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6 The Daily Tir Heel WeiineMkiy. t.-tm..uy Id. (Itoscr. Shadkoui, Editor Brad Kutrosv, As.wiaw Editor Amy Shaepk, Production Editor Karen Rowley, rVnrs &rtr Linda Brown, University Editor Ann Smallwood, City Editor Mark Mukkeix, and National Editor David Poole, S?c?rri Ew.i'cr. James Alexandes, Features Editor Tom Moose, Ira Editor, Scott Sharpe, Photography Editor Ann Peters . Weekender Editor yT1 14 u m i ii mm jer 4 v V- V , BSth year of editorial freedom The Daily Tar Heel Assistant Masatsj Editors: Lucy Hood, Susan Mauney Editorial Assistant: John Drcscher News Desk: Melody Adams, Laurie Cradsher, Beth Burrcll, Cindy Cranford, Kerry DcRochi, Amy Edwards, Eric Frederick, Dina Gaagey, Cindy Haga, Lorric Howard, Pamela Marley, Theresa Ngo, Michele Pclkey. Bill Pcschcl. Melinda Plymale, Leslie 1 Peyton.Laura Scifert, Dawn Welch, and Edith Woolen; Edwina Ralston, assistant Weekender editor. New: Melodee Alvcs, Mark Aneona, Ted Avery, RoAnn DUhop, Michelle Christenbury, Sharon Darling, Nancy Davis, Orhclia Davis, Elizabeth Daniel, Kerry DcRochi, Lynn Earley, Tracy Lord, S:eve Griffin, Karen Haywood, Charles Hcmdon, Deborah Hirsch, David iarrctt, Dale Jerkins, Karen Komeay, Kathcrine Long, Dean Lowman, Diane Lupton, Elaine McClatchey, Eddie Niekens, Lynn Fcithman, Rachel Perry, Bill Pcschcl, Kathy Pitman, Tin Preston, Cathy Ray, Roche!!? Riley, Mark Schoen, Ken Siman, Del si Simmons, I ranees Suva, Andrea Stepper, Eill Studenc, Jon Talcott, Undsey Taylor, David league, Frank Wctls, Tansmy Vrlht, tad Frank Zang Sperts: Clifton Dimes end Scctt Peterson, assistant sports editors; Kim Adams, Jackie Claclburn, R.L. Cynum, Stefharle Graham, John I (intern, Adam Kandell, Geoffrey Mock. Linda Rc-hertscn tnd Steve S:enenen. I'tatum: Paula Crown, Richard Crown, Teres Curry, Louise Gutter, Manic Hsyworth, Suvan Hudson, Jeni King, Kimhetly Klcmsn, Susan Pruett Luce, Sharoyn Marshall, Joe Morris, Tim Presort, Ed in Rt'-.ton, Kevin Rkls, Ceverly Shepard, Jonathan Smvjie, Dune Veto, Cir.t; With. Arts: Kob Royally, tssistant edltc-r; ftciin IVldov. Phil Gaianes. John Hamilton. Pamela Marley. Cc!..:.e M.--j, 'iflA f. it PfmA!e. Tim Pope, Marc Routh. Larry Re.M IS..- ii, f.i ivrr V. I '.Art, (t:; lc Ar:: D-i I Cre; Ci'.'ey i Danny Itarrcll, arthts; Mail Cooper, Jay ii)fan, V.71 f)t. ' j C ;! - V.rr.M, rAsicsrajrhers. I' ' s: U.---' t O" -., I rr jr; Linda A. Copper, seci ttaryrtcept ior.Ut; ;--r, Jf-ry r.-ldin, accountant. Warren Alien, distribution s f mjri.: .'c r. A .Srr. ;: N ' .y i "d r: Jcif (.:.- .f..-' rjrj, j 1 n p. -C ; L'.C i I . ' i r ' s ! M id. eft. manner; Pa-U Rfetr. adertiiinj r. cve J, Jw! a Km. Rcr.n Marthes. ! inda Mafthe. Juhe , J "y ft.'- j , t aid Tin Vifu1: fe, J reprertaties. -'i D . is i. J - c f ! ' :. Q t O no Slow boil The administration has once again raised the idea of a mandatory meal plan, which most students thought was firmly on the table. Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs James O. Cansler said Tuesday that some form of mandatory meal plan or a student fee increase would be needed to fund renovations of the three campus food service areas. Clearly, the food service here is in trouble. It is perhaps the most universally loathed of the services the University provides. Relatively few meal tickets are sold, and most are sold to freshmen who are away from home for the first time. Since the present Chase Cafeteria, Pine Room and Hunter HutFast Break outlets were set up, the trend away from the use of campus food service has continued. With the concept of residence halls as places to sleep, study and live came kitchens and cooking in dorm rooms. The growing number of restaurants and fast food places downtown and growing sorority and fraternity membership have provided more competition than Servoma tion and now ARA can handle. What seems possible here is that students do not need or want a large- , scale campus food service. The solution suggested by Cansler would either force students to use such a food service or subsidize it through student fees. Even if Chase and the Pine Room are remodeled, as he suggests, it seems doubtful that they will be able to attract many more students. The Food Service Advisory Committee, which is