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10 Monday, April 1,1996 Wht laxly ®ar Mtti TTianassis Cambanis EDITOR Marc McCollum MANAGING EDITOR Peter Roybal managing editor World Wide Web Electronic Edition f http://www.unc.edu/dth Established 1893 PI 103 Years of Editorial Freedom BOARD EDITORIALS Every day, it seems, another smudge sullies the intellectual climate at UNC. In the libraries, the bars and the streets, members of the Univer sity community aren’t just peeved or a little bit upset they’re angry, shocked and offended. The time has come to give serious consideration to the maintenance of a civil environment for public discourse. Despite the claims of campus activists, the real problem is not hate speech but mean speech. With the help of the administration, the Univer sity community should work to eradicate the specter of meanness rearing its ugly head on campus. Individually, students must stamp out (in the nicest manner possible) all vestiges of meanness they encounter. The Daily Tar Heel, in conjunc tion with several campus organizations, will be sponsoring mandatory “Stoplight” training ses sions. The method is simple. Green is good, red is bad. When a friend starts one of “those” jokes, just say, “Yellow light. ” This warns the speaker, and those around, that a mean comment may be imminent. If mean speech continues, assume the “hear-no-evil” stance by placing your hands over your ears and screaming, “RED LIGHT! RED LIGHT!” Once a red light situation has occurred, report the mean person to your Resident Assistant or local thought police, who will in turn contact Student Attorney General David Huneycut, who Transitive Property For the Class of 1997, time is of the essence. Because of an inept elections board, Senior Class President-Elect Ladell Robbins and Vice Presi dent-Elect Amelia Brace lost several critical weeks oftransition time. All rising seniors should come together to ensure a productive and suc cessful senior year. Because of the questionable results of the Feb. 20 run-off election, the Honor Court demanded anew election on March 26. The time lag wasted an entire month in which the senior class could have been getting projects under way. This year’s campaign produced many acts of good will and cooperation among the candi dates. Robbins and Brace should immediately enlist other candidates’ enthusiasm, leadership and experience. These candidates should coop erate for the class they sought to serve and lead. Robbins and Brace might consider asking one candidate for the use of his beach house for an upcoming weekend. During this or a similar % ? -Si, pop quiz IWhy does UNC need a • women’s center? a. There will be a 99 percent chance of not getting hit on there. b. Welcome to the 19905, North Carolina, c. The old Scuttlebutt building shouldn't go to waste (even if it has been condemned), and. Most institutions of UNC's size, nature and composition have women's centers, providing much-needed services and information. Business and Advertising: Kevin Schwartz. director/general mangager; Chrissy Mennitt advertising director; Leslie Humphrey, classified ad manager; Tetsuo Matsuda, business manager, Ashley Widis. advertising manager. Business Staff: Lisa Reichle, assistant to the general manager. Grace Consacro. assistant manager Classified Advertising: Michelle Byrd, assistant manager, Wendy Holmes and Rachel Lomasz. Assistant Editors: Melissa Milios arts/ diversions; Laura Godwin and Suzanne Wood. city; Catherine Blair and Lily Thayer, copy; Jim Webb, design. Daniel Niblock. graphics, Jason Kirk, photo; Alec Morrison. Joe Rolison and Kurt Tondorf. sports; Erica Beshears, state b national; Jamie Griswold and Jay Moye, university. Arts/Diversions: Todd Gilchrist music editor; Wendy Mitchell and Nicole Quenelle, senior writers. Jennifer Ahari. Jen Ashlock. Kristin Eaton, Steven Ferrara. Alicia Hawley. Jonathan Howie, Aziz Huq, Claire Jarris, Kacey Kinard. Dan Kois, Brent Simon, Barry Summerlin, Lily Thayer and Brian Truitt. Cartoon: Robin Linehan and Joel Tesch. City: Diane Blackman, Luther Caldwell, Amy Cappiello, Mary-Kathryn Craft Todd Darling, Kate Harrison. Margo Hasselman, Vic Hendrickson, Leslie Kendrick. Karen Mitchell. Angela Moore. Gibson Pate. Richard Ray. David Simmeaux. Hillary Sparrow and Jennifer Zahren. Copy: Jennifer Ahan. Sara Bidgood, Catherine Blair. Jodie Cook. Lorelei Costa. Courtney Everett Jill Feldstein. Elizabeth Gardner. Claiborne Hancock. Vic Hendrickson, Dory Jenkins. Michael Kanarek. Korey Karnes, Beverly Morgan. Christine Nicolette. Anna Pond. Dannielle Romano and Kathryn Sherer. 