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E-CParcpcctivcTho Dciiy Tcr He: 1 GtOSCh Suadroui, Editor U J u 0 J c w DtNiTA Jak:cs, Managing Edilor Drad Kutuow, ytssivu EJ.'or Thomas Jessiman, Assxiate Editor Karen Rctsiey, Nr.;' Eifor Pam KlUEY, University Editor Martha Wacconis, Cfy Ec''or Jim Hummel, Srjr ai National Editor Bill Fields, ortt E-.'r - Mask Muslmxl, Features Editor Lausa EillQTT, Arts Editor Scott Sharfe, Photography Editor Mixanie Sill, Weekender Editor 't f 1 88th year of editorial freedom miGCilc sroiiiiu , 4' '' .During the Republican and Democratic conventions it became commonplace for commentators and columnists to remark matter-of-frctly that party platforms were unimportant because presidential candidates ignored these political doctrines anyway. And that should surprise no one. If either Ronald Reagan or President Jimmy Carter allows himself to be trapped by his respective party platforms he runs a severe risk of alienating large segments of the electorate. While the Republican platform is extreme in its conservatism, the Democratic platform is equally off-base in its perception of the mood of the American people. If the Republicans seem ridiculous, the Democrats demonstrate a similar irresponsibility. In abandoning its support for the Equal Rights Amendment, the Republican Party clarified its position pn state's rights. But by endorsing a constitutional amendment" banning abortion, it muddled its stand on individual rights. As the party most vehemently opposed to government intervention, it is curious that the Republicans want to involve government in an intensely personal issueJ Massive tax cuts to stimulate the private sector of the economy aJso are being proposed by the Republicans. The tax plan may or may not be inflationary, depending on the economist you consult. The energy and environmental policies advocated in the GOP platform clearly put this country's future in the hands of nuclear power and the oil czars; No, thanks. Yet, the Democrats proved again that the party still gears itself to . the 8 percent in this country who are unemployed rather than the 92 percent majority. No one wants to be labeled anti-poor, and the Democrats seem content to rely on such sentiment for support of its economic platform, as Sen. Edward Kennedy's jobs program indicates. . But such philosophy offers no hope or relief to a middle class that sees increasing taxes eating away at their incomes and the dollar buying less. It's not surprising that more and more people are becoming disenchanted with elaborate programs that have yet to combai poverty and ignorance effectively. : ,; y By making support of ERA a condition for political funding in upcoming elections the Democrats have ignored the right of every candidate to his own opinion. The party is using money to force compliance, an action that seems to undermine the very principle of ERA- . ' :.,:-: Both parties foster a return to a stronger military, although, the Democrats showed some dissatisfaction with this trend. But world circumstances make a responsive and strong military a necessity; inconsistency and insecurity do not make for effective foreign policy. And further reluctance on the part of this-country to support its allies only will invite disaster. At the same time,' 'the Democrats rightfully realized the importance of pursuing SALT II. The Republican mood is one of opposition to the SALT treaty, placing in jeopardy years -of negotiations and thus risking a new nuclear 'arms race neither the Soviet Union nor the United States can afford! Nonetheless, by November we have little doubt the platforms will be forgotten and that personalities, rhetoric and the ability of each candidate to move toward moderacy may well determine who becomes president. It is somewhere in this middle ground that realistic solutions to this country's problems will be found., Construction in heaven It's not unusual for freshmen to walk around campus with bewildered looks on their faces. After all, college is a bewildering experience. And Chapel Hill, referred to as the Southern Part of Heaven by those who catch Carolina Fever, provides enough variety and controversy to baffle any innocent a,nd impressionable mind. So it wasn't surprising that many freshmen, not to mention moms and dads, could be found shaking their heads last week and muttering incredulously, ''This is the Southern Pari of Heaven?" as they made their way through sand piles surrounding the Pit or picked their way through the mass of bricks that one senior called a plan to test the intelligence of freshmen (not unlike the maze and the white mice experiment). , In any case, after taking various detours around the endless construction now taking place, some freshmen (seniors too, for that matter) probably, want to know what happened lo the plush green lawns featured in the UNC catalog. It all began some time ago when the University decided to build another gym in an effort to meet Title IX requirements. Then, former Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor along with the Board of Governors and the Board of Trustees, agreed that a new library we guess it'll have a catchy name like the N. Ferebee Taylor Library was