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Thursday, October 10,1996
Head Start celebrates new Carr Court facility
BY MARGO HASSELMAN
STAFF WRITER
An atmosphere of hope hung over
Carr Court Wednesday as children and
school officials gathered for the opening
of anew Head Start facility in the
Carrboro neighborhood.
Head Start is a federally funded pre
school program for 3- to 5-year-olds at or
below the poverty line and for children
with special needs from any income level.
About 30 of the approximately 50 en
rolled youngsters assembled outside the
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and sang “The Itsy-Bitsy Spider” to kick
off the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Patsy Byrd, director of Head Start for
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, said
she hoped the day care center would help
rejuvenate Can Court, a neighborhood
that makes headlines more often for drug
related arrests and violence than for sing
ing preschoolers.
“I’m not saying we’re gonna drive the
druggies out, ” she said, “butmaybethey’ll
consider not doing business like that
around something that’s our future.”
Judith Wegner, dean of the School of
Law, and Barbara Moran, dean of the
School of Information and Library Sci
ence, are developing the framework for
pilot units that could link with IBM Glo
bal Campus.
“We’re in the very preliminary stages
UNIVERSITY & CITY
Mary Norwood Jones said 120 chil
dren were enrolled in Head Start schools
in Chapel Hill and Canboro.
There are four other Head Start loca
tions, Byrd said: one each at Seawell and
Glenwood elementary schools, one in
Lincoln Center and one in Second Bap
tist Church on South Graham Street.
The newest Head Start ended up in
Carr Court because the town donated
land for the new building. Even with
donated land, Byrd said, Head Start’s
budget was too small to afford the three
classroom building without raising funds.
of planning,” Moran said. “We’re look
ing for a way to involve information
technology in all classrooms here. It’s a
very exciting project.”
Moran said she and Wegner would
meet with IBM representatives Tuesday.
More than 30 colleges and universities
Campus Calendar
Thursday
8 a.m. to 9 a.m. - The Intramural and
Recreational Sports Office will present Rise
and Shine Aerobics in studios A & B at the
SRC. There will be juice and bagels served
following the session.
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. - University Career Ser
vices will conduct “Carolina Career Day” for
seniors and graduate students in the Great
Hall. Business attire is recommended.
4:30 p.m. - Pauline Kuzwayo, an associate
professor in the Department of Human Nutri
tion at Medunsa, will discuss malnutrition
among women and children in South Africa at
the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center.
5 p.m. - Die Out-of-State Students Asso
ciation will hold a meeting in Union 224. All
welcome.
5:45 p. m. - The Baptist Student Union will
hold its worship and prayer service at the Battle
House. All denominations are welcome. Call
942-4266 for more information.
6:30 p.m., 9 p.m. - The Carolina Union
Activities Board Film Committee will present
“Fargo” in the Carolina Union Auditorium.
Admission is $2. The CUAB-Film Committee
will also present “Primal Fear,” starring Rich
ard Gere, at 6:30 p.m., 9 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.
on Friday, Oct. 11 in the Carolina Union
Auditorium. Admission will be $2.
7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. - The Office of N.C.
Fellows and Leadership Development will
present “Take the Lead, Be Assertive” featur
ing Carol Binzer, the director of Student Ser
vices and the School ofNursing, in Toy Lounge
on the fourth floor of Dey Hall.
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. - Sangam will have a
freshman bowling night in the ground floor of
the Student Union. Call 914-3603 for further
information.
7 p.m. - The UNC Young Republicans will
meet in 209 Manning Hall. There will be a
guest speaker, and all members must attend.
7 p.m. - The Hellenic Students Associa
tion will hold a Greek-Orthodox Christian
meeting in 220 Phillips Hall. Contact Nelia at
914-2322 for more information.
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Around 15 children are on a waiting
list to get into the program, Byrd said.
Head Start officials have also realized the
“community room” is too small, and are
raising funds to cover the back patio.
The building needs a playground,
which is being designed slowly because
of new playground safety regulations.
Jones urged support of Head Start in a
speech at the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
“If we can come this far we can do
even more for a wonderful program like
Head Start,” she said. “When we help
our children we help ourselves.”
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and Venezuela were also chosen.
7 p.m. - The UNC Outing Club will meet
in 109 Fetzer Gymnasium. The Outing Club
goes rock climbing, hiking, ramping white
water rafting and even sky diving, and you can
too! All welcome.
8 p.m. to 10 p.m. - The Cafe Cabaret will
present Kyle Hamlin with Catherine Renaud
and Mike Olsen. Free coffee and snacks pro
vided.
8 p.m. - The Department of Mnsic will
present a UNC Symphony Orchestra Concert
featuring conductor Tonu Kalam.
8 p.m. - Anyone who is interested is wel
come to attend the Carolina Child Abuse
Prevention Program’s meeting in Union 213.
