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8The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, March 22, 1988 A surreal encounter with fashion 96 th year of editorial freedom Jhan Lutes. KATHY Pl-TVRS. Managing Editor Karen-Beli, nm s Editor Matt Bivens, .ir sociate V.Jttor KlMBERLY EDENS, University Editor SHARON KEBSCHULL; State and National Editor MIKE BERARDINO, Sports Editor Kelly Rhodes, Arts Editor MANDY SPENCE, Design Editor Looking out for student-athletes Three cheers for the Faculty Coun cil. Following this month's council meeting, changes for improving the councils Faculty Athletics Committee are in the works. They are long overdue. An ad hoc faculty group recom mended that the nine committee members be elected by the faculty and that the chairperson be selected by the committee. The council approved the recommendations, which now must be incorporated into the Faculty Code. Under the proposal, the committee members would be elected to staggered three-year terms, and could serve no more than two consecutive terms.. Now, the chancellor appoints the committee members and the chair. Elections will ensure that the com mittee members can be held accoun table, and that the council will have legitimate authority to direct the work of the committee when appropriate. The ad hoc group also recom mended that a stated purpose be established, requiring the committee to report to the council at least once a vear, and to advise the chancellor on any athletic matters of concern to the faculty. According to the recommen dations, these matters include the conduct and operation of the athletic program. Previously, the committee had no formal purpose and it defined its Boy killer needs Fifteen-year-old Rod Matthews was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison last week for beating a classmate to death with a baseball bat "to find out what it was like to kill someone." Such a sentence is as much a travesty as the murder itself. Matthews had premeditated the murder. He lured the classmate, fellow 14-year-old Shaun Ouillette, into some woods and then beat him to death with his Louisville Slugger. He later took two friends to view the bludgeoned body. Apparently, Matthews first started having homicidal thoughts after seeing the movie "Faces of Death." The movie repeatedly depicts mutilations and deaths of animals and humans. Two of Matthews' friends testified during the trial that he had told them of his desire to kill in the fall of 1986, mentioning two possible victims and then deciding on Ouillette. Ouillette was chosen, the two said, because Matthews said he would not be missed. Matthews pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. His defense attor ney argued that Matthews was men tally unstable. After conviction for second degree murder, Matthews was sentenced to life in prison. Judge Roger Donahue rejected a motion by the defense to classify Matthews as a juvenile and reconsider the sentence. Under a Massachusetts law, which is similar to N.C. law, a minor convicted of a violent crime can be sentenced as an adult. r-Gip-n-Save Spring has sprung, bringing with it thoughts of love, romance, chance encoun ters, Certs and, of course, orgasms. Yes, it's that time of year again. It's National Orgasm Week. The man we have to thank for this week long celebration of sex and all its pleasures is Dr. Roger Libby, a 44-year-old sexologist who lives with Roxanne Ribbit, a 5-foot, soft-sculpture frog (horny toad, get it?). Roxanne symbolizes all the good things about sex she is fun, relaxed, assertive, independent and unconcerned about her flabby, green thighs. She usually dresses in a black, leather mini-skirt and T-shirt. . Libby and Roxanne are in Daytona Beach now, helping students celebrate by handing out free condoms and buttons which proclaim, "I came for National Orgasm Week." Today, Libby will speak on "Caring Sex" at Florida Atlantic University (if you leave now, you might make it). In honor of this spring ritual, Libby suggests that college students and other libidinous enthusiasts hold a sexual fantasy ball. He encourages students to act out their erotic imaginations by dressing as their Editor JON RUST, Managing Editor KAARIN TlSUE, Hews Editor AMY HAMILTON, Associate Editor KRISTEN GARDNER, University Editor Will Lingo, city Editor LEIGH ANN McDONALD, Features Editor CATHY McHUGH, Omnibus Editor DAVID MINTON, Photography Editor, agenda from year to year, drifting at times from issue to issue. This approach is no longer sufficient, given the phenomenal growth of the athletic program in the past 30 years. The scope of University athletics now requires the committee to be consist ent, thorough and committed in its work. Establishing a broad role as monitor of the athletic-academic relationship moves the committee in this direction. But while increased responsibility is warranted, the committee must be careful not to become lost in the myriad of issues related to University