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10The Daily Tar HeelMonday, April 23, 1990 hp laily 98th year of editorial freedom Jessica Lanning and Kelly Thompson, Editors JENNY CLONINGER, University Editor Jennifer Wing, Forum Editor Cameron Tew, City Editor MYRNA MILLER, Features Editor Jamie Rosenberg, Sports Editor EVAN ElLE, Photography Editor Steve Wilson, News Editor rELANtE BLACK, Layout Editor James Claude Benton, Ombudsman i Wall not all Class gives more than a place to sit For the past several weeks, students have passed by the sitting wall between Sounders and Murphey halls that bears a sign declaring it is the senior gift. No doubt s6me students have wondered "Is that all?" Well, those that gave seniors the benefit of thje doubt were correct in doing so. The wall, which will have landscaped shrub bery and eight trees when completed, is only a small portion of a much greater and rrjore precious gift the gift of more efficient teaching that will benefit future Carolina students. The Class of 1990 has plans to establish a teaching fellows pro gram. A problem at the University is that many professors with Ph.D.s are not able to ef fectively relay the knowledge they have to students. Many students also complain of teaching assistants (TAs) who can't speak clearly or teach effectively. The fellows program, however, will help to alleviate these problems. Beginning in the fall 1995, professors and TAs from any field who show strengths in various methods of teach ing will be selected to share their skills with others. For example, some teachers are creative with slides or developing graphs that help to explain a subject more clearly. They will operate through the Center for Teaching and Learning by hold ing workshops to share their methods with Age discrimination Ignoring older workers hurts everyone v The United States is facing a labor shortage'' While jits effects aren't apparent right now, they will be. The baby-boom genera tion is active in the work force, but its members are growing older. At the same time, the "baby-bust" generation that fol lowed is contributing much smaller num bers to the national labor pool; The shrinkage is not just a matter of who's entering the work force, but also of who's leaving it. The average age of retire "ment drops every year, while increasing jife expectancy rates are extending the period of active retirement for most people. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates only one in four men aged 60 and over will be working in the year 2000. But as a recent study by the Commonwealth Fund shows, many don't want to stop. A quarter of retirees, about two million people, say they are unhappy with their situation. Other surveys by the American Association of Retired Persons reveal that a quarter to a half of older workers and retirees would delay retirement if they could work fewer hours. Statistics show that older workers have valuable problem-solving skills as well as lower absentee rates than their younger Counterparts. But many older workers feel unproductive and unwanted because barri ers in the business world and the federal government prevent them from working. Retirees are hampered by inflexible work Schedules, few re-training programs and f estrictions in Social Security, and private -pension programs which reduce their benefits if they have outside income. As the percentage of the total population of Editorial Policy The Daily Tar Heel's board opinion editorials v the co-editors, opinion editor, forum editor and ooara s majority opinion. Signed editorials do alar iteri NANCY WykLE, University Editor Crystal Bernstein, Opinion Editor STACI Cox, State and National Editor CHERYL ALLEN, Features Editor AlisA DeMao, Omnibus Editor , PETE CORSON, Cartoon Editor JoAnN RODAK, News Editor ERIK DALE Flippo, Design Coordinator other teachers. This will allow more edu cators to communicate effectively in the classroom. Because of its wide-reaching effects, the program is even better than an en dowed chair fellowship. An endowed chair only involves one professor teaching sev eral hundred students. That one professor has the responsibility alone to share his or her knowledge. The fellows program, however, allows one person to share his or her talents with others that can then pass on those ideas to many more students. Another positive feature of the program is that its effects may serve to correct upcoming problems. Statistics predict that within five to seven years there will be a lack of Ph.D.s nationwide. Better-trained professors will help minimize the effects of this shortage. Thus, despite appearances, the senior class will be leaving behind a two-fold gift. On the one hand there will be the wall, adding beauty to the University and giving students a spot to sit and bask in the sun between classes. No doubt it will remain as long as the University stands. On the other hand will be the teaching fellows program. And it too will last a long time, giving students the greater gift of effective, force ful teaching. Lynette Blair the United States aged 60 or over grows every year, our society can not allow these conditions to continue. Several solutions come to mind. A pro-' gram by the Xerox division in Rochester, N.Y., allows older production workers to take less strenuous jobs at a salary halfway between their former rate and the new job's wage, thereby providing an alterna tive to retirement for those who can no longer handle arduous production work and rotating shifts. Also, part-time jobs are important for older workers both because they are less strenuous and because the added income is not enough to reduce Social Security or pension benefits. Some companies are pioneering more innovative programs. Polaroid, in Cambr idge, Mass., is offering "rehearsal retire ment," which allows workers to come back at full salary if they don't like the leisure time, as well as a year's salary and tuition to Harvard University or Lesley College for those workers who have been with the company for at least 10 years and want to be re-trained as school teachers. The Trav elers, in Hartford, Conn., have a job bank of temporary workers made of retirees from their company and others in the area. As we go into the 2 1 st century, it is time for business to diversify with more flexible schedules and re-education programs. If it does not, corporate America will be per petuating a form of discrimination against older workers, as well as wasting a valu able economic resource that it can not afford to ignore. The social and economic health of our nation depends on their ac tions. Kelly Thompson are voted on by the board, which is composed of three editorial writers. The opinions reflect the not necessarily reflect the entire board's opinion. 