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The Daily Tar HeelFriday, March 2, 199(13' i mi (S ism a it c- i? u to Seniors work toward fund-raising goal The senior class raised $287,000 for its senior class gift in a phonathon held Feb. 25-Feb. 27. The phonathon was the beginning of the class' efforts to raise $325,000. Plans are to spend $25,000-$30,000 to improve landscaping between Murphey and Saunders halls. The rest of the money will be used to establish a permanent endowment for a teaching fellows program at the UNC Center for Teacher and Learning. Keitt King, co-chairman of the sen . ior class gift campaign, said volunteers would the campaign until May. Aerobics class to aid Tina Levy fund ' Diana Landers, a senior from Sacra mento, Calif., is holding an aerobics class to benefit Tina Levy. The class w ill be held Saturday from noon-1 p.m. at The Gym in Carrboro. The cost is $3 per person. Exposition to focus on environmental research Students and faculty are invited to attend a research exposition for the Center for Waste Minimization and Management from 7:30 p.m. until 9 p.m. Tuesday from, in the "U" ball room of the Carolina Inn. Posters outlining important environ mental research under way at the UNC Department of Environmental Science and Engineering and at N.C. State University will be on display. For more information, contact Dr. William Glaze, department of environ mental science, at 966-1024. ted Zeppelin to play Morehead Planetarium The Morehead Planetarium will of fer "Laser Zeppelin," a musical laser show featuring the sounds of rock band Led Zeppelin, at 6:45 p.m. and 9:15 p,'m. on Sundays during March. The early show replaces the 6:45 p.m. showing of "Laser Wars." "Laser Wajs" will continue to be shown at 9:15 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and at 6:45 p.m. Saturdays. "Laser Floyd" will continue at 9:15 p.m. Thursdays and 1 0:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Admission is $3 for children 1 1 years old and under and $5 for others. Delta Zeta sorority to host groundbreaking Delta Zeta sorority will hold a groundbreaking ceremony at 3 p.m. Sunday for its new house on Hillsbor ouch Street. -Chancellor Paul Hardin, members from the sorority's national chapter and members of other sororities will attend. (For more information call Barbara Kfcsler, public relations director for Delta Zeta, at 933-1631. Grant to help AIDS victims and families The Kate B. Reynolds Health Care Trust gave North Carolina Memorial Hospital Pastoral Care Department a $10,000 grant to help AIDS patients and their families. The Reynolds Trust grant will help support a chaplain who will become a liaison with community clergy and religious groups for referral, education and pastoral support of people with AIDS. "We are grateful and proud of this recognition and support of our pastoral care program," said Todd Peterson, director of operations at UNC hospi tals. Chapel Hill to start town tennis league The Chapel Hill Parks and Recrea tional deoartment is sponsoring a USTAVolvo Tennis League. Entry into the league is on a team basis. Individuals should place them selves on an individuals list with the department. All participants must have a NTRP rating and be a member of the USTA. Team captains may register their team at 200 Plant Road, trom 8:3U a.m. until 5 p.m., Monday-Friday. A $50 deposit will be required. For more in formation call 968-2784. Parasitology department to close By STEPHEN POOLE Staff Writer University officials decided this week to terminate the Department of Parasitology and Lab Practice, a gradu ate department established in 1940 within the School of Public Health. Both the causes and effects of the termination are not yet clear. Michel Ibrahim, dean of the School of Public Health, and Hilton Goulson, acting chairman of the Department of Parasi tology and Lab Practice, as well as University Provost Dennis O'Connor were unavailable for comment Thurs day. Faculty and students are waiting for Residents' input By TOM PARKS Senior Writer Chapel Hill residents will have yet another chance next week to partici pate in the town's own special brand of representative government. The town is sponsoring two infor mal discussions on the aesthetics of downtown Chapel Hill on Monday. The planning department and the Downtown Commission plan to find out what residents and merchants like and don't like about downtown. The two groups will use comments to pre pare a long-term streetscape plan that the town can use as a guide for appearance-related improvements downtown. The gospel truth M x lW i t oil; I A 1 y- '. r, : .... U &d.,.jt IM&I izL... I-1 The Black Student Movement Gospel Choir was one of five acts to perform during Cross-Cultural Entertain- Festival to offer By VICKI HYMAN Staff Writer You can see a traditional Chinese wedding, hear an Italian opera and sample genuine Indian food all in the same place. The Association of International Students (AIS) is presenting the 12th annual International Festival from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday in Great Hall in the Carolina Union. The festival will cap off International Week, "The Future of our Global Community." "What AIS wants is for people to see different cultures, ways of life to have cultural awareness and under standing," said Nick Kontogeorgopou los, a sophomore from Toronto and co president of the AIS. "I'm from Toronto, and I m faced with different cultures all the time. You don't get a chance here to see all these different kinds of things." HP P-. ' .r- v - A; Af vxv KnffM f htA. h.s X- v,! w m Dancin' in the streets Members of the UNC Marching Tar Heel band participate in the Krewe of Rex parade on Feb. 28 in New Orleans. departmental meetings scheduled next week to learn more about the decision. Parasitology students have been in structed by the department not to com ment until the meeting. James Hall, associate professor of parasitology, said the program was still in question. "So far, we've been told not to accept new students for next semester and that there are negotiations to