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12 The Daily Tar Hoel Friday. April 28, 1978 I.Ot lilt KIMS Editor Cm ( K l sios., Mmitiniiix Editor Hi isv Ii (,i i k. AsMH iiilc Editor Dos WooinKI). zlvwrKr Editor Hi kmi R wsiioi mim, L'nivcrin Editor Mk Asm kin s.i . Cm Editor Dvvin Si ( ks. ic (ik Smioiuil Editor J I Hi f.lil s. Vciiw (( I.I si II S ism. Ertiliim Editor M kk S( sdi isc. .Im .(;( I l l- P.( i-.. Spam Editor Al l i s Jl ksk.as. I'holo;riijdi Editor (far Hwl uw of editorial freedom Carter to submit warplane package to Congress New (and improved) CGC The events of recent years may have given the Campus Governing Council a bad name, but those who witnessed the CGC's marathon budget session in 209 Manning Hall Tuesday night must have been left with second thoughts. Surely, the council's decorum, eloquence and sense of parliamentary procedure still are debatable just as they were in Manning Hall during the 12-hour-plus meeting, And as in times past, a handful of the members continue to monopolize discussion. But for the first time in years, the CGC got down to the business of distributing money in an efficient manner. The members, unlike their predecessors, were familiar with the budget requests of the more than 30 organizations seeking funds. They did their homework before the meeting, and most members were firm and consistent in their voting. Last year, backroom wheeling and dealing kept students guessing what the council would do next. The reasoning behind budget cuts was hazy and questionable. The present CGC, though, conducted its business openly and took steps during both the Finance Committee hearings and the budget session to make clear its opinions and decisions. And this year's CGC, while slashing many budget requests, proved more liberal in its spending than any council in recent memory. It left about $15,000 unappropriated a figure far short of the traditional sum. The CGC may still be one of the funniest, zaniest shows in town when it comes to the trappings of government, but its performance with the 1978-79 budget is a credit to its members and a pleasant surprise to the University. Coordinate anti-terrorism Opinions concerning America's defense have caused hawks and doves to argue for years. One group says defense spending is outrageous; the other claims not enough is spent. There is one area of concern, however, that neither faction can deny regarding its importance to the protection of a nation's people. Terrorist acts are not restricted to the Middle East and Western European countries. Violent incidents carried out by political activists in the United States indicate that we are not immune to such actions. In March 1977, Hanafi Muslims took over three buildings in Washington, D.C. District of Columbia police were in charge of the overall operation. When a TWA airliner was hijacked by Croatian extremists, it was the Federal Aviation Administration that ultimately intervened. When a Japan Airlines plane carrying American citizens was hijacked last October, officials in Washington were unsure whose responsibility it would be to carry out rescue efforts. While the Carter Administration recently hailed U.S. military preparations to deal with terrorist activities, many experts state the Pentagon's claims are exaggerated. And the apparently uncoordinated efforts to deal with domestic terrorist operations add credibility to the specialists' statements. The Defense Department maintains the United States has special anti terrorist forces totalling 6,072 men in 18 units. At the same time, the FBI has announced new efforts to make anti-terrorism its top priority. Meanwhile, the Senate's Governmental Affairs Committee is not only considering additional funding for domestic defense programs, it is also investigating the coordination (or lack thereof) between the military and federal agencies and their dealings with the terrorist problem. Certainly congressional funding of such defense programs is both justifiable and necessary. Our concern, however, should be with the organization of one anti-terrorist group, strong enough to control any adversary action and, at the same time, dissolving any doubt as to which organization has total authority over the special forces. President Carter announced earlier this week he would withdraw his whole package of proposed warplane sales to the Middle East it Congress failed to approve any part of it, and Wednesday decided he would submit the package to Congress today for an all-or-nothing test of strength. High Israeli officials, meanwhile, put a new twist on the controversy by telling reporters Israel will accept the sale ofjet fighters to Saudi Arabia and Egypt if it must do so to preserve its own share of the deal. It had been reported that Israel was totally opposed to the selling of planes to any other Middle East nation. Carter is proposing to sell in one $4.8 million package 60 top-line F-15 fighter-bombers to Saudi Arabia, 5f2 older and less formidable F-5Es to Egypt and 1 5 F-1 5s plus 75 