I ' WILSON Old Gold and Black Friday , April 17 , 1987 3 Princeton Professor - Focuses on Religion in Amenca

Assistant News Editor to recruit the best students, be they white, . , black or green. We need to increase the The Student Government President s size of the pool [of applicants]. The larger Select Commission on Race Relations , the pool the better chance we have of getmade public Tuesday the report of its seven ting the' best students.'' m~nths of re_search. The report was ofAlso concerning recruitment of minorificia!JY submitted to Student ~Jc?vernment ty students, the report suggested that an President Stev~ LaMastra April 1. . assistant director of admissions be hired The ~ve ~ ~g~ ~f the report mand be responsible for minority admisclude: mvolvmg mmonti~ ?n the ~ sions. Mayo said, "If they have one [an of trustc:e~· th~ board of :VISitors,, ~d. m assistant director of admissions] for the adthe administration; financ~y. facilitating mission of women, why can't they have the enrollment of more IJI!DOnty s~dents one for minorities?' • at Wake Forest; encouragmg the hiring of more minority faculty; increasing the inThe .re~rt ~so recommended that m~re volvement of minority alumni in student financial w~, m· ~e form of ~;holarships and campus life; and provoking a • 'raised and. other UD!fl~ _sources be made consciousness" among students. available for mmonttes. Anthony Chavis, co-chairman of the The repo~ s~ that Wake ~orest m~t commission said "We feel these are the . make a choice if the school decides to bnng major issu~s, b~t there are others as i~ ~evel of min_ority stude~ts up to. one well. . . we just got the ball rolling" with similar to the national level. It must~ the report's findings. increase its total enrollment or decrease 1ts The report recommended that minorities majori~ en~~llm~~t in o~der .to ~?ng in "be hired in all aspects of campus life" m~r~ ~onties. Chav~s ~d, In ~y as well as be included on the board of oplDlon, 1f we lack a maJonty and bnng trustees and within the administration. in more minority students, they will be Concerning the recruitment and enrollqualified." ment of minority students at Wake Forest, Because only 2. 7 percent of the Wake the report said that "Wake Forest needs Forest faculty is black, the report said, the to increase its minority enrollment level in number of minority faculty members order to make it more reflective of the nashould be increased by means of tional population.'' The report stated that establishing a committee devoted to departthe university would not have to lower its mental hiring, offer competitive salaries for standards to increase minority enrollment. faculty, and add the phrase ''Minorities are Steve Mayo, co-chairman of the comencouraged to apply" to advertisements for mission, said, "There's a myth that we'll job openings. have to lower our standards to admit When asked whether the board of minorities." trustees should admit an unqualified Lamastra said: ''The problem with havminority faculty member over a qualified ing minority students is not a problem of white one: Chavis said, "No. I feel that admissions ... the problem is recruitment Wake Forest will have to actually recruit and increasing the number we're enroll~ qualified minority professors. We have to · ing: ·· If ,we'·re not· recruiting compete .... They're out there, and we students. . . we're neglecting our have to seek them out." respi:lnsibility. See Race, Page ll