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2 Tuesday, April 14,1998 Group plans to write licensing report for Hooker ■ A recently formed task force will advise the chancellor on contracting. BY CHRIS HOSTETLER STAFF WRITER A task force decided Monday to devote two of its final three meetings this semester to discussing strategy about UNC’s licensing contract code. The Task Force on Code for Labor Artist seeks student input for mural BY BECKY STREAMO STAFF WRITER Students can’t help paint artist Michael Brown’s latest mural, but they can offer opinions on his preliminary sketches. : Brown, a Chapel Hill native and UNC alumnus, plans to paint the wall of Franklin Street’s Carolina Coffee Shop. Brown said he plans to start later this month. The mural has a parade motif and is intended to celebrate the diversity of the University and the Chapel Hill commu nity. “This is a very pro-diversity mural that I’m trying to do. I've tried to have a broad spectrum of ages, genders, social roles and races,” Brown said. Because die wall Brown intends to paint is on University grounds, he had to get permission from the University’s Building and Grounds Committee. David Godschalk, the committee chairman, said the group was impressed with Brown’s plans. “(The mural) will be a great addition to die area,” Godschalk said. The committee told Brown he should solicit student input. Brown agreed that no group should be left out. Brown put a copy of his sketch in the Undergraduate Library, behind the cir n • T' 1 A Seniors & Faculty The Senior Class of 1998, The General Alumni Association, and The Division of Student Affairs request the pleasure of your company at an awards presentation in recognition of OUTSTANDING SENIORS & FAVORITE FACULTY Wednesday, April 15, 1998 At 4:00 in the Afternoon George Watts Hill Alumni Center TQcccptlo# fo 'p<&to- mT aw ft* MW W Wt poUR IT OUT AND __ Up A BRAND NEW ?OT ' (rXj IS AW DON’T squat about MAKM6 CPFFTE. BRUEGGE^SBAGELS" Totally completely wtk CHAPEL HILL: 104 W. Franklin St. • Eastgate Shopping Center Also in Garner • Cary • Durham • Raleigh OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK Practices Related to Licensing, which was formed to advise Chancellor Michael Hooker on how to deal with contracting with different companies, met in a Smith Center conference room. The group had already outlined six options to report to Hooker as potential methods of dealing with future contract negotiations. University administrators freed criti cism last semester for signing a licensing contract with Nike Corp. worth $7.1 million Some students said Nike should not dilation desk for students to view. Students who left comments in the notebook Brown provided said they were confused about the identities of some of the figures in the sketch. Brown said he intended for the mural to have historical significance for the University. He based it on William Mead Prince’s book, “The Southern Part of Heaven,” and Carl Boettcher’s traditional wood carvings. Brown also included a woman hold ing a little girl’s hand. Brown said the image could represent one of the first women to graduate from the University, leading her sisters into anew era. University founder, William R. Davie, leads the parade Brown portrays. Brown said he believed students’ ideas could greatly enhance the finished product. He said he encouraged every one to comment. “I think it’s great that (Brown) wants student input because it will be part of our campus," said Lisa Evans, a fresh man from Greensboro. Brown has been drawing and paint ing murals for about 10 years in Chapel HUI, one every summer. He said this mural might be his last. Mary Pardo, associate professor of the Department of Art and a member of the committee, said Brown’s murals ben efited the community in a low-cost way. UNIVERSITY ft CITY be allowed to represent the University because of harsh labor practices in its overseas factories. Task Force Chairman Rut Tufts said the group’s responsibility was to figure out what stand the University should take in its licensing agreements. Task force members said the main problem with requiring companies to follow labor rules was enforcing the reg ulations. Tufts said it was a tough issue because everyone agreed that unfair labor practices should not continue, but Orange County school board hears requests from principals ■ Many of the principals said getting more assistant principals was paramount. BY MICHAEL KANAREK ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR In the final analysis, principals of Orange County Schools can sum up their budgetary needs in one word: per sonnel. At a special session Monday night, the Orange County Board of Education discussed the proposed 1998-99 budget and heard system principals explain and prioritize their budget requests. Rebecca Home, principal of Efland- Cbeeks Elementary School, said that while elementary schools dealt with about 100 disciplinary referrals each month, middle schools typically dealt Tuesday 11 p.m. The Soqja H. Stone Blade Cultural Center will present a screening of “Hairpiece,” a film by Ayoka Chenzira which uses visual imagery to tell die story of nappy hair and its roots, in the BCC. 1:30 p.m. Carolyn Wood, adjunct pro fessor of neurology and an educator at the Acldand Art Museum, will lecture in the TURKEYTUESOATg V-T M . I u any size sub / receive I / Wte*- theatres. | jwgfesA sjzesMb 3 | purchase of i aSSSe "SST S3SSSL, T/2 Price! | size (Hips! bpi™. 4/30/9$ | dherafler. 4/30/9$ Ooodce 107 N. CofcmAfa St. location only I Pood at 107 N. Columbia Si. leaden only ® -go for a swim, shoot some hoops, make new friends. lime. v I I " 370-4500 email: gtowers@aol.com http://www.citysearch.com/rdu/granvilletowers UNC uses some of the money it receives from those contracts for scholarships. “There are plenty of ways to avoid prob lems such as child labor without dam aging (scholarship money from Nike),” Tufts said. Collegiate Licensing Company, a group that serves as an liaison between universities and businesses that sell licensed school products, represents UNC in draft negotiations. CLC has responded to controversy about companies’ labor practices by forming a contract draft that added with 10 times that amount, making hir ing more assistant principals necessary. “The middle school youngster is a challenging person,” she said. Superintendent Randy Bridges said foe problem stemmed from foe fact that foe state allocated funds for assistant principals in terms of months of employment, not an actual number of positions. “How you dole that out may mean you rob Peter to pay Paul,” he said. The principals also dted other areas where they were in great need of more workers particularly teachers, office staff and school nurses. Board Vice Chairwoman Delores Simpson suggested cutting some items from foe proposed budget in order to ful fill some of foe schools’ higher priority needs. “We may have to look at some of foe other needs and make some critical Campus calendar Binkley Baptist Church located at 1712 Willow Drive in Chapel Hill. The program is only open to members of Peer Learning, but new members may join at any time For more information, 929- 4946. 3:15 p.m. The University Counseling Center in Nash Hall will conduct a career clinic to help students develop a plan of clauses regarding labor issues. Task force member Todd Pugatch had spoken with students at Duke University who helped design a code to regulate foture contracts between Duke and apparel companies. Pugatch said foe CLC draft, which was released in January, was modeled after Duke’s contract code. He said the CLC draft used the same language, but omitted references to Duke. But Pugatch said Duke’s draft did not answer foe problem of how to enforce labor rules. adjustments,” she said. The hiring of more teachers intersects with foe school board’s goal of reducing foe student-to-teacher ratio, but board member Keith Cook questioned when more teachers could be hired to achieve it “At what point do we start adding that?” he asked. Bridges said foe solution to foe prob lem of where to put foe students would be helped next year, when anew ele mentary school was scheduled to open. But board member David Kolbinsky said foe hiring of additional teachers with local funds would cause a problem in two yean when teachers salaries are scheduled to be raised to equal foe national average. He said locally funded teachers’ salaries would have to be supplemented with more local funds. “I’m trying to say this is an end-sum game.” action for selecting a major or career. 