The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, October 2, 1 990a:
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Hieme of foestaimss haiiDe novelist's talk;
Professors, natives to
observe reunification
German professors from around the
Triangle and native East and West
Germans will observe the reunification
of Germany on Tuesday.
The group will meet from 7 p.m. until
9 p.m. in the fourth-floor library of Dey
Hall. Siegfried Mews, UNC professor
and chairman of the Department of
Germanic Languages, will make a brief
speech and toast around 8 p.m.
In Germany the reunification goes
into effect at midnight Oct. 3. Because
of the time difference, the reunification
will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the
United States.
Space still available
in hunger seminar
Space is still available in the Oct. 1 9
20 Adventures in Ideas weekend semi
nar, "World Hunger: Issues and Op
tions." The program is part of the weekend
series sponsored by UNC's Program in
the Humanities and Human Values and
the general Alumni Association.
The program will explore hunger in
America and abroad. It will examine
the moral context in which the issue is
viewed and the responsibility of society
to help solve the problem.
Tuition for the seminar is $65 and
does not include lodging. One unit of
teacher renewal credit will be awarded
for participation in the seminar. For
information or to register, call the Hu
manities Program Office at 962-1 106.
Foreign professionals
visit UNC for year
The University is hosting eight pro
fessionals from developing countries
for a year of study and related practical
experiences.
The visit is sponsored by the Hubert
H. Humphrey North-South Fellowship
Program, which is funded by the U.S.
Information Agency and administered
by the Institute of International Educa
tion. This is the first year UNC has
participated in the program.
Participants are from Indonesia,
Greece, Ethiopia, the West Indies, The
Philippines, Brazil, Trinidad and Tan
zania. Speech and hearing
clinic offered
A free speech and hearing screen for
adults and children age 3 and up will be
.'offered Oct. 3 from 1 to 3:30 p.m.
The clinic, provided by the Division
!of Speech and Hearing Sciences, is held
;in room 76, Wing D of the School of
Medicine. For an appointment or further
information, call 966-1006.
Anthropology lecture
slated for Wednesday
The Department of Anthropology is
sponsoring a series of lectures every
other Wednesday in room 308 of the
Alumni Building.
The next lecture will be Wednesday
at 3:15 p.m. Vincas Steponaitis, direc
tor of UNC anthropology research
laboratories, will speak on "A Tale of
Two Chiefdoms." Receptions follow
all lectures.
Rustin to direct
counseling services
Collin Rustin Jr. was named the di
rector of Human Resources Counseling
Service.
Rustin will oversee the counseling of
employees and supervisors on work
related issues and grievance procedures.
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By JO ANN RODAK
Staff Writer
Toni Morrison, who was introduced
as the literary equivalent of Wayne
Gretzky, Michael Jordan and Chris
Everett, spoke to a capacity crowd in
Memorial Hall Monday night.
The five-novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning
author delivered the 1990 Josephus
Daniels Lecture.
African and Afro-American Studies
curriculum chairwoman Trudier Harris,
a S itterson Engl ish professor and author
of a book about Morrison's novels, said
in her introduction that Morrison's im
pact on American literature "exceeded
the sum total of all five of her novels.
Phone deal should
improve service at
no added expense
By YU-YEE WU
Staff Writer
A pending agreement with Southern
Bell would upgrade the entire campus
telephone system at no additional cost
to the University, said Robert Peake,
Physical Plant associate director.
Under the proposal. Southern Bell
would pay for the installation of a new
digital switch that would improve lines
for modems, voice messaging and other
options by fall 1992, Peake said.
The agreement largely depends on
whether the University assumes finan
cial control over the residence hall
telephone system, said Donald Boulton,
vice chancellor of student affairs. Uni
versity officials said last week UNC
and Southern Bell would likely finalize
the agreement by next month.
Under the agreement, Southern Bell
would provide the University with up
dated service and residents would pay
the same rate they are paying now,
Peake said.
'There will be very little up-front
cost," he said. 'The only things we'd
have to pay up front would be im
provements. Physical Plant Director Herbert Paul
said allowing the University to control
the system would make offering services
easier for Southern Bell because it would
only deal with one customer, rather
than thousands! Southern Bell could
give the University discounts because
of the large number of people it would
serve, he said.
"Having dormitory residents as cus
tomers greatly increases our impact with
Southern Bell," Paul said. "Simply
through the volume and competition,
we would expect to get a better price
than an individual."
Peake said Southern Bell agreed to
pay for the switch partly to ensure that
the University would remain a customer.
"They need to provide an advanced
communications system for the Uni
versity if they want to continue to have
our business," he said.
However, Southern Bell would not
lose money in the deal, Peake said.
"They are going to get their money
back, but it's going to come back to
them over time in service rates."
