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Happy Valentine's Day Candidate Forums Senate Forum ■ 7:00 p.m. tonighl Alexander Room, EUC NBS Forum. 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Claxton Room. EUC Presby House Forum. 6:30 p.m. Monday IRVIN FELD8 KENNETH FELD See CONTEST Page 3 "The Diviners" Is a Winner The Carolinian Sec Page J Non-profit US. Potlaae PAID Grtentboro. N.C. Permit No. SO Tuesday, February 14, 1984 Volume LX11I Number 33 The University of North Carolina at Greemboro Hate a •tor; idea? Call u. «t 379-5752 UNC-G Celebrates Valentine's Day BY LEIGH TRAPP SUffWriUr Several organizations and Residence Halls are celebrating this Valentine's Day with many special activities and projects. To start off the Valentine's Day festivities, EUC sponsored the "Valentine Card Making" event. Students were able to choose from several materials to make a valentine for their special friends. EUC will be delivering these valentines today. Residence Halls such as Cotton and WeilWinneld will sponsor their own versions of "kias-or-treat" this evening. These residence halls have invited other dorms to joing in their kias-or-treat event. All participants will be able to knock on any of the participating residents' doors. Par-ticipants' doors will be easily recognizable as lip imprints will be seen on the doors of those who wish to "kias-or-treat." Several organizations will also be delivering an assortment of carna-tions, balloons and candy-grams to residents today. Alpha Delta Pi Sorority is deliver-ing "Balloon-O-Gruns" this after-noon. Alpha Delta Pi and McDonald's have teamed together to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House by selling valen-tine balloon messages. The balloons will be decorated and delivered by the sorority sisters on Valentine's Day. Alpha Phi Omega sponsored its annual carnation sale again this Valentine's Day. APO members will be delivering freshly cut red, pink and white carnations to residents and UNC-G students. Money raised by the carnation sale will be given to the Heart Fund Drive. Some students will also be receiv- Dr. Marschark Awarded Grant Dr. Marc Marschark, an assistant professor of psychology at UNC-G, has been awarded a 3103,147 grant from the National Institute of Health for a three-year research study of the language and cognitive flexibility in deaf children. The research project, which began in January, will run through December 1986. The National In-stitute of Neurological and Com-municative Disorders and Stroke, a branch of NIH, is the specific federal funding agency for the grant. Dr. Marschark's research will in-clude studies focusing primarily on 10-to-l 6-year-olds, comparing both deaf and hearing youngsters. At-tention also will be given to how parents of deaf and hearing children communicate to their offspring. Dr. Edgar Shroyer and Dr. Cyn-thia King, faculty members in the Division of Communication Disorders in UNC-G's Department of Communication and Theatre, are serving as consultants on the research project. Both Dr. Shroyer and Dr. King have expertise in the area of deafness and deaf education. Specificalyy, Dr. Marschark will be conducting studies in five main areas: -how language flexibility develops for children aged sue through 16, in both hearing and deaf youngsters —how deaf children's language capabilities relate to their other cognitive abilities such as problem-solving -what sort of relationship exists between deaf children's use of sign language and their writing skills —Do deaf mothers communicate the same way to their children as hearing mothers, given the premise that what children know most about Language is derived principally from their mothers. —How do adults and children, both hearing and deaf, use sign language to children of different ages, a phenomenon known as "social editing." "This research should indicate the extent to which written evaluation of deaf children in English truly taps their language capabilities," Dr. Marschark said. "We already have shown in an earlier study that deaf children are more flexible in their language capabilities than many deaf educators believed before. With this grant, we will have a chance to look at that more in depth," Dr. Marschark added. In his earlier study with Sue West, a graduate of UNC-G, to be published in the Journal of Speech and Hearing Retearch. Dr. Marschark demonstrated that deaf children can be at least as creative as hearing youngsters when the deaf children are tested using sign language instead of oral or written English. Across six scoring categories, those deaf children, aged 