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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Copyright 1988 The Daily Tar Heel
Volume 96, Issue 3
Wednesday, March 2, 1988
Chapel Hiil, North Carolina
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By JUSTIN McGUIRE
Senior Writer
The University and the community
must make more of an effort to solve
the problem of low graduation rates
for black students at UNC-CH and
other state universities, Black Student
Movement President Kenneth Perry
said Tuesday.
Perry read from a prepared state
ment at a press conference in the
Black Cultural Center regarding the
state of black students at UNC-CH
Tuesday afternoon.
Perry said his statements were a
result of recent actions by black
students at N.C. State University and
UNC-Greenboro protesting the fail
ure of those universities to retain
black students.
A report compiled by the UNC
Office of Institutional Research
indicates that of freshmen entering
UNC-CH in 1981, 76 percent of
whites graduated by 1986 while only
5-year Graduation Rate
for Freshmen by Race
Year
Entering White Black Other
1974 76.3 55.6 63.0
1975 75.0 50.6 58.3
1976 74.8 58.5 74.4
1977 74.8 55.9 58.8
1978 75.2 56.7 57.4
1979 75.9 48.2 54.8
1980 75.9 50.7 69.0
1981 75.9 45.6 64.0
Source: Office for Institutional Research
45.9 percent of blacks did, Perry said.
"This report clearly shows that the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill joins the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro and
N.C. State University in having a
serious problem with retention of
black students," he said.
Also, the report indicates that the
average fluctuation of graduating
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By HELEN JONES
Staff Writer
A Durham minister has charged
the UNC School of Education faculty
with racism in dealing with their
dissatisfaction over a task force report
on the school, but David Lillie,
education faculty chairman, said the
issue is the dean of education's
leadership.
The Rev. Lorenzo Lynch of White
Rock Baptist Church sent a letter
dated Feb. 29 to faculty members of
the School of Education.
In the letter, Lorenzo said he
thought the faculty may not be
supporting Dean Frank Brown
because he is black, and the faculty
is blaming Brown for the adminis
tration's plans to reduce enrollment
and curriculum offerings in the
school.
But Lillie said Tuesday he thought
leadership, not race, is the issue.
The problem has been a break
down in the "collegial process of
decision making," or the democratic
process of making important curric
ulum and policy decisions within the
faculty, Lillie said.
Brown, who was just reappointed
to his position of dean by Provost
Samuel Williamson, said Tuesday
that he had no comment on the
matter.
The controversy has arisen because
of differing reactions to a 1987
administrative task force report on
the School of Education that recom
mended organizational and leader
ship changes in the school.
The task force, chaired by political
science department chairman
Richard Richardson, also recom
mended that enrollment and curric
ulum offerings be reduced.
Lillie said faculty members did not
agree with all of the cuts and were
frustrated when their ideas were
ignored because of what they per
ceived as poor communication and
leadership within the school.
"The majority of faculty members
think he (Brown) lacks leadership
skills," Lillie said.
Faculty members feel Brown has
bypassed them in the decision
making process, he said.
For example, Lillie said, a faculty
recommendation to combine pro
grams in reading and special educa
tion rather than to eliminate the
reading program was not forwarded
to administrators by Brown at first.
Education school faculty members
had voted 23-0, with one abstention,
to approve the plan.
However, Brown has reconsidered
the matter and agreed to forward the
faculty recommendation, Lillie said.
Brown and faculty members have
agreed to work more closely to
establish a more democratic, coop
erative relationship, Lillie said. He
said he hopes to establish regular
meetings between the dean and senior
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Gore Sir. discusses
irole of presidency
By AMY WINSLOW
Staff Writer
Armed with anecdotes of his
senatorial days, former Sen. Albert
Gore Sr. entertained a political
science class Tuesday on the relation
ship between Congress and the
presidency, leaving the issue of his
son's presidential campaign to a later
rally in the Pit.
"The relationship between the
president of the United States and the
United States Congress must be
approached from an appreciation and
recognition of the virtue of our
Constitution," Gore said.
And although the Constitution
may never be perfect, said the former
three-term senator from Tennessee,
Americans must continually try to
improve it.
The system of checks and balances
between the executive, legislative and
judicial branches is the central theme
of the Constitution, he said, but there
is also a system of checks and
balances between the American
people and their representatives in
Congress.