considering alternate solutions to food service problems, is driving for an April decision deadline. They have relented long enough, however, to hold several hearings on the food service before choosing an option. Before it decides to make anything mandatory or levy yet another fee increase, the com mittee should stop to get an idea of how much food service the students can stomach. f What, nie worry? The U.S. Postal Service wants to raise the price of mailing a one-ounce, first-class letter from 15 to 20 cents. The price hike, which would be the fifth increase in 10 years, must be approved by the independent Postal Rate Commission. Before the commission makes the increase, it should listen to the suggestion of Rep. Barry Goldwater Jr. (R-Calif.). Goldwater has pro posed an act that would allow domestic corporations to promote their logos on stamps. Goldwater's proposal,. the Free Enterprise Postage Stamp Act, in volves permitting corporations to bid for space on a limited number of stamps. The government would then sell the stamps to the public for the same price as its other stamps. The bill proposes a one-year trial program with 100 million stamps going on sale to 2,000 corporations at a minimum bid of $10,000. Goldwater's father, Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), has proposed a similar bill in the Senate that would make the minimum bid for a series 5 cents per stamp, or $130,000, for a minimum series of 2.6 million stamps. Regardless of the actual figures, the Goldwaters have a good idea. Ironically, the idea was first suggested 15 years ago in the humor mag azine MAD. In the July 1966 issue of MAD, the magazine's star, Alfred E. Neuman, was featured in a three-page article that showed postage stamps advertising rental cars, shaving cream and soap operas. MAD's editor said that many of the magazine's satirical ideas have become reality. ' This is another that should. There is certainly nothing sacred about U.S. postage stamps. True, many stamps have honored famous Amer icans or commemorated historical events. The first two stamps issued in 1847 featured George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. But since then stamps also have featured everything from college football to the world's fair. Obviously, the commercial stamps should be done in good taste. The U.S. Postal Service could lay down guidelines for the design of the stamp that must be approved. For example, companies could feature a picture of their founder, with a small logo tucked in one corner. The postal system produces 6 billion stamps annually. If Rep. Gold water's plan became law, and the program was expanded to include all 6 billion stamps produced each year, a minimum of $1.2 billion could be produced annually. That's enough to keep the price of stamps where they are, the Postal Service in business and Alfred E. Neuman happy. By JOHN DAVID REED ' and ALEX CHARNS Over 1 ,000 UNC students and faculty members marched to South Building Nov. 20 and took part in a demon stration protesting the verdict of the Klan-Nazi trial. Emotions ran strongly across campus that week; even the most apathetic of UNC students found themselves wrestling with the prospect of, an American justice sys tem which could condone the cold-blooded murder of five people, all recorded on videotape. Black people across the South shuddered that the Klan-Nazi's "United Racist Front" could be given such a blatant green light to roam the streets with automatic weapons and kill at their leisure. Two law professors at the rally spoke of a correlation between the rise of racial violence and the philosophy of the New Right which was, and is,, revamping social policies in Washington. Most students who were moved by the rally went home and wrote off the bizarre verdict as a rare aberra tion of justice. The common rationalization was that institutionalized racism would lead any Southern jury to interpret the Klan's actions as self defense. And after etters-to'.the editor: all, weren't these people who got killed Commucists? Haven't all good Americans been taught to react with a primal terror when they meet a Communist? A group of 40 or 50 students began meeting together in the weeks after the rally. At first we called ourselves the Rally for Justice Committee