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6The Daily Tar HeelFriday, April 20, 1984 Jeff Hiday, LMuv - Jofl Broadway, Mawxwx EJim MlCALL TOOLE, Editorial Pap Editor Frank Brum, Asxuite Editor KELLY SIMMONS, University Editor Kyle Marshall, State and National Editor MELANIE WELLS, City Editor VANCE TREFETHEN, Business Editor Stuart Tonkinson. Nm Editor Frank Kennedy, Sports Editor Jeff Grove, Am Editor ClNDY DUNLEVY, Features Editor CHARLES LEDFORD, Photography Editor JEFF NEUVILLE, Photography Editor Hark the sound Yesterday's lead story in the DTH caus ed quite a sensation on campus, and some students accused us of doing just that causing a sensation. Nonsense. We simply reported that non-students have been using basketball tickets desig nated for members of the UNC pep band to get in to see Carolina home games. And that upsets us, because we don't ap preciate someone getting something they don't deserve. A set number of tickets (87) is allotted to the pep band for each home basketball game, but there always are a few often as many as 20 tickets left over. How ever, instead of being returned to the ticket office, as they should be, the tickets are given to "friends" of the band. One of those "friends," perhaps an un knowing recipient, has been Donald Boulton, dean of student affairs, who has gotten band-allotted "sideline passes." He now says that, while he believed the passes to be legitimate, he doesn't "believe that non-students should be us ing the tickets." As he went on to say, "The band is a student organization. When you graduate, you are an alumnus and there are other avenues open to you." Bravo. We detect a hint of hypocrisy but, as they say, ignorance is bliss. More deserving of attention here are band director Major John Yesulaitis and his assistant, Allen Reep. Yesulaitis, who is ultimately responsible, says any tickets Downing Soviet Recent Soviet complaints about U.S. management of the upcoming Olympic Games remind us that U.S. athletes did not attend the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. It is important, however, to recall the per suasive reasoning behind U.S.- nonpartici pation: the' Sdvlet" invasion 'of Afghani stan. Now, while Soviet troops mass for a giant spring offensive against the Afghan resistance, Western outrage has subsided almost to nothing. That silence has had the unfortunate effect of lending the Soviets a freer hand in their savage re pression of the Afghan people and the mujahideen, Afghanistan's resistance movement. ' Brutal atrocities t are taking; place in Afghanistan. For example: massacres of the entire adult male populations of villages in reprisal for guerrilla attacks ... villages and small cities bombed flat without warning on suspicion of suppor ting the guerrillas ... colorful delayed action incendiary pellets, sometimes con sumed by children before detonation ... gas warfare. None of this has stopped the resistance movement. Operating in part from neigh boring Pakistan, guerrillas now dominate an estimated 90 percent of Afghanistan's territory. Many of the guerrilla groups seek the establishment of a religious state in Afghanistan, while others pursue the return of democracy. These Afghans in particular suffer from the U.S. restraint in assistance. For while the principal Soviet weapon deployed against the mujahideen is the helicopter gunship, U.S. $100 'DTH' editorials this week Monday: The dispute over whether Jesse Jackson's "Hymie" remark was on or off the record has obscured the fact that the remark was made in the first place. A recent decision by the Texas Board of Educa tion to drop a rule requiring textbooks to present evolution as theory rather than fact is a positive move for that state. Tuesday: The "bookstore approach" being used by a Raleigh public library will not result in peo ple becoming classical illiterates. The library's display of popular books has boosted circulation, and that bodes well for the premise that any reading is good. Wednesday: Tne acquittal of the Klansmen and Nazis involved in the slayings of five Communist Workers Party members at a 1979 anti-Klan rally refreshes memories of a gruesome crime commit ted in a vacant Greensboro lot, and of the legal injustice that followed. The system has failed, and nine probable killers have managed to ensure that fellow Americans are better dead than red. Americans who solicit pornography from other countries do so in defiance of the law. By main taining lists of those who receive the dirtv eoods. Thursday: The small fuss over Student Body President Paul Parker's cabinet appointments seems unfounded. "ihc Hew v...v....', more spc.'ificully delineates those distributional requirements to be taken in the junior and senior years, may be un popular, but administrators planned it with care and announced