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2 Friday, February 2,1996 I StuJjnu mlmtions iy 96 On-campus residents will choose an RHA president, graduate students will elect a GPSF president and the student body will vote for a CAA president Feb. 13. ■ Advisory Board Would Increase Input Seth Nore, a junior business adminis tration major from Charlotte, says the next Carolina Athletic Association president should serve students through communi cation, action and accountability. Nore said his campaign goals did not focus on specific promises, but instead on collaboration among students, CAA cabi net members, faculty and administrators. “The CAA will not dictate what goes on but will facilitate what goes on, ” said Nore, CAA co-chairman for athletic enhance ment. “The CAA should not be the only organization directing events like Home coming week and ticket distribution be cause there are many other student organi zations that should have direct input.” Nore said communication was funda mental to success, and he said he would explore any means of getting the word out. “Better publicity of events, especially ticket distribution, will let people know what’s going on. The CAA is not a closed organi zation. Every student is a member and should understand what’s going on.” Nore plans to create a CAA advisory board of students, faculty and staff to de vise a more effective ticket distribution plan. Faculty and staff input, especially from Smith Center officials, is essential to set parameters that will let students know which ticket distribution options are fea sible, he said. “We would hold round-table discussions to get the opinion of leaders from organizations to say what people want,” he said. “Through those discus- ■ RHA Must Return to Basic Mission Matt Leggett, a junior philosophy ma jor from Greenville, said he would like the Residence Hall Association to concentrate on its three basic areas: addressing campus residents’ concerns, providing housing pro gramming and enhancing the quality of on-campus living. “I want to improve on those three areas especially,” Leggett said. “People aren’t happy,” he added. “We (RHA) should make hall representatives feel more important. That’s how things get done.” Leggett said problems with staff had put a delay on some of the association’s pro grams. “I’d like to do more of things like Springfest and speakers but less of things that don’t panout,” Leggett said. More publicity was needed to get some programs off the ground, he said. For example, the Battle of the Bands suffered last year because of lack of public ity. “Even with a lot of support for it, it failed because of publicity,” Leggett said. “You can have a great program, but if nobody comes it doesn’t work.” He said RHA had trouble getting word of some events around campus because of staflfupheavals, and he would like to stream line the organization to get things accom plished faster. The publicity officer resigned in the middle of the year this year, and RHA has been unable to circulate its newsletters ■ Tuition Remission, Residency Policy Top Priorities Katherine Kraft, a fourth-year graduate student pursuing a doctorate degree in toxi cology, said it was time for the Graduate and Professional Student Federation to address issues important to out-of-state students and to increase graduate student involvement on campus. Kraft is from Augusta, Ga., and at tended both North Georgia College and Augusta College. “As an out-of-state student, tuition re missions and residency issues are very important to me,” she said. “As graduate students, we move our whole lives here to Carolina. “The number ofremissions available on this campus are falling quickly, and resi dency is nearly impossible to establish,” she said. “There are creative ways around the remission issue, such as maybe exchang ing remissions for service.” Kraft said as GPSF president she would lobby for more lenient out-of-state poli cies . “11 seems the government would want to encourage people to come here and stay," she said. “This area is developing quickly, and the state really needs to keep its (profes sional) personnel.” Graduate students often feel unrepre Seniors! During Sr. Ticket Distribution OtlC YcCIT Campout for fsu Game by Members hit) UNC Ticket Office. , . February 3, 1996 • 8:00am-12:00pm 171 the RomS Club! CAA, RHA and GPSF Candidate Profiles Seth Nore Candidate for Carolina Athletic Association President sions, which would be open to campus, the CAA could consider the feasibility of all options and try to devise a plan that works. ” The advisory board will also help make decisions about Homecoming week activi ties and the queen selection process. Nore said he held no definitive stance on the service project requirement for the Homecoming queen because it was an issue to be decided through students and the advisory