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Kerry DeRochi, Editor
EDDIE WoOTEN, Managm Editor
ChaRLEs EiXMAKFR, Associate Editor
Kelly Simmons, University Editor
KYLE MARSHALL, State and National Editor
MICHAEL DeSiSTI, Sports Editor
Melissa Moore, News Editor
Frank Bruni , Associate Editor
Michael Toole, City Editor
Karen Fisher, FeatumEditor
Jeff Grove, Arts Editor
CHARLES W. LEDFORD, Photography Editor
cohesive American policy
On hold
Election platform material is spilling over into the obscure this year. One -nebulous
issue is "combatting construction on campus," whatever that is sup
posed to mean. But one of the biggest flaps student body president candidates'
'have created is the status of dormitory phone service. Most students realize that
the permanent phones in dorm rooms will, in the near future, be taken but and
replaced by modular jacks. But the changes might not stop there. With the threat
of drastically increased rates, University administrators are searching for ways to
make phone service more affordable. But it is important for students to under
stand that regardless of what candidates are saying no decisions have yet
been made. 1
As of Jan. 1 , AT&T divested itself of its seven local telephone companies in
Chapel Hill's case, Southern Bell. Still, AT&T owns the phones themselves, and
it wants them back, including the Carolina blue phones in each dorm room.
Steve Harward, UNC's telecommunications manager, said Monday he hopes the
phone conversion can be put off until at least the end of the semester, at which
time students will have the option of buying their own phones or leasing new
phones from AT&T. Harward said most students will opt to purchase their own
phones (some run as low as $7 to $8). In addition, school administrators are try
ing to work out a plan whereby students can buy or lease through the University.
On-campus students received a memo Monday advising them to contact the
Housing office if they have problems with the phones, thereby avoiding a costly
visit from an AT&T repaimiari.
The second major consideration is altering the present student phone service,
which is identical to regular residential service and now is the least expensive for
students. Southern Bell is asking for increases that could raise the basic monthly
service from its present $10 to more than $16. If such a hike goes through, alter
ing the student phone service might lower rates slightly.
One plan is to change to a Dormitory Communications System in which the
University would be the subscriber and would bill students for local service either
monthly or as part of the room rent. Southern Bell would bill for long-distance
calls and would continue to levy a long-distance "access installation fee." The
University might save students money in installation fees (more than $40 now),
but the cost of billing, absorbing toll charges students did not pay to Southern
Bell and paying to keep the lines active or semi-active over the summer would be
passed on to the students. Another plan is to go to the ESSX (or Centrex) system
making student phones part of the University phone system. Harward said Mon
day the cost of conversion to ESSX could be expensive because of "trunking"
equipment that connects student lines to the Southern Bell system. And while
older students may remember the ease of five-digit calling when students were on
the Centrex system three years ago, they probably also remember waiting up to
an hour after 11 p.m. trying to get a line out.
The key to the phone dialogue at present is patience. Decisions on phone ser
vice probably won't be made until after University administrators know how
Southern Bell fares with the Public Utilities Commission in the next six months.
And while students should certainly speak up when that time comes due, phones
as a campaign issue are off the hook.
By ANDREW BALGARNIE
A gale of disap
proval is blowing
at Europe from the
American side of
the Atlantic. Euro
pean irration with
the United States is being matched by
mounting American exasperation with
Europe.
From the U.S. side, Europeans are
perceived as wanting the benefits of the
Alliance without being willing to con
tribute a fair share' to its upkeep; not only
are they tight-fisted on defense, they are
so attached to detente that they are
prepared to molley-coddle to the Soviets
in order to preserve it. They seem always
to turn a blind eye to inconvenient pro
blems, and are always demanding what
the U.S. can do for Europe.
From the European side, America is
perceived as demanding full support from
her Alliance partners, without allowing
them a say in the management of the
Alliance. There exists a pervasive doubt
over U.S. commitment to reducing inter
national tension; the good faith of
Reagan's thetoric on arms reduction is
severely questioned. U.S. foreign policy
administration is viewed as simplistic, in
competent and inconsisitent. Moreover,
there is a darkening suspicion that the
United, States would risk nuclear war in
the belief that it would be limited to
Europe.
Such is a polarized picture of the divi
sion. Whatever the true position is, the
"Atlantic Crisis" is more than a tem
porary phenomenon brought about by
the present world recession or an imcom
patibility of present political leaders; it
runs deeper. What is at issue is two dif
ferent views of the world.
The American view of the world is a
mix of isolationism, and intervention.
