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8 T 1 1 r.u m. Ci C2C.Y. SliADKOUl, Editor Dinita Jams s. Maturing lull tor L.-!AI KUTROW. .i.(.!(VU,'C httitor Pam Kelley. EJi'r.T Karkn Rowley, News Editor Linda Brown, University Editor Martha Waggoner, City Editor Marx Murkul, Sute urJ Natiotul Editor Dm Fields, Sports Editor James Alexander, Features Editor Tom Moose, A rts Editor Scott Shakfe, Photography Editor Ann Petess, Weekender Editor (X: By PAM KELLEY sir ? I ff h 55? jeer o editorial freedom u S13CIIS i . The Campus Governing Council has not historically been in the business of buying refrigerators, stereos and meat slicers. But in 1976 a fund called RUGLF was set up "to provide a permanent mechanism for the expenditure of funds from the Residence Unit Grant and Loan for permanent improvements in residential units....' Such improvements also include television sets and Dempsey Dumpsters. For example, in fall 1978 the Finance Committee, which has the power to approve RUGLF requests, OK'd funds for the Kappa Alpha Fraternity. It sought to buy four Gilliam sofas, two Gilliam chairs, one Gilliam wing-back chair and one Thomasville end table. The total amount requested came to a SI, 000 grant and a $2,125 loan. The Finance Committee approved a $500 loan and a $500 grant. And, no doubt, the fraternity is more comfortable for its efforts. The 19S0 Finance Committee currently is investigating the origins of RUGLF, for members are questioning whether the CGC should be in the "enhancement" business. Apparently, in 1976 it was. Initially, $15,000 was set aside for RUGLF, but since then it has dwindled to about $4,000. The fact that the money came from the CGC enabled the items mentioned above to be bought at reduced prices through the University. Dianne Hubbard, chairman of the Finance Committee, has said My car refused to start the other day, and while attempting to describe my problem to a service station attendant, I found myself speaking in inanities: "Sometimes it just clicks when I turn the key, and sometimes it goes rurrr, rurrr." I said. The tone of condescension practically oozed out of my telephone receiver as the attendant slowly explained that my battery was dead. It got thicker after I asked him why it would be dead. "Probably because it's old," he answered. Oh. 1 could tell he knew 1 was the kind of customer who would buy a new engine if a mechanic told me I needed one, and I really don't blame him for his attitude. When I have to deal with mechanical matters, matter$ that involve electricity, carpentry or drafting, I am transformed from a college-educated woman to a bumbling blonde who' must describe a mechanical problem by saying, "Rurrr, rurrr." nates had to take "shop" and never As 1 have done with all my shortcomings, have found an excuse for my mechanical ineptitude nation's school system. While that service station attendant was in junior high school experimenting with electrical wiring and building birdhouses practical skills he has no doubt put .into use in his adult life I was relegated to practicing changing diapers on ' a plastic doll and making baked Alaska. Neither accomplishment has come in handy yet. My male cl knew of what went on in heme ec. They missed a lot. I made a beanbag in sewing class. That's still all I can make. It took the class all semester to finish them, but they were great beanbags. If I ever need one, I'm sure I can remember how to whip one up even today. In a cocking class taught be a woman who went into fits of ecstasy every time she kneaded bread dough, I learned that meals should be planned so they have good color, for one thing. Serving spaghetti, strawberry pie and red soda pop, for instance, is out. Bad color. Though I've got to admit that coming in contact with a sewing machine and a spatula might have done me some good, I have not yet figured out why my school I blame the taught a third home economics course. I never knew what it was called. It was a combination cf child care and poise tips with a few warnings about the evils cf premarital sex thrown in for good measure. For most of the girls in my class, it was completely useless. In that class I learned that a lady should hold her skirt to her legs as she climbed stairs so as not to leave herself open, so to sp :ak, to roving ma'e eyes. I learned a lady should never comb her hair while sitting at a t; in a restaurant, and I was made aware that wearing heavy eye makeup made one look cheap. Most of all, I learned what a girl should do if a boy got a bit too fresh with her, especially if he began breathing heavily. She should excuse herself and go get a drink of water. I finally had a new car battery installed last week, and if it ever goes dead again, I may know how to fix it. The attendant told me how to jump a car. I asked him if he had ever made a beanbag. He hadn't. He didn't even know how. Pam Kelley, a senior journalism major from Hamilton, " Ohio, is associate editor for The Daily Tar Heel. 7. till.' i I 'i mr Mem emtovmm mmcr 71 . 