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n"uv I Thursday, April 29, 1982The Daily Tar Heel1 1 Cobey explains philosophy eath of an r D By JIM WRINN Remember Bill Cobey? If you have been around UNC long enough, you probably remember him as UNC's athletic director. And if you paid attention to the 1980 elections, you remember Bill Cobey as the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor. :.' From athletic director to lieutenant governor might seem to be quite a jump, but Cobey doesn't think so, and this year he's trying to break into politics again. "I noted (Gov.) Jim Hunt's first elected office was lieutenant governor, so I didn't think it was too big a jump," Cobey said recently. Cobey said he was encouraged to run for lieutenant governor by several top Republicans including North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms, 1980 gubernatorial candidate I. Beverly Lake and members of the National Congressional Club, headquartered in Raleigh; but the 42-year-old Chapel Hill resident said his candidacy was not pushed solely by the Congressional Club, in order to field a candidate any candidate against incumbent Jimmy Green. And he is adamant in that feeling. HUMMEL what can I say, ACE7 Take car and God Bless, np there In the frozen North, Bro, Okay? For all you've done; at SN, as editor, as a great friend, thanks and good lack! And let's stay In touch, huh? I guess all that re lain to be said: "I am, indeed. Eke Kia.' " Love and best wishes CIIO SUSAN, THANKS FOR MAKING this year so great! I don't know how you've put up with my bad )okes so far, but don't plan to stop now! Love ya, Mike. , STAR-DATE 29. 1982 THE COMPUTER has determined that one James "PET of 02 Teague has been a friend of the utmost quality and character. Kirk Out! KATHY AND SUSAN. REMEMBER to "keep the faith!" Name? Sylvester! K-have fun in E-house next year, well miss ya. I say I say Susan! "I left my heart in San Francisco." Thanks for everything! Mucho carlno, Mrs. Gonzalez. GRACE WE'RE GOING TO be big seniors next year! You're a special roomie, thanks for being there when I laughed and when I cried. Have fun in Japan this summer! Don't grab too many Cs! Love, Reb. TED HOPKINS! HOPE YOUR future is full of the happiness you spread each day. You are one of a kind! Best of luck! Your Senior Year Admirer. To 422-425 AVERY: Thanks for a fantastic year! Thanks for the birthday party too. FL wouldn't have been the same without you. Each of you are special to me and IU miss you! Melissa. DTH STAFF COME ONE coma all to ray house this afternoon for a farewell bash. Maps are at the office. Jeff Mock bring the vollyball net. Come early stay late. See you! Paula. ALAN THANKS FOR ALL the popcorn and the apple juice and the pepsi and the bud and the margaritas and especially all the "inspiring" com ments. Budget Bitch. 4WOTU-WHAT AN EXCELLENT semester! Psychoanalysis, Rocky Hor ror (Welssss) Beer, beer and more beer, we muss get more faced, no beach trip, this in, Upper Deck, Molly's, Budget Quotes, and your very special friend ship. Thanks! Come see me at the beach. It's got to be better than Franklin! Take care Lynn BRENDA: AFTER THREE YEARS of everything, what can I say? I love ya!! Lisa. BETTY JO AND RICK (and of course Harold!) Thanks for aO your help and pa tience this semester. Sorry for all the bad moods but sometimes if s hard to be cheerful at 1 am! IT1 think of yaTl this summer. Little Lynn. LINDA, YOU'RE THE GREATEST! You'll never know how much you've helped me this year! I love ya! Pam. EDWINA AND RACHEL, THANKS for being such great editors! You're the best! Pam D. PAULA, YOU FINICKY JOHNSON! I don't live here, do I? THANKS for being a great roommate and for introducing me to MAN OF LA MANCHAI11 And tell Bobby to go straight to hell! Love, Pam. DONNA, OKAY TUBBO, TAKE It off! You are a great roomie, even though you do have to lose 100 pounds! But seriously lefs all have soma sour cream potato chips and Cella (or Andre)! Love, Pam. DARLA, THANKS FOR ALL of the CON GO SQUARES!!! Lef a get together and lust after Magnum soon! Thanks for be ing great roommate!!! Love, Pam. P.S. Remember You're like the scarecrow In theWlztlt JOY. GOOD LUCK WITH Superman, Lois! Let's do our laundry together next fall! See you at the wedding, and especially at the bachelorette party! You can swim in my pool and I'll jump on your trampoline! Love, Nak PHYLLIS. DANETTE, AND