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School of Public Health
to offer online sessions
Students and public health practi
tioners who have access to the World
Wide Web can participate in the School
of Public Health’s first live Internet con
ference on Sept. 11.
“Immunization Update 1997” will be
broadcast three times via the Internet.
The first session is from 8 a.m. to
10:30 a.m.; the second from 11 a.m. to
1:30 p.m.; and the third from 2 p.m. to
4:30 p.m.
The broadcast is prepared by the
school’s Center for Distance Learning
and Health Communications.
The conference will provide updates
on new vaccines and vaccine combina
tions and review the recommendations
from the Advisory Committee on
Immunization Practices.
For more information, call 966-9881.
SHS health class series
to focus on headaches
Student Health Service and Glaxo
Wellcome Inc. will sponsor a series of
health education classes this fall.
The classes will be held on Mondays,
and students need to register by the
Thursday before.
There will be three classes on asthma
education, one on migraine headaches
and one on stopping smoking.
They will be held from 5:15 p.m. to
6:30 p.m. in the Health Education
Conference Room on the second floor
of the SHS building.
For information about the classes or
to register, call 966-6573 during regular
office hours.
Carolina Union presents
performing arts series
The Pan African Orchestra will open
the Carolina Union’s 1997-98
Performing Arts Series on Oct. 14.
This season’s lineup includes the
Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra with
piano soloist Misha Dichter, the
Western Opera Theatre’s “Carmen,”
African dancer Koffi Koko, the Parsons
Dance Company, the Broadway musi
cal “Grease!,” the RTE Irish National
Radio Orchestra, the dance troupe
Nucleodanza.
The Marcus Roberts Trio will also be
featured.
Season tickets are on sale, and indi
vidual tickets will go on sale Sept. 3.
The box office is in the Student
Union.
For more information, call the box
office at 962-1449.
Women's Center to host
writers' open-mike night
The Orange County Women’s Center
will hold its monthly “Speak Easy”
open-mike night for female poetry,
prose and memoir writers at 21
Henderson St. on Aug. 29.
The open-mike session will be from 8
p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Parking is available.
Please contact Jenn Barr of the
Women’s Center at 968-4610 or Phyl
Sheridan Bushnell of the Sonorous
Press at 933-9357 for more information
about the programs.
Chapel Hill service group
recruits new members
The Chapel Hill Service League is
now recruiting members for the upcom
ing 1997-98 service year, which will
begin in September.
Prospective members who want to
learn more about the Service League
are invited to attend a social on Sept. 2
at 7:30 p.m.
Call Martha O’Connor at 942-1499
or Vallie Cosper at 929-5290 for an invi
tation, location and directions or for
more information.
This year, new members will attend a
league meeting on the third Monday of
each month.
In addition, a training meeting will
be held on the second Monday of each
month.
Crisis Center to begin
local rape support groups
Support groups sponsored by the
Orange County Rape Crisis Center will
begin in early September and run for
about eight weeks.
For more information about any of
the center’s support groups, contact
Karen Oneal at 968-4647.
Counselors at the crisis center also
recommend calling their 24-hour crisis
line at 967-7272.
Poetry readings reappear
in Durham book shop
First Tuesday Poetry readings will
once again be held at the Regulator
Book Shop at 720 9th St. in Durham on
Sept. 2.
Asheville poet Richard Chess and
Lucinda Grey, the managing editor of
Southern Poetry Review, will lead the
series.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Campuses shoot for arid, extra dry rushes
■ Students question how
effective dry rush will be as
it only lasts a short time.
BY WHITNEY MOORE
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
AND STACEY TURNAGE
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
The drive to implement dry rush
spreads far beyond the boundaries of
UNC.
Those in charge of overseeing rush
point to the Interfratemity Council as
their main weapon in the anti-alcohol
push.
“IFC executive officers walk around
during rush events for men,” said Cori
Pembleton of Colorado State
University.
“There’s no
alcohol during
rush."