athletics. What has recently been of primary concern to the committee the academic experience of the student-athlete from admission to graduation must remain at the forefront of discussion. An athlete should be viewed and treated as any other student, and the committee should continue to work toward this end. In keeping with its mission, the committee must balance general and specific concerns from Educational Foundation involvement to admis sions standards for athletes while increasing its scrutiny of the Athletic Department. A more credible and autonomous Faculty Athletics Com mittee will be a vehicle to that end. Kelly Clark help, not prison While there are instances when this law should be applied to youths who commit serious crimes, it should not be used in cases that involve extreme psychological problems. Matthews' motive, to kill "to find out what it was like," indicates his mental instability. To sentence this 15-year-old boy to prison state prison is incompre hensible. Such an action is devoid of understanding of Matthews or his crime, and it makes no attempt to rehabilitate him. Matthews' age and mental state should have taken precedence over the heinousness of his crime. Even trying Matthews as a juvenile would have not dealt effectively with the problem he presented. Matthews and people like him need psychological treatment before serving any prison sentence. They must be made to comprehend what they did before they can see it as wrong. Finally, we need to understand why Matthews killed Ouillette. Fifteen-year-old boys have impressionable minds. Matthews was prompted into action by a movie that shows actual killings of men, women and children. This same crime could happen again. And again. There are millons of young people across the nation, and millions of videocassette recorders. Putting Rod Matthews in a state prison for the rest of his life cannot keep this crime from recurring; under standing why it happened in the first place can. Stuart Hathaway most arousing fantasy. j So in honor of National Orgasm Week, j we'd like to offer a few suggestions of our own for your delectation. B Visit a nudist colony. (Check the yellow I pages for the location nearest you.) I B Go to an exhibit of erotic Rococo I paintings and gawk at the naked women I and cherubs. I B Buy satin sheets complete with match- I ing pillow shams. It makes stealing the J covers a new and exciting experience for J both (or all). j B Invest in a few pairs of edible under- J wear and invite your favorite person to J lunch. J fl Play "Suck V Blow" with a deck of J cards and a few close friends. j B Dress up as Dr. Ruth and advise ! people. B Preregister for Health Education 85, j "Topics in Human Sexuality." B Purchase several brands of condoms, now available in designer colors, and have a condom-testing party. Or you could use i them as balloons. i B Install a mirror over your bunkbed; i amuse your roommate. i Iwas warned not to attend. My three friends in the fashion show were all slightly embarrassed by The whole thing. "It's ridiculous," one said. "I hate the clothes," said another. "I look terrible next to all those models," said the. third. With comments like those, how could I stay away? ' I was also no mere spectator, having actually helped one of the girls select a robe at Victoria's Secret. The plan was to buy the robe, wear it in the show, and then deviously return it. We wandered through the store, talking loudly of her fictional twin sister's birthday. After much fingering of silk, we decided on a long robe of light pastel colors. With this shopping time invested in the robe, I felt an obligation to see it worn in the show. So, there I sat, front row center in the middle of University Mall, ready and waiting for 45 minutes of voyeurism. Well over a hundred people milled around the stage, giggling and pointing at the models lined up against the wall. I waved to my friends, who looked horrified. A big guy sitting next to me leaned over and muttered in a Mafia voice, "My girlfriend's in the show, you look at her and I break your spine." "Absolutely no problem," I said. "I can't see a thing without my glasses anyway." The emcees stepped to the podium Miss Greater Raleigh, whose hairstyle could only be termed "crafted," and a suave guy who was either a reporter or a Playgirl Playmate, I couldn't make out which. Thunderous applause, and the show was on! The models paraded across the stage, sometimes twirling alone, sometimes acting out mimed skits with a partner. Guys with chins cleft like the Grand Canyon strutted around, looking very preoccupied and concerned perhaps about the Real Israel not represented To the editor: As a visiting student in the One Year Program at the Hebrew University in Jerusa lem, I never thought of myself as a foreign correspondent for your paper. However, after reading the press accounts about what's been happening here and com paring that with what I'm actually experiencing in Israel, I feel