10The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, September 26, 1989
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97th year of editorial freedom
Sharon Kebschull, Editor
WILLIAM TAGGART, Managing Editor
MARY Jo DUNNINGTON, Editorial Page Editor
JUSTIN McGuirE, University Editor
KAREN DUNN, State and National Editor
TOM PARKS, Business Editor
Dave Glenn, Sports Editor
Melanie Black, Design Editor
JULIA COON,
A question of ethics
BOG officials must not abuse power
If allegations -made
against Robert
"Roddy" Jones are
true, then Jones is
board
opinion
seriously abusing his powerful position as
the Board of Governors chairman and is
destroying any faith the UNC-system has
in the BOG through his unacceptable ethi
cal breaches. Several sources accuse Jones
of prematurely revealing the conclusions
of the Poole Commission report about N.C.
State University's athletic infractions to
State's basketball coach. They further claim
he met with the athletic directors of East
Carolina University and State in hopes of
restoring the football game between the
two schools, clearly invading territories
that should not be touched by the BOG
chairman.
According to two letters written by Bruce
Poulton, the chancellor at State who will
step down from his position Sept. 30 be
cause of his school's athletic scandal, Jones
informed State basketball coach Jim Val
vano about the findings of the Poole
Commission's report. He then assured the
coach he "was not to be concerned about
(the) report or the actions that might be
taken by the Board of Governors because
he, Mr. Valvano, would be protected." The
student body president and the student
senate president at State confirmed they
heard the call from Jones recorded on
Valvano's answering machine while meet
ing with the coach and said they felt the call
raised important concerns.
Not only did Jones promise Valvano
protection, but he also offered Valvano a
copy of the report before it was officially
delivered by Spangler. The UNC-system
should be ashamed enough of allowing
this scandal happen at State, without hav
ing the chief of the BOG, the ruling body
In search of diversity
Native Americans need to be heard
The cry of the Native American student is Native Americans live in economically de-
i iot being heard by UNC officials, resulting in pressed areas, and many may also experience a
a scanty enrollment of 137 Indian students and sort of culture shock at UNC's homogenous
no Indian faculty members. Despite the over- population. Considering there are no Native
whelming number of 65,000 Indian citizens in American faculty members teaching on UNC's
North Carolina, UNC has failed to entice these campus and no classes about their culture,
prospective students to apply to the University, many Native American students are under-
i csiilting in a campus with little cultural and standably apprehensive about attending the
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letter outlining the problem to Chancellor Paul
Hardin, but nothing tangible amounted from it.
Some administrators claim they did not realize
there was a problem, while others say there is
nothing they can change because only depart
ments can hire or fire faculty.
North Carolina has more Native Americans
than any other state east of the Mississippi
River, but the meager Native American student
population has discouraged prospective Native
American students from applying to UNC.
Twenty-four freshman came to UNC for the
1987-88 school year, but this number dropped
to 1 4 last year. Many cannot afford to attend the
University, as studies have shown that many
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News Editor
of the entire system, try to foolishly amend
the situation by giving Valvano an edge
before the report was officially delivered
the next day.
But Jones apparently did not stop there.
Instead, he threw his weight around by
trying to reinstate the ECU and State foot
ball game that was canceled two years ago
after a small riot on the field. Although
Jones is a graduate of ECU and has a keen
interest in his alma mater, his position as
BOG chairman obliges him to maintain a
professional distance from any personal
matter like this. The decision to bring back
the StateECU rivalry is a job for the chan
cellors and athletic directors of the respec
tive schools, and Jones should not pressure
them.
Both of these incidents have brought
embarrassment to the entire BOG. If an
important report like the one issued by the
Poole Commission cannot be kept secret
by the chairman, it makes people wonder
how seriously the BOG takes the report
and the situation. And they downplay the
role that Valvano has played and the blame
he deserves for agreeing to a meeting with
Jones and the ECU athletic director.
