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10/THE BANNER/February 18, 1988 CIA (Continued from page 1) Many students throughout the United States have expressed similar opinions. According to the College Press Service (CPS), these - students have been involved in demonstrations on such campuses as the Uni versity of Washington, the University of Vermont and also the University of North Caro lina iit Charlotte. Recently, aroimd 600 activists from various campuses across the United States gathered at Rutgers University and agreed to organize national anti-CIA rallies in April, according to CPS. In addition, several students at UNC-Chapel Hill are cur rently involved in a hunger strike protesting the CIA’s up coming visit on campus. Kaplan said that he does not think it is appropriate for stu dents to protest against the CIA "if they are just protesting against the presence of the CLA on campus." He said it would be appropriate to protest U.S. foreign policy. However, the CLA simply implements that policy. "They’re exercising their Religion (Continued from page 1) The key to this problem is that you have to provide re ligious opportunities to the students without promoting religion," he said. •We are accomplishing this by committing members of the religious community in town to provide the service. We pro vide them with access to cam pus," said Smith. This commitment, however, is not generated from the Campus Ministry office; -H is generated from the religious student or ganizations. Smith said. rights, and we’re exercising our rights," he said. Kaplan said this reaction is primarily due to misconceptions about the CIA. They perceive the agency as some sort of law enforcement agency," he said. "We’re more of a think tank. "If they knew more about us, they wouldn’t have that fear," he said. Although many students have protested the CIA on campus, Kaplan said he has never been refused on campus by a career placement center. "We haven’t had any problems in our of fice," he said. Kaplan said that he recniits in the Southeast where attitudes are generally more conservative, and there are not as many "liberals or radicals." Johnston said he views the CIA simply as another employer. "There’s nothing controversial about it. They’re an employer, and they offer excellent employment oppor tunities," he said. One former UNCA student, who said she was considering signing up for an interview, agreed with Johnston. "I think the CIA is needed. Their methods may not be ac ceptable to some people, but I feel it’s a branch of service that the United States needs for security," said Kim Moody, former UNCA management major. Moody said the agency offers good benefits and the "ability to climb and excel with the organization." Most students expressed sim ilar opinions. "1 see them as no different from any government agency. I think they should have access like any group," said Rob Young, freshman political science major. "1 belie^'e that the CIA is just the extension of the political process of our country." Rodney Martin, sophomore chemistry major, said, "It doesn’t bother me. Maybe some good college students will straighten them out." Freshman engineering major Steve Pisano said, "Everybody’s got the right to be here as long as it publicized, and we know why they’re here." Have a heart. A healthy one. Staff Photo—Sarah Gottfried Maralee Gollberg, of UNCA’s Health Promotions Program, checks Denise Embler’s blood pressure. Other students wishing to take advantage of this opportunity can find Gollberg in Ramsey Library Mondays and Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon imtil Feb. 29. "The Campus Ministry office is a liason between these groups and the community," he said. An example of this is the series of Lenten Masses, spon sored by the Catholic Student Association, which will begin tomorrow and run through March 25, said Smith. The services will be held from 12 through 1:30 p.m. in the Highsmith Center room 37 on Feb. 19, 26 and March 11 and in the Highsmith Confer ence Center on March 4, 18, and 25. "The reason for organizing the services at this particular time is that the purity of Lent is very significant of the Cath olic religion. Because this is such an important time for Catholics, the university is responsible for providing a place for them to exercise their rights," said Smith. This is no different than the Young Democrats having a meeting on campus and inviting a political figure to come and address the group," he said. n,erc have been a number of complaints about the religious activities on campus. The people vrfao are complaining think the university is not the place for religious activity, said Smith. The argument in response to these feelings is that "being neutral to religion is not being hostile. Therefore, a ban to worship on campus would be suppression," he said. This type of suppression is an infringement of the students’ First Amedndment rights, he continued. "The important issue is that the religious activity is not required: it is volunteered. The imiversity staff is not in volved," said Smith. This type of activity is si milar to a candidate coming on campus to discuss political issues, he said. Both types of opportunities, the political and the religious, provide and encourage an open forum of ideas, and this pool ing of ideas is the university’s responsibility, he said. The nature of the university is one of the things that makes the Church and State regula tions different for them than for high schools, said Smith. 'The two major issues that distinguish university from se condary education is that se condary education is required and the students are minors. University attendance, on the other hand, is voluntary and a majority of the students are not minors," he said. North Carolina finally complies with federal desegregation laws College Press Service Moving to end 20 years of trying to force 10, mostly sou thern, states to desegregate their state colleges, the U.S. Dept, of Education approved of the "substantial progress" they’d made in bringing mino rities into their campus sys tems. U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett, at a Washing ton, D.C. news conference Feb. 10, said four states — Arkan sas, North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia— were finally in "full compli ance" with civil rights laws the federal government had been trying to force them to follow since 1969, when it sued 10 states that kept their campuses racially segregated. Bennett gave 6 other states- - Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Oklahoma and Vir ginia — until the end of 1988 to tell how they’ll complete specific projects — mostly building improvements and funding of minority student recruiting efforts — to rid themselves of "the remnants of segregation." In its 1969 legal assault on states that still segregated their colleges, the federal go vernment won the right to cut off funds to states that failed to integrate their campuses. Various courts imposed deadlines through the years for schools to desegregate but, while oc casionally approving some state efforts, kept giving other states more time to meet the desegregation goals. Black student enrollment na tionwide actually has declined in recent years, the Dept, of Education’s own figures sug gest, and scores of public cam puses — the University of New Hampshire, Farleigh Dickenson, Penn State, Mississippi State, launched new minority student Tennessee, Nebraska and the recruiting drives to meet their California State University sys- integration goals this school tem, among others — have year. Jobs (Continued from page 1) the job listings found in the job book, said Johnston. "Last year there were 80 job listings. This year there will be over 120 listings," he said. 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