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8 'The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday. September 3, 1980 Glorck Shadroui, Editor Dinita James, Maturing Editor, Brad Kutrow, Associate Editor Thomas Jlssiman, Associate Editor Karen Rowley, News Editor Pam KELLEY, University Editor Martha Waggoner, City Editor Jim Hummel, Suite and National Editor t v. zr.:y Bill Fields, Sports Editor Mark Murrell, Features Editor Laura Elliott, Arts Editor Scott Silarpe, Photography Editor Melanie Sill, Weekender Editor fEl rear q" editorial freedom 1 i inkciiii ;7 " v; 7 .r P. - 4 3. (V ,, ' ; V- ie4 it ' 1 .. . ' ,t- I I v n After years of tinkering, UNC seems to have, come up with a football ticket distribution system that will eliminate the long lines and short tempers of autumns past. The changes in the system, which were proposed by Carolina Athletic Association President Charlie Brown and former CAA President Matt Judson, should get the most tickets to the most people in the least amount of time. Recall, if you can, they system used until last fall. Students were forced to arrive at Kenan Stadium hours before game time to secure a good jostling position in the seething crowd of ticket seekers. As the Bell Tower tolled 11 a.m., the three student gates swung open and the masses surged into the stadium. Then, having stood in line for two or three hours, they faced another two-hour wait before game time. They system guaranteed a miserable Saturday morning. Last fall brought a measure of relief. At the urging of former CAA President Judson, athletic Department officials moved ticket pickup to Carmichael Auditorium and spread it over three days during the week before each .home game. Also under the 1979 system, fraternities, sororities, dorms and other groups could reserve blocs of seats. hi first it seemed as if the lines simply had shifted from Kenan to Carmichael, but after a few games students adjusted to the different distribution policy." Still, some complained that they had to skip morning classes to get ood tickets. The latest batch of changes, although simple, has made ticket distribution far more efficient. One new wrinkle permits a student to present two IDs and athletic passes and pick up two tickets. That should cut the lines at Carmichael in half, and fewer people'will feel compelled to cut class in order to get a seat on the 40-yard line next to the Rams' Clubbers. . ' All these improvements have made getting a football ticket something supposedly guaranteed each student who pays an' athletic fee a whole lot less troublesome. The changes of the last two years reflect the preferences of students who want to go with dates or groups of friends, but they also reflect a welcome change in the Athletic Department's attitude that the system ought to be convenient for the people getting tickets rather than the people handing them out. Minority affairs office I to .balanced enrollment Chapel Hill's public transportation system has come a long way since it began in 1974. Then, opponents complained it cost too much and benefited too few to be worth a major investment. The haggling that ensued led many to believe that an efficient and useful bus service would never exist. But while much of the public in this country continues to avoid bikes, buses and trains like the plague, Chapel Hill and Carrboro have continued to upgrade the transportation system in a manner that must be viewed optimistically. With the parking situation on campus growing worse and gas becoming more expensive, the need for public transportation has crystalized before even the most skeptical. However, there is concern among students about recent fare increases increases that might discourage students from using the bus service. The recent 62 percent increase in bus pass prices should be studied a"hd questioned, but we believe it can withstand this scrutiny. While students now pay $60 for a bus pass, they also receive better service. The C route has been expanded to accommodate overcrowding. Night service on the F and L" routes now is available until 10 p.m. The shared ride taxi service has been expanded to Carrboro. Both Chapel Hill and Carrboro have committed themselves to providing students convenient and safe transportation. Carrboro recently received a grant for a two lane bike path that connects Carrboro with campus. Chapel Hill purchased 16 new buses that should improve current service. Someone must pay for these improvements. And as long as students want an effective and worthwhile bus service, they should be willing to absorb part of ths costs. That is not to say transportation officials can be imprudent in their method and manner of funding. If riding a bus becomes as expensive as driving, the incentive for students to ride a bus will be lost. Several alternatives for generating revenue exist. A tax on Carrboro residents that would fund a transportation system would ensure permanent bus service in Carrboro. Raising parking sticker prices and funncling this money into the bus service is another option. Increasing fares is yet another. Perhaps some kind of compromise on who should bear the brunt of such increases is debatable. Certainly, the need for 1 1 :st V.iT.z-J.zz r::r Eiwint RaLton, John Roystcr, Amy Sh iJlitrfliBtloa tA2;?: Terry Cameron icrL! A'.-.'.Mzlzi Duiiy Durr.iske Lynn C'cy, William Durham TcJ As cry, Lucy Hood, Lou Ana Jones, Katherir.c Long, Ann Pe'crs. I! Roche!!: R.'ry f i V: Nf; I',:.'. I An.crul, S'kmers, 1 1!.. rth D.:r.k: D!e Jcr.kir., Karen Krr: r;jy, Susn Mmr.ty, h IV.vhd. Jcr.-hxa Rivh, P-.J s R.!?y, tzai $:.r.c DjviJ Tt:r.;e snj frank d.'.it V.'Uioa. C&rr s; Jimei Alexander, auiitan! Weekender editor. ry Ar J -;r, Ted Avery, Stephanie f.irchcr, RoAna Klsho?, Jeff , llctiy DcIUxhi, Ar,;::.e Dorman, Lee Dunbar, Nau&e Lason. Haywood, Charles llcrr.doa, Dsberah H;rch, David Jarrett, f-iv V: F lrY ' "1 2f '1.! 