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Sharon Kebschull, Editor
MARY Jo DuNNINGTON, Editorial Page Editor
JUSTIN McGuiRE, University Editor
KAREN DUNN, State and National Editor
TOM PARKS, Business Editor
Dave Glenn, Sports Editor
MELANIE BLACK, Design Editor
TAMMY BLACKARD, Editorial Page Editor
WILLIAM TACGART, University Editor
Jessica Lanning, City Editor
CARA BONNETT, Arts and Features Editor
Kelly Thompson, Omnibus Editor
DAVID SurOWIECKI, Photography Editor
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Julia Coon, News Editor
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Keeping it cool
Noise committee will bridge the gap
board
opinion
Cooler heads pre
vailed Monday when
the Chapel Hill Town
Council re-estab
lished a monitoring committee to look into
proposed changes to the town's noise
ordinance. Instead of rushing into a final
decision, the council asked members of the
community to work together on new noise
guidelines and make recommendations to
the town. This controversy demands rea
sonable input from residents and students
to ensure a fair decision that will protect
the public peace but not infringe on any
groups' rights.
Residents from Pritchard and Church
streets complained last month that the
town's noise ordinance should be changed
because the regulations have not curbed
noise from students' parties. These resi
dents demanded that the town reduce the
noise tolerance level from 75 decibels (dB)
to 50 dB, stop issuing noise permits and
require all bands to stop playing by 9 p.m.
The noise complaints focused on distur
bances from one fraternity house near
Pritchard Avenue, but instead of working
with the students as neighbors, the angry
residents took their unrealistic, blanket
demands to the town council. Group
members also threatened the town with a
civil suit if steps were not taken to
strengthen the noise ordinance. While
restrictions on noise are necessary to en
sure peace and quiet, these actions showed
little respect for students and only dam
aged town-gown relations.
The Noise Ordinance Monitoring
Committee was first created in 1987 after
the town council reduced the maximum
tolerance level from 85 to 75 dB and estab
lished a midnight deadline for bands. This
Uneasy euphoria
Having abortion rights is not exciting
In an overwhelming show of support for tainly an important and probably vital
freedom of choice and privacy, hundreds of freedom, is nothing to be euphoric about. Al-
thousands of people rallied Sunday for abortion though anti-abortionists are guilty of overkill in
rights, reminding politicians that they will be their graphic depictions and stories about abor-
held accountable for their stances in upcoming tion, intended to frighten women off from an
elections. Coming on the heels of victory for already devastating experience, they are right
decidedly pro-choice gubernatorial and may- to take the killings seriously,
oral candidates in Virginia and New York City, It is hard to believe that pro-choicers hon-
pro-choice supporters clearly have the momen- estly believe that abortion is not a form of
turn on their side. But as they revel in their murder especially with the ever-better tech
nology doctors have at
their disposal, it is
impossible to say when
life begins, or to argue
that what is being re
moved from a woman's
body is just "tissue"
that somehow, by call
ing it a fetus, it's not
quite real.
student-resident committee met until 1988
and presented two preliminary reports to
the council, but, in spite of their reports and
protests from student leaders and fraterni
ties, the restrictions remained unchanged.
Instead of simply reacting to established
town policy, the new committee has a
chance to shape town policy and should
use this opportunity to establish fair, real
istic guidelines that will address resident
and student needs.
One council member has suggested that
the town be divided into noise zones that
would allow different noise tolerance lev
els in different areas. This recommenda
tion would allow for higher tolerance lev
els near campus and preserve the public
peace in the quiet neighborhoods through
strict noise levels. The town manager has
proposed that the town lower the tolerance
level to 70 dB and create guidelines for
police in granting noise permits. This would
be a compromise solution that would proba
bly satisfy local residents for a few years,
but, like the 1987 noise amendments, it is
not a long-term answer to the problem. The
committee should weigh all of these noise
recommendations on their benefits to the
town residents and the students.
The town council has provided students
and residents with an opportunity to settle
their disputes by working together. By
allowing local groups to contribute in
shaping town policy through the noise
committee, the council ensured that some
voices will not be drowned out. Whether
students and residents will use this oppor
tunity to come to an understanding re
mains to be seen. Calm discussions and
reasonable compromise must replace legal
threats and unrealistic demands to prevent
a half-baked decision.
debate unfairly.
demonstrations, they hhhhmbhbhhhh
r, peTPtr To focus on women
is far from clear-cut. . . n
poiis taken over the who are victims of rape
last year show a turn
around in abortion and incest slants the
opinions that came
when voters were
pressed on the issue.
Anti-abortionists wmmmmam
seemed to have the upper hand when people
proclaimed their opposition to abortion, but
opinion suddenly swung when the right to
abortion was threatened. Women began to
realize that, while they were personally op
posed to abortion, they could not support taking
the right away.
