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Daily Tar Heel/Friday, February 5, 1993
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PETER Wallsten, Editor Office hours: Fridays 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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Clean up housing, trash the Pit
Free speech.
A bedrock of American society and civil liberties.
One of the most jealously guarded rights of our
democracy.
Freedom of speech also is a shield that bigots of all
varieties hide behind when vomiting their ignorant
philosophies and ideas.
And officials at the University allowed this to
happen last month following two racial incidents in
Morrison Residence Hall, which 300 black residents
call home.
In Morrison, a sign was posted in a bathroom
stating that it was no longer desegregated and that
“... no niggers are allowed, except housekeepers.” In
addition, a resident told a black resident assistant that
he didn’t like having “niggers in his dorm.”
But those in charge of making the residence hall a
pleasant place to live weren’t allowed to do anything
about it. Thanks to directives by high-ranking Uni
versity administrators, officials in the Department of
Housing have their hands tied, seemingly ignoring
the recent incidents.
Some have speculated that UNC’s legal guardians
issued the directive in reaction to a U.S. Supreme
Court decision over the summer that could change
the Code of Student Conduct’s statements on racial
harassment.
The University understandably is trying to walk
the thin line between protecting minority residents
A Chapel Hill resident has proposed for the sixth
time in 12 years that the town impose a$ 1 entertain
ment tax on all events at the Smith Center and Kenan
Stadium.
But placing an additional tax on entertainment at
the Smith Center would hurt its already low chances
of attracting concerts and other events from Raleigh’s
Walnut Creek Amphitheater or other arenas in the
Triangle.
Remember Paul Simon’s annual visit to the Dean
Dome? Some do, but now he plays at Walnut Creek.
James Taylor is about the only entertainer who plays
shows at the Smith Center annually or while on tour,
and he, of course, originally is from Chapel Hill.
Another tax on entertainment, in addition to al
ready high service charges on ticket sales, would
push away more high-profile entertainers from the
Smith Center.
The University’s athletic department also could
suffer from an increased tax, pushing alumni and
out-of-town fans away from Kenan Stadium or the
Smith Center because of high ticket prices. The
University not only would have to increase ticket
prices but also could increase student fees to make up
for the loss in revenue.
The town of Chapel Hill has a $900,000 deficit in
its upcoming budget. It is the responsibility of the
Tar heel quotable?
"You're not going to stop Eric. They know
how to use him so well."
Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski on UNC
center Eric Montross.
"Coaches are in the soul business, cartoon
ists are in the soul business. We're all into our
souls, our psyches."
Syndicated cartoonist Doug Marlette.
"The only thing causing a problem right
now is the location of the site."
Tim Smith, co-founder of the
Black Awareness Council, on the
status of planning for a free-standing
black cultural center.
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and accepting the free speech rights of hatemongers.
But the fact that the recent incidents occurred in
residence halls —and violated resident contracts
should be enough to prompt housing officials into
action, especially considering they knew the perpe
trators’ identities.
The racial slurs would be distressing if made in the
Pit or elsewhere on campus, but they rightly would
be above official response.
But these statements were made in residence halls.
Essentially, they were directed at students in their
homes.
Although it’s clear that this is an outrageous vio
lation of residents’ dignity and housing regulations,
University officials won’t let the housing depart
ment take care of the problem.
Free speech must be protected at all costs, but the
principle of free and open expression in a public
forum doesn’t extend into other people’s bedrooms
and bathrooms.
The University must realize that it has a responsi
bility to provide a secure environment for residents
in their residence halls.
Those responsible for the incidents must be pun
ished. Expulsion from University housing is not out
of the question and may even be justified.
If bigots insist on talking such trash, they can sleep
inthePit —thentheycan clutter their own home with
the garbage from their mouths.
A taxing situation
town to balance its own budget, not to impose a $ 1 tax
on concert-goers or athletic fans —most of whom
are from out-of-town.
In addition, the town gains high revenues from
these out-of-town guests when they eat at local
restaurants, shop at Franklin Street stores and stay at
area hotels and motels. The hotel-motel tax already
is in place to take advantage of big-game weekends
or big events at the Smith Center or Kenan Stadium.
Chapel Hill visitors should not have to contribute
more to the town’s coffers than they already do. The
town of Chapel Hill has forgotten about Southern
hospitality in its moment of financial crisis.
The town has created its own budget deficit. The
Chapel Hill Town Council, therefore, should come
up with alternatives to balancing the budget by using
sources within the town.
Fortunately, Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun said he
would only support the tax if it were applied state
wide. It makes sense that Chapel Hill should not put
itself at a disadvantage in attracting entertainment
events. The town already faces tough competition
from Durham, Raleigh, Greensboro and even Char
lotte venues.
The University has already provided the town with
a small financial gold mine and should not have to
carry the burden of increased ticket prices.
"It was at first a little confusing, but the
crowd was really good and worked with us."
