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Volume 98, Issue 38
Thursday, April 26, 1990
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Telescope launched after
delays, mechanical glitch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. After
years of delay and a tast-minute snag,
the Hubble Space Telescope was freed
from the Discovery on Wednesday and,
glinting in the sunlight, drifted off on
its 15-year search for new worlds.
Mission specialist Steven Hawley
released Hubble from the end of the
shuttle's 50-foot mechanical arm after
a delay in getting one of the telescope's
solar wings unfurled.
I'The first of NASA's great observa
tories is now on station at 330 nautical
miles above the Earth," Mission
Control's Jeffrey Carr said.
The $1.5 billion telescope was re
leased at 3:38 p.m. EDT as the shuttle
entered its 20th orbit of Earth, nearly
two hours and one orbit later than
planned. The shuttle then backed away.
Mission specialists Bruce McCan
dless and Kathryn Sullivan had been in
the shuttle's airlock, ready to walk in
space to free the solar panel. That proved
to be unnecessary.
Bush fends off criticism
for Lithuanian inaction
' WASHINGTON President Bush,
bitterly criticized by Lithuania, said
Wednesday "I don't need any defense"
for refusing to penalize the Soviet Union
for its economic squeeze on the breaka
way Baltic republic.
'The policies, decisions I've taken
have had strong support from the
American people, and that's who I work
for," Bush said. The president did not
reply when asked by a reporter how
Lithuanians view his decision.
While Bush has won support from
some congressional leaders for his strat
egy, there also were signs of restive
ness Wednesday about the lack of a
U.S. response.
Senate Democratic Leader George
Mitchell said Bush should take some
action "to express disapproval and to
deter further actions" against Lithu
ania. For a second straight day, Lithu
anian President Vytautas Landsbergis
denounced Bush's refusal to curb eco
nomic ties with the Soviets in reaction
to coercion of Lithuania.
Nicaraguan president
inaugurated to acclaim
MANAGUA, Nicaragua Violeta
Barrios de Chamorro was inaugurated
Wednesday as president of Nicaragua,
ending 10 years of leftist Sandinista
rule and hostility from the United States.
"Yes, I promise," swore Mrs.
Chamorro after the new president of
"the National Assembly gave her the
- oath of office before a crowd of 1 5,000
"';at a downtown baseball stadium.
Outgoing President Daniel Ortega
' then took off the blue-and-white presi
dential sash and helped Mrs. Chamorro
slip it over her head.
The dignitaries witnessing the cere
mony included Vice President Dan
Quayle, who arrived at the stadium in a
black limousine. Some Sandinista sup
porters chanted "Assassin!" as he ar
rived, and one person threw a rock
toward the vehicle.
: The new president has infuriated
leaders of her political coalition by
reportedly deciding to retain the Sandin
istas' longtime military chief.
From Associated Press reports
Policy predicament
Seniors face finding own insurance
companies post-graduation 2
When, where and Y
Special feature details the Campus
Y's history of service 8
Game's not over yet
Baseball team prepares to keep
swinging into May and June ...... 1 6
Campus and city . 3
State and nation 5
features 6
' Classifieds , ......11
, Opinion ;.; 15
Sports Thursday 16
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College
By STEPHANIE JOHNSTON
Assistant University Editor
Students no longer have the option
of substituting a level four foreign lan
guage class for a math course, and will
now be required to take only four upper-level
perspective courses, said
Gillian Cell, dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences.
The Faculty Council has approved
all but one of the recommendations
made by a University committee that
worked for more than a year to evaluate
general education. Cell appointed the
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Sophomore Elizabeth Freeman, left, winner of a raffle accepts her Sony
sponsored by the UNC-Soviet Exchange Program, Margaret Bass, a
Student group warns off economic elitism at UNC
By BRIAN LYNNE
Staff Writer
A recent study by Students for Edu
cational Access (SEA) shows that UNC
enrollment trends are moving toward
economic disparity between family
incomes of freshmen and income lev
els across the state and nation.
In the last nine years the presence of
freshmen from families earning more
than $100,000 a year has risen by more
then 65 percent, while the number of
freshmen from families earning less
then $20,000 has been almost cut in
half.
Louis Bissette and Stuart Hathaway
compiled a study that compared data on
more than three thousand freshmen per
year for the last nine years. The study
revealed that the median parental in
come of UNC-CH freshmen had risen
at nearly six times the rate of median
family incomes in the South, and at
almost five times the national average.
Hathaway expressed concern that
UNC was on a path that would end with
the University catering only to the
wealthy. "The data indicate that Caro
lina is becoming increasingly elitist,"
he said.
