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8 Tuesday, September 14,1993 (Hif My (Tor HM Vi- Han dung EDITOR Jennifer Talhelm ASSOCIATE EDITOR Established 1893 A century of editorial freedom Detrimental Advertising After all the debate, negotiations, sit-ins and closed Board of Trustees meetings, the fight for a free-standing Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center might be hitting the University where it hurts its pockets. Former BOT member John Pope took out an advertisement in the Sunday edition of The Chapel Hill News imploring private contribu tors —including alumni, local residents, parents and students —to stop giving their money to the University because the money might be used to construct the BCC. Asa former representative and trustee mem ber of the University, Pope should not be calling for a boycott of private donations to the school. It hurts the very University he represented from 1985 to 1993. While serving on the BOT, Pope frequently voiced his objections to the BCC, saying public money should not be used to construct a build ing on public land and calling the BCC a throw back to the days of “separate but equal.” But the ad, which certainly is within Pope’s right to exercise free speech, is detrimental to the entire University’s fimd-raising efforts not just to the BCC effort. It is ludicrous for Pope to ask people to stop contributing to the University and regrettable A New Note from Home St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh has taken a bold, brave and potentially unpopular stance by requiring applicants to submit a police profile from their hometown police. However unpopular this stance may be, it is an understandable reaction to the increasing violence on the St. Augustine’s campus. Last year, one student was murdered and another was charged with murder. St. Augustine’s ad ministrators needed to take action. St. Augustine’s should be applauded for tak ing a step to prevent future students from com mitting violence. But its administration should make sure the policy does not produce unin tended results, such as losing good students. Students who have had previous scrapes with the law but now are completely law-abiding citizens and are academically prepared might be discouraged from applying to St. Augustine’s. There is also the chance that administrators Hi be.~ih&mny 1 joocan be l kweronte.oorchildv*icoutgrew up unoffecW, j Buwrats and advertising: Kevin Schwattz. duector/general manager: Bob Bales, advertising director. Leslie Humphrey, classified ad manager Gma Berardino. business manager Jell Kilman. advertising manager ■nakieta iME Ho*y Aldndge. assistant manager Joanna Hutchins. Jenny Schwartz and Jen Talhelm. Aeeiatant wftorx: Wendy Mitchell, arts and entertainment Jay Daws, copy Zachary Albert Jacaon Lowe and Carter Toole.sporrs Adam Davts. James Whitfield. Sport Saturday Andrea Jones and Stephanie Greer. state and national: James Lewis. Steve Robblee and Holly Stepp.unmrsrTy Ana and anteitainnienc John O'Brien and Peter Roybal, graphics Zak Bisacky. Jennifer Brett Ryan Coleman Waynette Gladden. Laura Guy. Alison Ince. Tommy Jenkins. Bnan Kahn. Sam King. Daniel Kois, Kevin Kruae. James Dalton Mayo Jr. Alison Maxwell, Ryan McKaig. Alex Frew McMillan. Mernetle Moore. John Neiman. Stuart Nichols. Tanya Oestreicher. Tara Pifer. Kate Power. Mark Prindle. Jon Rich. Brandon Sharp, Charlie Speight Sally Stryker. Scott Timberg. Kristi Tumbaugh. Emma Williams. lan WAiams and Katnna Wittcamp Cartoon: Ameena Betada. Mary Brutzman. Kas DeCarvalho. Chns DePree. Dustin Hedrick. Brian Kahn Jake MacNeßy. Sergio Miranda. That Sayo and Dan Tarrant Chy Tiffany Ashhurst Alison Baker. Amol Bhat Done Blackman. Joh Blackwell. Bill Blocker. Vicki Cheng. Daniel Feldman. Kathryn Hass. Jeather The editorials are approved by the majority of the editorial board, which is composed of the editor, editorial page editor and five editorial writers. The Del|r Tar Heel is published by the DTH Publishing Corp. a nonprofit North Carolina corporation, Monday-Fnday. according to the University calendar Calers with questions about billing or display advertising should dial 962-1163 between 830a m. and 5 p.m Classified