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The Daily Tar HeelThursday, May 30, 19913 Endowed history chair to honor Graham The Frank Porter Graham Distil guished Professorship in History is the first $ I million endowed chair created through the Bicentennial Campaign The campaign is the largest UNC fund-raising effort ever attempted. Theprofessorship.establishedbythe Arts and Sciences Foundation Inc., is the first endowed chair to be based completely in the history department. Graham was UNC president in 1930- 49, a U.S. senator and a United Nations 1 mediator. He was known as a progres sive educator and equal rights advocate, Grant to fund public health training The UNC School of Public Health i has been awarded a three-year, $662,000 '. grant from the U.S. Department of ' Health and Human Services Public '. Health Serv ice to add a concentration in public health practice to an existing doctoral degree program. According to a report in "The Future of Public Health, issued by the Insti tute of Medicine in 1988, the nation's ' public health system is in disarray. The public health school will de- velop new ways to train practicing pub- ; lie health professionals with leadership potential by building on prior expert ence and knowledge to expand their understanding of America s pressing public health needs, said Michel Ibrahim, dean of the school. FDA approves artificial bone material use The Food and Drug Administration has approved an artificial bone material developed at UNC for nationwide use in plastic surgery and dental work. Jacob Hander, UNC professor of dental research and biomedical engi neering, and colleagues developed the material, which is a combination of plaster of paris and tiny ceramic par ticles called hydroxylapatite. Plastic surgeons at Duke University already have used it successfully to fill in skull defects caused by accidents and illness, and periodontists have employed it in repairing bone loss around teeth. Journalism school gets high marks in critique The School of Journalism and Mass Communication haS'been reaccredited by the Accrediting Council on Educa tion in Journalism and Mass Communi cation. The school was reaccredited by the council May 1 1 , following a site team - visit to the school earlier this year. The team issued a report on the school's curriculum, faculty and students. The report calls the school's faculty a "vigorous and diverse group." The team found that students are pleased with the education and attention they receive and that the school's reputation is supported by graduates' performance. Retired dentist to fund ethics lecture series A $50,000 gift from Dr. G. Shuford Abernethy, a retired Hickory dentist, will help the UNC School of Dentistry start a lecture series focusing on ethical issues facing the dental profession. The gift will establish the Abernethy Lectureship in Ethics Endowment Fund, which will support lectures on ethics related topics for students. Abernethy's gift will count toward the Bicentennial Campaign for UNC, the largest fund-raising effort ever at tempted by the University. : Graham was Profile in ; Courage Award finalist The late Frank PorterGraham, former president of UNC and a former U.S. senator, was a finalist for the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation's 1991 Profile in Courage Award. The winner of the award was Charles Longstreet Weltner, a Georgia Supreme Court justice and former congressman who abandoned a re-election bid in 1 966 instead of running on the same ticket as segregationist Lester Maddox. from UNC News Services reports beads University V) Romance By Laura Baum Staff Writer The chairman of the Department of Romance Languages has barred stu dents from auditing introductory sum mer language courses. Stirling Haig said he made the deci sion after instructors and professors complained about the large number of auditors in already filled classes. 'Too many auditors are clogging the sec tions," Haig said. Auditors, who are supposed to re main quiet in class, typically are a pas sive influence in language courses that emphasize learning in part through speaking, Haig said. 'They are the antithesis of what the Chancellor to give $100,000 in sports profits to committee By Jennifer Williamson Staff Writer The Chancellor's Committee on Community and Diversity will discuss at its June 1 8 meeting how and when to spend $ 1 00,000 in Athletic Association profits, said Judith Wegner, co-chairwoman of the committee. Chancellor Paul Hardin said at the April 26 Faculty Council meeting that he would earmark at least that amount half of $200,000 the Athletic depart ment has agreed to donate to his discre tionary fund this year for academic use to the committee. "We all simply must denounce acts of bigotry," Hardin said at the faculty meeting. "But speaking out is not enough. As tight as our budgets are, I have decided on (this) action." Hardin appointed the committee in the fa 1 1 to e val uate the stat us of d i versity Provisions of federal rape victim bill By Lauren Chesnut Staff Writer Abillconcemingrape victims' rights introduced in the U.S. Congress last week essentially will rubber-stamp a policy already in place at UNC, said Kathleen Benzaquin, assistant dean of students. The bill, introduced by Rep. Jim Ramstad, R-Minn., would require uni versities to have a written policy guar anteeing the rights of campus rape vic tims. It would also guarantee that victims of sexual assault could be accompanied by family, friends and character wit