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Gasp! BOG wants us to graduate
The General Assembly and the Board of Gover
nors are hot on the trail of lazy students who waste
taxpayers’ money.
After complaints from legislators, the BOG adopted
a set of policies that could increase the four-year
graduation rate of students in the UNC system. By
doing so, the BOG is trying to reduce the amount of
state money spent subsidizing the education of stu
dents who see undergraduate status as a five-year
vacation.
Students on all the UNC campuses will be ex
pected to enroll in 15 hours each semester. Expected,
but not required. Each school will be required to print
the expectation of a full course load in all catalogs
and orientation materials. Many students live in a
dreamworld where it is possible to take 12 hours a
few semesters and still graduate in four years. This
policy may dispel that fantasy.
The plan also will restructure “four-year” bacca
laureate programs that require more than 128 semes
ter hours. The BOG recognizes that it’s unreasonable
to expect a student to complete more than 128 hours
in four years. That’s an average of 16 hours per
semester, clearly an unfair expectation.
By far the most constructive decision was to in
crease resources for on-campus employment through
out the system, which should help students with
financial difficulties finish on time.
Of special interest to UNC students is the require
ment that each campus review its course schedules
dating back three years. The review will evaluate
whether vital courses have been offered with enough
sections. When courses only are offered once in two
or three years and one section is available, it’s nearly
Helms and Gardner plant only sour grapes
The proud and the powerful of North Carolina
gathered Saturday to inaugurate anew governor and
share in the promise of anew era for N.C. govern
ment. But noticeably absent from the festivities were
two of the state’s top political leaders, two men who
claim to be humble crusaders for the good of North
Carolina.
Instead of swallowing their partisan pride, Sen.
Jesse Helms and outgoing Lt. Gov. Jim Gardner
chose to play the petty politics. It appears this
dastardly duo couldn’t deign to put in even a polite
cameo appearance at the inaugural ceremonies.
Why the absence? Gardner, obviously still nursing
his battered ego after his defeat to Hunt, mumbled
something about a scheduling conflict. But Helms,
for whom party has always meant more than prin
ciple, didn’t even honor the affair with an excuse.
If the two empty chairs were not enough, the class
act of retiring Gov. Jim Martin shamed the partisan
pair. With a solid handshake and sincere smile,
Martin handed over the reins of state government. In
Pizza delivery held captive by the Noid
Although the Gumby’s management is to blame
for that company’s absence on the UNC meal-card
plan, Carolina Dining Services officials should con
sider revamping their crusty strategies.
As it currently stands, students may use their meal
cards to order pizza only from Domino’s and Pizza
Hut, two of the most expensive vendors in town. It’s
no surprise that CDS, which makes a significant
profit on pizza sales, isn’t concerned about the mis
take that left Gumby’s (one of Chapel Hill’s least
expensive pizza places) off the plan.
In addition, it’s no shock that CDS didn’t accept
applications from Chanelo’s Pizza, Oliverio’s Pizza
and Subs and PTA. CDS’s decision to allow only two
vendors on the meal plan is unfair.
But, like we said, it’s no shock. After all, Marriott,
which runs CDS, is trying to milk as much money out
of its contract as possible. And if students had other
dining services from which they could choose—that
is, if Marriott didn’t possess a monopoly granted by
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impossible for students to complete all the require
ments for their majors. Every semester, the course
schedule booklet becomes thinner and thinner, and it
becomes increasingly difficult for students to take
the classes they desperately need.
Each system school also must adequately address
the urgent need for helpful advising during the fresh
man and sophomore years. If this means increasing
the number of advisers or lengths of advising peri
ods, so be it. Students (especially freshmen) need to
be told what is required of them, and should not be
expected to receive this information from the stars.
The BOG’s recommendations are sound and should
boost the percentage of students graduating in four
years, but they fail to ensure student cooperation. If
students who unnecessarily take extra years to gradu
ate were required to pay for the full price of their fifth
year of education —another incentive to get out of
town on time four-year graduation rates would
increase dramatically.
