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ment for on-campus residents.
As student body president, Battle has
the same privileges as the other 12 mem
bers of the BOT.
“They certainly want to consider stu
dent input, *nd they see me, for better or
for worse, as the carrier of that input,” he
said. “By extension, I’m representing
24,000 people.
“They know if they don’t listen to stu
dent opinion, they ran the risk of alienating
the major segment of the University com
munity.”
But Battle said informal channels of
communication were also effective. He
meets once a month or more with several
administrators, including vice chancellors
and heads of departments, and weekly
with Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs
Edith Wiggins. “More is probably done
that way than through official channels of
communication,” Battle said.
The renovations of Lenoir Dining Hall
and the expansion of Point-2-Point were
results of such meetings, he said.
Battle also appoints or recommends stu
dents as members or chairmen of many
advisory committees. He said these repre
sentatives tended to be “insiders” stu
dents who were highly involved in student
government or campus organizations
because it was necessary to fill slots quickly.
“It’s by no means ideal, but it’s the best
way logistically to pick people,” he said.
Battle said another flaw in communica
tion processes was that some student repre
sentatives failed to attend all committee
meetings. “With 100 or more people in
volved, it’s impossible to keep track.”
■ ■■
Chancellor Paul Hardin said the re
cently established Student Advisory Com
mittee to the Chancellor had strengthened
communication between students and ad
ministrators.
“That’s really working super-well,” he
said. “I feel much better about (the com
munication) than I did a few months ago. ”
The committee, intended to cultivate
understanding and openness between stu
dents and administrators, grew out of a
conversation between student government
Academic Affairs Co-secretary Stacey
Brandenburg and Provost Richard
McCormick. Members held their first
monthly meeting in November.
Ten students representing campus
groups such as the Asian Students Asso
ciation and the Campus Y serve as com
mittee members, and Wiggins and
McCormick also attend meetings.
Hardin said the committee was an im
portant link because meetings with stu
dents in individual conferences were im
practical. “When you’ve got 24,000 stu
dents, you can’t meet with them all.”
Earlier efforts to reach students through
publicized, open meetings had been un
successful, he said, because few students
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within the next month. The Carolina Speakers is a group of 70 outstanding faculty
members who give their time to speak to civic organizations across North Carolina.
(This list is a revised schedule from Jan. 31).
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Feb. 9 Richard Blackburn March 2 Dick Richardson
Feb. 13 Audreye Johnson March 3 Rollie Tillman
Feb. 16 Townsend Ludington March 7 Jim Ketch
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Who Recognizes the Candidates
Name recognition of candidates for student body president varies between
men and women. Stacey Brandenburg and Jeanne Fugate are the most well
known candidates. _
■ Females
Jeffßerkaw ■ Males
Stacey Brandenburg
Calvin Cunningham
Jennifer Fiumara
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Jeanne Fugate
Kelly Jo Gamer
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attended.
Hardin said he wanted to gauge the
effectiveness of the committee before con
sidering additional methods of communi
cation. “I’m leaving my successor an awful
lot of meetings to go to. I would hate to add
anything else.”
Lee Conner, chairman of the advisory
committee, said it had been an effective
means of communication. “I think it’s
worked wonderfully,” he said. “Chancel
lor Hardin has been exceptionally open to
us and very frank. We’ve talked about
everything in the world.”
Conner said confidential meetings al
lowed for free dialogue. “We’ve seen some
very productive things come out of the
committee already, and this is a very new
committee.”
The possibility of equipping the Student
Union with fiber optics was the result of a
committee member researching the topic
and reporting findings to Wiggins at a
committee meeting, he said.
“Just by having those two people in the
room together, you have anew project that
might be accomplished.”
But Conner said the way committee
members were chosen could be improved
to better represent students who were not
members of student organizations.
Last year, members were chosen with
the goal of fully representing minority
groups. Conner said he would like to add
representatives from the Greek system, the
senior class and possibly the other classes
to the current group representatives.
“I think we need people who aren’t
UNIVERSITY & CITY
SBP Election Forums
Today. 7:30 p.m.. Dialectic and
Philanthropic Society on third floor
New West
Tuesday, 7 p.m., NAACP in Howell Hall
immediately following speech by
Benjamin Chavis
Wednesday, 5:30 p.m., BSM in
Upendo Lounge (upstairs Chase)
Thursday. 7:30 p.m.. Women's Issues
Network with POWER and B-GLAD
in 104 Howell Hall
Friday, noon, Young Republicans/
College Republicans/ Young
Democrats in the Pit
necessarily ‘involved’ - the ones who just
go to class,” he said. “To have average,
everyday-Joe members would be great.”
■ ■■
Recognizing that some student prob
lems and ideas need more direct attention,
Battle and his senior adviser, John Dervin,
created the Advocacy Student Concerns
Committee to help individual students com
municate with administrators.
According to the committee’s proposal,
the five- to seven-person committee pro
vides “fellow students with an established
and publicized committee of peers to coor
dinate and organize responses to individual
complaints and concerns regarding the
operation of the University.”
Dervin said the committee was already
established but needed to be publicized so
African-American Dance Ensemble Performs
BY JILL DUNCAN
STAFF WRITER
The African American Dance Ensemble
mesmerized its audience Sunday night at
Memorial Hall with its fast-paced move
ments and heart-throbbing dram beats.
With heads swaying and hands clap
ping, the crowd watched as the performers
combined innovative moves and traditional
ethnic dances.
