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Volume 103, Issue 152
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Student Fees Will Not Fnnd
Anti-Nelson Carolina Review
BYJAYMOYE
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Student fees will not pay for the latest
edition of the Carolina Review, which de
picts Student Body President-Elect Aaron
Nelsonwith horns and a pitchfork, student
government officials announced Wednes-
issue Student Congress
drew fire from Condemns Review
studentandJew- See Page 3
ish leaders, who
called the drawing and cover story anti-
Semitic. The issue was distributed on class
room desks Tuesday.
The Review story states that Nelson let
his religion interfere with his voting on
whether to fund the Inter Varsity Christian
Fellowship and the Muslim Student Asso
ciation. Nelson, who is Jewish, voted to
NAACP: Leadership in Transition
Former U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume will be
installed as national NAACP president today.
He hopes to heal wounds left by former leaders.
BY KARRI LZAREMBA
STAFF WRITER
The National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People has spent 87
years constructing a dam of strength. But
criticism has punc
tured its walls; scan
dal has stained
them. With waning
leadership sloshing
around within,
trust, funding and
membership have
flooded out through
the holes.
But the organiza
tion may have
found a man with
plugs in his pock
ets.
Leaving his nine
year legacy in the
1 US
KWEISI MFUME left
his seat in Congress
Tuesday to take the
reins at the NAACP
today.
U.S. House of Representatives, Kweisi
Mfume assumes the national presidency of
the NAACP today. Many of his advocates
think he’s the only person who’s got what
it takes seal up the leaky reservoir.
“If he can’t do it, no one can,” said
Chuck Stone, a UNC journalism profes-
UNC Athletes’ Graduation Rates Down
■ Five-year graduation rates
fell to a low of 66 percent,
according to a BOG report.
BYKATIE TYSON
STAFF WRITER
The percentage of recruited and grant
in-aid student athletes graduating from
UNC in five years decreased in 1995 to the
lowest point in eight years, according to a
report issued by theUNC-system Board of
Governors on Friday.
“Our graduation rates prior to this have
been very good,” said Dick Baddour, se
nior associate director of athletics. “We
are not able to determine any pattern as to
why this class is down.”
Sixty-six percent of the 170 recruited
and grant-in-aid student athletes who en
tered UNC in 1990 graduated within five
years. That figure can be compared with 80
percent of the 3,250 of all UNC under
graduate students graduating within five
years.
“Nobody can explain why it occurred, ”
Chancellor Michael Hooker said. “There
has to be an explanation. I have been given
reasonable assurances that it won’t happen
again.”
Hooker said the Educational Founda
tion, the athletic booster club over which
Hooker assumed control in 1995, might
have some concerns about the numbers.
“Everybody will be embarrassed by it
because we pride ourselves on our gradua
tion rates,” Hooker said.
Baddour said the BOG report could be
Calling All Counselors
Camps from around the country
descended on the Great Hall to
recruit UNC students. Page 3
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approve funding for Hillel (UNC’s student
Jewish group), the article states.
After distributing copies of the issue,
Carolina Review Publisher Charlton Allen
submitted a requisition for financial reim
bursement from the group’s account in the
Student Activities Fund Office Wednes
day. However, requisitions must be pre
sented prior to publication, Student Body
Treasurer Nathan Darling said.
After a discussion with current Student
Body President Calvin Cunningham, Stu
dent Congress Finance Committee Chair
woman Julie Gasperini and SAFO Direc
tor and former Review Adviser Howard
Brubaker, Darling decided to deny stu
dent-fee funding for the issue.
“I simply opted not to sign (the late
requisition form) because I felt it wasn’t a
very good use of student money,” Darling
said. “I’m charged with safeguarding stu
sor. “He has an exemplary political record,
an astute mind and political contacts. I’m
optimistic based on his Congressional
record.”
Because Mfume believes there is power
in what people call themselves, he changed
his name from Frizzell Gray to one mean
ing “conquering son of kings” in Swahili.
That power hasn’t gone unnoticed.
Fred Battle, Chapel Hill NAACP presi
dent, said he was waiting for a sense of
direction from Mfume. “(Mfume) is from
the streets of Baltimore. He understands
how it feels to be oppressed.”
Also trusting that Mfume will get the job
done is Gerald Home, director of the Sonja
H. Stone Black Cultural Center and a
NAACP member, who said: “His leader
ship is impeccable. He’s a man of ideas.”
