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Britain wants to kill fewer
cattle due to disease
BRUSSELS, Belgium Britain will
seek to persuade its partners in the Euro
pean Union on Monday to reduce the
number of cattle it must slaughter as part
of a plan to eradicate mad cow disease.
Britain argues the plan to kill 140,000
cowsjudgedat risk from the disease needs
revising after new scientific data indi
cates the ailment will die out anyway
within five years.
The slaughter plan was agreed to by
British Prime Minister John Major and
other EU leaders at a June summit in
Florence, Italy as part of a package de
signed to resolve a mad cow crisis that
had paralyzed EU business.
Beef prices have plummeted across
Europe since March, when British offi
cials linked a fatal human brain illness to
cattle tainted with bovine spongiform
encephalopathy, also known as mad cow
disease.
On Monday, British Agriculture Min
ister Douglas Hogg is to present his argu
ments to EU Farm Commissioner Franz
Fischler and later to ministers from the
other 14EU nations. He will present new
research by Oxford University showing
mad cow disease is declining fast and will
have disappeared by 2001 even without
KITCHEN
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sity Career Services and the Department
of University Housing.
“Dr. Susan Kitchen will bring vast
experience and proven leadership in the
field of student affairs to this vital posi
tion,” Chancellor Michael Hooker stated
in a press release.
“The University already has an im
pressive array of services available to
help students leam and grow, and they
will only get better with Susan at the
helm.”
Kitchenhas worked as vice chancellor
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students have been accepted as full part
ners in the process, ” Dervin said, adding
that he would try to involve as many
students as possible.
BOG Chairman C.C. Cameron, who
headed the nominating committee, said
the committees would accept students’
ideas. “The state legislature elected us,
the BOG, to manage the University
system. We’ve been delegated to select
and elect our chief executive officer.
“It’s sort of like the board of directors
of a company. You don’t consult em
ployees and stockholders before electing
the CEO.”
But Dervin said students were more
than employees or stockholders. “The
university would not exist if not for the
students,’’Dervinsaid. “I think it’s a very
poor decision to have setup this structure
Ackland Art Museum
presents
An Evening of Dance and Commentary
with SaUy Gross
“The stage is a canvas that Sally Gross fills with a few simple, monochromatic brush strokes
that are suddenly revealed as paintings teeming with all the richness of life.”
-The New York Times
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Ketav: Flesh & Word in Israeli Art
the planned slaughter.
Dole asks for backing
from Christian Coalition
WASHINGTON —Republican presi
dential nominee Bob Dole personally
appealed for the backing of the Christian
Coalition Saturday, after the conserva
tive group’s founder said itwould take “a
miracle from Almighty God” for Dole to
win.
Speakers and delegates at the group’s
annual meeting had been expressing dis
illusionment with Dole’s campaign em
phasis on economic issues at the expense
of moral issues.
The appearance came barely more than
an hour after Christian Coalition founder
Pat Robertson told the nearly 4,000 at
tendees:
“I want to say this as clearly as I can:
This campaign for the presidency is far
behind. TVenty-three points is about as
insurmountable an obstacle as I can think
of. In my personal opinion, there’s got to
be a miracle from Almighty God to pull
it out, and that could happen.”
Robertson saidto do that, Dole needed
to put his group’s values agenda front
and center in the campaign. Dole said he
remained optimistic.
Waters to be tainted from
Fran damage for a month
Leaks of untreated sewage, floating
debris and hog waste spills in the wake of
Hurricane Fran will taint rivers and
streams in eastern North Carolina for at
least a month, scientists and state envi
ronmental officials say.
More than 80 wastewater treatment
plants failed during Hurricane Fran,
dumping millions of gallons of raw sew
age into waterways. Most of those rivers
for student affairs, associate dean of stu
dents and vice president for student af
fairs at the University ofMaryland Balti
more County.
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation President Katherine Kraft said
she was particularly pleased with
Kitchen’sexperience working with gradu
ate students at UMBC.
“She has experience with a nontradi
tional student population,” Kraft said.
“Kitchen is an ideal individual in that she
is already aware of the distinct needs of
graduate and professional students.”
Kraft said she was impressed with the
diversity of Kitchen’s previous experi-
and only formally include one student.
“This is a board that has tried to avoid
controversy. They have effectively
stopped controversy by eliminating stu
dents.”
The leadership statement committee
includes Dervin, four chancellors, three
professors, eight at-large citizens and four
BOG members. N.C. Central University
Chancellor Julius Chambers will serve as
co-chair with BOG members Helen
Marvin and John Garwood.
The leadership statement committee
will hold six public meetings around the
state to decide what qualities the new
president should have.
The screening committee will evalu
ate the applications and nominations.
Thesearch committee will select the final
contender to be approved by the full
BOG. BOG members comprise these
committees exclusively.
Cameron persuaded Jim Holshouser
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Wednesday, September 18
Carolina Union Auditorium
7:3opm
Free and open to the public!
STATE & NATIONAL
and streams flow into the Cape Fear
River past Wilmington and down to the
sea. Three hog farms were flooded or
spilled waste, officials say.
In short, rivers and streams are a mess.
The state health director is warning
people to avoid contact with streams
because of the disease threat from spilled
human and animal waste.
“This is not a time to go swimming in
rivers or lakes,” said health director Ron
Levine. “There’s a lot of potential for
kids or workers to come in contact with
sewage.”
Miss Kansas takes 1997
Miss America crown
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.—Miss Kan
sas Tara Dawn Holland was crowned
Miss America on Saturday night in a
nationally televised ceremony in which
viewers got to help select the winner.
