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6AThe Daily Tar HeelFriday. August 23. 1985 odu Fecenve-irnifsu-cllsiss uomaOTTDeiniu mnhnle sftayninig.fflftMbir By SHARON SHERIDAN Features Editor To tour the Morchcad House is to glimpse 1 8th century British elegance. Individual objects , a hand-painted Chinese coromandel screen, a grandfather clock, a paint ing of an owl surface and catch the eye, then recede into this mosaic of opulence. The "house actually is the third floor in the Morchead Building wing added in 1973. Maintained and staffed by the Morehead Founda tion, Morehead House is where UNC houses and entertains special guests. The Foundation's founder, John Motley Morehead III, was interested in England - hence the English atmosphere, said Betsy Pritchett, special events director at the More head Building. The drawing room, for example, "(is) an overall look of what we envision of an American version of an English drawing room." Some furnishings arc antiques. But, Pritchett said, "It's not a museum. We like to think it's a place where anyone from any background can come and enjoy it." Morehead House is designed to pamper people. "We try to give every guest every amenity that is special that they would find in the very finest hotels," Pritchett said. This includes a night maid, who turns down the bed clothes and places chocolates beside the beds. Some guests are used to such papmering. In 1984, for example, Princess Anne stayed at Morehead House in a Carolina-blue carpeted room named "Mary." But for other guests, the first-class treatment must be a welcome sur prise. Most guests, Pritchett explained, "(are) people who are coming here to share some gift they've got." These could be profes sors or businessmen. March of Dimes BIRTH DEFECTS FOUNDATION E3 Volunteers are the front line in the battle against birth defects, our nation's major child health problem. In schools, offices, homes, factories, and civic organizations, it's people power that makes the difference. '""J.JH4.J1.. .,,.,., .. j.J-"-; ! .V-nX.' DTHLarry Childress The main Drawing Room of the Morehead House shows elegance and sophistication of 18th century Britain "We want them to leave this university knowing they have left the best university in the country," Pritchett said. "We care about what they think of us, too." Guests eat breakfast in the game room, a place of Tudor oak tables, a billiard table and a dark, oak Welsh dresser adorned with pewter and geraniums. In the drawing room, a flower arrangement three feet in diameter welcomes visitors. (Such flower pieces are arranged in the kitchen.) Two red carved lacquer vases, converted to lamps, rest on tables near the Chinese screens. On the o Ml (appointment necessary o,.Klo payment necessary at time fl visit tor pre-recijiseredl patients 8 register Now! (University Students, Faculty, and Staff only) o pen every doy t Sue year o Ji-ipy & lab on site ccnvenieiffiiiy s t floor lie three Persian rugs. Portraits fill the house: of More head's father, of his first wife, of "Uncle Mot" himself. The last painting shows a bespec tacled gentleman who looks more like a minister than a wealthy businessman. An 1891 UNC grad uate, Morehead helped start the Union Carbide Corporation. (The Morehead Foundation now has no ties to the corporation, said Mebane Pritchett, executive director fo the Morehead Foundation.) Inspired by the Rhodes Scholar ship program at Oxford University, England, Morehead used his fortune U-desk meeting set for Sunday There will be a mandatory organi zational meeting for all University desk writers at 5 p.m. Sunday in the Daily Tar Heel office. Be there, or find a job tobacco picking somewhere. 1777 Chapel Mill - Durham Dlvd. Chopo! Hill, NC 27514 lted nejtf fi KIdDiuose i in 1945 to start the Morehead Foundation at the alma mater he loved, Mebane Pritchett said. This entailed constructing the Morehead Building, which houses a planeta rium and observatory as well as the Morehead House and administrative offices, and establishing the program for Morehead Scholars, modeled after the Rhodes program. More head Foundation is separate from but serves the University, he said. According to Mebane Pritchett, Morehead once said, " I. want to provide something for the University that it wouldn't provide for itself.' " He has. for the record President William C. Friday's office is in the General Administration Build ing, 910 Raleigh Road not in South Building as reported Thursday. The DTH regrets this reporting error. o rcustino medliccol o bpcris in o via Vendue's n Mwdk a DH phuit nothing By KIMBALL CROSSLEY Staff Writer I think of myself as a fairly opinion ated guy, but I cant for the life of me form an opinion on whether or not Major League Baseball should have a designated hitter. I mean, IVe heard all the theories about the D.H. giving us the sore-armed pitcher, or the D.H. taking away the strategy in baseball, or even the one that the D.H. brings more stategy to the game by taking away the manager's obvious bunting situations. And as a dice baseball player, I use the DH in my league and find it preferable, so how can I not condone its usage in the A.L.? In fact, in a wishy-washy sort of way I kind of like it the way things are with one league with the DH and the other without. I like the fact that certain players get to stick around or at least that certain sluggers get to play regu larly who normally wouldn't. Overall, it means more variety for us fans because it puts one more guy in the game who would just be rotting away on the bench. But I hate to think we would see the day when no pitcher would ever hit for himself. So with Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueber roth's declaration for uniformity on the usage of the D.H., I'm getting a little worried. That is why I, as a writer, have found a dramatic way of expressing my indecision. Here, with apologies to Billy Shakespeare, is Hueberroth's famous soliloquy from Act III, Scene I of The Tragedy of Hueberroth, Commissioner of Baseball: To D.H., or not to D.H., that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler for the game to suffer The whiffs and Ks of poor-hitting pitchers Or to take lumber against a sea of fastballs And by opposing bash them. To hit, to slug No more; and by to slug to say we end The strikeouts, and the thousand natural bunts That pitchers are heir to. Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To hit, to slug. To slug perchance to score: aye, there's the rub! For in that slug) 'est what innings may come When we have shuffled off the manager's hook Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of such good arms. For who would bear the boos and jeers of fans, uify treat men? reanan y (ulrinary fraet Inte Bus Kouto opinion The old southpaws' base-running, the .100 batting average, The pangs of intentional walks, the game's delay, The insolence of the Front Office, and the spurns The pinch-hitting manager of the ace pitcher takes, When he himself might his quietus make With the designated hitter? Who would these pitchers bear, That pop-up and ground out almost every at bat, But that the fear of something with theD.H., The breaking of tradition, from whose bourn No Old-timer returns puzzles the N.L And makes it rather bear those ilb it has Then fly to others it knows not of? Thus tradition does make two leagues of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of polls, And commissioners of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action soft you now! Rozelle's NFL! Networks, in thy ratings points be all my sins rememb'red. It would be unfair of me to leave you now without some sort of resolution to this drama, so 111 tell you now that in Act V, our hero Hueberroth and his rival Rozelle both die in a duel involving poisoned swords. But seriously, folks, here is a solution I stumbled upon in the letters section of The Sporting News; it comes from Merrill Millman of Crystal Lake, III: Allow a manager to pinch hit for a pitcher as many times as he wishes during a game. However, each pinch hitter would be removed from the game after his turn at bat (as is now done with pinch-hitters). Since most manag ers probably would not hit for pitchers in the early part of games, at least in most situations, we would still get to see good-hitting pitchers come to bat once in a while. Though this be madness, yet there is method int. In other words, that sounds pretty good to me. eeas tests n n treatment
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