10The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday, April 13, 1988
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U N iCEF needs cash, not carrots
all children by the year 1990. The goal,
once thought impossible, is within
reach through consistent efforts. It
now saves more than 1.3 million lives
There are children dying in the
world as you read this sentence.
Another child will die before you finish
reading this one. Yes, these statements
are designed to shock you, to move
you to action.
They are similar to the ones that
your parents used to throw around.
"Eat your carrots. Don't you know
there are children starving in Africa?"
Typical responses included a detailed
plan to send the carrots more than
anyone could possibly eat in zip
lock bags to those who so desperately
; needed them. But no matter what the
plan, we all ended up eating those
; carrots.
The fact of the matter is that we
did want to help. This problem, as with
other world issues, was simply too
large to address on an individual scale.
There had to be a way to bring it down
to a level that was manageable. Now,
students have a chance to help those
who need it there through individual
actions here.
UNICEF Week, sponsored by the
Campus Y's UNICEF committee, ends
tomorrow. The money collected this
week on campus, along with funds
raised from the committee's holiday
card sales last winter, will go directly
to aid children in the Third World.
UNICEF the United Nations
Childrens Fund focuses on educa
tion and immunization to help save
the world's children. The United
Nations has set a goal of immunizing
a year.
But three million children still die
every year from dehydration caused
by diarrheal disease. A new technique
developed in the last two decades, oral
rehydration, is a simple and cost
effective means to curb the problem.
While 600,000 children are now being
saved with this method, this is not
enough. With further education, as
many as seven million more could be
saved.
We all used to take around those
bright orange cardboard boxes on
Halloween, collecting money for
UNICEF, as well as candy for our
selves. It seemed a part of the holiday,
somehow justifying our huge bounty
at the end of the night.
Over the past two nights, committee
members without the costumes
have canvassed residence halls for
donations in a similar way. They have
collected more than $250 so far, and
will be coming around again tonight
and tomorrow. In addition, the group
will be in the Pit all day Thursday,
spelling out UNICEF on the floor of
the Pit using double-sided tape. They
are asking students to fill in the letters
with any spare change they have.
It sure beats filling zip-lock bags
with carrots. Bill Yelverton
Winning the war against brides
Have you ever been to N.C. State
University? If so, have you noticed that
everything is brick, concrete and
asphalt even the ground? Have you
noticed that it's very ugly? Little to
no grass, vegetation or any other sort
of plant life grows between the bricks.
Now, contrast the red-orange-brown
of State to the luscious green
of Carolina. Think of McCorkle Place
with its rolling, fresh green lawn and
stately trees. Think of the arboretum
with its abundance of beautiful vege
tation. Now, think of what Carolina
would look like if it were paved over
in brick. That's right: it would look
like State.
UNC officials don't want our cam
pus to look like a brickyard. To stop
the tide of bricks, the University is
reseeding and fertilizing campus
grounds especially the dirt paths
that form because students do not use
existing brick walkways. When dirt
paths stay long enough, the University
puts brick over them. The more dirt,
the more bricks. The more like State.
Most UNC students are happy to
be surrounded by an attractive cam
pus, with plenty of green lawns on
which to sunbathe, throw Frisbees or
just take naps. But if they don't stop
making dirt paths that inevitably
become brick paths, those green lawns
won't last long.
It's true that the shortest distance
between two points is a straight line.
It's also true that most brick paths at
UNC seem determined to defy this
simple fact, winding all over campus
before arriving at any destination.
But if students left for class just a
few minutes sooner, they could take
time to wander on the brick walkways
and stay off the dirt paths. This
would not only save the University
money officials spend $42,000 to
$43,000 annually on reseeding but
would also help to preserve the beauty
of the campus.
According to a recent report, the
UNC Physical Plant needs an addi
tional $1 1 million for each of the next
10 years to catch up on its repair and
renovation projects. No one seems to
know where this money will come
from. Interestingly enough, the funds
for reseeding and all landscaping
projects are included in the Physical
Plant's operating fund.
By using the brick paths, students
could save the University thousands
of dollars per year dollars that could
be used to fund much-needed reno
vation projects for other parts of the
University.
This is a chance for you to do
something to improve your environ
ment. It's quite simple: keep off the
grass. Amy Hamilton
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This existence is real life? Hardily
here we are in college, still
very young and impressionable.
Two decades ago most of us
weren't even on the planet yet, 16 years
ago we were still waking up in an
embarrassingly wet bed, and 10 years ago
we were really pissed off when we missed
Bernadette spin her arms on another
tawdry episode of Zoom.
But now we sit in little circles and discuss
our pertinent feelings on God, romance,
sex, nature and philosophy, and the worst
part of it is that we believe everything we're
saying! It's awfully easy to pseudo
intellectualize ourselves into little balls of
college play-doh, in a vain attempt to "find
ourselves." Lord knows, if I found myself,
I'd put myself right back.
College, for most people, is still a
playground where else could you have
this lifestyle without parental restraint,
taxes, insurance or any problems of the
real world? Some people will never be as
happy as they are now.
