The Carolinian [March 15, 1996]

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rolinian The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Celebrating 75 yean covering UNCG
In Features:
Community
members bond in
Ashby Dialogues
Volume 75, Issue.37 _-\S'
Sponsors needed
to feed children
In an effort to help feed
needy children, the state
Summer Food Service Pro-gram
for Children is seeking
sponsors.
This program works to
meet the nutritional needs of
children during school vaca-tions.
Approved sponsors are
reimbursed (up to a specific
maximum) for meals served
to eligible children.
In turn, the community
may benefit from jobs, train-ing
and work opportunities
for school personnel, and bet-ter
coordination of education,
recreation, health and cultural
experiences.
Eligible sponsors are lim-ited
to public or private non-profit
school food for authori-ties;
public or private non-profit
residential summer
camps; state, local municipal,
or county governments; pub-lic
or private nonprofit col-leges
or universities partici-pating
in the National Youth
Sports Program (NYSP); and
private nonprofit organiza
tions.
English prof,
publishes book
. A 373-page book, titled!
"The Bedford Companion to
Shakespeare: An Introduction
With Documents," has just
been released by Bedforc
Books of St. Martin's Press.
The book's author, Dr,
Russ McDonald, an associate!
nrofessor in the English De-partment,
hopes students wil
gain more insight into the so-cial
and political aspects o
the plays.
"Shakespeare is very well-j
received by college students
today, and his popularity is
still very high," said
McDonald. "Part of that ap-peal
is the sense of cultural
authority that his work car-ries.
When you talk about the
Western canon of literature
list the important authors.
« is at the top of the list.
There's akind ofpower that*s
associated with Shakespeare
that isn't associated with
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Allen looks at past
•Vice Chancellor James Allen prepares to retire
from twenty-eight years ofservice at UNCG
PAUL BATT/THE CAROLINIAN
Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs James Allen, who is leaving the University after twenty-eight years of service,
says his greatest reward has been getting to know and working with students throughout all of his years at UNCG.
Natalie Watson
Senior News Writer
Vice Chancellor of Student
Affairs, James H. Allen is retir-ing
at the end of the semester af-ter
twenty-eight years of service
to the University.
In a recent interview, Allen
spoke of his future plans, and
looked back on his years at
UNCG.
At UNCG since 1967, Allen
started out as the Presbyterian
campus minister before becom-ing
dean of students and finally
assuming his current position in
1973. Allen admits to witnessing
and being a part of numerous
changes in the campus since his
tenure began.
"Since I have been here,
UNCG has added several doc-toral
and masters programs; I've
seen the renovation of many of
the residence halls and the build-ing
of the Tower Suites. I've seen
the expansion of our athletic pro-gram
to Division I, expansion
of campus rec, the develop-ment
of the soccer stadium,
and the building of the HHP
and Fleming Gymnasium.
Since I've been here I've also
seen the addition of a number
of student organizations."
The responsibilities of a
vice chancellor cover an awe-some
amount of space and
time. Through all of the things
that he has been through and
seen at this university, one
thing remains clear. Accord-ing
to Allen, the most irre-placeable
aspect will be the
students.
Allen, who will turn 65 in
April, says that the adminis-tration
expects all senior offi-cials
HI step down ai 65, but
he also sees his retirement as
a chance for the University to
have a change in leadership.
"I see this as a wonderful
chance for the chancellor to
have a new leadership team.
With the search for a new pro-vost,
I see wonderful opportu-nities
for the future."
Allen says that although he
is retiring, he will not be ab-sent
from UNCG life. He still
plans to support Spartan ath-letics,
and attend the Univer-sity
Concert and Lecture Se-ries.
Allen's plans for retirement
include traveling, visiting
friends and family across the
country, and community vol-unteer
work. He plans to spend
lots of time with his large fam-ily,
his wife Betty, five chil-dren
(three ofwhom graduated
from UNCG), and his ten
grandchildren.
His greatest reward? "The
real joy of knowing so many
students through the years and
working closely with them is
the biggest reward and my
greatest satisfaction."
Internet ban law on hold
•Some net users experience temporary relief
WASHINGTON (CP)- The U.S.
Justice Department has agreed
not to prosecute anyone under a
new controversial law that bans
the transmission of "indecent" or
"patendy offensive" material on
the Internet.
The Feb. 22 agreement stands
until a three-judge panel con-siders
a lawsuit in federal
court in late March.
The American Civil Liber-ties
Union, one of 19 groups
to file the lawsuit in protest of
the new law, negotiated the
deal with the Justice Depart-ment.
ACLU attorney Chris
Hansen called the deal "a vic-tory"
that expands protection
for Internet users beyond the
temporary restraining order
that was granted earlier this
month in a Philadelphia federal
See Law, page 5
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Alcohol prevention
slipping, study finds
PITTSBURGH (CP)- Efforts
to curb alcohol abuse on col-lege
campuses are starting to
slip, a new study says.
Although universities
worked hard for more than a
decade to prevent alcohol
abuse among students, re-search
shows their efforts
peaked in 1991 and have be-gun
to taper off, possibly be-cause
of funding.
"We're finding a down-ward
curve," said Angelo
Gadaleto, a West Chester
University professor. "Hope-fully
we can reverse it."
Gadaleto co-wrote the
study with David Anderson,
a public health professor at
George Mason University.
The study, released at a re-cent
conference, began in
1979 and surveyed 330 uni-versities.
When the study started, the
researchers found that only
54 percent of the schools re-quired
students to serve non-alcoholic
drinks at parties.
Nearly two-third let party or-ganizers
advertise that drinks
would be served, and only
one-third offered group
counseling for alcohol abuse.
But by 1991, the research-ers
noted significant progress
in the college's efforts to curb
alcohol abuse.
About 95 percent of the
schools required soda or
juice to be served at parties.
Only about one-third, or
31 percent let students adver-tise
that alcohol would be
served at parties.
Group counseling was of-fered
by 72 percent of the
schools.
Then, efforts began to drop
off jlighiiy, said Gadaleto.
In 1994, they found that
about 90 percent required
non-alcoholic drinks to be
served at parties.
About 37 percent of
schools now allow students
to advertise that alcohol will
be served at parties. And the
number of schools offering
group counseling fell to
about 59 percent.
"Those numbers are small
decreases, but we've been
doing this since 1979, [and]
everything has been con-standy
increasing," Gadaleto
said. "We need to persevere."