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Friday, March 10, 2000
New Program Helps Immigrants
By Brooke Roseman
Staff Writer
Anew organization has been created under
the umbrella of Campus Y to acclimate foreign
middle and high school students to American
culture.
Entering America Smoothly Through
Enrichment aims to work with local teens and
their families who have recently entered the
United States. It also strives to encourage inter
action between college students and teens with
diverse backgrounds.
EASE, created fall semester, has 30 mem
bers - 15 little pals who recently immigrated to
the United States and 15 big pals who are vol
unteer college students.
Right now, EASE involves middle school
and high school students in the program, but it
is expanding its reach to elementary students.
Little EASE pals are recommended to the
program by English as a Second Language
teachers in local schools.
ESL teachers identify children who have
Town Selects Artist
For Atrium Display
By Amy Dobson
Staff Writer
A tapestry depicting the Chapel Hill
of the late 18th century will soon add
zest to the atrium of Town Hall.
After a year long competition, a selec
tion panel chose artist Anita Wolfenden,
a resident of Chapel Hill since 1970, to
receive a public arts commission of
$4,000 to weave her proposed tapestry.
Wolfenden said her selection was a
surprise and she looked forward to hav
ing her work displayed in Town Hall.
“I am very excited about being cho
sen,” she said. “The competition was
fun.”
A selection panel, composed of com
munity representatives, art administra
tors, artists, town employees and a rep
resentative from the Public Arts
Commission, narrowed the pool of
more than 20 entries down to three
finalists.
The entries advancing to the finalist
level consisted of two paintings and a
tapestry.
The panel later came to a group con
sensus, deciding that the tapestry would
best suit the given space in Town Hall.
Julie Andresen McClintock, a former
Town Council member who served on
the selection panel, said the tapestry was
a contrast to the paintings the other two
finalists submitted.
“We opted for a piece that would be
more timeless,” she said. “The tapestry
fulfilled all the criteria we were looking
for.”
Council member Kevin Foy, who
also served on the panel, said, “All three
did excellent work. (The panel) chose
the tapestry because of its unusual tex
ture and use of color."
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social troubles, such as those who have been
called troublemakers because they have not
adjusted to culture in the United States.
EASE Co-chairman Anish Shah said EASE
tried to accommodate the needs of the children.
“We’re a mentoring program in that aspect,”
said Shah, a junior from Wilmington. “Our mis
sion is to help recent immigrants in the area to
adjust into American society but at the same
time retain their culture.”
Shah said the EASE program had children
from a variety of cultures. “We figure the best
way to achieve our mission is through our
diverse membership.”
Shah said the program encouraged big EASE
pals to take their little pals out in pairs so they
could build friendships with other children.
“We try to introduce them to a network of
friends they can depend on and help them
speak English more often,” Shah said.
Ryon Chao, an EASE member and sopho
more from Raleigh, said he joined the group to
help children adjust to American culture.
“The reason why 1 got interested in this pro
ing the commission to reaching the final
consensus - took about a year and coin
cided with some of the council’s other
art initiatives.
“The Town Council is working to
encourage art by helping artists find
venues for their work and creating an
attitude of appreciation in Chapel Hill,”
Foy said.
McClintock, along with Mayor
Rosemary Waldorf, got the idea to spon
sor the commission through conversa
tions with residents. McClintock said
the town wanted to showcase local art
work. “All the finalists were from
Chatham or Orange County,” she said.
Wolfenden, who has been weaving
for 20 years, said she wanted to find
something relevant to the town’s early
history when she submitted her entry.
Her inspiration came from an old
map she uncovered in the document
room in Wilson Library, which showed
a land survey of Chapel Hill in 1792.
“I found the original map,” she said.
“It was on an old, 3-foot-long piece of
parchment paper that was crumbling.”
She said she was intrigued by the old
map of the University because of the
feelings it stirred in her. “It awed me
because of the sense it conveyed of this
outpost of civilization sitting like a gem
in the forest,” she said. “It looked so pre
carious and isolated, but it also
expressed the optimism of its time.”
She said weaving the tapestry, which
will measure 92 inches long by 74 inch
es wide, should take her all spring and
summer to be ready by Sept. 5.
“I’ll be working all the time,” she
said. “This is the biggest tapestry I have
ever made.”
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gram is because I’m Asian American, and I
realized that growing up in this country is a lit
tle different,” he said. “I just wanted to help a
kid from another country adjust here.”
Chao said he had seen his pal grow socially in
the time they had spent together. “Her English
has improved a lot since she’s come here.”
Besides taking his little buddy out, Chao said
he took her and her mother to Davis library to
help her with research for a class project.
Shah said EASE wanted to expose the chil
dren to different aspects of American society.
“We promote that members take them to cul
tural events on campus because that’s an impor
tant aspect of American society.”
Silka Patel, a sophomore EASE member from
Charlotte, said she also joined EASE because she
moved to the United States when she was young.
“I kind of have an idea of what they are going
through,” Patel said. “It would have been nice to
have had somebody to show me the ropes.”
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Labor Recommendation Delayed 2 Weeks
Despite the stall, activists
will continue to fight the
University's affiliation with
the Fair Labor Association.
By John Maberrv
Staff Writer
The deadline for the University’s
Labor Advisory Committee to submit a
recommendation on membership to the
Worker Rights Consortium has been
extended to the week after Spring
Break.
The committee is debating whether
to end partnership with the Fair Labor
Association and join the Worker Rights
Consortium, both labor monitoring
groups.
Members of Students for Economic
Justice are advocating a union with the
WRC, but the committee is continuing
to discuss the issue.
