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Mask Murrh.i . Suite and NMhnul Editor
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Tom bAoczz, Arts Editor
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The start of every Second, semester at Carolina guarantees the
presence of at least 'one.' object on campus campaign posters.
Their proliferation in classrooms and stairwells can become
annoying by the time they're removed in mid-February, but their
presence signals another more important second-semester
phenomenon: campus elections.
Though many of the candidates for campuswide offices will become
extremely active in the next few weeks, there probably also will be
students elected to offices who never run for them.
Last year, five of the 20 Campus Governing Council representatives
were elected to their offices without having run or campaigned. They
were write-ins; officially none of the students had declared himself a
candidate for those seats.
Candidates in seven of the other districts ran unopposed. Only eight
of the 20 CGC representatives chosen last February had any competition.
Considering the ease with which a student can place himself in the
running for CGC representative and the importance of the post, it's
odd so few students are interested in becoming CGC members.
UNC Elections Board Chairman Gregg James said the only require
ments for undergraduates were that they run in their CGC district and
submit at least 25 signatures to the Elections Board by 5 p.m. Jan. 28.
Graduate students must submit 25 signatures and run in their school.
As the legislative branch of Student Government, the CGC allocates
student activities fees to campus organizations ind has the power to
create and change Student Government laws. Each CGC member can
have an important effect on the University.
Recent changes in CGC districts will take effect in this election, so
three more seats 23 in all will be open.
Last year many CGC members were elected to office with only a few
votes. While many of those write-in and unopposed CGC candidates'
have served on the council responsibly, a candidate who faces
opposition, who must talk to his constituents and must earn his
position, is more likely to do a better job.
Students interested in Student Government have a perfect chance to
become involved through the CGC. It's worth obtaining the
signatures.
High
Trouble at Buckeye
The old Southern rallying cry of "states' rights" is being sounded
again these days in Louisiana. A state judge there is ignoring orders
from a federal judge and interfering with the desegregation of the
Rapides Parish school system, all in defense of Louisiana's
constitution. His cry rings hollow, because it is clear that his intent is
to prevent desegregation; Judge Richard Lee's battle is long lost.
Some parents in Buckeye, Louisiana persuaded Judge Lee to.
transfer custody of their daughters to friends living in an all-white
school district so that the girls could attend all-white Buckeye High
rather than the integrated school to which they were assigned. When
U.S. District Court Judge Nauman Scott, who had ordered that the
schools be desegregated, ruled against such "transferral" of custody,
Lee made the girlsa seventh grader and two eighth-graders wards of
his court. On Monday morning, he ordered school officials, under
threat of arrest, to ignore Federal Judge Scott's orders and to admit the
iris to Buckeye High.
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Lee faces a hearing for contempt of court charges before Judge
Scott on Thursday. He will likely be found in contempt, having
ignored all of Scott's orders and practically challenged the judge to a
showdown. "If he thinks he can enjoin the whole state of Louisiana,
he'll have to enjoin me, and I'll have to see if I'm big enough to enjoin
my own order," Lee said. "I think I am."
Lee has, however, lost the battle against desegregation. His actions
can only force the federal government to enforce laws that should be
the responsibility of the states. While crying "states' rights," Lee
invites federal intrusion and disrupts the daily business of education,
integrated and otherwise.
By LARRY REM THOMAS
19S3 fey Ijht K. Thomas
Though ' graduate student Mohammed Euraey has
lived in the United States for several years, he says it
still feels nothing like home to him. Being a Muslim in
Chapel Hill, "I feel like I'm in prison," he said.
"One would have to understand how much of a
distinct difference there is in being a Muslim in my
homeland, and in being one here, before he would be
able to understand what I mean. At least over there you
find people practicing the religion. We must pray five
times a day, and it is not odd to see someone stop on a
busy street to pray. If one did that here, he would be
looked upon strangely," said Buraey, 31, a Saudi
Arabian public administration graduate student.
Buraey is a short, bearded, brown-skinned man with
straight black hair. He has been in this country for
almost a decade and calls America "an atheistic land."
He said that was unfortunate, because the United
States had so much to offer in the way of natural
resources and education.
"Your (American) values are different (from Saudi
Arabians'). We are less concerned with material
gains,' he said.
Buraey also criticized the way the American press has
portrayed his religion and blamed the coverage on the
people who control the media. He said that the West
tended to view the Third World countries in its own
terms and added that there was really no such thing as
freedom of press in this country because the media
were owned by a small group of people.
Kchcmmsd Curacy
... a Muslim in Chapel Hill
"Take the time to look up the names of the people
who own most of the stock in these broadcasting and
newspaper companies," he said. "You will find that
they are all the same.
