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Friday, Januaiy 14,1994
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Remembering a Tragedy
An early morning jog is as American as apple
pie.
But it cost Kristin Lodge-Miller her life when
a man attacked her in broad daylight on Estes
Drive and then shot her several times.
Lodge-Miller later died of the gunshot
wounds.
Touched by Lodge-Miller’s death and horri
fied by the decrease in personal safety, some
members of the Chapel Hill community want to
set up a permanent memorial in her memory.
Since the death, people have made a makeshift
memorial, by placing wreaths and flowers near
the spot where she was shot.
The Orange County Women’s Center and
the Rape Crisis Center have met to discuss
proposals for the memorial. Funds for the me
morial would be raised through private funds
and donations.
The idea for a permanent memorial is a good
one. It would serve as a constant reminder of the
Tar Heel Quotables
“One of the reasons I find this difficult the
idea of a resignation in 1995 is the fact that, in
my mind and in a lot of people’s minds, this is
not an issue of individual forgiveness but a
question of public trust.”
MARY BUSHNELL
CbapeHiill Carrboro Board of Education member
On her decision not to accept board member LaVonda
Burnette's offer to resign effective July 1,1995
“Questions have been raised as to whether or
not I can be an effective member of this board
lean.”
IAVONDA BURNETTE
Chapel HilkCarrboro Board of Education member
On her decision not to resign immediately
“To me, it just doesn’t seem like home. We
played our last few games here, and we’re just
getting adjusted, but there’s no place like
Carmichael.”
SYLVIA CRAWLEY, IIRC women's basketball player
On playing in the Smith Center following
Thursday’s 77-75 loss to Virginia
“(She’s) having a few media problems.”
A representative of Bill Graham Presoots, the promoters
for the Hatioosßank U.S. Olympic Festival on Ice
On why skater Tonya Harding withdrew from the
event. Harding's husband and bodyguard are under
investigation in connection with an attack on
Harding rival Nancy Kerrigan
“What’s the use of pretending we’re like a
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summer tragedy to the Chapel Hill community
and keep us from forgetting that anyone could be
a victim of violent crime.
It also is refreshing that town residents have
not become numb to crime and violence and still
emphasize the value of life.
Many residents of big cities such as New
York, Washington and Los Angeles have be
come desensitized to murder and other violent
crimes.
It is important in a relatively small commu
nity such as ours not to forget the victims of
violent crimes and to remind ourselves con
stantly of the need to fight crime.
In addition to the permanent memorial, resi
dents also should consider setting up an assis
tance fund in Kristin Lodge-Miller’s name for
victims of sexual assaults.
The two memorials —a physical one and a
monetary fund would be a fitting reminder to
help keep the memory of Lodge-Miller alive.
national body that needs checks and balances
when we’re just a student body distributing
funds. (Student Congress is) not a real govern
ment in any sense of the word.”
Former Student Congress Rep. DAVID BARNES
On his reasons for leaving Student Congress
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to be one of the coolest.”
PETER KLAMKA, college cologne entrepreneur
On UNCs refusal to grant him permission
to market Tar Heel Fragrance"
“I think he wants to figure out what percent
age of people are for or against a BCC, and
what the effects of it would be.”
Student Congress Rep. PHILIP CHARLES-PIERRE, Dist. 19
On Dist. 11 Rep. Joey Stansbury's bill to survey
UNC students' on their feelings about the BCC
“I’m quite used to it, but this time it was
especially disappointing. This time I feel like I
have a legitimate beef.”
CHRIS NICHOLS, UNC senior
On having his registration canceled
“I was just bored one night and decided to
check it out. It’s not a bunch of naked women
running around in negligees. I don’t know
what I was expecting. It was OK.”
Chapel Hill resident MIKE HARRISON
On the addition of the Playboy Channel
to Cablevision of Chapel Hill's lineup
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EDITORIAL
‘Groin Candy’ Always a Lovely Rural Delicacy
As I sat draped across the 1966 pea-green
plasticboothofthecombinationHardee’s/
inbreeding research center of Newport,
Tenn., something very off-kilter happened. Just
as I was about to sink my teeth into a succulent
Frisco burger, a polite grandmotherly figure,
whom we’d seen scrubbing the soiled men’s
room floor just seconds before, strode up to me.
As if on cue from David Lynch, she lifted her
bleach-soaked rubber gloves above her head,
thrust her hips toward my face and drawled out,
“If you can reach in my pocket, honey, you can
have you a peppermint.”
