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10 Wednesday, September 7,1994 £1)? latly £ar Mwi My Ryan EDrroß |S), I Established 1893 101 Years of Editorial Freedom The new smoking ban in the bleachers of Kenan Stadium is a pointless and futile formal ity. The athletic department has made a debat able rule and then admitted it won’t really en force it. Until this year, smokers could partake of a cigarette in the bleachers of Kenan Stadium, in the concourse and in the concessions area. As of Saturday’s football game, however, smokers are now asked to light up only in the concessions area and concourse. Smoking is unhealthy. Secondhand smoke is unhealthy. No one has the right to impose their smoke on innocent bystanders. But there has to be a reasonable limit to where smoking can be banned and where it should be left alone. On a campus where every single building except for individual dorm rooms is smoke-free, fewer and fewer areas allow smok ers. Even aggressive nonsmokers should con cede that an outdoor space should easily contain smokers and nonsmokers without forcing the The National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People is again attacking the Confederate battle flag, demanding it be re moved from the South Carolina state Capitol. The NAACP should drop this struggle and de vote its limited resources to more serious prob lems. The NAACP is holding the threat of an eco nomic boycott over the state. They are waiting for the South Carolina state Supreme Court to rule on the issue. If the NAACP is not happy with the ruling, this boycottwill be implemented. These actions, while taken with good inten tions, are misguided. The Confederate battle flag itself has never discriminated against blacks or owned slaves. It is nothing but a symbol. This flag is often said to signify state support of slavery. This notion is preposterous. The original Star-Spangled Banner flew over a slave owning nation for 75 years, after all. The NAACP, following its own logic, should be threatening to boycott the entire nation. Those who maintain this feeling should ask one of the many Southerners who protest these Tifg OHM PIT fcy O-Tjfel Business and Advertising: Kevin Schwartz. dtrectof/general manager Chnssy Mennitt advertising director. Leslie Humphrey, classified ad manager Holly Aldridge, business manager Tiffany Krueger, advertising manager Business Stiff: Jenny Schwartz, assistant manager Assistant Editors: Alison Maxwell, arts/diversions; Michelle Lambeth, city: Emma Wiliams, features: David Alsord. photo: Adam Davis. Jacson Lowe and James Whitfield, sports: Chad Austin and Alison Lawrence, sportsaturday: Ryan Thornburg, state and national: Manssa Jones and Judy Royal. University. Arts/Divsrsions: Richard Alen. J Mitch Bennett Kaly Breen. Baker Burleson. Nathan Elis. Susannah Felts. Jason Frank. Todd Gilshnst Tom Holden. Aziz Juq. Todd Ito. Anthony King. Dan Kois, Ryan McKaig. Rachel Miller. John Neiman. 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The Daily Tar Heel is published by the DTH Publishing Corp., a nonprofit North Carolina corporation. Monday-Friday. according to the University calendar. Calers with quests about billing or display advertising should dial 962-1163 between 8:30 a m and 5 p.m Classified ads can be reached at 962-0252. Editorial questions should be greeted to 962-0245/0246. Office: Suite 104 Carolina Union ISSN #IO7O-9436 Canmue mai edfreei CM 5210 Box 49, Caroline Union U.S. Mail address: P.O Bo 3257, Chapel Hill. NC 275153257 Smoky Rule intermingling of lung contents. The Kenan smoking ban pushes the rights of smokers right down into oblivion. Token enforcement weakens the position of the ban’s supporters. If the athletic department truly wanted to stop secondhand smoke from even approaching nonsmokers, officials would make a blanket policy and then enforce it. And while no one is allowed to smoke in the open-air stands, people can smoke freely in the concessions area, where people are crammed together with less air circulation while eating food. Nonsmokers complain more frequently about smoke bothering them while they eat than while they sit in open air. As it is, since the rule went into effect this weekend, numerous football fans puffed away in the stands without a single