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Friday, September 24, 1999
Class Probes Gift Ideas
Despite Low Turnout
By Karev Wutkowski
Staff Writer
Senior Class officers held forums this
week to give the class an opportunity to
speak out on the selection of a senior
gift, but only three students took them
up on the offer.
Class president Danya Ledford said
she was disappointed by the lack of
attendance. “I wish more people would
have come, but I think a lot of people
spoke to me personally instead of com
ing to the meeting,” she said.
Senior Class Vice President Will
Alston said the meager attendance was
due to bad timing.
“With the hurricane last week we had
to reschedule, but we sent out messages
to everyone on the senior listserv. This
is also exam week for a lot of people.”
Tia Lendo, a senior political science
major from Pennsylvania, came to
Thursday’s forum to share her idea for
the gift. She pro
posed that the
Senior Class create
three fellowships
for students who
exemplify leader
ship skills and
dedication to pub
lic service.
“I received a
fellowship, and it
has been life-alter-
“I wish more people would have
come, but I think a lot of people
spoke to me personally instead
of coming to the meeting. ”
Danya Ledford
Senior Class President
ing,” she said. Lendo said she disap
proved of all of the ideas that the Senior
Class officers and marshals created.
One of the ideas is Academics with
Recognition in which seniors would
donate money within the University,
either to an academic department or for
endowments or scholarships.
Campus Calendar
Today
11 am. - Kenan Professor of History
and President of the German Studies
Association Dr. Gerhard Wienberg will
discuss “Nazi Germany in Peace and
War.”
Sponsored by Shared Learning, the
speech by Dr. Wienberg will be at the
Church of Reconciliation, 110 N. Elliot
Road.
For more information, call Marvin
Block at 929-7316.
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But many marshals said the gift
would not unify the class, which sparked
Ledford to seek input from the rest of
the seniors. “We would also have a
marker as physical recognition of the
gift. It would be something tangible,”
Ledford said.
“We’ve gotten a lot of positive feed
back and some negative feedback from
this idea.” The other ideas are the addi
tion of a room in the newly renovated
Student Union and the creation of a
physical structure like a granite wall.
Ledford said officers would continue
taking suggestions from the Senior Class
through September and October.
Members of the Senior Class can
offer gift suggestions by filling out a gift
idea submission form, which is due
today and available at the Union desk.
The Senior Class officers also sent out
forms online through the senior listserv,
and applications are available at their
Web page.
“There is usual
ly not a senior
voice. No class has
ever tried this hard
to get feedback
from the entire
class,” she said.
The final pro
posals will be pre
sented to the
Senior Class in an
online vote in
November. Ledford said the ultimate
goal regarding the Senior Gift is to unify
the class. “We want to get the whole
class excited and pumped up about it.
We want the highest participation ever.”
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8 p.m. to 10 p.m. - The UNC
Chapter of the NAACP will be having
“111 Vibes,” an evening of jazz and poet
ry in the Union Cabaret.
Tickets will be sold in advance in the
pit for $4 or can be purchased for $4 at
the door with a canned good.
Monday
2 p.m. to 7 p.m. - The Lab! Theatre
will hold auditions for its second set of
shows. Sign up for a time outside Room
105 of the Center for Dramatic Arts.
For more information, look online at
University & City
Chapel Hill Set for New Fire Station
By Erica Sandin
Staff Writer
Twenty-two Chapel Hill residents dis
cussed whether the safety of a nearby
fire station outweighed the late night
sound of sirens at an informational
meeting Thursday night
Fire Chief Dan Jones and Deputy
Chief Bob Bosworth met with con
cerned residents at Christ Church in
Southern Village to discuss the need,
cost and design of the new fire station to
be located on Bennett Road and the
southeast comer of U.S. 15-501.
The fire station is projected to be
completed by early 2001. The date was
chosen in order to correspond with the
city of Chapel Hill’s annexation of
Southern Village and possibly some
Local Schools to Receive High Honor
By Tricia Barrios
Staff Writer
Two Chapel Hill-Carrboro City
Schools will be honored today in a cer
emony celebrating their designation as
Schools of Excellence.
State Superintendent Mike Ward will
make presentations at Estes Hills
Elementary School and McDougle
Middle School in ceremonies designed
to celebrate their academic achieve
ments.
Ward will present feach school with a
banner commemorating its achievement
and address each student body.
“It’s something the whole school
should be proud of,” said Kay Williams,
Director of Communication for the
Department of Public Instruction.
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3:30 - Vince Hill, adoctoral candi
date in the School of Public Health’s
Department of Environmental Sciences
and Engineering, will present a talk
Sept. 27 as part of the department’s In
House Seminar Series.
Called “Reduction of Enteric
Microbes in Flushed Swine Waste
Treated by a Biological Aerated
Filter and UV Irradiation,” Hill’s
seminar will be held in 2301 McGavran-
Greenberg Hall.
4 p.m. - An Anthropology orienta-
other surrounding areas.
