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Copyright 1988 The Daily Tar Heel
Volume 96, Issue 63
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Painting the town blue
Geri Hampton, a senior from Charlotte, decorates
Whims Cards & Gifts on Franklin Street Monday.
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By BETHANY LITTON
Staff Writer
Students have an opportunity to
express their opinions about the value
of their undergraduate education at
the Fall Forum Series four open
discussions between students, faculty
and administrators.
The first discussion, "Recognizing
and Supporting Good Teaching," will
take place today at 3:30 p.m. in rooms
208-209 of the Student Union. The
series is being sponsored by the
Student Government, the Center for
Teaching and Learning and the
College of Arts and Sciences.
"Students often complain and are
concerned about the. education
they're getting," said Bobby' Ferris,
a Student Government executive
assistant. "This is a chance for them
to voice their opinion on the state
of their education and how it can be
improved."
Experience
By AMY WAJDA
Staff Writer
In a show of town and University
unity, the Carolina Athletic Associ
ation (CAA) and the Downtown
Chapel Hill Association will sponsor
a homecoming Franklin Street extra
vaganza and pep rally tonight.
Students and merchants say the
future of the extravaganza and other
similar events depends on the event
going off without disturbances.
Live acts will begin performing at
the corner of Henderson and Frank
lin streets at 7:15 p.m. The pep rally
will begin at 9 p.m., and many
downtown stores are expected to stay
open late.
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The window-painting contest is part of this year's
homecoming activities,
The Fall Forum Series is a result
of a faculty report presented earlier
this month by the Committee on
Teaching of the College of Arts and
Sciences. After a yearlong study, the
committee formulated proposals to
improve education at UNC.
Dean Gillian Cell of the College
of Arts and Sciences wanted to hear
the University community's sugges
tions before acting on the proposals,
Ferris said.
Proposals include a reward system
for excellent teaching and
improvements in classroom seating
and lighting conditions.
Student input is vital for any of
the changes to be considered, Ferris
said.
"We need to let the administration
and faculty know that the students
care about their education," he said.
"Unless we say something, they
assume that we don't care."
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cia Mebane described the extrava
ganza as "an event for the University
and town to show support for the
Carolina team and football
program."
Planning for the Franklin Street
extravaganza has been going on since
July. The CAA homecoming com
mittee stayed in Chapel Hill through
out the summer to work on the event.
Mebane said the committee did not
originally plan for such extensive
merchant involvement.
"We went to the downtown asso
ciation with the idea that merchants
could have specials throughout the
, week," Mebane said. "The idea then
evolved into the extravaganza."
The proposal for the extravaganza,
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Joel Schwartz, director of the
Center for Teaching and Learning,
agreed that student attendance at the
forum is of primary importance.
"If the students don't show up, that
will be interpreted by the adminis
tration that the students don't care
about these issues," he said.
Forum organizers broke the com
mittee's recommendations down and
came out with four primary themes, .
which are the , topics of the four
forums, Schwartz said.
The other three discussions are
"Assessing Good Teaching" on Oct.
25, "The Role and Training of TAs
in an Undergraduate Environment"
on Nov. 1 and "Student Learning in
a Research University" on Nov. 8.
. The forums will begin with pre
pared statements from all of the
groups involved, and then the floor
will be opened for discussion.
In today's forum on teaching,
which included closing Franklin.
Street between Columbia and
Henderson streets and amending the
noise ordinance for the evening, was
approved by the Chapel Hill Town
Council Oct. 10.
The council was most impressed by
the cooperation between the Univer
sity and merchants, said CAA pres
ident Carol Geer. "It's very rare that
the town and the University co
sponsor an event," she said. "Both
groups seemed equally positive and
excited about the event."
Bob Humphreys, downtown asso
ciation member, agreed. "The atti
tude of the board was such that they
liked the cooperative nature of this,"
he said. "They liked the idea of a town
in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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By HELEN JONES
Staff Writer
About $89.5 million for eight
UNC-Chapel Hill projects is included
in the $3.2 billion UNC-system
budget for 1989 to 1991, proposed
Friday by UNC-system president
CD. Spangler.
The proposal includes plans for a
$36 million mass communication
building, a $13.9 million biotechnol
ogy and biomedical research labor
atory for the School of Medicine and
a $13.2 million performing arts
center.
UNC-system President CD.
Spangler presented the budget prop
osal to the Board of Governors'
Committee on Budget and Finance
last Friday, and the entire board will
.vote on it this Friday.
Renovations of the Undergraduate
From staff reports
. The Undergraduate Honor Court's
guilty verdict against five UNC
student protesters was upheld during
an appeal hearing Monday night
As soon as; they learned of the
decision, the students . delivered a
written appeal to Jeff Cannon,
judicial programs officer. The appeal
called on Chancellor Paul Hardin to
overturn the student court ruling.
The students praham Entwistle,
Lisa House, Kasey Jones, Steve
Sullivan and Joey Templeton were
declared guilty Sept. 29 of interfering
in official University activities during
an April 15 demonstration in Hanes
Hall. The students, members of the
CIA Action Committee, were protest
ing the presence of a CIA recruiter.
The appeal court, which consisted
of two faculty members, two under
graduate students and an administra
tor, listened to the tape-recorded
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Ferris will give the student, point of
view, physics professor Lawrence
Slifkin will give the faculty point of
view, and Stephen Birdsall, the
associate dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences, will speak for the
administration. Philip Stadter, a
classics professor and chairman of the
Committee on Teaching, will mod
erate the discussion.
