Banner Graphic, Volume 20, Number 219, Greencastle, Putnam County, 21 May 1990 — Page 2
A2
THE BANNERGRAPHIC May 21,1990
Most college campuses are slow to react to racism, ‘spot check’ finds
By LEE MITGANG AP Education Writer Few colleges or universities are taking all the steps experts believe are needed to stamp out campus racism. Many schools have established committees to address bigotry. Others have offered special scholarships and stepped up recruiting of minority students and faculty. Still others are requiring students to take courses about racism or minority issues or attend orientation sessions on race relations. BUT A SPOT CHECK of schools around the country by The Associated Press found only a handful taking the comprehensive approach experts feel is necessary to quell the recent rise in campus bigotry. “My greatest criticism of these efforts is that, although they are often genuine, they tend to be piecemeal, not comprehensive. In many instances, campuses that have racial incidents rush to do something immediately to fill a gap,” said Reginald Wilson, senior scholar at the American Council on Education and an authority on campus race relations. HE AND OTHERS said the fault often lies at the top with college presidents who fail to take the lead in combating racism or even recognize it as a serious problem. “It has to start from the top with policy statements that racism and the other ‘isms’ won’t be tolerated,” said Barry Beckham, a
Iliescu appears headed for Romanian landslide
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) National Salvation Front, a group dominated by former Communists, appeared headed for a landslide victory in Romania’s first free elections in more than half a century. The first official returns showed Iliescu with a commanding lead in the presidential race, capturing 78 percent of 6,000 ballots counted in the western city of Timisoara. THE NATIONAL Liberal Party’s candidate, Radu Campeanu, was second with 15 percent The National Peasant Party’s lon Ratiu
" TAKE IT OFF AND KEEP IT OFF!! BE A HAPPY NEW YOU THIS SUMMER
$ 4 75* I ■ ■ per week COUPON offer expires May 31,1990 We offer: •GUARANTEED Results •Fast or Gradual Weight Loss Programs •Behavioral Sessions •Stabilization and Maintenance Programs • Individualized Counseling 2-3 Times Per Week By Trained Staff Who Care. •Free Optional Use of Our Exercise Facilities ‘Special offer on office visits based on one year program.
Call NOW for a FREE Consultation (317) 653-2844 Diet Techniques Weight Clinique 7 N. College St., Greencastle, IN Doing Business Since 1976
former English professor at Hampton University in Virginia who started a bi-monthly national newsletter this year, “The Black Student Advisor.” About one-quarter of the nation’s college presidents consider racism a problem on their campus, according to a study published last month by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Too many campuses have “sought to sidestep rather than confront the issue,” that report concluded. ADMINISTRATORS at the University of Texas-Austin came in for criticism last month when two fraternities painted racial epithets on a car and sold T-shirts with a “Sambo” caricature. “I am embarrassed to be associated with an institution that hasn’t addressed the issue more strongly that it has,” women’s basketball coach Jody Conradt said. The University of Oregon in Eugene last year strengthened its student conduct code prohibiting racial harassment. It also required students to take a course in race or gender studies. BUT ANDY CLARK, a black senior who is student body president, said courses he’s taken on black women writers, black power in the Civil Rights movement, and race, class and ethnic groups in the United States were all taught by whites. Earlier this month, University of Washington President William Gerberding made remarks at a banquet disparaging to a Mexican-born student. Gerberding apologized and
was third with seven percent. The counting began today, and final results were expected on Friday. A West German exit poll of 16,000 voters announced on nationwide TV while voters were still casting ballots early today showed Iliescu winning 83 percent of the votes nationwide. Campeanu was second with 11 percent, and Ratiu trailed with six percent. THE TWO OPPOSITION candidates alleged numerous instances of fraud in Sunday’s balloting. Some foreign observers,
1 lost 100 lbs. and 101 5 /< in. and went from a size 40 to a size 12. - ij ,f,can 17/ do it, anyone can. / |fl Betty
