THE DAILY CAMPUS Wednesday, October 3,1990 The independent newspaper serving the SMU community since 1915 Vol. 76 No. 25 Price urges an 'equitable society' By BRITTA ERICKSON issues but to understand. Dallas papers send subliminal together. A boat doesn't half Contributor to The Daily Campus He said the city has a prob­ messages through their choice sink and Dallas is a boat." lem because there are so many of photographs. Price proposed to the mem­ John Wiley Price, Dallas problems between North and Things such as this further bers of the class that they set County commissioner, dis­ South Dallas, especially in the fuel the stereotypes that blacks up a project to help "ungird" cussed issues facing SMU, reporting found in the Dallas and other minorities residing in Dallas' black community. He Dallas and specifically the black newspapers. South Dallas are trying to over­ spoke of the 20,000 minority community Tuesday with stu­ For example, when a crime is come, he said. gang members in Dallas and dents in Clarence Glover's committed by a member of the Price said that there are as how if they are given no hope Black and White class. Oak Cliff community the papers many drug deals made in North then things will not get better. "I'm not here to make people use the label an Oak Cliff man. Dallas as there are in South "If they have no hope, they comfortable; I'm here to make But if a crime is committed by a Dallas. might as well wipe you out," you think," Price said. member of the Highland Park "I want this to be an equi­ Price said. In an interview following the community the papers simply table society. America must be Price said that Glover's class lecture, Price said he agreed to say a Dallas man as the label, America for all of us. Dallas is a step in the right direction phoUt by Ktitfrne (•HylAn speak because he wants stu­ he said. must be Dallas for all of us," Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price dents not only to listen to the Price also said* that the Price said. "We're all in this Please see PRICE speaks to an SMU class about race relations page 2. Wednesday. Student robbed President Car stolen at gunpoint questions By KIM RADTKE and CAKY PIERCE Contributors to The Daily Campus Two men stole an SMU student's car from a parking lot behind Fondren Library Monday night after threatening the woman at gun­ Duke stats point, according to Department of Public Is Safety reports. The woman, who asked not to be identified, By MONICA C. NEAL lie said the number of com­ repeated the testimony Wednesday that she Staff Writer for Th<* Daily Campus pleted applications did decline gave DPS the night before. 15 percent, from 13,420 last year Duke and Vanderbilt univer­ The woman pulled into a parking space in to 11,fi08 this year. sities reported inaccurate infor­ the front of the F-lot on the east side of Despite this decline, Duke mation by stating that applicant Fondren at about 9:30 p.m. As she was getting enrollment increased this year. pools and first-year enrollment out of her 1985 Honda Accord, she saw one A Duke admissions officer did not suffer this year, man coming toward her door. said the university accepted President A. Kenneth Pye said In a panic, she shut her door but before she 3,879 of its applicants this year, Tuesday. could lock it, he opened the door and cocked a although an earlier report had Pye said Duke President small silver hand gun at her. said the university accepted Keith Brodie told him in She did not see the other man because the 3,377. February that the school's appli­ lighting was very poor. Admissions officer .John cant pool was down 15 percent, "There should be better lighting, and service Sheehan said the school accept­ although admissions officers trucks should not be parked there. No one ed more students than usual to have since said the decrease was could see me and that is the worst feeling." compensate for the smaller only 6 or 7 percent. A minute later the second man tapped on applicant pool. SMU officials have attributed the passenger window. The first man told her "But then they made it to the its 241-student drop in first-year to unlock the passenger door, but she did not Final Four (of the NCAA basket­ enrollment to a nationwide do it. ball tournament)," Pye said. trend iri declining enrollments She was told to give him her wallet, leave "And when a university makes it caused by fewer high school the keys in the car. She got out of the car and to the Final Four more students graduates. started to walk away. After she heard one of want to come, so they had a According to a Daily Campus the men yell "shoot," she ran behind a van higher yield." study Duke and Vanderbilt did parked in the lot. Both Pye and SMU admis­ not suffer application and enroll­ She said she did not hear a car pull away. sions director Andrew Bryant ment declines this year, which She ran for the library and screamed help said Duke's high enrollment photo by Craham Buichuni contradicts SMU administrators' three times to a couple of men and women . No decreased the number of stu­ Sophomores Mark Thompson and Craig Schoenfeld place gourds claims. one responded, she said. dents available to attend other on a Sukkah near Clements Hall to celebrate the Jewish thanksgiv­ "Not many admissions officers She walked to the library to get help, and universities, such as Vanderbilt ing Sukkot, which begins at sundown tonight. are going to tell a reporter from DPS arrived three minutes later. DPS recov­ and SMU. another school that they experi­ ered her car Tuesday. "In overaccepting, they take enced a major drop in enroll­ more students who would have ment," Pye said. gone to Vanderbilt or SMU.It An official in Brodic'a office took students we could have who would not identify herself had," Pye said. GERMANY REBORN said the discrepancy was caused Pye has said SMU would not by Duke's two-part application accept more students to compen­ The Student Senate process. sate for the enrollment losses, David Roberson, Duke direc­ Profs discuss nation's future Admissions Committee even though the decline will cost tor of university relations, said the university about $1 million adds needless bureau­ the admissions officers' reports By VICKIE GORTON in expected tuition revenues. cracy. Contributor to The Daily Campus to The Daily Campus were Overaccepting students, he said, Students celebrate change based on initial applications, in compromises the quality of the The joining of East and West By MELANY PACE East Germany." which high school students pay student body. an application fee and say they Germany midnight Wednesday Contributor (o He Daily Campus Sranz, however, said everyone Meadows Museum hires Bryant said, "When a school plan to apply. Brodie's state­ began a process of redrawing will be better off after the first new Spanish art curator. goes far into its applicant pool political, economic and military They're far away from home few years of sacrifices have been ment of a 15 percent decline was like Duke did by exceeding their boundaries — a dress rehearsal at this important time in their made. based upon the second, complet­ expected matriculation, they for the integration of European nation's history, but. some "I think it's great," Adelheid ed applications, he said. take students away from other markets in 1992, SMU experts German students at SMU are Grossfeld said "It will be a lot of "The discrepancy is probably schools, or us. And if they take in German and international excited and pleased with the hard work, and there will be The men's cross based on the fact that we have a some students from Vanderbilt, affairs said. developments taking place with some problems because of the country team failed to two-part admissions process. say, Vanderbilt may take stu­ ; The two Germanys ended 45 the; reunification of their home­ differences between East and defend its title at the Some people apply but then are dents who would have come land. accepted by another school so years of division with a blaze of West Germany,'' she said, but second annual Quality fireworks and the pealing of Vera Sranz said she is very they never complete the Duke Please see DUKE Bhe remains positive about the Inn-SMU Invitational. church bells Wednesday, declar­ happy to see the political arid changes that are taking place. application," Roberson said. page 2. lio. Pets ing the creation of a new economic:reunion of the nation "I'm just sad that I'm not fcnience. German nation in the heart of • and that the; first 10 years after there right now to see what is |ersity 2 Europe. the reunification will be very happening because here it is 3 room, In Berlin, near the ruins of hard but worth it. hard to get news," Grossfeld Senate funds lobbying council location. 1 month. Hitler's citadel in the city that "The west part has to help said. symbolized the Cold War divi­ East Germany," she said. "There "A year ago no one thought By KJUSTA WILSON The idea for funding a lobbyist said that 300 students lobbying |G or two Staff Writer of The Daily CumpuH sion of Europe, the German flag will have to be sacrifices such as this would be possible," she said.