Students teach parents who
profess learners’ perspective
By Amy Seeley
Assistant Features Editor
When it’s down to the University of
Virginia, Georgia Tech or UNC, many
students choose colleges far from home
to get away from their parents.
But many University students whose
parents teach here say they have en
joyed being near their parents and maybe
have learned a little something extra.
Freshman Gwendolen Blackburn
moved to Chapel Hill from Oxford,
England, to join herparents, who moved
here a year ago. Her father, Simon
Blackburn, now teaches philosophy at
UNC. “I really wanted to be closer to
my family,” Gwendolen Blackburn said.
“It’s nice to be able to bump into my dad
on campus.”
Gwendolen Blackburn also has
gained anew perspective that pro
fessors are people too. “The guys up
there have got a tough job, too. So go
easy on them,” she said.
Having a daughter at UNC also has
given Gwendolen Blackburn’s father
more insight about students, she said.
She sometimes talks to her father about
her professors, telling him what she
doesn’t like about the classes. “He’ll
make a point not to do (what I don’t like
in) his classes,” she said. “He’s seeing
how what he does affects other people.”
History Professor Roger Lotchin,
father of freshman Ted Lotchin of
Chapel Hill, said he also had learned
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There they go again: SBP candidates kick off ’93 election season
tail
Student Body President
Carl Clark
Carl Clark, a junior political science
major from Fuquay-Varina, says a stu
dent body president’s primary respon
sibility is to solve the day-to-day prob
lems faced on campus.
“I am intent on creating practical
goals that the SBP can accomplish,” he
said.
Clark said ensuring campus safety,
restoring student government account
ability and setting higher standards in
student life and academics would be his
primary goals as student body presi
dent.
“Before I decided to run, I saw sev
eral needs on this campus that needed
answers,” he said. “I conducted a ran
dom phone poll of about 200 people.
“I believe, based on the poll, that
these are the issues students are con
cerned about.”
Clark said he would make safety a
priority by coordinating a more exten
sive student-run campus watch, install
ing car level safety phones in campus
parking lots, putting more student
money into safety and providing safety
shuttles operating from 6 p.m. to mid
night from the Student Union to any
location within a two-mile radius.
To improve government accountabil
ity, Clark said he would make himself
accessible to students by installing an
answering machine in the student body
president’s Suite C office and having a
public lunch once a month alternating
Kevin Ginsberg
Kevin Ginsberg, a junior business
major from Chapel Hill, says that com
munication between students and their
government is the key to being an effec
tive student body president.
“We’ve got to get the people active in
student government again,” he said.
“Most students don’t know what’s go
ing on in student government. That’s a
serious problem.”
Ginsberg, or “Cooter” as his friends
and campaign posters identify him, said
his work as an orientation leader and in
other leadership activities had helped
him develop the necessary communica
tion skills.
“I think I know what it takes to make
a difference,” he said.
As his three main goals, Ginsberg
cites lobbying against a proposed tu
ition increase, working toward tenure
reform and supporting organizations
such as the Black Student Movement,
the Student Environmental Action Coa
lition and Bisexuals, Gay Men, Lesbi
ans and Allies for Diversity.
“I’d like to especially be a strong
voice for certain student groups,” he
said. “The SBP is responsible for repre
senting the people.”
To work with student groups,
Ginsberg said he would set up liaisons
between the student body president’s
office and the organizations.
These liaisons would go to commit
tee meetings and group activities and
report back to the student body presi
dent.
Ginsberg also said he would prepare
a statement for students each week de
tailing what his administration was do
ing and ho w students could get involved.
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Professor William Harmon said it would be a "hoot" to have his son, Will, in class
from his son. “I get sort of an inside
view of student life that I didn’t get
before. I respect them more.”
Ted and Roger Lotchin stay close by
having lunch together every Friday, but
Ted Lotchin never even considered liv
ing at home. “That would be silly,” he
said. “Living in the dorms is part of the
whole (college) experience.”
Freshman Will Harmon of Chapel
Hill also lives in a dormitory and eats
lunch once a week with his father, En
glish Professor William Harmon, to stay
in touch. “The parental presence is still
pretty strong,” the freshman said.
Gwendolen Blackburn said it would
have been difficult for her to go back to
living at home because she had lived on
By Anna Griffin
University Editor
It’s that time of the year again.
On Feb. 9, several thousand student
voters will take to the polls to cast their
between different
campus cafeterias.
Clark also said
he would make
more intelligent
use of the student
body president’s
veto power over
Student Congress
as a way to moni
tor student-fee
spending.
To improve campus life, Clark said
he would work to streamline Caroline.
Clark said one way to improve the
telephonic-registration system would be
to establish a toll-free number for out
of-state students.
