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6The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday, August j91 984
JEFF HlDAY, Editor
Joel Broadway, Managing Editor
MICHAEL TOOLE, liditorial Page Editor
FRANK BRUNI, Associate Editor
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KELLY SIMMONS, University Editor
KYLE MARSHALL, State and National Editor
MELANIE WELLS, City Editor
VANCE TREFETHEN, Business Editor
STUART TONKINSON, News Editor '
Frank Kennedy, sports Editor
Jeff Grove, Arts Editor
CINDY DUNLEAVY, Features Editor
JEFF NEUVILLE, Photography Editor
A well with a
At this time last year, students were
being asked to flush the toilet only when
it was necessary and to shower only
once a day. The area water supply had
dwindled alarmingly over a dramati
cally dry summer, and it was hoped that
conservative measures by the students
flooding the town in August would
reduce the anticipated demand on the
water supply, enough, at least, to enable
school to continue. This year, because
of an unusually wet July (just ask the
would-be residents of area condos how
wet), lack of water is no longer a
problem here. However many
southeastern states, which formerly
thought water a nuisance due to
flooding, are now becoming concerned
about the danger of a future lack of
water. States such as Mississippi,
Arkansas and Louisiana are studying
the possibilities of adopting some sort
of comprehensive policy to protect the
quantity and quality of water. It is
imperative that these states adopt such
a plan.
Increasing industrialization and
irrigation have put demands on the
once-perceived-endless supplies of
water in this and in other areas of the
United States. Compounding the prob
lem is overdrafting, a.k.a. water min
ing, which not only dries up wells, but
also reduces water pressure and in some
cases may allow contamination by salt
water in coastal areas. Overdrafting has
even caused the land to sink houses in
Florida. The problem for Mississippi
is not so much that it is short of water,
but that the water must be transferred
from other areas of the state an
unwanted expense at a time when the
Reagan administration has cut federal
aid to expensive public works, includ
ing reservoirs pipelines and treatment
plants.
Florida and Georgia, both of which
rely heavily on groundwater supplies
for many of their water needs, were
An 'A' in grammar
The conservatives in the Republican .
Party seem much more adept at handling
the subtleties of the English language
than at performing simple addition.
In writing the party's platform for last
week's convention , in Dallas, White
House aides and Republican congres
sional leaders had polished the plank's
stance on taxes into a carefully worded
hedge designed to give Reagan "wiggle
room" in dealing with the burgeoning
federal deficit. The platform, read: "We
therefore oppose any attempt to increase
taxes which would harm the recovery
and reverse the trend toward restoring
control of the economy to individual
Americans."
But the conservatives, led by Sen. Jack
Kemp of New York, complained that
this language could be taken to mean
the party condoned tax increases that
did not harm the recovery, so they
pushed successfully for the insertion of
a comma between the words "taxes" and
"which."
The change, to be sure, makes the
plank more correct grammatically
speaking, but from a practical stand
point the alteration can't be more off
base.
. The numbers just don't add up: Total
federal spending now amounts to about
24 percent of the gross national product,
a peacetime record, while tax revenues.
