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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 93, Issue 2
Tuesday, February 19, 1985
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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By GRANT PARSONS
Staff Writer
After four months of negotiations
with area doctors and University
administrators, UNC will have a drug
and alcohol treatment center starting
March 11.
The UNC-CH Drug and Alcohol
Outreach Program has been developed
by brothers Fetzer and Thomas Mills
so student alcoholics can seek help
without being shuffled around to area
facilities. Professional clinicians and
trained peer counselors will be on duty
Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
The center will be in Suite B of the
Student Union, in one of the offices
occupied by the Student Consumer
Action Union.
"We hope to use recovering alcohol
ics as peer counselors so the student
(alcoholic) knows he is not alone and
that others have gone through the same
thing that he is going through," Fetzer
Mills said.
To get funding, the Outreach pro
gram will have to go before the budget
committee of the Campus Governing
Council like other campus organiza
tions, but Student Body President-elect
Patricia Wallace is planning to do some
fund raising through the Executive
Branch of Student Government also.
"The hardest part of getting the whole
thing done was getting in touch with
the right people," Thomas Mills said.
"I spent a lot of time listening to
administrators tell me how other
programs of this type were brought into
the University, but in this case (those
ways) collapsed, so we just brought it
in ourselves."
Wallace said, "Fetzer and Thomas
are to be commended for going around
the system to get this accomplished.
They addressed a problem that the
University would not, and they got a
program that the University needs."
Fetzer Mills said the program was
well-received last week by the Drug and
Alcohol Task Force that Donald
Boulton, vice chancellor and dean of
Student Affairs, instituted to study the
problems of alcohol use on campus.
Some details still have to be worked
out, but the program is expected to open
on schedule. Peer-counselor training
will begin March 13, and Fetzer Mills
said interested students should contact
Student Legal Services.
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By HEATHER HAY
Staff Writer
More than 150 students responded
positively to a campus survey and said
they would be willing to participate in
an interculture dormitory project
planned for the Fall of 1986.
The Student Government University
Relations Committee distributed 6,700
questionnaires last month asking on
campus students to express their views
on the proposed project called UNITAS
(Latin for united).
Student Body President Paul Parker
said the survey was designed to measure
student attitudes about living with
students of other cultures and to get
an idea of how receptive students might
be to the UNITAS project.
Since survey respondents Were not
asked to supply their class, it is not
known how many of the 155 students
will still be enrolled in 1986. According
to Parker, however, the survey was
intended to gauge student interest and
to see if there were at least 100 students
now who would be willing to participate
in such an experiment.
Still in the planning stages, the
UNITAS project would allow about 100
students of different culture, back
ground or ethnicity to live in the same
dormitory and attend one class explor
ing cultural diversity.
According to University Housing
Director Wayne Kuncl, participants
would be housed in one of the five
dormitories scheduled for renovation
after the new dormitory is completed.
Those dorms are: Lewis, Everett, Stacy,
Graham or Aycock.
"I dont think we can talk about a
specific building just yet," Kuncl said.
"We need to determine the goals we
want to accomplish, and to coordinate
our goals and ends."
Both Kuncl and University Relations
Committee members stressed the need
for an academic component for the
UNITAS project. The University may
already have a course in its curriculum
that UNITAS members could attend,
or a course may be created, Kuncl said.
"I would like for faculty to be
associated with the project right from
the beginning," he said. "I would like
to involve them in an advisory capacity
with the students."
Kuncl will meet with the University
Relations Committee next week to
work out . the details, of' the-UNITAS
experiment, said Robert Titchener,
committee co-chairperson.
"We (the University Relations Com
mittee) are very dedicated to the
UNITAS project," Titchener said. This
is one of our big goals for the year.
We really want to involve four principal
actors: the Resident Housing Asocia
tion, the student body, the student body
president and the University Housing
Department."
Titchener said most of this year
would be spent planning and soliciting
support for UNITAS and to developing
a large application pool. He stressed
that the project was of a broader scope
than a race relations project and instead
would involve participants of varied
backgrounds.
"This is not a solution to racism, and
should not be construed as that,"
Titchener said. "It does attack racism,
but only peripherally. This will really
be most meaningful for the people
involved."
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discovered
By KAREN YOUNGBLOOD
Staff Writer
Two national championship banners stolen from
Carmichael Auditorium late last week have been found on
N.C. State campus.
The banners, which include the one from the 1982 NCAA
Championship, were found hanging upside down and at half
mast inside Reynolds Coliseum before the N.C. State
Carolina game Saturday.
