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Government summer
internships available
Sophomores, juniors and seniors have
until Jan. 25, 1991, to apply for paid
summer jobs in the Summer Intern
Program at the UNC Institute of Gov
ernment. " Thirty students will be selected to
I participate in a living-learning internship
I in N.C. state and local government di
rected by the Institute.
The interns will work 40 hours each
week from May 29 to Aug. 9 in re-
sponsible positions in state departments
. or local government. They will be paid
$200 a week. They will live together
' and share evening seminars with lead
ers from all areas of N.C. government
and from private leaders interested in
public policy issues.
Students interested in the program
should secure an information brochure
and an Institute of Government appli
. cation form from their college or uni
I versity placement office or from the
! Institute of Government. A brief de
scription of the 1991 internships is
! available in college placement offices.
: PlayMakers perform
: "Nothing Sacred"
PlayMakers Theatre is performing
'. "Nothing Sacred" by George F. Walker
; through Nov. 11.
i Friday and Saturday night reserved
! tickets are $ 17.50. Wednesday, Thurs
day and Sunday night tickets are $15.
: Tuesday night, non-reserved tickets are
;$7.
Tickets are available at the Paul Green
Theatre Box Office. For more infor
. mation call the box office at 962-PLAY.
Discounts are available for senior citi
zens, children under 18, UNC students
and groups of 10 or more.
UNC lab program
receives new name
The name of the Division of Medical
Technology in the Department of
Medical Allied Health Professions has
been changed to the Division of Clini
cal Laboratory Science.
The new name more accurately re
flects the nature of the program as well
as the program of study at UNC, divi
sion officials said.
The Clinical Laboratory Science
program at UNC focuses on the major
areas of clinical laboratory science:
hematology, microbiology, clinical
chemistry, immunology and immuno
hematology. Students enter the program,
which leads to a Bachelor of Science
degree, in their junior year.
MBA program target
for recruitment
' The Promus Companies Incorporated
has made the University's masters in
business administration program one of
its primary recruiting targets, the com
pany announced.
Promus Companies Incorporated is
the parent company of the industry's
leading hospitality companies of
Harrah's casinohotels and Embassy
Suites, Hampton Inn and Homewood
Suites hotels.
Promus, founded in February as a
quality and service-oriented public spin
off of the old Holiday Corporation, has
targeted five graduate level university
programs for its primary recruiting ef
forts.
Halls of Fame seek
journalism nominees
Nominations for the N.C. Journal
ism. Advertising and Public Relations
Halls of Fame will be accepted through
Dec. 7.
Induction will be held at a banquet
April 7 during Journalism Days.
' Nominations, including a letter and
supporting material, should be sent to
the School of Journalism Dean Richard
Cole, at the School of Journalism. CB
3365. Howell Hall, Chapel Hill, U.C
27599-3365. Final selections will be
made by the Halls of Fame Committee
Suit raffled to educate taxpayer, Hal ay
By 0I0NNE L0Y
Staff Writer
Don Hall, who is suing the Univer
sity, said Wednesday that he renewed
his suit because he wanted to inform
taxpayers of admissions policies that he
claimed were racially and sexually
discriminatory.
The Knoxville, Tenn. resident, who
is acting as an agent for his daughter,
Nicole Dee Hall, refiled the lawsuit
Oct. 19 claiming that the UNC admis
sions office discriminated in favor of
male minorities, athletes, out-of-state
applicants, alumni's children andUNC
System employees' children.
Hall filed the suit last year after his
daughter was not admitted into the 1 989
reshman class. He dropped the suit to
wait for the Civil Rights Commission to
UNC-system officiate
discuss mandatory
athlete drug testim
By SHANNON Q'GRADY
StaH Writer
Representatives from UNC-CH and
nine other UNC-system schools met
Wednesday with the American Biotest
Laboratory to discuss mandatory drug
testing procedures for varsity athletes.
Richard Robinson, chairman of the
drug policy committee and assistant to
the UNC-system president, said the
meeting was the first opportunity area
campus representatives had to meet with
the drug testing company. The meet
ing was primarily for the 10 campus
representatives in charge of drug testing
to talk about procedures.
"It was a matter of going over forms
and discussing how to read specimens,'
he said. "It was not a meeting of policy,
but more of procedure."
The UNC Board of Governors ap
proved the mandatory drug testing
policy this summer. The UNC Board of
Trustees approved the policy in August
after the BOG ordered them to act on it.
The policy is not being enforced yet.
Richard Baddour, UNC senior asso
ciate director of athletics, said the
meeting was an opportunity to meet
officials from the testing company and
learn how the drug testing would work.
The meeting-today -was important
from the standpoint that.we got to meet,
the representatives from the testing
company, and now we can get rolling,"
he said.
The actual testing contract is with
American Biotest Laboratory of Santa
Clara, Calif., Baddour said. The com
pany has an office in Charlotte.
American Biotest Laboratory con
tracted Prompt Professional Services
Inc. to do the specimen collection, he
said.
"The meeting was a chance for us to
meet both the testing company and the
collection company," Baddour said.
