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2 Monday, April 15,1996 University Council Created to Advise Hooker BY SUSAN HAZELDEAN STAFF WRITER Anew forum of students, administra tors, faculty and employees is being cre ated to advocate student concerns and dis cuss Universityissues, Student Body Presi dent Aaron Nelson said Tuesday. Hooker suggested creating the body, which will include three representatives from each of the respective groups, when he addressed the Employee Forum in July. Contentious issues in the past could have been worked out more effectively and easily had this forum existed, Nelson said. “I think that miscommunication that occurred over the S4OO tuition increase, for example, could have been avoided through Concert to Raise Money for Black Cultural Center BY JOE MILLER STAFF WRITER If you’ve been disappointed with the lack of concert offerings at the Smith Cen ter this year, then you might want to try 106 Carroll Hall on Thursday. A special Concert 4 Unity featuring performances by the Clef Hangers, Opeyo! Dancers, SANGAM Performers, CHispA, Loreleis, Harmonyx, Carolina Indian Circle and the Vietnamese Students’ Asso ciation will begin at 7:30 p.m. The concert will also feature speakers Cindy Wolf Johnson, director oftheNorth Carolina Fellows Program and Leader ship Development Office, and Journalism Il^'f m\ CONGRESS MINUTES A summary of actions taken at the last Student Congress meeting. Rep. James Hoffman, Dist. 15, was elected chair man of the Student Congress Ethics Committee. Hoffman was elected by unanimous consent. Rep . James Kilboume, Dist . I, was elected speaker of congress. Kilboume was elected by unanimous consent of the body. Rep Vince Rozier, Dist 14, was elected speaker pro tempore of congress Rozier was elected over Rep. Ed Page, Dist. 14, by a vote of 24-3-3. Rep. Jason Jolley, Dist. 16, was elected chairman of the finance committee of congress Jolley was elected by unanimous consent of the body. Rep Joe Kledis, Dist. 12, was elected chairman of the Rules and Judiciary Committee of congress. Kledis was elected over Rep Kendle Bryan, Dist 18, byavoteof23-6-l. Rep. Charles Roederer, Dist. 22, was elected chairman of Student Affairs Committee of congress Roederer was elected by unanimous consent. RIC-78-001: An act to approve the composition of the Student Fee Audit Committee. The legislation changes the Student Code to provide for the makeup of the the committee. The bill states that the commit tee shall be chaired by the student body treasurer and shall be composed of the student body treasurer, the Student Congress Finance Committee Chair, a mem ber of the finance committee, a member of congress not cn the finance committee designated by the speaker, the speaker, the director of the Student Activities Fund Office, any University administrator deemed necessary by the finance committee, four at large members of the student body and whatever number of graduate students is necessary to make the committee’scompositionone-third graduate students, pursuant to the guidelines set forth in the Student Constitution. The bill passed by consent. Bull’s Head Bookshop presents F^ty 4 Professor Lloyd Kramer Lafayette in Early American History: Politics 6 Now Prof. Kramer will sign bis new book "Lafayette in Two Worlds” after the discussion Tuesday, April 16 ® Bull’s Head Bookshop UNC Student Stores • 962-5060 (the Council),” he said. Chancellor Michael Hooker said he hoped the initiative would en able greater com munication in the University commu nity. “I hope it will improve the quality of the undergradu ate experience. Un dergraduate educa tion is, after all, the primary reason we exist,’’Hooker said. Student Body President AARON NELSON said the council would improve communication. Jane Brown, chairwoman of the fac- Concert 4 Unity and Mass Commu nication Professor Chuck Stone. Groups will sing, dance and perform dramatic interpreta- Thursday, 7:30 p.m., 106 Carroll Hall tions . The concert was planned by students David Moricca and Erie Fanner. After it was organized they joined with Students for the Advancement of Race Relations to make it part of Race Relations Week. “My personal hope for the concert was that an individual would come to this con cert to see their favorite group, to listen and hear their favorite group sing, but actually, when they come, they would leave appre ciating anew cultural group on campus SHOOTING FROM PAGE 1 Milbumie Road in Raleigh, and Zell Everette Harris Jr., 16,0f311 Harwood St. in Apex, were charged with aiding and abetting in the assault, according to re ports. Both were released Sunday from Orange County Jail on $2,000 unsecured bond. It was not known whether any of the three men were students or had attended the party. Chambers said Sunday he was not a student and had come to the Chapel Hill campus with his cousin. Chambers said he “didn’t get a chance to make it in” to the party which was open to the public because his cousin was talking to some women. He said he was walking back to his car when the shooting occurred. Chambers said he did not recognize the car from which the shots were fired, and Gold said police did not know what caused the incident. The shooting occurred minutes after the Greek Freak step show ended in Carmichael Auditorium. The annual event, sponsored by the black fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha, Inc. to raise moneyfer scholar ships, drew about 3,000 students from area universities. Eight University administrators in cluding Gold, Director of