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2 Monday, November 25,1996 Committee discusses benefits of privatization BY SARA YAWN STAFF WRITER The Outsourcing Steering Team dis cussed Friday the benefits of hiring a private contractor to help define how the committee will evaluate areas within the University that are being considered for privatization. An outside contractor would be used to help the steering team to define what it wants from the study areas. The contrac tor would help to develop a “memoran dum of direction” for the studies, said Bruce Runberg, chairman of the team. HDR, a company that advises public entities that want to compete to retain services, gave two presentations to the Native American culture highlighted at festival BY JENNIFER PENDER staff mm “Oceo.” It is the Cherokee word for “hello to you.” The Carolina Indian Circle presented the third annual Native American Per forming Arts festival Friday at Memorial Hall. Nearly 100 people gathered to see the performance, which explored the theme of “Then and Now.” “(The theme’s purpose) was to show that we hold our roots in tradition but that we’ve still evolved and walk in the modern world,” said Genford Brewington, a freshman and member of the group’s dramatic team. Native American students might at tend chemistry or other classes during the week and attend powwows on the weekend, Carolina Indian Circle Presi Seats Stll Remanng FoNCCU,NCSU,and UNC-CH Students! Social Reflection: Fiction and the Documentary Tradition a course taught by Pulitzer Prize winning author of Children of Crisis and The Call of Service ROBERT COLES The course will explore the work of photographers, filmmakers, and fiction and documentary writers, and will examine their struggles to reconcile scholarly literary, and artistic pursuits with moral and ethical concerns. Students will be encouraged to draw upon personal experience. Though not required, experience with community service or documentary work will help inform and shape students' understanding of the course material. Course readings include James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Alex Kotlowitz, There Are No Children Here, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Tillie Olson, Tell Me A Riddle, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Are Watching God, Walker Percy, The Moviegoer. Films include Five Easy Pieces, Harlan Couthy USA and Days of Heaven. The course will be taught at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:10 to 10:20 a.m. Students from NCCU, NCSU, and UNC-CH are eligible to enroll through inter institutional credit-at the same cost as a class at your home institution. For more information, please contact Neil Giordano at (919) 660-3672 or neilgio@acpub.duke.edu dth.access//tomorrow Outsourcing Steering Team Chairman BRUCE RUNBERG said the team would not lose authority under a contractor. University, Runberg said. “Everyone that I’ve talked to felt the information that they provided was very construc tive and informa tive,” Runberg said. Aramark, a similar company, also gave a presen tation, Runberg said. “HDR and others have been through this,” he said. “We could dent Linwood Watson told the audience. “We are working to maintain our cul ture but working and evolving as a people. Native Americans are pushing together toward the 21st century.” Exemplifying the weaving of the tra ditional with the modem in Native Ameri can lives, six jean-clad men in the drum group “Southern Suns" beat traditional songs on one drum. Dancers from Tri angle Native Dance Team encircled them wearing the traditional regalia of south eastern Native Americans such as the Cherokee, Lumbee, Haliwa-Saponi, Tuscarora, Coharie and Choctaw. Unheard Voices then performed pieces written by Native Americans. The dra matic team’s purpose is to promote and educate people about Native Americans innontraditionalways, Brewington said. Storyteller Kat Littleturtle told “Corn UNIVERSITY perhaps tap into their knowledge.” Several members of the team voiced concern over any possible loss of control under a contractor. “I want to be sure that we are not giving up any of our control over crite ria,” said Laurie Charest, chairwoman of the employee relations subcommittee. Runberg said the team would retain authority. “We’re not giving up control of anything,” he said. Runberg, Howard Gorman, chairman of technical support subcommittee, and Rodger Patterson, chairman of the ac counting subcommittee, will begin work ing Wednesday to decide the specific duties of a contractor. The steering team also discussed five ing of the Com,” a story about a grandmother’sunselfish gift to her grand son. “There are lessons in all the legends if you are willing to listen,” Littleturtle said. Littleturtle said cultural background did not matter as much as the love in people’s hearts and the fabric of families, and she encouraged parents to talk with their children about their life experiences. Rebekah Revels, Miss Lumbee 1996, told the audience that as a beauty queen she walked in a more modem Indian DEVELOPMENT FROM PAGE 1 money,” he said. “It’s being sucked into Durham. It doesn’t matter whether it hurts the merchants or not; that certainly goes without saying. The impact here is in the tax dollars.” The tax money goes to build schools and fund county services, Humphreys said. He said the retail sales’ decrease was especially alarming when compared with the county’s great increase in popula The Nation’s *=- ■ course JUST GOT EVEN Better Carolina Class Closing Qulcklyl 1-800-KAP-TEST www.kaplan.com recommendations made bytheEmployee Relations Subcommittee to involve em ployees in the study process. These rec ommendations ad vise involving employ ees in defining the work statement for particular areas of study, encouraging employees to visit other sites that have been outsourced, developing a clear plan for study with specific tasks to be accom plished and developing a communica tion plan for the outsourcing study, Charest said. It is important to get the information out to as many employees as possible, said Ann Hamner, chairwoman