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Volume 99, Issue 105
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Requirement would give
By Ashley Fogle
Assistant University Editor
About 1 1 students and faculty mem
bers met with the Committee on Cul
tural Diversity Wednesday night to dis
cuss the addition of a multicultural re
quirement to the University curricu
lum. The committee's proposal would re
quire students to take a course desig
nated as "multicultural" to fulfill one of
their General College perspectives.
Simon Blackburn, committee chair
man, said the racial and cultural mix at
the University was changing, and stu
dents wanted to see their heritages re
Chapel Hill mayoral
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Candidates address students in final forum
Council, mayor hopefuls call for high voter turnout in Tuesday's election
By Dana Pope
Staff Writer
Candidates running for Chapel Hill
mayor and town council stressed town
gown relations and the importance of
student voting during a forum held in
the Pit Wednesday afternoon.
The forum, sponsored by the ex
ecutive branch of student government,
was the last one before the Nov. 5
election.
Mayoral candidate Ken Broun, who
is a law professor and former dean of
the UNC School of Law, said his rela
tionship with the University would
help him deal with townspeople and
students effectively.
"My position at the University gives
me a unique opportunity to work with
the University," he said. "I don't want
to be an enemy of the University, I
want to be a representative of all the
citizens of the town."
Broun said he was against the South
Loop and the destruction of Odum
Village. He also was concerned about
problems caused by the University's
power plant.
Tommy Gardner, also a candidate
for mayor, said the issues in this cam
Ewell, shelter director discuss panhandling, improving relations downtown
By Peter Wallsten
City Editor
Chapel Hill Town Council candidate
Mickey Ewell said Wednesday he
wanted to open the lines of communica
tion between the business community
and the Inter-Faith Council.
Ewell and IPC shelter director Chris
Moran discussed their new-and-im-proved
relationship at a meeting with
reporters in the shelter offices, located
at lOOW.RosemarySt.Ewell.theowner
of Spanky's restaurant downtown and
part-owner of 411 West and Squids
restaurants, unveiled a poster discour
aging people togivepanhandlersmoney.
Business leaders have said in the past
I got a
flected in the curriculum.
"The committee wants to ensure that
the curriculum reflects the increasing
ethnic diversity in American society
and provides students from all back
grounds with an opportunity to under
stand cultural diversity as it will affect
their own lives,"BIackbum said.
Morgan Jones, a committee member
and a business administration profes
sor, said: "(Courses filling the perspec
tive) should not be a smorgasbord of
cultures. It shouldn't be 'this is Tues
day, so we'll do the Middle East.' It
should focus on a small number of cul
tures and their interactions."
The committee was formed in Janu
candidate Ken Broun speaks briefly to students
paign won't change after the voters
leave the polls.
"The major issues in this campaign
are the same today as they were two
months ago and will be (the same) the
day after the election is over," he said.
Mayoral candidate Rosemary
Waldorf said that student input was
welcome in the town government and
that she hoped town-University rela
tions would improve.
"I hope that the town and the Univer
sity can work together more closely to
try to make both the town and the cam
pus a safer place," she said.
Town council candidate Robert
Joesting said the University should keep
the town's interests in mind when mak
ing decisions.
"The University needs to act as a
good citizen and use the same rules as a
private developer," he said.
Town council candidate Ralph Bass
said that he always had listened to stu
dents and that their needs should be
represented.
UNC senior Mark Chilton, a candi
date for town council, said his relation
ship with students would help him, but
added that he would not ignore perma
nent residents' needs.
that the shelter,
opened in 1 989 at
its present 100W.
Rosemary St. lo
cation, caused in
creases in crime
and panhandling
downtown. Pan
handling was a
large problem dur
ing the summer,
Ewell said.
"Unfortunately
Mickey Ewell
the doors of communication between
Chris and me weren't open during the
summer as they are now," Ewell said.
"He could have helped us then."
Improved relations with the business
v
rock. Charlie Brown in "It's
ary when the Network for Minority
Issues approached Gillian Cell, the
former dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences, about the need for increased
diversity in the general education cur
riculum. "Thecharge put upon this committee
was to define the characteristics of a
course that has a multicultural perspec
tive, to identify courses already taught
and to decide how to decide how any
new requirement would relate both to
lower level perspective courses and to
the current non-Westernhistorical per
spective," Blackburn said.
