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Volume 100, Issue 106
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By Thanassis Cambanis
Staff Writer
: Members of Sangam, the campus
Asian-Indian student organization, are
pushing for the addition of a Hindi
language course to the University cur
riculum. ; RupaKothandapani, co-chairwoman
of Sangam's committee for academic
affairs, said the group had sent 75 letters
to members of the UNC faculty and
administration last week explaining the
need for the class on campus.
The letters already have garnered
four responses from faculty members
expressing their support for the class,
Kothandapani said.
; Sangam members also are circulat
ing 50 petitions around campus. Mem
bers carry the petitions around to all
their classes and various student activi
ties, she said.
"I'm expecting at least 1,000 signa
tures by the end of the year,"
Kothandapani said.
: The group also is searching for a way
to pay for a new instructor.
; "We are trying to find funding be
Chancellor Paull Hardin helps
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Big Al brings smiles,
colors to Union walls
By Brad Short
Staff Writer
Students walking through the Union
Auditorium lobby this week have no
ticed something different a multi
colored mural along with paint sup
plies and, surrounded by a throng of
happy painters, "Big Al" Carter.
Carter, a nationally-renowned art
ist, has spent the past week painting a
20-feet long, eight-feet high mural in
commemoration of the University's
bicentennial.
The mural depicts African story
tellers and scenes from the University
and surrounding community.
'The painting represents the Uni
versity as a whole," Carter said.
Carter is being assisted in his ef
forts by approximately 20 UNC art
students, who are volunteering their
time to the project, and by a variety of
Students, staff and faculty members
and administrators who have stopped
by to lend a brush.
Fletcher Wilson, a junior from
Morganton, said working with "Big
Al" on the project had been very enter
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am campaigns
cause obviously there's no money
around to hire a new teacher,"
Kothandapani said.
She said there already was one pro
fessor on campus qualified to teach
Hindi and suggested that a teaching
assistant already on the University pay
roll also might be able to teach the
course.
Joanne Waghorne, a religious stud
ies professor whose specialty is modem
Hinduism, said that in addition to finan
cial constraints, it was very difficult to
find a teacher qualified to teach the
Hindi language.
"Just because someone is a Hindi
speaker does not necessarily mean he
can teach Hindi," she said.
Until recently, Waghorne said, there
was not even a department on campus
properly designated to hire a teacher
versed in Hindi.
"It has not been a reluctance against
Hindi but a problem about what to do
with non-western languages on this cam
pus," Waghorne said.
More than 250 million people speak
Hindi, making it one of the world's
most widely spoken languages. The four
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paint the Bicentennial mural
taining. Wilson also is a member of
the Student Bicentennial Observance
Committee, which has helped orga
nize the mural painting.
Joan Blanchard, who is respon
sible for publicity and promotions at
UNC, said Carter was selected on
recommendations from many North
Carolina curators and art directors.
"He is recognized nationally for
his work," she said.
Carter is known as a "gentle giant"
because of his size and ability to work
with young people. He was born in
Washington, DC., in 1947 and cur
rently lives in Fredricksburg. Va.
He received his Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree from Columbus College
of Art and Design and completed his
graduate studies at American Univer
sity in Washington, D.C.
Carter said he currently was em
ployed as a school teacher in Arling
ton, Va. He teaches 11th and 12th
grades at an alternative school.
When asked how he got away from
his job there to come spend a week at
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Serving the students and the
most widely spoken languages are, in
order, Chinese, English, Spanish and
Hindi, said Sandy Cash, a linguistics
graduate student and co-chairman of
Sangam's academic affairs committee.
Mona Doshi, Sangam treasurer, said
she thought there would be high de
mand for the course.
"Right now (the University) offers
Japanese, and people are taking it,"
Doshi said. "I don't think there will be
a problem getting (a Hindi course)
filled."
Waghorne said the Hindi course
would have multiple uses.
"It can serve the Indian-American
student community," she said. "Many
first- or second-generation Indian
Americans speak Hindi at home but
cannot read or write it."
