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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
'Copyright 1987 The Daily Tar Heel
Volume 95, Issue 37
Wednesday, April 15, 1987
Chapel Hi!l, North Carolina
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"Black stadlert appMcatioes to
By JUSTIN McGUIRE
Staff Writer
The number of black students
applying to the University has
increased 20 percent from this time
last year, according to Tony Strick
land, assistant director for under
graduate admissions.
The University received 949 appli
cations from blacks so far this year,
as opposed to 790 applications
received by this time In 1986,
Strickland said.
Black recruiting efforts may be
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Students think rape issue important,
but few receive information about it
By BARBARA LINN
Staff Writer
Seventy percent of women and
fifty percent of men who live on
campus consider rape to be an
important campus issue, according
to a survey conducted by the Rape
Action Project, a group of students
interested in preventing sexual
assault.
But more than 50 percent of the
students surveyed said they had not
received, or did not recall receiving,
any information about rape while at
UNC.
Results from the survey, con
ducted by the security committee of
the Rape Action Project, show how
students feel about specific campus
responsible in part for the increase,
he said. "We are recruiting pretty
much the same; maybe we recruited
a little more effectively this year."
The increase could also be caused
by the general trend toward an
increase in applications, Strickland
said. Last year, the overall number
of applications received by the
University was 13,642, he said. This
year, 15,389 applications have been
received.
Frederic Schroeder, dean of stu
dents, agreed that the overall
of this bike plays it safe by storing it in Caldwell
Hall between classes.
organizations concerned with rape,
as well as how students feel about
their own safety on campus.
Lucy McClellan, chairwoman of
the committee, said the Student
Government-funded survey sampled
417 male, female, graduate and
undergraduate students. Last fall,
questionnaires were distributed in
classes and in Craige Residence Hall
to solicit graduate student opinion.
Although half of the female
students surveyed said they felt at
risk walking on campus at night,
only one-fifth of the all the students
surveyed reported using the Rape
Escort Service.
The on-campus areas perceived as
particularly dangerous were ranked
Obesity is
increase in applications could cause
the increase in black applications. "1
suspect the increasing popularity of
UNC across the board is partly
responsible.1"
Both Strickland and Schroeder
said Project Uplift, a minority
recruitment program that brings
high school students to see UNC's
campus, probably played contrib
uted to the increase.
"Getting people here to see the
campus has to have a pretty good
effect,'" Strickland said.
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as follows: the arboretum, the field
house path behind Kenan Stadium,
the area around Student Health
Services, Stadium Drive, Morehead
Planetarium, South Campus park
ing lots and the main quad.
Many students who park on
campus said they did not feel safe
while walking to and from their cars.
From the off-campus students sur
veyed, 60 percent of women and 40
percent of men said they would use
a night shutttle-bus service if one
were available.
Of the women surveyed, 80 per
cent said they thought rape needed
more coverage in The Daily Tar
See SURVEY page 3
really widespread. Joseph
UNC increase by 20 percent
Schroeder said Project Uplift,
along with some other projects, had
made the University more attractive
to potential black applicants.
Janet Roach, the Black Student
Movement on-campus coordinator
for Project Uplift, said a large
number of the minority students now
enrolled at UNC had participated in
the project. "Project Uplift is always
good as far as bringing in (minority)
students every year."
Also, a field recruitment program
instituted by the Minority Concerns
ffienals seek to punt
roaurknmiff lot omi eomiFts
By BARBARA LINN
Staff Writer
A UNC athletic department prop
osal to convert the Hinton James
tennis courts into a 160-space park
ing lot for people who attend Smith
Center athletic events has enraged
student leaders.
Leaders of the Residence Hall
Association and the Carolina
Athletic Association said Tuesday
that they were not told about the
proposal, which was brought to the
Office of Business and Finance in
January.
RHA President Kelly Clark said
students should have been notified
earlier about the proposal.
"It's another case of let's see what
we can pull off on the students this
time." he said. "The administrators
did not come to the students for any
input at aU." 'v-v;
The proposal calls for converting
the eight courts and the bank
surrounding them into 160 parking
spaces, according to Claude E.
"Gene" Swecker, associate vice
chancellor of facilities management.
Two additional tennis courts would
"Drop-add dhamnges to cut
ffrastrattioinu time in limes
By MARK FOLK
Staff Writer
To reduce the long lines and make
registration more convenient, stu
dents will be able to pick up their
class schedule packets and pay their
bills in the same building next fall.
Although fall registration will still
be held Aug. 24-26 in Woollen Gym,
students will pick up their schedules
and pay their bills in Gym B of Fetzer
Gym, rather than in Hanes and
Bynum halls.
University Registrar David Lanier
said he hoped the changes would cut
down on the long lines.
