Dawn Maria Clayton
Memorial i
Friday, January 13, 1976
li ' : Cs
vinu
Tin Can
Running
The need for physical exercises in
an age of mechanized work
reducers, fattening opulence and
caloric convenience foods and
increasing amounts of leisure time
has become a modern platitude
mouthed by many, met by few.
But there are some who see the
inescapable truth that physical
fitness 'spills over into intellectual
fitness and longer, healthier lives.
These exercise enthusiasts do not try
to escape this truth; rather, they run,
sweat and grunt to meet it.
Among these enthusiasts are
joggers who faithfully don their
sweatsuits in all kinds of weather
and pound their feet against the
ground to grind the pounds off their
feet. There are times when the most
dedicated jogger dare not challenge
the elements because of rain, chills
or frozen running surfaces. Under
these conditions, and for some
women jogge: s to avoid the night,
these runners have turned to inside
tracks in pursuit of good health.
But now joggers have no access to
the only indoor track, the oval in
Carolina's Tin Can.
This University dictates that all
undergraduates must pass physical
education courses or a special
exemption test to graduate. If you
cannot swim, no matter how bright
you are, you cannot get your
diploma everyone must pass a
mandatory swimming test. The
justification for these nonacademic
requirements is that students should
be exposed to physical as well as
intellectual rigors. Indeed, - one
speaker in competition for the
Mangum Medal for Oratory argued
that the University should make
physical education a larger
requirement for students, faculty
and employees.
If the University is committed to
citizen health and well-being, and is
not using platitudes to fill the
physical education department
classes and thereby warrant paying
instructors who are also coaches for
varsity sports, its recent action to
close the Tin Can indoor track to
non-track team runners contradicts
such a commitment.
Sprinters only
Track Coach Joe Hilton closed
Clhr lath
83rd Year of Editorial Freedom
Cole C. Campbell
Editor
Jim Grimsley
Managing Editor
Greg Porter
Associate Editor
Art Eisenstadt
News Editor
George Bacso
Features Editor
Susan Shackelford
Sports Editor
Jim Roberts
Public Affairs Editor
Joyce Fitzpatrick
Graphic Arts Editor
Business: Reynolds Bailey, business manager. Elizabeth' Bailey, advertising manager.
Advertising: Mark Dubowski, Mark Klapper, Mark Lazenby. Lena Orlin and Norman Stein.
Business: Elizabeth Lewis Corley. Ellen Horowitz and Larry Kulbeck. Circulation: Henry
Birdsong and Jay Curlee.
Composition editor: Betsy Stuart.
Editorial assistant: Gloria Sajgo.
Student Graphics, Inc.: Dean Gerdes. shop foreman. Typesetters: Stan Beaty. Henry Lee and
Chiquetta Shackelford. Ad composition: Janet Peterson, supervisor; Judy Dunn, Steve
Quakenbush, John Speagle. News composition: Brenda Marlow and Joni Peters.
Printed by Hinton Enterprises in Mebane. N.C., the Daily Tar Heel publishes weekdays
during the regular academic year. .
in circles
the track January l because he does
not think it can stand the pounding
of joggers. A new track, he says,
would cost around S75,00O and
would not be able to handle joggers
either. To protect the current track
for the track team, Hilton closed the
track to anyone other than sprinters.
All of Coach Hilton's reasons may
be perfectly sound ones for his
action. But they are not sound
reasons for the athletic department's
failure to provide alternative indoor
running facilities for Carolina
joggers. Perhaps the old track ought
to be torn up and replaced with a
matted flat track marked off from
the play ing floor of the Tin Can. The
track team would lose a useful
facility, but the student body as a
whole and the University workforce
would receive a large benefit from
this action.
And if the athletic department is
not willing to make this kind of
trade-off, we can only wonder about
the real dedication of the University
to providing support for physical
fitness and conditioning by those
not on a University athletic team.
This incident is another indication
for the need for passage of the
statewide bond referendum on
capital improvements for the UNC
system this March. That package
includes money for a new physical
education-intramurals complex
which could incorporate facilities
for joggers and or sprinters. But
that is a long-range solution, for
even after hoped-for passage of the
referendum, final construction of
the facility would be months and
months later.
Who comes iirsl?
The situation is clear. Joggers
have lost out. Is the University
willing to sacrifice general well
being for the track team's well
being? If it is, what does that say
about the University's commitment
to physical fitness?
The exhilaration of athletic
achievement should be more than
vicarious excitement over Dean
Smith wizardry (which is fun, too).
