The Carolinian [September 13, 1983]

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Today's
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EditorUU Pag* 2
Sporti Page 4
Arli and Feature! Page 5
Etceterai Page f
The Other Side Of The 007 Incident Page 2
Netten Expecting Tough Seaaon .... Page 4
CPPC Page 5
Spartans Win
Remain Undefeated
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Weatherspoon Gallery
Begins Exhibition
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Students donated blood Monday for Red Cross Bloodmobile. Bloodmobile will be open from 10 am to 9 pm in
Cone Ballroom today.
SCCA To Sponsor Actions
For Peace In Central America
Tnm Surf Rtporti
Thursday is National Day of Ac-tion
for Peace in Nicaragua and
Central America. Students Con-cerned
for Central America (SCCA)
has two activities scheduled on cam-pus.
The first event will be a peace
rally in the "L" of EUC, beginning
at 12:30 pm, with a program of
music and speakers, including
Father Henry Atkins, Episcopal
chaplain of St. Mary's House, Pro-fessors
Charles Tisdale and Linda
Bragg of the English Department.
The rally will be followed by a
slide show, "Inside Nicaragua:
Myth v. Reality" beginning at 7:30
pm in the Alexander Room of EUC.
In April Homer Yost, coordinator of
SCCA, traveled to Nicaragua along
with 28 other North Carolinians
representing 12 religious denomina-tions
on a fact-finding tour spon-sored
by the Carolina Interfaith
Task Force on Central America
(CITCA). Included in the group's
agenda was a trip to the Nicaraguan
border with Honduras (which is a
war zone), meetings with the top
leadership of the Nicaraguan
government, editors of the opposi-tion
press, and the U.S. Am-bassador
to Nicaragua. Yost's slide
show documents these and many
other, experiences of the CITCA
tour group.
SCCA and Campus Ministry
began their fall programs of ac-tivities
last Friday with a showing
of the film "Missing," directed by
Costa-Gavras and starring Jack
Lemmon and Sissy Spacek. "Miss-ing"
is based on the true story of
Charles Horman, a young American
who was assassinated by the
Chilean military in 1973.
More than 70 of the 110 students
who watched the movie stayed for
a lengthy discussion of the crisis in
Chile and its relation to the present
crisis in Central America.
Members of SCCA state that
Thursday's activities are in
response to continued U.S. military
escalation in Nicaragua and
throughout Centra] America. "The
Reagan Administration continues
its covert war against the San-dinista
government in Nicaragua,
using CIA funds to train and arm
the Nicaragua 'contras' (Somoza's
former National Guardsmen and
others opposed to the new govern-ment)
who attack Nicaragua from
Honduras and Costa Rica," said
Yost.
In August Reagan announced the
deployment of military maneuvers
in Central America, which involves
19 U.S. ships and 16.000 U.S.
military personnel. The USS
Ranger alone carries 70 warplanes
and the USS New Jersey is armed
with 18-inch guns and two types of
cruise missiles. The military
maneuvers are expected to last six
months.
July 26th President Reagan an-nounced
at a press conference that
the military maneuvers are routine.
In a local press conference the
following day members of local
solidarity groups including SCCA
opposed the U.S. maneuvers as a
continued threat against the people
of Nicaragua and increased U.S.
military intervention in El
Salvador. The local leaders also op-posed
Reagan's appointment of
Henry Kissinger to head his newly
formed Advisory Panel on Central
America, stating that the former
Secretary of State, under President
Nixon, masterminded the over-throw
of the democratic govern-ment
of Salvador Allende in 1973.
Congressional hearings in the late
1970's revealed CIA and US
military complicity with the Chilean
Armed Forces under the direction
of Henry Kissinger.
In other related events,
Guatemalan dictator Rioss Montt
was ousted in a military coup on
August 8, replaced by Gen. Oscar
Humbert© Mejia Victores. The new
ruler quickly denounced the
Nicaraguan government and made
a military pact with El Salvador,
agreeing to use Guatemalan
counterinsurgency experts to train
Salvadoran soldiers at bases in
Guatemala.
In El'Salvador, the opposition
army FMLN led an attack on San
Miguel, the nation's third largest
city. Right-wing death squads
responded by bombing the homes of
Jesuit priests in San Salvador.
