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4 Wednesday, November 10,1993 Bicentennial Director Finds Years of Work Worthwhile on Oct. 12 BYROBIN RODES STAFF WRITER At the exact moment President Clinton looked Steve Tepper in the eye Oct. 12, every marathon work session and pound ing headache during the past 4 1/2 years became worth the effort. The opening of the oldest state university’s Bicentennial Observance was a success. He had done it. As the 26-year-old executive director of UNC’s Bicentennial Observance Office stood shaking hands with the president, surrounded by gawking people in the back stage area of Kenan Stadium—his mobile telephone, walkie-talkie and beeper set aside for the moment —Tepper absoibed the moment. “(Clinton’s) got very big hands and warm eyes, ” he said. “He’s very engaging. “He didn’t seem overwhelmed. He kept his attention on everyone he met.” Although Tepper believes Clinton had no idea who he was, the boyish-looking professional still prizes the memory. “That was the highlight of my whole five years here (in the Bicentennial Observance Of fice),” he declared. But the opening ceremonies were only the beginning of the Bicentennial Obser vance. Tepper still must plan a huge num ber of events before his office shuts do wn in May after commencement exercises. But this UNC alumnus can handle the pressure. Sitting in his spacious office in Alumni House, Tepper exudes profession alism. His dark brown hair is carefully groomed, and his suit is neatly pressed. Intelligent dark eyes peer through wire rimmed glasses. Friends and colleagues use words such as diligent, conscientious and talented to describe Tepper. Many cited these quali ties as the reason for his success as well as their involvement with the Bicentennial Observance. 1930 Daily Tar Heel Survey Revealed Students in Favor Of Repealing Prohibition Laws Editor's note: This article originally ran in The Daily Tar Heel on April 3,1930. Evidently the students at the University are either uninterested in the prohibition law or they are satisfied with conditions just as they are, for out of a stu dent body of more than 2,000, less than halfvotedinthe three-day poll conducted by The Daily Tar Heel. How ever, of 944 who voted, 658 wanted repeal of the 18 th amendment, 144 favored modification and 142 favored strict enforcement. Among the drinkers and nondrinkers the count stood 564 for those who drank and 380 for those who did not drink. Are You Considering Professiond School? HARVARD UNIVERSITY'S JOHN F. KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT is looking for future leaders in Public Affairs. We offer a 2-year Master's program in PubKc Policy, with concentrations offered in: • Criminal Justice • Energy & Environmental Policy • Government & Business • Health Policy • Housing & Community Development • Human Services, Labor & Education • International Affairs & Security • International Development • International Trade & Finance • Press & Politics • Science & Technology • Transportation • Urban Economic Development Interested? Then come meet with the Kennedy School Representative who will visit your campus on: DATE: Monday, November 15,1993 TIME: 10:00 am group session LOCATION: Please contact the Student Counseling/ Career Office for this information. ALL STUDENTS, ALL YEARS, ALL MAJORS WELCOME! “7 think the University is very fortunate to have (Tepper). He has a deep sense of feeling for this institution. ” RICHARD RICHARDSON Faculty chairman of the Bicentennial Observance Richard Richardson, faculty chairman of the Bicentennial Observance, said: “The reason I came onto the (faculty Bicenten nial) committee in the first place was be cause of Steve.... I have more confidence in that young man than anyone I know. “This job is much bigger than some thing given to most 26-year-olds,” said Richardson, a political science professor. “He's a list maker ... and when he doesn’t get everything on the list done, he gets uncomfortable.” Tepper’s co-worker, Communications Director Scott Dupree, agreed with Richardson’s assessment. “(Tepper) puts in long hours to make sure that everything is done right.” Tepper said he worked so hard because he loved UNC and wanted to create a balanced celebration involving everyone. During the past four years, this has meant working with student, faculty and other outside groups to focus their event propos als to the Bicentennial policy board. “We didn’t want to superimpose the Bicentennial on the campus.... We really wanted to make this a campus celebration —that the campus felt ownership, ” Tepper said. “Trying to meet all of those needs is very tough.” Tepper’s involvement in UNC affairs began long before he officially became the executive director of the Bicentennial Ob servance Office in January 1993. The poll was started last Sunday by the Daily in an effort to determine among students here as to modification, repeal or enforcement of the 18th amendment and other prohibition laws passed in pursuance of the amendment. Although the vote was light the first two days of the poll, yesterday a flood of votes cast by the campus “wets” indicated that sentiment here was for repeal of the prohi bition laws. Even those who professed not to drink desired some change in the laws, with a third favoring enforcement, more than 80 favoring repeal and 44 desiring modifica tion. The heavy voting for repeal came among those who drank frequently, with almost half favoring absolute repeal and none de siring enforcement. The count among the occasional drinkers favored repeal or modi fication, with less than one-fifth voting for enforcement. FEATURES ~.. wbl WmUm ' / V-~,v WmmL*/ ' ■ ■Pit - • ■f k Wmm mrnmm * pfr* Jpßpr DTH/JIU KAUFMAN Steve Tepper joined the Bicentennial Observance Office upon graduation in 1989 and has tried to involve the entire UNC community in the celebration. Asa sophomore and junior, Tepper participated in student government, lead ing the