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Friday, November 22,1996
Group plans to clarify student courts’ rules
BYNAHALTOOSI
STAFF WRITER
The Committee on Student Conduct
discussed the practice of giving students
lesser sanctions for academic cheating
because of “unusual mitigating circum
stances” at their Thursday meeting.
Sanctions Subcommittee Chairman
Robert Adler, assicate dean of the Kenan-
Flagler Business School, said the possi
bility of imposing lesser sanctions be
cause of unusual mitigating circum
stances gave student courts more flexibil
ity. But Adler also said clarification of
the term was necessary to prevent confu
sion for student judges.
“Maybe the system has gotten a little
Sorority forum focuses on UNC’s intellectual climate
BY KAITLIN GURNEY
STAFF WRITER
The explosive discussion title “Sex,
Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll” equalled an
explosive discussion at the Greek
Women’s Issues Group meeting Thurs
day evening.
Although inclement weather deterred
many people from attending, a small
group of sorority members had an ani
mated forum about the Greek
community’s place in the University’s
intellectual climate. Discussion stemmed
from an article about the same topic in
the Tuesday edition of The Daily Tar
Fireside chat group discusses immigration
■ Participants expressed
concern about language
barriers among immigrants.
BY MIKE HIRSCHEL
STAFF WRITER
Immigrants enter the United States
facing unfair expectations from Ameri
cans, local residents and members of the
Orange County Human Relations Com
mission said Thursday night.
“To me, the issues of diversity and
multiculturalism are probably more im
portant than they’ve ever been,” said
Lucy Lewis, director of the Commission.
“We’re seeing a growing number of
people from a'l countries."
About eight community members dis
cussed such thoughts at the Chapel Hill
Public Library during Thursday’s “Com
munity Fireside,” a monthly community
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people, particularly young women, in
this area,” Cates said. “Those are the
people with the worst consequences.”
Health care providers cited lack of
education among sexually promiscuous
BROWN
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away against No. 24 Virginia last week
end. The Tar Heels will now likely be
invited to the Jan. 1 Gator Bowl.
“Certainly North Carolina has got a
wonderful year going,” Spurrier said. “I
know they’re disappointed in the game
last week, but heck, 8-2 ain’t too bad.”
Brown is 57-45-1 in nine seasons at
UNC and 74-73-1 in 13 years as a college
head coach. Over the last seven seasons
the Tar Heels rank 16th in the country in
total wins.
Brown said: “Our football team has
worked extremely hard to be in a position
to earn an award such as this, and I
consider the recognition to be exactly
that —a team accomplishment belong
ing to our players and assistant coaches. ”
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too loose, and maybe we can do some
thing to tighten it up,” Adler said.
Currently, the normal sanction for
academic cheating is suspension and a
recommended grade ofF in the course. If
the student can present evidence of un
usual mitigating circumstances, there is a
possibility of a lesser sanction, such as
probation.
Committee member Robert Byrd, a
professor in the School of Law, said it
would be difficult to have an all-encom
passing definition of the term, but said
recent trends in imposed sanctions signi
fied a need for clearer guidelines.
“The suspension sanction is not being
imposed as frequently as it was at one
time,” Byrd said.
Heel, the second in a five-part series titled
“Climate Control.”
Mary Catherine Bauer, co-chair
woman of the Greek Women’s Issues
Group, opened the discussion. “There
seems to be a given that there is an anti
intellectual climate here,” she said. “But
where do Greeks fit in?”
Jennifer Womble, a senior from Ply
mouth, said she did not think UNC was
different from other universities. “We
are known for our academics, and then
called a party school,” she said. “I don’t
think Greek women drink any more than
non-Greek women.”
Joelyn Tonkin, a junior from Greens
discussion sponsored by the Human Re
lations Commission. This discussion’s
topic was immigration, although topics
vary from month to month.
Quinton Baker, chairman of the com
mission and facilitator for the discussion,
said immigration has always been a big
issue because very few people have been
in this country for many generations.
“We’re a country of immigrants,” he
said. “Most of us have come from some
place else.”
Rosalyn Gumell, a community devel
opment worker, said that Americans ex
pected immigrants to speak English, and
that they also expected to hear English
when they travel to other countries.
“There’s something wrong with that
picture,” she said.
Another problem for immigrants is an
unequal distribution of wealth in the coun
try, which makes it harder for them to
gain high economic standing, Gumell
said.
people as a major factor in the rapid
spread.
