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Copyright 1985 The Day Tar Hee
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 93, Issue 37
Wednesday, April 17, 1985
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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By JANET OLSON
University Editor
Chanting ". . . the meal plan's got to
go," about 200 students marched on
South Building Tuesday afternoon to
protest the $100 mandatory meal plan
due to take effect in the fall.
The rally against the meal plan began
in the Pit at noon when Fetzer Mills,
co-author of a Student Government
report that expresses opposition to the
meal plan, took the microphone. "One
of the things IVe been hearing from the
administration is that the students don't
care (about the meal plan), that they
actually want to have it," Mills said.
"Do you want a mandatory meal plan?"
His question met a resounding "No"
from the crowd of about 500 that had
gathered around the Pit.
Students already are faced with a
proposed tuition hike and potential cuts
in federal student aid, Mills said. "Now
they're (the administration) turning
around and saying that you're going to
give $100 (to ARA) or you're not going
to go to school here," Mills said. "I think
that sucks."
Taking advantage of the crowd's
enthused reply and calling himself the
"emcee" of the rally, Sherrod Banks,
former president of the Black Student
Movement, then urged students to
follow him and other student leaders
in a march on South Building. About
200 students followed them, chanting,
"Hey, hey. Ho, ho. The meal plan's got
to go." The crowd converged on South
Building, where students chanted, "Ban
the plan."
Tom Terrell, former president of the
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation, set the stage for the rest of
the speakers.
The issues are broader than just a
mandatory meal plan, Terrell said. "The
issue is the power that the administra
tion has to up our costs without
consulting us4" he said. "Students have
been treated with little respect throu
gout this whole thing.
"If student input is to have any
influence whatsoever, we must have
bargaining power."
The only faculty member to speak
at the rally, business professor Nick
Didow, pledged his support in fighting
the meal plan and received loud
applause. "This is the first time IVe ever
been a cult hero," he said, "but I'm
proud to do it because I believe I'm
right.
"I was the only committee member
present at the 1983 (Food Services
Advisory Committee) meeting who
opposed (the mandatory meal plan)
who called it unwise, unnecessary and
unfair." Didow cast the only opposing
vote at that meeting.
Didow told the crowd that he planned
to introduce two resolutions at Friday's
Faculty Council meeting. The first calls
for an ad hoc committee to be formed
to identify persisting inequities among
faculty, students and staff, and Didow
called the mandatory meal plan an
example of such an inequity.
The second resolution calls for the
Board of Trustees to delay implement
ing the meal plan until the issue can
be reviewed in detail. "There are simply
too many unanswered questions and
too much uncertainty surrounding the
plan for responsible Trustees to do
otherwise,"1 Didow said.
Campus Governing Council Speaker
Wyatt Closs spoke about the Thurs
day's referendum, which will allow
students to voice their opinions about
the meal plan, and he urged students
to vote by presenting them reasons for
not voting.
"You might say, 'Well, I already
spend $100 at Lenoir anyway,' " Closs
said. But with the meal plan, students
will have to pay ARA the money up
front at the beginning of the semester.
In addition, Closs said the meal plan
would be a disincentive for ARA to
improve food quality.
Off-campus students and Granville
Tower residents might not vote because
they think the meal plan wont affect
them, Closs said. "What's going to
happen when you get out of class one
day, and you-say to your friend, 'Let's
go to Burger Xing'?" Closs said. "Well,
they're going to say, 'I can't go to Burger
King, man, because I have to spend this
$100 meal plan.' "
At that, Closs garnered the loudest
response of any of the previous speak
ers, and the crowd still was highly
enthused when Banks introduced Stu
dent Body President Patricia Wallace.
Wallace did not immediately address
the meal plan issue but instead asked
students to attehd'araliy at the General
Assembly building in Raleigh on
Tuesday to protest tuition hikes. The
Assembly has proposed a hike of up
to $300, Wallace said, thereby raising
a more important issue than the
mandatory meal plan.
Her statement raised boos and hisses
from the crowd, and one person yelled
out, "What about the mandatory meal
plan?"
Wallace went on to explain why the
BOT decided to implement the plan.
"The facilities were really run down,"
she said. "They (the BOT) thought it
was necessary to improve the facilities
(by renovating them)." The BOT asked
for a mandatory meal plan because they
wanted a guarantee that the facilities
would be used, she said.
The crowd grew restless during
Wallace's explanation. "I know I'm
boring you," she said. "But I just want
to explain why we have the meal plan."
More boos. "Where do you stand?"
a girl yelled.
"I'm fighting the meal plan on the
grounds that it's unnecessary," Wallace
said. "But I want you all to understand
that it's a financial issue. It's not a
popular issue. ... I would love for
anyone with a substantial way to fight
the meal plan to call me up or to write
me a letter."
Sibby Anderson, BSM president,
then spoke about how the meal plan
discriminated against black students.
