t 8Tha Dally Tcr Hec! Wednesday, November 20, 1C35 93rd year of editorial freedom Arne Riocert and David Schmidt Editor Editor Catherine Cowan Associate Editor Loretta Grantham aty Editor Anjetta McQueen Janet Olson Jami White Andy Trincia Production Editor University Editor Ntws Editor Ststt and National Editor Lorry Williams Lee Roberts ' Elizabeth Ellen Sharon Sheridan Business Editor Sports Editor Arts Editor Features Editor Larry Childress photography Editor Frank and open discussion board opinion Talk is cheap; silence is deadly. Tuesday may have marked the beginning of the end for the Campus Y. Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Donald Boulton met with Campus Y co-presidents, Roger Orstad and Kim Reynolds, and Advi sory Board Chairman Les Garner, climaxing the monthlong fight against the firing of Campus Y Assistant Director George Gamble. Or perhaps it was an anti-climax, for the trio emerged that evening with nothing substantial to say to anxious Campus Y members. At the request of Boulton, they had taken a vow of silence. So they offered a gathering of Campus Y members vague words of hope saying that channels of communication had opened that had never been opened before. Still that hope, however nebu lous, has a price. The price is silence. Garner has requested that students cease protesting for a few days at least. "I am convinced that my personal course of action is to stand back," Garner said. "The situation is extremely, delicate." Delicate for whom? Gamble has already been fired, and the time for observing the "delicate situation" is long past. Student Affairs should have seen before Gamble's firing that things would get delicate. It was inconsiderate to sanction the move without consulting Campus Y leaders; Campus Y has been far from inconsiderate in protesting and asking for a reason. Yet Garner thinks that further protests would be in bad faith. Better to have bad faith than to have none at all. Is it incumbent upon concerned students to forgo protesting arid demand ing answers just because the possibility exists that they may bruise the psyches and consciences of those who decided to put a man on the street? Garner indicated a somewhat unequal partnership that was formulated at the meeting with Boulton. "We pledged not to (talk) so we could have a frank, open discussion," he said. Say what? The power of the students' position thus far has been their demand for a frank and open discussion. Now, when discussion can finally take place, the "frank and open" aspect gets chucked. Although Garner, Reynolds and Orstad urged Campus Y members to be silent in the coming days, they offered no concrete reasons for their confidence that Student Affairs would act. They had set no second meeting with Boulton and could offer no assurance that he would respond to student demands at all either favorably or unfavorably before the end of the semester. So time is running out and even a few days of silence will run " into Thanksgiving Break, and that into exams, and then Christmas and then a new semester. Gamble must vacate his office by Jan. 6. Those few but crucial days of silence require a sense of trust on the part of Campus Y members that Student Affairs has not earned. Whether with definite intentions or not, Student Affairs worked behind students' backs in firing Gamble, and there's no reason to believe that they wouldn't do so again, given the chance. Indeed, Boulton's stipulation that the trio remain silent even to the 800 Campus Y members follows Student Affairs' predominate pattern of manip ulating rather than conferring. The bureaucracy acts in the interest of the University's "image," not in the interest of what administrators often blithely term "transient students." Garner, Orstad and Reynolds want what is best for the Campus Y, yet their vow of silence may be borne out as lacking sound judgment. They have become party to just what Campus Y members have been protesting all along the lack of broad student input. Not only are students being denied informa tion by their own leaders but their right to protest is being undercut. Symbolically and actually, Orstad, Reynolds and Garner have cut them selves off from the students they repres ent. They have agreed to the precon dition that their dealings with administrators will be isolated and unreported. Members of the Campus Y are thus cornered. If they are silent, the clock could easily tick away and the New Year will find them duped. However, if they renew protests, Boulton can call that action lack of cooperation and cite it as the very reason he chooses not to act. Despite the hopeful assurances of Garner, Orstad and Reynolds, there seems to be little hope left for the Campus Y and George Gamble. Although members of the Campus Y are among the best and brightest of this university, although they have fought the firing through all the proper channels and have shown