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Sorority rushees will get look at all 15 houses next fall
Tuesday, April 26, 1983The Daily Tar Heel3
By ASHLEY BLACKWELDER
Staff Writer
Next year all women participating in sorority rush will
learn about all 15 sororities instead of the 12 all-white
ones as they have in the past. This new procedure is only
one of the many new regulations recently adopted by the
UNC Panhellenic Council. "'-'
All women participating in any type of sorority rush
next fall will be required to attend a new information
round which will last three nights beginning August 30,
said Mary Margaret Jones, Panhellenic rush chairman.
During this information round, rushees will learn
about sororities legacy policies, history and required
grade point average, Jones said. However, rushees will
not meet members of the individual sororities as they
have in the past, she added.
"The purpose of the information round is to let the
rushees learn more about the different sororities," said
Burnet Carlisle, president of the Panhellenic Council.
"There are no pressures on the rushees because they
aren't meeting girls from any particular sorority," Car
lisle said.
"The information round allows every woman at
Carolina to see what she is getting into before she pays
the money to go through the process of formal rush or
joins a sorority," Jones said.
Because the information round is free more women
than usual are signing up, said Karen Thompson, assis
tant Panhellenic rush chairman.
"We've had a lot of seniors sign up this year, not
necessarily because they are interested in pledging, but
because they want to see what the Greek system is like,"
Thompson said.
Because of the new rush procedures, rushees will learn
more about the entire Greek system instead of only the
12 white sororities or the three black ones, Carlisle said.
"It is our role as the Panhellenic Council to be fair to the
rushees and show them all the sororities. It is unfair to
let rushees only see 12 or three of the sororities."
Jones, who devised the new system, said: "The
reasoning behind the new process is not just that some
one who is black can see what a white sorority is like or a
white to see what a black sorority is like, but it allows
every UNC woman to get a perspective of the total
Greek system, to see what each Greek sorority is like and
what it involves. It is encouraging a new unified rush
Greek system."
Because Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta and
Zeta Phi Beta, the three black sororities, as well as Delta
Phi Epsilon hold their formal and informal rush later in
the fall semester, girls who are interested in these sorori
ties will have to wait to participate in their rush after
completing the information round.
The only objection to the new procedures by minority
sororities, according to Linda Colar, assistant Pan
hellenic rush chairman, is that "the majority of minority
sororities have said that they did not want to go to all the
sororities that weren't of any interest to them."
"I think that they are being receptive to the new
sorority procedures though," Colar said. "This is an op
portunity to expand our horizons."
Colar said she believed the integrated information
round would not change what houses rushees choose to
pledge.
"The choice of pledging is personal perference, and
people usually yield to like sororities,.' she said. "I do
think it will be successful. We have had a lot of black
women sign up." .
Another change in the traditional rush procedures is a
reduction in the number of rounds, but an increase in the
time spent with each sorority, Jones said. This change
was adopted because former rushees said that the rush
procedures were time-consuming, Jones said. .7
"Last year almost one-third of the girls who began
rush dropped out because it interfered with their
scholastic achievement," she said. '
The first round of rush will be Sept. 6-7, the second
round on Sept. 9-1 1 and the third round on Sept. 12-13.
The fourth round of rush is on Sept. 14, the same day as
Preference Night, when women make their final choices.
Bid Day, when sororities make their selections, is Sept.
15. ,
Carlisle stressed that since the rushees would spend 25
minutes with each sorority, the rushees would spend
more quality time with the sorority members.
The new procedures also require that the sororities cut
half the number of girls rushing after' the second round,
Thompson said. "We don't want rushees to get strung
along during rush and then get hurt."
Next year, rushees will visit the sorority houses with
their rush group and rush counselor instead of going in
dividually like this year.
"All the changes in regulations were made to make the
rush process easier on the rushee," Thompson said.
"They were made for not only the rushees' benefit but
the entire Greek system."
New insurance plan covers additional SHS charges
By AMY TANNER
Staff Writer
A new student insurance plan offered
through the Student Health Service will
cover the new SHS charges going into ef
fect at the beginning of the fall semester,
said Sheila Sturdivant, SHS administrative
manager.
The new charges are $100 per night in
patient care and charges for the specialty
clinics' procedures and office visits,
Sturdivant said. The four specialty clinics
are orthopedics, dermatology,
ophthalmology and the ear, nose and
throat clinic.
"The clinic charge is to get back our
own expenses," said Dr. Judith Cowan,
SHS director.
Because these new charges are being im
plemented, the student health fee will not
have to be raised next year, Cowan said.
Only those students receiving the clinics'
services will be charged, Sturdivant said.
In the past, the money from the student
fee increases was paying for those services
used by a small number of students, she
said.
No student is required to buy the new
student insurance plan, Sturdivant said.
Foreign students must have insurance, but
they are not required to purchase this par
ticular plan, she said.
Students will not be required to sign an
insurance waiver card during the 1983-84
school year, Sturdivant said. Waiver cards
are still being considered for future use,
she said. By signing a waiver card, students
indicate that they have some form of in
surance, or that they assume all respon
sibility for possible costs themselves.
The insurance plan is administered by
Hill, Chesson and Roach insurance
brokerage and will take effect Aug. 15, the
same day the former SHS Blue Cross and
Blue Shield student insurance terminates,
said Dan Hill III, a Hill, Chesson and
Roach insurance broker.
The premium cost of the new insurance
policy for single students is $208 per year.
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield premium
cost per year was $315.60, said Bill Roach,
of Hill, Chesson and Roach.
To receive coverage under the new in
surance policy, students must first go to
the SHS for services and then, if necessary,
they will be referred to another facility,
Hill said.
