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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 93, Issue 111
Tuesday, December 3, 1S35
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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finishing touches on this window Santa Claus at
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Fowler's Food Store. She and her classmates were
painting as part of an art project.
By LIZ SAYLOR
Staff Writer
This semester almost 200 UNC education
students ventured into their field, learning for the
first time what being a teacher really involved.
"Nothing in college has prepared us for this
taking over 100 kids a day," said Laura Calhoun,
a senior from Hendersonville who teaches seventh
grade science at Grey-Culbreth Junior High
School. "If we don't do right, they're the ones
who suffer. It's scary."
The students attended classes in the schools
where they were assigned before they began their
work in the classroom. On Oct. 23 they went to
schools in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school system
and Durham, Orange, Wake, Chatham, Lee and
Alamance county, school systems. Sometimes
students also were sent to Burlington City schools.
"Our biggest problem is trying to find place
ments for them," said Dr. Joseph Browde, clinical
associate professor in the School of Education and
director of the student teaching program.
Student teachers in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City
Schools receive a $50 stipend a semester, said Dr.
Paul Pritchard, who is in charge of student
teachers' placements in the area. He said that, with
350 teachers in the system, they used 30 to 60
student teachers each semester.
The education curriculum has several divisions,
Browde said. Students planning to teach kinder
garten through fourth grade and fourth through
sixth grade must student teach for certification
and degree work. In secondary subject areas (math,
science, social studies, English), student teaching
only is required for certification, Browde said.
The student teachers are assigned a supervising
professor in the education department who visits
them while they teach.
"When my supervisor came for his first visit
to my class, the overhead projector blew up," said
John Boldt, a fifth-year senior from Kinston who
teaches five American history classes at Hillsbo
rough Orange High School. "The second time he
came, I was supposed to be in the library, but
it was closed, so I was teaching without a lesson
plan. I haven't had much luck when the supervisor
ByGUYLUCAS
Assistant University Editor
Wyatt Closs, Campus Governing Council speaker and
district 10 representative, announced Monday he planned
to resign as speaker, but he may retain his seat on the CGC.
Closs said that he would finalize the details of his
resignation during exams or the holidays, but the chances
were "50-50" he would retain his seat on the CGC.
"At the end of the week, 111 probably have a much better
idea of what's going to happen," he said.
"The reason for my doing that (resigning) is I hope to
be involved with other projects next semester that either
would take me away from campus or, while I would be
on campus, they would restrict my time," he said.
He said he was not resigning to campaign for student
body president.
"In talking to people earlier in the semester, I said, If
you hear about me resigning as speaker, that means 111 be
running,' " he said. "
"I'm looking at doing some sort of intern work . . ., one
of working on a (U.S.) congressional campaign during the
entire spring semester," he said.- Closs would not say for
which candidate he wanted to work.
Closs said he also was working with the University's
Division of Student Affairs to define different projects on
which he could work. V
"Some of my wanting to look into other projects comes
somewhat out of my lack of fulfillment (as speaker)," he
said. ; - ;, '
Closs said his departure would not cause too many
problems for the CGC.
"111 still be trying to help out the CGC and get those
things (the transition after the spring campus elections)
accomplished," he said. There will be two meetings before
the transitional CGC meeting.
CGC Speaker Pro-Tempore Jimmy Greene would be next
in line to serve as acting speaker, but Closs said he would
recommend that Jaye Sitton, Rules and Judiciary chairwo
man (district 13), serve in that capacity. Greene and Finance
Committee chairman David Brady (district 12) will be too
busy with other things next semester to fill the position
adequately, Closs said.
By 'TERESA KRIEGSMAN
Staff Writer '
UNC's School of Journalism is one
of five journalism schools in the country
that will act as regional headquarters
for the selection of the first journalist
to fly in space, and journalism school
Dean Richard R. Cole is a member of
the national steering committee for the
. program.
The selection process is being run for
NASA by the Association of Schools
of Journalism and Mass Communica
tion, which represents 170 U.S. jour
nalism schools. Cole is ASJMC
president-elect.
Cole said the journalist that is selected
should capture the mood, drama and
awe of space and give the public insight
into the purpose, value and future of
space travel.
, "(We want someone) to communicate
, the entire, experience of space to the
public," Cole said. 1 , .
The winning journalist and an alter
nate will be named April 17. He or she
will undergo a four-month summer
training program at the Johnson Space
Center in Houston and will fly on a
Space Shuttle mission in late 1986.
The journalist will be the second in
a series of communicators to be selected
as part of NASA's Space Flight Par
ticipation Program. The program was
established in 1 984 to provide flight
opportunities for people not otherwise
associated with the space program, so
that they could communicate their
experience to the general public. The
first candidate selected under this
program was teacher Christa McAu
liffe, who is scheduled to fly in January.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens with
five or more years of full-time profes
sional experience. They must submit
two examples of their work and answer
essay questions about why they want
to be selected and how they will
communicate the experience.
School to play role
in selecting first jour
nalist to ride shuttle
into space.
Everyone has an equal chance for the
position, Cole said, adding that jour
nalists from bigger communications
organizations did not have a "built-in
advantage."
"Selecting the first jounalist in space
is obviously important, and we must
make sure that all journalists from
small newspapers and broadcast sta
tions, as well as the big guys from CBS
and The New York Times are treated
f airly," Cole said.
Cole said he expected about 5,000
journalists to apply. More than 1,750
applications already have been received.
Applications are available through Jan.
15, and applicants are not restricted by
age, but they must pass minimum
physical requirements and cannot be
employees of the U.S. Government or
spouses of present or former NASA
employees.
