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'Whe Daily Tar HeelFriday, November 10, 1989 City and State s. r f 0 V 0 ft rt 0 r 0 t ftudemife to f i 1 1 vacant seat oo town KATHERINE SNOW Staff Writer ! The Chapel Hill Parks and Recrea tion Commission is looking to fill a vacant board seat, which is open to all residents of Chapel Hill, includ ing students. ' Town Clerk Peter Richardson said there were students on several town btoards, and he encouraged more sjudent participation in local govern ment. ; "We'd be delighted to have a stu dent be a part of that board." ; The Parks and Recreation Com itiission will accept applications for the available position through Nov. U and will make a recommendation to the town council. The council makes the final decision as to who fills the position, Richardson said. Applications are available at the town clerk's office at 306 N. Colum bia St. Bill Hildebolt, external affairs director for student government, said he thought all the board seats had been filled this summer. "I'm surprised to hear about this seat. I'll announce it at the External Affairs meeting on Sunday, and I'll tell anyone who's interested to go fill out an application on Monday." r" Hildebolt serves as UNC student Hazardous waste plans muHe By GLENN O'NEAL Staff Writer North Carolina's proposal for the management of hazardous waste may " hot be satisfactory to the Environmental ' Protection Agency (EPA), said Alvis .Turner, professor of environmental ' "sciences and engineering at UNC and chairman of the N.C. Hazardous Waste Management Commission. -.-..The commission is responsible for ! locating a site in North Carolina for a . hazardous waste facility and for de signing, constructing and operating the I facility by means of a private company y.'or by the commission, he said. North Carolina, along with the rest .lof the nation, had to submit a proposal to the EPA by Oct. 17 on how the state planned to manage the hazardous waste , generated in the state. " North Carolina submitted a draft of -an- eighi-state agreement among the states in EPA Region Four that was ' signed by only North Carolina, he said. ' 'It shows the EPA that North Carolina is serious about managing hazardous ''waste, but it does not certify North v Carol ina's capacity to handle that waste, v he said. North Carolina does not have vthe capacity for treating hazardous V waste at this time, he said. By EPA's own admission, it will - -take months to evaluate the proposals tt-'Jiiom all 50 states, Turner said. There probably will be no immediate response irom me cr 10 any siaie. Study suggests greater prevalence of Prom Associated Press reports 'i'. ' -i riPAPA x i in V- wii-vjw muic man unc in iu .people over age 65 may have Alzheimer's disease, shows a study suggesting that the number of Ameri ;(bans with the devastating illness may be 1.5 million higher than previously EARN WHOLE YOU LEARN Manpower is looking for students interested in earning great pay plus commissions. We offer flexible hours, valuable training and business experience, plus free use of a per sonal computer. If you're a full-time stu dent, sophomore or above, with at least a B. average and are com puter familiar, MANPOWER NEEDS . YOU AS A COLLEGIATE REP to promote the sales of the IBM PERSONAL SYSTEM2 on campus. For experience that pays call today. 0 t w r T ; ' : MANPOWER , ' t s -" jtj $ V TEMPORARY SERVICES 929-0279 ALICE LOCKHAKT eligible board liaison to town council, where he spends time on Chapel Hill boards such as the board of transportation. Getting students more involved was also a concern of the candidates for Chapel Hill Town Council. Julie Andresen, who was elected to her second term Tuesday night, said she was pleased with the student involve ment over the past few years but would still like to see more. "Students I've talked to seem more knowledgeable about what's going on in their town," Andresen said. Students should want to know what is going on and be a part of it, she said. Matthew Heyd, a sophomore from Charlotte, has held a seat on Chapel Hill's Historic District Commission since last August. He said even though he is a student, he has as much influ ence as any other member on the board. "It is interesting to see the differ ence between myself and other people on the board who have lived in Chapel Hill for 40 years or more." The Historic District Commission will soon decide if Fraternity Court will be recognized as a historic dis trict Heyd will represent the stu dents and will have an important say in the decision. The penalty for not having an ac ceptable plan for the management of hazardous waste is the loss of EPA Superfund clean-up money, which could mean a loss to North Carolina of $28 million for two clean-up sites, he said. David Prather, deputy director of communications for Gov. Jim Martin, said the governor was still involved in negotiations with the other states to include North Carolina in a multi-state agreement. North Carolina has in creased its offer on the size of the incinerator the state would build in such an agreement from 40,000 tons a year to 50,000 tons a year, he said. , The state has explored other possib lities for hazardous waste facilities such as solvent recovery, but no