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Wednesday, November 29,1995
UNCGourse Helps Area Students Get a Leg Up
BY MELANIE FELICIANO
STAFF WRITER
Tim crawls along the length of a mat.
He ’ s encouraged byhisteacherand several
UNC students as he participates in an
adaptive physical education course. Some
days he feels motivated. Some days he
can’t be bothered to exert the energy.
“He lives for the praise and encourage
ment, ” said Julie Fulp, a senior from King,
who works with Tim. “John Humphries is
his teacher, and he worships the ground
John walks on.”
Every Thursday at Woollen Gym, Uni
versity students in Physical Education 87
get the opportunity to work with 18 to 20
handicapped children like Tim. From au
tistic to severely multiple-handicapped to
deaf-mute children, each is provided with
individual attention for an hour per week.
The course is designed for physical edu
cation majors to practice working with
children with a vast range of needs from
the elementary to high school levels in the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools .
The program is run by Dr. Roberto
Aponte, a visiting associate professor in
the physical education department, and
Pat Hurlman, an adaptive P.E. teacher
with the school system.
Fulp said at first she was apprehensive
toward taking the class because she was
afraid it might break her heart. But now,
she said she wanted nothing more than to
see Tim successful, mentally and physi
cally. “It has been the most awesome,
wonderful experience,” she said.
WEDNESDAY
3 p.m. DISSERTATION SUPPORT GROUP
will meet in Nash Hall. Call 962-2175.
3:30p.m. UNIVERSITY COUNSELING CEN
TER will have a support group for women graduates
in Nash Hall. Call 962-2175.
5:30p.m. NEWMAN CATHOLIC STUDENT
CENTER will meet at 218 Pittsboro St.
LUTHERAN CAMPUS MINISTRY would like
to invite everyone to worship in the campus center.
6 p.m. WESLEY FOUNDATION invites you to
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community, with a keynote address by Doug Ferguson. There will be time for questions from the audience after the
discussion. Student Union Auditorium, 7pm to 9pm.
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Daniel and Andrew, two of the handicapped children in Roberto Aponte’s
adaptive physical education class, play together during class in Woollen Gym.
Aponte said that while P.E. majors got
hands-on experience, the children worked
on developing their motor skills through
Campus Calendar
dinner and worship at 214 Pittsboro St. Cost is $2.
7:30 p.m. WIN will meet in Frank Porter Gra
ham Lounge in the Union.
Anyone interested in going to the Feminist Expo
is welcome to attend.
UNC MODEL UNITED NATIONS will meet
in2lODeyHall.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
PLAYMAKERS presents “ Beauty and the Beast. ”
Previews start today and run through Friday. For
more information, call 962-PLAY.
FEATURES
activities like basketball shooting, running,
lifting weights and biking on machines.
They learn sports and strengthening tech-
TRI BETA will have a membership drive from 11
a.m. to 2 p.m. in Coker Lobby through Thursday.
CTHE ASIAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
AND THE BLACK STUDENT MO VEMENT will
sponsor JAM ’95 benefit concert for the homeless,
featuring the BSM Gospel Choir, Loreleis, Opeyo!
and Tar Heel Voices at 8 p.m. Friday in 106 Carroll
Hall. Admission is $3.
KINGDOM UNIVERSITY: 80 short courses on
medieval arts, crafts, history, scholastics, warfare,
dancing. All day Saturday in the Student Union.
niques and anything else at the physical
fitness level. “The kids like it; they have
adjusted well to it,” he said. He said some
students also worked with the children at
the academic level, for the full social devel
opment and familiarity with adults.
Hurlman acts as the liaison in choosing
which special education classes would
make a good mix for UNC students taking
the class. She said that Aponte went over
many of the different needs so students
could accurately help each specific child.
She said many of the UNC students
said, ‘“Sometimes they seem so normal.
They look like they understand me.’” She
pointed toward Alex and Daniel, two non
verbal children, and explained that they
communicated with a pack of illustrated
cards hanging from their trouser belts.
The only complaint she had about the
program was that it only lasted one semes
ter, although because of growing interest it
may continue through the second semes
ter. “The kids get into the program, but
then it’s over by next semester,” she said.
“Even the teachers don’t want it to end.”
At one end of the gym, Christi Smith, a
senior from Durham, was bowling with a
ball and plastic pins with 6-year-old Drew.
She said that Drew was highly developed
but that he was autistic. “If he can work on
his attention span, he’ll be integrated into
regular classes,” she said.
Chad Badgett, a senior from Mt. Airy, is
one of the students working with Tim. He
said the experience had really opened his
eyes. “People take things for granted that
some struggle with endlessly,” he said.
ZAFFRON
FROM PAGE 1
caused,” he stated “I stand to accept full
responsibility for my actions and their con
sequences.”
Zaffron stated he would not have his
lawyer contest the charges. But the charge
of driving with a revoked license was a
mistake, he said. “The charge of my driv
ing while my license was suspended was
the result of an administrative error, and I
expect that charge to be dismissed,” he
stated in the press release.