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 norvprofit North Carolina corporation, Monday-Friday. according to the University calendar Callers 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. Foolish Talk will investigate. Because of the ban on mean ness, however, Huneycut will then soundly slap the culprit on the wrist. Mean speech victims should be treated to free ice cream and a snuggly rendition of “Kumbaya. ” Students must remember that only nice “green tight” speech contributes to the intellectual cli mate, while mean speech creates a climate for mean actions, like smoking and drinking to ex cess. The administration must lend full support to eradicating mean speech by establishing a mean speech code, prohibiting all forms of expression which could be mean, or even unpleasant. Some cases of mean speech are obvious “I wish there were more chicks in this class” or “I really don’t like Indian food.” However, some speech is mean in a subver sive way. For example, “I love you.” While usually sweet, the expression of amore can make people VERY uncomfortable, especially since it is targeted speech. There is no love on a sensitive campus. Of course, there are costs to the mean speech policy. Flirting would be a felony, Chick-Fil-A would have no more employees and the editorial page would be a giant smiley face covered with the lyrics to “You are My Sunshine.” If eradicating meanness means eradicating speech, that leaves us just one thing to say April Fools! retreat, they should begin the necessary work for a rewarding senior year. Robbins and Brace made a good start by quickly distributing senior class marshal appli cations. They want a diverse and exciting group of marshals dedicated to a successful senior year. All rising and returning seniors should consider applying for marshal positions by the deadline, April 8. The team should continue to work with the same zeal on other projects. In his most visible act as senior class presi dent, Thad Woody should actively work to smooth their transition as well. There is no rest for the weary. Although Robbins and Bruce might enjoy (and deserve) some rest, the organization and planning of a successful senior year needs to occur now. A third election only makes the new officers more accountable to their constituents. They should make next year worth the time it took to elect them. 2 Why is the Internal Revenue • Service visiting UNC? a. Two words: Cash Daddy, b. An anonymous $ 1 million donation to certain administrators' numbered Swiss bank accounts, c. After their success in raiding massage parlors last week, they figured they might as well look into Hooker's university, and. Boredom. 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Box 3267, Chapal Hill NC 27616-3267 Jeanne Fugate editorial page editor Bronwen Qarl university editor Nancy Fonti university editor Wendy Goodman city editor Robyn Tomlin Haekley state 6 national editor James Lewis special assignments editor Robbi Picked sports editor Marshall Benbow FEATURES EDITOR Melissa Steele FEATURES EDITOR Dean Hair ARTS/DIVERSIONS EDITOR Chante LaGon COPY DESK EDITOR Courtney Piver COPY DESK EDITOR Kristin Rohan DESIGN EDITOR Candi Lang PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Chris Kirkman GRAPHICS EDITOR Michael Webb EDITORIAL cartoon editor Amy Piniak writing coach Justin Williams STAFF DEVELOPMENT Answers: 1. a, 2. c. Robin Kmight Tamara Reytnolds, Jonri Scott, Leslie Stephenson, Amy Waller and Barry Wyner, assistant account executives; Brendan Biamon, office assistant Advertising Production: Beth Meinig, coordinator; Richard D. Allen. Cindy Henley and Jody Matthews, assistants. Nowsdorfc: Melanie Feliciano Staff Davslopmant: Robin Berholz. Jen Fiumara. 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DTH On-line: Eddie Beiles, Steven Palmatier and Jason Purdy. Printing: Triangle Web Press. Distribution: Martin Durrence. EDITORIAL Affirmative Action Hampers, Not Helps, Equality OBITUARY: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION DEAD, Year 2006: “The last blow was struck today to the practice of allowing minority status to be considered as a factor in the admissions process for institutions of higher learning. Affirmative action’s death throes be gan in the early 1990s with Daniel Podberesky’s challenge of die race-based Banniker scholar ship at the University of Maryland and gained momentum in the University of California case and Jack Daly’s challenge of a UNC Law School scholarship based on sexual preference. In court rooms across the nation, preference-based sys tems have been found irreconcilable with the ideal of true democratic equality. Equality and the hard-fought goal of a colotblind society have now been achieved on paper.” If the present trend is to be believed, folks, this is a reality we will soon have to face. While affirmative action has certainly had its successes, there is much more to be gained by its demise. With affirmative college admissions systems in this state, we can arithmetically fill slots with enough smiling minority faces to decorate our brochures, bolster our statistics and afford us all an affirmative pat on the back. By applying this easy fixer-upper at the col lege level, we are conveniently excused from the more painful contemplation of the fact that the economic disparity in school system funding in this state has a heck of a lot more to do with who no matter what