5 y 1$, Am S.T.: .hcl Perry, L.:S j, Und.ry Taylor, m Ci'cn4ar ed.sor. ,hn fih.CMnl JMi-k Tn aia. John Drr ah tihiitA ed.tor; Cifion Rarnes, Nonr.aa Ca- .ei, Gary h 'inium, Geoffrey Mock, Scott Peterson, Unda Rc won 1 1 . I: Ar t i V, r. i . . . k - I . v Ar : I; 1 T.a, Sc: t ! n is, Lcri JdrrLoa, Ana Peters a.nd ; e , G: ' iC . ! . y.l ' T r;t: S y.T, rcrtr.JIMRo)a!!y. en tr.i Dnny Hirrcil, trt;its; ?da:t By SCOTT NORBERG continued improvement in the transportation service is not. Passing costs to u college students is popular at timesoften unjustified. But for our money, bus service is still a bargain. 4 4 Despite encouraging signs of an improving minority presence on campus, there is the disappointment of a freshman class that lacks the number and quality of minority students of past freshman classes. While more minority students, were accepted this year than any year in the past, the actual enrollment of minority students decreased by"$ approximately 12 percent compared to 1979. This is not to say that the number of minority students who enrolled last fall was particularly large; at the time the number was regarded as a Jp promising sign of more progress to come. We should be able to expect mat witn eacn new iresnman class larger numoers or more qualified minority students would come to Carolina. ine obvious question is: wnat can be done to ensure that greater numbers of qualified black .and other minority students choose to enroll at Chapel Hill in ' tuture years; it is clear, tirst ot ail, mat mere are no simple solutions to admissions problems. , One obstacle to the enrollment of minority students "fe lies in the uncertainty of many accepted students as to whether tf they will receive financial aid and, it so, now much assistance they can expect to get. In most cases financial aid applicants are unable to find out about their aid requests before they have to make a commitment to enrolling at a college. The University Office of Financial Aid should move to make it possible for applicants that need financial assistance to know far enough in advance so that they do not turn to other universities when they would in fact be able to get assistance from this University. But notification as to the status of financial aid requests is ' only a small part of the problem. The employment of more and better recruitment programs, supplemented by a strong moral commitment on the part of the University administration is demanded if we are successfully to increase minority enrollment. At present, recruitment procedures for minoritv students include visits by admissions officials to North Carolina high schools, as well as visits by applicant and potential . applicants to the Carolina campus. There are also some contacts made by black faculty members to minority students who have been admitted. But to say that the present recruitment techniques are effective is to deny the facts. The recruitment procedures now in operation are not bad; they are just not extensive enough. More high schools should be visited and more effective recruitment techniques should be used. Plans have been made to invite to campus all minority students who have been admitted before they have to decide whether to enroll. This coming recruitment season - will also involve minority students now enrolled in the University in an effort to supplement the contacts that are made with minority applicants before and after they are accepted to Chapel Hill; In coordination with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, presently enrolled students will make phone calls, write letters and visit high schools in an effort to recruit more minority students. The thoughts and advice of peers here on campus will surely prove helpful in encouraging applicants to come to the University. These plans to increase recruitment efforts are commendable and need to be pursued vigorously. There have been more than a few studies and reports in recent years that have sought to improve, among other things, minority enrollment. The Long Report, on . admissions policies and practices as they affect minority students, of June 1979 found that the University does "not reach a large enough pool of black students," that there is a "lack of personnel for a vigorous recruitment program" and mat more money is needed to fund better recruitment programs. The report goes on to recommend "a more intensive recruitment program... devised so that every high school in the state is made aware of the wide range of opportunities... available at Chapel Hill. A well organized program might involve three-person teams, each comprising a recruiter-admissions official, a career development advisor, and a financial aid counselor, in sufficient number to visit every part of the state." The Advisory Committee further recommended that "some type of yearly workshop for school counselors who advise black students at the junior and senior high schools should be established and - funded by the University.'' To date little additional funding has been granted to the admissions office.The concepts of three-person recruitment teams and workshops for high school counselors have yet to be implemented. Many recommendations made by a similar report written 12 years ago were found unfulfilled by the Long Committee. The Long Committee recommendations must not be allowed to find their way to a back shelf somewhere in the offices of South Building, only to be discovered by another committee 12 years from now. Another study the Daye Reportendorsed by the Faculty Council test spring recommended that the chancellor "crca i function within the University's general administrative structure which will