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The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, March 5, 19913 Asian stories featured at Ackland reopening A series of Asian stories and art discussions will be featured as part of the reopening of five galleries at the Ackland Art Museum. . Louise Kessel, a professional story teller from Bynum, has researched the museum's Asian art collection to de velop stories for the series, which debuts Thursday at noon. Many of the stories are related to specific works in the Asian collection. Kessel will also tell several stories based on Hindu and Buddhist tradition. Kessel will perform March 1 0 at 2:30 p.m., March 2 1 at noon, and April 7 at 2:30 p.m. All performances are free and open to the public, and are suitable for ages 10 to adult. The newly renovated galleries, which house Asian, Classical and North Carolina folk art, opened March 3. Rheumatologist wins postdoctoral fellowship Robert Colbert, a fellow in pediatric rheumatology at UNC, has been selected to receive one of four national Pfizer Postdoctoral Fellowships for 1991. The fellowships, sponsored by the Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Group, offer training opportunities for physicians who want to pursue original, basic or clinical research. They provide $40,000 a year for three years, effective July 1 . Colbert, a Burlington, Vt., native, will study "Mutational Analysis of HLA-b27: Identification of Residues Important for Peptide Binding and T- : Cell Recognition" at the UNC School ' of Medicine. Kingsbury to discuss reading with children Mary Kingsbury, a UNC School of ; Information and Library Science pro- : fessor, will offer advice on locating, selecting and sharing books written for . children during a discussion at 5:30 : p.m. Thursday in the Assembly Room ! of Wilson Library. In her talk, titled "The Multiple : Worlds of Children's Books,' : Kingsbury will discuss the pleasures, : pitfalls, benefits and costs of reading ; with children. The program is free and open to the : public. Triangle libraries given grant to share research The Triangle Research Libraries Network has been awarded a two-year, $ 100,000 grant to devise a plan to share scientific research collections and in formation services most effectively. The network is a cooperative library automation project of UNC, Duke and N.C. State universities. ; The Triangle grant is part of a new council program focusing on policies and priorities in the nation's university 'research libraries. Similar grants were awarded to Columbia and Harvard universities and the State University of iNew York Center Libraries. Triangle campus officials say the new funding will allow the libraries to build 'on past success with sharing resources in the humanities by expanding such efforts to the sciences. The grant will allow the Triangle campuses to further develop shared collections of journals and books in scientific fields such as biology, engi neering, environmental sciences and .medicine. Grant will establish a mathematics coalition ;: A $10,000 grant to UNC's Math ematics and Science Education Network and the N.C. Department of Public In struction will help create a North Carolina Mathematics Coalition. The planning grant was awarded by the National Academy of Sciences' Mathematical Sciences Education Board. Every state and the District of Co lumbia have received support from the board to organize coalitions designed to unite leaders in public policy, education and business in statewide efforts to align mathematics education programs with the national education goals outlined by President Bush and the National Gov ernors' Association. Child injuries in wrecks decrease, study shows The rate of children under age 6 : severely injured or killed in highway . crashes has decline noticeably in North .Carolina since 1982, according to a : study conducted at UNC. ; William Hall, a representative of the . UNC Highway Safety Research Center, ; said there has beena21 percent reduction ;in the rate of serious and fatal injuries : involving children under the age of 6 in ;the past eight years and a 43 percent ; reduction among infants under age 2. ; The smallest decline, 5 percent, occurred ; in the 6- to 15 -year-old age group. "We know that the vast majority of .the youngest children who are riding in ; cars in North Carolina are buckled up," ; he said. "We were fortunate this year in ; that most of the very young kids involved ; in crashes were protected. The restraint systems have been doing the job." .McCarthy By Cathy Oberle Staff Writer Former senator and presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy read poetry and discussed the Vietnam War in a presentation Monday night. About 40 people attended the 7 p.m. reading in Gerrard Hall, which was sponsored by the Theatre Arts Com mittee. McCarthy, one of the first major political figures to speak out against the Vietnam war during the 1960s, lost his bid for the Democratic nomination for president in 1968. He has been a high school teacher, a college professor and a minor league baseball first baseman. He has written more than 1 5 books on subjects ranging