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Copyright 1 985 The Daily Tar Heel
Volume 93, Issue 68
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
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Monaay, September 21, 1985 Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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By DEMISE MOULTRIE
Staff Writer
The Faculty Council unanimoulsy adopted
a proposal Friday to stress writing in the
undergraduate curriculum.
The Council also approved a proposal to
recognize students who have achieved grade
point averages of at least 3.5 and 3.8 based
on completion of at least 45 hours of course
work completed at UNC.
In addition, Faculty Chairman George A.
Kennedy, presiding over his first council
meeting since being elected last spring, asked
the Council to think about shortening the
school year and making it more intense.
Kennedy also submitted the proposal to
establish a committee to take a new look at
student writing in the Undergraduate
Curriculum.
Kennedy said: "The quality of the under
graduate program is the real basis for the
future strength of the University. Good
undergraduate education is a good in itself,
but it is also the key to any development effort,
including the development of research and
professional education.
The University has improved the structure
of undergraduate programs, but "... there
is a gap between what we claim and want
to be and the reality of student experience,"
he said.
Kennedy's proposal pointed out that
writing is not considered a part of the faculty
student relationship because faculty members
'see it as time-consuming and some do not
have the skill to criticize , writing other than
to point out spelling and punctuation errors.
"It is also true that many faculty members
outside the literary departments seem to take
little interest in the process of student writing,"
Kennedy said. "But writing is a form of
thought, as integral to science and social
science as it is to the humanities."
Assistant Dean of Honors John K. Nelson
presented the proposal to allow recognition
of academic achievement by undergraduates
who have exceptional grade point averages
but have not written honors theses.
. According to Nelson's proposal, under
graduates would be eligible to receive degrees ,
inscribed "with Distinction" and "with
Highest Distinction."
The proposal stated that undergraduates in
the Health Affairs curriculum are ineligible
to participate in UNC's Phi Beta Kappa
chapter because the honor applied only to
students in Academic Affairs. Phi Beta Kappa
requires a grade point average of 3.7 with
a rriinimum of 75 academic hours and 3.6
with a minimum of 105 academic hours.
Nelson said the new categories would
"allow recognition of achievement in the
liberal arts which aren't extended to profes
sional fields, especially the health field."
No more that 12 percent of an undergrad
uate class would be awarded degrees of
distinction.
Degrees with distinction would not replace
degrees with honors. Students may earn both
honors and distinction.
Commenting on his proposal to shorten the
school year, Kennedy pointed to the present
academic calendar. "The number of weeks of
class meetings in our calendar is longer than
the national average," he said. Other schools
require only 12 to 13 weeks to do what UNC
does in 14, he said.
Kennedy said he'd like see the University
shorten the number of weeks in each semester
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by two, thus beginning the fall term right after
Labor Day and still finishing by Christmas,
and beginning the spring semester about three
weeks later and ending it about one week later
in May.
Faculty research could be accomplished in
the weeks gained and "surely our designation
as a research university must mean some
thing," he said. Students also would be
expected to use the time to their educational
advantage, he said.
Kennedy said undergraduates would par
ticipate in a three-week intersession in
January. Graduate students would have a
corresponding reading period. "Each of the
700 to 900 faculty members would have a
group of 15 to 20 students and would meet
three times with them for perhaps two hours
each time in a small group discussion," he
said.
Students would read a book of educational
significance and write one paper, Kennedy ;
said. "My suggestion is that students be given
one credit hour for the experience."
Participation would be required, grades :
would be pass fail and tuition would be :
covered by current costs for the fail and spring
term.
"I'm aware that intersessions are commonly :
used by liberal arts colleges and thought to j
be unsuitable in large universities, but it isn't :
clear to me why this should be the case," he
said. "Large universities have a greater need ;
for small group discussion.
"Such a program might be seen as a symbol
of faculty commitment to students as indi
viduals and to the value of general education
which would be useful in our development
efforts."
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By (CATHERINE WOOD
Staff Writer
The Chapel Hill Planning Board has
recommended that the Town Council
appoint a UNC graduate student to fill
the vacancy left by Lightning Brown's
resignation from the board.
Student Body President Patricia
Wallace petitioned the council at its
Sept. 9 meeting to appoint a student
to the board to represent the needs of
renters and moderate to low-income
citizens.
Meg Parker, 23, has been recom
mended by the planning board for
appointment by the council. The
council has tentatively scheduled to
name its appointee at its meeting
tonight.
Parker, a graduate of Penn State
University and a current assistant at the
Center for Urban and Regional Studies,
said that her background in planning
and encouragement from Wallace and
other student government members
prompted her application to the plan
ning board.
