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( s WEATHER TODAY: Cloudy; high upper 80s THURSDAY: Cloudy; high upper 80s TRAFFIC TROUBLES: Look out for Labor Day congestion ....CAMPUS, page 3 THE BIG TIME: Former Tar Heel Woodall joins Bulls SPORTS, page 5 ON CAMPUS Join UNC basketball player Hubert Davis in a photo for Carolina Court magazine at 1 p.m. in the Pit t iaiif far 38m Serving the students and the University community since 1893 1991 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Volume 99, Issue 62 Wednessday, August 28, 1991 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NcwiSpomAm 92 0245 BuslncMAdvertlilnf 962-1165 Hi Heydl By Gillian Murphy Suff Writer The University's mission statement should be changed to include the school's strong commitment to sup porting students academically, finan cially and personally, Student Body President Matt Heyd said Tuesday. ' Heyd submitted a proposal to change the University's mission statement to Board of Trustee members last week. 4 BSM members lead move to North Campus By Soy ia Ellison SUff Writer Several Black Student Movement members decided it was time to do something about segregation in campus housing this semester, so they moved to North Campus. BSM President Arnie Epps, Shawna Pinckney, Sharyn Jones and Malcolm Turner left their familiar residence halls on Mid and South campuses and moved to Mangum and Ruffin residence halls. . Pinckney said the experience so far had been a good one, and the women in Ruffin hall had accepted her and her roommate. 'They have been very warm. Police officer to protest feds' handling of racism complaint By Matthew Mielke StaffWrltcr University Police Officer Keith Edwards said Tuesday she would file a complaint against the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights for its handling of discrimination charges at UNC. "I'm waiting on a response from the Department of Education," she said. "Then I will file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice." Edwards said she filed a complaint with an OCR supervisor against the department and against OCR investiga tor Peter Fountain and is waiting for a response. Edwards said although she sched uled a meeting with Fountain, he never showed up. He explained the absence as Council considers By Chris Goodson SUff Writer Anew law under consideration would require students and residents to wear helmets when riding their bicycles in town and on campus. The Chapel Hill Town Council de cided Monday to delay voting on the proposed ordinance until a public hear ing could be held. The council voted unanimously to hold the public hearing at its Sept. 10 meeting. Some students said they planned to fight the proposal. "I think there'll be a lot of protest," said UNC senior Shane Johnson, adding that the town should consider offering a course in bicycle safety instead of strict enforcement. Jim Rumfelt, owner of the Clean Machine bicycle shop, said he wasn't sure if students would appreciate a law requiring helmets. "They mess up your hair." If adopted, the resolution would es tablish a Bicycle Safety Helmet Aware ness Committee to encourage people to wear helmets, followed by a bicycle helmet ordinance six months later, po lice planner Jane Cousins said in a pre sentation to the council. Although laws about bike helmets have been passed in places such as California, New York and Maryland, most only apply tochildren or to certain riding areas, Cousins said. 'The (Chapel Hill) ordinance states that every person will be required to wear a helmet, and the helmet would ha ve to meet standards set by the Ameri Why shouldn't wants mission statement revision "The current mission statement makes no mention of the University's obligation to support its students, aca demically and personally, while they are enrolled," Heyd wrote in a letter to the BOT. John Pope, a BOT member, agreed that the statement should emphasize the importance of students. "It is a fact that (the University) em phasizes the professional schools, gradu ate schools, and research while neglect just very nice, and gone out of their way to make us feel comfortable, and I feel it's really natural." Epps said he and the others first be gan considering the move last spring. "We wanted to make the move be cause somebody's got to make the move to North Campus," he said. South Campus has long been home to a majority of blacks who live on campus. Last year 67 percent of black campus residents lived on South Cam pus. That figure was considerably lower than in 1984, when a Daily Tar Heel article reported that 94 percent of blacks lived there. The reasons for this separation are an emergency, she said. "They never even talked with me, the complainant," she said. A trial date for a lawsuit Edwards filed against six present and past Uni versity administrators will be set at a pretrial conference in Orange County Superior Court in Hillsborough Sept. 3. An OCR report found the University innocent of discrimination in the Uni versity police department. But Edwards claims she was discriminated against on the basis of gender and race. "I can't give up," she said. "Because if I do, I would be giving up on life." Chancellor Paul Hardin said in a written public statement in May that he was pleased with the OCR's ruling. "They (the findings) tend to show that the University is dealing profes sionally, sensitively and fairly with per can National Standards Institute or the Snell Foundation," she said. "There are no governmental standards at this point for bicycle helmets." In North Carolina, nearly 20 people die in bicycle accidents annually, and about 13,000 people receive emergency room treatment each year, Cousins said. Using bicycle helmets can reduce the risk of injury in accidents, she said. "One out of four serious bicycling inju ries is a head injury." In 1990, 48 accidents involving cars and bicycles were reported to the Chapel Hill Police Department, Cousins said. She added that only 10 percent of all List of available classes posted in Hanes By Shea Riggsbee SUff Writer Good news has arrived for students suffering from the touch-tone, registration-manual blues. A list of all open undergraduate courses has been published by the registrar's office and is posted on the first-floor bulletin board in Hanes Hall and at the Student Union front desk. Rashmi Airan and Dana Lumsden, student government co-coordinators of academic affairs, thought of publiciz ing the names of open classes and asked University Registrar David Lanier to generate the list. Student Body President Matt Heyd said horror stories about students who had not been able