A survey of department chairmen
and chairwomen generated a list of 272
in the Pit Wednesday as opponents, council
"I thinkl'm the person who's most in
touch with students, but I don't think
I'm going to represent just students," he
said.
Candidates in both races encouraged
students to vote Tuesday. Chilton said
about 4,000 students have registered to
vote in Orange County in the past two
years.
"We have a real potential to make a
difference in this election," he said.
Chilton said providing recycling ser
vices for apartment complexes, keep
ing bus fares low and expanding bus
service hours were of concern to him.
Preventing the construction of the South
Loop Road was important, he said.
Town council candidate Bill Thorpe
said there was "no excuse" for students
not to vote. "You can make a difference,
but you have to get out and vote."
Incumbent council candidate Joe
Herzenberg encouraged students to vote
and run for office. He mentioned three
former University students who had run
unsuccessfully for town council.
"They didn't win, in large part, be
cause not enough of your fellow stu
dents voted," he said. "It's important to
register and it's important to vote."
Joe Capowski, a candidate for town
community will help educate the public
about the IFC's goals, Moran said.
"If the public understands the issue,
people won't be as intimidated," he
said. "The more thecommunity is aware
of the resources that are available, the
more we can provide."
Moran said the increased communi
cation won't guarantee complete coop
eration. "It doesn't mean we agree on a
lot of things," he said. "It's like the
Middle East peace talks. People are
sitting around a table and talking, and
that's what matters."
Ewell's sign, which urges pedestri
ans not to "give money or feel guilty"
when approached by panhandlers,
would be posted in area businesses,
curriculum cultural mix
existing courses that could be used to
fill the multicultural perspective.
The committee also will look into
developing new courses and adapting
present classes to fit a multicultural
requirement, Blackbum said.
Courses designated as multicultural
would have to provide an understand
ing of another culture and allow stu
dents to draw comparisons with their
own experiences.
"If there were not this component, it
could be used as a purely academic
exercise and (students would) not apply
it to their own experience," Blackbum
said. "Otherwise this could have been
just cultural tourism."
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candidates look on
council, wasn't optimistic about stu
dent turnout at the polls and encour
aged students to take active roles.
"(High student turnout) would be
against history," he said. "Chilton's
campaign will help it, though."
Town council candidate Mickey
Ewell agreed that Chilton "brings at
tention to the election." He said there
should be an alternative polling place
so North Campus students wouldn't
have to drive to the General Adminis
tration building to vote.
Roosevelt Wilkerson, an incum
bent running for re-election to the
town council, said students seriously
should consider their need to vote.
"I hope there will not be an
apathetical showing of student vot
ing," he said. "I hope that you will take
seriously your responsibility as stu
dents and citizens of this community."
Broun said that he was "hopeful"
for a strong turnout and that he had
law school students encouraging other
students to vote.
Helen Urquhart, a second-timecan-didate
for town council, said she was
proud of student participation in Uni
versity affairs and she encouraged
everyone to vote.
Ewell said. The poster also recommends
that people contribute money to the IPC
and help hungry people find food, shel
ter, jobs and counseling.
The Downtown Chapel Hill Asso
ciation, headed by First Citizens Bank
manager Ann Robinson, will contribute
the funding for the poster.
Moran said he did not think Ewell's
efforts were politically motivated. Ewell
is one of 12 candidates running for four
open seats on the town council. Im
proved relations between business lead
ers and the IPC will benefit everybody,
Moran said.
"It's very important for the Inter
Faith Council to have a good relation
ship with the downtown community,"
the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
Blackburn said courses that now fill
the non-Westemhistorical perspective
do not always provide the comparisons
necessary for understanding cultural
diversity.
Committee member Lee Greene said
some cultures, such as that of African
Americans, are not non-Western and
can't be covered by that perspective.
Blackburn said the proposal must be
approved by the Faculty Council before
it is finalized. A General College sub
committee will determine the courses
that may be used to fill the requirement.
Meridith Rentz, student body vice
president, said implementing the pro
posal would be a gradual process.
NAACP president
blocks University
training programs
By Amber Nimocks
Assistant City Editor
The University should amend its
training programs to help entry-level
employees advance to higher paying
jobs, according to a letter written by the
president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
branch of the NAACP.
Branch President James Brittian
urged Chancellor Paul Hardin to con
sideraproposal.calledtheUNCPlanned Upward Mobility Program, that out
lined a six-step plan for targeting and
training "employees with potential."
