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Time Out, Baby! Vitale
to autograph books
He's a PTPer and a member of the
all-airport team but he's certainly no
diaper-dandy yes, that's right, he's
Dick Vitale.
Vitale, an ESPN basketball commen
tator and a former collegiate head coach,
will autograph his new book, "Time
Out, Baby!," at the Bull's Head Book
shop Wednesday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Vitale is in town tocover Wednesday
night s Duke-UNC confrontation.
'Time Out, Baby!: The inside scoop
on college basketball from America's
1 hoopsjunkie, covers the 1990-1991
NCAA basketball season with his typi
cally outspoken, humorous viewpoint
Students looking for a little dipsy
doo dunk-a-roo will find the bookstore
on the first floor of Student Stores.
Lenoir offers meal
management seminar
Sometimes a good meal can help
land a good job.
Carolina Dining Service and Univer
sity Career Planning and Placement
Services are offering an interview din
ner workshop tonight from 5 p.m. to 7
p.m. at the Lenoir North Dining Room.
The two-hour seminar will discuss
pertinent questions including when to
discuss the job, how to follow the host's
lead while ordering and when to order
an alcoholic beverage.
The cost of the workshop is $15,
including a five course meal. Reserva
tions are required and space is limited,
Interested seniors should contact
Mike Cook at 962-0200.
Phone book recycling
saves 312 trees
Somewhere a forest is thanking Uni
versity students.
Phone book recycling on campus
tripled last semester, and as students
collected about 1 8.4 tons of old directo
ries, they saved 312 trees, said Recy
cling Coordinator Charles Button.
The recycling drive lasted through
out November. Button saidhis goal was
to double last year's 6.5 ton collection.
The recycled books will be turned
into construction materials. Students
who missed the November drive should
save their books for next year.
"Doctor of Comedy"
looks for UNC patients
Bertice Berry, who was voted the
1991 National Association of Campus
Activities Comedian of the Year, will
appear at 9 p.m. Feb. 14 in the Great
Hall.
A multi-talented woman, Berry was
told by her high school counselor that
she was not college material. However,
she has gone on to become a doctoral
graduate in sociology and former uni
versity professor with a wit, a comedi
enne who is scholarly, a lecturer with a
comic edge and a comic with a serious
message on stage.
She has been described as "the Doc
tor of Comedy" or the "Bill Cosby of
Sociology." Berry keeps her audience
howling with jokes that convey positive
images about living happily together.
Through comedy. Berry shows that
by laughing with each other, people
also can learn to respect each other.
Professor honored for
work in Persian Gulf
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency has honored an adjunct profes
sor for his work following the Persian
Gulf War.
Dr. Tim Gerrity, acting chief of the
clinical research branch of the Human
Studies Division in the EPA's Health
Effects Research Laboratory, was
awarded a gold medal and certificate
"in recognition of outstanding service
in assessingthe health and environmen
tal impact of the Kuwaiti oil wellsfires."
Gerrity was part of an American team
sent to Kuwait March 10 to monitor air
quality and to identify pollutants from
the oil well fires that turned skies as
black as night for nearly nine months.
The researcher returned April 1, but
continued coordinating assessment of
the fires' short- and long-term effects.
Researchers: Mayapple
may combat cancer
A compound synthesized from acom
mon herb by University pharmacists in
1988 appears promising for treating one
or more forms of cancer.
Dr. Kuo-Hsiung Lee, Kenan profes
sor of pharmacy, his associates and stu
dents derived the compound from a
constituent of the mayapple, a flower
ing North American herb. The first hu
man trials could come within a year.
Genelabs Technologies, Inc. of Red
wood City, Calif., bought rights to the
compound and named it GL331. The
company has received notice that their
patent on GL33 1 is likely to be granted.
The drug has been tested success
fully on cultured cancer cells in the
laboratory, and studies in lab mice with
cancer also have gone well, Lee said.
The compound seems to work by
causing breaks in the DNA inside can
cer cells and inhibiting an enzyme
known as topoisomerase II, Lee said.
"This may be the key step leading to
the death of cancer cells," he said.
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Candidates discuss plans for dorm
By Chandra McLean
Staff Writer
Charles Streeler and Jennifer Davis
discussed their platform goals for im
proving University housing at a Resi
dence Hall Association forum Monday
night.
The RHA president candidates dis
cussed several issues, including all-campus
parties, improving residence halls
and changing the visitation policy.
Davis said she was a member of the
Housing Advisory Board Visitation
Subcommittee, which was established
to propose a reformed visitation policy.
"The visitation policy is being bro-
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Drawing on her talents .
