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B The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday, August 31, 1977 Greg Porter Editor Ben Cornelius, Managing Editor Ed Rankin, Associate Editor Lou Bilionis, Associate Editor Laura Scism, University Editor Elliott Potter. C'rv Editor Chuck Alston, State and National Editor Sara Bullard, Features Editor Jeanne Newsom, Arts Editor Gene Upchurch, Sports Editor L.C. Barbour, Photography Editor Bert Lance must pass test of full disclosure or resign The foundation of the Carter candidacy was integrity. Throughout his campaign, Jimmy Carter demanded an open government headed by capable officials selected only after a full disclosure of financial and relevant personal affairs. The President honored his pledge personally, in good faith to the public trust. One of the President's closest personal and administrative associates, though, does not seem to pass the test of full disclosure. Bert Lance, the . President's choice to head up the powerful Office of Management and Budget, passed the Senate Confirmation Committee's hearings with no difficulty. Only after a full six months in office was it discovered that disconcerting facts in Lance's past specifically, dubious banking activities while serving as president of the National Bank of Georgia did exist. Aside from these improprieties, which were nonchalantly cast aside as insignificant by a Senate investigative committee, recent revelations point to Lance's failure to fully disclose a partnership with his wife in which they've borrowed $1.4 million and hold a great deal of securities. President Carter stands by his longtime friend, and holds Lance's ability and integrity in the highest esteem. For those of us who are less familiar with the former banker from Georgia, however, many questions remain unanswered. The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee will attempt to provide the explantions needed to ease an American public weary of shady government. The past investigation of Lance's banking activities by the Comptroller of the Currency uncovered no illegalities, but did highlight certain "improprieties" which challenge Lance's integrity. The Senate inquiry last month, on the other hand, was a fiasco. The committee was content to ask soft questions and accept equally irrelevant replies. It is time that the Senate face facts. Bert Lance has yet to honor President Carter's pledge of full disclosure. The next investigation, unlike the first, must be relentless and thorough. Bert Lance will remain a stigma to the Carter until the issue is once and for all resolved. If he remains unwilling to follow the leads of the rest of the Carter administration and honestly supply all the information which an entire nation demands, he should resign immediately. If he chooses to stay on, he should be fully prepared to satisfy the queries which all America shares and justify his position. Plus-minus grading system trial could prove worthless As UNC's plus and minus grading system begins the second semester of its two-year trail period, it seems the eventual verdict on the system may be based on scant and unreliable evidence. So far, no one is keeping tabs on which professors are using the more precise grading system and which ones are not. This means that any data that might be gathered on the use of pluses and minuses is meaningless. "The evaluation is based on how many professors actually use the grading syste," said assoc. prof. James Leutze, who first supported the use of pluses and minuses here on campus. The value of a trial period is in the evidence that can be presented. If a close and careful scrutiny of the grading habits under this plan as opposed to the grading habits under the old scheme is not made, then these two years will have been wasted; we will know no more in 1979 than we did last spring and well will be forced to make a decision on speculation. The Wilmington 10 Young's opinion not needed Andrew Young's foot continues to have a remarkable affinity for his mouth. Our United Nations ambassador, never without an opinion on anything, announced confidently to the world last week that the Wilmington 10 were completely innocent and that their defense attorney was unprepared to defend their case. The Wilmington 10 were convicted in 1972 on charges of firebombing stores during racial disturbances in Wilmington the previous year. Since that time, hardly a day has passed that an effort has not been made to attribute the convictions to racial prejudice, bribing of jury members, perjury on the part of a key witness and the general corruption of the judicial system. Massive campaigns have been mounted to portray the 10 as victims of racist law enforcement officials and jury members. It is, of course, possible that. there was some racial bias or prejudice among the members of the jury. And there are, no doubt, other instances where prejudice affected trial results. But it is also possible that fair and honest men and women of both races returned a verdict based on the evidence they were presented. The point is that Andrew Young does not know whether the Wilmington 10 are innocent or guilty. Andy Young obviously was not privy to any evidence the jurors missed and he as certainly not at the scene of the alleged crime. But Andrew Young does know his opinion on the subject and has no reservation about parading that opinion as fact. Andrew Young