4CThe Daily Tar HeelMonday, August 27,
Jeff Hid ay, Editor
Joel Broadway, Managing Editor
Michael Toole, Editorial Pae Editor
FRANK BRUNt, Associate Editor
Kelly Simmons, University Editor
KYLE MARSHALL, State and National Editor
Melanie Wells, cy Editor
VANCE TREFETHEN, Business Editor
Stuart Tonkinson, New Editor
Frank Kennedy, Swe Editor
Jeff Grove, Am Editor
ClNDY DUNLEVY, Features Editor
CHARLES LEDFORD, Photography Editor
JEFF NEUVILLE, Photography Editor
Make the most
If there is a period in everyone's life
that is most subject to distortion, it is
college. Before we enter it, we look to it
as the heaven of freedom to which we will
ascend after the identity-suffocating
harnesses of adolescent peer pressure and
life at home. After we leave it, we look
back at it as a time when we had been
allowed to enjoy the respect given adults
but had not yet begun to feel the full weight
of the responsibilities of everyday living
creating a career, supporting oneself
or an entire family. And then there's the
ephemeral period of
four years when we
actually are here: we
complain, we com
promise, we procras
tinate. Courses are
too tough, living con
ditions too shabby,
social engagements
too few and far
between. It is, we
assure ourselves, not
all it could be. It
would be better else
where. It would be
better "if." Life will
be better after col
lege. Life was better
before.
In all these ways of
thinking, there is one
constant, one truth.
The college years are
a completely unique
period of life, per
haps the most influential in determining
the kind of people we go on to become,
not only in our public lives but in our
private moments as well. In learning to
live with different types of people in
the classroom and in the dormitory we
learn some of tHe.qs0mgortat lessons.'
of living: tolerance, compassion, com
promise. In dragging ourselves through
the quagmire of academic requirements,
we find out what interests us, what doesn't,
what might be a wise career path to choose,
what might not. Some of us will hold
positions of importance and influence in
this relatively small community that will
seem grander than any post we hold later
in life. Lifelong friendships will be borne
from these heady days, as may a marriage
or two.
We claim no part
Well, now. It seems everyone on
campus has taken the freed om-of-the-press
maxim to heart. Seniors are handed
a Newsletter, which went so far as to
solicit advertising. The Student Stores
published an advertising guide, which
rather subversively fills DTH drop sites.
The Sports Club Council printed up a
four-page guide to Carolina sports
(actually a commendable effort and a
remarkably useful guide to University
athletic opportunities for new students),
The Daily
Assistant News Editors: Lynn Davis, Jo Ellen Meekins, Heidi Zehnal
Editorial Desk:Kathy Norcross, Ben Perkowski
Assistant Managing Editors: Dick Anderson, Glenn Peterson
NewsrMike Allen, Diana Bosniack, Amy Branen, Lisa Brantley, Matt Campbell, Caroline
Compton, Tom Conlon, Dennis Dowdy, Katy Fridl, Ellen Goldlust, Mike Gunzenhauser, Lane
Harvey, Heather Hay, Tracy Hilton, Jim Hoffman, James Holder, Melissa Holland, Ray
Jones, Kristin King, Myra Knight, Sallie Krawcheck, Georgia Ann Martin, Dora McAlpin,
Jennifer Mooney, Marjorie Morris, Thad Ogburn, Beth O'Kelley, Janet Olson, Beth Ownley,
Thomas Pinkerton, Ruthie Pipkin, Frank Proctor, Sarah Raper, Bill Rose, Liz Saylor, Allison
Smoak, Lisa Swicegood, Dan Tillman, Jennifer Trotter, Vanessa Williams, Karen Youngblood,
Jan Zillioux and Jim Zook. Steve Ferguson, assistant University editor. Wayne Thompson,
political editor
Sports: Michael Persinger, assistant sports editor. Glenna Burress, Scott Canterberry, Kimball
Crossley, Mike De Sisti, Pete Fields, Scott Fowler, Glenn Peterson, Lee Roberts, Kurt
Rosenberg, Mike Sanders, Mike Schoor, Scott Smith, Mike Waters, David Wells and Bob
Young
Features:Mike Altieri, Nancy Atkinson, Lauren Brown, Tom Camacho, Loretta Grantham,
Marymelda Hall, Jennifer Keller, Vanessa Orr and Sharon Sheridan. Kathy Hopper, assistant
features editor
Arts: Ed Brackett, Steve Carr, Louis Corrigan, Ivy Hilliard, Ned Irvine, Steve Murray, Arlaine
Rockey and David Sotolongo
Photography:Larry Childress, Tom Green, Jamie Moncrief and Lori Thomas
