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She Saily (Tar Hrri Police Roundup Teens Face Court Date For Felony Charges Orange County District Court offi cials decided that a trial for the misde meanor charges against three Chapel Hill teenagers would be continued until a later date. In a fight that occurred Feb. 1!) at an East Chapel Hill High School off-cam pus parking lot, three teens - two of them students - left junior Rodney Carrier, 17, at UNC Hospitals in serious condition. Arthur Paltrow, lti; Michael Cooper, lf>; and Torrey Lassiter, 17; each were charged with one felony count of assault w ith a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injur)'. Misdemeanor assault charges also were filed. The three teens were indicted by a grand jury two weeks ago for the felony charges and are scheduled to meet for an administrative session of the Orange County Superior Court on April 11. Because the misdemeanor charges cannot be pressed until the felony charges are decided, the trial on the misdemeanors was continued until a later date. Officials at the district attor ney’s office said that if the defendants pleaded guilty to the felony charges, the misdemeanor charges would be tied in to the same sentence. University Monday, April 3 ■ UNC sophomore Deanna Williams of 10,5 Kenan Residence Hall was arrested on charges of simple assault. After Williams turned herself in, she was taken before the Orange County magistrate and released on a written promise to appear in court, police reports state. Sunday, April 2 ■ An unknown subject or subjects broke the window in 228 Teague Residence Hall, police reports state. The window was broken by someone throw ing bottles at it. There is no further infor mation, reports state. Estimated damage is reported at $2.5. ■ Vandalism was reported on the sjxth and seventh floors of Morrison Residence Hall. According to police reports, on the seventh floor, the water fountain was ripped from the wall, and tbe plastic cover to the fire extinguish or case was broken. The bulletin board was also cracked. On the sixth floor, the water fountain was ripped from the wall, police reports state. There are no silspects at this time, reports state. Estimated damage is $ 160. Saturday, April 1 ■ A vehicle struck and broke the gate control arm of the fifth level of the Uraige Barking Deck. According to police reports, a witness said a black Toyota driven by a man wearing a blue shirt and khaki pants struck the gate arm. University Police officer T.R. Nelson checked (he area for the vehicle blit found nothing. ■ UNC sophomore Jamila Rashide White of 112 Kenan Residence Hall was arrested on a warrant for simple assault that occurred on Finley Road, reports state. White was transported to the Orange County magistrate’s office, where she was released on a written promise to appear in court. City Sunday, April 2 ■ Police arrested a Chapel Hill man at 1:16 a.nt. for being drunk and dis ruptive at (he Blue Marlin Bar, located at 201 E. Franklin St. John Wesley Sanders, 28, of 700 Bolinwood Drive in Chapel Hill was charged with one misdemeanor count of being drunk and disruptive in a pub lic place. Sanders allegedly struck a UNC employee and a UNC student. Saturday, April 1 ■ Employees at The Pantry, located at .500 Jones Ferry Road in Carrboro, Called police after a local man con cealed a bag of peanuts in his pants. Elias Orantez, 23, put a bag of peanuts inside his pants while in the store. When police arrived, the suspect had removed the peanuts and was pay ing for them. Friday, March 31 ■ A Durham man was arrested at 501 Jones Ferry Road at 1 a.tn. for pos session of a stolen vehicle and posses sion of crack cocaine. 5 Thomas Kitrell Craven, 2!), of 2504 Stadium Drive, Apt. A, was charged vyith a misdemeanor count of possessing ij stolen vehicle and a felony count for possession of crack cocaine. He was lie Id in lieu of an SBOO secured bond and taken to the Orange Countyjail. DON'T RAT ON ME -egg Wf w W " i ft Jl DTH/KATHERINE EAKER In "The Brains of Rats,” a doctor holds a live rat as he ponders his conflicted sexuality. The play opened in the Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre on Friday. The last show is today at 5 p.m. The Core of a Curriculum UNC Touts Breadth Of General College, Liberal Arts Focus Bv C.B. Mabeus Staff Writer While plans for revamped, mod em curriculum resound in the halls of some higher education institutions, faculty administrators say UNC’s cur riculum as it stands comprises a well rounded education. Although the General College cur riculum includes academic require ments during students’ first two years, professors say the maintenance of diverse course selections helps to keep UNC open to academic evolution. Keeping Pace Administrators track curriculum changes by attending conferences and keeping an eye on higher education journals. But they remain tight-lipped about any fulure plans for curriculum overhaul. “There is a sustained national con versation about what an educated person is and how to shape the cur ricula, and we’re part of that conver sation,” said Thomas Tweed, associate dean for Undergraduate Curricula. The current General College requirements, which were set in 1980, have seen few changes during the last decade, with the last major revision coming in 1994 after a student-initiat ed proposal that lead to the addition of Universities Strive to Modernize