and we set two primary goals: to educate people about the legal aspects of the Greensboro trial, and to speak out against racism and against government policies which infringe on people's civil rights. In two organizational meetings this semester the committee formally named itself the Coalition for Social Justice and defined a set of concerns and goals. "The primary functions of the. coalition are to provide information about institutions and policies which infringe on basic human rights, and to provide a forum for discussion of such issues. The coalition will also serve as a network for coordinating organized student responses to such policies. We have formed working committees to do research and propose coalition activities in the following areas: , Economic justice to investigate such issues as food stamps, health care, labor and fair housing, etc. Civil rights to work to eliminate discrimination due to race, sex or religion. o Environmental concerns to research policies on pollution, nuclear power and alternatives to fossil fuels. O Alternatives to Militarism to advocate a foreign policy based on diplomatic negotiation rather than mi1itnnc:m. to oppose nuclear proliferation. O Separation of church and state to investigate Moral Majority proposals such as book banning and the Human Life Amendment! We also have a committee which will be concerned with the activities of corporations, and a committee which will gather information on government policies and legislation. The coalition's first project is sponsorship of a forum on the Klan-Nazi shootings and trial. The event, . planned for late February, will include a showing of the videotapes from the shootings and a talk by a lawyer involved in the civil suit. Speakers on the significance of the rise of the Klan are also being considered. Other projects include a campaign to make Martin Luther King's birthday a holiday and the showing of a film about violence to women. Interested persons are welcome to join thesCoa!ition for Social Justice at our next meeting planned for 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in Room 202 of the Student Union. Earle Tockman, a lawyer for the civil rights, suit, will speak at the meeting. The civil rights committee will meet in the same room at 8:00 p.m. John David Reed is a junior chemistry major from Kings Mountain. Alex Charnes is a law student from Livonia Michigan. To the editor: I read in Thursday's Daily Tar Heel that the Carolina Union is sponsoring an Energy Symposium which, according to Nadine Bourgeois, is "not meant to be either pro- or anti-nuclear." Then I read that Dr. Helen Caldicott is to lecture and conduct a workshop on radiation. Dr. Caldicott is vehemently anti-nuclear. Asking her to lecture about radiation is like asking Adolf Hitler to lecture on "Jewish Culture." As a radiation protection professional I am dismayed at the selection of Dr. Caldicott. Her past public presentations and writings contain numerous falsehoods, serious exaggerations, comments and numbers totally out of context, and im possible scenarios. In short, her science is poor. More alarming than her cavalier dis regard for facts, however, are the psy chological manipulations she employs to fire up her audiences. Dr. Caldicott seems to be at the forefront of a radiation witch hunt that uses tactics similar to those in the McCarthy hearings on communism in the early 50s. By equating nuclear holocaust, nuclear power, radioactive waste and low-level radiation exposure, Dr. Caldicott is cruelly and wrongfully misleading her listeners. Her points are made not by reason, but by emotionally terrorizing her audience. She peddles fear. Dr. Caldicott and I are in agreement about nuclear war. Who can argue that there would be few survivors and no winners in a nuclear exchange? But at the other end of the spectrum of radiation intensities, Dr. Caldicott's conclusions and implications are prepos terous. She represents an extremist minority far from the mainstream of science. For example, in its 1980 report on the effects of low-level ionizing radiation, the Na tional Academy of Sciences did not see fit to reference Dr. Caldicott's work, even though it cited over 1,100 references from all over the world. Is this the kind of "radiation