Thus, for example there were the "for
tress America" policies of Taft and
Hoover, and the interventional policies of
Wilson and Kennedy. What is important
to note is that such a view is based on
moralistic attitudes. America either keeps
out or plunges in to make the world a bet
ter place.
This moralism clashes with the Euro
pean view of the world. Each country has
its own interests, and the business of
foreign policy is to make those interests as
compatible as one can. The outcome has
been the classic theory of the 'balance of
power' in the early modern period of
European history, "a dance in which
countries change partners as the music
changes, so nobody gains or loses too.
much but everybody survives."
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Neither view of the world, of course, is
absolute. France and Britian became
allies before the First World War partly
because they were democracies, and Ger
many and Austria-Hungary were not.
America's moralistic loathing of com
munism has been tempered by a need to
deal with the Soviet Union. Nonetheless,
the perspectives of America and Europe
are different; the result being a U.S. in
stinct that every problem has a solution,
which is "recklessness," and a European
instinct that every problem can be fudg
ed, which is "feebleness,"
Both world views, while different, have
had much in common. The fundamentals
of Alliance foreign policy in the post
World War II period centered around
the nature and thrust of the Soviet
Union, and how the burden of meeting
the challange was to be shared. The
Alliance was a natural point of reference
for all international issues because of
European ties with their colonies, and the
supremely dominant position America
occupied militarily and economically in
the world. rX
However, today we live in a different
world. Japan has emerged as a greater
world economic power. The Arab nations
have used oil as a vehicle to gain political
muscle. The non-aligned movement has
grown in enormous strength and can
dominate the U.N. assembly. The pro
liferation of nuclear weapons has affected
the nuclear balance of terror in the world.
The Atlantic relationship is no longer the
single determinant of a stable world
order, and the two different world views
that have been kept together are in danger
of splitting.
America entered Europe to save it
from Nazism, and has remained to help
protect it from Communism. And it cer
tainly has made Europe a safer place. For
Europe the Americans were a necessary
adjunct to preserv e the balance of power,
but it was in everyone's interests, in
cluding the Americans', to maintain an
equilibrium.
Now with a changing world order these
different perspectives on the world within
the Alliance are clashing. Problems that
were once quite manageable now prove to
be intractable. America has kept its
moralistic perspective which is manifested
in a robust and indiscriminate stance
against all forms of communism and in
tervention in the Third World. A Euro
pean worry is that these foreign policy
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escapades will lead to a superpower con
flict in the Third World that will spill into
Europe.
While such is an extreme view, Euro
peans do perceive a certain American
recklessness in the Third World. They
believe that there are so many parties in
volved, that the issues are so complex,
that an anti-communist ideological stance
seems inadequate. The stakes are also too
high to play around with, for Europe is
much more dependent on key raw
materials than America, and thus is
loathe to risk its interests. Essentially,
America is seen as lacking the right
perspective on left-wing successes in
various parts of the world.
It must be recalled that Angola and
Zimbabwe were the means by which the
Soviet Union was going to control the
Cape Route. The invasion of Afghanistan
was stage one of the march on the Persian
Gulf by the Soviets. The rise of Eurocom
munism was going to bring about the col
lapse of NATO's southern flank. Events
in Central America are, of course, an at
tempt by the Soviets to plant outposts in
America's own backyard.
The problem with America's moralistic
perspective of the world is that it isolates
issues from the turbulence of change and
deals with them in splendid isolation from
the realities of life. By construing every
local mess as a test of global will, the
possibilities of accomodatin and coex
istence are excluded. This goes against the
grain of the European heritage.
The Atlantic crisis is more than a
reflection of two different world views, it
is a pointer to a potentially catastrophic
world situation. The Soviet Union re
- mains a powerful state, with a power to
intervene in the world. By appearing
reasonable and prudent, it has an oppor
tunity to turn Western Europe away from
the Alliance.
Domestic American politics are expe
dient, practical and makeshift. Why can
America not do the same with her foreign
policy?
Andrew Balgarnie, a sophmore history
major from Surrey, Great Britian, is a
member of the Great Decisions '84
organizing committee.
Clarification
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Get informed at a forum
In Monday's Daily Tar Heel, the coverage of Sunday night's candidate forums
was omitted because of a breakdown in the paper's typesetting process. The
omission was in no way a reflection of the paper's attitude toward elections and
the importance of the candidates' speeches. In fact, many of the comments made
in Sunday night's forums can be found in today's story. The DTH regrets that
the breakdown occurred but is thankful that through the work of Joel Broadway
and Melissa Moore, the paper was able to come out at all. '
In a somewhat related matter, the DTH would like to pose the follow-' H fY (Xf P fYl iPTTPTQ
ing question: If The Phoenix is evolving, then isn't the DTH multiple? A KJ V W V7X AV VA O
And aren't they simultaneous on Monday?
