8 Llh9.Dslily Tar Heel Monday. March 26. 1979
David Stacks, Editor
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John Hoke, Managing Editor
George Shadroui, Associate Editor .
Allen Jernigan, Associate Editor
Eddie Marks, University Editor
Michael Wade, City Editor
Kathy Curry State and National Editor
Cynthia Prairie, News Editor
Reid Tuvim, SportsEditor
Laura Alexander, Eeatures Editor
Ann Smallwood, Arts Editor
Billy Newman,. Photography Editor
Michele Mecke, Weekender Editor
eSSEBB
letters to the editor
Statin
87th year of editorial freedom
A
heritage of change
A new masthead appears atop this column today one you haven't
seen before. The change in names signifies a change in management of
the Daily Tar HeeU a change we hope will signal a marked improvement.
The names above are those of people who have made a commitment
to bring you a quality newspaper each morning, one that will do more
than keep you awake during early classes..
In the remaining five weeks of this semester, the 130 or so students and
professionals who produce this newspaper will be redoubling their
efforts to bring you details of pertinent news events, athletic and arts
activities, as well as feature stories about notable persons in the
University community.
In addition, we intend to bring you insightful analyses of decisions
made in South Building, the Legislative Building and the far corners of
the globe. But the opinions presented on this page also will tell you how
the news on campus and in the world affects you.
Change is constant and inevitable. We hope the changes you see in
this newspaper this semester and next will be positive and constructive.
Several changes vital for the continued growth of this newspaper
already are in the offing. Broader news coverage will result from the
influx of new staff writers the Tar Heel will take on in the next few days;
broader editorial content will be the product of several new editorial
assistants whose columns you will see soon; and the expanded
ombudsman staff will help ensure that the sentiments of our readers are
not unheard at the decision-making levels of the newspaper.
Other important changes should be noticeable in a few weeks. The
Tar Fleets ombudsman and business staffs are formulating a plan to
improve distribution of the newspaper during the early morning hours,
and the advertising sales staff is navigating its course into the lucrative
Durham-area advertising market.
As it has since its founding in 1893, the underlying philosophy of this
newspaper will be to stand up and speak for the students interests. For
campus and local news, informative features and sports, and state and
national news of particular importance to students, you can rely on the
Daily Tar Heel to be your primary source of information.
If the Tar Heel fails to meet these rigorous standards, we expect to
hear about it. Criticism may not be desired, but sometimes it is needed.
And without feedback from the students this newpaper attempts to
serve, the tradition that began in 1893 cannot continue.
The Daily Tar Heel will make mistakes in the future, as it has in the
past. And it will enjoy successes too. But as long as the newspaper keeps
sight of its goal of being the student newspaper in Chapel Hill, its
successes will outnumber its failures.
N
ot so rosy
At 2 p.m. today, President Carter will sit down with Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt to sign
a treaty designed to end three decades of conflict and distrust between
the peoples of Egypt and Israel. But amid the hope and hoopla are
unanswered questions and nagging doubts.
And the threat of renewed war.
A separate peace between the principal antagonists in the Middle East
drama is a step in the right direction, but only a step. A Cairo-Jerusalem
pact can at best be the cornerstone of reconciliation between Israel and
her Arab neighbors. They key to reconciliation is a resolution of the role
of more than 700,000 Palestinians on the West Bank of the Jordan River
and their 450,000 comrades in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian leaders are not pleased with the Carter peace accord,
threatening anti-Egyptian boycotts and increased terrorist violence
against Israel, Egypt and Arab nations supporting the treaty. They feel
that President Carter has sold out their interests to conclude hastily a
treaty to boost his sagging popularity at home. A sense of anger seems to
pervade most of the Arab world, and this outrage has left even the more
moderate Arab nations questioning, the costs of a separate peace.
Traditionally a force of moderation in the Arab world, Saudia Arabia
has the potential to counterbalance the weight of anti
Sadat Carter Begin sentiment. The Saudis, who provide $2 billion each
year in aid to Cairo and supply 15 percent of U.S. oil imports, have
expressed their desire for a comprehensive peace involving the interests
of the entire Arab world.
A comprehensive peace in the Middle East is the only long-term
solution to the darkly looming cloud of continued violence between
Israel and her Arab neighbors. Surely Carter's efforts lay the
groundwork for such a peace. He, Sadat and Begin are to be lauded for
their courage and good sense. But there's a long way to go.
The Middle East still is not so rosy.