fundamental to reading, writing and 'rithmetic. Uh-huh, we said. But that wasn't enough. Also in the works was the Union expansion, adjacent to the library construction. And in the meantime, what has become known as the war between the grass and brick men soon resulted in brick walls and paths covering what once was dirt and grass. Apparently convinced that grass was more trouble than it was worth, the University reached the aesthetic conclusion that covering the campus with red-brick decor was both desirable and stylish. But that wasn't enough either. Air conditioning and water pipes had to be laid. The bricks had to be pulled up and the dirt spread. Those of you familiar with the Union also will discover soon, if you haven't already, that one of the doors leading to the snack bar has been removed as workers remodel the dining area. All of this lias caused that impressionable freshman to ask, "Hey. what happened to the Southern Part of Heaven?" Unfortunately, we have no answer. University officials maintain it is all necessary, part of some magnificent plan that years from now will allow the University community to point proudly to its new gym, its newest library, its improved Union and so on. Those of us forced to watch it all take shape v. HI have to chalk it off to progress or fate. Or In any cr.r.e, your : freshmen, welcome to the Southern Part of By BRAD KUTROIV As Dili Ccbey pours himself a glass of water, he gives one an idea of the stress of a campaign for statewide office, "I have to stay away from any kind of caffeine or stimulant because this campaign is so stimulating," he explained. Cobey,' a Republican, resigned as UNC's athletic director to run for lieutenant governor against Democratic incumbent Jimmy Green. He is campaigning across the state full time these days, but frankly admits that he's running behind. "I'm certainly not ahead at this point Mr. Green is ahead, but I' certain he hasn't gotten 50 percent of the vote," Cobey said during a weekend break from the campaign. Sitting on the back porch of his Chapel Hill home, Cobey outlined his strategy for the 11 weeks remaining until Election Day and the reasons for his candidacy. Cobey has never before run for public office, and is not generally known outside athletics. However, he says former UNC athletic director Homer Rice first encouraged his involvement in politics, and. that experience in sports administration would prove valuable to a lieutenant governor. "It was Homer Rice, who was my former boss, who said I had to run for political office because he felt my leadership was needed there more than in athletics." Still, the transition from University administrator to politician hasn't been made overnight. Cobey is a political rookie, and even with the backing of the extremely effective Congressional Qub political action committee he has had to pick up a few things on his own. "First, I've been learning how to use my time as productively as possible, and going around the state meeting the party faithful and . Democrats who want to , work for me." Thesp trips, Cobey v.:.::e yi 1 f a v v i . ui rmr.ht find the Cl: there is caure for optimism. One junior ureited they fill Former athlstic director Bill Cobey ...running for. lieutenant governor added bring in campaign contributions but also increase the electorate's awareness of the campaign. "You just hope that all the seeds I've sown will reap a harvest of not only name recognition but positive name recognition as we move toward J November." Once people are aware that Jimmy Green is not running unopposed, Cobey hopes to win broad support with a platform of conservative platitudes: less government, lower taxes, economic growth. Moreover, he believes voters will choose him over Green because his positions on those issues are clearly staked out even if they disagree. "Polls show that Jesse Helms is the most popular political figure in the state. That's not because there are a lot of Jesse Helms clones out there, and in fact many of the people who support him and vote for him really detest his stands on some issues. But at least they know where he stands," Ccbey said. He contends that he would a better, more responsive hader than Green, and even suggests fewer conflicts miaht arise between the Leutenant governor and Jim Hunt, vho is likely to be re-elected. And those conflicts that did arise, Cobey said,, would be substantive, unlike the political squabbles that Hunt and Green have gotten into. "I think that the people cf this state are the beneficiaries cf disagreement," Ccbey said. "Conflict can result in satisfactory resolution of issues." Issues aside, Ccbey admits thathe has little control of one factor critical to his chance in the elections: the support won by Ronald Reaaan. "I can't visualize winning unless he wins the state," Cobey said. "That's not bad news, because every poll I've seen says he has a substantial lead in the state, and I think it'll widen." Nevertheless, Cobey says he doesn't want to link his campaign with Reagan or Helms or any particular group. Although Cobey is religious and attends the fundamentalist Chapel Hill Bible Church, he has lost the endorsement of some fundamentalist ministers.' "I am not responsible