ALL you other Sigma girls Thanks for being so hospitable! You're all great! Pam D. KELLY-THANKS FOR BONG the best bro in the world! I love you, you sophomore you! Thanks for Cabaret, Angel Street, Glass Menagerie, Romeo and Juliet, and especially ANNIE! Also, HI to Jeff, Jeff, and Randy. Love, Pam. VANESSA: FROM REFEREEING TO playing IM. Here's to Purdy's, Henderson Street, PJ, and Stacy. Thanks for standing by me. You've been a great friend. Amanda. GOOTS (AND BEAMER): TO the greatest bunch of guys around. Thanks for everything Goot 2. TERESA, CINDY, KIM: THANKS for the barbe que supper as well as for all the other suppers, din ner, and nice things you've done for me over the past three years. G.B.F. MAGNET, I LOOKED THROUGH MY thesaurus and could not find the words to describe what you have meant to me. You are simply the GREATEST! Thanks for the most fantabulous fif teen months of my life. PTL and 143! Your Not So Secret Admirer. RDH THANKS FOR A fantastic year and even a personal! We've made it together through tears and laughter and we'll make it through this summer just don't say "love" or "parting" and we'll do okay! You're very special to me. Nora. STUMP AND FURHEAD JUST wanted to say good-bye and thanks via DTH. Yall are great and I'm gonna miss you. You better come see me in Cobb and I'm NOT a North Campus prepster! Love. Nora. "There's not been a Republican lieu tenant governor since the Reconstruc tion, but I ran because the race deserved competition regardless of the 'one par ty' state we have." s Cobey said he had thought aboit en tering politics since 1974 when the Federal government issued-Title IX, regulating women's athletics. "These rules and regulations were unreasonable. They were written by people without experience in collegiate athletics. I saw in that and the UNC HEW desegregation suit federal en croachment and misallocation of funds. It unnecessarily used federal resources and University money." Cobey did admit that federal regula tion was necessary. But, he said, "Federal regulation is often overbur densome. It's like the old story: 'What one man can do well, two can't do at all.'" So, Cobey, still firm in his stand against government regulation," is run ning again this time for Congress in the 4th District against Raleigh native Leo Tew. "I don't know when we're going to announce. We're waiting on the redis ricting to come through, and besides, we can be more flexible in scheduling meetings and appearances." TO THE BROTHERS OF ZBT, thanks for making my four years at Carolina EXTRA special! I love you guys Jane SD. HERE'S TO THE BEACH. BREAKFAST, (coffee!), Purdy's, Robin, community closets, THE OFFICE, happy hour, Dallas, and a very special friendship. Love, KS DONNA-WHAT WOULD THIS YEAR have been without those weird and wonderful loft talks, free flicks, "frostless" refrigerators, strangers, lost laundry tickets, picking flowers in the dark, the Three Musketeers, primal scream therapy, rainy days, pizza, midnight walks, balloons in the face, and door decorations? You couldn't have been a better roomie! Here's to the summer and next year's quad! Jan IF YOU PICKED UP my Ba 180 textbook by mistake in the review session Tuesday night, I would appreciate having it back. Call 933-6367. DEAR FAMILY -WE WILL miss you all terribly this summer. Ours Is a precious relationship, too wonderful for mere words to describe. Only WHO would have believed it possible! We look for ward to sharing water with our brothers again this falL Love, Mom and Dad. SECOND FLOOR MOVER Here's to snowball fights. Imitations, Elephants. Fat Baby Jokes, NCAA, Surprise Birthday Parties, Chapel Thrill, late night study room parties and best of all To gether again next year! Love you all! The Fresh man DTH SALES REPS THANKS for all your help! I will miss all of you! Have a wonderful summer and come back soon! XOX Paula. TO PAM. "KTT-KAT," Audrey. Tee". Wendy, and Dora (Craige's fantastic six) You're special people! 