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Jennifer Talhelm associate EDITOR
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Home Sweet Home
■ The BCC finally is where it belongs: in the
Division of Academic Affairs.
f Earlier this month, Chancellor Paul Hardin
announced that the Sonja H. Stone Black Cul
tural Center would be classified under the aca
demic affairs division rather than the student
affairs division. So the BCC director will answer
to the provost rather than to the vice chancellor
of student affairs.
The change is significant because it finally
designates the BCC as an academic center, as it
was designed to be and as it should be. As BCC
Advisory Board Chairman Harry Amana said,
the vision of a free-standing BCC involves more
than just student activities.
The student affairs designation was inappro
priate because the BCC is not just a student
center. It’s a black cultural center for the entire
University community, including students, fac
ulty, staff and town residents.
- The new classification emphasizes the most
important part of the center: its educational
mission in all its programs.
In fact, the next step the chancellor should
take is to schedule the African and Afro-Ameri
can Studies Curriculum to move from Alumni
Hall to the free-standing BCC after it is built.
• Government has a tendency to find a solution
to a problem, only to employ that solution half
heartedly and leave the problem unsolved.
3 That’s the case in a report by the N.C. Envi
ronmental Management Commission this month
that gave strong evidence of the effectiveness of
oxygenated fuel in reducing the air pollution
caused by cars and trucks.
1 Air-quality planners recommended that state
metropolitan areas continue the 1992 require
ment of oxygenated fuel use from November to
January until 2006 to meet federal air pollution
standards. There are few good reasons why
North Carolina cannot take a bolder step to
protect the environment by requiring oxygen
ated fuel use year-round.
Before the distribution of oxygenated gas two
years ago, cities such as Raleigh and Durham
measured carbon monoxide levels only a few
parts per million under the Environmental Pro
tection Agency’s air-quality standard.
In other words, North Carolina’s urban areas
had some of the nation’s worst air pollution.
Yet the report stated that after the implemen
tation of thefiiel requirement, carbon monoxide
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Because the BCC will house its own library
and classrooms, it only makes sense that the
African and Afro-American Studies Curriculum
make its home in the University’s center for the
study and research of black history and culture.
Such a move would benefit the BCC and the
African and Afro-American Studies Curriculum
each only would make the other stronger by
sharing resources and co-sponsoring programs
and lectures.
The academic affairs division is the best place
for the BCC. It should not fall under student
affairs because it is not just for students.
Some have suggested that the BCC should be
classified under the Division of University Af
fairs because the division headed by Vice Chan
cellor Harold Wallace, acting BCC director, is in
charge of minority recruitment and other minor
ity programs. But that’s the very reason why the
BCC should not fall under University affairs
because the BCC is for all members of the UNC
community, not just for minorities or blacks.
Hardin made the right call in reclassifying the
BCC. It is an academic center first and foremost,
and it belongs to all members of the University
community.
Finally, the BCC has found its home.
Gas Solutions
levels in the Triangle were cut almost in half.
Residents, of course, had to pay for this solu
tion. But the cost of this cleanup averaged only
about four cents a gallon for motorists.
With such a small cost, the state shouldn’t set
such a modest goal. The EPA standards, while a
good goal, are simply not high enough for North
Carolina. In the next century, the state’s popula
tion will explode. The rise of industry and tour
ism has attracted people from around the world.
With the influx of people comes more ve
hicles and thus more pollution. In a state that
relishes its natural beauty and reliance on agri
culture, environmental damage would only have
a detrimental effect onNorth Carolina’s growth.
The winter use of oxygenated fuels will help
offset this pollution. But it will not evaporate it.
Although carbon monoxide levels were cut in
North Carolina’s cities in 1992 and 1993, they
were not completely dissipated.
For the sake of the environment, North Caro
lina should go beyond a timid step and mandate
using oxygenated fuel year-round and maybe
even statewide. After all, problems remain if you
only solve part of them.
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UIMCLEAR PHYSICS
Hot Chapel Hill Spots to See the Arrival of Spring
Finally, with less than a week until the official
start of spring, Chapel Hill seems ready to
end her perennial flirtation and succumb
completely to this most seductive season. Win
ter caused considerably more discontent than
usual this year, but my anticipation of clear blue
skies and 70-degree temperatures increased pro
portionally.
Standing at the bus stop back in January, I
distracted myself from my freezing toes and
chapping lips by dreaming ofhow I would spend
my days once Nature’s fury had subsided. It was
then that I vowed that during this, my fifth
spring in Chapel Hill, I would take the time to
frilly appreciate this village’s virtues.
You see, winter has got its syndrome
Seasonal Affective Disorder, brought on by day
light deprivation—but spring has a much more
pleasant and equally well-documented disease.
The Random House dictionary defines it as a
“listless, lazy or restless feeling.”
