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A o Showers & T'storms High in upper 60s Weekend: Pair Highs in 40s & 50s Angela Davis speaks 8 p.m., Hill Hall Auditorium Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume 97, Issue 135 Friday, February 23, 1990 Chapel Hill, North Carolina News SportsArts Business Adverting 962 0245 962-H63 p ilocirease wop ID SIC LCD DTI X - ..ivv:v. ..... v : : ? Wm If I i t r - , i J. 1 J? A VS 'IV V1 V 1 V V Rain rest Gerald DeAguiar of Durham patiently waits for the rain to stop Thursday afternoon outside Davis Library. EAC By JASON KELLY Assistant University Editor The largest national student rally in 20 years will be held in 45 state capi tals, including Raleigh, Monday , to push national forest protection legislation in both the U.S. Congress and state legis latures. Emily Lawson.co-coordinatorof the Raleigh march, said this first national action of the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) would in volve students from more than 500 campuses nationwide. More than 1,200 students from uni versities and hish schools across North 2-day conference to discuss peace By STEPHANIE JOHNSTON Staff Writer The Center For Peace Education, a non-profit educational foundation, is sponsoring a conference today and Saturday designed to give partici pants a better understanding of the problems the world faces now and those it w ill face in the future. "The conference will give all concerned citizens a better under standing of the increasingly fast process of change," said Arthur Scherer,an organizer of the event. "It is to give a better understanding of the problems w e w ill face in the next decade and what we can do. For instance, the environmental problem. This conference will help put that problem in context of other social problems." Scherer said the conference w ould also focus on ending racism and sexism. "We don't think the problem of 'peace' can be solved until there's a Happy Birthday Daily Tar Heel No, this bright blue color doesn't mean we've been invaded by USA Today forces. Rather, it's our way of celebrating the birthday of Chapel Hill's oldest newspaper, the DTH. Ninety-seven years ago today, The Tar Heel, a weekly paper published under the auspices of the University Athletic Association, came out with its first issue. Under Editor-in-Chief Charles Baskerville, the first paper was a pictureless page that devoted its space to explaining why UNC needed asummary of all occurrences ft.. 1 DTHAmi Vitale s ' i clhaoters Carolina are expected to march on the N.C. Legislative Building in Raleigh, she said. Alec duettel, chairman of SEAC at UNC, said he hoped the march would surprise Congress. "This is an unusual event. Congress thinks students in this country are apathetic. If we pull this off, we could get the momentum going to override the representatives from Oregon and Washington, w ho are basi cally owned by the timber industry." Lawson said she hoped the national rally would increase the nation's aware ness of how poorly forests are being managed. "We want publicity about lot more justice in the world." One of the most important goals of the center and of the conference is to give people special skills to be come individual agents for peace, according to Scherer. "What we're trying to say is the problems we face are not solved from the top down. This is too important to depend on leaders. People have to work. A lot of Americans have for gotten that the freedom we have implies a responsibility to be edu cated." Scherer said the center now has about 300 people registered for the conference. "We expect about that many to be walk-ins. There are a lot of out-of-state people but mostly people from North Carolina." The cost for students to attend the conference will be $10. Costs for other participants w ill be $65. Kathleen McGinnis and Robert See PEACE, page 11 in the University and village of Chapel Hill" every Thursday morn ing. "Space will be assigned for the thorough discussion of all points pertaining to the advancement and growth of the University, the paper said. Baskerville probably never envisioned the paper as it is today, but we'd like to think we've upheld the ideals of that first issue, So have a piece of cake today while you enjoy the blue. Happy birthday, DTH. What a long, strange trip it's Officials support out - of By MYRON B. PITTS Staff Writer Administrators and students re sponded "yes" to increasing the num ber of out-of-state students but "no" to enlarging overall University enrollment when asked their opinion on the issue of increasing out-of-state enrollment. The question of possibly augment ing the number of out-of-state students was raised at a Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting two weeks ago. The Board's Academic and Student Affairs Com mittee is now reviewing the admissions policy of the University in preparation for the April BOT meeting. The current policy of accepting 18 percent of applications from non-North Carolinians was raised from 15 percent in 1984. Chancellor