MORGANTON,NC -- 5/19/99 -- Sisters Kav Blia Lor, bottom, and Pao Shouv Lor, top, demonstrate a traditional Hmong dance for Tar Heel Bus Tour participants Wednesday at Hillcrest Middle School in Morganton. Faculty and officials from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who are new to the state are on a weeklong bus tour to learn more about issues facing Tar Heel citizens. The school stop spotlighted an English as a Second Language Program. DCS/Dan Sears

MORGANTON,NC -- 5/19/99 -- Tar Heel Bus Tour leader Mike Smith, director of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, chats with Hillcrest Elementary School first-grader Michelle Jarquin during a stop at the school Wednesday. Participants in the five-day tour discussed the English as a Second Language program in the Burke County schools. DCS/Dan Sears

MORGANTON,NC -- 5/19/99 -- A sign welcomes participants in the Tar Heel Bus Tour to Hillcrest Elementary School in Morganton Wednesday. New faculty and administrators from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill visited the school to discuss the English as a Second Language Program in the Burke County system with school officials. The tour acquaints those at UNC-CH new to the state with Tar Heel issues and culture. DCS/Dan Sears

MORGANTON,NC -- 5/19/99 -- Joanne Marshall, left, dean of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, and Victor Marshall, incoming director of the UNC Institute on Aging, watch as Hillcrest Elementary School fifth-grader Luis Perez, center, demonstrates a computer lesson Wednesday during a stop on the Tar Heel Bus Tour. The Marshalls are among UNC-CH faculty and administrators new to the state who are traveling more than 1,000 miles this week to learn more about the issues facing North Carolinians. DCS/Dan Sears

CHIMNEY ROCK, NC -- 5/19/99 -- Tim Weiner, assistant professor of pediatric surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, frames a picture from the top of Chimney Rock in Rutherford County. He is among 36 UNC-CH faculty and officials new to the state who are traveling more than 1,000 miles by bus this week to learn more about topics including the state's geography and economy. DCS/Dan Sears