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Monday, March 20,1995
Professor’s Speech Highlights BCC Conference
BY BETH GLENN
STAFF WRITER
Students from across the nation gath
‘ ered for an intense meeting of the minds at
-the first Blacks in the Diaspora Student
Academic Conference held Saturday at
the Friday Center.
The Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Cen
' ter and the Office of the Provost co-spon
sored the conference, which was the culmi
nation of the BCC’s yearlong lecture se
ries.
Students were invited to submit papers
on the general theme of “Blacks in the
Diaspora.” The national search yielded
more than 20 submissions, from which the
BCC chose 14 presenters. Participants in
cluded a Stanford doctoral student, UNC
undergraduates and a post-baccalaureate
researcher from the University of Mary
land.
Attendees chose from 10 workshops
throughout the day that included “The
Modem Debate on Multiculturalism,”
“The Impact and Implications ofFDrn and
TV on the Development and Perpetuation
of African-American Stereotypes” and
!“The Myth of Black Progress.”
* The BCC’sbiweekly series has featured
14 speakers including faculty, graduate stu
dents and undergraduates from UNC and
universities nationwide, but the highlight
.of Saturday's conference was the keynote
speech by Michael Eric Dyson, professor
■of communication studies and expert on
•intercultural and multicultural relations.
■ • Dyson, who will also head the planing
committee to create an institute of black
.'research for the new black cultural center,
spoke on race and the life of the mind.
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Dyson linked the diaspora conference
with the tradition of black scholarship.
Examining past scholarship illuminates
modem cultural criticism and points to
areas where critique is needed, he said.
Dyson also praised the variety of the
topics at the conference.
He said recovering diversity of thought
was a powerful criticism of both narrow
Afrocentrists on the left and universalists
on the right.
He said Afrocentrists who tried to im
pose narrow definitions of blackness were
just as dangerous as universalists who re
fused to focus specifically on African-
American experiences.
“The power of racism is the power to
impose heterogeneity of thought and ac
tion,” Dyson said.
“You should not have to give up who
you are to be present at the table because
that negates all that previous scholars have
stood for.”
He also discussed the misrepresenta
tion of the multicultural movement. He
said no apologies or separate standards
were needed to justify the inclusion of
stellar black authors such as Ralph Ellison
and Zora Neale Hurston.
“Multiculturalism is not the assertion of
inferior art in the face of some standard of
excellence," Dyson said.“ Merit is a so
cially determined, politically contingent
good applied according to the demands of
one’s own era.”
He encouraged the scholars to see intel
lectualism as a tool to effect change.
He said people who had the opportu
nity to attend college were obligated to
represent those who did not have such
opportunities.
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FROM PAGE 1
“Our new standards will require that
graduate students be proficient in word
processing, database, spreadsheet and tele
communications.”
Spangler said preventing school vio
lence was another urgent concern. “We
live, unfortunately, in a society so danger
ous that violence is the No. 1 concern of
parents in our country,” he said.
CONGRESS
FROM PAGE 1
ported candidates for student body presi
dent? Congress ruled that the groups were
supporting student government, not stu
dent politics, so they could still be eligible
for funding.
The issue carried over to Sunday’s meet
ing, in which B-GLAD Co-chairmen
Patrick Willard and Dawn Prince chal
lenged some congress members who as
serted that B-GLAD was politically parti
san.
The 19 members present voted to ap
propriate $1,795 to Bisexuals, Gay men,
Lesbians and Allies for Diversity. That
was the figure the appeals committee had
recommended, short of the $3,815 origi
nally requested but an increase from the
Student Congress Finance Committee’s
recommendation.
Willard said he was happy about the
decision even though it had taken a long
time.
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Women's History Month
Charlotte Ray was the first black woman to earn
a law degree and to be admitted to the bar. She
received her degree in 1872 ftom Harvard Law School.
Ray became the first woman to practice law in
Washington, D.C.
MONDAY
11 a.m. APO Blood Drive will be held in the
Great Hal) until 5 p.m.
12:30 p.m. Around the Circle: “Fraternal Ties
That Bind Whites in Historically Black Greek-Let
tered Organizations and Vice Versa,” in the BCC.
3 p.m. Internship 100/Orientation to Univer
sity Career Services workshop on using UCS re-
st.oo
Lunch
Specials
(M-F)
Students Travel the Globe
To Escape Dull Summers
BY EMILY GORMAN
STAFF WRITER
The last few weeks of spring semester
find many students pondering what to do
with their summers. Most must find a way
to make that much needed money to pay
for their tuition, car or entertainment.
One of the most common ways college
students make money is by working rela
tively humdrum jobs, like in a mall or a
restaurant. But what some don’t realize is
that summer jobs are available that could
prove to be more exciting than the average
job, while still providing a good wage.
Some employers that recruit college stu
dents are cruise lines, environmental activ
ist groups, the airline industry and the
Alaskan fishing industry.