similar but smaller F-1 6s to Israel Once he submits the proposal, Congres has 30 days to reject any part of it by majority vote x both houses The congressional vote is expected to .lose. The Week By TERRI HUNT The state, contending ij has the right to require church-run schools, of which there are about 60 in North Carolina, to report about teacher certification and other items, sought a pidiminary injunction in Wake County Superior Court to force the schools to file the reports. Lawyers for the schools asked that the state's bid for the education reports be refused. "This is a First Amendment case," Pennsylvania lawyer William Ball told the court in arguing that the N.C. Board of Education not be allowed to require the annual reports. Lawyers for the state maintained it is not trying to interfere with religious freedoms. It is merely trying to ensure that each child receive an adequate education from competent teachers. Time Inc. announced Monday it will begin republishing 'Life' magazine on a monthly basis in October. The new Life, like the old one, will be devoted primarily to photo-journalism, with a few articles and columns. The familiar red-and-white logo on the cover will be enlarged, but otherwise will be identical to that which graced the front of 1,864 weekly issues from 1936 through 1972, when it ceased publication. The large 13'2-by-10'2 page format will be retained. Officials said the decision to republish the magazine was partially based on the sales success of the five Life special annual issues between 1973 and 1977, which they said were published with relatively little promotion By a vote of 65-22, the Senate declined to make room in the 1979 federal budget for the $25 billion income tax cut proposed by President Carter. This may make Americans wait an extra three months for the tax cut, which Carter had wanted to take effect Oct. 1, 1979. The vote assures ihat Congress can not enact such a cut in time for it to take effect before Jan. I, 1979. "We cannot realistically enact a tax cut that would be effective October 1," Sen, Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said. He said the cut would be the same size as that proposed by Carter but would come later. ' "The heavy tax burden on working Americans has reached the breaking point," Sen. William Roth of Delaware said. "And unless taxes are reduced substantially, I believe we face the danger of a taxpayers' revolt." The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that employers must no longer require women to make larger payments to retirement funds than men simply because females have a longer average life span. According to the court, such requirements violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act's ban on sex discrimination in employment. This decision will have a broad impact on employer operated pension plans. One lawyer estimated as many as half the pension plans in the country rely on sex segregated acturial tables either to require unequal contributions from men and women workers or more commonly to pay them different levels of benefits. The ruling came on challenges to a pension plan used by the Los Angeles Water and Power Department prior to 1975, requiring women workers to contribute 15 percent more of their pay than men to a compulsory retirement fund. This was done on the basis of statistics showing' women, on the average, live five years longer than men. Former U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna, D-Calif., apologizing for accepting payoffs in the Korean bribery scandal but saying Congress has taken a "bad rap" in the case, was sentenced Monday to six to 30 months in prison. Hanna was sentenced for a single conspiracy charge. He had pleaded guilty March 17 to accepting more than $200,000 in a conspiracy to use his office to help South Korean rice dealer Tongsun Park, who is accused of influence-peddling in Congress. The former member of Congress said Park's payments to other members of Congress were campaign contributions, and the only other person he knows of with a "problem" is former U.S. Rep. Otto Passman, D-La. Most uptown areas have a problem with too much traffic! Anderson, S.C. has a problem with too many pigeons. The birds really had become a problem. "Several people were hit by pigeons as they walked into church," Mayor Darwin Wright said. The key to eliminating the pesty birds was a man named John Bailey, who built a pigeon trap which was placed on top of an apartment building one of the birds' favorite roosting places. So far, Bailey has caught 150 birds. How to prevent the problem from happening again? Stop pigeon overpopulation. The city is looking into the purchase of a special type of seed that sterilizes the birds. MMMMM Terri Hunt, a junior journalism major from Stantonsburg, is a staff writer for the Daily Tar Heel. herald' rape coverage insensitive to victims By LIA SERVICE The Durham Morning Herald published April 5 a front-page article announcing the indictment of an 18-year-old Durham High School student