Hindi the predominant language of
India, also holds importance for those
interested in conducting business in that
country, Waghorne said. "India is very
fast becoming an industrial country, a
place the U.S. will have increasing busi
ness relations with," she said.
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BAG parents get
By James Lewis
Staff Writer
The parents of two students involved
in the movement for a free-standing
black cultural center haverecei ved calls
from anonymous persons voicing con
cern about their children's involvement
in the issue.
The phone calls were placed "in the
midst of the heat of things" said Tim
Smith, a leader of the Black Awareness
Council whose parents received several
of the anonymous calls.
Jimmy Hitchcock, another BAC
member, also said his parents had re
ceived calls.
The BAC, which Hitchcock and
Smith helped found, has become a key
player in the BCC movement.
Prior to Chancellor Paul Hardin and
the BCC working group's endorsement
of a free-standing center, BAC mem
bers had threatened "direct action" un
less Hardin endorsed the proposed free
standing black cultural center by last
Friday. Hardin gave his support for the
center on Oct. 15, after which BAC
members rescinded the deadline.
"My parents have received a couple
of phone calls from people expressing
their concern about my involvement in
the BCC issue," Smith said.
Bernholz contender
for open court seat
By Donna van der Dijs
Staff Writer
Although Dorothy Bernholz hasn't
been contacted by Governor-elect Jim
Hunt officially, there has been specula
tion that she might be acandidate for the
N.C. Court of Appeals.
According to a recent report by The
(Raleigh) News & Observer. Bernholz,
a General College adviser and head of
Carolina Student Legal Services, is
among a handful of leading candidates
for a seat on the N.C. Court of Appeals.
The first time Bernholz heard about
the whole issue was last week after a
reporter of The N&O cal led her about it.
According to the report, Bernholz's
name had surfaced as a possible candi
date for the position, which will be
vacated after Hunt takes office in Janu
ary by Sarah Parker.
Parker recently won a spot on the
N.C. Supreme Court.
But just because the position for
merly was occupied by a female law
yer, another female lawyer won't nec
essarily be appointed, Bernholz said.
"I would be honored to be considered
as a candidate for the opening," she
said.
"Obviously I would consider the job,
if the governor's office calls me."
But it still is very early for the governor-elect
to be contacting possible can
didates, she said.
Rachel Perry, spokeswoman for the
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Smith said the callers did not threaten
him or his parents. "They were more
along the lines of trying to scare (my
mother) into stopping me from what I
was doing," he said.
Smith said he and his family were not
concerned with the calls, and they had
not filed a complaint with the authori
ties. "They were just expressing their
views," he said. "(My mother) didn't
want me to be concerned about it."
Hitchcock said the callers did not
reveal their identity to his parents. He
declined further comment on the calls.
"I'd rather not talk about it," he said.
Harry Amana, an associate professor
of journalism and the chairman of the
BCC Advisory Board, said Wednesday
that he had been unaware of the inci
dents. "It doesn't surprise me," Amana said.
He said similar tactics had been em
ployed against student movements dur
ing the 1960s. He said he currently was
analyzing FBI documents from the
1960s in which federal officials de
scribed this tactic.
"It is used to neutralize students by
making their parents control them," he
said.
Trisha Merchant, a member of the
BCC Advisory Board, said she was
governor-elect,
said Hunt and his
advisers had not
yet compiled a list
of possible re
placements for
Parker.
"(Hunt) hasn't
had a chance to
look into that yet,"
she said.
At the moment,
the focus is on put
Dorothy Bernholz
ting together Hunt's cabinet, not on
other state appointments, she said.
Bernholz has been working at Stu
dent Legal Services, a non-profit Uni
versity agency that provides legal ad
vice to students, since 1975.
Bernholz said she liked the excite
ment of working on a wide range of
legal problems and having the chance to
work with a variety people.
"I would enjoy the work (in the Court
of Appeals) but would miss working
with students," she said.