from politics to poetry to children. Speaking about the Vietnam War from a poet's point of view, McCarthy said writing about the war was hard. "It was very difficult to write about it . because it almost required a special kind of insight," he said. The Vietnam War probably drew the attention of more poets than other wars, with the exception of World War I, he said. "Poets were moved to respond to (the Vietnam War), and for the most part their response was very negative," he said. "The (Persian Gulf) War, which was over before it started, never gave poets time to think about it. "I don't think the presidents of whom we were writing knew what the poets were saying about it or about them, or they might have been more concerned," he said. Pi Lommiion dratt to aid discrimiiiaticDn victims By Amber Nimocks Staff Writer The Human Relations Commission of Orange County has drafted an ordi nance that would aid people who fall through the cracks of the federal system, said Jean Bolduc, commission chair woman. The ordinance, drafted by the Human Relations Commission, deals with dis crimination in areas of employment, housing, public transportation, public accommodations, education and care facilities, law enforcement, insurance, lending and credit, and hate crimes. The problem of hate crimes m the county was an issue last month when the North Carolinians Against Racial and Religious Violence ranked Orange County second in the state in hate crime activity in 1990. An example of someone 'falling through the cracks of the federal system" would be an employee of a small busi Forum to address housing By Ashley Fogle Staff Writer Students will have an opportunity to discuss racial separation between North and South campuses at a forum tonight sponsored by the Residence Hall As sociation and the Black Student Movement. The forum will be at 7 p.m. in 209 Manning, said Gretchan Diffendal, RHA president. The purpose of the forum is to find out residents' opinions on the issue of segregated housing on campus, Diffendal said. RHA co-presidents-elect Scott Peeler and Christy Pons will suggest some possible solutions to segregation problems and ask for stu dents' opinions. SAFE Escort to By Natarsha Witherspoon Staff Writer The revamped SAFE Escort program now has women escorts and a central office and pays its night staff. Last year students approved a refer endum to channel 35 cents of every student's fees into SAFE Escort. Students Averting Frightening En counters offers a free escort to anyone on campus who calls 962-S AFE from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. Sundays through Thurs days. Kathleen Benzaquin, assistant dean of students and adviser to SAFE Escort, said a new application process started last semester, and part of the money from student fees were used to reorga orton says By Nancy Johnson Staff Writer Preliminary reports for Chapel Hill's 1991-92 budget predict reduced rev enues for the town, but the town council's goal of achieving a balanced budget without tax increases can prob ably be met, town manager Cal Horton told the Chapel Hill Town Council Monday night. In January, the council requested a budget proposal that could maintain present services and programs without H TTT ft ratal Ratios of Americans-killed to enemies-killed were published instead of specific numbers of deaths each day, he said. "The Vietnam War was the first in which we actually quantified what happened," he said. "When you're challenging a war, you're not looking for statistics." McCarthy said he had written poems for various reasons, including exposing injustice and seeking revenge. He said he could not give reasons for all of the poetry he had written. "It's supposed to be some kind of internal force," he said. "Sometimes it's just a mood. I really wanted to say something about the war." One major difference between the Vietnam War and the Persian Gulf War is that the Vietnam War was an ideo logical conflict, but the Persian Gulf War was fought to uphold natural rights, he said. "The people primarily responsible for (fighting the Persian Gulf War) should have been the Arabs in the area," he said. McCarthy said he had little respect for the media. "I don't have a very high regard for the press," he said. The press makes arbitrary decisions about what they want people to know, he said. This is the media's own form of censorship and it is more prevalent during wartime, he said. Sophomore Margaret Ayscue said she went to hear McCarthy because of his background. "I was interested to hear a former politician with views on the Persian Gulf," she said. ness who suffered from discrimination, Bolduc said. Although the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not apply to businesses with fewer than 15 employees, the commission's ordinance would apply under such cir cumstances, Bolduc said. The Orange County Commissioners established the Human Rights Com mission, which studies human relations in Orange County, in June 1987, said Kathy Baker of the Orange County Clerk s office. Shirley Marshall, former chairwoman of the county commissioners, said the commissioners established the relations group to address parts