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8The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday, February 8, hp iatlii 96 th year of editorial freedom . Karen Bell, News Editor MATT BlVENS, Associate Editor KlMBERLY EDENS, University Editor JON K. RUST, Managing Editor Will Lingo, aty Editor Kelly Rhodes, Am Editor CATHY McHUGH, Omnibus Editor SHELLEY ERBLAND, Design Editor What's missing The newly established town- board gown committee, . . which is supposed Opinion to help improve relations between the town of Chapel Hill and the University, already seems to be straying from its mission. Chapel Hill Mayor Jonathan Howes and UNC Chancellor Paul Hardin, who have chosen the members of the committee, have refused to allow representation to one of the most significant and unique constituencies: students. Among the membership of the committee, scheduled to meet for the first time this month, the University has three representatives. The five remaining members represent other interests, from North Carolina Memorial Hospital to the town of Carrboro. By not including students, Hardin and Howes have shown an insensitivity to the committee's goal, that is, improving town-gown relations. How can a group charged with such a mission ignore the concerns of stu dents, who link the campus and the town and who admittedly are one of the most common sources of University-town friction? And the fear that creating a student position would force Hardin and No admission Students may lose the few remaining parking spots available to them on North Campus, as well as free parking after hours, if the chancellor's ad hoc committee on parking gets its wish. But student government has given the chancellor another proposal one that sounds more fair and well researched than the committee's. The committee proposed taking 350 North Campus parking places away from students and giving them to faculty and staff members. Student government members did some dig ging and found some major problems with this proposal and have submitted their own counterproposal to the chancellor. The catch with taking 350 spots from students, according to numbers given to student government, is that there aren't that many spaces allocated to students on North and Mid Campus together including handicapped and hardship permits. So even if the administration took away alt the student spaces, more spaces would have to come from another group's allocation. Even the Department of Transportation and Parking Services agreed no more than 200 student spaces could be reassigned. Also, the committee recommended that student permits be issued for the new P3 lot at the airport. No, not P lot which is somewhere near outer Chained to a different seat . Every year, the University admin istration makes decisions and imple ments policies that seem to be bad news for students, whether they're watching their parking places disap pear or realizing their poor seating situation for basketball games. Translating the resulting anger and concern into action is the most productive response. For those too squeamish to chain themselves to a Dean Dome Lazy Boy or hold a sit in on a North Campus parking space, vying for a seat on Student Congress is always an option. Running for congress is much easier than it sounds, as several congressional districts usually go begging for a few good students to join the race. Thurs day is the deadline for petitions, yet few seats have more than one candi date in the running, and many don't even have one interested student bidding for office. Consider last year's election. Twenty-five candidates competed for 29 spaces on the congress. Seven seats were won by write-in candidntes (one 1989 afar Mnl Jean Lutes, Editor KAARIN TlSUE, News Editor LAURA PEARLMAN, Associate Editor Kristen Gardner, University Editor WILLIAM TAGGART, State and National Editor Dave Glenn, sports Editor Leigh ann Mcdonald, Features Editor BRIAN FOLEY, Photography Editor Kelly Thompson, Design Editor in this picture Howes into creating faculty and staff positions is unfounded. The precedent for treating the student body as a separate and unique entity has already been established; consider the student body president's status as an ex-officio member of the Board of Trustees, or even the more recent appointment of a student as a liaison to the town council. No parallel faculty positions exist. Finally, the most convincing argu ment may be that even the most radical student could, quite frankly, do little harm on this purely advisory commit tee. The group's utter lack of authority signals its intent to be a symbol of communication, visible evidence of the town and the University's willingness to work together. Freezing students out of this group could give people the mistaken idea that students are not interested in improving relations. Promoting such a perception could only increase bad feelings between the town and the campus. Without a student position, the committee stands to lose the support of the largest population segment of both the town and the campus. Administrators, students and town residents who agree should let Chan cellor Hardin and Mayor Howes know how they feel. It's not too late to add a student to this committee. to late-nighters Uganda but P3, which is even farther away. The committee assured students the lot will be well-lit, with frequent shuttle service. If so, would it . not be suitable for faculty and staff as well as students? The student government counterprop osal recommended the 500 P3 spaces be proportionately divided among faculty, staff and students. One of the most surprising and unreasonable requests in the commit, tee's proposal was the suggestion students (but not faculty and staff members) be charged $2 for parking in the central campus lots at night. No one should have to walk from the library to the Bell Tower or Rams Head lot at midnight when there's a half-empty lot just around the corner of Davis. The student proposal sug gests that