The Carolinian [September 15, 1977]

              The Carolinian
September 15, 1977 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Volume LVII Number 2
Crosby Rejects plan
BY CAROL A. EDDY
Staff Writer
"They're as prejudiced as the
devil."
This statement was made by
Kathleen Ross Crosby in a recent in-terview.
Mrs. Crosby is the newest
appointee of the North Carolina
University's Board of Governors.
Crosby cited a personal example
of prejudice, "We have a serious
problem because I was personally
treated like a welfare worker when I
went to UNC-G to take my
daughter for admissions. They
thought I was an indigent parent
and sent me over to get financial
aid."She said no one borthered to
ask her purpose for being at UNC-G.
Kathleen Crosby has filled the
position on the University of North
Carolina's Board of Governors that
was recently vacated by black civil
rights attorney Julius Chambers.
Crosby and Chambers, both of
Charlotte, have spoken with each
other about the position. Crosby in-sists
that they have not discussed
issues, but she does not preclude this
possibility.
The North Carolina university
system has been functioning under
the 1974 Revised State-Plan for the
Further Elimination of Racial
Duality. This plan was determined
to be inadequate by Judge Pratt last
April. HEW has outlined a list of
new guidelines for the universities.
Beliving these guidelines to be
detrimental, the University has
designed and approved State Plan
Phase II. Presently HEW is deter-mining
whether or not this plan will
eliminate racial duality in the
Universtiy system.
"One is a mandate and the other
one is a compromise," said Crosby,
refering to HEW's plan and the
Board's Phase II plan to further in-tegrate
the North Carolina Univer-sity
system.
Crosby proclaims that she is not
committed to either plan and that,
"the compromise will be when
peope get involved from a personal
stand point." She also believes that
if HEW decides to withdraw its $100
million in funding it will be a serious
detriment to the University system
Before being appointed to the
Board of Governors, Kathleen
Crosby was an Area Assistant
Superintendent in the Charlotte-
Mecklenburg School system.
Crosby, 52, was inducted into the
NAACP's Hall of Fame in 1975.
She has been the North Carolina
School of the Arts and Johnson C.
Smith College.
Crosby plans to participate in
tours of individual universities that
have been planned for members of
the Board of Governors. These will
allow her to view the structure and
physical plant of the schools.
Crosby believes that with today's
youg people a time will occur when
HEW intervention is unnecessary and
relates some advice for students.
"Any job you have, do it well. Put
your whole self in it. Take advan-tage
of ever campus opportunity
and learn."
President of SGA Gives Campus Address Carolina Street Scene in Winston Salem (seep. 5) • PIMM fc. Mr Minhl
BY TINE'JOHNSON
Managing Editor
UNC-G President of Student
Government, Randy Sides, stressed
community relations in his State of
the Campus Address Tuesday night.
"This campus, whether or not we
choose to accept the fact, is an ur-ban
campus," Sides stressed in his
half-hour-long address. "We are
located almost exactly in the
geopraphic center of Greensboro,
and with such a location must deal
with the day to day hassles of city
life as well as our endeavors on
campus," he continued.
"The city, on the other hand, has
a valuable resource. There are ar-tists
and musicians here and
availables through such University
enterprises such as the Concert/Lec-ture
series. There are open lectures,
sports, adult and weekend schools,
and manv more activities. If nothing
Randy Sides, President of Student Government
else, there are at least 10,000 poten-tial
customers for the Greensboro
Merchants.
"To be able to share with the city
requires cooperation, and
comunication is a prerequisite for
that. To this end, the Office for
Cummunity Relations has been
significantly restructured. Channels
of comunications have been set up
directly with the Public Information
Office of the City of Greensboro,
bi-weekly luncheons' planned with
the mayor and members of the
council, and attendance at every
Council meeting is planned.
"If we are to accept our position
as an urban campus, this necessarily
entails the responsibility for
providing input and assistance
where we deem feasible to the City
who is our host. There are some
very, definite ideas on this campus
with regards to housing, parking,
traffic control, street widening, and
the like; and we are not living up to
our responsibility be merely com-plaining
without communicating."
