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Undergraduate Teaching
Awards Finalists Chosen
Sixteen finalists lO teaching assis
tants and six professors have been an
nounced forthe 1996 Student Undergradu
ate Teaching Awards.
The finalists were selectedby a2O-mem
ber student committee. Eight award win
ners will be recognized at the Chancellor’s
Awards Ceremony on April 16 at 3 p.m. in
the Great Hall. Professors will receive
$5,000, and teaching assistants get SI,OOO.
Jeffrey Obler, associate chair of the Po
litical Science Department and one of the
finalists, has been teaching since 1968. He
said he now teaches three classes, and this
semester he taught about 220 undergradu
ates. “I appreciate that the students appre
ciate that I make an effort to try to teach
effectively,” he said.
Tyson King-Meadows is a graduate stu
dent in political science who teaches a class
in black politics. This is his first year teach
ing, and he has 25 undergraduates in his
class. “I feel great. I feel appreciated,” he
said. “I feel like my students felt like I was
teaching them something that was valu
able not only to the experience here at
Carolina but to the world, and that’s the
greatest affirmation I could ever have.”
Kim Kenny teaches courses in great
books as part of the Comparative Litera
ture curriculum, and has taught at UNC
for five years. “It’s very flattering,” she
said. “It’s something that makes it worth
while that someone appreciated the time
and effort that you have to put in to teach.”
The other teaching assistant finalists are
Warren Hauk, Biology; Mike Houston,
French; Erika Manning, Psychology;
Kateryna Rudnytzky, English; David
Worster, English; JeffDownard, Philoso
phy; Chandra Guinn, Sociology; Floyd
Bullard, Statistics. The other finalists for
the professorial awards are Ted Leinbaugh,
English; James White, Political Science;
Bobbie Boyd Lubker, Education; Glynis
Cowell, Spanish; David Halperin, Reli
gious Studies.
Race Relations Week
Activities Continue Today
Students for the Advancement of Race
Relations, working in conjunction with
the Campus Diversity Training Project and
the North Carolina Student Teach and
Reach Programs is sponsoring a week of
activities emphasizing community, unity
and education. I ’' ' ''
Today at noon, the Carolina Hispanic
Student Association will present an array
of dances in the Pit. Also at noon, a table
will be set up in the Pit to raise funds for the
free-standing Black Cultural Center. A dis
cussion focusing on racial harassment in
America will be held at 2 p.m. in the BCC.
From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., SARR will hold a
dialogue session in 106 Fetzer Gym. At 7
p.m., Circle K and UNITAs will present
the film, “Mississippi Burning” in 209
Manning Hall, followed by discussion and
refreshments. At 8 p.m., UNITAS is spon
soring a forum in 102 Murphy Hall on the
role race plays on one’s identity.
On Friday, a session entitled “Commu
nicating Across Cultures” will be held at
10 a.m. in the BCC. At noon, “Skin Deep, ”
a film addressing race relations on a col
lege campus, will be screened in the BCC.
A discussion will follow. A session en
titled, “Social Interactions Across Bound
aries” will be held in the BCC. It will
address the realities of social interaction
and the importance of social perceptions in
defining situations and group relations.
Activities will continue through Thurs
day, April 18.
Carolina PALS. Sponsors
Ricycle Ride on Sunday
The Carolina Pediatric Attention, Love
and Support group, an organization of
UNC students and young professionals
who spend time with adolescents with
chronic illnesses, will hold “Miles For
Smiles” Sunday in Carrboro. The 9.2 mile
ride, designed to promote bike safety and
raise awareness about the organization,
will begin and end at New Carrboro Town
Commons. Pre-registration for the event is
$lO per person and event-day registration
willbesl2. Registration will begin at noon
Sunday, followed by a bike-safety rodeo at
lp.m. The ride will begin at 2 p.m. and an
awards ceremony and prize drawing will
take place at 3 p.m.
Carolina P.A.L.S. is an extension of the
Cancer Buddies Program. For more infor
mation, contact Aalok Kuthiala at 942-
4694 or Robert Marshall at 942-9884.
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Carolina Course Review Might Fold
■ The publication has a
$4,000 debt and only 23
cents in its account.
BY AMANDA DEPEW
STAFF WRITER
The Carolina Course Review might fold
if funds are not found to cover a $4,000
debt owed to its publisher, the Publishing
Place Inc.
A $4,925 check written to the publisher
Wednesday left only 23 cents in the course
review’s Student Activities Fund Office
account. Former Editor Lee Conner said
the course review had expected to receive
a $5,000 donation from the Educational
Student literati Proclaim Successful Year of Readings
■ Youth Angst Society
will continue its monthly
readings next year.
BYSHENGLEE
STAFF WRITER
Youth Angst Society, a gathering of
student writers, met in the Bull’s Head
Bookshop on Wednesday night for its final
reading of the year. However, fans of the
monthly readings can look forward to the
program continuing next year.