comment from the security guards. The smoking ban should be stricken from the Kenan Stadium rulebook, and politeness should return as the ground rule for secondhand smoke issues in open spaces. It’s Just a Flag actions what the Confederate battle flag means to them. It respects Southern culture and history, and honors those who fell in battle to defend states’ rights. In all likelihood, these individuals are not longing to return to the days of slavery. Most of all, this fight will not change the opinions of one South Carolina resident. The NAACP should devote its limited re sources to education, fighting discriminatory policies and helping real victims of racism. The best way to attack those negative attributes the NAACP associates with the Confederate battle flag is to educate those who still maintain them. In South Carolina, the NAACP could start a campaign to get more blacks elected to the gen eral assembly, for example. Many open-minded Southerners feel the Con federate battle flag has earned a place in history and in Southern culture. They are not racist and bigoted, and the NAACP should not insinuate such by fighting a symbol. The NAACP should stop attacking the Con federate battle flag and everything positive it represents to many Southerners. THE DAILYTAR HEEL Business & Advertising Staff Classified/Customer Service: Melissa Allam. Gwen Blackburn. Dodie Brodsky. Michelle Byrd. Grace Consacro. Shannon Hrdlicka. Jacson Lowe. Leah Richards. Allison Saunders. Holly Stepp. Mary Tate and Justin Williams, representatives. Display Advertising: Kristen Boyd. Michelle Clifton. Amy Cojac, Tiffany Krueger. Gidget Lamb. Megan Editorial Staff Rednick. Brian Styers. Chrissy Sweeney and Heather Weide Design: Bjorn Book-Larsson. Jen Fleisher. Laura Kubovcik and Peter Roybal Editorial: Luke Baker. Michelle Chan. Gregory e Dreher. Michelle Hernandez. Edward Marshall and Meredith Nicholson Features: Chris Nichols, senior writer: Marshall Benbow. Lynn Curltck. Michelle Crampton. Todd Crawford. Jonnelle Davis. Ellen Flaspoehler. Jennifer Fuller. Shirley Fung. Kendra Gemma. Emily Gorman. Michele Huggins, Alllison Ince, Greg Kaliss. Jaime Kowey. Sallie Lacy. Eva Lindemann. Dana Meisner. Kevin Metz. Stacey Mewborn. Rachel Miller. Olivia Page. Jenny Singletary. Kurt Tondorf. Julie Twellman. Mary Cameron Van Graafeiland. Tia Webster and Aranda Wilson Graphics: Chris Anderson. Robert Anderson. Todd Barr. Corey Casper. John Gamer. Colleen Harreld. Andy Johns. Chris Kirkman. Matt Leclerq. Kristin Lee. Jacson Lowe. Mison Shepherd. Onur Tukel and Mark Worreß Layout JiN Duncan Photography: Teressa Cook. Sarah Dent Selena DeWitya. Chris Gaydosh. Claire Jarvis. Craig Jones. Elizabeth Mayback. Mellissa Milios. T.C. Morphis. Erin Marie Morris. Tracy Poe. Kristin Prelipp, Jonathan Radcliffe, Shelly Romero. Judy Siviglia, Hunagag Cimbink editorial page editor Am; Piniak university EDITOR Jamie Kritier city EDITOR Jenny Heinien STATE 5 national EDITOR Steve Robblee SPORTS EDITOR Jon Goldberg FEATURES editor Wendy Mitchell ARTS/DIVERSIONS EDITOR Holly Stepp SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS EDITOR Kathryn Sherer COPY DESK EDITOR Katie Cannon photography editor John Caserta DESIGN/GRAPHICS EDITOR Kelly Peacock LAYOUT EDITOR Jake Mac Nelly EDITORIAL CARTOON EDITOR Justin Scheef SPORTSATURDAY EDITOR Stephenson. Kathy Trent and Ashley Widdis. account executives: Nina Hashway and John Logan, assistant account executives: Tina Collie. office assistant. Advertising Production: Bill Leslie, manager/ system administrator Richard D Allen. Laura Bensen, John Mims and Denise Walker, assistants Laura Thomas and Heather Wilson. Sports: Andy Alley. John Ashley. Aaron Beard. Doug Behar. Seth Brown. Todd Graff. Jonathan Hart Sherry Honeycutt. Gautam Khandelwal. Sarah Manekin. Kimberley McCudden. Alec Morrison, Erin Parrish. Robbi Pickeral, Joseph Rolison. Reuben Sack. Jill Santopietro. Heidi Schmitt Frank Wang. Scon Weaver and Lisa Zaranek. State and National: Adam Bianchi. senior writer. Jennifer Adams. Erica Beshears. Sree Chavali, Brounwen Clark. Loree Crowell. Martha Elder. Steve Jackson. Cam Nguyen. Bryan Pruitt Richard Purcell, Kelly Race. Paul Robinson. Kerry Schwarz, Susanna Stephens. Dan Thomas and Crystal Wicker University: Sarah Bahnson. Ali