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a m Cloiic.i SilAhliowi 'l'diior J Bxau Kutrow. .!. i-ur Editor"'' I'am Knikv, Aiuiatt- Editor'' ' Amy Sharp:. PAodmtion Editor ! Karn Rowlky. Navs Editor Linda Dao'X'N. Vnivvrsiiy Editor Ann Smallwood, City Editor Mark MuRSOl, Sfc.v and National Editor J:. David Poole, Sports Ed James Alexander Features Editor Tom Moose, 4m &or Scott Shakpe, Photography Editor ' Ann Petees, Weekender Editor . iff t ' i3 i yzy js - . 83 th year of editorial freedom Advanced plannim The proposed Student Athletic Center will seat 22,000 people. There will be 950 new parking places to serve it, and University planning officials say there will be enough parking spaces available to accom modate a capacity crowd. At first that might seem like a modern miracle, a feat comparable to Jesus' feeding of 5,000 people with two fishes and five loaves of bread. On closer examination, though, it appears adequate parking' can be provided without benefit of a miracle. Since most activities at the athletic center will be held at night, many nearby campus spaces will be open. Planners are counting on vacant parking places within 2,500 feet of the Student Athletic Center to serve the bulk of the center's visitors. Those include spaces in the F-lot, Bell Tower lot and hospital parking deck. . . . -y; .'... ,-.. " If everything goes as planners expect, athletic center visitors should be able to find parking and students trying to park on campus won't be inconvenienced any more than they are now during home basketball gam es. But there are a couple of hefty assumptions being made by such optimistic observers. One is that everyone driving to an event at the athletic center will know where he is supposed to park. If everyone; doesn't, people who aren't familiar with campus lots may likely end up parking illegally and compounding an already less than, ideal parking situation. '. '? Another assumption made by the planners is that drivers will be willing to park almost up to one half a mile from the Student Athletic Center. Some alumni might find walking that far to a basketball garpe on a cold night rather unappealing. These aren't unreasonable assumptions, but it's going to take a little advanced preparation on the part of the University to ensure that they are fulfilled. For instance, it could provide ticket holders with maps of available parking so they know where to park and furnish shuttle service from distant lots to the athletic center so they'll be willing to park in the lots when they find them. The Vice Chancellor's Traffic and Parking Advisory Committee recommended last month that parking monitors be placed at Craige, Ehringhaus, , Morrison, and. JHintQn .James , dorm parking, lots during athletic events allowing only people' with valid parking stickers to enter.That would guarantee students their spaces when basketball crowds descended on the campus. y. y r Ly The Student Athletic Center isn't scheduled for completion until 1984, but it's not too early for University officials to start thinking about the parking changes that will accompany that completion. By stationing monitors at student lots, providing shuttle service. to the center from distant lots and publicizing parking locations, a parking problem can be prevented before it is created. rimming back By DAVID POOLE 'I'm sorry, but this register is for cash only," recited i he clerk, as if I were the 50th idiot of the day who'd stood in the wrong line for 45 minutes. "Oh," I muttered. "Well, which line is for checks?" "The one ever there that wraps around the psychology section, loops behind English, around math and over into Anthropology,' said the clerk, "Just wait here and one of our trams will be by to take you to the back though, is the amount of money we have to cough up to buy books most of us don't want anyway. Somebody's got a good racket going here. I really don't know how much it costs to print and distribute textbooks, but 1 doubt it's S16.95 Take a full class load and you can drop $100 in the bookstore quicker than you can spend it on' groceries r . . . i ' - i wo? , '. ' - a . t : ' ' v. f A" 1. - It's the fourth day of classes and I've bought most of my books for the semester. That might not make one iota of difference to you, but I see it as a great accom plishment considering that I've managed to come this far without losing my mind. I confess that I don't really know much about the operating procedures of the book store here at Carolina, but