Progressive Media is one of several com
panies that provide student employment
services for temporary or seasonal work. It
produces a series of publications providing
the necessary information to conduct a job
search. “Students who want to pursue
something different and unique instead of
working at McDonald’s come to us,” said
Kevin Lustgarten, vice president of Se
attle-based Progressive Media.
Lustgarten said one of the biggest
money-making opportunities was in the
fishing industry in Alaska. Land employ
ees work an average of 65 to 70 hours a
week at a base wage plus overtime.
“Students go to Alaska because they
make good money, meet people from all
over the country, see Alaska and have a
Spangler proposed anew plan to com
bat violence in public schools, which in
cludes moving the N.C Center for the Pre
vention of School Violence to N.C. State
University, where it would fall under the
auspices of the UNC system for the first
time. “We believe that by bringing the cen
ter closer to the university system, it will
have a much greater impact,” he said.
The center was founded in 1993 by
Gov. Jim Hunt and now is part of the
governor’s crime commission.
“I was kind of expecting it to be long.
First, they slaughtered us for an hour. Ev
eryone else got 15 to 30 minutes. They also
took lunch when we were suppose to be
gin.
“We were afraid that the same thing
would happen as did last year. At least we
got something to work with.”
Rep. Amy Cummins, Dist. 22, said she
belie ved that B-GLAD was a partisan group
and that student fees should not go to
organizations involved in one cause.
Finance committee Chairman Tom
Lyon tried to prove that B-GLAD was a
partisan organization by showing fliers and
a newspaper article in which former Co
chairman Trey Harris endorsed a political
candidate.
Student Congress lost quorum Sunday
evening beforethebudget process was com
plete, so it will have to reconvene Thurs
day. Ethics committee Chairman Roy
Granato said Congress never had more
than 24 members present at this weekend’s
meetings.
Campus Calendar
sources to assist you in your career and finding an
internship will be held in 210 Hanes Hall.
5:10 p.m. Want to lobby our state legislators?
Meet at theCampusYparltinglot fora trip to Raleigh
to lobby the N.C. Senate on environmental, public
health and student aid issues.
7 p.m. Carolina NORML will meet in 111
Murphey.
Golden Key National Honor Society will meet
for free food and drinks in 569 Hamilton All mem
bers are welcome.
6 p.m. UNC-ACCSA will meet for elections in
224 Venable. Representatives from Kaplan Testing
Center will discuss taking the GRE.
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good experience while in college,”
Lustgarten said.
Cruise ships offer a wide variety of jobs
ranging from photographer to youth coun
selor to aerobics instructor.
Students should investigate the employ
ers’ individual policies, since the benefits
and pay depend on the particular company
and the job, Lustgarten said.
Airline jobs are geared more toward
people interested in a career in the indus
try. Many entiy-level positions are open
for flight attendants, baggage handlers and
members of the flight crew.
Free the Planet, an environmental pro
tection organization, offers summer posi
tions as student environmental activists in
one of 65 grassroots offices throughout the
country.
Amy Webster, a campaign director for
Free the Planet, said the benefits of the job
were the extensive intemship-like experi
ence and the opportunity to not only pick
up a paycheck eveiy two weeks but to do
something meaningful.
“Hundreds of very strong voices are
going to rise up this summer and free the
planet,” Webster said.
Meg Solley, a senior from Falls Church,
Va., explained the difference between hav
ing a common job and working for Free the
Planet. “Working at McDonald’s is basi
cally a waste of time because it emphasizes
our capitalistic society,” Solley said.
“Working for a job that has some positive
impact on society helps us to survive the
hypocrisy of today.”
HORACE WILLIAMS
FROM PAGE 1
Chancellor Paul Hardin has publicly
stated in the past that he also preferred to
use part of the land for housing for Univer
sity faculty, staff and students.
Hardin is scheduled to meet with devel
oper Joe Hakan, president of the Public
Private Partnership, on Thursday.
UNC is considering the land on the
Horace Williams tract for additional stu
dent family housing to replace Odum Vil
lage, which will eventually be relocated as
part of a University expansion project.
Jones said, “The growth in the south
part of campus of health and research fa
cilities would, inthelongrun, require Odum
Village to be replaced.”
HU leek
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3 p.m. - 7 p.m„ Carnival in the
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Carmichael Ballroom
8:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.. Retro Ball
with DJ Jon Carter, Union Cabaret
7 p.m. - 9 pm, SARR Diversity
Workshop, Gerrard Hal
Wednesday, Cultural Celebration
11 a.m. - 2 p.m., Pit performances
by CHispA, BSM, NAACP, ASA
Sangam
8 p.m. - 10 p.m„ Hypnotist 106
Carroll
8 p.m.. Open Mike Night, Morrison
recreation room
10 p.m. - 1 a.m., DJ Party, Pantana
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Thursday, Community Service
8 pm. Casino Night at Carmichael
Ballroom (proceeds go to charity)
Saturday, Springfest
12 pm. - 3:30 p.m, Mclver Beach
12 p.m. - 2 p.m. Barbecue