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!>!•«- BUBBOR-IIKRAU) - Tueatey.BUrch IS, Wn Booklet to help the teacher cope TMchan who UUnk carefully before they veact have a batter chance at coplnc with Jltudenta who curae, cheat, ctaal and •anarally disrupt a claaa. nua la the concanaua at opinion developed ^ a special N.C. Association of Educators ;1kak Eorce on Dlsclptlno. ^ The troth’s findings have been printed In A le-paga booklet, which has been distributed to more than 60,000 NCAE members across the state. The booklet text ‘treats such diverse discipline problems as gtudent profanity, cheating, lack of attention Md even parent-teacher conhontatlons. And m each case, the task force recommends that teachsrs think before acting and to try die alternatives sugested by the booklet. V Spanking Is not ons at the recommended iutematlves. „ Elaine Poovey, who works with the gifted and talented program In the Asheville st- ^ools and chal^rson of the task force, said, ^‘We concluded that many discipline problems are worsened because a teacher ^reacts emotlmially to an emotional situation before giving the matter some good hard ^thinking.” ~ The task force began Its study with the premise that most students are self- 'dlaclpllned and that both teachers and ^dents are human and not perfect. The bocdilet - "Positive Approaches To Discipline’’ - first of all asks the teachers If they can agree that most students are self- disciplined and that discipline Is management rather than punishment among other things. The teacher Is also asked to determine if he or she has set aside personal problems. If they are In good health physically and emotionally and If they are In control of their temper. Some examples of the data Included In the bocdUet are: What do you do when a student Is Involved In cursing or using an obscene gesture? The teacher Is charged with thinking about what caused the behavior; (A) peer pressure, (B) anger, (C) attempt at comedy, (D) attention, (E) failure in school work, (F) lack of belonging. The teacher must think about his or her reaction when the action occured and what the student’s attitude Is about changing his bshavlor. The booklet suggests the teacher try Ignoring the behavior if It Is a first time, staying calm and watching the reaction, dUcuss with the student what has h^pened, suggest acceptable substitute actions or words when such a need arises, and lastly, confer with the parents. When you have a confnmtatlon with a student: Think what causd the confrontation, determine If your authority Is being challenged. If there will be a winner and what will be the results. ’Teachers are asked to try recognising that challenges are a natural part of the growing vp process, discussing with classes at the beglruilng of the term the rules and regulaUoru also conduct expected, en couraging students to challenge In a posltlvs numner, respecting the tights of all mem bers of the class, using a warning system, but be consistent, using a dlsclplltuuy technique such as specific classroom placement, detentlm, extra work, physical work and-or separation from the class. When you have a confrontation with a parent: Think - are you being challenged. Is the confrontation necessa^, will you need a wltrwss, will this change your relattonsMp. Teachers are Informed they might try - starting the conference with a positive statement, like asking the parent what the student has explained, state the school position concerning the problem, ask the parent If there are quetlons In areas of 10M MclMTYRe misunderstanding, lot the parent state his or bar opinion about the school position, dstennlne If the school position conflicts with that of the home, keeping the parent Informed of the student’s progress of lack of progress. WIU this booklet Information help teachers better deal with discipline problems In the class? The NCAE seems to think so. But, like the task force determined, we have to recognise that teachers and students are only human and not perfect, so only tme and method practice will tell. EDITORIhK&OPIhlOrK Showing a new face Oirl Scouting shows us a new taee~and at the same time reaffirms its timeless values-wlth a striking new emblem that Is showing up everywhere these days. The familiar trefoil, which has Identified the Olrl Scouts for almost 6S years, has been redesigned to show a pattern of girls’ faces. You get the feeling, that these girls are young, vital, eagerly looking toward the future. The Idea of growth la there, somehow, and the Idea of diversity comes through very clearly. These are the things that Olri Scouting is all about. They sum up the distinctive service that the organisation renders to our country. ’The trefoil shape stands for the three parts of the Girl Scout Promise, which has been made by every one of the 40 million girls and adults who have belonged to this great youth movement since IMS. "I will try," they say: to serve God; to serve our country and mankind; to live by the Olrl Scout Law, a moral code that has Influenced the lives of ail those 40 million Americans. Local Girls Scouts are displaying the emblem with piide-and we are proud of them for doing so. We wish them well In their endeavors, and we urge them to keep up the good work. Poets Corner Under research grant Zoologist studying biological clocks 34 y. Ret\D€R DIMOGUe Remember Narcisus? To the editor. Remember Narclsusl He was a beautiful youth who fsU In love with his reflectloa In a spring. . It would seem we have another Narcisus la our midst. Ho Is better known as "Mr, Big" and ho doesn’t like to familiarise himself with othere - only his special friends. That Is ho dUassoclatee himself with all expect the apodal