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DiN'ITA J A MLS, Maturing Editor
Dbad Kutrow, Associate Editor
Thomas Jessiman, Associate Editor
Karen Rowley, News Editor
Pam KeLLY, University Editor
Martha Waccoms, City Editor
Jim Hummel, State and National Editor
E:ll Fields, Sports Editor
Mark Murkeli, Features Editor'
Laura Elliott, Arts Editor
Scott Shakfe, Photography Editor
Melanie Sill, Weekender Editor
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I hate Mrs. Olson.
II you know who sne is,
Olson, too. For those of you who haven't had the
pleasure of hating her, she's the blue-haired lady who
you probably hate Mrs.
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Politicians seem to go through life muttering oaths under their
breath about "the power of the press" and its undue effect on the way
things are run. North Carolina's representative, Richardson Preyer,
however, has raised his voice in defense of The New York Times
Atlanta bureau, which discovered last week that its telephone records
had been subpoenaed by the Justice Department.
Preyer, who chairs the House government information and
individual rights subcommittee, has chastised the Justice Department
for ignoring its own requirement that any search of a news-gathering
organization be approved personally by the attorney general. He plans
to introduce legislation next week that would require law enforcement
officials to notify an individual before subpoenaing telephone records,
giving that person a chance to fight the subpoena in court. Preyer's
would be the second measure now before Congress that could give the
press legal protection from unreasonable searches.
The Supreme Court held two years ago that it was constitutional to
hold surprise searches of the offices and homes of people even if they
had not been charged with crimes. A bill recently passed by the Senate
and supported by the Carter administration would require Federal law
enforcement officials to exhaust less intrusive means of obtaining
evidence before getting a warrant to ransack the news room. If notes,
photographs and files' were first subpoenaed, for instance, reporters
could contest the action in court. The bill would not protect news
people from searches if they were suspected of a crime or if evidence
was in danger of being destroyed. Unfortunately, it would also not
extend those same rights to citizens who do not happen to be employed
by news-gathering organizations.
The subpoena process does not always function as it should; the
editor of The Daily Texan, the student newspaper of the University of
Texas, was fined and jailed last week when he refused to hand over
film a Texan photographer had shot of 16 students at a demonstration
in Austin. The judge enforced the subpoena although there was really
no need for the film, and 12 of the students were convicted anyway. In
any event, a Texas law similar to the Senate bill protected The Texan
newsroom from a surprise search.
Preyer's measure would pertain to telephone records, which are not
covered by Justice Department restrictions on subpoenas because they
are kept by the telephone company rather than the news organizations
themselves. The anonymity of sources is essential to news gathering,
and Preyer's measure would protect reporters and their sources from
unwarranted probes by federal officials.
More importantly, Preyer's measure includes the general public,
something the Senate did not see fit to do. In considering it, perhaps
Congress can rid itself of the notion that reporters somehow should
have'rights not granted to the rest of the citizenry.
peddles "mountain grown" coffee on television
commercials.
As a matter of fact, I hate a whole bunch of people
on commercials, many of them personally.
My uncle has a theory about commercial actors and
actresses. He says producers of television commercials
go around looking for the stupidest people they can
find. Then, he says, they take them to a farm in
Southern California and deprive them of any and all
cultural nature. They make them watch Gilligan's
Island and Laverne and Shirley reruns 24 hours a day.
When these people have been sufficiently abused,
they are tested carefully. Only the most annoying and
inane are then further . groomed for nationwide
appearances. The rest are spread out for local
commericals.
My uncle, I think, has a poini. There is no way Aunt
Bluebell could have developed naturally. She has to be
the product of some devious experiment in genetic
manipulation. -
The same thing goes for Mr. Whipple, who
advertises toilet tissue and is paranoid that someone is
going to squeeze it. I have never understood why, but
to the editor
letter
there seems to be more toilet paper ads than any ether
kind, with the possible exception of cat food.
Every time I see one of the thousands of ccnansercials
that aggravate me to no end, I have a most depressing
thought. Somewhere, probably in either New York or
Los Angeles, there's a guy working 40 hours a week,
making $250,000 a year, living in a six -bedroom
mansion, driving three' Mercedes and a Porsche cn
rainy days and playing golf on the weekends at an
exclusive country club. And his job is to write tripe like
these commercials.
Some commercials a paltry few are worth sitting
still for. Mean Joe Green's Coca-Cola commercial of
last year was better than a lot of the situation-comedy
shows that last 30 minutes. Nearly all the Miller Lite
beer commercials are good. But the vast majority of
television ads make you want to get up and use the
bathroom, even if you didn't need to before they came
on.
Psychologists have done some pretty cruel things to
animals in the past, like keeping a kitten in a dark
environment from birth and then showing it nothing
but vertical lines for a year. I think they should do
some experiments on the folks who make these
commercials. Let the helpless little kitties be. Punish
these guys.
It's also pretty disgusting to think about how much
money these folks make to do these commercials.
