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10 Friday, October 13,1995 Srnly ®ar Mtd TTunassis Camlwnis editor Jnstn Stherf managing HXTOR Justin Williams STAFF DEVELOPMENT Work Wide Web Electronic Edition; Ii II http://www.unc.edu/dth Established 1893 SMB 102 Years of Editorial Freedom BOARD EDITORIALS The Student Voice Voting in elections, especially municipal ones, has never been much of a priority for students. Instead of helping to choose officials who will consider campus issues when deciding how to run Chapel Hill and Carrboro, most students have seemed to be content to sit back and watch ambivalently. The University and the towns surrounding it have grown and operated together since the beginning. It’s only natural that the University community play an active role in town issues, yet more often than not, a larger apathy over whelms the concerns of precious few students. This time around, we can help elect two brand-new mayors to lead the towns, as well as the Town Council and Board of Aldermen mem bers who will craft the policies and laws by Bea Pari of the Force You say you’ll retch if you have to eat another Chic-Fil-A sandwich? You’re tired of the end less lines at Lenoir and you think that it should be razed to the ground for an entirely new, larger facility? Now is the time to quit grumbling under your breath and make an elfort to improve food services at UNC. A Food Service Task Force has been created to investigate different options available, and they are admirably attempting to hear students’ voices. The task force has set up focus groups to provide forums for students interested in sug gesting improvements. Because administrators oversaw the last reno vations to food services with little regard for the students’ input, the results are not necessarily in the students’ best interests. The inclusion of students in the current deci sion process will help to ensure that food on campus will meet the needs, budgets, and appe tites of students. The task force has already spent an estimated $6,000-$7,000 on a trip to Boston to observe the food services of other colleges. This money comes from the profits Marriott has made from its Tar Heel Quotables “Sisters, you have shouldered the responsibil ity for the black man since the beginning of time. Without the black woman, there would be no Million Man March.” Nation of Islam Member RON X Discussing the importance of the Million Man March. “They’re going to keep regulating alcohol, controlling noise and jacking up bus fares until we go into the community and cast votes.” Student Body President CALVIN CUNNINGHAM On why students need to register to vote and participate in the up-coming Chapel Hill and Carrboro municipal elections. “Almost as many times as they lied to me.” Defendant in the Janies Jordan murder trial, LORD 0 AS-SADDKt AL-AMIN SALAAM U'ALLAN Telling prosecutor Johnson Britt how many times he lied to police when first questioned about the murder of Michael Jordan's father. Business and Advertising: Kevin Schwartz. director/general manager Chrissy Mennitt. advertising director. Leslie Humphrey, classified ad manager; Tetsuo Matsuda. business manager Ashley Widis. advertising manager Business Staff: Grace Consacro. assistant manager Classified Advertising: Michelle Byrd, assistant manager Wendy Holmes, sales representative Assistant Editors: Nicole Quenelle, arts/diversions: Laura Godwin and Suzanne Wood, city: Sara Frisch. copy: Kristin Rohan, design; Amy Piniak. editorial page; Ellen Flaspoehler. features. John White, photo; Todd Graff and Alec Morrison, sports; Jonathan Hart and Joe Rolison. Sport Saturday. Erica Beshears. state and national; Nancy Fonti. university. Arts/Diversions: Todd Gilchrist music editor; Jennifer Ahari. Jen Ashlock. Jennifer Brent Sharon Cole. Michael Crawford. Bryan Donnell. Kristin Eaton. Steven Ferrara. Benjamin Fisher. Todd Gilchrist Alicia Hawley. Jonathan Howie. Todd Ho. Claire Jams. Kacey Kmard. Anthony King. Dan Kois, Suphie Milam. Wendy Mitchell. Brandon Oropallo. Andrew Parkinson. Mac Rogers. Adam Spipp. Brent Simon. Sharon Smith, Barry Summerlin. Yusuke Toyoda. Brian Truitt and Ross White Cartoon: Brian Kahn. Jeff Maxim and Joel Tesch City: Luther Caldwell. Amy Cappiello. Cheryfl Chin. Mary-Kathryn Craft Todd Darling. Megan Driscoll. Jennifer Fuller. Kelly Gardner, Vic Hendrickson. Leslie Kendrick. Carlos de Mattos. Matt Mesmer. Megan Montgomery. Angela Moore. Emily Newell. Gibson Pate. Alex Podlogar. Susan Sanford. David Simoneaux. Robin Sukhadia and Jennifer Zahren Copy: Catherine Blair. Jenny Blasdell. Kristen Bonatz. Jill Feldstein. Kristin Graf. Dory Jenkins. ChantO LaGon. Scott MacDonald. Ann McCallum. Beverly Morgan. Courtney Piver. Anna Pond. Lauren Schiller, Kathryn Shew. Amy Strickland. Lily Thayer The