try to maintain the department. "Many of the details are unaccounted for. There are all sorts of options, all sorts of questions." Dean McCord, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Federation, expressed dismay and frus "We'd like to have (merchant's) ideas, since they're the ones who'll be affected most by this," said Dave Roesler of the Chapel Hill Planning Department. Workshops will be held at 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday at 153 E. Franklin St., the site of the former Benetton store. Town residents may attend and make suggestions or just listen, Roesler said. Peter Batchelor, an urban design professor from N.C. State University, will begin the workshop. After Batchelor's remarks, the floor will open for suggestions from residents on ways to improve the appearance of downtown. DTHKathy Michei ment Night Thursday at the Union Cabaret. The event was a part of Race Relations Week. insight into different cultures The festival is the big event of the organization, he said. "It's what we work for the whole year. It's the grand showcase of the AIS. "It allows us to show what we do. This is our way of allowing the UNC campus to benefit from what we do." More than 25 countries will be rep resented in booths at the festival, said Caroline Pham, a senior international studies and political science major from Fayetteville. International groups from UNC, as well as some from Durham and N.C. State University, will provide entertainment , she said. Many AIS members are excited to be representing their respective coun tries at the festival. "My booth on Canada will have maps, tourist infor mation something people can walk in and look at and see a little part of Canada in America," said Valerie Hal man, a freshman psychology major from tration with the news. "It's a shock to any graduate student to find out sud denly that your department no longer exists. To find out on the spur of the moment is inconceivable." Rick Tidwell, a pathology professor who has collaborated with University parasitologists, said the termination made no sense. Parasitology has had fluctuating success in the past, but the presence of new medical dilemmas, such as AIDS, has re-established its importance, he said. "Parasitology has ridden the crest. People have seen that you can't forget it." sought Cogswell Hausler Associates, a Chapel Hill architectural firm, will prepare a long-term streetscape plan based on recommendations made at the workshops. The firm will present a rough draft of its report at 9 a.m. Tues day. The panel will be available until noon to discuss its preliminary report. Arthur Cogswell, senior partner of Cogswell Hausler Associates, said the workshop would give him a perspec tive he would be unable to obtain if he just created a streetscape plan. Cogswell has conducted preliminary interviews with downtown merchants, and he said uneven and rough side walks, as well as neglected shrubber Montreal. Foods from different countries will be on sale, Pham said. Kontogeorgopoulos said usually about 2,000 people attend the event. AIS member Flo Belvedere, a sopho more from Buenos Aires, Argentina, said the festival exposed students to different cultures, a chance they didn't get very often. "In Argentina, we emphasize a lot more global learning we have to learn about other cultures. You get a different point of view. That's been a problem here." Another AIS member, Anthony Catanzariti, a junior from Griffith, Australia, said most students were very ethnocentric. "My booth should in crease people's awareness about Aus tralia. People are very enthusiastic but very misinformed." The free fair is open to the public. Yackety YackDavid Foster The band, the UNC Naval R0TC unit and the High Kicking Heels attended the celebration. Goulson said any of the department's 16 master's or 17 doctorate students who return next semester would be able to complete their coursework, Hall said. Students who still have work to com plete will be allowed to transfer. "The current students have been told that they will continue to be supported," Hall said. Hall said a lack of funds within the School of Public Health was one factor in the decision to terminate the depart ment. The recent budget cuts are not responsible for the school's diminish ing funds, but they have added to it, he said. "(The lack of funds) has been an ongoing thing, though the budget cuts foi town ies, were some concerns that have been mentioned to him. "But I'm sure stuff will come up that we haven't even dreamed of," he said. Chapel Hill officials need input from residents on how to improve or change things downtown, said Dianne Pledger, special projects director for the Down town Commission. The workshops will include discus sion of kiosks, bike racks, lighting, sidewalks, trees, benches and anything else that residents might suggest con cerning the downtown appearance. "Yes, we do have these things," Pledger said. "But siaybe there's a better way to do it. We do have the kiosks, but Watershed topic of public By DOUG FERGUSON Staff Writer A crowd of 300 people filled Carrboro Elementary School Wednes day night to participate in a public hearing concerning proposed develop ment controls in the University Lake watershed. The hearing focused on a study by Camp, Dresser and McKee, a Raleigh environmental firm, which recom mended that development in and around the watershed should be restricted to five-acre lots or two-acre lots with special ponds designed to trap runoff pollution. However, some people disagreed with this assessment. Richard Ham mer, Republican candidate for the Orange County Board of Commission ers, said such restrictions might not be necessary. "I'm not sure there's a better way, but I don't think people have looked at all of the alternatives (to development restrictions)." Hammer said that Filtration or other methods of water treatment might ade quately work to provide clean, safe drinking water for the Chapel Hill area and that the risk involved in consuming treated water is minimal. "Most of us are willing to fly in airplanes even though