Boulton said if the University took
control of the residence hall telephone
system, it would handle connection
costs, long-distance billing and local
service charges.
"The University would take over
some of the things that Southern Bell
normally does," he said.
Under the agreement, the University
can choose between two options. Option
Senior class
By JENNIFER MUELLER
Staff Writer
UNC students are throwing in the
towel.
Senior class officers have organized
a towel drive to benefit the InterFaith
Council homeless shelter.
The event will run Monday through
Friday next week, with bins set up across
campus to collect old towels from stu
dents. Committee members will set up
containers in the lobbies of every resi
dence hall, the Black Cultural Center
and the senior class office.
Christy Youngblood, co-chairwoman
of the senior class service committees,
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"She has taught us the futility of
thinking in absolutes," Harris said. "(She
leaves us) to wonder about boundaries
and push them as far as we can."
Morrison read from her works and
made observations about how she ap
proaches writing. "It's interesting to
show the technical obstacles of the work
and how I failed to overcome them."
She speaks lightly now about rejec
tion letters she received from editors for
her first novel, "The Bluest Eye." The
early rejections helped her improve her
work, and she was grateful to the editors
who took time to critique her writing,
Morrison said. 'They were kind and
instructive."
A would provide all residents with phone
service year round, eliminating initial
connection and disconnection costs.
Discounts on features such as call wait
ing and three-way cal I ing also wou Id be
included in Option A.
Peake said he preferred this option.
"It's simply cheaper for us (the Uni
versity) to provide all the services for all
the people all of the time," he said.
Paul said he thought Option A would
work better for residents. "If you use
Option A, everybody gets charged and
everybody has the avai labi 1 ity of a phone
number."
If the University chooses Option A,
room rent would include the local ser
vice charges.
The main problem with Option A is
that those who do not wish to have a
phone will still be charged, Paul said.
About 2 percent of residents do not have
phones, he said.
Gretchan Diffendal, Residence Hall
Association president, said she thought
this option had more advantages than
disadvantages.
"There's just such a small percent,"
she said. "Overall benefits for the
campus are so great that it outweighs
those few who don't have phones."
Boulton said he thought some lines
might be disconnected for people who
did not want phones. "We'll probably
have some rooms that have no phones,"
he said.
Peake said Southern Bell would not
only save hassle through Option A, but
money as well.
"It's less expensive for them than if
they have to connect and disconnect
lines all the time," he said. This makes
the option less expensive for the Uni
versity also, he said.
Option B would allow students to
have achoice of connecting their phones,
but would not offer any discounts on
additional features. This is because of
the extra cost resulting from connecting
and disconnecting phones, Peake said.
Paul said both options would include
a 10 percent discount on all long-distance
calls. Negotiations with long
distance companies have not started,
but all major companies would be
considered, he said.
Any profits the University made
would be returned to students in the
form of reduced charges and more op
tions. "If there is an economic gain, our
position would be to lower rates ... rather
than make a profit," Paul said.
One or two employee positions may
be added at the Physical Plant because
of the residence hall telephone lines.
initiates towel drive for HFC homeless shelter
encouraged students to bring whole,
clean towels from home after Fall Break
next week and deposit them in con
tainers. Seniors will collect the towels and
deliver them to the shelter Friday af
ternoon. The IFC shelter and kitchen recently
dedicated a new building on Rosemary
Street. The shelter opened in 1985,
serving five homeless people the first
night. Today, it provides meals and
beds for about 50 people each night.
Despite the progress the IFC has
made, it still relies heavily on student
and community volunteers. The senior
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Editors told her that her novel had no
beginning, no middle and no real end
ing. "After 20 years to think (about it),
maybe they were right," she said.
Morrison described the unconven
tional beginnings of her works as "sharp,
sudden, unstabilizing ... I don't write
the beginning at the beginning."
She addressed the process of devel
oping beginnings, middles and endings
for her novels.
'The beginning has to seduce first
and make the reader want to read on
(it has to) get the reader interested and
create a certain desire to read the next
sentence," she said. "The beginning
provided information usually ... fre
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Domino's wins a pizza the action
Lenoir begins serving mini-pizzal
By STEVE P0LITI
Staff Writer
Did anyone named Marriott order a
pizza?
Marriott Corp. recently added
Domino's Pizza to the menu at Lenoir
dining hall, said Chris Derby, director
of Carolina Dining Services, a branch
of Marriott.
Students are buying about 1 ,200 to
1 ,400of the mini-pizzas each day, Derby
said. This is an increase from the 1 , 1 00
to 1,300 slices of Lenoir-made pizza
students previously purchased per day.