it in advance, although many ad visers seemed not to be listening. latlg (Jar BM 92nd year of editorial freedom Of . . . f reebies left over are returned to the ticket office after the games. Now, by our reckoning, there should have been about 100-150 ex tra tickets. But, according to the ticket office, Yesulaitis returned only eight or .10 durinjjthe entire season! Also curious are the comments of Band President David Bagnal, who said he didn't feel the band was doing anything il legal or unbecoming. Besides, he said, most band members knew about the extra tickets and get this they didn't want them. That's not what we heard. Two officers and a senior member of the band told us they knew nothing of the extra tickets. And what makes Bagnal think the band members wouldn't want the tickets? Stu dents have been known to bite and pull hair in pursuit of a chance to see Michael Jordan, et al, play in Carmichael. More Bagnal: "Whether they're stu dents or not, to me, really doesn't matter." It certainly should matter. The band tickets are designated for the band, and the band only. Allen Reep said he allowed non students including band graduates, relatives of band members and his per sonal friends to use pep band tickets. His boss, Yesulaitis, however, said he was unaware of non-students using pep band tickets and that it was not something he condoned. "If it has happened," Yesulaitis said, "no one has brought it to my atten tion." Attention granted. imperialism million-a-year aid is limited to guns and mortars. Opposition in the United States to the provision of surface-to-air missiles stands on three legs. First, such aid would poison UiS.-Soviet relations. Second, Pakistan might refuse to allow such arms to be smuggled to the rebels because a mujahi deen victory creating a united Afghanistan would be more threatening to Pakistan than a disunited Afghanistan. Third, sending more weaponry to the rebels means fighting Soviet troops to the last drop of Afghan blood. These arguments are not as strong as they appear. Superpower relations are already soured: ballooning military aid to Pakistan has given the United States more leverage on that country. The perseve rance of the mujahideen, after five years of fighting the Soviet military machine with small arms and light artillery, has convincingly demonstrated that these men will resist the Soviet occupation even without aid. But with that aid, their ef forts might be less in vain. President Reagan has committed much American prestige to the support of the far-right Nicaraguan rebels, a CIA funded movement with little apparent support within the target country. But in Afghanistan, only 400 miles from the Per sian Gulf, the United States is giving limited aid to a geniunely homegrown, democratic movement clearly battling Soviet communism and expansionism. U.S. priorities are out of order, and Afghans are dying as a result. World and Nation "A little trickle of blood comes out, and they're all on the bandwagon, biting, kicking, fighting for John DeLorean's carcass.' Howard Weitzman, DeLorean's chief defense attorney, accusing government investigative agents, a paid informer and a prosecutor of plotting to gain fame by smashing the life of a powerful man. , "Everybody who's eligible should be registered, but here they are using taxpayers' money to register pre dominantly Democrats. There are not a lot of Republicans in the welfare lines." George W" Strake, chairman of the Texas Republican Party, ob jecting to a directive that state em ployees offer to register people who applied for government services. , "This appears to me the most em phatic way I can express my view that the Senate committee was not proper ly briefed on the mining of Nicara guan harbors with American mines from an American ship under Ameri can command. " Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., ii a prepared statement ex plaining his Sunday resignation from the vice chairmanship of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. w LETTERS TO THE EDITOR For graduation s and honors sake To the editor: Degrees from Carolina are much more than just documents which state that students have completed a par ticular set of required courses. The degrees means that students have been educated in every sense of the word. They have been exposed to a vast array of diverse individuals, and to the social as well as academic benefits that this University offers. They have developed into well-rounded individuals who can Outrageous acquittals To the editor: On Nov. 3, 1979, five people were shot to death in Greensboro by members of the American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan. Their names were Jim Waller, Mike Nathan, Cesar Cauce, Sandi Smith and Bill Sampson and they were all members of the Com munist Workers