The Daily Tar Heel Monday, September 12, 19889
Opffliom
Celebrating the Diew pa
F j Today is the first day of the
Jewish new year, 5749. We
AL don't ring it in the way we do
on Jan. 1; it's a pretty sedate religious
event. When I was younger, it meant
that I got a day off from school when
the rest of my friends had to go. As
I grew older and more socially
conscious, it made me feel alienated
from my classmates because I was
celebrating a holiday that no one else
really knew or cared about.
Throughout grade school and into
high school, a battle broke out in my
house when this time of year rolled
around. I despised being different and
not having normal holidays like the
rest of the world. This animosity
continued into college, where, with
out the gentle, guiding hand of my
parents, I really let it go. Every
September around the time of the
new year, I would go through the
motions of celebrating, but more out
UNC
fir policy o cflra
Illegal or abusive use of drugs
or alcohol by members of the
University community can
adversely affect the educational
environment and interfere with
maximum achievement of per
sonal, social and educational
goals. In 1987, the University
established a Drug and Alcohol
Abuse Prevention Program for
faculty, staff and students. The
program was developed to address
the problem of susbstance abuse
through education, and where
appropriate, through referral and
or disciplinary action.
Recently, the Board of Gover
nors of the University system
adopted a Policy on Illegal Drugs.
The policy directed the Board of
Trustees of UNC-CH to adopt a
policy on illegal drugs that comp
lies with the conditions of the
Board of Governors policy. The
Board of Trustees has now
adopted this policy, and I write
to inform you of its terms, effective
August 24, 1988.
The policy provides that stu
dents, faculty and employees here
are responsible as citizens for
knowing about and complying
with the provisions of N.C. law
that make it a crime to possess,
sell, deliver or manufacture those
drugs designated collectively as
"controlled substances' in Article
5 of Chapter 90 of the N,C.
General Statutes. These substan-
LILJ G - E0RQ
Studeinits
As a student representative on
the Traffic and Parking Advi
sory committee, I feel that it
is important to keep the student body
aware of possible changes in parking
policies. I urge you to respond to this
column via the DTH and to supply
me with your written reactions by
depositing them in Suite C of the
Union. Our deadline is Sept. 22.
First is the issue of resident park
ing. It is unrealistic for students to
think they can retain their North
Campus spaces with the growing
faculty and staff needs. Better parking
attracts better faculty and staff. I
would rather have a better professor
before me in the classroom than have
my car on campus; after all, what am
I here for? To adjust for those
hardship cases who must have their
cars on campus, I propose that the
remaining spaces (only a few) be given
out purely on a hardship basis
Laura Pearlman
Associate Editor
of habit than anything else.
My outlook changed this summer
during a visit to West Germany, after
a friend and I took a side trip to
Dachau, a work camp located outside
Munich.
When my mother and my aunt '
heard that we wanted to visit Dachau,
they were appalled. Everyone knows
what happened, they reasoned, so
there's no reason to visit a place so
. full of sorrow and waste. They
believed that since what happened at
Dachau was before my time, going
there would serve no purpose aside
from disturbing me.
But I'm glad I went. Not going to
Dachau would have been an injustice
tatee adopt
Paul Hardin
Chancellor
ces include cocaine, amphetam
ines, marijuana and other drugs.
Any member of the University
community who violates that law
may be subject both to prosecu
tion and punishment by the civil
authorities and to disciplinary
proceedings by the University.
Disciplinary proceedings against a
student, faculty member, admin
istrator or other employee will be
initiated under the policy when the
alleged conduct is deemed to affect
the interests of the University.
Penalties will be imposed for
violation of the policy only in
accordance with the University's
existing procedural safeguards
that are applicable to all discipli
nary actions against students,
faculty members, administrators
and other employees. The penal?, .
ties that- may be impqsedorv; '
violation of the policy ori( illegal;U:
drugs range from written warnings
with probationary status to expul
sion from enrollment and dis
charges from employment.
