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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 93, Issue 7
Tuesday, February 26. 1985
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By KAREN YOUNGBLOOD
Staff Writer
Memorial Hall was standing room
only Monday night as '60s activist
Abbie Hoffman and activist-turned-yuppie
Jerry Rubin butted heads in the
"Yippie vs. Yuppie Debates" sponsored
by the Carolina Union Forum
Committee.
Rubin, neatly clad in coat, tie and
jogging shoes, began the debate by
"spoofing an American Express
commercial.
"I led thousands of college students
in the streets," he said. "I was a source
of arguments between parents and
children. Now, I don't leave home
without my American Express card."
After the laughter ended, Rubin
began his opening statement by explain
ing the young urban professional
(yuppie) movement and his unexpected
change from yippie to yuppie.
"Many of you will become yuppies.
The 1980s will be the yuppie decade.
How do you know if you're a yuppie?
If the IRA means the Irish Republican
Army to you, then you're on his side,"
Rubin said, pointing to Hoffman. "But
if IRA means Individual Retirement
Plan, you're a yuppie."
Rubin defended his activist career in
the '60s, but said the activities that
worked then to bring about social
change would not work now.
"I'm very proud of what I did," he
said. "I'd do it all over again with only
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By LAURA VAN SANT
Staff Writer
The Reagan Administration's pro
posed budget for the next year includes
$3 billion in cuts to the Education
Department, a plan the National
Education Association said would
"critically impair" the education of
millions.
"It is extremely short-sighted to
disrupt the education of so many
students at a time when the Congress
and the people have clearly recognized
the importance of excellence in educa
tion for our nation's future," said NEA
President Mary Hatwood Furtrell,
referring to last year's "National Risk,"
the National Commission on Excellence
in Education.
Most of the education cuts would
affect federal grants, loans and other
types of financial aid to college students.
Among the proposals are a reduction
in the number of Pell grants and limiting
federal aid recipients to a maximum of
$4,000 per student. Funding for child
nutrition, remedial classes and other
public school programs would also be
reduced.
Ed Dale, White House spokesman
for the Office and Budget Administra
tion, said the proposed cuts were simply
a "mild tightening of the present
system."
According to Dale, the last 10 years
have seen the federal costs for higher
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a few changes. (But) I'm not going to
make this a '60s rally. It's a waste of
time. The '60s were as relevant to this
generation as World War II was to the
'60s generation."
Rubin said the yuppies were the ones
who would force social changes and
solve the problems for the '80s.
"I believe in yuppies. They are going
to change America like America has
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education double. He attributed the
increases to students who abuse the
system by falsely claiming independent
financial status (becoming eligible for
more aid) and to the growing accessi
bility of financial aid to middle-income
families.
Chapel Hill High School guidance
counselor Sandra Brown said that many
middle-class families whose children get
accepted to expensive private universi
ties can't pay the tuition and expect the
government to help.
"At Chapel Hill High, a lot of kids
apply to Princeton, Harvard or Duke,
and their parents allow them to because
they think they'll get a lot of financial
aid," she said. "The cuts will greatly
affect parents who make around
$30,000 because they can't afford the
costs and they will no longer have much
hope for aid."
Dale said the cuts are justified
because many scholarship and loan
programs originally meant for lower
income students have become available
to people who don't really need them.
He cited Pell grants, which were
designed for low-income students and
which now "can theoretically be given
to anyone in the lower half of the
income brackets."
"People try to rely on the government
for all their financial aid," Dale said.
"But we have a $250 billion budget
deficit. Wc can t do everything.
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never been changed in history. We are
going to change it by taking respon
sibility for this country," he said.
Yuppie does not mean forgetting
political conscious in order to pursue
careers and monetary security, Rubin
said.
"(Just) because you are successful,
you do not have to become a heartless
Republican," he said. "You can become
DormitoFy
By LORETTA GRANTHAM
Staff W riter
Once again another "Residence Hall
Clearinghouse Sweepstakes" has come
to pass, and while many won, others
were not so lucky in Monday's dorm
drawings.
"I feel bad about being pushed out,
and I don't have any idea what I'm going
to do," said freshman Amy Quesen
berry, who was closed out of Joyner.
"I think it's unfair that they were only
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Peter Woolfolk, NEA spokesman,
said that education was too valuable to
cut.
"Education should get the same
priority as defense. It's very important
for all students," Woolfolk said. "Many
of this country's future leaders will be
coming from the public schools. These
students deserve the same chance at
private universities that the wealthier
students get."
Frank Brown, dean of the UNC
School of Education, -said the cuts
wouldn't dramatically affect the public
schools because only 5 percent of their
funding comes from the federal govern
ment, but "reduction of aid to needy
students would have a big impact on
higher education."
Education Secretary William J.
Bennett was quoted recently as saying
that students wouldn't suffer from a
reduction in federal aid . but that "it
might require from some students
divesture of certain sorts: stereo dives
titure, automobile divestiture and three-weeks-at-the-beach
divestiture."
Futrell said cutting the education
budget wasn't the way to combat the
record federal deficits.
"Our nation faces a serious deficit
problem that can't be ignored, but we
believe that education is vital to our
nation's future," he said. "Education
ought to be treated no worse than any
other federal budget category."
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political with a conscience. The chal
lenge is how to tie self-interest with
compassion."
Hoffman, who wore an open-collared
shirt with a sleeveless sweater, began
his opening statement by responding to
Rubin's American Express joke.
"I'm the other one (referring to
former '60s activists) and American
Express wouldn't trust me 10 minutes
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taking 80 people back out of our whole
dorm," she said. "I'll try to get into
Granville, 1 guess, because 1 don't want
to wait until summer to find out if I'll
get in off the waiting list."