Stadter said he is pleased with the
way the forum series covers his
committee's report. Suggestions from
faculty and students are ' necessary
because they are "two sides of the
same coin."
"Student input is necessary in the
sense that teaching doesn't exist
without the student," Stadter said.
Ferris said he hopes administrators
will come to the forums with the
intent of listening to the students. "We
hope that theyH take what we say
and actually use it," he said.
group and a campus group doing
something for the whole community."
The damage of Aug. 31, 1986,
affected the planning of the event,
Geer said. About ,10,000 students
ushered in the 21 -year-old drinking
age with violent revelry that caused
$10,000 to $15,000 worth of damage
on Franklin Street
"It was brought up," she said. "It's
something we all remember and don't
want to happen again."
No alcohol will be served on the
street during the evening, but local
. bars will be open.
About 400 student monitors will
patrol the street, with police on hand
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Library and Rosenau Hall, a new
building for the School of Social
Work, and an addition to the School
of Dentistry are also part of
Spangler's proposal. .
In other areas, Spangler stressed
his proposed 20 percent increase for
faculty salaries, from 1989-90 to 1990
91, and a 17 percent increase for out-of-state
tuition during the same
period.
UNC officials said Monday they
expect the BOG to approve the
budget proposal. If approved, the
proposal would then be presented to
the N.C General Assembly for
revision and final approval.
Dennis O'Connor, UNC's acting
provost, said Tuesday that even if the
proposed out-of-state tuition increase
were approved, he expects UNC
officials to continue looking at a
transcripts of the initial trial. They
also asked the defendants questions
about information the court found to
be unclear from the previous trial. .
- The court deliberated for about an
hour before delivering their decision.
In their closing . statements, the
defendants argued against the orig
inal decision for several reasons,
including that they did not "prevent"
members of the University commun
ity from performing legitimate bus
iness, as the court found.
"There was no way possible that
we prevented anybody from doing
anything," Graham Entwistle, one of
the defendants, said Monday night
after the appeal hearing. "In the worst
case scenario, we held some people
up, and I ddn't think we even did
that."
The defendants also argued that
the prosecutor's evidence was suspect
due to witnesses' lapses of memory.
Presidential, state
candidates solicit
student support
By STACI COX
Assistant State and National Editor
Although college-age voters
have not historically turned but in
significant numbers to vote, many
campaigns are targeting college
students for the November
election.
"We have a very large group of
people working on addressing
issues attracting college-age stu
dents," said Tripp Jones, a press
aide for Michael Dukakis' presi
dential campaign.
But it's difficult to get students
excited enough to vote, Jones said.
Dukakis has tried to focus on
issues that directly affect young
voters and to make them under
stand how important their input
is to the nation's future, he said.
"College students tend not to be
aggressive in' voting," said Bert
Armstrong, college coordinator
for Democrat Bob Jordan's gub
ernatorial campaign.-
The 1987 "Statistical Abstract
of the United States," published
by the Census Bureau, says 36.7
percent of 18 to 20-year-olds and
43.5 percent of 21 to 24-year-olds
reported they voted in the 1984
presidential election,' a slight
improvement over the 1980 elec
tions. But overall the numbers for
1980 and 1984 are the worst ever.
Voting is an aquired habit, and
students will vote more as they
grow older, said Elizabeth
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possible in-state tuition increase,
which was proposed by Chancellor
Paul Hardin this fall.
Even with an increase, the in-state
rate would be very low in comparison;
to other state-supported universities,!
O'Connor said. :
If the 8.5 percent increase in out-:
of-state tuition for 1989-90 is:
approved, the present rate for full-;
time undergraduates of $2,229 a:
semester would increase to about"
$2,400. ;
The proposed increase to follow in;
1990-91, also at 8.5 percent, would;
bring tuition for non-residents to;
about $2,600 a semester.
fn Spangler's address to the BOG;
Budget and Finance Committee, he"
said the proposed tuition increases;
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The students were found innocent
of. trespassing during, the original
trial. Entwistle said the students
should have been found guilty of the
trespassing charge, but not the
obstruction charge. ... .
. .The students have appealed the
decision to Hardin, Entwistle said.
Hardin, who became chancellor this
summer, has never heard an Honor
Court appeal.
"I think we're wrongly convicted
here," Entwistle said. "We made every
effort to make sure that was a
peaceful, non-obstructive
demonstration."
Although the chancellor is the final
appeal within the University's estab
lished process, Entwistle said if
Hardin upholds the guilty verdict the
students will find another avenue to
continue their appeal.
"We would have to stop and figure
out what to do next," he said,
Arledge, spokeswoman for U.S.
Rep. David Price's re-election
campaign.
Most students don't think they
have much at stake in the elections,
especially on a campus as diverse
as UNC where many students are
from other districts or other states,
Arledge said. Those from other
districts or states may forget to get
an absentee ballot or even to
register.
"I think a lot of. students just
don't want to take the trouble to
vote," she said.
While GOP congressional can
didate Tom Fetzer has made
several appearances on university
campuses, he has no special pro
gram to recruit college voters, said
Bob Harris, Fetzer's
communications director.
"Tom Fetzer is treating every
vote as equal," Harris said. "I
think this race is going to be
decided by a few hundred votes,
which means every vote is vital."
Price doesn't have specific
programs targeting college stu
dents either, and is also treating,
every voter on an equal basis,
Arledge said.
Jordan thinks a big college vote
could make the difference in the
gubernatorial election and has
organizations at most four-year
institutions in North Carolina,
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