2The Daily Tar HeelThursday, July 2, 1992
Commissions to decide future of open-space bonds
By Jennifer Friedman
Suff Writer
Chapel Hill town officials say they
are divided over how to spend $900,000
in bonds set aside for improving recre
ational facilities or purchasing open
space.
The bonds were approved in a spring
1989 referendum. Approximately $1
million remains of the $5 million origi
nally set aside.
Decision
week.
"It isan initial victory forcivil rights,"
said UNC-CH journalism professor
Chuck Stone, who was a crucial figure
in the national civil rights movement.
"The black schools get such a low share.
The court is saying you must equalize
the allocation of funds for blacks and
whites. Long range, it could mean the
disillusionment of more historically
black colleges and universities."
Stone noted that many predom inantly
black schools were successful in their
educational missions, citing NCCU's
BCC
advocates asking for private donations,"
he said. "We are setting up a foundation
to collect donations from members of
the community."
The foundation will focus its efforts
on black UNC alumni, athletes and par
ents as sources of donations, McNair
said.
Student Congress Speaker Jennifer
Lloyd said she didn't think the issue
would even show up on the ballot. Two
thirds of Congress or 10 percent of the
student body must support holding a
referendum for the issue to be placed on
the ballot.
"I will be very surprised if an issue
like this would even become a referen
dum," Lloyd said. "The issue is going to
be a tax on every student in the Univer-
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Members of the Chapel Hill Town
Council have discussed whether the
money originally was intended only for
'buying open space or whether it also
included funds for recreational facili
ties. 'There's sort of a debate that's been
going on," said council member Mark
Chilton. "A lot of people felt that the
money was going to be used to protect
open space. The way the bond referen
dum was written, the money could also
nationally renowned law school. Na
tionally, Florida A&M, another histori
cally black school, enrolls the second
highest number of black National Merit
scholars, behind Harvard, Stone added.
The court's decision could force
UNC-system officials to make some
tough decisions, said UNC-CH Provost
Richard McCormick, whojust finished
his first month in office. "It clearly
presents a dilemma here," he said.
McCormick said the predominantly
black schools could attract qualified
black applicants away from the pre-
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sity, and fee increases usually don't
make it out of Student Congress."
McNair said he advocated raising
private funds for the BCC building.
"I want the bulk of the money from
the people who want this," he said. "We
have enough potential seed money, we
just need the space."
Hardin said he hoped the BCC ex
pansion would be "funded part by gifts,
and part by student fees."
On raising the money privately,
Hardin said, "I don't think it is possible,
and the trustees won't approve it."
The issue of a free-standing BCC
was a hot one on campus during the
spring when students first publicly pro
tested Hardin's stance.
Displaying a banner with the words
"Hardin's Plantation," students con
fronted the chancellor March 17 on the
steps of South Building. During the
debate, Hardin refused to yield to the
groups demands that he support a free
standing center and that he provide funds
for an endowed professorship in the
name of the late Sonja Stone.
At a rally March 12 at South Build
ing, about ISO students criticized
Hardin's inaction on the BCC and the
endowed professorship, and bashed the
administration's treatment of campus
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be spent on (recreational facilities)."
Chilton said he had tried to find a
compromise solution to thecontroversy.
"I'm of the opinion that we can spend
some of this money for recreational
fields but that the primary purpose was
to protect open space," he said.
The council asked the Parks and Rec
reation Commission and the Greenways
Commission to recommend how the
money should be spent, officials said.
The two commissions plan to form a
dominantly white schools, like UNC
CH and N.C. State. But majority black
schools are important socially and help
guarantee more equal access within the
system, he added.
N.C. A&T Chancellor Edward Fort
said the UNC system would not choose
to eliminate its predominantly black
schools after pouring millions of dol
lars into increasing their quality. N.C.
A&T recently opened a$9million engi
neering building and a $16 million li
brary. Fort said, adding that the univer
sity was planning to implement doc
toral programs in mechanical and elec
trical engineering.
Majority black schools serve an im
portant purpose nationally and do not
hurt majority white schools' attempts to
attract blacks. Fort said. Leaders such
as Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood
Marshall held degrees from predomi
nantly black schools.
"They chose to attend black col leges,"
he said. "As a result, they made a name
for themselves internationally."
Winston-Salem State Chancellor
Cleon Thompson said the number of
people desiring higher education in
North Carolina may eliminate the need
to reduce the number of schools in the
UNC system. "The time might come,
but I don't see the need now."
N.C, Miss, admission policies differ
In hismajority decision. Justice White
also concluded that Mississippi's ad
mission policies exist primarily to ex
clude blacks.
Mississippi residents who score cer
tain levels on the American College
Testing Program (ACT) gain immedi
ate acceptance into schools in the Mis
sissippi system. For example, the mini
mum score for automatic entrance into
Mississippi University for Women
(MUW) is 18, while it is 13 for the
historically black colleges.
"Yet MUW is assigned the same
institutional mission as two other re
gional universities, Alcom State and
Mississippi Valley that of providing
quality undergraduate education,"
White said.
"The effects of this policy fall dis
proportionately on black students who
might wish to attend MUW," he contin
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joint committee to make recommenda
tions, said Mike Loveman, director of
the Parks and Recreation Department.