of the community in which residents can relate to each other as people. "There was not one specific event that lead to the formation of the com mission," Marshall said. "Just as the (Human Relations) Commission was about to be established, there was a noticeable increase of Ku Klux Klan Al Calarco, associate housing direc tor, is scheduled to attend the forum. Diffendal said a forum held last se mester allowed students to raise ques tions and express their concerns. Tonight's forum will focus on potential solutions to the problems expressed earlier, she said. "We wanted to see if people (at the last forum) thought racial separation was a problem or just a fact of life at UNC," she said. "At this forum we want to present solutions to the residents that show up and see how they feel. "Dr. (Wayne) Kuncl (director of University housing) has been under pressure from his staff to respond to the issue, and that combined with pressure from students should make something happen." nize SAFE Escort. The revamping of the program made organizers re-evaluate their account ability and take a long-term look at the program, she said. Benzaquin said funding from student fees made the following improvements possible at SAFE Escort: SAFE Escort now operates out of an office in Cobb Residence Hall. Beepers and identification cards were purchased for the escorts. D The beepers are used to tell escorts not in the office where to go next. a Escorts who work the midnight to 3 a.m. shift are paid $5 an hour. Since the paid escorts who work the late-night shift seem more dedicated to the program, it is possible that in the tax increases raising taxes. The town staff's prelimi nary budget report estimates a $1 mil lion gap between revenues and expen ditures for the 1991-92 fiscal year, but by making some cuts, a balanced bud get could be achieved while maintain ing the present tax rate of 57 cents per $100 of property value, Horton said. Revenues for Chapel Hill are pre dicted to drop because of bleak economic situations on the state and national levels, Horton said. Mayor Jonathan Howes said that he sympathized with the predicament of pay late a Z7 p lil ? V- Eugene McCarthy discusses el BFOBOS activity in the community." When the commission began, it fo cused on how it could address dis crimination against African Americans, Marshall said. But this was not the commission's only area of concern, she said. Dis crimination based on ethnic or religious background, sexual preference and gender, and children's rights were of priority to the commission. "The formation of the commission looked like a response to the Klan ac tivity," Marshall said. "It was really more than that, but the Klan activity provided a good example of why the commission was needed." Bolduc said the dialogue generated at the commission's public hearings was its first significant accomplishment. "We held a series of public hearings which dealt with issues such as homophobia, housing, racism and con See RELATIONS, page 4 segregation Kuncl said the housing department hoped to gauge student opinion at tonight's forum. "We're looking for the thoughts and suggestions and ideas, if there are ideas, about how we can serve our resident population," he said. "The forum will take thoughts and ideas and opinions and put them with those of student government and orga nizations like the BSM to service the needs of students." Laura Anderson, BSM minister of information, said the forum would allow students to express their concerns. "Some people on North Campus may not see that there is a problem. It wouldn't be good for the administration to make a decision without input, and it wouldn't make sense not to include the people that would be affected." -night workers, centralize operations future all escorts will be paid, Benzaquin said. "Students have taken the lead ... in getting the University to work as part ners with it (SAFE Escort)," she said. "It is student government's responsi bility to delegate funds and to maintain an advisory board to oversee the pro gram." Matt Heyd, student body president elect, said the SAFE advisory commit tee would consist of escorts and student government members. Mindy Friedman, a liaison to the committee, said student government must stay involved with SAFE Escort to ensure that student fees aren't wasted. Jay Robbins, student body treasurer, said he followed the spending of SAFE not necessary to balance state officials in attempting to balance the budget but that he would do every thing possible to secure the funds that Chapel Hill needed. "You can't compound the state's problems by passing them along to lo cal governments," Howes said. But Horton said the proposed budget would not cover the costs of adding eight public safety officers and the part time legal adviser the Chapel Hill Police Department requested. Taxes would have to be raised or more cuts would have to be made in albouit war dlifficiii: IT $i:l: Mi mm mmm t writing about the Vietnam War at a poetry TED eace Yi iiilpiiilSii 9 S7'fii : : lilllB 4 11111 i ' ' - i ' I A Mm: if to- aimoraice tuitiire : of coMmiinity in Pit ; By Adam Ford Staff Writer Members of the UNC Committee