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6The Daily Tar Heel Monday, March 30. 1981 Jim Hummki. Uim SUSAN MAUNEY. Maowo Ijliior Mark Muk.kf.ll. a striate Editor Jonathan Rich. Assam? Editor 1 I T5 Z3 5 ) ! 4 g Djwina Ralston. Vmvnity Editor John Royster. aty Editor CHARLES HERNDON. Sum- and National Editor EETH BURRELL. Nt-t Editor Clifton Barnes. Spom Editor Tom Moore. Am Editor , DONNA WHITAfLER, Features Editor SCOTT SHARPE. Photography Editor Ann Peters. MwUt Editor NORMAN CANNADA. Ombudsman . ?qI -' t lim'.-L... P liM ft r ,1 HP1 M year o" editorial freedom Jro.or showing UNCs ongoing desegregation dispute with the Department of Educa , tion took another twist last week when rumors surfaced about a possible out-of-court settlement between the 16-campus system and the federal government. The battle, which began in 1969, has taken many turns over the last decade and talk of impending compromises certainly is nothing new. Uni versity officials deny that a settlement is being negotiated and say they will continue presenting their side in the administrative law hearings that began last summer when the government sued UNC for not meeting fed eral desegregation standards. At stake is $15 million-$20 million in federal aid that the government could cut off if it can prove that programs affected by the money are dis criminatory. So far, close to 50 witnesses have testified and the University has spent more than a million dollars in legal fees to defend its cause. Regardless of the final outcome, recent statements by NAACP Legal Defense Fund Attorney Joseph L. Rauh Jr., which personally attack JJNC officials, are disturbing and have detracted from discussions aimed at reaching a reasonable settlement between the two parties. . Rauh is the counsel of record for the NAACP, which is an intervener on behalf of the federal government. He has had a distinguished career and is well-known in legal circles for his role in numerous civil rights cases. Since the hearings started last summer, Rauh has not appeared during the lengthy testimony. However, last week he decided to participate in the cross-examination of two high-ranking UNC officials. His biting com ments and characterization of UNC President William Friday as "under handed and sleazy" have left people working closely with the case won dering what Rauh's strategy is, especially since he started the rumor of a possible settlement. There is no doubt as the hearings unfold that each side has partially been at fault. The University has been reticent in fully desegregating, while the government has been vague about specifics for compliance. Each party has brought in an arsenal of witnesses, ranging from educators across the ' country to computer analysts who have dissected endless questions about enrollment trends. As the case drags on, the stakes are increasing and emotions are prone to run high in the next several months. But Rauh's statements, regardless of his belief that UNC's position is wrong, reflect poorly on his own in tegrity and are likely to hurt the chances of any type of compromise before a final decision is reached later this year. Fat Saturday m m m By MARK MURRELL It's been almost a year and a half since Paul Bermanzohn went to an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally in Greensboro with other members of the Communist Workers' Party. It was a day he will never be able to erase from his memory no matter how hard he tries. The protestors were attacked and Bermanzohn was shot in the head. But he was luckier than five of his friends. He alone survived. With the barrage of media coverage that followed during the, trial and the nationwide, outrage that was expressed by the jury's not guilty verdict, it is easy for many to view members of the CWP like Bermanzohn as hysterical, political activists and nothing more. A one-on-one conversation with Bermanzohn changes that perception. He speaks of his political beliefs with an uncompromising firmness that is yet tempered with understanding for people who will never agree with him on many issues. He is forceful, but does not n n : v i Is o. o o U Paul Bermanzohn scream. He