Erica Wood, a senior from Elizabeth City, sketches surrounding
landscape Monday afternoon in McCorkle Place. Wood and the
Lenoir faces capacity lunch crowds;
quest for seating initiated by students
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Town, hospital
By Wendy Perrell
Staff Writer
The town of Chapel Hill and UNC
Hospitals are hoping to snuff out their
employees' smoking habits through a
program beginning this month.
Smoke Stoppers, a class to help
people kick the smoking habit, is being
offered by the wellness programs of the
town and UNC Hospitals.
Town wellness and safety coordina
tor Kim Ward said the five-week pro-
gram would teach participants ways to
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think it's a way of imposing morals."
Davis said she wanted residents to
set up roommate contracts prior to liv
ing with one another to decide how an
individual visitation policy would be
handled for their room.
Streeter said one of his goals was
geared toward improving technology in
residence halls.
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stop smoking and would educate them
about medical risks of being a smoker.
Rich Helgans, employee recreation
specialist for UNC Hospitals, said
Smoke Stoppers was one of the most
successful programs in the country for
helping people quit smoking.
"We tried to find the best smoking
cessation class we could," he said. "We
looked at a lot of programs, and this one
has the best success rate."
The program has a 95-percent suc
cess rate, Helgans said.
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access to computers in residence halls,"
he said.
Streeter said his ideas for computers
in residence halls are more geared to
ward North Campus. South Campus
has three computer labs, and is about to
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By John Broadfoot
Staff Writer
Lately students have been seen walk
ing around Lenoir Dining Hall with
trays of food in hand, looking lost.
What they've lost, or rather what
they haven't found, is a place to sit and
eat lunch inside the dining hall between
noon and 1 p.m.
Chris Derby, Carolina Dining Ser
vice director, summed up the limited
seating capacity problem.
"It's a facility that hasn't been able to
meet the demands of the student body,"
Derby said. "There are more customers
than there are spaces for."
Denise Kearney, a freshman from
Cheshire, Conn., said she did not enjoy
trying to eat between noon and I p.m.
"I used to last semester, but I don't
anymore," she said.
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start smoking again are allowed to par
ticipate in the program again at a re'
duced charge or at no charge at all, he
said.
Ward said the program offered many
alternative ways to stop smoking for
different people.
"The theory is that what works for
one person trying to quit smoking
doesn't necessarily work for another,"
she said. "So they give you a lot of
tactics to help you quit."
Drew Melvin, UNC Hospitals com
munications coordinator, said he was a
receive another, while Mid Campus and
North Campus have none, he said.
When asked about Springfest, the
candidates had different ideas.
Davis said she had been working to
keep the campus event alive.
"I asked RHA for a sponsorship, and
as hall senator, I remember going door-to-door
begging for money for
Springfest," she said.
Streeter said he wanted to establish
an Alternative Sights Committee that
would find other locations for events
such as Springfest.
He said his campaign consisted of
four components including continuing
advancement in the areas of minority
Cable viewers paint
unfavorable picture
of local TV service
By Chris Goodson
Staff Writer
Slow service, antiquated equipment
and lack of concern for customer input
were among complaints raised by
Chapel Hill residents Monday night at a
public hearing on Carolina Cable's per
formance. Fred Abernathy, a Chapel Hill resi
dent who also sells electronics, said
many customers bought new televisions
and video cassette recorders that were
cable-ready and equipped with remotes,
only to find that many of their modem
features were incompatible with Caro
lina Cable's equipment.
"They hook it up to their cable sys
tem, and they are very disappointed,"
he said.
Greg Feller, assistant to the town
manager, said Monday's meeting be
gan a review of service provided by
Carolina Cable, which presently sup
plied the town with cable service.
Council members and cable advi
sory board members listened to resi
dents' concerns at the hearing. The
newly formed board will decide whether
to renew the town's cable TV franchise
agreement with Carolina Cable.
The 15-year franchise expires in
December 1994.
Abernathy said the descrambler
boxes customers must rent to connect
their televisions with cable often pre
vent viewers from using features on
their electronic equipment.
While the boxes prevent unpaid use
of premium channels, they don't allow
customers to watch one channel and
record another or to program video cas
sette recorders to tape shows on differ
ent channels without changing chan
nels manually, he said.
Fast food fund-raiser
to aid special athletes
By Carol Davis
Staff Writer
Fast food eaters can do more than
satisfy their appetites when they stop by
Hardee's Restaurants in North Caro
lina. They can help Special Olympians
throughout the state.
Orange County Special Olympics
will begin selling benefit bucks for $ 1 a
piece this week, N.C. Special Olympics
development director Pete Curtis said
Monday.
