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Monday, November 6,1995
Coalition Aims to Increase Voter
Turnout for Tuesday’s Elections
BYMARISA FERGUSON
STAFF WRITER
Members of the campus voter registra
tion coalition plan to be out in full force on
Tuesday, encouraging and helping regis
tered students to get to their designated
poll sites. “It’s important for students to
take an active part in the community,” said
coalition member Mohan Nathan. “It’s
one thing to register students to vote, but
the second step is to inform them about the
location of poll sites and help them get
there.”
For the Tuesday election, polls will be
open between 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
The UNC campus is divided into six
voting districts. Since many ofthe poll sites
are off-campus, members of the voter reg
istration coalition will try to provide shuttle
service to the poll sites throughout the day.
“Our two main goals are, one, to alert
people on campus when the election is,
and two, to get people there,” said Aaron
Nelson, president of the Young Demo
crats and a member of the coalition.
Coalition member John Dervin said the
group was trying to find a donor to give
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“Our two main goals are, one,
to alert people on campus
when the election is, and two,
to get people there”
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President of Young Democrats
vans to their transportation effort but that
they had not found one yet.
Dervin said if the group did not have
vans to shuttle students to and from the
polls, then coalition members would for
mulate a car pool to transport students to
their poll sites.
The coalition will provide transporta
tion to students living in Hinton James and
Craige residence halls, who are registered
to vote at the Mason Farm Community
Church. Some sort of car pool will meet in
the Morrison Parking Lot every 20 min
utes between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Students who live on North Campus
and who need transportation to their poll
site, should meet behind Cobb on Election
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Day. Vans will drive these students to the
UNC General Administration Building.
Members of the coalition coordinating
die mobilization said they also would tar
get those registered to vote in Fetzer Gym.
Coalition members said they hoped to get
many students to the polls due to the close
proximity ofdieir polling site. The Lutheran
Church, at the intersection of Raleigh and
Rosemary streets, is the polling site for
registered students living in Spencer, Al
derman, Kenan, Mclver, Old West and
Old East residence halls. Students in
Whitehead Residence Hall and Granville
Towers should vote at the Lincoln Center.
Several fraternities and sororities are in the
Westwood Precinct, which votes at the
Frank Porter Graham School.
Coalition members said they planned to
post fliers on every floor of each residence
hall telling registered voters where their
polling site was located.
Coalition volunteer also will be located
in the Pit, outside the Student Recreation
Center, at several bus stops and other cam
pus locations to direct students to poll sites
and to answer any questions students might
have.
The voter registration coalition is made
up of students in the Black Student Move
ment, NAACP, Senior Corp, Alpha Phi
Alpha, Young Democrats and the execu
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BSM Sponsors New Reading Group
BY MELISSA STEELE
STAFF WRITER
When going through the syllabus for an
English literature course at UNC, you
might be surprised to find that out of all die
authors to be read, very few of them are
black.
In response to this circumstance, the
Black Student Movement is starting a lit
erature discussion group. Their intent is to
help students, “take an interest in literature
outside ofthetraditional classroom study,”
said Tomeiko Ashford, a second-year
graduate student from Columbia, S.C. She
will be leading the discussions.
“Our purpose is to consider the impact
of African-American literature on the black
CONGRESS
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A summary of actions taken at the last
Student Congress meeting.
SL-77-037 An act to appropriate SSOO to UNC
CH Wesley Foundation. The bill was adopted by
consent.
SL-77-038 An act to appropriate SISOO to Cam
pus Crusade for Christ. The bin was adopted by
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Rebecca S. Coyne
Candidate for School Board
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Re: November 7,1995 School Board Elections
Dear Neighbors:
I am publishing this letter so that I might speak to
the issues arising in the upcoming election. I feel
strongly enough about these issues and this
election that I am paying for this publication
myself.