Allen Morris, UNC men's tennis
coach and assistant drug testing coordi
nator, said the meeting brought the 10
ASG calls for year's warning
prior to any tuition increase
By TIM BURROWS
Staff Writer
Students should have 12 months
notification before tuition increases, and
money from such increases should be
given directly to the UNC system instead
of the N.C. General Assembly, members
of the Association of Student Govern
ments said Friday.
Notification of any tuition increase is
necessary to help students in financial
planning, said Barry Graham, ASG vice
president for multicultural affairs. Di
rect allocation of additional tuition funds
would allow state universities to benefit
more from tuition increases, he said.
Representatives from each of the 16
UNC-system schools participate in the
ASG.
ASG members also discussed the
possibility of creating an educational
trust fund.
The trust fund would be modeled
after the N.C. Highway Trust Fund and
would give the UNC-system schools
more financial flexibility, said Mark
Bibbs, ASG president. !
All money raised for education, in
cluding student tuition, would go di
rectly into the trust fund and could be
used only for educational purposes.
Unused funds could be saved for the
next year, Bibbs said.
However, the idea of the fund was
only discussed and the ASG did not
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complete an investigation of the Uni
versity on allegations of sexual and
racial discrimination in the admissions
process.
The deadline for renewing the law
suit was Oct. 20, so Hall refiled even
though the commission's report has not
been issued.
Hall recommended a public hearing
to be held so state residents could see
how UNC admissions were handled.
"They're keeping out a lot of good
folks, and the taxpayers ought to know,"
he said.
Nicole Hall met the University's
standards of admission, as outlined in
the 1988-1989 general catalog for the
University, with a 2.8 grade point av
erage and a Scholastic Aptitude Test
score of about 900, Hall said.
campuses participating in the drug test
ing program together.
"The meeting today was to pull to
gether all the University representatives
who will be working with this com
pany," he said.
"It was just a general fact-finding
meeting. It was a chance for them (the
testing company) to answer any ques
tions as to how the procedures were
going to be carried out."
Representatives from Elizabeth City
State University, Fayetteville State
University, N.C. A&T, N.C. Central
University, N.C. State University,
UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Charlotte,
UNC-Wilmington, Western Carolina
and Winston-Salem State University
attended the meeting.
According to the drug testing policy
approved in August, athletes are subject
to both pre-season testing and
unannounced random testing during the
season. Athletes will be chosen from a
random computer drawing of names
from team rosters.
When an athlete is chosen for testing,
he or she will receive written notice
from Baddour or associates one day
prior to the scheduled testing date. The
notification will include the testing site
and time.-' Vlt:.' r
JEailure to participate in the drug
5 ji testing upon notification will result in
suspended athletic eligibility for the
remainder of the academic year.
If an athlete fails the drug test, he or
she will meet privately with his or her
head coach to discuss the severity of the
problem.
The minimum punishment for failing
the drug test is enrollment in a University
drug education program. The athlete
may be subject to weekly testing.
Depending on the severity of the
problem, the athlete may lose his or her
eligibility even if it is the first offense.
If the athlete becomes ineligible, the
player may not be able to renew his or
her athletic scholarship.
take an official stand, Bibbs said.
Graham said ASG's main goal was
to find alternatives to replace the funding
that the schools in the UNC system had
lost because of budget cuts.
In other business, ASG members
discussed ways to combat a rash of hate
mail directed at state representatives
and senators.
Bibbs said state congressmen had
received letters from angry students
bitterly attacking the politicians for
recent UNC-system budget cuts.
The letters written by students from
all UNC-system schools were mis
guided and did not help improve con
gressional opinion toward students, he
said.
"It's one thing to express anger," he
said. "But it is another thing to be crude
and disrespectful to legislators."
In many cases, congressmen who
support the universities received hate
mail from students who did not know
the representatives voting records on
budget issues.
Much work will be required to clear
the reputation of the state's university
students. Bibbs said.
Members also discussed studying
minority and out-of-state student en
rollment at state universities to help
formulate policies toward improving
minority retention rate and adjusting
tuition rates.
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"She had a 2.8 average, which wasn't
that outstanding, but it is very good
when compared with the ball players at
least," he said. "UNC is, in particular,
giving preferential treatment to ath
letes." After his daughter was placed on the
University 's waiting list in the spring of
1989 and later denied admission, Hall
requested statistical information about
1989 accepted applicants and records
about his daughter's application. The
University admissions office never
supplied Hall with the information.
"They (admissions office) could have
gotten me off their backs, simply by
taking my daughter's record and another
one without the name and comparing
the two," he said. "They won't share
nothing. I think you can demand to see
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Skull-duggery
Denae Sharenbroich, a junior from Durham, and
Cassandra Wright, a junior from Trinity, carve their
Handicapped students' entrances
blocked by illegally parked bikes
By JENNY BURRIS
Staff Writer
Physically handicapped students are
having difficulty getting to their classes
because people are blocking building
entrances by using handicapped ramps
as bike racks.
