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Tuesday, September 29, 1998
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"The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss is one of the banned books on display this week at the Bull's Head Bookshop. In
1989, the book was banned from a California school district because it allegedly attacked the forestry industry.
Bookshop Offers Banned Books
Bull's Head Bookshop offers
a 15 percent discount on all
banned books this week
to foster freedom of choice.
By Tommy Kim
Staff Writer
Bull’s Head Bookshop will celebrate
Banned Books Week this week by sell
ing banned books from around the
nation to reaffirm the First Amendment.
The campus bookstore will partici
pate in the national event by selling
books from compiled lists of books that
have been banned from public schools
and libraries across the country.
The sale at the bookshop started Sept.
24 and will last until Oct. 2. Banned
books will be 15 percent off sticker
prices as well, bookshop publicist Ryn
Nasserds said.
Employees usually try to do some
thing different each year, she said.
“Last year, (journalism professor)
Chuck Stone gave a speech on censor
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Redmon, who is in charge of imple
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ship, and this year there will be a First
Amendment display for people to sign,”
she said.
Nasser said the display would then be
sent to the N.C. General Assembly to
emphasize the students’ feelings on the
First Amendment.
Nasser said people were curious
about the books that had been banned
and wanted to see what the fuss is about.
Bull’s Head manager Erica Eisdorfer
said books were banned everywhere.
“(That) can be a dangerous precedent to
set,” she said.
Eisdorfer said books had been
banned for ridiculous reasons.
“‘Harriet the Spy’ was banned
because it taught children to be impu
dent to parents,” she said. “‘The Diary of
Anne Frank’ was banned because it was
decided as a real downer.”
Nasser said they had been getting a
good response because people enjoyed
reading why books had been banned.
“It’s really amazing, and the sale has
been going well this year,” Nasser said.
Eisdorfer said, “Every year, we try to
make a big deal about it because the
ful to observe the small, controlled stu
dent government test group first.
Patel said student government would
assist Redmon in evaluating several
aspects of the new Web registration.
He said cabinet members wanted to
make sure students would have a clear
concept of the new registration process,
issue of censorship is important.”
According to the 1998 Banned Books
Resource Guide, banned books includ
ed works such as “The Autobiography
of Malcolm X,” a book critics thought
advocated violence and presented a
racist view of white people.
Other books were banned for advo
cating immoral lifestyles.
For example, “Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl was
banned in Boulder, Colo., because the
book “espoused a poor philosophy of
life.” And “Tarzan” was banned because
critics said he was living in sin withjane.
“A Light in the Attic” by Shel
Silverstein faced a similar fate because it
encouraged children to break dishes
instead of drying them, the guide states.
Eisdorfer said Banned Books Week
represented the reason why people were
lucky to live in the United States.
“Your right to read what you want is
one of the most vital and important
rights that you have.”
The University Editors can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
and would try to predict any potential
questions students might have.
“The role of student government is to
give support and feedback,” he said.
Redmon said that although trials
would be carefully evaluated before
other students have the chance to use
on-line registration, she hoped to move
to full-scale implementation of the ser
vice as soon as possible.
The University Editors can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
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Israel, Palestine:
West Bank Issue
Nearly Resolved
President Clinton wants the
two leaders in Washington
to finalize the agreement on
returning land to Palestine.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said
Monday he and Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat had achieved a break
through on a long-elusive deal to turn
over more of the West Bank territory,
and President Clinton asked them to
return next month to iron out a final
deal.
“I believe that we all agreed that we
have made progress on the path to
peace,” Clinton told reporters after an
hourlong session with the two leaders in
the Oval Office.
Clinton described the event as “a sig
nificant narrowing of the gaps between
the two parties across a wide range of
issues.”
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
steered clear of claiming a breakthrough
on any of the tough issues, including
how much land Israel would relinquish
and what the Palestinians would do to
curb terrorism.
“This process needs to be speeded
up,” Albright said.
She and U.S. mediator Dennis Ross
will go to the Middle East for more talks
with the two leaders around Oct. 6.
About a week later Arafat and
Netanyahu will return to the White
House to once again visit with the pres
ident.
The two Middle East leaders flew to
Washington on Monday following talks
that lasted late into Sunday night with
Albright in New York.
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to wait until the last minute to find out
exactly how much it would cost to go to
college, Barnes said.
But Broad said the BOG always had
the option of proposing the tuition rate,
citing the board’s thought that the leg
islature would set tuition rates at a lower
level. Broad said tuition rates had
increased at an average rate of 8 percent
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After their three-way session in the
Oval Office, Netanyahu and Clinton
were holding a one-on-one meeting, and
Clinton is to meet Arafat separately on
Tuesday.