Business and Advertising:Anne Fulcher, general manager; Tammy Martin, student business
manager; Paula Brewer, advertising director; Angela Booze, accounts receivable clerk; William
Austin, circulation I distribution manager; Terry Lee, student advertising manager; Reid Barker,
Alicia Susan D'Anna, Greg Goosmann, Patricia Gorry, Melanie Parlier, Stacey Ramirez, Doug
Robinson, Amy Schutz, Randi Thompson and Scott Whitaker, ad representatives; Julie Jones,
classified advertising; and Cathy Davis, secretary
Production:Brenda Moore and Stacy Wynn
Printing:Hinton Press, Inc. of Mebane
1984
Win
latin
92nd year of editorial freedom
of it
For the 3,450 freshmen who have just
passed the preliminary trials of placement
tests, awkward dormitory meetings, initial
roommate adjustments, and a previously
unimaginable number of long lines, life
at UNC most likely seems a bit intimad
iting, and very confusing; for the seniors
and even some of the juniors, it seems
mundane, redundant. Neither group,
however, would contest the privelege of
being a part of what is considered by many
one of the finest institutions of learning,
public or private, in the nation. A place
where a diverse group of human beings
have that rare chance in life to interact
in a community devoted to the broadening
of horizons. A place of both scholarship
and fraternal spirit.
Words to the wise? Perhaps the best
advice for the starry-eyed class of 1988,
the 186th class to enter UNC, is also the
best advice for the seasoned veterans of
the class of 1985. And that advice is:
maintain a proper perspective. For some,
these college days are not the best
moments in life; for others, they are. Either
way, memory will distort them, just as
anticipation did. So before you begin your
first or second, third or fourth year
at UNC, take a look at the here and now,
at what's available. Academics aside, the
University community offers the individ
ual unparalleled resources and opportun
ities: athletic facilities no private health
club could duplicate; a variety of artistic
happenings urban centers would be hard-
pressed to mimic;
and, above all, an
intimate community
in which there is a
ready-made accessi
bility to a remarka
ble diversity of
would-be friends. To
bc sure, it's not the
real world. But it's a
pretty attractive one.
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of 5-; r
Bear this all in mind. The temptation,
of course, is to circulate among the most
familiar people, take the safest courses,
pursue the most hackneyed of social
opportunities. But it doesn't have to be
that way. Don't look back years from now
with regrets of what could have been tried
only in college; minimize those regrets
now. Seize the moment. And, above all,
have a great year.
and more than one freshman has come
by to ask if these various tabloids were
our work.
To clear the air: We had nothing to
do with any of it. We just stick to putting
out our little of daily. Should this trend
toward rampant publications continue
and further questions arise, stick by this
rule of thumb: If it doesn't wear The
Daily Tar Heel banner, it isn't a product
of ours. Oh, and look for the Union label.
Tar Heel
The changing
By WA YNE THOMPSON
Q: How do you scare a Democrat?
A: Talk about the future.
Democratic presidential candidate Walter
Mondale may not have realized the irony when
he said it was the Republicans who stand on a
trapdoor. There, up on the podium of the Moscone
Convention Center in San Francisco, stood the man
who could have fired the enthusiasm of potentially
93 million baby-boom voters and nailed shut the
Democrats' own trapdoor a true Republican
majority party, following a realignment in "US.
Of course, the man was Gary Hart, and his
prophetic warning about rebuilding the New Deal
coalition's working-class Protestants, Catholics,
union members and Southern Conservative
Democrats with the "failed policies of the past"
went unheeded.
Hart pollster Pat Caddell says Mondale's failure
to speak to the baby boom's age group (25-34) could
cause a realignment in national politics. Says
Caddell in a recent Time magazine interview: "Since
I960, every Democratic nominee has carried
younger voters. All of a sudden in June, they go
to the worst."