Of course, exceptions to this rule should be made
for financial difficulty, study abroad, illness, ex
traordinary extracurricular involvement, etc.
But sheer laziness and ignorance are not excuses
for students who continue to drain N.C. taxpayers’
pockets after four years. Students must remember
that for every one of them, there are 10 people who
wanted their spot and didn’t get it. Stretching out an
undergraduate career to take life easy or sample the
various sins Franklin Street offers merely denies
educational opportunities for others.
Students who prolong the privilege of enrollment
still would get away with it. But they —and not the
citizens of North Carolina should foot the bill.
turn, Hunt thanked M artin for his years of service and
pledged to pursue many of Martin’s pet projects.
In his inaugural address, the new Lt. Gov. Dennis
Wicker said, “We may belong to different parties,
but we are all North Carolinians.” Had they been
there to hear it, Gardner and Helms probably would
have looked a tad uneasy.
Even the coziest of relationships must begin some
where usually with simple courtesy. The citizens
of North Carolina rightfully expect their elected
leaders to maintain proper decorum or at least avoid
the terribly tacky. Helms and Gardner have proved
themselves unable to build effective working rela
tionships that cross party lines.
The christening of Hunt’s term at the helm of
North Carolina’s government was not filled with
promise of anew era of cooperation. Instead, Helms
and Gardner chose to spoil die beginning of the new
administration with sour grapes.
For the next four years, the greatest loss will be
what might have been.
the state of North Carolina —then such a strategy
would be acceptable and understandable. Free enter
prise is indeed the name of the game.
But the fact is that Marriott does have a responsi
bility to use its monopoly wisely and in the students’
interests. Company officials do not have a free
market license to aim only for the bottom line in the
case of UNC, which granted Marriott the right to
provide the service.
CDS should rework the meal plan to allow a
variety of off-campus vendors the right to join up.
Gumby’s and other delivery businesses, such as sub
shops, would be beneficial both for CDS and for the
students who buy the ala carte plan.
Placing off-campus vendors on the ala carte meal
plan is a creative way to serve the needs of students,
local vendors and CDS. But Marriott’s continued
abuse of its monopoly isii’t a light issue. CDS has a
responsibility to give the students a choice and stop
strangling local merchants.
Woman angry to be living in a man’s world
Nothing too horrible has happened
to me. At least, not for a while.
Not since fourth grade when my
mother’s boyfriend French-kissed me
and then told me he was ticklish “down
there.” Not since I was twelve, when a
man— a man I trusted used our
childish horseplay as an opportunity to
grab my new breasts. Not since I was
twenty-one, and my boyfriend chose to
ignore my “no,” and I chose to deny that
I had been raped.
But tonight I feel a fear that is hor
rible, horrible because perhaps I am
imagining it, horrible because maybe
there is nothing to fear. There is a man
outside who threatened me with inter
est, who has followed me through this
tranquil apartment complex with words
and looks. When he approached me at
my doorstep, I politely said “good night”
and continued along the sidewalk, past
my glowing safe light and into the dark
ness beyond my neighbor’s apartments.
I did not want him to know where I
lived. And I tell myself that surely he is
a poor drunken man who means me no
harm, that he presents no physical threat
to me. But I still look toward my win
dow, with shades now drawn closed,
and wony that he is out there.
Recently, when a male friend spoke
to me about the therapeutic effects of
his solitary late-night walks, I realized
that we people different worlds. For me,
walking alone at night is anything but
soothing; it is a walk through potential
dangers. I used to think that admoni
tions of “walk in pairs,” and “avoid dark
areas,” did not apply to me. I am tall,
strong and have believed myself some
how invulnerable to the threats of those
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The letters and guest columns al
ready have begun trickling into
the offices ofThe Daily Tar Heel’s
editorial department, and we’re sure
our filing cabinets and letter archives
soon will be chock full of interesting
opinions and ideas.
