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The issue of campaign reform
comes up every year and, just as
regularly, nothing is done about it.
In the year of Watergate, however,
the issue has come to a head
(Nixon's) and genuine reform may
once and for all be realized.
Congress is now facing its second
campaign reform bill in nine months
(the last was passed on July 30, 1972)
and this one has a lot of teeth as well
as a lot of lip. Mandatory public
financing of national campaigns is a
radical reform, more accurately
described as a forced allocation of
one tax dollar per taxpayer to a
national election fund. It will not
increase the tax burden directly, but
guarantee that $89 million is given
yearly to run national campaigns,
and hopefully clean them up.
Public financing is a step in the
right direction and it reflects proper
zeal in reforming the democratic
process. But it is another example of
a government policy which looks
good on paper, and not so good in
practice.
Pressure groups and influence
peddlers will not be deterred since
most political favors don't involve
money anyway. Public financing
will have the dangerous effect of
making people think they are
changing something, when they are
not.
People should not be forced to
support any candidate they do not
wish to and, conversely, should be
able to give a substantial donation to
candidates they do support. It is
good for candidates to get out and
work for the funding they receive,
not have tax dollars rolling in
Hard wick
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Ed Norwood's face would not launch a
fleet of ships. It usually needs a shave, but the
broad, easy smile should be familiar to most
of the male students around here. Ed is one
of the gentlemen who dwell in the bowels of
Woollen Gym making sure that the little
sweatshirts and socks get in the right basket.
When Ed isn't passing out towels, he stares
wistfully at a large picture of the Sweet
Carolines which he has tacked to the wall
(the best girls are circled), and he teases
intramural officials.
This latter diversion is increased during
basketball season, and Ed has been known to
hand out a whip and chair along with the
whistle. What fascinates him is why anyone
in his right mind would stake his well-being
on the line for school, sport and $1.85 an
hour.
My own interest in the job stemmed from
the lousy officiating I felt my team had been
subject to in intramural play. I had visions of
saddling on a red shirt, striding into
basketball town and cleaning up crossed eyes
and lip paralysis. But when it was all over,
the general mood seemed to be, "Who was
that Masked Man? I , wanted to kill him."
It's no secret that basketball, even to those
who refuse to care about it, haunts the
classrooms and sidewalks of Chapel Hill. I
remember the case of a freshman from
Doston who needed a packhorse to get his
pucks and skates and hockey whatnot up to
his dorm. Yet, within a single momth, this
budding Bobby Orr was having nightmares
where he would leap out of bed waving his
arms and screaming, "Pass it, damn you! For
God's sake! I'm open under the basket"! A
dramatic example, true, but indicative of the
amazing power this cowhide god-has over
the University. (It was believed that the
youth was possessed by Eddie Fogler.)
The intramural teams come from dorms,
fraternities and graduate schools with a
handful of independent combinations. Every
fall the season begins with the Grail
Tournament which gives the players a
chance to practice teamwork and collective
swearing. The regular season follows, lasting
about two months, with championships in
each division and a final All-Campus
ballyhoo which determines the best of the
best.
For the officials, as the good plry the
better, the calls get tougher and the threats
more vicious. It works in a peculiar way: the
most aggressive teams t win, the most
aggressive teams are usually made up of
experienced, ambitious men and this boils
down to your bright, mature, doctors,
dentists and lawyers of the future. So, at
various times, I've been threatened with a
scalpel, a drill and a malpractice suit.
An objective sense of humor can help.
Once a guy demanded to know if I had read
the rule book. I told him no, but I saw the
movie version with John Garfield and Vivian
ixilX but that it got mixed reviews. This
confused both cf us, and the issue was
dropped. As the season progresses the
players get better and fouls come in quick,
suttls flurries. This was particularly true in
the final 2 ir.es where ths most important
as" ret of the sport is called crowd control.
"Ya Ot yersef an ugly mob out thar,
sheriff. They jest now strung up yer hoss."
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automatically.
It is impossible to determine
fairly which candidates should have
access to the public funds, or in what
amounts. Third-party and grass
roots candidates will have little say
in allocation. Incumbents will have
the advantage if challengers are not
allowed to spend more to
compensate for lack of exposure.
Incumbents already win 95 per cent
of congressional elections.
The many faults of modern
elections can best be remedied by
emphasizing the other aspects of the
bill presently before Congress
without harping on public
financing, a needless over-reaction
and over-complication of an already
complex process.
Strict limits must be placed on
total campaign expenses, and cash
transactions must be prohibited.
