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Sfjp Sailg (tar Jbfl Weird Snow Treks Feature Airports, Tractors ■ Students’ return trips to UNC took amusing and unexpected turns. BY STEPHANIE DUNLAP STAFF WRITER When some of us were little, we prayed to the snow gods to dose school. But it wasn’t until last week, when we were in college, that nature played a cheap trick and threw enough snow at the East Coast to make return journeys to UNC, to say the least, interesting. Adam Mohr, a junior from Washing ton, D.C., was driving back with Greg Craft, ajuniorfromChantilly, Va., on Jan. 6, when the snow began to fall. At first, they were not deterred. Mohr said he began to feel wary when he saw the car in front of his Nissan Sentra make two complete spins before striking an embankment. “This is about half and hour before the car broke down,” Mohr said. After Mohr’s car mysteriously died, Mohr and Craft walked to the nearest exit, WASHINGTON FROM PAGE 1 emment directly loans money to students at a fixed, low-interest rate. Indirect lend ing, the guaranteed loan program, ismoney lent by banks to students and subsidized by the federal government. President Clinton initiated the direct lending program when he took office. One component of the Republican plan calls for a reduction in the direct lending program; it would be limited to the first lOpercentof universities that joined when the program began. “(Direct lending is) one of the best new ideas in higher education,” Kennedy said. “Students love it and colleges love it, because the loan application process is simpler and loan fimds get to students more quickly.” Also, the government is streamlined by eliminating banks as the middle-man, Kennedy said. Kennedy called Republican efforts to thwart direct lending a form of “corporate welfare.” He said Republicans favor indi rect lending because they are trying to protect the special interests of banks. Kois endorsed the direct lending pro gram because he said it might be able to help him pay for graduate school. Keeping all options available would be beneficial to students who are much more financially needy than banks, Kois said. Student Body Vice President Amy Swan, who attended the hearing withKois, called the event a “great opportunity for UNC.” “(Kois ’) situation is one that many other UNC students are in, and by speaking to mie national press and to politicians at this level” he showcased an important student TAR HEEL SPORTS SHORTS, THIS WEEKEND AT CAROLINA! Saturday, January 20 Swimming vs. Virginia 1:00pm at Koury Natatorium Students & Faculty Admitted FREE w/ID! YIOICI KKji mum \ / [ I These special 2-for-l fares are available for purchase through f X 1 January 25,1996, and are good for travel through _jromraie,gh-durhamtO: roc cmrnrn I fjr ) r n \ vJ / On January 11,1996, Valujet will introduce daily E|)EE nonstop service from Raleigh-Durham to Orlando and Boston. 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Off-Peak Rules: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are Off-Peak; Thursday is \ Off-Peak before 2:00 PM and after 7:00 PM; Friday is Off-Peak before 11:30 AM; Saturday is Off-Peak before 9:00 AM and after 12:00 Noon; Sunday and Holiday periods are Peak. Our lawyers also insist we point out that schedules and feres are subject to change **~'A Ji— without notice. An Airport Passenger Facility Chatge of 13-16 may apply, but we can’t do anything about that. All feres are subject to availability All feres are one-way and non-refundable. Restrictions may apply All’s well when you fly Wlujet. 1 in Alberta, Va. Although there was a hotel, there were no vacancies. Prospects were grim until they called the American Automobile Association and their “best buddy Hawthorne,’’amechanic, came to tow the car. Mohr and Craft called in vain to find a hotel until Hawthorne offered them the office adjoining his ga rage. Hawthorne introduced them to his be loveddogof 15years. “Honestly, Ithought this was something out of ‘Deliverance,’” Mohr said. Mohr and Craft were awakened at mid night. “I heard a god-awful squeal, like a dog, and then a woman screaming at the top of her lungs,” he said. The next morning, they discovered Hawthorne had accidentally run over his dog with the tow track. On Jan. 7, the two were invited to din ner at the Hawthornes’ house. “They had lots of fish and a collection of Harley Davidson beer cans,” Mohr said. By the morning of Jan. 8, the roads were clear enough to drive to Chapel Hill. Junior Anupam Sinha, from Lawrenceville, N.J., was another student who experienced car trouble and found issue, she said. Kennedy said reducing loan funding conflicted with American priorities. “One should have the opportunity to attain one’s dreams ofattending theircollege of choice, ” he said. The GOP budget proposal calls for Pell grants to be reduced by 40 percent, DPC documents state. In addition to Kois, education experts spoke on the panel. Milton Goldberg, senior vice president for education at the National Affiance for Business, addressed the importance of higher education for the future business world. He argued that investment in edu cation reaped greater productivity rewards than did investment in capital equipment. Charles Tetro, president and CEO of the Training and Development Corpora tion, summed up the testimony by calling for dramatic increases in the amount of attention paid education. “What is an economy for?” he asked. He said that in Europe it was to create or sustain the quality oflife for its citizens and that America was more focused on the creation of wealth. “We espouse concern for children, but behave differently, ” he said. His sentiments were echoed by Kennedy, who said Con gress had not emphasized education enough because children were not a pow erful interest group. After the testimony, the panelists took questions. To close, Skaggs asked Kois what students thought was “going on” in Washington. Kois said he felt there was a general lack of understanding that government could cease to function. “Why on earth can’t the U.S. government get it together?” 