"The people are eventually the
master," Gore said. "People can
exercise their choice and their judg
ment. We don't have a pure demo
cracy; we have a representative
democracy."
The president has the power of
executive leadership and also chief
legislative power through the veto, he
said, but Congress has the unique
power of taxation and the appropri-
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very important role in its interpreta-
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By BILL HILDEBOLT
Staff Writer
An Orange County rest home will
be closed after a recommendation by
the Orange County Department of
Social Services, unless an appeal by
the home to stay open is successful,
a social services official said Tuesday.
Orange County Social Services
Director Marti Pryor-Cook said
Briarwood Rest Home on Mount
Sinai Road was issued a one-year
provisional operations license on
Feb. 1, 1987. The rest home received
the license so it could make improve
ments and stay open.
"They have made improvements at
the facility," Pryor-Cook said. "The
problem is that these improvements
have not been sustained over time."
Darius Wells, chief of licensing at
the Division of Facility Services in
the state Department of Human
Resources, said the facility has many
deficiencies.
"There are problems like broken
furniture, door alarms that don't
work and general cleanliness," Wells
said.
There are also problems with
personal care for residents, he said.
"There have been problems with
keeping the residents clean, the actual
grooming of residents," he said. "We
are also not totally satisfied that all
the residents are getting the proper
medication."
Pryor-Cook also cited poor
grooming for the residents as a major
problem, and mentioned poor main
tenance and upkeep of the grounds
and a lack of activities for the
residents as areas of concern.
The Orange County Department of
Social Services recommended the
closing, and the Division of Facility
Services approved the recommenda
tion. The home was notified on Feb.
24 of the impending close, Pryor
Cook said.
"The home has 20 days to appeal.
If they don't, the state will set a closing
date," said Pryor-Cook.
Pryor-Cook said she was not aware
of any pending appeal, but a clerk
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Hart says national service
corps woufldl IheDp students
By STACI COX
Staff Writer
A new national service corps could
release students from going into debt
for a college education while bene
fiting the elderly, the homeless and
the illiterate, Democratic presidential
candidate Gary Hart told an over
flowing crowd at Great Hall Tuesday
afternoon.
"Every American has a responsi
bility to serve his or her nation," Hart
said.
Hart said the idea of a national
service corps dates back to ancient
Greece and Rome and has advanced
throughout U.S. history. The service
would be open to all U.S. citizens,
who would receive college scholar
ships for serving one or two years,
Hart said.
1 "It (public service) is an idea
beckoning to us with an almost
irresistable promise and yet has
remained just that an idea," Hart
said.
The corps would have a national
base in Washington to serve as a relay
center between each local corps and
would be directly supervised by the
president, he said.
Each local corps would address the
most pressing problems of its com
munity, such as sheltering the home
less, getting supplies to the elderly and
tutoring students as well as hosting
forums, debates and town meetings
on issues, Hart said.
"The national service could trans
form youthful energy into a multi
billion dollar service source," Hart
said. "The rule of thumb is the
national service must do work the
market, government and charitable
sector is not able to provide."
Hart said the service funds would
cost around $1 billion, which would
be absorbed by federal, state and local
governments as well as private
corporations. He suggested that each
corporation in the Fortune 500
donate 1 percent of its annual profits
to lead the way.
"In the long run, the service would
pay dividends in a better-educated
society," Hart said.
In conjunction with the scholar
ships, Hart said he would abolish the
Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL)
program and replace remaining loans
with scholarships.
GSL pays more money to banks
to subsidize interest than it does to
students or schools, and puts students
in a position of immediate debt upon
graduation, Hart said. This debt
pushes students to pursue the highest
paying jobs regardless of their natural
interests in order to repay those debts,
he said.
"We are allowing, even demanding,
this generation to mortgage its
future," he said.
In a question-and-answer session
after his speech, Hart said he will
remain in the presidential race until
the end, regardless of his poor
showings in caucuses and primaries.
"I have different ideas, and I want
those ideas to be heard," Hart said
later.
"I don't appear on the networks
much any more, and that hurts. I
think people say 'I saw him on the
debate and he seems like the best guy,
but he can't win.' So, they don't vote
for me."
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