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By DONNA LEINWAND
Staff Writer
Blacks must face the reality that they have not arrived,
said Hayden B. Renwick, associate dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences.
Renwick led a dinner discussion in Lenoir Hall Tuesday
on civil rights and racism in Chapel Hill. His talk was
part of the Campus Y's Human Rights Week.
"Blacks think they are equal," he said. "The simple facts
say 'no. Fifty years ago from Columbia (Street) to the
mall along Franklin Street, blacks couldn't buy anything
in that area.
"Now we are equal, but during the 50 years, the whites
bought up all the property. Does that still make me equal?
I'm still way behind."
Renwick said there had been examples of racism on
campus within the last two years.
In 1983, a teaching assistant in the English department
passed out a document that said 'minorities lack
intelligence, " Renwick said. "I wrote an article for The
Phoenix, and the English department said I was tampering
with their freedom of speech. I exercised my same right,
and I was a bad fellow."
Renwick said he grew up in Statesville and attended an
all-black high school. His first contact with whites was when
he was in the armed services.
"It's been downhill ever since," he said.
Renwick said that at one time he thought total integration
would happen on campus.
"We make all these superficial statements," he said. "They
are sugar-coated."
The campus is full of pseudo-liberals, he said.
"A pseudo-liberal is a white that has formulated or
defined how a black should act," he said. "I used to be
invited to a lot of parties. My wife used to get angry because
I would make her lie and say I was busy because they
tried to get me to something every night. Eight years ago
I wrote a critical article about the admissions policy towards
blacks. Because I didn't fit the definition, I didn't have
to lie anymore. I wasn't invited anymore. I really love being
a renegade.
"It's a two-edged sword. I also rankle blacks," he said.
In 1969, Renwick became an assistant director of
admissions. Renwick said the Black Student Movement
demanded a black admissions officer to recruit blacks. Now
there are two black admissions officers.
"I don't think the problem (with low black enrollment)
is with the admissions office," Renwick said. "What's really
hurting enrollment now is this pipeline going back to the
black community because blacks aren't doing well on
campus."
Renwick said blacks should be evaluated differently from
white students. The Scholastic Aptitude Test, he said, was
developed with white middle-class students in mind.
Renwick said he had grave doubts about the process
of recruiting black professors.
"The chancellor is sincere about recruiting black faculty,
but it doesn't mean a damn if the department chairman
feels differently," he said.
One student asked what Renwick thought were the
chances for having a Black Cultural Center.
Renwick replied, "I think there are two chances: slim
or none."
A question also was raised about the admittance of blacks
in white fraternities and vice versa.
"If you look at the bylaws, they saw no racial
discrimination," he said. "There is a fraternity on campus
with three or four black members, but close your eyes and
they're white, too.
DEMISE MOULTRIE
Staff Writer
Despite the belief that the passing of
the 1960's and 70's meant the death of
the women's movement, it is still alive,
said members of a panel discussion
Tuesday on what it means to be a
woman at UNC.
Members of the panel were: Judith
Wegner, chairman of the Faculty
Council's Committee on the Status of
Women; Jane Brown, president of
Association of Women Faculty
Members; Jennifer Ayer, a student who
participated in the Congressional
Caucus for Women; and Sibby And
erson, president of the Black Student
Movement.
Wegner said 50 percent of the
graduate student population and 60
percent of undergraduates were women.
"Women make up only 17 to 18
percent of the faculty," she said. "Some
departments have no women, some may
have one."
When women teach on the college
level, they usually enter a hostile
environment, she said. "You (a woman
faculty member) are entering a very
different situation. . . . You are more
spotlighted for what you say.
Sometimes you won't know how to
handle some sexist comments."
Women students have been slighted
because of the lack of women faculty
members, she said. "As students,
women are deprived of role models."
Women in college now feel they can
combine a career and a family and do
whatever they want to do. "It doesn't
always turn out that way," Wegner said.
"I don't think we are conveying to you
what it's really like."
Brown said women need to form
networks and be more helpful, to each
other. "There are a number of depart
ments where there is only one woman,"
she said. "We need to help her feel less
isolated and let women on campus
know that there are other women here."
Black women faculty members exist
in small groups and are sometimes
doubly discriminated against, Brown
said.
Brown said a mentoring system
would help retain women faculty
members. The system would "allow
older faculty members to help junior
faculty members adjust," she said.
Advances made in awakening an
interest in the status of women include
the growth of the Women's Studies
Curriculum, she said. "Many universi
ties already have women's studies
programs. It is very important to raise
women's studies out of the academic
ghetto it is now in," she said.
Jennifer Ayer, former co-chair of the
Campus Y, said being raised in the
North made it difficult for her to accept
women's roles here. "It was a very
painful realization to come here and
find that as far as mood goes, it is set
by students and the ideas they bring
here," she said.
In her experiences with the Congres
sional Caucus for Women she said she
saw the "feminization of poverty."
"I saw the political side of women's
issues, including tax reform, civil rights
and Aid for Families with Dependent
Children," she said.
"The mood in Washington is that
women's groups are on the defensive.
On the issue of comparable worth . . . ,
the issue is black and white to them,
even down to reproduction rights," she
said.
There is a need to establish viable
women's organizations on campus to
help women students prepare for
participation in the work force, she said.
Anderson said she was concerned
with the role of female students in
leadership positions. "In my position,
I have encountered opinions that men
are superior to women and that men
are more serious about their work and
that women are indecisive.
"It makes it hard for females to keep
up their self-image and confidence when
they are faced with these attitudes," she
said.
When women deal with groups of
men, they "tend to disclaim their ideals
and tend to be more passive than they
would if they were in a group of
women," she said.
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By GUY LUCAS
Assistant University Editor
Four cars were broken into in Craige
parking lot Monday, causing more than
$860 damage, said Sgt. Ned Comar of
the University Police.
The window of another car in the
Student Activity Center parking lot also
was scratched, he said.
The most valuable item stolen from
the cars was a microwave oven worth
about $450. A $250 stereo also was
taken.
Comar said the same person or group
probably was responsible for all of the
damage.
"In the past, we have had a rash of
these problems, and well finally be able
to identify one or two persons, arrest
these persons and have no more
problems for a while," he said.
The motive in past break-ins wasn't
always robbery, Comar said.
"In some cases, they actually stole
something, and in other cases they just
broke in and rifled the place and didn't
take anything," he said.
There were no suspects as of Tuesday,
he added.
There have been fewer incidents of
cars being broken into this year than
last, he said.
Students can help prevent break-ins
by being alert for suspiscious-looking
people in the parking lots, listening for
breaking glass and watching for people
working on cars, Comar said.
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