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8 HThe Daily Tar Heel/Wednesday, March 17, 1993 JP,““I iailij (jlar HM PETER WaLLSTEN, Editor Office hours: Fridays 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Amber Nimocks, Managing Editor Anna Griffin, University Editor Jackie Hershkowitz, City Editor Yl-HsiN Chang, Features Editor Erin Randall, Photography Editor Samantha Falke, Copy Desk Editor JOHN Caserta, Graphics Editor Dan Quayle would have a field day. Chapel Hill resident LaVonda Burnette announced Saturday that she would run this fall for a seat on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education. Burnette is a one-woman dynamo. In addition to being the vice president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro National Association for the Advancement of Col ored People, Burnette takes evening classes at the University in pursuit of a bachelor of arts in English. While these attributes already signify Burnette’s dedication to education, she possesses two qualities that completely separate her from other candidates her age and her family status. She is the 22-year old single mother of a 5-year-old daughter. While stereotypes and insensitive remarks from doubting politicos depict single mothers as second rate citizens, Burnette is proof that members of this class can become valuable community assets. Asa single mother, Burnette understands com plete responsibility, and this quality will cany over into her school-board endeavors. If she wins, Burnette will be the youngest person elected to serve on the seven-member board. Fortunately, Burnette is not a stranger to the local school system. The current school board does not have a member who graduated from the Chapel Hill- No ‘ifs,’ ‘ands’ or ‘butts’ The sinners are about to pay dearly—not with fire and brimstone, but out of their wallets. President Clinton has proposed a $2-per-pack tax increase on cigarettes, which is being called unfair by the tobacco industry and being hailed as the beginning of sweeping health reform by proponents of the plan. But Clinton’s proposal places too heavy a burden on one industry. An additional tax on cigarettes is a superb idea to pay for health care costs, and one can follow the rationale behind taxing them: Smoking causes many health problems prevalent in our soci ety, so those who light up their cigarettes should be forced to pay for their habit. If the tax is not put into place, taxpayers smokers or nonsmokers will continue footing the bill. But the tobacco industry should not be forced to bear the costs alone. Cigarettes aren’t the only “sin” to which a tax could be applied. Consumption of alcohol is another “sin” that causes a myriad of health problems.But no one has jumped on the bandwagon in Washington to slap a tax on that industry. A social drink seems to be much more The Daily Tar Heel Business and advertising: Kevin Schwartz, director/general manager; Bob Bates, advertising director; Leslie Humphrey, classified ad manager; Michelle Gray business manager; Ashleigh Heath, advertising manager. Business start: Gina Berardino, assistant manager; Holly Aldridge, Amber Nimocks, Jennifer Talhelm and Rhonda Walker, receptionists, assistants Lisa ® owtly ' Leafl Richards, Amy Seeley, Christi Thomas and Rhonda Walker, representatives; Chad Campbell and Lisa Reichle, production Display advertising: Milton Artis, marketing director; Milton Artis, Will Davis, Shannon Edge, Pam Horkan, Ivan Johnson, Jay Jones, Jeff Kilman Lisa McMinn and Mana Miller, account executives; Stacey Belnavis, Sanjay Dakoriya, Rebecca Griffin, Lynelle Hovaniec, John Lee, Elizabeth Martin, Allison Sherrill and Candace Wright assistant account executives. ” ’ Advertising production: Bill Leslie, manager/system administrator; Stephanie Brodsky, assistant. Assistant editors: Thanassis Cambanis. cartoon; Leah Campbell and Kelly Ryan, city; Dana Pope, editorial page; Amy Seeley, features; Erin Lyon, layout; Jayson Singe photo John C. Manuel, Amy McCaffrey and Carter Toole, sports; Andrea Jones and Stephanie Greer, state and national; Thanassis Cambanis, Marty Minchin and Jennifer Talhelm, university. Newsclerk: Kevin Brennan. Editorial writers: Gerri Baer, Jacqueline Charles, Rpbecah Moore Scott Ortwein, Jen Pilla and Akinwole N'Gai Wright University: Dame! Aldnch Everett Arnold, Ivan Arrington, Scott Ballew, Eliot Cannon, Joyce Clark, Mike Easterly, Gina Evans, Casella Foster, Chris Goodson Gautam Khandehval, James Lewis Tim Perkins, Steve Robblee, Chris Robertson, Gary Rosenzweig, Brad Short, Peter Sigal, Holly Stepp, Susan Tebbens and Candace Watson City: Tirtany Ashhurst Nathan Bishop. Bill Blocker, Maile Carpenter, Karen Clark, Richard Dalton, Jimmy Dula, Daniel Feldman, Matthew Henry, Rama Kayyali Shakti Routray, Stephanie Siebold, Robert Strader, Ivana Washington, Scott Wester and Kathleen Wurth. State and National: Adam Bianchi, Anna Burdeshaw, John Davies, Tara Duncan, Lesley Gilbert, Nathan Kline, Jerry McElreath, Beth McNichol, Julie Nations, Ben Parker Bruce Robinson, Alia Smith, Allison Taylor, Lloyd Whittington and Brad Williams. i* Kathleen Flynn, Waynette Gladden, Mondy Lamb, Alex McMillan, Elizabeth Oliver, Jonathan Rich, Martin Scott, Jenni Spitz, Sally Stryker, Cara Thomisser Emma Williams ana Duncan Young. 