compelled to write to you. Nightly press in the United States is bombarded with pic tures of violence in the streets, burning tires, petrol bombs and the unrest occurring in Gaza and the West Bank. A compar ison could be made to placing TV cameras in all the slums in America and broadcasting this abroad as an example of "Life in the United States." The same is true for current American coverage of Israel. As a student who has lived and travelled throughout Israel for the better part of a year, I am free to travel as I please (and we travel quite a lot on study trips), and I feel safe and secure. I particularly resent the sloppy comparison made between South Africa and Israel. Apartheid exists throughout all of South Africa and is part of their law and society. Military rule, and the demonstrations seen on TV, are confined to the Gaza Strip and West Bank, not Israel proper. I am not denying that there are problems in the territories, and Israelis in general seem very concerned with the situation, but the country as a whole is Reagan's policy repeats past mistakes The recent actions of the Reagan administration against the legiti mate Nicaraguan government fol low old patterns of American hegemonial interest in Latin America. There have been more than 50 American military interven tions in Latin America since 1900. Because American interventionism adds up to existing anti-American and nationalist feelings in the area, it is in the best interests of this country to reconsider its policy and discard military options in both Nicaragua and Honduras. Unlike most Americans, Latin Ameri cans are keenly aware of the legacy of United States influence in the area. Mexicans have not forgotten the American seizure of half of their territory in the 19th century. Guatemalans remember the CIA assisted coup of 1954 in which a reformist, democratic government was replaced by a military dictatorship that has been responsible for the death of more than 100,000 Guatemalans. And Nicaraguans will never forget that Americans occupied their country, selected their presidents, collected their customs, supervised their elections and trained their National Guard for most of the time between 1912 and 1933. The Somoza dictatorship, the indirect result of this policy toward Nicaragua, is still fresh in people's minds. Except for a few years before the fall of the dictator in 1979, Washington condoned the sell-out of much of the small country to the Somoza family and foreign capital, and the U.S. government did very little Brian McCuskey In the Funhouse situation in Central America, but I can't be sure. Girls with perfect smiles and enough hair mousse to style a yak strolled and tossed their heads provocatively. These people would have looked good with dead hamsters tied around their necks. The girlfriend of the guy next to me waltzed across the stage, and so I dutifully averted my eyes and watched the audience. Female spectators giggled and nudged each other with every twitch of a stomach muscle and steely blue-eyed stare; male spectators wiped the drool from their chins and sighed at the smooth tanned thighs and sweet smiles. I don't think the audience was paying too much attention to the models' clothes. The skits were reminiscent of Shakes peare's timeless classics guy sees girl, girl avoids guy, guy chases girl, girl relents. Or just for variety, she doesn't relent. Or another twist the girl chases the guy. I pondered the thematic implications of these dramas, but could only conclude that sometimes the romance works, and some times it doesn't. True words, but hardly profound. One disturbing moment sticks in my mind a bathing-suited girl crawled across the stage toward her stern and beckoning lover. And there it was! The robe! Floating up over the steps, billowing out as it moved across the stage, cinched snugly at the waist, silk rustling, and the pastels! Delicate blue, delightful yellow, ambigu ous pink ... I was overcome. I searched the faces in the audience, waiting for the approving nods, hoping someone would pat me on the back, a few claps breaking Readers' Forum at peace and is a very pleasant and interesting place to visit. I am glad I came here as a visiting student, and I encour age you to come for a visit, too, if you want to get a true perspective of what is really going on here. DANIELLE N1EMAN Junior Psychology Parking a grievous task To the editor: I am writing this letter to air a grievance which may possibly be of concern only to me, but I doubt it. This subject of my chagrin is campus parking. I do not understand how or why the employees and stu dents here are standing still to be charged to park a car for the purpose of work or study. Some unfortunates are paying as much as $250 a year and for what? I for one would like to know what is happening to this money being paid by thousands of employees and students. There is absolutely no evidence that is being used for the purpose of improving the park ing situation here at