Party. I give their names for a reason I give their names because it seems the press tends to forget that these were human be ings. They were honest, hard-working people fighting for peace and justice, with families and friends and co workers who mourn their deaths. A year after they were murdered, the Klansmen and Nazis responsible for their deaths were acquitted of all murder charges by an all-white jury. And now, in 1984, they have again been handed a verdict of "not guilty" of charges that they violated the civil rights of the five CWP members when they shot them down in Greensboro. As one of the banners at the rally in the Pit on Tuesday protesting the acquit tals stated: "Welcome to North Carolina .. where being murdered is NOT a violation of your civil rights." To my mind, the acquittals are a clear message to the Klan, the Nazis, and all the people in this country. A frighten ing message. Our system of justice has told us it's OK to kill, and as was said at the rally has given the perpetrators of racial violence a green light for murder. Adolph Whitehood To the editor: On the homefront today, an all white jury found Uncle Sam not guil ty on five counts of institutionalized racism, conspiratoral murder and systematic terror, as the Hon. Judge Jim Crow presided. Following the ac quittal, the country wept as Grand Dragon Adolph Whitewood an nounced his plan to run for governor under the anerv moh. Justice reached - Faith restored: CGC hearings By BILL BARLOW This year the Campus Governing Council bud geting process received quite a lot of attention, and rightly so. As a member of the Finance Committee and an active member of Students Effectively Establishing a Democratic Society, I would like to offer an inside perspective on this all too im pestuous process. Before going into the gory details, let me say that final budget appropriations were surprisingly equitable, considering the fiscal restraints. I feel the money will reach many more students this year than it may have in the past. Three contervailing. factors will merge: a need for groups to utilize one another's resources to stretch their budgets; greater scrutinization of group spending by the student body treasurer and the Finance Committee of group spending, and a con certed effort to increase advertisement of all cam pus events (which is built into each groups spending priorities). These factors will open the gate for stu dent participation. It is up to each of you to walk through it. During the first round of leaderless budget cut ting (the elected Finance Committee chairperson had quit, and the temporary appointee was con sistently absent), the core of the committee meti eek in Revoew "Khadafy hangs students!" Protesting Libyans outside the Libyan embassy in London shouting in Arabic Tuesday, before a sniper inside the embassy opened fire with a machine gun, killing a police woman and injuring 11 demonstrators. State Virgil L. Griffin, 40, grand dragon of the Invisible Empire of the KKK, on the not guilty verdict decided by the all-white jury of the Nazi-Klan trial. Campus "I don't think that certain CGC members should have come up to me before the budget hearings and said, 'Face it, there is no way you are going to be funded. ' I don 7 think I or any other of the organizations should be treated this way. " Ashley Lefler, co-chairperson of the Fine Arts Festival on the treat ment she received from the Campus ' 7 admit that it 's d little more exciting when you're young and win one than when you're 70 and win one. It gives me great pride and satisfaction to win one 30 years after the first one. " Vermont Royster, a Kenan pro fessor emeritus in the UNC School of Journalism was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism Monday. "This is not just Jim Hunt against Jesse Helms. It's about, whether we will remove from office one of the most negative forces in American politics and replace him with a posi tive voice for progress in this nation. " Gov. Jim Hunt at the N.C. Association of Educators annual convention on the NCAE's failure to endorse a candidate for the race for Senate. The NCAE has withheld its endorsement to pressure Hunt to push for gains in public education in the June session of the General Assembly. "I felt like I died and went to heaven. I can go to a Klan meeting again. " adopt to a variety of situations. UNC degrees also mean that students have completed your academic requirements and experienced these situations within the guidelines of the honor system. Our honor system at Chapel Hill is run by students and is supported by the student body. It is that honor system that allows us to have an at mosphere of trust between students and faculty. It is also this system that makes a UNC degree valuable. Unfor- tunately, students sometimes violate the