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Monday, September 23,1996
Yom Kippur time to reflect, ask forgiveness
BYSALLIELACY
STAFF WRITER
The observance of Yom Kippur, one
of Judaism’s holiest days of the year,
began Sunday at sundown with fasting
and asking for forgiveness of sins.
“Yom Kippur is what is called the day
of atonement,” said Mike Scheinberg,
program director of the N.C. Hillel, a
Jewish resource center in Chapel Hill.
“According to Jewish tradition, it is one
of the holiest days if not the holiest.”
It is a day of self-reflection to ask God
and other people for forgiveness of sins,
he said.
The Sabbath, which is the weekly day
of worship, is really the most important
day, according to Rabbi John Friedman
of the Judea Reform Congregation in
Durham. However, Yom Kippur often
turns out to be the most sacred day.
UNC presents town officials with new Carolina blue fire truck
BY RACHEL SWAIN
STAFF WRITER
The UNC football team wasn’t the
only winner in Saturday’s game at Kenan
Stadium.
Chapel Hill residents and UNC stu
dents got their first look at the newest
addition to the Chapel Hill Fire
Department’s fleet before UNC’s victory
over Georgia Tech.
Chancellor Michael Hooker and
Carmen Hooker-Buell presented anew
Carolina blue fire truck to Chapel Hill
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Graduate student Michael Kaylor's
father died last spring after a long
bout with lung cancer.
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Beginning at 12 noon on designated “Distribution Sundays”, students may begin to line up outside of the Smith Center at Entry B. Numbers will be given
out, in sequential order, to students that arrive injure after 12 noon and before 2pm. Each person will receive only one number. With that number, you may pick
up your own ticket and one other Carolina student’s ticket by presenting your student ID along with the other student’s ID. A designated official will cut the line
off when it is 2pm. After this time no one will be allowed in the initial distribution line. After each person in line by 2pm receives their number, a random number
will be drawn from those numbers distributed. The tickets will be distributed, from best to worst according to section, beginning with the student in possession of
the random number drawn. Distribution will continue from that random number until all students
in line by 2pm receive tickets or until no tickets remain.
For example:
If 1000 numbers were given out and the random number drawn is #2OO, then the student in
possession of #2OO is the first person to receive tickets and will, therefore, receive the best
ticket(s). Accordingly, the person holding #2Ol will receive the next best ticket(s), the person
with #202 the next best, and so on. Following this same sequence, the person holding #1 will
follow the person holding #IOOO. Therefore, the person with #199 is the last person in line to
receive his/her ticket(s).
Students arriving after 2pm will NOT RECEIVE TICKETS until all students arriving in
line before 2pm receive their tickets. Numbers will be given out, in sequential order, to these
students that arrive after 2pm. Any remaining tickets after the initial distribution will be given out
from best to worst according to section. Distribution will continue until all students in line
receive tickets or until no tickets remain.
Any remaining tickets may be picked up from Bam-spm the following Monday and Tuesday
at the Smith Center Ticket Office as long as supplies last. Any tickets not claimed after this
time will be sold to the public.
It is a time to
“make peace with
those who angered
you and those you
angered,” Fried
man said.
The observance
of Yom Kippur
takes place lOdays
after Rosh
Hashanah, the
Jewish new year.
Yom Kippur
Services
Today.
Traditional Services:
Union 224,
9am
Liberal Services:
Union 208/209,
10:30 am
“A myth tells us that on Rosh
Hashanah God opens a book and writes
your name in it," Friedman said.
You have 10 days to forgive people if
needed, Friedman said. On Yom Kippur
if you have made peace, then God for
gives you.
The idea is to start the year by cleans
ing the soul, Friedman said.
Yom Kippur lasts until sundown to-
Mayor Rosemary Waldorf and Chapel
Hill Town Council member Pat Evans.
The new truck, acquired in a joint effort
between the University, UNC Hospitals
and the town, will be in service in about
two weeks, said Fire Captain Eric Upton.
“(The truck) shows the cooperation
between the University and the town,”
Evans said. For the past three years both
the University and UNC Hospitals bud
geted about $50,000 per year toward the
purchase ofthe more than s3oo,oootruck.
Evans and former Mayor Ken Broun
were the catalysts behind the donation of
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call my sister in Charlotte, I don’t really
want to know the full detail, I still don’t
want to face this,” she said.
