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Tickets for Alice Walter
appearance en sale today
Tickets for Pulitzer Prize-winning au
thor Alice Walker’s Oct. 29 appearance
at Memorial Hall will go on sale today in
the Union Ticket Office beginning at 10
a.m. Tickets will be sold exclusively to
UNC students, faculty and staff until
Oct. 7, when they will be made available
to the general public.
Prices are sl2 for faculty and staff and
$5 for students. The UNC ONE Card is
required to purchase tickets.
Faculty inducted into arts
and sciences academy
Mauriceßrookhart, William R. Kenan
Jr. professor of chemistry; Gerhard
Weinberg, William R. Kenan Jr. profes
sor of history; and Robert Ivey, visiting
professor in the Department of Anthro
pology, will be among the 159 inductees
to the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences Oct. 3 in Cambridge, Mass.
The Academy was founded in 1780.
For more than two centuries, the Acad
emy has brought together America’s lead
ing figures from universities,government,
business and the creative arts to exchange
ideas and promote knowledge for the
public interest.
Betts' novel honored by
library association
The Southeastern Library Association
chose Doris Betts’ “Souls Raised from
the Dead” as their 1996 fiction award
winner.
Betts will accept the award at the
association’s annual meeting 0ct.24 in
Lexington, Ky.
“Souls from the Dead,” released in
1994, tells the story of a Southern family
trying to deal with the slow death of their
beloved 13-year-old daughter.
University Women's Club
Fall Tea set for Oct. €
The University Women’s Club will
host its annual Fall Tea at the Quail Hill
home ofChancellorMichaelHooker and
his wife, Carmen, Oct. 6 from 2 p.m. to 4
p.m.
Attendees should park their cars at
UNC General Administration; a shuttle
bus willbe running to theHooker’shome.
Chemistry professor
tapped for national award
Richard Buck, professor of chemistry,
will receive the Outstanding Achieve
ment Award for the Sensor Division of
the Electrochemical Society Inc. on Oct.
8 at a ceremony in San Antonio, Texas.
The award carries a SSOO stipend.
Buck will receive the award for his
research to help foster a better under
standing of ion sensors.
InworkfundedbytheWhitakerFoun
dation, Buck focused on sensors aimed at
cutting costs by making blood analysis a
process patients can do themselves.
Buck is also working on a sensor that
will help pregnant women test for a bac
teria that would cause a premature birth.
Newman Artists Series
host'galaxy of concerts'
The fourth annual William S.
Newman Artists series will open Oct. 5 at
8 p.m. in Hill Hall featuring a perfor
mance by internationally recognized so
prano Phyllis Bryn-Julson’s program
“Schumann to Ives and Then Some,”
accompanied by Michael Zenge in the
Department of Music.
The series continues through March
23.
Season tickets for the general public
are S7O, with a $lO discount for senior
citizens. Student season tickets are S3O.
Individual tickets are $ 12 for the general
public, $lO for senior citizens and $5 for
students.
Women's Center to host
computer introduction
The Women’s Center will sponsor a
second 3-part computer introduction
class. The classes will be held on Satur
days from Oct. 5-19 from 10 a.m. to
12:30 p.m.
Word processing, DOS and Windows
will be covered as well as an introduction
to formatting and importing texts. For
more information, contact Ihe center at
968-4610
Department to sponsor
horseback riding outing
The Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation
Department will sponsor horseback
riding in Umstead State Park on Oct. 15
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Participants should meet at the Chapel
Hill Community Center on South Estes
Road. The ride will last for about one
hour.
The fee is s2l for residents and $24 for
nonresidents.
Die deadline to register is Oct. 8. For
more information, call the department at
968-2784. schedule of readings the store
will offer, call 542-3030.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Six seats filled in Student Congress election
BY JOHN SWEENEY
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Six of the eight vacant Student Congress seats
were tentatively decided in Tuesday’s special
election, but an ambiguity in the Student Code
leaves at least one of those seats in question.
About2oostudents turned out to vote, slightly
more than Elections Board Chairwoman Angie
Dicks expected.
“Turnout was very good, considering it was a
special election,” Dicks said.
Dicks attributed the high turnout to good
campaigning on the part of candidates, publicity
and “voter enthusiasm.”
ButDickssaidresults were tentative. Winners
have until today at 5 p.m. to turn in financial
statements for their campaigns or they will be
disqualified.
Election results were unveiled about 11 p.m.
