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10The Daily Tar Heel Friday, January 16, 1987
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94th year of editorial freedom
Jim Z(X)k, Editor
Randy Farmer, Mumm Eior
KATHY NANNEY, Associate Editor
Tracy Him n x &ttor
Grant Parsons, university Editor
Linda Montanari, Ciy Eior
DONNA LEINWAND, So National Editor
Scott Fowler, sports Editor
Julie Braswell, fw cior
ROBERT KEEFE, Business Editor
Elizabeth Ellen, Arts Editor
DAN CHARLSON, Photography Editor
Fewer classes - at a price?
As each school year opens, students
search for any excuse to escape un-air-conditioned
Chapel Hill dorm
rooms and the oppressive August heat.
That in itself is a good argument for
delaying the start of school a week.
UNC students may be cautiously
optimistic following an administration
announcement to shorten the school
year. The goal of the policy is to
shorten the current 18-week semester
to 17 weeks, the minimum allowed in
North Carolina. The 1987-88 school
year will begin the last week in August
as opposed to the usual third-week-in-August
kickoff date.
UNC Faculty Council Chairman
George Kennedy proposed the shorter
year because the "current length of the
school year may interfere with stu
dents' summer employment." Kennedy
also said a shorter year will not
interfere with faculty conventions held
in the late summer and fall.
In addition to the shorter term,
exam week will be shortened from nine
days to eight, meaning six exams will
be scheduled for the final two days.
But University officials say the exams
scheduled on those days will be in
classes with "the most unpopular
times," meaning only folks with those
late afternoon classes need worry. As
always, any student with two or more
exams within a 24-hour period will be
able to reschedule them.
To be honest, this policy sounds
good. Some students especially
those with summer internships lasting
a specified number of weeks are
pushed to leave work earlier than
fellow interns. To them, the new policy
will certainly be a welcome change.
The promise that no days will be cut
from breaks or added to the end of
the year is a sign of thoughtfulness on
the council's part.
But the most pressing question on
students' minds is, "Will the amount
of material covered in classes remain
the same?" If the answer is yes (as it
is likely to be), students may find
themselves covering the same amount
of material with less time to do so.
The results could vary: Students
may relish the extra time off and adjust
to the more intense courseloads; or
they may wish for an extra week to
finish War and Peace or Physics Made
Easy. And knowing professors, many
of whom have taught the same classes
and material for years, don't expect
the reading assignments on the sylla
bus to shorten as the semester does.
After considering this plan, a couple
of other questions also arise. Will
students, with less time to work with,
reduce the number of campus festiv
ities? Hopefully not. Will the state
repeat past actions by asking for yet
another tuition hike? Stay tuned. , .
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Policy deserves a dunce cap
U.S. Education Secretary William
Bennett has been known to preach
about education's virtues. He is often
times condescending, but the goal
behind the "back-to-basics" approach
he espouses cannot be refuted.
That makes his defense of President
Reagan's education budget unfathom
able. How can someone presumed to
be an ardent advocate of education
supportive a plan to cut $5.5 billion
in federal outlays for education?
Testifying before two Senate com
mittees Wednesday, Bennett was
assaulted with a barrage of criticisms
from both Democrats and Republi
cans over the budget. The cuts, if
approved, would axe higher education
aid almost in half, from $8.2 billion
to $4.5 billion. One million students
currently receiving Pell Grants would
be cut from the program.
"I wish you were as strong an
advocate for education as Secretary
Weinberger is for defense," a Demo
cratic senator warned. One Republi
can senator, John Danforth of Mis
souri, was more direct in saying that
Bennett's stance on federal higher
education aid was "absolutely wrong."
So why does Bennett support the
cuts? Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn.,
seemed to strike a raw nerve in Bennett
when he said, "Don't blame Gramm-Rudman-Hollings
for your budget. It's
a question of Administration princi
ples." Bennett tried unsuccessfully all
day to talk his way around the budget
balancing plan, reverting to the old
standby lines about "the administra
tion has been at the forefront . . ."
