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2/The Blue Bpinner/Thursday, Oct. 17,1985 [KBOlTBaaiM Cheers and jeers Cheezs: To the Black Student Association and College Denocrats for sponsoring the Anti-Apartheid Protest last Friday. We salute every member of the crowd that gathered on the quad to mourn the deaths of over 700 victims of protests in South Africa. Jeen: To administration for allowing the standards of our campus police to slide. According to a report by a state assistant attorney general, security has operated with equipment short-comings, lack of a specific budget and substandard salaries. Neglect in this manner is not only dangerous, but demeaning. When standards go down, morale, and inevitably performance, suffers. Cheers: To the state council and the UNC Board of Governors for approving the purchase of 62 additional acres for expansion of the UNCA campus. As the smallest campus in the UNC 16-school system, UNCA's latest acquisition will allow it the chance to spread its limiting boundaries. Jeers: To Phillips Administration for obtaining a new $21,000 phone system \diile continuing to *nickel and dime* students to death with pay phones. In Dr. Dorr’s words if UNCA installed local phones, "the expense would fall on those living in the dorms." Come on — surely $1,050 in room and board entitles students to a few basic necessities. Cheers: To housing for keeping dormitories open over fall break. After many years of evacuating students from their "iKxnes away from home", housing has realized the inconvenience for many students of moving out for a two-day holiday. Jeers: To administration for holding night classes over fall break. Night classes may only tneet on a weekly basis, but the students still deserve a mid-term break. We don*t know of any upper-classmen who have not had to take at least one night class to complete requirements and it is unfair to penalize them because of that need. Jeers: To the MUD 500 Initiation. Last weekend MUD members required their pledges to run fran Denny’s Restaurant on Patton Avenue back to campus in their underwear. As the guys made their way toward UNCA, a group of men chased down the students. Fraternity members may feel obligated to uphold a wild and crazy image, but i^en hi jinks threaten safety — that is going way too far. By Penny Kramp ^Editor,.,... Penny Kramp i News .s - David Proffitt ■Sports Editor r JoanSterk features Edkor Anne May Entertainment Editor....! Anna Wilson Photography Editor. jonna McGrath Circulation Manager,..., Michele Samuel Advertising Manager ; Karen Noffslnger Business Manager lolene Moody i Advisor CregUsby)^ STAFF PatCafae Don Hardin Scott Luckadoo t)ebbje8ucte^ , Celeste Cox Jennifer Heglar Mike Morris Tiffany Thum Melanie Floyd . julieTilka THE BLUE BANNER »th« University North CcrolifW ot AjiwwKe shKfefit ftewspapw. W« fwbltsh «od» T}»ur&doy ex^t dwing summer sessiws, Jinoit week, and holitfoy breoks. Office.- Cormichael Hyoianities Bvikting, 208-A* Phone* (704) 258-6586or 2S8-6591, NoAing in the editorid or opinion section* necessority represents the positiwi of the entire BANNER 4toff, stcrff adfhoft or UNCA's Student Gov»««wnt Ajtockrtion, odmiftistralkm or faculty. Ed«fori«ils represent the opinion of o majority of the editorial board. Letters, cc^vmns, cartoon$ ond rsyiew represent only th* views of ^ir outWs. The editorial bocsxl meikes the finaJ decision obotrf whot 1^ BANN ER print*. This newspaper r^esents a public fon»m for d^te ot UNCA. The Banner "w^comes 5ett«rs to the editor ond arfide$^ ond considers thm for publicotion on the bows of interest, j^ce, tastefulness ond timeliness. Letters and articles ^wfd be typed double*$|Meed, or printed ieglWy. They i^iould be signed with the writer's ncmie, followed by year in sdwc^, mojor, or other rekitit^hp to UHCA. Pldose include «trfephone ftomber to aid in veriffcation. submitted articles ore ttibject to editing, THe BANNER regreH it cannot guarontee the return of any ortide submitted. Deodlinefor sfjbmlsskms is Friday noon. Let me make myself clear: This is not a pro-*pornography colunra, nor is it an anti-pornography column. This is a pro-freedom column. Two weeks ago North Carolina passed a tough new pornograpl^ law that makes it easier for police to make arrests for obscenity. Soon convenience stores were pulling Playboy off the shelves and video stores were banning skinflicks. At first Asheville's downtown porno palace, the Fine Arts