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Editor's note: This is the first of
a two-part exploration of race
relations on UNC's campus.
By GRANT PARSONS
Staff writer
Last year, alter showing Chapel
Hill to a friend who was considering
coming to UNC. Suzanne Jeffries,
a black UNC senior, was walking her
friend back to Hinton James Res
idence Hall from Franklin Street.
The two were met with shouts of
"nigger, nigger."
There were two white guys on the
sidewalk over from us," Jeffries
recalled recently. "Obviously one
was drunk and the other was slightly
drunk.
"We were walking along, just
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By JEANNA BAXTER
Staff Writer
Do the pressures of job seeking
have you in a quandary? Are you
too busy to spend endless, exhaustive
hours searching for available job
openings?
Then UNC's Career Planning and
Placement Services'(CPPS) new
computerized job-search phone
hotline is the answer to your
problems.
The hotline, available to seniors,
graduate students, and alumni, will
Stroderit. Affairs sinrvey reveals
student, ffacuilty use- off services
By MARIA HAREN
Stall Writer
According to a three-year self
study by UNC's Division of Student
Affairs, officials should concentrate
on improving use of its services and
programs, increasing student invol
vement in the division and improving
the intellectual atmosphere on
campus.
To conduct the study, an 18
mcmber Student Affairs task force
interviewed staff members and
polled faculty and students' about
their knowledge and use of the
division's services.
The study found that many stu
dents used Student Affairs services
and were generally satisfied, but 60
percent of the faculty polled were less
aware of the services than students,
said James Cansler, vice chancellor
of Student Affairs.
. Because students often use faculty
minding our own business, and the
one who was obviously drunk started
screaming out, 'nigger" and some
other things 1 couldn't quite catch.
". . . We kept walking. Everything
was quiet and he kept screaming out
'nigger.' He kept hollering for about
five minutes.
"And that was bad because she
(her friend) has considered coming
here." Jeffries said. "IVe kept in
touch with her, but I don't think she's
coming here.
Black students like Jeffries say
that although incidents of straight
forward racial prejudice aren't
common at UNC, they do occur. But
these blatant incidents, along with
an institutional racism some blacks
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automatically give students a list of
jobs that fit their career interests and
qualifications via a phone call on any
touch-tone phone, said Marcia
Harris, director of CPPS.
The computer will also ask stu
dents additional questions such as
desired geographical location and
salary range to further narrow down
the number of possible job openings.
Harris said the Carolina Parents
Association raised the $10,000
needed to fund the initial installation
of the hotline.
for campus activity resources, he
said, the faculty's lack of knowledge
about the services could hinder
student involvement.
Officials are making efforts to
increase communication between
Student Affairs and the faculty,
according to a report Donald Boul
ton, vice chancellor and dean of
Student Affairs, delivered to the
Facultv Council at its meeting April
9.
. For next semester. Student Affairs
and Academic Affairs are jointly
developing a resource handbook for
students. Brochures and publica
tions will be distributed to faculty,
staff and students to heighten their
awareness about services and pro
grams Student Affairs provide.
Also, Student Affairs plans to
establish a faculty publication to
inform them of student issues and
division events and projects.
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say they encounter at UNC, set the
tone for day-to-day interaction on
campus.
And year after year, UNC con
tinues to have below-par minority
enrollment figures. Even with a 20
percent increase in black applicants,
the University is still well below
federally required limits.
A federal consent decree, filed by
the U.S. Department of Education
in 1981, mandated a 10.6 percent
campus minority presence at UNC
System schools in the coming five
years. University figures have
hovered around 8 percent since that
time, with black enrollment last year
comprising 7.8 percent of the student
body about 3 percentage points
below the target.
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"We hope the program will begin
pilot operation by (this) May, but
it will definitely be in operation in
the fall," she said.
Under the current system, when
a student registers for job placement
assistance, his name is entered into
a computer data bank along with his
major, graduation date, degree level,
and career area of interest. If an
employer is seeking a Carolina
graduate, CPPS can search the data
files for the resumes of students who
fit the job requirements.
"If the faculty becomes more
aware, when students come to them
asking advice, they can be given
some direct responses," Cansler said.
Another problem brought to light
by the study was confusion and
ambivalence about the role of
students in the division's decision
making process, Cansler said.
Three kinds of activities exist in
the division, he said: activities where
students have full authority to make
decisions; activities where staff
members must have the ultimate
authority; and all the activities
between the two extremes where
students share decision-making
responsibilities with staff and
faculty.
It was in the in-between area that
problems arose, Cansler said. "We
need to develop clarity and work
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"I've noticed a lot of minority students who take the
attitude 'if I can just get out of here, if 1 can just get
that piece of paper, III be happy. ' They just don 't feel
like the University is theirs. " Ray Wallington
"We really feel that we made
significant progress during a time
when fewer blacks were coming out
of high school." Wyndham Robert
son, the UNC Systems acting vice
president of communications, said
recently.
"It was outstanding in comparison
to the progress made during the same
period by other predominantly white
institutions in other states," she said.