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
News: Mike Allen, Diana Bosniack, Amy Branen, Lisa Brantley, Matt Campbell, Caroline
Compton, Tom Conlon, Dennis Dowdy, Katy Fridl, Mike Gunzenhauser, Lane Harvey, Heather
Hay, Tracy Hilton, Jim Hoffman, James Holder, Melissa Holland, Ray Jones, Kristin King,
Myr'a Knight, Sallie Krawcheck, Georgia Ann Martin, Dora McAlpin, Jennifer Mooney,
Marjorie Morris, Thad Ogburn, Janet Olson, Beth Ownley, Thomas Pinkerton, Ruthie Pipkin,
Frank Proctor, Sarah Raper, Bill Rose, 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 DeSisti, Pete Fields, Scott Fowler, Glenn Peterson, Lee roberts, Kurt Rosenberg,
Mike Sanders, Mike Schoor, Scott Smith, Mike Waters, David Wells and Bob Young
Features: Sharon Sheridan, assistant feature editor. Mike Altieri, Nancy Atkinson, Clarice
Bickford, Tom Camacho, Daniel Cowhig, Loretta Grantham, Marymelda Hall, Missy Holland,
Jennifer Keller, Vanessa Orr, Liz Saylor, Devi Sen and Sonya Terrell
Arts: Ed Brackett, Steve Carr, Louis Corrigan, Ivy Hilliard, Ned Irvine, Steve Murray, Arlaine
Rockey and David Sotolongo
Photography: Larry Childress, Nancy London, Jamie Moncrief, Stretch, and Lori Thomas
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among the first states in this area to
adopt water management plans. For
years Florida has had permits that limit
withdrawals. Georgia's permits, have
been required since 1982, but exclude
agricultural wells, a major drawback
since Georgia has more than a million
acres of cropland under irrigation..
Public hearings will begin this fall in
Arkansas to allow officials to regulate
the withdrawal of groundwater, but the
prospects don't look good: In 1983
Arkansas farming interests helped
defeat legislation to require farmers to
obtain such permits.
In addition to such regulative mea
sures, the states have looked for ways
to supplement groundwater supplies by
using whenever possible large quantit
ies of surface water that pass
untouched through the region's rivers
and streams. But these measures fall
far short of a solution to the problem
of excessive water consumption.
We. in Chapel Hill had a bite-sized
taste, of what water restrictions are like
last fall; we should understand the
urgency of finding ways to prevent
more cumbersome future shortages.
There are so many ways we
can painlessly work to conserve: We
can turn the water off while brushing
teeth, use a tub of water rather than
a running tap to wash dishes, jump in
the shower one, not five, minutes after
turning it on, and turn off leaky faucets
whenever possible.
There may be no immediate need for
such considerations here in Chapel Hill.
But as we saw last fall land as we could
conceivably see again at this time next
year, the accumulation of water supp
lies is beyond our control. There is
always a long-term need not to waste.
It is crucial to use even resources which
are often taken for granted without
waste, as states in the southeast are
slowly discovering.
stand at about 19 percent of GNP. That
means that 5 percent of the nation's
output must be borrowed to pay the
government's bills. Without tax
increases matching increases in federal
spending, which will undoubtedly go up
because of the large defense budget, the
deficit, now $174 billion, will continue
to grow. Indeed the nonpartisan Con
gressional Budget Office recently pro
jected that without further tax and
spending changes the deficit will rise to
$263 billion by 1989.
Of course, what the Republican
conservatives are banking on is that
continued economic growth along with
cuts in non-military spending will erase
the deficit. For that to happen, though,
the economy would have to grow at a
clip fast enough to wipe out the deficit
before potentially higher interest rates'
choked the economy an unlikely
prospect and social programs would
have to be cut to the bone a gloomy
prospect.
Fortunately, platforms are more often
disregarded for expedient political
purposes than they are followed reli
giously. Upon learning of the conserva
tives' comma cause in Dallas, a Reagan
aide, meaning that the administra
tion would raise taxes as a last resort,
said, "We can live with it." That's fine
as long as Reagan doesn't try to live by
it.
Tar Heel
The healing of
By JOHN HINTON
I felt a sense of pride when I
learned that my high school, Need
ham B. Broughton High School in
Raleigh, was listed in U.S. News and
World Report as one of the best
high schools in the nation.
In its story, "What Makes Great
Schools Great," the periodical
examined the merits of Broughton,
Katahdin High School in Sherman
Station, Maine, Thomas Jefferson
High School in Los Angeles, Bel
laire Senior .High School in Hous
ton, and Glen Brook South High
School in Glenview, 111., a suburb
of Chicago.
"Excellence used to come easily
to Broughton," the weekly maga
zine reported in its Aug. 27 issue.