The BOT resolution to implement the
plan includes a provision that would
allow a full board plan on South
Campus, where 90 percent of the black
students live, Anderson said, adding
that 80 percent of those students are
on some sort of financial aid.
"The outcome of (a full board plan
on South Campus) will be that black
students will be forced to move off
campus, will be forced to move to North
Campus or will be forced to drop out
of school," she said.
Following Anderson, Mark Stafford,
former Residence Hall Association
president, and Tim Cobb, current RHA
president, spoke about the quality of
ARA food. "I tried one of these $100
plans last year, and I ate it," Stafford
said. "But 111 tell you what I didn't do.
I didn't buy it again this year.
"If I were Tony Hardee, manager of
ARA, I would be ashamed to say I have
to force people to eat my food."
After Stafford's words had fired up
the crowd, he took a lighter out of his
pocket, and he and Cobb each burned
an ARA meal plan card in protest,
getting loud approval from onlookers.
Throughout the rally, speakers
pointed out the; diversity of 3 student
leaders speaking in opposition to the
plan, noting that they ranged from
Doug Berger, a member of the Demo
cratic Socialists of America who said
the administration did not allow demo
cratic student input into the meal plan,
to CGC representative David Fazio
(Dist. 19), Students for America pres
ident who said the meal plan violated
principles of free enterprise.
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Children play on the unfinished masterpiece of Heath Miller, a studio art major, outside Davis Library.
Sculpture gets abstraci attention
By RACHEL STROUD
Staff Writer
At first, they stared. Then, a few adventurous students
climbed on it. Now, most just keep walking.
But for almost everyone, the question is, "What is that
giant . . . thing . . . that has appeared in front of Davis
Library?"
The general consensus about this creative piece of art.
is it is definitely unusual.
"I like it because it is different, abstract and interesting,"
said Lilian Sellers, a freshman from Edenton. "You can
use your imagination and make it what you want it to
be."
Other people are not quite as enthusiastic about the
sculpture.
"I admire the artist for having the nerve to put it up
in public," said Kevin Smith, a sophomore from Charlotte.
"I think the library and sculpture detract from the rest
of the campus," said Scott Humphrey, a junior from
Mocksville. "The rest of the campus is traditional, and
they are both modern."
Heath Miller, a senior studio arts major, takes
responsibility for the abstract steel sculpture, which has
puzzled many students. He is building it for his honor's
thesis.
"It represents an attempt to add a harmonizing element
into this courtyard in front of Davis Library," Miller said.
"The sculpture was conceived of as something that would
refer to all the forms of architecture an individual can
see from its position in this space."
For example, the steel plates will be treated with rust
from light orange to dark-brown red that refers to the
different-colored brick used in the architecture, he said.
The geometric planes in the sculpture refer to architecture's
geometric elements, and the wire mesh covered with
concrete refers to the use of concrete in the Student Union,
Student Stores, Undergraduate Library and the mortar
between the bricks.
The cost of securing and putting the structure in place
will be about $6,500 of his own money. Miller said.
Miller said he planned to name his sculpture "Tremmel."
"It makes the sculpture more personable," he said. "People
can relate to it. I like the way it sounds."
Miller said the sculpture would be finished in time for
the library's dedication on April 26. Although it is not
a part of the dedication. Miller said, he believes it will
enhance the dedication. "It's part of this environment,"
he said.
Miller said the sculpture would remain in front of the
library as long as the University wanted it.
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In a new twist on light meals, Tim Cobb (left) and Mark Stafford burn their ARA cards while David Fazio applauds.
UNC Rhodes scholar Robyn Hadley
also spoke, stressing the importance of
the referendum on Thursday. Closing
the rally, Banks agreed. "If you do not
vote, you will forfeit your freedom of
choice," he said.
James O. Cansler, associate vice
chancellor and dean of Student Affairs,
stood on the crowd's outskirts during
the rally. When asked if the rally would
help revoke the meal plan, he said, "No,
I think it's good that they (students)
could express their feelings, (but) the
decision's been made.
"I'm sure (the BOT) will see it as an
expression of students' concerns . . . ,
(but) they will probably take the stance
that the decision was made two years
ago. I don't see anything that can be
done to change this."
Donald A. Boulton, vice chancellor
and dean of Student Affairs, watched
with Cansler. When asked how the rally
would be received by the administration
and the BOT, he said: "I can't read
minds. ... I haven't talked to anybody.
(But) IVe always felt that when students
care enough, we should listen to what
they're saying."
Karen Youngblood contributed to
this story.
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By KIM WEAVER
Staff Writer
Who is the director of Gone With the Wind? What does
the new business term "golden parachute" mean? The UNC
College Bowl team, faced with these and other tough
questions at the National Invitational Tournament last
weekend, came home national champions.
The tournament, held at Emory University in Atlanta,
consisted of five competitive rounds on Friday and 10 on
Saturday. The UNC team defeated 35 teams, including the
University of Minnesota last year's national champion
and this year's regional champion, Duke.