Nelson said he was not looking forward
to having the board discuss the charges
facing Zaffron. “It will be very difficult for
us,” he said. “My number one priority is
that we not allow this situation to tear the
board apart.”
Carrboro Mayor Eleanor Kinnaird said
she was disappointed by what happened
Monday. “I think it is very serious,” she
said. “(Zaffron) is a bright star who has a
lot to offer this town.”
To prevent any alcohol-related prob
lems, Kinnaird said she had stopped drink
ingin 1987 when she was elected mayor. “I
think it was a prudent one for obvious
reasons.”
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Diversity of Programming
Key to IMe-Known STY
BY DANA WIND
STAFF WRITER
In case you missed your weekly dose of
“All my Children” or “Monday Night
Football,” Student Television can help.
Despite its relatively low profile on cam
pus, STV offers a variety of programs that
could pro ve the perfect procrastinating tool
for the middle of the week.
Tuesdaythrough Thursday nights, from
6 p.m to 10 p.m., UNC students who have
cable television can watch everything from
soap operas to football commentaries to
nonsensical comedy.
The six programs can be seen on Chapel
Hill cable Channel 11 and remain the same
throughout the week. These six shows in
clude “Slack Masters,” “Off the Cuff,”
“Video Potpourri,” “Limelight,” “Room
121” and “Sports Extra.”
Scott Beland, a junior from Asheville
and the co-producer of “Video Potpourri, ”
described the shows as having “some cohe
siveness,” but said most of the people in
volved with separate shows “pretty much
just do their own thing.”
“Slack Masters” is the newest addition
to STV and can be seen at 9 p.m. Its creator
and host, Mike Peterson, a junior from
Winston-Salem, described it as a “relaxed
game show reminiscent of the old ‘Re
mote-Control’ days.”
He said the questions they asked then
contestants were based on old movies,
music and television shows. The contes
tants are four UNC students who are cho
sen by the applications they mail in.
So that the contestants “don’t get up on
stage and look totally ignorant,” Peterson
said that the three writers for the show got
together with the contestants beforehand
and discussed where the various questions
would come from. “It’s legal,” he said.
“It’s not ‘Quiz Show.’”
Forthose looking forpure comedy, “Off
the Cuff” might do the trick. Kyle Hoopes,
a freshman from Jacksonville and an actor
on the show, described it as a show similar
to “Comedy Central” or “Saturday Night
Live.” Airing at 7 p.m., 12 to 14 actors
participate in each skit.
Hoopes’ favorite episode was a knock
off on sitcoms entitled “Hangiri With J.C.”
In this spoof, his roommate played Jesus
Christ, and Hoopes described acting for
the sketch comedy routine as “a lot of fun. ”
He said he got involved with STV in hopes
of someday becoming a director.
The next episode of “Off the Cuff” will
be a special Christmas episode and can be
seen next week.
to check out Beland’s “Video
Beland said his show was a “collage of
§l)r Daily (Bar Herl
different sketches.” Unlike “Off the Cuff,”
the script for “Video Potpourri” is not
written ahead oftime. The program shows
clips of local bands such as Dyslexican and
also of independent filmmakers, former
students and people in the community.
Often, “Video Potpourri" filmmakers
will go to The Cat’s Cradle and film bands
who play there. These clips generally run
forthreeto lOminutes. “Video Potpoum”
can be seen at 8:30 p.m.
Beland said he became involved with
STV because he planned on being a com
munications major but could not take pro
duction classes until he met certain prereq
uisites. “This way I could start fooling
around with video production without
worrying about prerequisites,” Belandsaid.
He said he has been making independent
videos since high school.
At first, co-host Brent Simon, a junior
from Greensboro, described “Limelight,”
which can be seen at 8 p.m., as a talk/
comedy show. But upon further question
ing, Simon revised his description to a
“man-on-the-street type show.”
He gave the example of a certain skit
called “What the hell is this?” where he
walked around on the street and com
mented on the idiosyncrasies of everyday
things. Another example of something he
discussed on that episode were the drive
throughAlMmachineswithbraille. “First
of all, even if a blind person could read the
directions in braille, how could they hit the
right buttons?” he said. “Second of all,
what’s a blind person doing driving a car?”
Another episode included a clip filmed
on the day the Snapple Company visited
the UNC campus. Simon and others sat in
the Pit, yelling, selling lemonade and “gen
erally just trying to annoy the Snapple
Man,” Simon explained. “Even (Student
Body President) Calvin Cunningham
bought some lemonade from us,” he said.
“Sports Extra” is shown at 6:30 p.m.
and is basically a sports commentary show
interlocked with highlights and previews.
So far this year the main focus has been
football, but will soon be switching to the
men’s and women’s basketball teams.
Next semester, producer Drew Russell,
a senior from Warrington, Pa., said he
hoped to conduct more player and coach
interviews and offer more information on
games instead of just showing clips.
For followers of soap operas, there’s
“Room 121,” although producer David
Bowles, a senior from Asheville, described
it more as a drama where the characters
explore various problems.
Two episodes have been already aired,
. and, die third will come out next week. An
'example of a problem a character had 1 to
deal with was the death of a grandmother.