4 The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday. November 14. 1978
letters to the editor
Phfflipime anti-nuke activist speaks toiii
gilt
Lou Bilionis, Editor
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Chuck Alston, Managing Editor
Don Woodard, Associate Editor
David McKinnon, Associate Editor
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Bern ie Rans bottom, University Editor
Mary Anne Rhyne, City Editor
Michael Wade, State and National Editor
Richard Barron, News Editor
Betsy Flagler, Features Editor
Mark Scandling, Arts Editor
Lee Pace, Sports Editor
Billy Newman. Photography Editor
Private aid
Thursday's vote by the Committee on Educational Planning, Policies
and Programs of the UNC Board of Governors against a request for
more state aid to North Carolina's private college students apparently
came as no surprise to anyone. According to James Oliver, executive
director of the North Carolina Association of Independent Colleges and
Universities, "Historically the Board of Governors has taken the
position of rejecting our requests or recommending lower levels of
assistance, but the legislature has accepted the request of the private
colleges for increasing aid." State law requires that requests for increases
in aid to private institutions be reviewed by the Board of Governors
before going to the legislature.
And it's easy enough to see why Oliver's historical rule of thumb
would hold true. While the educational pie provided by the legislature
can be assumed to remain'more or less the same size relative to the rest of
the state's budget, the way it's sliced and distributed might be expected
to change somewhat more; so the Board of Governors' little bit of
lobbying for trjje state institutions in this case is quite understandable.
We can only hope, however, that when the legislature starts to slice up
next year's educational pie, it reserves a bigger piece regardless of the
share it assigns to public or private higher education for the people
who stand to benefit most, and who have been ignored most: the state's
grade school and high school students.
n memoriam
The facts surrounding the 1974 death of Karen Silkwood remain a'
mystery. Though more spectacular than most, the Silkwood story is but
one chapter in the book of unanswered questions regarding nuclear
energy and the hazards accompanying it. . .
Four years ago Silkwood was an employee for the Oil, Chemical and
Atomic Workers Union and had been investigating alleged violations of
safety regulations at a nuclear reactor in Oklahoma. On Nov. 13, 1974,
Silkwood, en route to deliver documentation of her findings to a New
York Times reporter, died in a wreck when her car skidded into an
abutment. Police reports speculated that the automobile had been run
off the road. Neither suspects nor the accompanying documents were
found.
In memoriam to the former plutohium worker, a nationally observed
Karen Silkwood Week has been established through Friday. Local
events sponsored by the anti-nuclear power group Kudzu Alliance and
UNC ECOS involve seminars, films and protests in an effort to create
an awareness to the hazards of nuclear power.
While the events leading to Silkwood's death are but speculation, a
principle still stands; while arguments differ concerning the degree of
risk involved with nuclear reactors, the threat of disaster remains. We
should take this week to consider the merits of an energy form
accompanied by such potentially irreversible hazards.
Bottom Line
Hooray for...
Most towns across the country are
content with a rather simple sign to
identify their community. A Lions
Club emblem here, a slogan ("The
friendly town") there.. .but certainly
not anything too extravagant. But
.Hollywood is not to be considered
among "most towns."
It's a story that began in 1923,
when developers of a subdivision
called "Hollywoodland" decided to
advertise their investment. They
constructed the 13 letters that"
comprised the area's name each
letter towering 45 feet high, 450
(that's 388,800 point-size for all you
printers out there) feet long.
They expected the sign to last 18
months.
Although the last four letters soon
fell by the wayside (an interesting
coincidence, when you think about
it), "Hollywood" lasted 54 years.
When the elements finally took their
toll on the world famous logo,
citizens of the filmmaking capital of
the world were in obvious despair.
But the philanthropically minded
came through.
A "Save the Hollywood Sign"
movement was staged. Construction
of the new letters cost $27,000 each,
and fi nancing was aided considerably
when rock star Alice Cooper donated
a complete sum toward one letter.
The sign's unveiling took place last
Saturday evening, accompanied by
all the hoopla given to any big-time
Hollywood premiere. Hundreds of
stars turned out to witness the
ceremony, televised on CBS and
accented with searchlights and laser
beams.
With the event came the
reaffirmation that Hollywood is truly
larger than life.
The Young and Political
Now we've all heard of
government of, for and by the people.
