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Wednesday, November 29. 1978 The Daily Tar Heel 8
Lou Bilionis, Editor
Chuck A lston, Managing Editor
Don Woodard, Associate Editor
David McKinnon, Associate Editor
Bernie Ransbottom, University Editor
Mary Anne Rhynk. City VJitor
Michael Wade, State and Sational VJitor
Richard Harron.-.Whv VJitor
Betsy Flagler, Features Editor
MarkScandling, Arts Editor
Lee Pace, Sports Editor
Billy Newman. Photography Editor
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86th year of editorial freedom
ureaucratic tangles
The faces may change, and the issues may vary, but always, it seems,
the Congress has work to dp. Often it does not want the work, of course,
and often it does not do the work, and that fact goes a long way toward
explaining why it always has so much wosk to do.
The new version, at any rate, wift probably be no exception. When it
convenes in January, its long agenda of pending legislation will be made
even longer by the presence of some genuinely divisive issues.
But of this vast array of major bills, few if any will face the kind of
odds with which President Carter's reorganization seems to be
confronted. As we have come to realize, government is slow almost to
the point of paralysis when it is asked to act upon itself; and when one
branch of the government finally gets around to excercising its power
over another branch, the line separating the powers sometimes blui s
almost to the point of indistinction.
This much at least was pointed up last week when reports began to
circulate concerning President Carter's plans for reorganization of the
ways the federal government distributes economic development money
and administers the nation's natural resources. These two objectives,
along with the president's proposed cabinet-level Department of
Education, will by all accounts be the absolute extreme of the Carter
administration's effort on this front next year; and they are all that
remains of the lofty reorganization goals Carter enunciated in his
campaign two years ago. The entire reorganization package was shelved
in the 1977 season, the plans for consolidating programs concerning
health and environmental- controf and protection of workers and
consumers have been shelved permanently, and the Department of
Education bill was defeated soundly this year. And even the modest
aims the administration has held to will be subject to modification.
The president wants extensive reorganization in the areas of
economic development natural resources; specifically, the creation of a
Department of Economic Development to replace HUD, eliminate the
Commerce Department, and consolidate a number of other functions,
and the creation of a Department of Natural Resources to replace the
present Department of the Interior and consolidate some of the
functions of the Army Corps of Engineers and the Departments of
Agriculture, Commerce and Transportation. But what the president can
get will probably be quite different; he may in. fact have to settle for a
minor consolidation of rural economic programs and similar slight
changes in the realm of natural resources.
The president's problem, of course, is the kind of ' mutual-aid
relationship which exists between the federal bureaucracy and a number
of key members of Congress. It is a friendship which has caused more
than one president before Carter to despair of working change in the
structure of the executive branch; and it does not seem likely that Carter
will be any more successful than most of his predecessors.
The real loser is this battle will be the American taxpayers, though;
and their chagrin will only be heightened by the realization that even a
Congress and a president elected specifically to Jhe task could not
succeed.
Decision needed
Many people see "freedom of the press" as a ready and provoking
phrase quickly uttered by any newspaper or journalist who finds himself
in a jam. After all, the 1970s that have brought "investigative
journalism," "informed sources" and "highly placed officials" into
vogue are also years riddled with court cases; clashes between the First
Amendment guarantee of a free press and other constitutional or
statutory assurances to a free trial, in particular have been equally in
vqgue, to the boredom and dismay of Americans across the country.
And so, the case of Myron A. Farber's notes once of public interest
if for no other reason than that the files probably contain grizzly
information on a bizarre set of murders has gone relatively unnoticed
in recent weeks. Farber's request for a reversal of his contempt-of-court
conviction for failure to surrender his notes to a New Jersey judge, it
seems, has failed for a lack of second. A lack of second from a nation
plainly indifferent to the rather challenging task of striking a balance'
between frequently paradoxical rights, and a lack of second from the
Supreme Court, which, on Monday, elected not to review Farber's
contempt convictions.
Most compelling of the newest facets of the Farber case is the
realization that the string of trials, citations, appeals and contradictory
rulings will continue to lengthen until the Supreme Court chooses to
rule definitively on the issue of freedom of the press. Some court
followers speculate that just such a decision is around the corner, as
there are several cases in the lower courts now which may reach
Washington in the coming months.