Mr. Bennett, give us a break. This
administration's education policy is
one big hypocrisy. Administration
officials beckon education leaders to
beef up standards, facilities, programs
before yanking essential monies out of
their coffers. Talk of a better educated
American work force is preceded by
cutting grants and loans that often
determine whether a student enters a
college classroom.
Increased foreign competition and
the infusion of technology into our
everyday lives makes federal support
of education pivotal. The Reagan
administration must adopt another
school of thought.
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Staff Columnist: Pierre Tristam
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Assistant Managing Editors: Jennifer Cox, Amy Hamilton and Regan Murray.
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Rachel StilTlcr, Clay Thorp, Flisa Turner, Nicki Weisensee, Beth Williams and Bruce Wood. Jo Fleischer
and Jean Lutes, assistant university editors. Cindy Clark, Ruth Davis and Michael Jordan, wire editors.
Sports: Mike Ikrardino, James Surowiecki and Bob Young, assistant sports editors. Greg Cook, Phyllis
Fair, Laura Grimmer, Greg Humphreys, l.orna Khali!, Eddy Landreth and Jill Shaw.
Features: Jessica Brooks, Robbie Dellinger. Carole Ferguson, Jennifer Frost, Jennifer Harley, Jeanie
Mamo, Corin Ortlam, and Lynn Phillips.
Arts: James Burrus, David Hester. Alexandra Mann, Rene Meyer, Beth Rhea, Kelly Rhodes and Rob
Sherman. '
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Maricllc Stachura.
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Campus Calendar: Mindelle Rosenberg and David Starnes.
Business and Advertising: Anne Fulcher, general manager: Patricia Benson, advertising director: Mary
Pcarsc. advertising cmtrdinator, Angela Ostwalt, business manager; Cammie Henry, accounts receivable
clerk: Ruth Anderson. Michael Bcnficld. Jennifer Garden, Ashley Hinton, Kclli McF.lhaney, Chrissy
Mcnnitt, Anne Raymer, Julie Settle, Peggy Smith, Kent Sutton, Amanda Tillcy and Ashley Waters
advertising representatives: Tammy Norris, Angie Peele, Stephanie Chcsson, classified advertising
representatives: and Mary Brown, secretary.
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Production: Stacy Wynn. Rita Galloway and Lisa Poole, production assistants.
Priming: The Chapel Hill Newspaper
Bulldozing
residents
To the editor:
Several measures have been
proposed by Kimley-Horn and
Associates, Inc. of Raleigh
upon the request of the Edu
cational Foundation, Inc. (a
UNC affiliate) to control traffic
resulting from major events at
the Dean E. Smith Center.
Most notably, Kimley-Horn
has suggested that three roads
be constructed allowing heavy
traffic to flow from the parking
lots surrounding the SAC
through Odom Village and out
to Mason Farm Road and
Manning Drive.
Naturally, the roads would
require the destruction of sev
eral student-family apartment
buildings as well as much
wooded landscape. Kimley
Horn has suggested that all of
these recommendations be
acted upon immediately. Sur
veying crews have been here
already.
To whom do we, the resi
dents of Odum Village ask for
help in preserving this pleasant
and peaceful community within
the campus? Where shall the
over 400 applicants on the
Odum Village waiting list apply
for decent and affordable quar
ters so close to the main campus
and professional schools, (yet
not violated by heavy traffic
flow)?
We have even heard mention
of a four-lane street through
our complex. Where may we
safely allow our children to
play?
We have little time to act.
However, if we have your
support, please voice it on this
page or in writing to Dr. Farris
W. Womack, Vice Chancellor
of Business and Finance, 2 1 1
South Building, UNC Campus;
or Mr. Moyer G. Smith, Asso
ciate Athletic Director, Educa
tional Foundation, P.O. Box
2446, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514.
Both men have been supplied
with Kimley-Horn's complete
traffic ingress report.
