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BOARD EDITORIALS
Universal Relations
■ A systemwide amorous relations policy like the one that BOG Chairman Sam
Neill is looking to enact must be constructed with caution.
New UNC Board of Governors Chairman
Sam Neill is eager to dean up some unsavory
affairs, but his plans to create a universal amo
rous relations policy for all 16 campuses shouldn’t
be rushed.
Though a good idea, this policy should not be
created as a knee-jerk reaction to the cases in
volving former UNC-CH Professor James Wil
liams and two former dance teachers at the N.C.
School of the Arts.
These two incidents brought the issue of fac
ulty-student relationships to light, but a system
wide policy shouldn’t be hurriedly assembled to
appease critics who believe liberal arts universi
ties are a site of wide-spread sexual misconduct.
The BOG should provide open forums where
all points of view can be discussed and debated.
After receiving input from all 16 universities, it
should instruct the universities to come up with
individual policies with which they feel comfort
able. Making sure students, faculty and admin
istrators are operating in a non-intimidating
academic environment is far more important
than a rushed effort at damage control.
Neill has taken steps in the right direction by
announcing a plan to establish a commission to
investigate the allegations of sexual misconduct
at NCSA, and asking each school to review its
policies concerning faculty-student relationships.
EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK Chris Yates
Casualties of Indecision
Robert Frasure, JosephKruzel, Samuel Drew.
Set aside your bundle of collegiate concerns and
give these men a moment of your time.
These men, along with a French soldier,died
as their vehicle ran off a rain-soaked road and
exploded. Before the world forgets about this
latest Balkan disaster and leaders continue their
pretend policies on Bosnia, we should consider
the lives of these men, why they died and what
that means.
As peace negotiators, Frasure, Kruzel, and
Drew were actually en route to Sarajevo with a
new U.S. peace plan when they became casual
ties of chance and the conflict they were deter
mined to end.
Their lives were at risk the moment they
stepped into the Balkans. V ery few of us have the
ability or will to recognize evil and do something
about it like these men were doing. Moreover,
because it is always the best people who are sent
to the most dangerous situations, their deaths
Tar Heel Quotables
“I can’t afford to not have smoking in here.”
Henderson Street Bar & Grill Owner Kevin Clyde
On his refusal to comply with Orange County's new
smoking ban.
“Tuition increases can be used to build roads
and prisons. This money can be invested in
teachers, libraries and access for people with
need to the University.”
Student Body President Calvin Cunningham
On why a S4OO tuition increase would be beneficial.
“Usually the police just wait across the street
and watch, but this time they were coming up
to people with flashlights, looking at their
identifications and what they were drinking.”
Sophomore Ginny Smith of Charlotte
On the strict law enforcement at the annual pre-school
party at Frat Court.
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The BOG also needs to look at other policies,
such as the one at the University of Virginia, to
determine which parts of those policies are effec
tive.
Each university, in enacting its own policy,
needs to consider the enforceability of such a
policy and to what degree a University should
intrude on the personal lives of its employees.
If the BOG were to force all 16 schools to
adhere to a single policy handed down from
upon high, it would undermine the 18 months of
work that faculty, students and administrators
spent developing the policy at the Chapel Hill
campus.
The UNC-CH policy prohibits faculty mem
bers or other instructional staff from initiating or
pursuing amorous or sexual relationships with
students whom they are in a position to evaluate
or instruct. It would be a shame to see the policy,
which was created specifically for this Univer
sity, thrown to the wayside for an under-re
searched, reactionary policy.
The UNC system, albeit exceptional in many
regards, is not an exception to what goes on in
society. We do need some sort of policy that
keeps people in positions of power from making
their students feel uncomfortable, but any such
policy must be well thought out so it protects
rights, not infringes upon them.
represent a great loss of knowledge and experi
ence . The expertise and skill of these men cannot
be replaced.
I say these things not as a springboard for
launching a policy-in-Bosnia opinion, and not to
pretend to be the only concerned American on
campus, but in hopes of fastening a piece of
thought to your memories of the three diplomats
who died. It has been almost four years since the
life of an American official was lost in the Balkans.
Suddenly, three are gone. Their deaths may not
have come from the fire of Serb weapons, but
certainly from the circumstances of the conflict.
Let’s not forget these men, each of whom had
ties to the Triangle. I imagine Samuel Drew once
sat in the Pit as an undergrad and cursed the
August heat as we do. I am sure Kruzel and
Frasure left marks as well during time at Duke as
a professor and a student, respectively.
Let’s not forget people are still dying for the
initiatives of America.
“I will miss the University. It’s like a little city
within Chapel Hill.”
Fontier University Police Officer Keith Williams
On her last day at work after negotiating a $327,000
settlement to an eight-year discrimination suit.
