The Carolinian [February 19, 1998]

              FYI
African-American
visitation this weekend
The University of North Carolina at
Greensboro will hold a campus visita-tion
program for African-American high
school students and their parents on Fri-day
and Saturday, Feb. 20-21. Approxi-mately
300 students are expected to at-tend
the program.
The event is open to high school jun-iors
or seniors who are interested in
learning more about academic and so-cial
programs at UNCG.
Prospective students who want to stay
overnight in the residence halls are en-couraged
to return their reply cards early.
The program is being conducted by the
UNCG Office ofAdmissions. Coordinat-ing
the activities is Lorenzo Baber. a
UNCG assistant director of admissions.
Interested persons are urged to contact
Baber in the office (336-334-5243)
weekdays to get more information.
The Black Student Visitation Pro-gram
offers a chance for African-Ameri-can
students to learn about the programs
offered at UNCG." said Baber.
"We want to show that UNCG is a
place where students come first — aca-demically,
socially and culturally. We
will have sessions where students can
learn more about our quality academic
programs, faculty and student organiza-tions."
Registration on Feb. 20 is from 8:30-
9 a.m. in Elliott University Center. Fol-lowing
the opening session in Cone Ball-room,
students and parents will attend
sessions on educational opportunities, fi-nancial
aid and student support services,
and take guided tours.
At 10 a.m. on Saturday, recent gradu-ates
will discuss how their experiences
at UNCG prepared them for success in
the professional world.
Summer job fair set
A Summer/ Part-Time Job and Intern-ship
Fair will be held for students at The
University of North Carolina at Greens-boro
from noon-4 p.m. on Tuesday. Feb.
24 in Cone Ballroom of Elliott Univer-sity
Center.
Almost 80 employers from North
Carolina. South Carolina and Maryland
will be on hand to interview students
seeking summer employment, part-time
employment or internships.
Between 400-500 UNCG students are
expected to attend during the four-hour
event.
Approximately 40 Triad area firms
will be on hand, including UPS. the
Greensboro Bats. American Express.
Pepsi Cola. Nationwide Credit and the
Telephone Center. Further information is
available by calling Kathryn W. Sack, the
center's assistant director for experien-tial
learning, at 334-5454.
Women's Studies program
sets science lectures
A series of lectures on research by
women in the sciences will begin on Fri-day.
Feb. 20. at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro.
The program, called "Science Initia-tive."
is sponsored by the Women's Stud-ies
Program at UNCG. Dr. Janet Mann.
a faculty member in psychology and bi-ology
at Georgetown University, will be
the first speaker in the program. Her topic
will be "The Costs and Benefits of
Mother-Infant Separations in Wild
Bottlenose Dolphins." She will speak at
3:30 p.m. in Room 284 of the Eberhart
Life Sciences Building.
The "Science Initiative" programs will
bring women scientists to campus to
present scientific seminars on their re-search,
to meet with students and fac-ulty
to discuss their careers in science
and the problems and opportunities that
they encountered and to meet individu-ally
with students who are engaged in
independent research projects in the
visitor's discipline.
All events and lectures on the womeb's
research in science are open to the pub-lic
and are free.
Additional information on lectures is
available by contacting Dr. Bruce
Kirchoff, Department of Biology (334-
5391, x37), or Dr. Ken Caneva. Depart-ment
of History (334-5203).
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Spring Garden Street to stay shut down
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Thursday
Feb. 19
1998
Issue 35,
Volume 77
Phone: (336) 334-5752 Fax: (336) 334-3518
Online: http://carolinian.uncg.edu
Stephanie Lowman
Mews Editor
Are you a commuter student who nor-mally
depends on Spring Garden Street
to get around campus from day to day?
If so. then lately you have realized a huge
obstacle stands in your way as you try to
drive through the section of Spring Gar-den
between Forest and Tate streets.
The road beautification project was
expected to reach a three-month con-struction
hiatus during the winter
months, but due to delays concerning
weather and construction supplies, it
looks as if the street will remain shut
down.
The S3.2 million beautification project
was conducted to provide a more pedes-trian-
friendly street through campus.