The meeting will feature a guest speaker dis
cussing child abuse.
Items of Interest
The Public Policy Analysis Majors Union
will present the distinguished policy lecturer,
professor Peter Brown from the School of Pub
lic Affairs at the University of Maryland, who
will present a lecture titled "Why We Must
Chart a Course to a New Economics” from
12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday in 102 New
East.
Experience Toastmasters! Every first, third,
and fifth Tuesday of the month at noon in G 7
Bumett-Womack Building. Call 967-0446 for
more information.
Interested in adding Korean and Vietnam
ese classes to the curriculum? Then show your
support and let the University know of the
need for these classes here. More details and a
petition of support are available beside the
Union desk.
Carolina Club Track and Field has prac
tice Monday through Thursday at 5 p.m. on
the track. Everyone is welcome! For more
information call Nicole at 929-1345.
The Health Sciences House now has 3
openings for female residents on the second
floor of Carmichael Residence Hall. Please
pick up applications at the Carmichael Desk.
Applications are due by Friday in 225
Carmichael by 5 p.m. For more information
call Mike Lond at 914-3006.
New developments
irk crowded schools
BY HEATHER JERNIGAN
STAFF WRITER
Current overcrowding of Chapel Hill-
Carrboro City Schools may worsen
thanks to the construction of new hous
ing developments.
New construction north of Carrboro
has the potential to cause a surge in
school population in those areas,
Carrboro Zoning Administrator Keith
Lankford said. Most of the construction
is in the “northern transitional area”
the region near McDougle Middle and
McDougle Elementary schools.
At least three schools are suffering
from overcrowding. These include
Ephesus Elementary, McDougle Elemen
tary and McDougle Middle School.
With the potential for more children
to pour into the school system, school
systemSuperintendentNeilPedersensaid
attendance zones and boundaries would
be looked at to see if enrollment can be
more “equitably distributed.”
Pedersen said redistricting of the school
system might be necessary in the near
future to take pressure offthe areas around
McDougle Elementary and McDougle
Middle School. However, Pedersen said
no new school assignments would be
made until next year.
All of the schools were affected by the
last redistricting, effective this year to fill
recently-built East Chapel Hill High
School and McDougle Elementary.
Financial strains of deferred
rush could close fraternities
BY SHARIF DURHAMS
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Fraternities and sororities may be
doomed to repeat a history of problems
with deferred rush, members of the
Chancellor’s Committee on Greek Af
fairs said at a Wednesday meeting.
Fraternities experienced a financial
blowwhenUNC delayed rush until Janu
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of Students Fred Schroeder said in a
report to the committee.
Because organizations graduated
members and could not replace them
until the next spring, they had problems
paying bills, he said.
“The organizations felt the financial
burden not being able to pay their mort
gage, et cetera.”
Committee member Harold Brubaker,
who is studying the financial implica
tions, said delaying rush until the spring
could cause some fraternities to close.
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Pedersen said if redistricting occurred,
students who had already had to change
schools once will be avoided.
Lankford said several planned devel
opments north of town might possibly
contribute to overcrowding. The Sunset
CreekdevelopmentnearOldFayetteville
Road and 438-unit Hogan Farms devel
opment near Homestead Road could have
significant long-term effects on the popu
lation of local schools. Together, they,
will add hundreds of children to the sys
tem.
Elementary schools experience the
most overcrowding, Pedersen said. He
said McDougle Middle School had 760
students, just over its holding capacity,
and McDougle Elementary is 40 stu
dents over capacity.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Edu
cation Chairman Mark Royster said he
was concerned about the overall effects
of overcrowding. “I am concerned that
we are constantly faced with overcrowd-,
ing, and I certainly do not see any elimi-;
nation of it without the addition of anew
elementary school, anew wing to the
high school and anew middle school.”
Royster said he saw no overcrowding
relief in sight without undertaking the
three building projects.
Pedersen said overcrowding was not a
pressing issue at this point. “We are defi
nitely not in a crisis situation.” He said
no plans had been made for new school.,
construction for at least three years.
“I think the ultimate result is you’re
going to lose some of the fraternities out
of the system,” Brubaker said.
Although Brubaker had not finished
his committee’s study, he said the typical
fraternity, which pledged 11 members,-;
would lose about $22,000 each year.
Fixed costs, such as paying for a coolu
and electricity bills, would remain the
same while the fraternities would have
fewer members, Brubaker said.
The earlier deferred rush also caused
problems because ofthe University policy’
of “strict silence.” Fraternity members;
could not speak to freshmen in order to
keep them out of the rush process.
“That meant if you were in a class
(with a freshman) you could not fiaVd an
academic conversation with someone
else,” Schroeder said.
Chancellor Michael Hooker will con
sider the committee’s report in deciding .
whether to move rush to improve the
campus’ intellectual climate.