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WUNC names Stempin
Ist news director
WUNC-FM has named John
Stempin, a former newscast unit pro
ducer/editor/anchor for National
Public Radio in Washington, as its first
news director.
Stempin, who has received numer
ous awards for his work, also has expe
rience in commercial radio, where he
worked for NBC Radio and various
other commercial stations.
WUNC is an NPR affiliate that was
licensed to UNC in 1953. The station
serves more than 150,000 listeners
weekly in 24 central N.C. counties.
Art museum to hold
black-tie fund-raiser
The Ackland Art Museum will hold
its annual black-tie fund-raiser at 7:30
p.m. Jan. 18. The museum will be
closed to the public Jan. 18 and Jan. 19
to accommodate the event.
The “One Arabian Night” gala fea
tures dinner and dancing in the muse
um’s galleries. Proceeds will benefit the
Ackland’s education programs.
The event will feature Arabian decor
provided by Rafael Lopez-Barrantes of
Celebrations Inc., complete with
camels, genies, magic carpets, oases
and treasure rooms. Dinner will be pro
vided by the Catering Cos. of Chapel
Hill and includes North African cui
sine and Benchmark Wines from
Australia. The Gregg Gelb Swing Band
will perform after dinner, and Arabian
music will be played by the band Ooto.
Ticket prices begin at $125 per per
son. For information or to request an
invitation, call Moreton Neal at 962-
5736.
Grammy-winning group
to perform at UNC
Sweet Honey In The Rock, an
African Americana capella singing
group, will return to UNC’s Memorial
Hall at 8 p.m. Feb. 18.
Sweet Honey is a Grammy Award
winning group with deep musical roots
in spirituals, hymns, gospel, jazz and
blues. The ensemble has played in near
by countries and as far away as China,
where they were cultural delegates to
the NGO Forum of the United
Nations’ Fourth World Conference on
Women in 1995.
All Sweet Honey concerts are signed
for the hearing impaired.
Tickets for the concert, sponsored
by the Carolina Union Activities
Board, are S2O for the general public
and sl3 for UNC students. Tickets will
go on sale Jan. 13 at the Carolina
Union Ticket Office. Call 962-1449
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays for
Visa or Mastercard orders.
George Winston tickets
on sale at Student Union
Pianist George Winston will per
form at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2 in Memorial
Hall. Among other new and familiar
selections, the concert will feature
songs from Winston’s new CD, “Linus
and Lucy The Music of Vince
Guaraldi.”
Tickets for the concert, which are
currently on sale at the Carolina Union
Ticket Office, are sl6 for the general
public and sl2 for UNC students. Call
962-1449 for Visa and Mastercard
orders. UNC ONE Cards are also hon
ored.
Last Lecture series opens
Jan. 28 in Union Cabaret
Political science Professor Joel
Schwartz will be the featured speaker
in the first of the Last Lecture series at
8 p.m. Jan. 28 in the Union Cabaret.
The program is free and open to the
public.
The series is intended to showcase a
number of UNC’s faculty members in
a way that is different from how stu
dents normally see them in the class
room and to increase interaction
between students and faculty.
Special program to show
1997 astronomical events
Morehead Planetarium will take a
look at what the 1997 skies hold in
store during a special program Jan. 13.
The planetarium, which is usually
closed on Monday nights, will be open
for “Planet Watch ’97,” which begins
at 7:30 p.m. The planetarium will open
at 7 p.m. for the hour-long show.
The live presentation includes a
chance for audience questions. Viewers
will learn about the year’s meteor
showers, eclipses, planetary groupings
and the appearance of Comet Hale-
Bopp. The planetarium’s star projector
will be used to demonstrate some of
the upcoming celestial events in a way
rarely done in other presentations.
Admission is $3.50 for adults and
$2.50 for children, students and senior
citizens. Planetarium members can
attend for free.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Teacher ability
focus of surveys
■ Parents and students get
the opportunity to evaluate
teacher performance.
BY SALLIE LACY
STAFF WRITER
In an effort to improve classroom
instruction, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
City Schools will issue surveys to par
ents and students next week so they can
critique teacher performance.
The surveys will be sent home to ele
mentary and middle school students’
parents and will be completed by mid
dle and high school students at school,
Superintendent Neil Pedersen said.
Most of the survey questions will
deal with teaching styles, methodolo
gies and teachers’ interaction with stu
dents, said Chester Preyar, assistant
superintendent for support services,
who helped head the committee that
made the survey.
Parents will be asked, among many
other questions, if teacher’ give their
child an adequate amount of home
work.
Students will be asked if they believe
their teacher fosters a fair environment
in the classroom, Preyar said.
“The expectation is that the survey
will help improve the overall quality of
the schools,” he said.
The survey results are confidential
and are only seen by the school’s prin
cipal and the teacher being critiqued, he
said.
Preyar compared the school system
to a service provider.
The school system considers the stu
dents and parents as clients, and it’s
important that they are satisfied, he
said.
