The Carolinian [February 23, 1996]

              The
rolinian The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Celebrating 75 yean covering UNCG
Volume 75, Issue 34
Senior named
Panhellenic pres
Jennifer Cahoon, a mem-ber
of the Alpha Delta Pi so-rority
has been named the
president of the Panhellenic
Association of UNCG.
Cahoon is a senior from
Edenton.
The UNCG Panhellenic
Association consists ofAlpha
Delta Pi, Alpha Chi Omega,
Sigma Sigma Sigma, Phi Mu
and Chi Omega sororities. It
develops and maintains so-rority
life and inter-sorority
relations.
UNCG signs
exchange with
foriegn univ.
Universidad de
Extremadura of Caceres,
Spain and UNCG have
signed a student exchange
program .
UNCG, which now has
links with 19 foreign univer-sities,
will place students in
positions where they can
swap places for one full aca-demic
year.
Dr. Charles Lyons and Dr.
Carmen Sotomayor helped to
establish the program.
Employer help
is now taxable
WASHINGTON (CP)-Stu-dents
who received tuition
money from their employers
in 1995 might be in for a
shock this April: it's taxable.
Unlike previous years,
when a special provision in
the Internal Revenue Service
code allowed up to $5,250 in
tuition assistance to be tax-exempt,
all help from em-ployers
is now considered in-come.
Unfortunately for stu-dents,
many companies ig-nored
or missed IRS warn-ing
that the provision was ex-piring
in 1994, said Anthony
Burke, an IRS spokesperson.
"Employers should have
drawn the conclusion, 'Oh
yeah, I should be withhold-ing,"
he said.
In Sports:
Men's basketball:
UNCG vs.
Univ. Maryland
Baltimore County
See the results
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UNCG celebrates history
•The Ties That Bind: An Identity That Cannot Be
Broken, the themefor Black History Month at UNCG
Natalie Watson
Senior News Writer
In February, 1926, noted
black historian Carter G.
Woodson, organized the first
Negro History Week, which
was expanded to Black History
Month in the 1960s.
UNCG carries on this tradi-tion
of great black history with
numerous programs and ac-tivities
designed to inform and
celebrate the rich history of
blacks in America.
The theme for this year's
Black History Month is "The
Ties That Bind: An Identity
That Cannot Be Broken."
One of the major events of
Black History Month is the se-ries
of movies termed "Black
Movie Classics." co-spon-sored
by the Neo-Black Soci-ety
and the Office of Minority
Affairs.
Movies shown included
"Jason's Lyric," "The Glass
Shield," and a 70s movie mara-thon
including "Car Wash."
On February 6, an off-broadway
play by James
Chapman entitled "Our Young
Black Men are Dying and No-body
Seems to Care," came to
Aycock Auditorium.
The play drew a crowd, and
student response was positive.
Sophomore Shon Johnson re-ally
enjoyed the play.
"It was real. It was on our
level and really interesting."
During the weekend of Feb-ruary
16-17, the Office of Ad-missions
sponsored the Black
Student Visitation Program, a
program designed to give mi-nority
high school juniors and
seniors a chance to learn more
about what UNCG has to of-fer
them.
Events included tours, a skit
focusing on the various orga-nizations
and groups UNCG
has to offer and a Black Love
Dance co-sponsored by NBS
and CAB.
Program Coordinator
Daniel McEachern said that
close to 150 prospective stu-dents
attended the event.
On Thursday Feb. 22, the
3rd Annual Black History
Month Fashion Show was held
PAUL BATT-THE CAROLINIAN
The third annual fashion show, in honor of Black History Month, was held in Cone Ballroom of the Elliott
University Center. The program began at 7 p.m. and was being sponsored by Minority Affairs.
in Cone Ballroom. The event
was sponsored by the Office of
Minority Affairs.
In addition to the Black
Movie Classics, the Neo-Black
Society also sponsored a "Dat-ing
Game," similar to MTV's
"Singled Out," and the upcom-ing
African-American Quiz
Bowl, scheduled for Thursday,
February 29.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Soror-ity,
Delta Sigma Theta Soror-ity,
and the UNCG college
chapter of the NAACP also
held their annual weeks during
the month of February.
Events included a Black
Love talk show, a living with
AIDS seminar and a
Valentine's Day candy sale.
Although February has been
set aside as 29 days to cel-ebrate
black history, we must
remember that it is important
to celebrate the rich diversity
of our country at all times.
The film, "Black
Is...BIack Ain't" is
being held in the
Jarrell Lecture Hall,
tonight at 7p.m.
-It is being sponsored by
Minority Student Affairs
and Bailey Residence Hail
Meeting ends
in verbal fight
Joel Zimmerman
News Editor
A two-minute prayer could
not keep the College Demo-crats
and Republicans from
fighting at the end of Wednes-day
night's meeting.
The College Republicans
meeting in Sharpe Lounge of
the Elliott University Center
featured 6th District Congress-man
Howard Coble.
The meeting, which started
at 8:30, began with a lengthy
prayer and the pledge of alle-giance.
Congressman Coble
talked about hometown feel-ings
on the balanced budget.
Republicans in Congress and
perception in the media. After
about thirty minutes. Coble
opened the floor up to the 34
people in attendance.
Senior Jaran Stratton took
the first question. "It's a sad
state of affairs when we rely
on the government to go to
school and pay for
Medicare,"he said.
"Your position is primarily
my position," responded
Coble. Before closing the
meeting Coble added, "My
mom and dad were working
poor...I'm not complaining or
bitching about it...Now I'm
starting to get firey and I said
I wouldn't do that."
After Coble left, the meet-ing
took off with heated "dis-cussions"
between members of
the community, the College
Democrats and the College
Republicans. "This is the kind
of thing y'all do." said Brad
Smith.
After the official meeting
came to a close. 14 others
moved their discussions out-side
of the Elliott Center,
alongside Forest Street.
In the midst of the fury. Re-publicans
were claiming that
the College Democrats were
not showing enough respect,
while the College Democrats
claimed they had a right to
voice their opinions.