NEWS

High school students, advisers,
invited to journalism workshop

The N.C. Scholastic Media Association will host its annual four-day journalism institute at UNC June 14-17.

Interested high school students and their teachers are invited to participate. The intensive Monday-through-Thursday workshop is designed to teach creative and efficient ways to communicate through high school newspapers, yearbooks, literary magazines and broadcasts.

The institute also gives students a chance to experience college life, dorms, roommates, classes and more.

Students may choose one of the following sequences: newspaper, desktop publishing/technology, photography, yearbook, literary magazine and TV News, said Monica Hill, association director. Advisers may participate in one of these tracks with their students, or they may choose the adviser track. Teachers may receive continuing education credits.

University and high school faculty will join area media professionals as workshop instructors. They will accompany nationally-recognized journalism educators Mark Goodman, director of the Student Press Law Center in Arlington, Va.; Mitzi Neely, journalism teacher at Springhill High in Longview, Texas; Bill Elsen, recently retired copy chief with The Washington Post; and Bruce Watterson, a yearbook consultant from Rome, Ga. 

Daniel Wallace, author of the book "Big Fish," will give a keynote address.

The workshop fee is $160. The postmark deadline for registration is May 25. For more information and registration forms, go to www.ibiblio.org/ncsma or contact the association office at (919) 962-4639, 1-888-562-6276, ncsma@unc.edu or 284 Carroll Hall, CB 3365, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27599-3365.

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'Treasures' tours, Ginsberg exhibit to 
mark summer at Wilson Library

Want to hear an original Bob Dylan recording, or read Richard Nixon's letter to Sam Ervin refusing the Senate Watergate Committee access to his White House tapes?

These items will be among highlights of "Treasures of Wilson Library" tours this summer at UNC, from 2-3:30 p.m. June 9, July 14 and Aug.11. Celebrating the library's 75th anniversary, special collections experts will crack the vaults and display such seldom-seen holdings as e.e. cummings' letters and a ticket to Andrew Johnson's impeachment.

Visitors will hear tales about items in the Southern Historical, Rare Book, North Carolina and Southern Folklife collections, the university archives and the North Carolina Gallery. George Moses Horton's poems, a 1793 map of campus, a letter signed by Queen Elizabeth and French illustrated books appealing to art patrons will be displayed and described. Library services will be explained.

Also at Wilson this summer will be an extended stay for the exhibit "Lines Drawn in the Sand: The Life and Writings of Allen Ginsberg." Previously set to close July 15, the exhibit now will be open through August 30, 2004. The Rare Book Collection exhibition presents approximately seventy-five books, manuscripts, images and recordings.

The exhibit explores the life and writings of the noted American poet from an early apprenticeship in New York in the 1940s and early 1950s to his eruption onto the national literary scene with the publication of two major works of poetry, "Howl" (1956) and "Kaddish" (1961). It goes on to trace the late Ginsberg through the several decades of writing, speaking, travel and political activism that followed.

Wilson Library opens from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays and 1-5 p.m. (except holidays). For more information, visit http://www.lib.unc.edu/rbc/beats/ or call 962-1143.

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Poet, outdoorsman Thorpe Moeckel
to be Kenan visiting writer at UNC

Chapel Hill poet Thorpe Moeckel will be the 2004-2005 Kenan Visiting Writer in the UNC English department, beginning this fall.

During his residency, Moeckel will give a public reading, teach a course each semester, and work on a poetry book. The Kenan writer position is funded by the Spray Foundation of Atlanta and the UNC College of Arts and Sciences.

Moeckel, who has worked as an outdoor educator and river guide, won the Gerald Cable Book Award for his collection "Odd Botany" in a national competition sponsored by Silverfish River Press. His prize was the press’s publication of the book in 2002. His chapbook, "Meltlines" (Van Doren & Co., 2001), is based on his river travels in Alaska.

Moeckel’s poetry has been published in journals including Field, The Southern Review, Poetry, The Antioch Review, Nantahala and Wild Earth.

He earned a master’s degree in fine arts from the University of Virginia in 2002, where he was awarded a Hoyns Fellowship and a Jacob Javits Fellowship. Moeckel teaches at Durham Technical Community and Alamance Community colleges.

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Contact: L.J. Toler, 919-962-8589