NEWS

By STEPHANIE MOORE
UNC-CH News Services

CHAPEL HILL - The Bull’s Head Bookshop at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host an array of events throughout March.

All events will be free and open to the public at the Bull’s Head Bookshop in the Student Stores:

March 3, 3:30 p.m. -- Vin Steponaitis and Steve Davis will discuss their new CD-ROM "Excavating Occaneechi Town: Archaeology of An Eighteenth-Century Indian Village in North Carolina" (UNC Press). They will talk about the discoveries and the process of putting together a book on CD-ROM. Steponaitis is the director of the Research Laboratories in Anthropology and a professor of anthropology at UNC-CH. Davis is a research archaeologist at UNC-CH. The CD-ROM is co-edited by Patrick C. Livingwood and H. Trawick Ward.

• March 4, 5 p.m. -- In a YAS (Youth Angst Society) event, undergraduates will read from their own work.
• March 5, 4 p.m. -- Michael Chitwood of Chapel Hill will read from his new collection of poetry "The Weave Room" (University of Chicago Press). He is the author of several books, including "Salt Works" and "Whet." After the talk, Chitwood will sign books and refreshments will be served. The event is co-sponsored by the Southern Historical Collection.
• March 17, 3:30 p.m. -- Paul Haskell will discuss his new book, "Why Lawyers Behave As They Do" (Westview Press), as part of the Faculty Unplugged series. The series brings in UNC-CH faculty as speakers to facilitate dialogue between students and professors. Haskell is a William Rand Kenan Jr. professor in the UNC-CH School of Law.
• March 18, 3 p.m. -- John Covach, associate professor of music at UNC-CH, will discuss the book "Understanding Rock: Essays in Musical Analysis." Covach was one of the editors of the book, published by Oxford University Press. Covach’s essay deals with progressive rock.
• March 19, 2:30 p.m. -- Science fiction author Raymond Feist will read from and sign his new novel, "Shards of a Broken Crown," the concluding book in The Serpent War Saga series, published by Avon Books. Other books in the series include "Shadow of a Dark Queen," "Rise of a Merchant Prince" and "Rage of a Demon King." Feist lives in southern California.
• March 25, 4 p.m. -- Leon Fink, Zachary Taylor Smith Professor of history at UNC-CH, will discuss his new book "Progressive Intellectuals and The Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment" (Harvard University Press). Fink is the author of "In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture" and "Workingmen’s Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics."
• March 31, 3:30 p.m. -- Susan Navarette, associate professor of English at UNC-CH, will discuss her new novel "The Shape of Fear: Horror and the Fin de Siecle Culture of Decadence" (University Press of Kentucky).

For more information, call the Bull’s Head at 962-5060.

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(Moore is a senior journalism and mass communication major from Wilkesboro, N.C.)