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Oh, when the Heels go marching in
In its 75-68 overtime victory Sunday against the
Cincinnati Bearcats, the UNC men’s basketball team
stopped our hearts. Twice.
The first time was at the end of regulation with a
dunk gone awry by junior forward Brian Reese. Not
only did our hearts stop, but UNC assistant coach
Phil Ford flipped out. He did a back flip unbe
knownst to him in his suit and tie when the dunk
bounced high off the back of the rim, and he nearly
tripped over the scorer’s table.
Sophomore guard Donald Williams rendered the
second heart-stopping moment when he made the
second of his two three-pointers in overtime the
only two field goals in what seemed an eternal five
minutes. He dribbled around the screen, squared up
to the basket and ... swish.
Bedlam broke loose in bars, residence halls, apart
ments and fraternity houses.
At the end of the overtime period, the jubilant fans
spilled onto Franklin Street. There was lots of hug
ging, bonfire-building, beer-swilling and pointing of
index fingers into the air with the customary cry of
The Pit, we hope, never will be the same.
In an effort to dispel all-too-frequent stereotypes,
Bisexuals, Gay men, Lesbians and Allies for Diver
sity is sponsoring Lesbian and Gay Awareness Week.
The week’s events are designed to promote commu
nity awareness and provide homosexuals a safe,
open environment.
B-GLAD’s slate of eye-opening programs will
give community members the opportunity to broaden
their minds. The weeklong variety of speakers, radio
programming and Pit performances are guaranteed
to raise awareness —and some eyebrows. Although
some of the activities might seem risque to some
cloistered heterosexuals, B-GLAD is counting on a
crowd.
And just so a few members of our dear Student
Congress can get a better night’s sleep, Lesbian and
Gay Awareness Week is not intended to “convert”
anyone to another lifestyle. But the event is designed
to get people talking, and a few raving Pit preachers
should stop trying steal the spotlight they regularly
enjoy and try to monopolize.
One of the key speakers for the week will be Crae
Pridgen, a Wilmington victim of gay-bashing by
Marines. Pridgen is scheduled to speak at 7 p.m.
Wednesday in Hanes Auditorium. While all homo
Anyone who missed historian Arthur Schlesinger’s
speech on campus Monday night already has missed
one quarter of the most exciting and impressive
project to come out of the executive branch of student
government this year.
The four-day lecture series is noteworthy not just
because of its timely topics or because of the nation
ally known speakers it is bringing to this campus, but
because of the way that student government has gone
about organizing and funding the project.
All this week, students have the chance to listen to
debates and lectures from people such as Dinesh
D’Souza, whose book “Illiberal Education” ignited
the multiculturalism controversy last year, and Molefi
Kete Asante, the leading Afrocentrist in the nation.
The two represent the balance of conservative and
liberal ideas that organizers have managed to create
with the seven men and women they’ve invited.
The mix of speakers probably is part of the reason
that Student Congress members readily agreed to
donate $ 15,000 from their coffers to help pay for the
event. But there’s an even better reason. And it’s
called initiative.
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“Number One!” interspersed with a few “Go to hell,
Dook!” chants.
The team returned Sunday night to hundreds more
elated fans —adults and children alike—at Raleigh-
Durham International Airport and, later, to about
3,000 students at the Smith Center. All were excited,
some still were drunk from the Franklin Street cel
ebration, and no one was questioning the Heels’
chances to win it all in New Orleans.
The glory doesn’t just belong to the five starters
and to Dean Smith. It belongs to those who don’t get
as much playing time but contribute their skills in
practice every day. It belongs to the assistant coaches,
managers and everyone involved in the program.
But glory also belongs to the fans those that
never gave up despite a 21-point deficit in a game
versus Florida State, those that stayed in their upper
level seats in the Smith Center and made some noise
despite the relative silence of the lower level and
those that have kept faith through the rare but unim
pressive losses as well as the magnificent wins.
Next Monday night, the party will be even bigger.
Free your mind
sexuals carry emotional scars from their battles with
an intolerance, the physical atrocities that Pridgen
underwent in Wilmington at the hands of “America’s
finest” are proof that awareness and respect sadly
still are lacking and must be nurtured in our society.
During past awareness weeks, B-GLAD spon
sored Blue Jeans Day, one day of the week that
homosexuals and their allies wore jeans to support
gay rights. B-GLAD members chose to delete the
annual Blue Jeans Day from this year’s schedule,
opting instead for pink and lavender armbands.
In the past, many students would forget on which
day of the week Blue Jeans Day fell, and they would
arrive on campus wearing their everyday attire. These
students then would go through the rest of the day
feeling embarrassed and self-conscious if they didn’t
intend to support homosexuality.
Welcome to the real world. This one day of hetero
sexual hell can’t compare to the everyday encounters
homosexuals face from self-righteous homophobics.
But this year, B-GLAD decided that open and honest
support —instead of accidental wardrobe choices—
would better serve the week’s purpose. The armbands,
which are available in the Pit, will function as a true
symbol of allied support.
So grab an armband, and open your mind.
