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Sty? Bailg Ear Hppl "J I _ j BRIEFS Stones from the University and Chapel Hill UNC to Host Publishing Institute This Summer The fourth annual Carolina Publishing Institute, held during four, weeklong ses sions June 3-28, will focus on all aspects of the publishing industry. Forty faculty members will share their experiences in editing, electronic publish ing, design and production and marketing. The week focusing on editing will be held June 3-7. June 10-14 will discuss de sign and production and will feature ex perts speaking on how books are made. During June 17-21, participants in the institute will investigate the world of elec tronic publishing. And June 24-28 will focus on the marketing of a book and building public awareness of it. Participants can register for individual weeks or for the full, four-week institute. Tuition discounts are given to those at tending more than one week of the insti tute. For information contact Rachel Davies at 1-800-845-8640 or 962-1124 or through e-mail, rmd.ce@mhs.unc.edu. Music Department to Host Opera Workshop Tonight Students at UNC can learn about the world of opera at a workshop tonight at 8 p.m. The workshop, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Hill Hall Auditorium. The workshop will consist of a perfor mance of opera scenes performed by un dergraduate voice students. The performance will last about one hour and will include scenes from Hansel and Gretel, Lakme, The Rape of Lucretia as well as others. For more information call the Music Department at 962-1039. Day to Speak at Meeting Of UNC Retired Faculty The 44th quarterly meeting of the UNC Retired Faculty Association will be held April 23 from noon until 1:30 p.m. in the George Watts Hill Alumni Center. Barbara Day, professorand chairwoman of curriculum and instruction in the School of Education, will speak. Business Workshop To Be Held April 24 A workshop for anyone interested in business or desiring to go into business will be held April 24 on campus. The work shop, which will last from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., will include information on market ing, start-up and cash flow. Registration begins Monday. For more information call the Omni Group 1-800-746-8940. UNC Student Receives Doctoral Fellowship Mary M. Myers, a doctoral student in the Kenan-Flagler Business School’s ac counting program, was one of 10 recipi ents of the Deloitte and Touche Foundation’s 1996 Doctoral Fellowship in Accounting Awards. The Fellows, chosen by an independent selection committee of educato-s, will each receive $20,000 over a two-year period. The program is open to any graduate stu dent successfully pursuing a doctoral pro gram in accounting at an accredited uni versity. The student must have completed two or more semesters. The Deloitte and Touche Foundation is funded by contribu tions from active and retired partners of Deloitte and Touche. Since 1956,theFoundationhasawarded more than 900 Doctoral Fellowships. Aldermen to Sponsor Talk On 'New Urbanism 1 The Carrboro Board of Aldermen and the Citizens ’ Advisory Boards for the town are sponsoring an event on April 17at6:30 p.m. at the Carrboro Town Hall. Guest speaker Demetri Baches, who is the plan ning director for the city of Belmont, N.C. will be presenting a slide presentation and work session on “new urbanism.” The focus will be on how to integrate tradi tional neighborhood design principles into land-use ordinances. The presentation will be cable-cast on the Government Access Channel 18. 'Artscapade' Festival To Celebrate Kids, Arts The Community Independent School is inviting children up to 10 years of age to participate in music, dancing, sculpture and storytelling at the first annual “Artscapade" festival. The free event is designed to provide a chance for children to enjoy art in a variety of its forms. The Community Independent School is located at 2089 Lamont Norwood Road, eight miles south of Chapel Hill. For more information or directions call 932-6313. School System Distributes Surveys to Parents The Chapel Hill-Canboro City Schools is distributing questionaires this week in order to determine people's satisfaction with services at Lincoln Center. The re turned surveys will be mailed to Gordon Black Corporation to be scored. This will aid in preparing reports for the schools and the districts. The surveys ask questions about equipment, teachers, budgeting and overall satisfaction. FROM STAFF REPORTS Black Workers Suggest Different Town Budget ■ Members of the Black Public Works Association said meetings with Chapel Hill officials were going well. BY LESLIE KENDRICK STAFF WRITER Black Public Works Association mem bers and town staff members are in the process of