on 1 1 counts of rape. The article listed the names and addresses of the rape victims, as well as certain details of the assaults, such as Miss X was "raped and forced to commit a crime against nature." The article has sparked the latest in a series of protests over the Herald's policy of publishing the names and addresses of rape victims. Herald managing editor Mike Rouse is apologetic about the unfortunate but necessary "embarrassment" these women "might" feel on seeing their names published in the paper. But Concerned Citizens, an informal coalition organized to change the Heralds policy, says the problem is far more serious than mere embarrassment. They argue the publication of a rape victim's name and address is unnecessary, exposes her to public humiliation and often makes her the target of crank calls and other forms of harassment. Anne Blair, head of the Durham Rape Crisis Center, documented a case in which a woman attempted suicide as a result of being identified in the Herald. It is just the sort of coverage seen in the Herald that makes deterrence of rape so difficult. Unnerved by the thought of having her name smeared across the pages of the local paper, a rape victim is highly unlikely to report the incident. According to a 1977 study by Project Aftermath, over 70 percent of North Carolina women who are raped never report the crime; fear of public ridicule was cited as a major reason for their silence. Rouse retorts the policy is based on the principle of openness in the judicial system. The Herald will not name a rape victim or an alleged rapist until a charge has been filed in court. At that point, both the accused and accuser (unless under 17 years of age) are identified. "The alternative would be a policy that would allow some people to take others to court on charges that could bring life in prison without ever being publicly identified," he says. Such concern for the rights of the accused is laudable. But is that really where the Heralds heart is? One wonders how our 18-year-old Durham High student is going to get a fair trial with an unbiased jury when the Herald has chosen to blast the details of his indictment on its front page. And the "openness in the judicial system" rationale is weak. Regardless of their treatment by the press, prosecuting witnesses in rape trials cannot possibly remain anonymous. Their full names and addresses appear on court dockets and are available at all times to the accused and his attorney. And the same information is on public record at the police department, yours for the asking. Durham District Attorney Dan Edwards Jr. argues the right of the accused to confront his accuser is constitutionally guaranteed in the courts. "The Heraldseems to assume that the case is tried in the press, not in the courts," he said in an interview yesterday. But reputations are tried in the press, and some argue if the names of alleged rape victims are not reported, it will be too easy to accuse innocent men merely to slander their names. "Highly unlikely," according to Edwards. Since the Herald waits until an alleged assailant has been indicted before printing his name, and since only police, and never the victim, can bring a charge before 'the courts, an accuser will have to do much more than just cry "rape" if she wants to drag any names through the mud. Most importantly, she'll have to convince the police that a rape is likely to have occurred and the police will ask her about personal experiences such as her relationship with the alleged assailant. Protest over the April 5 article has been sufficiently angry and organized to worry the Herald editorial staff. It has promised to begin a review of its policy of publishing names and addresses of rape victims next week instead of next year as previously planned. I hope they will opt for a policy which is humane, a policy that is sensitive to the traumas of being a victim of rape, a policy that puts responsible journalism before sensationalism. It is of vital importance that those of you who feel' strongly about the Herald's outrageous insensitivity make your opinions known. Petitions are available in the AWS office r or write the editor of the Herald. Lia Service is a 1977 UNC graduate from Durham. Message in Spearman care package: think but don't sacrifice your heart Editor's note: The following is retiring journalism Professor Walter Spearman's address delivered April 20 at the 1978 Phi Beta Kappas and reprinted as his last "Random Thrust, " the column he wrote as a UNC student in 1928. But don't befooled. His first so-called "Last Thurst" was 50 years ago as a DTH columnist, when he said of himself, "If he has produced a smile or two over the foibles of the campus this, his year's work has been successful and he may retire satisfied." Make that his 43 year's work teaching journalism and countless smiles over the foibles of the campus. Indeed, Walter Spearman can retire satisfied. If I have a theme tonight, I'd like to call it "The Mind and the Heart." Obviously, you are