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"JH'Ww'iymiWw"r,1'M'll UNCFootball SPORTS Page 9 UNC Basketball The North Carolina basketball team, ranked No. 1 in the latest Associated Press poll, rolled through Christmas break by winning the Holiday Festival in New York. The Heels' latest win has over N.C. State Saturday. The Tar Heel football season came to a disappoint ing halt in the Peach Bowl Dec. 30. UNC lost to Florida State 28-3 before a poor crowd showing in chilly Atlanta. Weather A 40 percent chance of rain is expected this morning Cold with a high in the mid-30s. Partial clearing and cold tonight. a Welcome back! If you haven't registered, you have until next Tuesday, when the add period ends. The last day to drop a class is Feb. 21. Ik ) Copyright 1984 The Daily Tar Hed. All rights reserved. Volume 91, Issue 103 0 t ft I fl Splashdown An unidentified driver tests the amphibious capabilities of his automobile as he drives into a miniature lake that formed at the intersection of Hillsborough and Rosemary Streets when a storm drain clogged. Tuesday's weather may have matched the mood of many students as they faced a return to classes today following a restful break. UNC system behind in By CINDY PARKER Staff Writer - Predominantly white institutions " in the Tfcampus UNC system are behind schedule in their efforts to achieve desegregation, according to a UNC report filed in late December. The third annual report on desegregation, submitted to U.S. District Court in Raleigh, showed an 8.1 percent black-population at the 11 traditionally white schools. The report was filed in compliance with a 1981 consent decree between the UNC system and the U.S. Department of Education. According to the decree, UNC must raise overall black enrollment at the 11 traditionally white universities to 10.6 percent by 1986. But figures for the 1983 fall semester also show that the five traditionally black schools are meeting desegregation goals. According to the report, white students comprise 13.43 percent of enrollment at the black schools on schedule with the Education Department's prescribed goal of 15 percent by 1986. While the white schools are behind schedule, the system Transfer of books underway By KEITH BRADSHER Staff Writer Tomorrow the first books from the Wilson Library general collection, which fills 50 miles of shelf space, will be moved to the Walter, Royal Davis Library, Larry P. Alford, chief circu lation librarian and coordinator of the move, said Monday. Moving the entire general collection will take up to eight weeks, Alford said. Wilson Library will close halfway through the move, on Friday, Feb. 3; Davis Library will open Feb. 7. The availability of funds for staff ing dictates that Davis Library will maintain the same hours as Wilson Library, Alford said. During the weekend of Feb. 4 and 5, the circulation, reference, periodicals and microfilms depart ments will be moved to Davis Library. When Wilson reopens Feb. 6, only the special collections will be available to students. On Feb. 4, 5 and 6 the general col lection will not be available to students or faculty. "We know that there'll be some disturbance, but the hope is that people are aware of the interruption, and will plan accordingly, Alford said. "We cannot move the public services departments while maintaining ser vices." Apollo Moving Specialist, a pro fessional library mover from Min nesota, received the $240,000 contract from the University to move the books. Apollo will send trained su 0 ..j&MHAtf overall has still made good progress toward desegregation, said Raymond Dawson, vice president for academic af fairs for the UNC system. . ... "All 11 are behind as a groiip,-but we are making a good-faith effort to improve the situation," Dawson said Tuesday. "There was a 5 percent growth in total black enrollment this year, at a time when total enrollment rose less than 1 percent. ' 'We had hoped to be closer to our goal at this time, but we'll continue to work even harder during the next couple of years," he said. At the Chapel Hill campus, black enrollment remained unchanged at 8.65 percent, Dawson said. When the con sent decree agreement was first approved by U.S. District Judge Franklin T. Dupree Jr., blacks comprised 7.78 per cent of the Chapel Hill enrollment. The report showed that black enrollment at traditional ly white UNC-Greensboro has declined rather than in creased in the past three years. "UNC-G has a problem," said Dawson. "We're just not sure what it is." Dawson said the General Administration is making a continued ef fort to correct the problem. UNC-G enrolled 1,077 blacks pervisors while hiring temporary labor locally through Kelly Services, Alford said. All of the 28 temporary positions have been filled, Angela Coleman, a supervisor for Kelly Services, said Tuesday. Almost half of those hired were UNC students, she said. Tem porary employees will be paid minimum wage. Large, covered bookcases on wheels will be used to move the books, Alford said. Twelve teams of movers, six in Wilson and six in Davis, will unload the carts. Vans will transport the packed books from a loading dock in the southwest corner of the second level of Wilson's new stacks to the loading dock on the southeast corner of Davis. Folio classifications BH to DF were moved Tuesday to Davis, in order to prepare a staging area in Wilson, Alford said. Some equipment has already been moved to Davis. On Dec. 7 carrel lockers in the new stacks of Wilson were transferred. Typewriters and half of the lights in graduate student car rels and rooms were moved to Davis over Christmas Break. The Davis building itself is almost complete, Jake