6Thtj n,.y Tor Hsclfcnday, October 13, 1900
Gecstce Shadsoui, Editor
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DiNlTA J a mls, Managing Editor
CaAO Kutcow, Associate Editor
Thomas Jesssman, Associate Editor
Karen Rowley, News Editor
Pam KlIlEY, University Editor
Martha Wagconis, City Editor
Jim Hummii, SLite and National Editor
Em Fiilds, Sports Editor
Mask Murxell, Features Editor
Tom Moose, Arts Editor
dkorr SliAlFE, Photography Editor
Melanis Sill, Weekender Editor
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It was a cool October day when the Carolina student stepped out on
to his front porch and picked up the morning newspaper. He had just
taken his last midterm of the week the day before and he actually felt
good. The air smelled wonderful, filled with a cleanness and crispness
unique to fall. It had an invigorating effect, and the class he had in 10
minutes no doubt would go on without him. So our friend sat down at
the kitchen table and opened the newspaper, happy, relaxed and
satisfied. - ,
Naturally, he immediately turned to the sports section. The Yankees
and the Royals were going at one another and the surprise Houston
Astros were battling the Philadelphia Phillies. This would have been
OK except our friend was a Boston fan. He had been for many years.
The sports page only depressed him, so he turned to the news section.
Iraq and Iran were at war, and the possibility of it escalating
appeared imminent. In Greensboro, the potentially explosive trial of
several Ku Klux Klan and Nazi members continued, with witnesses
describing the events that led to five people being killed. Our friend
wondered what would happen if these violent and bitter men went
free. He didn't want to think about it. So he skipped to another story.
The defense status of the United States was in bad shape, the story
quoted a State Department spokesman as saying. Should a war
between the United States and Russia break out, the United States
would do well to hold out for more than a few days. Our friend could
not stand any more. He wondered why the great powers of the world
talked about war so much, but never encouraged the rest of the world
to talk about peace, about building instead of destroying.
A story on the inside pages reported that World Bank President
Robert McNamara foresaw severe starvation and poverty in numerous
Third World countries if the Western Powers, particularly the United
States, did not make a sincere effort to combat the problem. Our
friend was beginning to wish he had gone to class. After all, at least
there people talked about parties, theories and grades. The thought of
all those people starving and all those people dying was sickening.
So he took a sip of coffee and a bite of toast and searched for the
election coverage. Surely the men who wanted to lead the greatest,
freest country in the world would have something to say about the
state of the world, something profound, something that showed they
understood the threats to world peace and the role that this country
should play.
But, our friend found neither high ideas nor. realistic proposals ,
spewing out of the mouths of the candidates. Republican nominee
Ronald Reagan was wearing a hard hat this day, telling the group of
mill workers how President Jimmy Carter had botched up the country.
Reagan never detailed how he would make things better; he just talked
about keeping government out of the lives of people, perhaps thinking
that such a noble idea would suffice without further elaboration, v
President Carter said in a story that to elect Reagan was to invite
racism, war and everything else bad in the world. But the president
never talked about those pressing issues. He just listed some of the
things he had done for the group he was talking in front of and then
smiled and waved. Such a nice man.
- And John Anderson, a man who claimed to be the alternative to
these incompetents, continued to drop in the polls. The story went on
to detail Anderson's vindictive and acerbic campaign rhetoric. He
seemed a little better, but he couldn't win.
Our friend put the paper down. He looked outside and found that
the sunny day had grown, dark, that clouds loomed overhead. He
didn't know what to do, so he threw the paper in the trash. Then,
without thinking he turned up the rock music on the radio, crawled
into bed and pulled the blankets over his head.
By DA VID POOLE
Whoever made up the cliche saying that the only
certain things in life are death and taxes left one out.
You can always depend on at least one other thins -the
fact that the dryer into which you just deposited 50
cents will not dry your clothes.
If, when I die, I am sent to the place of eternal
torment, I'm. positive I'll get laundry duty. That thought
alone is enough to make me repent. :
Let me give you some idea of the degree of hatred
we're talking about here, I'd rather listen to "John
Davidson Sings Donna Summer" for the rest of
eternity than wash clothes.