Senior Dan Kois started the society at
the beginning of the school year with two
goals to expose people on campus to
student writing and to give campus writers
an opportunity to meet one another.
“We wanted to find a way to personally
expose people on campus to more student
writing because I think there’s a lot of good
student writing on campus people weren’t
finding out about,” he said.
Kois said everyone was welcomed to
the monthly readings. He said the society
has had a diverse combination of audience
members ranging from the Bull Head
Bookshop’s manager’s seven-year-old
daughter to University faculty members.
Kois said he asked people he knew from
class to read at the gathering when YAS
was in its early stages of development.
The final Wednesday gathering of about
50 people was the largest the society has
had all year, Kois said. The group had
never had a meeting of less than 30 people,
he said.
Thirteen readers were allotted 10 min
utes each to read from their works. The
readers shared poems and short stories.
To select readers for the final meeting of
the year, YAS created a ballot of former
readers and then voted on who would read
at the final gathering.
The readers consisted mostly of senior
English majors. An exception was Decem
ber graduate Brian Blanchfield who came
back to read some of his poems.
One ofßlanchfield’s poems was about a
Still No Charges Filed
tn Assault at CHHS
BYAMYCAPPIELLO
STAFF WRITER
Three Chapel Hill High School males who are accused of
sexually assaulting a 15-year-old female student last Thursday
remain in the dark as to whether or not they will face criminal
charges.
Chapel Hill Police Spokeswoman Jane Cousins said the three
teens, two aged 15 and one 16, had not been charged as of
Wednesday afternoon. All three have been suspended from CHHS
pending a decision by the district attorney about possible charges,
said Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board Chairman Ken Touw.
If the district attorney charges the males with sexual assault,
each would face a different judicial process, Cousins said.
“A 15-year-old would go through the juvenile courts and a 16-
year-old would go through the adult courts,” Cousins said.
Orange-Chatham District Attorney Carl Fox said he had no
idea what kind of penalties the teens could face if charged and
convicted in last week’s incident. He said it would depend on what
charges were levied against the students.
The female student, who sustained minor injuries, told CHHS
administrators she was sexually assaulted last Thursday after
noon in the school’s cultural arts building at 12:45 p.m., Cousins
said. The school reported the incident to police on Friday. Cous
ins said the time lag was not uncommon in a situation like the one
at CHHS.
“It is certainly not unusual for the victim to not come running
to the police,” Cousins said.
CHHS Principal Charles Patterson said he was very pleased
with the level of cooperation the police had shown toward the
school, the victim and her family.
“Everybody regrets that something like this could happen,”
Patterson said. “We’re always concerned about incidents like this
and look forward to a resolution of the situation.”
Touw said the maximum penalty the three could face from
school administrators would be a 10-day suspension from school.
“If the principal wants a longer suspension, he would need a
central office administrative hearing,” Touw said.
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Foundation to cover publishing costs.
“Moyer Smith (executive vice president
of the Educational Foundation) promised
us the money. I think there has been some
confusion over matching things up in
people’s memories,” he said. “I’ve only
met with Smith once, and he said he would
take care of the donation. I think it’s a
matter oftransferring themoneyfromplace
to place.”
Although Conner said he and current
Co-Publisher Hoke Pollock met in the fall
with Smith to request the money, Smith
said he did not recall that conversation.
SAFO Director Howard Brubaker said
the publication had only received one do
nation from the Educational Foundation,
and that was in 1994. “The Carolina Course
Review made a request for funds in Sep
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Nathan McClintock, a senior poetry student reads selections from his work during the
Youth Angst Society all-star reading at the Bull's Head Bookshop on Wednesday.
woman who walked the streets of Chapel
Hill. Blanchfield said he thought there were
five people who constantly walked the
streets of Chapel Hill, but of those compul
sive walkers, only one was a woman.
Blanchfield said a friend had told him
compulsive walking was a disorder with
which some people must cope. He said
that inspired him to write the poem.
Senior playwright and screenwriter
Johnny Knight, who reads regularly at the
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Sophomores Patrick Link and Selena Dewitya enjoy various ethnic foods
Tuesday as part of Race Relations Week. Dancers
from CHispA will perform in the Pit at noon today.
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tember 1994 and received the money in
November 1994,” said Dawn McPherson,
administrative vice president of the Educa
tional Foundation. “No request (from the
Carolina Course Review) has been made
for this year.”
The Course Review received $14,377
from Student Congress this year, which
equates to 50 cents per student, said Julie
Gasperini, student body treasurer. Five
thousand copies of the course review were
published this semester. Despiteits inabil
ity to pay its bill, more than 2,000 copies of
the Course Review are stored in Suite C of
the Student Union, she said.
These copies are being reserved for the
1996 freshman class, Conner said.
Brubaker said he had spoken with Smith
and had told Carolina Course Review staff
gatherings, read some of his recent mono
logues. Knight said he thought YAS was a
wonderful chance for student writers to
gain recognition. “I think it’s a great op
portunity for students who probably
wouldn’t have much of an opportunity,”
he said. “Out of all these people no matter
how good we are, it’s really hard to get
published and get exposure.”
