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10 Wednesday, Februaiy 15,1995 Satlg aar Ihrt Kelly Ryu editor Worid Wide Web Electronic Edition; [ A I http://www.ucc.edu/dthiindoLhtmi 1 Established 1893 SMB 707 Jkora o/" Editorial Freedom An Insulting Possibility “The faculty are an essential ingredient to our university, one of the cornerstones of the state’s reputation,” UNC-system President C.D. Spangler said Monday, and yet in Gov. Jim Hunt’s budget proposal, faculty salaries will receive a measly 2 percent increase. In a budget that proposes “substantial” fund ing reductions, faculty salaries aren’t the only area threatened. A proposed three-year, 30 per cent increase in out-of-state tuition and a 3.1 percent in-state increase present cause for con cern. An insulting, below-inflation faculty sal ary increase will bring harmful repercussions. While the 2 percent increase is a proposal, the UNC-system’s General Administration and Board of Governors will not let the N.C. Gen eral Assembly push through such legislation without intense lobbying. Unless there is a pub lic outcry, the General Assembly and Gov. Hunt will handicap the progress of this university. In June, a 2.25 percent increase faculty pay was proposed in the General Assembly. At the time, accordingto Faculty Council Chairwoman Jane Brown, a pay increase of this size didn’t even catch the University up with the inflation RHA Needs Random Diversity Plan An integral part of everyone’s college experi ence is having the opportunity to meet new and different people while living on campus. Since all freshmen are required to live on campus, they should be getting this exposure and reaping the benefits of a more complete college experience. The Racial Diversity Plan, started several years ago by the Residence Hall Association and the Department of University Housing, is a small step toward ensuring that diversity exists on North Campus and South Campus, but it is far from enough to create a truly diverse living atmosphere on campus. As things stand now, the South Campus popu lation is predominantly African American. The Racial Diversity Plan gives African Americans living on South Campus the opportunity to move to North Campus or Mid Campus by setting aside rooms in these areas for students who want to move. This program is simply not aggressive enough to address the full range of self-segregation problems on campus. Simply setting rooms aside and hoping people will move into them is not enough. The numbers speak for themselves. The number of African Americans L~~ Things were looking rosy for big Mudville, Ina that year. They had bought another station and were selling loads of beer.^^^^WjKvf* So when the season ended with a strike, "Hey, that’s a shame! i But this is business," said the owners, "not some sweet and childish game.” L-XX When the owners dug their heels in, and the players did the same, < j A strange and awful hush fell over students of the game, / { With all the talk of contracts, of bottom line and loss, / / fVi It could be more than revenue this baseball strike has cost. [ I MB Kids are playing soccer, when you tell 'em, "Let's play ball 1" v _ Y They strap on gaudy sneakers and go dribble in some halL ik Willy’s now a killer whale, and Mickey's just a mouse; / \\ PiMaggio, some guy named Joe, who sold coffee house to house. / ~ J/L V Oh, somewhere on some future day a dad might take his son To the ballpark for a hot dog (that's eight bucks with the bun), The kid will watch a hero sign a baseball for a fee. And ask his aging father, "Mighty Casey? Who is he?" ''4fk]sL Business and Advertising: Kevin Schwartz. director/general manager Chrissy Mennitt advertising director. Leslie Humphrey, classified ad manager Holly Aldndge, business manager Tiffany Krueger, advertising manager. Business Stiff: Michelle Byrd. Grace Consacro. assistant managers. Classified/Customer Service: Melissa Allam. Dodie Brodsky. Wade Casstevens. Grace Assistant ErStori: Milch Bennett arts/diversions Jenniler Freer and Gretchen Hoffman, city: Allison Barbee, copy Luke Baker, editorial: Joelle Davis and Greg Kaliss. features: Craig Jones, photo: Chad Austin. Adam Davis and Robbi Pickerel, sports: Bronwen Clark, state and national Julie Corbin and Nancy Font university. Arts/Diveraions: Richard Allen, music editor. Jennifer Ahari. Jen Ashlock. Candace Bryan, Baker Burleson. Leo Carmady. Nathan Elis. Susannah Felts. Todd Gilchrist Aziz Hup, Todd Ito. Kacey Kinard. Anthony King Dan Kois. Ryan McKaig. John McLeod. Rachel Millet. John Neman. Gabe Peli, Bryan PowelL Lee Richards. Brent Simon, Sharon Smith. John South. Barry Summerlin. Seth Surgan. Grant Tenmlle and Sharina Williams Cartoon: Mary Brutszman. Brian Kahn. Sergio Miranda. Dan Tarrant Joel Tesch and Onur Turkel. City: Emily Adams. Sara Bartholomees. Sonya Buchanan. Sarah Corbitt Stacie Davis. David Gerlach. Laura Godwin. Dean Hair. Megan Hanley. Suzanne Jacove. Jennifer Marshburn. Angela Moore. Sandra Moser. Nancy Nelson. Kerry Ossi. Jasmine Patel. Kelly Stevens. Johanna Stokes. Karen Wiliams and Suzanne Wood Copy: Jenny Alexander. Ingrid Bteuer. Debbie Brown. Michelle Fauver. Sara Frisch. Stacy Jones. Jennifer Pender. Caroline Poole, Anthony Risko. The editorials are approved by the majority o! the editorial board, which is composed ol the editor, editorial page