Interests until just prior to and on election day. At this time he comes on with a hypocritical grin or sneer to those eho have helped elect him in the first place. Then after he la re-elected he does an about face on the dtlsenB at largo to serve a soloctod few. This la Indeed a Narcisus - one who has fiUlen In love with his own reflection on a spring of self-conceit and deceit, a cistern of no substance. This situation has existed In the Historical Oty for a number of years. I realtso as many others have that some segments of the proas has had a hands off attitude as tar as the city administration is xmoemod, chooalhg to tall the cltlsens in stead they never had It so good. This brings up the question - who has sold out to whom? I look forward with anUclpatlon to seeing new faces In the traces this round of election. BVBRBTTE PEARSON Kings Mountain PLEASE HELP ME Please help me, I’m about to go Help me, please don’t say no. I’m so young, it’s hard to fight back I need help, someone has to attack. Give me a chance to live as other kids do Help me to have the chance God gave you. Won’t you help me and take a stand Someone plesM come and hold my hand. I’m only a p<)or, defenseless child Hurry before this thing goes wild. Please don’t let it destroy me Help stop this thing called Muscular Dystrophy. Please contribute to the research centers Stop this thing from entering Don’t let It take me before I get a chance to walk Please help me, I went to grow up and talk. Help me so I can growup and play ball Please hurry, I went to grow to be tall. Coma and help me before it’s too lata Come quickly before they cloae the gate. Why won’t you help me? I want to live! Why won’t you offer what you have to give? Please help me before I go. Help me, please don’t say no. DONNA HOLMAN KMSHS STUDENT By LUCY OOULBOUBN Special to BOrror-Herald Dr. Heibert A. Underwood, assistant profeaaor of soology at North Carolina State Ukilveralty, has been given a National In- stltutea of Health Research Career Development Award for his research In biological clocks in lower vertebrates and Tbe award which Is being funded through the federal National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, wUl carry a five- year salary aupplement. Its purpose is to free a research eelentlst from ad- mlnlstratlvo and teaching duties so that he can devote fulltime to his investigations. Underwood, viio j<^ed the NCSU soology faculty in 1976, has worked on a number of projects involving circadian rhythms (defined as any dally or rhythmic cycles that persist under constant conditions). Research in blologlcsU clocks is In the very early stages, and he thinks it is because researchers are belglnnlng to reallM the importance of the clocks to human health that he received hie award for the con- ttnuation of his studies. Underwood’s reseturch is in the areas of the organisation and physiology of biological clocks and the role of biological clocks in thermo-regulation and photoperlodlsm. Among other things, he is Interested in the effect of light on the reproductive cycles of animals in which biological clocks play an Important part. All animals above the level of bacteria, he says, have biological clocks which serve to give internal cues to trigger daily body § rhythms. Most of these are synchronised with the 24-hour rotation of the earth. Qyolee Are Numerous In human beings, he says there are hun- dreda of these cycles but the one most people pay most attention to Is the sleep-wake oyela. But there are also others which affect everything from temperature changes in the body, to eleotrloal activity In the brain to hormone levels tat the bh>od. Utadarwood has theorised for some time that asany psyohologleal disorders in humans oould be due to a person’s internal clock being out of order and some recent studleatnthe field of psychlatiy are pointing In this direction as well. "People don’t realise to what extent their w^-belng la d^endent on these things happeatog at the right time," he com- nMnted. Cycle bSpUt He thinks he has already successfully located two parts of the brain in llsards which he has shown to be part of the llsard’s "clock." By removing one portion he was able to split the llsard’s cycle of activity into two parts, one reflecting a 96-hour cycle and the other a 98-hour cycle. underwood says he hopes to use part of his study time to visit other research laboratories and hopes to team new techniques in biochemistry and neuroanatomy. A Ph. D graduate of the University of ’Texas, he also completed poet-doctoral studies there and at the Max Planck institute for Behavioral Physiology, near Munich, Germany, where he worked under a grant from the German government. Solar design earns ALT cash PUBLnHBD EACH TUESDAY AMD THURSDAY QARLAMD ATKINS TOMNCINTTBB Editor BLBABBTH STEWART Wessaa’s Editor GARYSTEWART Sports Edttcr DARRELL AUSTIN Oeaeral Manager CLYDE HILL AdverHslagDIreetar MEMBBROF NORTH OAROUNA PRESS ASSOCIATION The Mkrvor-Herald la pobUshad by Oeaeral PnbSeklag Cniapsay, P. O. Drawer 761 Klags Menatala, N. C. 9MBS. Buslaese aad editorial etfloes are tooated at 481 N. PledaMut Ave. Pbaae 789-7499. Seooiid Claaa postage paid at Klaga Moantala, N. C. Slagle espy 16 Sehecriptlea ratsei IBAI yearly lla-atate. 