Parker said, however, that some -people
are opposed to having a student
on the planning board. "
"I think there are some members of
the community who think a student
would come on the board to decisively
present only a student view," she said.'
"If I am appointed, I am in a position
to represent a student view, but I plan
to look beyond that. It is important to
be open-minded and consider all angles
of the situation."
Planning Board Chairman Alice
Ingram agreed with Parker's senti
ments. She said that although she would
be happy to have a student on the
planning board "an advocate of a point
of view or a specific group would be
very disruptive."
In order for a student to be successful
on the board, he or she would have to
be objective on all planning issues,
especially those that involve the Uni
versity, Ingram said.
Town Council member David Pas
quini expressed views similar to
Ingram's.
A freshman would not yet be in touch
with the needs of Chapel Hill, while a
junior or senior would be leaving soon
after appointment, Pasquini said. A
graduate student or a student native to
Chapel Hill would be preferable selec
tions, he said.
Parker, a first-year gradute student,
said she feels that the experience she
gained while working on a county
planning commission outside Philadel
phia would make her a good selection.
She said that having a student on the
planning board would not only have
a positive impact on students but would
also be good for Chapel Hill as a whole.
"Opinions tht students have of
Chapel Hill go out and affect other
opinions of Chapel Hill," Parker said.
She also said having student represen
tation on town boards would encourage
most UNC students to form favorable
opinions of Chapel Hill.
The town council will name its
appointee to the planning board after
reviewing the planning board's own
recommendations and then composing
a list of nominees. Ingram said the
Council had already made some
nominations.
GPSF echoes CGC, calls for
Council to appoint student
By LINDA MONTANARI
StaffWriter
The Graduate and Professional
Student Senate has passed a reso
lution asking the Chapel Hill Town
Council to appoint a student to the
planning board.
The board has had a vacant seat
since Lightning Brown resigned last
month, and the council will appoint
a new member at its meeting tonight.
The GPSF resolution follows a
similar one that the Campus Govern
ing Council sent to the town council
earlier this month. The CGC's
resolution asking the council to
appoint a student to the board was
proposed by Student Body President
Patricia Wallace, who serves on the
town's transportation board.
In a letter to Mayor Joseph Q.
Nassif, GPSF President Brad Tor
gan cited the student population of
10,000 within the Planning Board's
jurisdiction as a major reason for the
GPS F's resolution.
Torgan also stated in the letter that
the appointment would be a help in
opening communication between
students and the rest of the
community.
"The Planning Board is basically
-made up of homeowners, and even
though they may sympathize with
the students, they can't identify with
them," he said in an interview last
week.
Brown's resignation makes the
appointment especially crucial,
Torgan said.
"Lightning was considered the
leading advocate on the Planning
Board for low and moderate income
residents of Chapel HilL and stu
dents definitely fit in those limits,"
he said.
"We would hope, that the new
person . . . would be someone who
is sensitive to the needs of those
residents in Chapel Hill who are not
always well represented," the letter
stated. ' r.
Zoning changes, new apartments
and population density are issues in
which a student's viewpoint could be
important Torgan said.
Nassif, however, said he would not
favor reserving a permanent seat on
the Board for a student.
"It wouldn't be for a permanent
seat for anyone," he said. "Every
board is up for people to submit their
names and qualifications. If students
are interested, they should do that.
"I don't think it's right to say that
students are the only ones who can
represent low and moderate
incomes," he said.
By RHESA VERSOLA
StaffWriter
Leadership skills developed through extracurricular
activities, community projects and work experience are the
most important qualities in prospective graduate business
students, business school recruiters nationwide said.
Wayne Forester, assistant admissions director at Stanford
University, said diversity is also an
important cntenon. Stanford, m Stan
ford, Calif., is consistently ranked as
having one of the top five Master of
Business Administration programs in
the nation. Harvard University, in
Boston, Mass., is traditionally consi
dered first in the nation.
The UNC MBA program was ranked
21 among 48 leading business institu
tions, according to the 1982 Gourman
Report, a national ranking of business
schools. Duke University's Fuqua
School of Business was ranked 23 in
the same report.
Anne-Marie Summers, admissions
director for UNC's MB A program, said,
"There's been a slight increase (in the
quality within the applicant pool) every
year, at least in the last two years if
you look at the average GMAT scores
orGPA."
According to a recent MBA report
by UNC, this year's entering class has
an average GMAT score of 607 and
3.3 GPA. Harvard has a mean GMAT
' score of 650 with a 3.4 GPA, according
to the 1984 Barron's Guide to Graduate
Schools. . ; .