just wants people to hear his side of the story in his own words. So he has written a book. The True Story of the Greensboro Massacre is a compilation of the events of Nov. 3, 1979, by Bermanzohn and his wife Sally. The book also tells the stories of the five people who never returned from that day's Death to the Klan rally. Bermanzohn said he started the book immediately after being released from the hospital last January because he had to clear up wide-spread miscon ceptions. ; "Much of the media coverage seemed to be very slanted and inaccurate and there needed to be an accurate presen tation of what took place," Bermanzohn said. v,They were putting stuff in the . papers that said by saying that the Klan is a bunch of punks and cowards that we basically invited the murders that we wanted to get shot. When you have coverage like that coming out, that's got to be corrected." Bermanzohn may well be i :ght about faulty media coverage during his whole ordeal. Rarely is his portrait painted accurately. Newspapers often forget to mention the fact that he is a medical doctor, intellectual, graduate of Duke University Medical School or that he was' student body president of City College of New York. Opportunities by the media to understand what influ enced his politics have gone virtually unexplored. But for someone born in Munich in 1949 to Jewish parents who had been imprisoned in one of Hitler's Death Camps, the recent rise of Nazism in America hand-in-hand with a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan signals the return of a nightmare Bermanzohn was warned about as a small child. "As an historical political entity, I became aware of it (Nazism) very, very young," he said. Of course, my parents told me why it was I had no living rela tives because they got killed in con centration camps. "As a current political entity I didn't really have any contact with it until the last couple of years. I couldn't believe such a pack of vermin would be getting active and be promoted by the press the way they have been. It's incredible they're being promoted and of course the verdict, saying basically 'you did good fellas, you did.good.'" Bermanzohn cited this early exposure to Hitler's brand of Nazism as the first development of his political awareness. To hear him talk, one gets the feeling he was painfully made aware of politics from the earliest days of childhood. "My political awareness started when I was small," he said with a wry smile. "My parents told me about their experiences when I was a little kid. They had some terrible experiences but it gave me a political awareness.' He said he first became active poli tically by protesting the Vietnam War .back; in 1969 when he was elected as City College student body president on an anti-war slate. His political involvement increased from there with constant study and ac- i . f 3 4 -:" y K -- Greensboro demonstration egslnst KKK end f 'szi vic'cnco ... protested slaying of five CWP members Nov. 3, 1979 tivity. It is the type of life many would flee from and Bermanzohn has paid a high price for it, but you get the feeling that he would never turn back. "You've got to know what you be lieve and you've got to state it," he said.. "If you see something and believe something and other people don't see it, you can get a little perturbed, but you have to be able to speak to people. Basically, I ' believe most people are good people and if you'll just be patient with folks and what you're saying is true that people will come around to see what you're saying. "Now if you're not patient with folks and what you're saying is not true, they're not going to come around. So there's a built-in guarantee." Paul Bermanzohn does not believe that he can force anyone to believe anything. But that won't stop him from trying to reason with people in their own language. "I think people have realized that a lot of what we're saying is true," he said. "I don't think people change their views on socialism or communism just on this one single case, but I do think what we were saying was what had to happen that it (the Klan-Nazi trial) was not designed to get any prosecution