“I think people aren’t very informed
about the way STDs can be transmitted, ”
said an information specialist at the CDC.
“Most people don’t know that any time
you engage in unprotected sex, be it oral,
anal or vaginal, you should get tested for
Campus Calendar
Friday
10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. UNC NORML
will present “Medical Marijuana Day” in the
Pit. Come and educate yourself about hemp
and the legal, religious, health and medici
aspects ofmarijuana. Medicinal marijuana user
Bill Brantley will speak at noon.
12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. The Public Policy
Analysis Majors Union will present professor
Jeffrey Swanson of Duke Medical Center with
a lecture titled “Doing All They Can: Physi
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Treatment” in 102 New East. Call Asta Crowe
at 962-1600 for more information.
4 p.m. The Physics and Astronomy
Department will present a UNC Physics Col
loquium titled “Electric Magnetic Blackhole
Duality” with Stanley Deser of Brandeis Uni
versity in 265 Phillips Hall.
6 p.m. , 9 p.m., midnight The Carolina
Judicial Programs Officer Margaret
Barrett said students sometimes received
lesser sanctions because of the threat of
revocation of international student visas
upon temporary loss of student status.
Other easons included psychological
and family problems faced by the student
and financial hardships as a result of
suspension.
The committee discussed the possibil
ity of giving the court authority to delay
the onset of a sanction until the following
semester.
The committee also talked about the
different effects of sanctions imposed on
graduate students vs. undergraduate stu
dents.
According to a subcommittee memo,
boro, said she thought the Greek com
munity was blamed for a lot of the anti
intellectual climate because “Frat Court
parties are the most visible.”
Bauer said although alcohol might play
a role at some Greek functions, it was not
an inherently Greek institution. She also
said she had seen many sorority mem
bers at campus events contributing to the
intellectual climate.
“I have had some extremely intellec
tual conversations in my sorority house
—conversations I never would have had
in the Hinton James dorm lounge.”
Dianna Chapman, ajuniorfrom Penn
sylvania, said, “In class the other day, I
“Seventy percent of the wealth is
owned by 10 percent of the population,”
she said. “It’s in their best interests to
keep people divided.”
“Obviously distribution of wealth is a
problem,” Baker said.
Immigrants also must decide to what
degree they should keep their own cul
ture and to what degree they should adopt
American culture.
Martha Drake, a Chapel Hill resident,
said many immigrant groups clung to
gether and did not blend with others.
“America’s supposed to be a melting
pot," she said. “We’d like to see every
one melt.”
Gumell disagreed with Drake’s views.
“I hate the thought of melting." Gumell
said immigrants often lost their own cul
ture when trying to fit in.
“ I don’t want to be like everyone else, ”
she said.
“I don’t want (immigrants) to lose
their culture.”
STDs,” she said. Brown said a national
emphasis on STDs was needed.
“STDs affect every part of the coun
try," she said. “Even people who get
regular check-ups could have an STD if
they don’t use proper protection.”
For further information on STDs, con
tact the CDC hotline at 1-800-227-8922.
Union Activities Board Film Committee will
present Matthew McConaughey and Samuel
L. Jackson in “A Time to Kill" in the Union
Film Auditorium. Admission is $2. The CU AB-
Film Committee will also present Patrick
Stewart, Steven Weber and Michael T. Weiss
in “Jeffrey” at 6:30 and 9 p.m. Saturday in the
Union Film Auditorium. Admission is free.
6:15 p.m. Join students from across the
state at Hillel as we host a statewide Shabbat.
Services will be held at the N.C. Hillel building
at 210 W. Cameron Ave.
7 p.m. The Carolina Indian Circle will
present the Third Annual Native American
Performing Arts Festival in Memorial Hall.
Tickets are on sale now in the Ticket Box
Office $3 for students and $5 for the general
public.
8 p.m. The Chapel Hill Players will
hold its November improv comedy show in
111 Murphey.
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although the Code of Student Conduct
does not distinguish between graduates
and undergraduates, the impact of sanc
tions imposed on graduate students is
more severe.
Adler said the courts were well aware
of that possibility.
“The vast majority of graduate stu
dents convicted argue unusual mitigat
ing circumstances and prevail,” he said.
The committee discussed a third issue
in the memo, the emphasis placed on a
defendant’s life circumstances rather than
his offenses.
