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6The Daily Tar HeelFriday. April 9. 1982 To pro or not to pro 90th year of editorial freedom John Drescher, Editor Ann Peters. Mana Editor KERRY DeROCHI, Associate Editor Rachel Perry. University Editor ALAN CHAPPLE, City Editor JIM WRINN. State and National Editor Linda Robertson, Spom Editor AL STEELE, Photography Editor KEN MlNGIS, Associate Editor ELAINE MCCLATCHEY, Projects Editor Lynn Peithman. n Editor SUSAN HUDSON, Features Editor NlSSEN RlTTER. Arts Editor Teresa Curry, Spotlight Editor ByS.L. PRICE Food fight (part IV) (Just foolin') When The Daily Tar Heel printed its annual April Fool's edition last Thursday, everybody knew our front page was a farce, right? Gee whiz, it even said The Daily Fishwrap on the front and featured polka-dotted underwear next to the "Briefs." People didn't really believe that the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen had signed to play at Chapel Thrill, did they? Much to our surprise, they did not that it helped ticket sales much or anything. Still, the fact that we got phone calls on the matter proves that our credibility ranks right up there with The New York Times and Dean Smith. ' Actually, though, we got far more phone calls about the story by Jacques Strap that said UNC basketball star Michael Jordan was turning professional. Irate fans including one of our own sportswriters called all day to see if it was true. A few folks got downright mad at us, including some people from the drama department who did not like our use of a scene from their production of Frankenstein to illustrate our Chapel Thrill story. None of the reaction The Fishwrap received, however, came close to matching the reaction of N.C. State's paper, The Technician. Unlike our edition, where one page of the paper was fictional and the rest of the paper was not, the entire Technician was fabricated, except for three stories. That mix of fact and fiction apparently caused more than a little confusion. One of the stories had a defeated student body president candidate facing arson charges in a ballot-box burning. A lawyer who had spoken to the candidate called The Technician and wanted to know the source of information for the story. He was in formed it was not true. Oh. Then WRAL-TV in Raleigh called and re quested information about several sentences in the story which implied the candidate could have been linked to several fires at Meredith Col lege. Interviews were arranged and appeared on the 11 p.m. news. Some people just can't take a joke. No, The Fishwrap did not cause that much fuss, but it was still fun. It was so fun that we decided to do it again today. Just foolin'. Georgetown down 63-62, less than 10 seconds left, Fred Brown with the ball. Brown, top of the key, fakes left, hesi tates, and passes it off. Way off. James Worthy, out of position, glances for a split-second at the ball and the champion ship floating in his hands, looks around and bolts. He drifts to the hoop, then slows and is fouled. It's over. Impressions: Senior Jimmy Black thrusting his right fist into the cool Super dome air. Sam Perkins and Worthy laughing and embracing. Georgetown coach John Thompson comforting Brown with a light hand on the shoulder and a few soft words. Worthy cutting two strands of the net. Scene: Troll's Bar, April 7, 1982. Peo ple, mostly males, are crowding the bar, pushing, pressing, trying to edge closer to the television set. The 1982 NCAA cham pionship is being replayed for what seems the hundredth time. The bartenders don't venture an interested glance towards the glowing source of excitement. They've seen it repeated too many times before. I v James Worthy The tide of conversation rises and re cedes, floats about unsettlingly and falls upon everyone touched by North Carolina basketball. Will he go? Will James Worthy, who took The Game into his large hands, rammed the basketball through the floor and brought the title back home to Chapel Hill, for sake his senior year and turn profes sional? Only one North Carolina player has done it before Bob McAdoo, who spent just one year under Dean Smith's wing before jumping Tar Heel bail and opting for the pro route. Only one. Tra dition stands against James Worthy. Before Worthy, not one North Caro lina player had brought home the title for Dean Smith and Co., not one had ever stood before a hypnotic crowd of 25,000 at Kenan Stadium and heard the chant, "one more year" repeated to him. Not one. Popular opinion stands against James Worthy. No Tar Heel will ever be remembered as much as Worthy for his performance against Georgetown, his awesome there is no better word slam-jam dunks that reversed any semblance of Hoya mo mentum, that somehow gave Carolina the breaks that had never before fallen in the Final Four. No one. History stands against James Worthy. But Worthy should go. The current junior class of college bas ketball, with Virginia's Ralph Sampson, DePaul's Terry Cummings, San Fran cisco's Quentin Dailey, and the now departed Dominique Wilkins can easily be termed the blue-chip collection of all stars, the best that amateur basketball can offer. Let's face it, Wake Forest's Jim John stone is considered one of the top three senior big men in the country. With Sampson leaning affectionately towards Charlottesville and another shot at the national title, Worthy seems a prime can didate for the No. 1 draft pick. And that, means'big bucks. v What else can he accomplish here? Worthy can leave UNC with the ACC regular season and tournament gold lock ed safely in the glass vaults of Carmichael, with that national