4The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, January 31, 1984
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91st year of editorial freedom
Kerry DfRochi, Editor
EDDIK WoOTl.N. Manao,ti Editor
Charles Ellmakfr, Assmmw Editor
KELLY SIMMONS, University Editor
KYLE MARSHALL, Suite and National Editor
Michael DeSisti, Spom Editor
Melissa Moore, News Editor
FRANK BRUM, Associate Editor
Michael Toole, city Editor
KAREN FlsHlR, Eeatur.s Editor
JeEEGkOV I . Art, Editor
Charles W. Ledkki. photography Editor
Running on rhetoric
Like it ot not, a reality we all must face is that Ronald Reagan may oc
cupy the White House for another four years. What, precisely, that will
mean for the United States is hard to predict. Some say the president's
apparent hard-line stance against the Soviet Union may bloom into a
black-and-white cold war. Others say his understanding of complex
world issues is merely buried in simplistic rhetoric that supports his strong
image as a leader; with no re-election worries, his stance may mellow.
Those more concerned with events at home either herald the recovery of
the U.S. economy or denounce the federal deficit.
But, perhaps the most alarming aspect of a second term for Reagan is
the aloof air with which the President has addressed some of the most
serious problems confronting this nation. In both his State of the Union
address last week and his Sunday night announcement of his bid for re
election, Reagan demonstrated a remarkable capacity to construct
realities along lines favorable to Ronald Reagan. The president attributed
the recovery of the economy, the revival of U.S. military strength and all
else that is currently good in this nation or, rather, all that wins public
favor to the presidency of Ronald Reagan. He skirted sensitive foreign
policy issues, such as Lebanon and Central America, except when inter
preting them in the most optimistic of fashions. And what about unem
ployment? What about the large federal deficit? According to Reagan,
these are the legacy of prodigal Democratic administrations. True
enough, Reagan was speaking as a candidate for re-election, but the per
sonal conviction with which he continually discusses his administration's
success seems more than a bit blind. Moreover, his dismissal of the prob
lems he perceives himself not responsible for provides little hope for their
future solutions.
In reaction to Reagan rhetoric, the Democrats were not exactly devoid
of strong words. While the president's voice resounded across the land last
Wednesday, the opposition was ready with its own version of "The State
of the Union." In "The Democratic Response," aired after Reagan's
speech, prominent Democratic congressmen presented a gloomy America,
a land where nothing was good because Reagan had smudged it with his
reactionary policies. Obvious topics including the ballooning deficit, a
faltering human and civil rights position, the "total alienation" of
women, and worsening U.S. -Soviet relations. And as Reagan passed over
these problems, the Democrats avoided the economic and emotional
gains of many Americans.
Regardless of Democratic claims, what cannot be denied, and what
may keep Reagan in the White House for another four years, is that the
man is a masterful politician. He has pushed through Congress more
legislation with less compromise than any recent U.S. president. His use
of bipartisan committees on such volatile issues as social security and
U.S. military and economic aid to Central America has shown a degree of
inventiveness so painfully absent over the Ford and Carter years. And he
has restored in many Americans pride in this country and faith in pro
gress. That's no small accomplishment, and to a public inundated with
conflicting, confusing interpretations of this nation's problems from both
camps, it may very well prove the deciding factor come November. .
THE Daily Crossword byjamesBamck
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LETTERS TO THE EDITO R
Union President selection begins
To the editor:
The Carolina Union Board of Directors, made up of
student and faculty representatives, is beginning the
selection process for the 1984-85 Union president. Ap
plications are available at the Union Information Desk
and are due by 5:00 p.m. Feb. 1 . Any full-time UNC stu
dent is eligible to apply; previous Union experience is not
a prerequisite. All candidates will appear before a
screening committee on Feb. 6, and selected candidates
will be interviewed by the entire Board on Feb. 8.
The term of office is from April 1984 to April 1985;
the period from February until April is for the selection
of Activities Board members and initial planning of Fall
programs. The Activities Board is made up of the
chairmen of all Union committees and is collectively
responsible for programs such as concerts, snenkrc art
exhibits, Broadway plays, dance, comedy shows and
special interest classes.
Thirty-three percent of student fees are constitutional
ly allotted to fund Union programs, and consequently
the Union president and the Activities Board are en
trusted with great responsibility. Therefore, I think it is
important that students be aware of the process of selec
tion of the Union president and that interested students
be encouraged to apply. Any student who would like to
know more about the president's duties or the selection
process may call me at 962-1157 or come by the Ac
tivities Board office in Room 200 of the Union.