I have my suspicions. First, I think the psychology department is behind the whole thins. I think they're conducting an eiperi- V if it ment to see how much aggravation a human being can withstand. '-.V- I also think the shelves in the bookstore were arranged by the same guy who assigned letters to buildings jn the apartment complexes around here. I'm truly amazed that something as simple as the alphabet can be warped into such a maddening maze. The same guy who saw two buildings sitting side by side and called one: "E" and the other "K" has to be clever enough to put Spanish and Journalism on neighboring bookstore shelves.;-- . These are but a couple of the cute little quirks that make an evening of textbook shopping about as aggra vating as a twelve-day disco concert. The worst thing, , I f .rf'ftit r ' ' " i .4 f-t, i' ' tr r" -1 If'--- ? v pos',lb!?t or by providing UNC employees health' cere. Tn: ; . ;.t cr:h I.sw ilia eti It t'n' I wrf-ljw t?--''" - Hccuuse t!:e Student I kzliH S:rvic- has juU moved into its new fculliln, it will be difficult to cut i:rl:tz. V A ' i . . V I 1 W - J ... it's a grand psychology experiment for a month, That figure can be much higher if you're in one of those courses where the instructor of your section requires $35 in books while every other section of the same course can do nicely on one book that runs about $10. " They tell us that the profits from textbook sales go into a scholarship fund. that aids students. I have a great idea. Why don't we cut book costs and give everyone a little personal financial aid package. The present system might help 5, (XX) people but lower book prices would help us all. It would be better, too, if we could buy the right used books at co-ops or even at the bookstore. But the guys running the racket have us there, too. Three semesters ago, I signed up for what I felt would be an interesting, albeit simple, course. A friend had taken the same course and I was planning to buy the $18.95 book from him for about $10 to save us both some dough. The first day of class, though, the instructor an nounced that we would be using the new and improved . 5th edition of the book and that the 4th edition just would not do. Being the gullible type, I traipsed over to the book store and plopped down the new and improved price of $22.95 for the new and improved edition. About four weeks later, when I glanced at the book for the first time, I noticed that the new edition looked incredibly similar to the old. The pages had been rearranged and a few new, four-color graphs had been added, but all of the little nit-picky facts that professors like to sneak onto tests were the same. I'd been had. Of course the most irritating of all things is to pay $16.95 for a 400-page hardback book that you wind up having to read nine pages out of all semester. Then there are the guys who assigned every page of the same size book, then ask all of two multiple choice questions from it on the final. ' When you're in your last semester, you start thinking, "This is the last time I'll ever have to do this." That thought came to me this weekend when I was standing there in line with 47 pounds of books that I didn't want and my already severely depleted checkbook in hand. It was the only good thing about the whole mess I could think of. . David Poole, a senior journalism major from Gastonia, is a columnist and sports editor for The Daily Tar Heel. Like. the thick ivy tfiat covers the walls of Bynum Hall, UNCs student fees seem to creep a little higher every year. They are at least as difGcult to cut back. Next fall the yearly fisure will climb $23 after a round of fee increases approved last December by the Board of Trustees. While inflation and the expansion of services have forced up costs, the trustees have shown a disturbing willingness fo approve, without much question, whatever fee increases 'administrators surest. The board voted Dec. 12 to raise the yearly Carolina Union fee $4 to $31, the athletic fee $15 to $50 and the Student Health Service fee $4 to $134. The slight Union fee increase will help pay for the nearly completed Union addition, which will house a new auditorium as well as' offices for student organizations and publications. The athletic fee increase, the first since 1977, will go to non-revenue sports. There has been no need for more student funding of athletics in the interim because of the Athletic Depart ment's successful promotion of revenue-producing football and basketball,, and