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Thursday, February 10, 1983The Daily Tar HeelA7 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR hf atlu 90th year of editorial freedom John Drescher, Editor ANN PETERS. Managing Editor KEN MlNGIS, MisaciiKf Editor Rachel Perry, university Editor Lucy Hood, cuy Editor JIM WRINN, State and National Editor S.L.Price. Sports Editor LAURA SEIFERT, News Editor GELAREH ASAYESH, Tix trouble How much is watching Ralph Sampson and Co. in Carmichael worth? Quite a bit apparently. Tickets for tonight's game are going for more than $50 each. A part-time UNC student was arrested Tuesday by police officers who say the man offered to sell tickets to tonight's game for $75 apiece, not a bad profit considering the face value of the tickets is $10. State law is clear on the status of scalping: It is illegal to purchase a ticket and resell it for more than $1 over face value. All those heavy hitters sitting in Carmichael tonight who paid more than $11 for their tickets purchased those tickets illegally. The status of selling student tickets, however, is not definite. While it is clear that selling student tickets for more than face value plus $1 is illegal, it is not clear whether selling student tickets at any price is a viola tion of the Honor Code. It ought to be. Student funds, in the form of a $25 per student per semester athletic fee, go toward paying for each student ticket distributed for a basketball or football game. When student tickets are sold to non students, which is often the case, students who wanted to attend the game sit home while student seats, paid for with student funds, are occupied by non-students. The most glaring abuse of student tickets is by Monogram Club mem bers, who have tickets reserved for them at the Carmichael box office for each home basketball game. After picking up their reserved ticket, the lettermen can sell the student tickets to the highest bidder. Even just selling those tickets at face value is an abuse of the ticket distribution system. The student attorney general currently could prosecute a ticket-selling student under a vague section of the Honor Code, but that leaves too ' much of the interpretation up to the attorney general. Attorneys general change each year; what is needed is an adjustment in the Honor Code that doesn't. Making additions to the Honor Code is a laborious, slow process that must go through committes of both students and faculty members. Addi tions to the Honor Code shouldn't be hasty and numerous, but given the amount of money changing hands outside Carmichael tonight, it seems a section forbidding the sale of student tickets would be a wise change. at the i HJB3IICO)Ix52 Friday, Feb. 11 FREE aP ( " Foetus For The 80' s & 1 ;;:;v ? Sunday, Feb. 13th 10:00 a.m. . Carroll Hall (Har nnl Linda Robertson. Associate Editor ELAINE MCCLATCHEY, Projects Editor TERESA CURRY, Features Editor EF GROVE, Arts Editor Jane Calloway. Weekend Editor AL STEELE. Photography Editor Contributions Editor j Your lifetGan Today! Rice Brdoc&s (pronounced "Brooks") Rice Is a man whose life was changed when he found how to live on top of life's cir cumstances . .". not : under them. Now, he's telling others how they can do it too. Attended Trinity University, North Texas State University and Mississippi State Univer sity. Graduate In Accounting. Rice is a popular speaker on university campuses through out the United States and Canada. "Rice Is the most dynamic speaker I've heard in quite some time." -Rosle Grler "Rice Broocks Is an outstanding young man. The universities of America need to listen to his mess age urgently." -Jim Brcnn, Chaplain to the Washington Redskins Rice has appeared frequently on na tional television across the country.' CBN, PTL, TBX objects to To the editor: We were appalled to see the Playboy recruiting ad in Tuesday's Daily Tar Heel. While the Duke newspaper and others have refused to run it, the DTH did so. At hand is not only the fact that the ad was insulting and degrading to women, but the greater issue of pornography itself. Pornography is all-pervasive in this society. As an industry, it grosses more than $5 billion annually. Women Against Pornography estimates that there are four times as many pornographic busi nesses in this country as there are McDonalds, and pornographic maga zines are available in nearly every drug store and supermarket. For many boys, pornography serves as their initial intro duction to sex. But its content, until re cently, has gone unquestioned. Pornographic material objectifies the woman she becomes not someone but something pretty to look at. The woman is sometimes seen in a fog to create a sense of distance, enhancing this effect. Frequently, she is looking away from the camera to eliminate eye contact, if in deed you see her face at all at times you see only parts of her body. The im age promoted is woman as not just something to look at, but as an object on whicfthe viewer carries out his fan tasies. ; Increasingly, the object is not a woman: but a young girl, despite laws agaifWchild pornography. image becomes frightening in the light of the growing abuse and violence agaiflst women seen in pornography, everryin the so-called 'soft-pom" maga zines like Playboy and Penthouse. Women become hot only the subject of sexual fantasies but of aggressive and violent acts. They are repeatedly seen bound, chained, gagged, assaulted and raped. For those who view pornography, the idea is promoted that this is not only common but acceptable behavior. t . Placed within a greater societal con text, this notion is horrifying. The FBI states that domestic violence is the fastest growing violent crime in America, ciccurring every 18 seconds. A large pro portion of this is accounted for by wife and child abuse. 