the minds of the University. You have made Phi Beta Kappa. You have achieved academic distinction and you deserve to be proud. Your parents deserve to be proud of you. Your professors deserve to be proud of you and of what they have helped you accomplish. But tonight I want to ask you one other question: Where are your hearts? Back in the 1960s,student hearts were all hanging out. Students were concerned with the world about them: war and peace, racial justice, the rights of labor and the welfare of the underprivileged, the plight of the poor and the desperation of the doomed. I had students who lay down in the streets of Chapel Hill, obstructing traffic and leading demonstrations to open theaters and eating places and hotels to blacks. I had a student an A student at that who spent three months in a N.C. jail for seeking rights for those discriminated against. Tom Wolfe, a brilliant writer and the founder of our so-called "New Journalism," calls the 1970s the "Me Decade." Encounter groups, meditation groups, therapy sessions, Zen and Yoga, primal therapy, sexual swinging: they all scream, "Let's talk about ME! That's what is important. Never mind the other fellow. Let's talk about ME and forget the rest of the world. What grade will 1 get? What graduate school will I be admitted to? What job can 1 get? What sex partner can I find? What kind of retirement benefits will my job bring me? Let's think about ME!" Where are we in the 1970s? Last year 1 read an editorial in the Daily Tat Heel, my old Alma Mater, entitled "Students Seek Status Quo." The editorial quoted the director of the London School of Economics as saving self-confident students of the I9f0s have been replaced by the fearful and defensive student-, of the Tv, who dermnd a defense (-t the status quo, of existing privileges. And the student writer concluded: "The student of the 70s has his hands full simply worrying about his own future. The idealism of the student of the 60s, striking out for Utopia, has fallen by the wayside, only to be replaced by a world of the survival of the fittest." Several years ago, the New York Times made a survey of college editors on eight campuses, from coast to coast, asking what students were most interested in. One editor reported: "This campus' 13,000 students want a place of security in an anxious world more than an opportunity to make the world more secure." And thv UNC editor wrote: "Two-fifths of the students are preoccupied with trivia, about two fifths of us sway back from concern to unconcern and about one-fifth are involved in something significant, something larger than ourselves." One advantage of teaching here for more than 40 years is that one sees so many college generations come and go, usually in like freshman lambs and out like senior lions. What do they do while they are here? Is it a four-year rest period or coffee break or beer blast between high school graduation and a lifetime job? Or is it a period of growth, of maturing, of new ideas and expanding horizons, of trying out intellectual wings, of dedication and serv ice? Are they parasites who sap the University of its stored-up strength or do they add their own contributions to that strength? Do they take away without replenishing? Or do they revitalize a University that may be growing tired and add their own new ideas to the University's accumulation of wisdom? Students seem more concerned with grades today and with getting into graduate school or medical school or law school than with other people and the world outside. No one is willing to accept a C even if it is a well-deserved C for too little work or too sloppy work. For the first time in my 43 years of teaching at Carolina, students call me up at home at night to explain why they may have to cut my class the next day or why they have not been able to finish a paper on time. Don't mistake me. It is good to be concerned about grades. How else can you get an education? How else can you make Phi Beta Kappa? But let's not sacrifice the heart to the mind. Let's not forget concern and compassion from the I9b0s. If the 1970s is really the "M E decade." a writer I oin Wolfe says it is. let us try to temper the personal concerns b"- oi:rsri c and r-ur future with great outreach to others "ME! ME! MI'" can become a M-liish K-tejm ckhmuiuIv Random ThriiHta n''W iliSlllllillllHiH ,. " W!i-- 'l. Tt I iiim- - -i ii-i-i.-niin iln'-lir r ill Walter Spearman Mark Lazenby ignores the needs and aspirations of others. Let's not cry "Wolfe" even Tom Wolfe too often. We might keep the chiding Wolfe from our personal door by looking outside to see the world around us. Can we use our Phi Beta Kappa minds and our human hearts to make that a better world? In one or two college generations the pendulum swings from apathy to activism, from callousness to concern, from selfishness to unselfishness, from the scheming mind to the roving heart. To illustrate t hat sw ming pendulum, let me take y ou over to two of my classes in journalism. 