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Thursday, September 18, 1997
Volunteers line up to join campus big buddies program
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The University’s Big Buddy program
has grown from 15 pairs of buddies to
210 since its start in 1971.
Teji Singh, a senior from Asheboro
who participated in the program last
year, said he was excited about plans
already in place.
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“We have a lot of great programs for
the year, like a trip to the zoo, a trip to
the Museum of Life and Science and big
buddy-little buddy days in the park.”
Counselors in Chapel Hill-Carrboro
City Schools, select students they think
will benefit most as little buddies.
Big buddies must spend two hours
each week with their little buddies, but
spending more time is encouraged.
Buddy groups can also participate in
their own activities together, Singh said.
“Me and my little buddy like to go to
the movies or just shoot hoops at my fra
New program has students seeing stars
BY JIM VINSON
STAFF WRITER
Satellite pictures of Earth’s weather
patterns are being aimed directly at Guy
B. Phillips Middle School.
At Phillips, new receiving equipment
was installed to process two different
satellite signals and translate the signals
into pictures for students to study.
“We get the same images that are
shown on TV, but we can get what we
want,” said Barbara Pedersen, the sev
enth-grade science teacher in charge of
the satellite technology program.
The middle school receives visible
temity house.”
Big buddies already in the program
are automatically referred the next year,
said Deanna Gerard, a senior from
Washington, N.C.
There are usually between 50 and 60
returning big buddies and only 210
spaces, she said.
Singh, a group leader in the program,
will give advice to other volunteers.
“I am excited about the enthusiasm
of people involved in the program,"
Singh said.
“Hopefully, as a group leader I will be
and infrared signals from geostationary
and polar satellites, and with this tech
nology the students are even able to pre
dict the height of clouds, Pedersen said.
The geostationary satellites match the
Earth’s rotation speed to achieve a sta
tionary position above the equator. They
then send signals to a satellite dish on
the roof of Phillips, where an interface
box translates the signals into pictures,
Pedersen said.
She said the polar satellites, which
shift longitudinally around the planet as
they rotate around the poles, are
received by a two meter antenna and
also flow into an interface box to convert
signals into images.
“We’re the only North Carolina pro
gram,” Pedersen said. “The program
has been successful in New York, and
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able to help their excitement carry on
throughout the semester.”
New big buddies will go through an
introductory program to familiarize
them with the program.
Tieman Mennen, a senior from
Buffalo, N.Y., and co-chairman of the
Big Buddy Committee, said the com
mittee has made some changes to the
introductory program.
“... We’re doing a more extensive
training program,” he said. “This year
we’re having both an orientation and a
training workshop.”
it’s moving on into Pennsylvania.
“Funding comes from the National
Science Foundation,” she said. “They
supplied the program’s first grant, as far
as I know. Rhlone-Poulenc Ag Cos., in
the Research Triangle Park, provided
the funds for the hardware and for my
education in the program."
Bob Larson, manager of communi
cation at Rhlone-Poulenc said the cor
poration donated around $5,000 for the
project.
Phillips Principal Alton Cheek was
not available to comment on the new
program.
“All students are going to be involved
in the project,” Pedersen said. “We’ve
been following the hurricanes,” she said.
“We’re becoming familiar with weather
symbols used in newspapers.”
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BOOM
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terday afternoon, Powell said.
“We can determine what kind of
energy that it was with further tests,”
she said.
Powell said it is hard to tell whether
it was a small earthquake or just a build
ing collapsing, but it was definitely one
of the two.
“We can’t be positive because we
don’t have all of the data yet,” she said.
Scientists in Colorado said the
unusual activity at the University Lake
station, where a seismograph transmit
ting data to Colorado is located, excited
them. “It appears to be an isolated
event,” said Waverly Person, a geo
physicist in Golden, Colo. “We see no
seismic activity."
Person helps to monitor more than
200 stations that transfer data to Golden
Colo., by satellite.
Chapel Hill Police Department
Spokeswoman Jane Cousins said offi
cers had no new information about the
loud boom or what caused it.
Several students, who felt the boom
from Granville Towers to the Student
Union, said the phenomenon still mys
tified them.
But some students remain skeptical
about the shaking and the rumors that
have stemmed from it.
“I think that the whole thing could be
a farce,” said Toni Esposito, a senior
from Raleigh. “I was sitting in my house
on Franklin Street and I didn’t hear a
thing,” she said.
John Stokes, UNC Hospitals mar
keting director and spokesman, said he
heard the boom, but that it was in no
way related to the hospital construction.
RESEARCHERS
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and Asheville called the Brevard Fault.”
“The good news is that they are all
dead. They have been inactive for mil
lions of years,” she said.
One local fault runs directly beneath
the Triangle. It falls under Raleigh-
Durham International Airport, The
Angus Barn Ltd. restaurant in Raleigh
and N.C. State University’s geology
department.
UNC’s geology department and the
N.C. Geology Survey Center actively
investigate the faults.
“We are in the process of preparing
an earthquake map of North Carolina,”
said Jeffrey Reid, chief of the Geology
Survey Center.
Scientists measure seismic activity, a
release of energy stored in the earth’s
crust, with highly technological tools.
“In our vault we have sophisticated
instruments that register motion hori
zontally and vertically,” Powell said.
“Out in the field we have seismic
drums and portable seismometers that
we bury,” she said.
“We leave it alone and come back to
check on it daily.”
The U.S. Geological Survey National
Earthquake Information Center in
Golden, Colo., also participates in
North Carolina’s research.
Waverly Person, a geo-physicist with
the Center, said they monitored activi
ty like the activity Tuesday all over the
world.
He said the boom UNC students felt
was not related to an earthquake.
Person said, “If you have an epicen
ter, a place where the earthquake
occurred, on campus, it would have
been felt in surrounding areas.”
Campus calendar
Thursday
3 p.m. Clyde Edgerton will read from
his new novel, “Where Trouble Sleeps,” in
the Bull’s Head Bookshop.
5 p.m. University Career Services will
sponsor a rdsumd writing workshop in 209
Hanes Hall. The program is open to all inter
ested students.
5 p.m. •*- There will be an important
Korean American Students Association
organizational meeting in Union 210. All
old and new members are invited to attend.
6 p.m. The Greek Women’s Issues
Group will hold their kickoff meeting in the
upstairs Student Union lounge.
7 p.m. The Japanese Animation Club
will be holding its first organizational meet
ing in the Carolina Union Gallery.
7 p.m. Phi Sigma Pi national honor
fraternity, a co-ed fraternity for social, ser
vice-minded scholastics, will be holding a
“Meet Night” in 106 Gardner Hall. All stu
dents with a grade point average of at least
3.2 are invited to attend.
Items of Interest
Applications are now being accepted to fill
three positions on the 1997-98 Yackety Yack
Board of Directors. Stop by Suite 106 in the
Student Union between noon and 4 p.m.
Applications are due by 3 p.m. Friday.
Carolina Club Track and Field practices
Monday-Thursday at 5 p.m. at the Belk
Track. For more information call 914-2244.
For the record
In the Sept. 17 article, 'Residents discuss
expanded water supply,’ should have stated
that OWASA owns the land where the quarry
will be built and that OWASA and the
American Stone Cos. are seeking an amend
ment to change zoning regualtions that will
allow the company to extend the quarry onto
the OWASA property.
Also, in the article 'Schools adopt new
methods to fight drugs,' the statement, 'drug
sniffing dogs have already searched Orange
High School twice this school year' should not
have been attributed to Peter Kramer, adoles
cent substance abuse conselor with the
Orange-Person-Chatam Mental Health Center.
The Daily Tar Heel regrets the errors.