Sides, speaking confidently to the
Student Senate and gallery, said that
another situation that is certainly
important to the University concer-ns
the Health, Education, and
Welfare Department's guidelines
for desegregation of the entire
University System. This is not of an
immediate nature, since we will not
hear until January 5, 1978 whether
or not HEW accepted North
Carolina's plan for compliance, but
Beaten Women Offered AID
BY Jl I)Y LF.BOl I)
Staff Writer
Well-Known Joke: A man is
beating a woman in front of a bar.
A passerby yells to him, "Stop
beating that woman!" The man
shouts back, ' 'But she's my wife!''
' A lot of men think it's their right
to beat their wives," stated Julia
Nile, faculty member of UNC-G's
Sociology Department and a
spokesperson for Womans Aid, a
developing organization created to
help battered women. These same
men who believe that "You can do
with your wife as you like because
she's your property." Mrs. Nile
said, "haven't defined it (wife-beating)
as a problem."
Up until recently society has
ignored battered women and/or has
treated the issue as a private affair
which should not be interfered with
by outsiders. Mrs. Nile credits
society's growing interest and
changing attitudes toward wife
abuse to the women's movement,
and to the emphasis made on child
abuse. Mrs. Nik stated that the
woman's movement "made more
women aware of women's
problems" and the emphasis on
child abuse "exposed wife abuse"
by showing that both types of abuse
had the same kind of problems:
both are "domestic,...occur bet-ween
people who arc meant to be
warm and affectionate to each
other...and (both) occur in the
home." Society's open recognition
of wife abuse will "help people
realize (that) atrocities can go on in
the home as well as in the streets,"
said Mrs. Nile.
Through early stages of research,
social scientists now believe that
wife abuse is a "part of cycle of
violence" in which "abused women
most likely have been abused
children or have witnessed abuse
between parents." said Mrs. Nile.
The same factors are true for men
who abuse their wives. It is a cycle
of learning in which the child learns
to be abused and learns how to
abuse.
Another factor which causes wife
abuse is the traditional male and
female sex roles. Mrs. Nile stated
that many men think it is "a part of
their role...to be agressive toward
their wives," and many women
think it is their role to accept this
abuse. It is "an expression towards
dominant and suppressive roles."
said Mrs. Nile.
To try help alleviate the abuse
against women, a primary goal of
Women's Aid is to establish a tem-porary
emergency shelter for bat-tered
women and their children in
Guilford County. The shelter would
provide "rap groups where women
can get together "a talk about their
feelings." This would solve a main
problem for battered women:
isolation. Also the shelter would
give battered wives the time and
space they needed, but could not
have at home, to contact com-munity
services for help. "We
have services in the community for
battered women." Mrs. Nile said;
however, abused wives arc not con-tacting
these services in fear that
their husbands will find out.
While the shelter is still in the
planning stages (money must be
raised for it), Women's Aid will
have a hotline beginning October 1
"to channel women to services in
the community," said Mrs. Nile.
Besides these goals, Women's Aid
will also try to help prevent
domestic violence through programs
of education and training.
Both YWCA'S in Greensboro
and in High Point are involved with
the Women's Aid program. Mrs.
Nile stated that what first began as a
research project for Dr. Hyman
Rodman of the Child Development
and Family Relation Department
has "developed into a community
action project." The YWCA of
Greensboro has declared battered
women as "one of the Y's main
concerns for the years." Mrs. Nile
said.
Statistical data on wife abuse,
compiled by Women's Aid, states
that 28 per cent of all couples (13
million couples) in the United States
have had "at least one violent
episode in the course of their
marriage involving physical pain or
injury." In Greensboro in 1976,
police responded to over 9000
domestic calls Also, in 1976. over
542 cases of assault on a female
were reported. These statistics,
however, do not reveal the complete
story on battered women since many
women never call the police or tell
anyone that their husbands beat
them.
the final outcome of the situation
will affect everyone on this campus
and the others
"And there are still unresolved
questions as to the enrollment at
UNC-G. How big do we want to
become? How large can we afford
to get and still retain the quality of
our services and our education?
These are questions that require
thoughtful analysis on the part of
the students, faculty, and ad-ministration."
Enrollment this fall has increased
2.2 percent. The actual number of
students this semester is 9,950, as
compared to 9,733 last fall.
"The idea primarily is to keep the
lines open, at well as work on
problems that effect the city as
much if not more than they do us."
