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I The Daily Tar HeelThursday, May 30 19915 1 As summer heat intensifies, students seek ways to cool off Swimming, eating, By Winifred Sease Staff Writer Whoever coined the phrase "The Southern Part of Heaven" was defi nitely not in Chapel Hill during summer school. If he had been, he would have learned that some consider it more hell ish than heavenly as far as heat and humidity go. March rolls around and the trees be come lush and green. Chapel Hill starts to resemble an orchard more than a city. But, before long, the temperatures be gin hitting the 90s, and the heat be comes visible and the humidity exhaust ing. Those who choose to stay in Chapel Hill during the summer, despite the dripping heat, have to be creative in finding interesting and fun ways to cool off. Most people would expect college students to go swimming and play around in a pool. Surprisingly, that is not the answer many students give to the question, how do you stay cool in Chapel Hill? "I wouldn't go swimming," said Eric Houck, a senior English education ma- Committee Robert Reddick, committee co-chairman, said: "Without careful thought, we could waste a lot of money. Every one has demands." Wegner said three categories describe the needs of the campus community: The campus needs to have a di verse community of people. Different races, genders, ethnic groups and per sonal handicaps should be represented, she said. The community should provide a supportive climate free of harassment. Noise two weeks ago to lower the limit to 65 decibels, reversed his position Tues day. "I have to admit that I was wrong," Howes said. "We were voting on a proposal that was not the proposal that came forward from the committee." In a 6-1 decision, the council de feated the amendment with the 65 deci bel level maximum. Brown cast the only vote for the proposal. Herzenberg then proposed that the council vote on the 70-decibel level amendment. .. By passing the amendment immedi : ately, other beneficial elements of the ' amendment would" be in place in time for the fall music, leason, and lowering 'he maximum noise level would be hieved, Herzenberg said in arguing r t : 70-decibel limit. .rner said tabling the amendment wc .d leave the level at 75 decibels, while accepting the amendment would lower it to 70 decibels. Herzenberg said, "A vote against my motion is a vote for more noise." After the amendment passed, the council adopted a resolution proposed by member Nancy Preston to review the amended ordinance six months after its passage. Student Body President Matt Heyd Certain condoms require warnings The Associated Press SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. County supervisors have ten tatively approved what they say is the first law in the nation requiring stores to post signs warning that lambskin condoms don't protect against AIDS as well as latex. Lambskin, or natural membrane pro phylactics, have pores that make them permeable, unlike latexcondoms, which are made of rubber. County health officials say studies have shown lambskin condoms are 95 percent effective as a barrier to the AIDS virus, compared with 99.6 per cent effectiveness for latex condoms. CflTi 206 W. franklin St., Chaptl HM Call M7-M33 THWSPAYi MAY 30 Book of Love FBIPAVi MAY 31 Jodygrind wChicken Wire Gang & Deacon Lunchbox SATURDAY. JUNE 1 Monks of Doom wQueen Sarah Saturday SUNDAY. JUNE 2 AftermathOver The Top TUESDAY. JUNE 4 WXYC Local Series: Blue Green Gods, Zen Frisbee, Picasso Trigger WEDNESDAY. JUNE 5 Taz Halloween, Dave Spencer, and The Swamis JUNE 6-8 N.C. Music Showcase SUNDAY. JUNE 9 Throwing Muses wAnastasia Screamed TUESDAY. JUNE 11 Feelies Advance Tickets Available at SchoolKid's (Chapel Hill Sr Raleigh) and Poindener (Durham) drinking are ways to jor from Charlotte. "It's too political; you have to wear the right bathing suit, swim with the right people and have the right attitude." Many students, for whatever reason, choose not to splash around as a way to cool off. UNC graduate Tia Doar said she would go to the grocery store and hang out by the freezer section. She does not have the luxury of a pool at her apartment. If grocery stores are not an option, an alternative that Laura Harris, a senior biology and anthropology major from Greenville, used as a freshman is an other possibility. "Me and two other friends rode the bus for 45 minutes to cool down," she said. "We were really bored, and our dorm room was stifling." For those students who are 21 years old, there is an additional option. Mark Kleinschmidt, a senior education major from