editor and nine editorial writers The Daily Tar Heal is published by the DTK Publishing Corp. a nonprofit North Carolina corporation. Monday Friday. according to the University calendar Celers with questions about billing or display advertising should dial 962-1163 between 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Classified ads can be reached at 962-0252 Editorial questions should be directed to 962-0245/0246. Office: Suite 104 CwoNna Union ISSN #lll7O-9436 Campus meledrkee.: CBP 5210 Box 48, Carolina Union U.S. Meff address: P,O. Box 3287, Chapel Hit NC 27615-3257 rate. A mere 2 percent increase in salaries is not acceptable aspaymentforauniversity employee: faculty or staff. Atthe faculty level, it is likely that professors will be lured away to other institu tions offering competitive salaries. For staff, such a minimal raise is little more than insulting. If this university hopes to promote a positive image to potential faculty and maintain com petitiveness by retaining faculty, then at least an index-linked, 3.5 percent increase is necessary. An increase that is not even in line with the cost of living undermines the reputation the Univer sity has strived to create. D.G. Martin, the UNC system’s vice presi dent of public affairs and chief lobbyist, has a hard task ahead that will require support from the faculty, administration and BOG. It is cru cial that we, as a University community, present a united front to the General Assembly. The final budget likely will not be determined until June. Between now and then, it is essential that the faculty of our 16 campus system come together and work with the BOG to ensure that their numbers are not diminished by this time next year by embarrassing pay increases. living in residence halls like Lewis and Manly since 1990 has risen only a few percentage points. In Grimes, the percentage of African-American residents has actually dropped since 1990. The RHA and the housing department should take a good look at the existing program and aim toward improving it instead of just letting it hobble along. The ultimate goal of a diversity program such as this one should be to create a better mix of students on both extremes of cam pus, not just to move African Americans to North Campus. The Racial Diversity Plan is far from a failure, as shown by its success in residence halls such as Winston, Ruffin and Alexander, but it is only a beginning. If the University is serious about creating a campus community where segrega tion is absent, then drastic steps must be taken from the beginning. The housing department should be more involved in the randomizing of all residence hall assignments freshman year. The small measure of success achieved by this program should not lead to complacency but to further desegregation, or randomization. If we can’t even live together, how can we get along? 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Tina Smith, Michelle Vanstory and Tin Semtrai editorial page editor Adm Gamin university editor Ryu Tkomburg city editor Jenny Heinien state i national editor Justin Sebeef sports editor Jon Goldberg features editor Abwn Maxwell arts/diversions editor Peter Roybal special assignments entor Katbryn Sberer copy desk editor Amy Ferguson design editor Katie Cannon photography editor Chris Anderson graphics editor Michael Webb editorial cartoon editor Shannon Hrdlicka, Traci Langdon. Heather Schafer and Dannielle Whalen, assistant account executives: Elain Calmon. creative assistant Brendan Biamon, office assistant. Advertising Production: Beth Meinig, coordinator Bill Leslie. Richard D. Allen. Laura Benson and Denise Walker, assistants. Keri Waldrop. Sports: Alison Lawrence. Jacson Lowe. Steve Robb lee and James Whitfield, senior writers; Andy Alley, John Ashley. Aaron Beard. Seth Brown. Todd Graff. Jonathan Hart Sherry Honeycutt Gautam Khandefwal. Sarah Manekin. Kimberley McCudden. 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EDITORIAL ~Jh£ ONION Pit by onur tukel ''Sympathy For The (Blue) Devil" Jv \| — d'pk CSC alloy! me fo inf.reduce, my sc m T'm a ham y/eaHh. ahd shame.. fhjLrl \j /~T s3\f6 -the Weeds 3 run, lash year, I ff\Jp nouj T jvsl Cad! +6 find my Ojsmd.. \ *v<?S Jrovnd luhen firl(anS9S yhad dheir rnoreni in -the NCftAj I fhah our om/n Coach if. Jsl! \ hi s bacH 2nd scaled our -fa.de Professor Urges Hall to Clarify Mews on Jews, Blacks Dear Professor Hall: In our previous dealings together as faculty colleagues, I have always seen you as a person of good will and good faith. I was therefore very surprised and saddened to read some of your remarks Jan. 26 about Jews, the slave trade and the Nation of Islam, as reported in The Daily Tar Heel. I would like to think that those remarks do not represent your deeply held convictions; at the very least I think it’s neces sary to share a different perspective with you and with the campus as a whole. I have no quarrel with your religious commit ments, and I cannot speak to the merits of your tenure case. I leave those matters to your con science and your department, respectively. As an historian and a colleague, however, I was deeply disturbed by your comments about Jews and black Americans, and feel strongly that someone should set the record straight. If you were misquoted, I hope you will join me in doing so. If you were not, I