4 p.m. Dr. Joseph DeSimone, Mary Ann Smith Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, will discuss “Moving Technology from the Laboratory into foe Marketplace,” in foe George Watts Hill Alumni Center The lecture is free and open to foe public. For more information, call 962-7054. Item* of Internet The Center for Teaching and Learning’s Graduate Teaching Consultants will pre sent an “International TA Support Group,” an informal forum for international teaching assistants to share ideas and concerns about teaching April 15 at 3:30 p.m. in Union 208. To register, call 966-1289. The Concert 4 Unity HI, featuring Harmonyx, Hip Hop Nation, SANGAM, USA, CHispA, foe Persian Students Association and Bhangra Elite, will be 7:30 p.m. April 17 in Hill Hall. Tickets are $3 and can be purchased in foe Pit or at foe door. Proceeds to sponsor a stu dent in Zimbabwe through secondary school. The Sports Club Council and foe Orange County Rape Crisis Center will co-host an inaugural 5K run/walk at 9:30 a.m. Saturday on foe UNC campus. The entry fee will be $lO, including a t-shirt and prizes. For more information or to register, call 962- 1013. International Student Orientation appli cations are now available at foe International Center If you are interested in helping new international students with their adjustment to UNC and Chapel Hill foe week of August 12-17, consider being an orientation coun selor. For more information, call 962-5661. Attention Faculty, Staff, Students Air fares to West Coast: LA., San Francisco, Seattle Midweek $3Bl Weekend $371 (includes all taxes) Other Cities Available US 51 A ** wr*vr 14 day advance purchase J #€..#% '%/ K**a..* 967-8888 ■ Glen Lennox Shopping Center Swing into Spring! ffi|. $5 OFF ' Hr wjfo thejiurchasejif Valid any day with coUegt ID. Expires 5/31/98 www.southwickgolf.com Jjfruthtmcfr / | Take Jones Ferry Road to Old UIUH Greensboro Road. Follow Old Wr HB utMA Greensboro Road for 12.5 BahMKI LaHJiSC miles to NC 87. Turn right on NC 87 North for 9 miles to w stoplight. Phillips 86 Conven lence Store Is on the corner. Turn right on Boywood Road for I 942-0783 1 mi| e ,o our sign. 4.14.98 % Bailg iarßrtf Committee to explore other school option ■ One official said having the Edison Project would not be best for the system. BYSEJALVORA STAFF WRITER In its final meeting Thursday night, the Edison/Model School Committee derided to move away from malting education private and instead focused on developing a unique schooling pro gram of its own. The committee, composed of teach ers, administrators and concerned par ents, had been debating since the end of January the possibility of letting tht Edison Project, a private firm based in New York, run the planned Southern Village Elementary School. Kim Hoke, a member of the com mittee and spokeswoman for Chapel Hill-Canboro City Schools, said the group had been divided into three sub. committees to explore the issue. One subcommittee examined the Edison Project and its existing sites; the second looked at alternative model pro grams, and the third checked into devel oping a homegrown program. “The approach that was the first choice of most people was the ‘develop your own program,’ ” Hoke said. Hoke said foe homegrown program, which would be devised by foe school board, involved a longer day and school year, specific time slots every day for reading and math and a 20-1 student teacher ratio. Hoke said, however, that she was not sure how such a program would be sup ported if implemented. “If (foe school) ran into problems, I am not sure who would be there to help troubleshoot or who would have experience with foe particular programs in foe model.” . Harvey Goldstein, chairman of foe subcommittee that looked into foe pos sibility of a homegrown model, said most of foe committee supported the idea. “It is clear that foe majority were more comfortable recommending thf structure of a School that we designed,” Goldstein said, adding that he had reservations about foe Edison Project. j( “I don’t deny that it would enhance academic achievement,” he said. “But I am not sure if it is good for the com munity.” Goldstein said foe controversy over having a school run by a private com pany might erode foe support foe com munity has for foe school system. He said foe homegrown program planned for a substantial after-school program and for each student to have a computer at home. However, Goldstein said foe com. mittee did not make a plan for foe actu al curriculum. “There will be a curriculum subcom mittee to do that," he said. “It would include experts, teachers and principals who know about that stuff.” Goldstein said Superintendent Neil Pedersen would probably recommend to the school board to go with foe homegrown plan in its work session April 23.
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