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During the past week, students and University
officials attended two forums in Lenoir Hall’s North
Dining Room during which they debated the merits
of banning smoking in the entire building.
The forum moderator seemed resigned to the fact
that regardless of what decision University Auxil
iary Services makes, they will lose some customers.
What she failed to realize was that the room in which
she was sitting could be part of a compromise with
which both smokers and nonsmokers could live.
In their rush to jump on the smoke-banning band
wagon that seems to be overtaking the campus,
auxiliary services representatives should not forget
that they are not limited to the two polar options of
either banning smoking entirely or keeping the present
policy.
The present policy does seem inadequate it
allows smoking in an area that is poorly ventilated
and too close to nonsmoking tables. "Hie result: a
cloud of smoke looming over the entire hall.
But instead of exiling smokers to a life of using the
world outside of Lenoir as their ashtray, University
officials should consider a more creative option:
using part of the North Dining Hall or the area near
the back of the basement of Lenoir as the smoking
area. Both spaces are separate enough from the rest
of the eating areas to be legitimately called smoking
Looking for cash in all the wrong places
UNC-CH is a learning institution for the children
of state residents and, at the same time, a natural
resource for the entire state. Despite their small
numbers, out-of-state students are key to the
University’s continuing success.
The N.C. Senate Appropriations Committee cur
rently is considering a bill that would charge out-of
state students the entire cost of their education —a
total of at least $9,000 a year. Out-of-state students
currently pay about 80 percent of their education
costs or about $7,400.
What legislators don’t seem to understand is that
out-of-state students despite making up a small
percentage of the student body are invaluable to
the diversity, national prestige and continuing growth
of the University and the state.
UNC-CH administrators argue, quite wisely, that
raising out-of-state tuition jeopardizes the school’s
competitiveness. But it’s not just a matter of national
prestige.
According to UNC-system officials, more than 40
percent of out-of-state students remain in North
Student Body President John Moody has found the
salve for the twice-annual epidemic of exam-cram
brain paralysis.
Another reading day.
Since cramming a semester’s worth of material
into one reading day is virtually impossible, Moody
has sent the University’s administration a proposal to
incorporate another reading day into the University
calendar.
In the past, reading days have fallen on the day
after regular classes end. While this 24-hour study
period can produce one above-average grade, the
fact that another exam crops up the next day sends
some students sliding back down the curve.
Students who use Reading Day to study for their
first exam are out of luck when that free day is over.
Moody’s proposal will allow students with a horrific
exam schedule to relax—and cut down their Vivarin
intake by a third.
An extra reading day could complicate holiday
and break scheduling, but increased study time is
worth the minor inconvenience. Since reading days
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Room for everyone
sections, unlike the so-called area that currently
exists.
If they chose the North Dining Hall option, Uni
versity officials could designate half the room as the
smoking section and leave the other half for non
smokers who enjoy eating in that room. Granted,
smokers would have to vacate the area when Caro
lina Dining Services was having one of their many
catered events there. But the University should make
an effort to accommodate all students when possible,
and it’s better for smokers to have an area part of the
time than none of the time.
The two forums did show that most students, if not
administrators, are willing to be accommodating to
their smoking peers. Scott Meyers, the Carolina
Dining Services operations director, said CDS had
not had any real complaints from students about the
present policy. And only two nonsmoking students
showed up to complain at the forums.
There is no truly good place to smoke. But the
reality on a campus of this size and diversity is that
there will be lots of people who do. Nonsmokers
should be tolerant of smoking when it is not overly
obtrusive, and the University and CDS should, like
any restaurant, try to please all of their customers.
The possibility of pleasing most everyone at Lenoir
is very real.
Carolina after graduation earning a living and
giving back to the state that helped subsidize their
education. During their time at the University, out
of-state students help provide the kind of cultural,
socioeconomic and geographic diversity for which
school administrators strive.
Gov. Jim Hunt has proposed raising tuition 3
percent next year and 3.3 percent the following year
—a much fairer recommendation. The UNC system
needs funding, and some sort of tuition increase is
almost inevitable.
A small tuition hike, such as Hunt’s proposal, that
poured into the University coffers and not into the
pork barrel General Fund, would benefit the Univer
sity. But forcing out-of-state students to pay their
entire educational costs would hurt the University
more than it helped the state’s financial well-being.
Raising out-of-state tuition will not help alleviate
the burden for in-state students or N.C. taxpayers.
Instead, the proposed hike would diminsh the
overall quality of the University for all students
and citizens.
One day more
are not set within the UNC system, many N.C.
universities have adopted extra time for exam prepa
ration.
Our administration should be thankful that Moody ’ s
proposal only asks for one extra day —some Ivy
Leaguers gamer an entire week for last minute
brownnosing.