Greek Affairs Ron Binder, Interim Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Edith Wiggins and Chief of Staff Elson Floyd decided to cancel the remaining parties sponsored by black Greeks in the Student Union Great Hall after meeting Sunday afternoon. Wiggins said the future of Great Hall parties beyond this semester was still un der discussion. The National Pan Hellenic Council had scheduled a party for this Saturday, and Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and Kappa UNIVERSITY ulty, said she thought the council was a great idea that would improve communi cation. “Right now, the student body presi dent, the chair of the employee forum and I, meet haphazardly ... but it would be helpful if we could get together on a regular basis,” Brown said. Chairwoman of the Employee Forum Ann Hamner said she hoped the group would provide an informal setting for ex changing points of view. “I think if we can all sit down and discuss things as they arise ... then problems can be resolved before they become a big issue,” she said. The composition and meeting schedule of the University Council have yet to be determined, said Lindsay-Rae Mclntyre, that they’ve never heard before,” said Moricca, who is a Clef Hanger. Moricca and Farmer said their goal was to make this an annual event and donate the money to various cultural groups that needed funding. Representatives from the groups decided to give this year’s proceeds to the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Cen ter. Ty Johnson, a BCC publicist who is helping out with the publicity and public relations for the concert, said she hoped the concert would improve the BCC’s rela tionship with the participating groups. “I think it’s great, ” she said. “I think it’s a huge endorsement from groups that we normally don’t have a working relation ship with.” 3 DTH/RYAN MATTHES University Police rope off the crime scene of a drive-by shooting early Sunday morning. Alpha Psi fraternity were to host one April 24. Binder has called Great Hall parties “a significant, if not the only, social outlet for minority students.” The committee that decided to cancel the parties will hold a meeting Tuesday to discuss the issue with students. Pamela Alston, outgoing president of Delta Sigma Theta, Inc., said she thought groups had done a good job controlling crowds inside parties. “Now they’re just trying to decide how to control the crowds outside,” she said. “I think it’s unfair and it’s a bad situation for the two groups who have parties that were canceled.” The shooting was not the only incident reported after Saturday night’s party. Former UNC student and Chapel Hill resi dent Julio Williams, 26, was assaulted at about 2:30 a. m. by an unknown black man in front of the Student Recreation Center. Full Set of Nails $25 , „ NOWI __ t; ' NAILS Fill Ins Sl3 L A ; XHOH WAXING Eyebrows $8 I PjjA if Half Legs.... S2O WjjM \ 11 942-7177 I __ * OVfontfiCy Tanning SpeciaCs * Nalls • Tanning • Waxlngs • Massages "min nr etfiinn n Q 3 mlles ,rom campus, 15-501 S. & ram ur same Smith Level Road at Star Point The Yogurt Pump has gone \ ■f' / Come try our delicious nonfat flavors... PEANUT BUTTER & BUTTER PECAN Swirled or Alone! 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There are merits to both proposals, Hamnersaid. “Ifeelasmallergroupwould be better in some ways because it might be more informal, but a larger group might generate more ideas.” The group will join the Student Advi sory Committee to the Chancellor, the Faculty Council and Employee Forum as advisory bodies to the chancellor. How ever, it is the only one which includes all three constituencies in one body. Brad King, business manager of Gef Hangers, said he thought the concert would send students a strong message about the need for unity. “We decided that we really want more and more people on this cam pus to realize that the Black Cultural Cen ter isn’t going to be a black thing. It’s going to be for all students to use,” King said. “I think that way, by having more and more groups, it’s going to make a strong state ment hopefully to other individuals on campus who aren’t in the groups to say that we need to rally together around this, too. ” Tickets are available for $3 and will be sold in the Pit and the BCC prior to the concert. Tickets will also be available atthe door if they do not sell out. Williams was treated and released from UNC Hospitals, Gold said. Sunday morning’s events highlight a trend of violence this year in which non students have been involved in alterca tions in parking lots and along streets after events sponsored by black Greek organiza tions. A Duke University student said he was surrounded and threatened by a group of men following a March 30 party. In an unrelated incident that night, a Raleigh resident was attacked at the same intersec tion where the shooting occurred. On March 23, a fight broke out outside the Union after a sorority party. But despite the recent series of events, University police reports show that the number of reported violent incidents has decreased dining the last three years. Five violent events have been reported outside the parties so far this year. Board of Visitors Discusses Chilly Intellectual Climate BYMARISA FERGUSON STAFF WRITER The intellectual climate at UNC must be re-examined for the University to re main a nationally knowninstitution, Chan cellor Michael Hooker has said since his installment last October. The UNC Board of Visitors, a group of influential alumni, participated in a discus