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6The Daily Tar HeelWednesday. October 20. 1982 w flat to ar it wiss mountains and bombs Ofs P0r .year of editorial freedom John Drescher. CJiVr ANN PETERS, Managing Editor Kerry De Rochi, cain- Editor Rachel Perry, University Editor ALAN CHAPPLE, City Editor JlM WRJNN.Sa WNarfWEiitor Linda Robertson, Sports Editor LAURA SEi'fERT. News Editor BOGged down No one was surprised last week when the UNC Board of Governors voted not to endorse a proposal for higher state aid to state residents who attend N.C. private colleges. After all, the state budget is tight and the BOG obviously feels an allegiance to first aid the already suffering UNC system. But one also wonders whether the BOG would have endorsed the pro posal even if money was not scarce. State law requires N.C. private col leges to route their requests for state aid through the BOG. The law is in tended to help coordinate and plan higher education in the state, and at the same time produce a spirit of cooperation between private schools and the UNC system. Instead, the law seems to have done the opposite. Routing requests from private colleges for more state aid through the BOG provides the BOG with an inherent conflict of interest. A limited amount of state funding is available for higher education. The BOG's first allegiance is to the welfare of the UNC system; naturally it cannot always make an objec tive recommendation to the legislature. ' Once a recommendation from the BOG is made, the legislature is not bound to follow it, and frequently does not. For these reasons, the law has not been effective and has given the BOG problems since its inception in 1973. BOG member Walter Davis wisely asked Friday that the BOG pass a resolution asking the legislature to change the current law so the BOG would no longer review requests by priyate schools for more state aid. The screening of private aid requests could be done by the Advisory Budget Commission, which already must review budget requests. The BOG and the legislature should heed Davis' request and eliminate the BOG from its needless and unhealthy involvement with the state's private colleges. - Insufficient funds Area bankers are probably happy that State Sen. Charles Vickery, D-Orange, turned himself in Tuesday after finding that he had been charged with issuing worthless checks. If he hadn't been bouncing around as much as his checks, the whole mess might have been avoided. Now he faces a service charge he probably never expected. The rubber check incident began last month when two criminal sum monses were sworn out against Vickery by the owners of his Raleigh law office. They said that Vickery had paid two months' rent with bad checks totaling $3,582. The only problem was that authorities couldn't find Vickery to give him the summonses. It was becoming a long and over drawn affair. Vickery denied the charges Monday and said he didn't even know the cpps.were after, jiirn, His. wife claimed that Vickery had been carrying around a "big wad of cash'? trying to pay oft his debts. Given the charges against him, carrying cash was a good idea. It's too bad he didn't do that when he tried to pay his rent. But don't expect Vickery to learn anything from this, his most recent trouble with the law. In November, he faces a hearing by the state bar for failing to represent a defendant in court after being paid to do so. Last December, Vickery lost his license when he refused to take a breathalyzer test after being stopped on a drunk driving charge. And last year, he was accused of per forming a marriage in 1972 under the authority of a $10 mail-order minister's license. So Vickery is in trouble again. Voters needn't worry, though: Vickery has decided not to seek a fifth term as senator. Let's just hope he doesn't post bail with a check. ACROSS 37 Do tiresome work 39 Poetic foot 41 Slave in a lamp 42 "Camino " 43 Walking stick 45 boy!" 48 "The Lady 43 Thick slice 49 Son of Noah 50 Herb used in dyes 52 Card game for two 54 Tiny 53 Indian ape 57 Naughty 9 Voyaging . 64 Angle In botany 63 63 71 72 73 74 ' 75 76 77 1 Thronas 5 9 Low-grade yams 14 Dot of land 15 Blind part 18 Arctic or Indian 17 Getzor Kenton 18 Movle-TV actress 20 Judgments 22 Malacca 23 Vicinity 24 Sturdy tree 25 Sea-bird 27 Chapter heading 29 AJas;sr 32 Signups Yesterday's Puzzle Solved: TTOTTTET D IR IE G IS f TfATSTH AJLlk e a TheI ;a s t ol liLf-E' PRO MTfMIH E ET si "Tal. aIriyJ t J JL CI H iUjlT E ' ") P(A f E MM Ml E Wj9 IE (0 0..5.C.S. 