"When the threestpry high school
opened in 1929, it quickly attracted
the sons and daughters of the city's
elite. For nearly 40 years, it was the
high school to attend in the state
capital."
The population of my alma mater
is one-third black and three-fourths
of its more that 17,000 graduates
succeed to a four-year college and
university, the magazine said.
I was a member of the class of
1979 when the school was celebrat
ing its 50th anniversary and received
a wooden plaque taken from mate
rial discarded from the library which
was being renovated.
Before I walked the halls of
Broughton, I heard stories about
racial violence occurring at the
institution, which sits about a mile
and a half from my West Raleigh
home. During the civil rights move
ment in the 1960s, many of the first
blacks to attend Broughton lived in
my neighborhood.
These pioneers had a rough time
at the school where past governors
sent their offspring to be educated!
Many would return home each day
telling their parents and friends
about how they were being har
rassed by their white counterparts.
"The white students would spit
on me in the hallways," said a black
woman, a 1966 graduate of the
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STV: an exciting,.. evolving
By JOHN WILSON
In the fall of 1983, eight students borrowed
a television camera from the Department of
Radio, Television and Motion Pictures and
in one weekend made student television a
reality at the University of North Carolina.
Their thirty-minute show sparked such
enthusiasm that the Campus Governing
Council placed on the spring 4 elections
ballot a one time, one dollar per student fee
increase referendum to fund the purchase of
the students' own television production
equipment. With the help of Duke University's
"Cable 13," the largest student television
. station in the world, Village Cable, which
offers cable channel 11 as the "University
Access Channel," The Daily Tar Heel, The
Phoenix , WXYC and hundreds of interested
students, the referendum question passed by
an overwhelming margin of 80 percent in favor
to 20 percent opposed. On March 22, 1984,
the 65th session of the CGC passed its final
bill, voting 22 to 0 to appropriate the $22,000
generated by the increase immediately because
of the overwhelming student mandate. STV
was born.
Anxiously awaiting the arrival of STV's
professional-quality camera, ; recorder and
editing system, 108 students played an active
role in outlining the operation of the virgin
organization, which then claimed the modest
headquarters of the closet next to the Union
Activities Board office. The general body
agreed that the ultimate goal was to maximize
student involvement in the production and
viewing of University-related programming. A
five-person executive board was then elected,
consisting of directors of programming,
production, development, public relations and
publicity. The board was given charge over
final approval of all programming and
expenditures. Once the equipment arrived,
and Student Body President Paul Parker
assigned it a safe home in Suite D of the Union,
racial wounds
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Broughton, who asked not to be
named. "The whites would call us
niggers all the time and demand that
we transfer to the black high school
across town.
She was referring to old Washing
ton High School and Ligon High
School, both of which are located
in predominantly black Southeast
Raleigh.
After the assasination of civil
rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
in April 1968, things grew more
tense between the races at
Broughton. There were many fights
between blacks and whites, espe
cially in the bathrooms and in the
hallways.
When a federal court issued a
citywide desegregation order in the
early 1970s, poor ' blacks whose
parents attended Washington and
Ligon came in large numbers to
Broughton.
It was a clash of cultures, a 1974
graduate said. "We were coming to
school where we didn't know anyb
ody. Some of the whites were
friendly, but we could sense that
many didn't like us. Anytime you
get two different groups of people
who don't know or trust each other,
you are going to have a lot of
problems."
During this time, a white male
student was struck in the head with
a heavy object, thought to be the
blunt side of an axe, by two black
male students. They were convicted
of assault and each given a 12-year
prison sentence.
After the incident, police officers
patrolled the halls and relations
between blacks and whites reached
a boiling point.
I saw one such racial confronta
tion when I was a 15-year-old
sophomore. A black guy riding his
bike home ran over the foot of white
guy. A one-on-one fight erupted in
the parking lot and white and black
people gathered around to see the
punching.
Then a black school bus driver
who said he was friend of the cyclist
stopped his bus in the middle of
traffic as a platoon of black males
left the vehicle to join the battle.