You have to understand that I am not the domestic
type. Until I came to college, I thought my clothes were
washed via some mystical power. I just threw the dirty
ones into a huge pile in the middle of the floor of my
room. The next time I saw them, they were cleaned,
pressed, folded and stacked neatly in my drawer.
" Imagine my surprise when I learned that I would
cither have to wash these clothes myself or hire, at great
expense, my own yalet. As we all know, nothing can be
done at great expense when you're in school, so I was
elected. -
As time passed in my early days here, I honed the
practice of putting off laundry into an art. But as
intervals between laundry trips widened, I began to
notice signs from those around me. Fellow dorrn.
residents would come into the TV lounge, look at me,
sniff the air and ask, "When's the funeral?" My
roommate, no stickler for personal hygiene himself,
bought a case of room deodorizers.
My clothes never really got all that bad. I am
compelled' to do laundry about once every 10 days
because that's when my supply of underwear starts
touching bottom. Let's face it, we can all fake it with
anything else by making little jokes like "My jeans are
so dirty they could stand in the corner by themselves,"
or, "I wore these pants with the holes in them to my
senior prom," but most of us just can't bring ourselves
to fake it with underwear.
This, for me at least, goes back to my mom, who had
a morbid fear I would someday get hit by"a car when I
had on dirty underwear.
"What if you're in an accident and they take you to
the hospital?" she used to ask. "The doctors and
nurses would look at your underwear and say 'Gosh,
this kid must have a sorry mom.
Turn Laos i
Because of her fear. I had this mental im.-i?e of
myself lying on a road somewhere, bleeding profusely
after being run over by a speeding Greyhound.
An ambulance screeches to a halt and two attendants
rush toward me.
"Quick," one says, "let's stop that bleeding."
"Wait," the other interjects, "check his underwear
first."
Laundry is always an adventure for me. The first
biters So the editoi
time I did it myself, I piled my clothes into two
washers. I saw no need to sort them., How' should 1
know that towels tend to shed?
When the little red light on the machine went off 20
minutes later, I opened the machine and took cut my
pants. They looked like they had been to a lint
convention. "Oh well," I rationalized, "it'll come off
in the dryer."
Wrcr.g, Net only did the lint root deeper into th
cloth, I had chosen two dryers with eppesit
personalities. One had two settings, Arctic and Tundra
and it took three hours and most of the dimes in th
Western Hemisphere for those clothes to get dry. Tht
other dryer had approximately the intensity of z
blowtorch. That load came out looking like a pile ol
crumpledpaper.
When I do laundry now, things aren't usually as
eventful. They're just boring. There's never a good
time to wash clothes because the laundries are always
packed. That means that you have to wait around for a
dryer that probably won't work anyway.
The quickest and easiest way I know to get my
laundry done is to go home for a weekend. Mora says
the only reason I ever come home is so she can wash my v
clothes. Mom knows me too well.
If indeed there are washing machines in hell, and I'm
sure there are, the one I'd have to spend an eternity
running would likely break down during every rinse
cycle, and I, forever more, would have to load those
sopping clothes into another machine.
Does anybody know Billy Graham's phone number?
David Poole, a senior journalism major from .
Gastonia, is a columnist and assistant sports editor for
The Daily Tar Heel.
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imemity ignores meeds of flight stude
To the editor:
At a Chapel Hill Town Council
meeting Monday night, John L. Temple
of the University Business and Finance
Office proposed that all flight training
be , terminated at Horace Williams
Airport. This . proposal stems from a
UNC Medical Foundation request for a
special building permit to allow the
construction of a hangar on airport
property, but because of Town Council
objections to present noise and
residential safety concerns, the
University has , been forced into a
compromise. That compromise involves
the loss of all University student's flight
training privileges at Horace Williams
Airport.
Being a University student and a flight
t instructor,' I would like to clear up some
misunderstandings that the University
and Town Council have regarding this
matter. First of all, this airport is
operated for the benefit of the
University which, in any definition of
the word, is for the students and faculty.
By terminating flight instruction,
students and faculty will be forced to
continue flight training at the Raleigh
Durham Airport. '
Regarding safety, records clearly
indicate that there has never been an
accident involving flight instruction that
resulted in injury or property damage to
any Chapel Hill resident. Residents'
worries of aircraft accidents occurring
over Chapel Hill , are unwarranted .