admirable restraint in the expression of their anger, they are now being asked to blindly lend their confidence to the very office that has been the cause of their anger. You may have noticed that they're whitewashing the Campus Y building. It looks real nice now, with a fresh coat of paint, and you can't make out all the old "frank and open" scars but that doesn't mean that they've healed. The Daily Tar Heel Editorial Writers: Louis Corrigan, Sally Pont and James Toner Design: Julie Braswell, Randy Farmer, Donna Leinwand, Stuart Tonkinson and Laura Zeligman News: Jenny Albright, Lisa Allen, Crystal Baity, Thomas Beam, Lisa Brantley, Loch Carnes, Helene Cooper, Kerstin Coyle, Vicki Daughtry, Randy Farmer, Charles Fernandez, Jo Fleischer, Jill Gerber, Todd Gossett, Wayne Grimsley, Mike Gunzenhauser, Kenneth Harris, Elizabeth Holler, Denise Johnson, Robert Keefe, Laura Lance, Scott Larsen, Alicia Lassiter, Donna Leinwand, Mitra Lotfi, Dora McAlpin, Yvette Denise Moultrie, Linda Montanari, Kathy Nanney, Beth Ownley, Rachel Orr, Grant Parsons, Gordon Rankin, Kelli Slaughter, Rachel Stiffler, Rachel Stroud, Jennifer Trotter, Elisa Turner, Kim Weaver, Laurie Willis, Bruce Wood, Katherine Wood and Karen Youngblood. Guy Lucas, assistant University editor, Rhesa Versola, assistant business editor. Sports: Scott Fowler and Tim Crothers, assistant sports editors. Mike Berardino, Greg Cook, Phyllis Fair, Paris Goodnight, Tom Morris, James Suroweicki, Buffie Velliquette and Bob Young. Features: Marymelda Hall, assistant features editor. Kara V. Donaldson, Matthew Fury, Jane Mintz, Mary Mulvihill, Tara Reinhart, Laurie Rodgers, Liz Saylor, Denise Smitherman and Martha Wallace. Arts: Mark Davis, Aniket Majumdar, Alexandra Mann, Alan Mason, Sally Pont, Deanna Ruddock, Garret Weyr and Ian Williams. , Photography: Charlotte Cannon, Dan Charlson, Jamie Cobb, Janet Jarman and Charles . Ledford. Copy Editors: Lisa Fratturo, Bryan Gates, Tracey Hill, Gina Little, Cindy Parker, Grant Parsons and Kelli Slaughter. Artists: Adam Cohen, Bill Cokas and David Sumner. , Business and Advertising: Anne Fulcher, general manager; Paula Brewer, advertising director; Angela Booze, student business manager; Angela Ostwalt, accounts receivable clerk; Doug Robinson, student advertising manager; Alicia Brady, Keith Childers, Alicia Susan D'Anna, Staci Ferguson, Kellie McElhancy, Melanie Parlier, Stacey Ramirez and Scott Whitaker, advertising representatives; Staci Ferguson and Kelly Johnson, classified assistants; Johnnie Parker, advertising coordinator, David Leff, office manager and Cathy Davis, secretary. Distributioncirculation: William Austin, manager; Tucker Stevens, circulation assistant. Production: Brenda Moore and Stacy Wynn. Rita Galloway and Rose Let, production assistants. Printing: Hinton Press Inc. of Mebane READER FORUM Human ri To the editors: Thinking globally ... Today Human Rights Week focuses on international issues, studying cases abroad that many automatically think of when they hear the term "human rights.' In many cases, these human rights abuses are so flagrant and so publicized that they cannot escape our notice; in other cases, they are at the heart of U.S. foreign policy. This day is meant to appeal to both those who are knowledgeable about international issues and those whose curiosity is just developing. Our hope in sponsoring this day is to encourage everyone to recognize that we are part of a global com munity and that we should all be aware of the various responsibilities that entails. First, we believe that being knowledgeable about other nations' problems can only aid world peace. Secondly, we hope to encourage people to see themselves as part of a worldwide movement to better humanity: We should remember that whatever we do in our home town to help those less fortunate is part of a global effort to achieve peace, love and harmony. Finally, on a national level it is important that citizens of the United his States understandwhat their for eign policy is and how it affects the world. Without doubt, the United States is one of the world's greatest military and economic powers; in addition, some might argue that this country is a leading moral force among nations. For these reasons, the impact that U.S. foreign policy has on others is often immense. We realize that views vary as to what correct policy should be, and there fore we endorse no particular ideological stand. However, we maintain that everyone should attempt to become aware of and concerned about what American foreign policy is whether it be guided by a Jimmy Carter or a Ronald Reagan. Human Rights Week has tried to draw attention to a number of areas in which human rights abuses have been reported and in which the United States has shown some foreign policy, concern. There are several programs centering around Latin America. At 1:30 p.m. in Room 206 of the Student Union, Father Walsh of