To the editor: '
- Should we as students be concerned
with elections here at UNC? Most
definitely Yes! For whether or not we are
directly involved in student functions here
on campus, next week's elections will
have a direct influence on all of us. We'll
be deciding who will be chief of student
government, who will be responsible for
our newspaper, who will be spending our
student funds, as well as other offices.
Most importantly, we will be picking the
select few who will represent our student
body at all times.
So that we can become more familiar
with those seeking these important of
fices, candidates forums will be going on
from now until the elections. Although
we hope as many students as possible will
attend many of these, the Dialectic &
Philanthropic Societies and the North
Carolina Student Legislature would like
to invite all students to a campuswide
forum in the Great Hall of the Union at
7:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Can
didates present will be those running for
Student Body President, Daily Tar Heel
Editor, Carolina Athletic Association
President, RHA President and others.
So, whether you aire a student, a faculty
member, or someone interested in finding
out about those who will run our school
next year, we hope to see you tonight.
Mary Roff, Chairperson NCSL
Jim Slaughter, President Di-Phi Societies
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By MAR TIN MILLER
One seemingly ordinary school day, my math teacher
became frustrated with my inability to prove that
triangle ABC was kind of, but not really, like triangle
DEF. Disgusted, he spelt out the letters K-N-I-H-T to
me. Believing I had anticipated what my instructor wish
ed me to do with this new data, I began to draw a pen
tagon with the points KNIHT. I was puzzled as to how I
was going to prove the two triangles were kind of, but
not really, like the Penatagon.
"Miller!" my math teacher shouted, "K-N-I-H-T!
Think! Think!' And I thought he was just a math
teacher. Spelling words backwards the sheer sym
metrical genius of it all.
Spelling words backwards added a new meaning to
words I never knew could exist. I became convinced that
some secret message could be discovered in even com
mon words if scrutinized from this new perspective. But
I had a difficult time explaining to the judge why a
"POTS" sign meant nothing to my perceptive intellect.
However, "POTS" signs and "Ciffart" lights seem
trivial in comparison to the shocking revelation that God
spelled backwards was "dog." I've never thought of
God in quite the same way and wonder how people in
divinity school reconcile this mystical riddle. I could
never understand why God in all his infinite wisdom and
foresight could not have selected an equally holy name
that managed to guard against such inevitable abuses.
Maybe it has some deep cryptic meaning speaking to the
inherent paradoxical relationship between Good and
Missing graffiti
By SARAH RAPER
The Board of Trustees is probably going to be a lit
tle miffed when it hears a true nerd like me is not
excited about the opening of the new library.
It's not that I'm totally .uninterested I think stu
dying in an airplane hangar has definite possibilities.
In fact, I'll probably go over today just to get my feet
wet: See where they've reshelved Who's Who Among
Uneducated Caucasian Women in Southeastern
Arizona and to test the copying machines (still a
nickel, I trust).
I know there are going to be improvements. I'm all
for putting periodicals, the circulation department
and the card catalog on the same floor. The way
Wilson was set up, after one paper you felt like you
should get four hours credit three hours of
History 90 and one hour of P.E. It's no wonder those
marble steps had grooves in them.
As for the signs spaced every other foot along the
stack ceilings, guiding one's every move in a quest for
a book especially the ones marked Folio (I've
always wondered if anyone ever found Folio and if
anyone ever checked it out). Good Riddance. I'm
sure I'll enjoy the orderly layout of the Davis stacks.
You see, my complaints are not with what the
library has, but rather what it doesn't have.
The main thing it doesn't have is graffiti. It's new
and huge and clean and boringl I don't know about
you, but I can't study until I've read some writing on
the walls (or desks or cejjings, as the case may be).
Some of my friends psyche themselves up by doing
crosswords or by glancing at "The Far Side" in the
Washington Post comics. That sometimes works for
me, but graffiti is a sure bet.
1 seriously panicked last semester during exams
when by mistake I went to a different carrel than
usual and turned on the light. A clean white desktop.
"My gosh, they windexed the desks!" was my first
thought. Then, I realized I was on the wrong floor.
