6 The Daily Tar Heel . Wednesday. November 15. 1978
Lou Bimonis, Editor
Chuck Alston, Managing Editor
Don VVoodard, Associate Editor
David McKinnon, Associate Editor
Bern ie Ransbottom, University Editor
Mary Anne Rhyne, City liditor
Michael Wade, State and National liditor
Richard Barron, Sews liditor
Betsy Flagler, Features Editor
Mark Scandling, Arts Editor
Lee Pace, Sports Editor
Billy Newman, Photography Editor
Satin
56i vear o editorial freedom
Justice calls for rebates
While the controversy at Odum Village has spread into the parking
lots, the flap over the steam the residents use (and pay for) in their
apartments has for the moment at least subsided. And that is
unfortunate. '
The residents concern was first aroused about two weeks ago, when a
report was submitted to the Odum Village Board of Aldermen which
charged that the residents had been consistently and badly overcharged
for heat for a number of years. Estimates have varied somewhat, but it
now seems clear that the Villagers have been paying around $15
per month too much for the heat they use for as long as any of the current
residents have been living in Odum, and probably for a lot longer.
The report was prepared by Odum resident Philip Williams, who said
at the time, 44 We got the fair market price of utilities and then compared
them to the University's prices. By all comparisons we are paying too
much." According to a Duke Power representative, the University was
then charging 20 percent more for its own steam heat than Duke Power
would charge for its more expensive electric heat.
Reaction was, as these things go, relatively swift from the University.
Within a week of Williams revelations, wheels were set in motion in the
department of housing and the physical plant. A.J. Altemueller, fiscal
officer for the physical plant, said then "The formula we use (for heat
cost allocation) isn't wrong; it just needs to be updated periodically."
And according to Williams, the new updated formula will mean a rent
reduction of between $11 and $14 for the residents.
What is unfortunate-, though, about this solution of the
overcharging is that it isn't really much of a resolution. For the many
people who have come and gone at Odum Village in the years since 1966
68, when the original formula for cost allocation was implemented, the
new formula doesn't offer much comfort or cash. And there are some
people who might well have been overcharged some remarkable sums;
the example of physics grad student James Brascher, who has lived at
the Village for 75 months and paid, according to his own estimate, about
$1400 too much, is instructive, if extreme.
We can't be sure of the University's legal or financial situation in this
case (although every indication from officials has been that the windfall
was spent long ago). And we do appreciate the difficulties involved in
granting a rebate to all the Odum Village residents past and present who
have been victimized by the overcharging.
We appreciate even more, however, the difficulties involved for the
victims themselves especially since they are not, as a rule, the kind of
people who can afford to be overcharged for things as basic as heat. Our
sense of justice tells us the University should make every effort to grant
the Villagers a quick and fair rebate.
Honorable intentions
A couple of weeks ago, a two-column advertisement appeared on the
pages of this newspaper. The advertiser wasn't hawking a sale at a local
clothing store, nor was the item a testament to the fabulous food and
spectacular service at an area restaurant. It didn't carry a slogan or
graphic logo. In fact, the tone of the ad was so solemn, so subdued, that
many readers may have mistaken it for a portion of the daily news copy.
Honor Court cases, though, lend themselves to such treatment.
Fanfare is somehow inappropriate when the talk turns to cheating, to
plagiarizing, to suspension.
Last year, after several semesters of debate and study of the Honor
Code and its role at UNC, it was agreed that changes in both the code
and the application of its principles were needed. The "rat clause" the
phrase that required a student to report any and all violations of the
code which he or she observed was eliminated in tacit admission of its
ineffectiveness. Suspension was instituted as the normative sanction for
honor code convictions in an effort to put a little more muscle behind
honor's cause. And constant publicity was ordered to foster a more
ready awareness of the code and its implications for every student.
Thus the advertisement, which posted the most current cases and
their charges before the Honor Court. According to a report released
by the Office of Student Affairs some two weeks ago, 1 3 cases were tried
auring tne montn oi September, eight ot which resulted in guilty verdicts
from the court. Although they are still subject to appeal, fully seven of
those convictions carry penalties of suspension, a fact that highlights the
tougher posture the University community is beginning to take in the
face of abridgements of honor.
The elimination of the "rat clause" and the establishment of
suspension as the standard penalty have already been hailed as wise
moves in the best interest of the code and the campus. More of the kind
of open discussion of the state of honor on this campus we have noted
recently and a greater awareness of the doings of the Honor Court can
only make things that much better.
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Journal entry. Sunday. November 12:
It is 4:30 a.m. and I have friends expecting a Son
of Pledge Formal column.
They will and will not get one. This is the record
of my current state of mind (i.e. we re ramblin'
folks).
