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The University and Towns
In Brief
Carolina Speakers Talk
To Focus on Exercise
UNC School of Nursing Professor
Carol Hogue will give a speech on the
lasting benefits of exercise at 2 p.m.
today at the Carolina House of Chapel
Hill, 100 Lanark Road.
Hogue, associate director for
research at the UNC Institute of Aging,
will discuss a 16-week exercise program
for older, more sedentary men and
women. The speech is sponsored by the
Carolina House and arranged by
Carolina Speakers.
The free talk is open to the public.
N.C. Gardens to Offer
Botany, Nature Classes
The N.C. Botanical Garden will offer
spring classes in botanical illustration,
basic botany, landscaping and nature
journals.
Classes include “Black and White
Botanical Illustration,” “Designing Your
Own Landscape,” “Basic Botany for
Beginners” and “Writing and
Illustrating a Nature Journal.”
All classes will be held in the
Garden’s Totten Center classroom
unless indicated.
Pre-registration is required for all
classes. For more information or to reg
ister, call 962-0522.
Art Exhibit to Display
UNC Faculty Talents
UNC faculty art will be displayed
starting today through March 28 at the
Ackland Art Museum.
The free exhibit, “By All Means:
The 1999 Faculty Exhibition,” focuses
on the relationship of art to religion and
spirituality.
Themes of childhood vision and
motherhood, memory and nostalgia
and politics are also included in the
exhibit, which the museum hosts every
two years.
Show artists will lead free public dis
cussions at the museum from 12:15 p.m.
to 1 p.m. starting Feb. 4 on rotating
Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Special Olympics Seeks
Help in Swim Program
Chapel Hill and Orange County
Special Olympics need volunteers for a
swim program this spring.
No lifeguard certification is required
for volunteers, but there will be a
mandatory training session at 2 p.m.
Jan. 31 at the Chapel Hill Community
Center on Estes Drive.
Students or people in the communi
ty can register to help with one or more
classes on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or
Thursdays. The classes last 30 to 45
minutes and are held at various times.
For more information or to register
as a volunteer, call Coleen Lanigan at
968-2787, extension 204.
Afternoon Tea to Raise
Cash for Habitat Home
Wall-to-Wall Women will hold a
Sunday Afternoon Tea and silent auc
tion Sunday to raise money to build a
Habitat for Humanity' house.
The fund raiser will be from 3 to 5
p.m. at the Carolina Inn, and the group
requests a sls donation for the event.
Wall-to-Wall Women is one of 11
partnerships participating in Habitat for
Humanity of Orange County’s
Celebration 2000. The goal is to build
11 new homes by 2000 on Rogers Road
in the New Homestead subdivision.
Thrift Shop to Sponsor
Sale at FPG Cafeteria
The PTA Thrift Shop is sponsoring a
manager’s sale from 8:30 a.m. to noon
Saturday at the Frank Porter Graham
Elementary' School cafeteria.
Merchandise will include mosdy new
and used clothes, and everything will
sell for sl.
3 Employees Sought
By Parks Department
The Chapel Hill Parks and
Recreation Department is hiring for
three paying positions.
The local community center needs a
climbing wall attendant Thursday and
Saturday nights and Sunday mornings.
The parks department also needs
someone to prepare softball and base
ball fields for play. The job requires 30-
40 hours per week.
Positions pay $7 to $8 an hour, and
interested persons must apply by Feb. 1
at 968-2784.
The community center indoor pool
is also hiring lifeguards and swimming
instructors and will pay $8 and $11.50
per hour, respectively. For more infor
mation, call 932-2964.
From Staff Reports
UNC Still Uncertain About Labor Code Deal
President Clinton formed
a partnership of apparel
industry leaders in 1996
to improve labor conditions.
Bv Brian Beds worth
Staff Writer
A day of meetings with White House
officials Jan. 13 on clothing manufactur
ing codes was not as productive as some
University officials had hoped.
“(The morning meeting) was really a
bust,” Chancellor Michael Hooker said.
New Alderman Set
To Tackle Position
Carrboro's new alderman,
Assistant District Attorney
Joal Hall Broun, will be
sworn into office tonight.
By Meredith Hermance
Staff Writer
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen
will welcome a fresh face to the board
room tonight when Joal Hall Broun is
officially sworn in as the town’s sixth
alderman.
Broun, 37, was appointed last week to
fill the position of Alderman Hank
Anderson, who died in October.
She will serve the remainder of
Anderson’s term and will be up for re
election in November.
Broun said she was excited about the
new position, although she was sad
about the circumstances that made the
seat available. “No one can replace
Hank,” she said. “He was a wonderful
man, and I wish he was still here.”
Anderson, who had served five years
on the board, died at the age of 63 after
losing a second battle with colon cancer.
Broun said she decided to apply for
the vacant seat on the board because she
wanted to be among the final decision
makers in Carrboro. “I had hoped to
Abortion Art Stirs Reaction
Exhibit artist Kay Obering
says the exhibit's chess
positions represent figures
involved with abortion.
By Jessica Khosla
Staff Writer
One of the country’s most debated
issues - abortion - has made its way to
UNC’s campus. But students aren’t dis
cussing the legality of the issue.