Lucia Halpern,
Union President
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FRIEND 0FTHEPRESIPEAI7S...
More news
To the editor:
On Wednesday, the DTH reported a robbery on
campus ("UNC student robbed on campus"), ap
parently an armed robbery, although this was not
clear. Since this is an unusual and important event,
potentially affecting everybody on campus, I don't
understand why it didn't rate front-page treatment.
However, that's your editorial judgment.
My main point is that a story like this should not
leave simple but important questions unanswered.
After giving a very sketchy description of one of the
two criminals, you say: "There was no physical
description of the other assailant." Really? Did the
victim not see the other robber? Unlikely, since it
reportedly happened about noon Tuesday. Or is
someone refusing to give a description? If so, is it the
police or the victim? Why was there no follow-up
story on Thursday?
Good reporting alone would require that those
obvious questions should not be left dangling, but
it's more than that. You might save someone else
from being robbed by permitting all of us to be
alert, not for just a blond male (tall, short, long
hair, short hair, etc.?) and an undescribed compa
nion, but for two specifically described people.
Ed Williams
Graduate Student
Puttingfunds before freedom
To the editor:
1 was disgusted when I read of Chancellor Christopher
Fordham Hi's lavish praise for the UNC Endowment
Board ("On Campus", DTH, Jan. 26). Sure they've
made lots of money for our nice endowment fund but
they got it, in part, by investing in companies that sup
port the oppressive apartheid system in South Africa.
Refusing to listen to the UNC student body, who urged
them to divest from these companies in a referendum
last February, the UNC Endowment Board decided that
money was more important than human rights, and con
tinued their support of, to use the headline of a Helene
Cooper's column (DTH, Jan. 25), the "Atrocity named
apartheid."
Now that they have reaped the profits from their self
serving enterprise, they get praise from our Chancellor
for being, as he says, "some of the best investment
minds in the United States." Well, Fordham and the En
dowment Board have their money now, and the natives
of South Africa still have their poverty, oppression and
injustice. I hope Fordham is happy. South Africans
aren't.
There s no place like home
Claude Kayler
University Lake Apts.
To the editor:
All right, I've had enough of this!
I've just read Tyler Glover's letter ("Speaking his
'pieces' of mind," DTH, Jan. 26), and I am qtfite per
turbed! Do you know how many times the name
Fuquay-Varina has been used in a negative context in
your publication? Too many to count, that's for bloody
sure! What is it with the people at this university? Do
they think Fuquay is a dirty word about someone's
mother? Well, it's not! Fuquay-Varina is a nice little,
Southern, rural town that'anyone would be pretty darn
lucky to call home! Sure, it may be small, but that by
no means makes it Hicksville, U.S.A. !
So, again: Lay off Fuquay-Varina! It's a great place
to visit and a great place to live!
Peter M Layton
Teague
Joint sponsorship
To the editor:
Your article on the School of Nursing's
Health Maintenance Clinic ("Clinic of
fers comprehensive, economical care,"
DTH, Jan. 20) provides timely informa
tion on this campus health care alter
native. However, we would like to call to
your readers' attention to an important
error in the article. The Health
Maintenance Clinic is jointly sponsored
by the Department of Primary Care of
the UNC School of Nursing and the
Department of Medicine; it is not, as
your article states, "run by the School of
Medicine." Internists of the Medical
School faculty provide consultation to
Health Maintenance Clinic practitioners,
who are members of the School of Nurs
ing faculty.
Readers who would like more informa
tion about the clinic may call 966-4352.
The number to call for appointment is
966-1458.
Priscilla R. Ulin, R.N., Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Primary Care
School of Nursing
Editor's note: the DTH regrets the error.
Tell me about it
To the editor:
I read with some interest Tyler Glover's
humorous response ("Speaking his
pieces' of mind," DTH, Jan. 26, to
previous letters which had appeared in
the DTH regarding a film currently being
shown in Chapel Hill. He is convincingly
critical of the artistic merits and general
quality of the film which is , in his view,
"the real problem.. .not the typical
violence "(emphasis mine). He also
reminds us that "horror films have
almost always depicted women in violent
acts."
Perhaps the outspoken Women
Path paved
by doughnuts
By TOM GREY
Can a graduate student several years
older than most undergraduates find hap
piness on the Toronto Exchange? This
was a question I asked myself many times
during the fall semester.
