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Wednesday, November 15,1995
Clinton Speaks to Democrats at Conference
BYJAYMURRIE
STAFF WRITER
Just hours after President Clinton ve
toed the GOP budget proposal Monday,
22 College Democrats from UNC listened
to him explain the reasons for his decision
at a convention in Washington, D.C.
The students were attending the annual
Democratic Leadership Council conven
tion at the Washington Convention Cen
ter. Aaron Nelson, president of the UNC
Young Democrats, said Clinton explained
nis action and received overwhelming ap
proval from the audience.
“When (Clinton) announced his veto,
the whole place erupted in applause,”
Nelson said. “He’s not going to allow the
Republican majority to blackmail him into
this.” Nelson said he fully supported the
Arab Exhibit
Draws Fire
From Hillel
STAFF REPORT
A Human Rights Week display of art
work portraying violations against Pales
tinians has drawn criticism from the in
terim director of of N.C. Hillel who says
the display negates the Middle East peace
efforts.
The display, located in the Union and
sponsored by the Arab-American Anti-
Discrimination Committee, features po
litical cartoons and the work ofNaji El-Ali,
a Palestinian artist who was assassinated
in 1987 by an unknown killer. The AADC
also distributed a list of human rights vio
lations committed against Palestinians.
Hanae Ayoubi, president of the AADC,
said the group intended the display to por
tray human rights violations in Palestine.
Because the display focuses on violence
toward Palestinians, it is appropriate not
to mention the peace process, she said.
"This exhibit is not intended to talk
about peace it is intended to recognize
human rights violations,” Ayoubi said. “It
is not talking about a large group, just a
specific group doing the violations.”
Kara Furwit, president of Haverim
(Carolina Students For Israel), said she
didn’t like the way the exhibit was pre-
Phi Gamma Delta Rush Co-Chairman Wins Post in IFC Elections
BY SUZANNE JACOVEC
STAFF WRITER
Just six days after the Phi Gamma Delta
fraternity drew widespread outrage over
its offensive rush memo, a fraternity mem
ber who was named in the memo was
elected the new treasurer of the Interfrater
nity Council Tuesday night.
George Worrell was elected to office in
an IFC meeting held at the Sigma Nu
fraternity house in Fraternity Court.
Worrell signed the lewd memo as rush
chairman, along with two other members
of the fraternity.
WEDNESDAY
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Hamilton Hall UNIVERSITY COUN
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Women Graduate Students in Nash Hall, 962-2175.
4 p.m. UNDERGRADUATE SOCIOLOGY
CLUB will speak about the School of Social Work in
Union 210.
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Young Democrats
President AARON
NELSON and 21 other
members attended the
conference in
Washington, D.C.
president’s action.
“Ithink the presi
dent did the right
thing in saving fed
eral funding foredu
cation and the envi
ronment with his
veto,” Nelson said.
“I think the cuts (the
Republicans) are
making are irre
sponsible and not
good for this coun
try.”
Nelson said
UNC students
should be particu
larly concerned
with the Republican budget plan.
“What is really important is what the
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Cartoons depicting Israeli aggression against Palestinians were displayed in the Student Union lobby Tuesday. The
cartoons appeared as part of Human Rights Week, but have drawn criticism from campus Jewish and Israeli groups.
sented. The display was not put into con
text and the average passer-by would not
understand that the cartoons represented
the past, Furwit said. “The problem was
the way the they depicted Israel it was
the Israel of the past,” she said.
Darin Diner, interim director of N.C.
Hillel, said he thought the display was
Only 11 of the campus’s 23 Greek fra
ternities, including Phi Gamma Delta, sent
representatives to vote in the election.
Worrellsaidhe planned to use the memo
incident as a learning experience.
“Hopefully, with my experience with
what happened recently, I have gained
knowledge of things the Greek system
should and shouldn’t do,” Worrell said. “I
know what to expect from people, and
now have a voice to steer us in the right
direction and to make people aware.”
Ron Binder, director of Greek Affairs,
said Phi Gamma Delta was still a recog
nized student organization despite its re
Campus Calendar
union 208.
5:30p.m. LUTHERAN CAMPUS MINISTRY
would like to invite everyone to the Thanksgiving
meal and worship service in the campus center.
7 p.m. ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUB will meet
inTl New CanoD Hal.
7:15 p.m. CAROLINA S.A.F.E. offers a CPR
challenge course in Union 208. Call 962-CPRI for
more information.
7:30 p.m. N.C. HILLEL win have a Jewish,
Muslim and Christian Dialogue in Great HaU.
BELL HOOKS win give the Sonja H. Stone
Memorial Lecture in Memorial Hah.
UNC MODEL UNITED NATIONS wiU meet
in Union 209. Meeting win last until 9 p.m.
SELF KNOWLEDGE SYMPOSIUM win have
a meeting in the South GaHery.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
UNIVERSITY & CITY
Republican plan has in it, what it does to
education,” he said. “Thirty percent of
UNC students are on student aid, and 75
percent of student aid has federal sources;
7,100 students would lose Pell Grants in
this state alone.”