Yet imagine if college were the real
world, and everything we do day-to-day
here would carry on to the rest of our lives.
We could live in the dorm forever! Think
of it; Thanksgiving dinners, Christmas
unwrapping, visits from the relatives we
could raise children and grow old and
happy, all under the auspices of University
housing. Of course, these Thanksgiving
dinners would be cooked without the aid
Ian Williams
Wednesday's Child
of the dreaded Open Coil Heaters, but I'm
sure a microwaved Butterball turkey has
an aura all its own. And all the kids would
grow up without Satan's Wire, the illegal
two-pronged zipcord. They would live a
life of peace, happiness and three-pronged
spreaders.
To get a job, we wouldn't need qual
ifications or skills; we would simply rush
them like a fraternity or a sorority. We
would wear nametags with our name and
hometown on them and waltz around to
each company, talking about what high
school we went to and what good books
weVe read lately. The big bid night would
come, and all the cute people would get
to be doctors and lawyers, while all the
ugly ones would end up as plumbers and
toll booth operators.
Then, everybody would have these
wonderful mixers the accountants and
nurses would go on drunken hay rides, the
dentists and actresses would have a pledge
formal with a cool band topped off by
a wonderfully disgusting initiation for all.
Have you ever felt uncomfortable
talking to someone who was a hell of a
lot smarter than you? In this new world,
people themselves would have prerequi
sites. As a man, you would approach a
lovely young lady and ask her out for
dinner. "I'm sorry," she would reply
sternly, "you need to take Psych 10 before
you come to any of my dinners." Perhaps
you could sit in and audit the relationship
before she finally let you in. Personally,
I know you have to take Drama 35 to
talk to my mother.
So once youVe established a relation
ship, why not take it pass fail? What would
be better in a romance than to be free of
evaluation? Our sexual performance,
sensitivity and affection would be rated in
the simplest binary fashion. And if things
got rough, we could fill out the appropriate
forms, take them to Hanes Hall and drop
the relationship. After all, what is divorce
but the ultimate act of drop add?
Well, now that IVe thoroughly disgusted
myself, I shall go back to my little college
world and continue to philosophize myself
into a trapezoid. I would go into the TV
room and try to find myself, but I dont
think Zoom is on anymore.
Ian Williams is a junior music and
psychology major from Los Angeles who
still hates Eddy Grant, no matter what
anybody says.
Readers5 Forainn
Resolutions
can work
To the editor:
As authors of the Student
Congress resolutions in sup
port of AIDS education
(Small) and increasing the staff
of the Office of Undergraduate
Admissions (Davis) mentioned
in Bill Yelverton's editorial of
April 8 ("Student congress talk
is cheap"), we'd like to take this
opportunity to answer a few of
his concerns.
Yelverton is correct in his
assessment that resolutions
unbacked by action are essen
tially frivolous. This has been
a concern of Congress for some
time, and in the spirit of pro
fessionalism championed by
Speaker Neil Riemann and
exemplified by the recent revi
sion of the Student Code, we
are keenly aware of the efforts
necessary in research and
implementation of such prop
osals. We agree that staffers
would be of benefit in these
efforts. However, in an atmos
phere where the majority of
congress candidates ran unop
posed, we challenge Yelverton
to find 27 students on this
campus to serve in such a
capacity. Diogenes had it easy!
It also seems to escape Yel
verton that the formation of
committees is not the only way
of handling of the problem. In
the case of the bill for AIDS
education, every student group
on campus has been contacted,
and those contacts have
resulted in seminars and other
distribution of information to
groups such as Chi Omega
sorority and the CGLA. In
addition, this resolution has
been disseminated by the
CGLA to a national network
of student organizations where
it can serve as a working model
for concerned groups at other
schools. As the Undergraduate
Admissions resolution was
passed less than a week ago,
we have not yet had time to
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make a difference, but plans are
being made. Yelverton chides
congress for inadequate
research when he couldn't pick
up the phone and ask us what
we were doing to try and make
these proposals effective.
On a campus where apathy
is so pervasive that a 30 percent
turnout in a campus election is
perceived as a major victory,
and the administration is
notoriously insensitive to stu
dent concerns, Yelverton is
right when he asserts that as
many people as possible are
needed to help make things
better. This is difficult to do,
even under the best of circum
stances. What is very easy to
do is sit in one's ivory tower
and take uninformed potshots
at those who are trying.
GENE DAVIS
Sophomore
Political Science
CURTIS SMALL
Graduate
Biochemistry
Trapper Sam
Awareness
prevents rape
To the editor:
Rape and sexual assault are
widespread problems on this
campus and throughout our
society. Because the victim's
experience is so traumatic, one
would expect individuals to
inform themselves about this
especially devastating crime.
Unfortunately, such is not the
case: misinformation about the
issue abounds, leading people
to incorrect and highly damag
ing assumptions about rapists
and rape victims.
