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Cutback on water supply
a stern reminder of crisis
Despite the moratorium on emotional plea's which Chapel Hill and
Carrboro have observed over the past few weeks, the water shortage is not
going away. To be truthful, the situation is growing worse with every
passing day, and has already reached what could be confidently termed
crisis proportions.
At a meeting of the Durham City Council Monday night a meeting
w hich carried into the early morning hours the city of Durham decided to
cut its supplv of water to the Orange Water and Sewer Authority
(OWASA).
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Water crisis is still with us
were instituted. Though the motion was defeated, the sentiment is still there.
Though Everette Billingsley, OWASA's executive director, pointed out
that there are no conservation measures short of rat ioning left to be used, we
are inclined to believe that Chapel Hill and Carrboro citiens must take it
upon themselves to save every possible precious drop.
And. as Billingsley observed, predictions that October and N ovember will
be relatively dry months poses a grave threat. If these predictions hold true.
University Lake will no longer be a lake in about 60 days.
The crisis is on. With the prospect of Chapel Hill's own "manna from
heaven" -- water from Durham increasingly unlikely in the future, the
time for whole-hearted conservation is here. If we remain unwilling to
tighten our own belts, the municipal governments of Chapel Hill and
Carrboro will tighten them for us with rationing. That measure of last resort
is obviously undesirable and difficult to administer. But if we continue to
consume lavishly in false comfort, if we fail to adopt pur own set of stringent
saving measures, rationing will come when the lakes dry.
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Increasing medical schools would not
To the editor:
The letter of Mr. Hsueh, fellow in applied
logic, regarding medical education in the
1 1 .S . ("F.rrors in logic," Oct. 3) merits a reply,
but we, members of the UNC School of
Medicine class of 1980. must defend
ourselves against such ludicrous "logic."
Sure, it's tough to get into medical school,
but the reason is not to uphold an "archaic"
self-interest system. One must be highly
prepared to sustain the rigors of a variety of
basic sciences and of complex clinical
problems in order to become a successful
healer. Let's lace it. Mr. Hsueh. a person
with a B average in many majors just would
not be able to hack through the many hours
ol work and study necessary to become a
doctor.
Nevertheless, we agree that there are
problems with the present system of health
care in the l!.S. today. I he main factor,
however, is not ihe number of physicians; it
is a distribution problem that faces us. It is
estimated that there will be a surplus of
doctors by the early 1980s. et there are
many areas which have a critical shortage of
medical and allied health care personnel.
Let's first do something about the
distribution of health care before advocating
a quadrupling of the number of medical
schools. Could you, or would you, Mr.
Hsueh. accept the health care provided by a
physician if he or she were like a public
school teacher'.' Just look at the situation in
the public schools today. Surelv vou jest.
Mr. Hsueh!
By the way, were you one ol the 51 percent
of philosophy majors who didn't get into
medical school?
John Maikushewski
Joe Messick
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l orn Reid
40S. Hcri lull Hall
1 o the editor:
R. K. Hsueh is guilty ol the same faults lor
which lie criticized the : logic based on
laulty assumptions:
Lrror I: Mr. Hsueh states that t'.S
medical schools have room tor 10 peicent ol
the qualified applicants. I he Association of
American Medical Colleges puis that
number closet to M) pet cent (thete are about
I5.0K) titst ear medical spaces in the I'. S )
E rror 2: Mr Hsueh holds fast to the mth
that the number of places in medn ,il schools
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85th year of editorial freedom
seems to be two-fold. First, Lake
Michie, Durham's equivalent to
University Lake, is drying up.
According to Robert Peck,
Durham's director of transportation
and utilities. Lake Michie is resting
at about 16 feet below capacity and
may indeed be dry in 90 days.
Obviously, Durham cannot afford
to sell away a resource scarce in its
own community.
Second, some city council
members are not convinced that
Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents
have carried their fair share when it
comes to conservation. Paul Alford,
a council member, moved at the
Monday night meeting to cut
OWASA off altogether until more
stringent conservation measures
Tar Heel
is held artificially low by the medical
profession to insure continued high fees so
that doctors can all drive Cadillacs and hang
out at the country club. The truth is it costs a
lot of money to train medical students. HEW
has determined that it costs over $ 1 80,000 to
educate one student. Using higher
mathematics we see that it will cost over
$28,000,000 to graduate the 160 people in my
class alone. Consider, now, the 100-plus
medical schools in this country. That comes
to a tidy little sum. Mr. Hsueh suggested a
quadrupling of present enrollment. We'll
send him the bill. He reasons that by
Hooding the market with doctors, the public
can gel away with paying physicians public
school teachers' salaries. 1 don't know about
fancy university logic, but common sense
says. "You get what you pay for." Mr.
