The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, March 26, 1982 Page: 3 of 24
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BEYOND THE HEDGES/by Michele Gillespie
UNC study finds racism
experienced by blacks
A study recently completed by
Henry Frierson of the University
of North Carolina School of
Medicine reveals that 63 percent of
UNC black students who answered
a 1981 survey have experienced
some form of racial discrimination
in Chapel Hill.
Out of the 184 black students
who responded to the survey, 41
percent "hardly ever" experienced
racial discrimination at UNC, 48
percent "sometimes," nine percent
"often," and three percent "very
often."
Frierson mailed his questionaire
to a random sampling of UNC
black undergraduates but only 37
percent responded. "We're really
not pleased with the response rate.
A higher response would have given
us more confidence in our findings.
About two-thirds of the responses
came from freshmen and
sophomores." said Frierson.
Part of a national study
conducted by Walter R. Allen of
the Center for Afro-American
Studies at the University of
Michigan, the survey was fairly
consistent with the five other
participating universities — the
University of Michigan, Arizona
State University, Memphis State
University, State University of
New York at Stony Brook, and
UCLA.
Frierson contends that the
survey was useful to the
University, not an indictment. If the
information is taken for what it is
worth, it will certanly be of use."
Harold G. Wallace, Vice
Chancellor for university affairs,
believes the study has been
"somewhat misslabeled" as a
discrimination study.
"It was intended as a survey of
minority students at UNC,"
Wallace explained. "It would give
us some information on the
attrition rate of minorities and why
they succeed or do not succeed. We
hope it will give us insight into
these questions."
TMI called tombstone
for nuclear death plot
"Three Mile Island is the
tombstone on the nuclear
industry's grave," claimed Randy
King, a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
resident and staff coordinator for
the March 28 coalition.
Sponsored by the South Plains
Alternative Resources Coalition,
King spoke to Texas Tech students
in Lubbock on the economic,
technical, and health consequencs
of Three Mile Island (TMI). On
March 28, 1979, the reactor core of
TMI generator No. 2 was exposed
and came within one hour of
meltdown. As large quantities of
radioactivity were released,
200,000 area residents were
evacuated.
"The local and national media
were putting'out confusing and
contradictory information, and
the official information from TMI
couldn't be trusted," King told the
Tech students.
Almost three years later, many
groups in Pennsylvania and
throughout the country have
focused their attention on a wide
range of issues related to nuclear
power. Using legal efforts, these
groups have forced the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission to call
public hearings on the
psychological effects of TMI on
local residents.
"The March 28 Coalition was
formed as a non-violent, direct
action organization by former
members of Three Mile Island
Alert (TMIA — the first
anti-nuclear group in the area)
when TMIA decided to
concentrate on legal issues
surrounding nuclear power," King
explained.
"The Coalition is dedicated to
preventing a future operation of
the TMI reactors," he continued.
"Although the cost of decontam-
inating the damaged reactor (TMI
No. 2) is estimated at more than $ 1
billion, the other reactor (TMI
No.l) was not damaged and may
be re-started in a year or two if they
replace the leaking steam
generator tubes."
Area residents have also
suffered from subsequent medical
and psychological effects,
according to King.
"Insommia, nervousness, lack of
appetite, headaches, rashes,
metallic taste in the mouth, nausea
and diarrhea are common
complaints that have increased
among those living in the 25-mile
radius of TMI," King said.
Seniors undergo frisk
at graduation exercise
At William and Mary, seniors
have learned that they may be
searched for possession of
alcoholic beverages during the
graduation ceremony this year.
Three years ago, the dean of
students remembers, literally
hundreds of champagne corks
popped at once while firecrackers
were lit in the aisles. Added
surveillance over the past two
years has made graduation a
"more dignified event."
Dean of Students Sam Sadler
will not reveal planned measures to
prevent alcohol consumption but
did say that two area coordinators
will stand at each entrance to check
for bottles.
"Actually, it's fairly easy to spot
it (the smuggling in of liquor)
because of the weight and bulk of it
in the hoods and under the robes,"
said Sadler.
Coalition supports left
In UT battle over tenure
Dr. Harry Cleaver, a University
of Texas professor of economics
and one of four self-described
Marxists at UT, has joined with
student leaders to form a coalition
supporting fellow Marxist A1
Watkin's bid for tenure.
Ironically, Watkins and
Cleaver both believe in the
importance of a classless society,
yet Watkins was denied tenure at
the same time Cleave was
promoted.
Both Watkins and Cleaver
assault American capitalism and
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SPACE
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bypass traditional academic
pressure to publish in the "right"
journals. Some students and
faculty blame Watkin's lack of
tenure on adminstrators who did
not recognize Watkin's articles in
Texas Observer and The Nation as
scholarly enough. Others contend
that Watkins was denied tenure
because he is a Marxist and the
government department decided
to "purge" all its leftists.
Cleaver will not speculate on why
he was 'given tenure and why
Watkins was not, but he does
maintain that "the main distinction
between myself and Watkins is
Watkins' involvement with state
and campus politics."
