The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, November 6, 19903 be mm Botanical Garden to sponsor workshops The N.C. Botanical Garden has sev- eral programs planned for November to bring nature into the holiday season. The garden will sponsor a workshop, "Holiday Crafts Used by School Teachers and After-School Coordina tors," Sunday from 2-5 p.m. In this hands-on program, participants will use inexpensive natural materials such as bamboo, fall grasses and pressed flowers to make a variety of craft items. On Nov. 17 from 8:45 a.m.-l p.m., participants in a plant rescue program will remove Christmas ferns from a wooded industrial site in Raleigh. In addition to taking the plants home for their own enjoyment, participants can v iew a wi ldflower garden planted around the company's office. All garden programs will be held in theTotten Center and have limited space registration. For more information orto register, call the garden at 962-0522 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. UNC receives grant to study rural doctors Dr. Thomas Konrad, Program on Primary Care and the Health Protessions director, has been awarded a one-year, $379,85 1 grant for a national study on the availability of physicians in rural areas. The U.S. Public Health Service, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, awarded the grant. The UNC center will conduct a mail survey of about 2,800 rural primary-care physi cians in small, remote communities. The objective is to supply informa tion about the physicians and shortages of them in rural areas to Congress, local governments and the National Health Service Corps to help policy delibera tions. Planetarium sponsors 5 stellar programs "Universe: The Big Picture," a pro gram that explores the birth of the uni verse, stellar formation and death, and the effects of a black hole, is showing at the Morehead Planetarium now through Nov. 19. Shows are at 8 p.m. daily with added weekend matinees at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. "Sky Rambles," a live-narrated tour of the night sky featuring visible planets and constellations, is held Fridays at p.m. . "Once UponaUniverse,"a30-minute children's show explaining the night sky, plays Saturdays at 1 1 a.m. Two films are now showing at the planetarium: "Seasons," which cel ebrates nature and the world, and "To Flv " which exDlores the history of - -j . r - A -rican flying machines. "Seasons nlavs Mondav through Thursday at 7 t j j - p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. "To Fly" plays Saturday and Sunday at 4 p.m. Tickets are $2.50 for children, stu- Henft and senior citizens and $3 for others. For recorded information, call 962-1248. Friends of the Library to present mapping The Friends of the Library will spon sor a Nov. 14 program, "Mapping the World and Beyond: Selections from the Maps Collection at UNC." The program will be held m the Kare Book Reading Room of Wilson Library and will feature Celia Pratt, maps li- brarian. The 5:30 p.m. program is free and open to the public. Drama department plays 'Hogan's Goats' The Department of Dramatic Art will present "Hogan's Goats" Thursday through Sunday at the PlayMakers Theatre. The plays will be performed at 8 p.m., with 2 p.m. matinees Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $7 and may be purchased through the Paul Green Theatre Box Office or by calling 962-PLAY. Tickets also will go on sale one hour before show time if there are any available. Chairwoman elected to nursing board JoAnn Glittenberg, chairwoman of the Department of Community and Mental Health, has been elected to a three-year term on the American Academy of Nursing Governing Board. The election was held at the academy's annual meeting in Charles ton, S.C. last month. Committee not open to change, employees ay By THOMAS HEALY Senior Writer A University committee responsible for developing a new employee griev ance process heard criticisms and sug gestions concerning the committee's proposal from about 14 employees Monday. But many of the employees present at the meeting said they felt the com mittee was on the defensive and not open to change. The employees have criticized the committee's proposed policy because it prohibits lawyers in the first three steps of the grievance procedure and gives the jurisdiction of Step I hearings to supervisors wnnin the employees department. Under the system now, Step 1 is handled within departments, Step 2 is heard by the employee relations office, Foram addresses segregation in University residence halls By STEVE P0LITI Staff Writer Participants in an open forum Mon day night discussed segregation in University housing and presented ideas what could be done to make mi norities feel more accepted on North Campus. Seven panelists and about 20 students and faculty attended the forum, which was held in the Upendo Lounge. Ihe Residence Hall Association and the Black Student Movement sponsored the forum. The forum was held in response to a recent survey printed in the Black Ink, which indicated that 67 percent of Af rican-American students live in the four South Campus residence halls. Twenty- five percent of the African-American students live in Morrison Residence Hall. "With a very large white