He said he also would work to coor
dinate a ticket distribution hotline and
revitalize South Campus with copy
card machines, stamp machines and
campus phones in Chase Hall.
Clark also said he would establish a
syllabus reserve file in the Robert B.
House Undergraduate Library and
would organize a student petition drive
to encourage state legislators to give
more funding to UNC libraries.
He also said he would work with
administrators to establish a special ten
ure track that would reward tenure to a
certain number of instructors each year
based solely on their teaching ability.
Clark is a three-term congress repre
sentative.
“This is a way to
get in direct con
tact with the
people,” he said.
Ginsberg said
he already had
formed a commit
tee to examine
ways to fight a pro
posed tuition in
crease.
“Basically tu-
ition increases do not help students,” he
said.
“If you include our parents and our
families, (students) are the largest inter
est group in the state. The power of the
people can’t be stopped.”
Tenure reform can be accomplished
by organizing the students as a lobbying
force, he said.
Ginsberg said his primary goal as
president would be to act as a voice for
the students of UNC.
“The important thing is that the SBP
has the ability and confidence to do
what people want,” he said.
“One person can’t do everything the
University needs to be done. That is
why the student body president must
listen to the people and, at the same
time, be their voice to the administra
tion and the legislature.”
Ginsberg said he had served in stu
dent government as a freshman but had
become frustrated with the bureaucracy
prevalent there.
Ginsberg also has served as a senior
counselor for the Palmetto Boys State
program, as a coach in Chapel Hill’s
Rainbow Soccer program and is a mem
ber of Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity.
CAMPUS AND CITY
her own for a year to finish high school
after her parents moved here.
But Alexis Cambanis, a senior from
Chapel Hill, has lived at home since his
freshman year. Cambanis said he was
glad he had stayed close to his family
even though he might have met more
people if he had lived on campus.
Junior Debbie Boxill of Chapel Hill
said she and her parents had agreed that
she should not live at home. “They
thought it would be fun for them, but
they knew it would be bad for me.”
Boxill’s experience at UNC has been
more unusual than that of many stu
dents whose parents are professors. She
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ballots for the next student body presi
dent. Unlike recent years when four
seemed the required number of student
body president candidates, in 1993 six
candidates have taken the plunge.
Between today and Election Day, the
Jim Copland
Jim Copland, a junior economics and
political science major from Burlington,
says the next student body president
must have the experience to grapple
with issues such as the proposed tuition
increase from day one.
“I have the experience to do the job
well from the beginning,” Copland said.
Copland said that unlike other candi
dates, he had a great deal of experience
working both with students and with
legislators, administrators and members
of the Board of Trustees.
Copland said his top three priorities
would be ensuring campus safety and
better race relations, restoring UNC to
national prominence by fighting a pro
posed tuition increase and reforming
the tenure policy and making students
more environmentally concious.
Although Copland said he would
work for more lighting and more police
on campus, he added that educating
students about safety was the best way
to prevent crime.
“It’s important for more visible signs
of safety more lights, more security
patrols,” he said.
“But I don’t think most people real
ize that 84 percent of the rapes on this
campus are date- or aquaintance rape.
We need to look at how these cases are
handled.”
Copland said he would spend his
summer lobbying legislators in the Gen
eral Assembly.
Jennifer Lloyd
Jennifer Lloyd, a junior political sci
ence and speech communication major
from Burlington, says the next student
body president must make reforming
student government his or her first pri
ority.
Lloyd said that instead of concentrat
ing on specific campaign platform posts,
she was running on a philosophy of
governing.
“Student body president is a job with
about eight different facets —some of
which students don’t care about,” she
said.
“We need someone who understands
the importance of all those facets —of
serving on the (UNC-CH Board of Trust
ees), of leading the executive branch, of
supporting our student groups, of mold
ing the philosophy of student govern
ment.”
Lloyd said she would work to rewrite
the Student Government Code to pre
vent political maneuvering from stand
ing in the way of student needs and to
make it easier for the average student to
comprehend.
Last fall, five congress representa
tives mounted a failed attempt to im
peach Lloyd as speaker of Student Con
gress.
“No one knows the politics of stu
dent government better than I do,” Lloyd
said. “And no one has fought it more
than I have.
“The next student body president
must work as hard as possible to reform
government for the students.”
Lloyd said she also would emphasize
improving the value of teaching at the
University.
“We need to remember that the stu-
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By Casella Foster
SuffWriter j
Despite some confusion, Carolina
Athletic Association officials said
Sunday that ticket distribution forthe
last home men’s basketball game
the senior game against Duke—went
smoothly and according to plan.
