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CAROLINA SAM.
to hold interest meeting
CAROLINA Safety, Awareness, First
Aid and Emergency Care will hold its
first general interest meeting at 6 p.m.
Thursday in Union 208.
CAROLINA S.A.F.E. is a student
run service organization that strives to
enhance the general emergency response
level of the University community by
increasing accessibility of CPR and first
aid training programs offered by the Or
ange County Chapter of the American
Red Cross.
The organization is currently looking
for energetic individuals to train to be
come certified instructors, student lead
ers to set up CPR and first aid courses
with their organizations, CPR and first
aid course participants, and students in
terested in an executive role with CARO
LINA S.A.F.E.
Applications and details will be
handled at the general interest meeting.
Questions can be directed to the CARO
LINA S.A.F.E. office in Union 215 E,
Suite A. Students can also call the office
at 962-CPRI (2771) or contact CARO
LINA S.A.F.E. President May-Sung Li
at 933-3182.
Ackland Art Museum
honors volunteer service
The Ackland Art Museum has
awarded its most prestigious volunteer
honor to Kirsten Mullen of Durham and
Sandra Page of Chapel Hill.
Mullen and Page received the
museum’s Rani Gallagher Award. The
award recognizes extraordinary volun
teer service and is given only when super
lative service demands it.
Mullen, a writer and historian, has
been instrumental in building a more
culturally diverse corps of volunteer gal
lery teachers, or docents. She was one of
the first blacks to join the Ackland do
cents, and has encouraged and recruited
other people of color to follow suit.
Page has led a team to design a special
ized teacher workshop on art and lan
guage development for kindergarten
through second grade, and she has served
as the primary school liaison and lead
gallery teacher for three multiple-visit
classes from Seawell Elementary School.
The Gallagher Award is named for its
first recipient, who was honored in 1993
for extraordinary contributions as a do
cent and special events volunteer.
Gallagher lives in Chapel Hill and con
tinues to serve on the Ackland Guild
board of directors and the museum’s vis
iting committee.
Water Tower Lot to be
temporarily closed
A portion of the Water Tower Lot (N7
Zone) will be temporarily closed so the
Orange Water and Sewer Authority can
dismantle the water tower in that parking
area. Motorists who normally park in the
lot will be notified of alternative parking
during the project. Construction is sched
uled for Sept. 1 through Sept. 8.
For more information on the project
itself, call OWASA at 968-4421.
Center to offer conflict
resolution workshops
The Dispute Settlement Center of
Carrboro will offer a conflict resolution
skills training on Saturday, Sept. 7 at the
center located at 302 Weaver St.
The workshop will give participants a
chance to learn how to use conflict as a
creative opportunity, ways to defuse an
ger, problem solving skills, relaxation
techniques and effective communication
skills.
There is a fee for the workshop, and
participants must pre-register by calling
929-8800.
Chapel Hill library seeks
English language tutors
The Orange County Public Library is
seeking volunteers to staff their English
as a Second Language program. Tutors
do not need to be bilingual. The library
will offer free training to those who wish
to tutor on Saturday Sept. 14 from 9 a.m.
until 1 p.m. at the Chapel Hill Public
Library.
For more information on becoming a
volunteer or receiving training, call the
ESL Coordinator at 644-3011, ext. 2533.
Center sponsors support
group for victims
The Orange County Rape Crisis Cen
ter is hosting two support groups. The
first group will aid female survivors of
incest and child sexual abuse.
This group will meet for 10 weeks
beginning Sept. 22. The second group
will be for both male and female survi
vors of adult rape or sexual assault. The
group will meet on Monday evenings
from Sept. 24 to Dec. 3.
Both support groups are free and con
fidential. They will be led by trained
facilitators. Pre-registration is required.
For more information or to register, call
Rochelle at the Rape Crisis Center at
968-4647.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
CAA alters ticket distribution policy
BY JIM NICKS
STAFF WRITER
Die-hard Tar Heel fans will no longer
have to pitch camp outside the Smith
Center for basketball tickets, said Seth
Nore, president of the Carolina Athletic
Association.
Nore said an advisory board formed
last spring helped him make the decision
to change the way basketball tickets were
distributed. Under the new system, stu
dents cannot camp out the night prior to
ticket distribution to get better seats.
Nore said students who show up be
fore noon on the day of distribution will
OWASA to raze old,
build new water tower
BY MEEGANP. SMITH
STAFF WRITER
After 71 years of service to the town of
Chapel Hill, one of the most trusted fig
ures of the Orange Water and Sewer
Authority is being retired.