One of the most prevalent
misconceptions focuses on rape
as a crime committed in a dark
alley by some demented pervert
armed with a gun. While these
terrible experiences do occur,
they are far less frequent than
rape by someone the victim
knows: boyfriend, date, neigh
bor, classmate, co-worker,
father, even husband. Particu
larly for college women, date
and acquaintance rape are far
more widespread problems.
While this phenomenon is
virtually impossible to quantify
exactly, figures show that as
many as one in three of us will
have experienced some form of
sexual assault or attempted
sexual assault before graduat
ing from this university.
First and foremost, prevent
ing rapes involves changing
societal attitudes and values.
We must recognize that, by
definition, no woman wants to
be raped: rape is sex against her
will. We must educate men to
assume that no always means
no and not to take a potential
sex partner's consent for
granted. Women should be
applauded for assertively com
municating their feelings about
what they want and do not
want from a relationship or
sexual encounter. Finally,
when this education fails,
society must support the victim
and blame the rapist, not the
other way around.
JAYE SITTON
Senior
Political Science
International Studies
CG LA f Mimdiinig has sty dent support
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nee again, it is time to respond to
the rantings of the uninformed on
the issue of funding for the Carol
ina Gay and Lesbian Association (CGLA).
The latest mental casualty is Christopher
Morgan, who in his April 1 1 letter, "Listen
to majority views on CGLA," spouted the
invariable "conservative" (read bigoted)
argument that somehow CGLA members
have "extorted" student fees from morally
upright, virtuous students such as
Morgan and have used the money for
immoral and or illegal purposes. I intend
to argue that this concept of "extort ion"
is invalid, illogical and deceitful.
Consider, if you will, Morgan's mistaken
belief, presumably based on the CGLA
referendum results, that a democratic
majority of students feel that funding the
CGLA is "wrong." This is incorrect. The
only definite conclusion that one can draw
from the referendum is that 58 percent of
the student body opposed funding while
42 percent supported it, thereby nullifying
Morgan's portrayal of a "silent minority"
of gay support on campus.
Actually, the 2,285 students who voted
to support funding for CGLA gave a more
unified and concise message than those
who opposed funding. Why? Because there
was no gauge to determine how students
felt about funding for all other funded
groups or how many students were voting
strictly economics. Note that voters also
rejected a $1.25 increase in student fees
by a margin of 2,637 to 2,538, and 1,765
students opposed giving Student Televi
sion money for new equipment. However,
no one would argue that 1,765 students
feel that student-operated television is
"wrong." Neither can it be argued that most
Mark Donahue
Guest Writer
of the voting student body thinks homo
sexuality is wrong. Besides, there were
1 ,6 1 3 more CG LA funding supporters than
there were Keith Poston supporters, which
would tend to support the theory that most
students are not homophobes. So much
for a conservative mandate!
I must challenge Morgan's opinion that
CGLA receives student fees because "(gays
and lesbians are) ... a self-proclaimed
persecuted society . . . " As anyone familiar
with the budgeting process knows, the
main criteria for groups receiving student
fees are 1) to provide a valuable and unique
service to the University community and
2) to be fiscally responsible with the money
it receives. Pity for a downtrodden group
rarely enters into this arrangement. 1 would
also add that CGLA as a group has raised
almost 50 percent of its budget ($2,000)
this year and that CGLA programming
and services have been very high quality
as a result of budget increases from last
year.
Morgan seems to feel that homosexu
ality and religion (specifically Christianity)
are incompatible. Though some funda
mentalists may "believe homosexuality is
immoral and strongly against all Christian
beliefs," I will gladly give you, Mr.
Morgan, the names of over two dozen
ministers, priests, reverends, rabbis,
theologians, religion doctorates and
women and men of God in the Triangle
area of almost every mainstream
relieious denomination who would
disagree with you and back it up with
scripture.
It is also preposterous to presume, as
Morgan does, that educating students on
issues of homosexuality is "forcing . . .
beliefs upon students." Neither is this the
case when professors challenge you in the
classroom. If you come to this University
expecting not to have your beliefs or
attitudes shaken or challenged, then it
might be psychologically beneficial for you
to transfer to, say, Oral Roberts University
or Liberty Baptist College.
Lastly, I must refute Morgan's wrong
headed notion that CGLA has no right
to "take" student fees. Firstly, student fees
are granted and regulated, not "taken."
Secondly, perhaps it has not crossed
Morgan's mind that gays and lesbians also
pay student fees, and that CGLA is actually
receiving money that its members have
already dutifully paid in the form of
student fees. With 42 percent of the student
body supporting funding for CGLA it
could be strongly argued that CGLA is
being funded at an abnormally low level
in consideration of its broad base of
support. Thirdly, 1 would admonish
Christopher Morgan to actually read the
1st and 14th Amendments to the U.S.
Constitution so that he may fully under
stand that freedom of speech and due
process are precisely what he is seeking
to abolish.
Mark Donahue is a senior political
science major from Indian Trail and editor
of "Lambda," the Carolina Gay and
Lesbian Association newsletter.
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