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GEORGfc SiJADROUi. Editor
DlNiTA James, Managing Editor1
Dsad Kutro w', Associate Editor
Thomas Jlssiman, Associate Editor
Karfn Rouxey, iVu-i EJfor
Pam Kelley, University Editor
Martha Waggoner, City Editor
Jim Hummel, S&f? and National Editor
Bill Fields, Spara eW
Mark Murkeli., Features Editor
Tom Moose, Arts Editor
Scott Sharpe, Photography Editor
Melanie Sill, Weekender Editor
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On Nov. 4 the people of the United States will elect the next president,
a man who will greatly affect the future of this country and the world.
Carolina students and The Daily Tar Heel will play a role, though a
minor one, in the outcome of that all-important decision. The Daily Tcr
Heel will take part simply by covering the events that will ensue during
the next five weeks, analyzing and commenting on them. But for
Carolina students, including DTH staffers, the legitimation of their
voice comes Nov. 4 at the ballot box.
Student Government, ; in keeping with Carolina tradition, is
sponsoring a mock election today. The purpose of this mock vote,
besides gauging student opinion, is to encourage registration. Not only .
will presidential candidates be on the ballot, but votes for gubernatorial,
senate and lieutenant governor candidates also can be cast.
Students will vote on a transportation tax referendum that, if passed
in November could stabilize the bus system in Chapel Hill and
Carrboro. Official elections for CGC representatives in districts 17 and
19 also will be held. n
While this is a mock election, its importance should not be
underestimated. Universities across Hhe nation are often opinion
leaders, and the voice that emerges out of their ballot boxes will not go
unnoticed by newspapers across the state and country. This vote gives
today's students the unique opportunity to go on record for posterity's
sake. It will, if nothing else," become interesting reading and reference
material for future students, and Tar Heel editors.
For example, in 1952 Carolina students favored Democratic nominee
Adlai Stevenson over the man who won, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The final campus tally gave Stevenson a 63 1-6 Id edge. In 1960, John F.
Kennedy was the narrow choice of the Carolina constituency. In 1968
Hubert Humphrey won 1,596 votes while Richard Nixon received 1,384.
Lyndon B. Johnson was the 1964 favorite, and Sen. George McGovern
captured the student vote in 1972, according to a DTH poll.
Interesting? Telling? Insightful? Perhaps none of these descriptions is
totally accurate. At the same time, a 1972 Washington Post story
revealed that GOP officials encouraged young Republicans to
campaign actively before mock elections in an effort to sway public
opinion. This attempt at political manipulation may be unfortunate, but
it does speak to the power of-student opinion.
Independent John Anderson will visit the Carolina campus Tuesday.
His appearance only accelerates and intensifies the debate and
discussion bound to flow freely and heatedly during the next five weeks.
The U.S. electoral process is a flawed one at times, but it is preferable
to that of many countries. So whether students bother to vote onfov. 4
(he.sul?ject,of.some future editorial to be sure) they should leave that
option open by registering today.
Frank Porter Graham
Most University students know Frank Porter Graham only as the
man for whom the Student Union building is named, another in the
collection of meaningless commemorations engraved on masonry all
over campus. Yet Graham, more than any other man or woman in the
history of the state university system, fostered the progressive
atmosphere in which we teach and learn, . ,
This year is the 50th anniversary of Graham's appointment as UNC's
president, and a symposium was held this weekend at UNC-Greensboro
to recall his accomplishments as an educator, legislator and diplomat.
There was a lot to remember.
Graham, a 1909 graduate of the University, was its president in the
difficult 1930s and '40s. The state and school were mired in the Great
Depression, and Graham took cuts in his own salary to keep UNC
professors from fleeing to better-paying jobs. In 1931, while UNC-CH
was still struggling with financial problems, he undertook the
consolidation of UNC, N.C. State and U NC-G, then the State Women's
College, into a single university system:
In his 19 years as president, Graham established UNC as an open
minded outpost in the strictly conservative South. He battled legislation
that would have banned the teaching of the theory of evolution, spoke
out for the editorial freedom of Tlie Daily Tar Heel and encouraged
visits by controversial speakers. Graham believed that the University
was a forum for the exchange of diverse ideas, not simply those
approved by the General Assembly.
