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98th year of editorial freedom
Jessica Lanning and Kelly Thompson, Editors
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Avoiding conflicts
Porter should remain out of panel discussions
A couple of weeks ago, there was quite a
stir over a supposed conflict of interest on
the part of W. Travis Porter, an attorney
from Durham who serves on the UNC
Board of Governors and who represents
UNC-CH head basketball coach Dean
Smith.
. ' The controversy stemmed from the fact
that Porter was serving on a joint committee
concerning whether the BOG should con
trol contracts between head coaches of
major sports and colleges of the UNC
system. Porter, who handled the contract
Smith signed in 1 98 1 , should not be accused
of any wrongdoing, but he should make
certain that in the future he does not have a
role in the committee's decision.
Porter cannot be faulted because he never
had a direct conflict of interest represent
ing Smith. He did not choose to be a member
of the joint committee. Rather, Porter was
chairman of the Personnel and Tenure
Committee, which joined with the Gover
nance Committee to form the panel.
Naturally, Porter became a member of the
joint committee, but he left the task of
leadership to D. Samuel Neill, the chair of
the Governance Committee.
This past June, Porter relinquished his
position of chairman of the Personnel and
Tenure Committee to become vice chair
man of the entire BOG. Thus, he no longer
was a member of the joint committee.
Porter explained that the committee voted
on only one matter while he was a member.
The decision required that all contracts
with coaches be approved by the appropri
ate university's Board of Trustees before
considered valid.
Thus, no matter involving Smith was
brought up while Porter was on the com
mittee. Besides, Smith's current contract is
already settled through 2001, and he has
had no matter pending with the University
since he signed the contract in 1 98 1 . It has
not been feasible for Porter to use his
position to better represent Smith; but more
importantly, Porter went out of his way not
to violate the NCSU Bar's ethics opinion
concerning attorneys serving on public
boards. He announced that he had an interest
in Smith, and he did not deal with any
matters directly involving with the coach.
Although Porter avoided having a direct
conflict of interest, it is disturbing that he
was allowed to be in the position where one
might occur in the first place. Porter said he
informed the board in November last year
that Smith was his client. Yet he was still
permitted to serve on the panel. One must
wonder what took the Board of Governors
so long to realize that Porter was in a
position where a conflict could arise.
Porter is not aware of any more meetings
for the joint committee. He has not decided
if he will try to be active in the panel's
decision on coaches' contracts. But as a
member of a distinguished board that
governs several prestigious institutions, his
behavior must be extraordinary. Therefore,
he should not further be involved in the
panel; that would create a true conflict of
interest if a matter concerning Smith did
arise. H. Brock Page
False accusations
Advertisements reflect senator's ignorance
Jesse Helms gets a perfect 10 on his
following radio advertisement for pulling
the most attacks in a single 30-second slot:
"It seems Harvey Gantt is running two
campaigns: a public campaign and a secret
campaign. And Gantt' s friends with the
liberal newspapers don't want you to know
about his secret campaign that he has
raised thousands of dollars in gay and les
bian bars in San Francisco, New York and
Washington, that Gantt has run fund-raising
ads in gay newspapers. ... The liberal
newspapers also won't tell you about
Harvey Gantt's secret campaign running
radio ads that play only on black radio
stations. Why doesn't Harvey Gantt run his
ad on all radio stations? ... Harvey Gantt
promises more welfare spending and more
quotas for minorities. Harvey Gantt too
liberal for North Carolina."
Helms has no problem sticking to the
issues in this ad; he knows who he hates.
He is anti-Gantt, anti-newspaper, anti-gay,
anti-Ted Kennedy and even anti-minority.
Listeners can hear the Helms ad at ap
proximately 30-minute intervals on some
radio stations (country music seems to be
his favorite).
. But disregarding the ad's tone of hatred,
it is inaccurate. It is so inaccurate that the
same listener can hear a Harvey Gantt ad
the ones that supposedly play only on
"black" radio stations (if there is such an
animal) in the same sitting on the same
radio station. Clearly, Gantt does not reserve
his ads only for select radio stations.
In fact, the likely reason Helms chooses
to spend so much advertising money on
country radio stations is because he hopes
to reach a smaller, supportive audience: the
mostly white rural population that has his
torically been most accepting of him. And
even if Gantt did run ads only on "black"
stations, it is not unreasonable or immoral
for him to do so. Targeting audiences is a
part of all politics and advertising.
The reference to fund raising and adver
tising in gay bars and newspapers brings up
another inaccuracy. "There's a difference
between us fund raising and other people
fund raising on our behalf," a press assis
tant said. "But we also are not trying to
distance ourselves from that." He said the
Gantt campaign does not fund advertise
ments in gay newspapers or raise money in
gay bars, but supporters have done both.
