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Monday, October 9, 2000
Later School Days Proposed
The Student Governance
Committee will vote
Tuesday on the plan to shift
school hours periodically.
By Jamila Vernon
Staff Writef
Several parents of East Chapel Hill
High School students say they are in
favor of a a proposal that would allow
school to start at 10:30 a.m. once or
twice a month, giving teachers more
time to get organized.
A public forum Tuesday that focused
on the issue included parents on the
Student Governance Committee, which
comprises faculty, teachers, students and
20 parents of students at the high school.
The school’s altered scheduling sys
tem is part of a three-year plan to
improve time management.
“Parents supported the plan,” said
David Thaden, principal of East Chapel
Hill High School. “The absence of peo
ple (at the forum) was an indication of
trust on the part of the parents.”
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of
Education member Maryanne
Rosenman said teacher needs are valid,
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but she still has concerns about the pro
posed system.
To make up for the two hours missed
on the allotted days, students are losing
time in other areas, she said.
“The time to pass between class is
being cut by one minute and lunchtime
is being cut,” Rosenman said. “If time is
coming from classes, it’s not equivalent
Kids aren’t doing more if they have two
minutes longer.”
Rosenman also said she has concerns
about students not having a sufficient
lunch break if it is cut by 15 minutes and
about how those who do not have trans
portation will get to school on late days.
But Thaden said the proposal was not
taken lightly.
A subcommittee of the Student
Governance Committee reviewed at
least seven different scheduling permu
tations before deciding on the one pro
posed, he said.
“We’re trying to provide teachers
with some time to do work periodical
ly,” Thaden said.
“This program would periodically
recapture time in the morning for teach
ers to do work on department work and
staff development.”
Although there are 20 teacher work
days in a year, Thaden said those days
are often not sufficient.
Teachers are forced to use some
workdays for vacation, leaving only a
few left over.
“But one problem will be with stu
dents arriving at campus before school
starts,” he said. “We have to make sure
those kids who arrive early are super
vised.”
Chapel Hill High School Principal
Mary Ann Hardebeck said her school
will not follow the lead of its rival school
and will continue a regular schedule.
The Student Governance Committee
will vote.on the proposed plan at its
meeting Tuesday.
Rosenman said that if the plan is
approved by the Student Governance
Committee, it could be on the school
board agenda as early as the third week
in October.
Thaden said this proposed scheduling
system is rare.
“A similar system was used at a high
school in Texas,” he said.
“No one in North Carolina is doing
this, of my knowledge.”
Aldesha Gore also contributed
to this story.
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
City
Low Pot Prices Attract Long Lines
By Leah Cole
Staff Writer
HILLSBOROUGH - About 800
people gathered in Hillsborough on
Saturday morning to wait in line with
numbered stickers on their chests.
When 8:30 a.m. arrived, the shoppers
filed into the Vietri Warehouse Sale, the
culmination of waiting all morning for a
chance to buy imported Italian hand
crafted pottery at discounted prices.
The biannual sale allows Vietri the
opportunity to sell one-of-a-kind sam
ples, and discounted, overstocked and
slightly flawed pieces to fans.
But the sale has not always been so big.
“The first sale was in the dining room
and back porch of my personal home
where we were operating our office our
first year,” Vietri co-owner Frances
Gravely said.
The story of this local shopping
extravaganza begins in Italy in 1983
when sisters Frances and Susan Gravely,
co-founders of the company, went on
vacation to Italy.
There, they fell in love with whimsi
cal local dinnerware and began import
ing products for sale.
Today the business is located in a
30,000-square-foot warehouse in
Hillsborough where the sale was held,
but Vietri products can be found at
retailers nationwide.
Until a few years ago, people camped
out in front of the warehouse prior to the
event to ensure a good spot in line, but
concerns about safety and sanitation
forced the owners to end the tradition.
“We had to
make a rule about
(camping out),”
Frances Gravely
said. “There were
20 to 30 tents with
groups of people in
the tents the last
year before we had
to stop them.”
While the sale is
demanding for
“We had to make a rule about
(camping out). There were 20
to 30 tents ... the last year
before we had to stop them. ”
Frances Gravely
Vietri Co-founder
Vietri employees, most tout the event as
entertaining.
“It is a lot of hard work, but it is a lot
of fun at the same time,” said employee
Clay Beck.
In addition to paying all employees
and staff, Vietri donates a percentage of
gross sales to local charities. The owners
also auction the first two places in the
sale’s line to raise donations.
Money raised this year will help
Wake Med buy a transport incubator.
While the first two places in line can
be bought, the rest must be earned.
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Mary Ann Allred earned the next
place in fine when she arrived at 3 p.m.
Friday after driving from Oklahoma.
The Vietri staff welcomed Allred with
wine in the parking lot where she stayed
in her vehicle all night, meeting her and
other arrivals to share a toast
“We have a
wonderful time
just visiting with
everybody,” Allred
said.
Along with
Allred, many
shoppers return
for more after their
first sale experi
ence.
“We do have a
huge numbers of repeaters.” Susan
Gravely said. “It is almost like a silly
cult.”
But not all shoppers came willingly.
Some are forced to come by their spous
es.
“I’m just holding things,” said Kirk
Stevens of Wake Forest whose wife
dragged him to the sale. “I have no inter
est in this whatsoever. I have not seen a
good deal yet but what do I know?”
The City Editor can be reached
atcitydesk@unc.edu.
The University and Towns
In Brief
journalists to Discuss
Media Race Relations
The UNC Institute of African-
American Research is co-sponsoring a
public symposium analyzing images of
blacks in the media and the employ
ment of blacks in the media field.
“Race in the Media” will bring
together journalists, media experts and
scholars at 10 a.m. Thursday at the
Brownstone Hotel in Raleigh.
Those attending include Fred Sweets,
deputy photo editor for The Associated
Press; Angela Dodson, contributing edi
tor for Essence magazine; Frank Del
Olmo, director of Latino coverage for
The Los Angeles Times; and others.
Will Sutton, president of the National
Association of Black Journalists and
deputy managing editor of The News &
Observer, will moderate the discussions.
The event will kick off a three-day
diversity conference held at the hotel.
For more information, call 962-9001.
UNC Research Grant
To Address Obesity
UNC researchers will receive a $34
million grant to learn whether it’s possi
ble to help U.S. adolescent girls become
more fit and avoid obesity-related
health problems.
A briefing will be held in the Mayes
Center. It will outline the research pro
ject based at UNC and involving six
other major U.S. universities.
Campus Calendar
Today
7:30 p.m. -Jonathon Balcombe,
associate director of Education and
Animal Research Issues with the
Humane Society of the United States,
will be giving a lecture on the topic of
“Alternatives to Dissection and
Live-Animal Experimentation in
Education.”
Dr. Balcombe’s lecture will be held
in the Union Auditorium. His lecture
will follow with a reception.
The event is free, and the public is
welcome.
Tuesday
4 p.m. - Dr. Donald Haggis of the
Department of Classics will present
“From Minoan Palace to Greek
City-state: The Archaeology of the
Cretan Countryside” as part of the
College Lights lecture series.
The event will take place in the
George Watts Hill Alumni Center and is
free and open to the public.
Parking is available in the Rams
Club Parking Lot.
For more information, contact Sarah
Madry of the Arts & Sciences
Foundation at 962-6123 or at sarah
madry@unc.edu.
7:30 p.m. - Lois Gibbs, environ
mental activist from Love Canal,
N.Y., and founder of the Center for
Health, Environment and Justice will
speak in the Union Auditorium.
The event is free, and the public is
welcome.
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Volume 108, Issue 88
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