Hazel Gibbs, director of human
resources for Chapel Hill-Carrboro
schools, said teaching was a complicat-
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With the threat of inclement weather facing Chapel Hill and Carrboro, shoppers headed out to grocery stores, like
Carr Mill Mali's Harris-Teeter, to stock up on staples like bread, bottled water and milk.
Old Man Winter threatens area drivers;
public works crews ready roads for ice
STAFF REPORT
Chapel Hill and Carrboro were bracing for the first round
of winter weather last night.
With forecasters predicting freezing rain and sleet for the
Triangle area early Wednesday morning, local public works
officials decided to put crews on alert.
Richard Terrell, Chapel Hill Public Works Department
field operations superintendent, said eight people were com
ing in at midnight, and three sand spreaders were ready.
“Based on the forecast, it is going to be a sand and deicing
operation,” Terrell said. “There won’t be any plowing (unless
necessary).”
The public works department will be working with the
N.C. Department of Transportation to make sure major
roads would be cleared, Terrell said.
“Obviously if we have freezing rain and sleet exceeding
our capability, we can’t clear all the roads,” he said. “We have
Senate will likely approve Ist female secretary of state
■ The Senate should
approve Madeline Albright
for the post today.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON Apparently on a
smooth path to Senate approval,
Madeleine Albright stands on the brink
of history: the highest-ranking woman
ever in the U.S. government and the
first to be secretary of state.
She was appearing before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee today as
a known quantity: As the American
ambassador to the United Nations, a
Cabinet officer in President Clinton’s
first administration and in earlier schol
“We see the
(upcoming surveys) as a
continuation of that process
to solicit feeback from our
clients.”
NEIL PEDERSEN
Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools
Superintendent
ed process, and the survey would pro
vide valuable information to help
improve the education process.
“The real purpose (of the survey) is
to help us collect additional informa
tion from our client,” said Gibbs, who
headed the committee that created the
survey.
The results of the survey will help
the critiqued teachers work toward
improving any weaknesses and also val
idate their existing strengths, Gibbs
said.
A survey was conducted last year
that asked about the school service, but
it did not include teachers, Pedersen
said.
“We see (the upcoming survey) as a
continuation of that process to solicit
feedback from our clients,” Pedersen
said.
The parents of high school students
are not included in the survey because
high school students can have as many
as six teachers, and, generally, parents
don’t know all the teachers, Pedersen
said.
Pedersen also said there would be
logistical problems with high school
students giving the surveys to their par
ents and then returning them to the
school principal.
He said elementary and middle
school students were more likely to give
their parents the surveys than high
schoolers.
600 (roads).”
Carrboro Public Works Director Chris Peterson said his
department was also making plans to clear any possible ice
from all major access areas.
He said one crew was scheduled to come in at midnight
and would salt intersections and main roads.
“It’s tricky because the weather people don’t seem to know
exactly what’s going to happen,” Peterson said. “We are
preparing for freezing rain and ice.”
As early as Wednesday afternoon, local grocery stores
were experiencing effects of the predicted winter weather.
“We completely sold out of bread around 3 p.m.
(Wednesday),” said a Harris-Teeter employee who did not
want to be identified.
The employee, who works at the Carr Mill Mall Harris-
Teeter, said the store had been full of people stocking up for
bad weather Wednesday.
arly writing, many of her policy views
are already on the record.
Asa nominee, that has an up side
and a down side.
While close questioning is unlikely
in known areas, Albright’s four-year
experience in the Clinton administra
tion makes it difficult for her to duck if
the questions get unexpectedly rough.
That is considered unlikely. Since
Clinton announced her as his choice to
succeed Warren Christopher a month
ago there has been no sign of serious
opposition.
Still, Albright is taking steps she
likens to preparing for her master’s
degree and doctorate in Russian studies
at Columbia University.
For 3 days, senior State Department
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Students gathered at Bynum Hall on Tuesday to collect their financial aid checks. Some students arrived
at the office as much as an hour prior to opening to beat the rush.
UNC granted funding for telescope
BY EVAN MARKFIELD
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Thanks to a $3 million federal appropriation, UNC will be
able to fund its stake in a telescope located in Chile’s Andes
Mountains.
This portion of UNC’s funding for the Southern
Observatory for Astrophysical Research will be provided by
the U.S. Department of Defense.
“Clearly, people outside of the University realized what a
tremendous value (the telescope) was,” said Gerald Cecil,
professor of astronomy and physics.
Cecil is currently in Tucson, Ariz., working on final design
studies for the telescope.
“I think it’s going to have a tremendous impact on the
campus that people just don’t appreciate,” he said.
Cecil said astronomy students would be able to participate
more fully thanks to information that will come from the
SOAR project, and that even students not continuing with
officials have briefed her on world
issues. Albright has jotted down notes
on the kind of pad the reporter she once
wanted to be would use. Last Saturday,
it was an all-day grilling session.