It's pretty tough to take a candidate seri
ously when the only thing he's serious
about is smearing his opponents. Voters
know that campaign ads don't include all
the facts, but giving just some of them
would be nice. Elizabeth Murray
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Aggravating others delivers sadistic satisfaction
I never realized just how easy it is to drive
other people insane.
A few days ago, one of my friends had to
do something monumental, earth-shaking, and
life-threatening: select and buy a new pair of
sneakers. (The life-threatening part is true be
cause I threatened to rip out his spleen if he
dragged me to one more shoe store.) But I got
even by totally screwing up his mental health.
I refused to give him the opinion he so des
perately wanted.
"What do you think of these?" he asked,
holding up a pair of Nikes.
'They're nice."
"How about these?" He held up another pair
that looked almost identical to the other ones.
"They're nice."
"What about this other pair? They're 90
bucks, but I like the colors."
"They're nice."
By the time we hit the third store, his eyes
were beginning to bug out, and he was so
confused, he could barely tie the shoelaces.
"Come on, Jenn, which ones should I get?"
"They're nice."
He started to get muscle spasms. "This is
important to me! These are the shoes I'll be
wearing for the next year! They have to look
good! What do you think of the Reeboks?"
"They're nice."
That's when he snapped. Standing in a pile
of shoes in the middle of the South Square Mall
Foot Locker with a different brand of sneaker in
each hand, his face turned purple, the veins in
his neck stood out, and he started to shake.
"Jenn," he said through clenched teeth,
"you...are...driving...me...CRAZY!"
I don't know what he was so upset about.
Watching three salespeople strap him into a
straitjacket and forcibly eject him from the
store was the most fun I'd had in weeks.
I drive my roommate crazy, too. I know the
one thing that can make her fail exams, forget
her schedule, and get nothing else done: a deck
of cards. She'll be sitting at her desk, feverishly
Jenn Layton
scribbling out a paper that is due in a matter of
hours, and I'll say the three cruel, heinous,
awful words: "Wanna play cards?"
Her hands will begin to tremble, and she'll
turn to glare at me.
"Come on," I'll say, twisting the knife. "Just
one quick game of Rummy. We need a study
break."
She'll toss her pencil onto the desk. "Okay,
one quick game. But at 10 o'clock, I'm going
back to studying." It is 9:30 p.m. when she says
this.
Anyone who plays cards knows that there is
no such thing as a quick game of Rummy. One
hand alone can take as long as 1 5 minutes. After
playing a full game (the effect is even better if
I beat her) She'll look at the clock and groan,
"Oh, my God, it's almost 1 1 !" Panic will set in,
and she'll end up pulling an all-nighter to finish
the paper. And what's really insane is that she'll
fall for the very same weakness the next time
she has to study.
But the one who really wants to kill me is
Justen. I don't drive him nuts anymore, mainly
because he's moved out of Chapel Hill,
(probably to get as far away from me as possible)
but when we had a 10 a.m. class together a
couple of years ago, I made his mornings a
living hell. Want to make Justen go absolutely
insane before the day is even half over? Listen
to Professor Layton:
First, make sure that you and Justen both live
on South Campus and have a 10 a.m. history
class on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Make
the history class take place in Hanes Art Center,
which is almost all the way to Franklin Street.
Do this in January, when the morning tem
perature is enough to freeze your nose hairs.
Get up early and start pounding on Justen's
door at precisely 9 a.m.
(I see a few of you in the back raising your
hands. "Excuse me, Professor Layton, but why
so early?" Because Justen is not an early riser.
He isn't able to function well enough to find his
socks until at least noon.)
Justen will open the door in his underwear
and stare at you as if you are the Secret Police
ready to take him away in chains. Push him
aside, pick his jeans up off the floor, and tell
him to get dressed because class starts in an
hour. Now prepare for the whining.
"Awwww, let's skip today. It's allllll the
way across campus, and it's coooold."
You will respond, "No, Justen. We'll miss
too many notes."
"Come ooooon. All his lectures come straight
out of the book. We'll just read the chapters!"
Ignore the whining, pry his fingers off the
door frame, and drag him out into the hall. As
you walk across campus, listen as Justen treats
you to a less-than-impressive display of his
vocal capabilities: "It's coooold. Let's skip.
Class is booooring. Let's just go to the Record
Barrrrrrr. I want to get a new CD. Pleeeeeease?"
Drag him into Hanes Art Center and down
the auditorium steps and padlock him to a seat.
Watch the professor shuffle out onto the
stage like Stephen Wright with a severe hang
over. Listen as this professor mumbles his way
through the same chapter you read last night.
Verbatim.
Write on a blank notebook page, "You're
right. We should have skipped." Slide it over to
Justen.
Watch Justen demonstrate his amazing abil
ity to turn blue and purple at the same time.
Any questions?
Sometimes it's just so easy....
Jenn Layton is a senior English major from
Kingston, Ontario, who wonders why her friend
don't call her anymore.