12 to 14, produced more figurative language than their hearing peers when ask-ed to create a story around a par-ticular theme. "We gave these deaf children a more 'culture-fair' test by having them to create stories using their sign language rather than English," Dr. Marschark said. For the current three-year pro-ject, Dr. Marschark already has started the developmental examina-tion of the figurative language com-prehension and production of a group of hearing and deaf six-to 15-year-olds. ing Candy-Grams. The candy-grams are being delivered care of EUC Sweet Shoppe. EUC valentine cards may also be included in the candy-gram. In addition to student activities, ARA Food Services will be giving away valentine cakes to several students who dine in the cafeterias today. A heart-shaped cake will be given to every 100th person who enters each dining room. These activities, plus specisl dorm parties and study breaks will help to make this Valentine's at UNC-G a very special day for everyone. This year, Dr. Marschark also plans to compare these children's spontaneous sign language story production to what they produce in written language, as weD as how deaf children communicate their stories differently to both hearing and deaf adults and peers. Deaf subjects for the project will be volunteers mostly from the N.C. Central School for the Deaf in Greensboro and the N.C. School for the Deaf in Morganton, he added. "On a theoretical level, the research will yield valuable informa-tion on the relationship between language and cognition and the in-teraction of language and cognition in development," Dr. Marschark said. "On the applied side, we are hoping that the study will provide data leading to a more accurate assessment of deaf children's language capabilities than heretofore thought possible." Dr. Marschark, who concentrates his research on the relationship be-tween language and thought, came to UNC-G in 1980. He has a B.A. degree from Cornell University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Western Ontario. Wachovia Brings Teller II To The UNC-G Campus Wachovia Bank and Trust Com-pany will add a Teller II automated teller machine in the lower level of Elliott University Center near the Robot Room on the UNC-G campus. The machine is scheduled to be operational Mon., Feb. 20. "This Teller II machine will be a real convenience for the students, faculty, and staff at UNC-G," said Paul w. Stephanz, Regional Vice President for Wachovia in Greensboro. "I know our customers will enjoy the convenience of being able to conduct routine banking transactions 24 hours a day, on weekends and on holidays." Teller II can be used to access checking, savings, lines of credit, and MasterCard accounts. It gives account balance information, transfers funds between accounts and dispenses cash in multiples of $6 up to a daily limit of $200. It also \accepts p| ayments and deposits. "Teller II is very easy to use, and our employees will be available to answer any questions about the machine or demonstrate how to use it," said Vicki V. White, Branch Manager of the Lee Street Office. A customer can activate any Teller II in the statewide network by using a Wachovia Banking Card. The Wachovia Banking Card can also be used as identification in any Wachovia branch. Wachovia's Teller II machines are now serving cardholders whose banks are members of the CIRRUS National Automated Interchange. In June 1984, the machines will serve card-holders in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina whose banks are members of the Mid- Atlantic Exchange. Wachovia also has Teller II Machines on seven other universi-ty campuses in the state. / Greensboro Review and Chappell Publish Winning Short Stories Two short stories published in the winter 1982 issue of The Greeneboro Rrvm\ issued by the Department of English at UNC-G have been listed ss "Distinguished Short Stories of the Year 1982." The two stories are "The Vegetable Queen," by Jenny S. Humphries of Atlanta, Ga., a graduate of UNC-G, and "Moral Education," by Norman Waksler of Somerville, Mass. Also on the list of distinguished short stories for 1982 is Fred Chap-pell's "The Dreaming Orchid," which appeared in the New Mexico Humanities Review. Chappell is a professor of English at UNC-G. Chemistry Lab Mishaps a Problem Nationwide In the latest of a steady series of serious mishaps at college chemistry labs nationwide, a California Institute of Technology student was critically injured January 4 while conducting a "routine" lab experiment on campus. Second-year graduate student Ramsay Bittar was severely injured