But to what level the water should be
allowed to rise is still in dispute. Some
critics question the necessity of an NAACP
at all, doubting whether it is meeting the
needs ofblacks in the 19905. Others believe
the organization’s mission needs to be re
vised, calling its 87-year-old tenets out
dated. Still others argue the mission can
stay, but that the group’s objectives need to
See NAACP, Page 2
Freshman Athlete Graduation Rates
A recent report issued by the Board of Governors shows that the graduation rate
for student athletes entering in 1990 has reached an eight-year low.
Freshman Percent Graduating
Year All Students All Athletes Football Men's Basketball
1983 74.7% 74.6% 63.0% 100%
1984 72.2% 70.7% 71.4% 50.0%
1985 77.3% 76.2% 72.0% 75.0%
1986 79.2% 71.4% 73.1% 75.0%
1987 80.9% 73.7% 62.5% 50.0%
1988 82.6% 77.0% 68.0% 100%
1989 81.9% 67.8% 68.0% 66.7%
1990 80.0% 66.0% 50.0% 60.0%
SOURCE: UNC INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC REPORT DTH/MARK WEISSMAN
misleading because it only focused on a
certain segment of the total student-athlete
population.
“The BOG report is only looking at
recruited athletes," he said.
UNC has 650 student athletes on its
intercollegiate teams, Baddour said. Of the
650, only 170 are categorized as recruited
and grant-in-aid, the criteria the BOG used
to tabulate UNC’s graduation rates. Re
cruited student athletes are encouraged to
come to UNC but do not receive any
money. Grant-in-aid student athletes are
recruited and receive tuition and other
money.
Baddour said the graduation rate for all
650 student athletes, including recruited
and grant-in-aid athletes, was about 75
percent.
“We think that is the figure we ought to
be looking at,” he said.
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
Lena Home
Chapel Hill, North Caroliaa
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1996
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dent government’s interests, and it’s not
wise to sign a late requisition.”
been granted, then he would have turned
to a provision in the Student Code that
prohibits using student fees to disparage or
aid a candidate’s campaign, a practice
called “electioneering.”
Cunningham said the way the maga
zine was distributed alone could constitute
electioneering.
“We have not made a judgment as to
the content of the publication,”
Cunningham said. “We don’t feel it’s our
responsibility to control the free flow of
ideas.”
Darling said he would approve a loan
for part of the printing costs of the issue, but
the money would come from a pool of
See REVIEW, Page 4
DTH/ERDEPEREL
DTH/IASON KIRK
Former NAACP
President Ben
Chavis (above) is
blamed for some
of the group's
$3.2 million
budget deficit.
Chairwoman
Myrlie Evers-
Williams (right)
wants the group
to regain its
economic and
political power.
By calculating an adjusted graduation
rate, the rate of athletes’ graduation is
higher, Baddour said. He said this figure
subtracted the student athletes who trans
ferred out of UNC but were in good stand
ing at the time of departure. He said the
adjusted graduation rate for all student
athletes entering in 1990 was about 85
percent.
The entering class of 1988 showed the
highest rate of graduation for both student
athletes and all UNC students. In 1988,
82.6 percent of the 3,293 entering students
graduated within five years. Student ath
lete graduation rates that year peaked at 77
percent of the 161 entering student ath
letes.
The BOG report also listed the gradua
tion rates of student athletes in the football
See ATHLETES, Page 2
Write-In and Win
Write-in candidates seized 11 of
the 37 seats up for grabs in
Student Congress. Page 3
(From left) Carolina Review publisher Charlton Allen, SAFO Director Howard Brubaker and Student Body Treasurer
Nathan Darling discuss funding for the Carolina Review in the SAFO office Wednesday.
Porterfield Edges Out Leggett
In RHA Presidential Election
■ Computer problems
delayed the election results
until Wednesday night.
BY JOHN C. JOHNSON II
STAFF WRITER
Latoya Porterfield was formally de
clared Residence Hall Association presi
dent Wednesday night, defeating oppo
nent Matthew Leggett with a total of 1,05 7
votes to Leggett’s 802. Men’s basketball
Election Marred by Glitches in Web Voting, Vote Counting
BYKATIE TYSON
STAFF WRITER
Failure to calculate 11 World Wide
Web votes and confusion over student con
gress redistricting led to problems with the
results of Tuesday’s
general election,
Elections Board
Chairwoman
Annie Shuart said.
