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Discussion Leaders for
Summer Book Needed
As part of Fall Orientation, all incom
ing freshmen and transfer students are
required to participate in small group
discussions about die summer reading
on Monday, Aug. 21, from 1-3 p.m.
These sessions will focus on major
themes from the book and how these
apply in daily life.
The summer reading book for 2000
is “Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches
from the Unfinished Civil War” by
Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist, Tony
Horwitz. This book is a funny and
; provocative exploration of the Civil
War and its lingering social effects. It
provokes readers to consider the cen
trality of the Civil War for southern cul
ture and identity, the importance of race
in shaping our views, and the enduring
significance of regional differences.
Volunteers must be UNC faculty or
staff who have taught at the college level
or been a presenter before student
groups. Discussion leaders will receive
a free book from the Bull's Head book
store in UNC Student Stores
If you are interested in leading a
Carolina Summer Reading Program
discussion, please submit your name,
phone number and e-mail address to
Read@unc.edu by July 30th.
Anthropology Faculty
To Speak in Brevard
Two faculty members from UNC will
deliver free public lectures at the
Transylvania County Public Library in
Brevard. Anthropology professor Dr.
Clark Larsen will discuss "Bare Bones of
Anthropology: What Human Skeletons
Tell Us About Our Past" at 7 p.m. on
July 13. Associate professor of anthro
pology Dr. Glenn Hinson, chair of
UNC's folklore curriculum, will discuss
"Folk Artistry in North Carolina" at 7
p.m. on Aug. 1.
Larsen, an expert in the study of
skeletons, was among seven scientists
the federal government appointed in
April to begin researching Kennewick
Man, a 9,000-year-old skeleton found in
Washington state. Fewer than 10 com
plete skeletons as old as Kennewick
Man have been found in North
America, Larsen said.
Hinson, author of "Fire in My Bones:
Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in
African-American Gospel," has won
two UNC awards for excellence in
undergraduate teaching and a Brown
Hudson Folklore Award from the N.C.
Folklore Society. He teaches courses on
Southern style and culture and African
■ American vernacular music and helps
i public schools develop traditional arts
curricula.
Carrboro Art Galleries
Host Warhol Originals
The Animation and Fine Art
Galleries in Carrboro is hosting the
Fourth Annual Pop Art Show through
July 14. The show includes original
works in all media by Roy Lichtenstein,
Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist,
George Segal, Andy Warhol and Tom
Wesselmann.
Future shows in July and August will
be Cat vs. Mouse: The Art of Tom and
Jerry, The Still Life and Think Pink:
The Art of the Pink Panther.
The galleries are located in Carr Mill
Mall, 200 N. Greensboro St., Unit B-2,
and are open Monday-Saturday, 10
a.m.-6 p.m. For more information, call
968-8008 or visit their web site at
http://animationandfineart.com.
Butterflies the Topic at
N.C. Botanical Garden
“Butterflies and Your Garden” will be
the topic of talk with Bob Palmatier on
Saturday, July 22, at the N.C. Botanical
Garden. Learn how to attract butterflies
to your garden from 9 a.m. to noon.
The cost is $l2 for members and $l5
for others. Discounts will be granted for
couples and families. The next week
end, the topic will be “Snakes of the
Piedmont” with Tony Leiro.
The talks are held at the Totten
Center, U.S. 15-501/N.C. 54 Bypass,
Chapel Hill. For more information, call
962-0522 or visit their web site at
http://www.unc.edu/depts/ncbg.
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The Carolina Song and Dance
Association is sponsoring a contra
dance at 8 p.m., July 21 at Carrboro
Elementary School, 400 Shelton St.
Lessons start at 7:30 p.m. and no
partner is required. Please wear shoes
with soft and smooth soles.
Admission is a $6 donation. For
more information, call 967-9948.
From Staff Reports
Morrison Arson Case Ends With Guilty Plea
Former UNC sophomore
Daniel Sarrell received
probation for a November
fire in Morrison Hall.
Courtney Mabels
University Editor
In a plea bargain heard June 28
before the Orange County Superior
Court, former UNC student Daniel
Sarrell pleaded guilty to a felony second
degree arson charge for a Nov. 22 fire in
Morrison Residence Hall.
Sarrell was originally charged with
one count of first-degree arson for set
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Chuck Stone recently travelled to
Africa under the auspices of CARE, the
international relief organization. In an
effort to shed light on the often ignored
continent, Stone has provided The Daily
Tar Heel with three columns, courtesy
of the Philadelphia Daily News.
Chuck Stone
Special to The Daily Tar Heel
MASERU, LESOTHO - It takes
only a few minutes of traveling over
Lesotho’s unblemished asphalt roads
before two of the country’s most distin
guishing features become evident -a
countryside
inundated with
maize stalks
and sprawling
one- r o o m
boxed houses
with corrugat
ed tin roofs.