developing separate budget pro posals to remedy pay inequities among town employees. Both groups plan to propose their bud gets to the Town Council before the Equal Gore Proclaims N.C. Smart Start Success During Chapel Hill Visit ■ The vice president and the governor read stories to children at a local day care. BY GRAHAM BRINK STAFF WRITER Vice President A1 Gore toured a Chapel Hill child care center Monday morning and pronounced the center and the N.C. Smart Start program a success. Gore, accompanied by Gov. Jim Hunt, visited the Community School for People Under Six and discussed ways to imple ment Hunt’s Smart Start program through out the country. “North Carolina is the leader in focus ing on early childhood education,” Gore said during a roundtable discussion that included parents, teachers and school di rectors. “We must find out fully why these programs work” and then implement them nationwide. Smart Start, proposed by Hunt in 1993, is a public-private initiative to help North Carolina’s children enter school healthy and ready to learn. The program provides Doctors Stay at SHS Because of Love, Not Cash ■ Doctors in private practice make more than those at Student Health Serivce. BY MARVA HINTON STAFF WRITER Doctors at Student Health Service make less money than their counterparts in pri vate practice, but their special interest in Fractured Campus? 1966 - 1996 ■ Minority student organizations, which were nonexistent 30 years ago at the University, have forever changed the face of campus life. But for better or worse? BY JAMIE GRISWOLD ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR In 1987, 12 UNC students convened at the Franklin Street Pizza Hut for the first official meeting of the Indian Students Association. Nearly 10 years later, the Pizza Hut has transformed from a pizza parlor to a bar to a coffeehouse, and the Indian Students Associa tion has become SANGAM, one of the largest and most visible ethnic organizations on campus. And SANGAM is hardly alone. UNC has experi enced a tremendous growth in the number and politi cal strength of ethnic organizations on campus. Eighteen ethnic student groups now vie for mem bers. The groups sponsor activities ranging from heady intellectual discussions on the role of race in society to chess nights to multicultural fashion shows to three course Asian awareness dinners capped off with a Japanese Fan Dance. The groups call for new cur ricula, become embroiled in controversies over the selection of the Homecoming queen and protest elec tions in nations half a world away. Since January, more than six organizations have held celebration y jflll Am The Black Student Movement used its political clout to support Homecoming queen Maleikka Hardy in her 1993 selection. UNIVERSITY & CITY Employment Opportunity Commission makes a special investigation of the town’s employment practices later this year. The BPWA introduced a preliminary form of its “freedom budget” in a Town Council public forum in March. The bud get, which the BPWA hopes to present at the April 29th meeting, is a plan to increase racial equity in salaries for Chapel Hill’s Public Works Department employees. The budget includes a “Two Cents for Justice” proposal, which asks the council to raise property taxes by 2 cents per $ 1,000 in order to fund a salary increase for the lowest-paid public works employees. “We’ve based our proposals on figures and information from town hall,” said services such as immunizations, educa tional support and playground equipment. Gore stressed the importance of early education and the impact the programs have on the community. “The majority of learning goes on in the fust five years of a child’s life,” he said. “Stimulation, learning, nurturing and care” are needed to promote positive learning environments and a productive work force for the future, he said. “We live in a system of federalism that allows the whole country to learn from a (program) that one of our states comes up with,” Gore said. “This program ought to be emulated by the other 49 states. “Educational programs need enough resources to fit all the good intentions to gether,” he said. “This program provides the resources.” Amy Cunningham, mother of three children and soon-to-be UNC graduate, agreed. “Without the great support of the program and teachers, I wouldn’t have been able to get through," she said. “The program creates an environment where children can thrive.” Cunningham emphasized the impor tance of the stable learning environment treating college-aged adults keeps them at the University. SHS employs nine physicians to work in three medicine clinics. The doctors are either internists, primary care physicians or pediatricians. Doctors in the three clinics make be tween $61,000 and $99,000 a