Another student who read from her
work was Grace Consacro. Consacro, who
Potpourri
members that the Foundation had not made
any donations this year. Brubaker encour
aged the course review to obtain funding
from other sources soon.
The Educational Foundation does not
commit to long-term funding and instead
makes “one-time” donations to student
organizations, Smith said. The newly
formed Student Fee Audit Committee will
convene tonight at 7 p.m. in the Suite C
Conference Room to discuss the Course
Review, Gasperini said.
Gasperini said she thought congress
would loan the Course Review enough
money to cover its debt. “Ifwe have to give
them a loan, then next year’s 50 cents per
student allocation will go to repay the debt
instead of financing the review’s publica
tion,” she said.
is deaf, was accompanied by two Univer
sity-employed sign-language interpreters.
Consacro distributed three typed po
ems entitled “Search For Fire (for my
dad), ”’’Trian Story,’’and an untitled poem
which she read to the audience.
The other students whoreadwere: Claire
Campbell, Ben Florin, Jeanne Fugate, Dan
Kois, Gary Mason, Nathan McClintock,
Mac Rogers, Dan Schwankl, Claire Smith
and Floyd Utschig.
Student Congress Elects
Kilboume as Next Speaker
BY JOHN SWEENEY
STAFF WRITER
Speaker of the 77th Student Congress Roy Granato handed
over his gavel Wednesday evening, as members of the 78th
congress convened for the first time to elect their officers for the
upcoming year.
After presiding over the election of new Ethics Committee
Chairman James Hoffman, Dist. 15, who
ran unopposed, and the election of his suc
cessor, Rep. Jamie Kilboume, Dist. 1,
Granato wished congress luck and exited
the body he has served for the past four
years.
Kilboume, a law school student, is cur
rently serving his third term on congress,
after serving as speaker pro tempore last
year. He said he would work with other
branches of student government to ensure a
successful year. “The (student body) presi
dent and Student Congress must be part
ners for meaningful change, not adversar
ies,” he said.
Kilboume ran unopposed and was
elected with the unanimous consent of the body. Rep. Vince
Rozier, Dist. 14, was chosen as congress’ new speaker pro tem
pore. Rozier, who is in his second term, said he would work to
make sure a congress web page went up and would encourage
representatives to meet with their constituents regularly.
Rep. Jason Jolley, Dist. 16, also in his second term, was chosen
as the new chairman of the Finance Committee, succeeding Julie
Gasperini, who was selected to serve as student body treasurer.
Rep. Joe Kledis, Dist. 12, a freshman congress member, was
elected chairman of the Rules and Judiciary committee and Rep.
Charles Roederer, Dist. 22, was elected chairman of the Student
Affairs committee. The body also passed a bill by consent which
established the composition of the Student Fee Audit Committee,
which will hold its first meeting tonight in the Suite C of the
Student Union.
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Thursday, April 11,1996
Rally to
Focus on
Children
■ A UNC graduate student is
organizing support for the
Washington, D.C. rally.
BYERINGUIU
STAFF WRITER
The statistics are grim. The United States
ranks first among industrial nations in mili
tary technology but 18th in infant mortal
ity. Every 32 seconds, a baby is bom into
poverty. Every five hours, a child dies from
abuse orneglect. Everyday, 6,042 children
are arrested.
Chapel Hill busi
nesses andresidents
have heard a na
tional call to Stand
For Children at the
Lincoln Memorial
in Washington,
D.C. on June 1 and
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to change these statistics —and graduate
student Giselle Lancaster is leading the
way, helping coordinate the national event
and organizing an area coalition to travel
to Washington,
D.C. in June.
Stand For Chil
dren, a national day
of commitment to
children, was initi
ated by the
Children’s Defense
Fund to bring
children’s issues to
politicians’ atten
tion. Led by CDF’s
founder and current
President Marian
Wright Edelman,
the event calls for
individuals and
groups interested in
Graduate student
GISELLE
LANCASTER said the
day would emphasize
a national commitment
to childrens' issues.
children’s rights to gather at the memorial
from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. for a day of speeches,
inter-faith services and musical perfor
mances. Comedian Rosie O’Donnell an
nounced Wednesday that she would ap
pear in a fund-raising comedy performance
at the Kennedy Center in Washington,
D.C. on May 31 with comic Paula
Poundstone.
“We may not all agree on what to do
about (children’s issues),” Lancaster said,
“but we should at least agree that some
thing needs to be done.
“We’re losing our community, and
that’s more important than anything po
litical.”
Lancaster listed three steps to the suc
cess of Stand For Children: campus aware
ness, participation on June 1 and follow
up commitment in the community.
See CHILDREN, Page 4
Former Speaker ROY
GRANATO officially
handed over the gavel
Wednesday night.
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