Beason, Scon Boze. Jennifer Burleson. Kari Cohen. Jeni Cook. Julia Corbin. Daniel DeFranco. Nancy Fonti. Vida Foubister. Adam Busman. Edward Kennedy. Rachael Landau. Stephen Lee. Kelly Lojk. Christina Massey. Leah Merrey. Melissa Milios. Anne O'Connell. Tee Omolodun, Debbie Rappaport Amy Reavis. Heather Robinson, Andrew Russell. Sharron Scon. Thomas Sidders. Prachee Singh. John Stone. Kathryn Taylor. Brian Vann and Kamal Wallace Editorial Production: Stacy Wynn, manager. Printing: The Chapel Hill News Distribution: Triangle Circulation Services EDITORIAL ISSHS I iiiMMM Will ■UKEP or HOES WAN* who JL \ [ 1 M/\ A M 6ENERAL PENCES Y\ \ 'njjWnxjfJM -jSSrtLtMM* m'S'bUheßJ IJ/ CLASS in STiM-e, fUMIAM TE Seniors Can Give to Career Search or Other Gift Carolina seniors, can you believe this is it?! Our last year roaming those hallowed halls, cheering on the sports teams and meeting friends in the Pit —as undergraduates! Because of the excitement of our final year at UNC, our senior class has both the momentum and the opportunity to involve as many seniors as possible in the various Senior Class activities this year. These programs and activities are being planned for the benefit of ALL the 4,500 seniors in the class of 1995, and we are optimistic about the amount of fun this year will provide for seniors. We are also optimistic about our seniors giving back to the University this year in the form of the Senior Class Gift Campaign. One of the biggest things the senior class does is contribute a gift for the betterment of the University as a whole. After soliciting proposals over the summer and polling seniors during the past few months, we feel we have selected a Senior Class Gift that will be a huge benefit for the University as a whole. (DRUM ROLL, PLEASE) Announcing the Senior Class of 1995 Gift to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hi 11... WHOA, WHOA! Not so fast! Before we spill the beans, it’s important that you know exactly how the gift campaign will work this year. Here are a couple of the major points: 1. You can make your contribution to the specified Senior Class Gift (read below)... or to any other academic area on campus. What bet ter way to make you feel a part of this university than allowing you to choose exactly where you want your contribution to go? Furthermore, you Bring More Family Values to Politics, Politicians Teacher: Mr. Hatch, your son’s not doing his algebra homework. Hatch: It doesn’t matter. Teacher: Yes, it does. Have you seen his last two quiz grades? Hatch: Sure, but his failure to do homework’s not the reason. Teacher: I didn’t realize you had been a teacher. Hatch: I wasn’t, but I still know what he needs. I’ll make sure he spends more time study ing English. That’ll help. Ridiculous? Probably. Senator Orrin Hatch and his wife appear to have raised six normal kids. It seems unlikely they became that way because theirparents ignored the advice ofpeople who knew better. Somehow Hatch lost this lesson between his front door and the Senate floor. Police officers want tighter gun control, such as the restrictions on assault weapons contained in the just-passed crime bill. Yet Hatch and many ofhis Republican breth ren decided the police were wrong: what the country really needed was an increase in the number of federal crimes which carried the death penalty. This “solution” neatly ignored the fact that only 1 percent of American crime violates fed eral law, and only a tiny fraction of those would qualify for even the expanded definition of capi tal offenses. But these senators skipped along this path anyway, claiming their language would add up to safer streets. This issue is one of many which suggest that more family values would improve American politics. That phrase has a deservedly nasty reputation after the 1992 hate-fest which mas queraded as the Republican Convention, yet the idea of introducing into politics ideas which work in the family is a good one. Students Should Celebrate All South Asia, Not Just India TO THE EDITOR: There is a lack of knowledge among students concerning a certain area of the world South Asia. What is South Asia anyway? Many do not realize that South Asia includes Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and Bhutan. And this is to be