I applied because I like to travel and I
wanted to see Toronto, but was surprised
when I was accepted. I hadn't expected it
because so many people had applied. I
also hadn't expected the time-consuming
meetings, fund-raising activities and the
two weeks missed from the school year:
one when the Canadians came down in
October and the one UNC students just
spent in Toronto as guests of University
of Toronto students.
After all, I still remember the humilia
tion of being over 30 and selling
doughnuts door-to-door.
"Hi. I'm selling doughnuts to raise
money for the Toronto Exchange. We're
going to Toronto in January. Would you
care to support our group by buying a
dozen?"
"Sure," the Old West resident replied.
"Why are you helping them raise
money?"
"Well, uh. Actually, I'm one of the
members," I meekly replied.
My next victim, the dorm resident
assistant, told me as he bought a dozen
that selling doughnuts in dorms was not
allowed.
To be safe, I went to some apartment
complexes.
But would the trip be fun? Was the trip
worth selling doughnuts in freezing
weather? And going to two- and three
hour meetings? For a while, I didn't think
so, but I stuck it out because I wanted to
go on the trip, which was relatively cheap
only $50 per student.
We left on Wednesday, Jan. 18, and
after a 20-hour bus ride and a one-hour
stop at Niagara Falls, we arrived at Hart
House on the University of Toronto campus.
Against Pornography groups have a
valid point. This movie is clearly advertis
ed for what it is, and "crazy" or other
wise, Glover did indeed get what he paid
for.
I am eager to learn from other students
and members of our University com
munity, either by this medium or
telephone, more about what is judged to
be acceptable "typical violence" against
women.
Myron B. Liptzin, Director
Mental Health Section
The Student Health Service
To say that it was cold cannot express
the numbing effect the brittle wind had
on a Tar Heel. I'm not sure what the
temperature was because Canadian ther
mometers were all in Celsius, but I am
not used to seeing 2-foot icecycles hang
ing from gutters. Even the Canadians
were complaining and apologizing for the
weather, saying that it was not usually so
cold. And there was snow, but as in every
big city, the snow was a dirty crunchy
nuisance.
Toronto is a city of about three million
people. Except for the street snow, it
seemed a clean city and a safe one. The
subways were efficient and attractive, and
they were graffiti-free, too.
Things to do? There was never enough
time, especially when one's with a group
that likes to party. There was a party
every night, and although every activity
was optional, I wanted to meet people as
well as see a big city. Then there was
Younge Street, Toronto's bustling avenue
with everything from the fancy stores of
Eaten Centre to strip joints like the Ber
muda Triangle.
My most unusual experience was cross
country skiing at the Metro Toronto Zoo.
Skiing while watching giraffes and
elephants is a strange combination.
But a trip is what you make it. The best
time I had was not at a party or at the zoo
or shopping at Eaton Centre. It was when
six of us decided to leave a fraternity par
ty and go to a coffee shop called Just
Desserts. We stayed there from midnight
to about 3 a.m. talking, eating, joking
and laughing about nothing and
everything. This was the best part of the
trip.
As one member said on the bus trip
home to Chapel Hill: There wasn't one
unpleasant person on the Exchange.
And I'm sure no one enjoyed selling
doughnuts any less than I did.
Tom Grey is a graduate student in
journalism from Greenville, S.C.
What's good
for the U.S....?
By THOMAS ALEXANDER
Central America is
an area torn between
idealistic social de
mocracy and the re
ality of oppressive
tyrannical regimes
that are continuously
supported by a hege
monic neighbor to the north. The
Reagan administration has claimed it is
seeking a negotiated settlement, yet the
United States has proceeded with a
policy that supports unpopular
movements. Instead, our policymakers
should realize the potential for positive
change through revolution. Although
the situation in Central America may
not be as internationally significant as
the crisis in the Middle East, it ranks as
significant in terms of U.S. national
security. The United States has looked
for signs of Cuban intervention, human
rights violations and other diversions
from President Reagan's view of
democracy. It is time the U.S. policy
and adjust to revolution rather than re
sisting it. The United States must look to
the future and build a new relationship
of mutual respect with the people and
governments of Central America. The
nations need time, aid, resources and,
most of all, understanding.