Suite C scores big
Before they even made their request to congress,
organizers sent out literally hundreds of letters to
individuals, foundations and corporations asking
them to help fund the project, which is costing about
$50,000. They received SIO,OOO from the Carolina
Union Activities Board, and they raised about $20,000
from other sources. According to Donna
Ramaswamy, the program organizer, that’s the most
money ever raised by students.
Lobbying foundations and private sources for stu
dent projects isn’t anew idea. It’s been met with great
enthusiasm when mentioned by student body presi
dents and other campus politicos in the past. But this
is the first time that it’s been used to raise a substan
tial amount of money for such a project. Other
student groups should follow the executive branch’s
lead. And when they do, they should be rewarded for
their efforts through help from Student Congress.
Students should take advantage of the executive
branch’s hard work and attend at least one of the
events this week. The debate and lectures promise to
be lively and thought-provoking. And you’ll cer
tainly get your money’s worth.
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Foreign-aid pennies return dressed as nickels
Senator Jesse Helms told me once
that, as a matter of principle, he
opposes any sort of American for
eign aid. That, according to him, the
United States had too many hungry
mouths to feed at home. With a budget
deficit, high taxes, homelessness, un
employment and until recently the re
cession, the United States could not
afford to send any money abroad.
He isn’t the only Republican so criti
cally concerned with effects of foreign
aid programs on homelessness and un
employment. Sen. Robert Dole of Kan
sas, currently the highest-ranking Re
publican in government, wrote a few
years ago in a New York Times edito
rial that the current foreign-aid levels to
the top five recipient countries should
be cut back by 5 percent.
David Obey, the Democrat who
chairs the House committee that is re
sponsible for appropriating and approv
ing foreign-aid programs, recently an
nounced that because of America’s
aforementioned economic ills, foreign
aid programs will have to be reduced
and restructured altogether.
Foreign aid is apparently so unpopu
lar with the voters that former President
Richard Nixon had to publicly embar
rass former President George Bush to
coerce the latter to provide Russia with
vital economic assistance.
Foreign aid is much less popular with
some voters than others. A group call
ing itself the Liberation Army Fifth
Battalion (!!) wrote to the New York
Times that it bombed New York’s World
Trade Center to protest American for
eign aid to Israel.
The Liberation Army Fifth Battalion
(where are the other four?) has its own
reasons for opposing foreign aid, but
what about our senior legislators? At
Convicted rapists have no place in co-ed UNC
It’s easy to come up with some fairly
convincing arguments for why
Chancellor Hardin needs to adopt a
policy of expulsion for UNC students
convicted of rape or sexual assault. Most
reasonable people agree, after all, that
rape is an atrocity. And the absence of a
policy for the automatic expulsion of
convicted rapists is based on some con
tradictions that are indefensible and
absurd.
Consider: This university will not
admit someone who has been convicted
of rape or sexual assault unless he (or
she) can show clear evidence of reha
bilitation. Yet if that same person was
convicted after he’d been admitted,
while he was a student on your hall and
in your classes, then he could be back in
school immediately and with this
university’s blessing.
Consider: This university is con
cerned enough about rape to keep all the
residence halls on campus locked to the
outside 24 hours per day. Yet as they
lock out potential rapists, they are lock
ing in known, convicted rapists.
Consider: This university expels
those convicted of hazing or drug of
fenses automatically. Can anyone seri
ously suggest that if you make a drunken
freshman do naked jumping jacks you
are more of a threat to this community
than if you rape a woman?
Ifyou’reaman.justtakea moment to
think about how you would have felt if,
two months into your freshman year,
you found out that your roommate had
been convicted of rape his sophomore
year. Your mom would have been bawl
ing out an administrator within the hour.
Parking signs stolen to
relieve ticket trauma
To the editor:
Being the recipient of several park
ing tickets at our fine University, I be
lieve I have a better idea of the reason
parking signs are disappearing. It isn’t
because they look cool in your room;
it’s because they are the only visible
thing to strike out at after receiving a
$25.00 parking ticket.
After getting a ticket for parking in
front of my residence hall for 10 min
utes to unload groceries at 7:30 p.m.,
the first thought that came to my mind
was, “I am going to get a hacksaw and
cut that damn sign into 10 separate little
Eric
Wagner
Mind’s Eye
current levels,
foreign aid rep
resents only 0.9
percent of the
budget and only
0.27 percent of
the gross na
tional product;
in fact, the Red
Cross, CARE
and Jewish Joint
Distribution
Committee dis
tribute more for-
eign aid per year than does the United
States. So why all the fuss from the
elected officials?
It’s easy to attack foreign aid when
there’s little else to do. Congress is
under pressure from the voters to re
solve the various economic ills and to
cut spending. Reluctant to eliminate
any of their pork-barrel projects and
scared of cutting funding to popular but
inefficient programs like Social Secu
rity, legislators would rather cut pro
grams whose constituencies are small
or nonexistent.
They might be on to something. If
foreign aid only helps non-Americans
in Third World countries, there shouldn’t
be much opposition to cutting the assis
tance. But, of course, it’s not that easy.
