The Carolinian [October 17, 1996]

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Thursday,
October 17,1996
Midnight Madness:
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Men's Soccer:
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Issue 15,
Volume 76
Late-Night Madness...
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Ku .ii (In Trevisan pulls up for a jumpshot at the Midnight Madness scrimmage
Monday night In Fleming Gymnasium.
Foundation gives
$84,000 to UNCG for
nursing fellowships
Coble answers questions
for UNCG community
Chris Binkowski
Sniff Writer
Howard Coble is running for a seventh
term in Congress from the 6th district of
North Carolina. The following is an in-terview
conducted with Coble and his
press secretary, Edward McDonald, on
Tuesday, Oct. 15.
[he Carolinian: How do you feel about
career opportunities for college students?
Coble: That is a fair question, I am not
sure I have an accurate answer. Edward,
do you have an opinion?
McDonald: I am so far removed from
college I don't know.
Coble: I feel I do not have enough right
now to give a good answer. I think that,
in general, colleges are keeping up. al-though
our public schools are obviously
not doing something right, with our low
national ranking But overall, I think col-leges
are doing well.
McDonald: Just a general thought - I
would like to see more Conservative pro-fessors
in the classroom. The stereotype
is for college professors to be on the lib-eral
side. Colleges in general arc more left
wing than right wing.
The Carolinian: You think this is a bad
notion?
McDonald: As a right winger, yea.
Coble: In my contact with college stu-dents,
many tell me that most of their pro-fessors
come to them from the liberal side.
But I ask the students if they are penal-ized
for their conservative beliefs by these
Liberal professors. The answer is most
often no, and that is the way it should be.
Neither Liberal nor Conservative profes-sors
should ever penalize a student for
opposing political beliefs.
The Carolinian: How do you feel about
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Thursday:
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High 75-80;
50% chance of pm showers
Friday:
Mostly Cloudy
Highs in upper 60's;
70% chance of rain
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race relations in this country? Do you
think that people are treated equally?
Coble: Well, I think the issue of civil
rights is surrounded by tension. It is a very
volatile issue in this country. People are
not treated equally here in this country
nor anywhere else in the world. But, I do
believe that we have come a long way in
this country.
Arc you familiar with the Hayes-Tay-lor
YMCA? This is a YMCA (on Market
Streel) that I was responsible for getting
them a grant. They were refurbishing their
building, which had fallen into disrepair.
It was in terrible condition. They now
have a new YMCA done there Part of
my modesty, bui I gol them a nice grant.
When I got them that grant, someone said
"You're crazy! Black citizens do not vote
for you." I said, "I am not getting this
grant for votes." He said, "Then why are
you doing it?" 1 said. "I did not get this
grant for voles down here, because essen-tially
black residents do not vote for Re-publican
congressmen."
At (the dedication) I looked across the
crowd and said, "I got this grant to case
race relations in my city." Afterwards
people came up and said that this helped
relations. Give the black community a
decent place to play basketball, volley-ball
and swim. It was not a decent place
before. It was ready for the wreckingball.
Race relations arc a problem in this
country. Who is to blame? Whites, Blacks,
Reds, Yellows, men and women all carry
some of the blame. I believe there is no
substitute for open lines of communica-tion
between the different segments of
society - people listening to one another
and trying to understand me, and me try-ing
to understand them.
The Carolinian: How do you feel about
affirmative action?
Coble: I believe it is outdated. When it
was established 25 years ago, it probably
was a vehicle needed at the time to ad-dress
wrong doings. These wrong doings
had been affected on minorities and fe-males
of the workplace. I believe that it
may well be time to discontinue quotas
and affirmative action. Everybody should
now stand up and be graded on competi-tion.
The Carolinian: You have been in con-gress
for 12 years. Why are you running
again?
Coble: Well, I will tell you why I ran
the first time. I became tired of seeing
congress squandering away tax money
See Interview, Page 2
From Staff Reports
The Emma and Victor Bates Fellow-ship
in Gerontological Nursing has been
established in the School of Nursing at
UNCG through an $84,000 gift from the
Victor Bates Foundation Inc.
Establishment of the new graduate fel-lowship
program was announced at a din-ner
on Wednesday, Oct. 2, which was
hosted by UNCG Chancellor Patricia
Sullivan. The gift was made as part ol The
Second Century Campaign for UNCG,
the institution's $42.8 million capital
fund drive that is underway now.
The event was altended by UNCG of-ficials,
Louis and Joan Bales of Greens-boro,
who are the couple's son and daugh-ter-
in-law, trustees of the Bales Founda-tion,
and the first recipients of Bates Fel-lowships.
"This gift is a continuation of the fi-nancial
support my parents have given the
nursing program throughout the past
years," said Louis Bates, who is a trustee
of the Victor Bates Foundation. "We are
very pleased to offer fellowships to dedi-cated
nurses who continue their educa-tion
in Gerontological nursing."