population, North Campus becomes the embodi ment of that whole notion of that this is their campus, and I'm an outsider," said Sabrina Evans, a panelist and president of the BSM. Shepelle Watkins,the RHA executive adviser of minority affairs, said, "I think there are several reasons why there is UNC-system against affirmative action decision By CARRINGT0N WELLS Staff Writer UNC-system lawyers will file a pe tition Friday requesting a rehearing on last week's court decision that requires all universities to comply with federal affirmative action regulations, said Thomas Ziko, a special deputy attorney general. A panel of three judges trom the 4tn U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Oct. 29 that the federal government had the right to require all system schools to submit affirmative action plans, even those that did not have federal con tracts. "We feel that the federal government should not subject us to investigation and review which they do not have the authority to require of us," Ziko said. "They do have the authority when a particular campus has a federal con tract, but not in the absence ot sucn a Advisory board to aid BCC By STACEY KAPLAN Staff Writer Plans for a new B lack Cultural Center building may be solidifying with the creation of an advisory board and the appointment of Harold Wallace, vice chancellor for University affairs, as chairman. Having an advisory board instead of the temporary planning committee will allow more structure and anchored planning for the next five to 10 years, said Margo Crawford, BCC director, "I'm very optimistic that the entire board will build a flagship BCC. Asa Bell, co-chairman of the board, said the change would be a positive one for the BCC. "We now have a stable and permanent board to assist Margo (Crawford) and give direction to the BCC," he said. "It's always good to have new life and new perspectives on a board or com mittee." The advjsory board will facilitate the movement toward constructing a per manent building for the BCC, Bell said. "It (the advisory board) is a positive step because more people will be able to listen and do the leg work to find out how to go about getting a building," he said. At the board's Oct. 11 meeting, members elected Wallace as chairman of the board. Wallace said the posit ion of chairman presented a challenge and tremendous responsibility to which he would devote the amount of time it deserved. Bell said Wallace would be an asset to the advisory board because of his past involvement with the BCC. "He envi sioned the BCC long before there was a BCC," he said. Step 3 is ruled on by a panel outside the department that reports to the chancel lor, and Step 4 is heard outside the University. Kay Wijnbergi an employee in the School of Law and a member of the State Employees Association of North Carolina, said she thought the committee members were set in their positions on the major issues. Those issues concern legal representation in the procedure and the fact that Step 2 is heard by one of the employees' supervisors, she said. "As an idea is presented, they alter natively present their rationale for why they want to keep it the way they've written it," she said. "I saw more a defense of their position as opposed to an openness of what the employees were saying to them." Peter Schledorn, an employee in segregation on South Campus. Fresh men ask their friends who have gone to Carolina where the best place is to live on campus. They will frequently tell them that the majority of black students stay on South Campus. That just starts a cycle. "I do think that a lot of black students remain on South Campus because they are comfortable there," she said. "What I am concerned about is that percentage of black students that like living on South Campus but would also like considering living on North Campus but don't seem comfortable about doing so." Several students who attended the forum agreed with the panelists that African-American students find that South Campus has a "community feel ing" for minorities that is missing on North Campus. Wayne Kuncl, a panelist and housing director, said encouraging minorities to move to North Campus might defeat the community feeling. A long-range solution would be in creasing minority enrollment, he said. Panelists suggested a Multicultural Building be built on North Campus to make minorities feel more comfortable. lawyers to contract," he said. The University of North Carolina at Asheville and the North Carolina School of the Arts do not have federal contracts, according to the case. The three-judge appeals panel, which handed down the decision last week, will decide whether to rehear the case. "If one of these judges circulates our petition amongst the other seven judges of the appeals court, any one of the 10 judges can ask for a vote on whether it is to be heard en banc (by the entire court)," Ziko said. If the case is not heard again by the Court of Appeals, UNC lawyers can petition the U.S. Supreme Court. "I would assume that since we've taken it this far, we would petition for a writ of certioraris, meaning that we would be asking the Supreme Court to exercise their discretion to hear the case," Ziko said. Wallace said the advisory board's facilities