On the other
hand, David
Swick, a member
of the Delta
Sigma Phi frater
nity at the
University of
Texas at Austin,
CAMPUS
CONNECTIONS
said the IFC needed to rethink their ded
ication to enforcing dry rush.
“There’s definitely more they can do
to enforce rules and policies," he said.
“Until they do, rules will continue to be
broken.”
Cathy Marcel, the director of Greek
affairs at Louisana State University, said
despite the death of a pledge member of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon on Tuesday after
apparent binge drinking at a party to cel
ebrate the end of rush week, the school
strictly enforced its dry rush policy.
“We make every effort to see that
rush is dry, and it is,” she said.
“We have been known to check out
County not planning its own welfare plan
BY JON OSTENDORFF
STAFF WRITER
Orange County will not be one of the
counties to take advantage of the new
welfare reform law, which essentially
allows some counties to design and
implement their own welfare systems.
Kevin Fitzgerald, director of the state
Department of Social Services, said the
new bill would strengthen the current
Work First program and allow counties
to develop their own programs.
“The flexibility of the bill will allow
counties to look at their specific econo
my and remove the barriers to welfare
reform,” Fitzgerald said.
But not all counties are interested in
creating a local welfare program.
“The counties that are interested
Graduate students gain
new leadership program
■ Fifty graduate students
have signed up for the 15
weeks of workshops.
BY B. FORREST ANDERSON 111
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Graduate and professional students
now have the opportunity to benefit
from the Carolina Leadership
Etvelopment program, which has tradi
tionally served undergraduates.
“Carolina Leadership Development
has had very strong programs for under
graduates for the last 18 years, and we
wanted to expand
those programs to
graduate and pro
fessional stu
dents,” said Paul
Ilecki, assistant
dean for academic
and students
affairs in the grad
uate school.
The program is
a series of approx
imately 15 work
shops, each lasting
1 1/2 hours,
which will be held
throughout the
academic year.
Students will
have the opportu-
Graduate and
Professional Student
Federation President
KATHERINE KRAFT
said the programs
would give students
organizational skills.
nity to develop an understanding of
their own leadership skills and increase
their knowledge of the core skills of a
successful leader.
“The graduate school, in conjunction
with the Carolina Leadership
Development, is offering for the first
time ever leadership development semi
nars developed for and targeted at grad
uate and professional students,” said
Katherine Kraft, president of the
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation.
Cynthia Wolf Johnson, associate vice
after-hour parties, and if we find viola
tions we will fine the parties involved.”
A member of the Phi Kappa Psi fra
ternity at University of Texas at Austin,
who wished to remain anonymous, said
dry rush was not as easy to enforce as
some made it appear.
“Formal rush is more than just rush
week itself,” he said.
“Basically IFC just wants a schedule
for what you do during rush week and
that is the only thing that’s dry.”
He said he thought the idea of a dry
fraternity was pushing the edges of the
envelope.
“As far as making fraternities dry,
that is a silly notion because the campus
is not dry,” he said.
“Why can’t the fraternities drink if
other people on campus are?”
Tom Lorz, assistant Greek liaison for
Colorado State said he realized dry rush
was impossible to enforce.
“It’s relatively well-complied with,
but we are joking ourselves to think that
it is completely dry,” he said. “Outside
are those events that people sneak off to
like bars and parties.
“At some point there is no way that
can be policed.”
Lorz said violations of the dry rush
policy could usually be detected through
simple word of mouth.
“Freshmen have no loyalty to these
organizations; they have loose lips,” he
said. “They go bragging back to their
friends and it filters up, and the IFC
finds out.”
Lorz said the IFC would follow up
on any alleged violations of which they
learned.
“We will call up the fraternity and let
them know we are aware and they will
get in serious trouble,” he said.
Though some universities seem to
grapple with the idea of a completely
dry rush, other schools’ officials said
they strictly adhered to the policy.
“Our rush is completely dry, for men
and women,” said Kyle Pendleton, the
must send a letter of resolution to the
House that indicates their interest,” he
said.
