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12 Tuesday, April 18,1995 Sa% ®ar Mni My ly- EDITOR Hihhmw Cimlrane managing bxtor World Wide Web Electronic Edition: f A 1 http://www.unc.edu/dth Jfl. Established 1893 818 102 Years of Editorial Freedom Duke Field Goal a Step to Greater Goal On Saturday night, a freshman kicker on the Dook football team kicked the game-winning, 28-yard field goal with 1:22 left in the spring scrimmage game to give the team a surprise 24- 22 victory. The kicker was then carried off the field by the entire Blue Devil football team. While game winning field goals by talented Dook freshmen are not normally behavior applauded by this particular paper, this is a special case. The player who helped die Blue Devils come from behind to win this scrimmage has an un usual goal she wants to be the first female to play Division I football, and it appears she is off to a good start. While she still has quite a way to go, and after accidentally being forced to throw Saturday, will definitely not pose real competi tion to the team’s quarterback section, Heather An Environmental Elephant How much is one ton? Considering an el ephant weighs about two tons, that would be about one half of an elephant. One ton is how much sulfur dioxide, the major cause of acid rain, is contained in a pollution allowance is sued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. These allowances are issued annually to utilities to designate how much of this harm ful chemical compound legally can be released by each company. Companies that do not use their full allotment may sell their extra allow ances to other companies or may auction them off. Recently, eight Dook students used $176 of school money to buy a pollution allowance at the annual auction. Eighteen allowances were bought by students and environmental groups. This effort displays the concern that is prevalent concerning the declining condition of the envi ronment but also provides a positive course of action toward change. With Earth Day approaching this weekend, progressive action like this should be the main focus instead of more petitions and passive resistance as in the case of the Mitsubishi boy cott, which was more of a symbolic gesture. Sadly, this action is not enough. At last year’s auction, Duke Power and Carolina Power & Light Cos. bought 175,000 allowances each. A /soMeea* \ ( ARTy/otac/foo gw* Business and Advertising: Kevin Schwartz. director/general manager; Chrissy Mennrtt advertising director. Leslie Humphrey, classified ad manager; Holly Aldridge, business manager Tiffany Krueger, advertising manager Business Staff: Michelle Byrd. Grace Consacro. assistant managers Classified/Customer Service: Melissa Allan Assistant Editors: Mitch Bennett arts/diversions Jennifer Freer, city; Allison Barbee, copy. 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Sarah Showfety, Kelly Stevens and Suzanne Wood. Copy: Jenny Alexander. Ingrid Breuer. Debbie The editorials are approved by the majority of the editorial board, which is composed of the editor, editorial page editor and six editorial writers. The Daily Tar Heel is published by the DTH Publishing Corp.. a nonprofit North Carolina corporation. Mondayf riday. according to the University calendar Calers with questions 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 directed to 962-0245/0246 Sue Mercer is doing something that many would have thought impossible. She is also doing some thing many women would not have thought to try. She now has a unique opportunity to disprove the often debated, and nearly always laughed off, notion that women can make it in male dominated sports. With this chance comes the opportunity to show the world that women can break through barriers perceived as impossible with the only ingredients necessary... determi nation and die right frame of mind. Hopefully, along with a few more winning field goals for her team (but not too many) Mercer’s example will send us all, and women in particular, an importantmessage: Once you cease believing something is impossible, you have al ready done the hardest part of accomplishing it. system that allows utilities to employ lax envi ronmental standards by giving them the oppor tunity to purchase extra pollution allowances is a system that needs revision. The companies that use less than their given amount of allowances should be able to sell them back to the government or at least should be provided with some other sort of incentive to use higher regulatory standards. Instead, these companies must use funds from the sale of extra allowances to less conscientious companies in order to subsidize their own higher standards. Some argue that changing the system would only increase people’s electricity and water bills, but how will utilities ever make improvements if they are not all forced to perform on the same level? And how will these improvements be come more efficient and more cost effective without allowing them the benefit of a free mar ket system? If environmental standards became stricter and loopholes like this allowance system were closed and the government stuck to its guns, there would come a time when environmental ists would not need to raise money to buy the right to stop someone else from polluting the air with half an elephant worth of sulfur dioxide. After all, elephants have to breathe, too. THE DAILYTAR HEEL Business ft Advertising Stiff Dodie Brodsky, Wade Casstevens. Grace Consacro. Angie Groce. Shannon Hrdlicka. Dana Meisner. 