editorials are approved by the majority of the editorial board, which is composed of the editor, editorial page editor and eight editorial writers. The Daily Tar Heel is published by the DTH Publishing Cofp.. a non-profit North Carolina corporation, Mondayfriday. according to the University calendar Callers with questions about biding or display advertising should dial 962-1163 between 8:30 a m and 5 p.m Classified ads can be reached at 962-0262. Editorial questions should be directed to 962-0246/0246 which residents, including students, will have to abide. So we’re making it easier for you to get in volved in the local campaigns. The Daily Tar Heel is holding two forums so students can ask candidates tough questions and get some an swers. The Carrboro candidates forum will be held Sunday at 7 p.m. in the Union Auditorium. Candidates for Chapel Hill offices will come to the Student Union’s Great Hall Tuesday at 7 p.m. Please come by to meet the candidates and force them to address the campus community’s concerns. And be sure to register to vote before the November elections. This is our chance to have a loud voice in an area where we have remained silent for far too long. consumers and returns to the University. There fore, anyone who has purchased a single over priced item from Marriott has already invested money in the process. This money can be seen as a necessary expen diture to educate the task force about the variety of options available in a way that cannot be taught by lectures or through phone calls. How ever, upcoming trips to North Carolina schools such could achieve similar results. An even lower-cost means of learning more about what can be done can result from the input of everyone who uses food service. About 2,700 students alone pay a flat Board Rate for their meal plans. This number does not include the thousands of others who buy an occasional Coke or bagel. That’s thousands of voices and stomachs that have a significant stake in the findings of the Food Service Task Force. Make your voice heard: attend a focus group, fill out a survey or simply contact task force members such as Student Body President Calvin Cunningham or Director of Auxiliary Service Rutledge Tufts. That, or stop complaining. “We got the win, now let the win go,” UNC linebacker JAMES HAMILTON Encouraging Tar Heel fans not to put too much emphasis on UNC's victory over No. 9 Virginia last weekend. “I’m sure a lot of the kids around here would like to eat something that could actually get them through the day and not make them feel fat and greasy.” Food Task Force student member LISA DEVEL Explaining the important mission of the task force to once again change Lenoir. “It’s like running a high school on the side. There’s no reason taxpayers should have to pay twice for the same thing.” Mathematics professor JOSEPH PLANTE Explaining why the recent increase in the number of students taking introductory Math 10 is a negative trend. 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Jason Purdy and Jos Purvis. Printing: Village Printing. Distribution: Martin Durrence. EDITORIAL From 01’ Magic Rocks to the Million Man Mosey Magic rocks used to amaze me. All you had to do was drop these little rocks in water, and they’d turn into tall skinny rocks called stalactites or stalagmites or stegosauruses or something. In all, they were colorful? lanky, magic rocks and if used properly, they could scare the shit out of a goldfish. Magic markers are a whole ’nother story. They may be pretty neat, but they sure as hell aren’tmagic. Ifyouget ’em on your clothes, they won’tmagically disappear, and if you throw ’em in a pail of water, you don’t get really big magic markers. What if Crayola came out with magic cray ons, full of magic, colored wax ... alternative crayons, ifyou will. They would defy the normal crayon, coloring outside the lines, doing what ever they damn well please. Most people prob ably wouldn’t be interested. Unless Crayola’s Magic Crayons came out on Oct. 11, National Coming Out Day. In my opinion, the fact that we even need to have a Coming Out Day is a major sign that human beings have stopped evolving. The Jerry Springer Show is an even bigger sign check out the “My ex is a womanizer” episode —but that’s another story. Now, before you dash off an angry note to my editor, let me explain. There’s no special day set aside for people to announce they are straight, why have one for people to announce they’re gay. Sure, it’s a great reason to have a picnic, but so are s’mores and we don’t have S’mores Day. Besides, why put all that pressure on homo sexuals. You’ve only got one day, you better say it. Say it. Say it, you bastard. What are you, chicken? It’s going to be a whole lot easier for you and your family if you just tell us now. Otherwise, look