1 teach a class in book, movie and play reviewing. We read Judith Crist's movie rev iews and hear her call "The Sound of Music" the "sound of marshmallows." We recall the small bov who said: "I his hook tclN ivx more akut penguins than i want to know " V c u-vcr.rvi ( Bernard's classic remark: "A critic isa man who leaves no turn unstoned." We quote that infamous line: "An amateur quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost." Then I teach a course in editorial writing, and my students w rite about very serious subjects: the purpose of education, "registration, Drop-Add, students' rights to vote, the Honor System, abortions, freedom of the press, conditions in prison, capital punishment, Watergate, the nuclear bomb, ERA and discrimination against blacks and women. One day 1 asked my students to list five topics they were sufficiently concerned about to try to persuade others to their own convictions. Most of them busily jotted down something. But one girl a very pretty girl looked bewilderedly out the window. After class she turned in a blank paper. "But, Mr. Spearman." she said. "I'm not concerned about anything. 1 think everything is just fine." Remember the "new commandment" - "Thou shall not commit - thyself.' She didn't and she hadn't. But 1 see commitment on every hand. Sometimes I even see a student committeed to an academic course, to a term paper that excites him all through the night before he had to turn it in. to a new subject that gives him ideas he had never had before, to a particular professor who may open up challenging new areas of study that had never interested him before. Not all commitments are to great public causes. Thev mav be to a superior basketball team. They may be commitments to a girl, but commitments that belie the Playboy philosophy that girls, like any good accessory, are detachable and disposable. 1 hey may be commitments to become the best doctor or lawyer or nuclear physicist you are capable ol being. I hey may be commitments to open your sorority or your Iraternitv to all individuals, regardless or race, creed or color Commitments come in various sizes. What is a small commitment to one person may be a large and meanmglul one to another: the relusal to go along with popular stereotypes, the determination to think lor vourscll. the courage to be a non-contormisi in the midst ol contormitv I he studeni who comes to Chapel Hill and gets a new idea, a new commitment, mav puzzle Ins tamilv back home m even trietuen the state but he mav well he building a piogressive. enlightened tutuie lir Ins suu- ' I nc "hippo's" used to s.iv "lo vour Hung." but I ie a ',:, c to do " hn J . r.i by . ruu u ,...:J aJ j W .1 ,1 w .1 . ' Oh, there was apathy back in the 60s as well as dedicated commitment. And there is commitment here in the 70s as well as a tendency to "look out for Number One." Our task as "thinking students," as men and women with Phi Beta Kappa minds is to use our minds in conjunction with our hearts to create the full man. the complete woman, the felicitous combination of mind and heart. If this were to be my "Last Lecture," I'd like to wrap it all up in a box and, like the boxes we used to send abroad with food and clothing for the starving, write CA R E on it in large letters CA R E. Care about your academic work. (You obvfously do or you wouldn't be here tonight.) Care about the University that tries to nurture you. Care about your fellow students. Care about the world in which you live and the people who live in it with you. even those you have never seen. If you need a motto for tomorrow, change it from "Thou shall not commit - Thyself to the one word: Care. Neither the faculty nor the Administration nor your parents should ask you to avoid controversy. Rather we should ask you and eternally encourage you to care about something and to care enough to become involved. Now even a Last Lecture has a last paragraph: I want to pass on to you the words of the two professors who meant the most to me back in the twenties when I was a student, when 1, too, was "under 30." Their commitment shone round their heads like halos and to me they were, and are. Chapel Hill and the University. We all need our heroes and these were mine. Let them be yours, too or find new heroes of your own. Playwright Paul Green once said: "Life is like a tree torever growing." So may it prove to you. And University President Frank Graham once wrote: "Where and when men are tree, the way of progress is not subversion, the respect for the past is not reaction, and the hope of the future is not revolution: w here the majority is without tyranny, the minority without tear, and all people have hope of building together a nobler America in a freer and lairer world " Vv nen I was a student. Paul Green gave me a volume ot his plavs. On the fly leal he wrote: "To Walter Npc.irman. with a behel in his ultimate triumph." Mv last word to you as a teacher is this: "I have a ix-hcl in i. wr ultimate triumph." And I care Develop aa,t niho.i'.e .mil use ur nun J but d.m't sacrifice