Honor Code, which prohibits academic lying, cheating and stealing, and the Campus Code, which prohibits actions that impair the welfare and educational oppurtunities of others. Last year, six seniors were charged with violations at the time of final ex ams just before graduation. These six students were found guilty and suspended. They received an "F" in the course and lost all credit for all other courses taken that semester. One senior, found guilty of destroying University property faced restitution fines in excess of $3,000. Some seniors argued that they had more to lose than underclassmen, including jobs and ac ceptance to graduate and professional schools. However, an honor system would not be upholding its purpose if it accepted this line of reasoning We cannot allow this. We cannot fool ourselves into thinking that this will end with blacks and communists. The acquittals must be a clear message to anyone who is fighting for social justice in this country not a red light, but a sign that we must fight back harder than ever before, to take a stand against a system that allows for racism and hatred, a system that at tempts to divide and weaken us all blacks, whites, students, workers, pro fessionals, men and women, gays and straights. The acquittals are an outrage, and we must unite to voice that outrage so that we will be heard. The rally on Tuesday was a beginn ing. On Tuesday, at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Union, there will be a showing and discussion of the film "Red The Daily Tar Heel welcomes letters to the editor and column contributions for the editorial page. Contributions should be typed on a 60-space line and triple spaced. They are subject to editing. Contributions must . be November, Black November," with featured speaker Marty Nathan (widow of Mike Nathan and member of the Greensboro Justice Fund). The film contains footage of the Nov. 3 anti Klan demonstration and the funeral march for the victims. Through inter views with the widows, friends and co workers of the victims, the film makes it clear why these five people were assassinated by the Klan and Nazis and shows the significance of the acquittals. I urge everyone to come and to fight back against this outrageous miscar riage of justice. Susanna Rinehart Chapel Hill slogan "the South's gonna renorters attended a Inn- f 1 o J v 1 cheon prepared by the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, the police department and the F.B.I. The Department could not be for comment. Randolph Thomas Chapel Hill - culously sifted through the proposed budget of each group. We considered the qualitative reports on each program (the Rules and Judiciary'and Stu dent Affairs committees had conducted hearings on the quality of each proposal, although some reports never made it to the budget hearings). We then allowed each group to make a presentation on the merits of their project. Finally we checked for possible padding, commitment to the project by the group members and the record of previous fiscal responsibility. Given the tight budget, the process did not lend itself to making friends. I had thoroughly investi gated Student Legal Services (which consumes a full one-third of the budget) in hopes of redistri buting our wealth. What I found was top-notch professional service at rock bottom prices there was no flesh to spare. Therefore, I began swinging my axe early on a full range of groups. Tim Newman (Dist. 10), who proved willing to be realistic about needed budget cuts, soon found himself in the non-voting position of acting chair (in which he served admirably). Thus, I appeared as a renegade in my budget slashing crusade. I blasted the Student Television leadership for com ing back to an impoverished CGC after receiving a $22,000 advance on their student fee. Then I voiced the committee's consent to cut the Fine Arts Festival from its original allocation of $14,000 to a token $500. Only with a strong message of support, via a student fee increase, can we afford such a high caliber and culturally enlightening event: The choice to fund a Yackety Yack over a Fine Arts Festival did not stem from my personal preferences (Buckminster Fuller is my all-time hero), nor did it stem from my SEEDS commitment. In this, as in all decisions, my criteria were the cost and benefit "When you win an election you ex pect people not to be happy with everything. But now it's time to bury the hatchet. We 've got lots of work to do we 've got to come together and get rid of the politics. " Student Body President Paul Parker regarding accusations from members of the CGC that his execu tive appointments had been inequi table, showed ignorance and a lack of effort to be informed. Sports "I've never used drugs and never will. Believe me, please believe me, I have never been