The narrator, Ava Vinesett, said the
ensemble’s goal was “to preserve the finest
African-American and African song and
Where Candidates Stand
Stacay Brandenburg
• Hold monthly student lunches with chancellor
• Created Student Advisory Commitee to the Chan
cellor continue to support and initiate members
of committee
• Encourage University officials to lunch in Lenoir
• Lead students in expressing concerns to adminis
tration and legislators
• Worfr with faculty to create cooperative community
Calvin CunninghaAi
• Reinstate 962-INFO so student government can
field student concerns
• Appoint knowledgeable, creative and diligent stu
dents
• Expand Student Advisory Committee to the Chan
cellor to represent cross-section of students
• Give Board of Trustees a comphrehensive vision of
student life
Jen Fiumara and Jeff Berkaw
• Staff office during prime hours for students to voice
concerns
• Provide chancellor and administrators with monthly
reports about student issues
• Organize student forums with administrators
• Create suggestion box for administrators and
students
• Conduct monthly question-and-answer sessions on
different areas of campus
Andrew Franca
• Stay abreast of student issues by being accessible
and regularly attending student group meetings
and visiting in dorms
• Meet with faculty and TAs and regularly share
student concerns with administrators and Board
of Trustees
Robert Simea
• Hold open Pit forums with new chancellor
• Increase interaction between faculty and students
by holding departmental potluck dinners and
University-wide information sessions
• Publish monthly SBP update in the DTH
• Set up meetings between student groups and
chancellor
• Support existing advisory committees
Michael Williams and Kelly Jo Gamer
• Hold public forums between chancellor and stu
dent body to discuss student concerns
• Create diverse committee of students to advise
new chancellor
• Form student grievance and information commit
tee to help students voice their concerns
• Encourage administrators to hold monthly coffee
hour with students
that students would use it.
■ ■■
Steve Hoffmann, vice president of ex
ternal affairs for the Graduate and Profes
sional Student Federation, said the
organization’s 70 members served as com
munication links to UNC’s 7,000 graduate
students. Hoffmann said graduate students
might have greater influence than under
graduatesbecause administrators saw them
as “almost their peers.”
Graduate students also have different
communication concerns from under
graduates, Hoffmann said. “We kind of
want to be considered and have informa
tion, but we don’t need to be involved in
everything,” he said. “We just want to
know if something’s going on that con
cerns us so we can contribute to that.”
dance.”
The Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Cen
tersponsored the performance ofthe group,
which was founded by Chuck Davis in
Durham in 1967.
The ensemble encourages interracial
cooperation, crosscultural understanding
and societal analysis.
“We are all disciples of peace. We are a
community dedicated to unity,” Vinesett
said.
The performance began with Vinesett
greeting the audience with a call-and-re
sponse. She yelled “attention" and the
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“We saw that there was a discrepancy
between the number of African-American
students living on North and South Cam
pus, and I think we wanted to make sure it
was something that was a choice, and not
just something that was occurring because
students were uncomfortable where they
were,” Presnell said.
Nelson said he thought the Diversity
Plan would decrease the feelings of segre
gation on campus.
“When you’re the sole African Ameri
can in an all-white dorm, that might be a
little intimidating,” he said.
“This isn’t a forced business,” Nelson
said.
The Diversity Plan has occupied as many
as 255 rooms per semester since the pro
gram began, but only 42 African Ameri
cans duringthe 1992-93 school year and 21
during the 1993-94 school year partici
pated in the program, according to RHA
reports.
Angela Dicks, a freshman from Colum
bia, S.C., said she thought the reason more
students did not participate in the program
Racial Diversity Nan
A program aimed at diversifying the residence halls began in 1992. Below is the
percentage of African-American residence hall students between 1989 and 1994.
30% i
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□ Middle Campus 20% j— A—
■ South Campus .... <> e i
University
Enrollment 10 *
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Distribution of African-American students living in residence halls that were
originally included in the program:
KEY: ■ 1990
Alexander Hall (coed) m - 984
Grimes (men)
Kenan (women)
■ |%
Lewis (men)
Hll 9%
Manly (women)
Hi 2%
Mclver (women)
Ruffin (women)
Stacy (men)
SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF UNIVERSITY HOUSING DTH/SHYAM PATEL
audience answered “I am listening.”
In the performance titled “Lenjen Cel
ebration, ” a musician stood at center stage
and played an African dram. An echo
followed from backstage. Four drummers
joined him on stage.
Nine dancers, dressed in bright yellow
and black, then rushed out and began their
high-energy performance, displaying their
amazing strength and skill.
In their final performance, audience
members were divided into groups, and
each group took a turn dancing at center
stage.
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was that there was a strong black commu
nity established on South Campus.
“A lot of people want to stay down here
in South Campus because there are a lot of
blacks here, so it’s just easier for us to get
together and easier for us to communi
cate,” Dicks said.
“I haven’t heard a stigma attached to
North and Mid Campus, but there is a
stigma attached to South it’s known as
“the ghetto” because all the African-Ameri
can students live down here.”
Tamika Cheek, a freshman from
Kemersville, said she requested South
Campus as a freshman because most of the
African-American students lived there.
“I don’t know how it is for out-of-state
students, but if you live anywhere in North
Carolina, you know where all the black
people live at Carolina," Cheek said.
“The black people that I knew before I
even came to school here told me to re
quest South Campus. When you find out
where most of the black people are, that’s
where you want to be.”
She said she lived on South Campus her
first semester but had moved to North
Campus because she was unsatisfied with
the living conditions on South Campus.
In the program, the title of each perfor
mance was followed by an inspirational
quote, such as “Namaniyo,” which was
followed by the proverb “when my en
emies see me happy ... they are sad.”
Inthefinalperformance, “Peaceßally,”
the narrator had the audience repeat the
phrases “save the children,” “respect the
elders” and “no nuclear warfare.”
In keeping with its call-and-response
tradition, the ensemble ended with the
performers saying and having the audi
ence repeat the group’s motto: “Peace,
love, respect for everyone.”