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6 The Daily Tar HeelTuasday, March 3. 1981 Jim Hi mmii. .h.. 71 Si 'nan Mai 'ni y. i.iu;,t .. Mark Murri it. .!., w, Uh Y N ATI IAN Rjc:i . Asuiu lJu Edwina Ralston. mf,Trj iiW Jt )i IN Rt YSTFR. ( jty.t-Jikv Q IARLI.S HERN1 X N . Nun- uml Suwmi! lUliwr Beth Burr f.ll. s,n ;... , Clifton Barnes, .yw v. Tom Mx)RE. Am zJih - Donna Whitaker. . Mini, LJiiif Sr.OTT SHARPE. rkyn,rl,y bliuv : , Ann Peters. wirWr Uim Norman Cannada. Omkuisman E (3 TyTVT f TV? rfJs. 1 T IP's . 17 l''Ti Tfs T!T! TVTs, ' "TTTTK (I 4V 89th year of editorial freedom aulty mortgage The initial hoopla surrounding President Ronald Reagan's proposed budget cuts has subsided, but as the dust settles it is becoming clear that students seeking financial aid next year can expect a rough ride in the coming months. If Reagan's proposals are approved by Congress, nearly 750,000 stu dents may be forced to drop out of college this fall, according to a report submitted last week to the House Subcommittee on Post-secondary Edu cation. Middle income families and students attending private schools would be hurt the most, but the sweeping cuts are likely to affect almost everyone unless Congress makes some amendments. Reagan's final budget is scheduled to be released March 10 and hearings already have begun in Washington that are likely to continue throughout the spring. Although it appears inevitable that substantial cuts will have to be made, it is unwise to mortgage America's future for the present. Congress should realize that Reagan's proposals not only will affect almost every college and university in the nation, but might deny funds to students who need them the most. This year nearly 7,600 UNC students received financial assistance from the Student Aid Office, in the form of grants, loans or scholarships. The program that affects the greatest number of students- and one which will suffer most under Reagan's plan is the Guaranteed Student Loan pro gram. Under present guidelines a student can take out a loan regardless of financial need, with the federal government subsidizing the interest rate. The guaranteed loan program was established years ago, but only re cently, with the soaring tuition rates and revised loan regulations, have 'Po1L p,g's P,clu.re; 'What a fine thing to ask a nice clean otes' By K1MBERLY KLEMAN Even, if you didn't know that Mel Blanc is the voice of most Warner Brothers car toon characters you'd have little trouble guessing his occupation upon meeting him. His voice something like that of Sylvester the Cat without the lisp is strangely familiar and rightfully so. Blanc has made over 3,000 cartoons in his 44-year career and is heard by over 100 million people each 'day. His face, too, somewhat resembles his cartoon characters and assumes the fea tures of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Speedy Gonzales and Pepe LePew with each change in voice characterization. "One day while I was working, a friend of mine started snapping pictures of me," he said. "What the hell are you doing?' I asked him. He told me I looked just like my characters." At any rate, by the time you noticed the Bugs Bunny tie and tie pin that Blanc always wears and his embroidered Bugs Bunny shirt pocket, you'd certainly be come suspicious of his identity and would probably be humbled. This man is the most well-known and most prolific voice specialist alive today. The late actor Peter Sellers, a noted radio celebrity at one time, described himself as the Mel Blanc of England. A voice specialist is a good one if he can create two or three voices, Blanc said. When he last counted, he could do over 400. "There are about 1,000 voice imper sonators now, but not many who do voice characterizations," he said. "1 won't do impersonations. To me, it's like stealing." Blanc said he created every character's voice from a picture the animator showed him. "I can see a picture and come up with a voice instantaneously," he said. "Sometimes, it takes a bit longer than that." Blanc created his first cartoon charac ter's voice in 1937 when he was shown many students taken advantage of it. Reagan Administration officials say the program is under careful scrutiny because of widespread abuses. At UNC the number of loan applications more than doubled in one year from 2,000 in 1979-1980 to nearly 4,500 for the current academic year. While many students applying under the guaranteed program truly, need the money to make ends meet, other middle- and upper-income families have gone beyond educational expenses, and used the low interest loans to pay other bills. Congress can institute several measures now that should help to trim the budget and still ensure that needy stu dents are able to secure loans. : The first, and most practical move would be to base the loans on finan cial need. Stricter guidelines would help to eliminate abuses and provide money for low-income students who are not eligible for grants. Another possibility would be to eliminate the interest subsidy provided by the government.. Under present rules, a student pays 9 percent interest on his loan starting six months after graduation. The government picks up the difference between the 9 percent and the market rate at the time. Regardless of what Congress decides to do, it should act quickly. Stu dent aid offices across