Minimum penalties are speci
fied for trafficking in or possession
of illegal drugs. These minimum
penalties include, for example,
mandatory expulsion (for stu
dents) or permanent dismissal (for
- IF G-ETS PICKED
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Mark Dendle
Guest Writer
determined by applications and
interviews.
The displaced parkers might then
be moved to fringe lots and simply
move their cars on campus for
weekends. For those who have jobs
they must drive to frequently, I
suggest looking into some form of
employment on campus or close by.
You might earn more, as well as
saving on gas, wear on your car and
time spent. That would also make
UNC more of a student community,
and at the same time would release
those parking spaces for staff.
The South Campus situation is, of
course, slightly different, as the
residents are more isolated from the
not only to me but to the people who
died there.
The day we chose to visjt was quite
warm, without a cloud in the sky. I
even remember that the birds were
singing, which I didnt expect. I had
pictured the area as being perpetually
covered by a black cloud, a bleak
wind blowing constantly. Not true;
the sun even shines at Dachau.
The concentration camp itself was
an anti-climax.
All my life, I have seen photo
; graphs of concentration camps, full
of dejected people living in misery and
squalor. And when I saw Dachau for
myself, I think I half-expected to see
a place where time had stood still for
43 years. After the Germans aban
doned the camp, I thought the
moment in history would be pre
served forever, like Pompeii.
In reality, however, the camp has
changed so much that it's even hard
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faculty and staff) for the sale of
or possession with intent to sell
cocaine. Illegal possession of any
amount of cocaine carries a min
imum penalty of suspension from ;
employment or enrollment for at
least one semester or its equival
ent. For marijuana, the minimum
penalty for sale or possession with
intent to sell is suspension from
employment or enrollment for at
least one semster or its equivalent.
Every student is responsible for
being familiar with and complying
with the terms of the Board of
Trustees Policy on Illegal Drugs.
Copies of the full text are available
from the Office of Student Affairs.
I want you to , know that even
though it is necessary for me to
devote most of this letter to
informing you officially of the new
drug policy, our Drug and Alcohol
Abuse Program is broader than
the Board of Governors requires.
It includes extensive education
and referral efforts on the part of
the Diyision of Student s Affairs,; ,
:and itTStudenL Health. Service. .
Should you ever nied information
or assistance in dealing with a drug
or alcohol problem, please seek it
from your residence hall staff,
your faculty adviser, Student
Health Service and the Office of
Student Affairs. We are interested
in your health and well-being, and
wish you success in your endea
vors here at Carolina.
ON
restaurants and shops of Franklin
Street. In this view, resident parking
should not be taken away, although
it may be moved to the Smith Center
lots.
Resident students should also show
consideration for their fellow class
mates who need to have parking close
to their classes. Before the walk from
the lots to main campus, the com
muters have already had to battle
atrocious traffic .to get to campus,
while the residents take their showers.
Car pooling as a major resource
for commuters is not taken advantage
of often enough; Special car-pooling
parking permits, saved until after
drop-add, should be guaranteed to
groups of three or more riding
together, with the larger car pools
receiving the better permits. To aid
in finding car-poolers, the University
should notify all those who apply of
interested neighboring students.
to recognize the places where those
familiar textbook photos were taken.
And it was so clean and neat that
it was hard to believe that atrocities
had ever occurred there.
When we entered the camp, the
first place we went was the museum,
which traced the rise of Nazism and
then chronicled the lives of prisoners
with relics and documents. Huge
blown-up photographs on tbi walls
depicted the faces of the prisoners.
They all looked the same: huge dull
eyes, sunken cheeks and shaved
heads. j .
Outside is the monument to the
victims of the Holocaust, and then
the bunker foundations that stretch
in neat, endless rows, forever. Only
two are standing, and they were
rebuilt when the site was made a
memorial. We saw rooms where
prisoners were sent for beatings and
solitary confinement. Past those
Keep Dim
vice-piresicleotial campaQ
Nothing ii
race dis
the incn
; in the 1988 presidential
disturbs me more than
incredibly ridiculous con
troversy surrounding Dan Quayle's
beauty.
