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6The Daily Tar HeelFriday, April 15, 1983 Sailg (Bar tin 91st year of editorial freedom Kerry DeRochi, Editor Alison Davis, Managing Editor LISA PULLEN, University Editor Christine Manuel, state and Natmat Editor MIKE DESlSTI, Sports Editor BUJLKJEDY, News Editor JEFF HlDAY, Associate Editor John Conway, cay Editor KAREN FISHER. Features Editor Jeff Grove, a Editor CHARLES W. LEDFORD, Photography Editor Chicago's tense race Funding finale On Saturday, the Campus Governing Council will approve the 1983-84 Student Government budget, deciding the fate of 34 campus organiza tions. This year's Finance Committee has already gone far in ensuring a smooth budget process, by proposing $78,000 be taken from the general reserve to help the groups meet their financial needs. The council, however, still faces the perpetual thorn in a CGC budget side: the question of whether a group is "political" or "religious" and thereby unable to receive CGC funding. In tomorrow's marathon ses sion, the council must assess the groups on their openness to the entire student body. A campus organization which does not discriminate on the basis of political or religious beliefs should not be denied funding.. Allocating money to political .or religious organizations has in past years been prohibited by CGC budget laws. Last year, the council voted to lift the ban on political and religious funding, just before the election of new council members. A month later, these new council members voted to reinstate the ban. Yet, throughout this meandering, neither council defined what political and religious were. ) In February, students in a campuswide vote approved an amendment, giving the CGC law constitutional backing again without defining political or religious. Therein lies this year's council's problemTBecause of the constitutional amendment, the members cannot approve defini tions or even loose guidelines before this year's budget process; changes to the constitution can be made only through campuswide referendums. Tomorrow, then, the council members will be left to their own inter pretations. To ensure equitable funding, they must base a group's nature on its accessibility to the entire student body. Political or .religious by inference should include only those groups which discriminate on the .basis of religious or political preferences. Without this supposition, it could be argued that every organization was political in some way, even the council itself. Of particular interest in Saturday's meeting will be the funding of the BSM gospel choir, which as CGC Speaker James Exum has said, will face abudget battle. TTie choir, which each year performs for dorm residents campuswide and holds well-attended concerts, is used to fighting the CGC, and in spite of each year's close scrutiny, has continually received funding. This year's council should follow suit and approve the $1,700 re quest; to deny the choir's funding would be a disservice to all students. As stated before, this year's Finance Committee has taken an impor tant step in ensuring that the needs of campus organizations are met, by showing a willingness to cut into the general reserve. Now, by evaluating each group on the basis of its accessibility to all students regardless of political or religious beliefs, the full council will ensure the money is well spent. System abuse After three months of political pigeonholing, the U.S. Senate finally got around to approving Kenneth L. Adelman, President Reagan's choice to direct the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. The long delayed battle over Adelman's confirmation has added to doubts on whether the President's arms control policy has any support and on the Senate's ability to fairly evaluate a presidential appointment. Throughout the confirmation hearings, opponents of Adelman had charged that the nominee displayed unacceptable ignorance and even disinterest in arms control policy. They said he only vaguely answered questions on whether the Soviet Union cheated on past arms treaties and whether nuclear war could be limited. They even pointed to a 1981 New York Daily News article quoting Adelman as saying arms control negotia tions were a sham. Adelman denied the quote under oath. In response, Adelman's supporters said he merely was being cautious in the hearing and later gave detailed views on such issues. They said Adelman's resume lent credence to his competence and ability; he was a political scientist with the Stanford Research Institute before joining the Reagan adrninistration, and currently, he is deputy to. United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. The nitpicking of Adelman's credentials was more of a stab at Reagan's arms control policy than a true examination of his capabilities. In the Senate Wednesday, opponents considered sending the nomination back to the Foreign Relations Committee, thinking