final agree ment has been made, he said. South Carolina, Alabama, Tennes see and Kentucky, who share EPA Region Four with North Carolina, reached an agreement to share the re sponsibility for treating hazardous waste. Mississippi, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida were left out of the agreement. The eight-state agreement fell through one week before the deadline, because South Carolina and Alabama, the two states with landfill capacity, decided that states without a hazardous waste facil ity in place could not be in an agreement, Turner said. The two states were receiving hazardous waste from estimated. A study of 3,626 elderly people in East Boston, Mass., revealed that rates of Alzheimer's grew rapidly higher with advancing age, soaring to nearly half of those over age 85, said researchers at Harvard Medical School. Of people ages 65 to 74, 3 percent had "probable" Alzheimer's disease, compared with 18.7 percent of those 75 to 84 and 47.2 percent of those over 85. All told, 10.3 percent of those over age 65 had "probable" Alzheimer dis ease, the researchers said. Capture What You Look Like Now... lit The 1 990 Yackety Yack Photographer is on Campus Now! Portrait dates: November 1 -22, Room 213 in the Union Call 1 -800-873-7591 to make your appointment TODAY! Anonymous AIDS test option to By ROBERT BERRY Staff Writer N.C. health officials decided Thurs day to continue giving North Carolini ans access to anonymous AIDS testing in spite of a new law calling for report ing of test results. Although the law recommends that results of tests for the HIV virus, the virus which causes AIDS, be reported to health officials, the N.C. Commis sion for Public Health voted Thursday to continue allowing anonymous test ing in every county rather than adopt a "confidential" system in which names of patients would be kept in govern ment files. "Obviously, the state health com mission did not believe (mandatory reporting) was the legislation's intent," Don Follmer, director of public affairs for the N.C. Division of Health Serv ices, said soon after the decision. The N.C. Commission for Health Services had been considering several Governor By SANDY WALL Staff Writer Gov. Jim Martin is now in Europe in an effort to land new businesses for North Carolina, stimulate existing markets for N.C. products and encour age new investment in the state. Martin left Wednesday for London with a delegation of state officials and private business leaders and will be in Europe for 1 1 days, said Tim Pittman, director of communications for the governor, in a telephone interview. While overseas, Martin will visit Eng all over the country, he said. "They feel like they have become a waste dump for the whole country." A hazardous waste incinerator, chosen by North Carolina as the pre ferred facility in a multi-state agree ment, is the "safest way to go," Turner said. An incinerator keeps everything above ground; thus a possible leak can easily be contained, he said. Doug Rader, senior scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund, said the group preferred the idea of source re duction but added that the group was concerned with the handling of the ash generated by incineration. The ash could be classified as hazardous material, he said. Turner said incineration could re duce 100 pounds of hazardous waste to five to 10 pounds of waste, a reduction of 85 percent to 90 percent. "No other technology will come close to this." The commission will try to select a site by May 1990 and have a facility operating by December 1991, he said. "Certainly, the greatest opposition in finding a site has come from the general public. The General Assembly has been supportive of the process until you consider a site that is in their back yard." If North Carolina had a site selected by the Oct. -17 deadline, it would have been helpful in reaching a multi-state agreement but it may not have been sufficient, Turner said. The study was funded in part by the National Institute on Aging, and its finding prompted the institute to revise its estimate of U.S. citizens suffering from Alzheimer ' s which robs people of their memories and their ability to function from 2.5 million to 4 mil lion. A statement said the study was im portant because it studied, large num bers of people, including those living in their own homes or with families and those with few memory problems. "As a result, these estimates might options in implementing the law, passed this year by the General Assembly. Follmer said one was to reduce the number of centers where anonymous testing would be available. Instead, the commission decided to allow at least one center in each county, which is "ex actly the same as it is now," he said. Follmer said the issue of AIDS test ing was complicated by fears about discrimination. "The problem with this issue is that there is a group on one end of the spectrum who see it as a civil rights issue rather than a medical issue. "It's impossible to track an epidemic if you don't know who's sick. If we had an outbreak of bubonic plague, do you think we'd have anonymous testing?" Concerns about AIDS discrimina tion were addressed in the 1989 law, which included anti-discrimination provisions. Follmer dismissed argu