The Carolinian [December 13, 1983]

              Treasure
Island: A
Lively
Performance
Page 4
Good Luck
On Finals!
The Carolinian wishes the UNC-G
community a Very Merry
Christmas and a Happy New
Year!
A Semester's
Sports
Summary
See Pages 6 & 7
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Sounds of the Season ... On Sunday, December 11, the University Chorale, the
University Women's Choir and the Men's Glee Club and Symphonic Chorus presented
a Christmas Concert in Aycock Auditorium. Hilary Apfelsadt, Richard Cox and David
Pegg conducted.
Accounting Program
Gets Good Reputation
Despite continuing high
unemployment and an uncertain
future in many career fields, the
need for trained accountants in
North Carolina is projected to con-tinue
to increase through 1986 and
beyond.
Figures kept by the Employment
Security Commission of North
Carolina indicated that in 1978,
there were 13,612 accountants
employed in the state in all fields.
The same study projected that by
1985, the total number of accoun-tants
working in the state will have
increased to 17,260.
That represents an annual in-crease
of 3.3 percent, or approx-imately
940 jobs a year. Of that 940
figure, 520 of the jobs will be new
positions and 420 will be necessary
to replace personnel.
The U.S. Department of Labor, in
its 1982-88 Occupational Outlook
Handbook, stated that national
employment opportunities for ac-countants
are expected to grow
faster than average through the
decade of the 1980's due to increas-ing
pressure on businesses and
government agencies to improve
budgeting and accounting
procedures.
That's good news to Dr. Charles
Mecimore, who is head of the
Department of Accounting at UNC
G. But the projections come as no
surprise to him.
"As long as the economy is uncer-tain
and remains in a transitional
state, as long as the business en-
March To Defend Reverend Henry Atkins
A demonstration and march to
the Greensboro police station to de-fend
Father Henry Atkins and de-mand
a halt to all political harass-ment
will be held today. The action
is in response to a recent series of
attacks on the UNC-G Episcopal
chaplain. Anyone who wants to par-ticipate
should gather on the library
lawn in front of the statue at 11:30
a.m. The group will then march to
the Washington Street entrance of
the Greensboro Police Station for a
press conference at 12:30. Follow-ing
the press conference the group
will proceed to Police Chief Swing's
office.
Atkins and his family have been
under a series of attacks recently.
In early October Atkins received
two death threats on the same day
a few days after meeting with police
officials concerning the Pete Seeger
Concert at UNC-G. Late on October
31 the Atkins family was awaken-ed
by police who told them that so-meone
had burned a cross on their
front lawn.
Several days later after dusk,
Atkins' son saw a man taking
photographs of their home with a
high-powered camera from across
the street on Friendly Avenue. The
man's car was parked in the park-ing
lot of the Young World Child
Care Center. Atkins called the
police, who said they would dispatch
a car to the scene. Atkins said that
no police arrived for at least a half
hour while the man continued to
take pictures
On October 26 at approximately
10 p.m. Atkins' teenage daughter
Hannah was riding nome in a
friend's car when a man stopped at
a light next to their car and threatened
Hannah with a hunting knife.
Friday night, November 25, St.
Mary's House on Walker Avenue
was broken into and robbed. Atkins
is chaplain at St. Mary's House.
Items valued at a total of $3200
were stolen from the congregation,
including a typewriter, silver
chalices, musical instruments and
prayer books. Personal items stolen
from Atkins' office were valued »t
$1460, including a Salvadoran
cross, Guatemalan stoles, several
sets of vestments, books on
Liberation theology, and a slide
show titled "Honduras: On the
Border of War."
At a November 18 meeting of the
Greensboro Human Relations Com-mission
Police Chief Swing stated
that he hoped we were not in a
reverse-McCarthy era where people
saw the police and Klan behind
every crime. Atkins evaluated the
November 18 meeting with the
following, "Chief Swing seemed to
be seeking to discredit my account
of events at the hearing. He said
that he didn't see how the man
j my house could be
i on Friendly Avenue because
it is a very busy street, which implied
that I was lying. Swing seemed
more interested in investigating me
and developing arguments against
my version of things than in rinding
out who burned the cross, who took
the photos, and who stabbed at my
daughter Hannah."
Atkins continued, "I'm appalled
at the lack of sensitivity to the black
community by the police depart-ment
around the effect of calling a
cross-burning a 'Halloween prank.'
It seems that they fail to realize that
this kind of attitude in fact en-courages
people who are prone to
do things like cross-burning to go
ahead and do it." (The Greeniboro
Daily Newt had reported that the
police were treating the cross-burning
as merely a "Halloween
prank.")
One of the many questions that
students and concerned Greensboro
citizens will ask Chief Swing today
will be which police officer made the
"Halloween prank" statement.
They will also ask him why the
police failed to respond to the report
of the unidentified man taking
photos of the Atkins residence.
Atkins, who is the leader of many
organizations including Triad
Citizens Concerned for Central
America and the Carolina Coali-tion
for Justice in C.A., has been an
an outspoken critic of U.S. foreign
policy in that region. Several days
before the cross-burning incident he
had made a public statement con-demning
the U.S. invasion of
Grenada.
Atkins will be leaving Greensboro
at the end of the month to accept a
position as chaplain at Rutgers
University in New Jersey. He said
that his decision to move to N.J,
was made months prior to the series
of attacks.
Luminaires Usher
In Holiday Season
For the 14th consecutive year,
student* at UNC-G will welcome
the Christmas season with their an-nual
luminaire display, which will
begin later today at dusk.
During the day, students will
assemble an estimated 6,000 candle
luminaires and place them all
around the campus. The candles will
be lit shortly after dusk and will
burn for approximately four hours
along UNC-G's streets and
sidewalks.