that senators who were uncomfortable with the nomination but reluctant to vote directly against the president might seize this chance to delay the nomination fur ther. Only four times in the past quarter century has the Senate voted to re ject a presidential nomination or return it to committee. Such a decision yesterday would have been an embarrassing setback for Reagan's foreign policy. But more importantly, it would have highlighted the Senate's ' misuse of the appointment process in general. , The Daily Tar Heel Editorial Desk: Frank Bruni and Kelly Simmons, writers; Jonathan Talcott, staff columnist Assistant Managing Editors: Pete Fclkncr, Lisbeth Levins, Melissa Moore and Eddie Wooten Special Projects: Mark Ancona and Keith Bradsher -News: Tracy Adams, Cheryl Anderson, Pete Austin, Joseph Berry hill, Ashley Blackwelder, J. Bonasia, Joel Broadway, Paul Cocke, Tom Conlon, Kate Cooper, Ashley Dimmette, Lisa Do wis, Charles Ellmaker, Suzanne Evans, Katherine Farley, Bonnie Foust, Sherri Goodson, Julie Haack, John Hackney, Ivy Hillard, Kevin Johnston, Bob Kimpleton, Kim Kleman, Rita Kostecke, Susan Kuhn, Stuart Long, Eugene Marx, Gary Meek, Karen Moore, Kim Morrison, Thad Ogbum, Ellen Orahood, Rosemary Osborn, Heidi Owen, David Poole, Sarah Raper, Sharon Rawlins, Mike O'Reilly, Mont Rogers, Lynsley Rollins, . Cindi Ross, Mike Sharsky, Lori Schauta, Sharon Sheridan, Jodi Smith, Don Solomon, James Stephens, Mark Stinncford, Susan Sullivan, Carrie Szymeczek, Amy Tanner, Keith Taylor, Lynda Thompson, Stuart Tonlrinson, Michael Toole, Perry Twisdale, Beth Walters, Mickey Weaver, Scott Wharton and Lynda Wolf. Liz Lucas, assistant University editor, Hope Buffington, assistant state and national editor. Sports: Frank Kennedy and Kurt Rosenberg, assistant sports editors. Glenna Burress, Paul Gardner, Lonnie McCullough, Drasgan Mihailovich, Kathy Norcross, Robyn Norwood, Michael Persinger, Lew Price, S.L. Price, Lee Roberts, Allen Dean Steele, Mike Waters and Tracy Young. ! .. . ' . Features: Debbie August, Dan Bishop, Dawn Brazell, Toni Carter, Michelle Christenbury, Tom Camacho, Tom Grey, Cindy Haga, Kathy Hopper, Dana Jackson, Warren Miller, Mitzi Morris, Jane Osment, Stevie Roe, Dcbbi Sykes, Randy Walker, Clinton Weaver and , Edith Wooten, Mike Trucll, assistant features editor. Arts: David Schmidt, assistant arts editor; John Altschuler, Steve Carr, Jim Clardy, Todd Davis, David McHugh, Jo Ellen Met kins, Karen Rosen, Gigi Sonner and D.F. Wilson. Graphic Arts: Jamie Francis, Jeff Neuville, Zane Saunders, Scott Sharpe, Al Steele and Lori Thomas photographers. Dick Anderson, Greg Calibey, Cabell Finch, Doug Hilburn, An thony Moses and Janice Murphy, artists. Business: Rejcanne V. Caron, business manager; Anne Sink, assistant business manager, Linda A. Cooper, secretaryreceptionist; Dawn Welch, circulationdistribution manager; Patti Pittman and Angie Wolfe, classifieds. Advertising: Paula Brewer, advertising manager; Mike Tabor, advertising coordinator; Sharon Duckworth, Keith Lee, Terry Lee, Jeff McElhaney, Doug Robinson, Deana Setzer and Maria Zablocki ad representatives. Composition: UNC-CH Printing Department Printing: Hinton Press, Inc. of MeKine By FRANK BRUNI In a volatile election drawing an amazing 88 percent voter turnout, Chicago residents elected Harold Wash ington, a two-term Democratic congressman, to be the city's first black mayor. Washington won 51 .4 percent of . the vote, while opponent Bernard Epton, a millionaire lawyer vying to become the city's first Republican mayor in 52 years, took 48.3 percent of the vote. The final vote count capped an election charged with 'racial tensions. Over the course of a contest pitting two of the rarest breeds of Chicago politicians a black and a Republican against each other, the issue of racism escalated into a disgusting display of name-calling and bigotry. To many, the mayoral race assumed the form of a contest between upper-class whites and lower-class minorities. Now Washington faces the problem of unifying a city segregated by the election and proving to Chicago residents that a black mayor can do the job. That's Hollywood This year's Academy Awards ceremony, telecast live from the Los Angeles Music Center Monday night, of fered few surprises as the film Gandhi, actor Ben Kingsley (Gandhi), actress Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice) and director Richard Attenborough (Gandhi) walked away with Oscar's top honors. ' Gandhi was the night's big winner, copping eight Oscars. E. T. 