For the first time, viewers could call in
and vote on which of the 10 semifinalists
they liked to narrow the field to five
finalists. The final decision on the winner
was solely up to the seven celebrity judges.
When the name of first runner-up Miss
Louisiana Erika Schwarz was called,
Holland’s jaw dropped in disbelief.
She’s the third Miss Kansas to win the
crown. A 1994 music education gradu
ate of Florida State University, she is a
graduate student at the University of
Missouri at Kansas City. She hopes to
teach music some day.
Holland’s platform the issue she
will speak on is illiteracy prevention.
The call-in poll was the latest innova
tion for the contest. The viewers, in ef
fect, sat as the eighth judge in picking the
finalists. Theircollective votes were added
to those of the seven celebrity judges,
who picked the winner.
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ence.
Kitchen also has experience directing
the Educational Information Center for
the Malaysian-American Commission on
Education Exchange, which advises
Malaysians about educational opportu
nities at U.S. colleges arid universities.
Kitchen also has worked on various
projects concerning personnel and na
tional issues. She was also co-chair
woman of the American College Person
nel Association, wrote professional ar
ticles and made presentations worldwide
on controlling health services costs, free
speech, women’s issues, racial aware
ness and training residence hall staff.
to chair the search committee and over
see the other committees, after “a little
bit of arm-twisting.” Cameron said
Holshouser, a former N.C. governor, was
the logical choice because he was well
respected in North Carolina.
Holshouser said he was initially reluc
tant to take on the job. “I know it’s an
important task, and it’s just a matter of
getting it off on the right foot by choosing
someone where there was a little bit of
consensus,” he said.
Finding a candidate who can mesh
well with the University system is impor
tant, he said. He also emphasized the
need to keep candidates’ names secret.
“Getting the best person depends on con
fidentiality,” Holshouser said.
Cameron agreed. “That is one thing
that concerns me about having so many
people involved in this process," he said.
“I don’t know how successful we’ll be
about keeping names confidential."
Opportunity knocks in Peace Corps
■ More than 600 UNC
graduates have served in
the Peace Corps.
BY WILL GARVIN
STAFF WRITER
On Nov. 7, UNC students will have
an opportunity to follow in the footsteps
of more than 600 UNC graduates who
have joined the Peace Corps.
Alex Cutter, a Peace Corps regional
recruiter, said he would be bringing with
him the chance of a lifetime when he
comes to UNC.
“It was definitely the best thing I ever
did.” Cutter said in reference to his ser
vice in Guatemala for the Peace Corps.
“This is an organization that allows you
to integrate yourself totally into another
culture. I don’t know of any other organi
zation that offers that.”
Currently 41 ofthe 6,633 volunteers in
the Peace Corps are UNC alumni, and
over its history the program has had
more than 600 UNC graduates in its
ranks.
“I think that UNC has a lot of great
community service organizations that
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wasn’t possible to tell applicants about
the grant. The application deadline was
Jan. 31, and the school was still writing a
proposal for the grant during the sum
mer. She added that there was never any
intention to slight second-year students.
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give people a lot of opportunities to vol
unteer.” Cutter said. “It’s this volunteer
spirit that make UNC alumni great mem
bos of the Peace Corps.”
One of those 600 graduates that went
into the Peace Corps was Judith Bemdt-
Johnson. After she gained her bachelor’s
degree from UNC, she served in Jamaica
as a community nutritionalist.
“It was a great experience. It helped
me realize how wide die world really is, ”
Bemdt-Johnsonsaid. “Itdefinitelyhelped
me utilize the knowledge that I gained
during college.”
Bemdt-Johnson said the skills that she
learned in the Peace Corps carried over
to her job as project director of a maternal
child program in South Bend, Ind. “The
challenges are lot different but the Peace
Cotps gave me the resilience and the self
esteem to handle them."
Since President John Kennedy cre
ated the Peace Corps on March 1,1961,
145,000 volunteers have served in 131
different countries doing a variety oftasks.
The Peace Corps’ main goals have been
to help countries educate people, so they
can meet the needs of their local commu
nities, and to help facilitate the under
standing of both foreign and American
cultures.
The graduate students plan to meet
this week to discuss ways to raise funds
for current students. The school has of
fered to help with fund-raisers, and some
faculty have said they would kick in.
Greg Makris, who heads the journal
ism school’s Graduate Student Associa
tion, said the administration had been
responsive. ‘Tmconvincedouradminis
Monday, September 16,1996
In 35 years, 2.5 million acres of crop
land has become more productive, five
million people have leamedEnglish, and
14 million people ha ve gained better sani
tation and health programs.
Peace Corps volunteers say the expe
rience gave them an invaluable educa
tion. “You’re being offered the ability to
get a hands-on experience at a much
higher level than you would in the states, ”
said Felisa Neuringer, a public affairs
specialist for the Peace Corps Recruiting
Office.
“For example, if you graduated as an
English major, we might put you over in
Tawain. There you’ll be teaching En
glish to your students. You’ll be the one
in charge. You’re given a lot more re
sponsibility at a young age.”
Some other advantages of the Peace
Corps are that it helps volunteers gain a
complete understanding of a country’s
language and culture. “You’re going to
bring back a cultural experience that could
give you an edge in the business,” said
Neuringer.
Cutter said, “If you don’t know what
you want to do when you graduate and
you know you don’t want to wait on
tables, then the Peace Corps is a great
route to go.”
tration will be receptive to meeting with
us and seeing if there’s anything that can
be done,” he said. “I sympathize with the
students, and what I would love to see is
a happy, harmonious resolution.”
Nowak said a resolution can’t come
soon enough. “(The controversy) is caus
ing alot ofproblems and bitterness among
students, which is distracting.”
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