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REVENGE OF THE C:,H: It's bad; znd it's baaad ON CAMPUS Harold Woodard to lead discussion on student activism during the civil rights movement at 7 p.m. in the BCC. ft IT'S GflEEfC TO ME: International students exchange hi:::; ...'.'" J p. ;j 3 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 . 1991 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Volume 99, Issue 63 Thursday, August 29, 1991 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NcwsSportsMm 962-0245 BusinessAdvertising 962-1 1 63 WEATHER TODAY: Cloudy; high upper 80s FRIDAY: Mostly sunny; high 90 war Jm Spaogler gives UNC system By Steve Politi Assistant University Editor UNC-system President CD. Spangler Jr. and a family trust Spangler controls donated $2 million to the uni versity system Wednesday. . Each of the system's 16 campuses Will receive $ 1 25,000 $ 1 0,000 from Spangler and $1 15,000 from the CD. Spangler Foundation, named for Spangler's father. Spangler personally donated his an nual salary of $142,520 to the system schools. UNC-CH's $125,000 share will be J ' JJV Ay sx- - .- yT" Three cheers for Huuuube Hubert Davis, the lone senior on the '91-92 UNCmen'sbasketballtearn,appearstobe reconsidering his decision to pose for the cover of Carolina Court magazine in the Pit Baraka: black studies key to awareness By Bonnie Rochman Staff Writer Black studies is the basis for devel oping self-consciousness and- self awareness, Imamu Baraka, an interna tionally known poet, playwright and novelist, told a crowd of students and community members Wednesday night. .-' Baraka spoke as part of a two-week-long commemoration of the life of Sonja Stone, an African and Afro-American associate professor and an advocate of black interests. Stone died Aug. 1 0 after having a stroke. "Self-respect is self-consciousness," Baraka said. "You can't respect your self without self-consciousness. And self-respect can only be developed by developing institutions. 'That's why we must have black studies not as a program, but as a depart ment," he said amid cheers from the Media board By Ashley Fogle Assistant University Editor The University Media Board, which oversees the operation of four campus publications, may soon be dissolved, members said Wednesday. The board is responsible for the fi nancial operation of the Carolina Quar terly, the Cellar Door, The Phoenix Student Newsweekly and the Yackety Yack, as well as editor selection for each publication. Chairman Tracy Keene said the board's fate had not been decided. Mem bers will discuss possibilities at its Sep tember meeting, he said. "There is a lot of speculation, a lot of rumors and a lot of things that are un sure," Keene said. A human being; an ingenious assembly of used to develop the Center of Excel lence in Nephrology in the medical school, Spangler said in a telephone interview. "The different campuses will use the money for different purposes some to establish chairs, some at the discre tion of the chancellors," he said. William Blythe, chairman of the nephrology department, said the de partment had been working on the project for more than a year. "Its purpose is to increase research on things to do with the kidney and increase personal relations with doctors in North Carolina and (beyond) dealing audience. His comment referred to UNC black leaders' struggle to convince the Uni versity to make the black studies cur riculum a department. Baraka said Stone represented the struggle for education. He urged the audience to continue her work. "Stone demanded that you carry the baton on and carry on the commitment of your people, and by so doing, raise the consciousness of the world." Education is a dangerous thing in repressed societies, Baraka said, refer ring to black enslavement and to the time when it was illegal for blacks to read or write. "Education is the route of develop ment. You can't develop without edu cation. It's also the basis of defense." Black people have been enslaved in the United States for twice as long as they have been free, he said. to consider Keene said he thought the groups could be reorganized to function with out the board. Financial control of The Phoenix may be shifted to The Daily Tar Heel, he said. Kevin Schwartz, DTH general manager and a media board member, said if this were the case, the DTH Publishing Corp. would sell ads, collect money and negotiate contracts for both publications. "(It) would also run the business and advertising of The Phoenix," he said. "Editorial control would be completely separate." Keene said the Yackety Yack should be able to operate without the media board's help. 'The Yack has always sort of felt like it is capable of forming its own board," with the kidney," he said. "We're obviously extremely grate ful to President Spangler," Blythe said. "He and I have an old relationship going way back. I am his doctor here in Chapel Hill." In a written statement Spangler said, "My family and I are deeply conscious of the debt we owe my parents who could not afford college for our for tunate economiccircumstances. Today, North Carolinians who lack a college education have far fewer opportunities than people of my parents' generation, or mine. "I believe the future of our state rests Wednesday afternoon. His many fans hold signs in recognition of the three-point shooting accuracy that has made him a Tar Heel favorite. "We're not free!" responded a woman in the audience, and Baraka agreed. The 13th Amendment abolished sla very, except as punishment for crimes, he said. But after blacks were freed, they had neither money nor jobs. They were charged with vagrancy and were sent back into slavery as punishment, he said. "That's why although only II to 12 percent of the population is black, blacks make up 75 percent of big-city jail in mates," he said. Baraka cautioned against black lead ers who did not have the best interests of black people in mind and used Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court nominee, as an example. Baraka quoted retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall as saying: "A black snake can bite you just as good as a white snake." Baraka said black students must unite disbanding he said. "There is a lot of business that needs to be dealt with internally. Like the DTH, they could have their own board of directors. "The Carolina Quarterly can exist under the English department," Keene said. "The Cellar Door is the only ob stacle." Schwartz agreed. "The Carolina Quarterly is really an English depart ment (publication)," he said. "Its office is in Greenlaw, and it's run by English grad students. It could be run out of the department." The Cellar Door doesn't need an advisory board, he said. The literary magazine is a small operation without any big contracts