board. “I don’t have the be all, end-all solution to make everyone happy, ’’Nore said. “ I want to get the views of other people and listen to what the advisory board has to say before I decide on a single opinion.” Nore said he planned to increase cam pus awareness and support of nonrevenue Olympic sports by consulting with the sports marketing department on an Olym pic sport promotion project. Matthew Leggett Candidate for Residence Hall Association President regularly, he said. The organization planned to send one letter a month, but only one was distributed at the beginning of the fall semester. “If people don’t know who to talk to, they can’t get things done,” he said. Leggett said he thought the association could accomplish more things if RHA con centrated on spreading ideas through word of mouth or through the campus calendar in The Daily Tar Heel. Current RHA President Jessica Godwin, who was elected last February, came into office with the idea of spreading RHA’s name around with several programs, and Leggett said she had accomplished a great deal. “One of my strengths is to take others’ ideas and expand on them,” Leggett said. The RHA survey that the association circulated this year was an idea Leggett sented, Kraft said. She said she planned to make GPSF more visible and to encourage graduate students to become involved. “There is an unfortunate apathy towards GPSF, largely because of its structure,” she said. “One of the first things I want to do is form an advisoty council to the (GPSF) president comprised of representatives from the graduate organizations in the individual schools,” she said. “If these people feel like they have a voice, perhaps they will encourage others to participate.” Kraft also plans to make changes within the GPSF congress, she said. “I would like to expand the responsibili ties of the GPSF senators,” she said. She said she thought the senators should be required to serve on committees across campus, increasing overall graduate stu dent representation in University decision making groups. Kraft said GPSF must take responsibil ity for increasing student awareness about graduate issues. “Information is key to all of this,” she said. “I would like to see a feature column about graduate issues in all the local news papers, if possible.” UNIVERSITY * ' “We’ll look at the possibility of increas ing local company involvement with Olym pic sports to increase promotions and get more attendance at those sports,” he said. Nore said a collaborative effort among students in the various CAA activities and programs was necessary to raise campus spirit. “Students don’t realize that their input is valuable,” he said. “Increasing campus spirit is inherent in increasing stu dent involvement with the CAA.” Nore has served as a C-TOPS orienta tion leader, a co-orientation leader in fall orientation at Morrison Residence Hall and was a residence hall floor senator. He also serves in the leadership devel opment office as a delegates program fa cilitator, has served in the emerging lead ers program and is a peer leadership con sultant. PROFILE COMPILED BY SUZANNE JACOVIC j said he would like to see continued, in order to find out what campus residents want. Leggett said that as governor of the Spencer Triad and Old Well Residence Hall area, he has had experience trying to get presidents of residence halls to cooper ate with RHA. He worked as a secretary and treasurer in Old West Residence Hall and as the intramural sport manager for the Spencer Triad Residence Area. “I have experience in putting things together and getting (residence hall) gover nors to work together,” Leggett said. Leggett is also active in the Men’s Glee Club, intramural sports and Chimera, the science fiction and fantasy writing club. He has been a volunteer for Play Makers Repertory Company. PROFILE COMPILED BY MOLLY FELMET Katherine Kraft Candidate for Graduate and Professional Student Federation President GPSF will benefit from increased inter action with the undergraduate student gov ernment, Kraft said. She said she would consider it her re sponsibility to get the attention of under graduate student leaders regarding gradu ate issues. “The student body president and Stu dent Congress can be two very strong al lies, and I have every intention of seeking their support,” she said. “I very much hope we have a student body president who has a solid concern for graduate issues,” she said. “Ifnot, he or she will get very sick of me by the end of the year.” Js^cml\berr&Candy Store qp We have a tremendous selection of bulk candy, V balloons, gift boxes, fine chocolates, Z plush animate, Candy-Grams, ■ Students Should Be Aware, Involved lan Walsh, a junior business major from Charlotte, said the key to an effective Caro lina Athletic Association presidency was more student awareness and involvement. The CAA