forward to another 364 days of hell. It’s like being tortured by the Vietcong all over again. Damn, I hated that war, trudging \kj I BPPMca'iPijagjjg'f ||Dw| jA i ( ||j&v P > nc> j ) I Ws Collegiate Binge Drinking Isn’t All Fun and Games Anyone doubting that “binge drinking” is alive and well at UNC would have no doubt after reading the article “Drinking Games Liven Up Student Shindigs” on page 3 of the DTH for Oct. 9. Whether the incidence of binge drinking is higher at UNC than at other campuses, the article highlights the apparent acceptance by the DTH and the student body that alcohol is the pleasurable vehicle over which friendships are made and deepened, and that drinking enough to raise one’s alcohol blood level to well over twice the legal limit for intoxi cation is good “fun and games. ” Further into the article, students are admonished to know their limit: that is, to know their limit while participat ing in a drinking game in which the entire point is to produce as rapidly as possible a state of mind no longer able to make a considered judg ment. There is no “fun” and “games” in our con tacts with student alcohol use at Student Health Services. The picture here is a dark one. Let me mention just a few cases seen in the past year: ■ The student who, usually as part of a “drink ing game, ” elevates his or her blood alcohol to a point that is life threatening, and is hospitalized on the Intensive Care Unit. ■ The student who drinks too much and is Saitgam Offers Opportunities To Learn About World Culture Editor's note: The author is the Academics Committee cochairman of Sangam. TO THE EDITOR: I have long wanted to climb the pedestal of the DTH editorial page to address what I see as a lack of recognition for artistic and cultural achievements outside the Western world, and if readers will bear with me until the end of my letter, I will even go so far as to propose a first step they can take toward rectifying this situa tion. Now, I hope lhat no reader will take what I write to mean that the important cultural figures of Europe and North America do not deserve the place that is generally reserved for them. On the contrary, I would be the first to defend the “deservedness" of the adulation that is heaped on such figures as Beethoven and Shakespeare; these men were unequivocably geniuses for whose work humanity is the richer. My concern is that genius is not often seen as residing outside of Europe and North America, or at least that is my perception. While it is true the occasional day and night through the jungles living on bugs and dogs and looking for Asian men named Charlie. “Are you Charlie, "I’d say, and they’d say, “No, I’m Kwan,” or Twe or Tang or something, and I never got to shoot anybody. Not that I support shoot ing Vietnamese people, or anybody else, for that matter. I ANDY DIAMONDSTEIN | SEARCHING FOR MIRACLE INGREDIENT M 47 On the other hand, there are a lot of drivers who deserve to be shot, or at least have their licenses revoked. Most of them —and I mean this in the nicest, most gender-indifferent way possible are women. Anyway, I think Coming Out Day is bad because, sexual preference aside, gays are ex actly like heterosexuals, so why set them apart from everybody else once each year. It seems kind of counterproductive. Hell, when I was a kid, I thought Led Zeppe lin and lesbian were the same thing. It was a great laugh for the second graders. “Hey, Andy, do you like Led Zeppelin videos?” “Yeah!” Somebody once told me that God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. That’s pretty obvious, though. I’ve got a feeling God had a pretty firm grasp on the birds and the bees concept. Therefore, he probably realized that if he created Adam and Steve, he’d have to start over again in about 30 years or so, given the average lifespan in those days. Personally, I think he should have created Steve and Eve that would have been poetic justice. involved in an acci dent or injury result ing in severe injury or death. JUDITH COWAn| GUEST COLUMNIST ■ The student who drinks too much, loses behavioral control, is involved in assault or de struction of property and the student who is assaulted or whose property is destroyed. ■ The student who drinks too much, has a non-protected sexual experience and an associ ated incidence of sexually transmitted disease, often incurable, which includes on this campus the transmission of HIV infection. ■ The student who is discouraged and per haps significantly depressed who makes a sui cide attempt while drinking, and the student who tries to help or discovers the attempted or successful suicide. ■ The student, usually a woman, who feels clearly that she has been assaulted sexually with intercourse which occurs when both parties have been drinking, often heavily, and whose