They are observing it through art.
The exhibit, “Wake Up Little Susie:
Pregnancy and Power Before Roe vs.
Wade,” which is being shown in the
Student Union Gallery, places abortion
in the context of a chess game.
The exhibit was completed in 1992
by Kay Obering, Cathleen Meadows,
Cathy Hutton and Rickie Solinger from
the Rocky Mountain Womens’ Institute.
“We were aiming for the college
audience to help them free their
minds,” Obering said. “Abortion is a
woman’s choice.”
Emily Jenkins, Gallery chairwoman
of the Carolina Union Activities Board,
said freeing minds was precisely the
Gallery’s objective.
“Our goal is to present different types
of art,”Jenkins said. “We selected the
exhibit because it is original and
thought-inspiring.”
The different chess positions are
metaphors for the various figures
involved with abortion, both politically
and socially, Obering said. For exam
ple, a judge occupies the most impor
tant position of Queen.
“We had a lot of criticism about the
Duke Alumni Help Fund Beer Trucks for Events
By Vanessa Hastie
Staff Writer
Duke University students are tipping
their glasses to the news of the latest
campus addition: beer trucks.
The rental of beer trucks for student
social events has been made affordable
through a $5,000 grant from the
Department of Alumni Affairs and
Development and will allow student
groups to rent the trucks at a discount
ed price. “This academic year is the first
year the beer trucks have been avail
Hooker and Director of Auxiliary
Services Rut Tufts, also co-chairman of a
campus task force concerned with
licensing, met with representatives from
the Department of Labor and President
Clinton’s staff to discuss universities’
membership in the Clinton
Administration’s Apparel Industry
Partnership.
The AIP was formed by the Clinton
Administration in 1996 to remove unfair
labor conditions from clothing manu
facturing and to let American consumers
know which manufacturers attempted to
follow a set of fair labor standards.
In 1997, the AIP reached an agree
run for the Board of Aldermen in the
future, so when the position became
available, I decided to apply,” she said.
The new alderman said she was
ready to address complex issues such as
affordable housing.
“I look forward to continuing the
board’s push for the creation of more
affordable housing in Carrboro,” Broun
said. “I see that as the most important
issue facing us right now.”
Other concerns for the town are
maintaining the cultural diversity of
Carrboro and preparing for the
University’s planned increase in stu
dents and faculty, she said.
Her new post is not Broun’s first
foray into the public spotlight. She has
worked on the Orange County Dispute
Resolution Board for the past four years
and served on the OWASA Board of
Directors since September 1994, hold
ing the post of chairwoman in 1998.
“I enjoyed the experience on the
OWASA board and talking about water
and sewer issues,” she said.
Broun grew up in Greensboro and
graduated from Wake Forest University
in 1986 with a degree in law.
After graduating, Broun worked as a
judicial law clerk for the United States
District Court for the Middle District of
North Carolina before becoming a part
ner at a law firm in Salisbury.
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Sophomore Matthew Pierce peruses the exhibit in the Student Union
titled "Wake up Little Susie: Pregnancy and Power Before Roe vs. Wade."
judge being female,” Obering said.
“When we started the exhibit over three
decades ago, it was men who had all of
the powerful positions.”
Some students said the exhibit’s pri
mary focus was on. society rather than
abortion. “Instead of talking about abor
tion being right or wrong, it’s saying
when you’re bom, there are certain
social categories you fall into,” said Kea
Parker, a student who was sitting in the
Gallery Tuesday night
Stephanie Broughton, co-chair
woman of Students for Choice, said the
exhibit conveyed a racial perspective.
“It puts the choice issue into the con
able,” said Shannon Breiner, coordina
tor of event advising at Duke.
“We agreed last semester that we
would really like to see students staying
on campus, not driving, and we would
like to see them drinking responsibly.
“It is an experiment this year; we
only have funding for 10 of these events
and we are going to see at the end of the
year if we should fund more,” she said.
“It’s worth it to us to see students stay on
campus.”
The beer trucks were made available
lasf semester, but the steep cost of rent
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ment on a code of conduct for manufac
turers.
Brazil devalued its currency on the
same day as the labor meeting, and
some Clinton staff members, including
Chief Economic Advisor Gene Sperling,
were not able to attend the meetings as
planned, he said.
Tufts said UNC officials talked about
the monitoring and implementation of
the AIP labor code on die trip.
He said AIP members, officials from
UNC, the University of Notre Dame
and Duke, Ohio State and Princeton
univ.ersities, as well as representatives of
various licensing agents, formed a group
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Carrboro resident Joal Hall Broun will be sworn in tonight as the newest member of the town's board
of aldermen. Broun is replacing Hank Anderson, who died in October.
Her work as a public defender
brought Broun to Carrboro, where she
has lived since December 1992. The
past three months have kept Broun and
her husband, Jonathan, busy with the
birth of their first child, Harrison.
Broun’s appointment to the board
ended a two-month process of accepting
text of race in a way that most people
aren’t comfortable in dealing with,”
Broughton said. “There’s a big discrep
ancy in the way black and white women
have been treated and the opportunities
open to them.”
