2The Daily Tar HeelFriday, March 20, 1992
SARR works to advance unity through
By Kristin Ldght
Staff Writer
"If you throw a rock at something,
it's going to make an impact. But if you
throw some pebbles at something, the
pebbles are not going to do anything.
We need to be like a boulder. We need
to unite."
Esa Davis, co-chairwoman of the
Campus Y's Students for the Advance
ment of Race Relations committee, used
this metaphor to describe one of the
main themes of Race Relations Week
''Unity Through Diversity."
This message, which SARR has tried
to communicate to the campus this
week, is one they operate on all year.
"If you look at the members of SARR,
we're all from various backgrounds.
We're not one group or race," Davis
said. "We're a very diverse group and
the fact that we're able to work together
to come up with something like Race
Relations Week says something."
SARR co-chairwoman Genie Walker
said: "We really like to stress that we
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are a race relations group, which means
that this is a pluralistic, multicultural
group. It's not just black and white."
SARR works to demonstrate the ne
cessities and advantages to diversity.
Walker said.
'The way to harmony is not neces
sarily saying that we don't have differ
ences or looking past someone's color
or religion," Davis said. "I think we
should recognize this person's black,
this person's white, this person's Na
tive American and try to understand the
differences and accept them."
SARR tries to promote understand
ing and acceptance of cultural differ
ences between groups, said freshman
Fred Wherry, a member of the group.
"SARR believes people act out of
ignorance, and if people understood each
other, they'd respect one another,"
Wherry said.
The group promotes understanding
between cultural groups in several dif
ferent ways. Race Relations Week,
SARR's primary activity, held this
week, included many programs like
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workshops, speakers and films, educat
ing students about different cultural
groups, such as Arabs, Israelis, Hispan
ics. Native Americans, African Ameri
cans and Asian Americans.
"One of the focuses of this week has
been to try to include other minorities,
not just black and white, and to really
address their issues," Walkersaid. "I've
been pleased with the Success of this."
The week emphasized that people
should also celebrate the diverse na
tures of these groups, Davis said.
SARR member Anita Foye came up
with one of the mottoes for the week
"Unity Through Diversity."
"We have so many diverse groups,
races, sexual orientations just so
many diverse people that we need to
unify," Foye said. "I'm not talking to
tally melt together, but unify."
Wherry said he had learned both posi
tive and negative things from his in
volvement in Race Relations Week.
"It's shown me how much apathy
there is on this campus, and that so
many people are convinced that they
don't need to learn about race relations
because they think they know all there
is to know. But, at the same time, I've
seen the people who do come to the
functions really benefit from them."
SARR also tries to improve race re
lations through education during the
year. SARR members, trained as facili
tators, lead race relation workshops.
Recently, SARR worked with Sibby
Anderson-Thompkins, assistant dean of
students, to create a brochure on racial
harassment.
'This gave us an opportunity to as
sess the racial harassment policy at UNC
and to challenge it," Walker said. "It
also gave us the chance to provide a
brochure that students could pick up
and say, 'What is racial harassment?
What do I do about i'"
SARR is not just a proactive group, it
is a reactive group. Walker said.
"When I say reactive, I mean that
anything that happens on campus that
we feel falls within our jurisdiction, we
make efforts to become involved in."
SARR supports the Sonja Stone Task
Campus Calendar
FRIDAY
10 .m. SENIORS: Sign up for free one-year
membership in the Educational Foundation (Rams
Club) until 2 p.m. in the Pit.
NOON: CGL A Lesbian Lunch in the Union. Check
schedule for room.
I p.m. Juggling Club will meet at the flagpole on
the Quad. Rain location: Carmichael Ballroom.
3 p.m. SEAC Bowl-A-Thon until 5 p.m. in the
Union Bowling Alley.
8 p.m. Campus YSARR Race Relations Week
Multimedia, Multigenerational Performance, "The
Claw and the Feather: A Child Looks at Race Rela
tions," will be given in Hanes Art Auditorium.
9 p.m. UNC-Russia Exchange Benefit with Se
lected Hilarity and Still Life in the Union Cabaret.
Tickets are $3.
9 p.m. CHispA presents Latin American Dance
until I a.m. in the Great Hall. Tickets: $3 in the Pit, $4
at the door.
SATURDAY
8:30 p.m. Asian Students Association is sponsor
ing a dance until 1 a.m. at Carolina Apartments with
a S3 cover.
