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Fran Hock, head of the DPl’s English as a Second Language program, said it was important to hire new teachers to aid students who did not speak English and retrain old teachers who could help adapt curriculum to the students’ needs. She said teachers were encouraged to meindaf Discount Mufflors and Brakos 407 E. Main Street • Carr boro 933-6888 Ask How To Rmoa/wm A FREE MmfnoktF T-Shirt SHOCKS Buy 3 and Get One FREE J (right rear) or 25 % OFF the j I second shock with purchase of 2 \ m _ E XPIRES_S/SA)O_ _ | OIL CHANGE | $19.95 Oil Change OR j $9.95 with any Brake, Shock J or Exhaust Service Assault Prompts Stricter Screenings By Erica Coleman Staff Writer An assault on a Chapel Hill High School student by a temporary cafeteria employee has prompted school officials to examine the process for screening potential workers. David Paul Merritt, 19, of Durham, was arrested and charged with simple assault for an alleged attack on a 14- year-old female student. The attack occurred March 9 in a cafeteria restroom at the high school, police reports state. Steve Scroggs, superintendent of sup port services for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, said school officials must try to find out how this incident was able to occur. “We need to reexamine our Wake Forest Fumes Over Holocaust Ad By Alex Kaplun Staff Writer Minority groups at Wake Forest University have spoken out against an advertisement the campus newspaper ran recently denouncing the Holocaust. Last Thursday, WFU’s student news paper, the Old Gold and Black, includ ed a 28-page insert titled the “The Revisionist.” The pamphlet has also run in the col lege newspapers at Hofstra University, Boise State University and Valdosta State University. According to an Associated Press arti cle, part of the pamphlet claimed signif icantly fewer Jews were killed in the Holocaust than the historically accepted number of 6 million. Julie Eling, president of Wake Forest use pictures, simple language and body language to convey messages to the chil dren. She also said classmates were asked to help children from other coun tries feel welcome in school. “We also talk about the importance of having the other kids in school help the students adjust, particularly with peer tutoring,” she said. Hock also said both the elementary schools and universities were responsi ble for promoting foreign language teachers. “Local school districts have to recruit / cj^ Vietnamese and Chinese Cuisine 118 E. 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However, he said, only crimes com mitted within the city limits of Chapel University Hillel, a Jewish student group, said her organization was only in the initial stage of response to the article. Eling said it was unfair for the pam phlet to be published and not give other groups an opportunity to respond. “We’re forced to take a responsive stand instead of a proactive one,” she said. She added that various organizations had hosted forums on campus, and a petition demanding an apology from the paper had been circulating. Bradley Smith, the publisher of the pamphlet and president of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust, was quoted in the AP article as saying that “the idea that there was a state program for the mass murder of all European Jews on the basis of the evi dence is stupid. The pamphlet also claimed gas chambers were not used in teachers and make (teaching English as a second language) more attractive to them,” Hock said. Audrey Heining-Boynton, an educa tion and romance languages professor at UNC, said the University had taken steps to educate teachers about the skills needed to teach English as a second lan guage. Heining-Boynton said UNC provid ed two full-tuition U.S. Department of Education grants for teachers who returned to school to learn methods of teaching English as a second language. Hill would be on the record that the department released. “For example, someone could have shoplifted in Carrboro and then come over here and bought a clean record to give to their employer,” he said. Pressley also said it is not required for police departments to report records to the FBI for misdemeanors. He said this could mean that misde meanors would not be on a person’s record at all. Scroggs said the next move was for district officials to find out how the inci dent was allowed to occur and then to discuss with employees ways to prevent such incidents from happening in the future. “We are just at the looking-in stage," he said. “1 will meet with the adminis- concentration camps. Smith, responding to questions via e mail, wrote that his goal was not to offend people but merely to spark debate on the Holocaust. But Smith wrote that he anticipated school newspapers would be criticized for running “The Revisionist.” Smith’s e-mail also said opponents of the pamphlet had little factual evidence and were simply trying to suppress dis cussion about the Holocaust. “(Opposition to “The Revisionist”) is forwarded bv those who do not want to see an open debate on the Holocaust because they are afraid they have some thing to lose,” he wrote. Laura O’Conner, Old Gold and Black business manager, said the opin ions in the pamphlet did not express the opinion of the newspaper or its staff. “In North Carolina we don’t have bilingual education,” she said. “We’re interested in increasing the level of com petency in English.” Frank Dominguez, chairman of UNC’s Department of Romance Languages, said that while the depart ment did not concentrate on molding future public school teachers, it helped the community in other ways. “We do have students working with immigrant workers,” Dominguez said. “We have students doing translation work, too. We also have students [buy ONE* cone: I get one; w With this coupon,' ¥>AOxj | !• I 1 L Lll when you buy a cone, 1 I 1.1,1 we’ll give you another /A Y |l* \ the same size FREE. Cj I Offter arptrw h/i/oo on# floopon par cwtcmer _ Ox . 1 BEHfi/JmVfcfeLp 1 I VERMONT’S FINEST • ICE CREAM 5? 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DThJ Moti-Sul 11 00am-11:30pm, Sun 12pm-ll:.topm Tuesday, March 21, 2000 trators and with human resources. Then we will take it to the employees.” CHHS Assistant Principal John Birkholz, to whom the victim first reported the incident, said he was satis fied with the way the administration handled the incident He said the faculty had practiced quick and safe reactions to emergencies by following the N.C. Safe Schools Program, which Birkholz called “the Bible of what to do in a crisis.” “The rapid response to this incident shows that we have put a lot into our Safe Schools program,” he said. “We had the whole situation handled in a couple of hours.” The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. O’Conner said that while she antici pated some negative response from the student body, the public outcry had exceeded her expectations. She said the Jewish and gay and lesbian groups on campus had led most of the protest against the pamphlet. “I knew there was going to be con troversy, but I didn’t expect this much controversy,” she said. But Eling said in some way, every thing published by the Old Gold and Black represented the newspaper. “There are many people here who feel the Old Gold and Black is responsible for appearing to endorse those beliefs.” The Associated Press contributed to this article. The State and National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. involved with the (language barrier dur ing) the Special Olympics.” Despite the difficulty involved with teaching English to young children, Heining-Boynton said she was optimistic about the future of the programs. “I think (teaching English as a second Vang\Aa.ge) is already attractive,” she said. “People are interested in helping and becoming involved in working with these students.” The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. 5
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