77 77 77 n o f) 7 7? V ; . X 1 ;. (I To the editor: I ' always enjoy reading DTH editorials. I usually get a good laugh. But recently I've been rolling in the aisles. In "Immoral Morality," (DTH, Nov. 11), The Tar Heel criticized the Moral Majority for its narrow morality. Well, that wasn't so funny. But then the DTH turned around and flaunted its own style of "narrow morality" by trying to discredit the views of Moral Majority by citing the gospels of Harris and Gallup concerning ERA and abortion. Thrtt ' u3c fjtrfnv Kut ulcr a litt! RUGLF is a questionable fund because the guidelines for its use are disturbing. Even if the holy opinion neither stringent nor consistent enough to provide adequate control, polls are correct, what gives the majority CGC member Wavne Rackoff calls the fund a "boondoggle " mob the right to decide that unborn Their concerns are more than justified. Before RUGLF, most dorms bought stereos, televisions and such with University enhancement funds that are paid by students living in a particular area. Industrious dorm members even collected money on halls to add to the enhancement money. But since 1976 students who have known about RUGLF certainly many don't have made good use of it. A few years back Stacy dorm wanted to buy a Zenith table-top 19-inch television set, and it received $303.36 in RUGLF funds. CGC also owns numerous ice machines around campus. v We can't blame dorms, fraternities and sororities -for using money that exists for their use. And, certainly, the Finance Committee tries to be judicious in its allocation of money. That doesn't make us (or them) any less skeptical about whether CGC should spend student fees on such special-interest items. Rackoff currently is researching the history of RUGLF in an effort to. find out the governmental philosophy behind the "boondoggle." ' In the meantime, the money will be available until Nov. 15, according to the RUGLF act. And the funds will continue to be available until they are depleted or until the Finance Committee decides to put it back into the general surplus fund. Hubbard says she is reluctant to take this action until Rackoff finishes his investigation because the money was specifically intended for such improvements by the 1976 CGC that made it available under law. So, ,if you need draperies, carpet, televisions, stereos, Dempsey Dumpsters or even a meat sliccr, then take your chances if you like. You might even be doing the Finance Committee a favor by using the money and thus ridding them of a "boondoggle" they're not quite sure what to do about. The Bottom Line f.'ouao Housa Harry Olterson has a dream. Ottcrson, an exterminator in Gettysburg, Pa., has invented a disposablj contraption called the Mouse House, which will make rodent extermination a cleaner operation. "The trap, unlike conventional ones that decapitate or crush their victims, is a cardboard tube with adhesive lining. According to Otterson, peanut butter lures the rodent and the adhesive catches it, but simple paranoia is the potent killer. "A Held mouse can't stand to be in captivity; they'll die from stress," he told the Associated Press. "The advantage of this trap is that the captor doesn't have to look at the dead rat." Otterson added that he'd like to see his mousetrap used by more than tSie average American rodent-hater. "My ambition is to have the Mouse House in the White House," he said. When a woman suspected . of stuffing a leather jacket under her skirt recently was stopped at the door cf a discount store in Falls Church, Va., she decided to go one step p-'t prowr.g her innocence. Alter denying that ihe had done any such thin?,, the unidentified woman, approximately cge 40, piocceded to take off her dress and everything else dressed and left store clerks and ? It ifn'i " - r. v v i $. w . . except 'l it than!.: T : i 1 i'l. s. M;e st iri.' J - - 4 r it the store, customers p wasn't nee bra, then stocj Lice-d! party Students at the University of Tulsa had an unexpected three-day holiday last week after school officials scratched classes in order to battle an embarrassing invasion of head lice. Students were issued anti-lice shampoo and body lotion while all classes and business operations at the university were canceled so campus buildings could be fumigated in hopes of eradicating the tiny parasites. It's not that the university has a long-standing grudge against insects, it's just that students and faculty had a hard time carrying on their business with little bugs sucking