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60 percent rain High 50-55 Tuesday: Sunny High in lower 50s Southern Writers Series speaker MayaAngelou 8 p.m., Memorial Hall i i i Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume 97, Issue 131 Monday, February 19, 1990 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSportsArts Business Advertising 962-0245 962-1163 aw school site f protest ft I . HI i V 7 Hands to heaven u n I ; I i .- y WOT - A George Lynch reaches high to snare a rebound in Saturday's un successful effort against the Maryland Terrapins. Landmark BP look back Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series on former student body presidents. Today's article looks at the first student body president and the first female student body president. By KATHRYNE TOVO Staff Wnter It has been 68 years since Garland Burns Porter called Ty by his friends was a student on the Hill, but his interest in UNC and his memories of serving as the University's first student body president have never faded. Porter, who will be 93 in June, took office in 1921 and became head of the Student Council, which had previously been the responsibility of the senior Academic issues focus of By STEPHANIE JOHNSTON Staff Writer Academic problems-facing students and feelings about dry rush were topics discussed by student body president candidates during the final candidates' forum at the Theta Chi fraternity house Sunday. Candidates Bill Hildebolt, Mark Bibbs, Jonathan Martin and John Lomax attended the forum. Mike Strickland was not present. Publishing a book listing all classes with detailed descriptions of the courses. nside Thprp'c nn rar.f HWp hnmp ?! Read the latest info on hous ing insert Sports Monday New calendar includes all UNC sporting events 12 That's all folk Arlo Guthrie to perform at ArtsCenter 6 Campus and city .. State and national Arts and features .. Classified Comics Opinion t ' - . ZZ ..3 ..5 ..6 ...8 ..9 10 Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not more so. Albert Einstein J 1 i V "9 DTHJoseph Muhl Past SBPs Where Are They Now class president. In those days, the student body presi dent dealt with issues that ranged from illegal freshman haing to the right of CAM PUS f 3 b More forums 4 requirements, textbooks and professors will aid students in selecting classes they like that are on their level, Hilde bolt said. "Right now you sign up to take a class based on one little line in the course schedule and maybe what your friends have told you about the class," he said. "I think we end up in classes, at least I do, which are too hard or too easy or the professor has a different idea of the title than I do, and that's why I propose the course guide. " The other thing is culturally. I think there's a lack of cultural education in Chapel Hill. Education that happens outside of the classroom, and that's why I've tried to address the arts in my platform." Bibbs said the main problem facing students in academics was adviser apathy in the General College. "We have a problem in the advising system, because many times we have either an ecofi or a music professor advising us in history or English," Bibbs said. "That's a problem at Carolina because if you don't get the correct advising then you don't get the correct schedule and then you're off track academically." Martin said one of the proposals of i V - I J J s r 1 H ; Activists charge CIA with discriminatory hiring By ELIZABETH BYRD Staff Wnter Members of UNC's CIA Action Committee (CI A AC) braved the wind and the rain outside the law school Friday for almost four hours to protest the CIA's recruitment on campus. The group has most recently accused the CIA of being "terrorist in nature" and of discriminating against homo sexuals in its hiring practices. "We're here at the law school to express our outrage," said CIAAC member Dale McKinley. "The Univer sity is making a moral decision by granting these interviews. "I think it's very important for stu dents not to be sucked into the 'free dom of speech' argument. The admini stration is hiding behind a smokescreen. The question of rights and freedom of speech is being directed in the wrong manner. We are not trying to deny anyone the right to do anything. We're asking the University to end a business relationship with the CIA." Racial By JENNIFER DUNLAP Staff Writer A petition signed with what have been described as racially offensive Native American names has adminis trators and minority student leaders outraged. Student government's minority and women's affairs department passed the petition, which called for permanent Native American faculty and staff members at the University by 1992, in a political science class in Hamilton Hall 100 Feb. 5. Cedric Woods, Carolina Indian Circle (CIC) president, said he found the signing of names such as "Sitting Bull Geronimo, Reservation 