"Since Fetzer is bigger than Hanes
Hall, we're going to be able to fit
a lot more people in there," Lanier
said. "Not only is this going to cut
down on the long lines, but it is also
going to allow students to wait in
the hallways of Fetzer instead of the
UNC officials discuss improvements
in campus security, rape awareness
By BARBARA LINN
Staff Writer .
UNC officials are meeting with
representatives from the Rape
Action Project to discuss how to
improve police and student aware
ness of rape and make the campus
safer..
In response to the group's survey
about student attitudes toward rape,
plans to improve poor lighting,
establish a student patrol and
encourage student programs about
rape are being considered.
Lucy McClellan, chairwoman of
the committee that conducted the
survey, has been meeting with
administrators and student leaders
to discuss the results of the survey
Committee of Student Government
has probably contributed to the
increase, Roach said. Through the
program, UNC students visit high
schools to encourage minority stu
dents to apply to UNC.
But the rise in applications could
be greater, she said. "I'm definitely
pleased, but it could be better," she
said.
"1 wish the administration would
play a bigger part in having minority
See BLACK STUDENTS page 3
be added to the ones behind Cobb
Residence Hall.
Representatives from the Office of
Business and Finance discussed the
proposal Monday with the Building
and Grounds Committee, a group of
students and faculty appointed by
the chancellor.
Swecker said the office was also
soliciting opinions on the proposal
from the Department of Physical
Education and Donald Boulton, vice
chancellor and dean of Student
Affairs.
. If approved, the parking lot would
probably be finished by basketball
season next semester, and it would
cost about $450,000, Swecker said.
That figure includes the cost of
adding the two courts near Cobb.
Also, a plan to build a parking
deck in. the Craige Residence Hall
parking lot has been proposed,
Swecker said. The deck would
accommodate about 1,500 cars, he
said.
Moyer Smith, associate athletic
director of the Educational Founda
tion, or Ram's Club, said that if the
proposals were approved, the lot
heat outside."
Also to reduce drop-add's long
lines this fall, seniors and graduate
students will be allowed to register
on Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 25. In
the past, seniors and graduate
students have gone to drop-add on
Wednesday, the same day as sopho
mores and juniors.
Lanier said he hoped to have more
cashiers working in Fetzer Gym.
"The reason for most of the long lines
in Bynum was because there were
usually only four cashiers on duty,"
Lanier said. "I'm hoping that we can
raise this number to somewhere
between eight and ten cashiers."
Most of the students who were
turning in preregistration forms to
Hanes Hall Tuesday complained of
the long lines usually associated with
registration. They said they were
looking forward to the new process.
and how the University should
respond.
Committee representatives spoke
with Robert Sherman, UNC director
of security services, about the role
of campus police in dealing with
rape. The committee will meet with
For
In Tuesday's article about Student
Body President Brian Bailey's pro
posal to the Chapel Hill Town
Council to amend the noise ordi
nance, "Noise Amendment Decision
Delayed," The Daily Tar Heel
incorrectly reported that the council
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Number of Black
Applicants to UNC
1982 1,071
1983.. 1,082
1984 804
1985 791
1986 852
1987... 949
Source: Office For Civil Rights B1
Applications, Acceptences and Actual
Enrollment
over the courts would be used only
until the parking deck at Craige is
finished.
He estimated that the proposed
deck at Craige would be completed
sometime in the 1990s. "A thorough
fare will go through where the tennis
courts are now anyway, once the
deck is built," he said.
Although the Buildings and
Grounds Committee has not yet
approved or rejected the proposal,
Swecker said students on the com
mittee have voiced concern about the
loss of the courts.
Boulton said Tuesday that he was
not in favor of the proposal. "If these
tennis courts are removed, there is
no acceptable alternative for courts
on South Campus," he said. "They
need to stay as tennis courts."
Barry Cobb, governor of Hinton
James Residence Hall, said he had
heard nothing about the proposal.
"I realize that parking is a prob
lem, but I don't know if eliminating
something as useful as these tennis
courts is the way to solve it," Cobb
See COURTS page 3
Cricket French, a freshman from
Pfafftown, said she had spent three
and a half hours registering last
semester.
"It was absolutely ridiculous last
semester," French said. "I feel a new
process is definitely needed, since the
one now is so inefficient."
Stephanie Brown, a freshman
from Seattle, said she had to wait
two hours just to pay her fines last
semester.
"The new process really sounds a
lot better than the one in effect now,"
Brown said. "College life is tough
enough without having to wait in
those long lines."
During registration, students will
be able to pick up their schedules
at Fetzer Gym from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Woollen Gym will be open from 7
a.m. to 4 p.m. for students who want
to drop or add classes.
other campus police officers later this
month, Sherman said.
McClellan said the committee
would tell the officers what the group
does and talk about the problem of
See OFFICIALS page 4
the Record
postponed the decision.
The council actually v oted to enact
the amendment, but it must revote
for majority approval because two
thirds of the members did not
support it in the first vote. The DTH
regrets the error.
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