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LEAH TALLEY, Arts Editor Teresa Curry, Weekend Editor AL STEELE, Photography Editor Cecil De Paddywagon Bargain event Rangoon's land Rehearsal group Frosting machine "gang aft" Head: Fr. terrier 21 Motorist's club 28 Les Etats 23 Sen. suhj. 30 Wasted time 31 Equal of a miss 33 Smallest 34 Making a profit 35 Location 33 Sports group 37 Demure 33 Ms. Home 40 Mark as unworthy 44 Ski-lift device 47 Morning moisture 51 Paper quantity 53 Butt 55 Accurate 53 Narrow way 59 Inventor of farm . equipment 60 Eban 61 Phony coin 62 Nobleman 63 Pinnacle 65 Dies . 67 Wife of Osiris 69 Jay's follower 70 Had a meal DOWN Botch 1 2 Ancient port of Rome "The Jungle" 4 5 Transmitted Invite 6 Omen felines 7 Theda 3 Gregg or Pittman . expert 9 Male swan 10 West coast campus 11 TV producer Norman 12 Set the speed 13 Singer Paul 19 Bird of Hawaii By LINDA ROBERTSON GENEVA In Switzerland the Alps are inescapable. But, walking in the shadow of their snowy shcalders, they have a soothing, rather than imposing, presence. The tiny country's history has been shaped to a large extent by its geography. The Swiss have prospered while war has raged just outside their womb of neutrality. Surrounded by such a benevolent landscape, Switzerland has never felt compelled to fight for more. It is enough to have both the Matterhorn and the Jungfrau within its -borders.' In this land of manicured farms and postcard chalets, speeding tickets, bus fares and newspapers are paid for volun tarily because citizens adhere to what seems to be a national honor system. In sulation is complete. Unemployment has not even reached 0,5 percent. People have- long thought of Switzerland as a place of peaceful escape from the millionaire seeking to stash his cash in a discreet bank, to Goethe, who wandered through the valleys of the Berner Oberland, interrupted only by the echoes of clanging cowbells. Geneva is the cosmopolitan version of that same spirit of sanctuary. Lord Byron retreated to his hillside villa on Lake Leman in 1816, and Percy Bysshe Shelley lived just below him, closer to the shore. Lenin planned his revolution from m i - Wj0 "... HOWEVER. IT'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT WE KEEP TALKING!" LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A C is not To the editor: Grades, like colleges, have two pur poses: to educate and to segregate. The University, though pretending to be an in stitute of education, is more often an in stitute of segregation. It divides freshmen into medical students, law students, businessmen and the unemployed. However, the University also educates. It not only provides students with necessary vocational knowledge, but also affects their political, social and personal outlooks. Grades are most blatantly a segrega tional tool. However, they too, have their educational value. A teacher may use them to indicate to a student his or her weaknesses. Or, a teacher may encourage self-evaluation an education in itself. As segregational tools, grades themselves may be evaluated by two criteria: efficiency and fairness. Efficiency is their ability to select the better potential doctors, lawyers, etc. The fairness of a grade depends on whether the criteria by which it segregates students are just. In "A C is a C" (DTHt Oct. 4), the editors proposed that professors may im prove the grading system ty issuing fewer As and Bs in several departments. They seem to feel that this change will increase the efficiency and fairness of the grading system. After all, interdepartmental incon sistencies in grading do riot serve . law schools trying to examine students' transcripts and are certainly unfair to. the students themselves. In the long run, however, such a change would do more harm than good. The in adequacies of grading in fairness and effi ciency are enormous. Students get better - grades not because they study more, or study what is vocationally important, but rather because of their ability to discern what will be on the test and how they can learn that only and specifically. The amount of effort a student needs to exert to get an A in two different classes varies greatly. Grades more often reflect testing ability than either specific skills or poten tial in a given area. Through eliminating pne weakness of the grading system, the proposed change will act more like a mask r than a cure. Because of the application of a Band-Aid, students, graduate schools and employers will assume (to a greater ex tent than they already do) the health of a system oozing blood from every tissue. This faith will decrease the efficiency and fairness of the grading system far more than the Band-Aid increased it. i More importantly, the proposed change will eliminate the educational use of grades. Professors wishing