The Daily Tar Heel
Assistant Managing Editors: Dinita Jarrltes, David Squires
Ombudsman: Jeff Fenyves
Weekender Editor: Michele Mecke"
News: Eddy Atwell, RoAnn Bishop, Joan Brafford, Shannon Brennan, Chuck Burns, Chris
Burritt, Carol Carnevale, Maria Carpenter, Lisa Cartwright, Anne-Marie Downey, "Ben
Estes, Libby Fosso, Annette Fuller, Jay Hamilton, Carol Hanner, Doug Haynes, Pam
Hildebran, Jim Hummel, Terri Hunt, Thomas Jessiman, George Jeter, Cam Johnson,
Ramona Jones, Pam Kelley, Keith King, Susan Ladd, Kathy Morrill, Debbie Moose, Mark
Murrell, Billy Odom, David Parker, Beth Parsons, Laura Phelps, Evelyn Sahr, Melanie Sill,
David Snyder, Mary Beth Starr, Betsy Stephenson, Lisa Tate, Katha Treanor, Martha
Waggoner, Sarah West and Carolyn Worsley.
News Desk: Chuck Burns, Lisa Cartwright, Bernie Cook, Pat Daugherty, Sue Doctor, Anita
Gardner, Frank Harrell, Bob Knowles, Sherry Martin, Kim McGuire, Laraine Ryan, Amy
Sharpe, Mary Beth Starr, Keith Taylor and Rand Tucker.
Sports: Bill Fields, assistant editor; Evan Appel, George Benedict, Norman Cannada, John
Fish, Marjo Rankin, Elliott Shoenthal, and Bert WoodaVd.
Features: Cheryl Carpenter, Anita Gardner, Terri Garrard, Molly Manning, Bill McGowan,
Mary Ann Rickert, Cathy Robinson, Clive A. Stafford Smith, Siidie Taylor and Donna
Tompkins.
Arts: Buddy Burniske, assistant editor; Gregory Clay, Jere Link, Melanie Modlin, Mark
Peel, Judith Schoolman and Anthony Seideman.
Graphic Arts: Dan Brady, Alan Edwards, Bob Fulghum, G. Douglas Govus, Kathy Harris,
Rick Miller and Eric Roberts, artists; Andy James, Richard Kendrick, Ann McLaughlin, Will
Owens and Kim Snooks, photographers.
Business: Grant Duers, business manager; Linda L. Allred, secretary receptionist; Kim
Armstrong, Chuck Lovelace and William Skinner, accounting; Julia Breeden, circulation and
distribution manager.
Advertising: Neal Kimball, advertising manager; Nancy McKenzie, advertising coordinator;
Arjc Brown, classifieds; John Behm, Andy Davis, Wendy Haithcock, Susan Ilderton, Ed
Murray, Lynn Timberlake and Jerita Wright, sales.
Nuclear technology exploitation
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To the editor:
Brian Wirwicz's DTH column ("Right
to safety outweighs right to print" March
21) on The Progressive magazine's
proposed article on the H-bomb misses
what is at stake in the controversy.
Wirwicz falls astray by failing to pay
attention to what the editor of The
Progressive has said in defense of the
article. The magazine is not "publishing
the secret of how to make an H-bomb."
The U.S. government has already done
so, in bits and pieces scattered
throughout documents open to the
public, and a journalist with minimal
technical background was able lo
assemble them accurately.
Does Wirwicz seriously think that
what a writer for The Progressive can do,
a top scientist in. for example, the South
African or Israeli nuclear weapons
programs could not. The point The
Progressive wishes to make is that we are
not protected from the spread of
thermonuclear weapons by any hidden
secrets, but by the fact that only a few
nations have the technological capacity
to use what is, in fact, readily available
knowledge.
Unfortunately, the nuclear industry
with the active support of Western
governments is rapidly eroding this
protection by exporting nuclear
technology (including, in the Western
European case, plutonium breeder
technology) wherever they can find a
market. Jf the government wishes to
protect us from nuclear proliferation, it
should address that export process,
rather than prosecuting editors who
publish information the government has
already made available to anyone taking
the trouble to assemble it.
Bob McMahon
Springiest tickets
To the editor:
Student Government very proudly
announces Springfest, an outdoor
concert starring Jimmy Buffett, with
special guests the Spinners, also featuring
Nantucket, from 5 p.m. to 1 1 p.m. April
21, in Kenan Stadium.
Ticket sales on the UNC campus begin
today in the South Gallery Meeting
Room of theCarolina Union. Tickets will
be sold there from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
today and Tuesday. Ticket sales will be
moved on Wednesday to the Carolina
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other tickets are $8. Only UNQ-Chapel
Hill students with a valid UNC student
ID will be able to purchase a ticket for $4.
Each student must present his or her ID
in order to purchase a student ticket and
only one student ticket will be sold to
each student. Students and non-students
alike will be able to purchase as many $8
tickets as they desire. Student tickets will
not be available after April 13. All tickets
sold after April 13 will be sold for $8 and
all tickets are general admission.
