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Copyright 1988 The Daily Tar Heel
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 96, Issue 7
Wednesday, March 16, 1988
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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By JUSTIN McGUIRE
Senor Writer
Unless UNC administrators
respond to the problem of low
graduation rates for black students
by Friday at 5 p.m., Black Student
Movement President Kenneth Perry
said Tuesday he will call an emer
gency meeting of the BSM to take
further action.
On Monday, he will ask BSM
members to initiate "phase three" of
their actions regarding the low
graduation rates, he said.
"I cannot say exactly what 'phase
three' will be, but rest assured it will
be dramatic," Perry said. "Black
students can no longer afford to be
passive."
At a press conference March 2,
Perry said UNC has a "serious
problem with retention of black
students." He quoted statistics indi
cating that of those freshmen who
entered UNC in 1981, 76 percent of
whites graduated by 1986, but only
45.6 percent of blacks did.
But so far no administrators have
expressed concern about the problem
or a willingness to try to solve it, Perry
said.
"I was hoping we would get some
response, that somebody would show
some concern," he said. "But weVe
had no letters, no phone calls,
nothing."
Perry said he wants some concrete
response from high-ranking admin
istrators, recognizing the problem
and showing a willingness to work
on it.
Perry said he would like to hear
from the following administrators:
Chancellor Christopher Fordham;
Donald Boulton, vice chancellor and
dean of student affairs; Gillian Cell,
dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences; and Samuel Williamson,
provost.
But Perry said he does not think
any administrators will respond.
"If they wanted to respond, they
would have responded by now," he
said.
The BSM has received a response
from the community, from students
and from parents, Perry said.
Both Fordham and Cell declined
to comment Tuesday. Cell said she
needed more information on the
matter.
Williamson said Tuesday that the
BSM addressed many issues at the
press conference, and the organiza
tion has not asked administrators to
sit down and talk about specifics.
"I think Dean Cell would be very
willing to meet with them and discuss
the problems," Williamson said.
Boulton said Cell and Vice Chan
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Soviet reform efforts are
amtllneinitfk:, speaker says
By STACI COX
Staff Writer
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
is sincere in his efforts for economic
and foreign policy reform for the
Soviet Union, and will continue to
strengthen his reforms until the
Politburo strips his power, Peter
Wiles, a Visiting Scholar at the
Smithsonian's Kennan Institute for
Advanced Russian Studies, told
about 40 people in Gardner Hall
Tuesday.
"I do not hold it impossible that
the Soviet Union will go down the
drain and liberalism will win out,"
Wiles said. "It is more probable,
however, that Gorbachev's comrades
(at the Politburo) will throw him out
first."
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By JEANNA BAXTER
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill is gearing up for a big
weekend, as the town will host first
and second round games of the
NCAA basketball tournament's East
Regional in Smith Center on Thurs
day and Saturday.
The regional games are expected
to have a $1.5 million impact on the
Palestinians
need home,
speaker says
By LAURA MAYFIELD
Staff Writer
In the midst of Palestinian unrest,
Arab nations and the state of Israel
must work together to find a home
for the thousands of Palestinians
living as foreigners in the Middle
East, said Muhamed Massarwa,
Israeli Consul General for the South
eastern region, to an audience of 400
in Hamilton Hall Tuesday.
Wiles, a past professor of Russian
social and economic studies at the
University of London and author of
10 books about Soviet and interna
tional economies, said Gorbachev
was led to his reforms by the policies
of world domination of past Soviet
leaders.
The history of Soviet leaders is
important in understanding Gorba
chev's rule, he said.
"Brezhnev was the first serious
expander of the territorial extent of
Soviet socialism since Stalin," Wiles
said.
Yuri Andropov and Konstantin
Chernenko, both of whom served
short terms after Brezhnev, had to
use police force to get Soviet citizens
to work, he said.
"Andropov was an ancient and
bigoted hawk," Wiles said. "Cher
nenko was a walking corpse but had
this prince of Wales, Gorbachev,
under him."
Gorbachev won power by only one
vote of the Politburo, and imme
diately recognized and admitted that
the economy had stagnated, admin
istration was poor, labor had a
terrible attitude and capitalism was
a far greater success, Wiles said.
So many expensive reforms were
required to improve the Soviet
economy that imperialism had
become far too expensive, Wiles said.
Signing the Intermediate-range
Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty was the
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Another brick in the wall
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Chapel Hill-Carrboro area this week
end, said Leonard Van Ness, exec
utive vice president of the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro Chamber of
Commerce.