nesses at disciplinary proceedings in Peacock to face consequences of the budget crisis as new faculty chairman Anthropology department chairman succeeds Harry Gooder in runoff vote By Melissa Palmer Staff Writer "These are the worst of times and best of times," said James Peacock, UNC's newly elected faculty chair man. "The worst of times because of the fiscal threats," Peacock said, "and the best of times because the challenge may help mobilize the faculty and students and others to move in some new directions." Peacock, chairman of the anthro pology department, was named fac ulty chairman in April after a runoff with Beverly Long, chairwoman of the speech communicationdepartment. Peacock, a Kenan professor whojoined UNC'sfacuItyin 1967, succeeds Harry Gooder, chairman of the microbiol ogy and immunology department. In his new post, Peacock will repre sent the faculty on policy issues and lead the Faculty Council, an elected body that sets policy for the faculty on academic and other University mat ters. Laurence Avery, secretary of the faculty, said Peacock's job would be especially challenging this year be- and interesting jewelry Square Chapel Hill 967-8935 languages dean bars summer auditing class ethos needs to be," he said. "It needs to be active participation by all." Another reason for his decision was that some auditors do speak in language classes and take the teacher's attention from other students, Haig said. Paying, enrolled students might resent them, he said. Although no decision had been made, Haig said he did not plan to prohibit auditing for the rest of the school year. Other language departments prohibit auditing for various reasons. The Department of Slavic Languages does not allow auditors in summer Rus sian courses because of their intensity, a department secretary said. The equivalent of one year's study of Russian, or eight credit hours, is taught and cohesion at the University and to recommend ways to improve them. Wegner said the committee had not yet made formal recommendations. Hardin said Friday, "I am looking forward to the committee report, and I hope that we can make some solid progress." The Athletic Association has pledged to donate $1 million for academics to the chancellor's discretionary fund over five years. Athletic Director John Swofford said, "We made the commitment to provide the $200,000 out of post-season rev enues." The National Collegiate Athletic Association will distribute post-season revenue to Atlantic Coast Conference members in late July or early August, Swofford said. See COMMITTEE, page 5 the same way that alleged assailants often are, said Darrell McKigney, Ramstad's press secretary. Benzaquin supervised the implemen tation of a University response plan for victims of assaults and their alleged assailants that went into effect this spring. Benzaquin said she felt the plan already had made a noticeable differ ence in the way students felt about the issue of sexual assault. The University response plan de scribes University and community ser vices available to rape victims and their alleged assailants. It also describes the course of events a rape victim or alleged assailant can expect when a rape is reported to campus authorities. James Peacock cause the Faculty Council would be unusually active. "The budget problem creates lots of other problems that have to be dealt with," Avery said. But co-workers say Peacock has strengths that will help him face these ( . v W aill I II' ' '111 in I Music every MONDAY & WEDNESDAY at O O with Monday-Special $1 Domestics Wednesday Special $2 Highballs o It 101 E. Franklin St. 967-2678 in one summer session, and instructors need to give their full attention to pay ing students, she said. But students are allowed to audit Slavic language courses in the fall and spring, she added. Siegfried Mews, Germanic languages department chairman, said auditing was strongly discouraged in that department throughout the year. Because active participation is essential to learning, students auditing the classes would not be able to learn as much as enrolled students, he said. Also, because of the budget cuts, pressure is growing in the General As sembly to force state universities to increase the size of some classes and Board diplomats Jim Yerkey, Carl Willner and Dan Mathias position their com peting game pieces in the game Shogun, a war strategy game. The plan details what is to take place after a student involved in a sexual assault notifies University agencies such as the University police, student health or psychological services, orthe offices of student or academic affairs. The University agencies are required to make a reasonable effort to provide the service or services sought by rape victims or their alleged assailants and to offer information about and referral to other service agencies. The University plan also requires agencies to forward incident reports to the office of the dean of students. The response plan requires agencies to assist any students involved in an incident if they want to notify police. challenges. "He works very well with people," said Robert Daniels, associate chair man of the anthropology department. "He's a very good administrator and very accessible. He's the kind of per son that gets things done." One way Peacock has planned to deal with the fiscal crisis is to continue Gooder's work to create a Faculty Council Executive Committee. One of the committee's primary goals would be to strengthen the faculty's voice in budget decisions. Budget