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Newsmakers Class gets award for beer-ad complaint McADENVILLE, N.C. ? A sixth grade class at McAdenvillc Elementary School that complained about a beer ad shown during a Saturday cartoon has been awarded for their diligence. Joycc Jackson's students wrote to WCCB-TV and to Adolph Coors Co. about the ad that aired Nov. 28 during The Adventures oj Lollipop Dragon in the Christmas Race. The station apologized for the mistake and promised to be more careful. Coors has not responded. When the William Chronicle Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution heard about the students' efforts, they gave them a certificate. "We usually give the award to a radio or television station that has done something to promote higher standards," said Pat Roberts, chairwoman of the Gaston County group's Motion Picture, Radio and Television Committee. "It's great," she said. "I try to teach them in class that the little guy can make a difference. This is what America is about." Educators laud Fla. community college MIAMI ? Educators across the country give top marks to Miami-Dade Community College since it initiated reforms almost a decade ago that led to the suspension of thousands of students who couldn't make the grade. "I believe they are the best," said George Baker of the University of Texas at Austin, who has made a study of community colleges. "Most colleges are going through the same kinds of reform today that Miami-Dade did eight or nine years ago." Within a year of the program's enactment in 1978, the school recorded a 25-percent increase in the graduation rate of black students, according to * t- ? nn L inc j cxas rcscaixnci s. From 1978 to 1985, 15,000 students were suspended. Approximately half of those returned. Alcohol, caffeine bad in cold weather NEW YORK ? Avoid both alcohol and caffeine when you'll be out in the cold, says Health magazine, because they will only make you colder. Alcohol is a vasodilator ? it opens the tiny veins near the skin's surface, releasing heat. You'll feel warm for a short while, only to cool off when the heat has dissipated into the cold air. Caffeine, on the other hand, is a vasoconstrictor, closing off those little veins and thus causing your skin to get cold. The publication has other tips for staying warm in winter: cover ex tremities, Because you can lose up to 3U percent 01 your oouy ncai inrouu" your head and hands. Know when to come in out of the cold. Slurred speech, loss of coordination, confusion, stiffness and impaired judgment are all signs of hypothermia that suggest you've been out too long. Students fighting to save ozone layer Spurred by recent reports that the earth's ozone layer is decaying, students at several schools are trying to ban styrofoam, which they say contributes to the problem, from their campuses. 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Leland Ferguson, an associate professor of anthropology, is attempting to convey a better understanding of these slave communities that once existed throughout the South and of how the customs, traditions and artifacts that were once commonplace have carried over to modern times. Much of !his research stems from his interest in the lifestyles of the everyday people who made up early colonial plantations. It centers upon numerous 18th century plantations, including what was once known as Middlburg Plantation located along the east branch of the Cooper River near Charleston. "When talking about the archaeology of slavery, we are not just talking about achaeology of slave quarters, but also of the whole plantation area including the main house, kitchen and so on," he said. Historical records and surveying methods have proved invaluable in locating many of these slave settlements. Old maps from colonial times c^Atuinn nlantafmn ctr iir*tnr#?c anH general layout have been used to isolate their locations. But many slave villages are often not represented on these maps. "Slaves may have had activity areas that were important to them that planters would have never put on a map," Ferguson said. If this is true, then locating these unmarked areas may prove difficult for archaeologists unless they are aided by sophisticated surveying techniques or even pure chance, he said. Most slave settlements dating to even as late as the mid- 19th century are no longer standing. Many constructed of brick have survived to the present day, but most consisted of rather delicate building materials and any surviving artifacts are usually underground. Slave quarters made of clay were evidently very common early in the 18th century, and many have been discovered. 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The opportunities Are no secret. tunlty employer. required for appllo&nt and lly members. r studies remains of the slaves used on plantations were nnt nnlv hln.-Vc hrrmoht fiver frnm Africa, but American Indians Indian slave labor was apparently short-lived because of many Old World diseases brought by the Europeans to which the Indians were especially susceptible. As research progressed, it soon became apparent that many of the ar tifacts discovered in and around the locations of old plantations were clearly not of Indian origin, as was once believed. "I began to recognize that there were a lot of archaeological materials that were being recovered that were not recognized as having been made by slaves on plantations," Ferguson said. Perhaps one of the most revealing findings was the discovery that slaves made and used pottery, which began to be found in the late 1970s. "They made pottery that was used in the kitchens of plantation houses," Ferguson said. These ceramics were apparently allowed to be used alongside the clearly superior cookwares. such as iron kettles and imported Chinese porcelain provided by the plantation owners. It seems clear they also used much of this pottery for their own purposes as well. The pottery displays traits of that existing on the African west coast at the time. "This pottery is stimulating research into foodways of early Afro-Americans that ultimately had a lot of effect on foodways of southerners in general," he said. Firearms, gun flints and shot also have been discovered within the remains of many slave villages throughout the South. It appears that some plantation owners felt comfor table enough to provide their slaves with firearms for hunting purposes as well as frightening scavenging animals away from crops. Ferguson said the study has progressed well, but much remains to be analyzed and understood. This is one reason why a field school, where students can gain firsthand experience in field methods, will be organized next summer at the site of Middleburg Plantation. "There is a very large part of our history that we can only know through archaeology," he said. "And there is very little known about them (slaves), so most of what we will know will come from the application of archaeology." I de ch enl f s I mol exci Y9 11 ARMY RESEl Conti College 777-65 1 m Slam dunk made easy Little Henry Aston takes time to seei Saturday's basketball game. The Gam University of Alabama-Birmingham 6< Art "When you are melting, there are flonn?rAin nacpc oiv#?n r\ff hv fh^ UUitgVi WUJ p? * V?? V* V J bronze or metals," he said. "Unfortunately, we have not been able to create the proper ventilation." Fine arts photography professor Gunnars Strazdins said there were also potential safety hazards in Kirkland's photography and painting studios. 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