ads can be reached at 962-0262. Editorial questions should be directed to 9620245/0246 Office: Suite 104 Carolina Union ISSN #IO7O-9436 Canput mel address: CM 5210 Box 49, Carolina Union U.S. Mail address: P.O. Box 3257, Chapel Hill, NC 27515-3257 that the University should suffer all around be cause of one issue. If BCC fund raising becomes part of the Bi centennial Campaign, only $7 million of the revised $327-million total would go to fund the BCC. Private contributors who make donations through the University’s development office have the option to designate their money to whatever department or fund-raising campaign they wish. They also may make an unrestricted donation to the Chancellor’s University Fund, which is spent at Chancellor Paul Hardin’s discretion. The BCC is a separate option given to alumni and others when money is pledged to the Univer sity. It is up to the individual not a random panel of University administrators to decide where the money is needed or used. “If they don’t want to listen, your money talks!” Pope’s ad states. This might be true, but the trustees already have made the decision to construct the BCC on the Coker Woods site. Money might talk, but everyone including the Bicentennial Campaign, academic depart ments and students would suffer if private contributors to the University bow to the rheto ric of one politically charged advertisement di rected at one politically charged debate. could use the police profile information inappro priately. It would be unfair for administrators to use the information to “weed out” all applicants who have criminal records. Some students with juvenile criminal records end up straightening themselves out by the time they enter college. It would be unjust and unfor tunate if the administration blindly denied them a chance to attend St. Augustine’s. The administrators now should take the next step forward by making sure they use the police profiles fairly in their admissions process. In light of the incidence of violence among St. Augustine’s students, requiring the police pro file is reasonable and justified. But the adminis tration should follow through to ensure fairness to all applicants. It’s sad that St. Augustine’s administrators feel the need to request a police profile from each of its applicants. It’s sad but necessary. THE DAILYTAR HEEL Business & Advertising Staff receptionists. Classified advertising: Melissa Ailam. Dodie Brodsky, Jen Pilla, Usa Reichle and Christi Thomas, representatives; Kevin Brennan, production assistant. Display advertising: Ashleigh Heath, special projects manager Ryan Bolick. Shannon Edge. Lynelle Hovaniec. Tiffany Krueger. Usa McMinn. Editorial Staff Jones. Rochelle Klaskin. Jamie Kritzer. Kristen Laney. Kristen Mm. Brett Pedrry. Amy Piniak. Molly Shafer. Judith Siviglia. Jacob Stohler. Jay Taylor. Jodie Townsend and Holly Williams Copy: Elita Dowd. Kathleen Flynn. Christa Fuller. Kendra Gemma. Margi Hilstad. Melanie Hutsell. April Jones. Candi Kobetz. Enn Lewis. Erica Martin. Emily Masura. Kelly Nordknger. Jennifer Pender. Kim Preslar. Chris Reuther, Chrissy Sweeney and Emily Tinsley Edhorial: Michelle Chan. Matthew Hoyt Rama Kayyali. Jeremy Kyle Kinner. Jennifer Mueller and John Wesley. Features: Angelique Bartlett. Elena Bourgoin. Dewey Brinkley. Dale Castle. Jon Goldberg, Andrea N. Halt Amy Kincaid. Dana Meisner. Funke Moses. Jennifer A Moyer. Deepa Perumallu, Tara Powell. Robin Rodes. Maurine Shields. LeAnn Spradling. Amy Swan. Ross Taylor. Nam Vo. Angie Wainwright Denise Walker and Emma Williams. Graphics: Jen DiHmer and Julie Spivey. Layout Amy Ferguson and Dawn Owen Photography: Missy Bello. Lauren Brandes. Andrea Broaddus. Sterling Chen. Sarah Dent Jill Kaufman. Dana Pope editorial page editor Michael Workman UNIVERSITY EDITOR Kelly Ryan CITY EDITOR Jason Richardson state t national editor Steve Politi SPORTS editor Amy L Seeley features editor Kim Costello arts i entertainment editor Marty Minehin special assignments editor Rohin Cagle copy desk editor Justin Williams photography editor Justin Scheef GRAPHICS EDITOR Erin Lyon layout editor Bridget Busch cartoon editor John C. Manuel SPORTSATURDAY EDITOR Allison Sherrill. Kathy Trent Jon Tuck