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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 96, Issue 87
Monday, November 21, 1988
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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We're Number One!
Members of the UNC women's soccer team
celebrate their NCAA championship at Fetzer
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By NANCY WYKLE
taff Writer
The number of children of alumni
admitted to UNC has decreased by
more than 25 percent since 1984,
General Alumni Association officials
said Friday.
The percentage of children of
alumni who apply to UNC and are
admitted dropped from 78.5 percent
in 1984 to 53.2 percent in 1988. But
the number of overall applications for
admission has risen over the same
period.
This drop presents a potential
problem for the University because
it could affect alumni contributions
if parents are disgruntled because
their child has not been accepted by
their alma mater. But that has been
an ongoing problem, said Anthony
Strickland, assistant director of
UoDver34y Lake sttwidy
to affect development
By DANIEL CONOVER
-StaffWriter
; The final report of the University
;Lake water-quality study will have
; great effect on zoning and develop
ment plans for the watershed area,
Carrboro Mayor Eleanor Kinnaird
said Sunday.
Kinnaird's comments followed a
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undergraduate admissions.
"Given the types of alumni we
have, I don't think it will have any
effect overall," he said. "I think most
alumni will be proud to have higher
standards of admission."
Douglas Dibbert, executive direc
tor of the General Alumni Associa
tion, wrote an open letter to alumni
in November's edition of the Univer
sity Report, a magazine published by
the GAA. "We fully recognize that
Carolina is not for everyone, nor can
Carolina admit all who apply," he
wrote.
Dibbert said he wrote the letter to
show parents how difficult it is to be
admitted to UNC and to prevent both
parents and children from being
overly disappointed if the children are
not accepted.
"It is a more difficult issue, to the
progress report on the study pre
sented Friday at the Carrboro Town
Hall by representatives of Camp,.
Dresser and McKee (CDM), a
Raleigh environmental consulting
firm. The firm is nearing completion
of its study of the effects of different
development strategies on University
Lake.
A draft report of the study will be
released in the first week of
December, and the 'final report is
expected in January. Kinnaird said
the recommendations in the report
will help guide future decisions on
zoning and development plans for the
area around the lake.
"It will have a great effect on my
decisions," she said. "I feel that we
have a very sensitive water supply in
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of a I u mm n i admitte
extent which parents may unwittingly
lead our children down a path that
could inevitably lead to disappoint
ment, and one that needs to be
handled with sensitivity and care," he
said.
Strickland said the lower admis
sion rates are not the result of a
change in. policy by the admissions
office but simply a result of an
increase in the number of competitive
applications.
The quality of students admitted
to the University has improved
because of limited enrollment, Strick
land said. The number of applicants
has doubled since 1972, while the
number of spaces available for
incoming freshmen has not changed.
Since 1984, the number of overall
applicants has increased by 7,000. Of
all those applying in 1984, 53.1
University Lake. We must pay careful
attention to their (CDM)
recommendations."
Jack Hartigan of CDM said that
so far the study indicates that "in all
the future land-use scenarios, water
quality is going to get worse."
The major portion of the study
addresses problems caused by non
point pollution. Non-point pollution
is pollution from run-off water, which
carries toxic chemicals, and metals
into the water supply.
Non-point pollution is particularly
dangerous in watershed areas and is
increased by development, which
increases activity and the amount of
paved surfaces in an area.
See DEVELOPMENT page 3
We're on a mission from
Officia
freedom u dissert
By AMY WAJDA
StaffWriter '
UNC Chancellor Paul Hardin and
the Faculty Council made two sepa
rate shows of support for freedom to
dissent and nonviolent civil disobe
dience during Friday's Faculty Coun
cil meeting.
Several recent threats against
protesters have spurred demands i
from students that University admin-',
istrators officially condemn the
incidents and reaffirm their dedica
tion to protecting the freedom to
dissent.
On Friday, both the chancellor's .
remarks and a Faculty Council
resolution expressed support of
freedom to dissent. The council went
even further, unanimously support
ing a statement criticizing the UNC
chottarshiip committee;
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By AMY WAJDA
StaffWriter '
Scholarship funds have recovered
from federal budget cuts but student
indebtedness is rising, according to
the annual committee report pre
sented at Friday's Faculty Council
meeting.
; Also, the number of freshmen with:
high SAT scores is rising, and
academic support for athletes is
improving, other reports presented
Friday said.
Wayne Christiansen, chairman of
the committee on scholarships,
awards and student aid, said that
student financial aid has recovered
from previous federal budget cuts,
with help from the University and
private donors. "We have finally
percent were admitted, while in 1988,
31.4 percent were admitted.