Subcommittee members felt that too
many students avoided punishment be
cause the courts were swayed by their life
circumstances, the memo stated.
had to wonder: ‘Why is it that sorority
and fraternity members sit in the back left
comer?’ It should be possible to make an
‘A’ and wear your letters.”
The group discussed ways that their
sororities could contribute to the intellec
tual climate. Suggestions such as cultural
nights, class evaluations, study nights,
peer tutoring or a Friday night talent
show were made.
“This is where we need to go," said
Katie Smith, co-chairwoman of the Greek
Women’s Issues Group. “We should not
be so concerned about appearances, but
change by instigating such activities and
then let people notice.”
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more meaningful class discussions and
make teachers more accessible to stu
dents. But some members of the aca
demic community question whether com
puter-enhanced education really can im
prove the intellectual climate.
“I haven’t heard the argument for why
it’s a better teaching methodology,” said
Eric Downing, a professor of compara
tive literature at UNC. “It could work.
The ivory tower hesitation of opening
itself up to new media has proved itself
over and over again to be potentially
misguided.”
Until Global Campus —and the rest
of UNC’s steps to further integrate com
puters into education are actually
implemented, its effect on the intellec
tual climate is uncertain. Even those cre
ating the tools do not know what to
expect.
“We’re experimenting,” said William
Graves, the director of the Institute for
Academic Technology, which has been
developing the software the Global Cam
pus will use.
“This is basically new ground. It’s an
evolutionary process, and it’s still much
more new than not. But by next fall, there
will be some interesting things to show
for all of this.”
Specific ways in which technology
will be applied will be disclosed in De
cember, when academic departments
submit their proposed uses for technol
ogy to the Task Force for Instructional
Technology. When the University re
veals these plans —and the winners of
funding are chosen there will be a
better sense of how far the University
wants to go down this road.
Several professors, including members
oftheTaskForceforlntellectual Climate
in the Classroom, have offered sugges
tions for future use of technology. But
they have also questioned how faculty
student interaction and the spread of edu
cation outside of class two features of
a vibrant intellectual climate—would fit
into a system allowing courses to be taken
over the computer.
“What isn’t clear to me is how dis
tance learning can involve student-fac
ulty interaction,” said Marshall Edgell,
professor of microbiology and chair of
the in-class task force. “I think it’s very
useful to have these tools. What I have
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System president search
arrives at waiting phase
BY VICKY ECKENRODE
STAFF WRITER
Board of Governors members search
ing for the next UNC-system president
are playing the waiting game as they
prepare to watch applications either
trickle or flood in for what BOG chair
man C.C. Cameron called “one of the
best jobs in the country” in August.
Now that the
Board of Gover
nors has a profile
of the person they
want to see as the
next system presi
dent, committee
members say the
next step is to actu
ally find that per
son to head up the
current UNC sys
tem.
The search to
replace the current
president, C.D.
Spangler, began
Current UNC-system
president C.D.
SPANGLER will step
down from his position
in August
Aug. 9 after Spangler announced his re
tirement that will take effect June 1.
Jim Holshouser, chairman of the
search committee, said, “Advertisements
just went out and will soon be going out
in higher education publications.”
The BOG hired the consultant firm
A.T. Kearney Executive Search as an aid
in the search, said Jack Jordan, a mem
ber of the search committee.
“They will help us with the screening
not heard is an articulated approach to
how these tools will involve student-fac
ulty interaction.”
There is no shortage of ideas for how
to apply computers to the classroom.
Schools around the country and in other
parts of the world have been experiment
ing with high-tech higher education for
the past few years.
At Wake Forest, each incoming fresh
man receives a laptop computer as part of
their tuition. The University of Mary
land offers a class in which students sit
before their own computers so they can
ask other students questions via modem.
Students at the Monterey Institute of
Technology in Mexico can take courses
between the school’s 20 campuses over
computer.
And with the assistance of computers,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute offers
“studio” classes in physics, calculus and
chemistry, in which lectures, labs and
discussion groups are rolled into one.
The class sizes average 30 students, who
sit together in groups of two or three with
the team computer. Each group reviews
homeworkproblems and strugglesto find
their solutions. The computer does the
grunt work, looking up formulas and
computing results, as teachers move
around offering support.
“The computer saves you for more
human activities and learning, ” said Alan
Weltzer, a professor at RPI who teaches
the studio physics course. “There’s too
much of study that is routine dog work.