St. Thomas More Catholic Church talks about the Sanctuary movement in the United States in which various religious groups, as a historic right, are harboring aliens from Central oh a global scale America who claim they are fleeing certain death. The Reagan admin istration has declared this act illegal. Church vs. State? Life vs. Death? Come hear this program, or see the documentary Sanctuary at 7:30 p.m. in Room 205. In Room 212, programs at 3:00 p.m. with Dr. Joseph Tulchin and at 3:30 p.m. with Salvadorans Pable Matue and Juan Valiente discuss human rights abuses in South America and Central America, respectively. The human rights situation of South Africa is being explained at 4:30 p.m. in Room 205 by Duke professor Sheridan Johns. Then at 8 p.m. in Carroll 106 there will be a panel discussion on U.S. policy toward South Africa, featuring jimmy Ellis, a UNC graduate student from South Africa; Stephen Weissman, director of the House Subcommittee on African Affairs; Victor Mashabela from the African National Congress of South Africa; - and Margaret Calhoun from Sen. Steven Symm's office. Other interesting programs will discuss the United Nations with Dr. Jack Donnelly (12:30 p.m. Union! Room 211), the Israel or Palestine question with Dr. Herbert Bodman (2 p.m. Room 206), the arms race on the day of the summit meeting with Dr. Michael Hunt (2:30 p.m. Room 205) and the Philipines, an area of current turmoil and trouble to the United States (7 p.m. Room 206). At 4 p.m. in Union Room 226, John Sylvester from N.C. State, a retired diplomat and former State Department employee in Vietnam and Japan, will discuss whether covert operations inevitably cause human rights abuses, no doubt touching upon U.S. ventures in Vietnam and Nicaragua. Finally, for those who truly are concerned about their world, there will be a short candle-lit march and five-minute silent vigil following the panel discussion on South Africa. This will be a time for silent reflection about the status of human rights in the world, a time when a person's mere presence signifies his care for others and celebrates humanity. Irrespective of ideology, we hope that everyone cares for others and that everyone will par ticipate in the vigil. Thinking globally . . . Human Rights Week: "For the Love of People" be there! David Schnorrenberg Addison Sweeney Human Rights Week Committee The iwtme vmte house tM$) . ; CAMRMSN TO LOWER SUMMIT N , m&flr JtI - E)(PKWI0N&"ID0KAHASTV I VL, lllllll IHk Vast majority of Zionists seek peace in Mid-East Inflammatory rhetoric To the editors: The ignorance of someone who considers "Zionism," "Israel," and the "Jewish Defense League" syn onymous would not deserve a response, except that some people actually use the DTH as a source of information. It is necessary, therefore, to set the record straight for Pont and her readers. Zionism has historically been a nationalist movement analogous to the more recent movement of Palestinians seeking an independent homeland. Nationalism may at times be a divisive force in this world, but to call it "racist" is to miss the point of its focus on the pursuit of sovereignty for people sharing a similar ethnicity. In the case of Zionism, the urgency of this pursuit in the last 50 years has been fueled by the oppression of Jewish people by the Nazis, the Soviet Union, and many Islamic countries. The state established by Zionism, Israel, while a haven for oppressed Jews, is a multi-ethnic nation which is constitutionally committed to equal rights for all its citizens. There are indeed segments of the Jewish majority (most notably the follow ers of Meir Kahane) which do not share this commitment. When they seek discrimination against or the expulsion of Arabs from Israel, they may loosely be considered "racist." But they do not speak for the Israeli government or for most Israeli citizens or for most Zionists around the world. The continuing tragedy of the Middle East is the product of incompatible nationalistic aspira tions. That one group's aspirations are being realized and the other's are not is reason to be sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians. But it serves no purpose to use inaccu rate and inflammatory rhetoric of one's goal is to find a path to rapprochement between the parties. M. Richard Cramer dept. of sociology To the editors: As an American Jew and a Zionist, I am outraged by Sally Pont's signed editorial ("Zionism lives in infamy") in the Nov. 13 DTH. It is noteworthy that nowhere in her editorial does Pont define Zionism. As a Zionist, 1 do it for her: Zionism is the belief that Jews have a right to a homeland in Israel. Although the establishment and preservation of that homeland has involved tragic conflict between Jews and Arabs in the 20th century, that conflict is not an inherent feature of Zionism. Zionism does not include a belief in oppression of Arabs or in prevention of the establishment