"My main point is that, this country is spiritually
void and that the press or the media is just one of the
devices used to downgrade Islam," he said.
Buraey was born in Mecca, Ssudi Arabia. He
graduated from Mecca Hih School with honors in
ISS7 and that fall he came to the United States to study
to be a teacher.
He began college at California State University in
Sacramento. Buraey received a. bachelor's degree in
business administration there in 1972, and a master's in.
public administration in 1974.
He left California that year to study at UNC for a
doctorate in public administration. He plans to
graduate in May.
"I was glad to leave California," he remarked, with
a frown on his face. "It was horrible out there. Just
horrible. At least here people have values. I cannot say
the same for California. I like North Carolina a great
deal better. I have also received great satisfaction in
helping other area Muslims, especially my Afro-American
brothers, understand Islam better."
Buraey added that he felt extremely good about
helping to establish the Muslim Students of UNC, a
campus organization that has been in existence since
1974. He also teaches an Arabic language class at Duke
University. He said he considered it "a blessing that
Allah has placed me here to help others.
"A Muslim is one who totally submits himself to the
- wiH of God," Buraey said. "This is often very hard to
. do in a land that is as morally decadent as America,
but, Allah willing,.! will make it." '
Larry Reni Thomas, a graduate journalism student,
is a free-lance writer based in Chapel Hill.
Cold weather isn't the only thing putting a damper on back-to-school
bar hopping and party-going. The flu that has struck much of
the Northeast and Midwest is now right here in North Carolina.
Area public schools, typically a yardstick for measuring such
illnesses, have reported twice as many absences as usual. Some
hcrpitd spokesmen even believe nearby counties, including Wake, are
in the midst of flu epidemic.
Last Wcdntsdaytl;tht first identification of the influenza virus
connected with the current rash of flu-like illnesses was made here at
UNC. Doctors call the virus A-Bangkok, which is a by-product of the
Hong ICor.g flu virus of 1953.
Whatever it is, the flu hits its victims hard. Symptoms include fever,
muscle aches, stomach aches and respiratory problems. It spreads
easily, too. l opened the-window and influenza,' said James Joyce,
and he wasn't kidding. Students with these symptoms should stay
heme frcm school and parties (sorry) and contact a doctor.
Of course, with little homework and plenty of free time, this is the
worst time to get the flu, but no one ever said the flu bug bites
ccr.iJrrctcIy. The symptoms generally test four to seven days, so it's
'unfortunate that tho.se suffering must miss the best week of partying in
Perhcps ju-.t as bzd is the fact that lovc-starved students who
Lavcn't teen their tux or belks for a month must refrain from
kissing. Indeed, a week seems like an unbearably long time to stay
away from parties and kisses, but a recent study reported the human
body can survive for seven days or so without showing the ill-effects
frcm such r.ra!ect. Hut not much longer,
II you're kk, sta home and get vclh Parties and lovers need you tn
letters to the editor
To the editor:
On Dec. 8 Coach Dean Smith, his staff
and the Tar Heel basketball team visited
Central Prison in Raleigh. They
presented a clinic stressing defensive
maneuvers and last minute play
patterns, and later scrimmaged amongst
themselves and with the prison's team,
the Hawks. This clinic lasted for an hour
and a quarter and was followed by
questions to Coach Smith, conversation
between players and inmates and a brief
tour of the prison.
Needless to say, this visit was the
highlight of the year for many inmates
and will never be forgotten by the
Hawks, who were able to share the same
court with the Tar Heels and be
instructed by the Tar Heel's masterful
teacher, Coach Smith.
What made this visit even more
outstanding was the fact that the players
were already into exam week and both
they and their coaches had just returned
from an extra heavy 10 days at the
Alaskan Shoot Out and the Big Four
Tournament. Yet, they found the time to
visit Central Prison and share their skills
and especially their persons with some of
society's most forgotten men.
. All of us at Central Prison are grateful
to the Tar Heels and Coach Smith for
their memorable clinic. If we were UNC
students, we would be mighty proud to
root for a team that makes time for visits
like this.
Dick Hanley
Programs director
Central Prison
Poetic protest
To the editor:
This is a poem dedicated to my future
children and grandchildren. May this
motivate others to wake up to the prob
lems of today (possibly the nightmares
of tomorrow). Do we want our future
denied a healthy existence due to our
naive waste management?
Governor Hunt has done his homework
State's got more waste than the earth
can tolerate
He's appointed a mighty task force
Toxic waste needs reckoning with
we'd better not wait
He's chosen someone to represent
aJ of us
From local to state government
BI3 wis from our friendly utilities
To just every day you and me
Regulation is oh so difficult they say
We can't check every truck ccsnin in
Almost any state can visit old N.C.