Graham later served as a senator and diplomat, continuing to work
for human rights in this country and abroad. He is best remembered
here, however, for his progressive leadership of the University. Graham
was close to the students and helped forge the ideas of men like Tom
Wicker, now associate editor for Vie New York Times, McNeil Smith,
the liberal former state senator, and the late Congressman and human
rights activist Allard Lowenstein. Graham was a courageous man in an
era of unreasoning fear of different ideas. At the 50th anniversary of his
term as president, we can still measure ourselves by the standards that he
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Many people are amazed and baffled zt the
regularity with which I partake of the cuisine at the
recently renamed Fast Break, which shall always in my
heart be the Hunger Hut, in the Carolina Union.
"How can you eat that greasy junk," they ask, as
their faces contort in mock revulsion.
Obviously, these people don't know what bad food
really is. I admit that the Hunger Hut isn't one of your
four-star establishments, but it is by no means as bad
as a lot of places where 1 have eaten. .
For example, there was the lunchroom at my
elementary school. Talk about bad food; I still have
nightmares about the sticky yellow grits they used 'to
serve there. In this dream, I haven't eaten in weeks and
I finally stumble into a free, ail-you-can-eat restaurant.
And all they have is sticky yellow grits. In my weakened
condition, I relent and accept the grits. Fortunately, I
always wake up before taking the first bite.
I remember once in the second grade when our class
was on one of those "Let's All Clean Our Trays at
Lunch'' campaigns. Everyone in the class got a gold
star for eating everything on his or her plate. My
column was starless. ,
My teacher didn't like that and one day she decided
that we would have 100 percent clean trays. She made
one mistake, he picked a day when the cafeteria
served boiled carrots.
All through my childhood, I had been told about the
kids starving in India who would love to have the food
I was leaving on my plate. I was, and still remain,
perfectly willing to have every boiled carrot in captivity
shipped to these kids.
Cut my second-grade teacher was convinced that the
preservation of the republic depended upon my
consumption of these wretched carrots. She asked me
to eat them. I respectfully declined. She insisted. I
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Ho w can people resist the atmosphere in the Hunger
Hut? Around noon, you have about 100 people in
line all of whom have 10 minutes to get their iunch
and get to class. The cordial Hunger Hut personnel,
e adamant. I stood firm.
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resisted.
threatened to paddl
Minutes later, I threw up. That, I felt, would teach
my second grade teacher.
The food at every school I ever attended was
horrible. But there was always one guy you could
depend on. He was the guy who would trade you his
cake with chocolate icing for your cold stewed
tenitccs. Whsi a prince.
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There are other places where the food is awful. Some
of those very same people who chastise me for eating at
the Hunger Hut will walk downtown and eat quiche.
Quiche, my friends, is egg pie. I'd have to be pretty
hungry to voluntarily eat egg pie.
These folks just don't seem to comprehend the
sensual pleasures of a cheeseburger and onion rings
swimming in grease. You haven't lived until you've
washed down a meal like that with one of the Hut's
typically watery soft drinks.
these masses in and out with the precision of an ant
colony.
And the food. Greasy, cold and without any
nutritional value whatsoever. How can they resist?
Those who can't bring themselves to eat Hunger Hut
food should think about their arrogance. They can
probably, cook. I can't. Everyone knows the c!d joke
about burning water, but I have trouble even getting it
in the pot. On many occasions, I have cooked a meal,
locked at it objectively, thrown it in the garbage and
driven in from off-campus to eat at the Hunger Hut.
Honestly."
It all boils down (he punned) to this. I'm not in a
position to call Hunger Hut food bad. It's a whole lot
better than what I can cook and infinitely better than
the stuff I ate at school while I was growing up. Mom
can't get up here and back home enough to cook for
me, so I have to make do.