Trying not to choke on my food, I shyly
muttered a “No, thank you” to her offering of
groin candy. Not wanting to anger any of her
kinfolk, I focused my earnest attention across
the street on the hock shop’s “Gun and Ammo
Blow-Out Sale” so that I wouldn’t laugh at this
well-intentioned woman who obviously owned
a “World’s Best Gramma” sweatshirt and could
probably bake up a pretty mean peanut brittle.
Now, I don’t mean to single out the fine
community of Newport, whose citizens quite
obviously keep several manufacturers of hair
spray in business as well as provide intricate
puzzles for future generations of geneticists.
Seems like just about any time you pull off our
nation’s highways, you run into one of these
Norman Rockwell paintings of the Twilight
Zone.
Your typical Manson Family Mayberry nor
mally has at least one combination gas station
and “Kountry Kitchen” lying within spitting
distance of the interstate. Buried behind a row of
baseball hats with fake bird droppings and just
next to the magazine rack stocked full of the
latest copies of “Juggs,” there lies the rickety
entrances to the “restrooms,” places that are so
stank that no one in their right mind would ever
want to rest there. Maybe bury a mafia hit there,
but definitely not rest there.
The restroom experience at gas stations is
University Should Mark
Presidents Day and MLK Day
TO THE EDITOR:
Once again the spring semester comes upon
us in all its Carolina beauty, only to be marred by
an administrative oversight. Jan. 17 marks the
day of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth, an occa
sion celebrated and observed by a national and
University holiday.
Feb. 21 is Presidents Day, a national holiday
in which the nation observes the birth of George
Washington and Abraham Lincoln. For some
unknown reason, the University fails to recog
nize this occasion as one of importance—there
fore, no holiday. Are we celebrating the fact that
Martin Luther King Jr. was a great leader, or are
we celebrating the fact that he did great things
for the advancement of the black race, or are we
celebrating the fact that he was black? There is
no doubt in any literate mind that King was an
incredible leader in the fight for civil rights and
the advancement of the black race in American
society. His prophecy of peaceful demonstra
tion and resulting support of the masses led to an
end of segregation and a beginning of integra
tion. King dramatically changed the course of
the country, providing the pathway for a brighter
future for all Americans, especially blacks.
But are we to conclude that Washington and
Lincoln were not great leaders, effectively justi
fying the celebration ofMartin Luther King Jr.’s
holiday and not Presidents Day? George Wash
ington, a general in the Revolutionary War and
first president of the United States, led his coun
try to its freedom from England and held it
together in its first years as a nation. His leader
ship influenced the course of this nation in its
metamorphosis from a colony to a country.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United
States, reestablished the union and signed the
Emancipation Proclamation, illegalizing slavery
and freeing blacks from the bondage of servi
tude. His leadership paved the way for future
race equality and held an unstable country to
gether. None can deny that these two men were
great leaders for this nation, and are duly recog
nized with a national holiday that UNC contin
ues to ignore.
So, with the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday,
are we celebrating great leadership, or are we
celebrating the fact that the leader did great
things for the black race, or are we celebrating
the fact that he was black? It seems as though the
administration, through its method of appease
ment, has chosen the last alternative as its basis
for celebration; otherwise, both holidays would
be recognized by the University. It is time for the
University administration, faculty and student
body to place merit upon actions and achieve
ments, which come from the inner self. All of
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vending machine, as if the overpowering stench
of urine would somehow arouse the friskier side
of men. I guess nothing screams “erotic satisfac
tion” like the sight ofhalf-corroded, disinfecting
urinal cakes.
But these little side trips are the fun part of the
road-trip experience. Sure, Amtrak guarantees
at least one surprise derailment every trip out,
but they only jackknife their trains into some
backwater “Deliverance" creek. Only in the gas
guzzling, ozone-eating comfort of your own
automobile can you transform a cross-country
excursion into a “Choose Your Own Adven
ture” trek. Who’s to stop you if you want to see
North America's second-biggest Styrofoam to
tem pole, or visit the site where Elvis Presley ate
12 entire barbecued chickens in 1974? That’s
your essential God-given right. Stepping off the
beaten path is as American as Cheez Whiz and
the Clapper.
And, let’s face it, these pit stops into the
stagnating gene pools of rustic Americana are a
lot more exciting than the actual act of driving.
I only found one real thrill on my last jaunt
through the mountains on my way into our very
own “Old North State” (soon to be the “1-85
North State” to reflect the loads of cash North
Carolina bloats into its highways). This trip’s
readilPorum
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these men deserve recognition for their actions
and achievements, but as with so many other
issues, the administration has only tackled the
issue half-assed.
