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12 Monday, March 27, 2000 Concerns or comments about out coverage? Contact the ombudsman at hudmaniminc.edu oc call 605-2790. Scott Hicks EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR Katie Abel UNIVERSITY EDITOR Jacob McConnico CITY EDITOR Board Editorials One or the Other Though a committee has recommended joining two labor groups, it would be stupid and wasteful for Bill McCoy to choose both. Interim Chancellor Bill McCoy owes it to manufacturers, monitoring groups, staff, fac ulty and students alike to take a decisive stance on how UNC plans to enforce civi lized working conditions in the factories that make Tar Heel gear. That means deciding to maintain the University’s ties with the Fair Labor Association or choosing to sign up with the Worker Rights Consortium. One or the other, not both -as the Licensing Labor Code Advisory Code rec ommended Wednesday. Sorry, Bill, but you just can’t have it both ways. To its credit, the committee deserves a pat on the back for trying to find a way to make doubly sure that the companies that produce UNC apparel are doing right by their work ers. But in such a complex issue, a clear, unwavering commitment to one group or the other is the only way to show both compa nies and monitoring groups that the University means business. UNC cannot split the leverage it wields in Right on the Money The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of common sense when it upheld the way many universities currently disburse student fees. When a handful of conservative students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison lost their case Wednesday, students all over the United States won. The Supreme Court rejected 9-0 the daims of young right-wingers at the school who said their free-speech rights had been violated because they were forced to con tribute, through student fees, to activist groups they did not agree with. The students said it was a violation of the First Amendment for the university to force them to endorse ideas or political causes they opposed. If the court had accepted the students’ arguments, the intellectual climate at all pub lic institutions would have suffered. Without funding from student fees, many student groups couldn’t exist or would have to spend too much of their time fund raising. The justices said forcing dissenting stu dents to pay student fees didn’t force them to support ideas or groups they opposed. Rather, the money goes into a pool that is distributed to groups with all kinds of views. At UNC, Student Congress decides which groups get how much in funding from stu dent fees. Students elect representatives to Student Congress, and so the division of stu dent fees should reflect students’ opinions. The Daily Tar Heel welcomes submissions from its readers for its Viewpoints page every Monday. Guest columns should be about 800 words, written by no more than two people and discuss an issue relevant to DTH readers. Submissions should be e-mailed to editdesk@unc.edu and are due by 6 p.m. the Wednesday before the column will appear. Publication is not guaranteed. For more information, contact Editorial Page Editor Scott Hicks at 962-0245. (The latlg ®ar Heel Business and Advertising: Janet Gallagher- Cassel, director/general manager; Chrissy Beck, director of marketing; Laurie Morton, classifiedtcustomer service manager; Lisa Reichle, business manager; Jennifer Mackey, assistant business manager; Elizabeth Martin, retail sales manager. Marketing Group: Cindy Rice, specialist; Williams and Michael Wlodek. 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Features: Megan Butler, lermaine Assistant Editors: Ashley Atkinson and Danielle Eubanks, arts & enter tainmenr, Ginny Sciabbarrasi and Jason Owens, city; Allison Boone and Meredith Werner, copy; Adrienne Coppemoll and Caroline Hupfer, design, Kelli Boutin, editorial page; Rachel Carter, features; Dana Craig and Saleem Reshamwala, graphics, Josh Williams, online, Sefton Ipock and Jeff Pouland. photography; Will Kimmey, Mike Ogle and Bret Strelow, sports; Lucas Fenske, Kathleen Hunter and Cheri Melfi, state Si national; Lauren Beal, Kim Minugh and Alex Molaire. university. Arts & Entertainment: Jim Martin and Erin Wynia, senior writers, Shindy Chen, Jeremy Hurtz, Cad Jacobs, Russ Lane, Josh Love, Matt Mansfield, Ferris Morrison, Joanna Pearson, David Povill, Alison Rost, Justin Winters, Carmen Woodruff and Lindsey Zuckerman. Cartoon: Suzanne Buchanan, Teng Moua, Adna Mueller, James Pharr, Zach Warkentin, David Watson, Jim the edmnah are approved by the maturity of the editorial board, nvbicb is composed of the editor, editorial page editor, assistant editonal page editor, cartoon editor and seven editorial writers The Daily Tar Heel is published by the OIH Publishing Corp . a non profit Nodh Carohna corpootion, Monday-fnday, according to the University calendar. Callers with questions about billing or display advertising should can 962-1163 between 8:30 a m. and S p m Classified ads can be reached at 962-0232 Editorial Questions should be directed to 962-0249 Rob Nelson EDITOR Office Hours Friday 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. this issue between two groups. UNC holds a lot of power over the companies that make Tar Heel apparel, and dividing that power between both the FLA