According to Erica Wise, a clinical
psychologist and directorofStudent Psy
chological Services, the best resources
for students facing a parent’s illness are
friends and family.
But some students won’t know how to
ask for help.
“In college years, many students have
not experienced a death or illness in fam
ily,” Wise said.
“I think it can be difficult to tell other
people. Most often, they would want to
talk to a friend or an aunt or uncle,” she
said.
With the death of his father in March,
graduate student Michael Kaylor of
Burlington, N.J., faced isolation, loss of
concentration and feelings of .guilt.
Being far from home only made those
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day. There are several customs and laws
that participants honor.
A 25-hour fast prohibits consumption
of food or water, except for taking medi
cine or for health reasons. It lasts for 25
hours to ensure that the entire day is
observed, Scheinberg said.
“You try not to indulge yourself,"
Friedman said. “I feel that depriving
myself is a way of atonement, a way of
turning my life around.”
Leather shoes should not be worn as a
sign of humility before God, and many
people wear white to be before God,
Scheinberg said.
The first and second days of Yom
Kippur are usually spent in services at the
synagogue. Being away from distrac
tions gives a good sense of reflection,
Scheinberg said.
Whether people Mow these tradi
tions closely often depends on their de
the truck. They pointed out to University
officials the costs the town was swallow
ing in order to provide fire protection to
the University and UNC Hospitals. The
state was providing $296,000 for the job,
creating a $304,000 deficit between state
funds and the actual cost of protection,
Evans said.
Evans said when she discussed the
issue with University administrators she
left all options open. “I told them, ‘lf
you’d like to give us a fire truck we’d even
paint it Carolina blue,”’ Evans said.
Three years later, Evans and the town
feelings more intense.
William Kaylor, 53, suffered from lung
cancer for more than three years and had
to undergo intensive chemotherapy.
He finally had his lung removed in
July 1995.
“When I went back to school in Au
gust 1995,1 felt like I was running from
helping him,” said Kaylor, who is pursu
ing his master’s in journalism.
“Every time I saw a red blink on my
recording machine, it was really hard to
focus.”
Kaylor left Burlington, N.J., in late
February; he was confident inhis father’s
recovery.
Only 10 days and 10 hours later, his
brother left the message that his father
had died.
“At first, I dealt with it by keeping it
inside,” Kaylor said.
“ Sometimes you think the world is the
enemyandnotthecancer,”hesaid. “You
blame other people when the cancer is
the enemy.”
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nomination. Conservative Jews tend to
follow tradition more closely and use
more Hebrew in their services. Reform
Jews use more English and apply tradi
tions to modem times.
Allisonßubenstein, a seniorfromNew
Orleans, is a Reform Jew who only goes
to temple two days a year on Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Yom Kip
pur is a family tradition for the
Rubensteins. She said her family does
fast. “You fast to remember the sins
you’ve committed and repent, ” she said.
Matt Mesmer, a senior from
Northport, N.Y., will be missing classes
in observance of the day.
Mesmer is a Conservative Jew, but he
said the traditions that people follow
mostly depends on their family.
“Some people won’t fast,” he said. “It
depends on how your parents brought
you up.”
have their Carolina blue fire truck. “I
hope this is the first in a fleet of Carolina
blue fire trucks,” she said.
Upton said the new fire truck is a
needed addition to the department’s fleet.
The truck holds will be used to respond
to all regular calls.
The new blue truck is equipped with
several important features, such as air
conditioning and a M intercom system,
that are not on any ofthefire department’s
other trucks, Upton said. He said the
truck’s air conditioning was critical for
fire fighters in the summer heat.
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and survey administrator. “I believe if
students saw there were alternatives (to
drugs and alcohol), they might choose
another course of action.”
Pam Conover, chairwoman of the
Chancellor’s Task Force on Intellectual
Climate, said Sunday several commit
tees were studying the atmosphere on
campus. “Ithinkweunderstandtheprob
lem is complex and a number of different
problems contribute to it”
Monday
3:15 p.m. - The University Counseling
Center in Nash Hall will conduct a career
clinic to help students develop a plan of action
for choosing a major or career.
3:30 p.m. - University Career Services
will conduct the Job Hunt 101 Orientation for
seniors/graduate students in 210 Hanes Hall.