agreed to take a racial sensitivity course. Black Student Union president Michelle Gordon called the Seattle campus “very racist. The tension is real high here.” AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY assistant dean of students Pamela Freeman said several committees formed to deal with racism have helped ease tensions on campus. But last year, the offices of the university’s president, Thomas Ehrlich, who is Jewish, and Michael Gordon, the dean of student affairs, who is black, were spray-painted with anti-Semitic and anti-black slogans. On the other hand, ACE’s Wilson and others praise University of Michigan president James J. Duderstadt for taking effective and wide-ranging actions to improve relations at one of the nation’s more racially tom campuses. DUDERSTADT NAMED a vice provost for minority affairs, invested nearly $4 million in the Center for Afro-American and African Studies and boosted the budget for attracting minority faculty. Duderstadt has also developed a “Michigan Mandate,” a yearly blueprint for increasing campus diversity. Next fall for the first time, the school will offer an interdisciplinary course on racism. The result: minority enrollment is up 25.6 percent since 1987, and the school has hired 76 additional minority faculty members. Applications by black students for next fall’s freshman class increased
however, said that although there were some irregularities, they were not significant enough to alter the outcome. The Central Electoral Bureau estimated that at least 85 percent of Romania’s 16.8 million eligible voters turned out to choose a president and 506 representatives to the two-chamber parliament. The National Salvation Front, which has run Romania since the bloody December revolution that ousted dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, won a projected 66 percent of the vote for seats in parliament, said
Affidavit on file
26 percent. Other colleges battling racism have met resistance. UNIVERSITY OF Wisconsin officials say they have fewer racial incidents with the help of a 3-year-old plan called “design for diversity,” providing for the recruitment and retention of minority faculty and students as well as mentor programs for minorities. But the school has run afoul of the American Civil Liberties Union for adopting a rule prohibiting “comments, epithets or other expressive behavior directed at an individual” if it demeans the person’s race, sex, religion, color, creed, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry or age, or creates a hostile environment on campus. SOME WHITE students at the University of Texas felt unfairly targeted at campus demonstrations last month. “As a heterosexual white male, I feel like there’s going to be a rally against me out here, even though I personally have not done anything,” said Mark Bunger. A columnist for Vanderbilt University’s student paper sparked a war of words in March by calling the school’s minority recruitment efforts reverse discrimination and accusing the campus black cultural center of perpetuating racism. “While some students may wish that some special programs were not in place, Vanderbilt has established diversity as a goal,” Vanderbilt Provost Charles Kiesler said.
the West German poll. The poll was conducted by the West German polling group INFAS at the invitation of the Romanian government. UN SECOND PLACE was the National Liberal Party with about 10 percent of the votes, the poll said. The party representing the country’s 2-million Hungarian minority had 6 percent, the Ecological Movement had 5 percent, and the Peasant Party had 3.5 to 4 percent, according to the poll. No margin of error was given: If the exit poll proves correct, the Front would be able to govern alone with a parliamentary majority, dashing the opposition parties’ hopes of forcing Iliescu to form a coalition government. Iliescu, a 60-year-old former Communist Party secretary who fell out of favor with Ceausescu, had no comment on the West German poll, the state news agency Rompress reported. But he praised citizens for their high turnout and calm behavior. CAMPEANU AND Ratiu both of whom returned to Romania early this year after many years in exile condemned the poll. “I find the (projected) results ex-
Hubble’s first shots are seen on Earth
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) The first photo series from the Hubble Space Telescope was supposed to be just an engineering test, but it surprised scientists by revealing an unsuspected double star. Hubble’s inaugural photo sequence, taken from its orbit 381 miles above the Earth, showed bright, crisp stars against a black background, with much clearer images than seen in a picture taken by a ground-based telescope of the same part of the heavens. “FANTASTIC,” James Westphal, the principal scientist for the camera used in the first photo exercise, said Sunday. “We are just as pleased as punch at this point.