Besides, I have eaten at the Hunger Hut off and on
for three years now, and I've never seen them serve
sticky yellow grits.
David Poole, a senior journalism major from Gastonia,
is a weekly columnist and assistant sports editor for The
Daily Tar Heel.
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Do you knew what tho Thornton Report Is?
Do you csro? Hcv should tho cdmlnbtrstlcn
end Student Government inform students
cbout tho n:.v draft cf tho report when it is
completed? Anewer thceo questions briefly
end drcpyour rceponco into tho Ictters-to-tho-cditor
box in tho Core!; no Union by
Wcdncedey. Vo'ii let you know whet kind cf
tetters to
To the editor.
The Educational Foundation needs to
find 400 parking places for Ram's Club
members during Saturday football
games. As the residents of Scott College
know, requests for these additional
reserved parking places have been
directed toward the parking lots- at
residence halls. Scott College has
considered and rejected several offers for
its lots. Similar offers will be made to
Ehringhaus and Morrison residents.
Student Government believes non
student parking lots also should be
considered. The N.C. Memorial Hospital
'parking deck and the Manning Drive
parking lot will be used by Ram's Club
members for parking during basketball
games at the new student activity center.
What better way to accustom alumni to
these alternative parking sites than by
having them use these sites during the fall
football season?.
According to the study done by the
University, A Traffic Access and
Parking Study for the Student Activity
Center,"
A considerable amount of parking
has been built in recent years by the
University to serve the North
Carolina Memorial Hospital and
associated health care facilities.
There is an extremely high demand
for this parking during the normal
working day resulting from the
presence of larger numbers of .
health care employees, patients
and visitors. During evening hours
and weekends, the demand is much
less, resulting in the availability of
an exceptionally large amount of
parking to serve other events held
during those times.
The student body and the alumni of
this University need to work together and
cooperate to minimize this impossible
parking situation on campus. Let's review
all existing parking lots on campus, not
just those near residence halls.
Bob Saunders
Student Body President
Ctrlko up tho bond
To the editor:
Well, well. Here we are again, just
sitting on the balcony at Hinton James,
watching the pep rally go to Morrison
and Ehringhaus.Sure sounds like fun. A
lot of us were up before dawn Wednesday
to get good seats for the Maryland game.
Even more of us are in bloc scats. Twenty
Hinton James residents are on the
football team, but the band and
cheerleaders never bring the pep rally
here.
Last year the same thing was done to us
and we had to remind whoever is in
charge of pep rallies that there are 1,000
students in Hinton James, that we really
do go to school at UNC, and that we are
big supporters of all Carolina athletic
events.
We realize that we should not have to
ask again this year. Bring pep rallies to
James while you're out this way. It really
is worth the walk.
Eli McCullough
Governor, Hinton James
and 72 other residents
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Student
considering
To the editor.
Government currently b
a referendum that would
increase student activities fees.
.Each year, undergraduates pay $23.50
and graduates puy $21.53 in student
activities fees. A percentage of the
revenue from these fees joes to the
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation, Vie Daily Tcr and the
Carolina Union. The rest, totaling
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the spring to student cr2r.uu!
requC4tir.g Student Gocrr.mer.t fun.
Last spring, the Campus
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listed one would clearly see that all
students are affected.
Since it is the student who pays the fee,
the CGC Finance Committee will ' be
holding hearings to seek student input on
,the possibility of offering the students a
referendum increasing activity fees.
These hearings will be held Sept. 29 and
Oct. 1 and 8 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the
Carolina Union. The Sept. 29 hearing will
be held in Room 207, while the other
hearings will be in Room 204. Letters will
be sent to all organizations which
requested Student Government funding
i this past spring.
A fee increase referendum affects ail
students. The quality of any CGC action
on such a referendum depends upon the
involvement of its constituencies. Thus,
Student Government cordially invites
each and every student to be heard by
attending at least one of these hearings.
