6The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, November 10, 1992
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Sex sells
For any of you who think sexism is on a downslide
at UNC, take a reality check. Sexism is alive and well
at the University, as demonstrated by the athletic
department's Sweet Carolines.
The Sweet Carolines are a group of UNC women
who help the football team recruit high school play
ers. They take these young gentlemen out to dinner,
show them around the Kenan Field House, answer
questions about the University and generally show
them a good time, making the best possible impres
sion. Naturally, these young women must be pleasing to
the eye to make such an impression. Bruce Hemphill,
director of recruiting for the football program, says
the group does not discriminate on the basis of
gender, sex or creed.
At the same time, he says that "appearance and
how they present themselves is the most important
part" of the program.
The idea that this group doesn't discriminate on
some level is ludicrous. The very name discriminates
on the basis of gender. Can anyone honestly believe
that if Joe Schmoe walked in and wanted to be a
Sweet Caroline, they'd take him seriously? What
would the unlucky recruit who got Joe think when all
his buddies got to go out with prim, trim, nubile
young coeds?
But discrimination is beside the point. The Sweet
Carolines are a bunch of women used as sales tools.
As Hemphill himself said, "They're selling the Uni
versity and the football program to these recruits and
their families."
Are they afraid the University and the football
program aren't good enough to sell themselves? Is
that why we need the Sweet Carolines to show
these teenagers a good time, to lure them to UNC
with the subliminal suggestion that UNC is a yawn
ing orchid of potential sex?
If the University even is pretending to break down
stereotypes, the Sweet Carolines are a huge "good-oF-boy"
mark against it. The mere fact that such a
group exists implies that the University endorses the
portrayal of women as traditional hostesses and
marketing tools.
And if the University wants to make a sincere
effort at breaking down stereotypes, it should take a
cold, hard look at what the Sweet Carolines really
are: sex tools for the athletic department.
Greening Franklin Street
Imagine walking down a grassy outdoor mall. You
buy a soda, sit on a bench and watch as a woman
plays folk tunes on a guitar for a small group gathered
around her.
Sound like Washington, D.C.? Perhaps it's Boul
der, Colo.
Actually, this is one man's vision of the future of
East Franklin Street, from South Columbia to
Henderson streets.
And Intimate Bookshop owner Wallace Kuralt,
who heads one of Chapel Hill's most successful
businesses, knows a good thing when he thinks of it.
He's suggested that the town replace the four lanes
of traffic on East Franklin with a grass-covered mall
featuring tree-canopied tables, kiosks and mosaic
covered walkways. Two one-way cobblestone streets
on both sides of the mall would allow for vehicular
access to some parking spaces and for delivery to
businesses.
Chapel Hill already boasts the most dynamic down
town in the state, but the Franklin Street Mall would
create an even more electrifying atmosphere.
Kuralt's $2 million idea would pay for itself with
the help of parking fees during a seven-year period.
Of course, the proposal has its problems. Traffic
would be rerouted to the already overcrowded Rose
mary and Henderson streets, requiring the town to
widen those thoroughfares. And allowing any traffic
on the pedestrian mall could prove hazardous. But
like any major project in this town, the details can be
worked out.
Town officials already are studying the proposal,
and it probably will come before the council in
February.
In the meantime, town residents should push their
leaders to support the Franklin Street Mall.
Wallace Kuralt might have lost his downtown
store to a fire, but he still intends to light up down
town with a plan to add vitality and dynamism in the
center of North Carolina's cultural activity.
Striking a blow to self-esteem
What are your most vivid childhood memories?
Maybe you remember the first day of school in the
fall or going to Disneyworld.
Or maybe you remember being paddled by your
second-grade teacher for talking in line for the bath
room. Do you remember the physical pain and the hu
miliation of facing your parents and your peers after
being whacked on the behind until you felt like your
face was going to explode?
