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Girls react to
Russian attack
Ambassador thanks school for scrapbook
BY ADAM W. RHEW
STAFF WRITER
Nadia Nasir said a Sept. 1 ter
rorist attack in Beslan, Russia,
that left 344 people dead was
beyond anything she could have
imagined.
She said she was shocked by
the events going on half a world
away.
And she wanted to do something
for the victims instead of merely
being concerned.
The difference between Nadia
and others: She’s only in eighth
grade.
“I was really, really shocked,”
she said about the attack by
Chechen rebels on Beslan’s Middle
School Number One. Among the
hundreds left dead were 172 stu
dents.
Nadia, a student at A.L.
Stanback Middle School in
Hillsborough, approached teacher
Jamie Hulse with an idea to send a
scrapbook to the families affected
by the attack.
Hulse, a resource teacher for
gifted education, helped the then
-13-year-old Nadia solicit letters of
support and encouragement from
students at the school.
Those students included 13-
year-olds Rachel Keck, Lindsay
Davis and Whitney Thomas, who
together wrote a letter and drew a
picture at a sleepover.
“It makes me feel all fuzzy
inside,” Whitney said.
The girls wrote letters to sup
port the families of children
who were killed when explosions
rocked the Russian school’s gym
nasium.
Terrorists held students and
civilians hostage for two days, and
when the captors became aware of
a rescue attempt by Russian spe
cial forces, they detonated bombs
Store expands stock
to offer kids’ games
BY MEGHAN DAVIS
StAFF WRITER
B. A local board game store is
Expanding its stock to include a
%ne of games for children.
| Cerebral Hobbies at 265 S. Elliot
Road now is carrying games made
*by HABA, a German toy company.
“We’ve been trying to carry the
complete line of games, because
that’s our niche,” said store owner
[ Steve Nicewamer.
Cerebral Hobbies will run ads
for the HABA games in The Chapel
Hill Herald starting Friday. “The
games have done OK considering
I’ve done absolutely no advertising
thus far,” he said.
The store began stocking HABA
games about two weeks ago. Before
that, it focused mainly on games
for young adults.
“It’s anew product line for us,
and it reaches into anew demo
graphic,” Nicewamer said. “This is
the first time we’ve had games for
young children.”
Nicewamer chose HABA
because the company is known
worldwide for its quality.
“We specialize in European
import games, so we were famil
iar with German manufacturing,”
he said. “The games are very high
quality and beautiful to look at.”
HABA games and toys fea
ture wooden components, unique
among toy pieces today.
Company spokeswoman Lisa
Orman said the simplicity of
HABA’s toy designs reflect a clas
sical European style.
“That’s a trademark of games
made in Germany,” Nicewamer
said. “German companies value the
aesthetics of a game.”
The games are also unique to the
area, Nicewamer said. “It’s some
thing Wal-Mart doesn’t carry,” he
said, “And that’s how you make
your money as a small business.”
The Playhouse Toy Store in
Durham stocks some HABA toys,
primarily those for infants, said
manager Donna Frederick. The
store also sells tin games made by
HABA, she said. Toys also can be
specially ordered from the store.
HABA games are labeled by sug
gested age range, based on devel
oped motor skills and cognitive
abilities. Orman said the games
have multidimensional play val
ues.
“I do think parents are looking
for a high-quality alternative to
TV7 Nicewamer said. “Humans are
social creatures, and games bring
families together around the table
to interact with each other.”
Nicewamer said he hopes to
tap into the winter holiday sea
son market. “Christmas will be a
launch pad,” he said. “It’s a good
time to focus on games for young
wrapped with bolts and shot those
trying to flee.
Nadia took letters from students
of all grade levels and compiled
them into a six- or seven-page
scrapbook.
The book contained photos, let
ters, and information about A.L.
Stanback.
About three weeks ago, Nadia
mailed the book to Beslan.
On Wednesday, she received a
letter of thanks from Yuri Ushakov,
ambassador of the Russian
Federation to the United States.
The ambassador thanked Nadia
and the school for the scrapbook
and the encouragement it pro
vided.
“I seriously didn’t think they
would respond,” Nadia said.
Hulse was also surprised by the
Russian response.
“The fact that someone at that
level would make sure to send a
response was touching, especially
for Nadia,” she said.
Associate Principal Linda Ollis
said Nadia’s work was a great
example of students making a dif
ference.
“They initiated it, they orga
nized it and they got their peers
involved,” she said.
“It’s a nice positive example to
the rest of the students.”
All four girls agreed that it is
important for their peers to keep
up with current events, even those
happening across the globe.
“In the long run, (the issues)
could affect us,” Lindsay said.
Nadia shared similar senti
ments.
“We are the future,” she said.
“If we can help, then the world
would be better.”
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children.”
Cerebral Hobbies was.lpcated on.
East Franklin Street for nine years
until it moved to Village Plaza
last August. Nicewamer said the
change in location has also changed
his customer base, from students to
older adults with families. “I’d say
our clientele has two portions: the
stable portion and the unstable
portion,” he said.
“That’s the nature of a college
town. There’s a turnover in clien
tele every four to five years, when
new students come in.”