UNC students will still pay fcr less than students at schools with com parable programs. The Student Health Service fee increase is more difficult to accept. The $4 increase seems moderate, but it follows those of $35 approved by the board in 1979 and $20 approved last year. The trustees ignored a Student Health Administrative Board recommendation that this year's request be rejected until a study of student health needs and ether methods of paying for the SI IS is completed. The administrative board's warning that students cannot absorb annuel fee increases was disregarded despite questions about the accuracy of SHS cost cellmates. Last year, it projected a loss of $76,000 but actually lost only 15,703. This year's projected surplus was S92,000t-but it wiU actually be over $172,000. Because Student Health Service administrators expect a deficit next yer, the trustees approved a third fee increase h three years. 11 mi-wtT tf ftr- r-f rt m irV,a- A a"? A ' J t frv tV '" "vH . study of student health needs. With the aid of an outside consultant and its new director, Judith Cowan, SHS may be able to come up with ways to lower costs and i .:r,!y, the SHS will ret be c;j To the editor: . ; The obviously great relevance of mas sage parlors for UNC students ("Massage Parlor," DTH, Jan. 15), as formally expressed by the length of Mitch Holmes' article (one eighth of the whole DTH issue) strikes me as being . cheap and .sexist. '" More " than' a quarter of Holmes' report is taken by a purely sexist opening paragraph and the second-class "stimu lating" (for whom?) description of his own experience during his "research." Locations and a list of prices and services are provided for potential male UNC customers as well as some extremely useful advice for those interested in joining the massage business. I only wish " Holmes would at least have left out the attempt to give reasons for women's becoming masseuses, reducing the reasons to money and sheer fun and also "referring to the completely out-of-date Kinsey Report. K In the days of Alexander Haig, Ronald Reagan and the Greensboro Klan-Nazi trial verdict; there should be enough material to fill the DTH with relevant information. LerkeTyra 618 Craige Election interest To the editor: A lot of attention has been given in the past few months to problems that have arisen in campus-wide elections during recent years. This year's Campus Governing Council appointed a special committee to revise the Election by-laws. These laws have been one of the main causes of problems in past elections. After many weeks of hard work, a revised set of laws were approved. Proper use of these laws by the Election Board, plus the assistance of poll-tenders and ballot counters, recruited by the .Board, should ensure that February's suoFYTMi&Q some wrong, mmv my L ted I sd -.V" F T 0 , m .4 ': M : t -i Ik... M tc i . -m I i ' . I A I i '''' CTT Y1MT .1 .1 VrtV,. . --mm... fr' ' " 'WM election will run smoothly. But for the election to be a total success, more than this is needed, namely the participation 'of all of us as students: students who will go to the polls on February 10th and vote conscientiously. There is more to being a conscientious voter than simply exercising the privilege. What is meant by the term "conscientious voter" is someone who votes after having carefully decided who he or she feels is best for a certain position. To make a careful decision we need to do more than vote for a familiar sounding name. We should try to find something out about the candidates and their platforms. :-;r There are different ways of gathering this information. One method is to read the articles that 772? Daily Tar Heel prints concerning candidates running for major campus offices. These articles will give background information on the candidates, as well as stating what each candidate hopes to achieve in office, if elected. Another method, and perhaps the best, is to attend at least one of the candidates forums held before the election. These forums, which will be announced in The Daily Tar Heel, will provide an opportunity to see the candidates first-hand, questions of them. and to ask When Feb. 10 comes around, remem ber to vote. But before that day arrives, remember to try and find out something about the candidates. , Only by voting conscientiously can wc hope to have a strong and effective student government. Grcg James Elections Board Chairman r ii (CdD WID dD 1 Carolina stude i ouccuiUi Gilley By DON HOD A R T PASADENA, TEXAS Dust swirled before the headlights and gravel crunched under the tires. The parking lot reminded me of the one outside the local redneck bar back home, only this one was several acres larger and out front of GiUey's in Pasadena. Tomorrow niht was for the Elucbcnnct Bowl and riotous New Year's Eve parties, but tonight was reserved for exploring what must be America's most famous bar. .We five displaced Tar Heels squeezed out of Doug's Pinto and headed across the lot, ready to experience true Texas rJ;ht life. We probably could have learned more about it staying back in the Mirriot Mctcl and reading travel brochures. 