The Carolinian [March 24, 1998]

              FYI
Housing sign-up for Fall
'98 term underway
The sign-up process for UNCG stu-dents
choosing to return to campus hous-ing
is underway. Housing and Residence
Life guarantees housing for all students
who signed up by February 25, 1998. At
this time, housing and Residence Life is
unable to assign specific rooms to a few
students. This situation is temporary, and
will be resolved in the next few months.
Housing and Residence Life regrets
that it cannot assign all students a spe-cific
10001 at the current time, but assures
students that assignments will be made
as soon as possible. Past experience
shows that 90'/, of students who com-pleted
space are assigned to one of their
three preferred halls.
If you have any additional questions,
please feel free to call the Housing and
Residence Life Office at 336-334-5636.
Japan exchange, teaching
program lecture today
A representative of the office of the
Consulate General of Japan will explain
Japan's Kxchange and Teaching (JET)
program at the University of North Caro-lina
at Greensboro on Tuesdav. March
24.
The lecture, titled "The JET Program
and UNCG's Place in It." will be given
by 11-Poong Chi at 2 p.m. in the Sharpc
Lounge of the Elliott University Center.
It is free and open to the public.
Chi is the program coordinator ol the
JET Program, which is located in Atlanta
in the office of the Consulate General of
Japan. His appearance is co-sponsored
by UNCG's Department of German.
Russian and Japanese Studies. Depart-ment
of History and the Office of Inter-national
Programs. Masato Yabe, a lec-turer
of Japanese at UNCG. will host the
event.
The JET program is sponsored by the
Japanese government. It offers opportu-nities
to Americans with bachelor's de-grees
to work in Japan for the local gov-ernment
aa coordinators for international
relations or as assistant English teachers
in Japanese public junior high and high
schools.
Interested parties who are unable to
attend the lecture today can contact Chi
at his Internet address, which is.
www.cgjapanatlanta.org.
Graduation celebration
set for March 26 at UNCG
Graduation Celebration will be held
from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday.
March 26. at The University of North
Carolina at Greensboro.
The event will allow seniors and
graduate students who are graduating in
May to vote for outstanding seniors, elect
permanent class officers, take a class
survey, pick up caps and gowns.order
diploma frames and other related items,
and to meet with campus offices and or-ganizations.
A cook-out will be held in the Taylor
Garden from 4-6 p.m.
The event is being coordinated by the
UNCG Alumni Association, which will
give free, one-year memberships in the
organization to graduates who take part
in Graduation Celebration. Other offices
and businesses that will be available are
UNCG Career Services Center. UNCG
Bookstore. UNCG Spartan Club and
Artcarved. Information is available by
calling Laurie Weaver, an assistant di-rector
of alumni affairs, weekdays at
334-5696.
Web site designer to speak
Mark Lawton. creative director at
Construct Inc.. will lecture on designing
in 3-D on the World Wide Web at the
University of North Carolina at Greens-boro
on Thursday. March 26.
Lawton will speak at 8 p.m. in the
Albanese Auditorium located in Stone
Building. The lecture is sponsored by the
Department of Housing and Interior De-sign.
It is free and open to the public.
Call 334-5320 for more information.
Construct Inc. is a San Francisco com
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Students' opinions on SGA's issues
Jonita Henry
Staff Writer
The students' voice. Many think this
should be the main objective of any Stu-dent
Government Association. As elec-tions
approach, the student body of
UNCG would like the candidates to fo-cus
on this issues in their campaigns.
UNCG students would like the 1998-
99 school year to be the year in which
students are heard, involved, and in-formed.
There are several issues that
students want SGA to address and re-solve.
As always, parking is near the top of
the list. Danielle Thompson, a junior,
believes SGA delegates need to be bet-ter
advocates for issues such as parking.
"Do not just accept 'no' for an answer."
she said. 'Tight for the good of the stu-dent
hodv."
Thompson and other students agree
that the prices for parking on this cam-pus
are too expensive.