“So far, 31 counties have submitted a
letter to the House,” Fitzgerald said,
adding that Orange County was not
among them.
Martha Prior-Cook, director of
Social Services for Orange County, said
the Department of Social Services board
supported the Senate plan, which pro
poses statewide eligibility requirements.
“Welfare eligibility should be the
same statewide,” Prior-Cook said.
“The same basic support should be
offered to recipients no matter where
they live.”
Orange County Commissioner
Margaret Brown said she did not sup
port individual welfare systems because
’‘We want to provide
graduate students the
opportunity to gain strength
in leadership. ”
CYNTHIA WOLF JOHNSON
Associate Vice Chancellor
for Student Affairs
chancellor for Student Affairs and the
director of Carolina Leadership
Development, said, “The training work
shops have clearly taken into place the
fact that graduate students may have
had prior work experience.”
Ilecki said the program was estab
lished to enhance the skills of graduate
students as they prepare to enter the
work force after graduation. He also
said the program would help the stu
dents become more effective leaders on
campus.
With any leadership development
forum, the goal is to enhance and devel
op necessary skills to manage and orga
nize people, Kraft said.
“I think it is very beneficial to our
campus to recognize that the education
al needs of our graduate students aren’t
limited to library and bench-top skills,”
Kraft said.
The program has generated plenty of
excitement, Decki said
.“We have had a tremendous
response, with over 50 preregistered stu
dents,” he said.
The classes seem to be offering useful
skills, said Richard Allen, a fifth-year
graduate student in neurobiology.
“It looked like something I could use
in my teaching and my career, I "he said.
Allison Boney, a second-year gradu
ate student in chemistry said she
waslooking forward to the experience.
“I thought it would be a great oppor
tunity to work with people outside of
science and have a voice in the graduate
student community.”
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Greek liaison for San Diego State.
Pendleton said he thought getting
caught participating in a wet rush was
one of foe most serious offenses.
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Peter Bolish talks to a potential scuba diver at the sports club fair
Wednesday. Students hoping to join their favorite sport crowded the Pit.
they could lead to certain inequalties
among counties.
She said that individual plans could
cause some counties to have really good
programs and others to have poor pro
grams, depending on foe resources in a
particular county.
“This could cause people to gravitate
to counties that have better programs,”
Brown said.
“Welfare should be like taxes, foe
same through out the state.”
Phyllis Gibbs is a county commis
sioner in Gilford County, one of the
counties that submitted a letter of reso
lution to foe House.
“I think that because we are better
atuned to the needs of our community
we can develop a better program than
someone sitting in Raleigh,” Gibbs said.
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Jamie Dowd (right), who was charged with cheating and plagiarism, was found not guilty during a
mock hearing by new members of the attorney general's staff and the Honor Court on Wednesday.
Honor Court holds mock hearings
BY EULIE MCGINNESS
STAFF WRITER
New members of the attorney gener
al’s staff and foe Honor Court are test
ing their skills this week in a series of
mock hearings.
Honor Court cases are confidential,
and normal hearings are closed to foe
public. Mock hearings provide an
opportunity to view foe system.
In a mock hearing Honor Court
members stage a case and try a defen
dant based on fake charges.
“These cases are made up by senior
council members and foe students are
then assigned to be on foe investigative
or foe defense councils,” said Anna Jett,
who is in charge of foe training process
for foe new members.
Judicial Programs Officer Margaret
Barrett said, “Much of foe work for foe
“There are two things that a fraterni
ty or sorority can loose their charter over
quicker than anything else; those are
hazing and wet rush.”
“From what we’ve heard from foe
experts, there will not be any people
gravitating to Gilford County because of
our local welfare program.
“Due to foe cost of moving and leav
ing behind family members it is unlikely
that people will move to a different
county for better benefits,” she said.
“The more local foe government, foe
better,” she said.