The rallies Sunday, which were among 1 ,000
"Mobilize for Women's Lives" demonstrations
across the country, were almost gleeful events,
where Faye Wattleton, president of the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, spoke of a
"gust of oppression" coming from President
Bush's recent veto of legislation that would
have allowed the government to pay for abor
tions for poor women who are victims of rape
or incest. Molly Yard, president of the National
Organization for Women, compared the new
found freedoms in East Germany to the stifling
of freedoms in this country! Throughout the
day," the euphoria was apparent.
But having the right to abortion, while cer-
Many who support
abortion rights are still uneasy about its use as
a method of birth control. To focus the issue on
women who are victims of rape and incest is to
slant it unfairly. Too often, abortion is too easy
while not exactly a convenient method of
birth control, it is a way to avoid responsibility.
Marching on Sunday was a legitimate and
necessary demonstration to remind politicians
that the freedoms on which this country was
based cannot be abridged. And with a separa
tion of church and state making it difficult to
argue against abortion on religious grounds,
there are few ways to justify outlawing abor
tion. But we must temper the excitement that is
naturally generated at such large rallies with a
dose of somber reality many pro-choicers
feel uneasy about their support, and they realize
the moral problems inherent there. Sunday's
events were remarkable, but they should not
make people completely happy. Sharon
Kebschull
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Today's real test for the claydreamer
Dsych 10 Exam 1
Directions: Please fill in the most
appropriate answer. Remember to enter
your social security number as confusingly as
possible on the test sheet. Thank you for buy
ing blue books and bringing them to class
you won't be needing them. Don't even think
of cheating; remember, we are watching you.
1. Pavlov's experiment with the dog and the
dinner bell was an example of:
a) operant conditioning
b) reaction formation
c) canine repression
d) a man with way too much free time
2. Which of the following was not a fol
lower of psychoanalytic theory?
a) Carl Jung
b) Alfred Adler
c) Alan Hale Jr.
d) Simund Freud
3. The cute girl sitting two rows ahead of
you and to the left is wearing:
a) a white tuitleneck tanktop with a short
black skirt "
b) shorts and a "Beer-is-Good-for-You" T
shirt c) braces
d) wait a minute ... what? r
4. Piaget's first stage of childhood develop
ment is:
a) the sensorimotor period "
b) the concrete-operational period
c) the formal-operational period - .
d) uhhh ... God, I've totally forgotten f
5. The girl sitting directly to your left:
a) has been giving me the eye all semester
b) looks over at my desk constantly
c) name is Elizabeth, I believe
d) is probably either cheating or wondering
what gender I am
6. Now don't sell yourself short ... you kind
of like her, don't you?
a) Nov"
b) No
7. Oh, yes you do. Admit it!
a) No! No! NO!!
b) Oh, all right then, Yes
Ian Williams
Wednesday's
Child
8. OK. So what is the tiny gap between the
neurons called?
a) the synapse
b) the syntax
c) the big cheese
d) Shirley
9. The big cheese? Are you joking?
a) no -J
b) I'm just under a lot of pressure ...v
10. What do you see when you look at this
picture?
a) a sweet little butterfly on a lilac leaf
b) a baby on the end of a pitchfork
c) the Psych 10 professor immersed in pan
cake syrup y
d) a Rorschach ink-blot test v
11. An uncontrollable obsession for feces is
called:
a) coprophilia
b) rect-o-rama -
c) too disgusting for me to imagine yf
12. What is the guy immediately to your left
doing?
a) picking his nose and wiping it under his
desk
b) making yucky spittle noises
c) cheating off me most wj-subtly
d) all of the above
13. What do you plan on doing about it?
a) calling a janitor with a bottle of Windex
and a chisel
b) alerting my honor court officer at my next
convenience
c) purposely blackening in wrong answers
so that he'll fail y
14. Isn't that rather vindictive?
a) Yes, but I'm feeling rather vindictive at
this point y
15.. All right then, differentiate between
global, retrograde and selective amnesia.
a) they're spelled differently .
b) I don't seem to remember
16. What is Holmes and Rahe's "Social
Readjustment Rating Scale"?
a) what? y
17. What is "late luteal phase dysphoric
disorder"?
a) Why are you doing this to me? v
18. If you fail this test, you will:
a) fail out of school and end up digging
ditches in Pittsboro
b) not get into the graduate school of my
choice and end up working at the Golden
Skillet in South Hill, Va., and get promoted to
Night Fry Manager in 1997 if I'm real lucky
c) end up working at the Exit 6 tollbooth of
the New Jersey Turnpike, saying "that will be
$2.35, sir" until I die an arteriosclerotic death
at the age of 45 with a fat wife, three kids with
no teeth and a '74 Chevy Nova in the driveway
d) grab a beer, kick my feet up and watch
"Mr. Belvedere" until I feel better TT
Pledge.
Readers9 Foram
College Republicans
receive a bum rap
To the editor:
I must take issue with the Nov.
1 3 headline "College Republicans
disrupt Democratic rally." Noth
ing could be further from the truth.
