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Dznita Jamis, Manuring Editor
Dsad Kurr.ow, Associate Editor
Thomas JzastMAN, Associate Editor
Kasin Rovvliy, Eiftor .
Pam KlLLEY, University Editor
MA2TKA WACCOKI2, G'fy Eiitor
Jim Hukmh, Sfcfc rj National Editor
Bill Fzilds, .Serej Editor
Maex Mummix, Features Editor
Lausa Elliott, y4raj EJ.'tor
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We must taeet. Narae the f !ac vA tsz. Yoa
trfcg the t'-vsrs, F2 t:lt-3 the nine. J.
i?y THOMAS JES5II.IAN
tcorr Siiarpe, Photography Editor
! Iolakib Sill, Weekender Editor
. The world of the classifieds can be awfully strands.
The blond lacrosse player lives there, roaming up and
down the personals
col;
.year q" editorial freedom
spotted near the Old Well or in Eccn 24. Daddy Crrry,
zKzr, used to moxe lis appearance
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t tiis music ;pi&y
Vcarinj black drec-es and tuxedos, members of the N.C.
Symphony brought their cause to Carolina Wednesday niht. They
carried not instruments, but signs. They left their audience not with
the beauty of their music, but with a clarification of their position.
Symphony members went on strike less than a week ago because they
felt the organization was neither growing nor paying as it should. It's a
Members of the 73-piece orchestra work 40 weeks a year for roughly
S14,0C0. They ask for moderate wage increases and a four- to six-week
expansion of the phying season, which stops during the summer and
leaves the musicians without a guaranteed income during that 12-week
period. The symphony's Board of Trustees maintains that it cannot
afford to meet the demands of the strikers.
N.C. state lav requires that the symphony operate on a balanced
budget. About 47 percent of the annual $2.6 million budget comes
from state taxpayers. In return, the orchestra plays for hundreds of
thousands of schoolchildren, providing for many of them their only
exposure to classical music. Through its numerous concerts, the
symphony treats North Carolinians to some of the best music in the
country. And according to one Ohio newspaper, much of that state's
industry was being lured to North Carolina partly because of the
cultural program offered here. It seems to us that the symphony's
requests are reasonable and justified.
It would be nice to believe that the arts were above such worldly
concerns as money, but the . simple facts of life dictate that these
people, who have spent years studying and perfecting their trade, must the personals were no Jonger needed.
every Friday, with hundreds of Anns and Leslies and
Janes wishing him good hack in the Saturday game.
One day Ken the Stud even proposed to Ann the
Fox the response the next day, much to everyone's
relief, was affirmative. '
It is a world of happy birthdays, of desperate pleas
for basketball tickets, and most times raw, undisguised
sex. Water polo players make not so subtle passes at a
ravishing blonde. Pooky thanks Spooky for firms off
rockets. Alice the Palace thanks Fifth Floor Granville
for renewing her faith in MAN-kind.
In the midst of all that intrigue, the discerning reader
can sometimes spot the beginning of a romance. Take
the case of the Man in Orange. Each week the Man in
Orange went to his Thursday class in sign language and
saw the woman of his dreams. Perhaps he sat next to
her in class and watched her taking notes. After class he
probably walked behind her and then stepped in front
to hold the door. She might have thanked him, smiled
and kept walking. Obviously, he needed a better tactic.
TO TH EHOWN EYED GSTX In sign language on
Thursdays. You have the best hands Fv ever
read. Left talk some time. The man in orange.
That personal ran Nov. 19 last year. No doubt after
that, the Man in Orange read the classifieds religiously.
Finally, after another class had passed, perhaps with
some strange looks from both parties, he received an
answer.
TO THE MAN IN ORANGE. Tm so flattered! I
would love to talk some time. The girl with brown
eyes.
After that, the Man in Orange and the Erown-eyed
Girl faded into obscurity. Most likely they,, like
thousands of other successful, contented "personals"
writers, finally met and found something to talk about;
be able to make a decent living from their work. Considering that
much of the proposed increase could be generated by revenues from
summer concerts, it is difficult to fathom how the trustees could allow
such a small percentage of the total budget to result in a strike. ,
However, the end result of the strike could be positive. Perhaps
when people realize the extremity of the situation, they will be inclined
to increase contributions and further alleviate any financial worries.
Since negotiations between the musicians and the trustees began, the
strikers have shown a willingness to compromise. But Wednesday
night in front of Memorial Hall, with clouds threatening rain and the
crowd dispersing, one musician said, "It's up to them to 6ring us back
to the table and end the strike." The "them" he was referring to was
the trustees. But the strike hurts not "them" but us. It deprives this
state of a fundamental part of its rich and inspiring cultural heritage.
We gladly add our voices to those that oppose an unnecessary delay in
resolving this matter lay urging the state and the trustees to invest in the
future of arts in North Carolina;
However, not all adventures in the classifieds have
happy endings. The star-crossed romantics sometimes
spend months lost amidst the ads for cheap birthday
cakes and happy anniversary notes to Ju-Ju or Billy
laHero to the editor
Food and-drinft
Wad. One of the longest running hepdess dialogues
involved Elond Joe and Eunie. It took place over
Halloween last fall.
