8 The Daily Tar Heel Friday, January 13, 1978'
Greo Porter
Editor
Ben Cornelius, Managing Editor
Ed Rankin, A ssociate Editor
Elliott Potter, Associate Editor
Laura Scism, University Editor
Keith Hollar, City Editor
Tony Gunn, State and National Editor
Reid Tuvim, News Editor
Sara Bullard, Features Editor
Chip Ensslin, Arts Editor
Gene Upchurch, Sports Editor
Allen Jernigan, Photography Editor
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Jar Itel
85th year of editorial freedorr
letters to the editor
Roundball comparisons not fair to Dooley
Justice reads sports pages
Opposing fans have been giving a UNC basketball star some grief lately
about his unfortunate brush with the law. But at least one other rival school
has a judicial skeleton in its. lockerroom that it probably would like to
forget. Since all's fair in love and ACC basketball, here's a development you
may have missed during the flurry of exam activity.
N.C. State basketball stars Tiny Pinder and Tony Warren were acquitted
Dec. 6 by Wake District Court Judge John H. Parker of charges that they
switched the price tags of two pairs of undershorts Nov. 21 at a Raleigh
department store. Pindci and Warren pleaded no contest to the charges, and
that's usually enough to get a conviction in any court.
But the judge ruled there was insufficient evidence for a conviction after
he listened to the testimony of a security guard named Sloan (sorry, no
relation to you-know-who) at the players' trial. Sloan said he had observed
Pinder and Warren switching the price tags of a couple of pairs of boxer
shorts priced at 50 cents to underwear priced at $1.88 apiece.
The security guard testified he confronted Warren and Pinder outside the
store and managed to get them to sign a statement acknowledging the price
tag switching. Sloan also admitted he never saw the transplanted tags at the
time of the incident, apparently providing the basis for the insufficient
evidence verdict.
Judge Parker gave the Wolfpack stars a stern lecture on upholding an
image, explaining that he felt the two were "probably up to no good."
Then he set Pinder and Warren free to average a combined 23 points a
game for N.C. State.
Helms makes movie debut
Sen. No has said yes to movie business. Our sometimes controversial,
always conservative Sen. Jesse Helms is narrating a 28-minute New Right
film called The Shining City on a Hill which debuted in Washington, D.C.,
yesterday. ,
The movie opens with another of Helms' cohorts of the New Right,
Ronald Reagan, speaking in Kansas City after losing his bid for the 1976
Republican presidential nomination. Reagan tells his supporters to never
give up the conservative cause because "millions and millions want it to be
that way, want it to be a Shining City on a Hill."
According to a Charlotte Observer account of the movie, one scene shows
a wounded woman being carried away on a stretcher with Helms
commenting, "Liberalism has won another victory." Street crime and filth
are shown in full color with Helms saying that in the Shining City the courts
will "work for the common good rather than expediency. . . Rehabilitation
has become the code word for leniency."
The movie also peddles such predictable conservative rhetoric such as the
media lost the Vietnam war, former CBS correspondent Daniel Schorr is a
traitor for revealing "secrets" about the CIA and the welfare system
encourages idle hands to stay idle.
Helms' decision to narrate the production by conservative money-raiser
Richard Viguerie doesn't surprise us much. Helms is thinking about more
nowadays than his campaign for re-election to the United States Senate in
November. He has become a leading figure in national conservative circles
and knows that the exposure he can get cannot hurt his chances for a future
bid for national office. The film will be in the hands of thousands of
conservative candidates running this fall. Jesse has donated his voice to a
film that will raise the roofs of conservative clubs with applause.
The only solace liberals (or anybody not of Helms' ilk) can take is that the
film will not be shown at the local movie house. That's a close encounter we
could do well without.
To the editor:
Staff writer Pete Mitchell's statement that
"Carolina fans have grown impatient with
Dooley and his brand of football" reflects a
contagious cynical attitude which
apparently" has infected many alleged fans.
("Player reaction: mixed feelings among
gridders ," Jan. 11). Dean Smith is a blessing
we should count. To compare other sports
with basketball is unappreciative and
probably unrealistic. It's easy to be
nonchalant about four yards and a cloud of
dust but it's hard to argue with success. No,
the cynics won't win this one.
Good job, Bill Dooley.
Will Joslin
Brantley Peck
Chi Phi Fraternity
Paper problems
To the editor:
As a tax-'and tuition-paying student. I am
interested in finding out which high-level
official was responsible for the decision to
install the stingy toilet paper dispensers in
the new multi-million dollar addition to
Wilson Library. 1 have been at UNC for five
years so one would think that I would learn
to accept being the butt of bureaucratic
humor. However, this latest indignity is so
- offensive that it ignites the smoldering coals
of my discontent.
Imagine yourself in this situation: The
heat of exams two down, three to go.