For The Health Of Others
Dedicated Nurses Search For Willing Donors
BY SANDY ALVIS
AuUuat Niw, Kdn„r
The Bloodmobile arrived Monday
to the UNC-G campus bringing with
it a band of dedicated nurses in
search of willing donors.
Dana Gordon. Assistant Director
of Blood Services, urges students to
donate blood any time between
10:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. today. Ms.
Gordon, who has worked with the
Bloodmobile for seven years at
UNC-G, expects some 150 people
per day to visit Cone ballroom in
EUC. Ms. Gordon explains that this
is a very simple procedure that lasts
approximately 45 minutes.
Students must be between ages 17
to 66, weigh at least 110 pounds,
and be in relatively good health. Of
course anyone who is sick or has a
fever should wait until next time to
donate.
In return for their generous dona-tion
students receive a "mini-physical"
that consists of a
temperature and blood pressure
check, and blood type is determin-ed.
Students will also receive
cookies and a drink following the
procedure.
All of the people involved are
volunteers except for the nurses
who actually take the blood.
Students can be sure of very profes-sional
service.
APO and Gamma Sigma Sigma,
service organizations, are also
volunteering their services. Gamma
Sig president, Sandra Hunter
believes that this is an "excellent
opportunity for students to do
something good for their
community."
Ms. Gordon advises students to
eat well before they give blood.
Veteran donors should come equip-ped
with their cards and anyone
under 17 should bring some proof of
age. In order to avoid waiting, the
best time to come is before 3:00.
The Bloodmobile's last day on
campus is today, but they will
return in January for those in-terested
in donating again.
Students' Scores Improving
Black students' scores on stan-dardized
tests are rising, and the
gap between black and white
students' scores will continue to
close at least through the end of the
decade, a new study says.
The study of National Assess-ment
of Education Progress
(NAEP) test scores-the test is
given annually to a nationwide sam-ple
of students aged nine, 13 and
17—shows "very clear evidence"
that black students are much closer
to white students in bask skills than
in earlier generations, says Univer-sity
of North Carolina psychology
Professor Lyle Jones, who directed
the study.
Black students' most striking im-provement
came in the verbal skills
portion of the test, Jones says.
In 1969, black students' verbal
scores averaged 20 points lower
than their white classmates'. This
year the gap has been halved to 10
points.
The trend coincides with a steady
six-year improvement in Scholastic
Aptitude Test (SAT) scores for
blacks and other minority students.
Last fall the College Board, which
administers the SATs, reported
black Btudent test scores were
largely responsible for the first
overall rise in SAT scores since
1963.
Jones says the closing of the gap
"is certainly not due to any one
Crenshaw To Appear
Aycock Auditorium will be
rocking tonight when Marshall
Crenshaw takes the stage for the
first UNC-G concert of the
1983-84 school year.
Crenshaw is new in the music
scene, but his career has been
climb-ing
following the success of his
fiTBt two albums. "Marshal Cren-shaw,"
and "Field Day."
Although his music has been
labeled as new wave, he follows
traditional rock and roll styles.
Along with Chris Donate on bass
and brother Robert on drums,
Marshall's music has been
described as classic 60's-based
pop. His sound has been com-pared
favorably to the Beatles,
Buddy Holly, Paul McCartney
and a host of other pop-rock
legends.
In 1982, Crenshaw's debut
album made Billboard's top 100
album chart for weeks, and his
first single, "Someday,
Someway," made the top 40 hit
list. The success of the album
convinced Rolling Stone
magazine to select him as "Best
New Artist of 1982."
Crenshaw's current album,
"Field Day," is on the Billboard
Top 40 Album Chart. His single
"Whenever You're On My Mind"
is not only a top 40 hit, but also
a video hit on MTV. Crenshaw
also wrote and sung the single
"Rock On" for the "Superman
III" soundtrack.
Before playing rock and roll in
concert, Crenshaw was playing
rock and roll on Broadway. Ear-ly
in his career, Crenshaw played
the part of John Lennon in the
Broadway production of
"Beatle mania."