It is our only hope that the
Educational Foundation, Inc.
will soon recognize the injustice
of what it is attempting for the
mere convenience of a few
wealthy enough to park in F
and FR lots.
MARIO CRUZ
Chairman
Board of Alderman
Odum Village
Pill persuasion
To the editor:
Is your head spinning tiom
watching TV? Well, surely at
least one pill was advertised
that would remedy the
situation.
1 am tired of being assaulted
by advertisements for pills. This
time of year, there are more
commercials for pills than cars.
There are pills for just about
everything: vitamins, dietary
supplements, headaches,
arthritis, sore muscles, colds,
hay fever, birth control, etc.
Manufacturers are trying to
keep us healthy, you say. Didn't
your mother tell you that if you
eat right and don't go out in
the rain without a raincoat or
umbrella that you wouldn't
need to worry?
As for cold remedies, they
don't cure anything, only make
it a little more bearable. They
have their side effects too,
coated or not.
If we're all as tired of pill
commercials as 1 think we are,
we have two choices:
Change our habits eating.
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sleeping, etc. to a healthier
style.
Take a megadose of Extra
Strength Tylenol.
CURTIS HEDGEPETH
Sophomore
Psychology
Cutting cost
To the editor:
' The school year will be
shorter! Many students read
the article describing the deci
sion with as much concentra
tion as if the headline had read
"UNC tuition cut in half."
However, the reasons this
decision may have been made
are hidden behind the fact that
the University currently has
one extra week of academics
per semester.
Why should the student's
year be hampered by inade
quate services of the University,
its inability to clear student
financial accounts and print
grades for the new type of
diplomas? This situation could
be remedied but not by making
the students cram 18 weeks of
studies into 17 weeks. The one
week difference does not seem
like very much, but we all know
that there are quite a number
of classes which cover close to
100 pages (if not more) of text
in one week.
Second, are there so many
conventions scheduled in mid
August that faculty members
would miss out on many great
discoveries if they failed to
attend the convention in some
resort hotel in Atlanta or New
York?
Since school will be one week
shorter, it would seem that
power bills for University
dorms would decrease. But has
there been mention of even a
small cutback in dorm rent, let
alone a cut in the cost of
tuition?
I like not having to wait in
drop-add lines until a week
later and having a slightly
longer summer. But when it
comes to short-changing my
education and my wallet, I
think the University's officials
are hitting below the belt.
G. WAYNE GOODWIN
Sophomore
Politial Science History
Attack ill-founded
To the editor:
We respect the fact that every
student at this University does
not love Coach Dean Smith the
way 99 percent of the student
body does. But sometimes there
is an attack so ill-founded that
well jump out of our comfor
table seats in the Dean Dome,
the campus' resident worship
center, to defend Smith.
In The Daily Tar Heel, a
UNC fan using logic that
reminds one of Billy Packer
asserts that Smith's ability as
a coach has deteriorated
("Coach critique," Jan. 14). His
argument basically is that the
failure of the UNC basketball
team to win the NCAA title
since 1982 is due to the fact that
Smith, out of complacency, no
longer properly motivates the
team, and that we choke
against inferior teams.
Never mind the fact that
college basketball has true
parity today, and winning the
tournament every year is vir
tually impossible. Never mind
that teams like Louisville,
Houston, Kentucky and
Georgetown have had no more
luck in dominating college
basketball with a similar
amount of talent.
Over the last four years, has
Carolina's failure to win the
NCAA title been due to suspect
coaching or unmotivated play?
Let's examine what happened
those four years. In 1983,
Georgia, in one of the best
performances in the school's
history, shot between 70 and 80
percent, mostly from the out
side, in a close Carolina loss.
In 1984, Carolina was unable
to really find someone who
could perform at the level of
injured freshman point guard
Kenny Smith and, in the tour
nament, lost to a fired-up, well
coached Bobby Knight team
(which we all know suffers from
a lack of talent).
In 1985, we were picked
fourth in the conference. Con
sequently, Carolina, who
recently has rarely "reached
down and found that extra lift
that would vault them to vic
tory," beai teams rated higher
than our players all year long.