Jones owes an explanation for his ac
tions and an apology to the BOG. The
BOG likewise has an obligation to investi
gate the situation and react to Jones' mis
takes. Spangler should scold Jones for this
abuse of power, although he may be un
willing to oppose Jones, one of his biggest
supporters. Most importantly, BOG mem
bers need to remember their position in the
UNC-system and to respect it. The system ' s
reputation has been sorely damaged by
State's problems and its reaction to them
and cannot afford careless and ignorant
mistakes any longer.
UNC has an obliga
tion to provide incen
tives to Native Ameri
can students. Special
scholarships and loans
should be established to
ease the crunch of the
college costs. During
Native American
awareness weeks such
tmmmmm as the one held last
week, the University should respond with more
interest, and administrators and students both
should make an effort to attend these programs.
Providing Native Americans with orienta
tion programs could help allieviate the initial
culture shock during the freshman year. Per
haps Native Americans could share part of the
Black Cultural Center. Creating new classes
that are attractive to Native Americans or alter
ing already existing courses would attract more
students and faculty members to UNC.
The administration should confront the prob
lem and transform UNC into a diverse environ
ment to offer a complete education. Jen
nifer Wing
Tar Heel
Look out Hugo, here comes the heat
Mother Nature brought the Carribean and
the East Coast to their knees last week. More
than 60 deaths have been attributed to Hurri
cane Hugo. Insurance estimates of property
damage are approaching the $5 billion mark
- South Carolina Gov. Carroll Campbell
assessed the damage in his home state to be
close to $3 billion. Photographs and news
reels graphically depict the extensive prop
erty loss. Houses without roofs, streets clut
tered with trees, lines for fresh water and
dejected property owners have coated the
front pages of newspapers throughout the
country. Wherever Hugo went, he destroyed.
The wantonness and randomness of Hugo
is frustrating. That a storm can move across
the ocean and destroy large cities in a matter
of hours is amazing. High technology can be
used to detect these storms, but virtually noth
ing can be done beyond detection. All people
can do is evacuate.
Hugo has a much slower but infinitely more
destructive sibling being ignored, despite the
calls for reform the greenhouse effect. The
continued indifference of citizens and policy
makers toward warnings of global wanning
given by scientists and environmentalists
parallels the attitudes of those who were skep
tical of Campbell's order for evacuation be
fore Hugo. Campbell's swift, decisive action
possibly saved hundreds of lives. Doubters of
his mandatory evacuation are now thankful
for their lives. Similarly, inaction in the area
of global warming will make believers of
skeptics, but this conversion will occur too
late if present trends continue.
We are still learning about the greenhouse
effect and its causes and consequences. Put
simply, when the sun's energy hits and warms
Fans should support
team despite losses
To the editor:
After UNC's poor showing
against State, freshman quarter
back Chucky Burnette said, "The
difficult part for me is facing North
Carolina fans ... They really be
lieved if I came in I could do a
great job and they had a lot of
expectations." I hope I represent a
majority of UNC fans in saying of
course we are disappointed in
Saturday's results, but that does
not mean we are giving up on
either Burnette or the rest of
UNC's football team. Our team
has some talented players, and I
look forward to watching Burnette
and many other players develop a
winning program here. Fan sup
port at Homecoming should be as
solid as if UNC has won last Sat
urday, because the future is bright
even if last week wasn't.
MICHAEL BOYLES
Graduate
Dentistry
An answer
As the Student Recreation Center moves
into its second year of planning, students are
becoming more excited about the possibilities
this facility promises. Members of the faculty,
student body and administration have ex
pressed to me much enthusiasm about the
project, as well as some questions and con
cerns. Since it is vitally important that mem
bers of the University community be aware of
how the Student Recreation Center is pro
gressing, I have listed below some of the more
common questions I have received about the
progress of and plans for the facility. I hope
my responses to these concerns will help to
clarify the most pertinent issues surrounding
the construction and usage of the Student
Recreation Center.
What process was used to determine a site
for the SRC?
When Carol Geer, the 1987-88 and 1988
89 Carolina Athletic Association President,
first approached the officials of Facilities
Planning and Design (the University depart
ment which studies the feasibility of construc
tion projects and deals with the architects
hired to complete those projects) about the
idea of a recreation center, she expressed the
need for a facility which would serve as an
extension to the current recreational sports
opportunities in the Woollen-Fetzer complex.