championship and All America status inscribed on his honor Stay home, James To the editor: , .. After watching the NCAA championship on national television, I could not help but think back to earlier in the season when Carolina was battling Atlantic Coast Conference teams with a vengeance. Dean Smith finally had a winning combination. Worthy, Perkins, Doherty, Black and Jordan. Obviously our team is still young, or should I say in its prime. With only one start ing senior Jimmy Black leaving, it would be safe to say that we are going to haveanother terrific season in 1982-83. Amid the championship celebration these days, one's heart could not help but feel heavy with sorrow entailed from rumors of James Worthy going pro. True, Ralph Sampson did reserve a room on Virginia's campus. True, James Worthy could be the No. 1 draft pick. That means bucks! Lots of bucks! What sane individual could resist such economic rewards? But wait. If we could keep our inside game strong just one more year, we can win the NCAA championship for two consecutive years. This is an appeal to the heart of James Worthy, to the heart of all true-blue Tar Heels. James Worthy, please stay just one more year! His spirit and competitiveness have charged us all with excitement. So let's give the guys all our support. Encourage superstar James Worthy to finger roll and slam dunk the Carolina Tar Heels to vic tory once more. Steve King 33 Old East Letters to the editor Food service To the editor: I wish to thank The Daily Tar Heel for providing coverage of the work the Residence Hall Association has been doing concerning food service on cam pus. However, very unfortunately, be cause of a few small mistakes in word ing, RHA's press coverage has made us appear uninformed or inconsistant in our views on this very important issue. To straighten things out: 1) RHA does believe that our campus needs a good food service, and if the current service cannot continue to ope rate at its present level, the food service should be renovated rather than closed. 2) RHA is opposed to placing any limited group of students on a manda tory room and board plan. We feel it is unfair to arbitrarily force a potentially unwilling group of students to bear the burden of providing the entire Univer sity with a working food service. Past University experience has emphasized that diffusion of costs for any program should be spread over the entire pool of potential users of the program, as evi denced by the student health fee. 3) RHA supports University-wide, in dividual budget accounts which would allow students and faculty to purchase any item at any food service operation on campus, including snackbars. The required monetary sum of the accounts would be based on break-even analysis of the food service system, which should include forecasted income from volun tary participation in the food service program, as well as interest income from prepayment in the program. We also realize that adjustments should be made for participants with differing ac cess to campus food service. 4) Recognizing student desire for good food service on South Campus, RHA strongly advocates the retention of Chase Cafeteria as a viable food ser vice option, as opposed to giving up on South Campus food service. It would be unfair to deny South Campus residents ready access to university food service. RHA is continuing to work with both the administration and Student Govern ment in an effort to provide our campus with a good food sen, ice. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact someone working on the issue. Scott Templeton RHA President Better headlines To the editor: ; On April 2, you ran a story titled "Rhodes scholar to study abroad." As if there is any other way. It's a little like saying, "Morehead scholar to study at UNC." And Thursday we read, "Britain con cerned over Falkland." On the same page is a story about Britain's declara tion of a war zone around the islands. The headline is about like saying the day after Pearl Harbor, "U.S. annoyed at Japan." You can do better than that. Robert L. Stevenson associate professor of journalism roll. Another year would be anti-climactic; this year he can go out a winner. Although Worthy insists that his ankle broken midway through his freshman year is fully recovered, it would seem a tender spot ripe for injury. Why risk that already fragile ankle with a season that may turn out to be painfully futile? If re injured, Worthy's value to the pros would drop like a deflated basketball to the hardwood. Would it bounce back to its original high-paying heights? Very doubt ful. There will never be a better time for him to go. His performance in New Orleans raised his market value to new heights; UNC coach Dean Smith has said that if the circumstances money and team were right, he would encourage Worthy to go. James Worthy, for his own financial and personal well-being, should exercise his option and begin receiving money for his talent. Sure, it would be great to see Worthy in a blue and white uniform next year, and yes, his presence down under the basket would make the road to Al buquerque that much smoother. But Worthy will never see this opportunity again; to pass it up would be an amazing act of loyalty that could end up hurting his future. There's a prevailing attitude that seeps into any discussion about Worthy, a feel ing that he should stay to boost the Tar Heels to another national championship because this is UNC, where loyalty tran scends all thoughts of money. The only loyalty Worthy should con sider is loyalty to himself. What junior here, faced with a $500,000 annual salary, would turn down such an offer to spend another year in Chapel Hill? To expect similar behavior from Worthy is the height of selfishness. His college aca demics can still be completed in the off season. Worthy has brought to UNC every thing it has ever asked for: a national championship. To ask him to sacrifice himself even further for the sake of the school is a bit ridiculous. James Worthy should go pro. The stu dents here should encourage such a deci sion. S.L. Price, a junior English major from Stamford, Conn., is assistant sports editor of The DailyTar Heel. Botany-zoology merger mishandled By KAREN HAYWOOD Editor's note: This is the second of two parts dealing with the proposed merger of botany and zoology depart ments. Today's column examines the way the issue has been handled. Just as important as the merger of the botany and zoology departments themselves has been the way the whole matter was handled by administrators and faculty members. ' There has been a lack of communication and under standing between the administration and the two depart ments since the merger was first discussed, said Dr. Pat Gensel, an associate professor of botany. "Some people in favor of it (the merger) in theory are opposed to it be cause of the way it has been handled." t In October 1980, the botany department was scrutiniz ed by an external review committee. In its report, the committee recommended that botany remain a separate department entity, called for another professor of botany and recommended that department in-fighting be ended. After the review, the botany department immediately sent a letter to Williamson asking for permission to look for a new chairman with expertise in plant physiology or molecular biology, according to a report written by two botany professors. In April 1981, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Samuel Williamson met with department mem bers and told them that botany could not hire a new chairman, that undergraduate enrollment in botany was too low and that the botany department had until November 1981 to find a solution to the problems rais ed by the external review. At the meeting, Williamson said there were several op tions open to the botany department: (1) it could do nothing and decline by attrition, (2) it could find a new chairman, (3) it could form some sort of agreement on how to solve the problems, (4) it could replace the various undergraduate programs with a degree in biology or (5) it could merge with the zoology depart ment. Williamson said that if no other solution could be found, it was likely a merger would be used. Within two weeks, the" botany department voted unanimously to request a unified undergraduate degree program in biology to replace the separate programs in botany, zoology and the biology curriculum. Then the department began to prepare its formal response. In September, six weeks before the department re sponse was due, Williamson and G.P. Manire, dean of the Graduate School, announced their decision to recom mend to the chancellor that a department of biological sciences be created to replace the botany and zoology de partments beginning July 1, 1983. In a speech before the faculty council meeting in March 1982, Williamson said that his perspective on the issue had changed. "It became apparent that changes in the zoology undergraduate program toward a more bio-logical-labled set of offerings would erode still further the enrollment picture of botany," he said. "Finally, I studied, listened and read about the substantive intellec tual and scholarly dimensions and noted the fact that elsewhere, department units had expanded to include plant and animal sciences because of their underlying unity and the underlying sets of pluralistic concerns." The deans' announcement took the form of a charge to a newly created committee, the Richardson Com mittee, headed by Professor Richard J. Richardson, chairman of the Political Science Department, "to ex amine and, if appropriate, assist in the implementation of this decision" to merge the departments. Several botany professors have said that the Richard son Committee was not created to discuss whether to merge the departments, but rather, how to merge the de partments. "The major feeling was that the decision had been made and there was no further reason for postponing it," said Max Hommersand, a professor of botany. "The committee felt it would get us over a difficult period easily." The committee also recommended that the merger take place in July 1982, one year earlier than originally planned. A delegation led by Hommersand and including four other professors obtained an appointment with Chancel lor Christopher C. Fordham to present the objections of the botany faculty. The chancellor listened to their com ments, asked a few questions, said he was fairly far along in the decision-making process, but promised he would consider the information presented and would discuss the matter with Williamson and Manire, a botany department report said. Upon returning from the meeting with the chancellor, the five learned that in their absence they had received a letter from the chancellor's office, saying that he had already accepted the recom mendations of deans Williamson and Manire to create a Biology Department. Merger has not suddenly become an issue during the last few years; it has been discussed several times since the 1960s. Thus, it was no surprise to either department. Still, some faculty members believe their opinions have not been considered in this merger. Vlt has been muffed so badly that there will be hard