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8 The Daily Tar Heel Friday, November 21, 1986 Satlu (Ear 9fi jrar of editorial freedom Edlotootolls Divestment: Cooperation is key The morality argument didn't work last spring. The pragmatic, economic argument didn't work Thursday. What must students and University admin istrators do to convince Endowment Board members total divestment is the most cogent policy to adopt? Thursday's move by the board to divest from only four companies in the University's portfolio is no more than a piecemeal solution, an attempt to appease vociferous protesters. The board decided to stick to a policy of splitting ties with companies that do "direct and substantial busi ness" in South Africa. That's a start, but students have been present ing the case for total divestment since a campuswide refer endum in 1983; that stance was reiterated in a similar vote in 1985. Several key administrators have recently added arguments from both a humanistic and practical perspective, 'n addition. Congressional sanctions vi i the puliout of seer major U.S. corporations indicates that divestment ts the way to go. Yet board members still fail to recognize the urgency of divestment, incredibly, when Chancellor Chris topher Fordham, an outspoken prop onent of divestment, made the motion to vote on total divestment, no board member seconded the motion. After a motion, why? Are board members Public health above policy Tobacco still reigns in this farming state. Even during the week of the Great American Smokeout, a top N.C. official publicly criticized efforts against smoking. State Agriculture Commissioner Jim Graham this week condemned the no-smoking policy imposed by Leah Devlin, Wake County health depart ment director. "How can you tell somebody about leading a healthy lifestyle if you're not doing it yourself?" Devlin asked before banning smoking from the department's three buildings. Graham said the policy abridged the freedom to smoke. This was not the first time Graham bypassed mounting evidence that non-smokers can suffer more than discomfort from breathing others' smoke. But this incident goes beyond the issue of non-smokers' rights. Health department workers are responsible for providing health care services and The Daily Tar Heel Editorial Writer: Kathy Nanney Staff Columnist: Pierre Tristam Omnibus Editor: Sallie Krawcheck Assistant Managing Editors: Jennifer Cox, Amy Hamilton and Regan Murray. News: Jea'nna Baxter, Stephanie Burrow, Charlotte Cannon, Chris Chapman, Paul Cory, Sabrina Darley, Kimberly Edens, Michelle Efird, Jennifer Essen, Jeannie Faris, Scott Greig, Maria Haren, Nancy Harrington, Suzanne Jeffries, Susan Jensen, Sharon Kebschull, Michael Kolb, Teresa Kriegsman, Laura Lance, Alicia Lassiter, Mitra Lotfi, Brian Long, Justin McGuire, Laurie Martin, Toby Moore, Dan Morrison, Felisa Neuringer, Rachel Orr, Fred Patterson, Liz Saylor, Sheila Simmons, Rachel Stiffler, Elisa Turner, Nicki Weisensee, Beth Williams, Robert Wilderman and Bruce Wood. Jo Fleischer and Jean Lutes, assistant university editors. Donna Leinwand, assistant state and national editor. Cindy Clark, Ruth Davis and Michael Jordan, wire editors. Sports: Mike Berardino, James Surowiecki and Bob Young, assistant sports editors. Bonnie Bishop, Greg Cook, Phyllis Fair, Laura Grimmer, Clay Hodges, Greg Humphreys, Lorna Khalil, Eddy Landreth, Mike Mackay, Jill Shaw and Wendy Stringfellow. Features: Jessica Brooks, Julie Braswell, Eleni Chamis, Robbie Dellinger, Carole Ferguson, Jennifer Frost, Jennifer Harley, Jeanie Mamo, Corin Ortlam, Lynn Phillips, Katie White, Mollie Womble and Susan Wood. Arts: James Burrus. David Hester, Alexandra Mann, Rene Meyer, Beth Rhea, Kelly Rhodes and Rob Sherman. Photography: Charlotte Cannon, Larry Childress, Jamie Cobb, Tony Deifell, Janet Jarman and Julie Stovall. Copy Editors: Sally Pearsall, assistant news editor. Dorothy Batts, Beverly Imes, Lisa Lorentz, Sherri Murray, Marielle Stachura and Joy Thompson. 1 Editorial Cartoonists: Adam Cohen, Bill Cokas and Trip Park. Campus Calendar: Mindelle Rosenberg and David Starnes. Business and Advertising: Anne Fulcher, general manager; Patricia Benson, advertising director; Mary Pearse, advertising coordinator, Angela Ostwalt, business manager; Cammie Henry, accounts receivable clerk; Michael Benfield, advertising manager; Ruth Anderson, Michael Benfield, Jennifer Garden, Kelli McElhaney, Chrissy Mennitt, Beth Merrill, Anne Raymer, Julie Settle, Peggy Smith, Kent Sutton, Ashley Waters, and Layne Poole advertising representatives; Tammy Norris, Angie Peele, Stephanie Chesson, classified advertising representatives; and Mary Brown, secretary. Distributioncirculation: William Austin, manager. Production: Elizabeth Rich and Stacy Wynn. Rita Galloway, production assistant. Printing: The Chapel Hill Newspaper JIM ZOOK, Editor Randy Farmer, Managing Editor ED BRACKETT, Associate Editor DEWEY MESSER, Associate Editor Tracy Hill, News Editor GRANT PARSONS, University Editor LINDA MONTANARI, City Editor JILL GERBER, State and National Editor Scott Fowler, sports Editor KATHY PETERS, Features Editor ROBERT KEEFE, Business Editor Elizabeth Ellen, Arts Editor DAN CHARLSON, Photography Editor fearful of letting the campus know where they stand on the issue? To not even vote on the issue after such lengthy debate is deplorable. The decision by members of the Anti-Apartheid Support Group to set themselves up for arrest was as drastic a statement as they believed the board's vote