Those who want to get out of the
armchair and onto the track
regularly, rain or ice, ought to be
given that opportunity.
afar HM
News: Sue Cobb, assistant news editor. Miriam Feldman,
Dwight Ferguson, Dan Fesperman, Chris Fuller, Sam Fulwood,
Bob King, Jan Hodges, Vernon Loeb. Nancy Mattox, Lynn
Medford, Jane Mosher, Greg Nye, Tim Pittman, Laura Seism,
Laura Toler and Merton Vance.
News Desk: Clay Howard, assistant managing editor. Copy
editors: Ben Cornelius, Laura Dickerson and Nancy Gooch.
Features: Linda Lowe, assistant features editor. Hank Baker,
Susan Datz, Allen Johnson, Vernon Mays, Michael McFee,
Gloria Sajgo, Tim Smith and Malia Stinson.
Sports: Jim Thomas, assistant sports editor. Gene Upchurch.
desk assistant. Kevin Barris. Brad Bauler, Doug Clark, Chip
Ensslin, Jim Gentry, Pete Mitchell, Lee Pace, Ed Rankin, Grant
Vosburgh, Tom Ward and Ford Worthy.
-Graphic arts: Charles Hardy, head photographer. Staff
photographers: Steve Causey, Margaret Kirk and Howard
Shepherd. Cartoonists: John Branch, Stan Coss, John
Tomlinson and Nan Parati.
When was the last time you sat beside
a smoker? In church? At the movies? At
the zoo? You can just about bet your last
bluebook that it wasn't in a class this
semester at UNC, because the seemingly
impossible has occurred smoking has
been banned in classrooms this side of.
the southern part of heaven, in the
tobacco state; and smokers, as an oral, if
not vocal minority, have silently and
completely acquiesced.
1 can still remember the good old days
(and night classes) when a smoke was a
moment of pleasure, when you could
surrender yourself completely to the
process of inhaling, exhaling and
blowing smoke rings, serenely oblivious
to the arcane chatter of some Dr. Bore
who was in his own little world of
rapture, listening to himself speak, carry
on, pronounce endless witticisms, and,
in short, get off in his own egocentric
-
p A 2 ml m $rv
To the editor.
I feel that I must take exception to the
review in the Jan. 15 DTH of the
production of "1776." Your critic is
afraid to be too critical for fear of being
labeled "un-American"; as a Scotsman I
do not fear this label, and yet I would be
ashamed to be given it, for I am a
veritable Americanophile. The
production in question was an excellent
performance, and one cannot help but
ask, "By what standards does Rick
Sebak make his judgments of theatrical
art?" Has he experience of New York's
Broadway or London's West End or
Edinburgh's King's or Lyceum? I think
not, for if he had 1 feel sure that he
would have realized that the pace of
"1776" was not "uncomfortably slow,"
and that it would have received the same
acclaim in the theatrical cities of the
world that it did in Memorial Hall.
But for Sebak's main criticism, he
correctly states the strengths and
weaknesses of Tuesday's production,
and his last paragraph gives a more
positive finish; thank you.
It has become fashionable for student
critics to find flaws in the arts, even
when these flaws are invented or
exaggerated, merely to attempt to prove
a discerning mind. We will not believe in
a "discerning mind" which does not do
justice to a performance such as" 1776."
Rbbin McWilliam
17 Old East
Live history
To the editor.
We have noticed in the past that for
each review in the DTH, the theater
critic is intent on making all productions
sound bad, whether or not the
production was. The critic needs to be
more informed on play productions
before he attempts his critiques.
The most recent example of this
"criticism" is the article in the January
15 D 77 concerning the play" 1776." We
felt the performance was excellent and
gave us a picture of American history
that one doesn't normally see. History
"came alive" in the play.
We wish to thank the company for
such an excellent production. We
thoroughly enjoyed it.
Lori Lewis
Bev McLain
217 Connor
intellectuality. And many were the times
that only a Salem could keep you
awake.
1 can still recall the clannish kinship
shared by the smoking populus. "May I
bum a cigarette?" That was a surefire
way to start any conversation. l left
mine at home." Or, T, trying to stop
smoking, but I've just got to have a
cigarette "Oh? You smoke Kools?"
"No, thank you I tried them last
summer, but I found out that I couldn't
breathe, so 1 had to give them up." That
was a cinch for eliciting sympathy,
which, in certain classes, was, on
occasion, direly needed.
Matches could serve unusual
purposes. Have you ever needled a
foreboding and sincere student
enthralled by the art of listening and
note-taking by asking for a light, even
though you could tell that he wouldn't
j
Bozos
To the editor:
I was pleased with Wednesday's front
page. There, between confusion,
complaints and quaking earth, was our
rock Bozo, two days early for basketball
tickets. It was nice to see him there with
all of the amenities of home bed, Bud,
buddy Wick and boob tube. Cozy. And
two days early.