for Peace in the Middle East will an nounce Wednesday whether they will remove the Peace Village in the Pit now that a cease-fire has been declared in the Persian Gulf War. . Andrew Gooding a graduate stu dent in speech communication, said ; committee members will meet Tues day to decide their course of action. "We will decide what would be most effective to keep people's at tention focused on U,S. foreign policy," he said. CaddieGendron, asophomorefrom Emporia Va. said' We are assuming we will (close down) at some point because there is a cease-fire. ThePeace Village served its purpose. We need to move onto something else' Gooding said committee members probably would have an open micro phone in the Pit Wednesday for people to voice their opinions. Committee members may also schedule speakers to make presentations at this time. Members also will explain their decision about the Peace Village, Gooding said. People have questioned why the Peace Village is still up, he said, "Our statement of intent includes six points, ' and the cease-fire only satisfies one half of the first." The committee made six demands of the U.S. government in its statement of intent: a an immediate cease-fire and ne gotiated solution. Da comprehensive Middle East peace conference. a nonaggressive U.S. foreign Escort just like any other student orga nization, all of which submit monthly expense reports. Aric Beals, a member of the SAFE Escort executive committee, said the program would be more appealing to escorts since it was revamped. "The most important thing about the program is that it is revamped and im proved," he said. "It can be a very valuable service to the campus if we can get people interested in being escorts and to use the service." The escorts always go out in pairs and carry ID cards, he said. Chris Rice, SAFE Escort executive committee member, said he hoped more escorts and users would be attracted to the service. , other areas to cover the $337,000 needed to pay for the additional officers. '.. The preliminary report proposes cut ting the positions of public safety di rector and one sanitation collector. The positions of long-term planner, trans portation planner and one electrical in spector would be made part-time jobs. All effected positions would be vacant at the time of the cuts, Horton said. "We recommend no layoffs." By making additional cuts, including slashing costs for maintaining Fordham Boulevard and postponing new debt DTH'Cheryl Kane reading Monday night policy. the establishment of an alterna ; tive energy policy. D guaranteed rights for Arab Americans and for political dissent ers. D a demilitarized economy. Gendron said committee members, wanted to make sure the cease-fire, would be permanent. "We want people! to realize that though there is a cease-' fire, there is not a peaceful situation in the Middle East, and we want people; to think about it," she said. !! The Peace Village was set up Janl 29. Ten to 15 members are in the village most of the week, Gendron. said. Four to five people stay at the' village during the night and at least, one person is present during the day,:! Gooding said the Peace Village was. successful. It has received local and national press coverage, and members of the UNC community have been sympa thetic to the campers, he said. : , Gendron said, The first couple of. weeks there were a lot of people stopping by asking what we were doing and bringing food. More recently fewer people have been. People are still stopping by, just not as many." Many different views have been expressed by people who have stopped to talk with committee members. "Lots of people asked if we were supporting the troops or Saddam," Gendron said. "We are supporting the troops, not Saddam. Others asked about the history of the region, and some people quoted the B ible and said we're supposed to blow them (the Iraqis) all up. Some people came by who didn't support our message but said they were glad we were out there." Friedman said the revamping of the program has been beneficial. "The new ways of operating are more efficient," she said. The improvements have also attracted many women to participate in the pro gram, Friedman said. Sara Lewis, a SAFE escort, said, "Having females as escorts makes girls feel more comfortable and creates a large turnout of girls." Carl Terranova, an escort who works the late shift, said he hoped more students would take advantage of the program. "The program is very worthwhile, even though we haven't had a lot of people participating. Why take a chance walking alone when there is a free pio gram?" town budget service on 1989 parks and open space bonds, slightly more than $1 million can be cut, Horton said. Estimated expenditures for the 1 99.1 -92 transportation fund exceed revenues by more than $200,000, but a balanced budget could be achieved at present tax rates if officials postponed the proposed expansion of the transit maintenance facility and the purchase of land for a park and ride lot, Horton said. The council and staff will hold a public forum March 19 to discuss the preliminary budget report. lagers p
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