Goldsboro, said, "I go to Colonel Chutney's and drink a beer." He prefers this way of cooling off because Colonel Chutney's is air- con ditioned, and nothing is better than a cold beer, he said. But drinking is limited to students from page 3 Careful thought should be devoted to campus structures such as libraries, she said. A main concern, Wegner said, is to find ways to deal with racial and ethical problems. Training sessions, orienta tion programs and multicultural courses are ways to educate the community about growing concerns, she said. Wegner said these proposals may help eliminate future problems before they get out of hand. from page 1 said he was happy with the council's decision. "Joe Herzenberg and (UNC Dean of Students) Fred Schroeder did a iot of work," Heyd said, "as well as the stu dents on the committee. "Unfortunately," he said, "the noise ordinance is never settled." The town council establ ished a Noise Monitoring Committee in December 1 989 to review the town's noise control ordinance and to advise the council on improvements to the ordinance, police spokeswoman Jane Cousins said. Since January 1991, the committee has focused on decibel levels and times of day for loud outside noise. Committee members included UNC staff members and representatives of fraternities and student government as well as student and non-student resi dents of Chapel Hill. The committee presented its recom mendations to the council May 13. Along with the lowered decibel level, the committee recommended the town manager be given the authority to issue permits for any day of the week as long as they met certain ordinance standards. The previous noise ordinance allowed the manager to issue certain permits. Requests for permits at other times had to be addressed to the council. The amended ordinance will allow requests for events such as Arts at Lunch and Downtown After Five, which are regu larly approved by the council with mini mal discussion, to be approved by the manager. Additional recommendations include a requirement that neighbors be noti fied when a permit is issued and prohib iting security alarms that sound longer than 20 minutes. "The amendment was essentially a proposal made in a cooperative fashion by students and members," said com mittee member Schroeder. Spicy, mild or roasted chicken CCAJUN PREMIUM CHICKEN AAFREE 4 Pieces A A with coupon 4 FREE pieces of chicken (1 breast, f I thigh, 1 leg, 1 wing) with the purchase I I nf anv A nipppc nr Inrapr hmr I I L offer expires 7191 Eastgate Shopping Ctr. Chapel Hill942-3646 Hours: 1 1 am-1 lpm 7 days a week CALL FOR PARTY PLATTERS escape the waves above a certain age, so many students, such as Kathy Staley, a junior education major from Harrisburg, said, "I go to Ben & Jerry's for ice cream." She added that Davis Library was a good place to cool off. Another campus alternative is the outdoor pool behind Woollen Gym. The pool is open Monday through Friday from 12: IS to 6:45 p.m. and on Satur day and Sunday from 1 : 1 5 to 6:45 p.m. A student must present a student ID and a valid registration card. Cooling off is not necessary for some students, such as Stephanie Earls. The junior English major from Berkeley Springs, W.Va., said she does not get hot. "I avoid any exercise, but if I did get hot, I would run cold water over my wrist," she said. "It works." Technology is another reason some students do not get very hot. Many students seek refreshment from the heat as Becky Marquette, a junior French and political science major from Rocky Mount, does. "I turn on the air conditioner." If it was broken, Marquette said, "I would die." Roman Numerals just Let's return to the fourth grade for a moment. Today's topic is Roman Nu merals. They taught us this stuff, and it's made my life hell ever since. The prob lem was, I remembered it. I didn't re member anything else, but I remem bered Roman numerals. Miss Young did it to me. Miss Young was a knock out in tight-fitting dresses who had no business teaching elementary school, but there she was, diligently explaining Roman numerals, and so I remembered it. So today, I can't just pass up a copy right notice. At the end of the movie, when it says "All rights reserved, copy right MCMLXXVII," suddenly I'm immersed in the Roman numeral, trying to figure out whether that means the year 1977 or the year 977 or the year 2977. Becauseonce you've been indoc trinated in Roman numerals, you can't give it up. Everyone else can go to the Civil War battlefield and peacefully observe the rusting cannons and the monuments to fallen Georgia soldiers. Not me. I'm over by the