or any convictions, that there was no prosecution and that they (the Klans men and Nazis) were going to be let off. So five people are dead and as far as- the Iaw.is concerned, nothing hap pened. It' was just like killing flies." The horror of the Greensboro inci dent made Paul Bermanzohn all too aware of the threat his party has labeled "Hitler USA." , "i wouldn't call it naive, but I would say we were among the first that were hit (by Klan-Nazi resurgence)," he said. "Greensboro was a first shot and they're not just shooting at us." Bermanzohn s purpose now is to make people aware of that threat and learn how not to fear it himself. "We oppose it; we don't fear it," he said. ' . "But there's a lot of people that do have their heads in the sand and one thing I've learned in anatomy is that if you've got your head in the sand you've got your ass up in the air. It s true 'cause you can sure get your ass kicked. If people think they're doing themselves a favor by deceiving themselves they're crazy; they're just crazy." Mark Murrell, a junior journalism and English major from Jacksonville, is as sociate editor for The Daily Tar Heel. letters to the editor Mardi Gras in New Orleans would probably pale in comparison to Sat urday's victory celebration on Franklin Street after the Tar Heels' win over the Virginia Wahoos. Bystanders ended up wondering just how long fans could keep up the noise, painting and partying, and they were probably surprised after stand ing in awe for two hours during which none of the frenzied activity abated. If there is one thing this town is to be commended for it is for knowing how to stage a splashy celebration that will draw wide attention. Whether standing naked in a tree, painting bodies from head to toe, annointing heads with beer, painting streets, buildings, windows, cars or Indiana fans Carolina students have a knack for being able to enjoy themselves and make everybody who is not in Chapel Hill wish they were. Saturday's bacchanalia was about the most outlandish on record. When the crowd finally started thinning three hours after the noise and painting began, charming Franklin Street had turned into a huge gutter of beer cans, broken glass, paint and paper. And it was a certain sign that a very good time was had by all. So was a Sunday morning splitting headache. It was a celebration to be remembered not only for its spectacle but for the tremendous tolerance shown by the town of Chapel Hill and its resi dents. Policemen smiled as streets were painted, signs disappeared and firecrackers exploded. Chapel Hiil'sTinest even ignored an occasional display of what would strictly be called public drunkenness. The noise ordinance was temporarily scrapped as thousands filled the streets. Since the occasion merited intense revelry, officials and townspeople are to be commended for standing by and either ignoring or joining in the pandemonium. For a few hours, everyone on the Hill pulled together. People were hugging total strangers and congratulating people they would normally shy away from. Most importantly, it was to celebrate an incredible bas ketball team. t Best of luck tonight guys. We're ready to do it again. IM officials accused of racist decisions To the editor: We are writing to voice concern over the continued inefficiencies involved with .the Intramural Sports program. Realiz ing that complaints have become too commonDlace to be termed coincidental, We feel that a letter to The Daily Tar Heel is presently our only recourse. There have been repeated evidences of all-black IM teams being terribly and blatantly cheated by IM referees. A most recent example involved an all-black team, the brothers of United Christian Fellowship, in which the ref erees acted in direct defiance of IM rules in justifying a protest by an all-white team. The resulting protest was unani mously denied by IM officials. Realizing from experience that a successful protest is non-existent, we nevertheless demand . justice. Perhaps. the IM office has no answer , for inept referees, but there is no excuse for their showing similar prejudices and bad judgment. In a recent article submit ted to the Black Ink, the IM office had the audacity to chastise lack of participa tion among black students in IM activities. ,- X. .