The Carolinian [February 3, 1994]

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Vohane 73, Number 16 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Thursday,F«bnuvys,i9M
UNCG "adrift"
Faculty Senate criticizes Moran's leadership
ChaaoeBor William Moran listens to faculty
Senate meeting.
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at Yesterday's Faculty
By HEATHER MILLS
News Editor
The UNCO Faculty Senate issued a
memorandum addressed to Chancellor
Wiffiam Moran, Provost Donald DeRoea,
Vice Chancellors James Allen, Frederick
Drake, James Clotfelter and Richard
Moore charging that the University is
"adrift and without vision."
The document, datedJanuary 12,1094,
was authored by the Special Committee
on Faculty Status, Rights and Privileges.
Dr. Charles Tisdale chaired the commit-tee.
Thememorandumaddressesthe issues
ofleadership, decision making, academic
integrity, priorities ofthe University, and
campus resource inequities.
According to the memorandum, it "is
the outgrowth ofboth deliberate thought
and much discussion, on the campus as a
whole, within the committee, and within
the Faculty Senate."
Tvs talked to faculty who expressed
that thsy thought thememorandumaeco-rately
represented their views," Dr. Rob*
ert Cannon, choir of the Faculty Senate,
id while addressing the Senate yester-
Amajor concern expressed in the docu-ment
is the lack of leadership. Although
Moran is commended for "the many Sao
accomplishments which have resulted
from your tenure as ChiefExecutive," he,
along with the Provost, is cited as needing
a "stronger position of academic leader-ship."
Moran responded to the document at
yesterday's meeting by proposingaplan
which would encourage communication
between faculty and administration.
It touches on quite basic questions.
Its general aim is to invite a dialogue,"
Moran said.
Moran found the document to contain
three topics: discussion ofprogram direc-tions
for the University, use ofresources
at fee University and a linkage between
administrative structures and coOegial
structures.
The persons to whom the resolutions
were addressed... should Join wife the
Senatein anorganised fashion to discuss
those three issues," Moran said.
Moran invitedthe Senats to subdivide
into committees to discuss each toffs
and,mturn,speei with the vice chancel-lors
and himself.
Moran warned that the issues pre-sented
within the document could notbe
discussed without examining forces
which affect the University, where the
University's programs headed in the fu-ture
and how campus resources should
be allocated.
Moran plans to reappear before the
Senate next month to discuss, in detail,
the position ofthseampusin 1904 viaths
resolution.
"Between now and than, HI order my
own thoughts and, ifyou'll have me, TO
be back in March," Moran said.
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See Faculty, page 1
Students risk
AIDS infection
By SALLYTHOMAS
Staff Writer
According to the 1993 AIDS Factbook,
one outofevery five reportedAIDS cases
is a 20-29 year old. Since the average
length of time betw n infection and di-agnosis
is 10 years, a significant number
ofyoung adults withHP/(Human Immu-nodeficiency
Virus) probably contracted
the virus before graduating from high
school.
Rev. Charlie Hawes, who is Chaplain
atUNCG's St. Mary's House and aTriad
Health project volunteer, thinks college
students sometimes ignore the statistics.
"I think most undergraduates relate to
AIDS and HP/ as being statistics that
they're full-up on. But [college students]
are just beginning to live. [Because they]
liveas though [they're] immortal, you can
reduce it to statistics," hs said.
In an attempt to make AIDS seam
more real, the Centers for Disease Con-trol
(CDC) has implemented a new adver-tising
campaign tospread the word about
safer sex. The commercials talk about
using condoms to prevent HP/ transmis-sion.
Freshman Maria Tranquillo feels that
the CDC's commercials may not help to
change the behavior patterns of young
adults. She says she has noticed that
some college students do not take sexual
behavior seriously.
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"I don't think they're careful enough.
They think ofit as just sax, not as if they
could catch something deadly. I really
believe people are ignorant to things [like
AID8] until it happens to someone around
them," Tranquillo said.
Tranquilloalso expressed concern over
the lack ofAIDS education in schools,
-We had to take health in high school,
but I don't remember ever learning about
AIDS. I probably learned about it from
TV," Tranquillo said.
Ron Odsll, a 23 year-old freshman at
UNCG, feels that some of the blame for
college students' ignorance about safer
sex and AIDS Has wife the United Statos
Sec AIDS, page 2
Student threatened
The Carolinian violates editorial policy
from itoffreporte
A letter submitted under a false name
and reprinted in The Carolinian led to
numerous threats to a UNCO student last
week
Freshman Brian Nance, whose name
appeared under the letter, which contained
derogatory statements about Martin
Luther King Jr. and various minorities,
received several threatening phone calls
including a death threat after the letter
ran in the January 27,1993 issue of The
Carolinian. Nance reported to Th» Caro-linian
Thursday that hs had not written
the letter. After speaking to the police, he
was removed from campus and placed in
protective police custody Thursday evening
for his own safety, including being es-corted
to and from campus byaplainclothes
detective on Friday.
"Ifs been rough, Pm shacked up in a
place that only the police and my family
know about," Nance said Tuesday.
By Fridaymorning, TheCarolinian had
handed out approximately 200 fliers stat-ing
that Nance had not written the letter
as well as having the statement aired on
WUAG and SpartanVision to correct the
mistake.
The University Police Department im-mediately
began investigating the case
also, and as of Tuesday had a confession
from the student who had written the
letter. The accused student, whocannot be
named unless charged wife a criminal
violation offcampus, is beingcharged with
a campus citation underSection 4, entitled
offenses, ofthe Student Disciplinary Cods
as statedin the Policiesfor Students Hand-book.
"I approached Vice Chancellor of Stu-dent
Affairs James Allen and turned my-self
in," the accused student said.
Tvs involved more people than I ever
thought," he added.
According to the accused student, it was
essentially meant to frustrate Nance, and
in no way to causa death threats to him.
Nance said that the letter wasin retali-ation
toaconfrontetion from fall semester.
The accused studsnt had bugged Nance's
room wife a wireless microphone, and af-ter
being caught, was reprimanded by the
University and told to send Nance a writ-ten
apology.
1 had hoped feat feat would alleviate
the problem. Obviously, he didn't learn his
lesson," Nance said.
The content was never really intended
to hurt anybody, they are not even my
views. I thought [Nance] would just write
another letter back wife my name at the
bottom.'the accused student said.
Sec Threats, page 1
In Opinions: Response to the MLK letter, page