Another misunderstanding concerns the
noise level of these low-powered training
aircraft. Training aircraft produce less
noise than any other aircraft, and much
less noise than the multiengine aircraft
flown by the medical foundation.
Because of the University's
"misunderstandings" of the situation,
students and faculty are losing the
chance to take advantage of a valuable
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opportunity that otherwise would be
open to them. I believe the University
administrators are clearly sacrificing
student interests to satisfy their own.
Steve Robbins
Steve Stenersen
Mike Matthews
Chapel Hill
Flying flags
To the editor:
I am proud to be a graduate of
Carolina and I am proud to be a native
and a resident of the state of Georgia.
As such, I was upset to see the lack of
respect shown to the newest member of
the Atlantic Coast Conference, the
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
specifically, at a recent football game,
the UNC Athletic Department had the
outdated Georgia state flag flying over
the visitor's side of the field. For nearly
25 years the major portion of the
Georgia flag has been the well
recognized Confederate battle flag, riot
the one white and two horizontal stripes
on the flag I saw Saturday. One would
think that 25 years is plenty of time for
the Athletic Department to become
aware of the change, yet I do hope it was
merely a case of oversight and not one of
apathy.
Granted, the mistake probably was
due to the long absence of a Georgia
team from Kenan Stadium, and most of
the fans present were not even aware
that a flag was even flying, but Carolina
has always prided itself on its class, and I
hate to see it embarrassed by such an
unnecessary and absurd error. Let us
hope that by the next time the Yellow
Jackets play in Chapel Hill the Athletic
Department can come up with a few
bucks for the right flag. I'll be happy to
send them the name of a good flag
maker in Atlanta.
Barry W. fcurt, '78
Athens, Ga.
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By JOHN SCHAENMAN
In the last week. The Daily Tar Heel has
printed three quotes from students complaining
about . cither the lack of specifics from the
candidates for president, or about the
"blahness" of this election year. They seem to
embody a feeling that I have noticed on campus
that candidates never say anything specific, end
that this year's election has no real choices.
Admittedly, there were parts of John B.
Anderson's speech that were rhetorical, but to
say that "nothing meaty came out of it" is untrue
and an example of what is wrong with many
voters on this campus.
Some of the "meat" in Anderson's speech,
included: "In the Anderson-Lucey National
Unity Campa!-a Platform, we have specifically
p!ed;ed that we will enforce the 'Toxic
Substances Centre! Act..that we will work to
accept cr to ndept end to implement the 'Toxic
Wa4,te Superfur.d Lcbtion.... We ouht to
have en investment credit cn the jtatute backs, in
the internal revenue books thit would give credit
for those qus.!if'ir3 research end development
expenditures th-t will hzlp America recila the
competitive cutting cdje that we once had,
"I haven't rrcz-:. ::i America the tz:k-A illr.z in
the wofld to prcnur-e, er.d that is a tax cut in
1S3I...C1 prepesr) a $2 I'.Zon youth je:.-s
pcram in the next t..:r ear...a SI t.'IIie.V
program to r a! to wctk tl eur-. -p!reJ youth in
the cities of car ttlan...? caanct cfterJ to cut
taxes in i S: J I just (a p!eaa z the rc:lcxJ instincts
of a coup' cf prr.i 'rati. J c: -td'.d res."
I" :r, in a pe.scnr.f.-frriae, Arire-.m ta!J he
favt red the fcdefil rcn:-a:r4'i i:::-v.:'-.:lrz
campaign and that he would eliminate tobacco
price supports.
I cannot believe that anyone would expect a
candidate to get more specific in a 20-minute
speech. All three candidates have published and
stated specific proposals, and it is our job to
know them and to make a decision based on who
we believe has the best solutions to1 the ills
befalling our nation.
If anyone does not know where to find the
proposals, I would suggest that he read the
platforms published by all three parties.
Or, they can watch the numerous network
reports on the election-shows like Washington
Week Ln Review, or Face the Nation or the
evening news shows. They could watch some of
the nominating conventions end the televised
presidential debates. They could read editorialists -like
David S. Broder cr Rowland Evans and
Robert Novak of the Wcskir.ton Post. They
could read Time, Neswck cr U.S. Nev.s end
World Report
If we do not know what specifics the
candidates have offered, it is our own fault, not
the fault of the candidate.