Theatre, defiantly kept its doors opens. But last week, even the long-established Fine Arts, succumbed. So what does that mean? It means much more than not having leering posters of girls named ’’Candy" to snicker at when we drive down Biltmore Avenue. The deadly blow of censorship has fal len in this state. Deadly, in that it threatens the in alienable First Amendment rights pro mised to us in the constitution. That amendment preserves our right to free speech, a free press — the right to read and watch what we want to,'even smut. Now, I am not bouncing down to the Fine Arts to catch the next run of Hot flod Bothered TIeens. *niat*s iny preroga tive. But I am not passing judgement on those who do frequent the Fine Arts. That's their prerogative. After all who are they hurting? If you believe watching porno movies will some' how warp your mind, then no one is forc ing you to watch. This new law, however, does not eveo allow the public a choice of whether ot not to watch. Worse than that, it is making a judgement. I don*t know about you, but I don't want a policemen deciding what is and what is not obscenity for me. After all idiat is one man's art could be another man's smut. If we allow this law to continue what is stopping the state from yanking all books off library shelves that they consider sexually of' fensive. Then the govement might decide to ban records with explicit lyrics or shut tJP the ’’liberal" press that is always gi'^" ing them such a hard time. So I call for the Fine Arts to once again turn on its projector in protest of this unconstitutional law that threatens to strip the American publl^^ of its constitutional rights. Dueling terminals; Should the Fine Arts Theatre close? Editor's note: Dneliog Temloals is an attempt to present opposlqg sides of an issue* Soaetiaes, the colmiist may ar gue a particular viewpoint with which he/she may not necessarily agree. Pro By David Proffitt A local theatre known for its XXXrated movies recently closed its doors volun tarily as a result of a new N.C. statute that might not even apply to it. The owners of the Fine Arts theatre on Biltmore Avenue evidently decided they would rather turn off the projectors temporarily than risk the hassle of in vestigations and court orders. Area ministers, churches, and other people concerned about the morality of Asheville applauded the new statute and the removal of "obscene" publications from store shelves. In their eyes, such events indicate a cleansing, of the streets, a purging of materials that have no place in society. The morality of the general public out weighs the possible infringement of in dividual rights. These people feel obscene and porno graphic materials are useless to socie ty. Magazines like Playboy, Penthouse and Oul, to name only a few of the more conservative ones, not only exploit wo men (and men) but also debase physical relationships by cheapening them into nothing more than the fulfillment of animal lusts.- "What is the purpose of such trash?" they ask. It does not .teach, , it does-not ^enlighten ? the* human » experience here on earth, and its tertalnment value is questionable. Every society must draw a line scsne" where when confronted by issues such the one in question here. For yearSt ^ Asheville citizens could purchase rlsq^ j magazines kept in plain view in conveni*^ | ence stores and publications that emph^ I size more vivid examples of deviant havlor were available at the nearest ^ dult bookstore. Such establishments nasty blots upon the city map, places t^ i be tolerated, but never openly tronlzed by upstanding citizens. Now a new breeze is sweeping acrps^ the state and the nation. The Moral Ha*" jority and other such groups are ralsl^^ their voices in protest against people and practices that do not fit within boundaries of their morality. To then»> it is a moral imperative, conmanded God and granted by the Constitution. is time to clean up the city, and though the right to free expression ideas may get a little roughed up, will survive. The Pilgrims did not brave the col^ Atlantic waters to set up a nation th^*' would provide a marketplace for the pt^ ducts of Satan. A society that allo'^ businessmen to turn potentially beauti^ ful experiences into degrading pictor^*^ als of raw sexuality merely to make ^ dollar may be on the downhill side ' existencei tl * i rrr f f -r -ft t'T't /r > t f ^ jf'►' * r J5 .*• 2» Jr . ,
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