and the WRC means factories won’t take the University seriously. And on the other side, the monitoring groups themselves deserve nothing less than UNC and McCoy’s full support and participation. Indeed, it would be a logicad conundrum even to try to please both groups. While the FLA is run predominantly by representatives of the manufacturers, the WRC is spear headed by student and labor activists. Trying to get those two sides together would be like A1 Gore or George W. Bush picking the other as his vice presidential running mate. With all the tension that’s already been generated by this issue, it’s time to move on. Taking a decisive stand and choosing one monitoring group over the other will save time and money, give the University a clear focus and cut down on bureaucracy. Though it be nice to have both, McCoy must give one of the groups the pink slip. Throughout the United States, conserva tive students complain that most of the money from student fees goes to liberal stu dent organizations. But all nine Supreme Court justices - five of whom are widely considered conservative - agreed that the breadth of programs fund ed at the university was sufficient to make the system “viewpoint-neutral.” Unfortunately, the justices also opened the door for colleges and universities to adopt a “check-off” system that would allow students to choose what organizations their money would go to. Schools should not begin using this sys tem. Students often end up joining groups they never would have considered before being exposed to them at their colleges or universities. Although they become a part of these organizations, they would not have given them their student fees as freshmen. Furthermore, some students wouldn’t care what their money funded and would just check off the first five choices. The A’s would arbitrarily end up with much more money than the Z’s. Even if you don’t agree with a certain point of view, being able to hear it improves your education. 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Opinions Robin Clemow ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Carolyn Haynes COPY DESK EDITOR Miller Pearsall PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Cf\ Hh oo.UGS 5 AttSTHER \ Jw \UMC CA XT?- .SCIENCE LABSj Four Words: We’re Going to Indy Our fingernails are shorter and our hearts are still pounding, but boy does it feel good to have our team still playing basketball. indeed, the week became a little more exciting Sunday as the Tar Heel hoopsters knocked off Tulsa to advance to the Final Four of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. It was a roller coaster of a weekend for many of us as we suffered through alternating fits of joy and agony with each play of the Tar Heels’ two games. Our team seemed uninter ested in blowing anyone out. Even before this weekend’s Sweet 16 and Elite Eight games, tension was mounting. When I flew back to campus from Spring Break, the tournament was in its first weekend with the Tar Heels in Birmingham, Ala. As we waited to board the plane, everyone on my flight from Baltimore to Raleigh was glued to a small television at the end of the ter minal, hanging on every play in the final min utes of the Tar Heels’ victory over Stanford. Had the game gone to overtime, the flight would have been delayed - no one was get ting on that plane until the game was over, not even the Dookies. And as the team continued to advance this weekend, fans released their pent-up nervous energy in a pair of classic Franklin Street cele brations. Yep, post-Tennessee-and-Tulsa Franklin Street was quite a spectacle. Within a minute of the games’ final buzzers, the street was blocked off and flooded with wild, obnoxious fans who stuck around for hours. There were the standard bonfires, complete with fireworks, and a variety of pro-UNC, anti-Duke and bring-on-the-next-victim cheers. There was crowd-surfing and picture taking and high-fiving. People even invoked the spirit of Dean Smith. And displaying the Carolina touch of class, the crowd sang the alma mater with the help of a lone, yet excited, trombone player. We have survived to play another day. Readers' Forum Misogynist Comments Should Bar Columnist From Leaving Cave TO THE EDITOR: 1 would like to share with Amol Naik some advice for further columns from “the dank cave" - if you don’t have anything to say, don’t write a three-column column and waste our time. Maybe the vacation put some deadline pressure on you and you had to just whip up something real quick, or maybe you just felt com pelled to ramble about your lust problem with women or your sloth fulness. But really, it’s quite an insult to me that you would think that I- or anyone else - would enjoy or in any way benefit from your degradation of women and lack of journalistic skills. I would like to recommend you invest in a personal journal and spare The Daily Tar Heel and its readers your depraved mind. Meditate a little longer in your “dank cave,” and come out when you actually have something to say. Julie Mancuso Sophomore Journalism and Mass Communication Vicky Eckenrode & Cate Doty MANAGING EDITORS Thomas Ausman DESIGN EDITOR Megan Sharkey GRAPHICS EDITOR William Hill ONLINE EDITOR ' Vi ■ BRANDON BRISCOE VOICE OF REASON Only the police, firefighters and street cleaners, all of whom did an admirable job, were sweating it. One