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Buildings, students shake
during unexplained shock
BY MONICA DEV
STAFF WRITER
Windows in Alderman Residence
Hall shook, a loud booming sound inter
rupted classes in Hamilton Hall and
Granville Towers residents feared a
crashing elevator in about two seconds
Tuesday afternoon during a cam
puswide “phenomenon."
“It was just like a boom,” said Serita
Braswell, a sophomore from Bailey who
was sitting in class in Hanes Hall during
the geological event. “I thought some
one was on the roof.”
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Student teacher Jennifer Beaty helps out eighth-grader Chris Elkins with an
art project at McDougle Middle School. Beaty is a senior at UNC.
Fraternity raises money
to rebuild burned house
■ The house will include a
reference to the students
who died in the 1996 fire.
BY SHARIF DURHAMS
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Phi Gamma Delta fraternity mem
bers have nearly reached the $1 million
mark in raising money to rebuild their
house after a fire that killed five students
16 months ago.
The new house, which members plan
to start building within the next two
months, will look much like the old one
from the outside, but the latest in fire
fighting technology will complement the
new Internet and cable hookups, library
and computer lab in the rebuilt house,
said David Joyner, a 1972 alumnus and
former president of the fraternity.
“Obviously, fire is of paramount
interest,” he said. “We want to go for
ward, and at the same time, we want to
remember.”
The building will have fire escapes at
both ends and will use the latest fire
retardant materials, Joyner said. The
plans will include fire alarms, sprinklers
required by the town and fire escapes at
both ends of the house.
It will also include a reference to the
students who died in the 1996 gradua
tion day fire.
The building’s final cost could reach
more than $1.5 million, but Joyner said
construction should start when a few
final permits are approved.
In July, the Chapel Hill Town
Council gave the fraternity permission
to rebuild the house.
A large booming sound and the
ground shaking was heard and felt
across campus.
At the same time, an underground
seismometer at University Lake picked
up an unusual reading around 1 p.m.
The seismometer, the only one in the
area, falls under the care of UNC geol
ogy professor and seismology specialist
Christine Powell.
“We don’t know, yet, what the heck
happened,” Powell said.
She said she could not discover the
cause for the shaking Tuesday because
the seismometer’s reading is automati
ons been a defining
moment in our history. Its
taught all of us about being
alive, and I think it s been
good for us.”
GARRETT PERDUE
President of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity
To secure most of their building per
mits, the fraternity agreed to replace a
large central staircase with two smaller
ones on either end of the building.
The fire investigation concluded the
old house’s central staircase conducted
smoke and gas to the upper floor bed
rooms where the five students slept.
The fraternity hired Stewart Howe
Alumni Service, a Pennsylvania firm
that specializes in helping fraternities
and sororities raise money, to help find
funds for the house.
Director of Greek Affairs Ron Binder
said hiring professional fundraisers was
not unique. Three other fraternities are
quietly raising money for improvements.
"These facilities cost a lot of money,”
he said. “They’re basically mini dorms,
and housing will tell you dorms cost a
lot of money.”
Fraternity President Garrett Perdue
said members planned to move back in
to the house next fall, He was excited
about the move, but said members did
not want to forget either the fraternity’s
history or the tragic fire.
“It’s been a defining moment in our
history,” Perdue said. “It’s taught all of
us about being alive, and I think it’s been
good for us.”
How beautiful it is to do nothing , and then rest afterward.
Spanish proverb
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cally sent to Golden, Colo., for study,
and Powell cannot retrieve it until some
time today.
Powell consulted with the scientists
who received the reading.
The graph reading did not appear to
be that of a sonic boom or an earth
quake, she said.
However, Powell said she refused to
rule out either option. She also listed
subterranean explosions or a large crash,
such as a building falling in the vicinity,
as possible explanations.
Powell said that if she could rule out
a sonic boom, any explosions, or build-
Local middle schools benefit
from UNC’s student teachers
BY NICOLE WHITE
STAFF WRITER
A University program that places
education majors in local middle school
classrooms lets students aquire real
world knowledge.
Twenty-five University students par
ticipating in the Middle Grades
Education program will have the unique
experience of teaching at local middle
schools for one full year instead of the
usual few weeks.
“(University) students are actually
going out to their (assigned) schools the
first day,” said Libby Vesilind, coordina
tor of the University’s middle grade edu
cation.
“They were introduced as part of the
(middle school) teaching staff,” she said.
“From the very beginning they estab
lished themselves as teachers not as
student teachers.”
Currently, the program has placed
student teachers at Grey Culbreth
Middle School and McDougle Middle
School, as well as several schools in
Durham.
“Prior to this program, I would have
been nervous about having many stu
dent teachers at one time,” said Charles
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Trisha Shores, a sophomore English major, limbers up before her ballet class. The class is taught by professional
ballerina Julie Janius Walters, who meshes the traditional virtues of a physical education class with the fine arts.
SILS dean to step down, focus on research
BY KERRY OSSI
STAFF WRITER
Barbara Moran, dean of the School
of Information and Library Science, has
announced plans to step down at the
end of the school year to return to her
first loves: teaching and research.
“Being dean has been fun, but I miss
having the time to work with students
and on my own research,” said Moran,
Geology 101
The cause of the shaking felt on campus could not be determined Tuesday. Here's a
quick lesson on the geological terms that could explain the phenomenon.