The average couple that comes to
Chapel Hill for the tournament will
spend $225 a day, or up to $1,000
for the weekend, Van Ness estimated.
Although the Smith Center is
larger than the Greensboro Coliseum,
the NCAA tournament will not be
as big a bonanza for Chapel Hill as
the ACC tournament was for Greens
boro, he said.
The games involving Duke and
North Carolina A&T, however,
should have a good turnout, he said.
Scott McClellan, an administrative
assistant for Chapel Hill Transit, said
Great Decisions
Since the formation of the Israeli
state, Palestinians have been forced
to live in refugee camps in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip in order to
retain their Palestinian identity. Most
have moved to the camps, although
a minority continue to live in Israel,
Massarwa said. "They prefer to live
in their lands, their homes, than
become refugees in the camps," he
said.
An Arab Israeli himself, Massarwa
spoke of the different circles which
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Chapel Hill Transit was making
special provisions to prepare for the
influx of people into the area.
In addition to regular bus routes,
which will run on normal schedule,
Chapel Hill Transit will run the Tar
Heel Express starting at 10:30 a.m.
Thursday, McClellan said. These
buses will run to Smith Center from
a number of park-and-ride lots, he
said.
These sites include the Omni
Europa Hotel, University Mall,
Carolina Coffee Shop and Plantation
Plaza in Carrboro. Parking will also
be available after 5 p.m. at the UNC
General Administration Building
parking lot, the Health Affairs
parking deck and Newman Center on
Pittsboro Street, he said. Round-trip
fare for these shuttles is $3.
Eight other park-and-ride lots will
be available throughout the Research
Triangle Park and Durham, McClel
lan said. Round-trip fare for these
shuttles is $4.
A limited amount of parking will
be available in the Smith Center,
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88 symposium to explore
role of education So society
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Muhamed Massarwa speaks to students in Hamilton Hall
By JACKIE DOUGLAS
Staff Writer
Panel discussions, prominent
speakers, exhibits, films and concerts
are among some of the activities that
will take place March 21-31 as part
of the 1988 Carolina Symposium
"Educational Encounters."
Fifi Kashani-Sabet, co-chairman
of the symposium, said education is
the theme of this year's symposium
because it has increasingly become an
important issue in our society.
"We're trying to link education to
all parts of the society, such as the
government, media and athletics,"
Kashani-Sabet said. "Currently edu
cation has become an important issue
in our society, and we feel it's worth
examining.
"Through the symposium, we want
to stress the importance of learning
and make people realize that learning
is a continual process and doesn't end
with the completion of formal
education."
Ernest Boyer, president of the
Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching, will speak
in Hill Hall auditorium on March 22
at 8 p.m. The subject of his discussion
Symposium 1 988
will be "College: The Undergraduate
Experience" which is also the title of
his most recent book.
Boyer is a former U.S. Commis
sioner of Education and has been
involved in the advancement of
education for 30 years. He is also the
author of a book entitled "High
School: A Report on Secondary
Education in America."
Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Laureate
and Stanford University professor of
economics, will speak in Hanes Art
Center auditorium on March 24 at
8 p.m.
Arrow will discuss how informa
tion communication affects econom
ics. Arrow's speech is being presented
as the 1988 Hanes-Willis Lecture in
the economics department.
Eugene Lang, a New York philan
thropist, will speak in Hill Hall
auditorium on March 25 at 8 p.m.
Lang is the chairman and founder of
the 1 Have a Dream Foundation.
The subject of Lang's speech is "It
Wasn't Just the Money." In 1981,
Lang told 61 Harlem sixth-graders
that he would pay for their college
education if they graduated from high
school. Lang has been featured on
CBS's news program "60 Minutes."
Christopher Salter, educational
media consultant for the National
Geographic Society, will discuss how
National Geographic addresses geo
graphic information and education
on March 29 at 8 p.m. in the Hanes
Center auditorium.
Salter is an associate professor of
geography at the University of
California at Los Angeles and a
member of the National Council for
Geographic Education.
Peter Befano of Newsweek mag
azine will hold an open-format
discussion on the use of the media
as an educational tool, in Great Hall
on March 29 at 3:30 p.m.
There will be several panel discus
sions throughout the symposium, one
of which involves the UN IT AS cross
cultural, peer, living-learning educa
tion. This panel is made up of both
faculty and students and will be held
on March 22 at 3 p.m. in Union
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