Jones helped decide on the location,
using the Geographic Information
System to determine an average
response time. Based on the fire station’s
average four minute travel time, Jones
decided the 15-501 location would work
best.
“It was the best place to reach the
most areas in the quickest time,” Jones
said.
However, some residents of Southern
Village, particularly those on Arlen Park
Drive whose homes overlook the con
struction site, are worried about the
physical appearance of the building and
the noise from the sirens.
“I live directly across from the inter
section,” said Madeline Cains, who
resides on Arlen Park Drive. “My hesi
Schools of Excellence is a category
within North Carolina’s ABCs of Public
Education system.
To attain this level of achievement, a
school must have 90 percent of its stu
dents at or above Achievement Level
111, a grading standard on the end-of
grade test.
In addition, the school must meet or
exceed its expected growth-gain goal.
Dale Minge, principal of McDougle
Middle School, credited good teachers,
good students and hard work for his
school’s success.
He said his school took a hard look to
decide which children were having a
hard time with the test and then tried to
give them the attention needed to make
them successful.
He said he considered the School of
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8 p.m. - Circle K, a service organi
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Tuesday
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tation is the view and noise.”
Despite objections to noise and the
view, other Southern Park residents said
they thought the new fire station would
be a welcome addition to the neighbor
hood.
“I think it’s a necessary thing and it’s
positioned beautifully to cover both the
old and new areas of of Chapel Hill, “
said Phillips VanDusen, who lives on
Parkside Circle.
The cost of the fire station will be
financed through a public bond,
approved by voters and passed in 1996.
Jim Baker, financial director at
Chapel Hill Town Hall said the project
was allocated $1.3 million. Three thou
sand dollars will go to the purchase of a
fire truck, and the remaining million is
for the construction of the station.
Excellence rating a somewhat difficult
distinction to attain. “That’s a pretty
high proficiency,” he said.
Shannon Leonida, assistant principal
at Estes Hills Elementary School, said
her school’s achievement was due to its
rigorous curriculum, hardworking teach
ers and dedicated parents. “The hardest
thing is maintaining it,” she said.
Teachers and other certified person
nel at both schools will receive $1,500 as
an incentive bonus; teachers’ assistants
will receive SSOO.
Both school administrators agreed
that the end-of-grade tests were only one
measurement of academic success.
“Each school’s own goals are impor
tant too,” Minge said.
He said there was a lot of pressure on
teachers to get a good rating.
Don’t forget to bring a dean’s excuse.
2 p.m. to 7 p.m. - The Lab! Theatre
will hold auditions for its second set of
shows. Sign up for a time outside of
Room 105 of die Center for Dramatic
Arts.
For more information, look online at
www.unc.edu/student/orgs/lab.
6 p.m. - The Campus Y Finance
Committee will be having its first inter
est meeting in the Campus Y basement.
For more information, contact Tiffany
Foster at trfoster@email.unc.edu.
Wednesday
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Architect Mike Hining said he
designed the station to be both expand
able and residential in style.
In the preliminary plans, the station is
a single story building that will house
two fire trucks and employ 12 people.
Jones said the new station would be
more beneficial to the area in several
ways.
“It will definitely improve response
time, lower insurance ratings in the area,
and increase fire safety in Southern
Village and in the already existing part
of Chapel Hill,” Jones said.
The Chapel Hill Town Council will
hold a public meeting at Town Hall to
further discuss the project on Oct. 11.
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
“There’s the pressure of knowing that
everyone in the state will know how
every school did,” he said.
The N.C. Board of Education put the
ABCs system of testing in place at the
direction of the General Assembly.
The board’s ultimate goal of the pro
gram is improving the level of student
achievement, more specifically in basic
core courses.
This year, 50 out of 2,000 N.C.
schools achieved the Schools of
Excellence rating.
Williams said she wasn’t satisfied with
the number of schools honored this
year.
“It should be higher, and it will be.”
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
Art Museum is presenting a faculty
forum “Past and Present - East and
West: Four Perspectives on the Art
of Hung Liu.” Faculty from UNC and
Duke University will consider such
issues as female identity in Asia, assim
ilation and conflict in East-West cultural
relations, China’s engagement with its
imperial past and art and politics in post
Cold War China.
Thursday
7 p.m. - Dr. Michael Petit, adjunct
professor of English, will’ discuss the
film “The Mask of Fu Manchu” in Toy
Lounge on the fourth floor of Dey Hall.
In his speech, “Queer
Monsters/Asian Stereotypes: The
Mask of Fu Manchu,” Petit will discuss
what the film’s popularity conveys
about Western sexual and racial visions
of the Far East.
Items of Interest
■ An exhibit, titled “Bits and
Pieces,” in the Carolina Union Gallery
features work by Shirley B. Little and
will run until Oct. 11.
■ What would you as our next chan
cellor? Have any suggestions, com
ments or concerns that you want the
Chancellor’s Search Committee to
be aware of? Please e-mail the Student
Advisory Committee to the Chancellor
with your questions and concerns for
the Chancellor’s Search Committee at
sacc 1 @listserv.oit.unc.edu.