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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 96, Issue 84
Wednesday, November 16, 1988
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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By JENNY CLONINGER
Assistant University Editor
The number of women enrolled in
graduate and professional schools at
UNC is on the rise, according to the
UNC Affirmative Action Office's
1988 Minority and Female Presence
Report.
And this increase is beginning to
affect the composition of university
faculties across the nation, the report
said.
Although female undergraduates
have made up about 60 percent of
UNC's total enrollment for the past
five years, women's traditional roles
as minorities in the graduate and
professional schools and in the
faculty are changing, Harry Gooder,
chairman of the Faculty Council, said
Tuesday.
Increasing female representation in
these areas starts at the undergrad
uate level, where the Office of
Undergraduate Admissions receives
more applications from women than
from men, said Herbert Davis,
associate director of undergraduate
admissions. The admissions office has
no quotas or allowances for men or
By CHARLES BRITTAIN
Staff Writer
Hunger and homelessness are
problems plaping many . Chapel Hill
citizens in a seemingly endless cycle
of poverty with no solution in sight,
members of a discussion panel said
Tuesday in Gerrard Hall.
In a program sponsored by the
Hunger Action Committee as part of
Human Rights Week, speakers from
the Inter-Faith Council (IFQ, the
local food kitchen and the homeless
shelter spoke on Chapel Hill's prob
lem of the hungry and homeless.
Art Cleary, co-chairman of the
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By HELLE NIELSEN
Staff Writer
Instead of blaming other coun
tries for violating human rights,
American government officials
should stop abuses in this country,
Robeson County activist Eddie
Hatcher told about 150 people in
Gerrard Hall Tuesday.
Human Rights Week
Hatcher, who was acquitted of
federal hostage-taking charges for
the takeover of a Lumberton
newspaper, spoke at a Human
Rights Week program on "Cocaine
trafficking, government collusion
and human rights abuses in Robe
son County." Attorney Lewis Pitts
of Christie Institute-South and
Barry Nakell, a UNC law school
professor who was on Hatcher's
defense team, also spoke.
"Why is the president always
scolding somebody else when we
have human rights violations?"
Hatcher said. "We need to clean
up our own states; then we can
move onto somebody else's."
Poverty, discrimination and
racial violence in Robeson County
constitute human rights violations,
Hatcher said.
Many Indians and blacks in the
county, which is one-third each
Indian, white and black, have been
murdered, he said, citing names of
22 people who were shot, stabbed
or beaten to death in unsolved
murder cases before the Feb. 1
hostage incident.
Since the takeover, there have
been another 15 "questionable"
murders in the county, he said.
Several of those killed had infor-
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women, he said.
"Males do not receive any special
consideration at this time," he said.
"Nor do females."
The presence of more female
undergraduates may have something
to do with UNC's reputation as a
liberal arts-oriented university, Davis
said.
"We don't have engineering, archi
tecture and some of the programs that
traditionally have been male
oriented," he said.
The number of female faculty
members doesn't reflect the female
majority of UNC's undergraduate
enrollment because it takes 10 years
or more for an undergraduate student
to be eligible to teach, Gooder said.
"There is a long time between being
a student and becoming a faculty
member," he said.
After earning an undergraduate
degree, potential faculty members
face graduate school and a 4- to 5
year post-doctoral fellowship,
Gooder said. So the increase in female
students has only recently begun to
influence the percentage of female
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Human Rights Week
IFC-sponsored Community Kitchen,
said the kitchen began as an outreach
program for alcoholics, but it became
evident there was a substantial need
for a means to supply food for a
growing number of people unable to
afford adequate meals.
"The monthly figure of meals
served at the kitchen is somewhere
around 2,750, and that includes
breakfast and an evening meal five
days a week and lunch seven days
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mation about corruption and drug
trafficking among law enforcement
officials and were to give this to
federal investigators or the media,,
he said.
Through fear and intimidation,
gave her a look
faculty members.
But the trend is most obvious in
junior-level faculty, he said.
"If you look at the distribution of
assistant professors in many depart
ments, you will see that increase
reflected," he said. "There is a
significant increase in tenure-track
female faculty as a result of the
increase in undergraduate enroll
ment. As time goes on, that will reflect
at tenure levels."
Minority faculty recruitment is
more of a problem at UNC than
female recruitment, Gooder said. The
expanding pool of female candidates
for faculty positions eliminates the
need for special recruitment efforts
for women. The same conditions
don't exist for minorities, he said.
"We wouldn't recruit anybody who
wasn't qualified," he said. "Quality
comes first, then I might look at
gender and color and things like that.
"We need more qualified women
and minorities going into academic
careers. We are seeing that happen
with women, but we're not seeing it
happen with minorities."
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a week," Cleary said.