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EDITORIAL / / tell ya, a/t /m we' ( ... so cam VJ NCAft" are opposed to \ Mwe us MUtm'Ai mmLL FLAYERS LBAvm scuottmrso mr % Vjr M r cam me Millions mw* \ JJr Jp rr JJ PROS. IH£Y SHOULD STAY V /?3Tn AM) 6£TAm (SSSL Life and the Universe: The Search for the Divine Last week, I, a student of science, attended a lecture on the divine. Although my mother raised me in the Methodist church, in the heart of eastern North Carolina’s religious con servatism, that land of my childhood seems very far from Science, a land of eternal doubt, where a hypothesis can never be truly proved, only disproved. In science, the only point of faith— if you can truly call it faith—is that the universe operates according to laws. We may never un derstand all of those laws, but countless scien tists have dedicated their lives to finding order and meaning in this universe. So, why the sud den interest in the divine? As it happens, the religious lecture that drew me in was called “Creation and Time,” and the speaker, rather than being a theologian, was Paul Davies, a physicist. For some reason, the popular press has labeled physicists “the high priests of science.” I’m not sure how they came by their nickname, but I think I understand why it stuck. The nature of time and the moment of creation used to be the sole (soul?) province of monks in their towers, of theologians and of holy men. The mathematics of the physicist are, to most of humanity, a strange and incomprehensible language, as deserving of reverence as the holy books that used to (and still do) hold such power. To those who know the language of mathemat ics, physics seems to possess an even greater beauty and power. This might explain why Dr. Paul Davies was (at least) the fourth physicist to win the Templeton Prize for Progress in Reli gion (a prestigious $ 1 million award) and why he spoke to a packed house the night of April 10. Supposedly, Einstein himself once said that “God does not play dice with the Universe. ” But although Einstein may have attributed the cos mic order to the careful planning and actions of a divine being, present-day physics seems to DTH Should Learn to Follow 'Competent Review Tradition' TO THE EDITOR: Asa musicologist and singer, I was glad to find so much coverage of campus musical events in the Monday, lOApril issue, includingreviews of Extractions (“Extractions ‘Pull’ Off Snazzy Concert With Humor, Music”), “Jesus Christ Superstar” (‘“Jesus Christ Superstar’ Spotlights Campus Talent”) and Tar Heel Voices (“Clever Theme, Group Bonding Unify Tar Heel Voices Concert"), as well as a prominent mention of Patrick Sharpe’s composition recital (which, I should disclose, I participated in) in Tadd Wilson’s column (“Fred Says: ‘God Is Dead,’ So Make the Most of It”). Wilson’s mention was admirable; by using the recital, he not only gave an example of the beauty he admonished us to find, he also put his finger on the strategy apparent in many of Sharpe’s compositions: affirmation in the face of struggle. As to the reviews, I was shocked to find them so consistently positive. Having not attended the Extractions or THV concerts, I can only speak of Superstar, which I attended Thursday night. Certainly Company Carolina deserves our attention and this production has merit. However, it was not without problems. Max von Essen and Sean Williams are un doubtedly talented, but they had their draw backs: von Essen’s literally head-shaking vi brato was distracting, while Williams’ voice was not quite up to the demands of the score. The noose that was lowered for Judas’ suicide evoked some snickers. The band did not completely hold the show together; ensemble was clearly lacking in the fragile “I Don’t Know How to Love Him.” In no way do I mean to disrespect the cast; rather, my quarrel is with Alison Maxwell. If you’re only going to report, don’t label it a review (one vague appeal for “emotion” based on a simplistic mechanical vs. emotional di chotomy, does not a criticism make). If it is a review, get someone with musical-historical training for musical events, else you risk becom ing simply a rah-rah rag. Good criticism doesn’t mean crass negativity, but it does require a certain degree of knowledge and skill. Did Max well notice the novel reggae interpolations, or the fact that the final song was moved from its original position? More generally, she unques tioningly judged the performance on the notion that it should evoke an emotional response, but one of the questions that arises from Webber’s musical setting is precisely this: does musical theater have to evoke emotion, or is it just “ear tickling"? Reviews of events soon after they occur are support the concept of a sort of cosmic Dungeon and Drag ons game, where the rules are laid out in the beginning, but the specific results that are played out depend on the role of the quantum dice. As Dr. Davies pointed out, we didn’t have to end up WEJKD SCCXCE with the physical laws that govern our particular universe. If we had gotten another set instead, our universe might have reached a state of per manent organization or permanent chaos. In stead, we live in a universe where many out comes are allowed, from the birth of stars to the evolution of man. Yet the physical laws do not dictate that any particular outcome must occur. Those delicately balanced physical laws allow an eternal interplay between the tendency to ward order and the tendency toward greater disorder. The eternal battle between order and disorder isn’tanew idea. Perhaps (as Dr. Davies believes) an ultimate truth must be timeless—true yester day, true tomorrow. Long ago, Zoroastrianism, one of the world’s first great religions, envi sioned life as an eternal battle between good and evil, played out on a cosmic stage. Although the laws of physics dictate no morality, our human tendency to favor life could make it seem as if order is always good. Asa student of biology, I observe life’s