The competition at the national level was very intense,
said team coach Beth Weller, a senior from Chapel Hill.
"There were teams there that had beaten us earlier," she
said. "Nine or 10 of them were regional winners, and the
rest of the teams there had won other invitational
tournaments."
Despite the tension of competition, Weller said the team
was usually relaxed. "One thing that helps (the team) is that
everyone is friends," Weller said. "There's no stress. We can
really rely on each other.
"We have a lot of fun with it (competing)," she said. "We Ye
semisuperstitious. Everybody has their own favorite T-shirt
to wear when we play."
The team has a term, "mojo," which they coined to
represent the T-shirts, books, baseball caps and other items
that accompany them for good luck at competitions.
"We're just fun people," Weller said. "The thing that makes
us different is that we're very relaxed. There's a theory (within
the group) that the questions don't matter and the
competition doesn't matter, if we do the mojo right."
Although the team had participated in practice sessions
before the three tournaments held .before the national
tournament, there was no practice session before the national
competition. Weller said it was very difficult to come up
with a set of questions for rehearsal because the tournament
questions were chosen at random.
"A lot of teams rehearse two or three times a week," she
said. "Practice doesn't help as much as reading a good
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By GUY LUCAS
Staff Writer
The Campus Governing Council's
Finance Committee proposed more
than $18,000 in budget cuts when the
final round of budget hearings began
Tuesday.
After the committee cuts about
$70,000, the full CGC will meet in an
all-day session Saturday to amend and
approve the budget.
The Carolina Athletic Association
and the Student Consumer Action
Union suffered the brunt of the pro
posed cuts because they had the largest
budgets of the groups reviewed, but the
most hotly contested budget was that
of the Campus Y.
Campus Y narrowly escaped an
attempt by conservatives on the Finance
Committee to eliminate student funding
for the organization. That would not
cut off all funds for the Campus Y,
because it does not get all of its funds
from the CGC.
Bill Peaslee (Dist. 9) led the attempt
to defund Campus Y, saying that many
of the committees and subgroups that
operate under the umbrella of the
organization were political. The Stu
dent Constitution prohibits the CGC
from allocating student funds to pro
grams, services or events of a political
or religious nature.
Student Body Treasurer Ryke Long
est said that although the Campus Y
provided money to its committees, they
were considered financially separate
from the Campus Y and kept their own
books. Since they are separate, the
clause of the constitution Peaslee was
concerned about did not apply to the
committees.
Peaslee said that was a "dodge" the
Campus Y used to get around the
constitution, and he proposed that it
not receive funds.
"Let's face it, Campus Y does a lot
of things that are political," he said.
Peaslee's motion failed 5-4, with
members splitting along ideological
lines and chairman David Brady (Dist.
12) casting the deciding vote.
Conservatives succeeded, however, in
attracting support to recommend cut
ting administrative expenses for Cam
pus Y's summer programs, arguing that
administrative functions were used by
the committees and constituted a direct
use of student funds for political
programs.
Peaslee said, "The phone and secret
arial can be used, and probably will be
used, by STAND (Students Taking
Action for Nuclear Disarmament)," as
well as other political committees.
David Fazio (Dist. 19) agreed, saying
the administration covered all commit
tees and subgroups operating in the
summer.
"(Administration) is all-
encompassing, and if you've seen their
committees youll agree they are very
political," he said.
The CAA budget was hit hard, most
seriously in the homecoming program,
which the committee recommended be
trimmed to $2,950 from $6,750. Most
of the cut was the deletion of the $3,000
speakers fee.
Peaslee suggested that a private
source could be found to provide money
for a speaker. "I think a company would
really like (to provide the money)," he
said.
Homecoming also had received merit
scores that were somewhat low in
comparison to other scores. Represen
tatives of the Student Affairs and Rules
and Judiciary committees, who gave the
merit scores, said the scores were low
mainly because many students, such as
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Shevch
to lecture
on U.S. -Soviet relations
Arkady Shevchenko, the highest ranked Soviet official ever to defect to
the West, will present a lecture in Memorial Hall tonight at 8. As a former
Soviet ambassador and under-secretary general to the United Nations,
Shevchenko will discuss his observations on U.S.-Soviet arms negotiations
and the new Soviet leadership.
In addition to his top level U.N. assignment, Shevchenko spent 2'2 years
as a close adviser to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and worked
closely with all the Soviet leaders from Kruschev to Chernenko. He currently
is writing a biography of Gromyko.
His first book published in the West, Breaking With Moscow, was recently
serialized by Time and discloses his observations of the Soviet elite, as well
as the rise and fall of leaders such as Kruschev, Brezhnev and Andropov.
As a result of his book, he has been getting a great deal of attention from
American media.
Most recently, Shevchenko reported to a congressional subcommittee on
the changing Soviet leadership and advised the American negotiation team
in preparation for the U.S.-Soviet arms talks in Geneva.
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