Paul Hardin, who could not be reached for comment Thursday, has previously suggested that UNC increase the number of out-of-staters. Donald Boulton, vice chancellor and dean of student affairs, said that a rea sonable increase in the capacity of out-of-state students accepted might be in order but that no enrollment increase should be considered. If recent drops in the number of in-state students avail able for admission continue, the Uni versity should increase the number of out-of-state acceptances, he said. "I think that basically a modest in crease from 18 to 20 percent would be most helpful in order to help us reflect the changing pool of people. This would enable us to meet the ebb and flow of applications during different periods. "The mission of the school should always be aimed at our residents. A modest flexible cap up to 20 or 21 to hoid the forest issue. When you know about it, you can't help but see it needs to be changed." Guettel said that two pieces of for estry reform legislation are now before Congress and that similar bills are be fore the N.C. General Assembly. "The whole issue is so obviously backwards and the legislation is so absurd that we have to do something. "The (United States) Forest Service is the No. 1 destroyer of our forests. In the U.S., 95 percent of our virgin forest has already been destroyed. And we pay for it." According to SEAC, the Forest Serv Faculty Council to decide By DIONNE LOY Staff Writer The Faculty Council will meet today in Wilson Library to reach a decision on establishing an academic minor program and to debate the remaining athletic reforms first recommended in December. The council will also discuss the plight of the University libraries. Gillian Cell, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will recommend that undergraduates in the College of Arts and Sciences be permitted to take an academic minor, said Harry Gooder, chairman of the faculty. Cell was out of town Thursday and could not be reached for comment. The administrative boards of the General College and the College of Arts and Sciences approved the con cept of the academic minor in Decem ber. The departments considering a minor submitted individual requirement plans, said Darryl Gless, associate dean of general education. Gless said the department require ments for the minor consisted of four to six classes. "This gives the student a more structured, useful idea of the subject." The academic minor would benefit students, Gless said. "The fundamental argument for the minor is that it gives depth to several disciplines." The council will also consider the remaining resolutions suggested by the Ad Hoc Committee on Athletics in its December report on UNC athletic re form. Discussion will begin with the pro posal that all students must receive the same degree of academic support pro vided to student-athletes, Gooder said. Also, the relationship between the University community and the Execu tive Committee of the Educational Foundation will be addressed, he said. The remainder of the report covers budget, fund-raising, selling seats in the Smith Center and parking for fac ulty during commercial events at the Smith Center, Gooder said. "I don't percent allows us to be mindful of who pays the bills." Student Body President Brien Lewis said he did not support an increase in out-of-state acceptances. "I would not want to see out-of-staters take in-state spaces. I don't want to see anything that's going to increase the (over-all) enrollment." Lewis said that if the number of out-of-state acceptances were raised, a corresponding lowering of admissions standards would not be necessary. "I can't say for sure. I think we turn down a fair number of highly qualified out-of-state students." Joseph Pillow, assistant director of undergraduate admissions, said he would need more data before com menting on how an increase would affect admissions policies. "We have a very strong applicant pool; we have for many years. It just depends on if the quality of the students from out of state maintains." Pillow said admissions policies would also depend on whether a total student increase is required. Under those circumstances he was not sure if the same standards for admission could be maintained. Most BOT members interviewed would not make any statement on the issue, preferring to wait until they ob tained more information. Board member Arch Allen said, "I think that's something that I'd rather wait until it is brought before us as an agenda item." Trustee John Harris said attracting good out-of-state students was impor tant. "The first responsibility is to the raiines ice and the timber industry destroy square acreage of forest equal to the size of Rhode Island every six months. Lawson said SEAC has to be some what radical to change legislators' minds. "But we are in a unique position as students. We can afford to be a little radical." Speakers at the march tentatively include? Jim Hunt, former N.C. gover nor; Harvey Gantt, former mayor of Charlotte and candidate for N.C. sena tor; Mary Kelly, a representative from the Western North Carolina Alliance, a non-profit forest protection group; and John O'Connor, a noted grassroots know if we can get through it all it's a lot of material." In other business, the Administra tive Board of the Library will present its annual report to the council, naming the stagnant state of the budget as its greatest concern. The report emphasizes that the fund ing crisis did not arise with the recent temporary budget freeze but has been a problem for several years. 