“My son’s in Haiti; my daughter is in hell.”
id Faulkner, father of Shannon Faulkner
When asked what his children were doing after his
daughter dropped out of The Citadel's core of cadets.
“My parents just wanted to name me some
thing different, I think, and I think Kivuusama
really is something different; it’s not some
thing you hear every day.”
UNC linebacker Kivuusama
(“kuh-vuy-You-suh-muh’) Mays
On his name, which may prove fatal for the announcer
at Kenan Stadium.
EDITORIAL
PROFESSOR SENIOR with
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Class
Manifest Destiny and the Prophets of Motown
With nowhere left to go this summer and
seriously in need of some spiritual guid
ance, I turned to the good book: the Bible
of Motown. After reading the Book of Tempta
tions, the Book of (Stevie) Wonder and the Book
of (Smokey Robinson & the) Miracles, I con
templated the following verse in the Book of
Marvin: “Mercy, mercy me; things ain’t what
they used to be.”
Ain’t that the truth.
There was something special, almost magi
cal, about being young. Back in the day, the
middle of August meant it was time for anew
lunchbox and things couldn’t get any better than
that.
Okay, maybe there are things better than new
lunchboxes, like when you’re walking through a
mimefield and nobody is trapped in an imagi
nary glass box.
Or when you get anew lunchbox and Elle
McPherson—or Brad Pitt if you ’re of the other
persuasion—climbs out of it and says that since
you’re the billionth person to buy a lunchbox
you get to take her home.
It didn’t have to be Elle McPherson, of course.
At that age, it could have been a clown making
balloon animals, some guy in a Scooby Doo
costume, or who cares what else. Speaking of
Scooby Doo, I don’t think that show really
would have taken off without Shaggy. But I
digress.
The point is that there was a time when we
didn’t worry about classes starting again. Not
that there’s any reason to worry now. Unless
you’re a freshman.
Seriously, freshmen, don’t believe those ru
mors about easy, entry-level classes. I’m really
working for you people because I know you
have so little going for you.
For example, you have to live in dorms, can
speak only when you’re spoken to, must admit
to being freshmen and on top of all that, your
Right-Wing Attitudes Towards
Homosexuals Illogical
TO THE EDITOR:
The right wing’s attitude about homosexual
ity is illogical and contradictory. They rail against
gay promiscuity but refuse to sanction same-sex
marriages.
They insist that gay teachers and parents pose
a threat to children, while gay youth, in the
absence of role models, kill themselves in record
numbers.
And they denounce a condition that is present
in almost all species as “unnatural.”
If their intent is to eliminate homosexuality
from the realm of innate human behavior, I
suggest they try something more worthwhile
and more possible, like rigging the sun to rise in
the West.
William C. Stosine
IOWA CITY, IOWA
INTERNET READER
Campus, National Group
Working to Help Environment
The author is one of the organizers of the 1995
SEAC National Conference.
TO THE EDITOR:
What is environmentalism?
According to Webster’s Dictionary, an envi
ronmentalist is one who is dedicated to preserv
ing the natural environment —natural implying
trees, animals, plants and a host of other things
excluding humankind.
Unfortunately, the world is not as neat as a
dictionary.
In “Cancer Alley," Louisiana, multinational
corporations built their factories in poor minor
ity communities. Ask these residents who have
cancer rates 400 times higher than the national
average whether racism and environmental is
sues are related.
Ask the residents of Brownsville, Texas, a
place where babies are bom without brains due
to the dioxins in the water, whether racism,
sexism and environmentalism are related. The
hardest-hit areas have been poor Latino com
munities along the Rio Grande. Ask the house
keepers on our own campus whether these con
nections exist.
The Student Environmental Action Coali
tion (SEAC) works to broaden the traditional
definition of the environmental.
As oneNewYorkTimes article stated, SEAC
is a “move to protect communities as well as
trees.”
SEAC views all social issues such as racism,
sexism and heterosexism as being fundamen-
parents don’t really
love you.
Anyway, what
I’m getting at is the
message of the Bible
of Motown: some
times we need to re
capture our youth.
There was a time
when summer vaca
tion meant playing
with your friends and
going to camp, but
not any more.
Forget everything
you’ve ever heard
about family cook-
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outs and firecrackers and churning buttermilk
(Amish only) and eating watermelons and all
that crap, and dammit, look at me when I’m
talking to you.
I’m not trying to say that summertime isn’t
fun or exciting or anything like that.
Hell, in mid-July I was catapulted from a
giant slingshot overthe Great Wall of China, my
fall cushioned only by moist, tender brownies
and light, flaky flapjacks. Then, I circumnavi
gated the globe in a kayak, subsisting only on
raw fish, granola ban and Tang. Now that’s
adventure.
