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Friday, February 3,1995
Two Face Off for CAA, RHA; GPSF Uncontested
Carolina Athletic Association
BY NANCY FONT!
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Wes Galbo said that if he is elected
Carolina Athletic Association president,
he will improve communication between
students and the CAA.
Galbo is a junior majoring in business
administration. He is the treasurer of CAA,
a member of the Honors Program Student
Advisory Board and a member of The
Daily Tar Heel Board of Directors.
“The first thing we’re worrying about is
student participation,” Galbo said. “Our
main emphasis is to make it our burden to
distribute information rather than making
it the student’s burden to come to us.”
Galbo said that if he is elected he will
improve communication through a sug
gestion box, e-mail, the CAA hotline and
speaking to incoming freshmen at orienta
tion.
An improved system of communica-
Jessica Godwin
BY ADAM GUSMAN
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Jessica Godwin, a candidate for presi
dent of the Residence Hall Association,
said she believed the role of the RHA on
campus was to serve the residents’ views
and interests.
“The RHA is here to help students with
any concerns they may have on this cam
pus," said Godwin, a junior from Durham
who is a mathematical sciences major with
a computer science concentration.
This process would include social and
academic programming for residents as
well as buying enhancement items for the
area offices that students could use, she
said.
“The RHA can build a community,
whether it’s through diversity programs or
whether it’s through programs to relax and
have fun,” she said.
Godwin said it was important to have
social outlets organized through the resi-
Graduate and Professional Student Federation
Steve Hoffmann
BY JAY STONE
STAFF WRITER
Steve Hoffmann is running unopposed
for the position of Graduate and Profes
sional Student Federation president.
Hoffmann, who has served on Student
Congress for the past two years, has been a
member of GPSF since 1991 and served as
vice president last year. He said his main
goal was to continue the projects GPSF
began last year and to have a health insur
ance policy for graduate assistants, teach
ing assistants and resident assistants.
“As far as GPSF goes, I’m pretty well
up to date on what’s going on and the
agenda and goals that we have that I’d like
to see through,” he said.
“What always happens with the GPSF
administration is that it turns over and
you’re back at step one. However, with me
being the vice president and some of the
other members who have started a lot of
programs and made a lot of cooperative
efforts with the administration and stu
dents, this wouldn’t happen. We’ve made
SAFETY
FROM PAGE 1
students said there was still room for im
provement.
Asa night escort service, Point-2-Point
is widely used on campus and makes
about 12,000 trips a month, said Kurt
Neufang, shuttle operations manager.
The P2P Express shuttle serves an addi
tional 10,500 students a month on a fixed
route. The Express route is an example of
what student government has done it
was established this year by Student Body
President George Battle and cost each per
son $lO in student fees.
Students said shuttles improved cam
pus safety but were not without problems.
Most fundamentally, P2P does not serve
everyone. If you live off-campus, you’re
out of luck unless you are going to a frater
nity or sorority.
On-campus residents also have com
plaints. “There are times I have called P2P
Black History Month
Spotlight
Olaudah Equiano
Bom of the Ibo tribe in south central Nigeria,
Olaudah Equiano was kidnapped and sold into
slavny at age 11. He was later purchased by a
British naval officer in Virginia for whom he
worked on international ships. Equiano recorded
his experiences as a slave and those of other
slaves in his autobiography, “The Interesting
Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or
Gustavus Vassus, the African” —a work that
marked the beginning of the genre in African-
American literature. After purchasing his free
dom in 1766, he dedicated his life to the aboli
tion of slavery.
Wes Galbo
tion may improve
student awareness
of athletic events,
thus increasing par
ticipation, Galbo
said.
“The focus here
issimplicity. People
may be confused as
to what they need
to do to get tickets.”
Some of the CAA funds will be used to
subsidize concessions for students who wait
for tickets inside because of bad weather,
Galbo said. “It is part of our responsibility
to give part of our funds back to students. ”
Galbo said that if he is elected he will
also try to improve the Homecoming queen
selection process by getting students in
volved.
“The process is too difficult for one
person to determine an equitable method
of choosing the queen,” Galbo said. “The
dence halls any
thing from cookouts
to basketball tourna
ments, or even
formals and mixers
at Players.
She said the
RHA shouldbe will
ing to organize any
events the students
wanted, as long as
there was adequate funding.
“We’d like to provide programs for fresh
man on how to take an exam or how to do
resumes. We’ll pretty much combine aca
demic and cultural programming.”
Godwin does not plan any major struc
tural changes to RHA because that was
accomplished this year, she said. “Current
RHA President Jody Davis did a good job
of reforming the system.”
She does propose the creation of an
RHA liaison who would serve within the
Department ofUniversity Housing as well.
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that there were .
many issues in which GPSF was currently
involved but that health insurance was at
the top of the list.