race they are will attend UNC. Why not just fix things at the end, rather than undertaking the massive job of leveling the play ing field from the beginning so that we can earn each other’s respect through fair competition rather than affirmation? Asa society, I believe we fear equality. Not economic or social equality, but the kind of equality that threatens to relegate us to being one among a common mass, the kind of equality that would scorn the idea of race, sex, sexual prefer ence or creed as part of an application, the kind of equality that threatens the part of our identity which clings to our racial and cultural difference Publication's Free Speech Silenced Without Advisers TO THE EDITOR: The undersigned have agreed to serve as faculty advisers to the Carolina Review during the remainder of the 1995-96 academic year. The Carolina Review has been without a faculty adviser. Until now it has been unable to identify any faculty or staff member to serve in that capacity. This is primarily attributable to the controversial and sometimes offensive na ture of its past issues. Without a faculty adviser, the Carolina Review does not qualify as a stu dent organization. The consequences are that it is deprived of student government funds, funds contributed by alumni to the Carolina Annual Fund earmarked for the Carolina Review and use of facilities. This makes it impossible, as a practical matter, for the Carolina Review to publish future issues. It would be a shocking limitation upon the freedom of expression in this University if a controversial periodical were to be denied the opportunity to publish because of the inability to satisfy the technical requirement of a faculty adviser. Freedom of expression is of the essence of academic life. This is a state university subject to the First Amendment. The right to speak is not limited by the sensitivities of the audience. When rights are denied to any ofus, we are all at risk. Paul G. Haskell KENAN PROFESSOR OF LAW Daniel H Pollitt KENAN PROFESSOR OF LAW EMERITUS Younger Republicans Support Hayes As Well As Vinroot TO THE EDITOR: I am writing in response to an article by Jennifer Wilson (“Many ‘ Y ounger Republicans’ joined Vinroot’s Camp,” March 12). Perhaps Vinroot has gotten publicity in The Daily Tar Heel because he is a Carolina alumnus, but I would like to point out a few facts that were misleading. The Straw Poll touted by the Vinroot cam paign from the Young Republican Convention involved only 50 people, most of whom are not students. The College Republicans, on the other hand, and demands respect for and acknowledgement of it. I have always found the choice of the term “affirma tive” fascinating. Preference systems certainly are affirma tive—of white guilt. Our society has now, on some uncon- tTARA SERVATIUS | scious level, attached a guilt to white skin. It matters little whether your ancestors were In dian-butchering, slave-owning New-Worlders or immigrants who stepped off the boat only 20 years ago. This phenomenon does not actually demand that you feel guilty for the color of your skin (or the fact that you are male, a far worse crime), only that you acknowledge that you should be. It infers that you have no right to stake a cultural claim in a multicultural society. It mandates silence and support of easy fix-its like affirmative action that save each and every one of us the awkwardness of duly learning to know our cultural others in this society. If we can spreadsheet our tolerance in rainbow-colored statistics that say the job is being done, if we make major bureaucratic decisions on carefully diverse committees, why should any of us bother to expand our comfortably redundant little per sonal climates? We have become obsessed with dissecting our society, with tagging our differences and living within carefully drawn lines and hyphen ated identities. Because these identities would be threatened by an ignorant society, we demand that others learn about our histories and our cultures with the assumption that once they are educated, their unquestioning respect will be automati cally forthcoming. W e brand them intolerant if it is not. We have no desire to know the “others” of whom we require this. And thus multiculturalism is bom. READERS’FORCM 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. Bring letters to the DTH office at Suite 104, Carolina Union, mail them to P.O. Box 3257, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 or email forum to: dth@unc.edu. represents only college students. Richard Vinroot may claim to have strong support among youth, but facts simply do not back this claim. The North Carolina Federation of College Republicans conducted a Straw Poll at its Fall Convention. The result: Robin Hayes defeated Richard Vinroot by a margin of 2 to 1. With over 125 college students participating in this Straw Poll, it is clear that Robin Hayes has the overwhelming support of young activists. In addition, the Students for Hayes organiza tion has organized over 15 