do hope you will rethink your suggestions and withdraw them. The fact that your interview appeared on the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz only underscores for me the urgency of rejecting inflammatory half-truths that still contribute so much to anti-Semitism and its long record of horror. The Atlantic slave trade flourished for about four centuries and eventually brought as many as 12,000,000 men, women and children into brutal enslavement in the Western Hemisphere. Without a doubt, it was one of the greatest crimes in human history, and it happened be- Random Ticket Distribution A Better Plan for All Students TO THE EDITOR: This letter is in response the Adam Davis’ column of Feb. 9 (“CAA Distribution Too Ran dom: Here’s the Davis Plan”). His column indi cated that he does not believe that a random ticket distribution is how the CAA should dis tribute tickets for the basketball games. He be lieves that camping out shows that someone is a true fan and tickets should still be distributed in this way. I disagree. I am a graduate student here at Carolina. This means that I pay the same athletic fee as you do. This also means that I am just as entitled to tickets as you are. However, I do not have endless hours to spend camping out so that the CAA and Carolina can show the world how dedicated our students are. I would like to attend the basketball games, as would many other Caro lina students who may work full or part-time in addition to our studies. We deserve these tickets just as much as you (and countless others who agree with you). Last year, friends and I were convinced that students were missing classes in order to camp out. That is ludicrous. This university’s first mission is to teach, not to have its students attend basketball games. The distribution you described is used in distributing tickets to concerts, as well. It works quite well. Why should anyone risk sickness, frostbite, etc., for the chance to see a basketball game, concert, etc., that they want to see? You assume that those that camp out are more dedi cated than others. This is completely false. They just have more time than others because they are not working, or may not have an exam the next week, or some other reason. This does not mean that they don’t enjoy a good basketball game as much as you do. Next time you criticize the distribution of basketball tickets, Mr. Davis, remember that EVERY OTHER STUDENT, regardless ofwhat they know about Carolina basketball, is just as entitled to a ticket as you, since they pay the same athletic fee as you do. ShimKash GRADUATE STUDENT OPERATIONS RESEARCH CAA Botched Distribution of Tickets for Senior Duke Game TO THE EDITOR: On the day that this letter is being written, we are proud to announce that there will be anew CAA president. We say this because we are fully confident that he will do a better job than his predecessors, who completely boondoggled the distribution oftickets for the Senior Game against Duke. How do we know this? Because the seats that we received are in the upper stratosphere of the Dean Dome. It defies all logic that people who braved the cold for the last four years camping for tickets would get worse seats On Senior GUEST COLUMNIST cause thousands of otherwise ordinary settlers, businessmen, sea captains, colonial administrators, triballead ers and others thought of it as a profitable busi ness like any other. In the vortex of evil that the slave trade created, virtually no human group in the Atlantic world was untouched by guilt. Participants in slavery and the slave trade included Protestants, Catholics, Muslims, En glish, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, Arabs, Native Americans andWest Africans themselves. Included within this vast rogues’ gallery were a handful of Jews who succumbed to the same temptations as their Christian and Muslim neigh bors. By itself, this fact is meaningless and unsurprising. It would be far more surprising if no Jews had dabbled in this popular activity which had swept up so many others. Measured beside the involvement of Chris tians, Muslims and the adherents of traditional W est African religions, the involvement of Jews in the slave trade was minuscule. Why then do you or the Nation of Islam feel called upon to “draw attention to Jewish involvement in the slave trade”? Why encourage the false idea that there was something unusually sinister about this historical footnote, unless it would be to inflame ethnic tension between Jews and blacks today? The same goes for your reference to “how Jewish merchants enrich themselves in black communities.” It is no secret that millions of black Americans are economically disadvan- readerPorum 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. Send e-mail forum to: dth@unc.edu. Game Mind You—than those who do not have seniority. It leaves a bitter taste in our mouths to know that OUR last basketball game as under graduates can be seen from only two miles away. Personally, it is a slap in the face that we got such bad seats, and grant you this, we are not alone. Many seniors got shafted when it came to getting seats for the game. To reiterate, this is senior game, OUR LAST GAME, and we should have been shown the proper courtesy and been given much better seats than those who have not put in their four years of tuition