Researchers in one 1989 study found that
those afflicted feel “a decreased need for sleep,
impulsive behavior, delusions of grandeur” and
an increased “propensity to strike up conversa
tions with strangers.” They explained the myste
rious malady as “something primal” —a prod
uct of ancestral memories of emerging from our
caves and wandering about hunting for berries.
Researchers have as yet found no cure for this
affliction, which seems to be especially preva
lent in Chapel Hill.
Through my own unscientific observations,
I’ve developed yet another seasonal theory. There
has got to be a reason why winter was scheduled
right before spring, and I believe it’s to make
Guns to Blame for Myriad of Society’s Problems
Along, long time ago, an explorer known as
Marco Polo made a courageous journey to
the Orient. One can only suppose that the
purpose of the long and arduous trip was to have
some sort of cultural exchange take place, one in
which ideas and customs were shared, in which
two entirely different groups of people could
celebrate the gift of life.
One such celebration took place in China.
While the particular circumstances elude me, I
do know that Polo and his comrades were in awe
of the pyrotechnic display that filled the evening
sky with such wonderful colors and sounds.
I believe fireworks is the term most of us are
familiar with. So impressed was Polo that he
brought some fireworks back with him to Eu
rope . It was here that an idea was developed that
would give men and women an additional op
tion to use when confronted with conflict. A
most violent and deadly option. An option that
forever would change how countries, provinces,
states and people dealt with each other.
The idea was this: What would happen if we
take these fireworks and the strange black pow
der which propels them at such great speed, and
put the two in a hand-held barrel that could be
used as a weapon of war?
The world would not have to wait long for the
answer. The proliferation of this new technol
ogy happened so fast I believe that even the most
scholarly did not have time to assess the conse
quences of such a deadly weapon. A firecracker
in the hands of a child can be a deadly thing.
Guns, as they affectionately became known,
became the ultimate negotiating toql. Give me
what I want or die. Reasoning and higher level
brain functioning were replaced by primal rages
and fits of anger, augmented with the ability to
blow someone’s head off. Heaven help us. Let us
briefly examine the effectiveness of the gun’s
early negotiation history.
In England, guns were used to expatriate
people and put them on boats to colonize the
“New World.” These colonists then used guns
to liberate themselves from England. Mean-
History Refutes Colimuiist’s Views on U.S. Actions
Surprisingly, Joel Tolliver’s Feb. 28 column
(“U.S. Diplomacy Veers Away From the
Color Line”) made its way into The Daily
Tar Heel despite an obvious contradiction and a
selective inteipretation of history.
Mr. Tolliver declares “all of this country’s
foreign relations have selfish economic motives
behind them" and then proceeds in the very next
sentence and throughout the rest of the column
to assert that racism dictates the U.S.’s foreign
policy.
If Mr. Tolliver would reread his history he
will find that it was the Arabs who chose to
assault thelsraelisinl94Bratherthanacceptthe
U.N. partition of the land between the two
groups.
Apparently, the 1950 Jordanian annexation
of the remainder of Palestine (Surprise! They’re
the same color.) wasn’t phrased in appropriately
racist terms, thus Mr. Tolliver’s selective memory
chose to miss that as well.
Another thing he missed was that U.S. pres-
thankless human be
ings a little more ap
preciative of their
surroundings, even
for just a few weeks.
I’m convinced
that the only possible
explanation for win
ters such as the one
we just endured is
that we have been
especially thankless
during the past year, and that somebody has
decided to use ice and wind to remind us of how
lucky we are to live in a place like Chapel Hill.
So, instead of embarking on a fruitless search
for berries to pick, why not do your part and
funnel some of that extra springtime energy into
appreciating some of these great springtime spots:
Study Lounge No. 2, sixth floor, Davis
Library Don’t count on getting any studying
done, because this is undoubtedly the best after
noon nap environment on campus. Fall asleep to
the muffled din of students swarming in the Pit
below or the lone, monotonous chant of a Pit
preacher. Watch the poor, busy souls rush from
class to class. Looking straight ahead out the
giant window, the dome of Wilson Library glis
tens in the spring sun, and the Bell Tower is there
on the left to remind you of how much quality
time you’ve spent.
Steps of Wilson Library Sit on the cool
stone steps and watch carefree undergrads play
Frisbee with their hyper dogs or listen to lectures
by merciful professors who have conceded to
their students’ pleas to hold class outside. South
while, these same
colonists used guns
to liberate countless
Native Americans
from their lives.
These same guns
kept the African sub
servient in the New
World and back in
Africa.
A delicate balance
existed in the world
before the advent of
the gun. Violence
existed, to be sure, as
A MOVEMENT
did conquest and pillaging. But the gun geo
metrically increased the wholesale breakdown
of respect for the gift of life.
Groups that did not have guns did not have a
say. Moral considerations went down the tube
when absolute power over another’s life existed
in one’s hand.
I submit that the invention of the gun changed
forever the world that could have been into the
world of today. Any invention that enables the
few to control the many is a destiny-altering
device.
On a large scale, we see this played out in
virtually every country on earth. Those who
have the most firepowerrun the show. And these
groups will do whatever they can to prevent
other groups from achieving similar status.