to teach their students will instead be forced to judge them. Unless we are willing to revamp the grading system entirely, grading is best left to the discretion of the individual pro fessor. Andrew Kipnis Evening College student Apex Lindsay's mistake To the editor: As regards "When ERA died..." a lakeside chalet in 1914, and, on the other side, Eisenhower resided in the Maison de Saussure during the Big Four conference of 1955. The city specializes in noble negotia tion. There are more conferences in. Geneva than loaves of French bread. At the United Nations complex more than 5,000 meetings are held each year, most centering on . humanitarian and social issues. (Ironically, Switzerland is so steadfastly neutral that it is not a member of the U.N.) The World Health Organization, International Labor Organization and Red Cross also have their headquarters here. What better setting for the Strategic Arms Reduction . Talks? After all, Switzerland is the country which has not been involved in a war since 1515. It derives its security from an extensive civil defense system, with bomb shelters under every house and hospitals hidden beneath the mountains. The START talks resumed two weeks ago in Geneva after a two-month recess. Both Edward L. Rowny, chief negoti ator for the United States, and Victor Karpov, his Russian counterpart, are more optimistic than ever that some resolution may be reached and subse quently approved by their governments. Rowny, a 65-year-old retired U.S. Army lieutenant with 40 years of military experience, and Karpov are old adver saries who spent six years on, the SALT II negotiating teams in Geneva. They know the territory. They have already played J -r - - ce, ....... z .. i what it seems (DTH, Oct. 14) addressing the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment: . Carol Lindsay's most r fundamental mistake is assuming that a commitment to equality before the law would render us as a society incapable of discretion. Such a commitment would no more mandate a disregard for individual difference than it would necessitate unisex bathrooms and unprepared women on the front lines; just as our national commitment to civil rights has not meant, as segregationists threat ened, that your sister "had to marry one," or that our constitutional right to bear arms requires us all to pack Saturday night specials. Lindsay urges that we cannot undertake to structure our society equitably until we have plumbed the murky depths of biological difference: "Until we under stand truly what makes men men and women women, we cannot truly be fair to either sex." This has been the continued obfuscation of the opponents of ERA: to make sex, gender, the sole focus of argu ment, when in fact it is citizenship that is at issue and surely we do feel as a com munity that we have an understanding of what it is to be a citizen. It is to enjoy the common resolution of your community to provide recognition to legal entities and protection under the law without discrimination to each of its members. It is to be fully responsible to and to have the full accountability of the society one is called on to work within. It should mean that any citizens are as a group equally liable while being accorded unequal guarantees of these most basic rights, as is now the case.' I am especially disturbed to find the attempt to validate those rights characterized as "marching all over the country against each other." While I hope and expect that the strug gle to gain equitable and humane treat ment for all our citizens before the law will continue despite this most recent setback, and that its dtimate success will be of in estimable value to us all, I cannot help but feel that all of us must also be touched by the profound and pervasive disaffectation of those who have petitioned our society for a change long overdue, and of evident justice. Lorraine Harris Snow Camp . Draft debate To the editor: When I. was of draft age, there was a war in progress. People were being drafted and asked to kill in a war. Registration for a draft into military service was of second ary concern compared to being forced into imminent participation in war. To take a conscientious objector position then, as I did, was an effective rejection of war, the machines of war and a warlike mentality that pervaded the national government and for many years the national mentality. That is not so today. By registration one declares one's availability for national ser vice (which is by default military service) without any chance to establish one's posi tion regarding participation in war: There , is registration but no classification. In fact, if