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Page 6 Black Ink February 28. 1985 news Intercultural Dorm May Get M^jorie Roadi Stcff Writer When Win&Bd Cross moved into 514 Craige dormitoty last seniester, he knew he’d have to adjust to a new roommate. What he didn’t know was he would have to adjust to a new culture as well. Cross’ roommate is from Ghana. “It has been a very good experience room ing with Kofi (his roommate),” Cross, a graduate student at the University, saki. “He has made me diange my unrealistic perceptions of Afika. I had based them on what I’d seen in ttie media. Every now and then I ask him about his culture or he corrects me on the pronundatksi of his Afiican name.” Unitas is a new intercultural dormitory pro ject designed to promote living arrangements similar to Cross’ and Kofis. Our target date for implementing the pro ject is Fall 1986,” according to Robert Tidiener, chairman of the University Relations Qxnmittee, whidi is handling the project. Still in its planning stages, the project is designed to create a culturally mixed atmosphere for 100 student volunteers. “The stress is on dififerenoe in intematbnal backgrounds,” Tktoier said. “We want two roommates to be as remote as possible in culture.” “Students woukl also receive acadank credit for participating as wdl, he sakl. Plans are being made to set up a class for cultural explora tion as an acadank tie in widi the project. According to Wayne Kuncl, director of University Housing, the Housing EJqiartment is very supportive of the klea, although no dor- mrtcay on cartpus has bear set aside for tfie pro gram yet. In 1966, Kuncl was the advisor to foreign studaits at the UnivCTsity of Ndjraska. To ease the transitiwi of foreign studaits to Amaican collie life, the Univer^ of Nebraska created the Intematbnal House. By populating one half of a dormitoiy floor with foreign students and otk half with American students, “we erKxxuaged each stu dent to accept another student of a diffeiCTit culture.” Due to the tremendous influx of Asians and Mexkans into the nation Intematknal pro grams are not new to the West Coast. Unitas was created firxn this craioept. In an effort to gauge si^iport for the pro ject, 6,700 surveys woe sent to 29 dorms on campus. One hundred and fifty students responded. In the survey, students were asked to res pond to the statanent. “Thae is a lack of cultural tolerance on the UNC canpus.” At least 36 percent of ttie student respondents Off Ground answered that they strmgly agreed or agreed witti the statemoTt while 38 porait said they strongly disagreed or disagreed witfi the state ment. Twenty seven paxsnt answoed that th^ did not know. Of the students responding to the surv^, 41 penDoit lived on North Carrpis, 59 percoit lived OT South Campus. Of tfiese respondents, 29 percent were male and 65 percent wwe fanales. Six percent dkln’t say what sex fliey woe. The edmk group breakdown is: 26 percent Black, 66 percent white, two peroart Indian, two perooit European and three percent other. HowevCT, the Status of Minorities anl Disadvantaged Studaits Committee and the Faculty Council feikd at previous eflfcxts similar to the project. Pilot project was designed last sanester to vduntarily integrate a Nwth Cam pus dormitoiy flocff with a half Black-half wWte make-tp. ft was an attar^, according to former Stu- dait Bocty President Raul Parka", to “erxxiurage interaction between Blacks and whites and pro vide a mechanism fcff people who want to live togetfia". “It would also allow more Blacks to live on Notii Carrpis.” Parter said there a racial proWem on campus since there were whites «i Norlh Cam pus who dki rwt have to interact with Blacks at all. In additkn, the project would have increas ed racial awaroiess as peofie saw Blacks and whites livir^ togetha' and getting along, I^rker said. The Pilot Project was opposed ty Black canpis leadas. Critkized for beang artificial, many Blacks said the only way it might have woiked was if the canpus racial wae closer to 50/50. Blacks are ^iproximatdy eight peatjent of the student population. Charles Canpbdl, a saiio" industrial nda- tkms m^or. “ft would be like aie chocdate diip in vanilla ke cream.” Sane studerfis also feared that tfie Pikit Project woukl lead to the randan assignmait of studaits to rooms by craiputer. Nevathdess, Unitas has met with a better receptkn than the Pilot Prcgect. The Univaisity Rdatkns Conmidee was instrumental in shif ting Unitas’ focus to a broada' qiectium of peo- ffe. “The Pilot Project was a sincere eflbrt but mi^jikled because of the lack of Black on this campus.” Tidiena- sakl. Althou^ Univa^sity Relati«is Canmittee mariiers agreed that Unitas was not a sdutkn to racism, it was a step toward alleviating cultural irlokranoe. Cross, who