4 The Daily Tar Heel Thursday. February
Greg Porter
Editor
Ben Cornf.lius, Managing Editor
Ed Rankin, Associate Editor
Elliott Potter, Associate Editor
Laura Scism, University Editor
Keith Hollar, City Editor
Tony Gunn, State and National Editor
Reid Tuvim, News Editor
Sara Bullard, Features Editor
Chip Ensslin, Arts Editor
Gene Upchurch, Sports Editor
Allen Jernigan, Photography Editor
The 85th birthday
The 'Daily Tar Heel' you
can't hold in your hand
have just locked myself up with my typewriter and the clutter of my desk.
"Do not disturb" is on the door. I know that I'll have to fight with myself to
get it out. It's not that I don't want to say what I have to say. I'm just afraid of
being finished.
Today is the 85th birthday of the Daily Tar Heel. Today is also the next to
the last day here for me and several others who, reluctantly, are leaving the
newspaper behind. It is fitting today, as we celebrate, that we give you a
picture of the Daily Tar Heel that you have never seen. It is not in fact a
picture, but like all art, a feeling a feeling that only a few who have
w orked here 30 to 40 hours a week for three or four years can experience.
You who are taking the trouble to read this may like the Daily Tar Heel,
you may hate the Daily Tar Heel or you may just be glad you get a
newspaper to read (or a crossword puzzle to do) during class. It should
shock you then that some people, deep within themselves, love it, revere it,
savor it.
The people who work at this newspaper sense a very great tradition. They
are keenly aware of the Thomas Wolfes, the Charles Kuralts, the Tom
Wickers who have given themselves to the paper and its mystique. They are
keenly aware that many, many people have sweated and cried and lost sleep
and laughed and flourished at this newspaper, and that it has flourished with
them. It is not a tradition to bear on their shoulders, a historical weight but
an inspiration, a sense of worth and purpose.
They don't love the paper We published today, the stories they wrote or
edited or pasted up. They don't love the bound volumes of 85 years of Daily
Tar Heels. They don't love the awards or the recognition the paper has won.
They don't love the influence the paper has. No, these are all things of which
they are merely proud.
What the people here love is at once a part of themselves and a separate
being greater than themselves of which they are a part. They love an
85-year old ghost, a spirit, an altih" ego, an evanescent being which has been
created by the energies of thousands of people who have worked here. To
the man on the street, the Daily Tar Heel is the piece of smudged paper in his
hand. To the man who has really worked here, the Daily Tar Heel is not
something a man can hold in his hand.
A shade of the being of the Daily Tar Heel is embodied in the anniversary
tabloid today. But Friday night the elusive ghost, the 85-year-old ethereal
being will be celebrated again, this time in the flesh, at a banquet of staff
members. At that banquet will be a beloved professor and the 1928 editor,
Walter Spearman, an outgoing editor, myself, and a new editor, Lou
Bilionis. Mr. Spearman will be proud of the tradition he symbolizes and
Lou will be excited about his plans to carry on the tradition.
But I and many others like me, unprepared to leave the paper and yet
ready to enter the tradition, will feel it more deeply than we ever will again
that feeling deep inside for something which is people and paper and ink and
history and memories and pain and anticipation and pleasure and pride,
something we share with so many others, something which is surely more
than we. We probably will not let ourselves cry, but we will surely want to
and with just cause.
We may, for the first time, realize just how alive is that intangible creature
of which we are a part.
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letters to the editor
Student seeks release of confiscated brew
I o the editor:
Last year I had the pleasure of spending
six months in Germany while pursuing my
graduate work. Among the things 1 found
good was the beer, especially Dortmunder
beer. My friends even have sent me three
cans or bottles of this golden elixir.
The other day I received an important
letter plastered with the usual violation
warnings and all kinds of stamps from the
U.S. Treasury Department. It seems that our
highly efficient agents of this branch
captured my three cans of beer and have
placed them under arrest. The letter states
that this highly contraband import has been
removed from the United States mails and is
in violation of Title 18. U.S. Code Section
1716. etc.. etc.
I am told that toclearthe alleged violators
and bring them to safety I must appear in
person or designate someone to appear in
person for me. I must prove the three bottles
(.28 gallons) are not for commercial use with
a signed statement, and if I do not respond
by March 8. the German 3 shall be executed
or hung by their pop tops until dry. In the
interest of German-American relations and
my taste in beer I appeal to the innovative
minds of the UNC student body.
