CRESWELL -5/20/98- Dorothy Redford, right, director of Somerset Place near Creswell, chats with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Isaac Unah, left, and Elaine Maisner, center, during a stop by the Tar Heel Bus Tour. Somerset Place is a restored plantation where new UNC-CH faculty and administrators learned about the lives of enslaved blacks who lived at what is now a state historic site.

CRESWELL -5/20/98- Patricia Samford, center, dark slacks, a Ph.D student in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, leads new professors past restored slave quarters during a stop at Somerset Place during their stop on the five-day Tar Heel Bus Tour. Somerset Place is a restored plantation and state historic site where Samford has served as field director for excavations of the enslaved community's buildings.

CRESWELL -5/20/98- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Associate professor Thom Ziemiecki examines the remains of a slave hospital during a visit to Somerset Place near Creswell on the third day of the five-day Tar Heel Bus Tour. Dorothy Redford, Somerset Place director, is in the background. She taught new UNC-CH professors about the restored plantation's past and its people.

CRESWELL -5/20/98- Shirley Ort, director of scholarships and financial aid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, leans through the rails of a fence for a picture during a visit to Somerset Place, a state historic site. Ort, an avid photographer who moved from the West Coast to start her UNC-CH post last December, plans to make a collage from the 1,200-mile journey to display in her office.

ASHEBORO -5/20/98- University of North Carolina Assistant Professor Scott Stroup watches as a North American Otter swims through its playful antics in an exhibit at the North Carolina Zoological Park in Asheboro. New UNC-CH faculty and administrators visited the zoo on the third day of a five-day bus trip across the state.

SILER CITY -5/20/98- Dr. James Johnson, Adams Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School, makes a point with a recent national newspaper examining the growingly complex nature of   immigration patterns across the United States. Johnson was among speakers from UNC-CH and Chatham County addressing issues involving the state's burgeoning Hispanic population during a stop in Siler City by the Tar Heel Bus Tour. The five-day, 1,200-mile tour aims to teach new UNC-CH faculty and administrators more about the issues and people affecting the communities from which 82 percent of their undergraduate students hail.