Somewhere between the moment 1 was squirted
with fire extinguisher water from the Ranch House
balcony and the vague recollection of
sacrilegiously shagging (1? Shagging?) to The
Beatles' I Want You" between the time 1 lost a
cuff link and the point of realization that I was
wearing sunglasses with my tuxedo, (I'm still not
sure where they came from), I was a Pledge Formal
Groupie. In short, I was" young, foolish and
happy doo-wah, doo-wah.
My head hurts.
The dorm is unusually quiet.' Bill and George
have no doubt passed out in their room down the
hall victims of another weekend affair with two
letters
Clemson's
enthusiasm
praised
To the editor:
Upon recently visiting South Carolina
for the C!emson-UNC game; we were
particularly impressed-wtth the amount
of school spirit shown by the Clemson
students and alumni. We were warned of
our entrance into Tiger Territory by
enormous orange paws, and immediately
we saw the fans- there wasn't a single
person there that wasn't colored in
orange, some in complete orange suits
and hats, others with Tiger paws painted
on their faces and bright orange buttons
on their clothes. I ndced. at the game there
were no empty seats, and what a display
the fans put on when the Clemson team
arrived, with a mass of orange balloons
rising to the sky. And although UNC led
much of the game. Clemson supporters
were always cheering something we
stop doing the minute we're behind. We
were really impressed that day, and only
wish that other teams could come to UNC '
and be as impressed with our supporters.
Let's let people know what Carolina fever
really means!
cases of beer between them. Like myself, they are
lour-year men on the dorm-dwellers circuit We
have received no mark of distinction for our
ettorts-no varsity-letter jacket (with a little rat's'
head embroidered on the large "NC" that would
grace out breast pockets); no trophies; no purple
hearts. ,
But we have endured the pains and pleasures of
hfe in a residence hall and wear our scars well We
have intimately mixed with other dorms in
hallways 90 feet long and six feet wide. We have
braved the risk of broken exit signs and plaved hall
hockey in the late hours of the night. We have
endured impersonal slurs against each others'
mother. And there have been pokergames 1 would"
just as soon forget.
I'd try .to get some sleep now, but it is impossible
to keep one foot on the floor when your bed is the
top bunk. Instead, it is a time to sit at this
typewriter and consider some regrets both of the
immediate past and the ones rooted deeply since
my freshman year.
First, I've learned a few lessons. Never trust a
bartender who's mixing drinks with your liquorv
Why should He care that your scotch and water is
nine parts former to no parts later? And you
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should never remove your jacket at a formal; those
suspenders make you a sitting duck for would-be
elastic snappers (you know who you are out there).
And now I'm aware of the Great Regret. With
commencement comes the end of an era and the
question becomes inevitable: Will four years in a
dorm prevent me from being housebroken, in the
future?
1 have visions of supreme dilemma. It is 1995
and I am 38 years old. One morning I wake up in
my two-bedroom apartment in Anytown, USA
and find 1 am but of toothpaste. How could I do
anything but take the next plane to Indianapolis
where my UNC roommate is now a prosperous
lawyer for corn farmers and use a dab of his
Crest? One doesn't get out of these lifestyles
overnight, you know.
I have come across a calendar. Time is running
out with only 26 more weeks until graduation. And
when you're 28 years-old and the regional sales
manager for Hudson Belk, you don't get invited to
many pledge formals.
Don Woodard, a senior RTV MP major from
Ft. Worth. Texas, is associate editor for the Daily
Tar Heel.
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David Chance
Not sad
To the editor:
I am writing in response to Martha
Waggoner's article ("For ERA
supporter: sadness," DTH, Oct.. 31)
because I am an ERA supporter and I'm
not sad. I'm not tired of talking about the
ERA. I feel that in working for the
passage of the amendment I am doing
something beneficial for my country and
its people. I'm afraid I cannot claim many
other patriotic acts quite as obvious. H ow
about you?
I would also like to take this
opportunity to comment on one
argument against the ERA: Congress, at
this very moment, already has the power
to draft female U.S. citizens, if the draft is
ever reinstated. Never would both
parents be drafted together; children will
always be left with a parent. Only
physically capable women would be sent
into combat zones; of course, pregnant
women are exempt. Israel is one country
that has been drafting women and
maintaining that much a stronger armed
forces for it.
Personally 1 am very much against war
and the draft, but I would not rather see
my brother sent off to fight than my
sister; my father than my mother: my son
than my daughter.
The United States needs the Equal
Rights Amendment. I think we all do.
Barbara Olasov.
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Student Legal Services
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Editir's Note: This advice is prepared by Student Legal
Services, w hich maintains an office in Suite A of the
Carolina Union. UNC students have prepaid for this
service and may obtain advice at no additional charge.
The Town of Chapel Hill has recently enacted a bicycle
ordinance. Generally, all state and town traffic regulations
apply to bicycles,' since they are considered vehicles under
state law.
Under the Chapel Hill Bicycle Ordinance, cyclists are
required to ride in single file, keep to the right except when
passing and obey all traffic control signs and signals.