~ ) n ion Optical Center Buy 1 Pair Glasses Get 1 Pair Free* ‘When you buy one complete pair in single vision or FT 28 bifocal at our regular price, you get one pair free. CR 39 lenses. Choose from our complete line of fashion frames including designer names. •Restrictions on special prescriptions •Tint, UV and scratch guard extra •No other discounts apply (Eye exam not Included) oPENpwns. I 653-2751 | ..cioseo.. Tm.BP.it, Putnam "“"iSV’’ 5 Count V Plaza Kasterart.vin (Next to Wal-Mwl)
Hoosier campuses show sign of racism, as well
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Despite sincere efforts by college officials to encourage students to tolerate racial and cultural diversity, there are signs of racism on Indiana college campuses. That’s the preliminary conclusion of the Indiana chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which held a series of public hearings last spring to gauge the extent of racism on seven Indiana college campuses. THOSE HEARINGS revealed several racist incidents, including physical and verbal attacks on black students, which suggests that racist feelings remain a disturbing part of campus life in Indiana, says Franklin Breckenridge, president of the Indiana chapter of the NAACP. While the findings are consistent with nationwide studies, Breckenridge says he is worried that college campuses are no longer centers of independent thought and ethnic tolerance. “In the past, many people considered the university setting to be more enlightened and tolerant than society at large. That seems not to be the case anymore,” said Breckenridge, who is concerned about the low numbers of black students and faculty at the seven universities. THE SCHOOLS ARE: Indiana, Purdue, Ball State, Indiana State, DePauw, Wabash College and Indiana-Purdue at Indianapolis. At Indiana University, the
aggerated, monstrously so. They remind of the returns in Ceausescu’s time,” Campeanu told Rompress, referring to the big margins the former dictator claimed in previous rigged elections. He added that he had received “information of very serious irregularities.” Some 500 foreign observers spread out through the country to monitor the elections. “I’M VERY PLEASED so far with what I’ve seen,” said New Mexico Gov. Garrey E. Carruthers, leader of the U.S. Presidential Observer Delegation. “We have no doubt that in some particulars the election was flawed,” said Roy Hattersley, deputy leader of Britain’s Labor Party. Voters relished the chance to cast ballots in their first free election since 1937. In Timisoara, the cradle of the violent December revolution that toppled Ceausescu, Vancea Aurel, 78, a retired civil engineer, was elated as he waited to cast his ballot for the National Liberal Party. “UNTIL DECEMBER, I was
Our image is significantly better than we were concerned that it might be.” Westphal said the Hubble pictures clearly show that an image which appeared in ground-based photos to be only a single star was. in fact, a rare binary star. The space telescope pictures showed two overlapping points of light, instead of a single blob as seen in a picture taken by a Chilean observatory. “We didn’t know it was a double star,” said Westphal. NASA OFFICIALS had said Hubble’s initial images would be only “an engineering test” that was being used to meet the ceremonial requirements for the “first light”
offices of President Thomas Ehrlich, who is Jewish, and Michael Gordon, the dean of student affairs, who is black, were defaced with spray-painted anti-semitic and anti-black slogans last year. Lorei McGee, president of the IU Black Student Union, says she feels racism is a growing problem on the campus. She said that it was not until reports of* overt racism surfaced that the university initiated the formation of a number of task forces to deal with the problem. “I KNOW OFF TOO many instances of verbal abuse on campus,” said McGee, who says she knows of at least three black students who were physically abused by whites in recent months. The door to another student’s residence hall was set on fire because he had tacked a pamphlet to it advertising an anti-apartheid concert and rally, she said. In reaction to those and other acts against Asian, Hispanic and gay students, the Students Organized Against Racism formed last March to improve the climate on the Bloomington campus. PURDUE UNIVERSITY’S director of affirmative action, Paul Bayless, says he has not seen any increase in racial agitation on the campus even though minority enrollment has grown during the last few years. He notes that this spring Purdue students elected their first black student body president.
n *7’ J] ■ Tp
lON ILISCEAU Carried Timisoara
convinced that neither I nor my children would ever take part in free elections,” said Aurel, who voted in the 1937 elections. Opposition parties have claimed Iliescu is a “neo-Comm unist” who would merely continue the old system under a new name. Iliescu, who took over as interim president after Ceausescu’s execution, has denied the allegations. He says he wants to lead the country toward social democracy.
pictures that are traditional for a new telescope. But a delighted Westphal said the pictures were worthy of serious study. “Boy, we could get lots of science out of this right now,” he said. Lennard Fisk, the associate administrator for science at NASA, said the quality of the pictures proved the design and testing of the costly telescope. “I’M DELIGHTED,” he said. “It’s two times better than we thought it would be.” The quality of the photos brought cheers from National Aeronautics and Space Administration engineers who have had to solve a series of problems with the telescope since it was launched last month by a space shuttle.
Banner Graphic (USPS 142-020) Consolidation of The Dally Banner Established 1850 The Herald The Dally Graphic Established 1883 Telephone 853-5151 Published daily except Sunday and Holidays by Banner Graphic, lac. at 100 North Jackson St., Greencastle, IN 48135. Second-dace postage paid at Greencastle, IN. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Banner Graphic, P.O. Box 500, Greencastle, IN 48135 Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier *1.40 Per Week, by motor route *1.45 Mall Subscription Ratos R.R. In Rest of <* Putnam County Indlaha U.S.A. 3 Months *20.30 *20.70 *22.20 8 Months *37.80 *38.50 *42.80 1 Year *73.40 *75.00 **4.70 Mail subscriptions payable In advanco.net accepted In town and whore motor route service Is available. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press Is entitled oxduslvoly to the see for republication of all tho local news printed In this newspaper.