UNC. It is totally ridiculous to have a parking fee extracted from your salary and then still be unable to find a parking space. In many cases people who are having this money taken out of their paychecks are still having to pay for a private parking lot because there is no place to park on or near the campus area. If this parking program were Jurgen Buchenau Guest Writer to oppose the flagrant human rights abuses of the National Guard. When the Sandinistas attempted to establish a new political and economic system, the Reagan administration cried foul. Particularly, the nationalism of the new rulers worried them. The Sandinistas desired a neutral, non-aligned Nicaragua. The new government was soon labeled Communist and Soviet-influenced, even though Cuban and Soviet assistance to the Sandinistas was very small at that point. Ortega and his colleagues repeatedly asked the United States for help in the early 1980s, because the Sandinistas had no interest in getting into the orbit of the Soviet Union. Instead of nationalizing all foreign property in Nicaragua, as Cuba had done, they pledged themselves to a mixed economy, pluralism, a land reform return ing millions of acres to landless peasants, and health and literacy programs. The United States did not assist in all these efforts, while Canada and Western Europe poured millions pf dollars of economic aid into Nicaragua. Without giving the Nicaraguan exper iment much chance and time to succeed, the Reagan administration contemplated methods to bring about the overthrow of out into real applause, me standing up, bowing, smiling modestly, Ralph Lauren on the phone, Yves Saint Laurent on hold, a ticker-tape parade, women all over the country lounging in "Sleepwear By Bri" The scattered applause woke me from my fantasy. "Dare to dream," I told the guy next to me. He shook his head and muttered, "Whatever." It was over. For the finale, the models took one last stroll across the stage. One girl had actually changed back into a bathing suit for her grand exit. I had to admire that kind of confidence, that kind of security, that kind of supreme vanity. I can't really blame her everyone harbors some degree of vanity. Deep down we'd all like to dress beautifully and have people admire us. Otherwise we wouldn't brush our hair, or match a tie to a sport coat. But a fashion show is a slightly surreal experience for 45 minutes the audience bought into a world where men with perfect hair and biceps strut around like peacocks, and exquisitely made-up women with heartbreaking smiles glide across the stage. It sounds good, but real beauty isnt the empty myth of the perfect tan or white silk leisure suit. While I enjoyed my journey into Fashionland, I missed the truly beautiful things in this world a crooked grin, a gap-toothed giggle, the puffy and unguarded face of a sleeping girl, a little boy with chocolate all over his face. But I did go home and brush my hair a little more carefully, and tried to find just the right tie for that tweed jacket . . . Brian McCuskey is a junior English major from Los Angeles. truly an accountable one, spa ces would be allocated to an individual by name so that the University would not be getting from $10 to $250 per year and selling one space to as many as twenty people. I am anxious to see in print the opinion of others on this subject. ALPHONSO DONALDSON UNC Physical Plant Letters policy B All letters and columns must be signed by the author(s), with a limit of two signatures per letter or column. B The DTH reserves the right to edit for clarity, vulgarity and disparity. the Sandinistas. With the help of a few former Sandinistas that had lost out in the power struggle within the movement, Washington then launched the contras as the "democratic alternative" to Sandinism, leaving Ortega with no choice but to ask the Soviet Union for help. Even with a heavy dose of American military aid, the contras have failed in their mission to restore a pro-American regime in Managua. They have, however, suc ceeded in interrupting the the constructive process of the early 1980s, which has made it easier for Sandinista foes to justify their hostility. Today's debate over whether the contras are thugs or heroes is as unnecessary as the one about the success of the revolution. The fact remains that the United States has no business in supporting a rebellion in Nicaragua, but it should respect every country's right to self-determination. Without the United States' intervention, we would have been able to assess correctly the success or failure of the Nicaraguan experiment. The course that U.S. policy has taken and last week's venture into Honduras will show this even more clearly will only serve as a reminder to Latin America that the United States chooses the "Big Stick" just a little too often over political solutions. Jurgen Buchenau is a graduate student in Latin American Studies from Cologne, West Germany.
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