feelings," Dr. Charles Jenner, professor of zoology said. "It is an important matter and it hasn't been handled correctly." Many people who may have been in favor of the merger are against it because of the way it has been handled. "It's sort of like the sergeants giving orders and ex pecting the privates to respond," Gensel said. "But we've all been trained since the B. A. level to- think independently." Karen Haywood, a junior journalism and English major from Charlotte, is an assistant managing editor for The Daily Tar Heel. A British tug-of-war begins By TERESA BLOSSOM An unexpected move caused Britons to drop their stiff upper bps and, as one London tabloid put it, "It's war!" England is in an uproar over Argen tina's invasion of the Falkland Islands, a British colony 1 ,300 miles off the coast of Argentina. This week, Argentine Presi dent Leopoldo Galtieri dismissed British officials from the island after setting up a military junta. Argentina believes that the islands are legally theirs inherited more than one hundred years ago from Spain and that England illegally seized them in 1833. parliament that she knew of the imminent attack. She has also stood firm against demands for her resignation although she accepted the resignations of the British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington and two of his top aides. The British are unshakeable in their claim to the Falklands. The 1,800 resi dents of the islands are of British descent and as such are subjects of their mother land, Englanders say. Although military experts believe that England would win in a battle between the two countries, Thatcher has not ruled out the possibility of reaching a settle ment through negotiation. Still, heated words are flying between the countries. THE WEEK IN REVIEW But the cries of indignation ringing out from Britain tell another story. Already the British have launched a fleet and drawn an exclusion zone around the Falklands. The British have also threatened to sink any Argentine ship that comes within the 200-mile zone. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has . frozen Argentina's assets in England while standing firm against criticism from So far the United States has not allied itself with either side. But, in a telephone conversation with Argentine President Galtieri, President Reagan did say that the invasion by Argentina had dealt a "heavy blow" to U.S. relations with his country. Secretary of State Alexander Haig has been dispatched to London by Reagan, who is currently on a holiday in the Cari bbean, to see if the dispute over the Falk lands can be settled without a military clash. April chill While things are heating up over the Falklands, the weather here has been un seasonably cold. The National Weather Service reported the coldest April freeze on record as snowstorms struck in the Midwest and Northeast. The cold weather means bad news for farmers across the nation and in North Carolina. Temperatures plunged to record lows in five cities-across the state, leaving some of the state's fruit crop damaged. The record-breaking low for the triangle area was 27 degrees, which broke the 28-degree record set April 6, 1950. The unusual cold was good news for state firefighters, however. Lower wind speeds and colder temperatures helped firefighters to contain major fires in Hyde, Bladen and Harnett counties. Last night's scattered rainfall should help more. The bad weather also delayed the open ing of many American and National League baseball games. The season began on Monday but some games were either played in chilly winds or cancelled be cause of snow. Lawmakers dead Two well-known lawmakers died this week. Gov. James Hunt expressed his sadness Tuesday at the death of state Rep. Robert Jones. Jones was on his way home from a meeting of a legislative study commission on women's needs when his single-engine plane crashed in a pasture in Ruther-fordton-. Jones, 50, was serving his sixth term in the. House. He was only three miles from his destination when the crash occurred. . A former justice of the Supreme Court also died this week. Abe Fortas, born in Memphis, Tenn., died of a heart attack on Tuesday. A cabinetmaker's son, For tas served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court before bis career was cut short by scandal. He was 71. Bus fares up?. Bad news may be ahead for town bus riders. It may cost more to ride a Chapel ' WW? GVS M Yafc BlWKWSHT ID WGmHK? YW,S0N, ONE W ALL TUlS WlllBE YOURSf ' Hill Transit bus if a bus fare increase pro- . posed earlier this week is accepted. The proposal calls for a fare increase during CHT's "prime time" from 7 to 9 a.m. or from 3:30 to 6 p.m. During these times, riders would have to pay 50 cents. At other times when ridership numbers are much lower, the fare would be 40 cents, its present rate. The peak-time pricing will spread de mand, transportation officials said. The biggest increase however, would affect bus passes. A 12-month pass would jump from $90 to $112.50 while a nine month pass would cost $92.75, up from $74.25. A three-month pass, which now costs $31.50, would cost $39.50. The six month pass would jump from $54 to $67.50. In addition, several routes would be changed if the proposal is. accepted. A (North Forest HillAirport Road), G (Colonial Heights) and N (Northside) routes would be combined into one route. The Transportation Board also pro poses to combine segments of the L and J routes. ' Teresa Blossom, a junior journalism ma jor from Hope Mills, is a staff writer for The Daily Tar Heel. I
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