SUNDAY
5:30 p.m. Rainforest Action Group will meet in
the Campus Y.
STUDENT LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
When: June 18-20 or August 6-8, 1992
Where: Andersen Consulting's Center for Professional
Education located near Chicago, Illinois
Topics Covered:
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leadership skills management development skills
INTERVIEWING SKILLS WORKSHOP
When: 1 day during the week of June 22-26, 1992
or the week of July 20-24, 1992
Where: Andersen Consulting's Center for Professional
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Topics Covered:
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One top Junior student will be selected for each of the summer programs.
Expenses will be covered for both participants.
Applications are available in the UNC Career Planning & Placement Office in
Hanes Hall, and need to be submitted by Thursday, March 26, 1992.
Programs are open to students with a G.P.A. of 3.0 or above, regardless of major.
If needed, interviews will be conducted at UNC-CH on April 1, 1992.
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Force, SEAC, the multicultural curricu
lum and the housekeepers, Davis said.
Davis and Walker would like to see
SARR's influence on campus grow.
"I think it makes an impact now, but
I would like to see it make a huge
impact," Davis said. She said she wanted
SARR to sponsor more events that in
corporated the mass of the student body
like Race Relations Week.
Walker said she would like more
people to become involved in SARR
and for them to feel that the group's
activities had great value for UNC.
"There would be a mushrooming ef
fect the more people thought it was
valuable, the more it could do and the
more effective it could be," Walker
said. "I think we have been effective,
but we have a long way to go."
Foye said she was optimistic about
the role SARR has played and will play
in creating better race relations. "Any
help is a big help. You have to crawl
before you can walk, and I think that's
what we're trying to help the University
do. I think it's a very big role."
ITEMS OF INTEREST
BSM Umujo Awards Nominations are extended
until 5 p.m. Monday. Pick up forms at the BSM
Office.
German Honorary Society, Delta Phi Alpha, is
recruiting new members who have completed at least
German 4 and have a German GPA of 3.0 or belter.
For more information call 933-3443 or stop by 415
Dey.
CAA is forming committees for Rampage '92:
UNC's Homecoming. Applications are available at
the office.
Juniors: Senior class marshall applications for the
class of 1 993 are available at the Union Desk and are
due by Monday.
Sophomores and Juniors: Deadline for applying
foracademic credit for Summer and Fall 1992 intern
ships is March31. Information available in 21 1 Hanes.
Yackely Yak is taking yearbook portraits in 213
Union from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. until April 16. Come to
213 Union to schedule an appointment.
ARTS
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sents an evening of dance choreographed by faculty
and students at 8 p.m. March 26 & 27 in Memorial
Hall. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $5.
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Pratt also supposedly verbally threat
ened Rep. Elliott Zenick, Dist. 1 7, Stutts
said. Zenick, an ethics committee mem
ber, did not vote on the censure because
of his involvement in the matter, Stutts
added.
Pratt could not be reached for com
ment Thursday.
Mike Kolb, ethics committee chair
man, said the vote did not finalize any
thing. The full congress will hear the
committee's report at Wednesday's
meeting, he said. The censure must be
approved by two-thirds of the congress
before action can be taken, he said.
If the measure passes, congress
Speaker Tim Moore would have to de
cide what action to take, Kolb added.
Moore was out of town and could not be
reached for comment.
Ethics committee member Caroline
Doyle, Dist. 19, said the hearing was
fair.
"It went very smoothly, and I think
both parties were satisfied," she said.
Kolb said that regardless of what
happened to Pratt, it would not affect
him in next year's congress, which be
gins in two weeks. Even if Pratt were
expelled from congress, he would be
allowed to return as soon as the new
session began, Kolb said.
John Johnson, CGLA treasurer, and
Bob Gams, CGLA office coordinator,
said the CGLA would wait to see what
happened in Wednesday's meeting be
fore commenting.
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the last thing I want these good people
to think is that I'm taking them for
granted."
In the delegate race, Clinton has gath
ered 947, Tsongas 430 and Brown 1 29.
Tsongas said that he would not en
dorse Brown or Clinton and that he has
no immediate plans for the future.
Tsongas termed his exit as a suspen
sion of his campaign, a technicality that
allows him to keep control of his del
egates and to maintain his eligibility for
federal matching funds to help pay off a
debt approaching $1 million.
Tsongas said his campaign, while
drawing in money now, never fully re
covered from the lean startup days.
The race was lost in 1991, Tsongas
said, and his message almost rescued it
this year.
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