A slice of Lenoir-made cheese pizza
was$l cheaper than the mini Domino's
pizza. A Domino's cheese mini-pizza
costs $2.09, or $2.59 with all the top
pings. Marriott is continuing to sell pizza by
the slice at the downstairs section of
Lenoir and Chase Dining Hall.
Chase is not selling the Domino's
pizzas because it has a small crowd at
lunchtime, which is when most pizzas
are sold, he said. Marriott will conduct
a study to see if Chase should sell the
Domino's pizza.
Bid requests were sent to every pizza
business listed in the Chapel Hill phone
book, but only Domino's and Gumby s
responded, he said.
He refused to discuss contract details
class chose the towel drive as a one
time service project to help the growing
organization.
Chris Brown, senior class vice
president, said, "We were looking for a
creative way to help the community.
They don't have many towels at all up
there."
Youngblood said the group was
looking for unusual projects. "When
people see the same thing over and
over, it's hard to get them motivated."
Chris Ingram, co-chairman of the
service committee, originated the project
after talking with members of the
InterFaith Council, Youngblood said.
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quently ... no, always, grim."
Grim beginnings deal with subjects
no one really wants to talk about, she
said. "You (also) have to give the reader
comfort, the notion that he is ahead of
the characters and the writer," she said.
Language texture is her second re
quirement for a beginning, Morrison
said. "It develops, casts out ... a sub
literal voice under the text a personal
level." She described texture of a work
as a "search for commonality," which
often forced her to delete specifics so
she would not exclude the reader.
Critics said her stories had no real
endings, but Morrison said, 'The end
ings I always know right away."
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"We found that cus
tomers respond to
brand names better."
Chris Derby
between Domino's and Marriott.
"Last March we went through an
internal evaluation of all of our services,
and looked at ourselves to see if we
were providing the best service pos
sible," Derby said. "We found that
customers respond to brand names
better. We thought providing this same
service with the meal card would im
prove customer satisfaction."
Students now can purchase delivery
pizza from Domino's, Gumby's. and
Pizza Hut on Marriott meal cards.
Mike Devente, a member of the Food
Services Advisory Board, said Marriott
may offer more food services from
chains in the future.
The Food Services Advisory Board
makes recommendations to Chancellor
Paul Hardin and has no say in decisions
made by Marriott, he said.
"I wouldn't say there was no student
input," Devente said. "Marriott took a
lot of student surveys. Students are
Senior Class President Pete
Holthausen said this was the first project
of the newly formed service committee.
He and Brown created the committee
because they thought the senior class
should take a more active role in small
community projects, he said.
"In past years, the class has done one
big philanthropic project and concen
trated on just issues regarding seniors."
Youngblood saw the new committee
as a way to involve more students.
'There's always been a core group of
seniors interested in serving on a regu
lar basis," she said. "Chris (Ingram) and
I are looking for a diversity of stu
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After explaining the process of creat
ing beginnings, Morrison read from her
novels, "Sula" and "Beloved," and gave
her interpretations of the works. '
The acclaimed novelist read middle
and ending selections from her novel
"Beloved," which she said was the first
novel she wrote outside of her job at a
publishing house.
Morrison teaches English literature
at Princeton University. Her literary
awards include the 1988 Pulitzer Prize
for "Beloved" and the National Book
Award for "Song of Solomon."
The lecture was sponsored by the
English department and the College of
Arts and Sciences.
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Reactions to Lenoir's newest feaCUfe
are mixed. v
Seven out of 10 students surveyed
during lunch Monday said they thought
the Domino's pizza was an improvement
over the previous cafeteria pizza.
Two students voiced concerns abbot
the environmental problems created. by
the cardboard pizza boxes. One of .ike
stipulations in Domino's contract was
to make the boxes 100 percent biode
gradable, Derby said. X;
Another student said she would hot
buy the pizza because she disagreed
with the chain's role in Operation Kes
cue, a group that opposes abortion;.
Domino's president has contributed
the organization. I;
Freshman Brian Schulten said 'tie
thought the cost was too high for IKe
mini-pizza.
"I figured for an extra dollar I'd get
more," he said. "It's much too small for
the average student's appetite."
Alison Bahm, a transfer student from
Georgetown, said thedining facilities at
Georgetown had a similar situation.
"We had Pizza Hut, and most of the
students seemed to like the arrange
ment," she said.
dents."
Brown said he hoped everyone on
campus, especially seniors, would par-'
ticipate in the towel drive. "We're
wiping out towel problems."
Other projects planned this semester
by the committee are assisting the Tar
Heel Aluminum Recycling Program
with its telephone book drivo. later this
month and aiding Habitat for Humanity,
in a house-raising in November. ;
All students interested in helping with
the TARP drive or the house-raising
should contact Christy Youngblood or:
Chris Ingram. ;
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