Tracy Kirincich, CAA president,
said that although there might have
been some confusion about when stu
dents could begin camping out, every
student who spent the night outside
the Smith Center got tickets.
After the Florida State game last
Wednesday, students began camping
out for the Duke tickets. Although
regulations stated that camping out
was prohibited until 1 a.m. Sunday
morning after the Bobby Brown
Third phase of campaign begins
Hardin contributes $50,000 to Bicentennial effort
By Scott Ballew
and Jennifer Brett
Staff Writers
UNC graduate and noted journalist
Charles Kuralt helped kick off the Cam
pus Campaign for Carolina on Friday,
urging more than 400 faculty and staff
volunteers to “take up the slack” in
raising the $320 million set as the Bi
centennial Campaign goal.
Kuralt was one of several dignitaries
who took part in the start of the campus
six hopefuls will participate in at least
three forums, shake hundreds of hands,
give out several trees worth of cam
paign literature and get very little sleep.
But what does the student body presi
dent really do?
He said he al
ready had a small
group prepared to
help lobby the
General Assem
bly.
“I know all the
people in Raleigh,
and I know I can
step in the first day
and address this
pressing issue
definitiely and effectively,” Copland
said.
“The student body president must
ensure that we get a real return for any
increase, and, if at all possible, that we
avoid an increase all together.”
Copland served on the staff of former
Student Body President Matt Heyd and
helped lead the fight against proposed
budget cuts in 1991.
Copland said he also would use his
student government experience in lob
bying the BOT to reconsider the UNC
tenure policy.
“I would try to move the Board of
Trustees to look at the tenure policy and
at the teaching mission of the Univer
sity,” he said.
Copland, a former member of Stu
dent Congress, also served on the staff
of former Student Body President Bill
Hildebolt.
He also is a Morehead Scholar and a
member of Chi Psi fraternity.
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dents are the con
sumers here,”
Lloyd said.
Instead of fo
cusing on specific
campaign prom
ises “hot-bed
issues,” as she put
it—Lloyd said her
campaign would
revolve around re
storing the role of
the student body president.
“Most things that students care about
could probably be changed with a phone
call or two,” she said.
“What’s most important is not little
issues, but what the student body presi
dent does everyday.
“Who are you for voting for— what
is their philosophical basis that is
what I want students to focus on.”
Lloyd said she would focus on ful
filling the multifaceted responsibilities
of student body president and on main
taining contact with the campus through
liaisons.
“An effective student body president
must understand the big picture that
he or she has too many responsibilities
to get bogged down in little details,” she
said.
“The best thing a student body presi
dent can do is get very good people
involved.
“We need to understand each group’s
specific needs, and it takes more than
one person to do that.”
Lloyd has served in Student Con
gress for three years.
She also is a Morehead Scholar and a
member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority.
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concert ended security guards al
lowed campers to stay as long as they
were in the grass around the dome.
While seniors were waiting in line
for tickets on Friday, about 20 tents
were set up.
Tricia Jennings and Tandace
Reynolds, both sophomores from
Maiden, set up camp at 10 p.m. Thurs
day night At that time, they said about
nine tents already were out.
“Hopefully we’ll get good tickets; I
don’t know ... there are too many se
niors,” Reynolds said at the time.
After senior ticket distribution ended
Friday at about 6 p.m., police and CAA
members told campers they had to get
off of the premises because of the con
cert, Kirincich said. CAA officials took
the names of the about 500 campers
who were told to move. After the con
campaign, the third phase of the Bicen
tennial fund-raiser. The campus effort
focuses on faculty and staff members.
In an interview before his brief ad
dress, Kuralt, a former editor of The
Daily Tar Heel, said he was pleased that
the campus volunteers had asked him to
attend the kickoff ceremonies.
"This gathering has the nature of a
family reunion,” Kuralt said. “And I am
very proud to be part of that family.
(UNC) is the most important institution
in all of our lives.”
The student body president is re
sponsible for appointing and oversee
ing various University committees,
making recommendations to Student
Congress, vetoing acts of congress, en
forcing and administering laws of con
David Cox
David Cox, a junior history major
from Chattanooga, Tenn., says his cam
paign is an effort to give students a
yotatrin student government.
11 “f seie an enormous amount of dis
content with the way student govern
ment is running,” he said. “I think the
(student body president) can unify the
campus.
“Student body government can be
really beneficial to students ... if they
get unified.”
Cox said his top three priorities would
be giving students the power to choose
where their student fees go, making the
campus safer and encouraging students
to get more involved in service-ori
ented activities.
Cox said he would propose allowing
students to control 75 percent of the
money currently allocated to various
student groups by Student Congress.
