The Daily Tar Heel Thursday, February 19, 19879
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By JOANNE GORDON
Staff Writer
In the 60s students protested for
civil rights and equality in order to
break down prejudicial barriers. In
the 70s students voiced their opinions
in heated discussions to attempt to
reduce prejudices; beginning this fall,
administrators and 46 students will
take another step to dissolve cultural
and racial barriers.
It's called UNIT AS.
To promote multi-cultural under
standing, UNC student government
has developed the living and learning
arrangement in a wing of suites in
Carmichael Residence Hall. UN 1
TAS is similar to current health
science, French-Spanish and German1
programs. However, UN1TAS stu
dents will not share a common
language or have similar career
interests.
Instead, they 11 be representing all
ethnic and cultural backgrounds,
from the biggest majority to the
smallest minority, and learning about
other cultur,usjom5.Janguages
-andTlialects by living together. .
"The idea is that you get to know ,
people, who you used to think were
different from yourself, better," said
Emily Asycue, a Student Govern
ment executive assistant and the
student coordinator for the UN IT AS
program. "Then you start re
evaluating all your perceptions about
people who seem to be different from
you."
The idea for UNIT AS originated
under 1984 Student Body President
Paul Parker's administration. Parker
established a committee to explore
the idea. The committee orginally
focused on black white racial rela
tions. "But," Asycue said, as the
committee looked at problems on
campus, they realized that the prob
lems are not just because of race, not
just black and white and not just
color-based. They are because of the
cultural differences that exist.
"We want to deal with prejudices
in terms of North South of . the
United States, other regional preju
dices like Eastern Western North
Carolina, religious prejudices,
obviously racial not just black and
white but Oriental prejudices,"
Asycue said.
"What we are trying to do is to
reduce prejudice in these people and
maybe start some new things on
campus and also to provide an
example that people can work
together that groups don't have
to be homogenous all-female, all
white." Traci Hopkins, a future UNIT AS
student and a health education
major, is ready to live in a hetero
genous group. "People don't realize
it, but groups are segregated. This
is one group (in which) I can be
myself and not be looked at as the
black girl in the group."
In addition to living together,
UN IT AS students are taking course
work. In fact, the course will count
for three hours of pass fail credit and
requires students to submit an
observational report at the end of the
year.
In addition to a weekly two-and-a-half-hour
seminar, there will be
classes each week. During alternating
weeks,faculty members from differ
ent departments will present lectures
on intercultural relations and stu
dents will prepare presentations on
issues in which they are interested.
In addition,-students will be able to
to interact with faculty members at
a personal level when faculty speak
ing at course seminars are invited to
social functions.
Asycue au& future members of.
UNITAS say this year's students will
determine the future of the program. -"Students
who are doing this are
going to have a lot to say and do
about what happens the second
year," Asycue said, downplaying her
committee's function. "What the
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with cultural diversity
UN IT AS committee or the people
who worked on it this year will do
is provide the resources and infor
mation so that the students will have
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staffs experience this year with the
other living and learning programs
will help them anticipate the kinds
of problems that might arise.
He hopes that UNIT AS will serve
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Editors note: UNITAS. although
printed in all capital letters, is not
an acronym. Student Government
chose the name for the program
under Parker's administration
because it was thought to mean
'equality' in Latin. Yet UNITAS does
not have a Latin etymology. Accord
ing to Asycue, UNITAS stands for
"this program."
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