order Resto
ration Council, was termed by protesters’
fliers a “brutal dictatorship.’’Peck said
many of the protesters were Burmese stu
dents in self-exile. “These students are stu
dents who had to go into exile because they
are being killed and tortured.”
Peck said SEAC was urging its mem
bers to contact the White House in an
effort to alert the president of the situatuion.
“We should be supporting democracy
It is despicable that we are willing to sup
port corporations who are willing to bank
roll (these governments)."
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computer tab
was all day Saturday,
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