The white fellow was outnumbered
at least thirty-to-one and suffered
a old-fashioned butt whumping.
Everyone at the school was
shocked. The talk among the stu
dents centered around why the bus
driver stopped his bus and why
touch our university, our state, our nation and
our world. We also entertain criticism on stories
you've read in the paper. Letters to the editor
and editorial columns should be typed on sixty
character line and should be triple-spaced.
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a two-step system for checking the equipment
out was adopted. First, a proposal describing
the idea and plans for its filming must be
submitted to the Programming Director and
approved by the executive board. The process
may take all of twenty minutes. Second, a
person who has been certified by the Produc
tion Director as technically competent with
the camera (not necessarily the proposer of
the idea) must accept full responsibility for
the equipment.
With spring term exams only two weeks
away, STV was set in motion. Determined
students worked quickly and efficiently to
produce segments on lacrosse, WXYC, Gary
Hart's visit to Chapel Hill, the rape problem
on campus, Springfest and other topics of
interest. The hard7 work involved was
rewarded not only by the valuable experience
gained, but also by the applause of the
impressive number of students who watched
the shows during special "STV Happy Hours"
on the large screens of several Franklin Street
Watering holes, and by the commendations of
other Chapel Hill residents who have access
to cable channel 1 1.
As STV is entering its first full year of
operation, opportunities to get involved in
production, acting, writing, editing, advertis
ing and fundraising are countless. Fall
programming outlines are already taking
shape, including a magazine format show, a
sports show, a variety show and a news show,
all of which will be the products of several
teams working together. At Duke University,
where 350 students produce between 25 and
30 hours of original television programming
a week, shows feature aerobics, panel discus
sions on student concerns, and even tips on
dorm cooking. While STV's infancy and need
for student support are certainly evident when
its $8,100 annual budget is compared to
Duke's $34,000 figure, contributions from
alumni, foundations and local businesses are
expanding the station daily.
STV is not for students familiar with
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other white students, especially the
boys, did not come to the aid of
the guy being attacked by the mob.
That would have probably started
a riot, a friend said recently. Even
though I didnt like the victim of
the attack and thought him a bully,
I knew in my heart that this was
wrong.
However racial harmony was
achieved on the football field and
in the guymnasium. Despite the
team records, most of the players,
regardless of race, were friends.
I visited Broughton last winter
after I returned from frigid Ohio.
Race relations have much
improved. As I walked the hallways
and ate lunch in the cafeteria, I
noticed many interracial couples, as
well as ordinary friendships between
blacks and whites.
Success in both academics and
sports is important at Broughton
now, not petty racial differences.
Indeed, time does heal all
wounds.
John Hinton is a first-year grad
uate student in the School of
Journalism.
Deadline for letters and columns is 2 p.m. on
the working day before publication, and
contributions should be placed in the green box
outside the offices of The Daily Tar Heel in
the Carolina Union annex.
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television production alone: Only one of the
five exectutive board members had any
experience in televison before STV's incep
tion. STV is rather another outlet for student
creativity and an exciting chance for students
to get involved in, and contribute to, life at
the University. Every student should feel
welcome to get hands-on experience with what
is literally student-owned equipment. All
shows will be well publicized around campus,
and can be seen on Village Cable's channel
11 or at designated times on the large screens
in the Carolina Union. STV's first general
body meeting of the fall is today at 5 p.m.
in room 218 of the Union. Students are
encouraged to attend and to participate in the
planning of what we with STV hope will
become an asset to this university for years
to come.
Those who have ideas for shows can find
proposal forms outside the STV office.
The possibilities for STV programming in
the year to come are endless. Last year no
one would have dreamed of filming a Tarheel's
basketball game for a weekly sports show or
receiving an interview from the Talking Heads
for a music show. This year, with students
support, STV can add an exciting, not to
mention entertaining, dimension to life at
UNC.
John Wilson is a senior classics major from
Edgemont, N.C., and programming director of
Student Television.
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