projected. While it may have disrupted the closing moments of the business day, it was a peaceful demonstration that attracted more attention to their cause. However, the group once again blundered by overstepping the bounds of effective demonstration. When about 40 sit-in participants filed out of the building, someone triggered a fire alarm when, of course, there was no fire. Such idiocy as committing a federal offense during the demonstra tion gets the movement nowhere. The divestment debate at UNC has reached an impasse. Group members must decide what to do if University administrators keep their promise to dismantle the shanty at noon today. At this point, bringing down the shanty vmld be the most prudent move. Thursday's arrests conveyed the seriousness and commitment of the group. More arrests would only send signals of belligerence and obstinacy to Endowment Board members. This does not mean that the issue should lie fallow. Endowment Board members and student protesters must face each other instead of isolating themselves in their own huddles. information. How can those seeking help seriously take the warnings of cigarette smoking from persons puf fing away themselves? As head of agriculture, Graham is in a bind. North Carolina last year produced over two-thirds of the nation's flue-cured tobacco. What's good for public health may threaten to some N.C. farmers. But Graham does not have to oppose every smoking ban as if it were a deadly threat to the tobacco industry. A gradual re-emphasis on crop alter natives is also a good idea. Tobacco will be around a very long time, but the national percentage of smokers is decreasing. Even if state officials zealously protect tobacco's image, they cannot reverse a national trend. In the meantime, clearing the air in the health department will be more of an asset to private individuals than a detriment to farmers. Parking fines mot the ticket to success o you're walking back to your car, and you slowly make your way into the seat after a day of classes or shopping. Suddenly, you see it. That little parking ticket with its face smashed against the outside of the windshield, pressed down by the windshield wiper, starting to smile at you. And you sometimes even wonder if you want to make the effort to get back out and pull it off. Those who hand these babies out are about as ruthless as an elephant stepping on a mouse with a target on its back. YouH see them, if you look close enough. They hide out under bushes and behind pickups, waiting for you to tiptoe away from your car for just a second. Eyewitnesses say all you can see sometimes is the flash of little white running shoes speeding out to the car's windshield. Even if you had just parked outside of Davis Library for half an hour to do some harmless studying, no good deed will go unpunished. There are those who will neglectfully leave them on their windshield, displaying them proudly as a blatant protest. They spread them out like a deck of cards, letting them flap in the wind as the week goes on. After spending some time researching the subject, I found some important statistics pertaining to parking tickets. End to end, the amount given out in one hour during the typical working day would wrap around Hanes Hall 342 times. Stacked together, they would reach a height four times taller than Granville Towers. And crumpled up and neglected, they could easily fit in the average glove compartment. Not that it's bad enough that you can't Brainy giants? To the editor: John Cook, you used 14 of the editorial page of The Daily Tar Heel with your column, "Symbolism fits intellectual pygmies" (Nov. 19). In the column, you did not deal with any issue or explain with care any of the many reasons the Reagan administration is less than satisfactory. You seemed to avoid effort at educating anyone about the ridiculousness of Reagan rhe toric. Instead, you chose to characterize Reagan as the "Snot Boy." Congratulations, you are an intellectual giant. Do the DTH editors print such columns just to be inflam matory, or are they intellectual giants also? MARC ABBEY Senior Business Administration Earn morality To the editor: It appears that supporters of divestment are again portray ing the issue as one of "us against them." They have mea sured the UNC Endowment Board for a black hat and are camping out in their shanty to see that they wear it. This disturbs me partly because divestment would be costly for UNC to undertake and would have little impact on firms doing business in South Africa. But it disturbs me more because it is not just. Students demanding that UNC divest should first divest themselves. They should pre pare a list of offending firms and promise to own none of their products. Imagine the impact of such an action. The anti-apartheid forces could then enroll the like-minded in a boycott. They could write offending firms and make it clear to them that future sales were at stake. Of course, such an action would take a great deal of work The Week A collection of notable quotes for the week ending Nov. 21, 1986 National international " The crimes are plainly proven. " Nicaraguan lawyer Reynaldo Mon terrey, head of the tribunal that convicted U.S. citizen Eugene Hasenfus of crimes against Nicaragua. Hasenfus, a baggage handler for an aircraft supplying aid to the rebel Contras, was sentenced Saturday to 30 years in prison. "He has made it plain he would stay as long as I want him, and I want him. " President Ronald Reagan Wednes day, responding to reports