94J6 six months, IhM yoarlyj I out-of-state, 96 six months! Stadsnt rate |fer nine months 99J4. -j^pg m-MO ByBOBCAVIN Special To Mirror-Herald Some people might object to having 82 big, 86-gallon barrels of water stacked up in their Uvlng room, but not John Alt. Alt, an instructor of Interior design at the Uhlverslty of North Carolina at Greensboro, has daslgned a whole house around the tiers of water drunu, and ho believes they will help reduce the cost of heating the structure by 80 to 90 percent. Decorated to be an aesthetically appealing living room partition, the barrels of water oo«H>lod with an 18 by 84-foot gloss area on the south side of the house form a passive solar energy system suitable for residential dwellings. The U.S. Department of Housing and urban Development (Hud) also believes in Alfa concept for a passive solar energy gystem and recently presented him with a 16,000 award for his design and a 87,000 constructUm award to help him gat started building It. HUD sponsored a nationwide competition for passive solar energy system designs for residential houses and gave out 146 design awards and 80 construction awards for the best systems. Alt was one of seven North Carolinians who received design awards in the com petition and ha was the only designer in the state to win a construction award. "The competition demonstrates a change in attitude by the government toward pasalve solar energy systems," Alt com mented. "At fl.'st, the government chose not to support research on passive systems. Instead, it poured money into research on active solar energy systems." Alt, who received the master of ar chitecture degree from N.C. State Univer sity In 1976, has been Interested In solar energy since 1972 when he helped Steve Baer, a pioneer in passive solar energy systems, construct the first home in the U.S. incorporating a passive system in New Mexico. Alt’s winning design Incorporates a passive solar energy system in a 2,600 aquare-foot, two-story house. He plans to begin building the house in May. ’"The pasalve solar energy system is the simplest, least expensive and pertiaps the most effective way to reduce residential utility bills," Alt stated. "But few people understand how it works because active systems have received more attention by the government. ‘"To have a clear understanding of how the passive system works, it la best to know how the more commonly known active system works," he explained. Active solar energy systems use "collectors’’ mounted outside of the house to trap the sun’s heat, according to Alt. TTie heat is then transferred by pipes or duck- work to a storage unit usually in the basement of the nouse. "When the living spaces need heat, a heat exchanger takes the hot stir from the storage unit and pumps it into the house,” Alt said. "All this is done automatically just like a regualr heating system and the occupant would not know the house is being heated by the sun except that his fuel bills would be much less," he added. However, it would take many years in fuel savings to pay (or the active solar system, according to Alt, since they tend to be very eiq^enalvo. "An active eolar system costs from $8,000 OR up (or an average house,” he noted. ‘"The e>H>enae of the active system is mostly for Its machanleal davlcas and installation. "But a pasalve solar energy system uses almoet no mechanical devices,” he pointed out. "Instead, It uses simple, creative ingenuity on tN* IMut of the designer. "Generally, the extra cost Involved in a passive system house la having a competent person design It," Alt stated. "The design fee would bo substantially loss than the cost of Installing on active solar system. "But It should be remembered that for the design fee the home owner la not only getting a buUt-la heating aad cooling system, he la also getting a total homo environment deMgned specially for his family needs." TTio passive solar energy house la designed so file winter sun heats Its Uvlng spaces (flrectly, according to Alt, Instead of first hsaUag a solar collector and then tran- Merrlng the heat to the house as in an active system. "The glass that would normaUy cover the collector panels on an active system becomes the south window area on the pasalve house," he said. "The house Itself becomes the coUector panel." He pointed out that the else and location of the windows must be carsfuUy designed to collect tha amount of heat the house will need not only during the day, but also at night and the next day should It be cloudy. That’s where the barrels of water come in. "Obviously, the need to coUect extra heat ^ whUe the sun is shining means the house ^ would overheat during the day," Alt ex plained. “Some of the extra heat is stored in the barrels of water, and the Interior of the structure is designed with materials which absorb and store this extra heat.” In addition, there are two shafts on each end of the house, aUowlng the excess heat to escape through the roof in summer. "Fans located at the bottom of these shafts cut in when the temperature at tha calling rises above a certain point,” Alt said. "Since heat rises and coUects in the upper portion of f the house, it can be pulled down through the shafts and stored under the house fOr extra heat during winter." ’This heat storage part of tha interior structure is called "thermal mass" and it can be made of common building materials Rich as brick, stone, concrete or water. f ‘"nie slse and location of the thermal mass miMt be carefully designed to store just the right amount of heat," he explained. "Generally, thU is about three times the amount of heat needed during the day while the sun Is out.” When the living spaces begin to cool at ^ night or on a cloudy day, the heat stored in the thermal mass radiates outward and keeps the spaces at a warm temperature. The only mechanical device generally required in a passive solar energy system is ^ an insulating curtain which must be closed * over the large south glass area at night or on a cloudy day. ‘"This is the only ‘extra activity’ required on the part of the home owner,’.’ Alt chuckled.
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