" Ticket prices are based on a "break
even" policy. It. is important that
Carolina students make a concerted
effort to follow this policy. Buy your own
ticket. Don't lend out your, student ID
and don't buy more than one ticket at the
$4 price. The lower priced tickets are
being made available to those students
who pay student activity fees to this
university. This ticket policy must be
followed in order for Springfest to be
successful. Thank you.
Jay Tervo
Lyndon Fuller
Rhonda Black
Springfest co-ordinators
Deutsch
To the editor.
It seems to me that Mike Christman's
attack on. the foreign language
requirement ("German a waste of time
says chemistry major," DTH, March 22)
is unjustified. My own experience is
somewhat different, since I went to a
college which had no requirements
whatsoever; yet as a chemistry major, I
took German because I was told it would
be "good forme". My attitude was similar
to Mike's, except that instead of
complaining about it, I decided to use the
knowledge that I had acquired. I
contacted a well-known chemist in
Germany and asked if I could go there
and work in his laboratory for several
months. The experience was immensely
valuable both to my career and to my life.
(I also was able to see the 1972 Olympics).
It may be true that learning a language
seems like a waste of time, but students
who have that attitude do not have the
experience or the insight at the time to
judge the situation. Translators may be
available, but 1 can guarantee that
chemists who do not know German are at
a great disadvantage. Tradition can be
bad and may need to be changed; but in
this case, I think that is not true.
Thomas N. Sorrell
Assistant professor of chemistry
Vietnam experience brings author fame
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By KIM McGUIRE
On his way to Chapel Hill last week for the Fine Arts
Festival, author Tim O'Brien heard that he had been
nominated for the National Book Award for his latest
novel Going After Cacciato.
The book has brought heralding reviews to the
virtually unknown writer. Going After Cacciato is a
dramatized account of O'Brien's experience in Vietnam
as a foot, soldier. John Updike says: "As a fictional
portrait of this war Going After Cacciato is hard to fault
and it will be hard to better." The New York Times Book
Review goes further and calls it "A major achievement
to call Going After Cacciato a book about war is like
calling Moby Dick a novel about whales."
O'Brien has two earlier books. If I Die in a Combat
Zone and Northern Lights. At 32, he is already
compared to Crane and Hemingway as a great American
war writer. O'Brien says he wants to be that and much
more.
"It's inevitable," he says, "the reviews compare us and
I like it, they're great writers. I was a soldier for two years
of my life and now it's over. It was just that Vietnam was
the only thing I'd had in my life. The experience moved
me and I began to write."
He is anxious to write more, spurred on by the recent
recognition. "I'm on the map, I'm famous and it feels
good. 1 can't sleep at night. I write for nine to 10 hours a
day. 1 get up excited and 1 hate to go to sleep at night. 1
get fixed on a novel and I don't want to move until it's
done.
"I consider myself more a novelist than just someone
documenting Vietnam. Today I'm reading a story of
mine called 'The Nuclear Age.' But it's not about that
it's about a bunch of ex-radicals turned bitter and a love
story, too. It will be my next novel. It's iunn;;y and sad
but deadly serious."
All of his writing doesn't have political implications,
but O Bnen is clearly a product ol tiie tUs. His writing
doesn't promote a cause or a message as much as it
Males get 'happy news'
creates a mood." The tone of Going After Cacciaton is
serious and explicit, but "it's a fantasy," O'Brien says.
"The soldiers imagine peace, their girlfriends, a
hometown. It's about an imagined escape. Most of life
there takes place in your head."
"Soldiers are dreamers" is the quotation at the start of
the novel.
"I was against the war and I still am. But so much of
what we hear now is one-sided. For kids in school now
it's a truism the war was wrong and they've accepted
that it was wrong. No one asks whyy.
"I was drafted at 21 just after I'd been accepted to
Harvard grad school in government. I went and I did it. I
came back home and started school . Then 1 took a year
off and filled in on the national desk at the Washington
Post. In my off hours 1 started writing. I never finished
my dissertation but 1 had my first book out. If I Die got
good reviews but it didn't sell. My publisher, Seymour
Lawrence, knows how to take chances. He discovered
Vonnegut when he was completely unknown. He took a
gamble on me. It's finally paid off.
"As soon as 1 found out about the National Book
Award nomination, I called my publisher and I told him
to start printing copies of Cacciato with those gold
stickers on them," he says, laughing.
"One of my closest friends is John Irving( The World
According to Garp). We met at Breadloaf in Vermont.
He was the first to read Cacciato and I read the
manuscripts for Garp. We liked each other's books. We
laughed and said 'When we get nominated to the NBAs
we'll meet in New York and get drunk together and get a
room at the Algonquin'." John Irving received a
nomination last week, as did John Cheever.