Jim Kessler, handicapped technical
specialist, said bikes were being chained
to handicapped ramps and placed near
automatic doors. When this occurs, it is
impossible for handicapped students to
use these facilities.
This is a problem at many buildings,
including Bingham, Steele, Murphey
and Saunders, but it is a more serious
problem at Hamilton Hall, Kessler said.
"One advantage Hamilton has is that
there is more than one accessible en
trance," he said.
Chancellor's committee to promote
programs for community diversity
By MATT CAMPBELL
Staff Writer
Chancellor Paul Hardin has formed a
new committee to help promote relations
between students, faculty, staff and
administrators.
A memorandum released throughout
the University outlines the chancellor's
plans for announcing the Chancellor's
Committee on Community and Diver
sity and its intended plan of action. The
committee will meet for the first time
Wednesday.
"No more urgent issue confronts the
University than to make certain that this
is truly a diverse campus while, at the
same time, encouraging honest appre
ciation of the differences among us and
thus preserving the unity and civility of
the University community," the
memorandum stated. "No challenge that
we face is more worthy of our concern
and energy."
The UNC Affirmative Action Office
and committee members first looked at
other universities with similar organi
zations such as Columbia, Stanford, the
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your own record."
John Martin, attorney for Stanback,
Stanback, & Martin, P.A., said the
University was prevented by the
B uckley Amendment under the Privacy
Act from revealing information on a
student's application . If the University
gives out this confidential information,
federal funds can be withheld, he said.
Hall said the Civil Rights Commis
sion probably would not find the Uni
versity guilty of sexual and racial dis
crimination. "Civil rights laws permit the Uni
versity to select just about anyone for
just about any reason," he said. "I'm
sure that's going to be the University's
out.
"It's wrong, wrong, wrong to be able
to arbitrarily choose any way they want
Another problem is when bikes are
parked under the eave of Greenlaw Hall
and the buttons to the automatic doors
are blocked, he said.
"Although there are signs, I think
students don't read them because it's an
inconvenience to them," Kessler said.
Kessler said he called the police once
when a bike had completely blocked the
entrance to Saunders.
"The police have been very sup
portive, but there is an incredible time
factor involved," he said.
The police usually are not contacted
when somebody blocks a handicap ac
cess because by the time the officer gets
the equipment needed to cut the lock,
the bike has been removed.
Students caught with their bikes on
these ramps are not ticketed, Kessler
"I feel the com
munity is ready
for some action."
Lorna Harris
University of Massachusetts and the
University of Wisconsin.
Robert Cannon, UNC affirmative
action officer, said the committee would
assess the other universities' programs
and apply the information as they began
working. The affirmative action office
will provide support to the committee,
Cannon said.
Judith Wegner, committee co
chairwoman and law school dean, said
she wanted the group to address how to
avoid having classes with a "cold cli
mate" where students were not as likely
to be involved.
Because of the recent increase in
racial harassment, she also wants to
promote a more open environment at
to. The taxpayers are not going to want
that, and maybe they'll want to push the
legislature to appropriate more money
to admit more people."
The admissions office is preventing
qualified white students from attending
the University, he said. "I think they're
wanting to establish a so-called balance
by letting in Orientals and blacks to take
the place of qualified whites, unfortu
nately." Hall said now they were requesting
the difference in tuitions of UNC and
the University of Tennessee at Knox
ville, where Nicole is now a sophomore
His daughter likes UT, but he is not
happy with her attending that school,
Hall said. "She wanted to go to UT
before Carolina, and it didn't bother her
a bit."
DTHGrant Halversqn;
pumpkin, named "Buster Douglas," for the pumpk&i:
carving contest Wednesday afternoon in the Pit. : ;
said.
Will Bacon, a freshman business
major, said he parked his bike on the
ramp at Bingham, even though there is
a sign in plain view reading "Do Not
Park Bikes On Ramp," because of the
lack of bike racks. :
"There is nowhere else to park it near
the building," he said.
Joseph Spampinato, a junior eco
nomics major, said there should be bike
racks placed near these buildings. !
He only parks his bike on ramps if he
thinks it will not block the entrance,
Spampinato said. The ramp at Bingham
is easily accessible even when bikes'are
parked on it, he said. t
"There are no bike racks near the
entrance," he said. "People are lazy,
I'm lazy too."
the University, she said. ;
"This committee will get various
ideas underone umbrella," Wegner said.
"The committee has a big agenda with
a lot of potential and a diverse group,
and this is a healthy way of looking to
build a community in diversity."
Kristina Sung, an undergraduate
committee member and Student Con
gress member (Dist. 8), said the com
mittee had high goals.
"I am a representative for the Student
Congress on the committee, but alo I
want to help promote equality on cam
pus and make the (University) cqm
munity more aware of the overall riait
we all play in the University," she sqid.
The committee will discuss ways to
improve internal programs at the Uni
versity as it continues to grow, Sung
said. ;
Lorna Harris, assistant nursing pro
fessor and committee member, said; "I
feel the community is ready tor some
action; they want to see the University
stand committed to its promoting di
versity." ;
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