But thanks to a little-known law
passed by the 95th Xongress
permitting the use of federal
buildings for recreational,
educational and cultural purposes,
the phrase has gained new meaning.
Just ask Celia Ribando and
Christine Brim, two sisters taking
advantage of the new law. Their
brainchild is U.S. Surplus Soapy a
political-mystery soap opera series
featuring irate secretaries exacting
revenge from the crongressional
bosses.
U.S. Surplus Soap made its debut
a few weeks ago in the hallowed halls
of the Commerce Department. Every
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86th year of editorial freedom
week another episode unfolds at that
or some other government locale.
While the sisters and their acting
troupe (six actors described as
"professionals looking for a break")
aren't getting rich from the $1.50
admission price, they are getting
famous.
The audiences, though small, are
composed primarily of bureaucrats
on their lunch breaks. And even some
of the paper pushers have taken part.
For instance, a White House aide was
murdered in time to make it back to
his desk. Typical of the Brim
Ribando plots, he was involved in a
scheme to abolish the Department of
Agriculture in order to make room
for the White House parking lot.
What all of this means we aren't
sure. But we hope the bureaucrats
aren't paying too much attention.
After all, their own scandals take up
the working day, but the lunch break,
that's sacred.
And that's the Bottom Line.
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To the editor:
Tonight we w ill be lortunate enough to
have an individual active in the
Philippines ; anti-nuclear power
movement speaking on the UNC campus.
Using the name "Nick." he is in this
country seeking refuge from the Marcos
dictatorship. Thus far. at least two
Filipino anti-nuke leaders have
"disappeared" in all likelihood,
murdered by the Marcos regime. Nick
will bespeaking in 101 Greenlaw, after an
8 p.m. showing of a Him on nuclear power
(an activity of Karen Silkwood Week).
Following are some facts on nuclear
power in the Philippines:
Westinghouse Corp. is selling a $1.1
billion nuclear plant to the Marcos
dictatorship.
The U.S. export-import bank is
lending $644 million of taxpayers' money
to the Marcos regime to fund the project.
Anti-nuke resistance in the
Philippines has met severe repression;
organizers have disappeared, been
arrested and tortured.
f The Union of Concerned Scientists
has cited 200 major design problems with
the Philippines facility.
The campaign for a Nuclear-Free
Philippines is spearheading efforts to
pressure the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission not to grant the license to
Westinghouse. Westinghouse is a multi
national corporation which is trying to
open up new overseas markets for nuclear
power (largely in countries with
authoritarian regimes, such as Indonesia
and South Korea) in the face of growing
resistance against nuclear power within
-the United States.
Nov. 30 will be an international day of
protest against the exportation of nuclear
technology. Everyone is urged to come
listen to what Nick has to say tonight.
Signed bv eight members
of ECOS
Outgrown its purpose?
To the editor:
Has this University grown so large that
it must fall short of fulfilling its major
Riding airwaves with the voices of
By REID TV VIM
I miss Pete Franklin.
Oh, you know who Pete Franklin is.
Unless you've never driven interstates on
a winter ryght with only an AM radio to
keep you company.
I used to have that problem a lot. But
since my parents now live in Charlotte
and I bought my FM converter, those six-and-a-half
hour jaunts home to Atlanta
with Pete have ceased.
Keep thinking; you'll remember whom
he is.
He's that obnoxious SOB from
Cleveland who knows every single thing
you'd ever want to know about sports
past, present or future. (You're wrong.
Statistician Breath.) And he tells you as
much.
The only reason you listen to him is
because he's on one of those 50,000 watt
clear-channel jobbies that hardly ever
fade out as you cruise past all those two
bit towns with their 500 watt static-laden
country music stations. Oh sure, therere
other monsters that beam across 38 states
and five Canadian provinces, but a lot of
them play Top 40 crap. How many times
can you listen to "Copacabana" in one
night?
1 tried the music for a while. But along
with the insipid tunes they play, WABC
(New York) and WLS (Chicago) feature
typically wonderful AM disc jockeys,
cute little jingles, "from-Bobby-to-Linda"
dedications and darling
prepubescents who call in to win the latest
giveaway album from K-tel. (Okay, 1
admit it. 1 used to call in. too. But only for
concert tickets.)