Now, I'm not a writer, only a reader of the stuff,
but I can appreciate the humor and concerns graffiti
represents. And the Wilson Library grattiu is tne best
because it's not too political, like the Union bath
room, or too pseudo-profound, like the writing in
Greenlaw.
The best of the Wilson graffiti is in the old stacks
and can be grouped by subject. There seems to be a
lot of concern and confusion about who is alive and
who is dead. According to the desk tops, God, J.
Hendrix, Flipper, the Beav, his mother June, the
Kinks, Wilma Flintstone, Elvis and Bruce all "live."
Also, some people wonder: Would Dan Rather? Is
James Worthy? Is Miles Stand(off)ish? and Did
William Tell? I don't know.
One verse you see a lot (and there are several ver
sions some more suitable for print than others)
about the hermit named Dave.
Who kept a whore in his cave
When she started to smell
He said what the hell
. Just think of the money he saved.
I also like the way people do their homework right
on their desk tops. Like the logic student who writes:
1) God is love.
2) Love is blind.
3) Ray Charles is blind.
4) Ray Charles is God.
Or the one who wrote, "I think, therefore I am. I'm
pink, therefore I'm Spam." Makes me hope they
took the class passfail.
Some people, including the author of "There is no
gravity; the world sucks," express frustration in par
ticular classes. The best is the student who was uncer
tain about his final exam grades and drew a score box
headed "Exams." He named the column "Me" and
"Them" and listed the exams he thought he had
done well in in the first column and the "not-so-goods"
in the other. From these frustrated people
come cries of "Help" or "Pass the acid" or "Why
don't you just fade away."
Beam me up, Scotty.
Sarah Raper, a jun ior English and journalism ma
jor from Fayeiteville and staff writer for The Daily
Tar Heel, does her best writing in Murphy bathrooms.
Evil, Creator and drooler, the First Cause and the stain
on the living room carpet. Then again, maybe not.
Perhaps God should consider a name change an
ticipating it being read backwards. Imagine the enhance
ment of one's faith and the respect for the Almighty's
quintessential coolness if his name were Rojam Edud.
That would sell some Bibles in a hurry. But reverse the
letters of Rojam Edud's favorite book, the Bible, and
you've got another image problem El bib? Sounds
like something Mexican children wear around their necks
to keep taco juice off their shirts.
Some words, though, would benefit from reversing
the letters in them. For instance, Moscow is the capitol
of a country where if you break a few minor rules they
ship you of to a frozen wasteland in Siberia (In the U.S.,
we send them to New Jersey). The word Moscow evokes
images of four-legged milk producers eating little furry
green plants which never particularly frightened me.
But, give "Wocsom" a test run through your larynx and
discover whether you can maintain your already delicate
composure. "Wocsom" indeed sounds like the capitol
of a country bent on the wholesale and retail destruction
of the capitalist system.
Similarly, presidential (extremely) hopeful Alan Cran
ston's sagging campaign could fully utilize such an in
novative idea. "Nala Notsnarc" for President bumper
stickers would soon be the envy of the other Democratic
candidates whose names didn't sound as pleasant
backwards, like "Nhoj Nnelg" or "Essej Noskcaj." For
starters. "Nala Notsnarc" is a nice alliteration (How do
you think Reagan or Coolidge got elected?). Nala
rhymes with gala, which would bring a smile to even
. Woollen Gym basket room workers. Notsnarc gives one
the impression that the President might just legalize
marijuiana, and in doing so, lure the under-25 crowd to
the voting booths.
Unbelievable as it may seem, reversing certain words
could solve problems of national significance. One could
have easily eliminated all the confusion over the correct
pronunciation of Grenada. It would simply be
"Adanerg" a nice island to relax on, attend medical
school or just invade, if you feel like it. Also, forget the
national tragedy that was Vietnam and change it to
"Man teiv" a word nobody could pronounce and
would subsequently forget.
Somehow, reading words backwards makes me feel
awfully clever. It came as no surprise when Billy Carter
was paid off by the Libyans a couple of years ago. Im
agine Billy's natural liking to a country whose name
spelled backwards seemed to cry out for his services,
"Ay, Bil." Furthermore, not many people realize that
the Ayatollah Khoemeni's name looks about the same
no matter which way it's spelled. Nor is it every "Mot,"
"Kcid" and "Yrrah" that knows the best of the Rockies
is "Srooc Reeb".
After you've exhausted the intrinsic fun of reading
words backwards, don't worry. For one can always be
psuedo-dislexic and transform words like "North
Carolina" into phrases like "A torn car loin (with a re
mainder of h)".
Nitram Rellim is a senior history major from Greensboro.
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