to any special interest group," Cobey said. "If that means that 1 can't win, so be it. I can't compromise my principles." Cobey is an unsophisticated politician, still mulling over ideas from Congressman Phillip Crane's tracts and economist Milton Friedman's TV show. But he is also refreshingly honest and sincere, with a commitment to conservative values. It is, perhaps, unfortunate that votes are cast more often according to party affiliation than the relative merits of the men involved. Bred Kutrow, a senior political science major from Wilmington, is associate editor for The Daily Tar Heel. FesMLanicHiiai ecmiamTO) New otudento crawl, learn 'how to 'moo' By WILLIAM DURHAM We've all heard of deja vu. Well, it happened to me the other day, and it wasn't pretty. I had driven out to visit the Campus's Y's freshman camp with a couple of bona fide student leaders. From the moment we turned off the highway into Camp New Hope, 1 was nauseous and trembling. I broke out into a cold sweat. As we approached the rustic clubhouse 1 began to stagger. Waves of shivering racked my body. As I sat down and looked out over the crowd of happy, upturned freshman faces, my 'thoughts turned to that magic summer two years ago when I, too, was but another eager face in the crowd.... - Ah, the joys of camp, I had thought in August of 1978 upon arriving in sweltering heat at the site of freshman camp. Ambles through the woods, leisurely games of volleyball, all far from the hectic pressures of campus life. i; - Wrong. Every waking hour was crammed full of cheering, runnihg around, cheering; sweating and cheering. Most of the experience has been blotted from my mind, like any other trauma, but one "activity" has recurred in nightmares for two years. ' . 1 remember that it was a, glorious day, 97 degrees at 8:30. The sun sparkled through the trees as we lined up on display as if at a detention camp. Our couselors were smiling in front of us, but that meant nothing. They were always smiting. They smiled in their sleep. "All right, now we're going to divide you into groups for some more fun activities," shouted one, a female, tanned, slender and smiling. This resulted in the campers being seperated into seven or eight groups, and each group being assigned an animal noise. Then we were told to practice our noises, to see which group could be the loudest. There were lions, sheep, horses, dogs, cows and others. 1 was a cow. Moo. The next thing I remember, we were being led out to" a huge field the scarred turf evidence of earlier ordeals. 1 was surrounded by a mob of campers, all entranced with the notion of making animal noises. But the worst was yet to come. Once in the middle of the field, we were surrounded by the counselors, who still were grinning impishly. Was there something cruel in their smiles? Looking back through the years, it seems so. "Now wander around until you're all mixed up," thundered a lithe blonde. "Ready? Now DOWN ON YOUR HANDS AND KNEES." What? I wasn't sure that I had heard her correctly, but, trained 'by then to do everything the masters ordered, no matter how bizarre, I instantly complied. "The object of this exercise," snapped one tall, slender Hitler-youth type, "is to close your eyes and, making your animal noise, wander around on your hands and knees and find the other members of your group. The first team to finish wins." He was wearing a T-shirt emblazoned "with "Every woman loves a fascist." When the whistle blew I immediately stood up, walked to the ring of couselors, and asked to go to the bathroom. Smiling, they told me that I could leave once the activity was over. Seeing a grim determination in their smiling eyes, a resolve that I would have a good time if it burst my bladder, I rejoined the circus. Meanwhile, my compatriots were milling about on hands and knees, making feeble bleating noises, or mooing noises, or horse noises. Mooing noises? I scampered over to the nearest moo. Its owner was slowly crawling about with a humbly happy smile on its face, mooing contentedly. It could have been chewing its cud. "Pssst. Are you a cow?" "Why I surely am. But isn't it against the rules to talk?" Suddenly a couselor grabbed the neck of my T-shirt. ' I was being slowly throttled, and out of the corner of my eye I could see the knotted sinews of a forearm. "Now you-all know that's cheating," cooed a soft, feminine voice. "Let's not have any more of that." She flung me back to the turf. When I was sure she had gone, I said, "Listen. You stay here and moo. Do not move under any circumstances. Do you understand?" "Moooooo." Keeping my eyes sqintcd, so as to appear closed, I circuited the horde of writhing bodies. I had to dodge several counselors, who.. .were .roaming, in. search oL people with their. cyes.0pen,..,., ,. ... ... .. . ... Noticing a pair of cows together near the center of the melee, I quickly sprinted in to get them. Then I led them back to my original cow. Soon all the cows were rounded up. The counselors, however, grim smiles plastered to their faces, projected guilt and unsportsmanlike behavior on the cows for sidestepping the rules. I felt deeply ashamed. I looked up at the sun, sweat and grass and dirt coating my body. Spontaneously, the