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Ticketing tradition
This Saturday, University Police fulfilled their
promise to more rigorously enforce the
University’s open container ordinance in the
parking lots surrounding Kenan Stadium.
Because of the wording of the Chapel Hill
ordinance, people can only be cited under the
to wn la w for drinking on the property and streets
of Chapel Hill. With this limited power of en
forcement, the University Police did an admi
rable job and took a step toward confronting the
campus’ drinking problem. The Chapel Hill
Town Council should further enlarge the word
ing of their ordinance to include all public areas
within the town limits including the Univer
sity thus avoiding inconsistent enforcement.
Police officers showed admirable understand
ing of the prickly nature of the problem by
handing out mostiy citation warnings, giving
fans time to wean themselves from their much
beloved pastime.
These warnings move away from the previ
ous laissez-faire attitude toward alumni who
have money —as well as flasks in their back
pockets. The University Police, however, still
need more substantial support from the town.
Alumni might not take the University-ordained
citations too seriously. Involving the weight of
civic authorities would better encourage fans to
amend their indulgent behavior.
Whew. 45-0, what a way to open the season.
Saturday afternoon brought lines of students
streaming through campus, buses unloading die
hard Tar Heel fans, orange-clad fools marching
arm in arm and a host of others eagerly making
their way across hill and dale to the fortress we
call Kenan Stadium.
From start to finish it was a game to behold.
But in addition to the amazing triumph on the
field, there were a number of all-around interest
ing and peculiar impressions made on the hearts
and minds of fans. As it is with every opening
home game there was much to notice, and much
to wonder about. In an effort to raise football
game awareness, uphold sensitivity standards,
advocate student interests and protect our planet
from alien invaders, we have put together a
humble list of the most frequent impressions the
game experience left on the minds ofthe masses.
Watch carefully.
1. Huge dirt pile. Anyone for a little King of
the Hill?
2. Students can sit ONLY in, around and near
orange tape, the Carolina Athletic Association
officials said. We hope those students illegally
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Chancellor Michael Hooker prefaced
Saturday’s stepped-up enforcement with a letter
to alumni season ticket holders. In the letter,
Hooker warned them of the change in the un
written rule of allowing tailgaters their indul
gences, and reminded them of their duty to set an
example for students. The University, however,
needs the threat of legal action to see that it is
taken seriously.
Fans confronted by police officers pointed out
that tailgating is a long-standingtradition. While
traditions are important, this country’s pastime
of rampant abuse of alcohol is one we could
stand to abandon. To invoke the positive conno
tations of “traditions” in reference to our bad
habits is distasteful, to say the least.
Drinking is a part of college life, a part that
will not evaporate as quickly as spilt beer. While
not always harmful, there is nothing laudable
about alcoholic indulgence. Drinking is danger
ous, particularly given the zealotry with which
students address it. The police understand that,
and the time has come for alumni and students to
do likewise.
When Georgia Tech comes to town on Sept.
21, tailgating football fans should expect to face
something more severe than a warning from the
University —a ticket from the town would be
nice.
Kenan kickoff
tailgating were better able to understand the
directions than their sober peers.
3. Since when did David Letterman get a
stadium club named after him?
4. Only $2 for Cokes? Hey Coke man, half of
that money better be going to a student scholar
ship fund like Student Stores does with the prof
its from its exorbitant prices.
5. Rameses XXVII, live on ABC, blue horns
and all. Somebody tell Bob Costas.
6. That west-end film crew way up on the
raised platform. The question remains: How do
they get to the bathroom?
7. Speaking of which, if you’re a man are you
allowed to go to the bathroom in Kenan Sta
dium?
8. Need leg room.
9. OK, athletic tops and tube tops simply
cannot be tolerated as game-going apparel. At
least, not until the State crowd comes over.
Though, of course, anything’s better than the
Carolina blue ensembles that some alumnae
have shopped long and hard to find.
10. We have a quarterback, we have a de
fense, we have Leon, we have a team.
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Silver or gold, why so obsessed with winning?