5 Features: Stephanie Beck, Paul Bredderman, Andrea Cashion, Kim Costello, Kristi Daughtridge, Erika Helm, Phuong Ly, Deepa Perumallu, Nancy Riley, Aulica Rutland Jenni Spitz, LeAnn Spradling, Amy Swan, Ross Taylor, Scott Tillett, Emma Williams, Candace Wright and Andi Young s P°rts: Enc David Warren Hynes. David J. Kupstas and Bryan Strickland, senior writers; Zachary Albert, Rodney Cline, Adam Davis, Marc Franklin, Brian Gould, Stephen Higdon, Diana Koval, Mary Lafferty, Alison Lawrence, Jacson Lowe, Brian McJunkin, Jett McKinley, Justin Scheet, Pete Simpkinson, James Whitfield and Pete Zitchak. Photography: Missy Bello, Jim Farrugia, Laurie Gallon, Abigail Gurall, Stephani Holzworth, Jon Hunt, Cynthia Nesnow, Benjamin Ousley, Blake Prelipp, Kristin Prelipp, Jennie Shipen, Debbie Stengel and Justin Williams. Copy Editors: Anqelique Bartlett, Laurie Bazemore, Michael Beadle, Robin Cagle, Eliot Cannon, Monica Cleary, Jay Davis, Debbie Eidson, Mazi Gaillard, Mastin Greene, Jennifer Heinzen, TJ Hemlinger. Amy Kincaid, Rebecca Mankowski, Kelly Nordlinger, Veronica Powell, Kristin Reynolds, Curt Simpson and Cassaundra Sledge. Graphics: Kim Horstmann, Jay Roseborough and Justin Scheet. Cartoonists: Mandy Brame, Mary Brutzman, Sterling Chen, Kasumba Rayne De Carvalho. Katie Kasben, Michelle Kelley, Tanya Kennedy, Sergio Rustia Miranda and Jason Smith. Layout: Lisa Swayne. Editorial Production: Stacy Wynn, manager Lisa Reichle, assistant. Distribution and Printing: Village Printing Company The Daily Tar Heel is published by the DTH Publishing Corp., a non-profit North Carolina corporation, Monday-Friday, according to the University calendar Callers with questions about billing or display advertising should dial 962-1163 between 8:30 am. and 5 p.m. Classified ads can be reached at 962-0252 Editorial questions should be directed to 962-0245/0246. Office: Suite 104 Carolina Union Campus mall addrass: CB 5210 Bui 49, Carolina Union U.S. Mail address: P.O. Box 3257, Chapel Hill. NC 27515-3257 Alan Martin, Editorial Page Editor JASON Richardson, State and National Editor STEVE Poun, Sports Editor David Counts, Layout Editor David Lindsay, Copy Desk Editor Jennifer Brett, Omnibus Editor Alex De Grand, Cartoon Editor Murphys revenge Carrboro system. Asa graduate of Chapel Hill High School, Burnette has experienced first-hand the system’s positive and negative aspects. She pos sesses an insider characteristic that other board mem bers can’t attain loyalty to her local alma mater. Since her daughter also attends a system elemen tary school, Burnette has a personal stake in every school-board decision. This relationship ensures the community that Bumette will put children first. Although Bumette has said she will work to pro vide every child a first-rate education, she hopes to drastically improve opportunities for African Ameri cans. The school board has taken strides to provide quality programs for minority students by establish ing a blue ribbon task force on the education of African-American children. Asa member of this task force, Bumette and other community members out lined a resolution to create a better learning environ ment for minority students. Burnette’s age, family status and other experi ences undoubtedly will bring a welcomed new light to the board. Bumette told The Daily Tar Heel, “Because I am a product of the schools, a mother, and an African American, I think I can bring a fresh perspective to the board.” Murphy Brown couldn’t have said it better. acceptable than a “social smoke” in today’s society. The tobacco industry, which makes up a large part of North Carolina’s economy, has been dragged enough through the bureaucratic and political struc tures in government. They can’t advertise on television, and in recent years, there have been calls for the ban of all adver tisements of tobacco products. The Surgeon General ’ s warning that smoking is hazardous to health also prominently is displayed in advertisements and on packs of cigarettes. An alternative plan proposed by U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley and U.S. Rep. Mike Andrews is better. In two separate bills, they propose a $1 tax per pack of cigarettes, with 80 percent of the generated revenue (about $lO billion) going toward paying the health care costs of uninsured American citizens. The other 20 percent would be used in an anti-smoking educa tion program. Health-care reform has taken its place as one of Clinton’s top priorities, but smokers should not be the lone group of “sinners” shouldering the costs of such widespread change. *f X,*■%&£ \ Closed borders necessary in terrorized world The cover of Time magazine’s lat est issue juxtaposed the electroni cally disfigured faces of David Koresh, leader of the Waco, Texas, cult now in an armed standoff with police, and of Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, an Islamic religious leader implicated by circumstance and suspicion with the bombing of the New York