sion of this hot issue Friday at their spring meeting. Led by Interim Provost Richard Richardson, a panel of University students and faculty debated various elements they thought had an impact on UNC’s intellec tual climate. Richardson said he thought the intellectual climate was a serious issue that needed to be addressed by the Univer sity community. “This is not a casual observation,” he said. “It goes to the absolute core of what we’re about.” Pamela Conover, professor of political science and contributer to last year’s UNC self-study, said she thought the intellectual climate was declining and that it was an issue that involved both students and faculty.’Tt seems that the students are not sufficiently engaged in what we might call the life of the mind," she said. A lack of interaction between faculty and students contributed to the declining intellectual climate, said Katherine Kraft, president of the Graduate and Professional Students Federation. Lack of respect and an intimidation factor make professors in accessible to students, Kraft said. Violence inside the parties, which re quire students to pass through a metal detector to enter and are monitored by at least six security officers, has been held to a minimum. Only one incident inside a party was reported this year. Greek Freak, which began at 6 p.m., ended at 1:30 a.m. without incident. Other Triangle-area schools host black Greek events, but UNC, which can accom modate 822 students in the Great Hall, has some of the largest parties. N.C. State University and N.C. Central University officials said the venues in which their parties were held could only host about 300 or 400 people. Neither schools re ported violent incidents related to the par ties in the past year. Incidents typically occur in UNC park ing lots when officials are forced to turn away students because the party has reached its capacity, University police have said. Bronwen Clark, James Lewis, Jay Moye and Peter Roybal contributed to this story. ONE PER CUSTOMER ■ JMPfrP f “Great food, great company, great service. Granville Towers is the place to bel” -Rebecca Ward, Freshman Q9Q-7141 iuH 01 Granvil e Towers Spaces filling quickly 1 I for Fall 1996! II 1 lIIHI 1 II TM ah? Sally (Tor Mppl However, Faculty Council Chairwoman Jane Brown said she thought UNC’s stu dents were actively engaged in intellectual pursuits. “What I see (the debate over intellectual climate) as is a moment to enhance what we already have,” she said. Brown said she thought the element of student-teacher interaction was vital to maintaining a positive intellectual climate. Students already evaluate their professor’s accessibility in end of semester evaluations, and efforts to implement col league evaluation are underway, Conover said. “We are moving toward peer evalua tion as part of a comprehensive teaching evaluation,” she said. - Alcohol and drags were discussed as possible sources of a declining intellectual climate. Student Body President Aaron Nelscta said he thought alcohol had little effect on UNC’s campus housing. “Drinking is not a problem in the residence halls,” he said. Judith Cowan, director of Studeilt Health Service, said she and her colleagues often saw the adverse effects of alcohol and drags on student life.“We see students in very vulnerable times oftransition,” Cowan said. “Friendshipsoftendocoalescearound alcohol and drugs.” Conover said alcohol use could create problems in the classroom. “As faculty, we see the consequences of this activity in class on Thursdays and Fridays," she said. “Even a small percentage of substance abuse has an adverse effect on the cam pus.” j COURSE REVIEW FROM PAGE 1 saying Smith agreed to donate funds to the Course Review. “He did make a commit ment to give us $4,000, $2,000 less than we requested,” Pollock said. “He said that later on we would have to find other sources, but we assumed the money would come.” Molly Jones, owner of the Publishing Place Inc., called Brubaker last Wednes day to request the amount owed to her, Brubaker said. The Course Review issued a check for part of the amount, but Jones said she needed the rest of the money last Friday to cover her bills, Brubaker said. In order to keep good relations with the business com munity, Brubaker suggested issuing an other check immediately with interest. “It gives the impression that ‘they can’t pay their bills over there at Carolina,”’ he said. Speaker of Congress Jamie Kilboume said he was concerned with the Course Review’s apparent lack ofcompliance with a referendum passed by Student Congress dictating the Course Review be available to every student.Pbllock said compliance with the referendum was a moot point since the Course Review had never been able to distribute to all students. Parrot said the Course Review was con sidering several changes to lower produc tion costs. Campus Calendar MONDAY 10 a.m. GARRISON KEILLOR’S “A PRAI RIE HOME COMPANION”: SPECIAL STU DENT DISTRIBUTION atthe Carolina Union ticket office, 962-1449. Sponsored by the Carolina Union Activities Board. 3:30 p.m. WOMENTORING DISCUSSION SESSION on gender communications in the Toy Lounge of Dey Hall. Womentois and protegees are invited. 6 p.m. ALL-CAMPUS WOMEN’S CAUCUS in 202 Dey Hall. Roundtable to discuss women's issues at UNC. 7 p.m. FACT INFORMATION SESSION in Carmichael Residence Hall Ballroom. 7:30 p.m. SANGAM ELECTIONS in Union 212. All members are encouraged to come out and vote for the future of Sangam. Katherine Brown
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