6 The Daily Tar Heel, Wednesday. Ootolw 8. 1980
George Shadkoui. Editor
Dinita James, Managing Editor
Brad Kutrow, Associate Editor
Thomas Jessiman, Associate Editor
Karen Rowiey, News Editor
Pam Kelley, University Editor
Martha Waggontr, City Editor
Jim Hummil, State and National Editor
Bill Fields, Sports Editor
Mark Murrell, Features Editor
Tom Moose, Arts Editor
Scott Sharpe, PhotograpTy Editor
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At Ohio State University in Columbus, students can choose among
several different restaurants located within their central student union;
it contains a submarine sandwich shop, a pizza parlor, a McDonald's
reported to be the world's largest,. an ice cream bar, several snack bars
and a sit-down, cafeteria-style, high-class eatery called The Terrace
Room.
At UNC, we have the Fast Break and the Greenhouse.
Admittedly, it is unfair to compare the food services of a university
with 50,000 students like Ohio State with those of a university of
20,000 like UNC. The University's appetite is simply not that big, and
it could not support all those restaurants. Food service here under
ARA is surely no worse than it was under Servomation (maybe better),
and the new company is trying to improve it. Unfortunately, some of
its methods seem a bit bizarre.
ARA correctly identified the old Hunger Hut's problem; very few
students were going into the little nook on the north side of the Union
where the snack bar is hidden, and even fewer were buying
hamburgers. The ARA solution was to remove the doors opening
from the Union onto the Pit, an outlet constantly used by students.
The reasoning there seemed to hold that students on their way out of
the Union would wander into the dining area, run into the new glass
panel where the door had been and bounce into the Fast Break, where
they would reflexively order hamburgers. .
Now the new food service is following through with its strategy by
closing off the Union dining area entirely. A new glass-and-aluminum
wall, costing $7,000 in student fees, is being installed between the
vending machines and the rest of the dining area. The objective there
appears to be to trap those students still using old traffic routes
through the Union. Once caught between the new wall and the snack
bar students presumably will meander around, eating hamburgers,
until they find their way out.
The snack bar's manager said the new wall would keep out noise,
dogs and through traffic, none of which seemed to bother anybody
before. Fast Break patrons, like Hunger Hut patrons before them,
generally want to get in, get fed and get out.
Honestly, for $7,000 a lot of people would happily tolerate noise,
dogs and traffic. They would probably even create their own
atmosphere; there sure isn't any there now. Before spending any more
money on, say, hanging plants or chrome-and-glass furniture, perhaps
the ARA and Union people should look into hiring a dog-catcher or
installing traffic lights.
By THOMAS JESSIMAN
It is common knowledge that administrators are paid
to serve the University. It is their job to make sure the
gears of the University all work in harmony. If ever
anything is discovered that needs to be changed or
disturbs the regular life of the school, administrators
will always talk honestly and directly with concerned
students. After all, if administrators cannot be open
with the people they are serving, then they are violating .
our trust and making a sham out of the whole student
administration relationship.
Yet despite that common knowledge, a young
reporter from the student newspaper heard from his
colleagues that many times administrators do not give
the whole story. He was told that if he ever knew half
the real story after an interview with an administrator
he had done a great job. He was told that in fact a good
number of administrators look at students as the enemy
rather than the friend.
But this young reporter was a freshman and did not
believe any of this. He needed to find out for himself.
So he told his editor, he wanted to do an "In Quotes'
with The Administrator, and when he called the
secretary in South Building was fortunate enough to
book an appointment three weeks later.
The night, before the big interview, this
reporter let's call him Joe made up a list of
questions.- He paced around the bathroom in his dorm
and stopped occasionally to deliver one of his questions
to the mirror. "No, that's too fast" or "More feeling -next
time," he would say to himself and repeat the
questions again and again until he spoke them
perfectly. When Joe called home that night, his mother
reminded him to wear his test blazer.
The next morning Joe began the long and lonely
walk up the steps of South Building. He was so nervous
that he hardly noticed the beauty of the old bricks, the
four tall columns, or the North Carolina flag fluttering
gently in the autumn breeze. He opened the giant door
and walked inside. To his right was the sign -4 Office
of The Administrator. He inquired at the first desk and
then was shuttled deeper and deeper into the; office.
Secretary after secretary flashed by before he was
finally seated outside the proper door.
After a while, The Administrator came out; shook
Joe's hand and invited him in The Administrator sat
down behind a giant mahogany desk. f
"How can I help you, Joe?" The Administrator
said, lighting a pipe.