1 don't care what you saw in Urban Cowboy; Gilley's b net a bar. It's neither a dir.ee hall nor anything remotely approaching a hcr.kytor.k. It's a tourist trap, w hose appeal to normal ads'ts should rank somewhere down there with Rock City and Luxay Caverns. No real Tcxrn would show his spurs there. It didn't take long for me to figure City's cut. We hzi reached the door when I saw a Gre hound dump cut 10 senior citizens, ail wetrin ccv.tcy Th:.t tipped me off. A mIdd!e-2-ei man holding a two-year-c! J and lining up his ether kids confirmed my fCr.erthctrs, my friends pild the. S2 cover so I CO-. J up t!.:c:h tnd wandrrc-J to, th: trrry young' cynic My righteous r.:l:ude s?.ec?J havr served as a Gatlinburg, Cherokee, South of the Border, Carowinds, Wall Drug (anybody else been there?) they don't phase me. But somehow that warm Texas night, I succumbed to a mad desire to become trans formed into that nauseating species of tourist, the one who has to try everything. I think it was the bull. There it waited, smiling at me, out there amid the red vinyl cushions, rocking up and down,, s niveling around and rattling a cow beU tied beneath it. I couldn't help it. I had to try it. Fortunately, Doug had decided to do the same, so we both shelled out another two bucks apiece for tickets to ride El Toro. 'Doug went first. After three seconds, ! ccuIJ tell he'd done something wrong. Never since the Ir'ahition has such a catalogue of rnful expressions erected a human's face. Unfortunately, he didn't tzl thrown and his' face drained v,hi:e as he hctbicrd fcck. Teeth ched, he squeezed cut the jgonlzei a Jvice, "Vl ;t- you co, tor uoa s sake s;t cioe to tne pommel! Evidently he had been sUtlns back i.i the saddle when El Toro charged to life. A miiiiitceni fater, he was closer to the pommel than he'd rcr I swailowed hard. I sudJmiy didn't i?,t to do ills. Why did I have to te a tcuiht? V. y c: utJn't I ; :;t stand in the shadows, sip my beer, j:: J try to lock l;e. the thing almost at full speed and smiling. I swore that whatever happened to me during my ride, no matter what parts of my anatomy were bruised, battered or broken, I wasn't failing off. And, damn it, I was going to smile, too. I think secretly I was hoping everyone would be watching the girl and not notice me as 1 sailed quietly through the air and crashed m a hesp in the corner. For 20 seconds, I hung on for dear life. I I!f the time I knew I was doomed to fa3 off. The other ha.'fjj;---d how I could gracefully throw up. But I sm.I.-J. Lord knows, if 1 did anything, 1 smiled. To my public, it probably appeared a twisted grimace, but to me It was a grin. When I slid off the bull I was itill grinning. I had done it, smile d, and rot fslicn off. The I ieth could lc.e tomorrow and I wouldn't csre. ever bull, the events at CUley's di-Jntegrated I r-r... Mrr. M r: an cndir.s After th ino a hazy t!ur. cr:t:: fd'r.- into into rcl tzll:. I ftciil rr.zny a t ::t threat zr.i several u!J sinr.i H the r.ctcr 1 ... cf Jet Tr t.Ve r:;aJ, )CJ e: i-tcd by -r.t cot.c)s, auiJ ti.; r Why did I have to humiliate my fcf t t 1 r-r.:h l:z. It don't know tehai 1 rn: strcsm ?Z d - n my :: punch i t :irg n ty lit " "Why don't ym jus?.ts m the fc'-'-ir the cptrsior vf. -"J tr to th; cthzr diversions in this cverttown paroiy hcr.kytonk. And there certain! uere p!cnty cf ; !2 r.e from th sounts on te tern r. P--a.. w. C a wftk s s pir;:;.:s for yc; t. :r?. ley talons to pool and cf a 2)$ tO Withwh cr.Jrr I did clattered herring that ccr: CCi: 1 1'.': I kr.-s'a! i.i't rvl c-n the dams thh en and yea czn l et mmcl. Th:n h. aakri'in;. It ta:l S3 . - I was pra;:i;ar?y .,i t : - n c f t:a:i. 1 f. J 1 a : f , rsat'e. I Ic-oVeJ over as the cihrr fc-.il thry had . Ar4 there his iKis t' to V. is t ) ' J i the inaney-ca ': :;J t: J tf ' as. 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