Panic has set in as you read your syllabus for
the first time. You pack in the necessities of
life and head for Wilson Library to weather
the storm. It is now two hours before your
biggest exam. Time is at a premium. Nature
calls you answer. You grab your notes and
head for the comfortable new facilities with
better than average lighting for a john. Five
minutes later, you are ready to leave, so you
reach for a handful of paper and draw back
one (count 'em, one) thin sheet of grade D,
slightly waxed, toilet tissue. That's when the
precarious mental balance you have tried so
hard to maintain goes right down the tubes.
At this juncture, you are ready to abandon
education and become a hit-man for the
Mob. Next time, maybe you will remember
to drop by the rare book section and grab a
couple of old volumes so you won't have to
fight the dispenser for each sheet.
What sort of deviate mind could design a
toilet paper holder like that? What sort of
university would let its students use them?
Do they not trust us afraid that we might
hang ourselves with a 25-sheet string of
tissue? Or perhaps it is a child-guard
dispenser and I do not have the requisite
intelligence to make it work. If it is
conservation they have in mind, that is
commendable. But they must rearrange their
priorities. Better yet, they could recycle blue
books to make more tissue as they seem
fairly well-suited for the job. All my
professors say that's what 1 use mine for
already.
I guess it only follows that an
administration which could give you drop
add could also bestow the ultimate
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aggravation of the Sav-Haf Holder. 1 think it
stinks.
Louis Allen
906-B Dawes St.
Clarifying cults
To the editor:
1 would like to comment on an implication
in the very informative article on the
recruiting methods of cults in the Dec. 6
DTH.
Dr. Powell referred to the "founders" of
Christianity as being converted under
"pressure." Some non-Christians may be
misled by this statement.
(a) There is only one founder of
Christianity Jesus. A little historical
research will show anyone that biblical
Christianity is unique in that it is founded by
a Man who claimed to be God and proved
it by raising Himself from the dead.
The apostles spread the good news of
eternal life for those who willfully accepted
Christ's sacrifice and forgiveness; but this
great plan of forgiveness was initiated by
God, not by the disciples and early church
fathers.
(b) The apostles were not converted under
"pressure," unless it was the pressure of
seeing a man who had been killed three days
earlier. A thoughtful reading of the first
century documents (called the New
Testament in Christian circles) will show
that the disciples had to be shown visually
and physically that Jesus was alive again.
They greeted the news at first as an "idle tale"
(Luke 24:12. RSV), yet they went on to die
later for this "idle tale."
No doubt, H ugh Schonfield's collection of
confused imaginings called The Passover
Plot has muddied the water a great deal
along this line. There are some less showy
books out now that give a first class rebuttal
to Schonfield's theories. I recommend
Clifford Wilson's The Passover Plot
Exposed! (Master Books, P.O. Box 15666,
San Diego, Cal. 921 15) for a solid refutation
of Schonfield's unscholarly theories.
Mike Gibson
C645 Kenan Laboratories
Mom's permission required for Health Ed 33?
By SALEM -MAC KNEE
Due to an oversight in South Building
not the first, and probably not the last
some of the "Class Schedule
Footnotes" were omitted or printed
incorrectly in the printing of the Spring
Semester Class Schedule. For those of
you who were puzzled by the listing,
here is the revised list:
1. Permission required.
2. Permission of instructor required.
3. Permission of chairperson of
department required.
4. Permission of your mother
required.
5. Restricted to freshmen.
6. Juniors and seniors only.
7. Non-UNC students only.
8. This course is cross-listed,,
9. This course is not listed.
10. Prerequisite: demonstrable
ability to walk on water.
11. Permission required from the dean
of the Harvard Law School.
12. Prerequisite: a niacin deficiency.
13. Open only to tall non-education
majors at UNC-G.
14. Open wider.please only to
Dental Hygiene Students.
15. Open only to students born in
months with an R.
16. Students must supply own non
dairy creamer.
17. Course hour conflicts with Mid
Atlantic Wrestling.
18. Prerequisite: complete
knowledge of subject matter.
19. Music Seminars: Sec. I "The
Supertonic Triad, A Social and
Economic View," Sec. 2 "Fine
Tuning Headphones," Sec. 3 "Hotel
Management." (
20. This course has a lab section.
21. This course has a discussion
section.
22. This course has a lab section and
a discussion section.
23. This course comes with tossed
salad and baked potato.
24. Prerequisite: student must be a
Stevie Wonder fan.
25. This section is for students with
no previous credit in the subject.
27. This section is for students with
trick knees and no previous experience
in two related subjects.
28. Prerequisite: student must
know what to kiss and when.
29. Experimental section: no
members of Anti-Vivisection League.
30. Prerequisite for Western History:
student must do a passable John
Wayne.
31. Recommended only to students
with a bionic writing arm.
32. No substitutions.
Salem MacKnee, a junior, is a
journalism major from Chapel Hill.
Pack your overcoat, Bill
Dooley heads north despite cold weather forecasts
Snow flakes hit Chapel Hill in a flurry, and Bill
Dooley left in one.