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UNC readies social workers for tough job
BY JACQUELINE BRILL
STAFF WRITER
This past summer, Emilie
Edwards, a graduate student in
UNC’s School of Social Work, had
an internship in Lumberton, a
community she did not feel safe
tackling alone after dark. Working
for the state, Edwards was forced
to live on a small budget.
“I was very much alone in a hotel
room of which the state will pay only
$55 a night, which means it was like
the same hotel my client’s mom was
hooking in,” Edwards said.
It was a different experience for
her. She wasn’t able to go outside
to take a walk or find a yoga class
to relieve stress, if there was even
one nearby.
“It was a very stressful situa
tion,” Edwards said. “But I learned
to cope with it by throwing a yoga
mat down in my hotel room.”
Careers in social work often are
seen as particularly straining on
employees for a number of reasons,
including reputation, workload and
treatment in the field.
“All you have to do is turn on a
Long election nights likely to become norm
BY AARON PRUITT
STAFF WRITER
Before Tuesday, pundits and
analysts alike said the presidential
election would come down to a
handful of so-called swing states.
And on election night, the nation
watched and waited for networks
to predict the outcomes of those
battlegrounds.
The wait was a long one.
Several hours after the polls
closed, some states, such as Ohio,
were still not declared in favor of
President Bush or Sen. John Kerry.
In fact, Kerry conceded the race
before some major news outlets
declared a winner in the Buckeye
state. FOX News and NBC gave
Ohio’s 20 electoral votes to Bush on
'lbesday, but others such as CNN
waited until Wednesday afternoon.
The 20 electoral votes were
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Lifetime movie, and you’ll see social
workers portrayed as unfeeling and
more interested in their forms than
the people,” said Joanne Caye, faculty
liaison for the North Carolina Child
Welfare Education Collaborative.
“You are also working with
people who are often out-of-work,
without skills, angry and just in
general shoved around by society,”
Caye said. “It’s a volatile population,
and we’re supposed to be allies.”
The stress level can be daunting
because social workers are helping
a population that doesn’t always
recognize them as allies. The aver
age job turnover for child welfare
workers is two years.
“You have to stretch yourself
pretty thin and be able to enjoy
success in little bits,” Caye said.
The school is trying to prepare
its students for the personal strug
gles they will face after graduating,
and field placements like the one
Edwards participated in are a pri
mary focus.
Rebecca Brigham, director of field
education for the school, works to
place students in internships rang-
enough to push Bush’s tally to 274,
four more than necessary to win.
The long delays in predictions
raised the question among many
viewers about why it took so long to
make the predictions. But in light
of the 2000 Florida debacle, net
works were hesitant to call a state
one way or another.
“The prediction process is very
complicated,” said Robert Lissit,
professor of journalism at Syracuse
University and a former employee
of ABC.
“(Networks) use a random sam
ple test of voters and compare their
vote against previous voting and ...
the results of key precincts. When
both elements show a winner, then
the network can predict the winner
of the state.”
If both models do not agree, the
networks will declare the state “too
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ing from hospital work to domestic
violence centers. Students in the pro
gram spend two to three days a week
in the classroom, with the remainder
outside in the community.
“We use a concurrent model
of field education here,” Brigham
said. “This means that they learn
theory and knowledge in the class
room and immediately get to apply
it in the field.”
The school also tries to give stu
dents unique experiences within
the University.
Caye holds a seminar every
Monday for students in the
school. One recent seminar was an
observed skills practice in which
volunteers formed imaginary fami
lies and engaged students in real
life situations.
This spring, the school also is
sponsoring a practice in the School
of Law in which students will sit in
the witness chair and be questioned
by attorneys and law students so
that they will be exposed to the
stresses of the courtroom.
More than anything else, the
school and its professors aim to
close to call.”
Phil Klinkner, a professor of
government at Hamilton College,
said that in light of the problems
with the 2000 election, networks
were “clearly more conservative” in
calling this election.
“This year, networks even added
a fourth category: ‘too early to call.’
In previous election years, there
were only three Republican,
Democrat and ‘too close to call.’”
Ferrel Guillory, director of
UNC’s Program on Southern
Politics, Media and Public Life,
said a revolution in the election
process was highly unlikely.
“Don’t expect too much change
in future elections,” he said. “We
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teach students to seek guidance
from peers and professors when
the stress becomes too intense.
“(The school) is really good
about teaching you how to rely on
others for support,” Edwards said.
“They take the books away and
don’t have someone there to lecture
you, so you can only talk to each
other. People are always willing to
share within this profession.”
Students are required to take
a seminar in which they not only
learn the how-to’s of self-care but
also talk about their experiences.
“They are able to rant and rave
and talk about what works for
them,” Caye said.
Edwards said she believes that
without physical and mental
health, both of which the school is
working to improve in its students,
she would not be able to be a suc
cessful social worker.
“You can’t take care of another
person if you can’t take care of
yourself.”
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are still going to count ballots one
by one. The debate that is going to
rise is about the quality and reli
ability of polling, both before the
election and exit polling.”
Lissit also noted that the net
works put off making decisions
Tuesday because they were con
cerned about their accuracy.
“They were just being extraordi
narily cautious,” he said.
“Once that tradition of cautious
ness has been set up, don’t expect
it to change. Networks are going to
continue to be conservative in their
predictions for years to come.”
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