3-E," "Peter Laughinghorse" and "Ho-Chi-Minh (Laughing Fig), Wigwam 3. Grass Plains, WY (Wyoming)" very offensive. "As far as racial slurs this is a strong indicator that there is racism on women students to vote in campus elections. Porter was sharply criticized for his support of women's suffrage but maintained his position throughout his term. He studied with several of UNC's legends, including history professor Frank Porter Graham, and was a phi losophy fellow under I Iorace Williams. "Horace meant more to me than the whole University," Porter said, in a telephone interview. "When his wife died, 1 moved in with him to keep him company and we spent the whole year in conversation." Porter was involved with many ac tivities at the University, including the Order of the Golden Fleece, the Order SBP forum his seven-point plan was to establish a teaching assistant advisory board consisting of professors and under graduate students in every depart ment "I think an advisory board could really help out both ends of the spec trum," he said. "What I mean by that is the advisory board would help out undergrad students simply because a lot of students have problems with TAs. Students don't have a place or know what do to handle that TA problem. They could go talk to the board and effectively deal with the problem. It would help out the TAs in that aspect because right now the Teaching and Learning Center is having problems in that it is trying to get better benefits and it is trying to get pay raises." Lomax said the three areas he would address in order to improve academics were the advisory system, keeping subscriptions in the libraries and im proving the quality of teaching. "First of all we've got to start paying our professors and our grad students more," Lomax said. "We're losing professors to other universities because they are paying more. We've got to start training the international teaching assistants who come to the United States and teach in American classrooms. So often they have trouble bridging the cultural gap. We can do that through programs with the Center of Teaching and Learning and through follow-up programs of our own." See SBP, page 3 Daniel Pollitt, Kenan professor of law, said in an interview Friday that he supported McKinley's assertion. "I think there is a difference in coming here to recruit and coming here to speak in the Pit or something. Recruitment is not speech; it's business. I don't think the First Amendment protects that." Pollitt said that according to the 1 964 Civil Rights Act, a university can be considered an employment agency, so its relationship with recruiters can be regarded as a business relationship. Chancellor Paul Hardin, who met w it h CIAAC members Wednesday, said Sunday he would uphold the University's decision. In their meeting, Hardin was adamant in his disagree ment with the CIAAC charges. Hardin said he saw no difference between the CIA's speaking on cam pus and recruiting, but that he is not in any way endorsing the CIA through the University's policy. "It's important to remember that I do not endorse the CIA by allowing them to recruit on cam this campus," he said. "This shows how pressing the problem is." This is the first overt act of racism against Native Americans at UNC, he said. Dana Lumsden, director of the mi nority and women's affairs department, said he and Woods planned to contact Kathleen Benzaquin, associate dean of students, and discuss the incident with her. They will take this incident to the local media and plan to speak w ith the faculty Committee on the Status of Minorities and the Disadvantaged, Lumsden said. "It may have been a joke, but it's important to us to get people to realize that this isn't funny, it's a very serious matter." Benzaquin said the incident was intolerable and could be considered harassment. "Students can take other students to undergraduate court on harassment charges." 00 years of the Grail, Delta Tau Delta fraternity and class baseball. He was also vice president of the Dialectic Society and received the Hunter Lee Harris Memo rial award in 1921 for short story writ Jersey retired to cap Higgins' career By SCOTT GOLD Assistant Sports Editor Saturday afternoon during the halftime of the UNC-Maryland bas ketball game, Shannon Higgins had her jersey retired. She has been called the best women's soccer player in the history of the game. Without a doubt, she is the greatest player in the country today, and probably the world. I ler game plan need not rely strictly on her physical prowess i.e., her quickness, her power and her agility. Her mental strength vastly surpasses that of any opponent, and as a result she is one of the greatest playmakers and field generals ever in the sport. A two-time player of the year, she received All-America status her jun ior and senior year, and was All Atlantic Coast Conference her last three