Non-political, outside research confirms Cad
dell's fears. In 1981, Adam Clymer and Kathleen
Frankovic wrote in Public Opinion that "with just
a little more movement and a higher rate of voting
(only a third of the population voted in the 1980
presidential election) the baby-boomers could
cement a Republican plurality for a generation."
Political analyst Horace Busby says the figures
represent a potential 59.8 million voters untapped
in the 28 to 44 age group, with 33 million more
boomers eligible to vote in the 20 to 27 age group.
The group could become the party's electoral front
line with a little moderation.
According to Caddell and Hart media consultant
Raymond Strother, baby-boomers, like Republi
cans, are skeptical of the New Deal and Big
Government programs and are conservative on
economic issues. Culturally, they're more liberal
than the Republicans of the party's right wing, but
not that far away from moderates like Ford and
Vice President George Bush.
But down in Dallas the neoconservatives, led by
our own Sen. Jesse Helms and his gun-toting
sidekick, Rep. Jack Kemp of New York, have
written themselves a platform even the White House
is embarrassed about. They've resurrected the gold
standard as the bedrock of a stable currency, given
the president no room at all to maneuver on taxes,
Hart: prophetic warning?
Pictures worth quite a few
By KA THR YN HOPPER
Have you met Herbert Pippin? He's
a freshman from Wendell who wants
to go to medical school, and he's
interested in people and tennis. He
looks like a pretty cool guy.
I haven't yet met him either, but
his picture jumped "out at me as I
flipped through the latest Freshman
Record, full of information promising
to tell me everything I need to know
about Herb (I feel like I can call him
Herb now.)
The Record is more than just a
collection of photographs. It allows
you to learn about your fellow Tar
Heels without enduring endless hours
of conversation at superficial dormi
tory parties.
What exactly does the Record let
students do?
Find blind dates. A friend of mine,
Liz, got invited to her first Granville
West stranger mixer after some guys
there OK'd her picture in the Record.
What we do,
By JEFF HI DA Y
Quite early last Wednesday, about 5 a.m., six
or so dedicated but bleary-eyed Daily Tar Heel
staffers emerged from our little corner of the Union.
They'd just put to bed the semester's first issue,
and, according to one, they were "punch-happy"
at that stage where you're so tired you can't
sleep.
Another long night-turned-dawn in the 92-year
history of 77?? Daily Tar Heel. Another example
of a newspaper taking most of its impetus from
a student staff which labors far beyond the call
of duty.
There is but one goal behind all the madness:
to provide a good student newspaper. By my
reckoning, if awards and accolades are any
indication, the mission has been a success, if not
always a Pyrrhic one.
Along those lines, the question I hear most often
is whether Daily Tar Heel staffers get paid for their
"misery." Since none of the two dozen would-be
DTH staffers who have come by in the past week
seeking work mentioned salary requirements. 111
address the subject here.
A few who work here are professionals full
time, paid employees who punch out each day on
a time clock. They manage the paper's finances,
direct its advertising and typeset its contents. They
are not students.
But as far as the rest of the mostly-student staff
of about l(K) is concerned, judge for yourself. I,
for example, am the highest paid "employee." I get
$120 a month, which works out to about 75 cents
an hour. Our assistant managing editors who
face of U.S.
Helms and Reagan:
shut out women and minorities and dogmatically
clung to Jerry Falwell-like stances on abortion and
school prayer.
Should anyone doubt the GOP leadership's
thoughts on the platform and the Dallas
dominance of the New Right, all one has to do
is listen to White House Chief of Staff James Baker,
Reagan confidant and Republican Party general
chairman Sen. Paul Laxalt of Nevada, and Senate
Majority Leader Howard Baker. All call the
platform "n6n-binding" and are realistic enough to
understand that leaving the GOP's future to the
New Right is like turning your back on Jesse James.
Says Laxalt of the New Right: "It wouldn't
surprise me in the least to see an independent party
emerge out of the hard right in the 'SOs. I think
that's where it's going I hope that's where it's
going."
The independent party Laxalt speaks of is already
being mapped out by Conservative Caucus
Chairman Howard Phillips, direct-mail specialist
and Conservative Digest editor Richard Viguerie
and Paul Weyrich, the president of Coalitions for
America. Their vehicle for 1988 is called the Populist
Conservative Party and its electoral base would be
conservative Republicans and George Wallace
Democrats.
