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today with only a 30 percent
chance of rain in the morning,
clearing to partial cloudiness
later on. High of 62, overnight low
of 25.
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Picking the pill
Birth control pills are preferred
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margin over the diaphragm, the
next most popular choice of
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Computer firm files suit
Charges Student Stores' pricing hinders competition
By MIKE ALLEN
Staff Writer
Pascal and Associates, a computer
firm in Chapel Hill, has filed suit against
the University over the prices of
computers sold in UNC Student Stores.
Pascal and Associates manager
James Tarvid said the computer firm,
located in NCNB Plaza, will begin legal
proceedings Dec. 15.
The basis for the lawsuit, according
to Tarvid, is because the low prices of
Apple and IBM computers and soft
ware in the Student Stores are dam
aging to the economic environment of
businesses in Chapel Hill, primarily on
Franklin Street.
In a position paper outlining the
issues and reasons for the lawsuit,
Tarvid wrote, "Computer sales in
particular have risen dramatically in
recent months. The Student Stores took
delivery of over 500 computers for sale
to its customers in the month of
September alone. And yet despite
this high sales volume Student Stores
lost nearly $9,000 on its retail computer
sales during the year ending June 30,
1984."
The reason for this loss, Tarvid said,
is Student Stores' practice of subsidizing
the purchase of computer hardware and
software by University departments and
selling equipment at a discount which
"stifled healthy marketplace competi
tion and precluded making a profit."
This means that when Student Stores
makes an agreement with Apple and
Student Stores defends selection
of 'Playboy'; group opposes sale
By KATY FRIDL
Staff Writer
Playboy and Playgirl magazines are
sold on the UNC campus at the Student
Stores and The Bull's Head Bookshop,
with little consistent opposition.
However, at Oklahoma State Univer
sity, some students are organizing a
campaign against the sale of Playboy
in the Student Store.
According to UNC Student Stores
Manager Thomas A. Shetley, sales of
Playboy are usually brisk, and the
majority of students do not object to
the magazine's presence on the Student
Stores shelves.
Shetley, who sets the overall general
purchasing policy for the Student
Stores, said: "IVe been working here
for 25 years and I don't remember when
we didnt have Playboy. It seems like
we've had it since Day 1.
"It is my personal philosophy that it
isn't the bookseller's prerogative to be
a censor," he said. "The only censoring
we do is necessitated by lack of shelf
space."
Martha Holland, buyer for the
tradebook department for the UNC
Student Stores, said a combination of
saleability and judgement determines
which magazines fill the racks of the
Student Stores and Bull's Head
Bookshop.
"We reserve the right to decide what
books and magazines we will carry,"
Holland said. "For instance, we chose
not to carry Penthouse"
Shetley noted that while Playboy
sales were generally good, Playgirl
issues often remained unsold on the
shelves.
She said it seems that more male
UNC students purchase Playgirl sub
scriptions than do females, a trend
which might be a bit surprising since
Playgirl is aimed at a female audience.
Shetley learned of this trend from
reports by the National Association of
College Stores, which furnishes sub
scription cards for textbooks sold by
the UNC Student Stores. The Student
East expected to face tough battle for re-election in 1986
By MARK POWELL
Staff Writer
North Carolina's junior Senator John
East will have to fight the shadow of
Sen. Jesse Helms and other obstacles
if he makes a 1986 re-election bid
and hell have to do it without the help
of President Reagan's coattails. East,
who won his seat in 1980, recently
authorized the start-up of preparations
for a re-election campaign.
"Sen. East has given Carter Wrenn,
executive director of the National
Congressional Club, permission to set
up an exploratory committee to estab
lish funding for the Last campaign."
said Congressional C lub spokesman
IBM to sell their computers, they also
agree to take responsibility to advertise
and market the computers, which has
been expensive and has put Student
Stores into the red, Tarvid said.
He said the University was operating
the store under the guise of raising funds
for scholarships, but was paying the
losses coming from computer sales out
of the scholarship trust fund, a practice
which was in "direct violation of the
Student Stores legislative charter which
mandates that the sole beneficiary of
its profit-making activities must be
student scholarships."