Bob Saunders
Student Body President
Tom Preston
CGC Finance Committee
Representative, District 6
Bernard Bell
CGC Finance Committee
Minority Representative
Abortion
To the editor.
Your editorial, "A step backward,"
(DTH, Sept. 19) concerning the recent
Supreme Court decision on abortion was
so irresponsible that I feel compelled to
dispute it. You make several totally
unsubstantiated claims,
will be able to afford abortions unless the
federal government pays for them. But
what does an abortion cost?
First you imply that only the wealthy
will be able to afford abortions unless the
federal government payj for them. But
what does an abortion coit?
About the price of a good television set.
Have you ever seen a tenement that does
not hae one? Second, "back-alley
butchers" will not thrive, since they, in the
days before legal abortions, charged even
more than a good hospital charpes now.
The rbk brought the prke up. What we
will see. ghen the conditions under which
a woman may now get federal fundi for
an abortion. t an increase in "rape and
incest arr.orj iuuh women, with the
co'luiion c f some, but not ill. doctor.
third. )cu r- re t! e Let that the
cau:c ol prrjr;), zr.i therefore its
prevention, are wctl-knon. If a wr-maei
chov---c rot to exrrcii-e preventive
measure, should you and I be ob!:g.te4
to foci the bin? I ttz'.jz thit ch.hiftn o
with their tax money. While 1 do not
belong to this minority, I believe their
rights are just as real as those of the
minorities who bear most of the
illegitimate children in this country. (My
own belief is that, since the soul does not
enter the body until birth or shortly
thereafter, the fetus is not "living" in the
real sense of the word. However, the
purpose of this letter b not metaphysical
exposition.)
This is such an emotionally charged
issue for most people that 1 will not
belabor the point. Please stick to
responsible journalism from now on.
All Walker
Chapel Hill
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To the editor:
1 feel forced to take issue with a
letter that appeared in Friday's DTH
that said, in part, "It is neither the duty
nor the right of the paper" to print the
names of the persons involved in last
week's drug arrests. Just the opposite
b true: Your paper would have
shirked its responsibilities by not
printing them.
It b both the right, and the duty, of a
newspaper to inform its readers of the
news. In this case, the first major drug
bust involving students in quite some
time, the story was of such importance
as to warrant the attention it received
on the front page names included.
I know one of the people arrested. It
makes me sick to see hi name and
photograph circulated throughout
Chape! Hill. It makes me sad to think
this may somehow affect his future.
And 1 question the motiv ations of the
Chapel Hill Police Department for
irilxting such an ordeal on someone
who committed such an unimportant
effcruve.
1 know the people on th: DTllHf,
loo-the ones who sfrurpl-ed with tbe
decision to print the names and
photos, Ihe ones who took the ahuvive
phone catl, the one who hejrd
threatening statements nude ajninu
the staff writer who wrote the f.rst
story.
The r.sme cf the persons arreted
gre on the puthc record in the polite
department and the cllke at the
Orar f County clerk c;f court. To call
the puhtx"a:te to r. ittcr vl $-J he
record "ifrttponHiHy tr.J ir,deccn"
a fuf.dam-r.u! bck if
To the editor:
I am a concerned resident of
Mormon Residence College, and 1
wbh to protest the treatment cf one
individual in the article "Drug bust
nets 7 UNC students," (077. Sept.
25). My concern b not so much with
the article but with the printed picture
and the specific information about his
employment. .
Your treatment of Charlie Ellis
implies that he was the main offender
in the arrests. Concentrating on Ll'is
was not fair. There were six other
UNC students arrested, but you failed
to print their pictures or give any
information on them. You should
treat each one equally. Even on
televised news programs, they give the
offenders acha nee to cover their faces
from the cameras; in your treatment of
Chaihc.you only prove that the DTH
w ill capitalize on any public image. Of
all the people arrested, Ellis is the most
recognizable becau e cf his jobs with
the rsio station.
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