My salvation came one night in South
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purpose providing a quality education,
encouraging the pursuit of knowledge
and responding to its students academic
needs? -
Large classes and the resulting
bureaucracy within the classroom have
led to deterioration in our educational
system. In many large classes teaching
methods and tests are not geared to test
and credit student knowledge. Rather,
from necessity and practicality the tests
are drawn up so they can be easily and
uniformily graded by the limited teaching
staff.
The first possible type of test is the
objective question test, which rarely
demonstrates any real thought, only
Carolina on one. of those state highways
Sears could use in their "backroads of
Morocco" commercials. Charlotte's
WBT faded into Cleveland's WWWE.
("This is three double-you ee,
Cleveland.") And there was the Pete
Franklin Sports Call-In Show.
Now do you remember?
Come on. He's the guy who cancels
school when it snows real hard in
Cleveland. When was the last time it
didn't snow real hard in Cleveland? The
school board doesn't much care for Pete.
But Pete is not the champion of
children by any stretch of the
imagination. Just listen closely the next
time you hear a kiddie call on the toll-free
number and ask some stupid question.
"Go away, kid. It's past your bedtime."
Or -his favorite retort: "I'm not a
babysitterl" Bzzzt. wrong.
But you travel another 30 or 40 miles,
and even Pete begins to disappear. Never
fear you still have alternatives to
"Boogie Oogie Oogie." There's 24-hour
news on New York's WCBS (with horse
race results 1 every hour) and Philly's
KYW (KYW News Time, 1 1: 13). Or you
can try the CBS Mystery Theater; it's
bound to be on some affiliate some
where.
Then there's basketball. There's never a
shortage once college season cranks up.
Even the small-town stations forego the
C&W for the hoops. You can pick up the
Heels on several North Carolina stations
and Kentucky on some giant from
Louisville.
But the pros are where you get the
interesting announcers. If you want to
know what's going on in an Atlanta
Hawks' game, don't listen to Skip Carey.
But he's the man for commentary on a
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memorization and a lot of luck. Another
possibility is the large lecture essay test.
These "subjective" tests are often graded
objectively by TAs who are looking only
for a few regurgitated facts from the
lectures. They give no recognition for
further thought and effort.
A further problem with the "objective"
tests is that the questions and answers are
often ambiguous and the subject matter
covers not the essence of the lectures, but
the information covered by one of the
TA's discussion groups.
The following arc a few possible
alternatives to be considered in
ameliorating the disincentive problem:
TAs might teach their own sections
player's shooting and dribbling and the
refs' calls that you'll find only one other
place with Pete. Skip's by no means a
"homer," though. A few years ago, when
the Hawks were even worse than usual.
Skip used to lament halfway through
each third quarter, "Well folks, this one's
about over. The only reason I'm still here
is because I've got to be."
And then there's Mary Albert, who
does the Knicks. Mary's vocabulary
centers on the word yes. That's all you
hear. "McAdoo from the key...yesssss."
For years it was "Frazier from the
corner... yesssss." Now it's "Webster's
tip...yesssss." Does Mary get tiring? You
tell me.
My favorite solution is to go puck
hunting. So what if the play-by-play man
rapid fires a dozen unknown minor
league names at me ("Dub-you oh, dub
you oh. Fort Wayne") or the color
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or be given more- authority in teaching
and grading for the larger sections;
Professors might encourage
individual projects;
Professors might encourage student
input into test drafting;
Professors might encourage one-to-one
contact with students;
And most important, professors in
larger classes might be more willing to
correct test errors.
Much time, effort and money are being
invested by both professors and students.
Why not do things right?
Debbie Gray
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the night
commentator is some French Canadian
with an intense Gallic accent ("The sports
voice of the South, WSB, Atlanta"). It
keeps me awake.
Between the'cadence used by seemingly
all announcers every seventh syllable is
screamed and the noisy crowd reacting
to every hipcheck...well, have you ever
tried sleeping during a hockey game? My
only complaints are with the Detroit
(WJR) man,. who , can't pronounce the
names of the -players, and. with the
Philadelphia (WCAU) announcer, who
abuses every sixth syllable.
If all else fails, there's always God.
Literally. Somewhere on the dial is this
all-religious station I found once and
have vowed never to find again.
'Spose I'm damned forever.
Reid Tuvim is a junior journalism
major from Charlotte.
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