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Page 8 The Blue Banner April 25, 1996 Lawsuit continued from page one dents to attend UNCA. He said he received a $400 pres ence grant as a small part of his Francine Delaney scholarship. Tatum said he earned his scholarship with hard work and good grades in high school and the university did not give him anything. He said next year he will not receive the grant be cause he has earned other schol arships. “If they (the universities) are basing it on the simple fact that I am a minority, than I should be getting that $400 every year,” said Tatum. He said the grants are just a way to help students get to school so they can earn better scholarships. The complaint states that be cause the predominantly white schools offer these grants to black students, the schools “have violated the plaintiffs’ rights to equal protection un der the law as guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment to the federal constitution.” It also states that “The plaintiffs have suffered and will continue to suffer irreparable harm” un til the court rules to stop the grants. “The whole grounds of mi nority scholarships are attempts to give us some equality that we have never had in this coun try,” said Tatum. “Equality is something African-Americans will never have.” “It angers me whenever I see the government making at tempts to rectify the history of America toward African- American people and I see white people stepping up to take that away from us,” said Angela Mahdi, former member of the African-American Student As sociation. “It tells me that there are still people out there who do not want to see African- Americans get ahead and do not want to see us even get the same education as they have.” Mahdi said the grants are not helping African-Americans get ahead of the white students. She said the grants are just help ing African-Americans get an education so they can start on the same level as whites. The complaint also targeted a scholarship specifically awarded to students at Chapel Hill’s law school. It states that, “Plaintiff Jack Daly, a devout Christian student in the law school at Chapel Hill, presents an addi tional claim that his first amendment rights (both reli gion and speech) are violated when the university excludes those who hold traditional Christian beliefs from favor able consideration for the Alan Berman Memorial Scholar ship.” According to the complaint, the Berman Scholarship only awards its money “to those who engage in homosexual acts, or who advocate special right for those who do.” The complaint states that Daly believes “homosexuals •should not enjoy special civil or constitutional rights not ex tended to others.” The plain tiffs have also asked the court to rule the manner of awarding the Berman Scholarship uncon stitutional and have it stopped. “Being Christian has nothing to do with being gay,” said Tracy Wilson, president of UNCA Out! Taking away this scholarship would violate her freedoms of speech and reli gion, she said. Wilson said calling the Berman scholarship unconsti tutional is like saying all schol arships for anybody of a par ticular religion could be a vio lation of the first amendment. “I think that if this scholarship is taken away then all scholar ships based on practically any thing would have to be taken away as well,” said Wilson. “I think he is trying to keep others from forcing their views on him by trying to force his views on others,” said Wilson. Most of the complaint cen ters on situations that have hap pened to Daly at Chapel Hill. Combs, Greer, and Littlejohn’s names only appear in the list of plaintiffs and are not men tioned throughout the rest of the complaint. The complaint only uses Daly’s situations as examples to illustrate how Minority Pres ence Grants are violating the fourteenth amendment. Ac cording to the complaint, Daly tried to get a minority grant from North Carolina Central University which is a predomi nantly black school. Central University’s lawschool does not offer any minority grants. The only other law school in the state is at Chapel Hill. The complaint states that Chapel Hill refused to award Daly a minority grant because Daly is white. “Is Jack Daly upset because he was refused a grant?” asked Tatum. “Is he doing this out of principle or because of some thing that happened to him?” Tatum said he knows minor ity grants are given to white students who attend predomi nantly black state colleges like Fayetteville State University and Winston-Salem State Uni versity. Tatum said he believes the complaint is about money. “If you see someone getting money that you are not getting, you get upset,” said Tatum. “You do what you can to get that money.” UNC-TV Walk continued from page one pus, according to Alonso. Coin jars have been set up in various places, including Dantes, the book store, and Cafe Ramsey. Alpha Phi Omega is a co-ed service fraternity. “We are Greek, but we differ from social fraterni ties and sororities in that our main focus is on service,” said Alonso. Other fraternities and so rorities do participate, but the “main motivation of Alpha Phi Omega is to service the commu nity,” she said. “We perform two different service projects a week,” said Alonso. They have worked at the Eliada homes where they helped put in insula tion, painted one of the gyms, and threw a party for their preschool on Valentine’s Day, she said. Members of Alpha Phi Omega also tutor at the YWCA every week, said Alonso. Recently, they had a clean up of the Botanical Gardens. Alonso said she