Although Moody’s proposal will be reviewed by
Provost Richard McCormick’s Instructional Person
nel Committee at the group’s April 15 meeting,
Chancellor Paul Hardin has the deciding vote. After
McCormick’s committee sends the chancellor what
should be a supportive recommendation, Hardin’s
John Hancock is the seal students need to save them
from that “F’amiliar cram grade.
The proposal’s only flaw is the starting date. Since
the 1993-94 University calendar already has been set
in stone, the policy can’t be implemented until at
least 1994.
Moody’s proposal won’t help current upperclass
men, but future exam-takers will appreciate his fore
sight.
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Come Monday... I’ll be watching The Game
All I want for graduation is an NCAA
championship.
Well, a job certainly would be
nice too
Nevertheless, I don’t think this is too
much to ask for. I really have to thank
the men’s basketball team for my early
birthday present: Dook’s defeat (ex
cuse me, that wasn’t a defeat, that was a
rout, a slaughter ... ) in the last home
game of my college career was oh, so
sweet. I still don’t think I’ve recovered.
It’s time to go for the really big one
this time.
Just think, all you have to do to get rid
of me is win two more games. My
parents would really appreciate it be
cause they’re convinced I’m staying in
school until we win this championship.
(Well, I’m not actually sure that my
mother, the die-hard Wolfpack fan,
wouldn’t prefer me to become a profes
sional student. ACC loyalty means noth
ing here. Kind of the way we all feel
about that colony New Jersey has set up
in Durham.)
We’re due. I can feel it. Haven’t I
been here since the last championship?
Well, no, not really, despite what my
roommate says.
I haven’t even been to Franklin Street
to celebrate anything yet because I know
the minute I show up there it’ll all be
over. Everyone has their little rituals:
Some people don’t shave; some people
don’t wash their socks. I don’t go to
Franklin Street. If I go celebrate, we’ll
And now ... a word from
his Highness, the Dean
Editor’s note: The following letter
was submitted as an open letter to the
student body.
To the editor:
I would like to thank each of you for
your tremendous support of the Tar
Heel basketball program throughout this
year. Your enthusiasm has been a posi
tive force for the team.
As the Tar Heels head to New Or
leans this weekend, I would like to
encourage all Carolina fans to show
their support for our team in a positive
manner. This University has always
been known for its “class” while cheer
ing on its teams. I know this image will
be enhanced this weekend also. During
the excitement, I am sure all students
will exercise good judgment in show
ing support for the Tar Heels so that we
fully display what it means to be a ‘Tar
Heel.”
Hope our team will play well and
give you folks many reasons for cheer
ing!
DEAN SMITH
Head Basketball Coach
Rebuttals sans manners
change very few minds
To the editor:
For two nights I have attended the
lectures on issues in higher education.
The one clearpiece of knowledge I have
gained is that rudeness only hurts a
person’s arguments.
On Monday evening, a person in the
middle of the auditorium persistently
interrupted Dr. Schlesinger by shouting
rude comments at him. The person in
question may have had a valid point.
However, her way of expressing oppo
sition discredited her stance. Since she
did not ask Dr. Schlesinger questions at
the designated place and in turn, like
others with a point of contention, the
audience was left to conclude only that
she must have nothing valuable to say
and no way to support her comments.
Rudeness is not a quality exclusive to
the more liberal political camp, as we
saw Tuesday night. One of the main
speakers, Dinesh D’Souza, himself re
sorted to rude comments rather than
cogent points. D’Souza tried to illus
trate his arguments with “amusing
jokes.”
To prove that women’s studies classes
have nothing to offer universities, he
said the only thing he learned in a
women ’ s studies course was that a phal
lic symbol was something longer than it
was wide and that he could never look at
his school’s clock tower the same way
again.
DeMao
Life
Under Seige
lose the next
game. That’s
the way my life
works. So I’m
just staying
away, keeping
my fingers
crossed, mutter
ing little prayers
under my
breath....
It actually
might be a good
thing that our
women’s team isn’t in it anymore, be
cause the mere thought of a matched set
of NCAA championships is just a little
too exciting, and my brain might over
load.
Generally, I’m not a big sports fan;
my formative years were spent in the
dance studio, not on the soccer field.
I’m certainly not going to go out of my
way to search for boxing or handball or
three-handed bottle-tossing or whatever
else happens to be on ESPN at the time.
Basketball is different. Basketball is
more than just a sport. Basketball is like
a religion.
Admittedly, I’m a little biased here. I
grew up in ACC country, and we get
basketball right along with mother’s
milk. You can’t escape if you want to.
Still, I’m not going to go searching
for basketball, not when I’m graduating
in a month and a half and still haven’t
found a job, not when my academic
READERS' FORUM
This comment hurt D’Souza’s argu
ment because anyone who has ever taken
a women’s studies course knows this
comment is not true and will hesitate to
agree with other of D’Souza’s points.