Paddling, or corporal punishment, is psychologi
cally destructive to children. By assuming a superior
and abusive role, teachers make children feel less-than-human
(not that animals should be hit either).
Many well-behaved children come from families
who discuss behavioral difficulties with their chil
dren and involve children in making their own deci
sions. When children feel as if their opinions matter,
they are more likely to accept advice from superiors,
like parents and teachers.
Corporal punishment also teaches children that
violence is an acceptable solution to disagreement.
Instead of discussion and reasoning as a problem
solving mechanism, a child learns that physical ag
gression is a viable answer to interpersonal conflicts.
Children, the impressionable beings that they are,
apply the lessons they learn at school and at home to
what they see happening in the outside world. Imag
ine teaching children in their formative years that
hitting the people they have problems with makes
everything better. And we wonder why our world is
full of fighting and "ethnic cleansing."
Although in 1991 N.C. school systems gained the
individual right to regulate corporal punishment, our
state still has the 15th-highest rate of corporal pun
ishment in the nation. Too bad our academic rankings
are not this high.
Twenty-seven school systems in North Carolina
have taken advantage of their regulation rights and
have banned corporal punishment altogether, and
they are to be commended. The entire state should
follow suit quickly.
The other 129 school districts might change their
ways if the N.C. Child Advocacy Institute has any
thing to say about it. With a three-year grant from the
Children's Defense Fund, the Institute will show
schools that there are alternatives to paddling chil
dren who tend to chit-chat or have an overabundance
of energy.
One can only hope they will have more success
than Orange County Congressman Howard Lee did
in the surnmer of 1991. Lee worked hard on a bill to
outlaw corporal punishment in North Carolina, but to
no avail. North Carolina's legislators feel that beat
ing children is the key to a solid education.
There are many lessons that public schools need to
teach our children. Violence should not be one of
them.
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'Never again?' Ask the Bosnians and SomaUs
Yesterday was the 54th anniver
sary of Kristallnacht, the Night
of Shattered Glass. On Nov. 9,
1938, the Nazis rioted in Jewish neigh
borhoods and towns after a young Jew
assassinated an Austrian official.
In 48 hours, under directions of
Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph
Goebbels, Nazi youth killed 236 Jews,
bumed more than a thousand syna
gogues, destroyed nearly 7,500 Jewish
businesses and sent 20,000 Jewish men
to the Dachau concentration camp. The
windows of thousands of stores and
homes owned by Jews were smashed,
hence the name given to this first act of
Germany's crime against the Jews.
The names of that night's Jewish
victims will be read in the Pit this week,
and a photographic exhibit in the Union
will document the atrocities commit
ted. All over the world, synagogues and
churches will light commemorative
candles; rabbis, survivors and histori
ans will lecture. A few eager columnists
will predictably draw dramatic, occa
sionally high-browedconclusions about
the human condition. They will, no
doubt, sermonize about the lessons of
the past and construct the familiarly
grave, we-should-learn-from-our-mis-takes
historical analogies. But I am not
among them.
I am, frankly, uncomfortable and
unimpressed with all of this historical
moralizing and with the rhetoric of guilt.
That we are doomed to repeat history's
mistakes seems to me not a condition
bound one day to vanish, but rather a
fixed, immutable fact of our collective
experience.
Jews and others are sure to use the
words "never again" in conversations
and writings about the Nazi Holocaust.
The words are simple, dramatic, poi
gnant: Never again Auschwitz, never
again gas chambers, never again Hitler
and so on.
I am a Jew whose relatives perished
and bumed in the Holocaust and whose
grandparents and parents built and de
fended a new country in its aftermath.
My people's screams echo endlessly
within me, their dreams and successes
motivate and enliven me. But 1 will no
longer sing along with the "never again"
choir. Why should I when experience
Eric
Wagner j
Mind's Eye
shows that the
words are bar
ren and that the
melody is
meaningless?
Sure, it's a
catchy jingle.