Benefit bucks are orange dollar bills
printed by Hardee's Food Systems Inc.
for distribution by the North Carolina
Special Olympics fund-raisers, he said.
Wendy Trueblood, Orange County
Special Olympics coordinator, said the
benefit bucks could be used like cash at
any area Hardee's. One benefit buck
purchases a dollar's worth of food or
drink, she said.
"Fifty cents of each dollar raised
through benefit bucks is given to the
local Special Olympics programs,"
Trueblood said. "The other fifty cents is
sent to the North Carolina Special Olym
pics who, in turn, sends it to Hardee's to
cover the program fees."
She said OCSO's goal was to sell
3,500 bucks during the program, which
will last until April 15.
Curtis said that nearly $40000 a year
was raised statewide through benefit
bucks.
Benefit bucks is one of the annual
fund-raising programs that N.C. Spe
cial Olympics conducts to benefit 98
habits with Smoke Stoppers
smoker who had participated in the
Smoke Stoppers program once.
Melvin quit for six months and said
he was returning to this month's classes
because he started smoking again.
"I think the program is the best of any
I've tried, and I've tried three or four
different ones," he said.
Mutual support for participants in
the program contributes to its success
rate, Melvin said, adding that the sup
port was what helped him give up smok
ing the first time.
Melvin said that group support con
life
issues and concerns within housing, the
promotion of RHA and its goals',
strengthening of current programs
within RHA and commitment and dedi
cation. Davis said she wanted to focus her
campaign on such topics as the mainte
nance of the RHA quiz file, accessible
recycling and the continuation of the
Racial Diversity Program.
Streeter was Craige area governor
and executive assistant to Scott Peeler
and Christy Pons, RHA co-presidents.
Davis was hall senator for Connor
Residence Hall and chairwoman for the
RHA Enhancement Committee.
"I don 't th ink anybody loves the box,
Abernathy said.
Miriam Smith said the remote con
trol for her new television was rendered
useless by the cable box.
"We were very disgusted," she said..
Reporting problems to Carolina
Cable also can be difficult because it
often is hard to contact company offi
cials. Smith said.
"Other systems and cities do offer
better service," she said.
Joe Elkins, a Chapel Hill cable viewer,
said his biggest complaint against Caro-'
lina Cable involved service problems." '
When town officials were construct- ;
ing a gas line near his home, Carolina -'
Cable officials could not be reached to'
show the location of their buried cable,
Elkins said. -v
"I called several times," he said. "No '
one came."
The cable was cut during construe
tion, and Carolina Cable officials were'
slow to bury the new line, Elkins said.
The new descrambler boxes are not I
much better than the old ones, he said;
"It still looks like it's raining a pretty
good shower on most of the channels.''
The new boxes were installed so;
Carolina Cable could charge higher
rates, Elkins said. :
"All they did was put in a box that let
them charge a great deal more than they:
already did," he said. "It didn't help:
quality one bit." I;
Johnnie Southerland said that he had:
several problems with Carolina Cabla;
and that he-had not been treated well by;
the company when he called to comv
plain. '.
'They were really pretty nasty," he;
said. "From my perspective, Carolina;
Cable's motto is "The customer is aK;
ways wrong.'"
local Special Olympics programs across
the state, he said.
Trueblood explained that volunteers
sold the bucks to people who ate at.
Hardee's. One buck then could be spent
per purchase.
Trueblood said she hoped campus
and community organizations would
get involved in the program.
"I've sent information to all the Uni-;
versity sororities and fraternities about,
the sale of benefit bucks," she said.;
"The fraternity or sorority that sold the;
most benefit bucks would receive not;
only a plaque, but a paid ad would be
placed in The Daily Tar Heel thanking;
all the organizations that helped." ;
None of the Greek organizations;
Trueblood contacted have responded to
iler letter, she said. BTrueblood said she
also had contacted local clubs and school
administrators in the area.
"Last year, Orange County Special
Olympics raised over $3,000 through;
benefit bucks sales," she said. ;
Money raised by the benefit bucks
program and other Special Olympics -fund-raisers
are used to pay for Special '
Olympic athletes' participation in state,;
national and international level pro-'
grains, she said. S
"Funding is always needed for such
excursions," Trueblood said. "The Or-
ange County Special Olympics receives t
no budget. All funding is acquired'
through donations, fund-raisers and,"
grants." '
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tinued after the program ended, and he
explained that he began smoking again '
when he lost contact with his support,
group. I
Melvin said he would recommendt
the classes to anyone who wanted to'
quit smoking.
Helgans said the class costs $ 1 95 perl
person for the public, but a 10-percentI
discount is offered for senior citizens
and hospital and town employees. '
Ward said the class originally was!
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