They suggest i^-^^»^^^^—
Student fees supporting athletics is an-other
concern that students want SGA to
address. However, some UNCG athletes
^™^—"i^—— feel that it is worth-longer
parking "/ can't get involved ifI am while to use money
availability in des- ■M^»..„.M « n , . from student fees.
ignated lots, a more not ^formed. Delegates ..We brjng money
lenient towing should keep US informed of to this campus, so
policy, and the pos- ^dedsiom » why can't they in-sibilityol
including vest in us? said one
parking fees in tu- Jovoda Forney athlete. "Still, I un-ition.
UNCG Student derstand the frustra-
Other students. i=^^^==^^=i^=^^^= tion of the other stu-dents
who feel like they are being
cheated."
UNCG athletes, such as Nathan
Jameson, feel SGA should be more ac-cessible
to the students. Some athletes
say they would also appreciate more sup-port
from SGA and the rest of the stu-dent
body.
"It's embarrassing when they show our
such as Gretchen Williams, also a jun-ior,
are concerned about the construction
on campus, especially on Spring Garden
Street. "I think the amount of construc-tion
is unnecessary construction. It is
causing too many obstacles," said Will-iams.
"Most of the students who are in-convenienced
by the construction will
not even benefit from the final outcome."
events on television and the bleachers
are empty." said a UNCG athlete.
Above all issues, students want to be
heard. They want to be informed. "I
can't get involved if I am not informed."
said Jovoda Forney. "Delegates should
keep us informed of their decisions."
"Delegates of SGA do not seem to
make decisions based on the needs and
interests of the students." said Dee
McPhaul.
McPhaul. as well as other students,
feel delegates and officers need to live
up to their expectations and not just run
to be able to put a title on their resume.
Students want SGA to inform them on
a regular basis, not only on special oc-casions.
They also want to feel as if their
opinion matters on this campus.
Elections will be held March 25 and
26. On-campus students can vote in the
atrium at lunch and dinner, while com-milt.
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Going Once, Going Twice...
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On Sundu), (he 10th Animal Furniture Auction was held in Cone Ball-room
of the Flliott University Center. The event Mas sponsored by The
American Society of Interior Designers and the UNCG Student Center.
UNCG Archaeology program
emphasizes broad knowledge
Faculty member receives
grant for problem solving
Stall Reports
The only thing Ben Sullivan can re-call
ever wanting to be was an archae-ologist.
"I've always wanted to be an
archaeologist, ever since I was 5 or 6
years old." said Sullivan, a Charlotte
resident and a senior at The University
of North Carolina at Greensboro. "It's
been my calling."
Sullivan is similar to many of the stu-dents
in UNCG's interdisciplinary pro-gram
in archaeology, said Dr. Jeffrey S.
Soles, who is head of the UNCG Depart-ment
of Classical Studies.
"Students are interested in archaeol-ogy
because of a sense of adventure and
discovery." Soles said. "They are highly
motivated students."
The program, which mixes courses
from classical studies, anthropology,
geography, history and other areas, is one
of the few of its kind at the undergradu-ate
level. Soles said. He cited as ex-amples
programs at Yale University and
Boston University. Normally, such pro-grams
are housed in either the classics
department or the anthropology depart-ment.
"If you study archaeology in the clas-sics
department, you study only Greek
ami Roman." Soles said. "If you study
in anthropology, you focus on the New
World."
UNCG's program introduces stu-dents
to both the old and the new. he said.
The scope ol the program gives students
an idea of what area they might like to
specialize in. once the) get to graduate
school. Geography courses that focus on
mapmaking. remote sensing and
geographic infor- —•
Staff Reports
Dr. Nancy Nesbitt Vacc. an associate
professor of curriculum and instruction
at The University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, has received a grant of
$29,997 from the North Carolina Math-ematics
and Science Education Naiwork.
The grant will fund a teacher training
program, titled Teaching Problem Solv-ing
Through the Infusion of Mathemat-ics.