But what, of
substance, does
"never again"
mean? Will we
never again turn
our backs while
genocidal ma
chines destroy entire peoples? Or will
we never again stand by as thugs-cum-dictators
torture their populations? Will
we never again accept the cultural
vacuum that follows the annihilation of
a race? Or will we never again sigh,
shake our heads and confess our deep
felt regret about the bloodletting in a far
away place? Will we never again allow
ourselves to be weakly, defenselessly
consumed by others' hate? An affirma
tive answer to any of these questions is,
obviously, a lie.
The problem with using great human
tragedies as reference marks for our
moral barometer is that history does not
repeat in cycles, or even irregularly, but
simply rushes on, presenting us with
new problems, with fresh blood. So I
reject the trite, never-ending compari
sons made between one group's catas
trophe and another's.
I do not consider the Jewish Holo
caust morally or historically equivalent
to the decimation of the Native-American
population, to the brutalization of
Manchuria by the Japanese, to the en
slavement and torture of Africans, to
the massacres of Armenians, to the gas
sing of the Kurds or to Stalin's purges.
Each of these horrors stand alone,
each was motivated by particular preju
dices, perpetrated by different groups
against different victims and character
ized by its own peculiar savagery and
quantifiable success. We should never
equate these tragedies to one another,
nor can we assign one greater worth
than the other, save, of course, for eth
nic identification or personal prefer
ence. Importantly, none of these national
crimes resembled, predicted or pre-
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vented those that followed it; history
simply recorded their outcome differ
ently and uniquely. The Jewish Holo
caust is unique because it was system
atically, and quite successfully, com
mitted by a society with a well-developed
civil, cultural and intellectual tra
dition for no reason other than the cre
ation of an impossibly "pure" race. The
brutal enslavement of Africans and the
destruction of their communities is
uniquely horrifying because it was ini
tially motivated not by hate or preju
dice, but by economic greed.
Following months of fighting in the
former Yugoslavia, the United Nations
(after intolerable bureaucratic hesita
tion) revealed to the world that Serbians
and Croatians were operating "concen
tration camps" inside Bosnia; their vic
tims were not Jews, but Muslims. Sud
denly, the world's attention was fo
cused on Bosnia. There was much noise
made by the media as television crews
proved to the world that starving Mus
lims look just as emaciated as did starv
ing Jews in World War II. Eventually it
turned out that the camps were hardly
Dachau or Buchenwald, and attention
again faded.
We must take off the blinders im
posed on us by historical inertia. When
we realize that today's genocides are
markedly different than those which
preceded them, perhaps we will react
with greater vigor an4 resolve. Never
again must not mean waiting around for
the Fourth Reich.
We cannot wait for today ' s tragedies
to trigger in us memories of Nazis, or
plantation owners, or of Saddam
Hussein before we will act morally . Nor
should a contemporary calamity have
to qualify on the impossible scale of
previous crimes in order to warrant our
attention.
We're waiting vainly for a repeat
performance of Kristallnacht or Khmer
Rouge massacres while Bosnians and
Somalis are slaughtered en masse. Now
is the time to act. Now is the time for
"never again" to simply, absolutely
mean "never."
Eric Wagner is a senior biology and
political science major from Jerusalem.
Consider real life when
opposing abortion
Editor 's note: The author is co-chairwoman
of the Women 's Forum Com
mittee. To the editor:
In response to the letter by Matt
Young on Nov. 4, titled "Abortion: a
sacrifice of children for comfort," the
assumption that women are sacrificing
"thousands of children" everyday for
"their comfort" is DEAD WRONG!
We are not killing thousands of our
children every day through abortions,
as alluded to by Mr. Young. On the
contrary, if abortion is made illegal, the
nation will be causing the death of thou
sands of women who would resort to
having back-alley abortions because
they were victims of rape,or incest or
were trying to prevent the birth of a
baby born with addiction to crack or
alcohol. Babies born with addiction to
drugs or suffering from a debilitating
disease are forced to live a cruel life
because their survival depends upon
artificial life support. Furthermore, con
trary to Mr. Young's belief that life is
created from the moment of concep
tion, experts agree that a human fetus is
not created until about the eighth week
after conception.