Contributions should be less than
S5,000 per person for a presidential
candidate, and major contributors
should be disclosed before the
election. It is helpful to the
electorate to see in dollars and cents
where a candidate's support
originates.
Policing current campaign laws
is now done by congressional
employees. An independent agency
should be established to avoid
probable conflicts of interest.
Reform is needed desperately, but
it should not include something else
which will continually need reform,
distributing the public funds. It
doesn't make much difference where
campaign money comes from as
long as we know who give it, how
much is spent, and how it is spent.
haunting
name, a face that every mother would hate.
Sonuvabitch!
In the final game a powerful fraternity
team was thrown against a surprising dorm
five. It was a difficult game to call, and the
abuse was heavy. Over the months the
officials had built a shell against insults :
water off a duck's back. The fraternity
team won in the final minute, great for the
fans, hell for the refs but the game was
always in control. The praise an official
hungers to hear is from the losing team, but
this time one of the winners scorned,, "you
tried to give it to 'em, but it didn't work."
That hurt.
Ed Norwood smiled faintly when I turned
in my shotgun. He teased a little, then he told
me something I doubt I'll ever forget: he said
he really didn't pity the officials as much as
he did all of us as students, that we need the
officials so desperately. Thanks, Ed. I might
do it again next year just in case you say
some more stuff like that.
Letters to the.
To the editors:
If a parent of a UNC student can express
an opinion in the DTH (editorial page), I
would appreciate your publishing the
following:
To Tim Sims: Although your article
"Death Through Legislation" was well
written and designed to make you sound like
a true lover of animals, it was clear to me,
and to many animal lovers, that you are not
.what you would have us believe you are.
Elmo was not killed by legislation. He was
killed by a master that let him roam the
streets. Elmo was unaware that he could be
killed by a car, or that he might possibly
cause an accident by running in front of a
car. Man is responsible for the safety and
well-being of his best friend and if we are not
prepared to provide these then we should not
take the responsibility of an animal at all.
Elmo's master did him no favor by letting
him run free. He was done a disservice
because he was not provided with a safe
place to run and because of this, his life was
short. I wonder if Mr. Sims thinks Elmo's
freedom was worth his life, or maybe we
should forbid cars access to our streets so
that animals would be safe. Isn't it more
logical to be sure that animals are safe and
under their master's control?
As far as the Humane Society is
concerned, while I am not in total agreement
with their shelters or the treatment stray
animals receive while there, I would rather
see an animal mercifully put to sleep than
lying smashed along a highway, or worse
still, wandering aimlessly, thin and hungry,
among trash cans trying to find food to stay
alive.
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on housing situation
Some notes on housing:
We would like to take this
opportunity in an effort to present
all sides of issues, to give you Dr.
James Condie's reply to one point
raised in our housing editorials last
week.
The issue concerns the newly
instituted policy of two-semester
room contracts, as opposed to the
past policy of one-semester room
contracts.
The Daily Tar Heel editorial
Friday stated, "The new policy may
make it easier administratively for
the housing office and may ensure
fuller room occupancy next spring,
but what happened to a
consideration of the students?" The
editorial went on to say that the
policy asks the students to commit
themselves this spring on their living
accommodations for next spring.
Condie told DTH reporter
Robert Petersen Monday afternoon
that next year's budget for the
housing department is very tight,
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We should all mourn Elmo's passing and
the needless deaths of all animals that
wander, unattended and unprotected by the
masters who unthinkingly or uncaringly
allow them the freedom to be killed. Anyone
who really cares about their animal will keep
it under control so that it remains healthy
and alive.
I sincerely hope that the above is not
lengthy and that you will see fit to put it into
the paper. Thank you for your time.
Elaine Becker
11711 Greenlane Drive
Kung-Fu show
blatantly haughty
To the editors:
The Sunday night presentation, "Masters
of Kung-Fu and Karate," held in Carmichael
Auditorium, has to be considered a severe
disappointment to those who anticipated
being enlightened with regard to the martial
arts. What the audience witnessed was
nothing less than a carnival of ego-trippers.
It's an outrage that such a slick,
commercialized display was made a part of
the East Asian Symposium. The masters'
show neither directed itself toward, nor
related to the essence of any martial art; and
it certainly failed to capture any spirit of
Eastern philosophy on which the martial arts
are founded.