's four Oscars came from the arena of visual and sound effects, with the single exception of composer John Williams' Oscar for the best original score. The evening's biggest let down proved to be the cap ture of only one Oscar by the acclaimed film Tootsie. The motion picture's sole award was for best supporting ac tress, which went to Jessica Lange, whose lead perfor mance in the film Frances also placed her in the com petition for the best actress Oscar. Lange became the first double acting nominee in 41 years. Other major awards went to Louis Gossett Jr., best supporting actor recipient for his performance in An Meryl Streep Officer and a Gentleman, Gandhi for best original screenplay, Missing for best adapted screenplay, and "Up Where We Belong," the best original song from An Officer and a Gentleman. The ceremony lasted its anticipated eternity, but seeing favorite Hollywood stars certainly provided a point of interest. Dudley Moore, for instance, demonstrated throughout the evening his contagious joviality and quick wit, while Kristy McNichol embarrassed both herself and, most likely, all Academy members with a demonstration of her urgent need for foreign language lessons. That's Hollywood. The unveiling of culture After 16 years of planning and controversy, the new North Carolina Museum of Art, housing a $50 million art collection, opened Saturday to an excited and im pressed crowd of 6,000. Saturday gave patrons their first opportunity to view the spacious and decorative interior of the new museum, a $15.75 million construction situated off Blue Ridge Road on the outskirts of Raleigh. The building's lofty expense arid its location outside the center of Raleigh, where the old museum sits, touched off heated debates which delayed the building's opening for three years. The new museum, however, seems to be a worthwhile investment. The new building provides 22,000 more square feet in exhibition space than the old museum and an even greater increase in wall display area. The new museum also features a computerized system which will prevent the deterioration and aging of its art objects through the maintenance of a constant temperature and humidity. Gordon Hanes, chairman of the museum's board of trustees, had good reason to be delighted with the open ing of the new N.C. Museum of Art. The culmination of the 16 years of hard work and dedication it took to build the new museum has brought North Carolina a monu ment of culture and a wonderful attraction for all those interested in the world of art. Garrow and friends The controversy surrounding the proposed dismissal of political science department Assistant Professor David J. Garrow only intensified when department Chairman James W. Prothro on Monday denied Gar row's request for reappointment to the faculty when his term expires in 1984. THE WEEK IN REVIEW Garrow, who will explore the avenues of appeal available to him, plans to meet Monday with College of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean David H. Moreau. . Garrow's plight has captured the attention of many, primarily because the reasons for his proposed dismissal still remain ambiguous. Garrow has distinguished himself through publications as a top-notch scholar, and student ratings of his teaching abilities place him among the most popular of campus professors. Opponents of Garrow's dismissal claim that the administration's only complaint with Garrow can be his readiness to vocalize, criticisms of the University. They see clismissal on such grounds as a violation of the Trustees Policies and Regu lations Governing Academic Tenure. Under the leadership of junior Robert Thackston, students have initiated an organized protest against Gar row's proposed dismissal. In doing so, they have pro vided refreshing proof that students can be stirred from apathy to fight for causes which mean something to them. The politics of education The same kind of student involvement and concern with education has been the impetus behind the Coali tion for Education, a group which staged a rally in front of the state Legislature in Raleigh Thursday. The rally, organized by coalition coordinator Jon Reckford, aims to demonstrate to state legislators stu dent concern over r the proposed cuts in the UNC system's budget. As Reckford. and the coalition have pointed out, the budget cuts would result in a loss of many faculty members, a continued salary freeze for professors and an exorbitant rise in the cost of out-of-state student tuition. The losers would be students who would confront larger classes, a less reputable faculty and a diminishing diversity of a university suffering from the loss of qualified out-of-state students. The coalition's plans to employ six buses to transport UNC students to the rally met some opposition from former CGC members who resented the CGC's appro priation of funds for an activity with political implica tions. These opponents, unable to see past their narrow minded concern for the upholding of CGC rules and regulations, attempted to place a restraining order On the departure of the buses. Fortunately, complaints were fil ed too late to effect a change in the coalition's plans. Frank Bruni, a freshman English and political science major from Avon, Conn., is an editorial writer for The Daily Tar Heel. Yl 1 -v.-.