If Mr. Young is really concerned
with saving our children and providing
them with a future, he should apply his
energies to the true causes of infant and
child mortality such as drug and alcohol
abuse, handguns and child abuse.
I do not support the use of abortion as
a form of contraception; however, I do
support the legalization of abortion so
that women can have the option in case
of rape, incest, etc. For Mr. Young and
all those who believe that abortion
should be outlawed, I would like you to
consider the worst case scenario. Would
you feel the same way if your girlfriend,
sister or mother was raped by a stranger
in a back alley or by a relative or ac
quaintance in their own home? How
would you explain to your loved one
that she could not have an abortion
because you believed it was wrong?
How could you convince her to love the
baby that was forced upon her by an act
of aggression? How will you teach her
to care for something that constantly
reminds her of the person that violated
her and scarred her for life? Perhaps Mr.
Young needs to "think clearly through
the issue," because confrontation with a
real situation will be the true determi
nant of your opinion.
POONAM SADHWANI
Junior
Health policy and administration
UNC libraries don't need
'thought police'
To the editor:
To Terry Gamble and others like you
who insist on attempting to monitor
what I read by forcing your own moral
ity on others take heed of the cliched
but insightful phrase, "live, and let live."
Don't read Madonna's book Sex if
you don't want to. That is your right. It
is not your right to keep the rest of UNC
from checking it out of the library if
they so please. A university library must
cater to a broad scope of people, choos
ing material that is academically, his
torically, socially and artistically rel
evant not just what one individual
deems "respectable."
It is a privilege for all of us to have the
network of UNC libraries as a source
for our education. It is not your privi
lege to become the thought police for a
university as diverse as UNC.
JACOB COOLEY
Second year
Masters of Fine Arts
Lack of resources makes
Point-To-Point a joke
To the editor:
Looking at the security inset in the
University Gazette this morning, I'm
wondering whether it is some kind of
ugly joke. Last night my wife needed to
get across campus after dark.
She followed the procedures out
lined in the insert. She tried for 20
minutes to reach the Point-To-Point
shuttle, but the phones were busy the
whole time. She tried to reach SAFE
Escort even though she is not a student
but a professor. Their phones were also
continuously busy. Needing to get home,
she finally called University Police as
instructed in the security flier. She was
told she would just have to keep trying
P2P, that the police would not help her.
After again trying P2P for some time,
she ended up walking across campus by
herself.
I've seen announcements about in
creased staffing and equipment for P2P,
but last night's experience confirms our
impression of a token gesture by the
University so that it can say it is making
some efforts concerning campus secu
rity. I'm sure the P2P people do the best
they can with what they are given, but to
be effective in its mission, the P2P would
need a large infusion of resources. Ap
parently the University Police also are
inadequately staffed to deal with the
security problem.
Despite the obvious need, the Uni
versity appears to be unwilling to make
the necessary commitment to providing
security on campus.
With respect to P2P itself, the service
has become a joke among the people I
know who used it when it first started
up. To paraphrase Yogi Berra, "It's so
busy nobody ever uses it anymore." As
contradictory as that sounds, phones
forever busy and waits as long as an
hour ensure that people I know don't
even try anymore.
Every Tuesday afternoon, my wife
walks to her car and drives up to the Art
Lab for her student appointments there
and then drives back. As time consum
ing and wasteful as this is, it is much
better than dealing with P2P.
Perhaps they need to find a way to
discourage use by people who do not
really need the service. (An hour's wait
is not an appropriate means of discour
agement.) If P2P is not given the resources it
needs, they will need to mount another
publicity campaign to inform people
that it is worth trying them again.
JAMES R. SYMON
Radiation Oncology Department