A precedent-setting ruling may not be to the press' liking; there is a
certain degree of comfort to be found in ambiguity. But the Supreme
Court must issue soon its answer to a problem that has plagued courts
everywhere for too long. It is a difficult calling, but a necessary one.
The Daily Tar Heel
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Sports: Pete Mitchell, assistant editor; Evan Appel. George Benedict. Norman Cannada. Bill
Fields. John Fish. David McNeill. Brian Putnam. Rick Scoppe, Frank Snyder and Isabel
-Worthy.
Features: Vikki Broughton. Cheryl Carpenter, J erri Garrard. Debra King. Margaret Lee,
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Arts: Ann Smallwood. assistant editor; Buddy Burniske. Gregory Clay, Marianne Hansen.
Steve Jackson, Jere Link, Melanie Modlin. Mark Peel, Judith Schoolman and Anthony
Seideman. - . -
Graphic Arts: Dan Brady, Alan Edwards, Bob Fulghum. G. Douglas Govus. Kathy Harris,
Jeff Lynch, Jocelyn Pettibone, Eric Roberts and John Tomlinson. artists; Andy James. Ann
McLaughlin. Will Owens and Kim Snooks, photographers.
Business: Claire H. Bagley, business manager; Linda L. Allred, secretary receptionist; Kim
Armstrong, Chuck Lovelace and William Skinner, accounting: Julia Breeden, circulation and
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Four gemons come down to four minutes
Don Woodard's
'Paradox Lbsf
Campus psuedo-intellectuals will scoff;
freshmen may nofunderstand. But this is a column
about one of those .rare and supreme moments
when, if only for a brief interlude, everything seems
right with the world.
It -wasn't just another football game. As I
approached Kenan Stadium last Saturday, my
mind reeled with sentiment. This was it: my last
Carolina football game as a UNC student. The
Last Game.
Big deal, some of you say. What's so great about
four years of watching a bunch of big guys butt
heads and grapple, up and down a grassy field? Is
that what you're here for? Is that college?
Damn straight.
Let's hear it for pastimes. Granted there's more
to life at Carolina than tossing paper airplanes at
the "mike" man and demanding a blue (not white)
Hardee's Coke cup from the vendors, but there is
room for such sanity-inducers and 1 am not about
to let the pompous and self-righteous deprive me
these necessary trivialities. .
So there I was--with a handful 6f fellow seniors
in the upper deck- witnessing the culmination of
four inconsistent football seasons. The roll call
flashed before my eyes: Bill Paschal. Boom Boom
Betterson. Mike Vo'ight. Dee Hardison..
letters to the editor
But something was wrong. Five minutes
remained in a. game where emotions weren't
finding it easy to emote; where sentiments rose and
fell with each Duke possession. Fans no,
people were filing out of the stands. 1 felt
unexplainably dizzy. My mind fell into a familiar
lapse.
We are, by lot, a doubting species. . r
For most of us. it began when we were young.
We sent away for Sea Monkeys expecting
seahorse-like underwater urchins to arrive within
the four to six weeks we were told to "allow" (?) for
delivery. We received, instead, a handful of brine
shrimp that may or may not have come to life in a
bowl of water we previously hoped would grow the
Magic Rocks we got in the mail a month prior.
And just when our hands were adapting to that
fat Husky pencil, our second-grade teachers wove'
a skinny No. 2 through our tiny fingers. Our Big
Chief Writing Tablets would fall by the wayside as
well.
As the years passed, I grew more and more
suspect of though no less susceptible to the
things in life that fell short of their promises.
1 felt no great surge of strength after eating a
bowl of Cheerios. (Spinach proved equally
deceptive a fallacy for which 1 have yet to forgive
Popeye.)
And toys. Television has had the uncanny ability
to make even the simplest toys seem such that,
besides having unlimited utility, they could last
indefinitely and retain the child's interest beyond
his parents' wildest, most wonderful dreams.
Aurora's slot cars would finish in a dead heat every
time. (Although the slow-motion replay would
inevitably indicate that Young Son had actually
beaten ol' Dad by a fender.) Talking Barbie knew
exactly how to respond to any question a little girl
might throw at her.