should not put himself or his mouth above the law. If error was committed during the trial, our system of justice is best equipped to rectify it. Young's presumptuous and ill-informed judgment of the case is not needed. Sathj 85th year of editorial freedom State of free-floating anxiety The myopic prophet's summer isosceles affair By JOEL CHERNOFF Greetings. It has been a short summer - my mind is still anchored in the middle of July or so -and the prospect of classes and reading assignments hovers over me like a waiting vulture. A little water would remedy the situation, but Chapel Hill is most lacking in that resource. So the vulture anticipates its dinner gleefully while 1 cook. Things wouldn't be so dismal if I could foresee the future, but 1 suffer from a clouded vision at present time. For a prophet, as 1 still aspire to be. to be beset with eye problems is a serious affair. 1 decided to become a prophet last year because people constantly bothered me with questions about my future, and 1 thought that prophecy would provide the simplest way out. I am no closer to my goal - indeed. I am farther from it. 1 fell in love this summer. Sue Hunter is the best damn thingthat has ever happened to me. Woody Allen would agree if he only knew me. Elvis would have agreed if he had had the chance. Groucho couldn't have cared less. But returning to Chapel Hill has meant having to say goodbye. Sue has gone home to her folks in Georgia until she starts acting school in New York this fall. She had been an MFA candidate in drama here but dropped out when she discovered that Andy Griffith graduated from UNC Our pressure-cooker romance has left me steamed and tired. Once as strong as broccoli. I now feel like canned asparagus. But w hat is most perturbing is that 1 can't see through the steam - for one thing, it fogs my glasses. To be so lost when I finally thought I was found takes me from m ordered garden and throws me in with the wild mushrooms. 1 feel like a crazy salad. I don't know if vultures are vegetarian. 1 suspect not. In any event, whether digested or left to rot. I have a great fear of becoming mulch. This unkind separation has left me in a wistful melancholia and has yielded much tortured prose. I was bewailing my fate to my friend Schmeider. who is now in his second year in MBA school. Schmeider. the bureaucrat's bureaucrat always tries to put things in perspective. "Joel, you've goto be realistic about the situation." my friend said. "This separation isn't forever. You only have one more year in school." "But it's unfair! I finally fell in love, and now we're separated by cirsumstance." "I thought that you were in love with Buff Rose last year." "Schmeider. that wasn't love. It was a transitory infatuation. Something to fill up a few columns. This is different. This is a whole book." "I don't think that you would tell Buff Rose that." letters to the editor Fear and loathing in checkout at Student Stores To the editor: Freshman orientation into the hectic and, for some, terrifying ins and outs of first classes, book-buying, and just getting around is exacerbated greatly by the rude tactics of certain campus personnel and policies. Buying books at the Student Store Monday was a case in point. Although students are forbidden to carry their own books into the second-floor textbook section, the few coin lockers were taken, and book-buyers were told to leave their books on the floor or in open cubbyholes. Neither place provided any protection from theft a likely occurence with so many people milling around. (Three cheers for cashier No. 2 at 1 2: 1 5 who kindly allowed me to stash an expensive book under the counter. To make certain the checkout process was as nerve-wracking as possible for the now exhausted and frustrated student cashiers in at least one line kept up a running commentary about the different prices of the "Oh, Buff understands," I explained. "Besides, she's not in Chapel H ill any more." "Where is she?" "She joined VISTA. Now she's out west organizing a woman's collective on a Pueblo reservation." "Are you sending her copies of your column?" "Fortunately. I don't have her address." "Fortunately?" There are times when a bureaucrat's precision efficiency can be a pain in the butt. "Did you know that 1 was living in "Once as strong as broccoli, I now feel like canned asparagus... a crazy salad" Greenwich Village this summer?" I asked Schmeider. hoping that he would miss my smooth transition of the subject. "Really? How did you like it?" "It was great. That's how Sue and I got together. She stayed with me when she checked out the acting studios." "How long was she there?" "Forty two glorious hours. We wined and dined and went to theater and jazz. And then she left for summer school in Chapel Hill with a promise of a week's vacation together in August." "So you were apart for how lortg?" "Well, it was supposed to be five weeks, but Sue called a few days later and we rendezvoused in Washington that weekend. ' H), (Mm DMT ft titles (not bothering to suggest directly to the student that he or she was buying the more expensive model), made sarcastic remarks about the students as they checked out, and even amused themselves by hiding a freshman's ID and laughing at her ensuing panic. Student Stores might profit by lessons in good manners, tact, and even basic organization. Providing adequate lockers would be a starter. 