" In a recent student rally
supporting Watkins, Cleaver
stated that Watkin's should be
rehired on the quality of his work.
"Al's work on replacing Keynesian
economics is extremely important.
In the case of Al, the
administration has made a
mistake," Cleaver said.
Cleaver acknowledges the risk of
his ideology. "I have been skeptical
DOOnSBURT
good morning,
president
KING'S OFFICE
..and as president of a prj-
vate instttution, i cannot
EMPHASIZE STRMCYENOU6H
to this committee how cata-
strophic these cm to epuca-
von will be to independent
y colleges!
oh, hi, george! no,
i'm sorry, he$ not
in. hb went down to
d
washington to testify
on the propose? stu-
dent aid cuts.
moreover,.
well put, mr. k1n6!
your testimony
gives heart to
all of us who
care about this
country's top
schools'
moreover, at my college, the
proposed reductions in student
aid will reduce by 29k thenum-
i b£r of stwenb abie t> meet
' their c0sj5. as one consequence,
these cuts will completely alter
the composition of our current
, student body!
nearly
36% of
our.. what arb
you saying
here.mr.kin6?
what do all
these figures
pealvymean7
CAUGHT MY MBAND
TESTIMONY BE- HALfTHa
POPE CONGRESS, m/NTHY
DID YOU ? A
Z/LUON
MESSAGES'
worse. we may have
so is it to make some rad -
as bap as ical changes over
\ we thought. at admissions, king.
' george? \
take a look at these applicant
financial profiles. there's no
way we can keep admitting these
kids regardless of need. what we
desperately need is an ,
INFUSION OF old money, pp ^
NOT AT ALL.
trjpp. i'm
THANKS
GLAD TO HAVE
for fit-
ting me
A CHANCE TO
IN, MR.
corcoran
when YOUR dap called TO
tell mb you were coming
1 down from boarding school
TO lookthe college OVER,
lltPSJUSTPeu6HT-„:
ed! we were in [ (*<
the same class.
you knoou
of the possibility of getting tenure
ever since I started teaching,
because by the time 1 started
teaching I had been actively
involved in the anti-war movement
for four years."
Nevertheless, he realizes the
value of the tenure system.
"Tenure is like the Ford contract.
The workers traded income for job
security...Once you have job
security you're free from
worrying about money, you're free
from worrying about political
pressure. You're free to think."
NO, IDONTTHINK
HE'S TOO WORRIED
ABOUT IT. YOU KNOW
THE SENATE-IT'S
STILL LIKE A BIG
MEN'S CLUB \
HEY, HOW ABOUT
THAT PRJNC&ON DONT RUB
GAME LAST TT IN,
WEEKEND, EH, SENATOR..
KING7
I'M A DARTMOUTH MAN,
UH. MYSELF. MR KING, AND
THANK IF YOU CHERISH YOUR
YOU. SEN- ALMA MATER AS MUCH
ATOR.. AST DO THE BIG GREEN,
YOU'LL KEEP FIGHTING
WITH ALL THE
STRENGTH YOU
CAN MUSTER! ~~~
WELL. SENATOR,
THAT'S WHAT rlWL
I'M TRYING TO. rloH'1
F!6HT!
IN miNCED WORDS,SEN-
ATOR. THEY MEAN THAT
PRIVATE COLLEGES FACE A
CLEAR AND PRESENT DAN-
GBR- THEY ARE ABOUT TD
SUFFER THE MOST DRAMA-
TIC INFUJK OF PREPPIES
SINCE WORLD
LOOK AT
SFfUn/K THESE AERIAL
mm*, photographs
shl' senator. see
thesepink '
and green
spots7
EVERYONE WANTS TO THANK
you FOR SPEAKING OUT SO
FORCEFULLY IN DEFENSE OF
THE STUDENT LOAN PRO -
vGRAMS rr SEEMS
W REALLY STRUCK
A CHORD! \
YES BUT JUST BRAND NAME
poppas P0EPPIE5.0UP0NT.miCN
tiumNT FORP IF WE CAN GET A
FEW DYNASTIES IN HERE,
We WONT HAVE
HMM MOST OF
THESE ARE FROM
THE MIDDLE CLASS
I THOUGHT
SO- A LOT
OF THEM
•'1ENTI0NEV
THF AMERj-
CAS CREAM
totakeso / ^ ■)
hmm. . can
WE KEEP
them away
FPvM THE
vm SURE THEY'D
PREFER it. I'LL
JUST GET one of
them to GIVE US
A dorm V-r>
ft
MANY
I DONT THINK YOU NEED
YEAH I MUCH f€U> TRJPP. I'VE
KNOW. THAT LOOKED AT YOUR fECCRD
WILL HELP AHD TVS VERY, very
IF I APPLY, IMPRESSIVE'
WONT IT? \(
NO BIG DEAL
ARE VU LETS TALK
ZLijM ABOUT YOUR
mm trust rind.
THREE
SUBJECTS
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Grob, Jay. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, March 26, 1982, newspaper, March 26, 1982; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245498/m1/3/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.