Is it any wonder that we of the Saturday-morning-tele
vision-on-the-livingroom-carpet
generation question the existence of silver linings
in the greater dark clouds of life? (We re stepping
into more philosophical bounds this week, folks.)
And suddenly we are cast into the trusting arms
of the. University. Guaranteed housing for
freshmen. A four-week drop period in the student
interest. A student-first attitude toward athletic
ticket distribution. Undeveloped land offers in the
Everglades. , .
Then the uproar. The silver lining. It was as if
you had told a convention of Girl Scouts that
because of a good fiscal year, they wouldn't have to
sell cookies for 12 months. It was the screams of
thousands of fans who doubted the occurrence of
the improbable... but did not choose to leave.
There have been times I've been the fair-weather
fan. It's difficult to remain consistent during an
inconsistent season. But in four football minutes I
was reminded of some great afternoons spent with
friends in Kenan Stadium. And now it's over.
I'm not sure what the rates will be in 2019, but
can an aging alumnus join the Ram's Club on
Social Security?
Don Woodard. a senior RTVMP major from
Fort Worth. Texas, is associate editor for the Daily
Tar Heel.
Mousing should be .guaranteed four years
To the editor:
Peggy Gibbs' statement that "New
apartment construction will help with
upperclassmen" seems to be an easy way
out for the housing department. It seems
to me that it is the responsibility of the
University to supply housing for the
students. When a student has been living
in a dorm for a couple of years, it is a
shame when he or she is f orced to leave
old friends and go looking for a place to
live off campus. Why doesn't the
administration wise up to the needs of the
students? I guess they don't think that is
their problem.
Richard Kelly
09 Old East
You should know
To the editor:
"I thought I had seen it all. The bounds
of human intellectual arrogance had
almost ceased to amae me." So begins
Mark Bensen's column ("Homo sapien
arrogance," DTH. Nov. 27). By the fifth
paragraph we began to anticipate a
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Instead, Mr. Bensen treated his readers
to 15 column inches of his own special
brand of drivelling mm sequitur. Such is
the nature of arrogance, however. In
establishing himself, in the heartwarming
company of cetaceans and simians, on an
intellectual stratum superior to that
supplied by mankind in general, and
medical science in particular, Mr. Bensen
has supplied us with a significant example
of arrogance at its zenith.
Doctor, heal thyself.
' Michael Brendan
John Byron
Jim Field
Field crew, University engineers
One-sidedness
To the editor:
Jim Protzman's comments ("Wait two
years," DTH. Nov. 27) are further
examples of the tendency of Americans to
ally themselves for or against a candidate
on the basis of his or her stand on one
particular issue. Such attributes as
strength of character, 'integrity and
selflessness in a would-be local, state or
national official does not seem to hold
any sway over the legions of righteous
pro- and anti-nuke, ERA. abortion, trade
tariffs, etc. forces in the never, never land
of our nation's electorate. Unfortunately,
such one-sided attitudes have resulted in
the election of incompetent men and
women who have catered to the whims of
the right combination of pressure groups;
at worst, it will lead to demagoguery.
Adrian R. Halpern
1514 Granville West
Go Navy
To the editor:
I am sure many Carolina women have y
been distressed recently over newspaper
articles published in the Raleigh News
and Observer and the Durham Morning
Herald, concerning the continued
inequity of women's pay. Figures cited
showed, for example, that a white male
high school dropout averaged $9,37.9 in
1976 while a white woman with a degree
earned only $7,176. Unemployment
among female mathematicians has
actually increased from 50 percent higher
than men in 1973 to 300 percent higher in
1977. According to the articles and the
Scientific Manpower Commission (a
non-profit private organisation) report
on which they were based, the only fields
where women have shown gains over men
are industrial chemistry and engineering
because "token" women engineers are in
demand. The report stated that "women's
salaries are lower than those of men with
comparable training and experience at
every age, and every type of employer."
The report is wrong.