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Dance marathon draws
few for hurricane relief
■ The Macarena marathon
raised close to S4OO for the
American Red Cross.
BY MEGHAN MURPHY
STAFF WRITER
A Chapel Hill bar’s entertainment di
rector said he wanted to smash a vinyl
recording of that never-ending dance hit,
the “Macarena,” into 200 pieces Satur
day night to celebrate the ending of a
Macarena marathon.
Brian McGuire would have only
needed to divide the record into about
nine pieces, one for each of the people
who danced in the Macarena Marathon.
Instead of the expected 200 partici
pants, nine people danced Saturday in
the Macarena Marathon from 7 p.m. to 9
p.m. at Rosemary Street’s Cheap Shots.
The Marathon was expected to raise
SI,OOO for the American Red Cross Hur
ricane Relief Fund.
McGuire said he raised around S3BO
instead of the expected SI,OOO. “I’m not
disappointed that we didn’traise $1,000,”
McGuire said. “I’m disappointed that
there weren’t enough people who cared. ”
McGuire said he had wanted UNC
students and Orange County residents to
ask individuals, businesses and student
organizations to pledge money for how
ever long they could dance the Macarena.
Although individuals and one soror
ity, Kappa Delta, pledged amounts total
The survey, developed by the Core
Institute at Southern Illinois University,
also reported 30 percent of respondents
had smoked marijuana in the past year
while 17 percent had smoked it within 30
days prior to filling out the survey.
The survey also indicates alcohol has
caused negative consequences in the re
spondents’ everyday lives. Drinking or
drug use was involved in trouble with the
police, fighting, driving under the influ
ence or vandalism from 28 percent of the
respondents. Twenty-one percent of re
spondents reported suicidal thoughts,
Campus Calendar
4 p.m. - The Study Abroad Office will hold
an information session on programs in St.
Andrews, Scotland in 207 H Caldwell Hall.
4 p.m. - There will be an International
Festival Planning Committee meeting in
Union 220. All are welcome and encouraged
to come help organize.
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INFORMATIONAL MEETING
Wednesday, September 25,1996
3:30-s:3opm
Toy Lounge, 4th floor Dcy Hall, UNC-CH Campus
for directions, caU (919) 962-0154
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ing $ 130, McGuire said more individuals
and organizations could have pledged.
“The potential was there, ” he said. “If
every student on the campus gave one
dollar that’s $30,000 that could have
been raised for the Red Cross,” he said.
McGuire said he thought participa
tion was lower than expected because he
started publicizing the event less than a
week before. He also said some busi
nesses and student organizations refused
to support the fund-raiser because it was
held at a bar.
Bob Lockwood, the executive direc
tor of the Orange County Chapter ofßed
Cross, said despite the low turnout he
was grateful for any money at all.
“We still need the money and we still
need to pay the bills we’re writing checks
on,” he said.
Macarena dancer Christine Nicolette,
a senior from Greensboro, said she had
expected a much larger turnout. “It’s
very unfortunate that people didn’t take
advantage of such an easy way to raise
funds for a worthy cause,” she said.
McGuire said he might try enlisting
the help ofNelson and student organiza
tions to hold a Macarena Marathon in
the Pit two weeks to three weeks from
now, but he said he accomplished his
task of raising funds.
“I’m not satisfied with the fact people
didn’t show up,” he said. “I said we’re
going to raise money tonight for the
American Red Cross and come hell or
high water, I am going to raise money.
And I did.”
injury, sexual assault or other serious
problems because of alcohol or drugs.
Conover said committees were con
sidering a range of alternatives, such as
studying campus programming and the
effects of fraternity and sorority rushes to
see how alcohol affects the social cli
mate . The committees would recommend
solutions that might include providing
more nonalcoholic activities in which
students can participate, she said.
“It has to do with how you socialize
students,” Connover said. “It has to do
with valuing a different kind of life.”
book, “Diary of a Survivor Nineteen Years in
aCuban Women’s Prison,” inUnion2ll-212.
7:30 p.m. - The Students for the Advance
ment of Race Relations will hold its second
interest meeting in the Campus Y basement.
Join us to discuss, debate issues, and plan for
SARR's most significant year ever in trans
• forming the quality of racial interaction on this
campus.