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Pa.m Keliey, Associate Editor '
Kaklw Rowley, iNVu'5 EJiror '
Linda Brown, University Editor
Martha Vaccone2, City Editor
Mark Musmu mi National Editor
Bill Fields, Swfj Editor
James Alexander, Features Editor
Tom Moose, 4 rts Editor
Scott Suappe, Photography Editor
Ann Peurs, IVeehender Editor
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ace relations
Today it's called a quiet and subtle racism. However, such
adjectives only obscure the issue, only enable people to push it into the
backs of their minds until they almost forget it exists. Yet, everyday
racism manifests itself in frightening ways for different people: the
fervor of the revival of the Ku Klux Klari, the undeniable resurgence of
a conservative faction that promises to renew resistance to busing and
affirmative action, and the increase in race-related deaths that take
vicious shape in Miami, and in Greensboro, and in cities all over this
country. .
A dago, a wop, a nigger, a honky, a spic, a polock, a canuck these
are the words that blind us, that make it easy to disregard the needs,
aspirations, pains and struggles of other human beings. Treating
people "not be the color of their skin,', as Martin Luther King Jr.
said, "but by the content of their character," hardly seems a
revolutionary idea. But even in 19S0, after Brown vs. the Board of
Education, after four young black men quietly walked into a
Greensboro lunch counter in 1960, after the 1964 Civil Rights Act,
after the murders of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., after the
Black Panthers and Eldridge Cleaver, after all of these struggles,
equality based on individual character remains anathema to the
ignorant and the afraid and the evil.
Racism at times may be quiet and subtle, but obviously it exists.
And it threatens to explode in our faces as long as it overwhelms
reason and compassion and common sense.
Thus, people's minds must be probed, gently and sometimes not so
gently, in order that the magnitude and influence of such a negative
emotion can be ascertained, for it must be understood before it can be
defused. ,
Today a five-part series on race relations that we hope will touch on
some of these attitudes and fears begins on our front page. We
consider the racial problem on campus and nationwide acute enough
to warrant this kind of scrutiny. It is our hope that this series will
probe minds, gently or not, and will bring into the open the problems
and questions that all too often are conveniently pushed aside, and
labeled quiet and subtle, until they do in fact ferment and explode.
1 call it "the uncomfortable silence."
There I sat in the Humanities Room of Wilson
Library. Before me waited the 4CO-poge textbook, the
one I was supposed to have been reading since the first
week. of the semester. The discount order form for
magazines was still inside.
I guess I'd expected to be able to work in this cavern,
but I was dead wrong. I spent too much time listening
,for something to interrupt the uncomfortable silence.
I was sure someone was on the verge of dropping his
cr her pencil. Or sneezing. Or coughing. Or anything. I
was ready for them. In fact, I was so ready, I didn't get
anything done.
Libraries are just one of the many frustrating aspects
of campus life. But libraries are especially bad.
Hundreds of years from now, when archaeologists
and anthropologists want to find out how our
civilization tortured its people, they won't have much
trouble figuring out how men and women from IS to 25
were persecuted Just as soon as some of the scientists
find the ruins of a library on the remains of a college
campus, they'll know.
The most maddening things in the world happen in
the libraries on this campus. Every time I go into a
library, I feel like I'm walking into some great void
from which only the irate can return.
This, cf course, was impossible. Every roll I locked
at was on the reel in a different way. This meant I had
to thread the machine (no simple task) about 15 times
so I could look at three rolls.
. Another favorite is the periodicals room. Every
magazine in the known world is in that room, except
for the one absolutely crucial to your term paper.
Sometimes the magazine itself is there, but the pages
you need are torn out.
Then there are the stacks. Aside from the reality that
the first floor of the library is the fifth floor of the
stacks, and disregarding the fact that anyone above
6-foot-3 has to stoop to get into the stacks, and
ignoring the observation that there is no logic or
pattern to the way books are arranged there, this place
isn't so bad.
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I wonder about these people.
I once went to the Undergrad Library tolstudy and
had a wonderful time listening to the guys zl the table
behind me talk about the loose morals of! a certain
young lady. I read about 20 words in three hours. I
even tried to study in the Wilson stacks' but that
proved useless because I kept hoping someone from the
outside world would walk by, just so I'd know it still
existed.
Then I tried the Humanities Room cf Wilson, a
huge, cavernous place where everybody sits around
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Last week approximately 2,500 people were able to view pictures of
Saturn in Chapel Hill as they were transmitted to Earth by Voyager I.
The showings were free of charge, courtesy of the Morehead
Planetarium and special microwave receiving equipment.
That was only one of the unique services the planetarium has
offered the public since it opened in 1949. In the '60s and early '70s, it
was used to teach astronauts how to navigate to the moon, and every
year it teaches thousands of school children about the solar system.
