12The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, September 6,
96th year of editorial freedom
Karen Bell, News Editor
MATT BlVENS, Associate Editor
KlMBERLY EDENS, University Editor
JON K. RUST, Managing Editor
Will Lingo, cuy Editor
Kelly Rhodes, Arts Editor
CATHY McHUGH, Omnibus Editor
DAVID MINTON,
Plenty of room
When it comes time to apply for
next year's parking permits, students
who live off-campus, will anxiously,
calculate the distance between the
campus and their prospective homes.
Those who find that their homes lie
outside a two-mile radius from the Bell
Tower will groan or sigh; as in the
past, such students wont be eligible
for parking permits.
But faculty and staff don't have to :
worry about where they live. They can
live 10 feet or 10 light years from the
campus and still be eligible for a
permit.
Making faculty and staff ineligible
for parking permits if they live within
the infamous two-mile radius was one
of several options suggested by a Cary
engineering firm, DeLeuw, Cather &
Company, in a study on parking policy
conducted over the summer. .
On Sept. 8, UNC's Traffic and
Parking Advisory Committee a
group of students, faculty and staff
that makes recommendations to the
chancellor on University parking
will consider several parking propos
als, including the elimination of
resident sophomore parking. But no
proposal has been made to enforce the -two-mile
radius rule on faculty and
staff, and the suggestion is not on the
agenda for discussion.
Gene Swecker, associate vice chan
cellor of facilities management, said
the committee must have a formal
proposal before it can discuss such an
option. Such a proposal should be
made at the Sept. 8 meeting, perhaps
by one of the four students on the
committee; It would hardly be fair to
eliminate sophomore parking while
Ignore the KKK
This weekend the infamous Ku Klux
Klan marched in three area cities as
part of its annual membership drive.
Unfortunately, spectators and hecklers
outnumbering the Klansmen showed
up to feed their fire.
The marches, thankfully, were non
violent. In Wilson, 220 law enforce
ment officers were on hand to prevent
a repeat of the raucous behavior which
led to two arrests at a June 26 rally.
Police officers outnumbered specta
tors, who booed Klansmen until
Mother Nature dumped rain on their
parade.
In Raleigh, 65 to 70 Klansmen were
met by seven or eight protesters, who
were separated from the rally for their
own safety.
In Hillsborough, about 50 members
of the Klan traded insults with a crowd
of about 140 during a 15-minute march
through downtown and a 90-minute
shouting match rally that followed on
the steps of the Orange County
Courthouse. A contingent of UNC
students participated in the heckling,
answering cries of "KKK" with their
own shouts of "MLK" as they played
a tape of Martin Luther King's "I Have
a Dream" speech.
The unfortunate part of the events
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1988
Jean Lutes, Editor
KAARIN TlSUE, News Editor
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in the back
not even discussing , eliminating
faculty staff parking within a two-mile
radius.
Making nearby faculty and staff
follow the same rules as students seems
just. Some students need parking
permits even more than faculty and
staff do.
Many staff members at the Univer
sity, and some faculty, work regular
hours. Thus, car pooling could be
much easier for them: they can travel
with fellow staff members in the
mornings and evenings, since they
usually leave and arrive together.
But students have difficulty car
pooling because their class hours differ
from day to day, and often dont
coincide with the schedules of their
roommates or friends.
That's not to say students shouldn't
car pool or use mass transit. Students
living within two miles are already
taking these and similar measures. But
why shouldn't faculty have to do the
same?
Of course, as Student Body Pres
ident Kevin Martin has noted, if
faculty who live witjiin two miles are
denied permits, some form of hardship
appeal process should be made avail
able to them. It could be similar to
the one students now use.
Riding the bus with the unwashed
masses may be unpleasant for some
secretaries or tenured professors, but
that's no reason to throw the idea out
without discussion. True, it's an
imperfect and half-formed option. But
it's up to the parking committee to
hammer it in to shape, or at least toss
it around before dismissing it. Matt
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next time
is that they took place at all. Not that
the "parades" should have been vetoed
any group of people, no matter how
offensive or abhorrent their agenda,
should have the right to gather or
demonstrate peaceably.
But nowhere in the Constitution
does it say anyone has to watch them.
Hillsborough Mayor Fred Cates
had the right idea. He avoided a
Saturday press conference on the
courthouse steps because he said it
would give the Klan undeserved
attention. "It's doing nothing but
lending credence to their appearance
here in town," Cates told the Chapel
Hill Herald.
Perhaps the way to discourage the
Klan from marching in area commun
ities in the future is to make it a waste
of their time. If no one shows up, and
if they get minimal publicity, maybe
theyH quit coming around altogether.
They don't seem to like the people
here, anyway. When in Hillsborough,
they directed several of their hateful
remarks to the "Commies from Chapel
Hill." Why don't they leave the
Triangle to those who like it?
The next time Klansmen march
here, let them do so on deserted streets.
Sandy Dimsdale
Dating in college 'til death
t's starting to happen.
A Chapel Hill friend called me this
Jisummer and asked, "Do you remember
Jason and Barbara?"
