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By RANDALL PATTERSON
Staff Writer
The number of UNC entrance
applications for the fall semester has
risen dramatically, and an admissions
official said the increase allowed the
University to be more selective in
choosing from the applicants.
Tony Strickland, UNC associate
director of admissions, attributed the
21 percent rise to the efforts of the
admissions staff and- to the fall
publication of a book praising the
school.
Strickland said the "average SAT
score in the group entering the fall
of 1986, term was between 1080 and
1090. That compared to to the 1070
average for last year, he said, and
to the 1050 average for the fall of
1984 group. The average SAT score
for out-of-state students was in the
low 1300s, he said.
"Overall, our acceptance rate is
about 37 percent," Strickland said.
"We've taken 16 percent of the out-of-state
applicants and about 60
percent of the in-state. You won't find
too many schools that can afford to
accept only 60 percent of their in
state applicants."
Minority applications have
increased only slightly, Strickland
said. Black applicants accounted for
only about 850 of the 13,618 appli
cations received as of last week. There
798 minority applications last year,
he said.
Strickland said the University
relaxes its entrance requirements for
minorities in order to conform with
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From staff and wire reports
Marriott Corp., UNC's new
food service, and Saga Corp,
jointly said Monday that Marriott
is offering $39.50 per share for all
outstanding Saga shares in a
merger expected to make Marri
ott the largest contract-food
company in the nation.
The offer, worth about $501.7
million, was unanimously
accepted by Saga's board of
directors who recommended it to
shareholders as fair and in their
best interests.
In consolidated New York
Stock Exchange trading Monday,
Saga closed up $2 a share at
$39.37'$. '
Marriott initially had been
offering $34 a share but amended
the offer over the weekend, lead-
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goals of the UNC system. The system
has a goal of 10.6 percent minority
enrollment for fall of 1986, he said.
; "We basically try to get as many
as have a reasonable chance of
making it," Strickland said. "The
SATs are different, but there's not
that much difference in demonstrated
academic ability."
Strickland said "The Public Ivys"
by Richard Moll was probably
responsible for the increase of out-of-state
applications. The book tells
of eight public universities at which
a student can receive an education
comparable to those had in Ivy
League schools.
The rise in applications from
North Carolina residents was due to
the admissions staff, specifically of
the , admissions office's Carolina .
Contact Program, Strickland said. In
two days, 300 potential students were
shown around the campus by UNC
student volunteers. Those that par
ticipated told their friends at home
of their experiences, Strickland said,
and the result has been a greater
popularity for the University.
"The program has counteracted
the image of big, state diploma mill
in showing off Carolina's reputa
tion," he said.
Strickland said the success of the
basketball team had little to do with
the number of applications received.
"Someone did a study on that
several years ago and found a slight
correlation, but I doubt "if it has any
real effect," he said.. "The team wins
so often that it's hard to tell."
Li
pep;
ing to the execution of the merger
agreement. .
Purchase of tendered shares
was. to begin Tuesday, with the .
offer expiring June 20.
Under the merger agreement,
SAGA, which has about 12.7a
million shares outstanding, would
become wholly owned subsidiary ,
of Marriott. ;
"This will materially strengthen
Marriott's position in the feeding
business and provide them with
stronger avenues for further
growth," said Eliot H. Benson,
vice president and research direc
tor "for Ferris & Co., Inc. in
Washington. "This is very bene
ficial to shareholders and the
corporation. It will strengthen the
See MARRIOTT page 15
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behind Howell Hall as part of her art class.
mew director to oversee clhaeges
By JO FLEISCHER
Co-editor
One of the first tasks for the newly
hired director of the Ackland Art
Museum wilt be to oversee the space
increasing renovations that will leave
the museum closed for two years,
University officials announced
Tuesday. -
Charles W Millard III, chief
curator at the Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden in Washing
ton, D.C., was recently appointed
director of the museum.
The announcement was made
Tuesday by UNC Chancellor Chris
topher C. Fordham III. "We are
pleased to have Dr. Millard join our
administration and 'ut faculty,"
Fordham said. "He is singularly well
qualified as both a curator and a
scholar. We welcome him to the
University." :
' The appointment, which becomes
effective July 1, was approved by the
UNC Board of Trustees' in a mail
in ballot. ' .
. t . Millard will oversee a nine-person
staff and a collecton of 8,000 works
that span the history of art. His first
since 1893
Carolina -
task will be overseeing the museum's
two-year $2.8 million renovation.
The museum will have to close
during the renovations that will begin
in early 1987, but the added exhi
bition space became necessary due to
the growth of the collection, Millard
said. He described the renovation
plans of architect Micheal Newman
of Winston-Salem as, "handsome
and spacious, absolutely marvelous."
While the building is closed for
renovation, the Ackland staff will try
to keep the collection available
through public programs, although
much of the collection will have to
be stored to ensure its preservation,
he said.
Millard said - the muselfm was
attractive to him because it is one
of the larger and more complete
collections operated by a university.
"I think the advantages of the
situation are tremendous," hesaid.
"It's a museum on the verge of a spurt
of growth, and it has all sorts of .
marvelous things in its future."
Hirshhorn Director James T.
Demetrion said, "It is a well-deserved
tribute to Charles Millard to be
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Tar HeelJamie Cobb
The senior from Lumberton, N.C., enjoys
drawing much as her major in biology.
offered the directorship at this stage
of his career. The Ackland is one of
the leading university art museums
in the country and it is fortunate
indeeed to be the beneficiary of
Charlie's diverse talents, his. scholar
ship and his diverse talents."
Millard joined the Hirshhorn just
before it opened in 1974. He helped
launch an active exhibition and
acquisitions program and oversaw
the research and documentation of
the permenant collection.
He also organized major retrospec
tives of paintings by Joan Miro and
Friedl Dzubas and smaller exhibi
tions of works by Peter Plagens and
photoggraphs by Leland Rice and
Grant Mudford.
Before joining the Hirshhorn,
Millard was curator of 19th century
European art at the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art and director
of the Washington Gallery of Mod
ern Art in Washington. He has also
been assistant to the director at both
the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge
and Dumbarton Oaks in
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