What legislators don’t tell their vot
ers is that the benefits of foreign-aid
programs are enjoyed primarily by
Americans, not Third Worlders or Rus
sians.
It’s particularly amusing that tradi
tional, pro-business Republicans oppose
foreign aid it, after all, helps their
constituents. Seventy-five percent of
all foreign aid distributed by the United
States is spent right back in the United
States. Foreign governments buy tech
Matt Stiegler j|
Guest Columnist
Now, convicted rapists and their al
lies probably will be unconvinced by
this reasoning. Rapists are people who
havecommittedadespicable crime, they
will admit, but they are people. If they
were convicted, their supporters will
claim, then they paid. If we think they
haven’t paid enough, they will say, then
our gripe is with the courts or the laws.
To impose justice through the Univer
sity, the rapist will say, seems arbitrary.
To deny them the opportunity for an
education and everything that means
for their future seems mean-spirited.
And, in a sense, they are right. They
are right that policies that shape people ’ s
fives need ultimately answer not to sym
bolism, but to people. But to conclude
from that that UNC should not expel
convicted rapists is moronic. Because
when push comes to shove, we’re not
fighting for this change because I don’t
want to room with rapists or because
this university needs to say that rape is
at least as serious as hazing. We’re not
doing this to ruin rapists’ fives like
they’ve ruined their victims’.
We’re doing it because convicted
rapists are three to four times more
likely than the general population to
rapeagain. We’re doing it because UNC
is a co-ed university, with co-ed dormi
tories and co-ed floors. We’re doing it
because when a woman asks a man to
walk her home from the library at night,
she should be able to assume he didn’t
READERS' FORUM
pieces.” My attitude was not helped
much by a parking official’s helpful
reminder that this would not have hap
pened if someone had been sitting with
the car. Honestly, who is going to ask
their roommate to go watch their car
while they are putting up groceries?
Perhaps if the fines weren’t so high,
they would not prompt such irrational
acts as stealing or bashing signs.
Another idea that deserves consider
ation is installing one or two metered
spaces in front of the dormitories. They
could be set to expire in 15 minutes so
that students would not have to worry
about their car being ticketed while they
unload their car. Finally, I wonder if any
of the money from those tickets is help
ing to pay for all those poles that are
nical products and agricultural goods
from American businesses and farmers,
Republican voters all.
A recent Pentagon study concluded
that the $6 billion of foreign aid given to
allies to purchase military goods from
American defense contractors actually
injects S2O to S3O billion annually into
the American economy. After all of the
fancy calculations are computed by
policy wonks, this translated to about
200,000 American jobs created.
Foreign aid also helps open up new
markets for American exports by stabi
lizing the economies of the recipient
countries. Today, 43 of the 50 largest
markets for American farm goods have
been recipients of U.S. foreign aid at
some time. Due in large part to foreign
aid programs like the Export-Import
Bank and the Overseas Private Invest
ment Coiporation, U.S. exports to for
eign aid recipients grew by 70 percent
between 1986 and 1990.
Last year, 40 percent, nearly $146
billion worth, of all U.S. exports went to
developing nations, virtually all of which
receive U.S. foreign aid. This export
level supports 1 million American jobs.
By the year 2000, four out of five
consumers will live in the developing
countries. American industry and work
ers have an interest in these countries’
economic welfare. Republicans and
Democrats alike should not use foreign
aid as a scapegoat for their own unwill
ingness to cut the fat.
With foreign aid representing less
than 1 percent of the United States’
budget, we cannot afford to not have it
Eric Wagner, a senior political sci
ence major from Jerusalem, receives
foreign aid from his parents, who aren’t
Republicans.
rape someone as a sophomore. We’re
doing it because women shouldn’thave
to ask if the guy in her small group
project has any sexual-assault convic
tions. We’re doing it because a woman
has a right to go to class and go home to
her dormitory and go to a party without
daily facing the man convicted of rap
ing her.
We’re doing it because we know that
if our best friends or our girlfriends or
our sisters or our suitemates got raped
by a student who this administration
knew was a convicted rapist, but who
they blithely decided wasn’t a “real
threat to the community,” then we would
have some questions to ask of Chancel
lor Hardin that he could not answer.
We are the Rape Action Project, the
Women’s Forum, the Feminist’s Alli
ance, Women Against Rape, Students
for the Advancement of Race Rela
tions, Bisexuals, Gay men, Lesbians
and Allies for Diversity, the Political
Action Committee for Equal Rights and
the Student Organized Movement
Against Discrimination. We are the of
fice of the student body president-elect
and the Campus Y. We are hundreds of
petition-signing students. And we are
committed to this simple act of justice,
this simple act of sanity.
This isn’t a difficult issue. This
doesn’t have to be a shouting match in
the local media for the next month.
Chancellor Hardin, it is time for this
policy.
Matt Stiegler, a junior history major
from Hatfield, Pa., is coordinator of SO
MAD.
being used to close off Ramshead lot
(the last refuge for students who need to
park on campus before 9:30 p.m.).
CHAD HOOPER
Sophomore
Pharmacy
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