"Sure," I said. "They both graduated,
right? They were sort of dating last
semester." - '
"Sort of. They're getting married."
Married? The last time I saw them was '
in Molly's. Jason was a tall guy with
stooped shoulders and a grating laugh.
Barbara was a quiet girl with a soft pale
face. They were sitting side by side and
smiling at each other a lot. They seemed
happy to be together.
But married?
Then, over the weekend I heard that
another just-graduated friend of mine was
marrying his girlfriend in June.
And I began to panic.
IVe always lagged behind the social
development of my peers. In fourth grade,
when my friends played spin the bottle in
the alley during recess, I wandered around
the playground wondering why no one
wanted to play kickball. In sixth grade my
pals all had girlfriends, but I was the guy
the girls pretended to like to make their
boyfriends jealous. I lost my emotional
innocence early.
In junior high, I sat against the lockers
behind the gym while everyone else danced
the night away inside. In high school, when
I had finally gotten the courage up to go
to a dance, suddenly dances weren't cool
anymore.
By senior year I had perfected this stance
of apathetic cool, scorning dances and
other such kid stuff. I laughed with my
Looking
homeward
To the editor. 1 -
As a UNC journalism alum
nus of three decades, and one
whose interest in Thomas
Wolfe existed before I ever saw
Chapel Hill, I respectfully call
to your attention that Sept. 15,
1988, marks the 50th anniver
sary of the death of Thomas
Wolfe.
The Voice of America, at the
behest of Sen. Strom Thur
mond, will present two broad
casts on its Worldwide English
short-wave service for that
anniversary. Two dates , that
weekend bracket Wolfe's his
tory: Sept. 15, when Wolfe died
at Johns Hopkins Hospital in
1938, and Sept. 18, which I
believe is the anniversary of
Wolfe's funeral and burial in
Asheville.
Also, Oct. 3 will be the 88th
anniversary of Thomas Wolfe's
birth, and a ceremony and
Oktoberfest in Wolfe's honor is
scheduled at UNC-CH that
day.
I hope that WUNC radio and
television will follow the lead
of The Voice of America and
broadcast tributes to Wolfe for
this anniversary. An excellent
television documentary about
Wolfe is readily available in a
PBS video done by N.C. State
University. Dr. James W. Clark
in the English department at
Christians wrong to protest
A friend and I waited an hour and
A a half in line to see the both
jLjX.popularly acclaimed and popularly
ballyhooed movie "The Last Temptation
of Christ." That's the movie where Jesus
imagines himself tying the knot with Mary
Magdalene, having sex, lots of children
and, ultimately, a generally peaceful life
instead of dying on the cross to save
mankind. ,
My friend and I were in line at Ziegfields
in New York City. We found ourselves
behind 30 other people when they stopped
giving out tickets. As a sort of consolation
prize for our efforts we flipped to see which
movie we. would go to instead. She won
and w,e saw "Cocktail" with Tom Cruise.
I guess that's kind of like winning the Turtle
Wax instead of the Buick on "Wheel of
Fortune."
Since, in the end, I didn't see the movie,
my curiosity about it remain unsated. ,
However, I didn't need to see it to realize
that something has gone wrong about the
whole thing the movie itself, blustering
religious leaders, liberal Hollywood, wishy
washy theater owners and an exploitive
press.
First, for those who aren't familiar with
the movie, let me explain what I think it
is about. As I understand it, the movie
is a fairly realistic depiction of Christ's life, '
1 including some of his major miracles.
"Realistic" does not mean that it follows
the Bible exactly, nor that it portrays the
events as religious leaders commonly
interpret them. Rather, it has what movie
critics and film elites, of which I am neither,
tend to call "realism." For example, when
Christ is shown raising Lazarus from the
dead, one of the first reactions of the crowd
surrounding the tomb is to reach for their
noses and wave in the air at the stench
that the only recently dead man brings with
him from the grave.
There are many such scenes in the film.
The most notable, and most problematic,
is the 40-minute climax of the movie: the
last temptation itself. Jesus, while nailed
to the, cross, sees images of a life that he
has rejected, a peaceful existence where he
Brian McCusKey
In the Funhouse
friends when they ridiculed the tenth grade
dances, and nodded knowingly when
condoms were alluded to. Then the senior ;
prom rolled around, and. while all my.
friends rushed to the dance with their dates,
1 stayed at home, having played it so cool
that I couldn't get a date to save my life.
In Chapel Hill, I thought I'd finally
caught up. At last I too had dates and
went to parties and even the concept of
having a steady girlfriend was not unthin
kable. I was comfortable with terms like
"going out" and "just friends" and "date
function" and "scrogging."
But now there's a new word. Marriage.
And once again, I feel left out.
Not that IVe never heard the word
before. Freshman year, a girl I was starting
to date had a theological problem with our
relationship. She said she : could never
marry anyone who didnt believe in her
God. Which I didnl.
"So, if we can't marry, then well have
to break up eventually."
"Yeah," I agreed reluctantly.
"And someone will get hurt."
"Probably," I said.