treasurer said student opin ion was key in decisions about issues such as ticket distribution and Homecoming week. Distribution should be focused around student schedules, he said. “I want to rework ticket distribution to eliminate the class-skipping aspect. I don’t think stu dents should have to sacrifice academics to get tickets. I’ve worked with the athletic department in looking into feasible op tions for students wanting to camp out.” Walsh said he planned to continue the basketball Superfan blocks and to expand the Blue Blitz program, initiated by the CAA to increase support of nonrevenue Olympic sports on campus. “I want to make the Blue Blitz program all-encom passing, so everyone on campus will see, hear and know about it. I’d like to get more publicity and include club-level sports.” Student input should weigh heavily in decisions made about Homecoming week, especially the queen selection process, Walsh said. He said the CAA would draft a preliminary queen-selection policy over the summer and get feedback from stu dents and campus group representatives. “I don’t just want to work their ideas into an existing policy, but rather present a rough draft to them to see what they think, since these organizations do sponsor the Homecoming queen candidates,” he said. ■ Events Should Involve Whole Campus Latoya Porterfield, a sophomore psy chology major from Fayetteville, said she would like to improve the visibility of the Residence Hall Association if on-campus residents elected her as RHA president on Feb. 13. “On campus people always ask me what RHA is,” she said. Porterfield said she would like to in clude more campuswide activities like Springfest, Battle of the Bands and exam breaks. Porterfield, who currently serves as the area governor of Hinton James Residence Hall, said that she was proud of the work the residence staff had done there under her leadership. “I feel like we’ve done a good job of •getting student input,” Porterfield said. “I feel like we had a strong government (at Hinton James).” However, Porterfield said she would like to have suggestion boxes in all the residence halls because they are more con venient for students. Residents would be able to make posi tive or negative comments dealing with the various residence halls without going through the hassle of finding someone to talk to. The governor of each residence hall could check the boxes periodically and carry the students' recommendations to RHA meetings. The association has tried to make resi dence hall living better for students, ”> % I jgL jMt I mm The president of GPSF should have past experience in student government, Kraft said. This year, Kraft serves as Stu dent Body President Calvin Cunningham’s appointee to the Transportation and Park ing Advisory Committee. She was in charge of distributing hardship parking permits. “I wrote the legislation to establish hard ship parking criteria,” she said. “We’re working to find a fair way to distribute parking across campus.” Kraft also briefly worked with the Chancellor’s Task Force on Women’s Is sues and has been an alternate GPSF sena tor. PROFILE COMPILED BY LILLIE CRATON lan Walsh Candidate for Carolina Athletic Association President “Requiring the queen to do a service project is a good idea because she should represent the University, and the best way to do so is through community service,” Walsh said. “However, the CAA cabinet, student body, organization representatives and other outside opinion is fundamental to any decision made regarding this issue. ” Walsh said he planned to get student input through surveys, publicity and fo rums. He also plans to expand the CAA home page he created on the World Wide Web. The page contained a Homecoming week schedule, a description of the ticket distribution policy and information on var sity teams. “I’d like to include the most up to-date information ofthe most recent sport ing events, as well as a page for each varsity team which would include schedules, pho tos and background team information.” Walsh also proposed possibilities for Latoya Porterfield Candidate for Residence Hall Association President Porterfield said. She said she felt that get ting student input was crucial to achieving that goal. “If we see people want more enhance ments or study rooms or whatever, the housing governors would bring it to RHA and we would take it to Dr. (Wayne) Kuncl (director of housing and education),” Porterfield said. Residence area governors could also be more accessible to on-campus students, Porterfield said. She said she would like the governors to ask the students in their residence halls how things were going and whether there were any improvements that needed to be made. “Once we do that, people know who to go to when they have a problem,” Porterfield said. Porterfield also believes RHA should LANNON FROM PAGE 1 Lannon