blood out of their heads. "Everyone's a little embarrassed about it," Greg Frizzcil, student body president, said, "but I think they're taking it in good spirits, especially with the unexpected holiday." One student organization threw an all-campus celebration last Thursday that was dubbed a "lice pall jr. uuiki Ivumj ui Atuuvma simply congregated in local bars, attempting, as one said, "to drown the lice out of their heads." Dy last Thursday 200 cases of head lice had been found at the university and many more were expected. An unfortunate 'rumor mill sucscsting thousands of stuJents and faculty were plagued by the little critters also had started. "It got so that every speck cf dandruff was thbir ht to be a bug," Vtlndl sild. -n f I - ifr. ft?f ft f 1 t t A that unsanitary conditions were net the cause of the cpiderrdc and that a solitary carrier cculd have caused ? . r f"- - children should be sacrificed on the altar of expediency? Or, pardon my -blasphemy, the right to decide what simplistic amendment (and they said Reagan was simple!) should give that ; great rapist of individual rights, the federal government, the power to violate and exploit the "previously undefiled territory of family law. And then the DTH used a patented New Right technique, comparing your enemy with an evil villain of the past, and compared the New Right and its leaders to Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism. Obviously, some DTH editors have graduated from the Jerry Falwell and Paul Weyrich school of propaganda techniques with honors. But then there was the punch line in "...targeting the tube,' (DTH, Nov. 11), which went "If most viewers found 'Dallas,' and 'Three's Company,' and 'Charlie Angels,' ail that objectionable, they would not be on the air." Are the DTH editors so ignorant or moralistic as to believe that such "exploitative rot" is not objectionable to the majority of TV viewers! (With the possible exception of "Dallas," of course). Have they never heard of the theory of the "Least Objectionable Program," which says that if vievers are given a choice of three pieces of trash they'll choose the best trash? But trash, by any other name, is still trash, and if Moral Majority can improve the quality of television, though I doubt it, more power to them. . But the most hilarious piece was in "Looking backward," (DTH, Nov. 12). .... '; ;- "". v. , . A In this editorial the Tgr Heel blasphemes its own sacred gospel of Gallup which has stated that 64 percent of all blacks oppose affirmative action or any other kind of preferential treatment. And then they say that "affirmative action is a catch-phrase for the hundreds of programs. ..to help overcome 200 years of discrimination favoring white, Protestant, male Americans." Instead, let's have. 200 years of discrimination against white, Protestant, male Americans, , who weren't at all responsible for the sins of their fathers, in order to get things in "balance." ' In essence, the DTH is showing itself to be an advocate of blatant sexism and racism when it states that uncontrollable factors such as sex or race should be taken into account by anyone for any reason. But I'm not asking the DTH to start taking truly liberal stands and to stop writing these ludicrous editorials. I like them. It gives me something to laugh at when David Poole's column doesn't appear. - Joey Holleman 330 Ehringhaus Di end Phi to tfebata . To the editor: During the past two weeks The Daily Tar. Heel has been accused of unobjective news reporting, misquotations, trite and aravating columns, and unethical journalistic behavior on the part of an "inexperienced and overzcalous" reporterand these were the accusations printed in the DTH. Other alksations voiced ranged from an incorrect lead headline to poor journalistic judgment to failure to report news important to the University. These accusations are neither sporadic nor insubstantial. They reflect a basic dissatisfaction on this campus with the staff, journalistic quality and editorial policies of the DTH. Many students and organizations feci that the DTH is currently inadequate to serve their needs and those of the University community. In the words of Chancellor Christopher Fordham III, "The DTH has not ben reel bsii" but it could be better. Because of the general unhEppiness over the performance of the DTH, the Di end Phi Societies have challenged the newspaper to a debate on whether the DTH adequately serves the needs cf the students and the University community. It will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in 300 New West. This is an opportunity for students and organizations to address directly the question cf DTH competence. As long as the campus does not publicly voice its dissatisfaction, no improvements