The coming years in Carrboro and Chapel Hill
will require each of us to face issues which will
effect our quality of life and the economic health of our community. We have an ever expanding
number of students to educate while at the same time, we have recently spent record amounts on new
facilities. There is today (and indeed has been for may years) an urgent need for fiscal responsibility in
our schools. Unfortunately, we are now faced with almost crisis level conditions. We have overcrowded
classes. We have violence in those classrooms. We have a widening gap between the test results of
different ethnicities. We have a tremendous need for new energy, new ideas and creativity on the part
of our School Board and School Administration.
The response to these issues by every other candidate to the School Board is to raise bonds, increase
taxes and spend more money. While this tax and spend “solution” may sound politically correct, I feel
strongly that it short changes our children and our community. We can utilize existing assets of this
School District to greater advantage. We can curb violence through a firm and consistent response. We
can raise educational standards by setting goals and enforcing them. We can use energy and diligence
instead of expensive consultants. We must have a School Board which hears community needs and
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I am the only candidate to establish an 800 number to enable contact and response. I will continue this
at my own expense, and respond to each call within 24 hours.
We need a School Board which leads in fiscal responsibility and encourages community participation.
Let me begin this process by offering to donate, to the schools, all proceeds from my service on the
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community and the world at large,”
Ashford said.
The group will read contemporary lit
erature including popular and academic
books. Their first will be “Waiting to
Exhale” by Terry McMillan. Other books
to be read include “Makes Me Wanna
Holler” by Nathan McCall, and “Song of
Solomon” by Toni Morrison.
“We will discuss issues of politics and
race, issues concerning sex and the role of
African-American works in the lives of
everyday black folk,” Ashford said.
The group is called “helrima” which
means “wisdom” in Swahili. Rodney
Sanders, a sophomore from Simpsonville,
S.C., and die chairman of the BSM said,
“We hope to get a feel for what African-
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Elections Board. The bin was adopted by a voice
vote.
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$l2O to Kallisti. The bin was adopted by consent.
BFI-77-043 An act to subsequently appropriate
$325 to the Arnold Air Society. The bill was tiled.
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American authors are trying to tell us about
society, so we can gain wisdom about
what’s going on around us.”
Both Ashford and Sanders stressed die
group was open to everyone, and people
do not have to be members of the BSM to
participate. “Wewouldbedoingourselves
an injustice if we were to only include
African Americans,” Sanders said. “We
want people to understand the African-
American world view.”
There will be a general interest meeting
for the group Monday at 7 p.m. in the
Black Cultural Center. Regular discussions
will be held on Mondays from 7 to 8 p.m.
“We hope people will bring some wis
dom to the group and come away a little
wiser themselves,” Ashford said.
Campus Calendar
MONDAY
11:30 u. RED CROSS BLOODMOBILE wffl
be parked behind Carroll Hall until 4 p.m. Please stop
by and give blood.
3:30p.m. UNIVERSITY CAREER SERVICES
“Introduction to Internships’’ in 307 Hanes Haß.
UCS will sponsor "Taking Time Off Options for
Seniors Alter Graduation” in 209 Hanes HalL
4 p.m. CUAB will sponsor a Basic Automotive
Repair Workshop in the Union Cabaret. Learn how
to check fluids, change a tire and talk with a me
chanic. There is limited space available.
4 p.m. UCS wffl sponsor “Job Hunt 101,” an
orientation workshop on how to use UCS fix seniors
and graduate students in 210 Hanes Haß. The work
shop is mandatory for seniors participating in on
campus recruiting.
4:30p.m. UCS will sponsor "Resume Writing fix
Internships” in 307 Hanes Haß.
UCS wffl sponsor a presentation by Rent-A-Cen
ter in 209 Hanes Haß.
BSM EDUCATIONCOMMITTEE will present
“helrima,” a reading circle that wffl read and discuss
such popular and academic novels as ‘Waiting to
Exhale” and "Makes Me Wanna Holler.” The infor
mation session wffl be in the Sonja H. Stone Black
Cultural Center.
N.C. FELLOWS will sponsor a Leadership
Matters workshop titled "Gender Communications”
in Union 208. The workshop is open to aB students.
9 p.m. D.J. PARTY AT PLAYERS! wffl be
held. Cost is $2 in the Pit or at the door.