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By KATHY MORRILL
Staff Writer
On a campus as large as UNCs, where
only one out of five faculty members in
tenure-track positions is a woman,
interaction among the female faculty is
often limited because of a lack of contact.
"That was the main reason we formed
the Association for Women Faculty,"
said Mary Turner Lane, vice president of
AWF and director of the women's studies
program. "There was a felt and expressed
need among women faculty that they
wanted and needed to know one another
better and to familiarize themselves with
U niversity programs,-a wards, fellowships
and other opportunities available to
them."
Carol Reuss, treasurer for the
association, said the size of the University
and the varied distribution of women
faculty among the departments often
isolate women. "1 am very fortunate in
the journalism school to have so many
women faculty with whom to associate.
In other departments, where there are
fewer women, it is more difficult for them
to meet and talk with one another.
According to Lane, one of three
instructors and or assistant professors is
a woman, as is one of 1 1 full professors.
Lane said over the past six to eight
years, various women's organizations on
campus, including AWS, Women's
Forum and the Valkyries, brought the
women faculty together by inviting them
to teas and receptions. "As the women got
to know one another, they felt the need to
form an organization which would bring
them together more often and through
which they could share their experiences
in beginning professional careers and in
learning to work effectively in
predominantly male departments," she
said.
Lane emphasized that the AWF is not a
political movement but an organization
responding to changes on campus. She
said she hopes AWF members and all
other women faculty members .will take
an active part in advising women
undergradute and graduate students who
are now beginning to seek new career and
job possibilities. "I feel that the female
faculty will continue to be sought out
more and more as increasing numbers of
women students continue to enroll at
UNC."
The purpose of the AWF, as stated in
the constitution, is "to create and
maintain a hospitable environment for
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. . .sales to benefit Campus Chest
JERUSALEM (AP) The Israeli
Parliament overwhelmingly approved a
historic peace treaty with Egypt early
today, ending a state of war that had
existed since Israel's birth three decades
ago.
Before the vote, Saudi Arabian and
Iraqi newspapers called for all-out war
against Israel, and thousands of
Palestinians in Abu Dhabi demonstrated
against the treaty.
The vote in the 120-member Knesset
came just after 4 a.m., following more
than 28 hours of debate that started
Tuesday.
When the call was made for a vote on
approval of the treaty, tliere was a show
of handP to indicate overwhelming
approval. Parliament clerks then counted
the hands for an exact total.
They came up with 95-18. with seven
members either present and not voting or
abstaining.
During the debate. Prime Minister
Menachem Begin again asked Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat to join him in
signing the accord in Cairo and
Jerusalem.
The Saudi Arabian and Iraqi press,
which reflect government thinking lashed
out at the Egyptian-Israeli treaty and
called for war against Israel to regain
Jerusalem and occupied Arab lands.
In Abu Dhabi in the United Arab
Emirates, several thousand Palestinains
held a tumultuous rally, chanting slogans
against Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
and carrying banners condemning the
treaty. It was the largest rally ever in this
oil-rich sheikdom.
"Jerusalem is calling us. Only fighting
will bring it back, not speeches, not talks'
said Sheik Abdul Aziz Bin Mobarek.
In Jerusalem, outside the Knesset,
angry members of the ultranationalist
Gush Emunim Bloc of the Faithful
gathered at the gates to protest the treaty.
They were not allowed in. They also set
up a prefabricated building at an
unauthorized settlement in the occupied
Sinai Peninsula.
Jewish settlers in the Sinai town of
Yamit closed the- town gates for two
hours to protest the treaty which will evict
them in three years.
The outbursts followed Begin's
statement on Tuesday that Israel never
would withdraw to its pre-1967 borders
or tillow establishment of a Palestinian
state.
Oil-rich Saudi Arabia leads the pro
Western moderate front in the Middle
East and the Saudis have pumped healthy
amounts of financial aid into the
impoverished Egyptian economy. Iraq
has been traditionally hawkish against.
Israel.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, U.S. national
security adviser, recently returned from a
visit to Saudi Arabia where he tried '.
without success to persuade leaders to
support the Egypt-Israeli accord.
A front-page editorial in AUezira a
daily Saudi newspaperwith a circulation
of 5,000, said Palestinians should fight
"until they turn the occupied lands into a
blazing inferno for the enemy.
"We should convert all our resources
into, rifles, guns, tanks and fighter aircraft
and turn every able-bodied man into a
good soldier or commando willing to die
for this cause," the editorial said.
Another Saudi paper, Al Riyadh,
circulation 10,000, wondered why
."anybody should want to sign a treaty
with Israel after what Begin said.