0 . cry 1 s A m sx,v t ai-S'I- CAA did not propose Craige parking deck To the editors: As president of the Carolina Athletic Association (CAA), I must correct a statement in Mark Anderson's article about the Rams Club ("Critics too quick, too harsh in judging Rams Club," April 19). In his article, Anderson states that "... the CAA, not the (Rams Club), proposed the parking deck on the Hinton James tennis courts." This statement is completely inaccu rate. Last semester, the Rams Club came to leaders of student govern ment, the CAA and the Residence Hall Association (RHA) with idea of putting a parking deck on the current Hinton James tennis courts and rebuilding tennis courts on top of the deck. I, along with Liz Jackson (former RHA president) and Joe Andronaco (former stu dent body vice president) agreed to present the idea to students to see if they supported it. When we found student response to be ex tremely negative, we informed Moyer Smith of the Educational Foundation and decided with him not to proceed with the idea. I am pleased that Mr. Smith and the Rams Club respect student opinion enough not to pursue the parking deck idea any further. He took perfectly appropriate action by consulting us for student opin ion first. I simply wish to clarify the fact that the Rams Club, not the CAA, proposed this idea. LISA FRYE Junior History Census completed with students' help To the editors: I would like to thank all of the resident assistants, area directors and assistant area directors who helped the Census Bureau in the just-concluded operation which attempted to count UNC resident students. I realize that this time of the year is a busy one for all stu dents and that RAs have a lot going on all the time, which is why I especially appreciate those who recognized the importance of the census and made the effort to track down their residents for the cen sus enumerators. Bulls games will be ruined by rivalry or move I went to my first Durham Bulls game of the season a few nights ago. The Bulls came from behind to beat Kinston 6-4. It was great. OK, so maybe it was a little chilly and I had to switch from cold beer to hot coffee by the top of the seventh. And maybe I don't know the players yet who to watch and what to watch for. But it's still early in the season. Give it a few weeks. I've been going over to Durham Athletic Park on warm summer nights for a long time now. Going to a Bulls game is almost a reli gious experience for me. But I'm not going to pull a George Will and bore you with "baseball mysticism." I don't even like the game all that much. I can't play it to save my life, TV games put me to sleep and I think that people who memorize stats are stupid. But just the same, I like going to Bulls games. I took my girlfriend to her first ever Bulls game the other night. I saw some friends of mine up in the third base line bleachers, and we climbed up to sit with them. My girlfriend got a disgusted look on her face when she saw their Duke shirts. Some prejudices run deep, but a few innings into the game she realized that it didn't matter. The guys with Duke shirts yelled just as loud at bad calls and base hits as the read FORUM I would also like to thank those student leaders in the halls and in the fraternity and sorority houses who helped increase the response rate. Most importantly, thanks to all of the students who took the time to fill out the form and return it promptly. Census statistics are used to determine congressional representation, distribute federal and local funds, and provide plan ning data for governmental and private business projects. With this much at stake, an accurate count is vital the assistance of the RAs and others here at UNC has helped us achieve that goal. begin with it. And as we celebrate Earth Week we can be especially cognizant of what happens when we allow human self interest to take such precedence over respect not only for our environment but all its inhabitants. ROB GLUCK Laboratory Technologist Chapel Hill Pharmacist 's advice worth extra cost To the editors: I read with interest the health column about analgesics by Amanda Graves in the DTH ("Variety of painkillers can be aches to consumers," April 11). While I applaud her efforts in providing useful information, some aspects of the column de serve further comment. A table was provided along with the column, although it was not directly referred to in the article. Comparative costs of over-the-counter analgesics were provided from Food Lion and Rite-Aid. In addition to inaccurate spelling (acetominophine and ibuprophen), it is interesting to note that neither of these stores have a pharmacist available for consultation. Most Rite-Aid stores have a pharmacy department, but the one on Fran klin Street does not. Over-the-counterproducts such as the analgesics mentioned in the article are viewed by the Food and Drug Administration as being safe and effective for use by consum ers in the management of self limiting problems without the advice of a physician. Nonethe less, there may be some inherent benefit in seeking the advice of a pharmacist in order to make a ra tional choice about whether to treat