Madge, the revolting creature who makes bad puns and
forces women to wash their hands in green
dishwashing liquid, is probably a millionaire. The late
- Morris the Cat, rest his soul, probably earned more
money than 111 ever smell.
Speaking of smell, there are also a lot of deodorant
ads around. "Everyone knows," one says, "men
perspire more than women." Then another one says
women need . a ' strong antiperspirant, but one that
smells pretty.. Sounds pretty sexist to me. Maybe the
feminists could help in a crusade to wipe out the more
innocuous commercials.
Just thinking about' commercials can make me
babble incessantly for hours. But there's nobody 1 hate
worse nor no series of commercials that makes me
madder than the ones with Mrs. Olson.
Who is this woman? A couple is on their
honeymoon, there she is. A couple is moving into a
new house, there she is. A couple is visiting a general
store, there she is. She's everywhere. There's no
escape. And everywhere she goes, she pushes coffee.
If this woman ever comes in my house, I'll kick her
out on her coffee beans. I don't like coffee, I don't
want coffee, and I don't want her near me.
If I had three wishes, the first would be for a magic
remote-control channel changer. With it, I would be
able to zap any commercial performer forever from
my screen.
And Mrs. Olson would be the first.
David Poole, a senior journalism major end raving
maniac from Castonia, is assistant sports editor of The
Daily Tar Heel.
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The new student infirmary is impressive at first sight. There's anew
brick building with expansive glass doors and windows. Inside new
carpet has been laid, and bright red, green, yellow, black and purple .
neon signs indicate where a student should go for a particular
problem. The waiting room is a tremendous improvement over the
hallways of the old infirmary. Cushioned chairs provide comfortable
sitting, and "easy listening" Muzak fills the air, relaxing and soothing
the patient. It's all nice, but it's all worthless if you can't find a doctor
or a nurse.
For example, if a student expects to get medical help between the
hours of noon and 2 p.m., he's been misled or perhaps is so deliriously
spellbound by the new and improved student health center that he no
longer can distinguish reality from fiction. Or, perhaps like the rest of
us, he just figured that the $130 health fee he pays each year the
highest fee in the state would at least guarantee him health care
during the traditional 8 to 5 hours. On the other hand, if you show up
at 9 a.m., when most students are in class, you may find many a
doctor with nothing to do but dream about the cool breeze blowing
through the trees as he pulls a seven-iron and nails an approach shot.
The problem, then, is that nice as the health center is, the strategical
placement of employees there continues to hinder the student trying to
get medical help. At full staff nine physicians and three nurses are on
duty. But from noon to 2 only one physician and a nurse are available.
A rotating or staggered schedule would seem a more efficient way of
handling the hundreds of students who visit the infirmary. A survey of
figures on the busiest times also would reveal which hours demand
more help and which less. Statistics on what services are needed and in
what quantity would also improve service.
There is no simple or easy solution, but when the new Student
Health Services director is picked he should look into such
possibilities. The end result could be a pretty and efficient student
health center.
To the editor:
In response to the Sept. 10 article on
the advising system, we would like to
point out a few facts that William
Durham did not adequately stress. The
main problem lies not in the advising
system itself, but in the lack of
communication concerning advising
procedures.
The University Catalog is a non
operative document that is unclear
concerning academic procedures. It is,
therefore, our opinion that there is a
need for a comprehensive and
communicative manual outlining
advising resources, academic procedures
and dates. Such a manual, in rough
form, was distributed to freshmen this"
, year through Dean Donald C. Jicha's
office. This manual must be made
available to sophomores as well as
freshmen.
The adviser-advisee relationship could
be improved if students were made
aware of the availability of their advisers
throughout the year, not just during the
rush periods of registration. During the
entire year, advisers keep eight office
hours per week in x which they are
available to students to discuss.problems
or answer questions about courses and
majors. Yet right now, the halls of third
floor South Building are empty. .
In his article, Durham suggests that
"peer advising" would be the ultimate
solution. What h doesn't seem to
realize is that the mechanism for a
program of in-area advising already has
been set up: Area Residence Personnel.
This program was set up three years ago,
but has floundered because of lack of
support.
The communications gap in advising
can be bridged. With student and
University support, these three points
can be fully implemented: an academic
procedures manual, use of advising
resources between registration periods
and revitalizatioa of the Area Residence
Tersonnel program.
Scott Granowski
Barbara Rosser
Academic Affairs Committee
Student Government
fiuks Awareness
To the editor:
There was a mistake in the headline,
"N.C. nuclear power use will increase"
(DTH, ept. 12). It should have read
"N.C. nuclear power use might
increase" unless North Carolinians
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wake up to its dangers and economic
unviabillty. When Carolina Power and
Light began work on its Harris plant,
demand was supposed to increase 7
percent per year indefinitely, and new
power plants seemed necessary.
Last year, demand fell off
nationwide, and it rose 3 percent in
North Carolina. As the Harvard
Business School report "Energy
Future" shows, conservation can cut
our electric use 20 to 40 percent. Nuclear
supplies at most 1 1 percent, so why build
nuclear plants? Why subject ourselves to
low-level radiation? Why worry about
nuclear accidents and waste disposal?