If they had their way now, Reagan would be
campaigning for re-election by calling for an end
to diplomatic ties with China and immediate
normalization of relations with Taiwan, nuclear
superiority over the Soviet Union and no arms
control agreements, drastic cuts in social spending
in all categories, and discontinuance of efforts to
recodify federal regulations discriminatory to
women.
The mentality of PCP's planners can be seen in
their opposition to the appointment of Sandra Day
O'Connor to the U.S. Supreme Court and their
labeling of Reagan as "timid" because he "avoided"
making across-the-board cuts to balance the budget.
Reagan wised iip to Viguerie in 1976 when he
denied Viguerie the party's fundraising account for
his support of former Texas Gov. John Connally.
He's also kept his distance from Viguerie-favorite
Helms as seen in the Falklands War and admin
istration support of Jose Napoleon Duarte in EI
Salvador examples.
So far Reagan has resisted the pressure from
Helms and th$ neoconservatives to oust former
Ford aide Baker and other moderate advisers from
the White House. An unnamed administration
official in the Washington Post was quoted as saying
that Reagan was merely "letting the right blow off
steam," or, as Kansas Sen. Bob Dole said, "the
platform is something you put your coffee on
sometime."
Liz asked the one on the phone
what his name was. He told her, and
she found him in the book. The entry
told Liz he was a physics major
interested in computers and macrame.
Liz, a partier, declined the date.
Use pictures in the book as
conversation pieces when a party
starts slowing down. Some of the
more common poses this year are the
ever-popular "leaning-against-tree"
pose and the "resting-on-fence" one.
Others include the "double-exposure,"
which shows a person looking at
himself, the "Joan-Collins-sultry-come-on"
pose, exemplified by Alecia
Flowers of Clayton, and the "GQ
model" pose, complete with jacket
draped over shoulders, as demon
strated by David Slovensky of
Raleigh.
Poses that are going out of style
include the "wheelbarrow" and
"wicker-chair" shots.
Some pictures tell more than
others. For example, Clement Mon
roe from Pinehurst looks like he's
ready to tackle his freshman year,
dressed in his high school football
uniform. And for George Scott of
Statesville, college could be a risky
business. Decked out in his Ray-ban
shades, dangling Marlboro cigarette
and Tom Cruise haircut, Scott seems
ready to deal in human fulfillment.
Find out what your friend's
interests are. Most freshmen use a list
supplied on the information form to
indicate their interests and hobbies,
but some write in their own. The Most
Unique Entry Award goes to Barbara
Cook of Hickory, who said she was
interested in breathing.
When I was a freshman, one of the
most popular entries was student
government. This year, computers
have more followers than ever before.
That's no surprise to me. Girls today
are much more interested in the
career-oriented guys in the basement
of Phillips than the liberal politicos
in Suite C.
Of course, none of the information
in the Record means anything. I wrote
why we do it
typically put in the same 40-hour work week as
I must work two hours to pay for a Pepsi.
Reporters do not get paid.
I think it is safe to say, therefore, that the
character of the paper is that of volunteer work,
something which adds to its flavor and commands
respect.
While instinct has 77if Daily Tar Heel striving
to be a good student newspaper, there are no official
guidelines. If there were, they might look something
like this:
To provide its readers with current news
coverage of the activities of the campus, the
community, and to the extent permitted by space
and time limitations, the state, nation and world.
To provide an outlet for the expression of
student thought and opinion, as exemplified by the
caption "92 years of editorial freedom" under the
masthead.
To provide a method of gaining experience
for those students interested in the fields of
journalism (all facets of newspapering, including
writing, editing, graphics and printing) and business.
Of those, the most critical is the second. We are
fortunate to be one of the few major college papers
in the nation entirely free of administrative control.
South Building has, as a general rule, adopted
a firm policy of non-intervention, operating under
the admirable belief that students, granted the
chance to be responsible, will produce a fair, honest
and worthwhile paper
All editorials appearing in the leU-haiul columns
of this page arc the opinion of The Daily Tar Heel.
and are written by one of four DTH editorial board
members: the editor, editorial page editor, associate
politics
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Too far to the right?