when a glass flask he was using in a basic, inorganic synthesis pro-cedure suddenly burst, sending shards of glass throughout the lab. Physicians say one piece of the glass severed Bittar's main neck artery, depriving his brain of ox-ygen for up to two hours while the blood vessel was surgically grafted back together. "1 don't recall a more serious laboratory accident in the 12 years I've worked here," John Berkaw, Bittar's advisor, told the Col Tech newspaper. But similar mistakes have en-dangered students—and left facul- Photo by Ari Soeleiman The warm weather this weekend proved that February doesn't have to be an obstacle for a determined sun-worshipper. ty and schools open to lawsuits-at a number of other campuses over the last several years. A University of New Mexico stu-dent, for instance, is suing that school for $2.7 million after he was severely burned by acid during a lab class last summer. The student alleges the universi-ty and instructor did not properly maintain safety standards in the lab, and failed to consider the danger of inexperienced students handling the acid. Last April a University of Ten-neases laboratory nearly burned down before officials discovered several gaa jets (used to supply students' Bunsen burners with gas) has been left on and ignited. Often, however, the danger to lab students is leas obvious. Rutgers, for instance, had to close its Smith Hall laboratory facilities two years ago after the Occupa-tional Safety and Health Ad-ministration detected dangerous levels of estradiol benzoate in the building. Seventeen students and faculty members have sued the school, claiming they suffered side-effects from exposure to the cancer-causing substance. And in 1982, 60 University of Washington chemistry students were exposed to a still-unknown chemical vapor which mysteriously engulfed the Bagley Hall Building one afternoon. Such incidents are rare, according to Steven Foster, program manager for the Nationsl Associa-tion of College and University Business Officers, because univer-sity labs tend to adhere to proven safety standards. "The lab procedures tend to be very sound, based on the fact that there aren't (more) accidents," Foster says, adding that he doesn't know of many lawsuits resulting from such incidents. "But college (lab) teachers in The listing of distinguished short stories for 1982 appears in the an-thology, "The Best American Short Stories 1983," which publishes the stories chosen best by the an-thology's annual editor, Shannon Ravenel. The list contains 100 short stories, while another 20 are selected for publication in the an-thology, which is edited by Ann Tyler. "This is typical of the high quali-ty of stories that The Greeneboro Review has published over the years," said Dr. Robert Stephens, chairman of the UNC-G English department. "It's nice but not that strangely unusual. I hope we keep up this level of good writing." general don't have the safety train-ing that good industrial sector scientists receive," notes Malcolm Renfrew, safety columnist for the Journal of Chemical Education. "Even with reasonable precau-tions (accidents) can happen," he says. Things like good lab supervi-sion, use of fsce shields, safety shields, snd exhaust hoods can help minimize chemical accidents. Furthermore, Renfrew adds, lawsuits against colleges and lab in-structors are occurring' 'quite often these days, especially if there's a feeling that the lab was not main-tained snd safety standards were not practiced properly." Indeed, lab accidents happen "fairly frequently, and some of the elements of omission exist in almost every one," says John Walker, director of Risk Management and Insurance at the University of See LAB MISHAPS Page 8 Stargazing Scheduled GREENSBORO-The spring schedule for public star parties at the Three College Observatory located near Burlington has been announced by the Department of Physics at UNC-G. Tickets for the observing nights are available from the Department of Physics at UNC-G upon written request. Please in-dicate a preference for dates and number of tickets desired. The Three College Observatory, which houses North Carolina's largest telescope, is operated by UNC-G, North Carolina AAT State University and Guilford College. Scheduled star parties at the observatory are: Friday, Feb. 10,7 p.m.; Saturday, March 10, 7 p.m.; Saturday, April 7, 8 p.m.; Friday, May 4, 8:30 p.m.; and Friday, May 26, 8:30 p.m. Inside Today's Issue Opinions P«C« * Arts P«t» » Features P»i* * Sport. Page «*7 Etceteras Page 8 Sports File P«I« •
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Title | The Carolinian [February 14, 1984] |