It is obvious it is not worth a trip to New
York for three cans of beer, especially since I
must also pay II cents for duty (insult to
injury). So if there is anyone here who has
friends in the Big Apple or has ideas how this
dilemma can be solved, please call me. I am
at 966-3371 days and 929-6927 by nights. I
feel the combined effort for such a project
can be rewarded by sharing in the loot (i.e.
the three cans of good German beer).
Charles Woodley
681: Oakwood Drive
WXYC defends policy
To the editor:
This letter refers to the letter Feb. 22 from
the "seven disgruntled WXYC listeners."
First, let me correct an error. The "No Play
List" is. in fact, an"Overplay List" and reads
as follows:
"These groups are overplayed!! Please
avoid them w hen possible -- we have other
groups just as good that need the airplay a
hell of a lot more!"
The purpose of this list is not to promote
"fascism" or to prohibit play of certain
groups. As you are probably aware, many
very good artists and songs are played to
death on area radio stations. To avoid this
pitfall, WXYC systematically reviews what
the station plays every one or tw o weeks. We
cut back on some groups if it appears that
they are very obviously being played too
much, relative to other groups played. There
is no mention on this list of punk rock or new
wave music, w hich we do. indeed, play. Elvis
Costello. Television, the Ramones and
others have been, are and will be heard on
WXYC. They have all"been in our playbox
recently, and Costello is still in the playbox.
We also gave the Sex Pistols some airplay,
but the . response was overwhelmingly
negative. For this reason, we have no set
punk rock- new wave policy. Instead, we go
on an album-by-album basis, as decided by
our music staff.
As to requests, we do play them. H owever,
in accepting requests, we must consider all of
our listeners, not only one person who is
calling. We must think of our format, the
time of day and the total "flow" of the music
i.e., a heavy Kansas tune doesn't exactly
follow Joan Baez smoothly. That is what the
DJ means when he says "I II try to fit it in."
We want your requests and try to play as
many as possible. But remember, we serve a
variety of listeners.
1 regret that it took a letter to the DTH for
your complaints to reach the person they
should have reached immediately the
WXYC program director. If a DJ is a "pin
head" or just plain rude, or if heshe takes
the phone off the hook, don't wait for the
DTH to print a letter. Send that letter to
WXYC, Box 51, Carolina Union, in care of
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the program director. Comments to DJs
often never reach the right ears, so talk to
me. not the person on the air. 1 sincerely
welcome views on any aspect ol WXYC
programming.
Pat Pock (program director)
and the WXYC Staff
CGA stance defended
To the editor:
Let me atthis time say "no thank you" to
the journalistic practices of certain members
of the Daily Tar Heel What I'm sure
appeared as a lust-minute justification to my
opposition to CGA funding may have
crystallized my attitude in print. But since by
this time I had been grouped with Anita
Bryant, labeled a queer-hater, etc., tell me
what did these few scant sentences mean to
clearly well-educated people like James F.
Weigand? Certainly not much.
I .was quite concerned about being
represented correctly because anytime a
stance is taken on a controversial issue, the
justification given is essential for
understanding. I did everything I knew in my
interview to stress my justification, asked to
look over the article prior to publication but
due to traditional journalistic practice was
refused. I talked to several members of the
DTH staff, in addition to the current student
body president about quickly getting in a
letter to clarify the basis for my stance. In
this last effort 1 was kindly told that writinga
letter would be a waste ol time. Greg Porter
told me if my letter bordered on
"propaganda," it wouldn't be printed. By
this point. 1 was so disillusioned with the
whole business. I decided to wait until my
part in the election was over to write.
Mr. Weigand. 1 think you are getting a
little extreme yourself in accusing me of
trying to legislate my "Christian morality
into our legal system and .our public
institutions."
You seem - to be accusing me of
intolerance, but I believe this accusation is
inaccurate. Let me remind you. it was not my
hand that pushed the pen for the Mangurn
19. This fall I interviewed for a position as
counselor with the Center for Human
Sexuality. Also if you had talked w ith people
who knew me, you would have found that I
am not trying to force any sort of morality on
them. For you to reach some of the
conclusions in your letter, Mr. Weigand. you
must believe without question everything
you read in the Daily Tar Heel. And I can -assure
you that this is a dangerous practice.
In addition, since the homophobia you
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CGA funding enhance tolerance, or does it
intensify intolerance? I've talked to many
who say taking their money immediately
alienates them from the gays. I've talked to
few who say it enhances their understanding
and therefore acceptance of the CGA. Now,
considering all that's been said, said with
emotion, do you really think the Mangurn 19
will profit from the information dispensed
by the CGA? '
Jeff Ellington
231 Avery
Registration info
To the editor:
Last Sunday a headline appeared in the
Chapel Hill Ne spaper:"SuV. Does Anyone
Know For Sure?" The question being asked
was who is a legal resident for voting
purposes? The answer is that everyone can
know for sure where he should register to
vote.
