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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
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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.
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