This facility would house a 10,000 square foot
weight training area, a 10,000 square foot
aerobic dance area and approximately 1800
square feet for the offices of the currently
existing Wellness Resource Center. Facilities
Planning and Design then examined where
such a facility could be placed adjacent to the
WoollerL-Fetzer complex.
Why was the Fetzer Courtyard chosen as
the proposed site?
First and foremost, the Fetzer Courtyard is
the only space surrounding the Woollen-Fetzer
complex which is sufficient to house a
two-story facility of the magnitude to meet the
recreational needs of students on the UNC
campus i.e. 10,000 square foot weight
training and aerobic areas.
Second, the Fetzer Courtyard offers sig
nificant advantages in terms of accessibility to
students on all areas of campus, unified rec
reational opportunities in the Woollen-Fetzer
complex, ease of supervision and security and
availability of sports medicine facilities.
Finally, the courtyard site would result in
great cost savings in two ways. Using the
current bathrooms and locker rooms in Fetzer
gym would eliminate the necessity of con
structing such facilities in the Student Recrea
tion Center. And building in the Fetzer Court
yard area would reduce site preparation costs,
since that site has already been prepared for
the construction of an area of Fetzer which
was never actually built there. Therefore, the
Fetzer Courtyard was proposed by Facilities
Planning as the most advantageous site not
only for logistical and physical ease, but be
cause of the hundreds of thousands of dollars
Chris
Landgraff
Staff
Columnist
the earth, most of it bounces back out of the
atmosphere. Carbon dioxide and other gases
in the atmosphere trap this heat, creating a
greenhouse effect which leads to increases in
the surface temperature of the earth. '
In the last 50 years, carbon dioxide levels
have increased close to 30 percent. Continued
reliance on fossil fuels as our primary energy
source could lead to a 75 percent increase in
the next 50 years.
Such increases in the carbon dioxide level
could raise the surface temperature at the
North and South poles by as much as 7 degrees
centigrade. This might not sound significant,
but such a temperature rise would cause se
vere flooding due to ice cap melting and crop
destruction because of changing moisture
patterns. Starvation and flooding are only
predicted consequences of warming. We won't
know how bad the damage will be until it is too
late.
Unlike Hugo, warming is controllable.
There are several avenues that can lead to a
decrease in fossil fuel emissions. We can
recycle to aid in the battle against warming on
a local level. Demand for paper products puts
strains on rain forests. The destruction of rain
forests sacrifices one of the most important
combatants of carbon dioxide. Nationally, at
titudes about fossil fuel consumption must
Readers9 Forum
to irec center questions
Lisa Frye
Guest Writer
students would save by placing it there.
Were other sites suggested and investi
gated? Alternative sites were suggested to the
Carolina Athletic Association and to mem
bers of the SRC initial Board of Directors,
who forwarded those suggestions to Facilities
Planning and Design officials. A South
Campus site was suggested, but was deter
mined impossible due to the enormous in
crease in cost which would result from mak
ing the SRC a free-standing building. This site
was also considered undesirable because the
location would not be central to the most
students and important facilities such as sports
medicine would not be easily accessible. A
site to the rear of Fetzer was also investigated;
however, this site would require the SRC to
have a long and narrow shape, which would
not work well for aerobic activities. Further
more, building at the rear of Fetzer would
require removal of a substantial number of
mature trees; it would also involve placing the
structure very close to Stadium Drive, which
was considered undesirable, or moving Sta
dium Drive, which is not currently feasible.
Building on top of the Women's Gym was
another suggested alternative. However, this
would be an extensive and enormously
expensive engineering feat and would
require going up several stories above the
current height of Woollen Gym. This alterna
tive would not provide reasonable access for
handicapped students and would result in a
multi-level facility very different from the
concept the students voted for in February.
Facifities Planning examined these alterna
tive sites and found that, in light of those sug
gestions, the Fetzer Courtyard was still the
most appropriate site. Facilities Planning for
warded its reasons for choosing the Fetzer
Courtyard over the other sites suggested to the
SRC initial Board of Directors. The board
then examined Facilities Planning's propos
als, discussed advantages and disadvantages
of the Fetzer Courtyard site and passed unani
mously a resolution expressing approval the
proposed Fetzer Courtyard site with the under
standing that the Fetzer Courtyard would be
relocated and rebuilt as part of the SRC con
struction project.