World Trade Center. A frightening analogy, to be sure. But inappropriate and misleading. Koresh and his followers are not terror ists, but murderers. The standoff is not Texan jihad, but a confrontation gone terribly wrong, its fury fed by the cult’s complex paranoia and the relative abundance of firearms in Texas. Were it not for publication deadlines, Time should have replaced David Koresh’s grimace with a picture of Michael Griffin, the anti-abortion pro tester who last week assassinated Dr. David Gunn outside of his abortion clinic. By experience and by television, Americans associate deadly violence with the random mania of the street, with the greed and compulsiveness of the drug trade and with the occasional marital crack-up. But that familiar con struct fails to explain the violence of the last two weeks. Many well-meaning people become confused and agitated when the subject of terrorism comes up. Mention the word “terrorist,” and your otherwise rational friends are seized by the need to deconstruct vigorously. Suddenly, my terrorist is your freedom fighter, moti vated not by hate but by oppression, different cultural standards, tribal val ues, “state terrorism,” etc. Wanting to be fair, aspiring to so phistication, but blinded by the moral numbness that is the inevitable conclu sion of their breezy relativism, our friends cannot bring themselves to de cide, judge, condemn. So they inquire: Who are we to say what is a terrorist, biased as we are by our particular set of values, trapped there in the prison of our unique cultural vocabulary? If only we understood Editorial cast negative light on University Police To the editor: In reference to our recent telephone conversation, I remain distressed that the students went home on Spring Break fearing, as a consequence of your edito rial (“Student rights take a Spring Break,” Mar. 5), that their Fourth Amendment rights would be violated by the University Police during their absence. While the article was factual, the headline gave the impression that the University Police had a systematic plan to search students’ rooms for ille gal drugs. Your editorial was not just mislead ing, but was an irresponsible piece of journalism. We at the University Police Department have worked hard to estab lish a good relationship with the stu dents and to create a partnership to ensure a safercampus community. Your editorial set up barriers to this trust. In addition, since it was published the first day of Spring Break, I could not re spond before the students left. I am asking that you set the record straight by publishing an apology and correction prominently displayed in the Daily Tar Heel. This correction should include that there have been no plans on the part of the University Police to search the rooms of any students without prob able cause. The University Police re spond to calls by either a student or a resident assistant for service within the residence halls. We do not conduct searches without probable cause. In fact, all but one of our drug arrests last year were on view arrests, and the majority of these were in the parking lots at concerts and other special events. We are a law enforcement agency, and our mission is to enforce local, state and federal laws. We also are sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States, of which the Fourth Amendment is a part. Our officers respect the rights of our community members whether they are students, faculty or staff. I hope bloody mess he FVjp L, left behind dur- ... ing the latest WSlgllCr expression of B his resentment. Mind’s Eye || Terrorism is not murder. Its purpose is not to kill, but to frighten. Its victims are not those crushed in the rubble, but their neigh bors and their nation, most recently the Americans who watch Tom Brokaw during dinner and read the paper during breakfast. Terrorism is most effective when it is unexpected and unpredictable. The oc cupants of any skyscraper in any big American city can consider themselves potential targets; doctors at abortion clinics anywhere are at risk (as are anti abortion leaders). The abortion-related terrorism is eas ily contained because it has existed in America for years abortion clinics are regularly bombed and their occu pants sprayed with acid. Law enforce ment officials are familiar with both the terrorists and their specific group of victims. The means of preventing the terrorism are available; but the public’s will has been weak. America deals regularly with terror ism, but rarely within its borders. The government demonstrated that it retali ates harshly to terrorism against Ameri cans when it bombed Libya after a bomb ing in Paris. Assuming that the current and future administrations will continue this proper policy, the government must now move to secure the country’s bor ders. Europe, the Middle East and Africa regularly are seized by terrorism be cause of the relative ease with which terrorists slip in and out of these areas. Long histories of nomadism, colonial interchanges, occupations, smuggling and official corruption make land bor READERS’ FORUM your correction reflects this fact. ALANA