6The Daily Tar Hool Monday. D -tber 1. 1980
(.U'.OitCF. SHADROUl, Editor
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Dinita James, SUtuing Editor
Bit ad Kutrow, Associate Editor
PA4 Kflley, Associate Editor
Karen Rowley, News Editor
Linda Ezown, University Editor
Martha Waggoner, City Editor
Marx Mukreli, State and National Editor
E:il Fields, Sports Editor
James Alexander. Features Editor
Tom Moore. A rts Editor
Scott Sharpe, Photography Editor
Ann Peters, Weekender Editor
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The elections laws
After almost two months of study and many more months of
discussion, newly revised and reviewed elections laws will be
presented Tuesday to the full Campus Governing Council. It was a
long and tedious process, but one that certainly was sorely needed.
The Election Law Review Committee was established by the CGC
last spring after a student Supreme Court heard for the second time
in two years a case that challenged the outcome of a campuswide
election or vote because of various election laws violations. (Last
year's case involved the referendum that guaranteed the Graduate'
and Professional Student Federation a set percentage of student
fees.) As the case was presented, it became increasisngly clear that
part of the problem could be traced to confusion in the existing
elections laws, which had not been reviewed since 1975.
These discrepancies as well as the general confusion of the much
maligned Elections Board begged for attention and treatment. Now,
less than three months from the next campuswide election, that need
has been addressed. We (and no doubt Chief Justice Roy Cooper and
potential candidates for next spring's election) can breathe a sigh of
relief. It is breathed not only because the end result might be a more
efficiently run election, but also because both the Review Committee
and the Rules and Judiciary Committee exercised a great deal of
concern and prudence in codifying the laws.
Among the proposed changes are the restructuring of the Elections
Board, which would include several committees that are assigned
specific responsibilities. While the nature of the Elections Board
suggests that these committees might be sparsley populated, it does
not undermine the salient point, that the person or persons sitting on
a committee will understand what he or she is supposed to do.
Increases in the amount a candidate can spend on a campaign are
also being proposed. This, too, is a needed change. Yet, the increase
which amounted to 10 percent for the most expensive campaigns, is'
not so exorbitant that it will prove prohibitive to most prospective
candidates. Other methods of funding, perhaps even partial CGC
funding, should be explored for the future.
The revised laws clarify polling times. They also include a change
in the date of the spring election from the second Wednesday of
February to the second Tuesday. This move is part of a more
complicated process that will result in a shorter Student Government
transition period and will allow extra time for the CGC budget
process at the end of the school year.
Raising questions
. However, ..we question whether the. compulsory candidates'
meetings which are held to clarify rules and procedures for these
candidates should be held a mere 10 days before the election. As
any candidate knows or finds out, running for office requires
planning and spending money well before the last week-and-a-half of
an election. Candidates should know as early as possible the rules
and procedures with which they must abide. Therefore, we suggest to
the" full CGC that a meeting be held 21 days before the election for
prospective candidates. In addition, another meeting, also required,
should be held 10 days before the election for those candidates who
have obtained the needed signatures. . This would eliminate any
possible confusion.
We also question the proposed changes with regard to the senior
class officers races. The proposed change would allow the candidates
to choose whether they want to run on the same ballot or on separate
ballots. This proposal is preposterous. To cite one possible problem:
what if a pair of candidates receive less votes than a single candidate
for one of the two positions? Who would be in the runoff? Or would
there be a runoff? What if a pair of candidates ties with a single
candidate? Indeed, it is confusing. And it is exactly this kind of
confusion revision should ferret out. We suggest the CGC make the
law simple. Either candidates for senior class office run in pairs or
they don't. The convenience of the candidates should not be placed
before the clarity of the law or the voters' convenience.
Still, we are optimistic, for the most part, about the revised laws.
The CGC now must continue what has.been a responsible process by
further clarifying the law and eliminating potential problems. .
. Like it or not, the holiday season is upon us. I, for
one, am not ready.