accom panying anger and confusion interrupts her life and academic career. ■ The student, usually a man, who believes that sex was mutual, does not want to think of himself as a rapist and yet finds himself involved in criminal or campus judicial proceedings that READEOTORUM 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 length, clarity and vulgarity. Bring letters to the DTH office at Suite 104, Carolina Union, mail them to P.O. Box 3257, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 or e-mail forum to dth@unc.edu. non-Westem artist does manage to reacha West ern audience, I feel that there are miles to travel before the Mahabharatha receives its place be side The Canterbury Tales. And that, I am con- (HJjf Daily ®ar Hppl Coming Out Day would be pretty cool if anybody could come out and announce their sexual preference. “I just feel happier around men,” some guy might say. “In July, I screwed some chick," another mightpitch in. After every body finished giving a spiel, we could all go out for a beer or something. Talk about fun for the entire traditionally or non-traditionally struc tured family. Wow! Since Coming Out Day is not like that, I spent most of the day inside gearing up for a really big event: the Million Man March. Of course, this is another event I can’t really participate in. Yep, these days white guys like me can’t do anything but smoke a cigar out on the manor porch, drinking a mint julep and talking to the colonel. Anyway, this is a really impressive event, and only a black man could have organized it. If we’re dealing with a million white guys here, it’s supremacy. Or how about a white guy telling a million black guys to march. It’s just not going to happen. On that note, there is one thing that worries me about this march. From what I understand, this isn’t an anti-white thing, which is from my perspective at least —a good thing. However, if that’s the case, why march. It just sounds so militant. I bet there would be a lot more support for the event if it was a Million Man Leisurely Stroll. I realize that using allitera tion or onomatopoeia or whatever the heck it’s called helps give the event a catchy name, but march? How about the Million Man Mosey? I think a pretty good idea would be an all-race Million Man Mosey. We could all meander do wn to a drive-in theater and watch “Showgirls. ” Now that would be an amazing show of unity. Almost as amazing as Magic Rocks. Andy Diamondstein is a senior journalism major from Scottsdale, Ariz. may greatly affect his emotional state, his career and his future. ■ The women who faces the dilemma of an unexpected pregnancy associated with alcohol related unprotected sex and the crisis of con science this brings. ■ The student who has been drinking through out his college career, and perhaps before, and no w finds himself in volved in addictive behavior and symptoms seriously interfering with his or her personal and academic life. ■ The student who drops out because of in volvement with alcohol. ■ The student who takes care of sick friends when other concerns, such as exams, may be much more pressing for him/her. ■ The student who, while drinking, engages in destructive and pain giving behaviors, which he or she would not otherwise do, and writes off individual responsibility as “the booze talking ” ■ The student who learns to use alcohol as a major way of coping with personal stress or discomfort and does not leam alternatives dur ing his/her college years. This person is at high risk for continuing problems. Judith Cowan is the director of Student Health Services vinced, is truly the point we must arrive at. I hope readers will find at least a kernel of truth in my admittedly poorly developed claim, and take it upon themselves to acquaint them selves with the cultural and artistic traditions with which they might not be familiar. Which brings me at last to the first step toward a solution which I promised and the real reason I am writing this letter. I am writing to extend an invitation to attend Sangam’s annual fall show, Rang-e-Sangam. The program is Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in Hill Hall Auditorium. This year’s event will allow the community to gain exposure to South Asian cultural and artistic life. Rang-e- Sangam will include acts ranging from classical dances such as Punjabi bhangra to an Urdu ~ poetry reading to a dramatization of a scene from India’s great epic, the Ramayana. It promises to be entertaining, whether or not one has had any prior experience with South Asian culture; in fact, those students, faculty and townspeople who may know very little about South Asia are the very people we especially hope will consider attending. ; Satish Gopal JUNIOR MUSIC/BIOLOGY :
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