"So maybe we shouldn't start anything."
I was stunned by the force of this logic.
"So, do you still want to see this movie
tonight, or what?"
IVe got nothing against marriage itself.
IVe been lucky to grow up in a family
of good matches. My parents, for example,
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N.C. State and Kay Reibold,
the producer of the splendid
program, could surely make it
available for rebroadcast.
Wolfe has always been
honored in Chapel Hill, in
contrast with the early response
his writings x received in his
hometown of Asheville. It will
indeed be appropriate this year :
if the Wolfe anniversary is not
forgotten in Chapel Hill.
PAUL BAILEY MASON
Charleston, S.C.
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is not the son of God, but a husband and
father who heads a family like a good
carpenter should. The realism that has
offended many Christians is the scene of
Jesus in bed with his wife. Remember, this
is all taking place in Jesus's mind as he
suffers on the cross. And much of the
criticism leveled against the film has
stemmed from this portrayal of the son
of God being tempted by the flesh.
The blasphemy seems obvious. Not only
are events shown in the film which have
no basis in historical or Biblical fact, but
they are shown in a realistic style, cleverly
interspersed with events that have Biblical
foundations. It is a style that, while lending
validity to the invalid, also cheapens what
is biblically accurate. Indeed, the image of
Christ loses its monumentality when Jesus
is shown doing very ordinary things and
having very otherwise ordinary thoughts.
And that is the point upon which
Scorcese wants to focus the debate. Let
me call this a question that most Christians
must face sometime in developing their
faith: How much man was the son of God?
Did he face all the temptations that man
faces? Or were his temptations, although
trying, more symbolic?
Was Jesus Christ, the man, tempted by
the physical love of a woman? Scorcese
has answered this with a yes.
I can't stop a man from making a movie.
And I wouldn't want to stop anyone from
expressing their beliefs, no matter what the
interpretation, as long as .their means of
expression did not include bashing me on
the head with a mallet or stepping into
my room and refusing to leave. Since
Scorcese has done neither of the two, I
can find no reason to condemn him ,
without seeing the film. Then, does this
mean that I must condemn those who have
done just that? ,
Not really. But I can point out what
they did wrong.
If it were not for the cries of condem
do us part
vote each year on whether or not to
continue. It's an efficient system, as long
as there isn't a tie vote. And my grand
parents just celebrated their inconceivable
50th wedding anniversary.
But those are my parents and grand
parents; they're supposed to be married.
Now, people my age are getting married,
friends of mine, which means that I could
just as easily be doing the same thing.
Pretty frightening for a guy who still gets
the occasional pimple on his forehead.
Married? A whole new option has suddenly
yawned open in front of me, as if I'd been
driving through fog, flipped up the brights
and seen the edge of a chasm I'd been
moving toward all along.
Maybe that's too ominous a metaphor
but the feeling of sudden shock is the same
I have enough trouble asking someone if'
they want to go out for dinner and a movie:
Asking someone, "Do you wanna go out
for life?" seems a touch surreal.
My mother has pointed out that "chan
ces are pretty good youll meet the person
youH marry in college." That always,
seemed like a light-hearted comment; now',
the words carry a bit more weight.
So, folks, look around the classroom,
scope out the Pit, think about that girl ,
or boy youVe had a crush on this week.'
Might they be the one? Don't fool yourself
marriage isn't such a vague and distant
idea anymore.
Because it's starting to happen.
Brian McCuskey is a senior English
major from Los Angeles.
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'Temptation
nation, "The Last Temptation of Christ"
would not have been a movie I would have
waited ah hour and a half to see. I waited
in line because I was curious, and, in a
modest way, I wanted to make a statement
that freedom of expression is imperative
in our country. That is why . I view the
clamor raised by many to ban the movie
to be self-defeating.
If religious groups had only called for
a boycott, then maybe I would have paid
less attention to them and the movie.
Instead there were vicious denunciations
and threats, and in one case, a group even
went into a theater and shredded the film
and the movie screen. 1
I wonder if all the attention had been
premeditated. Did Scorcese choose to
make this movie because he knew he would
get attention positive attention, for that
matter, because he knew most newspeople
would be quick to defend his rights under
the First Amendment? I tend to believe
that he did. In this case, was there anything
religious groups could have done to protest
the movie successfully? Probably not. The
only hope would have been to remain quiet
and pray that nobody notices the film. It's
tough to be quiet when you believe in
something, even when it may be to your
advantage.
Christian groups have faced a lot of
adversity in this country in the past year.
Yet this is a democracy with certain rights
reserved for all. And by trying to deny
Americans the right to see the movie,
radical Christian protesters are wrong, just
as Dale McKinley was wrong last year to
deny Carolina law students the right to
interview with the CIA.
"The Last Temptation of Christ" opened
in Raleigh on Friday. IH probably be there
next weekend. Join me if you want. Or
don't. It's your choice, and that's how it
should be. But I bet it'll make you think,'
and that's something "Cocktail" sure didn't
call for. '
. Jon K. Rust is a junior English and,
Russian Studies major from Cape Girar
deau, Mo.