As most of you know, we’re always
in search of good, interesting, analyti
cal columns for Monday’s op-ed page,
but this semester we’re introducing a
new twist to the editorial-page saga:
“Wednesday to the Point,” a regular
item on the back page that will feature a
special guest column.
For the most part, we’ll let you be the
judge of what should go in that space.
That is, anyone interested in writing a
Recipe for hypocritical
DTH to mend its ways
To the editor:
The editorial board and Eric Wagner
filled Tuesday’s back page with one
basic point: Why aren’t there any good
people in student government?
One of the most significant reasons is
quite simple. There is no encourage
ment for “sincere, selfless” people to
run for office when they see that the
label “politico” is attached to all in
Erica Caldwell
Guest Columnist
who might hurt me. Now I see that I
have been fooling myself, for my fear
tonight is not new. It is deep and pro
found and stems partially from watch
ing how this world works. We begin
another year in a world that is an unac
ceptably violent place for women.
Women’s fear is pervasive. Women
recognize their own fear with varied
levels of willingness. I know many
women who, when feeling safe, have
wrenching stories to tell of their own
personal fear. Others, like my former
self, chose to believe themselves invul
nerable to the real dangers and the in
sidious effects of our society’s many
disempowering messages to women.
We are harassed and threatened con
stantly, by photos in glossy magazines,
by images on TV, by words on the street
or in song lyrics. Every hour, every day,
we are consciously or unconsciously
assaulted by a variety of indignities,
from secretaries in tight skirts to women
being killed on the movie screen in
subtly titillating ways. Violence is be
ing done to women every time an ac
tress is given a role which portrays a
woman as nothing more than an exten
sion of “her man.” Violence is being
done every time seductively clad women
are used to sell perfume or cars. Every
time a woman is made into an object
instead of a person. We are told that
these media images are somehow ac
ceptable, or worse, desirable, and we
fear what that means for us. We might
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READERS' FORUM
volved in campus government. Some
don’t mind this label since it is true,
while others simply aren’t deterred by
the bad reputation.
Very briefly, there are two changes
The Daily Tar Heel could make to show
that it is sincere in its desire to see an
improvement in campus government.
1. Take a few extra sentences to say
whom you disapprove of and why.
Sweeping generalizations are easy to
make, but they ignore the fact that some
people in Suite C don’t fit the stereo
type.
destructively embrace these images of
women as our role models, hating our
less-than-”perfect” bodies and starving
and painting and clothing them until
they fit the model that is perceived as
desirable in our world. Perhaps we buy
into the notion that we are little more
than the decorative objects that women
can be portrayed as all too often.
Strangers on a dark road, cultural
images that objectify women; both strip
half of the population of part of their
human-ness. Women cannot be full
participants in life while they worry
about rape, nor can they be comfortable
with who they are when the world’s
most beautiful models scream to them
to become better, smoother and sleeker.
I fight submission to these images every
day. It takes up energy that I do not then
have for other, worthier pursuits.
How can we lead rich lives if we
cannot even cross a dark street without
undergoing psychic stress? How can
we concentrate on our life, loves, work,
when so much energy is siphoned off by
muted anger, frustration and fear? Now,
my fear is turning to anger. Every time
I see a woman’s body selling a product,
every time I read of a wife being beaten,
I am angry. As are men, friends who
grieve for their gender and who recog
nize that until women can live safely in
society, our culture will remain en
feebled. For me, my fear needs to lead
to anger or my life will not change. Nor
will my daughter’s. She and her daugh
ters will also live with the unnecessary
fear that surrounds women now.
Erica Caldwell is a gradiate stidemt
in public health.
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2. It is well-known in student gov
ernment that the only way to make
headlines is to do something scandal
ous. The DTH needs to start giving
equal attention to the few good ideas
and actions that come from student gov
ernment if it wants to see more of them.
By making these changes, the DTH
can stop peipetuating the problems it so
frequently complains about.
MARK SHELBURNE
Senior
Public Policy Analysis