Tiacy Kiiincich, Carolina Athletic
Association president, on
Duke-ticket distribution.
"I think this was a 'break the mold' kind of
year, not for the executive branch, but for
congress."
Philip Charles-Pierre, Student Congress
representative.
"Don't trust us. Be very worried. We've got
power."
Andrew Cohen, Student Congress
representative.
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Now we know: French class made him crazy
Last semester, dearest readers, I
was in gra\e peril of failing my
French class, which would have
caused me to repeat it this semester.
This fact scared me enough to write the
following, which, for various reasons,
including there was no Friday paper
that week, was never printed. I submit it
now so that those of you trapped in the
position I was in can find comfort in the
knowledge that you are not alone, or
maybe so that you can cut it out and
hand it to your French TA, saving you
minutes of tedious pleading and beg
ging:
Open Letter to my French Instructor
Dear My French Instructor,
Food is scarce. Send what you can.
No, no, I’m just kidding. Hold on, let
me start over.
Open Letter to my French Instructor
Dear My French Instructor,
I believe it was Plato who said “Ce
dont l’homme ale plus besoin, e’est de
savoir utiliser ce qu’il sait.” I find this
quote especially apropos to my situa
tion as a French scholar because the fact
that it is in French renders the quote
completely unintelligible to me, despite
the nearly three semesters of French I
have had.
“How can this possibly be?” you
might wonder to yourself, provided you
were someone other than my French
instructor and had no idea of what a
miserable job I have been doing in your
class. But you are aware, and not all the
gold in the forests can change that.
Before I go any further, let me assure
you that I in no way blame you for my
abysmal performance in your class. You
have proven yourself to be a conscien
tious and competent French teacher,
whose skills are not just wasted, but
actively destroyed on a student such as
myself. It’s not that I think I’m such a
bad student either; in fact, my spoken
French has been lauded in academic
circles as “... clumsy and amateurish,”
and that “ ... the only way Jason can
hold an intelligible conversation in
Serve yourSELF, don’t desert your own needs
Help YourS.E.L.F. Vote for the li
braries.
The Student Endowed Library
Fund is a proposal for bigger govern
ment that even a true fiscal conservative
could support. The plan is to raise stu
dent fees by an amount less than a
dinner for two at Time-Out, which would
total over SIOO,OOO a year.
This money would then be directed
to the University’s endowment, which
is managed by UNC’s Investment Of
fice. The interest from this fund would
then be spent on the academic affairs
libraries. There are several reasons why
you should vote for the Student En
dowed Library Fund (S.E.L.F.).
Getting more than you pay for-
Who ever heard of a tax that gave
back to its constituents more than was
collected? This is exactly what would
happen with this fund. Consider the
following statistics: with a 10 percent
rate of return, of which half would be
spent and half reinvested, the libraries
would receive more money than is raised
by the fee by the year 2009.
To assume that rate of return is a
conservative estimate given the track
record of UNC’s investment office. The
beauty of an endowment of this type is
that it just keeps on growing. To spend
more than is taxed without running a
Tuition hike will lower
the quality of education
To the editor:
M. Savage takes issue with the
“readin’ & ritin”’ abilities of some of
our students. I would, however, ques
tion this person’s ‘rithmatic. I received
a tuition bill in December for $3703. A
50 percent increase would be $ 1851.50
per semester, a little bit more than the
S2OO M. Savage claims.
Many of the graduate students at
UNC are supported as teaching assis
tants. This is not a scholarship, but
compensation for services rendered.
These TAs are the juniormost members
of the faculty. Raising tuition for these
French is
through a series
of gesticula
tions so com
plex they re
semble a game
of charades.”
In short, my
point is this: I
realize that my
average in your
class is a num
ber that, when
preceded by a
9
Jason
Torchinsky
Turn Your Head
and Cough
‘l9’, usually conjures up images of the
Fonz, the McCarthy hearings and huge
Cadillacs with tail fins. I also realize
that this poor grade is completely a
reflection on my own inability and un
willingness to prepare for your class,
and that in order to pass I shall probably
have to make a 437 on the exam. That is
why what I am about to ask you is so
hard. Pass me. Please. Don’t make me
go through this again. Even if you must
fail me, I implore you to find some way
to just give me the ‘F’ without making
me take another semester of French.
Yesterday, as I was leaving class
after I received a quiz that seemed to
have become a device for storing red
ink, the thought that I might be forced
into taking French 3 again next semes
ter forced its way into my head. I grew
physically weak at the thought and col
lapsed on the front steps of Dey Hall,
wallowing in my likely misery of next
year as my face was ground deeper and
deeper into the cement steps by the
heavy shoes of my classmates, punctu
ated by an occasional kick to the ribs
from a concerned friend.