“I think we’re getting close to finaliz
ing an agreement and it’s time for the
leaders to meet,” Netanyahu said on
NBC’s “Today” show before the White
House meeting.
In his remarks to reporters, Clinton
did not mention details. Earlier, Israeli
diplomats, speaking on condition of
anonymity, said there was agreement
that Israel would withdraw from an
additional 13 percent of the West Bank.
Three percent would be turned into a
nature preserve and kept under Israeli
military control, with Israeli and
Palestinian construction prohibited.
“There is still a substantial amount of
work to be done until a comprehensive
agreement can be reached,” Clinton
said.
In the Oval Office, Clinton stood
between Netanyahu and Arafat facing a
wall of cameras and correspondents
yelling questions over each other.
Clinton hushed the reporters once for a
question.
Both Netanyahu and Arafat looked
straight ahead, stone-faced, as Clinton
spoke. Arafat’s eyes roamed tentatively
as he took in what his interpreter was
saying. Netanyahu only briefly looked at
Clinton as the president noted the “very
unusual commitment” both Mideast
leaders were making to negotiating
peace.
Albright watched from the edge of
the crowd. She paused as Netanyahu,
then Clinton, left the room.
Arafat stopped, guided her ahead of
him and walked with her. He turned
back and gave a small nod to reporters
before he disappeared through the door.
each year over the past decade, with a 3
percent increase from last year.
Despite the below-average increase
from last year, Barnes said the propos
al could not guarantee that tuition rates
would remain so low in the future.
Currently, the goal of the proposal is
to try to keep the increase in tuition
rates as low as possible, he said.
But despite the lack of guarantees,
Broad said the proposal was the best bet
for the UNC system.
“I think this is a healthy sign that the
university (system) as a whole has con
sidered this issue carefully and consid
ers this the best way to go.”
Staff Writer Holly Neal contributed
to this report.
The University Editors can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
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Federal Reserve Board
To Cut Interest Rates
WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve
policy-makers are expected to cut inter
est rates for the first time in nearly three
years on Tuesday, acting on Chairman
Alan Greenspan’s alarm about a deteri
orating world economy.
The question, private economists
said Monday, is how much success any
cut would have in containing a financial
crisis that so far has proven unstoppable
and now threatens more countries.
“A Fed rate cut will help undergird a
deteriorating global economic situation.
But it isn’t a magic bullet,” said Sung
Won Sohn, chief economist at Norwest
Corp. in Minneapolis.
Georges’ Driving Rains
Cause Massive Flooding
PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Hurricane
Georges plowed into the Gulf Coast on
Monday and then parked there, weak
ening to a tropical storm but pouring
rain at an inch-an-hour pace for what
could be a long and ruinous stay.
Winds dropped to just over 69 mph,
six mph below hurricane strength and
down from a high of 110 mph.
But that was little comfort to the
thousands who huddled in shelters from
Florida to Louisiana and were expected
to remain there for days.
“In some areas, there’s water to
rooftops and 4 to 5 feet of water in
many other homes. I’ve never seen any
thing like it in more than 50 years,” said
Jackson County administrator George
Touart, after a tour of Pascagoula, where
15 inches of rain fell overnight.
Associated Press
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said she felt similarly about the issue.
She works at a restaurant called The
Grill, also located on College Avenue
and said the biggest problem came from
people who wanted to buy food for pan
handlers instead of giving them money.
“The people will order the food and
pay for it, but they won’t wait until it’s
ready,” Speck said. “As soon as the peo
ple leave, the panhandlers will tell us to
cancel the order and give them the
money.”
Wilmington is facing a similar situa
tion, in that UNC-Wilmington officials
and local business owners disagree
about the severity of the problem.
Elizabeth Hall, the public informa
tion officer at UNC-Wilmington, said
panhandling was not a major problem.
But Tony Bonino, the general man
ager of Good Time Charley’s, a restau
rant on the UNC-W campus, said he
felt differently. “If the managers take it
upon themselves to keep the panhan
dlers from staying in front of their busi
nesses, it can be kept under control,” he
said. “But it’s still a huge annoyance.”
Bonino said signs posted around
Wilmington discouraged students from
giving money to panhandlers.
Police officials said most cities had
similar ordinances for controlling pan
handling.
Mark Torbery, crime prevention offi
cer at the University of Virginia, said
panhandling was not illegal, but harass
ing people or panhandling under the
influence of drugs or alcohol was.
“You can’t arrest someone for pan
handling, but nine times out of 10 you
can arrest them for something else that
is related to it.”
The State & National Editors can be
reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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