job-creation committee and acting as delegate to the Association of Student Government. By his senior year, Tepper held elective office as the 1989 senior class president and engaged in one ofthe first Bicentennial events bringing the University’s 1789 charter back to campus from the office of the secretary of state in Raleigh. Upon graduating with a degree in inter national studies concentrating in Latin America, Tepper took the job of assistant general secretary in the Bicentennial Ob servance Office instead of attending gradu ate school. One ofTepper’s formerprofessors, clas sics Professor George Kennedy, said he had urged the indecisive senior to go for Lebanese Troops Engage in Paint-Splattering Wars THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT, Lebanon Former militiamen are digging their camouflage fatigues out of the closet, and bullets are whizzing again in the hills overlooking Beirut. Yes, Lebanon’s civil war is over. This time around, the Lebanese are only play ing at war, using phony guns with explod ingpellets filled with pink and orange paint. “One gets the same sensation of war, the same adrenaline rush. The only differ ence is you don’t die, ” said George Abboud, a 31-year-old former militiaman. Abboud owns the Dbaye Country Club, where he introduced the U.S.-invented game a month ago. He plans to seek gov ernment approval to stage an international paintball tournament in downtown Beirut, a war-shattered setting that would add a touch of reality to the game. “I’m sure our team will win. It’s the only sport that the Lebanese can compete Healthy living Not a Fact of Life for Health-Care Workers THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA— Some of the 30,000 doc tors , nurses and researchers at the American Heart Association’s annual meeting talk healthy diets out of one side of their mouth and put burgers and fries in the other. At lunch Tuesday, they clogged their arteries with meals high in cholesterol, fat and sodium, all of which contribute to heart disease. “It was convenient and quick, ” Dr. Paul Colavita said as he gulped down a Big Bacon Classic burger and Biggie Fries at a Wendy’s near the convention site the Georgia World Congress Center. Before lunch, some health-care workers enjoyed cigarettes outside the smoke-free building, while others sipped cocktails from a bar set up outside the convention hall (although a bartender said business was JoinVsA t To Kick Off The NIT! Wednesday Nights 11 oi. Cup Night SI.OO the University’s job offer. “I thought that Steve would make a good University ad ministrator of sorts,” he said. Two years later, the University chose Tepper to take over for outgoing Executive Director Bill Massey as acting director of the Bicentennial Observance Office. “I’ve been real happy with the choices I’tle made,” Tepper said. His colleagues think Tepper has made the right choices, too. “I think the University is very fortunate to have him,” Richardson said. “He has a deep sense of feeling for this institution. He cares very deeply.” Kennedy said of Tepper, “He’s bright and articulate and handsome, and he has a very bright future.” Richardson agreed. “He’s going to be very successful —a smashing success." in internationally and win,” said Abboud, a Maronite Chrikian who was 13 when he began fighting with real guns. “I wish we had paintball before the war. We wouldn’thave destroyed this country.” In paintball, the players use carbon di oxide-powered guns that fire marble-size balls that explode on impact, splattering victims with paint. 1 ■ ■■”■ i- Paintball started in the United States in 1981, but Abboud said he waited for the war to end before introducing the game to Lebanon. The 15-year civil war, which ended in October 1990, killed 150,000 people, dis placed 500,000 others and caused at least $25 billion worth of destruction. The Lebanese, even those who did not fight in the war, have brought their exper tise to the game. They duck, curse and take aim like true professionals. Some reftise to wear the olive-green uniforms provided by the club, preferring slowerthanusual). Colavita, a cardiologist from Charlotte, said fatty meals were OK every now and then because he monitored his diet. But doesn’t it set a bad example for doctors to be seen eating such fatty meals? “Not me, because I took my name tag off, ” Colavita said. Tacos, hamburgers and roast beef sandwiches were favorites for some of the scientists. Fast food is just as popular among those at the heart association meeting as it is with people at other conventions, said Jane Jae ger, director of sales and marketing for MGR food services, the convention hall caterer. MGR set up several “heart-healthy” buffets of fruits, vegetables and fish for the meeting, but many doctors chose greasier Concern Grows About Violence on Television BY MM VO STAFF WRITER “We live in a sea of violence,” said UNC journalism Professor Chuck Stone. There has been a loud public outcry recently denouncing the pervasiveness of violence shown on television. It is certainly more compelling to see violence rather than just to read about it, said Jane Brown, professor of journalism. But there has been mixed feelings about how violence on television affects viewers, especially children. Some say violence on television has no direct effect on people’s behavior. Others strongly believe it does. Brown’s studies during the past 20 years indicate that children watching violence on television are more aggressive. “Every kid who watches violence on TV does not become violent; but the prob ability is there,” she said. “It’s all a perfect setup for learning aggressive behavior.” Violence on television is glamorized and goes unpunished, and children over exposed to it leam to solve problems using aggression instead of communication, she said. Despite Brown’s research, Stone is re luctant to correlate tele vision violence with the rise in crime on America’s streets. Crit ics should