Nelson said the convention was a good
experience for the students that
attended. “The convention was a gathering
of the Democratic party to see where we’re
going,” Nelson said. “There were some
interactive sessions. We talked about where
the new Democratic party is moving. The
neatest thing was it was an incredible op
portunity for us to meet people from all
over, to get information and network and
exchange ideas.”
Josh Cohen-Peyrot, a freshman who
attended the convention, said he thought
the conference was a good experience. “I
upsetting because it ignored peace efforts.
Diner said Israel had violated human rights
in the past, but he said the display negated
all efforts toward peace.
“The language (in the flier that accom
panied the exhibit) is biting and inflamma
tory. The facts are from 1992,” Diner said.
“They have negated the last two years of
voked charter.
The current suspension of the charter
means that the national organization has
withdrawn certain privileges, but the fra
ternity retains its status on campus, he
said.
“We’re very much still working with
the fraternity,” Binder said. “They know
they screwed up big time and have cooper
ated with everything the national organi
zation and my office has asked them to do
thus far.”
Phi Gamma Delta will issue a formal
written apology to the entire University
within the next two days, Binder said.
KASA will hold its last meeting of the semester
with a food demonstration of a traditional Korean
dish in Union 220.
CUAB will have Cabaret After Dark Dance The
Night Away with D.J. Dean Coleman in the Union
Cabaret from 9 p.m.-l a.m. on Saturday.
CAROLINA NORML invites you to celebrate
Medical Marijuana Day on Friday in the Pit,followed
by its second annual benefit concert from 7 p.m.-2
a.m. in 106 Carroll Hall. Admission is S5.
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hadagreattime,”hesaid. “I think (Clinton)
did the right thing. I applaud him for stand
ing up to the Republicans.”
The 22 College Democrats from UNC
made up the largest delegation at the 1,500-
person convention.
“We went to D.C. because we were
concerned about student aid, ” Nelson said.
“It is irresponsible to balance the budget on
the backs of the students and the environ
ment. President Clinton realized that. We
made our voice heard. We made our pres
ence known and represented North Caro
lina on a national level.”
The Democratic Leadership Council is
a governing group of the Democratic party
that helps set the agenda for the party. The
council’s two-day convention was attended
by elected officials and other party mem
bers from all over the country.
the peace process.”
One part of the exhibit said that peace
was denied in Palestine. “I don’t think they
realize the implications of the exhibit,”
Diner said. “The average student doesn’t
know what ’ s happened with the peace pro
cess. The average student walks by and
says ‘Ugh, Israel sucks.’”
“The apology will be issued to everyone,”
Binder said. “The fraternity has cooperated
to the ‘T’ with everything so far.”
The EFC also filled four other seats at
Tuesday’s meeting. Robert Monk, a junior
and member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon frater
nity, was elected IFC president. Jaime
Allison, a junior and member of Sigma Nu,
was elected vice president.
The new IFC rush chairman is Joey
Carosella, a junior and member of Sigma
Nu. David Park, a junior and member of
Sigma Nu, was elected secretary. Park de
feated Lindsay Sewell, the other Phi Gamma
Delta brother who ran for office.
holding their third annual “Journey Into Asia” on
Friday in Great Hall from 5 p.m.-9 p.m. Admission
is $5 for students, $7 for general public.
CRIMSON & BROWN ASSOCIATES will
sponsor a minority careeT forum on February 2 at the
JW Marriott Hotel, Washington, D.C. Deadline for
registration is Dec. 1. Pick up applications at the
University Career Services Room 207 Hanes Hall.
SURVIVOROFSUICIDESUPPORTGROUP
meets the first and third Thursdays of each month.
Call Brenda at 489-5473 for more information.
HELLENIC ASSOCIATION is announcing the
start of Greek dance classes. Classes will be held
Wednesdays from 7 to 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 1
to 2 p.m. in Studio A in Woollen Gym.
STUDENT ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION
COALITION will be holding a meeting at 7 p.m. on
Nov. 20 in Union 211-212.
Town Information Now
Available on Internet
■ Chapel Hill is the first
town in the area to create its
own World Wide Web page.
BYALEXPODLOGAR
STAFF WRITER
Chapel Hill, seeming always to be on
the cutting edge of technology, became a
stop on the information super-highway a
few weeks ago.
With its own World Wide Web page,
Chapel Hill became the first town in the
Triangle to go on-line little more than three
weeks ago. “Being the first town on-line
kind of surprised me,” said Kay Johnson,
Chapel Hill manager of accounting and
financial systems.
The home page included a listing of
town services and policies, complete with
a listing of telephone numbers of town
council members and department heads,
Johnsonsaid. The page also includes dates,
locations and times of town meetings.
However, Chapel Hill’s home page was
still far from complete, Johnson said.
“We’ve been putting things on-line in
pieces,” she said. “We’re putting the easy
stuff on first and working our way up on
stuff that is more difficult.”