What will happen to the current courtyard
if the SRC is built in the Fetzer Courtyard
area?
If the SRC is built in the Fetzer Courtyard,
a new courtyard would be built as part of the
construction project. The Student Recreation
Center would occupy less than half of the area
between Fetzer gym and the wooded area that
separates it from the Bell Tower (the area west
change. We must be willing to encourage con
servation at a grass roots level. Government
support for public transportation and improved
fuel efficiency must become a reality because
exhaust from cars is one of the chief causes of
carbon dioxide accumulation.
In the long-term, research and development
of renewable energy must increase. Despite
President Bush's grand plan to plant trees so he
can fulfill his pledge to be the "environmental
president," no concrete energy policy has been
discussed. Since 1979, funds for research and.
development of renewable energy sources have
been slashed by 75 percent.
Developing reliable, renewable resources
should be a priority of the Bush administration
for reasons independent of environmental con
cerns. Oil dependency leaves the United States
at the mercy of oil exporting countries. This type
of reliance can be detrimental economically (as
demonstrated in the early 1970s) as well as
politically. The warming problem is in no way
only an American problem, though we are cer-.
tainly one of the major perpetrators. The coun
tries need an international agreement, but action
should start at home. We need an innovative
energy policy that would stop climatic change.
Hugo was a storm of incredible magnitude,
but it was brief and isolated. If complacency
about giobal warming continues, the effects miht
not be immediately evident, but they will even
tually surface. When warming kicks in it won't
be a city or a state which is affected - the entire
earth will feel the crunch. We should remember
the destruction of Hugo and nip his sibling in the
bud.
Chris Landgraff is a junior political science
major from Atlanta, Ga.
of Fetzer gym); thus, there is ample room for an
extremely attractive courtyard area which could
be enjoyed by students, faculty and staff mem
bers alike.
Will students have access to locker rooms and
bathrooms while using the SRC?
Any time the Student Recreation Center is
open, ample bathroom and locker room facilities
in Fetzer will be open and available to users of
the facility.
Will the use of Fetzer gym bathrooms and
locker rooms limit the hours that students can
use the SRC?
Just as the SRC will be open as long as
students are willing to pay for people to staff the
building, the Fetzer gym bathrooms and locker
rooms will be available according to student
demand. The hours of the SRC will be open to
the discretion of the SRC Board of Directors; if
that body decides the students want the SRC to
be open hours later than Fetzer is usually open,
or over breaks or holidays, the board must sim
ply arrange to pay staff members to work those
hours. The SRC fee covers these costs as well as
the costs of construction and building mainte
nance. Will intramural teams, sports clubs, varsity
athletes or P.E. classes be able to reserve the
SRC for their own use?
The Student Recreation Center is intended
first and foremost for use by individual students.
The strength of this facility is that the individual
student can come into the rec center to exercise
at his discretion, rather than waiting for teams or
classes to finish with the equipment or space.
The SRC Board of Directors, which shall set the
building use policy, is required by the Student
Recreation Center by laws drafted this summer
to establish that policy with an unequivocal
understanding of the goal of Student Recreation
Center: to provide students with adequate rec
reational sports opportunities for their individ
ual needs, especially in the areas of aerobics and
weight training.
Students' attention to and enthusiasm for the
Student Recreation Center is crucial to its suc
cess, from the planning stages through the con
struction phase to its opening and first years of
usage. The SRC Board of Directors will need
students' guidance in achieving what you want
to see in this facility, and the most appropriate
vehicle for communicating your ideas, concerns
and needs is the Carolina Athletic Association.
I encourage students to come by or contact our
office when you have questions about or ideas
for the Student Recreation Center. I urge you to
take on this project as your own. And I challenge
you to take advantage of your position as one
who, through your time and input, can lay a
strong, positive foundation for the students who
will follow you.
Lisa Frye, a junior history major from
Conover, is president of the Carolina Athletic
Association.
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