Kim Powell, a UNC senior from Raleigh, found the
banners before the game began.
"I saw them in the rafters up underneath the cat-walk,"
she said. "They were attached to a red hanging tarp which
was rolled up with a string so if you pulled the string, it
was released."
Powell said the banners were taken down before the game
and were not seen by any of the spectators.
"The banners were never unraveled," she said. "They were
never seen by anyone but us and the police officer (we
reported it to)."
A spokesman for State's campus police, who asked not
to be -identified, said the banners were put up about 6:30
p.m. the night before the game.
"Apparently, someone had the banners in possession and
brought them in for the game," he said.
The spokesman said the banners were not damaged and
they were stolen because of the intense rivalry between State
and Carolina.
"It was due to the basketball game," he said. "State steals
from Carolina and Carolina steals from State. It's almost
tradition."
The spokesman said that he did not know who was
responsible for taking the banners, but doubted any charges
would be brought against the person or people responsible.
The spokesman for State said it would be up to UNC whether
to press charges.
Lt. Walter Dunn, an officer for University Police, said
that it was the responsibility of State to take legal action
against the people who stole the banners.
"As far as law enforcement, the law in that jurisdiction
would be responsible," Dunn said.
Charles L. Carr, assistant athletic director for UNC, said
the Athletic Department was more concerned about getting
the banners back than pressing charges against those
responsible.
"We'd just like to have the banners back," Carr said. "We're
working through the respective campus securities to get them
back. Hopefully, it will work out just fine."
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State and National Editor
Rcpid changes are occurring in the health care
system and government health care programs are
getting caught in the federal budget squeeze, a
consultant on health policy issues said yesterday in
Rosenau Hall.
"Government pressures on health care derive from
the fact that the government has fiscal commitments
to providing health care," said Bill Fullerton, president
of Health Policy Alternatives, a Washington, D.C.
based consulting firm.
Programs like Medicare and Medicaid are in
danger, not because they are fiscally unsound, but
because they are the targets of budget cuts designed
to reduce the federal deficit, he said. Medicare is easy
to cut, he said, because it represents 10 percent of
total federal expenditures.
At the same time, the federal government is reducing
funding for the Medicaid program, he said.
"Medicaid is not growing it's going the other
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way as far as covering the health care costs of the
poor," said Fullerton, who has worked in the Social
Security Administration and helped plan the Medicare
program when it was being considered by Congress
in the '60s, along with working on an advisory group
associated with Medicare after it was passed.
He said Medicaid provides three areas of service:
Health care for the poor, nursing care for the elderly,
and funding for state care of the mentally retarded.
The program is administered by the states, with the
federal government paying about 54 percent of the
cost, but Washington is trying to reduce its share of
the expenses, he said.
"The federal government over the last four years
has taken some steps to reduce its share of Medicaid
expenditures," said Fullerton.
The result has been a reduction in government
subsidized medical care for the poor, he said. "The
level of care provided to poor people is quite less
than that provided to everybody else."
The states are also changing their Medicaid
coverage in other ways to cut costs. Comprehensive ,
coverage is frequently being reduced to catastrophic
coverage, and eligibility standards are being tightened,
he said.
- Medicare is also undergoing similar changes, he
said. The program, traditionally viewed as a rightful
benefit for all who paid into the program over the
years, is now increasingly being viewed as a social
safety net for the benefit of the poor, he said.
An increasing emphasis is being placed on military
programs under the Reagan administration, which
means medical care programs will suffer continued
cuts, Fullerton said.
"Non-defense spending is clearly shrinking; defence
is increasing," he said. Rising interest payments on
the national debt, which will go up $ 1 trillion in the
next four years, will also crowd out federal spending
on health care programs, he said.
After 2 years? A vmeHcmm still Cabbage Patch arazy
By MICHAEL DeSISTI
Special to the DTH
My parents stood in front of the tree
on Christmas Day with synthetic,
camera-ready smiles pasted on their
faces. "Move closer," I said.
Dad held Milo Payton, whose navy
blue baseball cap kept falling off his
undersized-honeydew melon of a head.
Daniel Cameron, cuddled against
Mom's chest, lost one of his plastic baby
booties.
"I cant see his face. Dad," I said.
"OK. That's good. Smile!"
Click.
It was my parents' first portrait with
their grandchildren. In the time it took
my sisters to tear wrapping paper off
a package that morning, a pair of
Cabbage Patch Preemies joined the
family.