111 miss you. Love, "The Hot One," Benita. DONNA: ITs been 3 years! We have traveled much: From James to the wilds of Carrboro, to the Bel-Air, to Miami and the Magic Kingdom, to the Queen City. I'll aiways remember all the fun on the way and in between. Fm going to miss you. Love always, Linda. '1 ' MONGO'S AND OFF ALL DAY: You know who you are. We are the GREATEST thanks to our leader and wonderful players. GO HEELS! The Haney's. YO MORRISON There's no way to repay you for what you've given me. With you I've had the best times, met the best people, and learned about life. Heed the words of a wise AD. Sincere Thanks -XGOV ill HEY JANE THIS ONE's for you and the rest of my new senior friends (KEP, FM, SP, BP, and HOWEY). Good luck. With Unicorns. -J WHITWORTH AND COLLETTE III, Thanks for making this year so much fun. Parties, happy hours, quarters. Troll's, Gator Bowl, Softball and wrestling have all been mega-awesome. Well miss you alot. Love ya! Fred Sandford and Jack's niece. TRACY, HEY LITTLE SISTER! I love you! Tell Mom and Bill 111 be home on May 12! PAM. 8th SOUTH THANKS FOR being such a super hall! You've made my senior year the best ever! Congrats on Hall-of-the-year! Good luck on exams . and good luck in life! Please come see me in Boone! Love yall, Meneta. Marx ITS NOT A white Porsche or roses from Bruce, but a birthday personal from us. Happy 21st! Keep the revolution alive! Love, Stalin, Khrushchev and Karl. DAVID GOOD LUCK ON CPA and in the hard cruel world. Thanks for a wonderful semester. Looking forward to the beach. ILY Cathey. BRYAN, CONGRATULATIONS, BIG BROTHER! Four down and four to go. YouH be a sensational dentist, but no "Easy radio" PLEASE! Best of luck and all my love. Julia. HEY KINCAID! CAN YOU believe it? We're half way through. JOHN E. HAPPY 22 to my favorite personal banker! Good luck on exams. (Last ones ever!) Can't wait for summer! Love always, MAB. PUNCHY: I JUST WANTED to tell you how happy I am. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me. Please don't leave me. I love you GM. 2ND FLOOR PARKER: THANX for making my first year as an RA great Good luck on finals if you need a shoulder to cry on you know where I live. Have a great summer! Love, Sally. PHILLIP HAPPY 44! Good luck at PhiL Hope to see you on 48. Couldn't let you go without sending you one! Gachi RICKY, WILLARD, SANDRA. JODI, and everyone you've made this year great! Thanks for being such terrific friends. I love y'all! Keep in touch. Love, Janice. BUTTHEAD. L'lL PARKER, CYNTHIA, SUKIYAKA (my ice cream buddies!) Tooney, Di, Bj, Andrea, Annie Fanny, Moles all (especially Wadd!), All my new ZXE Brother's, all my Avery and Connor friends, and to all who touched my life this year (whew!) Thank you for making this year the best! I love you all! Wasy (AKA S.B. AKA SPARKY) LAUREN, 1 AM GLAD that I finally met you (wish ft would have been sooner!) If I gave you the im pression that Fm crazy about you, then you're right! Hope to see more of you next year, LLS. UK HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! Two years is only the beginning! Let's celebrate in style in NYC! . . . Need another campus tour? Love ya EAP. TO THE GANG OF four: do you remember Goebels, going mobile. Domino's with extra ' cheese, arctic breezes, The Zone," and all your assistants? Is it copasetic? Looking forward to next year! Have a good summer! Assistant 1. . JOHN, I'M SO GLAD we found each other. You mean so much to me. 1 hope that the many miles that might soon separate us won't matter. I love you! Linda Mac. GAYANE, LINDA, LINDA, NANCY. Sue. 4th floor Connor, Anne, David, Richard, MK, Claude. Kevin, John. Mark, . . . thanks for helping to make this year memorable! Have a wonderful summer I love you all! Carol. 1st GV1LLE EAST. Y'ALL have made my year great! I'll miss you this summer, esp. the suite heart sorority. Love, your little filly from Ky. AL. Cobey's campaign to date has' been just that. Mainly he has been wooing district and precinct chairmen, speaking to a group here and organizing volunteers. But soon Cobey and his staff, working out of a Chapel Hill of fice, will be campaigning. "We just got our stationery Friday." "I haven't decided on a platform yet," Cobey said. "High on the list will be fiscal responsibility; getting spending under control and limiting government's spending to the growth of the economy is a top priority. "It was one of the positive issues that came out of the 1980 campaign: A con stitutional limit on state spending. That's why I founded the Taxpayer's Educational Coalition to plant the idea all over the state." Cobey said he believed the idea would be taken up by the General Assembly in either 1984 or 1986, with support from his advocacy group, the N.C. Citizen's Association, Federation of Business and other manufacturer's and retailer's associations. - In