officer raced down the street with a recliner on his back, saving both the chair and the crowd from the flames of the bonfire. Presumably the poor souls who left their cars parked on Franklin Street after the games were not thrilled either, especially when the vehicles became viewing stands upon w hich people stood for a bird’s eye view of the fes tivities Friday night. One pick-up truck in par ticular took quite a beating. How do you explain that to the insurance company? “Honestly, there were 20 people jumping on my car ... just for fun.” I bet they hear that all the time. Ironically, the last big party on Franklin Street was for Halloween. That night saw two basketball players arrested following a late night brawl. Those charges are still pending. Nonetheless, the gatherings were a fine showing of our school spirit, whose positive side had lain dormant for much of this basket ball season. Despite the enthusiasm of the “snow game” against Maryland back in January, it would be no stretch to call us fair-weather fans. After all, many members of the UNC bandwagon were decrying the merits of Coach Bill Guthridge and playing his funeral march just a few weeks ago. Speaking of which, we certainly send our heartfelt condolences to Coach Guthridge on Drama I6*s Selection As Crossword Class Maligns Department TO THE EDITOR: 1 am writing in response to a sec tion of your “Carolina’s Finest” sup plement March 23.1 read several of the selections and came upon the “Best Class to Do Crossword in.” Drama 16 took the prize. I took Drama 16 as a freshman, and it was not my most challenging at UNC. I do not object to these students’ opin ions of the class. However, I do object to a degrading comment made against all drama majors as well as the Department of Dramatic Art. Introductory drama classes do not teach advanced Shakespearean scan sion any more than Chemistry 11 teaches organic chemistry. Yet these classes are necessary as building blocks for upper-level courses or con tributing to a well-rounded education. I recognize the stigma of “Drama 16” and its use to perpetuate the stereotype of drama as an easy A. The fact that students choose not to listen in the class reflects their lack of attention span more than the intel lectual climate within the drama department. Terry Wimmer OMBUDSMAN the death of his mother this weekend. But we’ve had to console ourselves several times this year. We never did get Duke’s num ber, and who hasn’t yelled angrily at Brendan Haywood to get a rebound or at Ed Cota to take a shot this year? Yet when it rains here, it pours - in both good times and bad. The weekend’s impromptu parties certainly proved that all is forgiven -and that UNC students know how to celebrate. This is quite unlike our counterparts at t Purdue University, who got a little carried away after their win Thursday, prompting police to fire tear gas into the crowd and haul people off to jail. Thankfully, the UNC crowd and the Chapel Hill police exercised more restraint, although tear gas would likely have added to the delight of revelers who seemed to applaud just about anything. And now we can happily move through another week, thrilled to be alive in the tour nament and nervously awaiting the next big game. Pity the souls who have tests and papers this week - concentration will be in short supply. And win or lose, we have something to write home about and remember. Seniors are going out with a bang, and freshmen will get to tell stories in three years about how it was “back in the day.” Yes, it’s great to be a Tar Heel this week. No need for next weekend to come too fast; it’s more fun to soak up our good fortune and savor the moment. Friday will come soon enough, and I’ll see you around the fire after game, knock on wood ... and Florida. Go Heels. Brandon Briscoe is a junior journalism and mass communication major from New Orleans, where the Tar Heels won their last championship. Send tips and Final Four tickets to brandon_briscoe@unc.edu. Your commentary created a crude generalization, and your attempt for a joke insulted the hard work of your contemporaries in the Center for Dramatic Art. 1 would like to dispel the “easy A” rumor with fact. I invite any “Crossword-er” to my Drama 150 class (Shakespeare in the Theatre). There will be no time with the class discussion, presentation and reading requirement to find the four letter word for Luke Skywalker’s mentor. Drama students dedicate a tremendous amount of time to their endeavors. Stop by the Center for Dramatic Art and witness the hard work of these creative and enthusiastic stu dents. LAB! Theatre, for example, mounts six plays a semester with stu dents producing, directing, designing and acting. I encourage the DTH and its readers to learn more about the drama department, its faculty and its students before making any further comments on the education it offers. Annie Fair Junior Dramatic Art The awards in the Carolina’s Finest advertising section were chosen by readers, not The Daily Tar Heel. £hp Daily (Ear Mrrl f2> A The Daily Tar Heel wel comes reader comments and criticism. Letters to the editor should be no longer than 300 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. Publication is not guaran teed. 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: editdesk@unc.edu.
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