Prior-Cook said even though Orange
County was not creating its own pro
gram she anticipated a Senate-designed
program which should allow foe
Department of Social Services to work
closely with businesses and churches in
foe community.
“We believe foe same basic safety net
of support should be provided to all
North Carolina citizens.”
case is done before foe actual hearing."
Attorney General Charles Harris said
foe mock hearings provided good prac
tice.
“These mock hearings are important
because they give foe new staff a chance
to really experience foe system and
because it is an informative process for
other students involved," Harris said.
In one particular mock hearing, a stu
dent was accused of cheating on a polit
ical science exam. The student pleaded
“not guilty” to foe allegations.
Antoine Acklin, a sophomore bio
chemistry major from Raleigh, acted as
foe investigative council and called two
witnesses to support the charges that
were brought against foe student.
Jett said as part of anew method foe
Honor Court was recruiting freshmen
and graduate students to play foe roles
of witnesses.
Thursday, August 28,1997
Board seeks
new zoning
regulations
■ Wallace Kuralt paid an
extra $17,000 in order to
set up a $2,000 trailer.
BY JIM VINSON
SWF WRITER
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen
began foe process of re-examining zon
ing regulations at Tuesday’s meeting.
Wallace Kuralt, owner of foe
Intimate Bookshops on Franklin Street
and in Eastgate Shopping Center, said
he bought a mobile home for his newly
wed son and found out after foe fact
that existing zoning regulations cost
him between SB,OOO and SIO,OOO more
than expected.
He said regulations specified foe
home was to be taken off axles and
wheels and surrounded by a masonry
foundation in order to preserve appear
ance, rather than add structural support.
The roof’s dimensions also had to be
increased and steps had to be built on
both sides, but none of foe changes had
safety reasons. All are simply for cos
metic value, he said. “We put it behind
foe house where nobody can really see
it, not even us,” he said. “It sounds like
a move just to keep people from putting
up trailers.”
Alderman Hilliard Caldwell said he
was part of foe board that created foe
aesthetic ordinance 10 years ago but foe
zoning regulations were out-dated. “I
admit it was a mistake making such
stringent rules regarding mobile homes
in Carrboro town limits,” he said.
Although Kuralt said he was unhap
py about foe money he was forced to
pay for foe visual improvements to foe
mobile home, he was glad foe alderman
have been discussing changing foe ordi
nance. “A number of (aldermen) were
upset that we were subjected to unfair
restrictions," Kuralt said.
Kuralt said he had been in foe area
for around 30 years, and at that time foe
land on which he lives was not part of
Carrboro.
Now, though, Kuralt receives all foe
services provided by Carrboro and is
subject to foe town’s jurisdiction, so foe
mobile home must fit foe zoning regu
lations, Alderman Jacquelyn Gist said.
“If this had been a pre-existing condi
tion, then it would’ve been grandfa
thered in, but since it wasn’t a pre-exist
ing structure, it wasn’t exempted,” Gist
said about foe mobile home.
She said foe ordinance existed to
restrict large business, but as a zoning
ordinance, it still applied to all residents.
“It seems ridiculous, on foe surface, that
Kuralt had to pay $17,000 to move his
son and his son’s new bride into a
$2,000 trailer,” Gist said. “The ordi
nance wasn’t meant for this, but unfor
tunately it has done it”
The student was defended by
Rebecca Close, a sophomore from
Spartanburg, S.C.
“This is really just a test flight,” Close
said. “But I have really enjoyed learning
about foe process, and I think it is a
great experience for me since I am plan
ning to go to law school."
Lydia Putnam, an Honor Court
member, and Zia Zareem, anew Honor
Court member, deliberated and returned
foe verdict as “not guilty.”
“Sometimes we will have very sticky
situations where we will deliberate from
anywhere to 15 minutes to 4 hours,”
Putnam said.
Harris said applications for foe attor
ney general’s staff will be available in
February.
Acklin said, “It is a great opportunity
to get involved and experience foe
process of being judged by your peers.”
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