expected, considering there are just a handful of courses in our curriculum dealing with this particular region. There is another outlet that can be pursued to make up for the lack of concentration in academia. Sangam, which is not an acronym but a Hindi word denoting togetherness, is the organization on campus that strives to educate and create the awareness of South Asian issues and its culture. Many, we realize, have the misconception that Sangam is a campus group only for Hindu students of descent from India; this is not the case at all. For the last two years, Sangam has expanded can split your contri- I bution among differ ent academic areas if you like. MIKE CRISP/ PARSHANT DHIMAN GUEST COLUMNISTS 2. Make your contribution in one easy install ment (by check, cash orcredit card). GETYOUR ENTIRE CONTRIBUTION OUT OF THE WAY AT ONCE! No post cards for years to come reminding you of how much you owe on your gift contribution. Just one simple card to fill out and you’ve made a lasting contribution to your beloved University that you can tell your children and grandchildren about (in addition to all of the yams you spin to them about your times spent heckling Pit preachers, dressing up for Halloween on Franklin St., etc.) We hope that by allowing seniors: 1) to make their gift contribution to any area on campus they desire and 2) to pay their gift all at once, more seniors will get involved with the gift cam paign. The entire University will benefit tremen dously from greater senior involvement. And more seniors will feel positively about the legacy their class will leave for the University. Enough said about campaign logistics. You want to know what the Senior Class of 1995 Gift is, right? (DRUM ROLL, PLEASE): We are proud to announce the inception of the Senior Class of 1995 Career Search program. Your gift will be used to purchase a database listing of over24s,ooopublic and private compa nies. UNC students will be able to use this, program to conduct a highly targeted job search focusing on employer size, location, industry, etc. Extensive information on each employer is The right wing could even have avoided much of the backlash which fol lowed the Houston convention if its dedi cated soldiers had applied their private standards to public statements. Dan Quayle admitted he would get his daugh ter an abortion if she needed one; Phyllis BILL WRIGHT MR. KNOW-IT-ALL Schlafly said she loved her son, who by most reports is gay. The crime bill illustrates in another way how policy might improve with more application of family values. Soon after kids become mobile, parents learn they have two choices. They can rely exclusively on saying “no”—don’t go in the street, don’t touch that, don’t try drugs. Much more successful is the occasional “no” com bined with interesting alternatives which keep them from trouble by distracting them. Whether it’s bringing toys to a restaurant so younger kids don’t start throwing food or shuttling teenagers to sports and music, good parents quickly learn that just saying “no” just doesn’t work for very long. The crime bill tried to adapt this lesson. With the inaccurately named “midnight basketball” (it rarely runs that late, and the money provides lots of programs which have nothing to do with sports), communities are trying to give kids with out many opportunities something better to do. As last week’s issue of Time pointed out, the police and community leaders support this pro gram, as did George Bush when he was in office. Yet Senator Hatch’s response to spending SSO million on these programs was to whine that it was a typical “19605-style boondoggle.” READERS’FORUM The Daily Tar Heel welcomes reader comments and criticism. Letters to the editor should be no longer than 400 words and must be typed, double-spaced, dated and signed by no more than two people. Students should include their year, major and phone number. Faculty and staff should include their title, department and phone number. The DTH reserves the right to edit letters for space, clarity and vulgarity. its scope to include all countries of South Asia, and this is primarily indicated by the Hindi- Urdu Language Campaign, a national and state wide fund-raising drive to establish a Hindi- Urdu class on campus. Hindi and Urdu are the