Seminars,
tionor late
By SHANNON 0'GRADY
Staff Writer
In memory of Paul Brandes, former
professor of speech communication,
his family has established the Paul
Brandes Seminars and the Paul Bran
des Course Development Awards.
Funding for the seminars and awards
will come from the Student Under
graduate Teaching Award Brandes
received posthumously and a donation
by his immediate family. His widow,
Melba Brandes, and his daughter and
son-in-law, Sarah and Scott Madry,
have returned the $5,000 award, along
with an additional $5,000 contribution
to the College of Arts and Sciences in
memory of Brandes.
Educational excellence and involve
ment with students was important to
her husband, Mrs. Brandes said. "Paul
always enjoyed his students so much,"
she said. "Sarah, Scott and I hope that
by establishing the Paul Brandes
Awards and Seminars we can convey
our gratitude to the students who chose
Paul for this honor."
Mrs. Brandes said she hoped the
endowment would have a lasting effect
professor
committee in the summer of 1988 in
response to a recommendation from
the College Curriculum Report. The
report, which initiated the existing
general education curriculum in 1980,
advised that the curriculum be evalu
ated no later than 1988.
All students' requirements could be
affected by the changes next year, Cell
said. "Some relate only to freshmen,"
she said. "Some also apply to currently
enrolled students unless students opt
for them not to."
The Faculty Council did not approve
Bissette said more than one problem
had contributed to the situation. "The
trend from grants to loans, combined
with the increase in the cost of educa
tion is probably the cause."
Statistics compiled by SEA showed
that the cost of in-state education had
risen by 29.4 percent. The median
family income in the South has in
creased by only 5.3 percent. The shift
from grants to loans is definitely part of
the cause, Hathaway said.
Bissette suggested that UNC might
be losing its attractiveness to lower
income students because families may
not want to go into debt to finance their
children's education.
Hathaway said something would
have to be done to make sure that UNC
was accessible to people regardless of
their economic situation. "If they are
qualified, they should be here," he said.
Confusion regarding financial aid
resources was part of the problem,
Hathaway said. 'The process for ap
plying for aid is so complex that it is an
additional obstacle for poor families."
Bill Hildebolt, student body presi
dent, said he was shocked and disap
pointed by this trend. "We need to deal
awards wi
professor
at UNC. "We know that Paul would
want this prize to be reinvested in
undergraduate education, and we hope
that the course development awards
and seminars established in his name
will benefit students at Carolina for a
long time to come."
Joel Schwartz, professor of political
science and director for the Center of
Teaching and Learning, said the funds
would benefit students and faculty at
UNC.
"The Brandes family has provided
funding for something that the Center
of Learning tries to do all the time,
which is to help faculty members and
teaching assistants to teach more effec
tively," he said. "This is totally in tan
dem with the activities the Center of
Learning tries to promote."
Course development has a positive
effect on the quality of instruction,
Schwartz said. "These things (course
development) do in fact elevate the
quality and effectiveness in the class
room," he said. "I can't think of a better
way for the Brandes family to immor-
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a recommendation to allow a course in
a student's major to count as a perspec
tive. "Presently, there are five upper
level BA (Bachelor of Arts) require
ments," Cell said. "The proposal was to
reduce it to four, but also include the
fact that a student's major would sat
isfy a perspective. The Faculty Council
didn't approve the fact of the major
counting."
The council approved the
committee's recommendation that stu
dents be allowed to choose which four
of the five perspectives they want to
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Discman from program coordinator
senior.
with this problem, if we are shutting off
low-income families," he said. "The
whole idea behind public education is
that everyone has the opportunity for
an education. That's the principle that
this institution was founded on."
A proposal to change distribution of
student aid money will address this
problem, and will be presented at the
Board of Trustees meeting Friday,
Hildebolt said.
'The first $250,000 from trademark
sales would be guaranteed to athletics,
then all the money up to $1,000,000
would go to need-based scholarships,"
he said. "Any funds above a million
dollars would be divided, with 75 per
cent going to academic need-based
scholarships and 25 percent going to
athletics."
The present division of proceeds from
trademark-bearing merchandise is 50
50 between academics and athletics.
Hildebolt said he had discussed the
proposal with athletic director John
Swofford, who supported it.
Bissette said, "It is very important
that the athletic department supports
this consideration, because nothing will
probably happen unless they do."
Edwards' 2nd grievance on hold
By SUSIE KATZ
Staff Writer
University police Officer Keith
Edwards will not receive word on a
second grievance she filed against the
University police department until
transcripts from hearings on the dis
crimination complaint she filed al
most three years ago are completed.
