4The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, November 1, 1989
N.C. ditties decline m rational rankin
By WENDY BOUNDS
Staff Writer
Living in North Carolina isn't quite
the "finer" experience it used to be,
Recording to a new ranking of the
nation's best places to live.
The third edition of Places Rated
Almanac has demoted most of the major
North Carolina cities. Some of the
state's 1989 rankings are:
Raleigh-Durham, 23;
Greensboro, Winston-Salem and
High Point, 62;
Charlotte, 79;
, Asheville, 123;
Wilmington, 162;
ECU-medical school
By JANNETTE PIPPIN
Staff Writer
GREENVILLE The heat is on
many university research and teaching
facilities to stop the use of animals in
laboratories, and the East Carolina
University medical school is trying to
avoid getting burned by banning the
use of animals in basic science labs for
a third consecutive year.
Dr. William Pryor, director of the
ECU Animal Resources Center, said
'Walking Across Egypt' reflects
potion of Southern hospitality
By ELIZABETH MURRAY
Staff Writer
You won't hear loud music seeping
through the walls of the Union Cabaret
this weekend, but you may catch a
whiff of homemade muffins or a basted
ham.
r The Cabaret stage will serve as a
kitchen rather than a dance floor begin
ning Thursday night, as part of the
setting for the world premiere of
"Walking Across Egypt," a play writ
ten by UNC graduate John Justice and
based on the novel by UNC graduate
Clyde Edgerton.
Justice, who began writing the play
in the spring of this year, said he thought
of writing the play because the novel's
characters were strong and very vividly
drawn. "These are the kind of people
you can empathize with on a stage," he
said. The strong scenes also lend them
selves to becoming play material, he
said.
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In the last edition in 1985, the
Raleigh-Durham area was labeled the
3rd best place to live in the United
States.
The Almanac, first published in 1981,
ranked 333 cities this year, judging
them in the categories of crime, trans
portation, cost of living, jobs, arts,
recreation, climate, education and
healthenvironment.
Seattle, Wash., won first place over
all. San Francisco and Pittsburgh re
ceived the next two rankings respec
tively. The ratings were compiled by the
medical school officials first agreed to
a voluntary one-year moratorium and
have re-evaluated the policy each year.
"This is an issue the medical school
is aware of and willing to work on. At
this point, no animals are used in our
basic pharmacology and physiology
classes, but there are still some third
and fourth-year classes where animals
are used."
The decision to continue the no-animal
policy is not permanent but will
The play is set in a comfortable,
rustic Southern home and centers
around the idea of Southern hospitality,
said Jane Cox, chairwoman of the Union
Performing Arts Committee. The
committee and the Department of
Speech Communication are presenting
the play.
"When you read the book you can
smell the chicken and biscuits," she
said. "It's very much based on South
ern food and hospitality and a Southern
woman named Mattie."
Mattie isa Southern matriarch who
is forced to deal with nosy neighbors,
family conflicts and values, and her
own aging, said Paul Ferguson, direc
tor of the play.
Ferguson, a professor in the speech
communication department, said the
play preserved and transformed the
original story and characters in the
novel. While some of the specifics in
the novel have been edited and a few of
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authors of the Almanac who rank each
city in every category on a scale from
one-333. There are some specific quali
fications used in the ranking process.
Climate is judged on its mildness,
with 65 degrees Fahrenheit as the goal
temperature. Raleigh-Durham ranked
37th in this category. Education is
judged by the quality of elementary and
secondary school systems in the city as
well as the number of opportunities for
higher education. Here, Raleigh-Durham
dropped from 16th place to 29th.
Charlotte is one of the few N.C.
cities whose "livability" has risen ac
cording to the new almanac. The city,
continues
probably be followed while a review of
alternative teaching methods contin
ues, Pryor said.
"There was a moratorium a few years
ago while alternatives were being dis
cussed and those alternatives are still
being investigated," he said.
Animal rights activists would like a
ban on the use of all animals in labs, but
Mary Beth Sweetland, a spokeswoman
for People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals (PETA), said she was happy
the characters compressed, the play has
done an excellent job of presenting the
material, he said.
Cooperation and hard work have
made the play what it is, Cox said. "All
things came together to make it pos
sible." It is that work to organize the pro
duction that makes the play special,
Ferguson said. "This kind of collabora
tion among performers, director and
playwright is unusual."