Typically, the Carmichael audience
consumed this haughty and blatantly
Tuesday, April 2, 1974
remonds
and counts on 99 per cent occupancy
of dorms next fall, and 96 per cent
occupancy next spring in order to
meet the budget. Condie stressed
that the housing budget is required
to be self-sufficient.
The two-semester room contract
will ensure fuller occupancy next
spring, thus ensuring that greater
revenues come in, thus meeting the
budget, and thus keeping students
room rent from rising to even higher
levels, he said in effect.
So there you have it for the other
side.
Also, the editors would like to
apologize for forgetting, in a fit of
April Foolery, to put the names of
our columnists on top of yesterday's
back page articles. The article
entitled "Dirty Dozen holds a
strategy session" reflects the
opinions of columnist Gary Fulton.
The accompanying article, "The
y ou-don't-push-Moby-around
case," is the view of staff writer Gary
Dorsey. Credit where credit is due.
promotional presentation. But the brawling
skits, the brick and ice breaking and the
bush-league easy-for-anyone maiming
techniques were strictly bad entertainment.
Observers hopeful for some sort of
edification, which is the focus of the
Symposium, were frustrated.
It would have been far better to have had
either a serious treatment of the subject or
else no treatment of it at all. The "masters"
themselves were neither serious nor
enlightening. Their show was a disparaging,
ostentatious and unauthentic display of
what are, in reality, some of the finest, most
graceful human art forms in the world today.
Sunday's farce served only to perpetuate
the myth, misrepresentation and
misunderstanding of the martial arts. And
it's a shame it had to happen here, as part of
an otherwise fine Symposium.
James Marsh
Route 4, Chapel Hill
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To the editors:
Open letter to the Gnome in the Bell Tower:
In honor of the East Asian Symposium, or
even on a more permanent basis, how about
giving our cars a rest from "A Mighty
Fortress is our God" and "Let my People
Go," and replacing them with some nice
Buddhist chants and Noh music?
Mark Young
Camelot Apts.
While most campus residents will be
paying less than $30 more to live in
University Housing next fall, Winston
residents will be given special status by
having to pay a whopping $110 more pr
year.
University Housing in its Winston
Phase U operation has decided to change
the classification for rent purposes of both
Winston and Connor from coed buildings to
women's building thus the 29 per cent
jump in room rents.
The increase was arranged without the
knowledge of the residents and without any
attempts at student input. RHA, the most
likely student organization to intercede for
the students, was completely caught off
guard. We, like the residents, were
conveniently informed of this arbitrary
increase the afternoon before sign-up!
Housing has attempted to justify the
increase because of the so-called facilities in
Winston and Connor, and not because
women live in both dorms.
Due to these facilities, Winston and
Connor have been classed with the other
women's dorms on campus. This
classification was based on the quality and
quantity of rooms such as lounges and study
rooms.
Dr. Condie said that the objective was
"to have all residence halls of equal quality
and price." Yet, he has said that it could take
10 years to do so.
There were about 600 tripled rooms this
year, which brought in between $90
$100,000. With an end to tripling there is an
end to this revenue. This may be their
justification for the rise in room rent.
Unfortunately in the cases of Winston and
Connor, a dramatic rise in rent will not result
in a concurrent dramatic change in the
quality of their facilities.
Let's look at these "facilities" first. The
main lounge in Winston has been of very
poor quality since men began to live there
three years ago. This was Housing's, not the
men's fault. The good furniture which had
been there because it was a women's dorm
was removed and replaced with whatever
remnants could be found. Connor's lounge
is, on the whole, in much better shape, but
still not comparable to other women's
dorms.
In an attempt to upgrade the facilities,
Housing will refurbish the Winston lounge.
However, this will be funded to the extent of
one-third of the costs by Winston itself!
Re id Murchison
Is it constitutional for universities or other institutions to make special efforts to
provide opportunities for long-oppressed minorities? Do "reverse discrimination"
measures, which are used to correct the wrongs of past discrimination and equality,
violate the concept of equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the 14th
Amendment? ; . .
The Supreme Court must decide the answers to these questions in one of the most
critical decisions since the initiation of the civil rights movement. The future of
racial equality is dependent on the court's decision in the case of DeFunis vs.
Odegaard.
DeFunis, charging the University of Washington with racial discrimination and
the violation of his right to equal protection, filed suit after the law school refused
his admission, although it accepted 36 minority students who had lower grades and
test scores.