years of college. She scored the game-winning goal in three straight NCAA championships: the only goal in a 1 -0 victory over Massachusetts in 1987, the game-winner in a 4-1 win over N.C. State in 1988, and in 1989 in a tight 2-0 success over Colorado College to close her collegiate career. Last season, with her scoring role decreased due to the emergence of a new frontline, she garnered 15 goals, which ranked fourth in the confer ence; 1 8 assists, which broke her own record of 17 set -in 1988; and 48 points, which also broke her own record. She was the key to the Tar Heels' NCAA championship, lead ing a squad that went 24-0-1. During her career she played in 94 games, starting 88. She pocketed 39 goals, 51 assists (knotting her with April Heinrichs on the all-time UNC list), and 129 points. Appropriately, Higgins will be the last North Carolina women's soccer player to ever wear No. 3. Her career is over: one of the greatest athletes ever in UNC history is leaving, with four straight national championships in her wake. pus. Hardin said he was surprised at CIAAC members' outrage. "Of course, they are privileged to speak out and demonstrate peaceably, which they are doing. I wouldn't interfere with that right. I think the sounder principle is to let the CIA on campus and let the stu dents judge." McKinley said the University is also practicing discrimination by allowing the CIA to interview students. "If you want to talk about rights, the University is ignoring the rights of the gays and lesbians on campus." Hardin questioned the source of the CIAAC's information. "How would you know whether they (the CIA) are discriminatory?" Frank Kameny, a Washington, D.C., expert on homosexual discrimination, said there was no question the CIA discriminates against homosexuals. 'The CIA's hiring policy is clear. There is a flat exclusion of gays, period. Their policy says that 'sexual conduct' is not appear op J U Educating students about what de fines harassment could help prevent this sort of incident, she said. Christina Rodriuues, a sophomore from Nags Head, signed her real name to the petition. She said she saw one student sign one of the names, and that this person might have signed all the names just to be funny. She said she saw people laughing. 'Their attitude was very immature," Rodrigues said. "They thought it was a complete joke. They were lauszhing and I wasn't." Woods said he saw the petition and agreed that it could have been one per son, but he said it was more likely that one person started it and others fol lowed along to see who could be the most creative. Stacey Belnavis, a member of the minority and women's affairs commit tee, said she handed out the petition randomly before the class, because as UNC ing. He graduated w ith honors in 1922 in language and literature, and after turn ing down offers from Yale, Oxford and Heidelberg universities, he completed Mr r v: ' ,i AlV try: V I I-' ih v- V J L d J I M J J j I w wmm 7 -'-'l r t II f , - r : i J r - . Higgins receives award a basis for disqualification, but in prac tice homosexuals are always disquali fied." Law school Dean Judith Wegner has said that she was not sure whether UNC's discrimination policy extended to sexual preference. However, the law school will review the policy before next year, she said. Pollitt said the same consideration given to other minority students should be extended to homosexual students. "Is there any difference when they (employers) say 'We won't hire blacks and Jews' and when they say 'We won't hire homosexuals"? We don't want to punish our students (by banning dis criminatory employers). We want to protect them from insult." Pippa Holloway, Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association (CGLA) co-chairwoman, said the CGLA had not taken an official position on the CIAAC charges. "Obviously the CGLA opposes See CIAAC, page 9 petit iomi Li Richard Richardson, a professor of political science, does not let student groups announce petitions during his class. She said she did not see the offensive names until later, and that offensive names only appeared on one of the eight sheets. "This is a perfect example of the racism on this campus." Jim Sweet, a member of the minority and women's affairs department, said the committee planned to file a report of the incident with the UNC Affirma tive Action Office. Woods said the CIC would file a grievance with the appropriate authori ties so the petition signing will be added to statistics of racial incidents at the University. Until the past three years. Native Americans have had a nearly 50 per cent dropout rate at the University See PETITION, page 2 students a master's degree at UNC in philoso phy. He then began a 51 -year career in See MEMORIES, page 4 c -j 6 DTHEvan Eila 1c- w - 4 ' g'A I,, r v ' i , i ill! v
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