Albright also has been in frequent touch
with Christopher, whose style is more
low-key, but who has a similar
approach to world problems.
In one area, at least, Albright could
be headed into a rough patch.
Having led a successful drive to oust
Boutros Boutros-Ghali as U.N. secre
tary general with the argument he had
not worked hard enough at cost-cutting
reforms, she intends to make the point
that “you can’t expect a strong foreign
policy if you are not prepared to pay for
it,” an aide said Tuesday.
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the study of astronomy would gain exposure to technologi
cally advanced equipment.
Both undergraduate and graduate students will benefit
from the telescope’s quality, which puts UNC “in the big
leagues,” Cecil said.
The telescope project will also have advantages for UNC
faculty members.
“It’s designed to make us competitive at a higher level than
we are now,” Cecil said.
There are also plans to have some of the simpler comput
er information available to public schools.
“We’re excited about adding this project to a growing list
of activities aimed at taking the resources of the University
directly into the the classrooms of public school students and
the homes of North Carolina citizens,” Chancellor Michael
Hooker stated in a press release.
Other partners binding the telescope, which is to begin
operating in 2001, are Michigan State University, Brazil and
the National Optical Astronomy Observatories.
Greek committee spawns
13 research task forces
■ The 13 subcommittees will
look at various issues affecting
the Greek community.
BY DANA SPANGLER
STAFF WRITER
The Chancellor’s Committee on
Greek Affairs established 13 subcom
mittees Wednesday to study the Greek
community.
Each subcommittee will be headed
by a student chairman and a nonstu
dent chairman, who will give updates
on their committee’s progress at the
monthly committee meeting. They will
present final reports April 9.
Committee members gave sugges
tions for possible topics of discussion
for each subcommittee.
■ The scholarship subcommittee
will discuss the academic incentives
that groups should have for their mem
bers and how much the chapters should
spend on these incentives.
■ The community service and town
relations subcommittee will study the
services that Greek groups give to and
receive from Chapel Hill.
■ The campus involvement and
rewards and recognition subcommittee
will discuss student involvement out
side fraternities and sororities and
whether chapters or individuals receive
enough recognition.
■ The housing subcommittee will
discuss the appearance of fraternity
and sorority houses as well as various
policies, such as fire safety.
■ The finance subcommittee will
study the use of chapter finances and
what financial services groups need.
■ The communication subcommit
tee will study how members of the
Greek system interact and communi
cate with other fraternity and sorority
The United States owes the United
Nations about sl.l billion, and the
Clinton administration needs Congress
to help it make good on the debt now
that Kofi Annan of Ghana has suc
ceeded Boutros-Ghali.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Chairman Jesse Helms, R-N.C., is
extremely suspicious of U.N. spending,
and his skepticism is shared by others
on Capitol Hill.
Albright goes before Helms and his
Republican-controlled committee
determined also to pledge a more
robust American foreign policy.
Bom in Czechoslovakia and guided
during her career by Zbigniew
Brzezinski, a hard-line former U.S.
national security adviser and her former
Thursday, January 9,1997
members and with nonmembers.
■ The technology subcommittee
will discuss connecting chapter houses
with the campus fiber optic system and
the possibility of a Greek Affairs web
page.
■ The leadership subcommittee will
discuss if Greeks are getting or taking
advantage of leadership training.
■ The wellness and peer education
subcommittee wall study ways to edu
cate members of the Greek community
about issues such as eating disorders.
■ The advisers’ roles subcommittee
will address the role of the chapter
adviser and discuss ways to attract
more advisers to the Greek community.
■ The alumni activities and pro
grams subcommittee will discuss ways
to increase alumni and parent partici
pation.
■ The rush subcommittee will con
tinue to discuss ways to improve the
current rush process.
■ The strategic planning subcom
mittee will study how to make changes
needed in the Greek community.
Last month, the committee issued a
semester-long report that recommend
ed not adopting a deferred rush policy.
The report outlined steps the
University can take to improve the rush
process, curb alcohol abuse and
improve the intellectual climate on
campus.
Chancellor Michael Hooker praised
the committee’s work. “I am extremely
grateful to the committee ... for a thor
ough report full of sound and thought
ful recommendations,” he stated in a
press release.
“The committee has engaged stu
dents in a constructive dialogue about
these issues and sought input from fac
ulty, alumni, parents and others. The
involvement and support of students is
critical to any successful efforts to
improve our Greek community.”
professor, Albright hopes also to allay
any concern that she would pay exces
sive attention to Europe at the expense
of Asia and other regions or that she is
instinctively anti-Russia.
If confirmed, Albright will bring an
exceptional skill in foreign languages to
her job. She speaks French, Czech and
Polish and once took a crash course in
Russian.
Albright, 59, said the administra
tion's foreign policy priorities include
NATO expansion and Middle East
peace.
She would reach a level unprecedent
ed for a woman, but her foreign birth
would deprive her the secretary of
state’s usual position of being fourth in
line of succession to the presidency.
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