But that small progress, while it
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But now the only way a student
can search for job openings is to
come into the office and look
through many notebooks of job
vacancies, many of which may not
even apply to the student, Harris
said.
The hotline, which will hold up
to 500 permanent full-time openings,
will eliminate this exhaustive
research. "The greatest advantage to
the students is that they won't have
to constantly search through the
notebooks for new vacancies," she
Chancellor to review proposal
to put parking lot on courts
By DAN MORRISON
Staff Writer
Despite strong opposition by
student leaders, a proposal to
convert the Hinton James tennis
courts into a Rams Club parking
lot has already! been approved by
a student-faculty committee and
is being considered by the chan
cellor's office.
The Building and Grounds
Committee recommended the
athletic department proposal to
Chancellor Christopher Ford
ham Monday.
"My assumption is that the
chancellor will approve the prop
osal if a big stink isn't made of
"the issue," Arthur S. Marks,
committee member, said
Wednesday.
If Fordham approves the prop
does he'o integrate the campus
numerically, does little to integrate
the campus socially.
UNC student Stewart Harland
said deciding to attend Carolina was
a trade-off between educational
potential and black culture. "It
depends on what you're looking for
when you're coming to a university,"
he said. "And looking at Carolina,
if it's a sense of black identity and
black culture you're looking for, it's
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By JO FLEISCHER
Assistant University Editor
The rock and roll spotlight may
shine on a UNC student when MTV
Music Television arrives on
campus April 23 in search of a new
"Video Jockey," according to MTV
representatives in New York.
Allen Newman. MTV supervising
producer, said he will be traveling
to 10 U.S. colleges, including UNC.
in the next two weeks to interview
hundreds of applicants for a full-time
VJ job. The cable-music channel,
which is famous for delivering "rock
and roll videos 24 hours a day,"
hopes to find an on-air personality
at one of the colleges, he said.
"We're looking for the next VJ;
they could be male, female, a
freshman or a senior as long as they
can do it," Newman said.
UNC is the fourth stop on New
man's talent search tour, which also
includes Emerson University in
Boston, the University of Maryland
in College Park, Md., the University
of Texas at Austin, Northwestern
said.
Because the computer uses syn
thesized speech rather than a taped
voice recording, new entries will be
available almost immediately on a
daily basis.
"The hotline will also have
memory capability," Harris said. "A
caller will receive only new listings
in a (follow-up) call."
The hotline will be operational 23
hours a day, seven days a week. But
the computer will be down between
7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m., while the
osal. UNC's Board of Trustees
will have the final say on the fate
of the South Campus tennis
facility. Board chairman S. Bobo
Tanner said Wednesday that the
board would consider the issue at
its meeting on Friday, April 24.
The $450,000 athletic depart
ment proposal calls for convert
ing the eight South Campus
tennis courts into a 160-space
parking lot and adding two extra
courts to the 1 1 near Cobb
Residence Hall.
Student leaders said they
should have been told about the
proposal earlier. It was brought
before the Office of Business and
Finance in January.
"Technically, the Office of
Business and Finance did nothing
wrong by pursuing the proposal,"
not strong here, and I wouldn't
recommend you come here.
"But in terms of academics, 1
would recommend it," he said. "It's
all a matter of what's important.".'
And University efforts to help
blacks decide what's important
appear minimal. While officials say
they are increasing black recruitment
efforts, few blacks say they were
actively courted to come to Carolina!,
and some wonder if their grades
alone got them accepted. :
"I didn't have any problem getting
in, and I personally would like t6
think it's because 1 had good high
school grades and 1 was a good high
school student," said Jackie Leach,
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University near Chicago and the
University of Washington at Seattle,
he said.
Newman said he selected UNC,
along with the other schools, because
he liked their drama departments
and broadcasting programs, and
because they have good students.
MTV contacted UNC's Lab Thea
tre and Student Television last week
and asked the student groups to help
coordinate the interviews on the last
day of classes, said Mike Wilson,
coordinator of the Lab Theatre's
Campus Outreach program. The
groups will organize the sign-up and
audition process before the MTV
representatives arrive.
Music Television will screen 125
applicants between 9 a.m. and noon
on Thursday in Memorial Hall.;
UNC students can sign up at the
Student Union information desk on"
a first-come, first-serve basis begin
ning today.
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hotline
previous day's new entries are filed.
Students who register with CPPS
will receive free use of the hotline.
When a student is within two
semesters of graduation, he can
register for CPPS's services, includ
ing the hotline, in 211 Hanes Hall,
Harris said.
She said that a student's name wiir
be kept in the file for six months
after graduation, unless he has
accepted a job. After this time, he
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said Carol Geer. Carolina
Athletic Association president.
"I'm just irritated that the athletic
department never consulted me
on the situation about the courts."
Geer said she talked to Moyer
Smith, associate athletic director
of the Educational Foundation,
or Rams Club, Wednesday morn
ing. "He told me that the Rams
Club was promised parking spa
ces for all members who donated
$IO,r0O or more to the SAC.
"I think everyone is happy to
have the SAC and all. but I still
think that the Rams Club should
have done a better planning job
in this situation," Geer said.
"They may not think that taking
away a few courts is a big deal,
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