of a Palestinian homeland. Israel might not be blameless in causing and perpetuating the con flict between Arabs and Jews through some of its particular policies and actions in support of Zionism. For example, I believe that the Israeli government's West Bank settlement policies have exacerbated the conflict in recent years. But Pont chooses to ignore entirely the Arab role in causing and continuing the conflict Surely it is not racist for Israel to defend itself against nations and an organization (the PLO) that have vowed and tried repeatedly to obliterate Israel since its creation in 1948. Many times Israel has held out the olive branch of peace to Arabs generally and to Palestinians specifically, only to be answered by war, terrorism, and threats. As a Zionist, I strongly favor peace between Israel and the Pales tinians, a peace that would include recognition of the right of Palesti nians to a homeland. But Pont has not and cannot cite a' shred of evidence that the PLO is willing to settle for a peace that includes Israel's right to exist too. Pont also chooses to ignore the plain fact that from 1948 to 1967 it was Jordan, an Arab nation, that controlled the West Bank without permitting the Palestinians to establish a homeland there. Perhaps the mpst outrageous part of Pont's editorial is her tactic of branding Zionism as racism by -highlighting the activities of the Jewish Defense League, an extrem ist terrorist group. She might as well brand all white Southerners who love their region as racists by citing the activities of the Ku Klux Klan, or all patriotic Americans as right wing radicals by pointing to the beliefs of the John Birch Society. And, of course, she might as well label all Palestinians who believe in their right to a homeland as anti Semitic because of the worldwide terrorist acts carried out against Jews by the PLO and other terrorist Arab organizations. The truth is that the vast majority of Zionists find the JDL's ideology and actions abhorrent. Zionism calls for preservation of Israel's right to exist, not for oppression of Palestinians. You see we are not all maniacal, imperialistic, and milita ristic, as you claim. We seek a just peace in the Middle East. Benjamin Sendor Assistant Professor Institute of Government Invest to end apartheid in South Africa By ALLEN TA YLOR Consider the following radio broadcast: Ambushes must be prepared for policemen and soldiers. Our people must manufacture homemade bombs and petrol bombs. In addition, our people must also buy weapons where . possible. After arming themselves in this manner, our people must begin to identify collaborators and enemy agents and deal with them. Informers, police men, special branch police and army personnel living and working among our people must be eliminated . . . Police and soldiers must be killed even when they are in their homes. Forward to the people's war, forward to battle. Is this Ayatollah Khomeini in 1978 giving his prescription for the overthrow of the shah of Iran? Is this Fidel Castro speaking to his fellow comrades as they rise up against Batista in the late 1950s? No, this is a May 1985 radio message of the African National Congress transmitted from communist Ethiopia to South Africa. The ANC calls this part of their "Radio Freedom" program. When considering the question of disinvest ment from industries in South Africa, you must first define your goals for South Africa. Obviously the abolishment of apartheid is desired, but how is that to be achieved and what is to replace it? If you favor chaos and violence, leading to bloody revolution, you probably also support disinvestment. Because this is exactly what disinvestment would help to bring about. Surely this is where the ANC stands. After all, with its terrorist messages over "Radio Free dom," it certainly desires anything that would help promote such barbaric acts. On the other hand, if you favor a smooth, peaceful evolution to democracy, you probably not only oppose disinvestmint, but indeed support increased investment in American firms in South Africa. It is South Africa's growing economy, says TheWashington Post, that is the country's "most effective engine of social transformation, compelling whites to grant blacks precisely the training and education, the livelihood and personal rewards the choices of where to live and work, the sense of power and community that apartheid would deny them." And you build a stronger economy with more investment, not less. Disinvestment means ending American bus iness activity in South Africa. Yet these arc the firms that have contributed to the creation of the greatest middle class (by far) for blacks of the entire African continent; that have spent more than $100 million in just the last four years on education, housing, and health facilities for black employees and their families; that have paid blacks much higher wages than they might