' "Well, I guess we might as well get right to it," Joe
said.' "My first question is on the whole issue of
minorities on campus. About a year and a half ago a
dean at this school protested that not enough qualified
blacks were being accepted here. And despite 'talk of
increasing or decreasing enrollments of blacks every
year, the basic fact is that this University is only 7
percent black in a state that is 25 percent black. What
are your feelings on this whole issue?" Joe took jthe cap
off his pen and opened his notebook. ,
"Joe," The Administrator said through a cioud of.
smoke, "you know, it's a complicated world. We can't
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always have what we want and sometimes we need to
take what we can."
"Does that mean you're pleased with the way things
are, sir?"
"We're always seeking to improve, you know that.
Change, any kind of change, takes time. But we're sure
working on it."
Joe's hand remained poised to begin writing. "But
sir, don't you want to say something about the way
things are right now I mean specifically."
"I just did, Joe."
Joe tried to think of another way of getting at the
question.
"Joe, if you need specifics, I suggest you look out
there at the people working in my office. You'll find
people of all races.
"But what about the situation on this campus, sir?"
The Administrator emptied his pipe in the ash tray
and sighed. He seemed disappointed in Joe. "That's
about all I can say at this point in time, son. Any other
questions?" He looked at his watch.
Joe looked down at his pad. "What about women on
campus? Are you concerned that 55 percent of the
students here are women and yet not even 15 percent of
the faculty is?"
"I'm glad you asked that, Joe. As a matter of fact
we have a committee looking into that right now." ,
"But what do you think?"
The Administrator chuckled. "Now Joe, you
wouldn't want me to make any kind of statement
before the final report is in. That wouldn't be fair to
the committee. I can tell you though that I have put
some' thought into the matter."
Joe looked down his list of questions. Unfortunately
most of them depended on the first two questions
taking the interview somewhere. There was one
question though at the bottom of his notepad.
"Mr. Administrator, don't you think that all this
construction going on around campus kind of ruins our
claim to the Southern Part of Heaven? Is any of it ever
going to be completed?" By now Joe could barely see
The Administrator through the smoke.
"Sure."
"But isn't it all kind of depressing?" Joe persisted.
"Not for me it isn't. I can look down the road and
see what a great university we'll have when all that's
done and finished."
A secretary entered the room and handed The
Administrator a piece of paper.
"Excuse me, Joe," The Administrator said, "but I
do have another appointment now. If you'd like we can
continue our conversation another time?"
"No, I don't think that will be necessary," Joe said,
capping his pen and standing up.
"Oh, one thing before you go, Joe. You wouldn't
mind reading back anything you might attribute to me
tomorrow, would you? I've had some problems with
misquotes over the years."
"Well, it's our policy not to do that, sir, but in this
case I think I can make an exception."
, "Thank you."
"You said, 'I can look down the road and sec what a
great university we'll have when all that's done and
finished.' " Joe began walking to the door.
"ThatVall you're going to use?"
"Yeah."
"Well, just make sure you use it in the right
context," The Administrator said, laughing.
Thomas Jessiman, a junior English major from
Newton, Mass., b associate editor for The Daily Tar
Heel.
A growing war
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. With Jordan increasing its involvement in the war between Iran and
Iraq, the situation in the Persian Gulf has been becoming bleaker
every day. Alarmed by Jordan's alliance with Iraq, the United States
and Great Britain have warned Jordan to abstain from entering the
war. The fear is that if Jordan joins in the war, Syria will waste little
time entering the fray on the side of the Iranians.
Obviously, the longer the war lasts, the greater the chance that the
fighting could escalate to an international level. So far, both the
United States and the Soviet Union have remained somewhat on the
sidelines, though the United States sent four special surveillance planes
to its strong ally, Saudi Arabia, and the Soviet Union offered some
military advice to the Iranians. (The advice was rejected).
Certainly an embarrassment to the United States must be Iran's use
of American planes in the fighting. While 52 American hostages still
remain at the mercy of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his
government, American planes defend the Ayatollah's regime.
But if arms sales in the Persian Gulf do not make obvious enough
the tentativeness of alliances in that area, the recent war has caused
many Arab states to become more receptive to the United States. The
Arabs live and die for their oil and with the war threatening the Strait
of Hormuz, the passage by which 60 percent of the world's oil imports
are shipped, they are beginning to acknowledge the value of the
United States' interest in that strait.
But none of the increased Arab interest in the United States means
anything until the war finally ends and normal diplomatic ties can be
resumed. At this point though, with Iran vowing not to rest until every
Iraqi soldier is driven from its land and the Iraqis showing no signs of Danny Harrell is a sophomore
retreating voluntarily, the war seems destined to go on for some time rrom Greensboro
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increases the likelihood of dangerous interference by other powers,
both local and international.
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Dan Brady is a senior drama
major from Chapel Hill.
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