counselors began another cheer, and the campers, like trained seals, joined in. I felt faint. The rest of the weekend is a blur of sun and shagging, cheers and water balloons. I don't remember much of what happened, but I do know that when I finally reached the sanctuary of my dorm room, I didn't come out for two weeks. So if you're a low-key type, who doesn't thrive on leaping and cavorting at football games, who gags at the prospect of shagging, do not despair. It may take two or three months, but the day will come hen you will be able to hear the Tar Heel fight song without retching. Be patient. William Durham, a junior English major, is editorial assistant for The Daily Tar Heel. mone mum '77 inanriDtt v&nrrn wanton n By JAMES ALEXANDER JR. Dr. Sonja Stone's 18-month struggle to gain tenure, here at the University ended early last month. The University's Board of Trustees and the university system's Board of Governors approved a recommendation by a faculty committee that she be tenured. For the University, the decision helps ease racial tensions that have mounted throughout the tedious case. But for Stone, and other, faculty members, it represents a successful challenge cf tenure rules and procedures. It zho denotes the rights of tenure-seeking professors. "My case tested the tenure regulations and clarified the role of the appclhte in the tenure appeal," Stone said from her Columbus, Ohio, office, where she is participating in a postdoctoral research fellowship at Ohio State University. "It certain!) shouldn't take as Ion for others) since th bctn clarified. "Prior to my cae, it wasn't clcir. She j-s hen was th? first czm under the I9T tenure te;u!..:uT.s that procedures nave . w ,,, , dra!t li Her trout t'.."n ".inti.efJlcnv?.. ;:::- CV -.ittce r.:::y two years- of cranes nnd drills ! e r. I a I V. ision by S i acu.iy a tenure- r.uei r;.- : cf Arts e sai-J ii was told by then-Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor that she had no more appeal alternatives available under University tenure policy. The Board of Governors said Ta!or had misinterpreted the University's tenure policy, and Stone was entitled to further appeals to the Board of Trustees. So, in response to one of Stone's later appeals, the Board of Trustees set up a three-person panel to study the Faculty Hearings Committee's findings. And, when that panel concluded that there was reasonable doubt to the objectivity of the faculty cimmittce. a new six member committee was ordered to be formed. That committee, headed by history Professor George Taylor, began re hearing Stone's case Dec. 17. And, says Stone, "It was then w realised that the case had taken a turn for the better." There were a couple of positive thirds about the ca e; SJcr.e was tenured and the University's tenure policy wav checked. But, there were zho ia First of all, the University effrrcJ hf tic (if an) of Ik bl put. city about fran ' tin j Stone her tenure. Word of the devi- ' uon was pretty mu;h &V.Qcd up dur- tr 2 the summer. prc t !y to ictp an in i houe t!;fraf unJrr wr, Srcortdly, :h the B.rd ef Tru-.tcev and th; sity smothered her victory and that the voting process was wrong. "The outcome, at this point, is pro bably the most significant thing," Stone says. "I wasn't even aware cf the open meetings violations." Meanwhile, Stone says there were other important factors in the decision going her way, besides the committee reappointments made in December. "My record and the fact that I was evaluated by people in black studies was probably a big factor in the decision," she says. "Bringing in outside specialists who could evaluate my work objectively was a factor...." And, she adds. "There were white cn campus whose records Ccnja Stcna professors were comparable to mine, and they ae. already tenured." Some of those same professors sup ported her, uyv Stone. "I had a great deal cf support from a attention, tenure dcci.ions, especial! for women 2nd minorities, will be lock ed at closer," Stone says. Sfone nuy have won a major bats!;: with the University, but the firht tior.n't seem to r ? over. She inj..-a!cv that she number cf quarters than (UNC). ..more tu:p4!e. "I d;;.ccvercd a r.urr.bcr uf fri who were iupponers, both tla.k and cn that cam r us wi:l fir hi to fiin an svocu:e r ytnj wou'J an- Jv I V t! . f 1 ' (, ,'dcfC i J li J t; , V , ... lit rri f. all over the t;. v; ;I Cf ti. V. ff a fsjf til Ci us tr.rrt v i the country w?u are in t: J .-.v.vr.t she wa. ' ! r ::A V jr. J wt.-rren e they arc (Hi: j c.J.Vi th vhip in the Afro-American StuJ.rs cur riculum, t f whi.h she wav once chair She wav cffcrrJ or.! an av.;star.t P. fellowship em is rtt urn to i e man. ptofes-. Her t'r.ive? I, and the tll iy i h: fa of V.. 1st: I w 1, "Yt i d .'l ha e i r-t t-" 1. lit I) to Uy it l - 14 cnothcr ton or tvo of sand and call r. y cv . 1 cl. t, v.i : t Li: : V. t f t:. L -- t L I it :et A 1 1 1 a t ;.: li 'Heaven's own bra t;y cf C. t s I Jr., I fir. ten James re. cc'rJruclion of a r;;-t.,-::,.;t even tl;h ..ill I v -f!td can sv.un there to v from the r.: .v ci 'll! h W I i li 1 V , 4 . . .i tJ.i.1 ' s '.V 's. ft never h. , f - r 'I v X 1 ' t !'
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