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2 Wednesday, September 18,1996 Employees, students to regain lost holidays BY KERRY OSSI STAFF WRITER The Calendar Committee decided Tuesday to recommend a calendar that will not take away holidays from stu dents and will keep both Fall Break and Thanksgiving Break intact. David Lanier, University registrar and chairman of the Calendar Committee, said the General Administration asked that the committee come up with anew schedule that would keep instructional days off of holidays. University to promote lire safety in buildings BY STEPHANIE M. SHAW STAFF WRITER Members of the Pan University Safety Policy Committee stressed the impor tance of safety education Tuesday morn ing at their first meeting of the fall semes ter. Richard Bolyard, fire and safety of ficer, said the committee had scheduled fire drills for the 1996-97 academic year to promote fire safety in University build ings, including those areas that were with out alarms. “We held six fire safety training ses sssions for Departmental Emergency Co Subcommittee examines climate outside class ■ The committee will hold an open forum in the Student Union on Oct. 8. BY LEAH HANEY STAFF WRITER A subcommittee of the Intellectual Climate Task Force met Tuesday to evalu ate intellectual exchange on campus and to suggest ways to improve the intellec tual climate. The Intellectual Climate Outside the Classroom Subcommittee is one of six subcommittees of the task force Hooker set up in June. Lloyd Kramer, professor of history, is chairman of this subcom mittee. Kramer began the meeting by explain ing the purpose of the committee. He said its goal was to write a six-to-seven Wednesday 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. - cONcEpt (of colon) , will hold fall auditions in Carmichael Ballroom. 3 p.m. t04:30p.m. - The Center for Teac hing and Learning is conducting “Understand ing Different Student Learning Styles.” 3:30 p.m. - The International Center will hold the English Conversation Partners infor mation session in Union 211. 4 p.m. - The Study Abroad Office will hold an information session on programs in Vienna in 209 Manning Hall. Ackland Art Museum presents An Evening of Dance and Commentary with Sally 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 request might have stemmed from controversy that arose when classes were scheduled for Good Friday and Labor Day in order to meet UNC-system Presi dent C.D. Spangler’s new requirement that each semester have 75 instructional days, Lanier said. “Holidays, exam days, Saturdays and Sundays cannot be included in the 75 days of instruction, but I’ve received con firmation from the GA that reading days count,” Lanier said. The committee agreed to keep seven exam days and two reading days at the ordinators, but not every department’s representative was present, ” Bolyard said. Don Willhoit, director of health and safety, said he was concerned that only 74 out of more than 200 coordinators attended the training sessions. “We should conduct more fire drills in those areas that no one attended during fire prevention week to make people aware that we have a fire prevention policy,” Willhoit said. Bolyard said the fire drills that were held during the past three months, along with the training sessions, would serve as models for annual fire safety procedures. During Fire Prevention Week, sched page report of specific ways to create intellectual exchange among students, faculty and staff. This would be com bined with other subcommittee reports Hooker will review in December. “(This project) is not only a project of discus sion, but a project of action,” he said. Intellectual climate for many mem bers involved the exchange of ideas. Miles Fletcher, professor of history, said he enjoyed conversing with his students. “When I think of ideal intellectual life, I think of a student who says ‘I just read a book and want to discuss it,”’ Fletcher said. Sarah Manekin, a junior from Colom bia, Md., said spontaneous discussion with faculty, as well as other students, was essential. She suggested providing opportunities for discussion in a more relaxed atmosphere, like coffee shops and open lounges, than the classroom might encourage this activity. Campus Calendar 4 p.m. - Join us for a memorial service for all students, faculty, and staff who have died during the past year. The service will be held in Memorial Hall. All are welcome to attend. 4 p.m. - The Undergraduate Sociology Club will meet in Union 206. 5 p.m. - The Carolina Powerlifting Club interest and information meeting will be held in Union 213. 5:30 p.m. - The Carolina Association of Black Journalists will meet in the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center. 