As outlined in the Kissinger Report
(the president's commission on Central
America), each nation has its individual
crisis. Guatemala, whose army and leftist
guerillas have ruthlessly killed thousands;
El Salvador, with an insatient revolution
(35,000 government troops supported by
the minority cannot supress 6,000
popular guerillas); and Nicaragua, with a
revolution that has become authoritarian
in reality rather than the social democracy
it once promised, are three areas of con
cern for the United States. The relatively
stable governments of Costa Rica and
Honduras, nations at present suffering
economically, have their share of politi
cal insecurities as well. Although the
Kissinger Commission gives an analysis
of the problems, it merely echoes the
solutions offered by the Reagan admini
stration. It claims that power sharing by
the Salvadoran guerillas with the present
government "is not a sensible or fair
political solution for El Salvador." In
reference to the covert support of
Nicaraguan guerillas, the commission
concludes that the support is "one of the
incentives working in favor of a nego
tiated settlement." It considers unwise
the possibility of dismantling "existing
incentives." The commission has asked
Congress for $8 billion over the next five
years, $600 million of it over the next two
years for military support to preserve
democracy and to prevent the spread of
"Marxist regimes."
Reagan has described Nicaraguans as
he does Russians and Cubans. They are
"Marxist totalitarians hostile to the
United States and prepared to use terror
and deceit to maintain their own power
and to undermine their neighbors."
Reagan further describes them as "dog
matic Marxist-Leninists committed to
monolithic totalitarian rule at home and
to the propogation of violent revolution
abroad." It seems more likely to label
the United States dogmatic and op
pressive toward Central Americans. How
can one justify sending millions of
dollars to a cause that finds little popu
larity among the citizens of either El
Salvador or Nicaragua? Recently,
Secretary of State George Schultz said,
"We will not, repeat, not Americanize
the conflict there." This statement has a
conditional twist. Reagan and the Kiss
inger Report advocate massive economic
aid in the form of agricultural assistance
and industrial development. If aid is
given to the present government of El
Salvador, how can we be ensured that it
will reach those with true need?
Visiting a Peruvian family in Lima this
past summer, I felt a deep sense of anti
American strain and a strong nationalist
Peruvian pride. Del Carpio, the father
and a colonel in the Army, was not as
concerned with the movement of
Nicaraguan "Marxism" or Maoist in
surgents of Peru as he was with merely
defending Peru's national borders a
historical responsibility of all sovereign
nations. He was critical, though, of our
ignorance of his culture. We have failed
to directly concern ourselves with the
Latin American internal structure;
rather, we have merely associated our
selves conveniently. This close
mindedness to Peru is directly related to
our economic and political concerns in
Central America. Without understand
ing the culture, it is difficult to compre
hend the problem and nearly impossible
to find a solution.
Susan Kaufman Purcell, a senior
fellow and director of the Latin
American Project at the Council of
Foreign Relations, will speak on
"Central America, Mexico and the
United States" on Wednesday,
Feb. 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Toy
Lounge in Dey Hall.
The choices of the United States are
based on three principle options: inter
vention, withdrawal or political settle
ment. Our idea of a political settlement
tends to endorse the "enslavement" of
the Latin American people. We could sit
idly by and totally isolate ourselves from
the situation. This moderate action
would be the worst of all because we
would lose our negotiating credibility.
The Marines could fight a war with
Nicaragua that Daniel Ortega, a leader
of Nicaragua, has termed "inevitable."
We may win the short term problem of
insecurity but lose the long term benefits
of policy credibility and cooperative
friendship. The potential threat of Soviet
or Cuban military bases has often been
raised as a likely result of choosing the
withdrawal option. The Soviet Union
does not want the "headaches" that
seem to accompany satellites like Af
ghanistan. They merely want to ag
gravate our worldwide foreign diplo
macy with minor military action. Fur
thermore, the United States cannot be
the police of the world. If we totally
withdrew militarily, funneled the majori
ty of economic aid for poverty through
the Catholic Church and gave the region
a chance to "breathe," we might experi
ence a cooperative relationship with our
neighbors in the future.
The United States has approached the
Central American problems with our
own politics in mind. This nation should
realize the futility of resisting popular
revolutions. The United States and most
sovereign states today were formed as a
result of revolutions. The conflict is not
necessarily a matter of isolation or inter
vention, but rather a question of credi
bility. We should hope that oif leaders
would put aside ideology, view the situa
tion more from a Latin perspective and
progress with goals less associated with
our values, our habits and our system of
government.
Thomas. Alexander, a freshman
political science major from Statesville, is
a member of the Great Decisions or
ganizing committee.