the country will not be able to process applications until they receive some indication of the amount of money that will be available. At UNC, the problem is compounded by the increase of appli cations since last year. The Student Aid Office had received 10,000 appli cations as of mid-February, an increase of 2,000 over this time last year. Many educators who have lobbied for financial aid programs in the past admit that the Reagan Administration has taken a hard line and will work hard to implement the president's proposals. The administration is resisting pressure from special interest groups and insisting that all the cuts are justified. It is therefore important that Congress act responsibly and not sacrifice long-term goals for short-term budget cuts. By working to provide money for college students Congress will avoid mortgaging the nation's educa tional programs and ensure that a post-secondary education is available to every qualified student based on need. Jewish boy to do'," Blanc said. He said he visited a pig sty a few times to make Porky's voice realistic. Blanc created Bugs Bunny his fav orite character in 1938. "They showed me a picture of a rabbit they wanted to call The Happy Hare. They wanted him to say, 'What's cookin'?'" he said. Instead, Blanc suggested they use the name Bugi Bunny after animator Bugs Hardaway and the expression "What's up, . Doc?" a popular colloquialism. "They told me he was a little stinker, so I thought Brooklyn or the Bronx. ! ended up combining the two accents," he said. Though Blanc works almost exclusively for Warner Brothers, he once worked on a movie with Walt Disney. . "They wanted me to do the voice of a hiccupping cat for Pinocchio. I worked for 16 days and was paid $50 a day," he said. "When Disney heard it, he said he couldn't use it because the children would think the cat was drunk. He cut all but one hic cup, which cost them $800. "Here" Blanc hiccupped "you just got one for free." Though Warner Brothers cartoon characters have gotten cuter over the years, their personalities and the cartoon scripts haven't changed, Blanc said. "The writers were always way ahead of the times. They wrote for all ages," he said. "You watch them now and you see all the little innuendos you missed when you were a kid." In Knighty Knight Bugs, a cartoon Blanc showed when he spoke here last Thursday, Sir Osis of Liver and Sir Loin of Beef were among the Knights of the Roundtable. This cartoon was one of six Academy Award winners Blanc helped to create. Production techniques are markedly different now than in previous years, Blanc said. , "Most of the cartoons that are on Saturday morning TV are done in limited animation. The character blinks his eyes a bit, moves his mouth and the scenery revolves around behind him," he said. Warner Brothers still produces cartoons for TV in full animation, where the char acters actually move, but, Blanc said, the process took 10 times as long. "A fully animated, six-minute cartoon takes 125 people nine months to animate, at a cost of $300,000 to $400,000," he said. "The cost is probably why they stop ped making short cartoon clips for movies in 1963. But now, a lot of people have been asking for them. Warner Brothers might begin again to make them," he said. Blanc is currently doing voice char acterizations for a full-length animated movie called Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs and a new cartoon, Dino and the Mouse. His other cartoons appear on all major TV networks. "When they tell me one network got 1 t j 5 . V 1 r.'cS Clanc OTHScott Sharp artist has made over 3,000 cartoons in 44-year career the best ratings one Saturday morning, I don't care. Three of my shows run simul taneously on Saturdays," he said. And then there are always commercials. "The American Express commercial was the best piece of publicity I ever re ceived. Two years after it was made, peo ple were coming up and asking, 'Hey, are you carrying your American Express card?' " he said. Blanc also has produced commercials for Nine Lives Cat Food, a drug store chain and several charities. "I enjoy visiting children's hospitals whenever I can. It gives me a good feeling to know I can make them laugh for a half hour or so," he said. "That's why I'm in this business. I do it to make peo ple happy. In these hard times it's nice to know I can make people laugh." Blanc's most time-consuming work, however, involves speaking at colleges about twice a week. In two years he's lectured at 109 universities. "I've been all over the country with colleges, and I think all college students are the same. Cartoons appeal to them because college kids are cartoon freaks," he said. At 72, Blanc has no plans for retirement. "Did Truman Capote or Cary Grant retire? I love my work. I'll keep on working 'til I keel over," he said. Kimberly Kleman, a sophomore journal ism major from New Providence, N.J., is a staff writer for the Daily Tar Heel. letters to the editor CGC criticized far cut tmg residence rmts To the editor: After attending the final meeting of the 62nd session of the CGC, I cannot let my disappointment in the terminating of grants to. residence halls, fraternities and sororities go unexpressed. It appears that the Finance Committee's main objection to the grants was inequity. Since there are only 7,400 students living in residence