One reason Bernholz believes she is
being considered as a possible candi
date is because she is active in politics
on a statewide level, she said.
There also are not that many female
lawyers in the state, she said.
Bernholz helped her husband, Chapel
Hill attorney Stephen Bernholz, in his
unsuccessful campaign for the Demo
cratic nomination for the N.C. Court of
Appeals last spring.
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McCormick: New BCC planning
going slowly but in right direction
By Anna Griffin
University Editor
Despite the lack of media hype that
? characterized much of the discussion
i this year, planning for a free-standing
; black cultural center has continued in
i- recent weeks with special attention
; being paid to what the new center will
include.
Although the BCC working group
did not meet this week, members of
s the chancellor's blue-ribbon panel
i have been meeting regularly with
i? members of the BCC Advisory Board
to discuss planning and programming
of the proposed center.
Discussion on what the new center
will house has included a possible
new home for academic programs re
lating to black history and culture.
"There are also other meetings go
aware of the two incidents but was not
concerned about the calls.
"I would not be worried by anything
like that anyway," she said. "I don't
Airport key to A II EC
success, officials say
By Suzanne Wuelftng
Staff Writer
Spokesmen for the N.C. Area
Health Education Centers said at a
discussion Wednesday that access to
the University-owned Horace Will
iams Airport was necessary for the
program's continued success, but oth
ers questioned the necessity.
The meeting was the second of three
preliminary sessions designed to al
low several concerned groups to dis
cuss their conflicting views of the
future of the airport.
Among those attending the meet
ing were representatives of AHEC,
the University, the Chapel Hill Flying
Club, Friends of Horace Williams
Airport, Stop the County Regional
Airport Plan, Citizens for Airport Plan
ning and officials from Chapel Hill,
from Carrboro and from Orange
County.
"We are carrying out the mandate
the University first gave us," said John
Payne, AHEC deputy director for ad
ministration. The AHEC mandate in
cludes providing health care to rural
areas in the state, continuing educa
tion programs and consultation clin
ics, he said.
"Without access to the airport, we'll
lose efficiency, time, money or all of
the above," Payne said,
Transporting the University's doc
tors and other AHEC participants by
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event, meant to increase awareness of Korean
traditional food and cultural demonstrations.
ing on now with representatives of ,;
various units on campus that conceiv
ably might be located in BCC,"
McCormick said, declining to name
the groups that had been contacted.
"We're talking about campus aca
demic units that have a distinct pro- :
grammatic mission with BCC."
BCC supporters have discussed j
housing the African and Afro-American
studies programs in the new cen
ter. University officials still are dis
cussing various ways of funding the ;
proposed center.
Although Dcloris Jordan, mother
of former UNCbaskctballsiarMichacl
Jordan, has said the Michael Jordan
Foundation could help with construc
tion costs, there have been no formal
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really see this as an issue right now."
Provost Richard McCormick said he
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plane saves time, he said, adding a trip
from Chapel Hill to Asheville and
back again was five hours shorter by
plane than by car.
Payne said it would take more time
for AHEC to fly out of Raleigh
Durham International Airport because
of the 35- to 45-minute trip from cam
pus to the airport and the average 10
minute delay before takeoff.
AHEC temporarily used RDU in
1989, resulting in an increase in the
amount of time and money spent on
transportation, Payne said.
Ninety percent of the medical fac
ulty participating in AHEC said they
preferred using Horace Williams Air
port instead of RDU, and 75 percent
said they would not use RDU on a
regular basis, according to a survey
conducted bv AHEC.
But Madeline Levinc of SCRAP
said doctors would not stop partici
pating in AHEC programs because of
any inconvenience caused by not be
ing able to use Horace Williams Air
port. Payne said AHEC was using tele
conferences to cut down on flight
expenses.
"As those technologies develop,
we'll be using them more," he said.
Levine, who also is a professor at
the University, said she believed some
ofhercolleagueswerecatching flights
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