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the afternoon. “Eve gotten my hair
dyed, eaten cotton ranch, and I got my
UNC senior [esse Lepow watched
the crowd as he sipped on a cup of
water he said was necessary to cure a
hangover ' This is mv second consecu
tive \ ear, but this veai is better because
it's nicer weather,.and last year I had to
go to work." he said. “We’re just taking
in the sights, smells and tie-dyed
bathing suits they have for sale.”
Bubbles floated in the air as children
jumped m Rue the Dragon’s Kiddy
Bounce, people waited to ride on
Thomas 'he bam. and an eclectic
group of hinds played on a stage
end of the street m the other, modern
rock sounds faded into blue grass and
Sound 1 .ngint or Rainey Bu seller said
this was !us- fourth year working at the
festival, which featured a variety of local
bands, minding Clambake, En touch
\t >ie i 'mil has anything from jazz
to traditional rock and roll,” he said.
"The'e arc also step group acts in
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said. “Right now we have no problem
with the way they’re headed.”
He cited the school’s strong support
of human rights and its fight to ensure
that UNC products did not come from
sweatshops. “It’s not a matter of being
scared of increasing human rights stan
dards,” he said. “We want that, too.”
UNC officials said the school’s WRC
involvement was tentative, beginning
April 7. The school is also affiliated with
the FLA. which Nike supports.
Rut Tufts, UNC’s director of auxil
iary services, said UNC and Nike offi
cials discussed plans to join the WRC
beforehand. Tufts said UNC licensees
would not have to undergo WRC
searches until the upstart monitor came
into its own. He said both the FLA and
WRC were fledgling organization that
had not get begun active monitoring.
“We have joined both the FLA and the
WRC on an exploratory basis,” he said.
But Tufts said W’RC involvement
could cause problems with Nike in the
future if the school asked its manufac
turers to be monitored. “When we final
ly begin implementing the actual mon
itoring, they’ll be a number of licensees
who will agonize over the decision of
whether to continue with UNC.”
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NAACP Leads Fight Against Florida Proposal
By Kristian Korimjla
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Minority groups are contesting a
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school seniors.
The Florida branch of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People sued the University of
Florida-system Board of Regents
because they approved a plan created
by Gov. Jeb Bush to institute One
Florida, a plan essentially ending affir
mative action in the state.
The One Florida plan replaces racial
and gender preferences in university
policies wirh the Talented 20 Percent
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With a staff of students and other fac
ulty, he organized more than 100 events,
including the distribution of saplings
from the Davie Poplar to students from
across the state and a speech by
President Clinton.
Richardson remained the department
head until he was tapped into service as
the interim provost when Richard
McCormick resigned in 1995.
“I was actually at the beach when I
got a call that they wanted me to be
provost,” he said with a laugh. “It was a
great sacrifice to leave teaching, but my
daughter convinced me, and I think it
has been true that I can do more for stu
dents in the provost’s office.”
In the last four years, he has faced
many controversial and pressing issues,
all under the umbrella of improving aca
demic life at the University.
One of the most visible roles
Richardson has held this year was as
chairman of the Chancellor’s
Committee on Faculty Salaries and
Benefits, the committee which made the
original recommendation to the Board
of Trustees for a $1,500 tuition increase.
Despite the opposition many students
expressed, he said he felt increasing
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dents in the top 20 percent of their class
admittance to the UF-system.
The lawsuit claims that Bush and the
Board of Regents did not follow proper
procedures for changing rules regarding
admission to a statewide system.
T.H. Poole Sr., president emeritus for
the Florida NAACP, said the governor
did not abide by the correct lawmaking
policies in establishing the One Florida
plan. “The governor didn’t have author
ity to change the law by executive
order,” Poole said. “There were already
state laws regarding enrollment at the
university system.”
Poole said the NAACP disagreed
over the Board of Regents alleged
acceptance of the new policy without
“In a moment of national competi
tion, we must be in a competitive posi
tion (with faculty salaries), which we are
not now,” he said. “I wanted, by what
ever means necessary, to bring us into
the top quintile, and raising tuition was
the only way in which we could do it.”
And as a seasoned administrator used
to proving his point, Richardson provid
ed support for his stance by reading from
a personal note that said the extent of the
scholarships available would still make it
possible for students to attend UNC.