halls and approximately 2,000 in fraternities and sororities, this means there are 10,600 students not eli gible to benefit from the grants, thus re sulting in inequity. Considering the man ner in which the CGC distributes money, it is not feasible to expect equity to exist in every appropriation. All students are not going to benefit. equally from their fees. Except for Chapel Thrill, no other activity or organization funded by the CGC encompasses as many students as these 9,400 affected by the grants. Another point about the issue also concerns me. Even though the proposed bill had been researched for quite a while, some members felt there were too many unanswered questions. Passing the bill on to the 63rd session may have been viewed as a "cop out," but would cer tainly have been a better alternative than ratifying it. It also seems to me that many CGC members forgot their constituents, who put them in the position they were in. The power some of the members had in distributing money appears to have stood in the way of their ability to voice the concerns, of those they were repre senting. One member went as far as say ing that it was not the Council's purpose to improve university life. 1 hope this is not the-general attitude of the body in charge of distributing student funds. 1 realize the decision of the 62nd CGC regarding the grants must stand. My only concern is that future council members look at both sides of an issue carefully and vote according to their constituents' best interests. Jeff Bundy . 02 Teague Library needed To the editor: I would like to respond to a letter to the editor, printed on February 25, 1981, about the construction of the new library. The idea behind the construction of the new library is that space for book collections and for staff processing areas is needed not only now, but in the future. One librarian put it to me this way: "One of the most important character istics of a library that people don't always realize is that it grows rapidly. If it runs out of room for books, does it stop buy ing books as they are published? How long can it do that before it becomes a bad library nobody wants to use? Books are now in storage in a warehouse in Durham; without the new central library, you would see a great university library soon becoming a mediocre library." Mr. Conder's comment that our "cen trally located facilities" are adequate is questionable I invite him to speak to any library staff member in the Catalog, Acquisitions, Periodicals, Circulation, Humanities Reference, or BASS Refer ence departments, or any other person who works in Wilson Library and let him find out how "adequate" facilities are. And certainly he must have used Wilson Library and has found ut how confusing the stack arrangement is! I agree we need more dorms because of the outrageous rental prices for apart ments in town, and that the new library took a lot of parking spaces (many library staffers used to park there!). 1 think I can safely say that the new building will not only be attractive, but extremely useful for all students at Carolina, especially those who might be discouraged from using Wilson because of the confusing set-up in the stacks, which, by the way, is due to the library having to build addi tions to increase space for collections. Mike Moycr Undergraduate Library Letters? The Daily Tar Heel welcomes letters to the editor and contribu tions of columns for the editorial page. Such contributions should be typed, triple-spaced, on a 60-space line, and are subject to editing. Column writers should include their majors and hometowns; each letter should include the writer's name, address and telephone number. lie Dottoni Line Sign up Ever since he put a sign on the back of his pickup truck, Dennis LaRoche of Jacksonville, Fla., has had it made. The 24-year-old power plant techni cian, who decided it was time to settle down, hung a sign on the back of his pickup proclaiming, I NEED A WIFE. ' LaRoche doesn't have a wife yet, but things are looking up. He said he was dating 12 women who answered his ad. The sign lists his specifications: part- or full-time job, rich or poor, with or w ithout kids, single or divorced or separated. Must like to cock food, clean house and make lots of dynamite love. Have fun indoors or out." It all sounds pretty sexkt, but LaRoche said the rr.pc-se kept him busy. "They call me Dennis Romeo down at the power r !r,t be cause girls keep showing up at the cits to talk to me," he saiJ. Whether LaRoche's Idea will work in Chapel Hill remains to b? seen. After ail. tmny of us dsn't have cars znd we'd look pretty strare wa'Ua;; around campus with t4:m cn our backs. But don't fret if ou doni own a car. There' aly)s ihs trmty, time icJcd mcihocj: the DTil pmonals. Life in a landmark la By JIM HUMMEL rMon-vote k Voter participation is getting to be a major problem at all levels of govern ment. Even with the DTIi exhortation to "exercise your franchise" (which doesn't mean walk your pet), far less than half of all students voted in the campus elections two weeks ago. Of course, it could have been w orse. They could have opened the polls and then had no one show up the whole day. The Elections Board would be stunned, which it usually is. But that's exactly what happened in the last elec tion in Moline, Illinois. There were only six eligible voters