Students obtaining the new student in
surance policy, but who were not on the
Blue Cross and Blue Shield policy, will be
affected by a pre-existing condition exclu
sion clause. A condition treated between
Feb. 15, 1983, and Aug. 15, 1983, which
later reappears, will not be covered under
the new student insurance, Roach said.
Those students already having the Blue
Cross and. Blue Shield insurance purchas
ing the new student insurance will hot be
affected by this pre-existing condition
clause, Roach said.
Cowan said students did not realize
what a large amount of money could be
spent on medical services, and students
who do not have insurance are taking a
risk.
Approximately 95 percent of University
students have some insurance coverage
with about 15 percent having the SHS stu
dent insurance, Cowan said.
"This is an outgrowth of two years of
sustained planning on how to interphase
fees and insurance for the best package,"
Cowan said.
The decision was reached with the help
of the Student Health Service Advisory
Board and Insurance Committee, both of
which have student members, Sturdivant
said.
Deputy fire chief denies 'N&O' article on service cuts
By PETE AUSTIN
. 7 77 ... Staff Writer
. Deputy Chief of the Chapel Hill Fire Department
Robert BM Williams denied Monday that the number of
i false alarms k in,', residence halls at ' UNC has recently
prompted a reduction in the number of vehicles respon
ding to those alarms.
Williams' denial resulted from an article in the Raleigh
News and ObserverSatxaday that said "a high number of
false alarms at (UNC) during the past two years has
prompted the Chapel Hill Fire Department to cut back on
the number of vehicles sent to answer alarms."
Responding to The News and Observer's article,
Williams said, "First of all, we have not cut the number of
vehicles responding to any calls in the past two years."
Williams also said that false fire alarms are caused by a
variety of factors, not necessarily pranks by students. He
cited tangled telephone lines that transmit -the alarms to .
the fire department, poor1 maintenance by University
Housing and the placement of smoke alarms too close to
the kitchens as major causes of false alarms.
Both Williams and Mickey Sullivan, assistant director
of University Housing, also said that the student pranks
were not a problem. .
"Peer pressure pretty much keeps. the. number of
pranks down," she said. Nobody likes to stand outside at
2 o'clock in the morning, she said.
The number of vehicles responding to alarms from call
boxes and smoke detectors was reduced about two years
from three fire trucks and three public service officers to
two of each, Williams said.
Three vehicles from each department are still sent.out.in ;
response to phoned-in calls, Williams said.
CHFD reduced the number of trucks responding to call
box and smoke detector alarms a few years back because
of the cost to the town, Williams said. He estimated the
cost per truck per call at $500.
There have been 191 false alarms since July 1, 1982, in
University residence halls, Lt. Walter Dunn of University
police said Monday.
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Specialists defuse possible bomb
r, From staff reports
A team of explosive specialists from
Fort Bragg deactivated what appeared
to be a bomb found Monday morning
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Hill High School. There were no in
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Gold said that the tin can contained a
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viles of an unknown liquid.
Johnson took the apparent ex
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apparent bomb, Gold said the depart
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Fort Bragg Bomb Squad.
"It gave the appearance of a real
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"We didn't have the expertise to de
activate the device."
The team of explosive specialists
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at about 1:15 p.m. However, the
squad was unable to determine the po
tential of the device. The team safely
deactivated the apparent bomb by im
planting a small explosive cartridge in
the device, Gold said.
The only explosion observed was
. from the deactivating cartridge itself,
he said.
Because the apparent bomb was re
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. ficials decided not to evacuate
students, Gold said. School officials
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The State Bureau of Investigation
has been called in to aid Chapel Hill
police in the investigation of the bomb
incident.
The school received a bomb threat
on April 20, but police were unable to
discover any explosive device, Gold
said.
BOX names new Ackland director
From Staff Reports .
A new director will take on the supervi
sion of UNC's Ackland Art Museum May
8. ',
Innis H. Shoemaker, presently the assis
tant director of Ackland and an adjunct
assistant professor of art history, was ap
proved Friday as Ackland' s new director
by the Board of Trustees at their monthly
meeting.
Museum director Evan H. Turner is
leaving Ackland to become director of the
Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio.
Shoemaker has been with the University
since 1976. She received her bachelor's
degree from Vassar College in 1964, where
she later served as an assistant professor of
art and curator of the Vassar College Art
Gallery. Shoemaker received her master's
and doctoral degrees in art history from
Columbia University. She also has attend
ed as a Rome Prize Fellow the American
Academy in Rome to work on her disser
tation. Shoemaker will be the third director the
museum has had since its founding 25
years ago.xThe first director was Joseph C.
Sloane. Turner became the director in
1978.
7 Shoemaker's expertise lies primarily in
the field of prints and drawings of the
Italian Renaissance. Her interest in the
field led her to organize in 1981 a major
exhibition, called "The Engravings of
Marcantonio Raimondo," featuring the
works of an influential 16th century artist.
The exhibition toured three museums in
the United States. "
Shoemaker will have a larger space to
deal with than her predecessors did. With
the opening of the Art Classroom Studio
Building earlier this year, the museum can
now utilize the entire building for presen
tations. The announcement was made by Chan
cellor Christopher C. Fordham III, after
the Board of Trustees approved the selection.
Painting stolen from Gallery:
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the incident, she said. Bourgeois said no
charges will be filed if the painting is given
to any UNC official or resident assistant.
The painting, "Black Angus" by Marlene
award In ttesemi-armuil rf.C. Watercolor
Society show held at the Union. Pieces
from the show have been hanging in the
Union Gallery since April 17. University
police would not comment on the case
Monday.
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