The Carolinian [March 31, 1998]

              En Sigma Theta Tau to hold
annual dinner meeting
The Gamma Zeta Chapter of Sigma
Theta Tau International Honor Society
of Nursing will hold its annual dinner
meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April
8 in the Virginia Dare Room of Alumni
House at the University of North Caro-lina
at Greensboro.
Dr. Lorna Harris, dean of the School
of Nursing at N.C. A&T State Univer-sity,
will be the featured speaker. Her talk
will be titled, 'Transformation of Health
Care: Preparing Nurse Education for the
Change."
Cost for the dinner is $18 per person;
registration deadline is Wednesday. April
1. To make reservations, send a note and
a check payable to Gamma Zeta Chap-ter
to Dr. Patricia Chamings, UNCG
School of Nursing, P.O. Box 26172,
Greensboro, N.C. 27402-6172. Or call
Chamings at 336-334-5010, extension
550.
UNCG English professor
Cushman lectures in India
Dr. Keith Cushman, a professor of
English at the University of North Caro-lina
at Greensboro, traveled to India in
March to deliver lectures.
Cushman spoke at Jadavpur Univer-sity,
delivering lectures titled "e.e.
cummings: American Poet" and "The
Failure of Manhood in D.H. Lawrence's
'The Rainbow.'" He was invited to speak
and also served as an outside reader on a
Ph.D. dissertation on Lawrence's poetry.
In 1964-65, Cushman was a Fulbright
Tutor at Patna University in Bihar, In-dia.
He is a past president of the D.H.
Lawrence Society and associate editor
of the D.H. Lawrence Review. He also
is associate director of the international
conference on Lawrence, to be held in
Taos, N.M., this July.
Cushman is a specialist in British and
American fiction and he joined the
UNCG faculty in 1976.
He directed the UNCG Honors Pro-gram
for seven years and won the
University's 1991 Research Excellence
Award.
A graduate of Harvard University, he
received his doctorate from Princeton
University. He is author of "D.H.
Lawrence At Work" and was editor of
Lawrence's "Memoir of Maurice
Magnus." He is co-editor of three other
books, "D.H. Lawrence's Literary In-heritors,"
"The Challenge of
D.H.Lawrence" and "The Letters of D.H.
Lawrence and Amy Lowell, 1914-1925."
UNCG's Nursing Society
receives national award
The Gamma Zeta Chapter of Sigma
Theta Tau International Honor Society
of Nursing has been recognized with a
1997 Chapter Key Award for excellence.
The chapter is based in the School of
Nursing at the University of North Caro-lina
at Greensboro. Sigma Theta Tau pre-sented
the award at its 34th Biennial
Convention in Indianapolis.
Chapters can apply for the award ev-ery
two years. They must submit docu-mentation
showing that they have par-ticipated
in scholarly activities, promoted
excellence in nursing through programs
or awards, and encouraged nurses to
work toward excellence in practice.
"It makes me feel good about the hard
work we put in as a group, that we're
doing what we're all about, which is pro-moting
excellence in nursing and help-ing
people achieve that," said chapter
president Dr. Pamela Werstlein. an as-sistant
professor of nursing at UNCG.
The 1997 honor is the third Chapter
Key Award for Gamma Zeta. The chap-ter
also was honored in 199land 1993.
Faculty member receives
grant for Humanities
Dr. Michael J. Zimmerman, an asso-ciate
professor of philosophy at the Uni-versity
of North Carolina at Greensboro,
has received a grant of $28,329 from the
National Endowment for the Humanities
to study the nature of intrinsic value.
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National Paideia Center plans to move to UNCG
Staff Reports
The National Paideia Center, which
helps school systems implement a stu-dent-
centered educational reform move-ment
known as the Paideia Program, is
moving here to become affiliated with
the School of Education at the Univer-sity
of North Carolina at Greensboro,
effective this July 1.
The National Paideia Center currently
is located in Chapel Hill as a part of the
School of Education at UNC-Chapel
Hill, where it has been since the Center
was established in 1988.
Plans to move the National Paideia
Center to UNCG were announced at a
press conference today by UNCG Chan-cellor
Patricia A.Sullivan.
"The National Paideia Center is mov-ing
to UNCG to affiliate with one of the
premiere schools of education in the
country," said Sullivan at the press con-ference.
She told Dr. Terry Roberts, executive
director of the National Paideia Center.
"We are thrilled that you are going to
become a part of the UNCG family."
Sullivan called attention to UNCG*s
vision statement, which says the institu-tion
aspires to be a "leading student-cen-tered
university, linking the Piedmont
Triad to the world through learning, dis-covery
and service."
"This marriage is about the leading
student-centered funicular reform move-ment
in the nation coming to the leading
student-centered university in North
Carolina." said Sullivan. "I hope that,
collectively, we can make public educa-tion
and higher ^^_^__^_^^^
education fo-cus
on the stu-and
practice and use UNCG as a base
for reforming our nation's schools."
The National Paideia Center is a non-profit
organization that has five full-time
employees. In addition to Roberts, the
^mmt Center's staff
consists of
Laura Billings,
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"The National Paideia Center is
dent - em- mOVWgtO UNCG tO affiliate With assistant direc-
ZbTtoto one °fthe Premiere schools of
active leamers. education in the country
lifelong learn-ers.
the en- Pat"cia Sullivan
gaged partici- UNCG Chancellor
native citizens ^^^"■^^^^^^—■^^
that we all want to ensure the vitality of
our economy and our democracy."
At the press conference. Roberts said,
"We are thrilled" to be coming to UNCG.