have otherwise received under non-American busi nesses. Granted, America's economic presence is small in South Africa, but we would lose even this marginal influence by disinvesting. Just by looking at the blacks' economic progress, you can see a shadow or lag effect of improvements in their political situation. Real wages for blacks have doubled in the past three years and tripled in the past decade. Half of all skilled positions are now held by blacks, and the figure is projected to be 70 percent by the end of the decade. More and more American firms have adopted the Sullivan principles of employment practice, which, according to their author, Philadelphia minister Leon Sullivan, "are working. As a result of them, U.S. plants are desegregated, equal pay for equal work is being paid to black worders, blacks are being elevated to administrative and supervisory positions, blacks are being trained with new technical skills, and young blacks by the tens of thousands are . being assisted with better education." And the word has gotten around. With all these improvements for blacks, it is not surprising that 1.5 million blacks from neighboring countries such as Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland, Lesotho, Namibia, Angola, Malawi and Botswana come to South Africa every year seeking employment. South Africa has a problem with its borders, but it's not keeping the people from leaving, as in the Soviet Union. Rather, it is controlling the mass movement of population into the country. As I previously noted, the increase in economic power for the non-whites has brought about growing political power for the non-whites. Just a few examples of this tremendous progress away from apartheid include legalization of black trade unions along with full bargaining rights. Since this change occurred six years ago, the number of multi-racial and black trade unions has multiplied by 200 times. enfranchisement rights extended to the Indian and colored communities. This reform come forth with the new constitution of November 1983, approved by the then all-white parliament. It also included political participa tion for these groups and has resulted in the inclusion of an Indian and colored each into President Botha's cabinet, as well as the election of Indians and coloreds to the multi-racial, tricameral parliament. accepting blacks' right to political partic ipation and property ownership, of the commit tment to voting rights to all people regardless of race, of blacks as common citizens and of the permanence of urban blacks. This may explain why despite the Group Areas Act (which mandates the separation of black and white communities), 10 million blacks live and work in officially white areas. . accepting the commitmint to overhaul the urban influx and pass laws. President Botha's own executive council described these as "degrading of human dignity" and said they can "not be justified." abolishing the political interference act that barred multiracial parties and the immorality and mixed marriages acts that prevented interracial sex and marriages. desegregating work places, universities, hotels, post offices, libraries, parks, restaurants, theaters and sporting facilities. If the people advodcating disinvestment truly wished to represent the peace-loving black man, and if they also had just a bit of economic sense, they would support investment to make the economy greater in size. They should know that black discrimination could not exist in a fully industrialized nation with such a large percentage of blacks in its population. This socialist policy of South Africa's government to regulate the private economy so heavily will end only if pressure to do so exists. And this is how to "take the profit out of apartheid," as Jesse Jackson has repeatedly stated: exploit apartheid's constraints on the economy, such as the shortage of skilled white labor, by promoting accelerated output. Disinvestment would do the opposite, and thus it's no wonder why so many members of the extremist Conservative Party of Andries Treu nicht favor the flight of foreign capital away from South Africa they want economic progress to be minimal (which puts these pro-apartheid forces in the same boat as the misnamed UNC "anti-apartheid" support group). All I'm asking from the protestors of construc tive engagement is a little consistency in policy. How can these "anti-apartheid" groups even think of disinvestment, knowing that it will exacerbate the horrible segregation and make blacks worse off.' The protestors who seek to make a moral statement against apartheid with disinvestment truly arc acting with complete irresponsibility and hypocrisy. But as liberal columnist Richard Cohen has written, "morality is cheap when someone else pays the cost." A lien Taylor is a senior economics andpohtU al science major from Wilmington.

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