expert" that the Carolina Union spends student fees on? I plead with the Carolina Union orga nizers to schedule equal time, not for pronukes, but for persons like myself who are well informed on radiation topics and can give an objective presen tation of radiation effects in the context of other risks.' To do less than this is to admit the agreement of the Carolina Union with Dr. Caldicott's tactics and conclusions. Daniel J. Strom UNC School of Public Health Mi X HOPS J GET OOSD OUT HUM? . ) vjAtfT To Fs 4& Tlt!N'T fOU HA2 ASVT EAL YEAH, HE OeBU HIS FuoQ SI J S - 7 - i Mil Warren reply To the editor: Yesterday several law students wrote to the DTH claiming that I had made a false statement about the candidacy of Anderson Harkov ("Harkov defended," DTH, Feb. 17). I don't know what code of morality is in vogue in New York (or wherever the accusers come from), but in North Carolina calling somebody a liar is serious business. For the benefit of those who say I am incorrect and unin formed, here are the facts. I did not infer Andy's promise to "politicize" th'e Graduate Professional Student Federation from his unexplained comment that he "opposed everything I stood for." I did not arrive at the claim by way of interpreting his statement that he was "the only progressive candidate." Rather, I quoted, almost verbatim, Andy's statement to the GPSF about his intentions. At the GPSF meeting prior to the first election (which none of my accusers ap parently attended), Andy said, "I disagree with Ray, I think the office should be politicized." He then explained that as president he would speak out for ERA, "abortion rights" and other issues. "When you vote for me, you get my philosophy," he added. One GPSF sen ator asked Andy just what his philosophy was. "I am a liberal progressive activist," was the reply. Andy actually promised to politicize the GPSF. As for those accusing me of error, it is they, and not I, who are either misinformed or less than honest. Raymond Warren School of Law Equality To the editor: I was not among those attending the Equal Rights Amendment debate in Me morial Hall on February 9th, but while watching the news, I saw film clips from the debate. When the possibility of draft for women was mentioned by Mrs. Schlafiy, that valid point was met by sar castic laugther by some of those atten ding. Why? The wording of the ERA amendment in no way prohibits the drafting of women. Even though legal precedence has been contrary to such action, women must accept, along with other changes to be created by the amendment, the legal necessity of instituting equal responsibility by sex in the defense of the nation. I respect the basic premises of ERA and I also respect the opinion of those supporters who accept the total responsi bilities accompanying the rights inherited thereby. However, I cannot respect the opinion of women who do not accept the right of Congress to draft women (even though not necessarily for combat duty). This displays a lack of legal know ledge and a basic denial of reality. ERA is for men as well as women and this type of discrimination would be a definite inequality. Steven Casey Laizure Estes Park Apartments Helms9 alboFtioia T1 . f meimciimeifflU BiaeimifCDFeeaBiie By WARREN M. HERN t The recent DTH article by Betsy Russell on abortion legislation and the editorial concerning the Moral Ma jority's effort to suppress information about sex and contraception were timely and well done. It is important that the public in general and this academic community in particular understand the impact of the efforts by religious fanatics to restrict our civil liberties. North Carolina is especially unfortunate to have as its senior representative and chief sponsor of these in sanities in the U.S. Senate, Jesse Helms, whose intellec tual poverty b now inflicted on a national audience. That Helms provides an amusing caricature of the Southern demoguc for the rest of the nation cannot be comforting to thoughtful North Carolina voters. However, he is now a power in the Senate and he "must be taken seriously. He. has offered again his annual 'Human Life Amendment to the Constitution, which would define a person as existing from the moment of conception. Worse, he has now submitted a new varia tion which has an