preparation for this year's cam paign, Cobey resigned as chairman of the coalition; he stepped down to be a member of its advisory board. "We'll be getting help from some po litical action committees and private in PHAME: YOU SUCK!!! (You too Janet!!!) SCRABBLERS OF 4th West Cobb-What will 1 do without you this summer? Thanx for all the games and good times! Think of neat ways to use the Q, X, J & Z over the summer. Love ya! Deana ELIZABETH, HAROLD. RICKY AND ANN P. The time has finally come no more late ads, last minute changes, special favors or 47 corrections. You've been great. Thanks. Betsy. AD STAFF. PAULA & MIKE This semester's been great! I've enjoyed smoking your cigarettes, pinching your buns, forgetting to proof your ads and asking silly questions. Glad I get to do it again next year. Will miss y'all Deana. FILM COMM: MONTAGE: Marathon meetings, Sid and Nancy, Monop, pop corn gorge, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Soft and Wet. 929-LADY, Air Beaatar. DO A. How the hell ant I going to survive without you seniors? Come visit! Love Linda GEOFFREY Here's your last personal unless you go to grad school. It's been a great semester. Thanks Cor being such a big part of it! With much love. Melissa. KAREN. ANN. LYNN P. AND LYNN E.: Thanks a lot for making this rag run that much smoother! Take it easy your lov ing bitch. TO MY BEST FRIEND EDITH. I don't know what rd do without you. Hope ya have O's in Spain. Remember. I hrv ya!! Sheryt DEBI, YOU ARE THE BEST roommate a girl could ever have. I'm gonna miss ya! Have a nice summer! (You too. Davis!) Love yall Sheryi THE CHOSEN SUITE. Here's to a Fantastic Semester and our last chance to get in and out and keepin' about Yoho Yoho Yoho. Scheherazade. R. TOAST: If s been unique, to say the least but worthwhile. Thanks for put ting up with my temper and warped nUnd (even if you are slow. . .) Have fun this summer. High Point isn't so far away. Love R. BILL: TM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS summed I just hope the emus don't get too out of control. Love, Stacia. APOTU. C.H. 'Bans.' MEAT, Edgar Allen Mingis, SJU Haig. the Hockey editor and last but not least our Bronx God and Fearless Leader: DTH Burnout comes to an end (or a pregnant pause), but the depraved minds and Freudian budgets never die. Have a GREAT sum mer and lef s blow it out la Paula's hot tub tonight! Love, the U Wretch. HERE'S TO THE BOOM-BOOM SISTERS! You guys will never know how much I've depended on your advice and drinking companionship ... one good drunk deserves another. Have WILD time In La. and England! Love, Rachel MARSHA (BlondJe): Here's to good friends, major and basic, happy hours! (I did what?), the AT, Sig Ep Chi and initiations. Baseball and Wrestling (JHYA). Have a good summer. Love, your future apartment mate. J.C. IN 220 MOVER: Greatly appreciate your pep talks, but don't scare about Gimghoul. McGowan, I hope you get what you've been looking for aO year. May your razor revolve PILOT TO CO-PILOT Keep your chin up, a smile on your face and in your heart, those sparkles sparkling. 1 love you. Morning. ' CHRIS THANKS FOR A FANTASTIC YEAR. Charlotte and Atlanta may be farther apart than Ehaus and James, but does that really matter? Love ya, Mary BEVERLY, THANKS FOR BEING A SUPER roommate and helping me through my first year. We've had a blast: GGG, road trips. Poptarts. crazy friends. 'All my.' mixers, late night talks, and more. Next year should be even better! Thanks! Linda POTATO CHIPS? You are the only per son I've known to get "hot" and really not be. Honestly, I've no regrets, and will miss yon this summer. But. thaf another story. Anwey. we still have to finish the wine. And yes. my roommate woke up from the thunder. But again, another story. Make room for your new table, and Ifs still the 5th or 6th for Chutney's. Good luck this summer, you'll do welL Keep in touch don't forget us non-union peons. And honest ty, ninety percent of bliss is extreme happiness. EDDIE. KEITH, ART, DOUG AND DOUGAL: The girls are sure gonna miss the "boys," but we know you can't stay away from the beach for too long. We non beer drinkers appreciate your drink ing our beer quota as well as your own at China Gang. Love, E.B.K. . . .HERE IT IS. SHKU: your last SINGLE Per sonal! It's now. only 23 days! Just a note to say, IDUSLOFU muchly; your own little Shkuface! H.B.B. III. We just got out of the