and which product to choose. In such a circumstance, the product may or may not cost a little more. However, it would appear that similar service and advice would not be available from the meat manager at Food Lion or the cash ier at Rite-Aid. It is pertinent to suggest that consumers consider consulting a pharmacist when deciding to self-medicate for a minor ailment. DENNIS WILLIAMS, Pharm.D. Clinical Assistant Professor School of Pharmacy BUD HILLER Census Bureau U.S. Ethics outweigh gains from animal research : To the editors: i: The DTH based its recent edito rial support for invasive animal research solely on the typical utili tarian argument regarding human benefits, and unfortunately left ethics aside. If the experiments of the Ger man doctors on human subjects 50 years ago had been allowed to continue, they too would have generated tremendous physiologic cal knowledge and medical bene fits. The utilitarian approach compels one to acknowledge the fine contributions of a Josef Mengele. Yet for ethical reasons, and ethical reasons alone, the world community condemned those valuable studies, and much knowl edge and progress was and contin ues to be sacrificed. In the case of Nazism or slavery we readily empathize with the victims and decry the instigators who stood to benefit, yet in the instance of animal research we prejudicially focus instead on the gains to the benefactors and not on the exploitation of the defenseless and innocent. It is fine to point out these bene fits so long as one also acknowl edges that only a small fraction of the costly studies carried out ever get published or otherwise con tribute to those eventual benefits. When one is dealing with the rou tine infliction of suffering and death on such a massive scale (far greater than that very limited German Holocaust) one ought not so cavalierly sweep ethical dis cussion aside; in fact one should Andy White guys with Carolina shirts did. And so did the guys with N.C. State shirts. You see, for three hours each night that the Bulls are in town, it doesn't matter where you go to school. Rivalries are forgotten. You're not there to pull for the Tar Heels, or the Wolfpack, or the Blue Devils. You're there to pull for the Bulls, and for those three short hours we're all on the same side. It's a neat feeling. That's why I like going to Bulls games. But it doesn't look like I'm going to be able to enjoy the Bulls much longer. Raleigh has wanted a baseball team for years, but has been prevented by a rule limiting how close minor league teams can be to each other. Now it looks like Raleigh is going to get around the rule by building an 8,000-seat stadium in Zebulon for the Class A Mudcats, currently in Columbus, Ga. That will have an effect on the Bulls draw. And Durham voters just recently defeated a bond issue to build a new baseball park for the Bulls in downtown Durham. Bulls owner Miles 111 Committee collected Native American data. , To the editors: Last Wednesday, a packet cre ated to support the immediate hir: . ing of a permanent Native Ameri can faculty member was presented to Chancellor Paul Hardin. This s packet received praise for being thoroughly researched and well organized; however, this compre hensive document was overshad owed by the media attention that a rally invites. Thanks to the effort of the Carolina Indian Circle and the Minority and Women's Af fairs Committee, Chancellor Paul Hardin had more than television cameras to look at. A document filled not only with information", but also the persuasion of 2,500 students, state and national legi$ lators and other members of aca demja. wasi in his hand, J When one cares about ah issue, one does not look for personal recognition but rather the recogni; tion that a problem exists. I think that the members of the Minority and Women's Affairs Committee under Brien Lewis are perfect examples of people who cared about an issue. These are the people who spent long nights research; ing, writing letters, filling but requisitions, collecting signatures,, making phone calls and attending meetings to ensure that the packet was published. Nobody has fecr ognized their time and effort. -I would like to thank Joseph Holt, Quaker Kappel, Stacey Belnavis, Angela Coin, Lynda Bassa, Jimmy Burns, Cedric Woods, Jim Sweet and the rest of the Minority and Women's Affairs Committee for a job well done. DANA CLINTON LUMSDEN Sophomore Political ScienceEnglish Letters policy The Daily Tar Heel welcomes reader comments and criticisms. We will attempt to print as many letters to the editor as space per mits. When writing letters, please follow these guidelines: B All letters must be dated and signed by the author(s), with a limit of two signatures per letter. B All letters must be typed and double-spaced, for ease of edit ing. Wolff said before the vote that the future of the Bulls just might depend on the outcome. , So now there's been talk about the Bulls leaving Durham. I hope they don't. But if they do, I suppose I'll go see a few Mudcats games instead each year. It'll be nice to still have a team around, but it won't be the same. A club in rural Wake County is going to have a differ ent pull than a club in downtown Durham.' I know I won't get to as many games, and I doubt that most of my friends at Duke will either. It'll be a different crowd, a different place arid a different feeling. ! Things are going to change with the Bulls whether they stay in Durham or not. The Mudcats will see to that. And that's a damn shame. I like the way going to a Bulls game feels. I like the Bulls the way they are, where they are. But at least there's still this season. So I'm going to keep going over to Durham Ath letic Park on warm summer nights, sit under the lights, drink cold beer and root the Bulls on to victory. You ought to, too, while you still can. See you at the park. Andy White is a junior Southern Studies major from Wilmington.
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