Shuart said the
voting data was re-sent through the com
puter system to obtain the final results.
UNC’s first ever Web voting option was
stalled until 2 p.m. Tuesday. Only 11 votes
were cast through the Web.
“The machine that we set up everything
new on was set on Pacific time, ” said Jason
Snapping the Skid
UNC beat Clemson 5348 in men's
basketball to end the Tar Heels'
three-game losing streak. Page 11
Council Examines
Public Housing Needs
■ The town staff addressed
public housing concerns
raised by an earlier report.
BY MARY-KATHRYN CRAFT
STAFF WRITER
After a four month review, the Chapel
Hill Town Council responded to concerns
made by public housing residents. The
council will further investigate the resi-
dents ’ problems and
offer plans to rem
edy them.
The town man
ager and his staff
presented a report
that responded to
findings made by
the Special Com
mittee on Public
Housing and Re
lated Needs. The
committee was
formed in 1994 to
address the con
cerns ofpublic hous
ing residents. In
November, the committee presented a re
port of its findings to the council.
The committee recommended chang
ing housing management, reorganizing the
Housing and Community Development
Advisory Board and creating a Commu
nity Resource team for public housing,
center Serge Zwikker received one vote.
Problems with the redistricting of
Granville Towers and three residence halls
delayed final results.
“I am honored that I have won the
election, considering that minorities have
not been in office in recent years,”
Porterfield said. “My number one goal is
to make RHA more visible.”
Leggett had no comment on the final
results of the election, but questioned
Porterfield’s experience.
See RHA, Page 2
Purdy, coordinator of Web voting. “The
hourly password, the opening and closing
times were three hours backwards.”
Purdy said Shuart did not tell him when
the Web vote tallies had to be turned in.
“I didn’t know the tallies had to be in
that night,” Purdy said. “She said she
needed them, but she was pretty vague.”
Purdy stressed the fact that human error
was the source of the problem, not the
system itself. He said Web voting would
still be an option for run-off elections.
A failure to rewrite a computerprogram
after the redistricting of congress seats also
contributed to flawed preliminary election
results. Because oftheconfusion, Granville
Towers votes were included in the RHA
presidential race, but votes from three resi
dence halls were not. Granville Towers
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according to the report.
Mayorßosemary Waldorfsaid the town
staff was presented a plan of attack on how
to address these problems by the special
committee. The manager suggested that
all positions within the public housing de
partment be looked at and reorganized,
Waldorf said.
This review by the town staff would
include talking with employees, as well as
residents, and analyzing possible alterna
tive organizational methods.
Waldorf said the town needed to make
sure all policies concerning public housing
were dear, understandable and enforced
consistently. She said it was important to
address certain issues raised by the resi
dents. “It is extremely important to ad
dress the two issues the public housing
residents rited, ” she said. “These issues are
the need for child care services and safety. ”
The staff also accepted a recommenda
tion to form spedal community resource
teams to help public housing effectively
use all available community resources.
Waldorf said the team would be comprised
of people who worked with service agen
des. She said these people could be helpful
in providing public housing residents with
possible sources of child care and resources
to get jobs.
Joann Shirer, member of the special
committee and a public housing resident,
said the resource teams would be helpful.
“There are a lot of agendes in Chapel
Hill,” she said. “We need to tap into these
resources and utilize them.”
Mayor ROSEMARY
WALDORF said issues
raised by public
housing residents
should be addressed.
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votes should not have been counted be
cause only on-campus residents are al
lowed to vote for RHA president, she said.
Shuart said she was not aware that the
computer program had to be changed when
the districts were redrawn. “Ididnotknow
the districts were separated like that.”
Dan Wingate, assodate director of the
Office oflnformation Technology Services,
said his office should have been informed
of the changes. “When a dedsion is made
to change the rules, we obviously need to
change the computer code,” Wingate said.
However, Wingate said OIT retrans
mitted the data without any problem. “I
consider (having to rerun the data) almost
a minor glitch,” he said.
Wingate said this year’s tabulation pro
cess ran without any major problems.
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Latoya
Porterfield
1,057 57%
Matthew
Leggett
802 43%