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Thursday, April 26, 2001
Students Express Views on New BCC
By Rachel Clarke
Staff Writer
Students gathered Wednesday after
noon to hold a civil discussion about an
issue that has divided campus for years
- the new freestanding Sonja H. Stone
Black Cultural Center.
About 20 people came to the
“Around the Circle” discussion titled
“The Sonja Haynes Stone
Segregationalist Center - True or
False?”
Senior Kameishia Wooten, the facili
tator of the event, said the discussion
was timed to coincide with today’s
groundbreaking ceremony for a free
standing BCC.
The BCC is scheduled to move from
the Student Union into the freestanding
structure in the fall of 2002.
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Morning Program (9-12:15)
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Afternoon program (2-4:45)
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Keynote Speaker (3:30)
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Wooten said the BCC chose the topic
because many people on campus have
expressed reservations about the new
building. “We wanted to have a discus
sion so students could come and address
the issues and also so we could help
clear up some misconceptions,” she
said.
Assistant program coordinator for the
BCC Nadera Malika-Salaam said she
thinks negative attitudes toward the cen
ter stem from ignorance.
“People don’t even know the differ
ence between the (Black Student
Movement) and the BCC, and they are
fundamentally different things," she
said. “One is a university department -
the BCC, and the other is a student
group - the BSM.”
The group also discussed the possi
bility of calling the new building a mul
ticultural center rather than one
designed around black culture.
But Ellis Keeter, a junior English
major, said he doesn’t think the present
name is divisive. “I don’t really think a
name prevents people from getting
involved.”
Keeter then directed the discussion
with another question, asking if anew
building is better than just remaining in
the Union.
Senior communications study major
Corey Bell said he thinks the new center
will make it easier to reach out to stu
dents. “If you’re trying to reach a bigger
audience, you need a bigger facility to
accommodate everyone,” he said.
Wooten said the center’s current
office in the Union is inadequate. “This
space is extremely small for the things
we do,” she said. Wooten said the BCC
works with local children, plans events
and puts on many programs.
But Bell did express one doubt about
the new center. “It would be nice if
everyone could have one, and maybe
this is a start,” he said. “But I don’t know
how realistic it is to build other cultural
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centers."
Senior biology major Mimi Patel
agreed, questioning why the BCC
couldn’t be a cultural center for every
one.
She said it would be very difficult for
every different group on campus to
have its own building, and that the new
center should accommodate all cultures.
This year, several campus organiza
tions have begun a campaign for a cen
ter representing the interests of lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgendered stu
dents on campus.
Caroline Martens, director of the
North Carolina Literary Festival, said
the new building is a step in the right
direction.
“There may come a day when there
is a very big multicultural center that
can accommodate all groups," Martens
said. “We want all groups to be a accom
modated, but you’re the pioneers, and
that’s wonderful, but it’s also a big
responsibility.”
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Bush Admits Readiness
To Compromise on Plan
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - President Bush
said Wednesday he’s ready to compro
mise on his $1.6 trillion, 10-year tax cut
“I’m a practical man. I want to get it
done,” he said.
After his second huddle in as many
days with congressional budget negotia
tors, the president said in an interview
with The Associated Press that he rec
ognizes his tax plan will have to be
trimmed in order to pass the House and
Senate.
“It’s going to be less than $1.6 (tril
lion) and greater than 1.2 and we’ve got
to figure out how to make it work,” Bush
said.
“The definition of reasonable is: Who
will vote for it at this point in time?
We’re now down to counting votes. ...
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We’ve come from the ideological to the
practical.”
Wednesday morning, Bush met at the
White House with a handful of moder
ate Democratic senators, including
Montana’s Max Baucus.
On Tuesday, Republican leaders
huddled with Bush, who then had Sen.
John Breaux over to dinner.
As House and Senate negotiators
hammer out differences between the
budgets each chamber recently passed,
Bush pressed them to “prioritize indi
vidual rate cuts, across-the-board rate
cuts.”
Otherwise, he declined to say how
his original tax plan should be trimmed
to meet the smaller cost.
“First of all, define the size of the pie
and then we can figure out the slices,”
Bush told the AP.
3:30 p.m. - A round table discussion
examining the knowledge-based
economy in Europe and America
will take place in 39 Graham Memorial.
6 p.m. - Professor Karolyn iyson
will speak about minority-tracking in
the U.S. educational system. Come to
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Thursday, April 26,2001
Volume 109, Issue 39
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