“We didn’t get all the pros and cons
of each of our options laid out until
Jewish Group Awaits Completion of Center
Officials from N.C Hillel
estimate they have raised
more than $2.1 million for
the rebuilding project.
By Sabine Hirschaier
Staff Writer
With demolition work complete and
the new building’s foundation already in
progress, a local Jewish organization
anxiously awaits the completion of its
new activities center.
N.C. Hillel, a campus-based Jewish
group, hopes to reoccupy 210 W.
Cameron St., where its old building was
demolished in October.
Executive Director Rabbi Edward
Elkin said the new center would encom
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DTH/ CASEY QUILLEN
Kelly Brown dances for Jesus Awareness Week. Along with an a cappella group,
an impromptu rap and drama, her group and other Christian organizations spread
their message in the Pit during lunch all week.
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Monday,” said
Labor Advisory
Committee Co
chairman Rut
Tufts.
“The report will
be written over
Spring Break, and
we will have a rec
ommendation for
the chancellor by
the end of the fol
lowing week,” he
said.
SEJ will hold a
picnic today to
demand that
Labor Advisory
Committee
Co-chairman
Rut Tufts
said the report would
be written over break.
administrators withdraw from the FLA
and join the WRC.
Last week, SEJ protested the
University’s affiliation with the FLA by
hosting a jam session inside South
Building. The protestors were asked to
quiet down or leave the area.
The prior week, SEJ organized a “I’d
rather be naked than wear clothes made
in sweatshops” party on the steps of
pass 10,000 square feet and cost about
$3.6 million. He said he expected it to
be completed in late fall.
“We are in the middle of a capital
campaign to raise money for the new
building,” Elkin said. “We already have
$2.1 million.”
Elkin said the organization was confi
dent it would be able to raise the
remaining funds.
“We have good support from the
local Jewish alumni and the communi
ty,” he said.
Program Director Kes Spilker said
the new building would enable the
group to expand already existing activ
ities and programs.
“The new building is three times larg
er (than the old one),” she said. “It will
have recreation rooms, a library and a
new kitchen with meat and dairy sepa-
A HOLY FERVOR
South Building.
SEJ set today as the Labor Advisory
Committee’s deadline, to give interim
Chancellor Bill McCoy ample time to
have a decision on WRC membership
before April 3.
The change, however, will not ham
per the chancellor’s decision.
“The chancellor said he should have
no problem rendering a decision by the
deadline,” Tufts said.
The April 3 deadline was made to
meet the WRC deadline for delegation
at the consortium’s founding conference
April 7.
Should McCoy decide to sign a con
tract with the WRC, SEJ members have
already promised to pay his airfare to
attend the New York conference.
“If we’re not present at the WRC
founding table, our voice won’t be
heard,” said Todd Pugatch, student rep
resentative to the Labor Advisory
Committee. “It’s a really significant
opportunity for UNC to be in on the
founding of a very influential commit
tee.”
ration (according to Jewish dietary law),
which will make our traditional Friday
dinners easier.”
The presentation of group programs
also would be improved with the larger
building, Spilker said.
“With more space available, we are
planning to run multiple programs
simultaneously,” she said.
The temporary move into two offices
in the Wesley Foundation at 214
Pittsboro St., has hindered the group’s
activities, Spilker said.
“It requires tnore time to plan pro
gram events since we have to rent
places,” she said. “Also, students do not
have a place to gather. The place here is
just too tiny to relax.”
Abby Karesh, Hillel student board
vice president, also criticized the limita
tions of the present location.
Campus Calendar
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11 a.m. - Students for Economic
Justice will host a lunch on the steps
of South Building to discuss issues of
sweatshop labor.
Interim Chancellor Bill McCoy and
other administrators have been invited,
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SFJ has pledged to continue the fight
that began last April when students
staged a three-day sit-in, resulting in
administrators’ agreement to require dis
closure of UNC licensees’ factory loca
tions.
“I really feel like we have taken a step
back since the sit-in by joining the FLA,”
Pugatch said.
Despite high-profile protests by SEJ,
Tufts does not see change as likely.
“Right now, I don’t feel like there is a
lot of support for leaving the FLA,” Tufts
said.
Membership in each organization
costs $30,000 annually, so leaving the
FLA and joining the WRC will not
increase payment.
“It’s very dangerous for the
University to be involved with the
FLA,” Pugatch said. “We may find out
years from now that we have certified a
free labor factory that is, in fact, a sweat
shop.”
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“It is very hard to plan things right
now,” she said. “But with the new build
ing in sight, it will be worth it at the
end.”
Karesh said the old building was not
only in need of a lot of repair but also
became too small for the growing group
of supporters and visitors.
“With 50 to 60 people coming a
week, the old building outgrew itself,”
she said.
Karesh said she wanted to see the
facility function as a place for social
activities for Jewish life on campus.
“We are a minority, but we have a
presence in the community,” she said.
“(The new building) is a great opportu
nity for us to say ‘hey, we are here.’”
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welcome to attend.
For the Record
In the Wednesday article “GPAs Rise
Throughout System," the grade inflation
increases reported in both the graphic
and the story were incorrect.
The correct percentage increases are:
UNC-Chapel Hill up 6.4 percent
between 1990 and 1999, UNC-
Charlotte down 1.5 percent between
1 991 and 1999, UNC-Wilmington up
9.45 percent between 1990 and 2000,
N.C. State University up 6 percent
between 1990 and 1999, East Carolina
University up 7 percent between 1992
and 1999, Appalachian State University
up 5.9 percent between 1991 and 1998
and UNC-Pembroke up 1.2 percent
between 1994 and 1999.
The Daily Tar Heel regrets the errors.