cuts have affected faculty members directly and indirectly, Pea cock said. In a direct sense, sections are being canceled and phones removed, he said. "The indirect is kind of a demoraliza tion of people. People have to pull back on some of their plans and projects." "I think at UNC-Chapel Hill we may be able to cope with those better than other places," he said. "If you look at the resources we have, I be lieve you will find that we do more with less than any other institutions in the country. But we can only do so much, and (budget cuts) do hurt." no cover eliminate others to save money. Mews said. Because auditors would not be accounted for in descriptions of class size, legislators would not have accu rate data on which to base their deci sions about increasing class size orelimi nating classes. "Too many auditors might take away classes," Mews said. Stephen Birdsall, senior associate dean of the College of Arts and Sci ences, said auditing may be discour aged more this fall because the budget cuts will cause some classes to be crowded. "I expect there will be fewer empty seats because of the need to cancel classes," he said. "It could be very dif . Mt ft already in place at UNC "I certainly would support a bill of this nature." Polly Guthrie, Rape Crisis Center It also details what information con cerning an assault will be disclosed to various University agencies if a report of rape is made within the University, and describes what information should remain confidential. The plan also requires the University to send all students a report at the end of each semester about all known inci dents of sexual assault. The first report. Hippocratic Oath amended ! by medical school graduates By Michael Grogan Staff Writer Members of the School of Medicine's 1991 graduating class recited an amended version of the traditional Hippocratic Oath at the May 12 com mencement ceremony. Traditionally, graduates recite the oath, a statement of medical ethics, as a formal pledge of their ethical obliga tions in their future medical careers. The amendment to this year's oath originated in response to the American Medical Association's recent statement in its journal that access to medical care for lower-income patients is limited. The fol lowing statements were added to the oath: "That in the treatment of the sick, I will consider their well-being to be of a greater importance than their ability to compensate my services. 'That I will work for theday when all persons have equal access to basic health care." Carla Hauersperger, a 1991 graduate who was instrumental in amending the oath, said the amendment was made in recognition of the need for accessible health care. 'The language in the oath needed to be updated, as well as the need for a statement recognizing the need for easier ficult, and very clearly we'll have to give preference to the students who signed up for a class." Another and less-important reason auditing may be discouraged is that auditing students do not pay tuition for a class at a time when the University is facing financial problems, Birdsall said. But Birdsall said he did not expect or want auditing to be abolished. "I would hate to see us so rigidly defined that we don't have flexibility in making judg ments about individual cases," he said. Professors still can decide whether to allow a student to audit, he said. As a faculty member, Birdsall has audited two courses, he said. "The op portunity to audit has merit," he said. DTHKeilh Nelson The players were participating in a Carolina Amateur Diplo-, mats conference-during Memorial Day weekend. covering last spring semester, is ex pected soon. ' Polly Guthrie, community education and outreach coordinator for the Or ange County Rape Crisis Center, said she agreed that the bill probably would not affect the plan already in place at the University. i She added, "I certainly would sup port a bill of this nature because I think it is important for universities where there's not as much support." Fred Schroeder, dean of students, said victims who wanted to remain anonymous or who did not want coun seling would be en ouraged to describe the circumstances of their assaults for the purpose of establishing statistical reports on the incidence of sexual as sault on campus. access to medical treatment," she said: Hauersperger, along with other stu dents, studied oaths and codes used in other parts of the world that are similar to the Hippocratic Oath, and they were inspired to amend it. Almost all of the 149 members of the graduating class voted in April to make the amendments to the oath. Hauersperger added that the changes in the oath in no way supported a more socialist system of medicine. "The class felt it was necessary for the changes to take place in the area of medical insurance in order to keep the needy under the umbrella; in effect, to keep standard of medicine high," she said. Although the amendments seem ide alistic and ornamental, members of the class, including Hauersperger, plan to live up to the standards established in the revised oath. They are committed to offering affordable health care for ev eryone in their own medical practices, she said. And those students who work in or ganizations that do not offer such ser vices will try to volunteer in clinical medicine. The changes in the oath prove the commitment of UNC's graduates to make a positive impact on the future of theircountry, and in this case, the world. 'i ft ft i
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