and education. Considering our desire to have this letter printed, we were not fully able to express our disgust with the current, soon to be former, CAA co-Presidents. Thank God for elections. Michael Kamnovich SENIOR ENGLISH Matthew Gurna SENIOR ENGLISH Barometer Akout Coors Took A Closed-Minded Approack TO THE EDITOR: For every other time that I have written a response to the DTH on something I took of fense to, my disagreement has been over the logic behind an idea being presented. Today on the other hand is a different situation. This time my disagreement is on how the DTH personally attacked my world view. By this assertion I refer specifically to the statement in Thursday’s BA ROMETER that read, “We don’t want to hear your Christian testimonial.” Granted I didn’t go to see Mr. Coors (the person to whom the quotation was directed) speak Thursday night in the Great Hall, but neither that nor the content of his talk are the issues. The issue also is not the level of biased reporting in the DTH, nor is it the lack of tart that was displayed by this statement. The issue at hand is a matter of approach, and more specifi cally an approach to learning. GJlje Satlg Heel taged, and there are undoubtedly many figures who enrich themselves at black expense. Some of these may be Jews, but most are corporations which have no religion at all. In that context, to single out Jewish mer chants as if they were uniquely guilty for the economic exploitation of blacks is worse than false; it is defamatory. There can be no moral apologies for the slave trade. Any historical figure connected to it merits all the condemnation that you or anyone else may bring to bear. But to single out file minor actions of a marginal group while ignoring the barbarities committed by the majority can serve no valid historical purpose. Instead, it fairly raises questions about the good faith of those who do so. As the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz should remind us all that the crimes of the Holocaust are not yet remote. Any half-truths or insinuations which might serve to reinforce or perpetuate the venom that created that hellhole should be rejected by every body, particularly by scholars like you and me, whose profession commits us to a respect for empirical evidence and its fair-minded interpre tation. In that spirit, I earnestly ask you to join with me and other responsible scholars in condemn ing the miserable canard that African Americans have something special to fear from the activities of Jews today, or something special to resent about the “Jewish involvement in the slave trade. ” Harry Watson is a professor of history. When I go into the the world my purpose is to learn. This is not accomplished by automatically rejecting all aspects of what a person has to say on the basis of what I perceive to be their indi vidual views, but rather it is accomplished by listening to all ideas and weighing the validity and soundness of the arguments presented. If I merely told someone to leave because I did not want to listen to their ideas, I would mire myself in stagnant dogmatism. Stagnant dogmatism leads nowhere, especially not to growth in the individual. Unfortunately this is exactly what the DTH has done by their statement. They have compromised the validity of true learning and have mired themselves in stagnant dogmatism. Beyond this the DTH’s statement rejects the significance of my life. My life is my Christian Testimony. It is a testimony to what Christ has done in my live. It is also a testimony to my effort “to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with [my] God” through the redemption that Christ freely gave me on the cross (Micah 6:8, Matthew 20:28). Jonathan Kaplan FRESHMAN HISTORY Honor Outstanding Educators By Nominating Tkem Soon TO THE EDITOR: In the midst of all the campaign posters cur rently up I hope everyone has noticed another group of candidates in our midst: all professors and teaching assistants. The nomination process for the Students’ Undergraduate Teaching Awards is under way and is a great way to give back to the people who give so much of their time and talents to we the students. Although aca demics may be only one aspect of the university experience, it is an important aspect often en riched by the knowledge and personalities of the teachers. I would hope that most of us have had at least one professor or TA who inspiredor enlightened us beyond what we expected. All teachers who have made a positive impart on their students deserve to be recognized with this award. Set your own standards: the nicest teacher you ever had, the funniest, the IrimW the most helpful, or the one willing to chat. The nomination process will run until Friday at 5 p.m. Ballot boxes are marked and have been placed in heavily frequented spots on campus such as the Union Desk, Davis Library, the Undergraduate Library and Lenoir Dining Hall Nomination forms are with the ballot boxes and require a brief explanation as to why you are nominating the teacher. Three professors and five TAs will receive awards based on screening by a student selection committee. When you make a choice for political leaders next week, please don’t forget the many educa tional leaders worthy of a vote as well! Emily Berry JUNIOR HISTORY
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