Associate Provost Ned Brooks, who
served as interim provost while
Richardson was on medical leave last
spring, said Richardson’s unwillingness
to compromise his beliefs on issues such
as tuition was the mark of a successful
leader. “If you are going to be a provost,
you may be involved in controversial
things, and you can’t be weak. I’m sure
people may disagree, but that is the
nature of being a leader,” he said.
Financial issues such as these are no
stranger to Richardson, who also helped
to handle the allocation of the $28.6 mil
lion bequest of UNC alumnus David
Clayton in September and to negotiate the
University’s bond package last summer.
Part of the Clayton money, the
largest unrestricted gift in UNC history,
will go toward the construction of a free
standing Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural
Center, a project for which Richardson
is also on the planning committee.
“I feel absolutely it was the right deci
careful examination.
Keith Goldschmidt, director for pub
lic information for the Florida Board of
Regents, said board members were con
fident they would win this case because
they didn’t act in an unlawful way.
“We’re confident that we’ll win our
case,” Goldschmidt said. “We abided by
the protocols and spirits of the law.”
Representatives from Bush’s office
said they were surprised the NAACP
would want to contest any initiative that
would afford minority students with a
college education. “We find it incredible
that the NAACP is suing to block the
school house door for hundreds of
African-American high school seniors,
who, without the 20 percent program
wouldn’t get a shot at higher education,”
sion,” he said.
However, Richardson’s work with
the legislature on passage of a bond
package for capital improvements was
not as successful. He called the rejection
of that package “terrible,” and said the
new plan up for consideration this sum
mer was of crucial importance.
The package is tentatively set at $3
billion for capital improvements at
UNC-system schools and N.C. commu
nity colleges. “(The legislature) has to
recognize this is not a casual side order,
a little something we can do or do with
out,” he said.
Richardson said such issues, though
outside the realm of academia, also helped
shape campus life. Others have remarked
on Richardson’s tangible improvements to
UNC’s intellectual climate.
Continuing the work of the late
Chancellor Michael Hooker, he has
worked to improve the undergraduate
experience, overseeing all efforts by the
14 deans and many centers which he
handles as head of academic affairs at
the University.
He named projects such as a series of
programs launched this year to improve
the freshman experience at UNC,
including summer reading and seminar
classes, as well as the transformation of
a revamped Graham Memorial building
into the Johnston Center for
Undergraduate Excellence as examples
of what had been achieved.
“He has really done a lot to strength
en student-faculty relations, undergrad
uate research and programs and the
intellectual climate task force,” said for
mer Student Body President Nic
Heinke.
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said Bush press secretaryjustin Sayfie.
“If the 20 percept plap isn’t imple
mented, 400 to 1,200 African-American
students would not be eligible for admis
sion.”
Sayfie explained that the NAACP is
in the process of filing a suit against the
Florida Board of Regents because they
didn’t look over Bush’s decision to
implement the One Florida plan, which
ends affirmative action to implement the
20 percent plan.
He said the hearing should be
wrapped up by the end of the week and
that he would expect a decision in early
June.
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which was developed under
Richardson’s watch, also said hi's acad
emic leadership had been impressive.
“Since 1 became director, he has
been enormously supportive, providing
advice and an unfailing sense of good
humor and confidence that has made
my experience far different,” he said.
Remarks about Richardson’s wit and
cheerful demeanor are not uncommon
- he is generally seen as a friendly, casu
al leader, the man willing to kick back
and relax as well as get things done.
“He never gets frustrated or upset,
and when people get intense, he would
crack a joke. He has a sense of humor
balanced with purpose and a compre
hensive understanding of the
University, and vou don’t find that in a
lot of people," Brooks said.
Brooks also said Richardson’s style of
leadership had helped ease through a
turbulent year in top administration,
after the death of Hooker and
Richardson’s own leave after a heart
attack in March.
But Richardson said his role was
unimportant and that the heart of the
University was always in the students
and faculty. “In the broad scope, admin
istrators come and go and are by no
means the most important players -
we’re only ornaments on a very won
derful Christmas tree,” he said.
Despite that perception, Richardson
said he still felt a major transition upon
him and he would be sad to leave.
“ I feel like I’ve been shot out of a
cannon - I’ve been here for 31 extraor
dinary years, and I can’t imagine my life
differently."
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