year. According to the American Medical Associations’ survey data, primary care physicians in the South Atlantic region make about $ 101,000 a year. Pediatricians Rr IMiy i ' The Carolina Indian Circle holds events, like this one during Indian Heritage Month, to help increase University awareness of Native-American traditions. weeks to share their culture with the campus. Hardly a week goes by in which the cube the students’ billboard does not colorfully announce an activity put on by one of the clubs. The growth of student groups around ethnicity is linked to a dramatic change in die composition of the student body. For example, in 1970—when the Black Student Movement was just three years old—only 420 black undergraduate, graduate and professional stu- dents combined were enrolled at UNC. In 1996, more than 400 students have mem berships in the BSM alone. Former Vice Chancellor for Student Af fairs Donald Boulton agrees that the growth in the number of minority students on cam pus has been significant. “We have seen more growth in the past 30 years than in the previous 170 put together,” he said. “For a long time, we were all male and all white.” The growth of ethnic groups has un doubtedly left its mark on UNC. But as the long-standing debates about issues such as a freestanding Black Cultural Center and the multicultural course requirement at test, questions remain about the direction UNC has taken by making student groups BPWA steering committee member Steve England. “A 2-cent property tax increase would equal $440,000 in funds, and that along with the $500,000 the town has ear marked for increasing salaries is enough to accomplish what we need to get done.” The Freedom Budget also asks the town to eliminate its four lowest pay grades for public works employees. According to BPWA documents, this action would elimi nate salary brackets below the calculated Chapel Hill poverty-level wage of $16,262, settingtheminimum salary levelatsl 7,631. “Some BPWA steering committee mem bers have been meeting regularly with town staffers, and they say the meetings have been real productive and they've been real that the extra funding provided. “All the equipment and services would be virtually useless if the teachers were leavingeverysixmonths/’shesaid. “Child care is a poorly paid profession, but the Smart Start funding allows the teachers to be paid enough to remain committed to the program.” Brenda Breeze, a parent and a member of the school’s Board of Directors, had difficulty finding quality child care that she could afford before she discovered the Community School. “Now, when I’m at work, I know that my child is being taken care of,” Breeze said. “I’m confident now that my child is learning what she needs to learn.” Cunningham and Breeze are prime ex amples of the program’s value, Hunt said. Providing quality early-childhood educa tion for families in need will pay dividends by creating an educated and productive work force, he said. “By the year 2000, every child in the state will come to school healthy and ready to learn,” he pledged. In 1995, Smart Start received $57.4mil- See DAYCARE, Page 4 make $125,660 a year and internists earn $189,800 a year. Dr. Judith Cowan, director of SHS, said SHS salaries lagged behind because doc tors at SHS were considered ttLVstate employees. “As time has gone by, our salary in creases have not kept pace with those out side of SHS,” Cowan said. “Although we don’t get any tax dollars, we are still bound by state regulations. We are state employ ees. Each year the state legislature decides lißmr glf.l i *ltj ♦ **■**$*5 i [tUn : >*■ -t h-? __ More than six minority groups have held 'awareness weeks' !f this semester. formed around ethnicity so central a part of campus life. Do ethnic organizations promote diversity by edu cating students about different cultures and preserving traditions? Or do they stop students from having to deal with diversity by putting students into organiza tional slots that enable them to live on a diverse campus without really interacting with people different from themselves? The question is an old one and perhaps has no clear answer. But however one chooses to think about the subject, it is useful to remember that UNC’s ethnic organiza tions didn’t arise out of the blue. Each of the groups See MINORITY, Page 8 Student Groups Based Around Ethnicity ■ African Students Association ■ Americarv-Arab Antidiscrimination Committee ■ Asian Students Association ■ Association of International Students ■ Black Student Movement ■ Carolina Hispanic Association ■ Carolina Indian Circle ■ Chinese Chess Club ■ Friendship Association of Chinese Students and Scholars ■ Haverim Carolina Students for Israel ■ Hellenic Students Association of UNC-CH ■ Korean American