Now that it has happened, O'Brien says they probably
won't really do it. It seems to be anti-climatic for this
young writer. He is candid and open about his talent:
"I've improved, I'm a better writer," he says, "but I
haven't really got a chance on winning (the National
Book Award). Really, I don't think about the honor, 1
just remember all the years and labor. I've been working
for three years on this new book and I've just got 120
pages written. It's worth it for me. It's been real easy. 1
wish I could live to be about 500 to use all the ideas I
have.
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Tim O'Brien
could live to be about 500 to use all the ideas I have.
"I really cared about Vietnam. There was a lot I had to
say about what a terrible, terrifying and miserable thing
it was. But there are so many other things I want to do
now. My attention is always on the one I'm working on
now, the others are over. I'm writing the next one about
a couple of old people in love. I haven't found out what
that's like yet." he says.
Chapel Hill was the last stop on O'Brien's lecture
circuit. He returns to Boston and his typewriter. "I like
to travel and do readings. I like getting response and
hearing people laugh. You know you're getting
tnrougn."
Kim McGuire, a senior journalism major from
Birmingham. Ala., is a staff writer for the Daily Tar
Heel.
Survey reveals change in female attitudes
By FRA A'A MOORE
The search continues.. .spurred by
the sun's latest assault on academia.
Ol' Sol's rays more effective than
anything that the Pentagon or the
KGB could develop may slow most
students' devotion to their beloved
books, but gee y'all, so what?
Our minds may be a terrible thing
to waste, but our eyes soothed by
the Age of Halters and Gym Shorts
Galore will be rewarded mightily.
New evidence released recently by
Seventeen magazine (yeah, that's the
one that teaches Dear Young Things
to become Dearer Young Things)
may reveal a substantial shift in the
majority of this campus' population
toward the most persecuted
segment males
Back t)ff now, waitaminnit, let me
EXPLAIN.
For years women have dominated
the minds of Southern men (the only
group of people 1 can speak of with
any reasonable degree of authority).
The Southern man was expected to
be gracious, charming and
knowledgeable in all phases of life's
business. This is life's most severe
pressure trying to satisfy yourself
and a woman.
Granted, a few Bad Good Ole Boys
abused tradition by taking advantage
of some particularly naive Dear
Young Things. But, hey, when you
start comparing the ratio of broken
hearts- and from whence they came,
the advantage lies clearly with the
Dear Young Things.
1 have fh my possession a copy of
an ongoing statistical analysis of
Chapel Hill confirming those
assumptions. This study is available
for public scrutiny if that person has
a basket in the male section of
Woollen Gym.
However, we're talking about the
past and as a Southerner, 1 have
great respect for the past but let's
talk about the future, and its
optimistic opportunities.
According to the Seventeen survey
of 1,005 women between the ages of
16 to 21 (these statistics, I believe, are
reliable through at least the junior
year and can be reasonably projected
to senior and graduate women),
women are exhibiting a new
approach to that most favored class,
men.
Here's today's happy news: "The
macho image is definitely out; it's
charm, warmth and affection that
today's girls look for in men."
The survey further found that "the
bulging muscles and thick wallets
that turned girls on in the past aren't
very important today."
Does that mean 1 can get my
money back from Charles Atlas?
And my wallet was lightened
considerably when 1 ordered the
book "How to Pick Up Girls." I feel
really insecure knowing that my love
life depends on New York postal
clerks.
Nevertheless, the survey results
excite me. Three-fourths of the girls
interviewed "will date a boy even if
the parents object to him." Which
means I have to justify my existence
only to about a quarter of the girls I
could date. This is progress.
But the sociological best issue is yet
to come.
Forty-one percent say they'd
prefer to remain virgins until they
marry. A 1978 Seventeen survey of
men showed that nearly 60 percent
said they wanted their wives to be
virgins when they married them (as
opposed to after they married them?)
These figures cause severe
problems for those who engage in
late-night dorm, apartment or house
talks and especially for those who hit
the treadmill called the Chapel Hill
bar scene. After 4,576 consecutive
and - same-ending Friday and
Saturday nights, one begins to get the
message.
For one thing, if 4 1 percent want to
remain a virgin, does that mean 59
percent don't? That's nearly 60
percent who indicate a willingness for
advanced fooling around.
Secondly, all those guys who want
their wives to be virgins are saying
"Well, gee, I'm going uptown for
some action, but 1 hope my wife is
among that 40 percent who hooked
up to an electric shock system
whenever a guy came near them."
Somebody is losing big-time, but
at least now it doesn't seem so bad as
before.
Frank Moore is a graduate student in
the School of Social Work.
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