college campuses with hundreds of members across the state and support is growing every day. Vinroot has publicly attacked young Hayes supporters on numerous occasions. Hehas called us everything from “props” and “barking dogs” to “Viet Nam picketerslf this is Vinroot’s way of gamering youth support, I can see why his support is dwindling. On March 12 Republican voters at the Wake County Republican Convention supported Hayes over Vinroot in a straw poll by a vote of 275 to 265. The momentum in the governor’s race is clearly shifting in favor of Hayes. The youth activists oftoday willbe the leaders of tomorrow. We do not need a candidate for governor attacking the future leaders of this state. We need a governor that has a vision for the Elfp Baily ear Hppl Education about our diverse cultural heri tages is crucial to our mutual survival in an increasingly diverse society. The problem lies in how we are going about it. There is no easier way to rile the two instructors of my multicultural UNITAS program than to question why we can’t emphasize our sameness and the common ground we share while learning about our cul tural uniqueness. The idea of sharing any kind of common ground with those we are told we are so different from is a threat to the very foundations of a program that seeks to educate with the goal of the survival and perpetuation of the difference which exists comfortably within the neat little dividers drawn by our society. Preserving cultural and racial heritage is im portant. But so is finding common ground as a cure for ignorance and fear. Asa student body, we have far more in common with each other than we do with others our age who are attempt ing to survive in the world without a college education. Rather than working toward that common ground, we build monuments to our difference. If the massive amount of time, money and plan ning spent on the part of students, alumni and administrators to build the Sonja J. Haynes Black Cultural Center, a women’s center and an Asian center had been spent instead working with those too disadvantaged to have the opportunities we have had, a tangible difference might have been made in people’s lives. For all the student fee money spent on “diver sity” programs and activities, a walk from the Undergrad to the Pit will prove that while we may have been “educated,” little or no social change has taken place. We will likely graduate knowing as little about the day-to-day lives of “others” on this campus as we did as freshmen, and that is a real shame. We are failing to do the work of diversity, and until we leant to do it —or are forced to that ideal of true democratic equality, as opposed to the sham that currently passes for it, will never be realized. Tara Servatius is a senior journalism major from Matthews. future and believes in the youth of this state that candidate is Robin Hayes. Nicole Vandikr CHAIRWOMAN, UNC-CH STUDENTS FOR HAYES Existential-Casual Gothism of Miner Should Not Be Mocked TO THE EDITOR: I write this letter in direct opposition to Nic Creznic’s comments against columnist Tim Miner (“Rewriting Tim Miner: Stick to Humor, Not Star Wars Tutorials,” March 27). Tim’s weekly Friday column, “Carolina Gothic,” stems from and is firmly rooted in the philosophies of its ancestor column, “Dorn Ca sual and Frank Goth.” These philosophies are clearly outlined in the bylaws of the original text on Existential-Casual Gothism, available on re serve at the Undergraduate Library. Take point three of section eight, chapter one. “The practicing scribe of Existential-Casual Gothism (ECG) must make it his/her duty to observe and analyze the alleged nugacity of vari ous aspects of life on Earth and to challenge aggressively the assumed insignificance of those elements as they relate to our existence” (I.A.iii). As an open practitioner of ECG, I would chal lenge the insignificance of Mr. Creznic’s com ments —but I would ultimately fail. IfMr. Creznic cannot appreciate the humor of “Carolina Gothic,” it is probably because he represents everything that the ideologies of the column strive to retreat from. In a world in which everyonewants to proj ect a political stance or add their two cents into an endless orgy of tiring PC babble, it in fortunate that we have Tim Miner’s efforts as a refreshing and hysterical reminder of what is truly important in life: the unimportant. If Nic Creznic’s preferred mode'of humor includes the usual commentary on vio lence, pornography and “kids these days,” then I suggest that he submit his resume and support ing creative materials to Mad Magazine, as tiis obvious lack of humor would make him a perfect candidate for the position Nic buddy, if yoiire gonna write something, forpublic display. Work on you’re grammer and punctuality? I mean, yes, commas are not the most, important thing in the world but come on if you think about it there are a body of rules that should be followed. Am I wrong here. Matt Olin CLASS OF 1995
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