not single out television, Stone said. Books, magazines, newspapers and rap lyrics are just as violent. “TV violence is a factor in the changing mores of our lives —but it’s not the only factor,” he said. UNC sophomore Stuart Albert also does not believe television violence has a direct correlation with the crime in real life. People blame television for the rise in crime be cause “it is something tangible they can lash out against,” he said. “I have seen so much growing up that I have become numb to it,” Albert said. Charles Frink of the Society for the Eradication of Television said, “You can not prove the cause-and-effect of TV vio lence in a lab.” Although people disagree on the true effect of television violence, most do agree that exposure to it desensitizes viewers their own authentic camouflage outfits. For some oftheplayeis, paintball kindles dark memories of the battles they once fought and their hair-raising brushes with death. But it also provides comic relief. “In real war you don’t laugh. You kill and you can get killed,” said Marwan Dinard, 28, a mechanic who was a gunner with the Lebanese Forces, a Christian militia Pierre Gemayel, 22, son of former Presi dent Amin Gemayel whose 1982-88 term saw Lebanon slide into one of its worst eras of anarchy, said paintball is “good training for people who want to leam how to fight. ” The players quickly leam that while paintball is child’s play compared to what they’ve survived, the paint-filled “bullets” can leave bruises. “We all played Rambo until we got hit,” Abboud said. The country club is 8 miles northeast of fare. Dr. Howard Gutgesell of Charlottesville, Va., knows fast food is a poor choice but just can’t help himself. “Food with a lot of fat in it just plain tastes good,” Gutgesell said as he slurped his Wendy’s Frosty, a chocolate ice-cream desert with 400 calories, 260 milligrams of sodium and 13 grams of fat, including 7 grams of saturated fat. Gutgesell, a pediatric cardiologist, also had a taco salad, but skipped the sour cream topping. “I think the key is moderation,” he said. His entree contained 580 calories, 1,060 milligrams of sodium and 30 grams fat, including 11 grams of saturated fat. Federal guidelines recommend that a daily diet of 2,000 calories contain not more than 65 grams of fat, including 20 ■ Brussels • Paris • London • Rome • Spain • Israel ■ a Course for Success... ‘-iMSy ...The waters of international business and commerce are difficult to navigate. Let us guide you through the ebb and flow \of global change. lllllPlii \ Combine the excitement of Graduate study in an \ International setting with the academic excellence of “A A Boston University Degree. 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Brown agreed. “(There) is something inherent in it.” Violent shows give us an adrenaline rush, she said. Albert said he thought violence appealed to people’s fascination with pain and death. “TV synthesizes itforus. Wedon’t have to undergo it ourselves,” he said. If most people want to watch Shakespeare on television, then that’s what they’ll get, but in reality, most people want violence. “It is very sad that (violence) is what many people want to watch,” Frink said. The pervasiveness of violent shows sug gests that this is what the American public wants. The public’s very interest in vio lence sustains the whole television and film industries. The networks and their sponsors will show anything that attracts large audiences. However, neither Stone nor Frink be lie ve the television industry should be regu lated. “Freedom of speech is the impera tive,” Stone said. Frink added that the networks were not to blame and should not be penalized. “I am totally opposed to government censor ship. No one forces us to watch it. It’s our own choice." Asa mother, Brown has changed her views on the interpretation of the First Amendment. The amendment was not originally in tended to provide the right to show vio lence to children, so producers must try to minimize the amount ofviolence, shesaid. Also, Brown believes it is very important to get across to children that violence has its consequences and that it is not glamorous. Stone suggested that for the nature of television to change, the American public must be willing to change their tastes. “Let the public decide.” Beirut in the Christian heartland. So far, most players have been Christians, but Muslims are starting to join the fun as the word spreads. The club has five paintball “combat zones” two wooded ravines, a mock desert, an empty building and a rocky slope. The game and; 80 “bullets” costs S3O. If an exploding paintball hits you, you’re out of action. The winner is the “militia” with the most survivors. The excitement is palpable as the teams don their fatigues and divide themselves into “militias.” Even though most players are Christians, they do include former enemies. During Lebanon’s tangled civil war, Christiansoftenfoughtone another as well as Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese Muslims. But the paintball warriors say they’ve put their pasts behind them. The games usually begin at 2:30 p.m. and last about three hours until sundown. grams of saturated fat, and 2,400 to 3,000 milligrams of sodium. William Golden, manager of the Wendy’s at CNN Center, said the most popular items during the meeting had been double cheeseburgers, grilled chicken sandwiches and large fries. Convention-goers generally buy more food than the regular lunchtime crowd, and those at the heart meeting were no different, he said. Dr. Rehan Mahmud, acardiologist from Greenville, said doctors were no different than their patients they don’t want to take the time or effort to eat healthy. “I think we just feel more guilty than everyone else,” he said, deciding against a fried chicken sandwich in favor of a grilled one that had 290 calories, 720 milligrams of sodium and 7 grams of fat.
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