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(10/30/09 3:26am)
Even though they had little to do last Halloween, student spotters will patrol campus again on Saturday.Student Government and the Office of the Dean of Students plan to continue safety measures they put in effect last year by having groups of students patrol different areas of campus.The spotters will watch out for intoxicated and sick students who need help getting back to their residence halls. They will also get students medical assistance if they are in serious emergencies.While some students may be concerned that the groups will get them in trouble, that is not the spotters’ intent.“We weren’t out there as a deterrent to people having a good time,” said Walker Vincoli, a student spotter from last year’s Halloween.Vincoli said there wasn’t much for the volunteers to do. He could only remember one encounter, and said he doesn’t think the program is needed because Chapel Hill has already downsized Halloween.“I didn’t really get a feel that there were a lot of people stumbling back from Franklin St.,” Vincoli said. “Walking around campus was almost like walking around in a ghost town.”Vincoli will not volunteer as a spotter Saturday.Student Body Vice President David Bevevino said some students from last year will be volunteering again.“Last year’s participants are looking forward to it to help keep Halloween safe for everybody,” Bevevino said.Last year, the spotters walked around campus in groups of three to four students and two faculty members.As for changes in this year’s program, Bevevino said there would be a few more student volunteers and that they would be more proactive in looking for students who might need help.Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
(10/16/09 3:32am)
The story of Zus Bielski — a man who saved roughly 1,250 Jews from Nazi persecution during World War II — is fit for a movie.And his son Zvi Bielski will try to give a more personal account of that story portrayed in the 2008 film Defiance when he tells it at UNC tonight.The story is especially personal for Edward Krakauer, a UNC student whose grandfather was one of the Jews the Bielskis saved.Zvi Bielski’s family — his father and his uncles Tuvia and Asael Bielski — were Eastern European Jews who avoided Nazi capture when their country was invaded in 1941.Camping out in the woods of Eastern Poland, they decided to save as many fellow Jews as possible through an underground resistance movement.Zvi Bielski will illustrate his speech with clips from the film, which is based on the book “Defiance: The Bielski Partisans.”“It’s a compelling story about courage,” said Ari Gauss, the executive director of N.C. Hillel, which is hosting the event with UNC Chabad.Since the movie was released, Zvi Bielski has toured college campuses and other venues, sharing his father’s story with audiences.Rabbi Zalman Bluming, the director of UNC Chabad, said he wanted Bielski to come not only because his tale inspires but also because it educates.“Jewish leadership consists of ordinary people doing extraordinary acts,” Bluming said. He added that he wants students to see how much the ripple effect of doing good can accomplish.When Bluming spoke with Bielski, Bielski mentioned how many people around the world tell him his father is the reason they are alive.Bluming said he was skeptical until he learned that Zus Bielski saved a UNC student’s grandfather.The student, Krakauer, will present an award to Zvi Bielski during the event.“I’m very much looking forward to it,” Krakauer said. “I think it’s a great chance to hear firsthand what it was like.”Krakauer’s grandfather became part of the Bielski brothers’ movement and fought with them, bringing more Jews to their hidden settlement in the woods.The talk is tonight at 5 p.m. at the N.C. Hillel.“It speaks to a greater audience than just Jews,” said Jonathan Boral, a junior who works as a secretary for N.C. Hillel.Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu
(10/14/09 5:26am)
This year’s Race Relations Week branched out Tuesday night to host a talk about access to education for low-income students, an issue that has racial implications but is not defined to race.The week is a collaborative effort between the Campus Y and student government to discuss important issues involving race on campus and to stimulate dialog.For Tuesday night’s talk, faculty members and a student discussed problems in the American education system and the obstacles blocking disadvantaged students from pursuing higher education.“Every human being is entitled to an education,” said Marleny Ruiz, co-chairwoman of Linking Immigrants to New Communities, a Campus Y group that helped sponsor the event.The panel members encouraged this belief but also focused on the difficulty of attaining higher education for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. The faculty and student panel named factors such as lack of parent motivation, poor teaching, financial issues, low school funding and a general lack of encouragement as the underlying issues. “It’s the cycle of the home environment, the income, the school environment — who decides to teach there,” said Jessica Hernandez, assistant director in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.Tiffany Graves, a first-generation college student and the lone student on the panel, gave a personal account of her experience as a black high school student.“My parents, neither of them went to college, but they expected me to go to college. Every parent is not like that,” Graves said. She went on to explain that if the expectations don’t exist, many students are not motivated to get more education.The general consensus among the panel about educational reform was that the entire system needs to be revamped. This included how funding should be more equally distributed and how teaching as a profession should be more esteemed.“I think that teaching needs to be viewed as a profession alongside with doctors and lawyers,” said Josmell Perez, multicultural programs coordinator for the Department of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs.Laura Hamrick, a freshman, said she didn’t know what to expect when she attended, but found the panel and dialogue interesting.Alyzza Dill, the co-chairwoman of Helping Youth by Providing Enrichment, another Campus Y group that hosted the event, said she hopes students who attended the panel will take what they learned and apply it to community service projects.The panel ended with a call for students to take action with Carolina College Advising Corps, which sends UNC graduates to North Carolina high schools to review college applications. This project is designed to encourage low-income high school students who would be first-generation college students to pursue a degree in higher education.Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.