Hsueh. have you taken a look at American
public education recently? I am not
defending the high cost of medical care,
which most doctors will admit is
astronomical. The factors behind the
increasing costs cannot be laid totally at the
feet of fat cat physicians. The real culprits are
hospitaliaton and increasingly
sophisticated diagnostic tests. There is
waste, and there is inefficiency. Mistakes are
made. Medicine is a big business, and if one
looks hard enough, one can find anything
one wants: dishonesty, incompetence, over
charging you name it. To reduce costs,
don't increase the number of doctors whose
training is so expensive, rather reduce their
numbers and fill the gap with nurse
practitioners and midwives who are less
costly to educate and who are just as
competent as physicians to provide basic
medical care. Unfortunately, many
Americans will not avail themselves of this
less expensive health care alternative,
demanding instead a "real doctor."
Error 3: Mr. Hsueh contends that a
massive influx of foreign transfers will not
affect the standards or the academic integrity
of the involved institutions. Each school has
its own standards which many foreign
medical schools do not meet. Each school
has limited space and faculty, and the quality
of the education, especially in the clinical
training, depends upon student-faculty
contact. American medical schools do
accept loicign transfers whom they consider
qualified. I he issue is whether the schools
should he forced to accept everyone whom
the buieaucrats at HEW deem qualified.
Control ol student quality is a matter of
academic integt its
Tough going cold turkey
Sandwich eater becomes
By LIZ H US KEY
It had to happen one day. My
roommate smelled the vinegar and oil
dressing on my breath and she said just
what 1 didn't want to hear.
"You've been eating Blimpies again!"
Oh so cruel, the bite of honesty. But I
realized I needed help.
1 hadn't always been a Blimpie-holic.
I started out on peanut butter
sandwiches like all kids. Before long. I
became a social sandwich eater. But I
told myself I didn't need sandwiches to
exist like some people 1 knew. 1 was in
control of my eating; I knew when 1
could quit.
But college was a source of new
tensions. Ordinary white bread and
peanut butter wasn't enough. I began
experimenting with ham on
pumpernickel, tuna on rye, and even
pimento cheese on sesame seed. When a
friend of mine made me try a Blimpie
one day. I knew 1 had found the answer
to my problems. One Blimpie Best
regular with no onions or peppers, and I
could make it through the day. 1 began
looking forward to that one Blimpie a
day. and I would devour it in seclusion
in my own booth, thinking of nothing
else but that heavenly vinegar and oil
and provolone cheese. 1 had found the
ultimate high.
1 got so I didn't want any of my
friends to know about my habit, but 1
was still in control 1 thought. If I
wanted to, 1 could give it up. When I
started getting chills and headaches at
eight in the morning in anticipation of
my first Blimpie for the day, 1 knew 1
was hooked. 1 was up to four a day and
Changes are needed in the medical
profession. Changes are needed elsewhere,
too. What is not needed are harangues based
on half-truths. Brush up on your logic, Mr.
Hsueh!
Edward Bertram
UNC School of Medicine
Valve values
To the editor:
The University is presently spending a
large amount of money drilling wells in an
effort to obtain more water. Perhaps some of
that money would be better spent in an effort
to conserve the water we already have. As
anyone who has taken a shower in the dorms
on campus knows, the showers waste a
tremendous amount of water. Unless you
enjoy taking cold showers, only one volume
of water is possible, and that is full blast.
Since a single valve controls both volume of
letters to
water and temperature, it is impossible to
take a hot shower without using several
times the amount of water you need.
M ultiply the wasted water per shower by the
thousands of showers taken per day in the
dorms, and the result is a very large amount
of water.
If all the shower valves were replaced with
the more conventional separate hot and cold
valves, it might save more water and cost less
than all those expensive wells.
Roy Rocklin
Department of Chemistry
Ma Bell not so bad
To the editor:
While some of the complaints against
Southern Bell may w ell be justified, 1 for one
am glad to see the demise of the Chapel Hill
"Telephone" Company. From a technical
standpoint, 1 was horrified at the thought of
having to depend on low bid junk that the
Chapel Hill Company bought; the new
equipment that Southern Bell installs w ill be
Western Elcctric's latest. The Chapel Hill
Company had no possibility of ever being
able to upgrade to, say, Touch-Tone
the cost of my habit was nearly eight
bucks a day. And that wasn't counting
the cokes to wash them down. I didn't
even chew any more, I swallowed them
whole.
I gave up all other sandwiches. They
seemed so lifeless. Nothing could give
me the rush a Blimpie could.