More than the cheap shots taken
by chief executive hopefuls Michael
Dukakis and George Bush, more than
the questions surrounding Quayle's
national service record, I am offended
by the insinuation that the women
of this age would vote for a candidate
because he is pretty.
I have more than a passing interest
in politics. As a voter, I examine
candidates and issues and vote on the
one whom I think has the most to
offer. As a student, I have studied
the mechanics and subtleties of the
often outrageous politicking in this
country. As a news reporter, I have
interviewed and reported on candi
dates with as little bias as possible!
Some of the politicians iVe met in J. cast mv vote tor the candidate Sandy Dimsdale is a senior jour
my short career I've found competent, 1 find most qualified and most nalism major from Conover.
yypociriues are crawuninig .out
he
fi onsidering this is a presidential
f f election year and more prop
osals have been thrown at you
than anyone would want to hear, I
was reluctant to introduce a radical
suggestion. I found it difficult to
resist, however, and quickly began to
organize my thoughts. First, let it be
known that I in no way support or
advocate censorship. (Radicals
reread that if it hasn't set in.)
My suggestion is a simple one: all
hypocritical editorials and commen
taries should be barred from publi
cation in this newspaper. In addition,
renowned hypocrites should not even
be mentioned in the DTH, except to
ridicule them. I find myself insulted
when some idiot expresses views that
he or she does not really believe in.
Since I spoke out earlier against
censorship, you may think my prop
osal makes me a hypocrite. This is
far from the truth, as the DTH can
turn down prospective hypocrites by
telling them their contribution would
destroy the journalistic reputation of
the newspaper or that the office for
"MAD" magazine is not in Chapel
Hill.
For those of you who need exam
ples of these masqueraders, or who
think the problem is nonexistent, let
us look back on the past few months:
B Evangelist Jim Bakker becomes
embroiled in a sex scandal and is
quickly chastised by one of his
contemporaries, Jimmy Swaggart,
who later himself is rumored to have
Already, there is a free service, Tri-a-Ride,
that is willing to put together
car pools. Give them a call.
Some bus routes should be redi
rected or new ones added to provide
more direct routes from apartment
complexes to the Student Union. Our
classes aren't on Franklin Street, they
are on the main campus, and nobody
wants to go all the way around
campus at 7:50 a.m.
The number of overall spaces will
go down; the cost of replacement
spaces will go up (decks cost about
$6,000 a space). The money is going
to have to come from somewhere, and
increasing permit prices is obviously
a possible source. Surely, it is fair to
ask the users to pay for the parking,
with one exception. Those hardship
, parkers who cannot afford to pay
higher rates should be able to pay
a reduced rate. Staff with large
households should also be considered
of
rooms was the crematorium where
the bodies were disposed. I didn't go
there, so I don t know what it was
like. ,
As I stood in the yard where the
prisoners had gathered, I tried to
imagine that I was trapped inside the
walls of cement and barbed wire. I
wanted to feel scared, to wonder what
had happened to my family and
friends: I wanted guards to be afraid
of and to look into the gaunt faces
of other people like me.
, But I couldn't do it. I could not
imagine life as a prisoner at Dachau.
Such fear and hatred is so far outside ;
of my frame of reference that I can't
understand it.
I left the camp with many questions
and few answers. The value of the
visit was not in feeling what the
prisoners felt, but in the thoughts it
provoked in me.
e color out of Ah s
Sandy Dimsdale
Editorial Writer
concerned and admirable. Some
others have made me feel like I should
shower after the interview.
But none have I found more
offensive or more condescending than
the slimy chauvinists who think
women of the 80s who are better
educated arid more professional
minded than ever would vote for
a candidate because he resembled
movie star hunk Robert Redford.