I was one of the 25 College Re
publican "demonstrators" who
attended the rally. We agreed be
forehand to present ourselves as
the opposition ami to do nothing to
disrupt the rally. We get enough
negative press as it is, and cer
tainly don't want to do anything to
antagonize the already biased
media. The article itself accused
College Republicans of interrupt
ing and heckling the speakers, but
many of the negative comments
came from people not associated
with our group. It is unfair to as
sume that the only ones making
snide comments were those who
were carrying pro-Helms signs. I
think it is a fair assumption to say
that things could have been much
worse. The speakers never had to
stop their presentations because
our shouting interrupted them, and
Wayne Goodwin actually thanked
us for coming out to express our
opinions.
The sad fact is that the DTH felt
it necessary to create a contro
versy that did not exist. This was
one of the most peaceful political
rallies that I've attended as a UNC
student. My idea of controversy is
the shouting match that occurred
at last year's "Democratic Victory
Rally" at which Democratic can
didates were heckled by almost
everyone, not just College Repub
licans. I wonder what the head
lines would have been if the UNC
College Republicans had held a
pro-Helms rally? Probably some
thing like "College Republicans
ruin otherwise sunny Friday." It is
shame that liberals argue for free
dom of speech unless it gets in the
way of their agenda.
David Britt's statement that
short notice (a couple of weeks)
was the reason for the small
Democrat turnout pales in light of
the fact that I was called on Tues
day night before the rally. In three
days, the College Republicans
were able to raise twice the sup
port, and it wasn't even our rally!
That should tell you how enthusi
astic they are about Mike Easley
andtheinvisibleBoThomas.Sure,
many students are busy right now,
but Republicans are outnumbered
100 to one (or more) on this cam
pus, and we doubled the number
of Democrats in attendance.
All we ask is that we be allowed
to function as a group, free of
unfair bias and insinuation in the
student newspaper. Just stick to
the facts, and leave the opinions to
the left side of your editorial page.
SCOTT COLE
Senior
Political science
Thank you, Mr. TYifts,
for rescuing UNC
To the editor:
I just wish to write in defense of
Rutledge Tufts' decision to remove
Penthouse from the Student Stores.
Without Mr. Tufts, I would well
be on my way to a God-forsaken
life of hairy palms and blindness.
However, since Mr. Tufts has seen
fit to remove the evil temptation of
"nekked" women from the Stu
dent Stores, I feel now that I will
be able to resist this "evil sin" and
restore myself to full spiritual
health.
Stephen Lemons wrote in a let
ter to the editor on Nov. 13
("Removing magazine not a liter
ary decision") that Penthouse has
published the works of many
world-famous writers and inter
viewed many important folks, but
we all know that's not why people
buy it! No, Mr. Lemons, Pent
house is nothing but a blatant
appeal to man's "carnal nature"
nothing more. We can therefore
only thank Mr. Tufts for rescuing
us from our own follies and poten
tial self-abuse. We all think that
the First Amendment is fine and
dandy, Mr. Lemons, but the risk of
many a young man spending an
eternal life in hell is definitely
more important than the Bill of
Rights.
LEONLOWDER
Senior
Philosophyhistory
East German exodus
can teach us a lesson
To the editor:
I remember when I was about
10 years old, standing atop a small
tower in Berlin looking over the
wall into the East. Nothing I've
seen since has left such an impres
sion. Until now.
I find myself completely elated
with the new holes in the wall
holes flowing with freedom. I feel,
although DDR developments re
ally have no implications for my
life, restless. Why? I thought I was
already free. What is my wall?
The real beauty of the East
German exodus is that it is a
movement of people impassioned,
claiming what is rightfully theirs
without waiting for government
approval or the ever-prudent hand
of East-West negotiations to lift
them above themselves. Granted,
the DDR has given its approval,
but only to avoid being trampled.
The decision to leave was already
made by the people . a people
with the courage and conscience
to ignore a government.
I watched Friday's news as Jim
Lehrer asked Secretary of State
James Baker why the administra
tion was so slow to react to events
in Eastern Europe, and Baker re
plied with a painful smile that the
United States is now prepared to
counsel East Germany in the ways
of "free-market enterprise."
What a tragedy, I thought. The
best thing that could happen would
be for some of the good ideas to
trickle through the broken wall to
us.
STEWART WALLER
Senior
Journalism
Bad sports. spoil
good football game
To the editor:
I left the game early on Satur
day. I didn't leave because we
were losing. I left because of the
actions of some of our "fans." The
act ion I am referring to is the throw
ing of cups on the field. This was
simply uncalled for. If you feel a
call is bad, boo the referee, but
don't throw things on the field.
That's known as unsportsmanlike
conduct.
Football should be fun. But in
college you should learn maturity.
Everything in life doesn't go our
way, so we should learn to grin
and bear with the bad calls not
throw temper tantrums. Those are
for 8-year-olds, not 1 8-year-olds.
Grow up Carolina; that's what
you're here to do.
I support Coach Brown and the
football team. At least he'll know
all his fans aren't fair weather ones.
CUR I IS W.
HEDGEPETH
Class of 1989
Psychology
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