shower and we thought we'd call. Is Rick there? Oh well, well just talk to you. Here's to the best ratchin' fretchin' guy at UNC. to sexual deviance. Gator Bowl '82, B.C., milkshakes, "wonderful spam," dynamo hum. Police in; Charlotte and Door parties. Here's a few suggestions for when you face the real world: never leave your suitcase in a parking lot, always keep your brother's phone number in case the Who come to Charlotte, always check your wallet before you eat at the Porthole anc! when your car smells like gas carry it to a garage. What? You went to Chapel Thrill? (Rat-tat-tat-tat). Well ifs time to "clamp down" and forget the XTC of "ina-goda-da-vkle." Well miss your Thursday after noon show, late night rap sessions and Uno but mostly Hugh. baby. Distance will not affect a friendship like ours, so no goodbyes, just see ya later. dividuals." And he expects the Con gressional Club will aid his campaign, this year. "They have said they will help me as much as they are able," he said. "Rather than money, I'd like to take in services like access to their mailing lists, television ads and polling services. They're a resource center, and besides, ' they couldn't invest more than $5,000 in the campaign." Television commercials produced and run by the Congressional Club during the 1980 campaign portrayed Sen. Robert Morgan as supporting "the marxist government of Nicaragua." Morgan lost to John East in the ensuing dissatisfaction. But Cobey isn't worried about being tied to the Congressional Club with such controversial tactics. "An over whelming majority of people look at the candidate. The media may play up the relationship, and certainly some people will vote against me because of the help of the Congressional Club, but you get help . from wherever it can come from." Jim Wrinn, a junior journalism and political science major from Franklin, is state and national editor of The Daily Tar Heel COLLEEN: Knock'em dead on your CPA's! You know you can account on me. How about a drink this summer in the U.K.? You fan, Stan. YO-EL. Do you squeak when you walk? You've done so much to "grow me up." (As iron sharpens irori . . . ) 007 better watch out! Nobody does it bet ter than our Lord. He proved jit in us. 1 love you forever, fa Kira.KK: ROCK-N-ROLL TO SAVE MY SOUL with Philip and Ginger at the Porthole. The beach, no sun. but still we had nut. The towel trick, the ok' Easter Bunny, a hand for the boy who thought he was funny. Kenan, our tears, and aB of our fears. TH save you k kiss lor each day of our years. I love you! Longring CHERYL-THANKS FOR ALL THE GOOD times. You're a real sweetheart. Have an excellent summer. Watch out for "glubius grand." John -4- EILEEN, DESPITE MY ACTIONS OF THE past few months, I still have pleasant of yon. Have a nice summer In the sun. Your not so Secret and st&l hopeful admirer. j BUNS! SUPt?l-MEAT LAW. WELL WEEN. I can't believe ifs over. I have to say this has been a great year. You're the best roomie 1 could have asked for: Don't forget B ppt & "God's will" Love, Baby Anne. SANDY. JOHN. CURR1E. DIANE, Wynne. Sherri, Kay, and Kim Thanks for being die great friends you are, and for helping me make my first year at Carolina a great one. Love you all, Lisa (Knees). . - J.P. AND TIL-HOW long do we have to wait for payback this time? Diane so what's the plan to day? Or is it no plan? You can't say we haven't tried. Lisa. CHIPMUNK CHEEKS: YOU WANT roamance? You got it. Can the Embers substitute for the Mexican Movies? Can the beer substitute for the champagne? The Romance isn't dead. Ifs just burled under the newspaper work, and Peyc experiments. Patience is a virtue. Love ya. KATHY D. THANKS FOR THE BEST two weeks anybody could have! They say absence make the heart grow fonder. How well will the path be beaten between Tobaccoville and Q-2? Charlie T. A-NEF I.V. THANX FOR BEING AROUND in a complicated time. Remember roomies, Dudley, Bowl games, spring break phone calls. Rich Square road trips, and, of course, Ralph. Hows- about M.D. for M.F.77? I believe too. RMF. AP Thanks for all the good night hugs and kisses, but especially for the friendship MP BYRON-BARCLAY. POOH, AND I shall miss you terribly next fall, but well look forward to mega road trips and other fun escapades. You've printed many bright colors in my rainbow these last eight months. This rainbow is special; there's no pot of gold at the end because it doesn't