- ) JO- The Daily Tar Heel AuUtanl Mantling Editors: Mark Ancona, Laurie Bradshcr, Cindy Cranford Editorial Writers: Melodce Alves, John Drcschcr News Desk: Melody Adams, Roann Bishop, Amy Edwards, Tracy Ford, Dina Cnagcy, Cindy llaa, Diane Lupton, Pamela Marlcy, Theresa Ngo, Michclc Pelkey, Leslie Peyton, Meltnda Piymalc. Jeanie Reynolds, Nissen Riucr, Laura Scifert, Dawn Welch, Sandy West, Darryll Williams and Edith Woolen; Lucy Hood, assistant Weekender editor; David Jarrett, assistant news editor. News: Melodce Alves, Gelarch Asaycsh, Ted Avery, Lynn Casey, Michelle Christenbury, Sharon Darting, Nancy Davis, Ophciia Davis, l.ynn Farley, Tracy Ford, Steve Griffin, Louise Guntcr, Karen Haywood, Debbie Hirsch, Dale Jenkins, Keith King, Kimberly Kletnan, Katherine Long, Dean Lowman, Diane Lupton. Monica Malpass. Joe Morris, Fliinc McClatchey, Eddie. Nkkcns, Rachel Perry, Lynn Pctthman, Scott Phillips, Kathy Pitman, Anne Proner, Cathy Ray, Jeanie Reynolds, Betsy Russell. Mark Schoen, Ken Siman, Jonathan Smylle, Andrea Sfemper, Bill Studcnc, I ynne Thompson, Jonathan Talcott, Darryl Williams, Lynn Worth, and Tammy Wright. Sport: Geoffrey Mock, assistant sports editor; Kim Adams. Jackie Blackburn, R.L. 15) num. Stephanie Graham, John Hinton, Adam Kandcit, Jeff Knighi, Scott Peterson, David Poole, Linda Robertson end Steve Stenerscn. Featum: Miriam Alexander, Richard Brown, Teresa Curry, Paula Graham. Louise Gunter, Susan Hudson. Mary McKenna, Tim Preston, Kevin Ricks. Boerlv Shepardand CindeWahh. Art: Bob Royalty, Marc Routh, assistant editors; Lee Dunbar, Robin FulMove. Pamela M if ley, t'omue Means, Melinda Plymalc, Tim Pope, Nissen Ritter and Larry Reni Thomas, llnphk Art: (if eg Ol.ixy, PamCotbett, Danny! limit. Dane Huffman, .Martan Walton and Tom We-aarp, artin; Susstmc Conversano, Matt ("ixtvc, $? Hynun and Will 0ens, phetorspher. Busine; Rejeanne Curort, business tsunsjer; Linda A. C'uo,f vf. M.-ifetarirecep-tiomt; Kifen Nrc!!, ilassificd manner, Jenny tku!Jin, accountant. Waif eft A'kn, d.-inbutkn mauler, AJrrti di'-z: Ncy MKcnie,adittiMr:3 manner; PauU U.-cwct, advertkirje ur J;.nator; Jell' Ua.'k-c, ?.U-ve iully. h.U Kim. Rotui Matt!. I ludj Matihew. hA.t Gu-.bmy. Jut:! -e, l',uy S4t(!--juiti J Jmi VctuM a.J itict.iaHcs. s: UNC Vuo'.mg I) ::r. cr i. IVhuu; Hmfo.i I 're. lm tt M,n We would like to reply that a small de crease in their blatant prejudices and in efficiencies may well increase black par ticipation tremendously. If no improvement toward justice and feiirness is shown in the near future, we see no alternative to suggesting that blacks be exempted from the recent stu dent activity fee increase. This increase was supposedly to improve the IM sports program. Normally not believers in the double standard, we are afraid this may be the only answer to the injustices consistently shown us. Allen Davis, the Brothers of UCF and representatives of seven other intramural teams Friendly food service To the editor: I want to stick up for the employees in the Pine Room who were accused in a letter to the DTI I on March 24 of being rude. I don't get surliness, but "Hello, darlinV gentle teasing and correct , change. I never cat in the other places mentioned in the letter, but I have never, seen any of the women who work in the Pine Room be rude, unpleasant or un helpful. They arc particularly friendly to the handicapped students, which can't be said of many on this campus. I think the Pine Room women deserve commendation for retaining their humor and camaraderie. Food service companies come and go, but it's nice to find familiar faces behind the pale, starchy food. The woman who advised these employees to find new jobs if they were not happy should offer some suggestions for other employment. She should know that there is a history of struggle on this campus for cafeteria workers to have basic rights and a decent wage. They deserve more than complaints. Paddy Bowman Graduate Student 101 Dickcrson Ct. Letters? The Daily Tar J feel welcomes letters to the editor and contribu tions of columns for the editorial page. Such contributions should be typed, triple-spaced, on a 60-space line, and are subject to editing. Column writers should include their majors and hometowns; each letter should include the writer's name, address and telephone number. M.UTBh' r s Laws By DAVlLf POOLE Most of my life has been dedicated to one purpose: proving conclusively ihat Murphy's Law is, indeed, a true scientific fact. Recently, I came across two books which list Murphy's Law along with many other such postulates and they have become a guiding force in my life. The books. Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things Co Wrong, and Murphy's Imw Book Tm) More Reawns Why Tilings Go Wrong, were compiled by a man named Arthur Bloch, who seems to have a really rough way of making a living. Anyway, the first book actually contains the history of Murphy's Law, thai famous axiom which focuses on the proposition "If anything can ro wronf, it will." It seems that a man named I d Murphy, an engineer at an aircraft laboratory, came up with the rule while work ing on a fou'fd-up project in 1949, 1 1 tile did I'd Murphy know that someday all the frustrated MU in the world would remember hint. In fact, K'ufpbclesy, the science of formulating reasons for all of the Kule thing that buj v to deaih, i fc-ig ha .inesi now. Arthur iY.sdi sure it c'nirj fp en t!. Murphy la i really nothing tut a jurr.f ir.-off point, There are Itw thit tr;y to y: A sbof every thir, and ruy-i of thern jy.t r -:.;i tv.Ata wh; !e !. i-f Tike, for exar i ' C-b?r'i Theorem. Thiuule In three ?zm; ") ca on't win. 2) You can't I rcA even, 3) You -nt even t;uil x t i-.;-.e." Boftn'i La- ome of many b also offer three parts: 'I) When in doubt, mumble. 2) When In trouble, delegate. 3) NVTsen in charge, ponder.' There is the eternal debate about which man is the wiser, the optimist or the pessimist. The Cardinal Co nundrum settles it this way: "An optimist believe we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Segal's Laws also dclineare between types of people. This rule says, "A man wiih one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure." axioms V 'Sr' 'Ssvi "l'?' a y I I; " I 6, "1 I 'i fom? cfthe Lvv ere i cj at lea t r; .:i c n sxirje. f:.h NrAtr.n'j L:'!e-lr.ovn Sever. :h 1 a v,l .h ;i t h..r, "A I ird in the hind h afcr thin : vat r,. !." Anther rule, t is c-.e called V., , ( .' l a, tri.-v to e,-Lin why the I'ctrr Vu? -. 1 1:: ; I i.-e w. I r..e to Lit level cf ir.,c;:.r.-!er..e i..;:: c;-:.;.; try in the urrf Inettcf an ct?iln'U. "'Ihecfc-n rise to ihe top," Wcl'.r -ton' lawtjvs. '- d,o the tevrrt." The Uw$ apply to ui-.oUUc ?J;j.wt ar.J wtr c-n all ttU'.e tolU La of Cl---t Udd.:.;: "I)IftU course yen! wxr.ie-d rrKyj tizi tim fc n" aJ.-i,i. sua will te the n hi ituder.t tae;, ly, 2 Ciw tvheJ...'et are designed so that every student will waste the maximum time between classes. 3) A prerequisite for a desired course will only be offered the semester following the desired course." Barach's Rule defines an akholic as, "A person who drinks more than hi doctor." The Whs Fan's Lament hold that "Fools rush in &r.d ret the best sratt." Drew liw of Highway Biology say "The Fast bug that hits a clean windshield hmdt directly in front of your eyes." Kovae's Conundrum states: "When you dial a wrong number, you never set 3 busy ti,tnal." But most of the best law offer dirc.t corr.rnentarie on the old reliable itself Murphy'i law. Tte Extended N!urf hy'j Law us that, "If a series Cf event can gn wrorj, it will do o in the wont possible tequmce." l arnvd.ck Corollary ovs, 'Afser thing hr.e gone fu;m tji io wrre, tl f i;.!? 1 rrpel itstlf." G.r::; ttrr .ufM.!Ii::-.:,,N. tv ever i - i thu it can't v.; j," I v-.v' t: I I'n' Is; a, a f i.-tivularly i--d -r.e f. r tea-?;.! i: .--.cr ari.1 sr-ft f--i, :; "Nj nutter wht j.-r vr; there it a: as w k.'.-r a v-. I m.j.::). ir eie rcr.y tc fjofitet, ():'.. i ()' U l;' Ct :y i M-r; l.s' l a. h 1 t The t :: ,-r it . V 1 )t: "If Murr-Vt c.n tn wror., tt ;.'!' i: .t rr. t .i;' . ,te I'm nil::;- a defe'itist t:uic't. After all.
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