Like nearly everyone else, I went home for the
Thanksgiving holidays and found myself surrounded
by folks who already were talking about doing
Christmas shopping. The thought hadn't occurred to
me and, at first, I thought the folks at home had gone a
little batty. - '
But that was before I realized that before I came to
Carolina, I usually had my Christmas shopping done
by Thanksgiving. You'd never find me fighting those
hungry mobs of shoppers in the days just before
Christmas..
The reason, I've decided, that I can't get ready for
the holidays yet is because of what lies just before us
all. In that vein, I offer the following pre-Yuletide
salutation:
I'll try to catch up 'til I collapse in a heap.
My more studious friends, they can't see the matter,
They know that exams their averages won't shatter.
So, I glance through my books and I read a few pages
Of the wisdom of Plato and other strcat sactes.
I question the relevance of these famous Greeks
To the course I've been in now for some 13 weeks.
Philosophy's great, if it's your cup of tea,
But why must I know it for Math 23?
And, now, here before my wide eyes do appear
My notes for the class I've neglected all year.
The pages are blank there and so is my brain,
I can see my degree going right down the drain.
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A Visit from Final Exsms
4Tis eight days until finals, and in class after class,
It will take a small wonder to allow me to pass.
My textbooks are piled up eight-deep on my bed,
Not since mid-October have any been read.
The profs are now cloistered in ivory towers,
All makings out tests to tax my mind's powers.
So I, in my panic, just simply won't sleep,
letters to the editor
UNC
"Oh, why does this happen to me every time
Say I, in lamenting my own lazy crime.
I'm fine until mid-terms, and then, when they're
Through, I feel I can rest for one week, maybe two.
But the weeks grow to months, and before I bear down.
It's final exam time in this quaint little town.
I've a week before finals and 12 books to read.
Where is Evelyn Woods when her course I do need?
In history, they've finished'the Hundred Year's War,
Yet I'm just now reading the conflict before.
In psychology they're making out statistical legs,
I'm still considering the Pavlovian dogs.
There is an old saying, and it's true, you can bet
"The hurrieder I go, the behind er I get."
So a truckload of No Doz and strong coffee I've bought,
In hopes my tuition won't all go for naught.
My bank account's empty, my cupboard is, too.
The rent, light and phone bills are all overdue.
My car's right rear radial has gone pancake flat,
But I don't have time now to worry about that.
In ten days I'm taking a three-hour test,
On it, three-fourths of my class grade will rest.
My future is all that will be on the line,
If things go like normal, I'll make fifty-nine.
In class I'll take three tests, a term project's due too.
A take-home's included, an assignment I'll rue.
The schedule is brutal it always has been,
I shouldn't be shocked that it is so again.
I used to look forward to this time of the year.
What with shopping and singing and holiday cheer.
I've no time for fun now, not 'til I'm through with exams.
Caffeine and cold showers are my turkeys and hams.
So nowT musfstudy, though the cause m3y be lost.
Gee, I wonder how much the Cliffs Notes I need cost?
Yet let me say 'fore I give into my fright,
"Happy exams to y'all, and to y'all, a good night."
David Poole, a senior journalism major from
Gastonia, is assistant sports editor end poet laureate
for The Daily Tar Heel.
Muslim
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To the editor:
The Muslim Students Association of
UNC, a campus organization of Muslim
students from abroad and America, is
extremely disturbed and confused by the
recent visit of Louis Farrakhan to this
University as a Carolina Forum speaker.
Although we sympathize and agree with
some of Farrakhan's views and
predictions, we cannot, and will not,
stand by and let him bring shame and
dishonesty on Islam.
First of all, Farrakhan does a serious
disservice to Islam by calling himself a
Black Muslim and a Minister of the
Nation of Islam in the West. The first
term is not only contradictory, but it
also destroys one of the basic principles
of Islam, which is that "all the faithful
are brothers," and there is no ,
superiority of one people over the other
or one race over the t)ther except by
piety and the closeness to God. In other
words, the believers of Islam are not
engrossed in one's color or nationality;
we are more concerned with how much
or how strongly one submits himself or
herself to the Will of God. For the other
term, it can be simply said that there is
no priesthood in Islam.