1 certainly shouldn't blame anyone for shopping for books elsewhere. Beth Lueck Carrboro UNC no "ghetto To the editor: 1 read with amusement the story about the "psychological ghetto" that UNC students PT WO M W I J Imagine: two speeding cars converging upon the nation's capital from equal and opposite distances. An isosceles affair." "And then?" "And then it was a mere four weeks' wait until 1 would see her again. I started at countdown but the days went so slowly that 1 couldn't bear it any longer. After two weeks. 1 packed my suitcase and my tvpewriter and made a midnight drive down here." "You left Greenwich Village to come to Chapel Hill in the middle of the summer?" "Yes," 1 replied. "Even a bird has more sense than to go south in the summer. But it was worth it. Two weeks of sweltering heat here and then a couple of hot and humid days in Washington followed by a climatic two weeks' stay in New York. Music, merriment, magic and lots of other m's. Did you know we saw a parade for Sri Chinmoy marching to Sousa music?" "Anything goes in New York." "Yeah. Chapel Hill has been a real letdown so far this fall." "And Sue is going to be in New York this year?" "Ah, yes. The bittersweet irony of it all." "It's only 500 miles from here. And you'll graduate in May." DIE SAME GWi W BRT live in ("Carolina's campus-oriented students living in psychological ghetto," Aug. 30). I would like to observe that this "ghetto" contains at least seven libraries which make the public library look like a rack of Cliffs notes, a newspaper, two radio stations, a TV station (far superior to any other TV station I've ever seen, free movies, (albeit no popcorn), one of the best hospitals in the state and a large computer center. Yes, 1 have a limited knowledge of the town of Chapel H ill. But it is because UNC is the exact opposite of a ghetto. Whereas in a ghetto the residents are culturally deprived to the point of ignorance, we are culturally enriched. Another thing some Chapel Hill bars are among the finest in the world, and I can lick any man in the house who says they aren't. Peter Reintes 23 Valley Park Dr. "You don't understand, Schmeider. It's not just the distance and the time. True, time and space are important, as any sci-fi fan knows. It's the uncertainty that hurts. Will we still care the same way in a year?" Have I found Ms. Right? A blanketed future is in front of us. And I'm trying to sneak in under the covers." "Joel, that's an unreasonable demand. No one can know the future like that." "But then how can I become a prophet if I can't tell the future? You see, this romance is unsettling in more than one way. If the future is so elusive to my eyes, I'll have to alter my entire career goals. 1 may as well stab both my eyes and sell pencils." "Joel, I think that you tend to get overdramatic at times. Perhaps you're not nourishing your vision properly." "I eat lots of carrots." "All the same." "Schmeider, you don't know what it's Jike. I'm living in a state of free-floating anxiety." Schmeider put his hand on my shoulder. "One cannot expect answers to sprout miraculously. They need time to take root and grow. They need to be nurtured and pampered, to be talked to, and, especially, to be loved. Give it time, Joel. Give it time." Talking to Schmeider made me feel a lot better. I went home and sat on the south windowsill. ' Joel Chernoff, a senior, is a history major from Great Neck, N.Y. W . . . W W Y ASK?' ARP's not RA's To the editor: The feature article on the new Academic Resource Person (ARP) program ("New advising program may hit snags," Aug. 25) was most damaging to the ARP program. The story's cartoon and headline gave readers the initial message that we ARPs are assuming some of the RA's duties and that supposed duplication of effort will destroy the program. The cartoon and headline were flagrant examples of the DTH's biases: the article should have been on the editorial page, not a feature page. ARPs were chosen to guide students in making academic decisions and to serve as go-betweens for students and their advisers. We are not advisers, and 1 for one always tell people to see their advisers when I cannot answer their questions. It is true that we are unpaid volunteers, but that fact will not dampen our enthusiasm for the program; we do not have to be "on call" as RAs do, and our responsibilities radically differ from those of RAs. The ARP program was established as an alternate source of academic information, but students will still seek their RA's advice on academic matters. The James ARPs refer people to our RAs and other residents when we can't supply specific information on the departments and majors with which we are unfamiliar, and, finally, we send them to their advisers. James RAs are working with us to promote the ARP program to our residents. James ARPs were orientation counselors, so we have committed ourselves to help others, whether we are paid or not. Mike Hugo 740 James Editor's note: The column on the ARP program appeared in the editorial section entitled "Perspective" of the orientation issue. Material in such sections are traditionally of an analytical, critical or personal nature. Columns The Daily Tar Heel welcomes contributions and letters to the editor. Letters must be signed, typed on a 6(K space line, double-spaced and must be accompanied by a return address Letters chosen for publication are subject to editing.
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