and is capable of over See MEDIA, page 7 ... with the University of North Caro lina," the statement said. "It is impor tant to me to invest in that future, personally, professionally and finan cially." Blythe said he had spoken to Spangler about the program, although he had not heard about the donation until a reporter called. "I talked to him about it and ex plained to him what we're trying to do," Blythe said. "It's another example of his devotion to North Carolina." The center will be in existing medi cal school space, Blythe said. The $125,000 won't be used to construct a DTHKathy Michel in their pursuit of common goals. "We must have a united front to combat our enemies," he said. Lawful racial segregation existed in the United States until 1954, and some schools still have a disproportionate number of blacks, he said. People must establish class unity based on ideology, not on skin color. The raising of self-consciousness was what Stone taught, "not a skin kind of exoticism," he said. Arnie Epps, Black Student Move ment president, said he thought Baraka's talk was outstanding. "He brought some thing to this campus that we really needed to hear about our people and the culture in which we live," he said. Robert Stone, Sonja Stone's son, said he enjoyed Baraka's speech. "Although my mother and he never met directly, I think my mother would have agreed with what he had to say," he said. I Immmwmm m i Milan inA , ,-, , . ..-v-J - rnirTtim lJ DJHi txum NOT seeing eye to eye Bob Etheridge (left), Democratic state superintendant of public ing to the respective campus political organizations, promise to instruction, and Jack Hawke, state Republican chairman, speak- win 1 992 elections. See stories, page 4. portable plumbing. Christopher Morley new building, he said. "We're not as interested in bricks and mortar as we are in concepts, people and ideas," he said. "All these things will be enhanced in the center." Sam Poole, UNC Board of Gover nors chairman, said the other 15 cam puses wouldn't have trouble finding where to use the money. "I think it's a marvelous gesture on his part," Poole said. "Obviously, it's a lot of money that is badly needed on the campuses. They all have different needs and will make good use of it." Student Body President Matt Heyd said: "It'samazingly generous. We need New copy laws contribute to library By Jennifer Mueller Staff Writer Library staff cuts and an increase in reserve requests prompted by the diffi culty inobtainingcoursepacksarecaus ing a filing delay in the reserve depart ment of the Undergraduate Library. DavidTaylor, Undergraduate Library director, said Wednesday the library was about a week behind in filing re serve materials. By last week there was an increase of about 20 percent more than previous years in the number of reserve lists submitted by professors. Many requests have been turned in since then, he said. Budget cuts also have left unfilled a full-time reserve department staff posi tion that was vacated last year, repre senting a 28 percent loss in staff force. "The first semester started earlier than the faculty are used to," Taylor said. Librarians asked professors to sub mit their reserve lists at least two weeks before the semester began. Some are still turning their lists in, he said. But the chief reason for the backlog is the new copyright restrictions under which companies that print course packs have been operating. Kinko's Graphic Corp. lost a lawsuit to Basic Books Publishing in April. The case established a reinterpre tation of the Fair Use clause of the 1 976 federal copyright laws. Material previ ously could be reprinted without the publisher's permission if it were only a portion of the text from which it came and if it were being used as part of a larger work. Course pack publishers now must obtain copyright permission on all ma terials used in their course packs. This has lengthened the waiting period to obtain a course pack from a few days to several weeks, Taylor said. "I think the faculty just didn't realize this," he said. Copyediting test This is it. Friday at 5 p.m. is the deadline to turn in applications to join The Daily Tar Heel staff. We need writers, photographers, copy editors and layout staff. mullion money everywhere." Chancellor Paul Hardin said in a written statement, "With this gift, Mr. Spangler and his family are helping to make the University stronger, and we at Chapel Hill are grateful to them for it." Spangler, a major NCNB Corp. share holder and former Charlotte business man, is ranked by Forbes magazine as one of the 400 richest people in America, with a net worth of $280 million. Spangler succeeded Bill Friday as UNC-system president in 1986. After a series of budget cuts in the UNC system last year, Spangler donated $ 1 60,000 to the system schools. backloj History professor Tera Hunter said one of her classes had been seriously hampered by the unavailabi 1 ity of course materials. Although she submitted her reserve list to the library and her course pack list to Kinko's last month, neither was available when she began teaching last week. "It has created a lot of problems for ' students and for myself," Hunter said. 'There re a few things that they can't buy that they (could) get on reserve." This is probably the last year Hunter will use a Kinko'scourse pack, she said. Jonathan Weiler, a political science graduate student, said he was told it would take two or three days to place materials on reserve when he submitted his list to the library last week. But it has taken longer than anticipated because of the flood of requests instructors have filed during the past week. "It's not going to cause a problem with the course," Weiler said, adding that he did not anticipate any further problems with reserve materials this semester. Richard Soloway, history department chairman, said professors have even had difficulty obtaining course packs that they have always used. "These delays obviously complicate their ability to teach these courses," Soloway said. Taylor said students might be able to find reserve materials on their own in the library, but it would be difficult because of delays in refiling magazines and books after students use them. Hunter said she did not blame the library for the delays in processing re serve material. "The system is backed up, the staff is overworked and there's not enough support staff," she said. But all is not gloomy in the land of academia. "Apparently, some students feel good about it because it means they can put off their assignments," Taylor said. to be given today For more information, stop by our table in the Pit between 1 1 a.m. and 2 p.m.orcomebytheoffice, 104 Union. The copy editing test will be given at 4:30 p.m. today in 208-209 Union.
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