Study By John O'Hale Staff Writer Differing ideas about knowledge - what’s cru cial, what’s useful and what’s harmful - can result in widely varying courses of stud)'. And as the corpus of information grows, univer sities continue to debate the established ideas of what constitutes a solid collegiate education. Proponents of reform claim that curricular redesign has been years in the making. Themes of a more “modern" curriculum echo through acade mia in the talk about revampment, including an emphasis on communication and technology. But critics say that new ideas for efficient curric ula, especially plans that cut the number of required classes, lack sound principles and ignore aspects of the traditional college canon. Present instances of curricular overhaul are rel atively isolated, but as UNC struggles to compete Listserv Helps Student Parents Balance Kids, Academics Bv Derick Mattern Staff Writer Thanks to anew listserv, student par ents can now exchange ideas and resources to more effectively juggle child care with academics. The listserv is the brain child of Graduate and Professional Student Federation President Lee Conner and was created in conjunction with the Student Parent Interest Network’s Web site. “We had a major thing for child care on the platform,” Conner said. “In response to the time demands of student parents, we came up with the listserv.’’ His s mg that UNC B^T^^ Be^:: / / J IIXUSTRATION BY ASHLEY JONES the cultural diversity perspective. Students must fulfill a 13-14 course requirement outlined by the General College to graduate from the University. Some requirements are structured into perspective categories under which students choose listed courses to complete each block. Perspectives are divided into five categories: natural and social sci ences, western historical, aesthetic and philosophical. “The most important consideration about evaluating the University’s cur riculum is understanding that UNC has traditionally kept its focus on the liberal arts,” said computer sci ence Professor James Coggins. “What you need to figure out first is, vvhal does it mean to be a liberal arts institution?” Coggins said. Provost Dick Richardson, UNC’s top academic officer, said a liberal arts education from the University offered a wide expo sure to the arts and sciences “which will equip one in a future life to appreciate to the fullest all that our senses and intellects are exposed to.” Chemistry Professor James Coke See UNC, Page 5 on a national field of faculty salaries and tuition costs, academic reform could become another ele ment against which the University is compared. The University of Pennsylvania “Imagination” and “Space” wi replace “History” this fall at the top of some l niversity of Pennsylvania students’ syllabi. About 200 students will participate in a pilot pro gram this fall as part of the school’s proposed revi sion to its undergraduate curriculum, which reduces the number of required core courses. Students w ill take four core courses that fall into the non traditional categories of “Structure and Value in Human Societies,” “Science, Culture and Society,” “Earth, Space and Life” and “Imagination, Representation and Reality.” In addition, the pilot program includes an increased emphasis on oral communication and a significant research experience within the major. According to its Web site, SPIN is a system for student parents to pool resources and information, as well as to foster an appreciation for the unique roles that student parents play. Conner said 12 percent to 1.5 percent ol all graduate students in the nation were parents, and that child care was imperative for busy parents. “Both parents are doing something - just because of finances,” he said. In order to make sure parents know of the listserv, Conner sent an e-mail to be forwarded to all listservs. “I think the listserv will feed off itself - more people will gel more people,” he said. News QNC Breaks Recent Silence With Gay Pride Festivities Bv Aisha K. Thomas Staff Writer After a quiet fall semester, UNC’s Queer Network for Change hopes to increase campus support and awareness during its annual Celebration Week. The motivation behind Celebration Week, which began Monday and will continue through Friday, is to be more visible on campus and to encourage membership, QNC members said. The group will be Pit sitting all week and will encourage people to participate in a many programs, including a visibil ity march, QNC member Wayla Chambo said. QNC Co-chairwoman Sarah Levin- II,LUSTRATION BY ASHLEY JONES Students can sign up for childcare@listserv.unc.edu at SPIN’s Web site. Over the past few days, stu dent parents have posted letters to the listserv and explored the Web site. Neely Law, a geography doctoral candidate with a 3-month-old child, sent an e-mail asking about in-home child care options that parents are currently recommending. She said the people responded promptly with suggestions via the listserv. “1 knew SPIN had a Web site, but it wasn’t useful until it had a listserv,” Law said. “I don’t know that the Web site could provide more.” Some students used the listserv to Richardson said that even if students did not participate in the activities, it was important that they knew QNC was there for support. “Qur aim is to be vis ible and to let campus know that there is a place for those who are questioning their sexual orientation.” The week’s main focus is visibility on campus, which had been weak last semester due to logistical problems, Chambo said. 