will be forthcoming. Tracy Sanders Dialectic and Philanthropic Carter j 71 71 71 o V fr-.Uw If 1 U V By CHARLES HERNDON WASHINGTON Jimmy Carter was gone. He had come, given his concession to President-elect Ronald Reagan, and left. That was all. So, as party-goers and dazed Carter supporters trickled out of the Sheraton-Washington's cavernous ballroom, the only job left was to try to figure out why there had been such a massive rejection of Jimmy Carter on Election Day 1SS0. Reporters filed early stories in the makeshift press room and waited for an announcement and explanation from Jody Powell, the president's press secretary. Powell stood dejectedly watching a battery cf television sets proclaim Reagan's runaway win. Carter's pollster, Pat Caddell, ambled in and joined Powell at the podium, and the room became quiet. "I am not interested in reliving the entire campaign riht now," Caddell" began, pausing to chug a Ikineken. "I'm interested in just drinking some more," he said. For the next 45 minutes, Powell and Caddell tried to explain. Using data from polls taken from the middle of October to the Monday afternoon before Election Day, when the last, deciding poll wss taken, they tried to understand. Cadd:ll said that, like the rest cf the country, he and the president had anticipated a close . race with Reagan, not the 10-point margin victory and sweep of 45 states, which gave Reagan the landslide. Though Caddcll's pc'ds showed a sli-ht decrease cf support and momentum for the president after the Oct. 23 debate with Rce-an, the White House stra:c-'s expected a rebound, which they Ct, and a Ust-week sur;e cf support frr the ir.eurr.ber.t, which never carr.e. "The hi trr: ..1 t:T..l in tr.e L't we:k of the taction is lo;.r J the tr.un 1 :r.t p-rty...we expected thit," Ca;!d.lt sld. "t: ;t this ct:;ri wcy very historical. Case elections tend to stay close tX t Tl.h one didn't. Caddell said, ;xe- the situation had returned to virtually an even race. The impact of the debate tended to erode...," Caddell said. In fact, the attitude about the candidates expressed in Caddell's poll had returned to the pre-d:bate level. Carter's positive rating rose and Reagan's dropped among the poll respondents. "We were quite encouraged by this," Caddell said. Then came Nov. 2. Powell interjected, "If you have a weak stomach, you'd better leave." "Yeah, it cts pretty gruesome," Caddell said. No cn: in the room laughed. Following the president's nationwide address Sunday niht on the Iran negotiations that had taken place over the weekend, Caddell took a poll, his sccond-to-last cf the canpa-na. Sunday right's survey results were cot r release of the hostages, but this apparently did not affect Carter's standings, Caddell said. "What we saw was an enormous expression cf frustration," Caddell said. "We've seen what seems to be a protest vote." Meanwhile, Carter was ending a last-minute 23-hour campaign blitz across the country, speaking in Seattle, Wash., Monday evening. Powell received the pcXi bad news as the president was finishing up his last speech cf the campaign, but waited until they were aboard Air Force One and flying to Plains to break the new to Carter that the race w as over. "I can't say it w as one cf the finer moments in cur relationship," Powell said, cracking a smile. Powell mixed himself a drink and told the president. "He just said he'd go to sleep for tn hour or two," Powell said cf Carter's reaction to the death knell of his presidency. Of course, it was too late to do anything, Caddell said. "When you arc 10 points behind end the pells have already opened in New H: re, there i net much you can do," he said. Powell p'ped to. "We thought about (doing something), but we rejected a coup. I think the final vote was five to four." Ms paused and tipped his beer. "1 won't tell you what my vote w a.." The two men also had a final word for John they st. 11 telirve was a ;der for ;n as a Caddell t:.ld. "We still can't !.;!? fe:L-g that son voters would have teen cur vctrri. he said. The margin cf P.ee pan's victory was trr; Carter. "H: served at parts cf ti e c: spoiler," the And:: than l. ineludlrg New York and Nurth Carohra. Carter collected all the Anderssn meters, ha.e t :n t -".;!. 1 e it. I cs ii 13 i' . s Id-: even !'l v. .h wu.li r e is i Vi c re net real hrnv t. t) th,..t f.;r," stcfcir.a: to the A- :".ry ct 4 v, 4-r 5 J , t S cs:r to he h::-; th;::i.' ' (7 .11 ten a l T i!s r ! th I, e . ,1 f: 1s t: c. : t. h r: et: c" .' t .-- j it .t cf :y c: 'set .:ar;:y I i h w 3 I: c. z i t n ; P. 4. .e t : 1 c r t. e r t 41 t t .. i lc' i i: . r dec J'.-T.-C e '. is )c nf: ( is .. t D. V.' d; fr cm rped to c:.e-r fi-e-p 1'; t: HQ ID C C trr h t'r.,I;J. 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