"The University has failed to provide
advancement services to employees in
(the lowest pay grades)," Brittian said
in an interview. "Housekeeping em
ployees are looked upon as employees
Students support housekeepers'
fight for better wages, conditions
By Birch DeVault
Staff Writer
Campus Y members plan to join
University housekeepers in their fight
for better wages and working condi
tions. Housekeepers are meeting with stu
dent representatives from the Campus
Y today to discuss how they can work
together, said Marsha Tinnen, a house
keeping assistant.
"I think that if the students get in
volved, we can really make some
progress," she said. "We are the back
bone of the University, and if residence
hall bathrooms don't get cleaned, the
students won't be very happy."
Chris Baumann, co-chairman of
Campus Y's Student Environmental
Action Committee, said the students
and housekeepers still were deciding
what course of action to take.
"The housekeepers get $11,000 a
year," he said. "That's below the pov
erty level. In this day and age that
shouldn't be happening."
Heather Lynch, Campus Ypresident,
said students could help by being vocal.
"We have more flexibility in time and
energy than they do," she said.
Housekeepers need help organizing
and publicizing their struggle. Lynch
said. Students worked with striking caf
eteria workers in 1 969 to lobby Univer
sity officials for higher wages and "shut
down the whole campus," she said.
he said in an interview prior to the
meeting with Ewell. "I've seen a lot of
improvement in that in the last couple of
months."
Moran said several candidates, in
cluding Ewell and mayoral candidates
Ken Broun and Rosemary Waldorf,
toured the shelter recently to familiar
ize themselves with the facility.
Despite prior fears of business lead
ers that the shelter would bring more
crime to the area, Ewell said he could
not tell if the shelter was related to
recent increases in crime downtown.
"Crime is worse downtown, but, then
again, it's worse all over the country,"
he said. "It's hard to say that the shelter
is a cause of the problems. Indirectly it
Blackbum said budget cuts should
not affect plans for the multicultural
requirement.
"We're not advocating that there will
be a whole new set of courses," he said.
"We're asking department chairs to set
priorities."
Blackbum said committee members
were not concerned about potential criti
cism that the new curriculum was merely
an attempt at "political correctness."
Education is the primary reason for the
proposal, he said.
Committee member James White
said, "We won't run and hide if we are
accused in the Faculty Council of being
politically correct."
that will not go any further than where
they are.... We want the University to
look at those people who come in at the
bottom of the totem pole and give them
the same opportunities to advance as
people higher up."
The proposal was a result of griev
ances and complaints made by house
keeping employees during the year,
Brittian said. Housekeepers are among
the University's lowest paid employ
ees, he said. Brittian said the lowest
University salary was $13,000 a year.
Hardin said Wednesday he had not
seen a copy of the letter.
Brittian called the training programs
now in place in the University "ran
dom" and said they did not meet the
See NAACP, page 7
Herbert Paul, Physical Plant direc
tor, said a group of housekeepers and
their supervisors met Monday to dis
cuss problems they face on the job.
The group consisted of Paul; Gene
Swecker, associate vice chancellor for
facilities management; Laurie Charest,
associate vice chancellor of human re
sources; Alan McSurely, the attorney
representing the housekeepers; and a
group of housekeepers.
"We did listen to what the employees
had to say and took into account the
state of their position," Paul said.
In the meeting Monday, housekeep
ers listed increased pay, better training
opportunities and a voice in manage
ment as items that needed to be ad
dressed by supervisors.
A group of about 30 housekeepers
filed a grievance in the spring protest
ing their low pay and lack of advance
ment opportunities. Some pursued the
grievance to Step 3 earlier this month. A
panel of University officials outside of
the housekeeping department will hear
the case at Step 3.
"Generally, we got a feeling of what
they were concerned about and we hope
to give them a positive solution in the
coming weeks," Paul said.
But Tinnen said the meeting was not
very productive. "For them to get the
understanding of our position, they
would have to see and live a day in our
See HOUSEKEEPERS, page 7
probably contributes some to the prob
lems. But then, too, the people who
cause problems aren't shelter people."
Moran stressed that, for the most
part, crimes were not committed by
people who stayed in the shelter.
"If it wasn't for the shelter, the prob
lems would be a lot worse," he said.
"The doors are locked at 8 (p.m.), and
we know who's in here."
People often unfairly blamed the shel
ter for increases in crime, Moran said.
"When people are scared about prob
lems, they're looking for scapegoats,"
he said. "The shelter is an easy target
sometimes because people don't under-
See EWELL, page 7