induction were ordered, one would have approximately 10 days, minus mail transit time, to assemble a case and appeal for conscientious objector or noncombatant status. After this time, one would be in hours of linguistic chess and can now clear the board of cluttering rhetoric. Pressure from home and abroad should also speed up the laborious process. Rowny thinks the U.S. proposal is the best he has seen in 10 years. The United States is asking for an initial one-third cut in existing warheads on each side, plus a new method of counting nuclear power. The Soviets are proposing con trols on new weapons. Both the SALT I treaty, which has expired, and SALT II, which Congress did not ratify, are being observed. "We're moving away from the illusion of equality to the reality of equality,' Rowny said before the beginning of START. "SALT II limited launchers. That's like limiting the number of rifles without limiting the number of bullets you have or the caliber of the ammuni tion. Strategic launchers don't kill. It's not even missiles that kill. It's warheads that kill. If we limit them in number and in destructive power, we will achieve real arms control." When President Ronald Reagan in troduced his START plan in May at his alma mater, Eureka College, initial reac tion was that Reagan, while claiming to have found a solution, was scuttling any chances for settlement. His target of 2,500 land-based warheads for each country would require the Soviets to dismantle 3,000 while the United States added 350. Opponents of Reagan's plan said that his unrealistic goal was a way of wriggling out of any compromise. There were other reasons for pessimism. "President Reagan's philosophy and the power struggle that seems to be going on in the Kremlin over the approaching succession (to Leonid Brezhnev) are hardly propitious for fruitful talks," wrote S. Nihal Singh, editor of the In dian Express of New Delhi. But world opinion has warmed since then, possibly because of the realization that a START failure could mean a renewed nuclear arms race. ; "The fate of (the world) depends largely on whether an honorable and fair Soviet-American agreement can be achieved to limit and reduce strategic weapons," said the Moscow government daily Izvestia, reflecting an urgency felt around the globe. "The signs anrmounting that the two superpowers are awakening from their stupor and heading toward a genuine violation of the induction laws if one does not show up at the induction center. (I will be glad to help any registrant who wishes to prepare a case now.) . 7! i ?'.!Z For those whose moral conscience cries out against war, the machines of war and a warlike mentality that is again being pro mulgated by our government, there is no alternative to public non-registration as a way to say to the powers that be, "This is a thing I will not do." That there is no legal alternative is unfortunate. While violation of law is serious and should be approached only in full cognizance and acceptance of the conse quences, to suggest that one should register merely because it is the law ignores the enormous capacity of law to stand out side the bounds of morality. One need on ly consider the old "Jim Crow" laws to see that this is true. I am deeply disappointed with The Daily Tar HeeTs position in this regard. My heart goes out to those two young men who have been convicted for "... so persecuted they the prophets which were before (them)." Gary C. Farlow Dept. of Physics and Astronomy ase and petty By DAVID C. BAGNAL It has been a long time since Presi dent Reagan told the Democratic leader ship in Congress to "either put up or shut up." I am not quite sure, how long ago that was, but I do know that the Democrats have done-neither. One would think that it would have been long enough to come up with something. To my dismay, as well as the dismay of the greater public at large, the Demo crats have not been able to come up with anything new that can be trans lated into real policy alternatives for the . American voters. - What the Democrat leadership has done is merely intensifying attacks on Reagan and Republican policy as a whole. This demagoguery, while not new in itself, is a bit different in that it is based on a twisted logic. This logic has a basis that defines rights and liberties in terms of dollars. Following from this, it is concluded that Reagan is not looking out for our rights if he decides to cut taxes and spending. This premise is epitomized by a leaflet that was passed out recently by the Young Democrats here on campus. The leaflet implied that to receive federal loans or grants for education is a right and that because men like