involved with drugs. " Atlanta Braves pitcher Pscual Perez, maintaining his innocence after returning to the United States following his conviction in the Dominican Republic of cocaine pos session. Perez received a one-month suspension from commissioner of baseball, Bowie Kuhn. Etc. "The Smithsonian Institution called yesterday. They want my eyeballs. " Democratic Presidential can didate Walter F. Mondale, com plaining of campaign fatigue. Compiled by The Daily Tar Heel editorial staff. because honor is honor. It is important to recognize that these students were not "bad" people; they just didn't think. A senior's last semester is perhaps one of the most dif ficult times in a college career with pressures of graduation and job hunting. These pressures often cause people to act before thinking. However, no final paper or exam is worth the risk of having to delay ob taining a degree. Students should remember that the faculty and ad ministrators who have helped them the past four years are still willing to help when the pressure mounts. They need to think before they act and consider their options to benefit in the long run. Gerry Battle 1983-84 Senior Class Vice President Letters? submitted by noon the day before publication. Column writers should include their majors and hor.Stowns; each letter should include the writer's name, address and telephone number. Letters that are not typed i will not be printed. to the general student body and balancing the pro jects so that everyone gets something. In this spirit, I voted during the full council meeting Saturday to halve the allocation to the Toronto Exchange, of which I am treasurer. An unsettling feeling arose when I proposed cuts in the Black Student Movement budget. In the first round (in which I felt everyone should begin to make sacrifices) the vote went whites against blacks. This didn't make me feel as though I was leading the student body towards interracial har mony, which is a primary goal of SEEDS. Serving on the CGC and especially this year's Finance Committee is as thankless and demanding job as any in the Student Government which now receive scholarships (I voted consistently to eliminate stu dent scholarships paid with student activity fees). In fact, the whole frustrating experience leaves me reconsidering my service on the council. Yet the final, full council meeting on the budget and, the outcome has eased my thoughts. As the process is necessary and vital to our campus community, much has to be done to make it a productive ex perience for all who come before it. In closing, I would like to praise the core of dedicated committee members who spent days and nights in what seemed a fruitless process. Ron Everett (Dist. 13), Wyatt Closs (Dist. 10), Connie Brown (Dist. 21) and Newman. Special praise goes to Student Body Treasurer Allen Robertson, who was a guiding light and objective counsel. I now ask you, my fellow students, to take notice and enjoy the programs we have agreed to fund. Please do not let our efforts to serve you go in vain. Bill Barlow is the District 4 representative to the Campus Governing Council. Opinions from The NY Times Sunday: The mess of the recent mining of Nicaraguan harbors and the controversy it has created drive home the fact that it is time finally to choose an objective for aid to the "contra" cause and to tailor means to ends. The right and realistic message to the Sandinistas is "Live but let live." Monday: The Reagan administration's "over weening" technologists seem unable to foresee the consequences of their efforts to build a device that would shoot down Soviet satellites. For the fourth consective year, the Reagan ad ministration is attempting to repeal the Title X federal family planning program and make such services a state option under a block grant. Con gress should once again stop the maneuver and recognize what the president doesn't: that un wanted pregnancies are a national problem, meriting, federal attention and funding. Tuesday: Members of Congress have recessed for a week to report home about the steps they've taken to reduce the much worried-about federal defecit. What has been done in the way of pledges for deficit reduction and tax increases, however, represents only a "down payment.." Wednesday: The 1979 Greensboro tragedy, in which five members of the Communist Workers Party attending an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally were killed by Nazis and Klansmen, went unresolved this week. Failure of federal prosecution of those involv ed in the killings marks a setback for this nation's principle of tolerating even the hated ideas. A future accounting is in order. V SHOOT HIM Rlfl ?) VifltATW'Js V- lv----y yc VI L RIGHTS.) yz,,k i u afT, i,r, ', . , , .n -'---
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