that Secretary of State George Shultz would resign. Shultz was rumored to be upset with Reagan's arms deal with Iran. 1 Trip Parte Staff Cartoonist find a parking place in Chapel Hill anywhere close to your destination. But once you finally ease into an "illegal area" or a place with a run-out meter, you're given the early Christmas present of a $10 or $20 fine, which you have to make out to the order of UNC. And where does the major bulk of this student financial funding go? All of those checks the University receives from parking and resolve. It would mean giving up records and stereos and the like. But it would be more just and more credible than pointing a finger at the University and saying, "You do the right thing." I admire the students who want to take the high ground on the issues of apartheid and divestment. I just don't think they should try to get there without the climb. MICKAEL K. SALEMI Associate Professor Economics icans. So to protest the grave injustices done to these folk, I will be constructing teepees in the pit and several igloos in front of the Bell Tower. Mar guerite Arnold and her anti apartheid pals are cordially invited to join me as I do my part to make UNC an uglier place. Seriously, this campus is as much mine as it is yours. I don't claim a right to deface it and I wish that you would cease to do so. You may have a valid cause, but your methods are obnoxious and 1 am turned away from your cause. Then again, I think, "Why get an apartment next year when there is now free housing right in front of South Building? Yeah, shanties now that's the ticket. ..." MICHAEL KOMADA Sophomore Biology Own protest To the editor: 1 was beginning to feel like a fool until Monday. It was then that I opened the Daily Tar Heel and said, "Yeah, that's the ticket." Mom and Dad have always said, "Get involved, it looks good in your record." So I'm writing this letter as a notice to all that I will launch my own protest next Monday. IVe long felt for the native North Amer Kudos To the editor: Congratulations to Assistant University Editor Jean Lutes " We are not going to be the glitziest class that ever came to the United States Senate, but I think we are going to be one of the most effective." Newly elected Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., on the Senate's latest arrivals. The 13 members of the freshman class, including Terry Sanford, D-N.C, arrived in Washington earlier this week. StateLocal " have made no overtures toward them. If you make something more of it, you 're just creating fiction." UNC football coach Dick Crum Tuesday on speculation that he had been named the head coach of Purdue Univer sity. He said a Durham television station had played a "dirty trick" in starting the rumor. "Just because we don 't vote for divest ment does not mean we support apartheid." S. Bobo Tanner, chairman of UNC's Endowment Board, explaining the body's Thursday vote against total divestiture of companies doing business in South Africa. "We're not going to take it down. " Anti-Apartheid Support Group member Dale McKinley on University requests to dismantle the shanty in Polk Place by noon today. tickets must be going to some good use. And although the truth might not be bearable to know, I would much rather be putting this money towards an unfortunate house hold somewhere rather than towards new spools of toilet paper for the basement facilities of some janitor's closet. However, until such justification is ever made, unreal as it may be, I feel comfortable writing these parking tickets out to the order of "Dean Dome." Staff Cartoonist Trip Park is a sophomore journalism major from Ithaca, New York. for some of the finest student journalism I've seen in years of reading the Daily Tar Heel. "Shanty Goes Up For Divest ment" (Nov. 18) captures the immediacy of last-minute nego tiations and eloquently sum marizes the different perspec tives of student activists, administrators and board members on the vital issue of divestment. I was especially pleased by the choice of quotes and reveal ing moments described in the article. The statement from Bill Peaslee, chairman of College Republicans, that the shanty "violates his right to a beautiful campus" is perfect. How to better illustrate the moral bankruptcy and utter irrespon sibility of Reagan Republican ism than having its spokesman dismiss social protest as aes thetically offensive and to equate the rights of millions of people with his enjoyment of the lower quad! Thanks again, Jean Lutes; keep up the fine work. MELODY IVINS Chapel Hill AND SO FORTH "Kim II Sung rose from the dead. I don 't blame him. I'd come out if the president of Mongolia was in my front yard, too. " White House spokesman Larry Speakes Tuesday, after Kim, leader of North Korea, was revealed alive, contra dicting earlier reports that he had died. Kim was shown on North Korean televi sion with a visiting Jambyn Batmunkh, president of Mongolia. " 's company policy to surrender. We shouldn 't risk our lives over pizza. " Pizza deliveryman Frank Finder of St. Peters, Mo., who refused a gunman's demand for free pizza. The gunman cussed, then fled. Finder's superiors later con vinced him that giving in was the thing to do. " never really knew my father could draw. I think it 's neat. " Sean Lennon, 11, son of slain musi cian John Lennon, during a Boston show of Lennon's art. Compiled by Associate Editor Ed Bracket t, a senior journalism major from Hendersonville.
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