President Sides recognized the
parking situation on an off campus
as an "ongoing" one: "Although
the University continues to purchase
land for parking facilities, we seem
to be expanding the number of cars
faster than the number of parking
spaces. An equitable solution must
be reached, and soon. Solutions
proposed range from the erection of
a multi-level parking structure to a
stricter allowance of who can bring
cars on campus. Neither answer is
perfect, and you can expect to hear
about this problem for some time to
come."
Neither answer is perfect, and you
can expect to hear about this
problem for some time to come."
Sides said Student Government
will ot be sponsoring parties this
year. He said, "Student Gover-nment
is in the business of gover-ning
and representation, and to do
so effectively requires a dedicated
effort toward communication and
cooperation with all people in the
University Community."
TEL AVIV — A proposed peace
treaty was approved by the Israeli
cabinet Sunday. The proposals
are to be presented by Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan at the
U.S. mediated talks with Arab
statesmen in New York this week.
Prime Minister Menahem
Begin said the proposed treaty
would "terminate the state of
war" between Israel, and its
Arab neighbors, extend
diplomatic and trade ties and
establish open borders.
However, the proposals have
been criticized by officials of
Egypt's foreign ministry, saying
the proposed treaty ignores two
basic Arab demands; the right to
a homeland for refugees who fled
Plaestine after the Jewish state
was established in 1948 and with-drawal
of Israeli troops from
Arab territories occupied in the
1967 Mideast War.
WASHINGTON — The Inter-national
Monetary Fund said
Sunday the world economy is
characterized by high unem-ployment,
serious inflation in
many countries, and little
likelihood of rapid improvement.
The annual report of the IMF
said industrial nations were ex-periencing
the near peak levels of
unemployment of the 1874-75
recession during the first part of
thjs year.
The description by the 32-year-old
firm is the gloomiest in a
series of anayses by economic in-stitutions
in recent months.
While progress in economic
improvements has been slow in
most countries, the IMF report
said a gradual approach is
probably the only way to proceed
without worsening the problems.
LONDON — Eighty per cent
of the bread supply for England
and Wales has been cut off since
Saturday as the result of a strike
by the Baker's Federation.
The strike includes 57,000
members of the Bakery, Food
and Allied Works Union. The
union is demanding pay for thse
who do not work on public
holidays, in line with the practice
of other industries.
NEW YORK — Industry and
government sources said the
present world-wide surplus of oil
will probably continue through
this winter as news of price
shaving began leaking out of the
Middle East last week.
This surplus should help keep a
lid on petroleum product prices
throughout this period.
Basically, the oil companies
have simply miscalculated.
During the past year, oil produc-tion
has increased, yet demand
has not kept pace.
A new trial for Governor
James A. Rhodes, siate officials
and National Guardsman was
ordered by the 6th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals Monday,
stemming from the 1970
shootings at Kent State Univer-sity
where four students died.
The court overturned an earlier
ruling because one juror had been
"threatened and assaulted during
the trial by a person interested in
its outcome."
The defendants who had been
cleared of financial liability in the
previous trials are now being sued
for S46 million.
Parking Loss Causes Squeeze
BY RICHARD HODGES
With the loss of sixty-five spaces this
year parking at UNG-G continues to
be a problem. Cars are towed in
daily and hundreds of tickets are
issued for parking violations.
Though the problem is bad, no
immediate relief is expected- by
UNC-G parking officials.
According to Henry Ferguson.
Vice Chancellor for Business Af-fairs',
no plans have been made for
large-scale parking renovation this
year. Mr. Ferguson explained that
the unversity is given no ap-propriation
for parking by the
legislature. As a consequence, a
large project such as a parking deck
would be too expensive. The
estimated cost of a deck is four
thousand dollars per space. This
would require a minimum charge of
two hundred dollars a year per space
to pay for the project.
The most promising plan for
parking renovation is expected to
get underway in the next five years
In that period the City of Green-sboro
have tenatively planned
widening Aycock Street between
Walker Avenue and Spring Garden
Street. If this plan is carried out. a
large area might be made available
for university .parking This area
could hold a projected four-hundred
spaces.
More immediate solutions to the
parking problem are the construc-tion
of a new parking loi and the
planning of a shuttle bus system.
The new lot, on the corner of
Oakland and Kenilsvorth Streets, is
being built on land purchased last
spring. The lot has 15 spaces com-pleted
with an estimated seventy
total when the loi is finished