With their toxic waste commodities
They say water and air are
separate matters
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Entirely different departments
Yet seems to me they fit together
Let's not wait for our basements
to seep
Comjng meetings of the Governor's
Task Force on Hazardous Waste Man
agement will be held Feb. 3 and 10 at 10
a.m. in Conference Room 52 of Doro
thea Dix Hospital. These meetings are
open to the public and I encourage you
to participate. It's our own backyard!
. Rebecca Speight
Raleigh
New Nursing Act
To the editor:
The Nursing Practice Act is a bill, to
be presented before the General
Assembly in February, that will affect us
all in some way. Proposed changes are
to take the place of the present Nursing
Practice Act, which will be ineffective at
the end of this year. We would like to
alert you, as health care consumers, to
this act.
Proposed changes will improve the
quality of patient, care by putting a
tighter regulation on acts that may or
may not be performed by nurses. A
more comprehensive definition of
nursing will invalidate existing loopholes
that allow unlicensed individuals to
perform nursing functions; therefore,
the proposal would better ensure
consumer safety. .
There also will be a provision which
will mandate by law that any person who
knows of the incapacity of a licensee, or
who knows of a violation of the Nursing
Practice Act, report the relevant facts to
the Board of Nursing. Included in this
provision is an accompanying "immunity
from suit" for all persons who report
such incidences so that they will not be
held liable, thus again ensuring consumer
safety. .
Because of our small number, we as
health care providers have limited
influence in changing present statutes;
therefore, public support is vital to our
cause. We urge you to write your state
legislators in support of the new Nursing
Practice Act. These actions will determine
the scope of nursing practice for the
future.
Laura Norris
UNC-Chapei Hill chapter of the
Student Nurses' Association of
North Carolina
Inadequate information
To the editor:
In the editorial "Book Learning,
(DTH, Dec. 3), the DTH reported that
Cyril Lang, a teacher at Charles W.
Woodward High School in Montgomery
County, Maryland, had been
"suspended.' for introducing
supplementary material in the
classroom. The DTH went further to say
"students cannot afford to lose teachers
like Cyril Lang."
Having been a student at Woodward
for three years, I know of Lang's
classroom reputation, though I was
never a student of his. Several of my
friends did have him as their English
teacher, however, and I know that they
were very disappointed with bins and
found his class a waste of time.
I also know that at the end of this last
school year the county school system
was forced to lay off several Woodward
teachers because of budget cuts. At the
beginning of last summer I learned that
Lang was one of those whon had been
laid off. The word "suspension" was
never used.
Perhaps Lang was suspended ca the
grounds the DTH mentioned; however,
after reading the editorial it seemed to
me that the DTH had made Lang out to
be a martyr. However, I trriously doubt
that Lang quite fits the description u "a
teacher committed to better education.'
The DTH has a responsibility to its
readers to report things accurately, end I
feel that this editorial was based on
inadequate information.
Bob Irish
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By GERRY COHEN
It's January ag.atn, time to start the
.spring semester, finish cut the pro
football season and file a personal
property tax form. The last i::m may be
one of the tinier taxes around, but North
Carc!.3 requires each county to levy tn
en.nual property lax on clothing,
furniture, books, stereos, cars ar.d rr.zry
Every person living in Orange County
is required to fill cut the form, no matter
where his legal residence is. An
exception in the iiztuts t!!os pencr.
vkho moved to Ccp-r! H.i! in Atu4
(such z U?C freshr.cn) from
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The property tax rate is relatively low;
For this year, it probably will be sbout
Hi percent of property value, 'after
allowing for a $00 exception.
: Thus, if a student o rvs a mtd-car
worth SZQQ and h-is $1,000 in othrr
property, the tax will be about $19 for
the year. Tax tills will be nu-Ied in
The deidllfeffjor filir.j Ux forms is
Jin. 31. The county tax office is Uxared
cn the second floor of Orr M . 'J Mitl on
Weaver Sutct, Cantor o. s-.J it open
from 9 a.m. -5 p.m. on wrci day and
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be shout $2.50. Studeati with cars
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adminiiter. lUny local officials,
indues tho in the Opel 11,3 ttss
have aikeJ the N.C General Ainz.Vf
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how to fiJe the neccitary form prctathy
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Tiou.h the dnbato fax office
proviits free mhtzzct in rZ'.r.j cut the
prcpeny tax form, Orr;t County t,bs
wiil send farms through the mail. Perm
may bt reqJed ty caXinj the county
tax supmber at C 'J-Swl.
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