I guess people must have started
talking. 1 would hear snatches of
"mayonnaise on her collar," "always
vinegar on her breath," "she must be
high again." 1 couldn't take the pressure,
but instead of driving me to quit, the
pressure made me a closet Blimpie eater.
My closet reeked of vinegar, salami and
provolone cheese and I'd hide the foil
and paper bags in my laundry bag. Once
my roommate found the remains of a
A
md fauna- !
correct distribution of health care
equipment that many of us amateur radio
operators would need for an effective
autopatch system.
For those who do not like Southern Bell,
remember, you could have gotten Carolina
Telephone. I understand that they use tin
cans and string!
Kerry Holliday
609-A Hibbard Drive
False picture painted
To the editor:
Peter Hapke's article on German
terrorism ("West Germany paralyzed by
youthful terrorists," Oct. 3) and the Time
article on which it was based (Sept. 26, pp.
34-35) both display a very shallow
understanding of what terrorism is and how
it works. Terrorism is the use of violence to
project a particular message to a
the editor
predetermined audience. The terrorist's goal
is to sow chaos and create an atmosphere of
fear in society. The image the terrorist seeks
is precisely the false picture Mr. Hapke
paints, that of a growing polarization
between the left and the right, and the
impression that the terrorists are much
stronger than they are or hope to be.
The extreme complexity of Western
society makes it increasingly vulnerable to
the low-level violence of terrorism. A small
group of people with simple weapons can
create a crisis at the highest levels of
government. Yet the 'media tend to portray
the terrorist as being more powerful than he
or she actually is. Terrorists and newsmen
share the naive assumption that those whose
names and deeds make headlines have
power. This false impression is picked up by
the readers and viewers of terrorist acts and
adds to the image that terrorists are omni
present, invincible and pose an
insurmountable problem. West Germany
and Japan, the two countries recently hit by
terrorism, arc no closer to"full scale student
revolution" than most other countries,
regardless of what the terrorist or Mr. Hapke
would have us believe. The crisis in
government created by the terrorist deals
Blimpieholic
Blimpie Super in my desk drawer and
she made me promise to give my habit
UP-
"You're ruining your reputation.
People don't want to associate with a
Blimpie-holic. And not to mention the
side effects. That vinegar is pickling
your appendix."
I didn't tell her I had my appendix
taken out when I was 10. But she was
right. I was going to make an effort.
It was hard to go cold turkey. All I
could think of was cold ham, cold
salami, cold proscutinni. . .Nothing
helped my craving for that Blimpie high.
1 probably could have done it if my
R A hadn't brought one in at supper time
one night. I had just had an argument
and the tests were piling up; the
combination was too much. 1 ran crazed
t hrough the streets hitting bus stop signs
and knocking over Daily Tar Heel drop
boxes along the way.
The Blimpie. workers must have seen
me coming because they had a Best
waiting for me. 1 swallowed it whole
with no chaser. 1 had another and
another. . .
When 1 waddled in my room that
night my roommate made me confess to
my action, and I'm glad she did.
1 got professional help and so can
you. Blimpie-holism is a sickness and
should be treated like one. Don't let
people make you feel ashamed of
yourself. If you think you're a Blimpie
holic. write: Blimpi-holics Anonymous,
329 Parker. Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514.
Do it now and get help for your
problem.
Liz Huskey, a sophomore, is a
journalism major from Fayetteville.
with selecting an effective and appropriate
response to a delicate situation involving
human life and is not necessarily indicative
of governmental weakness or deeply rooted
social problems.
Besides conceptual problems, Mr.
H apke's article is fraught with factual errors.
The Red Army Faction has not been
"methodically murdering the barons of
German industry." In the incidents this year,
terrorists have killed a judge, a prosecutor, a
banker, three body guards and a chauffeur.
Second, "student-terrorism" has not "spread
across Deutschland like ink on a blotter,"
but has struck only four times in 12 months.
The German government is not "eroding
civil liberties." it has tightened security, but
in a manner effecting only those government
officials and businessmen who have a right
to fear terrorist violence. The Bonn
government may have gone a little
overboard with the barbed wire, but Mr.
Hapke's assertion that "heavily armed police
check every car in the city and even in the
suburbs" is badly in need of substantiation.
Mr. Hapke's most grievous error is in his
logical fallacy of affirming the consequent:
If, in fact, all German terrorists are students,
it is by no means deducible that every student
is a terrorist.