The process of going on-line covered
three stages, Johnson said. “First, we
wanted to put on the initial information—
the basic services of the town and commu
nity,” she said. “We put information on
concerning the basic ways to do things in
town.”
By the end of February, Johnson said
the Web page would display the Town
Council calendar and other weekly infor
mation.
The page would also include answers to
SAT
FROM PAGE 1
year,” said Rachel Hendrickson, the direc
tor of undergraduate admissions at UNC-
G. “This naturally drove the SAT scores
down.
“We expected 1,500 students, but more
than 1,800 were admitted.”
A shift in admissions criteria also played
a role, she said.
“We placed less emphasis on SAT scores
and more on high school performance,”
Hendrickson said. “We hope to use this
criteria system to attract students who can
better cope with the university environ
ment."
Everette Witherspoon, vice chancellor
for academic affairs at WSSU, said he
agreed. “S ATs are not the only indicator of
probable success in college. “We increased
our enrollment after four years ofdeclines, ”
Witherspoon said. “To increase enrollment
by 100 students, we had to be less selec
tive.”
The drop in SAT scores at NCCU is
explained by the incorporation of ACT
exams, said Gary Barnes, the associate
vice president for planning at UNC Gen
eral Administration.
“When we convert the ACT scores into
S ATs, the average really goes up,” he said.
“Next year the report should show the
converted scores.” The trend toward com
bined ACT and SAT scores must be ac
counted for, Barnes said.
“In 1991, 2,341 North Carolina high
school students wrote the ACT,” he said.
“In 1995 that number had increased to
7,913. This is an undeniable trend.”
Spangler referred to UNC’s past record
as proof that SAT scores should get better.
“The UNC system has an almost per
fect recent record of SAT scores increasing
along with enrollment increasing, ” he said.
“We need to know why the SAT scores
dropped, then we can solve the situation.”
The average SAT score at UNC-CH in
creased from 1,130 to 1,143.
The same BOG report stated that fresh
men enrollment at two historically black
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questions most often asked by town resi
dents, Johnson said.
“We want to place more detailed infor
mation about various town departments
and questions pertaining to them,” she
said. “The first department would have to
be solid waste. Many residents are con
cerned with questions dealing with solid
waste. They are the most frequently asked. ”
The page would include information
about other town departments, such as the
police and fire departments, Johnson said.
This part of the page is to be completed in
June 1996.
Other towns and counties inNorth Caro
lina were also looking into the Internet,
Johnson said. These include Orange
County, Anson County, Forsyth County
and Catawba County. Belmont and
Pinehurst are among just a few of the
towns in the state interested in the system.
Different towns had different uses for
the Internet, Johnson said. “In Pinehurst,
the chamber of commerce worked on their
Webpage, concentrating on the element of
salesmanship and tourism, advertising the
many golf courses in the area,” she said.
Local town governments were first at
tracted to the Internet by the Institute of
Government at the University, said Pat
Langelier, librarian at the Institute.
“We’ve had the home page for a year
and-a-half,” she said. “We encouraged lo
cal governments to provide these services. ”
Many towns and counties cited cost, as
well as other things, as reasons for the
popularity of going on-line, Langelier said.
“The Internet is a very inexpensive way
for a city or community to promote itself
for tourism or commerce,” she said. “It’s
cheaper to go on-line than to place a full
page ad in a newspaper. “Also, it’s an
opportunity for the town to provide infor
mation and services another way.”
“We need to know why the
SAT scores dropped, then we
can resolve the problem ”
C.D SPANGLER
UNC-system President
institutions had decreased, and another
school was below the range for 1995 esti
mates.
Enrollment at Fayetteville State Uni
versity and NCCU decreased significantly
from 1994 numbers. Despite an enroll
ment increase, WSSU remained below its
estimated enrollment figures. Explaining
the 28 percent enrollment decrease at
NCCU, Barnes said, “There are times when
freshmen class enrollment at smaller uni
versities and colleges rises and falls signifi
cantly. It’s harder to control then at bigger
institutions.”
In order to rebound from the decrease,
NCCU will diversify its student base in the
coming years, said Nancy Rowland,
NCCU admissions director. “Incoming
classes will no longer be 90 percent black, ”
she said. “We will diversify in order to
encourage a high caliber of student to Cen
tral.” NCCU is getting ready to do some
“vigorous recruitment blitzes,” she said.
“Our goal is 1,000 freshmen by 1997,” up
from 553 in 1995.
Freshmen enrollment at FSU decreased
for two reasons, said Vice Chancellor for
University Relations Lauren Burges.“We
renovated eight residence halls in the sum
mer,” Burges said. “We couldn’t house as
many incoming students as we did last
year.’’The 14 percent decrease in enroll
ment could not be avoided, she said.
Burges also contributed the enrollment
decrease to former Chancellor Lloyd “Vic"
Hackley’s popularity. “He was tremen
dously well-respected,” she said. “When
everyouhaveachangeinleadership, people
take a wait-and-see attitude. I expect the
numbers to come back up.”