'The main purpose of the report is to keep everyone apprised of how bad it is and how it's worsening each year," said James Govan, University librar ian. "We've had no legislative increase in funding in five years." Over the past three years, there has been an increase of more than 28 per cent in the price of serials and of 22 percent for books and standing orders, the report said. The report concluded Right on track Triangle light rail proposal winning support 3 Harmonic convergence A cappella groups to com bine for Saturday concert .6 Master strokes Two UNC swimmers set new ACC records 8 Campus and city 3 State and national 4 Business 5 Features 6 Sports 8 Classified 10 Comics 11 Inside been. The Grateful Dead - state enrollment hike people of North Carolina, but you cer tainly want to attract high quality stu dents from out of state." BOT member William Darity said he supported an increase. "I'm in favor of it; it provides for a better mix." However, the method of increasing out-of-state presence should be left to the University, not the BOT, he said. Although most students interviewed were in support of an increase, they said they were unsure about how to increase out-of-state enrollment. LisaTruitt, a sophomore from Sparta, said that she supported an increase and that a student population hike would be the best method to accommodate one. "If we don't increase it would be neglecting some people who would be an asset to the University. An increase in total enrollment would be the fairest (method) above all." Alyssa Wood, a sophomore from Midlothian, Va., said she was a propo nent of increased out-of-state presence but was against an overall student in crease. Possibly excluding athletes from the present out-of-state 18 percent cap would be best, but only if athletes comprised a large percentage, she said. "I think they (out-of-staters) add to the University. There are people from in-state who are less qualified than out-of-staters." Freshman Ibidun Smith of Duiham said: "Unless they're going to inciease the in-state enrollment it would be unfair. The school is in the state of North Carolina so it should cater to the in-state students as well as out-of-state students." Other students saw no problem with across environmentalist and leader of the National Toxics Campaign. SEAC members will also speak at the rally. Guettel said the march should not take more than four hours Monday afternoon. "People will be meeting at the Campus Y at 1 :30 p.m. We plan to have a few buses, but those will fill up quickly. Most people will have to car pool to Raleigh if they can't get a ride they should come to the Campus Y and we'll get them a ride. "The march should be over by 4:15 p.m., so everybody should be back by 5 p.m. that the library simply could not afford any more lean years. This academic year, the library has reached the point at which it is not able i'i V, , 4 Si Y Watch this space V XT' 1 ' Junior Shannon Shepherd and senior Paige Phillips (reflection) eye treasures at Wentworth and Sloan Thursday afternoon. t LLS Donald Boulton more out-of-staters, as long as Univer sity numbers did not also increase. Shona Lancaster, an evening college student from Tulsa, Okla., said that out-of-staters would further diversify UNC and that disallowing out-of-state athletes in percentage accepted would be the fairest measure. "It (the student population) is di verse within the state but you're still restricted by geographical boundaries. If they just take the cap off and let in more students you're just going to have problems." Clyde Walceyburris, a junior from Madison, said the current 18 percent figure needed no changing. "I think it's about right." mateoim The idea for the national rally origi nated at the Threshold Conference, a national student environmental action conference held at UNC last October. SEAC has put together a national net work of student groups concerned with environmental issues, incorporating about 500 campuses across the coun try. UNC's SEAC branch now serves as the network's national headquarters. Guettel said students had to realize their potential for political impact. "Students have the ability to have a major impact in this country. If Ameri cans wake up to that fact, they could be really powerful." 00 minor to buy any new books or journals, Govan said. "At the beginning of second quar- ter (of this fiscal year) we had to shut down on everything." 1 DTHSchuyler Brown : . ' -TOW i " ) KM.
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