is alrrady ejqDakncing inta'- cultural living, sakl the ejqxKure to another culture had beai a valuable learning expaienoe. He added Unitas mi^ erase aa misguided no- tkms about diflFatJit cultures. America Supports Apartheid - Student Panelists 1^ John Hoiton Stcff Writer The United Stales is supporting Apartheid pdicies of tfie white South African government by aUowing American companies to operate ttiere, four University graduate studaits sakl at a Discovery seminar on Feb. 23. “The Reagan administration has supported the South Afikan system of Apartheid,” saki Julius E. Nyangwo, a graduate student from Tanzania. “We have given aid and comfort to a regime that has inhumanely treated a vast ma jority of its populatkn.” The panel members were Jimmy EUis, who is Black, a native of Capetown, South Afika and a graduate studait in the sociology depanmait, Doug Berga, who is white, a se cond year law student, and Dale McKinley, who is white, a native of Zimbabwe (formeriy Rhodesia) and a graduate studenrin the interna tional studies department. About 300 U.S. conpanies have plants or oflBces in Soufli Afika, Berger sakl. Bei^r be^an a student movemaU at the University in 1982 to persuade the UNC—CH Board of Trustees to divest American companks operating in South Afika. UNC has investmotts in approximately 15 U.S. conpanies in South Afika, Berga sakl. “IBM sdk cortpilers to Soutfi Afika so it can imf^eneit its pass system; Blacks nuist have a ID card generated by these conputas to travel in South Afiica.” General Motore has plants, whkh coukl be turrtd irtfo military bases in case of a Black uprising, Bergpr said. Nwtii Carolina Natknal Bank has three offices tfierc also. “NCNB waras to be the best bank in the neighbortiood, but in what neighborhood?” Berga asked. “Many northern universities have withdrawn their mon^ fixxn South Afika,” Beiga' saki. “UNC is seeking to be the first southern university to withdraw its mon^ fitxii investmaits tha«. We can buiki jobs in North Carolina and the United Staes for both Blacks and whites instead of exploiting Blacks in South Afika.” Unda Apartheid, Blacks are also forced to live in wastelands called homelands or natknal states which are mudi like American Indian reservatkjns, Ellis saki. “Most of these territories are parts of the country whkh can’t support industry nor the peofrfe who live there,” Rllis said. “Sevaity percent of the populatkm is on 13 percent of the land.” Black men who work in the cities must live away fiom tfieir fknilies and can only see their bved ones for three weeks out of the year, he said. “These people’s lives are completely governed by the slate.” Apartheid also mandates separate shopping caiters, schools, housing and recreation caitere for ttie races. Interracial marriage and miscenegatkxi is prohibited law. Ellis said tlie colored and Indian recently created by law was ineffective because their elective members’ polkks are often overruled by their white counterparts. The pandists also critkized the Sullivan Principles and Constructive Engagement, two measures developed by white South Afikans and Americans to deal with Aparthekl. The Sullivan Principles, whkh call for equal pay and housing fw Hacks and whites, are bdng used as an excuse for contiruied American investment in South Africa, McKinley said. “Ronald Reagan has sakl Amakan in vestmaits are helpjing the South Afiican Blacks,” McKinley sakl. “But American com- {Mnks only employ 1 percent of the Blacks in Soutfi Afika.” McKinky sakl tlie Sullivan principles woe a cosmetk reftjnm. “They are not an answa to anything. The Sullivan princijAs are a moot point.” Constnictive engagonent consists of qukt Amakan n^otiations with the South Afikan govanment about Apaiftiad, Nyangoro saki. “Constructive Engaganertt is a policy Mure because it illustrates the feet the U.S. govem- mert has a vested interest in not overthrowrrir^ the South Afikan r^ime.” Kacjcs are not about to mount a massive uprising, Fllis saki. “There will be isdaled guerilla warfere.” “The Unites States is making it possitfe that South Afika can deal with any scHt of Hack ipisir^,” McKinky saki. WHAT IS KINKO’S? (according to Mr. Webster...) ^kink /'kink/ n.l.a short tight twist or curl caused by doubling or winding of something upon itself 2. a clever unusual way of doing something. 2kink vi: to form a kink - vt.; to make a kink in. kinko’s /'kink-oz/n. 1. Quality copies at a low price. 2. Reproduction of originals quickly and efficiently. 3. Of or relating to copying, binding, passport photos and more! -kink'oid (slang) a person employed by Kinko’s. kinky /'kin-ke/ adj. kinkier 1. closely twisted or curled 2. Offbeat, far-out kinko's copies. 114 W. FRANKLIN ST.
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