But the planetarium soon may have to reduce its services. Plagued by
inflation, it has incurred a $175,000 deficit since 1973, a deficit that
will continue to mount unless the planetarium receives more money.
Planetarium director Anthony Jenzano blames the problem on
inflation. Although the University does give the facility state funds to
cover its building maintenance, the planetarium must pay for its
operations and exhibits through ticket and gift sales. It does not make
a separate budget request to the UNC Board of Governors. Because
ticket prices already have been increased once this year, Jenzano
doesn't see how he can increase them again without losing customers.
Ideally, the planetarium needs about $40,000 more a year to pay off
its debts and build a reserve for emergencies, he says.
UNC Vice Chancellor for University Relations Rollie Tillman has
said the University will evaluate the planetarium's financial plight this
year and decide what action to take on its operations. He doesn't rule
out cutting its hours to save money. Tillman says he understands the
planetarium's problems, but admits it isn't high on the University's list
of priorities. ,
It is clear that the Morehead Planetarium cannot continue to
operate with its present funding system. .The University should
consider allowing the facility to make a separate funding request to the
Board of Governors. But even if those budget request procedures were
changed, they could not be implemented at least until 1934, because
the University's budget requests to the N.C. General Assembly for
1931 -'83 have already been made. Until then, perhaps UNC should re
evaluate its priorities. The Morehead Planetarium, one of the largest
planctariums in the southeastern United States, educates and
entertains 100,000 people each year. It deserves better.
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Last week, I went to Wilson to look at some old
newspapers on microfilm. After getting down to the
36th subbasernent where the room was, I found the
papers and attempted to make them appear properly
on the screen.
letters ' to. the emioi -:
There was, of course, the time when I was a
freshman and spent two hours trying to find my way
out of the stacks. I spent a similar amount of time
searching for a book; and, when I found the place it
should have been, there was a note saying those books
had been shipped off so the pages could be
renumbered. Then there was the day a friend and I
spent an hour looking for another book, found that it
was gone, checked at the front desk and learned it was
on loan to someone in Durham.
waiting lor somebody else to make a nctse. I call it the
uncomfortable silence. You just know somebody's
about to drop a pencil cr scoot beck in his choir ar.d
you don't want to be stzrtkd, so you think cf nothing
else and get absolutely zero work done.
My frustration with libraries on campus is deeply
rooted, because I have never been able to look for
something there and find it without having to go on
safari. And I've been here more than three years.
When you think about it, I guess, future
archaeologists and anthropologists probably won't be
able to find out anything about cur civilization when
they uncover library remains. They'll probably find a
bock that could unlock the secrets of 20th Century
America, and all the key pages will be torn out.
David Poole, a senior joumzllsm rr.zjor rem
Gastonia, is assistant sports editor end columnist for
lite Daily Tar Heel.
Union clmifies guidelines for Cube
To the editor:
The Carolina Union regrets the
problems experienced by the UNC
Reader's Theater and many other
campus organizations that have . had
their notices "amended" on the Cube.
Yet we must also maintain our current
position of refusing to schedule and
police the Cube and would like to clarify
the reasoning behind it. ,
Several years ago the Union bought
the Cube for the purpose of publicizing
programs sponsored by the Union.
Subsequently, we relinquished sides that
weren't being used by the Union to other
campus organizations. There are eight .
sides on the Cube, and the Union
currently uses only two of them. It must
be asserted that the use of the Cube is a
privilege, since theoretically there are
now enough Union programs that need
publicizing to fill up all eight spaces.
In early October of this year, in
response to a request by the Di and Phi
society, guidelines were drawn up
concerning Cube etiquette; a copy of
these guidelines has been available at the
Union Information Desk for more than
a month.
There are two major reasons for not
establishing a reservations policy. First,
neither the Carolina Union Activities
Board nor the administrative secretary in
charge of reservations for obtaining
meeting rooms and lecture halls has time
to grapple with allocating Cube space.
This may sound like an age-old excuse,
but I assure you it's veritable. Second,
even if a sign-up policy were
implemented, what would prevent
someone from painting over another's
officially registered space? It; b certainly
not the Union's responsibility to chase
down and spank the offenders.
Cooperation and consideration are
the key components of functional Cube
operations. If organizations would
observe the "guidelines of courtesy,"
the Cube privilege should benefit all.
DillRaghnd
Chairman, Publicity Committee
Carolina Union Activities Board
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To the editor:
I thoroughly enjoyed David Pccle's
humorous, yet. revealing, expose
'Preregistration: sliding through
Carolina," (077, Nov. 10).
At the risk of sounding like a "master
of the obvious," I must comment that
Poole addressed a problem prevalent in
higher education. Too often a student
takes too many "gut" courses outside .
his cr her major without seeking these
courses that provide knowledge and
additional skills. Whether a student can
accept it or not, skills are the name of
the game in the job market.