Date | 1984-02-14 |
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Full text | Happy Valentine's Day Candidate Forums Senate Forum ■ 7:00 p.m. tonighl Alexander Room, EUC NBS Forum. 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Claxton Room. EUC Presby House Forum. 6:30 p.m. Monday IRVIN FELD8 KENNETH FELD See CONTEST Page 3 "The Diviners" Is a Winner The Carolinian Sec Page J Non-profit US. Potlaae PAID Grtentboro. N.C. Permit No. SO Tuesday, February 14, 1984 Volume LX11I Number 33 The University of North Carolina at Greemboro Hate a •tor; idea? Call u. «t 379-5752 UNC-G Celebrates Valentine's Day BY LEIGH TRAPP SUffWriUr Several organizations and Residence Halls are celebrating this Valentine's Day with many special activities and projects. To start off the Valentine's Day festivities, EUC sponsored the "Valentine Card Making" event. Students were able to choose from several materials to make a valentine for their special friends. EUC will be delivering these valentines today. Residence Halls such as Cotton and WeilWinneld will sponsor their own versions of "kias-or-treat" this evening. These residence halls have invited other dorms to joing in their kias-or-treat event. All participants will be able to knock on any of the participating residents' doors. Par-ticipants' doors will be easily recognizable as lip imprints will be seen on the doors of those who wish to "kias-or-treat." Several organizations will also be delivering an assortment of carna-tions, balloons and candy-grams to residents today. Alpha Delta Pi Sorority is deliver-ing "Balloon-O-Gruns" this after-noon. Alpha Delta Pi and McDonald's have teamed together to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House by selling valen-tine balloon messages. The balloons will be decorated and delivered by the sorority sisters on Valentine's Day. Alpha Phi Omega sponsored its annual carnation sale again this Valentine's Day. APO members will be delivering freshly cut red, pink and white carnations to residents and UNC-G students. Money raised by the carnation sale will be given to the Heart Fund Drive. Some students will also be receiv- Dr. Marschark Awarded Grant Dr. Marc Marschark, an assistant professor of psychology at UNC-G, has been awarded a 3103,147 grant from the National Institute of Health for a three-year research study of the language and cognitive flexibility in deaf children. The research project, which began in January, will run through December 1986. The National In-stitute of Neurological and Com-municative Disorders and Stroke, a branch of NIH, is the specific federal funding agency for the grant. Dr. Marschark's research will in-clude studies focusing primarily on 10-to-l 6-year-olds, comparing both deaf and hearing youngsters. At-tention also will be given to how parents of deaf and hearing children communicate to their offspring. Dr. Edgar Shroyer and Dr. Cyn-thia King, faculty members in the Division of Communication Disorders in UNC-G's Department of Communication and Theatre, are serving as consultants on the research project. Both Dr. Shroyer and Dr. King have expertise in the area of deafness and deaf education. Specificalyy, Dr. Marschark will be conducting studies in five main areas: -how language flexibility develops for children aged sue through 16, in both hearing and deaf youngsters —how deaf children's language capabilities relate to their other cognitive abilities such as problem-solving -what sort of relationship exists between deaf children's use of sign language and their writing skills —Do deaf mothers communicate the same way to their children as hearing mothers, given the premise that what children know most about Language is derived principally from their mothers. —How do adults and children, both hearing and deaf, use sign language to children of different ages, a phenomenon known as "social editing." "This research should indicate the extent to which written evaluation of deaf children in English truly taps their language capabilities," Dr. Marschark said. "We already have shown in an earlier study that deaf children are more flexible in their language capabilities than many deaf educators believed before. With this grant, we will have a chance to look at that more in depth," Dr. Marschark added. In his earlier study with Sue West, a graduate of UNC-G, to be published in the Journal of Speech and Hearing Retearch. Dr. Marschark demonstrated that deaf children can be at least as creative as hearing youngsters when the deaf children are tested using sign language instead of oral or written