they are not perfectly safe," Hammer said. "Mil lions of citizens drink treated water. People in Chapel Hill just do not want to accept a risk." Daniel Okun, Kenan professor of environmental engineering at UNC, disagreed. Okun said although technol ogy was available for filtering out bacterial contaminants, technology did not exist to treat water for chemical avis bers, that's not a feasible way of doing it." The bill will be introduced after the committee talks with Davis Monday, and will be voted on by the full con gress. Although the committee can rec ommend that Davis be removed from his speaker position or be expelled from congress, Buchenau said he would talk to Davis before choosing. "I'm going to need this piece of legislation for us to even be able to discuss the event; otherwise, it has no teeth," he said. "I want to talk to Gene first. First we're going to discuss the matter itself, and then if we think the informal discussion with Gene dissolves the problem, then we'll table the bill indefinitely." Unless several members call for Davis' expulsion, that option will not be considered, Buchenau said. Friedman said Davis' actions needed to be examined by the ethics committee because he has become inaccessible and negligent in his duties. "People have been trying to get in league Freshman Rhonda Barnwell said her suite was sprayed last fall to get rid of a nest of yellow jackets . Freshman Brian Conlon discovered an eight-inch-long rat in his room in January. He and his suitemates reported the animal to the Carmichael area desk. The desk staff called the police, but the residents killed the rodent with a ham mer before they arrived. Conlon and his suitemates said they were concerned about how it got into the room. "It was too large to squeeze in under the door," he said. "I hope it just walked in when the door was open." may have precipitated it." ; Despite the financial situation, some ; professors said last week's decision ; came as a surprise. ' , ' ; Hall said until the decision was made,' ; the future of the Department of Parasi- ; tology and Lab Practice had seemed ; promising. "The optimism came from ; our role in (the School of) Public Health-; and in the new, exciting upswing of ; parasitology. Our department has 'a '; fairly strong national reputation." . ; Tidwell said the field was in demand-; from students. "The graduate applica- ; tion pool is still strong. There are still ; good applicants." plan if you've noticed, they look terrible.!' The plan will be a guide and stimulus for the town to address problems down-! town, Cogswell said. Roesler said Chapel Hill commis--sioned the study and set aside $30,000 from this year's budget to pay the fee of the architectural firm and other work-; shop expenses. But this year's budget does not in-! elude money to put the streetscape plan! into action, Roesler said. ; "There's no budget for most of the! things we'll suggest," Cogswell said. : Roesler said he wanted the town to include money in its budget to imple ment the streetscape plan. hear in pollutants. -f ; "Richard Hammer doesn't know', what he is talking about," Okun said.': "No one who knows anything about;': water treatment will say that treatment" ; is better than starting with a pure water ') ', source." i V, Okun, who has traveled around the:; United States promoting watershed ; protection, said the interests of a few"; individual property owners and devel-i opers should not outweigh the needs of j the 55,000 people who receive their T drinking water from the University Lake'! watershed. ! ; "The land (in the watershed are,a) is J ! only worth a lot because so many people " have moved into this area," Okuivsaidr'.r "The developers and land owners j haven't done anything to increase the value of their property. That's an argu- ment that they don't like to hear." Marvin Collins, Orange County planning director, said the movement toward development controls was the ; culmination of several years of work to ; protect the area's water supplies. De- spite some heated arguments concern- ing watershed protection, Collins said ; everyone wanted basically the same thing. ; "I don't think we've had anyone opposed to protecting the water in ; University Lake. People just disagree ; on how to do it." Collins said that governing boards in Chapel Hill and Carrboro were debat- ing the watershed issue and that their decisions about possible zoning changes would be passed to the Orange County ' Planning Department. He added it might be April 2 before a final decision was ; made. ; from page 1- touch with Gene, whether it's the administration or students," she said "Gene has not been in the office veryC much in the last couple of weeks. "All of this has been, to the best of" my knowledge, because he has been" campaigning for Mark Bibbs. He's! letting the congress down; he's letting the student body down." Friedman suggested that a stronger measure than a censure, such as an official reprimand, might be necessary.; "It's basically the equivalence of a slap on the hand," she said. "It's a step; before impeachment. It's saying we recognized the fact you screwed up and we're letting you know that we caught you." Sam Bagenstos (Dist. 14) suggested that Davis should lose his post because, "if a bricklayer isn't laying bricks, you don't just censure the bricklayer, you do something more. "I think it's simply indefensible for a Student Congress speaker to neglect-; the basic responsiblity of figuring ouU where the meetings are going to be." from page 1; Maintenance sprayed after the rat was discovered, Conlon said. He received no other help except for--his RA's recommendation to keep clothes off the floor and not to leaver food open. Students living in the basement of Teague have also had problems with the pipes in their rooms. The pipes ii Conlon's room begin making loud? noises about 3 a.m., and they are hot-; enough to burn a person, he said. r Maintenance told the students it wasCj because of the water heating systenv; and nothing could be done about it. i
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