The Wilson Court Water Tower has
stood at the comer of Cameron Avenue
and Old Hillsborough Road through the
Great Depression, major wars and men
walking on the moon. It’s also aided fire
fighters in fighting blazes at Hector’s res
taurant in 1991, the Intimate Bookshop
in 1992 and the Phi Gamma Delta frater
nity house on May 12.
But despite its service to campus resi
dences and commercial buildings,
OWASA Superintendent Doug Terry
said the tower “has lived beyond its use
fulness.”
OWASA announced plans to close
the water tower at its current site and
construct a larger facility in the Hilltop
area near McCauley Street. Destruction
of the tank will begin on Sept. 3. The
replacement tank will open in 1997.
The decision to tear down the tank
was made when the company learned
that damage to the old water tank could
not be repaired and the growing needs of
the community justified anew plant.
After the tank was struck by hghtning
nearly 10 years ago, water began to leak
from it. Various structural problems
Officials say rabies cases
escalating at epidemic rate
BY JEFF YOUNG
STAFF WRITER
A rabies epizootic, the animal
kingdom’s answer to an epidemic, has
hit North Carolina.
Lee Hunter, the North Carolina Pub
lic Health veterinarian, said rabies has
struck various wild animals in increasing
numbers in the last three years.
This year an east coast rabies outbreak
which had been migrating south from
Maine and north from Florida finally
reached North Carolina borders, he said.
Another outbreak, predominantly
among skunks in the northwest comer of
the state, further contributed to this
season’s number of rabies cases and the
number of counties reporting cases. Both
of these eclipsed 1995 totals.
The North Carolina Office of Envi
ronmental Health reported 466 cases of
rabies in 1995. This year 532 cases were
reported through Aug. 23, compared with
327 for the same period in 1995.
The raccoon is most often responsible
for transmitting rabies in this area. The
migrating strain of rabies is more apt to
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Alison Carpenter, a freshman from Charlotte, studies away the day under a tree next to the Campus Y. Many
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just be wasting their time.
“With the new system, we feel that
ticket distribution will be fairer and safer
to all students who wish to attend games, ”
he said.
At noon, CAA and Smith Center offi
cials will distribute numbers to all stu
dents in line. Students have until 2 p.m.
to get a number. CAA will draw a num
ber randomly from the total numbers
given out and will begin distributing tick
ets from that number up. “For example,
if you have number 499, and we draw
number 500 as the first number, you will
be the last person to get a ticket,” Nore
said.
caused by the hghtning, along with ag
ing, caused damage that alerted OWASA
to the need for anew plant.
OWASA officials continue to pre
pare plans for the replacement tank. Linda
Faulkner-Vaughn, director of Customer
and Community Affairs for OWASA,
said 17 acres of land had been purchased
behind the power plant near Carrboro.
She said the company was in the process
of getting final approval from the com
munity and will appear before the Chapel
Hill Town Council Appearance Com
mission in the near future.
In compliance with town require
ments, all property owners within 1,000
feet of the new storage tank have been
notified and town meetings have been
scheduled in efforts to alert the commu
nity and seek approval from the Com
mission.
On Aug. 21 the first neighborhood
meeting for property owners was held,
and the largest concern among those in
attendance was the color of the tank.
Faulkner-Vaughn said OWASA “wanted
them to be involved in this” and the
preferred color was a dark, grey-blue base
gradually getting lighter as the building
got taller. The council will make the final
decision on the color of the tank.
Although the new storage tank will
not be completed until 1997, town citi
zens are guaranteed the same water ser
vice throughout the change.
appear in raccoons than other wild ani
mals, but it can infect virtually any warm
blooded animal, said Ben Weigler, a vet
erinarian at N.C. State University.
“Squirrels and other rodents almost
never transmit rabies due to their small
size and early demise,” Weigler said.
Rabies can be transmitted to humans
through contact with a rabid animal. As
the number of infected wild animals in
creases, so does the potential for human
and domestic animal transmission.
Humans infected with rabies might
not show symptoms for a varying amount
of time. This fact makes immediate treat
ment of any bite from a possibly infected
animal absolutely essential, Weigler said.
“All rabies strains are virulent when
introduced to a human host,” Weigler
said. “In cases where humans are in
fected and do not receive treatment, death
is imminent.”
The last reported rabies death inNorth
Carolina wasin 1953. “Public awareness
and more stringent rabies vaccine laws
have kept the number of domestic animal
cases, thus the number of human cases,
minimal,” Hunter said.
Nore said the tickets would be distrib
uted in the order of best seats to worst.
Nore said the change was made for
three reasons. “Our first and primary
reason was that we did not want students
missing class so that they could get tick
ets to a basketball game,” Nore said.
Nore said there were also concerns
about the students’ safety when camping
out and about the fairest way to get tick
ets to students.
“If you’ve got 2,ooopeople in an over
night camping situation, something is
bound to happen,” Nore said.