Tracy Brown, president of the pro-life
group Carolina Respect Life, said she
had not had an opportunity to view the
exhibit yet
Jenkins said while she expected more
feedback than she had received so far,
there had not been any complaints yet.
The University Editors can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
ing one- between $529 and $629 per
event - discouraged many from taking
advantage of the opportunity. Students
complained that they still had to pay for
their own beer in addition to rental fees.
The grant now allows students to
apply on a first-come, first-serve basis for
use of the truck for the reduced price of
S2OO per event. Two student groups
must apply together and split the rental
fee, due to the restricted number of
trucks the grant can fund.
Director of Alumni Affairs at Duke
Laney Funderburk said keeping stu
to decide whether or not it was possible
to include universities under the AIP.
Tufts said the group would meet
again Monday in Washington.
“But at this point we’re not commit
ting to anything,” he said.
Tufts said UNC and the other univer
sities were not sure if they wanted to join
AIP for a number of reasons.
He said the labor codes of the
Collegiate Licensing Company, which
currently handles all of UNC’s apparel
licensing, were very similar to AIFs, but
were more progressive in their monitor
ing implementation.
For example, he said, the CLC model
written applications and interviewing
candidates. The other candidates for the
position were Jeffrey Betts, Doris Jean
Bynum and Mark Dorosin.
Although Broun was picked to fill
Anderson’s vacant seat, she said she also
hoped to follow in his footsteps.
“I can only hope, as (fellow
Policy Aims to Halt Cars
At Pedestrian Crossings
UNC Police Chief Derek
Poarch says busy areas, like
Union Circle and Manning
Drive, will be targeted.
By Patricia D. Wright
Staff Writer
In an effort to increase pedestrian
safety on campus, UNC Director of
Public Safety Derek Poarch and Security
Services will start ticketing motorists
who do not give pedestrians the right-of
way.
To reinforce the importance of cross
ing streets at designated crosswalks,
University Police began passing out
fliers Tuesday to pedestrians who were
not crossing busy intersections in the
appropriate places, Poarch said.
“As an educational campaign, we will
begin by passing out info to pedestrians,
encouraging them to follow crossing
regulations,” Poarch said. “Next week,
the (information) will continue to be dis
tributed, but written warnings will begin
being issued to motorists who violate the
rule.”
Poarch said that after next week, cita
tions would be given to motorists who
disregard the right-of-way rule. In addi
tion to the citation, motorists will be
charged a $lO fine.
However, police will not stake out to
find those motorists who choose not to
follow the law, Poarch said.
“Staking out implies that the police
will be hiding to catch people doing
dents’ social life on campus was the
main objective in granting the money
for the trucks.
“With state laws, fraternity nationals
and restrictions clamping down on
drinking, a the social life has
moved off campus,” he said. “We got a
strong request to get social events back
on campus.”
But Craig Chepke, a sophomore at
Duke, said the administration acted in a
hypocritical manner in making the
arrangement. “They want to crack down
on drinking and keg parties and such,
Wednesday, January 20, 1999
specifically prohibits corporal punish
ment of workers while the AIP model
did not.
But Tufts said there would be advan
tages of being under the AIP, such as
significantly reducing the cost of licens
ing and having a single labor code.
“It makes more sense to have just one
organization doing this. The question is
if you can do it without giving up your
principles,” he said.
“Nobody wants their T-shirt made by
a nine-year-old.”
The University Editors can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
Alderman Jacqueline Gist) would say, to
continue his Hankishness - his concern
for young people and .for those who
don’t always have a voice to speak up
for them.”
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
wrong, and that’s not our purpose,” he
said. “We want to increase education
and awareness by taking steps to get
people to comply with the law.”
Poarch said officers would be sta
tioned at various locations monitoring
actions of motorists.
Locations that will be targeted are
ones where the bulk of pedestrian and
motorist interaction takes place, such as
South Road, Manning Drive at the
Ridge Road intersection near Craige
Residence Hall and Cameron Avenue,
Poarch said.
The pedestrian safety campaign was
triggered by Poarch’s observations
around campus, as well as student and
staff input, he said.
He said students had complained to
him about the lack of motorists who stop
to let them cross at certain intersections.
“I have seen incidents on Manning
Drive where people are standing to
cross the street, but no cars stop,” he
said. “So if we are going to ask people to
take alternative routes of transportation,
like walking, we need to provide an
appropriate level of safety for them.”
Kimberlee Ward, a freshman from
Raleigh, said police should give citations
to violating motorists.
Ward, who crosses South Road sev
eral times a week, said very few cars
stopped or slowed down when drivers
saw people approaching busy intersec
tions to cross.
“I sometimes have problems crossing
when there are a lot of students at an
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then they turn around and fund beer
trucks. This sends a mixed message to
students.”
At UNC, however, administrators’
efforts to curb drinking have been clear.
Prompted by several alcohol-related
accidents on campus, UNC has pushed
its “Don’t Get Wasted" campaign against
binge drinking and sponsored the alco
hol-free event Fall Fest at the start of the
fall semester.
The State & National Editors can be
reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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