The Carolinian [March 16, 1999]

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-Carolinia The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Tuesday, Phone: (336) 334-5752
March 16,1999
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Volume 78
Students begin masters program
Staff Reports
Graduate students have
been selected for a master's
degree program in adolescent
language disorders at
The University of North
Carolina at Greensboro. The
program will benefit North
Carolina educators who will be
helping young people with lan-guage
prohlems.
The graduate students
are Amy Perdew Stevens of
218-A High Ridge Drive,
Sanford: Jennifer L. Brucke of
190 Brookforest Drive. Win-ston-
Salem: Kelly Turner
Harrington of 5473 Amick
Road. Julian: Tennille Maria
Bushur of 2205 New Garden
Road, and Virginia Spell
Stump of 3200 Canterbury St..
both of Greensboro.
The program is being
funded through a three-year
grant from the U.S. Office of
Special Education and Reha-bilitative
Services, which is
part of the U.S. Department of
Education. Grants for the
project are expected to total
$4(X),594.
Dr. Jacqueline M. Cimorelli
and Vicki McCready, faculty
members in UNCG's program
in communication sciences
and disorders, are the project
directors. The project coordi-nator
is Perry P. Flynn. a lec-turer
in communication sci-ences
and disorders at UNCG
The project will prepare
master's level, certified
speech-language pathologists
to work specifically with ado-lescents
who have language
disabilities.
Ultimately. 15 students will
receive stipends through the
project while seeking master's
degrees at UNCG.
The students who earn
master's degrees will be obli-gated
to spend at least two
years working with adoles-cents
with language disabili-ties
in the North Carolina pub-lic
schools.
The speech-language pa-thologists
would help middle
school and high school youth.
A major goal of the project is
to fill a void by training quali-fied
speech-language patholo-gists
to help adolescents.
Many middle schools and
high schools offer limited
speech-language services,
with emphasis having been
given to early childhood in-tervention.
The N.C. Department of
Public Instruction has identi-fied
a shortage of adequately
trained speech-language pa-thologists
as one of the most
pressing needs among state
schools.
As part of the project, a
clinic to assist adolescents with
language disorders will be
held during the summer of
1999 at UNCG.
The clinic also will allow
UNCG students to receive fur-ther
training by working with
adolescents.
Unpredictable weather
doesn't deter British students
during research projects
Staff Reports
Academically, two British
chemistry students felt pre-pared
for their 10-wcck re-search
projects at The Univer-sity
of North Carolina at
Greensboro.
Preparing for North
Carolina's ever-changing win-ter
weather was another mat-ter.
When the students left En-gland,
it was 65 degrees in
Greensboro. But shortly after
their arrival here, temperatures
plummeted.
"I brought five pairs of
shorts and T-shirts." said Robin
Fortt. 21. a student at
Nottingham Trent University
in England, lamenting the 20-
degrce weather outside. "The
coldness is very much like
home." said Jackie Rossell. 24,
Font's classmate. "You never
know what to wear."
Font and Rossell are at
UNCG because Nottingham
Trent requires its chemistry
students to do research projects
in order to earn an undergradu-ate
degree. At Nottingham
Trent, students earn their un-dergraduate
degrees in three
years instead of four.
While most of their
classmates chose to do their
research in England. Fortt and
Rossell decided to come to
the United States. Both stu-dents
said that doing research
in another country will make
them more marketable to em-ployers.
"If you're just at home,
your view is very narrow."
Rossell said.
"So many students do
their three-year degrees and
never leave campus." Fortt
said.
"Our grades may not be bet-ter
than theirs, but we'll stand
out (because of this experi-ence)."
UNCG also benefits
from the students, because
they provide additional help
with faculty research, said Dr.
Terence Nile, head of UNCG's
Department of Chemistry. The
students' living expenses are
paid by grants from back
home, and an anonymous
UNCG donor covered their
airfare, which is heavily dis-counted
for British students, he
said.
The students aren't tak-ing
classes at UNCG. They're
treating the research experi-ence
like a full-time job. work-ing
40 hours a week in the lab.
Fortt is doing research
on molecular gears with Dr.
Eric Johnston, an assistant pro-fessor.
He is picking up expe-rience
in NMR spectroscopy.
a valuable research tool.