This year's election does have real choices, end
the person we elect will have en impact cn cur
lives that could be permanent.
To those who say that this is en umntcrestir.j
end boring election, I have cr.ly to remind them
that in 1(S3 the same adjectives were used to
describe the race between R::htrd Nixon er.d
Hubert Humphrey. Many psepl? felt that there
were no real cha':: j t hen, tut six years later they
We car.r.c-t afford er,::htr rVustale cf that
proportion, and it is car rrpenaitihty to see that
we do Lr.ow the candidates, that e do Inc.
c'a.t the test rzm to run car country in lvh3. If
e do net, we have cr.ly cunelves to t'aaae.
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put Reagan over
By ROGER N. LANCASTER
He won't poll a single electoral vote, and his
popular support has been dwindling since
August. With John B. Anderson splitting the
moderate-to-liberal vote, Republican presidential
candidate Ronald Reagan has the chance of
carrying key populous states that ere traditionally
liberal end Democratic, like New Jersey and
Pennsylvania. Clearly, in the 19C0 election, the
"Anderson difference" is none other than
Ronald Reagan. Why then, docs Anderson
remain in the race when his presence is almost
calculated to elect Rea-an?
According to Anderson and his supporters,
Anderson is staying in the race to get fresh ideas
into the campaign, to give the American people a
choice. A progressive mystique surrounds the
silver-haired gentleman, especially among white,
middle-class college students. Hut what are those
"fresh ideas," and what is the source of that
"progressive mystique?"
One cf Andersen's favorite prcpcaa!i is a
50-ccnt-per-f alien gas tax that he holds cp as the
parad'-m cf progressive policy. Actually, this
sort of tax i$ a rcz revive tax; it unduly burdens
the poorest who can hist afford it. When ssicJ
about his solution to inflation, Anderson never
bats an eye. but replies "fiscal re-pcr.slhlhty," a
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the Anderson campai-i it that his rr.edli ima;; it
independent cf his vchr record in the H:-;.e.
Ills freer J it clear er.J reve-'ir;; he it a
Rrpur Heart, end he ctes lis cr. In 173 he
supported the Kcerp-Reset tat rhin. In t t)piaa!
fip-fia-p r.h:.a, he r . cahi I's t ; , ;t
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20 of the nuclear-power issues that came before
the House, even those that came up after Three
Mile Island. One of his brochures claims that he
was one of the first representatives to come out
against the war in Vietnam; this is a pure
fabrication. He voted pro-war until the troops
were withdrawn. His record on issues affecting
labor, blacks, the elderly and the poor are all
conservative and Republican.
If there is anything "progressive" or
"moderate" about this Republican then, it is
only in comparison to the extremists who have
seized power in the Republican Party and
nominated Ronald Reagan. In fact, Anderson
seems to have opted for campaign positions
between (and not to the left cf) Democratic and
Republican positions. So much for the "fresh
ideas" and "progressive" hoopla. His position
should be clear, despite his media Image: He is a
moderate-to-conscrvative Republican, not a free
thinker, not a progressive, not an independent.
What the Anderson campaign docs emphasize
is a possible dissolution of the two-party system
as we know it. Th: Repuhliean Tarty already has
lost virtually all its Lbcrids. As it tildes further
and further to the fight, it is now predpitati'g
most cf its moderates out cf the party. Thus
process, transforming the Republican Party into
the Conservative Party, it alio creating a lot cf
jobless political hacks that will neither affiliate as
Democrats nor gzt cut cf politics. New Yorkers
will remember how erchacnservatlve Republican
James Isucihry was elected to fknate in & liberal
'z'z: The moderate Republican ir.curr.brr.t, after
t;:r.d.; placed in the primary, ran as a third
party "candidate and iptl! the IhrnJ vcte. A
shailar situation may te dec!;, ';- agaaes in the
New York Senate race, with displaced
Republican Jaccb Javitt tu.-.r.lrg as a third-party
candid;!?. Tie leuon should t tlear, even to
Andersen: iht ca-rr-.palro at most can throw the
ehiian to j:ca;an. Ore cari enly ccn.Jade tb.aS.
drtpite his ri;htroas pn-'nti, co zrJ vanity ere
the real reasons he ttrr.r. in the race.
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