Tuesday, but questions arose almost immediately
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Chancellor Michael Hooker and Coach Mack Brown present the game ball from UNC's Sept. 7 football game against Syracuse to Gov. Jim Hunt (middle) on
Tuesday afternoon at the governor's mansion. Brown said the team decided to dedicate the ball to the victims of Hurricane Fran after beating the Orangemen
27-10. The ball was inscribed with the game's score and date and the message "To the citizens of N.C. for their courage during the Hurricane Fran crisis."
Mental illness program seeks to help college students
■ Counselors at Recovery
Inc., say students are
affected by peer deaths.
BY AMANDA GREENE
STAFF WRITER
Recovery, Inc., a program available in
Chapel Hill and around the world, can
help students who have anxiety caused
by anything from extreme stress from last
week’s exams to mental trauma from the
death of a close friend.
Recovery is a 30-year-old, nonprofit
organization which was begun by a Chi
cago neuropsychologist on the principle
that humans can help themselves by us
ing simple techniques to overcome stress,
said Rose Van Sickle, president of Re
covery in Raleigh.
“We try to reach people before they
start to repress their feelings and make
their individual problem worse in the
future,” Van Sickle said.
“We normally don’t focus on the situ
ation that caused the person’s anxiety,
Carolina Vote Project starts
UNC voter registration drive
BY KERRY OSSI
STAFF WRITER
The Carolina Vote Project began a
voter registration drive Tuesday in an
effort to get UNC students to take part in
November’s elections.
The Carolina Vote Project, a coalition
of student groups, in conjunction with
several other cam
pus organizations
has been register
ing voters on cam
pus since August,
but the drive will
be a more aggres
sive effort to regis
ter students before
the Oct. 11 dead
line. The drive is
Registration
Students with
questions about
registration cards
can call the Orange
County Board of
Elections at 732-
8181 ext 2360
scheduled to last through Thursday.
The group set up registration tables in
the Pit from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and at
Chase Hall from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Junior Natalie Batten from Winston-
over whether the winner in district 15, Brad
Morrison, should take his seat.
District 15, which is composed ofEhringhaus
and Hinton James Residence Halls, is usually
represented by three seats in Student Congress.
One of those seats, however, was vacated at the
beginning of the academic year.
Morrison won the election with 53 votes, a
plurality but not a majority, since two other
candidates, Shonta Goward and Joel Sawyer,
received a significant percentage of the votes in
that district.
But the Student Code states that all elections
are to be won by a majority, except those in
districts with multiple seats, which should be
won by plurality. The question is whether
Morrison, who was competing for a single open
seat,shouldhavewonbyapluialityoramajority.
“We realize there is ambiguity in the code,”
Dickssaid. “That’swhywe’reworkingtocorrect
and revise the code.”
but rather we operate on the member’s
symptoms, whether they be sleep loss or
everyday fear.”
With Mental Illness Awareness Week
beginning Sunday, Recovery wanted stu
dents to know that if they need help
coping with either stress or a personal
trauma, they have a safe, confidential
place to go to talk and get the help they
need, said Cheiyl Schirillo, head of Re
covery community outreach for local
universities.
“With the recent violent deaths of two
Wake Forest students and the Phi Gam
fraternity deaths at Chapel Hill, Recov
ery felt that students should know that
they have an outlet for their feelings,”
Schirillo said. “Students coping with per
sonal deaths sometimes feel like death is
a very real thing that could happen to
them.
“Often students feel that they are the
only ones suffering and are afraid of the
stigma society attaches to mental health
groups.
“Sometimes if people suffering from
anxiety don’t get to talk about their fears,
it can trigger severe reactions like depres
Salem helped register people in the Pit as
a volunteer for student government.
“We want to get as many people as
possible registered before the deadline,”
she said. “All
students, even
out-of-state stu
dents, should
vote in Orange
County because
these officials
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make the laws that affect the school and
the students.”
Erik Ose, director of North Carolina
Participatory Democracy Project, said a
person only needed to be a resident of a
district for 30 days in order to vote in that
district.
“Anybody at school at Carolina can
vote here in Orange County," he said.
“It’s easier than getting an absentee bal
lot sent to you by your local county board
of elections.”
See REGISTRAUON, Page 5
NEWS
Noformal protest has been filed to the results.
Dicks said the results must be approved at a
meeting of the Elections Board, to be held Thurs
day at 5 p.m., before candidates may protest.
If the elections board does hold a runoff
election in district 15, it will be next Tuesday.
Speaker of Student Congress Jamie Kilboume
said he looked forward to welcoming new
members at next week’s meeting.