and Ashley Widis, account executives ; Jay DaKoriya, Kelly Doyle and Andrew Wong, assistant account executives. Advertising production: Bill Leslie, manager/ system administrator. Stephanie Brodsky. John Mims and Denise Walker, assistants. Jason Kirk. Stacy Kozumplick. Jonathan Radcliffe, Jayson Singe. Debbie Stengel. Ross Taylor and Katrina Wittkamp. Sports: John Manuel, senior writer: Andy Alley. Chad Austin. Doug Behar. J. Michael Bradley. Corey Brown. Seth Brown. Rodney Cline, Brian Edmonds. Mark Franklin. Jon Goldberg, Alison Lawrence. Erin Parrish. Robbi Pickeral. Jill Santopierto. Brad Short. Ethan Treistman. Frank Wang. Scott Weaver and Jill West State and national: Jonathan Barker. Adam Bianchi. Kellie Brown. Bronwen Clark. Ward Conville. Jenny Heinzen. Amir Khan. Greg Ray. Melissa Roche. Alia Smith. Ryan Thornburg. Brad Williams and Sara Worrell. University: John Adcock. Jennifer Ayres. Jitter Bourguignon. Dawn Bryant. Elizabeth Cleary. Kia Conley Casella Foster. Jessica Frank. Chris Gioia. Marissa Jones Rachael Landau. Erica Luetzow, Phuong Ly. Kevin McKee. Kelly Newton. Leena Pendharkat Holly Ramer. Lisa Robbins. Shakti Routray. Jydy Ann Roval. Kirk Roval. Kara Simmons and Susan Tebbens. Editorial Production: Stacy Wynn, manager Printing: The Chapel Hill News Distribution: Triangle Circulation Services. EDITORIALS V:'.;'' ;[ fUL Utr, -mere kda I;-/-luhK*. jfrXhPJ/l; -5 T /, ■■V ’: Washington Gridlock Causes Leadership Breakdown President Bill Clinton recently stood up at a conference and slammed Congress for de lay and gridlock in passing his legislative program. A heckler in the crowd—one William Kelly shouted: “How can you talk about gridlock... when the Democrats have control of Congress? Why don’t you show some leader ship?” Clinton, who is becoming increasingly thin-skinned these days, turned on Kelly and scolded him for his ill manners. Nevertheless, Kelly had a point. One of Clinton’s main campaign platforms last year was that a Democratic president would break the gridlock with the Democrat-controlled Con gress. And yet the gridlock still continues. Part of the problem may well be what Kelly rudely pointed his finger at —the lack of leader ship from Bill Clinton. But a lot of it is just that Congress is very powerful—perhaps inherently and constitutionally the most powerful of the institutes of American democracy. On top of that, this Congress is especially strong. It is one of the peculiarities of U.S. politics (and by no means necessarily a bad one) that in the last four decades, a Democrat has been president for only about 12 years, yet the Democrats have controlled the House of Repre sentatives for the entire period and dominated the entire Congress for almost as long. In that time, the Democrats in Congress have grown into an extremely strong institution, trad ing patronage for allegiance and exploiting the advantage of incumbency to become a seem ingly immovable presence. Congress also has evidently become so accus tomed to doing its own thing that it is virtually indifferent to the political affiliation of the per son in the White House. Hence Clinton’s rude shock at the start of his Gays, Lesbians Not Intended To Have or Raise Children TO THE EDITOR: Has anybody out there noticed that nature/ God creates no gay parents? There are no gay parents. Gays do not have children. Heterosexu als have children. They are the blessings of heterosexual marriages. Children were not intended to be raised by either two women or two men. It is not natural. Couples with children should either stay to gether until the children are on their own, or, if they separate or divorce, they should not engage in immoral behavior and certainly not in the same home where the innocent child must live. Surely adults can put aside their sexual appetites on hold that long. Abstinence has never killed anybody. I am glad to hear that Kay Bottoms has custody of her grandchild (“Va. Judge Rules Lesbian Mother Unfit, Immoral,” Sept. 9). Why? Because hopefully she is old enough to be patient and understanding of the child’sneeds, and she has had time to wake up to the realities of life and know what is really of permanent value. Experimentation of lifestyle with