The Cabbage Patch craze celebrated
its second holiday season in 1984.
Xavier Roberts, the student-sculptor-turned-millionaire
who spawned the
madness, again had his handwriting in
red on the hindquarters of millions of
moderately expensive dolls (or
extremely inexpensive adopted child
ren) that found their way down the
chimney with Santa.
Frank Verno, a 65-year-old retired
machinest from Rochester, N.Y., often
spent the early morning hours last
November waiting outside toy and
department stores to try and make it
a Cabbage Patch Christmas for his
granddaughter.
"I would stand in line every other day
of the week," he says. "You just stood
in line and took a chance."
Verno's wife, Caroline, recalls one
store announcing it would have 50
Cabbage Patch dolls for sale the next
day.
"Frank got up at 2 in the morning
to try," she says. "He came back at 3:15
without a doll. There were 100 people
already in line when he got there. One
woman had been there since 9:30 the
night before, sitting on her lawn chair."
When Roberts, 29, created the
ancestor of the Cabbage Patch Kid in
1977, he was studying soft sculpture at
Truett McConnell College in Cleveland,
Ga. Encouraged by the sales of his
hand-sewn dolls, Little People, Roberts
dropped out of school, rounded up five
high school buddies and formed a
company called Original Appalachian
Artworks.
Coleco Industries Inc. obtained co
development and licensing rights in
August 1977 and began manufacturing
Cabbage Patch Kids at eight plants in
the Far East. The new dolls were smaller
and more synthetic Roberts' cloth
heads were replaced with plastic noggins
but neither the homely, doughboy
look nor the doll's marketability was
lost.
"The dolls are ugly," Verno says. "But
the little kids they know 'em. They
look for the signature on the can."
The little kids know 'em and the
parents buy 'em. In 1983, Coleco sold
about 3 million Cabbage Patch Kids
for a net profit of more than $60 million,
according to The Wall Street Journal.
Some 18 million dolls were produced
in 1984, yet people still couldn't get
enough of the cuddly Cabbage Patch
collection, which has expanded to
include Preemies (dolls pulled prema
turely from the Cabbage Patch because
of a deadly frost), Koosas (Cabbage
Patch pets) and Cabbage Patch twins.
Not since the Hula Hoop gave 30
million Americans a case of the wiggles
in 1958 has a toy made such an impact
on the market. But, while Cabbage
Patch Kids are an adolescent status
symbol, it's not just children who have
made the dolls an overwhelming
success.
"It's the parents, not the kids," says
Harriet Rheingold, a professor of
psychology at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Suzie says,
'Mommie I want a Cabbage Patch doll.'
Mommy doesn't have to go out and buy
her one. She can say, 'No, Suzie. They're
foolish.' All the kid can do is scream
or cry or throw a temper tantrum."
Which appears to be enough, because
not many Mommies and Daddies have
told Suzie no.
Rationalizing his early-morning
vigils, Verno says, "I did it for my
granddaughter. Her cousin had one,
and she didn't."
Unlike a Barbie doll or G.I. Joe,
Cabbage Patch Kids have individual
identities. And, despite the $27 to $30
pricetag, they're not purchased so much
as they're adopted.
Every doll comes complete with first
and middle names, stamped in bold,
black ink on adoption papers. The
surname, of course, is supplied by the
lucky mother or father.
The official Cabbage Patch oath of
adoption: "I promise to love my
Cabbage Patch Kid with all my heart.
I promise to be a good and kind parent.
I will always remember how special my
Cabbage Patch Kid is to me."
"Good and kind" parents might be
wise to buy a leash. Judging from
previous behavior, the nation's first
Cabbage Patch kidnapper, longing for
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a Cabbage Patch Kid to call his own,
probably is lurking in the shadows.
The scenario at the Cabbage Patch
police station:
"What was your Kid wearing?" asks
a Cabbage Patch cop.
"His poseable action-wear outfit,"
replies the grief-stricken parent, "the
one-piece leotard that allows Cabbage
Patch Kids to stand still for pictures
without help."
"Did you get a look at the abductor?"
"It all happened so fast. He stuck a
gun in my back, and I passed out. When
1 came to, he was halfway across the
parking lot, pushing Matthew Gregory's
fold-up umbrella stroller and shouting,
'I'm a father, I'm a father!' "
Imagine the headlines the next day.
CABBAGE PATCH KIDNAPPER
DEMANDS $5 MILLION: New York
City shopping trip turns to tragedy
"It's just a fad," Verno says.
So was the wheel.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Richard Bach