Sen. Jesse Helms and Ronald Reagan are trying to place governmen tal spending under control it must be a conspiracy to take away students' rights. After reading one that was given to me by a friend (nobody brought one by my room), I developed this picture in the mind's eye of Doug Berger and Alex Charns, red banners in hand, standing around Helms screaming, "You owe me!" Rights don't mean dollars. Dollars can't buy rights. The amount of money - " if . HoielFrankJurter AflaememaFrankfurt dialogue," wrote Werner Holzer in the liberal Frankfurter Rundschau. Before a complete " awakening, however, there will be a lot of yawning, r The path to the bargaining table, strewn with ceremony, protocol and face saving, is almost as circuitous as the talk that goes on around it. The negotiating sessions start at 11 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday in Geneva at either the Soviets' stately Villa Rosa mission across from the Palais de Nations or the Americans' antiseptic mission, a gray, eight-story office building further up the Route de Pregny. The rhetoric is often as thick and rich as Swiss chocolate. There are endless bluffs and trade-offs. Remember, the Russians are very good at chess, and Americans have a reputation for excel ling at poker. "You can't set deadlines on this sort of thing," Rowny said. "One of the traps in negotiation is to let the Soviets believe you're too anxious. If you set a deadline, they'll wait 'til 20 rriinutes before midnight of the last day just to turn up the pressure on you." Viewed objectively, from the peak of the Matterhorn perhaps, it all seems small and petty, like children playing a huge game of Risk or Battleship. But idealism thrives in Geneva. Maybe the United States and the Soviet Union can follow the example of the country they are negotiating in and someday practice peaceful coexistence. Linda Robertson, a senior English and journalism major from Miami, Fta., is sports editor oThe Daily Tar Heel. Thanks to 442 To the editor: ; , , f ,.,. 1 Registering to vote.is a process many of us fail to do. In the recent Student Government . Voter Registration Drive, though, 442 students registered in Orange County. The turnout was surprising in the past, only approximately half that number registered. Credit goes to many organizations: Young Democrats, College Republicans, N.C. , Student Legislature, Black Student Movement, Student Government liaisons, the Loreleis and RHA. Most of all, credit goes to the 442 who took time to register. In the next few weeks, students will be able to meet some of the candidates and to learn about the issues. The most critical issue of all, however, is that the students make the small effort to vote on Nov. 2. Those few moments in the voting booth may bring immeasurable returns. We, as individuals, feel fortunate to have this right to vote. We hope you do, too. Jeff Whisenant - Laura Culbertson Student Government, Town Relations Committee received annually from the federal government is not a measure of whether or not an administration is protecting our rights. Yet, the Democrats are banking on this petty and twisted logic that can so easily refute itself to carry them to sweeping victories at the polls this November. It isn't merely cuts in federal spend ing that the liberal Democrats are fur ther twisting to fit their logic. Jobs in a slow-moving economy are scarce. The Democrats claim that to have a job is a right. They have in the past drafted documents that would, if passed, make it the federal government's responsi bility to hire anyone who could not find a job in the private sector of the econo my. There is a movement now to resur rect the Humphrey-Hawkins bill or a facsimilie that closely resembles it. The strain on the federal budget that would be created by such a piece of legislation would in effect bankrupt the federal government. To have a job is not a right, it is a privilege. The Democrats' answers to unemployment . aren't real answers. They are products of shortsighted thinking that allows for mortgaging our future for the sake of victory in an elec tion. Yet the Democratic leadership does realize that with unemployment currently at 10.1 percent they have an issue with salience, and they are willing to twist logic to define rights as jobs and federal funds. It is a shame that poli ticians can be so base and petty,, but as we all know, this is an election year. David C. Bagnal, a junior political science major from Winston-Salem, is second vice chair of the UNC College Republicans and triad regional director for the N.C. Federation of College Republicans.
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