■ Seismometer an instrument that amplifies and records small movements of the
ground A A
■ Sonic boom - When an aircraft travels at or above A I I
the speed of sound, it sends out It n
shock waves causing a large booming If A
sound and the walls of buildings All II -
to vibrate 1I I ■ nil O Jrm
■ Fault line - A break in the continuity of 111 II llflfe
a rock formation, caused by a *¥ll I 111*
shifting in the earth's crust. 11l I
seismologically dead fault lines are no ¥ I I
longer active fault lines
■ Subterranean explosion —an explosion beneath the ■ I *
earth's surface " "
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ings falling, then, “We have an earth
quake.”
Although the Triangle sits on several
fault lines, they have been seismograph
ically dead for many years. Powell said
if the event was an earthquake, it was
Stewart, principal of McDougle Middle
School. “But they’re so strong and so
well supervised that they are another
resource for us.”
The program gives students hands-on
experience that other programs do not
offer, said Brandi Cochrane, a senior
from Mt. Pleasant. Cochrane teaches
eighth-grade algebra and pre-algebra at
McDougle Middle School.
“It’s really intense,” she said. “We get
to know the students really well so we
will be more comfortable in the class
room, and they will be more comfort
able with us.”
But before becoming full-time teach
ers, students go through a multi-step
process. During the spring of their
junior year, students begin teaching at
middle schools several hours a week.
Cochrane said that after every lesson the
students teach, they regroup with their
fellow student-teachers, a professor and
clinical instructor Carol Horne.
Horne is a middle school teacher
hired by the University to work with the
program, a feature unique to the Middle
Grades program.
“(Horne) brings the real world into
our classes at the University,” Vesilind
said. “When we talk about a theory, she
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who has headed the school since 1990.
“I've tried to write a book all summer
long and came to the conclusion that I
can’t be an administrator and do my
research.”
Moran’s statement on Monday made
her the second administrator in two
months to announce plans to move back
into the classroom. Vice Provost for
Health Affairs H. Garland Hershey said
in August that he wanted to return to
probably an isolated event and not the
creation of anew fault line.
University Police were also in the
dark Tuesday night as to what took
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is there to show how it applies.”
Real life anecdotes and applications
from the clinical instructor’s experiences
accompany theories rather than text
book examples, said Horne, a nine-year
veteran of the program.
“I think it is a wonderful partnership
between those who are training young
people to teach, and those who have
taught for a number of years,” she said.
The program strives to better prepare
students for their first year of teaching
and to make them aware that teaching is
about relationships, Vesilind said.
“Our philosophy is that the learner
should be at the center of education,”
she said. “Our goal is to have students
understand how children learn and be
able to create caring relationships with
students to encourage learning.”
The built-in internship also helps stu
dents make connections between their
classroom studies and their future occu
pation. “When you’re in the classroom,
you feel like so much you are learning is
theoretical,” Horne said. “But if you do
not have the applications for the real
world, you brush it off. If I can help the
education majors see how theory
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teaching in the School of Dentistry.
Provost Richard Richardson, a popu
lar professor who taught in the
Department of Political Science, said
Moran’s return to teaching was not
unusual.
“I view administrators as faculty
members temporarily away from the
classroom and their research,” he said.
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Tuition delay
proposed for
spring term
■ Officials suggested the
payment delay so students
can get anew tax break.
BY BRADY DENNIS
STAFF WRITER
UNC-system officials might give stu
dents an unexpected Christmas present.
In conjunction with proposals by the
Board of Governors, UNC-Chapel Hill
is considering delaying spring tuition
payments until the new year, delaying
the traditional December due date.
This proposal would allow eligible
students who must pay for a recent
tuition increase to reap the benefits of
the recently passed Taxpayer Relief Act.
“We’re working on the feasibility of
scheduling student payments second
semester so students who are eligible
can receive tax credit,” said Molly
Broad, UNC-system president. “Such
credit would help to mitigate the cost of
tuition increases.”
Taxpayer Relief Act programs, like
HOPE scholarships and “life-long
learning” tax credits, help students fund
higher education.
HOPE scholarships provide students
with up to $1,500 a year in tax credits
for the first two years of college. The
life-long learning program provides a
tax credit that takes effect after the
HOPE tax credit is claimed.
BOG Chairman C. Clifford
Cameron said he thought delaying
spring semester bills would be benefi
cial, but added that the BOG could not
require schools to delay mailing them.
“I noticed that most spring tuition
bills were due in December, and I
thought ‘why not delay it,”’ he said.
Wayne Jones, vice chancellor of UNC-
Chapel Hill’s Department of Business
and Finance, expressed the University’s
willingness to alter the current payment
deadline if possible.
“The (UNC system’s) General
Administration sent an inquiry about
the possibility of tuition delays to all 16
universities, and our response was that
we could probably accommodate such a
change,” Jones said.
Roger Patterson, associate vice chan-
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History of‘the Hill'
How did
Chapel
Hill
become
Chapel
Hill? The
relationship between the town and the
University, the integration of the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and
a history of Chapel Hill's main drag
Franklin Street are all explored.
Page 5
Working-class crusaders
EmPOWEßment Inc. is seeking to save
Chapel Hill and Carrboro's affordable
housing in four neighborhoods for the
area's working-class residents. Page 6
A chancellor says farewell
N.C. State University Chancellor Larry
Monteith, announced Tuesday his
plans to retire. UNC-system President
Molly Broad praised his work. Page 6
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