Loveman said the town should use
the money for expanding its athletic
facilities. "We have waiting lists for a
number of programs," Loveman said.
The Greenways Commission's pri
orities differ somewhat, centering on
renovation of existing facilities and the
augmentation of development,
Loveman said.
ued. The court suggested the colleges
also consider prospective students' high
school records.
White said Mississippi's race-neutral
admissions policies did not do
enough to integrate the schools. By the
mid-1980s, more than 99 percent of the
state's white students were enrolled at
Mississippi's five white schools, whose
student bodies averaged between 80
and 91 percent white students.
According to a report from the UNC
system detailing Fall 1991 enrollment
figures, out of the total number of stu
dents attending the system's two largest
majority white schools UNC-CH
and N.C. State about 8.5 percent
were black, similar to the numbers at
Mississippi's largest schools in the mid
1980s. Overall, the average number of black
students at the UNC system's predomi
nantly white schools in Fall 1991 to
taled about 7.4 percent of the enroll
ment, according to statistics in the re
port entitled "Statistical Abstract of
Higher Education in North Carolina
1991-92."
Meanwhile, the average number of
white students at predominantly black
schools in the UNC system totaled about
20.2 percent of the Fall 1991 enroll
ment. Despite the statistics showing little
integration in the majority white schools,
officials inNorthCarolinasaid the UNC
system's admission requirements were
not discriminatory.
"They weren't dealing with the num
bers as much as they were the policies,"
UNC Vice President Little said.
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But council member Julie Andresen
said the available money could not cover
the needs of both commissions. "We're
facing a tough budget year ... and a
growing population," she said.
Council member Joe Herzenberg said
the town council could only wait for the
commissions' recommendations. "I
have my personal feelings (about where
the money should go), but what the
council is doing is waiting," he said.
"One thing we're very short of is
Andrew Vanore, the state's chief
deputy attorney general, said: "There is
simply no similarity in North Carolina's
situation and Mississippi's situation,
except North Carolina, like Mississippi,
used to require segregation in its schools.
The similarity ends there.
"North Carolina, unlike Mississippi,
has never required a particular score on
the SAT or ACT."
Fort, the N.C. A&T chancellor, said
the Supreme Court's decision should
not affect the UNC system's present
admission standards. A 1981 consent
decree that set overall integration goals
for each campus showed a commitment
to equalization in this state, Fort said.
"If Mississippi had devoted itself to
Racial Composition of Enrollment for
N.C. Colleges, Fall 1991
SOURCE: UNC System Statistical Abstract of Higher AMER. OTHER
Educatton-i99t-92 BLACK WHITE INDIAN RACES TOTAL
SCHOOL TOTAL Total TOTAL KTotal TOTAL KTotal TOTAL KTotal
Appalachian . . 467 4.1 I 10,705 94.2 27 0.2 168 1.5 I 11,367
East Carolina 1,508 9.0 14,682 88.0 77 0.5 423 2.5 16,690
Elizabeth City 1,327 74.9 419 23.6 4 0.2 23 1.3 1,773
Fayetteville 2.357 63.1 1,228 32.9 41 1.1 110 2.9 3,736
N.C. A 4 T 6,097 85.6 834 11.7 19 0.3 169 2.4 7,119
N.C. Central 4,487 83.3 801 14.9 19 0.4 78 1.4 5,385
N.C. School of Arts 35 6.9 423 83.3 1 0.2 49 9.6 508
N.C. State 2,380 8.7 22,546 82.8 114 0.4 2,196 8.1 27,236
Pembroke 320 10.9 1,878 63.8 691 23.5 55 1.8 2,944
UNC-Asheville 97 3.0 3,040 94.3 10 0.3 78 2.4 3,225
UNC-CHAPELHIU. 2,010 8.5 19,737 83.7 142 0.6 1,703 7.2 23,592
UNCCharlotte 1,680 11.2 12,394 82.3 95 0.6 889 5.9 15,058
UNC-Greensboro 1,195 10.3 10,016 86.0 39 0.3 398 3.4 11,648
LlNC-Witmington 461 5.7 7,448 92.1 28 0.3 153 1.9 8,090
Western Carolina 229 3.6 5,901 92.6 109 1.7 133 2.1 6,372
Winston-Salem 2,106 80.9 468 18.0 5 0,2 25 0.9 2,604
UNC TOTAL 26.756 18.2 1112.520 76.3 1 1.421 1.0 1 6.650 4.S I 147.347
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so I hope the councils will address those
needs," Herzenberg said. "We also need
to pave the parking lot at Cedar Falls."
The original bond proposal was sub
mitted by the late former Mayor Jimmy
Wallace. "The idea was that if we bought
the land now, it would be less expensive
to develop parks or space open to the
public in the future," Chilton said. "I
think it was tremendous foresight that
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the same commitment, it m ight not have
the problems with the court," Fort said.
The UNC-system decree stated that
overall black enrollment at mostly white
schools should total about 1 0 percent by
the end of the 1 980s, while white enroll
ment at the majority black schools
should be about 15 percent.
Thompson said the UNC system's
attempts at integral ion have proven suc
cessful. "As for the enhancement of programs
... the amount of money put into univer
sities in past several years have been
significantly increased," Thompson
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