Sty? Daily Star lUrrl INSIDE HIM OCTOBER 23,1996 The Chapel Hill Town Hh Council discourages the building of ball fields near the Mason Tract. Page 2 Student charged in year’s Ist reported rape ■ A hearing will be held today to decide if there is enough evidence for a trial. BY MARVA HINTON ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR UNC Police arrested a University freshman Monday and charged him with second-degree forcible rape, marking the first report of rape at UNC in 1996. Jason Ryan Newsom, 18, of 129 Ehringhaus Residence Hall, was placed under $20,000 secured bond and held in the Orange County Jail on Monday. He posted bail and was released later Campus creates climate for many local, national causes ■ Recent decades have given rise to distinct flavors of student involvement BY LAUREN AGRELLA STAFF WRITER In the last 30 years, University stu dents have become involved in the world around them in a visible way. Their ac tions have been significant enough to put UNC on Mother Jones magazine’s Top 20 Activist Cam- TANARUS" Acting Up at UNC A continuing series on UNC activism puses list in the Sep tember/October 1996 issue. What is it that makes UNC stu dents so vocal? “There’s just enough happening that you’ve got to do things,” said Zenobia Hatcher- Wilson, director of the Campus Y. The Campus Y, in existence since 1860, has come to serve as headquarters for student activism and home to count less groups committed to social action. “Students have a unique opportunity to give themselves permission to be in volved and to be knowledgeable about themselves and the community,” said Pam Cheek, associate director of the Campus Y. Each of the last three or four decades has had its own flavor in terms of student activist involvement. The ’6os and ’7os were a turbulent time, Hatcher-Wilson said. Students were concerned with the United States’ involvement in Vietnam, and anti-govemment protests were preva lent. Letter-writing campaigns, trips to Scholarships awarded equally between sexes BY ASHLEY STEPHENSON STAFF WRITER Despite the fact that women have been attending UNC for only half of the institution’s 203 years, they are already attaining a number of scholarships pro portionate to those of men. Many UNC staff members saidUNC’s male-to-female ratio of 2-to-3 is respon sible for women receiving about 1,000 more University-sponsored scholarships than men. According to a 1994-95 Institutional Research report, women received 3,010 awards during the 1994-95 school year, while men received 1,997 awards. Nerissa Rivera, a research associate for Institutional Research, said the high number of women within the University was responsible for the large difference between the number of scholarships awarded to men and women. Rivera said the demographics of the student body would naturally lead to more womenreceivingscholarships, and the number of scholarships allocated was proportional to the ratio of men to women. “The number of actual dollars is greater for scholarships received by women,” Some are bom great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public-relations writers. Daniel J. Boorstin on the same day. Newsom, who was unavailable for comment Tuesday, is scheduled to ap pear in court in Hillsborough today. A charge of second-degree forcible rape is a felony in North Carolina, al though it is less severe than first-degree rape. Louis Bilionis, a professor in the UNC Law School, said first-degree rape in volved special circumstances. “First-degree rape involves either the rape of a minor, rape involving severe bodily injury, the use of a weapon or an attack by more than one assailant,” Bilionis said. Newsom could face academic sanc tions from the University. “Students have a unique opportunity ...to be involved and to be knowledgeable about themselves and the community. ” PAM CHEEK Campus Y Associate Director Washington, D.C., and pro-localization movements were common. “Students felt empowered to see them selves as agents of change,” Hatcher- Wilson said. Robert Kirkpatrick, professor of En glish, has taught at UNC since 1967. He said he felt nothing had moved Univer sity students like Vietnam. “Students were more active, more vocal on campus than ever since,” he said. “Students in the '6os had a sense of common culture; Vietnam was some thing in which we were all interested.” Campus activists also looked at con flicts at home. “Students throughout the country were questioning many things, specifically of race and equality, ” Hatcher-Wilson said. Integration and civil rights issues were the focus of much of the activism on campus. The initiation of forced integra tion in 1969 only marked the beginning of more student action. “One imperative (throughout the University’s history) has been the elimi nation of racism,” Hatcher-Wilson said. Though race-related activism contin ued, the ’Bos often referred to as the “me generation”—saw a definite shift in student involvement. “The trend that I saw was more per sonal satisfaction, self-seeking, behav iors,” Hatcher-Wilson said. Part three of a four-part series: EDUCATION Rivera said. “But I think you’ll find that it’s pretty comparable.” For the 1994-95 school year, men re ceived $5,234,799 in scholarships, but women got top dollar with $7,301,908. The dollar amounts match up almost proportionately with the ratio of men and women. Men, who comprise about 41 percent of the student population, won about 41 percent of the money, which included all scholarships and ath letic scholarships. Tim Sanford, director of Institutional Research, also said the high number of scholarships awarded to women may be See SCHOLARSHIP, Page 8 I Soup’s on A / Meals on Wheels volunteers ▲ Sand recipients gain T iJM rewarding experience through donations. Page 4 Under the University’s Disciplinary Emergency Policy he could be summarily suspended for his arrest. According to the policy, when a stu dent is arrested, a committee composed ofU niversity officials may decide to with draw the matter from the Student Court System and handle it themselves. The committee would then consider the effect of a guilty verdict on the Uni versity community. If the committee de termines that a guilty verdict would dis rupt the academic process or pose a dan ger to members of the University com munity or University property, it will summarily suspend the student from the University indefinitely. Otherwise, the committee will return Top 20 activist campuses fs Mother Jones magazine cited UNC as one of the top activist schools. These schools have ‘pioneered social action' and ” consistently generate students who are committed to public affairs. Brown University University of Oregon at Eugene University of California at Los Angeles Stanford University University of California at Santa Cruz SUNY/CUNY . C&umbia University University of Tennessle at Knoxville Hendrix College • Tufts University ' j| Humbolt State University Warren Wilson College Manchester College if 4 ] Whitman College University University of Wisconsin at Madison University of North Car