Here in North Carolina the struggle for the party's
future is taking place between the Congressional
Club chairman-Tom Ellis wing, which includes
Helms, and the more moderate wing represented
by gubernatorial candidate Jim Martin and former
Gov. James Holshouser.
The difference between the two philosophies is
expressed clearly in attitudes toward blacks. Ellis
says blacks aren't going to vote for Helms, so why
waste time recruiting them? Holshouser and Martin
encourage blacks to vote Republican and they
welcome their support.
Gene Anderson, Holshouser's full-time adminis
trative assistant, says he agrees with Senate majority
leader Howard Baker that the first thing Repub
licans have to do is make blacks feel welcome.
"There is a black middle and upper class concerned
about the same problems as the white middle and
upper class: jobs and education for their kids.
"Jesse Helms tends to push away black support
when he could get 15-20 percent. All he sees is the
85 or 90 percent voting against him."
Political observers agree with Congressional Club
critic Anderson that a Martin win against Attorney
General Rufus Edmisten in the governor's race and
a Helms loss to Hunt would bring about a
resurgence of the moderates and a better chance
for Republicans to build the strong statewide party
organization needed to become a force in the
General Assembly. Republicans held only "Six of
50 seats in the N.C. Senate in the last full session.
While the media focus in Dallas may be on the
successor to Reagan, Republicans at the convention
and here in the state are emphasizing the importance
of the next four years. For the Republicans to regain
their 1947 control of both houses of Congress and
make inroads in governorships and legislatures, they
must stay near the center.
Even in 1980, the American electorate was left
of Reagan. The University of Michigan's 1980
American National Election Study found that on
Carter-Reagan campaign issues ranging from
inflation and unemployment to defense spending
voters placed themselves near the center and left
of Reagan even on an issue like increased defense
spending where they were right of center.
Reagan pollster Richard Wirthlin thinks the
Reagan themes of "opportunity, hope and individ
ualism" can inspire the GOP's new-found young
voters. Speaking as ' a ' moderate Republican, the
Grand Old Party should also listen to Ford.
"Elections are won in the center," he says.
Jesse, are you listening?
Wayne Thompson, a senior journalism and
political science major from Roanoke. Va..
political editor of The Daily Tar Heel.
is
words
that I was a health administration
major interested in drama. Since then,
I haven't taken one health-related
class or appeared in one play. As for
those freshmen who wrote that they
were pre-med or pre-law, well, 111 see
you in the halls of Greenlaw.
In fact, a few weeks into the first
semester, many freshmen would
rather not be remembered for their
appearance in the Record. To all those
freshmen whose mothers picked the
pictures, or whose faces were too close
to the cameras or whose zits showed
like bugs splattered on car windows,
it's not over. Yackety Yack shutter
bugs will soon be roving the campus.
Keep the Record handy. Study the
book and master the art of surface
level conversation.
Kathryn Hopper says that she is a
junior journalism major from Greens
boro, that she writes for The Daily
Tar Heel and that her interests are
fraternity boys and T'Boli earrings.
Her mother sent the picture.
editor and editorial writer.
We intend to fill those columns daily with our
worries, concerns and perceptions, and impart
whatever solutions seem most logical and beneficial.
No doubt, many of you will find fault with our
observations, and you are hereby encouraged to
take us to task by way of a letter to the editor.
Help us improve the paper through your criticism
and judgement.
Most years, we at The Daily Tar Heel print a
huge, five-section paper on the first day of classes
today. It is a magnificent compendium of
University information, including most everything
you need to start off the semester on the right foot.
Unfortunately, .reading that first-day paper has
always been a little like trying to red the grafitti
on the bathroom walls of the Undergraduate
Library in an hour. Impossible.
This year, to remedy the problem, we've spread
the sections across three days: Our Orientation
section, which hit the streets last Wednesday,
ballooned from its usual 8 pages to two sections
and 20 pages. Today we publish three sections:
News, Sports and. in hand. Perspective. Tomorrow
expect a special Entertainment section chock full
of movie reviews and a DTH guide to Triangle
area nightlife in addition to, of course, our regular
news coverage.
By Wednesday, I figure, well be plum tuckered
out, all too ready to resume publishing our little
oV six- and eight-page daily.
Jeff Hiday. a senior history and iournulism tnaor
from Charlotte, is editor j The Daily Tar Heel