Alan McSurely, Edwards' lawyer,
said this second grievance, also pro
testing unfair hiring practices, was
filed Nov. 27, 1 989. This second griev
ance follows a University police
department violation of a chancellor's
committee directive that mandates that
the Public Safety department inform
all employees of job openings and
give them all an equal chance to apply
for such positions.
This directive was made in Sep
tember 1988 after several grievances,
including Edwards', were filed against
the department for discriminatory
employment practices. She had filed
her first grievance in 1987 when the
department filled open positions with
out posting the job openings. Posting
notices would have given all officers
a fair opportunity to apply for the
positions, she said.
Edwards' first grievance has
in other people's
fulfill. The areas students can choose
from are aesthetic, social sciences,
natural and mathematical sciences,
philosophy, and western historicalnon
westerncomparative. Ann Woodward, a committee mem
ber, said she agreed with the Faculty
Council's decision. "Obviously a per
son is going to have a perspective from
their major field, say from an aesthetic
point of view," she said. "There's also
an advantage of having the breadth of
another related area."
The math and foreign language re
Task force wi
weigh mereim
service o
By CARRINGT0N WELLS
Staff Writer
A task force has been formed to
examine integrating community serv
ice with the academic curriculum at
UNC.
Gillian Cell, dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences, organized the task
force. The group will meet for the first
time Friday to discuss a program called
a.p.p.l.e.s. (allowing people to plan
learning experiences in service).
a.p.p.l.e.s. was the product of a group
of students who began meeting in
February to analyze the need for a service-learning
program at UNC.
Cell said she strongly supported such
a program. "I am very sympathetic to
the students' wishes to link community
service and the academic curriculum,"
she said. "This is a very good move
ment, which I have seen develop na
tionally, and I was very impressed with
the students who met with me and their
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by their parents' combined income. Incomes are expressed in
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reached the Step 4 level. At this level,
the case is heard outside the University
jurisdiction.
Edwards said she had doubts about
the sincerity of the directive of the
chancellor's committee. "I'm wonder
ing now if they signed off on my griev
ance and made that statement just to
pacify me because the chancellor has
allowed the same thing to happen
again."
McSurely said the directive was
clearly violated, which brought about
the second grievance. "DeVitto as
signed people to three open positions
without posting the availability of the
jobs. Every police officer should have
had the opportunity to apply for them.
That practice is exactly the same thing
as in 1988. It's deja vu all over again."
McSurely said he was also concerned
that the University is stalling in resolv
ing Edwards' second grievance. 'They
(University officials) have taken this
passive approach toward Keith and
every day Keith still has to go back to
work with them.
"She's had to live with a cloud over
her head for three years. If this were
United States Steel I could understand,
but it's not. This is the University of
North Carolina.
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quirements will no longer be connected,
Cell said. "All students will be required
to take or place out of a new basic math :
course, Math 1 0," she said. "Then they ' 11 !
be required to take one additional (math) '
course."
Hannelore Jarausch, a romance lan
guage professor, said students who"
placed into level four of a foreign Ian- .'
guage would now have to take that
course, level three or level 2X. "It's
fundamentally staying the same," she
See CURRICULUM, page 13
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real commitment to the project."
Task force member Mike Steiner
said the a.p.p.l.e.s. program would be a
way of enriching educational possibili
ties at the University. "Volunteerism
should be a part of every citizen's duty,
and the University is trying to train
people to be good citizens," he said.
'This program could help get volun
teerism incorporated into the fabric of
the school, rather than keeping aca
demic work separate from real-life
work."
Elson Floyd, associate vice presi
dent of student services, said the pro
gram had a lot of potential. "The whole
concept is a nice integration of in-class
experience with out-of-class experi
ence, but faculty support will be essen
tial to the program," he said.
Faculty, administrators, students and
community members will be on the
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"I don't know when the police de
partment will make the discovery .
that it would behoove them to have a
clear written policy about how pro
motions and reassignments should
take place in the department. It seems
stupid not to allow people to apply
and aggressively try to raise their
own rank."
Ben Tuchi, vice chancellor of
business and finance, said that the
University wasn't stalling the Step 3
hearing of the second grievance in
tentionally, but that the delays were
not under University control. The
University needs to have the tran
script of the first grievance's hearing
before it can proceed with hearings
for the second grievance, he said.
"We're all at the mercy of the
transcribers waiting for the transcript.
No one likes to wait. I'm told it's due
momentarily, whatever that means.
If there is a route that's available
(toward a quick solution), we'll take .
it, but I don't know what that is."
Edwards said she wished she had -
known what taking her grievance to;.
Step 4 would involve. "Not many,
employees (filing grievances) have
See EDWARDS, page 13