English. Across six scoring categories, those deaf children, aged 12 to 14, produced more figurative language than their hearing peers when ask-ed to create a story around a par-ticular theme. "We gave these deaf children a more 'culture-fair' test by having them to create stories using their sign language rather than English," Dr. Marschark said. For the current three-year pro-ject, Dr. Marschark already has started the developmental examina-tion of the figurative language com-prehension and production of a group of hearing and deaf six-to 15-year-olds. ing Candy-Grams. The candy-grams are being delivered care of EUC Sweet Shoppe. EUC valentine cards may also be included in the candy-gram. In addition to student activities, ARA Food Services will be giving away valentine cakes to several students who dine in the cafeterias today. A heart-shaped cake will be given to every 100th person who enters each dining room. These activities, plus specisl dorm parties and study breaks will help to make this Valentine's at UNC-G a very special day for everyone. This year, Dr. Marschark also plans to compare these children's spontaneous sign language story production to what they produce in written language, as weD as how deaf children communicate their stories differently to both hearing and deaf adults and peers. Deaf subjects for the project will be volunteers mostly from the N.C. Central School for the Deaf in Greensboro and the N.C. School for the Deaf in Morganton, he added. "On a theoretical level, the research will yield valuable informa-tion on the relationship between language and cognition and the in-teraction of language and cognition in development," Dr. Marschark said. "On the applied side, we are hoping that the study will provide data leading to a more accurate assessment of deaf children's language capabilities than heretofore thought possible." Dr. Marschark, who concentrates his research on the relationship be-tween language and thought, came to UNC-G in 1980. He has a B.A. degree from Cornell University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Western Ontario. Wachovia Brings Teller II To The UNC-G Campus Wachovia Bank and Trust Com-pany will add a Teller II automated teller machine in the lower level of Elliott University Center near the Robot Room on the UNC-G campus. The machine is scheduled to be operational Mon., Feb. 20. "This Teller II machine will be a real convenience for the students, faculty, and staff at UNC-G," said Paul w. Stephanz, Regional Vice President for Wachovia in Greensboro. "I know our customers will enjoy the convenience of being able to conduct routine banking transactions 24 hours a day, on weekends and on holidays." Teller II can be used to access checking, savings, lines of credit, and MasterCard accounts. It gives account balance information, transfers funds between accounts and dispenses cash in multiples of $6 up to a daily limit of $200. It also \accepts p| ayments and deposits. "Teller II is very easy to use, and our employees will be available to answer any questions about the machine or demonstrate how to use it," said Vicki V. White, Branch Manager of the Lee Street Office. A customer can activate any Teller II in the statewide network by using a Wachovia Banking Card. The Wachovia Banking Card can also be used as identification in any Wachovia branch. Wachovia's Teller II machines are now serving cardholders whose banks are members of the CIRRUS National Automated Interchange. In June 1984, the machines will serve card-holders in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina whose banks are members of the Mid- Atlantic Exchange. Wachovia also has Teller II Machines on seven other universi-ty campuses in the state. / Greensboro Review and Chappell Publish Winning Short Stories Two short stories published in the winter 1982 issue of The Greeneboro Rrvm\ issued by the Department of English at UNC-G have been listed ss "Distinguished Short Stories of the Year 1982." The two stories are "The Vegetable Queen," by Jenny S. Humphries of Atlanta, Ga., a graduate of UNC-G, and "Moral Education," by Norman Waksler of Somerville, Mass. Also on the list of distinguished short stories for 1982 is Fred Chap-pell's "The Dreaming Orchid," which appeared in the New Mexico Humanities Review. Chappell is a professor of English at UNC-G. Chemistry Lab Mishaps a Problem Nationwide In the latest of a steady series of serious mishaps at college chemistry labs nationwide, a California Institute of Technology student was critically injured January 4 while conducting a "routine" lab experiment on