To answer the question each person need
only ask himself: w here is my citizen interest?
The question can only be answered by each
individual for himself. Each person must
determine for himself what local government
he is concerned about what local officials
and local regulations he is most interested in.
Then he should register to vote in that place.
Residency requirements exist to insure that
the voter will be interested in, and therefore
will be more likely to be informed about, the
issues and the candidates he is voting on.
Residency requirements are not intended to
disenfranchise anyone.
There need not be any mystery or
confusion about where to register to vote.
Any citizen, 1 8 or over, who wants to register
to vote simply needs to determine for himself
what town and county he cares about and in
w hat town and county he will inform himself
about the local issues. Then he should
register there.
Beverly Kawalec
Laurel Hill Circle
II
Likes legal services
To the editor:
Last semester during exams, we had
serious landlord-tenant problems of such a
nature that we were "constructively" evicted.
We, of course, moved to a new location. Qur
landlord, in keeping with his character,
refused to return our security deposit since
he felt we were not justified in leaving before
the expiration of the lease.
However, we were able to recover this
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deposit without suit due to the tremendous
effort and energy of Dorothy Bernholz. We
would like to express our gratitude to her for
the performance of a vital, often thankless,
service at this campus: student legal aid. She
possesses a rare form of determination and
demonstrates a peculiar understanding of
student problems in their various legal
contexts. She has a genuine concern for
student hassles and rip-offs. The fact that she
was willing to stick with us in this matter,
though it seemed we were always walking
into legal dead-ends, was a major factor in
our recovery of the security deposit from a
very unwilling landlord. We want her to
know how much we appreciate her daily
contributions to this campus community.
Also, we encourage others to take advantage
of the extraordinary resources of her office
when the occasion arises.
M. E. Lee
Law School
A. A. Dees
English graduate school
Smith snow job?
To the editor:
Since it appears that McNeill Smith is
emerging as the student establishment's
choice in the current "let's unseat Jesse" fad,
1 should point out what I interpret as a snow
job on his part during his recent visit to
UNC.
A young lady asked Smith what he
thought about Congress' funding abortions.
I n his answer, he considered two cases. I n the
case of a legal first trimester (three months)
abortion, he said Congress should provide
funds. In the case of an illegal third trimester
abortion, it should not.
To begin with, when we cut through the
elaborations, we find Smith says fund only
legal abortions. Since even the most devout
members of NARAL will agree that an
abortion performed, for example, by me, a
Duke graduate in music, should be illegal,
nobody can argue that there should not be
some abortions forbidden by law. But it does
not take a great deal of legislative brilliance
to know that Congress should not fund
anything illegal. Smith's answer logically
reduces to a support of government
funded abortions. His qualifications are
meaningless. It seems that Smith was
attempting to make his answer sound like a
xnice compromise position that might,
partially satisfy everyone.
Second, Smith, while not actually lying,
was misleading concerning the law, which I
find many people do not know. The New
York Times is very fond of saying that the
Supreme Court legalized abortion in the first
three months of pregnancy. True but
incomplete. On Jan. 22, 1973, in Roe vs.
Wade, the Court decided that in the first
trimester, the decision for abortion is
between the woman and her doctor. In the
interest of protecting the mother in the
second trimester, the states may regulate the
facilities and procedures to be used. This
does not limit the right to have an abortion..
In the third semester, under the ruling, the
right of the unborn child to live becomes
"compelling." To protect that compelling
interest 'the states may place certain
restrictions on abortions not necessarily to
protect the life and health of the mother.
Since it can be argued (falsely) that any
woman who wants, an abortion will be
happier getting it and will therefore -enjoy
greater mental health, some people consider
"health" to be the great loophole that will
allow the vast majority of abortions
requested. If in the United States we do not
quite have abortion on demand, we are very
close to it.
It is not my intention in this letter to put
forth my views on abortion, and I have not
done so. My point is this: the Congress we
elect now may vote someday on a Right-to-Life
amendment to the Constitution. Several
have been proposed on Capitol Hill already.
In addition to that, a number of state
legislators have passed resolutions calling on
Congress to set up a constitutional
convention. The issue of funding, which held
up HEW appropriations for several months
last year, will certainly come up this year and
probably next year as well. Whatever your
own views may be, we need representatives
who can stand up for what is right and not
ones who will waver, try to appease both
sides and hope the problem will go away. It
won't!
Stephen Koiciesza
635 Crau-e