in Coal Valley Township and three of them had already cast absentee ballots. The other three were either too busy or uninterested in the party pri maries to select candidates for the Moline mayoralty and 4th Ward alderman race. Cut the five election judges appeared and collected their $50 fees. That, added to the price of printing special ballots for the election, cost Rock h!.:r.J County $500 a rather expen sive non-election. And ihatS the bottom line. Old East The University of North Carolina Has been designated a registered national historic land mark. This site possesses exceptional value in commem orating or illustrating the history of the United States. U. S. Depart men t of the Interior National Park Service 1966 For most people on campus. Old East is just another building, one of many at an institution that is rich in tradition and boasts of being the oldest state university in the nation. But for some people, including many of the dormitory's 96 residents, the building is special and carries with it a collection of stories worthy of that tra dition and some we'd all like to forget. The Department of I lousing notified me two necks ago that once again I had survived the lottery and was eligible to return to Old East for the fourth year in a row same dorm, same room overlooking the Old WcU. "You're going to be in Old East again?' most of my friends have said, convinced that I must be out of my mind to stay in a dorm my senior year. A$ a journalism major, and one ho is perpetually behind schedule, Old Last is the perfect home because I just fall out of bed and info class over at Howell Hall. And if by some incredible miracle I want to study, I can stay in my room because the walls arc thick enough to drown out the stereo blasting next door. But life in Old Cast is not all roses, and Ih'mg in in historical landmark is not easy. As a bora fkie historical it$. registered with the National Park Sen ice no ;,, my home has been designated tour-orthy' and there iv atu Mime tourist hcll-bcr.t on finding the act room where Thomas Wolfe is rumored to have hveJ when Ik came to UNC in the early 1900s. AntxxJ who has teen in Old lx l, though, knos that is the least of our troubles: "Dominos Pizza. 'We didn't order any." "Is this room 22?" "Yeah." "Old West?" "Sorry, chief." s 1- Old East, Old West, New last. New West. South Building. It all becomes pretty confusing at timet. Old East is set up on a suite system, and it has caused more than a few people to base ncrsous breakdowns trsjng to find a friend's room. There are three tower in the building; each one is separated from the other and has its own entrance. This is good or bad depending on how you look at it gnd can serve as cscdknt indica tor of how devoted sour friend are. Mj! people just gisc up looking for your room and go do An to Hector's to get an egg roll. As is the case iih any bastion of hi.tory, there are bound to be stories that are pavwrd d:rn from genera tion to generation exaggerated alang the say and Old East's repertoire is no different. Moa f the tale concern peer1? who are sup;xncd to !uc hcd in the dorm people hie Thomas sAuHc, Andy Gr if fith and Charles Kuralt, among other tut ruNxl inowi tot sure whether they really dJ te there. It terms as if al r,u4 every famous persin tlut tfvrr i::n-,h-d UNC LrJ in OtJ l a !, K;f it U d,l iWvlt i,s set .? - r j m t va iU-y did anyway. Makes for great conversation with the folks back home. In the olden days each tower used to have two huge swinging doors that you had to Tight to get into the building. It was a real hasile trying to carry a refrigerator or furniture in or out, and outright deadly if you hap pened to get caught on the rebound by mistake. I think we had a hotline to North Carolina Memorial Hospital alerting the emergency ward to watch out for our maimed visitors. Several years ago some bright soul figured it was time to get new doors. What he didn't realize w as that as an historical landmark all changes had to be approved by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Last fall we finally got the new doors, but already they're falling apart and there b talk about the good oP days with the swinging doors. How quickly they forget. Despite the hassles I enjoy my home, and if there's nothing ir.tcrc.ting on teles i-.ion, a quick look out the window usually provides an interesting view. On a given day there is everything from the cheerleaders practicing in front of the Old Well during football season to Woody Durham interviewing M.ke O'Koren (with Old East in the background of course) and the usual mobs of kinder garten kids killing each other to get a drink out of the Old Well. If they only knew how the water really tasted Next tune sou go by. tale note of the multitudes panin by the building, admiring the stunning srehitec turc and historical significance. Hut if best to view from a divtance. It seem a if vome msterkvit red headed kid has been known to rxur buckets of wt?r out the window at odd hourt of the day and r.ctody know when he'll ttrtke r.cu. So don't t surprised the next time you see a Domino Vui dd.sery body run r.irg d-n the street staking wtf jyvt om.;der it hhfory in the making. Jin HutnmH, a junior jtmrnjLurt e.nJf .'..'. u .- f fjijf from Cenflon, SL,, if eJjorvf It : D. ' Ur lied.
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