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MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2003
ACC
FROM PAGE 1
all three schools between May 29
and June 3 and seemed poised to
invite all three teams.
But in an unexpected turn of
events, the ACC offered invitations
to only Miami and Virginia Tech,
leaving the conference one team
short of the required number for a
football championship game.
“Eleven was in one sense an
incomplete pass, if you will, and
some thought even an awkward
organization,” said UNC-Chapel
Hill Chancellor James Moeser.
RELATIONS
FROM PAGE 1
Center for Black Culture and
History, said she hears few con
cerns about overt racism and more
problems with students feeling iso
lated because of their race.
She said that some students feel
uncomfortable in classes in w hich
they are the only minority and that
students are reporting that their
group of friends is not very diverse.
“You can walk into the Pit, and
on one side of Lenoir (Dining Hall)
you see white people, and the other
side you see black people,” said
Derwin Dubose, co-chairman of
SARR.
But while sitting in the Pit, some
students said they don’t think UNC
is split along racial lines.
“I don't see many boundaries
and divisions between the races (at
UNC),” said Bruce Carroll, a fresh
man journalism major. He said the
groups he is involved in, including
Carolina Fever, are diverse.
Dean Bresciani, interim vice
chancellor for student affairs, said
the relatively small number of
UNC's 26,000 students who meet
at the Pit make it an inaccurate
picture of UNC’s self-segregation.
Instead, he said, he measures the
level of self-segregation at UNC by
examining student groups, which
he said are diverse, with the excep
tion of those formed around cul
tural and ethnic affiliations. “People
look at the Pit and sometimes use
that as their measuring stick,” he
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“T\velve works better. Twelve obvi
ously gets you to a football champi
onship, which has a major impact
on the health of the conference.”
Rumors swirled in late
September about Notre Dame
possibly being incorporated into
the ACC on a gradual basis, a
process that eventually would have
included the Fighting Irish’s inde
pendent football team.
But Notre Dame officials vehe
mently denied any interest, which
forced ACC leaders to look else
where for the coveted final team.
They found a willing partner in BC.
“The ACC is a strong, stable con
said. “Outside the Pit, I don’t see
self-segregation at UNC.”
But Lily West, co-chairw'oman
of SARR, said race relations on
campus look better than they are.
“I think UNC does a great job of
providing the image of a race-rela
tions-conscious campus,” she said.
“But fundamentally, there are
issues of race communication that
have not been addressed and have
never been addressed. And it frac
tures this campus.”
West said she thinks student
leaders, especially those of differ
ent races, are not communicating
well, making it difficult for their
groups to work together.
Some students pointed to cul
ture- and ethnicity-based organi
zations as promoting segregation.
“There’s something of value in
sharing time and friendships with
people that are similar to you,”
West said. “But the reaching out
isn’t happening.”
Maya Sirur, a junior and one of
the student coordinators of UNI
TAS, said her experience in the pro
gram helped her stray away from
what she calls “the Indian clique.
“I’ve noticed it, and I’ve person
ally found myself falling into it at
times,” she said of self-segregation.
“It takes a conscious effort not to
fall into that.”
Most people agree that improv
ing relations is a two-pronged effort.
Individuals, along with organiza
tions, must make it a priority.
Sargent said students first must
decide to explore other cultures
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ference, and membership in it
secures the future of our intercolle
giate athletics program,” Leahy said.
The announcement ends the
expansion saga and the bizarre
sequence of events involved.
“When the process started, our
point of view was that we have a
strong conference and there wasn’t
any need to expand,” said Dick
Baddour, UNC-CH director of ath
letics. “I’d say that the process was
extremely difficult and awkward at
times.”
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and then organizations must pro
vide them with opportunities.
“Students are naturally curious,
and I think they will take that
chance," Sargent said. “Institutions
must then be there for them."
Tripp Costas, president of UNC
College Republicans, said he is
making cultural outreach a club
priority with plans to speak to cul
tural groups such as the Carolina
Hispanic Association. “I think
we’re a fairly diverse group, but I
don’t think that’s enough," he said.
West said her committee aims to
improve communication by insti
tutionalizing race relations dia
logue training. The training, which
would arm students with the skills
to confront racism and race rela
tions issues, already has received
support from the Office of the
Dean of Students, West said.
She said her committee plans to
include some dialogue training for
freshmen during C-TOPS and to
offer it to all student groups. She
said that by creating a dialogue, the
committee will unite all campus
groups working on race relations.
But some said the University
cannot force improved race rela
tions. “We can never really under
stand people until we interact with
them by choice,” said Miriam
Williams, a senior international
studies major.
“I think there’s a fix, but it’s not
a quick fix, and it’s not a mass fix.”
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CONCERNS
FROM PAGE 1
letes and a loss of tradition as key
reasons why the school did not
support the additions of Boston
College, Miami, Syracuse or
Virginia Tech.