“Of the issues we are dealing with now,
by far the biggest concern is to gain health
insurance,” Hoffmann said.
“We’re trying to get the state to give the
University levels of funding that can give
health insurance for teaching assistants,
graduate assistants and resident assistants.
That will make us much more competitive
with our peer institutions who already of
fer this.”
Hoffmann said he thought technology
would play a role in getting more graduate
at night and there was no answer at all. It
makes you feel helpless,” said freshman
Mindy Hodges.
Another complaint is that the Express
shuttle has an unpredictable schedule.
Freshman Ariel Mihic said, “It’s just as
unsafe to have to wait for 25 to 30 minutes
alone at night at a P2P stop as it would be
to just walk home.”
Neufang said the shuttle was targeted to
make its loop in 15 minutes, although it
varies from 10 to 20 minutes depending on
the number of busses running.
“If it isn’t busy at night, we run just one
shuttle,” Neufang said.
SAFE Escort: Lone Females Only
An alternative to P2P is SAFE Escort,
but only if you are a woman walking alone.
“We’re not trying to discriminate against
men, but single women are statistically
proven to be attacked more often. If we had
more resources, we would service them,”
said Shelly Creech, a SAFE Escort driver.
FRIDAY
1 p.m. Astronomy/Astrophysics Journal Club
will present "The Ultra-Metal-Poor Stax CS 22892-
052,” by Jeff Wright, in 277 Phillips.
4 p.m. UNO Physics and Astronomy
Colloquium: “The Josephson Effect vs. the Cou
lomb Blockade: Complementary Measurements of a
Coherent State” will be presented by David Haviland
from Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden),
in 265 Phillips.
Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m. in 277
Phillips.
5 p.m. “The Cultural Destructionof Bosnia,” a
lecture, will be presented by Andras Reidlmayer in
Hanes Art Center Auditorium. Sponsored by Coali
tion Against Genocide.
Come play badminton until Bp. m. in Fetzer Gym
only way to alleviate conflict is to get
student opinion by holding forums."
Galbo also said the faculty input in
choosing the Homecoming queen candi
dates should also be reviewed.
He said the students should discuss
whether the faculty selection committee
should be able to eliminate candidates from
the student ballot.
He said he planned to keep most of the
programs involved in last year’s Home
coming, such as the step show,
Crosscultural Night and the pep rally.
Another goal of Galbo’s is to increase
student awareness of Olympic sports.
“With Olympic sports, once you get
them to the first game, you can get them
hooked,” he said.
Galbo said he planned to get students
“hooked” by Continuing the half-time give
aways and half-time shootouts and by giv
ing fans a chance to talk to athletes and
coaches.
Residence Hall Association
“It will be most beneficial in promoting
ties and helping in relating between the
two entities,” Godwin said.
She proposes periodic informational
meetings in the residence halls on the area
level.
She is currently serving on the bid com
mittee for a conference the RHA is trying
to bring to UNC. “We are currently bid
ding for a conference in 1996 of the North
Carolina Association of Residence Halls.
We’ll find out Feb. 12 whether we’ll get it.
“(The conference) would make the
school very visible within the state. It would
also promote the visibility of RHA on
campus.”
During the conference, residence hall
leaders from across the state get together to
share ideas for academic and social pro
gramming and for how to improve resi
dence hall government.
Godwin has served on the RHA gov
erning bbard as area governor for Cobb-
Joyner residence halls.
students involved in GPSF.
“We’re going to get a lot more on-line
with our information to disperse it through
e-mail. We’re going to outreach through
the different departments to get people on
e-mail accounts and get a Web server,
which is already being set up.”
Hoffinann said that he would like to see
more graduate student participation in stu
dent government but that there was a prob
lem because he thought Student Congress
could be too large.
“There are 37 members of congress,” he
said. “I think the code only says you need
to have 23.1 think if there was a smaller
Student Congress it would be much more
representative of students from various
areas of campus on both the graduate and
undergraduate level,” Hoffmann said.
“There are concerns of graduate stu
dents that undergraduates need to under
stand, and there are concerns of under
graduates that graduates need to under
stand. Student Congress, the executive
branch and GPSF are essential to commu
nicating those differences.”
SAFE Escort is also limited by having
two golf carts, which each take two passen
gers at a time. The carts carry about 75
people on an average night, Creech said.
LigMs, Locks and Phones
If you do walk on campus, the Depart
ment of Housing and the Student Patrol
are concerned about your safety.
Housing focuses on lighting, emergency
phones and locks on the residence halls
while the Student Patrol walks campus for
four to five hours each night to inspect
lights and phones and to look for areas
where safety could be improved.
“Students don’t always take the well-lit
path and often cut comers, so additional
lighting doesn’t always help,” said Larry
Herringdine, a housing official.