Of course, Bozo's exceptional. But
, there were a lot of people who slept in
the cold Saturday night, judging from
the number of mattresses on
Carmichael's front porch Sunday
morning. And yet, assuming that Bozo
and friends asked for bleacher seats, I
had just as much chance to get the seats
that they'll sit in Sunday as they did, for
1 also got a bleacher ticket in a group
with three friends. And I went at 9:00
Sunday morning.
Bozo and his friends who go early
don't really hurt anything. Their
numbers are relatively small; they take
up few seats. They could only hurt the
7b fLfWi?
Heel.
Al III it I 111 li i l! I ll ft U II I II II II F !: V 1 1
111111111 It i ilflli II I li.fl i I
1 JUST GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON WHV
I SHOULD BELIEVE YOU. ...
know how to ignite the logs in a fireplace
on a cold and snowy day?
Ah! For the joys of days gone by;
when smoking wasn't simply a
pleasurable social (or antisocial,
depending on your point of view)
activity but an act of insurgency as well;
when, as the professor stood at his
cockpit of authority at the head of the
class, you could challenge his authority
by the simple, noisy act of rummaging
for cigarettes, getting up to get ashtrays,
and then, raring back, by exhaling long
and intimidating puffs in smoky
splendor, coolly ignoring whatever he
was saying.
Do you remember the times when a
prof lit his pipe (a little vice he picked up
in the Harvard class of '44, no doubt)
and you felt an illicit and novel
comraderie with him for the first time in
your life? Can you recall the sweet
116
system by causing a panic something
students were too smart to fall for. This
time, anyway.
Who knows, I may even sit next to
Bozo for the State game. Then we'll
cheer together. But he went days early,
and I just several hours so. Think about
it before you panic and freeze your tail
unnecessarily for Maryland tickets. Go
Heels!
Dave Reeves
357 James
Sing along with John Cardinal
Krol
To the editor
Recently, in Rome, John Cardinal
Krol said that giving power to the
Communists is "like playing Russian
roulette."
"Communism is materialistic and
atheistic," he said. "It looks at world
domination."
1 wish Sen. George McGovern
believed that, along with the band
playing the tune that anti-Communism
j I
fj p
v ictory of arguing down the professor or
the professor-to-be in the next seat, and,
when flushed and drained by the
vehemence and success of your stance, a
cigarette was your laurel weath; or your
sole consolation when your argument
lost?
Yes, friends, the no-smoking ban has
marked the end of an era, a spirit, a
golden age. But, it was, alas, inevitable.
The Surgeon General's warnings in the
sixties that "cigarettes may be," and
then, "are dangerous to your health,"
were the first real indication of a new
and growing trend. I remember my
mother's prophecy when they took the
lucrative advertising of cigarettes off
television that the end was near. When .
N.C. State passed its no-smoking ban, I
knew it was at hand. Have you ever
known UNC to let State remain number
one in anything for long?
Oddly enough, the smoking ban was
in effect last semester, but no one,
seemed to care. I remember sitting in
Constitutional History, taught by a
professor in the law school, puffing to
my heart's content. And Mr. Semonche
wasn't too shy about lighting his pipe,
either. But this semester, it's like the
plagues of Job revisited. No smoking
here. No smoking there. "Young lady,
that won't be tolerated here; this is an
institution of higher learning." And now
I read in the D TH that smoking in class
may become a Campus Code offense!
For four years 1 have resisted cheating,:
stealing notes and other people's
possessions, and now I find that they
could convict me for smoking in class!
So,, as I sit whacking gum and
blowing bubbles into the face of
Professor UNC like a teenager of the
fifties and scanning the editorial page ot
the DTH in vain for comforting words
of protestation, obscenity and outrage
over the no-smoking ban, I allow myself
a few momentary lapses into nostalgia. I
have been temporarily rescued from the
ravages of lung cancer. Now if there was
only a way to escape the
earthquake ...
Dawn Maria Clayton is a senior journalism
major from Roxboro, N.C.
is crazy. Sen. Frank Church heads this
group, a band that always plays liberal
songs. I prefer to sing along with John
Cardinal Krol. What about you?
Douglas Keith
4297 Main St.
Perry, Ohio 440881
The Daily Tar Heel welcomes letters to
the editor. Letters must be typed, double
spaced, on a 60-space line. Letters should
not run over 40 lines (300 words) and are
subject to editing or condensation
because of wordiness, length, bad taste or
libel.
Letters will be published according to
their timeliness and the spatial limitations
of the day. Letters must be signed.
The signed columns and letters on this
page represent the opinions of the
individual contributors only. Unsigned
or initialed editorials represent the
opinion of the Daily Tar Heel.
Any student, professor or member of
the University or Chapel Hill-Carrboro
community may submit his or her
editorial opinion in column form to the
associate editor for publication.