M. ENNIS Chief of Police University Police Applications available for housing Diversity Program (Editor’s note: Charles Streeter is president of the Residence Hall Asso ciation. The deadline for applications for the Diversity Program is Friday.) For the past two years, the RHA has been engaged in a bold new plan to increase the presence of African-Ameri can students in the residence halls on North and Mid campuses. Historically, many African-Ameri can residents have chosen to live on South Campus because of an estab lished sense of community. The Diver sity Program is aimed at bringing this community spirit and support to other regions of campus. Spaces again have been designated for African-American students who currently reside on South and Mid cam puses who wish to participate in the program. The program does not dislo cate students currently living on North and Mid campuses. Information about the application process is available from the housing or RHA offices. The success of the Diversity Pro gram depends on both the African- American students participating in it and residents living on the Mid and North campuses. The Department of University Hous ing and RHA want to make sure that each individual living in the residence halls feels that he or she can live any where on campus and be part of any community. We would like to extend a challenge to African-American students who are to consider moving to the North and Mid campuses and help in making the campus more culturally diverse. CHARLES STREETER Senior ders obsolete. America has, until now, been free of international terrorism because of the relative tightness of its borders, its geo graphic isolation and its perceived mili tary might. But that trend is changing. The State Department official respon sible for America’s consulates around the world testified on Monday to a con gressional committee that his consular workers in north Africa and elsewhere were simply unable to accurately and safely process the thousands of entry visa applications they receive every year. Sen. Alfonso D’Amatoof New York testified recently on the Senate floor that the Immigration and Naturaliza tion Services office at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport was unable to detain and properly process the 1,800 people who seek political asylum there every month, up from 600 a month four years ago. The United States must accelerate and expand its infant “pre-inspection” program, which conducts not only the obvious security checks, but also immi gration background checks on passen gers before they depart to the United States. Pre-inspection, which exists now at only a few airports in Europe, must be worldwide. The sophisticated “lookout” system, the State Department’s computerized directory of known terrorists and their affiliates, automatically checks for aliases and variations in spellings. But the sophisticated system is not avail able at all airports and consulates where entry visas are issued. The consulate in the Sudan still uses an antiquated fiche system that fails without its operator’s patience and at tention. Mistakes happen frequently: One of the men implicated in the World Trade Center bombing entered the United States with an illegal visa issued in the Sudan, where 7,000 appli cations a year are processed by two staffers. Eric Wagner is a senior political science major from Jerusalem who only terrorizes his younger sister, who de serves it. Campus Y remains true to mission and agenda Editor's note: The authors are co presidents of the Campus Y. To the editor: To say that the “Campus Y screams foul whenever its mission is opposed,” (“Color inside the lines,” Mar. 3) is a very true statement. We actively uphold the ideals of pluralism and the pursuit of social justice. If this activism is to be considered as “holier than thou,” then so be it. Playing the role of educator is part of the purpose of the Campus Y, and it is a position that we take very seriously. We strive, as in the case of the information distributed on the Rape- Free Zone, to present a full picture of an issue or story because we want to give people the opportunity to make then own decision, but we dq not consider one-sided, half-truth journalism to be providing complete education. We are not going to attempt to form a “pointing the finger” defense on be half of the Campus Y because we do not need to nor want to. We are acutely aware of our mission and our purpose, and we wholeheartedly will do every thing in ourpowertoupholdourbeliefs. Yes, Student Supreme Court Chief Jus tice Mark Bibbs did properly remove himself from the case, but the facts and information concerning how he became; situated in this position are very shady.; As representatives of the Campus Y,: we hold ourselves accountable to the Campus Y and its members. We there-1 fore feel that placing blame and enter-. ing into the tactics of name-calling takes the emphasis away from what we are fighting for EDUCATION, PLU RALISM AND SOCIAL JUSTICE. MICHELLE LeGRAND Junior Biology/Philosophy ED CHANEY Junior English/Political Science
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