(If you thought the comment was true or
even close to the truth, you need to take
a women’s studies course.) Further, this
joke was not D’ Souza’s first or last: He
made flippant remarks every time he
opened his mouth, some more offensive
than others. Such tactics will not win
anyone intelligent over to his side.
I am not defending the “politically
correct” idea that no one should say
anything that might offend someone
else. I am pointing out that rudeness
will not help anyone’s argument and
will only hurt it.
I think the critical issue in education
brought out in the past two nights is that
students from two of the country’s fin
est universities—UNC and Dartmouth
—never learned that substance of argu
ment is more important than “good”
timing.
EVELYN FURSE
Senior
Public Policy Analysis
Blue Jeans Day makes a
comeback on campus
(Editor’s note: This letter was sub
mitted on behalf of the student group
SO MAD by one of the groups mem
bers.)
To the editor:
There are a lot of campus traditions
that the Student Organized Movement
Against Discrimination would like to
see end, including the annual attempt to
defund B-GLAD, anti-gay letters in The
Daily Tar Heel, homophobia rational
ized by religion, sexism defined as chiv
alry and the embarrassing antics of the
Student Congress Finance Committee.
However, there is one tradition that
we hate to see die: Blue Jeans Day.
Blue Jeans Day is traditionally spon
sored by B-GLAD during Lesbian and
Gay Awareness Week. It is a day when
people show support for the lesbian and
gay community simply by wearing a
pair of jeans.
It is also a learning opportunity for
the unsuspecting homophobe who dons
the usual Levi’s and then faces com
ments and snickers before rushing home
to change. If only for a moment, these
people may experience the glares and
persecution suffered daily by lesbians
and gays.
B-GLAD voted to end the tradition
this year, calling it “too antagonistic.”
We at SO MAD are sponsoring Blue
Jeans Day this Friday because we want
to antagonize campus homophobes. We
also want to give everybody else the
chance to demonstrate support for their
career is a perpetual hell week, not
when I’m trying to recover from too
much time and energy spent being a
campus activist. I have too much to do
and too much to whine about how busy
I am.
That’s why I’m so grateful to net
work television.
Network television basically has
grabbed me by the shirt and screamed
into my ear, “IT’S TIME FOR THE N-
C-DOUBLE-A, DAMMIT.”
I love the NCAA tournament. De
spite the fact that, much to my
roommate ’sdisgust,l’mfar more likely
to choose my teams on what their uni
forms look like (I can see all you sports
connoisseurs out there rolling your eyes)
than on any knowledge of the teams
themselves, I can sit for hours watching
this stuff. It doesn’t hurt that I go to a
University with a kick-ass basketball
program.
So, everything else in my life stops
Saturday at noon. The women’s games
start then, and I am there: three days of
basketball-filled bliss. The television
goes on, the tortilla chips and beer come
out, and anybody who wants to see me
will just have to come over and watch
the games.
After all, graduation is riding on this.
Alisa DeMao is an 1 lth-year senior
journalism and political science major
from Gamer who remembers celebrat
ing in 1982. (No, not really.)
lesbian, gay and bisexual friends.
So you don’t think you’re a
homophobe? We challenge you to prove
it by proudly wearing blue jeans on
Friday.
If you’re in the ranks of people like
the Pit preachers and gay bashers, then
make sure to wear your Sunday best.
But if you consider yourself liberal,
open-minded, tolerant or simply a ratio
nal human being, then on Friday, we’ll
see you in your blue jeans.
JOAN PETIT
Sophomore
English/Women’s Studies
Community thankful for
Greek Week projects
To the editor:
Last week was Greek Week at UNC
CH. This conjures for many of us the
picture of wild and irresponsible behav
ior. Let me give you quite another im
age.
Charles House is a senior citizens’
day-care center located in Carrboro serv
ing Carrboro, Chapel Hill and all of
Orange County.
With a minimum amount of persua
sion from our staff, the Greek Week
Committee made Charles House a re
cipient of some of their activities. This
means we were given a generous check
for financial support for our program.
More important, I think, was the
clean-up/fix-up day at Charles House.
Last Saturday at 9:30 a.m., 45 young
men and women arrived at Charles
House with a load of lumber. With this
they constructed a trellis over one of our
decks.
This is a handsome addition to the
property, and it will bring joy to those
who sit beneath its shade on warm sum
mer days. The students then washed all
of our windows, inside and out, scrubbed
baseboards and shampooed our sixteen
upholstered lounge chairs. Outside, they
raked and cleaned winter debris, spaded
and began to plant the garden, and
washed and waxed our van. Many of the
students stayed until late in the after
noon.
This means they missed the impor
tant basketball game except for the ra
dio on the deck railing which was diffi
cult to hear over the pounding of the
nails.
Charles House is immensely grateful
for these services. But even more, we
are proud of these young people dem
onstrating good citizenship in its truest
form, which is service. We hope the
whole community will share in this
pride.
GEORGIA NELSON
President, Charles House
Association