Shaun Donegan
SENIOR
CHEMISTRY/PSYCHOLOGY
Positive Greek Activities
Often Go Unnoticed at UNC
TO THE EDITOR:
I am writing because I believe that an impor
tant accomplishment in our community is going
by unnoticed, and it is one that definitely de
serves merit. A unique partnership exists be
tween a fraternity, a sorority and a church here
at Chapel Hill. Sigma Nu, Chi Omega and the
Chapel of the Cross form the only relationship of
this kind in the nation. Together, we have raised
over s6o,ooowith which we are building a house
for Habitat for Humanity. We have worked very
hard, and it is discouraging that so often accom
plishments ofgroups within the Greek system go
by unnoticed, and I feel that this is an opportu
nity for the community and student body to see
what beneficial things groups within the Greek
system do accomplish. We have chosen a site for
the house and a family to live in it. The
groundbreaking ceremonies were held on Sun
day, November 21, and building has officially
begun.
Ours is not the only positive service work of
the Greeks by a long shot. To name a few, Delta
Delta Delta sorority has two annual charity
bashes that benefit North Carolina cancer pa
tients. Sigma Chi Derby Days is an annual event
that involves Sigma Chi fraternity and all of the
sororities. It is a week of activities to raise money
for children in hospitals within 200 miles of
Chapel Hill. Each fraternity and sorority has a
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little morsel of excitement was a game I like to
play called “18-Wheel Hit and Run.”
Apparently, truck drivers have been given
amnesty for all speeding violations in the month
of January. These bubbas were screeching down
the asphalt in “Road Warrior” packs, throwing
caution and a good deal of brake fluid to the
wind. When I’m going 80 and I get passed on a
mountainous curve by a 16-ton oil tanker truck
plastered with “Highly Flammable” stickers, I
tend to cringe just a tad. Call it the survivor
instinct, or maybe just a desire not to perish in a
fiery comet from hell.
We all have this cute image of the clean
living, God-fearing trucker, as implanted on our
medullas from watching one too many reruns of
“B.J. and the Bear.” I’ve never seen any of these
upstanding young crusaders. The trucks that
blow by me on the highway are adorned with
mudflaps with sterling silver silhouettes of preen
ing bikini-clad bimbos and driven by men named
Waylon, who like to wear “No Fat Chicks”
baseball caps and 5-inch belt buckles with the
Confederate flag on ‘em.
Sure, the company makes him post that
“How’s My Driving?” sticker on his bumper, but
the way he’s executing those “Smokey and the
Bandit” car-crushing turns, you’re too busy fry
ing to maintain bladder control to scribble down
his truck number. Hell, ifl were to do any writing
just then, it would be to jot down a quick last will
and maybe some perfunctory burial instructions.
This is assuming that, after his semi plowed over
my Japanese piece of tin, there actually would be
enough left of me to bury. If he even noticed my
demolition, he’d probably just wheel off the
interstate into a Stuckey’s to pry my mangled
form out of the cab’s grill before he strolled in and
got himself a pecan roll.
Or, if he was lucky, maybe a peppermint.
Kevin Kruse is a senior history major from Nashville,
Tenn.
major function each year to raise money for a
good cause.
It’s not possible for the press to always see the
whole picture, and I wanted to shed light on a
very positive and worthy side of Greek life.
Shannon Bishop
FRESHMAN
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Not All Who Once Supported
Burnette Want Her to Stay
TO THE EDITOR:
Several articles have been written this week
about the LaVonda Burnette issue. In many,
supporters of Ms. Burnette mistakenly assume
that everyone who voted for her in November
continues to support her. I specifically refer to
comments by A1 McSurely (“Burnette Plans to
Stay on Board,” Jan. 10) that “She was elected
by 4,100 voters, and she made a contract with
those voters.” At the school board meeting
Monday, which I attended, Ms. Burnette’s sup
porters asked the board not to ignore the 4,811
people who voted for her (“Board to Pursue
Recall Measure for Burnette,” Jan. 11).
I voted for LaVonda Burnette in November,
but I no longer support her. The issue is integrity,
and Ms. Burnette has displayed a lack of it, and
in the process, has broken her contract with me.
So do not assume that the 4,811 voters who voted
for Ms. Burnette in November continue to sup
port her. The number is at most 4,811 minus one.
Michelle Wilson Poupart
GRADUATE STUDENT
CHEMISTRY
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