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8The Daily Tar Heel Thursday, January 23, 19SS Cite Mr j slim 9Jtt .year o editorial freedom Arne Rickert and David Schmidt Anjetta McQueen Janet Olson Jami White JillGerber Loretta Grantham Production Editor University Editor Newt Editor State and National Editor City Editor Tom Camp Lorry Williams Lee Roberts Elizabeth Ellen Marymelda Hall Larry Childress Bad Page Editor Business Editor Sports Editor Arts Editor Features Editor Photography Editor 15 minutes over UNC board opinion Well, it's 10:30. That's all for today. Don 't forget to read chap ters 11 and 12 for. next Tuesday spend some time on the passage about the Philistines. Oh, and good luck with the rally today . . . Faculty members concerned about the loss of faith that UNC students have suffered vis-a-vis the Division of Student Affairs can dramatize their support for students today by wrapping up 9:30 a.m. lectures 15 minutes early. By doing so, both students and faculty members may attend a Students, for a Student Voice rally scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Students for a Student Voice, com prising the leaders and members of many major student organizations, will make the steps of South Building the site of its rally today come rain or shine. The site is appropriate for two reasons: First, it is out in the open something which the Division of Student Affairs can no longer lay claim to being and second, students as a body have been forced to turn to the Office of the Chancellor in South Building in order to have their numerous grievances aired. Editorialist's column An important point for faculty . members to consider this morning is this that the 10:30 a.m. walkout will be a measure of student and faculty solidarity. The walkout is not designed to comment upon or disturb the course of the academic day; rather, it is meant to dramatize the overwhelming distur bance that Student Affairs has caused in all aspects of life at this University; academic and otherwise. Students whose lectures do not draw to a close at 10:30 a.m. ought to file out of their classrooms quietly, causing as little disturbance as possible to those who wish to remain. Although Chan cellor Fordham will be out of town for the day, student hopes for a redressal of grievances rest partially on a show of numbers at South Building. The chancellor will be listening for a sign today it is the students task to provide that sign. Again, we urge all faculty members to cut their lectures short at 10:30 a.m. Let those 15 minutes that are lost become symbolic of the many days, months and years of work that the Division of Student Affairs has stripped from UNC students. To tell the truth Lie-detector tests are big news these days. George Schulz threatened to resign if he were made to submit to one, but many corporations see them as valuable screening tools for hiring. Courts debate their value as evidence, but when the president of the United States has enough faith in polygraph testing to regard them as security devices, you can bet others will share that confidence. ' It won't be long then, probably, till lie detector tests become run-of-the-mill in job interviews or credit applications. What hasn't been considered in this mad rush for truth and honesty is the effect such tests will have on those who are tested. Any attempt to instill honesty through testing is ultimately contrary to human nature and the American way. If youVe been to college, chances are youVe broken the law at some time. Maybe it was a tequila shootout you took part in as an 18-year-old, or the time you raced back to Chapel Hill at 75 mph. for drop-add. Maybe it was only a temporary relaxation of rules you allowed yourself in soccer P.E. But everybody, at least once in four years, violates some statute. Don't even mention the sinister drug culture that lurks in every college community. For those whose college slates are clean, go back some: How about that old abandoned house whose "No Tres passing" signs made for great bonfires inside? Or the schoolyard that expressly forbad the playing of ball games, even though a summer of pickup baseball games had worn several holes in its lawn? And who hasn't experienced that child hood rite of passage getting caught shoplifting at the neighborhood candy store? From the time we break our first lamp and blame it on our kid sister, to the last roll of postage stamps we "borrow' from the office, we do dishonest things. There's nothing to be embarrassed about. People aren't perfect they err, knowingly, more times than we might like to believe. Even such American folk heroes as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln remind us of our moral failings through their exaggerated tales of honesty. A nation whose birth rests in rebellion is bound to have little respect for laws later in its history. A look at Rambo, Bonnie and Clyde, and other "heroes" reveals a national fascination with the outlaw, the man with nothing but contempt for the laws that bind him. Lie-detector tests threaten all this. The polygraph test places an unnatural emphasis on truth and strict obedience to the law. Lying is an accepted, even necessary action" in certain circumstan ces. Who really wants to tell the truth when someone asks his age or weight? Most everyone will agree that lying or breaking the law has its place in our society. Deception and illegality are, for better or