Bryant, director of the University's engineering and construc tion division, said Monday. Window sashes damaged by a cleansing solu tion have almost all been repaired, as have other small problems, Bryant said. The building comes with a one year warranty for such details that will expire in August, Bryant said. Negotiations have yet to begin on what penalty, if any, the contractor will pay for late completion of the building, Bryant said. "We have been damaged some on this, and we hope to redeem that," he said. The first books moved will be from the PZ classification on the tenth level . of the new stacks. In general. Wilson will be emptied from the top floor down, while Davis will be filled from the top down, Alford said. The only exception will be the A classification See LIBRARY on page 4 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Wednesday, January 11,1 984 O' 0 0 CI D a 0 0 X.. ,.-.vX' mmVn desegregation effort H elms, East react to flier's release By TOM CONLON Staff Writer GREENVILLE Both of North Car olina's U.S. senators were happy to see the release of U.S. Navy Lt. Robert Goodman, but they said last week that they had reservations about the Rev. Jesse Jackson's motives in gaining Good man's departure from Syria. Sens. Jesse Helms and John East, both Republicans, said at a news conference .Friday in Greenville that Jackson's visit to Syria may have been designed to em barrass the Reagan administraiton. "The scenario was just too pat not to have been planned," Helms said. "It was orchestrated, it was so clearly orchestrat ed.:, almost as if they had a written script that said 'you do this at this mo ment and you say this at this moment,' and it worked out right on schedule." Students uncertain of classes Grade arrivals late because of exam schedule By JIM ZOOK Staff Writer According to University officials, the late final exam schedule meant many students returning for the spring semester were still not sure how they had done during the fall semester. Those students were not only unaware of their fall grades, but also did not know if they had been placed in the classes they had requested. Brian Ellenburg, a sophomore from Rockwell, said, "It really made me mad. I had to call home for my grades. If I'd gotten them I wouldn't have had to come back as early. It was really a waste of time." "I hatod not having my schedule ahead of time," said Karen Cotten, a junior from Reidsville. "1 didn't have time to figure out my schedule over the weekend, and had to sit down in Woollen to figure it out. I still don't know my grades." Chapel Hill, North Carolina O o Q O 0 DTHZdne A Saunders in 1980 and 986 in 1983. Thus, total enrollment dropped from 10.37 percent in 1980 to 9.94 percent in 1983. The lagging enrollment of white students at traditional ly black A&T State University is a problem, but one which can be overcome, Dawson said. A&T showed a white enrollment of 8.98 percent in the 1983 fall semester, which is far behind the other four black schools. "A&T attracts many out-of-state blacks," said Dawson. Its prestige as a black institution could be a factor in the problem of recruiting whites, he said. Dawson's confidence in the system has not been de terred by the lack of progress at UNC-G and A&T. "I think we're going to make it (by 1986) We've already made substantial progress." Dawson said he did not know what the federal govern ment would do if the percentages are not reached by 1986. "We're just taking it one step at a time. As long as we continue to make the effort, I don't foresee a problem." The battle oyer desegregation between the 16-campus system and the Department of Education remained in the courts for 10 years before it ended in 1981 with the con sent decree. Helms said he knew Syria would release the flier, whose jet had been shot down during U.S. air strikes against Syrian positions in Lebanon in December. Helms stopped short of saying Jack son's achievement was an embarrassment to President Reagan, but he said that may have been Jackson's intention. "I think it at least put the president and everybody else, including Fritz Mondale, and all the rest of the Democratic can didates where they all have to say 'Oh, hooray for Jesse," Helms said. "They couldn't say anything against him, because nobody could nrove it was a one act play by the Syrians and Mr. Jackson, but at least the young man is home, and that's fine. . . But I know it's been an em barrassment to Fritz Mondale, because he's been off the front page." East said' he was unaware of what Jackson's motivations were. "We're However, the late exoin sU.cUuk. iouiu ikh uc avoid ed, said Ray Strong, director of the Office of Records and-Registration. '. "The calendar moves back a day each year until you have to move things forward a week," Strong said, add ing that this fall's exams ended later than they had for the past six or seven years. Grades were delivered to the post office on January 3 by the Office of Records and Registration, an official in that office said. The actual processing of the grades could not begin until December 28, though, because ex ams were so late. With the last exams being given on December 21, grades were not due for those exams until Christmas Eve. Office employees did not return from the Christmas holidays until December 28. "We have a semi-computerized registration and record keeping system," the official said. "From that, we produce a grade roll a day or two before exams. Those are given to professors, and the professors return 'Reasan welcomes Chinese d JL The Associated Press WASHINGTON President Reagan said Tuesday the United States and China "stand on common ground" in the