Applications will be sorted among
five geographic regions. After prelimi
nary judging at cooperating ASJMC
schools, applicants will be interviewed
at the regional level in March. In
addition to UNC, the other regional
schools are Pennsylvania State Univer
sity, University of Kansas, University
of Iowa and California State University
at Fullerton.
Eight applicants selected from each
region will go to Washington, D.C., in
early April for the national finals. The
National Selection Panel will recom
mend five applicants for consideration
by the NASA Space Flight Participant
Evaluation Committee, composed of
seven senior NASA officials.
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Student teachers also attend weekly seminars,
where they can meet with other students in their
area and discuss common problems.
-"All we ever talk about with other student
teachers is how different school is today than for
our generation," Calhoun said. "When we were
in school, we'd have to raise our hands to talk
in class, and you were embarrassed if the teacher
even looked at you. Now they try . . . lots of
talking, no matter how far apart you seat them,
bad language (and) insubordination, where you
tell them to do something, and they just say, 'No,
I won't.' "
Calhoun said she still wanted to teach, but
wanted to instruct students in earlier grades.
"I would like to go younger, like elementary
school, where they're still excited about learning,"
Calhoun said. "These kids are just looking forward
to when they can get out and be done with school.
The older they get, the less excited they are about
learning." .
More people should become teachers, Boldt
said. "Most high school students think teachers
want to fail them. But the best feeling to me is
when a student who's not doing so well improves.
We actually want them to succeed, not fail.
"When I first started, I didn't know if I knew
that much in leading them," Boldt said. "I found
out I do. Also I thought I'd be able to really get
into a subject, but due to the time limitations,
I can't. We skip over a lot of stuff. It's a lot of
work preparing." '
"No one," Browde said, "expects you to be a
perfect teacher.
"Look at the student teaching experience as a
culminating experience," he said. "It applies the
theory of education, subject matter, specialties,
strategies.
"It isn't enough to know what I'm going to teach.
It's how to do it. A top-notch scientist or
mathematician may not know how to get their
subject across."
Hands-on experience is the goal of student
teaching, he concluded.
By MARYMELDA HALL
Assistant Features Editor
Student teaching provides education majors
classroom experience before they enter the school
system. But students get training even earlier
through an observation lab included in required
classes on adolescent development.
Observation yields different impressions.
Students may sit in the back of a deathly quiet
classroom observing students practice algebra or
chemistry problems. They could find themselves
in the Middle Ages or the Guilded Age, America
or Spain. They can witness model students or a
50-minute free-for-all.
I was assigned to an American Government class
at Chapel Hill High School for eight weeks of
observation. I made the mistake of overdressing
the first day high heels were not meant to
navigate gravel parking lots and high school
hallways. After finding the classroom, I stood
outside trying to muster enough nerve to interrupt
busily working students.
What I interrupted was a small war.
An extensive study of the U.S. constitution had
resulted in a "discussion" of heavy-metal music.
To ban or not to ban was the question of the ,
hour, and it created lopsided response one
teacher against 30 students. He was holding his
own, though. He even had attended an Iron
Maiden concert to get first-hand experience.
The students were arguing about their consti
tutional right to listen to what they wanted. The
words were getting hot. Suddenly, the teacher
turned to me.
"What kind of music do you listen to?"
I experienced a classic example of identity crisis.
Was I an adult or an adolescent? A teacher or
a student? Did I have a responsibility to side with
the teacher or go for a popular response with the
students? '
I compromised with what I felt was pretty safe
ground.
"Well, uh, I like Billy Joel."
This got agreeable response from both the
students and teacher.
"Now he's a good guy," was the adult response.
"Good guy!" said a kid sitting across the room.
"What about Catholic girls starting much too late?
Don't you think he's promoting promiscuity?" He
was reading from an article listing singers and
songs that should be publicly censored.
The argument ended with an announcement that
it was time to move to another section of the
constitution, and class got a little more orderly.
I learned a lot from that observation, like never
to underestimate the ability and creativity of a
high school student.
Observing without the pressures of preparing
lesson plans and objectives is a wonderful
opportunity for education majors. It provides the
first objective glance at the teaching profession
through the eyes of the teacher. And that glance
helps in preparing education majors for a headlong
leap into teaching.
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Vermont Royster, UNC journalism
professor emeritus and former editor of
The Wall Street Journal, is among the
judges on the National Selection Panel.
Royster said the panel would be
looking at the applicants from a
"journalistic standpoint.
"None of the astronauts so far have
been very articulate," Royster said. "We
need someone to tell us earth-bound
people what it's really like."
Royster said he would like to see the
journalist have "some acquaintance
with science and technology" and be
capable of writing about personal
experience.
The five finalists will undergo medical
examinations and receive briefings on
the space flight experience. Based on
the results of the physicals and inter
views, the evaluation committee will
recommend a primary and backup
candidate to NASA, which will approve
the final selection.
few '.posits
By KENNETH HARRIS
Staff Writer
Blacks hold approximately 11
percent of the appointed positions
on advisory boards established by
Chapel Hill and Carrboro each, but
town officials said it is difficult to
get blacks involved in politics.
The Carrboro Board of Alder
men appointed 73 people to its
town advisory boards. Eight of the
appointees are black.
Hilliard Caldwell, the only black
member on the Board of Alder
men, said he wants more partic
ipation from the community.
"We want to make sure that all
segments of the community are well
represented," he said.
In the Carrboro November elec
tions, Caldwell was re-elected to a
second term on the board. He
received more votes than any other
candidate on the ballot.
The Parks and Recreation Com
mission has the most blacks of any
town board in Carrboro. Of the
commission's 1 1 members, four are
black.
Carrboro has both a planning
board and a board for downtown
development, but neither of the two
boards have black members. Cald
well, however, remains optimistic
See BLACKS page 7
You don't have to think too hard when you talk to a teacher J.D. Salinger