The town has begun construction of bikeways, and
certain rules must be observed. When passing a pedestrian
on the bikeway, the biker must give an audible warning.
Before entering the bikeway, the rider must yield the right
of way to all approaching bicycles or pedestrians. Further,
the cyclist must ride only in the designated direction of
travel. Bicycles are prohibited on the sidewalk on either
side of Franklin Street and Rosemary Street from
Henderson to Columbia Streets. Bicycles are permitted on
other sidewalks, but the rider must not exceed seven
m.p.h.. must yield to pedestrians and must give an audible
warning before passing a pedestrian.
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from parallel lanes of the roadway. To make a left turn
from a bikeway, ovserve all traffic signals and proceed to
Point A (see diagram). Wait for the grean light, or a break
in the traffic if there is no signal, and proceed with the flow
of traffic.
When riding at night, a bicycle must have a headlight
visible fiom 300 feet and a red light or reflector visible
from 200 feet.
Finally, all bicycles owned by persons living in Chapel
Hill must be registered. This can be done at the Police
Department or Fire Station.
A mericans, Joe Slow,' not yet ready to accept
soccer along with apple pie, hot dogs, football
When a bicycle enters a roadway, it must yield to all
approaching vehicles. If there is a bikeway, the cyclist Advice for the day:
cannot ride on the street except when the bikeway does not i) Bicycle riders must obey all traffic laws.
run his way. or when traveling southward on Airport 2) Remember that the most treacherous place for bicycles
Road between hstes Drive and Airport Drive. is intersections. 7
At intersections cyclists using bikelanes oi paths have 3) Be sure to yield right of way to pedestrians.
By BILL FIELDS
The dust has settled and the chalk lines have
faded on Fetzer Field yet another soccer season.
It's a good time to look at the state of soccer.
Where does this sport of agility, quickness and
fast action fit in the sporting world today?
That question will draw vehement responses
from both sides.
Some people think soccer is the next best thing
to a 4.0. Other people would rather watch Podunk
U. beat Western Hartford 72-0 in football than see
a 5-4 soccer match.
But even the most avid football fan and soccer
hater must admit that soccer is on the move
somewhere.
It's on the move, indeed, and maybe even the
fans in the upper deck of Podunk Stadium can
notice it. Most people think it's on the way up.
Soccer is a game of the world. In South
America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Central
America all over the globe soccer has long been
what's happening.
And now it's making its way to the United
States.
Slowly, for certain, because, of that majority of
the population which does not wish to see a throw
in instead of a TD pass, a corner kick instead of a
field goal.
1 used to think that way well almost. Watching
90 minutes of soccer seemed a very un-fun,
laborious task. When 1 was assigned to cover
soccer this fall, 1 had my doubts. But what the
heck, learn something new. Why not soccer?
Covering soccer I learned:
1) It is truly an interesting sport, even if it's hard
to understand at times (don't ask me the difference
now between a direct penalty kick and an indirect
one; I'd probably get 'em mixed up).
2) It takes talent, and is not a sport of wimps.
Players are not 6-foot-five, 250 pounds, but the
nature of the sport does not demand that players
fill up a telephone booth. 1 would, though, place
my bets on the soccer team in a foot race to the
training table.
3) Soccer players have to be quick, agile and able
to use their feet better than their hands. It may
sound easy, but try it sometime. I tried it in my first
intramural soccer game. I'm up and around now,
but 1 still feel a bruise or two I received when the
old feet just wouldn't do what I wanted them to.
Soccer definitely is those three things. I could
have gone on, but I'm not quite ready to turn in a
Kenan Stadium seat for a front-row seat on Fetzer
Field forever.
What isn't soccer?
It isn't football, or basketball or baseball the
three American sports which capture the biggest
hunk of attention from the American sports fans.
At Carolina, soccer is another non-revenue sport.
Football and basketball bring in the money.
The big three sports are American inventions;
soccer is not. It's imported; it's to the big three
what French custard is to apple pie. The custard is
pretty and doesn't taste too bad, but we know what
apple pie tastes like, and like it.
Soccer will not become a major sport in America
until it attracts sports fans, not just soccer
enthusiasts. Joe Blow, sports fan. TV watcher and
hot dog lover must get into the act.
Joe Blow has to learn who Shep Messing is.
Who is he anyway? -
Soccer is in limbo right now. It's unknown
whether it will become just another sport with a
decent following or whether it will grow by leaps
and bounds to challenge the big three for television
time, fans and that 20th century American evil:
money.
Soccer then must become Americanized, or else
soccerize the sports fans of America.
It'll be hard to Americanize a foreign sport,
equally hard to soccerize fans like Joe Blow. I'm
sure Joe can't imagine soccer replacing football in
the forseeable future. I can't either. Right now, it's
just not American enough.
Bill Fields, a sophomore journalism major from
Southern Pines, is a staff writer for the Daily Tar
Heel.
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