Student Association ■ MASALA ■ Persian Cultural Society ■ SANGAM The South Asian Awareness Organization ■ UNC-CH Chinese Student Association ■ UNC-CH Japan Club ■ Vietnamese Students Association SOURCE: OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED STUDENT CO-CURRICULAR ORGANIZATIONS encouraged,” BPWA attorney Mark Dorosin said Monday. Town Manager Cal Horton said the meetings have increased understanding on both sides and have helped the town de velop its own budget proposals. “The key points of our proposal are that it would apply to the entire town work force and that we have prepared special proposals to make salary improvements for the lowest-paid town employees,” Horton said. The town’s proposal would eliminate lower brackets and would increase salaries in the lower brackets by a higher percent age than those in upper pay brackets. England said the council’s decision on w —v —■ i- pR ■—* ,h ■ ■ m M '' H Hk J§ fiL I gwiMsiliy . ■■■, t, ■ DTH/ERDCPEREL Vice President Al Gore fields questions from reporters Monday afternoon before visiting a Chapel Hill day care. a salary range that our salaries must fit in. ” Cowan said she thought doctors at SHS stayed on because they enjoyed the woik ing environment. “The people we do have are well trained,” Cowan said. “They come here because they want to work at a University. Student health care is a discipline within itself.” Cowan said SHS saw very little tum- See DOCTORS, Page 4 Tuesday, April 16,1996 the proposals would be instrumental in the BPWA’s success in realizing its goals. The 38-member BPWA formed last summer and submitted a list of eight griev ances to the town about inequity in wages, instruction and promotion in the Public Works Department. “We’re very confident when the EEOC starts investigating, the town and commu nity members will find that the allegations we’ve made are very valid,” England said. The EEOC has not yet set a date for their visit to Chapel Hill, Horton said. “We've been working with the BPWA to invite the EEOC to review our employ ment practices, and we’re eager for them to do that. We hope they’ll come soon.” Seminar Proposal Catching On ■ A faculty-student group is considering a number of ideas from a year-old study. BY JOHN SWEENEY STAFF WRITER A committee composed ofUN C faculty and students has spent the past several months examining concerns raised in last year’s University self-study, including the possibility of establishinga “freshman-year experience” program much like the one discussed by student government. The self-study called for a program that included "coursework, social events and individualized mentoring in order to intro duce students to the intellectual life of the University while simultaneously easing their integration into its civic community. ” Stephen Birdsall, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said Monday that the committee was formed to evaluate the fea sibility of such a program, among other things. Chancellor Michael Hooker said that he was familiar with freshman-year experi ence programs at other universities and that he “strongly favored” the implemen tation of one at UNC. “Obviously, the freshman year is the most important in your college career, es pecially the fust semester,” Hooker said. But Hooker also said the University would have to find resources before the program could get off the ground. “After you get past the money and time issues, there aren’t very many obstacles," he said. The committee has also been evaluat ing several other problem areas highlighted by the self-study, including concerns over computer literacy and oral communica tion skills taught by the general education curriculum, the complexity of the general education requirements and the degree to which the established goals of the curricu lum agree with the goals of students and faculty. Peter Coclanis, associate dean of gen eral education, said the committee’s focus was only the beginning of a bigger project, despite the wide range of subjects at which they were looking. “This is envisioned as the first part of a larger-term review of general education,” Coclanis said. He said the committee would probably turn in its final report by the end of the semester. Whatever the committee’s assessment, Birdsall said he hoped to see the curricu lum review improve students’ academic experiences in the long run. “It is so impor tant what they’re doing, not for the college in ageneral way, but forthe students who’ll be coming through here.” The committee, established by the Col lege of Arts and Sciences, consists of Chair woman Julia Wood, representatives from each of the major divisions of the college, a representative from Health Affaire and two students. 3
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