The opening act for tonight's
See Cretuhaw Page 4
Senate Holds First Session of School Year
BY LEIGH TRAPP
Staff WrtUr
The 1983-1984 Student Govern-ment
Senate met last Tuesday night
with newly-elected S.G. Vice-
President Tom Franklin presiding.
Several issues were discussed and
approved, including appropriations
of $5,500 for Job Location and
Development (JLD), and another
$1,346.70 for the student escort ser-vice.
Other business included
reports from the senate committees
and the approval of a change in
House Rules.
Ms. Nolan, JLD's director came
to the meeting to speak on behalf of
JLD to support Senate's increase in
financial appropriations for the
organization. This year Senate ap-proved
a budget with an increase
over last year's appropriation of
SI ,000. This increase will be used to
pay for a part-time clerk/typist and
a micro-computer. Job Location and
Development is the campus
organization that places students in
partyfull time jobs in the Greensboro
area. This service is free to all
students enrolled at UNC-G.
Senate also appropriated money
to the student escort service with a
temporary budget set at approx-imately
$1,300. At the closing of
spring semester. Senate ap-propriated
enough for two escorts
and one dispatcher Sunday-
Thursday through the summer ses-sion.
However, due to a managerial
decision (from an undetermined
source), the service increased its
staff by one extra person Friday
through Saturday. It also decided to
run seven days a week. Thus, SES
started off the fall semester with no
money. Therefore, Senate agreed
Tuesday to give SES a temporary
budget that will take SES through
October 15th; when it will be
reviewed to determine a permanent
budget for the remaining period of
the semester. This temporary
budget provides for three workers
Friday and Saturday.
Money was also appropriated for
the Association for Computing
Machinery which was raogruzed as
a Type IV organization in the spring
of 1983. The organization was ap-propriated
$71 for two speakers; to
come to speak at their fall
ceremonies for the club.
In other business, Senate commit-tees
gave their reports for the
beginning of the year. Buck
Buchanan, chairman of the Election
Board, reminded Senators that
Town Student Senator elections
will be held today (Sept. 13) through
Wednesday, Sept. 14th from 9 a.m.
to 6 p.m. As of the Senate meeting,
Buchanan said there had been 24
nominations for the 20-30 vacan-cies.
He encouraged all commuters
to participate in these elections.
Senate also approved one change
in this year's House Rules. The divi-sion
of time allotted for speakers
from the Gallery has been changed
from fifteen minutes to twenty
minutes as the maximum fine for
open forum. Aa stated in the rules,
". . . ■peaking time will then be
divided among the participants.
Maximum time for each individual
shall be three minutes... a total of
two minutes shall be allocated for
questions and answers."
The next Senate meeting will be
held Tuesday, September 13, at 7
p.m. in the Alexander room of
EUC.
thing." He attributes it instead to
the panoply of social and political
changes of the last two decades.
"Twenty years ago there was
very little association among whites
and blacks," he notes.
Jones expects standardised test
scores for black students to con-tinue
upward at least through the
eighties, especially on the SAT.
"The nine-to-13 age bracket,
which scored higher on the NAEP
this year, will be the one taking the
SAT in nature years," he says. "I
feel quite confident in predicting an
improvement when those black
students take the SAT at age 17 or
18.
Campus
Shorts
University of PA banished
Fraternity, Alpha Tau Omega,
has convinced an appeals court
that they should be allowed to
move back into their house pen-ding
their appeal on gang rape
charges.
The Fraternity allegedly
repeatedly raped a female guest
at one of their parties, and the
woman pressed charges shortly
thereafter.
Although earlier speculation
figured the enrollment to well ex-ceed
10,000 at UNC-G, it seems
as though preliminary talking
has found that 9,910 students
have enrolled for the fall
semester.
Of the 9,910 students enrolled,
7,339 are undergraduates, and
2,571 are at the graduate leve.
These figures show that there is
a rise in outof-state students,
1,267 this fall as compared to
1,153 a year ago.
UNC-G escort service begins
its second year of operations
with new funding from Student
Senate, and plans to function
seven nights a wek. The
operating hours for this year are
as follows: seven days a week the
escorts will be on call from 8:00
p.m. until 12:00 a.m. This year,
the escorts have radios, and all
personel are trained in first aid
as well as self-defense. The
phone number for the escort ser-vice
is 379-5919.