The Muslim Students Association of
UNC also differs with "Farrakhan's
insistence that Elijah Muhammad (of
U.S.A.) was the messenger of God, and
that W. Fard Muhammad was God. We
believe that there is only one God and
that Muhammad ibn Abdullah (of
Arabia) to whom the Qura'n (the Holy
Book of Muslims) was revealed 1,400
years ago, was the last Messenger of
God. He was the Seal of Prophets in a
chain that included Abraham, Moses
and Jesus among many other previous
prophets. Therefore, Elijah
Muhammad, from the Islamic point of
view, is not a Messenger of God, nor
does Islam recognize the divinity of any
human being.
The Muslim Students Association of
UNC also feels that it would be
unfortunate and detrimental to the well
being of peace and harmony if
Farrakhan's statements are ever taken
seriously by a significant segment of the
American population. Farrakhan is not
helping to bring about better race
relations. He is only adding kindling to
the flames of racial hatred.
' Finally, a word will be said to the
audience who attended Farrakhan's
lecture. The Muslim Students Associa
tion of UNC would be more than happy
to clarify any misunderstanding about
Islam that has been generated from that
lecture. It also would be willing to
provide any information and literature
for those who have inquiries about Islam
whether they attended Farrakhan's
lecture or not.
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UNC students who made it back to their hometowns during the
Thanksgiving holiday may have been surprised to learn that the
marijuana Smoke-In held on campus several weeks ago caused quite a
stir in the rest of the state. Parents and alumni were appalled by this
wild-eyed violation of the law, and, many took it as a sign that the
campus was accim slipping over the brink of liberalism on which it had
tcctcrcd throughout the 1970s.
Why, the folks down home wanted to know, had those demonstra
tors b:cn allowed to smoke marijuana on campus without .being
arrested? Did the University administration condone that kind of
thin"?
Well, the students said, yes and no. The administration did condone
the Smoke-In; Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary says, popular
usacc notwithstanding, to condone is "to pardon or overlook volun
tarily." That is precisely what the University did, and it was the only
reasonable course of action.
. Chancellor Christopher C. Fordham III could have ordered the
campus and town police to wade into the crowd of smokers with night
sticks and arrest them all. He could have asked that town fire trucks be
pulled onto Polk Place to hose down the protesters, which would have
made it touch to keep a joint lighted and turned the Smoke-In into a
socgy, smoldering mess. Either choice, or any effort to close down the
Smoke-In or arrest its participants, would have provoked resistance
and perhaps violence.
By letting the smokers make their point, however mutedly, Ford.iam
avoided a confrontation between students and administrators. Had
any arrests been made, the Yippies who organized the Smoke-In surely
a larger, more cisrupuvc pruicii ur
r.o more smoke-ins, however, because
refused to be provoked. He thus avoided tne poor puouctiy
that arrets on campus always bring and neatly sidestepped the possi
bility cf vic!er.ce.
Heavy-handed enforcement of the state's marijuana laws would
have dene little to increase students respect for those laws; indeed, it
ou'.d have had the opposite effect. Fordham. faced with a situation
M.A. Buracy
' President
Muslim Students Association
CAR? repl.es
To the editor:
Those who are proud of the tradition
of literary and journalistic excellence at
UNC must stand appalled at hearing
Sunday night's "Open Line" program
on WXYC. What was billed as a "public
information' program 'proved to be a
very brazen "hatchet job" on the Unifi
cation Church.