end. Thank you for being my special friend! ILY M. TRISH: I've loved you all the while, and IT! love yon in August. So have fun la Hickory and work very hard, and remem beryou are stm a spoiled brat! P.S. I sti3 love you. Keith. BOOM BOOM SISTERS Thanks. The lease duck photo editor. YO HUMMEL, Thanks for everything. Wouldn't have made it without your help. Paint a house fee me. Drop my name in Prov. Whafs your final feature topic. I haven't got one yet. The Tail Photog SALLY. ELIZABETH, here's to keeping your identity even if you do wake the red-haired kid np. Have a blast in Merry Old England and take care of that strange Louise girL Try to keep your voice in a low octave. Has been photo editor MARY LOU: Here's to clouds and Delta Sigma Phi mixers. We could have done without them. MAd! Jan JACKIE Ifs been a great year, so lefs have a heMacious summer to top it off! Aw, Flank lin St.. thank you vety much!; JACT-JECT-GREG-flock. herd; drunken stupors: and "Home James!" 1T1 never forget ft all (my poor body won't let me!) Keep "singing about ft!" Love ya lots! Jan DREW-SORRY I NEVER MADE IT to the house. It was my loss. And if you ever get a chance, don't miss the Houserockers! Good luck always. BRIAN: Thanks for the ride in your "fleet," and Congrats on surviving four years here! Come visit this summer in one of your "many cars." Life is tough! Love ya! Boris' owner HEY 33-GOOD LUCK TO YOU and the team the res't of this season and to you always. Belated . congrats on your fob offer P&G knows a winner when they see one. Your goofy friend. PAM You really helped make my year e-e -excellent Here's to three more. RL MARY Thanks so much for everything, even if you did turn me into a head! But I guess I turned you into a groupie. Love's so-o-o tough, don't we know it! . . . THE DTH YEAS IN REVIEW: We saw "Meat" pain fan on the bathroom door; RPOTU tried to "f . . .this nsT lingua lost it and wrote death threats; The Task Force found that 11 of 10 men suck; "Halj" took control; SX. went sexist; The Features Ed. changed to Men's to Hockey to. . .; "Buns" finaJSy found In tellectual stimulation; APOTU couldn't hang wllh Mad Dog; And J.D. even joked on Wedaesdsyoncs! - By LINDA June 30, 1982 will probably come and double-checking their calendars, however, across the country will remember that June 30 was the deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. What should have been a day of celebration will instead be a chance to mourn the demise of a beleagured but noble idea. ERA, comatose since the 35th state, Indiana, ratified in 1977, is fading fast. It will take a miracle to revive it by June 30. Alice Paul, a leader in the women's suffrage movement, wrote the first version of ERA in 1923. The present 24-word statement was approved by the Senate in 1971 and the House in March of 1972. Forty-nine years after it was first introduced, the proposed 27th Amendment to the Constitution was sent to the states for ratification. The exten tion won three years ago runs out in just two months. At first the victories came quickly and convincingly. State after state said yes to ERA. But something tunny happened on the way five years ago, the amendment stalled. And Why has such a simple proposal failed when poll after poll shows that the majonty of Americans support equal rights? There are a number of reasons, not the least of which involves the diversionary tactics of those opposed to ERA. Opponents have raised the dreaded spectre of unisex bathrooms, totally violate the basic right of privacy. They have also painted vivid mental pictures of mu tilated women bleeding on battlefields, victims of the amendment that drafted them into combat. Then there are the horror stories about moral decay, about an epidemic of les bianism and abortions. Unfortunately, sensationalism works. Almost everybody is for equal rights. But torted image of ERA, many people hesitate to support the amendment backed by "radical feminists." "ERA has nothing to do with bathrooms women in a private or sexual way. It is as general and conceptual as the Constitution," said Betty Friedan, author and founder of the National Organization for Women, when she debated Phyllis Schlafly here last spring. "All men are created equal. What we now will be saying is that all persons are created equal. All the rest is nit-picking and trivializa tion." ' - Schlafly countered that ERA would create the happy