Certainly, a meaningful summer
internship, a conversation with someone
currently employed in a field of interest
cr a course with substance before
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declaring a major will provide a
student with the kind cf information
necessary to make sound career
decisions. These decisions, in
conjunction with the .proper course
work, will lead to a job one a person
crn legitimately enjoy', not hate. While
Introduction to so-and-so may
complement a good liberal srts
I hope Pec!: is at'e to C'.it cut cf
Carolina and right into a jcb t
food strrr.ps ere gcirg to te t to
ccme by cs-er the next four yean.
Tori ixlen
Assodrte Director
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To the editor:
In recent years there has been much
talk of the decline of higher education.
, Students claim there has been a decline
in the quality of instruction. Educators
complain about the decline in quality of
students. And administrators, I
sometimes feel, aren't sure whom to
believe. Most of us attempt to place the
blame for the decline cn others, when, in
fact, it's everybody's fault.
In "Preregistration: sliding through
Carolina," (D77, Nov. 10), David
Poole exposed the student contribution
to this problem at Carolina. Too often
the student body manages to slide
through Carolina. More effort is
directed toward avoiding challenging
work than would be spent actually trying
to broaden horizons.
I find it disgusting to think that this .
University condones such academic
sliding. What is the value cf education if
it cannot help us. solve the problems we
will soon face in the real world?
Academic sliding will only progenerale
real-life sliding.
Therefore, if this present student body
allows itself to slide through Carolina, I
hate to think what the state cf this
country is going to be when we're cut
there in the real world making decisions.
As they say, "As goes Chapel Hill, so
goes the nation."
Frank Waugh
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To tc ci-cn
The recent rash cf conservatives
elected to office assisted by the so-called
Moral Majority" and National
Conservative Political Action
Ccmmitice should effer a leaminj
experience to us. Unfortunate!, these
lunatics who csll George Hr.h a
liberal have a let cf media savvy ihit
we rr.u;i pick tp cn. .
The Moral Majority commands the
minds cf tbcut 21 million r-;- ty
their estimate. Out cf the 220 million
p:cr!: in this ccur.try, tl :t 13 r-::z::.l
csn hardly te caed a rrority. TJ.ose
2! million people vctlr-j in cne Hock,
hnever, czn I e a f-rr.'J. le pCACf.
Anyway, this television targeting has
been tried before and it doesn't work.
People say they are disgusted or
offended by some shows, but they still
sneak views of Suzanne Somers to see if
she'll flop out this week (she never
does... or ever will).
I don't think the people will allow
Jerry Falwcll and Terry Dolan to tell
them that they can 't watch this, or they
can't do that. Pre-Nazi Germany was as
concerned with morality, religion and
nationalism as these guys are, and the
results of that experiment were tragic.
A bright note arises from this,
however. Dolan, Paul Weyrich, et el are
very cocky right now, threatening.
Reagan and the new Congress that they
will "...pay the political price" if they
don't behave. George Bush and ethers
have already told them to go to hell in
not so many words.
If these moralist fanatics continue
their nasty post-election rhetoric,
everyone except the true-bcllcving cowj
will tell them the same thing. I have
always thought that Reagan was not to
be feared as much as the Moral Majority
if they ever got in his ear. Perhaps they
, will neutralize themselves with their foul
meanness as, unfortunately. Carter did
this year.
1 1 anxiously await the day hen after
another foolish threat to Reegan, he will
tell the Moral Majority: "Leek. You
didn't elect me, the people did. So get
off my back, will ya?"
Maybe this will happen. Maybe I'm
fantasizing.
Carrbcro
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To the editor:
I would like to et press my sincere
thanks to the Carchnn Ur.ion 1'ihn
Ccmr.l:::e for in excellent sr.J ti-rcly
choice cf movlrt f.ov. C, Uzt ( . y C I
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WXYC is different from any ether
campus organization because it is
federally licensed by the Federal
Communications Commission tr,d must
meet government regulations In
engineering and promised prcgrammm j.
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station, not as a student station. VXYC
docs not hold its own license because the
FCC refuses to license student-cperated
stations due to natural instability caused .
by frequent personnel turnover. The
license b held by SEB, which the FCC
considers to be a "community board."
To obtain the license, the beard
promised that VXYC would air a
minimum of 14 hours a week of locaUy
originated, informational, cultural,
educational and instructional
programming, plus service to area
schools. Very little of this has been
achieved.
If the license is to be renewed every
three years, it b SUB'S responsibility to
see that there is continuity cf premised
programming and a stable format based
on research and SED's target audience.
It is also the responsibility of SEB to
initiate and maintain a WXYC
organizational chart and detailed job
descriptions end procedures for station
personnel to maintain stable
management regale?, cf changing
personnel.
Part cf the problem b that rtcst
peer! cn the beard are eppcir.ted tn
represent campus groups but know very
little about broadcasting. The fact that
most cf them are students rules them
instinctively more loyal to WXYC than
to the beard tr i rales it dJficu'.t for
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