ments made by opponents who think the law is inadequate. visits European business leaders land, West Germany, Denmark and Sweden. "It's an economic development mission," Pittman said. While on the trip, Martin will be meeting with the executives of companies that already have subsidiaries in North Carolina as well as with executives who are consid ering moving some of their operations here. "There are always direct links be tween these trips and new business," he said. Martin said in a press release that Waste site By WAGNER DOTTO Staff Writer The announcement Wednesday that one of four areas in North Caro lina would house a radioactive waste plant after 1993 brought strong oppo sition from authorities in some coun ties being considered as possible locations for the site. Sites in Rowan, Union and Richmond counties and one on the Wake-Chatham county line have been chosen by Chem-Nuclear Systems Inc., a company selected by the state government to build and operate the facility. A final decision on the exact area is expected by January. Wednesday, about 60 people, mostly farmers and older adults, gath ered outside the Mission Valley Inn in Raleigh to protest the decision to build a facility. The plant's capacity is expected to be equivalent to an arena twice the size of the Smith Center and would be Legionnaires' outbreak From Associated Press reports LAMAR, Coio. An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease suspected of causing 17 illnesses and three deaths after a class reunion has scarred the image of this agricultural community as a wholesome convention site. Alzheimer's lay the groundwork for developing the most accurate picture of Alzheimer's disease in the U.S. population to date,' ' said Zaven Khachaturian, NIA associ ate director for neuroscience and neu ropsychology of aging. Minors jor," Scott said. Dartmouth also offers double majors for its students. The University of Chicago does not allow its students to minor in a subject or to declare a double major, said Robert Before You Look Like This. "I'm not sure what they want on that. It's a good piece of anti-discrimination legislation." Jim Shields, executive director of the N.C. Civil Liberties Union, dis agreed. "Many people are suspicious that government won't be effective or even make good faith efforts to enforce it," he said in a telephone interview Wednesday. He added that the law had several "truck-sized" loopholes, such as the exemption given to the restaurant industry regarding hiring decisions based on AIDS tests. Shields said the anti-discrimination law was "a step in the right direction symbolically. It's nothing else." Shields said a reporting requirement would damage not only civil liberties but also the public health concerns it tried to help. "People who are most in need of testing have the most to fear from a breakdown in anonymity." If anony similar trips had been fruitful for the state in the past. "We've been very successful in at tracting firms that bring good jobs to North Carolina," he said in the state ment. "Previous missions have helped us find new markets and enhance our traditional markets." These trips are nothing new for Martin. "This is his third recruiting trip this year," Pittman said, adding the governor has already visited California and the Far East this year in an effort to land new business for the state. proposals raise hackles the recipient of 32 million cubic feet of mildly radioactive waste. The Wake Chatham area is located near the Shea ron Harris Nuclear Power Plant, about 30 miles from Chapel Hill. "We'll fight the plant with every means available," said Cole Thompson, chairman of the board of the Chatham County Commission. "We would never convince people that it's a good thing to have around." One of the arguments used to con vince counties to host the disposal plant is that the facility would bring up to 1 00 new jobs paying about $25,000 a year. About $500,000 in tax receipts would be available to the county. Seven Southeastern states would use the facility for at least the 20 years it is expected to be in operation. "People in this county are very environment-cautious and environment-active," said Chatham County Manager Marvin Hoffman. "The whole thing is perceived as a quality of life "There's concern, grave concern, over what this will mean to the commu nity," said Darlene Hamilton, manager of the Chamber of Commerce of Lamar, population 8,600, which depends heav ily on tourism and conventions. City administrator Roy Lauricello said the town still was reeling from a decision by a bus manufacturer to lay off 200 people last year. Eighty-five people were laid off. Monday when the Best Western Cow Palace Inn closed voluntarily while health officials took more than 200 samples from air conditioning ducts, water and the cooling system, breeding grounds for the bacteria that cause the Ball, associate director of undergradu ate admissions. Students can fulfill two degree re quirements for two separate degrees, but only one area of study appears on the diploma. The other area of study appears on the transcript, Ball said. "The intellectual climate here is such that we don't need to have this addi tional structure of a minor to ensure the breadth of general