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While pornographers will argue that they are only producing what the con sumer demands, one wonders if they aren't, fueling the fire. If not out and out contributing to objectification of and violence against women, pornography is certainly doing nothing to stop it. We have in our country a situation in which over half the population is female and these women are afraid to go out at night or even to be alone during the day. If nothing else, this fear will keep women from attaining their true position of equality in our society. We ask that The Daily Tar Heel dis 'continue its sale of advertising space to pornographic magazines. , More impor tantly, we ask the women of UNC to refuse to comply with a demeaning, ex ploitive, and potentially harmful industry. We found your editorial comments (DTH, "Guys and dolls" Feb. 9) as in sulting as the original advertisement. We're glad you think women are intelli gent enough to make up their own minds but we wonder if you would print a KKK ad asking for black volunteers on the basis that black people , are intelligent enough to decide for themselves what action to take. The ad was a blatant in sult to the women of UNC and the DTH participated in this insult by dissemi nating it to the community. '. Sarah Lee AWS spokesperson Vogler shouldn't serve To the editor: I have seen a lot in my four years at UNC, many political fights and strug gles. However nothing has shocked me, nor made me so mad as" the case of Campus Governing Council Speaker Bobby Vogler, as presented in the article "Painter questions referendum vote" (DTH, Feb. 4). The CGC was established to guar antee representation of all parts of the student body. Endless elections are held - to fill seats that have been vacated, or have had no candidates for them. The "system" guarantees representation even to those who do not care at all. I care. Remember Your - A Sweetheart! , ' I FEATURING: Two bedrooms Two full baths 1155 square feet Large patio or balcony Allow up to 4 occupants Swimming pool (open year around) Health Club facilities Universal weight gym Saunas Lighted tennis courts " Lighted basketball courts 0389 Duckling and Seafood Hunan Beef and Shrimp Seafood in Bird's Nest Chinese New Year and Feb. 12 and 13. TllOO "j I J. off I jANYORDERj Cafeteria Laacaaoa Mosu-FrL 119-2:15 Sa. 12:00-2:30 RSulnr Dlmtri , Saa.-Taars. 5-9:30 FrL-Sat. 5-10:33 r Vogler has made a mockery of this re presentative government. The callousness that he has shown stuns me. Elected to serve District 19, he was subsequently elected Speaker of the CGC, the most honored position in our representative assembly. When he chose to move out of his district, he most cer tainly was aware that he could no longer serve District 19. He seems to have chosen to ignore the law, and to remain in a position of power and influence. Vogler is not apologetic. It's "not perti nent, because we only have one more meeting left," he said. What about all of the meetings since his moving and the most recent? He should never have been a participating voter at any, had he acted . in an honorable way. Instead of apologizing, he attempts to shift the focus of Painter's motivation in telling all. I care not a whit for Painter, nor for his politics. But no one needed to know the motivation of "Deep Throat," either. (When did Painter learn of Vogler's ineligibility?) What is the effect upon the faith of the student body in their government? Petty factions fight their battles, some not car ing about the people who elected them. And the highest representative appears not to be contrite, but rather exhibits behavior of a child caught red-handed. Representative government can work, or so I hope fervently. Can government representatives do likewise? William W. McNairy Chapel Hill 3-D for To the editor: Once again UNC will play the Univer sity of Virginia in a pivotal ACC basket ball game; once again the winner will re main atop the national polls; once again the game will be viewed by a national au dience, and once again the UNC student body will not show any unified effort to support the best team in the nation! A quick look at Duke and N.C. State students shows that a united student body is quite visible, if not effective -note the wearing of "Go to Hell Carolina" caps by Dookies and the yelling when a predesignated player touches the ball by Moo-Uer's. Now of course we don't want to mimic our cruder and less intelligent neighbors. But a unified student body would not only look good, but could serve to tell a message, as well. Just imagine . . . it's 9 p.m. and coverage of "the game" begins with a panorama of the UNC student body. ... 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Daily daily topics MOKOAY 2-14 THE RESTORATION PRINCIPLE TUESDAY 2-15 IS OUR RELATIONSHIP TO GOD NOWlDUAL OR COLtECTlVE WEDNESDAY 2-16 WHAT IS THE CHURCH OF CHRIST - THURSDAY 2-17 WHY DtD JESUS HAVE TO DIE ON THE CROSS FRIDAY 2-18 FLEE FORNCATION-THE NEW MORALITY SATURDAY 2-19 UNDERSTANDING -AUTHORITY SUNDAY 2-20 TO BE ANNOUNCED ' Thd studies will bo conducted at tho American Legion Hall on Legion Road behind Hotel Euro pa. FGH FREE TRAfiSPORTATIOM CALL C32-2021 DAYS OH S37-E224 EVD'CS the press box that proclaims that UNC stands out from the rest of the teams in the nation because of Dean Smith, Defense and Discipline ... and all of the students are wearing 3-D glasses to em phasize the point?!! Surely there are enough of the 3-D glass es left over from the channel 28 3-D movies shown last fall to adequately sup ply students going to the game. More over, I'm sure the cheerleaders could ar range to make and hang an appropriate banner. So find, beg, borrow or steal some 3-D glasses and let's go give a message to the nation why our team is so good year-in and year-out! Besides the Dean Deserves the Distinction! . . . Charles Ellis Chemistry Department Recognize achievements To the editor Recently, I visited our nation's capitol for. the first time. Never before has it been so evident to me that our society is totally white-oriented. All of the historical monuments seemed to be statues and memorials dedicated to white leaders. Yes, it is true that many of these in dividuals paved the way for the society we live in today, but it is not true that on ly white men built up American to what it is. There were many prominent black leaders like Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Martin R. Delany, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr., who contri buted to making America a great nation. All of these individuals had significant impacts on American society, yet to ap preciate their roles one must take a course in black history or Afro-American studies. I am sure that Robert E. Lee was a great leader who fought bravely to de fend southern ideologies. He may repre sent the white Virginians, but what of the black Virginians whose ancestors were enslaved because of those ideologies? Blacks have their heroes and leaders, but under today's government they are not recognized. It is time for our government officials to look into the history books and recog nize the past achievements of the black individuals who also helped build America. A splendid example is Martin Luther King Jr. Why has Congress wait ed so long to recognize his birthday as a national holiday? Dr. King surely deserves it. . I do not want my kids to grow up believing that only white men have con tributed to the building of America. - Herman L. Bennett ; f. TU , -f J . . . 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