to register for at least truth be stranger ing the undergraduates," he said. The present statement was written in 1 985 after an intensive self-study of the University and its various functions. The study was conducted as part of the school's reaccreditation process. David Dill, special assistant to the chancellor, said Heyd's proposal was valid, but the mission statement should not be rewritten by one person. The 1985 study was done by a large group of faculty and students and future many, but most students agree that it is self-imposed. According to a DTH survey taken last year, 54 percent of black students chose to stay on South Campus because their friends lived there, while 33 per cent felt uncomfortable on North Cam pus or encountered prejudice there. Housing director Wayne Kuncl said he was impressed with Epps' idea and made arrangements for the four South Campus blacks to move. "It was in line with our goal to make North Campus more diverse," Kuncl said. "I certainly applaud his effort. See MOVE, page 2 sonnel issues," Hardin wrote. "I intend for that to be the case, and we work hard to make sure it is." Edwards said Tuesday that she would contact the Atlanta office of the Na tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People to request an investi gation of the OCR's proceedings at UNC after the OCR responds to her. Edwards' lawsuit was filed earlier thisyearagainst Chancellor Paul Hardin; Ben Tuchi, vice chancellor for business and finance; Paul Mauer, former Uni versity Police chief; John DeVitto, di rector of UNC Transportation and Park ing Services; Robert Sherman, former public safety director; and Dan Burleson, former assistant personnel director. Alan McSurely, Edwards' lawyer, was out of town Tuesday and could not be reached for comment. bike-helmet law bike accidents are reported to the po lice. Council member Art Werner said the ordinance would not be difficult to en force. "I don't see the police jumping out of their cars and chasingpeople who aren't wearitig helmets," he said. "The idea is to encourage people to wear helmets; it's not for us to raise a lot of money by fining people for not wearing helmets." The price of most helmets falls in the $30 to $100 range, employees at local bicycle stores said Tuesday. Rumfelt See BIKE, page 7 12 academic hours prompted student government to publish the list. Students who do not have at least 1 2 hours can lose their financial aid or on campus housing, he said. Airan said she planned to talk with Stephen Birdsall, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, about granting waivers for students who are unable to register for 1 2 hours. Lanier compiled the information, which reflects class enrollments as of Tuesday morning. "Caroline is the only true source of what is open and closed," he said. Heyd said he hoped the list would help students. "The University is more than willing to help when you identify a problem, but the problem first needs to be identified." than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. "The current mission statement makes no mention of the University's obligation to support its students, academically and personally, while they are enrolled." Matt Heyd, student body president statements should be written by a simi lar group to "give the community a better sense of ownership of the state ment," Dill said. It might be better to wait until the next reaccreditation process is done to rewrite the statement, he said. But Heyd said the University should not wait until 1995, when the next reaccreditation will be done, to rewrite 30 rungs in the hole Mark Bartlett, a Durham resident, splices inside a manhole on Jones Ferry Road near "It would have been a lot of help if it had come out earlier. We're three days into classes now." Angie Abernathy Today is the last day to add a class by telephonic registration. Classes can be dropped through Sept. 4. Sophomore Angie Abernathy said the list might not be very helpful to r ;Vj?4jy x'v- 'J it M :-- a , f1 - 1 iTV w t -'! .A ) JT ., I . J; J the statement. "It is ... important for the University to assert that it is committed to support ing students and that (support) is an integral part of the mission of the Uni versity," he said. Heyd told BOT members his pro posal was intended to complement, not detract, from the present statement. Dill said the mission statement was cable for Southern Bell the Hwy 54 bypass in Hall, Union students this late in the semester. "It would have been a lot of help if it had come out earlier," Abernathy said. "We're three days into classes now." Lumsden said he felt the registrar's office should continue the practice of letting students know what courses were available. "One advantage of drop-add was that students could scam to get classes," he said. "You cannot manipulate Caroline. It's hard to find out what's open." Sophomore Dina Dajani said she thought the list might help students who had no idea what classes they wanted. "Otherwise, it would be just as easy to call Caroline," she said. The 40-page list includes course names and section numbers but not class times. intended to be a "symbolic document" and was not an attempt to comment on everything. The present statement may not have the meaning it did when it was written, he said. Heyd said his proposal would be explicit in its commitment to students. "If you bring people here, you've got to be able to support them," he said. "We need to affirm that." His proposed changes to the mission statement would make the University responsible for the academic, financial, and personal support of students. "The University is a center for schol arship and creative endeavor. ... If (the University) is devoted to academic ex cellence, then (it) ought to help people be able to focus on that, making sure the rest of their lives are secure," he said. I DTHAndrew Cline Carrboro. The manhole also provided Bartlett with a ready-made cover from the rainy weather Tuesday morning. Last interest meeting today You've seen the fliers and read these promos for a week. Now it's time to join The Daily Tar Heel staff. We need writers, photographers, copy editors and layout staff. No experience is necessary. For more information, stop by our table in the Pit between 1 1 a.m. and 2 p.m. or come by the office, 104 Union, to pick up appl icat i ons, wh ich are due at S p.m. Friday in the DTH office. The DTH will have another inter est meeting at 7 p.m. today in 208 209 Union. A copy editing test will be given at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in 208-209 Union. Mark Twain
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