Nore also said some students, such as
working students or students with fami
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The 71-year-old Wilson Court Water Tower, now suffering from leaks
and structural damage, will be demolished Sept. 3.
Where the rabid things are
North Carolina is experiencing a rabies epizootic, an animal epidemic. The counties are shaded according to how many
rabies cases have been reported there this year.
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John Sauls, Orange County Animal
Control officer, reported only two cases
ofrabies,both in raccoons, so far in 1996.
“Knowing what to do to avoid contact
with an infected animal, and the steps to
take in case of exposure are the most
important thing,” Sauls said. He offered
lies, did not have the time to camp out for
a basketball game. Nore said in previous
years these students were at a disadvan
tage in ticket distribution and this method
wastheonly way tobe fairto all students.
Nore said the majority of students
seemed to like the new policy, but many
still have doubts about the new method.
“It takes all the fun out of something
thatwascool,” said Donald Fleischman,
a sophomore from High Point.
J.B. Baker, a sophomore from Ra
leigh, said students were losing some
thing with the new distribution mehtod.
“It destroys the tradition of camping, ”
Baker said. “It serves no purpose.”
steps to protect you and your pet:
■ Avoid all wild animals and strays,
even cute kittens
■ Maintain your pet’s rabies certifica
tion; the tag will not suffice
■ Keep your pets secured at night when
raccoons are active
Former professor slapped
with fine for travel scam
■ James Williams was
charged with obtaining
property by false pretense.
STAFF REPORT
Following his forced resignation last
year, the State Bureau of Investigation
charged former Professor James Will
iams with felony charges of obtaining
property by false pretense.
Under state law the University was
forced to notify the SBI about Williams’
activity because it involved the misuse of
state property.
In a plea bargain, Williams agreed to
plead guilty to a misdemeanor, obtaining
property under the pretense of doing
work. Williams was ordered in District
Court to pay UNC restitution, pay a SSO
fine and pay court costs.
The charges against Williams came
after he requested a travel advance from
UNC for $127.44 for a two-night hotel
stay in Charleston, S.C., where he at
tended a conference at the College of
Wednesday, August 28,1996
Caucus
to aim for
diversity
■ The Women’s Caucus
wants more students to help
plan the Women’s Center.
BY MARVA HINTON
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Deciding how to select a diverse group
of students to serve as representatives on
the Advisory Board on Women’s Issues
dominated the first fall meeting of the
Women’s Caucus.
Ginger Norwood, a senior member of
the Coalition for Economic Justice, said
having a diverse group of students on the
Board would improve the proposed
women’s center.
“If the process isn’t inclusive, the cen
ter won’t be,” Norwood said.
The Advisory Board on Women’s Is
sues was created last semester at the
recommendation of the Chancellor’s
Task Force on Women. The first task of
the board will be to create the proposed
women’s center.
Members of the caucus are working
on drafting an application for students
interested in serving on the Board.
The Women’s Caucus, which was
formed last semester, is an informal group
of women concerned about the proposed
women’s center.
At their first two meetings, held dur
ing the spring semester, caucus members
said they were concerned by the lack of
diversity in their group.
Marion Traub-Wemer, a sophomore
and co-chairwoman of the Women’s Is
sues Network, said informing a diverse
group of students about the activities of
the caucus was important.
“We had two caucus meetings in the
spring, and the only people who really
loiow now are active feminists on cam
pus,” Traub-Wemer said. “Is this really
what we want? How do we reach out to
a broader audience?”
tyrell haberkom, a WIN member and
a women’s studies major, said another
purpose of the meeting was for the group
to get an update on what the Board did
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■ Feed pets indoors
■ Be sure to secure any outdoor trash
If you are exposed to rabies through a
bite or scratch from a strange animal,
wash the wound with warm water, con
fine the animal, call your doctor and
contact your local animal control officer.
Charleston. Williams was accompanied
on the trip by Ako Shimada, a former
UNC student who is now his wife.
However, the college paid for Will
iams’ hotel bill because he was partici
pating as a panelist at the conference.
The University should have been
charged only for Williams’ transporta
tion and food charges. Previously, Will
iams had maintained that UNC was us
ing a clerical error in a travel expense
report as an excuse to get rid of him and
end an embarrassing scandal.
Williams was forced to resign by Chan
cellor Michael Hooker after it was re
vealed that he had had sexual relations
with students, in many cases in his office
in the Department of English.
The University also reprimanded Wil
liams for paying Shimada $2,400 from an
institutional trust fund. Williams was
directing the fund that was dispersed on
the authority of the English department.
University policy forbids amorous re
lationships between professors and stu
dents when the instructor can exercise
any bnd of authority over the student.
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