The team surprised everyone by
tying for first place in the
regular season and almost
winning the ACC tournament
over a superior Georgia Tech
team. In the NCAA tourna
ment, Steve Hale was knocked
out with one of the cheapest
shots in college basketball.
Having no time to adjust to the
loss, UNC eventually lost to
Villanova (an inferior team?),
the tournament champion.
Last year, struck by injuries,
Carolina, supposedly suffering
from the "Fat Cat" syndrome,
overcame a I3-point deficit late
in the second half against
Louisville. Unfortunately,
some highly controversial calls
in a poorly officiated game
went against Carolina, and
Louisville went on to win the
championship.
And now, some impatient
and spoiled fans don't realize
that Carolina has recently
lacked some tournament luck
and that other teams are just
as talented. They overlook
these less obvious problems
and go for the throat. They
conclude that Smith is not
among the coaching elites,or
even in the top five. Well, who's
above him?
Using the logic of Smith's
critics, consider the recent
tournament success of some '
other coaches with similar
programs. Denny Crum, until
last year, had not won the .
NCAA title since 1980. Joe B.
Hall only won in 1979. Bobby
Knight's last championship was
in 1981. Norm Sloan won way
back in 1974. Dana Kirk, Lefty
Driesell, George Ravelling,
Digger Phelps, Dale Brown
and Jim Boeheim have never
won. That's a lot of "fat cats"
who have no more recent
success than our coach. Who
are the five that are better than
Smith?
GABE MONTERO
Sophomore
Computer Science
SH ELTON BROWN
Junior
Economics
A collection of notable quotes for the
week ending Jan. 16. 1987
"Righteousness has been locked up ... .
the Statue of Liberty has blown out her torch
and sat down. "
The Rev. Timothy McDonald of
Atlanta's First Iconium Baptist Church,
discussing the nation's racial problems at a
memorial service for Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr.
State Local
National
intehmatiomal
"We have a big problem when someone
makes a statement about needing to raise
money or his life will end. "
David Lane, president and general
manager of WFAA-TV, a station which
broadcasts the messages of evangelist Oral
Roberts. Two of those programs this month
have included pleas for money in which
Roberts says God will "call him home" if
$18 million is not raised.
"I've got me thermal underwear on. Not
very macho, is it?. "
A police officer guarding the entrance
to London's Downing Street, reacting to the
record-breaking cold gripping Europe.
More than 100 deaths have been attributed
to the cold.
" stuck my head right in on top of them.
I asked them would thev leave and thev said
no.
University Police Maj. Charles Mauer,
testifying during the district court trial of
12 UNC students charged with criminal
trespass. The students, who last semester
refused to leave a shanty erected in front
of South Building, were acquitted because
Mauer asked, but did not order, the group
to leave before making the arrest.
"Right now. can be in touch with a lot
of different things, but I can't take one thing
and sink my teeth into it. "
UNC Student Body President Bryan
Hassel, explaining why he will not run for
a second term. Hassel, a junior, said he wants
to concentrate on specific projects.
"(Also) the faculty has several conventions
scheduled during August that interfere with
our current fall semester. I encouraged a
shorter year so that the faculty could attend
them."
- George Kennedy, chairman of the
UNC Faculty Council, who proposed a
revised school year schedule, accepted this
week by University administration.
"Drug testing is a fad. Abuse is significant,
but the drug tests are only inconveniencing
the majority. "
Les Garner, assistant professor in the
UNC School of Business Administration,
commenting on the increasing number of
recruiters which require or are planning to
implement drug testing.
AfID SO FOHTli
"The problem is that most of the women
in the world could have made the list. The
whole trouble is, we only had room for 10. "
Mr. Blackwell, a dress designer who
desires to be known only by his professional
name, discussing his 27th annual list of
worst-dressed women.
Compiled by Associate Editor Kathy
Nanney, a senior journalism major from
Hendersonville.
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