2 (an Fly For The Price Oil! STATE & NATIONAL himself stranded in a strange town. Sinha was also returning to Chapel Hill on Saturday when he was blinded by snow and ice in Virginia. “I kind of swerved into a guardrail on the highway and about an hour later went off the shoulder into a ditch,” Sinha said. After some good Samaritan driving behind him helped him push his car out, Sinha headed for the next exit. Sinha saidhe spent three nights and two days in a Comfort Inn in South Hill, Va., because his car was trapped in the hotel parking lot by 15 inches of snow. He said he survived the layover on Denny’s cuisine, television and talks with the loads. Many students who relied on the skies to bring them back to Chapel Hill found their airline flights canceled. Vipin Koshal, a senior from Athens, Ohio, had spent five days in San Francisco with his father when the storm hit the East Coast. Koshal’s flight was canceled, and he was told another flight could not be sched uled for 36 hours. Koshal said the airline refused to pay for a hotel. “They said they can’t control acts HENDERSON FROM PAGE 1 discussed problems and studied scripture. “He’s kind of like a father, brother, mentor, friend and a counselor wrapped up in one,” he said. “He’s probably influ enced me more than any other person.” Chewning said it was difficult for him to put into words the impact Henderson had on him. Recently, Chewning recently ap plied to be an IVCF staff member. “His influence on me and my respect for him as a person have led me to this career decision," hesaid. “It’sreally hard to think of what my life would have been like with out Rich. He’s been such a force in my life.” Chewning said Henderson’s way of lis tening and talking has positive effects on people. “He really believes in people, and that kind of inspires confidence in them.” Fellow staff members also said Henderson was special to them. Bari Posey of Cary not only works with Henderson but also met individually with him before graduating from UNC in May. During the two years she met with Henderson, her grandmother died. Posey said she turned to him for help. “He cried with me,” she said. KINNAIRD FROM PAGE 1 around, Kinnaird said, thanks to the cul tural center, which offers tutoring and art classes for children, and community polic ing. Also, the neighborhood may open a Head Start preschool program, she said. “It took die cooperation of everyone to of God,” he said. “(They said) United Airlines is not responsible forthe weather.” Koshal spent the next day and a half in the airport, where he was interviewed by a San Francisco television station and enter tained himself in a bookstore. Then were also students who were snow bound in their homes, like sophomore Alice Roberts from Pineola. Her Explorer was stuck in the driveway by two feet of snow. Roberts said they tried chains, digging and pushing, but the snow was too thick. It was Jan. 10 before a tractor could plow up to the car and push the snow out. Roberts said Pineola is a small town of Christmas tree farmers. “Just about everybody owns a tractor," she said. “The community really pulled together to plow driveways and back roads.” Roberts said she and her friend occu pied themselves with chess, backgammon, the guitar and experimental cooking. “We hit the slopes a lot,” Roberts said. “I tried snowboarding for the first time.” “It would be different if we didn’t have commitments to school we knew we were missing,” she added. “Under a few differ ent circumstances, it would be really nice.” Henderson was brought to IVCF by regional director Jimmy Long. “Rich has vision of not just staying the status quo,” Long said. “Whether it’s vi sion to help and bring about racial recon ciliation and understanding or vision for how to help Christian students be able to demonstrate Christ’s love to students who aren’t Christians, Rich wants to make a difference.” Henderson is also working internation ally as director of IVCF in Central Asia, where he is considering moving. “I think it’s a reflection of God’s heart,” Henderson said. “His heart is for peoples of all the nations.” Henderson graduated from Stanford University in 1979 with bachelor of arts degrees in psychology and economics and planned to attend law school. He said he changed his mind because he was spiritu ally inspired to work with IVCF. “A lot of people think I’m crazy for throwing away a degree at Stanford," he said. “But I wouldn’t trade what I’ve done for anything else. I do this job because I love college students and the university environment.” “It’s more of a lifestyle than a job to me. In fact, ifiteverstaitstofeellikeajobtome I’ll quit.” turn the community around,” Kinnaird said. She added that working in Carr Court was the most rewarding thing she did as mayor, and she plans to continue her work there now that her term as mayor is over. Anderson, who will speak Friday night, said Kinnaird was an example of what the community needs. Save Your Friends &c Family Money When You Call Them Collect! Only 22<t Per Minute Plus Connection! Dia1...1-800-97 CHEAP (24327) OR Call Us To Order Your Personal Pre-Paid Phone Card Only 304 Per Minute Anywhere In The USA! Call Now.. JL-800-261-5321 Gingrich Rounds State To Boost N.C. Politicians THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich ratcheted up the rhetoric over the federal budget impasse on Thurs day, suggesting that President Clinton’s intransigence could pull the country into a recession. Gingrich, R-Ga., said he was concerned that lack of progress in passing a bal anced budget could result in a recession this summer. “I think we need tax relief for work ing families to avoid arecession,”hetold reporters during a fund-raising trip through North Carolina for Repub lican congressmen seeking re-election. “And if we get a House Speaker NEWT GINGRICH said he supported tax breaks for working families. Clinton recession, let him explain why he refused to lower taxes on working Ameri can families and pushed us into a reces sion,” Gingrich said. Clinton said earlier Thursday that he was willing to work with Republican lead ers and insisted that a balanced budget “is clearly within our grasp.” Gingrich called FOOD SERVICE FROM PAGE 1 SIOO campus meal plan in spring 1995. WhileCunninghamsaidhedid not want to impose a mandatory meal plan on fresh men, he wanted to present students with a wide range of options. The bill offered three options to fund changes, ranging from no fee increase to a mandatory freshman meal plan. ■ Option A would fund improvements through a general student fee increase of up to $27.34. ■ Option B would fund improvements through the imposition of a mandatory S9OO freshman meal plan and a general student fee increase of up to $5.02. ■ Option C would include no major improvements and no increase in student fees. The proposed options ai e modeled after those at other colleges and universities. Voting on the bill was postponed until the next Student Congress meeting to give representatives more time to study the pro posal. If the bill is approved by Congress, students will be able to vote on a referen 1996 Summer School FIRST SESSION (Mov 20-June 251 AMST62 Robert Allen American Cinema & American Culture of the Reagan & Post-Reagan Eros (3) BUSI 197-1 Paul Bloom Sports Marketing (3) BUSI 197-2 Don Stanford Sports Law (3) HIST 90-001 Peter Codanis A History of Sport in America (3) PHIL 48 Jan Boxill Ethical Issues in Sports (3) PHYE99 Ronald Hyatt The Olympics: Past, Present & Future (from Athens to Atlanta) (3) Friday, January 19,1996 Clinton “factually challenged” and told reporters that he did not consider the administration’s latest offer a serious one. Gingrich, appearing in Raleigh on be half ofU.S. Rep.FredHeineman, thecity’s former police chief, vowed that Republi cans would not compromise their ideas on welfare reform or tax relief to get a budget deal. “We’re not going to cave in. We’re not going to buy some phony Washington deal,” he said. “We want a real agreement on real change.” Earlier Thursday, at a fund-raising breakfast in Winston-Salem for Rep. Rich ard Burr, R-N.C., Gingrich said welfare reform was at the top of the Republican agenda because it was “at the heart of what’s wrong. ’’ The speaker, who later campaigned in Goldsboro for U.S. Rep. Walter Jones Jr., also touched on tax issues Thursday, tout ing GOP proposals for tax relief aimed at families with children. Gingrich’s appearances in North Caro lina did not go unnoticed by opponents of his policies, who staged protests in Win ston-Salem and Raleigh. Police were called to the hotel where he appeared with Heineman after security guards refused to allowprotesters carrying signs touting abor tion rights and homosexual rights into the hotel. The protesters left peacefully. dum to approve or disapprove raising stu dent fees to fund the project. Cunningham said the bill he proposed was complicated and might need more explanation for the representatives to fully understand it. “I would have been surprised if Con gress had passed the bill (Wednesday night),” Cunningham said. “I’m glad it did not pass, because there are things that need to be worked on.” Rep. Vinston Rozier, Dist. 16, said he wasunsureofhisfeelingsonthebill. “Right now it’s too premature,” Rozier said. “I haven’t formed an opinion yet, but I do have concerns.” Rozier said the cost of the changes con cerned him. “A major concern for me is how will this be paid for,” he said. “It shouldn’t be required for students to pay for it.” Dist. 15 Rep. David Moricca, a member of the Food Services Advisory Task Force, said he felt the bill was rushed. “We’re still in the process of getting information,” Moricca said. “Ithinkitwill only hurt students to put it on the ballot now.” FOGUSa...... . Program Sports <£ Culture: Academic Perspectives SECOND SESSION (June 27-Auq. 21 AM ST 62 Pamela Grundy Sports in the U.S. (3) AMST 63 Joy Kasson America in tf>e Age of the First Modem Olympics: The Culture of the 1890s (3) ART 080-001 Scott Kara leas Athletics & Ancient Art (3) 8U51197-1 Peter Chiaramonte Corporate American, Government, & me Business of Sports (3) CLAS 43 William West Athletics in the Greek & Roman World (3) HIST 52 WJ. McCoy History of Greece (3) JOMC 174 John Sweeney Sports Marketing & Advertising (3) JOMC 191 John Sweeney 1996 Summer Olympics: Marketing & Coverage (3) PHYE99 A.C. Hackeny Sports Physiology: Enhancement of Human Performance (3) 5
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