homemaker from the hearth into the work force. In one fell swoop, ERA would destroy the family and erode Americans values. ERA's failure. also reflects the country's conservative stance. Unlike his six predecessors, Ronald Reagan opposes ERA, although he insists he is for equal rights. Actually, the president has moved in the opposite direction. Last summer Reagan pushed through Congress an economic package that eliminated benefits for recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Eighty percent of all AFDC recipients live in households headed by women. The Justice Department no longer uses numerical or statistical formulas in connection with affirmative action, which makes equal-employment goals for women and minorities meaningless. Reagan has also weakened the EEOC and Title IX. Only 44 of his 398 top-level appointments have gone to women and they hardly represent a step forward. Anne Gorsuch, head of the EPA, once tried to dismantle the Colorado state Commission on Women. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has often sided with Stanford classmate and ultra-conservative William Rehnquist. Others argue that the amendment is unnecessary, that there are plenty of existing laws that deal with sex discrimination and provide adequate guarantees. But one fact still stands out: Women earn 59 cents to every ERA would be a solid, straightforward reference point in the battle against sex bias. In the words of Friedan, ERA is the "constitutional underpinning" needed for con sistent enforcement. An explicit expression of congressional intent would also fortify the Supreme Court's power to rule on sex discrimination issues. In Frontiero v. Richardson (1973), Justices Brennan, Douglas, White and Marshall clearly supported the theory that gender is a suspect classification, thus affording women the same protection blacks receive under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. In the absence of a constitutional guarantee of equality, the fragility of women's rights is ever present. "I temporarily left my family in Texas last August to pour all my energy into ERA," said Colette Roberts, a board member of NOW. "I'm optimistic but very realistic. We're a few votes away everywhere. The majority of people clearly want ERA, but a few legislators are holding it up. It took the Civil War to get thgiMtji Amendmgj(P?9ple are terrified of change. But we're" not twiddling our thumbs here We've akeady, fqrmu lated strategies for reintroducing the ERA." Hopefully, ERA's failure to pass by June 30 will prove to be only a temporary set back. The women's movement is hardly dead. ERA is no panacea and was never meant to be. But its eventual passage would be symbolic of the emancipation of women from the home as a primary source of identity and the restructuring of the marketplace to meet the needs of both males and females. "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." It's that simple. Linda Robertson, a junior English and journalism major from Miami, Fla., is sports editor of The Daily Tar Heel. UNIVERSITY DESK (Dean, ASson, Pant, Laurie, Charlotte, Dave, Liz, Kyle, Robert, Nancy, Cheryl, Mark, Sonya. Mary ML. Lisa, Mary Charles EL, Teresa and David): Tat not really as bit chy as I scent! Although I never say so, yon gnys have done n great job for nse and I appreciate it. Have a great sunt amerl (Sat be back by August 15...) Love, Your Editor R. ANN Hope we can stand each other next year, especially since yon wear a smaSer size. . . You've been a fabulous MJE. and even better friend. Here's to a perverted, drunken senior year at the DTK! Love, Wretch TO THE CRABBIEST, WHININGEST BEAR ON campus: 1 love ya! Chicken DENISE & KATHY. I am really going to miss you after we enter the "rear world. You both mean more to me than words can express. Thanks for the laughs, the smiles, the friendship. You're crazy and I love you. Marty. LINDA AND JILL: Thanks for being such special roommates, rn miss it! Love you, Stacia TAT. LEO. SPS. CEH, KM. EAP? Though I haven't been around much, it's been reaL Sorry I missed hurry. Oh welL IU miss yon, SPS. CEH! Love. LVP LYNNE, ANNS P AND M, SHARPE. S.L.. J.W., Karen: Thanks for the support and friendship in both jobs. TH the continuation of the rag' in August. Lynn P. MY- "SECEET, ADMUmT: I hope you dont mind that I put down in words how wonderful Cfe is when you're in the world. Simply I love you. Your