"as well as bringing our own colleagues
to Greensboro. It is a very exciting mo-ment
and one that gives us the opportu-nity
to do much, much more good work,
and that's the bottom line."
In an earlier prepared statement, Rob-erts
said. "We are relocating the Center
to UNCG in order to create a powerful
partnership between a national reform
group and a school of education. Such a
partnership will mean that we can merge
our work with that of the School of Edu-cation
to create a whole greater than the
sum of its parts. This means that we can
train UNCG graduates in Paideia theory
tor for curricu-lum
and in-struction;
Dr.
Anthony
Solari, assistant
director for
^^^^~""™^^^^^—training and
outreach: plus, an assistant director for
operations; and a staff-support position.
The Center is led by a 12-member board
of advisers, chaired by retired business-man
Robert Ward of Hilton Head. S. C.
The Center's budget is funded through
contracts with school systems and from
other grants.
"We are ecstatic to have the National
Paideia Center become affiliated with
our School of Education," said Dr. David
Armstrong, dean of the UNCG School
of Education, in a prepared statement.
"In particular, we are very pleased to
have an opportunity to infuse the Paideia
perspective into our undergraduate and
graduate programs. The National Paideia
Center promotes validated reform initia-tives
that are well respected around the
country, and henceforward, we are
pleased that its work will reflect an as-sociation
with our School of Education
at UNCG."
The National Paideia Center is very
familiar with Guilford County. Since
1994, the Center has worked with teach-ers
and principals in the Guilford County
School System to develop Paideia pro-grams
in over 40 schools. In May of
1997, the Joseph M. Bryan Foundation
of Greensboro awarded a $1 million
grant to the Center to implement the
Paideia program in every Guilford
County school over a four-year period.
That effort is now underway.
Also taking part in the press confer-ence
were Jim Melvin, president of the
Joseph M. Bryan Foundation, and Dr.
Jerry Weast, superintendent of the
Guilford County School System.
Roberts said the Paideia Center has
on-going partnerships with over 80
schools in 13 states. The Center currently
has two extensive implementation sites:
with the Guilford County School Sys-tem
and the Broward County School
System in Florida.
Roberts said the Guilford County
School System is now "the number-one
school system in the nation, in terms of
Paideia (program) implementation."
Armstrong said he wants to make the
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Bring on th% gamee.*. Supporters of Caiwio
will march to Raleigh
Clare MMrHII CAROLINIAN
Tug-of-war was one of many games played this year at the Unity Games. This event
is sponsored by the NAACP, and was held from 1-4 p.m. on Saturday in the quad..
Sharon Cooper
Staff Writer
On what will be the 30th anniversary
of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther
King. Jr.. hundreds of people will again
speak out on what they feel is injustice.
On April 4. 1998. there will be a con-vergence
on our state capital to demand
from the government justice for Kwame
Cannon and thousands of other incarcer-ated
young men and women.
The actual march to Raleigh will start
on April 1st from the Bethel A.M.E.
Church at noon. Fifty to one hundred
people will actually walk 70 miles to the
state capital, stopping on the way to rally
for support in Burlington. Chapel Hill
and Durham. It will be North Carolina's
version of the Selma-to-Montgomery
march. Other supporters will meet the
group in Raleigh on April 4th.
This march is a call to the people of
this city and state to stand up and orga-nize
to end racism and economic exploi-tation.
It is meant to draw together the
struggles for decent work with livable
wages, quality education for all children,
and an end to criminalizing our youth
and the poor.
Although the immediate reason for
the march is the release of Kwame Can-non,
there are other issues that the lead-ers
of the march wish to discuss with
North Carolina Governor Hunt.
These issues range from a living wage
to good health care to organization of
unorganized workers to the plight of in-carcerated
young men and women.
There has been a headquarters opened
for those who wish to Find out more
about the march, participate in the march
or volunteer to help with the planning.
It is located at 437 Arlington Street in
Greensboro. The phone number is 370-
4778. If you are interested in partici-pating
in the march, please contact the
April 4th Coalition office.
This cause will not end with the
march. There will be the ongoing sup-port
for each other's struggles, support
for a progressive legislative agenda, a
statewide poor and working people's
conference in fall. 1998. and spiritual
and nurturing support lor children, fami-lies
and communities.
Please don't stop your support of this
cause with just the march. We must all
be concerned with each other's welfare.
SftA Election Results
There will be a runoff elec-tion
on March 31 and April 1
for the positions of SGA Presi-dent
and Vice President. Resi-dent
students vote in the
Atrium, and commuter stu-dents
in the EUC.
Presidential Candidates:
Vice-Presidential
Candidates:
Jon Buford
Hollie Jones
Ryan Sullivan
Mario Price
Your Sophomore Delegates
for 1998-99 are:
Chevon Rodwell
Ryan Kelly
Brandon Banner
L'Anita Smith
Elizabeth Tuazon
James Bryan
Juliana Bowman
Idan Eckstein
Your Junior Delegates for
1998-99 are:
Matt Kelly
MiSou Hood
Melissa Johnson
(Junior Delegates continued)
Jeremy Sprinkle
E.J. Taylor
Katie Herring
Tabitha O' Connor
Zakia Nesbitt
Your Senior Delegates for
Crystal Artis
Kelly Quioncs
Brandi Maxwell
Kim Anderson
Greg Eaddy
Angela Hernandez-Coleman
Your Delegates at Large for
1998-99 are:
Shawn Payne
Mario Price
Hollie Jones
Ryan Tomberlin
Ryan Sullivan
Heather Kubel
RobLawter
Justin Griffin
Shaneeka Moore
Jon Buford
Kyle Sorenson
Vanessa Raynor
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