6 p.m. - The Wesley Foundation will hold 1 'yym \ lIM Wednesday, September 18 Carolina Union Auditorium 7:3opm Free and open to the public! UNIVERSITY end of each semester but decided to split up the reading days. “Why not have a reading day in be tween exams —’ it makes sense,” said Jim Murphey, committee member and dean of summer school at UNC. If Chancellor Michael Hooker ap proves the recommended calendar, one reading day will be scheduled after the last day of classes and a second will be held in the middle of exam week. In order to meet Spangler’s require ment, the committee decided to start classes a half day earlier next fall. Classes uled for Oct. 6 to 12, students will have the opportunity to put out live fires with portable extinguishers to display then knowledge of fire safety, Bolyard said. “I have a list of scheduled fire drills for the next 12 months and hope to schedule more buildings during the fire prevention week," Bolyard said. In addition to the scheduling of fire drills, the fire safety committee has pro posed to develop a fire safety video for student housing, Bolyard said. He said the coed service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega, committed to con duct a service project for fire prevention week as one of their annual disaster ser Della Pollock, professor of communi cations studies and director of the Cul tural Studies Program, said many people saw college as a “credentialing mill,” not as a place to exchange ideas. Wayne Thompson, assistant director of University housing, said students de sired an intellectual climate, but didn’t know how to pursue one.“l think there are many students out there who need to be connected,” Thompson said. Kramer proposed the committee mem bers break into three subcommittees that will evaluate specific aspects of life out side the classroom. The committee also discussed how to obtain input from the University com munity. They plan to hold an open forum Oct. 8 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Student Union They also considered us ing The Daily Tar Heel, WXYC radio station, the Internet and surveys in the Pit to involve the ideas of students. a program, entitled “Which tater are you?” 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. - The Office of the N.C. Fellows & Leadership Development will hold a Leadership Styles Assessment and Interpreta tion seminar in 101 Greenlaw Hall. 7 p.m. - Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. are sponsoring “When a Relationship Goes Wrong,” in Union 226. The seminar will ad dress abusive relationships and signs of abuse. 7 p.m. - The BSM Gospel Choir will present “Showtime at the Apollo Amateur Night,” in 106 Carroll Hall. Tickets are $2. will begin at 12:30 p.m. on Aug. 19 in stead of 8 a.m. on Aug. 20 and will end a day later. “Starting classes at 12:30 is a little weird, but all the testing, evaluating and advising can be finished Tuesday morn ing or spread out over the week,” said Bobbi Owen, associate dean of the Col lege of Arts and Sciences. “But there has to be at least one working day before classes start.” The committee also added three days to the beginning of the Spring semester and one day to the end of the semester. vice projects. Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Elfland, associate vice chancellor for business, said students should be knowl edgeable of all safety policies and proce dures, including the Environmental Pro tection Agency’s stance on hazardous waste training in laboratories. “We should require every lab student to be trained about hazardous waste through classes developed in the College of Arts and Sciences,” Elfland said. She said she spoke with the provost on developing training classes for students to be educated along with trained teach ing assistants. HE9K . HI DTHFILEPHTO Margaret Henderson, seated, works with more than 100 volunteers at the Orange County Rape Crisis Center to help victims of sexual violence and to educate the community about how to prevent sexual violence. RAPE CRISIS FROM PAGE 1 various groups of people on subjects such as date rape, protection and sexual ha rassment. Reynolds said he felt this is a valuable CHAPEL HILL'S BREWERY & RESTAURANT HOURS: /k JQNUUL Uu<S & S)K<U/S oh Ni^kts WdirtsJty Sept. 18... 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Klein said many students were still not aware of the nighttime parking “pack ages” on campus, such as the Bell Tower parking lot, which is now connected to North Campus by a lighting corridor and is on the Point-2-Point shuttle route for nighttime commuters who prefer not to walk from the parking lot. Klein also raised the question of for malizing nighttime parking on campus by issuing nighttime parking permits. Currently, nighttime parking is not regu lated by the University. But several committee members were opposed to the idea of nighttime parking permits. CommitteememberLeeConner, opportunity for anyone. “Everyone ben efits from the experience,” he said. Andrea Kuhn, a junior from Chapel Hill, is also a volunteer. She said she volunteered not only to help those in need, but also to get work experience. Kuhn works as a companion. A com Your one-of-a-kind source for everything you need to know. Watch for our In-Sites at a fir Sally Sor Hprl a student representative, said the logis tics of such a plan would be too complex. “There are so many people whose needs change from night to night, it would be a nightmare to ask (the DTP) to try and distribute permits for all those spaces,” Conner said. But Scroggs said the committee should definitely take some position to improve nighttime parking access for students, faculty and staff in order to make the campus safer. “I’m not going to be part of any group that accepts that it might be too danger ous to come back to campus (at night)," he said. Klein also said the DTP was close to completing several projects that would add about 90 new parking spaces across campus. Anew lot on Columbia Street, in the former location of the Michie Prop erty, would add about 60 spaces, he said. “ Depending on ho w many hurricanes we have, that lot should be completed sometime in the next month,” he said. 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