sexual de viations inclusive ofhomosexuality, long touted by trendy psychotherapists, may provide brief thrills and plenty of filth and germs and diseases and new lovers. This sexual experimentation also may pro vide revenge against dictatorial parents. But such loss of self-control does not provide peace of mind and contentment. It does not show any respect for the values of our parents and grandparents. I have said that one of the really super way s for rebellious youth to hurt their parents would surely be to adopt a homosexual lifestyle. “Children raised in (homosexual) homes have not proven to be different from any other chil dren” (“The Rights of Gay Parents,” Sept. 9). Ha! It will be about 20 more years before the truth or falsehood of that statement comes to light. Children do copy what they observe. That is why my grandchild says “Thank you” in En glish, but the Japanese children say it in Japa nese. The editor also probably thinks that a one parent home doesn’t affect a child adversely either. Well, think again! A father missing from a home is like a vacuum in a child’s brain forever. Women have a real nerve to think that a child’s father doesn’t happen to matter or be needed—very trendy notion but it isn’t so. Time will show this. A child shouldn’t be forced to live with his mother just because she is a lesbian either. I’m one of those out here in reader-land who is fed up with hearing how great those “way-out- presidency, when Congress nonchalantly tossed outhischerishedeco nomic stimulus package and forced him to invoke Vice President A1 Gore’s casting vote to save his budget from de feat in the Senate a setback that might have signed the death certificate of his presidency. ALAN HARTDEGEN OIIT OF AFRICA Many of those who voted against Clinton were chairmen or deputy chairmen of congres sional committees. The Democratic leadership made a half-hearted attempt to discipline them by divesting them of their positions. But so begrudging was Congress of its own power that the attempted retribution just fizzled out. Since then, Clinton has backed down from a host of other promises at the first sign of congres sional opposition his nomination of Lani Guinier as civil rights chief, his broad-based energy tax, his pledges to accommodate Haitian refugees and to lift the ban on gays in the mili tary. And so Congress has prevailed time and time again. After these early setbacks, Clinton has, on the advice of his new spin doctor David Gergen, adopted a hands-off approach to the job, setting broader goals and leaving the nitty gritty to congressional Democrats to thrash out. That ploy has been rather successful in that it has shielded him from the fallout that accompa nies the minor defeats compromise brings. But theothereffectisonce again to cede more power READERS’FORDM The Daily Tar Heel welcomes reader comments and critcism. Letters to the editor should be no longer than 400 words and must be typed, double-spaced, dated and signed by no more than two people. Students should include their year, major and phone number. Faculty and staff should include their title, department and phone number. The DTH reserves the right to edit letters for space, clarity and vulgarity. in-left-field” groups (minorities, homosexuals, et cetera, ad nauseum) are, as though any resem blance to the law and order and decency of my childhood (when crime was almost unheard of in my hometown) ought to be apologized for. I don’t think it is any coincidence that way out lifestyles and crime are both on the rise simultaneously. Self-control is the only route to real freedom and decent living. Lorraine Scott Smith CHAPEL HILL Columnist Rehashes Rhetoric Of National Rifle Association TO THE EDITOR: In his column, “Handgun Ban Would Not End Crime or Violence” (Sept. 2), Alan Martin rehashes the tired rhetoric of the National Rifle Association. "If handguns are illegal,” the NRA and its flunkies declare, “only criminals will have hand guns.” Do knee-jerk opponents of handgun control ever stop to consider where criminals obtain handguns? Some criminals purchase handguns legally from the local gun shop. Others steal them from law-abiding citizens who own handguns. Many purchase them