The fact that the novelist himself has
been so deeply involved is rare, he said.
"That has been the single most exciting
element for us all."
Not only do the novelist and play
wright have ties to the University, four
of the main characters live in the Tri
angle area and three of these are gradu
ate students here.
Kelly Taylor, a graduate student in
speech communication from Valdese,
began work with the play in late July. "I
began readings during the summer, and
I think I read every role until I became
Alora," Taylor said.
Alora is a strange neighbor who feels
she needs to take care of Mattie.
Although there are no concrete plans
for the play after its performances in the
Cabaret, there will be a producer or
agent from PBS's American Playhouse
Series as well as from the American
Film Institute attending one of the play's
performances, Ferguson said.
Cox said demand for tickets was so
great, another performance had been
added. All performances are sold out.
"Walking Across Egypt" will be
presented at 8 p.m. Nov. 2-6 in the
Union Cabaret. A discussion with John
Justice and Clyde Edgerton will follow
the Nov. 3 performance.
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including the Gastonia and Rock Hill
suburbs, rose from 106th place to 79th.
Most other metropolitan cities of
N.C. fell in the overall rankings. The
Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High
Point area fell from 41st to 62nd, and
Asheville dropped from 36th to 79th.
Jacksonville, N.C, ranked among the
lowest in the nation, coming in at 32 1 st.
Mayor George Jones of Jacksonville
said the figures were misleading
whether they were positive or negative.
"I don't put a lot of credence in the
rankings whether they are good or bad.
In the last year, Inc. Magazine rated us
the 38th hottest economic spot in
animal use
to see any kind of improvement.
"We're always pleased with any
reduction in the number of animals
being used in research labs. However,
there is always the reminder that the
medical schools in Great Britain don't
use animals at all."
Sweetland said she wanted a more
definitive policy from ECU but called
its decision "a move toward more seri
ous consideration of the problem."
"If they can get away from using
U.S. to increase minimum wage
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON President
Bush and the Democratic-controlled
Congress agreed Tuesday to raise the
hourly minimum wage to $4.25 by
April 1991, a compromise clearing
way for the first increase in nearly a
decade.
Both the White House and the
Democrats made significant conces
sions to strike the deal, which for the
first time since the minimum wage
was established 50 years ago would
allow employers to pay a submini
mum "training wage" to teenagers
with little work experience.
The compromise ends a lengthy
and often bitterly partisan battle that
pitted Democratic congressional lead
ers and organized labor against the
Reagan and Bush administrations and
business interests.
"No side will get a victory for
this," said Rep. Augustus Hawkins,
D-Calif., chairman of the House
Education and Labor Committee.
"We didn't want the training wage to
begin with, but we wanted to depo
liticize the thing."
Iranian officials react to
From Associated Press reports
TEHRAN, Iran Parliament passed
a bill Tuesday allowing Iran to arrest
any American anywhere who offends
the country, and fanatics of the Revolu
tionary Guards whipped up fervor about
the seizure of the U.S. Embassy 10
years ago.
Iranian militants stormed the em
bassy on Nov. 4, 1979, and held 52
Americans hostage for 444 days.
Chief Justice Ayatollah Mohammad
Yazdi said the bill approved by 150
members of the 270-seat parliament
responded to the "bullying nature" of
the United States.
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America, and Psychology Today ranked
us as one of the top 100 cities to live in
all the United States. But I don't value
these rankings any more than I would
the one from the Almanac."
Cities can vary greatly in their rank
ings in each category. For example, in
1 985, New York was rated first in health
care, transportation and the arts, but
last in crime and near the end in hous
ing (a category now substituted by cost
of living).
To compute the overall rankings, all
scores in every category are added, and
the lower the total points, the better the
ranking.
ban in basic courses
animals in basic classes, I don't see
why they can't do the same for upper
level classes," she said.
ECU Students for Ethical Treatment
of Animals (SETA) keeps pressure on
the university to avoid cruel treatment
of animals in its labs.
Craig Spritz, campus president of
SETA, said he was encouraged by
ECU's actions but wanted teaching al
ternatives to be found for all lab classes.
ECU first came under attack in 1 987
The deal was struck between White
House chief of staff John Sununu, House
Speaker Thomas Foley and House GOP
leader Robert Michel. Hawkins and
other lawmakers prominent in past
minimum-wage battles complained
about being shut out of the talks.