DeFunis case questions the constitutionality of affirmative action programs and
quota systems which favor the underprivileged. Such programs are designed to
provide opportunities long-denied minorities. They are essential if equal
opportunity is to become a reality. But it is argued by some that they violate the
equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
Like many universities, Washington utilizes two different admission standards,
one for whites and one for minorities, and a quota system to increase minority
enrollment.
Opinion on such measures is strongly divided.The Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai B'rith, a Jewish defense organization which has backed DeFunis, opposes any
type of quota system or any discriminatory action. The national director summed
up the League's position: "It is wrong to discriminate against a person if they're
black or not black. In order to correct an evil in our society, we shouldn't engage in
another evil."
The university takes another view, summed up by its executive vice-president. "If
you're going to have equal access to the law and to society as a whole, we're going to
have to admit on a different standard ..."
In the case's First. test in court, the Superior Court ruled in favor of DeFunis.
Judge Shorret stated that "the 14th Amendment could no longer be stretched to
accommodate the needs of any race."
However, the state supreme court overturned the lower court's decision 7-2. The
court declared: "the Constitution is color-conscious to prevent the perpetuation of
discrimination and to undo the effects of past segregation . . . Clearly, consideration
of race by school authorities does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment where the
purpose is to bring together, rather than to separate, the races."
Uniform quantitative standards neither insure fair selection nor are they in the
best interest of the public. Freedom for flexible and subjective judgment must be
maintained.
Now, the decision rests with the Supreme Court. According to most observers,
the court is faced with three alternative rulings. First, based on the equal protection
clause, it could decide in favor of DeFunis, declaring that the constitution prohibits
the use of racial discrimination regardless of purpose.
Second, applying the "rational theory" test, the court could decide not to
overturn the law school's policy since it was founded on a rational theory even
though the court may disagree with the policy.
Third, applying the "compelling state interest" test, the court could uphold the
University's policy since that policy was founded on a "compelling state interest"
to provide for long denied opportunities for minorities and to increase the relatively
low percentage of black lawyers.
Whatever the decision is, someone will lose, perhaps unjustly. If ths law school is
upheld, many white individuals will suffer unfair admission restrictions as schools
continue to admit sometimes less qualified minority students in order to meet
quotas. If DeFunis wins, equal opportunity will become a meaningless phrase and
the second reconstruction may grind to a halt.
What, then, is just? Is it just to discriminate against whites? Is it just that
minorities suffer from unjust past discrimination and present inequality?
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The study room in the basement of
Winston has been used little because of the
Uck of tables and chairs for such usage.
After many requests, furniture was
provided. Connor's study facilities are not
much better. One room in both Winston and
Connor has been set aside as a study room
for next 5 ear. Again, the residents had no say
as to which rooms were chosen.
The basement in Winston was painted in
its entirety as a gesture of good will, but
much more is needed. One small lounge was
forced into disuse because several pieces of
furniture had to be disposed of due to their
a Jvanced state of disrepair.
The laundry facilities have deteriorated
steadily over the year. Winston has gone
from three washing machines to none at the
present time. Connor presently has one
working washer.
While Housing maneuvers to get
University Laundry to pay rent for dorm
space, Winston and Connor residents find
themselves without ready access to laundry
facilities. Apparently nothing will be
finalized until the summer.
We have attempted to show that the
facilities of Winston and Connor do not
allow them to be classified as women's
dorms. Do people in Morrison or
Ehringhaus, with much better facilities, pay
the women's rate? No, the coed rate applies
there.
How can anyone seriously compare the
facilities in Connor and Winston to other
women's dorms, such as Cobb and Spencer?
The rent should be definitely lower in this
case the coed rate should apply.
Another aspect of the problem is the $50
room deposit. Under its present terms you
would have to forfeit $15 if you did not
cancel your room for next semester by July
1.
Does this allow students enough time to
find an apartment in Chapel Hill? We think
not, and strongly suggest that the terms of
the contract be changed so that students in
Winston and Connor may retrieve their $50
until August I.
A more pleasant possibility is to do away
with the increase for next year and reinstate
it for the following year, 1975-76. This would
allow students ample time to get an
apartment if they so desired.
In any case, the point to be stressed is that
student interests were ignored. Will this
dangerous policy continue? That remains to
' be seen ...
Jim Cooper, Grog Turosck
Editors
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r,!lch2Cl Davis, At scclsta ECltor
Jan Swallow, Assoclaia Editor
Ken Allsn, risws ECltor
Harriet Susr, Festurs Colter
Elliott Wsrncck, Cpcrta Editor
Tom Randolph, Photo Editor
Bob Jasinklewlcz, flight Editor