"With the West Bank and Gaza gone
and with the exclusion of Jerusalem and
the denial of Palestinian rights, why
. bother to go to Washington, Tel Aviv and
Cairo to sign anything? the paper asked.
See MIDEAST on page 2
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Staff Writer
More than L000 students have signed a petition
asking for a curriculum in environmental energy
studies to be "established Within the College of Arts
and Sciences. Senior Miriam Eaves presented the
petition to Arts and Sciences Dean Samuel R.
Williamson Tuesday.
"We feel this area is relevant and highly applicable
to the needs and interests of the student body," the
petition states. It was signed by 1,050 students.
"Assuming the University is responsive to the student
body, we request careful consideration of the
proposed curriculum and resolution of the matter."
Eaves, an interdisciplinary environmental energy
studies major, led and coordinated the effort to
collect signatures lor the petition.
"I think the petition demonstrated to him
(Williamson) that this is an area which is lacking and
which needs to be improved," Eaves said.
The petition cites steadily increasing enrollment in
Political Science 173 (Population, Environment and
Politics) as proof of rising student interest in
environmental energy studies. It also suggests
expansion of course offerings and tenured faculty
positions as means of implementing curriculum
change and development.
Eaves said efforts to collect signatures, which have
been under way since January, were minimal.
, "We really haven't launched a full-scale campaign
to get signatures." Eaves said. "I think the number of
signatures we got with the small effort put out is
See PETITION on page 4
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By ANNE-MARIE DOWNEY
Staff Writer
The proposal for downtown parking decks cleared a
significant hurdle Tuesday night when" the Chapel Hill
Transportation Board unanimously approved the town staffs
parking recommendations with only slight modifications.
The plan was also presented to the Planning Board Tuesday
but no action was taken, Both board's recommendations and
those of the staff will be submitted to the Board of Aldermen on
March 26.
The staff plan calls for construction of two parking decks in the
central business district. A three-level deck that could be
expanded to five levels would be built on Municipal Lot No. 1
behind the Franklin Street Post Office. The staff also proposes
building a surface lot in the West Rosemary Street area that
eventually would be used for decking.
Although the Transportation Board' did accept the basic
proposal for the decks, its approval of the staff plan was
See PARKING on page 4
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BOUT 5 PERCENT OF ALL STUDENTS
entering Carolina for the first time this falL
will flunk out because they have not earned
a 1.5 grade-point average after two
semesters.
Many move away from Chapel Hill
unnoticed, becoming part of a statistic that
is seldom mentioned. Few realize students
who flunk out are a large part of the 50 percent of the
student body that fails to graduate in the traditional four
years.
"When 1 flunked out of school, I thought, 'What a
stigma, ' Stevie says. "1 thought it would follow me the
rest of my life. I can just now talk about it after three
years.
Stevie was ineligible to return to UNC after her
freshman year. She worked for nine months as a janitor
until she returned to summer school. There she became
eligible to return in the fall. She is now a senior at UNC
and maintains a 3.0 grade average.
UNC students are required to maintain a grade-point
average of 1.75 after four semesters. An overall average of
2.0 is required for graduation. Ineligible students may
return to UNC when they have completed enough courses
in summer school or by correspondence to raise their
grade average to the minimum level.
Although the grade requirements are clear-cut, the
individual students and their situations vary greatly.
A study conducted by the University for the Civil Rights
Office of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and
Welfare and published in February does predict, in very
general terms, who is less likely to graduate.
The study shows that 79.7 percent of the black men who
dropped out of UNC in the fall of 1977 did so because of
academic failure. Of the 65 black women who left UNC the
same year, 42 were academically ineligible to continue. Of
the 535 white females who didn't return, academic failure
was the reason for about 20 percent of them. Thirty-one
percent of the 686 white male dropouts in the fall of 1977
flunked out.
University administrators find that the higher the
student's Scholastic Aptitude Test score, the greater the
chance that student will graduate. About 59 percent of the
students with SAT scores lower than 1,000 will graduate,
while 72 percent of those with scores of 1 ,400 or higher will
graduate within five years.
"UNC has a low rate of retention compared to small
prestigious low-enrollment colleges,' says Timothy R.
Sanford, assistant director of institutional research which
conducted the study. "Compared to the non-competitive
state colleges, the retention rate is astronomical.
But sex, race or SAT scores cannot predict many of the
individual problems that arise and cause a student to flunk
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Myron B. Liptzin head of the mental health division of the
Student Health Service. About 8 percent of the student
body visits the mental health clinic each year, and Liptzin
says most of these visits concern academic failure.
He says many college students parents are going
through a mid-life crisis that may involve changes like
divorce and change of occupation or location. This can
create problems for the student who needs stability at
home. Lintzin savs.
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