The prolific
maize stalks
resemble the
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work of some mythical Marty
Maizeseed, the Lesotho version of
Johnny Appleseed, had strode across
the land, sowing seeds of the nation’s
food staple.
Formerly a British protectorate,
Lesotho recalls Winston Churchill’s
description of Russia - “a riddle
wrapped up in a mystery inside an enig
ma.” Lesotho is an irony wrapped up in
a contradiction inside an ambiguity.
The only African country surround
ed by another country (South Africa),
Campus Y Set to Bring in New Director by Fall Semester
An eight-person committee
has narrowed the pool of
more than 50 applicants to
four candidates for the job.
Courtney Mabeus
University Editor
Yet another University organization is
actively seeking a leader.
The Campus Y, one of the
University's largest student organiza
tions, with over 600 members, has been
quietly carrying out its search for anew
director since May.
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ting fire to a couch in Morrison’s sixth
floor lounge, according to police reports.
A University police officer saw Sarrell
leave the lounge moments before the
fire alarm went off.
Sarrell received a 15 to 18 month sus
pended prison sentence and must serve
a three year probation. He also must pay
the University more than $14,000 in
damages and complete 200 hours of
community service.
Asa part of his sentence, Sarrell is
restricted from any North Carolina
school campus with a residence hall
unless he is enrolled there, said Orange
County Assistant District Attorney
Jimmy Woodall.
“If (Sarrell) were to comply with pro
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Lesotho is sub-Sahara Africa’s seventh
smallest country, yet boasts a larger per
capita income ($580) than 32 African
countries, including the continent’s rep
utational heavyweights, Ethiopia,
Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and the Sudan.
The World Health Organization also
lists Lesotho as one of sub-Sahara’s five
most at-risk countries for HIV/AIDS.
In Mozambique, HIV/AIDS only
recently became a major concern. In
Lesotho, it is a documented epidemic.
A survey of Basotho pregnant
women visiting Maseru’s main hospital
revealed a 33 percent HIV prevalence
rate. Prostitution which is commonly
accepted contributes to the HIV rate.
Basotho migrant workers in South
African mines - almost a quarter of
Lesotho’s labor force - provide a crucial
source of income, but they also generate
a high HIV/AIDS infection rate.
To combat this nation-debilitating
disease, CARE Lesotho’s program coor
dinator, Rebecca Saul, an energetic, vol
uble Canadian Ph.D., administers edu
cation, health and intervention pro
grams. She typifies CARE Lesotho’s
multinational operation.
The country director is a Sri Lankan,
another coordinator is British, the
European Union funds a forestry project
and Britain’s Department for
International Development funds an
agricultural development project.
We visited a classroom in one of the
outlying villages where four teenage vol
unteer “peer educators” in CARE’s
SAFE II project lectured to students
Created by students in 1860, the
Campus Y operates as an umbrella orga
nization to numerous student groups,
including the Big Buddy program,
Project Literacy and Globe, which con
cerns itself with human rights and other
international issues.
The Campus Y Director Search
Committee has narrowed its search to
four individuals from a pool of over 50
applicants, said Associate Vice
Chancellor of Student Affairs Cindy
Wolfjohnson.
The position was advertised both
nationally and locally in publications
and in listservs. Candidates came from
a “wide array” of areas, Wolfjohnson
bation he does not have to go to jail,”
Woodall said.
Sarrell declined to comment
Prior to sentencing, Sarrell was
released under parental supervision. His
parents teach at Christ School, a
Christian boy’s school, and reside on its
campus, Woodall said.
“He had a curfew and was on house
arrest,” Woodall said. “He’s been under
real close restriction since he had been
released.” k
Asa part of bis plea bargain, Sarrell
must also undergo psychiatric counsel
ing-
“lt seemed like he was undergoing a
lot of stress and he had a lot of problems
when this was happening," Woodall
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Local prostitutes and their children gather outside of a beauty salon in the African country of Lesotho, where
they are able to get information on preventing and dealing with HIV/AIDS and using contraceptives.
about AIDS prevention.
The teenagers then entertained the
students with a play that gendy poked
fun at the ineffectiveness of village tra
ditional doctors as AIDS-curing agents.
Taking advantage of the power of
celebritydom, CARE uses football (soc
cer) stars in public programs to help dis
seminate an array of health messages
through videos and printed media. The
use of condoms is heavily emphasized.
By the end of 2000, these collective
programs will have reached 50,000
Basotho youth.
One unexpected surprise for such a
small country was CARE Lesotho’s
said.
‘ The search is being conducted by an
eight-person committee, and in keeping
with its role as a student organization,
four of those members are students.
“With the Campus Y being both a
student organization and a department,
the students have a critical role,” Wolf
Johnson said.