on the black market. Handguns enter the black market either through theft or because someone who legally purchased a weapon sells it onto the black mar ket. One recently broken-up Raleigh gun ring, for example, made legal purchases of more than 1,000 weapons, which they in turn sold illegally. In short, virtually every handgun used in the commission of a crime enters society through a legal purchase. Every handgun used to commit a crime is legally manufactured. (It is the arms manufac aHjp Saily (Ear Hppl to Congress, thereby reinforcing the idea that it, and not the president, really governs the country. Moreover, the new strategy probably will not convince Kelly that Clinton now is demonstrat ing leadership qualities. Or if he is, it must surely be leadership of the kind that T olstoy admired so in the Russian General Kutuzov, who fathomed the direction of events and then went with the tide. Clinton also has said that if he compromises more, it is because he attempts more. In the end, by aiming higher he achieves more, even with compromises. There is undoubtedly much in that. Yet Clinton’s problem is the huge chasm between his ambitions and his means of attain ing them. Hence the growing perception that Clinton either is insincere or easily thwarted, but clearly not a man of conviction. Of course, incidents such as Travelgate and a S2OO runway haircut hardly helped his overall image either. Judging by his static approval rating, it would seem that people do not count his recent achievements; they merely look for their notion of a strong leader, and do not find it. Certainly not an auspicious beginning for the president—l wonder if Clinton emitted a Homer Simpson-esque “Dowhhh” when aides tactfully told him that D.C. shops are teeming with T shirts exclaiming: “Don’t blame me. I voted for Bush, ” and “When I was young I was told that in America anyone can become president. Now I’m beginning to believe it!” And Congress? It probably views the prospect of anew inhabitant in the house down the street with some indifference. Alan Hartdegen is a junior economics and political science major from Johannesburg, South Africa. turers, by the way, that are the real force behind the NRA.) Would a national ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns get every gun out of the hand of every criminal? Of course not. Would it make handguns more difficult to obtain and dramatically reduce the numbers of handguns in the possession of criminals? Of course. Guns are not like drugs. They cannot be manufactured in someone's basement. Ironically, the tragic murder ofKristin Lodge- Miller, which Martin believes illustrates the futil ity of gun control, is a perfect example of its necessity. Anthony Simpson stole the murder weapon from a relative who owned and obtained it legally. If Simpson had not had such easy access to a handgun, would Kristin Lodge-Miller be dead today? It is true that a local handgun ban would be of limited effectiveness. If, however, a local ban helps us move toward the national ban that we desperately need, then I am for it. One final note to Alan Martin: no one is proposing to take away your shotgun. We would all be better off, in fact, if every handgun owner traded in his or her weapon for a shotgun. The only advantage of a handgun is that it is easily concealed and easily transported. These are advantages of use only to those with nefari ous motives. JoelSipress GRADUATE STUDENT HISTORY DTH Should Place Crossword At Bottom of Page Every Day TO THE EDITOR: We have noticed that the location of the crossword puzzle has been floating longitudi nally on its customary page. Many of us depend on the crossword puzzle to tide us through some of the, shall we say, slower lectures. Doing the crossword during class without detection is an art. It is an art that is facilitated when the crossword is at the bottom of the page. The name of the game is subtlety. We would like to request that the crossword (and Calvin, too, of course) be anchored at the bottom of the page. To us it is an essential component of The Daily Tar Heel. AmpamaMohanram SECOND YEAR MEDICINE Gregory Levitin SECOND YEAR MEDICINE
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