KELP. Last Thurs. 12 noon. I was w&ZJr. towards
Frarskllsi from O'd East. Yoa were walking froxa
Franklin by the corner of CI J East wi-h others.
You have black hair, nice build, wearing a dark
green top, carryins sraaH leather (?) purse. I have
blond hair, was wearing a Eht blue suit. We
exchanged only smiles, but I MUST meet you.
Fkase c&H 99 or 99 and leave message
for Joe.
Blond Joe must have known it was a long shot. After
all, there was no guarantee the girl with black hair even
read the personals. Every time the phone rang he must
have been the first to answer it, his face sinking when
the voice was that of a man or woman he recognized.
He placed the personal Oct. 24 and exactly a week later
came the reply:
ELOrCD JOE In the fc-ht Mae suit, I noticed you
tool Yes my purse was leather. Would Eke to
exchange more than smiles, but am sort of shy.
Are you going to Elliott's Nest costume party
tonight? I am. Maybe well meet there. Eunie.
It wasn't a bad reply at all at least now he had a
name. No doubt, his suspense was heightened by the
prospect of a costume party. If Elond Joe recognized
her he would have little trouble breaking the ice. The
only hitch was that he had to assume Eunie's personal
had come from the same woman he passed on the
walkway. But then, that risk was all part of the game.
No mention of Blond Joe and Eunie appeared in the
column during the next few days and we assumed they
had gone the way of the Man in Orange and the
Erown-eyed Girl and probably discovered love and
happiness via the personals. But it was not to be. Nov.
5 brought the bad news:
ELOND JOE: I didn't see you Wednesday n!-,ht.
Oh we3. Hope to see you on campus soon. HI be
looking. Do you have a favorite lunch spot? Eunie.
So, they had missed. Perhaps their costumes had
been too clever. Maybe Blond Joe had bailed out at the
last moment after all, it's not the bold and brazen
who live by the personals. Maybe Elond Joe had
arrived late and entered just as Eunie was leaving. At
any rate, Eunie had thrown the ball back to Elond Joe
and he was quick to act. Four days later he struck
again: '
Later, Joe must have resized he had made a tactical
error. He should have named the mettirg place
is to be decisive, and Elond Joe had hesitated. The vir.e
was a nice touch, and saying the anticipation was
driving him crazy showed admirable enthusiasm, but
he should have named the place. It was that simple.
Six days later, on Nov. 15, the last personal ever
recorded between Elond Joe and Eunie ran on the
bottom right of Page 6 of The Daily Tcrllccl:
ELOTTO JOE: Sorry haven't met you yet. ILsve
been swamped wiJi dssswerk. Do yon know
aaythlng about American history? f-tayfe we caa
meet and discuss? Vrtr.3 the wine. Eur.
That was it. No more. Maybe it was something about
the tone of the personal that threw Elcnd Joe off. She
had picked up on his suggestion of the wine and that .
was a good sign, but the line about American history
was a throw-away. Unless, maybe it was a hint that she
ate lunches by Hamilton Hall. Eut, it was all getting so
complicated. ' :
Had Eunie really been swamped with homework cr
was that an excuse for another man? The worst sign
was that, "Hope to see you on campus soon. I'll be
looking," had been replaced by the less interested
"Maybe we can meet and discuss?" No doubt, Eland
Joe studied the personal well into the night, torn by
whether to pursue Eunie one step further or to set her
free again.
In the morning he made his decision: there would be
no more personals. He could have placed a farewell
personal in the Christmas classifieds but he did not.
And yet, he probably never opened the bottle of wine
. he kept under his bed. And he never said a word w hen
his roommate found the bottle, opened the card and
asked him who Eunie was. The world of the cl
would have been too complicated to explain.
Thomas Jessiman; a junior English major from
Newton, Mass., b associate editor for The Daily Tar
Heel.
Consumer groupsr including the Chapel Hill chapter of Common
Cause, are attempting this fall to hoist the issue of the state's food tax
from the depths to which it was sunk by the last General Assembly.
Former state Sen. McNeill Smith, who is chairman of North
Carolinians to Repeal the Food Tax, spoke against the tax here earlier
this month to the annual meeting of Common Cause. By making the 4
percent tax an issue in the fall campaign, the groups hope to set it up
for repeal in the next session of the legislature. It's not a new idea, but
it is a sound one; the repeal of the food tax is long overdue.
Because the poor spend relatively more of their income on food, an
undue share of the food tax falls on them. The average North Carolina
family spends 25 percent of its. disposable income on food,, and a
family living on the minimum wage uses about 41 percent of its income
for food. Students, who generally must set aside a large portion of
their budgets for groceries, are in the same category. As inflation
raises food prices, those figures are likely to rise as will the burden
on the food tax on those with low incomes.
Still, a bill to repeal the food tax must be accompanied by measures
creating other sources of revenue for the state. The food tax brought
in $13 million last year, a sum the state cannot afford to lose.
One source of additional revenue could be the tax on cigarettes,
which at 2 cent per pack is the nation's lowest. However, a higher
cigarette tax cannot replace the funds brought in by the food tax, and
any attempt to raise it will draw the wrath of the state's tobacco lobby.