While the University used those
concerns to justify its rejection of
expansion in June, those fears
seem to be less prevalent now
despite the fact that the confer
ence will stretch from
Massachusetts to southern Florida
—a reality that could result in
additional class time missed by
athletes.
“We continue to have those con
cerns,” Moeser said. “I’m reason
ably confident, and I think Dick
Baddour is reasonably confident,
that we can manage those.”
When BC joins the conference,
the ACC likely will adopt the foot-
DEBATE
FROM PAGE 1
other, which has characterized the
candidates’ debates so far.
“While George Bush has been in
office. America has lost 3 million
jobs,” Edwards said after the
debate in the Hilton Charlotte &
Towers atrium. “We need to make
sure Bush has anew job come
November.”
Clark, Kucinich and Sharpton
arrived on time for the round
table, hosted by the South
Carolina National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People.
Edwards, Gephardt and
Moseley Braun arrived more than
three hours late well after the
debates conclusion.
The debate focused on civil lib
erties under the Bush administra
tion. “There is an attempt by the
president to turn back the clocks
on civil rights,” Sharpton said. “But
we will not go back.”
Clark said Bush's tax cuts have
made minority communities poor
er, furthering their already unsta
ble economic situation. “We’re
hemorrhaging jobs out there,” he
said. “We need to have an active
ball divisions the conference’s ath
letic directors created earlier this
month in order to stage an annual
football championship game that
could bring in nearly $lO million.
BC probably will be added to the
division that had five teams.
Each team will play the other
teams in its division once each
year. The champion of each divi
sion will play at a neutral site in a
conference championship football
game, which now will be permissi
ble since the NCAA allows confer
ences with 12 or more teams to
hold such a contest.
UNC-CH’s division will include
Georgia Tech, Miami, Virginia,
Virginia Tech and Duke, so UNC
CH would play these five teams
each year.
And assuming that the ACC
continues to guarantee the annual
rivalry game between UNC-CH
and N.C. State, North Carolina
job creation process in America.”
Kucinich said using affirmative
action would give minorities nec
essary access to all levels of work.
“Blue collar, white collar, pink
collar it’s all the same,” he said.
“We’re going to have iron collars
around our necks if things don’t
change.”
Sharpton, the crowd favorite
when it came to minority issues,
said he has devoted a lot of his time
to recruiting minority voters.
“We must expand the electorate
to defeat Bush,” he said.
While the event’s focus was on
civil rights, the evening's under
tones were based on a much more
recent fight.
It was a year to the day that the
U.S. House had passed legislation
allowing military action in Iraq,
and the Democrats gathered at the
debate were not quick to forget the
bill’s repercussions.
Sharpton said he shares the
U.S. public’s dissatisfaction with
Bush’s dealings with the United
Nations.
“I would go to the U.N. and say
my predecessor was wrong,” said
UNIVERSITY DAY
FROM PAGE 1
In the last portion of her
address, Coleman criticized the
number of articles written about
the cost of higher education, citing
UNC as an example of a universi
ty trying to combat that stigma.
“There is no question that the
University of North Carolina is
providing broad accessibility for
students seeking higher accessibil
ity,” Coleman said.
Kit Evans, chief marshal for the
class of 2004, said she enjoyed the
speech. “She brought everyone into
her speech.”
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would have only two games each
year between the other five confer
ence schools: Boston College,
Clemson, Florida State, Maryland
and Wake Forest.
How a rotation could be estab
lished between those five teams
remains to be seen.
Another potential consequence
of the addition of Boston College is
that for budgetary and student
welfare reasons, some Olympic
sports might have to cancel a non
conference trip to compensate.
“There are some concerns with
flexibility and scheduling,”
Baddour said. “In other words, a
team might be planning a trip to
the Midwest and instead now will
plan a trip to Boston.
“So I think we can minimize
missed class time.”
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Clark, who took a lambasting from
the other Democratic candidates
in Phoenix for his wavering stance
on Iraq.
“I’m willing to concede control,"
he said. “It’s time to protect the
American people from the real
danger, and that's the people who
ran into the World Trade Center."
But there was one aspect of the
Iraq rebuilding process the three
candidates in the debate agreed
on: the Bush administration’s
request for SB7 billion in addition
al rebuilding funds.
“The SB7 billion should not,
cannot, will not be approved
before the American public knows
what it’s going toward," Clark said.
Almost an hour into the round
table, Kucinich and Sharpton had
to make their exit, leaving Clark to
command the stage.
The three late arrivals gave
impromptu speeches after the
debate’s conclusion while the
remaining NAACP delegates ate
dinner in the atrium.
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presentation of the Distinguished
Alumna and Alumnus Awards to
Coleman, who received a doctoral
degree in biochemistry from UNC
in 1969; Katherine Ann High, who
received her medical degree from
UNC in 1978; and Shirley
Friedlander Weiss, who received
her master of regional planning
degree from UNC in 1958.
Moeser stressed in his speech
that UNC has been a model for
public universities across the coun
try since its founding in 1793.
“Carolina still continues to keep
this lamp burning.”
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