But they agreed to the deal, which
was being drafted Tuesday and, barring
unexpected disagreements over lan
guage, will be presented to the House
on Wednesday as a substitute to a
Democratic bill scheduled for a vote.
Senate passage is expected to follow
shortly. Once signed by Bush, the leg
islation would trigger a 45-cent increase
in the minimum wage on April 1, to
$3.80 an hour, with the jump to $4.25
coming a year later. The last increase in
the minimum wage came in January
1981, when it increased from $2.65 an
hour to the current $3.35.
The new subminimum, which could
be paid to workers 16-19 years old for
three months, and up to six months in
some cases, would be 85 percent of the
minimum wage.
Democrats and union leaders long
have considered such a "training wage' '
He referred specifically to a Justice
Department ruling that U.S. govern
ment agents could pursue and appre
hend terrorists in other countries, which
he called "the worst kind of terrorism
and kidnapping."
The bill must be approved by the
Council of Guardians, 12 religious
leaders and exports on Islamic law who
decide constitutional questions.
According to the Islamic Republic
News Agency (IRNA), Iran's agents
could seek and arrest any Americans
who committed any action against Ira
nian citizens or territories and bring
them to Iran for trial under Islamic law.
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But the overall rankings cannot be
taken too seriously, said David Prather,
Deputy Director of Communications
for Gov. Jim Martin.
"The Almanac uses a somewhat
subjective rating system. Each town1
has its good and bad points, and these
rankings are only significant if you
give much credence to this kind of a
survey."
Betsy Hinnant, Raleigh City Public
Affairs Director, said, "It's like art being
beautiful to the eye of the beholder.
North Carolina is still the best place to
live on the east coast in my opinion, an3
if I didn't like it, I'd move." a.
when PETA and 'other animal rights
activists accused instructors of misr
treating a dog in surgery and violating
federal guidelines for animal research.
Though it is keeping a watchful eye
on ECU, PETA recently made UNC's
labs the topic of its N.C. newsletter.
The newsletter described alleged cruel
treatment of research animals at UNC,
including electrical shocks on animals
and heating cats to 1 15 degrees Celsius
to study respiration.
unacceptable. However, it became
clear that agreeing to the provision
was the only way to win a general
increase after conservative Demo
crats and moderate Republicans
helped Bush sustain a veto of a minimum-wage
bill passed by Congress
earlier this year.
In siding with Bush, these law
makers argued that employers would
be reluctant to hire youths for part
time and summer jobs if the mini
mum wage was increased without an
accompanying subminimum. Bush .
gave up nine months from his offer to
increase the minimum wage to $4.25
in January 1992, and he also con
ceded ground on the training wage.
He had demanded a six-month pro
vision for all workers regardless of
their age and prior work experience.
The compromise affects only teen
agers, and the subminimum could
not be paid to any worker with six
months work experience. Employ
ers would have to certify to the Labor
Department that they were providing .
skills training to get permission to
pay the subminimum.
court ruling
It said the authority would apply to
countries that gave the right of arrest to
U.S. law enforcement agencies and
would continue while the U.S. "enjoys
the right to commit such irresponsible
acts."
The law "aims at preserving the
prestige and territorial integrity of the
Islamic Republic, safeguarding the lives
and properties of Iranian nationals
abroad and defending the interests of
the Islamic Republic,' IRNA reported.
U.S. laws enacted in 1984 and 1986
gave American authorities jurisdiction
to prosecute acts of terrorism involving
U.S. citizens overseas, but not the power
of arrest abroad without the permission
of foreign governments.
In June, the U.S. Justice Department
authorized the FBI to arrest people
wanted by U.S. courts without permis
sion of the foreign government. Details
of the authorization were made public
this month.
A statement Tuesday from the Revol
lutionary Guards Corps said tens of
thousands of its members would leacj
demonstrators Saturday outside th
former U.S. Embassy to "mark thi$
great day" when militants overran it.
The Guards, who swore loyalty tq
revolutionary patriarch Ayatollafj
Ruhollah Khomeini until he died irj
June, urged all Iranians to join th
demonstration and chant "Death to
t
America!" ;
It said the purpose was "humiliation
of the Great Satan, the criminal Amer
ica," and U.S. flags should be burned.
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