I can’t completely understand why I
have developed such a strong aversion
to learning French. It’s just not some
thing I want to do right now, and yet,
because, because of some horrible, out
moded university requirement, I am
being forced into learning something I
have absolutely no interest in. I do not
want to do the work to learn French, f
violently resent every minute I have to
wrest my mind out of its comfortable,
Mark Shelburne
Guest Columnist
deficit might seem to be a fantasy, but it
is in fact the reality of the S.E.L.F.
proposal.
Student control-
Americans fought a war over the
problem of taxation without represen
tation, and many are angered today over
where our money goes. Neither of these
will be an issue with the library fee,
since students will be involved every
step of the way. The legislation needed
a two-thirds vote of the Student Con
gress before it became a referendum.
Once in that form, the increase will
need to be approved by the student body
in the spring elections. A committee of
five students, including three under
graduates and two graduates, will act as
an advisory board for the fund’s annual
interest. Thus, S.E.L.F. is a democrati
cally adopted, self-administered fee.
The need-
If you remain doubtful of the merits
of the S.E.L.F. proposal, the following
facts, (which are only a few examples
among many) compiled by the Students
for Educational Access, should at least
convince you of the need.
REAPERS' FORUM
students amounts to lowering their pay.
UNC must compete with other schools
for the best graduate students. Compar
ing UNC with a tuition of almost $ 12,000
a year to some other schools where fees
are waived completely for graduate stu
dents is going to make it very difficult to
attract many students at all, regardless
of Carolina’s reputation.
The kernel of M. Savage’s argument
for increasing tuition is that you get
what you pay for. Without realizing it,
this person is arguing that the under
graduates who receive instruction from
TAs should get less, since the best and
brightest will have gone somewhere
else where the pay is better. And many
of the students in the humanities depart
ments are justifiably reluctant to as
native English and force it to think in
some tongue where they refuse to pro
nounce any consonants in the last half
of their words.
French class has become the alba
tross around my neck, strangling me,
keeping me from the things I love, rot
ting and surrounding me with the filthy
stench of failure. I wear my French
class like a shirt made of ball-peen
hammers lined with broken glass that is
secured to my body by means of a
railroad spike through my heart.
I realize that it is unfair of me to ask
to be passed when, really, it’s my own
damn fault. I have no one to blame but
myself. Fine. I’m willing to live with
that guilt provided that I need never
again be forced to take another French
class. I’ll even sign documents that make
me pledge never to set foot in France,
Cote D’lvory, or Quebec. Anything. I’ll
say favorable things about Jerry Lewis,
I’ll wear a beret and a striped shirt and
pretend to enjoy pantomime, I’ll eat
Nutella by the truckload, I’ll dress like
Napoleon and drive throughout the city
in a Le Car on Bastille Day, singing
“Alouetta” at the top of my lungs, any
thing, just don’t subject me to my own
private hell any longer. Please.
I sincerely hope you do not take this
personally. You’ll fail me for sure, then.
The situation would probably be the
same with any language I was forced
into taking. If, in fact, I must repeat
French 3,1 make this pledge: Each day,
when I arrive in class, I will quietly go
to my desk and sit down. As soon as the
first French word passes through a pair
of lips, I shall begin to shriek like a
crazed monkey and will not quit until
50 minutes later when the class ends.
Then I will leave.
Once again, for the love of every
thing holy, I implore you to pass me.
Pensez du les enfants! See you in class.
Solidarity,
Jason Torchinsky.
Jason Torchinsky is an art history
major form Greensboro.
■ During the last three years the cost
of serials has increased 41 percent, and
the price of books has gone up 29 per
cent; state funds for new library acqui
sitions have increased only 4.9 percent
during the same period.
■ During a six-month spending
freeze in 1990 the library bought no
books.
■ If a book isn’t bought when it first
appears, chances of having another op
portunity to purchase it are only 1 in 10.
These numbers demonstrate what you
probably already knew: Our libraries
are suffering. One response to this is to
say that we are not responsible for meet
ing this shortfall, that the state should
fully invest in our education. While this
is true in principle, the fact remains that
the budget cuts won’t allow for the level
of funding necessary for maintaining
the library system that we should have
at UNC.
Vote YES!
While the S.E.L.F. plan won’t solve
all the libraries’ fiscal problems, it will
be enable students to continue, improve
or create services that we deem neces
sary. It is essentially an investment in
our education. Help yourS.E.L.F.!
Mark Shelburne is a senior public
policy analysis major from Durham.
sume huge debts to finance their educa
tions, as they cannot assume that they
will find a job with a lawyer’s salary
when they finish. Some of these stu
dents are barely scraping by as it is.
I know the folks in the law school are
better at grammar than empathy (or
math), but perhaps they should try to
develop a little for students in other
departments and realize that the sun
doesn’t rise and set on Van Hecke-
Wettach Hall. I hope the legislature,
and the lawyers, realize that increasing
graduate tuition will affect the quality
of undergraduate instruction at UNC.
MICHAEL E. WEBB
Graduate
Chemistry