gates on lots at Carroll, Hill and Bynum halls be left down. Officials need to raise additional revenue, but endangering students who want to use the libraries or any other University facilities after 5 p.m. is neither fair nor smart. Making it expensive or dangerous for students to come to campus by making them park a quarter- or even a half-mile away does nothing to further the educational process. It just makes the walk longer and more frightening. Sandy Dimsdale student claimed victory with a total of two votes) and 10 seats were won by uncontested candidates. This year seems to be generating even less interest, as seven of the nine graduate districts have no candidates, and the off-campus undergraduate districts continue their history of little or no active interest in student elec tions. Unless a surge of petitions comes into the Student Government office today or Thursday, the congress will once again face a difficult year with empty seats. Given this level of student partic ipation in self-government, it's no wonder the administration sometimes seems to ignore student demands. Empty offices in congress and low voter turn-out tell University admin istrators one thing: students don't care. Students interested in running for congress should go to the student government office, Suite C, Union, where the Elections Board has peti tions and campaign information. Anyone who has ever had a desire to make a difference can do no less. David Starnes Caesar to Cher it's downhill all the way 01 ur fine friends over at The Catalyst Iran an issue last semester that Darodied all the columnists here. making fun of the styles that we all seem to have fallen into Dave Rbwell's roommate pees on poor Dave's head. McCuskey has a religious experience at a Putt-Putt in Albuquerque, and 1 get Dortraved as a rambling verbal sociopath with a penchant for lists and an almost neurotic fetish tor the songs and ways ot the 1970s. But before that particular back-issue of The Catalyst found its ultimate destination holding aloft some Sergei the Ferret poop in the southwest corner of his cage, I wondered for a minute. Could it be that I rely too much on lists and bold type to prove my shallow thoughts? Is my childish yen for the 70s just further proof that I need some serious counseling Thus 1 decided that this column will have no bold type, lists, or thoughts about the 70s. In fact, upon further reflection, I decided not only did I not have a fetish for the 70s, but that it had to be one of the worst decades in written history, both for me and for society at large. And even worse, I hear, is that it's coming back; "Spy" magazine recently devoted an entire issue to the decade, and apparently those fantasy-barf styles from 15 years ago are the next spoke on the great goofy cycle of fashion. Its time someone put his foot down! How much of this nostalgia crapola are we willing to take? Historically speaking, these 70s were a travesty compared to other centuries' 70s. Think about 70 B.C., when Julius Caesar conquered much of Europe to extend the Roman influence deep into the heart of our ancestors. How does that compare with the decade that spawned "Hello, Larry"? In A.D. 75, the Gospel According WFUN isn't fun for all To the editor: Who says discrimination doesn't exist in Chapel Hill? No this is not another article about the University police, SAT scores or a Black Cultural Center. I'm talking about a different kind of prejudice sexual discrimination. Have you ever noticed how underage girls have a lot easier time getting into bars than their male counterparts? Granted, bouncers are generally male; if we lived in the Amazons, dominated by women, guys might share this same advantage. However, the current policy at WFUN is beyond my com prehension. They allow 19-year-old girls to get in three nights per week, while denying entrance to guys under 21. We should challenge this blatant act of sexual discrimination. Doesn't the Constitution have a clause about equal protection under the law for all people, including meril This sort of policy is what lawsuits are made of. What if this were extended toward some minority blacks must be 21 while whites can be 19. The NAACP would surely torch Kroger Plaza. I fail to see the difference between the two types of discrimination. Are guys less desirable to socialize with than girls? Wha tever your answer, I'm sure half the population would disagree. Guys, stand up for yourselves before we have to call in your MOTHER (Men Obsessed To Have Equal Rights). -BILL CRAVER Sophomore Economics A unique chance to bask in "ave you been on TV yet? No? Well, then what is vour problem? Shv. 11 1L is it? A little reticent? Not willine to share with the millions of entertainment starved Americans your lurid past? Or are you afraid that, God forbid, your past is not lurid enough to share? Well, don't feel down for long, because StarSystems can have you up and oozing what America wants in no time. The great television slime-fest has begun, and not only don't you want to miss a single, fun-packed second but, chances are, with a little creativity and the help of StarSystems, you could become tomor row's bargain basement John Hinckley, delighting the American public with your lovably misanthropic misdeeds. Andy Warhol was right! Yes, all have to be famous one day, but a choice is still left to you. Do you want to sit around, waiting for your 15 minutes in the limelight so that by the time the media gets wind of your charms, you are too old and ugly to gloat? Or would you rather seize the opportunity now and on your own terms? And not only that, you can one-up the master and parlay your original 15 minutes into a lifetime of fame and recognition. And StarSystems wants to help. In other words, your days of whiling away the hours, waiting to be discovered at your favorite roadside digs are over. No more cattle calls or casting couches for the discerning star-to-be. The time has come- tor the marketable in this country to find their