The University is violating the
Umstead Act, written by John
Umstead, who served as a legislator
from this district, Tarvid said. The
Umstead Act says the UNC Student
Stores is to be "operated for the purpose
of assuring the abailability of merchan
dise (to students) and not for the
purpose of competing with the stores
operated in communities surrounding
the campuses."
He said the profit from Student
Stores was never meant to be used to
underwrite capital expenditures by
University departments. He said
Umstead made it clear Student Stores
was never meant to compete with
Chapel Hill businesses.
The effect on the community, Tarvid
said, is a subversion of the "normal flow
of goods in a free enterprise economy.
The cost to the community in loss of
Stores receives a commission for
subscriptions ordered by UNC students
from the cards which they send to
publishers.
Duke University follows a publica
tions buying policy similar to that of
the UNC Student Stores. "Our purchas
ing and stock premise is to carry the
demand of the customer," said Harry
G. Rainey, Director of the Duke
University's Student Store Operations.
"If there are numerous, consistent
requests over a period of time, we will
stock that magazine," he said.
The Duke Student Store carries
Playboy, Playgirl and Penthouse.
Rainey said the Duke store had not
received many complaints but if con
flicts arose then the Student Stores
management usually discussed those
problems with a Student Advisory
Board.
Occasionally controversies do arise
when campus groups organize opposi
tion to the sale of Playboy and Playgirl
by the University-operated Student
Stores. Margie Walker, chairman of
The-Association of Women Students,
said the Association disagreed with the
Student Stores' sale of Playboy and
Playgirl.
"It's really disheartening that a fine
bookstore such as The Bull's Head
Bookshop carries such offensive dis
plays," she said. Playboy has a glossy
finish and is supposed to be intellectual.
The interviews are good, but the
cartoons, stories and pictures are
sexist."
Walker said Playgirl poses its subjects
differently than Playboy and shows
them in a less sexist context. "Women
just don't buy Playgirl in the numbers
that men do," Walker said. "It's almost
as much a gay male magazine as a
female publication."
AWS agreed that purchase of the
magazines is the consumer's choice. But
the group, which now consists of about
10 members according to Walker,
objects to the library's carrying of
Playboy. "We're targeting the library
Analysis
Tom Fetzer.
One of the reasons East gave Wrenn
the green light to form an exploratory
financial committee may have been to
end rumors that East is in poor health
and will not seek re-election in 1986.
East, who was a Marine before he
taught political science at East Carolina
University, contracted polio while in the
Marines and now is confined to a
wheelchair. His handicap has caused
manv voters to perceive Last as sickk.
No country today has an effective
Monday, December 3, 1984
jobs, tax revenues, even the 'village'
character of Franklin Street is
profound."
James Cansler, vice chancellor for
student affairs, said Tarvid did not have
grounds for his accusations. He said the
computers and software sold in the
Student Store were educational mate
rials and were covered by the Umstead
Act.
Student Stores manager Tom Shetley
said the attorneys for Pascal and
Associates had asked for a lot of
information on computer sales and had
been given everything asked for.
Shetley said the attorneys had two
demands: that Student Stores quit
selling computers all together, or that
the prices on computers and software
be raised. "We feel that we can't serve
the best interest of the University by
meeting any one of these demands at
this time," Shetley said.
He said he did not believe the
University was in violation of any law
by selling the computers at lower prices
than those of computer businesses in
Chapel Hill. "Computer companies
have educational discount programs
with campuses all over the country," he
said.
Tarvid said the long-term goal of the
lawsuit was a "healthier Chapel Hill.
When public funds are spent for the
advancement of corporate capitalism,
what you have basically is a case of state
socialism," he said.
next semester to try to get the magazine
out of the library," Walker said. "We
hope to raise students' awareness. The
taxpayers' money shouldn't be spent on
pornography."
Walker said the group planned to
participate in a Pornography Sympo
sium to be held next semester at Duke
University in conjunction with the Duke
University Women's Studies program.