“It’llbe nice to have a full congress,” he said.
“Since we moved into our chambers in Peabody
Hall, I’m not sure if we’ve ever had a full con
gress.”
Kilboume said he hoped to have a brief train
ing session for new members before they began
serving their one-year terms. He also planned a
reception to introduce new and old congress
members.
Two seats, one in district 2 and another in
district 7, remain open. No votes were cast in the
elections for those two districts.
“Often students feel that they
are the only ones suffering
and are afraid of the stigma
society attaches to mental
health groups. ”
CHERYL SCHIRILLO
Recovery university outreach head
sion or feelings of being out of control.”
The local Chapel Hill chapter of Re
covery, Inc., meets at 1:30 p.m. every
Saturday at the Friend Meeting House
on Raleigh Road, Schirillo said.
“Most students are able to heal them
selves after a death, but I think students
who can’t feel more comfortable going
outside the university for more long-term
help, and we offer a little more privacy
and support,” Schirillo said.
John Dervin, UNC student and friend
of recent graduate Brad King, who died
in a violent car crash during the summer,
said of his friend: “I respected him a lot,
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Carolina Vote Project has planned a three-day blitz of campus areas, including Tuesday's siting at Chase Hall, in order
to register students to vote. The deadline to register to vote in November elections is Oct. 11.
And the winners are...
Students voted Tuesday on elections for eight vacant
Student Congress seats. The winners - three graduate
students and three undergradutes - will take their seats at
the Oct 9 meeting. Results are tentative.
District Winner
2 no votes cast
3 Charles Varris
7 no votes cast
8 Tonya Shard
9 Charles Toulson
16 Brad Morrison
18 Will Jennings
19 Jennifer Sanders
Shannon Heard
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and when I learned of his death, it was a
shock. Brad’s death affected me to the
point that I could not go to his funeral.
Now, his death reminds me of how pre
cious life is.”
Juanita Donaldson, the group leader
for Recovery in Chapel Hill, said they
could also help students work out the
extreme stress associated with school.
“We help people who have suffered
from panic attacks or depression to better
cope with everyday life, ” Donaldson said.
John, a student at N.C. State Univer
sity who asked that his last name not be
used, had similar experiences and went
to Recovery for help.
John said: “I had a panic disorder five
years ago because of moving and being
married for the first time. I had panic
attacks to the point where I couldn’t do
basic everyday tasks because of being
afraid. Iwentto Recovery, and there they
helped me to be able to function again
through recognizing my tendency as a
student to be a perfectionist and letting
me see that I had a real problem.”
See MENTAL, Page 4
Wednesday, October 2,1996
EEOC
sues shop
for firing
■ The suit claims the
Hillsborough store violated
an employee’s civil rights.
BY SARA GRIFFITT
STAFF WRITER
The U.S. Equal Employment Oppor
tunity Commission filed a sexual dis
crimination lawsuit Monday on behalf
of a pregnant woman against the owner
of a Subway Sandwich Shop in
Hillsborough.
The lawsuit claims that Subway vio
lated Melissa L. Blalock’s civil rights for
firing her after it was discovered she was
pregnant.
The Civil Rights Acts 1991 states that
pregnant women must be treated in the
same manner as other people.
According to Blalock, she filed an ap
plication at the Hillsborough store and
was told to report to work on July 10,
1995.
“I thought that meant I was hired,”
she said.
Afterarrivingatthestore.Blalocksaid “
she received a shirt from an employee
and was told to begin cutting bread.
The owner was not there at the time,
but when he returned she was given an
apron to wear while working, die said.
As Blalock stepped from behind the
counter to put on the apron, she said the
owner noticed she was pregnant.
At that point she was told she could
not work there, Blalock said.
A press release from the attorney rep
resenting Subway, Doug McClanahan
with Jordan Law Offices in Raleigh,
stated that Blalock had never been offi
cially hired by Subway.
Die release also stated that the pur
pose of the July 10 meeting was for an
interview, not for Blalock to report for
her first day of work.
According to the press release, the
owner believed that the job requirements
could be harmful for Blalock and her
unborn child. The press release stated the
job requirements include lifting large
packages, sweeping and spending long
hours standing, could create health prob
lems for Blalock and her unborn child.
Blalock said the job requirements had
been previously explained to her and
included “making sandwiches and run
ning the counter.”
The lawsuit seeks appropriate back
pay with interest as well as compensa
tory and punitive damages “and other
affirmative relief necessary to eradicate
the effects... including but not limited to
reinstatement.”
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