MISS' mmm
Homosexuals infringe
on rights of others
Editors' note: This article re
flects the opinions of Jack Voigt
and not the Dental School or its
staff.
To the editors:
In response to Elizabeth
Murray's Oct. 18 editorial "Ho
mosexuals deserve more rights," I
must, in all normal human thinking,
disagree 100 percent.
Homosexuals, queers, gays or
whatever they wish to call them
selves have, because of their un
natural lifestyles, succeeded in
spreading one of the most hideous
diseases known to mankind. Yet in
public they demonstrate and show
themselves in adistasteful manner,
demanding more rights to spread
the disease even more. Homo
sexuals, through elected bleeding
hearts or some of their own kind,
have had laws passed that gave
them rights to infect. You say AIDS
is not contagious through casual
contact. Well Murray you show
me where medical science gives
the public an absolute 100 percent
guarantee that I and others like me
would never contact the disease
because of the association or casual
contact, and I might just relent.
The lowest form of animal life
casts out the misfits to assure sur
vival of the species. I'm not ad
vocating we just cast them out, but
I do believe that to protect our
species we should isolate them for
treatment. Laws to the contrary
only succeed in endangering the
public.
Some politicians (including
Gantt) will, through the corners of
their mouths, support gays in a
small way to get their vote. Gantt
said we shouldn't fear gays - well
I do. Not only forme but my family
and survival of mankind. I wonder
if he will let his children near them.
You might say my words are
harsh and not with the present
feelings. Well so be it. However,
our day is coming. Those twisting
the laws and endangering the publ ic
will have to answer to us. We are
fed up with the filthy lifestyle the
homosexuals live, and when we
do show ourselves on the streets in
mass those same politicians will
change their minds as they will
then want our vote. We don't want
the homosexuals unnatural, un
clean and unhealthy lifestyle in
fecting us.
The rights of homosexuals stop
when they endanger others. They
should clean up their act and join
the natural process of life.
Remember we have a right to
work, live and play in safety and
you can bet our day is soon com
ing. JACK D. VOIGT
Dental Support Services
Critics should attack
attitudes, not statues
To the editors:
We all know that the controversy
over the statues is the biggest thing
to hit the University since the
murder-suicide of June 7 of this
year. However, we are all missing
the point. Even if the statues were
removed and the people calmed
down, the problems of racism and
sexism would remain.
The statues symbolize the
problems of our society, but they
are only symbols. The reason, I
think, people are upset is because
the statues are a constant reminder
of our hellish world. It is like our
greatest fears we try to suppress
them, but if faced with them, we
either overcome them or we are
enslaved to them forever.
These problems are not going to
fade away. They will be around
until the end of human existence or
if one race or sex is exterminated
in a genocide. Instead of attacking
these pieces of bronze, we should
be dealing with the problems
themselves. We need to get our
heads out of the ovens and try to
overcome our fears before the earth
bleeds to death.
ROBERT STRADER
Freshman
History
Price not sympathetic
to needs of state
To the editors:
I am a retired school teacher
with 30 years of experience and
would like to raise the question:
Why don't we have enough tax
dollars for our North Carolina
public schools? Congressman Price
sends our North Carol i n a educat ion
tax dollars to the Washington
education bureaucracy. Congress,
in effect, decreases the tax money
available to educate North
Carolina's young people. How
could this be?
The U.S. Department of
Education's budget is $25 billion.
North Carolina taxpayers send
$547 million tax dollars to Wash
ington to fund this $25 billion
budget. A Bureau of Census report
("Federal Expenditures by State
for Fiscal Year 1989") says North
Carolina schools and students re
ceive back from Washington only
$330 million, and Washington
mandates how the money will be
spent.
For every education tax dollar
North Carolina taxpayers send to
Washington, we get back only 60
cents. Why can't Congressman
Price just vote to leave our educa
tion tax dollars in North Carolina?
He could have done that if he had
chosen to serve on the House
Education Committee, rather than
Banking Committee.
The education establishment
says education is a "national"
problem. In that sense, the in
creasing crime rate is a "national"
problem, but no one suggests we
"nationalize" the local police.
Congressman Price must believe
the Washington education bu
reaucracy knou s better than North
Carol inians how to spend out North
Carolina education dollars.
If education is Duke Professor
Price's priority, he should run for
the N.C. State House of Repre
sentatives. If Professor Price were
elected to a state office, you can
bet he would stop voting to send
out North Carolina education dol
lars to Washington to feed the
Federal education bureaucrats.
Congressman Price was a Duke
political science professor. Does
this qualify him as an expert on the
needs of North Carolina's public
schools? How can Professor Price
claim to be sympathetic to North
Carolina schools and students
when he votes to shortchange us
by sending our North Carolina
education tax dollars to the
Washington education bureau
cracy? ELIZABETH CATES
Retired school teacher
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