The purpose here is not to pick nits but to
expose sensationalism. The West Germans
do, indeed, have a serious situation on their
hands. However, they certainly have not
resorted to fascism or totalitarianism, and
they stand an excellent chance of surviving
the current spate of bad weather and worse
press. I would agree in general that terrorism
is symptomatic of a larger problem, which
we need seriously to address. But 1 would
recommend that Mr. Hapke do his
homework, quit believing everything he
reads in Time magazine and devote his
talents to identifying that larger problem and
working to its solution, rather than writing
alarming and error-laden pieces of poor
journalism.
Edward Heyman
Grad student in Political Science
15-J Estcs Park
'Trying to help'
To the editor:
If I). C. Malle takes the welfare of the
UNC student seriously, I have four
suggestions that should aid in his goal.
UNG needs
Smile Week
By ROBIN Mc WILLI AM
As I've walked the campus brick
paths between classes I've found
something to brighten the peculiar
drabness of my mood smiles.
Now 1 don't mean the smiles I
occasionally get from others, although
they, naturally, are gratifying. Rather,
I've discovered the self-remedial effects
of my own smiling. I must make it clear
that my smile is no handsome, teeth
flashing delight. Even after years of
attempting to develop the most
charming one, it's disappointingly
ordinary. But it does have the uncanny
effect of raising the spirits my own.
One must be careful not to grin so
much and so often that a look of
hebetude replaces that of happiness. My
favorite method for rationing this
deliberate contortion is to smile at all
women 1 consider attractive. The
bonuses (or is it boni?) of this sytem are
imaginable. Firstly, one hopes that an
acquaintance is watching and admiring
your renown with lovely girls. Secondly
(indeed, more satisfactory), some of the
women smile back. Elizabeth Arden
can't change a cute face into a beautiful
one as easily as a smile can.
There's one girl whom I've passed
often. She has a sad look about her and
walks as though she's in a hurry to reach
somewhere secluded. She's also
extraordinarily attractive. Incidentally,
1 spotted her in the line of flag-girls at
the Richmond game. Anyway, a while
back I began smiling at Triste (for want
of a better name). At first she merely
raised her eyes like a naughty Cocker
Spaniel. After a week of having this
otherwise quite forgettable character
grin at her, she began to hint at a
response with an indentation of the
smile dimples in her cheeks. That was
enough to make me carry on my
mission.
So, you see, this grinning business has
become a missionary's work for me. It's
led me to presumptuous ambitions of
changing all pretty, sad girls into
beaming lovelies. The work on my own
sex I leave to a similarly inspired
woman.
What we need in order to hasten my
conversion rate is a Smile Week. It
would be similar to the Gesticulation
Week we once had at my school. One of
the junior masters considered gesturing
a colorful way to improve our
communications. So like flustered
Latins we waved, pounded and
shrugged our way through seven days.
The language has conveniently
expressed for me the importance of
smiles, by having it as the longest word
a miles between the s's.
Robin McWilliam, a senior, is an
interdisciplinary studies major from
Edinburgh, Scotland.
Research your topic properly. I am not
ashamed to identify my sources down to the
page number; please do not waste editorial
space with vague references to a mysterious
German study and then tell me to look it up.
I do not have time for McCarthy-like secret
lists which you refuse to reveal. Either put up
or shut up.
Develop a consistent set of values.
Either defend the state's right to protect the
individual from himself by outlawing
tobacco, alcohol and motorcycle driving or
defend the individual's right to choose his
particular mode of death. Your ability to
help students will be seriously hampered by
your hypocrisy.
Apologize to the authors in particular
and the student body in general for calling
the former "floundering potheads" and the
latter "misguided." I am not "floundering"; I
will enter UNC Law School next fall. 1 am
not "misguided"; I have two close friends
whose lives were ruined by enforcement of
marijuana laws. Both persons maintained
satisfactory grades until the shock of being
turned into a criminal shattered their
aspirations. The fact that your motives may
be charitable does not mean mine are not; I
see a clear injustice resulting from marijuana
laws. Your apology for your mistaken labels
will increase your ethos among the students
of UNC.
Balance benefits against harms of
enforcing marijuana laws. Although the
benefits might be better health due to
temperate use, studies supported by "the
National Institute on Drug Abuse, National
Institute of Mental Health and the
nongovernmental Drug Abuse Council"
deny serious health effects (Medical World
News, March 8, 1976, p. 99). Because of the
social and economic costs of enforcing these
laws (450,000 arrests per year and $600
million in costs of enforcement), groups
including businessmen and the American
Bar Association have called for
decriminalization. In other words, a side
other than that of D. C. Malle exists on this
issue. Surely you do not have the divine
taproot to knowledge.
Yes I am also "trying to help" students,
but I feel that a right way and a wrong way to
do this exist.
David Bodenheimer
4 Old East