works with White to restore and preserve the safety of the community. He said that because ofthe continued pres ence of police officers in the Carr Court area through the community policing pro gram, the drug problem had been greatly reduced. “We catch (the dealers) off guard," he said. “They don’t ever know when we’ll be out here.” Lannon said he tried to be more than just a law enforcement official to people in the area. “Instead ofbeing just a police officer out here arresting people or citing them for a traffic violation, we try interacting with Campus Calendar FRIDAY 10 a.m. 1995 YACKETY YACK can be picked up in The Pit. Also now accepting applications for editor. Applications can be picked up in Suite 106 of the Union and are due Feb . 9. For more information, call 962-3912. 1 p.m. DIVERSE CAREERS FORUM with Robert McMahan (Adjunct Assistant Professor, UNC-CH): CEO, McMahan Electro-Optics in Room 277, Phillips Hall. 3 p.m. IN MEMORY OF DR. STONE: Anyone interested in working on a program to educate the campus about the life of Sonja Haynes Stone and to celebrate the achievements of African-American women should meet in the Campus Y basement. If you have questions, call 962-2333. 4 p.m. PEGGY PHELAN: The Inaugural Series of the University Program in cultural studies collo quium “Performing Unmarked” will be presented in the second floor meeting room of the Ackland Art Museum. 4:45 p.m. NC H11.1.E1. invites everyone to join us as we go to UNC-G for Shabbat dinner and services. RSVP required to Hillel at 942-4057. 6:30 p.m. CUAB Film Committe presents first showing of “Copycat” in Union Auditorium. Full Set of Nails S2B llkp Full Set of Nalls Hs2ia k A m : Manicure/Pedicure Combo S3O I 942-7177 Tanning • Massages • Nails "wrwiw* nw china" o 3 miles from campus, 15-501 S. & . Smith Level Road at Star Point Übc Sailg (tar Heel MLattions ami | £i_i new Homecoming week activities, includ ing a keynote speaker and a comedy con cert. He also said he would try to work with the National Panhellenic Council to ex pand the Homecoming week stepshow. “I’ve gained a lot of working relation ships with different members of student government on all levels, as well as Univer sity administrators,” he said. “My sense of how the different aspects ofthe CAA oper ate and the contacts I’ve developed will help CAA policies be consistent and well publicized.” Besides working with the CAA, Walsh is a campus tour guide and tour guide advisory board member. He is also in charge of the greeter program at the admissions office and is a member ofthe Kenan-Flagler Symposium Publicity Committee in the Business School. PROFILE COMPILED BY SUZANNE JACOVIC , Wm ? J work closely with resident assistants. “A lot of the (resident assistants) are not as closely tied to RHA as they could be,” she said. “We do a lot of the same things,” she said. “We’ll do more if we work together than if we work separately.” Working at the housing area office for three semesters and at the Student Union Help Desk for two semesters has given Porterfield a lot of experience helping people, she said. Her experience in RHA had been good overall, she said. But with the help of others, it could be improved. “We’ve had our flaws, but I think RHA has come a long way,” she said. “We’ve still done a lot of good things and we can’t let the bad things outweigh the good.” PROFILE COMPILED BY MOLLY FELMET these people,” Lannon said. Though he has been involved solely in the Carr Court area for a little over a year, Lannon has lived in North Carolina for 10 years and worked with the Carrboro Police Departmentfornineyears. Before making the move to Carrboro, he worked briefly as a police officer in Warrenton. Lannon, who comes from a family of law enforcement officials, is originally from Rhode Island. He and his wife, Debra, have been mar ried for 15 years and have two children, Pete Jr., 14, and Jessica, 10. Jones described Lannon as resourceful and dedicated. “He really puts his heart and soul into his work and the people can really see that.” Black History Month Spotlight George Horton Because of his proximity to the campus of UNC and the accessibility of books, George Horton be came adept at writing poetry commissioned by amo rous undergraduates. Despite trying to raise enough money so that he could buy his freedom by selling his verse, Hoiton did not receive freedom until the abo lition of slavery. His poems entitled “The Art of a Poet” and “Slavery” reflect his plea for freedom with sincerity and a certain sense of despair. For the Record The Thursday story "Diverse Viewpoints Must Be Included," should have said Ladell Robbins was from Goldsboro. It also should have stated his term as Black Student Move ment president will end in two weeks. The Daily Tar Heel regrets the errors. ■ ONE PER CUSTOMER ■
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