quest for peace and opposition to Soviet ex panionism, but Premier Zhao Ziyang says the relationship "is far below the level it should have attained." After welcoming Zhao to the White House, Reagan and the highest-ranking official in the Chinese government met privately for a two-hour discussion that U.S. officials said was dominated from the start by the sensitive issue of U.S. support for Taiwan. A senior American official, who briefed reporters only on the condition that he not be identified, said Reagan "was candid about the fact that we take seriously the question of commitments to old friends." "We don't walk away from com mitments, and that's a governing aspect of this whole problem," said, the official. "We would be kidding ourselves if we think that this issue was ever going to simply disappear or that their concerns would not be voiced." Although the United States has withdrawn diplomatic recognition of Taiwan as the legitimate government of the Chinese mainland, it has continued to supply arms to the Nationalist-ruled island while insisting that its future be determined peacefully, with the participation of both Xhina and Taiwan. ... t - ,: , The Chinese consider . the continuing U.S. role in Taiwan to be" direct in terference in their internal affairs. Reagan nonetheless sought to stress areas where the two leaders could agree. Zhao, the first Chinese premier ever to visit the United.States, said there had been "ups and downs" in relations between Washington and Peking and that "dif ficulties and obstacles" still exist. . On Zhao's arrival for three days of talks, Reagan acknowledged that "dif ferences between our two countries" exist, but assured his guest that "we stand ready to nurture, develop and build upon the many areas of accord to strengthen the ties between us. "We stand on common ground in op posing expansionism and interference in delighted to have Lt. Goodman home, but I feel it's important to remember in the case of Jesse Jackson that he histori cally has been identified with the most radical elements in the Middle East," East said. . "He has supported Syria and the dicta torship of Assad; he has sided with the PLO against Israel; his wife was recently in Nicaragua siding with the Sandinistas," he said."So between the two of them, their affiliation with the Third World is with the most radical co Marxist forces. To that extent, I think he was used (by the Syrians) in that part. "We're dealing with a man (Jackson) sympathetic to radical forces, so naturally they (Syria) pander to what he would want and what would help him politically NewsSportsArts 962-0245 BusinessAdvertising 962-1163 remiere the affairs of independent states," Reagan said. The U.S. briefing official said Reagan and Zhao also discussed the Soviet military buildup in the Far East, Moscow's in volvement in Cambodia and the Soviet oc cupation of Afghanistan. Later, in post-luncheon toasts at the State Department, Secretary of State George P. Shultz told Zhao: "We've come a long way in this one year, Mr. Premier. We've resumed and advanced our strategic dialogue, which is so vital an element of our bilateral relations." . China has explored the possibility of buying U.S. anti-aircraft and anti-armor weapons systems, but a senior American official said last week he did not expect any major arms sales to China in the foreseeable future. Zhao said his talks with Reagan and Shultz on Tuesday "showed that there are common points as well as differences be tween us. However, tlv important thing is the desire shared by both sides to develop our relations." Shultz said economic ties between the two countries had become so complex and flourishing that problems had developed, but "we welcome the depth and breadth of our current relationship which makes such problems inevitable." Shultz predicted that solutions would be found in the spirit of "a healthy and friendly-mterrelationship."- w - - - - Reagan 'said the United States welcomes "the opportunity to walk at China's side?' as the world's most populous nation em barks on an ambitious modernization pro gram aimed at quadrupling its economic output by the year 2000. The president assured Zhao, who began a two-week, cross-couatry tour of the United States, that "we're happy that our people will have the opportunity to meet you and let you know that you are, indeed, among friends." Zhao said he had come "as a friendly envoy of the Chinese people. . . for the purpose of seeking increased mutual understanding, stabilizing the relations between our two countries, enhancing Sino-U.S. friendship and helping to preserve world peace." Jesse Helms in the race for the Democratic nomina tion to oppose President Reagan," East said. i .x : : vv:-::;i:x.: : :-X:x5tt I - , -A mt . '- e due three days after finals. We started with those on Wednesday, Dec. 28. Everything in our hands was in the system by noon Thursday, and it went to press about noon Friday." The grade sheets are computer printouts prepared by the Administrative Computer Center. The printouts are sent to the Office of Records and Registration for mail ing. All reports mailed to students were sent First Class mail. They were delivered at about 2:30 p.m. Jan. 3. Post office officials said there was nothing in par ticular that would have delayed their arrival to students. "1 haven't heard of any problems," said Carol Ran dall, a post office official in Raleigh, where the grade would have gone after leaving Chapel Hill. "Since they were all mailed together, they were all processed together." Strong said next year's academic calendar has exams scheduled to end two days earlier than this ear, as a part of the cycle.