market. Your big break is just a phone Ian Williams Wednesday's Child to St. Luke said, "Give, and it will be given; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lot." In A.D. 1975, Jimmie Walker said "DY-NO-M ITE! ! ! !" Oh God, I feel it coming on ... . A.D. 770s Yeah! Constantine V starts a Dark Ages furor by prohibiting image worship, while Charlemagne kicks every one's ass up and down Europe. Hot on the shelf is Bede's "Ecclesiastical History of England" and, for the slightly less scholarly, the action-packed Geatish Harlequin romance "Beowulf," How's that for a decade! The 1070s Exactly 900 years before Lipps, Inc. storms up the charts with "Funkytown," William the Conqueror storms up the coast of Great Britain to defeat all of the native forces and thus changes the course of English history forever. The 1670s The hot gossip around town is that pesky plague and how nice it's been . since the Great Fire of London basically cleaned house. In everyone's backpack: Milton's charming novel "Paradise Lost," and Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" (Cliffs Notes not available for another 300 years.) The 1770s In 1976, Sonny and Cher grabbed headlines by having a show where Cher continually made her ex-husband Sonny fall into a pit onstage in 1776, our Founding Fathers signed the Decla ration of Independence. Chemist Priestley discovered oxygen, Hume philosophized, and Gibbon wrote a little ditty called "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." In 1770, a baby named Ludwig van Beethoven was born. In 1970, a baby 'Readers9 ForaiH Don't talk, but act To the editor: Candidates for student body president should not only be cognizant of the major issues facing minority students, but must also comprehend their consequences. These persons should understand that all members of the UNC commun ity will prosper from the con struction of a more extensive Black Cultural Center. Thus, the struggle for the establish ment of such an institution should not be limited to the unyielding efforts of UNC's black community. Black students are notably concerned about recruitment, the number of black faculty and rates of retention. Cultural diversity and education are benefits which would result from an increased presence of minorities in various realms of the University. Black students desire more than a student body president who is simply aware of their needs. We are seeking someone who will devise methods of how the realization of our requests will profit the entire University populace. As a candidate dem onstrates this desire and ability, black students will feel more confident that this person is truly committed to upgrading the quality of life for minorities, and for all, rather than merely telling us what he thinks we want to hear. ALLAN YOUNGER Junior Industrial relations SBP platform very clear To the editor: This is a response to Alice Lutman's letter to the editor, "CGLA is no joke," (Feb. 2) In Ms. Lutman's letter, she badly misquoted the record of Randy Bullock Guest Writer call away. 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Included also is an outline of the latest in weaponry, guaranteed to make a nice, visual mess of your co-star, and a tri-color, bound handbook of all the facial expres sions that have endeared and immortalized these killer-celebrities to the public. Even if you decide not to go through with your named Debbie Gibson was born. The 1870s Yowza! The West is still wild, and so's books like "Tom Sawyer" and "The Brothers Karamazov" Darwin's heatin' up the airwaves with his "Descent of Man" and the Victorian society is doing everything they can to stop Sex Man Sigmund from proliferating his filth. The Romantic painters have evolved into a new form called Impressionism, creating pictures that explode with vibrant dots of color. The 1970s And then came our seventies, the faded Polaroids of us on swingsets. Dad with huge sideburns creeping down his face, playing Gnip-Gnop on the shag carpet ... we can't help it, but these years have shaped all of us college kids into most of what we are today. So don't be bashful let all of these horrible things out of your system! Pet rocks! Wide ties! Disco! Platform shoes! "I'm okay You're okay!" Bell bottoms! "Shadow Dancing!" Leisure suits!! Auuuiiggghhh!!! ... Feeling like a stray cow-doggie amongst the hordes of diseased cattle waiting in the measles shot line yesterday, I awaited my redemption in front of Sylvie, the self-proclaimed Death Nurse of Sarcasm. "Sit yourself down, Red," she said, "Now roll up the sleeve on that big strong of arm of yours." "Urp." "Let's see, Williams wait, aren't you the boy that always writes about them songs of the seventies in the Tar Heel?" "Yeah, I guess so." "So what'cha going to write about this week, Wednesday's Boy?" Hmmmmmm, I thought. Ian Williams, music and psychology major from Los Angeles, sends a hearty "just kidding" to the fine folks at The Catalyst. Kevin Sisson. According to Lutman, Sisson's platform concerning the CGLA is to turn the members into "true citi zens" and stop all "homosex uality." It is apparent to anyone who knows Sisson's platform that this is all wrong. Sisson's theme in this campaign is centered on student represen tation (doing what the student majority wants). I thought Lutman's letter would be coherent and well organized; however I read it hundreds of times and still can't figure out what Delta Sigma Pi has to do with Sisson's campaign. In closing, Sisson's stand is not getting CGLA students kicked out of school or stop ping all illegal activities. Sisson simply wants to defund the CGLA. Take it or leave it it's that simple. CHARLES TOOMEY Sophomore Business the limelight audition, this attractive, hand-tooled leather-bound edition of "lovable Faces of Death" is a proud addition to any library. The photos included virtually scream, "Hug me, love me, but don't turn your back on me, because I'm a star!" 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