two most widely spoken languages in South Asia, and they are the ®ljp Satlg ear Hrel available including names, addresses and tele phone numbers of key individuals. The database is efficient in finding information for summer jobs or full-time jobs in a short amount of time. You maybe saying to yourself, “I thought that the Career Planning & Placement Center already had a job database.” You’d be right, but it has only 2,200 records and is difficult to keep up dated. Some of you also might be wondering whether or not the database will be of use to you (because you have friends in high places in vari ous Fortune 500 companies or are planning on being a professional student for a few more years). If you feel that way, don’t forget that you can split your gift between Career Search and another academic area on campus. And keep in mind that the purpose of the senior class gift is to leave an enduring legacy for good ol’ UNC (from the people who know it best wise, erudite seniors). One final note —be sure to stop by the Pit today (and investigate all the ruckus you’ll be hearing while you’re reading this), where we’ll be having our Senior Class of 1995 Gift Cam paign Kickoff from 11:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. We'll be giving away plenty of prizes from local merchants (Pizza Inn, Bruegger’s Bagels, Miami Subs and University Florist), and, of course, we’ll have plenty offree food and drinks. So, stop by the Pit between classes today and find out everything you ever wanted to know about the Senior Qass Gift Campaign. We look forward to seeing you there! Mike Crisp is senior class president. Parshant Dhiman is senior class vice president. Obviously the American public are not chil dren, even if they do occasionally act like it when someone suggests they accept cuts in Social Security or mortgage interest deductions. Run ning the country is more complicated than rais ing a family, and the government has a lot less control over society than parents do over their children. Yet the lack of a perfect parallel does not mean there’s nothing to be learned. Perhaps the most pointed example of the potential benefit comes from the White House. Most published accounts describe Chelsea Clinton as bright, friendly and thoughtful. While this is great to hear, it’s rather surprising consid ering the president’s behavior. It’s no longer a secret, for example, how easily he flies into rages, and no child benefits from yelling and scream ing. The president alsoseemstohave trouble stick ing to rules. On Haiti, health reform and too many other issues, he issues ultimatums from which he soon backs away. It doesn’t take chil dren, or congressmen, too long to recognize whether threats such as these are empty. At home it creates willful, insecure adults; in Con gress it leads to chaos. If Chelsea is really as good as her reputation, two possibilities remain. Maybe the president acts differently at home and he simply needs to continue these principles every day when he goes to the Oval Office. Or maybe it’sHillarywho’sraisingtheir child: stories this summer suggested she was the one who said Chelsea couldn’t go to Woodstock. If that’s the case, the president ought to learn from his wife. Saying “no” to inappropriate requests is good for children and the country. Bill Wright’s parents hope he finishes grad school soon: they'd like him to start his own family, or at least get a date. national languages of India and Pakistan, re spectively. We feel that the uniting of these two lan guages in one course offering symbolizes the unity that South Asians should be part of at UNC. It is so unfortunate that South Asia has not received an emphasis in academic study here. This is hard to believe, seeing how South Asia is ethnically and culturally diverse. Havingpeopleofall South Asian backgrounds participate in Sangam would help educate the UNC campus community in a nonacademic fashion. The first meeting of the year will be Wednes day, Sept. 7, at 5:30 p.m., in Union 211-212. We invite ALL members of this university, South Asian and non-South Asian alike, to ex plore this area ofthe world that many ofus know little about. Rum Kothandami SENIOR BIOLOGY Azra Shaikh a IIIMIDR CHEMISTRY/SPANISH
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