committee presented a pre liminary report to the board last week about the building of a BCC facility. The complete report will be issued in a few weeks, he said. The board will use the report to make recommendations for a transitional plan for the BCC, decide on methods of funding for the project and recommend ways to implement last year's feasibil ity study, he said. The feasibility study called for the construction of a student activities building similar to the Student Union, he said. Bell said the planning committee es tablished the initial plans for the cre ation of the BCC in 1988. The committee was formed in 1984 to establish bylaws, hire a director and govern the BCC, and Sophomore By JENNIFER MUELLER Staff Writer Recovery is slow but steady for Jay Egolf after an Oct. 2 1 car accident that left him in critical condition with mas sive head injuries. The UNC sophomore from Hendersonville is now in intermediate care at Baptist Hospital in Winston Salem, a hospital spokeswoman said. Alycia Minter, a nurse at the hospi tal, said Egolf is in stable condition and doing better. , Egolf was visiting Boone two weeks ago when the car he was a passenger in careened off Howard's Creek Road and down an embankment. Daniel Krug, Egolf s roommate, said that Egolf s side Davis Library and a member of SE ANC, agreed. "It sounded like they were try ing to pitch it to us, rather than asking for our comments." Although he thought good arguments were made and there was good discus sion, Schledorn said he was not sure if the employees accomplished anything. BenTuchi, chairman of the grievance committee and vice chancellor of business and finance, said an assessment of the members' reaction was in the eye of the beholder. But he pointed out that in the last two weeks the committee has made more than 30 changes to the proposed policy as a result of suggestions from SEANC members and other employees. That fact should assure employees that the committee is listening to their opinions, but that doesn't necessarily Kuncl proposed that the University require all students to take a "Freshman 101" course to teach students about race relations and University life. Despite the small turnout, panelists said the forum helped bring the issue of segregation out into the open. Panelist Shawna Pinckney, who is also BSM executive assistant and a li aison to the Housing Advisory Board, said, "There was definitely a lot ac complished. We discussed a lot of ideas about how people are really feeling. A lot of the issues that came out of this forum can definitely be implemented in some fashion in the near future. "At least I know that my concerns and the Black Student Movement's concerns are also the concerns of the white population on campus, the housing advisory board, and the housing de partment." Watkins said it was usually difficult to get a large number of students to attend a forum of this nature. "I just wish a lot more students would have attended," she said, "It's the same people who have the same concerns as ours who come. The people who aren't really pressed about it are the people who need to be here." file appeal He expects to receive a response to the petition in 30 days, Ziko said. If it is denied, UNC lawyers have 90 days to petition to the Supreme Court. UNC is contesting the decision as a matter of establishing jurisdiction, not because there would be difficulty com plying with the federal regulation, Ziko said. 'There have never been any allega tions that UNC's affirmative action programs are not entirely in keeping with federal regulations. 'The final result of this case won't have an earth-shattering effect on how the university system does business," he said. "The quest ion is whether schools that don't have federal contracts should be subject to federal regulations." Irving Goldstein, the lawyer repre senting the Labor Department in the case, could not be reached for com ment. building plans it continued its role until this semester. The appointment of Crawford as BCC director was one of the best decisions the committee ever made, said Bell, a member of the committee since 1985. The 12-member advisory board is composed of students, faculty, staff and members of the community who par ticipate in four standing committees: facilities, financial, programming and nominating. Crawford said the board met bi weekly. A retreat at the Omni Europa Hotel is scheduled for the board Satur day to discuss the advisory board's by laws. The establishment of an advisory board was planned since the BCC was created in 1988, but was delayed because of a focus on oroeramming, Crawford said. injured in car of the car struck two trees. It took 45 minutes to extract him from the wreck age. The driver, Clyde Robert Ingersoll, 19, a sophomore at Appalachian State University, was found to have a .12 blood alcohol level at the time of the accident, Krug said. Egolf was transferred from a hospital in Boone to Baptist Hospital after fail ing to respond to treatment. As of Oct. 3 1 , Egolf was moved out of intensive care, Krug said. Jenny Egolf, his sister, said her brother would re cover fully from the accident eventu ally. "He's talking some and moving mean the committee will make all the suggested changes, Tuchi said. But