excellent chance of passing the Senate and wreaking havoc on both the Constitution and the federal judiciary. The latest kgi-liUve maneuver requires only 3 majority and is sponsored In the I !cue by I lenry J lyde cf ilL-.e's. The Ietihtion would stipulate that the word "person" in the 14th Amendment is defined as "cxUnr.j from the moment of conception" and requiring "due process before the law." The scscni pin of the legislation w ou'J prohibit lower Federal courts from ru!ir on any !,tl-a!;on involving sborticn. It C1 effectively deny women Iral a tort ions and net ju.l the poor, who hav e teen the customary taf;;t cf Hyde end llch-ns, lit! ,-c ' ..- .:ei W.. If "a r ft t fati, sy ccntrcl to v.r ;:a v hj ; : r -:r v. .11 err, ' u ously enlarge the numbers and misery of a class of people for whom Helms has no understanding nor compassion. This is especially true since he couples his crusade for reproductive profligacy with a plan for eliminating the Food Stamp program and school lunches for children. The fact that welfare costs will rise because of and despite his efforts will confound the progressive fascists who would rather eliminate the poor by giving them fertility control than by starvation of large numbers. Too messy. The presumption that Congress has the collective competence to define the beginning of life for us is gro tesquely absurd, but the prospect of a serious attempt should alarm every citizen. For the biologist, life began hundreds of millions of years ago and has continued in an unbroken sequence ever since. In abortion, the question becomes not when life begins, but who is best prepared to make the decision to transmit life to a new generation: the individual or the state? As a physician specializing in abortion, I have helped women with this painful problem for the past seven years. I can unequivocally state that no one is better prepared to make that dechirm than the individual woman. In the name of "ftttlng government off the backs of the people," the defenders of public virtue will have the state impose that decision by taking away the choice. What a monstrous he they lave sclJI The Human Life Amendment and Statute houIJ de fine a person as eisti. from the moment cf cancer km. When does conception occur? Hsw sou.n after inter course? WvK.!J the cc:. i taker t r;: a pre ". ; tr.l with hins? SV. J A t Mi n r.s. . m f r '-.? v- the l?S rt;- re pri-.f c f a r '...-r;. . ,y trt f t the estra c-d.t.. :.? V, .t f V. -J ... i f. r u.-.? 11. d jti. .fyc :": r'r. ''-? t? sicrr.ri i.::.'rv rr d'.rW ' !!.ur, :f, ':? '.,! the I e ? f x. ,r J;r? V. . i V : r- ;: i a pert? V. ;. a fc .:.;!.'.- U " i ! '.:, u a r.nnv.::':. te an ,V i d m ? Will insurance companies give life insurance for the fetus? If it's a person, why not? Will the intrauterine device, which can act as an abortifacient, be illegal under the new amendment? Will birth control pills be illegal, since they may be used post-conception to prevent pregnancy? What about the fact that any woman who is pregnant, intentionally or not, is at risk of death due to pregnancy? What about the fact that the woman who continues a pregnancy is 10 to 35 times more likely to die than the woman who has an early abortion under proper medical conditions? Is the death of a woman who has been denied a safe abortion a deprival of her life and rights without due process? If the Human Life legislation is passed, will everyone who is 64.3 years of a;;e on the day it becomes taw" ur.ed.atd become 65.0 years cf s;e and therefore gible fcr benefits from the bankrupt Social Security system? The widespread availability of information and tech nology for performing abortions and providing contra ception would make such legislation a laughingstock. It might occur, however, that one or more cantankerous, dissenting physicians who are notorious for performing abortions w ill eper.ly challenge such a preposterous law and require the protector! of virtue to demonstrate the primacy of a su-week embryo over a disagreeable a dult drsctr. Th -srwl .ii h. fibril -a ; . a rersarJ ch'-I.e In rr: J in d -7 ecee 'i:l:Jutl c.rvl: Ait' Jtf l l.:J:as l- :'.:.ilt.' .s wh.j. fortun .:.-! fcf a'l of us, w..J never r :.i fAetl.ivd.!::. :r.i. 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