Dibbert said there is not a quota
for the number of alumni children
admitted. He said the advantage
given to children of alumni is the
establishment of three levels of
admission: in-state, out-of-state and
out-of-state applicants whose parents
are alumni.
"If you didn't pick your parents
carefully, your chances of getting in
are 1 in 10," Dibbert said. "If your
parents are alumni, your chances are
improved to 43 percent."
Strickland said the division makes
it easier for out-of-state alumni
children to be admitted, but admis
sion is still very difficult. "In state,
it is used as a tie-breaker," he said.
See ALUMNI page 4
R medical associatioini
clash over mew cigarette
By STEPHANIE VON ISENBURG
StaffWriter
The American Medical Associ
ation (AMA) has requested that
the R.J. Reynolds smokeless
cigarette being test-marketed be
taken off the market pending a
regulation decision by the Food
and Drug Administration, but
company officials disagree.
The FDA is deciding whether
the Premier cigarette, which is
being tested in Arizona and Mis
souri, should be regulated as a
drug or a cigarette.
"The American public has the
right to expect the products they
consume to have been judged safe
for human consumption before
being placed on the shelf for sale,"
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Board of Trustees for a Feb. 26
resolution that condemned an anti
CIA protest and called some student
protesters terrorists.
Referring to his years as president
of Drew University and Southern
Methodist University, Hardin said,
"In 20 years as president of privately
supported, church-related colleges
and universities in which free speech
does not enjoy the same full legal
protection as on public campuses, I
never approved or permitted any act
of censorship or any other curtail
ment of free speech.
"To me, the First Amendment
means no prior restraint, no censor
ship of publications, no banning from
the campus of' speakers or other
visitors on the basis of their utterances
or opinions."
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recovered from the drastic cuts in
federal aid of several years ago," he
said.
Christiansen said that the high level
of indebtedness of students in pro
fessional schools, especially in the
medical and dental schools, was
"nothing new."
.But,-Xhdst4anse.v.nxted . thatthe
average indebtedness of seniors has
increased from $3,779 in 1983-84 to
$5,320 in 1988-89. "This is a rather
dramatic increase," Christiansen said.
"We dont know the causes, and one
of the goals of the committee in the
upcoming year is to carry out surveys
of our recent graduates to find out
if these are a problem."
Richard Hiskey, chairman of the
athletics , committee, focused his
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said Dr. James Shammons, exec
utive vice president of the AMA.
In April, the AMA sent a legal
petition to the FDA asking that
it regulate the new cigarette as a
drug, but on Oct. 1, without
waiting for the FDA decision,
RJR began to test it in the two
states, officials said in the press
release.
RJR considers its new product
a non-burning cigarette and not
a drug-delivery system as the
AMA contends, said Jack LaSota,
RJR spokesman, in an Associated
Press interview.
An RJR spokesman said the
company does not grant inter
views to college newspapers. .
The AMA will not accept the
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Hardin said the right to dissent is
not legally protected when it becomes
disruptive. But he added, "We (liberal :
university communities) tend to bend :
over backward and permit some ;
minor and short-term disruption as ;
a reasonable cost of an important ;
freedom, the freedom of dissent."
The recent break-ins at the homes ;
of student activists Joel Segal and ;
Anne Duehring and the racial harass- ;
ment of two students and a member ;
of the Department of University ;
Housing were "appallingly crude and ;
unacceptable," Hardin said. "This ;
community must clearly announce its ;
disapproval, not only of actual ;
threats of violence, but also of racist .
graffiti, remarks or publications.
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comments on the reorganization of;
the Athletic Academic Support
Program of the past year. He noted
that additional academic counselors
are available to athletes, and athletes
can receive academic support regard
less of grade-point average.
Hiskey also mentioned the creation
oCar faculty advisory committee io
the Academic Support Program. The
committee is appointed by : Gillian
Cell, dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences.
This fall also marked the first year
of a mandatory program for fresh
men athletes that Hiskey described
as an "introduction to the Univer
sity." The program includes six to
See SCHOLARSHIPS page 2 ;
UNC
Out-of-state alumni
Out-of-state overall
0 N.Calumni
D N.C. overall
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80
Full data not available
100
for 1963 and 1968
word of an industry that does not
admit the danger of its product,
Shammons said in a telephone
interview last week.
The Arizona Board of Pharma
cies and the Missouri Board of
Health also received petitions
from the AMA asking for the
removal of Premier cigarettes
from store shelves.
The Arizona board passed two
motions that outline its position
on this issue, said L.A. Lloyd,
executive director of the board.
The first motion addresses the
jurisdiction for the regulation of
the Premier, Lloyd said. "If it is
found to be a drug or drug device,
See CIGARETTES page 4
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