The symposium will feature author
Andrea Dorcan, one of the leading
crusaders against pornography in the
United States.
James Cansler, associate vice chan
cellor of student affairs, said he wasn't
even aware that the Student Stores sells
Playboy but that an advisory committee
recommended to the Farris Womack,
vice chancellor of business and finance,
what items the Student Stores should
sell, as well as pricing policies.
Charles Antle, associate vice chancel
lor of business and finance, said that
generally it is up to the Student Stores
what products it sold. If many com
plaints arise then the Student Stores
Committee, composed of faculty, staff
and students, considers the problem, he
said.
New dorm proposal to integrate students culturally
By RUTHIE PIPKIN
Staff Writer
The idea that education exists outside
the classroom, including the experience
of exposure to people from other
cultures, has prompted action from
Student Government.
The nine-member University Rela
tions Committee is working to set up
a housing project for fall 1985 so that
students could volunteer to room with
someone of a different culture, said
Robert Titchener, co-chairman of the
committee.
"Living in a dorm and living with
someone of another culture is probably
the most intimate learning experience
vou can have," Titchener said. "It won't
said Jerry Woodruff, East's press
secretary in Washington.
"Healths not a problem; there's a
tendency to perceive someone in a
wheelchair as having health problems,
but that's a fallacy," Woodruff said.
Because 1984 was an election year
and the North Carolina media focused
their attention on the U.S. Senate race
between Helms and Gov. Jim Hunt.
East seldom was discussed in the news.
This put East into the position of having
to build an identity for himself with his
constituents in North Carolina, said
Michael Lienesch, UNC assistant
piolessor of political science.
"I ast is not a charismatic character
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Future uncertain for
First in a three-part series on North
Carolina 's largest industries: tobacco,
textiles and furniture.
By ANDY TRINCIA
Staff Writer
In this state tobacco means money
and jobs. Tobacco brings over $1
billion to North Carolina farmers
every year, and North Carolinians fill
about 150,000 tobacco-related jobs.
Although the tobacco industry saw
a decline in volume of sales in 1983,
it appears stable now. But the prog
nosis for 1985 is uncertain.
"We're doing fairly well," said Betsy
Annese, senior public relations repre
sentative at the Winston-Salem-based
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
"We employ 18,000 people in the
Winston-Salem area and we just hired
200 more temporary workers to help
us with the seasonal trend when sales
pick up," he said. "We feel our
prognosis is very good."
R.J. Reynolds, the nation's second
largest tobacco company, has not laid
off any workers, Annese said.
She declined to comment on the
legislation in the U.S. Senate regard
ing new warning labels on cigarette
packages. The legislation, passed by
both houses of Congress and awaiting
President Reagan's signature, would
require replacement of the current
Surgeon General's warning with four
new rotating warnings on specific
dangers of smoking. The new law
would also require cigarette manufac
turers to list on the package the
ingredients used to make low-tar, low-
be 50-50, black-white. If you're an
American student, you could be with
someone from India, or England. Just
someone from another culture, that's
the only criteria."
Sherrod Banks, president of the
Black Student Movement, agreed the
project should be cultural rather than
racial. "If you know there are more
cultures on this campus than black and
white, and there are. and you set it up
(racially), it's got to be for political
purposes," Banks said. "If you set it up
(on a racial basis), I would oppose it
until the day I leave this university. If
vou set it up the other wav, ... I'd live
there."
Banks also stressed the need to
like Jesse Helms: my sense is that when
he's in North Carolina he attracts less
media attention than Helms and that
he has withered in Jesse s shadow." said
Lienesch.
But Woodruff said East's identity
problem was no greater than that of
most junior senators.
"The voters will be able to perceive
Sen. East and Sen. Helms as two
separate individuals: Sen. East has no
identification problems at all." Wood
ruff said.
Last was successful in 1980 because
of Reagan's success, Lienesch said. But
without without Reagan on the ticket
in 19X6 and with less monc available
government.
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nicotine cigarettes. Researchers are
trying to assess the possible toxicity
of the ingredients in these cigarettes.