campus. Second-year graduate student Ramsay Bittar was severely injured when a glass flask he was using in a basic, inorganic synthesis pro-cedure suddenly burst, sending shards of glass throughout the lab. Physicians say one piece of the glass severed Bittar's main neck artery, depriving his brain of ox-ygen for up to two hours while the blood vessel was surgically grafted back together. "1 don't recall a more serious laboratory accident in the 12 years I've worked here," John Berkaw, Bittar's advisor, told the Col Tech newspaper. But similar mistakes have en-dangered students—and left facul- Photo by Ari Soeleiman The warm weather this weekend proved that February doesn't have to be an obstacle for a determined sun-worshipper. ty and schools open to lawsuits-at a number of other campuses over the last several years. A University of New Mexico stu-dent, for instance, is suing that school for $2.7 million after he was severely burned by acid during a lab class last summer. The student alleges the universi-ty and instructor did not properly maintain safety standards in the lab, and failed to consider the danger of inexperienced students handling the acid. Last April a University of Ten-neases laboratory nearly burned down before officials discovered several gaa jets (used to supply students' Bunsen burners with gas) has been left on and ignited. Often, however, the danger to lab students is leas obvious. Rutgers, for instance, had to close its Smith Hall laboratory facilities two years ago after the Occupa-tional Safety and Health Ad-ministration detected dangerous levels of estradiol benzoate in the building. Seventeen students and faculty members have sued the school, claiming they suffered side-effects from exposure to the cancer-causing substance. And in 1982, 60 University of Washington chemistry students were exposed to a still-unknown chemical vapor which mysteriously engulfed the Bagley Hall Building one afternoon. Such incidents are rare, according to Steven Foster, program manager for the Nationsl Associa-tion of College and University Business Officers, because univer-sity labs tend to adhere to proven safety standards. "The lab procedures tend to be very sound, based on the fact that there aren't (more) accidents," Foster says, adding that he doesn't know of many lawsuits resulting from such incidents. "But college (lab) teachers in The listing of distinguished short stories for 1982 appears in the an-thology, "The Best American Short Stories 1983," which publishes the stories chosen best by the an-thology's annual editor, Shannon Ravenel. The list contains 100 short stories, while another 20 are selected for publication in the an-thology, which is edited by Ann Tyler. "This is typical of the high quali-ty of stories that The Greeneboro Review has published over the years," said Dr. Robert Stephens, chairman of the UNC-G English department. "It's nice but not that strangely unusual. I hope we keep up this level of good writing." general don't have the safety train-ing that good industrial sector scientists receive," notes Malcolm Renfrew, safety columnist for the Journal of Chemical Education. "Even with reasonable precau-tions (accidents) can happen," he says. Things like good lab supervi-sion, use of fsce shields, safety shields, snd exhaust hoods can help minimize chemical accidents. Furthermore, Renfrew adds, lawsuits against colleges and lab in-structors are occurring' 'quite often these days, especially if there's a feeling that the lab was not main-tained snd safety standards were not practiced properly." Indeed, lab accidents happen "fairly frequently, and some of the elements of omission exist in almost every one," says John Walker, director of Risk Management and Insurance at the University of See LAB MISHAPS Page 8 Stargazing Scheduled GREENSBORO-The spring schedule for public star parties at the Three College Observatory located near Burlington has been announced by the Department of Physics at UNC-G. Tickets for the observing nights are available from the Department of Physics at UNC-G upon written request. Please in-dicate a preference for dates and number of tickets desired. The Three College Observatory, which houses North Carolina's largest telescope, is operated by UNC-G, North Carolina AAT State University and Guilford College. Scheduled star parties at the observatory are: Friday, Feb. 10,7 p.m.; Saturday, March 10, 7 p.m.; Saturday, April 7, 8 p.m.; Friday, May 4, 8:30 p.m.; and Friday, May 26, 8:30 p.m. Inside Today's Issue Opinions P«C« * Arts P«t» » Features P»i* * Sport. Page «*7 Etceteras Page 8 Sports File P«I« • |