The problem here is that the people with the
big guns have demonstrated an inability to share
the wealth. A few privileged ones live like kings
while many starve on emotional, physical and
cultural fronts.
Asking, where is that beautiful house, won
dering how they can put a man on the moon and
not some soup on a hungry child’s spoon. Guns
play a big part in diplomatic policy. Factor in
racism and greed and you have a very potent
poison.
And what of the little people? An ever-in
creasing number of us have decided to use a gun
sure forced Israel into
the Middle East
Peace Talks.
| STEVEN BOUSSIOS |
GUEST COLUMNIST
Mr. Tolliver’s memory by no means improves
as he moves to other topics.
He easily remembers the current “trade wars”
with Japan but quickly forgets the same xeno
phobic rhetoric directed at France throughout
the latter half of 1993.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are fresh on his
mind but Dresden and Berlin seem to be forgot
ten.
Could America possibly have bombed Ary
ans and caused the death of as many as a million
German POWs who were interned after the
war? Surely not. Someone must be confused.
We would never kill our fellow racists.
And who is at fault for these human rights
violations in Africa and China that Tolliver
mentions?
Exactly what reasoning brought the blame for
that as well to our doorstep?
fUljp Daily olarlpri
Building and an American flag flapping in the
breeze serve as a fitting backdrop.
Any bench in the Arboretum lf you’re
lucky, you’ll find a vacant one that’s in the shade.
Bring a good book—preferably Southern fiction
—and a friend.
The 800 through the 400 block of East
Franklin Street Rushing around town run
ning errands and cursing the traffic, you’re liable
to miss it, but as you drive round the comer and
up the hill, you can witness the most beautiful
display of oak trees, dogwoods and historic
houses. But be careful—cars in front of you have
a tendency to stop short just as you’re beginning
to enjoy the view.
The front porch of any house in the McCauley
Street historic district For those who suffer
from allergies, this area might seem more like the
seventh ring of Hell. Those who don’t but still
aren’t lucky enough to live there would be smart
to make friends with someone who does. Try to
make it somebody who’s got a porch swing or
rocking chair, because there’s really no better
way to spend an afternoon than drinking iced tea
and daydreaming in this dogwood-infested neigh
borhood.
Those who think my enthusiasm for spring is
evidence that I’ve already fallen victim to that
vernal syndrome are probably right. But if my
theory is correct, everyone should start enjoying
spring now to ensure a mild summer. If it’s
wrong, you always can blame those frittered
hours on your pesky primal instincts.
Jen Pilla is a first-year law student from Winston-
Salem.
to keep the peace. Like the man said though, “I
never known no gun to make any peace.”
Guns have become a very viable option to
some to assist in conflict resolution. Guns can
strike from a distance, permitting one to choose
to avoid the screams and graphic moments that
accompany gunfire. Guns are supposed to assist
in law and order but always seem to be the main
component of chaos and confusion.
Whereas once crooks seemed to be the only
ones caught up in the nonsense, everyday stories
of “normal” citizens getting shot over a glass of
Kool-Aid now flood our consciousness.
I remember hearing about a 10-year-old who
had to face murder charges for shooting a 10-
month-old baby. As Marvin Gaye once asked,
“What’s going on?” Lives are being taken away
by people who have absolutely no idea of what
the gift of life is all about.
As with all problems of epidemic proportions,
society seems to have decided to address this
issue too late.
And with all problems, people choose to focus
on the symptoms as opposed to the underlying
causes of this wanton violence. This stuff has
been going on for years in the inner cities, people
dying every day over dumb you know what. It
wasn’t a problem until society at large was af
fected.
But, the time is past for finger pointing. What
we need now are solutions and implementa
tions, and quick. I propose that whatever we
come up with must address three basic thing*:
Three inalienable rights. Life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. Not for some people, not
for half of the people, but for all of the people.
This is where we have failed time and time
again: in providing a livable standard of living
and healthy environment for all of the citizens of
this proud land.
TTiis article is dedicated to those who died so
that I might have a chance.
Joel Tolliver is a second-year student in the masters
of business administration program.
Maybe in the twisted rhetoric of Tolliver’s
racism this seems correct. People of color could
not possibly be at fault for these atrocities. Some
how Uncle Sam, The Great Satan, must be
behind it all.
Just like he’s behind the brutal human sacri
fices of the Aztec Indians, Arab trade in African
slaves which goes on to this day (Not a few
people just got surprised) and Iraqi genocide of
the Kurdish people.
Wake up to reality, Mr. Tolliver. Our biggest
enemy for 40 years was white Russia, Noriega
dealt drugs directly to the United States, and Iraq
would have made prices on eveiy good sky
rocket. Notice a trend?
National interest determines our foreign
policy, not color.
Stop demonizing America, Mr. Tolliver, and
try to shed your prejudice the next time you look
at the world.
Steven Boussios is a freshman journalism major.