Why risk nuclear sabotage? Why not use
non-polluting alternatives, like
conservation, biomass, solar and wind?
When Shearon Harris is stopped, it
will probably be because financiers are
afraid to bet on nuclear power.
Insurance companies won't look at
any property insurance (including auto)
policy, and you'll find an exclusion
barring payment for radioactive
contamination. It's so hard for utilities
to finance cukes that they're making
rate-payers pay for them in advance
(with "construction work in progress"
charges), whether they ever finish the
plants and whether we ever use any of
the power produced. This is all without
even considering the gigantic costs of
waste disposal and decommissioning.
The new alternative energy society
requires wide citizen participation,
beginning today. What can we do?
1 . Get informed read as much as
you can about nuclear energy and the
safe alternatives.
2. Conserve energy by driving less,
recycling,- using less electricity.
3. Get active there are many groups
which need your help and support.
Daniel F. Read
Member, CHANGE
(Chapel Hill Anti
Nuclear Group
Effort)
Chapel Hill
Torching Hec!3
To the editor:
Thanks for the effort. We appreciate
the coverage, and your article ("Sweaty
practices don't deter band," DTH,
Sept. 4) was a good attempt at capturing
the spirit of the UNC marching band.
But it was slightly off the mark. Your
article gave the impression that we are in
the band merely for a free ride and free
party.
While it is true that band members
pay very little money to participate (a
$10 band fee and $25 for shoes and
gloves), there arc other expenses to
consider. The most important of these is
time.
Each band member spends at least
eight hours every week practicing,
including Vi hours of practice early
Saturday morning before the game. This
is every week through November.
Band members also stay here for Fall
Break and Thanksgiving games. If the
team goes to a bowl game, we cut short
our holidays, returning to Chapel Hill to
practice as we did for the Gator Bowl
last year. Gas to and from Chapel Hill
can get expensive as well. We would like
to say that if we were in the band only
for the fringe benefits, most of us
wouldn't be in it at all. We do have some
good parties, but that's only natural.
Because, together with the cheerleaders,
we feel that we are one of the most
spirited groups on campus.
The band is a family that works
together fos the love of music, for the
love of the University and for the
excitement of a football Saturday. We
are dedicated to continuing Carolina's,
winning tradition, and though we work
extremely hard, we would gladly put
forth the effort 100 times over. Go
Heels.
Carlton Vinson, president
UNC Marching Tar Heels
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principal in San Dito hopes so, cs
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to vote within the next couple of
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proposal over u: next three
months. Under the plan each
student would be issued a card
marked "25 cents' for each day he
or she attended class the month
before.
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an earning thins," Aroparan said.
"If it works, besides cntidns these
youngsters back for an education,
this could save m thousands of
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On Sept. 12 The Daily Tar Heel ran a column,
"CGC meetings: an exercise in inefficiency," in which
a number of incorrect and jnaccurate statements were
made and an obvious lack of knowledge concerning the
council's work was made apparent.
As speaker of the Campus Governing Council I feci
compelled to address these inaccuracies. Let me begin
by addressing the central issue: inefficiency. 1 cannot
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convened at 7:30 p.m. and during the course cf the
three-hour meeting approved 12 presidential
appointments, addressed all the legislation cf. the
summer CGC (24 bills in all) and established three
separate special committees in addition to approving a
finance till and bbw changes to the Student Audit
Board. The council adJressed all of this legislation and
singed out several that deserved more deliberate
consideration. This does not constitute inefficiency.
nore, the actions taken by the council were not
:sib!e cither, as the fc 'doling v .11 t'M-A to.
in with the sumn-.i r vc .r...P$l:-".' .ti-nt
by Rep. Joe Kowalczki. Discussion followed on this bill
in which the following issues arose: a shortage of water
in the proposed area, parking problems and an increase
in student fees. This piece of legislation was then
referred to the Student Affairs Committee for further
study; it was not tabled as reported.
The standing committees, (i.e. Student Affairs) are
an integral part of the council: All the preliminary
studies and fact-gathering is done in these committees
to facilitate the discussion within the full council. Ey
referring this bill to committee and thus investigating
the issue further, the council then can make an
informed and responsible decision. An irresponsible
act would have been to let the bill pass and be
forgotten; it is obvious that the council did not chexne
to work this way.
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action to rectify the problem.
Perhaps more important are the references made to
the budget hearings held in April cf the past spri
term. It is useless here to debate the budget hearir
itself as both sides could argue successfully. But let me
point out that the council is fully a are of the
inadequacies cf the budget process and has therefore
$ct up a special committee composed of both CGC
members and non-council members.
The committee v. ill present a report to the council
after completing its research to determine where
improvements can be made. In the column no mention
is made of the fact that this committee wa set up to
imprcv . the tuition regarding the budget procest.
The ccunc.l ii taking the only responsible and logical
step no- it is waiting for the findlns cf the
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made as to why this expense occurred. It was ret sent
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