Special activities will include
caroling groups around campus and
a bonfire in the Residence Hall
Quandrangle. The event is open to
the public and visitors are invited to
Vview the luminaires and to join
UNC-G faculty, staff, and students
in welcoming the holidays.
On the same evening, UNC-G
Chancellor and Mrs. William E.
Moran will host a holiday reception
for all UNC-G faculty and staff and
the University's Board of Trustees
from 8-10 p.m. in the Virginia Dare
Room of the Alumni House.
The luminaire display, which has
its roots in Spanish and French
Christinas customs, has taken place
yearly at UNC-G since 1969. The
festivities will be sponsored by
Alpha Phi Omega and Gamma
Sigma Sigma, two student service
organizations on campus; Elliott
University Center, and other UNC-G
student organizations. i
Dillard Collection Grows
BY LEIGH TRAPP
Aublul Niwi Editor
The Weatherspoon Art Gallery
has increased its Dillard collection
by acquiring twenty-three works of
art by John D. Graham and Claude
Howell which are currently part of
the current Art on Paper show at
UNC-G.
Eighteen of these works were
gifts to the gallery while five of the
new pieces were purchased with a
grant from Dillard Paper Company.
Including these new editions, the
Dillard collection now contains 364
pieces of art.
The works by Howell are water-colors
given by Mrs. Edythe E.
Wyrick in memory of her late hus-band,
Charles C. Wyrick Sr. who
worked with Dillard Paper for ap-proximately
43 years. The Howell
works are the Cape Lookout Series
No. 7-Rain Squals and the Cape
Lookout series No. 13—Reflected
Light.
The sixteen other gifts were done
by contemporary American artists
and were presented anonymously
through Donald Droll, the gallery's
New Assistant Director.
Dillard Paper Company, which
gave the grant to purchase the five
other works, has given approx-imately
$269,600 to Weatherspoon
to fund the Art on Paper shows
since the beginning of this annual
practice in 1966. Dillard Paper has
slso given $1,000,000 to help build
UNC-G's new Arts center.
The five works were selected by
the acquisitions committee of the
Weatherspoon Gallery Association.
The works are: "Circus Drawing
with Pink," 1983, by Robert Carvin
(Pastel/Charcoal), "Series: Pilot
Mt. with Disquieting Object, No. 1,"
1980-81, by Ann Carter Pollard
(PencU), "Study for Love will Tear
Us Up (the Sleep)," by Robert
Longo (Graphite/Acrylic),
"Adolpho of Ravenna," 1946, by
John D. Graham (Pencil and Chalk)
and an untitled oil painting by
Sylvia P. Mangold.
The sixteen anonymous gifts are
by artists Mike Kelley, Thomas
Lawson, Lee Lozano, John Miller,
Itnlo Scango, Colin Thompson, Gary
Burnley, Lynton Wells. Bill Copel-ly,
Frank Moore, Jane Kaplonite,
and Walter Robinson.
All these acquired works will be
on display from the Art on Paper
show, with the Dillard Collection at
the Weatherspoon Art Gallery.
vironment becomes more complex
snd as long as tax laws keep getting
revised, there'll always be a demand
for more accountants," said Dr.
Mecimore. "That's not just here in
North Carolina, but nationwide as
well."
As a relatively young department
in UNC-G's School of Business and
Economics, the Department of Ac-counting
is rapidly achieving a
reputation as a quality program,
Mecimore said. Since its founding in
1976, enrollment of accounting has
risen from 223 in the fall of 1977 to
671 at the start of the current
1983-84 academic year.
The major indicator of how well
an accounting program prepares
students for the job market is their
performance on the national cer-tified
public accountant (CPA) ex-amination,
Mecimore said. Running
approximately 19 hours in length,
the exam measures competency in
four areas: accounting theory, ac-counting
practice, auditing and
business law.
"Our program is still relatively
new and our students are com-peting
with those from the older,
established programs in the state,
but they're doing very well," said
Mecimore. "It's a very difficult test
and the scores our students have
gotten in the past are very
gratifying."
During the November 1982 exam
session, 21 UNC-G students who tat
for the lengthy test for the first
time showed the highest pasaage
rate. 42.9 percent, and the lowest
failure rate, 23.8 percent, on all of
the parts they attempted. Their
first-time scores were better than
those posted by students from all 11
other North Carolina colleges and
universities who also took the test.
The passage rates UNC-G students
posted on the four categories were
as follows: 47.1 percent on business
law and 61.9 percent on accounting
practice, leading the other 11
schools; auditing, 60 percent, third
place; and accounting theory, 67.1
percent, second place.
Three UNC-G students have
received honors for the scores they
made on the two CPA exam sittings
in 1982. In May 1982, Susan B.
Mills graduated summa cum laude
and went on that month to make the
second highest mark nationally
scored on all four parts of the ex-am.
Her score also was the state's
highest. During the November 1982
sitting, students Jonathan Can* and
Joyce Freeman made the state's
highest and third highest scores,
respectively, on the entire exam.
Another item that Mecimore cites
as an indication of the UNC-G pro-gram's
quality is the frequency with
which "Big Eights" recruit UNC-G
accounting students. Not related in
any way to sports, "Big Eights" are
the nation's largest accounting
firms and their representatives visit
the UNC-G department regularly
during the yew.
"All of the ones which have of-ficies
in Greensboro recruit on our
campus," said Mecimore. "These
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Alto Pages 3*4
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Sports Pages 6 A 7
Etceteras Pagee 7*8
Treasure Island:
Lively Performance ..Page 4
Grenada:
Ex-Ranger's View ....Page S
Sports Photo
Summary Pages 6 eV 7