But efforts at improving safety do work,
said University Police spokesman David
Collins. “For crime to happen, crime has
to have the opportunity, and students are
removing the opportunity factor.”
Campus Calendar
B.
Players of all levels are welcome.
Campus Y: Applications for executive commit
tee (co-presidents and co-treasurers) are due in the
Campus Y.
7 p.m. Interested In Homan Rights? Want to do
something about it 7 Join Amnesty International in
the North Dining Room of Lenoir for a discussion/
letter-writing meeting.
Community Service Week Interest Meeting will
be held in Union 224.
This meeting is open to representatives from all
UNC clubs and organizations. See the DTH classifieds
for more information.
NatkraalOutdoor Leadership School will present
a slide show and an informal discussion with NOLS
staff and graduates in 109 Fetzer.
CAMPUS ELECTIONS
BY JAY STONE
STAFF WRITER
Anthony Reid is running for Carolina
Athletic Association president with goals
of downsizing the CAA, improving the
Homecoming queen selection process and
implementing a sports fantasies program
for students.
Reid, who is a junior, served on the
Homecoming committee his freshman year
and was the special events director for
Carolina Fever last year. Currently, he is
on the Carolina Clinical Association Cabi
net and is the co-president of Carolina
Fever. He is also on the Campus Y advi
sory board and is a resident assistant.
“If I’m elected, I plan to downsize the
CAA staff,” Reid said. He said that the
CAA staff was provided with tickets to
sporting events and that the tickets left over
from downsizing could go to the student
whose ticket got drawn.
BY JILL DUNCAN
STAFF WRITER
Michael Holder, a junior leisure studies
and recreation administration major from
Lillington, is one of two candidates run
ning for Residence Hall Association presi
dent.
Holder said he believed that one of the
duties of RHA president was to serve as a
liaison between the RHA and the Depart
ment ofUniversity Housing.
He said the RHA should also better
students’ lives and help area government
get involved with RHA.
“The RHA helps freshmen get involved
and enhances residents’ lives through so
cial as well as academic events,” Holder
said.
Holder said that programs of this type
included the study breaks the RHA had
offered during exam week each semester of
the year.
Holder also said he wanted to continue
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Anthony Reid
Reid said he be
lieved ambiguity
was a problem in the
Homecoming
queen selection pro
cess. “I thinkthe big
gest problem now is
that it’s too political
from both the CAA
standpoint and
campus groups’
standpoint,” he said. “I want to take some
of the ambiguity out of the selection pro
cess by clearly stating what we are looking
for in the Homecoming queen.
“I also want to have more students in
volved in Homecoming. I don’t think
people really knew it was Homecoming. It
wasn’t publicized enough.
Another of Reid’s ideas is sports fanta
sies. “I’d like to have a program where
students get to live out their sports fanta
sies. We could select students by drawing
Michael Holder
the relatively new
concept of RHA
Week.
“One thing that
they’re trying to do
this year is an RHA
Week in March,"
Holder said.
“This would
show the campus
how RHA is in-
volved with students’ lives, and it would
show residents how their money is put to
use for events."
Holdee does not plan to make any struc
tural changes to RHA if he is elected, he
said.
The only change that Holder has con
sidered is the recent decision that resident
assistants cannot bepartofthe campuswide
RHA.
The RHA governing board recently de
cided that RAs could only serve as liaisons
between the two groups.
their ticket stubs.”
Reid said that maybe someone could be
on the sidelines for a women’s soccer game
or play basketball against Jerry Stackhouse
for five minutes.
Regarding ticket distribution, he said
that the overall system was good but that it
could be improved.
“I think die ticket distribution system is
a decent policy, and I don’t want to change
too much about it,” Reid said. “I want to
get student input on this, but I think for
nonconference games, the lower-level seats
should be distributed from best to worst. I
don’t think it’s fair that some people who
camped out for the Pitt game got worse
seats than some of the people who didn’t.
“Being in Carolina Fever forthree years,
I think I’m committed to increasing school
spirit,” he said. Reid said one way to ac
complish this would be to have more pub
licity for nonrevenue sports to get more
students to those events.
This policy was created by the RHA
because it believes that belonging to both
could cause grades to suffer, Holder said.
He said he supported the policy because
it still allowed RAs to participate at the
area level.
“It leaves it open for RAs to be involved
in area government instead of RHA,”
Holder said.
“Most RAs have experience in local
area government, so they can serve as
liaisons between RHA and area concerns, ”
he added.
Holder has been actively involved with
RHA since his freshman year.
He is the former area governor for
Hinton James Residence Hall.
He served as the regional committee
coordinator for the N.C. Association of
Residence Halls, which is a state organiza
tion of residence hall associations.
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