Wintry weather from the Northeast invaded
North Carolina, dumping snow on several
portions of the state as temperatures plummeted
to below freezing.
Chapel Hill didn't get much of the snow but
did get hit with sub-freezing temperatures all
week long.
THE WEEK
By REID TUVIM
As the cold weather arrived, UNC Head
Football Coach Bill Dooley left.
Dooley accepted positions as the athletic
director and head football coach at Virginia
Tech, signing a five-year contract worth an
estimated $70,000 per year. A second five-year
contract calls for Dooley to serve only as AD.
The search for Dooley's replacement has
begun, and UNC assistant coach Jim Donnan,
Pittsburgh Steeler defensive coordinator Bud
Carson, Southern Mississippi head coach Bobby
Collins and Furman head coach Art Baker have
been mentioned as leading candidates.
An informal The Daily Tar Heel poll
conducted on campus showed popularity for
present Arkansas and former N.C. State head
coach Lou Holtz and for former Notre Dame
head coach Ara Parseghian.
South Korean millionaire Tongsun Park has
agreed to cooperate with U.S. prosecutors in
their investigation of influence buying on
Capitol Hill.
The prosecutors, however, will be prohibited
from questioning Park about his alleged links
with the Korean CIA or any other relationships
with officials of the Korean government.
Park's decision to aid prosecutors came after
he talked with his mother and promised her he
would do his "level best to cooperate with all
parties involved.
"I had a long chat with my mother this
morning, and 1 being the youngest son, she was
concerned about my personal situation," Park
told reporters after signing the agreement at the
U.S. Embassy in Seoul.
Park is the central figure in an alleged KCIA
influence-buying scheme of U.S. congressmen
on issues affecting South Korea.
A war continues to rage in Southeast Asia more
than four years after the United States'
withdrawal.
The Communist governments of Vietnam and
Cambodia have been fighting along their
common border for several weeks, and reports
from Cambodia place the Vietnamese forces as
far as 18 miles inside Cambodia.
Phnom Penh Radio claims the Vietnamese
army "hundreds of Soviet tanks, hundreds of
artillery pieces and several army divisions"
had broken through a thin defense line and had
driven deep into the country.
Hanoi Radio responded by comparing the
Cambodian government to the "reactionary and
imperialist" United States.
Fighting has subsided in many areas, and the
Vietnamese have installed pro-Vietnamese
Cambodians as local authorities, according to
reports.
A snag in a possible Middle East peace
solution popped up when Israel this week
insisted on keeping Jewish settlements in the
Sinai Peninsula and Egypt insisted on total
Israeli evacuation.
Israel has announced plans for additional
settlements even in the midst of the Egyptian
demands. Israel also wants to maintain military
locations at least temporarily to ensure peace.
The Egyptians, however, will not accept any
settlements civilian or military.
Israeli and Egyptian negotitaors are meeting
in Cairo trying to iron out difficulties in the two
opposing positions.
"In the course of the present
deliberations. . .we shall examine arrangements
for the continued maintenance of the Israeli
settlements of the border region and means of
securing them," said Ezer Weizman, Israeli
defense minister.
Egyptian Gen. Mohammed Gammassy
disagreed.
"Peace can be achieved only through Israeli
withdrawal from Sinai. The withdrawal does not
refer to the armed forces only, but to all Israelis,"
he said.
We brought you news of Amy Carter's
birthday, now another presidential birthday,
sort of.
Richard Nixon celebrated his 65th Monday
and, unlike Amy, dined on Mexican food at one
of his favorite restaurants.
Nixon, his wife, daughter Julie and her
husband, David Eisenhower had marguaritas
before dinner a combination plate of chili
relleno, beef enchilada, Spanish rice and refried
beans for the men and baked chicken for the
ladies.
After dinner, there was a cake topped by 65
candles.
The Sex Pistols, who played to a sell-out
crowd in Atlanta in their American debut, have
won a nomination as best London band by
Capital Radio.
But the band can't attend the awards banquet
because Capital has banned them from the
March event.
"We felt there was danger their behavior might
eaiise offense." a spokesperson for the radio
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station said. "It's really a question of being sick.
Would you like people who might be sick invited
to your dinner?"
And in Shahr-e-Kord, Iran, Musht Jaalar is
feeling pretty stupid well, like an ass.
Thieves stole Jaafar's white donkey early this
week, and, after unsuccessful attempts at tracing
the donkey, Jaafar begrudingly went to the local
cattle market and bought a black donkey to
replace the white one.
On their way home, Jaafar and the donkey
were caught in a driving rainstorm, and the black
donkey suddenly turned white.
You guessed it: the thieves had dyed Jaafar's
donkey black, and Jaafar bought back his own
animal.
"The donkey turned white and Jaafar red,"
reported the Tehran Journal.
Reid Tuvim, a sophomore journalism major
from Atlanta, Ga., is news editor for I've Daily
Tar llccl.