'Competition's good. It brings out the vital parts."
- 0-Tip, the Abstract Poetic
Last week, I asked a classmate how she
felt about working with me on a class
project. She said, “No.” Not for any
racial reasons. Not because we really didn’t
know each other. I was chewing gum, so it
wasn’t my breath. She just didn’t want to share
information with anyone. She felt that her
information was too valuable to share with
anyone. I don’t want to fault her, because I’ve
been guilty of being even stingier with my
work. But I thought for a minute about compe
tition. Competition at UNC and in the entire
country has reached a sad state.
I’m not whining. I was never the one sixth
grader with glasses who was always last to get
picked on a dodge ball team. Competition is
good. And it’s necessary for producing a high
standard of achievement and performance.
“You don’t win silver, you lose gold'" This
statement was constantly being thrown around
at my internship this summer. And, for some
Olympians, its true if you’re the best in the
world, you expect to win. To place below first
means you made a mistake. If the Olympic
women’s basketball team or women’s soccer
team had not won gold, they would have
fallen short of their expectations.
The Dream Team lulled people to sleep
because there was no competition. The out
come was predetermined. Who gave a damn
if there was no challenge, no mystery involved,
no difficulty, no thrill in pursuit. I’ve learned
in athletics and academics that there are three
levels of competition. First, you compete with
yourself. You try to get better and better. Your
enthusiasm and drive lead you to a point
where you gain confidence and seek more
challenges and more difficulty.
Next, you compete with other people. If
you’re an athlete, you compete with people on
your team. At work, you compete with some
Summer experience at Hilton Head Island
gives students ability to shape local movements
Hilton Head Island residents,
tourists and hotel owners did
not extend their southern hospital
ity this summer to Union Summer partici
pants. We were flicked off, told to “go home
and min someone else’s vacation,” escorted
off entire islands by resort security and repeat
edly told to find new forms of employment.
With new President John J. Sweeney, the
AFL-CIO has redefined its vision and dedica
tion to organizing. After extensive campus
and community recruiting, 1,000 organizers
from across the country convened in 20 sites
this summer for the first time to re-invigorate
the labor movement.
This summer, four UNC students were
paid a stipend by the AFL-CIO to organize
with a dozen other participants in South Caro
lina, the least unionized state in the country.
We were housed at the historic Penn Center
with the long tradition of education, organiza
tion and activism. It was there that Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference often strategized dur
ing the civil rights movement.
The Penn Center is on one of many sea
islands off of the coast of South Carolina that
were originally deemed useless and given to
freed slaves after the Civil War. In the 19505,
developers saw the potential for a resort indus
try and began forcibly removing entire black
communities from their islands. Most of the
people who work on Hilton Head do not
actually live there, but commute daily from
surrounding rural counties. They are bused
onto Hilton Head Island in a system civil
rights leader Rev. James Orange compared to
that of South Africa.
The Melrose Resort on Hilton Head Island
was the focal point of most of our organizing.
AJRING DIRTY
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of your co-workers.
Still, your competi
tion is based on
learning and im
proving, not win
ning. You compete
with yourteam, you
compete on a na
tional level, then
eventually a world
class level. Finally,
you try to surpass
your own limits.
Within all of this
is the key: competi
tion lies within self. Look at the Michael
Jordans, Bill Gates and Jim Carreys of the
world. They know they’re the best. MJ doesn’t
have anything to prove to anyone except him
self. Whenhe steps on the court, he knows he’s
the best on his team. He’s the best in his
'c6mFdfenc6,liisKague—ttiSybieeventhewoild.
What elevates his game is not competing with
schoolboys like Jerry Stackhouse, but compet
ing with self.
Breaking a world record and performing a
personal best are the same because both in
volve exceeding one’s own expectations. The
challenge has nothing to do with the victory,
but everything to do with the process.
But we need to step back and realize an “A”
is not a gold medal. We aren’t all heroes or
olympians.