SEANC members said the ma jority of changes were technical and wording revisions and did not touch on the substantive issues. Wijnberg said she thought the com mittee wanted to appear open to sug gestions without in fact being open. The committee has made some valu able revisions to the old grievance policy, but those revisions shroud the fact that the committee is taking away employee rights, such as legal repre sentation, Wijnberg said. The committee has been meeting since November 1989. The first pro posal was completed in March 1989 and submitted to the State Personnel Commission this fall. On Oct. 3, the personnel commission sent it back to 2T Z ri 'SffiSPA PS J f w-V n X fir"" 4 J N t . jury , ' " Freshman Steve Rosenbaum shows off his wheels Motorcycle club loss of parking By BRIAN GOLSON Staff Writer The Carolina Rams Motorcycle Club has been formed to represent motorcyclists' concerns about the lack of campus parking. 'The club was formed to provide motorcyclists with a combined voice to approach the parking department on motorcycle parking grievances and to provide an organized club forpeople to socially ride motorcycles, said Lad Carrington, Carolina Rams president. The club was formed last month by Carrington and Vice President Ken Bernstein after three motorcycle parking areas near Hamilton, Sitterson and Phillips halls were eliminated, Carrington said. The club now has around 50 members. 'These lots were eliminated with out obtaining any input or consider ation from the people who would be affected," Carrington said. Bernstein said the Parking and Transportation Department eliminated the lots because motorcycles were obstructing pedestrian walkways. By removing these parking areas, the department has forced motorcy clists to park in crowded lots and on walkways, which increases the park ing problem, he said. Many motorcy clists now park in a small lot behind the Undergraduate Library where ac- accident recovering slowly now, sne said, tie s aware oi every thing: where he is, how long he's been there, what's going on and that he was in a car accident." Krug said Egolf received a small hole in his bladder and cerebral contu sions on the left side of his brain. The swelling went down two days after the accident, but it probably will take sev eral months before Egolf fully recovers. "There are neurological connections which have to be relearned," he said. "With rehabilitation, he should be able to get back to normal, but it's going to take a while." Jenny Egolf said her brother should be out of the hospital in about two weeks. "He'll have to go through .T T C . the committee members giving them 60 days to clarify language regarding the appeal process of Step 2. The committee has since changed much of the language of the proposal but has continued to deny requests by SEANC and the American Association of University Professors that employees be allowed to have legal representation at all grievance hearings. The committee's proposal bans lawyers at all grievance hearings except Step "4. ; This was the 10th meeting the cbm mittee has held that was open to all University employees. The committee will hold two more open meetings this week. . ; B Tuesday from noon to 1 :30 p.m. in Toy Lounge, located in Dey Hall. . n Wednesday from 7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. in 1 1 1 Murphey Hall. e-xv:::o:-x::":"x ::: -:::::::::::-::-:-::-:: -::.:-:::::-: . DTHJonathan Grubbs plans to protest areas on campus cess is difficult and dangerous, Bernstein said. Motorcyclists who paid the $84 parking sticker fee are upset that the University no longer provides ad equate parking, he said. Carrington said the parking and transportation department was con ducting a survey to study the problem, but he was not encouraged by their actions. The club plans to draft a letter which will list problems about the parking situation and will offer possible solu tions. About 30 people attended a 100 mile ride and pig-picking sponsored by the club Nov. 3. Bernstein said he was encouraged by the turnout for the club's first event. After the ride, six prizes were awarded in a variety of categories. Several Duke students participated in the ride and are planning to form their own club, Carrington said. He said he hoped an intercollegiate mo torcycle association would be formed to help coordinate clubs activities. The UNC club meets each Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Union. The club is planning another social event for late November. physical therapy, but there's no perma nent brain or physical damage," she said. Her brother was wearing his seat belt at the time of the accident, she said. Ingersoll said he has not yet appeared in court, but believes his court date is Nov. 9. "This is basical ly the only ticket I've ever been convicted of," he said: He is certain he will lose his license as a minimum punishment, he said. "It really sucks," Ingersoll said. "Jay is one of my best friends. I hate to put a friend of mine in the hospital." Egolf has withdrawn from the Uni-. versity for the semester. His sister said he probably would not return until fall 1 99 1 . When he does, he will be back to' his old self, she said.

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