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2 Monday, October 23, 2000 Campus Calendar Today noon - All members of the UNC community are invited and encouraged to attend the third public discussion forum on “What’s Broke and What Isn’t?; Assessing UNC's General Education Curriculum.” It will be held in Room 39 of Graham Memorial. noon - The UNC Gospel Choir will perform in the Morehead Lounge of Graham Memorial. 4 p.m. - Jon Bendey and Avaya Labs will speak about “Cache- Conscious Algorithms and Data Structures” as part of the Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series in Oil Sitterson Hall. For more information, check out http://www.cs.unc.edu/Events/DistLect ures. 5:!5 p.m. - The student level of the Campus Ministers Association is sponsoring a progressive dinner to gather together students of every faith on the UNC campus. Participants will eat various courses of the meal at different ministry loca tions throughout campus. The dinner begins with appetizers at the Wesley Foundation on Pittsboro Paid Volunteers needed for the “UNC Marriage Study.” Both partners attend. Payment is $l5O (Three SSO sessions). Call Eli @ 914-0469 HEALTHY FOOD F 'wr big. cheap, late, great various menu items $2 wf old school veggie burrito 2 veggie burrito deluxe 4 chicken quesadilla 4 .. .and more plus... all mexican beers $2 r\ - Carolina Ring Event (4^^ / DATE Monday, October 23 - Friday, October 27 TIME 10am-3pm %) < J PLACE UNC Student Stores \TI IIN V NT \ TA hC C 1-800-952-7002 DEPOSIT ...SSO j l UPfen i ) IL/kc) S Unal Artcanxd Office: 919-968-7894 • Special I’mnuaxt Plans Available. ■ SB . ■ Street and will conclude with dessert at The Chapel of the Cross on Franklin Street. Donations are welcome, but not required. We encourage the attendance of all. 7 p.m. - Theta Nu Xi multicultur al sorority Inc. will hold an informal interesting meeting in 104 Peabodv Hall. 7 pm. - Women and men: Want to learn how to live longer? The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Student Health Services are sponsoring a forum on Breast Cancer Awareness in 106 Gardner Hall. Come out and learn about the impor tance of breast and testicular cancer self examinations. 7:30 p.m. - Dean Inserra will speak to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes about “How to walk more like Jesus.” All are welcome to the Ram’s Room of the old Kenan Field House. 7:30 p.m. -Re-evaluating Evolutionary Theory in Light of Recent Scientific Evidence: Take a critical look at evolutionary theory by participat ing in a talk and discussion with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Duke University graduate Dr. Brian J. Miller. The event will be held in Gerrard Hall. 7:30 p.m. - The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies will debate “Morality is Objective” on the third floor of New West. Guests are encouraged to attend. <Thr Daily (Ear Mrri Monday, October 23,2000 Volume 108, Issue 98 RO. Bo* 3257, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 Matt Dees, Editor, 962-4086 Advertising & Business, 962-1163 News, Features. Sports, 962-0245 University k City Author Educates UNC on Suicide By Jeremy Hurtz Assistant Arts & Entertainment Editor Author Kay Redfield Jamison came to Chapel Hill on Friday as part of her continuing quest to educate college stu dents and faculty on the daily, albeit sel domly discussed, realities of suicide. “(Suicide is) a major public health epidemic that not many people want to talk about,” she said. Jamison, author or co-author of five books and many scientific articles regarding psychological topics, spoke to students in the University’s Department of Psychiatry about the biological aspects of suicide. “College students don’t have the forum to learn about depression," she said. The University and Towns In Brief UNC Faculty, Students To Discuss Curriculum The third forum in a series of panel discussions about revising UNC’s cur riculum will be held from noon to 1:30 “Universities are just now trying to become proactive in dealing with depression and suicide.” Butjamison is also comfortable com municating her subject matter through literature. Jamison recently published “Night Falls Fast,” a nonfiction exami nation of suicide that draws from sources ranging from scientific journals to writers such as Edgar Allen Poe. Jamison said the tour of college cam puses is important to her because it allows her to connect to one of the biggest demographics of suicide victims. “I had asked my publisher if, instead of just going to bookstores, I could go to universities,” she said. “I’m a great believer in the idea that students should be the ones to know (the facts about sui cide).” p.m. today. The forum, to be held in the Johnson Center for Undergraduate Excellence, will center around the topic, “What’s Broke and What Isn’t: Assessing UNC’s General Education Curriculum.” The forum is part of an effort to revise curriculum, which is getting into gear this semester. Students and faculty are encouraged to attend. Associate Dean for Undergraduate Curricula Tom Tweed can be contacted for more information at 843-7773. Red Cross to Offer Volunteer Possibilities The Central N.C. Chapter of the Doug Marlette The Pulitzer Prize-winning , editorial cartoonist and creator .s of the comic strip Kudzu - will speak on “Political Cartooning and the 2000 Election” as part of x the Roy Park Lecture Series and Mass Communication at UNC-CH. • H/. Thursday. October 26 111 Carroll Hall W Free and open to the public f LOOKS LIKE ' <££• THE SORE \ campaign's ihrl my taking i M ■ f Jamison said she wanted the book to be scientifically sound but read by peo ple who weren’t in the psychiatric or medical communities, which she said was a difficult balance to strike. To establish a middle ground between readability and scientific thor oughness, Jamison used more than 100 pages of endnotes, referencing scientif ic journals, newspaper articles and even the works of literary figures who attempted suicide. Removing scientific details from the main text allowed the book to be acces sible to readers without scientific back grounds. “If anyone wants to find out about the science, it’s in the back of the book,” she said. Throughout the 2 1/2 years Jamison American Red Cross will be holding an open house and volunteer recruitment fair from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Chapter House on University Drive in Durham. Everyone is invited to attend and learn about how to become more involved with all the services provided by the Red Cross, including disaster relief and the blood drive. There are also opportunities for youth. For more information, contact Kristi Mroch at 489-6541, ext. 377. Senior Flu Vaccinations Available This Month The Orange County Board of Commissioners have declared the ®ljp Sally (Ear Mrrl spent writing and researching “Night Falls Fast," she became fascinated by questions usually overlooked in popular discussion of the topic. While the book concentrates on com prehending the modem reasons and consequences of suicide, Jamison said her mind often wandered to the origins of the phenomenon. “I kept asking myself, ’Who was the first person who committed suicide? How far back? Was it a Homo sapiens, was it an ape?’ I became rather haunted by that question,” she said. Despite her fascination with suicide’s beginnings, Jamison’s work is grounded in the here and now. The Arts & Entertainment Editor can be reached at artsdesk@unc.edu. months of October and November as “Senior Vaccination Season.” The Orange County Health Department, the Department on Aging and their community partners have sev eral low-cost vaccination clinics throughout the county for the flu and pneumonia. The cost of the vaccinations is cov ered by the Medicare Part B. For those without the coverage, the cost is sl2 for flu shots and sls for pneu monia shots. There will be a clinic at Carolina Springs from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday and several others around the area later this and next month. For more information, contact Rosemary Summers at 245-2412.
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