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its housing situation in the future, said
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While educators question
By LAURA VAN SANT
Staff W riter
The Basic Education Program,
being discussed today in a joint
meeting of the General Assembly's
House and Senate Education Com
mittees, is supposed to be a major
step toward education reform, but
some area educators are skeptical
about the plan's ability to improve
public schools.
Under the program, proposed by
Sen. Dennis Winner, D - Bun
combe, and Rep. Jo Graham Foster.
D- Mecklenburg, the state would
set minimum curriculum standards
for each grade and would implement
a career ladder pay scale for teachers,
where salaries would increase peri
odically according to a teacher's
evaluations and education level.
Foster, who heads the House
Education Committee, said the
program was the result of a select
committee's 1982 report outlining
ways the state's schools should be
improved and that the recent
national calls for education reform
would probably lead the General
Assembly to consider the bill
buy is poverty.
with their cards," he said.
Hoffman said that although the '60s
were in the past, the activism that
brought about social change then could
also work today.
Tm interested in breathing new life
into activism," he said. "I know more
than other people that this isn't the '60s,
but not all of us have rushed to embrace
the materialistic world."
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not getting in. I really didn't
Ray Jones
Quesenberry, from Southern Pines.
Hugh Highsmith, a freshman from
Burgaw, said did not hear his name
called at the Graham lottery and
planned to find an apartment. When
asked if he was upset, Highsmith said,
"No, but my dad's gonna hit the roof."
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seriously. .
"Three years ago the Legislature
wasn't ready to spend the money,"
Foster said, "but now the general
public is worn out of seeing North
Carolina way down on the nation's
test scores. We are ready to move."
If passed, the program would
begin in 1992 at a projected cost of
$627 million.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City
Schools superintendent Pamela
Mayer said she was supportive of the
program but didn't know if the
Legislature would be willing to fund
it.
"This effort will encourage the
state to follow with an alternate
plan," Mayer said, even if this
particular reform plan is not
approved.
But Pat Daiton, Chapel Hill High
School English teacher and co
president of the Chapel Hill
Carrboro chapter of the American
Federation of Teachers, said the
program, especially the career ladder
plan, "has a lot of weaknesses."
She said a study conducted by
UNC Kenan professor of sociology
Abbie Hoffman
The media are responsible for the
promotion of fads, such as the yuppies,
Hoffman said. He added that the media
distorted situations for their advantage
and the U.S. government's advantage.
"Ronald Reagan is a liar. George
Schultz is a liar," Hoffman said. "Where
was CBS in the Ws when we were
calling Westmoreland a liar?"
College students today are too quick
to accept what the government tells
them, Hoffman said.
"It's your generation that I tend not
to trust," he said. "Campuses today are
hotbeds of social rest. If there's anything
you get (from activism), it's more than
throwing up on your sweatshirt after
the big game on Saturday."
The yuppie movement will not bring
about social change as Rubin claims,
Hoffman said, nor will Reagan's "trickle
down" economic theory help the poor.
"They (yuppies) earn money the old
fashioned way," he said. "They do it
by screwing the .lower class."
Hoffman stressed political activism as
the only way to bring about social
reform and political changes.
"I believe in a democracy of passion,"
'he said. "It's (activism) something you
learn how to do.
"You have to challenge the power
structure. If you dont do it, you dont
got it."
The crowd, which started as a
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Others, like freshmen Wanda Mat
thews and Carolyn Proctor of Hinton
James, did not have much to worry
about.
"I was scared until I found out that
there were 300 openings for girls and
only 200 applied," said Matthews, from
Wagram. . "I could nt have afforded an
apartment."
"I just hope I get in the same room,"
said Proctor, who is from Laurinburg.
"We've finally figured out how to
decorate it."
Dawn Haddock's name was called
eafrly in the. Morrison lottery. A junior
from Fayetteville, Haddock was deligh
ted to be back in for her final year.
"Some people think that by the time
you're a senior you won't want to be
in the dorm, but we like it," she said.
1 Haddock, who was busy scooping ice
cream for those waiting in the crowded
Morrison room, said about 29 girls
would not get back into the South
Campus highrise.
Ray Jones, a Buies Creek sophomore,
was "mighty glad" to be back in Avery.
"I didn't want to think about not getting
in," he said. "I really didnt want to leave
dorm life, and Granville is so expensive
that 1 ruled that out."
Aycock resident Beth O'Neal and her
roommate. Tammy Perry, went
through preliminary drawings to get an
extra chance at being on campus.
"Well be living in Manly next year,
and it's nice knowing that we are back
on North Campus," said O'Neal, a
sophomore from Charlotte. "We're not
going to have to move during the year
because of renovations, either."
Cary sophomore Carl Ripberger had
not seen the Grimes list yet, so he was
not sure of his dorm status. "The
location's great here, and since 40 out
of 60 get back in. I think I've got a
pretty good chance."
If kicked out, Ripberger said he
would join the ranks of other apartment
hunters.
local policy
Duncan MacRae indicated problems
with the career ladder system.
"I know what everyone's saying it
will do," Daiton said, "but few
administrators are willing to do the
paperwork necessary to identify and
do something about teachers who
need help."
She also cautioned against hasty
implementation of any reform pack
age, saying it would be a positive
step only if it was the result of several
years' study and if "they could really
evaluate what is basic and what
should be taught at each level."
Foster said this year's career
ladder pilot programs throughout
the state and an older career ladder
program in the Mecklenburg County
schools were evidence that such a pay
scale could work. In addition, he
said, it is essential to get a basic
curriculum established as soon as
possible, because some school sys
tems require less of their students
then others.
"I want every child to have an
equal opportunity." she said. "You
just have to have certain skills to
operate in society."