The Tar HeelThursday, June 19, 19863
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By CATHERINE COWAN
StaffWriter
If youVe been on campus during
the weekend and seen groups of
people wandering around listening to
someone tell them about the Bell
Tower or Wilson Library, chances
are youVe run into a group of
entering freshmen participating in C
TOPS, or Carolina Testing and
Orientation Programs. During the
two-day program freshmen will take
their foreign language and math
exams, go on campus tours and hear
about services and organizations at
UNC.
Shirley Hunter, director of orien
tation at UNC, said the main purpose
of C-TOPS was to provide some
orientation to students before they
arrived in the fall and to administer
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From Associated Press reports
PAWNEE, Okla. - A woman
spent more than two days trapped
in her overturned car in a creekbed
as snakes slithered into the vehicle
before her brother retraced her route
and found her in what state police
call a one-in-a-thousand chance.",
Carolyn Sue Bowman, 45, was
driving along a straight stretch of
Oklahoma 18 Friday when the
steering wheel malfunctioned and the
car skidded into a ravine about four
miles south of this north-central
Oklahoma community, said High
way Patrol Trooper Roger Price.
The car ended up with its top
mashed down and doors jammed
shut in a marshy creekbed, where
snakes infested the engine
compartment.
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their foreign language and math
placement tests. There will be eight
sessions of the G-TOPS this summer.
One of the main features of the '
program is a skit the Orientation
Commission puts on called "Changes
and Transitions" in which they act
out some of the changes the entering
freshmen may go through during
their first couple of weeks at Carol
ina. This is followed by small group
discussions in which students can talk
about the ideas in the skit and raise
any questions they might have,
Hunter said.
The program starts on Friday at
9:30 a.m. when students and their
parents arrive at Morrison Dorm,
, where they are housed for the night.
Opening session begins at 1 1:30 a.m.
"She said she kept trying to figure
out a way to get out, and kept shoving
things in the holes so the snakes
couldn't get into the car," said
Bowman's husband, Terry Bowman.
She said she could hear one of the
snakes near the fan."
Sunday evening, her brother
Ripley Police Chief Bill Gladden,
traced her route, finding what he
described as "some skid marks off
the highway into the grass." Gladden
investigated, and on the other side
of a small hill found the car lying
upside down in the ravine.
The brown car blended with the
mud of the creekbed and was par
tially covered by a tree, said Gladden.
"You could have taken a helicopter
over the place and not seen the car.
The good Lord wanted her to be
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in Memorial Hall, followed by lunch
and campus tours. Afterward, the
Orientation commission puts on their
skit, and later the students take their
foreign language placement test.
After dinner the students receive
presentations on student organiza
tions and university housing.
On Saturday morning, students get
a presentation on campus services
and general college and take the math
placement test. Also on Saturday are
more small group discussions,
question-and-answer sessions and
lunch.
Hunter said C-TOPS was a good
experience for most students. "Last
year, evaluations averaged 4.2 out of
a possible 5. The consensus among
the freshmen was that they felt
found," said Price, who investigated
the accident. He called the rescue a
"one-in-a-thousand chance."
Bowman was being treated Mon
day at the Pawnee Municipal Hos
pital for bruises, exposure and
dehydration, said her husband.
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relieved about coming in the fall.
Their anxiety has been lessened or
even completely gone."
Abraham Segres, an orientation
couselor for C-TOPS, said organi
zation for the orientation program
began last spring. This work con
sisted of mailing out information
about C-TOPS to all prospective
freshmen and coordinating the pro
gram at UNC. It included calling
University departments to get them
to make presentations, setting up
housing at Morrison and contracting
Lenoir Hall to be open for meals,
Segres said.
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Christine Reid, an entering fresh
man from Clemmons, said she
thought C-TOPS was helpful. "I
enjoyed talking to the students.
Everyone was very helpful. My
favorite thing was the skits they did.
It taught me the most," she said.
John Beckley, an entering fresh
man from Dayton, Ohio, also
thought the program was helpful. "I
got a good idea of what would
happen when I got down there. We
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