We, the Generation X, the kids who grew
up on Star Wars, the adolescents who watched
too much A-Team and too many Die Hard
movies, the young adults who witnessed our
country beat the mess out of every small third
world nation that thought about challenging
the big ol’ U.S. We’re the future of this country
and we need to chill out.
In some schools at UNC competition is
terribly unproductive. I’ve seen how biology
lemmings, (or students, whatever you want to
GUEST COLUMNIST
The employees had
democratically
voted in a union al
most two years be
fore we arrived, but
the Melrose Board,
fearing an orga
nized work force,
refused to negotiate
a contract.
In the meantime,
they illegally fired
workers and were
charged with bad
faith bargaining by the National Labor Rela
tions Board. The Melrose employees saw a
union contract as the only way to obtain job
security, a decent living wage, better health
benefits and the elimination of the racially
charged hierarchy of management.
As organizers with the AFL-CIO, we edu
cated the community about the injustices on
Hilton Head Island, used direct actions at
pools and beaches to disrupt the usual flow of
unaware tourists, agitated board members and
infiltrated the Melrose resort by sending sev
eral organizers to pose as guests. We were met
with hostile threats as well as outright commu
nity support.
The diversity and energy of Union Summer
participants made a statement not only to
Hilton Head tourists, but to union critics who
viewed the AFL-CIO as outdated and narrow.
After a summer of bull horns, chants, post
ers, house calls, letters, press conferences, bus
rides, educating door to door and marching
arm in arm, the Melrose Board of Directors
finally signed the contract. Asa result, Melrose
workers earned wage increases, improved in
surance policies, travel compensation and re-
ilhr Saily (Tar Heel
call them) try too hard to stand out in a big
crowd. In the School of Journalism and Mass
Communication students guard information
like a valuable treasure. But often that informa
tion is fools’ gold.
Journalism majors, so you got the scoop on
the Carrboro Aldermen story; big deal—your
classmate might know something that will
make the story better. History and African-
American studies majors, I’ve seen you check
out books from the Elßs section of Davis
Library and not return them for months so
your classmate doesn’tget the source youfound.
A friend of mine at Harvard University told
me stories of pages being ripped out ofbooksin
their libraries. She said competition had be
come so bad some people didn’t want their
classmates recovering the same information
they’d found.
Competition is no good when it destroys the
integrity of an academic environment.
Journalism Professor Chile* 'StOtit ißiid,
“Competition is good as long as emphasis is
placed on the process.” Our quest for victory
has overwhelmed the appreciation for the pro
cess.
America and UNC are obsessed with win
ning. Winning has replaced having fun, build
ing a team and meeting a challenge.
People, let’s look at the big picture: your
grade does not directly affect your resumd,
which does not directly affect your career,
which does not directly affect your total dis
posable income, which does not directly affect
your happiness. And even if it did, you’d still
end up working more hours for less pay or
doing something you love to do.
End note: somebody e-mail me the names
of all the minority GHoe figures including
women, Asian, Native, Latino and Black
people.
Richard Harris is a senior journalism major from
Hercules, Calif.
sped.
These workers are the heroes of the island
because they were the first group of workers to
actively mobilize and form a union.
Our experiences helped shape the move
ment towards economic justice not only on
Hilton Head Island, but in our own communi
ties. We understand the greater implications
for organizing the state to overcome racial
barriers and years of economic slavery.
The UNC Housekeepers Association, like
the Melrose employees, are the heroes of this
community and state because they are the first
group to stand in solidarity and organize for
better working conditions.
On Sept. 4, we plan to join other workers
and students from the Triangle area at N.C.
Central University, which is hosting an alli
ance-building forum to build the movement
for economic justice. Transportation will be
provided to meet at NCCU at 7 p.m. For more
information, call Jeff Jones at 914-7728.
Kim Diehl is a senior international studies major from
Longwood, Fla.
Got an opinion?
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opportunity of a lifetime should consider
applying for The Daily Tar Heel Editorial Board.
We are looking for a few informed and
articulate students who can write with the best
of them.
Applications are available at the DTH office
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any questions or concerns, contact Editorial
Page Editor Chris Yates at 9624086.