Equally aggravating and presump
tuous do I find extremist, rah-rah
feminists who think a woman should
cast her vote for the opposing ticket
just to prove she can't be taken in
by a pretty face. Please!
George Markham
Guest Writer
"sinned."
OA very strict advocate of gun
control, Carl Rowan, shoots an
"intruder" in his backyard with an
unregistered gun. Rowan should have
just shot all of the Democratic
leaders, as all of his editorials begging
for restrictions on privately owned
handguns lost all of their credibility.
B Actress Jane Fonda, not allowed
in a New England town where she
was to film a new movie, suddenly
apologizes to Vietnam veterans for
the derogatory comments she made
against U.S. forces during the Viet
nam War, in hopes she will be allowed
to make her film. This act of greed
and selfishness is the lowest form of
hypocrisy as (like the bumper sticker
Says) this American traitor female
dog betrays both her country and her
own convictions.
B This newspaper printed two
editorials endorsing a specific candi
date for student body president last
spring. After many influential groups
and campus leaders threw their
support for the rival candidate, who
eventually wound up winning, the
DTH was quick to point out that
endorsements for student body pres
ident should not be condoned. Per
haps the writer of the editorial was
under this system.
The sophomore parking issue was
' raised by the advisory committee as
early as 1986 and now is being
resurrected with a vengeance. With
the changes proposed above for
North and South campuses, this
would become unnecessary. Sopho
mores would simply fall under the
new plan, as would juniors and
seniors sorry, freshmen.
Another great problem is the
persistence of illegal parking by
students on this campus. If you take
a vacant space in a lot for which you
do not own a permit, you are
bumping someone out of their space,
perhaps to park in another lot where
that person might be ticketed. Sure,
everyone makes a mistake once in a
while; that's why I propose an
escalating system of fines. The more
tickets you have received, the more
you must pay for each additional one:
I wondered about German society
and why it was so ripe for the tragedy
of the Holocaust. Now I wonder
about American society, and if the
same situation could occur here in
the distant future. I wonder what it
was about the prisoners of Dachau
that made the Germans fear them so
much. Why else would they create the
greatest war machine the world has
ever known and kill with such routine
efficiency?
With these questions in mind, I
look to Rosh Hashana not as a duty
this year, but more of a privilege. To
celebrate this new year, and every new
year since 1945, is a privilege earned
for us by everyone who. died in a
concentration camp. . v
Laura Pearlman is a junior English
1 major from Asheville.
dedicated to solving this country's
problems not the candidate with
the bluest eyes.
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not as influential as he thought it
would be.
B Campus radicals protest U.S.
government activities in Nicaragua
but criticize the same governmental
leaders on their lack of action on
South Africa. They neglect to men
tion the relative distances both
Managua and Pretoria are from the
United States, which of the two
countries is more of a threat or what
will happen to the citizens of the
countries if these radicals have their
way.
Hypocrites are crawling out of the
woodwork and are a threat to their
own integrity. Why anyone should
waste their time with these confused
and deranged individuals is puzzling.
Keeping them out of the newspaper
will not draw any attention to them,
so their efforts will go unheard.
Maybe they can be kept silent until
a certain issue (April Fool's Day,
Homecoming) and then the stories
can be printed so everyone can get
a laugh. If you're a potential hypo
crite, look out. Hopefully someday
you will never be heard, although
with your distorted views no one will
care what you say anyway.
George Markham is a junior
chemistry major from Fayetteville.
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$10 or $15 each time. Also, I wish
to remind you that those parking
appeal applications, which many brag
about lying on, are there for honest
appeals; lying on those forms is an
Honor Code violation and grounds
for suspensionWhere is your honor?
Now, these are only some of my
broader solutions to this maze of a
problem. But whether we're dealing
with specific problems or long-term
proposals, students must be willing
to give a little. They will have to make
some sacrifices before the parking
issue can be resolved.
--. - -iL CIA i : : U..
Mark Dendle is a senior interna
tional studies and French major from
Lexington, Ky.
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