contacted the March of Dimes because “I thought it was a worth while project and I would be able to orga nize it.” The March of Dimes began in 1938 when President Franklin Roosevelt established the National Foundation for Infantile Pa ralysis. When comedian Eddie Cantor coined the phrase “March of Dimes”, it became synonymous with the foundation. The March of Dimes has helped with research in polio. In 1951 scientists, aided by $ 1 million in support from the March of Dimes, identified the three crucial polio virus types. In 1958 the March of Dimes expanded their concern for the health of American children. They initiated the first concerted efforts to prevent birth defects. The foundation officially changed its name from the National Foundation to March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation in 1979. Final Exam Schedule Classes that meet M-W-F 8 a.ni. Monday, May 6 8-10:30 a.m, 9 a.in. Wednesday, May 8 9-11:30 a.m. 10 a.ni. Friday, May 10 10a.m.-12;30 p.m. lla.IH. Monday 11 a.m.-l;30p.m. 12:15 p.ni. Wednesday 12:15-2:45p.m. 1:15 p.IH. Friday 1:15-3:45 p.m. 2:15 p.m. Monday 2:154:45 p.m, 3:15 p.m. Wednesday 3:15-5:45 p.m. 4:15 p.in. Friday 4:15-6:45 p.m. After 4:15 p.IIl.regularly scheduled meeting time Classes that meet T-R 8 a.m. Tuesday, May 7 8-10:30 a.m. 9:25 a.m. Thursday, May 9 9:25-11:55 a.m. 10:50 a.m. Tuesday 10:50 a.m.-l:20 p.m. 12:15 p.m. Thursday 12:15-2:45 p.m. 1:40 p.m. Tuesday 1:404:10 p.m. 3:05 p.m. Thursday 3:05-5:35 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Tuesday 4:30-7 p.m After 4:30 p.m regularly scheduled meeting time continued from page one It will also focus on the over all location, including the city of Asheville, the mountains, and the downtown art galler ies and bistros, said Epstein. There is only one planned series of airings but, “we usu ally rerun on ‘North Carolina Now’ so I’m sure they will come back around,” said Meredith. After the 16 campuses are filmed, UNC-TV hopes to come back and build on these basic, overall segments, Meredith said. “Everyone in the state needs to know what’s going on be cause there are some really exciting opportunities on the' campuses,” said Meredith. “It impacts the region and it impacts the whole state,” she said. UNC-TV will also film a 30-minute program of Charles Kuralt’s commence ment address at UNCA in Photo by Del J. Debrm A camera crew from UNC-TV shot footage for use on the program "North Carolina Now." ^ May, said Epstein. This will be the first time UNC-TV has covered any of UNCA’s commencement ad dresses, she said. The Kuralt program will air the day after commence ment but the air time is not known yet, Epstein said. It will include scenes of the campus and other shots of campus life, she said. I Professor continued from page one sity of his classroom lectures. This is not the only award that Sabo has received during his teaching career. After five years of teachirig at UNCA, Sabo won the university’s Distinguished Teaching Award. He also received the Oral Parks Award in 1982 and 1984 for presenting the best paper at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Political Science Association, according to the Asheville Citizen Times. Sabo received his bachelor of arts degree in both history and political science from Purdue University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa. His masters and Ph.D. degrees in political science are from UNC Chapel Hill. Sabo said he thought three things were neces sary to make for good teaching. These are class room chemistry, the material that a class will cover, and the methods of getting that informa tion across to the students. “The most important thing is that you’ve got to have good students. I don’t really teach anything. I think if students learn and are interested and work at it, it makes things go more smoothly. It also makes people more excited and enthused. Students make or break a class,” Sabo said. “The second thing that’s really important is who you work with, the people around you. If you’ve got people who really care and work hard and do everything they can to improve student performance, it is so much easier. The students you get are more enthused and excited. They pick that up from other teachers, and so there’s a lot of reinforcing going on,” he said. “The third thing you need is ‘good stuff.’ What that means is if you’re teaching your discipline you really have to be enthused about the way your discipline looks at the world, the issues that it raises and how it goes about ad dressing them. What it ultimately comes down to is how much you can learn along with your class,” said Sabo. He also said that because UNCA has so many good faculty members, he sometimes borrows ideas and approaches about successful ways of teaching. “There are so many good people here, and I know some of them are much better. . . people that I emulate, that I want to be like,” Sabo said. “I’d like to think that lots of us (faculty) ap proach things similarly and are committed to it. When it comes down to what we actually do in the classroom of course there’s going to be tremendous variation,” he said. When asked what he would do with the $7500 cash award, Sabo laughed and said “That just means my oldest kid can go back to college next year. Michael Stuart from the Biology Department won the award last year. Starting June 3y the Registrar's office will be open until 6:00 p.m. Special Hours for Cafe Ramsey UNCAMONT Sat. 27, 11 p.m. - 2 p.m. Before Exams 8 a.m. - 9 p.m. Exam Week 8 a.m. - 9 p.m. »
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