'The group had not been vocal last semester because former Co chairwoman Maia Kaplan was ill, she said. “She got really sick and was not able to hold things together.” Last year, QNC was more visible under the leadership of lan Palmquist. The group was outspoken on the “I think it is very important to point out that we did not approach this curriculum revision project from the ‘What’s wrong with the current curricu lum’ point of view,” said Frank Warner, chairman of the committee on undergraduate education. “Our current undergraduate requirement is quite good. But it was implemented 13 years ago, so it is time to see if improvements can be made,” he said. The societies requirement will be composed of courses that study politics, economics and morals, while the imagination requirement blends courses of human achievement and development in the areas of literature, art and music. Students must also fulfill a “Skills and Methods” requirement, designed to improve oral and written communication. “I wish to emphasize that our pilot curriculum general requirement is not a ‘core cur riculum,’” Warner said. “We make no attempt to See CURRICULUM, Page 5 express their appreciation of the pro gram. “As tired and overworked as I feel most of Ihe time as a graduate student and parent, I realize what a huge effort this probably was,” wrote Amanda Elam, a graduate student in sociology. When her first child was bom, Elam said, there was only one other parent in the department. “Most of my peers were single or did n’t have children,” she said. So she had to find child care on her own. “Now I already know a lot of the stuff in (the Web site)," she said. “But 1 think having a central repository at Carolina is wonderful." Tuesday, April 4, 2000 Matthew Shepard trial, about the University of Wyoming student who was killed because of his sexual orienta tion. The group also changed its name last year from Bisexuals, Gays, Lesbians and Allies for Diversity or B-GLAD to increase their visibility. QNC member Shannon Graham said the organization needed to have more members to help balance the workload. “A problem that QNC has had in the past is we dump a lot of responsibility on one person,” she said. “What we are trying to do now is getting more people involved.” Celebration Week will feature sever- See QNC, Page 5 Cable Spat Divides TV Affiliates Disney and Time Warner are haggling over contracts, threatening to keep WTVD from local cable customers. By Jonathan Moseley Staff Writer Chapel Hill-area fans of “Who Wants to Bea Millionaire?" and other ABC fare just got 30 more days of viewing, as the network and Time Warner seek a “final answer” to contract disputes. Time Warner Cable is negotiating with Disney-owned ABC for permission to broadcast local ABC affiliate WTVD, the Disney Channel and several other channels after a close call last week. Time Warner and Disney company officials, after several months of trying to reach an agreement on payments and royalties each company was due, failed to reach an agreement last week. Disney officials then decided to extend negotiations with Time Warner by another 30 days. Otherwise, Disney owned channels would have ceased to transmit to all Time Warner customers. The UNC campus runs its own cable service independent of Time Warner. ABC officials said they were hoping for several concessions from Time Warner, including a subscriber-based fee for ABC, transmission of new chan nels and a move for Disney into the basic channel package. Time Warner officials claimed the company earlier had reached an agree ment acceptable to both groups, but when the America Online-Time Warner merger was announced last year, Disney officials rejected the offer. They said they worried that the new company would have an unfair advan tage over other content providers. But Time Warner said Disney offi cials were simply holding out for more cash. “When they heard about the merger, they took our proposal off the table,” said Brad Phillips, Time Warner vice president for government and political affairs. “They thought more money was available.” But ABC officials said their company deserved compensation for its services, and Time Warner was refusing to pay adequately. “Traditional networks like ABC account for 60 percent of cable viewing,” said ABC spokeswoman Julie Hoover. “Time Warner already com pensates itself for the stations it owns, so we also deserve to be compensated.” Neither side would comment on a potential solution but said they were ready for an agreement. Hoover said, “(ABC) hopes for a productive negoti ation and a resolution where all parties can leave the table happy.” The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. Besides the listserv, SPIN’s Web site currently features a resource exchange forum bulletin board so student parents can trade, buy or sell child care goods. A calendar is also available to list upcoming events. An exhaustive list of links for student parents under such top ics as children and money, school, health care and housing is online, com piled by Laura Kellison, a work and family manager for the human resources department. Parents can reach the Web site at www.unc.edu/student/orgs/spin. The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. 3
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