worse, part of human nature. Polygraphs will bring out the truth, but we may not like what they find. JAMES M. TONER The Daily Tar Heel Editorial Writers: Louis Corrigan, Edwin Fountain, Sally Pont and James Toner Layout: Randy Farmer, Donna Leinwand, Siobhan O'Brien and Laura Zeligman News: Jenny Albright, Lisa Allen, Crystal Baity, Thomas Beam, Rick Beasley, Lisa Brantley, Loch Carnes, Helene Cooper, Kerstin Coyle, Vicki Daughtry, Jeannie Faris, Randy Farmer, Jo Fleischer, Edwin Fountain, Todd Gossett, Mike Gunzenhauser, Kenneth Harris, Denise Johnson, Robert Keefe, Teresa Kriegsman, Laura Lance, Scott Larsen, Alicia Lassiter, Donna Leinwand, Mitra Lotfi, Jean Lutes, Dora McAlpin, Karen McManis, Laurie Martin, Yvette Denise Moultrie, Linda Montanari, Kathy Nanney, Felisa Neuringer, Beth Ownley, Rachel Orr, Grant Parsons, Gordon Rankin, Liz Saylor, Rob Sherman, Kelli Slaughter, Rachel Stiffler, Joy Thompson, Stuart Tonkinson, Elisa Turner, Kim Weaver, Laurie Willis, Bruce Wood, Katherine Wood and Karen Youngblood. 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: Mary Mulvihill, assistant features editor. Mike Altieri, James Cameron, Eleni Chamis, Kara V. Donaldson, Matthew Fury, Tara Reinhart, Tracey' Hill, Sharon Sheridan, Denise Smitherman and Martha Wallace, Arts: James Burrus, Mark Davis, Jim Giles, Aniket Majumdar, Alexandra Mann, Alan Mason, Mark Mattox, Sally Pont, Garret Weyr and Ian Williams. Photography: Charlotte Cannon, Dan Charlson, Jamie Cobb and Janet Jarman. Copy Editors: Lisa Fratturo, Bryan Gates, Roy Green, Tracey Hill, Gina Little, Grant Parsons, Kelli Slaughter, Joy Thompson and Vicente Vargas. Artists: Bill Cokas, Trip Park and David Washburn. Business and Advertising: Anne Fulcher, managing director; Paula Brewer, advertising director; Mary Pearse, advertising coordinator, Angela Booze, student business manager; Angela Ostwalt, accounts receivable clerk; Doug Robinson, student advertising manager; Alicia Brady, Keith Childers, Eve Davis, Staci Ferguson, Kellie McElhaney, Melanie Parlier and Scott Whitaker, advertising representatives; Staci Ferguson, Kelly Johnson and Rob Patton, classified advertising clerks; 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 Lee, production assistants. Printing: Hinton Press Inc. of Mebane READER FORUM For 15 minutes of : your time To the editors: A rally will take place today at 10:30 a.m. on the steps of South Building to protest the continual and unresponsiveness of our Uni versity's Division of Student Affairs. So that as many students as possible may have the opportun ity to demonstrate their concern, we are asking those professors and instructors who teach 9:30 a.m. classes to lecture for only one hour and to allow students to leave at 10:30 a.m. in order to voice their concerns at the rally. It is not our intention or desire to disrupt the academic environment on this campus, but to call attention to a problem which affects each of us directly on any given day. That is why we earnestly ask for the support of our faculty in this undertaking, and we consider this method to be the most forceful tool of expressing the seriousness of the problem within Student Affairs. This is not a rally for any one specific issue, but a demonstration against an inherent flaw that exists in the character of the Division of Student Affairs and manifests itself in the persons of those who hold the offices in the division. Your cooperation and support are both necessary and appreciated in this cause. Rachel Winters Joel Katzenstein Students for a Student Voice BLOOM COUMTlf by Dcrlic Besieged by your queries as to the bizarre disappearance of Berke Breathed 's strip, we sent our best reporters up to Washington to track it down and kill it. What tltey came back with was a 4890-pound replica of Tip 0"NeQ nose carved in white chocolate. Needless to say, tle repor ters have - been unconditionally released. What you see before you now is a 165 scale model of what contempor ary scientists imagine to have been the real "Bloom County." That's all we could come up with. We rejzret your inconvenience. Let's read now, shall we? nlttOfl -aT SPY TRIALS RELAX. ALWAYS SfflfE 15 MAKE ME PEFENPING so ma5, him. BfLLTHECAT ANP STEVE PALLAS- wepymmc PV0 awright- now, when the prosecutor asks you if YOU'RE A COMMIE SPY. ANSWER U0RP, NO J LOME AMERICA , aoae Pie tun r rarrrA'A CAN YOU SAY WAT f TKY ft... 'CORP, NO..." &OON THAT'S RIGHT... CO.... umHA&e.' YES,YOUR HONOR -fT'S LAUGHABLE TO em THINK WAT MY CUWT Aparr up 5?B5'I' iff irivi i iv AN MPeCCABLY MORAL CITIZEN. the prosecution woulp like to submit a photo OF THE PEFENPfiNT AT A MOSCOW NUPIST CAMP. IN THE SPRING of mz. OKAY GENTLEMEN THIS TRIAL 15 PRAGGING. ler? see a crme PEALING HERE. YOUR HONOR, ESPIONAGE IS A SERIOUS CRIME. THEPOPL won't seme for cess wan GUILTY OF ANTI-STATE fames." R ' 1 1 ly Ml Hi 672. HA.' WHAT A CROCK f MY CLIENT IS GUILTY OF H16H TREASON. YOU known: I KNOW IT. SO LETS see justice pone anp sew HIM TO THE CHAIR. NOW, LETS PLOW THIS PUMP AHP GO FOR PIZZA. J THUS, MR. CAT, YOUR LAWYER HAVING PLEA &WANCP YOU INTO THE ELECTRC CHAIR, 1 mate on .tv jttf' W0CEbT, mm V 1-17 BILL UAS UfTHMS THE wHoceme Yeswnumt A LOOSC MYSTERY WOMAN" LIVING IN SIN ' MY RBPtmnON ISPVINEPS B(T IMP TV COME Fcmwpitm fci H kafl YOU'RE NOT BUYING A 5MIPGEN OF 7HS, ARE YOU f pi M!LO POWUREAUZe 3CITNB CATHA5 eeeN setmNcePTD rem ?' 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