The design will improve street lighting,
provide more distinctive crosswalks and
install up-to-date signali/ation.
The island in the center is to be lined
with trees and is intended to separate the
traffic lanes in order to lend a more cam-pus-
like appearance to the area.
While the finished project will greatly
benefit the university, the fact still re-mains
that students and the community
are having to deal with this nuisance on
a daily ba-sis.
"
The first
phase of
the project
was ideally
intended to
run from
August to
m i d - D e -
c e m be r.
Phase two
was to start^■^^^™
again in
mid-March and focus on the section be-tween
Aycock and Stirling Streets.
However, due to all the prohlems en-countered,
there will be no break in the
renovation plans. Even though this de-lay
has been canceled, the original
completion date of August 1998 still
"It has gotten so bad that I
have to dodge puddles just
to get to class. It is just a
major inconvenience for
everyone."
stands firm.
According to construction crews, the
cancellation of the break during the win-ter
months will keep them on task.
The biggest problems in keeping with
the schedule
' have been
the long-awaited
ar-rival
of traf-fic
lights and
trees. The
university or-dered
several
oak trees to
plant along
the side-
^~^^~ walks, hut
they were
found to be the wrong type when they
arrived in January and had to be sent
back. There was also a delay in the or-der
for traffic signals, which were ap-parently
in high demand in the industry.
Then there is the dilemma of the
weather that the contractors have had to
deal with. As a result of all the rain, much
potential progress has almost come to a
stand-still.
As a student. Kenneth Jones says that
the most annoying aspect of this whole
renovation is the mess it creates around
campus. "It's gotten so bad that I have
to dodge puddles just to get to class. It
is just a major inconvenience for every-one".
And students are not the only ones
who are battling this delay. Local busi-nesses
and community citizens who
regularly use Spring Garden Street are
feeling the frustration as well.
Although everyone involved with the
project is hard at work to bring this chap-ter
to a close, we still may not see the
light at the end of the tunnel for quite
some time.
While the construction crews continue
to drudge through this project without
complaints. UNCG students will have to
do the same. It looks as though it will be
another six months or so before Spring
Garden Street becomes readily acces-sible
to the public again.
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to guide UNCG through 2003
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the .hi// Cafe which was held on February 17 in the Klliott University Center.
Guilford students say campus
has long had racial problems
Assoicated Press
GREENSBORO (AP) - Long before last
week's racist attack on a white Student
Senate candidate, prohlems beset
Guilford College, a campus founded
byQuakers where pacifism is de rigueur
and decisions are made by consensus.
"You set up a race problem when you
bring black students here, and you say
it's a supportive environment, and there
is no support system." one student said
Tuesday as students voted in a campus
election.
Lori Fernald. 20. who is white, was
getting ready to enter Founder's Hall
with her friend. Khamala. 24, a black
senior.
While others sidestepped the question
of whether Guilford had racial problems
before Molly Martin was attacked last
week, these two jumped in head-first.
"People have wanted to have a dia-logue
about race for some time now. and
no one has responded until a white
woman was attacked," Fernald said.
College officials say Martin, the in-cumbent
Student Senate president, was
knocked unconscious Wednesday night.
The attacker then unbuttoned her blouse
and wrote the words "nigger lover"
across her chest, officials said. No arrests
have been made.
The attack occurred in her campus of-fice,
where students say many people -
including non-students - know that she
often worked late at night.
Martin won re-election Tuesday as
part of a four-person ticket that includes
one black person.
The opposition slate, led by Sarah
Morris, also had a black candidate.
Martin has not responded to requests
for interviews, and the school now re-fuses
to release her phone numbers. At a
meeting attended by about 500 students,
faculty and staff last Thursday, she
thanked the campus for its support.
"We're here tonight not to apologize,
try to alone, get defensive, or feel guilty."
she said. "We're here to act."
Students say Martin is no Tawana
Brawley. the black teen-ager who
claimed she was attacked by three while
men in 1987 but whose story was re-jected
by a grand jury.
Nor was the attack the first sign of
trouble in these elections, although it was
the only physical one.