The Armed Services which were not
mentioned may be the only field in which
equal opportunity is given more than lip
service. Let me give some hard facts
about a naval career that may be of
interest to Carolina women. A woman
enters the Navy as an ensign (at the same
rank her male counterpart enters). An
ensign's starting pay arid benefits are
$11,436 per year (or $4,260 above the
national average). Alter four years,
officers (both male and female) normally
advance to lieutenant and are making
$19,752 per year.
The Navy doesn't have any "token"
members. An ensign normally manages
anywhere from a doen to 60 persons on
the division level. A lieutenant functions
as a department head in charge of several
divisions. Co-workers, subordinates and
superiors are usually enthusiastic,
intelligent and dedicated. There is a sense
of belonging and fellowship within the
Navy that builds a strong sense of
identity.
Carolina women are particularly
fortunate because they can get in on the
ground floor of all this opportunity right
here at UNC. We arc the only state
university in North Carolina that is
fortunate enough to have a Naval
Reserve Officer Training Corps program
on campus. I would like to invite all
freshman and sophomore women to stop
in and look us over. Now is the time to get
a guaranteed meaningful job that will pay
you a decent salary. College program
midshipmen make $100 per month while
still here in school and can earn a full
scholarship if qualified.
I am sincerely interested in supporting
equal rights for women and am not just,
writing this letter because fI am in the
Navy. If any women want to earn equal
pay for equal work and do something
exciting after graduation rather than end
up as an overtrained underpaid secretary
or as a "token woman" on someone's
payroll, then 1 would like to talk to them
on a person-to-persori basis. I am not a
recruiter, merely a man who is interested
in equal rights. If after talking to me, you
are interested, I can turn you on to some
really good people who can help out. .
Ed Giles
Chief petty officer
NROTC Unit, UNC-CH
Symposium '80
To the editor:
We would like to invite all students to
submit proposals for the Carolina
Symposium, a biennial forum exploring
through various meda a particular topic.
The symposium is an excellent
opportunity for students to exercise their
creativity, to find a forum for their ideas
and to contribute in a major way to
campus life. Past programs have focused
on East Asia and the South, and last
year's symposium on communication
brought to campus such personalities as
William F. Buckley. Charles Kuralt and
Daniel Schorr and such films as Network
and 777P Front.
Interested groups should submit a
preliminary draft of their ideas to tne
Steele Building office of Vice Chancellor
for Student Affairs Donald Boulton by
Jan. 24, 1989. This prior draft is intended
to identify and assist each and every
group; guidelines may be picked up in
Boulton's office. Also available at any
time during office hours in the basement
of Steele Building is information
pertaining to past symposia. Students
should plan their programs to fit a basic
time, span ofI0 days to two weeks. The
formal decision for the 1980 symposium
will be made Feb. 10. Any questions
about the material in Student Affairs or
the selection process in general may be
addressed to Sam Sockwell (968-9305) or
Tim Sullivan (942-7938).
Sam Sockwell
Tim Sullivan
else! The tops!
What else can you say about someone
who consistently writes such sensitive
reviews which not only examine the
music and the artists, but also relates
them to a wider cultural context. So few
critics are able to do this? As he does so,
he coins apt phrases and develops his
images in the graphic style reminiscent of
the young Ring Lardner at his best.
I commend those who selected Peel. He
belongs to the tradition of great tar Heel
writers. Get ready to move over, Tom
Wolfe.
John W. Matthews
47 D Colonial Apartments
Durham
Peel appeal
To the editor:
For some time I have wanted to write
to express my admiration for your music
critic Mark Peel. The guyis something
Who says
Latin is
i
obsolete?
To the editor:
1 have a protest to make. I read the
article on Latin ("Latin: more students
taking it, but doesn't make sciences
easier," DTH. Nov. 27) being
unuseful. Last year me and my class
learned Roman numbers and their
names and had lots of fun playing
games to know them well. Fifty-seven
percent of English words come from
Latin. If you knew how important
English words are for us to
communicate, you would know how I
feel. Latin is fun to learn and
understand and it was not work, it was
play. We were in the newspaper and
on the radio. Because it was important
that kids could understand all there
was in Latin and know it. I am now in
third grade and am hoping Latin will
go on for a long time.
Vale,
Sarah Elizabeth Dessen
Age 8
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