battle to maintain order every day. In my chemistry and physics classes, the laws of thermodynamics serve as the guiding principles. One of those laws is that the universe always tends to a state of greater disorder, like my desk at midsemester. KEADIIraRDM 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 tide, 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. notoriously bad (perhaps inherent given the speed), but a competent review tradition has existed since at least the 1820s. Read it. Richard Rischar GRADUATE STUDENT MUSICOLOGY Muslim! Nation of Islam Conflict Should Be Debated TO THE EDITOR: On the editorial page, over the last couple of weeks, there has been a written debate between the “Nation of Islam” and Orthodox Muslims on campus. The issue at hand is whether or not the “Nation” has the right to call itself an institu tion of Muslims. In the last letter to the editor, “Local Jihad: Round 3 Nation of Islam Not Truly Muslim,” the author expressed a desire to end tiie discussion because of the fact that it can go on and on. I called the member of the "Nation of Islam” to discuss his views in more detail. Although I have the same opinion as mainstream Muslims, which is that the Nation was not Muslim, I invited the “Nation’s” chapter at UNC to a public forum with the Muslim Students’ Asso ciation either this semester or next. Because this year is about over, I would prefer fall ’95. I believe this would be important due to the feet that we would invite experts in each feith to discuss the issue on an intellectual level. I also think that it would be more effective than this back and forth effort that is going on now. I truly hope the “Nation” will accept the invitation. Mohammad Barumn JUNIOR PHARMACY (Ztyr fiatlg (Ear Hrrl On the other hand, in biology classes I have studied the intricate and beautiful order from which life arises. DNA is a chemical information storage system that directs the construction and operation of cells—a helical library that is fully subject to the laws of chemistry and physics. The evolution of life has depended on the survival of those animals best able to reproduce in a given environment, depending on the physical aspects of that environment, including the other animals Irving in it. Even the behavior of animals usually has some relationship to the various demands of survival. Perhaps the struggle for life itself is the struggle to maintain order, the fight against entropy. Of course, all order in the universe somehow bal ances with the disorder somewhere else, on the cosmic garbage scow of existence. Eventually, disorder must win at the end of every human life, even as new life achieves new order. Why, that sounds almost... divine, doesn’tit? At its genesis, science grew from the rib of reli gion. Although the history of that parentage seems strained and at odds, it is difficult to argue with the pyrotechnic glories of cosmology, as presented to us by modem physics. The men and women of science have spent lifetimes on their mental explorations of the universe and the pos sible reasons behind its existence. Like the search for order through religious feith in the dictates of an eternal God, the scien tific study of nature is another way of searching for meaning in the universe. While that motiva tion makes science no less rigorous, or valid, or valuable to humanity, I think that this search for meaning demonstrates how connected we are, to each other, to our universe and to the ultimate meaning of existence, wherever that meaning lies. Monica Eiland is a senior biology major from Durham. Thanks to All the Volunteers, Dun Buyback Was Successful TO THE EDITOR: I would like to take a moment to thank every one involved in Buy Back the Hill, which took place Saturday, April 8. Through the incredible efforts of all involved, we purchased 119 guns, all of which will be destroyed. None of the guns were wanted by their owners, and no gun purchased will ever be used in a crime, stolen, used in a suicide, or fired accidentally. This is a phenomenal number of weapons, and a true monument to the importance our community places on safety. Once destroyed, the guns collected this year may be added to last year’s, which will be given to an artist to make a sculpture. Specifically, I would like to recognize the efforts of the Chapel Hill Police Department for their help in assessing and handling the weap ons, the towns of Chapel Hill and Canboro for their support, and the citizens of our communi ties for contributing to this effort. Finally, I wish to thank the UNC law stu dents, UNC undergraduates, and Chapel Hill High School students who had the vision and fortitude to see this project to its successful end. Your hard work made this event more successful than anyone thought possible. Keep in your hearts the knowledge that you helped save lives and reduce violence in Chapel Hill and Canboro. Allen Baddour CHAIRMAN BUY BACK TOE Hid LAW STUDENT The DTH Needs You Got something to say? Applications are now available for fall editorial board members and for summer and fall columnists. Applications can be picked up in The Daily Tar Heel office, Union Suite 104, and are due Wednesday. The editorial board comprises seven or nine members, including the editor and the editorial page editor, and is responsible for writing the unsigned pieces that appear on the left side of the opinion page. Each week, the editorial board meets Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday nights for about an hour and a half. Columnists write the signed pieces on the right side of the editorial page that appear every week of the semester. Questions? Call Editor-select Thanassis Cambanis at 962-0245.
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