inscription, where it says "Anno Domino, Requiescat Pace, Inna Gadda Davida MDCCCLXTV," studying each letter for about five hours until I can yell out "Eighteen sixty-four! It says eighteen sixty-four!"I'm like theNerd from Hell. Now. Big problem starting last year. I decided that all the Roman numerals are wrong. I'm not kidding. But before I explain what I mean, a brief review is in order. cgWBAR & GRILL announces tMMbM MADNESi $250 Pitchers $loo 16 oz. Cups 300 W. Rosemary Best Late Nite Menu In We fry in cholesterol-free oil Willowcreek Shopping Ctr. Carrboro968-4844 u .spy v J t Ma Wr XL "Roman Numerals, As Taught By Miss Young": I means 1. II means 2. III means 3. Now it gets tricky. IV means 4. "What? Why does IV mean 4?" Because V is the symbol for five, and the Romans didn't want to write MI, so they put a I in front of the V to indicate "five minus one." "Why not just write MI?" we asked. And then she went into a big explana tion about how the Romans had tochisel these numbers on sheer granite, and it took a long time, and so they tried to make 'em as short as possible. Arid then she would tell us that X means 10. So what would 9 be? And maybe one Rhodes Scholar in the class would say "IX" and win a cookie. Stick with me. Now it gets trickier. C means 100. So how would the Romans write 90? XC, right? Now the even frcfter question: How would they write 99? And no one would ever get it. Be cause the answer was "IC." Meaning one hundred minus one. Because the only other way to write it would be "XCIX," and who could ever figure that out, when you could just write "IC"? And so every time we had a test, everybody would miss the 99 question, Visit Our ratio Street 942-7575 Town Til 2 am, 7 Nights Ram's Plaza 1S-S01 ByPass Chapel Hill Ice cream is a refreshing way to escape the heat of Chapel Hill don't seem or, better yet, the 999 question. (An swer: "IM.") Are you following this? It doesn't matter. I have to do this. Last lesson in Roman numerals: The largest symbol they had was M. It means 1 ,000. So when we get to the year 2000, it will be one of the few years in history that the Romans can write down more easily than us. It's the year MM. But in the meantime we've got all these difficult years, that lawyers like to use in books and on movies and on legal contracts. The eighties were especially bad. You had stuff like "MCMLXXXVIU" where you've got so many letters in so many different combinations that it takes you about three hours to figure out that's 1988. But then we got to 1990,andIthought 'Thank God." Roman laziness will take over now! The "minus" thing is gonna kick in. Those copyrights are gonna shrink down to nothing. And so 1990 rolled around, and I was reading the copyright on a videotape, and I saw this weird combination I'd never seen before: "MCMXC." And then I noticed that everybody was using this: "MCMXC," and then, when 1991 rolled around, "MCMXCI." What's going on here? Where is Miss Young? I want every copyright attorney in this country to be summoned to Miss Young's office immediately. Why isn't 1990"MXM"? MM' FURNITURE 967-7060 LOWEST PRICES EVERY S I"! Factory Authorized Sale I r sJL SAVE J f 1 .'ni"""a" (ocica from BaplW Owen) "'r7 HAIilGH . CHAPEL Hill DTHKeilh Nelson during the summer to add up In other words, "one thousand plus one thousand minus ten." You ignorant lawyers are making the Romans chisel two extra letters in a block of sheer granite! And what problems has this already created for the year 1 999? Will we have "MCMXCIX"? It will be worldwide disgrace. How can we go around subtracting one with the second letter, subtracting one with the fourth letter, and subtracting one with the sixth letter, but refuse to do the most eco nomical subtraction, which would sim ply be "MIM"? I'm telling you, it's been a long time since the fourth grade, but it's vivid in my memory. We're making ahuge mis take. We're going down a doomed road toward hundreds and thousands of un needed X's and C's and L's in our future. We'll have to build a new wing onto the Library of Congress. And we're offending Roman numeral scholars ev erywhere. I'm very agitated about this. I know I'm right. Please, somebody, some scholar of the ancient cultures, write in to me and tell me there's one thing I learned cor rectly in grammar school. I feel confi dent that I'm C percent right and the rest of the world is wrong. Well, maybe not that confident. But I'm IC percent sure. Joe Bob is a syndicated columnist. I AND ACCESSORIES I M-F 10 am-7 pm Sat. 10 am-6 pm Sun. 1 pm-5 pm VISA -'-'-;:: V---.-. tl
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