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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 97, Issue 51
Monday, September 18, 1989
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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By MIKE SUTTON
Staff Writer
Criticism of this summer's freshman
orientation program has prompted in
vestigations by University officials and
members of student government.
; Edith Wiggins, associate vice-chancellor
for student affairs, met with five
orientation commissioners Wednesday
to discuss their complaints after Donald
Boulton, dean of student affairs, re
ceived a letter from Student Congress
Speaker Gene Davis relaying students'
concerns with the orientation program.
The academic affairs department of
the executive branch of student gov
ernment is also investigating the mat
ter. Commissioner Justen Hix had asked
Davis to forward a copy of his final
evaluation of this summer's C-TOPS
(Carolina Testing and Orientation Pro
gram Sessions) directly to Boulton,
rather than filing it through Shirley
Hunter, director of orientation. Hix said
he was afraid Hunter would delete the
negative comments before passing the
report on to Boulton, her superior.
Hunter said she didn't filter out criti
cism in the reports before giving them
to Boulton.
"That's the paranoia of that individ
ual. I have asked them to tell me the
good, bad, indifferent, how I can im
prove the program.
"I do not ask them to give me flow
ery reports," Hunter continued. "I've
never felt the need to alter anything.
That's one person's opinion, and they're
entitled to it. I don't always agree with
it, but they're entitled to it."
Wiggins declined to discuss the de
tails of the meeting before presenting
her conclusions to Boulton. "I want to
get my data assembled, collect it and
give it to Dean Boulton. I don't want to
make the report through the newspa
per," she said, adding that all of the
commissioners' reports also contain
"lots of positive statements about what
the program does."
Her report will be finished in about a
week, and Boulton will decide what
action should be taken, if any, after
reviewing it.
Hunter said most of the commis
sioners' concerns centered around sal
ary. "Mostly the feeling was the finan
cial package wasn't sufficient for the
work involved." She noted that Hix
was particularly upset because his
decision to live in campus housing
meant that almost half of his salary was
spent on a room and board plan.
Hix said he spent $920 of his $2,000
salary on housing. He also complained
that during preparation for C-TOPS in
the spring, he and other commissioners
put in three to eight hours per week of
unpaid labor throughout the semester,
performing either administrative office
work or meeting with orientation coun
selors. See C-TOPS, page 2
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adopts tuitiom) defense plan
By NANCY WYKLE
Staff Writer
and WILL SPEARS
Assistant University Editor
' The Association of Student Govern
ments (ASG) took action Saturday af
ternoon to combat future tuition in
creases when it unanimously adopted
the Tuition Defense Initiative proposal
introduced by UNC Student Body Presi
dent Brien Lewis.
The association, composed of three
delegates from each of the 16 UNC
system schools, meets on a monthly
basis. UNC-CH is represented by Lewis,
External Affairs Chairman Bill Hilde
bolt and Student Congress Speaker
Gene Davis, who was elected president
of ASG on Saturday.
Lewis explained the proposal in a
press conference Friday. The proposal
is designed to prevent a repeat of this
Gene Davis ASG president 3
past summer's last minute tuition in
crease. The increase was $100, or 20 per
cent, for in-state residents, and $669, or
15 percent, for out-of-state students.
"One hundred dollars is not so un
reasonable," Lewis said Friday. "The
point is not x number of dollars; it's that
students were left out of the decision
making process. And this is a danger
ous precedent, in that we (the UNC
system) are being seen as a revenue
source." . . . ..
Lewis' proposal comprises six
points.
The first is that the ASG president
will report at each UNC Board of
Governors (BOG) meeting on student
concerns.
Newly-elected ASG President Davis
said it was important for students in the
UNC system to have a firm line of
communication with members of the
BOG.
BOG member Reginald McCoy said
he thought board members would be
receptive to this point. "Any input they
(ASG) could give us would help.
However, the legislature, who created
us, will have the last say, and there's
not a whole lot we can do about it."
This point of the proposal is an alter
native to establishing a student mem
ber of the BOG, which is not very
likely, Lewis said. "We raised that point
at a recent conference (held in Boone
last weekend) and it was not responded
to enthusiastically."
The second point is student leaders
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Professor says China used student movement to advantage
By JASON KELLY
Staff Writer
' The Chinese student movement that
ended in a massacre in Tiananmen
Square, Beijing, in July was used to
further the purposes of contending
factions in the upper leadership of the
country, professor Craig Calhoun said
Saturday.
A power struggle among the elite in
government allowed the student move
ment to grow as large as it did, and the
ending violence was an unmistakable
sign of a military-allied faction's vic
tory, Calhoun said.
"The violence was a demonstration
that a certain faction had won, and in a
way, to undermine the concern of op
posing factions for appearances and
Western opinion. Once the massacre
had happened, saving face was a moot
point."
Calhoun is a sociology professor who
has studied around the world and spent
last year as an associate professor at
Beijing University. The students of
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Beijing University played a large role
in leading the uprising in Tiananmen
Square.