of the Employee Forum. The committee generally supported the five recommendations. circle but that she still hoped to preserve and represent Native American culture. Native American sororities such as the Alpha Chapter of Alpha Pi Omega at and the Beta Chapter at the University of North Carolina at Pem broke helped to preserve and promote traditional culture, Revels said. The University’s Alpha Chapter per formed a modem dance and a “Swan Dance” to honor Native American an cestors. “Once divided by tribe, now united by pride,” a voice announced. tion. Wallace Kuralt, owner of the Intimate Bookshop stores on Franklin Street and in the Eastgate Shopping Center, said large supercenters had affected his stores’ business. “We’re an 80-percent impulse business, and obviously we need a lot of walk-in traffic, and anything that affects our walk-in traffic will certainly affect our sales,” he said. Joel Harper, president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, said small businesses on downtown streets could not attract walk-in customers as If Pinpoint Your Needs Personalized computer study plans Solidify Your Science . The best Horne Study Books - ALL NEW FOR ‘97! 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Independent researcher Alan Gordon of the American Drug History Institute turned himself in to University Police after smoking marijuana in the Pit to prove his belief that marijuana is already legal in all 50 states. “We don’t need to fight for a right we already have,” he said. Gordon said he had written a viable license that gave him the right to possess, use, cultivate and deliver marijuana in all 50 states. “If (marijuana users) should be arrested, they could use this as a defense in criminal court.” Gordon’s “Marijuana License” con tains scientific information stating that marijuana use in mammals is an adapta tion to increased ultraviolet-B radiation. It also states that marijuana combats the harmful effects UV-B has on the immune system. He said the penal codes of the federal and state governments “contain a justifi cation defense for circumstances in which breaking a law is less harmful than not breaking it.” easily as businesses in large shopping malls, which depend on larger stores to bring in customers. “Downtown will never have an an chor —a Wal-Mart or a Sears—and a lot of the time it’s the anchor that drives walk-in shopping,” he said. Harper said smaller merchants could distinguish themselves from the large chain stores in key areas such as cus Campus Calendar Monday 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. The office of Lead ership Development will present “Women in Government,” a session for Womentors and protegees, in Wilson Library. 4 p.m. University Career Services will conduct “Job Hunt 101: Orientation Work shop” for seniors and graduate students in 210 Hanes Hall. This workshop provides basic information on how to use the UCS office. The UCS will also conduct “Job Hunt 102: Rdsumd Writing Workshop” for seniors and graduate students at 5 p.m. in 210 Hanes Hall. This is a workshop on how to construct a professional resume. 5:30p.m. —N.C.Hillel’s Rabbi Ed will be conducting the last part in his series on “ Sexu ality and Judaism.” All are welcome. The class will be held in G-7 Bumett- Womack building. 6 p.m. There will be a meeting of the March of Dimes Collegiate Council in 10S Bingham Hall. 7:30 p.m. The Dialectic and Pbilan W I'.M.'iiLH.W.’fm.ll.'M I.HL’4| f CANADA I 5% Baihj Car Hppl To set an example that marijuana is legal in all 50 states, Gordon began to smoke marijuana in the Pit before turn ing himself in to University Police. “(Gordon) said he wants to make a political statement,” Public Safety Of-; ficer Larry Caldwell said. The leader of the UNC chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, which sponsored the rally, said the NORML did not endorse Gordon’s actions. But Andrew Ogden, co-president of Carolina NORML, acknowledged that he was intrigued by Gordon’s use of his marijuana license. “He seems to have a legitimate case, and it will be interesting to see what happens with it,” he said. The events that transpired with Gor don and UNC police overshadowed the original purpose of the rally. “We hope to increase awareness about marijuana and its medical uses,” Ogden said. In his introduction to the rally, Ogden gave facts about marijuana to inform the audience of its uses outside of recreation, especially its medical uses. “Wethinkit’s really ridiculous that people are being denied medicine simply because it has been deemed illegal.” He also discussed marijuana’s recent legalization for medical purposes in Cali-, fomia and Arizona and the possibility of such action in North Carolina. tomer service. “The one thing the big chains, or the big boxes, as we lie to call them, seem to offer better than anyone else is incredibly low prices,” Harper said. “But the one thing they can’t offer is incredible customer service, and people have shown again and again that they will spend their money where they are treated royally.” thropic Societies will debate "Resolved: Left ism is the root of all evil” on the third floor of New West. Guests are welcome. Items of Interest Triangle Hospice’s Unicom Bereavement Center will present “Living with Grief Through the Holidays,” a workshop for grieving per sons who want to learn more about coping with their grief in an educational setting, on Thursday, Dec. 5 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Unicom Bereavement Center. Conversation partners applications are avail able at the International Center. If you would like to befriend anew international student by volunteering to converse for one hour a week, one-to-one, at a mutually convenient time and place, apply at the International Center, on the main floor of the Union. Call 962-5661 for more information. The Duke Art Museum is having an exhibit entitled “‘Chaika’: Preserving the Images of Ideology” through Dec. 29 as part of a growing collection of contemporary Russian art. Ad mission for the general public is $3.
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