That’s also obviously a big lie but so is life
sometimes.
I’ll write something later that’s not a lie and
you can compare the two. Read on.
This may sound extremely immature but there
is something about having to go to work every
day that just kind of sucks. Why can’t everybody
just stay at home, act like kids and watch car
toons for a living?
I think that since the United States is the most
powerful country in the world, Americans should
be allowed to goof off whenever they want. Our
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tally connected to the health of our environ
ment.
SEAC will be hosting its fourth national con
ference October 13-15 on our campus.
What began as a small ad in Greenpeace
Magazine placed by students from UNC has
now grown to a network of 2,200 high schools
and colleges.
SEAC’s second national conference, Cata
lyst, attracted more than 7,600 students from
across the country with speakers like Jesse Jack
son, Helen Caldicott and Robert Redford.
This conference promises to be no less excit
ing. Invited speakers include Myrlie Evers-Wil
liams of the NAACP, Speech from Arrested
Development, Vandana Shiva ofthe Third World
Network and Cecilia Rodriguez from the Na
tional Commission for Democracy. Invited
musical guests include Rage Against the Ma
chine.
A national Conference here in Chapel Hill,
the birthplace of SEAC, will help our campus
rediscover environmentalism.
SEACers across the country work on a vari
ety of issues.
SEACSouthwest is working with the San
Carlos Apache in the preservation of their sacred
land.
SEACers in the New England area worked to
help stop the construction of the James Bay
Hydro Quebec Dam, where sacred lands of the
Cree Indians were at risk. SEAC also sponsors
several fellowships which place college and high
school students of color as paid interns in com
munity-based organizations led by people of
color.
Environmentalism is not about whether you
are a Democrat, Republican, Socialist or Fas-
laxly (Ear Bffl
national motto could be, “We have big guns.
Give us all your food and money or we’ll shoot
you.” Sure it’s not as heartwarming as “In God
We Trust” or “Live Free or Die,” but hey—free
food.
Not that I really think Americans should
shoot anybody.
It would be much better to annex territories so
it’s more like we’re convincing other countries to
just sort of give us their land. This may sound
imperialist, but weshouldconsidertaking Canada
first.
There are several reasons why this would be a
good thing.
First, Canadian bacon could beabighit at all
you-can-eat breakfast buffets. Second, Molson
Ice.
Third, “O Canada” plus karaoke night at He’s
Not Here equals fun, fan, fan. Besides, once we
have Canada, it’s just a hop, skip and a jump to
Greenland.
Back to the point. When the Prophet Marvin
said, “Things ain’t what they used to be,” he
wasn’t talking about being younger. He was
talking about a time when the oceans were clean
and people cooperated. Some were hunters, some
were gatherers. Plain and simple.
All of this is haphazardly leading toward
Miracle Ingredient Z-147, that mythical bit of
karma that’s someday going to align the planets,
allowing meaningful contact with all forms of
life. Perhaps we might find it.
Maybe it’s mythical because nobody believes
it exists.
You have to believe, though. One day, it’s
going to give us a world that wouldn’t make
Marvin say, “Mercy, mercy me.”
It might even get Elle to jump out ofmy brand
new Legends of Motown lunchbox.
Andy Diamondstein is a senior journalism major from
Scottsdale, Ariz.
cist; it is not about politics.
With a polluted environment everyone suf
fers. The fallout from Chernobyl reached as far
away as Greenland.
The fires from the Gulf War affected the yield
of rice in Thailand.
Every living being has the right to clean air
and water.
For more information on becoming a part of
the most exciting event this fall, contact the local
SEAC office at 962-5453 or the national office at
967-4600.
Gopal Balachandran
JUNIOR
BIOCHEMISTRY
Medical School Advice
Changes With the Times
TO THE EDITOR:
Dean Berryhill, dean of the Medical School
back in the 50s, would probably roll over in his
grave if he could see the full circle we have come
in medical care delivery. Back in the 50s, it was
no secret they did not want any of us going into
general practice. Two pieces of advice were
passed along when I graduated medical school
in 1955: Specialize and stay liberal. I did neither.
I, along with a few brave mavericks, went
into general practice. Even the Academy of
General Practice felt degraded; so, in the 60s,
they changed the name to family practice and
added a three-year residency requirement so
that internists would not snub us at get-togethers.
Things have changed a lot in the past 40
years. Now the medical schools and their bed
partners, the federal government, are promoting
generalists or family practice. What a joke.
Before the changing of the guard last year I
received a very warm letter from Dean
Bondurant: Dear Jim, We are shooting for 50
percent generalists. Please continue to send gen
erous contributions.
Dean Berryhill, rest well. I don’t think you
would like the direction medicine has taken.
James D. Groseclose, M.D.
RANDLEMAN, N.C.
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