Growers do not want our tax to rise above Virginia's 2Vx cent tax, and
it is doubtful that any tobacco tax measure could survive their
opposition.
Another means to increase revenue is simply to create a higher
personal income tax bracket at the top of the existing scale. Of course,
most politicians would fall into the higher bracket. The General
Assembly will not be inclined to raise its own taxes, but might be
p:rsuad:d to do so by a consumer group campaign.
Repeal would not have to be complete or immediate to provide relief
for the state's low income families and individuals. By reducing the
state's food tax, however gradually, the state could make its tax"
structure that much more progressive.
rasas
To the editor:
The Daily Tar Heel has displayed a
laudable sense of fairness of late in its
news coverage. Unfortunately, in the
heart of the election campaign, this
fairness is beginning to fade away. The
tendency to blur the distinction between
news and editorial functions is apparent.
The DTH recently 4 reported, for
example, that a survey of UNC students
showed they favored President Carter
over Ronald Reagan. However, the
margin of error for any poll (however
scientific) is unlikely to be less than the
1.7 percent margin between the two
candidates. In such cases it is only
proper to report that the race is really a
"dead heat" and any apparent lead may
be illusory.
Much more serious was the blatantly
biased article, "Debate Reactions favor
Anderson," (DTH, Sept. 23),
purporting to gauge student opinion
about the Reagan Anderson, debate.
"Many" students were said to have
concluded that Anderson had defeated
Reagan soundly. In fact, only, five
students were quoted ' and only three
actually criticized Reagan. Three
students can hardly be considered as
representative of an enrollment of
20,000. In addition, two of the students
were self-described Anderson backers,
but no Reagan supporters were quoted.
The DTH reporters in question may
have interviewed "many" students who
were not quoted, but they should have
provided some documentation of their
methods and results. At any large
university it is likely that "many"
students could be found who support
everything from the CWP to the KKK.
Therefore, tiny "surveys" of selected
populations are about as useful as
Carter's 1976 campaign premises. To
pass off such a selective survey as
"news" is a disservice to students of aU
political persuasions who count on the
DTH for information as well as
advocacy. Ray Wzntn
Law School
Foxcrcft parking
To the editor:
This letter is in response to the article,
"Parking rules questioned," (DTH,
Sept. IS) on the Foxcrcft parking
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situation. I am a resident of Foxcroft
Apartments. I want to present another
picture of the parking situation here.
Having just moved here in June from
Los, Angles, Calif., where I attended
UCLA, I am happy to have two assigned
parking spaces with parking stickers to
assure that can use them. In Los
Angeles, for higher rent, I got one
covered space only; any extra cars J
owned (or that my roommate owr.es)
were my problem 1 Is it reasonable to ask
any apartment complex to provide
unlimited parking facilities for as many
cars as the residents can come up with?
Of course not.
The 'managers and owner here have
been very sensitive and responsive to the
Ten days, including two weekends,
notice was iven before the towing was
enforced. This was to allow time for
apartment has one space close to the
building, for convenience, and one space
farther away. Thus, no two spaces are
side-by-side.
Visitor parking tr in short supply,
here as everywhere else in Chapel Hill.
Extra, unnumbered spaces have been
marked everywhere possible in
accordance with fire access codes and
trash pick-up restraints. An empty lot
has been graveled, and high-powered
lights ordered from Duke Power Co. for
it, just to ht' c."":?Jheprct!em. The
owner volunteered to do this I have
heard few grateful remarks from student
residents.
1 doubt that student residents axe a
necessity for the Foxcrcft Apartments;
if problems with student residents
elsewhere,
6w m.4
because they can afford cars tnd yet
complain because all of their cars cannot
be parked in front cf their t partrr.er.ts.
The bus stops at the Foxcrcft entrance
and goes right to campus docs anyone
ride it? Of course, they could al ways live
where parking is free and
Sandra GlanU
Che-cl HIU
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policy
would
allow
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residents to make ether an
for extra cars.
Spaces are numbered so that each
families with
children (and fewer cars, probably) to
occupy the apartments students now
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I feel little sy,
for students
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The Da ly Tcr Heel welcomes
letters to the editor and
contribution? cf columns for the
Such contributions should be
typed, triple-spaced, cn a CD-:;::e
line, and are subject to editing.
Oc u mn v raters i.'oi . A irc u
their majors and heme! owns; each
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and tcler-bcr.e
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tcirh to find an honest way to make
a living. Tcbe Lorry H;r.r.cn cf
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sold. He (!:c:d:d to try the husbond-fcr-h:re
tock ofur seeing a tdrmlen
news story about a woman working
os a surrogate wife,
Hinson said his five-year
experience as a husbond had left
him v.ith a let cf hcu::!:c!i j bills,
'"except maybe ironing and
cookinj." He ph-ncd to che
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. The editors ct.The Daily Tcr Heel indicate that they
are uninformed about the nature cf abortion in
America with rr-ard to the editorial A step
backward," (DTH, Sept, IS) criticizlns the Supreme
Court decision to
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