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4The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, April 18, 1990 i i, i tl li)lt :1 WiiV&Ml Bv feioo only P f with student or staff I. D. and Daily Tar Heel coupon Prizes awarded during the game, including a book of Bull's tickets! 1990 AT&T !r,.V-. To Saily Star NIGHT AT THE BULLS IftUUlStv See Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Donald Boulton throw out the first ball! OOMMUNICATION An AT&T Card helps you communicate better, because you can use it to call from all kinds of places. Like a friend's, or a pay phone, or out on the road. You don't even need to have a phone in your name to get one. And every month you get an itemized bill stating where and when you used the card. ""X A apply for the AT&T Card call us A 4 Now, if only it were that easy to point average. I I i I i I Laser set Resumes CO. COPIES Rushes possible Open 7 days a week on Franklin Street above Sadlack's 967-6633 Your Own Apartment Inks tJpU 929-0404 hg, SOv Jfc v. 933-2345 is) hotel I VC 0X FRANKLIN ( J 3M ) 0RWODSIho f -rTfSU" 1CENTER y i 967-2234 " 1 X VCARR MILL JtiMt 968-3983v V" UNC M i "il l y , r..?:.i tttttw .o.ios 967-2231 Mon. MPROVE .So 3X1 4742 555 WW""0" I at 1 800 525-7955, Ext. 630. ' improve your grade NX. schools ready to celebrate" 20th anniversary of Earth Day:r By GRANT THOMPSON Staff Writer North Carolina students are joining hundreds of other campuses this Sun day in a celebration of Earth Day 1990, the 20th anniversary of the event. "Earth Day 1970, from what I could U Now You Can Afford It. 15 ...AOV" 501 THE APARTMENT PEOPLE -Fri.9-6 Sat. 10-5 t, 11 tail ar The right see, was mainly a big party," said Donald Francisco, lecturer in the De partment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering. "This appears to be much more serious. Certainly, they have a more understanding approach than the students in 1970." During the week leading up to Earth Day, organizers across North Carolina and around the world will sponsor a variety of events designed to address environmental issues threatening the globe. At Duke University, a wide spec trum of activities are planned, said Ellen O'Donnell, Duke Earth Day organizer. A minister will say prayers for the environment, and the campus bar will sponsor a"Buy a Moose, Save a Moose" fundraiser in which a portion of Moosehead beer sales will be donated to the environment. "The idea is the same," O'Donnell said. "The problem now is that envi ronmentalism is mostly upper middle class people. It's changing now; the poor are being affected also. We are reaching out to more groups." "Mostly we want it to be educational and useful," said Harra Sitnick, Earth Day coordinator for UNC-Asheville. Students there plan to host the sixth annual Western North Carolina Sum mit in which there will be several speak ers, including a presentation by the Forest Service on acid rain, Sitnick said. "We are playing an environmental Jeopardy game to educate students," said Patrick Lilly, president of UNC Asheville's Ecology Club. "We will choice. participate in the rally in downtdwrif Asheville in which they expect 5,000-te-10,000 people." At UNC-Charlotte, students plan to hold an Environmental Health Fair, a teach-in and an Earth Day concert, according to Sandy Kohn, a staff ad-. viser helping with Earth Day preparaO tions. "In 1978, there was already a large group of socially conscious groups,;';! Kohn said. 'Today, instead of being, a:; continuation of past activism, Earth, j Day is a new awakening for most stu-r ;5 dents." ( Although today's students shared similar goals with the 1970 Earth Day protestors, there are several differences,, ? said Elizabeth Cox, an Earth Day or-' : ganizer in Raleigh. "The emphasis is different. Now; Earth Day is an entire city movement,. ! not just for students." ' "The fact that the movement is more mainstream is an asset, but we must bo t careful," Sitnick said. "We can't -be.' placated with just recycling, we must s look at more fundamental issues." : . Most organizers agree that campus,; groups need to continue pushing for environmental awareness long after; Earth Day. f -' "We need to translate all this energy 5 and enthusiasm into continued action' : said Ethan Clotfelter, Earth Day organ-; izer at UNC-CH. . . 1990 Census ; .!. prompts suit By KEVIN GREENE Staff Writer ... ., Officials of the nation's most popu-? lated cities are not satisfied with the way the 1990 Census is being corh ducted. Last Wednesday, the Office of the City of New York reactivated a lawsuit first filed in 1988 against the ILS, Department of Commerce. The lawsuit seeks the reinstatement of an earlier Census Bureau plan for an adjustment, U.S. Census forms due by 5 p.m. today of the 1990 U.S. Census. According to Tom DeCair, spokes-; man for the U.S. Department of Com4 merce, there has always been an under-; count of certain groups of citizens predominantly urban areas during the taking of the census. , r He said that over the years, various cities, states and interest groups have sued the U.S. Department of Commerce, which includes the U.S. Census Bu reau, to regain this undercount., . ,'.r As a result, the U.S. Census Bureau spent much of the 1980s trying to de velop formulas to adjust the 1990 Census to provide equity to the under counted. But according to DeCair, the. formulas would have made the 1990 Census more inaccurate in the end arijcj the Commerce Department abandof ned adjustment plans in 1987. 1 In November 1988, a lawsuit was filed against the U.S. Department of Commerce on behalf of five major U.S j cities (New York, Los Angeles, Chi cago, Houston and MiamiDade County, Fla.), the states of California and New York and several organisa tions, including the NAACP, Natiohil League of Cities and the League of Latin American Citizens. j' The lawsuit sought the reinstatement of the U.S. Census Bureau's plan for the adjustment of the 1990 Census. Before the first hearing on the matter, an agreement was reached in which trie U.S. Department of Commerce agreed to reconsider the issue of adjustment of the 1990 U.S. Census and to publiah guidelines for the decision of whether adjustment would lead to useful arid accurate data. According to David Golden, a repre sentative for the Corporation Council of the City of New York, the newfy published guidelines failed to provide rules for the adjustment of the 199,0 U.S. Census. i i "The Commerce Department went against the court order," Golden said. "Yesterday, we filed a motion asking the court to declare the guidelines null and void." J 1 Golden said the City of New York sought corrected guidelines for the decision on whether to adjust the 1990 Census. j DeCair said this motion would be resisted. He added that this was a moye by New York City to claim more politi cal clout and money resulting from the census tabulations of population, j Tina Clements, receiving operations supervisor for the U.S. Census Bureau office in Raleigh, said the adjustment was not needed for the 1990 Census count in North Carolina. "Past census counts in North Carolina have been very accurate," she said. 1 Clements added that with the appar ent success at counting the homeless, the 1990 Census results in North Caro lina would probably be more accurate than any taken thus far. The Raleigh office, which receivles the census forms from Wake, Durham, Orange, Person, Granville and Chatham counties, will accept forms until later this week. Next week, follow-up forms will be sent to citizens who have riot returned their original forms. !
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