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The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, November 20, 19915 5 students accept challenge of helping children in Angola IT ,1 7 f00 Y1m"y" 'Py 1 Bv Susanne Borchert the headquarters ofthe institute, to North will work. The school for about 120 tion costs for the year. If I '4 K I I suff Writer Carolina, they have visited several cam- street children was converted from a Duval joined the program after trav- I It I 1? '1S!!SH t ! ' (. III puses to raise $80,000 for the work they chicken slaughterhouse and was opened elinginlndia."lwasamazedhowpeople I 1 i' f &. 'it- I W i In January they will fly to Luanda, will be doing in Angola, a country on inFebruarythisyear.Thechildrenspend live there. You can see it in the news bul J If ,13 l-l.Agf A Jjk &f I DTHKathy Michel These volunteers will aid children in Luanda, the city of the orphaned and disabled from page 1 Fees "We're trying to reach the entire col lege community to debunk myths and dispel homophobia," Williams said. Although some members of the organi zation are politically active, the gioup itself is not, she added. In April, Moore said he had no plans to cut CGLA or BSM funds. "I basically don't want to and can't defund organi zations," he said at the time. But Williams said she thought the CGLA would be an easy target at bud get hearings because the 1991 Summer Student Congress passed a resolution to stop funding the organization on the grounds that it violated N.C. state laws. Moore was the primary sponsor of the resolution. But Maxwell said: "Everybody's made a serious effort to go into the budget process with no misconceptions. There's no personal gain for us not to distribute fees." Among the other fees, Moore said he believed the one for transportation, which is $12.50 per student each se mester, might be most open to adjust ment. However, the most the congress will be able to do about larger fees outside its jurisdiction is to make rec ommendations to the University 's Board of Trustees. Fee changes should be brought be fore the student body in a referendum, Moore said. "It appears to be the most democratic way to do it." Pro-choice? : The congress also might investigate ways students pay their fees, Moore said. Congress member Andrew Cohen introduced a proposal to the congress about two years ago outlining a "stu dent choice initiative," within which students would divide their fees among campus organizations as they wished. "I don't think congress should be spending student money," Cohen said. "I don't think we know what we're doing, and I don't think students like to think of their money in the hands of faceless bureaucrats in Suite C." But Maxwell doubted such a pro posal would be feasible. "Wedon't do it that way in the United States (govern ment)," he said. Cohen said he had no plans to rein troduce his proposal. Keith Krebs, trustee for the Rutgers University Legislative Affairs Council in New Jersey, said students there had two optional line items in addition to their lump student fees, which total about $350 a semester. Students have the choice of paying for The Targum, the university newspaper, and the Public Interest Resource Group, an environ mental lobbying organization. Each college at Rutgers has its own newspaper funded by student activity fees. "People who don't pay end up being subsidized by those who do," Krebs said. Comparatively speaking, UNC's stu dent fees aren't high. Appalachian State University's fees for the 1991-92 year are $359 per se mester. Mike Miller, chairman of ASU's Ad-hoc Committee on Fees, said a pro posed $70 per semester increase prob ably will go into effect next year. N.C. State University's fees are about $500 a year. But Moore said this year's 20 percent tuition hike made necessary an investi gation of ways to reduce the cost of higher education. 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They are going to work at a school for street children called the School of the Busy Ants of the Future, begun by Development Aid from People to People. All between the ages of 18 and 22, Susie Bloodworth and Derek Duval graduated from UNC as English ma jors, Sam Thomas studied at the Uni versity of California at Santa Cruz, Aviva Sommer-Levine studied at Humboldt State University in Areata, Calif., and Emily Carson went to Simon's Rock College in Great Barrington, Mass. They are on campus and on Franklin Street this week with the Institute for International Cooperation and Devel opment, founded in 1986, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting global understanding and international solidarity. Traveling from Williamstown.Mass., the southwestern coast of Africa. "The country is in shambles," Duval said. "At least one million of the ten million inhabitants of Angola died dur ing the war and half of the people had to leave their homes." Angola became independent from Portugal in 1975. Shortly after, war began between the ruling Soviet-supported Movement for the Popular Lib eration of Angola and the rebel Na tional Union for the Liberation of Angola, supported by the United States and South Africa. The war ended in a cease-fire this June. More than 300,000 European settlers fled, and with them went the essential know-how and vital machinery. The volunteers are not even sure of the po litical situation in Angola right now. Many people fled to Luanda because the city was considered safe. The popu-. lation has grown to 1.2 million, more than double its pre-war population, turn ing Luanda into the city of the orphaned and disabled. "The fields are still cov ered with mines," Duval explained. People frequently step on a mine, he said. This is the city where the volunteers in February this year. The ch ildren spend seven hours a day at school. "We feed them two meals a day and we give them clothes," Bloodworth said. The children live in shanty towns nearby, Thomas said. They are mostly taught by Angolan teachers. The volun teers will teach as well as assist the native teachers by planning lessons and developing the teaching materials, he said. They will also do vocational work like renovating buildings. The Institute for International Coop eration and Development will train them for all these tasks during a four-month period before they go to Angola. They learn Portuguese, the language of the Angolans, as well as the skills neces sary to fix the school building or to work in the tree nursery that belongs to the school. The institute has established programs in Mozambique, Brazil and Nicaragua as well. "We are trained how to work in a team, to advise each other," Bloodworth said. 'This is challenging to us as Ameri cans. This is not a competitive thing." In order to participate in the pro gram, every volunteer pays a $4,900 fee that covers training for the program, living and travel expenses, and vaccina eling in India. "I was amazed how people live there. You can see it in the news but it is not the same as smelling the smells and feeling the heat," he said. He de cided to spend a part of his life helping people in the Third World. He said he looked forward to seeing how the chil dren would evolve while the group was in Africa. After returning to the United States, the volunteers will continue their work with the program by talking about their experiences in their home communities for two months. They will try to im prove Americans understanding of this country that recently asked the United States for help. Because Angola is still considered a Marxist country, the United States re stricts American economic initiatives. When the Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos met President Bush in September, the American adminis tration stated they would not establish normal diplomatic relations and would not end economic restrictions until multi-party elections would be held in Angola next year. "We won't look at the things the same way we do now when we come back," Bloodworth said. "It's a good thing to contribute to our community." TTfP Q I WTTfin ITTP I"""'"'"1 "nil Mr ' "inn mi ' ri iiii iii-iii - mi i r rii n in 'in m nir m nni n iiiiiiit i ii mi r i I i in I Eleven thousand of the most brilliant people in America work in a profession that few of us even know exists. No matter how smait we are. Yet actuaries are the brains behind crucial corporate deci sions. Billion dollar deals. And long-term business strategies that have an impact on the health and wealth of millions. Few careers combine more challenge and diversity with greater financial reward. 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