Science. Technology and Children's
Literature." The project will provide in-struction
for 23 teachers from
Thomasville Primary School and two
from Westchester Academy in High
Point. The funding is the first installment
of a three-year grant totaling approxi-mately
S90.(KK). The project runs through
March of 2001.
The project was designed by teachers,
project staff and school administrators
who have just completed an 18-month
project. "Teaching Problem Solving
Based on Children's Thinking:
Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI)."
The new project will build on the in-structional
skills, which were specificalK
geared toward teaching math based on
children's thinking, and incorporate the
other subjects into an interdisciplinary
approach to teaching.
"We try to make math instruction rel-evant
to children's lives," Vacc said. "We
want to help children realize the math
implications in everyday life."
One example. Vacc said, will allow
teachers and children to measure light
with a high-density light probe. They will
determine the best location to grow
plants in the classroom and then graph
their results on a computer. This will
show a real-life application of graphs.
The 25 participants in the initial
project will serve as teacher-leaders to
train other teachers in the CGI approach.
After the teachers are instructed in meth-od*
of infuninp math, science, technol-ogy
and children's literature, an addi-tional
25 teachers from the two schools
will be prepared through the program.
Ultimately, the mentoring efforts will
result in all teachers at Thomasville Pri-mary
being prepared in CGI. and one-fourth
of the teachers at Westchester
Academy being prepared.
Vacc has been a faculty member at
UNCG since 1987 and is responsible for
teaching undergraduate and graduate
courses in elementary education and
mathematics education.
She won a Research Excellence
Award in 1997. Her published research
includes journal articles, book chapters,
monographs, research reports and a
book.
In 1993. she was editor of the profes-sional
teaching standards section of
"Teaching Children Mathematics."
Since joining UNCG. Vacc has been
the recipient or co-recipient of grants
totaling approximate!) S2.3 million.
She is currently a co-principal inves-tigator
with Dr. George Bright, a profes-sor
of curriculum and instruction, for a
SI .4 million, five-year project to spread
CGI methods statewide to improve
mathematics instruction in primar\
schools. She holds the Doctor of Educa-tion
degree from UNCG.
I think our approach works well."
Students take core courses in world
prehistory, modern archaeology and clas-sical
archaeology.
■ They augment
mation systems "The program brings in a lot those with courses
give students r J.J* r , from Old World
tools .ha. will of different areas of research and New Wor|d
make them more that will he Useful when I get archaeology and
attractive to m ^ jf c with classes in
graduate schools * * ^ analytical meth-and
employers. Venues. "
Soles said. D on
„, ,., Ben Sullivan
The philoso- ,..,_,-,
phuy ubehuindA t.uhe UNCG senior
program is quite '
simple, said Dr. Jeffrey C. Patton, a
UNCG associate professor of geography.
"In order to understand an ancient cul-ture,
you must have a lot of skills, lan-guage,
knowledge of the soil and pot-tery."
he said. "There's no one field
where one really gets all of that training.
ods and tech-niques.
They can
choose electives
from among
™ courses in anthro-pology,
art. biology, classical studies, ge-ography,
history and philosophy.
Dr. Joseph B. Mountjoy. a UNCG an-thropology
professor, said that the
program's interdisciplinary approach is
almost paradoxical, because, although it
focuses on archaeology, the training is
very broad. "History, social sciences, art.
we encourage that breadth.'" he said. "We
have those aspects of a broad liberal arts
education, but focused on a theme, the
study of archaeology."
Sullivan, who is double-majoring in
archaeology and classical studies, chose
UNCG because of the opportunity to
study archaeology as an undergraduate.
"That's the sole purpose for coming to
this school." he said. "(The program)
brings in a lot of different areas of re-search
that w ill be useful when I get out
there. It opens up many venues."
Michael Willis is an adult student who
moved his family to Greensboro from
St. Joseph. Mo., so he could study ar-chaeology.
He said he chose UNCG be-cause
he "knew people were doing real
work here."
Willis and Sullivan are helping Soles
See Program, Page 4
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