The Carolinian [April 12, 1996]

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Volume 75, Issue 45
rolinian The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Celebrating 75 years covering UNCG
Friday,Aprill2,1996
Spartanmania
kicked in this
week with the
beginning of the
annual Spring
Fling celebra-tions!
Second Annual
Open House
Today the Office of Un-dergraduate
Admissions is
sponsoring the second in-stallment
of its annual spring
open house.
The first installment was
held Friday, March 22.
The spring open house is
considered particularly im-portant
because all of thestu-dents
attending have been
admitted to the University
but may or may not have con-firmed
their intentions to en-roll.
This program is consid-ered
the most extensive re-cruitment
program of the
year, with an anticipated
daily attendance of approxi-mately
500 admitted students
and their parents.
Most sessions will take
place in the Elliott University
Center.
After a welcome and a
schedule review session at 9
a.m., participants will be able
to visit with faculty and
members of student organi-zations.
The rest of the day allows
for flexibility for students
and their parents to tour the
campus.visit academic de-partments,
learn about finan-cial
aid, and visit residence
halls and dining facilities.
The Residential College,
honors program and fresh-man
seminars are also high-lighted.
Pi Kappa Phi to
hold Roadblock
Pi Kappa Phi fraternity at
the University ofNorth Caro-lina
at Greensboro will con-duct
a "Roadblock" for char-ity
on Sunday, April 14, in
Winston-Salem.
Fraternity members will
be at the "five points" inter-section
from 11:30 a.m. to 3
p.m.
The members will ask
drivers at this intersection for
donations to PUSH America,
an organization that supports
and raises awareness of
people with disabilities.
For information call Cam
Cloey at 379-8788.
Third candidate takes the stand
•Dr. Melvin Terrell visits UNCG with ideas on becoming vice chancellor
Holly Scott
Senior News Writer
As the search continues for
a vice chancellor of Student
Affairs, a third candidate vis-ited
campus earlier this week.
Dr. Melvin Terrell, vice
president for Student Affairs
at Northeastern Illinois Uni-versity,
came to UNCG Tues-day
and Wednesday in order
to become more oriented to
the campus.
A student/faculty forum,
like the ones held for each of
the other candidates, was con-ducted
Tuesday, April 9, in the
Kirkland Room of the Elliott
Center.
As a leader in student af-fairs.
Dr. Terrell views his role
as one that is critical to mak-ing
a university complete. He
realizes that academic affairs
is what is most important on
a college campus, but believes
that student affairs enhances
the total college experience.
At Northeastern Illinois
University, Dr. Terrell over-sees
a broad range of services
that are geared specifically to-ward
the needs of students.
Beyond the normal range of
services that are in place at
most universities, he is in con-trol
of Women's Services,
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Dr. Melvin Terrel expressed his views on several different aspects of student affairs at the Faculty/Student
fmirm. UNCG Is still on the search for a new vice-chancellor, with only a few prospective candidates to go.
Veteran's Services, and a
mentoring program that
matches freshmen with a fac-ulty
member who will help to
guide them through their first
year of college.
One of Dr. Terrell's main
topics of discussion included
cultural diversity. Northeastern
Illinois University is viewed as
one of this country's most cul-turally
diversified universities,
and Dr. Terrell would like to
spread this to othe/ schools.
Before becoming the vice
president for student affairs at
Northeastern Illinois Univer-sity,
Dr. Terrell served as the
director of Minority Affairs at
the University of Toledo and
as the director of the
Multicultural Education Cen-ter
at the University of Wiscon-sin
at Oshkosh. Through this
experience. Dr. Terrell feels
that he is able to help create a
more diversified environment
on a university level.
Dr. Terrell's past experience
See Terrell, page 2
National News 3
Colleges react to Unabomber arrest
(CP)-Former colleagues
and classmates of Unabomber
suspect Theodore John
Kaczynski expressed surprise
that the quiet, studious man
they knew could be respon-sible
for an 18-year deadly
bombing spree.
At the same time, many
university officials also ex-pressed
relief that an arrest
had finally been made and that
the attacks may be over.
Even as federal investiga-tors
continued to search for
clues that would link the re-clusive
former mathematics
professor to the Unabomber
attacks, those who knew him
or had been targeted by
Unabomber attacks shared
their thoughts with college re-porters.
The Unabomber's first vic-tim
was Buckley Crist, a
Northwestern University en-gineering
professor who was
not injured when a mail-bomb
exploded in 1978. Crist told
the Daily Northwestern report-ers
that Kaczynski's arrest all
but closed the case in his eyes.
"I'm delighted the case has
been resolved," he told them.
"It was a long, long time ago."
Ron Muersch, who gradu-ated
from a suburban Chicago
high school with Kaczynski,
told the Daily Northwestern he
could not remember who the
reclusive teenager's friends
were.
"I remember that he was
very quiet," said Muersch, now
a police detective.
Northwestem's campus was
the target of the Unabomber's
first two attacks in the course
of an 18-year bombing spree
that would kill three and injure
23 others.
"We were in kind of a spe-cial
situation here at North-western,
because [the story] hit
so close to home," explains
Heather Lalley, a junior who
is the assistant managing edi-tor
at the Daily Northwestern.
"It's been on the minds of a lot
of students, because it's gone
on so long."
The arrest answered an im-portant
question for many
Northwestern students, adds
Dennis Brack, a junior who is
the editor-in-chief of the Daily
Northwestern.
"There's been so much
speculation that he went here."
Brack said. "That kind of put
that all to an end."
The opposite was true at
Harvard University and the
University of Michigan-Ann
Arbor, where student reporters
found themselves writing
about one of their own.
Kaczynski received a
bachelor's degree in math-ematics
from Harvard in 1962:
he completed his Ph.D. in the
same subjects at Michigan in
1967.
According to the Harvard
Crimson. Kaczynski was re-membered
by some classmates
as a serious student, although
quiet.
"I think he was a pretty good
math major. I knew the name,
and I knew of him," Donald P.
Ballou, a graduate of the class
of 1962 and a fellow math-ematics
concentrator, told The
Crimson.
Valerie MacMillan. a
Harvard University sopho-more
and news reporter at The
Crimson, said she and other re-porters
immediately began
calling alumni who might have
known Kaczynski.
See Unabomber, page 3