"We don't believe there is anything
toxic in our products," said Annese.
Phillip Morris U.S.A., the nation's
largest tobacco company and
employer of 20,000, reports a rise in
sales this year.
"We're doing very well," said Stuart
Ross, public relations specialist at
Morris' New York headquarters. "In
the first six months of this year we
had 35.2 percent of the total U.S.
tobacco industry. That's over (our
market share of) 34.4 percent in 1983."
"John Maxwell, a securities analyst
with a firm here in New York, said
the industry would be flat to up 1
percent," Ross said. "As a company,
we feel it's going to increase. It may
only be temporary. The increased
excise tax may cut into sales 4 percent
next year."
According to John Cyrus, chief of
tobacco affairs at the N.C. Depart
ment of Agriculture, "Tobacco is
second to textiles in North Carolina
in value of manufactured products,
but it brings over $1 billion in gross
receipts to the state's farmers."
Cyrus said 25,000 North Carolini
ans were employed in the tobacco
processing industry. However, he said
150,000 were employed in tobacco
related jobs overall, representing 6.8
percent of the state's work force and
$1.6 billion in wages.
He said this year's crop, still being
harvested and marketed, looked good.
distinguish the committee's plans from
a similar project developed last year as
a gateway to random housing. Random
housing would mix students by not
offering them a choice about where they
lived.
"It needs to be said this project is
not intended to be used politically as
a stepping stone to randomized hous
ing," Banks said. "That would pervert
and destroy the sincerity of what's going
on and what I would call an oasis of
cultural interaction.
"I rejected the idea (of random
housing) because I don't see a few black
students living in a white dorm (as
eliminating segregation)." Banks said.
"I see integration as cultural pluralism.
during an off-year election. Last's re
election bid will be tougher.
East also may have a tough battle
in the Republican primary, Lienesch
said. Several prominent Republicans
may have their eyes on his Senate seat,
including governor-elect Jim Martin
and recent Republican convert Eddie
Knox. Conflict could occur within the
Republican party in the state between
more moderate Republicans like Mar
tin and New Right leaders like Helms
and East. Lienesch said.
"The Congressional Club and Jim
Martin are uneas partners because thev
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tobacco
"So far, this season shows an
improvement over last year," Cyrus
said. "The quality is better and the
average market price is a few cents
higher."
Cyrus is optimistic about the future
of tobacco in North Carolina.
"I think tobacco will still be here,"
he said. "Farmers may have a different
approach, but tobacco is here to stay
whether we grow it in the U.S. or not.
The tobacco industry has billions of
dollars invested.
"There's little evidence that the
warning labels they've had for the last
14 or 15 years have had an effect,"
Cyrus said. "Most people never pay
attention to it, it seems. It's hard to
say whether (the new proposed leg
islation) will have a more significant
effect."
Cyrus called the possible toxicity in
low-tar, low-nicotine cigarettes
"speculation."
The Tobacco Institute, a Washing
ton, D.C.-based trade association,
reported a slight decline in the tobacco
industry.
"Certainly, tobacco use is down
5 percent last year," said Alan Byrn,
assistant to the president of the
Tobacco Institute. "A one-half to 1
percent decline is expected this year.
The companies, like any good busi
nesses, are concerned. But they're
optimistic."
The Institute is a non-profit organ
ization financed by cigarette manufac-
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as two cultures interacting with each
other."
Titchener said he hoped to also avoid
a second political consequence of the
project. "There's been a lot of bad press
(about the University) with minority
faculty hiring and minority students,"
he said. "This could be used as a political
tool for people to beat their breasts and
say, 'Look what we're doing on this
campus.' "
"No one can claim to be doing
anything to block segregation on this
campus except those students (partic
ipating in the dorm) and maybe their
friends who get involved," Titchener
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Boston
Massacre.
Brad Daugherty scored
26 points and grabbed 1 1
rebounds to lead the 2-0 Tar
Heels to an 89-72 win over
Boston University
vesterday. See story on page
7.