etraw bery blonde. BETH: LESS THAN A MONTH: Sunny, Southern Cat, white beaches (wish 1 could take my Cfesuard along!), Carson,. Disneyland, warm air! Unt3 LA. living, Lynn TO MY DEAR ALBERMARLE ROOMIE: Perhaps youll marry a Baptist. Probably. Maybe. Smug. How in the journalism have we done it? Bohemian Bap. Hope you learn to aim your spit at the sink. Love, TWTT. KIM. KATHY, ELISSA, MELINDA, AMANDA, VALERIE, ZED A: I guess the world can't be full of goddesses, but it's been a great experience living with six people who definitely fit the bill! Have a wild, summer, Liz. JULIE LUSHERYL: It's been a bash hearing you splash. We hope you get a bathing suit who knows, it could look cute. Here's to the girl who makes Leg as, but won't show hers. Your suttees. TO THE CISCO KID: Best of luck in Houston and thanks for a0 the memories. Stay in touch and remember "your smile still owns my soul oh my love goodbye." 111 miss you. Always, Cisco. ROOMIE: Here's to corruption. Trolls to Purdys. athletes, major lust, BBJs, studette, blowing off class, forgetting happy hours! Edith, PJ, and the Infamous ETiaus Passion Zone (may it live forever!) Miss you next year. Love, your roomie. P.S. Don't forget cocaine and crude conversations! Love Stretch. ROBERTSON go much like any other summer day. After a significant number of men and women to ratification. After Indiana approved it it has been sputtering ever since. ' ignoring the fact that not even ERA can because its opponents have created a dis or our military security or how you treat a "gender-free society" and would wrench changing political mood and its swing to a dollar a man takes home. OH BETSY, OH KAREN, Oh AZ, bet ATs coming back! Bye Bye Bntterfflesl LAC JANE. PAM, AND LEIGH ANN: UNCs the greatest and so are you all! Gonna miss you, but the fun has just begun!! Love ya, Susan. . LISA: HERE'S TO PURDY'S, TUXEDOS AT Swenson's, MASH, Le Domaine, GD's, Crazy Zacks, Prince, daiquiris, Sinatra, the beach. Dynasty, and VO at theaters. See you tonight. Love, RBH GEOFF AND SCOTT, THE YANKEE-HATING baseball stars of Morrison. We've enjoyed observ ing you this year. Watch that bathroom window; take down thaf poster! Until fall, your midnight visitors. L. iitJ 4TH GRANVILLE EAST: Yon are say choice for 112 of the Year!!! For those of yon leaving the ranks of the "Great GhT Club, carry on the tradition. 1 reaQy had so much FUN! The 1981 Omni potent Social Chairman. JANE CALLOWAY: This was the year of GCM, hose bags, 2 a.m. compoaed-et-the-typewrrter ' papers, steak-ums, the DTH. domesticity (or maybe not), summer-social school flash, the JJ&D method and midnight runs to Ilardees. I wCl love you forever. Good tuck next year! The ace crlbbctte. DOKTER, "What it was, was a good roommate and a best friend. 1 hate to see you leave, but 1 wish you the best In the port city. Enjoy the beaches; but try not to invest in Mr. Xerox again. Don't forget to buy Betty Cocker your appetite could get expensive! Love, Tudder S.L. Thanx. You know. The other out-law. DRU I love you. Fll miss you so much. But. Ill come visit. You've been the very best there is. Your next roommate will be lucky. Thanks for EVERYTHING. Thanks also 4th Connor, the lounge rats, esp. Lisa and David. I love you all, made Carolina worth it. Goodbye. Keliie NUKE CKOTTS AND MKS. ROGERS!!! KMOTU AND JWOTU: EVERETT! Hey guys, it's been great We've, en joyed "RAing" here this year even though y'all were sometimes a pain in the ass! Thank : your selves and THANK US! Well miss ya! Ken and Jeff EROTU, SMOTU. JHOTU, CHOTU. and all you old folks. We miss you or at least I do. EROTU EROTU my editor thanx, you made It possible. . Wow like hey man. SMOTU My MO Good luck everyone CHOTU and JHOTU the Outer Banks. Goodbye. ' .' ' ; APOTU, DFOTU, RPOTU, JWOTU, let's go to the beach with beer and pogo and drive back asleep with squat-stops. Budget quotes! Molly Ma gu ires and the omen! Buzz on the phone and a voice from beyond. Sand in my shoes to Charlotte. Party in Washington. Wretch! And beer down my underpants! RPOTU, you make me wet. APOTU keeps me awake. (I love squat stops). JWOTU and Attila the Nun. Love ya all signed sexy-legs ee KDOTU from one Ass. Ed. to the other beware the omen. 1 have your knocker, EE will defeat EA anyday! Jeffrey Scott and Michelle thanx, you know! KMOTU alias ee alias AE NUKE TIU3 BAG!!!!!!
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