Food for the kitchen is provided
by donations from private individuals
and groups, . fraternities, . sororities
and the food bank in Raleigh, he said.
"We have been lucky in that we
have not had to turn anyone away,
but sometimes we do start to panic
when it looks like we are about to
run out of food," Cleary said.
Sherri Toler, an employee at the
IFC's homeless shelter, said the
shelter program began about three
years ago.
"When I first became involved with
the shelter, I had this impression that
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structure keeps. Indians and blacks
out of power, Nakell said. District
Attorney Joe Freeman Britt's
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Benny Hahyane, a South African exile, participates
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of fowus ihomeless
I would be working primarily with
older men who were alcoholics, but
I soon found myself working with
women, children and younger men,"
Toler said.
Many people come to this area and
find employment but must live in the
shelter until they have saved enough
money to afford the expensive deposit
required to obtain permanent hous
ing, she said.
"In the first five and a half months
of this year, we served 142 homeless
and that is close to the total we served
all last year," Toler said. "I would
estimate by the end of the year we
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By DAVID BALL
Staff Writer
Because U.S. policies toward
southern Africa have done little to
improve the bleak human rights
situation there, this country should
work to increase its influence to
promote constructive change within
the system, said Michael Johns,
policy analyst for Third World and
African Affairs at the Heritage
Foundation, in a speech Tuesday
night.
"It is important at this time that
we speak loud and clear against
human rights violations," he said.
Human rights are often misan
alyzed in the West, giving more
emphasis to individual violations
such as torture while overlooking the
systemic causes of such repression,
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By CRYSTAL BERNSTEIN
Staff Writer
Discussions among South Africa,
Cuba and Angola have been pro
longed, and the withdrawal of Cuban
troops from Angola and the future
of independence for Namibia are
uncertain, experts said Tuesday.
The countries have been negotiat
ing since May.
Cuba will probably agree to a
timetable for the removal of its 50,000
troops stationed in Angola, a country
in southwest Africa, said Mary
Swann, a South African specialist at
the State Department. The troops
were invited to the country by leaders
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will have served well over 200 home
less people. .
"This seems like a small town and
it seems thakthere, should be. a very
small homeless population, but the
cost of living is very high and the lack
of low income housing in Chapel Hill
has resulted in a steady growth in the
number of homeless."
Many jobs are available in Chapel
Hill, but in this area it is impossible
to survive on $3.45 to' $4 per hour,
Toler said.
Nancy Lee, a volunteer for the
Individual Services Division of the
IFC, said her job is to provide
analyst
Human Rights Week
Johns said.
"Human rights violations are often
considered to be individual acts of
brutality," he said. "The systems that
allow these human rights abuses to
occur are where people are denied
judical, economic and political
rights."
Communist systems, because they
tend to deny such rights, are more
likely to violate human rights, he said.
The United States dwells too much
on apartheid, ignoring violations by
other southern African governments, .
he said.
"I think in the West there's too
much emphasis on South Africa. The
of its Marxist government.
"It is possible that we could see the
Angolan part of this resolution take
place," said Allister Sparks, a South
African journalist who is teaching a
course in South Africa at Duke
University.
With Cuban troops out of the
country, Angolans would have more
freedom to decide which type of
government they favor: the Marxist
government or that advocated by the
UNITA rebels in Angola, who are
supported by South Africa and the
United States.
The rebels and the government
need to work on their own negoti
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assistance to anyone seeking aid in
overcoming financial difficulties.
The Individual Services Division
helps people pay for utilities and
monthly renTa'nd' provides groceries
for citizens involved in a financial
crisis, Lee said.
"The reason people get hungry is
that they are forced to spend the
money meant for food to keep the
lights on or to prevent eviction," she
said.
Lee presented the case of a young
woman in Chapel Hill who had a
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situations in these countries (Mozam
bique, Angola and Zimbabwe) have
been so severe, epecially in Mozam
bique, that some blacks have fled into
South Africa."
The government of South Africa
denies the vast majority of the
population its fundamental rights, he
said.
Prime Minister Pieter Botha's
government is "walking a very tight
rope" between the African National
Congress (ANC) and other liberals,
who demand reform, and the rising
Conservative Party, which wants the
status quo continued. The Progres?
sive Federal Party was the best
alternative for a moderate federal
government but has lost much of its
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ations, said Paul Bryant, vice consul
at the South African Consulate
General in New York. "We firmly
believe that there will not be peace
in Angola until the imperial govern
ment comes to some agreement with
UNITA."
; Once ; the Cuban troops leave
Angola, the imperial government will
probably be toppled by UNITA, he
said. ;
Whether South Africa will grant
independence to Namibia, an African
country directly south of Angola
which it has controlled since World
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