On Nov . 1 9, the Collegiate Association
for the kesearch of Principles was asked
by a WXYC representative to appear in
a one-pn-one debate with Sonja
McCarter. CARP agreed to send a
representative. Later, the program
began to grow first, a psychologist
was to be included, then an opposing
minister j - then a special moderator,
Donna Paine, who turned out to be an
avid hater of "the Moonies." Her stint
as an "objective moderator" consisted
of long tirades of slanderous and
inflammatory statements directed
.against the Unification Church after
which she would ask for confirmation
from the "unbiased" panel.
.; When I arrived in Chapel Hill on
Sunday evening and heard about this
one-sided format, I immediately began
calling WXYC personnel asking for a
fair, at least, equal hearing. Paula '
Pearson, the person directly responsible
for "Open Line," refused my request. I
protested vigorously that this "panel"
had no qualifications to speak on the
topic of the Unification movement. On
the air, they all admitted that they had no
direct contact with Rev. Moon, had
never read the Divine Principle (even
denying that a copy of Divine Principle
has been on the CARP table every day
this past week a fact verifiable by
many UNC students), and showed that
their "expertise" came from sensation
alistic newspaper and magazine stories.
Pearson still refused to alter the format.
"This is the way it is," she stated. Take
it or leave it. I have never witnessed a
more flagrant abuse of media responsi
bility. This was McCarthyism at its
worst.
Smcko-ln crtlcb
or group is controversial does that mean
that all standards of fairness and equal
representation go out the window? UNC
must protect and defend freedom of
expression and demand from its elec
tronic journalists a standard of decency
and fair play.
For years now there have raged ugly
rumors and accusations about the Unifi
cation movement. These are gradually
beginning to fade from a lack of
substantiation. For example, only three
or four vears aso. one could read about
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the use of drugs and sex orgies that the tne use 01 marijuana, comrary 10 inc
To the editor:
In the story "Smoke-In a bust without
any police," (DTH, Nov. 17), Mclodce
Alves failed to mention the large amount
of pot brought in by some of the partici
pants, and perhaps viewed the Pit
Smoke-In as a bust because she did not
understand its purpose to express our
desire for the abolishment of "pothibi
tion" and exemplify the advantages of
the peaceful experiences derived from
Moonies were supposedly engaged in.
These stories have stopped appearing
because there was no truth to them.
Now, even our strongest detractors must
admit to our high moral standard.
Brainwashing is a frightening charge.
If true, it must be eliminated. If untrue,
it will prove to be a media hoax.
How can UNC students find the truth
about this movement? By hearing the
one-sided equivalent of a kangaroo
court presented by "Open line"?
Hardly. UNC students deserve the right
to hear both sides and then to decide for
themselves. CARP members are
therefore demonstrating to protest the
unfairness of "Open Line" and its
flagrant abuse of media responsibility
and to request equal representation on
the radio.
The First Amc
raucous incidents that have occurred at
some of our dorm mixers, in barrooms,
and at almost any gathering where the
consumption of alcoholic beverages is
promoted.
By participating in the Pit Smoke-In,
we received attention from and provided
information to a public that must become
aware of this issue of growing concern
the free use of marijuana.
Glenn E. Silver
310 Mongum
Scott R. Dona-hy
307 Marsgum
nrotect both popular
If "Open Line" is to be a public
information service, doesn't the school
system deserve better? Because a subject
dment was designed to
and unpopular
groups. The "Moonies" ere unpopular
at the moment. Yet, fairness isn't to
be determined by popularity. It is above
such consideration. I m convinced that
UNC will demand fairness from WXYC
programming.
Howard Self
South East Region Director
CARP
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By ANDERSON D. MARKOV
In "the past few months students at the UNC Law
School have increasingly expressed their opinions in
The Daily Tcr Heel. Most cf these opinions have come
in letters to the editor that probably have led people to
believe all law students at UNC are happy with the
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lecal system. rcrtur.-!:!y, this is fir from the truth.
There arc a considerable r.umbcr cf us ho find in
each day cf classes a dilemma between hat is 1?r-t and
v,hat is moral. We see r ret 'ems ith graduztlrj ar.d
working for whatever corporate law flnnwi'Jpsyusthe
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