Students could use Caroline to channel
their fees to different student organiza
tions, Cox said.
“It lets the students dictate what
groups will be lasting on this campus,”
he said.
Cox, who was mugged last year on
campus, said he would implement a
large volunteer student patrol to keep
the campus safe.
Students would be given an hour of
class credit for 20 to 30 volunteer hours
a semester, he said.
A similar credit program should be
Adrian Patillo
Adrian Patillo, a junior radio, televi
sion and motion pictures major from
Chapel Hill, says organized activism is
the key to making the administration,
the Board of Trustees and the General
Assembly pay attention to student needs.
Restoring communication between
the student body president and the stu
dent body is the first step to making the
students of UNC a powerful lobbying
force, he said.
“There used to be a connection be
tween the student body president and
the student body. That bridge really
isn’t there anymore,” Patillo said.
“That’s why I’m running to see if I
can build that bridge back.”
Patillo said his three primary con
cerns were reforming the University
tenure policy, stopping the proposed
tuition hike and restoring the reputation
and responsibility of student govern
ment as a whole.
“Over the past two years, student
government has really turned people
away,” he said. “That happens when
people act like babies.”
Patillo said he did not consider him
self an “outsider” candidate, even though
he has not been widely involved in
student government.
“Others may consider me an out
sider, but I have a great many contacts,”
he said. “It just comes from talking to
people students, faculty members
and administrators.
“You don’t have to have a title to
know people.”
Patillo said he also wanted to in
crease the ties between the University
and the surrounding community. He
said he would encourage students to
cert ended early Sunday morning,
these people were lined up in the F
West Lot according to the list.
The other students who came to
camp out at the regulated time, 1 a.m.
Sunday, were lined up by the tennis
courts behind Hinton James, and CAA,
officials took down their names on a £
separate list, Kirincich said.
From 1 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. Sunday,
CAA officials lined up the people
who camped out before 1 a.m. first, ’
then lined up the post-1 a.m. arrivals
behind them.
“It was at first a little confusing,”
Kirincich said. “But the crowd was
really good and worked with us.”
But Dale Herman, a junior from ‘
Hickory who was there early Sunday
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Kuralt was joined by Chancellor Paul
Hardin and J. Douglas Eyre, professor
emeritus of geography, in announcing
two new contributions to the Bicenten
nial fund-raiser. Eyre announced a
$50,000 donation by Hardin and his
wife.
Hardin said the bulk of his contribu
tion, which will be paid during the course
of five years, would go to the Academic
Affairs Library, noting that “the libraiy
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gress and serving as an ex officio mem
ber of the Board of Trustees.
In addition to these written responsi
bilities, the student body president also
acts as a lobbyist, a public relations
manager and a head cheerleader.
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implemented to
reward for volun
teer work in the
Chapel Hill-
Carrboro commu
nity, Cox said.
Students who
served in local pro
grams or who vol
unteered their time
would receive a
semester hour, he
said.
“Service is a vital link between tK$
University and the community,” he said;
Cox said he also wanted to organize
students to fight the proposed tuition
increase.
“You have to have a consensus on
whether (the proposed hike) is good or
not,” he said. J
“It’s going to be a stalemate if thf
students and the Board of Trustees dis;
agree.”
To raise money for increased cam
pus safety and other campus services,
Cox said he would establish a 1-900
number that students could call to re
ceive their semester grades. The phone
service could raise as much as $30,000
for students activities and programs, he
said.
Cox, a former varsity baseball player,
is also a member of Alpha Phi Omega
service fraternity and Phi Kappa Tau
social fraternity.
become involved
in town affairs and
to work for local
causes that affect
UNC employees,
such as the debate
concerning where
to put affordable
housing in the
Chapel Hill area.
Patillo said he
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would organize a
letter-writing campaign to the Board of
Governors to encourage them to re
evaluate the tenure policy at UNC.
“The people in positions of power,
the ball is in their court now,” he said.
“Those are the people we need to put
pressure on. If the students stand up,
(UNC-system officials) will listen.”
Patillo said he would propose imple
menting separate tenure policies for each
different University department.
He said that while he did not support
tuition hikes “at all,” he would not be as
opposed to them if they could be tied to
scholarship opportunities.
“This University was founded for in
state students who couldn’t afford to go
anywhere else,” he said. “That is a tra
dition we must maintain.”
Patillo came under fire from the Sonja
H. Stone Black Cultural Center advo
cates last fall when he decided to join
the chancellor’s working group, which
has spent the past several months devel
oping a concrete plan for anew, free
standing BCC. “I’ve made peace with a
lot of those people,” he said. “I think the
important thing to remember is that we
were always on the same side, we just
haven’t always agreed on the means.”
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