VOLUME ill, ISSUE 87
Issues
of race
divide
campus
Self-segregation
cited as problem
BY STEPHANIE M. HORVATH
SENIOR WRITER
Muge Kullu, a doctoral candi
date from Turkey, arrived at UNC
one month and 14 days ago, and
she already has noticed that people
here tend to hang out with others
who look like them.
“From the outer world we see
America as all people living
together. But it’s a different situa
tion,” she said. “Black guys are liv
ing in a different world, and white
people are living in another world.”
Kullu is not alone in her obser
vation. Many at UNC perceive
some degree of self-segregation on
campus, and with Race Relations
Week starting today sponsored
by the Campus Vs Students for the
Advancement of Race Relations
there is no clear consensus on
what, if anything, should be done.
Some students say that while
there is little blatant discrimina
tion at UNC, there are subtle hints
that race relations are not perfect.
“(Race relations) aren’t as pro
gressive as people think they are,”
said Brooke Jackson, a senior liv
ing in UNITAS, a diversity theme
housing program. “I have friends
in different groups, but I don’t see
them intermingling unless it’s in
programs like UNITAS.”
Jocelyn Sargent, assistant direc
tor of UNC’s Sonja Haynes Stone
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Candidate Wesley Clark speaks
Friday at the South Carolina
NAACP Democratic presidential
debate in Charlotte.
General
dominates
discussion
BY EMMA BURGIN
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
CHARLOTTE - What was
slated to be a Democratic presi
dential round table Friday quick
ly turned into an evening with the
newest candidate, retired Gen.
Wesley Clark,
After three candidates were
delayed by airplane complications
and the Rev. AJ Sharpton and Rep.
Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, left
early, the event proved to be an
opportunity for Clark to expound
upon his newly devised campaign.
Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.,
Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., and
Carol Moseley Braun, former sen
ator and ambassador to New
Zealand, were held up in Phoenix
because of flight complications.
The Democratic candidates,
despite what time they arrived or
departed, voiced a staunch senti
ment against President Bush,
straying from taking shots at each
SEE DEBATE, PAGE 6
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Boston College Athletic Director Gene DeFilippo (left) and The Rev. William Leahy, Boston College president, announced Sunday afternoon that the school has agreed to join the ACC.
BY BRIAN MACPHERSON
SPORTS EDITOR
Along and controversial
expansion effort on the
part of the Atlantic Coast
Conference came to an
end Sunday when the Boston
College president announced he
had accepted a membership invi
tation from the conference.
The announcement by the Rev.
William Leahy completed a
process that has seen the confer
ence grow' from nine teams to 12,
the number required to hold a
lucrative football conference
championship game by the NCAA.
It is not yet clear, though, when
BC officially will become a member
of the ACC —and thus, when the
conference will be able to hold
such a game.
The ACC Council of Presidents
unanimously voted to invite
Boston College in a conference call
Sunday morning, and the school
announced that it had accepted
the imitation within hours.
“Our decision to join the
Atlantic Coast Conference is based
on my judgment in terms of what
is in the best interest of Boston
College academically, athletically
and financially,” Leahy said at a
press conference.
Conference officials enthusiasti
cally welcomed the Eagles as the
ACC’s newest member.
“Our presidents and chancellors
Day celebrates University’s contributions
UM leader speaks about diversity
MICHELLE MCGRIER
STAFF WRITER
Faculty, distinguished alumni,
students and others proceeded
from the Old Well to Hill Hall
Auditorium on Sunday afternoon
to celebrate the 210th annual
University Day.
This year’s University Day com
memorated the laying of the first
cornerstone and celebrated the
100th anniversary of the founding
of the Graduate School.
Chancellor James Moeser
presided over the ceremony. “A
University with such an illustrious
past as ours is worth celebrating."
He also commended the suc-
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are very impressed with Boston
College, not only with the quality
and breadth of their athletic pro
grams but also with their excellent
academic success and reputation,"
said James Barker, Clemson
University president and chair
man of the Council of Presidents,
in a statement.
The expansion process began in
May as conference officials target
ed Boston College, Miami and
Syracuse in an effort to increase
the prestige of ACC football.
Officials \isited the campuses of
SEE ACC, PAGE 6
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cess of the Graduate School.
“Twentieth-century Carolina grew
into the research institution it is
today,” Moeser said.
During opening remarks, refer
ences were made in regard to the
Carolina Covenant, a program
designed to help low-income UNC
students graduate debt-free.
This year’s keynote speaker was
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
President Mary Sue Coleman, for
mer UNC vice chancellor for grad
uate studies and research. “We are
enormously proud that a Tar Heel
voice leads one of the nation’s lead
ing universities, the University of
Michigan,” Moeser said.
ACC TIMELINE
May 13, 2003:
ACC presidents decide
by 7-2 vote to pursue a
conference expansion
from nine to 12 teams
May 16:
Miami, Syracuse and
Boston College chosen
as targets for expansion
June 18.
ACC presidents decide
to pursue Virginia Tech
June 2d:
ACC presidents vote to
formally invite Virginia
Tech and Miami
June 27: Virginia Tech
accepts invitation to
join ACC
June 30:
Miami accepts
invitation to join ACC
October 12:
By a vote of 9-0, ACC
officials agree to extend
a formal invitation to
Boston College to join
the ACC
Boston College accepts
the invitation and
becomes the 12th
conference school
Coleman’s speech, “Carolina on
My Mind,” emphasized the large
role UNC has played in her life.
“My experience at Carolina has
shaped my ability to stand for what
I believe in,” she said.
The speech covered monumen
tal events in the University’s histo
ry, from the Speaker Ban law that
existed 40 years ago to the contro
versial 2002 Summer Reading
Program text, “Approaching the
Qur’an: The Early Revelations.”
Coleman also addressed UNC’s
commitment to diversity and
mentioned how her UNC experi
ence helped her stand up for her
beliefs when handling UM’s fight
for affirmative action.
SEE UNIVERSITY DAY, PAGE 6
SPORTS
FINALLY, A WIN
North Carolina hits its stride and comes away with
its first win of the season against ECU PAGE 12
Old concerns
don’t bother
UNC leaders
BY JACOB KARABELL
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
UNC-Chapel Hill voted in favor of adding Boston
College to the Atlantic Coast Conference when it
became clear that the proposal already had the nec
essary number of votes, said Dick Baddour, director
of athletics.
While Sunday’s official vote was unanimous,
Baddour did not deny an Associated Press report that
North Carolina still was against expansion at the
time.
“It was obvious that it was going to have the num
ber of votes that it needed,” Baddour said. “We want
ed to join in and have the matter resolved in a unan
imous way."
But UNC-CH Chancellor James Moeser said the
Associated Press report is false and that the school
genuinely supported expanding the conference from
11 to 12 schools.
“We were ultimately persuaded, I think, by the
arguments that moving to 12 was in the best inter
est of the conference,” Moeser said. “And we think
that’s the right decision.”
When the process first played out in June, UNC
CH cited concerns about the welfare of student ath-
SEE CONCERNS, PAGE 6
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Chancellor Moeser speaks of UNC's historic past Sunday afternoon in
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