Louis Bates earlier served as vice presi-dent
and then in the 1970s became presi-dent
of Bates Nitewear. ihe company his
parents founded. He continual in that post
until 1989. He currently is a consultant
to Guilford Mills. He is a member of the
School of Nursing Advisory Board. He
also serves on the advisory board for the
UNCG Department of Clothing and Tex-tiles.
At the dinner, it was also announced
that $4,(KK) of the total is being used to
fund the initial Bates Fellowships this
year. Recipients for the 1996-97 year are
graduate students Carroll Spinks and Tho-mas
Callahan, both of Walnut Cove. The
Gerontological nurse practitioner pro-gram
at UNCG trains nurses for work
with the elderly. The Bates Fellowships
will support the tuition and books, along
with costly medical equipment that the
graduate students will need in this degree
program.
Dr. Lynnc G. Pearcey, dean of the
UNCG School of Nursing, said that Louis
Bates has continued his parents' interest
in the school. "I want to thank Lou and
Joan for helping to bring this wonderful
gift to the School of Nursing," said
Pearcey. "Lou has come to understand the
complexities of meeting the health care
needs of the elderly because of the ill-nesses
of his parents, who were strong
supporters of this school."
"The Emma and Victor Bates Fellow-ships
in Gerontological Nursing will
touch many lives in the years to come.
Graduate students will have opportunities
for greater levels of education, training
and service. And many elderly citizens,
no doubt, will benefit as well."
The new fellowships honor Emma
Bates and the late Victor Bates, who died
in July 1993. Since 1985, the couple made
gifts totaling $100,000 to the UNCG
School of Nursing. First, they gave
$5(),(KK) to establish the Victor and Emma
Bates Scholarship Fund. They followed
that with a gift of $50,000 in 1990 to es-tablish
the School of Nursing Endowment
Fund.
Novelist emerges
as early target of
cultural cleansing
Rone Tempest
limes/Post News Service
BEIJING—Sitting in a cocktail lounge of
a five-star hotel, chain smoking Ameri-can
cigarettes and drinking coffee, nov-elist
Wang Shuo managed a brave smile,
though he hardly looked like one of the
tough-guy characters in his popular fic-tion
about China's criminal underground.
One of this nation's most successful
writers—author of 20 best-selling books,
a hit television series and several mov-ies—
Wang, 38, has emerged as one of the
first casualties of a cultural cleansing
campaign launched nationwide by the
Chinese Communist Party.
In an interview here, Wang said publi-cation
of his collected works had been
halted under orders from party propa-ganda
officials. Two of his most recent
film projects, including "Relations Be-tween
Men and Women," a movie about
adultery, also have been banned by offi-cials,
he said.
Alarmed that China's rapid economic
development has been accompanied by a
parallel moral decline, the pany launched
the first stages of its "spiritual civiliza-tion"
cleanup campaign earlier this year.
The campaign was formally endorsed at
the plenary meeting of senior party offi-cials
in Beijing last week and detailed in
a giant 15,(XM)-character manifesto call-ing
for increased political control of vir-tually
all aspects of cultural life, includ-ing
publishing, film, television and the
press.
The pany document, released Sunday,
called for "macro-control over press and
publishing circles." Publications that do
not toe the line, it warned, should be "ear
See China, Page 3
Jordan's King Visits West Bank to Support Arafat
Rebecca Trounson
Times/Post News Service
JERICHO, West Rank—King Hussein
offered a dramatic gesture Tuesday in sup-port
of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat,
as the Jordanian monarch made his first
public visit to the West Bank in almost
30 years to discuss the troubled Mideast
peace process.
Hussein, the first Arab leader to travel
to the autonomous Palestinian area, said
his landmark visit was intended to help
speed the pace of Israeli-Palestinian ne-gotiations
over Israel's overdue with-drawal
of its troops from the Wesi Bank
city of Hebron. But the king, who has
been critical of Israeli delays in the
Hebron redeployment, said he was not
trying to pressure the government of Is-raeli
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu.
"The problem lies in the slow pace of
implementing what has been agreed
upon," Hussein said at a news conference
with Arafat.
Arafat and Hussein—whose relation-ship
has often been stormy—addressed
each other warmly Tuesday as they stood
at neighboring lecterns, praising each
other for their efforts for peace. They also
were united in their insistence that Israel
should move quickly on the issue of
Hebron.
"We have one position," Arafat said,
looking toward the king. "We have a com-plete
understanding that there should be
the implementation of everything that has
been agreed upon."
The king's visit came as negotiations
over Hebron reached a critical stage. Is-raeli
and Palestinian negotiators held an-other
round of intensive, small group dis-cussions
in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Tues-day
with formal negotiations expected to
resume soon, perhaps as early as Wednes-day
in the Egyptian resort of Taba. But
the two sides offered differing accounts
of their progress.
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SGA Vice President James Howard takes a deep breath at the podium Tuesday. The talkative assembly generated frustration
among BOA members who were anxious to start the meeting.