Zenobia Hatcher-Wilson had served
as the previous director for 15 years. She
left for a change of career, Wolfjohnson
said.
Among the roles many duties, the
director must take charge of a full-time
staff, foster external ties, develop a bud
get and help advise student initiatives.
said. “It looks like he’s made a lot of
improvements.”
Woodall also said that University
officials agreed with the plea bargain
before Sarrell went before the court
University Police Chief Derek Poarch
said the department concurred with the
terms.
“We were very satisfied with them,”
he said.
At the time of his arrest, Sarrell had
been a sophomore political science
major from Arden, N.C. According to a
March 8 report in The Daily Tar Heel,
he had no prior criminal or disciplinary
record.
The November blaze was the fourth
in a string of mysterious early-morning
Grant Boosts UNC
Into Genetics Field
Tommy Johnstone
Staff Writer
Thanks in part to a four-year $2.4
million grant from the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute, the University will
soon be able to play a major role in
genetics research some call the biologi
cal equivalent to w'alking on the moon.
The School of Medicine has appoint
ed Terry Magnuson, a geneticist from
Case Western Reserve University to
head anew genetics department and
genomics initiative.
Magnuson officially began work on
July 1 as the Sarah Graham Kenan pro
fessor and chairman of genetics. The
new department will be housed in a
100,000-square-foot human biology
research building that is expected to be
completed in winter 2002.
Magnuson said he was attracted to
the University by the collegial atmos
phere and the research possibilities
brought about by the grant.
“The strength of the bask and clinical
sciences and the interactive,collegial
environment were very impressive," he
said.
Magnuson said genetic research at
UNC will contribute to the ability to
sophisticated, highly structured com
prehensive two-year project for agricul
tural management.
Designated TEAM II (Training for
Environmental and Agricultural
Management), the British-funded pro
ject, explained CARE senior adminis
trator K.P. Makerta, “focuses on the
poorest households to empower them to
plan, problem-solve and make key
livelihood decisions.
“Over the next two years, we will
work directly with 4,000 households,”
said Makera.
One of these poorest households fives
in a small village of thatched huts nes
Officials involved with the search said
it was important to have anew director
step into the role by the time students
return in the fall.
“We hope to find someone by the end
of July with the hopes that that person
will begin by Aug. 15,” Wolfjohnson
said.
Candidates will go through both an
on-campus interview as well as an open
forum in which students are invited.
Two of the candidates, Margo Price,
Hillsborough, and Nkole Amundsen,
Chapel Hill, visited campus earlier this
week.
Students are invited to attend an
open forum being held for candidate
Thursday, July 13, 2000
fires occurring over a five-day span that
forced residents out into the cold. Three
of the fires remain unsolved.
Because of the extreme nature of the
fires, the State Bureau of Investigation
was called, and surveillance techniques
were used to help assist in die investiga
tion.
University Police are still investigat
ing the remaining three fires, though
they have no new leads.
Poarch said he felt Sarrell had been
appropriately charged in connection
with the fourth fire and was content with
his sentencing.
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
develop effective clinical innovations in
the treatment of some diseases.
“A bask research program in genetics
and genomics within the context of a
major University such as UNC repre
sents an exciting paradigm for bench-to
bedside research,” he said.
Magnuson will also bring with him
his 15-member laboratory group from
Case Western and he has already
acquired commitments from several of
the nation’s top assistant professors to
come to the University.
The grant also provides for the addi
tion of 10 new medical school faculty
members in the area of genetics, said
William Marzluff, associate dean for
research at the School of Medicine.
UNC was one of 41 medical schools
awarded the grant out of 105 medical
schools competing nationally.
Magnuson provides UNC with a
leader in the field of genetics, Marzluff
said.
“His broad vision will result in the
development of the program through
out the whole campus, not simply in the
School of Medicine.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
tied high in the mountains -and I mean
sky-high.
Access to the village is only by a one
lane, many-potholed dirt road, twisting
and turning around hairpin curves that
hug the mountainside like an impas
sioned lover.
Joseph Ramoea laughed apprecia
tively when 1 commended his expert
driver and suggested.he could qualify as
the first African NASCAR racing driver.
Multiculturafism sometimes has the
potential to be a two-way street.
FINAL COLUMN - The Women of
Africa, "Continent of the 21st century.”
Yonni Chapman, Chapel Hill, from
11:15 a.m. to noon, Thursday., in Union
226. An open forum held for the final
candidate, Virginia Carson, Washington,
D.C., will be held Monday at that same
time and location.
Of the many focuses the new director
will have, strengthening the Campus Y
and the enhancement of programs and
services will be a must, Wolfjohnson
said.
“I think it will be a challenging posi
tion,” she said. “I think it’s an exciting
position.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
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