An anonymous letter was circulated
accusing Martin of selecting less quali-fied
blacks over whites for student gov-ernment
positions. The letter-writer
eventually apologized for his methods
but not his beliefs.
Racist fliers also reportedly were dis-tributed
on campus, critical of Martin. A
flier could not be found Tuesday; its con-tent
was unclear.
Kelsey Ryan. 22, a senior and a Stu-
Staff The Board of Trustees at the Univer-sity
of North Carolina at Greensboro
gave final approval Thursday to a com-prehensive
plan that sels the direction of
UNCG for the next three to five years.
UNCG Chancellor Patricia A. Sullivan
recommended approval of the plan to the
trustees and told them that it represents
a year and a half of work by the UNCG
Planning Council.
She also said the UNCG Plan includes
broad input from the campus community.
The plan includes the following stra-tegic
directions for UNCG from now
through the year 2003:
* "UNCG will provide exemplary
learning environments;
* "UNCG will expand its research and
infuse the excitement of scholarship inio
its teaching and learning:
* "UNCG will build a strong sense of
community as a student-centered univer-sity:
* "UNCG will expand its outreach in
the Piedmont Triad, the slate of North
Carolina, and beyond:
* "UNCG will increase its enrollment
by actively recruiting and retaining stu-dents
with the academic preparedness
and potential to succeed in a rigorous
academic environment."
Sullivan said the plan focuses strongly
on UNCG's vision statement, which was
approved by the Board of Trustees in
August of 1996. The vision statement
says, "The University of North Carolina
at Greensboro is a leading student-cen-tered
university, linking the Piedmont
Triad to the world through learning, dis-covery,
and service." Sullivan said. "The
vision statement is an attempt to set
UNCG apart w ithin the UNC system and
among other institutions. It is a balanced
statement that reminds us of our primary
emphasis on students and of our connec-tion
to our community and the wider
world. ...I think that the combination and
the array of programs that we offer gives
us a particular niche within the UNC
system," said Sullivan.
The UNCG Plan also includes "core
values" — which are defined as funda-mental
principles that guide the institu-tion
in carrying out its mission — and
"cornerstones." which are defined as
means by which faculty, students, staff,
alumni and friends will achieve the
University's mission.
Now that the UNCG Plan has been
approved, each division and college or
professional school at UNCG will be ex-pected
to develop or reshape its own plan
consistent with the University's plan.
Sullivan said responsible officers in each
division will be asked to develop goals
and objectives that tie directly into the
UNCG Plan.
She said careful attention will be given
to "monitoring our progress" under the
plan. UNCG now has a headcount en-rollment
of 12.308.
The plan states lhat UNCG seeks
gradual increases in enrollment at all lev-els,
from first-time freshmen to gradu-ate
students.
The plan says UNCG's goals continue
to be: a 0.5 percent annual increase in
UNCG's share of North Carolina college
applicants; a first-time freshmen class no
smaller than 1.600 siudcnls; admission
of students w ith a predicted grade point
average of 2.0 or higher: an increase in
freshman year-to-sophomore y ear reten-tion
of 0.5 percent per year over 1995
levels: and graduate enrollments continu-ing
at the same proportion of overall en-rollment.
The plan also says UNCG w ill expand
its initiatives to recruit outstanding stu-dents.
One of ihe five strategic directions in
the plan says UNCG "will expand its
research and infuse the excitement of
scholarship into its teaching and learn-ing."
The plan states. "As a doctoral univer-sity.
UNCG is committed to research as
an essential part of graduate education.
Indeed, research is a component of an
active learning experience for under-graduates,
graduate students and faculty
members."
In a background memorandum about
the UNCG plan, trustees were told that
this marks the first time since 1983 that
UNCG has developed a comprehensive
planning document to guide the work of
all components of the University.
dent Senate member, called the attack "a
bit of a reality check."
Martin may have been targeted, she
said, because she's "extremely moti-vated.
She can basically kick butt. She's
the person you want to go to if you want
i
to get something done."
Ryan Bek. 21. a junior, said students
have considered Guilford - with 1.300
students. 7 percent of them black - "a
safe haven, and this is kind of catapult-ing
people into the real world."
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