education or the ability to do disciplinary work. It doesn't serve the education mission here." The University of Tennessee (UT) offers a minor to its students, said Linda Tober, reporter of curriculum in aca demic programs. Every department in the College of Liberal Arts, which is similar to UNC's Arts and Sciences, offers a minor including English, math and political science, she said. "Requirements vary from department to department, but the professional schools such as architecture, nursing, social work and communications do not offer a minor." Tober said that there were no restric tions on the minor for students, but that the minor was only listed on the tran scripts and not on the diploma. Middlebury College, a small school in Vermont, requires students to take a concentration. According to Geoffrey Smith, assistant director of admissions, Middlebury divides its curriculum into four divisions of humanities, mathsci ence, social science and foreign lan guage. Each student is required to choose a concentration outside the division of hisher major, Smith said. "It's all part of that liberal arts ra tionale, that students should have a continue mous testing is available, people tend to come in for testing sooner, he said. Shields said a reduction in the num ber of anonymous centers would be dangerous because those most vulner able to AIDS are also the least able to travel to a distant center for testing. He also disagreed that reporting was necessary for "contact tracing," identi fying those who have come into contact with those who test positive. Even with mandatory reporting.scientists still depend on patients to identify others voluntarily, he said. "People who are comfortable will give more names of people to be contact-traced." Shields could not be reached for comment after the commission's deci sion was announced Thursday. I As of July 1989, 28 states had laws requiring reporting of HIV infections, according to Gayle Lloyd, public af fairs specialist for the national Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. N.C. Secretary of Economic and Community Development Jim Broyhill is traveling with Martin on this trip, as are 10 private N.C. business people, Pittman said. The business people are travelling on their own resources. Business recruiting trips, although potentially fruitful for North Carolina, are very competitive, Pittman said. Other states also try to recruit new business with recruiting trips. "If you don't get out there and (re cruit), you're going to lose ground," Pittman said. argument, rather than economic argument." In August more than 1 ,000 people met in Chatham County and pro tested the possible selection of Chatham County as a waste site, Hoffman said. "We definitely don't want it, and we'll do what we can to fight it," said John Munn, Union County manager. "We've had difficulty with a tree stump dump something that's non polluting. The kind of thing that makes you light up they're not going to like that." Bill Furney, public information officer in Gov. Jim Martin's office, said yesterday that the negative re action to the plant was "predictable." He said that the plant would not represent any danger for the sur rounding population and that the population would be encouraged to monitor the whole operation. closes hotel disease. The samples are being analyzed at the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, which expects to have pre liminary results next week. Health offi cials expressed confidence that the Cow Palace will then reopen, after any sources of the bacteria are sterilized. More than 250 people from 21 states attended a Lamar High School reunion Sept. 22-24, held for classes of 1941 and earlier at the Cow Palace. ; Six cases of Legionnaires' disease have been confirmed among 17 people who came down with pneumonia-like symptoms after attending the reunion. Three of those stricken have died. ; from page 1 broadly based background." Middlebury offers 100 different concentrations, Smith said. I "We have 40 different departments, and each one offers more than one concentration. So if a student wants to concentrate in English, he could con centrate in Victorian literature or ro mantic poetry." ! Lloyd Hall, associate director of admissions at Cornell University, said that the school allowed its students to concentrate in various subjects, but that it did not have an actual minor. "Most of the basic courses offer a concentration, and the professional schools allow students to concentrate only within the school." Cornell has many students who double major instead of using the con centration, Hall said. "We also let students pursue a double degree, but only between certain schools such as engineering and arts and sci ences." The University of Maryland allows students to concentrate in various sub jects, said Barbara Gill, assistant direc tor of freshman admissions. Many of Maryland's different colleges encour age students to concentrate in a subject. "There are a number of academic colleges on this campus that require students to take what they call a minor. It's more like a program of emphasis outside the major." ; The College of Journalism requires a concentration in its curriculum, as does the American Studies program Gill said.