The Carolinian [October 8, 1987]

              The Carolinian Thursday, October 8, 1987
Volume 67, Number 7
The Sociopaths gave it their all outside of Guilford dorm
Saturday. The Sociopaths, all UNCG students, are Britt
Snooze) Uzzell, Bill Greene, and Mike Fowler.
Pfcoto by Awior B«ci
By CLINTON HUGHES
A Namibian student jogged beside the long line of marchers,
his voic* booming from the megaphone: "AMANDLA!"
"AWi^rU!" responded over 200 voices, completing the South
African freedom cry. Then the leader, a Namibian student at
NC State, translated the chant so it could be understood fully
by the curious onlookers around the North Carolina State
Capitol: "POWER!"
"TO THE PEOPLE!" came the hearty response from the
marchers as they approached the Capitol Building.
The first Statewide March for Peace and Justice in Central
America and Southern Africa was a time of celebration for the
roughly 250 students and community activists who marched
on Oct. 3 from St. Augustine's College to the Capitol Building
in Raleigh. Just two days earlier the news had broken in Chapel
Hill; after over two years of extensive student protest, including
civil disobedience and building shanty-towns on campus, the
UNCCH board of trustees, following the lead of UNC
Greensboro, had voted to divest University assets from com-panies
with holdings in South Africa.
Despite the crowd's jubilation, some UNCCH activists
reported that their divestment work was far from being com-pleted.
Dale McKinley, a graduate student in Political Science
at UNCCH and one of the march's organizers, asserted that
the board's promise of total divestment was inaccurate. "Their
figure of $6 million in investments does not include assets in
Sec MARCH FOR PEACE p. 2
By BYRON WOODS
After several meetings with
the membership of the local
chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon
fraternity, chapter president
Gary Cerrito has withdrawn
two key allegations of
fraudulent activity occurring
during the chartering of the
chapter in 1986. New informa-tion,
however, has come to
light that leaves the future of
the fraternity still in doubt.
Various members of the
local chapter and Cerrito have
met twice since last Thursday,
when an article dealing with
problems inside the fraternity
was published in The Caroli-nian.
These meetings con-stitute
the first time the
fraternity has met this
academic year.
According to Cerrito, a
third meeting, scheduled for
this evening, will be held to
decide the fate of the flounder-ing
fraternity.
"I am happy to say that, in
our meetings, we were able to
find some common ground.
The brothers are now in the
process of deliberating about
whether the group should con-sider
recolonizing or pro-ceeding
as things are now.
The important thing is that
the communication channels
are finally open," said the
local chapter president.
Cerrito went on to retract
two allegations made early
last week regarding activities
surrounding the chartering of
the local chapter. At that time,
Cerrito charged that the
group forged the signatures of
two members to satisfy na-tional
fraternity
requirements.
However in a conversa-tion
of Tuesday evening
stated, "I have been informed
that the two members in ques-tion
were to have been sworn
in as brothers by the Beta
Beta chapter at N.C. State
University, so the places for
their signatures were left
blank, for several months. I
have been informed that this
was done with the permission
of the national organization.
Additionally, I was under the
impression that borrowing
money from outside sources to
satisfy opening fraternity
debts was against organiza-tion
regulations. I have been
informed that this is not the
case."
Sec TKE p. 2
Plan needed to benefit poor
By CLINTON HUGHES
"One thing we must
remember is that the poor
have suffered most from war
in Central America, and that
no matter what elites decide
to do, the demand for peace
will percolate up from the bot-tom
of society."
These were the words of
Jim Stephens, a field
representative for the
American Friends Service
Committee in El Salvador,
who spoke with a group of
eight UNCG students and
staff in Mary Foust Hall last
Thursday afternoon. Stephens
gave a historical overview
of the Arias Peace Plan, sign-ed
by all five Central
American presidents on
August 3. He stressed the
need for us as North
Americans to look at the pro-spect
of peace through Latin
American eyes, especially
through the eyes of the poor
majority.
"After all they've suffered,
the poor won't accept a peace
plan that will benefit only the
elites. For example, since
1980 in El Salvador there
have been sixty-five thousand
people killed and one out of
five people have been displac-ed.
The majority want a peace
which provides housing,
health, education and employ-ment
to bring their lives to a
level of decency."
But Stephens was quick to
See PEACE p. 6
Representatives of the Gordon Highlanders and
Grenadier Guards show off their marching skills to pass-ing
students. The two groups will perform at Aycock
Auditorium during the upcoming UNCG ArtFest.
Pfcoto hy Ckrktoohor DroUow»kt
INDEX
ArtFest 8
Elwell 4
Etceteras 14
Gay rights march 11
Greek column 10
Nicaragua 7
Reality Calling 4
REM 9
Rugby 15
Volleyball 15
Wrestling 14
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