“This is intended to be self-empower
ing for a student. It develops communi
cation skills as well as other skills. Every
group gets talked to every single period
by one of us. The computers help us
tremendously, and I wouldn’t do with
out it.”
RPI also offers the Rensselaer Satel
lite Video Program, which provides engi
neering courses taught worldwide with
televisions and computers. Weltzer, a
professor of 40 years, said the reaction of
the 789 students enrolled in the video
courses has been as positive as that of the
students in the studio courses. The well
publicized success of both programs has
made RPI a name frequently linked with
the idea of melding computers with edu
cation.
Yet one of the harshest critics of the
virtual university is Langdon Winner, a
professor of science and technology stud
ies at RPI. He wrote a critique of Califor
nia State Polytechnic University’s ex
periments for a 1994 issue of Technology
Review.
“Virtual education is an excellent name
for this trend,” Winner wrote. “As the
virtual classroom expands, our students
can look forward to receiving what seems
like, but is not quite, an education.
“The spectacle of 100 students sitting
in a room together staring at monitors
and seldom if ever coming face to face
with a knowledgeable humanbeing seems
to me a counterfeit of higher education. ’’
Members of the Task Force on Intel
lectual Climate have not been as critical.
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of the candidates from the normal means
like ads,” he said.
“Because of their background, they
can bring in some names that might not
normally come up,” Jordan said.
A spokeswoman for the firm said the
consultants would probably be experts in
the education area and would have ex
cellent contacts.
“Generally the role of the executive
search firm would be to bring as many
suitable candidates as possible before the
Board of Governors and to advise them
to help with the selection,” the spokes
woman said.
Once the applications start rolling in,
the screening committee takes the next
essential step in the presidential search
process.
Jordansaid, “The committee will look
at the names and forward to the search
committee those they deem have the right
criteria.”
The first phase of the search consisted
of an intensive collaboration between the
leadership statement committee and the
public in an effort to decide which quali
ties should be sought after for the next
president.
The leadership statement committee
presented their report on future presiden
tial candidates to the BOG on Nov. 8.
Both a screening and search commit
tee have been appointed by the BOG to
seek out applicants.
The committees will then evaluate
promising candidates on their creden
tials.
Their plans to increase faculty-student
and student-student interaction with
group projects and residential colleges
seem incompatible with distance-learn
ing programs like Monterey’s. But with a
“wait and see” attitude, they are more
willing to offer advice and ideas they
want to see UNC pursue.
Recently, Edgell presented two ways
he thought technology could supplement
traditional teaching formats.
The first was to use computers as means
to distribute information for courses that
are loaded down with facts and formu
las. This would free up class time for
problem solving, experiments and more
abstract learning, Edgell said.
In addition, computers could be used
to put a student into a simulated lab
environment where experiments do nor
have to be carried out hundreds of times
before they’re successful. A student could
then see how the experiment should work.
“I have great hopes for technology,
but in a slightly different context, ” Edgell
said. “You need the learner, the mentor
and you need the environment. Without
that I don’t see how you can get a quality
education.”
UNChas begun implementingprojects
that integrate computers into curricula.
The School ofEducation’s “Learn North
Carolina” program allows teachers at
high schools around the state to access
materials and have virtual discussion
groups with other teachers. Student
records and transcripts are partly avail
able now on the Internet.
“The basic idea is distributed instruc
tion,” Graves said. “We’ll see this in the
traditional mode on campus —but
we’ll also see this with students who
can’t come to campus due to jobs. It’s the
full range, not fully on-campus and not
fully off-campus.”
And supporters of UNC’s new direc
tion insist that the Global Campus and
virtual education are a supplement, not a
replacement, fortoday’s education. These
steps are designed to make education
available to people who have to work
during the day or raise their families.
“It’s not like we’re trying to stop what
we’re doing on campus,” Graves said.
“We want to expand the boundaries.”
Chancellor Michael Hooker made this
purpose clear in an October press release
that stated, “We will be able to provide
this important opportunity for lifetime
learning without these students having to
leave their jobs or families to travel to
Chapel Hill to reap the benefits.”
Increasing access to education with
computers is supposed to accomplish this.
If you can’t bring the university to the
community, bring the community to the
university, the theory goes. But some
question whether long-distance com
puter-assisted education is a veiled at
tempt for the University to make money.
Downing said, “I would ask whether
the motivation behind the virtual cam
pus was because it would enhance learn
ing or because it would enhance bank
accounts."
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