At the beginning of his lecture,
Calhoun discounted the ultimate relia
bility of eyewitness accounts. "Eyewit
nesses don't know everything. In fact
an eyewitness is severly limited in his
account of events because he only sees
what is immediately around him. It's
more like a worm's eye view rather
than a bird's eye view."
As an example of the confusion in
Beijing, Calhoun said: "When the pro
tests began, I rented a room in the
Shagri-la Hotel, one of the few places
that got uninterrupted satellite trans
missions, and watched CNN (Cable
News Network) to find out what was
going on in China. Then CNN called
me to get an eyewitness report of what's
going on in China, when all I knew is
what I'd seen on CNN."
The occupation of Tiananmen Square
was not the picture of chaos that many
Chinese officials portrayed it to be, he
said. "When the officials said there was
anarchy, they did not mean there was
chaos, it meant that they were not in
control.
"For 10 to 12 days there was effec
tively no government in Beijing. There
were no policemen at intersections, no
officials of any sort in the city, because
they had all fled to refuges outside
Beijing. But life went on almost as
usual. Chinese society is not defined
and given its order by top-down ad
ministration. This must have terrified
the bureaucrats."
China is changing rapidly under
Western influences, Calhoun said.
"People are better off and much more
consumer-oriented.
"New businesses which are conspicu
ously consumer-oriented are appearing
everywhere. People who had to wait in
line for a bike four years ago now have
10-speeds and 35mm cameras and
Walkmans. There is even the begin
nings of fashion consciousness."
"The identity of China has been in
doubt ever since contact with the West.
'Quality and innovation must be from
the West' is a pervasive idea, but it may
not be healthy. People must believe
that their culture is the best everyone
inherently does but Westernization
is undermining Chinese culture. China
is uncertain how to face the modern
world and where Chinese culture and
tradition fit.
"The student movement had its ori
gins in the questions that Westerniza
tion has raised," Calhoun continued.
"We have a rationale for the capitalist
system, and the great divide between
rich and poor which it leaves. But the
Chinese have no such explanations for
the reforms and change in their society,
at least none that an average person on
the street could tell you.
"There is no reason they can give for
why a busboy at an international hotel
makes more money than a university
professor or an engineer that runs the
power plant supplying electricity to a
major portion of Beijing."
"The students believed the people's
interests should be listened to by the
government. They would be content
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recognize and respond to their needs.
Elections were a low priority.
Graduate students plan rally
seeking better pay, benefits
By MYRON B. PITTS
Staff Writer
Graduate Students United (GSU),
an organization of about 90 UNC post
baccalaureate students, will hold a press
conference and rally in the Pit today to
examine salaries and benefits of gradu
ates who work for the University and
compare them to those of similar uni
versities. In a recent report, GSU has described
four main goals:
a raise in salaries to a minimum of
$4,000 a semester for all graduate as
sistants; in-state tuition remission for assis
tants; a child-care plan open to all Uni
versity personnel, including graduates;
and
a health insurance plan for gradu
ates. Members of GSU, as well as Provost
Dennis O'Connor, have said graduates
do not earn enough to make ends meet
as teaching and research assistants and
are forced to take other jobs to help pay
tuition. Graduate students make be
tween $4,000 and $11,000 a year de
pending on the department because
more funds are allotted to certain de
partments, said GSU chairwoman
Cindy Hahamovitch, a graduate stu
dent in American history from Mon
treal. O'Connor, who has called the rais
ing of graduate assistant wages his top
priority, will be one of several mem
bers of the faculty to speak at the rally.
Others to speak will include graduate
assistants and undergraduate students.
"We're hoping to publicize the
group's (GSU's) goals," Hahamovitch
said. "We're going to call on represen
tatives and students to endorse our
goals."
In a summer study conducted by
GSU, the University was found to have
one of the lowest graduate assistant
salary averages and one of the highest
averages for cost of living expense,
when compared to 10 "peer institu
tions."
GSU, which was organized at the
end of last spring semester, will present
the results of its research in detail at the
press conference.
"During the summer, we tried to get
contact persons in all departments,"
said GSU member Johanna Schoen.
The group recruited graduates to help
spread its message for the fall semester.
Hahamovitch said it was difficult to
determine who was responsible for the
low wages because money for graduate
assistantships is drawn from various
places in the budget.
"They (members of the legislature)
don't understand that the education
provided (at UNC) would not be nearly
as good without us," said Hahamovitch,
who is a history teaching assistant. With
the absence of teaching assistants, class
sizes would be "enormous" and less
time could be devoted to individual
students, she said.
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Pig out
Mayor reconsiders idea of
keeping pet hog in town ....4
PSAT on the house
Some N.C. students will, fill in
the ovals for free 5
Sock It to 'em
Women's soccer proves
they're still number one ... 12
University news 3
City news 4
State and national news ....5
Arts 6
Comics 9
Sports Monday, .12
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