Rossell is working with
Dr. Thomas Shields, an assis-tant
professor. Their biochem-istry
project involves attaching
gold nano-particles to RNA for
use as biosensors. She
wouldn't have been able to do
such research back home, she
said, because Nottingham
Trent doesn't have a biochem-istry
program. The students
arrived at UNCG in February
and will return to England in
May. Once they get home,
they'll have to take an exam
and present their research be-fore
graduating in July.
The experience has
been a little overwhelming for
Rossell. who. apart from a
family vacation in the United
States 10 years ago, has spent
her entire life in Nottingham.
"It's a bit daunting, but I'm
OK." she said with a smile.
Fortt has studied in the United
States before; he once spent a
semester at the Northern Ari-zona
University. This is the
second time that UNCG has
played host to British chemis-try
students. Three students did
research there last spring. Nile
said he hopes that the relation-ship
between the two univer-sities
leads to student and fac-ulty
exchanges in the future.
Nile praised the British
students for their commitment
to their work. "Last year. I had
a hard time getting the kids to
take time off." he said.
It's quite an honor
y CiartnerJ
On this past Sunday, Alpha Lambda Delta an honor society for
freshman inducted 150 new members. The honor society which was
founded in 1924 at the University of Illinois, requires that these fresh-men
have a (. I' \ of 3.5 or higher.
Dole makes announcement in
her hometown Salisbury, NC
Associated Press
SALISBURY, N.C. (AP)-
Favorite daughter Elizabeth
Dole returned home Saturday
for an old-fashioned political
rally welcomed by 1,000 sup-porters
urging her to press
ahead with her presidential
ambitions.
"Salisbury will forever be
my home." Mrs. Dole said af-ter
listening to speeches from
former neighbors, local politi-cians
and longtime friends in
a small gymnasium at
Livingstone College.
"'My roots are deep here,"
she said, as her supporters
cheered and held signs, includ-ing
one homemade one which
said simply: "Dole in Y2K."
Although she is still not an
official candidate for the Re-publican
nomination. Mrs.
Dole spoke like someone who
is serious about making a
White House bid next year.
Her 30-minute speech, de-livered
without notes as she
walked through the crowd,
addressed issues such as de-fense
spending, education and
the war on drugs. While her
themes were serious, the mood
was celebratory inside the gym
at the historically black col-lege,
which is located just a
few blocks from her childhood
home in downtown Salisbury.
Seated up front was her
mother, Mary Hanford, 97,
along with other family mem-bers
and friends. Red. white
and blue buntings hung from
the ceiling and a large sign
over the stage said: "Elizabeth
Dole 2(XX)."
On Wednesday, Mrs. Dole
inched closer to a full-Hedged
presidential campaign by an-nouncing
the formation of an
exploratory committee. At the
rally Saturday, she only hinted
that she was ready to make a
run. The closest she came to
doing so was when Vincent
Boyle, a second-grader from
Salisbury, presented her with
a belated Valentine's Day card,
which said:
"1 would love to go on va-cation
with you."
"Vincent, I can't go on va-cation
because that would take
too much time." she told the
young boy. "Maybe we can go
out together on the campaign
trail."
There were some empty
seats in the gym that holds
about 1.600 people. That didn't
stop Frank Gudger. 83. of
Salisbury, from taking it all in
from the back of the room.
"She seems like the good
home-grown type of person,
not someone who's out to get
recognition or a notorious per-son."
he said.
Gudger said he planned to
vote for Dole if she ran. but
questioned if some other
Americans might have prob-lems
with her gender.
"Yes. it will be a problem."
he said. Up in the gym bleach-ers,
Haseed Ahmed came to
the rally with his 7-year-old
daughter. Samara. A Demo-crat.
Ahmed said he doubts he
would vote for her. but **1
think she's a great role model
for my daughter."
Salisbury mayor Susan
Kluttz welcomed the guest of
honor with a indirect attack on
the current officeholder.
"We are so proud of you,
Mrs. Dole, for your character
and your integrity." she said.
"We are proud of your many
accomplishments and now you
may be headed to the White
House."
Earl Cox. who spearheaded
a draft campaign for Mrs.
Dole, ended his grassroots ef-fort
with her announcement.
"Elizabeth Dole is the kind
of person who will make good
things happen for America." he
said. Twins Michelle and Jus-tin
Leonard, who were part of
a group of local high school
students that ran more than 250
miles in an effort to persuade
Mrs. Dole to run for president,
told supporters it was worth all
the effort.
"We're running for the future
of our great nation." Justin
Leonard said. "We don't want
you to run 253 miles like we
did. We want you to run for the
president of the United States."
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