-". fatt VftfeBBANOWnS WW Ml 66 A; WttrWflWED RACE. F AND: must shift focus to the present By GARTH K. DUNKLIN STAND. Students taking action for nuclear disarma ment. Interesting. Here we have a group of students devoting time to stop a nuclear war, yet currently there is no war. Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, yellow rain mycotox- ins and numerous other types of chemical weapons are be ing used against citizens, killing more than 20,000. Direct exposure to these chemicals causes breathing difficulties; eye, nose and throat irritation; coughing up and vomiting of blood; hemorrhaging o( membranes; seeping of blood from body orifices; dizziness, convulsions and death. Yes, .nuclear attacks and war are a horrid idea, but chemical warfare is a reality now! Despite the fact that the Soviet Union has signed two treaties outlawing the use of such chemical weapons, they employ them. Despite a November 1981 investigation by the United Nations affir ming the use of "chemical warfare, agents," the Soviet Union continues to violatejtbe.treaty and deny the use of such weapons against the Afghan rebels. Early this semester, four Afghan rebels recounted their experiences to some UNC students. Where were all those STANDers who are so concerned about the effects of in human warfare? Hearing a rebel talk about 100 people be ing burned alive by toxic chemicals certainly generated the concern of myself and others about this breach of a treaty signed by more than 30 countries. " It also pointed out to us the folly of an idea such as mutual verifiability when it concerns a nuclear freeze or disarmament agreement. If the Soviets, in the face of documented evidence, deny the use of chemical weapons, is anyone naive enough to think that the verifiability of any treaty is a possibility? Not to mention the fact that trying to erase nuclear weapons is like trying to erase fire the technology is known and will appear again and again, no matter how we attempt to prevent it. Yes, con trol of the technology would be nice, but the Soviet track, record in Afghanistan, especially in light of the horror ;that those rebels depicted, is not very encouraging for their cooperation in any treaty, no matter what the human cost involved. With the constant topic of the nuclear freeze movement , being how horrible President Reagan is, I wonder, especially in view of the neglected horrors in Afghanistan, just what the real motive of such movements is. If there was such ovewhelming concern for humanity, and nothing else, groups like STAND would take up the banner of the Committee to Stop Chemical Atrocities gladly and would take a much less partisan stand in their freeze rallying. In stead, this chemical reality often has been dismissed or overlooked, largely because of the affiliation of the group trying to bring it to public attention. One would think from listening to many nuclear protests that Reagan in vented the nuclear bomb and the idea of a nuclear war even though they have been with us since 1945 Further, to be really effective, these groups would take the Soviets' blatant disregard for treaties into account in their push for reduction. We all want to reduce the possibility of nuclear war, but if one is really concerned for humanity, he should approach the idea pragmatically to obtain an effec tive result. Treaties with the Soviets have not proven very pragmatic. Just ask thousands of chemically disfigured Afghanistan citizens. Get informed on this issue. STAND will get most of the publicity because it's popular to be pro-disarmament. Nonetheless, another group of concerned students will be doing something about a real horror story. Yellow and red posters and pamphlets will be placed around the campus with information on the plight of these people and how you can get involved in the national organization suppor ting them. As for a campus organization, the College Republicans can provide anyone with any information desired, no matter what your political affiliation. Suffer ing is nothing to be partisan about. Read the information provided, get involved, and sign the petition, which will be in the Pit on April 18, amdemning Soviet use of chemical weapons and supporting the Afghan rebels. Such atrocities cannot go unnoticed or unquestioned. Garth K. Dunklin, a junior economics and political science major from Winston-Salem, is chairman of the UNC College Republicans. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Promoting good causes by bad means To the editor: In 1S97 Daniel Russell, the Republican governor of North Carolina, was asked about attempts to cut the budget of our university. He replied that "the Universi ty is part of our state and must be preserved." Few would quarrel with the sentiments of Gov. Russell (a strong sup porter of education) today. Nonetheless, the promotion of good causes by bad , means is not a practice to be admired. Last semester the student body spoke forcefully when it endorsed a constitu tional amendment to bar the use of man datory student fees for political activities. . The use of such fees to charter buses for a day of lobbying in Raleigh shows the ut- To the editor: Spring is here, and so is the 1982 UNC Picture Book (six or so months late, as usual). I wouldn't at all mind waiting a while for my "yearbook" if what we got was worth waiting for. I have never been on a yearbook staff, but as an average UNCstudent, the 1982 Yackety Yack is not what I want in a yearbook. To me, the ideal college yearbook should be a composite of the experiences of all UNC students. It should try to cap ture some aspects of the year for every body. In my opinion, the 1982 Yack represents the views and experiences of a . very small minority of yearbook staffers who made little or no attempt to capture the campus from a variety of viewpoints. Why else would we have so many pictures iter contempt with which the politicians In Student Government regard such expres sions of student opinion. Jon Reckford , and his allies appear quite willing to in validate a provision of the Student Con stitution by merely ignoring it. The Daily Tar Heel appears willing not only to support the violation of the Stu dent Constitution, but also to condemn those who try to uphold the provisions of the law. This says something disturbing about the paper's respect for the law and for other people's rights- Since when is enforcing a valid right in the courts to be condemned? The DTH certainly hasn't objected to judicial in-;' teryention in the political process on the national level. One also wanders if the. DTH editorialists would use the term "scrooge" to identify a newspaper editor who went to court to enforce the state "open meetings" law? Why is there one standard for newspapers and another for students like Phil Painter? I support some, but not all, of the goals of Reckford's "Coalition for Education." But, like most students, I don't want to be forced to engage in any political activity merely because I attend this university. If Reckford could coer cively fund this day of lobbying then there is no logjcaJLreason jvhy he canH force us to support his personal views on other political issues. Not a book for everyone of people just lying around? I would hope that the average student here doesn't spend the majority of his or her time lying around, as the Yack would have you believe. One example is student organizations, of any kind. There are none in the 1982 Yack other than honorariesl I would guess that almost everyone on campus is in volved in some kind of extracurricular ac tivity. But not a single one is shown in the Yack. It seems to me that this should be one of if not the primary focus of a year book. My biggest complaint is just about pic tures in general. Almost every one of this year's Yack photos is interchangeable with last year's; they show exactly the same things: people lying around Chapel Hill! Pictures in a yearbook ought to be unique to that year. The Yack people argue that their Yack is "artistic."-That's fine, but I don't want art. I want a yearbook! If they really want, to do photo essays of anybody anywhere, they should submit to the Cellar Door, art is the specific purpose of that publication. , And I don't think you should waste such valuable and expensive space for the sake of "artistic value." At the least, they should write about the experiences of the whole campus. Instead, they do not have any copy at all, except for someone on the staffs thoughts about El Salvador and protest. I would much rather see the roster for our national champion lacrosse and soccer teams than someone's political ideas, especially in the yearbook. The recently adopted provision of the Student Constitution was designed to protect students from coerced financial participation in political advocacy. It em bodies the philosophy of Thomas Jeffer son, who called such coercion "sinful and tyrannical." By supporting those deter mined to violate, this protection and by condemning those attempting to uphold it by valid legal methods, the DTH shows contempt for the law and disregard for the students who enacted it by referendum. Ray Warren Durham Next year, please fill up some of that ar tistic blank space with words about what happened and who was here in 1983! Finally, I'm bothered that the Yack staf fers can't understand why no one will buy their book. If they would make it a real yearbook, students would buy them and .there would be no funding problems. I don't care how many artistic awards it wins, I will not buy another yearbook until it undergoes some major changes. And I encourage other students who feel as I do to write The Daily Tar Heel and let ideas about our yearbook be heard. Unless the average student (the one missing from this year's Yack), makes some noise, we'll keep getting UNC picture, books each spring. Joe D'Amico Granville
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