be charged with coordinating, monitoring, advising and advocating within the University for the .purpose of enhancing the well-being of minority students...." In response to this recomendation made by the Daye Committee as well a ether proposals made by the Long Committee, Chancellor Christopher C. Fordham has created a new position at the vice-chancellor level responsible for overseeing many minority concerns including the office of admissions. A search committee is now in the process of itlcctirs someone to fill the post. If this new ice chancellor for university affairs it provided with an adequate staff and receives the moral commitment to enhancing the minority presence from the z of the University ieY ALA Liecruitins procedures "C3 1 jieen u By THOMAS JESSIMAN For some reason, many of the best black high school students in this state do not come to the University of North Carolina zX Chapel Hill. Not only does the University have a dispropcrtionally low number of blacks enrolled in comparison to the state percentage of blacks, but '"Zz those who do come here are generally not the cream of the crop, something that could be argued for their white counterparts. ?- Only 15 percent of the incoming black freshman class have Scholastic Aptitude Test scores of more than 1000. J,' Admissions officials and minority leaders on campus agree that such a percentage is suprisindy low but disagree on how to keep the more talented blacks from going to other colleges in the UNC system or private colleges like Howard University or Ivy League schools. Collin E. Rustin, assistant director of undergraduate admissions, maintains that a major factor may be the type of financial aid available to minority students at UNC. He said that some blacks who can receive full scholarships at other universities instead of partial scholarships and work study programs here cannot be blamed for taking better deals. "If a kid ts gets a scholarship as opposed to a loan V, I VP-' V A V 1 ( ' then I'll tell him to go where he can get money but not have pay it '- back," Rustin said. y But Hayden B. Renwick, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said scholarship money was not the major y problem. "Financial aid hassomething to do with it, but 7 we have got to upgrade our recruiting or we aren't going J ' to get the better black student," Renwick said. The most f effective way to interest a prospective black candidate in . ' Carolina is to have a student meet an applicant in his own home and answer any questions, Renwick said. "Black high school students have a fear of Carolina that is based entirely on a lack of knowledge," Renwick said. "Their parents did not go here and they have no role models or tradition to know about the place. The University needs to dispel that fear, and letters and phone calls won't do it." Programs that bring talented blacks to UNC's campus for a weekend in the fall or spring are organized so that the prospective students are spoken to in groups and thus are not nearly as effective as personal visits, Renwick said. "We need role models. We need someone just to tell a kid that he made it, and as long as we refuse to use people like that then we won't get the students," Renwick said. Certainly Renwick's complaints seem valid when one considers a talented black high school senior from a w estern county w ho has never heard of anyone who has been to Carolina. Under the present setup that person might receive a letter or two with a pretty blue letterhead, but he would be courted much more heavily by other universities. It would not seem to be such a terrible sacrifice for a student at UNC to spend a day and drive out to visit the candidate. h 1 tot I i 1 1 h jH W S 'A But Rustin disagrees: "Recruitment may help, but I look on it as copping out to use students in the process. You're taking them away from their classes and this whole environment here where they have the potential to grow." Rustin termed the possibility of sending a student out to the high school senior in Western North Carolina idealistic and said such a plan would depend on more money and resources than he has available. "I've said that the best way to recruit is with students but that does not mean that the best way to use them is to send them back to their area. They can do that over weekends and vacations and they are already doing just that. I just choose not to do that on a formal basis," he said. But this practice still docs not help high school students who are not exposed to Carolina undergraduates from their area. .Rustin said that he could name 10 to 25 students to whom y recruiting high school students in their own homes ? would not be detrimental, but using the analogy of a parent to his child, he said he just would not fed 7 right about sending students away from college to recruit. However, there is no good reason why a parent should feci that a recruiting effort is detrimental to his child's college experience. After all, meeting people and learning about the world outside the University is a valid part of a complete education. Going to predominantly black high schools and talking to chives and inviting potential candidates to the campus for a weekend are effective recruitment practices, and the main objective is to supply a high school student with enouh Information to make up his mind on his own about the University, Rustin said. He talked about the dar.-tr of the admissions program being held responsible for the safety of students sent out to recruit. "It crdy tikes cne accident in a car. It may seem far-fetched but if it happens just one time. ..I'd 'rather pl-y it safe." ems far-fetched indeed. Accidenu happen every day, end It seer many of them cannot be anticipated. 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