Andrea Hershatter, assistant admis
sions director for Duke's Fuqua School
of Business, said the fall 1985 class has
an average 595 GMAT and 3.3 GPA.
"The number one thing we look for
in our students is their ability to be
effective leaders," Summers said. "Even
if they've been out of school for a couple
of years, we go back to their campus
activities were they a fraternity
president, or were they active in the
student body on campus or did they
participate in the marketing club, or
were they editor for The Daily Tar
HeeTT -
Lynne Gerber, the MBA program
director at UNC, said, "It's a rigorous
program; nobody really knows what
that means until they get here."
Gerber said the business school
recommended having at least two years
of full-time experience after undergrad
uate school, but it is not mandatory.
She said the type of work experience
the student had can reflect the level of
responsibility in the prospective MBA
student.
Active participation in two or three .
clubs along with maintaining solid
grades while still in undergraduate
programs is much more impressive than
padding a resume with too many
activities that do not show a sense of
dedication, Hershatter said.
The UNC MBA program is similar
in structure to other top graduate
business schools in the country which
use the case method (Harvard) or an
eclectic approach (Duke, Stanford) to
focus on analytical skills.
"The rule here is there is no rule,"
said Forester at Stanford.
Many schools allow diverse teaching
techniques and approaches that imitate
the diversity and unpredictability of
real-life experiences.
The UNC MBA uses a modular
structure during the first year where
emphasis is placed on the integration
of 12 basic courses that vary in length
and credit hours. The integrative
management course, a weekly seminar,
is another prime feature of the business
school's program.
. Gerber said the course is designed to
develop the various skills taught in other
disciplines by working through prob
lems in study groups of five to six
students.
"Together, they form a really good
team, and together, they multiply their
ability to learn because they're helping
each other with some of their deficien
cies," Gerber said. "It's a cooperative
spirit all the way through."
The attitude of exprit de corps carries
over to the student-faculty rapport.
Summers, at UNC, said there are a
lot of avenues which the faculty create
to get to know students better. She said
one of the more popular ways to get
acquainted with a professor is signing
up for brown-bag lunches.
"There's a lot of exchange between
faculty and students," Summers said.
"And, of course, the doors are always
open."
Gerber said, "One of the things we
pride ourselves on is that even though
it is a rigorous and difficult program,
we do not gear the students to compete
in terms of grades."
Another outstanding feature of the
UNC MBA program is the increased
focus on computer usage especially with
the Lotus 1-2-3, a software program
used in many companies. .
"Our microcomputer lab is ahead of
a lot of schools and right on target with
what was needed to face the techno
logical world out there," Gerber said.
Forester said Stanford is currently
restructuring their MBA program for
better usage and proficiency with a
variety of computers.
Summers said the MBA degree is one
of the most versatile degrees because
it is not as limiting as other master's
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By RHESA VERSOLA
StaffWriter
Diversity is often considered a
prime quality in order to improve
the status of the prospective
business student or employee.
But, how diverse are prospective
business schools?
The Harvard University Busi
ness School has about 780 MBA
students each year, according to
the 1984 Barron's Guide to Grad
uate Business Schools. The enter
ing students, who on the average
are 25 years old, represent every
state in the United States and 65
foreign countries.
Minorities make up 9 percent
of the group; women approxi
mate 25 percent; 17 percent are
married; and 97 percent have had
1 full-time work experience. About
18 percent have undergraduate
business degrees.
The student-faculty ratio is
about nine to one at Harvard,
according to the report. The
average class size during the first
year is about 85. The class size
varies in the second year between
40 and 100. There are about 180
full-time faculty members.
UNC's MBA program, accord
ing to Barron's 1984 report, has
a much smaller entering class of
about 360 full-time MBA stu
dents. About 43 percent are in
state residents; every region in the
United States is represented plus
five foreign countries. Seven
percent are minorities.
"This year's class looks strong;
33 percent of the classes are
women, which is higher than the
average in a lot of MBA programs
it's usually between 28 and 30
percent," Anne-Marie Summers,
MBA admissions director, said.
According to the 1984 Barron's
Guide, about 90 percent of the
UNC MBA students have full
time work experience. About 31
percent have undergraduate bus
iness degrees.
The student-faculty ratio is
seven to one, Summers said.
At the Fuqua School of Bus
iness at Duke University, about
one-third of the entering 1985
class are women, according to
assistant admissions director
Andrea Hershatter. Ten percent
are minorities and 13 percent are
international students. This year
there are 249 MBA students at
Duke, she said.
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